Re: Opening attachment suffix. VMBX

2012-03-22 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Michael, Getting the email resent is probably much easier - but ;o) If text edit is showing you the text of the complete email including encoded attachment - ie the same as what you see if you viewed the email source by - in Mail - view/message/raw source OR - in Entourage - view/source

Re: PAL to NTSC

2012-03-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Severin, I would have thought Handbrake could do that http://handbrake.fr/ http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/12987/handbrake Their guide mentions PAL vs NTSC: https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/FramerateGuide So I would imagine that you just set the conversion parameter to match the NTSC

Re: Roxio Toast Offer Tutorial

2012-03-09 Thread Neil Houghton
get the link to work. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email On 02/03/2012, at 2:32 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: http://img.roxio.com/eng/pdf/online_tutorials/toast11

Roxio Toast Offer Tutorial

2012-03-01 Thread Neil Houghton
Just a heads up for anyone thinking of buying Toast 11 Titanium - today I received an email from them offering it at $99 rather than the standard $179 - though they do say: * Offer limited to Roxio e-mail subscribers. Offer ends midnight 31 July, 2012. This offer may be subject to change. This

Re: A Prairie Home Companion

2012-02-25 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Diana, This page http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/stations/ Says you can subscribe to a podcast of Garrison Keillor's monologue, The News from Lake Wobegon, but it won't include the whole show with music etc - this is the same as, say, Margaret Throsby's show on Classic FM where you can

Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help

2012-02-22 Thread Neil Houghton
/2012, at 6:42 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Diana, If you still think iPhoto is unnecessarily complicated, have you tried opening Image Capture with the camera connected by usb and seeing if Image Capture sees the Canon camera? I also prefer to organise my photos how I want to file them

Re: Aged iPhoto / iTunes Novice Needs Help

2012-02-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Diana, If you still think iPhoto is unnecessarily complicated, have you tried opening Image Capture with the camera connected by usb and seeing if Image Capture sees the Canon camera? I also prefer to organise my photos how I want to file them - rather than the way iPhoto wants to file them -

Re: I'm about to give up...

2012-02-19 Thread Neil Houghton
want to put into solving this problem - and what is YOUR time worth? Just my 2 (euro)cents worth ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 17/2/12 12:14 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: You

Re: I'm about to give up...

2012-02-16 Thread Neil Houghton
Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 17/2/12 8:13 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 16/02/2012, at 6:54 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Peter, I just went through the same exercise for Georgie's mum, Wendy (now 91). She had a VERY slow Vista

Re: Shift Key Problems

2012-02-15 Thread Neil Houghton
Jewels, I can only endorse what Ronni says - how would you feel if your hard drive just died (and they do!) Snow Leopard is a great operating system and offers real improvements on Leopard without the learning curve of more radical upgrades. As Ronni says, it is a pain free, very smooth upgrade

Re: Shift Key Problems

2012-02-14 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Jewels, So Daniel's research has highlighted the issue which seems to be causing the problem. Is your computer PPC or Intel. If it is PPC then you are stuck at Leopard and would probably have to look at one of the third party solutions Daniel mentions, eg Spark. If it is Intel then you can

Re: Shift Key Problems

2012-02-12 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Jewels, Did you ever sort out your keyboard problem? If so, what was the actual problem/solution? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 9/2/12 11:59 AM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Jewels

Re: Shift Key Problems

2012-02-08 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Jewels, If I understand you correctly, you are running 10.5.8 and would like the keys on your (older) keyboard to perform the functions as indicated on the keys - rather than the newer function allocations. It should be possible - I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and my keyboard works as it

Re: Shift Key Problems

2012-02-08 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Jewels, Daniel Ronni have given you lots to work on. I sometimes find it is helpful to really define the extent of the problem so: You are using an Apple Extended Keyboard with the numeric keypad on the right-hand side - so it is wired and not wireless - (this is exactly the same keyboard as

Re: Update - can now proceed with Snow Leopard Security Update 2012-001 version 1.1

2012-02-06 Thread Neil Houghton
Thanks very much for that Carlo. Your previous warning was too late for me (I'd already let Software update install the Security Update) - but at least it explained the probable culprit for why my Word 2004 kept locking up if I tried to save as. The patched update seems to have fixed the problem

