Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / August 2006

When is this supposed to come out and will it come out with a Mac
version?

This is a half serious ­­ well, more like 75% to 80% serious ­­ proposal
for some needed new features in MT-NewsWatcher.
As an individual who regularly reads numerous newsgroups (aka "an
irremediable procrastinator") I've observed that whenever you open a

Any way to drop an alias of an app or utility into one of the Contextual
Menu Item folders and have it be accessible?  -- That is, be able to
invoke or open the app from a contextual or Action menu?  Or can one
only do this with specially designed plug-ins?

Are there any differences between Soundtrack and Livetype bundled with
Final Cut Studio and the versions that are bundled with the latest
Final Cut Express? If so, is there some way to find out what the
differences are? (I've searched the Apple site without success.)

Anyone have any ideas for easily playing .oog files in OSX, or something
that will convert them to something a bit more universal?
Thanks,  PE

A play on the new "Hi, I'm a Mac" commercials. LOL funny (Apple should
*definitely* incorporate this into their commercials):
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4oP_ITqMc>

I just got a Mac intel iMac and am looking for something to do what
Partition Magig did on my PC. I have found iPartition and VolumeWorks.
Which is  better? Is there anything else to consider?

i just exported a video from FCP (using quicktime conversion), and i
used the "high bandwidth" preset...which uses the h.264 codec. the
video looks great, but for some reason has a strange line of the right
side. here is a grab:

Hi...
  As noted on another thread, I've been trying to test drive some audio
editing apps for OS X.  Audacity says it needs an MP3 encoder from
outside to save, but the version they recommend for LAME is something

I'm currently on vacation abroad and have found several nice cellphones
I'm considering bringing home with me. One of them is the Toshiba TX-62
(http://www.gsmarena.com/toshiba_tx62-1626.php), but I'm wary of
compatibility issues with the Mac platform.