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

who can send me a joost invite!
my email: ungarcon@gmail.com
a million thanks

Nonce?

Errr I know it might be sinful - but is there an easy way of watching
UK football matches via the net?

I need to be able to share files between this G5 Quad and various
Windows machines running XP in another location.
At the moment I've got an external 320GB FireWire & USB drive which I've
formatted FAT32. Is this sensible? The files are mainly large video

I've selected a .doc file (created with Microsoft Word) and, in Get
Info, told it to open all documents like this with Pages. Rather than
all the file icons changing to the Pages one, some have now turned to
the blank page (unknown file type?) icon, and the others have remained

I (as noted somewhere in another thread) recently tried Safari 3 Beta again.
The latest update still didn't work so I went back to Safari 2. It seems that
since then (I *think*) Safari isn't asking me if I want to save passwords
when I enter 'em on various sites, as it did before ...

I've just had a thought!
Maybe the royal family ordered the execution of Diana because she was
marrying Mr Harrods.. who could techincally become king
what if it was MI5 or MI6?

...and I'd appreciate some advice.
Over the last week or so I've noticed that it's beachballed (requiring
a hard power off/power on to clear) a few times, and I've also noticed
two odd desktop graphics corruption issues: initially the window

As far as I can see Apple has dropped AppleWorks completely - presumably
intending it to be replaced by iWorks. If so it's a pity since AW included a
database application and iW doesn't, as far as I know.
My sister is looking for something which she can use to catalogue her book

Just been looking at the £10 a month/2Mb/unlimited downloads offer. Could
lose the phone line too (there's an old Telewest box stuck on the wall
courtesy of the previous owner), as I only use it for internet access. Looks
pretty good. Anyone know what there newsgroup access is ...

When I try and drag my digital camara photo folders (containing 4
years worth of pics) to my external (USB) hard drive I keep getting
errors.
It keeps coming up with a variety of errors - mainly (it seems) to do

My old faithful iMac G3 600mhz, 512mb, 10.3.9
XBench=11.48
Have you XBenched your brand new iMac yet, 20".
What did you get.

Start placing your bets now...

I have a corrupt font, it causes FontBook to crash whenever I select it.
How can I delete this font / remove it from FontBook if I can't use
FontBook?
Thank you for any help you can give with this.

Just looking at the Virginmedia forum on www.thinkbroadband.co.uk, and saw a
couple of NG recommendations (cheaper than Giganews, but lower retention):
http://usenet-news.net/ (100 day binary retention)