Re: Reunion software package

2010-08-25 Thread Steven Knowles
Hi Graeme After you have created the chart, whilst the chart is the active window, choose File Save Graphic File ... (rather than File Save As, which you appear to have done, which gives you the boxchart suffix). From the window which displays, choose pdf as the file format, then click

Re: Reunion software package

2010-08-25 Thread Steven Knowles
I haven't reviewed anything else extensively, but in defence of Reunion, I think report and chart creation is one of its better features. The flexibility is endless, with Mac-like drag drop functionality within the charts. Drag individual person boxes to wherever you like, and the charts will

Does a new user account access all Macintosh HD conten t ?

2010-08-10 Thread Steven Knowles
I'm a tad confused. I park all manner of folders on Macintosh HD, ie. folders alongside the standard Applications folder, Systems folder, and so on. It's a filing system I've always used, never had need to do anything different. If I create a new Account on my Mac, for a 3rd party user, I've

Image file size reduction in Preview - is there an equ ivalent in Windows?

2010-08-02 Thread Steven Knowles
Preview has a nice easy mechanism for reducing the size of image files, eg. simply slide the scale to less quality for a jpeg. A Windows user wants to do the same thing. Can someone please tell me whether Windows has something close to Preview to achieve the same thing? I've already suggested

Re: Image file size reduction in Preview - is there an equivalent in Windows?

2010-08-02 Thread Steven Knowles
PIXresizer looks as though it'll do. A shabby looking UI, but a Windows user won't notice that - it'll blend in with the OS nicely :-) Thanks Daniel. On 02/08/2010, at 7:11 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 2/8/10 10:56 PM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: Preview has

Re: Image file size reduction in Preview - is there an equivalent in Windows?

2010-08-02 Thread Steven Knowles
: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Steven Knowles Sent: Monday, 2 August 2010 10:57 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Image file size reduction in Preview - is there an equivalent in Windows? Preview has a nice easy mechanism for reducing the size

Re: Web Hosting

2010-07-29 Thread Steven Knowles
I've found http://www.dotinfohosting.com to be a nice balance of price and service. I moved to Dot Info from Netregistry due to what seemed to me dwindling service from Netregstry, plus a $4 per bill account fee unless you let them at your bank account with a direct debit (I think that was

Re: Corrupt file - options ?

2010-07-18 Thread Steven Knowles
is in another MacBook, and that seems like a waste of a MacBook. I suppose the world still turned before people became so paranoid about having their life backed up. Cheers, Steven On 18/07/2010, at 9:03 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello Steven, On 17/07/2010, at 5:57 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I

Re: Corrupt file - options ?

2010-07-18 Thread Steven Knowles
World Edition II, 2TB, $400, and it seems, thus far quite satisfactory, using time machine software to talk to it. Cheers, Jim On 18 July 2010 17:24, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni I was using a 17 MacBook Pro as my primary machine, which was backed up

Re: Corrupt file - options ?

2010-07-17 Thread Steven Knowles
When Paul Weaver's message came through, I was scratching my head as to why and how he'd sent me the attachment which accompanied the email. It looked like one of my files! But how? I hadn't sent the file to Paul or WAMUG ??! This is what seems to have happened. When I was creating the message

Re: MacBook Pro Trackpad problem

2010-06-23 Thread Steven Knowles
At risk of this being a lame suggestion, my MacBook Pro click functionality was affected by a dud battery which expanded. Cheers, Steven On 23/06/2010, at 10:26 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi All I have an interesting one here, so looking for some ideas ;) (Long day,...brain half

How can I auto delete oversized incoming messages from Mail ?

