Short term iPad hire?

2011-04-06 Thread Andrew Schox

Hi all,

Does anybody know where I can hire an iPad for a week or perhaps two?

I know that Hire Intelligence do this, but they don't have any available at the 
moment. Everybody else I've asked only does longer term rentals.

Cheers,

Andrew





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Re: Short term iPad hire?

2011-04-06 Thread Daniel Kerr

Hi Andrew
Ive an iPad v1 32gb 3G that I may be able to rent out if helps or you get 
stuck. 
Drop me an email offlist if interested. 

Kind regards
Daniel

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 Hi all,
 
 Does anybody know where I can hire an iPad for a week or perhaps two?
 
 I know that Hire Intelligence do this, but they don't have any available at 
 the moment. Everybody else I've asked only does longer term rentals.
 
 Cheers,
 
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Apple Keynote podcasts

2011-04-06 Thread cm

Hi Greg and whoever else it interested,

Here, as mentioned at last night's meeting, is a link to the Apple Keynote 
podcasts in iTunes. The one that talks about OS X 10.7 Lion, is, I believe, the 
October 2010 edition.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/apple-keynotes/id275834665

Cheers,
Carlo


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Appleworks, Bento 4 and Chinese characters

2011-04-06 Thread David Noel

Hi Peter --

-- Thanks very much for your suggestion, which I thought was
brilliant, and, in hindsight, logical.

-- I've now successfully completed conversion of my 7000+ record
database of Mandarin/English from Appleworks to Bento 4. It took me
quite some time, because scattered among the Appleworks records were
around 30 tiny extraneous characters which each had to be tracked down
and eliminated. These extraneous characters did things like cause a
single Appleworks record to break into two when exporting as text and
importing into Bento.

-- Looking back, it seems to me that Appleworks is, (or soon to be,
was), one of the most extraordinary and powerful computer programs
ever created. And it was free! I'm not sure of its origins, I have a
feeling that Apple bought the original version from an outside
company, but later put a huge amount into later versions.

-- When I was running a bookshop/publishing/consulting business, I
used to do almost everything with Appleworks (or Clarisworks, as
sometimes it was called), only supplemented by Pagemaker. The power of
the 'calculated fields' formulas was huge, maybe not widely exploited.
From an Appleworks database of thousands of books, I had routines to
automatically extract relevant parts of records and add HTML and sort
tags to them, to generate nice-looking booklists for the Web, complete
with coloured text headings and appropriate fonts. For interest, here
are a few examples of calculated fields:

CONCAT(A href=,'Q',WList(,'SetC',).htm#,'Section','Q',
,'Section',/A)

IF(OR(LEFT('Csub',1)=0,LEFT('Csub',1)=*),CONCAT(20,'Csub'),CONCAT(19,'Csub'))

CONCAT(b,'Titl',/b (,'PreAuth', ,'PostAuth', ) a
href=,'Q','Folder',/index.htm,'Q',Open Paper/a,hr)

-- I think I will come to like using Bento, but I can see nothing in
it with the power of these calculated fields -- maybe it does have
facilities like this within it?

-- I suppose, if not yet dead, Appleworks is at least headed for the
Retirement Home. I hope that I am still around for the final Wake!

Cheers --

David Noel
2001 Apr 6

===


2011/3/21 Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au:


 On 18/03/2011, at 3:41 PM, David Noel wrote:

 Hi Folks --

 -- Following on with the discussion about Bento 4, I've downloaded the
 trial version, and for most of my databases, it looks OK to convert
 from Appleworks to Bento by Saving from Appleworks as ascii text, then
 Importing into Bento as tab-delimited.

 -- But, I'm at an impasse with my Chinese-character files. Bento can,
 I'm pleased to say, handle typed-in characters (我是马大为 -- I am David
 Noel), or pasted in characters (期 限 , qi1-xian4 from a .cwk file), but
 Saving a .cwk file with Chinese characters as ascii text, gives a txt
 file where the Chinese characters are replaced by weird stuff (see
 attached Screen shot file).

 -- The good news is that Chinese characters are preserved when a .cwk
 file is 'printed' as a PDF (see MandBit.pdf attached). Pages and
 TextEdit both garble a copied-and-pasted string (though again, both
 can handle typed-in characters). I have used PDF files in my Mandarin
 website, the user can open and search these files correctly using
 Adobe Reader.

 -- Has anyone any bright ideas how I could accomplish the .cwk to
 Bento conversion, perhaps working via .pdf files? My main Mandarin
 file is over 7000 records long, so record-by-record manual copy and
 paste is scarcely feasible. I know that's a tricky one!

