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Has anybody tried this as an alternative to Photoshop and Elements?  It
claims to be more photography oriented.  I find Photoshop and Elements
to be totally different from working in a darkroom and I wondered if
this might be better.

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i am trying to open a RAR file.  part of the file gets an error and
won't open correctly (i am trying to use unrarX).  PC people can use
winrar and there is some "repair" function and the file will then open
correctly.  i am not able to get it to open correctly in unrarX when i

Hopefully some of you gurus can give me possible causes to research.  I
have a 24" iMac Intel 2gb with the latest software update & firmware.
Problem 1:
Computer restarts itself at some point after being completely shut down.

I have an address book that I exported from MS Works into csv file format.  I
now want to import this into Apple Works 6 Database.  Can anyone tell me if
this can be done.  Apple Works doesn't seem to recognise this file format,
which  I thought was a universal format.

I find it very awkward to constantly switch back and forth between the
keyboard and mouse, particulary with a spreadsheet. So how can I edit
the contents of a cell in an Appleworks spreadsheet without having to
pick up the mouse and click on the edit bar? In excel on the PC, you

Is there a way to require a password to open an application? I don't
want anyone looking at my Mail if I forget to log out.
tia,

How do I get a word count of a draft e-mail in Apple mail? There has to
be a way.

I've had BBEdit for years, but used it lightly. I'm trying to figure
out how to reopen the files that were previously open when I quit
BBEdit. Any tips?
Thanks,

Is the Hotmail plug-in okay to install into OS 10's Mail program?
The plug-in's Read Me file says it can make Mail crash randomly, and the
plug-in got only a three-star rating on the Version Tracker site.
I wonder if I should use Hotmail from the Hotmail Net site instead.

Is the Quark to Indesign plug-in from Markzware advisable to buy for
converting Xpress 4.1 files to Indesign?
I'm planning to uggrade to Adobe Creative Suite 2, and I read on the
Macaddict Web site that Q2ID is particularly useful for converting Xpres

Could someone please leave comments or email me some feedback on my
iwebsite. I just recently started it and i wanted to be able to see how
popular it would become. I do as much as i can with my site, knowing
just  bit of html. I post a blog, drawings, movies, photos.

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My housemate's graphite iMac has iTunes 7 loaded, and he's
understandably annoyed that it uses the speech voice to verbally anounce
(very loudly!) each track as it begins to play. We've both looked
through various settings, and haven't found a way to disable this

So what's the "obvious" choice?  Parallels?