Re: [OT] Broken palm pilot screen

[Paul Doyle]

Hi James,

I went through a similar exercise earlier this year with my Zire 71. 
Sent my palm to the specified address. They contacted me to give me the 
options. Repair or replace with a second hand zire. Took about a week 
and a half to turn it around. Couldn't find a local repairer. I must 
admit that I didn't look too hard. I went to the Palm website and found 
my repairer through them. I think they were in Sydney. I have been 
really happy with the results.


I recall that the Good folk at WAMUG were generous with their advice at 
the time. Dave pointed me at some excellent backup software allowing me 
to backup to my SD card. All worked out really well.


Good Luck

Paul


On 27/07/2006, at 11:39 PM, James Anderson wrote:


Hi,
Sorry, this is slightly off topic.
Does anyone know a local service centre where I can get my Palm Pilot- 
 Tungsten C's screen repaired? Otherwise I have to post it to Palm, 
which will take weeks. It also might be cheaper locally


Also I tried to look in the archives, since I'm sure this has been 
commented on before, but I couldn't get to the most recent archive. 
There was a server error of some description (Firefox 1.5.0.4)


Cheers,
James

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[OT] Broken palm pilot screen

[James Anderson]

Hi,
Sorry, this is slightly off topic.
Does anyone know a local service centre where I can get my Palm  
Pilot-  Tungsten C's screen repaired? Otherwise I have to post it to  
Palm, which will take weeks. It also might be cheaper locally


Also I tried to look in the archives, since I'm sure this has been  
commented on before, but I couldn't get to the most recent archive.  
There was a server error of some description (Firefox 1.5.0.4)


Cheers,
James

Re: Video Skype

[Shay Telfer]

Severin Crisp wrote:
I am trying to get the new Skype with video working using my SONY 
mini DV camera (Firewire).  The picture shows up fine in the window 
on the preferences page but is not seen either by people I call or 
those that call me whether PC or Mac.


I guess that's why it's a Beta :)

I find it annoying that this version has eliminated the useful 
menubar iccon showing status.


Skype menu -> Preferences -> Advanced, and check the appropriate checkbox.

Have fun,
Shay
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Re: 128k Mac software

[David Watkins]

> Buy the way isn't there a Mac OS1.0?
> Regards Chris G

Take a look at the following page:

The Macintosh a.k.a. Macintosh 128K
http://www.lowendmac.com/compact/128k.shtml

Works with any system from 1.0 through 3.3

Go down the page to the link called:
Mac System 1.0 Headquarters -  where you can download the original  
System 1.0

(Broadband connection not required )


Dave Watkins

Video Skype

[Severin Crisp]

I am trying to get the new Skype with video working using my SONY  
mini DV camera (Firewire).  The picture shows up fine in the window  
on the preferences page but is not seen either by people I call or  
those that call me whether PC or Mac.


I have 512 broadband and OS 10.4.7 on a 1.8 G5.

I find it annoying that this version has eliminated the useful  
menubar iccon showing status.


Any suggestions as to where the missing video has gone would be most  
welcome.

Severin Crisp


Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
   15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
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Re: mov to dv

[Natas Porter]

ffmpeg, converts pretty much anything to anything else

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15473

nat



On 27/07/2006, at 15:02 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote:

Is QT Pro the only way to convert mov clips from digital cameras to  
dv to import to iMovie?  No cheaper but effective way?

Merv
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also believe in order to see."


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[Mervyn & Giuliana Bond]

Is QT Pro the only way to convert mov clips from digital cameras to 
dv to import to iMovie?  No cheaper but effective way?

Merv
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also believe in order to see."

Re: Video camera

[Matthew Healey]

On 27/07/2006, at 9:23 AM, Oldham, Toby wrote:

I forked out for an iSight in the end as the Sony DV I used was a  
loaner. I
still use my logitech USB mic though ... The iSight built in mic is  
either
too focused, or not sensitive enough ... Or I'm doing something  
wrong [grin]


Note that the iSight mic only turns on when you specifically tell  
iChat to use it. This is the same as Skype.


- Matt

Re: Diskwarrior for intel macs

[Greg Satti]

Hi Rob,

No not as yet, we are still waiting patiently for any news from our
supplier, but they haven't given us any idea of release date as yet.

Cheers.

Kind regards,
Greg Satti
Zytech - www.zytech.com.au
PO Box 758, Bunbury WA 6230
Ph (08) 9721 1125
Fx (08) 9721 1126
Mo 0423 558 636

On 27/7/06 12:03 PM, "Rob Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Does anyone know whether a new version of Diskwarrior has been
> released which works with intel macs?
> 
> Rob

Diskwarrior for intel macs

[Rob Phillips]

Does anyone know whether a new version of Diskwarrior has been 
released which works with intel macs?


Rob
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Re: Wireless Mighty Mouse

[Tony Evers]

I too had to return my first Mighty Mouse - same problem with  
scrolling. Local Apple outlet T4 Technology (Albany), happily swapped  
it for a new one, and this time all has been well thus far - fingers  
crossed. I've adapted to the right-click so well that for a moment  
wondered what you meant Paul.

