Re: Music files

[Nicholas Pyers]

On 22/11/2005, at 2:42 AM, Peter Bull wrote:

Hi,
I am showing a few TAFE people how to add sound and music to  
Powerpoint and I would like to know what software is needed to  
convert music files from a CD to MP3, .wav, .midi etc formats which  
can be inserted into Powerpoint presentations.


Not being a music expert it's a scary new world to me.


iTunes will convert to .mp3 files fine and Powerpoint will handle  
them OK


or if you want have the "best sound" or avoid conversion, but end up  
with really huge files, you can just grab the raw aiff files directly  
from the CD


--
Nicholas Pyers  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

  "Heaven on Earth?"
  "No, Earth on Earth.  The Just Earth!"

Music files

[Peter Bull]

Hi,
I am showing a few TAFE people how to add sound and music to Powerpoint 
and I would like to know what software is needed to convert music files 
from a CD to MP3, .wav, .midi etc formats which can be inserted into 
Powerpoint presentations.


Not being a music expert it's a scary new world to me.
Thanks,
Peter Bull
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My Card Reader won't read a San Disk

[RHowells]

On 21/11/2005, at 9:12 PM, Shay Telfer wrote:


On 21/11/2005, at 5:04 AM, J Philippe Chaperon in WAMUG Mailing List
digest wrote:

I use a SanDisk 512MB (SD Card) in my Lumix LZ30, which seems to 
works OK in

the camera, however I  just cannot read the card when inserted in my
Transcend' card reader connected to my G5 1.8Mhz dual, running OS X 
3.3.9.



The card reader is connected to a USB 2.0 powered hub.




But is it working as a USB 2.0  ?
Is there perhaps a USB 1 device also plugged into that hub ???

Bob






I have used Disk Utility to try to mount the SD disk on the desktop, 
but
nothing happened. I also tried to reformat the card but Disk Utility 
bombed
with the dreaded beach-ball. Disk Utility was able to detect the 
Card, its

size etc, but was unable to mount it on the desktop.


Howdy J Philippe,

I had a similar problem with a San Disk card reader, so hied me to
the Google and found that Mac and SanDisk are not friends for a lot
of users.
The summary of a lot of technical stuff I read was that SanDisk
components are not "standards compatible" - something about their
drawing too much power via usb.   Macs don't like this I understand.

This research was done around a year ago, so things may have changed.

Nancy M

Re: My Card Reader won't read a San Disk

[Shay Telfer]

On 21/11/2005, at 5:04 AM, J Philippe Chaperon in WAMUG Mailing List 
digest wrote:



I use a SanDisk 512MB (SD Card) in my Lumix LZ30, which seems to works OK in
the camera, however I  just cannot read the card when inserted in my
Transcend' card reader connected to my G5 1.8Mhz dual, running OS X 3.3.9.
The card reader is connected to a USB 2.0 powered hub.

I have used Disk Utility to try to mount the SD disk on the desktop, but
nothing happened. I also tried to reformat the card but Disk Utility bombed
with the dreaded beach-ball. Disk Utility was able to detect the Card, its
size etc, but was unable to mount it on the desktop.


Howdy J Philippe,

I had a similar problem with a San Disk card reader, so hied me to 
the Google and found that Mac and SanDisk are not friends for a lot 
of users.
The summary of a lot of technical stuff I read was that SanDisk 
components are not "standards compatible" - something about their 
drawing too much power via usb.   Macs don't like this I understand.


This research was done around a year ago, so things may have changed.

Nancy M


In which case try plugging the reader directly into the back of the 
Mac (rather than the keyboard). No guarantees though...


Have fun,
Shay
--
=== Shay  Telfer 
 Perth, Western Australia   Technomancer  There are many worlds and many
 Opinions for hire  [POQ] tales, but not much time
 http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord - Roland of Gilead

Re: Harvey Norman dummy spit about iPod stocks

[Shay Telfer]

I love it!  Go into the Harvey Norman up in Joondalup and the staff 
try to talk you out of getting an iPod (go a Creative instead. 
Whoohoo!).  
Even all the iPod advertsing shelves in the store are filled with 
Creative players :-)  Big iPod banner right above a case filled with 
Creative rubbish!


