Re: New iPhone

2009-05-20 Thread Pontifex Family
I have been given a used 16gb 3G iPhone by my son who bought and used it in Singapore where he lives. He retained the SIM card for use in his new phone. I have never before looked at iPhone discussions as I had no interest in buying one [still don't, I think they are too expensive for my very

Re: Keep losing internet connection ??

2009-05-20 Thread Pontifex Family
Hi again folks, About 10 days ago we lost our landline. I reported it to Westnet (my all in one provider). It was restored about 2 days later. Ever since then I lose internet connection every couple of days. I do all the usual ... power off modem . . restart Mac etc !!! A few

Re: iPhone problems !!

2009-05-20 Thread Pontifex Family
Hi folks, I am interested to know if anyone else has had iPhone problems ? I got my iPhone 3G early January. In early April I could not hear anything when receiving or making calls. Took it to Telstra shop, they submitted for repairs and it was replaced with a new one. 2 weeks ago the

Re: g5 iMac Sporadically closing down?

2008-08-12 Thread Pontifex Family
Hi all, Hoping someone out there might point me somewhere useful :-) I have a 3 yr old 1.8 mhz g5 iMac (Just out of Applecare naturally.) Over the last few weeks, the machine has been working fine except that once every couple of days it makes a small pop and closes down For

Re: Sound is on the blink

2008-07-21 Thread Pontifex Family
My sound system has gone haywire. I can get a sound output from my saved files in iTunes, but when I download video files from various sources I get sight but no sound. I'm using a 20 iMac with 10.4.11. If you have installed Perian (which supplies codecs for audiovisual files), you may

FW: 10.3.7 Is Out- HELP!!

2004-12-17 Thread Pontifex Family
-- Forwarded Message From: Matt Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:15:30 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: 10.3.7 Is Out- HELP!! Downloading this update seems to have killed my powerbook. Any ideas? ...and I lost the ability to log in with the

Safari/10.3.6/DNS Addresses

2004-11-10 Thread Pontifex Family
In relation to Safari issues that Macfixit.com and some WAMUG members are reporting, I suspect that this is a DNS issue that is mostly resolved by adding the IP addresses of some DNS servers, not just that of the users ISP, to the DNS Servers section, in the TCP/IP section of the Network System

ANZ Internet Banking Safari

2004-02-09 Thread Pontifex Family
I have no problems with Safari 1.2 (and the related Java 1.4.2 update) and using the ANZ and National Bank internet banking services (including funds transfer). Safari 1.2 fixed my remaining outstanding problem with Safari and internet banking with these two banks, that being the inability of MS

IiNet's new Bliink contract

2002-06-19 Thread Pontifex Family
As many replies have noted, iinet does have many ADSL customers using Mac's (including this family on an ADSL freedom plan - which provides a fixed IP address) and set up was very easy, despite the lack of tech support. The main problem with this contract (now not available) was that for most

Re: XBOX

2002-03-27 Thread Pontifex Family
. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pontifex Family [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 26/3/02 5:54 PM, crazy_ebot at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *heh heh* check it out: http://www.penny-arcade.com/xboverview.php3 I'm pretty sure Penny-Arcade is sponsored by Sony ... :-) snip Penny Arcade are not sponsored

Re: XBOX

2002-03-26 Thread Pontifex Family
on 26/3/02 5:54 PM, crazy_ebot at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *heh heh* check it out: http://www.penny-arcade.com/xboverview.php3 I'm pretty sure Penny-Arcade is sponsored by Sony ... :-) snip Penny Arcade are not sponsored by Sony. Is everyone here big fans of Charles?