UK Mac

The Age of Steam Begins Today!
On 2010-05-12, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: A mild shame that only Portal+Torchlight are on Mac to start with, I wanted to have another try at getting through the end battle in Hl2ep2. The bit with the striders and the sticky bombs? Yeah, I hate that bit. Tried and failed twice ... 16 May 2010 11:21

iTunes 9.1.1 and artwork
So here's me, trying to attach a picture of a Vincent Black Lightning[1] to my copy of Richard Thomson's `1952 Vincent Black Lightning'. What I see displayed using the various iTunes views of attached artwork looks low-res and/or badly anti-aliased. Okay, so test to see if something's gone wrong with the transf... 18 May 2010 07:05

{sorry} Playstation 3 questions
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com>: Recently come into one - an 80GB 2 USB model - I think it's the last of the full-sized units before they went slimline. Mostly using it for media streaming from the Mac. I do believe I have the very same model. Welcome to the club! First off, to keep it vaguely on-topic, ... 12 May 2010 01:35

HD sizes of G4s
Are all G4s capable of seeing the full address range of a large modern HD or are some of the early ones limited to the first 120 GB like G3s are? -- ~ Adrian Tuddenham ~ (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply) www.poppyrecords.co.uk ... 12 May 2010 05:53

WD Blue HD constantly spinning up + down
Tim Hodgson <thnews(a)poboxmolar.com.invalid>: I have a new 500GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue HD in in my 2009 MBP, and it's all fine, except for the continuous spinning up and down. It sounds like the 'click' problem I remember being reported last year (which ISTR was fixed in a firmware update?), except th... 12 May 2010 02:40

A bargain? and a What's it worth?
I've been trying to find a way to get Emily a slightly better Mac than the iBook she's currently got I found one on eBay over the weekend that may do the job. An old G4 PowerMac MDD 1.25GHz with 1GB of RAM. No hard drive, or externals, but at �50 I couldn't pass that up as a punt. Looks like it may have the top ... 12 May 2010 03:44

Spell checker for MacSOUP
The subject says it all. I've always been a fast and very bad typist and it's also taking time to get used to my new mac keyboard. Is there a way / application to link a spell checker to MacSOUP, please? -- duncank ... 12 May 2010 12:30

Getting my PDF books onto my iPad in a usable form
I thought it was going to be easy... either a decent reader program, or convert my PDF books to ePub and then read them using iBooks. Wrong on both counts, it seems. I haven't seen a decent reader for PDF-formatted books (I know that's not what PDF is meant for, but that's the format my books are in). Can anyo... 15 May 2010 17:00

O2's iPad data plans revealed
On O2 it's going to be like this: 2UKP gets you one day's data, up to 500MB. 30 days (up to 1GB) is 10UKP 30 days (up to 3GB) is 15UKP The 30 day plans are rolling contracts, but you can cancel on the iPad itself a day before it's due to renew. <http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/05/10/o2_vodafone_ipad_mob... 14 May 2010 07:21

Preorder
OK, when it came to the point with my credit card in my hand, I couldn't justify the extra �100 for 32GB extra of ram. I certainly couldn't justify the extra �100 for the 3G option either, so 32G wifi is what I went for. But with the money I didn't spend, it seemed rude to not get the case or the camera connecti... 10 May 2010 12:06