Be Excellent To Each Other

If you have the skeleton key, go to prototypes and play I Sent My Monkey To The Moon. It's Zub meets Bugaboo/Roland In The Caves.

There's something wrong with my iPhone/iTunes.

For the last few days, when I've tried installing apps via iTunes (as opposed to downloading through the phone), it's told me I need to authorise my computer. Odd, as it's the one I've been syncing to since July 2009.

So I have now authorised two PCs. No idea.

Now, I'm trying to add the paid unlockables in Billiards, and it's telling me I need to try it with the Apple ID i used to buy the app. I am!

If anyone knows why this is happening, please enlighten me.

Email iTunes support. They are usually really good at handling these things.

I had a code for the app store a while back which refused to work. They sorted it out quite quickly.

Magnetic Billiards is really good. Thanks for the tip off.

Where were you when the game's creators turned up to tell us about it?

so the wife has bought an iPad mini, neither of us have had an Apple device before, what are the "must get" applications?

Met Office Weather
Google Earth
Ebay
All the games listed earlier specifically MB.
Twitter
Facebook
Distant Suns
iPlayer
Rain Alarm
The Trainline

Tvcatchup
The room
Sky+ app
Kindle

Cheers. Let's see what they say.

To add to the game list, I recommend awesome dungeon crawling RPG Solomon's Keep. Once you've drained that, get Solomon's Boneyard.
There's a new one coming this year, too (whoo)!

Fleetwood or Preston probably.

I also had a pretty shit android phone at the time.

Fair enough. Now ignore the bouncing balls and get yourself some hot wizard action.

Already bummed Solomons Keep o/

Didn't know they'd done another though.

\o

Boneyard is a survival game, but still plenty fun.

As someone who has also taken CG's tips (and thankyou), I have spotted a mistake in the list above. Anyone else?

Edit: hmm, actually not! Not the icon I expected 5 a day to have, it looks like one of the "help you get your five a day" apps that also came up in a search. As you were!

Yep! No llama avi for that one.

Think my iMac has turned up!

You usually get an email when it has been signed for.

You only think?

Try looking at it from the front, you're probably looking at it from the side, which is why you can't tell for sure.

My information is from Mrs Z.

I shan't believe it until it's in my den.

No email?

It's a trap!

She has cancelled the order and shaved the edges of your current iMac, hoping you wouldn't notice.

My current iMac that's a 15" MacBook Pro?

Wow, you have been slumming it! i can see why you were so desperate for an iMac

Quite.

How's your ladies laptop btw?

Very light and easy to fit in my handbag, thanks for asking.

Worse. She cancelled the order and replaced it with this:

Well?

How was your evening with your new love?

Good. Beautiful bit of kit. Beautifully rich colours on the screen.

Migrated my stuff from the laptop last night which took a fair old while. Looking forward to getting more work in to pay for it now.

Is this worth a look for £200?

Might be a nice way to see what the fuss is all about without giving Apple any money. Also, is that a new version of the operating system on there?

Could just use it for iTunes for the iPad if nothing else, then I could remove the ABOMINATION that is the PC version of iTunes off MrsAE's laptop. (And all the extra shit it lobs on there.)

The specs don't look too bad, although 2GB of RAM is perhaps a bit low?

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/m ... specs.html

IIRC I am not sure the latest version of iOS will run on that thing. Apple do have a cut off point.

iOS? OSX you mean Chinny? Wonder why he's got Snow Leopard and Lion on there?

Worth £200 I'd say, AE. Depends what you want it for really.

It's 10.8.2 now. Snow Leopard was, what, 2009? We're now on Snow Mountain Lion with jetpacks or something.

Edited my sausage fingered post above.

God, yeah it's Mountain Lion now. I should know, it's what I'm running

Either way you said iOS so you're a pleb.

My new iMac is fucking lovely.

Snappy as fuck compared to my old laptop, so much quicker to start up and shut down too. The screen is beautiful to work on.

It's just a glorified telly. Think of all the drift cars you could have bought.

It's a lifestyle choice.

Where is that uturn smiley?

For £200, it'll be OK, if it's in decent nick. Note that it will be a bit sluggish, given its age. Mrs G'snewer C2D 13" MBP is feeling the strain these days and that's on 4 GB of RAM (which I'm updating later today to . I'd check to see if the Mac in question can run Mountain Lion and also how much it'd cost to upgrade the RAM to at least 4 GB.

On the OS in general, I'm not sure how he'd sell a machine with Lion on to you. That was Mac App Store only, and the recovery discs for a machine of that age must be Snow Leopard or even Leopard. However, if the machine can recover to Snow Leopard and successfully run Mountain Lion (check online for compatibility), you can upgrade for 14 quid.

But with an old machine, don't expect too much, obv.

It will be perfect for AE.

He'll only want it to slag of MacOS.

I said I'd never give Apple any money ever again, I didn't say I would never own another Apple product! (I think I said that, I was ranting, I say lots of things when I rant.)

MrsAE keeps buying shit for the iPad anyway, so Jobs' rotting corpse is still defiling my wallet on a regular basis whether I like it or not.

You should not buy it as Apple won't have gotten any money from you and that is not fair now is it?

Just buy it, you can sell it again for that sort of cash if you don't like it.

Looks like some EU gubbins mean that Apple will have to update the Mac Pro in a few months.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57567911-37/never-fear-europe-mac-pro-likely-will-get-update-soon/

Older readers will remember the mayhem in the early 90's regarding the then new EEC electrical interference regs. I have long suspected the reason the Speccy was quietly dropped was because it had no hope in hell of ever meeting the specifications required without a major redesign. The CPC's makeover took the new regs into account (so the internal docs I've read say), while the C64, ST, Amiga and other machines that were available in the USA already complied with stringent FCC rules.

The good news is though that we may have a new Mac Pro on the cards. And if so I'll be in the queue for one as soon as the inevitable initial teething problems are ironed out!

If you just want to try out the OS use VMWare on your pc.

What page were you on?

The one where AE wanted to buy a Mac to try MacOS?

I decided to put the £200 towards the £9750 bill to get the fucking roof fixed. Spending £200 on a laptop I don't really want seemed a touch frivolous.

Every little helps, as they say.

We will need a new/replacement laptop for the bedroom sooner or later though, the screen is getting a bit dodgy on the current one.

A chum of mine (the one who got the Mac Mini) really does sing the praises of MacOS (or whatever it's called) though, to the extent I have to tell him to shut the fuck up about it.

Like me and my FPS and stuff.

VMWare.