Re: Converting /Importing DVDs into iMovie
On 17 Apr 2005, at 8:38 PM, Rod Blitvich wrote: I have a friend who has had some almost 30 year old Super8 movies converted to DVD. The people who converted them said that the soundstrip was worn out (we recorded music soundtracks on the soundstrip 30 years ago). SoŠ my friend wants to put a new music soundtrack on using iMovie. When he tries to import/open the DVD files in iMovie he gets an error message ³Quicktime could not parseŠ error 2048 and error 43². Please has anyone got any ideas on how he can get this DVD footage into iMovie? Would QT Pro do it or does he need some DVD Ripping software? Or is he better off sending his super8 films back to the people who converted them and ask them to send them to mini DV tape? Send back and ask for DV or higher if possible for you to use at your end, this will also split the audio layer for reference or repair. Ta Rod -- Rod BLITVICH Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003 Amy and Sam's Dad [EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256 http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. -- 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
Spamfire
Hi folks, Anyone out there using Spamfire?I just upgraded to Ver2 and everything has gone haywire. Any help welcome. Bill -- Dr Bill Parker RENEW Editors Writers Box 322 Mount Lawley 6929 08 9371 6371 0437 289 088 http://members.westnet.com.au/renew
Re: Converting /Importing DVDs into iMovie
Hi Rod Interesting situation you have here Rod. It sort of puts me off, as I am contemplating doing the same with some old super 8 my family have given to me for safe keeping. Given where you stand with the company that did the conversion, would you recommend them? Can you give me an idea of the cost of doing this? If you are not happy with them, have you any ideas for others? I would be grateful for any feedback from the list too kind regards chris On 17/04/2005, at 8:38 PM, Rod Blitvich wrote: I have a friend who has had some almost 30 year old Super8 movies converted to DVD. The people who converted them said that the soundstrip was worn out (we recorded music soundtracks on the soundstrip 30 years ago). SoŠ my friend wants to put a new music soundtrack on using iMovie. When he tries to import/open the DVD files in iMovie he gets an error message ³Quicktime could not parseŠ error 2048 and error 43². Please has anyone got any ideas on how he can get this DVD footage into iMovie? Would QT Pro do it or does he need some DVD Ripping software? Or is he better off sending his super8 films back to the people who converted them and ask them to send them to mini DV tape? Ta Rod -- Rod BLITVICH Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003 Amy and Sam's Dad [EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256 http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. -- 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
Tiger vs Panther comparison
All, Apple's put up this list, very informative for those of you thinking of making the jump: http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/compare.html or the 200 new features: http://www.apple.com/macosx/newfeatures/over200.html Cheers, Glen Low --- pixelglow software | simply brilliant stuff www.pixelglow.com aim: pixglen
Re: new Mac time lag
On 17/04/2005, at 8:06 AM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote: I feel the retailer should take more responsibility as they are about to lose not just one customer, but also myself as a second (and I won't be recommending them again), and potentially more, as all those watching this episode are quite appalled at the time lag and would definitely not make a purchase there. This crew is also very iPod/Shuffle savvy and this market is also lost to this retailer. Unfortunately, there's not much the retailer can do in these circumstances. I agree, the situation is inexcusable, but not necessarily the retailer's fault. Speaking from personal experience, I have a client who ordered a Mac Mini from me almost 2 months ago, and to this day my Apple wholesaler has had no indication from Apple as to when they will become available. Fortunately, the client is a diehard Apple user so there's no question of switching. He has been very understanding since he has been though this sort of thing before with Apple, although not on this time scale. Again on a personal note, my daughter and her boyfriend were chasing a pair of iPod Shuffles at the beginning of March. They scoured the iPod dealers of Perth (not just AppleCentres) and were told at every stop the units would not be in stock until April. They went to Apple's online store and had them within the week! Believe me, this is just as frustrating to retailers and suppliers as it is to the end customer, but it's the poor old retailer who cops all the abuse and loos of good will. It's a huge marketing problem which Apple Australia just has to address if they seriously want people to switch (or even to stay). -- 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: Converting /Importing DVDs into iMovie
