MacBook Pro superdrive replacement
A friend has a 15 2.2 GHz MacBook Pro (late 2007) with a superdrive that won't read DVDs or CDs that are readable on other Macs. I have not yet tried burning a DVD with that drive, and then trying to read it back on that machine, but will do so when next she drops in. Assuming that the above, or an attempt at cleaning the drive won't work, does anyone have any ideas, experiences, or warnings about what drive to buy as a replacement? -- Regards, Ray Forma Tel Fax 61 (0)8 9335 6568 Mob 61 (0) 428 596938 -- 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
iphone and gmail
Hi All, I have had an iPhone for a while however I have been using a work supplied SIM card which did not have a data plan attached to it so I haven't really bothered with much of the 'mobile internet' side of it apart from using wireless at home. Now I am about to start a new job which doesn't supply a mobile plan and today I have got a new 16GB iPhone on a plan ($69 plan with Vodafone for those interested with 1GB of data) and I am giving my old iPhone to my wife. Now I just did a search to figure out how to setup my gmail account to push the emails to my iPhoneand discovered that it appears that Google haven't setup this feature yet!! I was sure that this was advertised as being available during one of the keynote speeches?? Apart from signing up with MobileMe (which I am going to find difficult justifying to my wife after getting the new phone and plan) how is everyone doing their push email? I have read about setting up a ymail account and forwarding gmail email to that etc, but then I run the risk of getting SPAM sent to the ymail account and getting delivered to me whereas the gmail SPAM filtering is fantastic. I find it really weird that they haven't set this up yet. While I am at it, does anyone have any tips tricks that they can share related to iphone/PIM/syncing/internet/etc for using with a data plan? Now that I have one I would like to put it to good use(I plan on getting iiQuota to manage my calls and data usage, plus I already have the ToodleDo app for keeping track of my tasksany other time management/project management tools would be useful as well) Kind regards, Adam. -- 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: MacBook Pro superdrive replacement
Hi Ray, Do you mean the drive doesn't read the DVD's CD's, or that they are not showing on the Desktop? If the DVD's CD's are not appearing on the desktop: Open a Finder window to see if the disc appears there. If it does, your Finder preferences are set not to show CDs and DVDs on the desktop. To change this setting, choose Finder Preferences, click General, and select the CDs, DVDs, and iPods checkbox. Check your CD DVD preferences by choosing Apple menu System Preferences and clicking CDs DVDs. If you've set the computer to ignore a CD or DVD when it's inserted, you won't see your disc on the desktop or in a Finder window. Change the appropriate setting to open the Finder when a disc is inserted. Cheers, Ronni On 23/05/2009, at 2:17 PM, Ray Forma wrote: A friend has a 15 2.2 GHz MacBook Pro (late 2007) with a superdrive that won't read DVDs or CDs that are readable on other Macs. I have not yet tried burning a DVD with that drive, and then trying to read it back on that machine, but will do so when next she drops in. Assuming that the above, or an attempt at cleaning the drive won't work, does anyone have any ideas, experiences, or warnings about what drive to buy as a replacement? -- Regards, Ray Forma Tel Fax 61 (0)8 9335 6568 Mob 61 (0) 428 596938 -- 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: Apple Airport Extreme card internal for G5 wanted
Ah I see I have a dual 2.3 G5 so I guess one of the last ones ? Roger On 23/05/2009, at 1:21 PM, Robert Howells wrote: On 23/05/2009, at 12:35 PM, Roger Kortas wrote: Hi Does anyone know where I could get one of these from and what the cost might be? best regards Roger You need to identify which G5 model early models are PCI next models havePCI PCI-X last model PCI Express Use Mactracker to identify if you cannot tell Bob -- 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
Re: iphone and gmail
Adam, I've downloaded the free google search browser from the iTunes store (simply called google) and besides being an excellent voice activated browser with uncanny word recognition it also lists amongst its 13 tools, Gmail. Not having a Gmail account I haven't tried using it but I can verify that some of the other apps I played with work as expected. Also find among the other apps, calendar docs, talk, tasks, reader, news, notebook, photos, translate, maps, youtube earth. Some of these duplicate the apps already available on the iPhone others are unique. Regards, Eugene On 23/05/2009, at 3:01 PM, Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi All, I have had an iPhone for a while however I have been using a work supplied SIM card which did not have a data plan attached to it so I haven't really bothered with much of the 'mobile internet' side of it apart from using wireless at home. Now I am about to start a new job which doesn't supply a mobile plan and today I have got a new 16GB iPhone on a plan ($69 plan with Vodafone for those interested with 1GB of data) and I am