Re: NEW MacMin has a HDMI Port!
Very true, us country folk always have to consider postage costs for these things. Perth folk can always just walk into one of Jaycars 4 WA stores: http://www.jaycar.com.au/stores.asp?State=Western%20Australia#Western%20Aus tralia And I do see that Jaycar list 10 Authorised stockists around the state - though they do say: As privately owned businesses in rural parts of Australia and Overseas, our Authorised Stockists are subject to extra costs such as freight, etc, and we therefore cannot guarantee they will have the same prices, trading conditions or product specials as Jaycar. It's wise therefore, to check price availability before you make a special trip. I must admit I was astounded at the range of prices hdmi cables seem to sell at when I bought one a while back (on a trip to Perth). Jaycar were not offering this item/price then but I think I got a cable for around the $12-$14 mark - but saw them at prices well into 3 figures at some audio/tv outlets!! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 19/6/10 10:56 AM, Daniel Kerr at wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Lol,..I just had a look at that link for the cable as well, as it's a great price (and below most wholelsalers cost). And then found, you'd want to order something else with the cable as well. If you try and order the cable by itself (at $9.95) it doesn't fall into it's $10-$99.99 fright category for $6.60 freight, so you have to have it sent by Air for $11.50. So the $9.95 cables ends up costing $21.45 delivered. So just something to be wary with those sort of things. Always make sure to look at the total cost once you have to get it freighted. :o) Just thought I'd add to that. Sure, if you're ordering something else and can get the order to over $10 then freight at $6.60 isn't too bad. Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel On 19/6/10 8:02 AM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@me.com wrote: Hi Brian, that sounds really good, they've been expensive in the past. regards, Susan. On 18/06/2010, at 4:15 PM, Brian Scott wrote: Hi Susan, I purchased the $9.95 1.8m HDMI cable from Jacar for my new MacMini and it's working fine, sound and all. |http://www1.jaycar.com.au/productResults.asp?keywords=HDMI+cablekeyform=K E YWORDSUBMIT.x=0SUBMIT.y=0| Cheers Brian On 17/06/2010, at 11:05 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: Yea, this look ideal, I will buy one locally when they are in the stores - Buying from the Apple store means I have to be around to take a delivery, which can be very inconvenient. On 17/06/2010, at 4:10 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hey Susan, You have got your wish ;-) The completely redesigned Mac mini features up to twice the graphics performance, a new HDMI port, a new SD card slot, and industry-leading energy efficiency -- all in an amazingly compact aluminium enclosure. Starting at $699, Mac mini is the most affordable way to enjoy Mac OS X, iLife, or Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server. http://www.apple.com/macmini/?sr=hotnews.rss Cheers, Ronni On 15/06/2010, at 4:59 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: HDMI port!! For those of us who us a Mini with the EyeTV. On 15/06/2010, at 4:22 PM, Mark Secker wrote: Yep just noticed that... Wow that's super Sexy On 15/06/10 4:17 PM, rkor...@iinet.net.au rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: New Mac Mini On Tue Jun 15 15:24 , Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au sent: I could be wrong here,..or I'm remembering it incorrectly. But I think all the Applestores (online) are controlled from the US, it's just localised for local pricing. So when they take it down, they do them at the same time, and perhaps implement the same code across all of them. So although, we can't pre-order it here just yet, the code will be there for them to flick on when we can. I could be way off of course though, :o) Kind Regards Daniel Sent from my iPad --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 15/6/10 3:17 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 15/06/2010, at 3:11 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: So, why would it be down here? We are not one of the countries that will be able to pre order the iPhone 4. Hmmm, something going on Susan Š We'll be back soon ;-) Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: ISP collation
Hi Lynn, Feel free to use my info disregarding the 2007 info (which seems suspect to me) I guess info typical figures for me would be: Service Provider: Internode Suburb: Albany (Rowley Street) Distance from Exchange: 1km Speed as advertised: 1500/256 Actual Speed: Download: ? 1.4 Mbps (typically in 1300kbps to 1500kbps range) Upload: ? 0.2 Mbps (typically high end of 160kbps to 220kbps range) I guess what Severin’s emails yesterday show though is that if you take actual peoples speed based on one speedtest result it may not be typical of their actual speed in that the test speeds can vary (a lot) from hour to hour and you do not know if the (one) result represents a high/low/mid range result. My thoughts would be that if a few speedtests show results that seem consistent with your advertised speed (which is usually a theoretical maximum for your connection) - then you should be happy (as I am). If you are getting speeds significantly lower than your advertised then run a few more tests until you can confirm if that is consistent then you can start to evaluate whether that is an ISP issue or a specific infrastructure issue if you are paying for speeds you can never attain (until infrastructure is upgraded) you may be better downgrading and paying less! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 18/6/10 8:30 AM, lynn...@westnet.com.au at lynn...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi everyone (who may be confused to what info i am collating) the info that i am collating is for speed in general by ISP and not at specific date/time. Info needed: Service Provider Suburb (if you dont mind, also street name - its ok if you dont want to) speed as advertised by provider actual speed when used please let me know if want to add in the speed test at specific date/time and ill add that in. regards lynn -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: ISP's
To give a country perspective: I¹m on Internode¹s Home-1500-Explorer and I¹m located in Albany 1km from the Telstra Exchange Got the following test results this morning: Speedtest.net - through Perth Fast Hit server: Download: 1.32 Mbps Upload: .22 Mbps Ping: 31ms. Speedtest.net - through Adelaide Internode server: Download: 1.39 Mbps Upload: .22 Mbps Ping: 59ms. Internode Online Tools (also attributed to Speedtest.net) Download: 1400 kbps Upload: 217 kbps I¹m not sure if or how much I¹m being slowed by my wireless network (802.11 g) as there are a couple of brick walls between me and the router at present I did just notice that my speedtest history shows some much quicker download speeds from 2007 (when I was in another room and connected directly to the router by ethernet): Speedtest.net - through Brisbane server (August 2007): Download: 6.55 Mbps Upload: .32 Mbps Ping: 109ms. Speedtest.net - through Adelaide server (August 2007): Download: 4.73 Mbps Upload: .29 Mbps Ping: 103ms. The two tests above were taken within 30 mins of each other in August 2007 so show that speed can vary significantly from test to test but, thinking about it though, I¹m also confused since my plan offers a max download speed of 1500kbps (ie 1.5 Mbps) - so the results that Speedtest is showing for me back in 2007 would seem to be significantly higher than my theoretical maximum??!! Any thoughts/explanation on that one? Just to get a feel on consistency (test to test) I repeated the Perth Adelaide tests around 1 hr later (but with the settings changed to kbps units) and got: Speedtest.net - through Perth Fast Hit server: Download: 1315 kbps Upload: 158 kbps Ping: 31ms. Speedtest.net - through Adelaide Internode server: Download: 1466 kbps Upload: 217 kbps Ping: 59ms. All in all, I¹m pretty happy that I¹m getting what I¹m paying for (1500/256) with Internode and I have found that my nodephone VOIP with them has also been high quality and very reliable. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 17/6/10 10:09 AM, Susan Hastings at susanhasti...@me.com wrote: My ISP - iinet returned the following test result this morning. Download: 10.55 Upload: .81 Ping: 20ms. We have ADSL+ and live in East Perth On 17/06/2010, at 8:10 AM, John Thompson wrote: My ADSL2+ on iPrimus returned the following test results this morning. Download - 8.92Mb/s Upload - 0.77Mb/s Ping - 13ms. I used Speedtest.net http://Speedtest.net/ . Through the Bassendean exchange. John E. Thompson 14 McGlew Street Eden Hill W.A. 6054 Ph. 08-92793524 Mob. 0412 775 197 Email. jet...@iprimus.com.au On 16/06/2010, at 12:52 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: I get an average of 5.2 mps through the Palmyra exchange! On 16/06/2010, at 8:15 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: be aware. they promise adsl2+ betterbut you may only get adsl1, you get to know that after you signed the contract eg in the palmyra double view area you cannot get adsl2 because telstra cause a muckup in the phone line wiring is not interested to replace the wiring for better service, max speed there is 1.5 mbps you have to pay a higher rate to get that amazing high speed we should actually write a letter to Kevin Rudd about these problems with tel$tra ask a neighbour who allready has internet about the speed they have James On 15/06/2010, at 19:40, Ashley Mulder wrote: Hey guys in the process of upgrading to a better/new internet plan the requirements where no more then $40 a month and had to be ADSL2+ Whirpool gives me a number that fit this bill: Netspace, AAPT, Netbay, Exetel and iPrimus ive narrowed down the choice to Netspace, Exetel and iPrimus anybody had much experience with any of these companies?? Ashley Mulder Bachelor of Science (Forensic and Analytical Chemistry) (Forensic Science Hons.) Student Ambassador Curtin University of Technology ashley.mul...@student.curtin.edu.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway over 40 years in electronics -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Creating emails from Word
Hi Rob, AFAIK the 'No services apply' message is due to SL¹s improved handling of services previously all the services would show but non-applicable ones would be greyed out now only applicable ones will show. If you want to see real service options in Entourage, for example, first select some text (eg a sentence or paragraph) and then go to the Services menu under the Entourage menu the options showing (for me) include: * Make new sticky note * Look up in Dictionary * Search with Google * New email with selection * New note with selection Your options may vary, depending what other applications you have installed. I must admit, I rarely used ³services² in the past - but I am now starting to find a few more uses for them. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 14/6/10 9:15 AM, Rob Phillips at r.phill...@murdoch.edu.au wrote: Thanks, Peter. Opening Mail and changing my default email app to Entourage worked. The 'No services apply' message is still present no matter which App I use. Just one of those mysteries, I suppose. I never use it anyway! Rob On 14/06/10 8:53 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 12/06/2010, at 9:48 PM, Rob Phillips wrote: I'm not sure if this is one problem or two (or more...) I occasionally do mail merges from M$ Word to email. For the last month or more I've been unable to do this. In the meantime, I've upgraded to Snow Leopard, and from MS Office 2004 to 2008. I can do mail merges to file or to printer, but the 'merge to email' button is greyed out. Looking into it a bit more, I've been trying some other things without success. * Using the Word File menu to 'Send to' email, but the option to 'Mail recipient (as attachment)' is greyed out. * This may not be related, but when I look under the Services menu under application's menu, a greyed out message 'No services apply' appears. Of course, normal email works (assuming you get this :-), but the communication between programs seems to have failed. My normal email program is Thunderbird 3, but I also use Entourage 2008 for work calendars. Any ideas? Rob The Send To option works fine on my system, but I use Mail as my default email client. It's possible that Thunderbird is not a recognised email client for Word 2008 to use. As far as as Services menu goes, I suspect that's because Word 2008 is still a Carbon application and probably not written to support the Snow Leopard Services structure correctly. Try setting your default email client to Mail or Entourage temporarily and see if things change. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Dropbox - TIP - how to add a Save PDF to Dropbox item (and other options) to your print menu
Hi all, I recently found this tip hidden away in the Dropbox Wiki: http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/PrintToPDF In Mac OS X, you can set your Dropbox folder as an option in the Print/PDF menu. This is useful if you want to save articles/web pages to your Dropbox which you can then go on to view from other computers as a PDF document. The article goes on to take you through the very simple steps involved to do this. However, what I think is really nice about this tip is that it is not limited just to Dropbox you can use it for any folder: I find ³print to pdf² is one of my all-time favourite features of OSX. Up to finding this tip I nearly always tended to use just two of the items in the drop-down menu: * Save as PDF... * Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder I really like the one-click convenience of the ³Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder² action, but I want to limit this folder to actual online receipts, payment advices etc. so for everything else I used the ³Save as PDF...² action this has the advantage of letting me change the pdf name and select the destination on an item by item basis which is great for items I want to organise and file away but it does add extra steps and time to the operation. For myself, I found there were two categories of articles/web pages that I repeatedly saved as pdfs: * Webpages of interest for later reading * Recipes from, for example, http://www.cuisine.com.au/ or http://gourmettraveller.com.au/Recipe-Home-page.htm The ³Web Receipts² folder is located, by default, in the users ³Documents² folder so I created a new ³Web to Read² folder (also in my documents folder) and I already had a ³Recipes² folder where I was filing the recipes I downloaded I followed the steps in the article (for these folders rather than the dropbox folder) and now have the following additional items in the PDF dropdown menu in the print dialogue box: * Save PDF to Web to Read Folder * Save PDF to Recipes Folder It¹s probably obvious but following the steps in the article would just have added the items as ³Web to Read² and ³Recipes² in the drop down menu but, being somewhat pedantic about these matters, I renamed the aliases as ³Save PDF to Web to Read Folder² and ³Save PDF to Recipes Folder² for consistency with the existing ³Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder² item. I still use the ³Save as PDF...² action for other items but I now find the two new one-click options really convenient and time-saving. It¹s little feature like this that I really love about OSX!! Cheers -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 8/5/10 7:42 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi all, I recently set-up a free Dropbox account and was amazed at how easy and user-friendly it all was. A free account gives you up to 2GB of space - but you can get more with referrals. So, if anyone was thinking of opening an account, YOU can get an extra free 250 MB - AND get ME an extra free 250 MB :o) if you use this link to sign-up: https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTY2NjA1NDM5 Cheers Neil -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How to draw a helix?
Hi Rob, SketchUp is free 3D software with a (very) large following - I haven't really played with it yet but I'm sure it can cope with a helix (and more) - check it out here: http://www.google.com/sketchup/download/ They have lots of examples and you may even find a ready-drawn spring in their component libraries. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 28/5/10 4:32 PM, Rob Phillips at r.phill...@murdoch.edu.au wrote: Hello everyone Can anyone suggest a way to draw a helix (coil spring). I want something like the one at http://www.eldoradosoft.com/images/3pi/track_planning/Helix13.gif but with 5 or 6 turns. I don't have any 3D software, but I do have Adobe Illustrator CS, Inspiration and Omnigraffle. I found I could trace shapes with bezier curves in omnigraffle, but it's still not smooth enough. Any ideas? Rob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How to draw a helix?
Hi Rob, Further to my post (below), I found this ready drawn spring in the Google 3d warehouse: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=e8891e76858a2a4b6fa3ef67 a69ab460prevstart=0 And there are other examples here: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=springstyp=mbtnG=Search Hope that helps, Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 28/5/10 4:55 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Rob, SketchUp is free 3D software with a (very) large following - I haven't really played with it yet but I'm sure it can cope with a helix (and more) - check it out here: http://www.google.com/sketchup/download/ They have lots of examples and you may even find a ready-drawn spring in their component libraries. Cheers Neil -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Sidebar Icons
Hi Daniel, Thanks for the speedy response :) In this case, I don't think it is just a size thing - I think the sidebar icons must be designated as such somehow. The reason I say this is if I go to my home folder in finder, set it to icon view and then in the view options take the size all the way down to the min 16x16 the icons still just stay as smaller versions of the blue folder with overlay icon - they don't change to the more colorful, non-folder-type sidebar icons (try it). I checked out the discussion link you gave but, they said (as you thought) that it is just a size issue - however, from my test above, I don't think that this is the case - unless there is some special sidebar icon size (presumably smaller than 16x16 or I would see the sidebar icons as I changed the folder view icon size option. I can see that setting the 16x16 icon might be a quick fix (assuming the sidebar defaults to the smallest 16x16 icon) - but this would then also show in the main finder window (if you set icon size to 16x16) - so this is not the same as the default apple set-up for folders such as downloads/music/pictures etc. I looked at Iconographer but it is now discontinued and the developer's website says the latest version (2.5) was last updated in mid 2003 - so I'm not too keen to mess with SL icons with it! It's no big deal - just something I fancied playing with. When I get time, I'll google-on and if I do find out any more, I'll report back! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/5/10 9:24 PM, Daniel Kerr at wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: On 26/5/10 8:02 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi all, You know how in Finder certain items display different icons in the sidebar than their normal finder icon - does anyone know how you can add a custom sidebar icon to a folder. I'm not talking about changing the normal finder icon associated with the folder (which you can change by selecting the icon in the get info window and pasting the new icon over it) but associating a special icon that just shows up when you add the folder to the sidebar. At first I thought it might just be part of finder for the default places that show up in the sidebar preferences - but other Apple folders exhibit this behaviour also - to show what I mean: If you look at certain Apple-created folders in finder, eg: - Downloads - Music - Pictures In get info thew show a custom Folder icon - which is also the icon that shows in Finder windows (eg for downloads a blue folder with a down arrow overlay) - however, if you drag the folder to the sidebar, a different icon is shown in the sidebar (a green circle with a white arrow for the downloads folder, a camera for pictures etc). So, what I am trying to find out is how these sidebar icons are associated with the folders - where is the sidebar icon located and how is it added/linked to the folder? Anybody come across this info? TIA Cheers Neil Hi Neil As I understand it, it's all to do with folder sizes at specific resolutions. For example: A folder will multiple icons depending on it's size. If it's 8x8 or 16x16 Right through to 512x512 for Snow Leopard. Normally, these icons from big to small, will look the same, so once you shrink or expand the folder, it looks like the same, just bigger or smaller. However, you can set all the icons to look the same or different at different sizes. Eg, you'd make them all the same except for the 16x16 size. Then once you drag the icon to the side bar, where it's shown at 16x16 I believe, you will then see the different icon. In OS9 days (and earlier), you used to be able to make your own icons and play around with them with a program called ResEdit. (And you can get all sorts of info and things out of programs and Applications. Resource forks, and sounds and icons and graphics. You could have a ball with it!! You could also rightly do some major damage as well, hence why you always worked on a copy of the original, so when you went,..oops that's not right, you could ditch it and start again. Sorry I digress (it's the 1 hour sleep I've had) Anyway,...back to your question. Yes you can do it, and I believe you can do it with a program called Iconographer. (You can also get other similar programs as well). Have a look at this link, it may help. http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=92982 Hope I'm on the right track for what you were after. Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr
Re: Sidebar Icons
Hi Pat, Thanks for the link. Unfortunately this program is for creating thumbnail images - which is not what I am looking for. I realise that it can be used to add an icon to an image file - but I am specifically interested in the different sidebar-specific icons that some default Apple folders have and how/where you attach/insert them into the folder (resource fork??). Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 27/5/10 6:48 PM, Pat at clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: Try CocoThumbX from http://www.stalkingwolf.net/software/cocothumbx/ Pat On 27/05/2010, at 2:06 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: I looked at Iconographer but it is now discontinued and the developer's website says the latest version (2.5) was last updated in mid 2003 - so I'm not too keen to mess with SL icons with it! It's no big deal - just something I fancied playing with. When I get time, I'll google-on and if I do find out any more, I'll report back! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Sidebar Icons
Hi Daniel, Thanks again for the speedy response: on 27/5/10 10:10 PM, Daniel Kerr at wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Hi Neil Not sure if this is actually any more help, or more hard work. Found this link about it as well. http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=83832 YES, this exactly addresses my specific problem/interest and (assuming the second poster is correct) explains how Apple does it. But without modify code, not sure of an easy way to do it. No, the dict.../dict entry in the .plist would presumably only work for folders defined as CoreTypes - as the poster says: but I don't think you can make this kind of icon for just any old folder. One thing to Explore might be to try downloading icongrapher http://www.mscape.com/ I might try that - I was a bit nervous when I read: (Iconographer was last updated in mid-2003) But I guess it should be fairly safe to just edit a .icns file bundle !? Make all the icons the normal image you want, but the smaller one (for the side bar) the alternative. Then it will show as normal in the Finder, but (perhaps) when it's in the sidebar it will show the alternative. Didn't have time to test it, but was just a thought. Yes, as per my last post, I figured that this should be a work-around and , as you say, it will show as normal in the Finder - unless you set the finder icon size to 16x16 ;o) Gotta get back to quotes and invoicing for now anyway,...lol. But thought it might give you something to play with for now. Kind Regards Daniel OK, thanks for the ideas links Daniel. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com On 27/5/10 2:06 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Daniel, Thanks for the speedy response :) In this case, I don't think it is just a size thing - I think the sidebar icons must be designated as such somehow. The reason I say this is if I go to my home folder in finder, set it to icon view and then in the view options take the size all the way down to the min 16x16 the icons still just stay as smaller versions of the blue folder with overlay icon - they don't change to the more colorful, non-folder-type sidebar icons (try it). I checked out the discussion link you gave but, they said (as you thought) that it is just a size issue - however, from my test above, I don't think that this is the case - unless there is some special sidebar icon size (presumably smaller than 16x16 or I would see the sidebar icons as I changed the folder view icon size option. I can see that setting the 16x16 icon might be a quick fix (assuming the sidebar defaults to the smallest 16x16 icon) - but this would then also show in the main finder window (if you set icon size to 16x16) - so this is not the same as the default apple set-up for folders such as downloads/music/pictures etc. I looked at Iconographer but it is now discontinued and the developer's website says the latest version (2.5) was last updated in mid 2003 - so I'm not too keen to mess with SL icons with it! It's no big deal - just something I fancied playing with. When I get time, I'll google-on and if I do find out any more, I'll report back! Cheers Neil --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Sidebar Icons
Hi Pat, I thought I had explained it fairly fully in my two previous posts - I am not just trying to add a custom icon to a folder (which I could do any number of ways (including CocothumbX) - I also have no problems in actually adding the folders to the sidebar. My problem is trying to get a different icon to show in the sidebar than shows in the finder window (as per the Apple folders music/downloads/pictures etc). The link Daniel provided in his second post: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=83832 In fact covers exactly my problem and also points to how it is done for the actual Apple folders (defined as unique types in the info.plist of CoreTypes.bundle) - although there is no solution for doing it for ordinary folders. It would seem that a workaround would be to use a custom 16x16 icon together with the normal larger icons - so that finder picks up the smaller icon to use in the sidebar but uses the others in normal finder view (assuming you haven't set the icon display size down to 16x16) I haven't tried this yet, but I may have a play later. With regard to the problem you note: Since SL, some, but not all, of these custom icons in the sidebar persist in reverting to the generic folder icon. This may well depend on the actual set of icons associated with the folder - I would assume that if there is a set of icons and you have replaced the larger icon(s) but not the small 16x16 then the replacement would show in finder but the old default would show in sidebar. Alternatively, if you have replaced all sizes you would see the custom icon in the sidebar - also if there is no smaller icon, then I believe Finder will automatically scale down the larger icon - so again you would see the custom icon in sidebar. I don't know how that relates to your various folders with custom icons - it may be that you used a slightly different method with some than others - or that the originals had different icon sets to start with? (Just a few thoughts) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 28/5/10 9:51 AM, Pat at clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi, Neil, I'm not sure what you are asking. I have added a number of folders with custom icons (made with CocoThumbX) to the sidebar with the old tried and true method of dragging the folder there, also by Command-Option dragging. Since SL, some, but not all, of these custom icons in the sidebar persist in reverting to the generic folder icon. I would be interested in why this happens. Perhaps you could try a few and see if they stick. Cheers, Pat On 27/05/2010, at 8:50 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Pat, Thanks for the link. Unfortunately this program is for creating thumbnail images - which is not what I am looking for. I realise that it can be used to add an icon to an image file - but I am specifically interested in the different sidebar-specific icons that some default Apple folders have and how/where you attach/insert them into the folder (resource fork??). Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 27/5/10 6:48 PM, Pat at clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: Try CocoThumbX from http://www.stalkingwolf.net/software/cocothumbx/ Pat On 27/05/2010, at 2:06 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Sidebar Icons
Hi all, You know how in Finder certain items display different icons in the sidebar than their normal finder icon - does anyone know how you can add a custom sidebar icon to a folder. I'm not talking about changing the normal finder icon associated with the folder (which you can change by selecting the icon in the get info window and pasting the new icon over it) but associating a special icon that just shows up when you add the folder to the sidebar. At first I thought it might just be part of finder for the default places that show up in the sidebar preferences - but other Apple folders exhibit this behaviour also - to show what I mean: If you look at certain Apple-created folders in finder, eg: - Downloads - Music - Pictures In get info thew show a custom Folder icon - which is also the icon that shows in Finder windows (eg for downloads a blue folder with a down arrow overlay) - however, if you drag the folder to the sidebar, a different icon is shown in the sidebar (a green circle with a white arrow for the downloads folder, a camera for pictures etc). So, what I am trying to find out is how these sidebar icons are associated with the folders - where is the sidebar icon located and how is it added/linked to the folder? Anybody come across this info? TIA Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: wd passport
Hi John, We probably need to clear up a few things here: You didn't need to purchase MacDrive8 so you could format the drive to HFS+ (which is the preferred Mac format) you could have done that on the Mac using the Apple Disk Utility which you can find in the Utilities folder (which is in the Applications folder). Once the drive has been reformated to hfs+ it is accessible to Mac computers but can only be accessed on PCs by using specialised software such as MacDrive8 - this is the purpose of MacDrive8 - to allow windows machines to access Mac hfs+ drives. Assuming your initial reformatting of the drive to hfs+ went OK, then when you say: At this point I could read from The ext HD on both my home PC and Mac. * You could read from the Mac because the disc was hfs+ * You could read from the PC because you had installed MacDrive8 on it. When you say: Had a need to take to work the HD to access so files. Wasn't able to read the HD on the work computer. Had you installed MacDrive8 on the work computer - if not that explains why you couldn't read it. When you say: Tried a few things which may have lost my ablity to mount again on the home Mac but can read on home PC What did you try? - If you followed prompts on your work computer, which wasn't reading the drive, you may have re-formatted the drive as a PC drive (though I think you would have erased everything off it by doing this) - without knowing just what you did it is hard to comment further - but, as you say, it seems this may have removed your ability to mount again on the home Mac. I think that it is probably better to get to the situation where it is demonstrably a problem with MacDrive before contacting them for help - MacDrive is supposed to let you access a Mac drive and, at the moment, your drive won't mount on a Mac! That is why I suggested the stepped procedure: 1) Back-up any data you need from the drive (assuming there is any data accessible). 2) On the Mac erase and re-format the disk (use disk utility for this) - verify the disc and make sure that everything is working fine. 3) Check that Macdrive can still access the drive on your home PC (it's always worked on this PC, right?) 4) Confirm that everything is working as it should on both the Mac and your home PC if not make a note of any strangeness/messages and sort this out first. 5) When you are happy that all is working as it should on the home PC Mac, go to the work Machine: - Make sure it meets all the MacDrive system requirements - Make a note of the Windows version/configuration (will help if you have problems to report) - I would probably re-install MacDrive8 on this machine (you never had it working on this PC, right?) 6) Connect the drive to your work PC and try to access it with MacDrive. If there are any problems: - make a note of Exactly what happened, including any error messages - check out MacDrive knowledgebase and forums to see if it matches any known/reported problems. - if not, raise a ticket with MacDrive support - report it all back here However, to help clarify the situation, before you do this you could connect the drive to the Mac and fire up disk utility and see what it tells you about the drive in its present state. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 20/5/10 1:50 PM, j...@iinet.net.au at j...@iinet.net.au wrote: Neil, Appreciated your post. The history is I brought a WD 500GB passport HD. Then purchased Macdrive 8 so I could format the HD to HFS+. I was then able to copy my files onto HD. At this point I could read from The ext HD on both my home PC and Mac. Had a need to take to work the HD to access so files. Wasn't able to read the HD on the work computer. Tried a few things which may have lost my ablity to mount again on the home Mac but can read on home PC Will take your advice and contact Mediafour (MacDrive developer) for help cheers john On Thu May 20 12:27 , Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com sent: Re: wd passport Hi John, I have not been following this topic, so not sure of the background, etc. However, when you say: Any body got any suggestions, bearing in mind that all I wanted was an external device that would work similiar to USB stick but larger capacity that would plug in to PC and MAC My first reaction is that all my USB sticks are formated MS-DOS (fat 32) - which gives the convenience you require - but, of course, is limited to a 32GB volume size. For larger drives, some people find a three partition system suits them: Partition A: HFS+ Partition B: FAT 32 (max 32 GB) Partition C: NTFS When on the Mac: Partitions A B are accessible When on the PC: Partitions B C are accessible Partition A is used for Mac work and Partition C for PC work. Partition B can be accessed by either OS without additional software
Re: Permissions Issues
