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

How close to the edge can one get in an Aperture book? That is, if I
prepare a book with a photo that runs exactly to the edge of the page:
       how much of it is likely to be cropped
       am I likely to end up with a gap to the edge of the page?

...and guess what, my 3g iPod died yesterday so I need a new iPod.  Oh dear

So this announcement on sept 5th then? Some iPod like device.
Who fancies the guessing game here?
I will go for a touch screen, widescreen iPod, like an iPhone, but
without the phone, just music and video.

Having a look at a friend's iMac G3 (slot-loading CD); I'm a Mac novice
so please bear with me...
When switched on it comes up with a folder icon with alternating 'face'
logo/question mark. Boots OK from the Install CD and the Restore CD. If

If a website refuses to load on Safari because it says it will only
work with Internet Explorer isn't there a way to make Safari  'pretend'
to be IE?  I'm  sure I've see somewhere here how do it.  
I tried a google search but am obviously not using the correct search

We got this Victorian house in SE22. An artisan/manager's house,
basically. Nothing grand, no stone walls a metre thick. After a huge
amount of work (including getting in Organisation Todt to build the
Atlantic Wall under the ground floor, to keep it all upstanding) it's

I'm trying to help a third party who has just switched from PC to Mac.
She has MSN as her ISP apparently and has been told by the "genius" at
the local Apple Store that it's not possible to use Mail.app with MSN.
This sounds suspicious to me - surely it would just be Exchange or ...

That sneaked in under the radar,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/6968291.stm
Not much British content yet though.
Phil

Message when I try to suspend latest version of Parallels after
installing BBC iPlayer:
Parallels Desktop cannot suspend the virtual machine because graphics
application that uses OpenGL or DirectX is running. Please close the

Does anyone have any tips or links that would help with setting up a Mac
for an elderly person with poor sight?
The end user has no previous experience of computers and is primarily
interested in web browsing and email.

iMac, intel. Browser: Safari
I've got the latest updates from Apple, I've installed the latest
flash-player. I've run 'repair disk permissions'. But when I visit pages
with flash plugins, I get the quicktime logo with a question mark in the

I use the Apple address book for all my contacts, and Apple Mail.
I need to import and use the contents of an Outlook Express address
book.
So far I have exported that to a csv file which opens nicely in Excel,

http://soking.us
http://down.so-king.com:8080/
server 1
server 2

OK, so I agree it was a stupid idea but, I popped into my local
(Preston) PC World today to see if they had a copy of iLife for sale.
The sad, pathetic shelf that used to contain Mac software now contains
only various versions of Microsoft Office 2007. When I asked where the