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

Look, it's here:
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Macbook_air
I like the slogan in the photo.

Whats the shortcut key to go up a level in Finder, in Windows Explorer a
backspace will do it, but not on a Mac.

With 10.3.9, as the Mac wasn't left awake overnight, I used MacJanitor
to do the housekeeping while I was still conscious.
Am I right to assume that with 10.4.11 this is no longer necessary- that
it will do the missed housekeeping at the next possible opportunity?

I am not very happy with the res of the cam in the new iMac when using
Skype or yahoo..
Is there an external Web cam that you 'clamp' on to the side of the iMac
?

For those who thought there weren't enough this year...
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8L39UwOS-Y>

Not doing much consulting are we
Steve Firth
FIRTH CONSULTING LIMITED
BLAKE'S SCHOOL HOUSE

I've been playing with my daughters' iPod Touches. They are lovely
gadgets, but my large sausage fingers make it hard to type accurately. A
stylus (or smaller fingers) would be great, but of course normal
styluses don't work; the touch screen appears to use the capacitance of

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Posted by: RedOnRed    25-04-06 at 11:12 PM  

I could do with a small mouse for my Macbook - I guess as the Mac has
Bluetooth built in I wont require a dongle if I was to get a BT one.
Any recommends?

I'm having a couple of weird problems with iTunes. Every time I start
it up it shows a little exclamation mark against every song. However
the songs are there - if I double-click them they play. The other
problem is that there are duplicate copies listed for some of the

Hi again everyone!  Are you sick of me yet?  lol
I've just heard back from the bods who make Poser 7 that I can upgrade to
the Mac version which has pretty much sold me to getting a Mac!
Saying that, which laptop should I get?  I'm sold on the refurbished Macs

http://gizmotonic.blogspot.com/
http://gizmotonic.blogspot.com/
http://gizmotonic.blogspot.com/
amazing phone...a must for evry iphone luver

I have a 2.5in hard disk (Hitachi Travelstar 60 GB, bought used on eBay in
an external USB enclosure) which is driving me nuts.
I thought about putting it in my G4 (hard disk in there just died), and I
can see the drive under OS X but when I try to format or partition it then

I have been given a Formac Studio DV/TV and I am trying to get it to
work under 10.4, however the OSX driver will not run as the firmware is
too old, it has 1.0.3 and the driver will only work with 1.0.6 or
higher, I have mailed Formac but got no reply (from what I read this is

Well, I've got the Touch (16GB), but of course it needs bloody 10.4.+ to
work.
And here was me, happy as a pig in sh.t with 10.3.9. Ah well, it's only
money and technofear.