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

It would be even cooler if it always got it right, but iTunes is making
some odd assumptions in allocating artwork to some of my ripped albums.
I got The Scissor Sisters artwork for a Sister Hazel album
Robbie Williams over a Molly Hatchett album

Could I ask a favour? Could you email me the icon over (reply-to works)?
That blue icon just looks shoddy (and half my dock stuff is blue already,
so it just blends in).
    -z-

This will please certain people moving to Bristol :-)
Cheers,
Chris

The eldest's PB G4 battery won't hold more than 5min charge, she can't
afford a new one. then her power cable died, broken wire close to the
connector at the PB end. Ditto affordablity. Depression sets in.
me, hot from fixing the youngest's tv remote Led and the top row of

Fact            : iSteve claims Q1 2007 for release.
Opinion         : The unit demoed looked pretty damn functional.
Speculation     : Actually going to be released late November.
Thoughts?

What with iTunes changes, and now bloody eBay has gone and changed their
look as well.
Earlier today I bunged some stuff on for sale, all as usual. I've just
been on to add some more, and it's all changed.

Sadly, I can't afford an XServe RAID. I've been wondering about how
hard it might be to set up my own RAID array. I could do it with a set
of Firewire or USB2 enclosures (I have a four-way USB2 card in another
PowerMac that I could use). But I'd like to do it all in one box. So my

I can't see the point of iTunes7 being able to download videos if none
are available in UK.  The US site has videos, unavailable to UK, UK has
none, but is advertising the new iPod apparently capable of showing the
unobtainable videos ?

Compare and contrast buying a Dell from their website against buying an
Apple.
If you want to play along at home, here's the item you have to try to buy;
it's a home media entertainment wotsit:

Where does Transmit store ftp passwords?
I've re-installed it and copied the application support folder and
plists from the backup. I've got the list of favorites all correct but
no passwords. I've also copied the keychains across.

Party Shuffle now plays one track, then stops. Or is it just me?

My backlight just went off - managed to shine my desk lamp on the
screen and could see enough to shut down properly - started up fine,
albeit with maximum brightness as if to make up for lost light.
Is this likely to be a symptom of a recurring promble?

What's with the new earphones? Redesign for the sake of it, or what?
       -z-

Reading an entirely non-Mac related article (about the secuity aspects of
laptop locks) I watched the first demo video...
<http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/08/the-lockdown-your-new-targus-defcon-cl-lock-h
acked-by-beer/>
That's flurry in the background... can't work out if it's ...

As I'm vaguely considering the iPod with as much disk space as my iBook
(?!) I will probably want to shift to keeping all my music on the iPod
(make some space on the iBook, and have more music on the iPod). So
that's manual updating I'll be wanting.