Mac Forum / General / General / January 2007

Maybe you peepz should put your money where your mouth is.
I'm on Betfair, giving you odds of 5:1!!
So you bet £10, if you WIN I give you £50, but if Steve Jobs does not
announce an iPhone/iPod phone I keep your £10.

I'm running XP Pro under Build 3106 Beta 3 dated December 28, 2006. I
believe that's the latest available. It works fine, but each time the
"guest OS" starts Parallels displays the message " Warning: Parallels
Tools setup is in progress. Please do not turn off or reset the virtual

First of all, I would like to load my music from iPOD to a 100+ gig
hard drive.
I am using a PC and also use SharePod and if I use any 3rd party tools
it saves your playlist but I want playlist and also entire music by

My "home" user directory is showing a size of 35 gb when using Get Info
through OS X. If I perform Get Info on everything in the directory it
only adds up to about half that size.
Any idea what is eating all that extra hd space?

I have a Mac Pro and a copy of Windows Vista - is it installable? last
time I checked it wouldn't work due to incompatible motherboard drivers.
Is this still the case? I have searched the net to no avail - seems
that everyone has only installed Vista RC1 on the Mac Pro.

All of a sudden, Software Update insists it is failing because of a
connection problem even though my connection works fine for everything
else!
I did a re-install and (manual, i.e. had to go to apple.com and

Hello Hello Hello.......
Rob

Have you guys ever heard of deligio.com? a download community for
programmers for downloading tools, utilities etc etc. looks pretty
neat...

I have had a Blue and white G3-350 forever and just made the mistake of
buying a new Mini.  I say mistake because I forgot, long enough to buy
it, that it will not open in Classic.
In attempting to transfer files I found the B&W G3  would not play in

For the past few weeks I have been carrying my laptop around with me
everywhere.
I've just used my regular shoulder bag so far. However, sometimes I end
up walking around central London for hours. My shoulder now hurts.

Hi Group.
Just got a new MacBook that I wish to install on seperate paritions Mac
OSX (Nornal Using) and Windows XP and Emergency Mac OSX partition.
The disk utility on the install dvd does not allow you to partition

my girlfriend recently got a iBook for cheap an i wanted to install
Skype on it and the latest version doesn't run on it...
It is a 800 MHz G3 processor iBook running Mac OSX 10.2.8
Is the a Skype version that would run on that comp? (and can anyone post

I have a folder with several thousand files along the pattern
IMG_xxxx.CR2 where "xxxx" is a number steadily increasing in a sequence
such as:
IMG_1457.CR2

I haven't migrated to an Intel machine yet...  but as I was thinking of
wbat potential compability issues I might have, it struck me that my
Epson Stylus Photo 1200 and associated driver software may be my weak
link...

Alsoft is taking orders on its web site.  $100 new or $50 upgrade.  Plus
$8 and change shipping and handling.  They say it will take about four
to six weeks to ship it, so my guess is that it won't be released until
MacWorld, which is in about five weeks.