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

USB things - they are not 'mag safe' are they?

If you're trying out a service like last.fm and you can't work out why
the third party client isn't working properly, instead of spending 45
minutes googling, downloading the official client to 'check the
connection', writing a post to ucsm and waving a rubber chicken about,

Does anyone know if its possible to batch convert Xvid files to mov
reference files? I have FCP, Compressor and QTPro but i cannot seem to
find that option. Thanks in advance
Craig

I haven't seen zoara's Happy Birthday post, so...
"CUPERTINO, California‹March 21, 2001‹Apple® today announced that beginning
this Saturday, March 24, customers can buy Mac® OS X in retail stores around
the world. Mac OS X is the world¹s most advanced operating system, combining

I cloned a Tiger (Intel) install onto an external disk using the beta of
Carbon Copy Cloner 3, then cloned it back to identical-spec hardware. I
immediately got regular kernel panics.
I couldn't be arsed to investigate so just did an archive and install.

Frikkin iMovie.
Just spent an hour importing all the video from my father-in-law's
camera into iMovie. A third of it Christmas, a third a trip to the Tate
Modern, the London Eye and Aquarium, and a third my daughter's ballet.

Is there a way to play and list avi files(divx) on iTunes?
I have the videos playing on Ouicktime thanks to Perian, but it would be
nice if I could catalogue these video files with iTunes along with the
rest of my iTunes compliant mov files.

Dear All ­
The story so far: A client broke the two eensy-weensy latches on his 15"
PowerBook ethernet port (it means that the cable won't stay in). Apple wanted
£1200 plus for a new motherboard to fix the ethernet port.

I know this sounds like a stupid question, but I've somehow lost the
ability to play video in iTunes - how should I do it?
I can play it in the little postage-stamp pane at the bottom left (if I
click the 'upwards pointing triangle in a square' button) but I can't

recenty, i transfered music from my friend's ipod on to my computer.
However, there is music purchased from the itunes music store on his
ipod.  Therefore, i cannot play the music purchased from the itunes
store because it is not authorized to play on my computer.  My friend

Amazon.co.uk & .com leaked the prices of the Adobe CS3 bundles this morning.
Amazon.co.uk appears to have now pulled those pages but the master
collection was something like £2199 compared to $2399 for US folk.
Is this a total joke or what? especially for software that can be ...

I'm stuck at work while my new Core 2 Duo iMac sits in its box at
home, having arrive 5 minutes after I left the house grrrr...
But that's another story. My question is - does anyone know if my new
Mac - ordered on 7/3/07 should come pre confgured for Wireless N or

I had a film in iMovie 2 format, which has lain dormant for quite a
while. I have just converted it to iMovie HD format, and had a handful
of problems.
The entire project came out in the wrong aspect ration, but I fixed that

Some time ago I posted a question here that queried the flaws of the
mac min running LCD/TFT screens.
Anyway, I think the answers I recieved where correct and swayed my
mind.

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