UK Mac

Time machine stupidity
So the iMac is fixed and good with its new disk. Problem is, as soon as I switched time machine on, it wants to back up the whole disk again, even though the only files on it were the files it put there in the first place, becsue the disk has changed. I found a hint on MacOSXHints.com, but it relates to 10.5 and ... 28 Apr 2010 08:22

iTunes 9.1.1 fixes Voiceover
The fixes for Voiceover were highlighted in software update, which should please James! -- Chris ... 9 May 2010 04:38

More bad reporting ... not an iPad virus
This is being touted as being an iPad virus. It's no such thing, it's a Windows trojan requiring following/downloading/installing from an email, but the email refers to an iPad so the windowlickers are already gurgling about it. Perfectly comprehensible origin: http://www.malwarecity.com/blog/ipad-users-targeted... 27 Apr 2010 20:13

i7 MacBook Pros running hot
A few days back I mentioned that my MacBook Pro (Santa Rosa generation) ran very hot, and wondered whether the new i7s would be similarly poor or whether they'd be very cool like the first set of unibodies. Looks like my suspicions were correct: http://j.mp/csKEhj I dont know how representative of the real worl... 28 Apr 2010 14:02

Low end HP printers & OS X 10.6
Dear All �� Did you know this and not tell me? Turns out HP's drivers for printers like the 1010, 1022, and the like are unusable (for some*) by OS X 10.6. Communication errors, every other page printed, extra blank pages printed, queue held and held until you switch off the printer, and then it needs to h... 3 May 2010 16:30

Sticky Bit Coming Unstuck
I can delete other user's files in '/Users/Shared'. E.g., this test file: bash: ls -el testfile -rw-r--r-- 1 cubic wheel 0 27 Apr 13:09 testfile (I am not the user 'cubic'). In Finder the file goes to the trash can immediately. At a bash prompt: bash: rm testfile override rw-r--r-- cubic/w... 29 Apr 2010 08:59

Non-Flash flashing ads
I notice on Jobserve there are hideous animated flashing ads. That's funny, I have Click2Flash installed, how are they doing that? Old skool gifs, that's how. -- Pd ... 27 Apr 2010 08:46

Lost iPhone story getting ugly
<http://gizmodo.com/5524843/police-seize-jason-chens-computers> Police raid Jason Chen's house, take computers and drives apparently using an invalid search warrant. -- Pd ... 29 Apr 2010 13:33

iPhone ringtones
Can't find the convert to AAC option on the latest iTunes which I used to use to create my own ringtones. However I've just successfully made one using Audacity. Up yours, Jobs. -- Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email) It's only Usenet, no one dies. My opinions, not the committee's, mine. Simple RFDs ww... 27 Apr 2010 13:21

iMac 24" hard disk replace
Thought I would jot this down as I replaced the hard disk on my iMac yesterday, and there were a couple of things that could have been clearer on the takeapart guides I found. Machine: 24" iMac, early 2008, 2.8GHz extreme The original disk was a 500GB western digital drive, so after a search I picked a 1TB we... 27 Apr 2010 04:20