Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / June 2006

I use Windows, but I have a couple of close friends that use Macs.  One of
them has bought a iSight webcam recently.  We both use MSN Messenger and
Skype, but the Mac versions doesn't seem to have webcam support.  Apparently
Yahoo messenger has webcam support for both Mac and PC, ...

I received a coupon in .pdf format from Coke for a Blockbuster rental.  
Tried to print it from Adobe Reader 7.0.5 on a Mac G4 OSX 10.4.6 on a HP
Photosmart 1115 printer and it came out as a black blob - three times.
I then did the old Mac Cmd-Shift-4 and copied the coupon into ...

I'm planning to connect my MiniDV to my laptop so I can edit and dub
onto a DVD. Can I use either USB 2.0 or Firewire? It came with a USB
connection, but has the option for firewire as well. Is one better than
the other? What software program do I use to do this? iDVDHD? Will the

How to ??
I have a bunch of labled iPhotos on one mac and want them also added to
another mac (including albums, etc)  How do you do that?
Bruce

Does Mac OS X work like Linux in this respect?  Do I just set up
.Xdefaults with settings for font and position?  I would use xfontsel
on Linux, but I can't find this utility on OS X.

Before reading the warnings not to do this, I got into my iPhoto 5.04
library and changed the names of about 100 photos. I didn't change the
names of the thumbnails, nor the originals, when they existed.
Now iPhoto can't open the photos. The thumbnails are there, but there is

I'm looking for a simple time based wake from sleep application for X
10.4.  Everything that I've found on version tracker is some kind of
alarm clock function (typically playing an iTunes track).
My nightly back-ups take time and seem to be resource intensive.  So I

Has anyone tried out EAC under PW? I've heard of only one trial
(unsuccessful) but that was early days.

Some Mac-owning friends are starting a rental house (furniture
and related items) and are looking for integrated inventory and
billing software that runs on a Mac.  Hopefully something that
won't be difficult to build into a web site later.  It's a

I have two iMacs networked together. I have my own copy of Microsoft
Office on my iMac; my wife has her own copy, brought home from work. I
installed her copy on her iMac. When I tried to use Word, I got a
message saying that this was not permitted because another party on the

Can anyone please recommend a great and easy to use reciprical links
management application for website?
I tried Swapware -  when I make a link it appears to be working but
does not perform the appropriate action?

Has anyone been able to print music from Garage Band? I believe Apple's
Logic program does it, but it's quite expensive. There's a program
called MusicTime that does a great job of printing music, but I don't
know how to get it to use the file format of Garage Band as input.

A few days ago, after the latest Software Update and reboot, a curious new problem popped up on my
Powerbook (G4).  Since it seems to have appeared with the update, and for various other reasons, I
suspect it's flakey software, but it really looks more like a hardware problem.  So ...

I'm shifting some of my old audio cassettes to cd and find that some of
them are just a little long to squeeze onto a cd. Is there any way of
compressing an aiff file (just a little! the sound quality loss isn't a
problem since the cassettes aren't perfect to start with) to burn on ...

anybody have any answers on this one?
i've got an idvd project setup and i have 1 movie and scene button each
now i want to add a 2nd movie, but whenever i drag a movie into menu
area and drop it, a folder is created, and to play the movie i have to