.csv files - inconsistency with quicklook/icons
Hi all, I regularly download my share portfolio details from commsec - which downloads as a .csv file - which I can then open in excel. I generally copy this info into my excel workbooks but leave a copy of the original .csv file in my archive folder - to be sure, to be sure ;) One thing I have been enjoying with Leopard is that quicklook lets me inspect .csv files as well as .xls files. However, I have just noticed a couple of problems/inconsistencies: I downloaded a .csv as usual but noticed it had a different icon - seemed to be for a pc application I use in parallels - I had a look around and saw I had a few .csv files like this. Get info confirmed that they were set to open with the pc application - so I changed it to open with excel and did the open all files like this with this application thing. So now they all (well all I've tried so far) open with excel when double clicked (as they should) - but the don't have the excel file icon and quicklook just shows a blank document. After further looking around, my .csv files seem to fall into 3 categories: 1) - Get info shows kind as text and open with as Microsoft Excel - Get info icon is an Excel icon This is the majority of the files and this works as it should in that they doubleclick open in excel and quicklook (and get info preview) shows a preview with the text displayed and a large CSV watermark at the bottom of the preview. 2) - Get info shows kind as Microsoft Excel Document and open with as Microsoft Excel - Get info icon is a blank page icon With these files they doubleclick open in excel but quicklook (and get info preview) just shows a blank page icon. 3) - Get info shows kind as Microsoft Excel Document and open with as Microsoft Excel - Get info icon is the pc application icon As with the type 2) files they doubleclick open in excel but quicklook (and get info preview) just shows a blank page icon. From the above, it seems to me that though quicklook (and get info preview) correctly preview excel .xls files and .csv file with kind = text they get confused by .csv files with kind = Microsoft Excel Document I have been trying to work out why I have they different flavours of .csv files - I'm not sure but all the problem files seem to have been generated since I got my iMac back from repair and re-installed everything - so I'm assuming I have something set differently? Update: after a reboot all the pc application icons have disappeared - ie the type 3) files are all now type 2) Update 2: it has just occurred to me that another anomaly I have noticed recently may be related - somebody sent me some emails with a word documents attached and when I double-clicked them - they opened in text-edit. Now previously .doc files always opened in Word so, again, something has been changed in my settings. Update 3: I'm not sure that the word thing is related - I think it may be that I just hadn't had Word open (perhaps since re-installing?) After opening the word files in word and closing again (without re-saving or otherwise changing the file) the Open With application is now Microsoft Word rather than Textedit and the other files which were opening with textedit are also opening with word (without me manually changing the open with application). I hope the above makes some sense! So my current status/problem is: No problem with the emailed word files. Downloading a new .csv file gives me a file set to open automatically with Excel (which is what I want) but with a file kind of Microsoft Excel Document rather than text - which gives me the problem of no preview in either quicklook or the get info preview - which is, obviously, not what I want! Any ideas on what I need to change/reset here? TIA Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .csv files - inconsistency with quicklook/icons
Hi Ronni, The thing is quicklook has no problem seeing all my .csv files which were downloaded before something' changed when I re-installed everything in October. So my Commsec .csv files downloaded previous to the problem appearing show just fine in quicklook ie file type 1) in my original post: - Get info shows kind as text and open with as Microsoft Excel - Get info icon is an Excel icon But since the re-install and my telling finder to open all .csv with Excel (I'm not sure of the chicken egg effect here) my Commsec .csv files download differently - ie file type 2) in my original post: - Get info shows kind as Microsoft Excel Document and open with as Microsoft Excel - Get info icon is a blank page icon So my problem is not getting quicklook to preview .csv files (comma-separated values) - which after all are basically just (delimited) text files - as long as the file kind is text both quicklook and the get info preview pane can handle the .csv file just fine. The problem is that now the .csv files are downloading with the file kind as Microsoft Excel Document Excel itself doesn't care and opens up both types (as a microsoft application it possibly only works on the .csv extension?) and, in fact, is the default application set to open with for both file types. Quicklook (and the get info preview pane) however must expect a Microsoft Excel Document to have a certain format - and presumably deal with it accordingly (so they display real .xls excel files just fine) - so, presumably, since the .csv files don't meet their expectations they just show a generic blank page document preview. In other words, the way I see it, the problem is not trying to work out how to get quicklook to view .csv files - it does that just fine as long as it knows it is a text file - the problem is how to get the .csv files to download as text files rather than Microsoft Excel Document files. For the files that are already downloaded, I expect that I can eventually track down some terminal script to change the file kind - in the meantime I have no problems opening the files so I can live without the quicklook preview. What I am really trying to find out here is how to get my original download parameters back so that the .csv files just normally download as file kind = text - which is how it was all working until last month! The problem is that during the download process, I don't know how, when or by what the file kind of the downloaded file is set so I don't really know where to look for any preferences which have been changed to cause this. Anybody got any ideas on this one? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 23/11/08 10:46 AM, Ronda Brown at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22/11/2008, at 6:15 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Downloading a new .csv file gives me a file set to open automatically with Excel (which is what I want) but with a file kind of Microsoft Excel Document rather than text - which gives me the problem of no preview in either quicklook or the get info preview - which is, obviously, not what I want! Any ideas on what I need to change/reset here? Hi Neil, Quicklook needs extra plugins to view certain files. I have been looking for a .csv Quicklook Plugin for my Commsec download files for months, have not been able to find on yet! We might have to program our own . http://www.quicklookplugins.com/ http://www.qlplugins.com/ http://hrmpf.com/wordpress/218/quick-look-plugins-for-leopard Apple's Developer Documents: Introduction to Quick Look Programming Guide http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/Quicklook_ Programming_Guide/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP 40005020-CH1-DontLinkElementID_14 Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .csv files - inconsistency with quicklook/icons
Just a quick follow up: For the files that are already downloaded, I expect that I can eventually track down some terminal script to change the file kind - in the meantime I have no problems opening the files so I can live without the quicklook preview. This actually proved to be even easier than I thought - Google pointed me to this automator action: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/changefiletypeandcreator.ht ml Using the select file button on the automator action to select a working csv file populated the file type box with TEXT and the creator box with XCEL. Then running the automator action on one of the problem files resets the kind to text and now quicklook and the get info preview pane preview the .csv file just fine. Which just leaves me with the main problem of how to get the .csv files downloaded with the correct settings in the first place! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 23/11/08 5:09 PM, Neil Houghton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ronni, The thing is quicklook has no problem seeing all my .csv files which were downloaded before something' changed when I re-installed everything in October. So my Commsec .csv files downloaded previous to the problem appearing show just fine in quicklook ie file type 1) in my original post: - Get info shows kind as text and open with as Microsoft Excel - Get info icon is an Excel icon But since the re-install and my telling finder to open all .csv with Excel (I'm not sure of the chicken egg effect here) my Commsec .csv files download differently - ie file type 2) in my original post: - Get info shows kind as Microsoft Excel Document and open with as Microsoft Excel - Get info icon is a blank page icon So my problem is not getting quicklook to preview .csv files (comma-separated values) - which after all are basically just (delimited) text files - as long as the file kind is text both quicklook and the get info preview pane can handle the .csv file just fine. The problem is that now the .csv files are downloading with the file kind as Microsoft Excel Document Excel itself doesn't care and opens up both types (as a microsoft application it possibly only works on the .csv extension?) and, in fact, is the default application set to open with for both file types. Quicklook (and the get info preview pane) however must expect a Microsoft Excel Document to have a certain format - and presumably deal with it accordingly (so they display real .xls excel files just fine) - so, presumably, since the .csv files don't meet their expectations they just show a generic blank page document preview. In other words, the way I see it, the problem is not trying to work out how to get quicklook to view .csv files - it does that just fine as long as it knows it is a text file - the problem is how to get the .csv files to download as text files rather than Microsoft Excel Document files. For the files that are already downloaded, I expect that I can eventually track down some terminal script to change the file kind - in the meantime I have no problems opening the files so I can live without the quicklook preview. What I am really trying to find out here is how to get my original download parameters back so that the .csv files just normally download as file kind = text - which is how it was all working until last month! The problem is that during the download process, I don't know how, when or by what the file kind of the downloaded file is set so I don't really know where to look for any preferences which have been changed to cause this. Anybody got any ideas on this one? 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 - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sleeping again - but network preference problem
Hi Mike, I saw this repeating message on a neighbours machine. I had pointed out his wireless network was unsecured (I could see it connect from next door) and he had tried to secure it - unfortunately he had tried to set up security on the mac's network prefs whereas the wireless router was a non-apple router which needed setting up via a browser. By the time I got the help call, the message was repeating anytime you tried to get into network preferences - requiring the Force-quit. He couldn't remember exactly what he had done when the problem started, but after trying a number of things I eventually cured it by deleting a bunch of network preference files (I don't remember exactly what they were). After deleting the prefs and rebooting everything was OK. Hope that helps. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 24/11/08 7:10 AM, Mike Fuller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what did it but, after a long bout of insomnia, my G5 Dual 2.0 running OSX 10.4.11 is now automatically going to sleep. Since it was discussed here we have had a security update and an update to i-Tunes. I have also swapped some corrupt memory that wasn't registering in the system with some that is working. I'd be interested to hear if anyone else who had the problem has had it resolved. Another interesting item is that my network preference pane comes up with a drop-down window that states Your network settings have been changed by another application. After clicking OK the window just keeps reappearing, making it tricky to exit preferences without a Force-Quit or some fast work with the return key and the mouse. The general consensus is that the latest security update led to this behaviour. Again, I'd be interested to know if anyone here has the same problem. BTW, a solution is to activate the Require password to unlock each secure system preference checkbox within the Security preference pane. Cheers Mike Fuller -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .csv files - inconsistency with quicklook/icons
Hi all, Anybody got any thoughts on how to get my system back to downloading .csv files as kind = text? Anybody know how, when or by what the file kind of the downloaded file is actually set - because I don't really know where to look for any preferences which have been changed to cause this. As per my previous post, I have now worked out how to change the file kind of the files already downloaded - so I now have the fix - I'd just like to remove the actual problem!! TIA Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 23/11/08 5:09 PM, Neil Houghton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ronni, The thing is quicklook has no problem seeing all my .csv files which were downloaded before something' changed when I re-installed everything in October. So my Commsec .csv files downloaded previous to the problem appearing show just fine in quicklook ie file type 1) in my original post: - Get info shows kind as text and open with as Microsoft Excel - Get info icon is an Excel icon But since the re-install and my telling finder to open all .csv with Excel (I'm not sure of the chicken egg effect here) my Commsec .csv files download differently - ie file type 2) in my original post: - Get info shows kind as Microsoft Excel Document and open with as Microsoft Excel - Get info icon is a blank page icon So my problem is not getting quicklook to preview .csv files (comma-separated values) - which after all are basically just (delimited) text files - as long as the file kind is text both quicklook and the get info preview pane can handle the .csv file just fine. The problem is that now the .csv files are downloading with the file kind as Microsoft Excel Document Excel itself doesn't care and opens up both types (as a microsoft application it possibly only works on the .csv extension?) and, in fact, is the default application set to open with for both file types. Quicklook (and the get info preview pane) however must expect a Microsoft Excel Document to have a certain format - and presumably deal with it accordingly (so they display real .xls excel files just fine) - so, presumably, since the .csv files don't meet their expectations they just show a generic blank page document preview. In other words, the way I see it, the problem is not trying to work out how to get quicklook to view .csv files - it does that just fine as long as it knows it is a text file - the problem is how to get the .csv files to download as text files rather than Microsoft Excel Document files. For the files that are already downloaded, I expect that I can eventually track down some terminal script to change the file kind - in the meantime I have no problems opening the files so I can live without the quicklook preview. What I am really trying to find out here is how to get my original download parameters back so that the .csv files just normally download as file kind = text - which is how it was all working until last month! The problem is that during the download process, I don't know how, when or by what the file kind of the downloaded file is set so I don't really know where to look for any preferences which have been changed to cause this. Anybody got any ideas on this one? 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 - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .csv files - inconsistency with quicklook/icons
Hi Eugene, Thanks for the reply, but this isn't really the problem - see my previous post. I don't have a problem opening the .csv files and Excel is already the default application to do so - I don't want to open them in a text editor (but could easily do so if I wanted). The problem is how my system is downloading the .csv files: They used to download as kind = text (which a csv file really is) and quicklook and finder would preview just fine. They now download as 'kind = Microsoft Excel Document (which, strictly speaking, it isn't) and which stops quicklook and finder from previewing them. It's not a major problem - both kinds open fine in Excel - it's just that I used to be able to quicklook these as they were downloaded - but now I can't without first converting the file kind to text - and it annoys me!! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 28/11/08 2:03 PM, Eugene at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Generally excel will want to convert the .csv file format by default. I think from memory .csv is comma delimited text. If you want it to be opened by a text editor like TextEdit you can either drag it over the TextEdit icon on the dock or right click and select open with. (Command i if you don't have a right mouse button) To make the operation a default: click on the document once. Go Command i select Open with Then hit the button Change all Hope this helps Regards, Eugene On 28/11/2008, at 11:01 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, Anybody got any thoughts on how to get my system back to downloading .csv files as kind = text? Anybody know how, when or by what the file kind of the downloaded file is actually set - because I don't really know where to look for any preferences which have been changed to cause this. As per my previous post, I have now worked out how to change the file kind of the files already downloaded - so I now have the fix - I'd just like to remove the actual problem!! TIA Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 23/11/08 5:09 PM, Neil Houghton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ronni, The thing is quicklook has no problem seeing all my .csv files which were downloaded before something' changed when I re-installed everything in October. So my Commsec .csv files downloaded previous to the problem appearing show just fine in quicklook ie file type 1) in my original post: - Get info shows kind as text and open with as Microsoft Excel - Get info icon is an Excel icon But since the re-install and my telling finder to open all .csv with Excel (I'm not sure of the chicken egg effect here) my Commsec .csv files download differently - ie file type 2) in my original post: - Get info shows kind as Microsoft Excel Document and open with as Microsoft Excel - Get info icon is a blank page icon So my problem is not getting quicklook to preview .csv files (comma-separated values) - which after all are basically just (delimited) text files - as long as the file kind is text both quicklook and the get info preview pane can handle the .csv file just fine. The problem is that now the .csv files are downloading with the file kind as Microsoft Excel Document Excel itself doesn't care and opens up both types (as a microsoft application it possibly only works on the .csv extension?) and, in fact, is the default application set to open with for both file types. Quicklook (and the get info preview pane) however must expect a Microsoft Excel Document to have a certain format - and presumably deal with it accordingly (so they display real .xls excel files just fine) - so, presumably, since the .csv files don't meet their expectations they just show a generic blank page document preview. In other words, the way I see it, the problem is not trying to work out how to get quicklook to view .csv files - it does that just fine as long as it knows it is a text file - the problem is how to get the .csv files to download as text files rather than Microsoft Excel Document files. For the files that are already downloaded, I expect that I can eventually track down some terminal script to change the file kind - in the meantime I have no problems opening the files so I can live without the quicklook preview. What I am really trying to find out here is how to get my original download parameters back so that the .csv files just normally download as file kind = text - which is how it was all working until last month! The problem is that during the download process, I don't know how, when or by what the file kind of the downloaded file is set so I don't really know where to look for any preferences which have been changed to cause this. Anybody got any ideas on this one? Cheers Neil
Re: .csv files - inconsistency with quicklook/icons
Hi Bob, No, I actually use Firefox not Safari - but it got me thinking - I hadn't thought to blame the browser :) Anyway, I fired up Safari and gave that a shot but got the same result (same file kind) as for firefox. So my thinking is it's somewhere in the Apple system/finder prefs - but I can't find anything relevant :( Thanks for the idea though - now I know it's the same for both browsers! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 28/11/08 5:46 PM, Robert Howells at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/11/2008, at 11:01 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, Anybody got any thoughts on how to get my system back to downloading .csv files as kind = text? Anybody know how, when or by what the file kind of the downloaded file is actually set - because I don't really know where to look for any preferences which have been changed to cause this. Neil, I suspect this might be involved with the info you can find if you go to Safari Help and click onInstalled Plugins Don't know what you need or how to alter those settings Bob As per my previous post, I have now worked out how to change the file kind of the files already downloaded - so I now have the fix - I'd just like to remove the actual problem!! TIA Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 23/11/08 5:09 PM, Neil Houghton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ronni, The thing is quicklook has no problem seeing all my .csv files which were downloaded before something' changed when I re-installed everything in October. So my Commsec .csv files downloaded previous to the problem appearing show just fine in quicklook ie file type 1) in my original post: - Get info shows kind as text and open with as Microsoft Excel - Get info icon is an Excel icon But since the re-install and my telling finder to open all .csv with Excel (I'm not sure of the chicken egg effect here) my Commsec .csv files download differently - ie file type 2) in my original post: - Get info shows kind as Microsoft Excel Document and open with as Microsoft Excel - Get info icon is a blank page icon So my problem is not getting quicklook to preview .csv files (comma-separated values) - which after all are basically just (delimited) text files - as long as the file kind is text both quicklook and the get info preview pane can handle the .csv file just fine. The problem is that now the .csv files are downloading with the file kind as Microsoft Excel Document Excel itself doesn't care and opens up both types (as a microsoft application it possibly only works on the .csv extension?) and, in fact, is the default application set to open with for both file types. Quicklook (and the get info preview pane) however must expect a Microsoft Excel Document to have a certain format - and presumably deal with it accordingly (so they display real .xls excel files just fine) - so, presumably, since the .csv files don't meet their expectations they just show a generic blank page document preview. In other words, the way I see it, the problem is not trying to work out how to get quicklook to view .csv files - it does that just fine as long as it knows it is a text file - the problem is how to get the .csv files to download as text files rather than Microsoft Excel Document files. For the files that are already downloaded, I expect that I can eventually track down some terminal script to change the file kind - in the meantime I have no problems opening the files so I can live without the quicklook preview. What I am really trying to find out here is how to get my original download parameters back so that the .csv files just normally download as file kind = text - which is how it was all working until last month! The problem is that during the download process, I don't know how, when or by what the file kind of the downloaded file is set so I don't really know where to look for any preferences which have been changed to cause this. Anybody got any ideas on this one? 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 - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Paypal Disputed Transaction ??
All the classic scam hallamrks - the click on the link gives it away - you never do this!! Delete the email immediately. Just for your own peace of mind, you may want to log onto your paypal account - BY DIRECTLY INPUTING THE ADDRESS INTO YOUR BROWSER AND CHECKING THAT YOU HAVE A SECURE CONNECTION. I doubt you will see any suspicious transactions (unless you have clicked on the link!) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2/12/08 6:13 PM, Stephen Chape at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try again, Begin forwarded message: From: Stephen Chape [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2 Dec 2008 5:30:52 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Paypal Disputed Transaction ?? Hi folks, Has anyone struck this yet ? And do you know if it genuine or not ? I got a message apparently from Paypal starting like this:- Dear User, We recently noticed that a transaction may have been made without your knowledge or consent. We are currently investigating the following transaction: It then goes on to suggest that I log onto my account via a link provided, etc, etc. Regards, Stephen Chape Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB flash drive security
Hi Barry, One really easy way is just to use an encrypted disc image - all anyone can see is the image file - you just double click it to mount and it asks you for the password. No password, no mount. Just use Disk utility to create it. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/12/08 12:19 PM, Barry Sexstone at bjsexst...@netspace.net.au wrote: Is anyone aware of software to lock and prevent the contents of a flash drive being seen? I have used lockngo with Windows but it does not work with MAC OS. Barry -- The WA 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: USB flash drive security
Well, that's one way of doing it. Another way is to create a blank disc image (or more than one if you want to split the info into parts) on your mac, then copy the info from the flash drive to the disc image(s) on the mac. Then erase the flash drive before copying the disc images across. I don't know of any way to leave the info in situ on the flash drive and just lock the drive - but you could always Google - it's amazing what you can find out there! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/12/08 1:39 PM, Barry Sexstone at bjsexst...@netspace.net.au wrote: Thanks Neil I was aware of tis method. however. as I understand it this requires setting up a new blank image. I was hoping not to have to copy all the information I have on the flash drive to a somewhere and then copy it back to an encrypted image. Barry On 21/12/2008, at 12:56 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Barry, One really easy way is just to use an encrypted disc image - all anyone can see is the image file - you just double click it to mount and it asks you for the password. No password, no mount. Just use Disk utility to create it. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/12/08 12:19 PM, Barry Sexstone at bjsexst...@netspace.net.au wrote: Is anyone aware of software to lock and prevent the contents of a flash drive being seen? I have used lockngo with Windows but it does not work with MAC OS. Barry -- The WA 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 drops copy protection on iTunes
Just one more thing ;) http://business.smh.com.au/business/apple-drops-copy-protection-on-itunes-2 0090107-7bck.html Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
MacBook Pro starts up on power adaptor connection.