And they have the hide to whinge about iPod stock levels!

Aren't you glad they don't sell Macs..

Seeya

Rod!


I've also had this confirmed independently about the Joondalup Store.

Thanks,
Shay
--
=== Shay  Telfer 
 Perth, Western Australia   Technomancer  There are many worlds and many
 Opinions for hire  [POQ] tales, but not much time
 http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord - Roland of Gilead

Re: My Card Reader won't read a San Disk

[J Philippe Chaperon]

on 21/11/05 3:58 PM, Nancy McIntyre at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> On 21/11/2005, at 5:04 AM, J Philippe Chaperon in WAMUG Mailing List
> digest wrote:
> 
>> I use a SanDisk 512MB (SD Card) in my Lumix LZ30, which seems to works
>> OK in
>> the camera, however I  just cannot read the card when inserted in my
>> Transcend' card reader connected to my G5 1.8Mhz dual, running OS X
>> 3.3.9.
>> The card reader is connected to a USB 2.0 powered hub.
>> 
>> I have used Disk Utility to try to mount the SD disk on the desktop,
>> but
>> nothing happened. I also tried to reformat the card but Disk Utility
>> bombed
>> with the dreaded beach-ball. Disk Utility was able to detect the Card,
>> its
>> size etc, but was unable to mount it on the desktop.
> 
> Howdy J Philippe,
> 
> I had a similar problem with a San Disk card reader, so hied me to the
> Google and found that Mac and SanDisk are not friends for a lot of
> users.
> The summary of a lot of technical stuff I read was that SanDisk
> components are not "standards compatible" - something about their
> drawing too much power via usb.   Macs don't like this I understand.
> 
> This research was done around a year ago, so things may have changed.
> 

Hi Nancy,

Many thanks for the info. I have today taken the SanDisk to the shop where I
bought the camera, and he tried it in a Win laptop without any problems at
all !!! I just could not tell the guy I have a Mac.  So it looks like I'll
have to buy a memory card from another manufacturer, but which one?

Regards,

Philippe 

PS I'm definitely going with Westnet for broadband. Made up my mind this
past week-end. 

Epson Smart Panel Dumb with new RX510 Beastie

[Reg Whitely]

Hi all intrepid WAMUGgers

I thought I'd share this with you in case someone ventures down the  
same path, although I suspect I'm following someone else's trail anyway.


My lovely wife went out to Toyworld here in sunny Gero last Saturday  
and came back with a a brand new Epson RX510 multifunction printer/ 
scanner device beastie, almost as big as our trusty Ruby iMac it now  
sits beside! "Just 'cos", as the kids say.
Harvey Norman's 18 month interest free plans have caused this  
household situation before, but now I know what we'll be doing over  
the Christmas holidays - scanning 1000s of slides and negatives.


See http://www.epson.com.au/products/multifunctional/photorx510.asp

So a quiet weekend gardening, levelling student outcomes and sorting  
out our tax papers became one of unpacking and setting up this beast  
to run on 10.3.9 (Ruby) and 10.4.3 (PowerBook).
Some 10 hours later, over 2 days, I finally got what it appears to be  
its main software driving force, the "Smart Panel" software, to run  
without crashing and locking the scanner option mid scan. That was  
about 10 pm last night and I'm loath to fire it all up again now to  
see if it's still functioning.


You see, after installing the myriad nice programs on the two Macs  
from the installer disks, the "Smart Panel" proves to be quite dumb.  
What should be a nice interface bringing all the scan and photo  
programs together, consistently crashed mid scan, particularly when  
doing multiple slide scans on Ruby, and it simply wouldn't open on  
the PowerBook.


Aha, a quick websearch shows some updates on Epson's Australian  
website so bug patches are downloaded and installed. Still it  
crashes. Maybe there's not enough memory. On Ruby maybe, with 356 MB  
ram but not surely on the Powerbook with 1 GB!


See here http://tech.epson.com.au/downloads/product.asp?id=photorx510  
and here http://www.newsoftinc.com/tech-Support/show-Patch.asp? 
uid=202 for updates to Version 3.10E Smart Panel


On Versiontracker and other websites, reviewers describe this  
software and updates variously as "crippleware", "not a useful  
product feature", "getting really pissed off now", "can't they  
(Epson) ever do anything right", and "Why must I pay £3.99 for a  
software update that should come with the product!" Indeed!


