iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program ends Friday
Hi... The iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program ends this Friday. Affected model numbers etc. are listed at: http://www.apple.com.au/support/ibook/faq/ Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
The Shoe Box-iPhoto
Somehow I have finished up with 2 Order Prints icons in iPhoto which do the same thing, can anyone/someone tell me how to get rid of one of them please. Cheers, Adrian
Fwd: Our trip (Malcolm McCallum)
Mac McCallum is on a round-Australia trip. While his presence at the monthly meetings will be missed for the next six months or so, we can still enjoy the pleasure of his company as he and Sue send these monthly accounts of their adventure. Mac has sent this to me, in the hope that it would not be too far OT to warrant a post to the list. I think Mac has enough friends in WAMUG who might be sufficiently interested in his exploits to make this worthwhile, so here is his first post. If you really don't want to read it, just delete it... Begin forwarded message: Dear All, Well we finally left Perth on 3rd March, two days later than planned. Apart from the fact that we would never have been ready, we stayed to go to our dear friend Roberta's funeral on the Wednesday. We were so glad that we could be there to say our final goodbye. We left Perth and travelled to Hyden where we found a very nice Yorkshireman who helped Mac fix a problem with the fridge. They spent a very happy hour together ending with Keith showing us the traction engine that he had built. He had arrived out on the ship from the UK two months after us. We then then went on the dirt road through to Norseman About 100kms down the track we heard a rather strange noise and Mac discovered that one of the bolts had come out of our brand new shock absorbers(put in last week !) Fortunately Mac had a bolt that would fit and he fixed it temporarily and on we went again. We spent the night at McDermid's Rock bush site. A very interesting spot and we did the trail walk around the rock. Next day we travelled on to Norseman crossing lakes Johson Cowen. Lake Cowen is just outside Norseman but quite a sight, and the vegetation is fascinating. Norseman is quite small but we did find a mechanic who replaced the bolt with the correct one and also found another bolt that was only finger tight- we were not impressed!! We carried on and finally got onto the highway, the Nullabor being as flat and barren as we expected but with its' own beauty. We took five days to get to Ceduna, stopping to see anything of interest. We stayed at bush camp sites apart from Coccklebiddy where we had a caravan site and a shower. We decided to go and look at the limestone cave and were told by some youngsters who were leaving, as we arrived, that it was very steep. They were not wrong! The start of the descent was a very long vertical ladder. As we then started to scramble down very steep rocks we both began to think that we were crazy. Fortunately a Norwegian couple arrived and so we continued, letting youth find the way! Even with a torch it was difficult but we finally made the underground lake but passed on the swimming bit. We made it back to the top but we certainly felt our muscles for the next couple of days! We drove on, saw the spectacular Bunda Cliffs and stopped at the head of the Bight and walked out on the whale watching platform. No whales at this time of year, but we did see a pod of porpoises. We then concentrated on eating up all of our fruit and veges before entering the checkpoiont at Ceduna. We are at the Foreshore caravan park and have decided to have a few days without moving. We have been to the fish processing factory which was very interesting and bought fresh King George Whiting-delicious-went back to get some more today. it was 40C yesterday, so we went to Laura Cove for a swim. A lovely spot, but oh it was hot. We are just about to go and seen them release the weather balloon not far from here. Tomorrow we move on to Streaky Bay for a few days and then onto Port Lincoln and then we don't know where! WIll be in touch. Love to all. Sue Mac Please address any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Malcolm McCallum [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apple Free Seminar -- WWDC Road Show
Hi folks Yours truly will be making a fool of himself in front of large crowds. You're welcome to come and see. http://www.apple.com.au/seminars/wwdc05/ It's a free seminar organized by Apple Australia to preview the annual Worldwide Developer's Conference as well as hearing about all that secret Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger technology (yes, you'll have to pledge your firstborn son not to reveal the contents). The seminar rocks up to Perth on Thursday 14 April at the Centre for Business Solutions Theatrette, e-Central TAFE, 6 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. -- dinner included. Cheers, Glen Low --- pixelglow software | simply brilliant stuff www.pixelglow.com P.S. If you're interested in coming, I'd love some feedback on what you'd like to hear. Can't promise anything, but would rather not put the audience to sleep blathering about how Obscure Tool #7 interacts with Obscure Fact #12.
In other words, buy anything but an iPod...
I think this speaks for itself (well, you do have to read between the lines)... http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/devices/flash.aspx It's not that Microsoft have their own music player to protect, they just don't want you thinking iPod or iTunes. Pity the rest of the world doesn't agree... -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
Re: In other words, buy anything but an iPod...
I think this speaks for itself (well, you do have to read between the lines)... http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/devices/flash.aspx It's not that Microsoft have their own music player to protect, they just don't want you thinking iPod or iTunes. Pity the rest of the world doesn't agree... Ah, PlaysForSure, a sure sign of marketing the weak point of the product. From the people who turned greasy chicken into Finger lickin' good Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: In other words, buy anything but an iPod...
Microsoft appear to be getting settled into the trenches in the war against anything not Microsoft. One thing they are doing, depending on how you read it, seems to be lodging shotgun patent applications in countries that may at some point sign a free trade agreement with the US and therefore be subject to US IP laws. Some of these would be plain ridiculous if the were granted. Like stopping anyone else from storing documents in XML (something they had nothing to do with inventing). http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/03/15/0118201.shtml?tid=155tid=109 Rob On 16/03/2005, at 9:00 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: I think this speaks for itself (well, you do have to read between the lines)... http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/devices/flash.aspx It's not that Microsoft have their own music player to protect, they just don't want you thinking iPod or iTunes. Pity the rest of the world doesn't agree... -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Internet Banking Security
Can anyone tell me why the banks wish us to always type the address into the browser? Is it really different from using a bookmark? This information was included in the article on this subject in The Australian on Monday. I now find there are instructions to do this on the Westpac site. It also tells you to close your browser after signing off. Why? Diana
Re: Internet Banking Security
Can anyone tell me why the banks wish us to always type the address into the browser? Is it really different from using a bookmark? You can use a bookmark, as long as you typed it originally. Phishers send URLs that *Look* ok (like say www.eastpac.com) but aren't actually correct (it should be www.eastpac.com.au), people click on these URLs and get taken to a site that looks identical to the banks, but isn't. Then they enter their password and the thieves now have everything they need to steal the users' money. People using HTML e-mail have to be even more careful as the links contained in HTML can say www.eastpac.com but actually take you to 95.23.207.49 (in the same way that a web page can link any given text to a different page) which is where the thieves have set up their identical looking web site. Recently even more insidious phishing tactics to create web sites whose URLs look exactly the same, but actually use different UniCode character glyphs (shapes) that are identical to the english glyphs the user would be expecting and take the user to the phisher's web site (as although the name looks the same on the screen it's actually a different name, and thus a different web site) All this can be avoided if you type the name yourself, or use a bookmark you created yourself. Of course if you type the name yourself, there's a chance you could make a typo which would take Of course, it's possible that someone smart could work out a way to edit your bookmarks using some evil scripting, but that's another issue :) This information was included in the article on this subject in The Australian on Monday. I now find there are instructions to do this on the Westpac site. It also tells you to close your browser after signing off. Why? Because if you're using a browser in an internet cafe, it's possible (although unlikely) that someone could use information that it still has cached to get into your account. In the most trivial example by hitting the 'back' button if you leave the browser window open. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Microsoft's perception of Australian English
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 18:51 +0800, James Devenish wrote: Hi, I don't use Microsoft Word much, but naturally I support users who do. I have the computers set up with the default language as English (AUS) because I presumed that was the right thing to do. However, I recently used Word and found that it misspells organisation as organization. I was able to overcome this problem by setting the language to English (UK). I'm flabbergasted that it could be wrong like this. It seems to be a problem in both Word v.X and Word 2004. I guess my users are just ignoring these errors. However, it makes me wonder what everyone else does. Do you leave it as AUS and just ignore the errors, or do you set it to UK? I'm not sure of the differences between Word's AUS and UK spellings, except that they seem to be basically back-to-front in this case. The Australian dictionary compiled for OpenOffice.org suffers from the same problem. I think the aspell and ispell dictionaries do too. It is perhaps most strongly evidenced by the acceptance of both color and colour in writing. I've ended up having to replace the en_AU dictionaries on the journalists' systems here with the en_GB ones. I then provided them with a short custom dictionary compiled by our subeditors, and that's taken care of the issue. Like you, I think it's a sad state of affairs. We've never had a nutcase re-write our spelling ;-) and I sincerely hope it's not permitted to happen by proxy. -- Craig Ringer
Re: Internet Banking Security
Thanks Mark Shay All this can be avoided if you type the name yourself, or use a bookmark you created yourself. Of course if you type the name yourself, there's a chance you could make a typo ... I knew about the false sites, I get messages from banks I don't bank with quite frequently. I could not see how a correct bookmark would be a problem, the end result is the same. Creepy to think of someone manipulating your bookmarks, I think I shall type it in (carefully) from now on. Because if you're using a browser in an internet cafe, it's possible (although unlikely) that someone could use information that it still has cached to get into your account. In the most trivial example by hitting the 'back' button if you leave the browser window open. We are also admonished not to use public computers. The guy in the article who used one when on holiday had all his key strokes recorded and they took $9000. He got it back but only after an extreme amount of stress because the people at the bank plain didn't believe him. Diana
itunes convert to MP3
itunes version 3.0, which came with 10.2 installer has in the advanced menuconvert selection to MP3 itunes version 4.7.1 has instead convert selection to AAC does that mean that the latest version of itune no longer can convert to MP3 I want to put some of my music onto my MP3 playing motorola phone. I have already converted 1 song to MP3 by Audion, and transferred to the phone as test woks okay just wondering about itunes though. chow
Fwd: Re: itunes convert to MP3
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:09:45 +0800 To: gary dorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jude [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: itunes convert to MP3 Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: Try going to Itunes Preferences Importing and changing the drop down menu to the file type you want. cheers Jude
CD Sleeves
I'm planning on archiving / storing a truckload of CDs (audio data). Can anyone recommend where I can find paper / poly sleeves (most of the discs don't have jewel cases). If there's no one local I'll just go back to my old supplier ISD (Copysoft). Cheers, Antony. -- == == = = Antony N. Lord = http://antonylord.com = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Perth, Western Australia = == = ==
Anyone have latest working copy of Whereis for AddressBook?
Hi All! Does anyone have a working copy of this program? I have tried to download it from VT, but both links produce a corrupted archive. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Seeya Rod!
Re: Anyone have latest working copy of Whereis for AddressBook?
Try Stephen Withers .mac fileshare for the latest of his excellent address book plugins: http://homepage.mac.com/swithers Cheers, Steve. On 16/03/2005, at 3:40 PM, Rod wrote: Hi All! Does anyone have a working copy of this program? I have tried to download it from VT, but both links produce a corrupted archive. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Seeya Rod! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: CD Sleeves
PCL (?) in Wangara sell the paper ones we buy them by the truck load here and give them away so - if you know how tight the purses are held at UWA then they must be dirt cheap. office works sells poly ones in single up to 8 disks per A4 double sided pre-punched in 2 4 ring binder size in packs of various amounts. reasonably priced as I recall. Though doubt you be able to swing a bulk discount. I'm planning on archiving / storing a truckload of CDs (audio data). Can anyone recommend where I can find paper / poly sleeves (most of the discs don't have jewel cases). If there's no one local I'll just go back to my old supplier ISD (Copysoft). Cheers, Antony. -- == == = = Antony N. Lord = http://antonylord.com = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Perth, Western Australia = == = == -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph#6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. - Miguel de Unamuno It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) http://ecel-mark.ecel.uwa.edu.au/~marksecker/index.htm (sometimes works)
Re: Anyone have latest working copy of Whereis for AddressBook?
Thanks Steve! Seems to be a working link directly at his website, rather than the link from VT. Seeya Rod! On 16/03/2005, at 4:00 PM, Steve Woods wrote: Try Stephen Withers .mac fileshare for the latest of his excellent address book plugins: http://homepage.mac.com/swithers Cheers, Steve. On 16/03/2005, at 3:40 PM, Rod wrote: Hi All! Does anyone have a working copy of this program? I have tried to download it from VT, but both links produce a corrupted archive. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Seeya Rod! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: Microsoft's perception of Australian English
Hi, Thanks to those who have pointed out that organisation is the only word affected by this problem. Similar words, including its own variants (organised, organiser), are accepted by Word as Australian spellings. The Commonwealth Style Guide lists organisation as the preferred spelling for official publications and names (e.g. I'm pretty sure CSIRO, ANSTO, DSTO, ASIO and DIO are all spelt with Organisation in the legislation). Newspapers (including Craig's) seem to use organisation too. Since organisation is also the expected spelling in the higher-education and academic settings, one must use a custom dictionary to overcome the problem. Apparently, organization is predominant in some commercial settings and in recent documents from government departments. I wonder if this is *because of* the Word spell checker?! All other electronic dictionaries I could find (including Apple's and aspell) prefer organisation.
Re: Microsoft's perception of Australian English
On 16/03/2005, at 4:40 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi, Thanks to those who have pointed out that organisation is the only word affected by this problem. Similar words, including its own variants (organised, organiser), are accepted by Word as Australian spellings. The Commonwealth Style Guide lists organisation as the preferred spelling for official publications and names (e.g. I'm pretty sure CSIRO, ANSTO, DSTO, ASIO and DIO are all spelt with Organisation in the legislation). Newspapers (including Craig's) seem to use organisation too. Since organisation is also the expected spelling in the higher-education and academic settings, one must use a custom dictionary to overcome the problem. Apparently, organization is predominant in some commercial settings and in recent documents from government departments. I wonder if this is *because of* the Word spell checker?! All other electronic dictionaries I could find (including Apple's and aspell) prefer organisation. Never mind the electronic versions, they possibly emanate from the usa originally anyway ./ MyShorter Oxford English Dictionary all 100 mm thickness of it spells organization this way. Admittedly printed in Great Britain with corrections to 1969 ! Cheers Bob
Cheap Dual Head Options?
A mate of mine is trying to run a home recording studio on a single 15 monitor (1GHz G4). No surprises it doesn't all fit on screen :) He's got a second monitor (both are analogue XVGA HD15 types). What are the options for a cheap dual head? All comments welcomed. Cheers, Antony. -- == == = = Antony N. Lord = http://antonylord.com = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Perth, Western Australia = == = ==
disk space
I have acquired an Imac that has a 20 gig HD. It has no personal files and about 2 gig of applications. However the Get info tells me that it only has 1.7 gig of free space. Have run disk warrior but still same reading. Is a clean install necessary. Brett Curtis Master Window Cleaners Perth, Western Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.masterwindowcleaners.com
Re: Our trip (Malcolm McCallum)
on 16/3/05 8:07 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mac McCallum is on a round-Australia trip. While his presence at the monthly meetings will be missed for the next six months or so, we can still enjoy the pleasure of his company as he and Sue send these monthly accounts of their adventure. Mac has sent this to me, in the hope that it would not be too far OT to warrant a post to the list. I think Mac has enough friends in WAMUG who might be sufficiently interested in his exploits to make this worthwhile, so here is his first post. If you really don't want to read it, just delete it... Begin forwarded message: Dear All, Well we finally left Perth on 3rd March, two days later than planned. Apart from the fact that we would never have been ready, we stayed to go to our dear friend Roberta's funeral on the Wednesday. We were so glad that we could be there to say our final goodbye .. Hi Peter, Many thanks for forwarding Mac Sue's travelling adventure. I find this very interesting and reminds me of Mat's US adventure. Please keep it going, can't wait for the next assignment. Maybe Mac can tell us how he is travelling. I can only guess that he has a caravan, or maybe a trailer/camper? And possibly a 4WD?? And how is he getting his e-mail through? I'm getting very curious indeed Cheers, Philippe - who is dreaming of doing such a trip!
Re: Cheap Dual Head Options?
rather than buying a dual head monitor card if he has a free PCI slot then find an old Matrox Millenium or Mystique card which were a dime a dozen a few years back - I have 2 (well one of each) in my old Frankenmac G4 so can (and did) run 3 monitors - I could part with them... but don't want to :) - they don't run OX 10.3 to pretty at all (no O-GL Quartz support) but for a while I had it set up for the much same purpose as your friend - to run old OS 9 legacy studio software (Quebase) and now gathering dust after I sold off my audio to FireWire DAC. Try the Quokka, e-Bay or Recycle -IT in Osbourne Park - that's were I got these cards from. From memory they were about $30 or $40 though I got them for free for finding them installer floppys and salvaged some external floppy drives for some of their stock. Matrox did make a dual head PCI Millenium but they were as rare as hens teeth. A mate of mine is trying to run a home recording studio on a single 15 monitor (1GHz G4). No surprises it doesn't all fit on screen :) He's got a second monitor (both are analogue XVGA HD15 types). What are the options for a cheap dual head? All comments welcomed. Cheers, Antony. -- == == = = Antony N. Lord = http://antonylord.com = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Perth, Western Australia = == = == -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9380 2308 (GSE) 9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, shouting GERONIMO Hunter S Thompson(?)
Re: disk space
'tis 10.28 i think Brett On 16/03/2005, at 11:01 PM, Robert Howells wrote: On 16/03/2005, at 10:46 PM, Brett Curtis wrote: I have acquired an Imac that has a 20 gig HD. It has no personal files and about 2 gig of applications. However the Get info tells me that it only has 1.7 gig of free space. Have run disk warrior but still same reading. Is a clean install necessary. You omit to say what OS. Pre OSX ... definitely Rebuild the Desktop. OSX I am not sure ... but you may want to check out for INVISIBLE FILES with something like FILE BUDDY. Bob Brett Curtis Master Window Cleaners Perth, Western Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.masterwindowcleaners.com
Re: disk space
OS 9 or 10? 10 likes to cache and can get a lot of system cache stuff build up alternatively if the previous owner did a lot of CD copying without using MP3 format burning you might find there are temporary Toast CD images, AAF uncompressed audio etc copy the applications you want to keep to CD/external drive (or find installers for them) then format and reinstall with a minimal OS (deselect all the extras like foreign language support and voices and extra fonts etc) I have acquired an Imac that has a 20 gig HD. It has no personal files and about 2 gig of applications. However the Get info tells me that it only has 1.7 gig of free space. Have run disk warrior but still same reading. Is a clean install necessary. Brett Curtis Master Window Cleaners Perth, Western Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.masterwindowcleaners.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9380 2308 (GSE) 9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, shouting GERONIMO Hunter S Thompson(?)
