Re: Replacement Reader

2013-05-24 Thread Richard Smallwood
He wrote - Feedly not Freedy http://www.feedly.com/ On 24 May 2013, at 9:57 AM, Dan wrote: At 8:53 PM -0400 05/23/2013, les simo wrote: I follow numerous blogs and am looking for a suitable replacement for the destined for demise Google Reader. Feedly seems to be the hot favorite, but

Re: MacDraw like application?

2012-10-19 Thread Richard Smallwood
Appleworks has a simple draw program. On 19 Oct 2012, at 2:16 PM, John Callahan wrote: A long time ago in an another century, in another millennium I had a MacDraw application that was just great for relatively simple drawings. I used it for house drawings, working drawings and so on.

Fan failure on Dual 1.8 Ghz G-5

2011-03-05 Thread Richard Smallwood
I have a mid 2004 Dual 1.8 Ghz G-5 running Tiger 4.11. When I go to system logs on console I get a message (every second) that there is a fan failure. I opened the computer and visually saw all 7 fans running: i.e. 2 front fans, 1 by the front speaker, two exhaust fans, 1 cage fan by the

Re: Power Supply

2011-02-19 Thread Richard Smallwood
Whoa! Good for you! Wish I had done that! Hope you have happy sailing! Richard On 19 Feb 2011, at 12:34 PM, diane wrote: I never had any intent of trashing the G4 unless I could have afforded a new Mac Pro. :) I got the power supply rebuilt for $89 and a lot less time than you outlined.

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-11 Thread Richard Smallwood
Jörg, You didn't kill anything, you isolated the problem so that it strongly indicates that you have a bad Power Supply. On 11 Feb 2011, at 11:55 AM, yawg wrote: I removed all cards, put the video card back in, removed all RAM, put one RAM stick back in, removed all ATA cables exept for my

Re: Problem with G-5

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Smallwood
Thank you, John. It was a problem with the RAM memory. Pairs are NOT installed beside each other, there is a numbering sequence which was not obvious. Oh well, live and learn. Richard On 13 Jan 2011, at 7:29 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Jan 13, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Richard Smallwood wrote: I

Problem with G-5

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Smallwood
I was upgrading the DVD-CD ROM Drive, adding a 2nd Hard Drive and increasing the RAM memory on this brought used Dual 1.8 Ghz. When I got everything installed and tried to start it , the fans started, but nothing else did. There is a white LED above the power switch which flashed until I

Re: G4 MDD RAM

2010-06-02 Thread Richard Smallwood
On 02 Jun 2010, at 2:07 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jun 2, 2010, at 8:47 AM, john CARMONNE wrote: I'm wondering if I install in my G4 MDD Dual 1.25, two 1 GB PC3200 DDR 184 pin sticks and two 512 will the machine report 3 GB? Yes it will. Well now I'm doubting my own memory. I could

Re: Translate an Appleworks file .cwk to iWork on an iMac

2010-02-16 Thread Richard Smallwood
Drag the .cwk file and drop it on the (unopened) Numbers.app. Richard On 16 Feb 2010, at 7:33 PM, janespra...@comcast.net wrote: I am helping a friend to set up a new iMac from a G4 iBook. She has been using Appleworks to create databases. The most important ones she needs are the database

Re: Heavy thumbs required for G4 iBook space bar

2009-12-24 Thread Richard Smallwood
On 24 Dec 2009, at 1:43 AM, Dwight Hines wrote: iBook G4, 14inch, 1.33gHz, OS-X.5.8, Leopard -- Space bar not registering unless heavy thumbs work, getting tiresome andsolotsofwords run together. Suggestions? Check for item/gunk under space bar. Remove space bar by gripping upper

Re: CD/DVD Drives in MDD Bays...

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Smallwood
Any should go. I put a PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-116D in my 1.25 Ghz G4 MDD. The front bezel had to be removed (a 20 second deal - 2 minutes if you cannot back from front). Richard On 24 Nov 2009, at 6:18 AM, AHarmon wrote: What is the highest rev version of Panasonic drive (107 et al) that will

Re: Mirror Door G4's overheating

2009-11-01 Thread Richard Smallwood
On 01 Nov 2009, at 10:08 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Or, my advise would be to to clean it? Honestly, In about an hour or less, and some simple tools you'll have that G4 working like a new one. :-) Jeff (also if you need a take apart guide, let me know) This would be very helpful. Richard

Re: Print an evil PDF file?

2009-01-29 Thread Richard Smallwood
On 29 Jan 2009, at 12:22 PM, Dan wrote: I gots an evil PDF file that I just cannot seem to print properly. Hopefully someone here can see what I've missed... The file is a train schedule, from NJ Transit. The old schedules - they were nice - Preview opened 'em and they printed double-sided

Re: Plastics Care

2008-11-27 Thread Richard Smallwood
On 27 Nov 2008, at 10:56 AM, Amanda Ward wrote: I just got a monitor from Craig’s list, for free. It’s a 19” SGI, CRT. No, no not a Mac, but I’m using on my one of my Macs. What a beast... must be close to 50 pounds. Anyhow, some “security conscious” individual wrote the system root