Re: Can Spotlight search a DVD
Thank you Adrian - but do you mind telling me how? Spotlight for me seems to search the hard-drive only, and not a dvd which is displayed on desktop. On 4/8/10 1:46 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: It does for me. Adrian http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 04/08/2010, at 9:14 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: I want to see if a particular word is used in documents that have been saved to a DVD. Can Spotlight be used to do that? Thank you, Michael Hawkins. OS 10.6.4 -- 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: .ocx files
On 4/8/10 12:38 PM, Malcolm McCallum doc...@westnet.com.au wrote: I have been sent an .ocx file which 'pages' has happily opened but when I send it to my daughter whose computer is on the darkside she cannot open it :-( Where do I go next? Mac Hi Malcolm Assuming (as Daniel asked) it's a .docx file (Which is Microsoft's new file format since Office 2007 for Windows then Office 2008 for Mac) then you can either do one of two things. You can save it as the older .doc file format. In Pages go to File menu and Choose Export. When the drop down window comes, choose Word as the format, click next, give it a name (and ending in .doc) then click Export. (You can also save it as .rft as well, which is also editable). The second option is she can download some of the free .docx convertors. Such as:- http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office-Tools/NW-Docx-Conver ter.shtml There are plenty more around. Oh, and last option is buying Office 2007 (or Office 2010) for Windows. That can then work with all the old formats (.doc, .xls and .ppt) and the new formats (.docx, .xlsx and .pptx) Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: .ocx files
Perhaps it's as simple as putting a 'd' in front of 'ocx' in the filename and sending it to her again. Windows users who don't use File-Open, but just double click, often get into trouble with files without the expected file extensions... Rob On 4/08/10 2:05 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 4/8/10 12:38 PM, Malcolm McCallumdoc...@westnet.com.au wrote: I have been sent an .ocx file which 'pages' has happily opened but when I send it to my daughter whose computer is on the darkside she cannot open it :-( Where do I go next? Mac Hi Malcolm Assuming (as Daniel asked) it's a .docx file (Which is Microsoft's new file format since Office 2007 for Windows then Office 2008 for Mac) then you can either do one of two things. You can save it as the older .doc file format. In Pages go to File menu and Choose Export. When the drop down window comes, choose Word as the format, click next, give it a name (and ending in .doc) then click Export. (You can also save it as .rft as well, which is also editable). The second option is she can download some of the free .docx convertors. Such as:- http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office-Tools/NW-Docx-Conver ter.shtml There are plenty more around. Oh, and last option is buying Office 2007 (or Office 2010) for Windows. That can then work with all the old formats (.doc, .xls and .ppt) and the new formats (.docx, .xlsx and .pptx) Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email:daniel @ macwizardry . com . au 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- Associate Professor Rob Phillips Educational Development Unit Room 4.42 Level 4 Library North Wing, Murdoch University r.phill...@murdoch.edu.au Phone: +61 8 9360 6054 Mobile: 0416 065 054 Fellow, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia -- 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: Can Spotlight search a DVD
I tried several DVDs including a windows only one and an external drive, it found what I asked for each time, however, I had to click on Show All for it to tell me where it was. I'm using Snow Leopard 10.6.4 in an iMac, what system are you using? Adrian http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 04/08/2010, at 1:58 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: Thank you Adrian - but do you mind telling me how? Spotlight for me seems to search the hard-drive only, and not a dvd which is displayed on desktop. On 4/8/10 1:46 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: It does for me. Adrian http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 04/08/2010, at 9:14 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: I want to see if a particular word is used in documents that have been saved to a DVD. Can Spotlight be used to do that? Thank you, Michael Hawkins. OS 10.6.4 -- 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: Can Spotlight search a DVD
