Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / February 2006

I use Windows XP at work on a network. Can I somehow access my Home
Mac? We also have some Macs at work, not on a network but probably
firewalled somehow. Can I access my Mac at hom from these Macs?

Based on a report that iPhoto 6 fixes the iPhoto 5 problrm of very slow
(over 5 minutes in my case) startup and shutdown when pictures are taken
with certain digital cameras (in my case, Casio EXLIM-Z40 and Nikon
D70), I tried it.

With my recent migration to OS X with my new Mac, anyone have
recommendations for a good Usenet newsreader? I was using YA
Newswatcher on my old OS 8.6 machine.
Thanks.

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Dear members:
Can disc images created on a Mac be sent to a Windows machine and opened ?
I have the need to send files that are somewhat confidential to a family
member that owns a Windows machine (files will be send over the net). The

Installing the Mac binary ImageMagick-6.2.6 (from ftp.nluug.nl) and
setting the environment variables as directed (including
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/ImageMagic-6.2.6/lib) results in the following
error:

I recently installed 10.3.9 on my daughter's 366 MHz G3 clamshell which
has 192 MB RAM and a 5.5 GB hard drive.  I also just purchased an
external 250 GB USB/FW drive for her to use as storage.  So far, 10.3.9
works far better on her computer than I ever expected.  Her computer ...

Is this compatible? I have an old G3 beige desktop with Mac OS 9 and
any new software requires OS 10.
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I am trying to understand how can I display thorn (þ) and eth (ð) in a Mac
system, possibly in Quark XPress.
Thank you in advance.
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Dear members:
After using Airport some a while I have noticed lately (last few months) a
degradation of the signal strength between my Powerbook and the Airport
Extreme base I have connected to my Powermac G5 and the cable router that

Hi...
  I finally got around to trying my old epson 3200 scanner with my new
ibook and I was puzzled to find that when I hooked it up via the
firewire 400 connection, the included utility Image Scan could scan from

Gang,
I've found at least one confirmed instance, and several suspected
instances, in which the last second or two of a song was cut off when
importing into iTunes.

I have a question regarding how to name files and folders in Mac OS X.
There're lots of ways to name files and folders. Some use space between
words: others use underbar or hyphen. In terms of using Mac OS X for
web development, programming machine, daily use, and Terminal, I'd like

Whne I open my newsreader, under all feeddss my feeds are listed. But
some are too long and I can't make out what theya re. How can I
manuever the screen or something? Or must I rename?

I am kind of new to using iTunes.  I recently got an 30 gig iPod and
now I am really starting to use iTunes.  I have started copying all my
cd's to my computer and I can see that having some playlists is going
to be important in organizing all this music.