Aha, so what am I to do. It's Sunday now and I'm not going to let  
this b* beast get the better of me.


I find an update to V3.14 but it's no better. Then an update to  
v3.15p01from 3.15, which incidentally won't open as Stuffit tells me  
its "...an unsupported archive version".


So where's the missing link, v 3.15? About 8 pm last night I  
discovered this: http://uk.newsoft.eu.com/products/product-main.asp? 
productid=UK0018&productmenus=250&submenus=856

The missing link.

Now I've parted company with £3.99 GBP - note above comment about  
paying, but I decide, stuff it, if it works, it's worth it NOW!!,  
bugger the cost - and downloaded a 51.4 Mb Smart Panel v3.15, deleted  
all reference that I can think of to previous Smart Panels,  
preferences, etc, said many choice words about Epson (not my lovely  
wife of course who's since long gone to beddibyes), installed it on  
Ruby and Powerbook, and guess what? It worked.


Ask me tomorrow. Maybe it's still flaky.

So tell me, why should I need to pay for software updates to get the  
machine working properly anyway? I shouldn't.

Should I tell Epson? Probably.
Why isn't this available on their Australian website? Who knows?
Should I tell the Harvey Norman guy who sold it to us? Probably. In  
fact I think I might even burn the download to disk and give it to  
him, just in case some other poor soul stumbles through the door up  
here and wants to buy a RX510 to run on Mac OS X.


Interestingly there were a lot of patches for Windows versions too,  
so maybe Smart Panel is really, really Dumb?


Thanks for reading.

Regards

Reg

PS
If you need a copy of this software, let me know off list. We'll come  
to some arrangement. I'm sure Epson won't mind. Grrr.

Re: Safari consuming 100% CPU/RAM in 10.4?

[Wendy S. Austin]

Yes Martin,   I have the exact same problem.   I have long been in  
the habit of having multiple windows with lots of tabs going and am  
now suffering the beach ball effect too.  Running 10.4.3 on a 17" PB.


Wendy


On 21 Nov 2005, at 11:17, Martin Hill wrote:

G'day again everyone,
Just wondering if anyone else has been finding Safari starts eating  
RAM and
processor cycles if left running for too long with lots of windows  
and tabs

open?  Spinning beachball of death forever.  :-(


Wendy Austin & Thomas Oswin
Coastal Road
Pomponette via Surinam
Mauritius Island
tel/ans/fax: +2306257399
iChat/MSN:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My Card Reader won't read a San Disk

[Nancy McIntyre]

On 21/11/2005, at 5:04 AM, J Philippe Chaperon in WAMUG Mailing List 
digest wrote:


I use a SanDisk 512MB (SD Card) in my Lumix LZ30, which seems to works 
OK in

the camera, however I  just cannot read the card when inserted in my
Transcend' card reader connected to my G5 1.8Mhz dual, running OS X 
3.3.9.

The card reader is connected to a USB 2.0 powered hub.

I have used Disk Utility to try to mount the SD disk on the desktop, 
but
nothing happened. I also tried to reformat the card but Disk Utility 
bombed
with the dreaded beach-ball. Disk Utility was able to detect the Card, 
its

size etc, but was unable to mount it on the desktop.


Howdy J Philippe,

I had a similar problem with a San Disk card reader, so hied me to the 
Google and found that Mac and SanDisk are not friends for a lot of 
users.
The summary of a lot of technical stuff I read was that SanDisk 
components are not "standards compatible" - something about their 
drawing too much power via usb.   Macs don't like this I understand.


This research was done around a year ago, so things may have changed.

Nancy M


__

OS X 10.3.9 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 768MB  RAM

Re: Safari consuming 100% CPU/RAM in 10.4?

