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

Looks like many models of the G4 desktop are heading for the
scrapyard!
Due to faulty power supplies which are not only no longer vailable but
very expensive even if you can find a refurbished one, has dopped the

Just off to a pals in an hour or so to try & fix his iLamp. Problem: He's got
OS 9 loaded, but for some reason can't boot into OS X. He wants to reinstall,
but has a dead CD drive. Will the iLamp be able to start up in FTDM?
I assume (if so), we connect my iBook (G4) & the iLamp ...

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Offshore custom software development company iTechArt - Web site and

Enlighten me - what is the point of a .dmg.zip file, when a dmg can be
created as a compressed image anyway? Is there a benefit to be gained?
I've noticed an amount of software distributed that way but I would
have thought that just using the a compressed image would be the way to ...

So, how's everyone doin'?
Sarah

On advice from this very group (and you know who you are) I contacted
Dorothy Bradbury for advice on replacing the main cpu fan in my G4 MDD
1.25.
They could supply such a fan, with one caveat - there could be only one.

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Ellis College gives you the prestige of earning your Bachelor's Degree
from a respected university with the convenience of learning online on

I had to turn uPnP on to get ichat to work properly - not there yet
though. I share my itunes library over our home lan. I assume it is
safe enough ? I did a test chat with someone on the apple forums who
was able to tell me I had 4 devices on my lan - how on earth would he

The bundle has been extended - 2 days left and Techtool Pro is now included.

Not having much fun this morning. First off when I came in, the CCC
backup had stopped at about 7Gb of 75Gb. No sign of why, just stopped,
although it looked like it was still working. The only way to stop CCC
is Force Quit, since it has no apparent "Stop Backup" command/button.

Now iPod Compatible Men suits in the market
http://techten.blogspot.com/2007/07/now-ipod-compatible-men-suits.html

Just playing with the demo,
anyone using it ? neat the way it scans from the barcode, although i
spotted their amazon affiliate built in there.
http://www.delicious-monster.com

Having just spent far too long trying to get my WRE54g linksys wireless
range extender working with my WAP54g access point, I start thinking
about mains wiring network.
The wre/wap have worked fine for ages but having moved into the big

<http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/apples-macbookpro-85w-magsafe-adapter-finally
-shrunk/>
Very
welcome change.
Cheers,

I've just noticed an oddity when holding down the Control Key while
using the scroll wheel on the mouse - the whole screen images gets
larger (the resolution apparently drops). Using the mouse then moves the
whole screen image as opposed to just the cursor. It is possible to