Re: 10.5.4 is available

2008-06-30 Thread Neil Houghton
Gawd - that would be right - 2 days after I FINALLY got round to downloading the 10.5.3 update!! on 1/7/08 9:27 AM, Daniel Kerr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All 10.5.4 is available via Software Update or for download:- http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ Weighs in at 561MB :o)

Re: Suitable software for interactive chart/work flows?

2008-06-30 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Greg, Sounds like most typical project management software - years ago we used to use Microsoft Project but then they stopped doing the Mac version! Version tracker should come up with many alternatives but I haven't used any for many years so I couldn't recommend any particular one. Again,

Off-topic - Jet-man and his wing

2008-06-26 Thread Neil Houghton
Sorry, I couldn't think of a Mac link - but I reckon it's really amazing - I know we have a few aviation enthusiasts on the list!!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dST-a5IU_h4 -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User

Re: Windows for Intel Mac

2008-05-09 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ian, What I did was import the VPC virtual machine into parallels. If you still have your G4 and VPC, set it up as you want your Windows machine, then use Parallels to import the virtual machine. Alternatively, if you no longer have a G4/G5 able to run VPC (or if you are already happy with

SPAM? Malware?

2008-05-07 Thread Neil Houghton
Just received an email with no content, no subject and apparently from no-one! If you view the message source it just shows: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from nskntingx04p.mx.bigpond.com ([92.113.126.10]) by nskntmtas03p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id [EMAIL

Vodafone to sell Apple's iPhone in Australia

2008-05-06 Thread Neil Houghton
But probably not exclusively: http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/vodafone-to-sell-apples-iphone-in-austra lia/2008/05/06/1209839632618.html -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: text to audio

2008-04-28 Thread Neil Houghton
On version tracker it's: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20858 Says it is freeware Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 28/4/08 4:41 PM, Graham Byatt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Text Reader

Re: Bigpond mail problems: FW: Delivery Status Notification (Delay)

2008-04-22 Thread Neil Houghton
bigpond, hotmail, comcast, etc. It took nearly 2 weeks to completely clear. Don't know if that's what's happening now, but would guess not as I've only a fraction of bounce-backs and only from bigpond this time. Barb On 22/4/08 10:20 AM, Neil Houghton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Bigpond mail problems: FW: Delivery Status Notification (Delay)

2008-04-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Is anyone else experiencing bigpond email problems? Yesterday I was getting an error message trying to retrieve mail from bigpond (other non-bipgpond email accounts working fine). To keep an eye on things I sent off a couple of test emails to my bigpond address. Later the connection problem

Re: WARNING AND SORRY

2008-04-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Yes, I also got it when I sent my last post (not a reply) to WAMUG - does that mean the problem is now on the WAMUG server? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 22/4/08 12:30 PM, Ronda Brown at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Bigpond mail problems: FW: Delivery Status Notification (Delay)

2008-04-21 Thread Neil Houghton
before realising the email has not reached its destination. I'll be interested to know if anyone has any further knowledge of the problem. Regards Laura On 22/04/2008, at 10:20 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Is anyone else experiencing bigpond email problems? Yesterday I was getting

What's up, doc? Sinking standards

2008-04-10 Thread Neil Houghton
Acceptance of Microsoft's document format as an international standard has not pleased everyone. An interesting article in the SMH: http://www.smh.com.au/news/perspectives/whats-up-doc-sinking-standards/2008 /04/08/1207420317483.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 Cheers Neil -- Neil R.

Re: macbook slowing

2008-04-02 Thread Neil Houghton
Well, if he has an email account in an email program eg entourage he probably has a database - don't know if that is relevant though. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2/4/08 5:07 PM, Rosemary Horton at [EMAIL

Re: office 2004 2008 problem

2008-04-01 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Roger, This is a very vague memory, from the mists of time! - It therefore may have no relevance at all to you!! I seem to remember having an unexplained problem with an earlier version of word which I eventually tracked down to the normal template which had somehow become corrupted. I got

Re: .Trashes directoy

2008-03-31 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Clyde, Have you done empty trash when the drive is mounted. I think that for the USB drive, like any other disk, deleting a file does not really delete it - just moves it to trash (in this case the trashes files on the drive). To really delete files you have to empty the trash! Hope that

Re: pages: square root in table

2008-03-18 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Gary Do you mean the formula to calculate it or the symbol for it? If the symbol then character palette is your friend for all this kind of thing: - Show character pallette - View all characters - by category - Select mathematical Symbols They are all in there including the square root. If

Re: Opening PDFs in Firefox

2008-03-18 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Diana This article Outwit PDF annoyances is a little old but quite informative: http://www.macworld.com/article/52132/2006/08/septworkingmac.html Hope that helps Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 19/3/08 7:26 AM, Diana

Re: technical help at home

2008-03-12 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Pail, Also never rule out a dodgy phone line - just because Telstra says it checks out OK doesn't mean it is OK!! At my last house I had ongoing grief for 2 or three years - sometimes things would be OK, sometimes they would be really bad - several phone calls to Telstra but they just wanted

Apple unveils plans for iPhone 2.0

2008-03-06 Thread Neil Houghton
But when will we see it in OZ!? http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/apple-unveils-plans-for-iphone-20/2008/0 3/07/1204780028979.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing

Re: Please Verify Your Account

2008-02-29 Thread Neil Houghton
HeHe Methinks the spammers need to recruit somebody with better english skills if they want to uncrease their credibility! -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 1/3/08 11:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: PayPal Chief says 'Drop Safari' - PayPal vs Paymate

2008-02-29 Thread Neil Houghton
Out of interest - why did WAMUG go with the US PayPal system rather than the AUS Paymate for subscriptions? No implied criticism, I'm just interested because at some stage I want to put an online subscribe feature up for a group I'm involved with. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany,

Re: Ian's First WebSite Post - Comment re Office 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Neil Houghton
to xls/doc/ppt/pps/ many more, it only costs us much as you donate. http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php cheers James On 27/02/2008, at 10:05, Neil Houghton wrote: Looks good, I just left a comment - then, cos I'm not sure how many members would go check them out

Re: Ian's First WebSite Post - Comment re Office 2008

2008-02-27 Thread Neil Houghton
Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 28/2/08 11:35 AM, Peter Bull at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why have Microsoft killed off macros in Excel - they are a very useful function? On 27/02/2008, at 6:53 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Well, for my part, I've had used Excel for more

Re: A Word 2008 funny one

2008-02-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Hmmm Not President Gates then ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 21/2/08 5:24 PM, Severin Crisp at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Word 2008 if I Type in President it auto completes to President Clinton!! I am sure

Malware??

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Houghton
I just had an experience I found very disturbing. I was using Firefox to view a reputable site (a Sydney Morning Herald 'Business Day' page) when a small firefox message window opened up. It was similar, I think, to the windows that open up when you submit an incomplete form - you know the ones

Re: iMac for games?

2008-01-14 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Paul, I have a new 24 iMac which came with 1GB Ram. I am about to upgrade to 4GB, at which point the 1GB RAM module will be redundant so I would probably look to sell it. This is the actual original Apple-installed RAM, which they charge an exorbitant $220 for if you want another installed!

Re: iMac for games?

2008-01-14 Thread Neil Houghton
Thanks to Peter Dennis for that feedback. I guess I tend to go to Streetwise Zytech for a quick price check because I know they are both Mac-focussed and historically I have bought from them both with good service at a good price (though my previous purchases were not RAM). I have previously

Australian Macworld Website

2008-01-14 Thread Neil Houghton
Is now up running: http://www.macworld.com.au Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -

Re: Scanners and Elements

2008-01-11 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi John Elements 5 is Windows only. The latest currently available Mac version is Elements 4 - however Adobe has announced the release of Elements 6 for the Mac (they are skipping over 5!) due in March. Adobe are offering free shipping for pre-orders and if you use the Macworld coupon code

Re: Reverse directory

2008-01-06 Thread Neil Houghton
Dunno, but the link that Antony posted certainly works even has a map link that shows the address on google maps! http://greypag.es/ Seems to have the old white pages on a database 'cos it shows earlier year listings as well (ie if someone different was listed against the number last year).

