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

About the time Win95 was released, Apple did a few parody videos.
"Can't Use This" (taken from "Can't Touch This") and "Killing My
Software With Windows" (taken from "Killing me Softly").
Someone's asked me for them, and I can't find 'em. I can find audio

I'm looking for something similar to a card index for the Palm that will
sync with a similar application on OSX via Missing Sync.
I want to be able to search alphabetically on both devices.
At the moment I'm adding notes to the address book but this is not ideal

I have a wireless router my friend has given me, unfortunately not a
modem router, just a plain wireless and 4 port ethernet router.
It's a Belkin 54g box, which runs on the 192.168.x.x range. My BB router
uses the 10.0.0.x range.

I own a 20gb ipod w/dock. but I'm experiencing trouble. Its gotten to a
point where I'm unable to create new playlists to show up on the ipod,
or whenever something gets played on it, it no longer keeps track of
them. And I can't add anything to it either. If I remove something, the

A friend with a G3 running OS 9.3 needs some (easy to use) free software to
create MP3s from any of the following formats.
Sound Designer II
Interleaved Sound Designer II

Is there anything to stop my buying a boxed copy in the USA (£43 on
eBay) and using it here (£68 on the Apple store)?
Terry

Is Hogwasher stuck in a time-warp. Kurt does not reply and there is no sign
of any upgrade. Anyone know what is (not) going on?

I sometimes use my iBook G4 with an external monitor. I've done the
screen-spanning thang, not because I want screen-spanning, but because I
couldn't find any other way to run the external monitor at its native
1280x1024 resolution. Mirroring only lets me use the iBook's native

I want a DVI adapter and a VGA adapter for it.  However, I have lots of
DVI-to-VGA adapters already, so could I just get the DVI one and use one of my
existing adapters?  Or does the Apple DVI adapter only output DVI-Digital and
not digital *and* analogue?

I never knew this...
control-CMD-D a highlighted word in Mail / Safari (dunno what else) pops
up a contextual dictionary. I knew right-click would gove you the option
to open Dictionary but wasn't aware of the pop-up.

I have an ibook G4 1.42ghz running 10.4.7 with a 1 gig Crucial ram chip
installed. Every now & again it disappears, initially I was taking the
chip out & re-inserting it but have found that simply re starting the
machine will bring it back.

I've tried Safari, Firefox and the "latest" Mac version of IE. The
latter at least gets past their suitability check but the "add" buttons
don't work. Please can somebody go to the above site with whatever
browser and see if they can get said buttons to work? Let me know which

I'm all for gay rights - I think they should maybe have the right to
vote and be able to work.
But because of the risk they pose, perhaps their work could be limited
to working in the sewers,

My MacBook has just come back from being de-auto-restarted but something
strange is going on.  When I got it home it was fine and I managed to
install the Firmware update and then the latest security update via my
home wireless network as usual.  However, once my MacBook rebooted ...