Re: Using iPhone maps

Hi All I would just like to say how overwhelmed I am by the absolutely fantastic response from you guys! I think you all are legend Muggers, like no other on the planet. Thankyou all so much, it was just inspiring to come down from my watches on the bridge, arc up my MBPro in the mess, wait

Using iPhone maps

Good morning WA Muggers It has been awhile since I last asked the list, on account I am presently rolling around in the southern ocean, and after nearly 5 weeks am really really looking forward to Terra Firma under my feet!! I am disembarking the ship in Geelong and plan to hire a car to see

Re: Apple Mail archival

Hi Ronni Help please! I have just done the install of 10.5.8 and my computer has hung on the restart, with the blue screen and the little turning spoke wheel appearing every 10 seconds or so. It has been like this for half an hour. Im on another computer writing this email through my

Re: Apple Mail archival

Hi Ronni I am such a panic merchant sometimes! I did a ctrl apple delete to restart and things seem to going along as they should with the start screen now and rebooting caches and stuff! I have now repaired permissions as you suggested and my trusty mac is now a go. I should not worry so

Re: Macbook battery

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Macbook battery

Hi muggers I read the thread of about a month ago on replacement batteries and think I may need one but Im not so sure. My macbook pro (feb 08 2.2ghz) just shuts down randomly, when it is not connected to the mains. It may have anything from 50 to 90% battery life in the menu bar! When I

Re: iPhone 3G S - Telstra Plans

Hi Ronni,Pete and all After reading your email I am very interested in looking at the iphone and available plans, as my old Sony Ericsson is almost dead.Would it be possible to have alook at Petes spreadsheet, as I will be starting from scratch when I get home |Im presently offshore and

Re: Spam bombardment

Hi guys yep Im getting heaps out here in the timor sea through Westnet. I actually quizzed them this morning and they dont actually do anything unless you notify them of which ones to filter via your email client and it goes to labs.sophos.com, what ever that is! Apparently they are bringing in

play movies on mac

Hi all i am presently offshore on a seismic ship and have been given some digital movies that have a suffix of .divx and a couple of .avi and .mpg. These came from PC machines that are used by the crew to watch on large screen TV's during time off using a media player of some kind (in lieu of

firefox and quicktime

Hi Wa Muggers Happy easter to all for an enjoyable weegend Can someone please advise why I get a question mark in the centre of a quicktime logo on some of the firefox loaded pages while on the net? Im assuming it has something to do with pluggins re quicktime? I have been to the firefox

Re: .chm files

Hi Mike Many thanks for the links to Chimp and Tubby. I like the names of these apps! Sort of sound like a duo of some sort! They both look good so I will have a closer look when I get some time as Im presently offshore and flatout. Kind regards chris Quoting Mike Fuller [EMAIL

.chm files

Hi muggers I have been passed some files that have a .chm extension and I cant seem to open it with anything in 10.4.8. The files were from a windows computer with a number of pdf's so I thought Adobe reader would open them. No such luck. I did a google and found that .chm are a 'compiled

Re: GPS Mac

Hi Antony I have been using a garmin gps II+ for about a year now with a keyspan adapter unit to download my track and waypoint data from my aerial surveys that Im doing for blue whales off the coast here. I use gpsy pro which Shay has pointed you to..it is very good and easy to use. You can

ram disk shared

Hi wamuggers I created a ram disk yesterday (38.4 mb) and now cant disable it. Opening the icon...it is empty. When I try to erase any contents I have a message 'cannot erase a shared disk'!! If I do a get info on the ram disk icon it has 9 items used for 694k..but these are not visible??!!?

Re: ram disk shared

Andrew and others thanks very much Andrew...yes, I have just found this out myself after quite a bit of searching on the net. there is alot of info out there...I should have gone there first! Your advice appreciated regards chris Try turning off the File Sharing in the File Sharing

no hard drive space

Hi everyone a few weeks ago I posted asking for advice about conflicting measures of hard drive space on my 10gb G4 mac. Thanks to all who helped out, but unfortunately I still have the problem...I downloaded software that would check for invisible files and found many...but not 900mb

hard drive space

Hi everyone I have an odd scenerio ... my 10gb harddrive shows up with 350mb space remaining in its window once opened..if I check the drive with nortons or techtools I have about 1.3gb!! I know it was the latter about 3 days ago!!! Has anyone an idea what is happening here? Thankyou for any

recording sounds and CD passwords

Hi Muggers My daughter is building a web site at school as part of her Info Systems course and wants to incorporate some natural sounds which I have recorded. We have macs at home and she is working on PC's at school with front page. I have a tape deck that I can connect to the sound in port

sony cd burners

Hi muggers I am a complete novice when it comes to buying and using a cd burner. has anyone used a sony cd burner with their mac? Could you please advise me of their performance and reliability and perhaps cost and where to buy. I have had a look at the 'que' drives which look really great