 David Noel
 2011 Mar 18

=

 Here's an approach that might work - I have just tested it in a very basic 
 way with some success:

 1. Create a suitable table in Bento to match your Appleworks database file (I 
 don't see any way around this) and display it in List format. Create one 
 blank record if necessary.
 2. Open your AppleWorks database file and display it in list mode. Select all 
 records and Copy.
 3. Go to your new Bento table, click inside a field and Paste.

 In my test, new records were automatically created, and Chinese characters 
 were pasted correctly.


 Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
 FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
 Perth, Western Australia
 Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948
 
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Re: Excel page breaks

2011-04-06 Thread David Paul

Hi Severin

Do you have the page layout view tab in the bottom left corner of the window?

Or set print area under the File tab?

Regards
Dave


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I have Office 2008, OSX 10.5.8.  Excel refuses to display page breaks whatever 
I do.
Anyone got a clue please?!
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Re: Excel not calculating

2011-04-06 Thread Julie Bedford


Does anyone know how to rectify the Excel calculation function.  It
used to work, but now does not

Thanks

Jewels




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Re: Excel not calculating

2011-04-06 Thread Steven Knowles

Jewels, you don't mention which version of Excel - this answer relevant to 
version 12.2.4 but probably similar if not the same for other versions. It 
could be your auto calculation preference settings.

Excel  Preferences  Calculation icon  make sure Calculate sheets is set to 
Automatic.

I vaguely recall my spreadsheet calculations stopped working once, and for some 
reason this setting had changed from Automatic ... automatically.

Cheers, Steven

On 06/04/2011, at 6:54 PM, Julie Bedford wrote:

 
 Does anyone know how to rectify the Excel calculation function.  It
 used to work, but now does not
 
 Thanks
 
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Re: Excel page breaks

2011-04-06 Thread Steven Knowles
Maybe check ...

Excel  Preferences  View  Window options  make sure show page breaks 
is selected.

Cheers, Steven

On 06/04/2011, at 5:56 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:

 I have Office 2008, OSX 10.5.8.  Excel refuses to display page breaks 
 whatever I do.  
 Anyone got a clue please?!
 Severin Crisp
 
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15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
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Re: Excel not calculating

2011-04-06 Thread Julie Bedford


Thank you Steven,

You are correct, it was set on manual, even though it was originally  
set on automatic.  I wonder what makes that change?

Thanks again!

jewels

On 06/04/2011, at 5:43 PM, Steven Knowles wrote:



Jewels, you don't mention which version of Excel - this answer  
relevant to version 12.2.4 but probably similar if not the same for  
other versions. It could be your auto calculation preference settings.


Excel  Preferences  Calculation icon  make sure Calculate  
sheets is set to Automatic.


I vaguely recall my spreadsheet calculations stopped working once,  
and for some reason this setting had changed from Automatic ...  
automatically.


Cheers, Steven

On 06/04/2011, at 6:54 PM, Julie Bedford wrote:



Does anyone know how to rectify the Excel calculation function.  It
used to work, but now does not

Thanks

Jewels





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Re: Calculating dates

2011-04-06 Thread Stuart Breden


Now that is very  interesting Brian.

Stuart Breden
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Kalamunda WA 6926
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Mbl: 0417 053 266



On 06/04/2011, at 9:52 AM, Brian Scott wrote:



I do most of my date calculations (among others) on http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Brian

On 05/04/2011, at 4:34 PM, Stuart Breden wrote:



Have just been looking at the application that calculate dates.  Am  
trailing one of the freebies.


There are applications ranging from free to $99 and doing various  
things.


There are various people of various professions etc on the list.

What experience have you guys had?

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Re: Appleworks, Bento 4 and Chinese characters

2011-04-06 Thread Peter Hinchliffe


On 06/04/2011, at 4:09 PM, David Noel wrote:

 
 Hi Peter --
 
 -- Thanks very much for your suggestion, which I thought was
 brilliant, and, in hindsight, logical.
 
 -- I've now successfully completed conversion of my 7000+ record
 database of Mandarin/English from Appleworks to Bento 4. It took me
 quite some time, because scattered among the Appleworks records were
 around 30 tiny extraneous characters which each had to be tracked down
 and eliminated. These extraneous characters did things like cause a
 single Appleworks record to break into two when exporting as text and
 importing into Bento.
 
 -- Looking back, it seems to me that Appleworks is, (or soon to be,
 was), one of the most extraordinary and powerful computer programs
 ever created. And it was free! I'm not sure of its origins, I have a
 feeling that Apple bought the original version from an outside
 company, but later put a huge amount into later versions.

Actually, Appleworks was never really free, but it was distributed amongst 
users as though it was! 

It was always a commercial product, and started life as ClarisWorks, published 
by Claris, a wholly owed subsidiary of Apple. Claris also published other 
landmark programs such as Filemaker Pro, ClarisDraw, Claris Organiser, Claris 
Home Page, and many others I can't remember. Many of theses packages contained 
features which are yet to be reproduced in more recent replacements, and most 
are sadly missed by those who used to use them.