Thank you Adrian. After restarting my computer and repairing permissions, Spotlight now lists items on the DVD. On 4/8/10 2:52 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: I tried several DVDs including a windows only one and an external drive, it found what I asked for each time, however, I had to click on Show All for it to tell me where it was. I'm using Snow Leopard 10.6.4 in an iMac, what system are you using? Adrian http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 04/08/2010, at 1:58 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: Thank you Adrian - but do you mind telling me how? Spotlight for me seems to search the hard-drive only, and not a dvd which is displayed on desktop. On 4/8/10 1:46 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: It does for me. Adrian http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 04/08/2010, at 9:14 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: I want to see if a particular word is used in documents that have been saved to a DVD. Can Spotlight be used to do that? Thank you, Michael Hawkins. OS 10.6.4 -- 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 -- 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: Can Spotlight search a DVD
basically it canbut you may have to add the dvd volume to the searchable items... i actually just tested it osx.4.11: put the dvd in, start spotlight after the volume logo is on the desktop, then type in the search term...that's it James On 04/08/2010, at 9:14, Michael Hawkins wrote: I want to see if a particular word is used in documents that have been saved to a DVD. Can Spotlight be used to do that? Thank you, Michael Hawkins. OS 10.6.4 -- 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 over 40 years in electronics -- 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: Can Spotlight search a DVD
Thank you James. I may have been trigger happy with my first request, as the DVD contained over 5500 pages of documents and Spotlight might not have indexed them when I made the first couple of attempts to search the DVd. I was also confused by the fact that the Spotlight window referred to the internal hard-drive and, in preferences, referred to folders and so on on the drive, but did not refer to the dvd. Regards, Michael Hawkins. On 4/8/10 3:08 PM, James / Hans Kunz sad...@iinet.net.au wrote: basically it canbut you may have to add the dvd volume to the searchable items... i actually just tested it osx.4.11: put the dvd in, start spotlight after the volume logo is on the desktop, then type in the search term...that's it James On 04/08/2010, at 9:14, Michael Hawkins wrote: I want to see if a particular word is used in documents that have been saved to a DVD. Can Spotlight be used to do that? Thank you, Michael Hawkins. OS 10.6.4 -- 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 over 40 years in electronics -- 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
PREVIEW - add pages to a PDF
howdy my wife received via email a 2 separate of pages of a manual ( scans). we moved these into a single PDF of 2 pages - easy enough to do (Mac OS 10.6.2) BUT if we go to reopen this created PDF at a later date, it only has a single page in the side bar, there is nothing else in it. We tried exporting and printtoPDF, but alas make no difference. Are we doing something wrong? we resolved the situation by adding the pages to a blank PAGES file and then printing to PDF. seems strange to me thanks -- 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: PREVIEW - add pages to a PDF
Open the first page in preview, then drag the second PDF onto the page that is showing in the sidebar. You should see a red box appear around the first page - release the mouse button. This should add the second document to the first. Do a 'save as' to save as 1 document. Next time you open the document it should have all pages present. However, be aware that in the latest version of preview the sidebar view toggles between a. All pages in the document showing, b. Just the cover page of the document showing. Regards Daniel Forsdyke -- An Apple iPhone4 creation On 04/08/2010, at 17:16, gary dorn garyd...@ausconnect.net wrote: howdy my wife received via email a 2 separate of pages of a manual ( scans). we moved these into a single PDF of 2 pages - easy enough to do (Mac OS 10.6.2) BUT if we go to reopen this created PDF at a later date, it only has a single page in the side bar, there is nothing else in it. We tried exporting and printtoPDF, but alas make no difference. Are we doing something wrong? we resolved the situation by adding the pages to a blank PAGES file and then printing to PDF. seems strange to me thanks -- 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: PREVIEW - add pages to a PDF
On 04/08/2010, at 5:16 PM, gary dorn wrote: howdy my wife received via email a 2 separate of pages of a manual ( scans). we moved these into a single PDF of 2 pages - easy enough to do (Mac OS 10.6.2) BUT if we go to reopen this created PDF at a later date, it only has a single page in the side bar, there is nothing else in it. We tried exporting and printtoPDF, but alas make no difference. Are we doing something wrong? we resolved the situation by adding the pages to a blank PAGES file and then printing to PDF. seems strange to me thanks Hi Gary, Did you create your PDF as follows? In Preview Application: 1. Open the first page / PDF and then View/Sidebar/Show Sidebar. 2. Drag all files / pages to the sidebar in preview. 3. Select all the Side Bar files you want in the pdf. 4. Go to File Print SELECTED file (under the regular print command) and then save as PDF. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- 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: PREVIEW - add pages to a PDF
