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For general iLife '05 bitches and moans http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49035 I have to say iPhoto 5 is great! It seems much faster and being able to handle movies is great. I haven't fully tested it but one of the gripes i have is that smart-albums dont work - at all. I...

Heres an interesting problem for you all... I have a LAN i would like to connect to a friends LAN so they appear as one. I know this can be done using expensive VPN hardware. This is the basic set up. 2 houses with ADSL, each with a router that supports VPN pass through. The routers...

Hey, I just downloaded the 1.5 Dev tools and i have to say well done apple. Source code completion is much improved. I use java quite often so having source completion is great. Its quick and from my play around very good so far. Even a old request of mine to have a way of un/commenting...

MS Word - Tools -> Auto Correct Options (not sure if works on the mac version - im at work at the mo) enter a normal word like "the" into the replace box and into the "with" box put something strange like - "the bosses wife is ugly" evey time they type "the" it will be magically repaced...

Hi, I am trying to figure out how to set up a intranet style DNS server. i played around with bind v8 via the webmin interface but had no luck. Then i remembered netinfo. Perfect - well almost. I duplicated the localhost entry under machines and renamed it to profx, saved the entry...

I have been looking around for a while to a way to do this on my Mac, I looked a PGP programs on version tracker etc. But i found this tutorial http://www.joar.com/certificates/ It gives step by step instructions on how to get your very own digital certificate from thawte (thats free)...

For my university we have to use secure smtp when sending mail. I cant use another server as most ports are blocked outside of the university except for port 80 (and a few others in the 8000 range). Anyway, it works but when try to send mail it pops up the warning in the attachment. I click...

I have a problem - which i wont go into but this is the cause: When i can connected to a LAN the ethernet interface gets an ipaddress - as you would expect, i can ping my own ip address, which makes sense. But when connected to the internet via dialup i cant ping the modem interface. This...

Does anyone else have this problem? Some times the bookmarks bar just disappears in safari, but when you mouse-over where the links should be they reappear one by one. Every time the page is refreshed they disappear again! Also a new one that i haven't had before is the tab bar not...

ARHG... Does anyone else have the problem of long file names being truncated and replaced with garbage at the end? This really drives me mad. MS Office V.x seems to only support 32 char file names, almost all files i have are longer than that, so when ever it opens them it conveniently...

Hi, I tried connecting my friends new Sony-Erricsson T610 yesterday and the infrared menu-ling went crazy. The menu bar in the top right kept on disappearing (clock, battery level etc...) I couldn't turn infrared on or off and even once the phone was removed it still did it. Even after a...

Hey everyone, First off this is a winXP - itunes problem, but i hope someone here can help. a friend of mine is trying to import all of his tracks in from real juke box. Some tracks come in with track-artist-album id3 tag info but most don't (we are talking about 2000 songs here - so dont...

I am making a php script to grab the surf report off the local surf site so i can convert it to wml and get it on my phone. I have done one for a snow report, now i am working on a surf report. How ever the surf report requires cookies to view the report page. Any one know how to read a...

if you click and drag on a text hyperlink you get a semi-transparent grey box with the url and title, you can gray it to the dock or another app or the desktop and it will create a link. not stunning but neat all the same edit: stupid safari wont display image, it has to download it...

check this out... http://www.iriveramerica.com/products/SlimX_550.asp incredible... if only it played m4a (aac) I Think i am going to get one. Cheap at the price (USD$179)

Hi everyone, I have developed a set of scripts for itunes 4 that manage a playlist, which acts as a request list. It comes in three parts 2 scripts that run within itunes: "Play this next..." and "Queue this..." its fairly obvious what these do also an applescript application that...

Hi, Does anyone have any idea if this router will work with a powerbook with an airport card? Thi seems really cheap and feature packed and i am, thinking about getting it! http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/en/product/XH1150 this is a new zealand website os halve this price...