Re: Word Perfect

2012-02-05 Thread Neil Houghton
I have a lot of old Wordperfect documents archived which I am not likely to need to open - but occasionally I want to refer to them. I found WordPerfect Spotlight Quick Look Plug-ins http://homepage.mac.com/herr/ This allows spotlight to search the files and gives quicklook the ability to view

Re: Search Box tip

2012-01-25 Thread Neil Houghton
the level folder to save the document. Thanks. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email On 24/01/2012, at 9:36 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: This one falls into the obvious when you

Search Box tip

2012-01-24 Thread Neil Houghton
This one falls into the obvious when you think about it category - so many of you will think doesn't everyone know that - but it never occurred to me until today! ;o) Being a Mac user from way before spotlight searches were introduced, I got into the habit of sorting all my documents into

Re: FRITZ!Box routers - sounds good??

2012-01-12 Thread Neil Houghton
know. Peter Sealy Thurgoona AUSTRALIA My girlfriend always laughs during sex --- no matter what she's reading. -- Steve Jobs (Founder, Apple Computers) On 11/01/2012, at 7:00 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, I have used Internode as my ISP and VoIP

FRITZ!Box routers - sounds good??

2012-01-11 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, I have used Internode as my ISP and VoIP provider for many years and I am very happy with them (I just hope that iiNet don't stuff them up!) I have just received a newsletter from them which drew my attention to a new router they are offering:

Re: FRITZ!Box routers - sounds good??

2012-01-11 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Bob, That is interesting. I just did a couple of checks at speedtest.net and got: Ping 56ms; Download 6.95 Mbps; Uplad; 0.32 Mbps (using Safari) Ping 34ms; Download 6.94 Mbps; Uplad; 0.33 Mbps (using Firefox) Interestingly, two test's on ZDNet's speedtest

Re: FRITZ!Box routers - sounds good??

2012-01-11 Thread Neil Houghton
. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 11/1/12 4:16 PM, Roger Kortas at rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: I have one and it is very good :) Sent from my iPad On 11/01/2012, at 4:00 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi all, I

Re: An unwell iMac G5

2012-01-07 Thread Neil Houghton
Hehe, No, it's not Adrian. Good luck, anyway ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 8/1/12 3:24 PM, Adrian Skehan at adrianske...@me.com wrote: Hi Jane, This is an off list reply as I would rather keep the

Re: PDFs, Preview, file size numbering, Oh My!

2012-01-04 Thread Neil Houghton
a complete version, still at 4.2MB. I forgot to test the previous version in Preview, which does have problems with the original 96. The new version doesn't. Adobe Reader V10.1.1 did not have problems with any of the versions. On 04/01/2012, at 8:17 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Ray, Thanks

Re: PDFs, Preview, file size numbering, Oh My!

2012-01-04 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ronni, on 5/1/12 12:21 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Neil, On 05/01/2012, at 12:02 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Ray, Thanks so much for that. Yes that all looks fine in Preview AND the custom page numbering is retained :o) I was interested when you said Adobe

Re: PDFs, Preview, file size numbering, Oh My!

2012-01-01 Thread Neil Houghton
. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/1/12 2:05 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Carlo, That's a good tip, thanks - I DID know about this but didn't actually think of it! - and I can't even blame the bubbles, they came

Re: PDFs, Preview, file size numbering, Oh My!

2012-01-01 Thread Neil Houghton
Administrator¹ will unsubscribe her from the mailing list), I am Perez (a very smart Toy Poodle who has been well trained by 'Mum Ronni' in IT Mac Support). Comments to your interesting concerns are added below. On 31/12/2011, at 8:09 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: First off, if you

Re: PDFs, Preview, file size numbering, Oh My!

2012-01-01 Thread Neil Houghton
the numbering dilemma at this stage. Curiouser and curiouser Mike Fuller On 01/01/2012, at 4:03 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: A further update - even though the file size has doubled - applying this filter does significantly reduce the image quality. I may end up just keeping both

Re: PDFs, Preview, file size numbering, Oh My!

2012-01-01 Thread Neil Houghton
type of compression. Perhaps Preview uncompressed the images and on saving failed to compress them again. Just idle speculation at this point. :-) C On 01/01/2012, at 17:49 , Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Mike, Yes, I'm not sure what is happening. It isn't the page swapping because the test

Re: Happy New Year

2011-12-31 Thread Neil Houghton
Oh Ronni, Thank YOU for all your generous help and support to us all. I hope you have a nice bottle of Champagne chilling (I know I have) and make sure you take the time to relax and enjoy it. I would also like to wish you all a Happy Healthy New Year with lots of iFun ;o) Cheers Neil --

PDFs, Preview, file size numbering, Oh My!

