Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / August 2007

I installed and attempted to use skype and it works,kinda.The sound
quality is extremely poor.The voice breaks up significantly both in
transmission and receiving.I am using a power mac 400 mhz.g4 with agp
graphics.Do I need to give more memory to the skype app. and if so how

Is there a command to sort a hierarchical collection of folders and
bookmarks (alphabetically) in the Safari Bookmark menu?
[Netscape has this ability -- you can sort recursively down thru the
hierarchy -- and it's very handy.]

I thought I was making an initial file backup of my Tiger-running
MacBook's 80 GB internal HD, which was a bit less than half full, to an
external 120 GB FireWire drive, using Retrospect 6.0.  It took about
four or five hours to copy all the 500,000+ files on the internal HD.

I created a word doc with lots of pasted images and I can't see them
anymore on word with a pc. I want to know an easy way to view them
without having to go back to a mac and manually fix it. Apple seems to
want to make everybody go on a stupid treasure hunt to get still image

I had several older os 9 applications on a portable harddrive that I
recently connected to my newer mac running osx but they refuse to
open.They appear as a grey background color with limegreen writing
which says "unix executable file."Is there any way to open these

I'm attempting to install Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection on
my Mac, but the installation window tells me it can't install Premier
Pro, Encore, and Soundbooth because, "The minimum system requirements
listed below are needed in order to run Adobe [Premiere] CS3 and are

Whenever i install new software, it asks for a seria number.
Where are these numbers stored, and if i back them up will that keep me
from having to re-type them in case of a crash??
TIA!

This is both a question and a heads-up, I suppose.
I went to get a password from Keychain Access today and it wasn't
there.  It was in a backup file, so I was able to get it, and there's
no really serious harm done.

Apple's support pages

How can one erase all of the stored information from a hard drive so
that the information can't be retrieved?
Robert

Hey guys,
I have my laptop as my second Mac, currently with entire 40GB HD using
OSX.  I would like to split it in half to play around with a YDL or
Kubuntu linux.

I got AutoUpdate telling me that I should install this update and that
"The Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.7 Update contains several
improvements to improve security and stability. These include fixes
for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents

There must be some simple way to tweak my system, whether it is
through a script or terminal or whatever- to get rid of the BIG red
number, displaying the number of messages in my mailboxes, on my Mail
dock icon.  I canʻt figure out how.  I find the huge display annoying

A colleague emailed me a link to a 12 MB QuickTime movie on his site;
let's say the URL was <www.hisSchool.edu/hisPage/hisMovie.mov>, and he
sent it to me in an email I read on Eudora.
I clicked on it and it opened my default browser Safari (MacBook 10.4);

Too much spare time on my hands. . . .
I really like the way the Mac Mail icon has the little red circle that
displays the number of unread e-mail messages you have pending.  I don't
get a lot of e-mail, so the largest number of unread messages I've seen