Re: iPod to PC
On 2003-09-24 21:05, Dark Servant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how I can transfer files from my iPod to a PC? I only recently tried to do it thinking that it wouldn't be too much trouble. I remember that they made the iPods so they could be used on Mac and PC. I thought that meant they would be cross platform but it seems even a simple thing like HD formatting gets in the way. I'm really surprised that code for reading Mac formatted drives has not been programmed into the Windows OS yet. Any light anyone? Windows compatibility has varied over the course of the last few major changes to the iPod. It now seems to be automatic, but in the previous design (the one with actual buttons) it didn't seem to be so, and sometimes required the iPod to be reformatted. (Maybe they all ship as FAT disks now?) Some suggestions based on what I've seen of Windows and iPods... If Windows doesn't see it as a drive once plugged in, then make sure you have installed the iPod Windows Software from Apple and use the iPod Manager (or something like that) to enable Disk Mode. If that fails, then try installing MusicMatch, and using that to enable Disk Mode. I've seen it work on Windows XP recently, but I suspect it will be much nicer once iTunes gets ported over to the dark side... Ry
G3 Powerbook screen died- using TV???
Can I use a TV to view my G3 Powerbook desktop? The monitor screen has just about died (stupid apple) and now I want to be able to use the computer through my TV. Some times, at a certain angle, I can see the screen; I have the adaptor cable for video in/out, but how can I set the monitor control panel up for the external tv screen? The monitor control panel doesnt have any options of this kind, and there is limitted help in the apple help tuits. Or am I supposed to tune the TV INTO the powerbook (ie the other way round)?? OS 9.2.2, G3 Lombard Powerbook, 230RAM Please help ~ Robert Griffin Morgan www.amitar.com.au/~morgan/tonepoet/ 8123364136 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: G3 Powerbook screen died- using TV???
On 2003-09-25 03:14, Robert Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I use a TV to view my G3 Powerbook desktop? The monitor screen has just about died (stupid apple) and now I want to be able to use the computer through my TV. Some times, at a certain angle, I can see the screen; I have the adaptor cable for video in/out, but how can I set the monitor control panel up for the external tv screen? The monitor control panel doesnt have any options of this kind, and there is limitted help in the apple help tuits. Or am I supposed to tune the TV INTO the powerbook (ie the other way round)?? OS 9.2.2, G3 Lombard Powerbook, 230RAM If it's like most Powerbooks -- just plug the cable in, and tell the TV to display the appropriate AV port. On my Sony there's a button marked TV/AV that switches through the available inputs. But unless you have a Hi-Definition telly, you don't want to use it like this very much. TVs are notoriously low-resolution. Look at hooking it up to an external monitor instead, if you have a cable for that. Ry
Re: Dual Laptop - single mouse
On 2003-09-24 21:45, Onno Benschop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A single mouse click is needed to move all laptops forward one slide to keep
all presentation in sync with each other.
Which OS are the laptops running?
Which presentation software are they running?
I ask because IMHO this is looking for a software solution, not a
hardware one.
Nonsense Onno ;)
1) Take six optical Apple Pro Mice. They can be easily captured from
most Pro Apple Users, who won't put up much of a fight over them.
2) Adjust the click tension on them to minimum by rotating the control
on the base towards the '-'. The UN is unlikely to complain, despite
international agreements against the manipulation of prisoners.
3) Tape a ruler across the top of them.
4) Press the ruler, depressing the mice. Wait for Dubya to declare war
on the ruler in the name of freeing the mice.
Okay it might work, or it might be merely result of my reading too much
history at 2am.
Onno is actually right though, as usual... software is much more elegant, if
more likely to fail spectacularly when needed most. Assuming you're using
Mac OS X and Powerpoint (not too bad an assumption, this is a MUG and you've
not told us otherwise, USB Apple laptops are likely to be OS X capable, and
PC laptops probably still have ports other than USB for mice)...
1) On each computer, turn on Remote Apple Events in the Sharing
preference panel.
2) Network the laptops (might require bringing a small hub?)
3) Install the Sändi's Additions OSAX (available from Info-Mac) onto
each computer.
