Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / January 2006

I have Microsoft Office X (the first one), and recently all the apps have
been crashing - Word 10.1.6, Excel 10.1.6, PowerPoint 10.1.6, and Welcome
10.0.0. Entourage and Messenger seem to work though.
Anyone have any idea what's going on? They were working fine up until a short

Has anyone out there noticed a serious playback issue plaguing
quicktime 7 in which the entire .mpg file does not playback? I've tried
running all of the system updates to see if that would rectify the
situation, but all to no avail. Is anyone familiar with this situation

Hi. I have used Carbon Copy Cloner and it works great.  Out of
curiosity, what does Carbon Copy Cloner do that:
sudo rsync -aE --delete-after --exclude="/Volumes/" /
/Volumes/ExternalFWDrive/

What app do I need to reduce an image file, ie make it lower
resolution, so that I can email it to some friends with a very slow
internet connection? can iphoto do this?
Thanks

anyone of you is using in? when I'm trying to connect my iSight, the
message pops up: Server is too busy to handle your request. The same
thing is when I'm trying to view somebody elses webcam. How to resolve
this problem?

My girlfriend currently has a 30Gb video iPod but I'm considering
purchasing an iPod shuffle or nano so she can use it in the gym. Will
she be able to connect it to the iTunes on the same PC she currently
uses for her video iPod or will it cause synchronisation problems? Any

Unison does seem to filter crossposted messages.  For the benefit of others:
Preferences, Rules,
If <any> of the following conditions are met:
<Crossposts>  <Matches Regex>

My HC Soundsticks will not work when connected to my new Belkin USB 2.0
7-Port-Hub. They work only when connected directly to my iMac G5.
Anyone have any ideas why?
Thanks,

It is probably set that I will get a Intel IMac in the summer and
would like to know what wordprocessors are available that is NOT m$.
I don't see Wordperfect for the Mac on Corel's website.

I am a novice at comptuers, but I do know how to plug an audio CD in
and import it into iTunes to be able to play from my computer.
So I get a new CD and plug it in and it doesn't open iTunes, and it
doesn't show up on my desktop.  I do know a little about Toast so I

I have a Kodak digital camera (nice) and I use iPhoto to
collect/download the images from it, but iPhoto cannot seem to get the
videos from the camera.  To do that I have to launch the Kodak EasyShare
software and go through the usual crap of telling it (everytime) that I

Is it possible to use AppleScript to create a two-way system-level
pipe, i.e. one that can access a system-level program like
/usr/bin/tcsh or /usr/bin/perl? And also, without using the Terminal
program that comes with Mac OS X in the Utilities folder.

Nice article at Cnet on the subject that might clear things up for some.
http://tinyurl.com/9bgzl

I was president of a group and sent out monthly emails to all members. I'm
no longer an officer and don't need to maintain all the addresses and would
prefer not to have their personal data in my Address Book. I occasionally
need some of the informatio to help the current president, ...

I am computer novice, so please bear with me.
I just spent several hours working in iPhoto5, organizing photos,
creating several slideshows just the way I wanted (with music and all).
I closed iPhoto to be sure that it saved everything I did.  It never