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My son was given a 256MB jump drive loaded with advertising in about 190Mb of it.
Now he's watched the adverts he wants to reformat the drive and use it for
something useful, like saving his Playstation games.
It seems to have been partitioned for Windows as a Read/Write section ...

Is there any good freeware non-American voice available for text to
speech in OSX? Cepstral makes some commercially that aren't bad, and the
price isn't unreasonable, but I don't need it enough to pay as much for
it as they are asking at this stage. if there were a freebie that did

I have 2, 512 MB chips of 667 DDR2 SDRAM.
(Also have 2, 256 Mb chips of the same memory, which I doubt anyone
would want)
I know that some Œolder¹ mac minis came with only 512 MB Ram (2, 256

I'm sure you've all done it - you have a lot of programs open and you
CMD-TAB through them to close them using CMD-Q, one after the other, but
accidentally close finder instead of the program you intended. The only
way to get finder back without restarting is to quit every other ...

Goodness, I go away from a couple of days and just look what happens!
There's a black man headed for the White House, and a score of posts in
aus.computers.mac! Miracles.
Thanks to Chris, Alan and Rifty for your comments about TPG. As the

Anyone had a play with one of the new Macbooks yet?
Cheers,
Chris

Anyone successfully using this combination?
The Canon's been great plugged into the USB port of the MacBook Pro,
have just added the Airport, internet and Airtunes work fine.
The Airport Utility seems to intermittently recognise the Canon, but

When trying to install OS 9 the install process freezes with 8 minutes
to Go, and when trying to install OSX it comes up with a message saying
I need to restart. The message does not say why but I discovered it is
caused by a kernel panic.

I got hold of Leopard installation DVD and managed to install
Leopard on an external USB Harddrive for a Lenovo T60. The only
problem is can't get it to access the LAN port? I noticed the link
light on the port doesn't even come up. Could this be because it

When I was setting up the new monitor we got today, i'd unplugged the
front audio cables so that we could reach round. I was under the
impression that there was a headphone out at the back of the case so I
tried plugging the cans in to either of the sockets with no results. I

The Mrs has asked me if I can put a show I recorded on the Topfield
5800 PVR recently onto something for her workmate to watch at home,
either on a std DVD > TV or his Mac. He can't watch it via iPlayer as
he doesn't have broadband (although I assume I could download it here

I intend to buy a cheap colour laser to replace the B&W one that died
recently following a power cut.
I've reread the big thread earlier in the year but the colour
recomendations there are too expensive for me.

Anyone tried this yet?
I just downloaded it today, just for a try out. I have to say, I'm quite
impressed. Although the library browser is just a bit too much of a
rip-off from iTunes.

I am thinking of asking for a PDA for Christmas and wondered if anyone had
any recommendations for use with Macbook.  I need it for Calendar, Addresses
possibly photos, bluetooth would be nice.  Need it to sync well with my
Macbook this is the most important thing.  Not too ...

We are on Panther, using Safari 2
It all worked fine up until a couple of weeks ago when HSBC made some
hanges at their end.  Since then it hasn't worked for us.  We can log
on, but the browser hangs at various points.  Same result with Firefox.

My son's after a dock - the search goes on [and on and on] - and his
latest find is :-
<http://www.teac.co.uk/2007site/pages/product_pages/general/MC-DX220iDAB.html>
[apologies for the link, it was originally a pop-up]

<http://2dboy.com/games.php>
Heard abuot it on MacBreak Weekly and it sounded qute good, a bit like
'Fantastic Contraption'. Downloaded the demo this morning but haven't had
time to play with it yet.

"Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities
so that virus programmers have more than one application to
circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more
difficult."