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

WARNING DO *NOT* REPLY.

Having been primed by the chat out these just recently, we had a power
outage tonight.
So there I was, being slowly driven mad by the plaintive cheeping of
the (mains) smoke detector system for two bloody hours while the local

"Apple today announced that EMI Music's entire digital catalogue of
music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights
management) from the iTunes Store worldwide in May. DRM-free tracks from
EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding, resulting

After experiencing the random shutdowns (without low battery warning)
manifesting itself on my 13-month old MacBook Pro (yep, out of
warranty by two weeks), I was told by Apple that I should have the
whole unit checked by a service provider. Since, I figured, it would

So it had.
It was OK when I told her to move the Magnetix scuplture away from the
computer desk!!!!

The MacBook has arrived. Seeing as Hannah will be using it rather than
me, anyone like to take bets as to its chances of survival? I will be
setting it up for about half an hour, then it's all hers...
    -zoara-

Anyone tried newsfire ? http://www.newsfirerss.com/ I am loving it! I
was using thunderbird up to this week but this is ace.
anyone else tried it ?
David

Anyone use mp3additions?
I placed an order on Friday 20/04/2007 on a next working day delivery -
i.e. Monday 23/04/2007.
COme today (after I checked with my bank to see if payment had been

This was a turn up - I bought an iMac last summer, and Apple have just
written to remind me about the extended three year warranty, details at:
https://store.apple.com/Catalog/uk_inst/Images/salespolicies_individual.html
(para 10.1.1)

In my never-ending quest to find *something* wrong with every machine I
own, I now have a question about the ambient light sensors on my MacBook
Pro. It seems to be acting odd.
If I cover the left grille (and just the left grille) the keyboard

Having hit Learn spelling in error while editing a document is there
any way to remove that (now acceptable) spelling error from the system
dictionary?

I have a G4 PB that I bought new, it came with Panther and iLife '05. I have
since installed Tiger on it and no wish to install iLife 05 again, the
problem is I just cannot figure out how to do it. The PB came with 2 install
CDs, I pop in the first and click 'install applications ...

Wikipedia says:
"New iPods have the ability to connect a Mini-TosLink to them. This
includes first gen iPod Nano, second gen iPod Nano, and fifth gen iPod."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod

Has anyone tried this browser ?
http://shiira.jp/en
Phil

I recently turned on the blogging bit on the OSX server. [10.4.9] People
here have been happily blogging away and most people can access it both
as a web page and rss. However a few are having problems and this seems
to be (according to their error reports) tied in to the fact ...