Re: Printer PROBLEM

2006-03-01 Thread Janis Lynn
SORRY, to post this again, but still at a loss of how to sort this out. I have visited MacFixit, but nothing seems to make any difference. I am now thinking of deleting all printer drivers and then reinstalling the ones I need? Another error message coming up is : Communication error c

From the Apple event,...

2006-03-01 Thread Daniel Kerr
New Mac mini. A$ 999.00 1.5GHz Intel Core Solo processor 2MB L2 Cache 667MHz Frontside Bus 512MB memory (667MHz DDR2 SDRAM) 60GB Serial ATA hard drive Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0 Apple Remote A$ 1,299.00 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo processor 2MB L2 Cache 6

Which scanner?

2006-03-01 Thread McCallum Malcolm
I saw the "which scanner" email but I do not want a 'combined' printer scanner. I have looked on the archived list and the server is not supplying them at present. What is the best buy at present for a flatbed scanner up to about $500.00 hopefully with OCR included. Mac

Re: Which scanner?

2006-03-01 Thread Robert Howells
On 1 Mar 2006, at 10:28 AM, McCallum Malcolm wrote: I saw the "which scanner" email but I do not want a 'combined' printer scanner. I have looked on the archived list and the server is not supplying them at present. What is the best buy at present for a flatbed scanner up to about $500.00 ho

MEETING REMINDER (7/3/2006)

2006-03-01 Thread Matthew Healey
Hi Everyone, Matt Healey, your ever faithful President here, letting you know what's going on in the world of the WA Macintosh User Group. Well what a surprise we got last month when we walked into the meeting room, only to find that we had a new AV system. That's right. A proper projecto

Re: Printer PROBLEM

2006-03-01 Thread Greg Pennefather
Janis I have had similar printing problems in the past. I find that using disk utility to repair permissions usually fixes it - especially after a OS update. Regards Greg > From: Janis Lynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:28:57 +0800 > To: WAMUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: Pri

Time slip

2006-03-01 Thread Mervyn & Giuliana Bond
My computer clock reset itself to January 1970 this morning. Might this signal something nasty going on? IMac G4 on OSX 10.2.8 Merv -- "Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see."

RE: telstra bigpond cable

2006-03-01 Thread Hugh Griffiths
If I get a telstra wireless cable modem ( Motorola surfboard sbg 900) and run the self install intitially using my Windoze XP computer am I likely then to have any problems configuring my imac G5 ( 10.4.x) to connect wirelessly, ideally with the Windoz computer never connected again? Best Regards

Re: Time slip

2006-03-01 Thread Robert Howells
On 1 Mar 2006, at 1:03 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote: My computer clock reset itself to January 1970 this morning. Might this signal something nasty going on? IMac G4 on OSX 10.2.8 Merv Merv , at a guess your iMac might be 3 years or so old. In which case the internal " Pram " battery m

Re: Time slip

2006-03-01 Thread Mervyn & Giuliana Bond
At 1:15 PM +0800 1/3/06, Robert Howells wrote: On 1 Mar 2006, at 1:03 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote: My computer clock reset itself to January 1970 this morning. Might this signal something nasty going on? IMac G4 on OSX 10.2.8 Merv Merv , at a guess your iMac might be 3 years or so old.

HTML to JPEG

2006-03-01 Thread ken
Hey folks, can someone tell me if it's possible (& how) to convert a HTML photo in to a JPEG or a TIF, anything do I can print it out? Ta much, Ken

Blank emails from iTunes

2006-03-01 Thread Lloyd White
Recently I have been receiving emailed announcements from iTunes. There appears to be now text, just a page full of URLs. There is a very faint white text on a grey background but totally unreadable At the bottom there is an one but when I click on it and go to Apple iTunes there is nothing that

FOR SALE: G4/400 and monitor

2006-03-01 Thread Severin Crisp
FOR SALE G4/400 "Sawtooth" desktop tower with SONY CPD-G420 19" multiscan Trinitron CRT Monitor G4 specs at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=43103 (Note 2GB RAM max with OSX) Review of monitor at http://www.ciao.co.uk/ Sony_CPD_G420__Review_5547065 2GB RAM, 20GB HD, USB 2

