Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / January 2008

I recently received a letter from BT expressing regret that we're
transferring our calls to another telephone company. Since I hadn't
transferred our calls, I was a little mystified. Turns out Pipex were
taking over our calls.

I've just used iDVD (version 4.0.2(?)) for the first time - in fact it's
the first time I've ever burned a DVD - and it seemed to go ok except
that the text quality on the menu screen is awful - looks like a resaved
jpeg at 2% quality setting.

Can anyone recommend a good, reliable wireless router?
I bought a Linksys one for my parents, but the damn thing keeps
forgetting its settings - resulting in regular, maddening 2 hour phone
conversations to fix it (with a slightly deaf, computer illiterate 75

The toner is getting low on my printer, and a quick search has brought
out a number of sources who sell both the new toners, or a refill kit at
a fraction of the new price.
This is for a Samsung ML2570.

Am I right in thinking it's 5pm our time?
I which case 'arse', as it will be over by the time I get back.
Jim

http://www.nolobe.com/iris/
beta 1 now available for download. Looks to be quite interesting.
However I can't say any more than that, since the beta is Intel only.
Grrrr.

Is there any way to run a Dashboard widget in a normal application
window i.e. without having to open Dashboard? I ask as Dashboard is
very slow to start up and load all the widgets, so if I want to use
just one regularly for a job (e.g. Translation) then I'd have to

Once you have the video files - as Quicktime or whatever - what's the
fastest thing to encode them ?
iDVD seems glacially slow to me as do most others. ffmpegX seems about
the quickest but doesn't do a straight burn - it codes then you can

It's a complete pain to get to an Apple Store from where I am, and I
really don't want to send my MacBook away for repair - especially as I
spend much of my time away from home these days, so it could be weeks
before I get it back again..... so going for an Apple repair extension

Any freebie conversion tools? I need to do this just once, so not
really interested in a pay-for tool (unless it's VisualHub which I own,
and which I'm -sure- can do it somehow but doesn't appear obvious to
me). I do have Popcorn 1 somewhere, but not sure if it runs on Leopard

Does anyone else use the above combination?
Since I got this MacBook Pro with Leopard, Google Toolbar's PageRank
doesn't work. Now that I check, none of Google Toolbar's features work.
Nor does the preferences option in Add-ons.

Looks plausible to me:
<http://voidin.blogspot.com/2008/01/macworld-2008-keynote-leaked.html>.
Disappointed if it's for real though.
Paul

Garageband is failing to launch, it quits at the 'initialising' window.
Thinking of re-applying any updates - are GB updates in the combo updater?

I have an mp4 video file from which I want to extract a section of audio. So...
1. Open up the file in Quicktime Pro
2. Set the relevant in/out and then Trim To Selection
3. Command-J, extract audio - now I have an audio-only 'movie' with

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