MacBook Pro 2.4GHz 2GB RAM, currently running OSX 10.5.2 Despite having both Wake for Ethernet network admin access and Restart automatically after a power failure unchecked in Energy Saver prefs, the MacBook insists on starting up (ie actually switching on from a switched off state) if I connect up the power adaptor. Typically I might just connect up the adaptor prior to a trip to ensure I start with a full battery for the journey - I do not want the computer to fire up! - Aside from anything else, I don't want to forget/miss this and be carrying around a sleeping computer rather than a switched off one! This is not a new problem - it's been like that since I got the computer (last May) - it's just that I've run out of ideas! I can't find any other prefs that might affect/cause this. Anybody got any idea how to stop this? Any other MacBook Pro users have the same problem? TIA Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: FileMaker Question
Hehe... Just a very silly idea call it Irish lateral thinking... Can you rotate the text 90 degrees in all the fields/boxes... Then print in landscape layout... Sorry, sometimes I just can't help myself ;) Cheers Neil (who has never even used Filemaker) -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/2/09 8:08 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 03/02/2009, at 6:11 PM, Norman Leslie wrote: Hi Folks, I haven't used FileMaker in a couple of years, so I am a little rusty. I have checked FileMaker Support and Knowledge Base pages, as well as a general Google inquiry but couldn't find what I was looking for. I would like to create a Report Layout with the records in columns and fields in rows - this is not an option in any of the Layout Templates, where the fields are in columns and the records in rows. Can someone put me out of my misery? This is for a project I'm doing for the Bunbury Entertainment Centre on a volunteer basis. Thanks in advance Norm Leslie Bunbury Filemaker's Layout Mode does not support this in any way. In fact I'm struggling to think of any database tool that does. By their very nature, you are always going to have many more records than fields, so a vertical arrangement of records displaying a set number of fields (allowing endless scrolling) is the natural and obvious approach. It's also much easier to make sense of. Do you have any examples of the model you are trying to reproduce? -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: MacBook Pro starts up on power adaptor connection.
No ideas on this? Perhaps some other Macbook Pro users could tell me if it is normal behaviour for their machines. (Model/OSX version would be useful). TIA Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 2/2/09 12:57 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: MacBook Pro 2.4GHz 2GB RAM, currently running OSX 10.5.2 Despite having both Wake for Ethernet network admin access and Restart automatically after a power failure unchecked in Energy Saver prefs, the MacBook insists on starting up (ie actually switching on from a switched off state) if I connect up the power adaptor. Typically I might just connect up the adaptor prior to a trip to ensure I start with a full battery for the journey - I do not want the computer to fire up! - Aside from anything else, I don't want to forget/miss this and be carrying around a sleeping computer rather than a switched off one! This is not a new problem - it's been like that since I got the computer (last May) - it's just that I've run out of ideas! I can't find any other prefs that might affect/cause this. Anybody got any idea how to stop this? Any other MacBook Pro users have the same problem? TIA 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 - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: I-tunes
Hi Martin, To use firewire transfer, you need to have started one one the computers in Target mode - that way it just shows up as an external firewire drive on the other machine. For the way you describe, ie to use the iMac to do the work, you need to start the e-mac in target mode. To do that, just hold down the T key whilst you boot up or restart the eMac. It should startup with a blank screen apart from the firewire symbol drifting around the screen. You should then be able to see a new external drive (with the name of the eMac harddrive) on the iMac. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/2/09 10:32 AM, Martin Sulkowski at msulkow...@bbsat.com.au wrote: Hi Everyone I have an I-MC RUNNING 10.4.11 AND AN e- Mac running 10.4.11 as well.I linked both machines with an firewire and try to transfer my i- Tunes library to the e-mac . Can't find the e-mac in FINDER window on I-Mac. How can I make sure that only the songs which are not on the e-mac get imported. Thanks a lot Martin -- The WA 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: I-tunes still not working
Hi Martin, A few things come to mind: - Sometimes when I've had external HDs not show up unplugging and re-plugging the firewire cable has helped - worth a try. - Open disk utility on the iMac and see if it finds the the eMac's disk. - Run system profiler on the iMac (open about this mac and click more info or go to Applications/Utilities/System Profiler) and look under Hardware, Firewire, and see if the eMac's disk is showing up. Let us know what it shows. - Do you have any other firewire device you can try on both computers, in turn, just to check that the firewire ports ARE working on both machines. Another alternative, if you find you have problems with one or the other of the firewire ports, would be to connect the two computers with an ethernet cable (obviously the eMac would need to be normally booted, not in target mode) enable file sharing and transfer the files over the network connection. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/2/09 11:48 AM, Martin Sulkowski at msulkow...@bbsat.com.au wrote: h I 'm still not much further ...I can start the e=mac in targetmode both as administrator as well as other user ,but still I' can't see the firewire symbol on the I-mac.. do I have to authorize the firewire port ???or is there something else I have to do ? Everybit of help is greatly appreciated as I could finf only the same advice on the net as given to me from wamug Thanks in advance Martin On 21/02/2009, at 11:13 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Martin, To use firewire transfer, you need to have started one one the computers in Target mode - that way it just shows up as an external firewire drive on the other machine. For the way you describe, ie to use the iMac to do the work, you need to start the e-mac in target mode. To do that, just hold down the T key whilst you boot up or restart the eMac. It should startup with a blank screen apart from the firewire symbol drifting around the screen. You should then be able to see a new external drive (with the name of the eMac harddrive) on the iMac. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/2/09 10:32 AM, Martin Sulkowski at msulkow...@bbsat.com.au wrote: Hi Everyone I have an I-MC RUNNING 10.4.11 AND AN e- Mac running 10.4.11 as well.I linked both machines with an firewire and try to transfer my i- Tunes library to the e-mac . Can't find the e-mac in FINDER window on I-Mac. How can I make sure that only the songs which are not on the e-mac get imported. Thanks a lot Martin -- The WA 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 -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How to save page in html using Safari ?
Hi Merv, Typically a web page which you view may contain stuff which isn't actually part of the HTML code, but which is called up by instructions in the code - the most obvious example being an image - where the html code will include the source address of the image file. If you save as a web archive then typically you will get a folder containing not only the html page source, but also all the other items required to reconstruct the entire page (eg images etc). If you just save as html then the actual html file will be exactly the same as the html file in the web archive - as you have observed - but if you were to open the pages in a web browser the web archive (or the html file in the web archive folder, if nothing has been removed from the folder) should display exactly as before but the straight html file will show the bones of the page but may well be missing some items or display differently if separate style sheet fies were used. Whether images are displayed or not will depend on how they are called up: If the full image address is used, eg: http://site.com.au/pic.jpg Then the browser will go back to the original site and download the image (assuming the site doesn't have measures to prevent this - but that's a different topic) which will display correctly. However, typically a site will have its images in an images folder and will use a relative address to call up the image, eg: images/pic.jpg Which means the browser will look for a folder called images in the same directory as the html file and then look in that folder for the image file. If you have just saved as html, it won't find the folder (unless co-incidentally you have a folder called images in the same directory - and if so, short of a coincidence meltdown, it won't find the image file in the folder). If, on the other hand, you saved as web archive, an image folder will have been created and a copy of the image placed in it and so all will display as it should. Images are not the only things that are affected- but it makes for an easy example. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/3/09 5:30 PM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond at m...@iinet.net.au wrote: I have Safari 3.1.2 and that doesn't seem to allow a save in html either, but isn't the Web Archive in html. Firefox gives a straight html option. When I open these Save as files in my page spinner they both show the same html coding. I must be missing an important difference. Merv How do I save a standard html page from Safari? (I'm using Safari 4 beta on latest Leopard OS). The options seem only to be webarchive and text. Or do I need to use a different browser like Firefox to achieve this? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA 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: Multi page scan
Hi Peter, I'm not sure if it is possible in a single scan step but, if not, it is really easy to combine the pages in preview - just save all of the pages as pdfs - give one of them the name you want to end up with and open that file in preview and open the sidebar - then drag the pdfs of the other relevant pages onto the sidebar and there you go. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 9/3/09 5:26 PM, Peter Curtis at pcur...@aapt.net.au wrote: Hi I wonder if someone can assist me with the above. Using Image Capture, is it possible to scan several pages and have them in one document/pdf? TIA Regards Peter -- The WA 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: Email being rejected
Hi Wendy, Disclaimer: I am not an email server guru - the following is my understanding of a similar problem I had: I recently had cause to become overly familiar with this (or a very similar) error message!! First-off - the problem is not with your end but with the email recipient's email account - hence you see the problem whichever account or computer you send from. So, assuming that Ronni's simpler scenario is not the problem in your case, if you were in contact with this person by other means (phone?) I am pretty sure that you would find that they have stopped (or had stopped if it has since been fixed) receiving ALL mail on that account. In my case, the problem was with email accounts associated with my personal domain - initially I had had an unrelated problem with the domain (and another one I look after) being down - which turned out to be a failure of the DNS server at the hosting provider - this was quickly fixed but then while the other domain was back to normal, I could get no mail on any email account on my personal domain. When I sent a few test messages from another account (Internode) I got basically the same error message as you are seeing, in my case: n...@possumology.com: host 119.63.204.50[119.63.204.50] said: 550-srv2-syd.eqx.sau.net.au [119.63.206.150] is currently not permitted to 550-relay through this server. Perhaps you have not logged into the pop/imap 550-server in the last 30 minutes or do not have SMTP Authentication turned on 550 in your email client. (in reply to RCPT TO command) I included this info in the support ticket I raised with the hosting provider and, when they finally fixed the problem, they were somewhat vague about how the problem arose: The cause of the issue is unknown at this stage. We had a DNS server outage on Saturday night for our Sydney DNS servers and when these came back online on Sunday something had been modified on the hosting server itself which caused this issue. So, to answer your question: - There is no problem indicated at your end. - They may have shut down this email account (as Ronni suggests). - If not they need to get their email account hosting provider to fix the problem. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/3/09 8:36 AM, Wendy S. Austin at wendy_aus...@mac.com wrote: Good morning Email messages have started bouncing returning the message below to an addressee in Hobart with whom we have regular Email contact.This started happening yesterday afternoon on two laptops using Apple Mail. I also tried sending the Email via Apple MobileMe web mail and also my GMail account, all bounced back. Anyone know what I should do to fix this? 'Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address Diagnostic code: smtp;550-(asmtpout028.mac.com) [17.148.16.103] is currently not permitted to relay through this server. Perhaps you have not logged into the pop/imap server in the last 30 minutes or do not have SMTP Authentication tu Remote system: dns;mail.(Email address removed) (TCP|17.148.16.103| 54140|203.28.48.2|25) (cronos.instanthosting.com.au ESMTP Exim 4.69 #1 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:28:46 +1100 )' Many thanks. Wendy Mauritius Island -- The WA 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
LCD screen cleaning
Hi all, After rearranging my office, my iMac now has a number of greasy fingerprints on the screen. I was just wondering what people find to be the best/safest/easiest screen cleaning methods. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: LCD screen cleaning
Hi all, Many thanks to all who responded with info/ideas. Special thanks to Ronni for all the details the links - I won't just get the window cleaner from under the sink now ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 19/3/09 6:19 PM, Philippe Chaperon at laut...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Everyone and Paul, Good one!! Excellent. Though I've got a twisted mind it never occurred to me :) Many thanks regards to all. Philippe Chaperon 2009/3/18 Paul Doyle doy...@iinet.net.au: Can I recommend this little fellow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfl6wJsjDy4 Cheers Paul On 18/03/2009, at 1:09 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello Paul and all interested in how to clean LCD screens, It's important to never use any paper based products to clean or wipe down your laptop display. Paper towels, facial tissue and toilet paper can scratch your laptop display. They also leave behind fragments of paper that over time will wreck your laptop display. Paper products also leave behind lint which they pick up from the air and you end up grinding this lint into your LCD if you use paper products. Use only special wipes that have been created for cleaning laptop display screens. When looking at laptop display cleaning products make sure that the product is meant to be used on LCDs. There are some cleaning wipes that can be used on CRT displays but cannot be used on LCDs. Using the proper cleaning products for laptops displays will ensure that you keep clean and prevent damage from occurring to it from cleaning products that are too harsh. Take time to read labels carefully and use the proper products for keeping your laptop display clean. This is why I've always used iKlear Apple Polish on all my Macs. http://www.klearscreen.com/ You can purchase it here, or contact Daniel Kerr to see if he can get it cheaper for you. http://store.apple.com/au/search?find=iKlearmco=MzE2OTk1OQ Cheers, Ronni On 18/03/2009, at 9:11 AM, Paul Kitchener wrote: Hi all, My preference has, like Philippe used, been water (filtered or distilled) with soft tissue or toilet paper. Circular polishing action with little to no force towards the screen. Glass iMacs can be cleaned like any glass I believe. Cheers Paul Philippe Chaperon wrote: Hi Neil and all, I have just now finished cleaning the worst laptop screen I've ever seen, or to be more correct the second worse one, and have used a small amount of distilled water to which I added a few drops of isopropyl alcohol, which I purchased at the chemist. This did the job very well for me, and the screen does not show any sign of grease spots or other food particles There are many commercial products available, but they seem quite pricey. Kind regards, Philippe Chaperon 2009/3/17 Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com: Hi all, After rearranging my office, my iMac now has a number of greasy fingerprints on the screen. I was just wondering what people find to be the best/safest/easiest screen cleaning methods. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re:
Hi Gerry, Now that you mention Parallels - this rings a bell! I seem to remember I was printing OK from Parallels (but I use it infrequently) - then it stopped working - probably after upgrading either OSX or Parallels - I don't really remember. At the time, I did a lot of Googling and found the solution (for me) was to download Bonjour for Windows: http://support.apple.com/downloads/Bonjour_for_Windows Install Bonjour on the Windows installation running under Parallels and you can then use Bonjour to search for and install the printer (in Windows). Since then all has worked fine for me. In my case, the printer was attached to an Airport Express and wirelessly networked, rather than being on a Windows network, but I remember it all being very easy to install/set-up. Worth a try if you don't already have Bonjour for Windows installed. Good luck. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/3/09 8:54 AM, Gerald Lloyd at gerald.ll...@det.wa.edu.au wrote: Hi David I am using Parallels for running Windows stuff, But I used to be able to print straight from the Mac through windows printing thingy under the previous system. The updated system does not seem to work. Everything goes well re setup. just no action!! Thanks Gerry Lloyd -Original Message- From David Moyle moyla...@westnet.com.au Sent Wed 3/25/2009 7:14 PM To WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject Re: Evening, Are you using virtualisation or boot-camp? Provided you have the drivers it should be identical to using a 'normal' computer (As described in places.. :)). Can you access the HTTP interface of the printer or ping it? Cheers - Original Message - From: Gerald Lloyd gerald.ll...@det.wa.edu.au To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Wednesday, 25 March, 2009 9:02:47 AM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Hi anybody can help with this MacBook with ssytem 10.5.6 Trying to use windows printing on a windows network. I can access the network and set up the printer but when I print... no action. It used to work on the previous systems... Any clues?? Gerald 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 - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Firewire hub
Hi Severin, I don't know if it is practical for you or not but nearly all my firewire devices have a couple of firewire sockets... and you are supposed to be able to daisy-chain firewire devices - so why don't you just do that? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 27/3/09 4:55 PM, Severin Crisp at sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: My 6 port Swann Firewire hub appears to have carked it. The computer firewire is fine and a drive plugged straight in mounts. The power supply is probably OK as the indicator light on the hub is on. I am unable to find a replacement at this stage, in fact firewire hubs seem to be a vanishing beast. Can anyone offer a helping suggestion, I really need this with 5 external devices connected. Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA 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: Firewire hub
Hi Severin Tony, I actually have a Belkin firewire hub - the old style, looks like this: http://www.welovemacs.com/f5u526slv.html I haven't used it that much (even less now that my external HD is fw800). It tends to get used now just as a firewire cable extender if I'm too lazy to move things around. If either of you wants to give me $40 for it, I can probably live without it (just move things within single cable reach when I need to!) and you can pick it up here in Albany! It was working fine last time I used it (few weeks ago) and we would check it is still working before you took it - but it is a few years old - so if you want a warranty you would be better paying the price to get a new one! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 27/3/09 10:43 PM, Severin Crisp at sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, but I do not use all of them all the time and everything upstream of the one you are interested must be powered on. Short term, I am doing just that. Severin On 27/03/2009, at 6:09 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Severin, I don't know if it is practical for you or not but nearly all my firewire devices have a couple of firewire sockets... and you are supposed to be able to daisy-chain firewire devices - so why don't you just do that? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 27/3/09 4:55 PM, Severin Crisp at sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: My 6 port Swann Firewire hub appears to have carked it. The computer firewire is fine and a drive plugged straight in mounts. The power supply is probably OK as the indicator light on the hub is on. I am unable to find a replacement at this stage, in fact firewire hubs seem to be a vanishing beast. Can anyone offer a helping suggestion, I really need this with 5 external devices connected. Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA 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 Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Slightly OT - Broadband question
Hi Wendy, Like Reg we are very happy with internode. Like Reg we were limited to standard ADSL down here in Albany when we signed up and are still happy with the speed/download limits. Internode have rolled out some new plans and some are due to be available in Albany soon - so I may look at that again later. We also kept the Telstra landline (no option when we signed up) but dropped down to the cheapest plan (now $20.95/month) which let us keep our existing phone number (for incoming calls). We went with Internodes own Nodephone for outgoing VOIP - slightly more expensive calls at 18c untimed local and STD calls but no monthly fee and since our monthly phone bill is nearly always less than $9.95 anyway we come out ahead. If we made more phone calls I'd look at some of the other cheaper offerings - but since we would only save $2 or $3 I like to keep the VOIP with Internode. Since we have one cordless phone unit (4 handsets) plugged into the VOIP and another cordless phone unit (2 Handsets) plugged into the landline we also get the advantage? That if one of us has phoned out (always on VOIP) and someone else calls us they come through on the landline and can be answered without affecting the outgoing VOIP call. However, if there is no outgoing call, incoming calls can be picked up on any of the handsets since the VOIP modem passes the incoming landline calls through to the phone (this will depend on the type of modem you have). Hobart will be quite a climate change from Mauritius - I hope you are planning to make the move in (Hobart) summer! Cheers, Neil on 29/3/09 3:03 PM, Reg Whitely at rwhit...@internode.on.net wrote: Yes Wendy Internode are great. Great service, rates and reliability, and they know Macs. We don't have ADSL2 because I'm happy with the speed and download limits with ADSL, particularly considering the price difference. Also it's only just become available here in Geraldton. Maybe you could get ADSL2+ naked for a better price as we still have Telstra land line. We do have voip phone one way with Engin at around $9.95 a month with 10c untimed local and STD calls and really good international and mobile rates too. You might consider voip 2 way with them and have no land line connection. We use voip to call out STD and landline for incoming calls. Also our Telstra plan gives us 50 free local calls which covers a lot of calls I make for school business, phoning for relief teachers. I could pay a lot less per month and forego the 50 call bonus - probably I should consider it too. Reg On 29/03/2009, at 2:45 PM, Wendy S. Austin wrote: Greetings All Your off shore member in Mauritius is moving to Hobart and I would appreciate some advice regarding broadband lines. I am looking at Internode so if anyone uses them can you let me know if you like them or not. I am totally unable to decide whether we need a land line or not. What are the pros / cons of having one?We do all our international calls via Skype and have mobile phones. Please feel free to send your advice off list if you consider this too OT. Kind regards Wendy Mauritius Island -- The WA 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 -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Installing Leopard on G4 iMac
Hi Walter, If you have the full retail version of Leopard, then you should be able to boot from the install disk and do the erase and install. BUT many of the G4 iMacs (eg mine!) are not supported for Leopard (processor too slow) - in which case you will not be able to install from the Leopard disk. If your iMac is officially too slow there are ways around this - Google is your friend - but you may find the performance very sluggish. Also, if you are having hard disk problems, I would make sure the erased disk checks out OK before spending too much time on set-up. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/4/09 12:09 PM, F.W. Hänel at whae...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi all, I have a G4 lamp shade iMac which requires erase and install because of some corruption on its hard disk. Have not been able to solve it with Disk warrior or Disk utility. The screen remains grey. The iMac came with Panther V 10.3 and was running Tiger until it failed last week. Can I install Leopard after the erase or do I have to start with Panther then upgrade to Tiger and then to Leopard ? Looking for help, thanks Walter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA 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: Installing Leopard on G4 iMac
Hi Walter, Technically, you should be able to install Leopard on the late model 1.25GHz G4 iMac. License-wise, unless you got the family pack, you are only licensed to install it on one machine (either the G4 or the intel but not both). As far as I know, Apple doesn't have any active software measures to stop you installing it on two machines - it's an honour system. If you actually want to run Classic apps, you should stick to Tiger. Regarding the Tiger upgrade DVD - I think that it will probably check for an appropriate existing system before installing - if it can actually see the existing Tiger system on your hard drive (even though it's not booting) you MAY be able to run an erase install directly over the old system. I would think the easiest way would be just to try - the installer should tell you if it needs a prior system present that it can't find. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/4/09 1:16 PM, F.W. Hänel at whae...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thanks Ronda and Neil, I have found the original invoice and the machine is a G4 17 1.25Ghz 80GBHD with Super Drive so it should be suitable for Leopard ? I also have a full retail version of Leopard which I bought to upgrade my current intel iMac. Otherwise I would be happy to re-install Tiger as it gives me Classic as well. If I install Tiger do I have to install Panther first or go straight to Tiger ? But as I have only found a Mac OS X Tiger upgrade DVD I probably will have to install Panther first ? Thanks Walter On 01/04/2009, at 12:39 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Walter, If you have the full retail version of Leopard, then you should be able to boot from the install disk and do the erase and install. BUT many of the G4 iMacs (eg mine!) are not supported for Leopard (processor too slow) - in which case you will not be able to install from the Leopard disk. If your iMac is officially too slow there are ways around this - Google is your friend - but you may find the performance very sluggish. Also, if you are having hard disk problems, I would make sure the erased disk checks out OK before spending too much time on set-up. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/4/09 12:09 PM, F.W. Hänel at whae...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi all, I have a G4 lamp shade iMac which requires erase and install because of some corruption on its hard disk. Have not been able to solve it with Disk warrior or Disk utility. The screen remains grey. The iMac came with Panther V 10.3 and was running Tiger until it failed last week. Can I install Leopard after the erase or do I have to start with Panther then upgrade to Tiger and then to Leopard ? Looking for help, thanks Walter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA 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
