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

.. this is an old perennial, the issue of very thin cables fraying and
eventually splitting and shorting where the lead joins the body of the,
in this case, MacBook power adapter. It's happened to me now -and I find
it is a very common occurrence, see for instance the comments in ...

Essentially a new twist on Bejeweled:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy0ptZisr70>
Looks good - I like the way that the orientation of the iPhone/iPod Touch is
actually a part of the game, determining which direction the blocks will

My brother's about to order an HP P1006 laser printer for use with his
new Airport Express, I just had a couple of questions about it...
Are there any possible compatibility problems? There's one thread on
Apple Discussions that mentiones a few people having problems between

Anyone come across this? A message in Mail which simply does not delete.
The message stays in the In Box and the 'Delete' button just says
'Undelete'. A corrupted Mail folder possibly?
Thanks

Occasionally, maybe once a month, I click play in iTunes and nothing
happens. The iTunes buttons *say* that the song is playing but it
doesn't. In fact, all of the iTunes buttons appear functional, I can
skip forward to another song, shuffle through the song, etc, but it

I've just set up one of those Vodafone USB broadband devices on a
MacBook Air. So far so good - I can browse the internet and receive
e-mails. However, I can't send e-mails because Mail can't use the
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP). The question is what outgoing mail server

Little Snitch tells me that Safaritool wants to connect to the 'net.
I've just done a Web search and found nothing on it - which surprised
me.
Anyone got a clue?

I currently have Dual 2 gig G5 with 4 gig of Ram and the ATI 9650 AGP
Graphics card have the opportunity of an Apple/Nvidia Geforce 6600 AGP
Card with 256 mb GDDR Ram...
Would I see any "speed and general performance increase" if I get this

Another strange variation on the Bruno Grosjean ("I *felt* Jewish")
theme:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7270970.stm>
       A Belgian woman whose tale of survival with a pack of wolves in

Not heard much noise about this but system update popped up with a
keyboard updater that claims to fix a few things, including the is-it-
just-me-with-fat-fingers problem of the first character of typing
being missed off - which i tended to see mostly when logging in.

That'll be £680M please...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/27/microsoft.europe>
Speaking about Microsoft's announcement about supporting open formats, the EU
spokesperson said:

I have, today, bought my first iPod. Plugged it in to a USB 2 port and
ran the setup then synched it with my iTunes library.
It came up with an obscure east Eurpean language which, not surprisingly
I don't speak, or read for that matter! How to fix the language was a

The Instituto Cervantes as part of its language learning classes allows
one to access their Virtual Classroom
(http://www.ave2.cvc.cervantes.es/).
They offer clear warnings about the site being developed for Windows

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