Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / June 2008

I have received a file from a relative that has a suffix .docx, and the icon
has "zip" written on it.  My emac is running 10.4.11, and I have office
2004, but I could not open the file, nor unstuff it.  I tried google, but
didn't find any help.  Does anyone have any suggestions for ...

I was realizing the potential of iCal but thought I might post a
question here wondering if any of you have found a better alternative to
iCal?  Integration with other programs (like iCal does) is important.  I
almost never read anything here about iCal so maybe that's a sign it

When I paste text from a web page into TextEdit using the rich text
format, TE does a very nice job except for one thing: the spaces
between paragraphs disappear. Why does TE do that, and is there a
simple way to correct this?

I recently dumped a few hundred 'Top 40 singles' into a playlist
sorted by artist.  I synched my iPod, fired it up in the car, scrolled
down to my Queen songs, and was horrified to find they weren't in any
discernible order.  I assumed that iTunes, after sorting by artist,

<http://www.ortabe.com/>
Or is it just me/my awful ISP? I was trying out the new version at
another site, and now when I want to download it for home... "Cannot
Load Address, can't find host".

So often in a text program (trying Textedit right now) I'm "paging down"
multiple pages and want to edit something.  But the cursor is several
pages up where I last left it.  Is there any way of getting the cursor
to follow my pages so its somewhere on the page I'm viewing?  I ...

Has the latest 10.5.3 update broken the playing of cdr videos and VLC?
It very much looks like it.
The bug that prevented you from playing some videos in Front Row was
not mended, so I suppose it is not a bug, but Apple policy.

Dear friends:
Please, recommend me a good CD (not DVD) ripper for Mac, like
"Audiograbber" for Windows.
Thanks a lot.

I recently moved to a new cubicle down the hall at work and the three
of us in my row have discovered that we can no longer see each other's
shared libraries.  My IP's haven't changed and other people across
from us can still see and share each other's libraries.  We all have