I also use combinepdf which works a treat Best regards Justin Davies m...@justindavies.com.au www.justindavies.com.au 0414 567 638 9309 9309 Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/justinkdavies Business website: www.emergination.com.au Twitter: www.twitter.com/justinkdavies On 4 Aug 2010, at 5:33 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 04/08/2010, at 5:16 PM, gary dorn wrote: howdy my wife received via email a 2 separate of pages of a manual ( scans). we moved these into a single PDF of 2 pages - easy enough to do (Mac OS 10.6.2) BUT if we go to reopen this created PDF at a later date, it only has a single page in the side bar, there is nothing else in it. We tried exporting and printtoPDF, but alas make no difference. Are we doing something wrong? we resolved the situation by adding the pages to a blank PAGES file and then printing to PDF. seems strange to me thanks Hi Gary, Did you create your PDF as follows? In Preview Application: 1. Open the first page / PDF and then View/Sidebar/Show Sidebar. 2. Drag all files / pages to the sidebar in preview. 3. Select all the Side Bar files you want in the pdf. 4. Go to File Print SELECTED file (under the regular print command) and then save as PDF. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- 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: PREVIEW - add pages to a PDF
Hi Gary, The thing about Preview in Snow Leopard is that it works a little differently to previous versions. The thing to remember is that you can now have several documents open in the same window - you can see this when opening pdfs: Double-click a number of pdfs individually and they will each open up in their own window BUT select a number of pdfs and then go File/Open (or command-O) and they will all open in one Window. The title-bar of the window also reflect what's going on: - A single pdf window will have something like: blurb.pdf (page 2 of 5) - A multiple pdf window will have something like: blurb-pdf (page 2 of 5) (3 documents, 15 total pages) With the new system (assuming you have the sidebar view set to Thumbnails) each document appears separately in the sidebar and can individually be expanded to show all the pages of the document as thumbnails or collapsed to show just one thumbnail for that document. With the new system dragging pages to the sidebar also works differently: If you just drag a page from the sidebar of one window to the sidebar of another window, it will be added as a separate document - I suspect that this is what you did - whilst you can move from page to page in the one window, both documents remain separate and if you save you are just saving whichever document is selected (not all the pages of both documents in the sidebar). If you actually want to add the page INTO another pdf you have to drag the page ONTO the actual sidbar icon/thumbnail of the document you want to insert into - you should then see (in the window title-bar) the page count of the document increase (rather than the document count) and if you now save that document it will include the added page. At first, it's quite confusing (and not particularly well documented) - especially when you are used to the old way - until you realise what is happening. However, once you get used to it, it works very well. I hope my explanation makes sense - play with a few pdfs to see how it all works. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/8/10 5:16 PM, gary dorn at garyd...@ausconnect.net wrote: howdy my wife received via email a 2 separate of pages of a manual ( scans). we moved these into a single PDF of 2 pages - easy enough to do (Mac OS 10.6.2) BUT if we go to reopen this created PDF at a later date, it only has a single page in the side bar, there is nothing else in it. We tried exporting and printtoPDF, but alas make no difference. Are we doing something wrong? we resolved the situation by adding the pages to a blank PAGES file and then printing to PDF. seems strange to me thanks -- 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: PREVIEW - add pages to a PDF
Neil good explanation A.. is what we did, I'll have a go at B.. thanks - very helpful Hi Gary, The thing about Preview in Snow Leopard is that it works a little differently to previous versions. The thing to remember is that you can now have several documents open in the same window - you can see this when opening pdfs: Double-click a number of pdfs individually and they will each open up in their own window BUT select a number of pdfs and then go File/Open (or command-O) and they will all open in one Window. The title-bar of the window also reflect what's going on: - A single pdf window will have something like: blurb.pdf (page 2 of 5) - A multiple pdf window will have something like: blurb-pdf (page 2 of 5) (3 documents, 15 total pages) With the new system (assuming you have the sidebar view set to Thumbnails) each document appears separately in the sidebar and can individually be expanded to show all the pages of the document as thumbnails or collapsed to show just one thumbnail for that document. With the new system dragging pages to the sidebar also works differently: A.. If you just drag a page from the sidebar of one window to the sidebar of another window, it will be added as a separate document - I suspect that this is what you did - whilst you can move from page to page in the one window, both documents remain separate and if you save you are just saving whichever document is selected (not all the pages of both documents in the sidebar). B... If you actually want to add the page INTO another pdf you have to drag the page ONTO the actual sidbar icon/thumbnail of the document you want to insert into - you should then see (in the window title-bar) the page count of the document increase (rather than the document count) and if you now save that document it will include the added page. At first, it's quite confusing (and not particularly well documented) - especially when you are used to the old way - until you realise what is happening. However, once you get used to it, it works very well. I hope my explanation makes sense - play with a few pdfs to see how it all works. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/8/10 5:16 PM, gary dorn at garyd...@ausconnect.net wrote: howdy my wife received via email a 2 separate of pages of a manual ( scans). we moved these into a single PDF of 2 pages - easy enough to do (Mac OS 10.6.2) BUT if we go to reopen this created PDF at a later date, it only has a single page in the side bar, there is nothing else in it. We tried exporting and printtoPDF, but alas make no difference. Are we doing something wrong? we resolved the situation by adding the pages to a blank PAGES file and then printing to PDF. seems strange to me thanks -- 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
Off-Topic: Bearer of sad news,...
Hi All I just received an email earlier this evening with some bad news. Ken Houghton passed away on Tuesday 3rd August. For those that knew him they will remember him from the meetings and his love for Mac. He may not have posted lots to the list, but he certainly read it all and took a lot of it in. I had the pleasure of working with Ken as a client and friend and also had a lot of time for him. And he most definitely loved his Mac's and would sway as many people as possible to the better side of computing. He always had time for a chat,... I don't have details as yet for his funeral, but was asked to let his fellow Mac community know, hence the email. I know he will certainly be missed. R.I.P Ken -Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: OT Going Solar Power. - longish reply
Greetings! Your post was very informative and to the point. The only point you did not cover is the installation of a battery system to supply power in the evenings. I think the most important aspect of building a solar home is to build your home using insulation in the form of Styrofoam or Polystyrene blocks with rebar and cement infill. The second most important is your point on building orientation. The third is the placement and use of thermal mass. The utility cost savings with the use of solar hot water and photovoltaic systems can be increased by proper building orientation use of thermal mass, insulating double or triple pane windows, super insulation and an experienced building contractor. Cheers, Joe On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:16 PM, gary dorn garyd...@ausconnect.net wrote: We are building new house and will hopefully be having Solar power and water. Any advice would be gratefully received, OT of course :-) Mac and WAMUG If I may, I make a longish reply covering a number of aspects. 1. Power system You are not saying whether you are Stand alone, Grid switched, Grid connected or Hybrid. Each has its merits and advantages and costs. You may want to look at unisuns web site for a description and also stand alone system costs. http://www.unisun.com.au/ To keep the system to a reasonable size or have a reasonable payback period, its generally advisable to reduce energy consumption, particularly look at the items that require either high energy loading or are on constantly such as: lighting - use low level general light and make up difference with task lighting - stay away from halogens and use PL tube compact fluros or now LEDs heating - use the sun or wood, or gas as much as possible ( see below) cooling - use the breeze as much as possible, then electric pedestal fans cooking -generally use gas , however it seems that most ovens are now going electric, induction are super fast although draw 36 amps I think? washing - pumping - see below in water section 2. House Design In your house design generally you want to have good orientation so that you get the sun when you want and have shade when you don't. I find long thin wings can achieve this the best. Next is to fully insulate your building. The building code currently requires R1.5 for walls and R3.5 for roofs - I recommend that you try and achieve a higher rating than that, atleast R4.0 for roofs and R3 for walls, the difference in cost is not that much for a superior envelope. Then you ought to locate your thermal mass in the right place. 