Re: How can I share an external hard drive using OS X 10.2?

[Steve Woods]

 
On Thursday, February 12, 2009, at 10:58AM, "Warwick Gaff" 
 wrote:
>Hello WAMUG users.
>
>I have an iMac G3 400Mhz running OS X 10.2 with an 8Gb Seagate hard drive. 
>I've connected up a 640Gb USB hard drive and wish to share the content on 
>the USB drive with other network users. Is this possible? I have file 
>sharing and windows sharing active under the Sharing Preferences. I can 
>connect to both my XP PC and XBOX (Original) from my iMac.
>
>Sharing from XP is not an option for me as it runs off wireless and the USB 
>drive is formatted as a OS X volume. Tried using MacDrive and PC freezes 
>when large files are tranfered or accessed from it.
>
>Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated, I've spent at least a 
>month on this issue with no success.

Hi Warren,

Take a look at Sharepoints.



Makes the job of set up much much easier.

HTH

Steve.


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Re: Automatic app. booting?

[Steve Woods]

On 08/01/2009, at 3:06 PM, Paul Weaver wrote:


Does anyone know of a way to automatically boot up an application at
a pre-set time please. I want to take greater advantage of the early
morning off-peak download allowance from my ISP.

Thanks, Paul.
http://fremantlebiz.livejournal.com/calendar



Hi Paul,

iCal will help with this:



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Re: Email servers etc - I need some ideas

[Steve Woods]

Hi Steven 


On Thursday, October 30, 2008, at 08:28AM, "Steven Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>Hi Steve
>
>Casting your mind back to the below discussion, I appreciate your  
>suggestion. I've been having a look at the Google Apps pages, but what  
>I'm unclear about, and hoping you or anyone else might be able to  
>enlighten me, is what will Google's Gmail Premier service do for me  
>which I can't achieve via my existing email host NetRegistry?
>
>NetRegistry's email plans are here...
>
>http://www.netregistry.com.au/email-solutions/compare-email-plans.php
>
>The storage capacity is an obvious difference, but I could get round  
>that with keeping the communal email inbox constantly cleared, or  
>increasing the capacity with NetRegistry (presumably they would do so  
>if I paid them more).
>
>What's the benefit in involving yet another party (ie. GMail) in the  
>process?

I think Gmail will work better in your shared mail box scenario - the 
NetRegistry plans don't mention IMAP (required to have all mailboxes in sync). 
Gmail has the best spam filtering I've come across, and it works on the server 
side (so you don't need to download all the spam to your mail client before 
filtering and deleting it).
The Standard Edition Google apps gives you 7GB of storage for free.
You're also not tied in to a contract (the netregistry plans all seem to 
specify 1 year).
Sure, you may be giving Google all your trade secrets, but they've probably got 
them by now anyway :)


Anyway, it works for me!
The other collaboration features like calendars and Google docs are the real 
bonus in my usage - I can access everything I need from whatever computer I 
happen to be on at the time...

Regards,

Steve



>On 20/10/2008, at 5:33 PM, Steve Woods wrote:
>
>>
>> On 20/10/2008, at 7:48 PM, Steven Knowles wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking for some advice in terms of setting up a corporate  
>>> email environment on the Mac platform (but catering for users of  
>>> other platforms who would be potentially anywhere).
>>>
>>> I'm quite familiar with pop email accounts, understand the concept  
>>> of IMAP (I think). But I haven't really been involved with email  
>>> servers and the like, which I think is probably what I need. I'm  
>>> familiar with having a standalone Mac, and popping email from my  
>>> email host (NetRegistry).
>>>
>>> However I'm now using mailboxes which I need to allow communal  
>>> access to - potentially several people accessing the communal  
>>> mailboxes in the future. I also need to have a system whereby  
>>> although I set up an indovidual user's personal email account, the  
>>> business still retains copies of those emails. I imagine I could  
>>> use NetRegistry and set up an IMAP account, but then I am reliant  
>>> on a 3rd party entirely, including for storage of our email. I'm  
>>> not totally comfortable with that. So does this mean I need to set  
>>> up an email server of our own, with accompanying back up solutions?  
>>> If so, can someone give me an idea of the hardware & software  
>>> requirements, rough idea of costs?
>>>
>>> Or does it sound like I need to engage a networking specialist to  
>>> solve all of my problems? Are there any networking specialists  
>>> amongst wamug people? (I trust a Mac user's advice! :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers, Steven
>>
>> Steven,
>>
>> I'd suggest Google Apps for business.
>>
>> Ticks all the boxes in your list - including using your own domain  
>> name, archiving of all corporate messages, and IMAP accounts of up  
>> to 25GB per user.  Price is hard to beat too!
>> <http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/messaging.html>

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Re: Mobile me question

[Steve Woods]

On 23/10/2008, at 9:55 PM, Andrew Schox wrote:

I set up mobile me with a macbook. When I go to "today" in mobile me  
on the
web, I got tomorrow's date. I moved to the "correct" date and  
entered some
appointments. When I synced, the appointments in iCal on the macbook  
were on
the next day at a different time (but still grouped correctly  
relative to

each other). Is this a known bug in mobile me, or am I doing something
stupid?


Have you got "Time Zone Support" enabled in preferences in the  
Calendar section of Mobile Me?


Go to the "gear" icon on the Calendar Page, Click on Preferences,  
Click on Advanced


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Re: Email servers etc - I need some ideas

[Steve Woods]

On 20/10/2008, at 7:48 PM, Steven Knowles wrote:

I'm looking for some advice in terms of setting up a corporate email  
environment on the Mac platform (but catering for users of other  
platforms who would be potentially anywhere).


I'm quite familiar with pop email accounts, understand the concept  
of IMAP (I think). But I haven't really been involved with email  
servers and the like, which I think is probably what I need. I'm  
familiar with having a standalone Mac, and popping email from my  
email host (NetRegistry).


However I'm now using mailboxes which I need to allow communal  
access to - potentially several people accessing the communal  
mailboxes in the future. I also need to have a system whereby  
although I set up an indovidual user's personal email account, the  
business still retains copies of those emails. I imagine I could use  
NetRegistry and set up an IMAP account, but then I am reliant on a  
3rd party entirely, including for storage of our email. I'm not  
totally comfortable with that. So does this mean I need to set up an  
email server of our own, with accompanying back up solutions? If so,  
can someone give me an idea of the hardware & software requirements,  
rough idea of costs?


Or does it sound like I need to engage a networking specialist to  
solve all of my problems? Are there any networking specialists  
amongst wamug people? (I trust a Mac user's advice! :-)


Cheers, Steven


Steven,

I'd suggest Google Apps for business.

Ticks all the boxes in your list - including using your own domain  
name, archiving of all corporate messages, and IMAP accounts of up to  
25GB per user.  Price is hard to beat too!




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Re: (OT) Hoping for some Windows registry help

[Steve Woods]

On 16/10/2008, at 11:25 AM, Mark Heeler wrote:

I can't get the serial from the program providers (long story...)
but I have read a tech note saying that the serial is stored
in the registry.  I have installed the drive from the machine
with the dead motherboard in another computer and can
see the drive and its data but... how can I see the contents
of the registry of this second drive ?

Any help in pointed me to somewhere that explains what to
do and how to do it would be appreciated.  I know we have
some folk on the list who are knowledgable about non-Mac
matters so I thought I would try here first !


This should help, Mark:



Unfortunately I have to deal with the Dark Side too :)

Cheers,

Steve


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Re: Special characters

[Steve Woods]

Hi Laura,


On 29/02/2008, at 8:02 AM, Laura Webb wrote:

Is there anyone who can tell me if it is possible to type the letter  
'y' with two dots above it? Using MacBook 10.4.11



Option-u , then press y

The Character Palette is useful for this sort of thing too - enable it  
from the "International" control panel.


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Re: MS publisher conversion

[Steve Woods]

On 12/01/2008, at 7:59 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote:

Does anyone know if there is a way of converting a MS publisher  
document to a PDF on the Mac when you don't have Microsoft Publisher?




some restrictions on what versions of Publisher it works with, but  
worth a shot...


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Re: Garage Band - Tempo & Key change.

[Steve Woods]

Clyde, it might be worth looking at software like "The Amazing Slow  
Downer" to achieve what you want:




I haven't tried it myself  - but it is on my list of software to look  
at when I get a chance to pick up a guitar again :)


Cheers,

Steve.


On 02/01/2008, at 10:23 PM, Rob Findlay wrote:

You can only do that with special types of files like apple loops  
which contain information which allows their pitch to be transposed  
dynamically.


On 02/01/2008, at 8:09 PM, Clyde McLennan wrote:


Hi,
  Garage band seems to indicate that you can change the Tempo,  
Time Signature or Key of your song.


  But when I load an MP3 file into Garage band, and adjust the  
Master Track info for tempo or Key signature, it doesn't appear to  
actually change the music playing speed or the music pitch.


  Have I misunderstood what these master track controls do.

  What I am trying to do is to lower the pitch of some music (but  
not the tempo) so it is in my vocal range.



  Any help gratefully received 

  Clyde



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Re: screen capture in bootcamp windows?

[Steve Woods]

 
On Tuesday, October 02, 2007, at 02:10PM, "Chris Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

>Has someone worked out to do a screen capture while in Windows XP  
>running bootcamp on an intel MacBook Pro? I can only access a  
>particular program in Windows and need to get a few screens while there.

Hi Chris.

Try Fn + F11



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Re: Create Screen Savers

[Steve Woods]

On 01/09/2007, at 9:40 PM, Chris Watt wrote:


Hi Guys,

I have a .m4a that I would like to use as a screen saver, does anyone
know of some software that can do this for me?


Chris, try "Save Hollywood":



might also need Flip 4 Mac if you don't already have that installed...

Cheers,

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Re: Honey, the Mac blew up!!!

[Steve Woods]

Hi Steven,

Try this link for the Australian Applecare enrolment:



HTH

Steve.

On 17/08/2007, at 5:42 PM, Steven wrote:


Thanks Bob.

I tried the link, and clicked on 'Enroll your AppleCare agreement'
.

This then brings up the following box...


http://www.apple.com

For the best  experience, please use a supported web browser.

Mac:
- Safari  2.x
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2 or later
- as well as FireFox 1.0 or later.

Windows:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
- and FireFox 1.0 or later.


Clicked OK, and I end up at


telling me...

"Invalid country/language combination."

WTF?!

I'm using Safari 3.0.3.

So, tried Firefox 2.0.0.6. Similar result. No error splash (or  
whatever you

call those pop up messages?) but straight through to...

"Invalid country/language combination."


Any other ideas anyone? Otherwise I can post the Apple discussion  
groups.



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Re: iPhoto '08 confusion?

[Steve Woods]

On 15/08/2007, at 12:16 AM, DJ Grafix & Design wrote:


From the web site:

"My name is URL.By popular demand, .Mac now lets you use your own  
domain name when you publish from iWeb ’08. It’s an easy way to  
give your site or blog the ultimate personal touch."


Does this mean that I use the Publish to Folder function and upload  
it to the server for a domain or is there a way (that I'm currently  
not seeing) to attach a domain name to my .Mac webspace?


You can configure .Mac to host your domain and enable iWeb's one- 
click publishing directly to your new domain name. To configure .Mac,  
choose Set Up Personal Domain from the iWeb File menu, or go to  
your .Mac account settings, choose Personal Domain and follow the  
basic instructions on the site. You will need to tell .Mac the name  
of your domain and then edit the domain settings on your registrar's  
site to define web.mac.com as the alias, or CNAME, for your domain.


HTH

Steve.


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Re: Internet sites?

[Steve Woods]

On 26/07/2007, at 4:39 PM, Peter Curtis wrote:


Hi all
Being only a novice at the internet I cannot answer my daughters  
question, perhaps someone else may help?
Both in Safari and firefox, when she opens up some web pages, the  
site only partially loads. I looked at preferences but cannot see  
anything which may help. Any suggestions? or is this due to bad  
web page construction.

Regards
Peter
p.s. Using Mac G5
www.joondalupresort.com.au
www.landgate.wa.gov.au



Hi Peter.

Since both sites rely on Adobe Flash for some of their content, my  
money's on that being the culprit.


I'd advise installing the latest flash player from:


(and pick the PowerPC version).

Hope this assists.

Cheers,

Steve.



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Re: Address book

[Steve Woods]

On 17/07/2007, at 7:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi Folks,
Can somebody tell me the quickest way to import an Entourage  
address book

from the G4 in to Mail on the Powerbook?


Hi Ken.

These steps should do the trick:

You can easily import contacts from Microsoft Entourage using vCard  
format.


To import contacts from Entourage on the G4:
  1. Create a new folder in the Finder on your desktop named  
"Contacts".

  2. Open the address book in Entourage.
  3. Select the contacts you want to export. If you want to  
export all of them, choose Select All from the Edit menu.
  4. Drag the selected contacts into the Contacts folder that  
you created. This creates vCard files for each of the contacts you  
selected.

  5. Quit Entourage.
Copy the folder you created to the Powerbook
  6. Open the Address Book application.
  7. Choose View Card and Columns from the View menu.
  8. Drag the Contacts folder from the desktop to the Groups  
column of the Address Book window.


The contact information should now be available in Address Book (and  
therefore also in Mail).


(info sourced from  :)


HTH,

Steve.

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Re: DWG Files

[Steve Woods]

On 03/07/2007, at 8:32 AM, Chris Watt wrote:


Hi Guys,

I have some DWG files that where sent to me by a customer in Dubai
from AutoCAD.  He is unfortunately unable to provide them to me in any
other format so I need to work out something to convert them with.

So far, I have been able to find a few XP programs, but they either
crash on export and leave great big watermarks over the images.

Does anyone know of a piece of software that is either:
- macintosh compatible without leaving a watermark (and preferably  
free)


Chris, do you have access to a  recent version of Adobe Illustrator?

I believe this will do the job - though I haven't got a dwg file to  
check with



or
- windows compatible, free and doesn't leave a watermark?




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Re: Weird Word

[Steve Woods]

On 14/06/2007, at 4:07 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:

Thanks Ronnie and James but trashing the Font Cache and Font  
Substitutes did not work.
I guess the next thing to try is ...word.prefs.plist but as it is  
120K I guess I will lose many, many settings

Severin Crisp


Hi Severin.

Check that you don't have "draft font" turned on in your preferences...

Preferences > View > Draft font

Does the problem occur in all views?  Normal, Page Layout, Outline  
etc... ?


Draft font only affects Normal and Outline views.

Hope this helps.

Steve.

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Re: Opening file .rar

[Steve Woods]

On 31/05/2007, at 3:08 PM, Laura Webb wrote:

I have been sent a document with .rar extension, not something I've  
seen before. It's from my son who works in Egypt and is an  
application form for his daughter's entry to one of our private  
schools. Before I ask him to send in a different format I just  
wondered if someone might be able to offer a suggestion as to how  
it can be opened. I need to be able to print it.


Hi Laura.

Stuffit Expander will decompress a RAR archive - a free download from  
Smith Micro:


(if it's not already on your system).

HTH

Steve.

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Re: iTunes 7.1.1 problem

[Steve Woods]

Hi Jude.

>From the FAQ at gracenote:

"I put in an AC/DC disc, but the service says it's ABBA!  Why?

This should be extremely rare. This would mean that the disc in your CD-ROM 
drive just happens to have the exact same TOC as another disc in the database. 
The TOC is the "table of contents", the list of song lengths stored in the disc 
itself. Because of how the TOC is calculated it is extremely unlikely that two 
unrelated CDs would have exactly the same TOC. It does happen sometimes for 
discs with only one track, but the odds of this occurring go down with more 
tracks. If this does occur, just enter the information for your disc and submit 
it as a new disc. "

I guess you've found two examples of this "rare" problem...

