Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / March 2008

nobody knows a software to fake movies by adding an animated picture
over them as a layer (like in photo editing software for pictures) ?

I want to cut excerpts from various movies from different DVDs and place
them together on a single DVD.
Can anyone tell me the best programme to use when cutting excerpts from
movies.

Hi guru people
Using my last version of Pages, I used to be able to convert ("export")
a Pages document into HTML (amongst other formats). Now I'm using
version 3, that option doesn't appear.

is anybody using Parallels Desktop??
I want use an usb to serial adapter.
What do I have to type in the Serial Port dialogbox.
(my socket name is   PL2303-0000201A)

Is there a way to set the preferences in Mt-NewsWatcher so that people
who read my posts do not complain about the urls being not easily usable
(because they wrap and split)? As far as I see, no setting for line wrap
solves the problem if the url is very long. While setting no ...

i have a mac os10 notebook and i use the dashboard, i have the weather
channel.com current and 10 day forecast but it never updates, ie i
have to click the i on the bottom right corner then hit 'done' and it
will update but it doesnt do it auto, is that correct?  I thought it

There has got to be a way for iTunes to "find" your iPod after you
eject it (via iTunes) w/o having to disconnect/reconnect it.
There just has to be.
Thanks

I recently downloaded Thoth to try it out.
It is usable for 30 days without registration.
But is it still possible to make a registration?
The website

This is a follow-up to an earlier thread:
Last night and this morning, Mail was bouncing in the dock.   I
switched to it and found a window:
Enter Password for Account "Brazee"

In my Firefox for Windows, I can open a PDF as a web page.
In my Firefox for OS X, that same PDF downloads and gets opened
separately.
Can I make my Mac Firefox open as a web page?

I've installed macports (Intel mac and Leopard) but when I try to install an
app I get the error - sudo: port: command not found
What am I missing?

A week ago I upgraded my 2.16 GHz  Intel Core 2 Duo 20" iMac with 2 GB
of RAM from 10.4.11 to 10.5.2, and the automatic Sleep was working
just fine (according to my Energy Saver settings).  Then I applied the
Apple Security Update 2008-002, and now it won't automatically sleep

I'm familiar  with " Saving a copy of a song in a new file format".  
Itunes help.
But I have a lot of songs that were MP3's.  Now they are .m4a with
latest version of itunes.  I used to take a file and attach .mp3 and I

I'm looking for a simple music composition app for my Mac but can't find one
that doesn't do way more than I need and cost way more than I can afford!
Any ideas?
Background:  I have an old Acorn RiscPC that I've used for years to do

Let me preface my question by stating that I am a complete ignoramus
when it comes to any sort of video file processing.
I just downloaded a seven files series from youtube in .flv format, and
I would like to splice them together into one continuous video which