Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / November 2005

I'm helping a friend of mine via email to fix simple html code. As he is
using a Mac OS X based laptop I don't know which text editor comes in it
by default in order to ask him to edit the pages. He sent me one file
after editing and seeing the contents of the file I realized that ...

Like some IBM laptops, the Powerbooks have a tilt sensor that's used to
lock the hard-drive in case you drop your computer. Apparently this is
sensitive enough that software can use it to detect the orientation of
the notebook. Does anyone know what this software is? I remember it

Hi. There are apps that I want to try, but they require administrator
privileges to install.  Since I don't know exactly what these apps are
going to put on my system and do to my kernel, I do NOT want to install
them as administrator.  I want to install them as a regular user first ...

Anyone one knows how to password protect the application Mail?
thank you for any help!

 Some Excel spreadsheets slide up and under the top optional menubar
(Standard, Formula, etc) so I cannot grab them to move them around,
cannot read the filename, cannot close by clicking the close box. I can
drag optional menubars away carefully to the right to expose the close

what is the best firewall for mac?

I used Mac the Ripper to copy one of my DVDs, then I tried to burn it to
DVD, and the whole thing is too big. I dragged the 01_0.vob through
01_5.vob files and the bup and ifo files to the dvd and burned them. They
show up as VLC files (orange and white safety cone), and it will ...

I just got and registered a copy of Zipit 2.2.2 for the express purpose
of being able to send encrypted zipped files. But I can't get it to work
right. Here's the story:
I got it to accept a password and I created an encyrpted zip file. But

Hmmmm... they told us at the store that the LaserJet supports Mac... but
apparently only on system X now. Theres nothing on the CD that supports  
mac.
I guess I am asking a stupid question, but there is no driver that can

I have one of the "troubled" Lombards which runs OS 9 and OS 10.2 fine
but Panther "broke it"... it freezes after a couple of minutes to a
couple of hours.  I have never been able to get a definitive answer on
what the problem is, but there appears to be a class of these that ...

I need a utility that will scan my iTunes Music folder and compare the
contents to my iTunes Library, and report to me that if there is any
music in the iTunes Music folder that has not been imported into
iTunes.

Last year, I burned a DVD with all my accounts on using Toast and
decided to use the password protect function. Unfortunately, my hard
drive crashed a couple of months ago - taking with it the prompt I'd
written to remind me of the password, and try as I might, I can't

I'm trying to complete the transformation from old macs with os 9 to newer
macs with os x. I was using Outlook Express on an os 9 Mac, and I copied the
Identities>Main Identity>messages document onto my iMac G5. When I open OE
in OS 9, where does that need to be to be used my the ...

What's the best way to voice complaints to Google about their not
developing for Mac OS?

Just wanted to post a notification of a problem I had with iDVD 5 on
Panther (10.3.9)
My problem was that iDVD would start burning an image, but while
encoding the audio the bar would freeze and the spinning beachball