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   tommo6210 on 8 November 2007 at 17:43

   Hi All,

   Love the podcast…

   Something I’ve found to be really useful is Spaces in leopard. It’s easily the best feature in my opinion.

   What makes it even better (if you have a mighty mouse), is to assign button 3 (usually set to dashboard by default), to Spaces instead (i’ve relegated dashboard to the button 4).

   Then, you can navigate about your different applications by using spaces and button 3, which is brilliant.

   … and you’re right, Spaces implementation is very fast and useable because it has been kept simple. Love it!

   On other leopard features, have noticed a few ‘bugs’, such as SMB file sharing not working properly between my iMac and my PC; bluetooth mighty mouse not working after resume from sleep sometimes; and the occasional application which on launch bounces on the dock, but doesn’t actually launch, and when this happens, being unable to force quit the application.

   But on the whole, I’m very pleased with leopard… I’m sure a lot more pleased than those poor people that have to use Vista on a day to day basis!!

   Bye all…

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   Gazmaz on 8 November 2007 at 23:48

   Yes guys you have tempted me, however I’ve heard some more issues with Leopard and various Apps, and silly things like turning off the Firewall seems to me that Apple have rush rushed this out (to save face on release dates?), this seemingly has led to a few gremlins coming out of the woodwork. So although I know I want all the great updates and improvements I’ll wait either for the first update, or wait until I’ve seen it in action in a new machine, still looking at that.
   FIREFOX FIREFOX been able to drag tabs for ages. I first tried Safari when it came over to Windows and it put me off straight away as it was so buggy.
   It seems to me at the moment with my newly gained Apple world knowledge that things are buggy but soon get fixed and move on. I do not have any issues with that but a lot of newbie users and switchers would struggle a bit. Am I talking rubbish probably?
   Alarms in iCal hooray I wish I could do that in Lotus notes at work, the cats tempting temping.
   Spaces sounds good used it in Linux a little but it wasn’t done that well so I’ll have to see how it works in the pussy cat.

   Mike I have to agree with you about storing stuff away, I have the feeling that all I’ll need to do is stuff everything in my home folder. What a total nightmare that would be in windoze.

   OK Mike it’s late Thursday night I bet you can’t get to sleep can you!

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   Elaine on 9 November 2007 at 13:25

   Welcome aboard Tommo … and what a fantastic tips re the mouse. I’ve just tried it and love it. I don’t use the dashboard much (although the new open in dashboard feature is cool) so I’ve relegated that the side buttons and working with Spaces is even better.

   I had some issues with Bluetooth when trying to sync my contacts – I had to go to about 3 different places and configure many more options than in Tiger but I got there in the end and even discovered that my mobile phone has a calendar … which was news to me!!

   Good to hear we tempted you Gazmaz 🙂

   I used Opera when I was using a PC and that had a huge number of features Safari lacked hence me using Saft to add them all back. I must admit I’ve never really taken to Firefox – not sure why as it’s got some great features but I tend to only use it where Safari doesn’t work.

   I doubt he slept at all … you should have seen him at our MUG meeting last night – we’d finished our meeting and had a last drink before getting up to leave and what should come on the large plasma screen behind him but the iPhone advert … he nearly broke his neck falling over bar stools to watch it again. Then just to cool his ardor a bloke stood at the bar said “If you get one you’ll be disappointed” before proceeding to explain that he’d had one for 6 months and didn’t rate it … poor MikeB in the midst of his iPhone lust and someone raining on his parade!!

   Anyway he obviously wasn’t dissuaded as he’s just arrived in the queue … more iPhone news on the way shortly no doubt.

   Elaine

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4. 

   ColB on 9 November 2007 at 22:32

   Hi, posting from my shiney new iPhone. Queued at the O2 store in Warrington from about 17.00 and I was 9th in line. Was home by 18:30 and was activated by 18:45. I believe the O2 servers are down due to the high demand so I’m glad I got home asap. Really loving it so far. The error correction on the keyboard is the real saving grace, you soon learn to stop going back and correcting errors and just keep on typing, the iPhone does the rest.

   Cheers, Col.

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   Rob on 10 November 2007 at 23:22

   Elaine, In Preview if you open multiple images and then select them all in the sidebar you can save them as one PDF document. Go to File Menu and Print selected Images…
   Now click PDF and then Save as PDF. One possible problem, this will resize all smaller images up to the same scale as the largest image of the selected set.

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6. 

   Elaine on 13 November 2007 at 01:21

   Rob, that’s fantastic!

   You’re right about the upsizing of the images but it works perfectly on individual A4 page scans I want to combine.

   Great tip 🙂

   Elaine

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7. 

   Elaine on 13 November 2007 at 02:27

   Hi Col

   I’ve heard others saying the same about the error correction on the keyboard – it sounds wonderful … now if only Apple could do the same with my Mac keyboard 😉

   Sounds like an iPhone convention at our next MUG meeting then I guess 🙂

   Elaine

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   Gazmaz on 14 November 2007 at 00:44

   OK guys couldn’t find an email didn’t really want to put this in what will become an old post but never mind, here’s a link to where I’ve got to in my Leopard move!
   http://www.malpastowers.com/page7/MacBlog/files/Gazmaz%20Mac%2020.html

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