Come on, people! Lots of people buy used gear. Just because you didn't show prudent judgement and got your iPod stolen doesn't mean that all used gear is stolen. tooki

Hey, DavisH was nice about it--maybe a bit overly suspicious, but still polite, which is cool. I'd be overly suspicious if my iPod got stolen, too. Port Arthur, welcome to the Mac…

I should have clarified my previous post, I believe Port Arthur! I was just implying that not everyone is straightforward and trustworthy. I was (past tense) a little apprehensive…

I'm into cars, and while LeftLaneNews is an admirable MacNN equivalent, it lacks a couple of things. Firstly, while there is a lot of European news, to be honest I would prefer not…

The pub.

Quote: Originally Posted by Doofy The pub. I need more friends who are in to cars... bloody musicians don't tend to understand!

To be honest there aren't a lot of really good car forums out there. I suppose the carlounge and autoweek are pretty good, but you will still see lots of talk of american cars. No …

Quote: Originally Posted by willed I'm into cars, and while LeftLaneNews is an admirable MacNN equivalent, it lacks a couple of things. Firstly, while there is a lot of European…

for bmw: e90post.com, e90fanatics.com. e46fanatics.com, m3forums.net, bimmerfest.com, and so on and so on

If you like Volvo cars, www.swedespeed.com and www.vvspy.com are worth a look.

The forums of ultimatecarpage.com. Not euro centric but really international with a lot of european representation. A bit like the 'NN. I post there a lot.

www.vwvortex.com www.mwerks.com

www.nicoclub.com Its a Nissan/Infiniti site mostly, but theres a bit of everything there.

Some of you might have seen my post at Macrumors, but I thought this might be interesting in it's own right. I have an 18 months old iBook (1GHz, 768MB RAM, Tiger 10.4.3). My usage…

Shutting off at 50% is a usually a good indication that you need to calibrate your battery. (Here are the directions for calibrating an iBook battery.) However your usage pattern m…

Agreed that a calibration is in order, but the usage doesn't look like every use is a calibration cycle...if the iBook is put back on the charger before it shuts itself down, then…

Unfortuantely there is no way I will be going through a full calibration cycle. It dies every couple of mAh's, so going from 1800mAh to 0mAh would take forever But I can vouch fo…

Quote: Originally Posted by new_apple Unfortuantely there is no way I will be going through a full calibration cycle. It dies every couple of mAh's, so going from 1800mAh to 0mA…

Wow, 742 cycles and still over 80% capacity. My 14" 1.2ghz iBook battery only has 51 cycles in 17 months and it is at 72% according to Capacity Meter. I've recalibrated it several …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ly/4472642.stm Quote: Richard Burns, who won the world rally championship in 2001, has died at the age of 34 after a long illnes…

That wasn't very respectful. And not even funny.

That's sad, I remember watching him a great deal on the BBC's coverage in days gone by.

Sad. RIP.

Descanse en paz.