Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / April 2006

Is there a general method for changing text and text-size for a
batch of files in OS X? Suppose a number of files all in 9pt  
Monaco in TextEdit or TextWrangler, and one wants to make all
into 12pt Geneva. It is a nuisance changing each one at a time.

I've been trying to install Gimp for Mac, but it requires X11. But my
Mac account only has limited access. The way the accounts work is to
have a server storing everyone's home directory, and when I log in, my
home directory like

Can mail.app do Bcc ?
I thought it would take only a moment to find out how to do blind copies
-- that is to send copies without revealing it to the main recipient.
But

Hi. Does anyone know how I could hack OS X (10.4.6) to allow me to run
multiple analog menu bar clocks?
I want to run multiple analog clocks and have each one represent a
different time zone.  I want them to appear next to each other in the

I am using the newest Mail (2.0.7), Mac OS X (10.4.6) and SpamSieve
(2.4.3).
I access my mail through POP. SpamSieve moves junk mail to the Spam
folder, from where I delete it (move to Trash, and empty trash (erase

I would like to add an action to a folder that does the following
thing:
- identify the dropped-down file
- make a zip file of it

I'm trying to organize my song collection in Itunes (6.0.3) running in
MacOS 10.4.5, but certain songs won't let me change their names, genre
etc.
What happens is that I change the names that I want, and all looks OK.

I like having stickies on my screen. How can I back them up without
taking them off my screen or saving them first. (I don't like the way
they look saved as text files.) Will gdisk or any other software do
this?

My Mac often shuts down when playing video. This happens immediately,
and with no warning. The app doesn't seem to matter - QT, VLC, Real,
streaming or playing from disk.
Anyone seen this? The machine is a 1ghz G4, OS is 10.3.9, memory is

I have only been using iMovie 6.0.1 for a few weeks, but I have
experienced about a dozen crashes in that time. I can't think of any
other app with such a bad record (including, I'm sorry to say, Microsoft
products :-). Seems to happen at a variety of times: importing a clip,

For some reason I can create a contact and call them but I cannot edit
the contact card (add descriptions, etc.) beyond changing the name. I
have no tools option it seemsin the toolbar. I have this problem with
Skypeout contacts. Not sure about regular skype. Thoughts?

Can anyone tell me how to reserve or add "resources" like PC's do?  We
have both PC's and Mac's in our office, and us Mac users' can't add a
resource to reserved a conference room (in our case).  PC users using
Outlook can.  Any work arounds?  Can you sync iCal to an exchange

I have a eudora mailbox full of many messages. I want to run a simple
utility over the whole mailbox to extract just the email addresses and
put them in a list, perhaps tab or comma delimited.
Ideas please

I recently created an iPhoto Library in my /Users/Shared directory and,
after enabling ACLS on the volume assigned it the attributes:
  group:family allow list,add_file,search,delete,add_subdirectory,
        delete_child,chown,file_inherit,directory_inherit.

I set up a new Backup Set and placed it on my new USB HD. (200 GB).
Here is my log:
   Retrospect version 6.1.126
   launched at 4/24/2006 10:18 PM