3. Heating Radiant heat is the best and most comfortable sort of heat - the SUN provides massive amounts of it.- So use the SUN as much as possible to heat. This can be done by: judicision use of glass and mass floor ( for heat absorption) hydronic floor heating ( hot water tubes in floor) If you can't do that then you have to move to burning carbon via; a gas fired heat box, an electric reverse cycle aircon, a wood fired heat box, a gas fired heater, an electric panel (convection) heater or a Finnish mass stove In my designs we do Judicious use of glass hydronic floor heating - see Enviroplumb http://www.enviroplumb.com.au/index.php Finish mass stove or masonry oven wood gas fired heat box, typically large enough for wet back and cooking ( ala Metters stove sort of thing) Interestingly women generally require a higher ambient heating temperature than men - probably because a 65 kg women makes 90watts, a 85 kg man 130 watts! 4 Hot water Solar is the first preference, - the Apricus evacuated tube system seems to be the most effective. Enviroplumb has tanks where by the heated water can be used for showers, kitchen etcs and also hydronic floor heating. On one of my projects the heat exchanger is 1000 ltrs see rotex http://rotex-solar-hot-water-hydronic-heating.com.au/html/domestic/10/solar-hot-water-heating-hydronic-residential if the Apricus system doesn't suit (cost more) then the Solar kleen system is the next choice http://www.sola-kleen.com.au 5. Cooling Most people are aware the natural ventilation, particularly along the coast is the most effective and cheapest way of cooling an interior, yet we seeing a rapid increase in the installation of refrigerated air con systems. These operate a some 2400w , so they chew up the power consumption and virtually make a mockery of PV power system . A few years ago we looked in the viability of making an aircon system powered by a stand along PV system. The system looked like costing $30,000 ! At a recent sustainability forum for mechanical systems I went too, the presenter suggested that overhead (high) windows is the preferred method of inducing cross ventilation in buildings without the blowing around papers effect. I essentially call this clerestorey windows. 6.Drinking water With the move to incorporating rainwater tanks, initially for gardens but
Re: Off-Topic: Bearer of sad news,...
I was shocked to read of Ken's death. In the past he visited our house for conversations on some non-Mac matters. My commiserations to his family. Paul. Dr Paul R. Weaver http://fremantlebiz.livejournal.com/calendar - Original Message - From: Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au To: WAMUG wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Wednesday, 4 August, 2010 10:29:06 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: Off-Topic: Bearer of sad news,... Hi All I just received an email earlier this evening with some bad news. Ken Houghton passed away on Tuesday 3rd August. For those that knew him they will remember him from the meetings and his love for Mac. He may not have posted lots to the list, but he certainly read it all and took a lot of it in. I had the pleasure of working with Ken as a client and friend and also had a lot of time for him. And he most definitely loved his Mac's and would sway as many people as possible to the better side of computing. He always had time for a chat,... I don't have details as yet for his funeral, but was asked to let his fellow Mac community know, hence the email. I know he will certainly be missed. R.I.P Ken -Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au 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: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: Off-Topic: Bearer of sad news,...
Sad news Daniel. I never met Ken but appreciated his contributions to the list. Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net Web: http://web.me.com/whitelyr/Reg/ http://beachlands.wordpress.com t On 04/08/2010, at 10:29 pm, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi All I just received an email earlier this evening with some bad news. Ken Houghton passed away on Tuesday 3rd August. For those that knew him they will remember him from the meetings and his love for Mac. He may not have posted lots to the list, but he certainly read it all and took a lot of it in. I had the pleasure of working with Ken as a client and friend and also had a lot of time for him. And he most definitely loved his Mac's and would sway as many people as possible to the better side of computing. He always had time for a chat,... I don't have details as yet for his funeral, but was asked to let his fellow Mac community know, hence the email. I know he will certainly be missed. R.I.P Ken -Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au 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: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: Off-Topic: Bearer of sad news,...