Re: XP pro on parallels - try to upgrade to SP2 - now windows wont start!

2007-12-23 Thread Neil Houghton
it is installed on seems to keep them happy. Don't know if that helps - apart from saying it all works fine. Cheers ... Clyde On 23/12/2007, at 4:02 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: I've posted this to the parallels forums but I thought I'd see if any of our WAMUG gurus had any suggestions

Re: Intel Mac Concerns I II

2007-12-23 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Rosie, Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious but did you set-up iStat to show all the fan info you want to see. There are two areas on the settings (click the info button on the widget to bring up the settings) you want to check: Under Sections: make sure that fans and temps are checked Under

XP pro on parallels - try to upgrade to SP2 - now windows wont start!

2007-12-22 Thread Neil Houghton
I've posted this to the parallels forums but I thought I'd see if any of our WAMUG gurus had any suggestions/answers: -- POST 1: -- I just installed parallels 3 (build 5582) on my 24 2.4 GHz intel iMac running 10.4.11. I imported a vpc virtual machine (running a fairly old

Re: Embedded images in Mail ??

2007-12-14 Thread Neil Houghton
H, that's a lot of work for an application from Apple (it just works!) Even though I'm certainly no MS fan, I guess I'll stick with Entourage for the present (it does just work for me!). (stands back waits for the backlash!) Have fun! Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia

FW: Embedded images in Mail ??

2007-12-14 Thread Neil Houghton
-- Forwarded Message From: Lloyd White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:01:06 +0900 To: Neil Houghton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Conversation: Embedded images in Mail ?? Subject: Re: Embedded images in Mail ?? I know there are many people who refuse to use any MS applications but I

Re: office 2004

2007-12-13 Thread Neil Houghton
But note that MS do not say it is Leopard compatible - for that you have to wait till Office 2008 is released. Having said that, people are running it - some OK some reporting some problems - browse the various forums for more info (I don't remember which specific ones I saw this in). HTH

Re: Western Digital HD

2007-12-11 Thread Neil Houghton
As Mark says, the 2 TB version will be 2x1TB disks - I've got the 1TB Pro Edition II which also contains two drives (500Gb ea) but the case is not a throw-away and the manual gives you instructions on replacing a drive. Also it came with the software: My Book RAID Manager for Mac My Book RAID

Wireless USB adaptors

2007-12-02 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, I have a wireless network set-up using a billion ADSL router (model VoIP/802.11g ADSL2+ Firewall Router). I don't currently use the wireless as my wireless-equiped G5 iMac is sat right next to the router - so I just use the ethernet connection. However, I have tested the set-up and I

Re: Wireless USB adaptors

2007-12-02 Thread Neil Houghton
Sorry - a cut paste problem - the router model number should read: Billion BiPac 7402VGP VoIP/802.11g ADSL2+ Firewall Router on 3/12/07 11:13 AM, Neil Houghton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a wireless network set-up using a billion ADSL router (model VoIP/802.11g ADSL2

Re: WTB: Airport card

2007-12-02 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Josh, Yeah, main attractions of a USB adaptor for me are: 1) Easy to swap between two computers (both are 2nd computers so we won't want to use both simultaneously) 2) Should? have a better wireless range so handle the brick/granite walls better. Ebay have a few original airports for sale -

Re: New Macs?

2007-11-26 Thread Neil Houghton
on 27/11/07 9:46 AM, Paul Weaver at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last Friday Myer were offering their Macs for ten percent off. Now Apple Oz have announced a one day online sale for 30 Nov. Have you got a link for this - I just checked Apple Oz website couldn't see any reference to it?

Re: New Macs?

2007-11-26 Thread Neil Houghton
Cancel that!! There it was hiding in full view in the middle of the page!!! Call it a senior moment! on 27/11/07 9:46 AM, Paul Weaver at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last Friday Myer were offering their Macs for ten percent off. Now Apple Oz have announced a one day online sale for 30 Nov.

