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

One for the trivia fans here:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6276910.stm>
iPhone gadget lust combined with...err..err...eMac and PowerMac G4
lust? Hmm. Time to update the stock photo library I think.

Thanks to David for the invitation - looks like fun!
Now I have 2 invitations of my own to distribute - first come first
served - hope this works properly (technically and equitably!!) ...
http://myskitch.com/invites/KEAAEOAAC

I can't find a way to make the British English Dictionary stick in Pages
as opposed to English US i.e. colour as opposed to color. Has anybody in
here managed? I've tried setting the language in Prefs>Interational to
English, but that doesn't seem to differentiate between US and ...

I have just suffered a catastrophic disk failure on my TiBook, and I am
unable to recover anything from that disk.  Fortunately the most
important stuff was backed up.  One exception to this was a bunch of
photographs which I took last weekend.  I transferred these to the

At the moment my G5 2.5 twin processor has 10.3.9 installed. I now
need to upgrade to 10.4 to use Quark 7 and CS3 but I have to keep
Classic as well. Anybody any ideas as how I would go about this?
best regards

from what I can tell QT does not make it easy to log what it is
playing.
I am using QT to run a kiosk and need to be able to log what it
plays.

is it possible to deauthorise a computer I don't have anymore ? It says
I have authorised 3 out of 5 and as I only have 1 computer this is an
issue :(
David

Is it necessary to power off a Mac before connecting
a USB device? I wouldn't have thought so, but that's
just guessing.
Thanks,

Whilst clearing out my old laptop bag I found my long lost new battery
for my 12" G4 Powerbook - which I got at the same time as the book but
have never even took it out of the plastic  bag.  As the current battery
in the machine is getting a bit "tired" (runs down very very ...

I'm a bit p****d off that Pages doesn't work with Automator. I've no
experience with AppleScript but I believe it's the only way to achieve
what I want in Pages. Having migrated from that MS platform and Word I'm
trying to recreate what I had there.

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/02/universal_snubs_apple/>
rember the 1$ for every zune? seems they have pulled out, as apple i
assume didn't want to give them the same as MS nor did Nokia...
roger

Is there some easy way to do this - I want to be able to copy the path,
not just see it.
Daniele

I have a problem: I want to wirelessly connect my Mac Book Pro 17" (10.4.10) to
a Fritz Box wi-fi router (7050), using the WPA2 - AES encryption method, but
Internet connection only allows me to create a network with WEP encryption.
Is there any utility to do it? Or any other method ...

iPhone is going on sale in Europe when? Check it
http://mobilephone-guide.blogspot.com/2007/07/iphone-is-going-on-sale-in-europe-
when.html

'ps aux' shows this:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/Versions/A/Resources/usbmuxd
-launchd
It wasn't there until recently. I'm wondering