Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / June 2008

I have a friend that sends me notes from his Windows box and text
utilties in Japanese.  I think this/his enclave still uses Shift-JIS
for some of their text encoding. I am of the suspicion that generally
the Mac lives in unicode-ville.

I have a Mac with Fusion running Windows XP and all is well. I back up
with Time Machine onto an external drive and use Mozy as a double back
up online. But I wonder, I have a few files, stickies in Outlook on
the Windows partition, for example. How do I back them up, preferably

I am attempting to move some files off of an older Macintosh for storage
and transfer.  I therefore found and purchased an appropriate version of
Roxio Toast and a CD ROM writer in order to accomplish this.
The system is OS8.6, and the version of Roxio Toast I have is Titanium 5.0.1

There seems to be something wrong with the character encoding of
Firefox 3. It does not stick to the values set, but need changing each
time the browser starts up.
Have a look at this page:

Obviously from the subject line I am a developer. :)
I would like to know if anyone out there has had experience using
VMWare on iMac with XP with the XP VM running Oracle 11g or any
version for that matter and/or running SQL Server as well. They don't

Wondering if any apps like Address Book or iCal or non-Apple ones have
the option so you could highlight a number and a keyboard shortcut would
initiate dialing.  Ultimately, the app would work so any number
highlighted in any program could be dialed.  Of course you'd need a

I just bought a wireless router, an "AirLink 101".
The documentation came in the form of a PDF on an included CD. Dragged
the PDF to my desktop (OS X 10.4.11), where it shows the standard "PDF"
icon. Double-clicked. Preview came to the foreground, but the file never

I'm a long time Opera user (I paid for my license), who switched to
Firefox because it had Foxmarks available.   My Firefox for OS X at
home and my Firefox for Windows at work always have the same
bookmarks.

I've used bootcamp to install Windows Vista and Parallels to run it.  
But I remember reading somewhere not to activate Windows until both were
working correctly.  I've been googling around but can't find out the
recommendation as to whether to activate within dual booted Win or

I am doing some very unofficial enquiries for my dentist here in Canada,
because I wasn't much impressed by his IT consultant who said to switch
from Mac to PC (or buy Windows software and run in Parallels) to run his
practice now that the software he is currently using is ...

Dear friends:
Is there a way to repair my iMovie install?
I received iLife08, including iMovie, already installed when I bought
my MacBook Pro in last December. But now, when I try to run iMovie, it

I've got a Sony Ericsson K320i phone and I normally sync my calendar
(ical) and address book through isync.
In ical I checked the automatic birthday's calendar.
The problem is that in some (not all) people's birthday dates the

Has anyone noticed a problem running Excel 2008 with PopCharX?
Recently I noticed that when I am entering data into Excel cells, data
entry will automatically terminate after around 3 seconds (as if
carriage return had been pressed) and any further data will replace

I have heard that some recent iteration of iPhoto has changed the way
iPhoto accesses ones photo collection.  In the past iPhoto has
downloaded the photos of ones collection as new files into iPhoto, thus
duplicating the files.  Does a new iteration of iPhoto just record the

I have a TV series Huff: Season II which I downloaded because it is
unavailable at my video rental stores.  I can play it on my eMac
(latest version of Tiger) but the disc is not recognized by my Samsung
DVD player.  What can I do with the files so that I can play them on