Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / March 2006

I've noticed a couple of shows on TV that use Macs but Apple has
obviously not coughed up for product placement.
Numbers - seems to always have a pot of pencils in front of the
Powerbook Apple logo.

ok,  I am using Firefox atm prob only because Safari seems to have a few
"bugs, or holes " in it (what I have read so far)
I am just curious to find out if since all this safari biz began, are people
still using it or Firefox?

I paid AU$9.50 for a Powermac described as having a 336 Mhz processor,
256 MB ram, 3.5 gig hard disk and USB. I wanted something better than my
G3 which has a 266 Mhz processor and 224 MB ram. Now I have picked it
up I find it works well but only has a 120 Mhz processor and 140 MB ...

I'm very much wanting to use a specific font, Shaston, the default
system font of the Apple IIgs for a book I'm writing and designing
dedicated to that same computer system.
A freeware font of shaston is available here:

I can't find how to use iTunes to subscribe to podcasts that aren't
listed in the iTunes Music Store. The iTunes help file says this can be
done, but doesn't say how. After poking around the menus for a while, I
can't see how to do it. Does anyone know?

I have convinced a number of friends to switch to macs and some have not and
its interesting to see why folks do or do not switch. Cost is a factor.
Having thought about this for a couple of days it really appears that Apple
are missing the mark with the mini, IMHO.    That is, if ...

I¹m with optusnet and use dialup. I¹d like to switch to broadband but
optusnet have told me they don¹t support Macintosh.
Any optusnet customers gone ahead and done it anyway? Any problems using
the modem they supply etc?

As I understand it, the Lombard's DVD drive is not supported by OS-X for playing DVD movies,
and so you have to use a 3rd party program such as "VLC" to watch movies.
I think that the reason being is that the Lombard has a hardware mpeg decoder chip on the motherboard
which isn't ...

I got an iMac recently which came with an iLife 06 DVD. I put it in an
older Mac with a Pioneer 106 drive which showed it to be 6.2GB. I
thought it must have been a dual-layer disk, but I think the drive only
reads single-layer media. The drive was able to read the whole DVD, so

Beige 7300/ with G3 266 Upgrade card
kbd/mouse
$30
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I'm after a small amp that can use the digital Audio out if that is the best
option and drive bookshelf style speakers....Compact and designerley and
goodish Audio quality.....
Warmingup

Anyone know if a version of OpenOffice for the Mac is ever going to
eventuate? (i.e. one that does _not_ require an x-server running on top
of MacOSX?)
Cheers,

I am just writing to let other Mac users (and windows users) of my disgust
for Symantec.
(yes I know this is not new and someone else proberly already had a
winge...)

Broadband in Sydney. Good, Bad, Ugly?
Hi y'all
I'm with Internode, looking to churn because their Mail service is so
bad. They claim to support Macs but their instructions are for Jaguar!

Powerbook G4, 12", 384Mb RAM, 40Gb HD, Combo Drive, Bluetooth, Airport
Extreme installed.  Will include Panther CD's, pickup only Narre Warren
$1000ono