Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / December 2006

Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote:
OK I'll be the troglodyte ‹ I seriously miss the "good old days" when a
computer and its operating system came with a REAL hard copy manual.
You know...back when the operating system was way more complicated and

Never used isync before. I did manage to connect my Nokia 6103 to my
imac running Tiger. isync shows sync progress and then success. I don't
see any contacts. Where should I be looking? I've never used macos
address book before, either. I assumed this is where isync would put the ...

is there a way to screen capture or something similar to save a frame
or two during a video iChat (preferably while using AIM)?

There are a couple of video streams I'd like to capture and put on
playable DVD. (Playable on a DVD player, that is.) They are in a format
that my Mac (Firefox/realplayer/quicktime/etc onTiger on powerbook g4)
plays easily without my having done anything special, so far as I ...

There are icons that I want to appear in specific location on my
desktop.  These are related to a very large external hard drive I have
bought and I want to put the icons in a specific location.  The mac
wants them along the right side of my screen.

I'm training TextEdit with custom styles. Where are these stored? Will
the backup of ~/Library/Preferences file 'com.apple.TextEdit.plist'
allow me to reinstall those styles?
For example: I do a complete clean install of the system every now and

Photoshop question...
HELP w/PHOTOSHOP! How do I make CURVED DOTTED LINES as in a map?
How do I make CURVED DOTTED LINES as a map often has? I'm making borders
for a map, and need to make these.

where to download Mozilla 1.0.2?
I searched all over and some generally accurate links, do not have the
links. Is there somewhere I can download it for my Mac system 9?
Thanks in advance

This is a minor annoyance, but...
The fonts in my Font Panel "Favorites" collection are listed in the
order that I added them.  Unfortunately, I added them in the order that
I first used them, and now I have about 15 to 20 that I use for various

Over the last couple of weeks I have been trying to figure out why I
had no communications with a USB > Serial converter and tonight I
discovered that there is no serial port support in the TCL/TK
installed in MAC OS X 10.4 Mac mini.

An application running in the background on a Mac Mini
under OS X 10.4.8 opens an RS232 serial port (provided
by a USB->Serial adapter) when it first starts up in
order to communicate with an external device.

I've told that the instructions at
<http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/faq#mail.app> are not up to
date, because Mail.app 2 does not store mail in mbox format. I'd like to
update the page, and have been given the following URL for an

Suddenly my iphoto is not deleting from my camera after downloading as I
had it set and I can't find a preference of dialogue to reset that. Any
idease?

Hello, I used bootcamp to run WinXP on my Macbook and all went well but
one thing. While Using the bootcamp assistant I needed to burn a cd
with macintosh drivers that I would need to use windows. So after I
installed Windows and everything was working I popped the cd in. It

I have Graphic Converter set to open images without any toolbars and the
like. I set it up on a visiting account the same way.
But my visitor seems to have changed it somehow. She sees the image with
a large toolbar at the top, with slide bars to adjust many factors such