Nagging Excel Word
Hi all, This problem seems to have arisen since I recently updated Office 2004. I have the OSX firewall set to Set access for specific services and applications - so when an application wants to accept an incoming connection a dialog box pops up asking if I want to allow or deny connections for that application and, normally, once set that's the end of it. Now with Office 2004 - I allow Entourage (hard to get email otherwise) but block Excel and Word - since I see no reason to allow them. Everything works fine - Word Excel don't actually need to connect - but I still keep getting the popup box asking me if I want to allow the connection (with allow preselected as default!) - even though it is already set to block in OSX preferences. I then duly select block and proceed as normal! It doesn't happen every time I open Excel or Word - but it happens often enough to be annoying - as yet I haven't noticed any specific pattern to what causes it. It seems to happen more frequently with Excel - but that could just be because I use Excel much more than Word! I don't remember the problem before I upgraded Office 2004, in fact I don't remember being asked to allow/deny for Word/Excel prior to the upgrade (though I'm not certain about that). So, a couple of queries: 1) Is this just normal behaviour (ie normal MS annoying feature) - do other users find this happens for them (assuming you have the firewall set to block incoming connections for Excel Word). 2) Is there anything else to set (preferences anywhere?) so that once the firewall is set to block it just accepts that and doesn't keep trying to change my mind!! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Nagging Excel Word
Hi Ronni, No, there is a little application called Microsoft AutoUpdate which takes care of all the applications in the Office package - but I have it set to check manually to avoid this sort of thing :( Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 17/4/09 7:41 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: Hello Neil, On 17/04/2009, at 2:39 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: So, a couple of queries: 1) Is this just normal behaviour (ie normal MS annoying feature) - do other users find this happens for them (assuming you have the firewall set to block incoming connections for Excel Word). Perhaps all Microsoft Products (Entourage, Excel, Word, etc) check for updates when you launch the application. Therefore they need access to the Internet. 2) Is there anything else to set (preferences anywhere?) so that once the firewall is set to block it just accepts that and doesn't keep trying to change my mind!! Have you checked the Preferences of both Excel Word to see if you have check for Updates enabled? Cheers, Ronni -- The WA 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: Nagging Excel Word
Hi Ronni, Hehe... I'm not really a fan of MS in general either! Unfortunately I do a lot of work in Excel and have quite some time invested in various spreadsheets with macros etc (which is why I won't be upgrading to Office 2008). Also I guess I have years of experience with Excel and actually quite like the program. When it gets to the stage that Office 2004 won't play with the latest OSX I guess I'll have to rethink - but by then Numbers might be sufficiently advanced or MS might have gone back to supporting macros... The problem isn't with outward connections anyway... MS seems to make OSX keep prompting me to allow incoming connections - even when I've already told it to block Excel Word. No worries really, everything still works just fine - I just find it annoying when it keeps asking me and I've already told it once!! It would still be good to know (from anybody who uses Excel a lot) whether this is standard behaviour or if it is some setting I've missed. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 17/4/09 8:29 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: Hi Neil, I don't know what to suggest, I don't use Microsoft Office, I try not to use anything Microsoft ;-) Do you have Enable Stealth Mode activated in Advanced? The Leopard application firewall also only blocks inbound connections; it won¹t prevent programs from making outbound connections. Cheers, Ronni On 17/04/2009, at 8:13 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Ronni, No, there is a little application called Microsoft AutoUpdate which takes care of all the applications in the Office package - but I have it set to check manually to avoid this sort of thing :( Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 17/4/09 7:41 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: Hello Neil, On 17/04/2009, at 2:39 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: So, a couple of queries: 1) Is this just normal behaviour (ie normal MS annoying feature) - do other users find this happens for them (assuming you have the firewall set to block incoming connections for Excel Word). Perhaps all Microsoft Products (Entourage, Excel, Word, etc) check for updates when you launch the application. Therefore they need access to the Internet. 2) Is there anything else to set (preferences anywhere?) so that once the firewall is set to block it just accepts that and doesn't keep trying to change my mind!! Have you checked the Preferences of both Excel Word to see if you have check for Updates enabled? Cheers, Ronni -- The WA 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
Me too -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 23/4/09 12:22 PM, Matthew Healey at mat...@mac.com wrote: 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 - 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: MacResolve Spam
It can't just be an old list as mine came to an address on a domain I didn't register till 2007 - but it IS my WAMUG list address. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 23/4/09 1:32 PM, James Devenish at jndeven...@gmail.com wrote: 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 - 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: MacResolve Spam
Hi Digilife could also be the connection for me - I was on their mailing list with that address. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 23/4/09 1:43 PM, rkor...@iinet.net.au at rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: 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 -- The WA 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: Telstra. More
I have internode VOIP and can vouch for the quality of the calls - I couldn't pick it from the landline. Down here in Albany we don't have the full internode range available yet - if I run the coverage check on: https://secure.internode.on.net/webtools/internode-dsl-finder only the bottom 2 of the six package types are available - so I have kept the Telstra line on their $20.95 Homeline budget minimum package. One thing to beware of if you go VOIP only is that if your internet connection goes down you lose the phone - I find that the broadband internet now is VERY reliable, BUT it still occasionally has glitches - recently went down for a short while blamed (I seem to remember) on Telstra hardware. My ADSL/VOIP router has ADSL in AND phone in sockets so if the VOIP DOES go down it failsafes over to the landline (just remember not to make that expensive phone call till the VOIP is back up!!) I see that internode now has the ULTRA package: http://www.internode.on.net/residential/ultra/ which combines ADSL2, VOIP and landline (but not in Albany yet!). One other advantage?? of having VOIP and landline is that even if someone has tied up the VOIP with a long outgoing call you can still receive incoming calls on your normal landline number (assuming you plug in the requisite phones of course). Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 3/5/09 12:34 AM, Robert Howells at rhowe...@arach.net.au wrote: On 02/05/2009, at 11:27 PM, ponti...@iinet.net.au wrote: As an Apple Macintosh user, there is nothing to recommend the bigpond internet product from Telstra, relative to iinet thus westnet, unless Telstra is the only service provider in your area. As a mac user, essentially all your internet traffic (both uploads downloads) are counted towards your monthly Gigabyte limit, ie Apple software updates (a bevy of Apple software updates can exceed the monthly limit of Telstra's cheapest plan - this being only 600 MB - in one run of Software Update). Any iTunes product (movie trailers, music purchases or movie rentals) are counted, as are ABC iView streaming of recent ABC TV shows. The cited examples are all part of the iinet freezone. Bigpond's own movie rentals pay TV offerings, although not counted as part of the bigpond traffic limit, are not usable on Apple computers running an Apple OS, because the products rely on Windows only DRM. If you have an intel mac, you could purchase Windows and a product like Parallels and run windows on the intel mac to get access to the bigpond free content, so you may not be so technically constrained as Apple PPC users. Therefore, as a fulltime mac user, the 12 GB/25GB per month products from bigpond, depending upon your internet tastes, may only be equivalent to a 3/6 GB product from iinet. On the phone side of things, I am noting that iinet's VOIP product, with its much cheaper calls, has improved remarkably in quality - however there can be good reasons to maintain a more expensive standard POTS service (iinet market this as Phone1) , than switch to something like iinet's Naked service which offers only VOIP calls. Richard You may also like to check out Internode Naked adsl2 with a node phone and a node phone number which as I interpret it can make and receive the same usual phone calls as your Telstra landline ! Of course I could be wrong ! Bob Start here : http://www.internode.on.net/residential/internet/home_adsl/extreme/ On Sat May 2 22:59 , Malcolm McCallum doc...@westnet.com.au sent: Suppose it would not hurt . Mac On 02/05/2009, at 10:35 PM, Robert Howells wrote: On 02/05/2009, at 9:42 PM, David Moyle wrote: Promised you an approximate speed.. :) - Original Message - From: Malcolm McCallum doc...@westnet.com.au To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Saturday, 2 May, 2009 9:39:38 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: Telstra. I have just had a very plausible-- and pleasant Indian salesperson at my door and he talked me into changing from Westnet who have given me exceptional service for some years. So did you ask westnet to quote on the same package ? They (Telstra) have promised me speeds of !7 megs approx and $70 dollars less on my combined telephone/ Foxtel/internet cost as well as reliable well supported services. I told the salesperson I would personally remove his reproductive organs if he did not stick to his side of the bargain. :-) I have a rule not to buy anything at the front door , A damn good rule ! I suspect you have been sold by the silver tongue ! Bob I hope I do not regret breaking my rule :-( Mac PS I have a 10 day cooling off period. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml
Re: Virtual PC 7
Hi Bill, Is your machine intel or PPC If intel you need something like Parallels or VM Fusion or VirtualBox (free). Virtual PC is what you use with a PPC mac - but it is a dog, very slow. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 3/5/09 9:58 AM, Bill Parker at re...@westnet.com.au wrote: I wanted to try doing a tax return on-line. The ATO say Virtual PC 7 on OS 10.4 has been tried and works. So I download PC 7 ( ver 03) and it does not work on my machine OS 10.5.6 and ideas anyone? 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
Re: Entourage freezing
Hi John, Susan I think John's problem is that the message is already downloaded from the mail server to his computer, but crashing entourage before he can delete it (in entourage). John, do you have the preview of the messages on in the main window - if so, I suspect that it is the attempt to view the message (when you select it and the preview pane tries to display it) that is causing the problem. Try turning preview off (menu: view/preview pane/none) then see if you can select and delete the message - then you can turn preview back on. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/5/09 6:41 PM, Susan Hastings at susanhasti...@me.com wrote: Hi John, as you have webmail access to your email (with Westnet), log on there and you can read/delete it from there. regards, Susan. On 21/05/2009, at 6:25 PM, John Daniels wrote: Hi all I have received an email from The Mac Tipper Blog to which I subscribe. I do not usually have any problem with these but the current one freezes Entourage immediately I click on it. If I do nothing the program quits. Anyone got any ideas? I can't drag it into trash or delete it. John -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Blank screen
Yes, I'd agree with Susan here - try to narrow down the problem. If you don't have another screen to try, can you find another computer to try your screen on. If another screen works on your G5, it points to a problem with your screen. If another (known working) screen doesn't work on your G5, it points to a problem with the G5 (though it doesn't necessarily mean your screen is OK). If your screen works with another computer it points to a problem with your G5 (probably but not necessarily the graphics card). If your screen doesn't work with another (known working) computer it points to a problem with your screen (though it doesn't necessarily mean your G5 is OK). The other thing to check (assuming its a separate item) is the video cable between the computer and screen - ie try another cable if you have/can borrow one or try your cable in another computer/screen combo (if available). Every test tells you something (though not necessarily the complete picture!) Good luck. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 25/5/09 8:20 AM, Susan Hastings at susanhasti...@me.com wrote: Tom, I'd try booting up with another screen to find out whether its your G5 or the screen that has the problem. Susan On 25/05/2009, at 8:16 AM, thefrogs wrote: G5 tower 1.6 mghz Completely blank screen (Apple LCD) came with the tower when new. tom samson On 25/05/2009, at 7:55 AM, Robert Howells wrote: On 25/05/2009, at 7:03 AM, thefrogs wrote: We have a G5 that now has a blank screen 10.4.(latest cannot see) there is obviously something wrong tried reset PRam, disconnected reconnected, checked drives in Target mode. fear either dead screen - but it was so sudden no warning or dead graphics card. I would appreciate any ideas. tom samson Which model G5 Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Memory Help
Hi Nichole, I upgraded my 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac (also purchased Nov/Dec 2007) from 1GB to 4GB - it was a really easy upgrade. I'm down in Albany and used OWC - although they are in the US they ship worldwide and delivered very promptly. However, whether you want to use them or not, their website is very good for checking on memory compatibility etc. Their iMac page is http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/iMac with further details when you click on the link for your particular model, eg for the core 2 Duo range: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/iMac/Intel_Core_2_Duo On thing I found very useful was their installation video: http://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos/imac_mid_2007_mem/ Which re-assured me when I found that you have to be quite firm when seating/unseating the RAM. You may want to buy locally - if so I am sure Daniel Kerr will not only give you a good deal, he will be able to answer any queries regarding models/RAM/installation. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/5/09 9:38 AM, Nichole Shervington at nichole.sherving...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi there. I have a 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac purchased Dec 2007 It has 2 x 1GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM inside. I was considering upgrading to 4GB If I purchased 2 x 2GB 1066Mhz DDR3 SDRAM will this work in my machine? Would appreciate some help. Thanks Kind regards Nichole Shervington -- The WA 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: IP address
Hi Paul, I'm no network guru, so this is just my thoughts rather than real knowledge! I think an online check would probably come up with the IP address of your internet router. The IP addresses for each computer may or may not change depending on how your network is set-up. If you go to the network pane in system preferences and then go to Ethernet you will see that there are options for Configure - Mine is set to using DHCP which means that it's IP address is allocated by the router. In this case the IP address of the computer may indeed change over time, depending what available address is allocated by the router. Another option is manually where you set the IP address - making sure, of course, you give a different valid address to each computer - in this case the computer IP address will remain the same until you change it. As I understand it though, these addresses would only be visible on your LAN (local area network, ie all the computers talking to the router) the internet is part of the WAN (wide area network). With a typical setup your router is the bridge between your LAN and the WAN. The network pane in system preferences will also tell you the current IP address of the computer. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/5/09 12:28 PM, Paul Weaver at pwea...@westnet.com.au wrote: I was under the impression that every computer can be identified by a unique IP address which doesn't change. If this is the case how can I check the individual iMacs on our house ethernet system. They all pop up the same IP number when I use an online checker. Paul. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA 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: emails
on 27/5/09 8:32 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: On 27/05/2009, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 26/05/2009, at 6:16 PM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi Ronni and Sue Thanks for the reply and its good to be back in the mix. It was kind of weird not having all the wamug emails daily and it only twigged a short while ago!! re the usb drives, I was amazed to see such a large drive being usb powered now. Im going to take my MB in tomorrow and just plug it in and see if I can drag a couple of files across. Not bad value at under $200 for 500gb!! thanks again regards chris Just be aware that your enthusiasm may be curbed if you ever try to copy very large amounts of data at once (such as cloning your hard drive!). USB 2.0 tends to choke and slow to a crawl under such conditions. This is why a drive with a Firewire port, while more expensive, is a much better option. It is much better at sustaining a transfer rate. -- I certainly agree with Peter, I personally would not purchase a USB External Drive for backup purposes or transferring large Video files. Firewire is faster and more stable. Which makes it even more annoying that Apple is now pushing you more more to USB: - Want to plug a drive to an airport extreme for network access - it has to be USB. - Macbooks no longer have firewire ports Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: a drawing - not showing on Acrobat
Hi Gary, Sorry, no idea what you are doing wrong - but a couple of ideas. It may be that the pdf created has some problem that preview can handle but acrobat can't - in the past I have had similar problems with jpg files that graphic converter could handle but other applications couldn't - I found re-saving the file (from graphic converter) solved the problem. I used save as to create a new file rather than just save' on the old file. So: 1) You could try just opening the pdf in preview and doing save as to a new pdf file and see how that goes. However I think the print as pdf basically uses preview to create the file in the first place so you may still have the same problem. Or 2) Open the pdf file in Graphic Converter and then save as to a new pdf file - that way you are using graphic converter to create the new file. (I would be very surprised if graphic converter couldn't open the file.) Rather than keep sending your trials to the printer it might be best if you had some way of checking them yourself first. Have you tried opening them using Adobe Acrobat reader http://get.adobe.com/reader/ (free download) - if the printer can't see the drawing in acrobat, I would expect you to have the same problem in Acrobat Reader - which then gives you a way to check if your save as fixes the problem. If you don't see the problem in Acrobat reader on the mac - I suppose it could be a windows thing. I presume that, in your line of work, you also run windows (under parallels?) so you could also try the windows version of Acrobat reader to check the problem. Anyway a few things to try - good luck. Cheers Neil Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 29/5/09 9:31 AM, gary dorn at garyd...@eepo.com.au wrote: howdy all I've created a sheet size 841 x 6000 mm via Page Setup/custom size. when I PrintSave as PDF , it show up in Preview AOK. I sent the pdf file to my Printer (to print on his Wide format printer) via email When he opened the pdf in adobe acrobat, it showed up blank. We tired moving the file via USB stick, CD but get the same result - looks fine on my mac - blank on his PC. what are doing wrong. chow -- -- The WA 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: BW photo help
Hi Laura, Not sure if this will help but here goes. You probably know that jpg files are compressed (to varying degrees depending on the quality chosen) the trouble with editing these files is that every time you change and save them they get re-compressed and each time you lose a bit of quality - a bit like copying the old VHS video tapes (always copy the original don't copy the copies). Because of this, the general rule of thumb is to do any editing work in an uncompressed (or at least lossless) format and only when you have finished make a compressed jpg file. In your case, I would scan the files as TIFF files (which is supported by iphoto) then do any cropping or other editing. When you are happy with your final photo, save as a jpg (I usually save a copy of the edited TIFF file as well - just in case I want to do any further changes). The point is that you don't have to (and shouldn't if you intend to edit) scan as jpg to end up with jpg. You say you can open your .pct files and work with them OK - you could then save them as jpg files from iphoto ready to upload to snapfish (you need to use the export function in iphoto and chose jpg from the options). The main reason I would use TIFF (.tiff or .tif) rather than .pct is that TIFF is a pretty universal file format whereas .pct is mainly a mac file format - but it should all work with .pct the same. With the resolution, given plenty of hard drive space, I would always start with a higher resolution scan than you need for the final print. You have to remember that the image file is just pixels - you scan the image at x pixels/inch and then print the image at a setting of y dpi (dots per inch) if x y are the same then a scanned image will be printed at the same size but you can and may well want to change the resolution between scanning and printing. Wikipedia probably explains it better than me: DPI refers to the physical dot density of an image when it is reproduced as a real physical entity, for example printed onto paper, or displayed on a monitor. A digitally stored image has no inherent physical dimensions, measured in inches or centimetres. Some digital file formats record a DPI value, or more commonly a PPI (pixels per inch) value, which is to be used when printing the image. This number lets the printer know the intended size of the image, or in the case of scanned images, the size of the original scanned object. For example, a bitmap image may measure 1000×1000 pixels, a resolution of one megapixel. If it is labeled as 250 PPI, that is an instruction to the printer to print it at a size of 4×4 inches. Changing the PPI to 100 in an image editing program would tell the printer to print it at a size of 10×10 inches. However, changing the PPI value would not change the size of the image in pixels which would still be 1000×1000. An image may also be resampled to change the number of pixels and therefore the size or resolution of the image, but this is quite different from simply setting a new PPI for the file. Quite often you might want to start with a number of photos of the same size and end up with a number of printed images the same (or similar) size but have some photos where you want to crop the image to get rid of unwanted stuff around the edges. If you leave the resolution unchanged then obviously cropping the photo would result in a smaller printed image but by changing the resolution scan you can crop the image and then re-size the cropped image back up to the desired print size. This would result in a lower resolution - so by starting with a scan of a higher resolution you can still maintain a high print resolution. Forgive me if the above seems to be stating the obvious - I guess my point is that you can always reduce a higher resolution without losing any quality other than that implied by the reduced resolution whereas trying to increase image resolution using software is never as good because the software has to invent the missing information by extrapolating the existing info. Hope that helps. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 29/5/09 1:10 PM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Please can someone help me with my problem. So far I have scanned 12 of a number of old BW photos to use in a Birthday Book project. As recommended recently by Susan, I am using Snapfish to upload my photos before creating the book. It seems ideal for my purpose but some of the editing tools e.g. cropping, are not available to Mac users. So I need to put the BW photos into iPhoto to edit them before uploading. The scanned images are in a folder on the desktop from where they can be viewed without any trouble at all. However once in iPhoto they are black, no image at all. I've tried using some of the adjustments available to no avail. Then I discovered that if saved as .pct rather than .jpg I can put them into iPhoto
Re: add file extension to a filename
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 - 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: BW photo help
Hi Laura, Re ICC profiles, Wikipedia says: In color management, an ICC profile is a set of data that characterizes a color input or output device, or a color space, according to standards promulgated by the International Color Consortium (ICC). Profiles describe the color attributes of a particular device or viewing requirement by defining a mapping between the device source or target color space and a profile connection space (PCS). More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icc_profile Basically all your inputs, outputs and monitors have different colour characteristics and the profiles are used to try and maintain consistent results when working with images (you had similar considerations with film cameras and different film types and photo paper types). Say you start with an object - it has a certain colour. Now you photograph it. With a digital camera you get a file of electronic info, since different cameras have different lenses, sensors and adjustment algorithms the actual files produced will vary from camera to camera. Similarly with scanning, different scanners have different characteristics. Then you want to edit the image on your computer - you are doing this by looking at a representation of the image on your monitor and different monitors have very different characteristics. Then you need to print it and again different printers/different characteristics. The profiles are used to try and compensate for the different characteristics of all these devices - so that when you are looking at your monitor you hopefully see a good representation of the original object which you can then print as a good representative image. The above is an over simplification of a very complex area (and I am certainly no expert!) - there are many books, references and courses covering the area in varying levels of detail (depending how masochistic you are). This page http://www.color.org/profile_embedding.xalter tells you a bit about embedding the ICC profiles in image file formats. In your case however it seems embedding the profile was causing iPhoto problems but luckily Ronni was able to see through all the techno-murk and solve your problem :) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 3/6/09 5:09 PM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil Thank you for taking the time to explain all about scanning as .tiff rather than .jpg. I learned a lot from what you wrote and have kept your email for future reference. As it turned out Ronni was able, as she so often is, to pin point the problem. Familiar with the Epson scanner I am using, her suggestion to uncheck the option Embed ICC Profile immediately solved my dilemma. I can now scan BW photos as .jpg directly into iPhoto. Perhaps, given your information, not as high quality as they might otherwise be, but for the time being they are adequate for my needs. I might add I have no idea what embed ICC Profile means!!! Thanks again Kind regards Laura On 29/05/2009, at 2:50 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Laura, Not sure if this will help but here goes. You probably know that jpg files are compressed (to varying degrees depending on the quality chosen) the trouble with editing these files is that every time you change and save them they get re-compressed and each time you lose a bit of quality - a bit like copying the old VHS video tapes (always copy the original don't copy the copies). Because of this, the general rule of thumb is to do any editing work in an uncompressed (or at least lossless) format and only when you have finished make a compressed jpg file. In your case, I would scan the files as TIFF files (which is supported by iphoto) then do any cropping or other editing. When you are happy with your final photo, save as a jpg (I usually save a copy of the edited TIFF file as well - just in case I want to do any further changes). The point is that you don't have to (and shouldn't if you intend to edit) scan as jpg to end up with jpg. You say you can open your .pct files and work with them OK - you could then save them as jpg files from iphoto ready to upload to snapfish (you need to use the export function in iphoto and chose jpg from the options). The main reason I would use TIFF (.tiff or .tif) rather than .pct is that TIFF is a pretty universal file format whereas .pct is mainly a mac file format - but it should all work with .pct the same. With the resolution, given plenty of hard drive space, I would always start with a higher resolution scan than you need for the final print. You have to remember that the image file is just pixels - you scan the image at x pixels/inch and then print the image at a setting of y dpi (dots per inch) if x y are the same then a scanned image will be printed at the same size but you can and may well want to change the resolution between scanning
Re: MaxStyle Opens South Perth Retail Store! (10% off all stock opening day sat 6th)
Hi Craig, As you have found out WAMUG really are passionate about all things mac ;) Hey Guys, Since Craig: - is new to the list - was informing us about a specific event (happening very soon) - has apologised several times - has said that he is quite happy to pay to be a corporate sponsor Why don't we cut him a little slack and just give him more details about how corporate sponsorship works. Just my 2c worth! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 5/6/09 8:56 AM, Craig Bruce at craig.br...@maxstyle.com.au wrote: I really do apologize, I was just given this list a few days ago and told there are quite a few heavy mac users on here who would like to know we are open and a bit about us.. hence the post. We really are interested in becoming an active part of the community -- Craig Bruce Director M 0403 040 088 P 08 9367 4691 F 08 9367 4692 E craig.br...@maxstyle.com.au W http://www.maxstyle.com.au Disclaimer: The information transmitted on this message is intended only for the person or organisation to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact MaxStyle Pty Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. On 05/06/2009, at 8:37 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Craig, As Susan has said, Our WAMUG Corporate Members have 'earned' the right to become Corporate Sponsors, and they 'Pay' for the privilege of posting Commercial emails to this list. Ronni On 05/06/2009, at 7:07 AM, Susan Hastings wrote: Craig, Corporate sponsors get known by providing excellent service and by being recommended by members of WAMUG. I can see you wanted to advertise the Saturday event, but you could have contacted a committee member to find out what to do. Susan. On 04/06/2009, at 10:38 PM, Craig Bruce wrote: As I said in previous email very sorry about the spam but really just thought the mac users on here would benefit.. Only joined the list a few days ago and the prompting of another mac user friend who said everyone on here would be interested. Again we are happy to become a sponsor but really just wanted to let people know about us and how we can help out.. -- Craig Bruce Director On 04/06/2009, at 10:31 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: Basically Craig Bruce, you have spammed the WAMUG list. This is not a good way to promote your business amongst Mac users. On 04/06/2009, at 9:54 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello Peter, WAMUG Committee, WAMUG Members, I'm very concerned about this Advertising email. Is Craig Bruce (or MaxStyle) a Corporate Sponsor of WAMUG? I understand Corporate Sponsors of WAMUG pay $200 per year to advertise on WAMUG Mailing list. If he is not a Corporate Sponsor of WAMUG, this email is totally unacceptable! Why do our Corporate Sponsors have to pay $200 per year and play by the rules when anyone can post an Advertising email to the group? This is another way of spamming WAMUG. Cheers, Ronni On 04/06/2009, at 6:11 PM, Craig Bruce wrote: MaxStyle has now opened a retail store in South Perth just off Mends street in the South Shore Piazza (near the windsor hotel). -- The WA 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 -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
WAMUG constitution
Hi guys, I don't want to stir things up again and, as the first poster to suggest we cut Craig some slack, I am more than happy to move on from that subject. During the postings, however, I did notice a possible constitutional problem: From Ronni: WAMUG Constitution: .. 4.11.2 Corporate Members may be voting Members of the Group, and nominate candidates for the offices of the Committee, but may not become or remain Committee Members of the Group Then from Daniel: As a committee member.. As a corporate member Now, lets be absolutely clear here: - I have the utmost respect for anyone who gives up their time and energy to serve on the committee - I have had cause several times to be very grateful to Daniel both for his expert advice (via the list and personally) and for his excellent service when buying products from him. -I have absolutely NO problem whatsoever with Daniel being both a corporate member and a committee member. So it seems to me that to avoid any possible constitutional problems you might want to look at revising clause 4.11.2 of your constitution. Now all the above is just from my readings of the two relevant posts - so If I have misunderstood or misinterpreted the facts in any way please accept my humble and abject apologies. My post is only intended to enable a possible problem to be avoided/rectified rather than to cause any problem. Cheers Neil --- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: WAMUG constitution
Geez Daniel, Sorry for stirring all this up! Being a committee member on another community group, I can assure you you are not the only one who is not too familiar with constitution fine print! I would never have thought to look at the WAMUG constitution myself - it was just Ronni's post followed closely by your post that sort of made it jump out :( I didn't think about the problems of trying to quickly change the constitution (no postal votes!). I'll just re-iterate my personal view that it is the constitution that needs changing rather than the committee! Cheers Neil (who is wondering if he needs to go into hiding) -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 6/6/09 6:40 PM, Daniel Kerr at wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Hi All As being the only corporate sponsor who is also on the committee (Which at present is only 4 of us as we've had no other people interested when we've asked), I'm happy to stand down from the committee until this matter is resolved. I wouldn't like to think that we're flouting the rules. As mentioned in my previous post I've been a corporate sponsor long before I was asked to join the committee and must admit that I skimmed over that part of the constitution when I glanced at it. (Yes, I know that doesn't count as an excuse, otherwise our court system would be emptied very quickly,...) I will leave it to the discretion of the committee/list as at the end of the day it effects everyone and wouldn't like to think that anyone would think this would have been done intentionally or that we don't take it all seriously. (regardless of how silly I can sometimes be for those that know me). Apologies for causing any issues without realising. I can proxy vote my 5month old son to the committee if you like,..he doesn't say much and dribbles a bit (he's teething),...but he always seems to have a bit to say at the moment,...) :o) Enjoy!! Kind Regards Daniel On 6/6/09 5:30 PM, Les Standish comfl...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi Merv. I'm sure that the powers to be have noted your comments and may I respectfully suggest the current committee understands the urgent nature of the problem, as any decision made by the present committee may be deemed null and void. Les Standish On 06/06/2009, at 4:40 PM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Les You have raised a valid point. The current committee - albeit flawed according to the Constitution - can consider the issue and propose a motion for the next AGM or call a Special Meeting of WAMUG and put the motion to that meeting. Which ever meeting choice is taken the Membership would need four weeks notice of the meeting and that notice would include the motion with a pro statement and a con statement. Because the Constitution is being changed 75% or more of those attending would have to be in favour of the motion for it to be adopted. There would have to be a quorum for the AGM or Special Meeting of paid up members - check whether the Constitution says whether the quorum is to consist of ordinary members or ordinary and sponsor members. These are the basics on the matter as raised. Merv Hi all, Me, thinks that more than a can of worms in this instance, has been opened. Please ponder this for a moment. 'Can a committee that, contains many unconstitutionally elected members, vote to change part of a constitution that will benefit the same unconstitutionally elected members? Perhaps one of our members has the expertise to provide the answer but I strongly suggest that more advice be sought before this error is compounded. Kind Regards Les Standish On 06/06/2009, at 12:58 PM, Matthew Healey wrote: Wow... someone actually read the constitution... I think the committee might want to look at changing that clause... as quite by chance, a good chunk of the Committee is actually made up of Corporate Members. :-) On 06/06/2009, at 12:24 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Lol,..good find Neil. I've been a Corporate sponsor long before I was a committee member. Now I'm in trouble,.. The mail-list police will be after me! Arrrgghhh time to hide,... ;o) Will have to talk to Peter H about that one to rectify the problem either way. Thanks for pointing that out, wasn't aware of it. Must have passed over that in reading. Kind Regards Daniel On 6/6/09 12:19 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi guys, I don't want to stir things up again and, as the first poster to suggest we cut Craig some slack, I am more than happy to move on from that subject. During the postings, however, I did notice a possible constitutional problem: From Ronni: WAMUG Constitution: .. 4.11.2 Corporate Members may be voting Members of the Group, and nominate candidates for the offices of the Committee, but may not become or remain Committee Members of the Group Then from
Re: Windows on Mac security
Hi Peter Severin, Now you have got me thinking ;) My main use of windows is to use a specialised SMSF (DIY super) management package. I run XP pro under parallels. Whilst I do all of my general internet/email in OSX, the MySF software connects over the web to check for software updates but mainly to update the share prices in the MySF portfolio. Since I need to incorporate documents created in OSX into the MySF fund file and also to take info from MySF into my OSX spreadsheets, I have a shared folder setup (where an OSX folder appears as an additional windows drive). I can also, obviously copy and paste between windows OSX. Given the above, I am a little confused as to the extent of the windows/mac separation/sandboxing. First, I must confess that I know just enough about networking, virtualisation etc to appreciate just how much I DONT know :( I think I understand that the virtualisation software effectively keeps the whole windows machine in an OSX folder, which seems to mainly contain a disc image of the windows hard drive and a file which I presume contains information about the configuration of the virtual machine. So it seems to me that when you don't actually have parallels (or fusion) fired up and the virtual machine running then your mac is as secure (or not) as if you didn't have the windows/virtual machine installed. I am much less clear on the separation when the virtual machine is up and running. Whilst I am familiar with the sandbox term, I thought I would check how it was explained in Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(computer_security) and I noticed that it said: Network access, the ability to inspect the host system or read from input devices are usually disallowed or heavily restricted. Now my virtual machine must have network access to download the share prices, it can also read from input devices - this is one of their selling points (and lets me use my Windows only GPS map application to download maps onto my GPS) and the shared folder system seems to allow it to inspect the host system? - though I realise this is definitely restricted. When I print from my virtual machine (using bonjour for windows) I think I am effectively doing this over a Mac/windows network connection. Also, as I said, one can copy and paste between systems. So it seems to me that to get a lot of the functionality that makes parallels or fusion the great applications they are, they have to have the authority to access a lot of the Mac's built-in security systems at the highest level - so I wonder just how well the VM is sandboxed. Don't get me wrong, I am not getting overly paranoid about this. Like Severin, I have AVG Anti Virus installed and feel quite happy about firing up Windows - it just seems to me that the systems are not necessarily quite as separated as some of the discussion seems to imply. It also seems to me that if you were creating Mac malware then looking at getting in via parallels or fusion would be well worth investigating - I am just hoping that the subset of Mac users running parallels/fusion is still not large enough to get the malware creators motivated! Any thoughts/comments? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 8:09 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 13/06/2009, at 1:46 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: As a similar reluctant Fusion/Windows user I can say I have been pleasantly surprised. CNET AVG Anti Virus is free and is updated regularly. Because Fusion is really a Mac application running, I do not blieve having it on a separate partition will offer any extra protection. Best wishes Severin Crisp Packages such as Parallels Desktop, VMWare Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox store their virtual machines in Disk Images, which are effectively software partitions. Either way the effect is the same: the Windows system is sandboxed away from your Mac OS stuff. In any event, even if Windows malware does land on your Mac, it cannot live on the Mac OS planet. The exception, of course, are the MS Office macro viruses, but then these are platform-agnostic, depending on Visual Basic rather than the OS itself. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Photo albums et al
Hi Laura, Congratulations on your successful publication! One of the things I love about the Mac is how it allows you to be creative and even makes it fun :) I have been using Macs now for at least 20 years but I'm still constantly amazed at finding new tips/tricks/features (and many from this list). My latest: Although I'd known for many years that ⌘tab cycled through your open applications, it was only recently that I learnt that ⌘~ cycled through the open windows of your current application - now I use it all the time! (in case your mail browser doesn't display the symbol properly that's Command-tab to cycle applications and Command-tilde to cycle windows) Have fun! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 10:26 AM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Good morning all Recently I was given a great deal of help with the scanning of photos that I wanted to use to make an on line photo album. Thanks to all your advice, particularly Ronni, Neil and Susan, I have now created my first photo book using Snapfish (recommended by Susan). It's a great site and, interestingly, is now part of the iiNet freezone. I arranged for the book to be forwarded direct to the recipient who is delighted with the result. It's true that now having seen the finished product I can see room for improvement with the next one but that's part of the learning process. On a totally different subject, while searching for some information on French train journeys and using a French language site, even though my French is very basic, I saw alongside the result of one of my searches what looked like the iCal icon. Curious, I clicked on it and am amazed to find that the information has been sent to iCal on my Macbook, appearing on the appropriate date in September. Maybe this is not news to all you very experienced Mac users but for me it seemed like a small miracle!! 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 - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Photo albums et al
Hi Laura, No it's not just a leopard thing. I think you may have misunderstood the command thing. You don't have to type the Command symbol just press the command key. So when I say ⌘tab or Command-tab it means to hold down the command/⌘ key while you press the tab key (or the ~/tilde key for window cycling) The command/⌘ key is the key immediately to the left of the space bar (at least on my keyboard) and is the key used for most menu shortcuts in the mac eg: ⌘C (command-C) is copy ⌘V (command-V) is paste ⌘O (command-O) is open ⌘P (command-P) is print Or are you saying that this doesn't work for you? Hope that makes sense. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 12:51 PM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thanks Neil. I envy you having been able for so long to enjoy being a Mac user. Some of us take a bit longer to learn about the finer things in life :) Perhaps your tip only applies to Leopard, I am still with Tiger. Command-tab for me just brings up the dock while Command-tilde does nothing at all. The same applies to Eugene's tip, it brings up the dock. I know that Shift+Option+K = but how do I type the Command symbol? I've had a look at the Keyboard Viewer but not sure how it works. Regards Laura On 15/06/2009, at 11:22 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Laura, Congratulations on your successful publication! One of the things I love about the Mac is how it allows you to be creative and even makes it fun :) I have been using Macs now for at least 20 years but I'm still constantly amazed at finding new tips/tricks/features (and many from this list). My latest: Although I'd known for many years that ⌘tab cycled through your open applications, it was only recently that I learnt that ⌘~ cycled through the open windows of your current application - now I use it all the time! (in case your mail browser doesn't display the symbol properly that's Command-tab to cycle applications and Command-tilde to cycle windows) Have fun! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Photo albums et al
on 15/6/09 1:03 PM, Robert Howells at rhowe...@arach.net.au wrote: On 15/06/2009, at 12:51 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Thanks Neil. I envy you having been able for so long to enjoy being a Mac user. Some of us take a bit longer to learn about the finer things in life :) Perhaps your tip only applies to Leopard, I am still with Tiger. Command-tab for me just brings up the dock while Command-tilde does nothing at all. The same applies to Eugene's tip, it brings up the dock. I know that Shift+Option+K = but how do I type the Command symbol? I've had a look at the Keyboard Viewer but not sure how it works. Regards Laura Command is the Apple on an Apple keyboard Bob Or on the new keyboards like mine the Apple has gone! and the key is actually printed with command ⌘ (on the left of the space bar) or ⌘ command (on the right of the space bar) End of an era eh? ;) On 15/06/2009, at 11:22 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Laura, Congratulations on your successful publication! One of the things I love about the Mac is how it allows you to be creative and even makes it fun :) I have been using Macs now for at least 20 years but I'm still constantly amazed at finding new tips/tricks/features (and many from this list). My latest: Although I'd known for many years that ⌘tab cycled through your open applications, it was only recently that I learnt that ⌘~ cycled through the open windows of your current application - now I use it all the time! (in case your mail browser doesn't display the symbol properly that's Command-tab to cycle applications and Command-tilde to cycle windows) Have fun! Cheers Neil -- -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Photo albums et al
Sorry Laura, I think it was me that misunderstood what you were saying! As Alastair says, in Tiger, command-tab does indeed bring up the dock - but tab again and things are highlighted in turn Command ~ would do nothing if you only have one window open in the current application - try opening, for example, a number of browser windows and then try it. Regarding how to type ⌘ - as Ronni says I did use the character palette - just select the character and click the insert button. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 1:14 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Laura, No it's not just a leopard thing. I think you may have misunderstood the command thing. You don't have to type the Command symbol just press the command key. So when I say ⌘tab or Command-tab it means to hold down the command/⌘ key while you press the tab key (or the ~/tilde key for window cycling) The command/⌘ key is the key immediately to the left of the space bar (at least on my keyboard) and is the key used for most menu shortcuts in the mac eg: ⌘C (command-C) is copy ⌘V (command-V) is paste ⌘O (command-O) is open ⌘P (command-P) is print Or are you saying that this doesn't work for you? Hope that makes sense. 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 - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Photo albums et al
Hi Laura, I like to have both Character Palette and Keyboard Viewer turned on in System Preferences International - Input Menu. I find Keyboard Viewer is useful to see how the different modifier keys work for character selection and to check key combinations for just typing things (like your Shift+Option+K = ) For tracking down obscure symbols though you can't beat Character Palette You also find that there are a lot of different options which limit or expand the characters shown. I don't really remember if Tiger was that different to Leopard but my setup to find the ⌘ was: View: Set to All Characters - (View menu in top left of window) Display set to by Category (options just below view menu) Then in left pane open Symbols category which displays various Symbols sub-categories - select Technical Symbols and (for me) ⌘ is at the start of the third line of displayed symbols. If you had the view menu set to,say, Roman rather than All Characters you would find that you had much less options to choose from and Technical Symbols would not be available. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 1:32 PM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni I do have the Input Menu showing in my Menu bar but had chosen Keyboard View rather than Character Palette. However there is still no Technical Symbol option so maybe another Tiger/Leopard difference. Thanks anyway. Regards Laura On 15/06/2009, at 1:19 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, Good to hear your Photo Album project turned out well. To type the Apple Command symbol: Open the Character Palette, then select Technical Symbols you will find it there ⌘ If you haven't got the Input Menu showing in your Menu bar on the desktop. Go to System Preferences International - Input Menu and check Character Palette check Show input Menu in Menu Bar. International Cheers, Ronni On 15/06/2009, at 12:51 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Thanks Neil. I envy you having been able for so long to enjoy being a Mac user. Some of us take a bit longer to learn about the finer things in life :) Perhaps your tip only applies to Leopard, I am still with Tiger. Command-tab for me just brings up the dock while Command-tilde does nothing at all. The same applies to Eugene's tip, it brings up the dock. I know that Shift+Option+K = but how do I type the Command symbol? I've had a look at the Keyboard Viewer but not sure how it works. Regards Laura On 15/06/2009, at 11:22 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Laura, Congratulations on your successful publication! One of the things I love about the Mac is how it allows you to be creative and even makes it fun :) I have been using Macs now for at least 20 years but I'm still constantly amazed at finding new tips/tricks/features (and many from this list). My latest: Although I'd known for many years that ⌘tab cycled through your open applications, it was only recently that I learnt that ⌘~ cycled through the open windows of your current application - now I use it all the time! (in case your mail browser doesn't display the symbol properly that's Command-tab to cycle applications and Command-tilde to cycle windows) Have fun! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 10:26 AM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Good morning all Recently I was given a great deal of help with the scanning of photos that I wanted to use to make an on line photo album. Thanks to all your advice, particularly Ronni, Neil and Susan, I have now created my first photo book using Snapfish (recommended by Susan). It's a great site and, interestingly, is now part of the iiNet freezone. I arranged for the book to be forwarded direct to the recipient who is delighted with the result. It's true that now having seen the finished product I can see room for improvement with the next one but that's part of the learning process. On a totally different subject, while searching for some information on French train journeys and using a French language site, even though my French is very basic, I saw alongside the result of one of my searches what looked like the iCal icon. Curious, I clicked on it and am amazed to find that the information has been sent to iCal on my Macbook, appearing on the appropriate date in September. Maybe this is not news to all you very experienced Mac users but for me it seemed like a small miracle!! 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 - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Of Interest ?