So sad to hear that my commiserations to his friends and family. Regards Roger On 04/08/2010, at 10:29 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi All I just received an email earlier this evening with some bad news. Ken Houghton passed away on Tuesday 3rd August. For those that knew him they will remember him from the meetings and his love for Mac. He may not have posted lots to the list, but he certainly read it all and took a lot of it in. I had the pleasure of working with Ken as a client and friend and also had a lot of time for him. And he most definitely loved his Mac's and would sway as many people as possible to the better side of computing. He always had time for a chat,... I don't have details as yet for his funeral, but was asked to let his fellow Mac community know, hence the email. I know he will certainly be missed. R.I.P Ken -Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au 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: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: .ocx files
On 04/08/2010, at 12:38 PM, Malcolm McCallum wrote: I have been sent an .ocx file which 'pages' has happily opened but when I send it to my daughter whose computer is on the darkside she cannot open it :-( Where do I go next? Mac While the general suggestion has been made that your .ocx file may be interpreted as a misnamed .docx file, this may not necessarily be the case. Taken from http://www.file-extensions.org/ocx-file-extension, the following is their explanation of the .ocx file extension: File extension OCX description: An OCX is an Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) custom control, a special-purpose program that can be created for use by applications running on Microsoft's Windows systems. OCXs provide such functions as handling scroll bar movement and window resizing. If you have a Windows system, you'll find a number of files in your Windows directory with the OCX file name suffix. Object Linking and Embedding was designed to support compound documents (which contain multiple information types, such as text, graphic images, sound, motion video). The Windows desktop is an example of a compound document and Microsoft used OLE to build it. OLE and the Component Object Model (COM), a more general concept that succeeded OLE, support the development of plug-and-play programs that can be written in any language and used dynamically by any application in the system. These programs are known as components and the application in which they are run is known as a container. This component-based approach to application development reduces development time and improves the program capability and quality. Windows application development programs such as PowerBuilder and Microsoft Access take advantage of OCXs. Microsoft now calls an OCX an ActiveX control, the component object under Microsoft's set of ActiveX technologies, of which the fundamental concept is the Component Object Model (COM) and, in a network, the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). An OCX or ActiveX control is actually implemented as a dynamic link library DLL module. (You can think of a DLL program as a subprogram that can be used by any number of application programs, each of which is a container for the DLL or OCX/ActiveX control object.) Visual Basic and C++ are commonly used to write OCX or ActiveX controls. Clear as mud? Thought so. The fact that the file opened for you in Pages is probably a happy coincidence. Take Daniel K's suggestion: export it as a Word or PDF file and send that to your daughter. This simply reinforces the fact that the three-character file extension is one of the greatest crimes against the world of computing that Microsoft has committed in its long existence, and there have been plenty of others. The great tragedy is that has forced everyone else, even Apple, to comply purely for compatibility reasons. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 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: Off-Topic: Bearer of sad news,...
