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

No, a real one, crawling around under the glass of my HP monitor - quite
disconcerting it is!

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/29/yahoo_to_reimburse_drm_prisoners/>
Wonder how this sits with the claim that DRM is necessary to prevent
piracy? All those DRM-free tracks released to the wild...
Cheers,

Does anyone know of any site or software that'll take a picture as an input
and spit out a cartoon type avatar? Maybe something like the participant
images in the MacBreak Weekly podcast picture <http://twit.tv/mbw>.
Ian

After upgrading XQuartz to version 2.3 last night I see that X11.app
now has a new icon.
<http://img.skitch.com/20080730-kugxg4kpe9mpqp9fp5kuijcjen.png>
Not sure I like it...

(I made this post last night but it hasn't shown up for some reason -
apologies if it turns up twice)
My refurb Nano arrived today - 8 gig black Nano without a mark, no idea
what made it refurb but it looks fine to me. The Nike+ kit arrived with

At last, Firefox can now display pdfs:
http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/
Seems to work a treat. Apologies if this has been picked up earlier.
Rob

From MobileRead. Waterstone's to take orders for September delivery:
<http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26746>
Happy days.
Ian

I have unexpectedly entered the market for a new Apple toy. Hurrah, and
other such phrases.
Except that this one is for the iPod Nike+ connection kit plus an iPod
Nano, because I've just been talked into entering my first ever 10k

July 29, 2008--SEM 1.0.2 (Supercomputing Engine for
Mathematica) creates a standard way for each Mathematica kernel
in the cluster to communicate directly with every other kernel by
utilizing Message-Passing Interface (MPI) specification.

In iTunes: "A new version of iTunes is available; would you like to
download it now?"
Buttons are 'cancel' and 'Download iTunes'
Ok, maybe I'm easily irritated, but that 'cancel' is terribly

On a MacBook what are the equivalent keystrokes for page
up/down/home/end? Should be easy to find with help but I'm obviously
asking the wrong question. I'm using powerpoint and keynote and trying
to find what I'm used to when forced to use Windows at work.

My refurb Nano arrived today - 8 gig black Nano without a mark, no idea
what made it refurb but it looks fine to me. The Nike+ kit arrived with
it, so I went for my first run using it (and only my second run since
deciding to do this).

My neighbour's lad's 14" G4 iBook is dead in the water and he asked me
to take a look at it.  On pressing the power button it whirs a bit, fans
spin on , it chimes - then nothing - the screen remains black.  Caps
lock light works and the volume up switch turns on the numbers lock ...

I prefer using a USB headset/microphone when videoconferencing, but when
I am not wearing the headset I cannot hear incoming calls since the
internal or external loudspeakers are not active when the USB headset is
selected. It seems that in OS X there is no way to activate two ...

It's all my fault.
A friend has an old iMac- a tangerine one running OS8.5. It's kept on
keeping on for years, and she loves it. She has a PAYG connection with
Freeserve (okay, now it's changed to Wanadoo/Orange, but she still has a