UK Mac

evil $hiny question
The conjunction of new (Windows based) job and birthday resulted in Dearly Beloved presenting me with a PDA. It had to be Pocket PC, rather than Palm, for various reasons, and I gratefully unwrapped an Acer N50 Premium. Although hardly Ives, or even Palm, in design, it is a rather nice bit of kit, and better loo... 2 Sep 2005 14:59

Open a .qtch
pease tell me. Is any chance to open a .qtch file if this possible plese tell me why x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com x-- 30+ Days Binary Retention with High Completion x-- Access to over 1.9 Terabytes per Day - $8.95/Month x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD ... 7 Aug 2005 06:44

Open a .qtch file
Is there any easy way of opening a .qtch file (QuickTime cache file)? Daniele ... 19 Jul 2005 20:25

iPod grief
My iPod photo keeps locking up. Done all the things Apple website suggest but nothing works until the battery runs flat and I connect it to my Mac again. I hope it's purely coincidental but the trouble started after I up graded the iPod software using Software Update and discovered podcasts. Any suggestions welc... 15 Jul 2005 13:48

DosBox
Has anyone here tried DosBox? It is reputed to be a DOS emulator available for a number of OSes, including OS-X: http://dosbox/sourceforge.net but see especially "Petit DosBox", which apparently includes a DB binary and wraps the whole deal nicely for Macs. It is touted as providing an environment for ... 4 Jul 2005 06:04

LaCie Ethernet Disk mini
Finally got my hands on one yesterday. It looks like their single-disk d2 models, not sure how they get it all in there. I'd have a look, but there's an irritating warranty sticker over one of the screws. It turns out it's running Yellow Dog Linux! Though, weirdly, today I can't actually see anywhere the page ... 30 Jun 2005 08:37

Installation oddity (.kext)
Evening all I'm trying to install this system extension, Soundflower, just to try something out. (I mentioned it in another post about podcasting, but I guessed no-ones's doing that right now.) <http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower.html> The notes say it will ask for my system password, and then I m... 15 Jun 2005 11:12

iRiver usb1-mac question
Hello I'm thinking of getting an iRiver iFP-899. Bit of a newbie to mp3 type stuff, so.... The spec at http://www.iriver.com/html/product/prpa_product.asp?pidx=34 says it uses Connection Type USB 1.1(iFP-880) or USB 2. I have a G4 tower that doesn't have USB 2. So I know it will talk to my Mac, how do I know wh... 21 Mar 2005 04:25

ncd files?
A freind has received a couple of .ncd files. It looks connected with oublishing. Anybody know what they are and what might open them? -- Peter ... 13 Mar 2005 18:33

Does Bit Torrent work (well) on Macs?
I have discorvered www.thepiratebay.org - a very good site. Does Bit Torrent work as well on the Mac, bearing in mind it was designed to work on PCs? Thanks ... 8 Mar 2005 15:28