4) write an AppleScript containing something like:
Tell application PowerPoint of machine eppc://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
activate --only active app can receive mouse events
MouseClick At {100, 100}
End tell
...only repeated for each target machine. Then every time you run this
script, all of the computers will click once. Look Ma, no mice! A variation
on this method could be used to control the machines in other ways, such as
opening a particular PowerPoint file.
The downside of this approach is that you need to use one machine as
the controlling computer. PowerPoint does support multiple screens, but it
seems to want to be the frontmost application all the time while it's
presenting.
It's certainly an interesting problem you have Shane...
Ry
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BigPond Email Retrieval Problems
More email retrieval problems with Telstra BigPond last night. Two nights in a row! This was posted on the Service Status page: We are currently looking into possible problems with BigPond Mail. Customers with usernames R(a-i) O(a-z) are experiencing problems retrieving mail. Technician are treating this issue as priority and are working on the problem. Anyone else affected ... or have the Gods conspired to just make my life a misery? R.K.
Invisible files
There is a good shareware app called Invisible Finder which I use with SYS 8.6. Cheers, Paul.
Re: BigPond Email Retrieval Problems
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 08:00, Kay, Richard wrote: More email retrieval problems with Telstra BigPond last night. Two nights in a row! This was posted on the Service Status page: We are currently looking into possible problems with BigPond Mail. Customers with usernames R(a-i) O(a-z) are experiencing problems retrieving mail. Technician are treating this issue as priority and are working on the problem. Anyone else affected ... or have the Gods conspired to just make my life a misery? I'm guessing that your Bigpond username also starts with an R. Bigpond have spread their email userload by letters of the alphabet. If the server with your name on it is broken, you can't get your mail. So the message that you got is what is happening, and that is why you likely cannot get mail. If your Bigpond account does not start with R, it is entirely possible that Bigpond's status page is lagging behind and that your server is still affected. You need to realise that there is a lot of extra mail floating around because of the latest Worm. rant Your first call with problems like this IMHO should not be this list, but your ISP support line. If you don't get joy, change ISP. If this doesn't make sense to you, imagine sending an email to WAMUG every time your tap leaks... /rant Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S15:51'18 - E128:45'05 (Crossing Falls, Kununurra, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: 10.2.8 and SWEN trojan
On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 11:19 AM, Mark Secker wrote: Apple (and consequently I guess WAMUG) have pulled it due to a plethora of faults. I've got 4 dead eMacs that if they have nothing to do with having OS 10.2.8 being installed on them yesterday then it's an amassing coincidence) It's no coincidence, but the situation may not be hopeless. Check out today's MacFixit. -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer ServicesFileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
RE: iPod to PC
Ipod's and PC's, easy. I have an XP box at home, which I keep for the evil necessity of games, and to charge my ipod before I got my 12 Powerbook. I use a program called ephpod to update my ipod, and to use disk mode, macopener (which costs) from Dataviz. there is technically a registry hack to enable viewing the files in disk mode, but you can find that yourself with google. sTEVE -Original Message- From: Ryan Jay Schotte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 September 2003 1:53 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: iPod to PC On 2003-09-24 21:05, Dark Servant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how I can transfer files from my iPod to a PC? I only recently tried to do it thinking that it wouldn't be too much trouble. I remember that they made the iPods so they could be used on Mac and PC. I thought that meant they would be cross platform but it seems even a simple thing like HD formatting gets in the way. I'm really surprised that code for reading Mac formatted drives has not been programmed into the Windows OS yet. Any light anyone? Windows compatibility has varied over the course of the last few major changes to the iPod. It now seems to be automatic, but in the previous design (the one with actual buttons) it didn't seem to be so, and sometimes required the iPod to be reformatted. (Maybe they all ship as FAT disks now?) Some suggestions based on what I've seen of Windows and iPods... If Windows doesn't see it as a drive once plugged in, then make sure you have installed the iPod Windows Software from Apple and use the iPod Manager (or something like that) to enable Disk Mode. If that fails, then try installing MusicMatch, and using that to enable Disk Mode. I've seen it work on Windows XP recently, but I suspect it will be much nicer once iTunes gets ported over to the dark side... Ry -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: 10.2.8 and SWEN trojan
