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

I am a keen amatuer wildlife photographer & have recently developed my
own small online image library. Currently there are only 200 or so
images, but some I believe are quite good. All images are royalty free
& just £3 each to download, even cheaper if you subscribe to a monthly

Odd one here, explain the following screenshot:
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Notice the OmniGraffle entries - they're two versions of the same
application. And they have the same name. And they're in the same

LinkStation Pro to be precise
Just purchased one of these, the idea is to share all the music, photos,
files etc between all the Macs on the network. And the Win XP machines,
mustn't forget those.

So Panic are going to release a new piece of software tomorrow, described as...
"biggest, most ambitious new software launch of all time"
Given that each of their major apps are somehow Internet-related I'm
not sure where there is a gap in the market. I can't imagine anyone

I'm downloading it now
Is it any good?
Also, I'm getting the PC version co s I have an old dell box with win
xp on and 512MB ram (got it from ebay for £70)

I need to convert some .mpg video files into mp3s - I basically just
need the soundtrack, in mp3.
I have found that I can use Toast to export the file as an aiff, then
convert to mp3 in Quicktime.

Any Powerpoint experts here?
I have a friend with a Ppt presentation, just photos, about 40 of them.
Of course, he's just inserted them directly from his camera downloads
with no resizing for screen presentation, so the whole thing is about 40

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Hai Guys Its 9 days since i became a member of AGLOCO... I had managed
15 referrals and have got 12$for it...
They pay you also for u surf! put on their software Viewbar and ...

(OS X 10.4.9)
What handles the volume control keys and the eject button on the keyboard?
(no - it's not the delayed eject feature  - even holding down for 10 seconds
doesn't do anything)

http://www.apple.com/support/macbook_macbookpro/batteryupdate
Phil

I read here, not to long ago, at least a couple of posts in which it was
suggested that the current iMac model is approaching the end of it's
'life', and that an updated model is expected 'anytime' now.
Were these just two people hoping? Do others have any thoughts on this

I don't know anything about any of the above, so clearly need help.
I'd be grateful for any pointers to books, websites or indeed direct
recommendations.
I'll outline what I want to do below:

Is anyone trying this beta? I like it a lot and so far have found
nothing to complain about. I just wrote a small memo with styles,
headers etc, about a page, and printing works fine. I could also open
with Word 2003 under XP, looked fine.

With my contracting days ended for the forseeable future and the
company dissolved, it's time to archive a few things off. Namely the
financial records, invoices, VAT details, Companies House
dealings....you get the idea.

Having lots of my time at work occupied with keeping the Apple pets fed
and watered, I have been somewhat restisant to having to do the same at
home, and contented myself with just an old iBook.  But I think I may
have to admit defeat on this one, I need to work from home, the ...