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

Can anyone recommend a good solicitor familiar with ISP/internet
issues. I am trying to migrate ISPs and am having enormous difficulty,
I believe my former ISP may be responsible for blocking me.
Thank you

Got a relative's PowerBook G4 500 with varied startup problems.
Sometimes after boot chime and hard disk noises, there's just a black
screen. It's not just no video - the bootup stops there.
Sometimes after boot chime and hard disk, it stops at the grey apple.

...is suddenly complaining about security in both Safari 2.0.4 and
Firefox 2.0.0.1 - Safari was certainly fine last week.  They've changed
something haven't they?
Jerome

From a software update server near you...
"QuickTime 7.1.5 delivers numerous bug fixes and addresses critical
security issues. This update is recommended for all QuickTime 7 users."
"Using iTunes 7.1, you can now enjoy your favorite iTunes movies, TV

new quicktime/itunes on software update

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/28/dell_linux_computers/>

The mini I use for my mail and web server turned its fan to max and its
screen to on but empty. I yanked the power, and on reboot it gets as
far as Apple logo and the spinning gear thingy. Postfix and Apache are
working. I can ssh into it, but it sure doesn't look like a Mac.

My friend is a journo and has about 3000 research press clippings that
he wants to store electronically.
Ideally, he would like to scan and then catalogue and index them as
PDFs, assigning keywords etc.  Also, he would like to run OCR software

I have scanned a number of photos of my daughter into PowerPoint for a
slideshow to use at her birthday party. I thought I could set up the
PP so that the slideshow could have music to accompany it, as iPhoto
can. However, it seems that the only way to do this is to save the PP

I am new user of Macintosh. I know that it is very easy job in Windows
Outook but i can not see SENT ITEMS in my mail box in Macintosh.
What`s that ?

Looks like Microsoft are having problems again.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/6418965.stm
Phil

I received the warning about low battery so I changed the battery in the
mouse. I had fresh AA cells to hand so it was a quick in and out job.
The mouse still lost the pairing to the computer so I had to navigate the
System Preferences by keyboard and pair the mouse again. This ...

Anyone have a clue how to get my MacBook's built-in iSight to work with
W2k Pro?
The Bootcamp driver is only for XP - and I don't want to run XP.

'I’ll say I’m marginally more secure on Linux than on a Mac, but I
prefer a Mac anyway. I can almost see my inbox filling with flames from
you penguin lovers everywhere, but let me explain my opinion'
'I find Linux’s security controls to be more true to the UNIX model they

Can you do it? The following quote is from the VMTN blog [1]:
"I am also excited that Mac OS X Leopard is coming later this year. If
are you using the latest Mac OS X Leopard developer builds, you can now
run your virtual machines side-by-side with Mac OS X Leopard. "