Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / February 2008

Hi Im new to a mac and recently i downloaded 2 apps. Specifically
Adium (chat program) and msn messenger. Anyways today i noticed two
new files on my desktop one for each of these applications, some sort
of device files. After ctrl key and mouse click on each file, a popup

This is going to sound like a loaded question but here we go:  I am a
senior studying industrial design.  I am using a MacBook Pro 2.33 Ghz
running Tiger.  I am running Windoze XP on a 20 Gb partition.  Though
our school maintains these computers, they are ours to keep at the end

Maybe this is better address in the mac apps newsgroup:
So much as I like Mac, how come Leopard on a new Macbook with 1GB RAM
can become extremely slow when Firefox together with Safari start to
hog 200MB and 300MB respectively and the RAM seems to start to swap to

When I download .dmg files for apps,
the decoded app itself goes in "Applications" at sysadmin level.
But I can't find a satisfactory place for any informative leftovers that
aren't automatically installed as the required support for the app:

Whenever I try to reply an RTF or HTML message that has a graphic logo
in it (part of a signature), the message reply background shows as
gray, and the application becomes unresponsive.  I get about 5 seconds
of beachball followed by very poor keyboard response.