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

Okay, so I've only been around Macs for 2 years, but I really feel I
ought to know this. Why is the default UK city (for time and weather)
Cardiff and not the more obvious choice of London. Are Apple based in
the Welsh capital?

Whilst having a tidy up this week I've come across a box of Apple II
stuff. Mainly books / software and a few weird cables.
I think I've also got a couple of Apple II clones in the loft
('Cosmos' was it?) but can't see myself ever doing anything with any

We are wholesaler of Nike Jordan and Other Shoes in China. We are big
Shoes Manufacturer in China. We supply many kinds of Shoes, such as
Nike Shoes, Jordan 1-22, Air Jordan, AF1, DUNK, Air max series etc.
Most of them are in stock and can be supplied surely on time. All

Iomega Firewire external drive from Dell
http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs
1&sku=A1241806
£23.86 includes VAT & delivery
May be of use to someone ?

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Has been for a while, but I haven't seen it mentioned before.
Current thinking round here seems to be SuperDuper is the business, but
after using it for a while it began to stop (?) halfway into the backup,

G3 is now not supported at all, and G4 users can't use iMovie.
512MB RAM, 1GB if you want it to actually work.
10.4.9 or later.
Unsurprising I suppose, but...ouch.

I have a dual monitor setup, one monitor is smaller than the other.
Somehow (and I have no idea how), I have managed to get a window on the
small monitor that is larger than the display size. The top of the
window is above the physical edge of the screen and the bottom of the

While googling for a phone deal for my wife I found this.
http://www.mobileshop.com/mobile-phones/o2/contract-mobile-phones/apple-
iphone.php/PNEWO2IPHO0001
Looks like the deal with 02 is done and dusted and they even quote a

Got a strange problem with the current safari beta.
Every 20 seconds or so it briefly pauses, making it unresponsive for
around a second or so. This is most noticeable when either typing into
a form or scrolling around a page. Occasionally this results in a

In launching Palm Desktop I get two successive error messages which
say 'Unexpected end of file detected'. Clicking the only available
buttom - Ok - shuts down the app. I've downloaded the app afresh but
the same thing happens.

Well,
I picked up my new keyboard today, took it home, plugged it into my
iMac, powered up, and... nothing. It doesn't work. Not in my iMac, my
PowerBook G4 or my old G4. I tried it with one, the other and both of

I've just noticed Disk Utility has a couple of new formats, being
Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive)
Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)
Already I've come across problems with the case insensitivity of HFS+,

I was doing some scanning this afternoon and noticed the fans on my MBP
ramping up each time I used SilverFast. Checking out the cause in
Activity Monitor I managed to clock Silverfast as using over 100% of
CPU.

I'm trying to edit a .css file that was made (pre OsX) using SimpleText.
TextEdit wants to change the name and and save as .rtf or .html.
Any one know how I can save as .css.
cheers

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