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Could be the American CEOs who run our Telcos. Mr Ass Sol who runs Telstra is using a chunk of his bloated pay package, for stuffing up a huge virtual monopoly, to bribe his way into a possible cosy job with a McCain administration. You know the usual American "enterprise" applied to the...

Use ffmpegX to convert the files to h.264. It's free and about as fast as it gets.

Could you detail ""much of the world" that I know of", as most of the world, with some notable exceptions, charges for download or simply has poor speeds or the local population can't afford it in the first place. My local ISP here in Australia has truly unlimited DL from midnight to 7am, so...

I strongly recommend against locking yourself into current limitations. Apple will rapidly make them obsolete and you will regret the time and effort wasted on an inferior conversion. I have a huge library of DVDs, CDs etc which I am converting to store on an external half terrabyte USB hard...

Interesting that you got that far! I am running Tiger on my main hard drive and have installed Leopard on an external FW drive. I was holding back on booting into Leopard until Apple issued its 10.5.1 update just on the off chance I might encounter some of the problems others have suffered. On...

A few thoughts. Check your Firewire cable is actually plugged in and properly seated in both your external device and on the Mac. Check the ports inside, are they clean? Try an alternative cable. Try alternative disk media. If you have a chain of Firewire devices the devices in the...

Sounds like your cooling system has either failed or is not up to the job, the G5 does run hot. I have a similar problem with my old G4 and have to keep the side door open. Especially in hot weather, sometimes with afloor fan blowing over it. System freezes can definitely be caused by...

Takes the transparent look of Leopard to its logical conclusion. Now when you see yourself reflected in the iMac glass screen it'll be that much more fun to work out what is you, the screen or the wall at the far side of the room!

All the better to see yourself reflected in the glass as you try to get some work done!

Symphonix Can you please give a specific link to the MacHeist deal. I've used them before and been very happy. I just searched their site and can't locate what you are referring to. As usual you go for the 2-3 really useful apps and the rest are cream on the deal. I'd be interested in...

I highly recommend you get the iMac 24" and max out the RAM. The speed is excellent for what you need and you would use external HardDrives anyway, at least one just for backup/mirroring. You can fit a 2nd monitor if required as a pallette monitor which is always a good idea but not absolutely...

It could be your daughter has created a horizontal template page as the default startup page. These reside in Applications > Appleworks > Starting Points > Templates. Failing that, yes look at what your default is in Page Setup and chnage it back to the way you like it.

I wonder for how long though? I can't even give away my older machines. Doesn't do me much good to have Macs with a long life when I can't install OSes or software on them.

I have the same problem with my HP Desktop F380. Even when I override the persistent save to Pictures behavior, it still saves a numbered file in Pictures which I have to manually trash. Look forward to even more of this recalcitrant behavior once Leopard forces all downloads into a Desktop...

Wow! And you all seem so surprised!

Yes it is a free standing presentation. As mentioned in the original posting.

PuckJunky, Slide-shows that only show the contents of a folder of images are not portable, rely on a combination of system and software that the user is unlikely to have, and fall apart as soon as anything in the chain of requirements or images is disturbed. In other words they are VBI (Very...

Following on from that. I have some Duckman episodes that I'd like to able to play on my PAL TV. I know you are not supposed to DL these, but they aren't released locally, so it was the only way I could get them. The movies are only 320 x 240 px. What is the best method of converting them...

To get back on topic. What I expect from Leopard, is exactly what you have been shown. Any "secret" features will be of the trivial 5 minute "gee whiz" kind that will be turned off or ignored when reality finally rears its ugly head. What I would like from Leopard is a return to the...