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The pay software would be QuickTime Pro. It's worth the money, btw., although I agree that an iPod video should come with a QT Pro license... But if you google or search versiontracker.com or macupdate.com for "ipod video", I guess you'll find free stuff, too.

For the second part, you can use Ipanema: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19949 As for the first part, I would suggest either using static internal IP addresses instead of dynamic DHCP, or firewall rules by MAC address if it supports that.

Well that is easily fixable with some Quicktime Codecs. Ogg: Ogg Vorbis Flac: QuickTime Flac - note: this only works for 10.3.x .... they are working slowly to get a Quicktime 7 version working. So Flac codec is not ready so I use xACT to deal with Flac files and so much more.

Install MacDrive on your PC. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/13831 This will provide support for Mac formatted volumes on your PC. At $50, it's a little more than some will be willing to pay to do this, But if you need to access a Mac drive, this is one way.

MacTheRipper rips the content of a DVD off of the DVD disk and onto your hard drive. There is no "encoding" or "translating" to a different format like AVI -- it's just a straight rip. Whatever format the DVD was in is the format the resulting files will be in when you use MTR. If you wish to watch the DVD once it's been ripped to your hard drive, simply open DVD player,...

Tried Windows Media Player? (Probably not decent....). Try searching sites like Macupdate.com and versiontracker.com

Also, you may want to check out FileJuicer. It extracts video, audio, etc from older, hard to open video files. It claims to support WMV, but I haven't tested it myself. (requires 10.3.9 or higher)

There's a software. iPartition - http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23828 - can do just that. However: It's not free, and I'm not aware of a free alternative that's able to do that. A cheaper alternative would be to get a friend or shop to lend you a drive for transitioning, i.e. you copy all your stuff to an additional drive, reformat yours, put the stuff back,...

Yes, use OSXvnc Server on the Mac (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16699) and use your favorite VNC client on the Windows machine to connect. If you don't know of any VNC clients for the Windows machine, plenty can be found with a simple search on versiontracker.com. Just look for a highly-rated client and it should work.

I feel the same way on a Mac so I went with the more Apple like Cocoa written browsers Camino. I then always get the latest Camino browser nightly build (it is the Mozilla open source Mac centric browser) with CaminoKnight. You can also skin Camino with Camincon. Also if you go to VersionTracker and/or MacUpdate and do a search on Camino you can personalize Camino with you own...