Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / June 2006

Is there a way in OSX or the Darwin shell to make a file invisible to a
Windows filesystem?  I'd like to transfer files to Windows users on a
removable drive, but I want to make the files beginning with a .
invisible to them so they don't copy them by mistake.

I've seen some open source stuff that builds right out of the box, but
they still have ports available.
For example, there's a Fink port for PostgreSQL, but it also works fine
building it on its own.  Why is this?

Can anyone suggest a good way to get old 8mm home movies into a format
where they can be edited with iMovie?
My dad has a bunch of these going back to the 1940s.  He got them
transferred to videotape, but found that while there was a lot of good

i just created an idvd
i filmed it in 16:9, but when i play it on the tv, it always stretches
and doesn't letterbox
i'm able to play other commercial dvds and they letterbox just fine

Any suggestions? Every now and then I come across an audio CD that my
Powerbook (G4, OS 10.3.9) won't even load: I put in the CD, it spins
for a while, then pops out again. Makes ripping the tracks a pain,
since I have to record it to disk in real time from my stereo.

So every once in a while, a message will *appear* completely
empty in Mail.app.  It's a properly formed message (in the
case that caught my attention today, it came from my own Mail!)
and when I look at it on my mail server's webmail interface

Since my "departure" from APPLE Discussion Groups- BIG DEAL- I am
trying to find a group with REAL knowledge on importing and editing
"home  movies". NO MEGA posters PLEASE !
I have been taking video clips of the athletes I coach, mainly at local

Seams strange that the only iMovie HD6 users that have "stuttering"
problems post to APPLE discussion Boards ! I just got the BIG
A-pun-from APPLE by suggesting that their Moderators and "chronic MEGA
posters" know little about the Mac and less about iMovie any version.

What's the best newsgroup to post questions about iWeb?  I have
issues/questions about upgrading/revising my blog.  Even though it's much
easier to publish a blog with iWeb than with Blogger.com (at least it is for
me), I want to have my blog be more accessible to the public, and ...

Am I the only one to find it pretty annoying that iTunes sorts "The
Album" by the "The"?  Is there any way to get around this other than
"manually" renaming "Album, The"?

Every time I try to print my Illustrator 8 file, a message says, "Can't
print the illustration."
I already flattened the document and saved it as an EPS file, but it
still won't print.

Hi. For several weeks I have been trying to upload a pdf file to
http://www.lulu.com and although each time I create it (first v4, now
v5 of Acrobat) from a Word file
and try to make damn sure I embed the fonts it uses (Palatino and Times

My itunes program is giving me this wierd error, can anyone help??
(the itunes music library file is locked)
does anyone have any tips that may help??
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A few days ago I upgraded by PowerMac Digital Audio from its factory
533MHz G4 processor to a 1.2G processor from Other World Computing.
 OWC Mercury Extreme G4@1.2GHz with 2MB L3 Cache for PowerMac G4
running 10.4.6.

After having worked a long time to make the built-in emacs work with
non-US keyboards {in my case: Danish keyboard}, I have finally
succeeded.
Just put this .emacs file in your home directory: