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

I've been sent a .doc prepared on a PC in Word 2007 and saved in
'Compatibility Mode'.  The document, apparently, includes the fonts needed
to maintain the correct formatting but, when I open it in Word on the Mac,
the fonts are incorrect.

http://lifehacker.com/software/games/flight-simulator-added-to-google-earth-2957
97.php
Works on a Mac!
Nick Bell

Might be silly question.  I am going to buy a new mac and have been offered a
12" powerbook 1.33mhz ad 1gb of ram which i am considering as i like the fact
its tiny and should be powerful enough for now.  If i upgraded the hard drive
what is the biggest i could get and what type ...

Link shamelessly swiped from Digg:
http://www.peterme.com//?p=583
Cheers,
Ian

Am at my Bro' in laws and we are online wifi with his iBook 10.3.9 -
however he has another PC lappy which won't connect unless we input
teh WEP password - natch.  However, he has lost the poassword.  OI
seem to recall that there is a way of displaying it in Internect

A friend of mine has asked if a specific drive would be ok on his G5. I
think he had a G5 dual 2GHz.
Am I right in thinking that all G5s were SATA? (which is what this drive
is)

% uptime
21:10  up 29 days,  2:11, 4 users, load averages: 0.99 0.95 0.95
For the first time in my life, my home Mac is better-specced than my
work one (20" intel iMac 2.16GHz/2Gb RAM).

I am dumping BTOpenworld for TalkTalk.
I want to export all my mails to make a list of my correspondents to
tell them that I no longer have the bt address.
Any one know how I would do this?

http://www.michaelpage.co.uk/job-display/757764/national-retail-sales-ma
nager.html?src=banner
I'm *very* tempted to go for it - but would it be considered 'bad form'
to change jobs after only 12 months?

Pops up randomly when reading news.bbc.co.uk. First paragraph:
"Thank you for agreeing to take part in this survey. This survey is
being conducted by eDigitalResearch on behalf of the BBC. Before you
begin, you need to make sure that your browser i maximised (i.e. that

Am I correct in assuming that people are generally happy with it?
Is it worth getting the slightly more expensive version with the GPS?
How well (if at all) does it talk to Macs?
Amazon sell it for roughly 130-140 - good price?

Just had an idea for a quiz.
I'll start off with a question about anything related to Apple, whoever
answers first gets to ask the next question.
Then the person who asked the question responds to say whether the

Is there some way to rotate a selection of images in Aperture?
Daniele

Both Safari and Firefox have gone crash-happy on me this morning. From
Safari the first part of the bug report is this:
Date/Time:      2007-09-01 08:06:54.991 +0100
OS Version:     10.4.10 (Build 8R218)

Quite like the instant alpha feature in Keynote 08, but I'd like to use
it for standard photo editing rather than to produce a presentation.
Is there any way to get it to export just the newly alpha'd image?
Failing that, is there any other app that will do this without an large