Emailing photos

2006-04-21 Thread Lloyd White
Hi everyone, I have always believed that I should not attach a photo, jpeg or other, from a Mac to a PC without removing the resource (fork) because the PC user could not open it. I have used two programs for this, one being Graphic Converter which can save a photo before emailing it. Another on

Re: Emailing photos

2006-04-21 Thread Kelly Duffy
Hi Lloyd, I've been going back and fourth between Mac and Windows for a few years, lots of pictures with work, and I have no problems. Occasionally (on the PC having been sent from a Mac) one photo appears twice, one is a much smaller file, and that wont open, but the larger photo works fine. I've

Tour of Microsoft's Mac Business Unit

2006-04-21 Thread Rod
A very good read, and gives you a good perspective on why Office for Mac is better than Office for Windows ;-) Seeya Rod!

Re: Emailing photos

2006-04-21 Thread Mark Secker
likewise Ive never bothered to remove resource fork... the smaller image that a PC user would often see is the thumbnail/preview image that was part of the resource fork (which they see as a second separate file) Hi Lloyd, I've been going back and fourth between Mac and Windows for a few yea

Zip Drive - Click of Death

2006-04-21 Thread William Chesnutt
Hi, Has anybody ever managed to get an Iomega Zip Drive revived after it developed the click of death? TIA Bill Chesnutt

Re: Zip Drive - Click of Death

2006-04-21 Thread Geoffrey & Barbara Maidment
I wish! I never wanted a zip drive in the first place and when I put the last disc in and it nearly ate the disc alive, I said, righto! That¹s it! Took it to my local service provider, who luckily was able to revive the bloody thing long enough to retrieve my data, transferred all zip disk data t

Re: Zip Drive - Click of Death

2006-04-21 Thread Robert Howells
On 21 Apr 2006, at 1:18 PM, William Chesnutt wrote: Hi, Has anybody ever managed to get an Iomega Zip Drive revived after it developed the click of death? TIA Bill Chesnutt Sending you a copy of a mail to WAMUG from Mark Secker on 22nd August 2003 Bob

Re: Zip Drive - Click of Death Again

2006-04-21 Thread Robert Howells
On 21 Apr 2006, at 1:18 PM, William Chesnutt wrote: Hi, Has anybody ever managed to get an Iomega Zip Drive revived after it developed the click of death? TIA Bill Chesnutt Sending you a copy of a mail to WAMUG from Mark Secker on 22nd August 2003 Bob This can ALSO be f

Google Earth and VPC7

2006-04-21 Thread Severin Crisp
I am trying to run GoogleEarth under VPC7/WIN XP on a G5 1.8/10.4.6 At start up Google Earth tells me that it prefers "Direct X" mode but as that is blocked I should use "Open GL" which will be slower. Eventually the Google Earth window opens with all the places, contols and other bits show

Re: Google Earth and VPC7

2006-04-21 Thread Rob Findlay
By an intel iMac and install boot camp and windows. You know you want to. We have been installing all the great PC games like Half Life that we never got to play on the new Intel Macs in the showroom here at Team Digital. Also Photoshop CS2 runs better in Windows on a dual core CPU Macbook Pro th

Re: Zip Drive - Click of Death Again

2006-04-21 Thread J Philippe Chaperon
Hi WAMUG'ers, Sorry to hear about people experiencing the 'click of death' from Iomega Zip drives. On the other hand I have been using very extensively Iomega Zip drives, in fact I own 3 of them and used another 3 at my previous work for many years (about 10 years now), without any problems. My or