Reprinted from TidBITS#919/17-Mar-08 with permission. Copyright (C) 2008, TidBITS. All rights reserved. http://www.tidbits.com/ Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/17-Mar-08 ------------------------------------ by Jeff Carlson article link: **Victoria voice for text to speech** -- A reader correctly points out that the voice of an Apple video mentioned in a recent article is not Victoria. That leads to pointers to other text-to-speech voices available for the Mac. (4 messages) **Grooming a Jobs replacement?** During the recent Apple event to unveil the iPhone development roadmap, Steve Jobs shared the stage with other Apple employees. Does this signal an effort to find someone to step into the CEO's shoes at some point? (And really, is Jobs actually a good presenter?) (11 messages) **Cox.net Will Not Send from iPhone** -- Sending email from a reader's iPhone abruptly stopped working. Does the problem lie with his provider, or a technical glitch? (23 messages) **Forcing wireless to connect on 802.11a** -- The AirPort Extreme base station supports the 802.11a variation of wireless networking, but how do you actually take advantage of it? (2 messages) **Anyone has experience with Cisco VPN?** A reader asks for help in configuring a Cisco virtual private network, and of course the TidBITS Talk community is able to provide suggestions. (7 messages) **iPod Touch as Palm Replacement** -- Not so long ago the idea of replacing a Palm organizer with an iPod would have been ridiculous. Now, the iPod touch may be a viable stand-in. (8 messages) **My "loaded" Mac Pro Intel Tower overheats** -- How hot is too hot? A Mac Pro with all of its expansion ports occupied starts to behave erratically, leading a reader to ask about cooling options. (1 message) **Can't verify disk from boot volume** -- Early versions of Mac OS X 10.4 did not allow Disk Utility to perform a Verify Disk operation on the boot volume, but versions 10.4.5 and later do. (4 messages) $$ This is TidBITS, a free weekly technology newsletter providing timely news, insightful analysis, and in-depth reviews to the Macintosh and Internet communities. Feel free to forward to friends; better still, please ask them to subscribe! Non-profit, non-commercial publications and Web sites may reprint or link to articles if full credit is given. Others please contact us. We do not guarantee accuracy of articles. Caveat lector. Publication, product, and company names may be registered trademarks of their companies. TidBITS ISSN 1090-7017. Copyright 2008 TidBITS: Reuse governed by Creative Commons license. Contact us at: TidBITS Web site: License terms: Full text search: Subscriptions: Account help: .