Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / December 2006

I'm looking for a quick and easy way to make my own MP3 ringtones.
Can anyone suggest the best way to cut out a portion of an MP3 file, and do a
fade in and out, for a 30-second short MP3 file that would make a good ringtone?
Software recommendations or shortcuts accepted -- I have ...

I'm curious. I just installed Acrobat Reader 8 on a core2duo. Why does
the install require an admin password to complete? I've always found
their applications and installers to be somewhat "aggressive."

How would I enter the following piecewise function into grapher?
y = x for x < 0
y = 2x for 0 <= x <= 5
y = 10 for x > 5

I have a website in development and have tried it on a number of Macintosh
hosted browsers. The website, according to the validator at
<http://validator.w3.org/> has passed as "Valid HTML 4.01 Strict".
The site displays as intended when viewed via Safari and Firefox.

I have a project for Christmas gift.
I started it some time ago and since then my hard drive died and I had
to replace it.
Lost nearly all my fonts and also list I kept of fonts I used for this

In mail.app, if I start to type an address and the application completes
it, I thought this meant the address was in Address Book.  I've found
this isn't necessarily so.  If I want to remove an obsolete address that
fills in automatically but isn't in Address Book, where will I ...

Okay, I know some of you Hogwasher fans hang out here. I am trying out
Hogwasher to see if I like it. It seems okay, although there are a few things
that bug me:
1) Messages that contain URLs are shown as just plain text. You can't click

I own a g5 imac w/out camera. My mom has a new intel imac w/camera.
Both are running 10.4.8 (or mine is anyway).
Is there an easy way to audio chat with her? Something less expensive
than isight.

Hi all. I was going to upgrade my ancient Office 98, when I came across
an Excel 2004 upgrade. I only need Excel, so, sounds good. The problem
is, I haven't seen anything definitve that says I can upgrade my 98
with it. Any ideas, links, opinions.?

Trying to play a stream from xmradio.com causes Firefox 2.0 to crash
under MacOS X 10.4.7 with the latest Flip4Mac installed. By "Crash" I
mean Firefox enters a neverending SWOD. This is not just on one system,
but every single Mac we have, so I'd tend to discount machine-specific

Is there any way to tern of the sleep light that terns on when i tern
of my mac (imac G4)
Preferable some kind of thing that i can do within the system like a
program or something like that?

I'm looking for garden & landscape design software. Can you give me some
advice?
3majCieSie
PM

Hi...
  I used the sample versions of Hardwood Backgammon and Hardwood
Solitaire (by Silver Creek) early last spring.  They were nice but I
never got around to buying them.  They just went on sale, so I bought

My father's Macintosh Mail program freezes up now (with the mailbox size at
1.03 GB) with "Writing Changes to Disk" the usual message that show up, and
stays until you force quit the program. Is there any way to trim the mbox
file to get it under 1.0 GB to get Mail to run again, ...

I am wanting to convert a few videos and audio tapes  into CDs and DVDs.
Is the D-Link DUB-AV300 compatible with the Mac for this process. If so,
what application/s would I need to use.
Thanks in advance,