Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / January 2006

Reading an article on xlr8 suggests that the Intel Macs have a bog standard
processor socket. Are the days of sensible processor upgrades returning?

I recently acquired a PCI 3 port Firewire card and I thought I'd put it in
my PCI Dual 1.8 G5. I already have a PCI  card in there. The card says 'Mac
and PC' on the box and it definitely fits a PC PCI slot. However, on my Mac,
there's an extra slot needed in the toward the front ...

I use an Airport Extreme with ethernet to a cable modem and built in
modem for backup, my other half can use an XP windows laptop with a
Belkin USB wireless to talk to it. Because we live in 2 homes I need a
wireless + modem equivalent to Airport for her flat as she's not got

Address Book a very nice program on the whole. It has excellent vcard
exporting options, including saving as individual vcards, encoding types and
version. However in one respect its pretty dim.
Drag vcards from it to the desktop. This universal file interchange format

bah
I thought the iLamp looked way better.

Ok, so I now have a 30GB white 5th gen iPod. As I have a G4 tower I've
also bought a 4 port USB2 PCI card (Belkin).
The G4 is seeing the card fine. The iPod mounts fine, charges fine etc.
However...and you knew there'd be a 'however'...there's two small flies

A friend of mine is having some grief with an old iMac.
Here's the conversation so far:
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Exported my all-new Pages-based CV to Word. Opened the resulting .doc
up in Word 2002 on a PC and...
Hmm. Line spacing everywhere, graphic objects everywhere and just to
finish things off a nice crash from Word the first time it opened the

I recently asked this question on darwin-x86, but as it's been silent
for ages I wondered whether anyone in this fine froup had any input ;-)
The most recent release of Darwin is 8.4, corresponding to Mac OS X
10.4.4 *for PowerPC Macintoshes*.  I wonder why the change in

From the latest TidBits email...
Booting an Intel iMac from an External Drive
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 by Jonathan Rentzsch <jon.tidbits@redshed.net>

I need a default folder to use for scrfatch files in an Applescript.  A
folder under the home folder shouldd do it.  But how to refer to the
home folder - Applescript dosn't seem to understand "~"?
thanks

This seems a little strange to me. I'm setting up Postfix at present.
DNS and resolution is all fine.
SMTP service seems to be working fine for receiving email to the server from
external hosts.

I hate dialup.

Dearohdear. The idiocy may well be mine, however. I am a bit baffled
though, but I think it's to do with the new library structure in 06.
I got iPhoto Buddy and decided to make a new library, leaving the old
one for my ixus ii pics, and make a new one for the EOS350 pics. I

Is there anything similar to iPhoto's 'enhance' option available for DV
video? I don't much care if the processing takes place in or outside of
iMovie, but I have some unavoidably dark footage that I'd like to
brighten up an awful lot.