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

Okay, so the URL might give away how fluidly the zune install experience
was, but here you go:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/13/installing-the-zune-sucked/
Note some of the cringeworthy wording on some of the user dialogs, such

Or "brand new lick-ready smooth-as-love Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo
Super Orgasm Deluxe Ultrahard Modern Computing Device Designed by God
Herself Somewhere in the Deep Moist Vulva of Cupertino Yes Yes Don't
Stop Oh My God Yes."

I have been trying to find any documented studies into monitor
resolutions and the suitability of the various resolutions for various
types of work. E.g. is 1024x768 enough for light office work, Word and
emails. Is 1024x768 definitely not good enough for spreadsheet work,

Are there any good (online or offline) guides to using Aperture - 1.5
of course.
I would prefer to go or a good hardcopy book but most seem to cover 1.1
only at this stage. Any recommendations? I have the Apple manual but

I've converted my eyetv file to mpeg4, dropped it ont to ffmpegx
(summary)in order to convert to dvd. The source  sees it as
'unrecognised', but it does appear to be encoding. Is that as it should
be?

Is there any way to turn it off?
I might type "groups.google.co.uk" (to give an example) into the
URL box; before I can press Enter, Safari has inserted the URL
of the last usenet post I accessed the previous day. I'd rather

Interesting benchmarks comparing my old G4 Mac Mini with the new
revision of the MacBook.
The upgraded 100 Gb 7200 rpm drive in the Mini is run through the ATA
bus and the standard 120 Gb 5400 rpm drive in the MacBook is run through

I am trying to extract a single clip for my Moving Image class to
analyse. I can import the clip in to both iMovie and Final Cut from a
vob file but there is no audio in either. I thought the sound was down
on my speakers and I nearly blew myself in the back of the room  when an

My g4 Ibook 60gb Toshiba 4200 HD is close to full, what would be the
best replacement hd? Does diy foul the warranty?
cheers
Richard

Maybe I'm just being dim and can't find it but it looks like the latest
system software that comes with the revised MacBook has lost the Quicken
2006 installer.
It was certainly there on the discs I got with my original MacBook and

The index page of my website has thoroughly broken. There's a bit of
PHP in it for my local server status at the bottom, but for some
inexplicable reason, the page stops loading part of the way through
(consistently). It originally broke a few lines further down the page,

I'm using NeoOffice 2 Beta 3, and while I appreciate the 'beta' in the
title, there are a couple of problems (tables, mostly) but one think I
would like to do is to offset the page numbering by 654, in order to
'recreate' a journal article for inclusion as an appendix in an essay ...

Does anyone know of any software for OSX that will compile a league
table from inputting sports fixtures results ?  It's for my son's
Lacrosse team.
Tried versiontracker without much luck.  Google found one for Windows

Just bought a new iMac. The font used to display things like the list
view looks corrupted - rather like dodgy dot-matrix font. I tried
setting up a new user account and it worked fine. So then I deleted the
offending account and re-created it (and copied the Library across) and

Office 2004.
Running on a Powerbook with 10.2.8. Printing to a HP 1020.
One file prints blank- repeatedly and reliably. Print preview shows the
correct text. Dropping the file onto Appleworks, and then printing,