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

I used Apple Numbers in anger for the first time today to do a budget summary
of a Pilot project I'm involved in. Once I worked out how to do things (and
get out of the Excel way of thinking) I was quite pleasantly surprised with
how easy it was to use. It's not going to replace ...

I often receive forms to fill in and they're supplied as .pdf files.
What's the best way to complete the form and send it back? I've been using
PhotoShop, but this is a bit sledge-hammerly.
Martin S Taylor

It's like this:
We've got a 1GHz G4 iMac (PC2100 RAM).  It's got 768MB RAM.  More would
be good.
Crucial tells me that we can replace the 256MB SODIMM with a 512MB

In MacBreak Weekly 77, Scott Bourne talked about a GUI for ImageMagick.
I cant find anything about this; does anyone know what he was talking
about? I've found the command-line version useful in the past and I
think a GUI version would prove useful.

"Are you aware that you could make up to $500+ per week playing online
games."
Learn more: http://500perweek.blogspot.com/
_____________________________________________________________________________

Own E-shop yourself,welcome to www.clothserver-yhnetstore.cn
We are wholesale each kind of Shoes, Jeans, T-shirts,
Sunglasses,Handbags, Wallets, Sandals, Watches,Cap, Belt... from
China. In the process of fast development,(http://www.clothserver-

I just installed the Trial version of Aperture 2, mainly to see if it
was going to be worth the cost for the features it has.
Well, in a word, no!
On my G5 dual 1.8, 4.5GB RAM, with Radeon 9800XT card, the speed

New version out, 5584, which fixes the copy'n'paste failure I whinged
about a while ago. Turns out that it happens only on 10.4.11 with some
security update.
    Cheers - Jaimie

On the cover of tomorrows The Independent newspaper."Win a MacBook Air" in a
big banner headline. Nice advertising.
Ian

Mostly Apple TV stuff and bug fixes.
"Rent and download your favorite movies with iTunes on your computer or
directly to your living room on Apple TV. Enjoy rented movies in sizes
up to 720p HD with surround sound on your Apple TV and sizes up to

Is anyone on Virgin/Blueyonder 20mb in the London area experiencing slow
speeds. If it's just me, is it possible I'm being punished for downloading
many GigaBytes in the last couple of weeks.
Jay

I thought my MacBook Air was struggling a little to get a decent signal
from my wireless router when I first got it.
Now sitting here with my MacBook and MacBook Air side by side iStumbler
reports the MacBook as 35% signal strength and 9% noise where as the

I'm stumped (I'm no doubt missing something mind-boggingly obvious) but
I can't get my TiBook to connect (using Airport) to my G5 via a wireless
router and share files.
However, the TiBook connects to the internet via the modem/router

Although I'm retired, I still do bits of consulting for various organisations
and I'd like to try and improve the accuracy of my billing by using a 'real
time' time recording app.
Ideally I'm looking for something that will leave a clock running and allow

Has anyone tried accessing Oracle Forms web apps from Safari on iTouch?
TIA