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

Does iWeb only give full value if it's linked to a .mac account?
What opinions there  here on the iLife 06 package?
Cheers
Richard

Thanks to James Dore and Howaret Ings, I have set up my Mac to wake when
the modem detects a ring. I then create a tunnel over SSH and VNC over
that and tada! I'm controlling my Mac from anywhere without it having to
stay awake.

Not too long ago, I posted about the centre of Norwich having 200
transceivers for a free public wiffly system and that my ambition
was to update my 15"PB's 10.4.7 through it.  (Not having routine
access to broadband.)

Do you think she's going to tell him he's adopted, or will she waits
until he grows up?

Anyone here remember this old role playing game?
I played it years ago on an old Wintel 486 machine. I playing it tonight
on my PowerBook thanks to DosBox. Great stuff!

For those whose are already using Parallels: yesterday (IIRC) I
received one of their newsmails, announcing an upgrade for Mac
and *spit*dows versions.  I think existing users get it free.

I had dozens if not hundreds of ADB cables, and I gave them all away
with everything else when I cleared out my office.
Now I need an S-Video cable (i.e. just the kind of job which an ADB
cable would do) to connect my iBook to a TV... Bah.

Bit OT, but here goes:
Has anyone tried taking an image of a running Windows system using
Ghost or Drive Image or similar, then restoring it to a Parallels "VM"?
I'm tempted to do this as an experiment to virtualise an existing PC,

Hi ye folkes,
I recently binned some files from my main HD presently running OSX
10.4.8.
Upon "emptying" the "Trash" I my free space went *down*, rather than

Well, that would be a good idea, wouldn't it? A bike would stand out
beautifully under streetlights and headlights, scattering all the light
it caught in different directions.
Daniele

Using Fireworks MX 2004 I'm quite capable of saving PNGs, but can't
export (tried both Gifs and Jpegs).
I get an error message "Could not complete your request" "File not
found". A quick google suggested a permissions problem

I'm just downloading a Flash video into Safari. Is there any way of
saving it to disc?
TIA
Ivor

I have an Epson R800 connected to an Airport Express bases station. My
Power book and iMac can print to this machine wirelessly without any
problems but my XP Laptop cannot. My previous printer (Epson Stylus
830) was setup in exactly the same way and worked flaulessly from both

I wonder if anybody can tell me the latest versions of Internet
Explorer and Outlook Express I should be using for OS 9.0.4?
Thanks in advance!!

..if one of your neighbors (who you thought was a friendly chap) came
out, admitted he was gay & fancied you.
What would you do?
Would you carry on as normal, or would you go out and buy a baseball