Hi Ronni, That's got me thinking - I have no idea which of my applications are written for Intel and which might be PPC applications running under Rosetta! Out of interest, do you know any trick to scan the applications folder and list which applications are Intel or PPC? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 16/6/09 10:02 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: Hi Merv, It's still included at the moment, so assuming that this option carries through to the production release, then, yes, Rosetta will still be available. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.5.7 On 16/06/2009, at 9:52 AM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Thanks Ronni - that is reassuring. Merv Rosetta is still there in the latest build of 10.6, but it's not installed by default. You must add it in Customize Options. Cheers, Ronni On 16/06/2009, at 9:00 AM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Does this mean that PPC applications will not work under Snow Leopard? Merv On 15/06/2009, at 2:01 PM, Rod Lavington wrote: On Monday, June 15, 2009, at 12:53PM, Philip Trouchet war...@bordernet.com.au wrote: Two points of interest ! 1. Note new Snow Leopard only for Intel Macs leaving most of us as usual behind on Apple upgrades Get used to it Philip. The last PPC-based Mac rolled off the production line years ago now, and I don't think Apple have any inclination of returning to PPC. The sooner they can force people to go Intel, the more likely we are going to see a much slimmer OS X without all the PPC baggage. Not only that, but some SL features will only be available if you have the very latest graphics processors http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090612121357227 . Life with Apple -- The WA 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: Of Interest ?
Hi Ronni, Thanks, that's just what I needed. I'd forgotten all about the Applications bit of system profiler. It looks like, for me, the only PPC only apps that I use a lot are the Canoscan Toolbox scanner software and MS Office 2004. Canoscan would not be that big a problem - I'd probably use it as an excuse to buy a new scanner :) Unfortunately Office 2004 is a must-have for me at present, I have lots of Excel spreadsheets with macros so can't upgrade to Office 2008. Hopefully, Snow Leopard will keep it's Rosetta support. Cheers Neil Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 16/6/09 11:04 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: Sorry Neil, I left out Intel ... Kind will show Intel, Universal, PowerPC. On 16/06/2009, at 11:02 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Neil, I don't know of any trick other than checking in System Profiler Software - Applications. In the Kind column. It lists all your applications kind as Universal or PowerPC . Cheers, Ronni On 16/06/2009, at 10:46 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Ronni, That's got me thinking - I have no idea which of my applications are written for Intel and which might be PPC applications running under Rosetta! Out of interest, do you know any trick to scan the applications folder and list which applications are Intel or PPC? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 16/6/09 10:02 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: Hi Merv, It's still included at the moment, so assuming that this option carries through to the production release, then, yes, Rosetta will still be available. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.5.7 On 16/06/2009, at 9:52 AM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Thanks Ronni - that is reassuring. Merv Rosetta is still there in the latest build of 10.6, but it's not installed by default. You must add it in Customize Options. Cheers, Ronni On 16/06/2009, at 9:00 AM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Does this mean that PPC applications will not work under Snow Leopard? Merv On 15/06/2009, at 2:01 PM, Rod Lavington wrote: On Monday, June 15, 2009, at 12:53PM, Philip Trouchet war...@bordernet.com.au wrote: Two points of interest ! 1. Note new Snow Leopard only for Intel Macs leaving most of us as usual behind on Apple upgrades Get used to it Philip. The last PPC-based Mac rolled off the production line years ago now, and I don't think Apple have any inclination of returning to PPC. The sooner they can force people to go Intel, the more likely we are going to see a much slimmer OS X without all the PPC baggage. Not only that, but some SL features will only be available if you have the very latest graphics processors http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090612121357227 . Life with Apple -- The WA 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: Of Interest ?
And yet in my Intel iMac it shows one: DesktopDB: Last Modified:10/10/07 12:48 PM Kind:Classic Location:/System/Library/CoreServices/SKPlugins/DesktopDB.service No idea what it is or where it came from! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 16/6/09 11:24 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: No Classic on Intel Machines Bob. On 16/06/2009, at 11:16 AM, Robert Howells wrote: On 16/06/2009, at 11:04 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Sorry Neil, I left out Intel ... Kind will show Intel, Universal, PowerPC. Very educational Ronni ! There are also Native and Classic ! On my list I have just 1 x intel heaps of Universal a lot of PPC and a few Native plus a few Classic . Looks like I am staying with PPC for a while yet . Bob On 16/06/2009, at 11:02 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Neil, I don't know of any trick other than checking in System Profiler Software - Applications. In the Kind column. It lists all your applications kind as Universal or PowerPC . Cheers, Ronni On 16/06/2009, at 10:46 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Ronni, That's got me thinking - I have no idea which of my applications are written for Intel and which might be PPC applications running under Rosetta! Out of interest, do you know any trick to scan the applications folder and list which applications are Intel or PPC? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 16/6/09 10:02 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: Hi Merv, It's still included at the moment, so assuming that this option carries through to the production release, then, yes, Rosetta will still be available. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.5.7 On 16/06/2009, at 9:52 AM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Thanks Ronni - that is reassuring. Merv Rosetta is still there in the latest build of 10.6, but it's not installed by default. You must add it in Customize Options. Cheers, Ronni On 16/06/2009, at 9:00 AM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Does this mean that PPC applications will not work under Snow Leopard? Merv On 15/06/2009, at 2:01 PM, Rod Lavington wrote: On Monday, June 15, 2009, at 12:53PM, Philip Trouchet war...@bordernet.com.au wrote: Two points of interest ! 1. Note new Snow Leopard only for Intel Macs leaving most of us as usual behind on Apple upgrades Get used to it Philip. The last PPC-based Mac rolled off the production line years ago now, and I don't think Apple have any inclination of returning to PPC. The sooner they can force people to go Intel, the more likely we are going to see a much slimmer OS X without all the PPC baggage. Not only that, but some SL features will only be available if you have the very latest graphics processors http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090612121357227 . Life with Apple -- The WA 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: Of Interest ?
Actually, on inspection, it seems to be part of the installed Apple system. on 16/6/09 11:32 AM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: And yet in my Intel iMac it shows one: DesktopDB: Last Modified:10/10/07 12:48 PM Kind:Classic Location:/System/Library/CoreServices/SKPlugins/DesktopDB.service No idea what it is or where it came from! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Of Interest ?
Hi Ronni, No, I've never had classic/OS9 on this computer. It seems like it is part of the Leopard installation - I found that others have reported this: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=379401 and http://forums.macworld.com/thread/93384 I don't know what it is/does but since it ain't bothering me, I'm not about to start poking it with a stick ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 16/6/09 11:39 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: Hi Neil, When you upgraded from Tiger to Leopard did you remember to delete the 'Mac OS 9 /System Folder (not to be confused with /System, which is an essential part of Mac OS X)? Also delete the /Applications (Mac OS 9) folder again, not to be confused with Mac OS X¹s /Applications folder? You shouldn't have anything Classic left on your Intel computer. Cheers, Ronni On 16/06/2009, at 11:32 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: And yet in my Intel iMac it shows one: DesktopDB: Last Modified:10/10/07 12:48 PM Kind:Classic Location:/System/Library/CoreServices/SKPlugins/ DesktopDB.service No idea what it is or where it came from! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 16/6/09 11:24 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: No Classic on Intel Machines Bob. On 16/06/2009, at 11:16 AM, Robert Howells wrote: On 16/06/2009, at 11:04 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Sorry Neil, I left out Intel ... Kind will show Intel, Universal, PowerPC. Very educational Ronni ! There are also Native and Classic ! On my list I have just 1 x intel heaps of Universal a lot of PPC and a few Native plus a few Classic . Looks like I am staying with PPC for a while yet . Bob On 16/06/2009, at 11:02 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Neil, I don't know of any trick other than checking in System Profiler Software - Applications. In the Kind column. It lists all your applications kind as Universal or PowerPC . Cheers, Ronni On 16/06/2009, at 10:46 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Ronni, That's got me thinking - I have no idea which of my applications are written for Intel and which might be PPC applications running under Rosetta! Out of interest, do you know any trick to scan the applications folder and list which applications are Intel or PPC? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 16/6/09 10:02 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: Hi Merv, It's still included at the moment, so assuming that this option carries through to the production release, then, yes, Rosetta will still be available. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.5.7 On 16/06/2009, at 9:52 AM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Thanks Ronni - that is reassuring. Merv Rosetta is still there in the latest build of 10.6, but it's not installed by default. You must add it in Customize Options. Cheers, Ronni On 16/06/2009, at 9:00 AM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Does this mean that PPC applications will not work under Snow Leopard? Merv On 15/06/2009, at 2:01 PM, Rod Lavington wrote: On Monday, June 15, 2009, at 12:53PM, Philip Trouchet war...@bordernet.com.au wrote: Two points of interest ! 1. Note new Snow Leopard only for Intel Macs leaving most of us as usual behind on Apple upgrades Get used to it Philip. The last PPC-based Mac rolled off the production line years ago now, and I don't think Apple have any inclination of returning to PPC. The sooner they can force people to go Intel, the more likely we are going to see a much slimmer OS X without all the PPC baggage. Not only that, but some SL features will only be available if you have the very latest graphics processors http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090612121357227 . Life with Apple -- The WA 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: Telstra NextG tethering does work already
Hi Susan, Yes, best to wait till you know what it costs - you might lose your house :o) http://www.smh.com.au/technology/biz-tech/pensioner-risks-losing-home-over- unpaid-bigpond-account-20090618-cj7k.html Cheers Neil on 18/6/09 2:57 PM, Susan Hastings at susanhasti...@me.com wrote: Hi, I have been able to get tethering working for Telstra NextG with the aid of a little config file downloaded from the discussion forum on Whirlpool - so even if Telstra is slow off the mark, it isn't because it can't be done. Now, I'm not going to use it because of the expense. cheers, Susan. On 18/06/2009, at 1:59 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: Hi, I can't find a tethering option under my Telstra NextG settings, Rod has confirmed that its not yet available through Telstra. cheers, susan. On 18/06/2009, at 1:47 PM, Duncan Hardman wrote: It's under settings - general - network Sent from my iPhone On 18/06/2009, at 9:29 AM, Rod Kevill r.kev...@bigpond.com wrote: Duncan - Does the option to switch on Internet Tethering appear on your iphone? It's missing from mine - Telstra NextG... On 18/06/09 8:06 AM, Duncan Hardman duncan.hardman.li...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently I need to contact Optus. Fingers crossed... Sent from my iPhone On 18/06/2009, at 8:03 AM, Rob Phillips r.phill...@murdoch.edu.au wrote: Does the 'tethering' work - to use it as a modem for a laptop? Rob Duncan Hardman wrote: Worked for me :) On 18/06/2009, at 5:55 AM, Jack/Bauer wrote: Downloading 3.0 now here I go. -- The WA 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 -- Associate Professor Rob Phillips Educational Development Room 4.42 Level 4 Library North Wing, Murdoch University r.phill...@murdoch.edu.au Phone: +61 8 9360 6054 Mobile: 0416 065 054 Fellow, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/ guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Iphone 3.0 firmware is out
Optus is $9.99/month for tethering according to this: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/optus-iphone-tethering-comes-at- a-price-20090618-cizn.html Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 18/6/09 6:21 PM, RJDart at rjd...@rjdarts.com wrote: Second that, Virgin is switch on goes to information page instructing how to connect through USB or Bluetooth it works with Powerbook. Small message about additional charges could be applied, my understanding as Virgin helpdesk these are data only, to be advised later I suppose this will happen once they actually start moving 3Gs iPhones, or Optus start hitting them the charges? Cheers! `RobD... On 18Jun2009, at 12:35 pm, Leon Shaffer wrote: I have my iPhone with Virgin (Optus) and Tethering works as it should for me, I turned it on then plug play:) Rdgs Leon Sent from Leon's iPhone 3G... On 18/06/2009, at 12:02 PM, Rod Kevill r.kev...@bigpond.com wrote: Have just talked to the iPhone group at Telstra - they say they are working on it, but nothing is available as yet. I suggested they put an announcment to that effect on their iPhone website www.telstra.com.au/iphone On 18/06/09 10:54 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 18/06/2009, at 10:41 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 18/06/2009, at 9:48 AM, Daniel Forsdyke wrote: I believe Optus are the only Australian network offering it at present. MMS seems to be available across the 3 major networks though. Regards Daniel Forsdyke I'm with Optus. The Tethering Setting is in the Network section of Settings under General. There is a button 2/3 the way down the screen labelled Set Up Internet Tethering. When you choose it, a message appears: To enable tethering on this account, contact OPTUS. I read somewhere last night that this is going to cost $15 per 500 Meg. Compared with the cost of a USB Dongle this might not be too bad, especially since the only place I'm really likely to use it will probably be at WAMUG Meetings... It will be worth the first $15 to see how it works. As a follow up, I have just read in an email from Optus that official pricing and terms will be available from 22 June. Account holders will be able to turn on tethering from within their account settings, as long as they have iPhone 3.0 installed. Again, available from 22 June. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: try this
Maybe But its FUN!! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/7/09 11:36 AM, KEVIN Lock at kal...@iinet.net.au wrote: Oops, sorry! Meant to go to a mate. Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA 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: try this
Hi Frans, You sent this to me personally -sorry, I can't unsubscribe you - I am just a list member like yourself with no access to the list mechanics. You should be able to just unsubscribe yourself though. As the footer on each list email says: Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au The important thing is to send the email from the account that is subscribed to the list - you don't seem to be sure which of your two emails that is, so if you sent from the wrong one that could explain why it didn't work. The simple way is just to click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the next WAMUG message you get. If you need to check which address you are subscribed under just view source for the WAMUG email and you should see your email address in the header. If you are receiving multiple copies of each message you may be subscribed more than once (ie subscribed under both email addresses) if so you would need to unsubscribe separately from each email address. Hope that helps Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 5/7/09 7:04 PM, Frans Hugo at frans.h...@gmail.com wrote: Please unsubscribe me from your mailing list. I have tried various ways but have been unsuccessful. I get the message below. I may be registered with WAMUG as fransh...@me.com or fransh...@mac.com I appreciate any help. Since Friday I have received more than a 100 messages... Kind regards, Frans Frans J. Hugo Mobile: +61 040 6996 596 frans.h...@gmail.com On 04/07/2009, at 6:38 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Maybe But its FUN!! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/7/09 11:36 AM, KEVIN Lock at kal...@iinet.net.au wrote: Oops, sorry! Meant to go to a mate. Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA 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
Create a tab-switching gesture shortcut in Firefox 3.5
For all those firefox users with a trackpad macbook, this looks like a handy tip: http://www.macworld.com.au/help/view/create-a-tab-switching-gesture-shortcu t-in-firefox-3-5-3030 I haven't upgraded to Firefox 3.5 myself yet, but probably will fairly soon. Have fun! Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Prism
Fluid is another, OSX only, approach to this: http://fluidapp.com Fluid was inspired by the excellent Prism (formerly WebRunner) project by Mozilla Labs. Check out Prism for much more information about SSBs and the benefits they provide to WebApp lovers. Fluid is very similar in nature to Prism, but is based on Safari's WebKit rendering engine. And SSBs created by Fluid are true, native Cocoa OS X applications offering seamless integration into the Mac OS. I haven¹t tried either of these yet but they certainly look interesting! By the way Bob it says it is universal so it looks like you could run it on your PPC :) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 28/7/09 1:07 PM, Robert Howells at rhowe...@arach.net.au wrote: Intel Macs only.. no good for me ( PPC ) Bob on 28/7/09 1:37 PM, Rod at l...@mac.com wrote: I'm using it seemlessly as part of the Jolicloud OS for netbooks. Essentially a webpage without all the browser controls. Seeya Rod! Sent from my iPhone On 28/07/2009, at 12:53 PM, Peter Sealy carp...@internode.on.net wrote: Anyone tried this? Roadtest report? http://prism.mozilla.com/ http://prism.mozilla.com/ http://prism.mozilla.com/ 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 - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: File not saving?