giving my old iPhone to my wife. Now I just did a search to figure out how to setup my gmail account to push the emails to my iPhoneand discovered that it appears that Google haven't setup this feature yet!! I was sure that this was advertised as being available during one of the keynote speeches?? Apart from signing up with MobileMe (which I am going to find difficult justifying to my wife after getting the new phone and plan) how is everyone doing their push email? I have read about setting up a ymail account and forwarding gmail email to that etc, but then I run the risk of getting SPAM sent to the ymail account and getting delivered to me whereas the gmail SPAM filtering is fantastic. I find it really weird that they haven't set this up yet. While I am at it, does anyone have any tips tricks that they can share related to iphone/PIM/syncing/internet/etc for using with a data plan? Now that I have one I would like to put it to good use(I plan on getting iiQuota to manage my calls and data usage, plus I already have the ToodleDo app for keeping track of my tasksany other time management/project management tools would be useful as well) Kind regards, Adam. -- 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: Apple Airport Extreme card internal for G5 wanted
Hi Roger I've been on the waiting list at two Apple stores since January, I'm going to try America instead but I have been advised from another Apple owner that the Airport card had been discontinued. If you are successful please let me know, Kind regards Tony -- 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
Squeezebox
Hey, Is anyone using the Logitech Squeezebox and how good is it ? Thanks Walter -- 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: iphone and gmail
Thanks Eugene, The problem with that solution is that I need to open the app to check if I have new email. Even using the Mail app I can at least set it to check periodically... I would just rather let google push it to mr instead of have to check. Thanks, Adam Sent from my iPhone On 23/05/2009, at 16:35, Eugene edeg...@helena.wa.edu.au wrote: Adam, I've downloaded the free google search browser from the iTunes store (simply called google) and besides being an excellent voice activated browser with uncanny word recognition it also lists amongst its 13 tools, Gmail. Not having a Gmail account I haven't tried using it but I can verify that some of the other apps I played with work as expected. Also find among the other apps, calendar docs, talk, tasks, reader, news, notebook, photos, translate, maps, youtube earth. Some of these duplicate the apps already available on the iPhone others are unique. Regards, Eugene On 23/05/2009, at 3:01 PM, Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi All, I have had an iPhone for a while however I have been using a work supplied SIM card which did not have a data plan attached to it so I haven't really bothered with much of the 'mobile internet' side of it apart from using wireless at home. Now I am about to start a new job which doesn't supply a mobile plan and today I have got a new 16GB iPhone on a plan ($69 plan with Vodafone for those interested with 1GB of data) and I am giving my old iPhone to my wife. Now I just did a search to figure out how to setup my gmail account to push the emails to my iPhoneand discovered that it appears that Google haven't setup this feature yet!! I was sure that this was advertised as being available during one of the keynote speeches?? Apart from signing up with MobileMe (which I am going to find difficult justifying to my wife after getting the new phone and plan) how is everyone doing their push email? I have read about setting up a ymail account and forwarding gmail email to that etc, but then I run the risk of getting SPAM sent to the ymail account and getting delivered to me whereas the gmail SPAM filtering is fantastic. I find it really weird that they haven't set this up yet. While I am at it, does anyone have any tips tricks that they can share related to iphone/PIM/syncing/internet/etc for using with a data plan? Now that I have one I would like to put it to good use(I plan on getting iiQuota to manage my calls and data usage, plus I already have the ToodleDo app for keeping track of my tasksany other time management/project management tools would be useful as well) Kind regards, Adam. -- 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 -- 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: Apple Airport Extreme card internal for G5 wanted
Roger , you asked for an airport extreme for some reason , but there are some alternatives , and IF you are not set on the Airport Extreme try looking here http://eshop.macsales.com/search/wireless+networking It will give you an idea what the alternatives might be depending of course on what you are trying to do Have fun Bob On 23/05/2009, at 3:51 PM, Roger Kortas wrote: Ah I see I have a dual 2.3 G5 so I guess one of the last ones ? Roger On 23/05/2009, at 1:21 PM, Robert Howells wrote: On 23/05/2009, at 12:35 PM, Roger Kortas wrote: Hi Does anyone know where I could get one of these from and what the cost might be? best regards Roger You need to identify which G5 model early models are PCI next models havePCI PCI-X last model PCI Express Use Mactracker to identify if you cannot tell Bob -- 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 -- 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
