Re: Water cooling for your G5 laptop

[Susan Hastings]

Mind you, in terms of being quiet, the ibook is mostly silent, but if 
you use it for a long time, the fan does kick in, and is very rowdy.


Perhaps its not very powerful, and so doesn't need a fan most of the 
time.



On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 09:36  PM, John Currie wrote:




Note that Apple cooperated with the research.

Have fun,
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Re: Water cooling for your G5 laptop

[Ryan Schotte]

On 2003-10-09 at 21:36(GMT+0800) John Currie at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >
> >
> >Note that Apple cooperated with the research.
> >
> >Have fun,
> >Shay
> >--
> Could it be connected to a coffee maker ?

If the heat output of a 12" PB G4 is anything to go by, you could
connect it to a steam turbine and power the whole machine :) ...

DVD burning & RIMM memory enquiries

[Brad Helden]

Many thanks to all the people that contacted me. So many. Much appreciated.
Now if only I could get the same amount to contact me about buying my 
Mac I'd be happy.


Many, many thanks to all,
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Re: Water cooling for your G5 laptop

[John Currie]

>
>
>Note that Apple cooperated with the research.
>
>Have fun,
>Shay
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Manipulating images

[Ian Reid]

Thanks to all who who offered guidance. I have decided to go for 
GraphicConverter.


Surprisingly, VersionTracker didn't list it, but did suggest 
ImageConverter which is only suitable for the opposition. But good 
old Google gave me the developer's website.

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Re: mice

[James Kunz]

i'm using a kensington trackball for the last 4 years, my left hand (i'm
left hander) is still fine
advantages:
1   you do not need as much desktop space,
2   you don't have to have the writ lifted all the time because the
fingers do all the movements & the wrist is down on the deskquite
convenient in narrow spaces
James

Adam Hewitt wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> After working with computers for the last 15 years and working with
> computers for 7, I have really started having problems with RSI in my
> mouse hand. This has recently been compunded further by the purchase of
> my awesome iBook and the use of its trackpad.
> 
> My question for the list is, what mice do you guys use or recommend that
> are ergonomic enough to reduce the damage I am doing to my hand? I guess
> the ultimate mouse I am looking for would have to also be portable so
> that I can take it with my ibook, but not as important as comfort.
> 
> Cheers,

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WTB: USB adapter and NIC

[Paul Kitchener]

Hi all

I wish to purchace, hopefully 2nd hand, a USB card (suit PPC-5500)
and a network card to suit.

Less urgent is a USB external IDE case to suit SONY CDRW also.

Thanks
Paul Kitchener 

re Mice

[David Hudleston]

To relieve pain in my mouse arm I spray Rawleigh Anti Pain Oil onto the 
painful area.


It's been around for a hundred years and still works wonders.

regards
David Hudleston

Re: mice

[logrythm]

On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 08:57  AM, Adam Hewitt wrote:


Hi All,

After working with computers for the last 15 years and working with
computers for 7, I have really started having problems with RSI in my
mouse hand. This has recently been compunded further by the purchase of
my awesome iBook and the use of its trackpad.

My question for the list is, what mice do you guys use or recommend 
that
are ergonomic enough to reduce the damage I am doing to my hand? I 
guess

the ultimate mouse I am looking for would have to also be portable so
that I can take it with my ibook, but not as important as comfort.

Cheers,

Adam.


Howdy

Triple J's Dr Karl advises that 'new' users should initially use the 
mouse with their least

favored hand, as I am right-handed this was my left hand.
Aside from the practical advantages of freeing up my most skillful hand 
to do

more demanding tasks (typing, nose-scratching etc) as a result I am now
'ambi-mouse-erous'.

It only took 6 weeks or so till my left hand was as good as my right at 
mousing.


This may seem trivial on the surface but I'm contantly seeing 
advantages, eg on very
messy desks, using the dreaded iMac puck mouse with its awful cable, 
trainning,

using two computers at once (not often though;) etc.
So at the very least you could possibly halve the negative effect by 
trying this out.
Might I also be so bold as to suggest using the least amount of effort 
to 'mouse' and

minimal grip-time too :)

At one point I was developing a sore index finger knuckle (from mousing 
as well as
old war wounds I believe), since I began using the puck mouse it has 
ceased.
I put this down to the extra bending the end of my fingerwent through 
with the puck mouse.
The normal mouse was keeping it straight, forcing the joint not the 
tendons and muscles,

to take all the load.

