Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / June 2006

I bought this HP 5650 Inkjet printer two years ago after having owned
several Epsons. I wasn't all that thrilled with the Epsons, as they
seemed to run out of ink very fast and die shortly after the warranty
ran out.

I've been following a thread on another NG about newsreaders and decided
I'd give Hogwasher a try.
Unfortunately when I downloaded and tried running it I had a message
saying "The trial period has expired".

Not a big user of textedit but when I open readMes they come up
in it and that is ok, but I have trouble working out how to see
the text, it is too small always and what do you do to make it
VIEWABLE bigger, not necessarily to save in bigger? That command

Everyone,
I just wanted to express my deep gratitude to all of you for being
helpful and tolerant when I ask for help with problems that arise
with my mostly well-behaved system. I turn to the groups when

Does anyone have any information or leads on how to connect to the
iTunes application from another app? Basically, I want to write a
program (C, C++, Java, or Python) that can interface to iTunes to
control playback, maybe some sort of COM thing?

My iBook G4 OS 10.4.4 has suddenly developed a problem relating to the
control key. Normally, when replying to a post or contributing to
newsgroup I press the ctrl + x. Now when I press ctrl I get a display of
all aplications on my desktop.

What is the best speech recognition software for the Mac? I would like
to use it with Microsoft Word to save me typing.

Anyone know of software to merge MPEG 4 video files?  Some web searching
only turned up a few expensive editors.  I only need to merge the files.  
Nothing else.  Free-, Share-, or Inexpensive-ware is of interest.
Thanks for any suggestions.

I'm experimenting with running pine in iTerm on Mac OS X. I'm in
the midst of experimenting with different settings and I'm
wondering if anyone has any advice? The issues I'm particularly
interested in are:

I have always had problems with Yahoo Messenger!  I'm new to this
group.  Currently I am unable to broadcast my webcam and also unable to
view other webcams.  I have an iSight and I do know the cam is working.
Last Tuesday it worked fine.  The only thing I did differently was to

I have been unable to listen or watch clips from MLB.com in either
FIrefox or Safari, despite the requirements listed on their website.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm running the latest version of everything and
I have a powerbook G4.

Ran across the app "Photo to Movie" in the apple store today.   Looks
like the best of both worlds.   The control of imovie and the slideshow
setup of iphoto.   Is it as cool as it looks?
Anyone have good/bad experiences with the app?

Somebody -- I think it was someobdy in this group -- told me about the
"Cursor zoom" utility that I could add to my system preferences to
enlarge the cursor.  I've got it and it works fine -- except that every
time I restart/renoot the computer, the cursor goes back to its

Does anybody know a routing-software with GPS support for Mac OS X?
Preferable free / open source / shareware. Catching maps from
GoogleMaps or other internet sources would be fine, but  the routing
itself should be working without an internet connection (obviously).

I am having trouble recovering some deleted mail.  I checked the Mail
help and in it I tried both their suggestions:
1) made sure that the box is clicked under special mailboxes so that
all deleted mail goes to a folder and is NEVER deleted (unless I