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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/02-Apr-07

Increasing font sizes everywhere — A reader points out that you can change the text size in Finder windows easily. (1 message)

UK versus United Kingdom — A copyediting question leads to a spirited discussion of how people in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland refer to themselves: United Kingdom, Great Britain, just Britain? And that, in turn, brings up questions of American versus British English usage. (49 messages)

Switching My Mother to the Mac — Parents and their offspring comment on switching a relative to the Mac and remotely administering the computer for someone who isn’t an expert. (15 messages)

MacTech’s VBA-to-AppleScript transition guide — A reader notes that MacTech’s book about coping with the loss of VBA in the next version of Microsoft Office is difficult to get outside the United States and Canada. (3 messages)

PC Slot Memory Limitation? Is the PC Card slot on a PowerBook G4 limited in the amount of memory it can read? A reader’s 4 GB memory card isn’t recognized. (1 message)

Blogosphere Uproar — Readers respond to the news that a woman received death threats on her blog and other electronic forums. (27 messages)

Great Britain and the UK — More opinions are expressed about the usage of the terms “Great Britain” and “UK.” (4 messages)

Selling a Consultancy — When it’s time to retire, how does one go about selling a consultancy? (3 messages)

iWeb 1.1 and the Competition, Revisited — Do you need a full-fledged Web design application to build a site? And what about back-end services such as shopping carts? (5 messages)

Stick 3 GB of RAM in an Intel Core 2 Duo iMac, MacBook — Does adding uneven pairs of RAM in a supported Mac with only two memory slots improve or hinder performance? (2 messages)

Apple TV: The Real Video iPod — How much larger would HD video files be compared to the movies currently offered by the iTunes Store? (2 messages)

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