Apple mac owners

Don't worry Mooha you'll get your greasy hands on it soon.

On a seperate note:

Since I moved to my MacBook with Intel chip I don't seem to be able to stream BBC content. Real say they don't support the Intel Macs yet. I use Flip4Mac to stream through Quicktime but all it says is "Alert the URL is not valid"

Can anyone help?

Put Windows on it.

Realplayer sucks on Windows, never mind OSX.

Actually I've found real player on my (PPC) Powerbook to be loads better than on Windows. For a start it doesn't install as much crap in my Mac.

Have a look at mplayer and the firefox plug in. It does quite a good job at playing web content on my Linux install, but I've not tested it for OS X.

also if you find the url for the streaming content, and give that to mplayer on the command line, it'll do everything for you, without needing to worry about browser plugins.

or if you give it to mencoder, you can rip the stream to a proper video and save it to your harddrive.

reinstalled real and it works a dream. and now i have enough band width to stream the high quality stuff

Hey chaps,
SOrry if this has been covered already, i am in a bit of a hurry to search etc.
I have sometimes been downloading online vids via that Firefox plug-in, Download Helper.. but they come as 'flv files.
What is a good program to convert the .flv files to something usable?
Hope someone can help quick cos I have to cpature some stuff to take up to Woodford tomorrow..

Macs=Dependable, user friendly. I have an Imac G5 and it has never given me a problem. For over two years now, not one problem with it. Yeah, and about a month after I got it they came out with the Imac that has the remote, mighty mouse, and built in camera. They are amazing pieces of machinery and I have changed many peoples minds about them. For most, they don't even know that Mac makes a computer that is 2.2 inches thick with all the power of a desktop. They are expensive for a reason. They are like the BMW's or Mercedes Benz of computers. At least that has been my experience with it. Oh and it's not that Macs are less prone to catching a virus, there are simply less people that make viruses for them. Hope this helps.
Mark

indeed Mark we know that, that is why we use them. Can someone answer my question??

another question.....i hope this is the place to post it..recently aquired a mac and have been playing round on garageband.Is it possible to delete whole projects or songs{not just tracks}?in fact deleting anything on a mac seems a bit of a problem....

For most programs OSX stores everything in a folder inside Documents, using the project name.

I noticed I was running out of disk space, and tracked it down to a few Final Cut projects sitting in there, along with uncompressed video

We cant seem to drag files from garageband,mainly.Was wondering if it was a fault with the computer?or is it a peculiarity to garageband.....no option to send to trash....ta for your help,btw.

It is unlikely to be a fault with the computer. Deleting is very simple. THere are usually at least two ways to do it, as well as any 'delete' function within a particular application.

To delete files, select them wherever they are stored. If you can't find the file, click on the desktop (so you are in finder rather than an application) Hold down appleF (the button with the little apple on it to the left of the space bar, next to option and the f key) That will bring up a search box. Type in the at least one word from the name of the file you are looking for (whatever you called it)
Drag it into trash.
Otherwise select it (one click, two clicks would open it) then press apple-delete.
SOunds like you are not very used to computers, or else just PCs. There are a few differences to using a PC and a Mac in terms of file management, but the Macs are very easy. Get someone, like whoever you got the mac from to show you a few shortcuts and stuff. Probably easier than trying to understand instructions here!

What's the hold up with Leopard! I am waiting for that as my system upgrade. I am still using Panther at the moment and more and more programs are becoming "Tiger or above".

So what do you guys expect of Leopard? High hopes or ready for disappointment?

Got a new Mac yesterday off eBay with Panther on it (and some other software like adobe and office). Booted it up, thing worked OK, so I formatted it and stuck Tiger on it.

I'll probably wait until 10.5.3 before letting Leopard loose on any of my Macs. I think the wait is to make sure it's better than Vista. It's not needed in my opinion. Vista is so bad (DRM, resource hogging) it made me change to Macs. Tiger is good enough for me for the moment. It beats the pants off Windows XP.

So 6 Macs, 2 OpenBSD boxes, and 1 Windows XP PC in daily use in this house.

" Probably easier than trying to understand instructions here!" Actually,you helped more than google.....as you guessed i am wildly inexperienced with macs but willing to learn..problem solved

Oh cool, glad it was useful!
Happy maccing!

So. An order's been placed. My new laptop's on its way..

2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
3GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 1x2GB, 1x1GB
160GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
SuperDrive 8x (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
MacBook Pro 17-inch Widescreen Display

This looked like the place to mention it

OOh Ry, are you going Maccy then?
Cool! Hope you find everything to your liking!

Maybe.. Maybe I'll end up using Parallels to use Windows 2000 pro on it ..