Hope these anecdotes help

Cheers
Paul Kitchener

Water cooling for your G5 laptop

[Shay Telfer]

Note that Apple cooperated with the research.

Have fun,
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Newspapers via NewsStand

[Bob Howells]

Good Morning Everyone,

The Australian newspaper and many more are now available by download.
Also look here  : 


Once again they are using a propriety software.. Called NewsStand.

This is currently only useable on Windows, however if you go to the site
below,... Mac and other systems ... can click on a link to express interest
and be advised when a Mac compatible software package has been developed.

You will find the point to " click here " on the lower left of the page.




Cheers

Bob

Re: *iCal 1.5.1 and iSync 1.2.1

[Matthew Healey]

On 08/10/2003, at 11:11 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:


No doubt they will show up on the local mirror:-




It's there now.

- Matt

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RE :mice

[Andy Dent]

Adam Hewitt writes:
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 08:57:20 +0800
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> After working with computers for the last 15 years and working with
> computers for 7, I have really started having problems with RSI in my
> mouse hand. This has recently been compunded further by .. use of its
trackpad.
> 
> My question for the list is, what mice do you guys use or 
> recommend that are ergonomic enough to reduce the damage I am doing to
my 
> hand? 

Been there, done that.

Number one recommendation is learn to observe in very fine detail what
you do. You may get a pleasant surprise that you can subtly change
pressure, angle of wrist, fingers etc. and improve things.

However, my number two recommendation is about healing - from an old
Aust. Macworld article I learned that if you are in a critical pain
situation with tendonitis, the only way to alleviate it short of surgery
(which has its own hazards) is really complete rest - learn to keep your
hand in your pocket, eat left-handed, do up shoelaces left-handed etc.
Plan on doing this for a few weeks. Good anti-inflammatories
(prescription) will also help - you may find that external Voltaren gel
helps but often it can't penetrate sufficiently (I've received
conflicting medical advice on this).

>From my own experiences, whilst I was pushing things a bit, it was use
of a large (old) trackball that made my tendonitis flare up to a serious
level - the "stretching over the arc" motion (picture something size of
cricket ball and I have fairly small hands).

I have found trackpads very irritating as well - the stroking guesture
often contracting one finger.

My philosophy with mice is to minimise the amount of fine control
required. Using multi-button mice, PARTICULARLY under Windows, causes me
problems because there are single finger movements to click and the
positioning movements required under Windows are much more rigorous than
Mac OS (note: XP has improved this slightly but not much, whilst they
retain menu bars in windows).

The standard Apple "zero button" mouse is one of the best because you
can just mash the whole mouse with your hand, rather than clicking with
a finger.

Finally, seriously consider taking up Tai Chi.

further
> Didn't someone design a system that let you control a mouse 
> by reading your brain waves?

I'm working for a company that sells something similar but we haven't
done mouse control
http://www.ibva.com/

Installing Ram in new 12" Powerbook

[Bob Howells]

For those who might get involved :

>From today's Macintouch.


 James Welborn writes that Apple's new PowerBook instructions are
misleading, which can lead to problems with the laptop's tiny screws:
Today, I received my new 12" Powerbook. Following the instructions in the
manual, I grabbed a #0 Philips screwdriver to open the memory door on the
back to add an additional 512 Mb chip I purchased separately.
  After removing one screw (almost stripping it), I proceeded to nearly
strip the three other screws.
  I went to the Apple Store at the Cambridgeside Galleria. The Genius on
duty told me that they had a similar problem with their Powerbook, and that
I needed a #000 Philips head instead. (Theirs, he said, was purchased at
Sears.)
  He couldn't loan me their screwdriver (Apple store policy, he said), nor
could he install third-party RAM. A quick trip to Sears netted me the tool I
needed ($2), and it turns out I hadn't totally stripped the screws.
  So - long story short - the manual is wrong on the new 12" Powerbook. The
tool for removing the RAM panel is the smallest Philips available (#000 --
at least the smallest available at the Sears I went to).


