old printers

2007-06-05 Thread KEVIN Lock
On the bludge again. We have booked our trip to Bali and now are looking out for some older printers for PPC and earlier Macs. If anyone has a couple down the shed in working condition and they want to get rid of them, I would appreciate them. Thanks Kev -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mai

Epson Inkjet Printers .... Flashing red lights

2007-06-05 Thread Robert Howells
Hi people , For your information : Epson Inkjet Printers have a waste Ink overflow alarm ! The printer stops working . Actually it is triggered by a count of the number of sheets the printer has printed , and an assumption is made that the waste ink will be overflowing the collection p

Backup Hard Drives?

2007-06-05 Thread Stewart Woods
Hi all, In the interests of quelling paranoia and preparing for Apple's Oh-so- easy Time Machine come Leopard, I'm looking at buying an external hard drive to back up all the important stuff on our home network. Looking at Zytech's prices for 500Gb Firewire drives, they're far more reasonabl

Re: Voice to text programs

2007-06-05 Thread gary dorn
I'm looking for a program that will allow me to dictate to the computer and have it type the text. Advice from people who successfully use such programs would be greatly appreciated. Regards mike moore I suppose depending on what you want to use, but David Pogue on this TED address uses

[ADMIN] Server Shutdown

2007-06-05 Thread Matthew Healey
Hi Guys, The server will be going down for a little while. It should be up again before you read this email. - Matt -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines -

Does MS Office for Mac purchase entitle use of Windows version for free?

2007-06-05 Thread Steven
I have a feeling this could be categorised as a dumb question?! If MS Office for Mac is purchased, does that entitle the purchaser to use MS Office for Windows at no additional cost? I'm guessing not, but I thought maybe its the license to use that is bought, and perhaps that should be platform in

New MacBook Pros

2007-06-05 Thread Eugene
Apple just announced updated MBPros. Faster Wireless, graphics and processor. Regards, Eugene Image * 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo * 1440 x 900 resolution * 2GB memory * 120GB hard drive1 * 8x double-layer SuperDrive * NVIDIA GeFor

Apple store is down,..New MacBookPros??? :o)

2007-06-05 Thread Daniel Kerr
OK, so that might be wishful thinking,..but I'll take good odds on it. Enjoy! Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: Web: **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Bali school update

2007-06-05 Thread Robert Howells
On 05/06/2007, at 10:06 AM, KEVIN Lock wrote: We will attempt to find a Mac savvy techie whilst in Sanur and pay him/her to visit the place every few months to do a tune-up job. There do not, however, seem to be many Mac people in Bali. In hindsight, this project was ill-conceived Fort

Re: leopard in October

2007-06-05 Thread Peder Kristensen
Well if that's true. It could also mean that Steve Jobs will open the Apple Store in Sydney during his visit. We just have to wait I guess. Cheers, Peder On 05/06/2007, at 14:59 , gary dorn wrote: what do you think http://homepage.mac.com/lesposen/blogwavestudio/LH20040820224513/ LHA20070

Re: Voice to text programs

2007-06-05 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 5/06/2007 2:26 PM, "Mike MOORE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a program that will allow me to dictate to the > computer and have it type the text. > > Advice from people who successfully use such programs would be > greatly appreciated. > > > Regards mike moore > Hi Mike, T

Re: Voice to text programs

2007-06-05 Thread Rod Lavington
Hi Mike, Seeing as the sys reqs are 10.1 and a G3, I don't like your chances of it working with anything modern :-( If you have an Intel Mac, I would consider looking at the PC options and running Parallels or Boot Camp. Dictation on