iPhone Barcode Scanning App

Hi Everyone Im wondering if those of you who've had iPhones for a while might be able to help me with this. Im looking for an iPhone barcode scanning app. With the ability to access Australian retail barcodes of the supermarket variety. I basically just want something that will allow me

iMac G5 for parts

I have an iMac G5 that no longer works - free to anyone who might want it for parts. Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Unsubscr

Re: iPad & books

Also, if you use Firefox, I¹ve just discovered that² > EPUBReader is a Firefox addon which let you read ePub-files just in the > browser. You don't need to install additional software! > This is great because it lets you really check out a book before deciding it¹s w

stolen MBP 17" 2.5 ghz

Hi Guys One of our VJ's at the office had her house broken into and they stole her MBP s/n w88120hhyp4, they didn't take the power adaptor. If you see this please contact the police please, oh and let me know :) Many thanks Roger -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives

iPhone etc and your DSLR camera

If you have an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and a Canon EOS or Nikon DSLR, then the following could be a useful app: Regards, Ray Forma 50 Harvest Road, North Fremantle WA 6159, Australia Tel & Fax +61 (0)8 9335 6568 Mob +61 (0

Re: Sleep

Hi Alastair, James Devenish perhaps can answer more technically than I. Short answer, no effective difference. A restart (at least in a Unix environment, which the Mac is), dumps EVERYTHING, and boots fully from a zeroed state. ALL processes are released and reinitiated from scratch. Even i

Re: iPhone4 and multitasking / memory

Sorry people, I did not make a 'live link' for the TidBITS explanation in my previous email, so have reset it :-( Hi Glenn, How Mobile Multitasking Works The major new feature of Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 4, is multitasking. How you use it: When you press the Home button twi

Re: Sleep

Thanks Ronni for that useful summary. One question - for the purposes of clearing all the gibbledygook, is a restart the same as a shutdown? best alastair On 13/09/2010, at 5:08 AM, Vladimir James wrote: I only occasionally shut down (thunderstorms, outages); I use a UPS. The computer

Re: iPhone4 and multitasking / memory

Hi Glenn, How Mobile Multitasking Works The major new feature of Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 4, is multitasking. How you use it: When you press the Home button twice, Apple’s iOS 4 displays a “drawer” allowing you to switch between apps. The drawer shows your most recently used

Re: iPhone4 and multitasking / memory

Hi Glenn, It shouldn't be necessary for you to manually quit iPhone applications. iPhone puts strict limits on multitasking, by limiting background applications to 10 mins of continuous activity, after which any unfinished processes are forcefully terminated. The reason for 10 mins is to give pro

Re: Sleep

I only occasionally shut down (thunderstorms, outages); I use a UPS. The computer is on 16-17 hours daily; manually put to sleep at night. I sometimes put the unit to sleep during the day if I know it will be several hours before I use it. The display is set to darken after 3 minutes. I pretty

Re: iPhone4 and multitasking / memory

Great information, thank you, seemed most of my apps were running, no wonder the iPhone had to be recharged often. June On 13/09/2010, at 11:16 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: > > Quick note here (maybe someone knows how to avoid this issue?) > > My iPhone4 (running iOS 4.0.2) stopped working on the

Re: Sleep

Ronny's suggestion is a good one i have set go to sleep if no activity >10m (battery powered) >1h (mains powered) most of the nights my powerbook is just at sleep (lid closed) once a week i shut down for the night to clear the system reports, ram and also it reloads the settings (which can go

iPhone4 and multitasking / memory

Quick note here (maybe someone knows how to avoid this issue?) My iPhone4 (running iOS 4.0.2) stopped working on the weekend. There was plenty of charge (60% it later turned out), but I just had a black screen, no response to on/off and no response to being plugged in to charger. A visit to the

Re: Non-forwarding PDFs

Thanks, Ray - I think you are probably right. Pat On 12/09/2010, at 10:39 PM, Ray Forma wrote: > Pat, > > I know of no method of making a pdf 'non-forwardable'. However, to make it > more difficult for third parties to make use of an e-mailed pdf you can make > a pdf where the receiver needs

Re: Sleep

On 13/09/2010, at 10:36 AM, Clinton Ducas wrote: > > Good morning all, > > > Indulge me in another chapter in the ongoing debate about sleeping computers, > if you will. > > My home iMac is turned on in the morning and shut down at the end of the day. > In between, I set it to sleep manuall

Re: Microsoft Sync Services.

