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

There's an option to "Show Item Info" in "Show View Items"; it gives a
one-line bit of information under the item's title on the desktop.
If the item is a hard drive, it shows how much space is free. Well, actually
it shows how much space was free when you first turned on the ...

I can't recall where I saw this link this morning and I disagree with
some of it. It may be of interest though and is slightly amusing.
Cheers,
Steve

... a happy couple?
My brother has a 12" PowerBook (867MHz) - is the Airport Extreme Card
compatible?
(He told me he was going to buy a wireless USB dongle. I hope to set him

What's the best (free) way to have remote GUI access to home Macs? VNC
server?
What do I need to bear in mind? I think I have a dynamic IP address, and
it's going through a NAT router. Will these cause problems and how do I

Technical questions. I bought a PowerMac a while back, and it had a
USB2 card fitted (Belkin, 5-way). Now, I reinstalled the OS and did not
appreciate that this card needed a "3rd party driver" (Belkin's way of
saying that they don't support Mac OS X). I did some googling and found

What are the iPod options for us dinosaurs who have a Mac that is -
what - a couple of years old and hence equipped with FW and not USB-2
??
Is it possible to connect a new Nano with USB-1 (yes, I know it would

I have a .avi file, which should be a 174MB video (a few of them in
fact).
Nothing seems to want to play it. QuickTime player says "The movie could
not be opened." VLC opens it but plays nothing. WMP says the file format

Streaming video of MS bolkey showing off zune:
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2009395n
Warning - there's an ad before the actual video.
It certainly doesn't *feel* like it will be a competitor to the iPod

I have a dead Lithium-Ion battery from a G3 PowerBook that I would like
to get refurbished. Does anyone know of a firm in the UK that will
recell the batteries? A Google search produced results for firms who
will recell non-Lithium Ion batteries.

I ran across this link on eBay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=019&item=290036024876&rd=1&sspa
gename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1
for Adobe Premiere where it is currently selling for under $25. I was
hoping to put in a max bid of $49. Is this high enough?

Can anyone help me out?
I'd imagine this could be knocked up in applescript or automator if I
wasn't clueless with both.
I want to automatically do incremental backups of particular folders

So,
The other day I get called round to Mum and Dads because he can't
'see' my nieces recent wedding photos on the (dial-up) net (x-flash
summat missing) on the eMac.

Apple refurb store just emailed to say my refurb'd MBP has been shipped
and should be with me by Mon/Tue. Please list the things you think I
should get in preparation (hardware, software etc). I'm a 95% mac
newbie who likes audio and video editing, loads of photos to store and

On the MacBook, I've just discovered that my account has stopped
playing system sounds. That is to say that iTunes will play music, the
volume control keys will make their normal sound, video will play with
sound etc. but something such as text messages in iChat will no longer

Just spotted (courtesy of del.icio.us) that John Gruber has created a
command-line tool for saving and loading text color preference schemes
for BBEdit and TextWrangler. I  gave this a try and t seems like it
will make it easy to define and apply schemes.