Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / September 2007

Hi,  I'm tired of using Word!  Looking for some opinions on the best
alternative.  I need to be able to use bibliographic management
software (currently Endnote), and share files with Windows users.
I've looked at Mellel and Pages, but neither seems quite right.  Any

Anyone know how to get at the screen resolutions from the Terminal? I
should know this, but I don't, and Google didn't help much.
Sometimes my big CRT won't kick in when the G4 wakes up, I just need to
reset the resolution to something the old video card and the monitor

I would like to edit some songs to use as ringtones on my Treo 650.
I want to pick out just the part of the song i want to use, kind of
like you will be able to do on the iPhone...
Any suggestions??

I am in the process of going back from Windows to the Mac after many
years, and I will bring lots of data with me. :) This means I need a
good backup concept from the start. I also am interested in a quick
recovery solution in case of harddisk failure.

I recorded a Quicktime movie, and I would like to make
a version of it that plays back about 4 times faster.
(Yes, with the people all running around speeded up.)
How can I do this?

I'm sort of new to using word processors and so don't know how to do
basic things.  I'm interested in maintaining a certain kind of revision
control in a Pages 3.0 document.
When working with plain text, I would do this with RCS.  I could make a

I was lookikng for a usenet client after switching to macos from win and came
across Pineapple news which I remember from my BeOS days. It has recently been
updated and runs well on my MBPro C2D 2.2. The best thing is that it's free.
The worst thing is that it's an off-line reader ...

OK, I've just upgraded to iLife '08 and it has converted my existing
iPhoto archive from individual pictures into some sort of lump file in
which pictures can't be accessed individually.  I know copies can be
made dragging thumbnails to the desktop so I wouldn't care so much

When I select one of my (POP) mail inboxes and choose "Rebuild" from the
"Mailbox" menu, a number of messages will become highlighted with a red
background (whereas previously they had no highlighting at all). The
background highlight color does not match any of my (four) rules, ...

Hi Guys, Interesting Group btw, enjoying some of the posts:-)
I apologize if this is just a little off topic but can you help?
I have been looking for a group that covers software but most
importantly Pre-Launch software.

I don't see this error related to Opera freeware on XP so may I ask what
the solution to this message might be.
I've repeatedly uninstalled and reinstalled the freeware Opera web browser,
which works, albeit very slowly, and always with the startup error:

Hi, all
Sorry for crosspositng this I realized the OS X 10.4 group hadn't had
a single message in two month only after I submitted my message
there...

I am trying to get Safari (Version 3.0.3 (522.12.1)) to remember logins
for several often used web pages pages such as Google, Amazon etc; but
it refuses.
P.S. I also have Firefox installed and that has no problem remebering my

The 2.8.1 version of MacSOUP is available.
This is a bugfix release, it fixes the following problems:
 - No longer uses 100% CPU while connecting to the server.
 - Fixed crash on startup when the address book contains groups with an

I remember my very fist computer. I was twelve years old. The computer
was a Wang 386 PC. I was amazed at the fact that you could put a cd in
it and view pictures and information. Back then you put the CD-ROMs in
a square holder, and inserted that into the computer.