Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / November 2005

Recently I noticed (I don't use it much) that Pages will
complain on startup loading a document that it can't find the
Arial font.  This is silly, since I use Arial in various apps
all over the system, including NewOffice/J.  Yet, Pages

Okay, here's what I want - flash based mp3 player for the mac. I have
an iPod shuffle, but I'm finding the lack of a screen gets a bit
annoying.
I looked at the iPod Nano, but the 14 hours of battery life along with

Had so many problems using rsync or cp to make backups I am about to
give up. Although less efficient I might be better to user AppleScipt
to run Disk Utility to make disk images. Any Suggestions?
I do not like Retrospect because everything is compressed into one file

First of all, I know this is a Mac group, but I didn't see any posts
about this software yet, so I figured since it's iPod related, it
might fly...
Anyways, this is about a piece of software I just picked up for

I sync DateBook4 on a Palm m100 with Now Up-to-Date and Contact on a Mac
running OS 10.4.3. It's all worked flawlessly for quite a while.
I was having trouble with my Up-to-Date file: it wouldn't print properly, so
I exported the data and imported them into a new calendar file which ...

My latest attempt to find a way to convert my off-air VHS recordings to
digital form for archiving on DVD media has me close to tossing the
buggy Miglia and going instead to a dedicated box like the Panasonic
combination VCR/DVD recorder/player.  The one I have my eye on is the

Why doesn't this applescript work?
tell application "System Events"
    keystroke letter()
end tell

I bought a 1,8 Ghz 2nd hand ppc, but now I see some
problems.
They say it is with memory.  How is it possible??
I bought memory to Apple's specs.  Even from an Apple dealer.

When can we expect it?

I have one of our employees who is using a Quicksilver running OS 9.2.2.
The Mac does not have a built-in DVD player, so I attached an external FW DVD
reader/burner. So, now he is able to mount DVDs, but my question is: what
piece of software can we use to view the movies?

I paid $25 for this, and it's vexing me. Often the Get More icon isn't
lit up, even when it turns out there were more postings available.
Often when I do Get More (manually, since the command icon isn't lit up
for me) the program takes forever to download the headers. And often

Is it only me or others too that can not download an OS X version of
this program?  Even in the developer's site, the supposed OS X dmg file
contains only OS 9 version.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Tris

I regularly backup my data onto CDs/DVDs and have been very conscientious
about this for years. Every now and then, I would like to verify the
integrity of my data by diagnosing the status of the media. In the pre OS-X
days, I used various utilities to verify the integrity of ...

In reinstalling iTUnes, I lost many of the songs I had on my computer.
However, they are on my iPod.  Is there a way to sync backwards from
ipod to itunes?  Thanks.

Is there any way to do multiline comments in Bash, rather than use
# comment on each line
What I would like to do is to incorporate a bunch of HTML into a Bash
script (or if you like, incorporate some Bash script into a web page) in