Hi Ronni, HeHe... Yes, I¹ve always been wary of the ³expert² tag I used to work in an industry with lots of ³experts² and the standing joke was something about a ³spurt² being a drip under pressure and ³ex² meaning has-been ;o) However, all on the list appreciate your experience and the time you put into your (very comprehensive) answers to various problems. Yes, of course, either approach will require Adam to have a complete backup of his old drive and we agree that approach A is preferable, if more time-consuming. It would be interesting to know just how approach B gets around the change of UID I always thought that ³repair permissions² would just change the actual read/write/execute permissions I didn¹t think it would change the UID. It occurs to me that a ³B2² approach, that would cover this, would be to create a temporary account to free up UID 501, eg: B2. Steps 1 to 4 are additional steps to free-up UID 501, steps 5 to 10 are basically as your original approach B: 1. Create a NEW temporary Administrator Account (should have UID 502) 2. 'Log out' of the OLD Administrator (wrong) Account (UID 501) 3. 'Log In' to the TEMP Account (UID 502) 4. DELETE the OLD Account (UID 501) 5. Create a NEW Administrator Account with exact details of the User Account that you have on the backup drive (should be allocated UID 501, which is now free) 6. 'Log out' of the TEMP Account. (UID 502) 7. 'Log In' to the NEW Administrator Account (UID 501) 8. DELETE the TEMP Account (UID 502) 9. Transfer your Data across from the Backup Drive. This should achieve the same as approach B but allow the new account to have UID 501 One problem might be at step 5 if deleting the old UID 501 user account has not deleted ALL files with owner 501 then the new account may be allocated a new UID (503) - I think this sort of situation is where you can see the ³unknown² user when looking at permissions in finder. Just my thoughts as I say, I still find many aspects of permissions confusing I am basing the above on bits and pieces of my (failing) memory from sorting out past problems I had. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 19/5/10 2:19 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Neil, I have not been avoiding your questions, just time has not permitted me to answer as yet. I will get back with a more thorough answer to 'Permissions' in Snow Leopard when possible. Also I don't profess to be an expert on Permissions, I don't profess to be an expert in anything ;-) When you start up a brand new Mac, or start up after an Erase and Install, you will be asked if you want to migrate. That is the preferred time to migrate from your old Mac or backup to your New Mac or New Hard Drive. I would prefer Adam to do A. To do and Erase clean Install of SL then let Migration Assistant run migrate everything across, which will bring his User Account / Settings Files across. With way B. You DELETE the OLD (wrong) Administrator Account BEFORE you transfer the data across from the backup drive. This way, when you then 'Repair Permissions', the User should (hopefully) have the correct permissions on his data. I have done it this way before and I'm fairly sure the UID was 501 At least I did not experience any permission problems. But, I'm open to anyone disagreeing with this. Of course neither of these ways will be possible if Adam doesn't have a complete backup of his old drive! Cheers, Ronni On 19/05/2010, at 10:47 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Ronni Adam, I have been following this with interest I have had to sort out permissions problems in the past, I generally get there in the end, but I still find many aspects of permissions confusing. I am hoping that Ronni could clarify how one area works: I can see how approach A works this is basically just like taking home a new computer and migrating the data over from the old computer. With approach B, however how does the UID get back in sync or does OSX work around that? To elaborate on my query: * It sounds like the old computer was set up with just the primary user account, which would have had the default UID of 501 for the main account this is the account now on the back-up disk that we want to restore. * The technician set-up one main account on the new HD which is therefore also UID 501 but with other details wrong (as per Adam¹s id printout: admins-imac:~ adam3$ id uid=501(adam3) .. * If Adam creates a NEW Administrator Account with exact details of the User Account that he has on the backup drive it will presumably get a UID of 502 (501 is already taken) - so the exact details may be the same but the UID will be different. * When Adam DELETES the OLD Account he is deleting the account currently with UID 501. So this is where I am unclear as to how things proceed
Re: Permissions Issues
Hi Ronni, Thoughts in blue ;-) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 20/5/10 11:23 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Neil, Quick reply your comment if deleting the old UID 501 user account has not deleted ALL files with owner 501 then the new account may be allocated a new UID (503) - I think this sort of situation is where you can see the ³unknown² user when looking at permissions in finder. This will happen if you have removed an account or group from the system, and still have files on the system that were previously associated with that account. Yes, that¹s what I thought in the event that there would be no UID501 account but still files associated with UID 501 that had not been cleared out. This happens because the GID, UID, (user and group identifiers),or UUID (universally unique identifiers) number associated with the file cannot be matched to the proper account or group in the system. If the user or group is missing, the system will associate the file to ³nobody² or ³unknown,² but sometimes it may think the file belongs to another system account altogether, and associate it with that one. I'm working on a post about Owners / Groups / Permissions will port when I can put it together. Looking forward to it! Permissions are so interesting and confusing at the same time ;-) Yes, I love the power and features of Snow Leopard, but sometimes miss the simplicity of Classic! Can¹t have it both ways, I guess! Cheers, Ronni On 20/05/2010, at 10:39 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Ronni, HeHe... Yes, I¹ve always been wary of the ³expert² tag I used to work in an industry with lots of ³experts² and the standing joke was something about a ³spurt² being a drip under pressure and ³ex² meaning has-been ;o) However, all on the list appreciate your experience and the time you put into your (very comprehensive) answers to various problems. Yes, of course, either approach will require Adam to have a complete backup of his old drive and we agree that approach A is preferable, if more time-consuming. It would be interesting to know just how approach B gets around the change of UID I always thought that ³repair permissions² would just change the actual read/write/execute permissions I didn¹t think it would change the UID. It occurs to me that a ³B2² approach, that would cover this, would be to create a temporary account to free up UID 501, eg: B2. Steps 1 to 4 are additional steps to free-up UID 501, steps 5 to 10 are basically as your original approach B: 1. Create a NEW temporary Administrator Account (should have UID 502) 2. 'Log out' of the OLD Administrator (wrong) Account (UID 501) 3. 'Log In' to the TEMP Account (UID 502) 4. DELETE the OLD Account (UID 501) 5. Create a NEW Administrator Account with exact details of the User Account that you have on the backup drive (should be allocated UID 501, which is now free) 6. 'Log out' of the TEMP Account. (UID 502) 7. 'Log In' to the NEW Administrator Account (UID 501) 8. DELETE the TEMP Account (UID 502) 9. Transfer your Data across from the Backup Drive. This should achieve the same as approach B but allow the new account to have UID 501 One problem might be at step 5 if deleting the old UID 501 user account has not deleted ALL files with owner 501 then the new account may be allocated a new UID (503) - I think this sort of situation is where you can see the ³unknown² user when looking at permissions in finder. Just my thoughts as I say, I still find many aspects of permissions confusing I am basing the above on bits and pieces of my (failing) memory from sorting out past problems I had. Cheers Neil -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: wd passport
Hi John, I have not been following this topic, so not sure of the background, etc. However, when you say: Any body got any suggestions, bearing in mind that all I wanted was an external device that would work similiar to USB stick but larger capacity that would plug in to PC and MAC My first reaction is that all my USB sticks are formated MS-DOS (fat 32) - which gives the convenience you require - but, of course, is limited to a 32GB volume size. For larger drives, some people find a three partition system suits them: Partition A: HFS+ Partition B: FAT 32 (max 32 GB) Partition C: NTFS * When on the Mac: Partitions A B are accessible * When on the PC: Partitions B C are accessible Partition A is used for Mac work and Partition C for PC work. Partition B can be accessed by either OS without additional software. It all depends on how you intend to use the drive re Mac files, PC files and files you want accessible to both. Of course, having purchased the latest version of Macdrive, that should (according to their website) enable simple cross-platform access to your hfs+ drive! If I were in your position, given you have purchased MacDrive8, I would be looking first to their support site: http://www.mediafour.com/support/updates/product/macdrive8.en-US I also find it best to use a systematic approach to troubleshooting - starting from a working configuration and documenting how/when a problem occurs. In your case, you said that your set-up initially worked on your home Mac and home PC, but not on your work PC. Now you say that it works on the PC only (I presume that this is the home one and that the work one still can't access it) and not on the Mac. This might suggest that the PC (or Macdrive on the PC) has somehow upset the formatting of the hfs+ drive and you may have compounded your original problem - making it harder to troubleshoot. If it was me, I'd go back to square one here - back-up any data you need off this drive, while you still have some access to it, and start again. Given that the function of MacDrive is to give the PC access to a Mac hfs+ drive, I would make sure that I started troubleshooting with a drive that was OK on the Mac - so my approach would be: 1) Back-up any data you need from the drive. 2) On the Mac erase and re-format the disk - verify the disc and make sure that everything is working fine. 3) Check that Macdrive can still access the drive on your home PC (it's always worked on this PC, right?) 4) Confirm that everything is working as it should on both the Mac and your home PC if not make a note of any strangeness/messages and sort this out first. 5) When you are happy that all is working as it should on the home PC Mac, go to the work Machine: - Make sure it meets all the MacDrive system requirements - Make a note of the Windows version/configuration (will help if you have problems to report) - I would probably re-install MacDrive8 on this machine (you never had it working on this PC, right?) 6) Connect the drive to your work PC and try to access it with MacDrive. If there are any problems: - make a note of Exactly what happened, including any error messages - check out MacDrive knowledgebase and forums to see if it matches any known/reported problems. - if not, raise a ticket with MacDrive support - report it all back here I must stress that I have no direct experience with this software (MacDrive) - these are just my thoughts on a logical troubleshooting sequence and being able to gather the data necessary to help support personnel solve your problem. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 20/5/10 10:25 AM, j...@iinet.net.au at j...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi , Thing are going from bad to worse. Can now only read the hard drive on my PC with Macdrive 8 installed. PB G3 no longer recognises the HD and wants to reformat the drive. Have used the tools from Macdrive and it says that their are no problems. Any body got any suggestions, bearing in mind that all I wanted was an external device that would work similiar to USB stick but larger capacity that would plug in to PC and MAC john On Wed May 19 16:48 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi John, I would imagine that you need to install MacDrive on the PC at work, otherwise the PC won't be able to read write to the Drive. Cheers, Ronni On 19/05/2010, at 4:40 PM, j...@iinet.net.au wrote: Ronni, I have the latest version of macdrive. The HD works alright on the PC and MAC at home but not at work. Should it work any where or only where I have macdrive installed. On the PC at work managed drives is unassigned or allocated. Sorry about off list query John On Wed May 19 15:33 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: On 19/05/2010, at 2:17 PM, j...@iinet.net.au wrote: Ronni, Sorry to bother you but you recomend that I format my 500GB
Re: Permissions Issues
Hi Ronni Adam, I have been following this with interest I have had to sort out permissions problems in the past, I generally get there in the end, but I still find many aspects of permissions confusing. I am hoping that Ronni could clarify how one area works: I can see how approach A works this is basically just like taking home a new computer and migrating the data over from the old computer. With approach B, however how does the UID get back in sync or does OSX work around that? To elaborate on my query: * It sounds like the old computer was set up with just the primary user account, which would have had the default UID of 501 for the main account this is the account now on the back-up disk that we want to restore. * The technician set-up one main account on the new HD which is therefore also UID 501 but with other details wrong (as per Adam¹s id printout: admins-imac:~ adam3$ id uid=501(adam3) .. * If Adam creates a NEW Administrator Account with exact details of the User Account that he has on the backup drive it will presumably get a UID of 502 (501 is already taken) - so the exact details may be the same but the UID will be different. * When Adam DELETES the OLD Account he is deleting the account currently with UID 501. So this is where I am unclear as to how things proceed: * Would deleting account UID 501 result in the new account getting its UID re-assigned from 502 to 501? or * Would migrating over the OLD account UID 501 result in the new account getting its UID re-assigned from 502 to 501? or * Would the new account retain the UID 502 but the migrated files get their ownership modified to suit this? or * I¹m missing the point, what happens is If the (new) main account has UID 502, would there be any problems at the next migration to a new computer (with main account UID 501)? Ronni, I hope you don¹t mind me jumping in with these questions but I know that many of us find permissions intricacies somewhat confusing. I know I had big problems in the past when I set up a new computer with an account that was ALMOST the same as the old one! (I can¹t remember now whether the short names were the same but the user names different, or vice-versa, or names the same but UIDs different) - I remember it was a painful process sorting it out. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 19/5/10 9:30 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Adam, On 18/05/2010, at 8:35 PM, Adam Lippiatt wrote: Ronni Thanks for this. I did have a backup of the drive but unfortunately after having the machine for more than a month I think the technician got exasperated and just wanted to see the back of it. So, I got a new hard drive which was, unfortuantely, a little noisier than the original and also the install was done on a new user account which did not have the same name as the old one. So, perhaps this is the source of the permissions problems. Definitely, for sure You don't 'own' (have Permissions) of the files, another User does! As I explained in my previous email. A couple of things need clarifying Adam. 1. You say you DID have a backup of the old Hard Drive (User Accounts / Settings / Data) do you still have that backup? 2. Did the Technician do the New Install and create a New (different) User on the new Hard Drive? If so, he would have / or should have told you that you needed to create a new Administrator Account with EXACTLY the 'same User Name Short Name Password' that your Original Drive ( backup) have. Then 'Log Out' of the 'Wrong Account' , 'Log In' to the New Account (you have created exactly as is on the backup drive) under System Preferences DELETE the 'Wrong User Account'. ThenTransfer everything across from the firewire 'Backup' Drive. What to recommend you do now to sort the mess out??? A or B? A. Do a complete Erase of your Hard Drive and Clean Install of Snow Leopard. 1. Startup from the SL install disk, erase the hard drive with disk utility (on the Disc) . 2. Quit disk utility, and proceed with the install. 3. On the first reboot it will offer to migrate your data from a Time machine backup or an External Drive. Choose your External Drive and migrate from the backup you have. (i.e When your computer restarts with the clean install, DON'T create a User Account, let Migration Assistant transfer your User Account / Settings / Files from the External Backup Drive ) B. Do 2 that I mentioned above: 1. Create a NEW Administrator Account with exact details of the User Account that you have on the backup drive 2. 'Log out' of the OLD Administrator (wrong) Account. 3. 'Log In' to the NEW Administrator Account 4. DELETE the OLD Account 5. Transfer your Data across from the Backup Drive. Cheers, Ronni I did the id command and got the
Re: Dropbox
Hi Alastair, Thanks to you and other WAMUG list members who have signed up via my link (I won't thank you all individually!) I can't say that I've noticed this - but then again I possibly haven't been constantly working on and saving a file in Dropbox. I guess I use it more for 2 features: - Keeping the same files in sync on several computers. - As an off-site back-up if I lost my primary secondary back-up (Time machine superduper) in the event of fire/theft. I guess, if found I had your problem I would just temporarily quit Dropbox (from the menubox icon). Dropbox is in my login Items so it will restart when I next login (or you can re-start at any time by opening the app in the Applications Folder). Of course, if you do that, it's not constantly backing-up as you work (until you re-start it) - but then isn't that what time machine is for? (and Command-S as you go). Any other Dropboxers find this a problem or have found a solution? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 10/5/10 8:18 PM, mince and pud at minceand...@goatpix.com wrote: Hi Neil Thanks for the mention of dropbox - it seems a useful thing so I downloaded (no need to thank me for the 250mb) and plonked the file i'm working on in the dropbox folder so it can keep backing itself up. . But does anyone know how to stop it bringing the finder to the front every time I save, and it backs up? Tried forums and a couple of bods have the same complaint but no solution. Really annoying and it's going in the bin if I can't fix it. You can keep the 250 though! best alastair On 08/05/2010, at 12:42 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, I recently set-up a free Dropbox account and was amazed at how easy and user-friendly it all was. A free account gives you up to 2GB of space - but you can get more with referrals. So, if anyone was thinking of opening an account, YOU can get an extra free 250 MB - AND get ME an extra free 250 MB :o) if you use this link to sign-up: https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTY2NjA1NDM5 Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com PS: For anyone not familiar with Dropbox, it is similar to (though not the same as) the MobileMe iDisk. MobileMe, of course gives you other feature and more storage space - but you have to pay for it, whereas Dropbox gives you 2GB (2.25 if you use my link) for free. From their website: Dropbox Features File Sync Dropbox allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically. * 2GB of online storage for free, with up to 100GB available to paying customers. * Sync files of any size or type. * Sync Windows, Mac and Linux computers. * Automatically syncs when new files or changes are detected. * Work on files in your Dropbox even if you're offline. Your changes sync once your computer has an Internet connection again. * Dropbox transfers will correctly resume where they left off if the connection drops. * Efficient sync - only the pieces of a file that changed (not the whole file) are synced. This saves you time. * Doesn't hog your Internet connection. You can manually set bandwidth limits. File Sharing Sharing files is simple and can be done with only a few clicks. * Shared folders allow several people to collaborate on a set of files. * You can see other people's changes instantly. * A Public folder that lets you link directly to files in your Dropbox. * Control who is able to access shared folders (including ability to kick people out and remove the shared files from their computers). * Automatically create shareable online photo galleries from folders of photos in your Dropbox. Online Backup Dropbox backs up your files online without you having to think about it. * Automatic backup of your files. * Undelete files and folders. * Restore previous versions of your files. * 30 days of undo history, with unlimited undo available as a paid option. Web Access A copy of your files are stored on Dropbox's secure servers. This lets you access them from any computer or mobile device. * Manipulate files as you would on your desktop - add, edit, delete, rename etc. * Search your entire Dropbox for files. * A Recent Events feed that shows you a summary of activity in your Dropbox. * Create shared folders and invite people to them. * Recover previous versions of any file or undelete deleted files. * View photo galleries created automatically from photos in your Dropbox. Security Privacy Dropbox takes the security and privacy of your files very seriously. * Shared folders are viewable only by people you invite. * All transmission of file data and metadata occurs over an encrypted channel (SSL
[FOR SALE] Brand new HP Photosmart B109a (Printer/Scanner/Copier)
Hi All, I have a brand new unopened HP Photosmart B109a colour printer for sale which also scans, copies and works with Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 10.6. More info here: http://store.apple.com/au/product/TX973X/A?fnode=MTY1NDA1MQmco=MTU0Njg2NzU I am in Albany, in case anyone down here is interested, but I am heading up to Perth tomorrow and will be in Perth over Thursday 29th to Sat 1 May - I will bring the printer up with me - so if anyone is interested we could arrange collection/delivery. Since it is unused/unopened, I'm thinking $100 sounds reasonable (I think this is what Chris S offered the same printer for, back in December) - however, I could be open to reasonable offers, in this ballpark. Cheers, Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Itunes won't play my cd
Hi Sam, Hi Ronni, Sam, if I understand you correctly, iTunes is playing your existing library of songs fine - in which case, I don't think it can be down to any general system sound/volume settings. From what you are saying, a CD - presumably in the built-in CD player (you don't say what your computer/configuration is) shows as playing but outputs no sound. Also, although a track appears to import into iTunes, playback of an imported track (presumably one imported since the problem first appeared) also gives no sound output. To me, that sounds like the problem is with the signal/data transfer between the CD drive and iTunes. Is the optical drive working in all other respects - ie does a DVD play OK with sound, does a data CD and/or DVD read OK? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 24/4/10 4:46 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: On 24/04/2010, at 4:23 PM, malcolm Tate wrote: Hello all, My Itunes has stopped playing my cd's, well to be precise, it shows that it is playing but I have no sound. I have tried different cd's and the result has been the same. I also Imported one of the songs into Itunes, but it won't play that either (well, same as before, it shows it is, but no sound is coming out). Other songs already on Itunes play fine, as do songs and other sounds from the internet. I have had a look at preferences in both itunes and system preferences but could not see anything that could be impairing its play. I am running a power pc with 10.4.11, and itunes is 9.1 (with no updates due that it could find. Does anyone have any clues as to what I should look at next? Hi Sam, Do you have system sound on your Mac? Is the volume turned on in System Preferences Sound. If so, In iTunes under Controls Increase volume. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Hitler's reaction to the iPhone leak
I just love these parodies - and this one is definitely on-topic! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3al_4HSteyE Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61%
H, I'm left-handed but use a computer right-handedly - ie I use the mouse with my right hand and have no problems using the numeric keyboard (ie using the number-pad with my right-hand). Actually, I suppose, I am not 100% left-handed - I just do every one-handed task left-handed (except for the mouse!) - so writing/drawing, playing darts, throwing a ball, using a saw/hammer/plane/soldering iron, playing table-tennis, swinging a tennis/squash racquet (I was always hopeless though) was all done left handed. Anything that tends to use two hands though - holding a cricket bat/golf club/guitar was all done right-handed. Anyway, Reg, you can get separate USB numeric keypads - I've even seen a wireless one (but not bluetooth) - though the ones I've seen were somewhat lacking in the design/style area. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/4/10 4:34 PM, Reg Whitely at rwhit...@internode.on.net wrote: This is interesting reading as I'd like to think the numeric keypad would be default standard issue, even though, as a left hander, i'd probably never use it. They'd need to have a lhd keypad for me, and the other 25% of the population, or one that unplugs from rhs and plugs into lhs, using an usb connector clip (or is there such a beastie now?) Reg On 21/04/2010, at 11:31 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: Thanks for all this. I think I would sooner have wireless keyboard than a numeric pad with a USB wired keyboard. Regards Peter... -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Neil Houghton Sent: Wednesday, 21 April 2010 9:38 AM To: WAMUG Subject: Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61% Hi Peter, Yes, I mentioned to Peter (Crisp) that changing the keyboard makes it a special order (same as extra RAM or whatever) - I wanted the i7 processor so it was a special order anyway for me - so changing the keyboard didn't add to the delivery time - which was longer when I placed the order (Apple's Friday Nov 27 one-day-sale) as the new iMacs were just released. I guess I ordered mine direct from the Apple store, so I didn't have a problem remembering to order what I wanted ;o) If a special order adds 2 weeks or more to your delivery time, it sounds like Apple doesn't make it easy for you as a reseller - on the Apple store website, changing the configuration currently changes the delivery from Estimated Ship: Within 24hrs to Estimated Ship: 2-4 business days As I say, delivery was longer for me back then - but Apple shipped it to me direct from China and I still got it much quicker than a friend who placed his order with a local reseller - he was happy with that though, because he wanted the personal service, advice and setup that the reseller provided. I do remember thinking that it was strange that Apple kept their reseller waiting longer than their direct customers - you guys must have a real love/hate relationship with Apple ;o) Me too - I love the look and feel of the wireless keyboard and hate that Apple don't do a wireless numeric keyboard! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/4/10 8:26 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 20/04/2010, at 11:30 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Peter, It's no problem to get a full numeric keyboard (instead of the cut-down wireless one) - you just specify that when you place your order - of course this does make it a special order (same as extra RAM or whatever) so you may not be able to just walk into a retailer and walk out with the computer (assuming they have it in stock, anyway). There is no extra charge for this option - since the full wired keyboard actually has a cheaper RRP than the wirelesss one (they don't rebate you the difference though!). It's not quite that easy. My problem as an Apple Solutions Reseller is that (a) I have to remember to order the extended keyboard option specifically, which I don't always manage to do, and (b) such an order is treated by Apple as built to order in the same way as asking for an odd RAM configuration or larger hard drive would do. This means a delay of two weeks or more before I can deliver, even if there are plenty of iMacs in stock at the supplier. I'm not working from a shop, so it's neither practical nor profitable for me to keep a large amount of numeric keyboards around, and then I've got the extra problem of what to do with the exchanged wireless keyboards. There's no easy way out of this. What really annoys me is that Apple doesn't offer a wireless version of the full numeric keyboard - I'm sure that the extra keys can't have that devastating an effect on the battery life! The pity is that they used to, before
Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61%
Hi Peter, Yes, I mentioned to Peter (Crisp) that changing the keyboard makes it a special order (same as extra RAM or whatever) - I wanted the i7 processor so it was a special order anyway for me - so changing the keyboard didn't add to the delivery time - which was longer when I placed the order (Apple's Friday Nov 27 one-day-sale) as the new iMacs were just released. I guess I ordered mine direct from the Apple store, so I didn't have a problem remembering to order what I wanted ;o) If a special order adds 2 weeks or more to your delivery time, it sounds like Apple doesn't make it easy for you as a reseller - on the Apple store website, changing the configuration currently changes the delivery from Estimated Ship: Within 24hrs to Estimated Ship: 2-4 business days As I say, delivery was longer for me back then - but Apple shipped it to me direct from China and I still got it much quicker than a friend who placed his order with a local reseller - he was happy with that though, because he wanted the personal service, advice and setup that the reseller provided. I do remember thinking that it was strange that Apple kept their reseller waiting longer than their direct customers - you guys must have a real love/hate relationship with Apple ;o) Me too - I love the look and feel of the wireless keyboard and hate that Apple don't do a wireless numeric keyboard! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/4/10 8:26 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 20/04/2010, at 11:30 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Peter, It's no problem to get a full numeric keyboard (instead of the cut-down wireless one) - you just specify that when you place your order - of course this does make it a special order (same as extra RAM or whatever) so you may not be able to just walk into a retailer and walk out with the computer (assuming they have it in stock, anyway). There is no extra charge for this option - since the full wired keyboard actually has a cheaper RRP than the wirelesss one (they don't rebate you the difference though!). It's not quite that easy. My problem as an Apple Solutions Reseller is that (a) I have to remember to order the extended keyboard option specifically, which I don't always manage to do, and (b) such an order is treated by Apple as built to order in the same way as asking for an odd RAM configuration or larger hard drive would do. This means a delay of two weeks or more before I can deliver, even if there are plenty of iMacs in stock at the supplier. I'm not working from a shop, so it's neither practical nor profitable for me to keep a large amount of numeric keyboards around, and then I've got the extra problem of what to do with the exchanged wireless keyboards. There's no easy way out of this. What really annoys me is that Apple doesn't offer a wireless version of the full numeric keyboard - I'm sure that the extra keys can't have that devastating an effect on the battery life! The pity is that they used to, before the introduction of the aluminium version. It was the old white plastic version, but it worked fine. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61%
Hi Peter, It's no problem to get a full numeric keyboard (instead of the cut-down wireless one) - you just specify that when you place your order - of course this does make it a special order (same as extra RAM or whatever) so you may not be able to just walk into a retailer and walk out with the computer (assuming they have it in stock, anyway). There is no extra charge for this option - since the full wired keyboard actually has a cheaper RRP than the wirelesss one (they don't rebate you the difference though!). What really annoys me is that Apple doesn't offer a wireless version of the full numeric keyboard - I'm sure that the extra keys can't have that devastating an effect on the battery life! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 20/4/10 8:53 AM, Crisp, Peter at pcr...@hatch.com.au wrote: Yes, noted Peter. I agree with your comments regarding the cut-down wireless keyboard without number pad. I hope to be getting an iMac soon and will have to see hwo I can get a keyboard with number pad included. Regards Peter... Kind Regards, Peter Crisp, Associate, BE Mech HATCH (Phone + 61 8 9428 5437 2Fax + 61 8 9428 ÈMob 0402 001 019 ?E-mail pcr...@hatch.com.au Website http://www.hatch.com.au/ -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Peter Hinchliffe Sent: Tuesday, 20 April 2010 8:36 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61% On 19/04/2010, at 5:16 PM, Reg Whitely wrote: Hi Peter I have a Magic Mouse which I use in my classroom with my MacBook Pro hooked up to the data projector. All the kids can see the screen and pass the mouse around to select various items and highlight text for editing. A bluetooth keyboard would also be useful in this way. Today I had to smile as we had a lady doing a presentation at school to staff, using her little Acer or asus or whatever mini comp connected to her own data projector. She needed a DVD shown so I hooked up my MacBook to our school data projector and took my Magic Mouse to the table I was sitting at to control the movie. She didn't know I had the mouse and thought I'd forgotten to start the DVD so went to the Mac and used the trackpad. She couldn't understand what was happening ;-) I have 2 rechargeable batteries in it and they are yet to need recharging, but I admit I use it only once or twice a week in class. Regards Reg I acknowledge that wireless mice and keyboards certainly have their place in presentation environments, and in fact are often essential, such as in your example. My original comment was that they are probably unnecessary for desktop computers under general use. Laptops are a different matter as well. For long periods of use, a wireless mouse is much easier to use than a trackpad. In particular, I find it rather galling that Apple have seen fit to supply, by default and without real warning, a wireless, cut-down aluminium keyboard out of the box with new iMacs. The user, who is generally expecting a numeric keyboard, then has to go off and buy an extra one just to work in the way they are used to. The logic of this decision by Apple escapes me completely. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers - Solved
