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

How do you stop this auto running? If you remove it from the Login
Items it gets put back in. If it's running when you sync a folder that
contains the Entourage Database then the copy fails as the target
database is in use by the daemon.

Following a recent thread on this.
Dropping a 700mb avi file onto Toast Titanium 7.1 and telling it to
create a dvd movie did just that. It took about four and half hours on a
1.25ghz Powerbook to render and burn the 105 minute movie.

So, after having a good clearup round the Daughters desk this
afternoon (she was doing Taiquando today covered in paintball bruises
from yesterday <g>) I though I'd quickly test the new USB MIDISPORT
2x2 I bought to couple the Yamaha QY70 / other MIDI devices to the

I recently turned my thoughts to coding with Java again - I only had
a little experience of it for writing applets.
I would have liked to learn whatever version of C it is that is
native to the mac (for Cocoa applications) - but thinking about it,

Still trying get to grips with Mac OS so its a probably an error on my part
- networking especially I'm still not too clear on.
On my PC I'm able to access shared volumes over my wireless server. It
doesn't matter if I shut down and restart, each time the shared folders are

Dear All ­
Do we like anyone better than D-Link for a USB Bluetooth adapter?
TIA

I downloaded firefox 2 but find myself unable to0 use it because the speed
of scrolling (ie, holding down arrow) is so slow compared to other browsers,
I can't seem to see a pref to increase speed, is there one?

I'm looking to add a wireless NAS drive to my Airport network (serviced
by two Airport Express basestations) as a file/media server and backup
device for three Macs. Unlike the Airport Extreme,  the Express has a
single ethernet (WAN) port so I suppose connecting a NAS drive to ...

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It's taking me longer than I thought searching for this info so hoping
someone can tell me the answer here.  I have a G3 iMac dating from
around 2000 and need to know where the hardware controls are for
brightness, contrast and colours. I know the route to the software

Did I blink and miss something? Just looking at the Apple Store for
potential fileserver solutions, and I'm confronted with 640Gig for
£200, or £120 for 320gig in a Mac Mini-friendly form factor, even a
terabyte if you're prepared to shell out £430.

After switching to Intel and saying they wanted it to be a lasting
relationship, Apple are going to stab intel in the back and move on to
their next lover.... AMD?
Please tell me they're not gonna confuse even more people wanting to

Is there any reason why 6-12 month old Mac games don't get re-released
on a budget label for 9.99, as is the case with PC games?
At the Apple store, Doom 3 is still full price.

Anything new expected?