Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / August 2006

I'm new to Mac OS X.  I accidentaly trashed the System Preferences,
when i moved it to the desktop.  Thinking it was a shortcut, I deleted
it.
So, am I screwed?

I have a registered version of 1.7.2 . When I saw this 1.8 as a free
upgrde, I assumed it will recognize that it is an upgrade to a
registered version and the transition will be smooth. Well, so far no
transition.

I have a  number of lengthy PDF documents ­­ seminar presentations
actually ­­ in which the individual pages contain primarily text and
vector graphics originally generated in Illustrator or from other
PostScript sources.

Is there any way to stop animations in Firefox other than Adblock?

I recently moved to a newer Mac and now I get a msg:
! Sorry, there is not enough room on this disk
1k more bytes are needed.
This is with MacDrawPro (used it for many years).

I'll cut to the chase:
G4, dual 1 gHz, OSX 10.4.7, 2 internal IDE drives, 1 firewire, 1.25g RAM.
Automatic sleep used to be OK, though it was never 100%. Even after
upgrading it still worked for a while, however intermittently. Now it's

I'm sorry if this is the wrong group to ask this, but this is such a
great group with such helpful people.  If I should ask somewhere else
instead, please direct me.
I'm thinking of buying my first digital camera, but I know next to

For a number of years now I have used Hogwasher as my interface to Usenet.
I've become a bit concerned that Asar, the company behind Hogwasher, may be
abandoning the product. Hogwasher has not been updated in nearly two years.
My questions and comments directed to Asar's ...

http://home.earthlink.net/~thoth-help/thoth.html
I assume this is legit (i.e. it's really Brian Clark who posted this).

Does anybody know of an economical Mac app that lets you record and
track your share/stock portfolio?
Thanks
Mike

When I open a file that needs Classic, it opens ok but I have to
fetch it to the foreground. Is this common?

I finally got my copy of Windows Pro serv pack 2 full edition.   I
downloaded the firmware update utility
and ran it, it says "this computer does not need this update" and
closes, but when I run Bootcamp

Just purchased iLife-06 & upgraded OSX with errased 160-g system drive.
There are hundreds of photos on the 250-g media drive and I don't wish
to duplicate them on the system drive in iPhoto library.
I don't know how to steer iPhoto to the images to open them.  Can you

After making a movie from still photographs using the Ken Burns effect
in iMovie I was discouraged to see how many twinkling moire effects
marred the final result. I went looking to see what I had done wrong,
and the answer seemed to be . . . I had used iMovie. It does a poor job

Hi folks--
I've been very lucky in my twenty years using a Mac, and have only had a
couple of minor virus infections on my systems during all that time--and
those I found on a Mac SE I was getting ready to donate to a local middle