Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / July 2007

i decided to move up from my G4 to a (non-intel) G5 = then i bought
(ebay) a new, sweet samsung 906bw monitor. i put a radeon 9800pro,
256mg card into the machine, updated the drivers and then hooked up
the samsung, only to discover their drivers (on cd) are only for pc!

I'm using Skype 2.0.0.6 and people tell me that they can't see or
contact me, even though my status is set to online and in my contact
list I can see that they are online too.
Any ideas on how to fix this?

I tried Cross Over with Gramin and DeLorme map programs.  In both cases,
the splash panel appeared but the program would not run.  I have Route
66 and Google Maps, so this isn't critical, but does anybody know of a
Windows map progam that will run under Cross Over?

What is the best way to synch up two or more ipods to the same computer
without having different boot drives?  Is it as simple as having
multiple iTunes Libraries for the different iPods?  I've heard of using
the manual setting, but i need to keep things simple.

I don't know whether it was their recent "upgrade" or something else,
but I just noticed that all Firefox's drop-down menus (typically that
show up on a right-click) have changed from a nice, small font to the
same one and same size that OS X uses for the main menus.

I have been having problems with Safari recently. This what the
console gives me (repeatedly)
2007-07-23 10:36:11.869 SyndicationAgent[885] WARNING:
BestCalendarDateFromString - can't interpret: 'Mon 23 Jul 2007 06:58:16

eBay is telling me I have Safari 1.0 (I have 3.0.2) and they advise me
to upgrade to the latest version of Firefox.  Can't they read what
version browser I have?

Need a little break and I have chosen to have a little chat with
you lot. I hope you are suitably honoured. What can we chat
about? How about this:
Soon I will be wanting to remove the partitions on my former 60

Since I upgraded to the latest Safari (unstable) Adobe seems to crash
when ever I want to download a pdf file, open it in the browser. Has
anyone else seen this bahaviour?
Regards,

Safari's "feature" of attempting to auto-fill URLs previously visited, if you
type them manually into the location bar, is getting a bit annoying.
How does one clear out that list so Safari won't do that anymore? Resetting
Safari doesn't work, neither does clearing the history or ...

I have a Mac G5 (which isn't on a network) with M$ Office.  I just sent
a friend with a Windows computer a short attachment file in M$ Word and
he emailed me back that his virus checker said that the file had a virus
and he won't open it.  I know that Macs presently can't get ...

my G4 running OS10.4.8 restarts after shutdown and will not quit.did
not set this to happen,why would I?.am baffled how to stop this.Any
suggestions welcome.
Thanks.

I use two displays (of different sizes) and, if I turn on mirroring, Preview
documents open fully on-screen. However, if I turn mirroring off, Preview
documents open half-on one display and half-on the other (and off to one
side so that a part of the document is on neither display).

are there any existing valgrind#1 ports for mac-osx/darwin for x86?
the platform-support#2 page does mention that it's an ongoing effort -
does anyone here know of any download links for any of the ports?
thanks,

Just did a new and complete backup with SD - from internal HD to
external FW. Strange "time elapsed" field glitch. It was reading
the right figures for a while and then suddenly had jumped from
one hour and (I forget, some minutes) to two hors (and some