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

Interesting read here:
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com//?p=118
Some well thought out comments as well.
Cheers,

The system wide spell checking has given up the ghost on my desktop G5
running 10.4.7. No app that ties into the system wide spell checking
will highlight errors when "Check Spelling as you type..." is selected,
nor will spelling mistakes be found when the Spelling dialog is used ...

For anyone one interested, a few piccies are up now:
http://sarakirk.dyndns.org/Queen_Street/index.html

Now that I am almost moved, I need to move my ISP over.
My plus.net business account is quite expensive so I was considering
changing.
Also, I would like to get the account set up at the new house before it

I didn't know about this:
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/
Looks useful to point out to all those that one has recently converted to
The Way Of Truth, Beauty, And Correctly Polarised Teeth.

The print dialogue in Classic allows the printer to be selected from a
drop down list. Where is that list stored? I want to delete printers
from the list that are no longer valid.

Anyone out their got Fink installed? Can you check to see if it will
install anything?
I'm wandering if Open Darwmin folding has broken Fink.

I'm just wondering about the usage of battery in the iBoko. Is it better
to actually use it, and let it drain down a little, or do I just use the
power adapter whenever I can?
There's going to be long periods where the iBoko will be sat in the

Ok, so I like the iBoko, although despite all your best efforts I still
think it was the right choice for my needs.
Anyway, I don't really get on well with laptop keyboards, so I'm looking
for a small keyboard I can use with it while it's on a desk. I have a

My 14 year old is starting her GCSEs at Boarding School and we have bought
her a MacBook.  Problem is she needs to produce some work that is Microsoft
Publisher compatible.  I really do not want to buy Windows XP unless I have
to.  Is there any Mac application that allows her to ...

Apple seem to think so; they claim a "profit pod" (used to take readings
from arcade machines to see how profitable they are) infringes upon their
iPod trademark.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3482

What would be the main differences of putting in an AGP graphics card into a
agp 400 G4  or putting in a pci graphics card
Rowey
www.ripview.com.au

I hope we'll always avoid the sort of problems faced by Windows users,
but I wonder if the day will come when we'll face this sort of thing?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4797949.stm

Anyone got one of these things?
Is it possible to configure it from a Mac?

I have two computers, with an identical folder structure, and mostly
identical contents because I loaded the Powerbook by cloning the iMac
HD.
The iMac has an alias at the root level that points to our admin folder,