Re: For those hoping to rush out Friday MORNING to get an iPad 2

2011-03-22 Thread Ken Jackson
Hi folks, I believe now all Aussie prices will be the same as USA but in Oz dollars, some good news for a change! (ie $499 for the 16 gig.) best, Ken On 22 March 2011 21:38, Daniel Kerr wrote: > > Hi All > > For those hoping to rush out bright and early Friday morning to get an iPad > v2, acc

Re: hard disk full!

2011-03-22 Thread Ray Forma
Ronda, When I first started to back up to CDs, and then DVDs as they became available, I used the cheapest blanks I could find, not realising that not all optical media are created equal. However, I did always burn at the slowest speed recommended by Toast. Since then I have become a bit more

Re: For those hoping to rush out Friday MORNING to get an iPad 2

2011-03-22 Thread Rod Lavington
Be aware of the backlight problems with the new ipads that are springing up on Apple's discussion forums. Maybe there is a silver lining to the lack of stock. ;) Seeya Rod :) On Mar 23, 2011 9:25 AM, "Matthew Healey" wrote: > > On 22/03/2011, at 9:38 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > >> And accordin

VueScan manual - available at last #2

2011-03-22 Thread Ray Forma
Correction; mailing cost is about US$10 Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines - Unsubscribe -

Re: For those hoping to rush out Friday MORNING to get an iPad 2

2011-03-22 Thread Matthew Healey
On 22/03/2011, at 9:38 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > And according to a post on Whirlpool, these are meant to be the prices:- > > Pricing > MC769X/A iPad 2 Black 16GB – Wi-Fi $579.00 > MC773X/A iPad 2 Black 16GB – Wi-Fi + 3G $729.00 > MC770X/A iPad 2 Black 32GB – Wi-Fi $689.00 >

Viewscan manual - available at last

2011-03-22 Thread Ray Forma
A manual for VueScan is available at last. VueScan is the world’s most widely used software interface for digitizing film and prints on flatbed and film scanners. This powerful yet affordable program supports over 1500 scanners and 321 digital camera RAW file types, and is available for Mac OS

Re: Appleworks to MS Word file conversion please

2011-03-22 Thread Merv Bond
Just as a matter of interest. An attempt to open the AppleWorks files with Pages came up with a message that Pages did not support this version of AppleWorks. A check of the files with MacLink revealed that they were Clarisworks 3 files. The files could be opened with AppleWorks 6 and saved a

Re: hard disk full! - thanks Daniel

2011-03-22 Thread gary dorn
Further to my impending tragedy, now abated, Daniel Kerr, at rather a late hour, installed a new 1TB hardisk for me. I then installed Snow Leapard and using Migration Assistant, moved over my user accounts and settings. Back on board and ready to work Thanks Daniel for your Timely assist

Re: For those hoping to rush out Friday MORNING to get an iPad 2

2011-03-22 Thread Daniel Kerr
Nope, iPad 1 has been cheaper then that. Kind Regards Daniel On 23/3/11 7:12 AM, "lynn...@westnet.com.au" wrote: > > isnt that supposed to be the ipad1 prices and the ipad2 will be the same price > as what ipad1 was? > > > - Original Message - > From: "Daniel Kerr" > To: "WAMUG"

Re: For those hoping to rush out Friday MORNING to get an iPad 2

2011-03-22 Thread lynnkoh
isnt that supposed to be the ipad1 prices and the ipad2 will be the same price as what ipad1 was? - Original Message - From: "Daniel Kerr" To: "WAMUG" Sent: Tuesday, 22 March, 2011 9:38:18 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: For those hoping to rush out Fr

For those hoping to rush out Friday MORNING to get an iPad 2

2011-03-22 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi All For those hoping to rush out bright and early Friday morning to get an iPad v2, according to the rumour sites, they may not go on sale until 5pm. /quote pple today officially confi

Fwd: iPhone Repairs, Cheap iPhone Repairs, iPhone Repair Sydney

2011-03-22 Thread Reg Whitely
Hi all WAMUGgers My daughter needs to have her new iPod Touch screen repaired after an unfortunate misunderstanding with her 8 year old daughter. She has found iExperts in Sydney. Any comments or advice welcomed. Many thanks Reg Begin forwarded message: > > To: "'Reg Whitely'" > Subject: iP

Re: Timecapsule and 10.6.7

2011-03-22 Thread Steven Knowles
Alex, my MacBook Pro post 10.6.7 upgrade currently backing up wirelessly to TC running version 7.5.2. No problems as yet, though there's about 600MB of a 1.46GB back up to go. Cheers, Steven On 22/03/2011, at 8:31 PM, Alexander Hartner wrote: > > Hi all, > > It started when I wanted to prin

Re: hard disk full!

2011-03-22 Thread Alexander Hartner
Maybe have a look and see what is using up all this space. If you have a lot of iTunes or Video it makes sense that your space is all used up. But if you don't it could simply be a run-away log file which filled up your drive. Running the following commands in Terminal should show you what is us

Timecapsule and 10.6.7

2011-03-22 Thread Alexander Hartner
Hi all, It started when I wanted to print something via the printer attached to my TimeCapsule and it didn't work. After some investigations it seems that after the upgrade to 10.6.7 I am no longer able to access my TimeCapsule consistently from my Mac. I am still able to access it from a PC c

Re: hard disk full!

2011-03-22 Thread gary dorn
Yikes signing off till a get a larger Hardrive. Hi Gary, Just adding to my first reply and Daniel's reply. From what you mentioned below, I would suggest it is important that you replace this hard drive for a much larger drive, ASAP. You are already risking corruption of files. In on

Re: Mac OSX 10.6.7 Update available.

2011-03-22 Thread Ronda Brown
Definitely last post to WAMUG! But read this earlier today and just in case there are WAMUG Members with Quadro 4000 graphics card installed, and are going to install OS X 10.6.7 …. WARNING: Quadro 4000 Mac Users - Important Information Regarding Mac

Re: hard disk full!

2011-03-22 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Ray, My last post for today to WAMUG, must get other computer work done ;-) On 22/03/2011, at 2:16 PM, Ray Forma wrote: > I still back up my important files to DVD fairly regularly and make sure > that one copy of the DVDs goes offsite to a friend's cellar in another > suburb. Over the la

Re: Mac OSX 10.6.7 Update available.

2011-03-22 Thread Brian Risbey
Yes, I was good, Read Daniel's warning this morning- to follow your instructions and did so. Now have10.6.7 Just about to do permission error scan. At work no time machine, only available at home, no other drives connected. Re- ran software update - all done. Off home to backup. Brian Sent