I've got 4 dead eMacs that if they have nothing to do with having OS 10.2.8 being installed on them yesterday then it's an amassing coincidence) It's no coincidence, but the situation may not be hopeless. Check out today's MacFixit. actually it was coincidence this time but yeh it's good to know there's a workable solution short of a Retrospect image restore (at best) or format/reinstall. -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ present day present time
CommPost: FREE shipping FW800 drive package
FireWire 800 PCI cards have been reduced to $99 I don't think you'll find these cheaper anywhere, including the USA - http://www.zytech.com.au/firewire/pci/3port/index.html But the big, mail list exclusive, special this week is for FireWire 800 drives - http://www.zytech.com.au/firewire/drives/firecube/firecube.html Buy any model FireCube 800 drive plus a FireWire 800 PCI card and we'll ship the entire order to you with AustAirX freight FREE. (Normal deal, just type in WAMUG special at checkout and we'll delete all freight charges at invoicing.) Remember, our FireCube 800 drives also have both FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 ports on the drive so these can connect to just about any computer. If you are looking at buying a digital camera this week . don't. We are putting the final touches to a deal with Fuji to list their new A205 2 megapixel, 3x optical zoom camera at under $300. We'll also be debuting the S5000 Fuji with 20x zoom (I'm grabbing one of these) and their 6mp F700. The Fuji FinePix are superb cameras; we sell them because their quality is brilliant and their after sales service top notch, plus they work seamlessly with either Mac or PC. Want the ultimate notebook upgrade? We now have available the new 7200 RPM Travelstar 2.5 drives. http://www.zytech.com.au/other/drives/ibm.html internal http://www.zytech.com.au/firewire/drives/firestar/firestar.html external I have one already stashed away for my new PowerBook that arrives Tuesday. These drives effectively equate to 10,000 RPM 3.5 drives and all our HP (High Performance) 2.5 drives now feature 8MB cache. Oh and just one last thing speaking of 10,000 RPM drives . you'll see super-fast 10,000 RPM internal AND external drives on our brand new website that is due real soon (did you hear that Russell). All pricing includes GST Keith Palmer Zytech Marketing Pty Ltd 7 The Strand Bunbury 6230 Phone: 08-9791 5556 Fax: 08-9791 5900 http://www.zytech.com.au If you do not wish to receive this mail update please reply and place UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject title
Paris KeyNote stream
Hi all The pairs KeyNote stream is availiable at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/expo03/ Bart
Re: Dual Laptop - single mouse
Have tried the wireless option, but found that some use different
frequencies, some are switchable, but do not recognise each other and
various other problems. Think we would need to have one specifically built.
Yes, it is very much a theatre scenario. Event is major awards evening -
similar, but nothing like the Logies/Brownlow, etc. We will be running 3
laptops to 5 screens plus a back-up system, cameras, lights, sound, etc.
I have spoken to a gent in Sydney www.szikla.com who manufactures such
devices that utilise microphone cable and a switching device. He has
specifically built mice for just this purpose and attaches them all via a
single rack mount switching unit.
Worth a look.
Also a big thanks to you all, fantastic list and group of people.
Cheers
Shane
On 9/25/03 3:15 AM, Ryan Jay Schotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2003-09-24 21:45, Onno Benschop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A single mouse click is needed to move all laptops forward one slide to keep
all presentation in sync with each other.
Which OS are the laptops running?
Which presentation software are they running?
I ask because IMHO this is looking for a software solution, not a
hardware one.
Nonsense Onno ;)
1) Take six optical Apple Pro Mice. They can be easily captured from
most Pro Apple Users, who won't put up much of a fight over them.
2) Adjust the click tension on them to minimum by rotating the control
on the base towards the '-'. The UN is unlikely to complain, despite
international agreements against the manipulation of prisoners.
3) Tape a ruler across the top of them.
4) Press the ruler, depressing the mice. Wait for Dubya to declare war
on the ruler in the name of freeing the mice.
Okay it might work, or it might be merely result of my reading too much
history at 2am.
Onno is actually right though, as usual... software is much more elegant, if
more likely to fail spectacularly when needed most. Assuming you're using
Mac OS X and Powerpoint (not too bad an assumption, this is a MUG and you've
not told us otherwise, USB Apple laptops are likely to be OS X capable, and
PC laptops probably still have ports other than USB for mice)...
