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Oh wow! This'd be great for people: photography Luna and get an instant reply who/where she is with Google Earth.

Can anyone get Mail.app to actually work? I am using it with Gmail and it won't even pull messages off the server or sync up properly without me quitting and restarting. I just want to hit the 'Get Mail' button and have on my desktop what I have at gmail.google.com

yes, though -- caveat alert! -- i'm using tiger :)

but, umm, it does pretty much exactly what you're describing, and does it well. having to quit and restart sounds v odd: have you tried deleting the account info from mail.app and starting all over again?

google's official guide to setting up gmail with mail.app
some more settings info, although do not enable the save drafts on server option because it sucks 18 different types of dick

czn: you want Activity Monitor in the Window menu. Leopard Mail seems to keep getting hung up "synchronising" things -- hit the red stop sign, and it'll be back in business fairly quickly.

It happens often enough that I switched to Entourage, however.

jesus christ, things must be bad.

no idea if this will help either of you, but it's more interesting than revising the arts page, which is what i'm meant to be doing right now.

i've had mail get my gmail for ages, it's easy

are you on leopard or tiger, DG? i have a feeling 10.5 will be the first upgrade i just don't bother with.

(bit late now anyway, innit.)

leopard

sod it. i shall live in the steam-powered past on my own, then.

b-b-but mail worked fine under tiger too! i fear my lack of minor annoyances on my mac just means i'm going to have some major system failure soon

In Leopard (10.5.2) I'm using Mail.app with Gmail, and with another IMAP account. I added Gmail (as IMAP) a couple of weeks ago and had no problems doing so.

It happens often enough that I switched to Entourage, however.

Masochist?

b-b-but mail worked fine under tiger too! i fear my lack of minor annoyances on my mac just means i'm going to have some major system failure soon

heh, i've been feeling like that since about 1997. when the disaster comes, it's gonna be HUGE.

(that said, i did accidentally destroy my first iPod. i have suffered. oh yes.)

the ball on my mighty mouse has just stopped working :(

completely or just gummed?

no gum it just seems to lose traction

oh and now it scrolls down but not up

OH FUCK WE HAVE TEMPTED FATE :(

nah this has happened before, i quite like these mighty mice apart from the bloody silly scroll ball

have you tried the official 'piece of clean A4-paper' fix?

nah this has happened before.bsg, amirite

you're not wrong

I love the scrollball, when it works. Problem is after a few months it gets mucked up inside and you have to kind of clean it... somehow. But eh, that plus the stupid "touch detection" BS design means I went back to a standard Microsoft mouse.

unimpressive imac update

indeed, but given that there isn't much by way of better technology available at the price point, what do you want, a cookie?

something better than a geforce 8 card

i know we don't care much about ipods on here but... when do you reckon the ipod will get an update? buy now or hold off for a while? i'm not in any great hurry but i do want as big a HD as possible.

is there an event coming up that may signal a revision?

this is kinda standard stupid question, but i have a macbook pro intel core duo 2ghz with 1gb RAM. im always having multiple photoshop windows open and iphoto with thousands of thumbnails on it, multiple browers, aim, mail, calendar, itunes playing, etc and soemtimes slows to crawl. getting 1gb more ram should help? i dont even know wtf ram does

yes it will DEFINITELY help.

would getting 2gb more be overkill?

well you only have 2 slots and i bet both of them are full...

Buy a 4G kit: 2x2G. Highly recommended.

Jed - http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#iPod

phil only the latest macbooks will take 4gb ram - so best to make sure yours is one of those? when did you buy it?

well you only have 2 slots and i bet both of them are full...

i looked at the hardware profile thing and it says one of the dimm things is empty... so i can just stick a 1gb chip in there? (or ask someone less butterfingery to do it for me)

How old is it and what processor speed, Memory is so cheap right now I'd max it out to whatever is the max but that may just be another 1GB which is going to cost you 30 bucks or less.

Phil, buy the RAM from http://www.crucial.com/ (much cheaper than anywhere else, as far as i know) and download their System Scanner tool which makes sure you have bought the right thing for your system.

Alba, thanks - i had a look at that already but i was wondering if anyone knew a possible date?

I think the next big event on the calendar is WWDC, but that's not a consumer thing. I'd have thought an iPod Classic bump would be most likely to just slip out one day, maybe with a week's notice of some kind of announcement. 160GB felt like a huge jump to me. Having bought one of the current generation, I'd personally be keener on a spec boost rather than a HD one - it's nowhere near as snappy to use as the old models.

Not sure that the iPod classic will get a bump, there isn't really anything better than 160GB in a 1.8" hard disk at the moment. iPod touch, nano could get disk size boots at WWDC, although I think the focus is going to be on the 3G iPhone.

ok, thanks guys. i know 160GB is huge, i'm just getting greedy.

How old is it and what processor speed, Memory is so cheap right now I'd max it out to whatever is the max but that may just be another 1GB which is going to cost you 30 bucks or less.

its the first generation of the macbook pro intel things, i think? its maybe 2 years old now, 2.0 ghz intel core duo.

i looked at the apple store and 1gb RAM is $100 and 2gb RAM is $200... also i think if i buy it at the apple store, they'll install it for me there? im really not so good at DIY installation stuff. i remember breaking a PS1 trying to solder on a mod chip... then installing a ram chip in the old powerbook where you can lift open the keyboard, i broke something too.... so........

Tekserve in NYC will charge you less, you must have a friend who would do it for the sum of one pint of beer?

on crucial 1GB of RaM is $25.99, just saying.

whoa. that much cheaper? i really should find someone who can install it for me. thanks guys

phil, i'm a cack-handed buffoon but i've managed to whack memory into a couple of macs without too much lasting damage (OK: i broke the battery clip in my original-shape iMac, but that was all).

q: on an ibook g4, ram would be installed under the keyboard?

depends which one but possibly

Also, crucial quoted 1gb ram for my computer at $89, but I'm guessing there's different types of ram or something?