Re: Steve Jobs
Yes Very Sad day, He touched many lives during his short time on earth. RIP Roger On Thu Oct 6 8:30 , Brian Risbey risb...@bigpond.com sent: A dark day? Brian Sent from my iPhone -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Steve Jobs
Very nicely said :) On Thu Oct 6 12:12 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: A very sad day. Steve Jobs will be remembered as a truly great man for many reasons. He was particularly inspirational and gave me the motivation I needed when I viewed and listened to his 'Stanford University’s 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005’ speech. It was my Birthday; and I had returned home from Hospital after another operation for my battle with cancer, which had recurred after years of remission, and losing my husband to cancer in 2003. My prognosis was not the best and I was trying to come to terms with it, and learn how to deal with it and move forward; this time without the support of my darling husband. I can not remember how I came across the Video Speech, but to this day I remember Steve Jobs words; “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith… You’ve got to find what you love.” All of Steve’s speech was inspirational, but these particular words motivated me beyond belief. I decided to change my life ... 'take on' Cancer again and beat it, and since I had lost one love, find what I love doing and learn to do it to the best of my ability. I knew I loved Macs and everything to do with Apple, but I had never had the time to really pursue this passion. Well, the rest is history, I threw my energies into ‘living with cancer' and doing something I really love … working with Macs and anything Apple. I still have the Video Speech and watched it again this morning after hearing the sad news of Steve losing his battle with cancer. Steve you were, and always will be an inspiration to me … Rest In Peace! Kind Regards, Ronni On 06/10/2011, at 11:05 AM, Darrel McGuiness wrote: Condolence to all, See a brilliant video of 3 phases of Steves' life; by Steve himself. Various ways of seeing this:- just google Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement address. Regards Darrel -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug ) -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: SSD recomendations
Hi Ashley Buy the largest size you can afford and have a look OWC their drives have reviewed well. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/ Best regards Roger On Thu Sep 8 12:59 , Ashley Mulder ashley.mul...@student.curtin.edu.au sent: Ive been doing a bucket load of reading on SSD'sWhat to get, what not too get etc etc Im looking to get a decent size SSD (80-128GB) to put into my MBP There are a few that I have been looking at, primarily Kingston SSDNow V+100 96gb Does anybody have any recommendations/experience with SSD on what to get/what to avoid?? Thanks Ashley MulderBSc (Forensic and Analytical Chemistry) | (Forensic Science Hons.)PhD Student (Chemistry)Department of ChemistryCurtin universityashley.mul...@student.curtin.edu.aua.mul...@curtin.edu.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: Lion - step backwards?
Hi Guys I have installed it on a new 15 MBP at the office and I will use that for testing, I have only had it up and running for about 2 hours now and haven't really formed an opinion as of yet. Somethings are quite different and on first impressions I don't like them but I want to see if it grows on me, at the moment I am trying to get our VPN working on it so far its not haha. I can imagine that things like the autosave and resume will be very welcome here so will see how I go over the next few weeks testing the applications CS suite, Office and our legacy stuff!! Roger On Thu Jul 21 23:10 , Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au sent: Hi Steven I must admit I do agree with you with some of this. Some thing stand out as being slightly better, but some of it, like you say,..I just can't put my finger on it. For some of it, I thought, it didn't seem as Apple polished as it should be. Some things seemed a bit chunky or not finished off,..or just something. I can't quite put my finger on it,..but it doesn't seem the Apple smooth go the extra mile stand out graphics (or something) that it should be. (And I'm running it on a MacPro with 18GB RAM, 5770 1GB Video card on an Apple 24 LED current minDisplay monitor.) So it's not like it's old gear. And right beside that is the same 24 LED monitor hooked up to my 2011 MacBookPro running Snow Leopard. So it's same same), But yes,..something just doesn't seem as crystal clear. Maybe there's some tweak settings or just getting used to the different feel of it. Don't get me wrong,..there's lots of cool things it has and will do. But yes, I do have to admit the same thought as you mentioned. /Start flame war here :o) lol/ Kind regards Daniel On 21/7/11 4:05 AM, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: After a preliminary play with Lion, my first impression was that it seems to have taken a step or two backwards in terms of slick Apple interface. I can't put my finger on it, but it just seems to have lost a little of that smooth rounded aqua finesse and polish that I've become used to with Snow Leopard. Somehow Lion seems to be a tad clunkier, maybe just a tiny bit tacky in places. No doubt I'll get used to it. Maybe my expectations were set too high. I'm only talking aesthetics at this stage, I haven't had chance to play with the under-the-hood changes. Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: OSX Lion to hit App Store tomorrow
Hi Guys It Might be wise to remind everyone to make sure they have a bootable backup of their current system before doing the upgrade to Lion. I will be doing one home machine and my office mac but on a spare HD and then test all our applications to see what happens :) I hope to be running Lion at the office tomorrow night. Roger On Wed Jul 20 18:40 , Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au sent: Yes, I think that's more to do with new MacBook Airs and LED monitors (perhaps) ,...according to the rumour sites then I would think with Lion. (Though I'm sure they're updating the images to show Lion on the Screens as well But yes,..I think they're getting it ready behind the scenes to flick it over tomorrow. Though would expect the Mac App Store (MAS) to go down. I think they should each so, it's easier to type. MAS - Mac App Store ITAS - iTunes App Store :o) Now isn't that a lot easier,... And the weird thing was,..my post was from about 3pm today yet never arrived... Not sure if that was my email or WAMUG mail being a bit silly ;O) And yeh, noticed the store was down earlier. Was trying to look something up to configure a quote I'm doing. Makes it fun when you have to use the online store to try and work out quote for sourcing equipment,...lol. Oh well, back to the drawing board. I'll just the other emails while I wait for it come back up,.. Fun fun. My partition is all ready to go for Lion. And my burn to CD tutorial is ready to follow to make my Bootable Lion DVD (or image). Enjoy Kind regards Daniel On 20/7/11 6:31 PM, Pedro pfow...@iinet.net.au wrote: sooner than you might think Daniel, the Apple store is down . Pedro On 20/07/2011, at 6:04 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi All Apparently Lion is meant to hit the Mac Store some time tomorrow. http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/19/apple-mac-os-x-lion-hits-the-app-store-t omorrow/ So, if you want to do anything internet related,...do it today or Friday,...just incase the internet dies tomorrow with everyone downloading it,...lol Enjoy! Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au 15 MacBookPro 2.66 GHz Core i7 4 GB/1067 MHz 500GB OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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
US store is back up :)
Have a look, new MacBook Air among other things -- 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
Lion
is on the store but when trying to buy it got a store error!!! On Wed Jul 20 20:45 , 'rkor...@iinet.net.au' rkor...@iinet.net.au sent: Have a look, new MacBook Air among other things -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: Lion
Its now working :) Go and get it Roger On Wed Jul 20 21:08 , cm cm200...@gmail.com sent: I like that the price is $32, just $2 more than price in US dollars. Cheers, Carlo On 2011-07-20, at 20:58, rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: is on the store but when trying to buy it got a store error!!! On Wed Jul 20 20:45 , 'rkor...@iinet.net.au' rkor...@iinet.net.au sent: Have a look, new MacBook Air among other things -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: US store is back up :)
I have been reading what you have all been saying about media centres with interest :) I used to have a 12 TB raid, Nice LCD TV, high end receiver and speakers. I digitised about half of my DVD's and had those on the raid. One day I sat down and thought have I watched TV or any of those DVD's again and realised I had not SO. Sold the TV, raid and the receiver, still have the speakers but they might go next :) What I now do is: All my movies are on bare drives backed up twice and indexed, if I want a movie I just put the bare drive into the caddy and copy the movie on to the 27 iMac. For TV I do have a USB eye TV stick but not have used that in months either. So we have no TV but 3 Mac's sometime we watch things together but most often not and I find we are all watching something different! Hope that is of interest? Roger On Wed Jul 20 22:32 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: There goes my thought of upgrading my Mac Mini that runs my Media Centre for a newer model . I'm with you Daniel ... I want my optical drive ... so I'll have to stick with little ole Mac Mini ;-) Cheers, Ronni who will wait to download Lion tomorrow, or the next day, or the day after :-) Then I'll install it on another drive, not my work MBP. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 20/07/2011, at 10:11 PM, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Hi Carlo Yes, I've been weighing that up with the new Pegasus range of drives. I quite like the 4 or 6 bay one. Don't think I can afford it just yet though. :) Not sure I could sneak $1600 past the wife :o) lol Plus, the exercise of getting off the couch is good. If I have to go back and forward then it's helpful. If I just had to sit there,...well,...lol :) Mind you,..it's not like I get time anymore to watch that many DVD's. I' like the idea of having access to them when working. So I had thought about that for a while. Plus,...the dread of ripping 600 DVD's is a worry. I tell you what,..you rip all my collection for me, and I'll finally agree that we don't need a DVD drive. Sounds fair to me :o) And the SuperDrive,...just something else hanging off it. I want it Streamlined. :o) Oh, and what's this Travel thing you talk about??? Travel? Um,.I think I remember that. It's with that thing called,..um,..let me look it up again,...oh yeh. Holi-something. Holimay? Holiday? That was it,..holiday. :o) Oh, don't worry about watching the Tour de France. I can tell you who wins The guy in the red shirt. Ok, enough rambling for me,...back to work. Data transfer and erasing to do,... Kind regards Daniel On 20/7/11 10:01 PM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Daniel, I am up watching the Tour de France on my iPad and keeping abreast of the exciting Apple releases on my MacBook Pro so I find it impossible not to put an oar. :-D One solution would be to get an external Superdrive with the MacMini. They are available on the Apple Store for AUS$89. Alternatively you could get a large capacity external thunderbolt drive and rip your DVD collection. Depending on the resolution you choose you could fit your entire collection on a few terabytes of disk storage. That would mean they would all be searchable in iTunes and you wouldn't even have to get off your couch to select a new movie. Also your movies would be spared degradation of the physical medium. Apart from that when you travel, you could select some favourites from you collection and put them on your iPad or MacBook to watch on the journey. Sorry, but I couldn't let that full toss go through to the keeper. :-) Cheers, Carlo On 2011-07-20, at 21:33, Daniel Kerr wrote: Waahh there comes my thought of a Home Media Centre to watch DVD's etc on. (don't start Carlo - I have a lot of DVDs...over 600+) :op heheh And I don't want to rip them all to file. Sometimes I want to grab it and watch it. Maybe I'll get one of the just superseded models. Not like I need Thunderbolt on it ;o) I suppose I do have a BluRay player, so I could use that. Hmmm. Oh well, back to the drawing board with that idea, Hmmm,.thinking cap on. :) Kind regards Daniel On 20/7/11 9:10 PM, Jane Griffiths jjgr...@mac.com wrote: I'm surprised to see they've taken the optical drive out of the Mac Mini. So much new stuff to read about on the Apple store! And about to download Lion shortly... cheers Jane On 20/07/2011, at 8:59 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Australian store is up too New MacMini New MacBook Air New 27 LED Monitor with Thunderbolt and price drop $1199 for 27! Nice. :) And Lion apparently...lol Oh wait,...nope. Sign in. Click buy. Type in Apple ID. This item is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. LOL Error Message. LOL. Oh well, I'll try later then,..lol. Kind regards Daniel On 20/7/11 8:45 PM, rkor...@iinet.net.au rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: Have a look, new MacBook Air among other
Re: Lion
got it the download just finished :) On Wed Jul 20 22:58 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ During installation, OS X Lion may display the message:Some features of Mac OS X Lion are not supported for the disk (volume name).http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4649?viewlocale=en_US Sent from Ronni's iPad On 20/07/2011, at 9:08 PM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: I like that the price is $32, just $2 more than price in US dollars. Cheers, Carlo On 2011-07-20, at 20:58, rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: is on the store but when trying to buy it got a store error!!! On Wed Jul 20 20:45 , 'rkor...@iinet.net.au' rkor...@iinet.net.au sent: Have a look, new MacBook Air among other things -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: Does a Mac have this?