1) On each computer, turn on Remote Apple Events in the Sharing
preference panel.
2) Network the laptops (might require bringing a small hub?)
3) Install the Sändi's Additions OSAX (available from Info-Mac) onto
each computer.
4) write an AppleScript containing something like:
Tell application PowerPoint of machine eppc://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
activate --only active app can receive mouse events
MouseClick At {100, 100}
End tell
...only repeated for each target machine. Then every time you run this
script, all of the computers will click once. Look Ma, no mice! A variation
on this method could be used to control the machines in other ways, such as
opening a particular PowerPoint file.
The downside of this approach is that you need to use one machine as
the controlling computer. PowerPoint does support multiple screens, but it
seems to want to be the frontmost application all the time while it's
presenting.
It's certainly an interesting problem you have Shane...
Ry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual Laptop - single mouse
You didn't answer my questions about platform, because if you're going to run a cable anyway, it might as well be an Ethernet lead. As Ryan pointed out you could script it, but I hadn't proposed a solution yet because of the platform issue. The reliability issues are IMHO a non-event. A long mouse cable is likely to be less reliable than an Ethernet cable. USB can be a max of 5m - but you could put amplifiers (hubs) along the way. Really, you should in my opinion not be looking at a hardware solution. So, what is the platform that you're using? Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S15:51'18 - E128:45'05 (Crossing Falls, Kununurra, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: sending ozmac via mail
Hi, I've tried setting the outgoing mail server through my ISP, which is what I do, for example if using my student account at Murdoch, but checking my email at iinet. However, trying this with the ozmac account resulted in a setting where the ozmac account was added to iinet to make an impossible outgoing server address. I've ended up deleting all my emails a couple of times in order to try to get rid of it, because it would take over when using my iinet account. Sad about the archive of my emails as well. I would like to know how to delete the impossible outgoing server because it comes back to haunt me sometimes, preventing me being able to send emails. An intermittent fault. I've given up trying to use ozmac as a POP email account for this reason, and just check it through my browser. Also found that if I sent to an email another ozmac account, ozmac refused to accept the email saying it required authentication. But my ISP outgoing server does not allow adding authentication. So, can't do it this way. On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 09:00 PM, Dark Servant wrote: I'm trying to configure my Mail program to use my ozmac.com email. I've got everything figured out except for the outgoing server part. Could someone tell me what I need to put in this part? Also over time I've got a bit over a build up of outgoing servers for selection. Is there a way to delete the unused ones? Thanks Ruben A. Franke -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro --- Susan Hastings Registered Psychologist Bentley Family Therapy Centre 9 Mills Street Bentley WA 6102 Telelphone: 9458 1551 Fax: 9458 4484 Mobile: 0409 688 004
MailSmith
Hey all I'm going through mail software phase has any one tried MailSmith ver 2.0.2 any comments if it's any good. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/email_chat/mailsmith.html Regards Bart
Re: sending ozmac via mail
On 25/09/2003, at 10:55 AM, Susan Hastings wrote: I've given up trying to use ozmac as a POP email account for this reason, and just check it through my browser. Also found that if I sent to an email another ozmac account, ozmac refused to accept the email saying it required authentication. But my ISP outgoing server does not allow adding authentication. So, can't do it this way. The problem is this ISPs can restrict access to their SMTP server based on the IP addresses they give to their clients. As such, they don't need to use Authenticated SMTP. Other SMTP servers such as ozmac.com, needs to be able to accept connections from anywhere. This means it must use some form of authentication to keep from being an open relay (spammers heaven). Ideally you should be able to use the ozmac.com POP account, with your ISP's SMTP account. (Unless they are being annoying and rejecting emails with a non ISP email address.) Otherwise, just use the ozmac.com server for sending and receiving. To do this, you need to make sure your mail client can use authenticated SMTP. - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iPod to PC
On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 09:05 PM, Dark Servant wrote: Does anyone know how I can transfer files from my iPod to a PC? I only recently tried to do it thinking that it wouldn't be too much trouble. I remember that they made the iPods so they could be used on Mac and PC. I thought that meant they would be cross platform but it seems even a simple thing like HD formatting gets in the way. I'm really surprised that code for reading Mac formatted drives has not been programmed into the Windows OS yet. Any light anyone? This might help: http://www.asy.com/scrtm.htm There's another software called MacWin I think.. but the above should just work fine.
