Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / September 2005

I'm using a 500 mhz G4 tower.  Is the audio that's built on to the  
motherboard full duplex to allow normal Skype based phone communications?  
My DSL connection is fast.

I am looking for an app (OS X) I've seen a while ago but didn't write down
the name of... It's sort of a word processor for ideas - it allows you to
brainstorm and put up ideas and concepts, and link them graphically on the
screen to indicate connection between concepts, set ...

I was in the hospital recently and due to go back soon, and I'd like to
have a dial up connection.  My ISP is a very small local outfit, which
is unavoidable where I live.  Is there a company that provides dial up
phone number/connections all over the US that I can access only when

I'm running Tiger on an iMac G5. Although AAC is the preferred format
in iTunes, my Mac always assigns AAC files a Real Player 10 icon. Under
no
circumstances will AAC files open in iTunes. Furthermore, RP 10 has a

I just upgraded to Tiger (10.4.2 from 10.3.9) last week and have had no
problems with onything else except that Retrospect 6.0.212 (which I
installed immediately after upgrading to Tiger) hands whenever I try to
access the Pioneer A106D DVD-RW drive in my PowerMac G5. I've tried

It appears that you people were right and I was wrong.  I will need to add
1GB more of RAM to my ibook.  512MB is just not enough.  
I like OSX but hate how much diskspace and RAM it eats up.  I also dislike
how I cannot boot from a zip disk,or boot with the os from a CD-ROM.  On ...

Hi, is there any programm for the Mac that copies DVD movies?  Thank You
Rebell

Hi i have a imac G4 and i was wondering if there is a firmware upgrade
or something for USB 1.1 ports to be put so they can be USB 2.0?
Would i be able to buy a firewire to USB 2.0 converter? if so where, i
live in New Zealand, Hastings.

I'm involved in a project that will need to amass thousands of images.  
My use of iPhoto has been sparse up to now so I am still in version 2
(using Panther 10.3.8).  So I've spent the better part of the day
Googling reviews and reading remarks on Usenet.  It seems like iView is

Hi...
  I have several books on cd that i've ripped into iTunes.  I have the
genre tagged as Books & Spoken Word.  I've also set the Grouping tag on
all of the chapters to "Audiobook".  But they still don't show up on my

We just bought a new iMac g5 with a 250gig HD.  We'd like to partition
the HD with out erasing the HD, and then reinstalling the all of the
new apps etc.
Is this possible, and what software would one need to accomplish this?

I've been trying to get to http://www.defaultware.com/proteus/ or
http://www.proteusx.com/ for several days. Is this developer DOA? Last
I saw they were trying for a new release for "back to school". Anyone
have any inside news on these folks?

Someone just sent me a zip file full of a font that I'd like to install. I've
checked with Help, and tried to follow the instructions in the "Installing
fonts" page.  But it doesn't seem to do anything.
When I unpack the zip file, I get the following (ls -l) files:

   I have been able to successfully burn about 4 DVD from my Camcorder
using iMovie and iDVD.. So I am very comfortable with the whole
process.. This last miniDV that I am trying to convert to a 2 hour DVD
is giving me some royal pain..

In X11, the apple (command) key is the meta key.
In Terminal.app, the option key is the meta key.
In the carbon emacs, the option key is the meta key.
In iTerm, none of these can be mapped to be the meta key (esc has to be