Webcam wanted
Hi all I'm in need of a camera for my table lamp iMac at an affordable price. I see in MacWorld magazine a aGent V4 webcam advertised for $84.95. Does anyone have any experience of this webcam or have an isight for sale? Cheers John -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Webcam wanted
i'm using a $15.- 1.3 megapixel camera from hongkongworks fine with skype logitech is a known brand to work with macs if you need top quality pix then yes you may pay $80 or more you may have difficulties to fit it to the 'lamp shade' skype has a few suggestions listed on a support webpage cheers James On 22/02/2009, at 18:11, John Daniels wrote: Hi all I'm in need of a camera for my table lamp iMac at an affordable price. I see in MacWorld magazine a aGent V4 webcam advertised for $84.95. Does anyone have any experience of this webcam or have an isight for sale? Cheers John -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Webcam wanted
You can also use the standard Xbox 360 webcam as well, which I have seen below $50. Plug and play, as long as you are running the latest version of 10.4 or running 10.5 Seeya Rod! On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 18:11 +0900, John Daniels wrote: Hi all I'm in need of a camera for my table lamp iMac at an affordable price. I see in MacWorld magazine a aGent V4 webcam advertised for $84.95. Does anyone have any experience of this webcam or have an isight for sale? Cheers John -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: on the scrounge again
Hi Kevin Any Macs we donate will have to go to Schools or charities or government departments or the like. What you will need to do is send a request to colin.carpen...@wanews.com.au for any spare Macs we might have, he is the coordinator of old equipment disposal at the West. I will be giving him around 15 Mirror doors in the next 2 weeks. I want to see them going to those in need :) best regards Roger On 21/02/2009, at 10:39 AM, KEVIN Lock wrote: Roger, I would appreciate the donation of later model Macs. So far I have placed Macs with a variety of individuals who either do not have the resources to buy a computer or are genuine individuals who are first time users. Some have gone to refugees; women's refuges and students. No businesses have received a free machine from me. An officer of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs has placed one Mac with a young lady and is after more Macs for a drop-in centre recently started in Albany All machines are given absolutely free, with basic instructions and telephone backup if needed. At this stage no phone backup has been sought. Says a lot for the Mac OS! regards, Kevin -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Roger P Kortas Haiyan Kortas PH: 61 8 08 9381 4046 Mob: 0413 307995 rkor...@iinet.net.au roger.kor...@wanews.com.au ro...@rkortas.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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
How do I recover Sent Mailbox from Time Capsule ?
I deleted a Mailbox from Apple Mail when transferring an email account from POP to IMAP, and inadvertently got rid of the deleted account's Sent box, the content of which I needed to keep. Fortunately all is backed up on Time Capsule, but what exactly do I look for when delving into Time Capsule? Would there be a Mail Sent Items folder which I can simply drag and drop? Or is life not that simple? If I locate a sample Sent message using Spotlight, and highlight the message in finder to see what directory path the message is housed within, I get no information. Cheers, Steven -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How do I recover Sent Mailbox from Time Capsule ?
On 22/02/2009, at 9:35 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I deleted a Mailbox from Apple Mail when transferring an email account from POP to IMAP, and inadvertently got rid of the deleted account's Sent box, the content of which I needed to keep. Fortunately all is backed up on Time Capsule, but what exactly do I look for when delving into Time Capsule? Would there be a Mail Sent Items folder which I can simply drag and drop? Or is life not that simple? If I locate a sample Sent message using Spotlight, and highlight the message in finder to see what directory path the message is housed within, I get no information. Cheers, Steven Hi Steven. Apple Mail is Time Machine aware, so the best bet would be to Enter Time Machine (from the menu bar icon) while Apple Mail is the active application - should let you scroll back to a time before the account was deleted. You should then be able to restore the account's Folders in place. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1263171 Hope this assists. Steve. -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Webcam wanted
Hi John, I use the Microsoft XBox 360 camera. It works very well and is completely plug-and-play, at least it is on my Intel Mini. Cost was around $70, I think. Not absolutely certain, and it comes with a nice headset as well, which if you're a bit handy with some wire cutters you can convert for input with your Mac. Regards Greg On 22/02/2009, at 6:11 PM, John Daniels wrote: Hi all I'm in need of a camera for my table lamp iMac at an affordable price. I see in MacWorld magazine a aGent V4 webcam advertised for $84.95. Does anyone have any experience of this webcam or have an isight for sale? Cheers John -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Mail emails deleted by Office 2008
A colleague who was running Mail and Leopard successfully on his new iMac, lost all emails stored in Mail when he installed Office 2008. He hadn't backed up or used Time Machine. Any suggestions where the missing emails may be stored on the hard drive? Thanks, Michael Hawkins. -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Mail emails deleted by Office 2008
On 23/02/2009, at 7:43 AM, michael.hawkins wrote: A colleague who was running Mail and Leopard successfully on his new iMac, lost all emails stored in Mail when he installed Office 2008. That sounds strange ... what else did he do ? He hadn't backed up or used Time Machine. Any suggestions where the missing emails may be stored on the hard drive? Messages for Apple Mail are found :- hard drive - users - your user - library - Mail - Pop Folder for your email address - folders for respective mail sent/ inbox/deleted etc . Bob Thanks, Michael Hawkins. -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Printer/CD DVD labels
Stuart Breden wrote: I'm a general practitioner. We store no hard copy. All electronic. For medico-legal reason we need to have a dated and signed read only weekly DVD back up. What is the best small laser printer the could print these DVD's and/or prints labels for them? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Hm Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Wk Ph: (08) 9291 4599 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Hi Stuart We bought a Canon Pixma 4600 for printing directly onto CD/DVDs. Quite impressed. Cheers 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: CrossOver for Mac
On 21/02/2009, at 7:06 PM, Stuart Breden wrote: Any one using CrossOver for Mac? I am trying but am not getting on with it very well. I need to start with the basics to understand the concept. i find it a very friendly company but not very friendly to get the hang of. Where can I go to to get a good start and a good understanding of bottles etc. You may be on your own here. Are you aware that only 15 Windows applications are certified to work substantially the same way in CrossOver as they do under Windows? Of the rest, most have not been tested at all, and those that have, have problems of varying degrees. If you can lay your hands on a copy of Windows, you should consider VirtualBox from Sun Microsystems. You can download a copy here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads It has the advantage over Crossover that it's free (as well as the fact that it runs any Windows software out there, of course). While not adorned with ALL the bells and whistles of its commercial cousins (Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion) it does have many of them, and it's fast, reliable, and easy to use. But you will need to install a copy of Windows (up to and including Vista). A good idea is to spend $16 and download a copy of Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac by Joe Kissell from http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/ . Unfortunately it doesn't give you much help with understanding Crossover, but it helps with understanding the alternatives, including VirtualBox. -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How to right-click and look up in Wikipedia ?