2011-12-31 Thread Neil Houghton
First off, if you are reading this BEFORE midnight... STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER (go find the Champagne). However, not heeding my own instructions, I'm posting this before the Bubbles confuse me further... OK, here's my problem (bear with me, it takes a little explaining): I found a digitised

Re: PDFs, Preview, file size numbering, Oh My!

2011-12-31 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Bob, Thanks for the suggestion/offer but, no, my problem is not so much making the changes and replacing the faulty page - I can do that easily enough by dragging the good page from one book to replace the faulty page in the other book (since each book has one faulty page but not the same

Re: PDFs, Preview, file size numbering, Oh My!

2011-12-31 Thread Neil Houghton
used to save the file, set the Quartz Filter to Reduce File Size. A quick note, I did not try this on a pre-Lion version of the OS so I am half guessing, and half filling in blanks from memory for that section. Let me know if it works. Cheers, Carlo On 31/12/2011, at 20:09 , Neil

40% off Roxio - until 31/12/2011

2011-12-29 Thread Neil Houghton
Just got this on the Roxio mailing list so thought I'd pass it on in case anyone was thinking of getting Toast: Save 40% on any Roxio branded product** bought from www.roxio.com until 31/12/2011. Visit our website and choose your product. Once happy with your purchase go to the cart and enter

Re: TV antennas

2011-12-03 Thread Neil Houghton
hope the above helps you improve your reception. On 02/12/2011, at 3:55 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hmmm Very interesting - and I wouldn't want to argue with your facts - however, it doesn't really reflect my experience. I only have the rabbit ears type indoor antenna and analogue reception

Re: TV antennas

2011-12-01 Thread Neil Houghton
Hmmm Very interesting - and I wouldn't want to argue with your facts - however, it doesn't really reflect my experience. I only have the rabbit ears type indoor antenna and analogue reception was (to be expected) poor/hard work so I was expecting to NEED an external antenna when I went digital.

Re: 27 iMac Screen going black but not sleeping

2011-11-30 Thread Neil Houghton
Hehe, When I had this panic, it was because I had forgot I had set one corner to black the screen out ;o) However, I am sure you have already checked this? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 30/11/11 12:12 PM, S

Re: Online backup methods

2011-11-23 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Severin, Yes, I set-up a free Dropbox account and was amazed at how easy and user-friendly it all was. Besides being another layer of backup (being off-site) it has a heap more uses - eg it was very useful on our holidays, Georgie I both have our own Dropbox accounts and: * We could save

SuperDuper Smart Update confused?

2011-11-15 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, When we recently went overseas, I bought a 1TB portable usb drive for ongoing back-ups of our MacBook Pro (I already had desktop drive backups at home). The MacBook Pro has a nominal 200GB HD and currently shows a capacity of 185.99GB with 136.38 on disk and 49.61GB available. I would

Re: SuperDuper Smart Update confused?

2011-11-15 Thread Neil Houghton
IS smart - it's the operator that isn't ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 16/11/11 12:30 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi all, When we recently went overseas, I bought a 1TB portable usb drive

Re: Find my iPhone - Showing 'no device registered'

2011-11-10 Thread Neil Houghton
And hopefully before the finder removes the SIM and puts his/her own in :o( Georgina lost her phone (not an iphone) at KL airport and we tried calling it back (whilst still in the airport) within 30 mins but got a this number cannot be contacted message - we are assuming the SIM was removed

Re: HELP - dead iphone? - in Paris

2011-09-30 Thread Neil Houghton
, Have you tried a Hard Reboot? A Hard Reboot : Hold the power and home buttons until you see the display go dark and Apple¹s logo appears. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 26/09/2011, at 6:34 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi folks, This is a somewhat forlorn plea - as I think

HELP - dead iphone? - in Paris

2011-09-26 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi folks, This is a somewhat forlorn plea - as I think I know the unpalatable answer :o(( We are in Paris. I have been trying to use my iPhone. It has been hard as the so-called wi-fi internet at the apartment is an ibook with a 3G modem in it. I won't go into the details of that - I sort of got

