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

My iTunes appears to have gone mad how do i fix it.
I have set up some smart playlists from my iTunes which has 78gb in it to cap
what is put onto my ipod touch.
Now I haven't had a problem with it since i got my touch until today.  I have

My Safari dock icon has changed:
<http://skitch.com/peedee/xbx9/safari-icons>
Clicking it still launches Safari, choosing Show in Finder shows Safari
with the blue compass icon.

Just been reading this:
<http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/04/next-version-of-flash-player-to-see-performa
nce-leap/>
They're
reckon x3 performance from the current beta, which is available here:

Afternoon all,
I attempted to instal the Geforce 8800 in my PMG5 at home on friday, and
came up against a couple of gotchas:
It wouldn't power on - couldn't get enough power thru the PCIe bus, and

New Scientist have a Microsoft-sponsored competition (entries due in
yesterday - I only found it this morning), first prize is a Sony Vaio
running Vista Ultimate and some other stuff.
The competition page has a "future technology" illustration showing a

I saw this had at long lost become final and downloaded it earlier this
week. It works pretty well in most regards but in true Microsoft fashion
it has some serious annoyances and downright bugs. E.g. it complains
whenever you connect to a Windows machine that is not running ...

The phenomenon we talked about here some time
(no boot by any means when the internal disk has directory damage)
ago has become (almost) reproducible.
The culprit: a venerable Cube running OS 10.4.11

A mate is running a McBook as a iTunes station and for a bit of web
browsing.
He phoned me today to say he wants to print from any other PC on the
network to the printer plugged into the Mac (10.5). This was what he

Talking about the BD-RE drive I have at work got me thinking I need one
at home (large amounts of DV to back up :-) - But all the units on sale
tend to be SATA, and the internal connector on the PMG5 at home is IDE.
I do however, have an eSATA PCI-Express card in - can I connect a ...

<http://gizmodo.com/5020490/msi-wind-running-mac-os-x-also-thinks-its-a-mac-pro>
Another
interesting one - $400 (don't know UK price) for an ultraportable
running OS X? Hmm.

I am finally upgrading my old iLamp for a new MacBook.  The iMac has be
brilliant but is starting to slow down a bit now and appears to use the fan
all the time so think it may need resting and only using on special
occasions.

Well after purchasing a 8 Core Mac Pro from the Refurb store and getting
more than I thought I would :) I have some observations for you and if you
have any answers I would be really grateful.
I have a Dual 2.5 GHz G5 with 4 G of Ram & new toy 8 Core 3 GHz with 4 G of

Let's hope we don't see too many iPhone apps with interfaces like this
one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gruber/2635257578/in/photostream/
I wonder how well it will sell?

Well,
Treated myself to a 24" imac this week and WOW! one thing I have
noticed is the back left gets really really hot. Anyone else noticed
this ?

Dear All ­
An iBook came in, full to bursting, client had tried to back-up, re-load, etc
made a hash of it. Asked me to tidy up machine.
I did a full back-up (natch), put in some more RAM, and did a clean install