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

Dear All ­
Just a note to say that I am chatting (with video) with my brother (a PC
user) using Skype Beta 2 with video. It's not at all bad.
Kudos to Skype!

This here MacBook Pro has developed a clicky / click
resistant track-pad button.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Feels like the button is resisting the click motion or if there is

Anybody know what the current rates are for Apples Further Education and
Higher Education discount is ?
Thanks
Peter

Just put an Aopen DUW1608/ARR DVD burner in the G3BW. OS X 10.4.8 saw it
and it burns DVD's ok. In About This mac it says Support: Yes (
unsupported) do I take that to mean that although it burns ok, it wont
boot from this device ?.

Lots of iPhone rumours about. Probably all from the same source
admittedly. I was thinking of getting a Sony Ericsson Z710i. Think I'll
wait for a bit.
<http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2145>

Regarding my current problems with printing from the iBook:
is there any way that I can tell this iBook the local address of the
iMac so that it will be able to find the printer?
I know this can be done in Windows so I imagine it can be done in OS X.

Just been reading the online Telegraph's guides to purchasing both desktops
and laptops (apparently in association with Apple). Okay, I see Dell,
Fujitsu-Siemens and Sony mentioned - but where are the Macs...? Okay there
are adverts for the new iPods and iMacs, but the articles ...

Just a thought, while I wait for some effing audio to upload.
I've started switching off on the subject of some Mac stuff, because it
just doesn't apply to me (yet?).  I am the way to Tiger, but no hurry,
and am nowhere near any new Mac, so no intel etc.  

All of a sudden my superdrive appears to have died. When you insert a CD
it spins up, makes some unpleasant noises and spits the disc back out.
With a DVD it just carries on making the noise until I tell it to eject.
No recent knocks and it was working fine on Monday evening. ...

Elliott,
Your name came up in a thread about editing a password protected SWF.
Is this something you can help with? I'm stuck mid-way through a job for
a client, and simply need to re-import a password protected SWF, edit it

I have a MacBook and a 6 year old camcorder (a Sony TRV57E). I would
like to transfer my 8mm tapes to the Mac and then edit them and burn to
DVD. I'm not sure what I need in terms of:
a) Hardware (would prefer not to invest in any if poss.)

I just saw this mentioned at the Inq:
<http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35282>
Are they using WMA with DRM?
Cheers,

In the Network bit of the Finder, I have a name listed that I know
changed. It's the name originally assigned to this MacBook Pro I''m
posting from, when I did a transfer off Caz's MacBook including network
settings (ie. it's Caz's MacBook's name with a (2) after it). I changed

My  beige G3 had OS9.2 on it.  Before installing Panther I copied the
whole OS9.2 system folder over ethernet to my G4.  After installing
Panther I copied the whole OS9.2 folder back to the G3 so that I could
use it for Classic.  The folder copied back okay except that there was

I have a problem that only seems to affect certain folders. When I move
files around in the finder window, part of the file name is left behind
in the old position. For example see -
http://www.sayagain.co.uk/b3tapix/images/Finder problem.jpg