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

Dear All ­
There I am, installing and updating to OS X 10.4.10 on two new iMac 24"
machines, one to have the full Adobe InDesign suite loaded, when the 'phone
rings.

I am a long term mac user but new to the Intel side of things. I am
about to get a new Macbook Pro and wondered what will be the best,
most efficient way to install Windows XP on the machine.
I would like to run Parallels for the occasional 'dip' into windows,

Does anyone know of a way of syncing stickies with .mac ?
I know they are going to offer widget syncing but stickies would be
nice ?
David

Sorry if this appears twice. I posted it once but it seems not to have
worked. Anyway, I have just released a new piece of free software.
Called Font Mate, it is a simple program to display characters from
all of the fonts installed on your Mac[1]. I find Font Explorer too

I thought someone might be interested in a new piece of software that
I've written. It is called Font Mate and it is a simple utility to
display fonts and characters. I find Font Explorer too complex and it
doesn't show all the characters, and FontBook and the Character

I don't actually _need_ to replace my current PDA (a much loved Sony
TH55) but I'm playing 'what if?'
I nearly - oh, so nearly - bought a Palm TX today, but the only thing it
offered that my Sony doesn't is WPA on wireless. Trouble is, my network

I bought the older type Airport Extreme with the intention of sorting
out a family member, but I got to thinking maybe I could extend my
exisiting home network?
At present I'm using the latest Airport Extreme which is hooked up to my

There's a really blurry photo of the black hoarding in front of the new
Solihull store on Flickr.
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/20262161@N00/747657290/>
IIRC the black hoarding in Kingston only lasted a few weeks... Does

Pal has sent me a raft of texts overnight saying his unused & up-till-now
dead iLamp is *almost* working (his old iBook is in the shop for its second
logic board swap).
He got it running, but then experienced a 'mem_/2/4' error. I searched & see

I can not believe the rumors given I have just bought a new one.....
do you think it will be much different other than visuals ?
David

G4's (desktop) have had a problem for some time ie, the AC Bel power
supply! I have searched the net for two days but have not seen
anything pointing to the problem nor the solution (overheat and
shutdown) . A replacement unit is VERY expensive considering the value

Hi people just wondering if you peeps have any information. I looked at
istat pro in the dashboard and it says my fans are doing nothing no rpms?
Is this why my laptop is so hot cause the fans no longer work or is it
lieing. It seems to get the hottest when on power supply. Should I ...

Anyone know how to obtain this.
It is a left right swap of the question mark ?
Not this symbol  ¿
Used in French a lot, but cannot find it anywhere on my Mac.

Uncle Steve will be pleased :-)
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiki/445618364/in/pool-appleusers/>

When I upgrade Tiger to Leopard, I understand it is possible to keep
alll files/apps intact. According to Mr Doe at Macshop B'ham he had
problems when upgrading from Panther and he lost all his data. Was
this an unfortunate and one-off incident or did this occur with most