Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / February 2007

Any recommendations please for OS X on an Intel iMac?
I've tried the Readiris trial, but it's slow (maybe to do with the fact
it's PowerPC) and too expensive.
It looks as though buying a new scanner with bundled software is the

This is one of those pilot a spaceship through caverns games, but with
a really clever twist - all the graphics are hand drawn sketches! When
you zap a bad guy he ends up a rubbed out smudge on the paper :-)
<http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/sketchfighter/>

I've always been a bit frustrated by this, and wondered what the
collective wisdom had to offer.
There used to be a character map program that enabled you to see all
of the characters in fonts, and select them to copy and paste into

Quite a good rant, I thought...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2006031,00.html
N.

How are other QS users finding its stability? I've had three crashes,
usually when selecting a preference tab, since installing it yesterday.
(OS 10.4.8, QS b51). No haxies or similar installed that I can think of.
I hope there's a solution, because QS looks great.

Is there a button to hide all the windows on the desktop and just show
the desktop background with icons ?
David

Is there a software for directory/folder password protection in OSX?
I been using password protected image created from disk utility but it's
becoming harder and harder to use as the file size gets larger by day.
TIA

What if a gay becomes president?
Can you imagine what this world would be like if it was run by butt-
f.cking queers?
Imagine - pink everything, Cher music as the national anthem

Just been playing around with Google's on line Docs & Spreadsheet pro
grammes and the Photo management.  Not tried the calendar yet.
So far I'm quite impressed with the ease of use and of course the price
- free !!

I've been messing around today swapping hard drives and wot not. I connected
a backup clone of my macbook HD to my Powerbook.
Before doing so I noticed the powerbook had no app installed that could
handle .rar files. I could see a bunch of emails in maill.app that have .rar

Explore and recognise the words meanings in the scriptures
http://www.qurancomplex.org/Quran/Targama/Targama.asp
Explore the greatest life of the most recognized man in
the history of humanity.

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Free Wii: http://Wii.Giveaway.co.uk/index.php?referral=404943
Free 360: http://Consoles.real-incentives.com/?referral=16579
Free iMac, Mac Mini or MacBook:

It could save a lot of heartache, not to mention AIDS.
If I found out any of my sons were gay, they'd have an 'accident'

Anyone know what exactly macs in Apple Stores have running on them? I'm
taking about that application launcher most of them have on the middle of
the desktop.

It seems like this already has support for accelerated 3D graphics,
which is something Parallels can't do (yet) and is *very* cool.
<http://www.tuaw.com/2007/02/10/found-footage-vmware-fusion-to-bring-3d-hardware-
acceleration/>
Cheers,