Claris eventually sold off or dumped all of its products with the exception of 
Filemaker Pro, and in fact is now the company called Filemaker Inc., still a 
wholly owned subsidiary of Apple. Bento is, of course, a product of that 
company. ClarisWorks, of course, returned to Apple proper and was sold as 
Appleworks.

 
 -- When I was running a bookshop/publishing/consulting business, I
 used to do almost everything with Appleworks (or Clarisworks, as
 sometimes it was called), only supplemented by Pagemaker. The power of
 the 'calculated fields' formulas was huge, maybe not widely exploited.
 From an Appleworks database of thousands of books, I had routines to
 automatically extract relevant parts of records and add HTML and sort
 tags to them, to generate nice-looking booklists for the Web, complete
 with coloured text headings and appropriate fonts. For interest, here
 are a few examples of calculated fields:
 
 CONCAT(A href=,'Q',WList(,'SetC',).htm#,'Section','Q',
 ,'Section',/A)
 
 IF(OR(LEFT('Csub',1)=0,LEFT('Csub',1)=*),CONCAT(20,'Csub'),CONCAT(19,'Csub'))
 
 CONCAT(b,'Titl',/b (,'PreAuth', ,'PostAuth', ) a
 href=,'Q','Folder',/index.htm,'Q',Open Paper/a,hr)
 
 -- I think I will come to like using Bento, but I can see nothing in
 it with the power of these calculated fields -- maybe it does have
 facilities like this within it?

Bento does have limited support for calculated fields, but they fall far short 
of what was possible in Appleworks. FileMaker Pro itself, of course, can handle 
these tasks very simply, but it's far more expensive. On the other hand, Bento 
can handle other tasks, especially those associated with relating tables, 
dealing with multimedia, etc, which are completely beyond Appleworks. 

 
 -- I suppose, if not yet dead, Appleworks is at least headed for the
 Retirement Home. I hope that I am still around for the final Wake!

Of course, there will be no compulsion to upgrade to Lion, in fact for many 
there will be good reasons not to, if support for Rosetta is going to 
disappear! Both Apple and the Mac software development industry will have to 
examine their options here.


Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948

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Re: Appleworks, Bento 4 and Chinese characters

2011-04-06 Thread Geoff and Kaye

Yes, Appleworks will be sorely missed. We mostly use the spreadsheet and 
drawing and painting functions. I doubt if it came from outside Apple; I think 
it probably arose when someone at Apple realised that they could combine the 
original MacPaint and MacDraw with a word processor and the other functions 
into one program. The problem was that even in doing that, they discarded very 
useful features - for example MacDraw had layers, which could be paint or 
draw layers with a range of options to collapse them to produce the final 
view - a very powerful approach which I have not come across in any current 
software. 

The other interesting thing about ClarisWorks was that they made a PC version - 
I used to use it at work where I did not have access to a Mac. I do not think 
it made a big impression in the PC world, however; even if the typical PC user 
could see its advantages, they often had a pathological inhibition about buying 
anything created by Apple.

 
 
 On 06/04/2011, at 4:09 PM, David Noel wrote:
 
 -- Looking back, it seems to me that Appleworks is, (or soon to be,
 was), one of the most extraordinary and powerful computer programs
 ever created. And it was free! I'm not sure of its origins, I have a
 feeling that Apple bought the original version from an outside
 company, but later put a huge amount into later versions.
 


Geoff
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Re: Appleworks

2011-04-06 Thread James / Hans Kunz
please let me know if there is an official funeral for appleworks, i have to 
attend
i was using it during the apple2 times in 1980s  clariswork on the first 2 
macs  as appleworks again on a mac clone 'umax' towards the end of the 90s 
until 2004, appleworks must be 31 years old by now.
James

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U3 6 Chalkley Pl
Bayswater WA
Australia
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mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132)
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties 
disappear and obstacles vanish.

On 07/04/2011, at 10:06 AM, Geoff and Kaye wrote:

 
 Yes, Appleworks will be sorely missed. We mostly use the spreadsheet and 
 drawing and painting functions. I doubt if it came from outside Apple; I 
 think it probably arose when someone at Apple realised that they could 
 combine the original MacPaint and MacDraw with a word processor and the other 
 functions into one program. The problem was that even in doing that, they 
 discarded very useful features - for example MacDraw had layers, which could 
 be paint or draw layers with a range of options to collapse them to 
 produce the final view - a very powerful approach which I have not come 
 across in any current software. 
 
