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What happened to the Web Mail link at the top of the forum page?
It was there yesterday!

It looks like Lawrence upgraded to the latest release candidate of the forums. I should be able to fix it though.

[Running 10.4.7 on a TiBook]

I would like to make copies of CD's for use in my car. I do not want to take the originals and leave them in the
hot car, sun, theft,etc.

What is the best way to "copy" a music CD so that I have an actual working copy of the original?

Also, lately I have been buying music-DVD's. I would need to strip the Music files out of it to burn to a CD for car use.
Any ideas of how to do this?

Appreciate any ideas?

Yeah, John is 100% correct.

You can rip your songs off of your discs (CD and DVD) into iTunes. Then you can burn them back to CDs. This is also a great way to kill those sometimes annoying tracks (30 second intro kind of thing).

If its for your own personal use, and you have no intention of selling or giving out the copies, then its totally legal on the fair-use portion of the Copywrite law. If you have to circumvent any copy protection, then that's a gray area (actually a contradiction between the Digital Millenium Copywrite Act and the previous Copywrite acts and legal rullings).

I use Entourage for my email and like it except I have not been able to figure out two problems:
1. Certain emails (like from the High museum or The Writer's Almanac) containing HTML text come out in a mix of english and jibberish. If I "decrease font size" or "enlarge font size" it turns into all english. I tried opening these emails in mac's Mail and it is fine. How can I avoid toying with the font size?
2. When I forward an email like from Itunes it forwards as just text without the art. The only way around it is to somehow save it and send it as an attachment. How do I avoid that?

I DO have HTML format turned on.

For number 1 it sounds like an issue with Entourages HTML rendering. If you could forward to me ([email protected]) one of the messages that'd help. One thing to check is the Read section of Entrouage's Preferences (Entourage menu -> Preferences -> Mail & News Preferences -> Read). Check what language you have selected for Default Character set. Mine is set to Western European (ISO). Try changing to Western European (Windows) and see if that makes a difference.

As for number 2, Entourage doesn't forward HTML very well. I believe it has to do with the formatting changes that forwarding makes. Your best bet is to forward as an attachment. It's an option under the Message menu (no keystroke which makes it annoying). The message shows up fine in Mail when I tested it, and it shows up fine in Outlook (although you have to open the attachment to see it).

Hopefully Office 2007 for Mac will resolve these issues. There are only a handfull of things that drive me nutty about Entourage. This is on that list (no out-of-office settings for the server is annoying too).

I use Entourage for my email and like it except I have not been able to figure out two problems:
1. Certain emails (like from the High museum or The Writer's Almanac) containing HTML text come out in a mix of english and jibberish. If I "decrease font size" or "enlarge font size" it turns into all english. I tried opening these emails in mac's Mail and it is fine. How can I avoid toying with the font size?
2. When I forward an email like from Itunes it forwards as just text without the art. The only way around it is to somehow save it and send it as an attachment. How do I avoid that?

I DO have HTML format turned on.

I would think that iTunes would do the trick for either.
John

[Running 10.4.7 on a TiBook]

I would like to make copies of CD's for use in my car. I do not want to take the originals and leave them in the
hot car, sun, theft,etc.

What is the best way to "copy" a music CD so that I have an actual working copy of the original?

Also, lately I have been buying music-DVD's. I would need to strip the Music files out of it to burn to a CD for car use.
Any ideas of how to do this?

Appreciate any ideas?

Thanks,
JP

There are so many applications that will do what you need.  Here are a few.

iPodrip -> free trial version...I think it lets you use it about five times.

http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/application.php?app=iPodRip

iPod2mac -> free...about 2/3 of the way down the page

http://www.daniele.ch/downloads.html

iPod->Folder -> Free

http://www.longfingers.com/ipodfolder/

Here is how to de-authorize the old computer and authorize a new computer:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93014

The hard drive on my daughter's PC has crashed. Most of her iTunes songs are saved on her iPod. I am trying to save her collection to one of my Macs. Is there a recommended utility out there for doing this?

Todd,

I've never had to use it myself, but I've read many recommendations for Senuti (that's iTunes spelled backwards  ) to get songs from an iPod back to a Mac.

Also, she already had a strange problem -- none of her purchased music would play on her iPod -- only music she "ripped" from a CD and put on iTunes. Any thoughts on this?

Not sure about this one.  Hopefully, when you do get her tracks back into iTunes on your Mac, all you'll have to do is re-authorize to get the DRM tunes to play.

Good luck.

Lee.

The hard drive on my daughter's PC has crashed. Most of her iTunes songs are saved on her iPod. I am trying to save her collection to one of my Macs. Is there a recommended utility out there for doing this?

Also, she already had a strange problem -- none of her purchased music would play on her iPod -- only music she "ripped" from a CD and put on iTunes. Any thoughts on this?

As always, thanks for any help.

Todd Daniel

"Vista may be a copy of OSX, but it will still have the @#$% registry -- the most disastrous computer idea of all time."

HEY! It looks like Quark 7 CAN handle the Asian fonts! KOOL!

I'm all of 20 minutes into working with the trial version. The replace font function is better than the other versions too. That will save a lot of time. The only "bug" I see so far is that when I replace fonts throughout the doc, it messes up and locks up the view, it had cascading tiles/sections or something. Minimizing did not clear it up, but closing and re-opening did. Had to do that 4 times, but that is still better than having to select each paragraph throughout the whole doc and changing the fonts out manually.

Early yet, but I'm hoping this will cure my Quark ills.