Basically - the songs on the CDs have the same lengths as songs on a different 
CD in the CDDB.
This info from Apple explains it as well:


Not sure how to get the Finder to display the correct modification and creation 
dates - this seems broken for the Audio CD I just tried too...
My guess is the creation/modification dates are not stored as part of the Audio 
CD format??

HTH

Steve.


On Wednesday, May 30, 2007, at 10:21AM, "Jude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I think the problem might be to do with Gracenotes..? I'll try and be 
>clear about what problems I am having.
>
>One cd that I initially inserted which was some ads from 6PR came up 
>as a song by the Panics. This song is the only thing that I have in 
>itunes on this computer. Now this cd always loads as a song by the 
>Panics, even though it plays the ads correctly.
>
>Another couple of cds from 96fm and 94.5fm come up as untitled and 
>play correctly, but in the finder the modifcation and creation dates 
>are the time and date that I insert them into the computer, which is 
>impossible and annoying, given what I am trying to do.
>
>As a test this morning I inserted a (home made) cd from another local 
>band. The album is called 'Frostfree'. Gracenotes goes to work 
>immeditaly and tells me this is an album called 'Beautiful 
>Imperfections' by Kerry Harvick, which I do not own and have never 
>heard of. It even lists each track by name. Once again the creation 
>and modification dates are today.
>
>I've got nothing important in iTunes, so I'm happy to dump the lot 
>and start again, but the fact that this is happening on all three of 
>our Macs makes me wonder if it's worth re-installing.
>
>I have to find out the creation date of these files. I'm at a bit of a loss.
>
>cheers
>Jude

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Re: Your usage has reached 301MB [Reference Number: 070511-004254]

[Steve Woods]

Jon,

I think the answer is in your question...

As far as I am aware, Bigpond charges for all traffic (other than  
from their own servers), so Software Update downloads will count  
towards the total.


Assuming that a bunch of Software updates were installed in the last  
month, that could easily account for 750MB...


A number of other ISP's allow free traffic from Akamai's servers -  
would definitely be worth a look!


Hope this helps!

Steve.

PS: was all set to vote for Ronni for WotY too - but couldn't get  
past the Collingwood allegiance :)



On 25/05/2007, at 3:32 PM, Jon Davison wrote:

I wonder if anyone could help my friend with this problem, or if  
anyone has experienced similar things. BigPond are stating that she  
is currently at 759Mb usage with her emails, and are going to start  
charging her for
overuse. I have had a look at her mail folder in 'Users/Library/ 
Mail' and it is only 49.9Mb at present. She does not download  
anything off the internet, and does not receive or send large files.
Can anyone be using her account, if so to what purpose? and how can  
they do this? I assume that she does not need a firewall for the  
Mac, as long as she downloads the latest security patches from  
Software Update?


So it would appear that someone is downloading files using her  
account? she only has one machine and lives alone. We have no idea  
where this usage is coming from. I have copied her (Mrs Nola  
Turner) into this
message, just in case you may wish to email her direct for more  
info. She uses an iMac/1.83GHz intel/OS 10.4.4/512Mb RAM/320Gb HD.


Any help would be greatly appreciated

With thanks
Jon


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Re: iMac can't find built-in camera

[Steve Woods]

On 08/05/2007, at 8:28 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote:


I've got an iMac 2.1Ghz G5 with a built in camera.
Photo Booth knows the camera is there, and it works fine.
iMovie doesn't.  It reports "No camera attached".

This problem is reported quite a few times it seems, but I haven't  
found a solution.  Any ideas?


iMovie 5.0.2 (111)
OS X 10.4.9


Hi Glen.

iMovie 5 doesn't support USB cameras (which the built-in iSight is).
You need iMovie HD aka iMovie 6.

Alternatively, you could use Quicktime Pro (low cost) or Quicktime  
Broadcaster (no cost) to record video from the iSight.



HTH,

Steve.

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Re: Downloading a Web Site data

[Steve Woods]

On 05/05/2007, at 1:40 PM, J Philippe Chaperon wrote:


Dear WAMUG'ers,

Can someone please let me know if there is a utility that would  
allow me to

download the data held on a Web site?


Hi Phillippe,

Have a look at Site Sucker:


This will do what I think you want.

 What is SiteSucker?

SiteSucker is a Macintosh application that automatically downloads  
Web sites from the Internet. It does this by copying the site's Web  
pages, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your local  
hard drive. Just enter a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), press  
return, and SiteSucker can download an entire Web site.


Cheers,

Steve.

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Re: extracting video from DVD to edit (home movie)

[Steve Woods]

On Tuesday, April 17, 2007, at 09:16AM, "Susan Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>Hi, I know this has come up on the list before, but can't locate it  
>in the archives. I am trying to extract some video from a home made  
>movie on DVD. I can put it onto my computer alright, but can't bring  
>the video TS or VOB file into Quicktime, iMovie, or iDVD.
>
>I want to edit it and save in a format that can be used on a website.  
>Can anyone help? cheers, Susan.

Hi Susan

MPEG Streamclip can do the appropriate conversions for you:


It's free, but you'll probably also need the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback 
Component (from Apple, but not free).

Hope this helps.

Steve




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Re: Mac migration yields funny email results in Mail.app

[Steve Woods]

On 24/01/2007, at 4:44 PM, Brett Carboni wrote:


Hi all,

I've upgraded my mom from an indigo iMac to my old 17" Powerbook  
using migration assistant with iMac on 10.3 and 17" on 10.4.


In Mail.app on the 17" most of her email reads in the body text   
(for example)


"The message from Fred Smith "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" has not been  
downloaded from the server. You need to take this account on-line  
in order to download it".


Hi Brett,

If you haven't already, try rebuilding the affected mailboxes -  
select it and go to Mailbox > Rebuild from the menu.


HTH,

Steve

Re: Applescript question.

[Steve Woods]

Hi Mac.

Try this:

tell application "Firefox"
Get URL "http://your.url.here";
end tell

For extra points:



:)

Steve

On 14/11/2006, at 3:45 PM, Malcolm McCallum wrote:

Hi Wamuggers, can someone tell me how to input a URL into Firefox  
opened with applescript plesae.



tell application "Finder"
activate
	open application file "Firefox.app" of folder "Applications" of  
startup disk


or explain what  spyglass or seamonkey is :-%



Mac
Malcolm McCallum
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Skype docmactor

Re: voice recognition software for mac recommendations

[Steve Woods]

On Thursday, October 12, 2006, at 10:46AM, Mark Secker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

>can anyone recommend a good professional quality voice recognition 
>program for Mac OSX


Hi Mark.

You mean other than IBM Via Voice?


I've tried this and been largely unimpressed..

I'm hoping Nuance will release a Mac version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which 
is the best Voice recognition software I've seen in action...albeit only on a 
Windows PC.


I'd also be glad to hear of other quality options for the Mac!

Cheers,

Steve

Re: Skype Video

[Steve Woods]

On 31/07/2006, at 3:14 PM, Hugh Griffiths wrote:


I have downloaded the latest Beta Skype and cannot for the life of we
work out how to turn on video calling?



Hugh


Hi Hugh.

Make sure you download the video Beta, and not the standard 1.5 Beta.

try: 

(The links from the skype home page take you to a beta version with no 
video...)


HTH

Steve.

Re: animated gifs

[Steve Woods]

On 12/06/2006, at 4:25 PM, kevin Lock wrote:

I have never been able to run animated gifs on any of my Macs.  Is 
there something in OSX to run these as on a windows machine?


Safari?

or do you mean something that allows you to edit them?

Cheers,

Steve

Re: SFTP and Resource Forks

[Steve Woods]

On 09/03/2006, at 2:34 PM, Antony N. Lord wrote:

I frequently SSH / SFTP in to my machine at home with Interarchy to 
grab needed files.


How do I deal with dragging files over with resource forks such as 
clippings etc?


Can I command line gzip them or something?

Or should I try Samba or something else in future? (I'm not quite 
ready to get all the VPN stuff happening at both end methinks).


One option would be to use an AFP connection through an SSH tunnel:

eg:

ssh -L 10548:127.0.0.1:548 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

then:

 open afp://localhost:10548

Have a look at

and


HTH

Steve.

Re: Database Capacities

[Steve Woods]

On Thursday, February 23, 2006, at 09:12AM, John Weekes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

>To further the argument (discussion), does anyone know the 
>comparative number of Records that can be stored on FileMakerPro, MS 
>Access & AppleWorks databases ?

Filemaker (version 8) can store 64 quadrillion records.  No, really!


Appleworks (6) can do 32,767


MS Access can do lots too, but do you really want to use it? :)

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Re: InDesign

[Steve Woods]

On 09/01/2006, at 9:13 PM, Antony N. Lord wrote:

Does anyone know how to open an InDesign CS2 file with InDesign CS  
please?


If you run the Updater (under Indesign help) you should see the  
22Mb April 2005 Indesign CD 2 compatibility update.


I can only assume this is a 2-way compatibility patch...


Almost - you still need to save the file using InDesign CS2 in  
InDesign Interchange Format (.inx).


Details at 

Cheers,

Steve.

Re: Video color

[Steve Woods]

On Wed, January 4, 2006 2:52 pm, Rob Davies wrote:

> On 04/01/2006, at 2:45 PM, Skehan Adrian wrote:
>
>> I have been converting some family videos from VCR to iMovie the to
>> iDVD, the color is very red in some of them (Copies of copies I
>> think is the cause), it appears that I can't do anything about it
>> in iMovie but is there other software I can use to try and correct
>> this?
>
> Final Cut Pro.

Another option would be to look at the various plugins available for iMovie
(cheap - some of them even free...)

Google iMovie plugins.

A good starting point is Stupendous Software :



They have colour effects as well as Levels and Balances.

Probably not as good an option as FCP, but a fair bit cheaper!

HTH.

Steve.

Re: iPhoto reinstall

[Steve Woods]

On 30/11/2005, at 3:16 PM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote:

A friend has Tiger installed on a 350 MHz iMac. iPhoto is not  
installed for some reason. She has updated to 10.4.3. How can I  
reinstall iPhoto for her after a couple of OS updates please?




Has version 2 available as a download, later versions were part of  
the iLife suite (and not free updates).


Best option would be to install it from the iLife '05 CD (if you have  
it available) and update that version (5.0) to the latest (5.0.4)


It won't run all that well on a 350MHz machine though...

HTH

Steve

Re: Tech Tools Pro

[Steve Woods]

On Monday, Oct 17, 2005, at 11:11 Australia/Perth, Jon Davison wrote:

Hi everyone. A Techtool Pro question. I am using OS X. 3.9 on a 1.6GHz  
G5, 768 Mb SDRAM and using TT Pro v4.


I installed as per disk instructions to set up the eDrive on my HD,  
only it does not appear, only if and when I restart
does it appear on the desktop momentarily, then vanishes. In System  
Prefs - Startup Disk, I cannot locate TT Pro to

boot from?

Is this normal, or a conflict maybe with the versions of  
hardware/software?


This is normal.


Question; how do I locate the installed eDrive to startup in TT Pro?


When TechTool Pro 4 is properly installed on the active boot volume,  
the eDrive mounts for a moment and then is automatically unmounted, to  
protect it from tampering. Because it is not a mounted volume, it does  
not appear in the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences.


To restart from the eDrive, use the eDrive Restart button in the  
TechTool Pro 4 application, or restart and hold down the Option key to  
bring up the Startup Manager.


(answer courtesy of MacFixit  
)


HTH

Steve.

OT: Re: CMS for web site

[Steve Woods]

Hi Chris.

Really depends on what you want to achieve, but yes a CMS is useful  
for keeping a website current - and does have added overheads.
In general they require some sort of back-end database as well as  
scripting support  - so need a hosting package that provides for this.


The basic difference as I would explain it is that a CMS allows you  
to add and edit content straight from a web browser, whereas a  
"static" site needs an off-line editor (like Golive - or even Text  
Edit:)
This makes life easier if a number of people are involved in  
maintaining the site, or if edits need to be made from various  
locations.
Integration with photo galleries, rss feeds etc etc are added  
benefits of a good CMS.


Have a look at  for details on some of the  
different "free" CMS systems available - these particular ones rely  
on PHP/MySQL so would need hosting that supports a MySQL database.


I personally favour Drupal or Joomla (was Mambo).



$360 a year sounds a lot - depends if that includes the domain too I  
guess...  I'm sure there are better deals out there


Hosting one of these CMSen on your Mac (of course:) through an ADSL  
account may also be a possibility to consider.



HTH

Steve.



On 05/09/2005, at 10:18 PM, Chris Burton wrote:


Hi muggers

I have a query regarding CMS (content management system) for a web  
site. I have only just heard about this from a web designer who  
says it is very necessary for my quite simple web site, as Im  
wanting to make my site more interesting and be able to update with  
more information over time.


My question is how will I know if I need to have this, as it is  
expensive and by the sounds of it ties me down to their hosting of  
my site so I can use the CMS to update the site. The hosting is  
quite expensive, relative to what I pay now. They are charging $360/ 
year just to host the site.


Could someone please give me some advice or online sites that I can  
check out to help me make a decision. I am a complete novice but  
eager to learn what I can.


I have dabbled in Golive 6, but at the moment have no spare time  
and realise there is a lot more to making a good site than at a  
first glance.


Many thanks to everyone

Chris


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Re: apache person web server- setting up

[Steve Woods]

Hi Gary.


On Thursday, Aug 4, 2005, at 10:57 Australia/Perth, gary dorn wrote:

So far I have set up a a general index page as per the apache  
guidelines, http://192.168.0.2/~dornworks/


Be aware that this is a "private" ip address - only accessible from  
within your network.


For others to see the pages you're creating, you'll need a static  
external IP address (or a dynamic DNS domain name).
You'll also need to set up your internet connection (and any  
firewalls/modems) to allow access to your machine on port 80.


This is not trivial, and you may want to consider using your  
ISP's-provided web space (if available)



so my question is
1. is there an apache tutorial anywhere which explains setting up an  
index pages then other pages  for Mac OS X
2. how do I determine the web address for each html page I make, so I  
can link them in the various pages I create


any advice  on these matters would be appreciated.


This HTML tutorial should help - (Apache is just the web-server  
software that your Mac is running, and the HTML pages are independent  
of it)





The answer is to use relative links, so that the pages will work from  
whichever folder or machine they're hosted on.


Hope this gives you a starting point.

Cheers,

Steve.

Re: Problem with Quicktime Player 7

[Steve Woods]

On 03/08/2005, at 2:23 PM, Rob Phillips wrote:


Can anyone suggest a solution to this problem?

I have a bunch of QTVR movies that I occasionally demonstrate to  
people.  With my new system install, I now have QT 7.0.  My QTVRs  
do not display in QT 7.0.  The display window is present, but it is  
completely transparent.  I can't reinstall QT6.5, because the  
installer recognises that I have a newer version installed.


I wish I hadn't had my machine rebuilt!


Rob, if you're on OS X 10.3.9, you still have an option to reinstall  
6.5.2:





Not sure what to do atm for those Tiger users with similar issues  
though...


HTH

Steve.

Re: Dial-Up Using Airport?

[Steve Woods]

On Wednesday, Jul 20, 2005, at 10:34 Australia/Perth, Kevin Phyland  
wrote:



Hi every1,

This is probably old-hat but I'm a bit stuck trying to connect  
wirelessly using a new (i.e. unconfigured) Airport Extreme to my  
dial-up ISP.

