Shareprice Dashboard/widget

2009-02-01 Thread Aurora74
Hi, Can I please have a recommendation for a Dashboard/Widget to monitor share prices, currencies etc? It doesn't have to be free - willing to pay :) I don't like the inbuilt one as it 'disappears' too much. I want this to be visible sitting in the background or as a transparency over other

Re: OSX upgrade

2009-02-01 Thread Janis Lynn
Hi All I am wondering if anyone has OSX 10.4 for sale as I have a friend who is on 10.3 and has just bought an iphone and cannot use it with his ibook. Please contact me offline if anyone can help. Thanks. Kind regards Janis -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Shareprice Dashboard/widget

2009-02-01 Thread Christopher S
Hi Aurora, Well to answer one of your questions you can display your widgets on your desktop by enabling the developer mode or by using an app like Amnesty. To enable dev mode, which is free, just type this into terminal: defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES Logout and back in, open

Can anyone help my sister? Blue folder question mark at start up

2009-02-01 Thread Steven Knowles
Any wamuggers out there in or near Forrestfield who would be happy to give my sister a hand with her MacBook, which has suddenly developed the blue folder / question mark at start up? I understand it's an indication of hard disk failure, but I think the first step is to boot the machine up

Re: Can anyone help my sister? Blue folder question mark at start up

2009-02-01 Thread Charles Taylor
Steven Knowles wrote: Any wamuggers out there in or near Forrestfield who would be happy to give my sister a hand with her MacBook, which has suddenly developed the blue folder / question mark at start up? I understand it's an indication of hard disk failure, but I think the first step is to

Re: Can anyone help my sister? Blue folder question mark at start up

2009-02-01 Thread Steven w
Hello Steven, I am in Kalamunda just up the hill from Forrestfield, if she doesnt have any luck let me know, I have a laptop so could start it up via firewire and run disk utilities from there, will be passing forrestfield in the mid morning. regards steven - Original Message From:

Re: Shareprice Dashboard/widget

2009-02-01 Thread Glenn Nicholas
Useful ASX widget: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/business/asxwidget.html Warning: this widget definitely has a problem related to the 'disappears' problem you mention - no matter which stock you look at, company valuations seem to be disappearing. Banks and auto makers in particular.

Re: Can anyone help my sister? Blue folder question mark at start up

2009-02-01 Thread Steven Knowles
Steven, another option for her - thank you! I can't get your message to her directly ('cos her computer's down), but will send you name and number directly, and if you're happy to, I can pass on your number to her. Cheers, Steven On 01/02/2009, at 6:43 PM, Steven w wrote: Hello

Re: Can anyone help my sister? Blue folder question mark at start up

2009-02-01 Thread Steven Knowles
Great Charles. Thanks. I've just sent your message through to my sister - whether she calls or not will be up to her, but a great option. Cheers, Steven On 01/02/2009, at 3:50 PM, Charles Taylor wrote: Steven Knowles wrote: Any wamuggers out there in or near Forrestfield who would be happy

Reading embedded documents within a MS Word doc

2009-02-01 Thread Michael Anderson
Hi, Specs: MacBook 2ghz Intel Core Duo, running OSX 10.5.6, and Pages 08 (v 3.02). I also have on a separate HD back up my old MS Office for Mac 2004. I have received by email a Word document which is supposed to have embedded in it several other word documents and PDFs. I can see the

Re: Reading embedded documents within a MS Word doc

2009-02-01 Thread Robert Howells
On 02/02/2009, at 12:41 PM, Michael Anderson wrote: Hi, Specs: MacBook 2ghz Intel Core Duo, running OSX 10.5.6, and Pages 08 (v 3.02). I also have on a separate HD back up my old MS Office for Mac 2004. I have received by email a Word document which is supposed to have embedded in it

MacBook Pro starts up on power adaptor connection.

2009-02-01 Thread Neil Houghton
MacBook Pro 2.4GHz 2GB RAM, currently running OSX 10.5.2 Despite having both Wake for Ethernet network admin access and Restart automatically after a power failure unchecked in Energy Saver prefs, the MacBook insists on starting up (ie actually switching on from a switched off state) if I connect

Re: Reading embedded documents within a MS Word doc

2009-02-01 Thread Robin Belford
This is something that Murdoch university does a lot. They send out a word (.doc) document and embedded in it are a number of PDFs (.pdf). I cannot open the the embedded documents with my version of word (Office X) or acrobat or any other PDF reader. I cannot extract them from the word

Re: Reading embedded documents within a MS Word doc

2009-02-01 Thread Eugene
I don't know if this would work but I have used it many times to extract embedded pictures as separate files. Open the document in Pages and save it immediately as a pages document. Right click (cntrl click) on the new document and 'open the package contents'. With a bit of luck the PDFs

Re: Reading embedded documents within a MS Word doc

2009-02-01 Thread James Guerrero
Hi Mike, I just saw this on tuaw.com recently. It talks about opening winmail.dat files. I don't know if this is related to your problem but it might help as well. http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/28/letter-opener-new-life-for-winmail-dat-files/ Cheers. -James On Feb 2, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Michael