US Report: Apple Centre and Genius Bar

2004-12-10 Thread mrsc

Hi All:

I thought I would share with you my recent experience at an Apple Store in my 
here in Miami, FL where i am visiting (I live in Bunbury, WA).

I was in strife because part of my power adapter had snapped off inside the 
port, so I couldn't charge my machine. I went to the Apple Store first thing 
in the morning and sat down at the Genius Bar. (Which looked really cool, by 
the way).

I had to wait a little while as there were people who had booked in online 
from the evening before with myriad problems--one wanted help switching from a 
PC, one had an OS9 to OSX issue, an iPod nightmare and then there was me. I 
waited about 45 minutes total. When it was my turn my genius (Ricardo) was 
clam, cool, collected AND fixed my machine for free WITH A SMILE. His 
reassuring attitude and pleasant demeanour was really great. I was so 
impressed. All the while (the fix took about half an hour) there were people 
pouring into the store, looking over the iPods, powerbooks, etc and the staff 
(there were quite a few of them) were not only friendly and courteous and 
great salespeople but there were different ages, races and genders!!

I was really impressed and now I have a working machine to come with me on the 
rest of my travels. Thanks Apple USA.

Regards,
Nathalie




Out of Office AutoReply: wamug Digest #499

2004-12-10 Thread Gavin Criddle
I am currently on leave - I will be out of the office until the 14th of
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iPhoto disaster

2004-12-10 Thread David de la Hunty
My sincere thanks to Shay, Adam, Robert, Steve and Paul for rallying to 
my aid with the data loss issue. I downloaded, trialled, paid for and 
ran PhotoRescue, which is salvaging the files as we speak. Internet is 
a wonderful thing. Now if I can only get the WAMUG online joining form 
to work.


Merry Christmas to everybody and thanks again,

David de la Hunty



Sunday BBQ

2004-12-10 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
Just so everyone is clear, the WAMUG BBQ in Kings Park will be at the 
barbecue area adjacent to Thomas Street, at the end of Rokeby Road 
through the traffic lights. Where all the pine trees are.


Just look for a bunch of iPods...


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Bali photos

2004-12-10 Thread Malcolm J McCallum
Hi everyone, The photos are a better size for viewing now, thanks Paul 
:-)

Mac
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Fwd: Transaction authorization required.

2004-12-10 Thread Ronda Brown

Hi WAMUGers,

I received the following email today. As I have never been to the
Putumayo website  definitely never purchased anything from them, I was
very suspicious.
On doing some investigating I find that this is a Scam.

This message is on the Putumayo website :

Please be aware that individuals impersonating Putumayo are requesting
confidential credit card information from consumers via email. Please
DO NOT provide information to these individuals. Contact Putumayo World
Music for further questions: 212-625-1400, ext. 200.

Begin forwarded message:


From: no_fraund [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10 December 2004 9:29:58 PM
To: preventions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Transaction authorization required.
Reply-To: no_fraund [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dear KeyBank Member,

Due to concerns, for the safety and the integrity of your Key Bank
account, we have issued this warning message.

We recently received a request from:

http://www.putumayo.com/
Putumayo World Music

411 Lafayette, 4th Floor, New York, New York 10003
 fax (212) 460-0095 

  to enable the charge to your card in amount of $59,65

THE PAYMENT IS PENDING FOR THE MOMENT.

If the purchase was made by yourself, please ignore or remove this
email message.

If you authorize the purchase, the billing will be approved and it
will be shown in your monthly statement as Putumayo World Music, NY,
USA.

If the purchase was not made by you and would like to decline the
$59,65 billing to your card, please follow the secured link below to
decline the transaction:

 HTTPS://online-access.KeyBank.com/SSL/DeclineTransaction

Our secured web site keeps your personal information strict and
confidential! Complete the form with the correct information, so we
can identify you as the rightful owner of the credit card to decline
the transaction.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your
assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the entire Key Bank
system.


 Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

 


[The attachment key.gif has been manually removed]



KeyBank - Fraud Center
 1-8000-Key
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please do not reply to this mail.Mail sent to this address cannot be
answered

 


Cheers,
Ronni
When Microsoft asks you, Where do you want to go today? Tell them,
Apple!



