Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / October 2007

how many people are buying a new Mac when Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard comes
out?
I have been wanting to buy a new Mac... but the Leopard is not coming
out yet and it feels dumb to buy a OS X 10.4 machine that can obsolete

I am comparing Web Confidential (which I have, but it's not been upfated
for ages) with 1Password, and wondering what other people think.
Currently, I don't actually put my password in WebConfidential, but just
a hint to them (for instance, not one I actually use, but I might enter

This is an interesting application:
http://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/index.html

I am trying to power a widscreen ( 1680x1050 ) display with my Lombard
Powerbook (I am using this for slideshows.) There does not seem to be
an available widescreen resolution. Also, the maximum resolution I can
get is 1280x1024.

I have an AGP G4 which has a optical drive which can read DVD's and CD's
but cannot write to either. For burning I have an external Iomega CD-RW.
With the  disc-burning software (Discribe 5.0.47) it is possible to give
both the disc and track a name. Up to now this has worked very ...

I am the proud new owner of a MacBook and would like to use it as my
primary system. To do so will require me to use it for managing my small
business. What does everyone consider the best small business accounting
package for that platform? I need only the most basic ...

I was trying to format a cell with the YYYY-MM-DD date format (ISO
8601 standard) but didn't find it in the inspector list of available
formats.
Is it really missing (along with the possibility to define a custom

After many years using Eudora, I think it is time to switch. Eudora is
corrupting its mailboxes, old messages tend to mix up and become unreadable.
This is unfortunate as otherwise Eudora does the right things for me.
So the questions are :

In the Finder, we use  Command Home or Command End to go to top of
page and end of page, respectively.
How come in Safari, we press Command End and it brings us to end of
page, but Command Home brings us to Home page set in Safari?

I use a Mac and a PC at the same time  (using a KVM switch)...
On the Mac, it is Command C  for Copy  (as in Copy and Paste)
On the PC, it is CTRL-C for Copy
And so forth...  and it is tough to use the right one, so what I did

In OS X you can put any folder or alias to a folder in the very
left most side of the directory window in column view. But I'm
not quite sure if you can get the name you want, if it is
different to the folder it points to. Making a further alias of

Dear all my pc got an infection called 'security toolbar 7.1'
It keps appearing a pop up on the right corner of the screen: System
performance monitor; Warning
Summary; System prformance slowed down by ;47%

Made the move to a Mac after decades of PCs and love it but I'm having
real problems with my MP3s.
There was a great little tool called ID3Kill (Win) that would let you
batch strip ID3 tags from MP3s.  I found a slew of tools for OS X that

Anyone know how to stop the weather from poping up whenever it feels
like interupting my work? Better yet, take it off my computer all
together? I like the weather widgit on my Iphone, i have some control
over it, but I hate things that pop up out of nowhere when i'm not the

I have managed to record some videos to DVD's and then copy the videos from
the DVD