Re: Flash Drive Question

2009-01-15 Thread Stephen Conrad
OK, a few things to sum up from all your replies. 1) I can drag files from the web page or the desktop to the Flash Drive (the 'Brute Force' method). 2) If I can do #1 the drives are not Write Protected 3) The one Flash Drive is a Kingston, the other is one I found and it is called Secure_II

Re: Flash Drive Question

2009-01-15 Thread Amanda Ward
Hi Steve... On Jan 15, 2009, at 1:03 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: OK, a few things to sum up from all your replies. 1) I can drag files from the web page or the desktop to the Flash Drive (the 'Brute Force' method). 2) If I can do #1 the drives are not Write Protected 3) The one Flash

Re: Picasa?

2009-01-15 Thread oneoftheharts
I was really looking forward to the Mac version as I wanted to use it. However it only works on 10.4 and above. and I am still running 10.3 as I can't afford a copy of 10.4. I have a G4 Powerbook. I downloaded the beta and then it wouldn't install. In checking the website it appeared to

Re: Up from an eMac 700

2009-01-15 Thread Sam Macomber
That is entirely up to the wife, it's her computer. Oh my bad. Are you getting rid of the emac? -Jonas On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Sam Macomber s...@macomber.com wrote: Hey if you end up getting rid of that G4 tower I might buy it from you... I have a 700MHz eMac, I was just

Re: Computer Parts

2009-01-15 Thread Dan
At 9:45 PM -0800 1/13/2009, KP wrote: I have a few odd computer parts, HDs', motherboards'... etc. Have any of you came up with any unique uses for the parts Modern art. Bird houses. Large mobiles / wind chimes. Long-term basement ballast. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey,

Re: Computer Parts

2009-01-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Dan wrote: At 9:45 PM -0800 1/13/2009, KP wrote: I have a few odd computer parts, HDs', motherboards'... etc. Have any of you came up with any unique uses for the parts Modern art. Bird houses. Large mobiles / wind chimes. Long-term basement ballast.

Steve Jobs Oh My

2009-01-15 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
I hope he gets better soon, such a unique individual. Just needed to vent. I also have some Apple stock - groan. Anne Keller Smith Down to Earth Web Design G4 Quicksilver 733mHz Tower 896 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, OS 10.4.11 Intel iMac 2.4gHz Core 2 Duo 1GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.5

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-15 Thread Dan
At 2:52 PM -0600 1/14/2009, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Dan wrote: Are there other players for Macs that can handle AAC+? Perhaps Windows iTunes can play AAC+? but not the Mac version? Apple marginalizing the Mac?grrr. I have no AAC+ files. Do you have a

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-15 Thread Dan
At 4:03 PM -0500 1/14/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: A 20 minute check on versiontracker.com found nothing related to AAC+. In fact oddly few audio players at all showed up there. Strange as in the recent past I would have sworn there were many! iTunes has crushed the market. It's a

Re: Steve Jobs Oh My

2009-01-15 Thread Mark Christol
Is anybody at Apple poised, been groomed to take his place ? On Jan 15, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Anne wrote: I hope he gets better soon, such a unique individual. Just needed to vent. I also have some Apple stock - groan. Anne Keller Smith --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: Steve Jobs Oh My

2009-01-15 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
Hi, Mark and all ~ From what I have read (New York Times) this is part of the difficulty. Steve Jobs has such an overpowering personality that other talent at Apple is NOT poised to be such. They are folks who by definition fit in with a powerful leader and corporate structure would

Re: Can't Download iWork '09

2009-01-15 Thread Dan
At 5:03 PM -0600 1/14/2009, joe wrote: The following disk image failed to mount. Reason-Invalid checksum. That means the download failed to verify. (Checksums are just bits that tell you whether the current byte (or some other unit?) should add up to an even or odd number as a test of the

