Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / December 2007

Why is it the text on received emails gets smaller as the email chain
gets longer - text seems to get smaller with each reply?

After over 20 years using Managing Your Money (yes, a DOS program), I
decided to switch to Quicken on the Mac (my preferred platform), so I
bought Quicken 2007 Mac. I'm beginning to get the hang of it, but have
two questions:

Why do I always find my Security panel in System Preferences unlocked
when I have a look at it after some time and know I have left it
locked?
Something that triggers an unlock without my knowing it? A big in

I don't use Safari, but Firefox - mainly due to problems with Keychains
stuff....
However whenever I do/select the 'search with google' from within an
email, it opens Safari, rather than Firefox. Is there any way to change

I would like some help to create a .dmg file of the Leopard DVD install
disc. I am having heaps of problems and don't know what I'm doing wrong.
This is the process I'm using -
- I insert the DVD and launch Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.

I need to uindelete a folder on an  external drive.  Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

I have a friend who needs to convert about 100 single-page PDF files to
PNG format.  He has a G4 iMac running OS X 10.3.9.
A number of software packages are available for Windows, but nothing for
the Mac.  Is a converter available for the Mac that can do this?

I have just purchased a new iMac and was surprised to discover the old
favourite "Apple Works" had disappeared?
Would appreciate advice re a substitute for AW.
Thanks,

  I'd like you guys to give a try to my newest perl utility for the Mac
called Naiospy. It is a spy software for Mac OS X written in perl that
allows you to view/monitor your desktop via the web.
Naiospy runs in the background. It is a unix utility (darwin) you can

Gang,
I've run iTunes on MS Vista for about 6 months with no problem, till
yesterday when I opened the program, I got a message saying it was
loading a library or program of some sorts which I cancelled halfway

... here's a small program for y'all to compile. It's totally benign, and kind of fun.
Copy it to a text file, call it mystery.c, and then in your terminal:
gcc mystery.c -o mystery
and then:

Upgrading to 10.4.11 killed my internet connection but it gave me Safari
3.  I have reverted to 10.4.9, which seems to be stable.  However, Apple
does not seem to offer Safari 3 except as part of 10.4.11.  Does anybody
know a way to get it or a way to extract it from the 10.4.11 ...

I've looked at the Apple boards and there seems to be a lot of crashing
of different kinds going on with iTunes 7.5. More than one person has
mentioned it crashing when they try to open up the Preferences. Mine
does this too (1.25GHz G4 eMac, 768Mb RAM). I haven't found any ...

I started with a macplus. Back then, the small screen real-estate made
the menu bar alwasy on top of screen very natural and efficient,
especially since back then, you only had a single application running at
a time (then came multi finder which would then change the menu bar when

This does not happen in all libraries, but sometimes it doesn't take.  
The panel comes up and you say yes but when you click again it still
shows you can revert and when you look in the library, the original file
is still in the Modified directory.