Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / December 2007

I now have web serving, both host and user accounts,
to other machines on my LAN behind a Westell 327 router
with Verizon DSL.
I've been Googling trying to find how to set up the

Dear Webmaster,
My name is Kirans and I have just gone through your site, and visited
many pages.  I have noticed that you have good content on the site.
It would be better if we link to each other as reciprocal link place

[Mail 2.1.1  OS 10.4.11]
Is it really impossible:
 * to select all the unread messages in a thread;
 * simultaneously open them all in a nicely organised stack of windows;

In recent weeks it seems that once or twice a day my Airport changes
channels and instead of being connected wirelessly to my router I am
connected to my Home Audio or to another router in the neighborhood,
next door or across the street.  My wife use to encounter this from

Steve Harris' NoteBook, based on the old Apple "desk accessory" finally
died with Leopard.  At least the beta version, hich I have used for
years, died.  The non-beta is no longer available.  I don't need any
complicated application - I want a simple little notepad that does not

I'd like to use a unix command line too to batch extract all jpg files from a
regular unix style e-mail mailbox that has numerous e-mails in it.
Any suggestions please? Mac and/or linux.
Right now I use mutt and need to do a gazillion "v" & "s" & "d" jobs

Hi.  I'm trying to make a concordance for the novel /Pale Fire/ from a
scanned, proofread copy.  That is, I want a list of every word (except
"the", "and", etc.) with the page numbers where it appears.  I thought
I'd do this as a programming exercise, but faced with actually doing

My new MacBook Pro will arrive this week!
I'm jumping for joy, but wondering what are some of the first things I
should do.
I am considering buying a router (Airport Extreme).

I want to import addresses from AppleWorks database into Address Book.
Is this possible?
Running a iMac G5 Power PC

I'd like to install a Fortran compiler on Leopard.
I've found that g77 that I have used is moving toward
gfortran. And some of the documentation says that
I'll need to install an Apple Developer Kit for it.

I found the documentation and utilities that made finder windows display
all directories (like /etc ).
However, I am still stuck with the file selection dialogues restricting
access to the non-Unix directories only.

I have a PC keyboard (by Unicomp) that has the usual Windows keys.
The 'Windows' keys were easy: just painted them red and treat them
as Cmd keys.  But there's a single 'Apps' key just to the left of
the right Ctrl key that right now seems to be a dead key on the Mac

I used or for the better word, tried to use Mozy app. The most inept
app I have ever seen. It tries to log into server when I don't even
have it scheduled. Then it quits. I left the site and deleted  my
account. I will use the fileden and other file.com sites  I know will

I'm looking at switching to iCal. I can see how to make a calendar Event
recur, but is there really no way to make a To-Do recur? There's no 'Repeat'
drop-down menu, like there is for Events.
This is iCal 3.0.1 under OS 10.5.1.

Videos taken with an RCA Small Wonder (a neat little low end pocket
video camera) won't play in QuickTime Pro 7.3 on my Tiger MacBook.  
Movie Inspector says the format of these videos is "'XVID', 448 X 336".  
They do play in VLC <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/>; but I'd like to ...