Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / January 2007

I am having just no end of problems with ichat, ports forwarded as
instructed, then ALL ports forwarded, firewall disabled.
Still cant start video or audio chat when BOTH users are behind NAT.
I did a packet scan and I discovered that my ichat is attempting to

My problem with iTunes is that I have it set to download all episodes of
each podcast I subscribe to, this is mostly because kcbs.com sometimes
releases multiple podcasts within a short timespan, and if I set to only
download the latest, I miss some podcasts.

My problem: I save many information(diagrams, pictures etc.) from the
www.net with print .pdf. (e.g. diagrams etc.)
I have in safari an extension, that saves for me the adress of the
source (the URL...)

Just backed up my Applications folder to an external drive but had to
accept a warning to the effect that "some files could not be copied due
to permissions etc."
Does this imply that some apps could not be restored in case of a

I have tried holding down the B and C keys also the "Option-B" and
"Option-C" key method and the bootable CD-ROM will not boot. This is
with Mac OS X Intel 10.4.
TIA

Is there a way to read on a Mac files produced by an old version of
Ventura Publisher which were produced under the GEM user interface on a
PC? Does InDesign read such files?

Hey there,
I was just wondering whether there had been any other reports of
unusually high memory usage when using Pages 2.0.2, specifically
Virtual memory. I am running iWork 06 on the Mac listed below and Pages

I just noticed it in OSX's /usr/bin
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 118508 Mar 20  2005 less*
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 118508 Mar 20  2005 more*
Is this business as usual? The apps "more" and "less" are different programs

Okay... I have a (recommended and acclaimed) DVD to iPod convertor
(ImToo) that successfully generated a boatload of mp4's in a series of
folders to match the structure of my DVD.  Now what?
ImToo doesn't provide a utility to place the files into my iPod in

It appears that Flip4Mac (WMV Player.app, v2.1.0.33) attempts to connect
to 'peer1.net' at 69.90.126.56, TCP port 80 (http) at launch time, even
tho I've configured it to -not- automatically check for updates. Does
anyone know why it's doing so? [It plays .wmv files just fine ...

I am in trouble with my   mac.com mail account ..  am I alone or other
suers have also problem in getting there ?
Joss

Anybody here have a fixed view on the utility of iPhoto Buddy?
I have many thousand photos of family and such. But then I really like
being able to use commercial phot packages as an adjunct to media
browser within iPages, iWeb, etc.  Logically I would have to move

I wanted to lay off some files to a CD. The files were in a folder, and
"Get Information" on the folder said it contained about 608 MBytes.
I created a burn folder, dropped the other folder in it, and told Disk
Utility to burn it.

The keynote shortcut of the superscript should be command control +,
but in my keynote 3.0.2, I have to use command control shift + to do
superscript.  For subscript, the keynote works as the help says:
command control -.  Is anyone having the same problem?  Any suggestion

I've been using Eudora for many years, but because Eudora was
preventing my Mac from going to sleep, I decided to try moving to the
Mac's built in Mail app.
But, after just a few hours, I'm thinking I may have to abort that move