[Martin Hill]

> From: Matthew Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 21/11/2005, at 3:17 PM, Martin Hill wrote:
>> Just wondering if anyone else has been finding Safari starts eating
>> RAM and
>> processor cycles if left running for too long with lots of windows
>> and tabs
>> open?  Spinning beachball of death forever.  :-(
> 
> Apparently the Safari guys know about it

Yeah, I saw this list of fixes when 10.4.3 came out and hoped it would fix
the memory leak problems, but it hasn't helped much in my case.  The CPU
hogging has also continued.

-Mart

Re: Safari consuming 100% CPU/RAM in 10.4?

[Matthew Healey]

On 21/11/2005, at 3:17 PM, Martin Hill wrote:


G'day again everyone,
Just wondering if anyone else has been finding Safari starts eating  
RAM and
processor cycles if left running for too long with lots of windows  
and tabs

open?  Spinning beachball of death forever.  :-(


Apparently the Safari guys know about it

http://webkit.opendarwin.org/blog/
Eliminated many memory leaks and other sources of memory growth.

Fixed a bug where the WebKit page cache can grow without bound when  
there is a snapback item around.

Fixed several 32-byte leaks related to XMLHttpRequest.
Fixed a memory leak in KWQArrayImpl::resize().
Fixed many leaks of StyleBaseImpl called within  
computeAndStoreNodeDesiredStyle within -[WebView paste:].
Fixed many leaks of StyleBaseImpl called within fixupNodeStyles  
within -[WebView paste:].
Fixed many leaks of StyleBaseImpl within startMarkup within - 
[WebHTMLView _writeSelectionToPasteboard:].
Fixed many leaks of StyleBaseImpl within createMarkup within - 
[WebHTMLView _writeSelectionToPasteboard:].

Fixed many many leaks in JavaScript parsing.
Fixed additional parsing leaks on malformed JavaScript.
Fixed 14 leaks of WebFileButton and associated objects, seen after  
running WebKit layout tests.


- Matt  

Safari consuming 100% CPU/RAM in 10.4?

[Martin Hill]

G'day again everyone,
Just wondering if anyone else has been finding Safari starts eating RAM and
processor cycles if left running for too long with lots of windows and tabs
open?  Spinning beachball of death forever.  :-(

Ever since Mac OS X 10.4 I've noticed Safari consuming more RAM than it used
to and pushing Activity Monitor to 100% CPU utilisation.  Force-quitting
Safari brings it all back to normal for a while, though given time, it
starts bogging down again.  I leave Safari open with many windows for days
(weeks) on end.

This last time I counted 25 web pages open as tabs across 3 windows
(although earlier today I had easily double that number of web pages open)
and Safari sat at approx 85% CPU utilisation thus maxing my 1.25GHz 15"
Aluminium Powerbook out at 100% CPU utilisation for perhaps three quarters
of an hour while I tried to do other things.  By quitting other apps I was
able to get about 100MBs of free RAM (green) out of my 2GB of RAM.  Every
now and then CPU utilisation would dip a few percentage points below 100%
and I could click a link or 2 in Safari before it maxed out again and Safari
would stop responding.

After force quitting Safari and re-launching, I opened a similar number of
windows again over 3 or so windows and Safari is staying at a reasonable
2-3% CPU utilisation and I have about 650MB of free RAM.  However, my
experience is that given a day or so and a many more open web pages, it will
bog down again.

So, I wonder if we're talking major memory leaks or what?  Flash problems?
I notice this guy is complaining about similar problems in Safari:
http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~fredrior/wiki/index.php/Mac

I've experienced this ever since upgrading to OS X 10.4 and 10.4.3 has made
no difference.  All the latest updates installed.  Have re-installed 10.4.3
from scratch not that long ago.  Not running any add-ons to Safari that I
can remember.  :-)

I'm wondering whether to move to Camino for a while to see if that improves
things (I'll also make sure I have the latest Flash Player and see if that
makes a difference) - I'm interested to know other people's experiences.

-Mart

ps. I just posted this query to Macintouch where I notice 2 other users are
complaining about Safari hogging the CPU:
http://www.macintouch.com/safari09.html#nov18

Re: G4 (Yikes) Problem

[RHowells]

On 21/11/2005, at 7:49 AM, Rick Armstrong wrote:

Running OS9.2.2 on an early model G4 350Mhz with 448Mb Ram, when I 
insert a

CD or Zip the system freezes,


The freeze can be caused by conflict between 2 extensions .

