Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / January 2006

Is there a "good" comparison/review of iPhoto 6 vs 5?
I'm considering upgrading but I remember reading somewhere that some
users did not like the changes made in iPhoto 6. Now I can't seem to
find that information.

Hi.  Is there a way to configure or hack iTunes to pause for 2 (or any
number of seconds) between songs?
Thanks.
Roger Carlson

Anyone have a reasonably simple way to secure a USB memory
stick's data? Am taliking about if you lose it and there is some
stuff like passwords and banking info that it is important that
others do not see.

I was using PGP 6.5 with OS 9. Now I'm looking for something to use with
OS X. PGP was freeware some years ago. Now it is a proprietary product
and from what I've heard it's bloatware and bad for your mac. Anybody
know of any good alternatives with military grade crypto and no ...

I've been thinking about buying and learning Fireworks or Photoshop,
and wonder which truly fits my needs. It's a pity that there's no
alternative by Mac developers, who are able to take advantave of Core
Image. I'm basically interested in making web graphics and designing

When I play any audio CD on my graphite G4/450 DP, the sound skips
forward a little once or twice per minute. Is there any way to prevent
this?

Is there a utility available similar to Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test to
verify that an external firewire drive is at full capacity?  Apple's
Drive Utility only seems to erase them or repair directories.
I bought a new Hitachi 400 GB firewire drive and an Ultra enclosure for

I often listen to Internet radio stations using iTunes (6.0.2 in MacOS
10.4.4) and sometimes feel the urge to record what I hear.
I've heard about "Audio hijack" which apparently will allow for this,
but are there any free alternatives available?

When I try to listen to book samples at audible.com, I don't get any
sound on my iBook G4 running OSX 10.3.9. The little sample window opens
and it appears to be streaming data, but no sound comes out. Has anyone
had this problem?

Is there an alternative to the Stickies?  I have more than 100 stickies
on my desktop, and it becomes very slow, unhandy/unmanagable, and ugly.
I basically put everything I encounter on a sticky: a paragraph from an
e-mail, a cool picture off the web, a poem, lists with my ...

I want to look back, over the past two weeks and see what song, 400
back there, I was playing last Saturday around 4:00pm.
Can I do that?

How do I make the Windows desktop smaller so i can drag files from my
Mac desktop to the Windows XP desktop?  The VPC help file did not help.

When we finally got around to upgrading our two Powerbooks to Tiger,
my wife's PB went fine, but mine got the "Incorrect number of thread records"
message.  Googling for this shows that it's a very common problem. Lots
of questions of what to do about it.  Lots of messages saying ...

The only part of the iLife group that I would use is iPhoto.  Is there
any way to just get that?

Quite recently every Microsoft Office X app - yes, the original - crash.
Anyone see this before? If so, how did you fix it?
-- Verne