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

I have just downloaded Firefox and I am just wondering if I have done
something wrong.  I have an icon on my desktop that looks the kind I get
when I insert a USB pen drive.  If I try to drag it into the trash, the
trash turns into an eject button!  I have put an icon in the dock ...

I have recorded .mov file form rtsp://202.38.70.248/2003sjh/20030901.mov
using Mov Recorder 1.3. The audio is ahead of video in the recorded
file. The amount of advanced time is negligible at the beginning of
the file, but increases gradually as we go forward, and reaches the

Global Warming is caused by the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.
The lunar or long calendar accurately predicts 2012 to be the date the
gravity of the planet Venus negatively affects the Moon's lunar
trajectory

I've been given a free serial number for Half-Life 2, by someone who
has received another via a promotion (Orange Box? think so, got to say
I'm a bit out of touch with PC gaming).
Has anyone run this with VMware Fusion or Crossover perhaps? I've been

I am thinking of cancelling my .mac subcription
I am getting messages from .mac saying that if I do I will lose my .mac
web pages (this is ok) but also my.mac email address, is this true or
just a threat ? I know you can get a free .mac email address that can be

How can Quick Look allow you to
"view the contents of a file without even
opening it"?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quicklook.html

Missed this one:
<http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html>
""OpenDocument and Word 2007 Formats - Take advantage of TextEdit
support for the Word 2007 and OpenDocument formats for reading and

Anyone know - or at least know and willing/able to discuss - some of the
features of Time Machine? I've checked Apple's site and Wikipedia but
can't find answers to these questions.
I'm wondering whether it's possible to...

Hope someone can offer advice on the following.
I originally set up my iTunes to store music in a folder on a network
drive, but I suspect an automatic upgrade of iTunes has at some point
wiped this setting and replaced it with the default (my Music folder on

I've had my Intel Mac for some time now but only just started using it
for main use (over my Windows pc).
It has 512megs of RAM and to be honest - it seems to struggle. Sure it's
fine with just email and surfing, but when I imported my photos to

<http://www.betanews.com/article/Alltel_TMobile_Palm_Lose_Most_from_iPho
ne/1192475753>
essentally palm lost out as did T-mob. blackberry and other such busness
phones didn't. USA only.

I found online shopping websites. Low priced deals and offers shown on
that website.
So, I want to Share my experience for this site with you all because
of that you all save

<http://www.macrumors.com/2007/10/09/redesigned-macbook-pro-power-adapter-coming/>
Not
sure where that leaves my order for a replacement one, which never got
a -firm- date but which Apple said was likely to be "about Oct 29".

I've got a proper version of Quicktime Pro installed on my G4 iBook. I
used it a few months ago for editing videos. I've just tried again
today but the edit in / edit out points are not showing up so I can't
trim the video or anything else along those lines. I can't select all