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

We all forgot this one - 64 bit applications in Tiger were limited to
non-GUI apps, now Leopard has a full 64-bit GUI library.

In a secret interview Apple CEO and head mojo meister Steve Jobs
released some details concerning Mac OS 10.5.
"We feel that we can release this to you," Steve said, "as
no-one reads your blog anyway."

Visit www.IPODProgramming.com

Had to get Quasimodo (PBG3400C/240) out of his bag for the first time in
a few months today for a data conversion project. The old bugger runs
9.1. God damn its good to be back in 9!
Everything is crisp, clear, simple and the Finder still kicks OS X (even

Have just been poking around the Apple site trying to find some info on
this. Will the keynote be streamed and if where's the link?
Thanks for any pointers!

I was a beta Parallels user, and found it to be great.  It was pretty slow on
my MacBook, with it's 512Mb RAM, but I upgraded that to 2Gb and all was well.
I then bought the full licence, but since applying it everything slows to a
crawl.

<http://www.vmware.com/>
It doesn't actually say it (or I couldn't see it if it did) but I'd guess
it's only for Intel Macs.
Jim

<http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/5.06/apple.html>
Not too bad -
1. sort of happened happened
2. could be looked at as diversification and the iPod certainly fits that

So the Stevenote kicks off at 6pm our time, right? How long for?
Anyone got any recommended sites for live coverage?
       -zoara-

Infoworld seems to think so. See:
<http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisemac/archives/2006/08/vmware_for_m
ac.html>
Ian

I'd like to mention an application I've written for recent Macintosh
laptops (which have internal three-axis accelerometers).
SeisMaCalibrate calibrates your laptop's Sudden Motion Sensor so that
my previous application, SeisMac, can create accurate three-axis

Are any of the Meade or Celestron reflecting telescopes controllable
from a portable Macintosh. Powerbook or Macbook. I'd like it to be able
to centre the telescope on a known star like Sirius A and be able to
use software on the Mac to do something like "Find M31". It should ...

Changing the HD on a 17" Powerbook is an absolute pleasure compared to
the 12 or 15" models, or any iBook. Lets all campaign for big laptops.

I used my bluetooth headset with the mac the other day, just for a short
while as a headset (obviously).
Thereafter, a bluetooth message popped up saying it couldn't find the
audio device, and NWN refused to play any sounds.