On 04/08/2010, at 10:29 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi All I just received an email earlier this evening with some bad news. Ken Houghton passed away on Tuesday 3rd August. For those that knew him they will remember him from the meetings and his love for Mac. He may not have posted lots to the list, but he certainly read it all and took a lot of it in. I had the pleasure of working with Ken as a client and friend and also had a lot of time for him. And he most definitely loved his Mac's and would sway as many people as possible to the better side of computing. He always had time for a chat,... I don't have details as yet for his funeral, but was asked to let his fellow Mac community know, hence the email. I know he will certainly be missed. R.I.P Ken This is sad news indeed! I too had Ken as a client for a time, and got to know him well. He became a good friend. I'll miss his presence at the monthly meetings. He was a great Mac evangelist! Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 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: .ocx files
Thank you for this article, Peter. I responded to the list in a one-liner suggesting to save the file out of Pages as a pdf and for Malcolm to send that to his daughter but I can not recall seeing my comment in any follow-up string. Cheers Merv On 5/08/10 9:09 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 04/08/2010, at 12:38 PM, Malcolm McCallum wrote: I have been sent an .ocx file which 'pages' has happily opened but when I send it to my daughter whose computer is on the darkside she cannot open it :-( Where do I go next? Mac While the general suggestion has been made that your .ocx file may be interpreted as a misnamed .docx file, this may not necessarily be the case. Taken from http://www.file-extensions.org/ocx-file-extension, the following is their explanation of the .ocx file extension: File extension OCX description: An OCX is an Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) custom control, a special-purpose program that can be created for use by applications running on Microsoft's Windows systems. OCXs provide such functions as handling scroll bar movement and window resizing. If you have a Windows system, you'll find a number of files in your Windows directory with the OCX file name suffix. Object Linking and Embedding was designed to support compound documents (which contain multiple information types, such as text, graphic images, sound, motion video). The Windows desktop is an example of a compound document and Microsoft used OLE to build it. OLE and the Component Object Model (COM), a more general concept that succeeded OLE, support the development of plug-and-play programs that can be written in any language and used dynamically by any application in the system. These programs are known as components and the application in which they are run is known as a container. This component-based approach to application development reduces development time and improves the program capability and quality. Windows application development programs such as PowerBuilder and Microsoft Access take advantage of OCXs. Microsoft now calls an OCX an ActiveX control, the component object under Microsoft's set of ActiveX technologies, of which the fundamental concept is the Component Object Model (COM) and, in a network, the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). An OCX or ActiveX control is actually implemented as a dynamic link library DLL module. (You can think of a DLL program as a subprogram that can be used by any number of application programs, each of which is a container for the DLL or OCX/ActiveX control object.) Visual Basic and C++ are commonly used to write OCX or ActiveX controls. Clear as mud? Thought so. The fact that the file opened for you in Pages is probably a happy coincidence. Take Daniel K's suggestion: export it as a Word or PDF file and send that to your daughter. This simply reinforces the fact that the three-character file extension is one of the greatest crimes against the world of computing that Microsoft has committed in its long existence, and there have been plenty of others. The great tragedy is that has forced everyone else, even Apple, to comply purely for compatibility reasons. Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 064 948 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 -- Education without values and knowledge without ethics is a false education. -- 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: Off-Topic: Bearer of sad news,...
What sad news of Ken. I looked after his father in his terminal illness, They are a great family and he will be missed by many people all over WA. RIP Mac On 05/08/2010, at 9:30 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 04/08/2010, at 10:29 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi All I just received an email earlier this evening with some bad news. Ken Houghton passed away on Tuesday 3rd August. For those that knew him they will remember him from the meetings and his love for Mac. He may not have posted lots to the list, but he certainly read it all and took a lot of it in. I had the pleasure of working with Ken as a client and friend and also had a lot of time for him. And he most definitely loved his Mac's and would sway as many people as possible to the better side of computing. He always had time for a chat,... I don't have details as yet for his funeral, but was asked to let his fellow Mac community know, hence the email. I know he will certainly be missed. R.I.P Ken This is sad news indeed! I too had Ken as a client for a time, and got to know him well. He became a good friend. I'll miss his presence at the monthly meetings. He was a great Mac evangelist! Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 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 -- 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
Network speed
Hi there In my practice there is a delay in the invoicing that I generate in my consulting room being transmitted via the network to reception. We have a small wholly Macintosh network. How can I increase the speed of our network? Stuart Breden -- 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: .ocx files
