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

I sent my macbook into an AASP for repair over 2 weeks ago, it had a duff
battery and it also had some dodgy lines on the screen since day 1.
Anyway, I get a call from the agent today to say that it's ready to collect
but there's some damange to the laptop caused by abuse and that ...

Okay, not so much a Mac spotting, but a Mac mentioning.
Stargate Atlantis, Dr McKay, on a alien world, trying to explain why an
alien computer didn't do as it was supposed to: "Unfortunately, the
computer froze.  It was completely locked up.  You probably should have

I'm running Mail on a 17" MBP and for some bizarre reason the 'junk'
button is showing 'not junk' and I cannot use it to mark an item in my
inbox as junk.
Anyone else seen this and - better yet - know of a solution? Repairing

Is this right? Is this an erosion of civil liberties? (like that book
- 1984)
Surely, if you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide &
nothing to fear.

I'm just starting to move over to Adium (v1.0.1) after so long being an
iChat user, but I've hit a snag. I do like the standard iChat sounds so
I want to set them as the defaults,
So - Preferences->Events and I see Event preset: Audio Notifications

I remember a few weeks ago people were discussing that ilife and iwork
may be released tomorrow ? I commented as ibaby is due tomorrow - but it
arrived today - Jack Andrew Cleland.
Now, Apple have not met me early release with an equal act of human

I know there are one or two GraphicConverter fans around u.c.s.m.
Is there a despeckle option buried somewhere that I have missed? I need
to tidy up some scanned images that have a lot of speckles in them.

his name was dowding, the unsung air marshal during battle of britain. i
read he was a vegetarian and did not not drink.
he saved britain when it counted most. and yet churchil fired him - for
doing a great job!!!!

I had this great idea I would take my mouse apart to clean the ball..
You really do no not want to do this !
Pictures:
http://www.digmo.co.uk/software/when-tutorials-go-wrong/

(I'm on slrn and can't work out how to do accented 'e's)
Just had a thought about Expose and a feature that I'd like to see - when
mousing over the Expose'd windows, why not have them come forward by a small
amount? Maybe just make them about 20-30% bigger than their Expose'd size?

Yep, I'm another with MacBook (Pro in my case) battery weirdness.
Yesterday, I closed the lid and was surprised to hear the start-up
chord. The damned thing had spontaneously restarted. Now, it's only
done it once, thus far and, touch wood, it won't do it again, but it

Anyone have an opinion on the quality of the built-in analogue to
digital conversion circuitry of a G5 Quad?
There's info about the line in here:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macin

Is there a version of Keyfinder for OSX? Can't see one on
Versiontracker.
thx
E.

I am struck at the high cost of computing and I am trying to guauge how
long I can expect to get out of my mac before :
a) they stop making software for it - ie the latest OS won't work.
b) it dies

Not the Griffin RadioShark (it's pants)
I have limited space
I have the Harmon Kardon II Soundsticks
For radio - I have a PURE TEMPUS-1. It's fine, it's great infact, but