Re: HELP - dead iphone? - in Paris

2011-09-26 Thread Neil Houghton
6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/9/11 3:18 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Neil, Have you tried a Hard Reboot? A Hard Reboot : Hold the power and home buttons until you see the display go dark and Apple¹s logo appears. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 26/09/2011, at 6:34 PM, Neil

Internet application warning won't go away

2011-09-11 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, I just set-up my laptop for our coming holiday I also ended up re-installing Dropbox - but now I keep getting the warning about Dropbox being an application downloaded from the internet - I expect to get this message the FIRST time I open it after downloading - but it keeps coming up

Re: Internet application warning won't go away

2011-09-11 Thread Neil Houghton
...@possumology.com on 12/9/11 7:25 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 11/09/2011, at 4:12 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, I just set-up my laptop for our coming holiday I also ended up re-installing Dropbox - but now I keep getting the warning about

Finder problems

2011-09-05 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, If you are like me, you often use the finder get info to check the size of large folders prior to moving or copying. If you are like me you believe what it tells you ;o) However, recent events have given me pause to question whether this confidence is misplaced: 27 iMac, 2.8 GHz Intel

Re: Unrecognised

2011-08-31 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Severin, Why the same poor quality cable plugged into the hub none the less worked is not clear though. Presumably the hub has it¹s own power supply ­ it could just be down to the limitations of the power output from the iMac port coupled with high cable losses from the long cheap cable and

10 iconic Steve Jobs moments

2011-08-25 Thread Neil Houghton
Some good clips here on the SMH: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/10-iconic-steve-jobs-momen ts-20110826-1jd2o.html Enjoy! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group

Iphone 4 - how do I increase the ring time

2011-08-23 Thread Neil Houghton
I've checked everything under settings but I can't see how to change how long the phone rings. I have been missing a LOT of calls with the phone in my jeans pocket and me not even hearing the ring (volume is set to full) - then when I was sat in a quiet corner I figured out why - the phone only

Re: Iphone 4 - how do I increase the ring time

2011-08-23 Thread Neil Houghton
you can adjust it from within your voicemail settings as well). Kind regards Daniel On 23/08/2011, at 7:22 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: I've checked everything under settings but I can't see how to change how long the phone rings. I have been missing a LOT of calls with the phone in my

Re: Magic Mouse

2011-08-22 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Severin, I got a trackpad recently and bought the Apple rechargeables and charger to go with it ­ the package comes with 6 batteries. So now I have the charger plugged-in and to hand by the computer with: * One pair in the Magic mouse * One pair in the Trackpad * One pair in the charger I

Annotations in preview

2011-08-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, I'm probably missing something obvious here but... I've been finding the annotations feature of Preview very useful with my genealogy research when I print out a webpage as pdf (say a census search or free BMD search) and then add some notes of my own - say to put a person in context to

Re: Annotations in preview

2011-08-21 Thread Neil Houghton
-Core i7 ³Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard OS X 10.7 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 21/08/2011, at 2:24 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, I'm probably missing something obvious here but... I've been finding the annotations

Video DownloadHelper no longer works in Firefox?

2011-08-17 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, Anyone else out there use Firefox with the Video DownloadHelper extension. I've used it for a few years now and it always worked well - though I don't use it that frequently. Today I tried to download a youTube video but it didn't work - basically it seemed like it tried to start (the

Apology, slightly off-topic - TheFunTheory

2011-08-17 Thread Neil Houghton
Apologies for straying off-topic - I'm going to make the (tenuous) Mac link: Think different ;o) I just thought this was great lateral thinking - compare the percentage on the escalator before after! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany,

Re: Images problem

2011-08-17 Thread Neil Houghton
You¹ve got to watch those fiends ­ they can be, well, fiendish ;o) on 18/8/11 10:23 AM, John Hatch at j...@iinet.net.au wrote: A fiend sent a newsletter in pdf from word -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh

Re: Video DownloadHelper no longer works in Firefox?

