On 16-Jan-06, at 10:04 AM, Frank P. Eigler wrote:
Are you using .Mac?
Just curious if it can be used 'in lieu of' of other webpage
creation apps
without .Mac.
Hi Frank,
Yes, I am using .Mac but you do not have to have a .Mac account to
publish the pages you create in iWeb.
You can
Good Afternoon everybody,
I received my copy of iLife 06 on Friday and have been checking it
out since then. I have to say that so far, the changes to iPhoto
are pretty interesting and useful.
- Faster initial loading of your photos
- Full screen editing
- Multi-photo comparisons
-
On 13-Jan-06, at 11:52 PM, Clem Bacani wrote:
Drive around the neighborhood, park your car, open your laptop with
broadband wireless adapter and presto you are connected online.
Chances are you will have more than one signal within that area.
You are not stealing a signal because you
Is it illegal if I'm visiting a person and log on with my PowerBook?
Or if 2 unrelated persons are sharing an apartment, is it illegal
for both to utilize the service?
Seems like a gray legal area.
Jerry
You will find that there usually is not a gray area at all if you
read the TOS (
On 14-Jan-06, at 8:18 AM, Dyna wrote:
This theft of service bull is nonsense!
If I buy a subscription to say, MacWorld, then leave it in the
break room at work for my coworkers to read after I've read it,
that's sharing, not stealing. If I buy bandwidth from the local
telco or
Dear G-Book list members,
Over the past couple of weeks, I have noticed that a few people are
quoting massive amounts of unnecessary text in their replies or
replying to a thread that already has multiple lines of quoted text,
and adding their own. This creates quite a confusing tangle
On 14-Jan-06, at 7:57 AM, Tim Collier wrote:
Right now, as I sit here typing this, if I click on the Airport
icon, I can see 3 other networks in my area. 2 are secured as is
mine. The other, it just calls itself 'linksys' is totally open.
I have been able to connect to the net with it
Hello again G-Book list members,
Please be aware that as a List Nanny, I attempt to maintain a
relatively low profile in general. I am pleased to say that I
participate in this list far more frequently in the capacity as a
list member than I ever have as a list nanny.
However, there
I think the same things applies to ISPs. I doubt they fret over
the open WAP where someone shares access periodically to their
broke neighbor. It's the ones that facilitate the neighbor's
bandwidth-sucking p2p server, or the spammer, or ...
- Dan.
Hello Dan,
I agree - My ISP didn't
I have a D-Link wireless router - there are options to change from
the WEP 128 bit encryption to WPA personal.Would doing this
create enough of a wall for most people trying to hack in ?
While I have been trying not to use the wireless router (given the
situation with my neighbour
Hi there,
Just recently, a neighbour came to me asking if I could share my
internet connection with her for a nominal fee per month because she
doesn't feel like paying the full amount to get the service set up
herself etc etc . She stated that her brother had been at her place
and had
On 12-Jan-06, at 7:11 AM, Tim Hodgson wrote:
At 12:19 PM -0800 01/11/2006, Amber R. wrote:
I have just had a very frustrating conversation with Applecare and
was told that the keyboard and latch on my Powerbook are not covered
at all.
I'm pretty sure that's nonsense. See the T+Cs:
http
Hello,
I would like to ask that when the content of your message is no
longer clearly reflected in the subject header that you change the
header to make it easier for other members to filter discussions ?
It only takes a second or two and would be much appreciated.
Thank you,
Amber
Hello everybody,
I have just had a very frustrating conversation with Applecare and
was told that the keyboard and latch on my Powerbook are not covered
at all.
I am still under the Applecare warranty period and was actually told
by Applecare technical support that these items were
On 11-Jan-06, at 1:46 PM, rob wrote:
I don't know what is wrong with your keyboard, but when two of our
keys were malfunctioning, I made an appointment at the genuis bar,
I took it in to the apple store, the genius took the keyboard out,
removed six component pieces of the keyboard and
Hi,
Could you please change the subject header when the content of the
note no longer corresponds - particularly when the original subject
header asks for a reply off list.
Thank you,
Amber Robey
G-Books List Nanny
On 10-Jan-06, at 7:00 AM, Peter Apockotos wrote:
On Jan 9, 2006, at
On 10-Jan-06, at 9:15 AM, sandra ragan wrote:
Their site says they don't have a Mac client yet... I've been
drooling over it on my partners Sager laptop running Win2000 pro...
which does hang up occasionally. How are you running it on the Mac?
(my primary machine is a 1gig 17 aluminum G4
Hello folks,
I just received an e-mail from a G-Books member stating that you can
now get Google Earth for Mac OS X on their home page:
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
Have fun with it !
Amber
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G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...
Small Dog Electronics
I should add that I did notice one glaring glitch on the Google Earth
Beta version : it would suddenly zoom in extremely rapidly to where
you couldn't see anything at all because it was so magnified, and
then quit.
I have just downloaded the new version and it appears it is the full
can't open...
what am I missing?
Sandra Ragan
www.plumdigital.com
On Jan 10, 2006, at 2:18 PM, Amber R. wrote:
Hello folks,
I just received an e-mail from a G-Books member stating that you
can now get Google Earth for Mac OS X on their home page:
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
Hi,
These items just popped up on Software Update - anybody installed
either yet ?
10.4.4 seems to have some pretty extensive fixes that look useful but
I have had some bad experiences with the OS X upgrades in the past so
just being cautious.
Amber
--
G-Books is sponsored by
Hello,
Just wondering if anybody has the Beta version of Google Earth for OS
X ? If so, could you please contact me off list. I just want to
know how well it works on your Mac, etc etc..
I am aware that this Beta version was recently pulled but a number of
people were able to download
Hi,
This is partially related to my previous question.It appears that
eBay is not really that Mac friendly. In fact, in a discussion with
one of their live help people today, I was told if you were using a
regular computer, you would be fine when I was asking about the
sign-in
On 4-Dec-05, at 9:00 AM, Harry Corsover wrote:
There are some seller features that I was told are not available on
Macs. I don't recall the details (I've just sold one thing on
eBay), but I think it had something to do with editing photos for a
listing.
Regards,
Harry Corsover
--
On 4-Dec-05, at 6:43 AM, Peter Apockotos wrote:
Amber,
What kind of problems are you having? I haven't experienced any
problems with Safari and ebay.
Are you running Mac OS X 10.4.3? With the updates that came out
the other day?
Peter Apockotos
Hi Peter,
The primary problems I am
On 4-Dec-05, at 10:15 AM, Shawn Harley wrote:
So, in the gasoline analogy, the Mac would be a premium computer,
or a plus at the very least. I'm happy with that, thank you very
much!
Shawn
Hi Shawn,
LOL - While this is a terrific analogy and very favorable towards the
Mac, I can
(term used VERY
loosely) confirms the continual dumbing down of America!
Shawn
On Dec 4, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Amber R. wrote:
Yes..I believe he was experiencing a significant ignorance
challenge on this one. He stated that he had just spoken to one
of their techs and determined that eBay
On 4-Dec-05, at 11:47 AM, Aaron Willems wrote:
I'm also in the IT field and all my Macs and PCs at the office have
Firefox installed. Whenever I have a problem with Safari I just
load up Firefox, and I'm good to go.
Cheers.
Aaron Willems
IT Administrator
Lieberman Productions Philo
On 4-Dec-05, at 2:22 PM, John McGibney wrote:
Pulldowns work for me!
Did you ever enable the debug menu in Safari? Select automatically
chosen for user agent?
John
Hi John,
I don't think I was clear...I meant, the pull down menu's don't work
at all on Safari. There is no input
On 4-Dec-05, at 2:38 PM, Shawn Harley wrote:
How do you enable the debug menu in Safari (2.0.1)?
I can't seem to find it.
Shawn
Hi Shawn,
I thought I knew how to do this but then realized they were referring
to something different when I went to try.
On 4-Dec-05, at 2:43 PM, Shawn Harley wrote:
All the pulldowns (11) on the home page of westjet work for me. I'm
not sure if I have the debug menu enabled. I still can't find it to
check.
Shawn
The actual date pull down does not work for me...I cannot seem to
enter the day of travel
On 4-Dec-05, at 3:13 PM, Anne Judge wrote:
On Dec 4, 2005, at 5:50 PM, Amber R. wrote:
I cannot seem to enter the day of travel (i.e. 15th day) only the
month and year on the right will work. Even if I use the
calendar, it will not enter that number into the date on the left.
Are you
On 4-Dec-05, at 4:53 PM, Barry Muller wrote:
Amber,
I don't recall seeing which PB or iBook you are using,
but I have a Pismo 400 MHz that I picked up las June.
You mention problems with the t not showing up - I
have this problem with my Pismo - it is very hit or
miss. Most of the time the t
On 4-Dec-05, at 5:55 PM, Tim Collier wrote:
Amber, I buy and sell on Ebay using my G4 iBook ALL THE
TIME.not one single problem. I'm running OS 10.4.3 with the
latest Safari. And Safari is the only Browser I use.
Tim
Hi Tim,
I guess just don't understand what is wrong with this
On 4-Dec-05, at 7:50 PM, Stanton Mitrany wrote:
One thing missing in our world is the ability to schedule auction
sales to
begin at a specific seller-chosen future time, rather than
immediately. A
number of solutions providing this valuable feature are available
in the PC
world, but, to
Hi,
I recently have been having problems with Safari. For example, the
websites that I used to be able to sign on with a password
immediately are now rejecting it over and over again. It will
normally take 6 or 7 tries before I finally get signed on. This is
not poor typing on my part.
