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

Sorry about this - last few posts, specifically to this group, from
myself have gone unseen by me, put have appeared in a search on Google
groups. Just checking to see whether I can see this post.
Cheers,

I know that iTunes has the ability to 'remember' the playback point
(bit like having a bookmark - so you don't have to start at the
beginning of the book)
I was wondering if this was possible

<http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34153>
USians with duff batteries get immediate replacements and free mail-in
envelopes. Aussies have to get themselves to a dealer, hand in the old
battery, go home again, wait up to six weeks (maybe more), go back to

Today is another shared birthday; both Jonas Voss (who hasn't been
posting recently) and Debbie Wilson (who has).
Hope you both have a good time (and if the weather's anything like here,
you've picked a good day for it). Happy birthday!

Has anyone actually seen one on display?

so for anyone who thinks that OW is slow or incompatible, please stop
using 5.1.  5.5 is damn fine.

I have a large number of digital video tapes (1hr, but compressed so
they each hold 1.5 hours) of the kids that I would like to transfer to
disk. As I have quite an old video camera I think my only option is to
read them into iMovie as new projects, then save them to disk. The last

On the Apple website:
"Download this fine assortment of free booty before ya are keel hauled!
Aaaarrrr!"
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screensavers/jollyrogervol2i

    Greetings.  Looking for opinions of  Apple iMacs. Questions:
1. How do they stand up to other Macs?
2. I have a iBook G3 currently.  Do they heat up like iBooks do that require
a "cool down period?"

To bump up a new iMac 17" from 2GHz to 2.16GHz would cost me £70.  Is
that a worthwhile investment?  Would I actually notice the difference?
I could spend £50 on bumping up the HDD from 160GB to 250GB instead, but
I didn't get near to filling the 60GB job on the PB...

APPLE Ibook and Powerbook list
Power Mac G4 800MHz CPU with 512 MB RAM, 15" Active Matrix Screen, 60
GB Hard Drive 3.5 Floppy Drive Not Included, Combo (CD-RW, DVD-ROM),
Touchpad Pointing Device, USB Ports Included, FireWire 400, 56K Baud

1. Should I try and learn dreamweaver or adobe in design?
2. For graphic design... should I use Quark or Pages ..or what
.. This is mostly stuff for fun..not a career
I may watch some video based tutorials on them.. if I have time..

Never seen this before (I'm on 10.4.6).
Exposé the windows for a single application, then press command-tab.
Cool. Useful, too.
       -z-

I have one computer with Adobe CS2 on it. AIUI I am allowed to use it
on 2 computers, but not at the same time. If I now buy a second
computer and install CS2, what happens? Will it demand to be activated
on computer #2? Or what?

I have now got a 7 port USB 2 hub, and tidied up my USB peripherals
collection a but.
I have a Canon Ip4200 printer, Epson 4490 scanner, 15-1 card reader,
Global Village video FX box, iMic 2, and an external hard drive in