Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / December 2006

Hey everyone I am new to the newsgroup so if this question has been
discussed before forgive me but I have been considering buying quiken
2007 for Mac but after reading the reviews I read at Amazon I am
probably staring away from it. Is there another alternative to quiken

I am an I tunes newbie.
Whilst attempting to load some songs onto my mother-in-law's ipod I
needed to upgrade to version 7.
I did this then unwittingly transferred my entire library onto her

How do I get MS Word and Excel to stop their toolbars from covering up
the top of all documents (new or old)?  I've tried tossing the prefs,
but the problem persists...  
Thanks for any assistance with the annoyance!

I'm experimenting with switching from Eudora to Mail. One thing I need
to do is to be able to edit my address in the "From:" line of outgoing
messages, since I have a virtually unlimited supply of addresses and I
use different ones for different people and businesses that I

Couple of questions about MT Newswatcher 3.5.2:
1) Is there a way to get that "untitled groups" window to not appear
when starting the app?
2) Is there a way to get one's newservers windows to open automatically

i wat to join a gathering can u give company

What is the easiest way to burn an AVI file onto a movie DVD (that will
play in DVD players) on Mac OS X?  I've looked everywhere for a
free/cheap simple program that will allow me to do it but I can't find
any.

I tried looking for Mac multimedia NGs, could not find any.
Plenty of Microsoft multimedia NGs, however I would prefer to learn Mac
specific stuff, such as which brands of camcorders are Mac friendly.
...or does that really matter?

Hey, I just tried out Sherlock. It is intriguing, but I apparently do
not have all the channels. In particular, I seem to be missing the
"Pictures" channel. Does anyone have any suggestions for restoring the
full set of default channels? TIA.

While trying to open any sound file on my G4 Mac and sys
10.4.8 in classic mode I get out of memory error messages
with suggestions to close windows. I have 768 megs of memory!
I get the same messages when I boot into classic.

Can anyone say what's the minimal software needed to download photos
from a Canon PowerShot A710 to a Mac iBook running OS 10.3.9 via the USB
cable?
I really don't want to keep all, or in fact any, of the extensive suite

I jsut went here and downloaded ffmpeg2theora-0.17:
http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/download.html
I installed it, but I can't find the program anywhere.
I need it to convert .mov to .ogg for use in Wikipedia.

i hope an engineer or member of the iPod team can see this... I have
songs such as 12 minutes long, and one even 72 minutes long (a
remix).... but they get played as often as a "3 minute" song... so the
result is i hear that long song a lot, each time for 72 minutes.... i

Im quite new at mac so i dont know muth about it.
I wonder if ther is any good software to test if the hardware in the
mac is OK?
Like ultimate boot cd for X86? The mac i have in powerpc based.

I'm confused about the different ports systems for Mac OS X. I
installed Fink 6 month ago , but now I've discovered Mac Ports and
Darwin Ports.
I've somes questions :