Stolen MacBook Pro
Hi... If anyone happens to come across a MacBook Pro 15, serial number W873816QYAM, 4GB, 500G HD, may still have an fxpansion FX sticker over the apple, and a BFD2 sticker on the corner of the lid then it's stolen, please report it. Have fun, Shay (no, not mine). -- 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
Seeking = $800 Intel Mac
Hi folks, My Dad's after something to replace his eMac :), so if you have a = $800 Intel based Mac you want to part with, let me know the details. Have fun, Shay -- 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
Consultant wanted...
Hi... I'm looking for someone who can do a restore from a Retrospect 8 backup (license included), and possibly some other installs (maybe MYOB). Please contact me offlist. Thanks, Shay -- 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
Anyone know where I can get an unlocked iPhone 4 for o utright purchase?
Anyone know where I can get an unlocked iPhone 4 for outright purchase? Perth Apple store are out of stock. Online Apple store says 3 weeks delivery. Does anyone know if the Telstra owned store in Hay St lets you purchase them outright and unlocked? Have fun, Shay -- 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
12V MacBook Pro adaptors
Hi... Before I shell out for international shipping, I was wondering if anyone has similar items to these in stock? http://www.hypershop.com/HyperMac-Pure-DC-Car-Charger-for-MacBook-p/mbp-car.htm http://mikegyver.com/Store/ http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/ADPTMSC85/ The Apple store tells me my 10A power socket at 12V (120W) can't supply the 85W and as such they don't have anything on the shelf :) Have fun, Shay (Yes, I already have a sinewave inverter) -- 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 Office for Mac 2011 due in October
On 5/08/2010 9:29 PM, Philippe Chaperon wrote: For all the bad things one can say about Microsoft, I still do not know of any software package that will match the ability of MS Office to open very, very old documents. I can be proved wrong, but all my old documents except MS Office's ones, are now unreadable. To illustrate, I have been reading Word and Excel documents dating back to prior to 1996 complete with VBAs and Macros without the slightest problem. By the way those documents were stored on ... diskettes, yes those little floppies which the new generation of Mac users would probably not even have seen. In my view MS is not all that 'evil' and I must give them credit for their continued progress specially with Excel, which in my personal opinion, has no equal. Kind regards, Philippe C Of course the reason it's good at opening Microsoft documents is that they're in proprietary Microsoft formats. Using open document formats (such as the native formats of OpenOffice and NeoOffice) means there will be more apps that can read old documents and helps greatly with information preservation, and market competition over time. Not to mention you (and your government tax dollars) won't have to pay money to Microsoft for the licensing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_adoption Have fun, Shay -- 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 Office for Mac 2011 due in October
There are always the free NeoOffice and OpenOffice: http://www.neooffice.org/ http://www.openoffice.org/ Have fun, Shay On 5/08/2010 4:45 PM, John Daniels wrote: Hi Wamuggers With the advent of a new M/S Office, has anyone got a copy of Office 2008 for Mac they could dispose of or would be willing to lend me. I believe that the 2008 version provides 3 serial numbers. Thanks John On 05/08/2010, at 1:56 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Just saw this: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/new-office-for-mac-2011-due-in -october-20100803-114at.html Microsoft said this week it would start selling the next version of its Office programs for Apple's Mac computers at the end of October. And The Home and Student edition will cost $169 to install on one computer, or $209 to install on three. Home and Business edition will cost $279 to install on one computer and $379 to install on three. People who buy Office 2008 for Mac between August 1 and November 30 can register to upgrade without extra charge when Office for Mac 2011 is available. 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 -- 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: Macspeech dictate
Have you tried creating a new profile for the microphone? Have fun, Shay On 23/07/2010 4:44 PM, Glenn Cardwell wrote: I purchased this voice recognition software in Feb 2010. Now tells me that: This profile's microphone is missing. I use the headset that came with the software. The microphone is identified as C-media USB audio device. The headset is plugged in as normal. A restart delivers the same message. Have gone to system preferences speech recognition settings line in as well as sound input line in Sounds like a failure somewhere as nothing has changed since it was operative. Any tips gratefully received. Using 10.6.4 MacBook Pro 5.2 *Glenn Cardwell* *Accredited Practising Dietitian* *Accredited Nutritionist* http://www.glenncardwell.com Free nutrition newsletter: http://www.glenncardwell.com/newsletter.html Nutrition Impact Pty Ltd ACN 101 620 633 PO Box 1068 Bentley DC Western Australia 6983 *ph/fax * *+61 8 9367 3556* *mob * *0413 806 406* *Author of **/Gold Medal Nutrition/** (4th ed), /Getting Kids to Eat Well/ **/Top Blokes' Food Manual/* -- 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: iBook 10.3.9 Retrieved by Mullewa Cops
The 10.3.9 software update page is listed as being last updated on August 7 2008 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2572?viewlocale=en_US If the machine has been recovered from untrusted parties then its software should be considered compromised and a clean install done from read-only media (ie 10.3 install Discs) Have fun, Shay On 29/06/2010 8:50 PM, Reg Whitely wrote: Hi all WAMUGgers Our wonderful Mullewa cops returned a stolen iBook to us at school today, some 3 years after it was smashed out of my office. Thank you wonderful police people. It has OS X 10.3.9 installed. I've cleaned it up on the outside with eucalyptus oil and repaired disk permissions. All looks good there. Trying a Software Update, it tells me there are no new updates. Try again later. I know this laptop hasn't been accessed since it went missing as it was password protected. Is it reasonable to expect that there have been no Software Updates since May 28th 2007? Do I need to change some settings? Kind regards 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: My iPhone, disappearing birthday problem
I was informed today that if you sync birthdays with Google calendar it moves them forward a day. One day every time you sync :( Have fun, Shay On 24/06/2010 9:41 PM, Robin Belford wrote: To answer my own question yesterday, about disappearing birthdays of my 80+ yo family members from my iPhone Calendar app. To quote responses I got from the MacInTouch list, and it is not limited to iOS4 but has been around for a while. cheers Robin --- B Carpenter Re: no birthdays for older people on iPhone calendar. This is a feature apparently. It seems that the iPhone calendar doesn't do repeated events when repeated more than 75 times, so anyone with birthdays over 75 years old just doesn't show up. John Davies To Robin Belford: The issue with birthdays (repeating events) for old people (events initiated many years ago) disappearing is not new and has nothing to do with iOS 4. I believe the issue is in iTunes and the sync routine. I have forgotten how many years of repeating events can sync before they get dropped, but know that my Mother's birthday doesn't make it over to my 3.1.3 iPhone and didn't in previous releases. The whole issue with birthday syncing on the iPhone is a mess as they are stored on the Mac in Address Book with a time zone so when you move around the world *some* of them move a day of. You may also notice on the iPhone that the same birthday *can* be on a different day depending on if you look at Calendar or Contacts e.g. my birthday in Calendar is correctly shown as May 24 but in Contacts shows as May 25. Such a buggy mess I no longer enable the Birthdays calendar in iCal and manage them manually. I have heard good things about Dates to iCal but don't know if this helps improve syncing to the iPhone. -- 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: Using iPhone Overseas
I highly recommend turning Data Roaming off to avoid the annoying $400 data bill. I just turned it on when I found myself needing to use Maps or look up timetables etc. then turned it straight off again. If you're going to be over there for a while it may be worth sourcing a local data provider's SIM. Have fun, Shay On 23/06/2010 5:24 PM, Rod Blitvich wrote: Dear WAMUGers Please can you help? I have applied to Telstra have International Roaming switched on. I can see that the call rates are maybe 3 or 4 times higher. What about data? Is data just data - doesn't matter where you are? I have a $10 data pack which i NEVER get close to using up. Will it be the same in Malaysia? Or will that be 4 times as expensive? Or will data not work at all? ta Blitto * **Rod Blitvich* - Amy Sam’s 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 don't have a big ego, I'm way too cool for that.* ** ** ** -- 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: How to stop my email address from being public on WAMUG Mailing List Archives?
