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

I have a great big folder of photos - 1600 of them. I want to have them
put into Finder folders, jsut to make life in the Finder easier.
I'm trying to find a way to use Aperture to do this, but so far, I can't
(at least, not one that doesn't involve a great many fiddly steps).

For the geeky buggers who have to deal with all sorts of filesystems.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/01/11/6591
    Cheers - J

errr
I just to buy ONE (1) DVD-RW to see if works on my imac...
Anbody know where they are sold
(pref in Sheffield)

I bought a set for the kids' iMac to get rid of the cable clutter but
soon discovered that as the iMac didn't have built-in BT, I couldn't
wake it from sleep, so re-instated the wired keyboard & mouse.
Time passes and I acquire a G5 PMac, which does have built-in BT, so I

http://www.plasmapong.com/
Mac version, yay! My high score is 24. The music gets very silly, I'll
have to turn down the speedup a bit.
    Cheers - Jaimie

Righto, the shiny new Belkin UPS arrived today. Gave it the full charge
up, and it's now installed an working fine.
I initially installed it using the built in OSX UPS support, and it
worked as soon as I plugged in the USB lead. However, the menubar info

I'm syncing my Entourage calendar with iCal so that I can publish it
for colleagues. Trouble is, it seems to duplicating certain items each
time it syncs. I haven't been able to work out why some entries are
duplicated and others not.

I've got a D-Link DSL500 ADSL router at work, and another one at home.
I've never liked it:
 - sometimes crashes
 - won't do firewall without NAT (and I don't do NAT)

I've just received a refurb Macbook Pro which has a faulty optical
drive. Here is a list of my new hardware purchases from Apple over the
past 6 years:
2001 - iBook - Keys fell off keyboard. Returned for refund after one day

My wife's ASD 21 suddenly gave up the ghost last night. Well, not
completely, certain resolutions still display (eg. 1024x768) but only
in the central half of the screen, and no amount of adjustment will
stretch the picture. At other resolutions (eg. 1600x1200) the image is

I have been reading up on battery usage and thought I would ask for advice
on here as well to help clarify matters for me.  I have a new Macbook Core 2
Duo.  My MacBook will be used every night for internet/email the occasional
documents etc and will be on for long periods of time ...

So Zoara is a CHICK!!
FROM http://reddit.com/user/albk/
2 points 4 months ago by albk
Zoara has posted RoughDrafted articles to the uk.comp.sys.mac

So, after the fuss about Google not recognizing St George's, I notice
that http://www.google.co.nz/ has a tasteful Anzac day banner (as does
.com.au).
And the OED's Word of the Day is 'Anzac' (Monday's was 'dragon'.  Heh.)

So, after the fuss about Google not recognizing St George's, I notice
that http://www.google.co.nz/ has a tasteful Anzac day banner (as does
.com.au).
And the OED's Word of the Day is 'Anzac'.

I see there's a new UK ad making a point that Macs run Office too:
<http://images.apple.com/movies/euro/uk/getamac/getamac_ads5/apple-uk_ge
tamac_posse_480x376.mov>
S'okay I guess.