Looking at Mactracker for your Mac specs it says USB and firewire and
any scsi is via a PCI card.

You need to explore running the Mac with un needed extensions turned off
using the Extension Manager Control Panel !  ?  Have you done this 
before ?


So is the CD Scsi or ATAPI  ?   Ditto for the Zip which I assume is 
internal ! ?


Bob





 but shows up after a forced restart
(everything was fine with OS8.6) Sometimes the Zip or CD opens up fine 
but

not often.

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Re: Harvey Norman dummy spit about iPod stocks

[Brett Carboni]

I had a customer come in (for takeaway) and complain that the battery  
dies after a month or two and she took it back to Harvey Norman who  
wouldn't replace it because she didn't have her proof of purchase.


I told her to take it to an Apple Place and they would get it from  
the serial number. She's fine now.


Brett Carboni
Tsunami
"Sushi warranty forever - no proof of purchase needed"



On 21/11/2005, at 11:10 AM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote:

I had the same thing happen at Dick Smith in Fremantle. I went in  
to buy an iPod for a friend and the sales person tried to talk me  
out of it saying they were no good, the software was rubbish,  
Creative were far better. I left and got the iPod at Myer instead.

Re: Harvey Norman dummy spit about iPod stocks

[Rod]

On 21/11/2005, at 11:10 AM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote:

I had the same thing happen at Dick Smith in Fremantle. I went in to 
buy an iPod for a friend and the sales person tried to talk me out of 
it saying they were no good, the software was rubbish, Creative were 
far better. I left and got the iPod at Myer instead.


Best wishes
edward


Which is what used to happen years ago the first time Macs were sold at 
Myers :-(  It seems to be the new way for the competition to attack the 
iPod - get sales people to rubbish it and push their brand.


(I hope someone at Apple is reading this!)

Seeya

Rod!

Re: Harvey Norman dummy spit about iPod stocks

[Edward Arrowsmith]

I had the same thing happen at Dick Smith in Fremantle. I went in to  
buy an iPod for a friend and the sales person tried to talk me out of  
it saying they were no good, the software was rubbish, Creative were  
far better. I left and got the iPod at Myer instead.


Best wishes
edward


On 21/11/2005, at 10:25 AM, Rod wrote:




I love it!  Go into the Harvey Norman up in Joondalup and the staff  
try to talk you out of getting an iPod (go a Creative instead.   
Whoohoo!).  Even all the iPod advertsing shelves in the store are  
filled with Creative players :-)  Big iPod banner right above a  
case filled with Creative rubbish!


And they have the hide to whinge about iPod stock levels!

Aren't you glad they don't sell Macs..

Seeya

Rod!

Re: Harvey Norman dummy spit about iPod stocks

[RHowells]

On 21/11/2005, at 10:39 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:



On 21/11/2005, at 10:25 AM, Rod wrote:




I love it!  Go into the Harvey Norman up in Joondalup and the staff
try to talk you out of getting an iPod (go a Creative instead.
Whoohoo!).  Even all the iPod advertsing shelves in the store are
filled with Creative players :-)  Big iPod banner right above a
case filled with Creative rubbish!

And they have the hide to whinge about iPod stock levels!

Aren't you glad they don't sell Macs..

Seeya

Rod!


Hi Rod,

Harvey Norman aren't the only company who are having trouble dealing
with Apple.
Apple make great computers (there is NO DOUBT on this), iPods etc,
but getting them to supply them is a nightmare.



H !  Myers were  advertising Macs on the weekend . I presume they 
must have stocks ! ?


Bob





Cheers,

Ronni
PS Rod - Best of luck to the Little Dockers :o)




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Re: Harvey Norman dummy spit about iPod stocks

[Ronda Brown]

On 21/11/2005, at 10:25 AM, Rod wrote:




I love it!  Go into the Harvey Norman up in Joondalup and the staff  
try to talk you out of getting an iPod (go a Creative instead.   
Whoohoo!).  Even all the iPod advertsing shelves in the store are  
filled with Creative players :-)  Big iPod banner right above a  
case filled with Creative rubbish!


And they have the hide to whinge about iPod stock levels!