Perhaps add a message to the fact that you don't answer personal queries next to your name in your e-mail signature? Alternatively set up a keyboard macro to auto-reply referring them back to the mailing list. Or tell them your hourly e-mail consultation rate and ask if they'd like to continue. Have fun, Shay On 10/06/2010, at 2:39 PM, Nicholas Pyers wrote: Not an idea solution... but why don't you setup yourself a separate email address use on the WAMUG list... and keep a separate address for 'client only' queries and responses (and never post that here) But the longer term solution is to kill the 'reply via email' option from the archive. On 10/06/2010, at 1:45 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello People, I have been receiving a lot of requests lately for my Tutorials from people who are not members of WAMUG mailing list, and I wondered how they all know about my Tutorials have my email address? They are googling and getting my information from the WAMUG Mailing List Archives. At the bottom of a message on the Archives is Reply via email to name of the sender. How can I make my email address 'Private' (not to show) in the Archives, so if people want my Tutorials or Support Help, they would need to go through WAMUG Mailing List? … NOT directly to me! This is becoming a problem for me, as 'Offlist is reserved for my clients. I don't have time to respond to all these people that are 'fleecing' my email address from WAMUG. Google is fast becoming Not My Friend ;-) -- Nicholas Pyers (nicho...@appleusers.org) Founder Publisher, AppleUsers.org http://www.appleusers.org/ -- 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: Buying iPad from US
On 23/04/2010 5:40 PM, Rod Blitvich wrote: Has anyone used ship2me http://www.ship2me.com/ to buy an ipad? Any pros/cons? ta Blitto I wouldn't buy a 3G model from the US as you'll probably find it locked to ATT or somesuch. Also beware that apparently Apple have been cancelling some redirection orders: http://macworld.com.au/ipad/view/4750/ Have fun, Shay -- 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: Apple USB Modem
On 25/02/2010 3:10 PM, Craig Bruce wrote: Just wondering if anyone has or knows where I can get myself an apple usb modem? Funny I'd be asking this but they are a bit hard to come by these days and I don't trust Originals from hong kong -- Craig Bruce Director There was a discussion on Macintouch about this recently... http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/modems/ Have fun, Shay -- Join the Perth Artifactory Learn, Share and Make things! http://artifactory.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: DVD region codes
Hi... It still seems stupid to me that the $80 DVD player from JB Hi Fi comes with a firmware patch to remove the region coding in line with the ACCC ruling, but that $X000 Macs restrict you from playing the DVD's you bought legally from overseas. Sigh. Thanks, Shay On 24/02/2010 6:40 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 24/2/10 6:26 PM, Andrew Schox and...@perthfootankle.com.au wrote: Hi all, Is there any way to play DVDs from different regions without invoking that horrible little dialog that only gives you a few chances to change the DVD player's region code? This is on a new MacBook. Cheers, Andrew Hi Andrew Unfortunately not through Apple DVD Player. You can try and hack the hardware with certain software, but I've never recommended this or tried it myself, as if it goes wrong during the process, you can fry your drive. (Not worth the risk I tend to think). Once work around is to not have DVD player launch on load (System Preferences - CDs DVDs then under When you insert a video DVD you change this to ignore). Then once the DVD is mounted (which doesn't affect the region code issue), you find the VIDEO_TS folder, and look for the largest file. You can then play this in VLC. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Sure, you don't get all the bells and whistles. But you get to watch the movie part without worrying about region codes and locking your DVD Player to another region. :o) Welcome to the free world :o) 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...@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
Macbook hard drive repair extension program
Hi... In case anyone out there has a 13 MacBook with a flashing question mark that meets the criteria http://www.apple.com/support/macbook/hd/repairextension/ Have fun, Shay -- 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: Emac went dim
On 13/02/2010 1:16 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 13/02/2010, at 12:15 PM, malcolm Tate wrote: Hello everyone, This morning when I woke up the screen on my Emac running 10.4.11 was dim. I recalibrated the colours and it seems to be ok now. I was just wondering if this was the right thing to do, and if my computer is on its way out? Also, why would it happen? I've had the computer for a few years now and never seen this before. Hi Sam, Look closely at the screen, can you still see the icons in the background? If you can and it seems extremely dark, then your problem is likely an LCD inverter board. This isn't a terribly expensive part but getting it replaced might not be cheap labor wise. An LCD inverter is what powers the backlight for the screen. I would suggest you backup everything you need on your computer to an external Hard Drive, as the eMac could well be on its way out. Cheers, Ronni Except eMacs have CRT's not LCD's? Which would mean it's the analog board or equivalent. Have fun, Shay -- 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
MacBooks on auction (Tuesday 12th)
Hi... In case anyone is interested I note that Ross's has a police unclaimed and forfeited property auction, including two MacBooks and a MacBook Pro on Wednesday. Inspection is on Tuesday 12th. http://www.auctions.com.au/auctions/2010/01/13/wa-police-unclaimed-and-forfeited-property-auction.html Page 52 of the slideshow. Also looks like there are two iPhones on page 53 and some Applecare protection plans on page 50. Also a copy of iWork 09 around there. Have fun, Shay -- 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: Collectors ABC on now !
On 4/12/2009 8:03 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Unless I was mistaken, I think they are going to talk to a Mac collector tonight. Show has just started. Regards, Stephen Chape http://www.abc.net.au/tv/collectors/segments/s2762063.htm Also his site at http://school.anhb.uwa.edu.au/personalpages/kwessen/web/Collection.html although currently not responding for me. Have fun, Shay -- 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: Content management systems
On 4/11/2009 1:08 PM, Peter Bull wrote: A mate of mine asked me about Content management systems or CMS so that he can upload pics and content to his website. I know very little about them - is their a favourite package? Are they just an integrated web authoring tool with built in FTP to upload content? Any help or advice would be appreciated. Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.com.au Depends what he wants. For blogs there is software like Wordpress, or sites like Wordpress.org and Blogspot. For photos there's software like Gallery, or sites like flickr, mobileme, picasa, etc. More generally there are CMS's like plone, drupal and Joomla. Some things to consider: * Do they want the photos to be accessible to everyone, only their friends, or some other arbitrary groupings? * Are they writing articles to go along with the photos? * Is the content updated in a linear blog-style? * Are they going to run ads? * Is the audience local or based somewhere else in the world? If you want to compare CMS's there's the CMSMatrix site http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ Have fun, Shay -- 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: Menu Bar showing DS time
On 25/10/2009 10:11 PM, Barb Zahari wrote: At least I'm not an orphan Michael! Seems widespread in Windows PCs as well .. quite a few people have mentioned it in freecycle cafe today. Apple put daylight savings for WA in for 3 years until the referendum, Microsoft assumed it would be permanent. Your Mac shouldn't be observing DST. Does your Date and Time control panel think you're in the Perth timezone? Have fun, Shay -- 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
Mac sale at DJ's Karrinyup
Hi... According to our local community newspaper, David Jones Karrinyup have 10% off on Macs until Sunday (and 48 months interest free if you have a DJ's card). Subject to stock availability. Their online catalog also mentions that if you buy by tomorrow (Friday 25th) and purchase AppleCare you get MobileMe or iWork '09. (So, on a 24 inch iMac it saves around $21.72 over the Apple store price, which may be compelling enough for some!) Have fun, Shay -- 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 Road Rules Threaten Phone GPS | iPhone Apps | TomTom | Navigon | Sat Nav
On 21/09/2009 4:39 PM, Matthew Healey wrote: On 21/09/2009, at 4:08 PM, Martin Hill wrote: The benefit would be increased safety for all road users resulting from lessening driver distractions. So does that mean they are going to ban road-side billboard advertising, and talk radio in cars? Both of which are a large distraction to drivers... - Matt Talking and answering questions seems to significantly impact the brain centres used for driving http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/phone-driving--drink-driving-20090618-clp5.html (Talking to another adult in the car is not as bad as usually they shut up or scream something useful if conditions are difficult or they're about to die) Not sure if anyone's done fMRI's on billboard adverts yet. Really they should be banning all mobile phone conversations by the driver whilst driving. Anyone know what happens if you're using the Tom-Tom iPhone software and the phone rings? I'm guessing you get lost :) Have fun, Shay (Who pulls over or lets it ring out). -- 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: Sorting
On 18/09/2009 4:04 PM, Peter Curtis wrote: Hi Can I sort a list on numbers without getting 1, 10, 11, ...2, 20, 21 for example? instead of 1, 2, 3, ..10, 11, 12, and so on? Regards Peter Yes. Of course it depends on what application you're using! Have fun, Shay -- 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
Recommendations for Digitising 8mm films
Hi... I've got about 37 rolls of 8mm films I'd like to digitise to movie files (and thence to DVD). Any recommendations on people who do conversions (preferably locally)? I've got quotes from the following http://ezdigital.com.au/index.htm http://www.diskbank.com.au/8mm%2Dsuper8%2D16mm%2Dfilm%2Dto%2Ddvd/ Have fun, Shay -- 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: Computer's Audio to iPod touch
On 5/09/2009 7:28 PM, Kyle Kreusch wrote: Hi All GMUG and WAMUG Does anyone know? of a application that I can run on my Mac that will Stream my systems audio over wireless Airfoil on the Mac: http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/ along with Airfoil Speakers Touch: http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/iphone/ Have fun, Shay -- 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: Microsoft Office 2004
Have you tried the free NeoOffice? http://www.neooffice.org/ Thanks, Shay On 4/09/2009 11:31 AM, Evers wrote: I'm hoping to find/buy/scavenge Office 2004 if anyone has a spare or outdated copy? I have been using the original Office for Mac X at home and finally decided to upgrade, only to discover that Office 2008 does not run VB macros so I couldn't use EndNote for making citations as I go, and my wife would miss some Excel functionality - we have been used to using these features at work and would like them at home. I'm not sure which version I will need - if home student edition has these features then that will be fine. Also, a family licence edition would be great as there are 5 macs in our house. Thanks in anticipation... Cheers Tony Evers -- 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: Preferences under Snow Leopard
On 2/09/2009 6:26 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: Since installing Snow Leopard, attachments to emails open in Pages or Numbers rather than in Word or Excel. I cannot find a way of setting preferences so that the attachments open in Word or Excel. Can any-one steer me in the right direction? Thank you, Michael Hawkins. Apple silently changed Snow Leopard to no longer honour type and creator codes but use file extensions instead. Sigh. http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/511/cpsid_51110.html Thanks, Shay -- 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: 64-bit Kernel and Extensions
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-336194.html On 1/09/2009 5:11 PM, Paul Willemse wrote: Hello all, My system as below (from 'about this Mac') does not install the 64 bit options. It is less than two years old and should, according to Apple, install the 64 bit version. There are no PPC Apps on the system. Any hints? Thanks, Paul Model Name: Mac Pro Model Identifier: MacPro2,1 Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor Speed: 3 GHz Number Of Processors: 2 Total Number Of Cores: 8 L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB Memory: 4 GB Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz Boot ROM Version: MP21.007F.B08 SMC Version (system): 1.15f3 Serial Number (system): 1575000K0GP Hardware UUID: --1000-8000-001D4F44E4C8 System Version: Mac OS X 10.6 (10A432) Kernel Version: Darwin 10.0.0 Boot Volume: MacProDisk Boot Mode: Normal Computer Name: mac User Name: Secure Virtual Memory: Enabled 64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No -- 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: Hard disk suddenly full
Try Disk Inventory X http://www.derlien.com/ Have fun, Shay On 6/08/2009 2:46 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: For the last few months the available space on my HD has remained fairly static at about half the total (~80GB). I have made no recent downloads of any large applications or other files but suddenly my HD is almost full (147GB). My remote back up disk which has done a full back up followed by daily incremental backups under CCC only shows 70GB used. I have done the obvious deletions of caches and trash and searched through the main folders for very large folders with no avail. Has anyone any thoughts as to what may have suddenly filled my hard drive and is there an easy way to find large files or folders without wading through them all? Regards Barry iMac 5,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz 667 MHz 2GB 667 MHz 150GB HD OS X 10.5.7 -- 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: white iPhone
On 18/07/2009 3:12 PM, Pedro wrote: Thanks Craig and Nicholas I have at least a two week wait as the local 3 store has sold out and they sold out online with in an hour on Thursday Pedro It's not just them, I've been waiting over a week for an order from the Apple Store Online. Have fun, Shay -- 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: Gigabit over power
On 23/06/2009 9:08 PM, Tim Law wrote: These products concern me as a user of HF radio on my outback travels. I recall extensive discussion about the negative impact on internet over powerlines on HF radio transmissions and hadn't realised it was going to be accepted in Australia. I wouldn't mind Gigabyte download speeds, but not at the cost of me not being able to use HF whilst travelling. It's something to do with the wavelength of internet over powerlines interfering with the HF frequencies, effectively destroying the ability for it to be used anywhere near powerlines. Base stations all over the country would become useless, and render the system redundant. Sure, Sat phones provide an alternative, there is nothing quite like the crackle of the HF radio sched to give a feeling of not being alone and part of a big community of travellers that will help each out in a time of need. Many sat phone owners still run their HF as they I'd appreciate anyone being able to reassure me that in the years since this technology had been developed that it's negative impact on HF has been removed. Tim I think you'll find that the HF interference concerns mainly come from ISPs (or electricity companies pretending to be ISPs) using power lines to provide internet, as they do in some places overseas. These Gigabit over Power solutions are for inside your home, and should be designed so they don't interfere with the people next door using the same system. No long transmission lines to act as antennas to radiate the signal. Of course, smart power meters are now communicating over the power lines anyway, but probably at much less bandwidth, and thus much less likely to interfere. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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: Telstra NextG tethering does work already
On 18/06/2009 9:06 PM, Rob Phillips wrote: I've just been browsing the Whirlpool forum, and it didn't help me - it was full of jargon I didn't understand. I found the configuration file, but I have no idea what to do with it. Does my phone need to be jail-broken to do this? Any advice gladly received. Rob Try this using the config file you downloaded and following these instructions: http://andrew.harrison.org/notes/3-tethering-and-mms/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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
FW: FREE Electronic Waste Recycling 6-7 June
Sponsored by Apple: http://www.apple.com/au/environment/recycling/program/ www.wastenet.net.au http://www.wastenet.net.au/ or call your local council. FREE ELECTRONIC WASTE RECYCLING EVENT SATURDAY SUNDAY 6-7 JUNE 2009, 9am-4pm Local and regional metropolitan councils are working with Apple and Infoactive Group to implement a metropolitan-wide electronic waste (e-waste) recycling event in Perth on 6 and 7 June 2009. This metro-wide event, being coordinated by Apple, will provide an environmentally responsible disposal option for unwanted electronic items. Apple will pay for the recycling of all brands of equipment collected over the weekend. Products that WILL be accepted (Max 20 complete systems per person) Computer Equipment (this is definitely open to all computers, not just AppleMacs) - Desktop PCs, Laptop PCs, Hand held devices (iPods, iPaqs, etc) - Monitors (Flat screen CRT), Hard drives, Keyboards, Computer mice, Computer power supplies - Network memory cards, Floppy disc CD/DVD drive, Computer peripheral toner ink cartridges, UPS systems Home Office Equipment - Printers, Scanners, Mobile phones, Telephones Electronic Games Toys - Joysticks, Computer game consoles incl hand held Entertainment Equipment - Televisions (lots being retired lately to make room for digital) Video players, DVD players, Hi-fi equipment, Stereo equipment - Digital cameras, Video cameras Products that WILL NOT be accepted: White Goods, overhead projectors and other kitchen and household appliances Hazardous waste, contaminated equipment CRTs that have been removed from their cases or are cracked or broken, batteries that are not an integral part of the system Find your closest location to recycle your computer/electronic waste item: Town of Cottesloe- City of Cottesloe Public Carpark, Napier St, Cottesloe City of Stirling - City of Stirling Administration Centre, Corner Civic Place and Cedric Street, Stirling City of Joondalup - opposite Joondalup Operations Centre, Off Ocean Reef Road, Joondalup City of Perth- Langley Park, Corner Hill Street Terrace Road, Perth City of Swan-Operations Centre Car Park, Cnr Great Northern and Bishop Road, Middle Swan City of South Perth- City of South Perth - Lesser Hall Car Park. Cnr South Terrace Sandgate Street, South Perth SMRC- Regional Resource Recovery Centre, 350 Bannister Road, Canning Vale City of Rockingham-Millar Road Landfill Facility, Millar Road, Baldivis Sims E-Waste Recycling-174 Barrington Street, Spearwood For more information: www.wastenet.net.au http://www.wastenet.net.au/ or call your local council. -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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: filemaker
Hi... Yes, you could do it on FileMaker, or try some of the commercial offerings like iBiz (free 10 day trial) http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibiz/index.php Not sure how it goes for tracking multiple employees though. Also, I believe Bento has a time billing template. Thanks, Shay On 19/05/2009 2:10 PM, Martin Sulkowski wrote: Hi Everyone Does anyone know if there is a template or ?? for following situation.Being cabinetmaker I do always the same jobs as kicks , cabinets , doors etc for various people. I need 1st a timer to keep track of the labour plus 2nd a way to keep track of the costs . Then I like to see the real costs per lm of cabinets or per drawer and being able to 3d compare these costs between various customers or employees . Any suggestions if this is possible on filemaker and how much it will cost are greatly appreciated. Martin -- 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 -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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: An AppleScript question
On 15/05/2009 6:35 PM, Kevin Warner wrote: tell application uTorrent activate end tell tell application iTunes activate end tell and tell application uTorrent quit end tell tell application iTunes quit end tell What am I doing wrong? Any help will be gratefully received. At a guess, the computer's busy doing stuff (torrenting and iTuning), and the Apple Events are timing out so that Applescript isn't getting a response in its require time period. Perhaps with timeout of 600 seconds tell application uTorrent to quit end timeout or alternatively ignoring application responses tell application uTorrent to quit end ignoring We have a couple of scripts triggered by iCal to start iTunes that seem to fail regularly too... Sigh. Will have to try this with them. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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: MacResolve Spam
On 23/04/2009 3:05 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 23/04/2009, at 2:47 PM, Jude wrote: I'v also been hit, but I'm also on Digilife and WAMUG, so not sure which. Not a great way to get my custom, anyway, especially by telling me in the actual email that it's not spam. Um, unsolicited sales via email, looks like spam, smells like spam, annoys me like spam.. You and me both Jude! It's one sure way NOT to get my custom. I emailed them asking I would like to know where you got my email address from please. I'm not expecting a reply. Perhaps everyone who has received this Spam email, should reply asking the same question, perhaps they would then get the message We are not Happy! Cheers, Ronni Of course if you've been a customer of them in the past and they consider you to have a 'strong business relationship' with them and you haven't opted out of this then it's probably not considered spam as there's inferred consent: HTTP://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_310572 There doesn't seem to be a time limit on how old this relationship is of course... Also not sure what happens if the list is sold off as part of a company's assets... If they'd harvested the WAMUG list then of course that would be another matter, but without proof... Otherwise, complaints and enquires can be lodged with ACMA: http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_2008 Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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: Boot with FW800 possible ?
