Re: removing spyware etc on OSX

2006-11-27 Thread Holipac info
Chris, The levels of threat for Windows and Mac are totally different, so its not useful to compare yourself against your friend's experience. There are very few viruses for Mac - the ones that are identified are so rare they get individual attention, and are often proof of concept rather

Re: Registrant comparison?

2006-11-27 Thread Holipac
Steven, I use domaincentral.com.au - $12.50pa for a .com and $38 for two years for a .com.au domain. This is cheaper than Directnic.com, which is the registrar I used to use in the US ($19AUS for a .com domain). Once you've registered a domain with domaincentral and parked it, there is

Re: MYOB Premier to AccountEdge?

2006-11-26 Thread Holipac
s a single user programme only in future but have not been able to confirm this yet. They would of course honour Premier to AccountEdge multiuser migrations. Cheers, Alex On 24/11/2006, at 3:14 PM, Holipac wrote: Rod, Just did this conversion recently. All your data is retained. The file

Re: MYOB Premier to AccountEdge?

2006-11-25 Thread Holipac
selling AccountEdge as a single user programme only in future but have not been able to confirm this yet. They would of course honour Premier to AccountEdge multiuser migrations. Cheers, Alex On 24/11/2006, at 3:14 PM, Holipac wrote: Rod, Just did this conversion recently. All your data i

Re: MYOB Premier to AccountEdge?

2006-11-24 Thread Holipac
Rod, Just did this conversion recently. All your data is retained. The file format is readable by Mac and PC, so I just send off my data file to my accountant, and they load it up under Windows. When I switched to Account Edge, I just opened up the existing file ... there was some kind of a

Zune on Forbes - ouch

2006-11-10 Thread Holipac
http://blogs.forbes.com/digitaldownload/2006/11/zune_stinks.html

Re: How cool is Zune

2006-11-03 Thread Holipac
Just in case any misses the ironic tone of my original post ... I'll answer my own question. Zune is not very cool. imho. And the marketing even less so. Glenn. On 03/11/2006, at 8:31 AM, Roger P Kortas wrote: This is rather strange I received the two replies before this original. As t

How cool is Zune

2006-11-03 Thread Holipac
Have a look at: www.zune.net:80/en-US/# in particular the Up Close experience Gives an insight into what Microsoft sees as 'cool' marketing. Glenn.

Zune

2006-10-16 Thread Holipac
A few interesting perspectives on Zune. Seems it will be a while before they appear in Australia. The decision about WMA is much more interesting (and entertaining for the Apple fraternity!) Glenn. www.australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20538749^15309^^nbv^, 00.html "To the surpris

Re: Manipulating .jpg files

2006-10-06 Thread Holipac
Barbara, No doubt there are several ways to tackle this ... my personal way of making sure images don't cause grief in Word is to paste them as a Picture, then set wrapping to In Line with Text: - Edit, Paste Special, Picture - then Format Picture, Layout, In Line With Text (to get to the Fo

Re: iMac G3 600 - not working, but free

2006-10-03 Thread Holipac
Thanks to all who responded ... iMac has a new home and mission in life! Glenn. On 03/10/2006, at 9:48 AM, Holipac wrote: Found a G3 iMac on the local streetside collection. It isn't in working condition and the case has a visible crack top/side, but may be useful to someone for

iMac G3 600 - not working, but free

2006-10-03 Thread Holipac
Found a G3 iMac on the local streetside collection. It isn't in working condition and the case has a visible crack top/side, but may be useful to someone for parts. Pretty sure this is the one: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ imac/stats/imac_600_graphite.html Free if you want to colle

Re: Image editor - resolved

2006-09-21 Thread Holipac
Thanks to all who responded. Irfanview fits the bill very nicely, however several other options as well. Much appreciated. Glenn. On 21/09/2006, at 8:31 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 20/09/2006, at 1:44 PM, Holipac wrote: Hi everyone, on my Mac I tend to use ImageWell to crop/resize

Re: Image editor

2006-09-20 Thread Holipac
personal experience. Glenn. On 20/09/2006, at 2:11 PM, Robert Howells wrote: Glenn , Why does he not Google for " crop photo " Plenty of results including <http://www.fotofinish.com/specials/ photo-edit.asp?id=30849> It's windows only so I cannot try it Bob On 20/09/2006,

Image editor

2006-09-20 Thread Holipac
Hi everyone, on my Mac I tend to use ImageWell to crop/resize images for the web. Can anyone advise on a simple tool to do the same for (gasp) Windows, as a customer needs to upload cropped/resized images to his new Wordpress site. A commercial tool would be fine, doesn't have to be free. Ma

Re: iTunes 7 Issues

2006-09-18 Thread Holipac
iTunes7 upgrade was fine for me, on 2 machines. Glenn. On 18/09/2006, at 7:55 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 15/09/2006, at 3:59 PM, samantha whitely wrote: Umm As a fairly new person to updating: in view of this issue would it be better to hold off the update until getting to the bot

Suggestions for data projector

2006-09-16 Thread Holipac
Hi, does anyone have any suggestions on best buy for a data projector? Doesn't need to be the ultimate spec, I am thinking XGA. Main usage will be workshops in small/medium rooms, say up to 10 or 11m distance to screen. Would consider second hand if someone has something. All tips appreciated.

