Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / November 2006

As an experienced and long time Internet and Usenet user, although via
Macs only, I've been asked to help a personal acquaintance in the
Windows-only world get started reading Usenet news.  Maybe it would be
better to point them to a Windows-based advisor instead -- but for

I'm looking for a newsreader to replace Entourage, and I am trying to
check out Hogwasher, but I cannot figure out how to change it to a
single-window, multi-pane view, instead of the multi-window view. I
have checked Help without success and emailed support with no answer.

OK, even though I have a lot of computer experience in some areas, I'm
just beginning to get into the world of transferring music files and
burning audio CDs.  The first time I tried to do this in iTunes, I
created a CD that is not recognized by either my portable or car

I got my wife's iPod before I got my MacBook and her stuff is on my
Daughter's computer (since she was only the one who had a Windows XP in
the family at the time). After I got my MacBook I got an iPod to call my
very own and put it on the MacBook. Now, I want to consolidate both ...

When the "new connection" window is open a list of addresses can be
viewed that have been used for previous connections. Over time some of
these are stale and old but I cannot figure out how to delete them. I
have searched the "help" section and can't find any instructions on

The standard nowadays seems to be horizontal for any programs, like
Word, that allow split screen. I'm an old XyWrite user and would love
to find somebody that allows a page to be split from the top to bottom
and two different files laid out side-by-side, likea newspaper column,

It says in my book, in black and white, that from the moment I
have logged into my account, "the Mac automatically fills in
every password blank you encounter..."
Well, when I log in to to my ISP (to see the state of my usage on

hey guys... i was wondering if it's possible to create an away message
that shows what i am listening on itunes (Current iTunes Track). Or can
that only be shown with the one that comes with iChat?
thanks a lot

Under iTunes>Preferences>Advanced>Importing, there is an option which
says "Create file names with track number." What does this mean? Thx.
Ed

is it possible to see the (software) dvd player in imovie?
i want to capture my own dvd into imovie, any ideas?
hardware:
i've a pb g4 that i'm trying to get video into

I need to insert Quark tags into a text file that is exported from a
classified ads application. I just can't seem to get the syntax right to
have a font tag <f"LegalNews-Bold> inserted at the beginning of the line
before the date tag. For example, here is what is in the export ...

Is there anythnig in Windows (free will be the best) that I can view
the iMovie from MAC? If not, how can iMovie file be converted so that
it becomes readable in Windows?
Thanks in advance. You help would be greatly appreicated.

I have a win98 machine.  I burned some CDs of photos for friends and
family.  Those who have Win98 or WinXP were able to read the CDs (even
those who don't have my particular CD-burning software); those who have
linux or Mac could not read the CDs.

I have downloaded several HQX files and OS X can't do anything with
them and prompts me to select a program to run it with. What program do
I use?

I downloaded gimpshop from the apple web site and now it complains about
not being able to find X11 and to check the install CD for it. All I
found was a X11SDK, installed it and it still complains. What do I need
to install to get the gimpshop working?