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I'm using iMovie HD 6.0.3 under Lion. I also am using some of the plugins from Stupendous Software, and I have a question about the use of one of them, called PiP Rect Crop. I understand how to use this plugin to create a "Picture in Picture" effect, except there is one aspect of this which I...

I want to split a video into several clips without resizing. I know how to do the splitting in iMovie HD, but because that program likes to work with standard aspect ratios, the resulting clips are almost always resized and have annoying black bars on the top and bottom. Is there a way to...

Even though I'm running Lion, I'm still using the "professional", legacy version QuickTime Player 7 to view most videos. This is because that software gives us more options for controlling how individual videos are played. For example, using QT7, I can go to Window->Show Movie Properties and...

In Lion, is there a way to remove iTunes from the context menu when I Control-Click on a video or audio file and go into the Open With submenu? I have my own favorite programs for listening to music and viewing videos, and I'd like to get iTunes out of sight and out of mind, as much as...

I have my headphones attached through my MacBook Pro's headphone jack. I have a USB connection to my speakers. In some cases, I'd like to switch my computer's default sound output from the headphone port to the USB speaker port using software only. In other words, I want to do this without...

In Lion, if I do a Restart or a Shutdown, a dialog box pops up asking me whether or not I want to close certain open applications. But after a couple seconds -- before I can select the appropriate option in that dialog box -- the shutdown sequence continues. I vaguely remember seeing something...

Is there a way to completely disable netbios under Lion? I've seen instructions for doing this under Leopard, but they don't seem to apply to Lion. Thanks in advance. .

I'm looking for a custom MenuExtra which would work as follows: It puts one or more menus in the Menu Bar, and each entry of the menu is set to run an app specified by the user. I'd like to use such a MenuExtra to put a menu in the Menu Bar that will allow me to launch a few of my own...

In Lion, if I issue a Restart, all my Terminal windows get reopened after restarting, even if I uncheck the box next to Reopen windows after logging back on. These Terminal windows get reopened right after I manually reopen my first Terminal window after restarting. Therefore, I think that...

Up through Snow Leopard, I was able to use a 3rd-party program called Hyperspaces to switch Spaces with the mouse, using a drop-down menu in the menu bar. However, now that I am running Lion, the entire Spaces system has changed and I can no longer run Hyperspaces. I want to be able to switch...

I'm running the latest version of Snow Leopard. I manage my own DNS (on a non-MacOSX server), and three days ago, I changed the IP addresses for a few domains that I control. Within 48 hours after doing so, the new DNS entries showed up on all my hosts except my MacOSX host. The hosts...

Is there any way under Snow Leopard to configure Launch Services to launch a program whenever a new file appears in a specified directory? I know how to do this "manually" by writing a daemon to watch the directory, but if there's a way to make this happen via Launch Services, I'd rather do...

Forgive me if I missed the answer to this somewhere. I'm running Snow Leopard, and I make use of several different Spaces. I find it to be quite annoying that when I close an application, I often get zapped over to another Space. I think it's the Space in which the most-recently-invoked...

I have recently changed all my movie files on my Snow Leopard system to be launchable by QuickTime Player 7 instead of QuickTime Player X [see note below]. For various historical reasons, these movie files have a variety of icons associated with them. I'd like to run some sort of utility which...

In Snow Leopard, I notice that videos which were formerly launched by QuickTime Player in Leopard are now launched by an application called QuickTime Player Launcher. This launcher then causes these videos to actually be launched by the new QuickTime Player X. I understand all about how...

I'm using 10.6.1. I'm noticing that in Finder list views, if I modify a file or directory, the info about this item (modification date, etc.) doesn't get updated in the Finder unless I close the enclosing folder in the Finder and re-open it (by clicking on the arrow next to the enclosing folder...

Is there a way to tell Snow Leopard that when a certain app is running, its icon should not be put into the dock? I'd like this to occur only for this one, single app, not for any other apps, whose icons I still would like to see in the dock when they're running. If this isn't possible, no...

I'm running Snow Leopard. If I have a couple of Terminal sessions running and I try to quit both of them via the Quit Terminal entry in the Terminal menu, I get a dialog box with the following message: You have 2 windows with running processes. Do you want to review these windows before...

I'm running Snow Leopard (10.6.1), and I'm using version 3.2 of both Xcode and Interface Builder. I'm noticing that Interface Builder is not being kept in sync with my Xcode project when I add or alter outlets and actions and then do a Save. I always have to explicitly invoke Reload All Class...

I'm running Snow Leopard and I'm using Spaces, and I want to have different types of Terminal windows always show up in different Spaces. The way I was doing this in Leopard (and it worked great) was as follows: * Make an exact copy of Terminal.app that's called Terminal-copy.app * Go into...