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

I've just had a (rare) thought...
This recent issue with the BBC's pending iPlayer thing, and how they're
planning on getting into bed with Microsoft; probably to be closely
followed by virtually every other video content provider, as Microsoft

What's the difference between using Apple's Backup application to back
up contacts, calendars, bookmarks etc. to .Mac vs just using iSync to
do the same thing? Any advantage to using Backup for this?
Cheers,

Hmmm.
Apple are now offering a free trial version of an iPod game:
http://playlistmag.com/news/2007/01/30/vortexdemo/index.php?lsrc=mwrss
Is this because they are checking out how well try-before-you-buy works

I've just used Parallels Transporter for the first time, to move a
VMWare image over to Parallels. This VMWare image had full drive
encryption on it (not Vista, a third-party thing for XP), yet it
successfully read the disk and, more worryingly, transferred it over

I think Bird Flu was caused by gays
We all know that's where HIV comes from
I think gays have been up to no good.

On the harbourside at Manly yesterday. Some bronzed bloke with a white
MacBook sitting on the quayside carrying on a video iChat with his
family "back home", over the WiFi network from his hotel across the
street.  He was drawing quite a crowd and spun the MacBook round to show

breaking news on news.bbc.co.uk.
Stuart

Are Finder-created CDs compatible with Windows? I've been asked to burn
a copy of iTunes and Quicktime for someone that only has dial-up access.
Cheers,
Ian

Interesting comparison technique:
<http://www.visualcomplexity.com/project.cfm?id=392>

Morning all,
I have a black and white PNG of the college crest that I need to convert
to an EPS graphic. It's a shield with two chevrons and three roses
(heraldry is not my forte :-) and I'd like each elemet - shield,

I have a Macbook Pro 17" C2D, and on the odd occasion the screen dims
slightly for a split second, then goes back to the preset brightness
level. This only seems to happen while watching video, eye tv recordings
especially, just happened while watching a streaming video clip as ...

Now you can call anywhere in world for free
...hurry up...Its Globe 7..
you are paid to watch free videos(of your choice)...
Now its no. 1 VOIP service in the world....Click on the link

I was given a Nokia E61 Smart phone [1] in work today. Should tide me
over until the iPhone comes out! Has G3 Internet and Blackberry client.
Will be connected to our internal Blackberry servers later in the week.
The phone is a bit wide, but light and nice an thin. Only had it ...

I'm using Textwrangler to edit remote files over ssh (actually over a
VPN as well, but I don't think that's relevant).
Problem is that every time I save, I have to re-enter the passphrase. I
was previously using emacs in tramp mode, which doesn't require that.

Has a little way to go I think...
http://nkreeger.com/correo/
Mark