Re: Attachments

2007-11-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Severin, Apparently the .webloc extension is a mac generated URL, see: http://www.fileinfo.net/extension/webloc So some possibilites that come to mind are: 1) She is sending you the url to an online file - in which case a browser should take you there. 2) She is sending you the pdf but

Re: MAC OS 10.4.11 Plus Safari 3.0

2007-11-15 Thread Neil Houghton
on 16/11/07 9:30 AM, Metal Artwork Creations at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Updated to above last night. All works fine except COMSEC stock codes. Webpage says codes invalid. Tried on backup clone - 10.4.10 without Safari upgrade and no probs Any members come across this and, more

Re: help weird access problem continued

2007-11-13 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Rosemary, Sounds pretty tricky! One thing I often find helps when it is not obvious where the problem lies is to try and narrow down the areas by elimination. Although, logically, the fact that you can connect OK suggests there is no problem with the website server or the modem and the fact

Re: Recommended hard drive for Time Machine ?

2007-10-26 Thread Neil Houghton
Yeah, I'm pretty happy with my 1TB WD MyBook. One thing to look out for is that WD label their MyBook units slightly differently depending on the interface. For example my triple interface (USB2.0, FW400, FW800) unit was called a MyBook Pro Edition II. They have apparently brought out some new

Re: Leopard - 1

2007-10-19 Thread Neil Houghton
, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 19/10/2007, at 2:46 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know at what point the new macs you buy come with Leopard. I had assumed it would be when Leopard is released - though I knew that recent pre-release

Re: Leopard - 2

2007-10-19 Thread Neil Houghton
on 19/10/07 3:38 PM, Robert Howells at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/2007, at 1:50 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, Another issue, following on from my previous post: I currently have a G5 iMac running Tiger 10.4 (as supplied + online updates) and a 800Hz G4 iMac running Jaguar

Re: Leopard - 2

2007-10-18 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, Another issue, following on from my previous post: I currently have a G5 iMac running Tiger 10.4 (as supplied + online updates) and a 800Hz G4 iMac running Jaguar 10.2 (a purchased update from the supplied 10.0). If I decide to postpone buying a new iMac but buy Leopard for the G5 iMac,

Re: Leopard - 1

2007-10-18 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, Does anyone know at what point the new macs you buy come with Leopard. I had assumed it would be when Leopard is released - though I knew that recent pre-release purchases qualified for a cheap upgrade. However, I just came across this: http://www.asia.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/ Which

Re: Entourage

2007-10-18 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ken, I don't think Apple gives away Office X with it's macs! If you bought it at the same time as the mac, the discs should have been supplied with it. Is it possible that you just had the trial version supplied with the Mac - and now the trial has expired - if so I expect your options will

Re: iLife 08 - HD Full

2007-10-11 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi David, As I posted a few weeks back, I find whatsize simple easy to use to get a quick handle on where all the space is being used: http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize And as an added bonus, it's free! :) HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8

Re: Panorama image stitching software for Mac? - really good VR panoramas

2007-10-04 Thread Neil Houghton
And then, idly surfing on from the calico site, I found these amazing VR panoramas of The State Historical Museum, Moscow: http://www.vrseattle.com/pages/browse.php?cat_id=431 Check out, for example: http://www.vrseattle.com/pages/vrview_fs.php?cat_id=431vrs_id=shmuseum14 Makes me want to phone

iPod index

2007-10-04 Thread Neil Houghton
The Commonwealth Bank, has used the latest version of Apple's music player - the slimline 4GB Nano - to compare global currencies and purchasing power in 55 countries. Along the lines of the Big Mac index launched 20 years ago by The Economist magazine, the survey prices the recently

Re: VMware Fusion vs Parallels - Any users?

2007-09-24 Thread Neil Houghton
Many thanks to Peter, Dustin Rod for their feedback - and a particular thankyou to Ken Houghton (no relation!) who scanned a Macworld comparison sent it to me. Seems like they both have their pros cons but both offer a good solution. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western

Re: iPhone locking in Australia

2007-09-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Nice thought Matt - I would be worried however that Oz being such a small market all they might just postpone the launch while they worked out how to stitch up the right sort of deal - remember how long we had to wait for the Oz Itunes Store while the rest of the world merrily bought music :(

VMware Fusion vs Parallels - Any users?

2007-09-12 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all Got a versiontracker email today spruiking VMware Fusion: Original Price: $79.99 Now Only: $59.99 Buy today and save $20! Run any PC application on Mac OS without rebooting! The most seamless way to run Windows applications on your Mac. From the proven leader in desktop

Re: [4Sale] WD My Book Pro II 1TB Backup HDD

2007-09-11 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Chris, Good product, but that sounds a bit expensive - I just (in July) bought one from HT on special for $469. Ordered it on a Friday arvo and for $18.69 freight charge they delivered it to me in Albany on the Monday lunch-time. Course, to be fair, I don't think the offer is on at the minute

Re: How to copy data from PowerBook G3 running OS9 ?

2007-09-03 Thread Neil Houghton
H, Not sure what your problem was, Pat. Maybe files created by old software that wouldn't run on the G4? Just transferring the data shouldn't be a problem - I made the leap from an old mac IIvx (68030 processor) direct to a Ti G4 powerbook with no problem transferring data. It was operating

Re: How to copy data from PowerBook G3 running OS9 ?

2007-09-03 Thread Neil Houghton
Ethernet 10Base-T was just the slower earlier implementation. It will talk happily with Ethernet 10-100 (though, obviously, only at the slower speed). My IIvx was only 10Base-T but talked happily to the faster machines (just slowly!) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia

Re: How to copy data from PowerBook G3 running OS9 ?

2007-09-02 Thread Neil Houghton
Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2/9/07 11:27 PM, Robert Howells at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/09/2007, at 6:54 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Steven, I'm going a bit on memory re OS9 but if you are going to transfer over ethernet, first make

Re: Portable HD

2007-08-29 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Laura, Seems like a reasonable price - Harris Technology is offering the same price: http://www.ht.com.au/affiliate/W17/part/U6810/detail.hts Their webpage also gives specifications for the unit. Other than that, I have no experience with this unit. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton

Re: Scanning Software advice

2007-08-28 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Rod, Thanks for the heads up on Image Capture. I'm still having a problem however: A while back I'd had a few goes at getting my Canon CanoScan N1240U scanner to work with OSX but gave up and left it connected to my old machine fired up Classic when I wanted to scan :( After your post, I

Blu-ray loses backers

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Houghton
Let's hope this isn't the start of a trend :( Japan's Toshiba and its partners gained a much-needed boost in the next-generation DVD format war after Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation said they would exclusively support HD DVD. The decision to drop the rival Blu-ray format is a

Re: Cleaning up hard drive

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Michael, I find whatsize simple easy to use to get a quick handle on where all the space is being used: http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize And as an added bonus, it's free! :) HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL

Re: My TV is a Mac!

2007-08-18 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ray, You say you use the EyeTV Hybrid - in which case it should be able to pick up Analogue TV as well as Digital - I am in Albany, so I can't vouch for channel 31 but I can pick up WIN and GWN (which have both still not started broadcasting digital TV) though, as you say, the content is far

Re: Router Firmware update

2007-08-16 Thread Neil Houghton
Lloyd, The .img file is, in fact, a disk image file: IMG files, which were used by Mac OS 9 and earlier versions of the Mac OS, were replaced by the newer .DMG disk image format in Mac OS X. Google gives more, eg: http://www.fileinfo.net/extension/img So you would need to first open the .img

Re: mouse responds intermittently

2007-08-12 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Genevieve, Is it an Apple Mightymouse - if so, it's probably nothing to do with your recent software installations but more than likely a mouse problem. The Mightymouse seems to be particularly prone to the scroll ball getting gunked up and either stopping working or behaving erratically.

Re: MS Snapshot file format

2007-08-08 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Tony, Google came up with this forum link: http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread191420.html Which suggests you may be out of luck. Your best approach might be to try to persuade the sender to distribute such things as pdfs - which nowadays is more or less the de-facto standard for

Test

2007-08-08 Thread Neil Houghton
Testing - I previously sent a message to WAMUG at 10:44 am but it hasn't come back to me yet at 15:19pm - also not showing on archives. -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Test

2007-08-08 Thread Neil Houghton
Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 8/8/07 3:20 PM, Neil Houghton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Testing - I previously sent a message to WAMUG at 10:44 am but it hasn't come back to me yet at 15:19pm - also not showing

Re: Backup Hard Drives?

2007-07-09 Thread Neil Houghton
fun. Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- on 20/6/07 8:44 PM, Neil Houghton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8/6/07 9:37 AM, Paul Kitchener at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Stew, I have recently bought

Re: Unlocking a different account in Users

2007-06-22 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi David ( Bob!) I set up separate user accounts for some different activities - Geneology, Music, General - it seemed like a good idea at the time!! (I think spaces in leopard is really what I want) - anyway, as Bob says, it is a bit of a pain when moving stuff around - but I generally manage!

Re: Backup Hard Drives?

2007-06-20 Thread Neil Houghton
on 8/6/07 9:37 AM, Paul Kitchener at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Stew, I have recently bought a few of these from Austin computers. One unit was a Western Digital 400gb SATA drive in a NexStar USB/Firewire case, $253. Not that my laptop owning client needed it but it also had an eSATA

Re: Weird Word!

2007-06-14 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Severin, You say there is no problem with existing documents, or documents started using templates - just new blank documents. As I understand it, a new blank document is based on the template Normal - so maybe the problem is with this default Template - if it got corrupted or saved with some

Re: Backup Hard Drives?

2007-06-08 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Paul, I was interested in your comments re different port configurations. I'm also weighing up the options. I like the flexibility of USB2 + Firewire and adding eSATA, as you say, gives a future flexibility bonus. On the other hand, there is also a certain appeal to the NAS approach.

Re: Email problems (was: What's happening to WAMUG postings)

2007-06-08 Thread Neil Houghton
Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** on 1/6/07 6:33 PM, Neil Houghton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Reg, No, unfortunately it's not spam filtering. I have the spam setting at internode set very weak and at present

Re: Email problems (was: What's happening to WAMUG postings)

2007-06-01 Thread Neil Houghton
to be sure good messages don't get sent there in miss-sorting. Could be an error in my machine or at iinet. But I don't know that I have lost anything, only miss-sorts at about the same time you mention. Laurie On 31/05/2007, at 8:25 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: ...SNIPPED... Anyway, does

Email problems (was: What's happening to WAMUG postings)

2007-05-31 Thread Neil Houghton
] wrote: On 31/05/2007, at 11:30 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: So my test post obviously got to WAMUG but never made it back to me. Also I still can't check what I missed because the archive link http://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/ Try this one instead. - matt -- The WA

Apple to bring YouTube videos to Apple TV + Bigger HD

2007-05-31 Thread Neil Houghton
From SMH: May 31, 2007 - 8:50AM Apple said on Wednesday it will soon introduce the ability for Apple TV users to access the popular YouTube service on their living room televisions through its video-streaming set-top-box. Beginning in mid-June, users of the Apple TV device will be able

Re: Share market Apps

2007-05-31 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ray Alan I did look at Pro TA gold but was put off by the fact that it seems to be US software with no Australian version. For anyone who uses it - how does it handle the Australian tax implications? EG: If I want to sell some shares and need to select from several parcels all with

What's happening to WAMUG postings

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Houghton
Is there/has there been a problem with the WAMUG list server is it now fixed? This morning I hadn't seen any WAMUG postings for a while thought I'd check the archives - but couldn't connect - trying just gave: The server at mail.wamug.org.au is taking too long to respond. So I sent a test

Re: What's happening to WAMUG postings

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Houghton
OK, that one came straight through so it seems to be all working now. Still don't know what I might have missed or what happened to my previous test?? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 30/5/07 8:23 PM, Neil Houghton

Re: What's happening to WAMUG postings

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Houghton
] on 30/5/07 8:49 PM, Matthew Healey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Neil, It wasn't at our end. Possibly something at Internode. - Matt On 30/05/2007, at 8:27 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: OK, that one came straight through so it seems to be all working now. Still don't know what I might have

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2007-05-29 Thread Neil Houghton
No mail for a while trying to access archives gives: The server at mail.wamug.org.au is taking too long to respond. -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Claris Works conversion

2007-05-26 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi John I guess it depends exactly what your problem is You need to look at it one step at a time (not necessarily in this order): 1) Get the file onto the iMac - if this is a problem because (as Merv assumes) it is on a floppy then options would include finding another mac or even a PC with

Re: iTunes and podcasts

2007-05-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Sev, It seems to me that if you download the mp3 file - ie the download audio link (for Radio National) then iTunes handles it like a music file (with a genre of podcast) - however if you subscribe to the podcast then iTunes puts them in the Podcasts library. I'm also finding this frustrating

Re: Share market Apps

2007-05-19 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Alan, No, this is one of my main bugbears. I would really love to find a good mac program for this. I ended up using excel and creating my own records/portfolios - but I wouldn't really recommend it!! I also buy and sell shares through commsec but now have both personal self-managed super

Re: Wierd G5 Tower external audio problems

2007-04-23 Thread Neil Houghton
You could use one of those programs which lets you route sound (Audio Hijack?) so that your system alerts aren't routed to the external speaker port. System noises to computer Audio to external port Just a thought. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063

Re: G4 PowerBook 15 Battery Problem

2007-04-19 Thread Neil Houghton
He He - sounds almost as bad as the control panel for my microsoft wireless mouse - I can select the Wireless Tab and currently see: Battery Status - Wireless mouse battery level: Good Signal Quality - Wireless mouse signal quality: High Which is pretty amazing really because there are no

Re: ABC radio

2007-04-12 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Sev, Yes, a strange inconsistency from ABC. I generally listen to Classic FM on the steam radio but sometimes make use of the fact that the internet stream runs on EST to take advantage of the 2hr difference if I prefer the program! My other half likes to listen to radio national - and we

Re: Autocad?

2007-04-11 Thread Neil Houghton
Well, Google Sketch-up is 3D and free - I haven't used it yet though so can't comment on suitability for cabinet design: http://sketchup.google.com/product_suf.html Hope that helps Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/4/07

Re: How can I save a series of images into one document?

2007-04-11 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Reg, It might help to know your reason/requirement. If it's just to be able to view with one open double-click then, as you say, Preview will open them as a batch and you can cycle through them - similarly slide-shows etc - but you say you don't want to do that. If it's just that you want to

Re: USB2 vs Firewire

2007-04-11 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Sev, I'm currently mulling this one over also. It may also depend on whether you have firewire 800 or only (as me) 400. I hear support for firewire as technically better for moving data, but I see the momentum going with USB, even from Apple!: - All new ipods are USB2 not firewire. - The new

The times they are a changin'

2007-04-09 Thread Neil Houghton
(with apologies to Bob Dylan) I thought it was interesting that in this review of 4 laptops the Mac (though somewhat damned by faint praise) got joint highest rating and HAD THE LOWEST PRICE. Made a nice change from the usual Mac comments of nice but expensive!

Re: A Word problem

2007-03-31 Thread Neil Houghton
Hmmm I think Sev had already found ways to work around changing the embedded image. His point, I think, was that if a PC with XP can display the word files (with embedded CMYK) correctly, surely there should be a way to make his Mac do this also! - Perhaps some plug-in or add-on. Cos we'd hate

Saving .swf files

2007-03-28 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, I'm sure I'm just missing something simple here but after viewing some slideshows online I wanted to save one. I identified the link to the source .swf file - in this case: http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/AudioSlideshow/27306/27306.swf If I go to this address the slideshow opens

Firewalls

2007-03-24 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, I've finally gone broadband (Internode 1500 power10) and now I'm re-examining my firewall set-up. At present I have the Mac OSX firewall turned on on both computers connected to the net (G5 iMac G4 iMac). However, I now connect to broadband via a BiPAC 7402VGP: VoIP/802.11g ADSL Router

How do smart folders work?

2007-03-19 Thread Neil Houghton
Once a week I update a number of spreadsheets which I have filed in various folders. After reading about smart folders I thought that this could save me some time navigating through the various folders. So. For the documents in question (well 3 of them as a trial), I opened their info pane

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2007-03-08 Thread Neil Houghton
Test - no wamug mail rec'd since 06/03/07 -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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