UK Mac

MacBook back-up necessity
Dear All � Just had the second MacBook this week through Mac Doctor Towers needing a new internal HD. First one's data was entirely un recoverable (Head crash between the platters - ouch). Waiting to see about this morning's. Both Seagate 120 GB drives. (I've done perhaps 10 in the past year). If you have... 6 Jul 2010 15:36

keystone - Google Software Update Agent
When I restarted my iMac this morning - after a spinning beachball of death at login when - I was puzzled to see a GoogleSoftwareUpdate disk image mounted in the Finder. There was a Python script in there called keystone.py (or something similar); then the image unmounted. A bit of searching reveals that this ... 27 Jun 2010 16:07

MacSoup - links?
Another question about MacSoup: can it be configured so that links in posts are clickable instead of having to copy and paste the url into a browser? -- Nige Danton email: replace the obvious with g_m_a_i_l --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net --- ... 26 Jun 2010 07:35

Mac Developer Program
On 25/06/2010 15:10, Tim Hodgson wrote: I'm just toying with paying up my $99 for this, and wondering how big the range of "Foundation Videos" from past WWDCs is, given that free registration already gives me access to the 'Essential' videos and the WWDC 2010 stuff. If they provided a list of what's a... 25 Jun 2010 12:06

Sinister Macbooks
Is is just me of is it odd that Apple has put all the ports on the left hand side of the Macbook Pros (at least on the 13 inch model I have)? OK for left handers of course but as right hander it's awkward plugging USBs in and a wired mouse. E. ... 25 Jun 2010 19:47

NewsWatcher character sets
On 25/06/2010 10:55, Tim Streater wrote: Any NW users (I'm using 3.5.3b3) know whether the following is correct? I added these as extra headers: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit and set NW to use UTF-8, but when I sent a mail to alt.test with so... 25 Jun 2010 09:53

It arrived yesterday
27" iMac 2.8GHz Intel Core i7. Set it up with Time Machine, 50 mins Brief description. 'king WOW!!!. Thanks for all the help I've had from this great group. Regards Happy John ... 25 Jun 2010 07:43

Hyphenation
Pages's hyphenation seems a bit over-eager. It's happy to hyphenate words it doesn't - or I'd expect it not to - know anything about. For example, it will hyphenate "Arkestra", if permitted, as Ark-estra or Arkes-tra. Nice guess, I suppose, but a hostage to fortune. Daniele ... 25 Jun 2010 19:47

Activating spotlight
I have a friend with a relatively new iMac (much newer than mine- I'm jealous) running eith 10.5.8 or 10.6.something. She can't manage to open .zip files, which seems very odd to me... If she does a spotlight search, from the menu bar, on '.zip', she can double click the zip files and they open okay, but not if s... 27 Jun 2010 06:20

iPhone Photo LIbrary under iOS4
Anyone noticed that syncing your iPhoto library with your iPhone under iOS4 takes up considerably less space? I think I saved over 1 Gb of space with the new iTunes/iOS4 combination on my 3G iPhone. ... 24 Jun 2010 17:30