Mac Applications

Quicktime Player may not be working within Browsers
I went to a set the other night that had the Quicktime logo with a ? inside it. I used both the Safari 2.0 and the Firefox 2.0 and the same result. Any suggestions without downloading anymore software. I have Quicktime downloaded. ... 8 Nov 2006 19:50

How to get rid of Connecting to Server window
I used the Go menu in the Finder (10.4.8) to go to the public folder on a friend's iDisk. I then used the Eject command under the Finder's File menu to eject his hard disk/public folder icon; it disappeared from my desktop. But ever since then (which was days ago), I have had an open Connecting to Server window wi... 7 Nov 2006 14:52

Best MAC Magazine???
In article <oe1qk25jclqambo321vmo1uqmho5u81qsi(a)4ax.com>, <chasm(a)texas.net> wrote: I am a newbie to MAC Kinda obvious. :) It's spelled "Mac". Lowercase "a" and "c". what is the best out there?? I vote for MacWorld. As a newbie, it will serve you the best IMO. ... 7 Nov 2006 18:02

Open Office
Perhaps Open Office for Mac is not for me! I notice lots of unsatisfactory things. Better try that Neo one. I mention, in case it is just my set up. Seems clunky. It does not like clippings, it has Windows keyboard commands, copy with control, and seems not happy opening many text docs of old... So the M... 29 Nov 2006 15:41

Preview.app, multi-page tiff files, no drawer
I get incoming faxes with efax. Their tech support set my account to receive faxes as multi-page TIFF files. They open with Preview. To look at the different pages in Preview, you click one page or another in the "Drawer" beside the window. Multipage PDFs are navigated the same way, with the "Drawer." Until ... 24 Oct 2006 21:42

Quicken backup to .Mac
Has anyone actually gotten this to work? I've tried now in multiple versions, and I always get an error dialog: There was a problem backing up your data file. Quicken was unable to back up your data file because a problem occurred. Please try again later. (010) Anyone have any luck with this, ... 28 Nov 2006 13:49

Font Book vs. "Those Professional Font Managers"
Here's an example of something that is trivial to do in Apple's Font Book and I'm curious as to how easily the same thing is accomplished in one of the "professional" font managers such as Font Explorer or Suitcase Fusion. When Adobe's Creative Suite 2 is installed a folder is created in Library/Application Su... 15 Oct 2006 12:15

Script Editor
I decided to learn a little bit about Applescript & Automator... I wrote my first script to start the Terminal and write some commands in it tell application "Terminal" do script " cd /Users/joss/Sites/rails/test/ ; script/server" end tell it's simple but 2 Terminal windows are open.... why ? so many googl... 12 Oct 2006 21:50

OpenOffice
Just downloaded OpenOffice.org 2.app to see what if it will do as a word processor. First thing it says when trying to open is that one needs to install Apple X11. What is this when it is at home? And how does one do this in the simplest way? -- dorayme ... 11 Oct 2006 23:45

OSXvnc --- unknown message type
dear mac experts: I am trying to control my brand new mini via vnc from a remote linux machine. the first time it worked. (linux VNC Viewer 4.1.2) now I am getting the password, then the first interlaced draw of the screensaver, and then an abort with an "unknown message type". for more detail, it says "un... 10 Oct 2006 22:33