On 23/04/2009 5:23 PM, Robert Howells wrote: Hello list Does anybody know ? Is it possible to Boot from a Firewire 800 connected external drive to a PPC or Intel Mac Thanks Bob Google does not seem to give a positive answer ! Yes, I'm using an Intel MacBook Pro booted off FireWire 800 at the moment. It's just like FireWire 400 only faster :) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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: single dead pixels
At 12:36 AM +0900 19/03/2009, Andrew Symington wrote: Hi all, Anyone got any workable remedies for a vaguely dead pixel on a 23 Cinema Display (dark gray thank goodness - not bright white/red and hence not that noticeable)? Andrew Anecdotal reports indicate that gently massaging the screen in the area of the pixel might work (at least on laptop displays, not sure about Cinema Displays). Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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: Multiple docks
On 24/11/2008 7:27 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 24/11/2008, at 6:42 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Peter, hi Kyle, my idea was to have a vertical + horizontal dock at the same time - but that does not seem to work. I can mount different docks but that doesn't solve my problem of having to many items in the dock. Hi Walter, A search on Google brings up a few options for you to check out. http://www.google.com/search?client=safarirls=en-auq=multiple+docks+in+Leopardie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8 Overflow 2.5.5 looks neat tidy. Have a look at the short demo here: http://stuntsoftware.com/Overflow/ Cheers, Ronni You may also want to check out DragThing, which has been around since the good old days of System 7 or so some 13 years ago. http://www.dragthing.com/english/about.html Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf printer
On 28/10/2008 8:46 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 28/10/2008, at 12:34 AM, Alex Novakovic wrote: Hi Wamuggians I have just been to VersionTracker for the first time ever looking for a pdf printer (?) for those times that I may not have a printer connected or it's not working or I could be travelling. I need a Leopard Tiger version but can only find pdf Writers on VersionTracker - I need it to be a printer rather than a program for creating etc pdf documents. While I do get a print in pdf option with my Brother MFC-620CN printer, this option does not appear all the time! (and only appears at all when I use the Macs vs the Win laptop!!) I have searched under pdf printer and pdf printer driver and virtual pdf printer. Could someone please point me in the right direction? Many thanks in advance, Cheers, Alex I'm puzzled - Mac OS X has had this built in since the Beta release, though the standard Print dialog. What am I missing? The couple of extra clicks it requires to hit Print to PDF and then choose a location in the Save dialog. With CUPS-PDF installed as the default printer you can just hit print then return. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf printer
On 28/10/2008 12:34 AM, Alex Novakovic wrote: Hi Wamuggians I have just been to VersionTracker for the first time ever looking for a pdf printer (?) for those times that I may not have a printer connected or it's not working or I could be travelling. I need a Leopard Tiger version but can only find pdf Writers on VersionTracker - I need it to be a printer rather than a program for creating etc pdf documents. While I do get a print in pdf option with my Brother MFC-620CN printer, this option does not appear all the time! (and only appears at all when I use the Macs vs the Win laptop!!) I have searched under pdf printer and pdf printer driver and virtual pdf printer. Could someone please point me in the right direction? Many thanks in advance, Cheers, Alex You probably want cups-pdf: http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firewire on a MacBook
On 16/10/2008 4:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No maybe not but you might stop it being removed from the MacPros next time! FireWire 800 was removed from the first MacBook Pros but reappeared in the second revision. FireWire may well reappear in the next revision. Have fun, Shay (awaiting FireWire 3200 http://www.tomshardware.com/news/1394-trade-association-announces-firewire-3200,4566.html) -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer There are many worlds and many Opinions for hire [POQ] tales, but not much time http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord - Roland of Gilead -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network Settings
On 21/09/2008 7:57 PM, Jo Brookes wrote: I have just bought a new wireless Belkin modem router. I plugged it in so I can see if I can connect thru airport, but when I go the the system prefs and click on Network, I get a drop down message sayingyour network settings have been changed by another application I unplugged the new router, plugged back in the old one (via ethernet) restarted the mac (G5 power PC) but I am still getting the same message. The trouble is, when I click ok the dialogue box immediately returns, now matter how many times I click ok. I cant close the network window iether. Does anyone know what is happening here? Jo There have been reports of this message occurring after installing the latest Security Update from Apple. http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/security/index.html#d20sep2008 No idea how to fix it unfortunately. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update to 10.5.5
Ronda Brown wrote: On 16/09/2008, at 7:37 PM, Peter Fowler wrote: Hi all This may sound like a dumb question, but I am new to this game, is it normal to run repair permissions after a software update, and why? regards Peter Hello Peter, In general, run Repair Permissions after installing or upgrading software. To be accurate, it doesn't actually repair permissions. Rather, it simply resets permissions. Permissions stay the way they are set until someone or something comes along and sets them another way. [...deletia...] IMHO (and that of others) if repair permissions were required after the update, Apple's installer would do it anyway... http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/25/new-ebook-explains-leopards-permissions/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with courses pretty please - amended
Hi... Aside from the training Digilife runs for new Mac owners you could try some of Apple's training courses http://www.apple.com/au/training/courses.html#pro Although depending on what you want you may need to fly interstate or wait for a bit for them to come to Perth. Thanks, Shay Aurora74 wrote: Hi, Was just notified that I have been chosen to support our CEO in his quest for Macdom. Whilst admirable I have never supported OSX in a corporate environment ie MS environmentwell very limited. Can anyone please suggest any courses, resources or training as this will be a full bells and whistles install even though use will be next to none but the target will have all the toys ie Macbook air, time capsule etc At least I get matching hardware but if it gets screwed up I will be toast. Already up to her neck in AS400 Aurora -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 and MacSpeech Dictate
At 10:57 AM +0800 29/08/2008, Shay Telfer wrote: Hi Barry MacSpeech Can import directly into any cocoa application. I also believe you can do the same thing for applications written in Carbon. As I use Microsoft office here I am not 100% sure if open office. Works as I believe it is written in Java And I'm not sure if MacSpeech works with applications written in Java Hope that helps someone else may have more information Regards Kyle This e-mail was Dictated Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 MacSpeech's FAQ entry on the subject of NeoOffice http://www.macspeech.com/extensions/faq/kb.php?article=88 also mentions OpenOffice Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iPod song history
Antony N. Lord wrote: I'm sure I've missed this somewhere - how do I view the songs that I've played on my iPod (5th gen video, Windows formatted used under OS X). Must be in there somewhere. Google has not yielded an answer! If you mean in iTunes: View-View Options Tick Last Played Reverse sort by that column. If you mean on the iPod itself... no idea. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Accessing 3rd party database via VPN
Neil Houghton wrote: Hardware Related Issues Working from home You can connect to your WorkDESK database and work from home using any of the Remote Office hardware alternatives (Windows XP Pro Remote Desktop connection, Windows, Terminal Services, Citrix Metaframe). You can also access the WorkDESK database using 'PC Anywhere' software - purchase separately). So it sounds like you can use either of the free Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection or CoRD to connect. (The equivalent of Timbuktu or Apple's Remote Desktop) http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/remote-desktop/default.mspx http://cord.sourceforge.net/ Your connection needs to be through their VPN, so you'd need to know what the connection details are. Namely the VPN server IP address and the account name to use to log into it. Also, whether it's L2TP or PPTP. You may also need a certificate from them depending on how it's set up. So, you could probably do it without resorting to BootCamp/Parallels/VMWare, but you'd need some more info out of them which may be more painful than just running Windows. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Photoshop Elements 4
Hi... If you don't need one all the time then many public libraries seem to have Photoshop Elements related books which might be useful. Have fun, Shay John Daniels wrote: Thanks Kevin Yes I see that there are a couple of tutorials and I have found some instructions on the Adobe help centre on the net. I do find it easier to have a book beside me however. I see that on Amazon there is an Elements 4 for Mac but at about US$90 that's a bit over my limit. Unless someone on WAMUG has upgraded and still has an Elements 4 book for sale it looks as though I will have to abandon my search Thanks anyway Cheers John On 25/8/08 1:43 PM, KEVIN Lock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, There is a user guide and some tutorials within the PS Elements 6 package. Is there not one for 4? regards Kevin Hi Wamuggers Does anyone know if there is a manual for Elements 4 for Mac? Or if the Windows versions will suffice? Cheers John -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spam bombardment
