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Re: doing emails while in Europe

Of course, with a steady hand and a sharp blade you can cut down a regular SIM to microsim size - quite a lot of info on the web about this, eg: And there are also adaptor carriers available t

Re: Keychain help please

Hi Laura, I've only just caught up with this thread so, firstly, good to hear you now have mail working. > Until I know how to use Keychain I shall keep well away from it. I agree that it is best not to start changing things in Keychain unless you know just what you are doing (and why). However

Re: NEW MacMin has a HDMI Port!

Very true, us country folk always have to consider postage costs for these things. Perth folk can always just walk into one of Jaycars 4 WA stores: And I do see that Jaycar list 10 Authorised stockists around t

Re: ISP collation

Hi Lynn, Feel free to use my info ­ disregarding the 2007 info (which seems suspect to me) I guess info & typical figures for me would be: > Service Provider: Internode > > Suburb: Albany (Rowley Street) > > Distance from Exchange: <1km > > Speed as advertised: 1500/256 > Actual Speed: >> Dow

Re: ISP's

To give a country perspective: I¹m on Internode¹s Home-1500-Explorer and I¹m located in Albany <1km from the Telstra Exchange Got the following test results this morning: Speedtest.net - through Perth Fast Hit server: > Download: 1.32 Mbps > Upload: .22 Mbps > Ping: 31ms. > Speedtest.net - th

Re: Dropbox - TIP - how to add a "Save PDF to Dropbox" item (and other options) to your print menu

ve as PDF...² action for other items but I now find the two new one-click options really convenient and time-saving. It¹s little feature like this that I really love about OSX!! Cheers -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 8/5/

Re: Creating emails from Word

Hi Rob, AFAIK the 'No services apply' message is due to SL¹s improved handling of services ­ previously all the services would show but non-applicable ones would be greyed out ­ now only applicable ones will show. If you want to see real service options in Entourage, for example, first select som

Re: How to draw a helix?

spring&styp=m&btnG=Search> Hope that helps, Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 28/5/10 4:55 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > Hi Rob, > > SketchUp is free 3D software

Re: How to draw a helix?

Hi Rob, SketchUp is free 3D software with a (very) large following - I haven't really played with it yet but I'm sure it can cope with a helix (and more) - check it out here: They have lots of examples and you may even find a ready-drawn spring in th

Re: Sidebar Icons

nd see if they stick. > > Cheers, > Pat > > On 27/05/2010, at 8:50 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> >> Hi Pat, >> >> Thanks for the link. >> >> Unfortunately this program is for creating thumbnail images - which is not >> what I am l

Re: Sidebar Icons

in the Finder - unless you set the finder icon size to 16x16 ;o) > Gotta get back to quotes and invoicing for now anyway,...lol. > But thought it might give you something to play with for now. > > Kind Regards > Daniel > OK, thanks for the ideas & links Daniel. Che

Re: Sidebar Icons

m http://www.stalkingwolf.net/software/cocothumbx/ > > Pat > > On 27/05/2010, at 2:06 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: >> >> I looked at Iconographer but it is now discontinued and the developer's >> website says the latest version (2.5) was last updated in mid 2003 - so I'm

Re: Sidebar Icons

eport back! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/5/10 9:24 PM, Daniel Kerr at wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: > > On 26/5/10 8:02 PM, "Neil Houghton" wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >

Sidebar Icons

Hi all, You know how in Finder certain items display different icons in the sidebar than their normal finder icon - does anyone know how you can add a custom sidebar icon to a folder. I'm not talking about changing the normal finder icon associated with the folder (which you can change by select

Re: wd passport

> HD on the work computer. Tried a few things which may have lost my ablity to > mount > again on the home Mac but can read on home PC > > Will take your advice and contact Mediafour (MacDrive developer) for help > > cheers > > john > > On Thu May 20 12:27

Re: wd passport

Hi John, I have not been following this topic, so not sure of the background, etc. However, when you say: > Any body got any suggestions, bearing in mind that all I wanted was an > external > device that would work similiar to USB stick but larger capacity that would > plug in > to PC and MAC

Re: Permissions Issues

; > > Permissions are so interesting Š and confusing at the same time ;-) > Yes, I love the power and features of Snow Leopard, but sometimes miss the simplicity of Classic! Can¹t have it both ways, I guess! > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 20/05/2010, at 10:39 AM, Neil Hough