iPhoto album alternative
MacBook and iPhoto 8 Please can anyone suggest an alternative to an iPhoto album. I am so frustrated at trying to create a birthday album that I've given up on iPhoto. I know there are various on line options available for Windows users but am not aware of anything similar for Mac. I would appreciate any suggestions. Many thanks. Laura -- 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: iphone and gmail
Could someone please tell me, does the 'push' email require you to have Mail open to receive it? I thought you would get a new email notification no matter what you are doing and then you would see the unread email count on the Mail icon increase? I have done a bunch of testing with a Yahoo account and it doesn't seem to do anything until I actually open Mail...Seems stupid if this is the case as I dont want to sit there with Mail open all day to know I have received any emails. Cheers, Adam. On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Eugene edeg...@helena.wa.edu.au wrote: Adam, I've downloaded the free google search browser from the iTunes store (simply called google) and besides being an excellent voice activated browser with uncanny word recognition it also lists amongst its 13 tools, Gmail. Not having a Gmail account I haven't tried using it but I can verify that some of the other apps I played with work as expected. Also find among the other apps, calendar docs, talk, tasks, reader, news, notebook, photos, translate, maps, youtube earth. Some of these duplicate the apps already available on the iPhone others are unique. Regards, Eugene On 23/05/2009, at 3:01 PM, Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi All, I have had an iPhone for a while however I have been using a work supplied SIM card which did not have a data plan attached to it so I haven't really bothered with much of the 'mobile internet' side of it apart from using wireless at home. Now I am about to start a new job which doesn't supply a mobile plan and today I have got a new 16GB iPhone on a plan ($69 plan with Vodafone for those interested with 1GB of data) and I am giving my old iPhone to my wife. Now I just did a search to figure out how to setup my gmail account to push the emails to my iPhoneand discovered that it appears that Google haven't setup this feature yet!! I was sure that this was advertised as being available during one of the keynote speeches?? Apart from signing up with MobileMe (which I am going to find difficult justifying to my wife after getting the new phone and plan) how is everyone doing their push email? I have read about setting up a ymail account and forwarding gmail email to that etc, but then I run the risk of getting SPAM sent to the ymail account and getting delivered to me whereas the gmail SPAM filtering is fantastic. I find it really weird that they haven't set this up yet. While I am at it, does anyone have any tips tricks that they can share related to iphone/PIM/syncing/internet/etc for using with a data plan? Now that I have one I would like to put it to good use(I plan on getting iiQuota to manage my calls and data usage, plus I already have the ToodleDo app for keeping track of my tasksany other time management/project management tools would be useful as well) Kind regards, Adam. -- 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 -- 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: Apple Airport Extreme card internal for G5 wanted
Thanks Robert I had forgotten about OWC, that was silly of me and yes the USB option might be the way I should go :) Thank you everyone. Roger On 23/05/2009, at 6:06 PM, Robert Howells wrote: Roger , you asked for an airport extreme for some reason , but there are some alternatives , and IF you are not set on the Airport Extreme try looking here http://eshop.macsales.com/search/wireless+networking It will give you an idea what the alternatives might be depending of course on what you are trying to do Have fun Bob On 23/05/2009, at 3:51 PM, Roger Kortas wrote: Ah I see I have a dual 2.3 G5 so I guess one of the last ones ? Roger On 23/05/2009, at 1:21 PM, Robert Howells wrote: On 23/05/2009, at 12:35 PM, Roger Kortas wrote: Hi Does anyone know where I could get one of these from and what the cost might be? best regards Roger You need to identify which G5 model early models are PCI next models havePCI PCI-X last model PCI Express Use Mactracker to identify if you cannot tell Bob -- 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 -- 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
Re: iphone and gmail
