Mac Applications

Sort order in Mail
Mail remembers which column you're sorting each mailbox by, and I could have sworn it also remembered each mailbox's sort order. I sort most mailboxes by date, and I had Sent and Trash set to show most recent first, everything else oldest first. Now it's showing everything most recent first. I can change it ... 7 Jan 2010 00:20

Fonts in LaTeX
Is this the proper group in which to ask about Mac-specific usage with LaTeX features that one once knew about on another system? Hearing no denials yet, I proceed: How would I get a good Garamond family installed in my TeX setup? It's gwtex, based, it says, on texlive. I really don't need to get an Adobe ... 6 Jan 2010 08:51

Mail stopped giving sound alerts
For some reason Mail (4.2) recently stopped giving audible alerts when mail is received. I've checked the preferences altered the 'New messages sound' to something different with no change. My sound system otherwise is working normally. Can anyone suggest a cause and preferably a cure? Thanks -- Mike ... 10 Jan 2010 05:18

Safari add bookmark
hi, when adding a bookmark in Safari (4.0.4), the pop up menu in the resultant dialogue "...and choose where to keep it" Is there something that makes the list of folders a expandable/collapsible structure (like the triangles in finder) trying to find the target folder in a long list of folders is an abs... 7 Jan 2010 23:36

computer to phone and vice versa
I have a new cell phone I partially understand. I have a Mac OS X laptop I know pretty well. They both have Bluetooth capabilities. I thought they ought to be able to converse. This morning I managed to introduce them to each other. The computer and phone are willing to exchange contact lists. The pho... 3 Jan 2010 22:40

IP Address Security Needed
About five years ago, someone on one of these groups helped a Macintosh-using friend whose IP address was banned from a message board by posting a link to a free service for changing or scrambling ISPs. Well, my friend has changed to a service which is faster and needs to do this again, and make sure that whatever... 4 Jan 2010 04:51

What Mac apps out this list work on latest Macbook?
Does anyone know what the earliest mac versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Macromedia Flash Macromedia Fireworks Adobe Acrobat Pro work, straight off with no hard problems to fix on latest Macbook running Snow Leapard? If no one knows this for sure, what versions of any of these have prove... 4 Jan 2010 09:13

terminal.app not orking as it was
Hi all, I am not sure how this came about but when I load Terminal.app I get the following: /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal; exit lorenz:~ cy$ /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal; exit 2009-12-31 09:28:09.940 Terminal[991] CFLog (0): CFMessagePort: bootst... 31 Dec 2009 20:55

Visage - Apple Default Background - How to Set
I'm using Visage to set the background of the login screen. Visage has a setting which allows one to revert from one of their custom backgrounds to that of the Apple default login screen background. Somehow I did something which resulted in the Apple default login screen being a blue pattern background and not ... 7 Jan 2010 05:45

Test posting
testing -- The Guy --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net --- ... 29 Dec 2009 23:01