Cheers
Tony Evers

PO Box 5075
Albany WA 6332
ph 08 9844 6317
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On 27/07/2006, at 9:30 AM, Paul wrote:

On 25/07/2006, at 10:42 PM, Matthew Healey wrote:


Well, the Mighty Mouse is now wireless and laser enabled.

It uses Bluetooth and runs off two AA batteries.


A minor word of warning...

We are on our second (tailed) mighty mouse.

We had to return the first one as the track ball was driving us nuts!
It (the track ball) became very unreliable within a couple of weeks.
A quick search revealed we were not alone with this problem.
In particular ours had major issues scrolling down. The other 3
directions were unaffected.

Some quarters suggested it just needed a clean, we followed
recommended instructions but the effect was short lived, we were
soon cleaning it every day or so.

This soon became unacceptable as you can imagine.

We took it back to nextbyte where we actualy had to work on them to
be given a replacement, in fact we wanted credit to buy a M$ mouse
but they ruled this out.

The replacement *Mickey Mouse* has fared better but we have already
seen a sign of it beginning to have the scrolling issue again.
Couple this with the unique way one must perform right-clicks and this
mouse looses a little lustre in my books.

Almost $80 was a lot of money for a less-than-perfect mouse.
The trouble is; you know the bastards have you as soon as you have
scrolled sideways in the Finder while in coulumn-view, damn you  
Apple! ;)


In short, when it's good, it's very very good but when it's bad
it's horrid.

Have fun
Paul

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Re: Wireless Mighty Mouse

[Paul]

On 25/07/2006, at 10:42 PM, Matthew Healey wrote:


Well, the Mighty Mouse is now wireless and laser enabled.

It uses Bluetooth and runs off two AA batteries.


A minor word of warning...

We are on our second (tailed) mighty mouse.

We had to return the first one as the track ball was driving us nuts!
It (the track ball) became very unreliable within a couple of weeks.
A quick search revealed we were not alone with this problem.
In particular ours had major issues scrolling down. The other 3
directions were unaffected.

Some quarters suggested it just needed a clean, we followed
recommended instructions but the effect was short lived, we were
soon cleaning it every day or so.

This soon became unacceptable as you can imagine.

We took it back to nextbyte where we actualy had to work on them to
be given a replacement, in fact we wanted credit to buy a M$ mouse
but they ruled this out.

The replacement *Mickey Mouse* has fared better but we have already
seen a sign of it beginning to have the scrolling issue again.
Couple this with the unique way one must perform right-clicks and this
mouse looses a little lustre in my books.

Almost $80 was a lot of money for a less-than-perfect mouse.
The trouble is; you know the bastards have you as soon as you have
scrolled sideways in the Finder while in coulumn-view, damn you  
Apple! ;)


In short, when it's good, it's very very good but when it's bad
it's horrid.

Have fun
Paul

Re: Video camera

[Oldham, Toby]

I forked out for an iSight in the end as the Sony DV I used was a loaner. I
still use my logitech USB mic though ... The iSight built in mic is either
too focused, or not sensitive enough ... Or I'm doing something wrong [grin]

T.


On 26/7/06 10:27 PM, "Matthew Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 26/07/2006, at 9:07 PM, Tobes wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Severin, if your Sony DV has firewire you can use that in place of
>> a iSight. I've used a Sony DV with iChat at my end, and AOL AIM
>> setup with my brother in the UK without problems.
>> 
>> T.
> 
> To be honest, the iSight is expensive as it is one of the only web
> cams that have a variable focal point. This makes quite i difference
> in quality.
> 
> - Matt
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Re: 128k Mac software

[Chris Griffiths]

Thanks Guys,

As usual Wamug is the best! I have got so much help from you guys.

Hopefully, I will be able to get the software to run this beaut  
little mac.


Buy the way isn't there a Mac OS1.0?

Regards Chris G

Re: Is this the end ?

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 26/07/2006, at 9:55 PM, jenny Lodge wrote:


Hi All
Have problem with my ibook G4 at present. Running 10.4.7 with 384MB  
of ram.  I have tried using ONYX and disk utility to fix problems.


Problems have ranged between not booting up to refusing to let me  
install new software.  Has eventually let me repair permissions but  
disk Utility returned the following messages.


Reserved fields in the catalogue record have incorrect data
Keys out of order
rebuilding catalogue B-tree
Error: the underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)

It then informs me that volume could not be repaired.   It will not  
let me install the system and keep network preferences either.


Is all lost, or should I go out and buy diskwarrior in last ditch  
effort before erasing.

My HD has 12GB free.



Before giving up completely try rebooting while holding down Command- 
S. You will end up with a black screen and a flashing UNIX prompt. Type


fsck -fy

at the prompt. This sometimes does a better job than Disk Utility  
(which actually uses the same routines but also has to worry about  
some MacOS X overheads), and I've had it work where even Disk Warrior  
has failed.


If fsck doesn't help then I think you're only moments away frpm a  
(backup and) reformat.


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