UK Mac

Playstation emulators - worth bothering with?
An iBook takes up less room than a Playstation + TV, and is more portable. But my experience with PCSX - the only Playstation emulator I can find - is sub-par. It won't load Wipeout 3 at all, and in Gran Turismo 2 I can fly! Is it worth persevering (eg downloading a BIOS as requested by PCSX, or looking for... 25 Mar 2006 20:00

VRO files
I'm trying to view a TV recording made on a Panasonic DVD recorder, but every app I've tried crashes or reports error -50. So I thought I'd copy the VRO file to the desktop...also error -50 Fired up Terminal.app cd /Volumes/UDF\ MX120/DVD_RTAV/ cp VR_MOVIE.VRO ~/Desktop/ cp: VR_MOVIE.VRO: Invalid argument ... 11 Mar 2006 02:17

Happy Birthday
Happy birthday to.... Hold on, where's the drumroll? *clatter* *mutter* *drumroll* Happy birthday to... James Dore, dirty-doo today! You share your birthday with: 1415 - Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (died 1462) 1452 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (died 1516) 1503 - Ferdinand I, Hol... 19 Apr 2006 12:58

posty macs
Royal mail does this "learing for all" where you can get a computer and they just take the money slowly out of your pay, noticed on the last one that it was dell desktops and lappys and apple intel imac and G4 powerbook there. roger ... 16 Mar 2006 07:26

Ricky Gervais podcast is here {series 2, Episode 2} [7 March - 13 March 2006]
Available at www.audible.co.uk/ricky or www.audible.com Also at the iTunes Music store as an audiobook (95p) (a bargain for the laugh/cost ratio) This is great use of techology pioneered by Apple Macintosh (the podcast) I am sad to see it is also being distributed via Bit Torrent: http://thepirateba... 15 Mar 2006 15:56

Playwriting/scripting/outlining software?
Got a mate on a Mac who is a part-time/aspiring scriptwriter who's looking for the above - freeware option preferably. Does anyone know of anything likely to be of use? If it's of any help, it's playwriting he's into.. Cheers. ... 2 Mar 2006 13:59

Read Microsoft Publisher file in OS9/OS10.3 ?
Our local film club have just circulated a newsletter in Microsoft Publisher format (.pub) . Is there anything that I can read it with it under OS 9.2, my only active operating system. If there isn't, is there anything with which I would be able to read it on my wife's PB with OS 10.3? Or do I just accept t... 5 Mar 2006 17:49

Steve Wozniak (apple co-founder) slams Apple over Intel and iPods
APPLE co-founder Steve Wozniak said that the company is consorting with the enemy in its chip pact with Intel and should spin off its iPod business as fast as possible. Speaking in New Zealand, where he is taking part in a four-on-four polo tournament played Segways, Wozniak said that Apple has gone in surprisin... 6 Mar 2006 05:05

Happy Birthday!
Today is Steve Jobs's birthday. Er, Happy birthday, Steve! He shares his birthday with: 1103 - Emperor Toba of Japan (died 1156) 1304 - Ibn Battuta, explorer 1463 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist (died 1494) 1500 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1558) 1547 - Don John of Austria, milita... 30 Mar 2006 19:50

Google web design..
Those funky Google guys are doing web design now: <http://www.googlepages.com/ (one of those 'sign-up-and-we'll-be-in-touch' things at the moment). Mark ... 23 Feb 2006 11:12