Roxio's Toast does it for me.
cheers,
gianfranco
I just got a new audio CD ( the new Cook, Dixon Young Volume 1 disc
:) ), and like I do with all my music, I want to make a backup of it.
(I'd rather destroy the backup in my car and elsewhere than the
expensive original!)
What software
I've successfully used Carbon Copy Cloner with 10.4.2. Note it has
to be 10.4.2. I heard it didn't work with 10.4.1. Last time I used
it was on Monday.
Tim
On Aug 16, 2005, at 11:38 PM, Dylan McDermond wrote:
On Aug 16, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Francesco sciacca wrote:
Is CCC working
on 17/08/05 03:36, Brian McEwen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to do this within iPhoto already? I think not, since
you're getting the issue of duplicate filenames when you export, one
would HOPE it would have renamed them -1 -2 -3 etc. on export like
when you download the same
At 09:03 AM 8/17/2005, you wrote:
I've used 'iPhoto Diet' a few times to find duplicates and cleanup the
iPhoto library of unnecessary stuff.
But that would whack her duplicate-named but not duplicate-content images!
:)
B
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I suspect this is easy, and I'm overlooking it.
How do I change the preference I set when I 1st configured the PB, to
open as default a different web browser? I've decided to change from
one to another for a couple of automated tasks, but I can't seem to
find the setting I need to do this.
I suspect this is easy, and I'm overlooking it.
How do I change the preference I set when I 1st configured the PB, to
open as default a different web browser? I've decided to change from
one to another for a couple of automated tasks, but I can't seem to
find the setting I need to do this.
It's in the preferences in the Safari application itself.
Don't ask me why, it makes no sense to me either. I'd have expected a
system prefpane.
Steve
On Aug 17, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Howard Katz wrote:
I suspect this is easy, and I'm overlooking it.
How do I change the preference I set when
I think with the duplicate names, on the multiple CD's...you might to have
to add a letter at the end of each file...A,B...etc before you combine
them, whether you can do this with a whoosh of a computer command or the ole
manual input is a problem for a greater computer mind than mine.
anonymous
Even if Safari isn't what's currently set as the default? :)
Later.Howard
On 8/17/05, Steve Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's in the preferences in the Safari application itself.
Don't ask me why, it makes no sense to me either. I'd have expected a
system prefpane.
Steve
Even if Safari isn't what's currently set as the default? :)
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Hi all;
If someone here is in the WA State, Walla Walla or Tri-cities region and
would be willing to help someone with rebuilding a recalcitrant TiBook, and
getting a Windows box talking to an Airport base station, please let me
know off-list. The 'book is in Walla Walla.
The PB has been
On 8/17/05, Krow Magnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good for you ! Just what are they teaching them ?
Having a closed mind in education is a crime. Hopefully you can spread
a little knowledge with your book.
The sad part is that this college caters to teacher education. The OT
people are
No wonder I couldn't find it--I looked in the system preferences, and
the ones for the two browers currently in use. (Safari can't parse a
report website I have to use for work, so I rarely use it any more.)
Later.Howard
On 8/17/05, Malcolm Cornelius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even
On 8/17/05, Howard Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The sad part is that this college caters to teacher education. The OT
people are actually a separate company that came in a few years ago.
Perpetuating idiocy.. Dumb down the teachers and it will keep the
students stupid.
I can't tell
At 12:46 AM 8/17/2005, you wrote:
copy them over to a USB flash drive. They come in sizes from about
32MB to 1GB, and are easier to use than burning to a CD.
Right now money is an issue . . .
Buy.com has the Memorex 1 GB TravelDrive USB 2.0 Flash Drive for $60 - $5
off $35 [Exp 8/18] - $10
I think flogging off surplus equipment like this is a terrific idea. If
they had auctioned off the lot in bulk, they wouldn't have gotten much
more than $50 each anyhow. Better the iBooks stay in the community that
originally paid for them. That way the community gets the benefit rather
than
By way of reminder, I'm the one trying to save photos from iPhoto to
CD, but iPhoto keeps filing them for me in folders that are numbered
by year, then within the years by month, and then within the months
by day.
As a result, these photos
often have duplicate numbering systems. So when I
A small clip from the BBC article about the riot:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4159678.stm
It's rather strange that we would have such a tremendous response for
the purchase of a laptop computer, and laptop computers that probably
have less-than- desirable attributes, said Paul Proto,
Microsoft didn't have to work too hard. How many people continue to
buy junk automobiles that last 2 or 3 years and are worth very little
if anything by the time they are paid off. I include most American
made cars in that group of junk Same as junk peecees. It's become a
throw-away society
I've not done this, and there may be an easier way, but:
I'd make a new iPhoto library of the basketball pictures. Take all
your original CDs (hope you have them).
Copy them one by one to individual, nicely named, folders on your
hard drive (bball-JDoe-to-May312005.
For each folder, run an app
My Mom, who has been using computers since the TRS 80 (Trash 80 as they were
affectionately called) turned 82 last week. I finally convinced her last
November to buy a Mac. She got a 20 iMac and LOVES it! No viruses, no
worms, no FDSIK, installing/reinstalling and general malaise of the Windoze
Truthfully, Most of the knowledgeable computer people I know like OS
X, and are envious of it when I show it off. They like the
functionality, and wish they could also have a virus free computer,
and simply wish the mac was more standardized compared to PCs so they
could use al the same
Brian wrote:
I hate it when campuses go all PC. It really has nothing to do with
doing the job better or saving money, it's really about a staff of
incompetent IT personnel who refuse to learn anything but the most
basic PC skills. Take the school I go to: all PC network, and the IT
On 8/17/05, Mike K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Its not that American cars are junk it's that a lot of people don't know how
to take care of them. Change the oil and perform regular maintenance and
200k + miles is not a problem. I've had several American cars last this
long, foreign too. Working
If the Mac spoke for itself we'd have the majority of the market share. :)
Of course, it would have helped if Apple did what IBM did, and allowed
others access to the ROMs so clones could have been made.
No, PC wonks have convinced the public that theirs machines are true
computers and Macs are
On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:08 AM, Kurt Cypher wrote:
We've lost several Mac UNIX labs over the past few years because
they weren't getting enough use, and we'll save money by
standardizing the labs. With the volume deals that our supplier
of XP boxes gives us, we actually do save some
You bring up a good point that I completely missed. These are
management decisions, not general IT decisions. I'm sorry, I've just
become biased dealing with the incompetent IT at the school I go to
who've actually told me, months after I started using my iBook on
their wireless network
Problems with situations like these is that management either
surrounds themselves with inadequate accounting staff who do not
properly look into the options available, or they do not listen to
their accounting staff. Good accounting staff would work closely
with IT to find the best
On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:17 AM, David Brostoff wrote:
At 7:38 PM -0700 on 8/15/05, John Collins wrote:
snip I bought Portfolio 7.
Now I am in the process of trying to catalog my files and it is a
struggle (anybody on the list who uses it and is willing to help a
newbie --let me know off
At 01:31 PM -0600 08/17/2005, Mike K wrote:
I disagree again, peecees are thrown away because they die at an
alarming rate and the parts of the most common computers are the
cheapest low-bid parts they can find. It has nothing to do with
technology.
Macs don't die, except for CRT iMacs of
yes
On Wednesday, August 17, 2005, at 11:55AM, David Brostoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
At 6:05 AM -0400 on 8/17/05, Tim Collier wrote:
I've successfully used Carbon Copy Cloner with 10.4.2.
Still happy with SuperDuper's faster speed, but just curious--have
you been able to synch an already
At 3:14 PM -0400 on 8/17/05, bobgir2004 wrote:
I believe this is incorrect. With the latest upgrade to Tiger, 10.4.2,
CCC now works just fine. It does for me and it didn't with previous
iterations of Tiger.
Are you able to synch (update) an already cloned drive or are you
erasing and
The day after I posted the problem with Mac Mall I got a call from
them stating that my rebates were mailed out a month earlier.
Well, today I got 4 checks from Mac mall and guess what date was on
the post mark? Aug. 12. 2005. 5 days ago.
Mac Mall people are dishonest don't have the right to
On Aug 17, 2005, at 5:30 PM, Jim Dynes wrote:
The day after I posted the problem with Mac Mall I got a call from
them stating that my rebates were mailed out a month earlier. Well,
today I got 4 checks from Mac mall and guess what date was on the
post mark? Aug. 12. 2005. 5 days ago. Mac
I couldn't agree more. I will never do business with Mac Mall again.
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On Aug 17, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote:
On Aug 17, 2005, at 5:30 PM, Jim Dynes wrote:
The day after I posted the problem with Mac Mall I got a call
Sh wait until the checks clear. :)
Richard
On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:47 PM, Jim Dynes wrote:
I couldn't agree more. I will never do business with Mac Mall again.
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At 1:03 PM -0700 on 8/17/05, John Collins wrote:
In your case having already learned the Portfolio system, etc. you
would not likely have the problems I have had.
snip
So hopefully, that gives you an idea--I don't think my problems will
bother you--just new users.
Thank you for your
Ha Ha
They are already cashed. Momma didn't raise no fool!!
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
On Aug 17, 2005, at 3:48 PM, Richard Clark wrote:
Sh wait until the checks clear. :)
Richard
On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:47 PM, Jim Dynes wrote:
I couldn't agree more. I
Hi y'all,
I have purchased a lot of stuff from MacMall that included rebates. I have
never had a problem and have been dealt with fairly. Thought I'd throw that
in there...
Scott
On 8/17/05 2:51 PM, Jim Dynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ha Ha
They are already cashed. Momma didn't raise no
On Aug 17, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Scott Warnock wrote:
Hi y'all,
I have purchased a lot of stuff from MacMall that included rebates.
I have
never had a problem and have been dealt with fairly. Thought I'd
throw that
in there...
