Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / April 2006

i am not a sound person so i don't really know what i am talking
about...
but i was instructed to make sure that the average dB level fo a piece
of audio (in aiff format) was at -12 dB.

Whenever I get an .eps in mail (no matter what size it is) it crashes
mail version 1.3.8.  I recently reinstalled the mail software and it
didn't help.  Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give.
B

I have a bunch of MP3 CDs.
I'd just like to insert one of them into the computer and play the music
(in iTunes). But it seems it doesn't work that way...?
I don't want to copy all of it to my hard drive and add it to the

stupidest mistake in the world
going thru the logic pro uninstallation steps from the apple site and
deleted some garage band library files, now when ive re-installed
logic pro i have certain exs 24 sample sets are missing, does anyone

I have a portrait-format document in TextEdit, thus 8.5 inches wide,
with the left margin at 1.25in and right margin at 7.25in.  I want to
narrow those margins to around 0.75in and 7.75in, respectively.  It
won't let me drag the margin marks any closer to the edges of the paper.

There are two user accounts on my iMac.  One for me, one for my wife.
We switch back and forth for a nice separation of email and desktop
icons and so on.
We keep all of our photographs in my iPhoto library.  But my wife wants

at work we have an analyser running on WinXP , and need to convert
files on Mac workstations.
Analysed data files are therefore in a PC format (.ab1), put through
FTP on a html hosting page, from which each user will download the

What are "cache files"?  What do they contain?
I'm wondering because I've noticed that when I tell Retrospect to do an
incremental backup, it decides that it needs to back up around 3GB worth
of files, even if I've only done only a little bit of Email since the

I see this question has been addressed here before but I don't seem to
find any solutions.
The question is, when I'm select-scrolling, when it reaches
th bottom of the page it accelerates and goes so fast it's

My new iPod was my 40th anniversary gift and I thought I could play my
little Canon digicam video clips on it - can't.  They don't transfer
over.  Is there a way to make them do that?

You've been such a help to so many people on these newsgroups.  Please
let me know if you received my email.  Thanks.
Cori

A friend has sent a document ending in .wpd, which I think is a windows
WordPerfect file (I'd asked for it in plain text - sigh). I can't open
it in my WP 3.5E under ClassicOS (the open menu doesn't even show it,
although the other files on my desktop show), Mariner Write and BBEdit

Upgraded to 10.4.6 yesterday and ... there I was iWorking away when a
brand new alert screen appears, with words to the effect of
You Must Restart Your Computer.
Just like Windows. Oh crApple! Yes, yes ... I sent in the bug report

I recently bought Photoshop Elements 4 after it got good reviews in MacAddict
and MacHome. I looked at Amazon for a good reference book. I have Scott
Kelbys books for Elements 2 and 3 but was very disappointed that the book for
Elements 3 made it clear it was a Windows program ...

Hi anyone,
I have filled up my hard drive with media and would like to thin it out
to make more room.  I already have a rough cut, and can discard or move
some of the clips.  Thing is, I captured entire reels, which I think is