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

My mate has taken on the 'repair'  of a McYoyo (McLaptop PSU of some
sort, M5474) with a damaged plug. The owner is a 'nice old boy' and we
are trying to help him and save him the 70 quid Apple want for a new
one.

Daniele, if you have time for a chat at some point over the next few
days, could you send me an email to let me know when might be convenient
for you?
I'm very close to making a decision about "doing something different"

Is anyone else getting a deluge of spam, disguised as undeliverable
mail? I got up this morning and checked the work's email address - to
find 169 of them. Now, every 5 minutes there seem to be another 20 or
so.

Hi, anyone know when would Apple launch 10.5?
Want to buy a new lappy but don't want to pay for the 10.5
upgrade...come one Steve, launch it already, it's gonna be 10x better
than Vista anyway.

I have a Xerox 8200 printer, with which I am pretty pleased.
However all is not well as far as the colour management is concerned.
The test pages print fine, so the machine isn't faulty.
But all my printouts haave a bit of a blue - green cast, clearly not right.

Yesterday I forced a shutdown on my iMac G5.
Today I can't login: it appears a different login window (it seems two
windows getting over each other) and it don't accept my password!
I did a reboot by my install dvd and I repaired the disk and the

Living on the East coast of US and A are clocks changed early this
year - don't ask why !
Apple sent out an update and it has worked for the main clock, but now
all of my emails are behind.

So at last they've finally got there.
I see one of the stories on BBC news this morning is about customers who
have signed for UNLIMITED broadband who are then being penalized for
using it too much.

Some people are hard to satisfy.
http://flickr.com/photos/jordanmerrick/sets/72157594586238554/
Phil

One thing that would be most useful is the ability to print A5 pages two
to a page on A4 - I have some A5 stuff in Pages, but need to print to A4
paper. How do I do it?
Daniele

What's the easiest way to identify whether an old iBook has translucent
or opaque white plastics? This page lists the differences:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88039
...but if I'm digging through eBay it's unlikely that they'll call them

Craving music without limitations?  A user friendly solution for a
wire-free life,
the Bluetooth Adapter for iPod links your Bluetooth headphones
effortlessly with

Dear Elliott or other
Anyone here an expert on recovering (probably) corrupt Entourage database?
Client has just called in....
TIA

Is it possible to "block change" track descriptions in itunes - like
"Album". It is a pain to type each one at a time.
I hope I am missing something really simple
Thanks!

If Apple have patented the Magsafe adapter, does this mean that we're
less likely to see third-party magsafe adapters?
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