WTB: Airport card

2007-12-02 Thread Josh McKinnon
Similar story to Neil's recent post... Anyone have an original (pre-extreme) Airport card to sell?? cheers, Josh Neil: I'm going this route because I've gathered a general impression of 'flaky' for the USB-Wireless cards on the Mac. It might be an out- of-date impression... -- The WA

Apple sale today only

2006-12-01 Thread Josh McKinnon
In case anybody has missed it, Apple is having a one day sale today on a bunch of stuff. Some fairly decent bargains to be had, including: -iPods (save $30+) -MacBooks (save $157+) -iMacs (save $155+ - an iMac for under $1400!) -Airport Express (save $56!!!) It's prettty-much education

Re: 1 powerbook to 2 external displays?

2006-11-03 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 31/10/2006, at 12:05 , Warren Jones wrote: Greetings all I've had a work enquiry about running 2 external displays on a powerbook DVI. Is this possible? I think I've heard that some powerbooks have a dual link DVI to display on the 30 but can you split it to feed 2 separate displays?

Re: Price Drops on Displays and Airport Extreme Card

2006-08-08 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 08/08/2006, at 12:34 , Daniel Kerr wrote: You can't buy Apple RAM over the counter anymore anyway, you can only buy it when you BTO (Build to order) a new machine. And yes, you sometimes find that BTO Apple RAM is dearer then third party after market RAM. Although in saying that, I've

Re: Transferring e-mails

2006-07-05 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 03/07/2006, at 20:28 , Raymond Hirst wrote: Could anyone please advise how this transfer might be effected without the loss of the dates. I know that Mail used to have trouble importing Eudora mailboxes, but that was years ago. You could try this program - I used it once with

Re: Windows emulation/virtualisation on Intel Macs

2006-06-27 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 26/06/2006, at 18:43 , J Philippe Chaperon wrote: Dear WAMUG'ers, I have a relative of mine thinking of moving from Windows to a Mac - Intel. However it is important for him to be able to run a CAD application, only available in Windows version, 3D rendering and Photoshop apps for

Re: EyeTV general comments, improving reception quality

2006-05-21 Thread Josh McKinnon
Thanks to everyone for their comments, on and off-list. I can now (just) get SBS, and I'll try suggestions like better coax cable to improve the signal strength more. Luckily, because it's digital TV, just good enough still gives perfect picture. Unfortunately, I can't replace the aerial

EyeTV general comments, improving reception quality

2006-05-18 Thread Josh McKinnon
the reception locator to manually tune the station(s), then find your reception hotspot: http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?sectionID=22 cheers, Josh Josh McKinnon : http://josh.corduroy.biz/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Macbooks are out!

2006-05-17 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 17/05/2006, at 8:28 , Rod wrote: Reg Whitely wrote: Hi Martin Black, but why? From my early reckonings, I could buy a white upgraded to 100gb drive / 512mB Ram for $2104 Edu Au, but a black 80gb / 512mB RAM costs $2159.30 Edu Au. Que, Manuel? Or is it too late in the night for me to

Re: SFTP and Resource Forks

2006-03-09 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 09/03/2006, at 14:34 , Antony N. Lord wrote: I frequently SSH / SFTP in to my machine at home with Interarchy to grab needed files. How do I deal with dragging files over with resource forks such as clippings etc? Can I command line gzip them or something? tar on Tiger always

Re: changing HD icon

2006-03-08 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 04/03/2006, at 9:29 , wyvern wrote: The image is in the clipboard, select HD and get info, click on the HD icon and paste... the icon from the clipboard replaces the old iconright? Wrong... I cannot get it to work. I try another folder and that icon changes no problem but the HD

Re: ADSL2 router with VoIP

2006-03-07 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 04/03/2006, at 15:29 , Mike Fuller wrote: To further Yvonne's request, could users give their opinions on the suitability, or not, of different routers for ADSL2 with VoIP. I have the D-Link DSL-604G Wireless ADSL router. Note, it doesn't do VoIP, but the issues may be the same with

Re: Apple plans a special event to introduce new products onTuesday,February 28

2006-02-28 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 28/02/2006, at 16:04 , Rod wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 15:35 +0800, Brett Carboni wrote: Apple branded 'boom box' to output sound from iPod. On my wish list would be a touch screen iPod with handwriting recognition so I can replace my Newton (P910) but I think the chances of that are

Re: Address Book and Thunderbird !