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

2009-01-15 Thread OriginalMacBabe
It isn't your ISP ... I have this all the time with my mini and so does my dad. It is FF - it is a memory hog (I only have a 1G mini) and I haven't found a way to fix it either. It also crashes consistently when accessing the history or trying to reload the last closed tab - not every time, but

stripped screw RAM cover iMac

2009-01-15 Thread Steve R
My new RAM arrived this morning to upgrade the refurbished iMac (aluminum) and when I turned it over, I immediately saw that the phillips head screw has been stripped. I even felt the burrs. On the off-chance there might be a way to remove it, I've tried various sizes using accepted practices

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

2009-01-15 Thread Dan
At 8:19 AM -0800 1/15/2009, OriginalMacBabe wrote, without bothering to bottom post and trim: It isn't your ISP ... You don't know that; the OP hasn't provided details. I have this all the time with my mini and so does my dad. It is FF - it is a memory hog Please provide details of such.

Re: Computer Parts

2009-01-15 Thread Paul
I'd advise against storing food in plastic not made for that purpose. Even reusing plastic bottles that held juice, etc. isn't advisable, because unless they were made for reuse in holding food, plastic containers have chemicals that can leak in tiny amounts into the food. (I suppose that the

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

2009-01-15 Thread Dan
At 12:16 PM -0500 1/15/2009, Dan wrote: At 8:19 AM -0800 1/15/2009, OriginalMacBabe wrote, without bothering to bottom post and trim: I have this all the time with my mini and so does my dad. It is FF - it is a memory hog Please provide details of such. Specific URLs and the memory usage

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

2009-01-15 Thread Dan
At 12:38 PM -0500 1/15/2009, Dan wrote: At 12:16 PM -0500 1/15/2009, Dan wrote: At 8:19 AM -0800 1/15/2009, OriginalMacBabe wrote, without bothering to bottom post and trim: I have this all the time with my mini and so does my dad. It is FF - it is a memory hog Please provide details of such.

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

2009-01-15 Thread Dan
At 12:45 PM -0500 1/15/2009, Dan wrote: At 12:38 PM -0500 1/15/2009, Dan wrote: At 12:16 PM -0500 1/15/2009, Dan wrote: At 8:19 AM -0800 1/15/2009, OriginalMacBabe wrote, without bothering to bottom post and trim: I have this all the time with my mini and so does my dad. It is FF - it is a

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-15 Thread Dan
At 4:11 PM -0500 1/14/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Wikipedia lists some Windows and mac OS X encoders and players. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HE-AAC#Support FStream seems interesting. Found a few AAC+ streams listed in it - they sound great. Can't seem to get it to do the WRTI

Re: HP 940d Drive Door won't open without a disc in the tray

2009-01-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 15, 2009, at 9:13 AM, hillhippy wrote: On Jan 14, 10:09 pm, Kyle Parish parishky...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure, but it does'nt sound like a mechanical problem. When there is a Disk in, do you R click (Control + click with an old mouse) and click the eject button, or do you Drag

Need advice on hard disk space on G4

2009-01-15 Thread Icanswing
I just upgraded my G4 450mhz to Tiger. Now I'm running out of hard disk space.I only have 3GB left. I'm a Graphic Designer with Adobe programs. Any suggestions on how to get more disk space? Maybe internal or external drive or some other type of storage? Thanks in advance paula

Old drive in new mac

2009-01-15 Thread jayphotos
My G5 1.8 dual has a motherboard in death throes - am buying a new ( used) G5 dual 2.0. Can I pull the main harddrive from the old machine containing all my apps, mail, etc and install it in the new machine or do I have to reinvent the wheel? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: Where do I learn.... becomes archiving files and images- the future

2009-01-15 Thread pdimage
On 13/1/09 05:29, aussieshepsrock ilovaussiesh...@yahoo.com wrote: The optical resolution of your scanner - say 600x600ppi for this purpose - is the limit for original capture - higher resolutions like 9600x9600ppi can only be provided by interpolation ... Your input is greatly

Re: Need advice on hard disk space on G4

2009-01-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 15, 2009, at 1:13 PM, icansw...@aol.com wrote: I just upgraded my G4 450mhz to Tiger. Now I'm running out of hard disk space.I only have 3GB left. I'm a Graphic Designer with Adobe programs. Any suggestions on how to get more disk space? Maybe internal or external drive

Re: Old drive in new mac

2009-01-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 15, 2009, at 1:20 PM, jayphotos wrote: My G5 1.8 dual has a motherboard in death throes - am buying a new ( used) G5 dual 2.0. Can I pull the main harddrive from the old machine containing all my apps, mail, etc and install it in the new machine or do I have to reinvent the wheel?

Re: Safari RSS vulnerability: pay heed!

2009-01-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Does that include Safari for PC? I am guessing that Safari for PC is more vulnerable. It said in that link that Safari on Windows is affected, but only if its the web browser being used. I'm unsure whether that simply means it's running,

Re: HP 940d Drive Door won't open without a disc in the tray

2009-01-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 15, 2009, at 8:13 AM, hillhippy wrote: On Jan 14, 10:09 pm, Kyle Parish parishky...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure, but it does'nt sound like a mechanical problem. When there is a Disk in, do you R click (Control + click with an old mouse) and click the eject button, or do you Drag

Re: Old drive in new mac

2009-01-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 15, 2009, at 12:20 PM, jayphotos wrote: My G5 1.8 dual has a motherboard in death throes - am buying a new ( used) G5 dual 2.0. Can I pull the main harddrive from the old machine containing all my apps, mail, etc and install it in the new machine or do I have to reinvent the wheel?

Re: Safari RSS vulnerability: pay heed!

2009-01-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 15, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: I'm unsure whether that simply means it's running, or if Safari is selected as the default browser. Windows Safari 3.2.1 (525.27.1) is different from OS X Safari 3.2.1 (5525.27.1). In OS X Safari Preferences there is a selection for

Re: Old drive in new mac

2009-01-15 Thread PeterH
On Jan 15, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Yes, just swap in the drives, OSX barely even notices. The architecture of OS X is such that a boot drive originally installed on one machine is perfectly good on another machine, not necessarily of the same architecture. I'm sure there

Re: Old drive in new mac

2009-01-15 Thread jayphotos
Thanks to all for the replies...I'll sleep much better tonight! On Jan 15, 3:04 pm, PeterH peterh5...@rattlebrain.com wrote: On Jan 15, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Yes, just swap in the drives, OSX barely even notices. The architecture of OS X is such that a boot drive

Re: HP 940d Drive Door won't open without a disc in the tray

2009-01-15 Thread Hunter Fuller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kris Tilford wrote: Have you tried using an Eject button in the Menu Bar? To do this I don't know about you, but this certainly sounds like a hardware issue to me. This could be easily verified by putting the drive in another box, or failing

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

2009-01-15 Thread Dan
At 7:26 AM +1100 1/16/2009, dorayme wrote: One further observation... When pushed into the background then hidden, both Safari and WebKit quickly drop below 5% CPU usage. WebKit actually hits 0.2%. Firefox, however, hovers from 17 to 23%. Looks like the Moz guys don't bother to idle

Re: Need advice on hard disk space on G4

2009-01-15 Thread Charles Davis
On Jan 15, 2009, at 2:13 PM, icansw...@aol.com wrote: I just upgraded my G4 450mhz to Tiger. Now I'm running out of hard disk space.I only have 3GB left. I'm a Graphic Designer with Adobe programs. Any suggestions on how to get more disk space? Maybe internal or external drive

Re: Steve Jobs Oh My

2009-01-15 Thread Al Poulin
On Jan 15, 2009, at 2:34 PM, g3-5-list group wrote: == 3 of 3 == Date: Thurs, Jan 15 2009 7:02 am From: Anne Keller-Smith Hi, Mark and all ~ From what I have read (New York Times) this is part of the difficulty. Steve Jobs has such an overpowering personality that other talent at

Re: Need advice on hard disk space on G4

2009-01-15 Thread Mike Baker
Depending on how many hard drives you have in it already, you can at least two EIDE hard drives internally fairly easily. One would go on top of the existing hard drive, and one would go towards the front of the case. The power and other cables for the two new hard drives already exist in the