Scott, all companies screw up every once in a while ;-)
But to
On Aug 17, 2005, at 18:20, david wrote:
But to be serious...back when I was running a consulting business I
dealt with a number of companies (including PC/Mac Mall) and found
that two companies provided consistently high quality service and
worked hard to fix mistakes even when the mistake
Does anyone know of a simple Fax program that will work with DSL MY OS
9.2?
It would seem that my old one no longer works, and this is the first time in
months, well since the new DSL arrived...I didn't think about this funtional
program being modem dependent...
Kristina
with a fax to send its
If you have DSL then you use your built in 56K modem for faxing.
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On Aug 17, 2005, at 4:43 PM, Kristina wrote:
Does anyone know of a simple Fax program that will work with DSL
MY OS
9.2?
It would seem that my old one no longer
This argument has a huge flaw. Once upon a time a Mac was seriously
over engineered but they are not today. A Mac largely uses components
that come right off the shelf the same as PC manufacturers. The only
exception would be the logic board but even there Apple is using far
fewer custom
It is amazing how much
power we have when we all band together.
- or maybe when we all ban together???
Claire
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On 8/17/05, Mike K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PC's and Macs become obsolete because of advances in technology and
software
requirements, not because people throw them away.
I disagree again, peecees are thrown away because they die at an
alarming rate and the parts of the most common
oops, I am sorry...my Lombard is in the shop...getting all spiffed up...
I am on my G3 DT. running OS 9.2.2
Kristina
If you have DSL then you use your built in 56K modem for faxing.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
On Aug 17, 2005, at 4:43 PM, Kristina
On 8/17/05, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This argument has a huge flaw. Once upon a time a Mac was seriously
over engineered but they are not today. A Mac largely uses components
that come right off the shelf the same as PC manufacturers. The only
exception would be the logic board but even
Do you have an internal 56K modem on that machine?
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
On Aug 17, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Kristina wrote:
oops, I am sorry...my Lombard is in the shop...getting all spiffed
up...
I am on my G3 DT. running OS 9.2.2
Kristina
If you have
Do you have an internal 56K modem on that machine?
No sir I do not...I do tho have my old 56k external sitting right here...but
lawdamercy I have no idee how to configure it just for the fax..
In fact I had my DSL blow out last week and Sprint gave me a dial up
number to limp thru, but I
If my memory serves me correctly, OS 9 didn't have fax capability. I
think you need 3rd party software like Faxstf. With that software you
can configure it to access the external modem.
NOTE: Make sure your modem is a fax modem.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
On
Jim,
NOTE: Make sure your modem is a fax modem.
My external modem is the same modem I used to fax from and I still have the
software/address book installed...
How to I reconnect the external modem around the DSL?
My DSL is a Linksys Broadband Router bridged to a Sprint modem thru
ethernet.
If
Hi Kristina, I am not totally familiar with your specific Mac. In the
old Macs you would plug it into the RS232 port. In the new Macs I
would think USB would do the trick. Try it see if your fax software
recognizes it.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
On Aug 17,
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We have two Pismo 400 power books that the CD/DVD drives are dead in.
What is the cheapest and effective way to try and get some more use
from them? Once in a while it will recognize a disk.
Is this a common problem with these computers.
Neither one of us have had any luck find a
We have two Pismo 400 power books that the CD/DVD drives are dead in.
What is the cheapest and effective way to try and get some more use
from them? Once in a while it will recognize a disk.
Is this a common problem with these computers.
Neither one of us have had any luck find a
Is CCC working properly with Tiger?
No. that's why I switched to SuperDuper! recently and I actually like
it a lot better.
I believe this is incorrect. With the latest upgrade to Tiger, 10.4.2,
CCC now works just fine. It does for me and it didn't with previous
iterations of Tiger.
Are you able to synch (update) an already cloned drive or are you
erasing and cloning from scratch each time?
Don't know the answer to the firs part of that sentence.
Each time I backup, I backup my entire hard drive, erasing the old clone
as I do so. bob
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Usually at Best Western. Both
places had free high speed internet connections available. Be advised that
you should carry a ethernet cable with you as not all offered wireless
connections. Each motel that did not offer wireless had a modem and ethernet
cable available in the room for use plus
At 07:54 PM -0400 08/17/2005, Krow Magnum wrote:
On 8/17/05, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This argument has a huge flaw. Once upon a time a Mac was seriously
over engineered but they are not today.
Everything is off some shelf somewhere But Mac parts don't come off
the bottom shelf or
On Aug 17, 2005, at 7:50 PM, Krow Magnum wrote:
How many Macs have you had die on you ? How many peecees ?
It's not so much the dying which can happen anywhere, but the WinRot:
http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/wlg/7565:
Will Vista Clean Up WinRot?
by Preston Gralla
Aug. 9, 2005
[my comments
On Aug 17, 2005, at 8:30 PM, bobgir2004 wrote:
Each time I backup, I backup my entire hard drive, erasing the
old clone
as I do so. bob
That's what I used to do with CCC (the Synch feature was disabled for
some reason). And that's why I also switched to SuperDuper! I find it
so
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