Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / September 2006

I have an external 16x USB2 dvd driver, the firmware is up to date, the
disks are good quality. Tiger is bang up to date.
But it can take literally hours to burn even a 100Mb onto a DVD disk.
What ever app I use, it always seems to use that thing with the stripes that

I'm fed up with Mail.app screwing up forwards and want to get off it.
I've looked a Thunderbird which many recommend and Entourage - neither
have an option to import from Mail.app
I don't see the point in having a Mail.app alternative which imports

Hi. I am looking for a good program for editing mov files. I have IMovie
but that requires that I convert my mov files to dv files-- which are
much larger in size.  I am looking to edit some mov files to put on the
internet so I don't need to bother with dv files.  Is there a ...

I just switched isp's (Cox > Verizon).  I configured MTNW to connect to
Verizon's newsserver ok, but all my saved groups still try to connect to
Cox's server.  Is there a way to avoid having to relocate and resave all
my groups all over again?

I often print Web pages (online receipts, etc.) to PDF when I'm using
Safari. Today I tried to do this, but the "Save to PDF" option in
Safari's Print dialog was grayed out, as were all of the choices except
for "Save PDF as Postscript..." and "Fax PDF...". I've tried this with a ...

Migrating my mother off of her OS9 iMac and getting her to use OS X
on a PowerBook has taken...  um, "a bit" longer than I had expected.
We still have one large hurdle to jump:  getting Quicken 2000 (or a
replacement) running properly.  Q2000 is an OS9 application, and one

I recently got MS Office 2004, and am wondering: is it worth the trouble
of trying to immigrate from the aging Palm Desktop, Apple Mail 2, and
Address Book? This doesn't seem that simple, but it seems like having
everything in a single PIM/e-mail program would be desirable.

I want to  export the contents of my address book in plain text format in
order to copy and paste the contents to my ISP's e-mail filters.  Is there
any way of doing this using an iMac G5 running  OS X?

I'm using BBEdit 7.1.2.  I need to be able to specify a different port
number for ftp.  (Yes, I have passive FTP checked).  Is there a way to
do this with BBEdit 7.1.2?  And if not, is there a way to do it with the
current version of BBEdit?

Just got this yesterday - dropped a 10-year-old, 2000-record FileMaker
database into it with no work - works beautifully, and is free!
http://www.norrkross.com/software/register/Register.html
Stores data in XML, you can have a useful database up in about 45

What do you think of the new Macs and Final Cut HD?
Any bad issues?  Good things?
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Is there a free, easy to use program that works under MacOS 10.4.7 that
remaps Windows characters to the Mac character set?
So far I have either come across such utilities that don't work at all
with MacOS 10.4.7. or they're expensive, bloated, complicated and

Can I teach Thoth 1.81 to accept certain words I use regularly, and not
treat them as misspelled?

Her in doors has finally brought her own laptop but we have a problems.
Half of her files, pictures, etc or still one this one.  Is there
anyway I can just transfer her files and not mine !
Or, if we decide to copy the lot, will it erase the files on my laptop

I need to do some fairly simple technical drawings. In the old days
MacDraw would have  served the purpose just fine. What program today is
comparable? It is all too easy to find architectural drawing programs
that are far too complex and expensive for the task at hand.