/snip
P.S. I assume the Airport Extreme contains a modem? Is the problem  
getting my settings from the iBook's internal modem to the Airport's  
inbuilt modem?


Hi Kevin,

The "hopefully-not-so-silly" question is "which airport extreme do you  
have?"


The airport extreme is available both with and without modem...

M8799X/AAirPort Extreme Base Station (with modem and antenna port)
M9397X/A	AirPort Extreme Base Station (with Power over Ethernet support  
and conformance to UL 2043)


(model number should be on the base)

Assuming you have a modem, you should be able to configure the Base  
Station using the instructions at:



I'd connect via an ethernet cable when setting it up, and make sure you  
have the latest versions of Airport and Airport admin (as you indicated  
you're doing).


HTH

Steve

Re: PowerBook G3 dead to the world

[Steve Woods]

On 12/07/2005, at 7:02 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:

I have a PowerBook G3 (Bonze Keyboard, FireWire) borrowed from work 
that
I was hoping to drop Mac OS X onto and use for a slow-but-working Mac 
OS

X build tester for the development work I'm doing.




It's been sitting idle for a long time - over 9 months. If the backup
battery has run down, does that mean the system needs servicing before
it'll even boot? (If so, permit me to grumble at Apple).

Ideas?


I'd start with the PRAM battery.  The Pismo requires the PRAM have a 
charge in order to boot.  Plugging it in overnight might be enough to 
get some charge in it.



If it still won't go, try replacing the PRAM battery as per these 
instructions:




Batteries Plus or similar should be able to get you the appropriate 
battery.


HTH

Steve.

Re: Shock and horror

[Steve Woods]

On 06/07/2005, at 4:16 PM, James Devenish wrote:


In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:17:39PM +0800, Mark Secker wrote:


no I know the company Altera and it's not them though  the product
sounds like "Altera"  - haven't gotten the minutes from that meeting
yet so don't know the spelling



Alteris


As google would say:

Did you mean: Altiris  ?

:)





We're looking at using a remote software
distribution/audit/management system for Windows (name eludes me
right now Altera? maybe), the Domain admin dude is making it sound
like the hottest new thing on the block  and I just roll my eyes
and groan and mutter under my breath "Zen Works"

Re: Creating Mbox mail archives in Entourage

[Steve Woods]

On 28/06/2005, at 1:55 PM, Greg Colgan wrote:


Hey there Muggers,

I would dearly like to archive Entourage email from certain projects 
that I

have finished working on and have catalogued into a series of folders
containing subfolders broken down into categories x subject.

The problem I have though is that when I drag a folder on to my 
desktop in
order to create an mbox file, all of the mail held in subfolders is 
ignored.
Is there a way around this - without having to drag all of the emails 
out of
their subfolders so that there is only one folder? That kind of 
defeats the

purpose of having things in easily recognised categories.

Thanks in advance for any advice
Greg


Hi Greg.

Try Entourage Email Archive X


One of it's many email archiving options should achieve what you want.

HTH

Steve.

Re: Wordperfect

[Steve Woods]

On Tuesday, Jun 28, 2005, at 10:52 Australia/Perth, Leslie Norman wrote:


Hi,

I have a whole bunch of files in WordPerfect - it was great software 
when using mathematical equations.


Corel did not bring out a version for Mac OS X, at least I don't 
believe so.


Does anyone have any suggestions on how to access these files in 
Panther or Tiger?


Thanks in anticipation.

Norm Leslie


Neo Office/J, a native OS X port of OpenOffice, ought to open 
WordPerfect files.




HTH

Steve.

Re: Mac Unix Books

[Steve Woods]

On Tuesday, Jun 14, 2005, at 10:20 Australia/Perth, Steven w wrote:


Good morning group,
Is there any specific reference books for Mac Unix
that could be recommended for a novice?


Hi Steven.

O'Reilly have some good stuff on this...

Start here:
"Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther"
Dave Taylor, Brian Jepson


an older, but still useful reference:


Not for a novice, but plenty of good info here:
Mac OS X for Unix Geeks


and look at:


for the top ten unix tips.

HTH

Cheers,

Steve.

Re: ppc-intel query

[Steve Woods]

On Tuesday, Jun 7, 2005, at 11:11 Australia/Perth, Stewart Woods wrote:


Why shouldn't I buy a new mac until next year?
Or, for that matter, advise my friends not to?


When the switch occurs, you can be sure Apple are going to be doing 
everything they can to keep existing customers happy - stuff that works 
on today's Macs still will, and support in new apps for the G3/4/5 will 
have a long tail (like a lepoard?)


I'll quote from Tidbits on this one:

"We always suggest buying what you need when you need it; there's 
invariably going to be something newer, better, and faster around the 
corner, and it's silly to wait forever until they stop innovating."




Cheers,

Steve.

Re: Publisher docs to Mac

[Steve Woods]

On 02/06/2005, at 8:14 PM, Reg Whitely wrote:


Hi WAMUGgers

My web searching indicates it can't be done, but is there any way that 
I can import a Micro$oft Publisher document into a Mac compatible 
program, such as AppleWorks, Pages, M$ Word, NeoOffice, Dreamweaver, 
Preview, BBedit etc and get it to open and format correctly. I don't 
have Acrobat to try opening and editing a .pdf format, which I believe 
Publisher can save as.


Hi Reg.

The answer to this question really depends on what you want to do with 
the document once you get it on to your Mac.
Publisher has a variety of options (depending on which version you've 
got) and each option has it's own pro's and cons...
There is no easy way to get the "correct formatting" and resolution for 
editing on the Mac that I'm aware of though... :(


Options (in my order of preference) are:

save as HTML from publisher
(most of the apps listed above will handle this pretty well, but the 
formatting will be variable)


save as postscript (.ps)
(can be converted to PDF with distiller (or even Preview)) - not really 
editable - but you could copy/paste the text out easily enough. 
Graphics could be screen captured if you don't need high res.


Save a a .doc - though you lose all the graphics that way.

Pull the document apart into it's component pieces on the PC - text as 
plain text, graphics as tiffs/jpgs - then reassemble in your favourite 
Mac program.

Depends if you've got easy access to a PC with Publisher on it.

I'd be happy to have a go at converting it to something useful as best 
I can if you email me the file.*


HTH

Steve.

* yes I admit to having a PC as well as the odd Mac at home :) - I've 
even got :0 Publisher 2003.  Pages kicks its butt though :)

Re: Opening an iMac

[Steve Woods]

On Friday, Apr 22, 2005, at 09:17 Australia/Perth, Paul Weaver wrote:

Can someone tell me the trick how to remove the top cover of a blue G3 
slot

load iMac please.  I've looked on the web without success.


You don't.
You remove the bottom cover.  Roll it over on a towel and remove its 
soft underbelly.

(should just need three screws undone and a bit of gentle prying).

This page may assist:




HTH

Steve.

Re: modifying default text

[Steve Woods]

On 13/04/2005, at 4:05 PM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote:


My next quandary is how to change the default text in Photoshop


My version of Photoshop (CS) just seems to remember the last font 
settings used...



and InDesign.


Try opening the application and changing the settings to how you want 
them with _no_ document open.
The changes should stick as the defaults next time you open a new 
document.


When a new text frame is applied the default text is Times  size 12. 
In MS Word, too. Is there a way to change this please?


Easy - Go to the menu item"  Format > Font and make the desired 
changes, then click on the button in the bottom left marked 
"Default..."


Hope this helps.

Steve.

Re: Mambo CMS

[Steve Woods]

On 24/03/2005, at 12:02 PM, Matthew Healey wrote:

Does anyone on this list use Mambo at all... or any other CMS for that 
matter.


Hi Matt.

I use mambo on a few sites I host and would be happy to assist if 
needed.


<http://www.uwarugby.com.au>
<http://www.rsmc.info>

both hosted on an iMac G5 and running without many issues.

Cheers,

Steve.

