Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / February 2006

Years ago I remember using something called "talk" on a UNIX terminal
at university which allowed me to chat with other users.
I've tried a few "chat" type applications, but I find it irritating to
have to press "send" every time I've written something. Whenever I

This is probably a very easy question for someone out there, but I've
been doing Graphic Design for 11 years and just recently got InDesign
CS2. I really like the program, but I'm puzzled... I can't type c and i
together without getting an accented a in the place of these two

I have both Mac and WinXP computers.  More and more I am switching my
focus to the use of my programs on Mac.  Primarily I use Filemaker Pro
and Office.  I use Firefox on both platforms.  On the XP computer I
have been using PaperPort to scan documents.  Some of the documents are

FireFox Questions:
1.What .pdf plug-in can be used
to view .pdf pages in FireFox?
Where does the plug-in need to be installed

So I just played a DRMed song in iTunes for the first time since
the 6.0.3 update and it asked me to enter my password to authorize
this copy of iTunes to play DRMed music.
Authorization was successful, of course, but it came back with a

Hi...
  I got an osx mac last summer, then I bought an airport express base
station to plug into my old router.  This weekend, though, Staples had a
great sale on a netgear wireless router and pcmcia card combo, so I got

Each evening I have two SuperDuper! backup runs, one to each of two different
external drives. The backup runs themselves are scheduled via SuperDuper!.
Shortly (15 minutes) before the backup runs are to occur an iCal event runs
an AppleScript to mount the target drives. A second ...

Found an internal modem for my Mac G4 (running Panther) and managed to
dial in to a University of Minnesota modem pool at 612-627-4250 (requires
authentication).  But my long distance costs a fortune compared to my
calling card, especially since I plan to do this rarely (if I could ...

need app for desktop wallpaper changer
I need a desktop wallpaper changer application (from images that i have
in my folder) every some times that i choose. I need it to my Mac Os 9
!!!! If its can be a freeware it's will be greate. best regrads yuva

I have a box of old floppies from my early days (1992-4, P-200).
Wanting to save these for some odd reason, I bought a floppy drive for
my G-5 and started copying.
A funny pattern has developed.  The floppies I made myself work fine.

Again, continuing on my migration to OS X and finding software similar
to that on my old OS 8.6 system, does anyone have opinions &
recommendations for image downloading programs?
On my OS 8.6 machine, I was very happily using Deputy Download; I

My message yesterday on this topic yesterday was too long and
confusing. Let me try again.
I need a calendar program. I tried iCal, but find two problems: 1) The
type listing the events in a calendar is too small even when set at the

Maybe this had been asked before, but I've been unable to find it.
Is there any possibility to tell Spotlight (via plugin or other) to
search on Entourage Mail database?
Many thanks to all for your help.

Well, I finally got around to upgrading to Tiger,  and a number
of things weren't there any more.  One that I'd used a lot was
GraphicConverter.   I looked around on apple.com, but didn't
find any clues.

This looks serious
http://secunia.com/mac_os_x_command_execution_vulnerability_test/
Below is my limited understand of what is going on.
Apparently it is possible to associate misleading (ie, evil) metadata