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

Damn. Apple have announced that the Apple TV has been delayed and will now ship
around March 20th. I was rather hoping it would ship this week and that lots of
Very Clever People would work out how to get DivX to wotk on it.
Ho hum. Can't afford one right now anyway, and without ...

I have a problem with my home WiFi network and my MacBook Pro which is
exemplified by the fact that, for the third time of asking, it got
part-way through a download and then lost the connection.  In this
case 117Mb of 118!  :-(  Losing the connection has happened all the

How do you guys keep all your passwords and credit card numbers secure etc??
do you use an app like info.xhead, wallet or do you bury files in encrypted
disk images? or something else?

I've just seen a further demo of Jeff Han's multitouch technology:
http://www.macrumors.com/2007/02/12/more-multitouch-from-jeff-han/
This is actually not the same technology as in the iPhone, though it
achieves the same result. Watching this demo I was struck by two things:

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I don't know where to begin...it wasn't my idea, ok?
Jim

Whilst testing this new USB Webcam on the Mini last night I Bootcamped
it into XP and that told me there was a Hauppauge WinTV HVR-900 in
there that needed some drivers.
I downloaded them and the TV App last night and installed them this

Friend with iLamp has been having trouble connecting to internet (dialup
on 10.2.8).
1. 2 weeks ago he complains that he suddenly can't connect to Orange.
'Authentication Failed'

Out of curiosity I opened up the package for a Keynote presentation to
see how images are handled. It was interesting the my PNG file at
around 150KB had now become TIFFs at about 4 times the size.
Is there anyway to force the application to retain the png files when

I was about the 30th person in the queue when the new Apple Store
opened in Kingston this morning :-)
It was quite a weird affair - the staff must have been getting
injections or something because they were *incredibly* hyper. Just

Just about sneaking in on the early-year run we have going on (it's only
been a week since the last one, but it seems longer after the
one-every-few-days), we have PeterD and an undoubtedly eye-searingly
coloured birthday.

This must be the sixth time now! Is there any way of finding out
what's causing it?! I opened the lid to find the 'starting OS X'
screen.
In case no-one's familar with the specs: - MBP 17", 3GB RAM, 160GB

Excuse me!!
Would you stop for a moment?!
O...man...Haven't you thought-one day- about yourself ?
Who has made it?

Grrr...just been sniped on eBay - anyone know/use any sniping app?
Cheers .. Mark

First iPhone advert:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/hello/
Doesn't really seem very Apple-esque to me.
    -zoara-

<http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/>
And the petition reads:
"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to prevent the BBC from
making its iPlayer on-demand television service available to Windows