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

A client writes:
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I thought I'd buy myself a camcorder
and got a Sony DCRSR32 30 GByte Hard Disk

My 17" MacBook Pro Battery has swelled to over double its original
thickness. The system is 18mths old.
I am running 10.4.10 and have always kept the updates current.
Has anyone else had these problems? Are they the same issues as for the

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photographed some plaster forms used to teach advanced trigonometry:
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I have Airport Express, shared by three Macs. It is definitely slowing down
my internet connection, I get much higher download speeds if the modem is
connected directly to my Mac.
I have been looking at Airport Extreme. I noted that it can be connected

Both silly names. In the case of the iMac, is the 2.8Ghz (Extreme) model
just .4GHz faster than the 2.24GHz model (Duo) or is there some other
significant difference?
Daniele

A friend with assorted Macs (two G5, two Mac Book Pros, a coupe of G4
powerbooks) connected via router (laptops via wireless, G5s via
ethernet cable) is thinking of getting this network external drive as a
shared storage device.

For eMail I'm using Mail. I decided to bounce the junk mail, afterwards the
ammount of junk mail that I received seemed to increase. So I stopped
bouncing, junk received has decreased. Could this just be a flook, or is
bouncing a bad thing.

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I'm trying to help someone who wants to transfer photos from their Nokia
6070 to their Mac. It looks like they need a CA-42 USB cable, but I see
this only comes with PC software and I don't know if the phone will show
up as a storage device on the Mac, or whether it needs ...

I have a MacBook on which I installed Boot Camp beta 1.4 and Windows
XP SP2 on a separate partition of the built-in drive. I can boot
either operating system according to my needs, even run them
simultaneously using Parallels. I love this setup but I fear losing it

I have some ov2 (tomtom poi) files that I want to merge together.
This in itself isn't hard but having a look around I can't find any mac
software that does it (there is some java stuff I can use), apart from
some software the wrong side of £50.

What's the state of play in HD video cameras? Anyone have a site to
recommend that could be used for research?
Ian

Can't seem to find any firewire ones. Has anyone got a cheap usb one
(preferably logitech or philips) working with Skype? We're running 10.4.9

Greetings. What are some truly decent replacement keyboards for the one that
came with my iMac? Its a Intel Core 2 Duo iMac. Thanks.

Have any other iTouch users tried the Wireless Access feature of EyeTV
2.5 with it yet?
This was very quick and easy to set up, despite my not having used
anything similar nor streamed anything before.