Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

My 85w MagSafe adapter has given up ... anyone got a spare for cheap?

do you want a hard plastic shell? or a briefcase type thing?

Speck make hard shells for it in a variety of different colours (for both the 11 and 13 inch models).

Only available for the current generation of macbook airs though

looking for a hard shell - need to be sure it survives being in my ruck sack when loaded with stuff..will check out the speck

thanks

A bit small time, but has anybody got an old powerbook mini DVI > VGA adaptor they want to sell on? Like this, cheers...

I will have one available in a couple of weeks.

Need to buy my new MacBook first, but once I have my mini DVI to VGA will be redundant.

Do you need it straight away???

I think I have one of those adaptors on my desk at home... maybe... will have a look. Can't be worth much so whatevs....

^^ Thanks chaps. I'll need it for mid next week. Chris, if you have one just let me know... ta ;-)

If its for pre unibody macs im pretty sure I have it... I have a couple of connectors like that just dieing for a good home... are they worth owt? I will look it out this eve then you are welcome to pickup whenever... farringdon 9-5 viccy park other times...

Yep, it's for an old 12" G4 powerbook. Once you've dug it out just work out a price and let me know... cheers ;-)

Ahhh cool... will have it then... no idea about price, going to do a quick googe... can't be much though right?

£5?

anyone know how to open/unarchive .rm linux RPM archive files?

tried that :)

£5?

Cool - cheers. Maybe best to continue this by PM to stop thread clutter - sending you one now...

suggestions for better alternatives to mac mail? Drives me mad.

Not Entourage or anything made by microsoft.

gmail + mailplane

Or: http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-GB/

I am a recent convert to mac's and so far I am finding them great, with a few exceptions.

I regularly post to wordpress and I am really struggling to get my mac book pro to behave in a sensible manner. The problem is this, on a PC I copy data from an excel file into a word doc and then add a bit of text and a photo gallery. Then I paste the whole document into wordpress, usually I don't have to bother with the 'paste from word' function and hey presto it looks great all the lines on the tables are spaced neatly and it a makes me happy in a OCD sort of way.

When I do the same on my mac for some reason I cant fathom the same data gets compressed into the centre of the screen with huge margins either side and some of the neat formatting carried in from the excel tables gets messed up. This all leads to the data being difficult to read. I also notice that the galleries thunbnails are only two images wide when posted from the mac as opposed to three images wide when posted from a PC.

I heard that there are formatting issues surrounding .docx files but it doesn't make any difference what sort of word file I save it as,.doc or .docx I still get the same problems & I can't find any relevent settings in wordpress either.

Is anyone else having or had silimar problems? Does anyone know how to remedy this problem.

You tried using MarsEdit instead to post to Wordpress? Easier to prepare posts offline. Are you posting into plaintext or html editing mode?

http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/

I am a recent convert to mac's and so far I am finding them great, with a few exceptions.

I regularly post to wordpress and I am really struggling to get my mac book pro to behave in a sensible manner. The problem is this, on a PC I copy data from an excel file into a word doc and then add a bit of text and a photo gallery. Then I paste the whole document into wordpress, usually I don't have to bother with the 'paste from word' function and hey presto it looks great all the lines on the tables are spaced neatly and it a makes me happy in a OCD sort of way.

When I do the same on my mac for some reason I cant fathom the same data gets compressed into the centre of the screen with huge margins either side and some of the neat formatting carried in from the excel tables gets messed up. This all leads to the data being difficult to read. I also notice that the galleries thunbnails are only two images wide when posted from the mac as opposed to three images wide when posted from a PC.

I heard that there are formatting issues surrounding .docx files but it doesn't make any difference what sort of word file I save it as,.doc or .docx I still get the same problems & I can't find any relevent settings in wordpress either.

Is anyone else having or had silimar problems? Does anyone know how to remedy this problem.

Try and post it into the html bit - sounds like it's adding some weird formatting.

I am posting straight into the visual section, I will stick it in the HTML section and see if that helps before I try MarsEdit. I am a little reluctant to pay for something that works perfectly well on a cheap netbook but not on a macbook!

Thanks for your help.

Posting straight into the HTML section is event worse! All the formatting goes and the tables become totally unreadable.

I think I'll take the easy option and post using a PC for now.

Have you tried Pages? Mac's answer to Word...

just deleted trash and really shouldn't have. I know. Its trash. that's why its in there. But anyway anyone got a key to register for Stellar Phoenix?
Or any other tips on how to recover files without spending ££

thanxxxx
Franziska

Ziska, get ahold of data rescue, cost a bit butb allows you to recover files that have been accidentally deleted, you'll have to stop using the hd of course, and need another computer with a large enough hard drive for any data that may be recovered..

Why can't I see any of the windows pc's in the office anymore? I haven't changed any settings Its just decided that my day has to much more irritating as have to email everyone the files they want instead of using the dropbox