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

Be honest now
I know you geeks meet up from time-to-time
I've seen the photos posted
So, this is a question to the gays:

There are 2 films I want to see today. Tideland and A Scanner darkly.
Tideland isn't getting to Bath for over 6 weeks, and Scanner Darkly? Who
bloody knows. Same with Clerks2.
At this rate I will end up downloading the damn things. I've been

Is it just me or is iTunes really bad at playing videos? I have a
1.9Ghz G5 iMac and playing video podcasts in iTunes is just a pain in
the @rse, as well as forgetting whether it should be playing videos in
a window or not it really seems to struggle playing the videos as well

I can see it online, but went to Micro Anvika etc. etc. & no-one seems
to have it
(makes the screen appear black from the sides, but if you look straight
on.. it looks normal)

I'm looking for advice on the best wireless router to suit the following:
Telewest Blueyonder broadband.
PowerMac G5 with built-in Wifi.
Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.7

Yet another phishing scam, but this one has the real URL as
http://999412483/icons/small/paypal/www.paypal.com/SecureInfo/paypal/
How on earth does "999412483" resolve into any kind of IP address?

I've just downloaded some South Park WAV files from Comedy Centrals web site
and the amplitude is really low. When I upload them to my phone, you can
hardly hear them on the top volume.
I kind of fixed this by importing them into garageband as real instrument

Seem to remember this being possible, but perhaps I'm imagining it. Are
multiple monitors possible with a Mac Mini (Intel)?
Cheers,
Ian

I'm looking at possible solutions for automatic archiving of all sent
and received emails sent by a business, that would be searchable either
via a web interface or IMAP.
This needs to be scalable to say a hundred users, be able to go back as

My Mac mini DVI adapter can output 16:9 video, but the MacBook mini-DVI
to S-Video cable only provides these non-16:9 options:
640 x 480 (interlaced)
720 x 480 (interlaced)

I am using a web application and want to find out exactly what the form
in it is posting. It is hard to tell from the code which is obfuscated
to some extent (hidden input field containing base--64 encoded stuff).
I thought about putting in a local proxy or similar so that it ...

SImple question really.
Why don't Apple make an usenet client?

Theres a new auction site set up where you can list your items for sale
in a standard auction for FREE.
The site is a UK site that allows you to buy, sell ,trade, list
classifieds and even set up your own stores without the costs that

hi i have couple of mac computers, i am trying to disable(delete) or
uninstall the network printer from the computer(,i have two N/W printer
Xerox and HP).when i am deleting HP, it automatically pops up after
sometime. i deleted all PPD files from the library for HP, still i am

I found a brilliant toolbar with an option to listen to all UK radio
stations online, price comparison, movies, news, weather cast, search
engines, dictionaries, pop-up blocker, funny and cool stuff  and many
more useful sites...