Coverage on Slashdot about the CNN spam http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/06/2214257 Note also Apple/MobileMe targetted phishing: http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/security/topic4252.html#d11aug2008 Have fun, Shay (whose copy of postfix is throwing CNN spam away like crazy) Kyle Kreusch wrote: Hi Paul Im getting 70+ of those e-mails a day at my Gmail Account Luckily Gmail has been putting them straight into the spam folder. Paul do You have any spam filtering done by your ISP some ISPs in Australia Make you pay extra for spam filtering Kyle -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Google Maps Street View
Brett Clarke wrote: SInce google doesn't own the satellites and they obtain the sat and airial images from a third party only when they are published at various intervals, at this point, there should be no expectation that there is any relationship between the dates of the sat/ airial images and those street level images collected collected by google's own bugs. What might be interesting in 50 years time or so when google and NASA etc have amassed sufficient image data, is for google to add a time slider to google maps and streetview, that would provide a co-ordinated (in time) view of the planet and streets so we could begin (the nearest thing to) time travel!!! Cheers, BRett There is something like this in Google Earth, not that I've been able to find it in my frequently-crashing copy http://gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/11/four_new_featured_go.html Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2 x Lime iMacs free to a good home
Hi... I've got two tray load Lime iMacs free to a good home. Preference to anyone who wants both of them. These are 266MHz G3's with 288MB of RAM and a 6Gb HD Pick up today from Innaloo preferred, but other options negotiable. Includes original 'hockey-puck' mouse, keyboard and power cable. Have not been able to locate the original install disks though :( Otherwise it's freecycle then recycling. Thanks, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: www.abehering.com
Yep. It works for me in firefox but not in Safari. I can't understand why though. Paul Do you have Java enabled in your Safari Preferences' Security tab? Have fun, Shay On 31/07/2008, at 1:19 AM, Robert Howells wrote: On 30/07/2008, at 10:49 PM, Paul Doyle wrote: Hi, A friend in Canada is a recent convert to apple has written to me asking for assistance with accessing a real-estate website with virtual tours. Firefox J2SE 5.0 10.4.11 www.abehering.com It seems to work fine on both my macs with the same browser, java and os. She gets a gray screen and no virtual tour. I get the same gray screen using Safari. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks PD Yes , and it works for me on OS X 10.5.2 in both Safari 3.1.1 and Firefox 3.0 Some of the properties are justStillpictures but i found Property ID .. 10231 set up with Virtual Realty Put the cursor in the picture and drag it around to get a continuous varying view . Bob -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Phone 'chips' (was Old Phone)
At 11:57 PM +0800 17/07/2008, Shay Telfer wrote: Hi Barry Just in case you might be interested, mobile phones can be made a lot safer, (for children and adults) with the use of phone chips. They counteract the electromagnetic waves emitted from the phone (without interfering with its operation). Willau-Tronic, a company based in Germany, have produced such a chip (E-Smog Handy chip). It is a small bit of circuit with a chip, and is fashioned so you can attach it to the battery of the phone. I do notice a difference with a chip attached. There are other organisations that produce safety devices to attach to mobile phones. Google might be able to help,there. The first mobile phone chip I ever got was for my niece (then seven years old) who had just got a mobile phone so she could keep in touch with her Dad. I'm not sure if there are still distributors in WA or not. There used to be several individuals who sold them. Willau-Tronic makes chips for computers too. I use one on my Mac 24 computer and the screen/computer no longer gives me a headache. Anywise, as there are people that make these wonderful inventions it would seem there are also people who make inventions so they are safe to use. Cheers Shapelle You mean these guys? http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/News/20041213_willautronic.asp I hope they don't charge much for them. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Old Phone
Phillip Arena wrote: Hi Barry, Without being too much of an alarmist, how old are your grandchildren? I am surprised to see children quite young (as in 8 and below) using mobile phones. Mobile phone companies simply brush off the dangers of mobile phones, but they are a health hazard - do your own research and you'll find enough evidence to alarm you. I have been concerned for various emissions such as electromagnetic radiation and those from telecommunication installations for more than 15 years - there's plenty of material there to help us make an informed choice; I find it ironic that a number of years ago, while the public in the UK were being issued with brochures on safe use of mobile phones (including the forbidden use for children between the ages of about 5 and 11) in the USA, Motorola signed a multi-million dollar contract with Disney to provide mobile phones to a similar age bracket. If anyone has any doubts on the dangers of mobile phone emissions from either base station towers or the phones themselves, speak to any armed forces communications officer. In New York city, they have been removing trasmission antennae from residential apartment blocks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health Ironically removing phone towers means that mobiles then have to use more power to communicate with them. Better to have many lower power towers... More dangerous is the likelihood of someone running into you in their car while talking on their mobile phone! I carry a mobile phone for emergencies and NEVER leave it switched on next to my body for long periods. It's also not hard to find recent statistics on the number of car accidents caused by using phones whilst driving as compared to the benefits of having a mobile in a dangerous situation. I'd guess that you don't use wireless internet either? Or mains power 240V at 50Hz? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation_and_health#powertransmission Have fun, Shay (living dangerously) -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 10.5.4 is available
Hi... I'm thinking you mean 'delta' update. Delta being shorthand for 'change' (as in delta-v for change in velocity). The Delta update only includes the changes from the previous version. Having a smaller update means it takes less time and bandwidth for everyone to download it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_%28letter%29 'alpha' would probably mean untested, pre-release! :) Have fun, Shay Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Chris They just use the smaller one on Software Update as it picks up the latest version as already there. Not everyone will have problems, so it's probably 90% of the time OK. But from most things I read and see, it's generally the alpha update that has caused the most problems. (Not worded very well, but hopefully that makes sense.) :o) Kind Regards Daniel On 1/7/08 12:45 PM, Chris Griffiths[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. That was from Software Update area on my computer. Why would they have a cut down version when most people will update this way? Which means most people will have problems?? Regards Chris Griffiths On 01/07/2008, at 12:36 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Chris That would be the alpha update, which is the smaller update from 10.5.3 to 10.5.4. Generally (as a rule) you're better off with the larger update, as it's got everything mixed together. (And you find most people who have problems have done just the alpha update and not the combo update,...) Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: connection woes
Hi... If I understand correctly that effectively leaves all your phones behind two filters, which may affect the impedance characteristics of the line as seen from outside the first filter (ie where your ADSL router presumably sits). Thus why things might work better when you've only got the hardwired filter in place. Have fun, Shay Rosemary Horton wrote: There is a main adsl hard wired in filter at the first point where the phone comes into the house, all the rest of the phones also have inline filters connected in the line. We thought we were covered! Rosemary Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 26/06/2008, at 8:36 AM, Robert Howells wrote: On 25/06/2008, at 8:46 PM, Rosemary Horton wrote: Tonight I'm connected again..without dropouts for about 1/2 hour I called Westnet again, and we re-uplugged the phones, 1 by 1, and left 1 not plugged in..the one that's got an old plug in connection. So fa so god, but weird as it's been there all along. Have a central line filter which is supposed to work for all..anyway, OK for now. Here's hoping. If I do move over to adsl2 will the netcom nb5plus4w be ok or would you recommend something else? Rosemary Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Rosemary How is your inline filter connected ? Was it wired in or is it done via cords ? Who did the wiring ? There is a chance that the wiring for it does not go through the filter ! ? Bob -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer There are many worlds and many Opinions for hire [POQ] tales, but not much time http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord - Roland of Gilead -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Telstra and iPhone