Re: Need advice on hard disk space on G4

2009-01-15 Thread Kyle Parish
Move files over to an external dirve or copy them on to disk. On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Mike Baker psufa...@yahoo.com wrote: Depending on how many hard drives you have in it already, you can at least two EIDE hard drives internally fairly easily. One would go on top of the existing

Re: Need advice on hard disk space on G4

2009-01-15 Thread Charles Davis
I may be wrong, but what I was hearing is 'My system is complaining/ won't run right/ is having problems' It's down to 3GB of free space' HELP That is NOT a Number of HDs available problem!, it's a Space used on the boot HD/partition problem. Curable by increasing space available, or

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-15 Thread Chris Barham
At 4:11 PM -0500 1/14/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Wikipedia lists some Windows and mac OS X encoders and players. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HE-AAC#Support Have a look at the AAC+ streams from Tuner2 http://www.tuner2.com/ http://www.tuner2.com/ They recommend a Windows Media

Safari Slow to open

2009-01-15 Thread Wilton Shaw
OS 10.5.6 eMac Hello, My Safari browser has recently slowed way down whenever I try to open it. The blue filler takes 30 seconds or more to fill in the horizontal bar. This happens no matter what I try to open. I tried cleaning out the caches, but that didn't help. Any suggestions? Thanks

Re: Flash Drive Question

2009-01-15 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Amanda Ward amanda.w...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Steve... On Jan 15, 2009, at 1:03 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: OK, a few things to sum up from all your replies. 1) I can drag files from the web page or the desktop to the Flash Drive (the 'Brute Force'

Re: Plastics Care

2009-01-15 Thread Woody
-Original Message- From: Alexander MacLeod twocor...@gmail.com Sent: Nov 27, 2008 12:55 PM To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Plastics Care On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Amanda Ward amanda.w...@comcast.net wrote: I just got a monitor from Craig's list, for free. It's a

Re: Password change

2009-01-15 Thread Woody
-Original Message- From: gda1...@aol.com Sent: Dec 14, 2008 8:24 PM To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Password change I have a clamshell i book and I need to change the password and I have forgotten hows tgo do so: if I ever knew. Papa Bear

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

2009-01-15 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Chris Barham cbar...@pobox.com wrote: At 4:11 PM -0500 1/14/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Wikipedia lists some Windows and mac OS X encoders and players. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HE-AAC#Support Have a look at the AAC+ streams from Tuner2

Finding a v.90 modem for a G3 B/W

2009-01-15 Thread Paul
I have a good US Robotics external V.90 modem that I'd like to be able to use with a G3 blue/white tower that doesn't have an internal modem. I've heard that USB external modems aren't too good, and I've heard that internal modems for this machine aren't easy/cheap to find. And as far as I know,

Re: Finding a v.90 modem for a G3 B/W

2009-01-15 Thread Kyle Parish
First, check the price of an internal modem on ebay, new egg, tiger direct... etc. 2nd your USB is going to be the best opion for an external modem in my opinion because it is the most modern form of technology. On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Paul pper...@gmail.com wrote: I have a good US

Re: Finding a v.90 modem for a G3 B/W

2009-01-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 15, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Paul wrote: I have a good US Robotics external V.90 modem that I'd like to be able to use with a G3 blue/white tower that doesn't have an internal modem. I've heard that USB external modems aren't too good, and I've heard that internal modems for this machine

Re: Finding a v.90 modem for a G3 B/W

2009-01-15 Thread Paul
This G3 is for someone on an extremely limited budget, who's mainly using the computer for email. Otherwise, broadband would make a lot of sense. These days, the Internet is so full of ads and pointless little animations that my 256K DSL connection seems slow, even with Flashblock running on

Re: Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.5

2009-01-15 Thread Tom
This combination of Firefox and OS-X crashes on me every day. It happens after Firefox has been in use for a few hours, often idle in the background. The sign of an oncoming crash is new webpages appearing with scrambled text or error messages. When I see this I know it's time to force-quit