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

This guy forgot to take advantage of Apple's battery recall:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/02/powerbook-g4-plays-the-flame-game-too/
Ooops.
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Can you set Retrospect to backup a USB key every time it is plugged in?
Better still, can you set it to sync the contents in *both* directions?
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If you have a registered copy of Thoth, there is now a free new version
at
http://home.earthlink.net/~thoth-help/thoth.html
It has a few improvements, best of which is automatic reconnect if your

The 2007 IKEA catalogue has seen the return of Apple kit in their
photoshoots. A flatpanel iMac jammed unceremoniously in a hideaway computer
desk, and then looking relieved to be let out in the open on some
designery-style open desk, and there's an iBook demonstrating their 'laptop

Hi have a fifth gen ipod 30gb video and have a small problem with it
it plays ok but say 5 minutes through a track or continous mix it stops
playing like its seeking the next part of the track to play and suddenly
kicks back in and then another ten minutes and it stops again i ...

I have tried to load panther onto my 733 G4 quicksilver (running
9.2.2). Always, the install program gets 98% of the way through
<install base system part two> and then stops with the message 'There
was an error installing this software, try installing again' The

Okay, so I really only use Quicksilver as a launcher - I know there's a
hotbed of stuff brewing under the surface but beside a few dabbles I
haven't really spent the time to play around and learn new habits.
Inspired by this page:

Last week on holiday (in Robin Hoods Bay, North Yorkshire, ace!)
My daughter asked a seemingly obvious question
"Can you get a cheap charger for the iPod so you dont have to plug it
into a computer?"

I've just had my second Kernel panic in a week, and I have no idea why.
The first one left no clues, no log or anything. Hardware tests were all
OK, and a disk check was OK too.
The second one has produced a log, but not a lot of information is

As per subject
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/02/review_bootcamp_parallels_desktop/
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JohnB

Is there an app that runs in the background and keeps a record of
browsing history (Safari, Firefox), even when the user has cleared the
browser's history?
many thanks

A. A DIRTY FAGGOT!!

Does anyone have this program? I bought the USB2 version of the LaCie
external Lightscribe DVD writer today and it does not come with any Mac
software, yet the drive works perfectly on my two Macs.
I can't get the labeler program from anywhere - just the update :-(  I

<http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/01/vodafone_hsdpa_3g_modem/>
As a current Vodafone subscriber, I'm very interested in this.
Previously though their data plans have been priced to truly ridiculous
levels, so I may not be -too- interested. Let's hope they can pull

I have a .NET web application that uses integrated windows
authentication, which impersonates and delegates a domain user through
to a SQL server.  This works fine on PC, however some of my users
require this to work on Mac OS 10.4, specifically in the Safari