Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / February 2006

Recently tried posting some binaries, first with Hogwasher, which gave up
after about a dozen parts. So I tried again with MT-Newswatcher, which put
the files up ok, but mangled the longer subject/file names. These weren't
particularly huge files, about 5-10MB, and split into ...

Using Apple Mail in 10.4.4.  When I type in the FROM: field, the app
attempts to autocomplete. How do I edit what it uses, for it's trying
to use an outdated address (NOT in Address Book). Where is this data
kept, and can I edit it? With BBEdit, or similar? Or do I need a Plist

The Mac used to have Global Village Fax Center which was a very powerful fax
suite for OS 7. If you have used this, you will be screaming and yelling at
the built in Tiger faxing abilities.
John

Okay, this might be a problem with my recorder, but I am seeing it on my
PowerBook.  If I record a DVD in 16:9 it plays fine on my TV but gets
squeezed to 4:3 on my Mac.  OTOH, a "Widescreen" commercial DVD plays
fine.  Any ideas why?

Are there any apps that can make a backup of the Panther disk that came
with my Powerbook, and remove the systems check. The disk will only
install on my Power Book. Now `i have Bought Tiger I feel that I have
the right to run the Panther OS on another Mac

Hello.  This is my first post here
I am a recent switcher to the Mac.  I purchased a 17" Intel iMac about
weeks ago and so far so good
I'm having trouble finding a program that meets my needs and I hop

I was wondering if there is a way to see what songs in my iTunes
library are NOT on my iPod?  Then I could view this list, see what
songs I like, and move those onto my iPod.
Thanks for your help.

I teach computer literacy and need an easy to use free program for
students to crop photos and convert them to jpg and gif.  In windows I
use Irfanview.  On my powerbook, I use Graphic Converter, but I have a
couple of students who have iBooks which apparently don't have GC.  ...

I imported an Excel spreadsheet that had drop-down selection lists that
triggered Vlookup.
NeoO Calc has a (right click) menu item on a cell for "selection list"
but no documentation as to how to set the range of cells in the

Why oes 1 half hour project takes up ~4 GB of space on my hard drive?
and applying effects takes another 4?
Isn this a bit excessive?  Do I have a setting wrong, or something?

I want to do something similar to this:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/spotlight.html
to show my customers how to deal with .dmg files. Frankly, the dmg
handling in OS X is extremely non-intuitive to new computer users and

I am considering buying a new macbook, and am bothered with that option
of choosing a "faster" hard disk.
In the past I used to "double the RAM by default" and this I found
helpful, but here there seems to be plenty of RAM already... (is this

Has anyone successfully compiled LUSH (lush.sourceforge.net)
under Tiger? LUSH is a LISP based system for numerical computation
which I would like to explore, but I'm having no luck. The Web
site claims it runs under Os X.

I have OSX10.4 for my G4 iMac, and I was trying to find and
clear out some carriage returns in a text file.  That was
easy to do in my old OS9.2 version of TexEdit (not the same
program), because in the Find-Replace command you can

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