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

I am racing this year and there is a radio station that broadcasts the races
to the radio.
Its only very shortrange, maybe 4 miles or so, but on a normal frequency
(106.6)

It is occasionally useful to be able to access an NTFS formatted drive
on my Mac, and write to it. I have come across some software that offers
this ability from a Mac, and I wondered if anyone here had used this
software, and have any comments on how well it works?

So, my four year old G4 Powerbook (17 inch Alluminium) has started to
revert to that date (is it 1901?) which lets me know that its internal
back up battery needs replaced.
Thinking that a replacement would cost about five quid  - no, ten quid,

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How do you change widget prefs?
The met widget insist on coming up with temperatures in Fahrenheit. They
mean nothing to me at all; I can convert them of course, but at first
glance I find them a weird ancient aberration.

I have a client who is up and running with an existing install of
Entourage 2004.
On his other Mac, he has a separate Entourage 2004 database.
What is the most efficient way of importing the separate database to his

*       no longer works
*       no longer available for download
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Doesn't look good - what a shame.

Don't bother.
They're rubbish.
It's a bit like typing on a Sinclair Z88, but with less feedback.

I've had a suspicion that my user account may have had some problems
with it somewhere. This was recently confirmed by not being able to
install PhotoShop Elements 4, failing to run the final installer script
for shared files. I created a new user just for testing, and was able to

I know there are one or two Aperture users here and wondered what are
the features that lead to you using this over Lightroom (or anything
else) or vice versa.
Prompted by the various speculations about the possible demise of

The majority of PDFs open in Preview with no trouble, but a couple
lately only display a load of gibberish, mostly little hollow rectangles
and a few other strange symbols.
If I go to the trouble of firing up Acrobat Reader, the PDF displays

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On the PMG5, I have a splendid little contextual menu plugin that, when
one right clicks an ISO or DMG, enables you to burn it directly to a
blank disc - no tedious mucking about in Disk Utility or whatever.
Unfortunately, the genius frenchman that created it hasn't done an Intel

How do I stop Firefox from opening PDFs in Preview and instead load them
in the browser via Acrobat?
I do have Adobe reader 8 installed.
Thanks.

So today I needed to use Time Machine in earnest. Messing about trying to
sort out an obscure bug in iCal, I corrupted my system so badly that nothing
would work properly. Fiddled around for a couple of hours, then gave up: ah,
sod it, let's go for the full backup - that's what ...