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Re: Anyone have latest working copy of Whereis for AddressBook?

[Steve Woods]

Try Stephen Withers .mac fileshare for the latest of his excellent 
address book plugins:




Cheers,

Steve.

On 16/03/2005, at 3:40 PM, Rod wrote:



Hi All!

Does anyone have a working copy of this program?  I have tried to 
download it from VT, but both links produce a corrupted archive.


Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Seeya

Rod!


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Re: Uploading From Mac Problem

[Steve Woods]

On 28/02/2005, at 5:13 PM, Rod Blitvich wrote:

We have started experiencing problems where mac users are unable to  
upload
to this site. We are getting quotes from web developers to do a number  
of
modifications to our site and have asked that they also guarantee that  
the
teachers survival kit will accept both uploads and downloads to and  
from
macintosh computers running OSX. The developer who has submitted a  
quote

Said "this a compatibility problem between macs and
some browsers." and cannot provide us with this guarantee.


Having a quick peek at the site, it looks like it's running on a  
Windows 2000 box (Microsoft-IIS/5.0), and making use of Active server  
pages.  I'm guessing this is the root of the "compatibility problem".   
It is true that some Mac browsers have the occasional problem  
interacting with ASP scripts.


That said, it _should_ all work fine with IE5 at the very least...  And  
it should also all work better being served from 2003 server.  Your web  
hosting provider should be able to help...


Personally I'd be looking to "switch" to an open-source solution - like  
PHP/mySQL.

(or even better move to a Mac or even a Linux server)
A lot less likely to run into incompatibility issues, and I'd guess  
there would be more web developers with PHP skills than ASP?



Any comments would be appreciated please.
Is this really an insurmountable problem?
Do you know of any decent web developers, who could provide such a
guarantee?


I don't know about guarantee's, but you should be able to specify Mac  
OS's and browsers as part of the testing requirements to be included in  
the quote.  At least pick a web developer who's got a Mac or two on  
site  to test with!

(or at least one who can generate valid html
   :)


Cheers,

Steve.

Re: iPhoto 4>5 Problems

[Steve Woods]

On 27/02/2005, at 9:11 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote:

I recently installed iLife05.
Since then I have had big problems with iPhoto.
Now when I launch iPhoto the Main Window with the film rolls in it 
always

opens back at my first rolls (july 2000).
When I try to scroll down to the latest film rolls, I get the spinnning
beachball cursor. This continues for 20 or 30 seconds. Sometimes 
during this
process when I click on the iPhoto icon in the Dock I get the 
"Application

Not Responding" message.


Sounds like a permissions/prefs issue (it can't remember your settings).
If you've got something like iPhoto Library Manager:

Use it to reset your iPhoto library folders permissions to read and 
write.
You can also use this to create multiple separate libraries (something 
5.0 should have added as a feature IMHO).


I have tried to follow the thread of recent posts on this and another 
list

regarding similar problems. I have rebuilt the database.
I have upgraded to iPhoto 5.0.1
I have 5,000 photos. The Help section says iPhoto should handle up to 
25,000

photos.


Did you update to 5.0.1 before or after upgrading you iPhoto 4 library?
Glitches in the upgrade process is one of the bugs the 5.01 patch 
should fix.


Does it seem I should delete my iPhoto Library and copy my backup copy 
(done

in iphoto4) from an external drive?


This sounds like a good idea, particularly if you updated the library 
using 5.0


I've updated my libraries without issue so far (though the most I've 
got in one library is ~1000 photos...)


HTH

Steve.

Re: Personal Web Sharing

[Steve Woods]

On 25/02/2005, at 10:05 PM, Tim Law wrote:
Following the previous posts in this thread and I have searched for a 
file
called httpd.conf and a folder called httpd or etc with a nil return 
for any

of them.


The httpd folder lives in /etc , which is hidden by default.
To edit httpd.conf, you'll need to use either the command line 
(Terminal), or an application that can open hidden files.


TextWrangler from BareBones software is an excellent tool for this, and 
it's free!



It allows you to "Open Hidden...", which will let you see all of the 
folders and files that are really on your system.

(obviously use caution with any modifications!

Permissions on system config files will require that you authenticate 
before you can make changes.


I've put my own index.html file into Library/WebServer/Documents but 
still
get the default Apache page when I click on http://localhost/ in the 
System
Preferences Sharing screen. Same goes when I put my own index.html 
page in

the sites folder.


Check permissions on the /Library/WebServer/Documents/index.html file - 
should be readable by all.

Refresh while holding down the shift key.


When I click refresh at http://localhost/ in my browser I get a denied
access error page 403.


as above - sounds like a permissions problem.


Yes, I've turned on Personal Web Sharing.

I'm running broadband through Highway1 with a fixed IP address and had 
hoped

to be able to serve my website from my eMac.


DNS setup and port forwarding through your ADSL modem are the next 
issues you'll want to consider - but that's two whole other cans of 
worms.


HTH

Steve.

Re: Running out of disk space

[Steve Woods]

On Friday, Feb 25, 2005, at 10:08 Australia/Perth, Robert Howells wrote:


On 25/02/2005, at 9:57 AM, Greg Sharp wrote:


On 25/2/05 12:06 PM, "Michael Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Mind you, I would have
thought that if I can have names of files on my HD with such 
characters,

why wouldn't I be able to on the new firewire drive?
Because of permissions in OS X you can't just drag files from one 
disk to

another. You will need to use Carbon Copy Cloner or some other similar
backup utility to maintain correct permissions. Wipe your firewire 
drive and

try again using one of these utilities.

All the best
Greg Sharp


Hmmm !

I thought files ( as in documents ) just copied when you dragged them 
from one drive to another ! ?




I suspect that Michael's new firewire drive is FAT / MS-DOS formatted, 
which has restrictions on file name characters and length.
I'd suggest reformatting with Disk Utility (in your 
/Applications/Utilities folder) as HFS+ and trying again.  If you can 
see the file in the finder, you _should_ be able to copy it wherever 
you like...


HTH,

Steve.

Re: recovering images from compact flashj

[Steve Woods]

On 21/02/2005, at 7:17 PM, Reg Whitely wrote:

PhotoRescue will find the pics, no worries, but the demo won't save 
them. You'll need to pay about $40 from memory to get the full 
version. I'm led to believe that it's a good program. I guesss you 
need to weigh up if you really want to pay $40. It seems to be good 
insurance.


There's also an excellent freeware alternative:



Works great for pics, but not as good as PhotoRescue for video or other 
content on a flash card.

Definitely worth a look for the price!

HTH

Steve.

Re: Internet Banking and OS 10.3.8

[Steve Woods]

On 16/02/2005, at 12:06 PM, Michael Schmidt wrote:


I noticed this morning when accessing ANZ internet banking with Safari
that after clicking on 'Internet Banking Log On' from the ANZ homepage
that the Log In window has nothing in it, i.e. nowhere to put in my
username or password; it's simply become a blank box.

/snip


Has anyone else noticed an issue like this? With the ANZ bank in
particular?

Thanks for any ideas!

Regards,
Michael Schmidt


Hi Michael,

Try turning off "Block Pop-up Windows" in Safari.
(I've just tried this and had the same issue you had until I turned off 
this option).


I guess there's a redirect in place on the login page in preparation 
for the "new Internet Banking Log on page"

< http://www.anz.com.au/aus/promo/IBLogon/default.asp>
and that the way it's implemented is being stopped by Safari's settings.

HTH.

Steve
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Re: Powerbook hanging in iTunes and not restarting with Disk Warrior

[Steve Woods]

On 03/02/2005, at 8:58 PM, Tim Law wrote:

My friend has a Powerbook 12inch 1Ghz running 10.3.7, one year old, 
that is

having major problems opening iTunes and Entourage.


Has he tried logging in as a different user to see if the problems are 
with the system/software

or his user preferences?


He has Nortons which up to date, so I'm thinking it's not a virus.


