Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / February 2006

I keep a list off all my third party software and check VersionTracker
for updates.  However, I often miss them.  Is there an app that can
check automatically?
What made me think of this is there is a Widget Update widget that does

Is anyone using Tor? Any comments?
http://tor.eff.org/

Dear members:
While in the process of making back-up copies of my applications' CDs and
DVDs I was surprised by a message from Retrospect stating that if I
proceeded to duplicate the disk with the option "Ignore Ownership" checked

Just got a new mini and out of the box Sherlock is acting funk
Won't load the internet channel and when i go to the channels icon al
the channels are listed but their descriptions keep changing languages
All else seems fin

-- Won't authenticate. using OS X.4.
so I downloaded OSX News and it worked fine immediately
never had a problem with Newswatcher in OSX.

I need keyboard shortcuts for the following tasks:
* Get Mail in Mail.app
* Update Podcasts in iTunes.app
I looked for it in the help and on the web, but I couldn't find it.

Why does it always have to redownload all headers everytime I open my
groups?  Netscape, Outlook and such download the headers once.  Has
anyone else noticed this problem with Newswatcher or is there a way to
fix it?

I'd like to move the directory where Mail stores my mail from
~/Library/Mail to another directory.  In the Advanced tab of the
Accounts part of preferences, there's an Account Directory box that
seems to be for this purpose.  However, it's always grayed out.  Is

Last time I burn data to DVD on my laptop (XP PRO version) use Nero
Burning but i can't open it on MacOS... So, please told me what i
need to do for fix it? Thanks.
P/S: I dont want to updgrade the old one to new one cause My ibook is

Upon opening Word, the app starts "optimizing Font menu performance" and it
reports that nearly every font I have is corrupt and should be removed. In
reality there is nothing wrong with the fonts. Is there any way to turn off this
optimizing so i don't have to spend ages dismissing ...

weird behavior.  I have a starter doc that when I open it I get a
dialog box with an text field and an ok and cancel.  I have no idea
what the ox is for.  The template worked fine in windows.  I dismiss
the box and get to work.  If I run a spellcheck then the box comes back

Have video that says it's DIVX. When played in QT Player
with DIVX 5.2.2 codec installed, no audio.
I saw on videohelp.com that a bug in DIVX means MP3 audio
won't play. (Presume, therefore, this video might have MP3.

While I use usenet for discussions, the new Unison version is a "better
update soon" one.
Its listing of new features:

I have a friend who is running Adobe Creative Suite (a fully updated
first version, not CS2) in 10.3.9.  She's thinking of upgrading to her
OS to Tiger but not if she has to upgrade CS to CS2, just too expensive.  
Does anyone know if CS works under Tiger and the details of any ...

So Stanford is putting up podcasts of all sorts of
lectures (how cool is that!).
I subscribed to one set of them and iTunes shows me
the long list of available lectures, and goes and