The MacTalk forums have never been busier, so it’s easy to miss the good threads that pop up – every weekend, I’ll post a list of what I think are the best threads from the past week, so you get to feast on the cream of the crop. You can also follow MacTalk on Twitter, where the MacTalk team tweets links to great new threads as soon as they happen.

• markhellewell is after a DAC for his Mac
• Granny Smith needs to monitor their internet usage, but indepently from their ISP, as they think something is not quite right with the ISPs reporting
• crazyjester900 wants to password protect a folder on their Mac
• Maximage is upset with Adobe and their lack of customer support
• Reubania wants to know how to join two AVI files together
• mitty found a great satrical piece by Danny Katz about Apple geeks that ashamedly, hits close to home for some of us
• cowgz informs us that the ATO’s e-tax software doesn’t work on the Mac again this year
• speedway boy is heading to the USA and has some questions about travelling with a MacBook Pro
• dolbinau points out a blog post where someone is disappointed with the quality of their 13″ MacBook Pro LCD
• konni wants to know the difference between an LCD TV and an LCD computer monitor
• Kzach ponders if we, as geeks, tolerate mediocrity with our gadgets?
• dickg wants to know why Optus sucks
• Striker can’t decide on Vodafone or 3 for his new iPhone 3GS
• Beau posts a work around for an annoying bug in iPhone OS 3.0, where group SMS are sent as an MMS
• bosc0 is after the best iPhone to-do list app
• I’m after questions to ask Firemint CEO, Rob Murray, for the next installment of MacTalk Interviews