Mac Forum / General / General / July 2008

I have a movie consisting of files with .ifo, .bup, and .mov endings.
They are VTS files, eg VTS_01_0.vob.
I cant get Toast v9 to recognize these files and burn the movie.
Any suggestions?

Impressive. It usually only takes about 30 seconds for it to work when
this Mac's display is asleep. But just now - a little over five minutes
for this Mac to recognise that input.
So - is five minutes a record? *manical laughter*

I prefer IMAP Gmail but the new webmail is damn good.
I have little need for syncing stuff as I mess with iTunes and my iPhone so
much that the times I do I also sync and that suffices.
But it's the iDisk usage I find attractive - 20 GBs for less than $10 US a

Who starts automount on Tiger?  I've looked under the launch folders
and don't see it, and my superior knowledge of Linux/Solaris, etc
makes me look under /etc, but I can't find it there, either.
I've read the automount man page, and it's not really a help. I want

Be green...
http://www.oooms.nl/usb/

i posted this hear because i wanted to know if there is an App that
will diagnose the battery
My Battery on my MacBook shows an X in the upper right corner,I was
told to take the battery out then re-install it

    How can i boot to Live Linux disk in my MacBook OS 10.5.4
i remember in Windows you restart your computer
hold down F12 and select boot from DVD
how do you do that on the MacBook ?

It's almost impossible to google for this because everything that I
read has a different location and few specifically mention Firefox
3.0.  Even Spotlight can't find it just searching for Firefox or
bookmarks.html -- what a pain.  Anybody know?

Just in case you missed it, like I did. And if it was mentioned here I
missed that too. Anyway, I was wondering whether to try antivirus
software.
http://db.tidbits.com/article/9511

I still can't get used to it and was wonderingi f it could be changed.  
I find that in Mail and iTunes when I use the delete key to delete an
item, that the system selects the item before the one I deleted and not
the one after it.  I'm used to it moving froward I guess from ...

It's not like we didn't see this one coming:
"Apple, Inc., manufacturer of the well known line of computers and
software, filed suit on July 3 in the federal district court for the
northern district of California against Florida company Psystar, Inc.  

I have 20 file with word "www" on it, and I would like to remove from
them simultaneously.
Thank you.

   With AT&T dropping hierarchies, I am in search of a
good Usenet feed. Who can recommend their favorites?
TIA,
JC

Where I work, the IT folk are extremely protective of their network and
auditors require anti-virus software on every Windows box connected to
the network. I've been allowed to have an iMac for video editing with
FCP. IT have installed Sophos Anti-Virus on the machine and it ...

I've got a cable modem which goes to a router, which is, in turn,
connected via ethernet cables to a hub upstairs which goes to two
macs.  My macbook is in the downstairs office, and connects to the web
via an airport link.  That link -- via a Netgear WPN824 -- connects