Re: technical help at home

I would be happy to go if I knew that the problem was something that I was likely able to fix and it was not in South Geraldton :-) Mac On 10/03/2008, at 3:06 PM, Paul Doyle wrote: Latching on to this thread. I have my Mother and Father in their 70s who live in Mandurah which is a long way fr

Re: technical help at home

Latching on to this thread. I have my Mother and Father in their 70s who live in Mandurah which is a long way from Melbourne where I now live. I'd love to get a quote from someone who could pop in and work out what is wrong with their dial up internet. They inherited my old 2004 eMac and ar

Re: technical help at home

Hi Ineke, I sometimes do this kind of work but as Mac pointed out it does depend on what part of Perth you are in. Cheers Paul -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines -

Re: technical help at home

I think you might get more of a response Ineke if you said where you lived and also your age range ;-) Mac ( one of the clubs wrinklies) On 10/03/2008, at 1:03 PM, Inkavannell wrote: Hello! Is there a roving Apple Technician that visits homes repairing and revitalizing Apple Macs? The

technical help at home

Hello! Is there a roving Apple Technician that visits homes repairing and revitalizing Apple Macs? There are lots of Microsoft techs around but they don't do Macs. I can barely lift my eMac, let alone struggle all the way to the car with it and once I get it to the Apple Store, I'm lucky if

Re: USB 2 v FireWire

SATA replaced ATA legacy technology as the next generation internal bus interface for hard drives. The SATA interface is more streamlined than ATA and provides serial architecture for greater speed than the older parallel technology. SATA cables are narrow and can be up to three feet (1 m

Re: USB 2 v FireWire

A good back ground for SATA and ESata can be found here :- You should read it , and there is further info at the end of the links shown at the bottom of that page Bob On 10/03/2008, at 10:57 AM, Skehan Adrian wrote: Sorry folks; that should read "

Re: USB 2 v FireWire

Hi Adrian, USB 1 is 10Mb/s Firewire 1 is 400Mb/s USB 2 is 480Mb/s Firewire 2 is 800Mb/s But there is more to it. Firewire 1 is actually faster than USB 2. See: And as for the next generation of Firewire vs USB there is no contest!!

Re: USB 2 v FireWire

On 10/03/2008, at 11:57 AM, Skehan Adrian wrote: Sorry folks; that should read "eSATA" and is it MAc compatible? also can anyone tell me what sSATA is please. Hi Adrian, First part of your question: Firewire is faster than USB2 http://www.barefeats.com/usb2.html "External Serial Advanced

Fwd: USB 2 v FireWire

Sorry folks; that should read "eSATA" and is it MAc compatible? also can anyone tell me what sSATA is please. Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines -

USB 2 v FireWire

Hi all, one of the OfficeWorks Tech people at Morley told me today that USB 2 is faster than FireWire, is this true? also can anyone tell me what sSATA is please. Regards Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Fan Non Stop

Try resetting the System Management Controller • From the Apple menu, choose Shut Down (or if the computer is not responding, hold the power button until it turns off). • Unplug all cables from the computer, including the power cord and any display cables. • Wait at least 15 secon

Re: Fan Non Stop

Hi, open Activity Monitor in your Utilities folder. Often a program we are unaware of is working very hard and the fans are on to handle the load. See also WAMUG archives, this problem comes up a lot. Cheers, Susan On 10/03/08 7:41 AM, "Metal Artwork Creations" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi

Fan Non Stop

Hi all I have a Mac Mini Core 2 Duo OS Leopard 10.5 Just recently the fan goes on at starttup and stays on Any advice appreciated as the noise is over the top TIA Tony Wilson Metal Artwork Creations 27 Ambridge St Hamersley Western Australia 6022 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 08 9448 1517 Fax:0

Re: photoboth

Another application I have that has caused this problem is BookPedia which has the option to use the inbuilt camera to scan the ISBN number into the database. Wendy On 09 Mar 2008, at 15:31, Ronda Brown wrote: Quit all applications that are using iSight. If you don't know which applicati

Re: photoboth

On 09/03/2008, at 6:46 PM, tom samson wrote: 10.4.11 running I posted this before but I am still not able to use the camera on my Macbook. the message that comes up says that another application is using it but activity monitor does not see it. Preferences have been fixed, techtool run so

photoboth

10.4.11 running I posted this before but I am still not able to use the camera on my Macbook. the message that comes up says that another application is using it but activity monitor does not see it. Preferences have been fixed, techtool run so I guess it must be to terminal - Has anyone look