Re: More Lion Woes

2011-07-28 Thread Bill Cole
On 28/07/2011, at 1:30 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Yay, 1Password have updated Safari Extension in 1Password version 3.7.0 Beta-2(Build#31079) AND, auto-unlock is back! Mac users: The return of auto-unlock. Copy to clipboard in extension. WAY better auto submit. Available when? Right

dead G5

2011-07-28 Thread Ken Jackson
Hi Folks, this is a bit scary, my G5 Tower has seemingly died, I boot it up it asks to be shut down. (Grey Screen) The fans go berserk I can do nothing? Sounds like a hardware problem?? Tried zapping the pram, nothing. Is there anyone who can help? Dual 2 gigaherz Power PC G5 with 1.5 gig of

Re: dead G5

2011-07-28 Thread Frank Salleo
Hi Ken You should try resetting the cuda/pmu See http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1939 for instructions. Remember this happening on a few of our G5s a long time ago when we had powerfailures. They would start up with fans roaring and no screen. Hope it helps Frank On 28/07/11 3:32 PM, Ken

Re: dead G5

2011-07-28 Thread Ronda Brown
On 28/07/2011, at 3:32 PM, Ken Jackson wrote: Hi Folks, this is a bit scary, my G5 Tower has seemingly died, I boot it up it asks to be shut down. (Grey Screen) The fans go berserk I can do nothing? Sounds like a hardware problem?? Tried zapping the pram, nothing. Is there anyone who

Re: Office for Mac

2011-07-28 Thread Andrew
Hi Daniel What would be the quickest way to get this from you? Andrew On 20/07/2011, at 7:26 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Andrew I've got a left over never opened brand new Office 2008 Home and Student edition (3 serial numbers) that you can have for, say $100 if you wanted. The specs on

Re: dead G5

2011-07-28 Thread Robin Belford
Ken, I think you have bad RAM, or bad RAM seating connections. Try taking one stick out and restarting. r On 28/07/2011, at 3:59 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 28/07/2011, at 3:32 PM, Ken Jackson wrote: Hi Folks, this is a bit scary, my G5 Tower has seemingly died, I boot it up it asks

Free 57 inch Sony TV

2011-07-28 Thread Ken Jackson
Hi folks, I know it's a bit off topic but I'm not selling anything. FREE to whoever can pick it up before the weekend is a Free 57 inch Sony TV, rear projection, in great condition. Have bought a new TV. Call me on the numbers below. Thanks regards, Ken Jackson 089 376 1680 0409 770 747

eMac for parts

2011-07-28 Thread Clinton Ducas
Hello all, I have an 800 MHz eMac which has recently decided to power up no longer. It is a complete system, save for the hard disk, and includes a combo drive and 384 MB SDRAM as well as a keyboard and mouse. As to why it no longer starts, I suspect the problem could be something

Toolbar disappearing

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi there, I have for no apparent reason had the toolbars for MS Word (Macbook with Office for Mac 2008 installed - Snow Leopard) and Safari disappearing. as the problem is across more than one application, I figured it relates to some global setting. But I haven't actually changed anything

iPhoto Prints

2011-07-28 Thread Nichole Shervington
Hi Folks, Has anyone used the Apple iPhoto printing service? I would like to get some photos printed, but have not been happy with snapfish or the kmart kiosks. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thank you Kind regards Nichole -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: iPhoto Prints

2011-07-28 Thread cm
Hi Nichole, I have used iPhoto for the photo book printing service but not for individual photo prints. The book was delivered in a timely fashion and the paper quality and binding are of a very high standard. I am also pleased with the colour reproduction and quality of the photo prints. If

Re: dead G5

2011-07-28 Thread Ken Jackson
Thanks Ronni Robin, I'll give those a try tomorrow. I reinstalled Tiger but it still crashes, regards, Ken Ken Jackson k...@littleriverstudios.com.au (mailto:k...@littleriverstudios.com.au) kenjackson7...@gmail.com (mailto:kenjackson7...@gmail.com) T 08 9376 1680 M 0409 770 747 Skype