Aren't you glad they don't sell Macs..

Seeya

Rod!


Hi Rod,

Harvey Norman aren't the only company who are having trouble dealing  
with Apple.
Apple make great computers (there is NO DOUBT on this), iPods etc,  
but getting them to supply them is a nightmare.


Cheers,

Ronni
PS Rod - Best of luck to the Little Dockers :o)

Harvey Norman dummy spit about iPod stocks

[Rod]

I love it!  Go into the Harvey Norman up in Joondalup and the staff try  
to talk you out of getting an iPod (go a Creative instead.  Whoohoo!).   
Even all the iPod advertsing shelves in the store are filled with  
Creative players :-)  Big iPod banner right above a case filled with  
Creative rubbish!


And they have the hide to whinge about iPod stock levels!

Aren't you glad they don't sell Macs..

Seeya

Rod!

Aussie phonebook widget missing?

[Mike Fuller]

I have used the Australian phonebook widget and found it excellent,  
but now I simply can't find it!


For some unexplained reason it has simply disappeared from my  
computer (iMac G5 OS 10.4.3) and I can't find it anywhere on the net  
except for the references to it in the WAMUG archives.


Was there some timed self-destruct mechanism or are there still some  
copies of it around?


Cheers,

Mike Fuller

Re: Audacity/Lamelib

[Rob Davies]

On 21/11/2005, at 6:48 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote:


Hi
I'm trying to edit an mp3 track for our graduation night.
I'm using Audacity.
I need to trim the first 30 seconds off the track and then export  
it as an

mp3 for a windoze computer (on the AV centre at the venue) to play.
When I trim and chose "save as mp3" it asks me to locate "lamelib".
I can't find lamelib.
Any help appreciated please.


Audacity web site http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq? 
s=install&i=lame-mp3 instructions and file.


or

import into iTunes and burn to disk using MP3 CD mode.

Also if using VST plugins  you will need the enabler installed, and  
be aware of quality from various outputs which can be changed in  
preferences or main program. Listen to end product before committing  
to final output of file as chosen output format.


Audacity will export as WAV standard windows audio file if this is  
preferred.


Cheers!
`Rob...

Re: ScanWizard problem

[Martin Hill]

I just realised I never thanked Rob Findlay and Robert Howells for their
suggestions regarding this problem - I forwarded the Vuescan suggestion to
our friend but haven't heard back from her yet.

So thanks Rob and Bob for your recommendation of Vuescan.

(I must admit I use Vuescan all the time with our own scanners so should
have realised it would have been a good solution for this problem - sigh)
:-)

-Mart

> From: Rob Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:15:13 +0800
> To: WAMUG Mailing List 
> Subject: Re: ScanWizard problem
> 
> From what I read on the net you are not alone in experiencing aggravation
> with Microtek. Seems there support for Tiger and Mac OS is pretty lame.
> The majority of satisfied punters have switched to Vuescan which is a
> commercial ($50US) software package to replace most scanner drivers.
> Receives nothing but raves from the industry mags and most users.
> A shame to have to purchase additional software to run something you have
> already paid for but sounds like it does the business.
> http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html
> Hope that helps.
> Rob
> 
> On 25/10/05 9:01 AM, "Martin Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone have any suggestions for a friend of ours who is having problems
>> with ScanWizard under Mac OS X 10.4?  I haven't used this software myself.
>> Details below.  
>> 
>> -Mart
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> "I recently up-grading to Adobe Creative Suite CS 2 Premium.  In doing
>> this,  to get the best out of it, I also upgrading from Jaguar to
>> Tiger.  This then meant I needed a new driver for my scanner.  I use
>> ScanWizard Pro (now 7.21.3).
>> 
>> The problem is that it doesn't seem to give me a good a colour
>> reproduction result as the old version of ScanWizard that I used with
>> Jaguar.
>> 
>> I've have tried and tried to fiddle with the files in Photoshop but I
>> cannot pull the colour into an acceptable reproduction of my original
>> artwork.  I had written a quite acceptable action script in Photoshop
>> for the old ScanWizard files but cannot do this for this one - the
>> colours are too far off - or perhaps it's my lack of knowledge)
>> 
>> I've complained to Team Digital where I bought my software   They
>> suggested perhaps I could partition my hard drive and run the old Jaguar
>> with the old ScanWizard, but said this was drastic and they would look
>> into better scanner settings in the new ScanWizard to fix the
>> problem.  I don't think this will prove successful so I am
>> considering my other options."
>> 
>> 
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Re: New powerbooks with WPA Airport issues?