Hi... Like Apple, Telstra are unlikely to comment on future plans that are important to their business, and they're unlikely to let their frontline helpdesk people do it either. Amongst other things they have to work out how to support visual voicemail and what they're doing about the fact that they already have a music store that's not compatible with the iPhone :). Why rush an announcement when they can watch the Optus/Vodafone feeding frenzy whilst they both try to establish their pricing structure? Then they can price theirs accordingly. http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=991785 I'm sure you'll be able to get an iPhone on Telstra (yes, they know what they are) Probably the longer you wait the better plan you'll be able to get! Have fun, Shay (Anyone else sick of reply-to-list yet?) On 12/06/2008, at 6:28 PM, Norman Leslie wrote: Hi, I contacted Telstra by e-mail today to ask whether Telstra was going to be iPhone friendly. I referenced a story in today's Australian. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23849253-17061,00.html Here is the reply I received from Telstra Thank you for your email dated 12/06/08 regarding the Apple Iphone. The Apple IPhone is not on the list of our Telstra approved handsets so we cannot guarantee its effectivity on the Next G network. Please call our Mobility Sales Channel on 1800 629 633 for updates on the availability of the Apple IPhone mobile handset. If you have any other inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us on 125 111 (which is a 25 cent call from any Telstra service including mobiles, except via Telecard) or via www.telstra.com for further information or assistance. The rates set out in this email are correct as at 12/06/08 and include GST. The rates may vary from time to time. Any variation will be done in accordance with the General Terms of Our Customer Terms which can be found by visiting http://www.telstra.com.au/customerterms/index.htm Thank you for choosing Telstra. Optus is looking good! Norm Leslie Bunbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recent Stolen MacBook Pro and iPod Touch
Mark wrote: Hi Guys, Don't buy items has following serial numbered items, if you someone try to sell to you. Items has been recorded at Police for stolen item. Just report to Police or to me thanks. MacBook Pro 15inch 2.4Ghz Latest Model Part No. MB133X/A - Serial No. W88150FNY** iPod Touch 8GB Part No. MA623ZP/B - Serial No. 9C813N0J1** Sadly a bit too late for you, but there's a TidBITS article on stolen Mac recovery tactics and software: http://db.tidbits.com/article/9627 Good luck, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Westnet bought by iinet
Matthew Healey wrote: On 09/05/2008, at 9:20 AM, Chris Griffiths wrote: Mmm it seems iinet is buying a few service providers. I know my previous service provider Upnaway was also bought by iiNet about 6 months ago. I'm waiting for iiNet to buy Amcom... at which point there will be pretty much no locally based competition left in the broadband market. If iiNet bought Amcom they will then own a HUGE chunk of Optial Fibre in WA. Why does broadband in Australia suck so much? Telecommunications in Australia is characterised by a geographic area the size of the USA with a paying population only the size of California. Region - Population Density Korea - 501 people/sq km Japan - 340 people/sq km Europe - 127 people/sq km Australia - 2.7 people/sq km Have fun, Shay (enjoying ADSL 1 on Westnet, at least until iinet change my plan :) -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Off topic: Death Note
[...copyright...] Check out some of the fact sheets here: http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/agd.nsf/Page/Copyright_IssuesandReviews_CopyrightAmendmentAct2006-Factsheets If you think the law needs to be more in line with actual daily use, I suggest supporting Electronic Frontiers Australia, your electronic rights lobby group: http://www.efa.org.au/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Enabling PHP and Apache in Leopard
Colin Gordon wrote: Hi, Can anyone help me with what's required to set up a web server using Apache with the pre-installed php, mysql components in Leopard. I've found a website explaining what to do, however it involves editing hidden system files which I am more than a little dubious about tackling. Is there an easy / safe way to do this. Here's the site I found: http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/php_leopard.php Any help appreciated. Regards Colin Gordon GORDON DESIGN Yes, that's pretty much what you do. They're not really 'hidden system files', they're fairly standard open source components, you just need to edit the configuration to turn on PHP. I guess the question is, why do you want PHP and MySQL? Presumably you're installing some other software/web pages that needs them, which will no doubt require more setup, which may not be as easy... Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: macbook wakeup
Hi All Not sure if this is a universal problem but my macbook pro (purchased Jan 08 now with OSX 10.5.2) sometimes just doesnt wake up after being asleep for an hour or all night. All I have is a black screen for a half an hour in one case, but I can still hear a 'soft' noise inside it. I usually just have to press the power button to shut it down then restart. Has anyone else had this happen and is there a fix? I had a thought today that it might require a firmware upgrade perhaps? Kind regards chris I'd ensure you've got all the firmware updates installed. Are you sure it's not in Safe Sleep? Your MacBook will go into Safe Sleep if its battery is low, ie it writes all of memory out to disk and turns off. You won't be able to wake it from keyboard or mouse, but pressing the power button will cause it to reload memory from disk and start up where it left off. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1757 Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: re WTB Photoshop
Reg Whitely wrote: Kevin, have you considered GIMPShop with X11? http://www.gimpshop.com/download.shtml (free open source) or Pixelmator: http://www.pixelmator.com/ (free download, US$59 to buy? Reg Or the Australian contender Iris (from the people who took over Interarchy) http://www.nolobe.com/iris/ Have fun, Shay -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update 10.5.2
Hi... All went well for me on two machines, except all my iCal calendars have vanished (and RADAR is giving me an error so I can't report the bug :) Have fun, Shay (Who thankfully SuperDupered the machine before installing). -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CRM Systems
Chris Watt wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to find a good Application based CRM (not web based) that can handle the following: - Contact Management (and relationships if possible) - Project Management (even as simple as a Project name with To Do items attached to it) - Opportunity/Pipeline management (must be able to associate the various people with the opportunity) - Support Tracking (not necessary as a module if there is some way to track issues in a way that removes things from view as they are marked as a complete - maybe even a specialised To-Do will be fine. would be nice to track escalation though). - Ability to report and customise reports easily Does anyone know of anything that suits this well? Preferably for free! but anything will do, at this stage I am quit happy to get budget assigned from Germany for this. Cheers all! Chris Thumbing through MacWorld I see an ad from these folks http://hansaworld.com/products/hwindex.htm or http://previewstreamline.com/au/ or these folks although they seem more POS oriented: http://www.symbiotic.com.au/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
New Mac Dictation software
Hi... As it's a pretty common question on the list I thought I'd point out that MacSpeech have released their new dictation software (MacSpeech Dictate) at MacWorld Expo. It's based on Dragon Naturally speaking and claims 99% accuracy after 5 minutes of training. http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16117/53/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Turnaround time on iMac repairs?
Hi... Anyone been waiting a while for their flat panel iMac to be repaired? The inlaws have been told there's no parts available (vertical lines on the screen), so it may be 'a while'... Thanks, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Presentation facility
Glenn Nicholas wrote: I had already checked the archives Bob. Glenn. You're probably after Futuresphere at Christ Church Grammar School in Nedlands http://www.futuresphere.com.au/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: emac media tray problem
Keyboard is plugged into one of the emac's USB ports. The emac turns on displays the mac face/flashing question mark indicating no system available, but the media eject button on the keyboard does not open the media tray as it should. Power is reaching the keyboard as I have the mouse plugged into a keyboard USB port the mouse appears to be live (ie red light shining underneath). Am I missing something simple here? Or is it likely that either the keyboard or the media tray is non-functional? Hold down the mouse button while you turn the machine on and keep the button held down to see if the tray opens. Alternatively try booting the machine with the option key held down and then see if you can use the eject key. Also on the eMac if you can get your fingernail into the top crack of the drive you can pull the external door down to access the drive inside which might then reveal the internal eject button or the paperclip manual eject hole... Good luck, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reverse directory
Antony N. Lord wrote: This is great! A bit dated but still very useful. I'd been on the understanding that reverse look-ups in Oz were not permitted. They're not as far as I know. Funny what happens when things get served overseas... I believe the reason it is illegal in Australia was that Desktop Marketing Systems Pty Ltd was ruled to have broken copyright on the Telstra phone directory: http://www.artslaw.com.au/artlaw/archive/01Copyrightprotectionofdatabases.asp Interestingly Telstra used to offer such a service itself: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/PLPR/1994/26.html Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Print to PDF
Daniel Forsdyke wrote: Paul You have two options in regards to reducing the file size. 1. In the drop down menu you see when you use 'Save As PDF' in the Print Dialog Box, look for a filter to reduce file size, which will save the PDF at a lower resolution and do what it says it will do - reduce the file size. 2. The other option is something you can use on the PDF's you have already saved. Right-click (Control-click) on the files icon, and select 'open with - colorsync utility'. Down the bottom of this window you will see a drop down menu for 'filters', select 'reduce file size' and then 'apply'. You can then clos the window, and select 'save' from the dialog box that pops up. Apple conveniently provides a video of this at their Small Business Quick Tip of the Week site: http://www.apple.com/business/videotips/?movie=bigpdf Note also the CUPS-PDF driver, not sure if it produces smaller PDFs: http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Opinions for hire [POQ] http://newtonslore.com/fnord -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eTax via Crossover Mac ?
