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

As expected, now that Microsoft have bent over for Universal, Doug
Morris has said he wants to try getting a piracy fee off the sale of
iPods.
<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061128-8309.html>

Hey all,
I'm looking for an MP3 player for Christmas for the missus. I'm not
looking to spend much (£20-£40) and am aiming for 512-1gig.
I've seen the Venturer 512MB at ASDA for £20 and an Aigo A215 1 gig

how much I hate Spotlight?
So, recently it seems to be performing as it's designed to, but god it's
annoying.
I just want a list of my files that end in .swf, but instead I get

Interested in setting up a VPN. Short of buying OS X server for some
daft figure, is there any software available for doing that on OS X?
The setup is a cable modem, dyndns.org IP (relatively fixed but still)
and currently the only connection allowed through from the outside

I have a firewire drive attached to my PMG5 which contains a large
folder strucrture (8Gb ish) and I want to copy it to someone's Windows
Documents and Settings folder.
I've got Windows filesharing on, and can connect to my powermac from the

Are there any interesting (let's say for generous values of
"interesting") programs which have some particular Jewish or Judaic
purpose? Calendars, educational software, anything explorable or
interactive.

Does iCal have to be running for it to send you alerts, or does it have
something which does that in the background?
Daniele

Anyone know of a freeware .swf to .mov converter?

I have 'remove copy from server' set to 'right away' but it's not
happening.  If I click on 'remove now', though, it does it.
This is 10.4.8 and ooh, they're running out of .x numbers - it won't be
long now!  Happy Vista launch day, btw...

Last week I tried to order a new MacBook from the Apple Store for Education
in the UK -  I'm an OU student..   They refused to sell me it on the grounds
that I was at a BFPO (British Forces Post Office) Number even though it could
have been sent at the same rate as  domestic post ...

I have a Mac mini for the family to use and a MacBook which I use. I would like one central iTunes library
because I buy songs, my wife buys songs, the kids want to listen to some of them etc, and it would be nice to
have one iTunes library for all of us spanning the two ...

I am trying to use final cut pro to capture 1080i video from my sony HD
camcorder but the only capture settings are DV or DVPRO HD. When I chose
HD it says no device available - I thought this was going to be easy :(
David

Hi all,
Following the demise in the UK of the Airport BaseStation, I am suddenly
scratching around for an Appley router solution. Now I know there are a
lot of different routers out there, but lets say for argument's sake

<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Zune-Portable-Media-Player/dp/B000IJIMCQ/>
I laughed at the user reviews, seem to contradict many of the other
ones I have read.
kt.

The MetOffice has redesigned it's site, but I'm having problems when
using OmniWeb.
Can someone else try this page,
<http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/>