OK - problem solved. Whilst it was obvious the keyboard could only be connected to one computer at a time, it would also seem that the keyboard can only be paired with one computer at a time. Disconnecting the bluetooth keyboard from the 27 was not enough, I had to remove it from the bluetooth list on the 27 and then the keyboard became discoverable and connection with the 24 went as normal. FYI removing from the list was just selecting it in the Bluetooth prefs pane and hitting the - button. Cheers Neil (who learns something new everyday!) -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/4/10 1:27 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Replying to my own post, from further reading of Apples support site: When your keyboard is on and paired, and the batteries are charged, the light will glow steadily for several seconds, then turn off. (which it does) and: If your wireless keyboard isn¹t paired with your Mac, the indicator light will begin to blink. This indicates your keyboard is in discovery mode and ready to pair with your Mac. (which it doesn't) http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3048#1 Also from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3894#discoverymode Discoverable: When a Bluetooth enabled device is ³discoverable,² other Bluetooth devices can detect, pair, or connect to it. Discovery mode: See discoverable. An Apple wireless keyboard or mouse will flash its indicator light when it is in discovery mode. Apple devices will turn off discovery mode after approximately three minutes to save battery life. Mac computers are always discoverable, unless you disable discovery mode. So, it seems to me that the problem may be: - The keyboard needs to be in discovery mode before the 24 iMac can see it. - The keyboard is not in discovery mode because it is paired with the 27 iMac. So, if that is the case, how do I get around this? Cheers Neil -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers - Solved - and a further question
So... I was just thinking - if the keyboard is paired with a computer and you no longer have access to the computer to delete the pairing (computer broken/stolen or you just took the keyboard on hols with your laptop but forgot to cut it loose from your desktop first) - is there any way to reset the keyboard to remove the pairing and initiate discoverable mode? Cheers Neil (who just needs to know this stuff!) -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/4/10 3:01 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: OK - problem solved. Whilst it was obvious the keyboard could only be connected to one computer at a time, it would also seem that the keyboard can only be paired with one computer at a time. Disconnecting the bluetooth keyboard from the 27 was not enough, I had to remove it from the bluetooth list on the 27 and then the keyboard became discoverable and connection with the 24 went as normal. FYI removing from the list was just selecting it in the Bluetooth prefs pane and hitting the - button. Cheers Neil (who learns something new everyday!) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers
Hi All, I've got an annoying little problem at present - I'm sure the solution is simple - but its eluding me :( I got one of the new wireless keyboards with my new 27 i7 iMac - no problems there, all working fine. However, since I do a lot of spreadsheet work and I am used to having a numbers keypad, I have gone back to using a wired keyboard (the one from my previous 24 iMac) - again no problems, all working fine. Today I had call to fire up the old 24 iMac - but the keyboard is plugged into the back of the new machine - so I thought I'd just use the wireless keyboard - and that's where my problems start. Bluetooth is working fine on the 24 iMac (wireless mighty mouse connected and working) but for the life of me I can't connect to the wireless keyboard - it just can't find it (I borrowed another USB keyboard while I tried to sort it out). At first, I thought I'd found the problem - when I switched on the wireless keyboard, it connected automatically to the new 27 iMac (which it had been originally set-up to work with) - so I know the keyboard is OK but thought that, being connected to the 27, it wasn't available to any other computer - so I disconnected the keyboard from the 27 (from the bluetooth menu) and tried again to connect from the 24 - but no joy. I must admit, I don't understand the whole on/off sleep/wake green light set-up on these keyboards. When I press the on/off switch, the green light always comes on for a few seconds and then goes out - so I even tried pressing the switch again while the 24 was looking for a keyboard to connect to - however this just reconnected the keyboard to the 27! To prevent the 27 getting in first I even tried switching the 27 off (after disconnecting the keyboard) and trying again from the 24 - no joy. So, the situation seems to be: The keyboard works fine (with the 27 iMac) Bluetooth works fine on the 24 The 24 cannot see the keyboard I have never had problems moving wireless mice from one computer to another ( back again) - why is the keyboard different. The 27 is running 10.6.3 and the 24 is currently running 10.5.8 - could that be relevant - though Apple says it's perfect for ANY Bluetooth-enabled Mac (running 10.5.8 or later). Do I have to unpair the 27 and keyboard somehow? (never had to for a mouse). Like I say, the solution is probably simple - anyone got it?? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers
Replying to my own post, from further reading of Apples support site: When your keyboard is on and paired, and the batteries are charged, the light will glow steadily for several seconds, then turn off. (which it does) and: If your wireless keyboard isn¹t paired with your Mac, the indicator light will begin to blink. This indicates your keyboard is in discovery mode and ready to pair with your Mac. (which it doesn't) http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3048#1 Also from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3894#discoverymode Discoverable: When a Bluetooth enabled device is ³discoverable,² other Bluetooth devices can detect, pair, or connect to it. Discovery mode: See discoverable. An Apple wireless keyboard or mouse will flash its indicator light when it is in discovery mode. Apple devices will turn off discovery mode after approximately three minutes to save battery life. Mac computers are always discoverable, unless you disable discovery mode. So, it seems to me that the problem may be: - The keyboard needs to be in discovery mode before the 24 iMac can see it. - The keyboard is not in discovery mode because it is paired with the 27 iMac. So, if that is the case, how do I get around this? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/4/10 1:02 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi All, I've got an annoying little problem at present - I'm sure the solution is simple - but its eluding me :( I got one of the new wireless keyboards with my new 27 i7 iMac - no problems there, all working fine. However, since I do a lot of spreadsheet work and I am used to having a numbers keypad, I have gone back to using a wired keyboard (the one from my previous 24 iMac) - again no problems, all working fine. Today I had call to fire up the old 24 iMac - but the keyboard is plugged into the back of the new machine - so I thought I'd just use the wireless keyboard - and that's where my problems start. Bluetooth is working fine on the 24 iMac (wireless mighty mouse connected and working) but for the life of me I can't connect to the wireless keyboard - it just can't find it (I borrowed another USB keyboard while I tried to sort it out). At first, I thought I'd found the problem - when I switched on the wireless keyboard, it connected automatically to the new 27 iMac (which it had been originally set-up to work with) - so I know the keyboard is OK but thought that, being connected to the 27, it wasn't available to any other computer - so I disconnected the keyboard from the 27 (from the bluetooth menu) and tried again to connect from the 24 - but no joy. I must admit, I don't understand the whole on/off sleep/wake green light set-up on these keyboards. When I press the on/off switch, the green light always comes on for a few seconds and then goes out - so I even tried pressing the switch again while the 24 was looking for a keyboard to connect to - however this just reconnected the keyboard to the 27! To prevent the 27 getting in first I even tried switching the 27 off (after disconnecting the keyboard) and trying again from the 24 - no joy. So, the situation seems to be: The keyboard works fine (with the 27 iMac) Bluetooth works fine on the 24 The 24 cannot see the keyboard I have never had problems moving wireless mice from one computer to another ( back again) - why is the keyboard different. The 27 is running 10.6.3 and the 24 is currently running 10.5.8 - could that be relevant - though Apple says it's perfect for ANY Bluetooth-enabled Mac (running 10.5.8 or later). Do I have to unpair the 27 and keyboard somehow? (never had to for a mouse). Like I say, the solution is probably simple - anyone got it?? Cheers Neil -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Losing my connection
Hi Mike, Thanks, I'll check those discussions out later and, like you, try turning off the Wake for network access in the Energy Saver preference pane first. In the meantime, I got the disconnect again and, this time, decided to try my network preferences ideas, ie: Secondly, to try to make the iMac look-for the internet connection again, you could try opening system preferences, going to the network preferences and selecting the Ethernet connection from the left-hand pane - I'm assuming you will have the default setting for Configure Ipv4 of Using DHCP - if so, here are a couple of thing you could try: - Click on the Advanced button and in the Window that opens select the TCP/IP tab, then click the button which says Renew DHCP Lease - If that doesn't work you could try, under the Configure Ipv4 drop-down list selecting Off and hitting the Apply then selecting Using DHCP again and again hitting Apply - this is the closest thing I can think of to my solution of basically switching the connection off and then on again. Only in my case, obviously, in the Airport pane rather than the Ethernet pane. I found that just hitting the Renew DHCP Lease didn't, in fact, obtain a DHCP lease - obviously there was still a connection problem. However, turning DHCP off and then on again (remembering to hit Apply after EACH step) DID solve the problem - so there you go. For me, it's still easier to turn Airport On/Off from the menu bar but, for your Ethernet connection, this method (assuming it works for you) should be easier than re-booting the computer and/or modem. Of course, if your other suggestions provide a permanent fix - you won't need this. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 6/4/10 6:13 PM, Mike Fuller at blis...@tpg.com.au wrote: There is an Apple Discussion about the topic I raised yesterday : Internet connection lost after sleep - Ethernet (although it seems to affect wireless connections also) Link is here: http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2258749start=45tstart =0 My iMac surprisingly didn't lose connection last night so I couldn't test your recommendations Neil. But a couple of others that are mentioned in the Apple discussion, and which worked for some, are: Turn off the Wake for network access in the Energy Saver preference Delete these two pref files: Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist I've just done the energy saver one and I'll see how that goes before trying anything else. Cheers Mike Fuller -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: G4 Lost Ethernet Connection
Hi Peter, Still not clear on a couple of things: on 5/4/10 1:39 PM, Peter Faulks at peterfau...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Neil, Thanks for your reply, I have an Airport Express with a red Lead to the Westnet unit (we connect via a satelite dish on the roof because we cannot get ADSL 2 locally) This Router unit then connects three computers using blue Ethernet cables. OK, so you have a Westnet satellite unit which incorporates a 4-port ethernet router. Three computers are connected to the router by ethernet (G4, G5 Acer). The router is also connected, via the 4th ethernet port to the Airport Express. I presume you then have the Airport Express set up in Create a wireless network mode and with the Internet Connection (on the Airport Express) set up as: Connect Using: Ethernet Configure IPv4: Using DHCP 1. A G5 Main Computer which does not have airport, 2. A G4 (Wife machine) which also does not have airport and an 3. An Acer PC that connects via Ethernet, these all share the printer via USB from the Airport Express. If I understand you correctly, you are saying the printer is plugged into the USB post on the Airport Express and that the computers then print to the shared printer over the ethernet network. If so, and you have fried the ethernet port on the G4, then presumably you can no longer print from the G4 to the printer hanging off the Airport Express. If you can still print from the G4 (which you say has no wireless card and is only connected via ethernet) then your ethernet port must be working and the problem must lie elsewhere. I also have a Lap Top that is wireless. - all worked fine before the storm. So can your Lap Top still connect wirelessly to the internet via the Airport Express. If so, you know that you still have a working internet connection available via the wireless network. The lights on the Airport Express light up for the G5 and the PC but not for the G4 so I think I have a faulty G4 Ethernet port. I swapped leads over without success and tried another lead. I presume that here you mean the lights on the Westnet router unit. The Airport Express only has one light - which should be glowing green if everything is working OK. I think I need to obtain or purchase an Ethernet card for a G4 and slot this into the motherboard, so my question was where do I get a Mac Ethernet Card from? You need to give a bit more info on your computer - what kind of G4 Mac are we talking about here. If you already have a working wireless network with your Internet connection available on it, I would have thought that would be simpler cheaper than trying to repair the blown ethernet port or (in a tower) install an additional ethernet card. I did install a Dynalink wirless USB device which when linked Peer to peer shows a low wireless signal but I can't connect to the Internet on the G4 nor Email. Not really clear what you did here. Are you saying that you could see YOUR wireless network but could not connect to it. Or did you successfully connect to the network but were unable to connect to the Internet (your email will not work until you have a successful internet connection). Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com Your description is not very clear as to how your network is set-up. You say: We connect to an Apple Airport Express which connect to a G5 and Windows PC via Ethernet, they all work fine, just the G4 that's not working. So are you saying the internet connection is distributed via both the ethernet network (for some machines) and wirelessly via the Airport Express (for other machines). If so, do all the other working machines confirm that both the ethernet and wireless network are working correctly (ie you can make an internet connection to both networks via one or other working machines. If so, and your only problem is that the G4 was connected via ethernet and is not now working - leading you to suspect the ethernet port is faulty (in which case the G4 will not be able to see the network or other machines on it and vice-versa) - then have you tried connecting the G4 wirelessly to the airport Express and connecting to the net that way. A lot of ifs which can be cut-down by a better description of just how your network is configured how your internet connection is distributed. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 5/4/10 9:21 AM, Peter Faulks at peterfau...@westnet.com.au wrote: During the storm my wife left her G4 on when we went out and when power came back on three days later the computer works but the ethernet does not? Anyone know where you can purchase an ethernet card for our G4? Or suggest how we can get the G4 back on the internet? I recently put in 1gb of Memory for $300.00 so I don't want to
Re: G4 Lost Ethernet Connection
Hi Peter, Your description is not very clear as to how your network is set-up. You say: We connect to an Apple Airport Express which connect to a G5 and Windows PC via Ethernet, they all work fine, just the G4 that's not working. So are you saying the internet connection is distributed via both the ethernet network (for some machines) and wirelessly via the Airport Express (for other machines). If so, do all the other working machines confirm that both the ethernet and wireless network are working correctly (ie you can make an internet connection to both networks via one or other working machines. If so, and your only problem is that the G4 was connected via ethernet and is not now working - leading you to suspect the ethernet port is faulty (in which case the G4 will not be able to see the network or other machines on it and vice-versa) - then have you tried connecting the G4 wirelessly to the airport Express and connecting to the net that way. A lot of ifs which can be cut-down by a better description of just how your network is configured how your internet connection is distributed. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 5/4/10 9:21 AM, Peter Faulks at peterfau...@westnet.com.au wrote: During the storm my wife left her G4 on when we went out and when power came back on three days later the computer works but the ethernet does not? Anyone know where you can purchase an ethernet card for our G4? Or suggest how we can get the G4 back on the internet? I recently put in 1gb of Memory for $300.00 so I don't want to throw it out. We connect to an Apple Airport Express which connect to a G5 and Windows PC via Ethernet, they all work fine, just the G4 that's not working. By the way I have two Airport Extreme units spare. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Losing my connection
Hi Mike, I have a similar problem with my 27 iMac i7 - except that my connection to the net is wireless. I hadn't picked up on a pattern, so I can't confirm that it is limited to overnight sleep (though, if so, I don't think it occurs every time the machine sleeeps overnight). When I wake the machine, the wireless network is showing as connected and working - but it says there is no internet connection. In my case, I find that just going to the airport icon in the menu bar and turning airport off and then turning airport back on fixes the problem - ie when the iMac re-connects to the airport network it again sees the internet connection. In my case, this is just a minor niggle - so I haven't looked much harder. I had hoped that the upgrade to 10.6.3 might fix it but I haven't had time to do the upgrade yet (got some other work I want to get out of the way first) - however, since you are experiencing what sounds like a very similar fault under 10.6.3, I may be disappointed :( In your case, you are getting your internet via a hard-wired ethernet connection, so my solution won't directly work for you - however it might point to a couple of things you could try: First off - have you tried just unplugging and re-plugging the ethernet cable - I'm not suggesting regular unplugging/re-plugging as a solution - just to see if it works. Secondly, to try to make the iMac look-for the internet connection again, you could try opening system preferences, going to the network preferences and selecting the Ethernet connection from the left-hand pane - I'm assuming you will have the default setting for Configure Ipv4 of Using DHCP - if so, here are a couple of thing you could try: - Click on the Advanced button and in the Window that opens select the TCP/IP tab, then click the button which says Renew DHCP Lease - If that doesn't work you could try, under the Configure Ipv4 drop-down list selecting Off and hitting the Apply then selecting Using DHCP again and again hitting Apply - this is the closest thing I can think of to my solution of basically switching the connection off and then on again. I have only just thought about these options when considering your problem, but I could also try the same thing (but on the Airport pane of the network preferences) the next time I see my problem. Let us know how you go. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 5/4/10 9:03 AM, Mike Fuller at blis...@tpg.com.au wrote: I have a 27 iMac i5 running OS 10.6.3. It is hardwired to a Belkin modem/router as well as a wireless connection to an Airport Extreme. I have a MacBook also running 10.6.3 and connected wirelessly. I have a Power Mac Dual G5 running 10.4.11 that is hardwired to the modem/router. Lately the iMac has had the annoying habit of losing the connection to the net when asleep overnight and I have to reconnect by restarting either the modem or the computer. It doesn't lose the connection when sleeping at other times. The other two Macs don't have this problem. Any suggestions? Thanks Mike Fuller -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Will not appear in finder
Hi Severin, So just to confirm: In Finder preferences: - Under the general pane, show these items on the desktop: you have a tick against External Disks, but the disk doesn't show on the desktop - Under the sidebar pane, show these items in the sidebar: you have a tick against External Disks, but the disk doesn't show in the sidebar - Under the sidebar pane, show these items in the sidebar: you have a tick against Sev's Computer or whatever you call it - if so and you select the computer in the sidebar, does the disk show up in the next column (assuming column view) - for me my usb drive shows up here whether or not I have it set to show in the sidebar or on the desktop. In Disk utility: - The top level device is showing up and verifies AND - The next level volume(s) are showing as mounted (ie in black, not grey) Have you tried unmounting and remounting the volume(s) from the disk utility toolbar to see if that triggers finder to see it/them. Sorry, but that's all that comes to mind on this soggy Albany day. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com PS. Congratulations to Jenny on her win in the Art Prize last night. on 2/4/10 11:29 AM, Severin Crisp at sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: I have a USB thumb drive and a USB hard drive, formatted OSX Extended (Journaled). They appear in Disk Utility and verify but will not appear anywhere in the Finder. Finder Preferences has All items to show on the desktop. What am I missing? Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Iomega 1TB HD cheapies
Hi Peter Paul, If you want one with an on/off switch, Harris Tech do the Iomega Prestige 1TB for $117 - I bought one a couple of weeks ago - seems fine so far... Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/4/10 1:46 PM, Peter Sealy at carp...@internode.on.net wrote: On looking closely at this deal I see that the drive while external powered has no ON-OFF switch so it stays spinning until the computer shuts down or you pull the plug from the wall. Also it seems that this model has been superseded. Notwithstanding this, appears a good deal [retail $150 elsewhere] and thanks Paul for the heads up. On 01/04/2010, at 9:04 AM, Paul Weaver wrote: WAMUG members who had stuff fried in the storm last week may be interested to know that Big W stores will be offering 1TB Iomega USB 2.0 external hard drives this coming Easter Saturday 3 April for $99. It's a one day special. Suggest it might be wise to be early. . Peter Sealy Thurgoona AUSTRALIA If you Google the word 'google' you will break the internet. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Locked Keychain Problem
Hi Barb, Glad to hear you finally cracked it and unlocked your keychain. From your original post I see you are using OSX 10.3.9, so I expect the differences you now see are due to how Keychain Access has developed from 10.3 to 10.6. Personally, I had a big upgrade from 10.2 straight to 10.5, so I never used 10.3 or 10.4. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 25/3/10 7:16 AM, Barb Zahari at buzz...@westnet.com.au wrote: AHA!! I think I may have cracked it! Had a few more guesses at the password - using educationally significant words .. student seems to have been acceptable (7 letters indeed Daniel!) .. doesn't seem a particularly secure choice!! Anyway the dialogue window went away hasn't reappeared since/yet ... After that the password PLC gave me started working I was able to unlock Keychain Access and to trash FileVaultMaster.keychain FileVaultMaster.cer(tificate) System Keychain from ~/Library/Keychains. Keychain First Aid etc then became visible accesible, but in the Window column not the Keychain Access column. New Keychain Add Keychain are now also accessible in the File column; but there's still no Preferences, either accessible or greyed out, in any column. Thanks for all the suggestions Ronni. Peter. Neil, Daniel .. going through them got me thinking trying various things. And now I'm going to bed!! Cheers .. BarbZ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Locked Keychain Problem
Hi Barb, Sorry, when I referred to the differences between 10.3 10.6, I meant the different menu configurations you are describing (on OSX 10.3.9) from what I see (on OSX 10.6.2). The FileVaultMaster stuff is, as you say, probably down to the school IT team changing locking down certain items to keep the students out of them - however you have always used Keychain on the OSX macs - it's just that you may not have been aware of it as it is generally operating quietly in the background so many people never have the need to fire-up the Keychain Access utility. There are actually lots of little utilities that Apple provides to let you tweak/inspect/fix things if you go looking for them - some people enjoy playing with all this but many people prefer the if it's not broken - don't mess with it approach - of course, when it IS broken, you have to mess with it ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 25/3/10 7:26 PM, Barb Zahari at buzz...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Neil Something won at least. eh? No don't think so - this older imac (grey/transparent slot loader all-in-one) is running 10.3.9 same as the ethernet-less emac. The version of Keychain installed on here is Keychain Access 3.1.4, installed 13/04/05 - 5.51am - some teacher was up at it early!! I've never actually used Keychain on any mac before - never found it necessary. I suspect the differences are due to the school IT team changing locking down certain items to keep the students out of them! Cheers .. BarbZ On 25 Mar 2010, at 6:40 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Barb, Glad to hear you finally cracked it and unlocked your keychain. From your original post I see you are using OSX 10.3.9, so I expect the differences you now see are due to how Keychain Access has developed from 10.3 to 10.6. Personally, I had a big upgrade from 10.2 straight to 10.5, so I never used 10.3 or 10.4. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 25/3/10 7:16 AM, Barb Zahari at buzz...@westnet.com.au wrote: AHA!! I think I may have cracked it! Had a few more guesses at the password - using educationally significant words .. student seems to have been acceptable (7 letters indeed Daniel!) .. doesn't seem a particularly secure choice!! Anyway the dialogue window went away hasn't reappeared since/yet ... After that the password PLC gave me started working I was able to unlock Keychain Access and to trash FileVaultMaster.keychain FileVaultMaster.cer(tificate) System Keychain from ~/Library/Keychains. Keychain First Aid etc then became visible accesible, but in the Window column not the Keychain Access column. New Keychain Add Keychain are now also accessible in the File column; but there's still no Preferences, either accessible or greyed out, in any column. Thanks for all the suggestions Ronni. Peter. Neil, Daniel .. going through them got me thinking trying various things. And now I'm going to bed!! Cheers .. BarbZ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Locked Keychain Problem
Hi Barb Lots of good suggestions already - just a couple more points/items to check: First-off, the instructions below are as on my Snow Leopard - since you are running an older system, things may not be exactly the same - but the same principles apply. In the Keychain Access application, under the main Keychain Access menu, you will find the preferences' item - open the preferences and: - Under the First Aid tab, which boxes are ticked (for me, all four boxes are ticked) - Under the General tab, there is a Reset My Default Keychain button which Reverts to factory defaults and creates a new empty login keychain. Your current default keychain will be moved aside, but not deleted. In essence, this is similar to Peter's suggestion to delete the keychain and let OSX create a new one but since the old one is not actually deleted, you may be able to later retrieve information from it if you want/need. Before trying that, however, you may just want to see if there is a repairable keychain problem: In the Keychain Access application, under the main Keychain Access menu, there is a command Keychain First Aid which gives you the option to verify and/or repair the keychain(s). The Keychain First Aid window which opens up asks for User Name and Password but should open up with the user name you are logged-in with filled in and you should not need to enter the password, since you are already logged-in (well, that's what I find - assuming your preferences are set like mine). Set to verify, press start and see what it reports - if all is well the dialogue should conclude No problems found Verification completed if a problem is found try Repair If anything is found, let us know the result. I'm not really clear from your posts whether you have just the one user account that is the admin account (which you are having the problems with) or if there is an admin account that you don't have the password to and your user account that doesn't have admin privileges. They gave me a new username/password (both the same) when I got it, but that one doesn't work either!!! Is this the only account on the computer and, if not, does it have admin privileges: Open system preferences, go to the Accounts pane and see what accounts are listed - eg for me, at the top it shows under My Account the account Neil Houghton (that I am currently logged in under) with Admin listed below, then under Other Accounts it lists some other user accounts and Guest Account What is your set-up - in particular, is there another admin account rather than your log-in account? So, to summarise: - Do you just have the single user admin account. - What are your keychain preference settings (in particular, is your log-in keychain the default and is it set to be kept unlocked while you are logged-in) - Have you tried verifying and, if necessary, repairing your keychain. - You can always hit the Reset My Default Keychain button and start from scratch. Hope that helps. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 23/3/10 11:32 PM, Barb Zahari at buzz...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Daniel Thanks for help! On 23/03/2010, at 10:51 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Barb Also, when it comes up with the password screen have you tried either a) just leaving it blank and clicking OK Yep tried that, but it annoyingly keeps coming back - at least it seems to be letting me use Safari now, but it seems a bit flaky (kept quitting at random moments) so I've downloaded Camino for OS10.3.9 using that. or b) entering password as the password (Without ) Didn't try that obvious one! Tried a few school related words but no go! or c) putting in the same password as the username. Eg if the username is Admin then use admin or Admin as the password. Sometimes on clean installs the easy option is entered. They gave me a new username/password (both the same) when I got it, but that one doesn't work either!!! Also, with your eMac, I'd just be a bit weary of getting it repaired. As the Ethernet port is normally on the logicboard for most models, they are very very expensive and worth well and truly more then the machine is worth!! I'd try a PRAM zap to reset it then see if it works, and if that doesn't it'd make a call to a service centre and a) see what a rough cost is and b) how much they charge to even just look at it. (Again, the service charge may be worth more then repairing the machine). Oh well .. it's already in to be looked at .. will see what they say - can't bear this imac for too long after a couple of years on the emac! And where would I get another emac for that price? (I don't do ebay.) He did suggest that if it is a dead ethernet port, I could probably circumvent it by using a USB-to-ethernet cable instead. I was able to get into Mail, get rid of their PLC set up set up my own Westnet details (copying from
Re: Preview's Hidden Powers
Hi Michael and Ronni, I have the same problem with Preview - from memory it's been there pretty much since day 1 on my new machine with SL 10.6 - although, since it is somewhat intermittent, I can't be sure about that. A bit more info/description of the problem: Heres a typical example, this morning I get an email with an attached .jpg (a concert flier, from a reputable source) Within Entourage, I double click the attachment and it opens in Preview - with a blank window - however (and this is common to all instances of the problem) if I show the sidebar, a correct thumbnail of the poster can be seen in the sidebar. I drag the attachment to the desktop - so now I have a new copy of the .jpg on my desktop - it has a proper icon showing the poster, quicklook shows the poster just fine but double-clicking the icon opens it in Preview and the problem is still there (sidebar thumbnail OK, main window blank). So I tried Ronni's sugestion (in fact, just to be sure, I also dragged the com.apple.preview.bookmarks.plist and com.apple.preview.LSSharedFileList.plist files to the desktop). Re-started Preview and opened the file by double clicking - problem still there. Then I tried using File/Open Recent from Preview to open the file - problem still there. Now, here's where it gets interesting - somewhere along the way I had found a solution which seems to work for me: I quit and re-launched Preview (don't think there is any significance to this, but I did anyway!) then used File/Open from Preview, navigated to the file on my desktop and opened it and Voilà - now the poster shows in the main window. Most strange - why does open work when open recent doesn't - however, so far, this approach seems to work for me. The good thing, which makes the whole problem more of a minor irritation than a major pain, is that having once opened OK, the file seems to behave itself, ie double clicking it now shows the poster OK in the main window. Also interestingly, it seems to have fixed it for both versions off the file, ie after opening the file dragged to the desktop (thus fixing that) double-clicking on the original attachment (in the email in Enourage) also opens OK now. As I say, the problem only occurs with some files - I first noticed it with some scans I did - but I've also seen it with email attachments and files off the web. With ref to Ronni's second question, I am not running Preview in 32-bit mode - why? Should I be? Is this a known problem running in 64-bit mode that is solved by running in 32-bit? - or were you wondering if the problem was caused by running in 32-bit? Since Apple obviously revised Preview quite significantly with SL, I guess I just figured it was a Preview bug that would get ironed out over time - and, yes, my system is up-to-date ;) Anyway, Michael, it might be worth trying that with your problem files - ie instead of double-clicking or whatever, just open preview first and use the file?open command and navigate to the file to open it - and see if: 1) the file then opens OK (ie not the blank grey screen) 2) the solution then sticks (ie subsequent opening by double-clicking is then OK) That would then tend to confirm that it is the same problem. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 18/3/10 11:03 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Michael, Something is wrong with your Preview Application. First try moving the preference file. Quit Preview, move the com.apple.preview.plist file out of /Users/username/Library/Preferences/ to the Desktop, relaunch Preview, and open an image file. If it still won't display correctly check if you are running Preview in 32-bit mode. Click once on the Preview Application File Get Info - is Open in 32-bit mode selected? Cheers, Ronni On 18/03/2010, at 10:40 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: Whoops, forgot to say OS 10.6.2 MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Preview is problematic on my computer, because frequently a grey screen is all that is displayed when I open something in Preview. However, by using Print command in Preview the item I have opened will print. I haven't been disciplined enough to not what does and what does not behave this way - my exasperation level is usually too high - but it includes photos exported from iPhoto to the desktop as well as jpg and tif and tiff. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Printing a webpage
Also, as I mentioned, don't forget the Grab application that Apple provides in the Utilities folder - not only does it mean that an old bloke like me doesn't have to remember the various key combos for the different screenshots, it also offers a timed screen capture - not that I've had need of this yet ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 17/3/10 2:13 PM, Bill Parker at re...@westnet.com.au wrote: And also a thankyou to Ronni from somebody who frequently needs to capture a quick shot of something but wasn't really looking. Excellent tip! Bill On 17/03/2010, at 1:55 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: Thank you to all who replied so promptly. I had been tearing my hair out: print gave me extraneous material and links wand was not an accurate reproduction of the page; PDF gave the same result; Grab meant that the page wouldn't fit on an A4 page; but the winner was . Ronni. Command - Shift -4 meant I could capture exactly what I wanted including the menu bar, URL, and foot of page. Regards, Michael. On 17/3/10 1:26 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Eugene, That's also correct in Safari 4 as well, but it only gives the web address as a footer at the bottom of the page. I think what Michael is wanting is a complete 'picture' of the webpage showing the URL at the top. Cheers, Ronni On 17/03/2010, at 1:05 PM, Eugene wrote: Hi I'm using the latest incarnation of Firefox (3.6) and in the print dialog box it allows me to place headers and footers on each page with such things as URL, Page # of #, Title, Date/Time etc. Regards, Eugene On 17/03/2010, at 12:12 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: Many web pages have special style sheets to manage printing. You can try the PDF options button at the bottom left of the print dialog to save the page as a PDF and see if this gives you what you want. If you want an exact representation, use Cmd Shift 4 to capture the region of the screen displaying the web page. You may need to get several shots if the page is long, and put the pieces together in Keynote or some other app. Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: On 17 March 2010 11:17, Michael Hawkins michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au wrote: I am want to print a webpage, but cannot manage to do it. Web Page prints as segments and does not show URL, even when I use Mail. I have tried Safari 4.05 and Firefox 3.6 into Entourage 11.4 and Mail 4.2 OS 10.6.2, MacBook Pro 2.4HHz Intel Core 2 Duo Regards, Michael Hawkins. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Preview's Hidden Powers
Just to add to this one thing which has changed in the latest version (since Snow Leopard, I think) - it confused me for a while until I learnt about how the change worked (can¹t remember now where I read it): It used to be that to add/copy pages from one pdf to another (or even, as Kirk notes, add-in a whole pdf) you just dragged/option dragged them into the sidebar (as per Kirk¹s article) - you could then either ³save² or ³save as² to create a new document with the extra pages (depending whether you also wanted to retain the unchanged original). If you try this in the new Preview, say just drag another pdf into the sidebar, you will notice that rather than adding it to the original pdf, Preview now treats them as two separate pdfs just displayed in the same window if you ³save² or ³save as² then you will be saving just one of these 2 pdfs (whichever is in focus at the time). I originally thought this was a major backwards step until I learnt the new method to do this: If you want to ADD the dragged pages (or whole pdf) to the original document, when you drag them to the sidebar you need to drop them ON TOP OF the sidebar icon of the original pdf the sidebar icon will then ³open up² to allow you to place the dragged content where you want it - before, after or in-between pages of the original pdf (assuming the original pdf was multi-paged). You will then see that Preview then lists the window contents as: ³name.pdf (page x of n)² (ie as a single document) rather than ³name.pdf (page x of a) (2 documents, n total pages)² Once you get used to it, the new method is great you can work with multiple pdf documents in the same window and add/subtract pages from the individual documents and save the documents separately it¹s just not that obvious how that works if you are used to the old method! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 18/3/10 9:24 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi People, After Peter's comments about Preview, I felt perhaps some people are unaware of what a very good application Preview is. Quite some time ago Kirk McElhearn, Macworld published this article. In the original document there are a couple of images, which I have excluded due to WAMUG Mailing list not wanting attachments sent to the List. - Preview¹s hidden powers 8 things you didn¹t know you could do with this built-in tool by Kirk McElhearn, Macworld.com http://Macworld.com Apple¹s Preview is more than just a fast and efficient program for reading PDFs, viewing graphics, and running slide shows. The version that comes with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) has some powerful features stashed away in its menus. Now you can enhance your images, annotate and merge PDFs, print multiple images on one page, and moreall without opening a specialised (and often expensive) image editor or PDF tool. Read on to discover eight great things you can do with Preview. 1. Annotate PDFs One of the best things about Adobe¹s Portable Document Format (PDF) is that it allows you to share documents while making sure that everyone sees the same layout, even if the recipients don¹t own the software that created the document. You can create PDF files from the Print dialog box of any Mac OS X program and then send them to friends and colleagues. In the past, if you had detailed comments about the PDFs your colleagues sent you, you were stuckyou couldn¹t change the text, so you had to put your suggestions in another file, such as an e-mail message. Alternatively, someone in your group had to buy a copy of Adobe¹s $449 Acrobat Professional 8 to allow you all to add comments directly to the file. But Leopard¹s Preview lets you add notes, highlight and strike through text, or use ovals and rectangles to call attention to specific sections of the page. You can even add links to other pages in a document or to Web sites. Best of all, other PDF readersincluding both Mac OS X and Windows versions of Adobe Acrobat Readercan view all of these annotations. To begin, open any PDF in Preview and then choose Tools: Annotate. A submenu gives you four options: Add Oval, Add Rectangle, Add Note, and Add Link. Use either the oval or the rectangle shape to draw attention to specific elements on the page (see ³Share Comments²). Select the one you want in the menu and then click and drag to draw. Select the shape on the page and drag it around to position it precisely, or drag one of its corners to resize it. Share Comments: Preview lets you mark up your documents through a variety of annotation tools, including ovals and notes. To add comments, choose Add Note and then click where you want the note to appear; you¹ll see a small yellow icon that looks like a speech bubble. Place this wherever you like. Enter your text in the yellow box that appears in the margin. To move a note¹s icon later, double-click on
Re: Printing a webpage
Hi Michael, No thoughts on what your actual problem is - but if you want a quick fix you can always take a snapshot of the browser window. In Snow Leopard, I use the Grab application, which lets you capture the screen, a window or just a selection of the screen. It can be found in the Applications/Utilities folder (can't remember if this was in earlier OSX versions - but you could always take snapshots one way or another). Obviously you can then print the snapshot. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 17/3/10 11:17 AM, Michael Hawkins at michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au wrote: I am want to print a webpage, but cannot manage to do it. Web Page prints as segments and does not show URL, even when I use Mail. I have tried Safari 4.05 and Firefox 3.6 into Entourage 11.4 and Mail 4.2 OS 10.6.2, MacBook Pro 2.4HHz Intel Core 2 Duo Regards, Michael Hawkins. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Six tips for using the Dock efficiently
An interesting little article in Australian Macworld - I got a few new pointers out of it! http://www.macworld.com.au/help/view/six-tips-for-using-the-dock-efficientl y-4639 Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Six tips for using the Dock efficiently
He he... Isn't it amazing at this stage of development that email clients still mangle URLs?! No, Paul, there wasn't a space in the original URL - well not as copied and pasted directly from the browser address bar to the email message (and even inserted into brackets to try hold it all together!) However, I have no doubt that when you opened the message you DID find a space capriciously inserted into the URL - it often happens! Interestingly: - When I received my original post back from WAMUG the link was fine, but - In the WAMUG archive, the link is broken - When you got my original post from WAMUG, you obviously found the link broken - When you replied to my post, your reply came back with my link (in my quoted message) back to being a working link (both as I received it AND in the WAMUG archive) I would lay bets that amongst list members many received the original post with the link working whilst many others found it broken! At least with the visual indication of the link in the email it is pretty obvious if clicking on the link is going to work or not (ie is the whole URL showing as the link or only part of it) One feature I like with modern versions of Safari Firefox is that if you copy and paste (all of) an obviously broken link from the email they seem to detect the offending space and connect you anyway! All part of the joys of computers! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 12/3/10 1:34 PM, Paul Weaver at pwea...@westnet.com.au wrote: Try http://www.macworld.com.au/help/view/six-tips-for-using-the-dock-efficiently-4 639 There was a space between l and y in the original URL. - Original Message - From: Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com To: WAMUG wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Friday, 12 March, 2010 10:25:40 AM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: Six tips for using the Dock efficiently An interesting little article in Australian Macworld - I got a few new pointers out of it! http://www.macworld.com.au/help/view/six-tips-for-using-the-dock-efficiently- 4639 Cheers Neil -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Printing shadow boxes in Word 2004 to an HP 8000 colour laser printer
Hi Tim, That forum post sounds similar but, in fact, is specifically related to Word 2008 - the first reply notes that it WASN'T a problem in Word 2004 but WAS a problem in Word 2008 and the next reply says it is (or was in April 2008) a known bug. So, assuming that Sally is still running Word 2004, this would not actually seem to be the same problem - still interesting that the symptom sounds the same though. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 7/3/10 3:56 PM, Tim Law at t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Really sorry to create the initial confusion. I thought Sally had a dual processor G5. But obviously she now has something different. There is mention of this problem at http://www.officeformac.com/ms/ProductForums/Word/2486/0 but no apparent fix so far. I will forward all the responses to her and she may yet find a fix herself. Appreciate the feedback, and again apologies for starting the confusion by posting she had a G5. Tim On 07/03/2010, at 3:44 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Severin (and Ronni) You are correct, the G5 was a PPC processor. There was an iMac G5 and a PPC PowerMac G5. Intel didn't make a G5, so the MacPro wasn't a G5. (Sorry to correct Ronni) :o) And yes 10.6.x requires Intel only. 10.5 was the last OS that would work on a PPC machine (but killed off Classic support). Hope that helps clarify a little. Kind Regards Daniel On 7/3/10 3:23 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Yes, I know what you mean Severin. It always confuses me when people say they have a G5, it can mean an iMac G5, a Power Mac G5, a Mac Pro, any Apple G5 computer. It makes life a little difficult if you are trying to give support ... Cheers, Ronni On 07/03/2010, at 3:15 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: Thanks Ronni, I thought the G5 bit referred only to PPC and was not used on the Intel MacPros Severin On 07/03/2010, at 3:06 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Severin, The Mac Pro G5 is Intel: http://www.apple.com/macpro/specs.html 8-core: Two 2.26GHz, 2.66GHz, or 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5500 series processors Quad-core: One 2.66GHz, 2.93GHz, or 3.33GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 3500 series processor Cheers, Ronni On 07/03/2010, at 2:35 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I am puzzled at 10.6.2 on a G5 - I thought Snow Leopard required an Intel Mac? Severin Crisp On 07/03/2010, at 10:26 AM, Tim Law wrote: All, Thanks for the tips so far. Sally has provided me with two documents, her original Word file showing a nicely set up shadow box, and a PDF of the same document showing a yukky text box with shadow of the text inside the text box. I have created a PDF accessible for viewing at http://files.me.com/peoplehelp/jmjg2a this shows the output problem she has. This yukky text box is replicated on her two printers - HP 5550 colour an HP 8000 I tested to see if I could recreate the problem on my iMac running Word 2004, the same as Sally's. Given she has had the same printing problem with Leopard and Snow Leopard I am thinking the operating system and machine is not the issue. To my surprise, I found the Word document printed fine, and so did the PDF version - with clear shadow box and no shadow on the text inside the box. I have a Dell CN3110 colour laser. So - The document CAN print properly and it CAN be saved correctly as a PDF. This would appear to put Word 2004 out of the equation as the problem. But - On Sally's machine it cannot, despite using the same Word 2004 version. I can understand the actual printers not functioning correctly as they could have inadequate drivers, but I am confused as to why she gets problems printing to PDF. I would have thought that would have worked separately from the physical printer drivers. I am wondering if somehow the Apple printing tool that allows printing to PDF has been altered by the installation of the printer drivers for the two HP printers. I have no clue, just wondering. One option I can pursue is to pack up my Dell colour laser and take it to Sally's and hook up to her system and see what happens - or, now here's an idea - become her printing service for a suitable fee :-) The link showing the problems in a pdf is active for one month. After that date if you come across this posting, just email me direct. Thanks Tim On 06/03/2010, at 9:29 PM, Tim Law wrote: Hello, I am asking this for a friend of mine who is running Office Mac 2004 on a G5 with 10.6.2 and needing some help with printing of text boxes and shadow. She prints to an HP 8000 laser. The printer is an older A3 colour that duplexes and very valuable for her business - but it just won't talk properly to the Mac - or so it seems. She can set up what she wants on the screen i.e. a text box with a shadow around the outside of
Re: Printing shadow boxes in Word 2004 to an HP 8000 colour laser printer
Hi Tim, Another thought, sometimes the problems are not as simple as: it is either: A Word problem A printer problem A computer/OS problem etc. - sometimes it is how a specific combination reacts. From your postings: On Sally's machine: - The text box looks fine in Word 2004 - a print from Word to the printer shows the problem with the text box - a print from Word to print as pdf also shows the problem with the text box. On your machine: - The text box looks fine in Word 2004 - a print from Word to the printer looks fine - a print from Word to print as pdf also looks fine For what it is worth, I am also running Word 2004 under OSX 10.6.2 (but on a new intel i7 iMac) and I can create a similar shadowed text box that prints fine to pdf (haven't tried hard copy - but I'm sure that would be fine also) - I also opened my Word document on a G5 iMac running OSX 10.5.6 and it also looked fine and printed to pdf fine. However, from this, I'm not sure that I would agree: This would appear to put Word 2004 out of the equation as the problem. It seems to me the problem could easily be down to the particular installation of Word on Sally's machine - or the interaction of Word with this particular printer driver? Has Sally run Microsoft Autoupdate to make sure she has the latest Office 2004 update (my version of Word 2004 is 11.5.6). As you say, trying your printer on Sally's machine will help to narrow the problem down. One other thing you could try is doing the print to pdf on your machine to create a good pdf of the document and then sending the pdf to Sally, to see if her printer can print the pdf (as opposed to the word document) OK - or whether that also messes up the text box. As Ronni says, re-installing OSX is one thing you can try (though on a G5 it will be Leopard 10.5.8 rather than SL 10.6.2). If it was me, I might also try re-installing Office 2004 (maybe even before re-installing OSX?) - being sure to then apply the latest Office updates. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 7/3/10 10:55 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Tim, Trying your printer on Sally's machine would be the way to go, it should then sort out if it is her operating system or her G5. One thing Sally could try is to re-install OS X 10.6 from the OS X 10.6 Install Disc, (she won't loose anything, re-installing OS X 10.6 does an 'Archive Install', I had to do this after a LogicBoard replacement), and then run the Combo 10.6.2 to bring her uptodate. Or just run the 10.6.2 Combo Update overtop of her 10.6.2 system. It might just change something back to what it should be. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL959 Sally should repair permissions BEFORE AFTER doing the Re-Install or the Combo Update. Cheers, Ronni On 07/03/2010, at 10:26 AM, Tim Law wrote: All, Thanks for the tips so far. Sally has provided me with two documents, her original Word file showing a nicely set up shadow box, and a PDF of the same document showing a yukky text box with shadow of the text inside the text box. I have created a PDF accessible for viewing at http://files.me.com/peoplehelp/jmjg2a this shows the output problem she has. This yukky text box is replicated on her two printers - HP 5550 colour an HP 8000 I tested to see if I could recreate the problem on my iMac running Word 2004, the same as Sally's. Given she has had the same printing problem with Leopard and Snow Leopard I am thinking the operating system and machine is not the issue. To my surprise, I found the Word document printed fine, and so did the PDF version - with clear shadow box and no shadow on the text inside the box. I have a Dell CN3110 colour laser. So - The document CAN print properly and it CAN be saved correctly as a PDF. This would appear to put Word 2004 out of the equation as the problem. But - On Sally's machine it cannot, despite using the same Word 2004 version. I can understand the actual printers not functioning correctly as they could have inadequate drivers, but I am confused as to why she gets problems printing to PDF. I would have thought that would have worked separately from the physical printer drivers. I am wondering if somehow the Apple printing tool that allows printing to PDF has been altered by the installation of the printer drivers for the two HP printers. I have no clue, just wondering. One option I can pursue is to pack up my Dell colour laser and take it to Sally's and hook up to her system and see what happens - or, now here's an idea - become her printing service for a suitable fee :-) The link showing the problems in a pdf is active for one month. After that date if you come across this posting, just email me direct. Thanks Tim On 06/03/2010, at 9:29 PM, Tim Law wrote: Hello, I am asking this for a friend of mine who is running Office Mac 2004 on
Re: Printing shadow boxes in Word 2004 to an HP 8000 colour laser printer
OOOPS! Resend after seeing Ronni's post re the Intel G5 - Like Severin, I thought the G5 refered to the processor! So ignore my previous comment re 10.5.8! Confused of Albany ;) Hi Tim, Another thought, sometimes the problems are not as simple as: it is either: A Word problem A printer problem A computer/OS problem etc. - sometimes it is how a specific combination reacts. From your postings: On Sally's machine: - The text box looks fine in Word 2004 - a print from Word to the printer shows the problem with the text box - a print from Word to print as pdf also shows the problem with the text box. On your machine: - The text box looks fine in Word 2004 - a print from Word to the printer looks fine - a print from Word to print as pdf also looks fine For what it is worth, I am also running Word 2004 under OSX 10.6.2 (but on a new intel i7 iMac) and I can create a similar shadowed text box that prints fine to pdf (haven't tried hard copy - but I'm sure that would be fine also) - I also opened my Word document on a G5 iMac running OSX 10.5.6 and it also looked fine and printed to pdf fine. However, from this, I'm not sure that I would agree: This would appear to put Word 2004 out of the equation as the problem. It seems to me the problem could easily be down to the particular installation of Word on Sally's machine - or the interaction of Word with this particular printer driver? Has Sally run Microsoft Autoupdate to make sure she has the latest Office 2004 update (my version of Word 2004 is 11.5.6). As you say, trying your printer on Sally's machine will help to narrow the problem down. One other thing you could try is doing the print to pdf on your machine to create a good pdf of the document and then sending the pdf to Sally, to see if her printer can print the pdf (as opposed to the word document) OK - or whether that also messes up the text box. As Ronni says, re-installing OSX is one thing you can try. If it was me, I might also try re-installing Office 2004 (maybe even before re-installing OSX?) - being sure to then apply the latest Office updates. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 7/3/10 10:55 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Tim, Trying your printer on Sally's machine would be the way to go, it should then sort out if it is her operating system or her G5. One thing Sally could try is to re-install OS X 10.6 from the OS X 10.6 Install Disc, (she won't loose anything, re-installing OS X 10.6 does an 'Archive Install', I had to do this after a LogicBoard replacement), and then run the Combo 10.6.2 to bring her uptodate. Or just run the 10.6.2 Combo Update overtop of her 10.6.2 system. It might just change something back to what it should be. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL959 Sally should repair permissions BEFORE AFTER doing the Re-Install or the Combo Update. Cheers, Ronni On 07/03/2010, at 10:26 AM, Tim Law wrote: All, Thanks for the tips so far. Sally has provided me with two documents, her original Word file showing a nicely set up shadow box, and a PDF of the same document showing a yukky text box with shadow of the text inside the text box. I have created a PDF accessible for viewing at http://files.me.com/peoplehelp/jmjg2a this shows the output problem she has. This yukky text box is replicated on her two printers - HP 5550 colour an HP 8000 I tested to see if I could recreate the problem on my iMac running Word 2004, the same as Sally's. Given she has had the same printing problem with Leopard and Snow Leopard I am thinking the operating system and machine is not the issue. To my surprise, I found the Word document printed fine, and so did the PDF version - with clear shadow box and no shadow on the text inside the box. I have a Dell CN3110 colour laser. So - The document CAN print properly and it CAN be saved correctly as a PDF. This would appear to put Word 2004 out of the equation as the problem. But - On Sally's machine it cannot, despite using the same Word 2004 version. I can understand the actual printers not functioning correctly as they could have inadequate drivers, but I am confused as to why she gets problems printing to PDF. I would have thought that would have worked separately from the physical printer drivers. I am wondering if somehow the Apple printing tool that allows printing to PDF has been altered by the installation of the printer drivers for the two HP printers. I have no clue, just wondering. One option I can pursue is to pack up my Dell colour laser and take it to Sally's and hook up to her system and see what happens - or, now here's an idea - become her printing service for a suitable fee :-) The link showing the problems in a pdf is active for one month. After that date if you come across this posting, just email me direct. Thanks Tim On
Re: Entourage fun
Hi David, Regarding the permissions to check external mail - I had much strangeness with this after, I think, a MS Office update (or maybe migrating accounts - they both happened around the same time). Prior to the problem manifesting, all my email passwords (several email accounts) were in my login keychain - but somehow some of them got lost so Entourage asked me for the passwords again (just some accounts!). After giving the passwords, they were now stored in the Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates keychain and I kept getting asked for permission to use this keychain - at first this was a panic as I didn't have the password for this keychain - until I worked out I could just hit OK and away it went. I then started noticing other strangeness - other internet passwords were now being put into the Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates keychain - it took me a while to notice that, if I opened Keychain access, the Microsoft keychain was in bold - it then twigged that something had made the Microsoft keychain my default keychain (hence the bold). I made my login keychain the default again and then re-created the keychain items in question (including the problem email passwords) in my (now default) login keychain and deleted these items from the Microsoft keychain. This took a bit of trial and error for me - at first, I tried to just move the keychain items - but I was asked for the password to the Microsoft keychain and just hitting OK didn't work then (from memory) I tried copying and pasting the item from one keychain to the other and also just opening the item and using the info to create a new keychain item in the login keychain - these approaches also sometimes asked for the password to the Microsoft keychain but seemed to accept just hitting OK. Now all is back to normal, new passwords go straight into my login keychain and Entourage retrieves the passwords from this keychain without further interrogation!! In hindsight, I can see that all the problems must have come from the changeover of the default keychain from login to Microsoft - which I suspect was done by some MS update - just a pity that I did not notice that this had happened at the time! This may or may not be related to your problem, but it would be worth checking Keychain Access to makke sure that your default keychain is still login and not Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates If this turns out to be the problem, the solution has two parts: 1) Change the default keychain back to login 2) Move/copy/create the relevant keychain items in login rather than in the Microsoft keychain. The easiest is moving, next easiest copy and Paste, then create a new item - but it depends on if you can do it without the password to the Microsoft keychain - I found it all a bit inconsistent as to when it required this. I also found that the one item I created from scratch didn't initially work - even though all the (visible) info was the same as the one in the other keychain - but running Keychain First Aid sorted that out OK - in hindsight I would just run this before and after changing any thing (to be sure). Other (more knowledgeable) folks may have a more succinct procedure for all this - as I say, there was a bit of trial and error on my part - but it did get the job done!! Hope that helps. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 5/3/10 3:51 PM, David Paul at david.p...@uwa.edu.au wrote: Hi My employer has just forced us onto Entourage because they have shifted to a MS Exchange server. After over a decade of happily using Eudora and then Mail what a backward step! Apart from a headache from trying to work out which is THE inbox (why have two???) having to repeatedly give permission to to check my external mail despite already having done this in keychain, no ical events in the new supposedly integrated calendar in Entourage, ... What could be better! This has prompted me to update my Macbook pro from 10.5.8 to 10.6 so I can go back to using Mail and try its ability to link to MS Exchange Server - I hope it works well as entourage is not, in my view a clean user friendlyprogram. I mean you can not even drag and drop an email into a folder but have to go through two drop down menus. How efficient and time saving is that! Anyway does anyone have experience using mail in 10.6 and MS Exchange server? There seems to be a bit of chatter about it not always being a smooth ride or setup so some tips and cautions would be appreciated. Regards Dave -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -
Re: Darken printing
Hi Peter, One thing you can do is to save as an image format and then use an image editor to adjust levels. As a check, I just opened a pdf in preview and then saved as a png. I could then open the png in both Graphic converter and iPhoto - both of which offered me options to set levels. I'm not very familiar with using iPhoto but I could see that the edit pane gave access to an Adjust tool palette which offers many adjustments, including: - An histogram with sliders for the black, white and midrange levels - Exposure - Contrast - Saturation Actually, I now see that once you save the pdf as an image, you can actually adjust the colour and exposure within Preview, although iPhoto may offer more options/controls. One thing to be aware of is that the conversion to an image means that you can no longer select text to copy and paste into other applications (all the content has been changed into a bitmap) - so it may be worth keeping the original pdf for that and just using the .png (or other image format) for optimising the levels for printing. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 3/3/10 4:15 PM, Peter Curtis at pcur...@aapt.net.au wrote: Hi I've a problem with a .pdf I'm printing. Unfortunately the writing is extremely faint and I cannot see any way of darkening it. I've looked at all the options I have with the printer (Fuji Xerox C525A) and can't see any way of darkening the print. Has anyone got any suggestions? Have I missed some obvious solution? Regards Peter MacBook Pro 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo running 10.6.2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: New EPSON printer says it's OFFLINE
Hi Denise, I'm not familiar with these printers setting them up wirelessly - but a couple of thoughts: 1) If you are under the gun to print out the boarding passes, why not just temporarily connect the printer by USB to print off the passes. Then you can fault-find your network printing without the added time pressure ;) 2) You have told us that System Preferences, Network shows STATUS - Connected and the name of your wireless connection. What about System Preferences, Print Fax - does that show the printer - it should be listed in the left pane, with a green light and something like Idle, Default 3) Note that if you have had the printer connected in different ways (ie by USB and by wireless network) each set-up will show separately in the printer list - I prefer to give these listings indicative names (eg Epson TX810FW - USB and Epson TX810FW - Wireless) then if I swap around between wireless and direct USB connection, I just change the default printer accordingly. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 25/2/10 2:37 PM, Denise Williams at chri...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi All I've just had to go and buy a new printer as my 2 Epsons have recently decided to die. (I reckon they're defaulted to die at 3years of age!) I am on my iMac with OS 10.5.8. I have just gone through all the hoops to install my new Epson Stylus Photo TX810FW. I used the enclosed CD and all went well - I received the 'Installation Successful' message. It is a wireless model. I have checked under System Preferences, Network and am told STATUS - Connected and it shows the name of my wireless connection. I have printing sharing ON. But now when I go to print something from my Mac, I get a message saying 'Printer is currently Offline'. The power is on. I'm also getting a spinning wheel regarding ink levels. The wheel won't stop so I don't get to see ink levels anyway. I've put in all 6 of the new cartridges that came with the printer. I have been able to use the printer as a copier. I need to print off boarding passes for a flight at 6am tomorrow morning HELP! TIA Denise Williams-Photographer PH 9447 3468 MOB 0417 184592 chri...@iinet.net.au 55 Duart Rd TRIGG WA 6029 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re:External USB HDD (2 partitions) is not showing
(Re-sent with new subject as per Ronni's post) Hi Alan, Just an off-the-wall thought - you aren't running Windows under parallels or fusion are you? If you are - is the USB drive being captured by Windows and so unavailable to OSX (though, if so, I wouldn't have thought Time Machine could see it either - unless it can override the Windows allocation). In Parallels, under USB preferences, you can choose from 3 options - so that connecting an USB device: 1) Connects it to the Mac 2) Connects it to the active VM 3) Asks which to connect to. So selecting option 2) would result in the device being captured by a running VM if it was connected whilst the VM was running. Just a thought. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/2/10 11:35 AM, Alan Smith at sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for your interest in my mysterious OS X SL problem. Perhaps you can point me in the right direction, else I will open a new thread. (Its taking a long time to peruse the WAMUG archives!) External USB HDD (2 partitions) is not showing on Desktop, in Finder, Disk Utility or System Profiler. BUT Time Machine hourly backup seems to trigger a temporary respite when all four Mac sources display the USB HDD data. I then get a system error message (red caution) to the effect that the disk was not ejected properly -- and next time connected will attempt repair. This first displayed just after installing the Apple updates yesterday. A trigger for the error message may be when the iMac wakes from Sleep mode. I haven't got a clear pattern of observed events. The iMac was cleanly powered off, external devices unplugged etc, but then Time Machine kicks in as another variable and changes things. This email sent from a PC, not the Mac, so I can test and observe its behaviour. Next time the HDD shows up on Desktop I'll try ejecting them cleanly and then begin the cycle of powering up again. Cheers, Alan On 26/02/2010, at 8:54 AM, Alan Smith wrote: I'm in the middle of searching WAMUG archives for help to restore my USB hard drive (Time Machine and iTunes). It disappeared after I installed the last batch of updates (iTunes, digital cameras, keyboard and Apple mobile devices) with a mandatory restart. Hi Alan, Do you mean the External USB Hard Drive is not showing in Finder, on your Desktop. Is it showing in Disk Utility or System Profiler? Have you tried disconnecting the USB Drive from the USB Port, restarting your Mac, and then connecting the USB Drive again. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: top ten worst Apple products
