Re: Mail message won't go away

2009-05-26 Thread Graham Byatt
Hah, yes indeed it does Ronni. Cut makes it disappear without a fuss. Quit mail and reopened to make sure it has stayed away and it has, I suppose we'll never know why it wouldn't delete, Cheers, Graham On 26/05/2009, at 1:49 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Graham, Can you highlight the

Keyboard - powerbook doesn't recognise it straight away

2009-05-26 Thread Justin Davies
Hi wamuggers, got a small but frustrating problem - each time I shut down my powerbook or disconnect the external keyboard, I have to connect the keyboard 3 times before it recognises it and allows me to type. The mac mouse which is connected to the keyboard works no problem however. I

35mm scanner UP RUNNING!

2009-05-26 Thread Denise Williams
Hi Mac That's a relief! Did you manage to download the software easily or were you able to get the scanner going with the version you had already downloaded? Oh well. It was nice to share our combined fumbling-around-efforts! I'll let you know when I might need it back. If possible by Friday 5th

Re: address book sorting

2009-05-26 Thread Bill Parker
From: Ronda Brown ro...@wn.com.au In-Reply-To: list-481...@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: address book Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 07:14:30 +0800 References: list-481...@wamug.org.au list-481...@wamug.org.au X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) On 26/05/2009, at 6:17 AM, Bill Parker wrote: Hi Bill, In

Re: address book

2009-05-26 Thread John Daniels
Thanks Ronni I will do that ASAP and get back to you. May have to be a couple of days. Cheers John On 26/05/2009, at 1:07 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi John, Ok, if you are not having any other problems in Leopard, you could just reinstall the Address Book Application. You will lose all the

Re: Keyboard - powerbook doesn't recognise it straight away

2009-05-26 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Justin, I'm intrigued ... why are you using an external keyboard on your PowerBook? I can 'sort of' understand why some people prefer to use an external mouse instead of the trackpad, but an external keyboard on a laptop? Were you using the Dell keyboard in Leopard? I think USB

Re: 35mm scanner UP RUNNING!

2009-05-26 Thread Malcolm McCallum
Used the one I already downloaded. Mac On 26/05/2009, at 12:18 PM, Denise Williams wrote: Hi Mac That's a relief! Did you manage to download the software easily or were you able to get the scanner going with the version you had already downloaded? Oh well. It was nice to share our

Re: Keyboard - powerbook doesn't recognise it straight away

2009-05-26 Thread James / Hans Kunz
maybe the keyboard is power hungry thus it appears unreliable, i have seen that sort of problems on windows machines where on the front only certain memory stick worked, some othere got slow after connecting them to the backside socket they worked on full speed just something: can you

A profile query

2009-05-26 Thread Severin Crisp
As part of my operation I record many clips off air to a hard disk recorder and save them on a disk in DVD format to carry upstairs to my computer and save for archive. In the computer I edit and convert to digital video (.dv) using Cinematize 2 Pro. I then view this on Quick Time and

Re: emails

2009-05-26 Thread Chris Burton
Hi Ronni and Sue Thanks for the reply and its good to be back in the mix. It was kind of weird not having all the wamug emails daily and it only twigged a short while ago!! re the usb drives, I was amazed to see such a large drive being usb powered now. Im going to take my MB in tomorrow

Re: Off Topic: Buying A Nikon D90

2009-05-26 Thread Kyle Kreusch
Hi, Rob Try JB HiFi. I try them after Harvey Norman but as I am in Geraldton. They did not want to give me their best price over the telephone and do not be afraid to ask for best price and other sundries as part of deal. Yes ;-) - you should always see If they are willing to throw

Re: Memory Help

2009-05-26 Thread Nichole Shervington
Thanks to you all for your great help. Much appreciated. The website links are really helpful. Kind regards Nichole On 26/05/09 10:25 AM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Nichole, I upgraded my 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac (also purchased Nov/Dec 2007) from 1GB to 4GB - it

Keyboard

2009-05-26 Thread Justin Davies
Hi James, Ronnie, thanks very much for your responses. The keyboard could be power hungry as I have a mouse plugged in to the left usb socket in the keyboard and a printer plugged into the right. I only connect the keyboard when I have the laptop connected to mains power. I had no trouble

Re: emails

2009-05-26 Thread Ronda Brown
On 27/05/2009, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 26/05/2009, at 6:16 PM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi Ronni and Sue Thanks for the reply and its good to be back in the mix. It was kind of weird not having all the wamug emails daily and it only twigged a short while ago!! re the usb

Re: emails

2009-05-26 Thread James / Hans Kunz
i'm using firewire drives (8 of them daisy chained) it works great i can do tapeless video/audio shooting without loosing a single frame, try this on a usb port...James On 27/05/2009, at 8:32, Ronda Brown wrote: On 27/05/2009, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 26/05/2009, at

G5 imac won't start

2009-05-26 Thread Mike Murray
Hi all Our sole remaining G5 iMac in the fleet has decided to play up. This morning when trying to wake it up as normal the screen remained black and the fans started to roar. Held the off switch down for 5 seconds and it shut down. left it for a while, unplugged everything, switched it

Re: A profile query

2009-05-26 Thread James Devenish
Hi Severin, Since I don't export from Quicktime, I don't know the exact answer to your question, but typical default profiles are (a) sRGB (which is like a lowest common denominator) and (b) the source device profile. I'd assume that QT passes along the colour values provided by your recorder

Re: emails

2009-05-26 Thread Neil Houghton
on 27/5/09 8:32 AM, Ronda Brown at ro...@wn.com.au wrote: On 27/05/2009, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 26/05/2009, at 6:16 PM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi Ronni and Sue Thanks for the reply and its good to be back in the mix. It was kind of weird not having all the wamug emails

Ghostscript

2009-05-26 Thread Mervyn Giuliana Bond
For business reasons many Mac people are also Windows users. Have any of you in the bi-platform mode used Ghostscript in Windows? What issues arose? Thank you. Merv -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see. -- The WA Macintosh User

Re: Ghostscript

2009-05-26 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Guys Ghostscript does work but the quality of the PDF hasn't always been good, we have had some issues with ghostscript where we have had to put the file back through Acrobat to get it working. But as always everyone has different thoughts. Regards roger On Wed May 27 13:08 , Mervyn