Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / January 2008

Pipex have managed to cock up my broadband so I'm only getting 241 kbps,
so I've finally decided to go elsewhere. Be are offering up to 24 Mbps,
they're available in my area, and are only £3 a month more than Pipex
for unlimited bandwidth, or £7 more for 2.5 Mbps upload speeds.

... is a USB-ethernet adaptor!
After all those years of scoffing and sneering, too.
Daniele

First post to this group so please be kind ;)
I get my first ever Mac tommorow (a new Macbook to be precise) and although
I will mainly be using the device nativly, I will require to be able to run
Outlook to connect to my Exchange server. I have one or two questions about

I got my Dad to order the 2.0 Mac Mini the other day to replace his dead eMac
and it looks like we got away with it. The Minis don't look like they've
changed. I should have known there were changes coming up and for once we
were in luck!

That's why the bastards disabled Time Machine backup to Airport Disk,
isn't it?
Hopefully it was just a delay to avoid a percentage of potential Time
Capsule buyers going down the Airport + USB drive route. I hope they

My old Bluetooth mouse had a habit of starting up with clicks which
worked but tracking that didn't.
My new Bluetooth mouse has a habit of losing its clicks, even though the
tracking still keeps working.

The Apple website says this is now possible but I can't work out how to do
it. Any ideas? I'm hoping this means we'll now be able to see the notes
attached to podcasts too.
Andy.

"we've driven the US and Canada and mapped WiFi hotspots, they have 23m
hotspots in their database."
What about us UK iPhone owners ?
Phil

I picked up an Iomega eGo drive on Friday for my MBP.  My plan was to
format and partition it into a large HFS partition for Time Machine,
and a smaller FAT partition for sharing files between my PC and Mac.
This wan't too hard to set up and seems to work fine, but I've run

[innocent look] Are we expecting anything today?
Jim

First Impressions are good. Start up times for the apps aren't stellar
but they are much better in use than the last versions on Intel
machines.
Some of the template and theme stuff for documents in

So, anyone care to guess whether wireless backups will be available
without Time Capsule? That feature is notably abesnt from the comparison
page for the standard Extreme, but is that only because you can't back
up without extra hardware?

Oh, how I wish I'd posted this here instead of just emailing it to the
couple of work colleagues with Macs. I'm amazed how well I did.
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Sent: Tue 1/15/2008 10:14 AM

Its very quiet, not much posting going on, am I missing something ?
Phil

Interesting. Just set up Mail on the iPod Touch for Caz - after setting
up the basics, I could then go into Settings, Mail, <account> and then
Advanced to specify which IMAP folder to use for sent, which for draft
and which for trash.