WAMUG Meeting Final Reminder: This Tuesday 2 February 2010 (Please Do Not Reply)

2010-01-31 Thread Pete Smith
G'day all WAMUGGERS. Well, 2010 is well and truly upon us with a whole month just about gone. That means it's WAMUG Monthly Meeting time again. Hope you've set your iCal up to remind you that this Tuesday, 2 February, is the first WAMUG Meeting for 2010. Topics for discussion are; in no

Re: Is HD defrag necessary?

2010-01-31 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 29/01/2010, at 11:10 AM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi Everyone I have been pondering the above question for some weeks now, after my HD became almost full (10gb free), and I decided to backup everything to an external 1TB drive, and then remove about 30gb on the Mac to have some space

InDesign

2010-01-31 Thread Adrian Skehan
Good morning all, I am faced with the task of constructing a rather large and complex policy and procedures manual for a NFP elderly citizens help organisations that I have been volunteering with for many years now and I was hoping that someone out there may have a redundant copy of InDesign

Re: InDesign

2010-01-31 Thread James / Hans Kunz
did you had a look into neooffice/openoffice which has a drawing app, can produce powerpoint slides, word processing similar to m$-word, has spreadheet function... it's 100% free... it works cheers James On 01/02/2010, at 8:29, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good morning all, I am

Re: Is HD defrag necessary?

2010-01-31 Thread Chris Burton
Hi Pete Many thanks for your really informative description of this issue, I appreciate it. I will have a look at that little app you mention. I wasnt aware that Disk Warrior was around, and you reminded me of it, as I did use that back in the OS9 days. Im still running 10.5 on my work

Re: Is HD defrag necessary?

2010-01-31 Thread Rob Phillips
I used to swear by DiskWarrior, but I've stopped using it, for 2 reasons: the automatic unix utilities seem to do a good job. The little widget called 'maintidget' (among others) shows you their status, and you can run them manually if required. my purchased copy of Diskwarrior tended to

Re: HP 5380 all in one printer

2010-01-31 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Graeme, Sorry for the delay in replying to this - it was so long ago since I had done it that I couldn't remember the details! However, I have now just done the exercise again on my new iMac with my VM upgraded for Parallels 5. It was all really simple (as I remembered) basically: -

Re: InDesign

2010-01-31 Thread Adrian Skehan
Thanks for the suggestion James but I am using M/S word and find it is just too hard to deal with. In other times I used PageMaker for this sort of work but, alas, it was OS9 which I don't have any longer. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 01/02/2010, at 8:45 AM, James / Hans Kunz