On 22/02/2009, at 3:06 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Wondering if someone has already invented this wheel - I'm trying to avoid spending hours on it if so. I'm fairly sure it'd be a piece of cake for someone familiar with it. As you'd know, you can double-click on a word in most documents to highlight it, and then right-click that word to immediately look it up in dictionary or Google or Spotlight. How do I tweak the menu options, or add a new menu option, to enable me to do the same but look up in Wikipedia? Cheers, Steven What browser are you using? It works fine for me in Safari. -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Mail emails deleted by Office 2008
check volume/user/library/mail go through these folders try this: quit mail, move the file 'envelope index' to the desktop then restart mail, it will rebuilt the mail boxes maybe your missing mail is reappearing otherwise check the 'missing' folders for their content, you may have to reimport all the emlx files cheers James On 23/02/2009, at 7:43, michael.hawkins wrote: A colleague who was running Mail and Leopard successfully on his new iMac, lost all emails stored in Mail when he installed Office 2008. He hadn't backed up or used Time Machine. Any suggestions where the missing emails may be stored on the hard drive? Thanks, Michael Hawkins. -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: CrossOver for Mac
Hi Stuart, Codeweavers provide an online user guide that is quite good: http://www.codeweavers.com/support/docs/crossover-mac/ and there's quite a good description of bottles here: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/bottles/ I've used Crossover for a while now and found that it's an excellent alternative to running an entire OS and eating into a huge chunk of your memory. Gordon 2009/2/21 Stuart Breden bred...@highway1.biz: Any one using CrossOver for Mac? I am trying but am not getting on with it very well. I need to start with the basics to understand the concept. i find it a very friendly company but not very friendly to get the hang of. Where can I go to to get a good start and a good understanding of bottles etc. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Hm Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Wk Ph: (08) 9291 4599 Mbl: 0417 053 266 -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- Need to get in touch? Email MSN: seaw...@marinewolf.net -UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about its friends -Make something idiot proof and someone will build a better idiot -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: CrossOver for Mac
Another one from Peachpit Press is Running Windows on your Mac by Dwight Silverman -ISBN-13: 978-0-321-53506-1 Mike Armson A good idea is to spend $16 and download a copy of Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac by Joe Kissell from http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/ . Unfortunately it doesn't give you much help with understanding Crossover, but it helps with understanding the alternatives, including VirtualBox. -- -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: CrossOver for Mac
Has anyone tried/used VirtualBox? Kevin -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
IMovie6 problem
My son has an iMovie6 problem when importing stills. (Intel iMac, latest Tiger) They import correctly, it seems and render, but when played back they are black. The Help file mentions this phenomenon with PICT files and suggests saving as JPEG or TIFF. His files are JPEGs but resaving as TIFFs makes no difference. Anyone got any suggestions. He has not yet trashed the preferences which would be my next step. 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:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Apple Mail problem
I recently set up a secondary E-Mail account with Westnet and for some reason I have to put the password in every time mail starts up, I have checked the Remember this Password box several times to no avail. I have also noticed that in MailPreferencesAccountsPassword field, when I put the password in it goes blank again when I save it. Does anyone out there have a solution to this problem? iMac G5, OS 10.5.6, Mail V3.5. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Fwd: iMovie6 problem
Ronni has paid me the great compliment of temporarily emerging from retirement to address my son's problem in her usual thorough way. This may be of interest to others. Hail to Ronni! Severin Crisp Hello Severin, As you are aware I'm no longer subscribed to WAMUG Mailing List, but I do check the Archives now and then. I noticed today your email regarding black stills on importing into iMovie HD 6. I suggest you post my reply below to WAMUG for other members information. I know there was a Bug in iMovie 6 when updating a still with Ken Burns effect. It would work only until you emptied the trash. If you emptied the trash in iMovie and then selected the still to be updated via the Media/Photos/Show Photo Settings tab, the appropriate Ken Burns update window appears but the view screen is black and the still isn't updated. The easiest solution is probably to Quit iMovie and delete the iMovie preferences. Go to username library preferences com.apple.imovie.plist. Delete this file. Then reopen iMovie; it will create a new preference file with all of the default settings. More on 'Updating Ken Burns stills works only until you empty the trash in iMovie HD 6.0.3' http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovie_HD_6_bugs.html#still_update Cheers, Ronni 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:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