2011-08-17 Thread Neil Houghton
of these updates, such as FireFox V 6, have only appeared in the last few hours and days. No problems downloading here; MacOS 10.6.8, MacPro 5,1, FireFox 6.0, Download helper 4.9.5. The download is much too big to send you as an attachment. On 17/08/2011, at 6:44 PM, Neil Houghton wrote

Login items appearing disappearing; WAS Re: iPhone has stopped opening iTunes

2011-08-17 Thread Neil Houghton
at all? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 16/8/11 3:15 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: You are a marvel Ronni! That was indeed the problem and the fix worked perfectly :o)) Thank you

Re: Video DownloadHelper no longer works in Firefox?

2011-08-17 Thread Neil Houghton
, Ronni On 18/08/2011, at 11:01 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: OK, thanks for that Ray. It's good to know someone has it working OK in Snow Leopard. - I'm planning on doing a bit of an upgrade/clean-up session in the near future - hopefully that will clear it all up. Though it doesn't explain

Re: Login items appearing disappearing; WAS Re: iPhone has stopped opening iTunes

2011-08-17 Thread Neil Houghton
info Ronni. I will remember all these tips for if the problem (or similar) re-occurs. Cheers, Ronni Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com On 18/08/2011, at 11:53 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Login items

Re: iPhone has stopped opening iTunes

2011-08-16 Thread Neil Houghton
that Telstra may have been correct (shock ;-) about it being unlocked regardless of your plan with them. Regards, John On 16/08/2011, at 11:12 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, After a prolonged troubleshooting process, I have finally got my iPhone unlocked from Telstra. I'll give the salient

Re: iPhone has stopped opening iTunes

2011-08-16 Thread Neil Houghton
, the actual IMIE may have a 7 as the actual last digit, but some of the network records may replace that 7 with a 0. Regards, Michael Hawkins. On 16/08/11 11:12 AM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi all, After a prolonged troubleshooting process, I have finally got my iPhone

Re: iPhone has stopped opening iTunes

2011-08-16 Thread Neil Houghton
Re-Connect the iPhone to your Mac and see if iTunes Opens automatically. Cheers, Ronni On 16/08/2011, at 12:39 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes, it is in there (with the hide box checked). Cheers Neil -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives

iPhone has stopped opening iTunes

2011-08-15 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, After a prolonged troubleshooting process, I have finally got my iPhone unlocked from Telstra. I'll give the salient details - in case it gives a clue to the current problem. The phone was bought at the Perth Applestore on a Telstra $49 cap plan - which was set-up by the Apple guy while

Re: iPhone has stopped opening iTunes

2011-08-15 Thread Neil Houghton
, is iTunesHelper there? Cheers, Ronni On 16/08/2011, at 11:12 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, After a prolonged troubleshooting process, I have finally got my iPhone unlocked from Telstra. I'll give the salient details - in case it gives a clue to the current problem. The phone

Re: Naming anomaly

2011-08-12 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Severin, It shouldn¹t be down to the user account name ­ for example my iMac has 3 accounts on it but it always shows up with the computer name at the top level ­ the user names come up when you want to log in and then when you want to access specific areas on the machine. Just to clarify,

Re: Firefox update

2011-08-09 Thread Neil Houghton
/ 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard OS X 10.7 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 08/08/2011, at 2:59 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Chris, I've been getting the same pop-ups - I was going to try 5.0.1 but, at the first step, I got a dialog warning

Re: Firefox update

2011-08-08 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Chris, I've been getting the same pop-ups - I was going to try 5.0.1 but, at the first step, I got a dialog warning that it was not compatible with some of my add-ons - since one of these was the 1Password extension, that made it a no-go for me. I'm happy to wait. Cheers Neil -- Neil

Re: iTunes Audio Books

2011-08-01 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Adrian, In iTunes select the item and do get info. Go the the options tab. Under the Media Kind drop down menu, change to Audiobook Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 2/8/11 9:32 AM, Skehan Adrian at

Iphone bike of the future?

2011-07-31 Thread Neil Houghton
Interesting article http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/bicycle-of-the-future-shifts-gear s-via-brain-waves-20110801-1i71s.html You¹re looking at the bike of the future, where you¹ll control gear shifts with your mind. This design concept is now in the prototype stage, and from the looks

Podcast hidden metadata?

2011-07-29 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, I'm hoping one of the iTunes gurus might be able to help me here. I was thinking of stretching the grey matter by trying out some of the podcast language learning series. One of the ones I picked was Coffee Break Spanish I subscribed with no problem and used get all to download all the

Re: Podcast hidden metadata?

2011-07-29 Thread Neil Houghton
on that very subject. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1468 Cheers, Carlo On 2011-07-29, at 15:13, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, I'm hoping one of the iTunes gurus might be able to help me here. I was thinking of stretching the grey matter by trying out some of the podcast language

Re: Podcast hidden metadata? - NOW SOLVED!

2011-07-29 Thread Neil Houghton
and adding them back. It sounds dramatic but it is quite easy to do and in my case it worked. Cheers, Carlo On 2011-07-29, at 15:58, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Carlo, I checked out the link but basically this covers where the separation occurs because of differences in metadata, eg

Re: Dropbox and aliases of files

2011-07-25 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ian, I don't know if you are interested in a slightly different approach, but Apple do also provide the iPad (and other) user guide in ebook format: http://itunes.apple.com/au/book/ipad-user-guide-for-ios-4.3/id423853345?mt= 11 Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia

Apple Australia slashes app prices by up to 25%

2011-07-13 Thread Neil Houghton
Prices on Apple's iTunes App Store in Australia have been slashed to take into account the recent surge in the Australian dollar. Apple Australia confirmed today that for Australia and some other countries, pricing on apps - but not music, books or movies - had been adjusted due to changes

Re: Telstra starts censoring the internet

2011-07-07 Thread Neil Houghton
in control of what websites children visit at home and at school. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 7/7/11 2:54 PM, Matthew Healey at mat...@mac.com wrote: On 06/07/2011, at 11:00 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Yes, I

Only in Australia!

2011-07-07 Thread Neil Houghton
Aussies' novel iPhone bottle opener case http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/iphone/aussies-novel-iphone-bottle-opene r-case-20110707-1h2x9.html And on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBUQVtIRX9g Cheers!! Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email:

Re: Using telephony with USB internet modems

2011-07-06 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Steven, If I understand you correctly, you have internet access and a wireless network already set-up and working - and now you want to make VOIP phone calls over this network. You also have an iPhone 3G, which can connect to the network via wifi, so I would have thought a VOIP app for the

Iphone tricks - Take a Screenshot, Move dock icons

2011-07-06 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi, Apologies if you all know these - but it was news to me (I think) pretty cool ;o) Take a Screenshot - To take a screenshot, hold the home button and click the sleep button. The screen will flash white and the screenshot will be stored in your camera roll. Move dock icons - You'd

Re: Telstra starts censoring the internet

2011-07-05 Thread Neil Houghton
Yes, I have to agree. I have used OpenDNS for quite some time now ­ started when there was a DNS security scare some time ago ­ the scare soon came went as the ISPs got on top of it but I left it set up with open DNS anyway. It occasionally refuses to load some sites which are on some

Re: Personal Library folder hidden in Lion

2011-07-05 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Carlo, I often check in this folder when wondering how some new software does things - so it would be a nuisance to have it hidden. Equally, having turned on the hidden file visibility in the past, I would not want that clutter as a permanent feature! However, as documented in this article

Re: Personal Library folder hidden in Lion

2011-07-05 Thread Neil Houghton
And apparently: It¹s a lot easier than that. Just press and hold the ³option/alt² key, and you can choose ³Go to Library² in the Go menu of the Finder. -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 6/7/11 11:29 AM, Neil Houghton at n

Re: Accounting software

2011-07-03 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ronni, Hmmm, for me, I get badly pixellated video with no real sound (breaks up then drops out) Checking speedtests for me picking Perth/Adelaide servers was: Download: 6.93/6.92 Mb/s Upload: 0.31/0.32 Mb/s Latency: 40/64ms What sort of speeds DO you need to get a

Re: Accounting software

2011-07-03 Thread Neil Houghton
, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 3/7/11 1:53 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Ronni, Hmmm, for me, I get badly pixellated video with no real sound (breaks up then drops out) Checking speedtests for me picking Perth/Adelaide servers

Re: DNLA servers

2011-07-02 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Hugh, OK, given that I always bullshit best when unencumbered by any real knowledge of the facts ;o) a couple of thoughts: I suspect I will only get the same stuff I get from my apple tv in terms of connectivity, if that is the case then I don¹t really need to do it. Not

Roxio Half Price Sale - 2 Days Only

2011-06-28 Thread Neil Houghton
As a Roxio customer, I get regular mailings and noticed that they are offering 50% off ANY Roxio product bought from www.roxio.com until 1 July 2011 (don't know which timezone sets the cut-off!) Just buy as normal but use the following voucher code in the Promo Code box: ROX50OFF I'm happy

SkySafari 3 App - Free till 18 June

2011-06-15 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, I just came upon this: SkySafari 3 iOS Universal LUNAR ECLIPSE SPECIAL - FREE UNTIL JUNE 18th, 2011! MACWORLD 2010 BEST OF SHOW WINNER! I've downloaded it but haven't tried it yet - so no feedback. However, good press and the price is right! iTunes Preview link:

Re: SkySafari 3 App - Free till 18 June (and iCloud)

2011-06-15 Thread Neil Houghton
to be logged in with an Apple ID. Cheers, Carlo On 2011-06-16, at 12:20, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, I just came upon this: SkySafari 3 iOS Universal LUNAR ECLIPSE SPECIAL - FREE UNTIL JUNE 18th, 2011! MACWORLD 2010 BEST OF SHOW WINNER! I've downloaded it but haven't tried it yet

Re: Modem recommendations ?

2011-06-12 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Severin, I was wondering ­ are these freeze-ups something that started happening in the last year or so? I know when I first got Broadband in Albany around 4 years ago, my connection would stay up for many months on end without re-connecting ­ then I would get the occasional lock-up which

Re: Modem recommendations ?

2011-06-12 Thread Neil Houghton
Ok, thanks for that Bob. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 12/6/11 4:46 PM, Robert Howells at rhowe...@arach.net.au wrote: Neil, You said Telstra playing silly buggers down at the exchange! Because it

Re: Typo corrected: FW: Westnet Invoices

2011-06-09 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Michael, I¹ve always been happy with Internode since changing from SmallPuddle four years ago. I can¹t comment too much on their customer service since I haven¹t really had reason to call on it. The only unilateral action on their part, wrt my account, was increasing the download quota and

Re: Sign or Encrypt Email Messages

2011-06-07 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ronni, I¹m not sure (I wasn¹t paying that close attention) but I thought that the iOS 5 presentation said that S/MIME will be supported in iOS 5 ­ to be released ³this fall² Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on

Re: iPhones and Bigpond

2011-05-24 Thread Neil Houghton
Daniel On 24/5/11 1:04 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Bill, Hi Ronni, I¹m pretty sure that Bigpond (and many other ISPs) do not now let you use outgoing SMTP servers other than their own. I vaguely remember that I used to do this with a domain I manage (route

Re: iPhones and Bigpond

2011-05-24 Thread Neil Houghton
, Daniel Kerr at wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Hi Neil Answers as below. On 24/5/11 3:28 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Daniel, But isn't the difference here that you are only using a different network when you are connected through wireless broadband (out

Re: iPhones and Bigpond

2011-05-23 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Bill, Hi Ronni, I¹m pretty sure that Bigpond (and many other ISPs) do not now let you use outgoing SMTP servers other than their own. I vaguely remember that I used to do this with a domain I manage (route the outgoing mail through the domain mail server) but several years ago this stopped

Re: Iviewfox - command line downloader

2011-05-20 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Yanski, I've found that one 2-episode program (Moby Dick) continually fails before completing download - always fails @ around 70%-80% of the 455MB file. I've already increased the timeout setting (to 2000!) but that doesn't help - so I decided to try out the command line downloader - to

Re: Iviewfox - command line downloader

2011-05-20 Thread Neil Houghton
Sorry about that - ignore the post - meant to send direct to Yansky on 20/5/11 3:32 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Yanski, I've found that one 2-episode program (Moby Dick) continually fails before completing download - always fails @ around 70%-80% of the 455MB

1Password, Firefox4, Firefox PDF plug-in, 32-bit operation

2011-05-18 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, Since I know there are a few 1Password users out there and also some Firefox users - I thought I would pass on the following: Yesterday I finally decided to upgrade to Firefox4. A good move I think/hope - it seems much snappier. After setting up the toolbar how I like it and moving the

Re: Moving files in Finder

2011-05-14 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Peter, Did you have a quicklook window open showing one of the photos in question? I'm very vague on this - just going on a memory of something that I might have noticed. I think I was emptying the trash and, before doing so, had checked out just what I was throwing out by cycling

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