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

Missed part of the Gadget Show earlier.  But I notice Channel 5 now has
its on-demand TV service up and running.  So I can watch it on there...
Except, no, I can't.  Yes, you guessed it; chalk up another on-demand TV
service that's jumped into bed with Microsoft to the exclusion of ...

I've just done a fresh install of Leopard and transferred all the
users (but not applications etc) from a Tiger machine.  There are
a few mysterious things:
Google Earth doesn't work.  It "quits unexpectedly" (gets a

Another record for Mac sales:
Apple Reports Record Third Quarter Results
Revenue Up 38 Percent Year-Over-Year
Mac Sales Reach All-Time High

I've just cancelled my MobileMe/.Mac account as it is coming up for it's
renewal in Sep (this has been my first year).
I subscribed shorlty after buying a MBP and iMac. It's not the price -
although we would all like it to be cheaper.

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/22/stevejobs.apple>
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Cheers,
Steve

For some time we have had problems here viewing google maps. The maps
sometimes load but then won't change using the navigation buttons, or will
only partailly load. Satellite images were OK though.
The Google help suggests various things to try but that never seemed to

When you launch Screen Sharing (directly, from the Core Services folder) a
control window appears with various names of "My Computers".
I've mistyped one. Is there any way to delete it from the window?
Martin S Taylor

Every time I use the search bar in Safari, I get the results page in
Afrikaans not English.  I 've been to the google preferences page and
set the preferred language to English but it keeps going back!
Is this a cookie problem, or something else

My iTunes library has suddenly shrunk to 101 songs - all purchased from
the iTunes store. The remaining 100s of songs in the library are no
longer listed but the various media files are still in the Finder. This
was all triggered (apparently) by running an AppleScript to refresh ...

I don't know if this is of use to anyone who does a lot of work with
fonts...
In doing a 'mdimport -A' I noticed a particular attribute called
'com_apple_ats_font_invalid'.  Try this is a Terminal window:

Rented my first iTunes movie yesterday - Hellboy, since you ask. Good
film, good quality, downloaded in reasonable time but...
...but not accessible from Front Row. And that's just damned annoying,
since I downloaded on the Mac Mini which permanently runs Front Row and

A group exists for discussing the iPhone:
misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Charrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrge !
I would suggest that you subscribe in a way that ignores everything that

"Motorola seeks a court order barring Fenger from working for Apple for
two years beginning last March 31."
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=22094>

Here are various and latest styles for your choice in our website.
( www.ptstore.cn)

For the Unix fans Fink has now been updated for Leaopard and Intel Macs
(as well as a version for PPC)
http://www.finkproject.org/
I've been having bother getting my MacPorts to work, in particular