Hi Adam You can only get push notifications for mail/calendar/contacts through mobileme. All the other accounts are fetch only at the moment. This may change with the updates that are coming soon, you will be able to nominate which apps run in the background. On your iPhone if you go to settings/fetch new data and select every 15 minutes it will look for emails more often, even if mail is not open. They warn you that if you fetch more frequently you will use more of your data plan but with your 1GB it will not be a problem. I use 3G almost all the time for everything and never got close to the 1GB limit. I also have the google app and have been unable to log on to gmail with it. That should not be a problem if you already have gmail set up though mail. hope this helps cheers Peter F On 23/05/2009, at 6:52 PM, Adam Hewitt wrote: Could someone please tell me, does the 'push' email require you to have Mail open to receive it? I thought you would get a new email notification no matter what you are doing and then you would see the unread email count on the Mail icon increase? I have done a bunch of testing with a Yahoo account and it doesn't seem to do anything until I actually open Mail...Seems stupid if this is the case as I dont want to sit there with Mail open all day to know I have received any emails. Cheers, Adam. On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Eugene edeg...@helena.wa.edu.au wrote: Adam, I've downloaded the free google search browser from the iTunes store (simply called google) and besides being an excellent voice activated browser with uncanny word recognition it also lists amongst its 13 tools, Gmail. Not having a Gmail account I haven't tried using it but I can verify that some of the other apps I played with work as expected. Also find among the other apps, calendar docs, talk, tasks, reader, news, notebook, photos, translate, maps, youtube earth. Some of these duplicate the apps already available on the iPhone others are unique. Regards, Eugene On 23/05/2009, at 3:01 PM, Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi All, I have had an iPhone for a while however I have been using a work supplied SIM card which did not have a data plan attached to it so I haven't really bothered with much of the 'mobile internet' side of it apart from using wireless at home. Now I am about to start a new job which doesn't supply a mobile plan and today I have got a new 16GB iPhone on a plan ($69 plan with Vodafone for those interested with 1GB of data) and I am giving my old iPhone to my wife. Now I just did a search to figure out how to setup my gmail account to push the emails to my iPhoneand discovered that it appears that Google haven't setup this feature yet!! I was sure that this was advertised as being available during one of the keynote speeches?? Apart from signing up with MobileMe (which I am going to find difficult justifying to my wife after getting the new phone and plan) how is everyone doing their push email? I have read about setting up a ymail account and forwarding gmail email to that etc, but then I run the risk of getting SPAM sent to the ymail account and getting delivered to me whereas the gmail SPAM filtering is fantastic. I find it really weird that they haven't set this up yet. While I am at it, does anyone have any tips tricks that they can share related to iphone/PIM/syncing/internet/etc for using with a data plan? Now that I have one I would like to put it to good use(I plan on getting iiQuota to manage my calls and data usage, plus I already have the ToodleDo app for keeping track of my tasksany other time management/project management tools would be useful as well) Kind regards, Adam. -- 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 -- 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: iphone and gmail
Thanks Peter, This isn't true. I have managed to get my Yahoo mail to push...for some reason I needed to reset the iPhone and its working now as expected. As you say though, I can just set it to check every 15 minutes and that way I wont have to put Yahoo into the mix. Hopefully Google will get their act together shortly (or more importantly that Apple implements IMAP-IDLED) so gmail will be push as well. Thanks again. Adam. On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Peter Fowler pfow...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Adam You can only get push notifications for mail/calendar/contacts through mobileme. All the other accounts are fetch only at the moment. This may change with the updates that are coming soon, you will be able to nominate which apps run in the background. On your iPhone if you go to settings/fetch new data and select every 15 minutes it will look for emails more often, even if mail is not open. They warn you that if you fetch more frequently you will use more of your data plan but with your 1GB it will not be a problem. I use 3G almost all the time for everything and never got close to the 1GB limit. I also have the google app and have been unable to log on to gmail with it. That should not be a problem if you already have gmail set up though mail. hope this helps cheers Peter F On 23/05/2009, at 6:52 PM, Adam Hewitt wrote: Could someone please tell me, does the 'push' email require you to have Mail open to receive it? I thought you would get a new email notification no matter what you are doing and then you would see the unread email count on the Mail icon increase? I have done a bunch of testing with a Yahoo account and it doesn't seem to do anything until I actually open Mail...Seems stupid if this is the case as I dont want to sit there with Mail open all day to know I have received any emails. Cheers, Adam. On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Eugene edeg...