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

Every time I list on UK ebay now, I get SPAM from iocu188 .
This is the message thay send me, nearly every day, every item listed:
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are a large wholesale and also a retail trading company in China,

One to change the light bulb, one to stick it up its a.s and one to
get AIDS and die a slow painful death due to a compromised immune
system.

Dunno if this has been mentioned <http://www.midnightapps.com/chaching/
index.htm>
Cheers ... Mark

[From Slashdot]
A Windows expert from Computerworld magazine tried a Mac as his primary
machine for three months. Result? He's not going back.
http://tinyurl.com/2nm38e

<http://launchy.net>
Not much more to add really - I feel like my left arm has been cut off
if I'm using a Mac without LaunchBar installed, and I'm left-handed.
Nice to be able to do the same on Windows.

How can digital images in iPhoto be restored to the camera CompactFlash
memory card?
[System- macintosh G4; OSX 10.4.8; I GHz; 896 Mb SDRAM]

My parents and I both run macs with outlook express ... ISP is
Freeserve/Wanadoo/Orange (they seem to change regularly).
Since Orange took over we have been getting loads of spam mail
stating; " *** SPAM *** Mail delivery failed: returning message to

John Gruber has some thoughts on what Steve Jobs wrote about DRM:
http://daringfireball.net/2007/02/reading_between_the_lines
Some interesting things:
1. There is at least one example of a label requesting to sell their

Do intel macs with PCI-E slots allow the use of Windows-PC graphics
cards?  I'm presuming not, but as a thought experiment, why not?
If, for example, you bootcamped an intel mac, would this cope with a
PC graphics card?

Looking to buy a 160gig drive for my MacBook Pro, I came across these
people who said they had it in stock.
They lied.
After ordering, I've now received an email saying that the item is not

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6344725.stm
Some might say the gold digging ho deserved it.
Well she was 39 - way past the age for being sexy. Who really cares?

Did you get my emails OK?

The birthday-o-matic is running on full power, 24/7 at the moment, thanks
to all the birthdays at this time of year. It's just thrown out today's
list, which is for ray, who is currently touring Oz (I think he's in
Auckland...). Hope you're having a good time, ray! Happy Birthday!

If someone was to lace all the dog poo on the streets with poison,
would this be illegal?
Gay men like to taste things in the middle of the night (they really
are sick sick people)

Jeepers the mac ads are everywhere. They are really leashing an attack
on Vista on release. Would the best attack not be releasing their new OS
now ? Steve Jobs mentioned there was great features that were kept
secret until closer to release....