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

Here's a thing: I've been trying to track down a physically small audio
amplifier - I'm thinking of something like a small stereo power amp with
perhaps an input attenuator/other gain control and an input that expects
`CD' levels, so I can plug it straight into the back of a Mac and ...

My Smartdisk firewire drive (which I haven't used for a while) won't
mount and sits here going beep beep beep. It soudns bad. Any ideas? The
power light's on but no-one's home... Oh, and it *might* have been
dropped. Not very far at all, and not onto a hard surface, just down

I'm trying to write an Applescript that puts text into an email. I can
start a new email containing my required text, but I can't work out how
to append text to the front window if that window is an email being
composed. Google is surprisingly little help on this matter.

I doubt that this is possible, but...
You can fire off Javascript "bookmarklets" from the bookmark bar in
Safari (to add to bookmarks, send as email, whatever).
Is it possible to get some Javascript to run an Applescript, so I can

I am moving from a place in the country with a seperate office to one in the
town without.
My dell linux server that has done well for the last year or so is a bit
loud and I don't have anywhere to put it at the moment, so I thought I would

OK, I have a legitimate business need to 'rip' a particular website for
use offline. [1]
Is there a preffered OSX tool for the purpose - I need it to go several
layers deep.

Doncha just hate the way NeoOffice stoopidly quits when you close the
last open document, especially when it so slow to start up?
I'll probably never be able to make a decent assessment of NeoOffice;
everytime I use it I'm already irritated that someone has decided that a

The newly returned and happily hissless MacBook Pro is not showing any
bluetooth hardware as being available, nor is the bluetooth control
panel appearing in system preferences.
If this machine has to go back -again-, for the fourth time, I will

Well, that's about it.  I've got these 'ere Macs - one running 10.3.9,
the other running 10.4.7.  I'd like to have a secure file sharing
connection between them.
So I poked the GUI a bit - Finder, cmd-K, hit `Browse' in the `Connect

  I have a 2gHz dual G5 running 10.3.9.  iMove and iDvd has been
working and I've burned many dvds, many well over an hour long.
Recently I've been trying to burn a could of small projects. On one
about 30 minutes long, the burn would eject (after about 3 hours) with

My son received an .ape file from a cousin over the weekend... Since
then we [i.e. me] have been trying without success to read the damn thing.
It is - apparently - a guitar & piano file recorded on a Windoze [spit]
machine which sprog is supposed to add his contribution to and ...

http://www.einspine.com/deskdoctor/features.html
Huh?

Does anyone have any recommendations and/or pointers to sites,
documents or resources for anyone who is, or is considering, moving
into IT contracting?
I know somebody who might make the switch from working for a company,

Q1. Are you a gay?
if yes, person has AIDS/HIV
(c) Copyrigtht , Chris Holland, 2006.

Using Adobe Acrobat 7 Pro  on MDD G4 with OSX 10.3.9.
I have an editable Trade Mark application form (in case it matters,
it's form_mm2-editable1-1.pdf) on which I've filled in the appropriate
text spaces.