Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / July 2008

I captured a music video off YouTube (with Snapz Pro 2.0.3)that is 4:56 Long.
The .mov is 1.1GB.  That seems like overkill. Is there some way to trim it down?
I'm very familiar with PhotoShop, but a total newbee with video.  
Is there a better app to use for capturing videos?

The power went out at my house.  I have voice over internet. Now my GE
24 GHz phone screen readout says, "Out of Range".  I have disconnected
my modem, router and Lynksis adapter and phone connection then
reconnected them.  I still get the same readout.  I have no other

Using iTunes when I choose the movies on my iPod, select a movie title
and rename it, it takes up to 3 minutes for the new name to appear.  I
have a 60 gig video iPod that I purchased in Canada when they first
came out. I have installed new iPod systems when they are suggested by

The avi clip in DashaG.zip shows "April Carter" (Darya Gunchenko)
wearing a sexy black outfit while ease indian stripper Rajni Parmar
snaps away. "April "Darya Gunchenko is on a black and white blanket at
76 Corby.

If I want to create a slideshow from my photos, add text, control
transitions, etc. I would like to create DVDs, QuickTimes and do
presentations directly.
What would you recommend?

I have tried various tricks to group a couple of hundred low-rated
podcasts together to make it easy to delete them.   I've created a
smart playlist and renamed various fields to "delete me", but I can't
select them to be deleted from there, and I can't change the sort

Does anyone here use an Apple TV device and if so what do you think
about it as a value.

Since newer Macs and their Mac OS X can do PC stuff with dual boot,
virtual programs (e.g., VMware and VirtualBox), use other OS (e.g.,
Linux), etc. Would you consider them PCs now?
My friend (a PC guy :P) and I had a debate that they are not PCs. To me,

Backup failed to back my documents into my .mac account:
Transaction failed for unknown reason (100)
Unable to complete backup at this time.
This has happened 3 times today.   My computer has been turned off the

I have a smart folder in my Mail application for a listserver
(Dragaera) which I subscribe to.   The newest novel in that series
just came out, but mine is being delivered to my work, and I'm on
vacation this week.

Running a home server I have noticed that iCab (but not Safari) fails to
load recent changes to linked CSS files. I have the prefs set rationally
and as recommended by iCab "Load files from best source" which depends
on the server notifying the browser that there has been an ...

I'll try to explain this properly but I'll probably fail.  :)
I want to make a long list (a text document) with the first word of each
item being the most important.  Everything will be in alphabetical order.
WIDGET - Brown

Does an index.html file present in a directory:
1) actually prevent getting a directory listing of
that directory?
and thus:

Some albums in iTunes get split into more than one folder with duplicate
art work. Will iTunes get messed up if you manually move them back to
one folder?
If you change the artwork via a program like Coverscout, will it update

Is there a straightforward way to reformat a SanDick Cruzer 2 GB or 4GB
USB thumb drive to make it into a totally vanilla external USB volume
that can be read and written to on either Macs or PCs?
That is, objective is to totally eliminate all the "U3" or whatever