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Seemingly for no reason at all, my Quicktime and Realplayer have
stopped playing audio.
I have checked all the settings, I have made sure there is no mute in
anything, and the sound control panel looks fine.

iBook G4, OS X 10.4.11, iCal 2.0.5
When iCal is closed and a alarm goes off, the window that pops up
appears almost completely offscreen in the upper right corner of the
screen.

I bought MS Dictate and after *much* trouble, was finally able to get
it to install (problem: my username was in Japanese). Now, I'm finding
that it doesn't want to update me to version 1.0.1.  Instead, it says
that my release 1331 is the latest one.

for some time VLC has failed to show the picture window on my iMac.
Sound is there but no picture, and I have a message :
"macosx: QT doesn't support any appropriate chroma"
This for VLC 0.8.6 a, c and h.

Dear friends:
Are the messages downloaded and saved by MacSoup indexed by Spotlight?
Thanks
Juan I. Cahis

With OS 10.5.3, latest iTunes, I keep getting duplicate tracks. All play OK.
I delete with iDupe but others keep forming.
They are not as a result of multiple ripping.
"Show duplicate tracks", shows a lot. But I have to check because there

Is "MobileMe" the worst logo in the history of Mac?
<http://www.manhattanoffender.com/2008/06/is-mobileme-the.html>
I have to agree...."MobileMe" is the worst

Question 1-  I have my XP SP2 system backed up with a program that backs up
all program and data files along with the XP operating system files and
thinking of buying a MacBook Pro.  If I partition the MacBook Pro hard
drive, will I be able to copy my XP backup hard drive with XP OS ...

Just signed up for free teranews and am trying to access it with MT-
Newswatcher on an iMac running 10.4.11.  Whenever I try to display the
full group list (so I can pick the groups I want to subscribe to), the
software takes over 40-60% of my CPU, the drop down menus turn grey,

Is "MobileMe" the worst logo in the history of Mac?
<http://www.manhattanoffender.com/2008/06/is-mobileme-the.html>
I have to agree...."MobileMe" is the worst

I am using Parallels and Windows 2000 on my MacBook Pro.  I am trying to
install an application to run on Windows from a USB flash disk.  When I
put the flash disk into the USB slot, Parallels has a dialogue box
telling me that it has detected the new USB device Flash Disk, and ...

I'd love to have a mouse-click (or single key plus mouse click) way to
open a new Finder window? -- or alternatively to drop down a live but
floating Finder sidebar, or a contextual menu that was the same as my
customized Sidebar?

All my music was on an external HD & in my iTunes library.
I bought a large internal HD & moved all the music to it.
Now in my library I have duplicates of everything, with the one that
was on the external drive showing as 'can't be found'.

Hi;
A cousin brought me this dev tools, and after installing for some
reason it won't start. All I got is message "it quitted unexpectedly".
I have Leopard 10.5.3, Xcode tools 3.1, WebObjects 5.2.

My wife and I, sitting in our living room, both talking to the LAN
created by our Airport Extreme base station in the adjoining room.  
In the Airport menu of my MacBook running TIger, in addition to our
household LAN I also routinely see the named and protected WiFi LAN of a