Re: Permissions Issues

nce any permission problems. > But, I'm open to anyone disagreeing with this. > > Of course neither of these ways will be possible if Adam doesn't have a > complete backup of his old drive! > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 19/05/2010, at 10:47 AM, Neil Houghton wrot

Re: Permissions Issues

Hi Ronni & Adam, I have been following this with interest ­ I have had to sort out permissions problems in the past, I generally get there in the end, but I still find many aspects of permissions confusing. I am hoping that Ronni could clarify how one area works: I can see how approach A works

Re: VMWare Fusion/One virtual machine shared by all users

Hi Stuart, If it is like Parallels, the issue may well be the permissions set on the VM file(s) I know, for me, I had a VM created by one user and wanted it to be usable by two users - I did some googling and found articles in the Parallels forums which let me sort it out by changing permissions

Re: Permissions Issues

Hi Adam, Just to add to what Ronni said ­ Terminal is very powerful and lets you do all manner of things, however sometimes I find it easier to check out various hidden file using the Finder. The trick here is to add ³File Visibility² to the list of finder search criteria ­ to do this invoke the

Re: what is it about macs and sleep?

Hi Alastair, I don't know if it's relevant but I got a bad fright the first time my Mac screen went suddenly black in the middle of doing something Until I realised that I had a "Hot Corner" set to "Put Display to Sleep" and my cursor had wandered into the corner! To check if you have any "

Re: enter rage

Hi Pedro, I think your problem is that Entourage is set as your default mail client. To change it you need to open Mail and go to the preference pane to change the default. This page explains in more detail:

Re: Disc wont eject.

Hi Bob, I vaguely remember a problem like this where the CD was in the Mac but I couldn¹t see it in finder to eject. I THINK I solved it by finding and ejecting in another program ­ I don¹t remember which one, but the two that come to mind would be Disk Utility and Toast Titanium. Cheers Nei

Re: online banking issues

Hi Peter, This certainly used to be an issue in the very early days of Safari ­ and was the main reason I moved to Firefox at the time. However things have changed a lot and now I often go to Safari if I have a problem loading a page in Firefox! I don¹t use ANZ, so can¹t comment on their website

Re: Dropbox

stop it bringing the finder to the front > every time I save, and it backs up? Tried forums and a couple of bods > have the same complaint but no solution. > > Really annoying and it's going in the bin if I can't fix it. > > You can keep the 250 though! > > best >

Re: Dropbox

gt; Thank you Neil, I will be taking you up on your offer as my partner has just >> received her new MacBookPro from Daniel and it will come in very handy for >> her >> >> cheers >> >> Pedro >> >> On 08/05/2010, at 7:42 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: &g

Re: Dropbox

d >> those who don't. >> >> Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips." >> >> The box said 'Required Windows XP or better'. So, I installed LINUX. >> >> I had a fortune cookie the other day and it

Re: Dropbox

: > Morning all ... and Happy Mothers Day to all > > Thank you Neil, I will be taking you up on your offer as my partner has just > received her new MacBookPro from Daniel and it will come in very handy for her > > cheers > > Pedro > > On 08/05/2010, at 7:42 PM,

Dropbox

Hi all, I recently set-up a free Dropbox account and was amazed at how easy and user-friendly it all was. A free account gives you up to 2GB of space - but you can get more with referrals. So, if anyone was thinking of opening an account, YOU can get an extra free 250 MB - AND get ME an extra f

Re: Ipad/iPhone - SIMs, micro SIMs & dual SIMs, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)

pacity as I > currently carry a work and personal phone. > > Tim > > > > On 07/05/2010, at 12:52 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> >> I have read that ordinary SIMs can be cut down to micro SIMs (as used in the >> iPad) eg: >> <http://www.ipadinsider

Ipad/iPhone - SIMs, micro SIMs & dual SIMs, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)

I have read that ordinary SIMs can be cut down to micro SIMs (as used in the iPad) eg: Some commentators here suggest that that could be a workaround if specific iPad plans are too exorbitant. What really interested me though was the link to

Re: Another great Preview tip

Hi Peter, Thanks for that info. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 7/5/10 8:28 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: > > > On 06/05/2010, at 12:27 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: >

Re: Another great Preview tip

Hi Peter, Great tip!! I've just tried it on a pdf I recently compiled from 7 separate documents (plus a cover/contents sheet) and it works great - really quick & easy. Thanks very much for passing this on. On a related point, do you know if there is a similar, simple way to create a sidebar t

[FOR SALE] Brand new HP Photosmart B109a (Printer/Scanner/Copier)

Hi All, I have a brand new unopened HP Photosmart B109a colour printer for sale which also scans, copies and works with Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 & 10.6. More info here: http://store.apple.com/au/product/TX973X/A?fnode=MTY1NDA1MQ&mco=MTU0Njg2NzU I am in Albany, in case anyone down here is interested

Re: Itunes won't play my cd

Hi Sam, Hi Ronni, Sam, if I understand you correctly, iTunes is playing your existing library of songs fine - in which case, I don't think it can be down to any general system sound/volume settings. >From what you are saying, a CD - presumably in the built-in CD player (you don't say what your c

Hitler's reaction to the iPhone leak

I just love these parodies - and this one is definitely on-topic! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61%

>> >> Thanks for all this. I think I would sooner have wireless keyboard >> than >> a numeric pad with a USB wired keyboard. >> >> Regards >> >> Peter... >> -Original Message- >> From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wa

Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61%

stern Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/4/10 8:26 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: > > > On 20/04/2010, at 11:30 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> >> Hi Peter, >> >> It's no problem to get a full numeric keyboard

Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61%

Hi Peter, It's no problem to get a full numeric keyboard (instead of the cut-down wireless one) - you just specify that when you place your order - of course this does make it a special order (same as extra RAM or whatever) so you may not be able to just walk into a retailer and walk out with the

Re: Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers - Solved - and a further question

reset" the keyboard to remove the pairing and initiate "discoverable mode? Cheers Neil (who just needs to know this stuff!) -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/4/10 3:01 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com

Re: Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers - Solved

ns something new everyday!) -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/4/10 1:27 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > > Replying to my own post, from further reading of Apples support site: > >> When your keybo

Re: Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers

quot; it. - The keyboard is not in "discovery mode" because it is paired with the 27" iMac. So, if that is the case, how do I get around this? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/4/10 1:02 PM, Neil

Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers

Hi All, I've got an annoying little problem at present - I'm sure the solution is simple - but its eluding me :( I got one of the new wireless keyboards with my new 27" i7 iMac - no problems there, all working fine. However, since I do a lot of spreadsheet work and I am used to having a numbers

Re: Losing my connection

Hi Mike, Thanks, I'll check those discussions out later and, like you, try turning off the Wake for network access in the Energy Saver preference pane first. In the meantime, I got the disconnect again and, this time, decided to try my network preferences ideas, ie: >> Secondly, to try to make

Re: G4 Lost Ethernet Connection

Hi Peter, Still not clear on a couple of things: on 5/4/10 1:39 PM, Peter Faulks at peterfau...@westnet.com.au wrote: > >> Hi Neil, > > > Thanks for your reply, > > > I have an Airport Express with a red Lead to the Westnet unit (we > connect via a satelite dish on the roof because we ca

Re: Losing my connection

Hi Mike, I have a similar problem with my 27" iMac i7 - except that my connection to the net is wireless. I hadn't picked up on a pattern, so I can't confirm that it is limited to overnight sleep (though, if so, I don't think it occurs every time the machine sleeeps overnight). When I wake the

Re: G4 Lost Ethernet Connection

Hi Peter, Your description is not very clear as to how your network is set-up. You say: > We connect to an Apple Airport Express which connect to a G5 and > Windows PC via Ethernet, they all work fine, just the G4 that's not > working. > So are you saying the internet connection is distribute

Re: Will not appear in finder

Hi Severin, So just to confirm: In Finder preferences: - Under the general pane, "show these items on the desktop:" you have a tick against External Disks, but the disk doesn't show on the desktop - Under the sidebar pane, "show these items in the sidebar:" you have a tick against External D

Re: Iomega 1TB HD cheapies

Hi Peter & Paul, If you want one with an on/off switch, Harris Tech do the Iomega Prestige 1TB for $117 - I bought one a couple of weeks ago - seems fine so far... Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/4/10 1:46 P

Re: Locked Keychain Problem

n on any mac before - never found it > necessary. > > I suspect the differences are due to the school IT team changing & > locking down certain items to keep the students out of them! > > Cheers .. BarbZ > > > > On 25 Mar 2010, at 6:40 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: &

Re: Locked Keychain Problem

Hi Barb, Glad to hear you finally cracked it and unlocked your keychain. >From your original post I see you are using OSX 10.3.9, so I expect the differences you now see are due to how Keychain Access has developed from 10.3 to 10.6. Personally, I had a big upgrade from 10.2 straight to 10.5, s

Re: Locked Keychain Problem

account that you don't have the password to and your user account that doesn't have admin privileges. > > They gave me a new username/password (both the same) when I got it, but > that one doesn't work either!!! > Is this the only account on the computer and, if not, d

Re: Preview's Hidden Powers

> Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo > 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB > OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > On 19/03/2010, at 10:08 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> >> Hi Michael and

Re: Preview's Hidden Powers

Hi Michael and Ronni, I have the same problem with Preview - from memory it's been there pretty much since day 1 on my new machine with SL 10.6 - although, since it is somewhat intermittent, I can't be sure about that. A bit more info/description of the problem: Heres a typical example, this m

Re: Preview's Hidden Powers

Just to add to this one thing which has changed in the latest version (since Snow Leopard, I think) - it confused me for a while until I learnt about how the change worked (can¹t remember now where I read it): It used to be that to add/copy pages from one pdf to another (or even, as Kirk notes, ad

Re: Printing a webpage

Also, as I mentioned, don't forget the "Grab" application that Apple provides in the Utilities folder - not only does it mean that an old bloke like me doesn't have to remember the various key combos for the different screenshots, it also offers a timed screen capture - not that I've had need of t

Re: Printing a webpage

Hi Michael, No thoughts on what your actual problem is - but if you want a quick fix you can always take a "snapshot" of the browser window. In Snow Leopard, I use the "Grab" application, which lets you capture the screen, a window or just a selection of the screen. It can be found in the Applic

Re: Six tips for using the Dock efficiently

+61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 12/3/10 1:34 PM, Paul Weaver at pwea...@westnet.com.au wrote: > > Try > http://www.macworld.com.au/help/view/six-tips-for-using-the-dock-efficiently-4 > 639 > > There was a space between l and y in the original URL. > > >

Six tips for using the Dock efficiently

An interesting little article in Australian Macworld - I got a few new pointers out of it! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- T

Re: Printing shadow boxes in Word 2004 to an HP 8000 colour laser printer

Hi Tim, That forum post sounds similar but, in fact, is specifically related to Word 2008 - the first reply notes that it WASN'T a problem in Word 2004 but WAS a problem in Word 2008 and the next reply says it is (or was in April 2008) a known bug. So, assuming that Sally is still running Word 2

Re: Printing shadow boxes in Word 2004 to an HP 8000 colour laser printer

OOOPS! Resend after seeing Ronni's post re the Intel G5 - Like Severin, I thought the G5 refered to the processor! So ignore my previous comment re 10.5.8! Confused of Albany ;) Hi Tim, Another thought, sometimes the problems are not as simple as: it is either: A Word problem A printer prob

Re: Printing shadow boxes in Word 2004 to an HP 8000 colour laser printer

Hi Tim, Another thought, sometimes the problems are not as simple as: it is either: A Word problem A printer problem A computer/OS problem etc. - sometimes it is how a specific combination reacts. >From your postings: On Sally's machine: - The text box looks fine in Word 2004 - a print from

Re: Entourage fun

Hi David, Regarding the permissions to check external mail - I had much strangeness with this after, I think, a MS Office update (or maybe migrating accounts - they both happened around the same time). Prior to the problem manifesting, all my email passwords (several email accounts) were in my l

Re: Darken printing

Hi Peter, One thing you can do is to "save as" an image format and then use an image editor to adjust levels. As a check, I just opened a pdf in preview and then saved as a png. I could then open the png in both Graphic converter and iPhoto - both of which offered me options to set levels. I'm

Re: top ten worst Apple products

Hi Alan, Just an off-the-wall thought - you aren't running Windows under parallels or fusion are you? If you are - is the USB drive being "captured" by Windows and so unavailable to OSX (though, if so, I wouldn't have thought Time Machine could see it either - unless it can "override" the Window

Re:External USB HDD (2 partitions) is not showing

(Re-sent with new subject as per Ronni's post) Hi Alan, Just an off-the-wall thought - you aren't running Windows under parallels or fusion are you? If you are - is the USB drive being "captured" by Windows and so unavailable to OSX (though, if so, I wouldn't have thought Time Machine could se

Re: New EPSON printer says it's OFFLINE

Hi Denise, I'm not familiar with these printers & setting them up wirelessly - but a couple of thoughts: 1) If you are under the gun to print out the boarding passes, why not just temporarily connect the printer by USB to print off the passes. Then you can fault-find your network printing witho

Re: Blocking Flash

ne + 61 8 9428 5437 > 2Fax + 61 8 9428 > ÈMob 0402 001 019 > ?E-mail pcr...@hatch.com.au > Website <http://www.hatch.com.au/> > > -Original Message- > From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of > Neil Houghton > Sent: Wednesday, 2

Re: Blocking Flash

Yes, I use Firefox but agree that these plug-ins are great for removing unwanted ads and flash - speeding up browsing significantly. There are several plug-ins for Firefox, but the relevant ones which I am currently running are: - Flashblock - as for clicktoflash on Safari it blocks all Flash as

Re: Deleting old email address

Hi Barb, You just need to send an unsubscribe message that is "from" the old address - the fact that the old setup no longer works doesn't stop you doing this - you just need to edit your old email account (in Mail or Entourage or whatever email client you use) so that the "Sending Mail" SMTP s

Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite

Hi Peter, I haven¹t had a problem with the Magic mouse, but the wireless keyboard stopped working quite quickly with my new iMac ­ I didn¹t originally suspect the batteries as I had had so little use ­ however it finally occurred to me to try new batteries ­ I threw in some re-chargeables and that

Re: Is This a Scam?

Hi Diana & Susan, Susan, I think you are being a bit harsh here - as the link provided by Eugene indicates: > However, 100% of funds generated via clicks on the "Fund Free Mammograms" > button and a portion of the purchase price for products

Re: Restore new mac from old Time Machine b.up

Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/2/10 2:03 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > Hi Ronni & Rod, > > I¹m not 100% sure on this ­ so please forgive me if I¹ve got hold of the wrong > end of the

Re: Restore new mac from old Time Machine b.up

Hi Ronni & Rod, I¹m not 100% sure on this ­ so please forgive me if I¹ve got hold of the wrong end of the stick! >From Rod¹s email he wants to restore all a students accounts & info from the Time machine backup of the students old macbook (which is dead) to a new macbook. I would have thought t

Re: Entourage bug

Hi Peter, If you have a lot of old emails in Entourage, it might be worth checking out Entourage Email Archive X if you want to archive your old Entourage emails prior to starting the brave new world of Mail. I have been looking at this to archive my many year

Re: Parallels: Explorer won't connect to internet

Hi David, Others may come at this from a different direction, but I like to look at it in layers, starting at the outside and working in: 1. Computer/Mac OSX 2. Parallels software/VM configuration 3. Windows OS 4. Windows software Level 1 is obviously OK since your are accessing the internet, s

Ripple - an interesting idea

Hi all, I hope you will forgive me a slightly off-topic post, but I thought fellow WAMUG list readers might find this use of internet advertising interesting, I certainly did. Ripple came up with the idea of using internet advertising as a means of easily raising money for ch

Re: Printer Error

Hi Maureen, The fact that it started working again and then stopped again tends to suggest an intermittent hardware fault to me. The first possible culprits to pop into my head are: 1) Faulty USB cable 2) Faulty USB port on the printer 3) Other fault with the printer 4) Faulty USB port on the

Re: Entourage bug

Hi Ronni, No, I exclude Entourage from my Time Machine back-ups and rely on my SuperDuper clone as my back-up. I accept the risk of losing the emails between my SuperDuper clones. I do however close ALL open applications before cloning. Whilst I haven¹t regularly checked the entourage database on

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

Hi Mike, If you log-in to your router configuration using your web-browser can't you see a list of the IP addresses allocated to connected devices? I'm going on old memories here - so its just a guess ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email:

Re: HP Printer

Well, interesting the things you find out in this sort of exercise: on 2/2/10 12:58 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > > Whereas for a Bonjour printer (approach 2 on another VM) I see: > > Port name(s): http://NRH-iMac27.local:631/printers/Canon_iP4000 >

Re: HP 5380 all in one printer

8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 2/2/10 8:14 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: > > > On 01/02/2010, at 7:45 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> (following my previous post Graeme phoned me and we went through these >> checks over the phone) >> >&

Re: HP Printer

ail: n...@possumology.com on 1/2/10 8:44 PM, Graeme Winters at g.wint...@iinet.net.au wrote: > > Hi Neil > It is now very interesting that you raise this as after the fix I could print > in Windows but could not print in Apple until I had closed Windows down > I had not expec

Re: HP Printer

Hi Graeme, Glad to hear you finally got it working > A USB was not enabled and all is now fine I assume you mean that a USB controller on the VM was not enabled -that is interesting - Does this mean that you now have the printer connected as a USB device, rather than as a Bonjour printer or as

Re: HP 5380 all in one printer

nection - perhaps they could advise if there are any special/extra steps involved here? Hope that helps Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/2/10 11:51 AM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > > Hi Gra

Re: HP 5380 all in one printer

-- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/1/10 11:51 AM, Graeme Winters at g.wint...@iinet.net.au wrote: > > Hi Neil > I have tried your suggestion and installed the Bonjour package > Bonjour is now available at the Star

Re: iPad

Hehe... I have to agree that people have been talking about the "paperless office" for well over 20 years! However, the momentum HAS been building.. at first very slowly, but now, I think, we are reaching critical mass. I'm not talking about the demise of books here, but electronic data and recor

Re: iPad

Hi Paul, I don't know if it is of interest, but, if she is happy with the online version, I see that the student price is only $150 (only!!) and there is a 5 day free trial: > BCA Illustrated is an online version of the Building Code of Australia (BCA), > wi

Re: Word problem on iMac

Hi Peter, Generally whenever I want to create a document accessible to both Windows/Mac users (without tying them into having proprietary paid software) I just create the document in whatever software suits ME for the particular task and then just print it as a pdf (which is so easy in OSX). Ev

Re: HP 5380 all in one printer

Hi Graeme, When I started with Parallels 3.0, running Windows XP pro, the printing was fine - just using the shared Mac printer. Then, sometime along the way, it stopped working - I don't remember what triggered it - might have been a software update (OSX, Windows or Parallels) but at the time I

Re: Keynote DVD

Hi Laura, on 20/1/10 10:18 AM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: > Hi Ronni > > > 2. When played on the TV/DVD player, part of the text under the photos on the > slides is not visible on the extreme LH side. This could just be because my TV > is old and not a flat screen. Before I try a

Re: Keynote DVD

quot; which is the reason he responded to my initial post on > this issue. I did go through his email step by step with comments about what > I had done, at least that's what I thought I had done! > > Your input is much appreciated. > > Regards > Laura > > >

Re: Keynote DVD

Hi Laura, Sorry, I have no experience/help to offer in this area. However, I do have a couple of suggestions to make regarding how you are attempting to solve this and use the list: Rather than saying something like ³I'm still having problems² give details on just WHAT problems you are encounte

Re: Change of email address bulk mail out

Hi Peter, I recently purchased a .org.au domain from Netregistry It all went very well and everything seems to work as it should. They had a special at the time - so it cost me all of $8.25 for two years registration - though come renewal time it will be back to

Re: Telstra Cap Re: I PHONE 3GS

Hi all, I noticed this SMH article today ³Telstra dials up wireless price cuts²: The article says: > In a week in which the Australian Communications and Media Authority revealed > a 162 per cent rise in the

Re: Bluetooth Magic Mouse

Yeah Ronni, Another neat little trick! Interestingly with my two iMacs sat about 1.5m apart in the same room, the plastic-backed older 24² iMac consistently shows a transmit rate of 54 (ie the max for my ³g² level Airport Express) whereas the new metal-backed 27² iMac shows a lower transmission r

Re: Hyperlinks

It is also the same in Entourage - so it may be standard for email clients? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 12/1/10 1:02 PM, Merv Bond at m...@iinet.net.au wrote: > > The same happens in Thunderbird. Disconcert

Re: Permissions not accepted

Hi Jon, When I have these sort of problems, I often find that it is down to trying to share across different user accounts. For example, assuming that: 1) there are two user accounts - User A and User B and 2) that these two user accounts have been set up identically on all machines on the netw

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