Another cool Safari tweak

2005-04-22 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
In complete contrast to the odd Transparent Page tweak in Safari 1.3, here's something that's actually incredibly useful, epecially if you are studying CSS, or just want to see how a particular web page is put together. Safari WebDevAdditions 1.0b4 (from VersionTracker, of course) adds some

A pat on back I think?

2005-04-22 Thread Rob Davies
Morning, Found this interesting article this morning. Not sure if it is a call for arms, for Apple to be attacked, or a I am happy to be a Mac user? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/21/apples_big_virus/ Cheers! Rob Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is the world which makes known to us our

Interesting Article (Light Reading)

2005-04-22 Thread Duncan Hardman
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4464735.stm Thought others might enjoy this article -- Duncan Hardman

Beta testers wanted

2005-04-22 Thread Glen Low
Hi All, The local micro-ISV (you know who I'm talking about if you came to the WWDC Roadshow talk :-) ) is thinking of releasing a new product for Tiger, round about the date of Tiger release. I need about 3-5 people who are willing to be beta testers, any volunteers? Conditions: 1. You

Opening an iMac

2005-04-22 Thread Paul Weaver
Can someone tell me the trick how to remove the top cover of a blue G3 slot load iMac please. I've looked on the web without success. Cheers, Paul. -- Dr Paul R. Weaver http://www.livejournal.com/users/fremantlebiz/2004/

Re: Opening an iMac

2005-04-22 Thread Steve Woods
On Friday, Apr 22, 2005, at 09:17 Australia/Perth, Paul Weaver wrote: Can someone tell me the trick how to remove the top cover of a blue G3 slot load iMac please. I've looked on the web without success. You don't. You remove the bottom cover. Roll it over on a towel and remove its soft

Re: Interesting Article (Light Reading)

2005-04-22 Thread Susan Hastings
I think there is something in this, speaking as a person who is drawn to communitarian values, and though raised as a Protestant, feels affinity with people raised as Catholics... Feel that this list has communitarian (rather than individualistic) values, even though many of us are quite

Apple's Big Virus and Apple Mythology and Desktop Security

2005-04-22 Thread Martin Hill
These are a couple of interesting article posted today. Apple's Big Virus in The Register no less. Written by the content editor for Symantec's independent online magazine, SecurityFocus, who states that she and most of the SecurityFocus team use Mac OS X to avoid all of the security issues they

help viewer very slow

2005-04-22 Thread gary dorn
on a 1.25G4MDD, OS 10.3.8 Help viewer is very slow, is this normal, ie takes atleast a minute of spining wheel/ballon -- Gary Dorn Architect Perth, Australia

Re: help viewer very slow

2005-04-22 Thread Rod Blitvich
GARY I had this problem. I deleted the pref files com.apple.help.plist And I think com.apple.helpviewer.plist And this solved the problem. Rod on 22/4/05 10:32 AM, gary dorn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on a 1.25G4MDD, OS 10.3.8 Help viewer is very slow, is this normal, ie takes atleast a

Paperport 2.0

2005-04-22 Thread Robert D Miller-Eves
Do any of you vintage Mac - Ophiles out there own a Paperport 2.0 scanner? I'm trying to acquire a serial cable for this machine (The standard Mac serial cable will not work as I believe the pin configuration is slightly different at the Paperport end). If anyone has one that I could beg/

Re: help viewer very slow

2005-04-22 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Gary, Also try this: (1) Quit Help Viewer if it is open. (2) Open your Home Library Caches folder. (3) Trash the com.apple.helpui folder. (4) Empty the Trash. (5) Restart. The first time you launch Help for your Mac or a given application, you may still notice a slight delay in Help Viewer

Safari crashing

2005-04-22 Thread Rob Phillips
Help After installing 10.3.9 and the new Safari 1.3 (and then following Peter Hinchliffe's tip for a cool Safari tweak), I find I can no longer open my bookmarks. Safari crashes everytime I try, even after completely resetting it and deleting the bookmarks.plist file. Any ideas anyone?

Re: help viewer very slow

2005-04-22 Thread gary dorn
GARY I had this problem. I deleted the pref files com.apple.help.plist And I think com.apple.helpviewer.plist And this solved the problem. Also try this: (1) Quit Help Viewer if it is open. (2) Open your Home Library Caches folder. (3) Trash the com.apple.helpui folder. (4) Empty the Trash.

Re: Safari crashing

2005-04-22 Thread Robert Howells
On 22/04/2005, at 12:13 PM, Rob Phillips wrote: Help After installing 10.3.9 and the new Safari 1.3 (and then following Peter Hinchliffe's tip for a cool Safari tweak), I find I can no longer open my bookmarks. Safari crashes everytime I try, even after completely resetting it and

java update for OS X 10.3.9

2005-04-22 Thread Nancy McIntyre
Howdy, The update description here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301382 describes the procedure for restoring the Java Shared Archive. I am not an intensive Java user - just a plain vanilla few tabs mainly text surfer and don't use it otherwise. Can someone geek condense

What is it?

2005-04-22 Thread Severin Crisp
A zero-byte file ViewpointLog.log keeps materialising on my boot drive and I regularly trash it. Can anyone tell me where it comes from please? Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP

Re: What is it?

2005-04-22 Thread Shay Telfer
A zero-byte file ViewpointLog.log keeps materialising on my boot drive and I regularly trash it. Can anyone tell me where it comes from please? Severin Crisp I believe it's created by ViewPoint media player. Try removing it or adjusting its preferences. Have fun, Shay --

Re: java update for OS X 10.3.9

2005-04-22 Thread Rob Davies
On 22 Apr 2005, at 4:06 PM, Nancy McIntyre wrote: Howdy, The update description here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301382 describes the procedure for restoring the Java Shared Archive. I am not an intensive Java user - just a plain vanilla few tabs mainly text surfer and

OS 8.5

2005-04-22 Thread grayb
Hi, I've been ringing around various retail outlets to try and find a copy of OS 8.5 only to be told it's no longer being sold. Does anyone know where old system software can still be found. I could update to 9.xx (I think my poor old 7300 would handle it) but no one seems to stock that either.

Fwd: Re: java update for OS X 10.3.9

2005-04-22 Thread Nancy McIntyre
At 4:53 PM +0800 22/4/05, Rob Davies wrote: This will provide you with the current version of Java, if installed on your system. The next part of the exercise will update your Java configuration in relation to Safari's problems. So, if this is an issue which one assumes it possibly is for