WAMUG Meeting reminder: This Tuesday 2 August 2011 (Please Do Not Reply)

2011-07-28 Thread Pete Smith
G'day all WAMUGGERs Yep, that's right. July is nearly over which means that the August WAMUG Monthly Meeting is just around the corner. Or just over the hill, depending on which university you went to. Anyway, don't forget to set your iCals up for next Tuesday, 2 August 2011. What's on and

Re: More Lion Woes

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 28/07/2011, at 12:09 PM, Bill Cole wrote: Peter, I'm not quite sure where the little arrow to the right of the link is could you help me there. I have cba in the Bookmarks Bar of Safari, when I click on that it used to open, fill in the details req'd, and open it, now when I click on

Setting up WiFi at MacDonalds

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
The photo in this article tells it all. Not that I'm likely ever to be using my MacBook Pro in a McDonalds store, but I do love the instruction sheet telling you how to connect to their free WiFi service - 3 steps for Mac OS X, TWO PAGES for Windows. Gotta love it. More hubris...

Re: Setting up WiFi at MacDonalds

2011-07-28 Thread Daniel Kerr
LOL gotta love! It's things like that that remind me why I love using a Mac. I remember when burners first came out and I was working in retail and it was sort of the same. The Mac was install burner, install software. Done. The Windows instructions was, install burner. Install software.

Re: dead G5

2011-07-28 Thread Stuart Evans
Hi Ken, We’ve seen this before after a firmware update didn’t complete or sometimes even a security update. First try booting and holding the power button until the light flashes. If that doesn’t fix it you may have hard drive errors (what I suspect since you’ve reinstaled Tiger). Try

Re: Toolbar disappearing

2011-07-28 Thread Ronda Brown
On 28/07/2011, at 9:49 PM, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi there, I have for no apparent reason had the toolbars for MS Word (Macbook with Office for Mac 2008 installed - Snow Leopard) and Safari disappearing. as the problem is across more than one application, I figured it relates to some

Re: Search facility - Mail on Lion - buggy?

2011-07-28 Thread Steven Knowles
Thanks for your suggestions Ronni. I began having a look about online to see if any others were having similar issues. Yes, not only me having problems with Mail's search facility. Rebuilding mailboxes and re-indexing are the most popular suggestions, both of which I've now done, and like some

Re: Search facility - Mail on Lion - buggy?

2011-07-28 Thread cm
Hi Steven, I'm not sure I agree with your assessment of OS X 10.7 Lion. There is very little reason for your MBP to run slower under Lion unless you have some extra processes are running in the background. When you first install Lion, spotlight will reindex your hard drive. This may cause a

Re: Info

2011-07-28 Thread Joseph Mastrella
Greetings! Has your brother put a value on the mac book for sale? I am a member and am looking to upgrade. Cheers, Joe Mastrella On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Nichole Shervington nichole.sherving...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi Folks, My brother wants to sell his 2009 Macbook intel core 2 duo

Front Row

2011-07-28 Thread Glenn Walker
hi all the osx Lion take out Front row i want it back on the mac . -- 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: Front Row

2011-07-28 Thread Nicholas Pyers
On 29/07/2011, at 2:41 PM, Glenn Walker wrote: hi all the osx Lion take out Front row i want it back on the mac . Glenn, Take a serious look at Plex for managing your video collection http://www.plexapp.com/ I've been running it for a couple of months now and am very impressed with it If you

Re: Search facility - Mail on Lion - buggy?

2011-07-28 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Steven, I do agree with Carlo’s comments below, Lion should be faster than your previous OS, not slower. I presume you did not do a ‘Clean Install’ of Lion but did an ‘In-place Upgrade’ on the same partition as Snow Leopard. I also presume you did all the necessary preparations before

Re: Search facility - Mail on Lion - buggy?

2011-07-28 Thread Steven Knowles
Hi Carlo It might be comforting to some to hear that post-Lion sluggishness isn't expected to be the norm, but it's definitely the case with my MBP, and a quick web search of something like 'lion sluggish' indicates it's not an issue isolated to me. Agree that initial TM backups and indexing