Re: Multifunction recommendations

2006-09-07 Thread Holipac
We have the Brother MFC 640, and it works very well. Wireless connection very handy. Answering machines are a bit basic however. Glenn. On 07/09/2006, at 9:43 AM, choy wrote: Recommend the Brother laser multifunctions. I have bought 3 over the last few years (One for me, one for a friend,

Re: Speakers

2006-09-04 Thread Holipac
JBL Creatures are excellent at the price, have a set at home. Think they will be fine for a staffroom. Glenn. On 04/09/2006, at 8:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Am after a decent set of speakers to connect to mac for multimedia presentations.(the old apple ones are past their prime) Nee

Re: 15" or 17" MacBook Pro

2006-08-18 Thread Holipac
We have a 17" MacBook Pro, no troubles whatsoever, in fact, super impressive. Glenn. On 18/08/2006, at 11:53 AM, Nathan Manzi wrote: On Thursday, August 17, 2006, at 08:43PM, Mark Secker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but before hedding down that path was wanting to know if anybody out ther

Re: XP to OSX via wireless?

2006-08-07 Thread Holipac
Mike, You need a wireless base station. Your laptop and iMac can then (assuming they both have wireless cards) connect to it. It doesn't really matter what make/model the PCs/laptops are, only that they have wireless cards that can connect to your base station. This would be 802.11b or

Re: iBook Keyboard Replacement

2006-07-23 Thread Holipac
You can plug a USB keyboard into the G4 ... we use a wireless keyboard with our G4. Second hand should work if you find one, or new is $59 from ht.com.au (MS Digital Media Pro Keyboard USB&PS/2) Glenn. On 23/07/2006, at 9:46 PM, Nathan Manzi wrote: Hi All. I have recently come across an

Re: Mail rejecting password

2006-07-12 Thread Holipac info
Brett, this is what Mail does if your mailbox is offline when it tries to check. Probably just means Bigpond mail was down at the time of the check. If you Ctl click your mail box, take it back online, then check mail again, it will probably be fine. Glenn. On 12/07/2006, at 12:12 AM, B

Re: 10.4.7 combo update

2006-06-30 Thread Holipac info
Ronni, I checked my settings and it has remained unticked. One thing I have noticed since 10.4.7 was installed is an outbound network request from a process called dashboardadvisory, to an address eg-www.apple.com (this is reported by Little Snitch). This looked pretty strange, however eg-ww

Airport Extreme Card available

2006-06-29 Thread Holipac info
I have an Airport Extreme card for sale. This card is suitable for Macs that are Airport Extreme ready: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107440 $60 if you pick it up (Shenton Park), or $70 and I will post to you in an Express Post bag. Please email me off list if you are inte

Re: Windows emulation/virtualisation on Intel Macs

2006-06-27 Thread Holipac info
Phillipe, We have a MacBook Pro 17" running OS X and Windows under Boot Camp. It is fast. However, everything *read* about Parallels suggests it is very fast as well (possibly 90-95% of 'native' ), and the ease of use of Cmd- Tab to CAD rather than shutdown/reboot should be a major consider

Re: Slowing down a movie

2006-06-07 Thread Holipac info
You need to look into iDVD, another of the iLife applications. Glenn. On 07/06/2006, at 4:07 PM, Mervyn & Giuliana Bond wrote: Stephen Using iMovie is a new world for me. I found the edit for slowing the movie down, thank you. Now, as to a DVD. If I export it back as a Quicktime and burn it

Silent Flip4Mac

2006-06-05 Thread Holipac info
Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble playing a wmv file with Flip4Mac - it plays the vision nicely, however I can't hear the audio stream. I can run up Virtual PC and play it with audio (same machine, same file, different OS and Windows Media Player instead of Flip4Mac). The lack of aud

Wanted: 14" G4 Laptop

2006-06-01 Thread Holipac info
Good afternoon, I'm looking for a second hand 14" G4 Laptop, in good condition, circa $500.Just like the one that went out on the list a few months back :) Please contact me off list. Glenn Nicholas. 0401 143 918 (formerly [EMAIL PROTECTED], but recently updated my email).

Re: simple resizing of images?

2006-05-29 Thread Holipac info
Hi Rob, ImageWell is free and does the job one by one. http:// www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19042 YellowMug Software has a batch converter EasyBatchPhoto ... has a shareware fee. http://www.yellowmug.com/ Both good. Glenn. On 29/05/2006, at 4:43 PM, Lodge Family wrote: Hi