Mac Applications

VOIP Problem "Out of Range"
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 phone to use to say call my ISP or VOIP. Wha... 12 Jul 2008 17:40

itunes duplicates
Hi, 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 with different ID's referencing the same file. 2) iTunes references 2 different files... 13 Jul 2008 23:19

So freaking sick of reCaptchas
<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 ANY of reCaptcha's content reviewed... 13 Jul 2008 00:49

PDF -> editor
Is there a program that will read PDF and interpret into some internal form that's editable in any way? Folowing which, one might export it in some printable form like PDF? It's sort of diappointing to see OpenOffice read a file and display a mass of garbage that's some sort of rendering of the raw binary PDF. ... 21 Jul 2008 14:05

Default program: MS Word?
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 a rtf be default. Then when TextEdit first opens it, it has a bunch ... 13 Jul 2008 01:50

Deleting low-rated podcasts (iTunes)
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 order of the podcast list. Anybody have a r... 11 Jul 2008 20:14

large QT file
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? MacBook G4 OS10.4.11 -- ... 12 Jul 2008 18:41

Mail Inbox
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. I'd like to clear out messages from my in-box, and read them all next week after I've read the nov... 11 Jul 2008 09:55

Syncing of iPod classic contacts and calendars stuck
I can't get this working right since this morning and the Mobile Me and iTunes upgrades :-( -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. ... 10 Jul 2008 15:29

Backup Failure
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 last 3 days as I was out of town, and the previous backup worked. What should I do next? ... 11 Jul 2008 10:57