Re: Mobile broadband with PowerBook
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:45:12 +0000
In message <C7297AB8.2A26%hugeone12@btinternet.com>, Hugo Rogers
<hugeone12@btinternet.com> writes
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>On 18/11/2009 01:33, in article 7mh17bF3hkq7hU1@mid.individual.net, "Bruce
>Horrocks" <07.013@scorecrow.com> wrote:
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>> Duncan Kennedy wrote:
>>> may add Orange. Any experience, please, of installing s ...
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Re: Newsreader suggestions?
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:48:04 +0000
In message <1j9cqt6.xnvl7poqjy9sN%matthew.sylvester@gmail.com>, Matthew
Sylvester <matthew.sylvester@gmail.com> writes
>Tim Streater <timstreater@waitrose.com> wrote:
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>> Hmmm. Now you mention it this rings a bell. Trouble is, although this is
>> an intersting security procedure, no-one else does it as far as I ...
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Re: OSX upgrade
18 Nov 2009 15:24:40 GMT
T i m <news@spaced.me.uk> wrote:
> Ah, that's why. However, is it not possible for an app to have it's
> settings within it's own file / folder structure. I know that would
> mean all users would share the same settings but for many apps that
> wouldn't be an issue anyway would it?
I can't think of any exampl ...
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Re: Scanning photos and setting dates
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:38:40 +0000
On 2009-11-18 09:46:11 +0000, Dr Geoff Hone
<gnhone@NOTNEEDEDglobalnet.co.uk> said:
> EXIF data starts with the JPEG. I don't know of a single film camera
> that adds EXIF data to the film - not even the last of the pre-digital
> Pentaxes.
> Suggestion: If you know when the piccies were taken, why not simply
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Re: Scanning photos and setting dates
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:36:58 +0000
On 2009-11-17 23:44:45 +0000, Mike Lane <mike.lane.usenet@ntlworld.co.uk> said:
> Howard wrote on Nov 17, 2009:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I am about to start scanning in a few hundred photos from prints from
>> the late 80s and early 90s. I have done this before and it is
>> depressing the lack of resolution :( bu ...
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Re: Scanning photos and setting dates
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:33:00 +0000
On 2009-11-17 23:30:09 +0000,
real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) said:
> So: I'm not being a lot of direct help, but the job's do-able and you
> could do worse than by starting googling for EXIF data and comments as
> attached to image files of type jpg, png, tiff, and gif. Graphic ...
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Re: Scanning photos and setting dates
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:16:26 +0000
J. J. Lodder wrote on Nov 18, 2009:
> Iphoto is a disaster.
> It hides everything from view,
> and stores all it's info in a fragile database
> that can't be exported.
> Good for family snapshots only,
I don't understand what you are saying at all. I have never lost anything
from iPhoto (and if I did I ke ...
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MBP latch problem
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:08:04 -0800 (PST)
Noticed last night that the lid on my 2008 Santa Rosa MBP 17 doesn't
latch shut. If I look closely, when it's nearly shut the magnets in
the base correctly pull out the two catches, but they don't seem to
*catch* properly.
I'm loathe to take it in under Applecare as I've swapped a HDD and
replaced the white ap ...
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Re: Apple's bluetooth mice and rechargeable batteries
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:59:34 GMT
Jim wrote:
> Now that I have my first ever wireless Apple device (a Magic Mouse, soon to
> be two due to SWMBO offering dire threats if she doesn't get one really
> feckin' soon) I was wondering what their performance is with rechargeable
> batteries? Obviously it's a bit early to tell how the Magic Mouse fairs, b ...
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Re: Mac jewellery
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:56:49 +0000
On 2009-11-18 12:06:59 +0000, Jim said:
> On 2009-11-18, Bella Jones <me9@privacy.net> wrote:
>> Sara <saramerriman@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> That's Christmas sorted then!
>>>
>>> http://www.etsy.com/shop/creativedexterity
>>
>> Holy nutkin's knackers, bantam!
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>> That's a wad of cash!
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>> ...
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