Hi Chris My mate got the conversion done at BAC Productions in Leederville, $50 per 400m. In retrospect perhaps he should have got them converted to miniDV tape,THEN he could put them into iMovie, iDVD etc. Rod on 18/4/05 7:52 AM, Chris Burton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rod Interesting situation you have here Rod. It sort of puts me off, as I am contemplating doing the same with some old super 8 my family have given to me for safe keeping. Given where you stand with the company that did the conversion, would you recommend them? Can you give me an idea of the cost of doing this? If you are not happy with them, have you any ideas for others? I would be grateful for any feedback from the list too kind regards chris On 17/04/2005, at 8:38 PM, Rod Blitvich wrote: I have a friend who has had some almost 30 year old Super8 movies converted to DVD. The people who converted them said that the soundstrip was worn out (we recorded music soundtracks on the soundstrip 30 years ago). SoŠ my friend wants to put a new music soundtrack on using iMovie. When he tries to import/open the DVD files in iMovie he gets an error message ³Quicktime could not parseŠ error 2048 and error 43². Please has anyone got any ideas on how he can get this DVD footage into iMovie? Would QT Pro do it or does he need some DVD Ripping software? Or is he better off sending his super8 films back to the people who converted them and ask them to send them to mini DV tape? Ta Rod -- Rod BLITVICH Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003 Amy and Sam's Dad [EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256 http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. -- 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 -- Rod BLITVICH Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003 Amy and Sam's Dad [EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256 http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
New Final Cut Bundle
Hi All! http://www.apple.com.au/finalcutstudio/ New versions have been announced last night: Final Cut Pro 5 Motion 2 DVD Studio Pro 5 Soundtrack 2 The pack is $100 less than the current Production Bundle, at $1899. The bundle still contains Compressor and Livetype, plus a new version of Cinema Tools (3). Expected delivery is 4-6 weeks. The new options look outstanding. To run any HD stuff you need a G5, plus the usual graphics cards to run Motion. It also relies on Quicktime 7 (for h.264), which I am sure will be released concurrently with 10.4. Also, some functions of Motion require 10.4. Check the website above for more info. Shake 4 was also announced last night too. For those who have money to burn, the US price is $2999. Hopefully with the better exchange rate, we might see this skip under $4k here in Australia. Expected delivery is sometime in the US summer (try September :-) ). Apple Australia have yet to update their Shake page (showing 3.5 at the moment), so the US is the only one with the new info http://www.apple.com/shake. Seeya Rod!
Re: new Mac time lag
Hi Edward Sometimes one has to shop around to find what you are after, I know all dealers should put the customers first but they don't always. All I can say is I have had a couple of good experiences with ArtRef last week and digilife in the past. A friend wanted a 15 ibook with super drive and he had it within two days, and that was only because he couldn't get there on Monday and had to go Tuesday! I also brought a Macmini a few weeks ago I have to say both were in stock and we didn't want a custom build and of course there is always the Apple store. Regards Roger On 18/04/2005, at 8:50 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 17/04/2005, at 8:06 AM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote: I feel the retailer should take more responsibility as they are about to lose not just one customer, but also myself as a second (and I won't be recommending them again), and potentially more, as all those watching this episode are quite appalled at the time lag and would definitely not make a purchase there. This crew is also very iPod/Shuffle savvy and this market is also lost to this retailer. Unfortunately, there's not much the retailer can do in these circumstances. I agree, the situation is inexcusable, but not necessarily the retailer's fault. Speaking from personal experience, I have a client who ordered a Mac Mini from me almost 2 months ago, and to this day my Apple wholesaler has had no indication from Apple as to when they will become available. Fortunately, the client is a diehard Apple user so there's no question of switching. He has been very understanding since he has been though this sort of thing before with Apple, although not on this time scale. Again on a personal note, my daughter and her boyfriend were chasing a pair of iPod Shuffles at the beginning of March. They scoured the iPod dealers of Perth (not just AppleCentres) and were told at every stop the units would not be in stock until April. They went to Apple's online store and had them within the week! Believe me, this is just as frustrating to retailers and suppliers as it is to the end customer, but it's the poor old retailer who cops all the abuse and loos of good will. It's a huge marketing problem which Apple Australia just has to address if they seriously want people to switch (or even to stay). -- 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 Roger P Kortas PH: 61 8 9303 mob: 0413307995
Re: New Final Cut Bundle
It also relies on Quicktime 7 (for h.264), which I am sure will be released concurrently with 10.4. There is some noise being made at the moment about the fact that Quicktime 6 pro users will have to buy a new licence for Quicktime 7 Pro if they upgrade to Tiger. Second hand from macfixit : As noted by MacFixIt reader Scott Mahrer, QuickTime Pro 6 users who upgrade to Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) will not be able to use their current license codes for the newly included QuickTime Pro 7. - I did verify with Apple's techs today that a Quicktime Pro version 6 key will not work with Tiger and Quicktime 7! Furthermore, the Apple Store does not know when Quicktime Pro 7 will be available, or how much it will cost to upgrade! Just something to keep in mind if you rely on Quicktime Pro. cheers Jude
Re: new Mac time lag
On 18/04/2005, at 8:50 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 17/04/2005, at 8:06 AM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote: I feel the retailer should take more responsibility as they are about to lose not just one customer, but also myself as a second (and I won't be recommending them again), and potentially more, as all those watching this episode are quite appalled at the time lag and would definitely not make a purchase there. This crew is also very iPod/Shuffle savvy and this market is also lost to this retailer. Unfortunately, there's not much the retailer can do in these circumstances. I agree, the situation is inexcusable, but not necessarily the retailer's fault. Speaking from personal experience, I have a client who ordered a Mac Mini from me almost 2 months ago, and to this day my Apple wholesaler has had no indication from Apple as to when they will become available. Fortunately, the client is a diehard Apple user so there's no question of switching. He has been very understanding since he has been though this sort of thing before with Apple, although not on this time scale. Again on a personal note, my daughter and her boyfriend were chasing a pair of iPod Shuffles at the beginning of March. They scoured the iPod dealers of Perth (not just AppleCentres) and were told at every stop the units would not be in stock until April. They went to Apple's online store and had them within the week! Believe me, this is just as frustrating to retailers and suppliers as it is to the end customer, but it's the poor old retailer who cops all the abuse and loos of good will. It's a huge marketing problem which Apple Australia just has to address if they seriously want people to switch (or even to stay). It is a real 'chicken and the egg' situation with Apple Australia and resellers. Apple say they will get more stock in if resellers order more. But resellers don't want to get caught with huge quantities of stock if Apple suddenly change models (remember, resellers hear of model changes the day the rest of the world does - they only second guess by looking stock availability at Apple). And neither really want to hold lots of stock, as stock on shelf (according to the Tax Department) is profit. And profit is subject to Company Tax (30%). So if you have larger levels of stock on the shelf at the End of the Financial Year than the previous year, that is viewed as profit and subsequently taxed. That's one reason why Apple don't have any stock at the end of each quarter (but I am not sure how that would affect Profit and Loss reporting - ask an accountant!). Furthermore, stock on shelf is tied up capital. If you wrongly purchase too much of one item thinking it was going to be a hot seller and it bombs, that could be $10k of your capital sitting on the shelf that you can't use to purchase the real hot sellers (and with margins of some products, you can't even sell at cost to promote a good saving!). So both Apple and resellers work on the JIT principle (Just in Time), which means each holds little stock, but is able to access stock faster. For example, Apple figure out how much stock they will need for the quarter, based on previous time periods and current reseller ordering levels. Then they know that what they get in will move straight out to the resellers, thus not leaving anything in the warehouse. Then resellers can fulfill their orders and not leave much on their shelves. The days of seeing huge amounts of stock on shelves are long gone. The one problem with JIT is that you are at the mercy of the supply chain. If there are courier delays, no stock. If there are production delays, no stock. If you are on the bottom of the order list with the supplier, no stock. That's the way I see it anyway. Nobody wants the risk of having too much stock, as the overheads can be a real killer. Great system for the US, not so good for a small population like Australia. Seeya Rod!
Re: New Final Cut Bundle
It also relies on Quicktime 7 (for h.264), which I am sure will be released concurrently with 10.4. There is some noise being made at the moment about the fact that Quicktime 6 pro users will have to buy a new licence for Quicktime 7 Pro if they upgrade to Tiger. Second hand from macfixit : Not much different from upgrading from QT 5 to QT 6 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: new Mac time lag
accountant!). Furthermore, stock on shelf is tied up capital. If you wrongly purchase too much of one item thinking it was going to be a hot seller and it bombs, that could be $10k of your capital sitting on the shelf that you can't use to purchase the real hot sellers (and with margins of some products, you can't even sell at cost to promote a good saving!). The problem with the hot sellers is that they're also likely to be hot sellers in the US and thus most of the supply is going to be diverted over there... Have fun, Shay (also still waiting) -- === 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: New Final Cut Bundle
On 18/04/2005, at 9:17 AM, Jude wrote: It also relies on Quicktime 7 (for h.264), which I am sure will be released concurrently with 10.4. There is some noise being made at the moment about the fact that Quicktime 6 pro users will have to buy a new licence for Quicktime 7 Pro if they upgrade to Tiger. Second hand from macfixit : As noted by MacFixIt reader Scott Mahrer, QuickTime Pro 6 users who upgrade to Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) will not be able to use their current license codes for the newly included QuickTime Pro 7. - I did verify with Apple's techs today that a Quicktime Pro version 6 key will not work with Tiger and Quicktime 7! Furthermore, the Apple Store does not know when Quicktime Pro 7 will be available, or how much it will cost to upgrade! Just something to keep in mind if you rely on Quicktime Pro. For those who upgrade FCP (either standalone or bundle) it is not an issue, as QT Pro is included in the bundle. Well, it was for FCP 4 and the Production Bundle! Seeya Rod!
Re: New Final Cut Bundle
On 18/04/2005, at 9:23 AM, Shay Telfer wrote: It also relies on Quicktime 7 (for h.264), which I am sure will be released concurrently with 10.4. There is some noise being made at the moment about the fact that Quicktime 6 pro users will have to buy a new licence for Quicktime 7 Pro if they upgrade to Tiger. Second hand from macfixit : Not much different from upgrading from QT 5 to QT 6 I guess I will just have to 'Grin Bear It' to get all the great new features of Tiger 10.4. Ah well, I guess 'That's Life' ! Cheers, Ronni When Microsoft asks you, Where do you want to go today? Tell them, Apple!
Re: New Final Cut Bundle
It also relies on Quicktime 7 (for h.264), which I am sure will be released concurrently with 10.4. There is some noise being made at the moment about the fact that Quicktime 6 pro users will have to buy a new licence for Quicktime 7 Pro if they upgrade to Tiger. Second hand from macfixit : Not much different from upgrading from QT 5 to QT 6 Yep - and I'm happy to pay, but what people were complaining about was that they didn't realise that installing Tiger would mean that they have to upgrade their Quicktime Pro. Tiger 'breaks' Quicktime Pro 6. I'm not positive this is true, its just something I've been reading on FCP boards. Like Rod says, it's likely to be bundled with FCP 5, but if you aren't buying FCP then you might want to check into this if you use Quicktime Pro.
Upgrading to Tiger - Straight away? Fresh install or upgrade?
Hey all, Just thought I'd run an improptu survey. With Tiger coming out soon I'm definitely upgrading but the quesiton is *when*? Panther broke a few things when it came up and that wasn't resolved for a month or two, will people be switching to Tiger straight away or waiting a bit? Also, I'm mulling over a fresh install of Tiger and bringing across files etc vs doing an upgrade. Any thoughts on this? What's everyone else doing? Adam
Re: Upgrading to Tiger - Straight away? Fresh install or upgrade?
On 18/04/2005, at 10:03 AM, Adam Yap wrote: Hey all, Just thought I'd run an improptu survey. With Tiger coming out soon I'm definitely upgrading but the quesiton is *when*? Panther broke a few things when it came up and that wasn't resolved for a month or two, will people be switching to Tiger straight away or waiting a bit? Also, I'm mulling over a fresh install of Tiger and bringing across files etc vs doing an upgrade. Any thoughts on this? What's everyone else doing? Adam I'm going to archive and install on my Powerbook (after backing up, of course!) and see how it goes. My Powerbook is usually a test bed for software and such, so I'm not too concerned if things go bung. Its the only way Apple are going to get feedback if things are bung on their new OS! But I will wait with my MDD G4. At the moment things are running sweet and I don't particularly want to disrupt that until I know 10.4 is okay. Also depends on what you want to run. New features of Motion require 10.4, so upgrading has to be done. Smart people might partition their drives or put in an extra drive, then installing a fresh 10.4. Keeps a working 10.3 on another drive and can still try out 10.4! Seeya Rod!
Re: Upgrading to Tiger - Straight away? Fresh install or upgrade?
Just thought I'd run an improptu survey. With Tiger coming out soon I'm definitely upgrading but the quesiton is *when*? Panther broke a few things when it came up and that wasn't resolved for a month or two, will people be switching to Tiger straight away or waiting a bit? I'll be moving my (disposable) work machine to it straight away. If there isn't anything particularly distressing then I'll move the laptop over (after a precautionary full backup of course!). After a few updates I'll think about moving some of my servers over :) And all the users in about 6 months or so... Also, I'm mulling over a fresh install of Tiger and bringing across files etc vs doing an upgrade. Any thoughts on this? What's everyone else doing? I'm thinking this time I might be daring and just do an upgrade, but only because I've got so many customisations in place that it's a pain to reinstall them. 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: New Final Cut Bundle
On 18 Apr 2005, at 9:42 AM, Jude wrote: It also relies on Quicktime 7 (for h.264), which I am sure will be released concurrently with 10.4. There is some noise being made at the moment about the fact that Quicktime 6 pro users will have to buy a new licence for Quicktime 7 Pro if they upgrade to Tiger. Second hand from macfixit : Not much different from upgrading from QT 5 to QT 6 Yep - and I'm happy to pay, but what people were complaining about was that they didn't realise that installing Tiger would mean that they have to upgrade their Quicktime Pro. Tiger 'breaks' Quicktime Pro 6. Yes it will, because Tiger is built with/around QT 7 for most of the things that make OS X so special. Yes if you do utilise Pro you will have to upgrade as with most commercial software when it does a major revision hence major number change. Most whom use Pro will gain some remorse by upgrading other bits which supply Pro license as part of its upgrade?? From what I have seen and been able to play with, the advantages of a $70 plugin which is a major part of the OS X I am using is money well spent. Go purchase XP and try to play a DVD, cant. One must go buy a program that will, then Windows Media Player will play DvD's, how much is said program, mmm a lot more than the plugin for QT and XP is a lot more than Tiger. QT pro also does a lot more than said program and some would even say does a lot more than XP. Last point, most people whom I know who use Apple hardware and software are in a professional environment, hence they have direct income involved in said machine so it becomes a taxable item a deduction. So, I treat these upgrades purchases as a way of paying your tax bill for that year or those to come with some extra layouts. I'm not positive this is true, its just something I've been reading on FCP boards. Like Rod says, it's likely to be bundled with FCP 5, but if you aren't buying FCP then you might want to check into this if you use Quicktime Pro. Cheers! Rob Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is the world which makes known to us our belonging to a subject-communtiy, especially the existence in the world of the manufactured objects. Sartre.
Re: Upgrading to Tiger - Straight away? Fresh install or upgrade?
I'll probably do an archive install, but I think now is a good time as any to purchase a 2nd hard disk for my G5 (backup everything just in case). Hey, I wonder if you can you use the neato migration app that lets you transfer OS data via 2 firewire equipped macs ... between 2 hard disks installed on the same machine. Mm. Is it irony that as a Mac user I'm more excited about my Department moving from an Exchange 5.5 environment to an Exchange 2003 one than upgrading from 10.3 to 10.4? Ah, I live for the day when I can banish Outlook 2001 and Classic from my desktop ... :) Cheers, T. On 18/04/2005, at 10:10 AM, Shay Telfer wrote: Just thought I'd run an improptu survey. With Tiger coming out soon I'm definitely upgrading but the quesiton is *when*? Panther broke a few things when it came up and that wasn't resolved for a month or two, will people be switching to Tiger straight away or waiting a bit? I'm thinking this time I might be daring and just do an upgrade, but only because I've got so many customisations in place that it's a pain to reinstall them.
[OT] Funny Star Wars jokes
Hi All! Saw these on /. today :-) Obi-Wan and Luke were both very hungry after their long speeder trip to that wretched hive of scum and villiany, Mos Eisley. They settled themselves in a cantina and ordered a big dinner of noodles, rice, sweet and sour dewback, and other oriental style goodies. The food soon arrived and they set to. Obi-Wan handled his chopsticks deftly, quickly and securely picking up a noodle here, a prawn ball there. He soon sat back satisfied, and let out a quiet burp. Luke, on the other hand, was in a right state. He just couldn't get the hang of the sticks, and had dropped far more food on the table and down his front than he had managed to get into his mouth. He sat, surrounded by rice and noodle debris, still as hungry as when he started. Seeing his pupil in such distress, the Jedi Master leant over to dispense some of the wisdom of his years. Use the forks, Luke he whispered, Use the forks. It's Christmas time, Vader Palpatine sit by a open fire. Palpatine: i see young Skywalker has got you a few presents there under the christmas tree. Vader: Yes my master. Palpatine: I bet your wondering what the young Skywalker has got you? Vader: No my master, i know what he has got me, i felt his presents Yeah, not Mac related. But someone has released their own Star Wars movie on Quicktime, so there is the link :-) Seeya Rod!
Tiger, QuickTime7
I notice that the publicity for Tiger lists all the goodies with QuickTime7. I wonder if, after paying $199 for Tiger we will have to pay yet again to upgrade QT to QTPro? Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web pages http://www.JennyCrisp.com.au http://members.westnet.com.au/Crisp
Re: Tiger, QuickTime7
Hi Severin, See the thread about the Final Cut Pro bundle today. Looks like you will have to buy another key for QT Pro 7. Seeya Rod! On 18/04/2005, at 2:49 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I notice that the publicity for Tiger lists all the goodies with QuickTime7. I wonder if, after paying $199 for Tiger we will have to pay yet again to upgrade QT to QTPro? Severin Crisp
Wanted: Older iMac keyboard
Hi All! Does anyone have a spare older iMac keyboard they want to sell/trade? I'm after the little piddly one that came with the tray load imacs, not the bigger Pro keyboard. Seeya Rod!
new Mac time lag
In this case, Roger, Tara is new to Macs. She wanted to see and feel what she was was getting for her money, and to talk to a human about it. This is not possible at the Apple Store. Its not easy for a non Mac person to shop around for Macs in Perth and not all their web sites are helpful, some are not up to date or easy to navigate. This is on the front page of a Perth Apple retailer's web site - it needs no comment: 'This web site is currently under construction, but please feel free to browse around what we have so far ...' Anyway, still waiting ... On 18/04/2005, at 9:05 AM, rogerk wrote: and of course there is always the Apple store. Regards Roger
Re: new Mac time lag
To be fair, you've just said you wanted a Mac store where you can see/feel the hardware and talk to a person Then made a comment about unfinished websites - there are a bunch of accessable, viewable Mac stores in Mt Hawthorn, Joondalup ... Jolimont (more pro friendly that one), even the CBD - that seems pretty reasonable for a computer with a 3% marketshare. I like a up-to-date website as much as the next person, but it's not the be all and end all - While I don't always agree with Digilife's pricing, I appreciate their store presence and stock selection. Cheers, Tobes. P.S. Aplogies Team Digital, haven't seen your digs in East Perth so didn't think it's fair to comment. :} On 18/04/2005, at 3:53 PM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote: In this case, Roger, Tara is new to Macs. She wanted to see and feel what she was was getting for her money, and to talk to a human about it. This is not possible at the Apple Store. Its not easy for a non Mac person to shop around for Macs in Perth and not all their web sites are helpful, some are not up to date or easy to navigate. This is on the front page of a Perth Apple retailer's web site - it needs no comment: 'This web site is currently under construction, but please feel free to browse around what we have so far ...' Anyway, still waiting ... On 18/04/2005, at 9:05 AM, rogerk wrote: and of course there is always the Apple store. Regards Roger -- 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: new Mac time lag
On 18/04/2005, at 3:53 PM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote: In this case, Roger, Tara is new to Macs. She wanted to see and feel what she was was getting for her money, and to talk to a human about it. This is not possible at the Apple Store. Its not easy for a non Mac person to shop around for Macs in Perth and not all their web sites are helpful, some are not up to date or easy to navigate. This is on the front page of a Perth Apple retailer's web site - it needs no comment: 'This web site is currently under construction, but please feel free to browse around what we have so far ...' Anyway, still waiting ... As far as your friend buying a Powerbook, she is suffering the same problem as everyone else worldwide. Powerbooks are in a shortage everywhere, and there is a long wait. I hope that will change in the next month, as August/September is the US school buying months, which sucks supply of everything! And Macs aren't the only commodity in short supply. Cars, houses etc are all bad. Most economists put this to China suddenly finding its Middle Class and chewing up the world's raw resources. For example, the Holden Monaro has a 6 *month* wait. And that's just a Holden! As for poor service...well, unfortunately that can't be blamed on anything other than the store. That is one reason why Apple opened their US stores - homogenise sales and service to be the same everywhere (the McDonald's principle). Seeya Rod! PS I hope she doesn't switch back!
new Mac time lag
Yeah I agree with your comment Toby, its not fair, I have extended the original comment, but its what greets someone when they go looking ... I purchased my 15 PowerBook from Team Digital and had a good time of it (considering I spent $4,000+ in cash). The reason I purchased from TD is because my previous computer purchases were from the previous incarnation, Desktop Applications, where I always had good service. I reckon there is room for a good Mac dealer in Fremantle! Please. On 18/04/2005, at 4:12 PM, Toby Oldham wrote: To be fair, you've just said you wanted a Mac store where you can see/feel the hardware and talk to a person Then made a comment about unfinished websites - there are a bunch of accessable, viewable Mac stores in Mt Hawthorn, Joondalup ... Jolimont (more pro friendly that one), even the CBD - that seems pretty reasonable for a computer with a 3% marketshare. I like a up-to-date website as much as the next person, but it's not the be all and end all - While I don't always agree with Digilife's pricing, I appreciate their store presence and stock selection. Cheers, Tobes. P.S. Aplogies Team Digital, haven't seen your digs in East Perth so didn't think it's fair to comment. :}
Macromedia + Adobe
Afternoon, More fun on the horizon! http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html Cheers! Rob Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is the world which makes known to us our belonging to a subject-communtiy, especially the existence in the world of the manufactured objects. Sartre.
International prefs help req.
I am after some suggestions about what might have gone wrong here. We have a Japanese student staying at our house, so as a good host I decided to switch the preferred language in my laptop over to Japanese via the international preferences pane. After logging out and back in things went a bit queer. The finder never really reloaded, and although some apps had Japanese characters in the menus I couldn't get a finder window open to work in. Worse, was that although the System Preferences would launch (with Japanese menus) it wouldn't draw any windows. Which meant I couldn't change back. I couldn't do lots of things, including draw any finder windows or any see windows of Apps which had Japanese menus. What I could do was restart with the option key down and boot from my external drive and clone yesterday's backup onto my laptop drive. I'd like to try this again but I'm afraid that I don't really like waiting for the 1 hour 47 minutes SuperDuper takes to restore my hard drive Suggestions please Hardware Overview: Machine Model:PowerBook G4 CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.1) Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed:550 MHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB Memory: 768 MB Bus Speed:100 MHz Boot ROM Version: 4.2.9f1 Serial Number:QT1464GUKVF Sales Order Number: M8362LL/A System Software Overview: System Version: Mac OS X 10.3.9 (7W98) Kernel Version: Darwin 7.9.0 Boot Volume: Eric Computer Name:x User Name:x
Re: Macromedia + Adobe
[does a double take] Holy crap. T. On 18/04/2005, at 5:33 PM, Rob Davies wrote: Afternoon, More fun on the horizon! http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html Cheers! Rob Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is the world which makes known to us our belonging to a subject-communtiy, especially the existence in the world of the manufactured objects. Sartre. -- 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: Macromedia + Adobe
That a light way to look at it! I would say, searing pain from the heat of 10 thousand suns! (The celestial kind, not the ones from Scott and his bunch.) I guess you Freehand users better start getting good at Illustrator. $10 says the ONLY reason Adobe bought them was for Flash. On 18/04/2005, at 6:50 PM, Tobes wrote: [does a double take] Holy crap. T. On 18/04/2005, at 5:33 PM, Rob Davies wrote: Afternoon, More fun on the horizon! http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html
Re: April 29 - 16 days...
I suspect putting Tiger on my G3/600 iBook with 384MB RAM is fairly pointless :-/ ta muchly While it wouldn't be snappy I couldn't see why not - if you have adequate ram (not you can buy non apple branded SODIMM's that will take your iBook up to spec and give it a couple more years of life). I think the only bugbear that I've heard of is that it will not run on some computers that could run previous OS X versions because it needs a machine with built in FireWire (but I've no hands on to vouched for that) however I've seen beta versions run on a few 500 iBooks at X World in June 03 and a couple more running later builds since then no real problems. I've pre ordered through work for one of my personal computer though probably only on a drive in my G4 500 scratch box at first to test application compatibility before putting on my PowerBook. but can't see any rush to get it for my actual work box as I'm sure that for at least the next year or two (if I'm still in their employ) I'll still be supporting mostly 10.3...errr OK a few 10.3s ... lots of 10.2's and (please Lord help me) more than a fair few recalcitrant 10.1 users (ow yeh! the joy! I'm happier supporting 9.2 on boxes of that vintage than 10.1) -- ~ 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(?)
PC 133 SDRAM
Hi Does anyone have some spare PC 133 SDRAM chips for iMac DV's? It's the same stuff G4 Cubes and some towers use. I'm looking for a few 128MB or 256MB modules. Any condition, provided it's working :) Regards Christian
Re: Macromedia + Adobe
On 18 Apr 2005, at 7:48 PM, Matthew Healey wrote: That a light way to look at it! I would suffice to say one reason why new products or updates have been a bit sparse on the Macromedia front of recent times, no real salvo fired at coming updates of Adobe products or cross-firing at Apple for Motion by Adobe. I would say, searing pain from the heat of 10 thousand suns! (The celestial kind, not the ones from Scott and his bunch.) I guess you Freehand users better start getting good at Illustrator. Fireworks also and dare I say it Dreamweaver. So, Imageready and Go Live, mmm??? $10 says the ONLY reason Adobe bought them was for Flash. I think the odds are a lot higher considering how the technology of Flash is becoming paramount in distributing video over the web (Flash Communication Server). Just the purchase price alone would save Adobe heaps in research, marketing and shear bums on seats for a usable medium which is going to be dominant more than it already is. But, it is not the only iron in the fire of Macromedia it has lots to offer web style production systems, except profit. I would say Adobe will inherit or adopt chosen tools, re-badge or integrate with its own products and offload the others, same as it did with Aldus products Pagemaker, Freehand, and the photoshop equivalent only available on PC aeons ago. One thing is for sure Adobe does not hang onto or support 2 similar programs or projects, it rapes and pillages or just offloads. On 18/04/2005, at 6:50 PM, Tobes wrote: [does a double take] Holy crap. T. On 18/04/2005, at 5:33 PM, Rob Davies wrote: Afternoon, More fun on the horizon! http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/adobeandmacromedia.html -- 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
