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

<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39284186,00.htm>
no real news just a snort at rather odd logic, guess it's just PR though
you'd of thought that for a reasurch company that is gartner they would
want to be acurate rather than just getting people to look...

If someone has access to a Windows PC at work and can use GoogleTalk,
what's the best way for them to chat with an iChat user who's on a Mac?
Daniele

Interesting, but not surprising, feedback re reliability of LaCie drives:
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/harddrives/index.html#oct17>

I got an ad in my mailbox for a new version of Stuffit. The only thing
I use Sfor right now is for unstuffing some applications that are
delivered that way, and for which the free version seems to be fine.
The only reason I can see for buying a new version is for the aesthetic

I've been upset by some guys on usenet but bloody hell...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6059726.stm>

Ok, I've set my desktop picture to change every minute from a folder
full of holiday snaps.
Sometimes it does an instant change, sometimes it fades. What governs
the transition?

After various attempts at changing my screen background picture
(including the nifty "Desktopia"), I discovered a small applescript that
quietly turns a screensaver (which I chose to be Slideshow) into the
background picture.

I just took ownership of a 500 GB external hard disk - a LaCie model.
Very impressed and not a bad price - £115 plus VAT (I paid about the
same a year or so ago for a 120GB drive). Nice styling - a sort of
gunmetal case, nicely compact, stackable. I bought it from Misco, here:

I have a perfectly serviceable little QuickTime movie, at 1.42 minutes
long (some animation produced using a DV camera and iStopMotion)
I want to add some sound to it, so I get it into iMovie.
Whichever way I epxort it, I can't have it at the same nice sharp

I have been getting 404 errors trying to view my online bills since
Saturday.
www.powergen.co.uk
If I refresh a few times I get the homepage but then I get another 404

Another Linux Distro ...
http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/barbieOS.htm
All the best ..
T i m

On a roll here - 2 posts :-)
I've got an Intel iMac, 1GB RAM. After a hefty session (Word, Entourage,
Powerpoint, Firefox, Thunderbird, Excel, Preview), opening hundreds of
documents, creating dozens, the computer slows to a crawl. Even loaded

Does anyone know of a way that I can log all of the serial numbers of
the applications currently installed on my machines?
I have used Belarc Advisor for the Windows PC's but I need to do the
same for all my Apple machines.

Anyone know whats happened to watchmactv.com ?
I used to watch their video podcast - is it just me or have they
disapeared off the face of the net?
Simon

My shiny Intel iMac has died after less than a month.  Not just the
display, everything.  Replaced the fuse.  Nothing.
The support site has an article about resetting the SMC if your Intel
iMac won't start up, but starts off by saying "from the Apple menu,