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

Trying to download some email this morning Mail.app decided to hang on
the last message. After an hour I killed the application and tried again
only to get the same problem.
On starting again I was presented with a load of messages I thought I

My wife has this whizzo N73, with a 512Mb memory card. She wants to take
some music with her to Lisbon tomorrow, but there wasn't any obvious way
to do it in iSync.
Can I just plug the card into my card reader, and drag a bunch of MP3s

I'd like to watch an eyetv recording on my (bigger) tv , in which format
should I export?
cheers
Richard

I have a MVX 25i camera and would like to know if the 16:9 mode is proper or
is it letterbox. According to the instruction book 'The camcorder uses the
full width of the CCD providing high-resolution 16:9 recording. When you
turn off the image stabilizer, you will get a larger ...

Having been to John Lewis today and seen one, I'm rapidly running out of
reasons to put off replacing my 1.8ghz G5 iMac.  OK there might be
slight CPU bumps around the corner but nothing hideous enough to make me
want to wait another six months to a year.

My friend who's using my old beige G3/266 needs something better. She
doesn't have much room, or megabucks to spare, so I'm thinking about a
new Mac Mini, base spec. Her monitor is an *old* 15" Apple LCD with a
VGA input, which suits her well. I presume the Mini will drive that

I'm going to be selling my 15 GB 3G iPod. I've still got all the
accessories (this was in the day when it came with loads of extras) but
I'm keeping the dock and the belt clip. So that leaves the iPod, the
soft pouch, the cable and charger, the headphones, the remote, the 4 - 6

<http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/>
416 Applescripts for iTunes (Mac only, obviously) that let you do stuff like
re-categorise video (want to put it in TV Shows? This can do it), grab lyrics,
change the pitch of a track(?!) etc.

http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0611macbook80211n.html
Guess I'll find out when my new MacBook arrives on Thursday.

Can anyone recommend something?
Fast and simple would be better than infintely expandable.
Daniele

Can you do it do you know please (if not how could it be done)?
All the best ..
T i m
p.s. the 'Too many notes' when opening a previously created / saved GB

http://www.dvdhacks.co.uk/features/competition.asp
J.

I've bought a small MIDI keyboard (M-Audio Oxygen8 V2, to give it its
full title). It conects up to the Mac via USB and is immediately
recognised, it plays stuff into GarageBand, and so on.
Very good.

Steve Herrod (VP of Technology Development at VMware) has some thoughts
and pointers to other blogs about the beta version of VMware for Mac.
See:
<http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2006/11/two_sneak_peaks.html>

How can I save a bulk dump of MIDI info from a sequencer (Yamaha QY70)
to my Mac?
Thanks,
Daniele