Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / October 2005

I upgraded to Tiger a few weeks ago, and I'm not sure when this
started. The last week? I choose shutdown at night and shut down
properly. In the morning, I start up, and the trash can, which was empty,
shows contents. I looked at the contents and it's mostly images I dragged

Does anybody know if Autodesk plans to port Autocad to OS X system?
Roger

Running 10.4.2, but I've noticed since at least 10.3 that my
web browsers tend to periodically have "issues." Specifically,
after some amount of usage, they tend to lock up while loading.
Lately I've been running top and checking the resource consumption

There seems to be a new search bar for safari:
http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/
However, do *not* donate money because it's a fraud page.  After you
have donated you still cannot download the software.  This guy just

Is MS Virtual PC my only option for virtual machines under Mac OS X?
Ideally I like some type of virtual PPC software. I have some versions
of Linux PPC I'd like to try, and I don't want to have to worry about
boot loaders, or repartitioning.

Hi  I am new to this group and new to posting on newsgroups - so feel
free to bully me.
I have tried posting mp3 files just as a test so far but am having a
problem which I hope some kind soul can solve for me.

Is there a way to do this?  It used to work with additional software,
but doesn't anymore.

I'm looking for a simple text editor that will allow me to work in full
screen mode. I want a blank screen, no menu bar, with nothing but text so
I can concentrate on what I'm writing. The only features I need are that
I can choose the background colour and font (size and colour) ...

I prefer to have OSX's "Mail" program automatically check for messages
every 5 minutes or so, but there's a little kink when I take the
computer out of sleep:  It often takes several seconds for DHCP to
establish an IP address for the computer.  However, Mail notices that

How do I transfer video to on of the new iPods?
I recently bought one of the 60 GB iPod with video units. It is really
slick. The packaging is impressive and the screen is excellent for its small
size.

I've got a Kensington Expert Mouse Pro trackball. Since I changed to
MacOS X the Kensington software hasn't supported triple-click which in
many applications like MacSOUP will select a full line.
I've downloaded USB Overdrive X from

I've been wrestling with this problem for a while now, but haven't been
able to come up with a solution.  I had been successfully using iSync
(on Panther) with the iSync Palm Conduit to sync Address Book and iCal
data to my Palm Tungsten T3.  No problems, everything was ...

ImacG5/Tiger :
since a few days the fan seemed noisy permanently as if the CPU was
working hard even on idle situations. in the activity monitor (utility
app),  i realize that a tiny widget "iCal event Widget" is using 97% of

Is it possible to burn the Acrobat Reader program to a CD? I want to
burn the latest (7.0.5) to a CD and then give it to a friend who has
only  dial-up AOL? I burned the downloaded .dmg folder to a CD, but
when she tried to open it, she got an error. She doesn't remember what

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I have been wrestling for months trying to decide whether to buy
QuickTime Pro for about $30.
I want to "get into" editing of digital movies on my new G4 aluminum