Re: changing isp

2006-01-19 Thread choy
A word of warning to those switching ISP: I recently switched to iinet - intending to "upgrade" my speed to Broadband2+. I have moved house, so had a new, as yet unconnected, number. I was with TPG at my old premises. I was told that moving my current internet to the new place and then tran

Re: iBook Battery won't charge

2006-01-19 Thread Reg Whitely
Hi Rick Try this from an apple help site. Do try resetting PRAM first. I did it with mine for 5 chimes in a row after open firmware update and it worked. From 0 - 4 hours in about 5 minutes of soft/firmware jiggery-pokery! Reg On 19 Jan 2006, at 12:56pm, Rick Armstrong wrote: My spare 1

Re: dumped fake

2006-01-19 Thread Matthew Healey
Not an iMac at all. It's an eOne from a company called eMachines. They got sued by Apple not long after the Bondi iMac was released. http://images.google.com/images?q=eOne - Matt On 19/01/2006, at 7:14 PM, Paul Doyle wrote: Saw this dead fake iMac in the way home today. http://homepage.m

dumped fake

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Doyle
Saw this dead fake iMac in the way home today. http://homepage.mac.com/doylie71/Mac/PhotoAlbum5.html Set me thinking. I don't think I have ever seen a Mac suffer the same fate. Cheers Paul

Re: Irritating 'beep'

2006-01-19 Thread Paul
Chris Griffiths wrote: Hi Guys, Ok, I have this really irritating beep that goes off every minute, just like a chinese water torture! But I can't work out which app causes it. It seems to start whenever it wants!! Any ideas. Regards 'Totally Irritated!!!' Chris G I read something recen

Re: New stuff on iTMS!

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Doyle
Front page centre of the music store in iTunes. Each week they have a free single. On 19/01/2006, at 2:02 PM, Rosemary Horton wrote: Where do you see free downloads anyway? Rosemary Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 18 Jan 2006, at 17:37, Paul Doyle wrote: As predicted, the click for free downlo

Google Earth

2006-01-19 Thread kevin Lock
It would appear that Google does have some control over satellite image resolution. A check of Google Campus on Google Earth shows high definition with outdoor tables and umbrellas clearly shown. In the carpark it is almost good enough to identify car makes. Kev

Re: iBook Battery won't charge

2006-01-19 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 19/01/2006, at 12:56 , Rick Armstrong wrote: My spare 12" iBook battery was stored fully charged (I usually swap them around on a regular basis but haven't for a month+) now won't charge, showing 0% to 1%. The charging light shows green when it should show amber - is the battery history

Re: Can't eject CD from iMac

2006-01-19 Thread Ronda Brown
On 19/01/2006, at 2:57 PM, Denise Williams wrote: Hi All My daughter has a G3 iMac 400 with DVD player, and she has a CD stuck in it. We've tried all the usuals - rebooting with mouse button held down, re-booting with Option held down, pressing Command E but no luck. There is no CD icon sh

Can't eject CD from iMac

2006-01-19 Thread Denise Williams
Hi All My daughter has a G3 iMac 400 with DVD player, and she has a CD stuck in it. We've tried all the usuals - rebooting with mouse button held down, re-booting with Option held down, pressing Command E but no luck. There is no CD icon showing and the trash is empty. Is there a secret little butt

Re: very large excel files

2006-01-19 Thread Chris Burton
Hi Peder and everyone I have found that using Pivot tables adds a huge amount to the file size. Each table you make increases the resultant file size, and I think it depends on the complexity of the pivot table you do. There is a work around on a very helpful site (exceltips) for excel that

Re: New stuff on iTMS!

2006-01-19 Thread Rosemary Horton
Where do you see free downloads anyway? Rosemary Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 18 Jan 2006, at 17:37, Paul Doyle wrote: As predicted, the click for free download button has arrived on the second day. Same thing happened last week. On 17/01/2006, at 11:26 PM, Paul Doyle wrote: Hmmm... Euryt

Re: Irritating 'beep'

2006-01-19 Thread Chris Griffiths
Thanks Matt, I'll check On 19/01/2006, at 12:50 PM, Matthew Healey wrote: Well... lets go through the list. None of the Apple installed widgets will create a repeating beep, so check the third party ones you have installed. Mail will usually check for email every 5 minutes and it will only

iBook Battery won't charge

2006-01-19 Thread Rick Armstrong
My spare 12" iBook battery was stored fully charged (I usually swap them around on a regular basis but haven't for a month+) now won't charge, showing 0% to 1%. The charging light shows green when it should show amber - is the battery history.

Re: Irritating 'beep'

2006-01-19 Thread Matthew Healey
Well... lets go through the list. None of the Apple installed widgets will create a repeating beep, so check the third party ones you have installed. Mail will usually check for email every 5 minutes and it will only beep if new mail has arrived. Indesign... nope. Illustrator... nope. I

Re: Irritating 'beep'

2006-01-19 Thread Chris Griffiths
Thanks just the thing, it could be any time. But, ok, I have widgets, mail, Indesign, Illustrator, iWork (the timing one, not Apples), iCal, iTunes, Skype and Suitcase on when it happened this morning. Now it is off! On 19/01/2006, at 12:12 PM, Matthew Healey wrote: On 19/01/2006, at 11:

Re: Irritating 'beep'

2006-01-19 Thread Matthew Healey
On 19/01/2006, at 11:16 AM, Chris Griffiths wrote: Hi Guys, Ok, I have this really irritating beep that goes off every minute, just like a chinese water torture! But I can't work out which app causes it. It seems to start whenever it wants!! Any ideas You'll have to let us know what ap

Re: Irritating 'beep'

2006-01-19 Thread Chris Griffiths
Hi Guys, Ok, I have this really irritating beep that goes off every minute, just like a chinese water torture! But I can't work out which app causes it. It seems to start whenever it wants!! Any ideas. Regards 'Totally Irritated!!!' Chris G

excel 'save as web page'

2006-01-19 Thread Geopix
Dear WAMUGGERS I use excel to publish workbooks to web pages using the OSX version of Office (Excel X for Mac service release 1, running 10.4.2, PB G4). I find there are some annoying little bugs that maybe have a fix? One is: I have a workbook of multiple worksheets. The formatting is set to 'w

Re: Imac Review

2006-01-19 Thread Mark Secker
on 18/01/06 22:58, Rob Findlay at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comprehensive as usual at Ars. http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/imac-coreduo.ars R o b The thing that caught my eye: Unlike previous iMacs, you are not limited to mirroring if you hook up an external monitor. Using a min

Re: Imac Review

2006-01-19 Thread Neil Houghton
on 18/01/06 22:58, Rob Findlay at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Comprehensive as usual at Ars. > http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/imac-coreduo.ars > R o b > The thing that caught my eye: > Unlike previous iMacs, you are not limited to mirroring if you hook up an > external monitor. Using a mi

Re: Imac Review

2006-01-19 Thread Mark Secker
even more interesting - the link to the Japanese dude who's pulled apart his already. I usually wait a few weeks for that "thrill of the new" feeling to subside every time I look at a new computer before I start delving in to its deep innards! Comprehensive as usual at Ars. http://arste