2010-06-14 Thread Steven Knowles
I have an IMAP account set up, using Mail to access it. Mail's Rules doesn't seem to include an option to auto delete (including remove from trash) messages which exceed, including attachments, a stipulated size. My objective is to auto delete any message which exceeds, say, 5MB. I have

17 MacBook Pro - hard drive doesn't spin down etc

2010-06-13 Thread Steven Knowles
I had my 17 MacBook Pro in recently for a hard drive exchange, which I picked up a couple of days back. The repairer alluded to a couple of other parts which were found defective, and presumably fixed or replaced, still waiting for clarification on that, however I'm guessing something may be

Re: 17 MacBook Pro - hard drive doesn't spin down etc

2010-06-13 Thread Steven Knowles
://support.apple.com/kb/ht1431 Please let us know what you find. Alex On 13 Jun 2010, at 18:35, Steven Knowles wrote: I had my 17 MacBook Pro in recently for a hard drive exchange, which I picked up a couple of days back. The repairer alluded to a couple of other parts which were found

A question for MS Word for Mac experts

2010-04-21 Thread Steven Knowles
I have a particular process which involves a repetitive series of keystrokes. When I receive a Word document, and then want to change that document to insert a Watermark, my current process is ... Insert Watermark select Picture click Select Picture button and navigate to required image

Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61%

2010-04-18 Thread Steven Knowles
. Regards Peter.. -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Steven Knowles Sent: Sunday, 18 April 2010 4:16 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61% Anyone know why the mouse battery

Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61%

2010-04-17 Thread Steven Knowles
Anyone know why the mouse battery level in System Preferences Mouse would stay on 61% constantly fr my Magic Mouse, even when the batteries go flat? I'm using Energizer rechargeables in case that makes a difference (OSX 10.6.3). Same deal when using the Mouse with a Macbook Pro and an iMac,

Re: Apple Mail - Display Remote Images query

2010-02-16 Thread Steven Knowles
/02/2010, at 3:48 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 16/02/2010, at 3:28 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: I use Apple Mail and Snow Leopard. Historically I've always had Display remote images in HTML messages deselected in the Viewing panel of Mail's Preferences. I had cause to change this, so

Apple Mail - Display Remote Images query

2010-02-15 Thread Steven Knowles
I use Apple Mail and Snow Leopard. Historically I've always had Display remote images in HTML messages deselected in the Viewing panel of Mail's Preferences. I had cause to change this, so the option is now selected, with remote images on display. I don't know whether it's coincidental, but

How to recover files from Erased Time Capsule ?

2010-02-14 Thread Steven Knowles
I did a dumb thing. Time Capsule was giving me errors I couldn't resolve, and so I used the 'Erase' function via Airport Utility to reformat the TC. Seems to have worked, as the back up I was having a problem with is busily backing up as I type. But ... I forgot that I had a folder of files

Freeware to change background of photo?

2010-01-22 Thread Steven Knowles
Hi all Anyone know of photo editing freeware/shareware which changes the background of, say, a portrait photograph from, say, bland white or light colour to a more 'corporate' background, whilst leaving the person untouched? I have someone's passport photograph to be used for a corporate

Re: What's happening here - IMAP account versus MailMessages folder

2009-12-01 Thread Steven Knowles
, especially with Mail. Cheers, Steven On 01/12/2009, at 4:00 AM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Steven, On 30/11/2009, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: I have an IMAP account set up, in which were quite a few messages. However, if I check the folder at Library Mail imap-acco...@domain.com

Re: Free webinar / web conferencing solutions on Mac ?

2009-12-01 Thread Steven Knowles
On 30 Nov 2009, at 12:59 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Presented with the usual overload of information via a web search, has anyone already had good experience with any free web conferencing or webinar solutions on the Mac? I need to present what I'm doing on my screen to multiple other

What's happening here - IMAP account versus MailMessages folder

2009-11-30 Thread Steven Knowles
I have an IMAP account set up, in which were quite a few messages. A 3rd party also accesses this same IMAP account, and this 3rd party inadvertently deleted all of the messages. The account synchronised at my end, and so my view is also empty. However, if I check the folder at Library Mail

Free webinar / web conferencing solutions on Mac ?

2009-11-29 Thread Steven Knowles
Presented with the usual overload of information via a web search, has anyone already had good experience with any free web conferencing or webinar solutions on the Mac? I need to present what I'm doing on my screen to multiple other parties, these other parties using a variety of Mac and

Apple Mail and the Flag feature - any Windows email cl ients recognise it?

