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

A friend has a iBook that is some 6+ years old now and she was wondering
if it was worthwhile updating from the current original 10.1 to, say,
10.3 and I suggested it very much depended on the processor and to click
on 'about this mac' to find out what is reported.

Dear All ­
Just bought a 17" PPC iMac from an eBayer, the machine seems fine, but has no
internal serial number (in About this Mac...).
Ideas for that, please?

It's like this:
Turn off Javascript in yer browser.
The iPlayer won't fire up - you'll get a little message in an iPlayer
style window telling you to turn Javascript on, and a link so you can

Decided to take a risk and spend [accent=very Scottish, mode=thrifty]
two pounds and ninenty nine pence [/voice /mode] on FileMagnet.
Initial impressions: favourable. Very. It's essentially a PDF viewer but
for other document types as well. I'm not sure it works as an eBook

Dos anyone know the spec/ref of the clock battery on a first gen G5 - I
can get one on the way home but forgot to look inside last night.
thx
E.

Now 'my' old Tangerine iMac user is getting herself a brand new one (JL
deliver Friday) she'll need to be able to handle Word files people email
to her, plus legacy ClarisWork (and Word) files that she has.
The Word files could be sorted in Open Office, or the other one. But as

Anyone actually got it ? I am still waiting, I have a different number
of contacts on my computer than on  the iphone. Still says .mac here :(
David

In case anyone with a symbian S60 phone wanted something to
open/create/transfer office files, quickoffice have a sale from $70 down
to $1 for quickoffice 5.
It works with office 2008 documents and they take paypal.

Do any actually work properly?
We moan about Apple's MobileMe being a bit flaky, but the amount of work
is pretty high.
I've been looking for a PAYG mobile account that'll offer good reliable

I think I've heard about this behaviour before but can't rememrber what
it was about and googling on it didn't give anything useful:
My mac mini has been, since this morning, asking me for the password to
sync to a long forgotten G3 mac, long since not in my network. I can

I've got a few files in MPEG1 format (some old episodes of 'Making the
Most of the Micro' - yes, I'm sad) that I'd like to convert to DivX so
my DVD player can play them.
I have QTPro but that won't export as DivX. Are there any free methods

<http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1192>
Jim

And I thought I just had to show it to someone - SpamSieve's running at
99.3% correct (at the moment, since 3/4/2006), and it's been a long time
since it mis-filed anything.
Take a peek (and can anyone tell me something about the headers?):

As I am bored and lookinf for something to entertain me I have come
across this:
http://www.elgato.com/elgato/int/mainmenu/products/tuner/DTTdeluxe/product1.en.html
Anyone here actually used one? Any good?

Or is everyone else also getting 'unavailable' ?
Jim