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

I am trying to persuade my wife to switch to a Mac, but she wants to do
a part time college course on using the Microsoft office package. They
only support windows, what I was wondering was is there much difference
between the Mac and Windows user interface, if the difference is

So is this out yet?
Does it work with Macs (bluetooth etc)
Can anyone even wait? built in tom-tom etc.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6324109.stm
Can they get a laptop sized one?

Can I use any old USB Bluetooth dongle with my Mac (10.3.9), or will I
need to install driver software?

I just got a funny with these two: the MT-NW window was behind the
Eudora in-box window, but in-front of the Eudora slidey-out thingy that
shows the mailboxes.

I've bought ARD which I thought was expensive but it's much better
than the shareware VNC solutions I was using before trying to
coodinate 4 macs. My question is, now that I am using it accross this
small LAN (and have had to tick the ARD box in the Mac OS firewall as

Is it a coincidence the NH51 variant of bird flu has arrived in Britain
at the same time as Vista, is there a link ?
Phil

Can you boot from an external drive on intel macs? USB or FW?

Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty is to visit the House of Commons
and watch Prime Minister's Questions.
The Bollywood star, who was at centre of a storm over alleged racist
bullying on the Channel 4 reality show, will be a guest of Keith Vaz MP next

I've been switching around a lot from my PB to my MB lately. I notice on the
PB when I download a .dmg in safari. When it's done it auto mounts, puts the
.app on my desktop and then auto un-mounts.
Just happened now with http://knoxformac.com/download/ and yesterday when I

..and he will give the fish AIDS
- try to introduce legistlation for 'civil partnerships' with fish
-and finally
come here to moan about 'trolls'.

I just upgraded to the latest Skype and it gives me a message that I am not
online when I try to make a phone call and actually am online.
Any fix for this?
Brian in Bruggen

I just looked at the provisional conclusions for the Beeb's programme
downloading project thing ("iPlayer"), and it says:
"The BBC Executive proposes a digital rights management solution which
would require

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6320865.stm
"Microsoft has admitted that speech recognition features in Vista could
be hijacked so that a PC tells itself to delete files or folders.
...

Hiya,
A customer asked me to conjoin his G4 PowerBook (broken screen) with
another he'd purchased as spares (broken most other parts), and although I
don't do a lot of Mac work I agreed to take a look, as hardware is hardware :-)