Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / August 2006

Is there a way of stopping a "by mistake" starting up app?

OK, has anyone ever actually used those software coupons for anything?
- J

To all of my video editing nuts I ask...what is the difference between
The Final Cut Pro & Final Cut Express apps.?

Since my last software update, I get a strange safari error message
when I open safari:

How can I geet rid of that? Someone in another group wrote about the

Got a message with an animated gif and colours and stuff (html
formatting probably) which I get in all the glory fine... but how
to forward it to retain the formatting? Anyone know about this
please?

Why do programs in OS X take up so much memory?  I just start up
Photoshop 7 and it immediatly consumes 76 MB RAM and 388 MB Virtual
Memory.  388 MB of WHAT??  That's a lot of stuff!  I remember the days
when I could run Photoshop 4 on a computer that only had 128 MB RAM and

I am switching from PC to Mac now and have a question.  I know in the
Mac field there are far fewer virus issues but I assume that still
some type of virus program is needed as well as a firewall.  Is this
true and if so which one is best?  With the PC I use Norton for

I just got a Palm TX and have used the bundled Pocket Tunes.  I've been
considering getting Pocket Tunes Deluxe.  The website talks a lot but
says little.  Does anyone know the following:
Can you manually input a URL for an MP3 stream, not for Live 365 and

Just went through a *big* hassle with an add-on package AuthorTools that
manipulates notebooks and notebook contents in Mathematica on the Mac.  
Turned out the problem was leaving the .nb prefix off the notebooks
involved.   The basic Mathematica app was OK with this; the package ...

Does anyone know of a Mac app that will format SQL? Kind of like this
page: http://www.wangz.net/cgi-bin/pp/gsqlparser/sqlpp/sqlformat.tpl,
but I want to have a native app that I can pipe text into via the
Services menu. If no app like this exists, I'd like to write one.

I just ordered a new battery for my Powerbook G4, since mine was one of
the ones that they recalled.  It says that once I recieve the new
battery, I should send them the old one for "proper disposal".  Is it
really necessary to do this?  What if I just keep it and use it as a

My son sent me a mac mini so I could Ichat with my grandson. I know
next to nothing about mac. I got talked through the setup and it
worked. Now I cannot connect. It seems my 60 day trial of mac mail or
something has expired.

I'm having a very weird problem...
I've decided to get rid of the 8500 message I have in my inbox folder
and the 3000+ I have in my sent folder, by creating a folder with two
subfolders (one for each) and moving the messages there, so that my

It seems to be possible to get Mac OS 9, 8 or 7.5.5 on an Intel Mac with
Sheepshaver.
<http://www.uneasysilence.com/?s=classic>
I installed Sheepshaver and the ROM file, but don't get Mac OS

When I open console from time to time I notice that I often get this
message :
2006-08-23 01:13:27.494 SyndicationAgent[209] WARNING:
BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Tue 22 Aug 2006 16:36:29