Hi Kevin I don't like spotlight for that reason! I use EasyFind and there are a couple on the app store and I am sure many others :) Roger On Mon Jul 18 16:05 , Kevin kal...@iinet.net.au sent: A friend in Sydney has been a long time PC user and programmer and has recently bought a MacBook. He is lamenting the absence of a PC search called 'Wildcards'. The techo term for Wildcards is 'regular expressions' (regex). He has loads of data on external drives and if he searches with a search word in spotlight it won't find what he is after, but on his PC 'Wildcards' finds all references to the search word. He asked me about it but I haven't a clue. Is there something that enhances a spotlight search on Mac? thanks, Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: Seagate external drive
Hi Alex I would assume its connected via USB? Attach the drive to the Mac (Will she need to use the drive on Windows in the future? if not then its best to format the drive) To do this go to the applications folder then open the utilities folder and double click on the disk utility.app a window will open and you should see the seagate drive in the lefthand column. Select it and click on the erase tab, the format should be Mac OS Extended(Journaled) Once this is done it should be fine to use :) Roger On Mon Apr 25 21:46 , Alex aln...@highway1.com.au sent: Hello WAMUG friends, my daughter, who recently bought a MacBook Pro after having a Windows laptop for some years, has been given a USB 2.0 Seagate external drive (model name starts with an E - Expansion?). Now the box does say that it requires a Windows OS no mention of Mac compatibility. However, my understanding was that Macs can see access Windows- formatted disks, eg thumb drives, floppies in the old days, etc. When she connected the drive, it mounted we could see it the contents of the drive (some system files, info files .exe programme), but when she tried to copy files from the Mac to the drive, nothing happened. When dragging the files across to the drive, all that happened was that you could see the file ghosting back to where it came from with no message or anything. Can someone please explain whether it can be made accessible how, or is this a lost cause? Also, what has changed, considering the previously stated accessibility at least from the Mac perspective? Cheers, many thanks in advance for your assistance, Alex -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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
Old Macs for Schools
Hi Guys Does anybody know of any schools that would like some old G5's, within the next few weeks we will have around 12 or more ready to be donated. They will have been wiped clean and may have keyboards and mice. If you know of any please give them my email address and ask them to email me in the first instance, I will then ask them to write a letter on school headed paper and sent to me at the West Australian Newspapers. best regards Roger -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Old Macs for Schools
Hi Adrian They are all G5 towers of varying speeds hard drives and memory :) Regards Roger On Tue Apr 12 16:40 , Adrian Stevens adrianosbia...@gmail.com sent: Hello Roger, My old primary school were looking for some new or old Mac's for research and word processing. What type of Mac is it. I will e-mail my old teacher to ask the message to the principal. Thanks Adrian Stevens On 12/04/2011, at 2:32 PM, rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Guys Does anybody know of any schools that would like some old G5's, within the next few weeks we will have around 12 or more ready to be donated. They will have been wiped clean and may have keyboards and mice. If you know of any please give them my email address and ask them to email me in the first instance, I will then ask them to write a letter on school headed paper and sent to me at the West Australian Newspapers. best regards Roger -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Adrian Stevens 0449 547 841 -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: New iMac
Hi Adrian If you are running 10.6.6 you will have access to the App store, there are quite a few things on there that may help with homework. Some may be free and some will chargeable. You do need an iTunes account though! Roger On Thu Mar 10 7:01 , Adrian Stevens adrianosbia...@gmail.com sent: Hi Guys, I have finally bought my first iMac! I am pretty familiar with the Mac anatomy but is there any smart tips or shortcuts I might need? Also, if there are any apps or programs that manage homework that would be great (just started high school) And I promise, no more windows questions! I have 2 problems (I know, thats not like mac!!!): I have a HP deskjet all-in-one F370 printer (also with scanner and copier). My mac will recognise it as a printer but not a scanner! I have tried downloading drivers,  but all it says is CANNNOT CONNECT TO PRINTER.My external HDD can be viewed on the mac, but cannot be edited, written over or changed! Thanks,Adrian Stevens -- 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: i7 MacBook Pro 17' SSD (Solid State Drives)
Hi Guys I have a MBP 2.8 core 2, 15 and have installed a 128gb crucial SSD, boot up time and app start up times are very fast. Reason I went for the 128gb was cost I got it for less than $300 and there are quite a few below $300 now, so getting more reasonable :) I wanted to reduce power usage as we are doing a bit of flying around at the moment and it does last over 3hrs while playing movies. I also have with me an external 500gb HD with all my other applications on and keep the SSD quite clean, currently just using 25gb. The OWC drives are a bit faster than mine and have come down in price, I would really like a 500gb SSD but will wait for them to reach the $300 mark! Roger On Fri Jan 7 18:28 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Chris, I inadvertently didn't see your email re the above, sorry for not replying sooner.I've also changed the Subject to fit your query. Your 'Local Bloke' is correct! The SSD's are super fast with no moving parts (so they last a lot longer), they are completely silent, they run cooler, and they are expensive! When I purchased my i7 MacBook Pro 17 I did a 'BTO' upgrade to a Serial ATA Drive 7200rpm 500GB Drive.I would have loved to go to the SSD, but the price put me over budget … one day though … ;-)More chats with Daniel (Kerr) required. My MacBook Pro with 8GB RAM + 7200rpm 500GB Drive is very fast. I'm completely happy with it.They are a beautiful, sleek, fast machine. I haven't had any experience using a computer with a SSD drive installed, someone on list might be able to give you a personal experience report ( we will all be envious). The below link shows benchmark from BareFeats. They basically say Apple's SSDs are faster than any HDD, but third parties offer even faster SSDs.http://www.barefeats.com/mbpp19.html Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i72.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 07/01/2011, at 9:08 AM, Chris Burton wrote:Hi Ronni Thankyou very much for the very useful reminder on doing updates. I think I need to print and pin up your list in my office!! I see you have an i7 MacBook Pro 17. Im thinking of upgrading my machine and had a look on the Apple website at the 15 models. As part of their options they have an i7 2.8ghz addition, extra 4gb ram (which seems expensive) as well as the SSD (solid state drives) up to 500gb. Do you or any other muggers have experience with using these SS drives in terms of speed, reliability and long term use? I spoke to a local bloke down here who says they are just amazing, albeit very expensive. He mentioned they are quieter, faster and produce less heat. I would hope they would also be safer in the long term for data integrity? Thanks for any advice and best regards to all Chris -- 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: [4Sale] 30' Apple Cinema Display
Hi Chris Also remember that the new 27 screen is only $1,299.00! Regards Roger On Wed Nov 10 17:21 , Christopher Phillips shry...@jaruth.com sent: Hi Ken. 30% PA depreciation may have been a little optimistic - it depends how much value people place on having 30% more screen area than the iMac 27 (albeit with only 11% more pixels), and what they already have to hook up to it. Jeanette was using it as a second monitor for her MacBook Pro :) That said, she's certainly willing to entertain lower offers. Cheers, Christopher. On 10/11/2010, at 16:37 , Ken Jackson wrote: Hi Chris, you might need to do a bit of research on the price I believe, you can buy a refurbished IMac 27 for $2000 @ the moment so it may be a bit pricey, regards, Ken On 10/11/2010, at 3:18 PM, Christopher Phillips wrote: Hi all. My wife's wondering if anyone in Perth would be interested in purchasing her mint condition 30 Apple Cinema Display (boxed, with extended warranty) - asking $1600 ono. Jeanette writes: http://store.apple.com/au/product/M9179X/A - Includes: - extended warranty until September 2012. - the original packaging. also available for $40, a mini display-port to dual-link DVI adaptor (you need the extra usb connector if you're throwing this many pixels at a DVI connector from a mini display-port) http://store.apple.com/au/product/MB571Z/A\?fnode=MTY1NDA5OQmco=MTA4MzU1ODY monitor originally purchased 5th September 2009. Spent the first part of its life in its packaging in a store-cupboard, as it was surplus to requirements and couldn't be returned. Oops. purchased by me on 21 May 2010. I've been using it, but it's a bit big for me. The monitor is not currently available from Apple Australia. Happy to deliver within 15km of the CBD, otherwise collection from West Perth preferred. Cheers, Christopher. 0415494616 -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 discontiune Xserve - get them while they last
