Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / January 2007

I have a MacBook with Tiger.
I installed Parallels (Build 1970) and installed Ubuntu 6.10 on
Parallels.
I need to access a shared fold on a Windows machine from Ubuntu to edit

It strikes me that I do not know if and how to stop animated gifs
looping in Safari (brick thru the screen?). My first call is to
you lot. See how I always think of you first? Try not to be too
overjoyed, calm down.

I haven't had this a year yet and the print on  2 keys is gone.  They
are the T Key and E key.  I  thought about putting a small piece of
tape with the  letter(s) on the keys?   Is that ok?
Beth Cornell

This is a bit off topic because it is not Mac related BUT thought one
of my fellow Macheads might know the answer.
One of my web clients wants a Mailing List 'letterbox' set up on his
site, much tbe same I guess as the one on this page:

Is there a way to do this for the music in the Library?

In iTunes' Preferences > Advanced > Importing, I set Import Using = ACC
Encoder, Setting = Custom. I then select Stereo Bit Rate = 64 kbps. Whenever
I convert an MP3 file to ACC it always comes out 32 kbps. The original MP3
file is an 84 kbps (VBR) file. Is this the reason I ...

All of a sudden I've having problems with Thoth. It won't fully start up, and
there are words missing in the various windows that come up.
I thought this was a font problem due to some recent woes I've had in other
apps, so I ran Font Doctor, but that didn't help. I trashed my prefs ...

I combined several mp3 files into one, applied the M4P magic (making it a
bookmarkable file) and imported the result into iTunes where iTunes reports
that the length is only 2 minutes (the length of the first of the original
segments). When played, the time remaining counts down ...

I have a 60GB external hard drive. When I bought it I was still using
windows and it wanted me to create 3 partitions on it because it
apparently couldn't work with one big 60GB partition (yack!).
Now, that's really dumb, and I want it to be one big partition.

Have a registered copy of QT 7.1.3
When I try and copy from the mov using the little sliders - like the
old days - the copying is grayed out.
Anybody else having this problem?

I have Hogwasher 4.3 when I set up an usenet filter for it doesn't work
unless it is an exact match.
For example I set up a filter for all newsgroups and set the criteria to
Subject Contains **

I had several iPhoto albums containing photos in which the date/time on
each photo was incorrect.  After correcting them I burned the albums to
DVD and deleted the originals from the iPhoto library.
When I insert the DVD, the dates/times shown are correct.  But if I try

I have a MacBook Pro -  Intel with a built in iSight camera.  Great
cam, but fixed position limits its utility.  Assuming I can get another
camera to work, like a Logitech with the macam driver???, or dare I
imagine a Fuji E550 (has a web cam capability, but of course no

Does anyone know if there's  a way to input characters with  multiple diacritical
marks?
For example, I've been trying to do pinyin (Chinese) input, and there are six
marked vowels.  It was easy to make letters like à, é, ī, ǒ and ü.  But there are

Im not sure if i can ask here, but does anyone know when camino 1.1
officially comes out? and will there be any additional features in the
upcoming alpha's and beta's?