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

The Gadget Show on 5. The geeky one with the weird glasses using a black
MacBook.
But the super prize includes an iPod and a Sony desktop machine, along
with a tent.

I'm using Little Snitch[1].  It's been asking me if it's okay to let
bootdp access various local IP addresses (various UDP connections).
What is this process, and what should I permit it to do?
(and if anyone would like to give me a quick run-down on this UDP lark,

I had call to try and use Woody's PDF merge the other day - it did not
seem to work. I cannot remember the last time I used it so I do not
know if it is a Tiger or Intel problem.
I have found "Combine PDFs" (snazzy name!)

Hmm - I've just had an email from Apple telling me about the; "Grand
Opening: Apple Store, Manchester Arndale 9:00 a.m., Saturday, 30
September"
Anyone else going?

Typically I started to teach a class today and went to hook my new MBP
to the data projector- I tried everything but could not get it to show -
it keep saying no RGB signal on the data projector. I went to screens
and did a detect but nothing.

After my previous posting re the burnt smell off the iMac I followed the
advice and bought a new one relatively cheaply off ebay. I would like to
use my 1Gb RAM and the old hard drive in the iMac - can anyone point me to
a website where it's explained how to do this - ideally ...

Has anyone here had any experience with PATRIOT RAM in their MBP?
(2GB (2x1GB) PC2-5300 DDR2 667MHz CL5 200-Pin SO-DIMM Patriot)
http://shop2.outpost.com/product/4789099
ALSO If anyone has some RECENT RAM advice/pricing info, ie: where the

But not to steal tunes - to allow other folks than Apple to release
Fairplay DRM'd media.
This is likely to be amusing to watch...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/02/dvd_jon_apple_fairplay/

I have a d-link 614+ router at home (2.4 ghz, 802.11b, up to 22 Mbps,
64/128/256 bit WEP encryption) which I use for my wireless network. Can
an airport express bridge to this router to extend its range (and also
to play airtunes). If so, will the express work 'out of the box' with

His Steveness goes "boom":
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8L39UwOS-Y>
i.

Having temporarily given up on iChat for AV between myself and a mate,
we had a go with the beta of Skype 2.0 for OS X last night.  worked
like a charm (with a few bugs such as selecting "preferences" turns off
the video camera for some reason) though NAT routers, and presumably

my 3G 20GB ipod's acting weird since i formatted it as HFS on a mac -
was originally FAT32 from a PC.  now, it hangs copying songs over - and
I suspect bad sectors.  other than doing a disk utility secure erase to
(hopefully) mark bad sectors as unusable, has anyone had any ...

I've just got a shiy new MacBook and I'm trying to connect to my
firewire drives connected to my iMac via my wireless network. I can see
and browse my Hard drive on the iMac but not the firewire drives! Any
clues to what I'm doing wrong here?

The audio input patch in Quartz Composer has just stopped working. It
used to work, but now it doesn't.
Audio Hijack, Garageband and System Preferences all recognise my
microphone input. The audio input patch is set to use built-in audio and

About 4 or 5 years ago I purchased a copy of Toast 5 to run on my
iBook, as I had the need to burn some audio CDs en-mass for a project
related to a message board I'm a member of. That need faded away, and
since then I've not really had the need to use it, and therefore never