I have been reading a lot since Apple announced this and still have no real idea what they are thinking! I would really like to know what they are using in their new data centre? or is it Unisys mainframes? I have decided I will buy my last xServe next week and hope that when the time comes to replace my oldest ones there is a better solution. So 2 years time! Roger On Mon Nov 8 20:59 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Xserve is dead... so now what? http://www.macworld.com/article/155501/2010/11/xserve.html?lsrc=nl_mwweek_h_cbstories Sent from Ronni's iPad On 07/11/2010, at 3:30 AM, Rob Davies rjda...@gmail.com wrote: Morning Again, Ah Ha refreshed Apple store. Entry level is now at $3199, and memory $525. On the side of discontinued, I think Apple could be moving towards mac mini-servers, as this is the market for there server release. Put a few in the network and they perform extraordinarily, and this would be sufficient for most design studios, offices, education institutions to support an OS X Lab or Two whom already have other backbones in place. Besides this great effort of iPad and iPhone to actually connect to an Exchange server over there own in house server has many asking questions. Although this does raise eyebrows about Apples plans for Enterprise and further support within this realm for own devices considering uptake of said devices. Media companies could be scratching heads with FCP server and Xsan a small problem, hopefully SJ pulls Rabbit out of hat for these, although I think acceptance into other servers with software could be inevitable. Cheers! `RobD On 07Nov2010, at 2:39 am, Rob Davies wrote: Morning, No need to add OS X standard as OS X server is a standard install of OS X with the Daemons accessible to the uninitiated and some administrative software. So it still behaves as per OS X just a bit more fruit to access if required, as OS X standard can be employed to behave as OS X server if initiated. Save the bucks, but a catch must be had somewhere? Cheers! RobD... On 05Nov2010, at 10:44 pm, Daniel Kerr wrote: I notice they've now added the Mac Pro Server version to the Apple Store as well. Though,..am I missing something here:- (OK,..here goes). From the Apple Online Store. http://www.apple.com/au/store MacPro Quad-Core One 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon Nehalem processor 3GB (three 1GB) memory 1TB hard drive SuperDrive ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB GDDR5 A$ 3,499.00 If you configure this to be the same as the Server model on the store with 8GB RAM and the second Hard Drive it comes in at $4224 Server One 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon Nehalem processor 8GB (four 2GB) memory Two 1TB hard drives SuperDrive Mac OS X Server unlimited-client license ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB GDDR5 A$ 3,799.00 Now if you wanted to run Snow Leopard Standard on it, you'd buy that for either $39 (although that's the upgrade from Leopard version) or the full Mac Box Set so as to get iLife and iWork as well. That's $169. Total $3968. So,..by my thinking,.you buy the server plus MacBox Set for $3968. Save $256 AND get a full OSX Server unlimited client license. Again,..I ask,..am I missing something there??? Lol :) (I only just threw that together,..so I could have overlooked something and I used all the pricing straight from the Apple online store RRP pricing of course) Kind Regards Daniel On 5/11/10 10:00 PM, Craig Bruce craigbr...@me.com wrote: Know many companies still running these awesome machines.. Get them while they are still avail.. I'm still rocking some pre intel Xserves with no problems! Sent from my iPhone On 05/11/2010, at 7:24 PM, lem1 l...@iinet.net.au wrote: Apple has announced the end of the Xserve, sad as I quite liked the systems. http://www.apple.com/xserve/resources.html -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto: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 --- 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 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -
stolen MBP 17 2.5 ghz
Hi Guys One of our VJ's at the office had her house broken into and they stole her MBP s/n w88120hhyp4, they didn't take the power adaptor. If you see this please contact the police please, oh and let me know :) Many thanks Roger -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Disconnection problems
Hi laura We will need more info! Does the router loose connection to Telstra or is it just the iMac loosing connection? Regards Roger On Fri Sep 3 7:34 , Laura Webb el...@iinet.net.au sent: Good morning all This is a query on behalf of a friend who is a fairly new Mac user. She loves her iMac but the enjoyment is being taken away by her frustration at constantly losing internet connection. Her ISP is Telstra. When she phones Telstra to complain about the disconnections they ask what kind of modem she has and when she says a Belkin Wireless router they say they can't help her!! She lives in a 2 storey townhouse, the router is downstairs, the iMac is upstairs. If necessary she will happily have another phone point installed to bring the router closer to the computer but needs to know if that might solve the problem. Any advice would be appreciated. Regards 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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
apple Store
The Apple store was down for a while tonight and has just come back up!! Are the prices cheaper or am I dreaming? Regards Roger -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: apple Store
I think I was dreaming or was it wishful thinking? I think its time to go home to bed :) Roger On Fri Aug 20 0:27 , Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au sent: Hi Roger No, on first glance all the pricing appears to be the same. According to MacRumours they added a Compare Mac item and collapsible menues http://www.macrumors.com/2010/08/19/apple-tweaks-online-store-with-compare- macs-feature-collapsible-configuration-sections/ Had a look at the local AU store, and it does have some little open and close arrows you can turn up and down to hide features when you're looking at a Mac. Hope that helps Kind Regards Daniel On 19/8/10 10:52 PM, rkor...@iinet.net.au rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: The Apple store was down for a while tonight and has just come back up!! Are the prices cheaper or am I dreaming? Regards Roger -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: 12Core MacPro now up
Yes I saw that and we will get one for around 9000.00 mark I think, this is at the office not mine :( What do people think? Buy a single CPU 6 core or 2 CPU quad core This will be for one of our artists, so the normal stuff CS4 and Fusion with CS3 Any ideas would be welcome :) best regards Roger On Mon Aug 9 19:36 , Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au sent: The new MacPro 12 core has now been added to the Apple Store:- http://store.apple.com/au Anyone got a spare $7000 dollars they went to lend me :o) (Or really generous - $28,000 so I can configure it with all the fruit) I promise I'll pay it backone day ;) Kind Regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: OT Going Solar Power. - longish reply
Thanks Gary I found that very interesting and informative :) Regards Roger On Wed Aug 4 11:16 , gary dorn garyd...@ausconnect.net sent: 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 eventually it might be needed for personal consumption, comes the need for greater filtering. We prefer Reverse Osmosis (RO) our supplier does whole house filtering see http://www.purewatersystems.com.au/ we go with Grundfos pumps, for their low energy consumption, and decent size reservoir, so that the pump is only on occasionally to refill the reservoir. http://www.grundfos.com.au/ Hope this helps -- Gary Dorn Permaculture architect gary.d...@eepo.com.au Perth, Western Australia, Australia integrating Permaculture , Organic Solar architecture, Straw bale construction Solar and wind power systems http://www.dornworks.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -
Re: new imac wanted
I don't know where you got the specs from 27in 3.4 i7? 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 is on the apple store for 3 business day delivery :) I am sure some of the local guys should also be able to help :) Roger On Tue Aug 3 9:27 , thefrogs thefr...@iinet.net.au sent: our son is after a new mac 27in 3.4 i7 has anyone seen these yet and who is likely to have one tom samson -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: WAMUG Meeting Final Reminder **NEW VENUE**: This Tuesday 6 July 2010 (Please Do Not Reply)
Would you believe it I have to work !!! I hope I can make the next one at Christ Church :) On Mon Jul 5 20:31 , Pete Smith smudd...@internode.on.net sent: G'day again all WAMUGGERs. I hope you've marked (or edited) your iCals for tomorrow's WAMUG Monthly Meeting, Tuesday, 6 July 2010. This month we are having the meeting at the FutureSphere at Christ Church Grammar School in Claremont.(See below for address details.) Topics this month in alphabetical order: ⚡ Click To Flash - a free software download - learn how to delay adobe flash;✄Pages - this month we'll actually make a newsletter;☕Safari 5 - what's new. Naturally, there'll be the question and answer session at the beginning and a cuppa to dunk your biscuit in at the end. *(Also, don't forget that we have to charge $5 a head now to cover costs.)* Hope to see you there. Come and have look at this marvellous facility. (Details are subject to change without notice) Location: FutureSphere, Level 1 Building L; Christ Church Grammar School, Queenslea Drive Claremont.Time: 7.30pm - 9.00pmCost: $5 Visit http://www.ccgs.wa.edu.au/atccgs/important-files-store/map-web2010-2.png to view a detailed map.The FutureSphere is building L in the middle along Queenslea Drive [Grid ref: G9]Streetsmart map ref: 371 A 10 (Queenslea Drive comes off Stirling Hwy and is opposite Stirling Rd. The school is next to Bethesda Hospital.) See you there. Pete Smith Please do not reply to this email. -- 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: Patiently waiting
Hi Guys Wouldn't it be best that people with slow or limited bandwidth or downloads change the settings in the mail clients to not download anything above a size they deem to be OK for their needs? Regards Roger On Sun Jun 27 9:25 , Alexander Hartner a...@j2anywhere.com sent: I am really sorry for sending the attachment. I didnt' know it was frowned upon. Previously I send some smaller attachments such as screenshots etc. which make it easier to describe a particular problem, or assist in the resolution of one. So please don't stop attachments on the server side. What I do suggest however is to limit the size of attachments to maybe 200K. Even on very slow connections this should not be too much of an issue. Thanks to all in this group and community. Have fun Alex On 26 Jun 2010, at 09:10, Alexander Hartner wrote: -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Sent from my iPhone -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 store is down internationally as well as here in Australia
New Mac Mini On Tue Jun 15 15:24 , Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au sent: I could be wrong here,..or I'm remembering it incorrectly. But I think all the Applestores (online) are controlled from the US, it's just localised for local pricing. So when they take it down, they do them at the same time, and perhaps implement the same code across all of them. So although, we can't pre-order it here just yet, the code will be there for them to flick on when we can. I could be way off of course though, :o) Kind Regards Daniel Sent from my iPad --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 15/6/10 3:17 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 15/06/2010, at 3:11 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: So, why would it be down here? We are not one of the countries that will be able to pre order the iPhone 4. Hmmm, something going on Susan We'll be back soon ;-) 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: Safari 5
