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Useful stuff from Bellarine Mac User Group

David Morrison — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:37:33 GMT

Hello everyone The Bellarine Mac User Group, BMUG, is a growing and vibrant Mac group based on the Bellarine Peninsula near Geelong in Victoria, is known all

National broadband survey

David Morrison — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:37:32 GMT

Hello everyone Each year, the web site whirlpool.net.au runs a survey of broadband use in Australia. Through this survey we all have a chance to have a say on

Merry Christmas to all from Jim Bell

bellfamilyofbelmont — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:03:16 GMT

Merry Christmas to all from Jim Bell Have a Happy & Safe New Year.

Re: Disk interface speeds

David Morrison — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:54:10 GMT

When they talk about theoretical speeds, they are talking about transfer rate. FireWire is 400 or 800 Megabits per second, which is about 50 or 100 Megabytes

Re: Disk interface speeds

Darrell Richards — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:26:31 GMT

In relation to David's findings below, this article was taken from a recent MacWorld News and Reviews newsletter. You will notice that the findings differ

Disk interface speeds

David Morrison — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:25:07 GMT

Hello everyone I've got a bunch of external disks with different interfaces, and wondered how much faster FireWire really was than USB. The test was to copy an

iPhone tidbits

David Morrison — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:47:03 GMT

Hello everyone Here's an interesting article on how to use your iPhone as a modem for your Mac.

Safari is a memory hog

bobsy49 — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:30:01 GMT

Have a look at this, it is interesting: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10418635-263.html?tag=nl.e781 Bob McIntyre

Re: DVD Burning

Paul Sutcliffe — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:16:26 GMT

Hi Mac the Ripper V3.0 will do most DVD's. Very easy to use Cheers Paul

Re: DVD Burning

stephen_kast — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:14:14 GMT

Hi, I use Handbrake (http://handbrake.fr/) it works with VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/). It is quite powerful but is not that intuiative. Cheers Stephen

DVD Burning

bobsy49 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:08:24 GMT

Can anyone recommend good FREE DVD burning software? I was going to download "Mac the Ripper" but the forums don't recommend it. It is a DVD from Thailand

This is an example of why we need to keep the web free!!

bellfamilyofbelmont — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:30:07 GMT

This is an example of why we need to keep the web free!! The following article is from Wiki Leaks a very important whistle blower web site....

I've also created a database for us to report on our favourite softw

bellfamilyofbelmont — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:35:41 GMT

I've obviously got too much time on my hand (or I'm avoiding doing some other job... )because I've created a database for us to report on our favourite

I've just created a broadband database.

bellfamilyofbelmont — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:33:30 GMT

I've just created a broadband database. Go to : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MacTalk/database and

Re: ISP Providers

Bob McIntyre — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:48:48 GMT

Thanks Heath. I am with Exetel with my mobile phone and it is cheap and I have had no problems. Bob 2009/12/10 Heath Raftery