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

Is this new or old news?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6606727.stm
Stuart

I have a Macbook, about 8 months old. I've been using it every day,
several hours per day, no problems. However, quite often on switch-on,
I have to press the switch-on button several times to actually get it
to come on. I always hold the button depressed for several seconds

Nobody seems to have mentioned this yet...
A new iPod game at the iTunes store - iQuiz. Essentially its an enhanced
version of the "Music Quiz" which is built in to the iPod, made much
flashier viually, and asking a greater variety of questions than just

I'm sure I'm doing something sturpid!!
OK, so now we've got that over, I'm trying to network 3 computers. One
MacBook Pro and two Mac Minis via a new AirPort Extreme Base Station.
The configuration is as follows: 1 Mac Mini directly connnected to the

Amazing the state some machines can get into...
My absolute favourite 'user' was originally using my old beige
G3/266/OS8.1, on UKOnline with a Zyxel router. With 128MB RAM, it fairly
flew along but she needed web services I couldn't reach without an up to

I'm looking to set up a savings account, so one of my criteria has to be
whether I will be able to access it online using OS X Tiger.
Does anyone have any recommendations or advice for what to look for or avoid
when it comes to online banking?

Is there anything clever enough to grab frames from an iDVD project and
shovel them onto a page to be printed out as a DVD case sleeve?
Daniele

What does the mac have to do with Gays anyway?
Just cos I HATE SICK FAGGOTS, does it mean that I am any less worthy
of voicing my opinion on the amazing apple platform
JUST COS I f.cking HATE SICK f.cking FAGGOTS AND WISH THEY ALL GOT

didn't know quite what to think about this......
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280105118899
Regards,
Rob E.

I have been playing around with Adobe Creative Suite 3, and I have to
say, it is the fuckin' bees' knees
It's amazing
You have to get it

YO PEEPZ, WOZ UP YOU MUTHAFOCKAZ, GO TO LIMEWIRE & DOWNLOAD STILL DRE
BY DR DRE, AND PUMP SOME DOPE BEATS FROM YER ITUNES!!!!!!!!!!!!
COME ON D. M. PROCEDIA, I KNOW U BE DOWN WITH THIS sh.t, C'MON
DOG!!!!!!

This made my early evening:
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uitive/>
(apologies for re-posting material from Daring Fireball).
The first comment also made me smirk; the later ones are predictably mean.

Is there a way to make iDVD offer as the first scene the audience sees,
not a selection of different film titles, but a selection of chapters
from the only film on the DVD?
Daniele

Before I go to bed, I suppose this is very slightly OT, but it's more
relevant than owls.
For a few days now I've been getting speeds slower than dial-up.  Longer
than I realised, because I've been blaming Omniweb and Safari in Panther

This is pretty much constant now - I can reset it, but it happens again
and again and again...
I have a 60Gig iPod Photo that rarely appears on the desktop. By
'rarely' I mean less than one in five, probably even at the one in ten