Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / December 2007

Lots of applications create readme files when we install them.
Sometimes these are worth keeping - but not in the Application
directory (especially with the same name).
What do you guys do with these?

I'm using Safari 3.0.4 on a MacBook Pro running OS 10.5.1. In Safari,
whenever the cursor lands on a link, a box with the link's URL is
displayed. I find that annoying. What setting or pref am I overlooking
that will make it stop?

I fixed the worst of the bugs in MT-NewsWatcher 3.5.3b1, so here's a new
beta:
http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/download/MT-NewsWatcher_3.5.3b2.dmg
Secure SMTP works again, MT-NW does a better job of uudecoding multipart

Browsing through the doc for GC 6 and trying one or two things, it seems
hard to merge two pictures.
Frinstance, I took some pix the other day of four people, where one
person looked good in one shot, the others great in the other shot. So,

An associate company is using the VMWare Fusion product on 2 computers that
require Quickbooks to be installed and the QB data shared (just between
those two computers).  Also, they want to give their accountant remote
access to the machine hosting the QB data file.  The company ...

I always like to make sure that any links I click on from my email
lead to legitimate Web sites. In Entourage, if I moved the cursor so
it was right over the link its true URL would display on the bottom of
the window. So, for example, if I hovered over a link such as

I have a version of Corel Painter 8 on my Mac? i was not using it for  
a long time, but I need to work again with it..
On Coel site they show Corel Painter X, but no useful info on upgrades..
is there any upgrade from 8 to X ?

I found in the internet a special file with an old song of a humourist
of our country. I did not found any possibility to buy this....
I can hear and see it online.... (http://www.rundfunkfritzle.com/
Resources/ki_76_720x560_1125kbps.swf), but if I save it, it is only

I run a linux box as well as a few Macs and I was wondering if there
was anything similar to htop (http://htop.sourceforge.net/) available
for the OS X terminal? I ssh my macs frequently and it would be nice
to have a terminal-based system monitor as useful htop - regular old

I've been running a couple of browsers including Safari 1.3.2 under OS X
10.3.9 for a long time on a G4 867mhz. All of a sudden launching Safari
results in a kernal panic and I have to restart. Tried another copy on
another disk, same thing, tried dumping the safari plist file ...

I just finished up loading Leopard in my older mac mini and while the
installation seemed to go right, it sure did take forever.
I ended up with two issues, one major, one minor
Major - my main user will crash the system everytime, hard crash and

Using a dual platform Mac connected to broadband, with Windows and
Bootcamp installe, I have a problem:
How do I transfer the BB incoming signal from the Mac partition to the
Window's partition??

I choosed to use Mail.app (2.1.1 on Mac OS X) to access some IMAP
mailboxes. These IMAP mailboxes can also accessed via a kind of
Webmail.
From `Mail.app' each sent messages goes to `Sent Messages' but from

I've made available a beta release of MT-NewsWatcher, version 3.5.3b1,
which fixes a number of Leopard compatibility issues. It's available
from:
http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/downloading.html

I run Entourage (2004) on a MAC and most of my other colleagues run Outlook
Express on PCs. I send messages in html with my font set to Times, 12 pt.
Evidently, when a user on a PC opens the message in Outlook, the text is
resizing to 9pt Times  and with each of their replies to me, ...