Projectors - Anyone's recommendation?

[Daniel Kerr]

Hi All

I'm wanting to get some feedback on some projectors. Now I know this sort of
question is a "long as a piece of string" type question,...so I'm ready for
that.

But basically, I just wanted to know if anyone could offer some good
feedback/recommendations, what to look for, what to stay away from.

I've done quite a few hours of google-ing and looking, researching, looking
some more. Un-frying my brain to try and understand some more.

Basically it's going to be used to take away for presentations etc, but
possibly also for some DVD movies at home for a client.

After looking around the reviews and things, the Panasonic comes in at not
too bad a price as well as some good features.



If anyone would like to offer some other comments or suggestions please feel
free to contact me off list.
(Or on list if other people are interested, or it's general "what to look
out for")

Thanks for taking the time!
Now back to the other 37 emails to do,..heheh.

Enjoy!

Kind Regards
Daniel
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Re: Apple ID passwords

[Robert Howells]

On 16/01/2006, at 9:13 PM, David Watkins wrote:

Just received the following email from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, it is as  
received, except for the actual key in the link.


I have not requested a reset of the password or even been in my Apple  
account section for some time so I assume someone has entered my user  
name by mistake.


Probably no harm can be done  but with the scams that are about I  
though I would just ask if anybody is familiar with the way Apple  
deals with there password resets.


Thanks
Dave Watkins



This is a typical way for a con artist to get your password .

If you have not been in to apple recently there is no need for them to  
be sending you

an email about your password.  Chances are that this is a scam .

If you want to check out your password ,
in a fresh browser window you type in from your keyboard an apple  
address that you know ,

NOT the one shown in that email .

Bob









-

Dear David Watkins,

To reset your Apple password, please click on the link below or copy  
and paste the address onto your web browser's address window.  Once  
you're on the web page, you will be instructed to enter and confirm  
your new password.


https://iforgot.apple.com/cgi-bin/resetPassword.cgi? 
key=x


Please note that this link will expire 3 hours from the time it was  
sent.


If you require further assistance in resetting your password, please  
visit:


http://survey.info.apple.com/feedback/appleid.html

Thank you for contacting Apple.


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Re: Eudora-Mozilla

[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

Thank you Peter H, Craig and Alex.
I set Mozilla as default via Safari but Eudora would not divorce IE.
Next I downloaded Firefox and that sets itself as default browser if 
the box is ticked in its preference.

Eudora would not respond to even a fired up fox.
Last resort - read Help in Eudora!
The story below gave the answer.
Thank you for persevering but maybe your answers and the item below 
will help others.

Merv


Any string of text that Eudora recognizes as a "hot link," also known 
as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), is active. Active URLs in 
incoming Eudora messages are normally highlighted in blue text and 
blue underlining, and are often enclosed by left and right angle 
brackets, "< >". You normally double-click on a URL in an incoming 
message (or Command-click on it) to open the URL. This launches an 
Internet application that, for example, opens a World Wide Web 
location, transfers a file, performs a gopher search, performs a Ph, 
Finger, or LDAP query, etc. Typical URL prefixes include http, ftp, 
gopher, ph, finger, ldap, and more.


To specify what Internet application to use when opening a particular 
type of URL, take these steps:


1.	Open the incoming message containing the URL, or preview the 
message in the message preview pane, making sure the URL is visible 
in the pane.


2.	Hold down the Option key and double-click on the URL in the 
message window or preview pane. A standard file dialog is displayed.


3.	In the dialog, select the application you want to use for 
that type of URL.


4.  Click Open. The selected application is opened and goes to that URL.

From then on, when you select a URL of that type in a Eudora message, 
your selected application is automatically used: it opens and acts on 
the URL.


A sample URL is , which a web browser 
would use to take you to QUALCOMM's main Eudora web page on the World 
Wide Web. If you hold down the Option key and double-click on such an 
http URL in a Eudora message, you can then choose the default browser 
(or other application) that you want Eudora to launch whenever you 
select that type of URL in an incoming message. (You select the URL, 
once again, by double-clicking or Command-clicking on it.)



At 10:24 PM +0800 11/1/06, Alex wrote:
Hi Merv

you need to start Safari and go to Preferences under Safari in main 
menu bar.  The top pref is for default browser.  This is what I did 
when I wanted to use Firefox.  If someone knows of a more direct 
Apple system way of doing it, I would like to know!  There doesn't 
seem to be anything to do under System Preferences/Internet.


Cheers,  Alex
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Apple ID passwords

[David Watkins]

Just received the following email from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, it is as  
received, except for the actual key in the link.


I have not requested a reset of the password or even been in my Apple  
account section for some time so I assume someone has entered my user  
name by mistake.


Probably no harm can be done  but with the scams that are about I  
though I would just ask if anybody is familiar with the way Apple  
deals with there password resets.


Thanks
Dave Watkins

-

Dear David Watkins,

To reset your Apple password, please click on the link below or copy  
and paste the address onto your web browser's address window.  Once  
you're on the web page, you will be instructed to enter and confirm  
your new password.


https://iforgot.apple.com/cgi-bin/resetPassword.cgi? 
key=x


Please note that this link will expire 3 hours from the time it was  
sent.


If you require further assistance in resetting your password, please  
visit:


http://survey.info.apple.com/feedback/appleid.html

Thank you for contacting Apple.

Re: New intel macs & iLife 06

[Matthew Healey]

On 16/01/2006, at 12:41 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:


- What of the big software titles are compatible/need upgrades (when
available)
- I'm particularly wondering about VPC or can you just run Windows  
directly

on the Intel box?


