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

No, you aren't seeing double - today there's two birthday celebrations...
Patrick Navin and Hugh Chaloner are in competition to see who gets the
most birthday presents...
Happy Birthdays, guys!

(yes I've posted to a more appropriate group, but it can be a little quiet)
Memeory management. Starting to get my head around it, but I'm a little unclear
of a certain instance.
Let's say I have an object defined thus:

I'm currently commuting home, and I can see in the seats on the
opposite side of the train a lady using a black MacBook. With a
parallel, serial and VGA port.
Err....huh? A spot more staring shows that what's actually in use is an

Anyone else seeing VM issues with Mac OS X 10.4.9, running on Intel
machines?
Since upgrading I'm often finding that Safari has swapped out inactive
tabs, or even all of itself, and takes ages to page them back in

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17916172/>
Interesting - could be a great time for consumers here. DRM dying on
the one hand and what looks like a clearly protectionist racket dying
on the other. I can't imagine the EU losing here - after all, the whole

Anyone suggest a fix for this?
I'm using an SD card via a card reader on my Macbook.  It mounts and
shows up fine on first insert.  I've noticed periodically it'll vanish
from Finder though - at first I assumed it'd unmounted so pulled the

I'm totally new to Mac.
I'm trying to get to grips with iPhoto (latest version, downloaded
yesterday).
Is there any way in iPhoto to batch re-name filenames (using

One hundred million iPods sold. Not bad.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/09ipod.html
       -z-

This is what you do
- sign up at giganews.com (free - up to 1gb!)
- Download iGrabNews (Free!)
- Download MacPar deluxe (free!)

This afternoon I have been mostly playing with XSlimmer
<http://www.xslimmer.com/> and trying to restrain myself from getting
carried away and breaking something by being too ambitious.
The app cleans out PowerPC components on an Intel Mac so slims down the

I want to convert .m4a files in my iTunes library to .wav files.  The
conversion process successfully completes.  However, the files are
still in .m4a format! Why??!!
thanks for any help

See:
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/>
Ian

I have a large collection of 35 mm slides and negatives, mainly colour
but some B&W.
I am considering digitising the lot .......
I'd like a good quality scanner for 35 mm slides and negatives, which

I'm wondering whether there is a way to redirect messages in Mail while
preserving the original sent date?
Any hints would be appreciated.

Any people on a dual-screen setup find this interesting?
http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/04/04/more_messy_thinking.html
It... it looks bizarre, but it does kind of make sense.
    -z-