Hi Lloyd I can see the page in Safari 5 and in Chrome :) Roger On Tue Jun 15 11:47 , Lloyd White lloydwh...@iinet.net.au sent: I have a problem with Safari 5 - and also had it with Safari 4. When I click on a URL supplied to me by a client, the page opens up but the contents are not shown. When the page opens there is a quick flash, the content briefly appears and then disappears. When I open it in Firefox the full context is shown. Below is a typical example. Can anyone else see the details of the job in Safari? Lloyd http://search.jobs.wa.gov.au/index.php\?AdvertID=100301 Write a Winning Job Application 4th Edition. http://lloydwhite.iinet.net.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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: *** IMPORTANT NOTICE ***
Hi Christy It would have to be the committee members who reply to you :) but from my part north of the river would really suit me and I would come to more meetings :) Roger On Wed Jun 2 13:52 , Christy Dangerfield cdangerfi...@ccgs.wa.edu.au sent: Re: *** IMPORTANT NOTICE *** WAMUG members, I may be able to assist you with an alternative venue...who do I speak with regarding this? Christy Dangerfield at Christ Church Grammar School On 2/06/10 1:17 PM, Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.com.au wrote: I have only been to a couple of meetings but I regularly browse the Mailing list. It seems to me that Curtin Uni are being extremely greedy in charging a fee to what is essentially a non-profit group. My suggestions are 1. find another venue which is free, or 2. Would Apple Computer be willing (they are certainly able) to pay the room hire as sponsorship? On 27/05/2010, at 6:55 PM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: We have reached a watershed moment in the long history of the Western Australian Macintosh Users Group of WA. For many years, WAMUG has enjoyed the use of the facilities provided by Curtin University, most particularly those we currently enjoy in the Geology Seminar Room, but also other rooms, lecture theatres, etc around the campus. For many years we have been able to do so simply by arranging with the Security Department to allow us access, adnd this has not involved a cost. As discussed at the May General Meeting, it seems that we have been living a charmed life for quite some time, and that unbeknown to us, a cost has in fact been due for the use of Curtin's facilities. Consequently, as of the next meeting (June 1) we will be required to pay a fee of $63.00 per hour for the use of the facility we currently enjoy. As our meetings generally run for 90 minutes or so, it won't take very long before our funds become severely depleted at this rate, given the current level of financial membership. It seems our options are limited to the following: 1. increase the Membership Fees to cover costs. Admittedly, the committee has not been vigorous in chasing members for fees, and we are extremely grateful to those who have been diligent and remained financial. This has allowed us to cover such costs as Web Site costs, domain registration, the Annual Barbecue, etc. The members' fees have been our only source of funding. Given that the current membership fee level has been sufficient to allow us to operate comfortably, and that our operating costs have been low for many years, we are reluctant to increase the fees to a level that would cover the future use of Curtin's facilities. 2. Introduce a system of paid membership for belonging to the WAMUG Mailing List WAMUG has never charged anyone for membership of the WAMUG Mailing List, and this is something we guard jealously. We are aware that the WAMUG list has a nation-wide, and even international, reputation for being a friendly, knowledgeable source of reference for all things related to the Macintosh, and more recently of course, Apple's many related products. The logistics of of trying to administer a fee of any sort for belonging to the Mailing List are simply too difficult for us to contemplate, and is a pathway of unnecessary complexity. 3. Introduce a door charge for attendance at the monthly General Meetings This would seem to be the most practical and most easily managed option available to us at the moment, and is the course of action we intend to adopt in the first instance. As from the next meeting on Tuesday, 1 June 2010, we will ask each member attending the meeting for an entrance fee of $5.00 each, and will allow us to continue to use the excellent facilities at Curtin, which I'm sure everyone who regularly attends the meetings will agree, are first class. 4. Find another venue. This is a much less desirable option, but is something will have to explore with some urgency if option 3 does not work, or results in markedly reduced attendance. Curtin University is relatively central, easily accessible with few parking problems, and we are familiar with the facilities it offers. We would have the same problems with admission fees as well, which may well be even higher if we want somewhere with facilities which match those of Curtin. 5. Reduce WAMUG to a Mailing List activity only, doing away with the Monthly Meetings. I sincerely doubt if anyone who is currently a member of WAMUG, either financial or not, would want to see this happen. The monthly meeting is an important WAMUG event both socially and functionally, and greatly looked forward to by those who attend regularly, if the personal feed back I get is anything to go by. This option is offered mainly in the interests of completion, rather than as a point of serious
Re: Downloads
Can you login to your router and see who is connected? also is there any logging turned on? It will depend what router you have and what has been set up as to what information you can get. Roger On Wed Apr 14 18:02 , Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com sent: Believe it or not I have been with them for 12 months now and apart from an issue with drop-outs when they upgraded me to ASDL 2 for no charge a few months ago and now this, which is yet to be proven that they are at fault, the service has lived up to all expectations. I still cant understand why they gave me the deal I am on as it looked to good to be and it was with great trepidation that I took it up, I guess that I am one of the lucky ones at this stage. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 14/04/2010, at 5:39 PM, Malcolm McCallum wrote: My sympathies and I wish you luck. Bigpond must be the most incompetent Provider in OZ if not the world. I foolishly signed up for a new deal which was going to give me unbelievable speeds for a relatively modest outlay. I noted that I could back out of the deal within 7 days and did so. To welcome me to Bigpond they credited me with a welcome credit which months later I am still being credited with despite on 3 or 4 occasions telling them I am not with them, I feel like spending it now:-) On 14/04/2010, at 4:41 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Mac Afternoon all, Can anyone give a clue to the cause of monster downloads, On one day last month there was a 5Gb download and again a few days ago there was a 7Gb download, my normal daily download ranges from 100 Mb to 200Mb with the very occasional 600Mb to 900Mb. On the day the 7Gb occurred I was sick in be most of the day and as a result there was very little activity all day, I never watch or download movies and would balk at downloading any file that is anything like that size, the largest e-mail video clips don't go much bigger than 1.5Mb. The only thing that has changed is the introduction of a new iMac in March which was set up from its predecessor via firewire. I am having a dispute with bigPond over it so would appreciate any suggestions as to what could cause such huge downloads. The Modem is security (WPA) password protected, wireless connected Intel iMac and MacBook Pro, OS Snow Leopard 10.6.3. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: information wanted :-)
have a look at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmV5ntogBUI regards Roger On Thu Apr 1 14:34 , Malcolm McCallum doc...@westnet.com.au sent: I would like to know with confirmatory evidence whether the file 'extraordinaire_instrument_de_musique' which shows balls bouncing off stings and playing a tune is definitely animation and not real. I can see how with infinite patience and a great deal of mechanical and computer skill it could be real. Any info greatly appreciated.I got the file off the net but do not remember from where. 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: Magic Mouse battery appetite
wow every few days!!! I have been using my magic mouse at the office for 2 months now on the same set of original batteries and being at the office it gets continual use. This is on my MacPro on the other iMac here its been on there for about 6 weeks but that is my spare so is not used so much. I do not use magic prefs as I had problems with it. Best regards Roger On Thu Feb 11 8:43 , 'Crisp, Peter' pcr...@hatch.com.au sent: Hi all, my Magic Mouse has been quite uncooperative since I got it a month ago (at the same time as I got a Macbook and Time Capsule â my first foray into the Apple world). I took it back to the supplier and he agreed it was faulty and replaced it with another one. The replacement one it seems is no better and my guess is the first one was probably ok and that something else is going on. It seems that it is very battery hungry and perhaps there is supposed to be a routine which puts the mouse to sleep when not in use hence preserving battery life. I have done all Software updates and even downloaded a specific update for eth Magic Mouse form the Apple site. I have MagicPrefs installed too and maybe that is responsible but I suspect not. Ronni indicated a while back there is a Mac OSX 10.6.3 coming soon and maybe I have to just wait till then, but I need a pair of AA batteries every 4 days currently â SuperDuty ones too! This seems to be the only way to wake up the sleepy mouse.  In the interim while I wait for 10.6.3, does anyone have any experiences like this or can you point me to some other updates for this?   Kind Regards, Peter Crisp, Associate, BE Mech HATCH (Phone + 61 8 9428 5437 2Fax + 61 8 9428 ÃMob 0402 001 019 ?E-mail pcr...@hatch.com.au Website http://www.hatch.com.au/   N O T I C E - This message from Hatch is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential or proprietary. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, arrive late or contain viruses. By communicating with us via e-mail, you accept such risks. When addressed to our clients, any information, drawings, opinions or advice (collectively, information) contained in this e-mail is subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing agreements. Where no such agreement exists, the recipient shall neither rely upon nor disclose to others, such information without our written consent. Unless otherwise agreed, we do not assume any liability with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the information set out in this e-mail. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and destroy and delete the message from your computer. -- 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: Magic Mouse battery appetite
