Re: Interesting re iPhone

2008-10-20 Thread Susan Hastings
Hi Stephen, I have not tested my iphone in rural or remote areas, so can't say what the reception would be like. We may have other iphone users in WAMUG who have travelled around using them. For email and the other functions, I make sure I am on wireless. We have a wireless network at

Re: Interesting re iPhone

2008-10-20 Thread Gordon Campbell
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:58:30 +0800, Stephen Chape Where as the Nokia's are well known for their durabilty in this area. My general experience with the Nokias is that when dropped they tend to fly apart in a horrifying fashion (battery flies out, case flies off etc.) but once you push the case

Re: Interesting re iPhone

2008-10-20 Thread Eugene
Added to what Sue has said; Telstra gives you free wireless at every McDonalds in Australia. Reception seems to be as good as other phones I've had. (Nokia and Motorolla) I use WiFi on my iPhone almost exclusively. Only downloading maps via 3G occasionally when using the GPS. As far as

Re: Interesting re iPhone

2008-10-20 Thread Martin Hill
I've found my iPhone 3G to be very tough (certainly much better than my expensive HTC Windows Mobile smartphones). Check out this iPhone Stress Test that PC World did of the iPhone 3G: http://www.pcworld.com/article/148310/its_tough_to_kill_an_apple_iphone_3g.html They tried scratching it

Re: Interesting re iPhone

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Howells
On 20/10/2008, at 4:21 PM, Martin Hill wrote: I've found my iPhone 3G to be very tough (certainly much better than my expensive HTC Windows Mobile smartphones). Check out this iPhone Stress Test that PC World did of the iPhone 3G:

Re: Interesting re iPhone

2008-10-20 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi Rob, They both HAD a baby, but the better half gave birth !! On 20/10/2008, at 4:34 PM, Robert Howells wrote: On 20/10/2008, at 4:21 PM, Martin Hill wrote: I've found my iPhone 3G to be very tough (certainly much better than my expensive HTC Windows Mobile smartphones). Check out this

Re: Interesting re iPhone

2008-10-20 Thread Stephen Chape
Thank you very much for that input Martin, I was hoping to get some positive responses (and I did), but I have to admit I was sort of expecting people to agree with the Telstra guy. After all the sales guy I spoke to is working for Telstra. Perhaps on a commission from Nokia ?? You have

Re: Interesting re iPhone

2008-10-20 Thread Stephen Chape
More faith being restored by the minute !!! On 20/10/2008, at 3:27 PM, Eugene wrote: Added to what Sue has said; Telstra gives you free wireless at every McDonalds in Australia. Reception seems to be as good as other phones I've had. (Nokia and Motorolla) I use WiFi on my iPhone almost

Email servers etc - I need some ideas

2008-10-20 Thread Steven Knowles
I'm looking for some advice in terms of setting up a corporate email environment on the Mac platform (but catering for users of other platforms who would be potentially anywhere). I'm quite familiar with pop email accounts, understand the concept of IMAP (I think). But I haven't really

HJelp with Apple Backup

2008-10-20 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi folks, I use Backup to backup just my essential files off site. Not a huge load of files ... certainly less than 1 GB before archive is created and compressed. It is scheduled to take place every Monday at 6 pm. About 6 weeks ago things changed. It seemed to be taking much longer than

Re: Email servers etc - I need some ideas

2008-10-20 Thread Steve Woods
On 20/10/2008, at 7:48 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I'm looking for some advice in terms of setting up a corporate email environment on the Mac platform (but catering for users of other platforms who would be potentially anywhere). I'm quite familiar with pop email accounts, understand the

Re: Email servers etc - I need some ideas

2008-10-20 Thread Rob Findlay
Give me a call if you like Steven. I have set up Mac Mail Servers for many of my clients over the years. The most recent version of Mac OS X Server 10.5.5 provides a robust and mature mail service which includes POP, IMAP, authenticated SMTP and Webmail. IMAP does most of what you require.

Re: Firewire on a MacBook

2008-10-20 Thread Reg Whitely
Hi Eugene and WAMUGgers Hi All MacEdders Go to http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa? threadID=1751964tstart=0 and enter the discussion. There are over 15000 entries currently, Reg On 16/10/2008, at 11:24 am, Eugene wrote: Hi all, now that Apple has decided to forgo the Firewire

Re: HJelp with Apple Backup

2008-10-20 Thread Glenn Nicholas
Use http://getdropbox.com instead. 2Gb offsite backup free. Glenn. 2008/10/20 Stephen Chape [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi folks, I use Backup to backup just my essential files off site. Not a huge load of files ... certainly less than 1 GB before archive is created and compressed. It is scheduled

iPhone baby (was: Re: Interesting re iPhone)

2008-10-20 Thread Martin Hill
On 20/10/2008, at 4:34 PM, Robert Howells wrote: You would be pretty smart to do that ... but we get the message ! The better half had a baby ! :-) Don't you know the PC thing is to say we are pregnant and the like. ;-) Congrats to you both ! Life now begins . ! Bob

Re: Interesting re iPhone

2008-10-20 Thread Martin Hill
I wouldn't trust what Telstra has to say about the iPhone as they have a very poor track record so far. Telstra's operations chief Greg Winn, considered the telco's second- in-charge and the man who oversees most of its big product decisions infamously scoffed that Apple should stick to

Re: Email servers etc - I need some ideas

2008-10-20 Thread Matthew Healey
On 20/10/2008, at 7:48 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I'm looking for some advice in terms of setting up a corporate email environment on the Mac platform (but catering for users of other platforms who would be potentially anywhere). http://www.kerio.com Kerio Mail Server is pretty much the

Domain Name problem

2008-10-20 Thread Skehan Adrian
For some reason I cannot access web page at http://www.skehan.id.au/ (http://www.skehan.id.au/Home/Welcome.html ) which is hosted on .Mac was working file when we left home a couple of weeks ago. The domain name people say that they can access it externally but I get the following response

Re: Domain Name problem

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Howells
Hi Adrian They open ok and I find the server ok from here 1.30pm Perhaps you have something in cache or cookies which is causing a problem ! ? Bob On 21/10/2008, at 1:06 PM, Skehan Adrian wrote: For some reason I cannot access web page at http://www.skehan.id.au/