New Mac user arrives

2003-07-11 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
A new future Macintosh user arrived yesterday at about 5:00 pm, weighing in at 7 lb and crying heartily. Charlotte and her mum are both well. At the same moment two new grandparents were created. I guess I'll get used to the idea... -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro

More on Fix for laptop batteries

2003-07-11 Thread Bob Howells
I would like to say THANKS for the feed back I received for yesterday's post. It was appreciated. Here is todays issue fron Macintouch. Note the bottom section talks about ion batteries . PHOTO enthusiast's with elctronic cameras may also want to READ . Cheers Bob

Re: More on Fix for laptop batteries

2003-07-11 Thread John Hatch
Bob. what was Rob Wyatt's super tip JOhn Bob Howells wrote: I would like to say THANKS for the feed back I received for yesterday's post. It was appreciated. Here is todays issue fron Macintouch. Note the bottom section talks about ion batteries . PHOTO enthusiast's with elctronic

Re: More on Fix for laptop batteries

2003-07-11 Thread Bob Howells
It was inyesterday's post. Copy sent to you direct Bob John Hatch wrote: Bob. what was Rob Wyatt's super tip

Anyone ever used iListen?

2003-07-11 Thread Toby Oldham
http://www.macsense.com.au/products/Software/iListen/iListen_prices.htm One of my co-workers is interested in it, 'thought I'd ask around. I note it doesn't support MS Office vX, just 2001. Weird. Cheers, Tobes.

iSight with other video chat programs

2003-07-11 Thread Steven Tan
hi all, Anyone has tried iSight with other video chat programs, like Yahoo Messenger, iSpQ??? Will it work? Steven

West Australian Wednesday (9.7.2003) Today section - Beat Bug

2003-07-11 Thread Kent Lyon Architect
Hi all, Just looking through the Wednesday paper at lunch time and saw this article (with photo of Titanium PowerBook in background) for an invention called the Beat Bug. Looks ( probably sounds) interesting, developed by a computer whiz and musician-composer. Anyway an interesting read. But

Mail.app RTF gobbledygook

2003-07-11 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi All i'm getting an inconsistent problem in Mail, where some incoming messages display partly in some kinda code. I have also had this with an outgoing message. If i change to plain text the text becomes normal eg: homePO Box 253 Deakin West ACT 2600 displays as: jqog RQDqz485

Re: Mail.app RTF gobbledygook

2003-07-11 Thread David de la Hunty
Ooh, I love these! Puzzles. If you look carefully you will see that each ASCII character has had 2 added to it, so 'h' comes out as 'j', '2' becomes '4', and space becomes a double quote. (pauses for applause) Exactly WHY that has come about I'm hwelgf if I know... d On Friday, Jul 11,

Re: New Mac user arrives

2003-07-11 Thread J Philippe Chaperon
on 11/07/2003 12:35 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A new future Macintosh user arrived yesterday at about 5:00 pm, weighing in at 7 lb and crying heartily. Charlotte and her mum are both well. At the same moment two new grandparents were created. I guess I'll get used to

remote access attempting to dial in

2003-07-11 Thread ECU Account
Can anyone tell me how to stop my G3 Powerbook's remote access attempting to dial in on bootup every time? There is nothing relevant in my startup control panel (OS 9.2.2) Thanks in advance for any info. ~ Robert Griffin Morgan Ph; 0405 818 205 (+65 405 818 205) [Non-text portions