Forgot to add this info : Running Safari 2.0.2 on OS 10.4.3. (and
Explorer 5.2 but I prefer just Safari).
This problem is also occurring on Explorer and Netscape. Suddenly,
it is like there is no recognition of my password until I type it in
a number of times.
Again, any
On 3-Dec-05, at 10:08 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote:
It sounds more like an issue with the keyboard than anything.
However, I wouldn't count out an issue with the OS. You might could
check the settings for your cookies and possibly clearing out the
browser cache. This is coming from my
On 3-Dec-05, at 10:18 PM, Clem Bacani wrote:
It is definitely not a safari problem since you just said it also
happens with other browsers. Try to reset the browser or emptying
your cache. Doing these will not in anyway harm your browsers.
Clem
Sorry - I didn't really state this
On 4-Mar-05, at 7:49 PM, Andrew Kershaw wrote:
Welcome, Amber!
Peace,
Drew
Thank you, Drew :-)
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Cool Welcome Peter - Thanks !!
Amber
On 4-Mar-05, at 8:17 PM, Peter Webster wrote:
Ya-teh-hay, Amber!
Con mucho gusto
Glad to have you
etc etc
Skinny Butt
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a
revolutionary
act. -George Orwell, writer (1903-1950)
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Larry,
On 23-Feb-05, at 7:02 AM, Larry le Mac wrote:
From: Dennis B. Swaney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes. Updates usually come out shortly AFTER you make a decision and
buy a new computer.
Yes, it's happened twice to me with Powerbooks, and NOW is
the time to buy an AlBook, but looking at the iMac G5
On 23-Feb-05, at 9:17 AM, Larry le Mac wrote:
I don't have to have, it's that as I have decided to buy brand new
instead of buying and then selling to buy something else. If I buy
new I will lose if I sell, so therefore I will keep...
I will collapse in shock when you finally make a decision and
On 17-Feb-05, at 3:43 PM, MarJo wrote:
I replied to at least 20 warnings today.
You said once in reply to someone else's complaint
that you couldn't do anything about it.
Nevertheless, I feel you should know that it is an
ongoing problem jojobirdsong
Hi MarJo,
Yes - this has been an on-going
On 17-Feb-05, at 4:48 PM, Frank P. Eigler wrote:
But, this isn't LEM Swap...
We all know it's an ongoing problem, but I'm confused why you didn't
email
the moderator directly instead of this list?
Well, it appears this person did not know it was an ongoing problem or
they would not have
On 16-Feb-05, at 1:31 AM, Larry le Mac wrote:
From: Amber R. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Since you suggest that you will always have access to Tiger, there
really isn't much of a reason to wait for it to be pre-installed on
the PB's is there ? If the 1.5 GHz is going to suit your needs,
I'd say go
On 16-Feb-05, at 8:43 AM, Andrew F. wrote:
I have laptops of different sizes, and find my ThinkPad about the same
size
as the 15 PowerBook (a tad taller, but narrower) and actually a few
ounces
lighter. There would be no real difference in bulk or weight between
the
ThinkPad and a 15
I just have one question regarding the timing of the purchase;
As the G5 is some way off, the 1.5GHz is plenty good for me, but
what about Tiger, would it not be better buying the AlBook with
Tiger installed ?!?
I will always have access to Tiger later (no need to harp on about
software licensing,
On 15-Feb-05, at 4:49 PM, bee wrote:
I will have to disagree with both of these comments, I hear this all
over the net,
Never buy a Rev A. It is not true, when the Ti 500 first came out as
the first
PowerBook G4 there were problems with ejection of CD's etc. those
problems
were fixed by March
Marcin,
On 13-Feb-05, at 12:57 AM, Marcin Wichary wrote:
I think it's not only you. In my case I also narrowed it down to power
adapter -- if I disconnected it while my PB was sleeping, it was much
more likely that it wouldn't wake up.
With time I learnt the proper procedure: unplug
I would like to buy the most recent version of Quicken but it seems
that in Canada, we can only get the 2004 version for Mac.
However, I don't really need to import my banking data as I can input
it myself. I was more interested in the budgeting and iphoto import
features of 2005 for Mac.
I
On 5-Feb-05, at 8:22 AM, Jason Rife wrote:
So I have these marks on the outside of my powerbook, I dont know what
they are, they look like fingerprints but I cant get them off, has
anyone ever seen this? I use cleaning wipes and the like, they just do
not seem to totally go away
Which
On 2-Feb-05, at 5:41 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote:
I'll vouch for LaCie here. I have an external firewire LaCie 75 gig
which houses an IBM DeskStar. LaCie only uses top notch HDD's,
including Toshiba, Hitachi (IBM) and Seagate.
I'll double this opinion. I have had my LaCie external firewire drive
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