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

Just found that iTunes searches for partial strings, so "illi" matches
Chilli and Illionois and Killing. I'm sure it didn't do that in earlier
incarnations.

Now I have a shiny new Mac as my "main PC", I need to change the way backups
are done on my home network.
Previously, I did this:
I had a Windows XP machine and a Mac mini. I used a program called SecondCopy

Anyone know why when I send a photo via iPhoto 6 choosing Large which
estimates it at 416 KB it actually sends it at 132 KB! If I choose Actually
Size it sends it at the right size i.e. 2.9 MB. The mail client I use is
Entourage if that makes any difference.

At work we've just bought one of the old model MacPro 2.66Ghz from
Jigsaw. This model will run Tiger, but comes with Leopard.
Because of the Quark Xpress version we have (6.5), we need to run Tiger.
We have the retail version of Tiger family pack, but the disc we have

Not been around here for a while, as most of my belongings
seem to have been giving me grief lately. Cheered up a bit
on assembling various eBay buys into a reasonable G4 (MDD/
FW400/Cinema 20, with an M-Audio card to come) system for

I'm a little puzzled about this....
If I log in to my PowerBook (10.4.11) as Root, I have 180Gb available on
disk - fine.
If I log in as Thom, I still have 180Gb available on disk - but only

<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?email&NewsID=20756>

Some nitty gritty on how Time Machine works:
http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2008/03/x5_time_machine
It's middlingly-technical, ie those of you happy diddling away in the
terminal will already know it all, and those of you who have never

I just fired up Google Earth, and while it was launcing a dialog popped
up saying "The application 'Inspector' has unexpectedly quit".
What on earth is that likely to be?

After much consideration and the thought that my 2G4 1.25 is getting a
bit long in the tooth, I thought it was time it got upgraded.
The logical choice would be the macpro, as it was from a powermac, but
really the desktop doesn't do as much as it used to do when we got it,

I see that Toast Titanium is now available at version 9.0. I had a
quick look at the release notes but nothing really leapt out and
grabbed me. Worth the upgrade price?
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Has anyone found a way to filter out the storm of junk advertisments we
seem to be getting recently?
My trick of filtering out cross-posted items doesn't work, as these are
not.

Yet another huge screw-up by the BBC at the taxpayers' expense - DAB's
death throes now seem to be almost over:
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/06/dab_fail/>.
Paul

My daughter has my old 15" G4 Powerbook in Dubai.
She says it reverts to this date every time she boots it. She corrects
the date in sys prefs but it reverts to 1970 on the next boot.
Obviously this is a PRAM issue, she's not technical. I can point her to

I've just gone for a £15/3Gb pm contract with Vodafone for their
mobile broadband. I considered the 3 pay-as-you-go deal, but their
coverage maps looked pretty thin - and I don't know anyone with a 3
phone locally who I could check with.