Re: Transaction authorization required.

2004-12-10 Thread Matt Morgan
How weird, I was just going to post the following as it seemed strange 
to me. My concern is that there has been major fraud in the UK, 
particularly with Barclays Bank, where account details have been asked 
for on-line. Lot of press about it. Now, companies say they will never 
ask for any account details on line.


So, we have just opened a new ANZ account in the past few days. This 
morning I get this e-mail:


 Dear valued ANZ Customer!

 For security purposes your account has been
 randomly chosen for verification. To verify
 your account information we are asking you to
 provide us with all the data we are requesting.
 Otherwise we will not be able to verify your identity
 and access to your account will be denied. Please click
 on the link below to get to the ANZ secure
 page and verify your account details. Thank you.

It then gives a weblink to a https://anx site which I haven't clicked.

I'll call ANZ to ask about this, but has anyone seen this before? Do 
they do this in Australia?


Thanks, Matt

On 10 Dec 2004, at 9:13, Ronda Brown wrote:


Hi WAMUGers,

I received the following email today. As I have never been to the
Putumayo website  definitely never purchased anything from them, I was
very suspicious.
On doing some investigating I find that this is a Scam.

This message is on the Putumayo website :

Please be aware that individuals impersonating Putumayo are requesting
confidential credit card information from consumers via email. Please
DO NOT provide information to these individuals. Contact Putumayo World
Music for further questions: 212-625-1400, ext. 200.

Begin forwarded message:


From: no_fraund [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10 December 2004 9:29:58 PM
To: preventions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Transaction authorization required.
Reply-To: no_fraund [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dear KeyBank Member,

Due to concerns, for the safety and the integrity of your Key Bank
account, we have issued this warning message.

We recently received a request from:

http://www.putumayo.com/
Putumayo World Music

411 Lafayette, 4th Floor, New York, New York 10003
 fax (212) 460-0095 

  to enable the charge to your card in amount of $59,65

THE PAYMENT IS PENDING FOR THE MOMENT.

If the purchase was made by yourself, please ignore or remove this
email message.

If you authorize the purchase, the billing will be approved and it
will be shown in your monthly statement as Putumayo World Music, NY,
USA.

If the purchase was not made by you and would like to decline the
$59,65 billing to your card, please follow the secured link below to
decline the transaction:

 HTTPS://online-access.KeyBank.com/SSL/DeclineTransaction

Our secured web site keeps your personal information strict and
confidential! Complete the form with the correct information, so we
can identify you as the rightful owner of the credit card to decline
the transaction.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your
assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the entire Key Bank
system.


 Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

 


[The attachment key.gif has been manually removed]



KeyBank - Fraud Center
 1-8000-Key
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please do not reply to this mail.Mail sent to this address cannot be
answered

 


Cheers,
Ronni
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Apple!


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Re: Transaction authorization required.

2004-12-10 Thread Susan Hastings
No Matt, they definitely do not. Ignore the scam.


On 10/12/04 9:35 AM, Matt Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 How weird, I was just going to post the following as it seemed strange
 to me. My concern is that there has been major fraud in the UK,
 particularly with Barclays Bank, where account details have been asked
 for on-line. Lot of press about it. Now, companies say they will never
 ask for any account details on line.
 
 So, we have just opened a new ANZ account in the past few days. This
 morning I get this e-mail:
 
   Dear valued ANZ Customer!
 
   For security purposes your account has been
   randomly chosen for verification. To verify
   your account information we are asking you to
   provide us with all the data we are requesting.
   Otherwise we will not be able to verify your identity
   and access to your account will be denied. Please click
   on the link below to get to the ANZ secure
   page and verify your account details. Thank you.
 
 It then gives a weblink to a https://anx site which I haven't clicked.
 
 I'll call ANZ to ask about this, but has anyone seen this before? Do
 they do this in Australia?
 
 Thanks, Matt
 
 On 10 Dec 2004, at 9:13, Ronda Brown wrote:
 
 Hi WAMUGers,
 
 I received the following email today. As I have never been to the
 Putumayo website  definitely never purchased anything from them, I was
 very suspicious.
 On doing some investigating I find that this is a Scam.
 
