4Sale - 13-inch Macbook (Late 2009)

Hi WAMUG, My brother has a Late 2009 Macbook to sell. He bought it here and took it with him overseas for six months, but doesn't have a need for a laptop now he's back in Aus. It's in perfect condition and he still has the box, discs etc. Looking to get $900. Specs below. Get in touch with him di

Re: Home file copy

Clarifying my home network situation wrt my backup issue. iMac(intel)10.5.8Belkin Wireless Router<–––>Belkin 4PortVoIPRouter )^ )| iBookG4PPC10.4.11 WDMyBookWorldEdition(single drive) <––

RE: Mac mini vers iMac

There is but one solution to this. Get one of each - that's what I intend to do. Using the Mac Mini as the media device (with further attached external drives 2TB+ if you run out of capacity) attached to a Full HD Plasma and the 27" imac for more mundane computer specific tasks (email, office do

Re: Mac mini vers iMac

John, 1 Mini slightly less powerful than is the iMac 2 Both difficult to put in bigger drives and memory. If you want to use your mac as your TV, and think you will want to record several programs to hard disk and keep them for some time then you should install a bigger hard disk. I have

Re: iPad problem

Thank you very much Alexander, I will certainly keep an eye on it.WendyFrom: Alexander Hartner Date: 30 August 2010 12:57:06 AESTTo: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: iPad problemReply-To: WAMUG Mailing List HI Wendy,If  you have more than

Re: Disk Utility/Repair Disk

You're welcome Neil, Repair Disk may be ran on any 'non-boot' from the boot hard drive (there is no need to boot off the Install CD/DVD to repair non-boot drives, partitions or volumes). If you have a 'non boot' drive attached, look in Disk Utility > Repair Disk panel, highlighting any non-boot

Re: Disk Utility/Repair Disk

Hi Ronni, Thanks for that feedback, I had not seen that support document before. I perused the article, together with a linked article - I must admit, I found the articles a little confusing in some regards ­ on the one hand, as you noted, they are saying that

Re: Widgets

Thank you all/both Regards Peter On 30/08/2010, at 3:30 PM, Crisp, Peter wrote: > > Hi Peter, I have Google Desktop (on my Windows m/c) installed and with > it "Add Gadgets" with a quick search I was able to locate a "Precious > metal spot prices" widget. It's a freebie in Google desktop but not

Re: Disk Utility/Repair Disk

Ok Neil, Firstly, I don't think you are being argumentative here, you have an inquiring mind similar to my own. I like that in a person ;-) I've always understood that you always start up your computer from an Install or Restore disc when using Disk Utility to verify or repair your startup vol

RE: Widgets

Hi Peter, I have Google Desktop (on my Windows m/c) installed and with it "Add Gadgets" with a quick search I was able to locate a "Precious metal spot prices" widget. It's a freebie in Google desktop but not sure if Google Desktop is OSX friendly. See how you go. Regards Peter.. -Original

Re: Disk Utility/Repair Disk

OK Ronni, Now you've got me worried... Recently I ran "Verify disc" on my startup HD and it indicated that a repair was required - I had not experienced any specific problem - I was just going to do some software updates and decided to verify the disc (just because it had been a while since I d

Re: Widgets

On 30/08/2010, at 3:19 PM, Curtis Peter wrote: > > Hi everyone > Is it possible to search for a particular type of widget? > For example, I'd like a widget to give me the current Australian Gold Price. > Is this possible? > I've been to the Apple Dashboard and Widget site but can't seem to be a

RE: Wav files

An alternative suggestion is if you can access a Windows machine, slip it in and it should play as WAV is a Windows based file type - notwithstanding iTunes' capability with wav files. Regards Peter Macbook 13.3" (Snow Leopard) + 2 Macbooks 13.3" (Leopard) -Original Message- From: wamu

Widgets

Hi everyone Is it possible to search for a particular type of widget? For example, I'd like a widget to give me the current Australian Gold Price. Is this possible? I've been to the Apple Dashboard and Widget site but can't seem to be able to search it. Regards Peter -- The WA Macintosh User Gr

Re: Wav files

do you have 'flip for mac' installed?? its free for playback only it will appear as a component thus quicktime is accepting wma/wmv files James On 30/08/2010, at 14:57, Michael Hawkins wrote: I have been sent a disc, some contents of which are rtf format and some wav format. I can

Re: Wav files

On 30/08/2010, at 2:57 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: > > I have been sent a disc, some contents of which are rtf format and some wav > format. > > I can read the rtf items but cannot play the wav items. > > I have tried latest versions of iTunes, QuickTime, QuickTime 7, VLC, Rip It > and Handbra

Wav files

I have been sent a disc, some contents of which are rtf format and some wav format. I can read the rtf items but cannot play the wav items. I have tried latest versions of iTunes, QuickTime, QuickTime 7, VLC, Rip It and Handbrake, without any success. The disc also contains content in html form