Hi Gary, have you tried doing save as to create a duplicate file rather than just save to save to the existing file. It might help if there is some problem with your existing file - it could also help if the problem is a locked folder - just select a different (unlocked) folder to save to. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 7/8/09 3:06 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: On 07/08/2009, at 2:35 PM, gary dorn wrote: howdy I have software which recently had an update v 4.1 universal - (previously ran under rosetta) On my MacPro 10.5.6 when ever I open a file and go to save it, the save is not kept. I checked this on , my Macbook 10.5.6 using same version of software when I open a file ( existing or new) and go to save it, it is kept - ie works properly any ideas whats going on? I have a file which I worked a full day on, despite copy/paste to new files, doing save as backup copy, non of the file data is kept? I still have this file open and dare not close it case there is some work around I have missed so that my efforts are kept. Hi Gary, You don't by chance have this file in a locked folder? Some applications delete the existing file and create a new one when saving, and if the folder is locked, that stops it from doing so. 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 - 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: I Photo
Hi Barry, Whilst you could obviously use photo-editing software to manually write the data (exif date) onto the photos, this would be very tedious and time-consuming unless you only have a few photos to deal with. You probably need to look for some software that will extract the exif data and write it into the actual photo area. A quick Google on print exif date onto photo comes up with around 352,000 entries such as: http://www.digital-photo-software-guide.com/how-to-date-photo.html which suggests zoner photo studio (windows software). Another shown is DateMeNow software (also windows) http://www.ketara.ca/print-dates-on-photos.html which seems to do what you want. You would probably prefer to find Mac OSX software to do this ;) - changing the google search to Mac OSX print exif date onto photo reduces the entries to around 61,700 - but most of the first ones seemed to relate to actually editing the EXIF data (not what you want to do). However, somewhere among the other 61,000 entries there will be some that cover what you want! VersionTracker is another place to look for software that does what you want: http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/ Sorry, I am not personally familiar with specific software to do this. Have fun :) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 20/8/09 9:36 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: On 20/08/2009, at 8:05 AM, Alexander Hartner wrote: In my experience the data is inserted into the photo by the camera. Older ones used to do this, however new models shouldn't do this anymore. On 19 Aug 2009, at 06:50, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: Hello. I am trying to print photos from IPhoto with the original date in the bottom right hand corner of the photo. I am using a Canon Pixma MP510. The IPhoto application is rather old version 7.1. I think the application is the place to insert the information, but I can't see if there is a way to do it. Any ideas?? Thanks Barry Johnston Thanks for your reply Alexander. The data does originate from the camera, and can be seen within the iphoto application on the imac screen. What I am trying to do is to put the date on the photo that I want to print from my own printer. At this point I cant find any way of doing this, and was hoping that there is some thing I am missing when trying to print. Thanks Barry Johnston Hi Barry, If the date is already showing on the Photo (at bottom RH side on the photo) in iPhoto and you can see it in Print Preview ... it will print. Or, have you cropped the photo and the date is not in the cropped photo? Or, am I missing something here? I can send you a photo of mine that has the date included on the photo to your private address for you to compare ... if I am misunderstanding you ;-) Cheers, Ronni Thanks Ronni.The date is showing within the iphoto details, but not on the photo itself. The date details shows up on the bottom left hand corner on an information panel giving details like title, date time rating etc. I have not cropped any of the photos, they are as they were downloaded from the camera. I am trying to put that date on a photo when printing. ThanksBarry Johnston Hi Barry, Ok, now I understand. As Alexander said you need to have your camera set to add the date on the original photo. Then it would print with the date showing. I don't know of anyway of adding the date now onto the photo in iPhoto. iPhoto stores Exchangeable Image File (EXIF) information with each photo in your library. This information includes the photo¹s image size, the date and time it was taken, and the type of camera used, as well as important exposure information, such as the shutter speed, aperture, and ISO film speed. The information panel picks up its information from the EXIF (Exchangeable Image File) data stored by most digital cameras. EXIF is an industry standard that¹s designed to help interoperability among cameras, printers, and other imaging devices. In theory, EXIF support could help a printer produce a better rendition of an original image. To see more information about a photo ... click on Photos Show Extended Photo Info (in Menu bar). Cheers, Ronni -- The WA 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: Snow Leopard
Hi Bob, I think you may have missed the point of Peter¹s question. Ronni¹s email and link covers setting up and installing Snow Leopard so as Ronni says: !!! VERY IMPORTANT !!! The computer you are going to install Snow Leopard on MUST be setup with the GUID partitioning scheme. However, if I understand Peter¹s question correctly, he is wondering whether (having installed Snow Leopard on a correctly formatted computer) he will still be able to work with external drives that are not GUID formatted - ie his time machine backup drive and music/photo drive. So Snow leopard needs to be installed on a GUID partitioned drive - but can it read/write to non GUID partitioned external drives. Sorry Peter, I cannot give you a definite answer on that. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/8/09 1:20 PM, Robert Howells at rhowe...@arach.net.au wrote: On 26/08/2009, at 1:04 PM, Peter Tomlinson wrote: Regarding the formatting of drives does that include all external drives? I have a time machine backup drive that is not guid but apple and a further backup of music and photo's that is the same. Will these not work with Leopard? Thanks Peter Tomlinson Albany 20 Imac Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 320GB OS X 10.5.8 Peter , You are running Leopard and they are working now right ? I think you meant to ask whether they would work with Snow Leopard . ! ? Right ? Go back to Ronda's mail 25 August 12:36 where she said *** !!! VERY IMPORTANT !!! The computer you are going to install Snow Leopard on MUST be setup with the GUID partitioning scheme. Cheers, Ronni also same day at 12.19 she offered this link for further information about preparing for SNOW Leopard http://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/17/mac-201-preparing-your-mac-for-snow-leopard/ Have fun Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Snow Leopard compatibility
Hi Pedro Ronni, With regard to DesktopDB - as I noted a while back, although DesktopDB is listed as a Classic application it seems to be part of the standard Leopard installation: on 16/6/09 1:00 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Ronni, No, I've never had classic/OS9 on this computer. It seems like it is part of the Leopard installation - I found that others have reported this: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=379401 and http://forums.macworld.com/thread/93384 I don't know what it is/does but since it ain't bothering me, I'm not about to start poking it with a stick ;) Cheers Neil On my Intel iMac it shows up as: DesktopDB: Last Modified:10/10/07 12:48 PM Kind:Classic Location:/System/Library/CoreServices/SKPlugins/DesktopDB.service Bob's thoughts on this was: on 16/6/09 1:13 PM, Robert Howells at rhowe...@arach.net.au wrote: I wonder ... If the file DesktopDB.service ' is there so that when/if the hard drive is viewed by an earlier OS that it provides the link into the older OS ? Like : what happens during Target Disk mode ( yes its OSX ) and / or firewire connected from an external enclosure Just a thought Bob Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it Pedro - although there seems to be some confusion as to what it is/does, it does not seem to cause any problems ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 28/8/09 10:50 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Pedro, As Susan has already noticed DesktopDB - classic You wouldn't have been able to RUN this in Leopard! You can't run Classic in Leopard or on an Intel Mac. When installing Snow Leopard over Leopard if you have PPC Apps (that you really need to use) be sure to do customise install as you have to tick Rosetta. If you don't Install Rosetta by using the Custom Install option, if you use an application that requires Rosetta, software update will pop- up with a window telling you need to download Rosetta to run that software. I would suggest you only install Rosetta using the Custom Install if you really need to use PowerPC Applications. Do you need to use the Applications you have listed below? Is the HP Uninstaller for your Current Printer? If not use an application like AppZapper or AppCleaner to get rid of them and all associated files. Cheers, Ronni On 28/08/2009, at 5:44 AM, Susan Hastings wrote: hi Pedro, Ronni posted information on this in the past few days, so it would be worthwhile looking through the WAMUG emails on Snow Leopard. PowerPC applications will run if you choose the option to install Rosetta - the only reason you can run them at the moment is that you have Rosetta installed by default. With the Classic application - is that something you are actually running or just something that is there from the distant past? cheers, Susan. On 27/08/2009, at 11:13 PM, Pedro wrote: Hello Muggers After reading a few earlier posts about the compatibility of some apps and the new Snow Leopard I didn't think I would have a problem as my macbook is only about one year old. I have always kept up with the updates and am very careful as to what I install from the internet. (only programmes recommended from this list) I have been doing a bit of spring cleaning and preparing for the new OS and I went to About this Mac/more info/Software/Applications just to check all the Apps I have. All are either Intel or Universal with the following exceptions :- DesktopDB - classic Disk Inventory X v1.0 PowerPC HP uninstaller v8.2.4 PowerPC MacTheRipper v2.6.6 PowerPC Am I correct in believing that these apps will not work with OS X 10.6 Cheers Pedro MacBook 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo 2 GB/667 MHz 160GB -- The WA 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: Microsoft Office 2004
Hi Tony, I can't help you with Office 2004 - I still use mine on a daily basis ;o) However, if you can hang on for a while MS say they will be re-introducing VBA in the next major release of Office for Mac: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2008/05/mac-bu-talks-office-2008-sp1-vbas -triumphant-comeback.ars Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/9/09 11:31 AM, Evers at ev...@bbnet.com.au wrote: I'm hoping to find/buy/scavenge Office 2004 if anyone has a spare or outdated copy? I have been using the original Office for Mac X at home and finally decided to upgrade, only to discover that Office 2008 does not run VB macros so I couldn't use EndNote for making citations as I go, and my wife would miss some Excel functionality - we have been used to using these features at work and would like them at home. I'm not sure which version I will need - if home student edition has these features then that will be fine. Also, a family licence edition would be great as there are 5 macs in our house. Thanks in anticipation... Cheers Tony Evers -- The WA 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: .tif and Snow Leopard
Yes this change seems to have upset a few people! I must admit I preferred the old behaviour where, for example: General html files were handled by my browser (Firefox) by default - but if I was creating or editing a html file in BBEdit it would open back up in BBEdit. Similarly, Preview was my default jpg file handler - easiest to just check out downloaded images - but if I had been using Graphic Converter to work on the image it would open back up in Graphic Converter, or if I had been editing with Photoshop Elements it would open back up in Elements. To me, it was convenience like this that was part of the Mac way that poor Windows users missed. exit grumpy old fart mode NEW (RELATED) QUESTION: I am going to wait a while before I think about upgrading to SL (I would need to upgrade a few applications) but I wonder if one of you early adopters could check out one thing for me: A while back I posted about downloaded .csv file no longer displaying in quicklook (original post 22/11/08, follow up through to 28/11/08). I tracked down the problem to a change in how the files downloaded: (as 'kind = Microsoft Excel Document rather than as kind = text) as per my previous post: I don't have a problem opening the .csv files and Excel is already the default application to do so - I don't want to open them in a text editor (but could easily do so if I wanted). The problem is how my system is downloading the .csv files: They used to download as kind = text (which a csv file really is) and quicklook and finder would preview just fine. They now download as 'kind = Microsoft Excel Document (which, strictly speaking, it isn't) and which stops quicklook and finder from previewing them. It's not a major problem - both kinds open fine in Excel - it's just that I used to be able to quicklook these as they were downloaded - but now I can't without first converting the file kind to text - and it annoys me!! I did find an easy workaround to change the downloaded file: For the files that are already downloaded, I expect that I can eventually track down some terminal script to change the file kind - in the meantime I have no problems opening the files so I can live without the quicklook preview. This actually proved to be even easier than I thought - Google pointed me to this automator action: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/changefiletypeandcreator.html Using the select file button on the automator action to select a working csv file populated the file type box with TEXT and the creator box with XCEL. Then running the automator action on one of the problem files resets the kind to text and now quicklook and the get info preview pane preview the .csv file just fine. Which just leaves me with the main problem of how to get the .csv files downloaded with the correct settings in the first place! Well, I never did find a way to change the download behaviour but now, given SL's different take on creator and type codes, I am wondering whether the problem/fix might change - so my question - to any SL users who could check: 1) Does a downloaded .csv file still look the same in get info ie: - Get info shows kind as Microsoft Excel Document and open with as Microsoft Excel - Get info icon is a blank page icon 2) Does a downloaded.csv file still just show a blank page icon in quicklook (and get info preview). 3) If the answer to 1) 2) is yes, does changing the kind to text still solve the problem (ie restore the quicklook view). I'm just wondering how all this ties together! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 10/9/09 8:48 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 09/09/2009, at 3:05 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: I regularly receive emails with an attachment in .tif format. Since Snow Leopard was installed the icons for each page of the attachment show up in the sidebar in Preview, but I cannot open the pages. The attachments print from Preview without any difficulty . If I change the suffix from .tif to .tiff , however, the documents open in Preview. Why could this be? Regards, Michael Hawkins. One downside to Snow Leopard is the way it now interprets filename extensions. Since its inception, Mac OS has made of use of hidden Creator Codes and Type Codes to identify the origin of files. In this way, a TIFF file created in Photoshop, for example, would always open automatically in Photoshop, whereas one created with, say, AppleWorks, would always open automatically in AppleWorks. The Creator and Type codes would handle it all, and the user was oblivious to it all. Mac OS was unique among OSes in its use of this metadata. In Snow Leopard, it seems Apple have abandoned this approach, and gone back to the pure UNIX roots of the OS, which has no regard for these codes at all. There is a comprehensive treatise
Re: .tif and Snow Leopard
Hi Ronni, Thanks for that feedback. I have just upgraded firefox to 3.5.2 and OSX to 10.5.8 so I thought I'd check again (in case that had fixed anything) but no - I'm still getting kind:Microsoft Excel document and no quicklook preview until I change the type so that kind:Text. I remember when I first raised this that you said: Quicklook needs extra plugins to view certain files. I have been looking for a .csv Quicklook Plugin for my Commsec download files for months, have not been able to find on yet! We might have to program our own . So I'm interested as to when it started working for you - is this new with SL or did you find another fix before the upgrade? - also I'm interested that your files have 'kind = CSV Document - is this what changed when it started working for you or were they always showing this but quicklook changed to now preview them OK? No need for the screenshots - I get the icon with text after I change the file type and then quicklook shows the csv text file - from what you say quicklook treats the csv document more like an excel file and shows a spreadsheet format - I really wouldn't mind either it seems that (at least in Leopard) quicklook just gets confused by a csv file with 'kind = Microsoft Excel Document and shows a blank preview. It's no big deal - as I said, I have my workaround - I'm just curious as to what has changed Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 10/9/09 3:13 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: On 10/09/2009, at 2:09 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: NEW (RELATED) QUESTION: Hello Neil, Well, I never did find a way to change the download behaviour but now, given SL's different take on creator and type codes, I am wondering whether the problem/fix might change - so my question - to any SL users who could check: 1) Does a downloaded .csv file still look the same in get info ie: - Get info shows kind as Microsoft Excel Document and open with as Microsoft Excel No, my downloaded .csv shows in Get Info as Kind CSV Document - Get info icon is a blank page icon No, it has an icon with text 2) Does a downloaded.csv file still just show a blank page icon in quicklook (and get info preview). No, it shows as a spreadsheet (table format) 3) If the answer to 1) 2) is yes, does changing the kind to text still solve the problem (ie restore the quicklook view). No need to as the answers to ! 2 are NO :-) I'm just wondering how all this ties together! If you would like Neil I can send you off list a couple of screenshots of the two windows. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 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 - 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: Built-in FM tuner
Well, there will probably be several more iPod models before we see digital radio down here in Albany - there is still no sign of commercial digital TV yet!! (Though with ABC1, ABC2, SBS1 now SBS2 I'm not really missing GWN WIN!) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 11/9/09 5:48 AM, Paul Weaver at pwea...@westnet.com.au wrote: I see Apple are trumpeting The new built-in FM tuner in their latest iPod nano. Maybe someone could tell them that FM has become old fashioned in Australia and digital radio is all the go. Paul. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA 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: Built-in FM tuner
Hi Severin, My understanding is that the radio stations you get on our settop box are just another channel multiplexed from the TV transmitter - whilst they are certainly digital you could think of it as digital TV without pictures ;) The recent rollout of digital radio is quite different. The new digital radios that are being sold wouldn't pick up the radio channels that your settop box does and viceversa. As far as I know, if you have one of the new digital radios in Albany you would pick up nothing! - unless you had one of the models that also includes FM. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 11/9/09 10:14 AM, Severin Crisp at sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Neil, with my settop box I also get several ABC and SBS digital radio channels Severin On 11/09/2009, at 9:51 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Well, there will probably be several more iPod models before we see digital radio down here in Albany - there is still no sign of commercial digital TV yet!! (Though with ABC1, ABC2, SBS1 now SBS2 I'm not really missing GWN WIN!) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 11/9/09 5:48 AM, Paul Weaver at pwea...@westnet.com.au wrote: I see Apple are trumpeting The new built-in FM tuner in their latest iPod nano. Maybe someone could tell them that FM has become old fashioned in Australia and digital radio is all the go. Paul. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA 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 Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA 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
³Homegrown Terra-rists² Ignite Video
Put you computer to good use - keep an eye on those sneaky plants!! Botanicalls opens a new channel of communication between plants and humans, in an effort to promote successful inter-species understanding. I thought this video was pretty good - as they say on the webpage You may want to skip past the introand start at 1:33. Check it out: http://www.botanicalls.com/2009/02/homegrown-terra-rists-ignite-video/ -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: .tif and Snow Leopard
Yes, thanks for that James. I¹ve now downloaded installed the plug-in and it is certainly easier than running the Automator script for each file! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 16/9/09 6:16 AM, David Nicholas at david...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thanks for this one, James. It fixed an annoying difficulty I have had in downloading csv reports from Toastmasters International with Leopard. David On 12/09/2009, at 9:46 AM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Neil, Sorry I missed your original posting. I use CSV files extensively. The issue is that 10.5's QuickLook doesn't have a setting for CSV files -- it treats them as unknown. You can download a nifty CSV plugin for QuickLook here: http://code.google.com/p/quicklook-csv/ (I have used this one...there may be others). In 10.6, CSV is understood natively. 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 - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: A Photoshop hitch
Hi Severin, The cause is, as Ronni says, more than likely corrupt metadata - since it seems to effect lots of these files it could be due to a problem with the original image processing/saving that created the jpgs. With regard to opening the files some programs seem to be a lot more fussy about tolerating these problems - in your case Photoshop CS3 is being fussy (thanks Adobe!) whereas iPhoto, Preview and Graphic converter are OK with it. I have always found that Graphic Converter will often manage to open all sorts of problem files - eg with downloaded images that have only partially downloaded most programs complain about corrupt file or just fail to open but Graphic converter tends to open them and just show the 20%, 50% or whatever of the image that has downloaded - very useful if you are in a tearing hurry and a large download has failed at 90%+. If Graphic Converter can open it then, as you have found, doing a save as from Graphic converter will generally clean up the file enough for general consumption. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 18/9/09 3:38 PM, Severin Crisp at sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Well, Daniel, you have come up with something useful here. Opening a nogood image in Graphic Converter then saving as either a .jpg or .psd comes up with a file that Photoshop CS3 is completely now happy with. Shows mea way forward but it would be nice to know what the cause really is! Thanks to Daniel and Ronni on this Severin On 18/09/2009, at 2:51 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Could br corrupt resource information that only PShop uses. If you open into say GConvertor and save as back out as a new image, then reopen into PShop does it still crash? (note to Steve Jobs. Could we please have a speech to text application for iPhone then I can answer my emails while driving by just my talking the reply instead of typing. Would work with SMS as well). :) /start flame threadnow :) hehe (and no I didn't type it while driving) :) hehe Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: dan...@macwizardry.com.au Web:http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For Everything Macintosh** On 18/09/2009, at 2:28 PM, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Yes, it still crashes Severin On 18/09/2009, at 2:17 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Severin, Have you tried not assigning the working profile to these images? On 18/09/2009, at 2:12 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: Ronni, yes it only some of them and iPhoto, Preview and Graphic Converter are happy with them all. I can detect no differences, a real mystery. Something to puzzle over on this inhospitable windy and wet afternoon. Severin On 18/09/2009, at 1:55 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 17/09/2009, at 5:07 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I am handling a large collection of photos of the Albany Summer School from 2003 to the present, not my collection, someone else's. They are innocent looking JPEGS and all import happily into iPhoto and usually do not have an embedded profile. When trying to open them in Photoshop CS3, some, but not all, cause Photoshop to crash when told to assign the working profile. These same problem files open perfectly in Graphic Converter (and in Preview) and from Graphic Converter they copy and paste with no problem into Photoshop. I can see nothing at all unusual about these particular problem files. I am wondering if CS3 has been left behind by my Leopard 10.5.8 but suspect it is something much more radical. Help welcomed. I am talking about 1000 photos. Hi Severin, I was waiting hoping someone else would have a shot at solving this for you :-( It's not ALL the jpegs that are causing Photoshop CS3 to crash? If it is not ALL the jpegs, it has to be something specific to those images? There was a known issue with Photoshop CS3 crashing which was due to updating Version Cue CS3 3.1.0, but your problem is only happening on certain jpegs. Solutions to the Version Cue CS3 3.1.0 update can be found at the below links: http://doctorgeek.blogspot.com/2007/10/solution-for-photoshop-cs3-crash- freeze.html http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402521.html Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 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 - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email
Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today
