Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / June 2005

I've depended on hyperCard for many years, mostly for business
purposes. For that reason, I long delayed moving to OS X. I've made the
change, finally, and I've (mostly) converted my hyperCard stacks to
Runtime Revolution. I still need to run hyperCard in Classic mode

when I reboot my iMac G4 17 inch it has 40 Gb free disk but as time
progresses it goes down and down and within 2-3 hours I am left with
0 kb space. What is going wrong?  How do I fix this?
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I impulsively decided to take a hasty flying leap into the 21st
century, so I've finally made the switch to OS X. It's working out
pretty well. I see its advantages, though I think I could have been
contented with OS 9 for the rest of my life.

What software(s) for the mac can convert a WAVE sound file to an MP3 sound file?
I need to convert a
digital voice recorder file (DSS) to WAVE and then to MP3 for transcription into
text. Any help would be

My company are about to release a slideshow presentation program called
Presenta but are deferring the Mac release until we finish coding the GUI.
I'd like to know if any Mac users would be interested in buying our software
even without a GUI.

I use FireFox.  Good browser, better than Safari, but still some things
are lacking.  I miss the old scrapbook from IE 5.x, I miss the ability
to send in HTML from yahoo mail, and I miss the ability to copy images
to the clipboard from within a web browser window.  Everytime I ...

When I use mail.app, I have both a Trash box and a Junk box. Can some
one tell me, what is the criteria that makes a questional message be put
in Junk as opposed to Trash, or is it luck?

MacOS X 10.4.1 with 256 MB of RAM and plenty of spare HD, running iCal
2.0.1 (1029).
It's about a 50-50 chance that when I launch iCal, my preferences file
will get trashed or otherwise ignored and overwritten. This is most

What if the itunes library is bigger than the iPod memory?
Imagine you have a 4GB iPod mini, but 30GB of music in your itunes.  You
don't want to delete songs from itunes because you sometimes use your
computer directly to listen to music. You just want to tell itunes which

Does anyone have any experience with VPN connections with Virtual PC
7 (XP Professional)
I need a VPN connection to my PC at work but I have no clue what
problems I'll run into.

I'm having a little trouble converting a VOB file to a DivX avi file
and keeping the correct aspect ratio. The original VOB is 720x480
according to ffmpegX, which is obviously 3:2. When I select the same
resolution, or any other 3:2 resolution for the output file (subject to

I'm stumped.
I had to whip up a site, and the right hand sub-links (the ones under
General Information) are anchors to other parts of that page.
http://fimp.aem.cornell.edu/food_exec/

I have a question about iTunes on Windows XP, I hope you can help.
Due to my daughter's C: drive filling up, I bought a new drive, and
moved all of "My Documents" over to it. I used Tweak UI to modify
Windows so it now sees F: as the home for My Documents, My Music, My

Please will you share your experience with password managers?  I have
been using notes in Now Contact but it is becoming unworkable and I'm
looking for a better solution.  I would appreciate recommendations
please!

Just got my Mac Mini, running Tiger, and I want to uninstall a couple of
the apps that came with it (including the games). I have no OS X
experience (we're mainly Linux in this household). Do I just drag the
icon from the Applications folder to the wastebasket? Is it really that