 The other interesting thing about ClarisWorks was that they made a PC version 
 - I used to use it at work where I did not have access to a Mac. I do not 
 think it made a big impression in the PC world, however; even if the typical 
 PC user could see its advantages, they often had a pathological inhibition 
 about buying anything created by Apple.
 
 
 
 On 06/04/2011, at 4:09 PM, David Noel wrote:
 
 -- Looking back, it seems to me that Appleworks is, (or soon to be,
 was), one of the most extraordinary and powerful computer programs
 ever created. And it was free! I'm not sure of its origins, I have a
 feeling that Apple bought the original version from an outside
 company, but later put a huge amount into later versions.
 
 
 
 Geoff
 --
 Geoff and Kaye
 k...@kgweb.org.au
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: Appleworks

2011-04-06 Thread Curtis Peter

Yes, I'll go too!
It's one program I really miss.
Peter
On 07/04/2011, at 1:01 PM, James / Hans Kunz wrote:

 please let me know if there is an official funeral for appleworks, i have to 
 attend
 i was using it during the apple2 times in 1980s  clariswork on the first 2 
 macs  as appleworks again on a mac clone 'umax' towards the end of the 90s 
 until 2004, appleworks must be 31 years old by now.
 James
 
 SAD Technic
 U3 6 Chalkley Pl
 Bayswater WA
 Australia
 +618 9370 5307
 mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132)
 sad...@iinet.net.au
 http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~saddas/
 
 Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties 
 disappear and obstacles vanish.
 
 On 07/04/2011, at 10:06 AM, Geoff and Kaye wrote:
 
 
 Yes, Appleworks will be sorely missed. We mostly use the spreadsheet and 
 drawing and painting functions. I doubt if it came from outside Apple; I 
 think it probably arose when someone at Apple realised that they could 
 combine the original MacPaint and MacDraw with a word processor and the 
 other functions into one program. The problem was that even in doing that, 
 they discarded very useful features - for example MacDraw had layers, which 
 could be paint or draw layers with a range of options to collapse them 
 to produce the final view - a very powerful approach which I have not come 
 across in any current software. 
 
 The other interesting thing about ClarisWorks was that they made a PC 
 version - I used to use it at work where I did not have access to a Mac. I 
 do not think it made a big impression in the PC world, however; even if the 
 typical PC user could see its advantages, they often had a pathological 
 inhibition about buying anything created by Apple.
 
 
 
 On 06/04/2011, at 4:09 PM, David Noel wrote:
 
 -- Looking back, it seems to me that Appleworks is, (or soon to be,
 was), one of the most extraordinary and powerful computer programs
 ever created. And it was free! I'm not sure of its origins, I have a
 feeling that Apple bought the original version from an outside
 company, but later put a huge amount into later versions.
 
 
 
 Geoff
 --
 Geoff and Kaye
 k...@kgweb.org.au
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: Appleworks

2011-04-06 Thread Kevin Lock
I am still using Appleworks 6 on PPC macs.  Lightening fast starting  
up for word processing compared to M$Word.  I would have liked to see  
the list of fonts viewed in actuality though.


Kevin


On 07/04/2011, at 1:01 PM, James / Hans Kunz wrote:

please let me know if there is an official funeral for appleworks, i  
have to attend
i was using it during the apple2 times in 1980s  clariswork on the  
first 2 macs  as appleworks again on a mac clone 'umax' towards the  
end of the 90s until 2004, appleworks must be 31 years old by now.

James

SAD Technic
U3 6 Chalkley Pl
Bayswater WA
Australia
+618 9370 5307
mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132)
sad...@iinet.net.au
http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~saddas/

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which  
difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.


On 07/04/2011, at 10:06 AM, Geoff and Kaye wrote:



Yes, Appleworks will be sorely missed. We mostly use the  
spreadsheet and drawing and painting functions. I doubt if it came  
from outside Apple; I think it probably arose when someone at Apple  
realised that they could combine the original MacPaint and MacDraw  
with a word processor and the other functions into one program. The  
problem was that even in doing that, they discarded very useful  
features - for example MacDraw had layers, which could be paint  
or draw layers with a range of options to collapse them to  
produce the final view - a very powerful approach which I have not  
come across in any current software.


The other interesting thing about ClarisWorks was that they made a  
PC version - I used to use it at work where I did not have access  
to a Mac. I do not think it made a big impression in the PC world,  
however; even if the typical PC user could see its advantages, they  
often had a pathological inhibition about buying anything created  
by Apple.





On 06/04/2011, at 4:09 PM, David Noel wrote:


-- Looking back, it seems to me that Appleworks is, (or soon to be,
was), one of the most extraordinary and powerful computer programs
ever created. And it was free! I'm not sure of its origins, I  
have a

feeling that Apple bought the original version from an outside
company, but later put a huge amount into later versions.





Geoff
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