Hi Peter, Out of interest, did you use all three just to compare the different applications - or do you use different VMs for different tasks. What, if any, would you rate as the particular pros/cons or points of difference of the three approaches - other than the obvious cost advantage of Sun's VirtualBox. I've only ever run Parallels 3.0 - just because it seemed to be the one everyone recommended at the time that I purchased it - I had a lot of trouble at the time upgrading my XP Pro VM (imported from Virtual PC) to SP2 but once I got that sorted (thank you Peter Hinchcliffe!) it seems to do OK so I didn't look any further. However, I suppose that at some point (SL upgrade?) I will need to look at upgrading from Parallels 3.0 - so I suppose that will be a good time to also look at the alternatives. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/9/09 10:12 AM, Christopher S at c...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Peter I've used the current versions of Parallels and Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox (which is free) and they are all pretty good virtual machines. Unless you are talking the latest Windows games I would think any of the above would be fine for most apps. Games may run best in Fusion but BootCamp is probably the better option - that is of course debatable. There is a big caveat with all three and that is that you need to own a copy of Windows to install in the virtual machine. If it's only a couple of apps that you need like the ATO Tax App then I'd probably suggest Sun's VirtualBox. Regards, Chris. From: Peter Curtis pcur...@aapt.net.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:57:06 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today Hi I need to run windoze for a couple of applications that can't be run on a Mac and currently use a small windows laptop. Now that I've bought a intel Mac I intend to run windoze on it but haven't got around to choosing which program to use. This email suggests now might be the time to make up my mind. The question is: Is VMWare Fusion a reasonable program to use for someone who wants to run a couple of windoze programs on their Mac? or should I be more careful in choosing what program I use? Thanks in anticipation. Regards Peter On 21/09/2009, at 9:38 AM, Christopher S wrote: Hi Guys, Just a heads up Vmware Fusion 2.0.5 is US$34.95 till 11.30AM Monday 21 September at this site: http://www.mupromo.com/deal/960/4438/vmware-fusion this is quite a saving if you¹re in the market for Fusion/Parallels. -- The WA 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: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today
Sorry, this obviously should have been directed to Chris, rather than Peter. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/9/09 10:47 AM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Peter, Out of interest, did you use all three just to compare the different applications - or do you use different VMs for different tasks. What, if any, would you rate as the particular pros/cons or points of difference of the three approaches - other than the obvious cost advantage of Sun's VirtualBox. I've only ever run Parallels 3.0 - just because it seemed to be the one everyone recommended at the time that I purchased it - I had a lot of trouble at the time upgrading my XP Pro VM (imported from Virtual PC) to SP2 but once I got that sorted (thank you Peter Hinchcliffe!) it seems to do OK so I didn't look any further. However, I suppose that at some point (SL upgrade?) I will need to look at upgrading from Parallels 3.0 - so I suppose that will be a good time to also look at the alternatives. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/9/09 10:12 AM, Christopher S at c...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Peter I've used the current versions of Parallels and Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox (which is free) and they are all pretty good virtual machines. Unless you are talking the latest Windows games I would think any of the above would be fine for most apps. Games may run best in Fusion but BootCamp is probably the better option - that is of course debatable. There is a big caveat with all three and that is that you need to own a copy of Windows to install in the virtual machine. If it's only a couple of apps that you need like the ATO Tax App then I'd probably suggest Sun's VirtualBox. Regards, Chris. From: Peter Curtis pcur...@aapt.net.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:57:06 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today Hi I need to run windoze for a couple of applications that can't be run on a Mac and currently use a small windows laptop. Now that I've bought a intel Mac I intend to run windoze on it but haven't got around to choosing which program to use. This email suggests now might be the time to make up my mind. The question is: Is VMWare Fusion a reasonable program to use for someone who wants to run a couple of windoze programs on their Mac? or should I be more careful in choosing what program I use? Thanks in anticipation. Regards Peter On 21/09/2009, at 9:38 AM, Christopher S wrote: Hi Guys, Just a heads up Vmware Fusion 2.0.5 is US$34.95 till 11.30AM Monday 21 September at this site: http://www.mupromo.com/deal/960/4438/vmware-fusion this is quite a saving if you¹re in the market for Fusion/Parallels. -- The WA 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: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today
Hi Chris, Thanks very much for that feedback. It sounds like you have swapped back and forth between Parallels Fusion a bit - do you move VMs around when you do this (ie import pre-existing VMs created in another program) or do you set up a new VM from scratch each time? Do all three actually allow you to import VMs from the other two or are there restrictions on this? (that's how I went from VPC on a PPC Mac to Parallels on an Intel mac and it was relatively painless in that case). If you have imported VMs from other programs I woud be interested in your thoughts as to how well this works between Parallels/Fusion/VirtualBox Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/9/09 6:40 PM, Christopher S at c...@iinet.net.au wrote: Well I've been using Parallels and Fusion on and off from the beginning initially as my main work PC running Office 2003/2007, corporate apps, Adobe design apps and for the testing of apps like SketchUp and SolidWorks. Each version of each app gets better and in some cases overtakes the other one. So earlier this year Parallels was slightly faster at most tasks than Fusion see this review: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.25/25.04/VMBenchmarks/index.html That was with VMware Fusion 2.0.1. Fusion is now up to 2.0.5 so it's probably slightly faster than Parallels. In terms of features they are so similar. In the early versions Parallels interface was a bit nicer - kinda Tonka Toyified. Fusion has certainly caught up now though. Similarly VirtualBox is improving all the time, there was an update just the other week. Speaking of VirtualBox it is straightforward to use if nothing goes wrong. If it does you may have to do a bit of searching on the net or playing around to sort it out. I suppose this is where its downfall is. Parallels and VMware's support is pretty good - I've had to contact both and both have responded quickly. With VirtualBox being a free product you're on your own a little bit - but hey did I say it's free, and really impressive for a freebie. My colleagues set up VirtualBox on a complete novice to VMs iMac and he's really happy with it. Currently I'm running Parallels 4.0.3846 with Windows 7RC on Snow Leopard 10.6.1 and it's running really well. The only reason I'm using Parallels over Fusion is that it came as part of a MacUpdate Promo. Otherwise I would have gone for the Fusion offer this morning. I wouldn't consider gaming with these VMs however using Bootcamp on a MacPro is awesome... Hope this is helpful in some way - sorry for the lack of specifics I'm not in IT anymore. Regards, Chris. From: Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:47:44 +0800 To: WAMUG wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today Hi Peter, Out of interest, did you use all three just to compare the different applications - or do you use different VMs for different tasks. What, if any, would you rate as the particular pros/cons or points of difference of the three approaches - other than the obvious cost advantage of Sun's VirtualBox. I've only ever run Parallels 3.0 - just because it seemed to be the one everyone recommended at the time that I purchased it - I had a lot of trouble at the time upgrading my XP Pro VM (imported from Virtual PC) to SP2 but once I got that sorted (thank you Peter Hinchcliffe!) it seems to do OK so I didn't look any further. However, I suppose that at some point (SL upgrade?) I will need to look at upgrading from Parallels 3.0 - so I suppose that will be a good time to also look at the alternatives. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/9/09 10:12 AM, Christopher S at c...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Peter I've used the current versions of Parallels and Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox (which is free) and they are all pretty good virtual machines. Unless you are talking the latest Windows games I would think any of the above would be fine for most apps. Games may run best in Fusion but BootCamp is probably the better option - that is of course debatable. There is a big caveat with all three and that is that you need to own a copy of Windows to install in the virtual machine. If it's only a couple of apps that you need like the ATO Tax App then I'd probably suggest Sun's VirtualBox. Regards, Chris. From: Peter Curtis pcur...@aapt.net.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:57:06 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today Hi I need to run windoze for a couple of applications that can't be run on a Mac and currently use a small windows laptop. Now that I've bought a intel Mac I
Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today
Hi Chris, Again, thanks very much for the feedback. Yes, I really appreciate the benefits of using a VM image. To avoid filling up my Time machine drive, I exclude the VM images from the TM backups - instead I use the VM clone function make a backup VM image whenever I do any significant work in Windows (including updates etc) - I prefer to keep control of this myself. OK, so it sounds to be pretty well covered between VMware Fusion and Parallels - did you also try this with VirtualBox - ie converting a Parallels/Fusion machine for use with VirtualBox and/or convert a VirtualBox machine for use with a Parallels/Fusion machine? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/9/09 6:06 PM, Christopher S at c...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil, Yes, I've been lucky enough to test them out. Initially I started off using Bootcamp on a dedicated partition. We then got hold of Parallels and used that with that with the Bootcamp partition so I didn't have to create an image - one of the downsides here is that you can't suspend Windows ie you have to wait for it to startup everytime - I think that is still the case. When using an image though you can suspend to your hearts content, which is a bit faster. I also used Fusion the Bootcamp image - though not at the same time... I then decided I wanted the benefits of using an image ie the suspend function and easy backup you can just copy the image file and there is your complete backup - apps, OS, everything. So I used the VMware Converter app (which is free) to create an image of my Bootcamp partition for VMware Fusion. I started that process just before knockoff time and it was ready the next morning. I think all I had to do was install the VMware fusion tools on the image and it worked perfectly. That step is pretty important for all three VMs (Parallels, Fusion and VirtualBox) so you can do things like drag and drop from the VM to your desktop and the graphics drivers are set correctly etc. We then received a new version of Parallels so uninstalled the Vmware Fusion tools and converted the Fusion image using the Parallels Transporter (also free). I installed the Parallels Tools and again it all worked well. It did take awhile to do the conversion so be prepared for that. So the bottom line is VMware Fusion and Parallels have image converters, Converter and Transporter respectively that can convert vm images from each other. Each have instructions on use - follow them closely. Usually you have to uninstall the vm tools first then you can convert and reinstall the correct tools. And be prepared to wait if your image is big. Regards, Chris. From: Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:31:01 +0800 To: WAMUG wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today Hi Chris, Thanks very much for that feedback. It sounds like you have swapped back and forth between Parallels Fusion a bit - do you move VMs around when you do this (ie import pre-existing VMs created in another program) or do you set up a new VM from scratch each time? Do all three actually allow you to import VMs from the other two or are there restrictions on this? (that's how I went from VPC on a PPC Mac to Parallels on an Intel mac and it was relatively painless in that case). If you have imported VMs from other programs I woud be interested in your thoughts as to how well this works between Parallels/Fusion/VirtualBox Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/9/09 6:40 PM, Christopher S at c...@iinet.net.au wrote: Well I've been using Parallels and Fusion on and off from the beginning initially as my main work PC running Office 2003/2007, corporate apps, Adobe design apps and for the testing of apps like SketchUp and SolidWorks. Each version of each app gets better and in some cases overtakes the other one. So earlier this year Parallels was slightly faster at most tasks than Fusion see this review: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.25/25.04/VMBenchmarks/index.html That was with VMware Fusion 2.0.1. Fusion is now up to 2.0.5 so it's probably slightly faster than Parallels. In terms of features they are so similar. In the early versions Parallels interface was a bit nicer - kinda Tonka Toyified. Fusion has certainly caught up now though. Similarly VirtualBox is improving all the time, there was an update just the other week. Speaking of VirtualBox it is straightforward to use if nothing goes wrong. If it does you may have to do a bit of searching on the net or playing around to sort it out. I suppose this is where its downfall is. Parallels and VMware's support is pretty good - I've had to contact both and both have responded quickly
Re: Backup Strategy
Hi Ronni, Interesting that you use two different programs to clone to external FW drives - Déjà Vu for your weekly clone and Superduper for your monthly clone. Do you have a particular reason for this? - I can see the reason for two different drives in two different locations with two different schedules, I just wondered why two different cloning programs. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 24/9/09 1:45 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hello WAMUG people serious about protecting the Data on your Computer/s, Someone on WAMUG Mailing list some time ago asked if I would post how I Backup and protect myself from loss of Data. Here is a brief outline on my Backup Strategy: BACKUP STRATEGY The computer I am regularly backing up is an Intel machine (17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB) My External Firewire Drives are formatted: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Partition Map Scheme: GUID Partition Table - (for bootability on Intel-based Macs) If you are backing up a PowerPC (PPC) machine you would format your External Firewire Drive/s: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Partition Map Scheme: APM Partition Table - (for bootability on PowerPC-based Macs) I have been using Déjà Vu since purchasing it in 2002 to perform my scheduled daily backups of my Home Directory folder and scheduled weekly Bootable Clone of my System Disk (Hard Drive). Déjà Vu is a preference pane that lives in your System Preferences, and it allows you to schedule unattended backups of important folders, and Clone your entire system. As it has never let me down I continue using it. http://www.propagandaprod.com/dejavu.html You might prefer to use Time Machine (which is Free) for Archives and another application like Carbon Copy Cloner http://www.bombich.com/ or SuperDuper http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html. Purchased registered copy of these can do scheduled backups. I use SuperDuper (purchased copy) to Clone other peoples computer Systems before I work on them, just in case something goes terribly wrong. NB: Backups are a MUST! Scheduled Backups are VITAL! It is too easy to forget to backup if you have not scheduled your backup application to regularly backup. The time you don't have a current backup, is the time most likely for something to go wrong and Yikes you have lost important data. That Video Project or Work Project you have been working on for weeks, or all your photos, your music files. I know this from experience! I was devastated when I had forgotten to backup and lost very important Video files I had been working on. After this happened I started using Scheduled daily backup of my Home Directory (Folder). Peace of Mind is far better then Loss of Mind due to Loss of Data! My Backup Strategy is: Déjà Vu backs up my Home folder to a Drobo which holds 4 - 1TB SATA drives (every night ) Déjà Vu backs up my Home folder to a 160GB SATA portable drive that lives in my car (every night ) For security this drive is password protected. Déjà Vu does a bootable Clone of my Startup Volume - [HD] to a 1TB External Firewire Drive (every week ) I have an extra off-site backup (Bootable Cloned HD by SuperDuper) on a 1TB External Firewire Drive at a relative's. This is updated every 1-2 mths I have another 120GB SATA Portable Drive that I use to backup files on other peoples computers before I work on them. Basically a good Backup Strategy consists of three parts: 1. Use Time Machine or another backup application to store Archives. Use your backup application to update your Archives incrementally (copying only new or changed files each time) at least Daily. 2. Create a Bootable backup Clone (Duplicate) of your Startup Volume. Use your backup application to update the Clone weekly. 3. Store at least one backup copy (I prefer a Bootable Clone of my whole system) off-site. Somewhere other than your House in case of fire or burglary, and update it regularly. == I recommend purchasing and reading this eBook. It is well worth the purchase price. Take Control of Mac OS X Backups, Fourth Edition http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/backup-macosx?pt=TRK-0014-TCANNOUNCE ** Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 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 - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Backup Strategy
Hi Ronni, For me, it still asks me for a password. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 25/9/09 4:43 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hello WAMUGers, I have created uploaded a PDF version of Don't Scream ... Backup! to my website. I have taken the Password Protection off my website for a few days. If any WAMUG Mailing List Member wishes to download the PDF, double click on the image of the PDF, it will open in another window in Safari. Then Go to File Save As download the PDF. http://web.me.com/ronni/http%3A__homepage.mac.com_ronni/BACKUP.html Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard On 24/09/2009, at 1:45 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello WAMUG people serious about protecting the Data on your Computer/s, Someone on WAMUG Mailing list some time ago asked if I would post how I Backup and protect myself from loss of Data. Here is a brief outline on my Backup Strategy: BACKUP STRATEGY -- The WA 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: Backup Strategy
I should have added that it only asks for the password for that particular pdf the other pdf (internet connection) IS accessible. Hi Ronni, For me, it still asks me for a password. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 25/9/09 4:43 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hello WAMUGers, I have created uploaded a PDF version of Don't Scream ... Backup! to my website. I have taken the Password Protection off my website for a few days. If any WAMUG Mailing List Member wishes to download the PDF, double click on the image of the PDF, it will open in another window in Safari. Then Go to File Save As download the PDF. http://web.me.com/ronni/http%3A__homepage.mac.com_ronni/BACKUP.html Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard On 24/09/2009, at 1:45 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello WAMUG people serious about protecting the Data on your Computer/s, Someone on WAMUG Mailing list some time ago asked if I would post how I Backup and protect myself from loss of Data. Here is a brief outline on my Backup Strategy: BACKUP STRATEGY -- The WA 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: Backup Strategy
Yes, all fine now Ronni many thanks. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 25/9/09 8:30 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Neil Darrel, Forget the passwords. I've redone my website and republished it. Should be able to download the PDF now at http://web.me.com/ronni/http%3A__homepage.mac.com_ronni/BACKUP.html Sorry for the stuffup ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 25/09/2009, at 5:55 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: If it is asking for a user name password try username tigra password snowblow without the quotes. Sorry guys. Sent from Ronni's iPhone On 25/09/2009, at 5:45 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Thanks Neil Darrel, I'm not near my computer at the moment. I will correct the password fault ASAP when I return to my office. You could try magpies without the quotes ... I'm not sure of the password. Sent from Ronni's iPhone On 25/09/2009, at 5:31 PM, Darrel McGuiness mailto:dmcguin...@tawarri.id.au dmcguin...@tawarri.id.au wrote: Hi Ronni, Many thanks, but it is me too. Regards Darrel On 25/09/2009, at 5:17 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Ronni, For me, it still asks me for a password. 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 - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Patio Music Solution. Airtunes????
Hi Rod, The bit that is missing is an amplifier. The audio output from the airport express is meant to drive the input of an amplifier/receiver/music centre (typically via an ³Aux in² input port). There is no amplifier in the Airport Express and the output is insufficient to drive the speakers directly unless you can find outdoor speakers with built-in amplifiers. Typically Airtunes with the airport express is used to send the sound from your computer in one room to a sound system in another room. With regard to your specific question, the answer is yes you can play your itunes music to the outdoor speakers with the following qualifications: 1. I've installed powered outdoor speakers Yes, if by powered speakers you mean speakers with built-in amplifiers which take a line-level input. 2.I've got a powerpoint outside near the outdoor speakers 3. I run an audio cable from the airport express into the outdoor speakers Yes, but the airport express and power supply is not designed for an outdoor environment so depending on the distance involved this cable length could be problematic for a signal line. The other way to do it would be to just have non-powered outdoor speakers and just run the speaker wire into an internal sound system (just an amp if you are only interested in the Airtunes source) - this is basically how I have my garden sound set-up Airport express to get the sound from computer to sound system then wires to external speakers. My sound system is an old receiver with ³A² and ³B² speaker outputs, so the internal speakers are connected to ³A² and the external speakers to ³B². Some advantages with this set-up are: * I can select radio/CD/computer (aux) for the sound source * I can direct the sound to internal, external or both sets of speakers. One disadvantage to this set-up is: * When the sound is directed to both internal and external ³A+B² speakers, the single volume control controls the volume for both speaker sets. My external speakers were just from Dick Smiths they are OK for me - they do not get used that frequently but if I wanted better quality, I would spend more ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/10/09 2:49 PM, Rod Blitvich at rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi WAMUgers We have added a patio/pergola outdoors, just off the Living Room. We are about to get an electrician to wire up the lights and powerpoints to this outdoor area. I am thinking about speakers/music. Should I install some outdoor speakers? Any recommendations? Should I get the electrician to run speaker wiring from inside to the outdoor speakers? Then i thought - isn't this what the Airport Express and Airtunes is all about??? Don't know much about it. AirTunes takes the music from the iTunes library on your computer and sends it wirelessly to any stereo or speakers in your home. All you have to do is plug an AirPort Express into an electrical outlet near those speakers, then connect them with an audio cable. Does this mean I can play my itunes music to the outdoor speakers providing: 1. I've installed powered outdoor speakers 2.I've got a powerpoint outside near the outdoor speakers 3. I run an audio cable from the airport express into the outdoor speakers ? What's the cost? Outdoor speakers??? Airport Express: $179 AirPort Express Stereo Connection Kit with Monster Cables: $59 Your advice appreciated please. ta Blitto Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam¹s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.me.com/blitto http://web.mac.com/blitto Black holes suck. -- The WA 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 image.gif
Re: Connecting a Laptop to TV
Hi Adrian, The 3 RCA jacks should be video (yellow) and audio (red white). With my old G4 Ti laptop you used a SVHS to RCA lead (which came with the computer) to connect the video and then a minijack to RCAx2 lead to connect the audio. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 3/10/09 4:32 PM, Adrian Skehan at adrianske...@mac.com wrote: A friend of mine wants to connect his G4 (OSX Tiger) Laptop to a fairly old TV that only has the 3 RCA jack at the back, does anyone know if this can this be done? 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 - 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
YouTube to iTunes?
Hi, A bit of advice regarding loading and playing music videos from non-iTunes store sources into iTunes. I recently found that one of our local singers has posted some videos of her performances on YouTube. (See http://www.simonekeane.com/ if you're interested) I have now downloaded 3 videos which are all a little different: One is a flash video file (.flv file - 23.9MB) Two are MPEG-4 movie files (.mp4 files - 15.1MB and 10.8MB) (in all 3 cases the YouTube HQ option was chosen) All three files open and play just fine in VLC One of the .mp4 files opens and plays in Quicktime Player The other .mp4 file doesn't open in Quicktime player but gives the following message: The movie could not be opened. An invalid public movie atom was found in the movie. So I can obviously just use VLC to watch the files - and this works just fine and looks OK at full screen. I have tended to only use iTunes for basic music (from CDs) playing and have very little video experience but what I was wondering was how to get the files into iTunes and to show up as music videos. So far: I added the mp4 that Quicktime player will play to the iTunes library using the File: add to library command. It has been added to my iTunes library OK (and plays just fine) but is showing up as a movie (and placed in the Movies folder) rather than a music video. I only have one real music video (an iTunes store freebie) - it is also an mp4 file but it was put into the library like a normal song and just has the little video indicator next to it when browsing the library. I added both other files to the iTunes library using the File: add to library command but although no error was generated, the files do not seem to have actually been added to the library. For the flv file, I am guessing I have to convert it to an iTunes friendly format like mp4? For the other mp4 file, I'm not sure what's next - presumably iTunes doesn't like it for the same reason that quicktime player won't play it - though VLC has no problems at all with it - is it a wrong mp4 flavour or something? Any way, I'm looking for advice how to: 1) convert the flv file for iTunes 2) convert the problematic mp4 file for iTunes 3) make iTunes treat the mp4 files as music videos rather than movies Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: YouTube to iTunes?
