ebay and safari?

2009-11-27 Thread william lomas
hi my macbook keeps crashing in snowleopard when I load ebay UK. any thoughts? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this gr

Re: ebay and safari?

2009-11-27 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Webkit from http://webkit.org doesn't seem to have any issues with Ebay. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Nov 27, 2009, at 9:56 AM, william lomas wrote: > hi my macbook keep

Re: Read: a question on ftp servers and ftp server software for the mac.

2009-11-27 Thread erik burggraaf
Is there a filezilla server for the mac? That would be worth checking out. Best, erik burggraaf A+ certified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 2009-11-27, at 12:30 AM, Michael Huckabay wrote: > Yes thanks. I may of not made my self cl

SoundTaxi on a Mac?

2009-11-27 Thread Donal Fitzpatrick
HI there, Just wondering if anyone has come across a Mac equivalent for the excellent windows utility SoundTaxi. for those not familiar with it, this utility strips DRM from lots of different types of files. However, it only does so for content you have legally purchased, and to which you hold t

restoring Windows Vista to an internal HD partition

2009-11-27 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Sorry if an answer has already been posted; Google, in its infinite folly, suspended my account for no earthly reason, and I just lately got it working again. so: My MBP came with Windows Vista on a partition. Needing more drive space, I saved a DMG of this partition to my external backup d

Getting VLC to play folders

2009-11-27 Thread James & Nash
Hi list, Is there a way to get VLC to play folders in order please? The old way of selecting it in the player itself brings up an error and says that VLC cannot play the content. Thanks TC James -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries"

Re: Getting VLC to play folders

2009-11-27 Thread Ryan Mann
Open terminal and type the following: 1. cd folder_name 2. ls >folder_name.m3u. This will create a playlist of all the .mp3's in a folder. On Nov 27, 2009, at 12:52 PM, James & Nash wrote: > Hi list, > > Is there a way to get VLC to play folders in order please? The old way of > selecting it in

Re: Getting VLC to play folders

2009-11-27 Thread erik burggraaf
Well my vlc is old and decrepit now, but I just go command O and choose the folder I want and off it goes. Theres' no guess work. If you have random turned on by accident, press command Z and your files will play in order. Hope this helps. erik burggraaf A+ certified technician and user suppo

Re: Getting VLC to play folders

2009-11-27 Thread James & Nash
Hi Ryan, Thanks so much for this cool little trick! Why didn't I think of it. Thanksagain Ah the power of the command line. TC James On 27 Nov 2009, at 18:34, Ryan Mann wrote: > Open terminal and type the following: > 1. cd folder_name > 2. ls >folder_name.m3u. > This will create a playlist

RE: iPhone or iTouch?

2009-11-27 Thread Frank Ventura
The reality of the matter is that you can buy an unlocked IPhone and buy a prepaid SIM card with voice only and forget about a data plan. Frank -Original Message- From: Nicolai Svendsen [mailto:chojiro1...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 1:04 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegrou

Disc Utilities question

2009-11-27 Thread VaShaun Jones
Listers, When I want to repair disk permissions which disk do I choose? I have the one that I named and the official hard drive name for the drive. I am speaking of the internal drive. VaShaun Jones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries"

Are there any office programs on the mac that track the cursor in Zoom?

2009-11-27 Thread Declan
Are there any Office Programs on the Mac that track the cursor when using the Zoom option? I like the mac very much. I was already to get a 24" mac that was being sold off cheaply. However examining the Zoom feature and cursor tracking more thouroughly I discovered that the only program that tra

RE: -- Mac Mini problem

2009-11-27 Thread Frank Ventura
Which version of the Mini is it? Is it the version with two internal HDs and has SL Server installed? How much are you asking for it. Email me offline. frank.vent...@littlebreezes.com -Original Message- From: Rich Ring [mailto:richr...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 4:21 PM

Re: iPhone or iTouch?

2009-11-27 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I know. But the price of the unlocked iPhone would beat the purpose. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Nov 27, 2009, at 11:41 PM, Frank Ventura wrote: > The reality of the matter is that y

ripping hol tv shows from dvd with hand brake?

2009-11-27 Thread trahern culver
hey guys i'm looking to rip dvd's of tv shows with hand brake i would like it so every is a seprate vidieo file or tytle please can some one tell me how to do this? your help would be most welcome!!! kind regards trahern. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

RE: ripping hol tv shows from dvd with hand brake?

2009-11-27 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Don't do anything illegal. -Original Message- From: trahern culver [mailto:tecks-...@hotmail.co.uk] Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 6:35 PM To: MacVisionaries Subject: ripping hol tv shows from dvd with hand brake? hey guys i'm looking to rip dvd's of tv shows with hand brake i would l

Re: useful e-book resources: mac, iPhone and python.

2009-11-27 Thread James & Nash
Thanks Donal very useful. - Original Message - From: "Donal Fitzpatrick" To: Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:37 AM Subject: useful e-book resources: mac, iPhone and python. Hi, I'm certain a lot of people will be familiar with this, but just in case anyone hasn't come across them

Furtherto geting vlc to play folders

2009-11-27 Thread James & Nash
Hi, At first glance, I thought that Ryan's command would work, but the ls command just lists the files or folders in a given directory. So passing the command to a.m3u file will probably not work. Although VLC will recognize it as an m3u file, none of the required info to play the files is ther

VLC playing folders again

2009-11-27 Thread James & Nash
Hi list, Well I think I've found another command line solution to my VLC problem. I can't try it at the moment, but I'll try it in the morning. It is theoretically so simple. However, I forgot it. Basically, in Linux, you can run programs from the command line and VLC has a command line interfa

skype applescripts

2009-11-27 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi list, I keep seeing threads about how to quickly access the latest message of a contact in the chat frame, and i myself would like to shorten the lengthy process, as we all know, sifting through myriads of vo right and interact commands before getting to the beef. I just started doing some

Any Pages experts out there?

2009-11-27 Thread Howard Dupuis
Anyone got any idea why VO would stop telling me the page in a Pages document (VO says "page 3 of 10" or some such), but this feature continues to work just fine in other Pages documents. Also -- and oddly -- if I copy the whole file and paste it *without formatting* into a brand new file, it still

Re: Furtherto geting vlc to play folders

2009-11-27 Thread Ryan Mann
I don't understand. I used this trick about a year ago when I used VLC to play music. The files played fine. On Nov 27, 2009, at 8:54 PM, James & Nash wrote: > Hi, > > At first glance, I thought that Ryan's command would work, but the ls > command just lists the files or folders in a given d

Re: Read: a question on ftp servers and ftp server software for the mac.

2009-11-27 Thread Chris Blouch
There is a built-in sftp server if you turn it on in System Preferences -> Sharing -> Options and check the checkbox that says "share files and folders via FTP". In there you can also share via SMB and AFP. Hope this helps. CB Michael Huckabay wrote: > Yes thanks. I may of not made my self cle

Re: iPhone or iTouch?

2009-11-27 Thread Christina
Really? I did not know this. Can an unlocked iphone be purchased and used in the u.s.? How much do they run? I need to get a new mobile phone but I cannot do a two year contract until summer of 2010. I won't bore you with the explanation. So, I've searched for a cheap phone I can buy

Re: -- installing windows media player

2009-11-27 Thread Chris Blouch
The problem is that the Mac client is very old and doesn't support current Microsoft codecs, but will do older flavors of Microsoft's DRM. For newer Microsoft codec support you can use Flip For Mac but this does not handle Microsoft's DRM at all. Last I heard Microsoft has not released code or