Hi Ken, You can turn off Sync Services in Entourage preferences until you can get time to fix your issues. Sync Services goes through a database called the truth. Until you get the database cleared of the problem you are going to keep having problems. Turn off Sync Services. Select one devi

Re: Sleep

I do exactly the same as you Clinton. I am interested to hear what others do and think is good practice. Peter T Albany On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Clinton Ducas wrote: > > Good morning all, > > > Indulge me in another chapter in the ongoing debate about sleeping > computers, if you will.

Sleep

Good morning all, Indulge me in another chapter in the ongoing debate about sleeping computers, if you will. My home iMac is turned on in the morning and shut down at the end of the day. In between, I set it to sleep manually when I'm away for more than a few minutes. What practice do you f

Re: Home file copy

Hi Bob No, I still can't see it with Disk Utility. The volume that I set up for my computer appears on the desktop when I connect but not MyBookWorld itself. However, when I open the Finder MyBookWorld appears in the Sidebar in the Shared area and a click on that gives me access to the folders

Re: Buffering Stream

On 13/09/2010, at 9:03 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > > On 13/09/2010, at 8:57 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > >> >> Since upgrading to iTunes 10, I find that I can no longer listen to the >> 30-second "grabs" in the iTunes Music Store. Instead, the preview suffers >> from a series of "Buffering

Re: Buffering Stream

Hi again Peter, I just checked my settings in iTunes preferences. iTunes Preferences > Advanced and my setting for "Streaming Buffer Size": is Medium. I wonder if you play around with that setting and see if it helps, perhaps try 'small'? Cheers, Ronni On 13/09/2010, at 9:03 AM, Ronda Brown

Re: Buffering Stream

On 13/09/2010, at 8:57 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > > Since upgrading to iTunes 10, I find that I can no longer listen to the > 30-second "grabs" in the iTunes Music Store. Instead, the preview suffers > from a series of "Buffering Stream..." messages which appear every few > seconds, rende

Buffering Stream

Since upgrading to iTunes 10, I find that I can no longer listen to the 30-second "grabs" in the iTunes Music Store. Instead, the preview suffers from a series of "Buffering Stream..." messages which appear every few seconds, rendering the preview unplayable. I have never experienced this befor

Re: Home file copy

Hi Merv, That is good news Merv. Thank you for posting back to the list with your results. The Advanced level was the only option you had to achieve what you wished to do. The WD My Book World Edition's seven-page Quick Install Guide instructions are sufficient to get you operational, but it o

Re: Preview vs Acrobat Pro for scanning

On 10/09/2010, at 10:22 PM, Tim Law wrote: > > > I don't particularly care about this, so don't want anyone to fuss about > helping me work it out, it's moreso another example of how useful Preview is > out of the box. Of course, if there is a simple solution, I'd be happy to > know. >

Re: Calculator

Hi David Thanks for that link. At least now I know it is a real problem for everyone using Calculator. A pity, because a simple unit converter is not nearly so convenient as having all the Calculator attributes available. Regards Laura On 12/09/2010, at 10:34 PM, David Brown wrote: Laura W

Re: iPad & books

Hi, you can buy heaps of current books for the iPad using the kindle(amazon) or Borders applications, the apple iBooks application only has free books out of copyright at present. You can read your Kindle books on any device that can have a kindle application, such as your Mac or iPhone. Once yo

Re: Non-forwarding PDFs

Pat, I know of no method of making a pdf 'non-forwardable'. However, to make it more difficult for third parties to make use of an e-mailed pdf you can make a pdf where the receiver needs a password to open that pdf, and where the receiver cannot alter that pdf to remove the password pro

Re: Calculator

Laura Webb wrote: Hi Steven I thought you had meant that Unit Converter was an application similar to Calculator. No problem in managing widgets. Thanks for your response. I would still like to know why Calculator is no longer updating exchange rates. Cheers Laura Hi Laura There is a dis

Re: iPad & books

Hi Paul, Apple reckons a typical size for an iBook is around 2MB, see: For their ³iBooks: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)² However, be aware that, at present there are very few books available on the Australia iBookstore ­ presumably that will change in ti

Re: Calculator

Hi Steven I thought you had meant that Unit Converter was an application similar to Calculator. No problem in managing widgets. Thanks for your response. I would still like to know why Calculator is no longer updating exchange rates. Cheers Laura On 12/09/2010, at 6:09 PM, Steven Knowles w

Re: Microsoft Sync Services.

