Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / September 2006

OK, I know this is a stupid one but all my googling has not yielded the
answer... yet.
I would like to have Mail force me, or at least prompt me, to enter a
subject before sending an e-mail message without one. As I recall,

In the "Quickly block email" thread, many posters have said that they
use SpamSieve and it works well.  I've been using JunkMatcher for a
couple of years, it also seems to be pretty good, although some of its
heuristics result in false positives.  Luckily my ISP filters out 90% ...

With single layer media so very, very cheap these days, I was looking
for a program to shrink a typical 7 gb DVD movie down to about 4.5 gb.  
Even without the extras the main feature is usually at least 5 gb so its
just slightly too big.  Any recommendations?  I think Windows ...

What do you recommend on the Mac instead of Paint Shop Pro on a PC?
(both bit-map and vector graphics)
My son has to use that in school ...
I do have iPhoto, GraphicConverter, GimpShop, OmniGraffle Pro.

Hey all
Am desperately trying to get a copy of TVJab or any other client that
works with Jabber for OS 9.
I have Jabbernaut, but am having issues with it. It keeps trying to

Today I paid, online, $39 for an application. In order to download the
application I had to enter a 43 character serial number which contained
letters, both upper and lower case, digits, and punctuation marks. After
having carefully typed in the serial number (I tried several ...

Lets say I have a blue wallpaper on and I want to write a stickie that
is clear with white type, so it looks like I am writing on my
wallpaper. Can I do this. Using latest OS X.

Hi people
Hope this is the right group to ask. Please redirect me otherwise.
I've gotten used to using AppleJack to keep my G4 sweet. But now I've
added Ubuntu Linux, and must go through Yaboot, I've lost the ability

I am currently using NetNewsWire to access a number of RSS feeds. I have in
the range of 30 subscriptions. At the end of a session with NetNewsWire I
select all of the subscriptions and then click on the Mark All As Read
button. All of the subscriptions are then un-bolded and the ...

Prior to OS X I used and was happy with the American Heritage Dictionary
and its associated thesaurus and stuff.  I'd like to move up to an OS X
native version.  Any recommendations on "best for the money" choice
among the competitors in this area?

My browser of choice is Mozilla's WaMCom 1.3.1 on my souped-up
G4 Sawtooth machine. I know that modifications can be made by
typing "about:config" in the Navigation toolbar (where you normally
enter a URL) and changing settings. I'd like to know if anyone knows

I was using a beta-version of IPSecuritas until now and today I got the
message that this beta-version was expired. Following the link that was
mentionned
(http://www.lobotomo.com/products/downloads/beta/IPSecuritas30b5.dmg),

I am using Mail.app Version 2.1 (752/752.2) on my iMac G4 10.4.7
sending email to a friend of mine  who unfortunatly is still writing on
a PC wintel (got it , its next computer will be .. a Macintel !) I
receive his email correctly typed ( accentuated ..) but my own attached

I have several accounts on my Mac. For each account, there is an iTunes
Music folder located by the path HD/Users/Username/ etc.
There is also an iTunes Music folder in HD/Documents/iTunes. What is
this? I don't recognize most of the songs there.

This summer I took a 10 day vacation in Europe, and took nearly 300
photos (two cameras).  Now I want to share the original photos with a few
people who were on the trip and want to select some of my photos.  In
other words, I am not interested in making a slideshow or only ...