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

Are those IRA muppets still trying to get independence. We let them
have Southern Ireland - you think they'd be grateful.
Do you remember 'Spiral' from last years Big Brother. He was such a
tool.

Has anyone noticed anything funny about mouse behaviour recently (last
few weeks)? My wireless Mighty Mouse has been behaving most strangely.
Every now and again when I do a right click the application in
question goes into beachball mode. Once that happens it stays like

Anyone tried copilot yet?
http://www.copilot.com
I might just spend the measly $5 just to test it out, so I know that it's
a viable option when I have someone on the other end of a phoneline with

Well, I had ntl broadband and phone installed in my new house this
morning.  I have to say, ntl seems to have drastically improved, in
competence, friendliness and reliability, as far as my experience has
gone with telephone customer support and the installation technician.  

I have Elements 2.0, which does me fine - is there any reason to upgrade
to 3, 4, 5, etc ?? I.e. any major features folks think are important.
One thing I do need and I couldn't find how to do it as the Help in my
Elements seems to be buggered, is how to make the background of a

That a brand new 17" MacBook Pro 2.16Ghz, 120gig HD with 1gig of ram is
a reasonable buy at just over a grand ?
A friend of mine who is in the US at the moment called last night to say
he's found a shop that has them at this price [not many] and did I want

I suspect this will have already been covered in this NG - but is there
an application available that will allow you to record live radio
broadcasts (via iTunes) on a Mac - perhaps as MP3 files?
TIA

I hope someone can give me some pointers, please.
I have a G4 mirror-door running 10.4.8, and 9.2.2 in Classic or
standalone. I have Print2PDF and the Canon supplied IP4000 printer
drivers in Classic. I did not have problems with 10.4.7, but this may be

Keep getting kernel panics; here's the latest:
--------------
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x000A8800): Uncorrectable machine check: pc =
000000000071952C, msr = 0000000000149030, dsisr = 42000000, dar =

... just how important it is for them to offer internet services to
non-Windows users.
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/consult/open-consultations/ondemand_services.
html>

Okay, my ISDN line is going at the end of Feb - BT's unplugging it.
So I need to get broadband.
Now, BT will convert me to broadband for free if I sign up with BT for
the service - or £50 to got back to POTS and then I have to find someone

Someone has been telling porkies, and I know who it is.

Phil

Recently, I've noticed a new problem with Mac Help
and the only recent change I can think of was installing
SecUpd2007-001Ti.  The problem manifests itself when you do
a Mac Help Spotlight search for keywaords that require

I keep trying to use OmniWeb, and something keeps stopping me.
What's stopping me now is that RSS doesn't seem to work properly. For
example, on this page:
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/aperture/>

I am thinking of upgrading my memory for parallels use. My laptop has 1
gig but I think it has two slots. What do the pros recommend a good
memory size and do I need to remove the 1gig that is in there ?
David