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

I have no idea how or why but my itunes is a mess with duplicate
references to the same file and album art being all over the place....
wrong images etc. Any idea how to reset and get itunes to re-index the
lot ?

At home, I frequently work with dual monitors on my Macbook Pro, using
the built in 15 inch display, along with my 22 Inch HP LCD. Is it
possible to extend the menu bar (at the top of the screen) over to the
external display so that while working in a program on the external

I'm happily backing up my laptop via a Time Machine/Airdisk
combination. I now need to add a second laptop to the mix. So, connect
to the AirDisk and go to set up Time Machine. Choose disk
and...err...er...where's the AirPort disk?

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and record conversations wherever you go. The MP4 Watch is a multi-

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MP4 Watch is a fashionable design, you can listen music, Watch movie
and record conversations wherever you go. The MP4 Watch is a multi-
media marvel on your wrist. It is of course a watch, but aside from

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MP3 Watch is a watch and MP3 player in one, a mp3 watch is not
different from other wrist watch. you can record with 4GB USB flash
memory disk, mp3 watches have taken innovation to the next level. They

I've almost got my head round converting .ts files from my Humax.
Handbrake is, as I type, encoding the Dams Raid thing from C5 last night
from TS to MP4.  What I want to know is how to convert this to DVD,
preferably without buying Toast Titanium.

Using the latest Firefox on my iMac.
Firefox remembers a number of passwords for a number fo sites. All is
fine.  However for one site (at least) when I arrive at the site, the
username etc flashes up and then disappears every time !  When I go to

The latest 2 Mark Morford SFGate columns contain some good Apple related
stuff. One references the iPhone:
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/06/18/notes061808.DTL>
Quote from the article:

I'm giving Airfoil a go, in an attempt to make full use of my new
Airport Express. It seems that using it to play iTunes based movies is a
no go, it just don't work. You can get sound if you use a physical
connection though.

This is getting stupid:
42397    taskgated    root    0.0    1    773.01 MB    789.12 MB    772.35 MB   
taskgated has an RPRVT of 770MB?!
I keep killing the bugger but it just comes back and grows like rampant sock

For those that don't dogg or digg or whatever it's called and haven't
seen this yet:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/50181590@N00/144300100>

I'm debating buying a refurb MBP from the Apple Store, but I'm wondering
about shipping times. I'm in mainland UK on the south coast. The website
says it depends on how far I am from the warehouse location, which
doesn't really help.

My broken iMac G5 had (er, has) my Leopold DVD in it.
How the chuff do I eject this, there's no manual eject hole that I can see,
and obviously I can't power on with the mouse button held, as it has no
power.