Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / August 2006

OK, finally had a chance to watch the keynote stream. I'm much more
upbeat about this now, and I can see definite changes in the way I work
coming up.
Initial thoughts:

I keep trying VoodooPad as it is such a fine looking application; my
problem is that I just can't find a use for it. Maybe I am just failing
to /get/ the whole personal wiki thing because I do feel I should be
able to use it somehow.

It seems they do...I bought the CD Single (Enhanced CD) today mainly for
Track 4 which is the Shakira video of the song. Apart from being HOT!!!,
I wanted to try a test and get it on to my new Palm Tungsten E2. In
iTunes all I get is the audio tracks 1, 2, 3 and no sign of the video ...

Dear Lord.
The free single of the week on iTunes is a truly terrifying thing to
hear. I didn't know whether to laugh or slit my wrists.

The Airport Extreme card arrived for my G5 this morning, installed in
somewhat less than the prescribed 10 minutes :-)
I then attempted to get my iBoko to communicate with my G5. This was
easier said than done though. I got the Macs to recognise each other,

Once again from Digg, this time with a touch of Macspotting involved too:
<http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/first-look-belkin-surge-protectors-good-f
or-cable-management-fiends-194096.php>
Looks
good to me, though I'm not -completely- certain about the idea. Surely

My Powerbook battery has been slowly expiring over the months. Its got
increasingly erratic in reporting time remaining, often staying on 1
mins for an hour or more.
But now, I have uber-battery. 42hrs 36mins! I spit on your modern

Okay. Once again a level of frustration maxed out beyond all reasonable
endurance leads me to search for alternatives to Word. I've always
rather liked the look and feel of Nisus Writer and it gets good reviews
so it's first up.

Acquisition has decided not to connect to the Gnutella network. Anyone
suggest a reason? The port is open, and I haven't changed any settings. Is
this another ntl: problem?
Martin S Taylor

Driven by some discussion about Apple's release of Time Machine and whether
it will make any difference to the proportion of people who back up, I
decided to have a bit of an informal survey amongst my non-geek friends. I
wanted to find out whether they back up and if not, what is ...

Concerning adding wireless to the Mac Pro.
The airport kit is, apparently, not yet available for the Mac Pro.
When it is, do you think it would be better to go for the internal
Airport Extreme (or whatever it is called that day of the week) or

..its like watching a religious convention. Scary.

I have a G5 iMac which is nearly full (around 7gb left off a 160gb hard
drive).
I keep intending to buy an external drive so I can offload some of the
stuff but can anyone tell me if I'm likely to be affecting performance

Years ago I was somewhat paranoid about thunder and lightning.
Not that I was particularly worried about being struck myself you
understand but rather that the lighting would in some way cause a power
surge and upset my nice Mac computer.

I've finally laid the Cat5e between the office and the home office, so I
can get internet access now that my TiBook has decided it's never going
to Airport properly, so...
What's the best way to access files on the office computer?