Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / May 2008

Hello, all!
I am an iTunes user who also runs Linux on another computer and runs
Rhythmbox on Linux.
I like to listen to the 70s/80s radio station "Pirate Radio" in iTunes. The

How can one find the date at which the most recent SuperDuper! Smart
Update backup to a certain backup volume was done -- **from the backup
volume itself**?
[That is, where in the backup volume itself is this information

i am new imac owner. can't find newsreader or password safe that works with
osx 10.5.2 tried passward gorilla (unstable), newshunter(won't download
messages) and newswatcher (won't run at all. hard to contact these people.
i am very disappointed in documentation for mac. in windows ...

I have noticed that many spam posts have been marked as junk by previous
readers. That serves a useful purpose.
On the other hand, many posts that seem to be legitimate are also marked
as junk. Who does that? Is it frustrated advertisers? Is it just

You folks helped awhile back when I asked about software that I
could use to edit sound files. Thanks for recommending Amadeus Pro.
Now I'd like to know what sort of software I need to grab a video
clip from, say, a movie or TV show that's on a DVD.

Okay, this may be construed as whining, but installing...
  * Drag Thing,
  * Default Folder and
  * Snapz Pro X

I'm unable to add specific  music to an iPhoto slideshow.
In the pre-iPhoto 08 era, I believe I was able to select several
selections from the iTunes album, by shift/selecting, so that, for
example, the music at the beginning of the slideshow would start at cut

When I create slideshows in iPhoto and Share/Export to iDVD to burn
disks for viewing on television screens, the quality of the imagery is
distinctly softer.
I'm not talking about originals from point-and-shoot photography.  My

Since upgrading from iTunes 4.9 to iTunes 7.6, I have been unable to
seach for or delete songs in my Music folder, or in any Playlist, that
uses a custom genre.
These are non-Digital Rights Management songs (like free podcasts and

I tried vocabulary training in Dictate, but it didn't seem to retain the
words from my documents - it flagged the same words as unknown in
successive documents in different training sessions. In other words,
what it supposedly memorized in the first session was not applied to the ...

The four reviews all give it one star, the lowest possible rating.  All
consider it a Beta at this point.  Most recommend to wait for a later
version.
http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B0014KJ6EQ/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful

I'm relatively new to Apple Mail, and wondering if there's something
I'm missing.
I'm using Apple's Mail on a Mac Pro with the latest Leopard OS 10.5.2
with Mail 3.2.

Hi. I am running OS 10.5.2 on a 24" Imac.
Today I noticed a folder in my hard drive's main directory that I don't
remember seeing before.  The folder name is 'Developer' and it has a
subfolder called Applications which has a subfolder called Utilities.  

Hi, I have a MacBook and I'm primarily a pc user. I understand that
Bootcamp works best for gaming. However, when I purchased my MacBook a year
ago, I had Parallel intalled. I'd like to install Bootcamp but it looks
like I'd have to buy Leopard? If so, do I need to uninstall ...

Couple of questions about an Airport LAN; what can connect to it; and
how one can at least detect (not necessarily identify) who's connected
to it?
We have a DSL connection through a several-year-old Cayman modem/router.