For those of you that know me, these aren’t words you’d normally hear me use….but that day has come!

I’m annoyed with them for one reason, support! I have a Power Mac G5 with an Apple USB Mouse. The scroll wheel has given up the ghost - after a year or so. Normally I wouldn’t worry about this, in fact I’d just go and buy another one.

But I bought a 3 year Apple Care warranty, which covers the mouse. So I thought, hey I’ll get some value for money. So off I go to Apple support website to discover the only way I can do this is if I take the mouse to an Apple Store (or a service partner).

Now my nearest Apple Store or Authorised Service partner is a minimum of a 50 mile round trip, so the cost in fuel & parking, not forgetting my valuable time will far exceed the cost of a new mouse.

So I’m annoyed - if only for a short while - with my good friends at Apple!!! Why cover the mouse under this agreement if I can’t just call somebody and say my mouse is broken, send me a new one? That’s what you do in the USA and I know for sure it’s what Dell do in the UK. Grrrrrrr!

I’m off for a cuppa and to order my new mouse (from Apple I suspect).

Today for some unknown reason I decided to try and upgrade the firmware on my perfectly good iPhone. The instructions I’d read were simple enough and so I just went along with it, only to be left with a phone running 1.1.3 that wouldn’t work.

After almost 5 hours of hunting around on the web, I finally managed to get my phone back to a working state again, by down grading to 1.1.1 and then up to 1.1.2 and finally up to 1.1.3.

I have finally learnt that “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” really is something I will consider in future. That’s not to say I won’t, but I’ll at least consider putting it off for a rainy day.

Chris

But now it’s the amount of memory in my our mac - boy does it fly!!!! Â

If you like Quickview in Leopard (and I do) then you may want to checkout this

Or should I say there is a hole in my firewall……

I just discovered that the firewall in Mac OS X 10,5 (aka Leopard) is by default set to allow all incoming connections. I noticed this yesterday and it was confirmed by this article on the BBC website.

WOW!!!

Apple sells 2 million copies of Leopard since Friday

So I’m sat on the sofa watching QI on TV, it’s just gone 2230 and there is a knock at the door. Kind of late for somebody to be popping round - I half expected it to be Nikki but it wasn’t.It was TNT delivering our new cat - Leopard is here!!!

The question is now, do I (A) Open it and install it (B) Get up early and backup the Macs, then do the install one by one or (C) Read up on how other people are upgrading before doing anything. Hmmmm…………let me see.

I can’t check if this works or not, as I haven’t received my copy of Leopard yet but it would appear the screen sharing function in iChat is available externally.

Check out this hint

Somewhere in the TNT parcel system is my our copy of Leopard………..they are going to deliver it tomorrow and guess what, I’m we’re not going to be in. I have just spoken to a nice woman at TNT who tells me they aren’t allowed to deliver it anywhere else or leave it without a signature. So I’m we’re going to have to wait until Saturday morning, when I’m told they will try and redeliver it. Typical isn’t it!!!!

UPDATE: It was pointed out that it’s OUR copy of Leopard and not just mine

I got a little annoyed with my Firefox download folder becoming so full and hard to navigate. So I knocked up a little Folder Action Script which monitors the downloads folder and once a new (and complete) download finishes it moves it to my Software folder and creates a new directory for it.

Simple and it works….you can download the script from http://www.millshalligan.co.uk/software/folderactions/index.shtml