2006-02-27 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 26/02/2006, at 8:53 , Robert Howells wrote: Does anybody know how to get Address Book addresses into Thunderbird ... please ? Try this: Click on All in the Groups column, then Export Group vCard... You may be able to import the result into Thunderbird -josh

Re: have a read.....

2006-02-22 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 21/02/2006, at 21:18 , James / Hans Kunz wrote: are you ipod user?, then have a read..James Police warning for iPod users http://tinyurl.com/af5p8 from the article... --- Police have warned that cyclists should never listen to an iPod while riding unless they have a death wish.

Re: podcast

2006-02-21 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 21/02/2006, at 8:58 , Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 21/02/2006, at 7:41 AM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Does a podcast actually download to one's computer? I've done a variety of searches but can't locate a file. Merv -- You don't say what software you use to subscribe to your

Re: Photoshop on new Intel Macs

2006-02-21 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 21/02/2006, at 11:04 , Mike O'Grady wrote: In particular have a look at: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/imac-coreduo.ars/6 Ouch! If you are mostly in Photoshop, the options seem to be: -Wait until late 2006/early 2007 when CS 3 is Universal -Get a 20 iMac G5 *now*, since they

Re: re Need Help Please

2006-02-15 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 15/02/2006, at 13:46 , kevin Lock wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions to fix the problem of hundreds of attachments dropped onto the desktop. I went armed with all your suggestions to find that my mate had been successful in dragging all of them in small groups very very slowly to

Re: Disappearing disk space

2006-01-30 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 28/01/2006, at 14:34 , Severin Crisp wrote: I notice, as time goes on, that, despite reboots and all the usual good housekeeping chores being performed that the available space on my boot disk (20GB) is slowly reduced. Get Info shows that 10.54GB is used. As part of my backup

Re: Broadband set up

2006-01-25 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 24/01/2006, at 19:47 , Robert Howells wrote: On 24 Jan 2006, at 5:42 PM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: I am considering switching to broadband. IInet offer a one port Belkin Router with VoIP or a four port. My intention is to transfer my telephone account and computer connection into

Re: Broadband set up .. with VOIP

2006-01-25 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 25/01/2006, at 10:57 , Robert Howells wrote: On 25 Jan 2006, at 9:53 AM, Josh McKinnon wrote: but the phones , all of them , need to be behind a filter or filters. Although, if you are planning to use VoIP, then your setup will be somewhat different. In this case, your regular

Re: Broadband set up .. with VOIP

2006-01-25 Thread Josh McKinnon
I also notice that the Belkin 4-port ADSL/VoIP modem and the wireless version both have... a fail safe port, so if your ADSL line goes down or if you lose power to the modem through a power failure, the phones automatically routes calls through your standard telephone line. In essence,

Re: iBook Battery won't charge

2006-01-19 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 19/01/2006, at 12:56 , Rick Armstrong wrote: My spare 12 iBook battery was stored fully charged (I usually swap them around on a regular basis but haven't for a month+) now won't charge, showing 0% to 1%. The charging light shows green when it should show amber - is the battery

Re: Tiger print to PDF problems

2005-11-09 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 09/11/2005, at 8:21 , James Devenish wrote: The quality is just not there in the Print to PDF option - the colours are washed out and the lines are jaggy. That's really bizarre! The Print to PDF option preserves all quality that the programme offers -- that is why it typically produces

Re: PDFs in browser

2005-10-28 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 28/10/2005, at 14:33 , Edward Arrowsmith wrote: Is it possible to stop Safari from loading pdf files in a tab or browser window? Open a Terminal window, and type: defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES -josh

Re: crash problems

2005-08-31 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 31/08/2005, at 15:54 , Pat Scott wrote: Hello, WAMUGgers, Several days ago my desktop computer (1.42 Gz Dual processors, 2 Gb RAM, running 10.4.2) had a severe crash. I was using Epson PrintCD at the time, which I have always thought a little flaky, and a number of other

Re: automator - combine pdfs

2005-08-30 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 30/08/2005, at 10:52 , gary dorn wrote: Automator help is not much help! I have scanned some drawings as separate pdf files (A4) I selected them alland control clicked create workflow automator opened added combine pdf pages to workflow clicked run workflow execution complete

Re: Anyone here a wizz on Automator?

