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

My first phase of reducing comms costs has started, and Virgin took over
my broadband this morning. No complaints so far, the free modem (which
is USB only, so won't be used) arrived last week (within 48 hours of
ordering), along with the freeview box. Broadband went active this

According to Apple Insider, Leopard won't be available for 800MHz G4
Macs, because it runs too slowly.  Now if it's slower on 800 MHz G4s,
presumably it will be slower on faster Macs too, just not so slow that
they'l disallow it.

So, that's it then. Apple have shot themselves in the head again.

My finances are in a right state. I've no idea where I stand with any of
my income and outgoing. I used to be organised, back when I used Quicken
on Windows 98. But then Linux dragged me a way from Windows and my money
awareness hasn't been the same since.

I posted a week or so concerning upgrading my iMac to the new version.
Well, it sold at the asking price within 2 days, so that's that.
The thing is, the buyer wants the computer 'configured' - he liked the
way i had it set up, with all the little utilities and things.

My brother's iMac has thin black lines across the screen. It looks
like a software issue, as the lines are per-window and scroll with the
window's contents. Sometimes Firefox gets chunks of its display
jumbled up.  The logon screen has large blocks of random pixels on it,

Where please is the best place to go for Entourage support? I cannot find a
forum. I have a load of junk mail that I have deleted but I cannot remove it
from my junk folder - I've tried purge.
Thanks

My Bluetooth keyboard is irritatingly sticky. What do you use on the key
mechanisms to keep them free? Dry teflon/silicone-type spray? Silicone
grease?
Daniele

Anyone know if this is possible? If so, how?

...is a Mac:
http://stevenf.com/2007/09/macs_really_do_run_windows_better.php
       -z-

Anyone know where I can get a banner - a line of scrolling text -
screensaver from?
Cheers,

Looks like some speed fixes....

Bought the new Jose Gonzalez album from the WiFi store via the iPod
touch tonight. It just worked. Clicked buy now, got prompted for my
iTMS password and it started downloading. Was able to listen to the
first downloaded track whilst the others were queued. Also got told the

Is there going to be a ucsm group visit to MacExpo this year? Is it going to
be on the Friday? Where are we going to eat after? Who's coördinating it?
Martin S Taylor