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

I think I just saw an iMac on Grand Designs (Trade secrets).
Don't think it could have been anything else .. considering .. ?
All the best ..
T i m

Doing a clear-out and came across a Powerbook G4 12" Software Restore
disc, providing 10.2.3. Part number is 2691-4288-A, says DVD version
1.1 above it.
eBay suggests it's worth less than a tenner and I'd rather just get the

So, iPhone almost a cert. Anything else we think?
Jim

Okay, I know Macs are supposed to be for high-end graphics stuff, but
there comes a time when one just needs to do something simple. Take
this evening, for example. I needed to produce outlines of the
constituents of the Union Flag (not having found any outlines that

Grrr.
I am having a lot of trouble getting prints to come out right when they
are printed by Kodak using the 'order prints' function in Aperture. They
are always too dark. I wonder if I am dealing with the age-old issue of

I've set up a rule in Little Snitch to deny any application any
connection to adultfriendfinder.com (a sex-oriented dating site, which
is heavily advertised by other sites - some embed advertisements in
their pages, others spawn new windows for it).

I just ordered a couple of discs from Britannica (not encyclopaedia
discs), and they were clearly marked as Mac compatible, and even had a
section of system requirements.
They arrived and were NOT Mac compatible. I Emailed them, and they

I have just bought a new phone the Nokia 6300 and on opening the box I see
that the CD only works on a PC with XP. Does anyone using a Mac have this
phone, am I missing out on any important stuff.  I bought this phone as
according to all the reviews you can access your emails with ...

I have my Airport Express wireless security set to WPA personal. I would
like to set up my daughters PowerBook to use my Airport. The question is
will this upset her BT wireless settings that she uses at her home, and does
the PB detect automatically  what wireless connection to use ...

Popped over for a visit today and was very impressed. As my previous
experience of 'Apple' stores was limited to Scotsys, I felt a bit like
Dave Bowman falling in to the monolith.
I managed to resist the big purchase that was ssoooo tempting. The iPod

Is it possible to record lectures with my ipod touch using an external
microphone by Belkin for example?
Thanks for any input
Mark

Not sure what I'm missing but on what do I click to get from the weather
widget to the related web page? If Iclickj on the i for information the
widget spins and I can get to the web from there. That though seems strange
and I would have expected there to be a way from the main ...

I have taken to shutting my Macs down when I'm not using them to save
energy. But I  find that when I start up Safari has registered itself
somehow as the default browser. Every time I have to open up Firefox
and use its preferences to set it as the default, and every time I

And I've got one. 16GB Version from the SF store. Putting content onto
it at present. Un-boxing photos to follow. First impressions are: Wow -
it's very thin. Plus the screen display is very crisp.
Ian

I'm trying to help someone with this. On a mac.
[1] I believe I have some sort of mail worm problem that I'm at my wits end
to fix. Every time I send am e-mail to someone with an attachment it adds a
second attachment with the same name but it just shows a whole bunch of porn.