2005-08-26 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 26/08/2005, at 14:49 , Rod wrote: Hi All! Just wondering if someone might be able to help me out. I have an archive of web pages that form an online manual. All in all, there are about 380 different HTML pages. Is there anyone that can make an automator workflow that will convert

Re: ABC site

2005-07-22 Thread Josh McKinnon
browsers are crashing, it may be related to your Flash install. Does moving the Macromedia folder out of your Preferences help? -josh Josh McKinnon : http://josh.corduroy.biz/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CSS Problem

2005-07-20 Thread Josh McKinnon
Because you want footer-contact_numbers and footer-copyright to appear _within_ footer, I don't think position: absolute is what you want. try this instead: div#footer-contact_numbers { border: 1px solid black; float: left; left: 0;

Re: Mail.app and gMail

2005-07-01 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 30/06/2005, at 21:50 , Dark1 wrote: For this reason I won't get a gMail account or send any email to a gMail account. You probably just did :) -josh

Re: G5 iMacs on view!

2005-07-01 Thread Josh McKinnon
likely the a choice of the production company, rather than ABC, I think. I notice that Rove has a PowerBook on his Desk nowadays, too. Media penetration is good news... Josh McKinnon : http://josh.corduroy.biz/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adding User Problems

2005-06-16 Thread Josh McKinnon
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Re: Adding User Problems

2005-06-16 Thread Josh McKinnon
10.4? -josh Josh McKinnon : http://josh.corduroy.biz/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail accounts

2005-06-08 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 08/06/2005, at 15:51 , Severin Crisp wrote: I have five email accounts in mail with one having the predominant usage. Is there a setting to force the selection of New come up with a selected account. It invariably comes up with the one I least want and this causes confusion if I

Re: Other things from WWDC....

2005-06-07 Thread Josh McKinnon
be intelligent enough to notice anyway? -josh Josh McKinnon : http://josh.corduroy.biz/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Eroding disk space

2005-05-25 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 24/05/2005, at 16:52 , Severin Crisp wrote: When I went to Tiger I did an Erase and Install and in the process seemed to recover about 1GB of vanished disk space. Since then I have kept a notional track of my usage and seem to have about 0.5GB nibbled away somewhere. Clearing caches

Re: Getting Xcode projects to deploy

2005-05-20 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 20/05/2005, at 10:04 , Rod wrote: Hi All! Just a quick question to those on the list who use XCode. I'm a real newbie when it comes to programming. I have made an AppleScript Studio program, and a Cocoa program using CoreData. I have been able to get them to Build and Run with no

Re: Spotlight Quark

2005-05-12 Thread Josh McKinnon
On 12/05/2005, at 16:33 , Rod wrote: On 12/05/2005, at 4:11 PM, Brett Carboni wrote: Did a search on a word that I know is in a Quark doc using spotlight and it didn't find anything. Does anyone know if Spotlight works for Quark (specifically 6, but any would do) docs, or do you have

Re: wysiwyg fonts in Word 2004.

2005-05-09 Thread Josh McKinnon
are imac G3 600's and both as far as I can tell are identical. I also have a G5 imac and that also does not show fonts as wysiwyg in the selection boxes. Hugh Hi Hugh, Check under Preferences - General, that option WYSIWG font and style menus is checked. -josh Josh McKinnon : http

Re: M$ Word on Mac mystery

2005-05-01 Thread Josh McKinnon
the updates to Office v.X installed. I think the most recent version is 10.1.5. Oh - I just had a play with Pages, and it handles transparent .ai, .eps and .psd files superbly, though that may not be a solution for you.. -Josh Josh McKinnon : http://josh.corduroy.biz/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Word Attachments PC Users

2005-04-28 Thread Josh McKinnon
already created, you can just rename the file and add .doc -josh Josh McKinnon : http://josh.corduroy.biz/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]