Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / February 2010

I'm finally getting round to sorting out email on the iPhone, which I've
been putting off because all my accounts are POP, and I thought I'd have
to move everything to IMAP.
Then I saw the following in CTM's manual:

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:42:27 +0000, sab wrote:

Just acquired and set up an Apple TV.
Generally works very well, easy to set up, does what I expected. Slight
problems caused by my firewall but I think that is sorted.
Because I prefer to edit photos with another application, I don't have

Just wondered how everyone insures their iPhone?
The company I am with now has a 'special' iPhone policy, whch is £8.24
per month. (currently 5.88 for normal phone).
http://www.2u.co.uk/iPhoneInsurance/

The number shown on my O2 PAYG iPhone as "My Number" in Settings>Phone
and at the top of Phone>Contacts is not in fact my number.  I suspect
this is because I transferred my number from another mobile when I
bought it.  Is there some way to correct it?

But what terrible instructions! I need it all laid out as if to a child.
Usually you get a huge book with these things.
In iTunes now setting it all up. I assume 3.1.3 is ok.
If thing gets me a job and multiple orgasms, I may allow it to stay.

I found an app called NewsTap lite for the iPhone - but they want a name
and password to get onto news.individual.net. Lord, where do I find
this? I reg'd with them 7 years ago.
Plus, scroll arrows on the iPhone would be great.

Anyone using PDF Lab for unlocking PDF files?  Saw it on one of the other
groups but I downloaded it and couldn't get it to work.

I started using Opera a month ago and really liked it's speed and style.
However I have now had to abandon it.
The two biggest, but not sole problems are....
Opera will not let me use Hotmail email. It goes to the email page and

Now with RAW support for the EP-1 :-D
Cheers,

Once again I turn in desperation to the exceptional people
of ucsm. Please, please help, I'm drowning in confusion.
Ok, where do I start? I have this test Quicktime movie I
constructed in FCP. But, the thing is, it looks different in

Do Apple do OS X tech support via email?
There's nothing listed here:
http://www.apple.com/uk/support/contact/
Thanks.

Having just got back from hols with an iPhone holder in our party, I've
decided the time has come. Couple of questions:
I figure PAYG is cheaper by about £200 for me over the two years of a
contract, including the cost of year 2 wireless. Is this £200 likely to

A friend of mine who is quite paranoid about security has become
curious about cookies, and has noticed some strange behaviour on her
iMac.  (2.4 GHz Intel iMac running Snow Leopard with everything up to
date.)

We had a power outage yesterday. We'd been getting ominous flickering
for the past two days, then while I was on the iG5, just saving a
message to send to ucsm POW! It all went black.
This happened last year, and EDF fixed it within a few hours; it was a