Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / September 2005

I am using Retrospect Workgroup to back up about 20 client machines
over the network to DLT tape.  When a tape gets full (which is
happening more frequently these days), Retrospect knows how to
continue an archive on a subsequent tape.  If a restore is

iTunes v4.9 (17) on a 733 Quicksilver running 10.3.9, 640 MB ram
My daughter is being driven to distraction by a constantly appearing
error message box:

How can I somehow type in the narrow top band of a stickie, to give it
a title or something?

Last night I applied the updates to Office and it destroyed my Address Book
and Calendar events!  I've tried rebuilding the database but it didn't help.
What can I do?
Jim

I used toast to write some CDs this afternoon, and verification on one
failed with an inscrutable message about the location of the failure. It
mounted fine, and I didn't try all 500MB of data, but all seemed fine. I
tossed the CD as a matter of caution and burned another one.

After upgrading to Tiger, I found that my usual method of copying my
Address Book entries from my desktop system to my laptop was no longer
working.
The method is pretty straightforward: on the desktop system, use the "Back

I imported a DV clip into iMovie 3.  The clip has one video track and
one stereo audio track.  I would to separate the two channels of the
audio track into two separate tracks, one for the left and the other
for the right.  Is there any way I can do this within iMovie?  I'm

I imagine this has been asked dozens of times, but I seldom come here and
am out of date. I am looking for the names of some credible newsgroup
readers. In OS 9 and below, I have been using an ancient version of
Newswatcher but I suppose it has not been updated for S X. I understand ...

Whenever I use Acquisition I find my machine has slowed down, it feels  
as if the app has highjacked my computer, or something. I've looked at
the Activity Monitor and it's true. But it's not the same thing with
Xfactor. There mac is somewhat slower but I can use other apps. ...

Tuesday, September 20, 2005   5:43 PM Pacific
Using Tiger.
I want to remove the phone icon / modem icon in the menu bar.
Please tell me how.

The occasion being their 10th birthday, Opera are offering free
registration codes fot the browser (gets rid of the ads) until midnight
tonight Wed August 31st.
Would have posted earlier, but I just found out about it.

I've got two computers that I regular surf on, one is a desktop, and the
other my laptop.  For both I use Firefox if possible, defaulting to
other browsers as required for certain sites (hardly ever happens, so
it's hit and miss as to which browser I use).

E-mail attachments are not getting sent, they head to the outbox after
I click Send. Then I'd get a message that read:
"This message could not be delivered and will remain in your outbox
until it can be delivered. Sending the message context to the server

I have a number of casette tapes I'd like to transfer to my Mac and then to
an iPod.  Is there an easy inexpensive way to do this?  Any special software
needed?
Thanks - Jim

Hi, I have the latest version of Mac OS and I'm a Linux user.  I have a
couple how to questions.  How do I set up multiple active windows like
I could in Gnome?  How do I use lick and paste like in gnome between
all windows?  How do I set up Emacs to run  in a  pop-up window?