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I have set up an automatic response to a particular email address to use
while I am away (an email address which gets no spam, before you all say
it!).  However, I was planning to shut down my Mac (iMac G5 PPC, OS X 10.4.9)
while away and use Energy Saver preferences to start it ...

I have DirecTV, not Tivo mind you.  I note that Toast has some way of
culling video from your DVR, if it has Tivo, for storage.
Is there any way from to do that with another from of DVR, like DirecTV
for instance?  A selective data dump of this movie or other would be

as an instructor for Adobe Photoshop I plan a discussion and demo for
my students about the history of Adobe and the development of Adobe
Photoshop from the first Version until now. I asked Adobe, if they can
give me a Verson 1.0, but the answer was, they don't have. Adobes

Is there a list  of GPS receivers that will
a) work easily with OSX
b) use USB, not a custom adaptor
c) use a non-proprietary format, say NMEA or gpsx?

I would like to access newsgroups. How can I do this from my Mac, OS
X? Does the Mail program have this capability? If so, how do I do it?
Or do I need a third party program?
Also, is there a free location, web site, where I can read/download

The most annoying page on the internet : http://www.agnisharman.com/annoying.htm

All,
I play several online games for which I would like to use a voice
modulator.   I don't feel comfortable speaking in my normal voice,
since I would like to preserve my anonymity.

is there a programme that can change the format of an audi file from
AC3 to MP3...
i am also looking for a programme that can trimm audio, to take
certain bits out if possible?

I was given a Logitech WebCam Express by a friend but have not yet been
able to use it on my MacBook. I have tried using the Maccam program but
unfortunately this particular Logitech item is not supported. Neither
is it supported by iChatUSBCam. That does leave me the option of ...

Potentially uninformed rant: I visited Finnair.com about an hour ago.
The page took forever to come up, but eventually it came up.
Now I tried to visit there again. And once again, the Safari circle is
revolving for several minutes, with no content in sight.

Do any of you have any recommendations for a good bit torrent manager?
I've tried Azureus and Transmission, and found the former to be
painfully slow and the latter a little too bare-bones. Are there any
other good (and free) clients I could try?

Running out of hard drive space. Can Packages and Receipts
be safely burned to a DVD or CD and then safely erased (Such as
iTunes/QT updates, Os updates 10.3 thru 10.4.9, security updates,
iLife updates, etc. ). Any particular reason to keep them in your top

My main hard drive is filling up, but I would like to put
more music on my computer to export to my ipod. Will iTunes
recognize a music library if it is put on my second hard drive
with on alias to where my iTunes music library should be?

Just took a 50 MB USB flash drive, which I think was originally from a
Windows machine and which I had probably erased and re-formatted as "Mac
OS Extended (Journaled)" ion my OS X 10.3.9 iBook G4, to a UPS store.  
None of their two Windows desktops and one Windows laptop could ...