Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / November 2007

I have the Rosetta Stone.  RS uses quicktime.  It is the only reason I
have quicktime on my machine.  It works fine on my XP machine until it
tries to display a moving image.  I get a display error and it exits.
I have tried changing the compatibility mode and no setting stops the

is there a mainstream SVN client for the Mac?
For the PC it probably is the Tortoise... for the Mac, it may be svnX
or Mac SVN?
wanted a mainstream on so as to avoid malware.

Having tired of ripping my CD's (it's a large collection), I had a
service rip a bunch and put them on an external HDD in Apple Lossless
format. I then wanted to import them into iTunes in AAC 128 kbps
format. The help for "Importing music and video already on your

Hey, does anyone know how to disable this thing?  Or even better,
is there a way to turn off the entire dashboard?
They were merely a waste of memory until a few weeks ago. Then,
for reasons about which I haven't a clue, this little beastie

Dear friends:
I installed ClamXav to test it, but after a couple of days, today I
uninstalled it because I plan to upgrade to Leopard soon.
I followed precisely the instructions, all went OK, I rebooted the

So, this seems like a weird problem that i have not encountered
before, and just began today.  My CD/DVD burner is cutting off the
first second of every track that it plays.  It happens with CD's i
burned, as well as with store-bought CD's.  If i double-click on an

Apple Updater indicated recently that a firmware update is available.
I used Apple Updater to download Imac EFI Firmware Update.
Is it important to install that update?
I have a Late 2006 Imac and OS 10.4.10.

My wife upgraded her Safari last night - and it now won't work.   She
clicks on a URL and nothing happens.   The URL window doesn't have the
URL, although it is displayed above it where she can't cut and paste
it.    Type in a URL, nothing happens.  Enter in the Google window,

Whenever the Software Update window opens spontaneously to show me that
one or more updates to various programs are available and I select them
and click OK, it seems that the large downloads that are involved must
have already been made, since the updating goes much faster than ...

It is emergency situation, all my office application stop working,
each time I try to open them, there will be a warning about the
application launch failure followed by message: The application
"Excel" could not be launched because of a shared library error:

It's me again :)
I'd like to know if it's possible to set the time before Apple Mails
marks messages as read.
I don't like it marks them on the nail...

My Mac mini is due to be delivered shortly and I shall, hopefully, be able
to say farewell to the dark side.
What piece(s) of software will be best for me to read newsgroups such as
this one and for downloading binaries?

My mother has a snowball iMac that we gave her several years ago. This
year for XMas, we are giving her a new iMac.  I plan on buying it ahead
of time and loading up all her favorite apps.
My question -- can I do that install first, then take it to her house,

what steps do I need to take to convert my ipod from windows to mac
format?  I already moved my library to the mac.
How about playlists - how can I transfer those?

I used to use the subject drawing application, Version 1.0v1, a lot at
work on an old G3 running OS 8.6.  I really liked, and still like,
ClarisDraw.  I have a lot of drawings I did using it (stored on Zip
disks).  That old G3 is likely to be retired soon.  I would like to