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

An elderly relative, who has used Windows in the past, would like a
laptop and a wireless broadband connection. I suggested she buys a used
Mac of some kind because I believe security would be better (Firefox or
Safari rather than Internet Explorer) and the Mac applications she'll

I just noticed that the new iPhoto now shows you image previews when
you're about to import stuff from a camera. Nice!
Cheers,
Chris

Been using Messenger for ages but recently it's started crashing when I
close an open conversation and I then have to re-start the app and log
back in.
I've tried removing the app and reinstalling to no avail.  Are there

This may be more of a Windoze question, but I'm sure some kind person
here will know the answer. How do I get a Macally keyboard to work
properly (and in particular to give me quote marks when I hit the quote
marks key, rather than the @ key) when running Win 2000 inside Virtual

I've noticed some odd issues on my MB recently.  After a bit of use
(usually on my lap, so not on a desk with a gap underneath for
cooling) it'll start closing apps, and more tellingly showing corrupt
video - the dock will corrupt, and characters will start vanishing

...now the missus has her huge external drive coming for video editing
on her Thinkpad, I was wondering what the state of play for OS X
writing to NTFS partitions was?*  It'd be handy to be able to do this,
but not if the tool enabling it was a bit experimental and liable to

I can access both the US and UK Apple sites, but ALWAYS when accessing
the Apple forums/discussions it is so painfully slow and has been for
several weeks.
Anyone else find this? My general web access speed (including all other

Rise up and shine, white sons and daughters
Rise up and shine, you gotta fight to part those waters
When we swim in the light, all will be okay
The black, yellow and brown man will wash away.

3. Why?
Ok, seriously - in Numbers (in a chart) is it possible to rotate the
text for the x-axis labels to be vertical if the graph is a 3D Line
graph? It appears that you can't but I find that a little hard to

1. Note that there are loads of emails in your RoR mailing list folder
and you don't have time to read them. Decide to delete them all.
2. cmd-a to select all messages
3. Aim for the delete key but hit the Enter key instead.

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I went into the local Mac shop today fully with the intention of buying
one of the new Aluminium keyboards. Currently I use a iMac tray-load era
USB keyboard.
To cut a long story short, they are proper nasty to my fingers. I was

Hey guys,
I am using a 2 -3 year old iMac. I was wondering if now is the right
time to buy a new mac, or just wait for Leopard.
Are there any latest softwares out there that make it compelling to

Just revisiting Safari for the first time in ages after using Camino
exclusively. Two things are really making me think of switching back
1) the new find on page feature which is a god send and 2) inquisitorx
(not sure if it has always been free but it is now).

On a new Intel Powermac, when a CD is inserted it seems that Disk
Utility is offered as the default action, which the user accepts.
The blank disc doesn't appear in Finder or in Disk Utility.
I am called.  I quit DU and re-insert the disk.  It appears in Finder