Hi Peter No I never turn it off and while I am in the office its in continual use, I just checked the battery level and its down to 15% so not bad for at least 8 weeks heavy use ! Roger On Thu Feb 11 9:31 , 'Crisp, Peter' pcr...@hatch.com.au sent: I donât ever turn off the switch underneath the mouse and maybe I could as a control experiment but I donât think that is a long term solution. Roger, do you ever turn off your mouse? How can I ascertain if the âsleepâ function is working for the mouse? The Macbook screen certainly goes into Sleep mode and is it therefore implied that the mouse goes to sleep at the same time?  My old Logitech wireless mouse which I use with the old faithful PC, just works every time and so I am lulled into not having to turn off a mouse when its not in use.   Kind Regards, Peter Crisp, Associate, BE Mech HATCH (Phone + 61 8 9428 5437 2Fax + 61 8 9428 ÃMob 0402 001 019 ?E-mail pcr...@hatch.com.au Website http://www.hatch.com.au/ From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown Sent: Thursday, 11 February 2010 9:11 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite   On 11/02/2010, at 8:43 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: Hi all, my Magic Mouse has been quite uncooperative since I got it a month ago (at the same time as I got a Macbook and Time Capsule â my first foray into the Apple world). I took it back to the supplier and he agreed it was faulty and replaced it with another one. The replacement one it seems is no better and my guess is the first one was probably ok and that something else is going on. It seems that it is very battery hungry and perhaps there is supposed to be a routine which puts the mouse to sleep when not in use hence preserving battery life. I have done all Software updates and even downloaded a specific update for eth Magic Mouse form the Apple site. I have MagicPrefs installed too and maybe that is responsible but I suspect not. Ronni indicated a while back there is a Mac OSX 10.6.3 coming soon and maybe I have to just wait till then, but I need a pair of AA batteries every 4 days currently â SuperDuty ones too! This seems to be the only way to wake up the sleepy mouse.  In the interim while I wait for 10.6.3, does anyone have any experiences like this or can you point me to some other updates for this?  Hi Peter,  The mouse should go to sleep fairly quickly I believe and is certainly sleeping when the computer is sleeping given the few minutes it might take independently to fall asleep. Of course if this isn't functioning properly that might cause the battery to drain as it looks for activity when there's no need. Do you turn off MagicMouse from the little switch at the bottom, or do you turn it off with the computer at night or when you are not going to be using it for awhile?  Cheers, Ronni  17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 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  N O T I C E - This message from Hatch is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential or proprietary. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, arrive late or contain viruses. By communicating with us via e-mail, you accept such risks. When addressed to our clients, any information, drawings, opinions or advice (collectively, information) contained in this e-mail is subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing agreements. Where no such agreement exists, the recipient shall neither rely upon nor disclose to others, such information without our written consent. Unless otherwise agreed, we do not assume any liability with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the information set out in this e-mail. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and destroy and delete the message from your computer. -- 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 -
Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite
Hi Peter I have that turned on Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer something else is going on, but hard to tell what remotely :( Roger On Thu Feb 11 12:09 , James Devenish jndeven...@gmail.com sent: Hi Peter, Perhaps if your System Preferences are to Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer, then the mouse might not go into its lowest power mode then the computer is asleep. If you are able to turn this option off, then see if the batteries last any longer. You'll need to wake your computer by pressing its power button briefly to wake it. James -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: Magic Mouse battery appetite
haha after saying how good my batteries are going they just run out!! But I just checked of when I started to use it and its been just under 9 weeks. Roger On Thu Feb 11 12:58 , 'rkor...@iinet.net.au' rkor...@iinet.net.au sent: Hi Peter I have that turned on Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer something else is going on, but hard to tell what remotely :( Roger On Thu Feb 11 12:09 , James Devenish jndeven...@gmail.com sent: Hi Peter, Perhaps if your System Preferences are to Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer, then the mouse might not go into its lowest power mode then the computer is asleep. If you are able to turn this option off, then see if the batteries last any longer. You'll need to wake your computer by pressing its power button briefly to wake it. James -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: Purchasing non 'ebay' goods using PayPal - Alert
There is also one other benefit of using paypal it isolates your credit card from who ever you are buying from so less chance of it being used for fraud. Roger On Fri Jan 15 8:24 , James / Hans Kunz sad...@iinet.net.au sent: i'm aware of this since i signed up with paypal, if goods are purchased outside ebay, paypal offers only to send money to any email adress w/o the high cost as you would have to pay to western unionbecause paypal is part of ebay paypal has better control over buyer/seller/goods thus is able to warn you if a seller is unreliable (ebays feedback system) also has reliable info on hand to launch a dispute..James On 15/01/2010, at 6:48, Raymond Hirst wrote:Hi Wamuggers! This is just an alert.  Please read and then be careful. I recently purchased some goods from an Hong Kong agency (TradeTang) and paid through PayPal believing this would give me some protection. PayPal says: You can open a dispute for 2 reasons: 1. You paid for an item but did not receive it. 2. You received the item but it was significantly not as described by the seller in their listing Firstly, the goods were delayed by more than a month, so I opened a PayPal dispute. Finally, they arrived but were not what I had ordered.  They were fakes and did not work as intended. I notified Trade Tang and Paypal of this. After much correspondence the wash-up is.  Trade Tang has offered a 20% refundPay Pal has informed me that as the goods were not bought through 'ebay' they will not honour the second method protection shown above.  Their only protection is for non delivery. Hence, there is little benefit from using PayPal to pay for non ebay goods. Be careful and have a good day Regards Ray Hirst -- 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 TechnicVideo Productions, Electronic repairsU3 / 6 Chalkley PlBayswater WA 6053+618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddasskype: barleewayover 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
Re: My Magic Mouse is a dog
Hi I have a magic mouse on my office MacPro that has 2x20 screens and my desk is a pine desk! I have no problems at all and to go from one screen to the other is just a flick of the wrist. I am not to sure what to suggest in your case but it works fine for me :) I am using 10.6.2 as you are and all the tracking changes I make are reflected in the mouse, so I can't see a problem here at all. Best regards Roger On Sun Jan 3 16:27 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: On 03/01/2010, at 3:03 PM, Alan Smith wrote:I have two serious problems with the Magic Mouse on my near-new iMac 21.5” Snow Leopard 10.6.2. Can you help? 1. The mouse tracking speed does not seem to be adjustable. No difference is noted between a Tracking Speed of Slow or Fast (or any point between) when adjusted via System Preferences Mouse. I even Restarted the iMac after making changes, but without effect. 2. The tracking problem creates the need for a larger mouse mat to traverse the screen. How on earth do the enviable owners of an iMac 27” manage? Mac literature tells us that a mat is not needed – but my wooden desktop is not suited for tracking. The Magic Mouse works on most surfaces (white, coloured or patterned) but it scrapes and feels rough. It glides and operates best on high gloss printed card, but this surface is not very durable. Magic Mouse doesn’t work at all on transparent glass or on a glass mirror. My old fabric coated rubberised (wetsuit material?) mouse mat from roller ball days is good – at least it doesn’t slide around the desktop when the mouse is used. The Discussions forum on apple.com seem to offer a range of contradictory opinions but no real answers to tracking speed problems. There is a suggestion that this problem started after an OSX upgrade. I could find no formal acknowledgment of the problem, or word that an official fix is on the way from Apple. Much of the discussion on Magic Mouse problems were noted following upgrades via Tiger and Leopard. I point out that my iMac was delivered new with Snow Leopard 10.6 installed. A search of the WAMUG archives and on apple.com discussions show that mouse mat solutions are of the quick workaround kind, not an elegant long term solution that I am looking for. Regards, Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5 Nov 2009 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz / 4 MB OSX 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Hi Alan, A lot of people have had success using MagicPrefs: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/01/02/magicprefs-dont-use-a-magic-mouse-without-it/ If you're using Apple's latest and greatest little peripheral, the Magic Mouse, you don't want to be without MagicPrefs. Our good friends over at TUAWstumbled on this free and extremely useful utility that gives you control over every aspect of your mouse experience. From adjusting your tracking speed to assigning functions to buttons and gestures, MagicPrefs has you covered. Cheers,Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GBOS X 10.6.2 Snow LeopardWindows 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: iMac 20' G5 screen repair