Hi Ken, Although I use Entourage, I have not personally used Sync Services. However, faced with your problem, I would probably try going to preferences/Sync services and unchecking any of the 3 items that you have set to sync. Then quit Entourage and restart it. Then re-enable the items you want

Microsoft Sync Services.

Hi all, I have a problem with Entourage. It has started (in the last couple of days) coming up with the following message when launching, ²Microsoft Sync Services has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for any inconvenience². I click the restart Sync Services and it continues

iPad & books

My wife is an avid reader of modern fiction and because of the high price of books is thinking about an iPad. May someone could let us know about the following please: What's a typical file size for a novel? Can novels downloaded to an iPad be eventually saved to say an external hard drive, a

Re: Calculator

I've found the pre-installed weather widget loads quite quickly, ie. the one which if you click on 'i' for information is powered by The Weather Channel and Yahoo! If you bring up your Dashboard, you should see a black and white '+' symbol in the bottom left corner of your screen, ie. a white

Fwd: thanks

Thanks Ronni.My friend is a happy chappy.cheersRod Begin forwarded message:From: JOHN BORMOLINI Date: 12 September 2010 5:33:56 PM AWSTTo: Rod Blitvich Subject: Re: Hey blitto Thanks for those suggestions  – the first one that had the last resort “live

Re: Calculator

Hi Steven Thank you. Yes you are no doubt correct in suggesting I delete some widgets. First to go will be the weather widget which does indeed take a long time to load. How do I find the Unit Converter to use with Calculator? I tried searching with Spotlight but all that comes up is today's

Non-forwarding PDFs

Someone told me recently that she had come across a PDF attached to an e-mail that she was not able to forward to someone else. She produces a newsletter for a club and is interested in charging recipients for the digital newsletter, as only paid-up members currently receive a paper copy. If

Re: Home file copy

Hi Ronni and Bob Over the past ten days I have worked through your suggestions. At one stage Bob when I followed the forum item that you sent and I tried Pathfinder 5 and clicked off Alias I thought I had it - but the drive did not show for Disk Utility when I next tried. That meant I could no

Re: Calculator

I've found slow loading can be a problem if you have too many widgets on display than you need. Great that you can have any number of clocks showing different times around the world, or any number of Unit Converters so as not to have to change settings each time, but if you go overboard with th

Re: Preview/Copy

There may be other reasons but this is my experience. I get a lot of PDFs from clients. Those that I can't copy from are generally scanned as PDF from the original and can't be copied by Preview. When this happens I use PDFpenPro. It does a quick ORC or the document and then you can highlight an

Re: Windows can't see the network card

Hi Peter Have you installed the Windows/Mac drivers from the OSX CD? When you install Bootcamp, you need to load the MacOSX CD which has Windows drivers for a lot of things on it. Quote from the Manual ---quote--- Step 4: Ins

Re: Preview/Copy

On 12/09/2010, at 2:00 PM, bred...@highway1.biz wrote: > > In some PDF's I open in Preview I can copy details in the PDF. In some I > can't. > > Who is this happening in some PDF's and not in others? > Hello Stuart, The author of a PDF can elect to disable that functionality. You can crea

Re: Mail/Signatures

On 12/09/2010, at 1:58 PM, bred...@highway1.biz wrote: > > Today I changed the two signatures I have in Mail to National and > International. > > Unfortunately the International has become the default signature. > > How do I make the National the default? Hello Stuart, I had made a ment

Re: Mail/Signatures

MailPreferencesSignaturesChoose Signature - then select the one you want (at random will do as name suggests)cheersBlitto  Rod Blitvich  - Amy & Sam’s Dad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  0409 681 256   rb...@iinet.net.au  http://web.me.com/blittoA Life? Cool! Where can I downloa

Re: Windows can't see the network card

That yellow symbol says there is something wrong with that device, usually it's drivers, and that it wont work. So it sounds like you do need to download the appropriate bootcamp and or bootcamp drivers as Patrick has suggested. I have not personally done this so I can't advise on the specifics. I