Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / August 2007

For a friend in Asia I have copied on old movie during a tv session.
As I cannot send a dvd to Asia, I would like to split the movie file
with JAxe.jar and then send the splits through rapidshare for
instance.

My new Tiger MacBook just can't see an old (but very solid and beloved)
HP LaserWriter 6MP LocalTalk printer that's connected to our home LAN
via an equally old Farallon EtherMac iPrint Adapter.
There's also an Airport link between me and the LAN; but I don't think

Microsoft delays release of Office 2008 for Mac
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/08/01/msftoffice/index.php
Microsoft will delay the release of Office 2008 for Mac until
mid-January 2008, representatives of the company’s Macintosh Business

I am using a Logitech video camera with iChat and Skype.  The camera
worked OK up to about a month ago.  It now crashes whilst in use if the
mouse is moved.  This makes using iChat or Skype impossible.  Has anyone
experienced anything like this, and a possible cure?  I did wonder if

I have a PowerBook G4:
Processor: 1.67 GHz PowerPC G4
Memory 2GB DDR2 SDRAM
Your issues sound like my issues.

I have some MacDraw files from mid-90's that I'd like to convert to
maybe Illustrator or vector EPS on PC. Illustrator CS3 does not
recognize them. What program on PC can convert them?
Thanks for the help,

Hello to everyone,
My name of Michelle. I have just begin practising homeopathy. What i
wanted to know is that is there anybody out here who can give me some
idea about purchasing a homeopathic software.

Up until now I have been using iTunes as a 'music centre' and it
contains all my CD collection ripped in Apple lossless for best
quality reproduction through the home stereo equipment.
Now I've bought an iPod and of course, the files are far too big.

Dears,
Wikicodia is a wiki based project for sharing code snippets. We're
collecting large number of code snippets for all code-based
programming languages, scripts, shells and consoles. We wish you could

I bought a 156mb usb 2.0 flash drive from walmart and plugged it into
my pc it wasn't detected so I ran XP's hardware setup but still
nothing...I then went and formatted the drive and it worked then about
1 week later it stated having problems, I tried formatting it and it

All,
This is on a new 15" ibook that had it's files and programs
transferred from an old 12" Powerbook. It's using Excel 2004 for Mac
(which, by the way, is telling me it's a test drive with 30 days

What are some recommendations for viewing your favorite comics online. Myself
I use http://www.comicalert.com/ and am quite happy with it. It is my app
giving some trouble. Two comics do not come down in NetNewsWire (neither v2
nor v3). They are fine in Vienna.

I'm a PC user trying to learn about Mac OS X on the cheap, using a 266
mhz  iMac with 192 megs of Ram.
I installed a 20 gig hard disk, partitioned it into two 3.8 gig and a
12 gig sections, copied the OS 9 over from the old disk to the first

The Pidgin jabber client, which I use when I'm running in linux, has a
_very_ handy feature: it can query the server and present a list of the
registered accounts.  Near as I can tell, Adium, which even the Pidgin
developers like to call "Pidgin for osx" doesn't seem to provide ...

Wander on over to alt.config, there's a newsgroup creation discussion
going on.  Creation of the new group might just cut down on the number of
non-Mac posts in the comp.sys.mac.* hierarchy.