Re: iPod to Pc
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can't have it both ways. you can't mount a mac formatted ipod into a Pc and have the hard disk mount and if you format it for PC then you won't be able to use it on your mac (there is no utility to go backwards). The only way I can think of is to use a utility like macopener2000 to mount it. take a look: http://www.dataviz.com/products/macopener/index.html sorry to be the bearer of bad news. If it makes you feel any better its even worse if you had a Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen (that uses proprietary software to mount the HD) Dave On Thursday, Sep 25, 2003, at 05:03 Australia/Perth, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 01:53:17 +0800 Subject: Re: iPod to PC From: Ryan Jay Schotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2003-09-24 21:05, Dark Servant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how I can transfer files from my iPod to a PC? I only recently tried to do it thinking that it wouldn't be too much trouble. I remember that they made the iPods so they could be used on Mac and PC. I thought that meant they would be cross platform but it seems even a simple thing like HD formatting gets in the way. I'm really surprised that code for reading Mac formatted drives has not been programmed into the Windows OS yet. Any light anyone? Windows compatibility has varied over the course of the last few major changes to the iPod. It now seems to be automatic, but in the previous design (the one with actual buttons) it didn't seem to be so, and sometimes required the iPod to be reformatted. (Maybe they all ship as FAT disks now?) Some suggestions based on what I've seen of Windows and iPods... If Windows doesn't see it as a drive once plugged in, then make sure you have installed the iPod Windows Software from Apple and use the iPod Manager (or something like that) to enable Disk Mode. If that fails, then try installing MusicMatch, and using that to enable Disk Mode. I've seen it work on Windows XP recently, but I suspect it will be much nicer once iTunes gets ported over to the dark side... Ry - The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X - To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. - Bruce Lee
Re: sending ozmac via mail
Solved both of these issues thanks to Matt and Malcolm Thanks Guys Ruben A. Franke Hi, go toGo / Go To Folder and type in /Library/scripts/Mail Scripts then double click on Manage SMTP Servers.scpt file type Run and all will be revealed :-) Mac On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 09:05 PM, Matthew Healey wrote: On 24/09/2003, at 9:00 PM, Dark Servant wrote: I'm trying to configure my Mail program to use my ozmac.com email. I've got everything figured out except for the outgoing server part. Could someone tell me what I need to put in this part? mail.ozmac.com You also need to set it to use Password Authentication. Also over time I've got a bit over a build up of outgoing servers for selection. Is there a way to delete the unused ones? Not too sure about that one. - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: G3 Powerbook screen died- using TV???
Thanks for your reply. The screen is 90% of the time covered with stripey colours. Sometimes, at a certain angle, I get the desktop, but most of the time just a colour spectrum. Your link doesnt seem to be working. do you still think it would be a cheap thing to fix? ~ Robert Griffin Morgan www.amitar.com.au/~morgan/tonepoet/ 8123364136 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jarred Flatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/25/03 17:06 PM It sounds like that if you can see the screen at angles or out in the sun or under light that your backlight has gone out it is a fairly cheap part to replace as you can see http://www.powerbooktech.com/component,name-LCD-Backlight-for- Powerbook-Pismo-(LG),type-Pismo.htm that one is for the lg display pismo and is in US prices of course. On Thursday, 25 September 2003, at 3:14 AM, Robert Morgan wrote: Can I use a TV to view my G3 Powerbook desktop? The monitor screen has just about died (stupid apple) and now I want to be able to use the computer through my TV. Some times, at a certain angle, I can see the screen; I have the adaptor cable for video in/out, but how can I set the monitor control panel up for the external tv screen? The monitor control panel doesnt have any options of this kind, and there is limitted help in the apple help tuits. Or am I supposed to tune the TV INTO the powerbook (ie the other way round)?? OS 9.2.2, G3 Lombard Powerbook, 230RAM Please help ~ Robert Griffin Morgan www.amitar.com.au/~morgan/tonepoet/ 8123364136 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
