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

Dear All ­
Just installed a keyboard for a client, OS X 10.4.10, Keyboard update. Not
worried about the function keys, but the keyboard punctuation are all in odd
places. So, for example, left of the Z key are the two carets <>, and there

Quote from a MacUser email I just had,
We arrived in the office yesterday morning to find invitations from
Apple to a product launch at the BBC TV Centre next week, indicating
that there are developments in the iPod field.

Response:
"The newsserver crashed at about 4am (MEST) this morning caused by one
or more failing CPUs. We are still repairing the damages and need to
ask for your patience".

http://feeds.tuaw.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~3/149691850/
Phil

I'm looking to try the Devolo powerline gadgets to wireless enable two
separate parts of my house beyond normal router reach.
My understanding is there's a 'base unit' which connects the broadband
router TO the mains socket and one or more 'slave units' which rebroadcast

Hi, this is probably a very silly question ,but I will ask it anyway . I
have just bought my first mac , a macbook . After putting all my photos into
iPhoto ,my kids were looking through them and somehow in the Library section
where all the events are listed, there is a button ...

Hey ya,
Need to reinstall my old Mac Mini but can't locate the install DVD that
I have for it. Can I simply Install the OS and work from there, other
than not having the bundled software is there any reason that this won't

okay after 4and a half years and over 1500 load cycles the battery is
fairly knackered it doesn't tend to last much below 50%
are any of the copies any good? it's my main machine so would be nice
for it to be moble again.

I've created my own template which has a few bits of text unrecognised
by the spelling checker (such as Paypal, for instance). I've selected
"Ignore spelling" then done save as template, but when I created an
actual document from this template the spelling error was highlighted

My new toy is a Loox N100 GPS PDA which runs Windows CE5.0. It has a MiniSD
card. When I connect the Loox to the Mac with a USB cable it won't mount the
SD card. Is there any way I can force the Mac to mount it?

I have one of the new 24 inch iMacs, which is very nice, but seems to
be prone to display corrpution with windows not updating properly
(mainly Firefox and the Finder) when dragged. Has anyone else noticed
this, or is there likeloy to be something wrong with my machine?

Morning troops,
Music teacher (new guy, very keen) at the girls' school is after some
screensavers or similar that he can project from his iBook while the
students are listening to long pieces of music, and indeed to display at

<http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivi
ty-august-24-2007/>
Wonder
how long it will last.
Cheers,

I've been asked to combine a bunch of PDFs into a single document. So I
made a little Automator script:
Get Selected Finder Items
Combine Documents by Apending Pages

Hey Guys,
Was just in a Skype chat, and was 'Stumble' ing around on the net in
firefox. The stumbleupon page had audio in it, and the irritating
thing is, if i were to turn down the system volume the conversation on