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

My dad is making ornamental wine bottle holders and wine bottles from the
timbers of RMS Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic. He wants to be able (or,
more properly, for me to be able) to do some custom wine bottle labels to go
on the bottles.

Kill him!!!!
Disclaimer: please do not kill any gays. Gays are people, with
feelings.

This is one of the odder ones. Yesterday I was at a customer who'd had a
lightening strike 3 doors down. Since then the Mac couldn't get an
ethernet connection to the ADSL router. After doing a number of quick
checks I proved it could when booted from my lappie. So its software!

Can someone remind me of the site that estimates how far along their
life each model of Mac is at, and estimates when they'll be due for a
spec bump?
Thanks.

Need to buy a new Hard Drive for my G4 powerbook, 12"..
will this one work?
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=20920278390&action=c2hvd19
wcm9kdWN0X3Jldmlld3M=&product_uid=95583

With my fuji finepix 2600 then e5500, I always wondered what people had
against using a usb 1.1 connection to the camera, and went for separate
readers instead.
Now I have got myself a shiney Canon 10D and it is so slow at image

This seems like a new offer at the Apple Store for all NHS employees.
http://www.nhsdiscounts.com/retailer.asp?id=6291&from=aug206
£137 off the new MacPro for example.

A no doubt simple question:
Suppose I have a finder window open,
somewhere deep down in the folder structure.
Next I want to open a second window,

It appears my powerbook hard drive has indeed died, what is the best way to
go about a replacement? Is it easy to do a self install and better to seak
pro help?
I tried using the concierge service on apple.com to see a tech at the apple

Went into Regent Street Today to buy a macbook. It seems the Apple Store is
more like an Internet cafe than a store, I wondered round for ages to be
able to finally have a chance to have a close look at a macbook, everyone
was occupied by someone checking their email, so it seems ...

Have any of you seen this yet?:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/collaboration/wiki/CalendarClients
Apparently, there's going to be something called Teams. Sounds
exciting, eh?

Apparently some new whizzy way to backup your data.
Any file you change automatically gets backed up, and you can go back and
restore any file from any time.
Leopard has some eye candy to help as well. (Although whether this is just a

Intrigued by the recent thread on Getting Things Done, I started to furtle.
I realised that this is exactly the kind of thing I've been flailing around
in the darkness for.
However, I want something that will sync with my Palm. If my lists aren't

Have they mentioned the Finder? DEAR GODS, THEY MUST MENTION THE FINDER!
Jim

i am very new to Mac system and i have 2 questions :
1.
We a windows network and i have only one mac computer (OS X) for
artwork things. Connecting to network is no problem but after restart