Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / July 2008

I noticed my itunes has many duplicates. There are 2 different kinds
of duplicates:
1) iTunes has 2 references in the library to the exact same file on my
HD. This actually shows up in the library XML file. You see 2 items

I've seen lots of groovy and not so cool personal icons or avatars in
the upper left hand corner of posts reading the groups with
MT-Newswatcher 3.5.2 latest version.  How you get your pic of choice
(.gif, .jpg, .tif, .png or whatever) to appear in that spot?

On occasion I have to travel to places for work where there is no
broadband access, just dial up. So I've ordered a USR usb external
telephone modem to plug into my MacBook Pro.
I'm looking for software that I can use with the dial-up modem that will

I recently purchased a small Aiptek video camera, which saves its files in .asf
format. These files are not viewable on any application I have tried (Windows
Media Player, Quick Time Player, etc.) for Mac OS X 10.5.2 and they also will
not import into iMovie for editing. (As an ...

This has got to be an old question, but I've checked my Pogue book
and searched Google's USENET archive with no luck.
    I have some DVD+RWs that I'd like to edit, preferably using iMovie.
Toast Lite, which came with my new optical drive, correctly identifies

I have a friend living far away. On the, quite old, windoze computer
only msn video chat runs properly. We tryed Skype, it works at the
beginning but after a while the bloody windoze computer crashes,
probably because of overheating or so.

OK, so I'm using the Dashcode that came with Xcode 3 for Leopard
(Dashcode 2.0 beta). The problem is this: I am trying to create just a
simple RSS widget for my site. I set the feed and attributes and hit
the Run button and this is what happens:

I bought a mini mac yesterday, and I am trying to setup my ichat
account. So I registered for ichat userid jessedorland@mac.com, and
whenever I try to type it it say wrong password, I have change my
password, and even created a new user id -- same problem.

Just bought and installed MS Office 2008 Student and Home Edition.  
Don't want to use _any_ of the "Office" features; don't need to have one
Office app communicate with another one, or anything like that.
Can I peel out Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as separate, free-standing

I have two airport express units (one upstairs, one downstairs) on my
wireless network managed by a Linksys150N router (my "base station"). I
mainly use the airport units to stream music to the respective stereo
speaker systems. I can see both units in my Airport Utility and both

I have made two web pages of photos, with different templates, but
both say:
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ullametuero od tet adit, commod velit praese exer aute enit alit,

Somehow MS Word 2008 keeps on delegating itself as the default program
for opening documents that I have repeatedly set to open with TextEdit.  
Does anybody know why?  
Another odd thing.  I create a new document in TextEdit.  It saves it as

<http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/845/picture65qo7.png> - how am I
supposed to read that? And then I try listening to an audio version and
can only make out five of the eight numbers after listening six times
and then dragging a colleague over to try and help hear the numbers. Is

Learner.org (Annenberg Media) has lots of great VOD (Video on Demand).  
When I try to access these files from Safari, I get a message that
Safari does not have an appropriate plug-in. I then get asked if  want
to try using WMP. I agree. It works. It is awkward.

I just tried logging into the new .me/.mac online website to view my
emails, which are now piling up.  It accepts the password and I can
see all of my emails behind the annoying forced tutorial banner that
pops up in front of everything and requires you to click on "Play