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

Okay. I've been away a bit but will have to choose between a Thai in
Chiswick, a Lebanese in Shepherds Bush, which I am told has a good
vegetarian choice, or even an Ethiopian (apparently good but I haven't
been able to take a look yet) also in Shepherds Bush. I'll be back in

Linked from O'Reilly...
Thought this tale might be of interest. It struck me that this guy's
views reflect all the standard memes related to Macs - they are all
there, creative types, one-button mouse, ease of use.

Anyone used this at all? Since I can no longer ssh out from work (hence
the reduced posting) I'm -very- tempted to switch to this over this
weekend or early on next week.
<http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/Dispatcher?menuid=pp_webnwalk_laptop>

Spotted on a shelf today:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/garycowell/272228277/>

Is anyone using a word processor other than Word that is compatible with
the latest Word? I'm getting fed up with it crashing on both our G4 and
G5 under Tiger - it's the only app that plays up apart from the
occasional Safari crash. It does recover work OK though.

What font is used on this site?
<http://vienna-rss.sourceforge.net/blog.php>

This is good news:
http://googlemac.blogspot.com/
that's google's brand new blog about macs & google. Looks like they're
finally going to be pushing more of their products for the mac in the

Anyone successfully got a Windows VNC client to share the clipboard with
a Mac VNC server? What I mean is, if I copy something to the Mac
clipboard whilst using it from a Windows box via VNC, I'd like that
copied info to be copied into the Windows clipboard, and vice-versa.

...in Belgium. Agency who rang me wouldn't confirm it but I'm pretty
sure it's with Agfa. Anyway, if you're interested, e-mail me and I'll
send you the details.

Back from Scotland. Not happy. Hungover.
Came back with 35 bottles of Single Malt.
Anything interesting happen in the Apple world over the last two weeks?
I notice we now have Red Nanos. Er, great.

Just remembered to ask .. whilst experimenting with the network
printing issues from her Mini yesterday I noticed the mouse (well, the
mouse cursor of course, I have to be careful what I say on here . <g>)
would suddenly jump right across the screen (typically top <> bottom).

Right, so new Macbook is the passport to sticking my DV camcorder
footage on DVD is it?
Got a couple of problems that I'm getting quite *anxious* about:
1) iMovie: massive bug importing 16x9 footage.  You have to save

Er, when did this happen?
http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/red
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I saw the Howard Stern episode with the lesbian sisters
Isn't that 'wrong'? no, not cos their lesbians, cos they are sisters
And they even had twin sisters who kissed each other
You crazy incestious Americans.

WHERE IS CHRIS?
??WHAT HAVE YOU DIRTY PAKI FAGGOTS DONE TO HIM??
HAVE YOU:
A: NETCOPPED HIM?