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Fellow Mu-ers' My 6 year old SCSI scanner finally had to go to the it graveyard today. So - what's the best value for money scanner around these days? Has to be useable on Macs and PCs but I presume USB will handle that. Slide scanning capability would be nice but not essential. Any info much appreciated - Cheer -- Robert Loss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF documents , plugins and OSX from Macintouch
I just tried it with IE and Safari - it Works good! In Macintouch Sunday 4.5.03 Mac OS X users who want PDF documents to load directly into their internet browsers know that Adobe's browser plug-in, "PDFViewer", doesn't work, even with the latest 5.1 version of Acrobat Reader. (Yes, when you click a PDF link, Reader5.1 will auto-start and load the linked document, but this is slow and clunky, and leaves a downloaded copy of the doc on your disk.) The solution is Manfred Schubert's "PDF Browser Plugin 1.1.1". He has one plug-in that works with Internet Explorer (72K download), and another (192K download) that works with other browsers (I tested with Navigator and Safari). Put the plug-in in your Library/Internet Plug-ins/ folder and restart your browser. (In IE, you have to set your "preferences: helpers" to use the plug-in for PDFs before restarting the browser). The rendering is accurate and very fast. -- Robert Loss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mobile data speeds - T68i
During a fairly extensive bit of testing over the last few days I'm getting a pretty consistent 32kbps with my [Optus] T68i - BT - TiBook. - Bloody expensive though (2.2c/kb and 1.1 c/kb after hours) What is the fastest mobile phone to transfer data? I am sitting here on Rottnest working for a client with my Tibook and a Nokia 6210 It is very slow. I hate to think what the phone bill will be. David Hudleston -- Robert Loss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On the longevity of SOHO switches
Greetings all, I just wondered if anyone with some longish term experience with SOHO networks could comment on the pros and cons of cheap SOHO switches. About 4 years I set up my home network using a "brand name" 4-port switch, and an 8-port "budget" switch. The budget switch lasted about 15 months, and its replacement (another budget model) has just died. The 4-port is still going fine. Am I just unlucky, or are these "budget" priced switches really only designed to last until they are just out of warranty? Cheers -- Robert Loss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WACOM Mac ADB tablet to give away
I have a Small Mac ADB WACOM tablet (purchased circa 1995 - hardly ever used) to give away to a worthy cause. If you think you have a good use for such a thing send me your sob stories and I'll award it to whoever I think is going to make some use of it. Cheers -- Dr Robert D Loss Senior Lecturer Department of Applied Physics Curtin University of Technology Kent St Bentley 6102 WA Australia fon +61 8 9266 3523 fax +61 8 9266 2377 mob 04011 03649 EMAIL; [EMAIL PROTECTED] CRICOS Provider Code: 00301J
