Apple Australia Store is Offline!

2009-08-30 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi WAMUGers, Apple Australia store is Offline we are busy updating the store for you and will be back shortly. What new something is going to be there when they are back from updating? New 17 MacBook Pro ??? Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Mac World Video look at Snow Leopard tricks

2009-08-30 Thread Andrew Bignell
A nice 6 minute video tour of Dan Frakes favourite new tricks in Snow Leopard. See link and scroll to the bottom for the YouTube video. Some new things that I hadn't seen before in any of the Apple demos. http://www.macworld.com/article/142485/2009/08/snow_leopard_tricks.html Regards AB

Re: Apple Australia Store is Offline!

2009-08-30 Thread Pedro
HA! in your dreams Ronnie ... anyway you have just got a new one. Being a Saturday night over there I'm guessing it is just maintenance. Have you loaded up Snow Leopard yet? Cheers Pedro On 30/08/2009, at 1:58 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi WAMUGers, Apple Australia store is Offline we

Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA

2009-08-30 Thread David Noel
-- Ah, nostalgia! We started off with 512k Macs and Pagemaker 0.9. One of the achievements was running PageMaker 3 with just an internal and an external floppy drives -- no hard drive -- not recommended or even suggested as possible by the software maker (?Aldus at that time?). We also made our

Re: Apple Australia Store is Offline!

2009-08-30 Thread Ronda Brown
All Apple Stores all over the world are down Pedro ;-) Snow Leopard not installed yet. I'm too busy getting my clients computers ready for Snow Leopard ;-( I'll be installing on my 17 MacBook Pro possibly tomorrow or Tuesday... yay! Cheers, Ronni On 30/08/2009, at 2:32 PM, Pedro wrote:

Re: Apple Australia Store is Offline!

2009-08-30 Thread Ronda Brown
All Apple Stores back online now ... but I can't see anything exciting such as NEW 17 MacBook Pros. Ah well, back to work Ronni :-( Cheers, Ronni On 30/08/2009, at 2:38 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: All Apple Stores all over the world are down Pedro ;-) Snow Leopard not installed yet. I'm too

Re: Quicktime mpeg2 component and the 64 bit question

2009-08-30 Thread Brian Risbey
Thank you Rod D and Ronnie for you responses, I wasn't given custom install option and didn't notice the top menu bar, installed software, panicked a bit when it my mpegs didn't play, saw Quicktime 7, erased that - oops, did a fresh install of Snow Leopard, so it wasn't a clean install and

Re: Quicktime mpeg2 component and the 64 bit question

2009-08-30 Thread Dark1
From what I've read the operating system is still 64bit and applications still run in 64bit but the kernal and extensions are 32bit. You can still access and utilise over 4GB of RAM (something you can't do in a 32bit OS) but your unable to fully utilise the 32GB of RAM that the xServes

Re: Quicktime mpeg2 component and the 64 bit question

2009-08-30 Thread Ronda Brown
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=4712 Some Macs with 64-bit processors won’t be able to load the 64-bit kernel because they have a 32-bit EFI. The seed notes explain which Macs can boot into a 64-bit kernel and drivers by default (Xserve), and which ones are only “capable” — meaning you

Apple Mail - Rules buggy

2009-08-30 Thread Steven Knowles
A long shot, but hoping someone can point me to some revelational fix for problems I'm having with Mail Rules. I'm running 10.5.8, so a side question is whether anyone knows whether Snow Leopard has changed / improved Mail, and in particular Mail Rules. Because maybe upgrading to Snow

iTunes for a newbie

2009-08-30 Thread Peter Bull
Hi, I scored an iPod shuffle recently and my brother put about 200 songs on it from his PC. When I plugged it into my iMac iTunes told me that it was synced with another computer and did I want to sync it with the iMac. This would involve deleting everything on the iPod. Is there a way I

Re: iTunes for a newbie

2009-08-30 Thread Glenn Nicholas
Itunes backwards - Senuti fadingred.com/senuti Glenn 2009/8/30 Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.com.au: Hi, I scored an iPod shuffle recently and my brother put about 200 songs on it from his PC. When I plugged it into my iMac iTunes told me that it was synced with another computer and did I want

Re: iTunes for a newbie

2009-08-30 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 30/8/09 6:47 PM, Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.com.au wrote: Hi, I scored an iPod shuffle recently and my brother put about 200 songs on it from his PC. When I plugged it into my iMac iTunes told me that it was synced with another computer and did I want to sync it with the iMac. This would

WAMUG Meeting Final Reminder: This Tuesday 1 September (Please Do Not reply)