Hi Alan, Just an off-the-wall thought - you aren't running Windows under parallels or fusion are you? If you are - is the USB drive being captured by Windows and so unavailable to OSX (though, if so, I wouldn't have thought Time Machine could see it either - unless it can override the Windows allocation). In Parallels, under USB preferences, you can choose from 3 options - so that connecting an USB device: 1) Connects it to the Mac 2) Connects it to the active VM 3) Asks which to connect to. So selecting option 2) would result in the device being captured by a running VM if it was connected whilst the VM was running. Just a thought. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/2/10 11:35 AM, Alan Smith at sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for your interest in my mysterious OS X SL problem. Perhaps you can point me in the right direction, else I will open a new thread. (Its taking a long time to peruse the WAMUG archives!) External USB HDD (2 partitions) is not showing on Desktop, in Finder, Disk Utility or System Profiler. BUT Time Machine hourly backup seems to trigger a temporary respite when all four Mac sources display the USB HDD data. I then get a system error message (red caution) to the effect that the disk was not ejected properly -- and next time connected will attempt repair. This first displayed just after installing the Apple updates yesterday. A trigger for the error message may be when the iMac wakes from Sleep mode. I haven't got a clear pattern of observed events. The iMac was cleanly powered off, external devices unplugged etc, but then Time Machine kicks in as another variable and changes things. This email sent from a PC, not the Mac, so I can test and observe its behaviour. Next time the HDD shows up on Desktop I'll try ejecting them cleanly and then begin the cycle of powering up again. Cheers, Alan On 26/02/2010, at 8:54 AM, Alan Smith wrote: I'm in the middle of searching WAMUG archives for help to restore my USB hard drive (Time Machine and iTunes). It disappeared after I installed the last batch of updates (iTunes, digital cameras, keyboard and Apple mobile devices) with a mandatory restart. Hi Alan, Do you mean the External USB Hard Drive is not showing in Finder, on your Desktop. Is it showing in Disk Utility or System Profiler? Have you tried disconnecting the USB Drive from the USB Port, restarting your Mac, and then connecting the USB Drive again. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Blocking Flash
Yes, I use Firefox but agree that these plug-ins are great for removing unwanted ads and flash - speeding up browsing significantly. There are several plug-ins for Firefox, but the relevant ones which I am currently running are: - Flashblock - as for clicktoflash on Safari it blocks all Flash assets on a web page until you explicitly click on them. - Adblock Plus - this strips out all the other (non-flash) ads based on whatever filter set you add (I use Rick752's EasyList - which seems to work well for me) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 24/2/10 5:26 AM, Peter Sealy at carp...@internode.on.net wrote: I agree with Matt. I have been using Clicktoflash for a long while now and it works great. But it does not stop all image based advertising because a lot of advertisers now place their advertisements within the web page and don't use Flash. I don't know how this is done. I bet there is an army of geeks working on how to defeat Clicktoflash on behalf of the advertising industry or even within Adobe. But for now +1 for Clicktoflash. I think there is at least one other similar app. On 24/02/2010, at 3:36 AM, Dark1 wrote: Wow. Thanks for this Matt. Indeed there is a great amount of flash advertising. This link is very useful. Ruben Hi All, With all the well-deserved Flash-bagging going around I thought it poignant to mention a great little plugin for Safari called Click2Flash. http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/ Essentially, it blocks all Flash assets on a web page until you explicitly click on them. From a purely subjective point of view, web browsing is significantly faster on flash-ad heavy sites. It just feels smoother. It's also quite an eye-opened to see how much Flash content is actually embedded into sites these days. Try it out. - Matt Healey -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Blocking Flash
Hi Peter, It tends to be a personal preference sort of thing. I got into using Firefox several years ago because, in those days, several of the websites I used didn't work well with Safari - however most of those problems have been fixed long ago. Also Firefox offered tabbed browsing whilst at that time Safari didn't (but of course it does now). One of the things I do like about Firefox is the choice of add-ons/plug-ins - I don't use a lot of these - but the one I do use I really appreciate - besides the two I listed previously, others I like are: Multiple Tab Handler - Lets me select multiple tabs and perform actions on them (reload then all for example) - I find I use this all the time when I have a bunch of tabs open showing financial data - I can just update them all at once instead of having to cycle through the tabs, reloading as I go. DownloadHelper - Watching some video on a webpage and want to just download it - this add-on provides contextual menus that let you do just that. Firefox PDF Plugin for Mac OSX - of course you can view pdfs in Safari - but I prefer the experience in Firefox with this plug-in - Example you click on a pdf link but your browser window is too small for optimum viewing - so you click the green + button - in Firefox that zooms the browser window to maximum size and away you go - but click the green button in Safari and (for me) the window shrinks to some arbitrary size! To see what I mean, try something like: http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20100215/pdf/31nph2f647ypdy.pdf (or any other online pdf) Having said that, I still fire up Safari from time to time - generally if I find a website that doesn't work well with Firefox, then often Safari will open it OK. For yourself, if Safari does all you want then it does offer the more seamless Apple experience - on the other hand, as an ex-Firefox user, if you find yourself missing any of those add-ons/plug-ins -give Firefox a try. I believe it is always worth having at least two browsers installed so that if you find a web-page that your default browser has problems with you can always try it in a different browser. As a further aside - I was recently amazed to have Opera fire up on my Mac - amazed because I have never installed Opera!! I used Spotlight to search for the Opera application - but it came up empty - even more confusing. Since Opera was still running, its icon was showing in the dock - so I used the Show in Finder option from the dock icon to find that the Opera application is bundled INSIDE the Adobe Bridge CS4 application which itself is installed as part of Photoshop Elements 8 installation! Interestingly, I wasn't even using an Adobe application at the time - I hit the wrong download link on a webpage and selected the BitTorrent feed rather than the direct download - and that link seemed to automatically invoke Opera (even though I didn't even KNOW I had Opera hidden away inside another application! I haven't had time to play with Opera yet but, since it is there, I may have a play one of these days! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com PS If anyone has Photoshop Elements 8 (or any other installation which includes Adobe Bridge CS4) and wants to see where Opera lives: In Finder, right-click the Adobe Bridge CS4 application and select show package contents Opera can be found in the Contents/MacOS folder. on 24/2/10 11:10 AM, Crisp, Peter at pcr...@hatch.com.au wrote: Just a general question re Firefox for Macs. I am a newcomer to the world of Apple and currently use Safari as the default web browser. I am familiar with Firefox having used it on my Windows machine for some time. Are there any benefits in using Firefox or does this expose protection weakness? Generally Safari does everything I need of it but always on the look out for better ways of doing things. Thanks Peter... Kind Regards, Peter Crisp, Associate, BE Mech HATCH (Phone + 61 8 9428 5437 2Fax + 61 8 9428 ÈMob 0402 001 019 ?E-mail pcr...@hatch.com.au Website http://www.hatch.com.au/ -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Neil Houghton Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:49 AM To: WAMUG Subject: Re: Blocking Flash Yes, I use Firefox but agree that these plug-ins are great for removing unwanted ads and flash - speeding up browsing significantly. There are several plug-ins for Firefox, but the relevant ones which I am currently running are: - Flashblock - as for clicktoflash on Safari it blocks all Flash assets on a web page until you explicitly click on them. - Adblock Plus - this strips out all the other (non-flash) ads based on whatever filter set you add (I use Rick752's EasyList - which seems to work well for me) Cheers Neil -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http
Re: Deleting old email address
Hi Barb, You just need to send an unsubscribe message that is from the old address - the fact that the old setup no longer works doesn't stop you doing this - you just need to edit your old email account (in Mail or Entourage or whatever email client you use) so that the Sending Mail SMTP server is the Westnet SMTP server (ie the same as the SMTP server for your new working Westnet email account) - Then just select one of the WAMUG messages that is to your old address and hit reply, the from field should be showing the old address - change the to address to wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au and hit send - the message should then just be sent through the Westnet SMTP server but with your old email address as the from header. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 18/2/10 5:49 PM, Barb Zahari at buzz...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi As a result of the takeover of IT by Westnet, I have 2 email addresses with WAMUG - the old IT one the current Westnet one - and I'm receiving WAMUG emails to both. (I've kept the old IT address for the time being because I still receive mail from a few contacts who seem unable to comprehend email address changes!) I can't actually USE the IT address to send emails, it no longer exists except to receive mail re-directed to Westnet. 98% of the mail to the old IT address is from WAMUG. (Hadn't checked it since November it had gone over the 50mb limit!) How do I unsubscribe WAMUG from the old IT address while keeping my current WAMUG Westnet one functioning? Cheers .. Barb Zahari -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite
Hi Peter, I haven¹t had a problem with the Magic mouse, but the wireless keyboard stopped working quite quickly with my new iMac I didn¹t originally suspect the batteries as I had had so little use however it finally occurred to me to try new batteries I threw in some re-chargeables and that solved the problem. A current check in system preferences shows my battery levels as 43% for the keyboard and still 62% for the mouse (which still has the Apple supplied batteries). For the record, I do not switch the mouse off at the base (unless I¹m going to be away for a day or two) and I do have bluetooth set to allow to wake from sleep (I like to be able to just wake up the mac from the mouse/keyboard. One thing to check, you said The Macbook screen certainly goes into Sleep mode and is it therefore implied that the mouse goes to sleep at the same time? The energy saver preference pane allows you to set separate schedules for sleeping the computer and display (also for a laptop you set the schedules separately for battery operation vs powered operation) so it is possible to have the display sleeping but the computer staying awake (if you were to choose to set it this way) - so it may be worth just checking what your sleep settings are. Also with the AA batteries you use, different battery type can have different voltages make sure you are using ones that say 1.5v (some types are only 1.2v) - although that should show up as a low battery %age. Sorry I can¹t be of more help I am overjoyed with the new magic mouse after the appalling scroll ball on the previous mighty mouse -it constantly needed ³cleaning² and I had two failures - one in and one out of warranty. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 11/2/10 9:31 AM, Crisp, Peter at pcr...@hatch.com.au wrote: I don¹t ever turn off the switch underneath the mouse and maybe I could as a control experiment but I don¹t think that is a long term solution. Roger, do you ever turn off your mouse? How can I ascertain if the sleep¹ function is working for the mouse? The Macbook screen certainly goes into Sleep mode and is it therefore implied that the mouse goes to sleep at the same time? My old Logitech wireless mouse which I use with the old faithful PC, just works every time and so I am lulled into not having to turn off a mouse when its not in use. Kind Regards, Peter Crisp, Associate, BE Mech HATCH (Phone + 61 8 9428 5437 2Fax + 61 8 9428 ÈMob 0402 001 019 ?E-mail pcr...@hatch.com.au Website http://www.hatch.com.au/ From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown Sent: Thursday, 11 February 2010 9:11 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite On 11/02/2010, at 8:43 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: Hi all, my Magic Mouse has been quite uncooperative since I got it a month ago (at the same time as I got a Macbook and Time Capsule my first foray into the Apple world). I took it back to the supplier and he agreed it was faulty and replaced it with another one. The replacement one it seems is no better and my guess is the first one was probably ok and that something else is going on. It seems that it is very battery hungry and perhaps there is supposed to be a routine which puts the mouse to sleep when not in use hence preserving battery life. I have done all Software updates and even downloaded a specific update for eth Magic Mouse form the Apple site. I have MagicPrefs installed too and maybe that is responsible but I suspect not. Ronni indicated a while back there is a Mac OSX 10.6.3 coming soon and maybe I have to just wait till then, but I need a pair of AA batteries every 4 days currently SuperDuty ones too! This seems to be the only way to wake up the sleepy mouse. In the interim while I wait for 10.6.3, does anyone have any experiences like this or can you point me to some other updates for this? Hi Peter, The mouse should go to sleep fairly quickly I believe and is certainly sleeping when the computer is sleeping given the few minutes it might take independently to fall asleep. Of course if this isn't functioning properly that might cause the battery to drain as it looks for activity when there's no need. Do you turn off MagicMouse from the little switch at the bottom, or do you turn it off with the computer at night or when you are not going to be using it for awhile? Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Is This a Scam?
Hi Diana Susan, Susan, I think you are being a bit harsh here - as the link provided by Eugene http://www.hoax-slayer.com/breast-cancer-email.html indicates: However, 100% of funds generated via clicks on the Fund Free Mammograms button and a portion of the purchase price for products sold in the site store are used by the non-profit National Breast Cancer Foundation to provide free mammograms to minority, and low-income women in the United States. However, having said that, personally my charitable leanings would not be directed to a charity that is restricted to helping people (however worthy) in the USA - I prefer to let the charitable population of the USA do that ;) Personally, I prefer to direct my charity either to Australian causes closer to my heart or to poorer countries that do not have the resources to help themselves (relatively speaking). The basic idea of clicking on a link as a simple way to direct money to charity is not, in itself, a scam. Basically online advertisers tend to pay on a basis of the number of times their advert is viewed' and the idea is to then direct this revenue to a good cause. Where you have to be careful, however, is whether the set-up is legitimate (ie does the money actually go to the charitiy) and what cut (if any) gets siphoned off by the organizer for overheads or other fees. You may remember that I recently posted to the list regarding the Ripple organisation that I came across, which works on the same general principle of directing revenue from online advertising to charitable causes. I came across the site via an article about online business models (or similar) rather than by any direct promotion - so I was happy that it was a legitimate concern. The Ripple home page http://www.ripple.org/ offers the same click the button to send money to charity function as the page that was referenced in Diane's original post - except that there are four buttons so you can choose what cause you are helping - water, food, education money (small loans to poor borrowers). This page http://www.ripple.org/click-handles.html gives more detail as to how the money is applied. Three things particularly attracted me to this site: 1) They are an Australian venture (based in Melbourne) 2) They pass on ALL the advertising revenue to charity. 3) They do not apply the money themselves, they just generate it and pass it on to other legitimate charities - I liked this arms-length' separation of functions. For anyone that is interested, here is some further info: From the Ripple FAQ: Okay right, but how does it work? It's simple. When you click on a give button you will be shown some advertisements. We pass the revenue from these advertisements onto your chosen charity. Set us as your homepage and click away. How much money does one click give? It ranges from 1c to 20c. It doesn't sound like much but it adds up quickly! If you're not making any money for yourself what motivated you to make this site? Well here are a few facts that speak for themselves: * More than one billion people in the world live on less than one dollar a day. * In total, 2.7 billion struggle to survive on less than two dollars per day. * Every 3.6 seconds another person dies of starvation. Most of these deaths are children. * More than 2.6 billion people do not have basic sanitation, and more than one billion people still use unsafe sources of drinking water. If we can, we should all be doing something about poverty. So how much money do you give to charities all up? Well, this is where you come in. If we have a community of 100, 000 users who visit 3 times a week we could raise over $1.5 million a year. If we had as many members as MySpace we would raise over $2 billion dollars a year. We pee our pants a little just thinking about it. Ripple on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_%28charitable_organisation%29 (with links to a couple of articles in The Age newspaper) Just my 2c worth ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 10/2/10 10:30 AM, Susan Hastings at susanhasti...@me.com wrote: Yes, you are right to be suspicious, don't click on the link. --- Susan Hastings Mobile: 0409688004 On 10/02/2010, at 10:05 AM, Diana Graham Stevens diag...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi all the knowledgeable people A friend in England sent me this message: QUOTE Every morning, or evening, when I first sign on to see if I've any mail, I click on this link, and in some magic way give money for breast-cancer research! It doesn't cost me a penny! I believe they hope I'll read the many adverts on the page.which is why it is worth-while for them! Thought you might like to do the same? www.thebreastcancersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=2 UNQUOTE I have an aversion to clicking on anything foreign but I am interested
Re: Parallels: Explorer won't connect to internet
Hi David, Others may come at this from a different direction, but I like to look at it in layers, starting at the outside and working in: 1. Computer/Mac OSX 2. Parallels software/VM configuration 3. Windows OS 4. Windows software Level 1 is obviously OK since your are accessing the internet, sending email etc on your Mac. When Parallels connects for its software updates, it is as an OSX program so that works OK. Level 2 is the next to check - with Parallels running check your VM configuration: * In the Parallels menu go to Virtual Machine/Configure * In the configuration menu that comes up select ³Hardware² * Confirm that the hardware list includes a Network Adapter and select it * Confirm that there is a check against the ³Connected² box * Make note of the Type of networking used (eg ³Shared Networking²) If this is OK look at Level 3: * Under the Windows START menu, go to ³My Network Places² * Under the ³Network Tasks² sidebar, select ³View network connections² * Note what it says. On my current VM, for example, the heading is ³LAN or High-Speed Internet² and under that there is an icon called Local Area Connection 5 (your number is likely to be different) and the info ³Connected² and ³Parallels Ethernet Adapter #2² A level 4 problem would be indicated if, for example, other windows software WAS connecting to the internet and it was only IE not connecting. At this point, if the problem has not become obvious, report back to us with the info noted during your checks. Good luck. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/2/10 9:26 AM, David Hudleston at netr...@bigpond.com wrote: I recently upgraded to Parallels 5 to run a program in Windows XP. Everything worked before the upgrade Now Parallels connects for software updates but Explorer won't connect. Navigating Windows is a mystery to me. Any ideas? The Parallels 5 also runs much slower than Parallels 4. I am using a MacBook Pro and Airport regards David Hudleston -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Entourage bug
Hi Peter, If you have a lot of old emails in Entourage, it might be worth checking out Entourage Email Archive X http://www.softhing.com/eeax.html if you want to archive your old Entourage emails prior to starting the brave new world of Mail. I have been looking at this to archive my many years of emails in Entourage - however, I haven't actually tried it yet - so I can't report how good (or bad) it is! The developer seems to have a few applications/utilities relating to Entourage and how to get info out of it: http://www.softhing.com/home.html I don't know if any other WAMUG list members have any experience of any of these? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/2/10 8:44 AM, Crisp, Peter at pcr...@hatch.com.au wrote: Hi folks, I have undertaken a few tests with my father Severin and am now happy that Mail/iCal/Calendar will give me all I want and at the same time solve the back-up issues that Entourage was causing. It seems all the info that you have all relayed to me have answered all my queries and it is the better technical solution and has no downsides. It will of course take a little time to get used to the different 'look' of the apps, but this will be minor in the whole scheme of things. The main influencing factor for me is how Mail treats each separate incoming email in isolation (and hence the backup ramification is far simpler) as opposed to a revision to a monolithic database. So there! Thanks to you all for help in putting me at ease. I intend to do the migration over this weekend time permitting and then shortly after move all my historical emails/Contacts out of Outlook to Mail/Contacts respectively. Regards Peter... -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Peter Hinchliffe Sent: Wednesday, 3 February 2010 8:33 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Entourage bug On 02/02/2010, at 11:18 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: I wondered how long it would take for someone to suggest this solution - thanks John for raising this one. Having come from a Windows background, I find it hard to move to a program (Mail) that doesn't have Contacts and Calendar functions integrated into the one app. Mail is just one part of daily activity and within Entourage (like MS Outlook) it is a nice integrated look and feel, not to mention logical, to have Mail/Calendar/Contacts integrated into one app. Can Mail/iCal/Contacts be managed in the same way? I am not 100% settled on Entourage and prepared to consider Mail/iCal/Contacts but it seems retrograde to use 3 apps for what one app can manage albeit with this bug. Maybe Microsoft will arrange a fix for this or maybe I'll use the noted work-around (a la Time Machine Scheduler) for the temporary solution to my problem. It really makes no difference to the user experience whether Mail, Calendar and Contacts are all in the one entity or three separate applications. The Mail experience certainly proves this with its use the Data Detector. Mail interacts with Address Book directly, and Data Detectors allow you to add dates and events directly to your iCal calendars, and even interact with Google Maps. It all happens seamlessly. What does matter is that Address Book and iCal data are system-wide, and therefore available to other software if the author chooses (Bento being one obvious example). This is difficult if not impossible with closed systems like Entourage. You'll have to duplicate your contacts in Address Book anyway to get access to this system-wide functionality. Microsoft software still retains it's own little ecosystem within Mac OS X (even down to the clipboard), and does not really sit well with modern Mac software. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Restore new mac from old Time Machine b.up
Hi Ronni Rod, I¹m not 100% sure on this so please forgive me if I¹ve got hold of the wrong end of the stick! From Rod¹s email he wants to restore all a students accounts info from the Time machine backup of the students old macbook (which is dead) to a new macbook. I would have thought that the instructions Ronni has given are more appropriate for restoring to the same computer (say if the hard disc died and was replaced) My concerns: * The original machine was older hardware and ran OSX 10.5 * The new machine came with OSX 10.6 * The restore procedure given will restore the hard drive to the OSX 10.5 configuration of the old machine. * This configuration may not suit the new hardware. For example, my new iMac27, delivered with SL 10.6, will not boot from a clone of my old 24² iMac running Leopard 10.5. Also, I note that the article that Ronni references http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1964018 does say: But do not try this full system restore from a different Mac's backups. If it boots at all, many things will likely go wrong, as the new Mac won't have the correct hardware drivers, among other things. I would have thought a better approach might be: 1. Perform a Time Machine restore of the old system (as per Ronni¹s instructions) to either a separate hard drive or a separate partition (to the SL 10.6 system) on the new machine. 2. Then use Migration assistant to copy the accounts (and applications if wished and compatible) from the restored Leopard drive/partition to the new SL drive/partition. 3. After successful migration, testing and back-up of the new set-up, the original restored Leopard drive/partion can be erased. This may take longer to do, but I would have thought it would ensure that the appropriate system software was installed on the new machine. Forgive me if I have misunderstood the situation/set-up, but I would hate to see the new macbook SL system get overwritten with the 10.5 system of an older hardware machine. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/2/10 12:02 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: On 04/02/2010, at 11:54 AM, rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi I'm trying to restore a students account ontonew macbook using the students external HD time machine backup (that backed up the old macbook which is kaput). Both Migration Assistant and the original mac setup program fail to recognise the time machine backup. I get to the point where you have to select the time machine backup volume, the usb drive is plugged in, but I just get a spinning wheel that continues to spin. Although i can see the volume on the desktop. Could it be because the student was using 10.5 and the new macbook is 10.6?? Or is what i'm trying to do not possible? Any ideas appreciated please ta Blitto Restore a Disk Using Time Machine: If you¹ve experienced a major disk crash or other catastrophe that requires you to restore an entire disk, rather than merely individual files or folders, follow these steps: 1. Make sure the drive containing your Time Machine backup is attached to your Mac. 2. Locate your Mac OS X Install DVD and insert it in your Mac¹s optical drive. 3. Restart (or turn on) your Mac. Immediately after you hear the startup chime, press and hold the C key until you see the grey Apple logo on the screen. 4. Click through the language selection screen. 5. When the Welcome screen appears, choose Utilities Disk Utility. 6. Select your computer¹s internal disk in the list on the left. 7. On the Erase view, click Erase, and confirm that you really want to do that. Disk Utility erases the disk. Quit Disk Utility. 8. If you¹re restoring from a directly connected drive or from a Time Capsule connected via Ethernet: 9. Choose Utilities Restore System from Backup and click Continue. 10. Select your Time Machine backup volume and click Continue again. 11. If the Time Machine disk contains backups for more than one Mac, select the one you want from the Restore From pop-up menu. Then select the particular backup you want to restorelikely the most recent one (the first one in the list). Click Continue. 12. On the Select a Destination screen, select your internal disk. Click Restore. If prompted, confirm that you really do want to restore your data. Time Machine restores your data. When it finishes, follow the instructions to restart your computer. NOTE WELL: Once you¹ve restarted after restoring your data, Time Machine will run again, but starting from scratch with a new, full backup. That is to say, Time Machine essentially ignores all your previous backups. Apple claims this is ³normal² behaviour (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1338), though it may not be what you expect or want. On Snow Leopard, it's not supposed to happen, according to Apple, but it sometimes does. Also READ this before
Re: Restore new mac from old Time Machine b.up
If you will forgive me replying to my own email: It occurs to me that: * The obvious way to do this was with the Set-up assistant on the new machine, or with migration assistant later. * Rod tried this first, but ran into problems he wonders if the problem is restoring from 10.5 system to a 10.6 system. * If so, the same problems MAY prevent step 1 of my approach also. If this is the case, you could try using a 10.5 system (assuming you have another 10.5 machine available) to perform step 1 and then proceed with steps 2 3 from the new 10.6 Macbook. Just a thought. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/2/10 2:03 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Ronni Rod, I¹m not 100% sure on this so please forgive me if I¹ve got hold of the wrong end of the stick! From Rod¹s email he wants to restore all a students accounts info from the Time machine backup of the students old macbook (which is dead) to a new macbook. I would have thought that the instructions Ronni has given are more appropriate for restoring to the same computer (say if the hard disc died and was replaced) My concerns: * The original machine was older hardware and ran OSX 10.5 * The new machine came with OSX 10.6 * The restore procedure given will restore the hard drive to the OSX 10.5 configuration of the old machine. * This configuration may not suit the new hardware. For example, my new iMac27, delivered with SL 10.6, will not boot from a clone of my old 24² iMac running Leopard 10.5. Also, I note that the article that Ronni references http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1964018 does say: But do not try this full system restore from a different Mac's backups. If it boots at all, many things will likely go wrong, as the new Mac won't have the correct hardware drivers, among other things. I would have thought a better approach might be: 1. Perform a Time Machine restore of the old system (as per Ronni¹s instructions) to either a separate hard drive or a separate partition (to the SL 10.6 system) on the new machine. 2. Then use Migration assistant to copy the accounts (and applications if wished and compatible) from the restored Leopard drive/partition to the new SL drive/partition. 3. After successful migration, testing and back-up of the new set-up, the original restored Leopard drive/partion can be erased. This may take longer to do, but I would have thought it would ensure that the appropriate system software was installed on the new machine. Forgive me if I have misunderstood the situation/set-up, but I would hate to see the new macbook SL system get overwritten with the 10.5 system of an older hardware machine. Cheers Neil -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer
Hi Mike, If you log-in to your router configuration using your web-browser can't you see a list of the IP addresses allocated to connected devices? I'm going on old memories here - so its just a guess ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 2/2/10 6:11 PM, Mike Moore at mikem...@iinet.net.au wrote: I have an HP 8550N Laserjet printer with Jetdirect card connected to my computers via the router. With Snow Leopard I can't connect to the printer. I have tried printing out the configuration page to get its IP address (as suggested in the HP help forums) but it doesn't show on that. I'd be most grateful if someone can point me in the right direction as to what to do. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Entourage bug
Hi Ronni, No, I exclude Entourage from my Time Machine back-ups and rely on my SuperDuper clone as my back-up. I accept the risk of losing the emails between my SuperDuper clones. I do however close ALL open applications before cloning. Whilst I haven¹t regularly checked the entourage database on the clone, when I recently migrated my main user account over to my new iMac, I migrated from its clone rather than from the original computer and the transferred microsoft user identity worked just fine on the new machine. It also seems to me that there would be a similar risk in relying on Time machine to back-up a Windows VM while the machine was running not that I have seen any specific reports relating to this it just doesn¹t seem ³right² to back up a running VM! - So I also exclude my Parallels VMs from the time machine back-ups and use a 2-pronged strategy in that I rely on a VM clone to protect me if I ³stuff-up² the VM and my SuperDuper clone provides a back-up of both the VM and its clone. At this stage, I haven¹t looked at Windows ³snapshots² to provide different roll-back points (is anyone else using this on VMs?) Maybe with Office 2010 Microsoft will break up that monolithic database into something TM can back up ... yeah, and Cows might Fly ;-) Hehe, yes it would be nice if MS (and Parallels) started utilising sparse bundles to enable something like this but I¹m not holding my breath! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 2/2/10 2:39 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter and others using Entourage, Is anyone who uses Entourage, backing up Entourage using Time Machine? If so have they been checking their Entourage backups to see if there is any corruption? Why I ask is I have always understood the main issue with Time Machine and the Entourage database isn't just because it is backed up every hour filling up hard drives, but because the database daemon is running at all times and could do some garbage collection during a copy and end up corrupting your copy. Microsoft has confirmed that the Office 2008 database gets corrupted by Time Machine backups. See the Microsoft KB article here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946961. Note the line in the More Information paragraph that says, I quote, If Time Machine starts an automatic backup while Entourage 2008 is modifying the user database, the backup process may damage the backup copy of the user database. The only option is to exclude the Entourage database from the Time Machine backups, and back up your database via other means (when Entourage is not running). Maybe with Office 2010 Microsoft will break up that monolithic database into something TM can back up ... yeah, and Cows might Fly ;-) Cheers, Ronni PS. I'm so relieved that I have my 17 MacBook Pro back with a new Logic Board installed. Huge thankyou to Daniel (for organising, delivery pickup) Nick at Joondalup (for the repair). On 02/02/2010, at 1:50 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, I use Apple Mail and it suits my needs well, but it you do make the decision to stick with Entourage, you can Exclude your Entourage database from Time Machine backups. If you use Microsoft Entourage, you have a file called Database, which stores all your email messages, calendar items, and to-do tasks. (By default, it¹s stored in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2008 Identities/Main Identity; substitute Office 2004 or Office X for Office 2008 if you are using an older version.) As Rob has already explained, this file can grow to several gigabytes in size or larger, and it changes every time you receive or file an email messageor do just about anything else in Entourage. As a result, Time Machine must recopy that entire file every time it runs. Not only will that make your hourly backups take a long time, it¹ll rapidly fill up your backup disk. However, since this is an important file, if you exclude it from Time Machine, I recommend backing it up in some other way ... Every Day! Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 02/02/2010, at 1:32 PM, Crisp, Peter wrote: Thanks Rob that is a very logical reason to move to Mail. I will have some off-line discussion with my father Severin (he is a devout Mail user) and discuss further with him. At the risk of beating a well beaten drum though, a solution to the Monolithic file issue you point out, is to exclude the ³monolithic file² from the Time Machine back up register, and institute my own separate back up process for that file far less frequently than hourly say monthly. I¹m sure most will groan and say ³get over it and use Mail². Maybe I will. Will get back in due course. Regards Peter. From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au
Re: Printer Error
Hi Maureen, The fact that it started working again and then stopped again tends to suggest an intermittent hardware fault to me. The first possible culprits to pop into my head are: 1) Faulty USB cable 2) Faulty USB port on the printer 3) Other fault with the printer 4) Faulty USB port on the computer 1) is easily checked by trying a different USB cable Swapping the cable to a different USB port, as you have already done, would tend to rule out 4) (unless both ports have problems) If you open the System Profile application while the printer is connected, look under hardware and select USB you can see all the USB devices connected to your computer. If you cannot see the connected printer and you have checked that the computer USB post and the USB cable are OK, then it would point to a fault in the printer. Try that first and see how you go. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 2/2/10 6:36 PM, Maureen at mau...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi At school I have a canon pixma printer connected to my MacbookPro, 10.5.8, 2.16GHz via USB This printer has run beautifully until just recently. Now I keep getting this message: Error Number : 300 The printer does not respond. Make sure that the printer is plugged in, powered-on, and properly connected to your computer. Which it all is and I have even swapped the cable to the other USB port. Turned the printer on and off a few times and turned it on and off at the wall. Then all of a sudden today it worked for about 20 minutes and then stopped and gave me the same message again. I've removed the printer from the list and added it again. Any suggestions appreciated. Take Care Maureen -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Ripple - an interesting idea
Hi all, I hope you will forgive me a slightly off-topic post, but I thought fellow WAMUG list readers might find this use of internet advertising interesting, I certainly did. Ripple http://ripple.org came up with the idea of using internet advertising as a means of easily raising money for charity. They say that ALL the money they generate goes to the charities concerned - they do not (at present) deduct any overheads or charges. They explain just how it works here http://ripple.org/how-it-works.html Personally, I don't really use a home page but I do use Google quite a lot so I've just used the Ripple searchbar feature http://ripple.org/searchbar.html To add ripple to Firefox as my default search engine (it is just added as an additional search engine to the others I have installed) and now everytime I do a google search (as a ripple search) a small advertiser payment goes to charity. Anyway, I thought it was a great idea and some worthwhile causes - so I hope you will not consider this post spam as I genuinely felt that many of you would find it interesting (and computer related). Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: HP 5380 all in one printer
(following my previous post Graeme phoned me and we went through these checks over the phone) Hi Graeme, To sum up what we found - together with a couple of thoughts I've had since: 1) Printer Set-up in OSX: - we have confirmed that your printer is set-up and showing in the Print Fax preference pane with green light as Idle, Default - we have confirmed that printer sharing is turned on on your Mac and that your HP 380 is showing up as a shared printer with status Everyone can print - we have checked your firewall setting - which is currently off (you may want to change this later - but at present it means that your current problem is not down to the OSX firewall. 2) Adding the printer under windows: - The bonjour printer wizard runs but under the Browse for Bonjour Printers there are no printers showing up. - When we checked the configuration of your Virtual machine we found that you had got Network adapter 1 installed and shown as connected but with type Bridged ethernet, compared to my setup which is type Shared Networking At this point my thoughts are: From 1) above it appears that your printer is correctly set-up under OSX as a shared printer. There are a couple of things you may be able to do to just finally confirm this: - If you have another working mac on the same network as your new iMac27, see if the printer shows up as a shared printer - You mentioned that you have a Windows laptop, if that is also on the same network as the iMac then install Bonjour for Windows on it and run the Bonjour Printer Wizard on it and see if the printer can be seen by bonjour on the laptop. Note: Whilst the above could just confirm that your printer is visible on the network, I wouldn't worry about them too much if they are not possible/too hard. It seems to me that the problem may be in the networking between the Virtual machine and Mac OSX, I am getting out of my comfort zone here, so more knowledgeable WAMUGers may want to chip in, but a couple of things to check/try; - Is it possible that you have the Windows firewall set-up so that it is blocking Bonjour? - Open the Windows firewall control panel - is the firewall on as recommended (mine is) if so the Don't allow exceptions checkbox should NOT be checked then, if you go to the Exceptions tab, under the Programs and Services list you should see Bonjour and the checkbox against it SHOULD be checked - so that the firewall allows incoming network connections to Bonjour. - Assuming you don't find a firewall problem, you could try changing the configuration of your VM from Bridged Ethernet to Shared networking - however, before you try this I would make sure that you have a back-up of your VM - I prefer to just use the Parallels Clone command under the Parallels file menu (note you must shut down the VM before cloning) and check that the clone runs OK - that way if you mess anything up you can just changeover to the (working) clone. That's all I can think of really. If any other WAMUG users run Bonjour for Windows on a Parallels VM configured with a Bridged Ethernet network connection - perhaps they could advise if there are any special/extra steps involved here? Hope that helps Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/2/10 11:51 AM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Graeme, Sorry for the delay in replying to this - it was so long ago since I had done it that I couldn't remember the details! However, I have now just done the exercise again on my new iMac with my VM upgraded for Parallels 5. It was all really simple (as I remembered) basically: - connect printer to new iMac - go to OSX Print Fax preference pane and set-up new printer - Printer is now set as default printer, with correct default paper size - Check the Share this printer on the network box There was a message to the effect that printer sharing was not enabled so: - go to OSX Sharing preference pane and check the Printer Sharing box - the Computer Name is NRH iMac27 - I can see my printer Canon iP4000 listed in the printer list - Under Printers there is a check in the box against the Canon iP4000 - Under Users it says that Everyone Can Print I check back at the Print Fax preference pane and the message re printer sharing not being enabled has now gone. Fire up the Windows XP virtual machine and start up the Bonjour Printer Wizard: - Get the Welcome screen and click next - In the Shared printers box I can see Canon iP4000 @ NRH iMac27 - Select the printer, the Printer information is given as: Description:Canon iP4000 Location: NRH iMac27 - click next and the driver pane comes up saying The Bonjour Printer Wizard has auto-selected the following printer settings: Manufacturer: Generic Model: Generic/Postscript - I also click the Use this printer as the default printer box - click next
Re: HP Printer
Hi Graeme, Glad to hear you finally got it working A USB was not enabled and all is now fine I assume you mean that a USB controller on the VM was not enabled -that is interesting - Does this mean that you now have the printer connected as a USB device, rather than as a Bonjour printer or as a Shared Mac Printer via the VM printer port? If so, doesn't that mean that the printer is not then available to the Mac OSX (until the VM releases the USB port). It is always good to know the exact details of a fix - it can help others with problems in the future. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/2/10 7:43 PM, Graeme Winters at g.wint...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil Many thanks for your comments and suggestions today Problem is now solved A USB was not enabled and all is now fine Graeme -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: HP Printer
down Windows the printer is automatically relinquished and becomes available to the Mac - out of interest, how does it work the other way - when you fire up Windows again does it automatically capture the printer, does it ask you if you want to allocate the printer to Windows or Mac or do you have to unplug and replug the USB to changeover? Cheers Neil (who has also learned a lot whilst checking this out!) -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/2/10 8:44 PM, Graeme Winters at g.wint...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil It is now very interesting that you raise this as after the fix I could print in Windows but could not print in Apple until I had closed Windows down I had not expected that. I guess it is not really a problem as generally I will only be in Windows when doing some MYOB work Graeme On 01/02/2010, at 8:08 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Graeme, Glad to hear you finally got it working A USB was not enabled and all is now fine I assume you mean that a USB controller on the VM was not enabled -that is interesting - Does this mean that you now have the printer connected as a USB device, rather than as a Bonjour printer or as a Shared Mac Printer via the VM printer port? If so, doesn't that mean that the printer is not then available to the Mac OSX (until the VM releases the USB port). It is always good to know the exact details of a fix - it can help others with problems in the future. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/2/10 7:43 PM, Graeme Winters at g.wint...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil Many thanks for your comments and suggestions today Problem is now solved A USB was not enabled and all is now fine Graeme -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: HP 5380 all in one printer
Hi Peter, That is interesting. I didn't think you needed USB activated on the VM to use the VM printer port (or a Bonjour printer). From your description, it sounds like you added the printer as a USB printer directly connected to the virtual machine. I've never tried that but I understood that it had the disadvantage that the USB port must be allocated to either the VM or to OSX - it can't be shared (though it can be switched between the two). Is there any particular reason you used this approach - other than the obvious one of IT WORKED! I guess what I really mean was: Is there a reason that the more usual Parallels shared printer approach (our Bonjour approach) couldn't be used - is it because it is a multi-function device (rather than a simple printer) Cheers Neil (still learning!) -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 2/2/10 8:14 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 01/02/2010, at 7:45 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: (following my previous post Graeme phoned me and we went through these checks over the phone) Hi Graeme, To sum up what we found - together with a couple of thoughts I've had since: 1) Printer Set-up in OSX: - we have confirmed that your printer is set-up and showing in the Print Fax preference pane with green light as Idle, Default - we have confirmed that printer sharing is turned on on your Mac and that your HP 380 is showing up as a shared printer with status Everyone can print - we have checked your firewall setting - which is currently off (you may want to change this later - but at present it means that your current problem is not down to the OSX firewall. 2) Adding the printer under windows: - The bonjour printer wizard runs but under the Browse for Bonjour Printers there are no printers showing up. - When we checked the configuration of your Virtual machine we found that you had got Network adapter 1 installed and shown as connected but with type Bridged ethernet, compared to my setup which is type Shared Networking Just to put this to bed.. I went to Graeme's place last night on his request following a contribution I had made to this thread. The solution was annoyingly simple, although not immediately obvious: although the USB service was turned on, no actual USB device had been activated. I deleted the HP Printer from his Printers list in Windows, then activated the HP Printer from Parallels' USB Menu. Windows instantly sprang to life, announcing the detection of New Hardware (etc, etc) and the Parallels connection was made. The only glitch was where Windows insisted that we locate a particular .dll file (perhaps a legacy of the Windows drivers having been installed), but once we got through that the HP Printer reappeared in the Printer List, but this time it was the shared version. Graeme is printing just fine from Windows now. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: HP Printer
Well, interesting the things you find out in this sort of exercise: on 2/2/10 12:58 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: snip Whereas for a Bonjour printer (approach 2 on another VM) I see: Port name(s): http://NRH-iMac27.local:631/printers/Canon_iP4000 snip When my post came through, I noticed that the printer IP address was showing as a link so, out of curiosity, I clicked it and my web browser took me to a page called: Canon_iP4000 - CUPS 1.4.2 Which is headed: Canon_iP4000 (Idle, Accepting Jobs, Shared) and seems to give me various options with regard to printer maintenance and administration - I must admit I wasn't game to start fiddling in there, but I did click on the show completed jobs button and was presented with a list of all the jobs the printer had completed. I guess it just gives you a behind the scenes look at some aspects of how OSX printing works. Well, I thought it was cool anyway! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: HP 5380 all in one printer
Hi Graeme, Sorry for the delay in replying to this - it was so long ago since I had done it that I couldn't remember the details! However, I have now just done the exercise again on my new iMac with my VM upgraded for Parallels 5. It was all really simple (as I remembered) basically: - connect printer to new iMac - go to OSX Print Fax preference pane and set-up new printer - Printer is now set as default printer, with correct default paper size - Check the Share this printer on the network box There was a message to the effect that printer sharing was not enabled so: - go to OSX Sharing preference pane and check the Printer Sharing box - the Computer Name is NRH iMac27 - I can see my printer Canon iP4000 listed in the printer list - Under Printers there is a check in the box against the Canon iP4000 - Under Users it says that Everyone Can Print I check back at the Print Fax preference pane and the message re printer sharing not being enabled has now gone. Fire up the Windows XP virtual machine and start up the Bonjour Printer Wizard: - Get the Welcome screen and click next - In the Shared printers box I can see Canon iP4000 @ NRH iMac27 - Select the printer, the Printer information is given as: Description:Canon iP4000 Location: NRH iMac27 - click next and the driver pane comes up saying The Bonjour Printer Wizard has auto-selected the following printer settings: Manufacturer: Generic Model: Generic/Postscript - I also click the Use this printer as the default printer box - click next and the Completing the Bonjour Printer Wizard pane comes up saying You are ready to complete the Bonjour Printer Wizard. The printer has the following settings: Name: Canon iP4000 @ NRH iMac27 Manufacturer: Generic Model: Generic/Postscript Protocol: IPP Default:Yes To Complete the installation, click Finish. - click finish and windows shows some files being copied (presumably the auto-selected drivers etc for the generic printer) That's it - when I go to Printers and Faxes under the Windows start menu I can see the printer listed as Canon iP4000 @ NRH iMac27, it has a tick on the printer icon to show it is the default, status is Ready, comments is Generic/Postscript, Location is NRH iMac27 and model is HP Color Laser Jet 4550 PS (presumably this is the Generic/Postscript printer software auto-selected) Note: The above covers me doing this on a new iMac 27 running SL 10.6.2 and with an up-to date installation of Windows XP pro and the latest version of bonjour all running under Parallels Desktop 5 (build 5.0.9310) - however it all went pretty much as I remember it when I was running Parallels 3 under Leopard 10.5.x Maybe if you go through the above and note anywhere where your experience is different or info showing is different it may ring a bell with someone. Hope that helps. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/1/10 11:51 AM, Graeme Winters at g.wint...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil I have tried your suggestion and installed the Bonjour package Bonjour is now available at the Start menu in Windows When I go into the Bonjour Wizard there is no printer available I have tried going into Add/Remove and done a repair but still no luck The HP is shared Have I missed a step? Graeme On 26/01/2010, at 11:13 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Graeme, When I started with Parallels 3.0, running Windows XP pro, the printing was fine - just using the shared Mac printer. Then, sometime along the way, it stopped working - I don't remember what triggered it - might have been a software update (OSX, Windows or Parallels) but at the time I couldn't figure out the problem despite much Googling and forum searching. Then, luckily, someone suggested just using Apples Bonjour printing on the Windows VM - instant solution and simplicity to implement. You can find Bonjour for Windows here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/application_updates/bonjourforw indows.html and, if you are interested, Wikipedia's info on Bonjour here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_%28software%29 Check that your Mac printer is correctly working and set as a shared printer. Then just download Bonjour for Windows and install on to your Windows XP machine. In Windows run the add a bonjour printer wizard and you should just see you Mac printer listed. I found it all just worked and seemed a lot easier than the previous default system. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 25/1/10 6:28 PM, Graeme Winters at g.wint...@iinet.net.au wrote: Some time ago I listed a problem with this printer scanner in that I could not scan at all. For over 2 weeks I have been exchanging emails with HP Support
Re: iPad
Hehe... I have to agree that people have been talking about the paperless office for well over 20 years! However, the momentum HAS been building.. at first very slowly, but now, I think, we are reaching critical mass. I'm not talking about the demise of books here, but electronic data and records: Some instances I have noticed: - I buy and sell shares online through Commsec (largest broker in Australia) they used to send their contract notes as hard copy, though they have given you the option of downloading pdfs for some time, now the default is to just send electronic contract notes - you pay extra to get a hard copy sent. - those of us who used electronic banking from the early days will have noticed that the ability to download info has been introduced and improved for sometime but tended to be inconsistent from bank to bank - now they all tend to allow you to download statements as pdfs - and I note with CBA that this is now via a screen giving you the option to discontinue paper statements and move to purely electronic statements (and this is the default option if you just go with the flow - you have to actively select the option to keep getting paper every tie you grab a pdf) - companies now exhort shareholders to opt out of hard copy annual reports, AGM notifications and even dividend statements in favour of green electronic notification (pdf's again) - For our first annual audit of our SMSF, the auditor wanted all records couriered to him. I said I had everything as pdfs, why not email them. At first he said no - they needed the original hard copies - until I pointed out that for contract notes, bank statements etc the pdfs WERE my originals - I could print them out but that would be a second generation copy also for share transfers I had to send the originals and keep a copy. He accepted this and then decided it was inconsistent to then ask for hard copies of everything - he is now happy with my electronic copies (provided that for signed documents I scanned the signed original). - much of the printed manuals for software (and hardware) is now replaced with pdfs (either on CD or downloaded) - more convenient and easier to keep up to date. - my sister work in records management and many companies are now moving to getting their records scanned and filed electronically. Whilst, as noted on a previous thread, there are dangers with electronic archives - this is also the case with physical records - fire, flood, rot vermin - and your back-ups (photocopies) use up even more trees - not to mention that your off-site back-up/archiving uses up significant space. Although I haven't yet binned all my hard copy filing system, I am getting to the stage where I do more and more electronically and don't then print out hard copies to file away. I appreciate the need for more than one back-up (including off-site back-up) and enjoy how easily I can achieve this with my Mac - the print to pdf functionality we have with OSX is a godsend! Whilst I am cognisant of the danger of obsolete file types, I am confident that pdfs are now so widespread that when they are eventually superseded there will be a significant overlap during any changeover to a new file standard together with the necessary tools to convert existing data. Just my 2c worth ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 29/1/10 8:36 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 28/01/2010, at 12:55 PM, Mark Secker wrote: I can people using products such as these to replace magazines, periodicals and factual repository books (dictionaries/encyclopedias etc)... Our ³normal computers, both desktop and laptop have already been doing this over the last 15 years... Project Gutenberg and Google books along with ewer devices like the iPhone touch and Kindle and now the iPad will accelerate this... But... Don¹t look at books dying not in our lifetime, probably not even in the long term future There is a very visceral connection with books that no hand held device will emulate. I have to agree with your sentiments. Ever since I touched my first Apple IIe in 1983, people have been predicting a paperless society. Here we are nearly thirty years later and it's not close to happening. Further back than that, the advent of television was predicting the death of the movie industry. That hasn't happened either. Was has happened is that the print industry and the movie industry have had to change the nature of their products to keep them relevant. Yes, many of the smaller players will be consumed by the juggernaut of changing technology, but it's going to be long, long time before we see the ultimate demise of either of these industries; and these are only two examples out of many. Pretty much any activity which relies on having to deal with business clients or the public (which is pretty much any business) is going to
Re: iPad
Hi Paul, I don't know if it is of interest, but, if she is happy with the online version, I see that the student price is only $150 (only!!) and there is a 5 day free trial: http://www.bcaillustrated.com.au/ BCA Illustrated is an online version of the Building Code of Australia (BCA), with over 3000 illustrations and 15,000 knowledgebase links, developed by the Hendry Group under license by the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB). BCA Illustrated contains both Volumes 1 and 2, and is updated frequently including the most current Building Code of Australia data from the ABCB (May of each year). In addition to the content provided by the Building Code of Australia, BCA Illustrated provides numerous additional features and benefits designed to help you utilise, interpret and understand the BCA. BCA Illustrated has been specifically designed to help the user to understand the Australian Building Code and it's various interpretations by bundling additional content exclusive to BCA Illustrated, with Volumes 1 2 of the BCA. Of course, if you pay the extra for the hard copy you get to keep it as it gradually gets more obsolete - whereas with a subscription it is guaranteed to be up to date - but you lose access when the subscription lapses! It does seem like they could be more generous with their student discounts! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 29/1/10 12:02 PM, Paul Weaver at pwea...@westnet.com.au wrote: I remember from the olden days last century that Martin seemed always the leader of the WAMUG pack when it came to new technology. I can see him in my mind's eye now demonstrating System 7. Wow! I was pretty impressed. I agree with him about book publishers needing to change their marketing methods. For example I have a daughter about to start a TAFE drafting course. She needs a copy of The Building Code of Australia, any edition back to 2006. The current student 'discount price' for the latest 2009 edition Vols 1 2 is $238. Choke! Cheers, Paul. - Original Message - From: Martin Hill marth...@iinet.net.au To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Friday, 29 January, 2010 10:48:41 AM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: Re: iPad I don't think most people are talking about the iPad replacing receipts, financial records and all of that sort of paper in an office (although with credit card readers on iPhones and iPod touches now available and the low price and ease of use of the iPod touch and iPad and the growing use of electronic and online transactions perhaps we will finally see the dawn of the true paperless office in many businesses). However, it is newspapers, magazines, text books and other books etc that I think are most threatened. You only need to look at how rapidly MP3s have been killing CDs and how the iTunes Store (and p2p) has killed traditional music shops to see that there are actually plenty of examples where new tech has indeed caused a very rapid decline of the old. The print and publishing industries are already starting to bear the label of beleaguered as one newspaper after another closes up shop or sacks all their creative talent due to their massive losses of subscriptions and sales. Online ad-supported web versions have not been able to pick up the slack and web users have been very resistant to paying for such content when so much else is free. The phenomenal successes of the iTunes Music store and the App Store have given publishers a new hope that they will be able to monetise their content either thru dedicated iPhone/iPad apps or thru the new iBook store. Sure there will be many users who cling to dead trees as change can be an effort, but the writing is on the wall (uh,,,tablet). I still remember people shaking their heads at me carrying my laptop around to play mp3 files way before the iPod came on the scene and made it cool and easy for joe public to recognise the advantages of having their whole music library in their pocket. Well, I have a great sense of déjå vu now having been reading magazines, ebooks, newspapers and myriad other websites on laptops, PDAs, older smartphones and now the iPhone for so many years. Finally the iPod of eBook readers has arrived and may indeed just herald an iPod-like explosion in eBook use by the average consumer. Oh and Avatar? Well for the true 3D experience we'll just have to wait for our 50 3D-enabled Minority Report iPads to be installed on the walls of our living rooms won't we? ;-) -Mart Martin Hill mailto:mart_h...@mac.com homepages: http://web.mac.com/mart_hill Mb: 0401-103-194 hm: (08)9314-5242 On 29/01/2010, at 8:36 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 28/01/2010, at 12:55 PM, Mark Secker wrote: I can people using products such as
Re: Word problem on iMac
Hi Peter, Generally whenever I want to create a document accessible to both Windows/Mac users (without tying them into having proprietary paid software) I just create the document in whatever software suits ME for the particular task and then just print it as a pdf (which is so easy in OSX). Everyone is used to downloading and reading pdfs which seem to be the de-facto default standard for downloadable documents and manuals. Just a thought. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 27/1/10 9:18 AM, Peter Bull at pb...@bbnet.com.au wrote: Apple to the rescueagain!! Thanks Ray, Rob and Tim for your input. I forgot to mention that all of the formatting was removed as well - everything was changed to Times Roman 12 point. I also omitted that the Word file was saved on a USB thumb drive. But, last night I thought I would try Pages. It opened the Word file complete with tables and formatting and I saved it as a .doc Word document and everything is back the way it was. I would not normally use Word for such a big document, having bought a copy of Adobe InDesign, but this document is a set of notes for TAFE and other lecturers need access to it and TAFE is PC only using Word 2007 , which is one of the worst pieces of software ever inflicted on the human race. Thanks again... I can get back to work now. On 26/01/2010, at 9:23 PM, Peter Bull wrote: I have just opened a book I have been revising in Word. A message came up saying there was some corruption but it managed to open it. However, the 135 pages has blown out to 465 because Word has lost all the tables so the info in the tables has been put one line under another and double spaced. Is there some way I could go revert to the last saved version? If so, it would save me a huge amount of work of course. And no, I don't have a backup copy. iMac, OS 10.5.8. Word X for Mac. Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: HP 5380 all in one printer
Hi Graeme, When I started with Parallels 3.0, running Windows XP pro, the printing was fine - just using the shared Mac printer. Then, sometime along the way, it stopped working - I don't remember what triggered it - might have been a software update (OSX, Windows or Parallels) but at the time I couldn't figure out the problem despite much Googling and forum searching. Then, luckily, someone suggested just using Apples Bonjour printing on the Windows VM - instant solution and simplicity to implement. You can find Bonjour for Windows here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/application_updates/bonjourforw indows.html and, if you are interested, Wikipedia's info on Bonjour here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_%28software%29 Check that your Mac printer is correctly working and set as a shared printer. Then just download Bonjour for Windows and install on to your Windows XP machine. In Windows run the add a bonjour printer wizard and you should just see you Mac printer listed. I found it all just worked and seemed a lot easier than the previous default system. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 25/1/10 6:28 PM, Graeme Winters at g.wint...@iinet.net.au wrote: Some time ago I listed a problem with this printer scanner in that I could not scan at all. For over 2 weeks I have been exchanging emails with HP Support trying various fixes to allow me to print while in Windows The position is this I can now print and also scan while using any Apple function When I switch to use MYOB running in Windows I am unable to print at any report So far I have I have tried all the moves suggested by HP and the New Hardware indicator has not appeared. My email exchange with HP is now out to 8 pages long when printed When I purchased this Imac 27 I obtained the Parallels package as I wished to continue using MYOB despite it being a MYOB for Windows package I can use MYOB but still cannot print a report from MYOB All of the HP software and drivers deemed necessary have been downloaded When I now go through Control Panel in Windows Printers the HP 5300 series is not shown. So I guess I cannot expect it to print The printer USB connection has been removed and reconnected but Windows did not acknowledge the printer and when connection is attempted manually the HP installed ie the 5300 series is not listed HP have now suggested that the problem is with Windows not theirs Has anyone else had this problem running Windows within the Mac Have I missed something or is this a Windows problem? Graeme Winters IMac 27 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Keynote DVD
