UK Mac

Keychain and Skype
I've forgotten my Skype password. I rarely use Skype, but had reason to tonight and wanted to log in on my phone as well as the Mac. Fine, go to Keychain to retrieve the password. Click the 'show password' check box, type in the login keychain password and...hmm. The box immediately unchecks itself and no pass... 12 Apr 2010 17:03

iTunes, sorting, album-artist field.
That's it, really: what's the album artist field in iTunes all about? Looked in iTunes help, can't find anything on the subject. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org ... 10 Apr 2010 21:13

Mac Pro problem
My 2008 Mac Pro has lost its video output from a Radeon 2600 - started up this morning with nothing on either screen. It's still under warranty from Scrumpymacs so they've sent a replacement card which should arrive on Monday. The Pro starts up with a normal chime and disk activity, and I can see the internal dis... 12 Apr 2010 19:16

JANET and cam.ac.uk cutting Usenet News feed from July
> From: Matthew Vernon (RSS to News) <matthew(a)sel.cam.ac.uk> Subject: Newsgroups and bulletin boards Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:27:00 +0100 Newsgroups: ucam.comp-serv.announce Message-ID: <184616faf1f334d1c180b6168c90ad09ca9b1790(a)tylerdurden.greenend.org.uk> For many years the University has ru... 23 Apr 2010 21:42

Mail and trash
A quick question - when you delete the emails in Mail's trash folder, is it possible to also delete them on the server at that point (or at least on next mail check) without deleting other older messages still on the server? E. ... 9 Apr 2010 08:54

Macspotting the umpteenth
Anyone watch Only Connect on BBC4 TV? I usually avoid quiz shows but this one is different, the questions being deliciously cryptic, and I am tickled by the presenter. One round goes like this. Three pictures are shown in sequence and the contesting team have to predict the fourth picture in the sequence, poin... 9 Apr 2010 13:24

Upgrading Macs
Colin Harper <colinharper(a)x.com.invalid> wrote: [snip] It's like the council worker proudly proclaiming he's had the same broom for 20 years and it's only had 15 new heads and 11 shanks. Once upon a time, we talked about Daniele's axe[1]. I wonder if I'm unusual in upgrading Macs like this? I th... 12 Apr 2010 07:01

Russian UFO - seems real (no, honest).
<http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2009/11/09/unknown-foggy-object/> I just thought `Oh wow! Kewl!' Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org h... 8 Apr 2010 19:43

IE8 daftness...
It seems like I'm having a bit of a Microsoft bashing session, but it's not intentional, I can't help it if their stuff doesn't work right! I manage a site for my sister's churches. I use iWeb to do this - it's quick and easy, and I own it (before you all tell me to use something else). I've just had a report ... 9 Apr 2010 06:43

iPhoneOS 4 looking good
Pretty neat stuff, to drop in Autumn: Vast array of 1500 new APIs. No Flash (surprise!). Multitasking is in across *recent* iPhoneOS devices - 3GS and Touch 3rd gen and iPad. Not true (and simple) using-lots-of-memory multitasking, but cunning API methods that give the same effect for the user. Effort on the ... 15 Apr 2010 11:24