2009-08-30 Thread Pete Smith
G'day again all WAMUGGERS Well, August has nearly past us by. Have you set your iCal for this Tuesday 1 September 2009 for the next WAMUG meeting? In no particular order: Denice Williams is going to talk to us about Digital Photography; Daniel Kerr will tell us about iWeb; and Hopefully,

Re: Quicktime mpeg2 component and the 64 bit question - Hard Drive Space

2009-08-30 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 30/8/09 4:54 PM, Brian Risbey risb...@bigpond.com wrote: so it wasn't a clean install and wow they we were correct about freeing 7Gb that must have set a new record for a software upgrade minus 7Gb. Hi Brian It's true that some space is gained back, but also the way the drive space is

Calendar Reminder Program

2009-08-30 Thread Peter Curtis
Hi everyone I'm currently using iCal but not particularly happy with it. Does anyone have any recommendations for a good Calendar/Reminder/ToDo Program? Regards Peter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -

Apple Software Update in an ahem ... PC laptop

2009-08-30 Thread Tim Law
Hello folks. I boldly state I am a Mac man, got a house full of them including a working Mac Plus in the cupboard! carefully looking left and right, putting a hand up asking for some understanding Unfortunately I also have a PC laptop that I use for my digital mapping when touring the

SL upgrade: Apple Mail, now with Notes (in your inbox?)

2009-08-30 Thread Toby Oldham
Anyone else do the upgrade path with Snow Leopard, only to notice that any notes you have now display in your inbox (with Apple Mail)? I've got an iMac, iPhone and MobileMe subscription. 'odd issue to be sure... I've deleted my notes for the time being (they weren't important). It bugs me (from

Re: Calendar Reminder Program

2009-08-30 Thread Vladimir James
Have a look at uCalendarX. Been using it for years; very pleased with it. Customize it to your own needs, http://www.riuz.com/index_e.html Vlad James On 31/08/2009, at 9:42 AM, Peter Curtis wrote: Hi everyone I'm currently using iCal but not particularly happy with it. Does anyone have

Disc repair - diskwarrior?

2009-08-30 Thread David de la Hunty
Hi all, Having a bit of a kerfuffle with a Macbook G4 (tiger) which gets the grey apple but doesnt get the spinning cog. Have done the following - pram zap - safe mode start no good - start from DVD Disc utility: Check and Repair Permissions is greyed out Disc repair attempted, it

What's using my external hard drive preventing it fr om ejecting?

2009-08-30 Thread Brian Scott
Hi, I have tried selecting the eject triangle in Finder, selecting the drives icon and pressing ⌘-E and ejecting from Disk Utility but I keep getting The disk is in use and could not be ejected Try quitting applications and try again. I only use it as a kind scratch-back-up drive where I

Re: Disc repair - diskwarrior?

2009-08-30 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 31/8/09 11:43 AM, David de la Hunty da...@visionary.iinet.net.au wrote: Hi all, Having a bit of a kerfuffle with a Macbook G4 (tiger) which gets the grey apple but doesnt get the spinning cog. Have done the following - pram zap - safe mode start no good - start from DVD Disc

Re: SL upgrade: Apple Mail, now with Notes (in your inbox?)

2009-08-30 Thread Craig Bruce
Not that I use notes to much but they do appear in the inbox now -- Craig Bruce Director M 0403 040 088 P 08 9367 4691 F 08 9367 4692 E craig.br...@maxstyle.com.au W http://www.maxstyle.com.au Twitter Maxstyle_com_au Facebook http://www.facebook.com/maxstyle Disclaimer: The information

Re: What's using my external hard drive preventing it from ejecting?

2009-08-30 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 31/8/09 11:51 AM, Brian Scott scot...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi, I have tried selecting the eject triangle in Finder, selecting the drives icon and pressing ⌘-E and ejecting from Disk Utility but I keep getting The disk is in use and could not be ejected Try quitting applications and

Re: Disc repair - diskwarrior?

2009-08-30 Thread David de la Hunty
yes brilliant thanks Dan maybe archive and install is the way to go. And yes it was an iBook quite right, typo. Much appreciated. DD On 31/08/2009, at 11:53, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 31/8/09 11:43 AM, David de la Hunty da...@visionary.iinet.net.au wrote: Hi all, Having a bit of a

Re: What's using my external hard drive preventing it from ejecting?

2009-08-30 Thread Brian Scott
Thank you Daniel. The Terminal advice 'hdiutil eject -force' from your link did the trick, I applied it when the drive was in Power Down mode so nothing was accessing it at the time. After ejecting it I checked the drive again with About This Mac, it came out of Power Down mode but didn't