Hi Glen You can get 21 LCD's from around $170 now so maybe a good option until you get a 27 iMac :) Roger (in China) On Sun Nov 1 17:23 , Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au sent: Thanks everyone for all the information, I can see the main options are: - contents insurance - external monitor circa $400 - get a new iMac (or a new 'old' iMac) I agree the 27 Macs are pretty interesting. Glenn Nicholas 2009/11/1 Stuart Evans stuart.ev...@t4.com.au: Hi Glen, Neil is correct. If any resellers have stock, Apple have reduced all iMacs by around $700. We have our last 24 iMac in the store which is now $1698. The stock of our 'old' iMacs got snapped up in a couple of days. We have a 27 iMac next to the 24 and you can see the difference in the colour and sharpness of the display. I love my MacBook Pro but I think a 27 iMac is going to be my Christmas present. :-) Cheers, Stuart Stuart Evans T4 Technology ALBANY Shop 6, 69 Lockyer Avenue, Albany, WA, 6330 T 08 9842 9660 F 08 9842 9664 E stuart.ev...@t4.com.au BUNBURY Unit 2/14 Rose Street, Bunbury, WA, 6230 T 08 9721 9660 F 08 9842 9664 On 1/11/09 2:57 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Glen, Another option if you want to move up to a nice intel iMac but can't quite spring for the price of the new models (beautiful excellent value as they are!) is that stock of the previous model iMacs seems to being cleared at much reduced prices (I noticed a 24 was $2499 now $1699 recently - but you may find better). Personally, I wouldn't spend much money on repairing a 20 G5 iMac but if memory serves me correctly they have a video out port - so if you wanted to get a bit more life out of it you could always plug an external monitor into it - not a pretty solution but there are some cheap monitors out there... Just some thoughts. Cheers Neil -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: SanDisk Compact Flash card for Nikon
Hi Lloyd just did a quick check and it maybe only able to use 2gb cards max!!! could be wrong as its not very clear RegRDS ROGER On Sun Sep 13 16:48 , Lloyd White lloydwh...@iinet.net.au sent: Fools rush in where angels fear to tread! Again! I have Nikon CoolPix 5700 camera that uses CompactFlash. Currently using SanDisk 512MB. Recently in Dubai - with full assurances from the sales person that it would work - I bought a 4 GB SanDisk Ultra II Compact Flash. After insertion the message came up out of memory so I formatted the card within the camera. Still no joy. Should it work with the 5700? If not does anyone have a use for it. It costs $31 duty free and I would accept offers. Otherwise I will have a 4GB back-up disk; which is useful for ? Regards Lloyd -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: Some Mac NOSTALGIA
I'm about to show my age here :) My first Apple was an Apple II+ Then: IIe IIGS Mac+ SE 6100 7200 BW G3 G4 G5 and now 3 macbook Pro's And does anyone remember the Apple Credit card? Roger On Thu Aug 27 7:02 , lynn...@westnet.com.au sent: omg, hypercard, clarisworks (homepage to be exact)... oh why do we have to upgrade... had all my fun on my old macs my 1st mac was one of the last b/w ones, then i had one of the 1st thick, black brick chunk colour ones (oh, cant remember the models of those 2), but they were running os9 i think and it was bliss... :) --lynn-- - Original Message - From: Robert Howells rhowe...@arach.net.au To: wamug wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 8:25:40 PM GMT +08:00 Perth Subject: Some Mac NOSTALGIA HI List , Just sharing a little experience with you .. Remember When We struggled with the older Mac's , Dial up Internet and frreezing screens when the latest Mac was something like a PPM 7600 with a whole 32 or 64 Mb of Ram the hard drive was 2 GB and you were lucky if you could burn a CD and the operating system got to be a magical OS9 on a 200 Mhz cpu ? REMEMBER SO now that you have that scene firmly fixed in your mind's eye FAST FORWARD and try to imagine the same OS9 working on :- Broadband RAM 1 GB Hard Drive 500 Gb CPU 1.8 Ghz on a G4 ??? Imagine ??? Yep ! It goes like a rocket ! Cheers 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: Some Mac NOSTALGIA
The IIGS was a very nice machine excellent sound and graphics at the time :) I remember buying a CPM card for my Apple II + in 1979 and also a 128k ram card!!! Roger On Thu Aug 27 11:55 , David Peake dpe...@printforce.com.au sent: While we're all getting nostalgic, if anyone has a Mac Plus, Mac SE, or similar vintage Apple Mac sitting dormant under a coating of dust in their shed, I'd be more than happy (as a collector) to offer a good home and/or donation if required. Used to love our old Apple IIGS, so simple but (don't laugh) impressive at the time. Does anyone remember the popular PrintShop application and other older software by Broderbund? David. On 27/08/2009, at 11:21 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: but can you imagine in 1979apple II+ with 64k ram a great floppy drive with 150kbytes capacity dos 3.3 operating system then in 1984 the apple IIc with 128k ram floppy drives with 720k capacity, prodos 9 operating systemthere was appleworks allready well knownand the first steps to a graphical interface/mouse appeared in the updates James SAD TechnicVideo Productions, Electronic repairsU3 / 6 Chalkley PlBayswater WA 6053+618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddasskype: barleewayover 40 years in electronics On 26/08/2009, at 22:53, Joe Mastrella wrote:Greetings! My first Mac was a IIVX 32MZ processor, 3 gig HD. I paid just under 2000 dollars US including an HP printer. Then I decided to upgrade the memory. I paid 200 dollars for 20 mega bites of ram.That's right, 20 mega bites of ram. We have come a long way since then. Cheers, Joe On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bill Parker re...@westnet.com.au wrote: If only Bob.   My first one was an SE  or some such name.   Megabytes were unheard of.  Nothing to do with telephones,  ethernet or anything else.   The little beast just sat there on the desk but it was BLOODY sight easier to use than the DOS  machine my neighbour had.  But I had hypercard! And,  I know someone who still uses OS8 because the music software  is better. Sounds like a Monty Python sketch about licking t'road  ...ey up Obadiah... Bill -- 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: print on canvas?
Thanks everyone for the input :) I am now phoning around to see what price I can get so far it seems the range is from $350 up to $600 ! Thank you Roger On Thu Jul 23 15:08 , Justin Davies m...@justindavies.com.au sent: Roger, this is unlikely to be of help given the size you are after but snapfish sell canvas prints online - it is more for photos, but if you aren't using snapfish, worth giving it a look... 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 23 Jul 2009, at 12:24 PM, William Crabb wrote: Hi Roger, I just had a quote from Discus for some canvas prints and they are the best prices I have found. They are in Oxford Close, Leederville and the guy to talk to is Lee. Regards, Rosalyn On 23/07/2009 12:02 PM, Roger Kortas rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: Can anyone recommend a place to get a print on canvas and stretched? I have been quoted around $550 which I thought was very high! I am looking at a size of 140cm by 100cm many thanks Roger 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: Safari 4.0.1 slows down over time
Hi Guys There is and update to safari this morning, might be worth testing that as well :) Roger On Thu Jul 9 9:38 , Susan Hastings susanhasti...@me.com sent: Thanks to people who've given suggestions, I've forwarded them on. We have suggested that she use Firefox, and so she's giving it a go. On 09/07/2009, at 8:43 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 08/07/2009, at 8:57 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: Hi, I've checked the archives, but can't see that this problem has occurred for other people. A friend who has an Intel iMac 2.6ghz, 4gig RAM with OS X.5.7 on fast broadband finds that over time, say half a day, Safari slows down significantly. She finds that switching to her G4 iBook, she can get normal download speeds in Safari, whilst on the iMac its crawling. At the beginning of the session, Safari downloads web pages normally. Does anyone know what might cause this slowdown in performance? cheers, Susan. An article appeared on Macfixit this morning discussing just this problem: http://www.macfixit.com/article.php\?story=20090707124429193 -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: Video card upgrade
Hi Adrian When you say processing what do you mean? Are you trying to digitise the DVD? Roger On Thu Jul 9 9:45 , Adrian Skehan adrianske...@mac.com sent: Hi all, I am having a bit of trouble putting up with the length of time my intel 13 MacBook and iMac G5 take to process DVDs' and was wondering if anyone can advise me if it is possible to upgrade the video card in the following machines: Model Name: iMac G5 Model Identifier: PowerMac12,1 Processor Name: PowerPC G5 (3.1) Processor Speed:2.1 GHz Number Of CPUs: 1 L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 2.5 GB Bus Speed: 700 MHz ATI Radeon X600 XT: Chipset Model: ATY,RV380 Type: Display Bus:PCIe Slot: PCI-E PCIe Lane Width:x16 VRAM (Total): 128 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x3e50 Revision ID:0x ROM Revision: 113-x-113 Displays: iMac: Resolution: 1680 x 1050 Depth: 32-Bit Color Core Image: Hardware Accelerated Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Supported Built-In: Yes Also a 13' MacBook Model Name: MacBook Model Identifier: MacBook2,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed:2 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 4 MB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed: 667 MHz Boot ROM Version: MB21.00A5.B07 SMC Version (system): 1.13f3 Intel GMA 950: Chipset Model: GMA 950 Type: Display Bus:Built-In VRAM (Total): 64 MB of Shared System Memory Vendor: Intel (0x8086) Device ID: 0x27a2 Revision ID:0x0003 Displays: Color LCD: Resolution: 1280 x 800 Depth: 32-Bit Color Core Image: Hardware Accelerated Main Display: Yes Mirror: Off Online: Yes Quartz Extreme: Supported Built-In: Yes -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: Video card upgrade
Hi Adrian A video card will not help you here, what you need is more processing power ie: faster Mac. If you are doing this a lot it would be worth buying the fastest Mac you can afford or do what you are doing now and do it over night :) best regards Roger On Thu Jul 9 10:50 , Adrian Skehan adrianske...@mac.com sent: Having created the dvd the time it takes to Encode the assets which for a 1 hour movie takes a few hours and then goes through the several steps in the actual burning process which takes even longer, I cant recall the exact length of time but the last dual layer one I did took 5 or 6 hours, I have resorted doing them over night. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/07/2009, at 10:17 AM, Nicholas Pyers wrote: On 09/07/2009, at 11:45 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: I am having a bit of trouble putting up with the length of time my intel 13 MacBook and iMac G5 take to process DVDs' and was wondering if anyone can advise me if it is possible to upgrade the video card in the following machines: Short answer: No you can't. What do you mean by 'time taken to process DVDs'? Depending on what you are doing a RAM upgrade may be more beneficial, like wise having an Firewire 800 external drive to store the data for your DVDs may also help. Likewise an external DVD drive plugged into Firewire may be faster than the internal ones. -- Nicholas Pyers (nicho...@nicholaspyers.com) Heaven on Earth? No, Earth on Earth. The Just Earth! -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: New MacBook Pros Boot From SD Cards