Hi Laura, on 20/1/10 10:18 AM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni snip 2. When played on the TV/DVD player, part of the text under the photos on the slides is not visible on the extreme LH side. This could just be because my TV is old and not a flat screen. Before I try and correct this I'll ask a friend with a more modern TV to try it out for me. snip The issue of what is visible on the TV gets quite involved and is due to the different aspect ratios (which refers to the ratio of the horizontal to vertical measurements of a television's picture) between different broadcast formats and different screens. Background - courtesy of Wikepedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_of_television: * Most of the early electronic TV systems, from the mid-1930s onward, shared the same aspect ratio of 4:3 which was chosen to match the Academy Ratio used in cinema films at the time. * In the early 1950s, movie studios moved towards widescreen aspect ratios such as CinemaScope in an effort to distance their product from television. Although this was initially just a gimmick, widescreen is still the format of choice today and 4:3 aspect ratio movies are rare. * The switch to digital television systems has been used as an opportunity to change the standard television picture format from the old ratio of 4:3 (1.33:1) to an aspect ratio of 16:9 (approximately 1.78:1). This enables TV to get closer to the aspect ratio of modern widescreen movies, which range from 1.66:1 through 1.85:1 to 2.35:1. Aspect ratio incompatibility The television industry's changing of aspect ratios is not without difficulties, and can present a considerable problem. Displaying a widescreen aspect (rectangular) image on a conventional aspect (square or 4:3) display can be shown: * in letterbox format, with black horizontal bars at the top and bottom * with part of the image being cropped, usually the extreme left and right of the image being cut off (or in pan and scan, parts selected by an operator or a viewer) * with the image horizontally compressed A conventional aspect (square or 4:3) image on a widescreen aspect (rectangular with longer horizon) display can be shown: * in pillar box format, with black vertical bars to the left and right * with upper and lower portions of the image cut off (or in tilt and scan, parts selected by an operator) * with the image vertically compressed A common compromise is to shoot or create material at an aspect ratio of 14:9, and to lose some image at each side for 4:3 presentation, and some image at top and bottom for 16:9 presentation. To get around these problems most modern flat panel TVs offer you a choice of viewing mode to select how the TV displays different source material (my TV offers around 6 different modes, so I can choose, for example, whether to have the full image with black bars or the full screen but cropped image. Most DVD players will also allow you to set the video output to match the aspect ratio of the TV which is connected ie 4:3 for a conventional TV or 16:9 for a modern digital TV. Since you are viewing on an old CRT TV, you do not have the option of selecting a different display option on the TV however you will still probably have the option of changing the output of the DVD player between 4:3 and 16:9 (probably under a set-up menu under something like ³video output²). Without knowing what format your video is in and what settings you already have, it is hard to know if this will help (or make it worse!) but you should be able to easily try it and see. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Change of email address bulk mail out
Hi Peter, I recently purchased a .org.au domain from Netregistry http://www.netregistry.com.au/ It all went very well and everything seems to work as it should. They had a special at the time - so it cost me all of $8.25 for two years registration - though come renewal time it will be back to their normal rate (currently $13.75 for 2 years). I notice that, at present, they still seem to have their specials on - it presents itself as a special, Web only 40% discount for the next 2 hours - with a timer counting down the 2 hours. Note that the $8.25 was only for .org.au domains - other .au domains are more expensive but the 40% of applies across them all. Also, I seem to remember when I purchased this that I was looking at various other options and the 2 hour special expired - however I had no real problem making a fresh start and triggering a new 2 hour window - I can't remember whether I just used another browser (Safari instead of Firefox) or whether I stayed in Firefox and just cleared the cache and any Netregistry cookies. Also note that there is no requirement to stay with the same registrar - if down the track you find a registrar who you prefer for whatever reason (price etc) you can transfer your domain registration from one registrar to another (just don't let it expire!) - however I believe some registrars make this easier than others - that is one thing that impressed me about Netregistry - they seem to give you all the tools to do all this up front (with some set-ups you might have to request to make the transfer) which lead me to suspect/hope that they rely on you staying with them because of their service - time will tell. Note also that there are various restrictions on .au categories such as .org.au and .com.au (whereas these restrictions are not applied to general .com or .org domain names). If you are going for a non-Australian (eg .com) domain rather than a .au domain then you have a much larger choice of registrars and prices - but I have no particular recommendations - the Whirlpool forums might be a good place to start, eg: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=160491 WARNING - 15 pages of personal opinions;) HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 18/1/10 10:24 PM, Peter Curtis at pcur...@aapt.net.au wrote: Hi all Having given this due consideration I intend to proceed down this route, can you recommend a good domain registrar (in Australia?) Questions arise as to how to know if a registrar is reliable or not?. Also and/or point me in the direction of some further information for a basic computer user on this subject? Thanks Peter On 31/12/2009, at 11:12 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Keynote DVD
Hi Laura, Sorry, I have no experience/help to offer in this area. However, I do have a couple of suggestions to make regarding how you are attempting to solve this and use the list: Rather than saying something like ³I'm still having problems² give details on just WHAT problems you are encountering (and when) it helps people to help you. If someone like Rod or Ronni has suggested a step-by-step procedure, then go through it and then report back which steps you successfully completed and at which step you encountered a problem and exactly what the problem was. The more specific the info you provide and the better you describe your problems, the more likely someone on the list will recognise exactly what your problem is and how to fix it. Just my 2c worth but that has certainly been my experience. Regards Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 19/1/10 1:06 PM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Rod Thanks for your email. I'm still having problems and am just about ready to consign the whole project to the too hard basket. I've used the iDVD Help Menu and referred to text books recently lent to me. All to no avail. Ronni's recent advice to Susan was similar to what you've suggested so it seems in all of this that I am missing some vital element. On 17/01/2010, at 8:31 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote: Try this: File: Export Quicktime Playback uses fixed timimg select the time for each slide eg 5 secs try Enter Full screen mode when opening this will create a .mov file. (Quicktime movie) Following the above, I have the Keynote slideshow as a Quicktime movie which plays well in the Quicktime player. I added an audio track and that also works well. Then open iDVD File New name it and Create choose a theme Project Info - Video Mode = PAL View Menu - Show Map Drag your movie from the desktop to the top window which says Drag content here to Play automatically when disk inserted I've done all of the above and the file plays in iDVD Preview. then Burn and try it out. Try as I might I cannot burn the file. I keep getting a message about warnings during project validation. Recommend to fix problems before burning. I've gone to the help Menu to find out about the warnings and am advised to click on the Map button at the bottom of the screen which is supposed to indicate where the problems are. When I click on this button the window with the drag content here to Play automatically when disk inserted disappears and then to return to where I was I have to go back to Project Info and Show Map all over again. I did try burning in Toast from a saved disc image and although it went through all the process and then told me the disc was ready, there is nothing on it or if there is it can't be accessed. I've wasted several DVDs but now have some re writable discs for future attempts (if there are any!!) I'd appreciate any further suggestions. Regards Laura MacBook OS X 10.6.2 iWork 09 On 17/01/2010, at 7:16 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Good morning all As a newbie user of Keynote I've managed to sort out how to create a basic presentation. I've made good use of the on line tutorials. A good project for a hot day!! With a very new superdrive I wanted to put burning a DVD to the test, something I've not been able to do before, because my MacBook previously only had a combo drive. Some of you will remember all my recent problems with the optical drive when upgrading to SL I did the burn of my keynote presentation through Finder and had no problems with that. I had expected the DVD would play on the DVD player attached to my TV so I could view the slides in a larger format. It doesn't and just comes up as unknown disc. Nor can I play it in the normal way through my MacBook. I can view the new DVD of my Keynote presentation through Front Row (and like what I see) so I know all the slides are there as they should be and that the burn was successful. Could someone please explain what I am doing wrong? Why can't I view my Keynote DVD in the same way as any other DVD? Regards Laura MacBook 10.6.2 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au image.gif Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam¹s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au x-msg://181/rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.me.com/blitto http://web.mac.com/blitto I haven't lost my mind.. ...it's backed up on disk somewhere! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe -
Re: Keynote DVD
Hi Laura, My apologies, I did not read your reply closely enough and because the body of your reply came through in black text, I missed that the blue text (in specific response to the steps) was also part of your same reply. Regards (in much embarassment) Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 19/1/10 2:54 PM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil Thanks. I take your point. I thought I was doing exactly what you suggest. Rod was already aware of the problems I was having which is the reason he responded to my initial post on this issue. I did go through his email step by step with comments about what I had done, at least that's what I thought I had done! Your input is much appreciated. Regards Laura On 19/01/2010, at 1:56 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Laura, Sorry, I have no experience/help to offer in this area. However, I do have a couple of suggestions to make regarding how you are attempting to solve this and use the list: Rather than saying something like ³I'm still having problems² give details on just WHAT problems you are encountering (and when) it helps people to help you. If someone like Rod or Ronni has suggested a step-by-step procedure, then go through it and then report back which steps you successfully completed and at which step you encountered a problem and exactly what the problem was. The more specific the info you provide and the better you describe your problems, the more likely someone on the list will recognise exactly what your problem is and how to fix it. Just my 2c worth but that has certainly been my experience. Regards Neil -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Permissions not accepted
Hi Jon, When I have these sort of problems, I often find that it is down to trying to share across different user accounts. For example, assuming that: 1) there are two user accounts - User A and User B and 2) that these two user accounts have been set up identically on all machines on the network and 3) that file sharing is turned on each computer Then if User A is logged into his account on the computer he is working from and: 1) He logs into a network computer as User A, he should be able to: - Access all User files on the network as if he was logged into the computer as User A (which he is) - Read and copy files from User B's public folder - Write files to User B's drop box However, if: 2) He logs into a network computer as User B, he should be able to: - Access all User files on the network as if he was logged into the computer as User B (which he is) - Read and copy files from User A's public folder - Write files to User A's drop box However when logged into the local computer as User A but logged into the network computer as User B, if he then copies one of User B's files from the remote computer to the local computer he would probably only be able to put it into one of his User A folders (where the copied file privileges will be as a User A file) or into User B's Public folder. Note that this scenario can change significantly when you start changing the default permissions on folders. I don't know if that will help but it may point you at some of the things to check if you are having problems, ie; - What user are you logged into the local machine as - What user are you logged into the network machine as - What user do the problem folders/files belong to - What sharing privileges are given to other users for the problem shared folders HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 11/1/10 6:09 PM, Jon Davison at photo...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi everyone I am having a lot of trouble sharing files via Airport or Ethernet on our work network. I always get 'You don't have sufficient write privileges'. Sharing is on on all machines in the office, and in options I have them set on; Prefs-File Sharing-Options -AFP. I have set all folders using 'File Info to Read and Write. I am obviously doing something wrong here. How can I set all machines up so they can accept any files without these prevention messages? MacPro/OS X 10.5.8/2Gb RAM/2x 2.66 GHz Dual-core duo MacBookPro/OS 10.5.8/2.5/2Gb RAM/ GHz core duo iMac/OS X 10.5.6/2.4 GHx Core duo/2GB RAM Everything works using the 'Go Menu' and all HD's appear on the desktops, so they are visible, just not able to transfer folders/files etc from one machine to the other. I still have to get info on every folder in order to unlock it and use my password etc. It is really annoying as I cannot see what I may be doing wrong. Any help would be invaluable Thanks Jon Eye in the Sky Productions Image makers to the Aviation Industry Unit 5 / 78 Marine Tce, Fremantle Western Australia 6160 Air-to-air photography Print web design/production VR panoramas Book production Copywriting Corporate ID T: 08 94335541 M: 0403 235938 E: j...@eyeinthesky.com.au W: http://www.eyeinthesky.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Hyperlinks
It is also the same in Entourage - so it may be standard for email clients? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 12/1/10 1:02 PM, Merv Bond at m...@iinet.net.au wrote: The same happens in Thunderbird. Disconcerting until you find out it does work. Merv Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 11/01/2010, at 11:05 PM, Jennifer Lefroy wrote: Hello Everyone, , Please disregard question previously. I find on looking in my sent box that Mac has done the job after all. regards, Jennifer Yes, this is a bug (or is it a feature?) in Mail. Fully formed URLs are not live in the original composed message, but they work fine in the received version. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Bluetooth Magic Mouse
Yeah Ronni, Another neat little trick! Interestingly with my two iMacs sat about 1.5m apart in the same room, the plastic-backed older 24² iMac consistently shows a transmit rate of 54 (ie the max for my ³g² level Airport Express) whereas the new metal-backed 27² iMac shows a lower transmission rate (has varied between 36 48 on a few recent checks). The RSSI (received signal strength indication, Reg) shows differently on every check - changing from around 68 to 76 so far but, interestingly, the RSSI for the new iMac is sometimes better, sometimes worse, than the old iMac but the transmission rate is always lower. At first, I thought the slower transmission rate of the new iMac was probably down to the metal back cutting down the reception relative to the old plastic back however, if that was the case I would have also expected to see the RSSI as consistently lower? For what its worth, the new iMac is running 10.6.2 while the old iMac is running 10.5.8 and I note that there is more info shown under 10.6.2 than 10.5.8, eg: Phy mode: 802.11g and the freq. (2.4GHz) after the Channel number also 10.6.2 shows Airport scanning for new networks around every 10 seconds, whereas 10.5.8 doesn¹t I¹m presuming it is still scanning for new networks, but just doesn¹t display this info under 10.5.8? Cheers Neil. -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 12/1/10 1:38 PM, Reg Whitely at rwhit...@internode.on.net wrote: On 12/01/2010, at 1:23 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: To verify if your MacBook is connecting to the faster n band: Hold down the option key on your keyboard while you click the fan shaped Airport icon at the top of your screen. Look for Transmit Rate. A value of 54 indicates that the network is operating at g level speeds. 70-80 and up indicates that you are at faster n speeds. My MacBook Pro Transmit Rate is always around 270. Hey Ronni and Cloe, that's clever. I didn't know you could do that. I just checked my powerBook's connection to Damien's Belkin54g here in Albany. It says Channel 1, RSSI -73, Transmit rate 36. what does that mean? Reg -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Google quirks
Hi Severin, For what its worth, for me the search results were: * Google Australia (google.com.au) * Search term: newarts (no quotes) -Search the web: www.newarts.org.au was # 3 (of about 3,170,000 for newarts) Note that #1 was also a newarts (no space) in Wisconsin and #2 had newarts in the domain name. - Search pages from Australia: www.newarts.org.au was # 1 (of about 48,100 for newarts) Search term: newarts (in quotes) -Search the web: www.newarts.org.au was # 3 (of about 30,600 for newarts) note #1 #2 were also for newarts (no space) in Wisconsin - Search pages from Australia: www.newarts.org.au was # 1 (of about 419 for newarts) www.newarts.org.au/newartshome.html was # 2 (of about 419 for newarts) Main Google (google.com) Search term: newarts (no quotes) www.newarts.org was # 11 (of about 3,170,000 for newarts) www.newarts.org.au was not showing up in the first 100 results (#1 #2 were the same as the Google Australia results) Search term: newarts (in quotes) www.newarts.org was # 4 (of about 30,600 for newarts) www.newarts.org.au/newartshome.html was # 15 (of about 30,600 for newarts) www.newarts.org.au/P09Summary.pdf was # 25 (of about 30,600 for newarts) So it seems: - Google Australia has you higher up the ratings than google.com - Including newarts' in quotes narrows the search significantly and so moves you up the ratings. - Search pages from Australia also narrows the search significantly and so moves you up the ratings. My own observations on our potoroo.org website was that it took several weeks before a google search for potoroo returned our website as a result but that we then moved up the ratings over time - as others have said, getting other websites to link to you obviously helps (particularly if those links are from other popular sites and the links get used) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com PS www.newarts.org had a very basic one page site with just links to 2 youtube videos of art performances - so, presumably, the videos were popular! I particularly liked Grand Central Freeze: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo on 10/1/10 12:42 PM, Glenn Nicholas at gl...@publicityship.com.au wrote: Severin, Google.com and Google.com.au deliver different results - using google.com.au your site is coming up on page 1 for a search on newarts. If you want to improve your rankings, find ways to get good links to your website from other websites - the more authoritative the website the link comes from the better. Currently you have no links to your newarts.org.au website, which doesn't give you a very strong profile in the eyes of the search engines (who, broadly speaking, treat links to your website as positive 'votes' when determining search rankings). You'll get better results from focussing on links to your site than changing domain. Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: 2010/1/10 Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au: I administer a website for an organisation NewArts(Inc) of which I am secretary. The previous version had a different name and we agreed to change the domain name to newarts.org.au for a number of very good. While this is not a seriously distinctive name, our belief that newarts rather than new arts would mean that we would float up in Google. How wrong that appears to be. Google.com does not rate us in the first five pages, Google.au is marginally better if you go to the suggested newarts.org. Adding some extras in the search will pick it up as I have added ketwords etc in the metadata. This is an unfortunate and annoying dilemma. One solution is to take out another domain name - but what should that be? That is a highly annoying route to take. I am surprised that Google in effect equates newarts with new arts in effect ignoring the space. THe URL etc was directly submitted to Google in the usual way. Has anyone any tricks to offer on this one? Severin Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Coupon for Parallels Desktop 5
Hi all, I recently bought the Parallels Desktop 5 update and also received a $10 off coupon to pass on: Your order also includes a coupon for $10 off our full version of Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac that you can give to a friend. Your friend can use this coupon at http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/ by simply entering the coupon during the purchase process. The coupon expiration date is January 15th, 2010. So, if anyone was looking to buy Parallels Desktop 5 (in the next week) and wants to take advantage of this - let me know and I will give you the Coupon code. First to ask gets it. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Strange error message
Hi Ian, Googling your error message gives this post on the Intuit community forum: http://community.intuit.com/post/detail/a7cIz0eBir3zw9abTJhmjm The error message seems to be related to your Quicken product, but I don't know if the solution posted will help you. (I don't use Quicken myself). Good luck Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 7/1/10 5:54 PM, Ian Reid at ianre...@westnet.com.au wrote: Good afternoon all Using Quicken Home and Business 2009 via Windows Vista in a virtual machine in Parallels 4.0, I received the following strange error message:- Required dll called convert_stub.dll could not be loaded. Please re- install your product. Can anyone with Windows know-how comment about convert_stub.dll. I am assuming, actually hoping, that it is harmless. Ian Reid -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: firewire vs usb
Hi John, I¹m surprised the WD drive didn¹t come with a FW800 cable (both my WD drives, so far, came with both FW USB cables). However, I¹ve found places like Austin computers (Osborne Park) generally carry a good range of cables though their site at present only seems to show FW400 and FW800 to FW400: http://www.austin.net.au/ProductList/tabid/103/Default.aspx?Category=CABLE+ AND+CONNECTORSSubCategory=USB+%2f+Firewire+Cables I would have thought that any of the Mac sellers would be able to source FW800 cables as a comparison Streetwise (a well known online Mac shop) offer, for example: http://www.streetwise.com.au/lacie-lacie-flat-cables-firewire-firewire-p-72 24.html http://www.streetwise.com.au/generic-firewire-cable-firewire-9pin-firewire- 9pin-p-2342.html plus longer cables but they get quite expensive. Another local option is Harris Tech (Osborne Park other locations) who also seem slightly cheaper: http://www.ht.com.au/part/W5847-LaCie-Flat-Cables-Design-by-item-IEEE-1394- cable-9-pin-FireWire-800-M-6-PIN-FireWire-M-1.2-m-IEEE-1394-orange/detail.ht s http://www.ht.com.au/part/X0430-Belkin-IEEE-1394-cable-9-pin-FireWire-800-M -9-pin-FireWire-800-M-1.8-m-IEEE-1394b-white/detail.hts HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 8/1/10 9:49 AM, John Thompson at jet...@iprimus.com.au wrote: Interesting article James. As an aside to this, I have a Mac Mini (2.53GHz, 4 GB ram, Intel Core 2 Duo) which has one Firewire 800 port. I also have a WD MYbook 600Gig external drive which has two Firewire 800 input ports. My question; where can I purchase an appropriate Firewire 800 cable to connect the two? Tried Dick Smith, Officeworks, and several other computer outlets in Morley, just got the normal blank look we have come to expect from people who have been immersed far too long in the PC/Windows world. Thanks John E. Thompson 14 McGlew Street Eden Hill W.A. 6054 Ph. 08-92793524 Mob. 0412 775 197 Email. jet...@iprimus.com.au On 06/01/2010, at 10:30 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: why apple is using fw800 interface http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/185415/firewire_vs_usb_which_is _faster.html quite interesting read James SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway over 40 years in electronics -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Fonts in MS Office
Hi Severin, One of the problems which I was alerted to for running Office 2004 on SL was that there would be font duplication issues with the old MS fonts and newer SL fonts - the solution was to use Font Book to identify the duplicate fonts and disable them. I know that this is not your problem here - but my thinking is that Font Book was obviously aware of the MS fonts and able to disable the relevant older duplicates - so maybe you could use it to disable the MS fonts that you do not want/need? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/1/10 5:07 PM, Severin Crisp at sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: I am plagued with a huge list of unwanted fonts in Word/Office2008. As far as I can see, they are in Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/ Office/Type Libraries but are inaccessible. Is there any way to edit them, or just switch the whole lot off. I am loath to just Trash the lot. Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)
Hi all, I just got a new 27iMac i7 (Merry Xmas to me!) and The first question from she-who-must-be-obeyed was why do you need a new one - the old one is only 2 years old - what are you going to do with it?! Peace and harmony was restored when I pointed out that the old windows machine that her Mum uses was so slow you kept thinking the thing had crashed and how nice it would be to pass on the nice shiny 24 iMac to her (coincidentally it would also be nice to have access to a nice Mac when we visit her in Perth - which we do fairly frequently). So far, so good. However the new machine obviously came with SL and not all my software is SL compatible, also after many successive migrations and system upgrades I decided it would be nice to set-up SL slowly from scratch with regard to applications and user data (rather than just migrate everything from the old machine to the new machine). I am also wanting to re-organise my document/data filing sustem as I intend to incorporate some form of cloud back-up/synchronisation using something like iDisk or Dropbox (or both) as both an extra layer of back-up redundancy and as a convenient way of keeping some data synched between my desktop laptop computer. I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3: - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation. - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24 iMac HD - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra partition to suit my back-up regime) As I saw it, I could then pass the 24iMac on to the mother-in-law (as everything was now on partition 2 of the 27 iMac) and slowly set-up the SL partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27 from partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps and settings just as they were on the 24 without any worry as to what was SL compliant. Now, many of the gurus out there will have already spotted the fatal flaw in my strategy - it appears that I can't actually boot up the new iMac in Leopard! - it seems to require SL! I have now passed on the bad news that I will need to hang onto the old machine for a while longer until I am happy that everything I need is SL compliant, or upgraded, or substituted - in general I do not foresee too much of a problem - I am happy with the move to SL and happy to upgrade programs such as Parallels Reunion - my main bugbear will be MS Office where I have not upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008 because MS killed off VBA and I use quite a few macros. However, to get to the point (finally, I hear you say!) what I was wondering was how will everything go if I boot up in SL (partition 1) and attempt to run my old applications from their current location in the applications folder on partition 2 (the cloned Leopard folder) - this would only be an interim thing - as I confirmed that things ran OK under SL (with Rosetta if necessary) I would then install the apps in their correct location (the apps folder on partition 1). The idea would be that everything I wanted/needed would be gradually transferred from partition 2 to partition 1 (in the case of data/documents) or installed on partition 1 and then deleted from partition 2 (in the case of applications) and any old/obsolete stuff just deleted from partition 2. I would obviously set up the new SL installation with the same accounts as the old Leopard installation - to minimise any permissions problems with accessing the old user folders on partition 2 When everything is off partition 2 I would clean/erase it and use it as a second media partition. However, I am aware that OSX can be a bit picky with where you put certain things - so I was wondering if I was likely to run into any particular problems in the interim as I gradually move stuff of the old partition to the new one? -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)
Hi Ronni, Thanks for the feedback. Responses below against your comments. on 13/12/09 4:41 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: On 13/12/2009, at 3:56 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3: - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation. - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24 iMac HD - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra partition to suit my back-up regime) As I saw it, I could then pass the 24iMac on to the mother-in-law (as everything was now on partition 2 of the 27 iMac) and slowly set-up the SL partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27 from partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps and settings just as they were on the 24 without any worry as to what was SL compliant. Now, many of the gurus out there will have already spotted the fatal flaw in my strategy - it appears that I can't actually boot up the new iMac in Leopard! - it seems to require SL! I have now passed on the bad news that I will need to hang onto the old machine for a while longer until I am happy that everything I need is SL compliant, or upgraded, or substituted - in general I do not foresee too much of a problem - I am happy with the move to SL and happy to upgrade programs such as Parallels Reunion - my main bugbear will be MS Office where I have not upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008 because MS killed off VBA and I use quite a few macros. However, to get to the point (finally, I hear you say!) what I was wondering was how will everything go if I boot up in SL (partition 1) and attempt to run my old applications from their current location in the applications folder on partition 2 (the cloned Leopard folder) - this would only be an interim thing - as I confirmed that things ran OK under SL (with Rosetta if necessary) I would then install the apps in their correct location (the apps folder on partition 1). The idea would be that everything I wanted/needed would be gradually transferred from partition 2 to partition 1 (in the case of data/documents) or installed on partition 1 and then deleted from partition 2 (in the case of applications) and any old/obsolete stuff just deleted from partition 2. I would obviously set up the new SL installation with the same accounts as the old Leopard installation - to minimise any permissions problems with accessing the old user folders on partition 2 When everything is off partition 2 I would clean/erase it and use it as a second media partition. However, I am aware that OSX can be a bit picky with where you put certain things - so I was wondering if I was likely to run into any particular problems in the interim as I gradually move stuff of the old partition to the new one? Hi Neil, This is purely my own thoughts preferences, others might disagree ;-) I guess it's what suits your needs. I feel you will run into problems with the Leopard Clone being a Partition on the Snow Leopard iMac. What kind of problems do you envisage? I would prefer to have it on an External Firewire Drive, then you can boot Leopard from it. Well, I actually have both since I have an external 1TB firewire drive which is partitioned to match the internal drive and I clone each internal partition to it's corresponding partition on the external drive. However, one of the problems with my original strategy is that the new i7 iMac will not boot up into Leopard, only Snow Leopard :( (I tried it from the Leopard partition on both the internal drive and the External Drive - and I know the cloned system on the external drive is OK because the old 24 iMac boots from it but the new i7 iMac doesn't). Interestingly, if I option start the i7 both the leopard and snow leopard systems show up as selectable but, if I select a leopard system, then start-up just hangs at the white screen with the Apple logo (but the moving clock icon doesn't show). Also: - running disc utility under SL and the Leopard partitions have the verify permissions and repair permissions options greyed out. - if I try to start the i7 using a Leopard installation DVD (to try a fresh leopard install) it again refuses to boot from the Leopard installation DVD. I am assuming that the new processor/hardware has certain requirements that are built-in to SL but not Leopard - since there were no i5 or i7 Macs available when Leopard was the current OS. Personally I don't partition my internal drive. I find Leopard Snow Leopard run faster and cleaner on non-partitioned drives. I would partition an external drive into 2 partitions, and have 1 partition for your cloned Leopard, and the other for your EyeTV Recordings. Yes, I hear what you are saying here - that's what I did with my 24 iMac which has a 320GB HD - its just that (without the EyeTV recordings) I never even came close
Re: Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)
