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

My son in law's HD is in the process of failing, alrthough it's still
working. He's saved the data he needs to save to an external drive and
wants to raplace his internal. He has a dual G4/450 (I think).
He's mailed me the following query:

Can you stream music from a windows machine with iTunes using the airport
express, or is that a feature limited purely to the Mac side of things?

I'm trying to find a way to have an automatic reply to an email that
includes an attachment in the reply, using Mail.app.
So far I have failed miserably. Any pointers?

Following on from the various MacBook and MB Pro discussions, is there
much of a real world advantage to an ordinary Mac user (ie: not someone
using their Mac for graphics intensive purposes like CAD etc) in paying
the extra for the MB Pro over the standard MacBook?

The old airports - the ones with the 56k modem in them - can they be
used with a PC for wireless dialup access?  My dad uses an XP laptop and
doesn't have broadband, but fancies wireless dialup.  The only other
product I've seen that does this is an ugly BT usb DECT thing - and ...

I have a powermac G4 that came in, the origin of which is unknown. It
appears to be DOA - If you press the power button it lights briefly,
then goes out. The fan starts, and the HDD spins up. There is a red LED
on the motherboard, but nothing else - no startup chime and no screen

Is there an easy way to transfer about 400 messages from Outlook on a PC
to Mail on a Mac?
       Tim

Check out www.IPODProgramming.com

Following on from  my last post about open source webdesign packages, what
else is there out their that costs money apart from Rapidweaver?
Regards
Stephen

Now this one's interesting. I only have a single Windows app to run, if
this can do it for me then I can save gigs of installation space.
http://www.codeweavers.com/beta/cxmac/
Cheers,

Increasingly these days, I find myself turning to Firefox when Safari
doesn't seem to be behaving with certain websites as well as it might.
The last instance was with Blogspot where Safari doesn't show the text
editing bar. Also had a number of issues on holiday/hotel sites where

Apparently. It's listed as being signed for by my neighbour. I'm in
Dublin on a VMware course. Back tonight, so I'll get to play with it
then.
Ian

Probably old news, but Apple has apparently now set up its own open
source site, Mac OS Forge: <http://www.macosforge.org/>.
Paul

I have piles of bank statements etc. I can throw away.. but should keep
just incase
Scanning takes FOREVER
Is there anyway of automatically assigning document names like