Hi Guys I have one on order and have also ordereda 32gb SD card and will let you know how it works :) roger On Tue Jun 16 15:54 , Ronda Brown ro...@wn.com.au sent: Hello WAMUGers interested in purchasing the new MacBook Pros, I read this from TidBits this morning and found it Interesting: When Apple announced the swapping of the ExpressCard slot on the 15-inch MacBook Pro for an SD (Secure Digital) memory card slot, the few users of ExpressCard-compatible peripherals - at least those other than SD card readers - were understandably disappointed. (Apple claimed that only a single-digit percentage of MacBook Pro users used the ExpressCard slot.) For most people, the addition of the SD slot is welcome, since the majority of consumer-level digital cameras use SD cards for storage. Nevertheless, it didn't seem like that big of a deal either way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card A recent Apple KnowledgeBase article reveals an extremely useful and previously unmentioned feature of the SD card slot: users can boot the Mac from an SD card with Mac OS X installed on it. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3553 To make a bootable SD card, you must first change the default partition table to GUID using Disk Utility, and format the card to use the Mac OS Extended file format (as opposed to the FAT32 file format). You can then install Mac OS X onto the device, enabling it to boot the Mac, which could be very handy in a troubleshooting situation. The MacBook Pro SD card slot accepts cards that conform to the SD 1.x and 2.x standards. This includes Standard SD cards, which hold between 4 MB and 4 GB; SDHC cards, which hold between 4 GB and 32 GB; and the older MMC cards. MiniSD, MicroSD, MiniSDHC and MicroSDHC cards can work if used with adapters that enable the cards to conform to the necessary physical configuration. While the MacBook Pro can read (but not boot from) cards that use the FAT32 file format (the standard for most SD cards), cards that use the exFAT system will not work. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.5.7 -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: G5 imac won't start - ever again. Update
Hi Guys quite a few of the older G5 iMacs had a problems with bulging and leaking capacitors, there used to be an Apple repair program for them but not sure if it is still available? Regards Roger On Mon Jun 8 9:53 , Warwick Gaff cappadonag...@virginbroadband.com.au sent: Can some one explain why the logic boards are failing in brand new iMacs today. When looking for the upgrade to my G3 a few months back I was going to buy a second hand G5 from ebay. There were heaps of iMacs out there going for cheap ($50-$150) with this problem. Why? I've been put off gutting a G5 now... Very happy with my G4 however. Regards Warwick Gaff On 7/6/09 5:23 PM, Mike Murray mdmur...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi muggers Just to bring you up to date on my recent plea for help; my G5 iMac has been diagnosed with a logic board failure = a new imac. Gulp. So now we have a new 20 inch aluminium iMac. That's the second G5 iMac we've totalled in less than a year. I'm an avid fan of things Mac but this seems to be taking built in obsolescence too far. Both machines were about 3 1/2 years old, both cooked the logic boards. Only symptom...fans starting to fire up randomly; on reflection some components were obviously overheating. Moral of the story; backup every day and expect failure if you're still running a G5 iMac. Has anyone had success in pleading a case with Apple for some compensation? Mournfully, Mike Previous email... Our sole remaining G5 iMac in the fleet has decided to play up. This morning when trying to wake it up as normal the screen remained black and the fans started to roar. Held the off switch down for 5 seconds and it shut down. left it for a while, unplugged everything, switched it on. The light came on, very slightly pulsing, but no chime. Dark screen. After about a minute the fans came on again, so shut it down again. Repeated the process a couple of times. Thinking there may be a dust build up inside I tried to get the back off, loosened the three screws, but couldn't get the back off...seems very tight and I didn't want to wriggle it too much. Opinions sought. Is there an easy solution that I'm overlooking? Cheers Mike Mike Murray and Lesley Silvester TimeTrackers East Fremantle Western Australia Tel 08 9339 8078 Fax 08 9339 0519 British and Australian genealogical and historical research, education, publishing and film-making www.timetrackers.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: G5 imac won't start - ever again. Update
Hi Mike I also had a newer G5 at the office that had the same issue as yours and it was just out of the 3 year applecare warranty, I have asked Apple for an extension and am waiting to hear if they will cover it! I personally would never buy a G5 iMac but go for one of the newer intel ones instead. regards Roger On Mon Jun 8 10:32 , Mike Murray mdmur...@bigpond.net.au sent: Roger, yes there was a program for fixing the first run G5s...it's now been suspended. This latest failure was a later model (with isight camera) and to my knowledge there's no such program. I believe the problem is not as common in the later models, but that might just be a function of age, i.e. we're now getting to the end-of- life stage! Re symptoms: The earlier G5 (that failed last year) had persistent problems of not waking up from sleep and odd power-related issues including very occasional fans running unexpectedly. Eventually it wouldn't wake up at all. The later one with isight camera that failed last week had mysterious fan running issues for some months, usually when it was asleep and unattended. We'd go into the room in the morning and the fans would be roaring, no idea if they'd been going all night or started up when it heard us approach! Tom, if the fans are running hot I would say it's on its way out. Maybe in 3 months, maybe in the next few minutes. Warwick, based on my limited experience (2 failures out of 2) I would recommend not buying a second hand G5 iMac. We still have a Tibook (400 G4) and a G3 slot-loading iMac, merrily continuing their happy lives without a hitch. And now two very recent iMacs (and a couple of reliable Macbooks). We've had various macs over many years and never really had a problem (although on thinking about it there was a dog of a powerbook with a screen problem that took some sorting out). As someone said recently, things break. Backup is the key. Cheers Mike On 08/06/2009, at 10:14 AM, rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Guys quite a few of the older G5 iMacs had a problems with bulging and leaking capacitors, there used to be an Apple repair program for them but not sure if it is still available? Regards Roger Did you notice any other failures in the machines processes. We have one that has fans running hot. tom samson Can some one explain why the logic boards are failing in brand new iMacs today. When looking for the upgrade to my G3 a few months back I was going to buy a second hand G5 from ebay. There were heaps of iMacs out there going for cheap ($50-$150) with this problem. Why? I've been put off gutting a G5 now... Very happy with my G4 however. Regards Warwick Gaff -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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
add file extension to a filename
Hi Does anyone have or know off a utility that will look at a file and then give it the correct extension? We are moving away from our AFP file server and will be only using SMB connections so of course loose the resource fork nd as we have many thousands of file without extensions this will cause our users some grief best regards Roger -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: add file extension to a filename
Thanks Neil Its fine with new files that are created as we do use extensions on new files :) It's just the thousands of old files we have that have no extension, these files could be illustrator or Photoshop files and could be postscript file from either app but I need to identify what app if was created in. Roger On Tue Jun 2 15:09 , Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com sent: Hi Roger, In the finder get info window, under name and extension, you have the Hide extension checkbox - if you uncheck this the extension should reappear. Of course doing this on an individual file basis would be a pain! Two approaches come to mind (just ideas - I've never tried this) - See if you can find or create an automator script to do the finder thing on selected files. - I would guess that the extension visibility is something you could turn on or off in terminal - so I would think you could write a command to change the extension visibility on a directory basis. I would google it - someone is bound to have come up with this before. Good luck Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 2/6/09 2:33 PM, rkor...@iinet.net.au at rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Does anyone have or know off a utility that will look at a file and then give it the correct extension? We are moving away from our AFP file server and will be only using SMB connections so of course loose the resource fork nd as we have many thousands of file without extensions this will cause our users some grief best regards Roger -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: add file extension to a filename
Thanks Steve I did have a look at that and it didn't work, so would have to look at the code and I am a little busy. But I may look at it tomorrow and also Automator. thank you On Tue Jun 2 15:45 , Woods Steve sc...@mac.com sent: On 02/06/2009, at 3:23 PM, rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thanks Neil Its fine with new files that are created as we do use extensions on new files :) It's just the thousands of old files we have that have no extension, these files could be illustrator or Photoshop files and could be postscript file from either app but I need to identify what app if was created in. Hi Roger, this might help: http://techierambles.blogspot.com/2009/03/applescript-to-automatically-add-file.html Apple script and/or Automator can do what you want, and the post links to a few useful scripts and utilities. HTH Steve. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: add file extension to a filename