Have fun

Bob

Re: Looking for a video to DVD service

[Onno Benschop]

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 01:02, Brad Helden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Someone I know is trying to get some VHS videos transferred onto 
> DVDs. Does anyone know a company or individual who offers this 
> service 

ProCopy in Morley does this AFAIK.


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Re: *iCal 1.5.1 and iSync 1.2.1

[Daniel Kerr]

On 9/10/03 2:03 AM, "Ryan Schotte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 2003-10-08 at 23:11(GMT+0800) Daniel Kerr at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailed off into the ether:
> 
>> Hi All
>> 
>> *iCal 1.5.1 and iSync 1.2.1 updates are out. iCal shows up in Software
>> update, but as I write this iSync wasn't.
> 
> iSync 1.2.1 only shows up once iCal 1.5.1 is installed. Running Software
> Update again should find it.
> 
> I like the new option to "Show time in month view", sort of like what
> Entourage did... I wanted that. The info panel is an improvement on the
> old inspector, though not by much.
> 
> And it even supports non-US dates now -- I seem to remember version 1
> didn't, but it won't launch now I've updated -- a big feature for us
> Aussies, and for lil ol me using ISO date notation. (ISO 8601 specifies
> dates like -MM-DD, which isn't widespread outside of China and
> computing.)
> 
> And now to see if iSync still works... :)
> 
> -Ry
> 

I found they all worked for me, and didn't even change anything! ;o) Well
touch wood! ;o) All the information that was there before is still there
now, and like you say some of the improvements seem quite good. I didn't
notice a great deal of change in iSync par a few things, but I'm not sure if
that's the new iSync or because I just upgraded to a T610 at the same time.
Now to just set up MMS and GPRS properly. (See Matt I got it right that
time) :o)

All round not too bad updates I do say,...I guess they had to get it right
after 10.2.8,..that's probably why they held them back a while. ;o)

Enjoy!

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Re: *iCal 1.5.1 and iSync 1.2.1

[Ryan Schotte]

On 2003-10-08 at 23:11(GMT+0800) Daniel Kerr at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailed off into the ether:

> Hi All
> 
> *iCal 1.5.1 and iSync 1.2.1 updates are out. iCal shows up in Software
> update, but as I write this iSync wasn't.

iSync 1.2.1 only shows up once iCal 1.5.1 is installed. Running Software
Update again should find it.

I like the new option to "Show time in month view", sort of like what
Entourage did... I wanted that. The info panel is an improvement on the
old inspector, though not by much.

And it even supports non-US dates now -- I seem to remember version 1
didn't, but it won't launch now I've updated -- a big feature for us
Aussies, and for lil ol me using ISO date notation. (ISO 8601 specifies
dates like -MM-DD, which isn't widespread outside of China and
computing.)

And now to see if iSync still works... :)

-Ry

A (shudder) PC ram question

[Brad Helden]

My brother in-law in Japan wanted some RIMM memory for his PC but 
tells me it is very expensive there and near impossible to get hold 
of. I am not familiar with this type so if anyone knows anything 
about it or where to buy some at a reasonable rate I'd be grateful.


Thanks,
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G4 Computer package for sale

[Brad Helden]

Someone was going to buy the following but problems arose and the 
sale fell through. If anyone is interested in it I am asking $3,200 
ONO or trade down for a decent laptop model with a cash adjustment.


Apple G4 (mirrored doors) 1GHZ CPU, 60GB hard drive, 750MB RAM, CD 
ROM burner / DVD player - 6 months old ; 17 inch Viewmaster monitor 
(menu controlled) - 1 year old ;  Epson Stylus PHOTO 830 printer 
(photo quality prints) - 5 months old ; wooden computer desk from 
Harvey Norman - 1 year old. Will also install OSX, some 3D software 
(not pirated - runs under OS9) and any bits and pieces I find.


All are in extremely good condition.

Phone: 9330-4139

Thanks,

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Looking for a video to DVD service

[Brad Helden]

Hi,

Someone I know is trying to get some VHS videos transferred onto 
DVDs. Does anyone know a company or individual who offers this 
service and the probable costs involved?


Thanks a lot,
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