UK Mac

iPad usefulness?
My sister in law (in Geneva) is talking of buying an iPad. She's never owned a computer before, except for an old terminally slow PC laptop that had belonged to her son in law, which I set up for her to work on dialup; it worked, after a manner of speaking, but was dreadful and she never used it. She's not inter... 11 Apr 2010 15:42

iTunes 9.1 now out
Apparently you can now sync to something called an 'iPad'. Other improvements mostly seem to be with Genius mixes. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported s... 31 Mar 2010 11:00

Mail in 10.4: extract addresses
I'm trying to create a mailing list for a client using Apple's Mail on Tiger. Now Mail seems to keep track of all senders/recipients' addresses somewhere. Is there a script or similar, that can extract all these addresses in one fell swoop? Ideally I'd want them all in a plain text file for further process... 30 Mar 2010 17:16

Safari on iPhone
Anyone find safari on the iPhone playing up at all? Do they update it? Mine's jamming up. ... 2 Apr 2010 06:02

BBC Radio Widget updated to v4.20
The Phantom Gorilla widget I've recommended in the past is now at version 4.20. Changes include: Fixed regional schedules to work with BBC's updated web pages. Greatly improved schedule readability. Fixed a possible issue with audio erroneously restarting on Dashboard exit. Fixed some issues with daylight savi... 30 Mar 2010 16:08

Some strange Console messages (possible solution)
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: For a while now (certainly pre-10.6.3) I've been getting some odd messages in my logs. They're all along these lines: 30/03/2010 18:51:26 kernel mdworker (map: 0xb0bc8f8) triggered DYLD shared region unnest for map: 0xb0bc8f8, region 0x7fff86000000->0x7fff86... 31 Mar 2010 05:28

Some strange Console messages
For a while now (certainly pre-10.6.3) I've been getting some odd messages in my logs. They're all along these lines: 30/03/2010 18:51:26 kernel mdworker (map: 0xb0bc8f8) triggered DYLD shared region unnest for map: 0xb0bc8f8, region 0x7fff86000000->0x7fff86200000. While not abnormal for debuggers, this inc... 30 Mar 2010 15:01

Samsung Syncmaster 173p Pivot Display
Partner has a lovely if somewhat older Samsung 173P display. Now using it as a second monitor with the iMac is fine. But it is a pivot display. Is there any way of invoking portrait mode under Snow Leopard? Obviously the ideal would be full automatic pivot by turning the display. Second best would be a simple ... 11 Apr 2010 03:41

Miglia TV mini signal strength?
I have one of these USB TV tuners - is there any way to get the software ("The Tube") to display signal strength, or other information about the signal, for each channel? Daniele ... 30 Mar 2010 13:53

New 21" iMac problem number 2
One of the things I do with the iMac is play WoW, and the display on the 21" screen is awesome after my old 17" G5. However, the top right corner of the casing gets very hot after about an hours play, to the point that it's uncomfortable to rest my hand there. Can someone advise me: 1. Is this somethi... 2 Apr 2010 08:11