Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / December 2005

My 200g Maxtor HD just karked it!
I stored my iTunes folder on it, consequently my 4000 or so tracks have
gone. I have my playlists on my iPod, so my obvious question is, can I
restore to a new HD from my iPod?

Hello, i recently bought my second Apple product, a 1.67 Ghz G4
powerbook.  very very excited . . .and i'm loving the conversion to the
new technology already!!  well new for me =)
i have certain websites that i work on that require IE testing.  this

All,
I'm in the process of re-ripping all of my CD's and I have a few Questions before I start... I have always stayed away from AAC and WMA because of copy protection and their for I have encoded at 328kb in an MP3 format...
If you encode using AAC is the file tied to the computer ...

I'm using Apple Mail 2.0.5 in OS X 10.4.3.    I subscribe to multiple
mailing lists using a different account than my main email account (to
reduce spam and allow me to check my mail faster on the road).  
I also use rules to move mail messages to folder On My Mac.

This seems to be a common problem, but the 'remedies' I find for it do not work.
In OS X mail (my version is 1.3.11)  compose always picks an account I do
not want to use in most cases.   The remedies all say to go to Mail
Preferences and change the order in which the accounts are ...

This is not a Mac-specific question, but I'd like to ask this question.
Surfing the net, I see lots of feeds provided on websites, and somtimes
encounter both RSS feeds and Atom feeds. As far as I know, most
aggregators (and browsers) can handle both. In my experience, there's

Where do I set the global PATH variable?
My path does not contain /sw/bin, and so my Carbon Emacs cannot start a
certain /sw/bin/... application inside emacs.
I tried ~/.bashrc, but it of course does not affect the variable content

Sorry, this is a newbie question ...
How do I start the preview app, with a certain pdf as argument, from the
command line?
I have Mac OS 10.4.

I go round and round. I've read comments on VersionTracker. What do folks
here have to say about these apps' methods, or other apps? I am a casual user
who occasionally leans towards a heavy several times a day user.
Pathetically, I can't make up my mind. I feel I haven't used ...

List 'em if ya heard of 'em.
Don't need bells & whistles; just double-click collapsing.
(It's the principle of the thing: It rankles me to pay anything for an
ability which I'd enjoyed for free for ten *years* until now, and which

I ordered one for our G4 iMac. When it arrived, the specs called for  
both G4 and OS X 10.4.3. No Tiger 4.3, no workee!
George

I can't get Toast 7 to complete a DVD+RW. It hangs at the end, and the
resulting disk is corrupt (it mounts, all the files are there, you can
descend into directories, but the files won't open).
The Toast web site says "try using a different colour of DVD+RW" which

A friend of mine with a G5 iMac running Panther has recently run into
problems with permissions.  Her computer has suddenly required that she
type in her password to put pretty much anything in the trash.  I fixed
the permissions with DU which didn't help.  She is the only account ...

I have a friend with an eMac running 10.3.4.  Whenever he opens mail it
tries to index and then crashes in a few seconds.  I opened a dummy
account, and mail was stabile.  If I open mail and switch the mail box
immediately to say, the Out box which is empty, it will not crash until

I'm a recent convert to Mac's and wandered what you guys consider to
be the best burning program for a variety of different cd's and
dvd's. I got pretty used to using Nero, so anything with the same
amount of features / options would be great, just hoping someone on