[Martin Hill]

> From: James Devenish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I don't think there is any widely-known problem with the latest
> PowerBooks, unless there is a problem related to Enterprise WPA. I
> see that recent updates to Mac OS X 10.4 have included some changes
> to Apple's WPA compatibility. Perhaps check what version the PowerBooks
> are running.

That was the first question I asked, but they have all installed all the
latest updates including the recent Airport update.

> Also, you could try using some software like iStumbler
> . For instance, it will show the number of
> networks in the vicinity, their strength, noise, carrier frequency, etc.
> It might highlight issues with fading signals or multiple base station
> frequencies.

Good idea James - I'll try that out if they tell me they are still having
problems.

Thanks to Glen, Shay, Gordon and others for their suggestions as well.

Ciao.

-Mart

Re: Non-Apple USB Keyboard

[Mark Secker]

G'day,

A few of the keys on my imac Blueberry keyboard are busted, I am not 
in a location easily accessible to an apple keyboard, can I use any 
(winbox) USB keyboard on this machine or not?


Thanks,

GC

yes any keyboard will (should) do the job right now I'm typing 
this on a Microsoft "ergonomic" Natural Keyboard.


also on any system running 10.4  (10.3?)  you can remap the keyboard 
so swapping around the alt and the windows key functions to match the 
alt and apple key locations


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Re: Audacity/Lamelib

[Ronda Brown]

Hi Rod,

Have you installed the free LAME encoder to export MP3 files with  
Audacity ?


If not go here & download it.



Cheers,
Ronni
On 21/11/2005, at 6:48 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote:


Hi
I'm trying to edit an mp3 track for our graduation night.
I'm using Audacity.
I need to trim the first 30 seconds off the track and then export  
it as an

mp3 for a windoze computer (on the AV centre at the venue) to play.
When I trim and chose "save as mp3" it asks me to locate "lamelib".
I can't find lamelib.
Any help appreciated please.
ta
Rod
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Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256
http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html

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Non-Apple USB Keyboard

[Geoff & Cheri Crocker]

G'day,

A few of the keys on my imac Blueberry keyboard are busted, I am not in 
a location easily accessible to an apple keyboard, can I use any 
(winbox) USB keyboard on this machine or not?


Thanks,

GC

Re: Audacity/Lamelib

[Martin Hill]

Go to the Audacity website and download the LAME MP3 encoder optional
download:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3

-Mart


> From: Rod Blitvich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:48:22 +0800
> To: WAMUG Mailing List 
> Subject: Audacity/Lamelib
> 
> Hi
> I'm trying to edit an mp3 track for our graduation night.
> I'm using Audacity.
> I need to trim the first 30 seconds off the track and then export it as an
> mp3 for a windoze computer (on the AV centre at the venue) to play.
> When I trim and chose "save as mp3" it asks me to locate "lamelib".
> I can't find lamelib.
> Any help appreciated please.
> ta
> Rod
> -- 
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> Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003
> Amy and Sam's Dad
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256
> http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html
> 
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G4 (Yikes) Problem

[Rick Armstrong]

Running OS9.2.2 on an early model G4 350Mhz with 448Mb Ram, when I insert a
CD or Zip the system freezes, but shows up after a forced restart
(everything was fine with OS8.6) Sometimes the Zip or CD opens up fine but
not often.

Audacity/Lamelib

[Rod Blitvich]

Hi
I'm trying to edit an mp3 track for our graduation night.
I'm using Audacity.
I need to trim the first 30 seconds off the track and then export it as an
mp3 for a windoze computer (on the AV centre at the venue) to play.
When I trim and chose "save as mp3" it asks me to locate "lamelib".
I can't find lamelib.
Any help appreciated please.
ta
Rod
-- 
Rod BLITVICH   Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School
Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003
Amy and Sam's Dad 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256
http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html

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