@helena.wa.edu.au wrote: Adam, I've downloaded the free google search browser from the iTunes store (simply called google) and besides being an excellent voice activated browser with uncanny word recognition it also lists amongst its 13 tools, Gmail. Not having a Gmail account I haven't tried using it but I can verify that some of the other apps I played with work as expected. Also find among the other apps, calendar docs, talk, tasks, reader, news, notebook, photos, translate, maps, youtube earth. Some of these duplicate the apps already available on the iPhone others are unique. Regards, Eugene On 23/05/2009, at 3:01 PM, Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi All, I have had an iPhone for a while however I have been using a work supplied SIM card which did not have a data plan attached to it so I haven't really bothered with much of the 'mobile internet' side of it apart from using wireless at home. Now I am about to start a new job which doesn't supply a mobile plan and today I have got a new 16GB iPhone on a plan ($69 plan with Vodafone for those interested with 1GB of data) and I am giving my old iPhone to my wife. Now I just did a search to figure out how to setup my gmail account to push the emails to my iPhoneand discovered that it appears that Google haven't setup this feature yet!! I was sure that this was advertised as being available during one of the keynote speeches?? Apart from signing up with MobileMe (which I am going to find difficult justifying to my wife after getting the new phone and plan) how is everyone doing their push email? I have read about setting up a ymail account and forwarding gmail email to that etc, but then I run the risk of getting SPAM sent to the ymail account and getting delivered to me whereas the gmail SPAM filtering is fantastic. I find it really weird that they haven't set this up yet. While I am at it, does anyone have any tips tricks that they can share related to iphone/PIM/syncing/internet/etc for using with a data plan? Now that I have one I would like to put it to good use(I plan on getting iiQuota to manage my calls and data usage, plus I already have the ToodleDo app for keeping track of my tasksany other time management/project management tools would be useful as well) Kind regards, Adam. -- 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 -- 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 -
35mm scanner
Does anyone have a 35 mm slide scanner that I could borrow, rent,steal, or otherwise acquire for for a week or so. I would like to scan a large number of slides over a concentrated week of activity. :-) Mac -- 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: 35mm scanner
Hi Mac I have an 'Epson Perfection 4490 Photo' scanner that does a great job on the prints and negatives that I have scanned. I bought it from Harvey Norman 2 years ago and it was the same model they were using in-store for scanning stuff for customers.. It will only do 4 slides at a time. Very easy to use I imagine the software is downloadable (although I probably have a disc). Uses a USB port. You're welcome to borrow it as I use it rarely. Regards Denise Williams-Photographer PH 9447 3468 MOB 0417 184592 chri...@iinet.net.au 55 Duart Rd TRIGG WA 6029 Does anyone have a 35 mm slide scanner that I could borrow, rent,steal, or otherwise acquire for for a week or so. I would like to scan a large number of slides over a concentrated week of activity. :-) Mac -- 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: 35mm scanner
Hi Mac, I bought one from Deals Direct recently which is not computer dependant, I find the ideal solution to the problem of scanning slides and film strips. Have a look at http://www.dealsdirect.com.au/search/scanner/ but if you decide to get one make sure it is the one that scans to an SD card. If you wish to have a look at one in the flesh let me know. Unfortunately mine is booked up for the next few months, however, if you are prepared to wait a few months you are welcome to use it. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 23/05/2009, at 10:22 PM, Malcolm McCallum wrote: Does anyone have a 35 mm slide scanner that I could borrow, rent,steal, or otherwise acquire for for a week or so. I would like to scan a large number of slides over a concentrated week of activity. :-) Mac -- 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: iphone and gmail
Well, although the 1GB of data might be plenty for checking email every 15 minutes, I have found that this does take a massive toll on the battery life. I have now set it to check every 30 minutes and I will see how the battery life goes now, if its any near as bad as checking every 15 minutes then I will reinvestigate the push email solution with Yahoo. Cheers, Adam. On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Adam Hewitt ahew...@theozhewitts.com wrote: Thanks Peter, This isn't true. I have managed to get my Yahoo mail to push...for some reason I needed to reset the iPhone and its working now as expected. As you say though, I can just set it to check every 15 minutes and that way I wont have to put Yahoo into the mix. Hopefully Google will get their act together shortly (or more importantly that Apple implements IMAP-IDLED) so gmail will be push as well. Thanks again. Adam. On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Peter Fowler pfow...