2009-11-23 Thread Steven Knowles
Apple Mail provides the ability to 'flag' an email. It's a feature which is quite handy in my case, in which I have an IMAP account, and others who can access the IMAP account with Mail can see the flag also. The flag acts as a communication device between us, indicating whether a particular

Re: Apple Mail and the Flag feature - any Windows em ail clients recognise it?

2009-11-23 Thread Steven Knowles
for Outlook suggestion. Have passed on. Cheers, Steven On 23/11/2009, at 6:29 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Steven, 2009/11/23 Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au: Apple Mail provides the ability to 'flag' an email...One of the others who can access the IMAP account uses Opera on a Windows

Web page in Safari - what's the problem with print t o pdf ?

2009-10-26 Thread Steven Knowles
When saving a web page in Safari to pdf, why is it that the resulting pdf does not reflect what you see on the web page? For example, for one particular web page I'm trying to save to pdf, there are a series of menu tabs across the top of the web page, but these are converted to a

Re: Web page in Safari - what's the problem with p rint to pdf ?

2009-10-26 Thread Steven Knowles
Yep, tried the 'print backgrounds' option Ronni, but no change. So must be the CSS coding. That rings true because the same problem occurs in Firefox I've just realised. Cheers, Steven On 26/10/2009, at 10:48 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 26/10/2009, at 1:52 PM, Steven Knowles wrote

Re: Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-11 Thread Steven Knowles
point issue is fixes! I'd be interested to hear why he does need a ruler, I'm sure there is one! Cheers, David On 11/10/2009, at 0:41, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: Good questions! The bullet point issue might be solved. When this friend of mine highlighted a list

Re: Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-11 Thread Steven Knowles
things may help alleivate the issue? Cheers, David On 11/10/2009, at 17:35, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: I haven't asked that question of him John. I've never had call to user a ruler in email myself, but each to their own I guess. However if Outlook has a ruler feature

Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-10 Thread Steven Knowles
I'm trying to convince a friend of mine to stay with Apple's Mail as a mail client, however there are two problems with Mail in his eyes. One is bullet points which don't seem to appear as bullet points at the recipient end (I've experienced that as well). The other is the absence of a

Re: Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-10 Thread Steven Knowles
Australia Mb: 0427 888 257 On 10/10/2009, at 11:15 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I'm trying to convince a friend of mine to stay with Apple's Mail as a mail client, however there are two problems with Mail in his eyes. One is bullet points which don't seem to appear as bullet points

Snow Leopard 10.6.1 - Mail hangs when opening attachments

2009-10-01 Thread Steven Knowles
Since upgrading to SL, I seem to get regular hangs (twice daily perhaps?) in Mail. The hangs seem to happen when dealing with attachments, as in opening an attachment whilst in a message, and I think even selecting a file to attach to an email. I have to force quit Mail and restart.

Learn Spelling

2009-09-30 Thread Steven Knowles
I accidentally selected 'Learn Spelling' when trying to correct a spelling error whilst drafting a new message in Mail. So now Mail considers the incorrectly spelt word correct. How do I undo 'Learn Spelling'? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Learn Spelling

2009-09-30 Thread Steven Knowles
Brilliant Ronni. Thanks. Worked a treat. I can't believe I had only two other words in there?? Oh well. All fixed. Cheers, Steven On 01/10/2009, at 9:07 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 01/10/2009, at 12:56 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I accidentally selected 'Learn Spelling' when trying

Bugdom 2 serial number

2009-09-24 Thread Steven Knowles
I went to purchase a Bugdom 2 serial number from the Pangea web site, but it seems to only accept Visa or Mastercard, and if I conduct a foreign purchase with the Mastercard which I have, I get slugged AUD 35 by the bank, which is ridiculous given the cost of Bugsom 2 is USD 19. Anyone

Snow Leopard Family Pack near Belmont ?

2009-09-14 Thread Steven Knowles
I'm doing some distance shopping and need to send someone into a store. Can someone please tell me the nearest store to Belmont in Perth which sells and has in stock Snow Leopard Family Pack? Many thanks! Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Snow Leopard Family Pack near Belmont ?

2009-09-14 Thread Steven Knowles
Thanks Charles. What's the difference between a Family pack boxed set, and a family pack on its own? I imagine whatever it is will mean a price difference also? Cheers, Steven On 14/09/2009, at 4:12 PM, Charles Taylor wrote: Steven Knowles wrote: I'm doing some distance shopping

Apple Mail - Rules buggy

2009-08-30 Thread Steven Knowles
A long shot, but hoping someone can point me to some revelational fix for problems I'm having with Mail Rules. I'm running 10.5.8, so a side question is whether anyone knows whether Snow Leopard has changed / improved Mail, and in particular Mail Rules. Because maybe upgrading to Snow

Re: Apple Mail - questions about 'Rules'

2009-08-26 Thread Steven Knowles
if a message meets certain conditions, but doesn't allow you to recognise a flagged or unflagged message as a condition in order to implement an action :-( Cheers, Steven On 26/08/2009, at 8:43 AM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Steven, 2009/8/26 Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au: With the rules

Re: someone using our wireless

2009-08-26 Thread Steven Knowles
If you know how to log in to your router Rosemary, which you should be able to do from your web browser, you can (i) go to wireless security and set a password, and/or (ii) set up a closed network. For the latter, look for something that says publish SSID or broadcast SSID, along those

Re: Apple Mail - questions about 'Rules'

2009-08-25 Thread Steven Knowles
to other uses. Cheers, Steven On 25/08/2009, at 5:28 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello Steven, On 25/08/2009, at 7:36 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Does anyone know 1. Whether AND / OR operators function within Mail Rules, and within the free text fields of individual conditions? I

Apple Mail - questions about 'Rules'

2009-08-24 Thread Steven Knowles
Does anyone know 1. Whether AND / OR operators function within Mail Rules, and within the free text fields of individual conditions? I understand the 'all' or 'any' functionality, but what I'm talking about is whether the free text fields of each condition recognises AND / OR

Re: pdf to html background for Apple Mail

2009-08-17 Thread Steven Knowles
, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, I think I must be misunderstanding you here, I apologise if I have. What is wrong with Copy Paste all that is on the PDF into the body of the email? Try it and send the email to yourself to test. Cheers, Ronni On 17/08/2009, at 1:44 PM, Steven Knowles wrote

pdf to html background for Apple Mail

2009-08-16 Thread Steven Knowles
I have a single-page pdf flier for distributions to some Arabic clients/contacts with a 'Ramadan Kareem' message. With Apple Mail, can anyone tell me how I would turn this pdf flier into the background of an email? So instead of sending the pdf as an attachment, it is kind of part of the

Vertical Bar in email address

2009-07-07 Thread Steven Knowles
Not specifically a Mac question, but I'm using a Mac so hopefully it passes the test. Has anyone ever used or seen the vertical bar, or pipe, on a keyboard used as part of an email address? I've just come across one, thinking it was a mistake, but a test email tells me that Apple Mail

Re: Anyone know of freeware to delete duplicate emai l addresses ?

2009-07-03 Thread Steven Knowles
, at 5:06 AM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: I have a text document full of email addresses, maybe 5,000 of them, but many are duplicated. I want to strip out the duplicates. I came across eMail Extractor, but before I go down that route and pay for something that I will most

Anyone know of freeware to delete duplicate email addresses ?

2009-06-30 Thread Steven Knowles
I have a text document full of email addresses, maybe 5,000 of them, but many are duplicated. I want to strip out the duplicates. I came across eMail Extractor, but before I go down that route and pay for something that I will most likely use once for a single job, does anyone know of

Can Automator or AppleScript do this with Apple Mail / Safari ?

2009-05-22 Thread Steven Knowles
I'd like to automate any or all of the following steps, but I can see nothing within the Automator library that helps. I'm a total Automator novice mind you. * I receive many messages from a particular source to a specific mailbox. I use Apple's Mail as an email client, on latest MacOS. *

Strange Mail setting behavior

2009-05-18 Thread Steven Knowles
I have some strange behavior going with Mail. I have changed email hosts for one of my email accounts, and so in Mail I have changed from using pop.domain.com to mail.domain.com, as required by my new email host. However Mail simply won't retain the email password when I change the

Re: Strange Mail setting behavior

2009-05-18 Thread Steven Knowles
That was it Daniel! I should have realised as Keychain had been playing up anyway. I followed your suggestion of deleting existing reference to the email accounts, and it did the trick. Many thanks!! On 18/05/2009, at 4:07 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 18/5/09 8:02 PM, Steven Knowles emai

Re: What accounting software ?

