Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / March 2007

I had my MBP at a friend's tonight. At first it was near the Billion
router and the signal strength was very good and regular (as shown by AP
Grapher).
I took it upstairs and put it on the dining room table. The signal

Just reading a nice review on it at Macrumours
http://www.macrumors.com/2007/03/24/macrumors-review-apple-tv/
and I was wondering if anyone was actually going to get one of these in
Australia given the lack on any video content in the Australian itunes

So this issue of no 5.1 surround sound in AppleTV is not quite as clear cut
as I thought.  Here is an excellent review of the ins and outs for those
interested.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/147048D8-D8B7-45E7-9A97-3CD5

Is there an easy and preferably free way to dump an AVI onto a CD such
that my DVD player will read/display it?
Does it have to be converted from AVI -> MPEG first?
Cheers,

Have an old tear drop iMac (500 Mhtz) that has sat under a desk for
about 5 months - the only thing of use on it that I would like are some
old e-mails.
When I tried to crank it up, it doesn't start - no chimes, just the

I have now noticed that windows media player is not working since my upgrade
to 10.4 either
Firewire drive did come up on the desktop today and after opening it it then
crashed.

Just upgraded to 10.4 from 10.9 and now the system does not see my external
firewire drive.
If after startup I turn the drive off then on it mounts on the desktop but
if I double click on it it just goes into a endless beach ball spin.

I'm looking for some way to wake my Mac (10.4.9) up at the time and date
I want it to. I have a program that makes last second bids on eBay for
me but if my Mac is asleep then the bid won't happen. Anyone have a
solution? I can use the energy saver preferences but that isn't

P4 computer HP vectra with Lexmark inkjet printer scanner, 17" monitor,
speakers, DVD burner. 1600hz, 256mb ram
P4 Computer with 17" Monitor. 1600hz, 256mb ram
http://www.lucjasgateway.com.au/yp.html

With exquisite timing, the Australian Taxation Office announced this
week that they will commence a trial of E-tax for Macintosh next year
(ie for the FY2008).
Of course, by then Leopard will have been released and both Parallels

How do I extract a DVD to iMovie/Final Cut Pro?
I'm working on a film. I was sent a DVD of footage I need to edit.
(This is a regular DVD that plays on TVs, and NOT a DATA DVD.)
How do I extract a DVD (TS_Video, TS_Audio, etc.) into iMovie or Final

I'm looking for an estimate of the time it might take to convert a AVI
video to h264 or mpeg4 using a new iMac or similar machine.
for example:
640x360

FS 21" inch  flat screen sony CRT tube type  this is sharper and
brighter at all resolutions then LCDs display
It has tow inputs standard 15 HD   and   13w3 for sun and others
this monitor is sony rebadged as SUN

Not specifically a Mac problem, but Mac people are always the most
knowledgeable and helpful....so here goes....
My account name is being used to send thousands of spam emails, and I am
getting bounces from 'failed messages' at the rate of 2000 per day. In a

Our local high school purchased a couple of Elgato eyetv units to record
(and ultimately burn to DVD) the many tv shows that are routinely used
as classroom resources. This was done under the assumption that closed
captions/teletext could also be exported, enabling a ...