Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / September 2006

Okay I have a DVD I put on my HD using Mac the Ripper.  It seems to
play there okay.  Now, some 8 moons later, I want to rip a copy so I
can actually watch it on the TV.
What program do I use to I put such a movie back on to a DVD?

Do apple Airport Extreme's purchased in the US work in the UK?  I
currently cannot find any store in the UK who sell the Airport extreme,
only US stores.
Hope someone can help.

I notice with interest and qualified pleasure that Classic starts
an order of magnitude or more quicker if it is set to start at
user login. At least on the evidence of the appearance of the
Classic startup screen. Perhaps this is an illusion and a lot of

I am new to Word for Mac (converting from a PC). I need to be able to
add musical notes into Word documents but can't find a font that
supports them. The only musical symbols I found were flats and sharps
and a stray fermata. Is there a font (like Jazz in Word for Windows)

Here is my problem.  I have a lot of very old Mac programs that I would
like to run on my Mac (PowerPC G5) under the Classic environment.
These are quite valuable older programs that are not longer available.
These programs are on discs.  I am not familiar with the correct

I'm trying to use the emacs that came with Mac OS X, and by default it
has the menu-bar-mode enabled, however I can't use the mouse to select
anything in the menu.
Same for vim, I can do :set mouse=a to turn on the mouse, but

I have a pocket pc that I used to use on my windows machine.  Now I
have an ibook G4 (running osx tiger) and i need ot link it to it to
transfer mail, pictures..etc.  Is that possible?..what software would i
need?..(the poket pc is running MS mobile 2004)

Had a prob recently with a couple of pesky files on a remote
server that I could not remove myself, (did not have the right
permissions apparently), the server admin people removed them.
But the removal did not show up till I quit Cyberduck altogether

I have a mail.app behavior problem that I haven't been able to find a
solution to.
When replying to a message, mail.app will set the From address to the
address

Since yesterday, my Mail.app gives the following message:
"Writing your preferences to disk has failed. Your preferences may not
have been saved. The permissions on ~/Library/Prefernces may be wrong or
your disk may be full."

OK, I've got the Mac scheduled to wake up at 5:00 am (via Energy Saver),
so it can run a couple of Retrospect backup scripts at 5:15 and 5:20.
It's set to go to sleep after 2 hours, and this has been working fine
lately (I'd been having trouble with that, seems to have cleared up ...

SHORT QUESTION: Is there such a thing as a plugin or alternate frontend
that provides iCal with more/better print options?
I don't want to abandon iCal because it has pretty good integration with
the rest of the system, but if there is another application that can

Does anyone know a way to copy view options from one playlist to
another in iTunes?
My music library contains various types of audio files (different types
of music, podcasts, radio stations, audiobooks, et. al.) and I would

Whenever I click on a .pdf link while browsing it asks me which app to
use...I don't recall it doing this previously...is there a way to set
this once and for all?

I've been using Acquisition and Transmission to download Torrents.  I
switched over from LimeWire for the Mac (Universal version) because I
got tired of downloading files that turned out to be something
altogether different.  I make a lot of my own videos and turn them into