2009-05-10 Thread Steven Knowles
Thanks to all for the suggestions re Accounting software. After a quick review, I think Justin's suggestion looks like the go. Pricing looks fair. The communal development looks impressive. Multiple currency aspect is in alpha release by the looks. Thanks for the tip Justin. Cheers,

MS Office - changing Product Key ?

2009-05-05 Thread Steven Knowles
I bought the latest MS Office for Mac on DVD, which comes with three different product keys (ie. three user license). I've installed the software on two Macs which run over the same wireless network, both running latest Leopard. I must have used the same product key on both machines

Re: MS Office - changing Product Key ?

2009-05-05 Thread Steven Knowles
Brilliant Daniel. Another case of why didn't I think of that :-( Many thanks!!! On 05/05/2009, at 11:04 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 6/5/09 2:59 AM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: I bought the latest MS Office for Mac on DVD, which comes with three different product keys (ie

What accounting software ?

2009-04-30 Thread Steven Knowles
No doubt some of you have been down the path of exploring which accounting software to use on the Mac. I've looked at the Mac products on offer from MYOB http://tinyurl.com/dx8dfm , however all seem to limit staff to a maximum of 20, which doesn't accommodate our planned growth. Can I

Restricting access by MAC address

2009-04-30 Thread Steven Knowles
Does anyone know of a way that a Windows server could restrict access to it to Mac specified by their MAC address? Or a networking forum to which I could post the question? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Apple Remote Desktop alternative ?

2009-04-22 Thread Steven Knowles
Thanks all. I've made it as far as being able to access the Windows server via Terminal because I get the Windows prompt, and entering dir brings up a list. All good. The problem appears to be with RDC. That's where things seem to be going wrong. I'm consistently getting the following

Re: Apple Remote Desktop alternative ?

2009-04-21 Thread Steven Knowles
a different port number (which JellyfiSSH allows me to do. Cheers, Steven On 20/04/2009, at 4:27 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 19/04/2009, at 5:35 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks for all the help fellas. I've followed suggestions, and reached another snag. In case this is relevant to my

Re: Apple Remote Desktop alternative ?

2009-04-19 Thread Steven Knowles
Thanks for all the help fellas. I've followed suggestions, and reached another snag. In case this is relevant to my problem, I'm trying to access a Windows server running freesshd, from a remote Mac running latest Leopard. After I run JellyfiSSH, I launch MS RDC for Mac, and after spinning

Re: MS Word 2004 question - anchoring reference to numbered list

2009-04-18 Thread Steven Knowles
:41 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I've created a Word (2004) document which has numerous clauses, and sub-clauses within those clauses, using a numbered list. Example ... 1. 2. 2.1 2.2. 2.1.1 2.1.2 3. If I insert a clause immediately after clause 1, then of course clause 2 is going

Re: Apple Remote Desktop alternative ?

2009-04-17 Thread Steven Knowles
://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/remote-desktop/default.mspx On 15/04/2009, at 1:35 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: A company I use to host a web site and database tells me that to ascertain what disk space I have left on the Virtual Dedicated Server, I need to access the server by using RDP or the Server Console

MS Word 2004 question - anchoring reference to numbered list

2009-04-17 Thread Steven Knowles
I've created a Word (2004) document which has numerous clauses, and sub-clauses within those clauses, using a numbered list. Example ... 1. 2. 2.1 2.2. 2.1.1 2.1.2 3. If I insert a clause immediately after clause 1, then of course clause 2 is going to automatically change to

Removing attachment from an Apple Mail message

2009-04-14 Thread Steven Knowles
Whilst an Apple Mail message is housed within Apple Mail, the Message Remove Attachments function works fine. However, if I drag an Apple Mail message from, say, an inbox to a folder outside of Apple Mail, and then try to Remove Attachments, it doesn't work. Can anyone tell me how to

Re: Removing attachment from an Apple Mail message

2009-04-14 Thread Steven Knowles
/2009, at 10:37 AM, Robert Howells wrote: On 14/04/2009, at 2:26 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Whilst an Apple Mail message is housed within Apple Mail, the Message Remove Attachments function works fine. However, if I drag an Apple Mail message from, say, an inbox to a folder outside of Apple

Re: Removing attachment from an Apple Mail message

2009-04-14 Thread Steven Knowles
I've heard of Cups-PDF Bob, but the MacOS Command+P process is straightforward enough. Although a keyboard shortcut for Save As PDF would be even better. On 14/04/2009, at 10:52 AM, Robert Howells wrote: On 14/04/2009, at 2:47 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Ah, now that's fine idea Bob, ie

Apple Remote Desktop alternative ?

2009-04-14 Thread Steven Knowles
A company I use to host a web site and database tells me that to ascertain what disk space I have left on the Virtual Dedicated Server, I need to access the server by using RDP or the Server Console. The host is a Windows based provider. My understanding is that Apple Remote Desktop is an

How to free up room on Time Capsule ?

2009-04-09 Thread Steven Knowles
I've added another Mac to my fleet, and when setting it up to back up to the existing Time Capsule, there is no room on the Time Capsule, says Time Capsule. How do I tell Time Capsule to make a bit of room, presumably by not having so much history of the three other machines that back up o

Re: iTunes 8.1 problem

2009-04-06 Thread Steven Knowles
Weird. iTunes tells me that there is a new version of iTunes available (8.1.1), yet when I click 'Download iTunes', Software Update tells me there is nothing new. The update may fix your problem Andrew - if you get it. Cheers, Steven On 06/04/2009, at 5:36 PM, Andrew Symington wrote: Hi

Re: Apple equivalent of Putty ?

2009-03-27 Thread Steven Knowles
Thanks Paul, Glenn, Alexander, and Daniel for your help - I'll pass all comments to the Windows IT guy. Cheers, Steven On 27/03/2009, at 3:28 AM, Paul Mulroney wrote: Hi Steven, On 27/03/2009, at 5:01 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: I'm trying help an IT guy, a Windows guy, do some

Apple equivalent of Putty ?

2009-03-26 Thread Steven Knowles
I'm trying help an IT guy, a Windows guy, do some testing of speeds when it comes to me accessing a particular server. To do whatever he needs me to do, something to with ssh connections, and something about needing to redirect local ports to server, he would use Putty in the Windows

Apple's currency converter widget playing up

2009-03-14 Thread Steven Knowles
Anyone noticed dodgy currency calculations when using Dashboard's standard conversion widget? I'm using latest Leopard OS, the 'Last Updated' details are fine, but, for example, I get USD $1 equals AUD $0.042, or four Australian cents. Clearly not right. No such problem at Yahoo!, which

Re: Apple's currency converter widget playing up

2009-03-14 Thread Steven Knowles
for the past couple of days. Glad to hear it's not just me! Jane On 14/03/2009, at 10:54 PM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: Anyone noticed dodgy currency calculations when using Dashboard's standard conversion widget? I'm using latest Leopard OS, the 'Last Updated' details are fine

Re: Mail quitting

2009-03-09 Thread Steven Knowles
Adrian, there is a known bug with Mail and 10.5.6. Google something like... mail quitting 10.5.6 ... lots of info. Cheers, Steven On 09/03/2009, at 11:14 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Hi all. A new problem has reared it ugly head of late on my iMac G5, 10.5.6 2GB of ram. Without notice

Re: Mail quitting

2009-03-09 Thread Steven Knowles
Doh! That's right. I had the same problem with Safari 4 Beta, not 10.5.6, ie. Mail quitting. Again, web search came up with a fix - something to do with Growl. http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090225001025963 Cheers, Steven On 09/03/2009, at 11:26 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello

Re: How to right-click and look up in Wikipedia?

2009-03-07 Thread Steven Knowles
Thanks for this tip Ronnie. I didn't realise there were so many options! (Apologies for delayed response - an out-of-control inbox). Cheers, Steven On 22/02/2009, at 3:03 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: How to right-click and look up in Wikipedia ? Steven Knowles Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:06:50 -0800

How to save page in html using Safari ?

2009-03-01 Thread Steven Knowles
How do I save a standard html page from Safari? (I'm using Safari 4 beta on latest Leopard OS). The options seem only to be webarchive and text. Or do I need to use a different browser like Firefox to achieve this? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: How to save page in html using Safari ?

2009-03-01 Thread Steven Knowles
Doh! Just realised that using the option to save as 'Page Source' achieves this. Sorry. On 01/03/2009, at 12:10 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: How do I save a standard html page from Safari? (I'm using Safari 4 beta on latest Leopard OS). The options seem only to be webarchive and text. Or do

How do I recover Sent Mailbox from Time Capsule ?

2009-02-22 Thread Steven Knowles
I deleted a Mailbox from Apple Mail when transferring an email account from POP to IMAP, and inadvertently got rid of the deleted account's Sent box, the content of which I needed to keep. Fortunately all is backed up on Time Capsule, but what exactly do I look for when delving into Time

How to right-click and look up in Wikipedia ?

2009-02-21 Thread Steven Knowles
Wondering if someone has already invented this wheel - I'm trying to avoid spending hours on it if so. I'm fairly sure it'd be a piece of cake for someone familiar with it. As you'd know, you can double-click on a word in most documents to highlight it, and then right-click that word to

Re: Email Address at Apple?

2009-02-16 Thread Steven Knowles
David, I had an issue involving similar principles with a Toyota Landcruiser - outside warranty but with their admission that it was a known faulty part. Dealerships refused to anything about it, so I took it up with Toyota's Customer Relations department and told them that I'd be taking

Re: MacBook Pro - turns off without warning when no AC

2009-02-10 Thread Steven Knowles
with the ability to click in the track pad. So, if the clicker on your laptop's trackpad is giving you grief, check the battery. A new battery's been ordered from Apple at no cost to me, so can't complain. Cheers, Steven On 07/02/2009, at 1:57 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Must be close

How to make italics the default typing font in Apple Mail ?

2009-02-08 Thread Steven Knowles
I can't seem to get italics to reflect in the default font which is used by Apple Mail when typing an email. I assume this must be done via Apple Mail Preferences Fonts Colours Message Font Select... I can get the font type itself to change, but when I select italics, using for

Re: How to make italics the default typing font in Apple Mail ?

2009-02-08 Thread Steven Knowles
it italics, then as i mentioned in a earlier posting, if the receiver has not verdana (or the same font set installed as you) then the letter/webpage/word doc/ pdf file will appear different rich text files (rtf) can store the info for italics/bold/underlined James On 08/02/2009, at 20:47, Steven

Re: MacBook Pro - turns off without warning when no AC

2009-02-07 Thread Steven Knowles
Must be close to exhaustive Travis. Thanks. A note at this page http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1359? viewlocale=en_US says ... Note: Updated versions of Mac OS X like 10.4.11 and 10.5 will show the batteryupdater.bundle as version 1.3. This is normal and does not indicate the wrong update

MacBook Pro - turns off without warning when no AC

2009-02-06 Thread Steven Knowles
My Intel Core 2 Duo 17 MacBook Pro, when unplugged from an AC power supply, will turn off without any warning when the battery runs down to what seems to be a point where the laptop should still be running on battery power. It's just happened to me again, and upon connecting the MacBook

Need some guidance from an expert on Automator

2009-02-04 Thread Steven Knowles
I've never used Applescript or Automator - had brief glances but always looked too complicated. And have never really had a call to use it. But now I think I do have a need for it, but I don't know whether Automator could accomplish the task. If I describe what I want to achieve, hoping

Can anyone help my sister? Blue folder question mark at start up

2009-02-01 Thread Steven Knowles
Any wamuggers out there in or near Forrestfield who would be happy to give my sister a hand with her MacBook, which has suddenly developed the blue folder / question mark at start up? I understand it's an indication of hard disk failure, but I think the first step is to boot the machine up

Re: Can anyone help my sister? Blue folder question mark at start up

2009-02-01 Thread Steven Knowles
Steven, I am in Kalamunda just up the hill from Forrestfield, if she doesnt have any luck let me know, I have a laptop so could start it up via firewire and run disk utilities from there, will be passing forrestfield in the mid morning. regards steven - Original Message From: Steven Knowles

Re: Can anyone help my sister? Blue folder question mark at start up

2009-02-01 Thread Steven Knowles
Great Charles. Thanks. I've just sent your message through to my sister - whether she calls or not will be up to her, but a great option. Cheers, Steven On 01/02/2009, at 3:50 PM, Charles Taylor wrote: Steven Knowles wrote: Any wamuggers out there in or near Forrestfield who would be happy

Spotlight indexing - how to force?

2009-01-28 Thread Steven Knowles
I have a MacBook Pro and a MacBook, each of which can access a common Dropbox folder. Both running latest version of Leopard. Via Dropbox, each of the Macs can see particular folders if that folder is navigated to. However, on the MacBook, using Spotlight to search for the folder, plus

Re: Zip file opening with .cpgz

2009-01-25 Thread Steven Knowles
Wendy, I have, and continue to have, this problem. Ronni was trying to get to the bottom of it, but I don't think there was any discovery of the root cause other than probably something to do with how they were being compressed to start with. The interim workaround is to decompress the zip

Re: Background for emails

2009-01-23 Thread Steven Knowles
Hi Denise I'm no help, but if you find someone who is an expert on the stationery aspects of Apple Mail, do let me know. I've been trying to crreate a template with a banner at the top of the email, but beats me how to do it. Cheers, Steven On 24/01/2009, at 10:29 AM, Denise Williams

iChat - why not all accounts in one window ?

2009-01-22 Thread Steven Knowles
I use both Adium and iChat, usually having both open at the same time. With Adium, it's just a single window, all accounts consolidated. With iChat however, it seems that each account (eg. mac.com; GoogleTalk, AOL IM, etc) has a window of it's own, ie. a different window displaying

Re: iChat - why not all accounts in one window ?

2009-01-22 Thread Steven Knowles
be able to give you the functionality and views you are after. Cheers - Original Message - From: Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 22 January, 2009 7:33:10 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject

Re: iChat screen sharing v Apple Remote Desktop

2009-01-16 Thread Steven Knowles
Connection is 8Mb/384k, but when controlling a remote computer that is only sending back to me at 512k/128k it is slow. Cheers, Ronni On 13/01/2009, at 4:51 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks Ronni. All of the settings you suggest are in order, and eventually got it to work after rebooting my

How to allow access to a specific folder by a remote user

2009-01-12 Thread Steven Knowles
I'm sure this is straightforward, but I haven't done this before, and with time not on my side at the moment would love to avoid a few hours worth of frustration. I'm running Leopard 10.5.6. I currently have a MacBook Pro on which a folder sits, and other Macs access this folder over the

Re: How to allow access to a specific folder by a remote user

2009-01-12 Thread Steven Knowles
Looks interesting Glenn - downloading now. Thanks! Glad I asked. Could have many other uses than just the problem at hand. On 12/01/2009, at 4:58 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: getdropbox.com 2009/1/12 Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au I'm sure this is straightforward, but I haven't done

Re: How to allow access to a specific folder by a remote user

2009-01-12 Thread Steven Knowles
at hand. On 12/01/2009, at 4:58 PM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: getdropbox.com 2009/1/12 Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au I'm sure this is straightforward, but I haven't done this before, and with time not on my side at the moment would love to avoid a few hours worth of frustration. I'm

iChat screen sharing v Apple Remote Desktop

2009-01-12 Thread Steven Knowles
Does anyone know from 1st hand experience whether Apple Remote Desktop has more stable connectivity (between a Mac and a remote user of a Mac) than the screen sharing ability of iChat? I am trying to screen share between two Macs (via the internet, not the same network) and keep getting

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