Thanks everyone for your help, Just was not thinking straight and should have known it was .docs. Mac On 05/08/2010, at 9:09 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 04/08/2010, at 12:38 PM, Malcolm McCallum wrote: I have been sent an .ocx file which 'pages' has happily opened but when I send it to my daughter whose computer is on the darkside she cannot open it :-( Where do I go next? Mac While the general suggestion has been made that your .ocx file may be interpreted as a misnamed .docx file, this may not necessarily be the case. Taken from http://www.file-extensions.org/ocx-file-extension, the following is their explanation of the .ocx file extension: File extension OCX description: An OCX is an Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) custom control, a special-purpose program that can be created for use by applications running on Microsoft's Windows systems. OCXs provide such functions as handling scroll bar movement and window resizing. If you have a Windows system, you'll find a number of files in your Windows directory with the OCX file name suffix. Object Linking and Embedding was designed to support compound documents (which contain multiple information types, such as text, graphic images, sound, motion video). The Windows desktop is an example of a compound document and Microsoft used OLE to build it. OLE and the Component Object Model (COM), a more general concept that succeeded OLE, support the development of plug-and-play programs that can be written in any language and used dynamically by any application in the system. These programs are known as components and the application in which they are run is known as a container. This component-based approach to application development reduces development time and improves the program capability and quality. Windows application development programs such as PowerBuilder and Microsoft Access take advantage of OCXs. Microsoft now calls an OCX an ActiveX control, the component object under Microsoft's set of ActiveX technologies, of which the fundamental concept is the Component Object Model (COM) and, in a network, the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). An OCX or ActiveX control is actually implemented as a dynamic link library DLL module. (You can think of a DLL program as a subprogram that can be used by any number of application programs, each of which is a container for the DLL or OCX/ActiveX control object.) Visual Basic and C++ are commonly used to write OCX or ActiveX controls. Clear as mud? Thought so. The fact that the file opened for you in Pages is probably a happy coincidence. Take Daniel K's suggestion: export it as a Word or PDF file and send that to your daughter. This simply reinforces the fact that the three-character file extension is one of the greatest crimes against the world of computing that Microsoft has committed in its long existence, and there have been plenty of others. The great tragedy is that has forced everyone else, even Apple, to comply purely for compatibility reasons. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 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 -- 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: .ocx files
Thanks everyone for your help, Just was not thinking straight and should have known it was .docs. Mac On 05/08/2010, at 9:09 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 04/08/2010, at 12:38 PM, Malcolm McCallum wrote: I have been sent an .ocx file which 'pages' has happily opened but when I send it to my daughter whose computer is on the darkside she cannot open it :-( Where do I go next? Mac While the general suggestion has been made that your .ocx file may be interpreted as a misnamed .docx file, this may not necessarily be the case. Taken from http://www.file-extensions.org/ocx-file-extension, the following is their explanation of the .ocx file extension: File extension OCX description: An OCX is an Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) custom control, a special-purpose program that can be created for use by applications running on Microsoft's Windows systems. OCXs provide such functions as handling scroll bar movement and window resizing. If you have a Windows system, you'll find a number of files in your Windows directory with the OCX file name suffix. Object Linking and Embedding was designed to support compound documents (which contain multiple information types, such as text, graphic images, sound, motion video). The Windows desktop is an example of a compound document and Microsoft used OLE to build it. OLE and the Component Object Model (COM), a more general concept that succeeded OLE, support the development of plug-and-play programs that can be written in any language and used dynamically by any application in the system. These programs are known as components and the application in which they are run is known as a container. This component-based approach to application development reduces development time and improves the program capability and quality. Windows application development programs such as PowerBuilder and Microsoft Access take advantage of OCXs. Microsoft now calls an OCX an ActiveX control, the component object under Microsoft's set of ActiveX technologies, of which the fundamental concept is the Component Object Model (COM) and, in a network, the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). An OCX or ActiveX control is actually implemented as a dynamic link library DLL module. (You can think of a DLL program as a subprogram that can be used by any number of application programs, each of which is a container for the DLL or OCX/ActiveX control object.) Visual Basic and C++ are commonly used to write OCX or ActiveX controls. Clear as mud? Thought so. The fact that the file opened for you in Pages is probably a happy coincidence. Take Daniel K's suggestion: export it as a Word or PDF file and send that to your daughter. This simply reinforces the fact that the three-character file extension is one of the greatest crimes against the world of computing that Microsoft has committed in its long existence, and there have been plenty of others. The great tragedy is that has forced everyone else, even Apple, to comply purely for compatibility reasons. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 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 -- 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
