Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / September 2007

Speaking of "last straws"...
It drives me nuts that Courier (or Courier New) 10pt doesn't use the
same smoothing as Courier 11pt!  Is there a way to fix this?  Before
anyone suggests it, I've set System Preferences > Appearance > Turn off

Going to England next week and thinking about taking my iBook.  What
type of plug and adapter would I need for England?  They don't follow a
lot of the continental conventions.
Thanks

Over the past few days I've been having trouble with Firefox.
Seemingly randomly (although of course it's possible that I'm
accidentally hitting a keyboard shortcut for it), Firefox's window
will either be stuck at the back or at the front - that is, it will

I didn't take note, but sometime ago I saw a message somewhere implying
that it is possible to install functioning OS 9 on an Intel Mac. Can
anyone point me to more information on this topic? Is it worth
discussing here, if you consider OS 9 an app on an Intel Mac?

I have a folder with a bunch of jpg photos of my students.  I have a
text file with the student names, one per line.  I'd like to rename all
the files with the corresponding names (and append .jpg to the end of
the name but that's easy).  Graphic Converter doesn't seem to have a ...

Hi I'm looking for a port knocking client for os x 10.4x.
I already know about Darwinports and fwknop but I am looking for a
client to knock for access using a traditional port knocker like Knock
for windows (if anyone has heard of that). Thanks

I tried installing Windows XP using Boot Camp 1.4 (the latest) on  my
MacBook (120 GB HD and 2 GB of Ram), and got the following dialog
during the attempt at partition:  
"The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved.

What is good email application for Mac OS X??

For a while now I have been plagued by strange finder crashes in OS
10.4.10; I suddenly get the red ball for no apparent reason, and I am
unable to relaunch the finder (Force Quit has no effect). I can still
run  other apps (as I'm doing now in Thoth with the red ball spinning

So Im trying to senoir of a father's iPod Nano and Im not even gonna
front-- I borrowed it for some months but Im starting to think that
the myth about how Ipod bend when in jeans is true... But anywhoo when
I plugged it into my CPU the "Do Not Disconnect" appeared but only

given 2 MacBooks (mb1 and mb2) is it possible to give a Keynote
presentation on mb1 and display the slides on mb2 ?
I can use Remote Desktop as an option, but is there any simpler way to do it ?
I aim at setting up a bluetooth local network using Bonjour when being

I'm thinking of switching to a Mac.  What news readers do you use to
access newsgroups?
Thanks

It's a fairly open secret (cf. the wikipedia article re iPod) that
these things:
(1) Create an addictive listening experience, because when they work
(see below) they provide rich sound and a user interface that can be

Anyone know where the Firefox cache is stored?

I would like to enter some birthday's in Address Book, but I don't know
(and don't want to ask) the year of birth.  When I enter a date without
a year, Addrees Book adds the current year.  Even if I delete the year,
AB puts it back.