I'm not a fan of Norton's - but I'll hold off on blaming that for the 
problems at this stage :)


He's borrowed my copy of Diskwarrior to see if that will help sort 
things
out, and now cannot reboot from the DW CD in order to run DW. He IS 
holding
down the C key to start up from the CD, and a message appears telling 
him he
needs to reboot. ie it's not rebooting from the CD. I've never seen 
that

before with DW so can't help him.


What revision of the DiskWarrior CD do you have?  You'll need the 3.0.2 
update (and
depending on the version you have this either means downloading a free 
updater, or

purchasing an upgrade CD).


local distributor:


I'm sure Daniel could source one for you too :)

I'd be surprised if the right DW CD doesn't go a long way to resolving 
the problems,

provided there isn't an underlying hardware issue...

HTH

Steve.

Re: Mail and images

[Steve Woods]

On 16/11/2004, at 1:20 PM, Stewart Woods wrote:



On 16/11/2004, at 11:28 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:

If you add a picture to a contact's card in Address Book, the picture 
appears in other applications that use Address Book information. For 
example, when you read email from that person in Mail, you'll see 
their picture in the message window. You'll also see it when you add 
the person to your Buddy List in iChat.


I thought this was the case but AFAIK I've never received a Vcard from 
Mark.  I've received a couple of emails off-list from him, but I've 
certainly never imported a photo myself.  Do Vcards automatically 
attach to an email?  Then when I add this address to my address book, 
it grabs the vCard data?


BTW Don't take anything personally Mark - it doesn't bother me - I 
just wondered how it all works  :-)


In Mark's case, it's a .Mac thing - automatically displaying the .Mac 
account picture for users of Apple Mail.


Have a look at:



Cheers,

Steve.

Re: Office A4 default paper size...

[Steve Woods]

On Friday, Nov 12, 2004, at 10:06 Australia/Perth, Phil Goodall-Smith 
wrote:


Having recently purchased a new laptop and I am installing Microsoft 
Office on it.


I remember it was a tricky little procedure that you had to do to set 
the default paper size to A4...


Phil, you should be able to get the default to "stick" by setting it 
from within the Format > Document menu.


(click on Page setup, pick the settings you want, click on OK, then 
click on the "Default..." button to lock it in)


Hope this helps.

Steve
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Re: lookin for software's name

[Steve Woods]

On Wednesday, September 22, 2004, at 12:36  PM, Bart Raffaele wrote:


Hi all
I can't remember this software's name. It's free to download
It tells you every product that Apple release to its present time.
With  specs and every other detail. Mac something.


Mactracker



Very handy!

Cheers,

Steve

Re: iMac and 10.2

[Steve Woods]

On 11/08/2004, at 10:03 PM, Antony N. Lord wrote:

I'm trying to get 10.2 installed on a 333MHz iMac with a new 120Gb 
Western Digital HD.


The drive is partitioned as 7Gb / 7Gb / 106Gb for OS X / OS 9 / Data.

(Lets not start a partitioning war just yet)

The install (Disc 1) seems to go fine but when the iMac restarts it 
boots from the install CD again. Ejecting the CD gives me the ol' 
flashing folder icon


Two thoughts here:

1. Is the jumper set on the drive set for single/master?  (I've seen 
disks set for Cable Select recognised in Disk Utility, but unable to 
boot...)


2. Is OSX really installed on the first partition on the disk? (sounds 
like it is from your description, but might be worth checking which 
volume is which).


Hope this helps...

Steve.

Re: Exporting images from Powerpoint ?

[Steve Woods]

Hi folks,

Does anyone know how to get the images off a Powerpoint presentation 
as individual JPG's ? I must be dumb or blind because I cannot see it 
in the help menus.


Or perhaps it is not in the help menus  phew !!


You don't mention the version of PowerPoint, but in vX and 2004 at 
least you can export a series of jpgs by selecting "JPG" in the  Save 
As menu.  The options button gives finer control as to the resolution / 
compression etc.  I've had luck with some "difficult" slides just by 
doing a screen capture and converting to .jpg with Preview also.


Hope this helps.


Steve

Re: early iPhoto

[Steve Woods]

(along with lots of other goodies)
--
Steve


On 02/07/2004, at 8:04 AM, Stewart Woods wrote:


Hi all,

anyone know if there's anywhere to download the earlier (free) 
versions of iPhoto or has all trace of them disappeared?


cheers,
Stew


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Re: Filemaker

[Steve Woods]

On Wednesday, June 2, 2004, at 05:34  PM, Daniel Forsdyke wrote:


Hi

Does anyone know if there is an Academic Version of Filemaker Pro 7.


Sure is...   quoting :

F100EX00WW
FileMaker Pro Govt/Edu
$226.36 ex GST

Buy from filemaker direct, or slightly cheaper from city software:



Or even better, buy from a local retailer :)

Cheers,

Steve

Re: Win2K needs visible file extensions

[Steve Woods]

At Fri, May 7, 2004 10:13 am, Oldham, Toby wrote:
>
> Hmm, I'll give it a go Onno, but I think I'll have the same issue with the
> Mac files not having file extensions and thus showing up with generic
> icons
> under Windows 2k.

Toby, have you had a look at NameCleaner?

<http://www.sigsoftware.com/namecleaner/index.html>

There's an OSX and a classic version.
Should do what you want for a small ($25US) shareware fee.

HTH

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Re: Setting up Network printer help - *update*

[Steve Woods]

On 20/04/2004, at 10:58 PM, Rod Lavington wrote:


On further research, 95/98/ME don't support IP printing out of the 
box.  ME
comes with some IPP driver that installs off the CD, which allows 
Internet

and:

Any ideas before I do the inevitable?  Seems pointless having a network
printer and connecting it via a parallel cable to one machine!


This might help, Rod:

ACITS LPR remote printing for Windows 95/98/ME


It's not free but a 30 day demo is available, and the price isn't too 
steep...


Info on how to use it with a 16/600 can be found here:
< www-jerry.oit.duke.edu/community/howto/pc/add_tcpip_printer.html>

Might be easier than sharing the printer from a Mac...

Cheers,

Steve

Re: iphoto download..all lost!!

[Steve Woods]

On Sun Apr 18, 2004 at 12:44 PM, Rosemary Horton wrote:

I always have is set to delete from my memory card as I download, as 
deleting manually is a pain with a lot of photos.
Unfortunately now it seems I've lost the whole lot from my trip to 
Melbourne. Anybody got any ideas to recover them?




I haven't needed to use it myself (yet :) but this commercial software 
looks promising. The demo should let you see if there's anything 
recoverable on your memory card.


HTH,

Steve

Re: Ebay

[Steve Woods]

Regarding:
<http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3596423832&category=5>

>>Slightly off topic, but is it 'safe' to buy things from Ebay?  I just
noticed a dual 2gig >>G5 with 500 gig of 7200rpm drives, an apple 23
inch cinema display and all the
>>other bells and whistles going for $3800.
>
> Usually if it's too good to be true, it probably is!
>
> There are a number of e-bay con artists selling either stuff that
doesn't exist, or stuff
> that's stolen. My rule is usually don't spend more than you can afford
to lose.

Definitiely a scam of sorts.

Important points with this particular one:

"Note: This listing is restricted to pre-approved bidders or buyers only. 
Email the seller to be placed on the pre-approved bidder/buyer list. "

(ie: Please sign up for our spam list and get hassled to buy all sorts of
junk :)

and the Feedback shows that bob6960_0 apparently hasn't ever sold anything
on Ebay (but has bought an odd assortment of Xbox and elctronics gear). 
Identity fraud on eBay is a potential problem to watch out for. (ie:
sellers hijacking someone's account that has reasonable positive feedback)

I've used eBay a number of times with no problems whatsoever, but you do
need to be able to spot a scam, and do your homework.  I'd _always_
contact the seller prior to placing a bid, and prefer to "buy local", so I
can see the goods before parting with my hard-earned.

