Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / January 2006

I'd like to extract two sections less than 1:00 minute long apiece from
a .avi film I downloaded from the internet to use as an example in a
lecture without having to mess about with finding the right spots. (I'll
do that if I absolutely have to.) I do not know what codec the ...

    How does one launch an application from a hidden file?
   I know that the application is there because I can find it with the
"Find" help, but I can't get my computer to launch it.  I get a message
about being unable to open the file because it is in a hidden folder,

It seemed to work fine before, then I tried a couple of other
newsreaders, now I'm back.  I'm pretty sure that I marked each group
read and as I did that successive group numbers decreased to indicate
its is filtering messages that I already read.  Now when I do that, the

I'm using Tiger on a Mac - Netscape 7.2 and Netscape Mail.
I just installed Thunderbird & "imported" all my necessary folders but I
can't figure out how to make Thunderbird my default e-mail, newsgroup
program. When I startup Netscape, Netscape mail opens !

I would like to add keywords to photos, independent of iPhoto, so
Spotlight could find them.  I noticed that Preview allows you to do so
in the Get Info panel.  However on a test photo, the size was reduced
from 840 kByte to 744 kByte.  Dimensions were still listed as the same,

I've updated, upgraded, and read everything I could find about iTunes
regarding getting my ".aa" files from Audible Manager into my iPod
shuffle: I can get the downloaded files into the 'Library' section of
iTunes - but that's as far as I get...  I cannot Autofill, drag, or

I'm new to burning DVDs and am currently using Toast 7.0.2 without a dual
layer drive.  I have a main folder which contains the (2) folders AUDIO_TS
and the VIDEO_TS and wish to burn them to (2) discs to avoid the substantial
compression (option) of burning it to a single disc as ...

hi, i just bought a imac intel...and its my first mac....im sort of a
pc user trying to migrate to mac....now i want to record dvds...some
people told me to use the mactheripper and then record with
popcorn.... i triedd but it says the file size is too big...what

Seems awhile ago there was a way to import only a certain portion of a
song into iTunes...
I upgraded to 6.02, and i can't seem to find it anymore...
Am I missing something???

Once in a while, when I'm manually extracting binaries (because parts
are missing and I want the par files to fix them), I'll get a message
that NW is short of memory and I should add more.
But from what Robin Williams tells me in her book, the Mac does this

What are folks doing for the latest version of python?  Yes, I know I
can use Darwin Ports or Fink but I'd rather have a "native" or direct
replacement for the one Apple supplied us with.
Is readline still broken in 10.4.4?  Do you need separate fixes for that

Ok so I found photos in my iPhoto Library folder (accessed from the
Finder, not the one from within iPhoto--see, it's already confusing!)
that I had long ago "deleted" and trash-emptied from within iPhoto.  So
today I delete some photos from within iPhoto (my Last 12 months

In switching to a new computer, I found I couldn't transfer over my old
copy of Brian Clark's Rosetta (which I paid for in the past). Checking
around, I found that I never put away a stuffed copy, it is no longer
available for download, and is not supported anymore by the author. ...

My wife's iBook suddenly doesn't recognize her password when she
attempts to download an Apple software update.  This hasn't  happened
before.  (caps lock is not the culprit.)
I repaired permissions and restarted; no luck.

What is the BEST/EASIEST Macintosh/Apple application for storing,
filing, editing, etc. 10,000 digital photos?
I need a program for Mac that will easily arrange my photos and let me
easily edit them, and save the edited files in a non-degraded format,