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Adam You can only get push notifications for mail/calendar/contacts through mobileme. All the other accounts are fetch only at the moment. This may change with the updates that are coming soon, you will be able to nominate which apps run in the background. On your iPhone if you go to settings/fetch new data and select every 15 minutes it will look for emails more often, even if mail is not open. They warn you that if you fetch more frequently you will use more of your data plan but with your 1GB it will not be a problem. I use 3G almost all the time for everything and never got close to the 1GB limit. I also have the google app and have been unable to log on to gmail with it. That should not be a problem if you already have gmail set up though mail. hope this helps cheers Peter F On 23/05/2009, at 6:52 PM, Adam Hewitt wrote: Could someone please tell me, does the 'push' email require you to have Mail open to receive it? I thought you would get a new email notification no matter what you are doing and then you would see the unread email count on the Mail icon increase? I have done a bunch of testing with a Yahoo account and it doesn't seem to do anything until I actually open Mail...Seems stupid if this is the case as I dont want to sit there with Mail open all day to know I have received any emails. Cheers, Adam. On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Eugene edeg...@helena.wa.edu.au wrote: Adam, I've downloaded the free google search browser from the iTunes store (simply called google) and besides being an excellent voice activated browser with uncanny word recognition it also lists amongst its 13 tools, Gmail. Not having a Gmail account I haven't tried using it but I can verify that some of the other apps I played with work as expected. Also find among the other apps, calendar docs, talk, tasks, reader, news, notebook, photos, translate, maps, youtube earth. Some of these duplicate the apps already available on the iPhone others are unique. Regards, Eugene On 23/05/2009, at 3:01 PM, Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi All, I have had an iPhone for a while however I have been using a work supplied SIM card which did not have a data plan attached to it so I haven't really bothered with much of the 'mobile internet' side of it apart from using wireless at home. Now I am about to start a new job which doesn't supply a mobile plan and today I have got a new 16GB iPhone on a plan ($69 plan with Vodafone for those interested with 1GB of data) and I am giving my old iPhone to my wife. Now I just did a search to figure out how to setup my gmail account to push the emails to my iPhoneand discovered that it appears that Google haven't setup this feature yet!! I was sure that this was advertised as being available during one of the keynote speeches?? Apart from signing up with MobileMe (which I am going to find difficult justifying to my wife after getting the new phone and plan) how is everyone doing their push email? I have read about setting up a ymail account and forwarding gmail email to that etc, but then I run the risk of getting SPAM sent to the ymail account and getting delivered to me whereas the gmail SPAM filtering is fantastic. I find it really weird that they haven't set this up yet. While I am at it, does anyone have any tips tricks that they can share related to iphone/PIM/syncing/internet/etc for using with a data plan? Now that I have one I would like to put it to good use(I plan on getting iiQuota to manage my calls and data usage, plus I already have the ToodleDo app for keeping track of my tasksany other time management/project management tools would be useful as well) Kind regards, Adam. -- 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: 35mm scanner
I would like to take you up on your kind offer please. I will contact you re pickup.Are you home this PM? Mac On 23/05/2009, at 10:45 PM, Denise Williams wrote: Hi Mac I have an 'Epson Perfection 4490 Photo' scanner that does a great job on the prints and negatives that I have scanned. I bought it from Harvey Norman 2 years ago and it was the same model they were using in-store for scanning stuff for customers.. It will only do 4 slides at a time. Very easy to use I imagine the software is downloadable (although I probably have a disc). Uses a USB port. You're welcome to borrow it as I use it rarely. Regards Denise Williams-Photographer PH 9447 3468 MOB 0417 184592 chri...@iinet.net.au 55 Duart Rd TRIGG WA 6029 Does anyone have a 35 mm slide scanner that I could borrow, rent,steal, or otherwise acquire for fora week or so. I would like to scan a large number of slides over a concentrated week of activity. :-) Mac -- 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 -- 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: iphone and gmail