 This message is on the Putumayo website :
 
 Please be aware that individuals impersonating Putumayo are requesting
 confidential credit card information from consumers via email. Please
 DO NOT provide information to these individuals. Contact Putumayo World
 Music for further questions: 212-625-1400, ext. 200.
 
 Begin forwarded message:
 
 From: no_fraund [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Date: 10 December 2004 9:29:58 PM
 To: preventions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Transaction authorization required.
 Reply-To: no_fraund [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 Dear KeyBank Member,
 
 Due to concerns, for the safety and the integrity of your Key Bank
 account, we have issued this warning message.
 
 We recently received a request from:
 
 http://www.putumayo.com/
 Putumayo World Music
 
 411 Lafayette, 4th Floor, New York, New York 10003
  fax (212) 460-0095 
 
   to enable the charge to your card in amount of $59,65
 
 THE PAYMENT IS PENDING FOR THE MOMENT.
 
 If the purchase was made by yourself, please ignore or remove this
 email message.
 
 If you authorize the purchase, the billing will be approved and it
 will be shown in your monthly statement as Putumayo World Music, NY,
 USA.
 
 If the purchase was not made by you and would like to decline the
 $59,65 billing to your card, please follow the secured link below to
 decline the transaction:
 
  HTTPS://online-access.KeyBank.com/SSL/DeclineTransaction
 
 Our secured web site keeps your personal information strict and
 confidential! Complete the form with the correct information, so we
 can identify you as the rightful owner of the credit card to decline
 the transaction.
 
 We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and appreciate your
 assistance in helping us maintain the integrity of the entire Key Bank
 system.
 
 
  Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
 
  
 
 [The attachment key.gif has been manually removed]
 
 
 KeyBank - Fraud Center
  1-8000-Key
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Please do not reply to this mail.Mail sent to this address cannot be
 answered
 
  
 
 Cheers,
 Ronni
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 Apple!
 
 
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Re: Addressbook sms send by bluetooth

2004-12-10 Thread d tac
I use an Ericsson T-610 in conjunction with
BluePhoneMenu (free) to send SMS via Bluetooth. Works
great.

 --- Brett Carboni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 Looking to get a bluetooth phone that will send
 sms's by typing on the Mac
 and sending using the phone. LOTS of people want us
 to phone them back with
 bookings confirmations and we end up playing phone
 tag or they just don't
 turn up. Turning into a lot of work and being able
 to use templates of
 messages would be handy.
 
 Apple's compat list not much good. My P800 is on
 there but it can't do it.
 
 Don't want to use I/net service because they charge
 and I have space on my
 cap to use up.
 
 Anyone use this feature?
 
 T.I.A.
 
 Brett Carboni
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Re: Transaction authorization required.

2004-12-10 Thread Greg Manzie

Hello Everyone

Thank you for the warning.

Over the last 3 months I have had 3 dubious Ebay messages which look to 
me like scams.


I have written back to them for confirmation (no reply) I am still 
suspicious.


[Example]

Hello Ebay

Thank you for your Email. I am totally mystified by this correspondence.

I have not done what you accuse me of, there must be some mistake.

Perhaps someone else has tried to use my name or something.

My account still seems to work. However this may be temporary.

If the service is terminated, I will not renew it unless you contact 
me. Security is very important to me too.


PS Violation and falsification are very strong words for someone who 
produces no evidence of wrong doing.


Regards etc.

On 04/12/2004, at 9:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Dear eBay Member ,

 We regret to inform you that your eBay account has been suspended due 
to the violation of our site policy below:


False or missing contact information - Falsifying or omitting your 
name, address, and/or telephone number (including use of fax machines 
pager numbers, modems or disconnected numbers).


 Due to the suspension of this account, please be advised you are 
prohibited from using eBay in any way. This prohibition includes the 
registering of a new account.


 Please note that any seller fees due to eBay will immediately become 
due and payable.
 eBay will charge any amounts you have not previously disputed to the 
billing method currently on file.


 If you would like your account to be considered for reinstatement, 
please click on the link below, and provide us additional information.


[possibly nasty bit removed]



Regards,
SafeHarbor Department
eBay Inc.


The message looked graphically legitimate, not in plain text as above.

Regards

Greg Manzie
Director
Glyde Gallery Conservation
5 Glyde Street
Mosman Park
Western Australia 6012

Phone (08) 9383 3929
Mobile 0438 833 144
Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10/12/2004, at 9:44 AM, Susan Hastings wrote:


No Matt, they definitely do not. Ignore the scam.


On 10/12/04 9:35 AM, Matt Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


How weird, I was just going to post the following as it seemed strange
to me. My concern is that there has been major fraud in the UK,
particularly with Barclays Bank, where account details have been asked
for on-line. Lot of press about it. Now, companies say they will never
ask for any account details on line.

So, we have just opened a new ANZ account in the past few days. This
morning I get this e-mail:

  Dear valued ANZ Customer!

  For security purposes your account has been
  randomly chosen for verification. To verify
  your account information we are asking you to
  provide us with all the data we are requesting.
  Otherwise we will not be able to verify your identity
  and access to your account will be denied. Please click
  on the link below to get to the ANZ secure
  page and verify your account details. Thank you.

It then gives a weblink to a https://anx site which I haven't clicked.

I'll call ANZ to ask about this, but has anyone seen this before? Do
they do this in Australia?

Thanks, Matt

On 10 Dec 2004, at 9:13, Ronda Brown wrote:


Hi WAMUGers,

I received the following email today. As I have never been to the
Putumayo website  definitely never purchased anything from them, I 
was

very suspicious.
On doing some investigating I find that this is a Scam.

This message is on the Putumayo website :

Please be aware that individuals impersonating Putumayo are 
requesting

confidential credit card information from consumers via email. Please
DO NOT provide information to these individuals. Contact Putumayo 
World

Music for further questions: 212-625-1400, ext. 200.

Begin forwarded message:


From: no_fraund [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10 December 2004 9:29:58 PM
To: preventions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Transaction authorization required.
Reply-To: no_fraund [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dear KeyBank Member,

Due to concerns, for the safety and the integrity of your Key Bank
account, we have issued this warning message.

We recently received a request from:

http://www.putumayo.com/
Putumayo World Music

411 Lafayette, 4th Floor, New York, New York 10003
 fax (212) 460-0095 

  to enable the charge to your card in amount of $59,65

THE PAYMENT IS PENDING FOR THE MOMENT.

If the purchase was made by yourself, please ignore or remove this
email message.

If you authorize the purchase, the billing will be approved and it
will be shown in your monthly statement as Putumayo World Music, 
NY,

USA.

If the purchase was not made by you and would like to decline the
$59,65 billing to your card, please follow the secured link below to
decline the transaction:

 HTTPS://online-access.KeyBank.com/SSL/DeclineTransaction

Our secured web site keeps your personal information strict and
confidential! Complete the form with the correct information, so we
can identify you as the rightful owner of the credit card to decline
the transaction.

We 

Re: Transaction authorization required.

2004-12-10 Thread James Devenish
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:04:23AM +0800, Greg Manzie wrote:
 I have written back to them for confirmation (no reply) I am still
 suspicious.

I suppose that if 10 million people receive the scam each day and 1
victims send a query to eBay (which is itself a victim), it would be a
big job for eBay to reply.




Transaction authorization required.

2004-12-10 Thread KEVIN Lock
Over the last year I have had similar notices from all the banks, 
eBay etc etc.  It is strange that if one emails the banks they tell 
you that it is a scam, but the press does not seem to report on these 
scams.


Kev


Re: Transaction authorization required.

2004-12-10 Thread Matt Morgan
Thanks to everyone for for your responses. I spoke to ANZ and they 
confirm that it is a scam, so I'm deleting.


Call me a conspiracy theorist, but isn't it just a bit too coincidental 
that I have literally just opened an ANZ account and just given them my 
.mac.com e-mail address, not my Australian work or iinet addresses?


H.

Thanks again, Matt.



firefox cache

2004-12-10 Thread gary dorn
I just watched infirfox web browser,a BMW movie - an M5 going faster 
than a rocket

I wan to keep it

where can I find this file
library?
--
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Architect
Perth,  Australia


Re: Transaction authorization required.

2004-12-10 Thread Ronda Brown


On 10/12/2004, at 10:41 AM, Matt Morgan wrote:

Thanks to everyone for for your responses. I spoke to ANZ and they 
confirm that it is a scam, so I'm deleting.


Call me a conspiracy theorist, but isn't it just a bit too 
coincidental that I have literally just opened an ANZ account and just 
given them my .mac.com e-mail address, not my Australian work or iinet 
addresses?


H.

Thanks again, Matt.


Hi Matt  others interested in this subject.

Yes, it's always my .mac.com address that I get scam mail and I never 
use it in transactions always my .wn.com.au one.


I once before asked on this list if my .mac.com address was compromised 
 as I was receiving a lot of  scam, spam  returned mail all with my 
.mac.com address.


Makes you think about .mac huh??

Cheers,
Ronni
When Microsoft asks you, Where do you want to go today? Tell them, 
Apple!




Re: Transaction authorization required.

2004-12-10 Thread Ronda Brown

Thanks for posting this Mike,
It is a good article.

Cheers,
Ronni
On 10/12/2004, at 10:53 AM, Michael Woods wrote:


There was a good article put out by the government, in may, that
covers phising and identity theft.   If you have concerns you should
read this..

http://www2.dcita.gov.au/ie/publications/2004/05/phishing

Mike

On 10/12/2004, at 10:41 AM, Matt Morgan wrote:

Thanks to everyone for for your responses. I spoke to ANZ and they 
confirm that it is a scam, so I'm deleting.


Call me a conspiracy theorist, but isn't it just a bit too 
coincidental that I have literally just opened an ANZ account and 
just given them my .mac.com e-mail address, not my Australian work or 
iinet addresses?


H.

Thanks again, Matt.


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Re: Transaction authorization required.

2004-12-10 Thread Mark Secker




I once before asked on this list if my .mac.com address was 
compromised  as I was receiving a lot of  scam, spam  returned mail 
all with my .mac.com address.



I don't think that would necessarily need to be the case.  We used to 
get hit  a lot with the old lexicon spam where once they knew your 
mail domain they just went through a work list of thousands and 
thousands of names automatically pasting one name after the other in 
to the to field and appending the mailhost domain.


Now days it's probably got to do more with address book harvesting 
done by viruses -  we saw some nasty ones that turned infected Wintel 
PC's in to uber spam generators, harvesting the user's own address 
book to randomly put   to and from addresses in to the spam messages 
it sent out.
In the 10 minutes or so from  infection till our network admin pulled 
its patch cable one machine on our network  sent thousands of spam's 
out including  dozens of spam messages to me (one with my own name as 
the sender!).


Once your e-mail address has been distributed like that (as a from 
field in the spam) you address in now in hundreds of  peoples address 
book history list just waiting to be harvested again in a  snowball 
effect.





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Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Pro?

2004-12-10 Thread Greg Colgan
Hi there Muggers,
Thanks for any responses in advance. I¹m looking for software that delivers
on much of the functionality of Adobe Acrobat Pro, but without the hefty
price tag. Any tips? The key function I need is to be able to take OSX
generated PDF files (via the print function) and have some degree of control
to be able to decrease the file size without removing pictorial content.
Sadly, OSX does a good job of creating BIG pdf files, which are not good for
emailing. It¹s a shame you can¹t control the pic resolution up front.  I¹ve
been using Colorsync which is useful, but pretty limited and time consuming.

I know there are a number of 3rd party software around that promise
this.anyone had experience with any of these and can recommend them?

Thanks again!
Greg



Imprint MT Shadow

2004-12-10 Thread Antony N. Lord
OK, I've got to work and discovered we've used the above font to do 
an InDesign layout using my machine at home and the font is not on 
this machine here :(


I've tried to be a smarty pants and SSH to the machine at home - I 
can't for the life of me actually find the font (using locate). All I 
find is a 0k file which I assume is some kind of link.


Can someone either send me the font off list (deadline soon) or tell 
me where I can find this pestiferous font location!


Cheers, Antony.

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Re: Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Pro?

2004-12-10 Thread Robert Howells

w
On 10/12/2004, at 12:56 PM, Greg Colgan wrote:


Hi there Muggers,
Thanks for any responses in advance. I¹m looking for software that 
delivers
on much of the functionality of Adobe Acrobat Pro, but without the 
hefty

price tag. Any tips? The key function I need is to be able to take OSX
generated PDF files (via the print function) and have some degree of 
control
to be able to decrease the file size without removing pictorial 
content.
Sadly, OSX does a good job of creating BIG pdf files, which are not 
good for
emailing. It¹s a shame you can¹t control the pic resolution up front.  
I¹ve
been using Colorsync which is useful, but pretty limited and time 
consuming.


I know there are a number of 3rd party software around that promise
this.anyone had experience with any of these and can recommend 
them?


Messy ... but you can do it with photoshop





Thanks again!
Greg


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EDO ram

2004-12-10 Thread Adrian Skehan
Has anybody got 2 x 64 mb, Double Bank, 60ns, 168 pin 3.3v DIMMs' 
surplus to their requirements please.


Adrian Skehan



Re: Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Pro?

2004-12-10 Thread Martin Hill
 From: Greg Colgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Hi there Muggers,
 Thanks for any responses in advance. I¹m looking for software that delivers
 on much of the functionality of Adobe Acrobat Pro, but without the hefty
 price tag. Any tips? The key function I need is to be able to take OSX
 generated PDF files (via the print function) and have some degree of control
 to be able to decrease the file size without removing pictorial content.

We use PDFCompress.  Does the job quite nicely.

http://www.metaobject.com/Products.html#PdfCompress
Shareware US$27

PdfCompress is a Mac OS X utility for reducing the size of PDF files. The
PDF files produced by Mac OS X's Quartz rendering system are beautiful, but
huge, and therefore often not usable for posting on the web or sending via
e-mail. The reason for these gargantuan file-sizes is that Quartz uses a
generic compression method (zip) for all data in the PDF files it generates
and takes a very safe approach to including possibly redundant data.
Although this approach is laudable for safety in pre-press environments, and
closely matches the PDF/X1 and PDF/X3 standards for pre-press data
interchange, it leads to files that are larger than absolutely necessary for
many common usage scenarios. Some third party applications add meta- and
edit-data, which PdfCompress can also remove.

PdfCompress optimizes such PDF files by applying specialized image
compression methods to the images stored in the file, as well as removing
unneeded elements. Photographic image are reduced by up to a factor of 10
without visible degradation using JPEG compression, bi-level images are
typically reduced by 20-30% using lossless CCIT Group 4 (Fax) encoding. In
addition, PdfCompress can downsample images to a lower resolution suitable
for screen-viewing, for example on the web.

Apart from its ultra-fast and reliable operation, what users like most about
PdfComprses is its ease of use: just drag a PDF file onto its icon, and the
compressed PDF is created almost instantaenously, or use it directly from
any application via Mac OS X 10.2.4's spiffy new PDF Services feature,
supported starting with PdfCompress 4.1.

-Mart

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Skype ??

2004-12-10 Thread P Trouchet
Hi Wamugger's, Trying Thunderbird   also just downloaded  latest 
Skype. Connected my new Voip USB phone  now want to try. Don't know 
anyone I can ring yet  when I try Names supposedly on line no answer. 
I'm now Skype connected Name  bunyip2 so how about a ring? Ciao B.




Re: Imprint MT Shadow

2004-12-10 Thread James Devenish
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:05:49PM +0800, Antony N. Lord wrote:
 All I find is a 0k file which I assume is some kind of link.

This suggests it's an old-style resource-fork font. If you append
/rsrc to the end of the file name (e.g. /blah/blah/Imprint/rsrc)
then you should see a non-zero size.




Re: Transaction authorization required.

2004-12-10 Thread Andrew Nielsen
The Australian High Tech Crime Centre also offers advisories on a 
wide range of scams and other online crime-related activities:


  http://www.ahtcc.gov.au/
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