Mac Applications

My playlists disappeared on the ipod?
I just got finished charging up my ipod mini. As I listen to the ipod, I go straight to the playlist section. And I find that it is not there. Alll that is listed is some "On the go" section. How do I get my playlist back on my ipod? I just plugged it back into the mac. and charged it for 2 hours. Unplugged the ipo... 6 Apr 2006 22:08

Google Earth
Great program. Shows the scary potential of surveillance satellites. I understand that the images in Google Earth are not real time, but I wonder if there is any way to determine the date of the image being viewed. For instance, I looked at an old business address of mine, and noticed that many features I ... 15 Apr 2006 13:51

Problems with Appleworks
Mac G4, 9.1, Appleworks 6 When I'm using Appleworks, typing, often there is a delay from my typing to showing up on the screen, sometimes annoyingly so. Someone suggested this is the autosave acting up. But I shut off the autosave and it didn't make any difference. If I type a short string and then wait, they ... 8 Apr 2006 20:14

Wine
I noticed that there has been a port of Wine to OSX. Has anyone tried it? TK ... 19 Mar 2006 08:40

QuickTime for PC URL?
sigh - my brother is trying to see some QT videos and QTVRs I have on Phanfare, and he doesn't have QuickTime. When I try to visit Apple's site to give him the URL to download it, Apple send me to somewhere/mac.html, and I can't figure out the URL for the windows version. pc.html and windows.html aren't working. ... 15 Mar 2006 18:02

How do I delete iPod photos?
Deleting songs from my iPod is easy enough--I just find the song by clicking on the iPod source in the left column, highlight the song in the main section, and hit delete. Piece of cake. But for some strange reason, there is no comparable way to delete photos. Not wanting to "sync" my photos with iPhoto (I have i... 15 Mar 2006 13:19

Cross-platform video chat
My daughter has the world's cutest toddlers and a PC. I, grand-dad, live 300 miles away and have a MacBook Pro with the built-in camera. So you now understand my subject topic! I'm new to the video chat stuff, so I'd appreciate help with what she could use and I could use and us both see/hear each other. (She men... 14 Mar 2006 20:41

question about iTunes account
I signed up for .Mac years ago, and I'm letting it go. My wife used the associated iTunes account to download stuff. She's going to sign up her on account, and we want to make sure this doesn't screw up the library of tunes she's already downloaded under the .Mac account details. I have no clue how to figure this ... 12 Mar 2006 23:51

iTunes Launches on MP3 Download
For some reason when I finish downloading a file (using, say, bearshare) iTunes opens up. Anyone know how to prevent this behavior? Thanks, Jason ... 18 Mar 2006 01:37

Saving image on clipboard to file, or a contextual menu with "Save image to file"?
I've found myself having to save an image from the clipboard to a file a few times lately and have done the following: 1) Open GraphicConverter 2) Create a new canvas of large size 3) Pasting the image 4) Cropping the canvas down to the image size 5) Saving I'd really like to do this in fewer steps. Is ther... 10 Mar 2006 14:26