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Swiped from Digg:
<http://lifehacker.com/344376/customize-your-mac-with-leopard-power-tweaks>
A few familiar ones, but the Time Machine scheduler was new to me at least.
Cheers,

<http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/14/wired_claims_last_minute_
macbook_air_design_details.html>
I'd still rather have an A5 Touch-like device, but interesting
nonetheless.

My wife wanted the free copy of the Neil Diamond film "The Jazz Singer"
which was given away with  today's Mail on Sunday. Unusually the paper
sleeve was sealed with a sticker which read "ECODISC", after opening it
I found a very thin very flexible DVD. Although its the same ...

Hmmm, I've now got two disk images from .dmg files I've just downloaded.
No, make that three, I just tried with an older .dmg. Guess I'll have to
reboot. This is 10.5.1 on a Mac Pro.

A friend's wireless ADSL modem/router has just died, and he's looking to
replace it. Do we have strong feelings on which are the best makes these
days?
Martin S Taylor

Have been having problems with my Linksys router dropping the ADSL
connection frequently only to restore it a few seconds later.
SNR (dB): 9.3 (down) + 13.0 (up)
Atten. (dB): 63.0 (down) + 31.5 (up)

Yay!. Myself and two colleagues have just arrived in San Francisco for
MacWorld (after a few days on our stand at BETT!).
The countryside is a lot greener than it is in June/July/August. Temp
it 12C slightly overcast. Quite pleasant ;-P

My Dad's eMac has suffered from exploding caps well outside of the three year
programme.
He took it apart (I wanted to get the HD out to transfer data to his new Mac
Mini) and proclaimed that the Hard Drive is 'hard wired' to the motherboard.

Version 3 of software being released on Tuesday, looks like I will have
to fork out some cash for it, lets hope this one is less buggy than the
previous offerings.
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/01/13/elgato-to-release-eyetv-3-0-on-tuesday/

Was someone here looking for a Mac IIfx recently(ish)?
I have such a beastie which I'd like to find a good home for - details
that-away ---->
in uk.adverts.computer.mac

Thought you might like to know about a very good software bundle
that's going on at the moment.
It's MacHeist 2 and has a stack of software for $49 (which is worth
around $400).   I figure it's worth buying purely CSSEdit  and