Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / August 2007

I am looking for a program to catalogue  a scanned picture and several
datas ....
iPhoto is not right usable becaus the "tag" function is not
comfortalbe and allows no longer comment. The old dtabase from

Warmish weather here (upper 70s -- that's warm for us).  Fan on MacBook
with Tiger runs much more often than previous iBook with Panther.
MacBook is sitting on thick wooden desktop.  If I pick it up, it feels
quite warm on the bottom.  My engineering instincts say it should run

I'm using Pages (2.0.2) and am trying to get a header to span two
columns.  This strikes me as the kind of thing that should be easy, so I
suppose that I'm missing something obvious.
Would somebody kindly point out the obvious to me?

iPhoto 6 rebuilds your library if you had previously been using iPhoto
5.  I didn't realize what this meant until it was too late.
I count on the yyyy/mm/dd format iPhoto used prior to 6.  When the
library is converted to 6, all your images get moved to originals and

I'm having a strange issue involving my crontab that's totally got me
stumped.  When I run my crontab command manually in terminal, it works
fine; but when it actually runs on its own, it seems to fail.
Background: I use a couple of shell scripts to back up my Macs

Ok, I've brought this up before but I'm still having problems with iCal
losing old entries.  I don't understand because my Mac shows no problems
anywhere else.
I log my bicycle rides to keep track of how many hours I'm riding a

Somewhere along the upgrade path the default sort order for numerals
changed in iTunes.  Before if I sorted by Artist the bands with names
that start with numbers like "100 Flowers" used to show up at the
beginning, now they're at the end.  However, in my playlists "100

Safari 2.0.4 always used to display PDF files automatically. After a recent
update, though, I think to 10.4.10, it now asks me to locate a an Adobe Acrobat
or Adobe Reader application to use, when I first click on a link to a PDF in
that session. So I show it again where Adobe ...

I do not have AppleTV (yet) and, despite some reading, I'm not very
clear on the whole YouTube - Apple TV thing.  Is it just select content
or all of YouTube as the promos would seem to indicate?  And, if the
latter is true, then why isn't all of YouTube available over iTunes?  ...

I am using OS 10.4 on the most recent Powerbook G4, with an external
screen.
I am finding that all the DVDs I play through DVD Player (4.6.5)have a
small amount of pixellation. Just a few small square blocks from time to

What application shell I use for signing/verifying Mac OS X binaries
against the certificate? Covering not-prebound binaries would be just
enough.
In Mac OS 9 there were two nice tools for this purpose: "Apple

There doesn't appear to be a newsgroup dedicated to the Baldur's Gate
games, unless I just couldn't locate it. I'm currently playing BGII with
the ToB expansion installed, but still playing Shadows of Amn. I'm
unable to defeat one of the monster encounters, and would appreciate

Under what circumstances would a file last opened date date be
well prior to a modified date? Just a wee puzzled by what I am
seeing.

If I'm remembering correctly, screen captures using Cmd-shift-4 in
10.3.9 created PDF files.  In 10.4, it creates PNG files.  Is there a
way to change this option.
Same question for Grab, which seems to capture TIFF files only.

Is there an inexpensive alternative to the FileSalvage and similar
programs that will safely recover deleted files from trash - or, what is
the exact command set that I need to do it from Terminal.  There must be
a way to get these important files back.  Just deleted a whole ...