Yes, thanks Joe I currently have a mix of WD and LaCie and I¹m also looking to have some ³cloud² back-up/synch for more critical stuff. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/12/09 7:22 PM, Joe Mastrella at joey.pots.p...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! If you are using or are planning to use multiple external HD make sure to purchase HDs from different manufactures. Our club in California suggested to our members that two external HD backups was three times as safe. Some of our members purchased Western Digital (WD) HDs. Unfortunately WD had a batch (large amount) of faulty drives shipped to the western US. You can see where this is leading. I keep a 64 MG flash drive for very important backups of files generated that day. Our data is important to us, be it photos, video, music or documents. When you lose a terabite HD, It's a traumatic experience. Be careful how you configure your back up strategies. Cheers, Joe On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Dark1 da...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil There shouldn't be any problems running Office with rosetta. Generally most apps run fine in SL with the exception of a few niche ones. In terms of your backup system I'd advise you to get another hard drive (quiet cheap these days) rather than running with partitions because if your HD has a mechanical failure you'll lose all the data on every partition unless your prepared to pay vast amounts of money to have it fixed. There are lots of SL updates available so you should check for them on any app that you have trouble running. I don't think there's any real benefit in having EyeTV recordings on a separate partition since you can backup specific folders or, in the case of Time Machine, omit your EyeTV folder from backups. In terms of running your apps from a separate partition they should function fine but you'll lose a bit of performance since your HD will have to read from 2 separate locations on the disk to access the Apps and your system files. You could always add a 10.5 Apps folder to your Applications folder and copy your old apps across there then move them out as you get them working with SL. Hope this helps a bit Ruben Hi all, I just got a new 27iMac i7 (Merry Xmas to me!) and The first question from she-who-must-be-obeyed was why do you need a new one - the old one is only 2 years old - what are you going to do with it?! Peace and harmony was restored when I pointed out that the old windows machine that her Mum uses was so slow you kept thinking the thing had crashed and how nice it would be to pass on the nice shiny 24 iMac to her (coincidentally it would also be nice to have access to a nice Mac when we visit her in Perth - which we do fairly frequently). So far, so good. However the new machine obviously came with SL and not all my software is SL compatible, also after many successive migrations and system upgrades I decided it would be nice to set-up SL slowly from scratch with regard to applications and user data (rather than just migrate everything from the old machine to the new machine). I am also wanting to re-organise my document/data filing sustem as I intend to incorporate some form of cloud back-up/synchronisation using something like iDisk or Dropbox (or both) as both an extra layer of back-up redundancy and as a convenient way of keeping some data synched between my desktop laptop computer. I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3: - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation. - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24 iMac HD - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra partition to suit my back-up regime) As I saw it, I could then pass the 24iMac on to the mother-in-law (as everything was now on partition 2 of the 27 iMac) and slowly set-up the SL partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27 from partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps and settings just as they were on the 24 without any worry as to what was SL compliant. Now, many of the gurus out there will have already spotted the fatal flaw in my strategy - it appears that I can't actually boot up the new iMac in Leopard! - it seems to require SL! I have now passed on the bad news that I will need to hang onto the old machine for a while longer until I am happy that everything I need is SL compliant, or upgraded, or substituted - in general I do not foresee too much of a problem - I am happy with the move to SL and happy to upgrade programs such as Parallels Reunion - my main bugbear will be MS Office where I have not upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008 because MS killed off VBA and I use quite a few macros. However, to get to the point
Re: Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)
on 13/12/09 6:30 PM, Dark1 at da...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil There shouldn't be any problems running Office with rosetta. Generally most apps run fine in SL with the exception of a few niche ones. In terms of your backup system I'd advise you to get another hard drive (quiet cheap these days) rather than running with partitions because if your HD has a mechanical failure you'll lose all the data on every partition unless your prepared to pay vast amounts of money to have it fixed. Yes, I already have four 1TB external drives (more will no doubt eventually follow). Primary back-up for all three partitions is a 1TB external firewire drive with an identical partition scheme to the internal 1TB drive. Each partition on the internal drive will be cloned to the corresponding partition on the external drive - though, from a schedule point of view, each partition will be separately cloned as required - depending on what I have been working on. This will also be complemented with TM back-ups of most of my stuff and I am also intending to incorporate some cloud back-up/synch of some critical stuff. There are lots of SL updates available so you should check for them on any app that you have trouble running. That's the plan. I've since found forum feedback that office 2004 WILL run under SL - provided you address some issues(particularly some font conflicts - so I have my fingers crossed here. I don't think there's any real benefit in having EyeTV recordings on a separate partition since you can backup specific folders or, in the case of Time Machine, omit your EyeTV folder from backups. True, but since I clone the whole partition to let me get running again in the event of disc failure or restore to another machine in the event of a more major machine malfunction, new EyeTV recordings would significantly increase the cloning time - so I like to keep these separate with separate priorities and schedules (losing a few EyeTV recording would be annoying but not a real big deal). In terms of running your apps from a separate partition they should function fine but you'll lose a bit of performance since your HD will have to read from 2 separate locations on the disk to access the Apps and your system files. You could always add a 10.5 Apps folder to your Applications folder and copy your old apps across there then move them out as you get them working with SL. That's good to hear, I can probably live with a slight performance hit while I am testing the apps. I have sometimes used the old folder/new folder approach before when upgrading/migrating - however in this case I intend to also re-organise my whole document/data filing system and my priority is keeping track on what is old and what is new/current across multiple folders in hierarchies sever levels deep - I decided that the best way to do that was start with a fresh slate and just move things to my new system as and when I wanted/needed/classified them. Hope this helps a bit Ruben Thanks Ruben. -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com Hi all, I just got a new 27iMac i7 (Merry Xmas to me!) and The first question from she-who-must-be-obeyed was why do you need a new one - the old one is only 2 years old - what are you going to do with it?! Peace and harmony was restored when I pointed out that the old windows machine that her Mum uses was so slow you kept thinking the thing had crashed and how nice it would be to pass on the nice shiny 24 iMac to her (coincidentally it would also be nice to have access to a nice Mac when we visit her in Perth - which we do fairly frequently). So far, so good. However the new machine obviously came with SL and not all my software is SL compatible, also after many successive migrations and system upgrades I decided it would be nice to set-up SL slowly from scratch with regard to applications and user data (rather than just migrate everything from the old machine to the new machine). I am also wanting to re-organise my document/data filing sustem as I intend to incorporate some form of cloud back-up/synchronisation using something like iDisk or Dropbox (or both) as both an extra layer of back-up redundancy and as a convenient way of keeping some data synched between my desktop laptop computer. I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3: - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation. - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24 iMac HD - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra partition to suit my back-up regime) As I saw it, I could then pass the 24iMac on to the mother-in-law (as everything was now on partition 2 of the 27 iMac) and slowly set-up the SL partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27 from partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps
Re: New iMac wanted
Hi Rod, I note the Apple store is currently showing 27² iMac delivery as: Estimated Ship: 5-7 business days for the 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo standard model, and Estimated Ship: 7-10 business days for the 2.66GHz Intel Core i5 standard model For what its worth, I succumbed to the urge when Apple had their recent TGI Friday annual special. I didn¹t go for a 2TB drive but I did go for the i7 processor (so another build to order). My experience was: Order placed with Apple online store on 27/11/09 at the time of finalising the order it was showing: Ships: 7-10 business days Delivers: within 2-5 business days (after shipment) by Standard Shipping ie they were suggesting a final delivery date of 915 business days after order The Apple Store Order Acknowledgment email then advised: Ships: 11/12/2009 Delivers: 17/12/2009 ie they were predicting shipping at 10 business days and delivery 4 business days after shipping. The Apple Store Shipment Notification email then advised: Shipment Date: 01/12/2009 Delivers By:08/12/2009 Ie actual shipment date (Tuesday) was only 2 business days after order (Friday) and they were predicting delivery 5 business days after shipping. The iMac was actually delivered around 9am yesterday morning (Tuesday 08/12/2009) as promised. The TNT tracking suggests that delivery could have been earlier but there was some delay in Sydney: 08 Dec 2009 10:30:00 Albany Shipment Delivered In Good Condition. 08 Dec 2009 06:58:30 Perth Out For Delivery. 07 Dec 2009 12:16:34 Perth Onforwarded For Delivery 06 Dec 2009 10:00:11 Sydney Shipment In Transit. 04 Dec 2009 18:00:00 Sydney Delay. Recovery Action Underway 02 Dec 2009 09:15:47 Pudong International Airport Shipment In Transit. 02 Dec 2009 01:55:36 Pudong International Airport Shipment Received At Transit Point. 01 Dec 2009 23:02:00 Shanghai Shipment In Transit. 01 Dec 2009 22:39:49 Shanghai Shipment In Transit. Of course, just because this was my experience doesn¹t guarantee similar for you but, so far, my experience with Apples delivery has been terrific: Previous 24² iMac ordered in the 2007 TGI Friday annual special: Order placed with Apple online store on 29/11/07 (at 11pm Thursday - it was Friday 30th in Sydney) at the time of finalising the order it was showing: Ships By:29/11/2007 - 30/11/2007 Delivers By:30/11/2007 - 04/12/2007 Actual Delivery:morning of Tuesday 04/12/2007 2 business days after ordering!! (Obviously this was in stock in Sydney rather than shipping from China!) Other items ordered in this years TGI Friday annual special: Photoshop elements, Bento, Mobile Me Family Pack all three items separately shipped but with same delivery/timescale: Apple Store Order Acknowledgment email advice: Ordered:27/11/2009 Ships: within 24 hours Delivers: 30/11/2009 - 02/12/2009 Actual Delivery: Shipment Date: 30/11/2009 Delivery Date: 02/12/2009 HP PHOTOSMART B109A Apple Store Order Acknowledgment email advice: Ordered: 27/11/2009 Ships: 18/12/2009 Delivers: 22/12/2009 Actual Delivery: Shipment Date: 04/12/2009 Delivery Date: 08/12/2009 So, for me, Apple have made a habit of under-promising and over-delivering when it comes to efficient shipping. Of course, your mileage may vary. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 9/12/09 8:28 AM, Stuart Evans at stuart.ev...@t4.com.au wrote: Hi Rod, I¹d love to drop down your chimney and help out! However... We¹ve had 27² iMacs on order for 4 weeks. After our initial orders went out the door we haven¹t had any since. I don¹ think anyone has them at the minute. Don¹t believe the 3-5 days on the Apple store either. One of my customers ordered and then got a message saying the delivery would be delayed. Your supplier may well get them at the same time as anyone else. Just ask them for updates. P.S. Don¹t forget to delete your emails in case the kids snoop! ;-) Regards, Stuart Stuart Evans T4 Technology ALBANY Shop 6, 69 Lockyer Avenue, Albany, WA, 6330 T 08 9842 9660 F 08 9842 9664 E stuart.ev...@t4.com.au BUNBURY Unit 2/14 Rose Street, Bunbury, WA, 6230 T 08 9721 9660 F 08 9842 9664 On 9/12/09 8:00 AM, rb...@iinet.net.au rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: oops! try 2TB HD :) On Wed Dec 9 7:47 , Ronda Brown sent: Hi Blitto, You will have trouble finding a new 27 iMac with a 2GB HD? 27-inch models: 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive Optional 2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive Have you tried Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: Or MacWorx (Joondalup) 10/7 Delage Street JOONDALUP WA 6027 Ph: 9301 5333 Fax: 9301 5444
Re: Setting up a wireless network
Hi Severin, Michael From memory, the thing about Airport Express is that for non-network enabled printers, printer/scanners etc only basic printing is supported. Eg for my canon IP4000, if plugged in via USB I can launch the printer utility and check ink levels, clean nozzles etc - however if set up as a wireless printer (plugged into the Airport Express) I can print just fine but can't perform these maintenance functions. I seem to remember previous posts relating to printer scanners saying that the scanning wasn't supported via the Airport Express unless the drivers covered this via the network - so, for example, a network printer/scanner with ethernet but no built-in wireless WOULD work wirelessly via an Airport Express because it had the drivers for network scanning. I'm going on memory here so you might want to check the archives to confirm. I guess, it is becoming less relevant now since on consumer level machines wireless now tends to be more common than ethernet. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 30/11/09 4:05 PM, Michael Waldie at mikewal...@mac.com wrote: Hi Severin, I have not come across a printer/scanner unit that is supported using Airport Express/Extreme, if anyone has had success, please do share. If it were to work I would say it would only be printing and not scanning that would work. I have seen a couple of HP printer/scanner units with built in wifi work quite well, no experience with Epson though. On 30/11/2009, at 3:56 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I am helping my son set up a new LAN at home. Currently he has a desktop PC with a USB printer and an HP (work) laptop with wireless connectivity. He has a D-Link G604T wireless router/modem and which has 4 ethernet ports. He is looking to add a MacBook and an iMac and to purchase a printer/scanner. He will phase out the desktop PC except for occasional necessary Windows tasks like eTax. The D-Link does not have a USB printer port but I see that printer/scanner units are available with Wifi connectivity (Epson TX550W for example). Would the best way to go be to invest in Airport Express/Extreme and get a non-wifi printer/scanner and use the printer facility to share among all units. This would make the wifi bit of the D-Link redundant but would not require a wireless enabled printer. Clearly the iMac and PC will be deskbound and can connect to the printer by ethernet (or wireless for the iMac). My own system is centred around an Airport Extreme and a DSL-504 router/modem and I share a laser printer among three computers very happily, including a wireless MacBook. Are there issues with printer/scanner units on this sort of setup? Words of wisdom will be welcomed. Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: migration assistant problem
Hi Justin, I think this problem is usually when you set-up the new computer with a user account that is not exactly the same as on the old machine the folders with the red negative file are what you see if you try and look at another user¹s folders. If you used migration assistant to migrate user folders then you should have the same user accounts as the old machine and so need to log into them using the (old) usernames and passwords. If you just use the default mac options when first setting up a new machine then that all usually happens pretty seamlessly. If you first set-up the new machine with a fresh owners account and then use migration assistant to bring things (other user accounts/folders) over then you can run into problems if you are not exactly clear how the accounts are defined and set-up. Personally, I have several different computers (a couple of iMacs and a laptop) each has user accounts for both myself and my spouse. As a result I have need to transfer the user accounts around from time to time so what I do is just set-up a fresh owner account (called computer admin or some such thing) on each machine at first set-up and everytime I do a fresh system install these accounts just stay as admin accounts with no personal data etc then I can migrate user accounts from machine to machine as I see fit the admin accounts never get migrated and so variations in the admin account name/details are not important. Note that this approach will not suit many people you need to be careful to keep track of what is current in any user account from machine to machine but we each tend to use one of the iMacs as out personal computer and then just bring the laptop up to speed for the occasional trip away if we used the laptop more often I would look to just set-up some form of user folder synchronisation (as discussed in many WAMUG postings). However, if you are just migrating successively from an old machine to a new machine, you are probably best just going the simple Apple route and letting the set-up assistant take care of everything. If you are not sure exactly what you have done in terms of setting up new users and migrating old ones over then, providing that all the info is still on the old machine and you haven¹t yet started creating new data on the new machine, you might be best just starting again restore the new machine using the disk(s) provided and then on first start-up let the initial set-up bring everything over from the old machine. You should repair permissions on the old machine before you start and, of course, it goes without saying that you should have back-ups of everything before you start! Also, there have been many previous WAMUG postings by Ronni and other WAMUG gurus (much more experienced and knowledgeable than myself) covering tips precautions covering system installations, updates, migrations etc check out the archives. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 28/11/09 9:41 PM, Justin Davies at m...@justindavies.com.au wrote: Hi, just bought a macbook and migrating everything across from my powerbook g4 (osx 10.5.8) However the documents, music library - most things that were not applications haven't come across and the folders are showing a red negative sign (like when you delete a message off the iphone). I retried bringing just the documents across using migration assistant, and have now got a second group of folders the same entitled (from old mac) but missing most of the files. Any help gratefully appreciated Best regards Justin Davies m...@justindavies.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: .clp files
Hi Kim, I googled your surveillance system and came up with this manual: http://www.pacom.com.au/ebooknoprice/catalogue/images/S75402.pdf I don’t know if this is your actual system but looking at the specs is says: Under recording and playback: * Compression Method - MPEG-4, Simple Profile * Recording Mode - Time-Lapse, Event, Pre-Event (up to 30 sec regardless of IPS), Text-In * Search Mode - Calendar, Time/Date, Event Log, Text-in, Bookmark And under network: * Remote Software - Monitoring, Playback, Setup, Upgrade, System Status Check, Image Capture Print, Clip Player, Web access via I.E. So it would seem that the actual video should be MPEG-4 but I am assuming the .clp format is something it uses for its “Clip Player” software – perhaps it includes more than just the video – such as info pertaining to “event log”, “text-in” etc (I’m just guessing here) Some approaches to try are: * Sometimes proprietary formats are actually bundles of files (eg the “packages” that mac software comes in, or the .itlp that iTunes LPs use) - to check this select the file in finder and “right-click” it - then in the drop-down menu, if there is a “show package contents” option click it and another finder window will open showing all the components of the bundle. If there is no “show package contents” option then it is probably not a file bundle. * If you don’t have it already, download the VLC media player http://www.videolan.org/ I often find this will play things that quicktime fails to - just open VLC and drag the .clp file onto the media player window – then select it and hit the “play” button. * Try just changing the file extension to .mp4 and see if you can play it (again, try the VLC media player) Let us know how you get on. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 27/11/09 12:44 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Kim, I think we require more information about your .clp files to be able to help you. Normally a .clp is a Windows Clipboard file, or a bitmap image. Are you saying your .clp files are video files? If they are Bitmap files Graphic Converter will import CLP files and you can export it as whatever format you want: http://www.lemkesoft.com/content/143...t-formats.html Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 27/11/2009, at 12:13 PM, Kim Maher wrote: To all I imagine my problem may not be as IT as all the other cry’s for help. I can obtain software for a PC, but, I am a new Mac user and am requesting help re my problem to carry out this task on my iMac 7,1 24” Intel Core 2 Duo. So any help would be appreciated. Regards, Kim Maher On 26/11/2009, at 7:14 PM, Kim Maher wrote: To all As a new member, this is my first cry for help. Does anyone know of software that can convert .clp files to mp4 format. I have a Pacom ONE4ALL surveillance system and the video\audio is saved in a .clp format and I need to be able to transfer to a DVD. Kim Maher f...@bigpond.net.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: TGI Friday Specials day at MAXstyle
And don¹t forget, with the time difference you can check at the Apple store from 9pm tonight! Shopping event is available at the Apple Online Store and 133 MAC (622) only on November 27 from 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. AEST. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/11/09 1:47 PM, Craig Bruce at craig.br...@maxstyle.com.au wrote: You may be aware that Apple will be releasing some great specials tomorrow as part of their annual TGI Friday specials day. MAXstyle will be price matching all Apple advertised specials for tomorrow only, while stocks last. Like you, we don't know what specials will be released yet - so keep an eye out tomorrow and check out Apple's website http://store.apple.com/au Then come and see us to save on shipping time and grab yourself a great bargain! Look forward to seeing you in store tomorrow. -- Craig Bruce Director M 0403 040 088 P 08 9367 4691 F 08 9367 4692 E craig.br...@maxstyle.com.au W http://www.maxstyle.com.au Twitter Maxstyle_com_au Facebook http://www.facebook.com/maxstyle Disclaimer: The information transmitted on this message is intended only for the person or organisation to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact MaxStyle Pty Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Word to Pages transfer
Hi John, The usual way would be just to open the .doc word file in pages and then save as in the native pages format. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 19/11/09 5:48 PM, John Daniels at jdani...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi all What is the best way to transfer all documents from Word to Pages (my Word is old and flaky) Cheers John -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: numbers
Hi Martin, Excel is hugely powerful and can do all that and more - I've been using it for many years and still there are a huge amount of features, formulas etc that I haven't even touched on. Typically that's why some people find it harder to use - it's one thing to know Excel can do it but sometimes it's less than obvious how! With more specific reference to your questions: 1) Yes, of course, you can have as many tables as you like on a page. A page in Excel is just a matrix of rows and columns - put a border around a selection of cells and you have a table - put a border around another selection of cells and you have a second table - you fill the relevant cells with data (text, numbers, dates etc) and create formulas in other cells to work with the data. 2) Yes Excel will cross-reference (link) between cells across multiple sheets and across multiple files (workbooks) - in fact you can combine all of these in a formula - ie a cell could contain a formula which referenced: - a cell in the same table - a cell in a different table on the same page (it's not another table to Excel, it's just a cell in a different location) - cells from different worksheets in the same workbook - cells from different worksheets in a different workbook In other words, it can reference cells from any combination of tables/worksheets/workbooks. I use this linking all the time - for example I create a Tax Workbook every year with separate worksheet for different areas eg one for share dividends, another for share capital gains, another for depreciation, another for deductions and so on (several more!) then I have a summary worksheet which basically just has the top level info needed for my tax return and which pulls all this info from the various detailed worksheets. So each tax year is covered by a single workbook containing multiple worksheets - but there is also info which needs to flow from year to year - for example on the depreciation worksheet, the closing value of one year carries over to become the opening value of the subsequent year - so this becomes a link between different workbooks. I looked at numbers a while back and although it can open Excel files and save in the Excel format I found that the conversion was far from transparent - eg If I opened one of my Excel files in numbers, saved it as a numbers file, re-opened it in numbers and saved it as an Excel file then re-opened this file in Excel it looked very different from my original file! So, yes, Excel will do what you want it to do but, given that your cutting lists are very simple (in terms of spreadsheet functions) and you have it all organised in numbers (which, as you say, is very intuitive) and given that you tried Excel a year ago and didn't enjoy it much - then why do you WANT to do it in Excel? I mean, I'm very happy staying with Excel because: - I have years of experience working with it - I have much time invested in many existing spreadsheets - I have to exchange spreadsheets with people (eg the accountants) who use Excel. However for anyone coming new to spreadsheets the only reasons I can think of to pick Excel over numbers would be: - you need to share spreadsheets frequently with Excel users - you need a more powerful set of tools including some not yet covered by numbers. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 19/11/09 8:50 AM, Martin Sulkowski at msulkow...@reachnet.com.au wrote: Hi Everyone I'm using numbers at the moment and would like to know if it is possible to do the same thing in Excel or export it to excel and have the same formulas. I use numbers for cuttinglists in cabinetmaking. On one sheet I have different tables...one for length ,,,one for heightone for depth ...in total 5 tables on one page From these 5 tables the cuttinglists are created for all the cabinets. I tried to do a copy in excel but it looks so different. The question is 1.: Does excel allow multiple tables on one page 2. : Can i have another sheet with reference to the first sheet with all the calculations? Thanks for all the answers Martin PS: Typical Apple numbers is so easy to learn and intuitive Tried Excel a year ago , but did not enjoy it very much -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Label addresses app.
Hi Bill, Many of the label vendors (Avery etc) have templates to suit their various label sheet layouts - you then just use the templates with a normal word processor. Try here for starters: http://www.averyproducts.com.au/avery/en_au/Templates--Software/Templates HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 19/11/09 11:17 AM, Bill Cole at bill.c...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi all, I wonder if anyone can suggest a good reliable labels address printing application that is compatible with my system . all I want to do is print a few label ( not for cd's ) occasionally , ( christmas time etc to save my wife the laborious task of writing them) I have done some searching, but most appear to be around the $60 dollar mark, and for such a small usage I was looking for something a little less expensive, but if there are none to suit my needs then I will pay that. Thanks Bill Mac 10.6.2-2.8Ghz intel Core 2 Duo---4Gb mem -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Label addresses app.
Also check out: http://www.averyproducts.com.au/avery/en_au/Templates--Software/Templates/ How-to-Use-Templates.htm For how-to instructions and note that although they show this on windows all the MS Word templates should also work just fine on Word on the Mac. Also there is nothing to stop you using the templates with Pages or open office or any other program that opens word files. Hi Bill, Many of the label vendors (Avery etc) have templates to suit their various label sheet layouts - you then just use the templates with a normal word processor. Try here for starters: http://www.averyproducts.com.au/avery/en_au/Templates--Software/Templates HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 19/11/09 11:17 AM, Bill Cole at bill.c...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi all, I wonder if anyone can suggest a good reliable labels address printing application that is compatible with my system . all I want to do is print a few label ( not for cd's ) occasionally , ( christmas time etc to save my wife the laborious task of writing them) I have done some searching, but most appear to be around the $60 dollar mark, and for such a small usage I was looking for something a little less expensive, but if there are none to suit my needs then I will pay that. Thanks Bill Mac 10.6.2-2.8Ghz intel Core 2 Duo---4Gb mem -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: numbers
Hi Martin, It was good to hear that ex/import excel-numbers is complicated,,,so I do not need to invest any time in this. It's not that it is complicated, the export/import is all simple - it's just that if (like me) you have complex and carefully formatted spreadsheets they don't go through the export/import cycles without at least the formatting getting messed up. If your spreadsheets are fairly simple, with basic formatting, you may find it all works fine. However, if you are just wanting to send them static info, rather than an interactive spreadsheet, then I find using the print to pdf is the simplest way (rather than scanning) - then send the pdf by email and everyone (mac or windows) sees the same thing. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 19/11/09 1:06 PM, Martin Sulkowski at msulkow...@reachnet.com.au wrote: Hi Neil Yes it is about sharing in the long term with other cabinetmakers who do sometimes work for me. But I can still scan and e-mail if necessary. It was good to hear that ex/import excel-numbers is complicated,,,so I do not need to invest any time in this. Thanks for all the helpful answers On 19/11/2009, at 10:22 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Martin, Excel is hugely powerful and can do all that and more - I've been using it for many years and still there are a huge amount of features, formulas etc that I haven't even touched on. Typically that's why some people find it harder to use - it's one thing to know Excel can do it but sometimes it's less than obvious how! With more specific reference to your questions: 1) Yes, of course, you can have as many tables as you like on a page. A page in Excel is just a matrix of rows and columns - put a border around a selection of cells and you have a table - put a border around another selection of cells and you have a second table - you fill the relevant cells with data (text, numbers, dates etc) and create formulas in other cells to work with the data. 2) Yes Excel will cross-reference (link) between cells across multiple sheets and across multiple files (workbooks) - in fact you can combine all of these in a formula - ie a cell could contain a formula which referenced: - a cell in the same table - a cell in a different table on the same page (it's not another table to Excel, it's just a cell in a different location) - cells from different worksheets in the same workbook - cells from different worksheets in a different workbook In other words, it can reference cells from any combination of tables/worksheets/workbooks. I use this linking all the time - for example I create a Tax Workbook every year with separate worksheet for different areas eg one for share dividends, another for share capital gains, another for depreciation, another for deductions and so on (several more!) then I have a summary worksheet which basically just has the top level info needed for my tax return and which pulls all this info from the various detailed worksheets. So each tax year is covered by a single workbook containing multiple worksheets - but there is also info which needs to flow from year to year - for example on the depreciation worksheet, the closing value of one year carries over to become the opening value of the subsequent year - so this becomes a link between different workbooks. I looked at numbers a while back and although it can open Excel files and save in the Excel format I found that the conversion was far from transparent - eg If I opened one of my Excel files in numbers, saved it as a numbers file, re-opened it in numbers and saved it as an Excel file then re-opened this file in Excel it looked very different from my original file! So, yes, Excel will do what you want it to do but, given that your cutting lists are very simple (in terms of spreadsheet functions) and you have it all organised in numbers (which, as you say, is very intuitive) and given that you tried Excel a year ago and didn't enjoy it much - then why do you WANT to do it in Excel? I mean, I'm very happy staying with Excel because: - I have years of experience working with it - I have much time invested in many existing spreadsheets - I have to exchange spreadsheets with people (eg the accountants) who use Excel. However for anyone coming new to spreadsheets the only reasons I can think of to pick Excel over numbers would be: - you need to share spreadsheets frequently with Excel users - you need a more powerful set of tools including some not yet covered by numbers. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 19/11/09 8:50 AM, Martin Sulkowski at msulkow...@reachnet.com.au wrote: Hi Everyone I'm using numbers at the moment and would like to know if it is possible to do the same thing in Excel
