Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / August 2006

I've installed NeoOffice on my brand new MacBook, and I'd like it to be
the default application (instead of the trial version of MS Office) for
opening .doc files.  I'm able to change the association on a
file-by-file basis, but I can't figure out how to change the

Has anyone succeeded in compiling DSTool, the Dynamical Systems Toolkit
from Cornell University, for their Mac?  My compilation dies midway
through.

This time it's VirtualPC that gets the 'golden cut'..:-(
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2006/8/7/4907
cheers, Erik Rihcard

All of a sudden, messages I have put in others of my mailboxes
(sometimes weeks ago) are starting to show up, one at a time, in my
"Junk" mailbox. I am absolutely certain I'm not moving them there, and
I've never written a script that does anything remotely like that.

I am interested in trying Thoth. If you have a working number for
Thoth's most recent version please let me know:
nuNOsharSPAM@operamail.NOcomSPAM  (remove all occurences of NO and
SPAM). AFAIK, there is no way to purchase the sw.

Hi. I've been getting blank map pages when searching google maps for an
address in firefox. the map area says "loading". but remains gray. the
problem is sporadic - sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't,
but I can't isolate why. I often get this error as well, when trying to

When MT-Newswatcher detects spellingserror then there is a red line
below the erronous word.
However when I click right I see no correct or alternative spellings. I
do get to see those when I use (e.g.) Text Editor.

I'm getting an external drive, and it's going to be used among other
things to store music, pics, etc.
Since the iTunes, iPhoto, etc default to checking the local drive, how
can I seamlessly add another folder?  Perhaps storing most of my huge

Starting about a week ago, both Safari and Firefox show the maps I
generate at Google Maps on my screen, but fail to print the maps -- all
the other stuff is there, just no map! This is true both printing to a
printer and to PDF. Yahoo maps still works fine. I suspect that the

Running MacOS X 10.4.7 ...
I have noticed that some of my Podcasts appear in iTunes, but not on
my iPod mini when I do a sync.  These are audio Podcasts, and not A/V
Podcasts.  

I bought a Mac Powerbook just after Katrina took my PC. Love it, except
I can't find an easy way to record my guitar. Using PC was easy.
Guitar>amp Line out>soundcard. The Powerbook doesn't seem so simple. It
does *not* have a mini jack input, so my choices seem to be Firewire,

Author Amit Singh "Mac OS X Internals" (Addison Wesley, $64.99) will be
hosting a workshop on August 10th at 12:00 pm at the San Francisco
Apple Store during WWDC. Last week the book was #4 best seller at
Amazon for the week and the #1 Mac OS book.

Just noticed that in MT-Newswatcher, the menu items at the top
have gone, there is just a white background! Clicking on finder
or another app brings it back, but not on this newsreader. I am
sure I have never seen this before... Hell's bells!

Bought a NEW ATI RADEON 9000 PRO MAC 64MB AGP VIDEO CARD and a second
hand 17" Apple LCD Monitor. (My G4/450 is AGP with 10.3.9 and 1.3 gig
RAM)
I have installed a driver for the ATI card, but the screen won't light

Sorry guys, but you just don't rate. An ordinary IT degree is not
suffice to qualify you to answer questions on problems involved in
software developement and telecommunications. The minimum is at least a
Univesity Degrree involving three FULL years of APPLIED PHYSICS and