My 1.8c

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Re: Firewire connection

[Steve Woods]

On Wednesday, January 28, 2004, Greg Hosking wrote:

> Jon, i'm almost certain that target disk mode is only for laptops. I'd
be wary about attempting this with a desktop (ie: damaged disks & stuff)

Actually it works fine with all newer Macs - iMacs, Power Macs, as well as
the portables.
The kb article 
lists compatible models, but doesn't include the "Power Mac G4 (PCI
Graphics)" - I'm guessing that this is what Jon has...

...If it is an "AGP graphics" model, updating the firmware or Hot-plugging
might do the trick: 

Having an Open Firmware password set will also prevent Firewire Target
Disk mode from working.

Mark's suggestion is of course the best one!


HTH

Steve.

>
> just use ethernet, get yrself a crossover cable
>
> g
>
> On Wednesday, January 28, 2004, at 10:00  PM, Jon Davison wrote:
>
>> I would like to connect my G4 (400/488/OSX2.8) tower as a Firewire
drive to appear on my G5 (1.6/768/Panther). I have restarted the G4
with the 'T' key depressed as normal but no Firewire icon on the G4
screen. Is there something else I should be doing? or is it not
possible with the G4/G5 combination. I have no problem connecting with
my G4 (550/448/OSX2.4) TiBook to the G5 via Firewire.
>> I have tried the G4 in both OSX and 9.2.2 configurations to see if it
would work, but nothing. It keeps firing up as usual but no Firewire
icon. I have tried the Firewire ports on the front and rear of the G5.
I just feel that rather than sell the G4 tower, I may as well use it as
an external drive for my web local site files and other storage as
there is 30Gb free
>> Thanks for any help on this
>> Jon

Re: Sharing Drives via SMB

[Steve Woods]

On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 11:18  AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:


I still havent had any luck sharing anything but my 'Home' directory 
with an XP box.


I (almost) desperately need to share my second drive containing 22g of 
audio.


Via Appletalk all directories are shared easily, can anyone possibly 
recommend an appletalk client for XP?


Can anyone say wether they believe this is possible or not? At least 
put me out of my misery and say it CANNOT be done;o)


A nice little "donation-ware" utility "Sharepoints" might be the 
easiest option - works for creating both afp and smb shares:




HTH

Steve

Re: http://bigpondmusic.com/home.asp

[Steve Woods]

> Hi all
>
> Bigpond have just launched there version of Apple's Music Store,
> http://bigpondmusic.com/home.asp
> Hopefully Apple's Music Store is just around the corner.
> Hmm competion that's what i like to see  , sooner or later it's all going
> to
> be like the mobile phone industries
>
> I haven't look at it yet but will be .
>
> Bart

Well they lost me from the start:

"In order to download and purchase music from BigPond Music you must have
a compatible Windows Media Player.

At present there is no compatible Windows Media Player for Mac OS and as
such you will be unable to play any downloaded music. You will be able to
browse the BigPond Music Catalogue."

Bring on iTMS.au :)

Steve.

Re: Copying from an iBook to an iBook

[Steve Woods]

> I want to copy some large data from my iBook to my daughters iBook.
> What is the best way to do this - fire-wire or crossover cable?
> Is there a set procedure to follow?
>
> All advice appreciated.
> Thanks
> Regards
> Maaureen

Firewire is your best bet (assuming both iBooks have firewire :).

You just need a standard 6 pin firewire cable.
Turn one iBook off, plug in the firewire cable to both, and restart while
holding down the "T" key on the keyboard.

The screen should show a firewire symbol, and the hard disk mount on the
other iBook.

Copy the files across as needed, and simply drag the hard disk icon to the
trash to eject the disk when you're done.


hope this helps,

Steve.

Re: Lost File Menu Bar in Photoshop

[Steve Woods]

Kelly - Try deleting (or at least moving) the photoshop preferences file

System Folder > Preferences> Adobe Photoshop 6 Settings> Adobe Photoshop 6
Prefs
Cures all sorts of weirdness.

A full explanation here:




Cheers,

Steve


> Thanks but unfortunately that wasn't it. I still have
> all the menu/tool pallets, just not the top menu bar.
> When I hit "tab" I just lose the other palettes.
>
> Its a real puzzle this time.
>
> Kind regards,
> Kelly
>
>  --- Jude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Kelly
>>
>> Not sure if this is your problem, but if you hit the
>> 'tab' key, it
>> hides all the menus - maybe you hit this
>> accidentally? Hitting it
>> again will toggle on and off.
>>
>> good luck
>>
>> Jude

Re: Program opening on Internet connect

[Steve Woods]

Can't vouch for how well it works, but a quick look at versiontracker
revealed:

uConnect
launches files after connecting to internet


Might be worth a look.

Cheers,

Steve

> Thanks Peter but this is around the wrong way for what I want.  I want
> programs to open upon connection and not a connection to open upon
> launching of programs.
>
> Thanks anyway
> Ruben
>>
>>> I'm wondering if there is a way to have programs automatically open
>>> upon connecting to the internet via the normal method (Internet
>>> Connect) in OS X.2.8
>>>
>>> This would be most useful to me
>>> Thanks
>>> Ruben A. Franke
>>>
>>
>> Network Preferences Pane -> Show: Internal Modem -> PPP Tab -> PPP
>> Options button -> Check "Connect Automatically When Needed"
>>
>> Of course, if you're on Broadband, you're always connected so you
>> don't to worry about this.
>>
>> Be warned: because there is so much going on in MacOS X that checks on
>> IP settings, especially when you're rummaging around in the System
>> Preferences area, or some of the utilities, the computer is going to
>> want to connect at any given moment. I find this to be so irritating
>> that I leave the auto-connect option turned off.
>>
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>> Perth,  
>> Western Australia   Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913
>> 
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>>
>>
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Re: Eudora Pro 3 Problem

[Steve Woods]

Hi Wamuggers, I have a problem I hope someone can help me with.

I run a G3 as a network server on Cable email is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use 'pop-server' as incoming mail server and
'mail-hub.bigpond.net.au' as outgoing mail server. I am running Mac OS
10.2.6 . I have an ethernet setup running to an Imac which is running
Mac OS 9 and Eudora Pro 3
Under Special/Settings/ /Hosts) SMTP --- mail-hub.bigpond.net.au
'POP'
account '[EMAIL PROTECTED] .au'

My wife's email
but cannot find where I put the mail server 'mail-server' in

I cannot get the mail to download to spmcc @bigpond.net .au

Web browser works OK and you can download mail via webmail on browser
:-(

Can anyone help with my problem ?
TIA
Mac


'POP account' in Eudora Pro 3 should include the full address of the 
popserver.


Try putting '[EMAIL PROTECTED] .au" in that field.

You could then just set the reply-to address correctly as
'[EMAIL PROTECTED] .au'

HTH

Steve.

Re: Blocking email in Outlook Express

[Steve Woods]

On Thu, 09 May 2002 at 14:03, Peter Bull wrote:

I hate to admit this but Outlook Express for The Dark Side has a 
blocking
facility which just does not allow email from specified senders into 
your
'puter. I 'm not sure if it also results in a "Can't be delivered" 
message

being sent to the original sender.
I wish OE for the Mac has this facility without setting up a rule to
automatically delete mail. The spam content seems to be increasing a lot
lately.


As Onno mentioned earlier - you can only block messages entirely by 
stopping

them at your mail server.

Actually, the "blocked senders" list in the win version of OE is just a 
ruleset.
It doesn't stop anything, just quietly moves mail from the specified 
addresses

to the Deleted Items folder.

The same effect can be achieved on the Mac version by setting up a group
with the spammers email addresses, and setting one rule to move 
everything
from that group into Deleted Items. You could create a script to 
automate

adding addresses to the group from highlighted message(s).

Alternatively, I've found the built-in Junk Mail filter to work 
reasonably well after

a little "training".

YMMV

Cheers,

Steve Woods
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