Thanks you guys I had forgotten all about name cleaner, must be getting old!!! just downloaded a demo and it and it works well :) Thank you for your help. roger On Tue Jun 2 16:13 , 'Toby Oldham' toby.old...@screenwest.wa.gov.au sent: Hey Roger, try: http://www.sigsoftware.com/namecleaner/ I'm pretty I used this when I migrated out office from AFP+OS9 to Windows XP back in 2004... Cheers, Tobes. -Original Message- From: WAMUG Mailing List [wa...@wamug.org.au','','','')wa...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of rkor...@iinet.net.au Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:58 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: add file extension to a filename Thanks Steve I did have a look at that and it didn't work, so would have to look at the code and I am a little busy. But I may look at it tomorrow and also Automator. thank you On Tue Jun 2 15:45 , Woods Steve sc...@mac.com sent: On 02/06/2009, at 3:23 PM, rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thanks Neil Its fine with new files that are created as we do use extensions on new files :) It's just the thousands of old files we have that have no extension, these files could be illustrator or Photoshop files and could be postscript file from either app but I need to identify what app if was created in. Hi Roger, this might help: http://techierambles.blogspot.com/2009/03/applescript-to-automatically- add-file.html Apple script and/or Automator can do what you want, and the post links to a few useful scripts and utilities. HTH Steve. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.a u ) -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: Ghostscript
Hi Guys Ghostscript does work but the quality of the PDF hasn't always been good, we have had some issues with ghostscript where we have had to put the file back through Acrobat to get it working. But as always everyone has different thoughts. Regards roger On Wed May 27 13:08 , Mervyn Giuliana Bond m...@iinet.net.au sent: For business reasons many Mac people are also Windows users. Have any of you in the bi-platform mode used Ghostscript in Windows? What issues arose? Thank you. Merv -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see. -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: MacResolve Spam
I also got it but to my Office address!!! Roger On Thu Apr 23 13:32 , James Devenish jndeven...@gmail.com sent: Hi, Mine came through to an address that I have not used since 2004 or 2005. The address is not currently associated with any mailing lists or online stores, so Tony Mike must have used a spam list that is several years old. It *does* seem to be specifically targeted to Mac users and not others, so it could logically have come from a breach of an old mailing list or sales list from several years ago... James. -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: MacResolve Spam
Digilife could be the connection as they would have had my office address but not my personal email address! On Thu Apr 23 12:22 , Matthew Healey mat...@mac.com sent: Did anyone else get spammed by Tony Mike from MacResolve? I got an email from them and would like to see where they got their list from. - Matt Healey -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: Agriculture WA Explorer only?
did you go to this site and download the plugin? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 On Wed Apr 8 15:16 , David Paul dp...@cyllene.uwa.edu.au sent: Thanks Roger but this site still will not let me register even after upgrading to Firefox3! Perhaps I am missing a basic step. Dave On 08/04/2009, at 5:01 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: Subject: Re: Agriculture WA Explorer only? Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 19:33:53 +0800 References: list-465...@wamug.org.au list-465...@wamug.org.au X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Hi everyone the site worked fine for me :) I used firefox 3 and there is a plugin that lets you switch user agents, I used explorer 7. Its called user agent switcher Roger -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: Music CD catalog app
Hi peter have a look at cdpedia I use DVDpedia and its great. Roger CDpedia is a CD manager software for Mac OS X. Its familiar iTunes style interface makes it easy to use. It integrates with iTunes so that you may know what CDs in your collection you have imported. You also have access to all the Amazon sites as well as other international music sites to retrieve information for your database. On Wed Mar 11 16:45 , Peter Sealy carp...@internode.on.net sent: I am looking for a simple app to catalog my music CDs. I do not play any music on my iMac [24 in/3.06/10.5.6/4gb] as my computer is located in my study where I have a superb stereo music setup so I only play CDs on that. But I do want to be able to make a catalog of all my CDs [so far only about 150] and load all my CDs in an app which will show CD name, each song title, singer, etc. And enable me to search on song title, artist name, CD name. etc. I don't want to load the songs into iTunes as that's a waste of space. I thought I would just be able to import the CD into iTunes and save the CD title, contents, etc in iTunes and then eject the CD/delete the songs but apparently I can't. Is that possible? Any bright ideas out there pse. I have looked at a number of shareware apps on Version Tracker but I have no real opinion on their quality. Thanks Peter Sealy Thurgoona AUSTRALIA The Apple Religion: Geek Orthodox -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: using itunes store
Hi Chris I have been using iTunes since it was released and find it a great system for my needs. Remember it also has movies, video music clips of a lot of bands and also pod casts and some of those are great. I have had no problem with given them my credit cards details but some people do! regards Roger On Sun Mar 8 20:09 , Chris Burton c...@it.net.au sent: Hi Muggers I was speaking with a friend yesterday who is just so wrapped with itunes and the store for finding songs and albums, listening to samples of tracks then buying what he wants from the itunes store. And he uses a PC to do this then loads his tracks onto a small ipod and plugs it into the best portable sound system I have ever heard! I didnt know that all that was possible and have only today started to look at it. However it seems I have to become registered and supply a credit card number. He forgot to tell me this! I would appreciate any user experience in using this great facility before I jump in, as I am not very familiar with it at all. I would like to be able to find tracks and artists for the music I like. thankyou very much in advance for any advice and suggestions kind regards chris -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au ) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: on the scrounge again
Hi Kevin I may have some ram and will look but also it is possible I will have some quick silver and mirror doors available in the next few weeks if you are interested?? If you are we would require a letter from you stating what you are doing and what you want them for. regards roger On Thu Feb 19 10:25 , KEVIN Lock kal...@iinet.net.au sent: I have a heap of G3s and G4s which I have prepared for donation to needy individuals. I have plenty of 64mb ram sticks and ask that listers might look in their cupboards for any sticks of ram 128mb or better which they might wish to donate to this project. (SD PC100 or PC133) A flier I made up is on our blog here... http://lockfamilyramblings.blogspot.com/2009/02/second-chance.html Thanks, Kevin 94183869 -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: FS: White Macbook 4gig RAM
Hi Jude I run Warcraft on a Dual 2.3 G5 and also a MacBook Pro 2.4 and it will run slow on Both at times. It depends how many things are happening at the same time and how many computer opponents you are playing. As for World of Warcraft I don't play that but again Warcraft puts quite a load on any system. Roger On Thu Jan 22 13:47 , Susan Hastings susanhasti...@me.com sent: I haven't run Warcraft, Daniel Kerr might know. It may run it, but not fast. On 22/01/2009, at 12:39 PM, Jude wrote: Hi Susan Do you know if this computer would be able to play Warcraft at all? I know someone who is interested, but that's a requirement lol. I'll look up the latest specs, just wanted to let you know I'm interested in the computer. cheers Jude FS: White Macbook 2.2ghz, 120g HD, 4g RAM, Superdrive, 2 USB ports, Firewire 400 port, wireless, bluetooth. Late 2007 model. Excellent condition. Includes restore disks and black STM glove. $950.00 Contact mobile: 0409 688 004 regards, Susan. -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: FS: White Macbook 4gig RAM
Yes I think it would not be worth it maybe put the money to one of the newer macs with better graphics cards would be the better option :) Roger On Thu Jan 22 14:43 , Jude ibr...@iinet.net.au sent: Hmm. Well it's World of Warcraft he wants to play. The latest patch - the Lich King says the minimum specs are Macos 10.4.11 or later Power PC G5 or Intel Processor ATI Radeon 9600 or better Would this machine cut it, do you think, Susan? If it's slow on your Macbook Pro 2.4, Roger, maybe it's not an option? I play on my Octo and I find it tends to be the net connection that causes slowdowns, although up till the last patch my friend's G4 Powerbook could *just* manage. I'll try a bit more research. cheers Jude Hi Jude I run Warcraft on a Dual 2.3 G5 and also a MacBook Pro 2.4 and it will run slow on Both at times. It depends how many things are happening at the same time and how many computer opponents you are playing. As for World of Warcraft I don't play that but again Warcraft puts quite a load on any system. Roger -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: online Quokka
Hi All they are having hardware problems at the moment with no eta yet Roger On Fri Jan 16 18:14 , Robert Howells rhowe...@arach.net.au sent: Hi All , I am unable to access that site http://www.quokka.com.au/ Is it meor are other people having the same problem ? Thanks 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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: AppleTV
Hi Malcolm I have had an Apple TV since it as released and love it :) I would like more functions like a HD turner but that will come I think. I am not too sure about buying one right now though as it could be due for an update. Regards roger On Mon Dec 22 14:03 , Malcolm McCallum doc...@westnet.com.au sent: Do wamug members have any views on AppleTV. My wife HATES wires - nearly the cause of divorce on occasions so I want to use Apple TV to show iPhoto,iView and Myspace etc. I am a little nervous about buying this time of year with January coming up. Any guidance gratefully received. Am aiming to buy an iTouch for 'er indoors at same time. :-) 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')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
