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

I don't know why it gets to me every time but it does. I ordered a new
Macbook Pro on the 14th, It is dispatched on the 18th and all is going
well for delivery on the 28th.
Well yesterday Apple tracking told me that on the 27th my package was

This morning he played the new Rogue Traders single
He stopped it before it finished
saying it complete crap!!!
Listen again on the BBC Radio 1 website...

help!
i've upgraded my macbook to a 100gb disk via CCC.  it's got about 5gb of
apps added from standard, a gig or so of docs an 50gb of music.  now
suddenly i've only 5gb free!  i can't find anything huge in there - does

Having just bought a new 5th Gen (rev A) ipod (30GB), do you think its cool
to charge this up from an AC outlet using an old firewire cable and ipod AC
adapter supplied wth my original 3rd gen ipod?
Or should I just keep charging it using the supplied USB2 cable connected to

First Impressions: iPod 5G "enhanced" 80GB.
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This shiny toy is to replace my old 3G 15GB. Since this model is only a
minor update to the 5G, I'll first cover the stuff you don't get if you

I was surprised to see how long it has been since the last post to
DrunkenBlog <http://www.drunkenblog.com/>. Does anyone have any
background on this?

OK - I'm struggling with this. I've just been looking through
www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk and I'm still confused as to what to get. I
need a camera that'll be plugged into a 1st Gen G3 IceBook with a
10Gb HD & 10.3.9 (nothing else on it at the moment).

I want to replace my flaky Linksys WAG54G with something a bit more
up-to-date and reliable. I'm not keen to buy Linksys again, since they
seem to have reliability issues (both hardware and software), so I'm
looking for recommendations.

My MIL has been sent (and regularly gets them) some .wps files, which
are Microsoft Works files.
I can't find anything that'll open them here, NeoOffice and OpenOffice
*should*, but they just give an error. Everything else, AbiWord,

See the mouse preference pane, or the trackpad one if you've got a
trackpad supporting two-finger scrolling.
So by default now on my PB if I hold Ctrl and scroll using the
trackpad, the whole screen zooms in and out :-)

Now Aperture has "freed" its metadata by allowing XMP export, I'm
thinking of buying it.
If I do, can I install it and run it on both my desktop and laptop
machines, without irritating "activation" and other nuisances?

If you were going to buy a current nano, which colour would you buy? And
no, "I wouldn't, I'd buy [something else]" isn't playing the game properly.
I'll have a blue one.
    -z-

Can anyone tell me how to set up multiple libraries in iTunes 7 from
within itself.
I have MultiTunes but somehow canot get it to work, but I believe
iTunes allows multiple libraries anyway.

Do Serial to USB converters that work under 10.4.7 exist?
If they do anyone have a link?