Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / May 2007

How can one eliminate the sidebar in the Google Maps display and expand
the width of the map to fill the entire window?
[The Help message refers to a "small blue arrow" that's supposed to do
this -- but I haven't found any such arrow in the display.  I used to be

I am trying to make a computer extremely easy to use for my
grandmother, and I was wondering if there is an application that
allows you to click buttons to QUIT applications, regardless of
whether the app is active or not. I'm trying to avoid use of menus as

I have a full hard drive that won't boot because of this. Is there
another way to   boot it up so I can delete files so it will boot
agin. I know I was stupid  for letting it get so full . Any
suggestions. My local Mac expert wants $75 per hour or $250.00 to fix

I'm writing up an informal article for a bunch of friends who use OS X
and got a little carried away. Just wondering what people use for
password management (apart from Key Chain) and what they think of that
method/software. Where did you get it and how much did it cost?

I have been using an Xserve as a firewire drive (2 drives actually) to
my eMac. I ejected the external drives' icons in my eMac's finder a
couple days ago, and disconnected the firewire -- now i hook the
firewire drives back up to my computer again, and my eMac is not

Yes, I'm nitpicking!    ;-)
I've installed Adobe's Creative Suite 3 and am surprised that each of the
applications when placed in the dock are labeled such as "Adobe Photoshop
CS3" and "Adobe Illustrator CS3", except for Dreamweaver which is just

I recently uploaded to my website a bunch of photos from a recent
cruise I took. I had been looking at the pages in Safari and
everything seems to load just fine. In Firefox though they don't load
right or rather the table they are doesn't load right. Also the

Hi...
  My office has a vpn and the office is heavily windows based.  I
downloaded the 4.9 cisco vpn client for mac and remote desktop for mac
hoping I'd be pretty well set.

I put my Tiger disk in and tried to do the install system .pkg on my
firewire drive.
How do I install the minimum, just enough to use it as a boot volume?
Thanks

There are a bunch of pyramid scam posts showing up on google group
pages in my name.  It is not me posting.  For moderators of the groups
please remove them.  For anyone reading them it is a scam and it is
illegal and it is a federal felony.  My apologies, I did not realize

What I want is smooth precise movement, scroll wheel, a couple extra
buttons and it must work ok under 8.6 and OSX using USB Overdrive (I
don't need or want the company's own drivers). I really like my old
Microsoft five button Intellimouse Optical mice, but they're just not as

I can get information from my Razr into iCal but not the other way
around. This is a new development. I get an error message but it says
nothing more, just that an error in the sych has occured. I also get,
earlier in the process, a message saying iSynch is no longer th way to

What is the best software for use to extact info from a DVD?
Here's my situation:  I have some video that I burnded to DVD-R disks
that is now becoming unreadable (In a surprisingly short time, which is
a real drag....  but that's antoher story).  I want to salvage the info

Anyone else seen this problem?  I have XP running in the latest
(non-beta) release of Parallels with an application in Coherence mode.
After running for a while (the length of time is indeterminant)
applications start hanging up both with in Parallels *and* in OSX

I am the author of two software tools for Interactive Brokers that
work on Mac. jTWScharts is a real-time charting application:
http://home.cidadevirtual.pt/trading
and jTWSdump allows for historical data download: