MacGroup: re: CD slideshow

[Frank Hammitt]

Check out http://www.tucows.com/preview/206534 for a free PowerPoint viewer
for Mac. 

Frank

Frank Hammitt & Associates, Inc.
10409 Championship Court
Prospect, KY 40059
502-648-2081 mobile
fhammitt at msn.com

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[mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Rosemary
Gunselman
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 7:35 PM
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Subject: MacGroup: re: CD slideshow



Does anyone know of a program which will convert a pc (.exe)  
slideshow to run on a Mac?
Thanks for any help.
Rag


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MacGroup: Help with wires!

[Frank Hammitt]

Look at the link below for a really neat possible solution.

http://www.cable-safe.com/index.htm

http://cableorganizer.com/cableties-wrap-clips/

Never forget the venerable Radio Shack.

http://www.radioshack.com/sm-10-ft-3-8-spiral-cable-wrap--pi-2062665.html

Visit your local NAPA, Auto Zone has a variety of wire protection and
control solutions. 

Frank

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[mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of R. D. Preston
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 10:39 PM
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: MacGroup: Help with wires!

Hi Mike,

If JJ's links don't work out, you might try your local Home Depot, etc.,
  in the electrical dept.  They might have something that would work.

Regards,
Russ Preston


On Apr 19, 2006, at 6:01 PM, mikewatk wrote:

> Please tell me there is something I can get or do to keep all the  
> cables, wires, and transformers under my computer desk protected  
> fro my cat! I love Molly, but I can't afford to keep her supplied  
> with endless cords to chew! Plus, she might electrocute herself, I  
> fear!
>
> She Is totally incorrigible, and has chewed through several wires  
> around here from time to time. She cut off power to my internet  
> once, and chewed through a power strip wire in the kitchen. She  
> also chewed through my answering machine/ cordless phone power wire.
>
> She has now wrecked the connection to my LaCie back-up drive, and  
> also the cable to my Pentax camera battery charging stand. I first  
> need to find a source to replace both those items, of course. Then,  
> I need something to protect all my tangle of cords from her  
> POWERful teeth! (Pun intended!)
>
> Somebody MUST manufacture encasements of some sort to keep my  
> equipment and my cat safe! Where do I start? To replace the current  
> ruins, I suppose I should start with the stores where they were  
> purchased, then perhaps the manufacturers I really don't look  
> forward to this!
>
> I am hoping that she didn't manage to lose my LaCie back-up info  
> when she didn't follow the correct steps to disconnect it. Jerry  
> Yeager told me the correct order in which to handle that procedure.
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
>
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MacGroup: Help with wires!

[Frank Hammitt]

Frank Hammitt & Associates, Inc.
10409 Championship Court
Prospect, KY 40059
502-648-2081 mobile
fhammitt at msn.com

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of R. D. Preston
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 10:39 PM
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: MacGroup: Help with wires!

Hi Mike,

If JJ's links don't work out, you might try your local Home Depot, etc.,
  in the electrical dept.  They might have something that would work.

Regards,
Russ Preston


On Apr 19, 2006, at 6:01 PM, mikewatk wrote:

> Please tell me there is something I can get or do to keep all the  
> cables, wires, and transformers under my computer desk protected  
> fro my cat! I love Molly, but I can't afford to keep her supplied  
> with endless cords to chew! Plus, she might electrocute herself, I  
> fear!
>
> She Is totally incorrigible, and has chewed through several wires  
> around here from time to time. She cut off power to my internet  
> once, and chewed through a power strip wire in the kitchen. She  
> also chewed through my answering machine/ cordless phone power wire.
>
> She has now wrecked the connection to my LaCie back-up drive, and  
> also the cable to my Pentax camera battery charging stand. I first  
> need to find a source to replace both those items, of course. Then,  
> I need something to protect all my tangle of cords from her  
> POWERful teeth! (Pun intended!)
>
> Somebody MUST manufacture encasements of some sort to keep my  
> equipment and my cat safe! Where do I start? To replace the current  
> ruins, I suppose I should start with the stores where they were  
> purchased, then perhaps the manufacturers I really don't look  
> forward to this!
>
> I am hoping that she didn't manage to lose my LaCie back-up info  
> when she didn't follow the correct steps to disconnect it. Jerry  
> Yeager told me the correct order in which to handle that procedure.
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
>
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MacGroup: VHS to DVD

[Frank Hammitt]

The idea below from Rex is a good one but double check the details on any
DVD burner before you buy. The one mentioned has multiple forms or output,
S-video, composite video, etc but only one input mode and that is DV IEEE
1394. Your VHS player probably only has analog output and will not work on
the unit mentioned. There are others that do have multiple inputs but cost
more.

Belkin used to sell the USB VideoBus II for video capture device for about
$70.00 with Mac drives. I don't see it on their new website but I have one
and would be willing to loan it to you if you like. You can contact me off
list if interested at fhammitt at msn.com.

As Brian O'N has already mentioned if you have or have assess to a DV Video
camera you can set it up as a pass through device and record directly into
the Mac.


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[mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Rex Baldazo
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 3:49 PM
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: MacGroup: VHS to DVD

One option to consider is that standalone DVD recorders are under $100
nowadays.  After rebate this one at CircuitCity is actually just $80:

http://tinyurl.com/gc8am

You presumably already have the VHS player, so just plug it into the
DVD recorder and burn a copy.

--- Rex.


On 3/20/06, Greg Schoettmer  wrote:
>  I'm sure that this question ahs been asked a million times before but
> what's the best way to convert videotapes to DVD? Rather than but a $300
> VHS/DVD machine, there must be a way to plug my VCR into my Mac and burn a
> DVD. Any quick, simple, cheap solutions?
>
> Greg
>
>
>
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MacGroup: System Memory: 'Inactive' vs. 'Free' memory.

[Frank Hammitt]

Is this memory explanation true for Windows XP as well? I use a pc sometimes
and it seems the performance slows during the day and if I restart the
performance gets better. I am referring to just the feel of the system not
any systems checking tool.
 FH

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[mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Lee Larson
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 2:15 PM
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: MacGroup: System Memory: 'Inactive' vs. 'Free' memory.

On Jan 3, 2006, at 11:44 AM, R. D. Preston wrote:

> Is anyone up for a convo concerning System Memory? - and why my  
> 'Inactive'
>  memory grows, while the 'Free' memory slowly dwindles to the point  
> of being
>  exhausted.  I've noticed this while watching 'Activity Monitor' in  
> System
>  Memory mode during my modem-hangup problem.

What you're seeing is normal and desirable behavior for a Unix  
system. All Unix systems try very aggressively to use all your RAM  
all the time. The idea is that unused RAM is being wasted, so they  
cache all sorts of useful things there, such as recently opened  
files, system libraries and networking information. This RAM can be  
freed up very quickly, if it is needed by a program. In the mean  
time, it is available hundreds of times faster than through a disk  
access.

You can look at the memory allocation by opening up a terminal window  
and typing 'top'. Here's part of what my PowerBook shows:

PhysMem:  64.3M wired,  122M active,  286M inactive,  474M used,   
550M free
VM: 3.83G +  128M   26028(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts

Here's what each of the categories means:

wired  This is memory that's used all the time and is never freed up.  
It's where the operating system kernel lives.

active  This is allocated for use and has actually been used recently.

inactive  This is allocated for use, but has not been used recently..

used  wired+active+inactive

free  Not yet used for anything.



Since the power died last night, I just rebooted the machine for the  
first time in ages. That's why the free memory is so large. as I  
continue to use the machine, more stuff will get cached, and the free  
memory will dwindle. This is a good thing because frequently used  
data is being cached. As this happens, the whole system speeds up  
because your machine doesn't have to go to the slow hard drives as  
often. This is one reason why I hardly ever shut down a Mac OS X  
machine. People who shut down their machine every night may be taking  
a performance hit.



Don't worry about your memory unless the pageouts number in the top  
display gets big. This is the indicator that shows you're using all  
your RAM and then some.



Here's the same top information 10 minutes later. All I was doing in  
the interim was reading email, typing this message and printing a pdf.



PhysMem:  66.4M wired,  226M active,  552M inactive,  746M used,   
350M free
VM: 3.94G +  128M   26868(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts






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MacGroup: Sharing Entourage Address Book [heur][bcc][faked-from]

[Frank Hammitt]

Recently I had to start using a PC for some Window's specific applications
and tried to get my Entourage address into Outlook.

 

I tried to save Entourage addresses as vCard's but could not find a way to
do them in a batch. With 1300 names I thought that doing them one at a time
was out of the questions.

 

Ultimately I saved the files as a .csv and imported them in to Outlook.

 

I was not able to export my calendar from Entourage to Outlook.

 

An alternative that might work if you have a Palm is to sync your Entourage
to the Palm desktop then import the Palm desktop to Outlook. There should be
free sync software for this on Microsoft's web site. Check out
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?freetext=entourage%20synchro
nize
 &productID=&DisplayLang=ee

And Chaupra Pocket Mirror (standard edition) v 2.0 is bundled with most Palm
OS software CD for syncing the Palm to Outlook.

 

 

Good luck

 

  _  

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[mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Green, Cathy
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 10:37 AM
To: 'macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu'
Subject: RE: MacGroup: Sharing Entourage Address Book
[heur][bcc][faked-from]

 

What about exporting the addresses from one book as vcards and importing
said cards into the other user's address book?  Not so simple as just
switching to & fro one address book between two different users, but at
least both users would have access to the same info (provided you export &
import each time you add a name to the address book)...Cathy

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From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jim/Marcia
Bennett 
Reply To:   macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu 
Sent:   Sunday, December 11, 2005 10:48 PM 
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu 
Subject:Re: MacGroup: Sharing Entourage Address Book
[heur][bcc][faked-from] 

Jerry, thanks for the lead. I scanned the 14-page list of scripts for 
Entourage, but only found one that seemed it might do what I need. I 
downloaded it, but the four and a half page Read Me instructions totally 
overwhelmed my ability to comprehend, and scared me off. 

Also it did not mention the exact task I'm trying to accomplish. It dealt 
with sharing an Address Book between users on different computers, and 
between different Identities within the same user account, but no mention of

sharing between two separate user accounts on the same computer. 

Jim 

 

> From: Jerry Yeager  
> Reply-To: "macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu" 
>  
> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:39:29 -0500 
> To: "macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu"
 
> Subject: Re: MacGroup: Sharing Entourage Address Book 
> 
> Would one of these scripts help? 
> 
> http://www.scriptbuilders.net/?search=Sync+Entourage-Address+Book 
> 
> Jerry 
> 
> On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Jim/Marcia Bennett wrote: 
> 
>> I am trying to figure out how (or if) I can share an Entourage 
>> Address Book 
>> between two user accounts in OS X. My wife and I have all our 
>> contacts in 
>> one user account, but all our photos (in iPhoto 4) are in another user 
>> account (not a good way to set it up I now know). We want to link 
>> the two to 
>> take advantage of iPhoto's insanely easy way to email photos to 
>> friends and 
>> family. I know there's some way to share an iPhoto libray across user 
>> accounts, but I was hoping it would be easier to share the Address 
>> Book. So 
>> far the Missing Manual, Mactopia, Office 2004 Help, etc. have 
>> provided no 
>> help. Has anyone else wrestled with this one? 
>> 
>> We are running Office 2004 Mac on a Power Mac G4 with OS X 10.3.9 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> --- 
> Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure 
> if I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. 
> 
> 
> 





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MacGroup: I tunes diminished sound

[Frank Hammitt]

I just completed the 2 recent security software updates. I did not
update OS X Combined 10.3.9 or the I Pod, or I Tunes updates. Now the
music sounds weak, hollow, has an echo and quavers. I tried playing
through the JBL on tour speakers and it still sounds bad. He speakers
are fine on another computer.
 
Have any ideas? Did I cause a problem by not updating I Tunes?
 
Does the group have any recommendations of OS X 10.3.9Update Combined?
Is it safe to install? I thought I saw some earlier comments that there
were some issues with 10.3.9. 
 
I am running a G4 PowerBook 667 Mhz @ 512 MB ram.
 
Frank Hammitt & Associates, Inc.
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MacGroup: A PC that thinks its an iBook

[Frank Hammitt]

Rex, the web page has expired, do you recall the name of the PC?

>From: "Rex Baldazo" 
>Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
>To: 
>Subject: MacGroup: A PC that thinks its an iBook
>Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 04:57:33 -0700
>
>I saw this at Best Buy this past weekend--it's a PC notebook that looks
>a lot like an iBook:
>
>http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7134941&type=product&id=11
>10263501821
>
>Clearly a copy-cat product but for the money it's a pretty good
>deal--$1,200 gets you a DVD+/-RW.  And something that's missing from the
>iBooks: a built-in memory card reader.
>
>
>
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MacGroup: In depth review of Tiger (English version)

[Frank Hammitt]

Thanks for the overview and you comments, it is a big help for me.

Frank

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[mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Henri
Yandell
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 3:18 AM
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: MacGroup: In depth review of Tiger (English version)

Hopeful to find a reason to want to upgrade to Tiger, I scan-read
through the article. By page:

1 - Introduction
 Waffle
2 - Background
  More waffle
3 - Tiger's new look
  Look and feel tweaking. Mail is apparantly
much changed.
4 - Kernel updates
  Yay! I don't care.
5 - Out to launch
   Interesting to see if launchd replaces
crond one day. Mainly don't care.
6 - Metadata revisited
   Apple still pusing this concept. Nice idea,
never affected me.
7 - Extended attributes
   Interesting, but unlikely to affect the user.
8 - Access control lists
   Nice to see, slightly more likely to affect
a user, but not by much.
9 - Spotlight
   The darling child of Tiger. I suspect it'll
affect me as much as Expose, ie) I'll use it once every now and then,
but all it'll do is save a tiny bit of time.
10 - Spotlight analysis and potential
More of the same.
11 - File types revisited
 File types need improvement, lots of talk
on this page but it mostly seems unrealised in Tiger. Something for
the future.
12 - Metadata summary
 Waffle.
13 - Quartz 
14 - Quartz 2D Extreme
15 - Core Image
  Three pages about deep graphics stuff.
Probably means we'll see some nice apps in 6 months to a year. Didn't
notice what types of gfx cards would support it etc.
16 - Video in Tiger
   More of the same.
17 - Dashboard
  Probably the most interesting part from
the group's point of view. Tiny apps that we can share online, easy
for a coder to knock-up and simple for a user to install.
18 - The Finder (not really) revisited
  Waffle. It's better.
19 - Performance
   Takes a long time to do the
post-ugprade setup, but then Tiger will be faster than Panther on the
same machine, allegedly. Wonder what it'll think of my 400mhz laptop
:)
20 - Grab bag
   Lots of bits. Highlights are Automator
which everybody seems to like but will probably be relatively unused
by the sounds of it. Safari does RSS. iChat/Mail are changed.
21 - Conclusion
   Waffle.


Conclusion for me is:

I'll see Tiger whenever I order another Mac Mini. I'm still an Apple
fan, but I'm tired of the hype marketing and post-hype
dissatisfaction, so for my primary machine I'll be unswitching.

I first switched 4 years ago in the same month that Apple released OS
X by getting a Titanium Powerbook G4. It's served me well, drained 2
batteries of their life and is still good enough to keep up if I dared
serve it another battery.

The problem is that Linux has caught up with respect to laptops. I
installed it the other night on a cheap Dell laptop and the only
issues I hit were making the wireless card work (download one file and
put in a directory to fix) and that it doesn't handle one of the three
power-management sleeping options.

Big advantages for Linux over OS X:

* Java. Not a biggy for the group, but a lot of Java developers
switched in 2001/2002, and there's now a movement to switch away
again. Apple hasn't been able to support us, we haven't written Java
apps for OS X in droves and Apple's customer service style has been a
shock (we were used to knowing what was going on).

* Keyboard support. OS X seems unusable without a mouse. Probably
possible as I assume disabled/accessibility laws require an OS to work
without a mouse, but I've never found it easy to do something as
simple as restart the machine without a mouse (press power-button,
then struggle to move the highlight from Shutdown to Restart).

* Not an advantage, but a complaint. Safari is still a weak browser
for JavaScript.

* Choice. So many more options to choose from in the Linux world. It
does mean exploring, which puts many off, but if you choose to explore
it is often very enjoyable.

* Price. The Apple development community seem to love trying to sell a
relatively basic applications for 30 dollars. Some are gems
(OmniGraffle), but others are just because people have the shareware
attitude.

Provided I'm happy using my Dell dual-boot XP/Linux laptop, I'll
probably hunt down a laptop for 

MacGroup: Need help with Apple in a PC world

[Frank Hammitt]

Mike, Lee, Dan, Bill and Carl

Thanks for you insight and advise. I am checking into the suggestions you
made. I still have my eye on the new G4 PB with 1.5 MHZ and 1G RAM.

Again thanks for the help.

Frank


On 2/8/05 11:46 AM, "Mike Garton"  wrote:

> DayLite actually has an exporter to bring all your ACT! stuff into it.
> Very good.  If you share the database with other users, however; you
> may be out of luck on that issue
> 
> 
> On Feb 8, 2005, at 10:38 AM, Lee Larson wrote:
> 
>> > On Feb 8, 2005, at 12:04 AM, Frank Hammitt ominously cried:
>> >
>>> >>  Any help is appreciated, I feel myself being pulled to the dark side
>>> >> of the (computer) force.
>> >
>> > Have you looked at <http://macwindows.com/>?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
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> 
> 
> 
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MacGroup: Need help with Apple in a PC world

[Frank Hammitt]

Three years ago I switched form Dell to a Ti PowerBook G4 667MHz, 512M RAM
and have been pleased. There have been some gaps in total satisfaction
because I could not find a Mac equivalent to some of the Windows based
software I was using, specifically: ACT! (a contact manager database); MS
Project; Visio; Synchronization with a handheld Compaq IPAQ; plus several
proprietary applications.

I gave in to MS Office for Mac v.X to maintain some viability with my
clients (all use Windows) and tried Virtual PC (VPC) 6.1 which runs
embarrassingly slow, virtually unusable in front of clients.

Some of you must face the same issue, how do you work around the issue?
Also, what Apple laptop configuration in terms of CPU speed and RAM will I
need to run VPC 6.1 adequately? VPC 7.0 is getting lukewarm reviews. I
travel a great deal and lighter is better so I am considering the new 1.5MHZ
12? PB with 1G RAM. Does anyone know what that will emulate in Windows?

Any help is appreciated, I feel myself being pulled to the dark side of the
(computer) force.

Frank
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MacGroup: iPod Shuffle

[Frank Hammitt]

Please respond to the group as I am very interested in the answer. I believe
others are as well.

TIA

On 1/16/05 12:01 PM, "Bryan Forrest"  wrote:

> Good question Lee. I'll check it out and get back to you.
> 
> Bryan
> 
> 
> On Jan 16, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Lee Larson wrote:
> 
>> > On Jan 16, 2005, at 8:04 AM, Bryan Forrest wrote:
>> >
>>> >> Just wanted to share my first thought about the Shuffle.
>> >
>> > I was also thinking about getting one for my wife, but I had a
>> > question that Apple didn't answer. Perhaps you can.
>> >
>> > She would mostly use it to listen to audio books. Many of the small
>> > MP3 players are badly designed for this because they don't remember
>> > where you were when you were when you last stopped listening. Does the
>> > Shuffle remember where you were between sessions while playing tracks
>> > in order? If it doesn't, it will be a poor choice for audio books.
>> >
>> > PS/ My regular iPod remembers, unless I make the mistake of plugging
>> > it into iTunes to add or remove tracks. If I let iTunes touch it, the
>> > bookmark is gone.  That is the most annoying "feature" of the iPod for
>> > me.
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be January 25. The LCS Web page is .
> | List posting address: 
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MacGroup: AppleWorks 6 for sale?

[Frank Hammitt]

My son uses Thinkfree Office and it runs well on his G3 PowerBook. At $40 to
$45 it seems to be a reasonable alternative.


On 1/2/05 4:08 PM, "Rex Baldazo"  wrote:

> Anybody have a copy of AppleWorks 6 for OS X that they're thinking of selling?
> I had been hoping to use either AbiWord or OpenOffice (both open source) but
> the former is too unstable on OS X and the latter is too slow on my old iBook.
> So I'm thinking about using AppleWorks instead, but I'd rather not pay the $80
> retail price from the Apple.com store.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> --- Rex.
> 


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MacGroup: need topics for upcoming year's programs

[Frank Hammitt]

God bless you and Dayton. Remember 11th hour, 11th day, 11 month, 1918...
They (we) thought it was over.

On 11/11/04 6:01 PM, "Marta Edie"  wrote:

> 
> Dayton and Marta 
> 
> 
> On Nov 10, 2004, at 10:25, S. Blake wrote:
> 
>> > I have a Palm Tungsten E.  Is anyone else interested in the Palm OS
>> > connection?
>> > Suzanne Blake
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
>> > | be November 23. The LCS Web page is .
>> > | List posting address: 
>> > | List Web page: 
>> >
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MacGroup: Birth Announcement - Nathan Henri Yandell

[Frank Hammitt]

Congratulations Carrie, Henri and Nathan. Wishing all of you all the best in
coming years. 

Frank


On 10/27/04 9:26 PM, "Henri Yandell"  wrote:

> 
> (Carrie writes...)
> 
> Henri and I are happy to report that Nathan Henri Yandell was born Friday,
> October 22, 2004 at 3:19 p.m. He weighed in at 9lb 2oz and
> measured 20 1/4 inches long.
> 
> There are pictures and more info at Nathan's website:
> http://baby.yandell.org/
> 
> We are all looking forward to the holidays and introducing Nathan to the
> world!
> 
> Carrie, Henri, and Nathan
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be October 26. The LCS Web page is .
> | List posting address: 
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MacGroup: .pps photos

[Frank Hammitt]

Assuming you have MS PowerPoint, open the application, than using the file
menu open the .PPS file. You should be able to access the specific slides.
>From there go to view, select slide and you should now be able to ?select?
and manipulate the image as you wish.
The key point is to open .PPT first, then access your .PPS file and then the
image in the file.
Certainly Think Free Office and Apple Works can do similar maneuverings to
get your image.

Frank

On 10/27/04 9:03 AM, "Fran LeCount"  wrote:

> Help:
> We received some email  photos through Powerpoint  application and do
> not have a clue how to open them. Our iMac G3 is running 10.3.4  Thanks
> for any assistance.
> Fran
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be October 26. The LCS Web page is .
> | List posting address: 
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MacGroup: IE/plug-in problem

[Frank Hammitt]

Have you had a crash recently that required a hard reset to restart your
computer? If so you may need to reset the date and time. The security system
?sees? your computer date as too far away from real time and won?t let you
on their websites. I have had occasion to blame IE for various browsing
problems but ultimately found the date and time incorrect on my own machine.

Hope this helps.

Frank

On 10/11/04 4:12 PM, "Robert M. Klein"  wrote:

> I am having an issue with IE 5 on at least 2 of my Macs, one running under
> OS 9, the other under 10.3.5, but it?s the same problem.  I have been trying
> to access a site that uses plug-ins, specifically abcnews.go.com.  Try it.
> It makes the browser either hang up or crash, or I get an error message to
> obtain a plug-in ?octet-stream.?  I can?t find such a plug in anywhere,
> versiontracker or otherwise.  If I hit the button to view the plug-in, it
> takes to some nondescript page with no guidance whatsoever.
> 
> I went to Mactopia, and could only find this FAQ:
> 
> I am having problems viewing pages that use plug-ins. What can I do?
> If you are experiencing any problems viewing a page that uses plug-ins, you
> will most likely need to increase the memory allotted to Internet Explorer.
> To do so, quit Internet Explorer if it is running, select the Internet
> Explorer icon, and then choose Get Info from the File menu. (Make sure you
> select the icon for the Internet Explorer program, not an alias to the
> program.) Try increasing the Preferred Size to 8000K.
> 
> Well, needless to say, that didn?t help in the OS X world.
> 
> Any ideas or help would be most appreciated.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be September 28. The LCS Web page is .
> | List posting address: 
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MacGroup: Epson scanner and OS X

[Frank Hammitt]

Definitely look at Epson?s support page and look for an OS X driver. I lost
use of my Epson when I updated OS X but eventually Epson wrote a new driver.
Once it was installed the scanner launches directly out of the dock for most
of my scanning needs.

FH 


On 7/16/04 3:53 PM, "Dan Crutcher"  wrote:

> Just installed a new computer running OS X 10.3.4 and am trying to
> connect our trusty old Epson ES-1200C scanner to it. I have installed
> an Adaptec SCSI card in the computer and have the scanner attached to
> that. The physical connection seems to work okay -- it makes the proper
> noises, all the right lights come on, etc.
> 
> We've used it for years with OS 7, 8 and 9, acquiring images through
> the Scantastic Photoshop plug-in that came with the scanner. That
> appears not to work any longer (using Photoshop 6 under Classic) and I
> do not have any drivers or TWAIN software that works with this scanner
> in OS X (and Photoshop CS).
> 
> Any advice on getting this scanner to work -- preferably in OS X, but
> if that's not doable, then at least in Classic?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be July 27. The LCS Web page is .
> | List posting address: 
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MacGroup: network stuttering...

[Frank Hammitt]

Bill, 

I agree, this slow download/connection situation has only been evident
recently. Two weeks ago I would have no complaints. Funny thing though, the
Speed Test gave me the same result two weeks ago as I got today. If I
believed in a conspiracy, or at least a collusion, I would think the
broadband supplier can sense when a speed test is conduct and opens the pipe
for the next few minutes.


Yes I do use the hands-free phone feature.

FH 


On 7/12/04 11:02 PM, "Bill Rising"  wrote:

> On Jul 12, 2004, at 22:29, Frank Hammitt wrote:
> 
>> > My own experience is similar to yours. Very slow downloads (similar to
>> > a dial-up connection) on both small and larger files. A speed test
>> > indicated a reasonable 1.8 to 2.3 MBPS (I can?t see how that it is
>> > accurate) but in reality, all web pages are loading slowly. I feel
>> > something is afoot with the the broadband supplier. I had a better
>> > connection in a north central Mexico Hampton Inn last week.
> 
> I have to admit that this is the first really bad, consistent slowdown
> I've had. Other slowdowns (like mlb.com crapping out at the interesting
> part of ballgames around 10pm) were due to the servers being
> overloaded, not to insightbb.com. Still, if others are having the
> problem, I'll not pursue it farther.
> 
>> >
>> >  An inquiry call to Insight Broadband yielded a 26 minute wait that
>> > terminated in me hanging up before they responded. At least I didn?t
>> > have to listen to the inane babbling of Bob Sokoler (sp) and Terry
>> > Minor encouraging me to sign up for more services.
> 
> Good thing you have a hands-free setup for your phone, no? ;<)
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu>
> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>


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MacGroup: network stuttering...

[Frank Hammitt]

My own experience is similar to yours. Very slow downloads (similar to a
dial-up connection) on both small and larger files. A speed test indicated a
reasonable 1.8 to 2.3 MBPS (I can?t see how that it is accurate) but in
reality, all web pages are loading slowly. I feel something is afoot with
the the broadband supplier. I had a better connection in a north central
Mexico Hampton Inn last week.

An inquiry call to Insight Broadband yielded a 26 minute wait that
terminated in me hanging up before they responded. At least I didn?t have to
listen to the inane babbling of Bob Sokoler (sp) and Terry Minor encouraging
me to sign up for more services.

How are those of you on DSL faring? I am considering a switch.

FH
 
On 7/12/04 9:42 PM, "Bill Rising"  wrote:

> Hey Folks,
> 
> I'm sitting here trying to learn some Good Stuff while listening to
> music from my computer at work (via the nice, old iTunes 4.0). For the
> first time I can remember, the stream is choppy enough that the music
> is interrupted every, oh, 10 seconds, max. Really *&^$)(*&^! annoying.
> 
> I logged into the machine at work, and saw that it is running its usual
> processes. Nothing nasty.
> 
> I went to download a file via sftp (secure file transfer protocol), and
> saw that the transfer rate was a measly 25KB/sec. It normally is
> roughly 330KB/sec. I checked again, and it was down to 15KB/sec. (B for
> Byte, not b for bit) This is really pitiful - no wonder iTunes was
> choking.
> 
> I went and downloaded some game from versiontracker (something big
> enough to be able to measure the time), and found that I was getting
> about 100KB/sec.
> 
> Anyone know any tricks for trying to find out where the slowdown might
> be?
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be July 27. The LCS Web page is .
> | List posting address: 
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MacGroup: FW: Contact Database Management on Mac

[Frank Hammitt]

I use Entourage as a contact manager. As a former ACT! user I find Entourage
less robust and complete but suitable as a repository for contact
information, calendar, journals, reminders and task lists. It is very
similar to MS Outlook. I don?t recommend it if you are in need of a thorough
CRM.

Now Up to Date and Now Contact has a downloadable trial version. It seemed
better than Entourage and Outlook but not as good as ACT! But it is worth a
try. Just do a Google search for Up to Date and Now Contact.

I really miss ACT! and E-Grabber and wish they would create an OSX version.

Frank


On 6/2/04 8:19 AM, "Rex Baldazo"  wrote:

> Thanks, great feedback.
> 
> Does anybody use Entourage for contact management?  The only reason I
> ask is that I hadn't realized how expensive some of these contact
> management products are.  It seems to me that if you're gonna spend $150
> maybe you should spend it on Office (if you're a student you get the
> academic price discount).
> 
> --- Rex.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
> [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Andy
> Arnold
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:19 PM
> To: macusergroup
> Subject: Re: MacGroup: FW: Contact Database Management on Mac
> 
> 
> I have heard good things about Daylite, but use Now Contact. It is very
> good, but there are some bugs when used with a lot of shared contacts on
> a network. Customer support is very good via email (in fact Bill, they
> told me today a free update is due out in a few weeks). It also synchs
> very well to a Palm handheld, something I think Daylite still doesn't do
> or is just now in beta.
> 
> Andy
> 
>> > I agree with Bill, the Now Up-To-Date/Contact is the best going, it
>> > can do it all and then some, hope it stays a MAC app for years.
>> > 
>> > John R.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On Jun 1, 2004, at 2:37 PM, Bill Rising wrote:
>> > 
>>> >> Now Up-to-Date/Contact
>>> >>  My favorite. Was once the best thing since sliced bread, but was
>>> >> bought by a cash-sucking holding company. Runs natively in Mac OS X.
>>> >> Vaporware upgrade promised later this summer. Expensive (upgrades
>>> >> were cheap, otherwise it would be too expensive for me).
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
>> > | be June 22. The LCS Web page is . List posting
> 
>> > | address: 
>> > | List Web page: 
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be June 22. The LCS Web page is .
> | List posting address: 
> | List Web page: 
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be June 22. The LCS Web page is .
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MacGroup: Spell Checker for Outlook Express...

[Frank Hammitt]

I could not find proof on the Apple web site but I have to believe
AppleWorks has spell check.

MSWord X (for Mac) is $229 for new purchase, $109 for upgrade and is a word
processor only vs. AppleWorks $79 a full suite of productivity tools.

You do the math, but please confirm they contain spell check.

As an alternative you might consider Think Free Office, another Mac Office
suite only $49.

Frank

On 5/4/04 6:38 PM, "David Dudine"  wrote:

> Bill and John,
> 
> The spell checker is not exactly built in.  It is dependent on having
> Microsoft Word 98 installed, which I don't.  But I might try to buy a copy
> cheap just for that feature.
> 
> David Dudine
> 
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be May 25. The LCS Web page is .
> | List posting address: 
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MacGroup: Epson printer issues.....

[Frank Hammitt]

Have you double checked that the printer queue is set to start queue? Skip
the Epson printer utility and go to Mac HD, applications, utilities, print
center and in the tool bar click on queue and select start queue.


On 1/12/04 8:33 AM, "John Stone"  wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I was at friends yesterday, helping them get their new(to them) iBook
> 700mhz(running Panther) set-up.
> 
> The problem is they have a Epson CX5200 all in one printer/copier and scanner,
> it shows up as the default printer but, when you go to print it loads the
> document but then it goes to "job stopped" and then just sits there. If you go
> into the printer utilities you can clean the heads, etc so the ibook is
> communicating to the  printer but for some reason it will not print jobs...
> Any ideas as to why, I've got an email in to Epson to see if they have any
> idea also.
> 
> The other issue is they have a HP scanjet 5370C scanner, but HP doesn't have
> any drivers that work (according to their site) over 10.1, is there any reson
> why the drivers will not work in 10.3? I also have an emial into them
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John   
>  
>  
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be January 27. The LCS Web page is .
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MacGroup: OS 10.2.8 Erratic Bev...Continued

[Frank Hammitt]

Carlos, 

I do not know the specifics of your iBook but on my PowerBook running OSX
10.1.5 there is a small recessed button with a triangle next to it  on the
back between the S-Video out and the telephone line in connections. Your
manual will identify the proper location for your iBook.

When my machine locks up and will not recover through the normal means like
?Quit? or ?Force Quit?, I have to push this button and the machine does a
complete reset. I never loose any saved data but the machine time and
calendar revert back to some pre-assigned period.

Just click on your time in the tool bar and correct to the proper settings
and apply the changes.

Another symptom of the time shift occurs when you cannot access web sites
your were previously able to access. Also any e-mail you send will arrive at
your recipient?s mail box with the date established your computer clock.
This could place it a the bottom of some very long lists and probably get no
attention.  

Good luck.

Frank

On 1/3/04 2:15 PM, "Carlos Nazario"  wrote:

> Frank,  
> 
> What exactly is a hard reset?
> 
> It sounds like something that I had to do a couple of times in the last couple
> of weeks when my iBook's battery ran completely down and froze up.
> 
> Carlos 
> 
> 
> On Saturday, January 3, 2004, at 12:25  AM, Frank Hammitt wrote:
> 
>> When I have to do a hard reset on my PowerBook the time and date revert to
>> 1960?s era of Beatles, free love and SDS, Chicago 7, etc. Have you had to
>> reset you machine? This my be the cause of your time travel.
>> 
>> Frank 
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/2/04 8:53 PM, "Carlos Nazario"  wrote:
>> 
>> Time went backward one hour last week, two weeks ago I was back in
>> 1970, this week I went back to 1969 and the clock moved 5 hours?
>> 
>> According to Apple my iBook has no internal backup battery.
>> 
>> Haven't lost anything on the dock lately
>> 
>> 
>> Carlos 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
>> | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
>>  
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MacGroup: OS 10.2.8 Erratic Bev...Continued

[Frank Hammitt]

When I have to do a hard reset on my PowerBook the time and date revert to
1960?s era of Beatles, free love and SDS, Chicago 7, etc. Have you had to
reset you machine? This my be the cause of your time travel.

Frank


On 1/2/04 8:53 PM, "Carlos Nazario"  wrote:

> Time went backward one hour last week, two weeks ago I was back in
> 1970, this week I went back to 1969 and the clock moved 5 hours?
> 
> According to Apple my iBook has no internal backup battery.
> 
> Haven't lost anything on the dock lately
> 
> 
> Carlos
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be January 27. The LCS Web page is .
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MacGroup: Digital Camcorder

[Frank Hammitt]

> I use a video bridge to capture VHS, 8 mm and other analog video output on to
> my Mac. I then edit the output and then save to a CD,  DVD, external hard
> drive or sometimes VHS. I use a Pinnacle Systems Dazzle, and a Belkin VideoBus
> II for Mac. They connect just like you are playing your camera into a TV
> except it goes to your computer. Be sure you have enough drive space to hold
> and edit your file.
> 
> 
> http://web.belkin.com/config/Search/SearchResults.asp?search=videobus&catID=1
> 
> http://www.pinnaclesys.com
> 
> 
> Good luck
> 
>  
> On Dec 20, 2003, at 8:58 AM, Janice Weber wrote:
> 
>> Please tell me your methods for transferring 8mm to digital.  Do you just
>> project it on a wall and re-film it?  Or is there a device special for this?
>> 
>> I bought a converter-something on e-bay, but it's kind of quirky, with
>> mirrors etc. 
>> 
>> Jan Weber 
>> 
>> On Friday, December 19, 2003, at 02:00  PM, Brian O'Neal wrote:
>> 
>>> I use a Canon ZR-10, I beleive that the Z series is up to the ZR-70 now. I
>>> like my 2 year old ZR-10. I don't like its low light capabilities, but I
>>> think that was improved upon the later models. Other than that one down fall
>>> Its is a great camcorder.
>>> All of the Z series work with imovie, and have firewire. Some I believe can
>>> accept memory cards for still photos.
>>> And if I remember correctly they should fall in your price range.
>>> 
>>> I did use mine to transfer 6+ hrs of 8mm video to my computer and title it
>>> with imovie and export it to vhs. I didnt have enough storage to keep it all
>>> digital. It worked well.
>>> 
>>> Brian O'Neal 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Dec 19, 2003, at 9:57 AM, Michael Robertson wrote:
>>> 
 Any suggestions for brand/model of digital camcorder for home/amature use
 to edit older analog 8mm tapes. Probably should have firewire connection.
 Price range in the 500 to 800s.
 Thanks for any help.
 Mike Robertson
 
 
 | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
 | be January 27. The LCS Web page is .
 | This list's page is .
 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
>>> | be January 27. The LCS Web page is .
>>> | This list's page is .
>>  
>> 
>> 
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>> | be January 27. The LCS Web page is .
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MacGroup: Saving E-Mail

[Frank Hammitt]

In Entourage & Outlook you can just drag (or save-as) an e-mail to any
folder or to your desktop. The e-mail remains in the ?new? location and you
can access it even if you delete the original. For example, I have a folder
for each client and the folder contains word processing documents,
spreadsheets, photo?s, e-mails, etc. I am using a POP3 e-mail account and do
not know if this works in web based e-mail or other accounts such as IMAP.

Try one or two unimportant e-mails as a test.

Of course you can always create folders in the e-mail application and save
the e-mails you want to archive there.

Good luck

On 11/21/03 11:38 AM, "profile"  wrote:

> How about just copying those of great importance to a word processor
> document and save it that way.  I often do this, works great and keeps the
> email program slim and trim.
> 
> John R.
> 
>> > From: Michael Robertson 
>> > Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
>> > Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:47:01 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
>> > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
>> > Subject: Re: MacGroup: Saving E-Mail
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > -Original Message-
>> > From: "George H. Yankey" 
>> > Sent: Nov 21, 2003 5:34 AM
>> > To: Macgroup 
>> > Subject: MacGroup: Saving E-Mail
>> > 
>> > After reading, I delete most of my e-mail messages   Occasionally I
>> > receive one that I would like to save. How is the best way to save
>> > -mail?
>> > 
>> > George Yankey
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > My email service will keep emails moved to a 'saved mails' folder
>> > indefinately. Or you can use the old fashioned method of printing it.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
>> > | be November 25. The LCS Web page is .
>> > | This list's page is .
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be November 25. The LCS Web page is .
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MacGroup: Entourage Email Address Question

[Frank Hammitt]

I noticed the same thing and attempted to find a cure. Here is my non-expert
discovery. 

Entourage (and perhaps other e-mail programs) ?remembers? the e-mail address
of all e-mails senders that sent you and e-mail including e-mails you never
opened, junk mail and spam. Entourage thinks you might want to use them.
Try clicking on ?new message? and just enter the letter ?a? in the To box
and wait a moment. You will see a list of e-mail addresses beginning with
?a?. Some of them are legitimate from your address book and some you may not
recognize. Try enter ?b? and waiting a moment. Again, you may see strange
e-mail addresses. If you do not see unfamiliar e-mail address keep trying
the letters of the alphabet. Soon you will discover unwanted e-mail
addresses. Also try combinations like ?bro? and the like. You will likely
find unfamiliar e-mail addresses co-mingled with e-mail addresses from your
address book.

Another test is to locate an e-mail you deleted with out opening and enter
the first few letters of that address into your new message To box. The
complete e-mail address of the offending sender will appear in the selection
menu.

I have been mildly disconcerted by the intrusion but have seen no ill
effects. 

Microsoft told me the program has a finite number of locations for these
addresses so as new addresses are stored older inactive addresses drop out
of the stack. Also, MS said there is no way to turn off the process. If you
or someone from our Mac users group finds a way to stop Entourage from
storing non-address book e-mail addresses automatically, please share the
knowledge.



On 11/7/03 12:55 PM, "Beth Ernst"  wrote:

> When I type an address in the To box in Entourage my program is pulling
> email addresses that are not in my address book.
> 
> For example, I type a message to a co-worker named Philip, who is in my
> address book, and my email is pulling an address for Philips Electronics
> which is clearly the address from some junk mail I've received in the past.
> The Philips Electronics address does not appear in my address book so I
> don't know where Entourage is getting it, but I'd like to get rid of it. Any
> ideas?


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MacGroup: Re: Entourage question

[Frank Hammitt]

Click on Entourage in the tool bar menu, select Main & News Preferences,
select the Reply & Forward tab, under Mail Attribution check the box by the
text line Place insertion point before quoted text.
This should work, at least it appears that way while I am responding to your
question. The proof will be how it looks when you receive my e-mail.

All the best.

Frank

On 9/3/03 6:14 PM, "Justin Meek"  wrote:

> I too have this problem and would love it to be the other way around. I
> blows my mind that the default is not already having the new message at the
> top.
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be September 23. The LCS Web page is .
> | This list's page is .


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MacGroup: Slow Internet Explorer

[Frank Hammitt]

John,

If you have had to perform any resets (pushing the little button on the back
or side of the computer) verify the computer is set for the correct date,
time, etc. An incorrect date will cause the problems you indicated.

Frank Hammitt

On 6/11/03 7:24 PM, "profile"  wrote:

> Jerry,
> 
> You are so good to help us and it certainly is appreciated, and I want to
> thank Harry & Bill for the World Clock suggestions, they are great.
> 
> I have used Safari, but when I tried to order a product I was told it was
> not secure and had to load I.E. And go through all the hoops again to get to
> the purchase screen.  I had the most current version so possibly I didn't
> have something set correctly?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> John R.
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/11/03 7:11 PM, "Jerry Yeager"  wrote:
> 
>> > Best Answer: Quite using IE except for some sort of really strange and
>> > bizarre emergency.
>> > 
>> > Try Safari (from Apple) or Camino (from the Mozilla folks). Both of
>> > these are free and will load pages so fast that you will (most likely)
>> > never want to go back to IE again.
>> > 
>> > http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
>> > 
>> > or
>> > 
>> > http://www.mozilla.org/(about halfway down the page there will be a
>> > link to click on and download it).
>> > 
>> > Jerry
>> > 
>> > Note: if after getting one of these going and you still have troubles,
>> > then it could be a problem with the ISP, the phone line, or some sort
>> > of proxy firewall setting that should not be turned on, but is.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 06:55  PM, profile wrote:
>> > 
>>> >> MAC Friends,
>>> >> 
>>> >> My daughter has the new iMAC, 15inch monitor, running 10.2.5.  Her
>>> >> dialup
>>> >> connection has gotten unusable.  She logs onto a site and gets the wait
>>> >> game, going sometime 20 min. and she screen never loads.
>>> >> 
>>> >> I have brought her up to date on the Version of the O.S., and I have
>>> >> loaded
>>> >> the latest version of Internet Explorer.  I have run the permissions
>>> >> utility
>>> >> from a C.D. And nothing seems to help.
>>> >> 
>>> >> Is there a file I can trash that will fix this, or what suggestions do
>>> >> you
>>> >> have.  I have several machines running I.E. And even on the dialup I
>>> >> don't
>>> >> have these problem, and never have.
>>> >> 
>>> >> Thanks for your help, she is very exasperated and I guess dad needs to
>>> >> get
>>> >> this fixed.
>>> >> 
>>> >> John Robinson
>>> >> profile at aye.net
>>> >> 
>>> >> 
>>> >> 
>>> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
>>> >> | be June 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>>> >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
>>> >> 
>>> >> 
>>> >> 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
>> > | be June 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>> > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
>> > 
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be June 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.


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MacGroup: Scanning in OS-X

[Frank Hammitt]

Jerry, 
Thanks for the Epson update, I have been waiting for this one. I downloaded
and installed the update and it works great. No more waiting for Classic to
launch. 
Frank


On 4/29/03 7:54 PM, "Jerry Yeager"  wrote:

> With all of the hub-bub about new releases from Apple, one release
> seems to have gone unnoticed:
> 
> Epson has released a new version of a TWAIN driver for quite a few of
> its scanners allowing them to work in OS-X.
> 
> Apple has the thing on their site for those interested.
> 
> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/drivers/epsontwain.html
> 
> 
> 
> Jerry
> 
> p.s. TWAIN is an older interface that lets software like PhotoShop
> Elements talk to the scanner and then gets your image into the program
> so you can do as you wish to it.
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be April 22. The LCS Web page is .


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MacGroup: Contact Information Management

[Frank Hammitt]

Thanks for your help Dan and others, I?ll try QuicKeys.
Frank

On 4/4/03 10:12 AM, "Dan Crutcher"  wrote:

> Frank: 
> 
> If it were me, I would try to import all the disparate data files into Excel
> or AppleWorks or maybe Filemaker Pro and then do the cleanup work using those
> programs' editing and formula functions. I am assuming that your various
> information management programs can export data as tab- or comma-delimited
> text files that any of the above programs can import.
> 
> I suspect that a macro program like QuicKeys (or even better, One Click, but
> it only works in OS 9) would also be helpful in doing a lot of the repetitive
> work of standardizing the records.
> 
> Dan
> 
>> >Contact Information ManagementThanks, Ward, for suggesting I
>> >start a new subject thread, sorry for the confusion.
>> >
>> > Currently I have several different address books from old
>> >applications such as five separate Act! 4.0 (for PC) databases
>> >(that I access through Virtual PC), two Palm address books,
>> >three excel spreadsheets and an old Outlook 56;98 address book.
>> >Collectively these total about 3800 names and each of these has
>> >some redundancy both within a given database and between the
>> >databases.
>> >
>> > Ultimately I want to move most of these names into Entourage
>> >and use it as my primary PIM and to synchronize with my Palm
>> >IIIx. Before importing into Entourage, I was trying to
>> >separately clean-up each database, standardize the format (some
>> >databases use the format title, first name, last name all in
>> >one line and others separate each of these labels), add
>> >categories (such as friends, business, family, etc.).
>> >
>> > I know I can manage the data in Entourage but my existing,
>> >active address book is Entourage and I don57;t want to
>> >co-mingle the 60;old61; data with the existing 837 names before
>> >correcting the 60;old61; data. Therefore:
>> >
>> >? Will Entourage allow me to create two data bases, one to use
>> >day-to-day and one to clean-up before merging? If so, then how
>> >can I create another Entourage data ?base? I could not find it in the help
>> menu.
>> >? If the answer to #1 is no, does anyone know of a simple,
>> >inexpensive PIM that will do what I want?
>> >? Is there another solution altogether? I am open to any
>> >suggestions.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Frank
>> >
>> > On 4/3/03 11:21 PM, "Ward Oldham" 
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >Hi Frank,
>> >
>> > First, you may in the future want to start a new thread. ?Your
>> >topic has nothing to do with the HP printer problem.
>> >
>> > Second, I57;m a little confused. ?You already have Entourage
>> >which will accomplish this for you. ?What exactly are you
>> >looking to do?
>> >
>> >Ward Oldham, MacDude
>> > MacTown
>> > 1041 Bardstown Road
>> > Louisville, KY ?40204
>> > 502-485-1243
>> > ward at mactown.us
>> > http://www.mactown.us
>> >
>> >
>> > On 4/3/03 10:44 PM, "Frank Hammitt"  wrote:
>> >
>> >I am looking for an inexpensive (better is free) application to
>> >manage contact information such as names, addresses, telephone
>> >numbers, etc. I seem to remember a reference to such and
>> >application in one of the earlier e-mails. Does anyone remember
>> >the name of the application or can suggest an application that
>> >will let me import, store, manipulate the data and export to
>> >other applications? I use a Ti PB 667, OSX 10.1 and Office V.x
>> >w/Entourage. Entourage is where I ultimately want to used the data on a
>> daily basis.
>> > Thanks,
>> > Frank
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
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MacGroup: Contact Information Management

[Frank Hammitt]

Thanks, Ward, for suggesting I start a new subject thread, sorry for the
confusion.

Currently I have several different address books from old applications such
as five separate Act! 4.0 (for PC) databases (that I access through Virtual
PC), two Palm address books, three excel spreadsheets and an old Outlook ?98
address book. Collectively these total about 3800 names and each of these
has some redundancy both within a given database and between the databases.

Ultimately I want to move most of these names into Entourage and use it as
my primary PIM and to synchronize with my Palm IIIx. Before importing into
Entourage, I was trying to separately clean-up each database, standardize
the format (some databases use the format title, first name, last name all
in one line and others separate each of these labels), add categories (such
as friends, business, family, etc.).

I know I can manage the data in Entourage but my existing, active address
book is Entourage and I don?t want to co-mingle the ?old? data with the
existing 837 names before correcting the ?old? data. Therefore:
1. Will Entourage allow me to create two data bases, one to use day-to-day
and one to clean-up before merging? If so, then how can I create another
Entourage data  base? I could not find it in the help menu.
2. If the answer to #1 is no, does anyone know of a simple, inexpensive PIM
that will do what I want?
3. Is there another solution altogether? I am open to any suggestions.

Thanks,
Frank 

On 4/3/03 11:21 PM, "Ward Oldham"  wrote:

> Hi Frank,
> 
> First, you may in the future want to start a new thread.  Your topic has
> nothing to do with the HP printer problem.
> 
> Second, I?m a little confused.  You already have Entourage which will
> accomplish this for you.  What exactly are you looking to do?
> 
> Ward Oldham, MacDude
> MacTown
> 1041 Bardstown Road
> Louisville, KY  40204
> 502-485-1243
> ward at mactown.us
> http://www.mactown.us
> 
> 
> On 4/3/03 10:44 PM, "Frank Hammitt"  wrote:
> 
>> I am looking for an inexpensive (better is free) application to manage
>> contact information such as names, addresses, telephone numbers, etc. I seem
>> to remember a reference to such and application in one of the earlier
>> e-mails. Does anyone remember the name of the application or can suggest an
>> application that will let me import, store, manipulate the data and export to
>> other applications? I use a Ti PB 667, OSX 10.1 and Office V.x w/Entourage.
>> Entourage is where I ultimately want to used the data on a daily basis.
>> Thanks,
>> Frank
> 
> 


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MacGroup: HP Printer problem

[Frank Hammitt]

I am looking for an inexpensive (better is free) application to manage
contact information such as names, addresses, telephone numbers, etc. I seem
to remember a reference to such and application in one of the earlier
e-mails. Does anyone remember the name of the application or can suggest an
application that will let me import, store, manipulate the data and export
to other applications? I use a Ti PB 667, OSX 10.1 and Office V.x
w/Entourage. Entourage is where I ultimately want to used the data on a
daily basis.
Thanks,
Frank
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MacGroup: Re: Former U.S. V.P. Elected to Apple Board

[Frank Hammitt]

OK, interesting bits of internet history aside, now I don't know if I can
trust truthorfiction.com. I use it to dispel the frequent panic emails from
my friends warning me about computer virus woes, new drug problems, etc.
Among the many alternatives to T or F.com which is the better choice?
Frank

On 3/21/03 10:03 AM, "Lee Larson"  wrote:

> On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 07:57 PM, Frank Hammitt wrote:
> 
>> Irrespective of anyone's political persuasion
>> http://www.truthorfiction.com is usually a good source of information.
>> Al?s ordeal is in there
>> at http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/goreinternet.htm.
> 
> 
> I find that site to be not untruthful, but committing sins of omission.
> This bit of political propaganda has long irritated me because it is a
> purposeful misinterpretation of his statement started by the Washington
> Times and then spread by other partisans during the election campaign.
> It was repeated endlessly by Rush Limbaugh and others of his persuasion
> without any qualification.
> 
> His actual statement was:
> 
> "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative
> in creating the Internet."
> 
> When he arrived in Congress, the ARPANET existed. It was a relatively
> small (by today's standards) high-speed network originally intended to
> support military research. It mostly connected universities and
> military research institutions. There was also BITNET, a
> store-and-forward system that ran in the background of some corporate
> networks, notably IBM and ATT.
> 
> ARPANET was quite restricted and BITNET was pretty clunky. I used both
> of them for years. Neither was anything like what arrived when the
> Internet was formed, although the ARPANET used the protocols--mostly
> defined by Vinton Cerf--that later came to be known as TCP/IP.
> 
> Gore arranged the hearings, wrote and sponsored the legislation which
> expanded the ARPANET into the Internet of today. It was much the same
> way a politician takes credit for building a road without doing any of
> the digging. There was strong opposition from some quarters to his
> initiatives.
> 
> Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, two of the generally acknowledged
> inventors of the Internet, wrote:
> 
> "The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting
> the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is
> timely to offer our perspective. As far back as the 1970s Congressman
> Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine
> for both economic growth and the improvement of our
> educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the
> potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just
> improving the conduct of science and scholarship."
> 
> On September 1, 2000, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich addressed the
> American Political Science Association. Nobody can claim Gingrich is
> not a partisan on the other side of most issues from Gore, yet he said:
> 
> "In all fairness, it?s something Gore had worked on a long time. Gore
> is not the Father of the Internet, but in all fairness, Gore is the
> person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure
> that we got to an Internet, and the truth is?-and I worked with him
> starting in 1978 when I got [to Congress], we were both part of a
> "futures group"-?the fact is, in the Clinton administration, the world
> we had talked about in the eighties began to actually happen."
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
> 



| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.

MacGroup: Re: Former U.S. V.P. Elected to Apple Board

[Frank Hammitt]

Irrespective of anyone's political persuasion http://www.truthorfiction.com
is usually a good source of information. Al?s ordeal is in there
at http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/goreinternet.htm.

Sorry if this stings either way.

Frank


On 3/20/03 7:04 PM, "George H. Yankey"  wrote:

> Thanks Allan for setting the record straight.
> 
> George Yankey
> On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 06:19 PM, Allan Atherton wrote:
> 
>> "Beth Ernst"  wrote:
>>> And let's not forget he started the internet. ;-)
>> 
>> I don't think he ever said that. He said he was on the govt committee
>> that
>> made the formerly military internet available to the public. I think
>> the
>> military was against it and he was for it, and his point was that we
>> might
>> not have had the internet without him.
>> Allan Atherton
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
>> | be March 25. The LCS Web page is .
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be March 25. The LCS Web page is .
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