Hi Adam, Yes Gmail does indeed work with iPhone and this is how I utilise Mail when not able to connect via WiFi. Provider should also have a server able to achieve said results, but I prefer gmail added security with SSL servers. Actually I did not setup Gmail, it was done whilst syncing Mail accounts with MacPro using iTunes sync and ticking relevant box. So acquire Gmail account or setup previous one on computer, then sync iPhone. Your Gmail account is accessible through mail app on phone and computer, remember to utilise IMAP as server type making mail available on both. Also would advise in setting up mailboxes to store mail wanting to be kept / shared re-used. Mailing Lists etc, just set up filters at Gmail side and it will filter before delivery. Then clearing inboxes etc. regularly as they do collect quite a lot of mail quickly, and Gmail does have a lot of Spam coming your way, but does have very good filtering. Gmail likes to archive instead of deleting. Yes it does have huge storage on servers but your phone has limited space that fills rather quickly if not careful. Cheers! `RobD,,, On 23May2009, at 3:01 pm, Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi All, I have had an iPhone for a while however I have been using a work supplied SIM card which did not have a data plan attached to it so I haven't really bothered with much of the 'mobile internet' side of it apart from using wireless at home. Now I am about to start a new job which doesn't supply a mobile plan and today I have got a new 16GB iPhone on a plan ($69 plan with Vodafone for those interested with 1GB of data) and I am giving my old iPhone to my wife. Now I just did a search to figure out how to setup my gmail account to push the emails to my iPhoneand discovered that it appears that Google haven't setup this feature yet!! I was sure that this was advertised as being available during one of the keynote speeches?? Apart from signing up with MobileMe (which I am going to find difficult justifying to my wife after getting the new phone and plan) how is everyone doing their push email? I have read about setting up a ymail account and forwarding gmail email to that etc, but then I run the risk of getting SPAM sent to the ymail account and getting delivered to me whereas the gmail SPAM filtering is fantastic. I find it really weird that they haven't set this up yet. While I am at it, does anyone have any tips tricks that they can share related to iphone/PIM/syncing/internet/etc for using with a data plan? Now that I have one I would like to put it to good use(I plan on getting iiQuota to manage my calls and data usage, plus I already have the ToodleDo app for keeping track of my tasksany other time management/project management tools would be useful as well) Kind regards, Adam. -- 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: iphone and gmail
Hi Adam, Yes Gmail does indeed work with iPhone and this is how I utilise Mail when not able to connect via WiFi. Provider should also have a server able to achieve said results, but I prefer gmail added security with SSL servers. Actually I did not setup Gmail, it was done whilst syncing Mail accounts with MacPro using iTunes sync and ticking relevant box. So acquire Gmail account or setup previous one on computer, then sync iPhone. Your Gmail account is accessible through mail app on phone and computer, remember to utilise IMAP as server type making mail available on both. Also would advise in setting up mailboxes to store mail wanting to be kept / shared re-used. Mailing Lists etc, just set up filters at Gmail side and it will filter before delivery. Then clearing inboxes etc. regularly as they do collect quite a lot of mail quickly, and Gmail does have a lot of Spam coming your way, but does have very good filtering. Gmail likes to archive instead of deleting. Yes it does have huge storage on servers but your phone has limited space that fills rather quickly if not careful. Cheers! `RobD,,, On 23May2009, at 3:01 pm, Adam Hewitt wrote: Hi All, I have had an iPhone for a while however I have been using a work supplied SIM card which did not have a data plan attached to it so I haven't really bothered with much of the 'mobile internet' side of it apart from using wireless at home. Now I am about to start a new job which doesn't supply a mobile plan and today I have got a new 16GB iPhone on a plan ($69 plan with Vodafone for those interested with 1GB of data) and I am giving my old iPhone to my wife. Now I just did a search to figure out how to setup my gmail account to push the emails to my iPhoneand discovered that it appears that Google haven't setup this feature yet!! I was sure that this was advertised as being available during one of the keynote speeches?? Apart from signing up with MobileMe (which I am going to find difficult justifying to my wife after getting the new phone and plan) how is everyone doing their push email? I have read about setting up a ymail account and forwarding gmail email to that etc, but then I run the risk of getting SPAM sent to the ymail account and getting delivered to me whereas the gmail SPAM filtering is fantastic. I find it really weird that they haven't set this up yet. While I am at it, does anyone have any tips tricks that they can share related to iphone/PIM/syncing/internet/etc for using with a data plan? Now that I have one I would like to put it to good use(I plan on getting iiQuota to manage my calls and data usage, plus I already have the ToodleDo app for keeping track of my tasksany other time management/project management tools would be useful as well) Kind regards, Adam. -- 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
