Re: 'Accounts' in System prefs not opening

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Weaver
Hi Ronda, I followed your suggestions - Sys prefs is version 7 and not set to 32-bits. Parental controls were not toggled on. I rebooted from DVD disk to repaired permissions and verify if the HD needed repairs - all okay. It looks like an 'Archive and reinstall' may be needed, but I'll sit

FYI: MOBILE PHONES - Do Not Call Register

2010-01-18 Thread Peder Kristensen
Hi All, I guess most of us don’t like telemarketer to call us with sorts of offers … this is note from The Australian Government … This is for Australian phone numbers REMEMBER: Mobile Phone Numbers Go Public next month. REMINDER all mobile phone numbers are being released to telemarketing

Hoax: Re: FYI: MOBILE PHONES - Do Not Call Register

2010-01-18 Thread Martin Hill
On 18/01/2010, at 5:32 PM, Peder Kristensen wrote: YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS Actually this email is a hoax as only in the USA are consumers charged for incoming calls as well as out-going and mobile phone numbers are not about to be released to telemarketing companies. Note

Re: FYI: MOBILE PHONES - Do Not Call Register

2010-01-18 Thread Merv Bond
Check out this Australian Government website http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_311873 Cheers Merv Peder Kristensen wrote: Hi All, I guess most of us don’t like telemarketer to call us with sorts of offers … this is note from The Australian Government … This is for Australian

Re: FYI: MOBILE PHONES - Do Not Call Register

2010-01-18 Thread Nicholas Pyers
On 18/01/2010, at 8:32 PM, Peder Kristensen wrote: Hi All, I guess most of us don’t like telemarketer to call us with sorts of offers … this is note from The Australian Government … This is for Australian phone numbers REMEMBER: Mobile Phone Numbers Go Public next month. REMINDER all mobile

Re: FYI: MOBILE PHONES - Do Not Call Register

2010-01-18 Thread KEVIN Lock
Snopes is your friend for this type of story. http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp Good site to check out such claims. Kev -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -

flash mx crashing

2010-01-18 Thread mince and pud
Hello all Don't know if there are any Flash experts out there but maybe someone can help with basic principles. I have been googling this for weeks, on and off, and have found several forum posts by people with the exact same problem - but none with a solution. I have had flash mx on my

Re: 'Accounts' in System prefs not opening

2010-01-18 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Paul, Did you try installing the Mac OS X v10.6.2 Update (Combo) over top of the installation on that iMac? http://support.apple.com/kb/DL959 Cheers, Ronni On 18/01/2010, at 5:35 PM, Paul Weaver wrote: Hi Ronda, I followed your suggestions - Sys prefs is version 7 and not set to

Re: iPhone ‘flight mode’

2010-01-18 Thread Stephen Chape
Gosh why not just turn it off ??? On 18/01/2010, at 6:07 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 17/01/2010, at 10:55 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: What does it do ? Hi Stephen, Awhile back I allowed WAMUG members to download an eBook I created explaining the 46 iPhone 3G S Settings from my

Re: Change of email address bulk mail out

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Curtis
Hi all Having given this due consideration I intend to proceed down this route, can you recommend a good domain registrar (in Australia?) Questions arise as to how to know if a registrar is reliable or not?. Also and/or point me in the direction of some further information for a basic computer

Re: iPhone ‘flight mode’

2010-01-18 Thread Susan Hastings
'cos you may still want to use it to play games or watch movies or take photos... On 18/01/2010, at 10:10 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: Gosh why not just turn it off ??? On 18/01/2010, at 6:07 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 17/01/2010, at 10:55 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: What does it

Re: iPhone ‘flight mode’

2010-01-18 Thread Eugene
When I'm on Virgin or some other cheap airline the iPhone is my saviour. Turning it off means I can't listen to my music, watch videos, read e- books, play word games, organise my schedules, go through apps that I downloaded for my intended destination, etc. Regards,

Re: iPhone ‘flight mode’

2010-01-18 Thread Duncan Hardman
Yeah and when I went on Singapore Airlines last year (Oct - Perth to Singapore) I could watch and listen through the plane entertainment system... and before anyone says something it was cattle class!! Duncan 2010/1/18 Susan Hastings susanhasti...@me.com: 'cos you may still want to use it to

Re: Unexpected forced restart

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 18/01/2010, at 12:25 PM, David Noel wrote: Hi Gang -- -- A surprise this morning. I was working on my iMac when a grey tint came over my screen, and a message came up that I had to restart the machine by pressing the power button till it closed, then pressing again till it

Re: Unexpected forced restart

2010-01-18 Thread Adrian Skehan
For what its worth, and I could be wrong, but I had this problem some time ago and I seem to recall that it turned out to be caused by a dead internal battery. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 19/01/2010, at 8:23 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 18/01/2010, at 12:25 PM, David Noel

Re: Give Ronni a break folks...

2010-01-18 Thread Paul K
Try this Stuart: http://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/maillist.html -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe -

Re: Unexpected forced restart

2010-01-18 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Adrian Peter David, When a kernel panic occurs, a log of the event is usually saved in the file “panic.log” in the Mac HD Library Logs folder. Double click the panic log and a new console window will open. New panic logs are added to the end of panic.log. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro

Warning about IE browers on the ABC

2010-01-18 Thread David Nicholas
This is a very interesting story posted on ABC news this morning. You can read it at http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/19/2795684.htm Here is the intro The Federal Government has ramped up warnings about Microsoft's web browser Internet Explorer, which has come under attack from

Re: Change of email address bulk mail out

2010-01-18 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Peter, I recently purchased a .org.au domain from Netregistry http://www.netregistry.com.au/ It all went very well and everything seems to work as it should. They had a special at the time - so it cost me all of $8.25 for two years registration - though come renewal time it will be back to

Re: Keynote DVD

2010-01-18 Thread Laura Webb
Hi Rod Thanks for your email. I'm still having problems and am just about ready to consign the whole project to the too hard basket. I've used the iDVD Help Menu and referred to text books recently lent to me. All to no avail. Ronni's recent advice to Susan was similar to what you've suggested

Airport

2010-01-18 Thread Adrian Skehan
I have an Airport Extreme card that suits a 17 G4 Lampshade iMac and I tried to install it in a my daughters 15 Lampshade iMac (2003 model, 800 MHz), the card fits into the slot OK and it has the correct plug for the little wire that comes from the body of the machine however the plug for the

Re: Keynote DVD

2010-01-18 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Laura, Sorry, I have no experience/help to offer in this area. However, I do have a couple of suggestions to make regarding how you are attempting to solve this and use the list: Rather than saying something like ³I'm still having problems² give details on just WHAT problems you are

Re: Airport

2010-01-18 Thread Mark Secker
I don't think the 800MHZ/USB 1 15 could take airport extreme (b/g) only standard airport with 802.11b On 19/01/10 1:42 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: I have an Airport Extreme card that suits a 17 G4 Lampshade iMac and I tried to install it in a my daughters 15 Lampshade

Re: Airport

2010-01-18 Thread Ronda Brown
You are correct Mark, It will only support the original Airport Card (802.11b). Cheers, Ronni On 19/01/2010, at 2:02 PM, Mark Secker wrote: I don't think the 800MHZ/USB 1 15 could take airport extreme (b/g) only standard airport with 802.11b On 19/01/10 1:42 PM, Adrian Skehan

Re: Airport

2010-01-18 Thread Adrian Skehan
Thanks for that all. Is there anyone out there with a spare suitable card or interested in the one I have which is now surplus to requirements. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 19/01/2010, at 2:10 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: You are correct Mark, It will only support the original

Re: Keynote DVD

2010-01-18 Thread Laura Webb
Hi Neil Thanks. I take your point. I thought I was doing exactly what you suggest. Rod was already aware of the problems I was having which is the reason he responded to my initial post on this issue. I did go through his email step by step with comments about what I had done, at least

Re: Unexpected forced restart

2010-01-18 Thread David Noel
Thanks to all, the iStat widget looks very useful. There was a 'kernel panic' and log produced, I sent it, as offered, to Apple, but have no idea what effect there is from this. If it happens again, I can check temperatures -- currently up to 64 deg C -- is there an upper limit I should look out

Re: Keynote DVD

2010-01-18 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Laura, My apologies, I did not read your reply closely enough and because the body of your reply came through in black text, I missed that the blue text (in specific response to the steps) was also part of your same reply. Regards (in much embarassment) Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany,

Re: Keynote DVD

2010-01-18 Thread Adrian Skehan
Hi Laura, I recently had the same iDVD error message which was accompanied by a red X in the top box of the Map layout, it gave no clue to what the problem was but I traced it down to the project being too big for a single layer DVD, have you checked Project Info (under project in the menu

Re: Keynote DVD

2010-01-18 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Laura, I've done all of the above and the file plays in iDVD Preview. 1. Did you click the 'play in preview' arrow at bottom of iDVD Project, then click the Enter and play the whole project through? Then click Exit to bring you back to your project.? I keep getting a message about