Steven wrote: Hi Derek and all I seem to have successfully completed my tax return using eTax via Crossover http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac (running on 10.4.10). One little snag I've hit at the end is trying to print my completed return to pdf. Anyone have any suggestions? I don't really want to print to paper because it's a mountain of pages. eTax via Crossover does seem to let you choose a printer to use, so I'm wondering if I should install a 3rd party 'print to pdf' utility. Anyone know of any free ones these days? When I proceed with the print button, it seems to bypass the OSX window whereby you can choose to save as a pdf. I guess this must be because Crossover avoids OSX?? Hopefully someone out there has hit the same problem and come up with a solution. Cheers, Steven Try the CUPS PDF package at http://www.codepoetry.net/projects/cups-pdf-for-mosx If you're using Parallels or VMWare there's PDFCreator for Windows (I'm not sure if it would work under Crossover) http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator As noted at http://www.newtonslore.com/2007/09/20/printing-from-windows-under-parallels/ Thanks, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Leopard - 1
Except that http://store.apple.com/Catalog/Australia/Images/promobar_leopard_utd.html Says Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard and its 300-plus new features and innovations are coming Oct. 26, 2007. If you buy a qualifying Mac between October 1, 2007 and December 29, 2007, and it does not include Mac OS X Leopard, you©re eligible to get Leopard after it©s released for just A$ 12.95 plus tax. Which to me says that the update is not free but costs $12.95 (not much, but still seems off to pay to update to the current system if you are buying between the release date and 29 Dec). Still confused. Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My take on it is that macs that are still in the store (channel) with Tiger on them won't have someone go around, take them out of the box and install a copy of Leopard on them and put them back in the box before they're sold. If you're lucky you might get a set of disks when you buy them I guess. At cost is $12.95 to cover postage, media and handling. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone got a spare Airport card?
Hi... A workmate's looking for an original Apple Airport card. If anyone's got one spare, please let me know. Thanks, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Files to open
Some discussion here: http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/scanners/topic2039.html Indicates you could try GraphicConverter if you've got '.MAX' files, or the visioneer software under Windows under parallels/VirtualPC/VMWare/a PC. If you can still run Mac OS 9 the software may be available via http://www.pure-mac.com/hard.html#visioneer Good luck, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: repairing permissions (was DVD not recognised)
At 9:40 PM +0800 4/09/2007, Shay Telfer wrote: Hi Everyone, To add to Ronnie's and Bob's, during the week-end I installed an application on my G5 OS X 10.3.9, being careful to switch off my 3 external firewire devices. After installation I tried the usual - Repair Permission using Disk Utility installed on my hard-drive. However the latter did not launch completely and therefore I was unable to use it. Trashing its .plist file did not help either. So I had to restart the computer on its original instal DVD and use Disk Utility for there to Repair Permission. This was carried out successfully. And, this did somehow fix the installed version of Disk Utility which is working beautifully now. So, I guess that if all else fail it is worth trying booting the machine from its instal CD/DVD and run Disk Utility for there. Disk Utility on the hard drive v the install CD/DVD will probably use different receipts to repair permissions. http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2006050407462364 (Requires an annoying macfixit subscription) or more freely available, a list of the 46 receipts respected by the DiskManagementTool (as used by Disk Utility): http://www.macfixit.com/comment.php?mode=displaysid=2006050407462364title=mac.column.ted%3A+Unravelling+the+Repair+Disk+Permissions+controversytype=articleorder=pid=20881 Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Most useful software utilities for Mac
What other software utilities do people find particularly useful? Glenn. As far as small things go: iCal MenuCalendarClock (also available in Entourage version if you must): http://www.objectpark.net/mcc.html MenuMeters (showing transmit/receive network traffic graph) http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Outlook for Mac
Antony N. Lord wrote: Is there likely to be a new version of Outlook (Entourage?) for Mac anytime soon? I'm sick of Eudora - its served me well but I'd really like to make things uniform between my workplace (Outlook on PC) and home. Install Thunderbird on both. Then hope they get the Eudora look and feel for Thunderbird out real soon before Thunderbird annoys you too much. Leopard's Mail should be much improved, I believe. Maybe Apple will release it for Windows as part of their embrace and extend strategy :) Have fun, Shay (currently using Thunderbird) -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firmware upgrade
Also, how can I tell whether Apple definitely installed the faster (7,200rpm) hard drive in my MacBook Pro? I checked System Profiler, but it doesn't seem to mention 7,200 rpm anywhere. Get the drive serial number from System Profiler - Serial-ATA and look it up at http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/drive_labels/snpn.htm Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: macos space calculations
i have an Ibook G4, running 10.4.10, when I do an apple-i on the HD icon it tells me that it is 53.84 GB used on 55.76 GB with 1.92 GB free. When i go to finder and view the HD as a list of folders with all sizes calculated the folders only add up to 15.315 GB, where is the rest of the data? I want to clean it up Assuming you've already emptied the trash, you could try Disk Surveyor X http://www.derlien.com/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
G5 auction
Lots of G5's going on Thursday: http://gregsons.com.au/showauction.php?id=4821 Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stolen laptops...and backups
My husband and I both had out laptops stolen...again His a White 13 macbook (SN 4H6891CUU9B) only 4 months old (replaced after the last robbery), mine an older powerbook Metal 15 (SN W88169C2RG4) that was stolen and returned, had a brand new hard drive etc So if you see them... Report the serial numbers to Apple on 133-MAC so they'll get picked up if serviced, if you haven't done so already. I know this question has been asked and answered before, but I've lost all my wamug mail, so don't have archive address. What's the best method/ hardware/ software for easy backups. Is there a way I could have a system to back up our computers wirelessly? And don't suggest .mac...that didn't work, half the material didn't work because the full backups didn't work... I'm using the belt-and-braces approach of Retrospect and SuperDuper. Retrospect's future is somewhat indeterminate though. There was mention on TidBITs of two online backup services http://db.tidbits.com/article/8968 namely Mozy and Bandwagon DIY (for iTunes). Other options are the less than user friendly Amanda: http://amanda.sourceforge.net/ or BRU http://tolisgroup.com/ There's a review of some other options here: http://maczealots.com/articles/backup/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .docx
Details for file extension: DOCX - Word Microsoft Office Open XML Format Document (Microsoft Corporation) Office Word is an authoring program that gives you the ability to create and share documents using a set of writing tools. This is the new upcoming format for Microsoft Office documents. It is a combination of XML architecture and ZIP compression for size reduction. Microsoft promises the format will be open (published for anyone to use) and prior versions of Office, using components provided by Microsoft for Office 2000, XP, and 2003 will be available to perform document conversion. Remember that these are promises by Microsoft. We have yet to see the actuals. This format is not the same as the OpenDocument standard, also an XML-based standard being developed as a true open standard (see the OpenDocument Fellowship for more information). Regards, Eugene NeoOffice now apparently supports Office 2007 Word documents, not that anyone's sent me one yet :) http://neooffice.org/ I believe as Microsoft is dropping visual basic support on the Mac it may be a way forward for those who require Excel Macros (and don't want to rewrite them in Applescript :) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange iMacHey
Hi... You can try booting whilst holding down command-S to get into single user mode. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106388 This should make obvious any error messages that are being displayed. Then try looking up the error messages on Google (assuming you have a spare computer, of course :) You may also find some of these useful, although they apply to 10.3.9 (I couldn't find anything more recent): http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464#symp1 Have fun, Shay Hey This issue has happened before with many people including myself, I never bothered trying to find a solution to the problem since it was easier to re-image the computer. It has cropped up on this mailing list before but I'm not sure if the latest archives have been put back online after the downtime we had recently! To the guys who work tirelessly for WAMUG, my thanks on efforts go out to you! Thanks, David Moyle -- Bertram, Western Australia E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If a cluttered desk is characteristic of a cluttered mind, what does an empty desk mean? Confidentiality Notice: The contents of this email are confid.. Were you meant to recieve this? If not, delete it. Please? -Original Message- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Griffiths Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:44 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Strange iMac I have a problem with my 20 iMac. When I try to start it up it goes through the process of starting up i.e. it shows the apple icon and the spinning wheel then it shows the panel with the big X starting the system, then it shows the background picture and nothing else. No dock, no icons nothing but the background pic. Up in the top right hand corner is a tiny piece of the spotlight icon and when I move the cursor into that area I get the spinning coloured wheel? Any ideas!!?? Regards Chris Griffiths -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making remote disks permanent
Hi... Not quite 'permanent', but: Go through the logging in process, then create an alias to his home directory and leave it somewhere accessible. Then just double click it to connect. Also elect to store the password in the keychain when logging on. Have fun, Shay Hugh Griffiths wrote: Is there an easy way to have a cross mounted disk appear always on the desktop. We have a Imac at home, plus an Ibook, connected through a wireless network. Currently in order for my son to see his school work folder on the imac, from the ibook he has to go to Computer- network- imac-g5 - logon as his user- select his disk ( home directory) and then go to another finder window to browse it There must be an easier way? Tia Hugh -- This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: streaming video
Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi All, I have trouble streaming video via my wireless LAN to my MacBook. The videos are stored on my windows PC running Vista and streamed over an 802.11G connection. The video will typically play for about 3-5 minutes and then pause for 30-45 seconds. If I play them via the wired LAN they play fine. The files are usually about 350Mb are DivX or Xvid and are TV shows I have...errmrecorded to my windows PC using my TV to Hard drive broadband internet convertor :o/ I had assumed that this was due to the bandwidth of the wireless not being good enough to view the files that I am trying to view (without the constant rebuffering), however one of my mates came over the other day and he reckons that he has no problems viewing similar files over his wireless LAN. Oh and my wireless signal strength is perfect and no one else is using the wireless while I am attempting this. Does anyone know if this would be caused by the wireless connection or if there is something amiss with my setup? I couldn't find anywhere in the quicktime config to change bandwidth settings or similar. Apple Menu - System Preferences - QuickTime - Click the Streaming tab and choose the streaming speed. Alternatively you may just want to leave it on Automatic. You could also choose a longer start delay which means that more movie will be buffered before starting (and hence less chance of 'running out' of buffered movie, then having to wait for more). Also, try using VLC as your streaming client http://www.videolan.org/ Check if your base station is set to be 802.11b and g compatible, and change it to use 802.11g only if you (and friends who visit :) are only using 802.11g. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
Re: Daylight savings testing
Warren wrote: Anyway, to check the end of the DS, I disabled NTP and set my clock to 25 Mar 2007 02:59:50 and was hoping that in 10 secs the time would be 02:00:00. Instead it just rolls over to 03:00:00. I would have expected the DS zone changes to be independent of the NTP activation. Comments? The Network Time Protocol (NTP) simply synchronises the computers idea of what UTC (ie Greenwich Mean Time) is. Applying Timezone changes to UTC to work out what the local computer's time is is left to each individual computer's OS. Thus not being connected to NTP shouldn't make any difference for purposes of testing the daylight savings changeover. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1305.html http://www.ntp.org/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
Re: project management software
Hi All, I am looking for some Project Management software in the likes of MS Project. It doesn't need to look like the MS version, nor does it need to work the same...just have similar functionality. Cost is also a limiting factor. I have just tried GanttProject and found its interface was pretty crap, ie. only the first 8 letters of a task title is shown which makes it difficult to see which task you are looking at when you have a bunch of tasks allocated. It also seemed like you could only view a single project at a time, whereas with MS Project you have all your projects in a list that expands to show tasks and sub tasks, etc. I downloaded OmniPlan which looks good, but the trial only allows you to have up to 20 tasks which is no good for me to trial properly. Could anyone in the know please provide me with your perspective on whatever you have tried. Cheers, Adam. GanttProject: I'm not sure what view you were using, but you can resize the left hand column to see more characters in the name, but I'll agree it's not (yet) really what I'd choose for big projects (on the other hand, it is free :) You might want to check out this discussion thread from Macintouch for more options. http://www.macintouch.com/projman.html Fasttrack Schedule has been around for a while: http://www.aecsoftware.com/ If you want a web hosted solution lots of the 37 signals/43 Folders/Getting Things Done people like Basecamp http://www.basecamphq.com/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
[Job]: Casual at UWA Arts
Forwarding this for Alex (with apologies for those who've seen it multiple times): We're after someone else, after we snaffled the previous guy for sysadmin work. Please feel free to forward on as you see appropriate. Closing date for any applications is next Monday. The amount of work available may be more than mentioned below, but again, it's up for negotiation. Any questions, please contact me or Daniel Foster ( 6488 2119 ) On 15/01/2007, at 12:09 PM, Alex Dawson wrote: Hi All, The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is looking for another casual employee to help with the setup and maintenance of computers and computer labs within the faculty. The job would initially be about 2-3 days per week for the next month, then about 7.5-15 hours per week during semester. Some knowledge of MacOS X is required for this position, but we're up for negotiation. If you're interested, please send me a resumé/CV and we'll get in touch with you. --Alex Dawson FAHSS Faculty Computing, University of Western Australia 08 6488 7093 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't Eject DVD
10.45 pm Sat nite. We have a DVD stuck in a MacBook. The disk won't eject, dragging it to the trash brings up a dialog box suggesting quitting applications - but as far as I can tell nothing besides the Finder is running. I have only just started using OS X. The machine won't restart, shut down or log out. The physical switch on the machine also won't work. Anyone have any ideas? Bill Chesnutt Close the lid and see if it goes to sleep. If it does, see if you can wake it up then restart it. Alternatively try holding the power button down for 5 seconds or so and see if the machine shuts down. Try holding down the eject button at the top left of the keyboard. Try the eject button in iTunes. Try logging out, then shutting down and holding down the mouse button whilst the machine reboots. Worst comes to worst, unplug the MacBook and pull the battery out. Good luck, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer There are many worlds and many Opinions for hire [POQ] tales, but not much time http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord - Roland of Gilead
Re: how to tell what application is foremost?
Hi Guys Does anyone know how to tell what application is foremost and then send an email saying it is?? Many thanks Roger You need AppleScript, and an obliging mail server it can connect to to send the e-mail. http://developer.apple.com/applescript/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
Re: Bluetooth
I have a new Telstra Mobile Phone ZTE F850, I have been trying to connect it via bluetooth to my iMac OS X 10.4.8 with little success. The phone recognises the computer and the the computer says it is Paired, Configured and in Favorites but not connected, iSync recognises it is there but it can't connect to this device. Any help will be appreciated. Regards Adrian. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not on the list: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/isync/devices.html More meandering discussion here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/642528.html Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
Re: Macbook Pro hanging on connect using USB modem
I have a user here with a MacBook Pro that as soon as she clicks on the connect button to use her Apple external modem (purchased and supplied with MacBook Pro)instantly causes her machine to lockup with the multi-lingual you must restart your computer kernel crash. config seems fine, setting correct, System profiler sees and correctly identifies the Apple USB modem. Have run FSCK, repair permissions and disk repair (while tethered via firewire target mode) no problems noted or repaired. tried downgrading the modem version without joy literally new out of box and doing this. What does /Library/Logs/panic.log say? For the (somewhat) technical explanations, check out: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2063.html and http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/bugbestpractices.html#KP Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
Re: using Rosetta
On 22/01/2007, at 7:53 PM, KEVIN Lock wrote: Our new intel iMac needs Office 2004 or I guess I could run 2001 with Rosettathat is, if I could find Rosetta and/or any instructions. Has anyone used Rosetta and can give me a few clues. The Mac version of Office 2004 is $249 which is more than the Teachers' discount price for the iMac. Bah! Kev Run a PowerPC application on your Intel Mac. If it runs, it's running under Rosetta, there's nothing else for you to do. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
Re: Freezing eMac
Some ideas: * Run Applications/Utilities/Console.App and look for any problems or repeated messages in console.log or system.log. * Run memtest from http://memtestosx.org/ from single user mode overnight * Create a new 'Clean' user and see if the problem persists for that user. If not then it probably means it's something you've installed for your 'unclean' user that's causing the problem. * Disconnect any peripherals other than Apple mouse and keyboard and see if the problem persists. * Check the disk with DiskWarrior http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/ * Upgrade the OS to Tiger (you can probably find cheaper copies these days or wait until Leopard's out :) Have fun, Shay On 18/01/2007, at 4:09 AM, Jon Davison wrote: Our OS 10.3.9/512/1.25GHz home eMac is freezing on a regular basis. I have used Tech Tools Pro, plus fsck (4 times, and states the system is normal) but to no avail. It tends to freeze when a window is moved, or sometimes when Mail is opened. Often dragging an image to a folder will to it as well. The machine is about 3 years old. When it freezes the cursor can still move but everything else is locked. I have looked in Prefs an Library for anything out of the ordinary, but it all looks okay. Any thoughts at all on why this may be happening? Thanks Jon Jon Davison Creative Training courses The Futuresphere Queenslea Drive Claremont, WA 6010 t: 9442 1659 m: 0403 235938 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.futuresphere.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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
Re: Logitech webcams?
Hi... I tried getting a USB Logitech model my PC using workmate lent me but didn't have any luck. If you can't find Logitech drivers then IOxperts drivers support some 3rd party cameras but you have to purchase the drivers after the free trial period expires. http://www.ioxperts.com/ Have fun, Shay On 01/01/2007, at 11:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I checked all the documentation and the web site and I don't see that logitech webcams work with Mac OSX computers--however I visited 2 apple stores here in Miami and the staff claim they do. I am reluctant to make a purchase if I can't find the driver for Mac on the Logitech web site. Anyone have any ideas whether these products work with Macs? Nat -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
Re: 5300c laptop
As part of the shipment I am sending to a school in Zimbabwe I have been donated a 5300c laptop. The machine works fine, but the plastic frame holding the screen has come apart with a gap on the hinge end and a gap at the bottom of the screen. Squeezing the frame together reseats it fine, but it will not stay in position. I am guessing that some plastic retaining clips have been broken off in a fall? Any ideas on repairing this frame? Actually it's a design fault that plagued the 5300 for most of its life. One solution I've seen people use is to pass packing tape through between the screen and the body of the machine, squeeze the screen together and then squish the packing tape on to hold it together. I was always somewhat careful when closing/opening mine to support the base of the screen properly. http://www.lowendmac.com/pb2/5300.shtml Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
Summary of :- Spreadsheet for OSX to replace Excell ??
[snip] Also, Google now has spreadsheets in development: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
