Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / December 2005

I have a Mac G4 using System 10.4.3 and browser Safari 1.2.4.  In
general the browser works the way it is supposed to work. BUT, there is
one operation that it will not perform: downloading PDF files from a
web site. I select the file to be downloaded from the web site and the

Is it possible to transfer songs between two iPods without copying to
the hard disk?  I can't do drag and drop.  Did I miss any feature here?
TIA
Tris

Happy Holidays every one.
Somehow my Widget Icon has disappeared from my Dock. I can press F12
and all is fine.
But I miss seeing the icon.  How can I get it back?

I'm running into an extremely irritating problem with itunes on a mac
G3 running OS9.2.
When I import a song that has a short interval til the next song,
itunes will terminate the song, either by simply going to the next

Is there a way to burn a Windows-compatible DVD (not CD) on Mac OS X
(10.4.3) without any 3rd party apps? I'd like to store data files on
DVDs, not making DVD Player-compatible discs. I digged into Disk
Utility, but couldn't solve this problem.

Will the new super-gotcha-hummer G5 Quad run 10.3.9?
The reason I ask is because I already have a G5 Dual (2.5) and plan to
upgrade to the Quad.  When I do, it seems to me that it would be
simpler (and more secure) to swap drives, keeping everything intact and

I've twice installed FCP HD and everytime I go to open FCP in
Applications it pops up with "Configuration Error: This software
requires certain hardware or software which is missing: AGP Graphics
Card." I called the rental house for the G4 I'm using and they say it

Is there a way that you can get an applescript to run each time a word
document is saved?
Thanks
Adrian

Does anyone know of a OS X application that helps you create a legal
will? Nolo had a great app called Willmaker, but they seem to have
discontinued their Mac support and I haven't been able to find any other
software company that offers a similar product. Anyone know of one? I'd ...

Is there a way of sending faxes directly from the Mac through the
All-in-One OfficeJet 5510?
greetings, el

To many floppies may be dead, but they will never be dead to everyone. I
can tell you by experience that many using new computers have purchased
external USB drives.
I will give you some advantages that floppies have. I challenge any

Happy Holidays every one.
Somehow my Widget Icon has disappeared from my Dock. I can press F12
and all is fine.
But I miss seeing the icon.  How can I get it back?

I upgraded to Tiger shortly after it came out and ran it for several
months.  I had cloned the system partition of my computer to a external
FW drive partition before upgrading.  I found that some of my programs
didn't work right in Tiger, so I went back to Panther, booting from my

I am converting a huge CD set (48) to Mp3 CD's to save space and more
easily be able to play them in my car, which has a Mp3 CD player.
The way I am presently doing it is this way.
1. Import CD (which converts the CD to Mp3 files using the highest

The Dallas Morning News
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-techshadow_24
bus.ART.State.Edition1.1a7f3a86.html> pointed me at this background
backup solution for frequent file type-specific backups: