Sorry Bob, Kevin if you have a dual button mouse (or do equivalent shift click) you can 'edit' the account detail, take it offline or 'synchronise' it. Worked for me when an account name 'greyed out'. All the best, Ken Jackson
Hello From A New Member
Hi all, My name is Dennis, I am new to your group ( yesterday) and also totally new to the Mac experience. I am really looking forward to a new learning experience, but I can see it is going to be a sharp learning curve for me. I am hoping you will forgive me if I begin by asking a question on my first post. I am using Entourage as my mail program and have found that when I cut and paste live links from received emails into an email body for resending, they arrive as dead links, very often I do need to send off several links in one email , in fact I need to do it again today. Is there anyone who may be able to advise me on this one? Many Thanks Dennis
Re: Hello From A New Member
On 23/12/2005 1:13 PM, Pauline and Dennis Rowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, My name is Dennis, I am new to your group ( yesterday) and also totally new to the Mac experience. I am really looking forward to a new learning experience, but I can see it is going to be a sharp learning curve for me. I am hoping you will forgive me if I begin by asking a question on my first post. I am using Entourage as my mail program and have found that when I cut and paste live links from received emails into an email body for resending, they arrive as dead links, very often I do need to send off several links in one email , in fact I need to do it again today. Is there anyone who may be able to advise me on this one? Many Thanks Dennis Hi Dennis (and welcome!) The best way to work with links (well I tend to think anyway) is to use at either end. For example the link http://www.apple.com.au may not work on every machine or every email client, but 99% of the time http://www.apple.com.au will. :o) So as long as you put that there, you should be right. Well that's what I find from experience anyway. Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel Kerr --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: danielATmacwizardryDOTcomDOTau Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh**
Re: Hello From A New Member
Welcome Denis I find with Entourage that although the link looks dead when you paste it in it comes alive again when received. This will depend on the the email client used to read the email of course. Regards Greg From: Pauline and Dennis Rowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:13:12 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Hello From A New Member Hi all, My name is Dennis, I am new to your group ( yesterday) and also totally new to the Mac experience. I am really looking forward to a new learning experience, but I can see it is going to be a sharp learning curve for me. I am hoping you will forgive me if I begin by asking a question on my first post. I am using Entourage as my mail program and have found that when I cut and paste live links from received emails into an email body for resending, they arrive as dead links, very often I do need to send off several links in one email , in fact I need to do it again today. Is there anyone who may be able to advise me on this one? Many Thanks Dennis -- 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: Hello From A New Member
Bottom: On 23/12/2005, at 1:20 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 23/12/2005 1:13 PM, Pauline and Dennis Rowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, My name is Dennis, I am new to your group ( yesterday) and also totally new to the Mac experience. I am really looking forward to a new learning experience, but I can see it is going to be a sharp learning curve for me. I am hoping you will forgive me if I begin by asking a question on my first post. I am using Entourage as my mail program and have found that when I cut and paste live links from received emails into an email body for resending, they arrive as dead links, very often I do need to send off several links in one email , in fact I need to do it again today. Is there anyone who may be able to advise me on this one? Many Thanks Dennis Hi Dennis (and welcome!) The best way to work with links (well I tend to think anyway) is to use at either end. For example the link http://www.apple.com.au may not work on every machine or every email client, but 99% of the time http://www.apple.com.au will. :o) So as long as you put that there, you should be right. Well that's what I find from experience anyway. Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel Kerr Hi Dennis , New Member ... Congratulations ! You will find there are a lot of people looking at this list and you will likely get a lot of help from it. Can I ask you to do something when you mail a question ! ? Show the version of your Operating System ( OS ) , eg: 10.3.9 and your type of Mac you are using or need an answer for eg : Desktop G4/1500 It will help prospective respondents to hone in on the right sort of answer . Have fun Bob (Quicksilver G4/733 10.3.9 )
[OT] Teaspoon Research
Hi WAMUGgers Nothing better to do, just before Christmas? Do some action research for your next masters degree! Use your Mac of course. As I was browsing the ABC News just now I came across this gem: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1537135.htm Missing spoons stir scientists into action Australian scientists have proved what is common knowledge to most people - teaspoons appear to have minds of their own. In a study at their own facility, a group of scientists from the Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health in Melbourne secretly numbered 70 teaspoons. They then tracked the movement of the spoons over five months. Supporting their expectations, 80 per cent of the spoons vanished during the period. The spoons in private areas of the institute lasted nearly twice as long as those in communal sections. At this rate, an estimated 250 teaspoons would need to be purchased annually to maintain a workable population of 70 teaspoons, they wrote in Friday's festive edition of the British Medical Journal. They say their research proves that teaspoons are an essential part of office life and the rapid rate of disappearance proves that this is under relentless assault. Regretting that scientific literature is strangely bereft of teaspoon-related research, the scientists have offered a few theories to explain the phenomenon. Taking a tip from Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books, they suggest that the teaspoons are quietly migrating to a planet uniquely populated by spoonoid life forms living in a spoonish state of Nirvana. They also offer the phenomenon of resistentialism in which inanimate objects like teaspoons have a natural aversion to humans. On the other hand, they suggested, people might simply be taking them. Have fun Reg
Fried firewire drive?
In joining in with the silly season spirit I have managed to damage an External 120GB Firewire Drive, by plugging in a 16V power brick instead of it's usual 12V one. (In my defence they do look identical!) With the proper 12V power brick plugged in, I get a red light warning but I am unable to mount the drive on the iBook desktop. When I 'hotplug' the firewire cable into the iBook the drives light changes to purple/blue. Any ideas on how I can determine if there is any data still on the drive? What is the likelihood of recovering any data after such a power surge? Any tips welcome. Thanks, Paul
Re: Fried firewire drive?
depends on the design of the interior (fuse protected , if firewire bus powers the firewire/ide bridge but not the drive or the brick powers both etc) but in all probability you have possibly damaged the firewire bridge in the external case and the drive it's self _should_ be OK. however (and less likely) if you have blown the controller board on the disk recovery is dependant on finding an identical model drive and delicate surgery to swap it. best diagnosis tool is a second firewire case or a tower unit with a spare IDE bus/channel. see if the firewire bridge controller is at least responding by powering it up and going in to about this mac then more info... then see if it is detected in the firewire device list (though I have had a bridge show up but still not talk to the fully functional drive on the other side of the bridge) In joining in with the silly season spirit I have managed to damage an External 120GB Firewire Drive, by plugging in a 16V power brick instead of it's usual 12V one. (In my defence they do look identical!) With the proper 12V power brick plugged in, I get a red light warning but I am unable to mount the drive on the iBook desktop. When I 'hotplug' the firewire cable into the iBook the drives light changes to purple/blue. Any ideas on how I can determine if there is any data still on the drive? What is the likelihood of recovering any data after such a power surge? Any tips welcome. Thanks, Paul -- 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: Hello From A New Member
On 23/12/05 1:20 PM, Daniel Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/12/2005 1:13 PM, Pauline and Dennis Rowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, My name is Dennis, I am new to your group ( yesterday) and also totally new to the Mac experience. I am really looking forward to a new learning experience, but I can see it is going to be a sharp learning curve for me. I am hoping you will forgive me if I begin by asking a question on my first post. I am using Entourage as my mail program and have found that when I cut and paste live links from received emails into an email body for resending, they arrive as dead links, very often I do need to send off several links in one email , in fact I need to do it again today. Is there anyone who may be able to advise me on this one? Many Thanks Dennis Hi Dennis (and welcome!) The best way to work with links (well I tend to think anyway) is to use at either end. For example the link http://www.apple.com.au may not work on every machine or every email client, but 99% of the time http://www.apple.com.au will. :o) So as long as you put that there, you should be right. Well that's what I find from experience anyway. Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel Kerr --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: danielATmacwizardryDOTcomDOTau Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- 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 Hi Daniel, Thanks for the welcome and thanks so much for the tip it is much appreciated, hopefully it will solve my problem. Regards Dennis
Re: Hello From A New Member
On 23/12/05 1:59 PM, Greg Pennefather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome Denis I find with Entourage that although the link looks dead when you paste it in it comes alive again when received. This will depend on the the email client used to read the email of course. Regards Greg From: Pauline and Dennis Rowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:13:12 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Hello From A New Member Hi all, My name is Dennis, I am new to your group ( yesterday) and also totally new to the Mac experience. I am really looking forward to a new learning experience, but I can see it is going to be a sharp learning curve for me. I am hoping you will forgive me if I begin by asking a question on my first post. I am using Entourage as my mail program and have found that when I cut and paste live links from received emails into an email body for resending, they arrive as dead links, very often I do need to send off several links in one email , in fact I need to do it again today. Is there anyone who may be able to advise me on this one? Many Thanks Dennis -- 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 Hi Greg, Thank you very much for the reply, it seems the links go dead on OE so I will give Daniels tips a try. Regards Dennis
Re: Hello From A New Member
On 23/12/05 2:00 PM, Robert Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bottom: On 23/12/2005, at 1:20 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 23/12/2005 1:13 PM, Pauline and Dennis Rowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, My name is Dennis, I am new to your group ( yesterday) and also totally new to the Mac experience. I am really looking forward to a new learning experience, but I can see it is going to be a sharp learning curve for me. I am hoping you will forgive me if I begin by asking a question on my first post. I am using Entourage as my mail program and have found that when I cut and paste live links from received emails into an email body for resending, they arrive as dead links, very often I do need to send off several links in one email , in fact I need to do it again today. Is there anyone who may be able to advise me on this one? Many Thanks Dennis Hi Dennis (and welcome!) The best way to work with links (well I tend to think anyway) is to use at either end. For example the link http://www.apple.com.au may not work on every machine or every email client, but 99% of the time http://www.apple.com.au will. :o) So as long as you put that there, you should be right. Well that's what I find from experience anyway. Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel Kerr Hi Dennis , New Member ... Congratulations ! You will find there are a lot of people looking at this list and you will likely get a lot of help from it. Can I ask you to do something when you mail a question ! ? Show the version of your Operating System ( OS ) , eg: 10.3.9 and your type of Mac you are using or need an answer for eg : Desktop G4/1500 It will help prospective respondents to hone in on the right sort of answer . Have fun Bob (Quicksilver G4/733 10.3.9 ) -- 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 Hi Bob, Thank you for the excellent advice and the welcome, I will certainly include the details next time I have a question. Regards Dennis
Disappearing HD icon
Hi every1, Somehow I seem to have done what I thought was impossible. While rubbing a dry cloth across the keyboard to remove dust I seem to have managed to get rid of the Macintosh HD icon and all access to it (other than through the Find command)! Anybody know (a) what strange key commands my wiping may have caused and (more importantly) (b) how I can get it back? Running a G4 iBook on 10.4.2 TIA Kevin from Wycheproof.
Re: Disappearing HD icon
Open your finder preferences (from the finder menu at the top of the screen). Click the general tab tick the box that says show hard disk on the desktop. Then click on the sidebar tab and tick the box to show the hard drive icon in the sidebar. If that doesn't work the you've done something REALLY weird. Rob On 23/12/05 11:33 PM, Kevin Phyland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi every1, Somehow I seem to have done what I thought was impossible. While rubbing a dry cloth across the keyboard to remove dust I seem to have managed to get rid of the Macintosh HD icon and all access to it (other than through the Find command)! Anybody know (a) what strange key commands my wiping may have caused and (more importantly) (b) how I can get it back? Running a G4 iBook on 10.4.2 TIA Kevin from Wycheproof. -- 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
