Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / December 2007

A Google search on the subject line above brings hits on a dozen or more
emerging third-party apps that apparently let you do something like the
above on various platforms -- but it will clearly be difficult to
determine just how each of these functions without doing a lot of

Ubuntu is named by date, not by consecutive numbering, so 7.10 signifies
a system from October, 2007, also called Gutsy Gibbon. 7.04 was from
April, 2007, Feisty Fawn. They come six months apart, and the next one
should be 8.04, April, 2008, Hardy Heron. 7.1 has no meaning in ...

please dis to new software

Does anyone know if there is a setting which will resize the panes on
view in finder (column view) to match the length of the longest folder
name in a directory....???? It's a small point but I have some very
long folder names and some are very similar so it can make navigating

I'm looking for a cardfile application for the mac -- a program that
would let me define various cardfiles, add cards to them, move cards
between cardfiles, etc. I can find nothing for the mac though there
are several for windows. Please help!

Is it possible to set Domainheys up on Mail app and of so how?
Thanks

I have an 80 IPod.  Last week I had all my music and my movies on it.
I had to reinstall Vista, and after that, several of my movies will
not copy to the IPod.  I get that wonderful message "Cannot play on
this IPod."

I've unchecked four large audio files in iTunes. Switched to manual and
deleted them from the iPod. The next time I sync iTunes puts them right back
on. They show in the iPod list as unchecked.
How do I delete them permanently?

i have many songs to load from pc into a playlist in itunes
can i load them all together into a playlist ? without loading them
first into genal music folder of itunes?
i want to avoid need to search for each song to load each manually

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A strange request:
I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 on a 466 MHz PowerPC G4 with 1 GB RAM.  In the
past, I have put applications pretty much wherever I wanted, but I would

I'm looking for a Thunderbird Mail backup utility that works like
Aoole Mail's "Mail Steward". That is it backs emails up into a
database that allows one to peruse/read the mails and restore same
individually or in bulk.

My old Wallstreet powerbook will only boot up from a system (Os9.2 and
OSX) disk or Norton. And then there is no sign of a hard drive. I
rpelaced the original hard drive with another but still no sign of a
hard drive. What could be causing this? I am loth to get rid of the

Tiger (10.4.something)
I have a few folders in the dock.
There appears to be a delay between the time I click on a folder in the
doc and the time the hiearchical menu system displays the contents of

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I am trying to create a new smart playlist in iTunes that will include
only radio streams of at least 96 kbps.  I've set the Kind to "Playlist
URL" and the BitRate to "greater than 95 kbps" but nothing shows up on

I decided, for reasons of curiosity, to go through the steps of recreating in
Pages a newsletter that had been prepared in InDesign. Much to my surprise
I'm finding that all-in-all Pages is a very capable program with a user
interface that, at least in my mind, is more ...