Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / July 2005

A while back, Email from my girlfriend in China started looking
different.  Most importantly, paragraphs no longer wrapped to fit the
width of the window, but instead always showed up as long lines that
scroll way off the right edge of the screen.

I am using Roxio  toast  titanium 6.9 with a pioneer dvd -rw burner 107D with
Tiger 10.4.1.
The problem is that nearly every time I  try to erase a re write disc i get
the following message :-

The video file is video = XViD, audio = mpga 44100KHz, according to VLC
(which plays the video and audio, albeit jerkily). QT plays the video more
smoothly, but there is no audio.
Do I need an mpga audio codec for QT? I've been Googling til my eyes hurt,

just want to force the ipod to refresh all my mp3s. I used mp3gain to
adjust volume on all of them, because soundcheck wasn't doing it's job.
Songs were still different volumes. But Ipod doesn't know they've
changed.

Jerry,
I'm sorry if I misread your earlier post as an attempt at sarcasm. I
thought you were trying to be funny by giving me the link for the
ubiquitous "Google" when trying to answer my post. Sorry

I was wondering if there is a simple way to change the default language
(English) in the Spelling Checker. Again and again Spelling jumps back
to English which is very annoying to say the least.
TIA - Robert

when I reboot my mac it shows 30 Gb space. As time progresses it
keeps showing lesser and lesser free disk sapce in about 3 hours I
am left with 0 Kb.
Again if I reboot I see 30 Gb sapce again. What's wrong?

Does this ever happen to you with Safari:
1. You click on a link, nothing happens;
2. You move the mouse slightly and Safari starts to load page
This happens to me regularly with Safari 1.3 on OS X 10.3.9.

I'm on a 12" iBook and my eyesight aint what it used to be, so I'm
looking for a way to adjust the default display size for text in Safari,
without having to adjust it via command-+ every time a page opens.  Any
ideas?  Thanks,

Often after I run software update, and it says I need to restart the
computer, I leave the software update program running for days with
that message up, until I feel like restarting.  Or sometimes I force
quit software update when this message comes up.  It hasn't caused me

Does the OS X mail.app have a mailing list about and if so, where can I
find it??

  On my request a business emailed me some info and it arrived in a
.wps file which I cannot open. Appleworks did not work, either. What
quickie OS9 prog can open this for me? Thanks!

I just found out there is a lack of support in Windows IE for 24bit
.pngs with transparency. They work fine in Firefox, and Safari (Mac),
but IE shows them with a grey square around the image. Is there any way
to set this up so it displays as it should in all browsers?

Hi, all.
I have noticed that songs encoded recently sound better than ones
encoded a while ago, and thus it might be a good idea to re-encode the
older songs.  I note that iTunes knows which encoder encoded a given

 Everyone seems to use zterm for serial port access, and I've never
gotten that package to talk to any of my USB/serial dongles on any OS.
I have a keyspan dual serial/USB on OS 9.1, zterm sees only the internal
modem; I have a Prolific 2303 based USB/serial on OS X 10.4, again, ...