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

Is there a free or shareware program that I can use on my work Windows
PC that will read my Mac formatted USB memory stick ?
Tks all !

This one's interesting:
<http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/309561137/o2-iphone>
That basically gets me down to the lack of video as my major concern
with the device - will be interesting to see what happens there.

Since updating to 10.5.3 (it may have been there before, but I didn't
notice it) I have noticed that folder sizes are being inaccurately
reported.
I have just come back from holiday, over 1,200 digital photo's,

I have a question about Applecare on behalf of a friend.
She is planning on buying a Macbook, and wants to get Applecare.  I
suggested that instead of buying it directly from Apple, that she get it
off eBay for a fraction of the cost.

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I'm obviously being denser than normal but I'm having
problems printing landscape 'A3' pages within a PDF onto an A4 printer
from Preview.
Normal printing options give me the vertically central strip from the

It was the WWDC Beer bash tonight (SF time). THe Barenaked Ladies were the
band. Good fun. Photos at:
<http://gallery.mac.com/ianrobinson#100075>
Ian

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[OS X Leopard]
I've set up a desktop printer and tried to drag and drop PDFs to it some
work, some don't. From experimentation I believe it's PDFs from a
certain source only. They do, however, print OK if I open them in

<http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/11/steve_jobs_its_time_we_design_our_
own_iphone_and_ipod_chips.html>
I'm
hanging on for their iSID sound chip myself...
Cheers,

...given the rather poor performance of the 8800 you might want to wait
for this:
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=9212>
ATI Radeon 3870 HD.

I have this large tree in my garden. On a day by day basis it doesn't do
much, but on a year by year basis it is fairly busy.
After doing an iStopMotion thing of gardening, I thought it would be nice to
do one of the tree.

I'm trapped in 10.5.2.
Here's the problem:
When I got my machine, it ran perfectly. Leopard Graphics
Update 1.0 introduced some graphical glitches (flickering).

I've resisted using iPhoto until quite recently as it seems to be one
of those apps that completely takes over and makes you organise files
according to its rules. However, on closer inspection it did seem to
have several features which make it worth the trouble - so I bit the

I have a G3 PowerBook Pismo that I don't use often enough, so I thought
I'd install Ubuntu on it.... you know, to see what all the fuss was
about, and also to see what it was like to use an Open Source OS.
Well, after confusion (how many different versions are there?!),