Re: memory for macbook

2012-11-24 Thread alastair taylor
sufferance) On 24/11/2012, at 11:46 AM, alastair taylor alas.i...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi all My macbook (white 2008 model 4,1 2.4Ghz, 3Gb ram) is very slow. The official maximum ram it can suport is 4Gb but I have read in several places that it will actually take 6. Does anyone have

memory for macbook

2012-11-23 Thread alastair taylor
Hi all My macbook (white 2008 model 4,1 2.4Ghz, 3Gb ram) is very slow. The official maximum ram it can suport is 4Gb but I have read in several places that it will actually take 6. Does anyone have the definitve answer please? From experience, upgrading from 3 to 4 won't make much difference.

mail saving drafts

2012-08-13 Thread alastair taylor
Hello all Does anyone know why Mail (5.2 - lowland Lion) sometimes keeps drafts, often multiple drafts, of mails even after I've finished and sent them? It's a pain because, being a bit of a sausage-brain, I keep thinking I've forgotten to send things and waste time checking Thank you!

Re: mail saving drafts

2012-08-13 Thread alastair taylor
. 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 13/08/2012, at 5:12 PM, alastair taylor wrote: Hello all Does anyone know why Mail (5.2 - lowland Lion) sometimes keeps drafts

Re: pasting text into pages document

2012-07-25 Thread alastair taylor
the text will be in the font, style and size you have set in Pages. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 25/07/2012, at 1:08 AM, alastair taylor alas.i...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hello wamug This is small but it bothers me - I write invoices in Pages 4.1, export as  pdf and email them. If I need

pasting text into pages document

2012-07-24 Thread alastair taylor
Hello wamug This is small but it bothers me - I write invoices in Pages 4.1, export as pdf and email them. If I need some of the same information for a subsequent invoice, as pages can't open its own pdfs, I copy and paste back into my pages template from the pdf. But text that was helvetica

Re: a question for photoshop users.

2012-05-05 Thread alastair taylor
Hi tom Another way to make a grid of dots which miht be better if precise spacing is important Draw one dot Drag a marquee around it - you'll have to experiment with size of dot and marquee. All will become clear. Editdefine aspattern  [i think. Writing this on the phone so can't check,

Re: dodgy powerbook strikes again

2011-12-09 Thread alastair taylor
mentioned: I expect you do have a good 'Backup Plan' in place though. Just in case the PowerBook is wearing out, and this may not be a permanent fix. On 08/12/2011, at 7:24 PM, alastair taylor wrote: Dear all The ol' pb has been going fine - thanks for the help

dodgy powerbook strikes again

2011-12-08 Thread alastair taylor
Dear all The ol' pb has been going fine - thanks for the help - until today when it had a couple of kernal panics and then after booting from the cd to try a permission repair I could no longer find the startup disc to revert to my main partition. The partition is still there - it's in the sidebar

Re: applications quitting on powerbook

2011-11-16 Thread alastair taylor
Hi Ronni, Carlo and James Just to feed back on the memory slot - before even reaching for the isopropyl I tried another suggestion I read - rubbing the contacts on the dimm with a pencil eraser. Whaddya know - now gets a perfect score on memtest and safari hasn't quit since. Haven't given