Hi Ronni, Thanks for all that info. Success, I don't have QT Pro and haven't updated to SL yet but I did download and install the Tooble application you recently recommended. I went the Enter a URL route and it worked fine for the .flv file (downloaded and converted to mp4) but at first wouldn't work for the problematic .mp4 file - but then after approaching via a slightly different youTube link it seemed to recognise and download the file - so now all three are in iTunes -yea! I've also now got them all working as music videos -helped by your hint: if you want to have movies, TV shows, and music videos all filed in the right place, you¹ll have to individually set them in each file¹s properties under the Video tab. Though for me the solution was under the Options tab - by changing the media kind from movie to music video Thanks again Ronni for pointing me in the right direction! For anyone who is interested, the three YouTube tracks I was looking at are: Lifes Ocean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho7WIfjW74c Rag Doll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0971Ah9VVmI Spun out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrJccXdWcUg Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 6/10/09 2:27 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi again Neil, Interesting ... I just opened one of the video.flv downloaded from your link and opened it in the new Quicktime 10 application. Then went to File Save As - and it allows you to save a .mov, which I then Added to iTunes. So looks like Quicktime 10 handles flv and conversion to .mov You don't have to have Quicktime Pro to convert flv for iTunes ... unless your want other conversion than .mov Cheers, Ronni On 06/10/2009, at 2:15 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Neil, iTunes only supports MP4, H264, Mov video formats Any way, I'm looking for advice how to: 1) convert the flv file for iTunes Do you have Quicktime Pro? If so: 1. Open the flv in QTPro , go to File Export - Movie to MPEG-4 Click Save 2. Open iTunes go to File Add to Library - locate your saved .mp4 file Click Choose 2) convert the problematic mp4 file for iTunes The other .mp4 file doesn't open in Quicktime player but gives the following message: The movie could not be opened. An invalid public movie atom was found in the movie. Two reasons: 1. Movie atoms are little bundles of info that tell your application all sorts of information about the movie. An invalid movie atom error often occurs due to information containing illegal characters. 2. This error occurs when a program converts a video for which the correct codec is not installed. For example, many programs will convert from divx/xvid to Apple friendly formats for iPods or AppleTv. Most of these programs assume that the correct video interpretation software (codec) is installed. If it is not, the program will convert it anyway. The ultimate unusable output will spit this error. The fix is to install the correct codec on the machine before performing the conversions 3) make iTunes treat the mp4 files as music videos rather than movies Only iTunes Store downloaded Music Videos will show in Music Video, any you import with go into Movies. You can drag and drop from Movies into Music Videos, put the original still remains in Movies. iTunes doesn¹t store video-type meta data in the video file itself, but rather in the iTunes database, if you want to have movies, TV shows, and music videos all filed in the right place, you¹ll have to individually set them in each file¹s properties under the Video tab.) Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard On 06/10/2009, at 12:16 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi, A bit of advice regarding loading and playing music videos from non- iTunes store sources into iTunes. I recently found that one of our local singers has posted some videos of her performances on YouTube. (See http://www.simonekeane.com/ if you're interested) I have now downloaded 3 videos which are all a little different: One is a flash video file (.flv file - 23.9MB) Two are MPEG-4 movie files (.mp4 files - 15.1MB and 10.8MB) (in all 3 cases the YouTube HQ option was chosen) All three files open and play just fine in VLC One of the .mp4 files opens and plays in Quicktime Player The other .mp4 file doesn't open in Quicktime player but gives the following message: The movie could not be opened. An invalid public movie atom was found in the movie. So I can obviously just use VLC to watch the files - and this works just fine and looks OK at full screen. I have tended to only use iTunes for basic music (from CDs) playing and have very little video experience but what I was wondering was how to get the files into iTunes and to show up as music videos. So far: I added the mp4
Superduper tip
Hi all, Not sure if this has been mentioned before - if not it might save someone some time! Although I generally use SuperDuper to clone to a whole external disc or partition thereof, occasionally I clone to a disc image - today, for example, I am going to do a clean install on a secondary machine and just wanted to do a quick clone of the HD - I had a spare 700gb partition that I didn't want to monopolise with the 100GB from the clone. I just used the SuperDuper defaults for the disk image - which was read-only disk image however the clone failed right at the start with some ASR error. Much Googling later, I found this post on the SuperDuper forums: http://shirt-pocket.net/forums/showthread.php?t=4698 it seemed like a similar problem and Dave Nanian said: This is due to a bug in ASR, unfortunately; I'd suggest using a read/write sparse image instead of a read-only image. So, I tried again using a read-write sparse image and away we went. Might save someone some time :) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Computer name
Hehe - thanks for that - very good timing. I had just re-set-up my MacBook Pro and migrated over from my iMac - I would have been very confused if I had tried to share and only found iMacs 1 2 on the network!! Now renamed - so the poor confused machine knows it's a MacBook again! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 8/10/09 9:26 PM, Daniel Kerr at wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Also, if you've ever done a Migration from another machine to your current machine, then the Network name will follow as well. For example. If I had my old MacBookPro and it was called DKMacBookPro and I cloned this to my new MacBookPro, then connected it to the wireless network to run updates, the new machine would then have the same name as well, ie DKMacBookPro. So what it has to do (as it can't have two computers on the same network), so it renames it to DKMacBookPro (2). This doesn't sound like the case here, but I'm just putting forward that information so people know as well. ;O) But yes, it's normally with multiple connections on different networks but the same machine (eg Airport and Ethernet). It can sometimes come from a router reboot or something similar where the Network things that the old name is still there, so resets it again. There was a way to reset it via Terminal with a permanent set, but as mentioned you had to do that in Terminal. I found it on google somewhere, so would need to refind it if anyone wanted. Hope that helps a little. Kind Regards Daniel On 8/10/09 4:41 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Yes, Severin I only have the SuperDuper clone connected when I'm actually updating the clone. I do this weekly, so I'm sure it hasn't changed every time. I will take notice next time if the computer name changes when the clone is connected, and if it stays changed after disconnecting the clone. Something is causing The System to think there is more than one computer with the same name on the Network. Ah well, I've got to get back to serious work ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 08/10/2009, at 4:25 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: Yes, I went via the Edit button. I do have a SuperDuper clone on an external Firewire disk, normally powered off except when I am actually updating the clone. Severin On 08/10/2009, at 4:14 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Severin, Same with me I didn't have a Previous Systems Folder and only ever connect by Airport, all computers that connect in this house connect wirelessly, never by direct Ethernet connection. When you changed the Computer Name in System Preferences Sharing, did you click on the Edit button to change the -2.local? My Computer's Name is Rons 500GB HD beside the Edit section it is Rons-500GB-HD.local When I noticed it had changed to Rons-500GB-HD-2.local I just went into System Preferences Sharing and in Computer Name: changed it back to Rons 500GB HD. It was listed as Rons-500GB-HD-2 or (2) and in the edit section as Rons-500GB-HD-2.local So I just clicked on Edit changed it to Rons-500GB-HD.local and voilà the (2) was no longer. The only reason I can think might have caused this is after I had my SuperDuper Cloned Rons 500GB HD connected. I wonder if the system then thinks there are TWO computers with the same name on my Network, and as you cannot have any computers with the same name on your Network it changes one? I hate it when I cannot find the exact reason why! Our President Peter H once said to me I quote ... It's nice to be able to find an exact cause, but resolution is an adequate second best option :) When I find some time, I'll do some fiddling around and see if I can get it to happen again ... I want to find an exact cause ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 08/10/2009, at 3:21 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: That's interesting Ronni. I have no Previous Systems folder. On the G5 I do have a direct connection via Ethernet to a router and an installed Airport but not running. The laptop communicates wirelessly via Airport Extreme which goes into one port of the D- Link ethernet router. A desktop G3 iMac is into another port on the router while all three computers access a Laser printer which is plugged in to the USB port on the Airport Extreme. I have not done any plugging in or unplugging or swapping that I can recall. Interestingly, I have changed the name again in Sharing - it still comes up as Sevs G5 (5) there but the message can connect as... is now correct as Sevs G5 as it was before. Very curious, no real drama, just a little annoyance and puzzlement! Severin On 08/10/2009, at 1:55 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 08/10/2009, at 1:42 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: My computer is named Sevs G5 and has been for a long time. Recently, I noticed in Sharing that it is named Sevs G5 (5) and the accompanying message tells me that other users can
Re: mail
Hi Martin, In Entourage, I just use ³rules² - I set up folders (and sub-folders where appropriate) and just set-up rules to file as appropriate eg: If ³from² is *...@acme.com, move to folder ³acme² (same with ³to² *...@acme.com) The mail is filed even before I read it - so at a glance I can see which unread mail is in an ³important² folder and which can be looked at later. I¹m sure Mail must have a similar feature/tool to do this. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/10/09 7:51 PM, Martin Sulkowski at martin6...@live.com wrote: I'm getting more and more into trouble to keep my e-mails organised. Is there a program available that could have a file called customer and when I need to send him or a supplier an e-mail related to his job ,that this e-mail is automatically in his file.The same for incoming e-mails related to this job. What are you guys using who use e-mail a lot? Will Bento do the job? Thanks Martin Click Here View photos of singles in your area http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/150855801/direct/01/ -- The WA 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: Excel quits, machine logs off after Snow Leopard install
on 27/10/09 8:21 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: snip Hi Peter, Are you using the latest Office 2008 for Mac? Using obsolete software in Snow Leopard can cause slow downs quits. snip Hehe The trouble for me is that Office 2008 was obsolete from release since they took out VBA that all my Excel macros need to work. Looks like I need to wait for the new Office 2010? Release before I upgrade to Snow Leopard (just as well - I might have been tempted by a new 27 iMac to run it on) ducks for cover Cheers (with tongue in cheek) Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Excel quits, machine logs off after Snow Leopard install
Hi Bob, Yes, well, as they say - your mileage may vary. As per the previous posts and related links, lots of people ARE experiencing problems with Excel and SL. I guess I just prefer to stick with stuff that is working fine for me until I see a compelling need to upgrade. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 27/10/09 10:18 AM, Bob Jackson at bobj...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi Neil, I use Excel 2004 with many macros on an iMac running Snow Leopard and have had no problems at at all. To do so you must ensure that Rosetta is installed by Snow Leopard. Bob At 9:38 AM 27/10/09, Neil Houghton eloquently proclaimed... on 27/10/09 8:21 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: snip Hi Peter, Are you using the latest Office 2008 for Mac? Using obsolete software in Snow Leopard can cause slow downs quits. snip Hehe The trouble for me is that Office 2008 was obsolete from release since they took out VBA that all my Excel macros need to work. Looks like I need to wait for the new Office 2010? Release before I upgrade to Snow Leopard (just as well - I might have been tempted by a new 27 iMac to run it on) ducks for cover Cheers (with tongue in cheek) 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 - 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: Memory supplier - current model Mac Pro
Hi Ray Rob I can also vouch for OWC - very good price (when the aussie $ is up!) and delivered in a few days (less than a week) well packed. They also have instructions on their website including videos, which I found re-assuring cause the iMac required a certain positive touch to seat the RAM. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 29/10/09 4:31 PM, RJDarts at rjda...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Not sure of local pricing for specific Mac Ram or PC variety that could be Mac compatible and therefore quality of !! I have found OWC online in USA best quality and pricing for Mac ram. It is Apple qualified, and they will replace if issues. Which I never have with various machines, I and friends own. Order one day pending on when it is usually here within 7 days, last order placed Fri PM our time delivered to my door PM Tues. Possibly could have been Mon if Courier this end new our road had two parts. Cheers! `RobD... On 29Oct2009, at 7:50 am, Ray Forma wrote: I am looking at buying some extra memory for a current model Mac Pro, which are DDR3 ECC 240-pin DIMMs. Does anyone have: 1 Recommendations about a reliable supplier of such memory 2 Warnings about what to look out for? -- Regards, Ray Forma Tel Fax 61 (0)8 9335 6568 Mob 61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iMac 20 G5 screen repair
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 -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/11/09 9:01 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: On 01/11/2009, at 7:55 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: Hi Wamuggers, Our iMac G5 20 took a swan dive recently. The display is still working, but there is some kind of damage at the top of the screen that shows two ink-blot style marks bleeding down from the top of the screen. Below that damage there is a 2cm wide set of vertical lines being displayed down the full height of the screen - almost looks like a vertical split bar. A 'screenshot' showing the damage is here: http://om4.com.au/imac-g5-screen-damage/ Bottom line - can it be fixed? What is it likely to cost compared to cost of a new iMac. Hi Glenn, Ouch ... not nice! To replace the LCD Screen will be expensive. $759US quoted here, they are in Santa Clara, CA (Local Drop Off ... absolutely no use to you other than an idea of the price involved). http://www.myservice.com/imac.html Is it covered by your Insurance Policy - Accidental Damage? The new iMacs are beautiful machines ;-) Especially the new 27 iMac ... it's a Wow machine! http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139916/Apple_s_new_27_in._iMac_is_stu nning_?taxonomyId=163pageNumber=1 Daniel Kerr I'm sure will be able to give you a better idea of the cost involved and the price of a NEW iMac. --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au --- Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 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 - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: 4Sale: Software For Sale
Hi Denise, I originally had Elements 3.0 (came bundled with a scanner) which I used occasionally until I left classic behind. When Elements 6.0 came out I bought it so I could run it on my new intel iMac however, since it has sat on my shelf for well over a year now and I still haven¹t got round to installing it - then I might as well sell it, wait until I really need it, and then buy whatever version is current at that time ;o) So, if you are interested, I will just work on Ronni¹s previous offer ie $120 + postage (I¹m in Albany) I haven¹t checked the postage options so I¹m assuming that Ronni¹s $8 for a 500g bag would be the go. If you are still interested, Denise, I will give you the first option. If not, it¹s still up if anyone else is interested. Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 Full Retail Version - Original DVD in Original DVD box with serial no attached + Getting started guide - I may also be able to find the larger cardboard packaging that it came in (think it is in storage with other odds sods) if you want it. Cheers Neil PS. In actual fact, I DID install the software one day back in Sept 2008 and played with it for an hour or two - but the next day my iMac developed video problems (fixed, under warranty, with a replacement video card) and after a clean erase install when I got the iMac back, I never got around to re-installing - maybe I¹m superstitious? ;o) -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 7/11/09 7:56 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Sorry Denise this has been sold. Sent from Ronni's iPhone On 07/11/2009, at 3:59 PM, Denise Williams chri...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Is this still available please??? Item 7: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 Full Retail Version - Selling Price $120 PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor Mac OS X v10.4.8 through 10.5 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended) 64MB of video RAM 1GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation) 1,024x768 display resolution DVD-ROM drive QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features Internet connection required for Internet-based services Regards Denise Williams-Photographer PH 9447 3468 MOB 0417 184592 chri...@iinet.net.au mailto:chri...@iinet.net.au 55 Duart Rd TRIGG WA 6029 -- The WA 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: Animated gifs
Hi Severin, I don't think it is a bandwidth problem, it definitely seems to be a Safari problem - I tried just loading the gif directly: http://www.paperartzi.org.au/Resources/worksshow09.gif In firefox (ver 3.5.2) the animation starts almost immediately In Safari (ver 4.0.3) the first image loads instantly but it then takes around 55 to 60 secs for the animation (image 2) to start - then the remaining images cycle without any delay (well just with the consistent cycle of around 2 secs/image). So, from what Ronni says, it sounds like anyone who has NOT upgraded to SL will see this delay. (FWIW I am on internode 1500 ADSL and the iView bandwidth tester consistently shows my connection being able to stream at around 1400 kbps - so I don't think that is an issue for a 1.3MB gif) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 9/11/09 3:57 PM, Severin Crisp at sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Many thanks, James, that is a ray of light in the darkness and makes good sense and seems to be the case for my G5 Leopard. However, on my wife's G3 iMac Tiger there is no such delay and it is the same ADSL ethernet connection(not ADSL2+ here in Albany!). From what Ronni says this may have been fixed in SL. Severin On 09/11/2009, at 3:41 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Severin, In these days of ADSL2+, a lot of people with broadband won't notice the problem. I certainly didn't have any problem with the slideshow. However, I set up a low-bandwidth simulator and can confirm what happens. Basically, you have a 2.5 second delay between each frame, but if the slideshow download is incomplete when the 2.5 second timer is reached, then Safari waits 30 seconds before trying to play the slideshow. 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 - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Animated gifs
Should also have said - 24 iMac, 2.4 GHz Core2 Duo running Leopard 10.5.8 Hi Severin, I don't think it is a bandwidth problem, it definitely seems to be a Safari problem - I tried just loading the gif directly: http://www.paperartzi.org.au/Resources/worksshow09.gif In firefox (ver 3.5.2) the animation starts almost immediately In Safari (ver 4.0.3) the first image loads instantly but it then takes around 55 to 60 secs for the animation (image 2) to start - then the remaining images cycle without any delay (well just with the consistent cycle of around 2 secs/image). So, from what Ronni says, it sounds like anyone who has NOT upgraded to SL will see this delay. (FWIW I am on internode 1500 ADSL and the iView bandwidth tester consistently shows my connection being able to stream at around 1400 kbps - so I don't think that is an issue for a 1.3MB gif) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 9/11/09 3:57 PM, Severin Crisp at sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Many thanks, James, that is a ray of light in the darkness and makes good sense and seems to be the case for my G5 Leopard. However, on my wife's G3 iMac Tiger there is no such delay and it is the same ADSL ethernet connection(not ADSL2+ here in Albany!). From what Ronni says this may have been fixed in SL. Severin On 09/11/2009, at 3:41 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Severin, In these days of ADSL2+, a lot of people with broadband won't notice the problem. I certainly didn't have any problem with the slideshow. However, I set up a low-bandwidth simulator and can confirm what happens. Basically, you have a 2.5 second delay between each frame, but if the slideshow download is incomplete when the 2.5 second timer is reached, then Safari waits 30 seconds before trying to play the slideshow. 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 - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Animated gifs
Hi James, Thanks for the clarification calcs re bandwidth download speed. If the problem was just the bandwidth/download time however, surely it would affect both Firefox and Safari. The 1.3 MB gif I was looking at: http://www.paperartzi.org.au/Resources/worksshow09.gif actually has 29 cycling images - so each image would correspond to 50kb. Firefox starts cycling in less than 10 secs - so presumably it can start cycling the images before the gif is fully downloaded. Safari, on the other hand, starts cycling after around 55 to 60 secs - more than 5 times the download time of the whole 1.3MB gif. Interestingly though, Alastair says: the gifs play straight away for me safari 4.0.3 G4 1.25 10.4.11 So he has the same Safari version as me but doesn't see the problem on a G4 machine running Tiger - whereas I do see it on an intel Core2 Duo machine running Leopard. Ronni's explanation makes sense to me: CoreGraphics bug,which is fixed in Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 from what I can find out. Based on Alastair's feedback, I am assuming that this bug was introduced with Leopard? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 10/11/09 12:34 AM, James Devenish at jndeven...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Neil/Severin, A common misconception is kilobits per second (kbps) versus kibibytes per second (KBps). This means that 'kbps' overstates your performance by a factor of 8.2 compared to what you expect! Therefore 1400 kpbs (kilobits per second) is only 175 kBps (kilobytes per second) or 170 KBps (kibibytes per second). This means a 1.3 MB GIF would take 10 seconds to download at 1400 kbps. ABC iViews shows my connection at 5000 kpbs, but that's only 610 KBps and in fact the GIF loads at 400 KBps (3.5 seconds). 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 - 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: Networked computers not showing in Finder?
Hi Brian, First, if the computer isn't showing in the sidebare, go to the finder preferences and in the sidebar pane make sure you have got the shared options (eg connected servers) ticked. Another way to connect, if the computer isn't showing in the sidebar, is to go to the finder GO menu and select Connect to Server when you get the dialog box then: 1) The other computer may be showing under the favourites or recent servers (then select and click Connect) - or 2) Try clicking the Browse button to see if the other computer shows up (then select and click Connect) - or 3) If browse isn't working try directly inputting the server address of the other computer directly and then clicking Connect To check the server address of either computer go to the Network pane of their System Preferences (you can also see the address in the Sharing pane of the System Preferences). Also remember that even when you are connected for sharing, you actual file access will depend on: - Whether you are connected as the same user - Whether you are connected as an administrator - Which folders you have shared Try the above and, if still having problems, report back with any error messages from step 3 above. The other thing to do to isolate whether the problem is with your wireless network or sharing set-up is to directly connect the two machines and check that the sharing is all working OK over ethernet (since one of the machines is a laptop this should be easy). HTH Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 12/11/09 1:40 PM, Brian Scott at scot...@optusnet.com.au wrote: On 12/11/2009, at 1:20 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 12/11/2009, at 12:44 PM, Brian Scott wrote: Hi, I've created an AirPort WEP network in the hope of exchanging some files between my 2 computers i.e. PowerBook G4, OS 10.4.11 and iMac Intel, OS 10.5.8 but the remote computers aren't showing up in Finder. I've done this successfully once before a couple of months ago but there seems to be a crucial step that I've forgotten. I have File Sharing turned on in both computers and the network I created is showing connected in their AirPort drop down menus. What else do I need to do to copy files from one to another? They are about 25 feet apart virtually in line of sight of each other. AirPort status on the PB is showing 'computer-to-computer' on the iMAC 'On'. Thanks Brian Hi Brian, A couple of things you could check. 1. In Finder Preferences - General. Do you have selected under Show these items on the Desktop... Connected Servers ? Yes 2. In System Preferences Sharing - File Sharing click on the options button do you have Using AFP selected? and Yes I seem to remember the remote computer showed up in the side bar of the Finder and I needed to click Connect is this correct? Cheers, Ronni -- The WA 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
