Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / December 2007

Since upgrading to 10.4.11, I have been losing my ability to communicate
with my wireless router.  The signal is strong.  I just can't talk to
it.  I can't even access the router's control panel.
I have tried turning Airport off and back on but that doesn't fix it.  

FINAL CUT PRO HELP!!!  ANNOYING PULSE/BEEP IN PLAYBACK!
I'm using FCP, and I'm trying to edit, but in the playback, instead of
playing the real audio - I just hear annoying pulses/beeps every half
second.

Every once in a while I will be writing an e-mail and will hit some
unknown key that deletes a large part of what I have just written, and I
can't figure out how to get it back.
What key is doing this?  It isn't delete.

My POP server keeps rejecting my password and asking me to re-enter it,
which I do. I always check the box reading: "Remember PW in my
Keychain" but obviously my Keychain never remembers, since this dialog
keeps popping up.

According to the Cmd + Cntl + Click on Subjects trick, I can see that
both my ISP hosts apparently do not receive or pass on most header
info (eg.NNTP-Posting-Host) on to my computer. Yet when I "Show
Details," the numbers for that particular header and many others

I have a Linksys WRT150N v1.01.9 connected to DSL using PPPoE.  The DSL
modem is operating in bridge mode.
My router is configured for Standard Radio Band - 20Mhz Channel.  I used
to have it on Automatic but that was worse.  I am using Channel 6 -

Is it possible to do this with Leopard? I.e. can a friend send a job to my
printer over the internet?

I have a friend with a G4 PowerBook, in the 867 MHz range.  She had
extensive business, financial, and personal records on the machine and
is highly  organized.  The machine started acting a little weird.  I
told her to buy a small LaCie FW and back up her (40 GB) drive at least

Today I attempted to update my daughter's Firefox 2.0.0.8.  I have the
admin account on her iMac.  In my admin account, the "Check for Updates"
command in the Help menu is greyed.  In her user account, it is not
greyed but when I attempt to update, I get an error message saying ...

Ages ago I was puzzled by an extra skirt that appeared in the
login screen for Tiger every now and then. I have been waiting
for it to happen again so as to photograph it and note what
circumstance might be triggering it.

Hi. I have a question about organizing applications in the Applications
folder.  I am currently using a G4 Cube running OS X 10.4.11 and I just
bought a new 24" IMac which I should be receiving in about a week.
Anyway, my question is this:  Is it okay to make subfolders in the

Dear friends:
How good, stable, and Ms Office compatible, is the last version of
OpenOffice (2.3.0, I understand)?
Does it work well under Leopard?

I've purchased an iPod for my son who'll be here for Christmas.
The problem, he's a PC user and I'm a Mac (iMac/2.4Ghz/320GB HD/2 GB
Ram).
He'll probably want to load some music on the iPod (either his CDs or

I now have Personal Web Serving on, and the Security
Firewall set to allow Web Sharing.
I can get the machine wide web site page, but as
soon as I append a /~user/ to it, it won't serve up

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 doesn't run under Leopard and I am
seeking a replacement.  Elements 3 and 4 look like they will do what I
need.
Problem:  Apparently Elements 3 and 4 have restrictions on the