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

I just had a major panic, having noticed that my network traffic was up
around 240Kbps, but I wasn't downloading anything. I quit Safari,
Eudora, MacSoup... but the bytes streaming to and from my computer
continued.

iirc someone was commneting on webmail/IMAP server-side spam filtering
and today I recieved this email from Apple to my .Mac account.
(I've snipped out stuff already known)
-Quote-

I've just switched our distributed TV signal back from NTL/Virgin to
terrestrial for Freeview and re-tuned the hybrid from Analogue to
Digital.
Signal seems pretty good (for an old loft mounted aerial and 20yr old

Further to advice received here yesterday, has anyone got a Palm TX and
if so, what are the pros and cons of ownership.
Phil

...is up. Front page of apple.com
Jim

This should please one or two people, here and elsewhere:
 <URL:http://www.macrumors.com/2007/08/07/airport-extreme-updated-with-gigabit-ethernet/>
b.

Due to the bizarre way Office 2004 prints to PDF I found myself looking
for a utility to merge individual pages of a PDF together. After trying
Combine PDF and PDFLab I settled on the first one as it crashed less.
Neither of them seemed to offer great control of page rotation and ...

So, nothing exciting enough for me to rush out and buy one.  If they'd
offered a free Tiger upgrade I might have done, but as it is I'll wait
a bit.
-- Richard

After a disastrous couple of days with a Palm TX, I have decided to
resurrect my iPaq Pocket PC. I dont want to install windows just to sync
it to OS X, so I was wondering if anyone had experience with either the
MIssing Sync or Pocket Mac Pro. If so is one significantly better.

I imagine someone's coined a law that describes how data will expand to
exceed your biggest hard drive, and cruft will increase to absorb extra
CPU cycles.
What raised my eyebrows this morning was upgrading my Fetch from v4 to

Suddenly I am unable to burn a DVD on my Pioneer 109, it used to work
but I haven't tried in many months. When trying 'Toast' and clicking on
the burn button the window just shakes from side to side. I tried 'Burn'
but it wouldn't burn either.

The Higher Education prices for iMacs are all 12-13% off, making the
basic 24" model just under 1,000 pounds: 702.65, 835.43, 999.93, 1269.900.
The Mac Minis are 359.55 (unchanged) and 448.85 (was 475.88).
-- Richard

... is up and it's got those new style tab things that the US site has
had for sometime.

... is now down
--
Gareth

i dugg it... help him out.. he's a friend.
http://digg.com/apple/BUY_ME_AN_iPHONE_PLEASE_I_live_in_china/