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Let's say I have just imported the audio from a concert video into my Mac by
using Spin Doctor or some similar audio program.
Let's also say this concert is too long to burn to a single CD and I want to
turn it into a 2-cd set.

November 27, 2005, Mountain View, California -- New Breed Software released
Tux Paint 0.9.15 last Friday, adding new features, new translations
and numerous other improvements to the Open Source drawing program for
young children.  The product, along with an expanded collection of ...

Using Office v.X with update 10.1.6 on an iMac G3 running OS X 10.4.3.
When I open Word it stalls twice and give me the msg
"Connection failed. The server may not exist or it is not operational
at this time. Check the server name or IP address and try again."

I have mail from certain senders redirected to special folders that
aren't within the Inbox. For many weeks, they have been disappearing
randomly, as they come in. I will hear the sound for new mail to that
account (it has a special sound), but there will be no new message in

I need an MP3 player which doesn't require the WindowServer daemon.  It
needs to be run via a crontab, and might be run when I'm not yet logged
into my computer.
iTunes works great, and is AppleScriptable, but if I boot up the computer

Anyone here running BBEdit 8.2.4 and not having trouble with
syntax coloring working with ruby source files?
I've got Jesse Jones' ruby plugin for BBEDit installed, and neither
the syntax coloring, nor any ruby entry in the list of languages,

I have an eMac running OS X Panther.  I have total of four user
accounts and each one is set as administrator (I know that is not the
best set up).  When I try to bring up System Preferences in three of
the accounts, nothing happens.  When I click the icon in the dock for

Hi...
  I just downloaded iTunes LAME and ripped a couple of discs well, but
I have a question.  It seems to come with 2 settings for ripping, one at
160bps and one for 185 vbs.  Is there any way to add more setting

... to put it succinctly. When I click on the blue menu icon, nothing
happens. Command/F still brings up the search program however, but when
I search "Spotlight," I find no application, just SpotlightPrefPane.
Not sure if there is supposed to be an app. This problem may ...

Anybody else been getting them with the latest versions of Safari or
Firefox, lately?
(Pop-ups ARE blocked in preferences.)
SR1

Ok. Now don't you think mac should have an internet service? It should
have the same services as .mac and connection features like dial-up,
dsl.
Who all believes in this?

I was using Mac the Ripper fine on this Mac Mini. But then it decided to
stop working. I won't go into details as I've posted on the MTR forum.
But is anyone using a viable alternative for ripping DVDs?

I have a mov file, that I need to convert to something I can use in
powerpoint for windows - (in a standard installation of powerpoint).
Now I have tried to convert the mov file to mpeg1, and my first
question is whether that is the best format to use?

Hi. I believe since I updated to Mac OS X 10.3.4, when I use Thoth to
download MP3's from various newsgroups, the icons appear as either
iTunes or QuickTime Player icons....I get a mix of both icons even when
downloading a series of tracks from the same uploader. This never used

Can anyone help me in making an unrestriced copy of the Panther install
discs that cam with my powerbook. Now have Tiger and wiould like to
install Panther on another machine. The installer states it will only
work on a Powerbook. I think I once saw a utility that did it but I