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

Had to happen. No sooner had I been singing the praise of .mac here
today that the mail service goes down, both from Mail.app and .mac
webmail....
Maybe I'm developing a touch of Zoarian effect..

Does anyone have a problem, where, the initial load of the XP disk
does not recognize your keyboard?
I can't PRESS ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM CD
or,

Anyone recommend a reliable utility for checking the download (&
upload?) rate of a broadband connection.  I have a Cable 2MB service
at the moment from VirginMedia - may move up to the 10MB.
I tried a search of the group but didn't hit anything.  Googling gives

There seem to be a vast array of apps to get music off an ipod... anyone
any favourites ? tomorrow we will be a 2 mac family and my wife wants a
few songs for her new toy (mac).
David

3 mins ago I ordered a new imac family computer. Now the apple store is
being updated. If they change the mac range I may never get over it !
David

I'm looking at putting my trusty PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz on eBay and
wondering what I might get for it. They seem to go for anything from 600
to 900. Is there any reason why some PowerBooks are considered more
valuable than others or is it just random ?

As always, I'm going to try to concentrate on the 'experience' of this
machine rather than the specs, as they're all available all over the web.
I got a 15.4" 2.16Ghz stock machine (ie 1GB RAM, 120GB HDD) with the
non-shiny screen. It was kind of a 'need it now' purchase in response ...

Looking for a simple NAS box that will work with a Mac and a PC with
Vista Home Premium - just to share some small files (no big multimedia
files).
Most of the ones I'm looking at (Linksys, Buffalo, etc don't seem to

Okay, so the figures are massaged somewhat [1] but Apple has a 10.1%
market share!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&tkr=AAPL:US&sid=ap0bqJw2VpwI#
    -zoara-

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I was listening to MacBreakWeekly this morning (still got another 40mins left to
listen to) and they were talking about .Mac at one point. So I got to thinking,
and what really is .Mac? Ok, it's email, it's web hosting, it's sync
services...but what it really is is storage.

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I've got two MacBook Pro's that are failing to connect to our wireless
network, whereas the Powermacs are all fine. Everything else can connect
to the wireless ok as well - anyone aware of anything specific  up with
this update?

I wrote to Logitech support asking if it was possible to purchase replacement
glide pads for an MX1000 mouse. The response was immediate and the pads are
being posted to me free of charge.

Hmm.
My new shiny (MBP 2.17Ghz) often has the fan running and is pretty hot
on my lap. CoreDuoTemp reports 51C.
Is this normal? Can I throttle down the CPU speed (while on mains as