Re: MEETING REMINDER (7/3/2006)

2006-03-01 Thread Dark1
I won't be able to provide internet access for the group anymore. I had a block placed on my account because of the iTMS demonstration and I have been told any further use of my account for WAMUG will be subjected to the scrutiny of Curtin's Information Security Management. Hopefully WAMU

Router for Sale

2006-03-01 Thread Dark1
Billion 5100 : 4ports, 8Mb/1Mb, reliable and easy to configure. All reasonable offers considered.

iCal alarm clock

2006-03-01 Thread Dark1
I've been using iCal as my alarm clock for quite some time now. I would like to know if there is a way to set it up so the alarm will automatically wake up my computer, rather than me having to set this up in system preferences. Thanks Ruben A. Franke

Re: FOR SALE: G4/400 and monitor

2006-03-01 Thread subscribe
Sounds like someone wants a news Mac Mini.. :) n On Mar 1, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: FOR SALE G4/400 "Sawtooth" desktop tower with SONY CPD-G420 19" multiscan Trinitron CRT Monitor G4 specs at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=43103 (Note 2GB RAM max with OSX) Re

Re: HTML to JPEG

2006-03-01 Thread subscribe
Hi Ken, what do you mean exactly by "a HTML Photo"..? cheers Nat On Mar 1, 2006, at 5:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, can someone tell me if it's possible (& how) to convert a HTML photo in to a JPEG or a TIF, anything do I can print it out? Ta much, Ken -- The WA Macintosh U

Re: iCal alarm clock

2006-03-01 Thread James Devenish
Hi Ruben, I don't think iCal has this feature built in. However, perhaps there is some third-party software that extends iCal (just like there's software that extends Safari). If not, you can "do it yourself", even though it's not as elegant as setting the preference in iCal. Basically, go to you

Re: HTML to JPEG

2006-03-01 Thread James Devenish
Hi Ken, I don't know what you mean by "an HTML photo". There isn't really such a thing. Photos on websites are usually JPEG. All you have to do is drag the image from Safari to your desktop. You can alternatively do a Control-click on the image to get a menu that'll allow you to open the image in

Re: MEETING REMINDER (7/3/2006)

2006-03-01 Thread Dark1
I forgot to mention that I did manage to get the block removed without too much trouble. I just can't use my account anymore because it might result in a permanent block. I'm annoyed more than anything else because I disagree with the university policy. Ruben On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:25:2

Imation Thumb Drive

2006-03-01 Thread Stephen Chape
Hello WAMUG folks, I recently purchased an Imation 256MB thumb drive so that I can take photo files to have them printed. On the third time that I used it for this purpose, I copied photos to it and took it to Harvey Norman in Midland. I plugged it into the "photo making device" and 9 fil

Re: iCal alarm clock

2006-03-01 Thread Paul
James Devenish wrote: Hi Ruben, I don't think iCal has this feature built in. However, perhaps there is some third-party software that extends iCal (just like there's software that extends Safari). If not, you can "do it yourself", even though it's not as elegant as setting the preference in i

Re: Imation Thumb Drive

2006-03-01 Thread Nicholas Pyers
On 01/03/2006, at 11:36 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Hello WAMUG folks, I recently purchased an Imation 256MB thumb drive so that I can take photo files to have them printed. On the third time that I used it for this purpose, I copied photos to it and took it to Harvey Norman in Midland. I plu

Re: Imation Thumb Drive

2006-03-01 Thread Stephen Chape
I got 9 prints back, but all different. I only thought I copied 5 to the thumb drive. And when I tried to delete them later from the thumb drive trhe original 5 were the only ones showing. On 01/03/2006, at 9:08 PM, Nicholas Pyers wrote: On 01/03/2006, at 11:36 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Hell

Re: Imation Thumb Drive

2006-03-01 Thread Ray Forma
Stephen, You may have had 4 images in the trash, which MacOS does not show, but which Windows regards as just another folder named .Trash. >I got 9 prints back, but all different. >I only thought I copied 5 to the thumb drive. >And when I tried to delete them later from the thumb drive trhe orig