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

I'm using Parallels build 3 to run XP and love it.
I was considering swapping this setup for Bootcamp and Parallels -
i.e. BC to partition up the Mac's HDD, install windows natively on
hardware for speed, then use Parallels to boot that partition when

I have started having problems with the applications my Mac is
choosing to use to open documents. For instance, pdfs are opening with
Preview and Word documents are opening with Windows Word (under
Parallels). I want pdfs to open with Acrobat and Word docs to open

MP3,MPEG,AVI,DIVX,DLL,PHP,EXE,ISO, ... and much more
Millions files for everyone. Music, movies, soft and other media.
Check it now!! http://www.GEGEREKA.com !!!THE LORD OF DOWNLOADS!!!

My white macbook has developed a crack on the keyboard/wrist rest
(near the edge, right under the right wrist).

this kind of problem, but does anyone have any idea how long it will

Purchased it Dec 2004. Has 80GB 5400rpm in it.
Is it easy to user replace the HD (what with?) or where could I take it in
London?
Thanks,

I've recently bought an Olympus E-400. I am interested in doing some
RAW photo processing. I've had a look at Aperture and Lightroom and
both look pretty good, albeit quite different, products. Does anyone
here have a view on which is the better product (I'm particularly

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I've read that the 'resizeVolume' option was added to
'diskutil' in OS 10.4.6. My Tiger DVD (or is it CD?)
is for OS 10.4.4, so I presume I cannot resize volumes
when booting from that disk. Is there a way of creating

Once upon a time it was about 1996, and I had a superb quality screen
saver for the PC called Organic Art Deluxe by William Latham.
Product here:
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindscape-Organic-Art-Deluxe/dp/B00004UACO>

One of the Get a Mac ads has the tagline: "Awesome out of the box. A PC
comes stuffed with software you'd never want to use. A new Mac comes
with the stuff you want."
A friend just turned up with his brand new MacBook, wanted to know how

I've found a SIMM/DIMM from a Mac, I suspect it to be a VRAM module.
It's marked:
333-0185
MBAP03330165G1

Did anyone get one of the promised Joost invitations, cant remember who
it was that promised to send them.
Phil

A friends Dad has just rung me saying when he goes on the web (his
main use, booking holidays etc) he says he keeps getting messages
about 'Upgrading to Firefox' .
I asked him to run the system profiler and it appears it's a: