Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / December 2006

I'm wondering if what I want to do is even possible before I start
figuring out how to do it.
I'm putting together a family movie DVD that contains a bunch of small
clips.   Basically, I'm trying to figure out a way to deliver just the

I've got some VIDEO_TS files of musical performances that work fine in
VLC Media Player, but don't play in QuickTime.  And once burned to
DVD-R, there is no audio when played via DVD PLayer or on a standalone
DVD player...

I'm pretty new to the Mac way of doing things, I've
been monitoring the newsgroup for a couple of months
now and haven't seen a reference to an FAQ.  I've
been ripping some albums and I'm confused by the

Is there a (free) application that works just like a text-editor (e.g.
"TextEdit" etc.) but has pre-defined forms making it easier to cleanly
make lists of things?
Sure, I can enter stuff in any text-editor, but it doesn't look good.

In the old days (MacOS 7 etc.) I remember having an extension that
automatically moved the mouse-pointer to  the default button of any
pop-up dialog window ("OK", "Cancel" etc.).
I can't remember what it was called. Is something like that available

I have no experience in this and have had no interest till now, so I
don't know where to look. I have a CD of Benny Goodman's concert at
Carnegie Hall, and he blows the roof off with "Sing Sing Sing." The
recording is 12 minutes long, and there is static throughout and one

Quite annoying that everyone can see your status whenever you log on
can you please tell me how to appear off line - messenger has such a
feature so you won't actualy have to log off in order to appear off
line...

I have a USB hard drive that is formatted by MAC OS X. How do I read the USB
drive in Windows XP?

Has somebody found a way to move an object on a slide in Keynote? (At
presentation time, of course.) It seems there's no such functionality
built in, but maybe somebody has found a trick?
My idea is to display a large picture, then let the picture shrink and

i'd like to put a cd-rw into my mac and use backup (or deja vu) to
backup nightly; but it appears that i have to manually erase the cdrw
each day first.  is there a way to just leave a cdrw in a mac and have
it rewritten each night?

Eudora 6.2.3. System 10.4.8.
Experts running my mail server (at a university, no charge to me so I
don't want to change servers) now require that I use IMAP mail
protocol. Ever since I made the required changes to my Eudora settings,

One machine in my network (198.168.58.10) runs a WebDAV server for all
the iCal applications on the other machines.  Everything was running
fine in Panther.  Upgraded the server machine to latest Tiger,
everything still runs fine.  Then I upgraded one of the other machines

Is seems to me that there has been a subtle font size change in all my
apps after upgrading from Panther to the latest Tiger.  I notice
eyestrain and the fonts seem just a wee bit tinier. I also noticed the
size of the whole screen changed slightly on both my 15" Al PB and my

I recorded an interview in a .wav file on an mp3 recorder and would
like to transfer it to a text document without having to manually sit
there and type the two hour interview.
Is this possible?

Is SM compatible with the IMacs? The website doesn't look like. Any
suggestions for a free design program. I need some REALLY basic stuff to
update text on my website.