Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / February 2007

I've been thinking of adding a 2nd 20" Display to my setup, I currently have
a 20" ACD. Looking at other brands, Apples asking price of £529.99 is quite
ridiculous given the competition. You can buy a Samsung or Philips panel
with better specs for under £200, with a 3 year ...

While we're in the update advisory mode, users of ClamXav, Carbon Copy
Cloner and Adobe Camera Raw will find updated software out there.
Significantly is the update to CCC, it's now at V3b4, and it does proper
scheduling, and can do selective backups.

Not content with the number of toys I have for my MacBook Pro, I
headed down to MicroAnvika (a shop in London) to purchase a Wacom
tablet for £75
However, once I was there I spotted a bluetooth graphics tablet for

Does anyone know of any UK-based FTP transfer sites or anything similar
for transferring large files?
I used to use passmyfile but this is (I think) based in Hong Kong and I
need something in the Uk to comply with the 2002 Export Control Bill.

If possible, watch it while reading this:
<http://community.livejournal.com/m15m/1487.html>
Rather funny. She has a few other 'Films in Fifteen Minutes' available
(her take on 'Van Helsing' is rather good) and a book.

I am using mail 2.1.1 on osx  10.4.8, I recently set up some extra mail
boxes. The problem I have now is that the mail icon in the dock only
displays the number of unread messages in my

Yesterday, a happy-go-lucky battery reliably powering its MacBook host.
Today, a pointless waste of space providing no power whatsoever.
Caz's MacBook battery has suddenly and spectacularly failed. It was
providing full (99% anyway) charge and has been doing for ages, then it

The old Lego shop [1] now has a black painted front, a huge Apple logo
on it, and "Opening Soon" written underneath :-)
Plenty of workman-type sounds (drinking tea, etc) from inside too...
Cheers,

In case anyone is interested, my older Core Duo 2.17Ghz wot had the
faulty RAM slot has now been replaced with a brand spanking new Core 2
Duo MBP. RAM has been bumped to 2Gb. And guess what? Performance is
still less than fabulous. In fact, just like the previous machine I

I have just read about being able to sync desktop widgets in leopard -
that is a great new option i have to say.
David

... do we need a 9.2MB update just because America is changing its
rules for daylight savings time?  The entire contents of
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US is only 48kB.
-- Richard

OK, I'm well behind the bleeding edge curve here. But I bought my first
iPod this week, an 80Gb thingy. It's astounded me. I've used various MP3
players before including trying to struggle with an iPaq as an MP3/video
player for the last year (don't bother). But the iPod is so far ...

Is there an extension cable available for the power connecter on an
Apple cinema display? I mean the connecter that comes down from the
joint DVI/USB/firewire/power bit, not the plug going to the converter
itself.

It's taken 9.5hrs to burn a Divx from a 1.85gb mpeg using Toast7  on an
iBook 1.3  Tiger with 512mb . Is this par for the course?
Cheers
Richard