Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / May 2005

A friend has an iBook running OS X. She also uses Word as her word
processor. She has written a book and saved it but now can't find the
document. I think she must have somehow saved the document to some
location other than My Documents.

I have a 40GB iPod I got about a year ago.  Click-wheel version shipping
just before the iPod photo was introduced.  (Wish they used version
number or some indicator so we could identify which beast we are talking
about...).  At any rate, software on it is 3.02.  I also upgraded to

I'm looking for an app that will let me join a number of small MP3s together.
I have JFuse, but for 30 files at a time all the clicking is a pain. Split &
Concat is another, but the files have to be named in the form file.mp3.00x.
Any other solutions? Thanks.

My G4 machines are connected to the internet throught my router which
is an older G3 running IPnetRouter which is connected to a cable modem.
How can I close connections to certain IPs?

The Mac OS used to have a Sherlock capability in which you could
periodically index or reindex your hard disk(s) and then do a very rapid
and effective search for every file on your HD(s) that contained a given
string.

Is there a way to delete a hard drive partition so that my hard drive is one
continuous drive again with no
partition?
Previously I had created an eDrive partition with Tech Tool Pro and had

I recently had a hard drive failure and I have had to reinstall all my
software.  I have a Microsoft Office Keyboard but the install disk only has
s/w for OS 9.  I have forgotten what I used previously on OS X and the
Mactopia microsoft site does not list any up to date software for ...

I was pretty excited about automator. I have a few things I would like to
do with it but am finding it difficult to get started. I haven't seen any
good books out about Tiger yet, checked a Barnes and Nobles yesterday,
are there any web pages for beginners? Because I am finding ...

I just bought an external LaCie disk for my 15in PB G4. I've moved the
capture scratch folder to this disk but now when I capture video (Canon
GL2 via firewire), the video is choppy and unusable.
I did exactly what the guy in the apple store told me to do - and the

Very strange, this one.
When I move the mouse over the dock at the bottom of the screen, it
doesn't appear. Nor does it appear if I position the dock to left or
right. Nor does it come back if I 'turn hiding on' and then 'turn hiding

I'd like to scan printed text (newspaper or laser printer text,
Helvetica or Times Roman).
Which OCR works well with OS X (soon Tiger) and an Epson 4990 scanner?
ABBYY FineReader5 Sprint XE was included, but I'd like to know whether

I have used Quicken for many years mostly as a chek-writing program. It
has done that OK up to this point. The old version I have will not
print anything under system 10.4. Time has come to upgrade. The easiest
thing is to simply get the latest version of Quicken and be done with

http://www.gotquestions.org/sinners-prayer.html << I saw this site on a
search directory. Great Resource!

so i downloaded an applescript for use with quicktime to enable
fullscreen mode without the pro version.  i am wondering how i can add
this script to the quicktime menubar for quick access when viewing
movies.  i've seen scripts on the menu bar for other apps, how do i add

I recently received two emails with a .pif file attached and could not
open...