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Members of a group I sing with will get together for a weekend
rehearsal/retreat next weekend. I'm proposing that we might be
interested in what's in other members' CD libraries, and I thought I'd
start by listing the albums in my own.

Thanks very much.
Davoud

I used Amphetadesk on OS 9 and OS X-PPC and love it. I just got a
MacBook, and when I tried to install it, I got some error messages that
I don't understand, or know what to do about.
Anybody got it working on Intel? It's the nicest RSS client I've ever

Niceplayer is een nice alternative for QuickTime Player or DVD Player.
Uses the QuickTime architecture. Support for the Apple Remote.
Playlists. Fullscreen. Freeware, but in my opinion unfinished.
http://niceplayer.indyjt.com/

Have a 60GB iPod Photo, colour screen, about a year old.
iBook G4 etc .......
Recently got iTunes 7.0 then updated to 7.1
Have always mounted my iPod as disk and run a cron job to write files

Does anyone know of a server monitoring package for OS X, something
like Servers Alive from Woodstone whcih runs on Windows ?
I want to be able to create a few tests to monitor my web servers and
file servers, so general ping tests, along with GET http tests to test

Visiting http://www.tsa.gov crashes Safari.  That is, "The application
Safari quit unexpectedly."
This is normal?  Or just my setup?
Tx in a, Pat LaVarre

I need to set up a second email account on the same POP server in
mail.app, but it seems that mail.app cannot do this.(beach ball spins
and spins when trying to authenticate POP account)
Is there a way to do this, without setting up a new user account on my

Just wanted to share this experience I've had building my itunes music
server.
My goal was to make it as hifi as possible, within budget contraints, of
course. The music server had to be based on itunes because:

dear mac experts:  I am trying to control my brand new mini via vnc
from a remote linux machine.  the first time it worked.  (linux VNC
Viewer 4.1.2)    now I am getting the password, then the first
interlaced draw of the screensaver, and then an abort with an "unknown

This is a report of an observation of an odd file naming hangup in
TeXShop which seems to me to have potential for serious confusion at
best, possibly data loss at worst.
I have a TeXShop source file "myFile DRAFT.tex" -- works just fine.

I created a answer file for XP, Can I use this to do a Windows 2000 to
XP upgrade. and if so how?
I know it will work by doing a fresh install of XP  but i dont want to
do that.

I've just tried installing Avidemux on my iBook g4, mid Summer, the last
G4 one before the Macbook. I grabbed the DMG, extracted the runAvidemux
file, but into applications folder and so on.
Then, every time I try running Avidemux pops up the X11 icon, than the

How can I open a VOI file ?
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With Applescript (script provided by Apple) or File Buddy it's easy to
trim a fixed sequence of characters from a bunch of files.
What I am going to need to do is to remove date stamps from a whole
bunch of files. So a fixed number of characters but variable characters,