VPC will NOT run on the new Intel Macs. Neither will Classic.

The next version of VPC 8 will probably be a universal app that will  
run on the Intel Macs. (a heck of a lot fast as well.)


Don't expect that for at least 6 months.

- Matt

Re: Phonenet

[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

Thank Nicholas, James, Malcolm and Michael for you positve comments 
on iinetphone.
One of my sons is trying to convert me to broadband and is using 
Michael's situation of saving on phone bills as bait.

I think I will probably take it - hook line and sinker.
Merv

At 8:01 PM +1100 15/1/06, Nicholas Pyers wrote:

On 15/01/2006, at 5:14 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:
I understand that in its broadband plans iinet offer phonenet. 
Phonenet can be operated through the computer or with a separate 
handset that connect to an external router/modem.
Has any one tried this system with their Mac?  Is it successful? 
What OS are you using?

Thanks
Merv


The service offered by iiNet is called "iinetphone" and is a Voice 
Over IP service (also known as VOIP)


It works extremely well.  I have used from Melbourne to call people 
in Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney and Sale.


I used x-net's softphone software, X-Lite, under Mac OS X 10.4 on a 
1.6GhZ G5 tower extremely well and it improved even more when I 
configured the software to "include silence" (prior to this people 
thought I'd dropped out when I wasn't speaking) and also go a set of 
head phones


I know of plenty of people who have used the ATA adaptor or the new 
VOIP-enabled routers to plug a regular telephone handset into the 
system and most found it fine - there was a problem with a batch of 
faulty routers, but I believe this has been fixed and iiNet just 
replaced the the faulty ones.


There are other VOIP services out there that you can also 
investigate, but if you are already with iiNet the fact they throw 
it in for free with some of their plans is great news.


I recently gave a presentation on VOIP and the slides and links can 
be found at http://www.nicholaspyers.com/presentations/




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New intel macs & iLife 06

[Neil Houghton]

Well, my crystal ball is definitely tarnished. After thinking about where
the different products were in their update cycles I was thinking maybe a
new Mac mini and/or iBook. Even though it had been recently updated, I guess
the Powerbook wasn't too big a surprise given it was still lagging in its G4
incarnation.

But the iMac... a significant upgrade in October and a while after that
before supply met demand  I thought I would be holding the latest
version for at least a few more months when I gave myself one for Xmas!!

Not that I'm too upset... Having one of the first intel macs might be a bit
too bleeding edge for me!! Which I guess is the point of this post - a few
questions:

- Has anyone had a chance yet to play with one of the new intel Macs?
- Impressions good/bad features?
- What of the big software titles are compatible/need upgrades (when
available)
- I'm particularly wondering about VPC or can you just run Windows directly
on the Intel box?

On a related front, I see the new macs come with iLife 06 whereas the old
models are still listed (in the Apple Store) with iLife 05 - which is what I
got when I bought my iMac (just over 2 weeks ago). Is iLife 06 just an intel
version or is it an across the board upgrade - if so can I get it via
software update or would I have to buy it (full or upgrade price).

Cheers


Neil
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Re: EyeTV 2 software?

[Martin Hill]

> From: Shay Telfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Has anyone out there with an EyeTV shelled out for the upgrade to the
> EyeTV 2 software? Is it any good?

Yep, I purchased it yesterday and have been using it fairly extensively
since then to queue up a lot of compression tasks squishing dozens of
Quantum episodes and other docos that have been sitting cluttering up my
EyeTV recordings list.

Probably the most important advancement for me is the new behaviour when
batch compressing lots of recordings.  Instead of EyeTV trying to compress
them all at the same time and ending up bogging down and being no use to
anyone, version 2 queues the jobs and only works on the one recording at a
time.
 
The new "compress to iPod" option is a checkbox in the "schedule a
recording" dialog so it compresses to the iPod format automatically as soon
as the recording is finished.  Great time-saver that.  Also, the default
iPod setting in EyeTV is actually 640x360 resolution (using plain MPEG-4)
which is more than viewable on the Mac screen (and data projector)
particularly for docos and news etc.  However, for movies, I am still using
H264 and the original resolution (usually around 720x360 or so) for the best
quality.  A v1.84 bug which defaulted the resolution incorrectly to 720x576
when compressing to H264 that added several extra steps for me is fixed as
well (hurrah!).  It also optionally adds the recordings to iTunes ready for
synchronisation to your video iPod.

IceTV is now totally integrated into EyeTV (no need to use iSlayer's
Dashboard widget) for one-click scheduling of recordings, it doesn't pick up
any channels in the EPG when I try it out on the 14-day IceTV trial so I
can't say if it is any good (beyond the 14-day trial, I still refuse to
spend $150 per year just to save a few clicks when scheduling recordings.
$50 per year maybe!)

The new iTunes-like interface is a big advance over the old, particularly
separating schedules from recordings and giving more info (including size of
files) for each recording and now allowing multiple selections and other
Mac-like options for working with recordings and schedules etc.  One
annoyance is inactive schedules are now intermingled with active ones making
it harder to see at a glance what's what.

The new "Show in Finder" option for recordings is very handy as is the new
intelligent naming of recordings (no more 097d56.mpg).  yay

All-in-all, though at US$49 it is a somewhat expensive upgrade (still
cheaper than a year's subscription to IceTV though), it has more than paid
for itself in the amount of hassle it has saved me getting rid of the
non-standard Mac interface of the old software and adding the various new
features.

YMMV

-Mart