Re: Network speed

Hi Stuart Get someone like Daniel to come and have a look, it may not be as simple as getting a faster network. Regards Roger On 05/08/2010, at 11:13 AM, bred...@highway1.biz wrote: > > Hi there > > In my practice there is a delay in the invoicing that I generate in my > consulting room b

Data recovery tools

Hi All, My main usb key has corrupted. This is very vexing but i thought i could use it as a chance to try out all those wacko data recovery tools out there. The weird thing is, I can find lots of PC ones but haven't tripped over any Mac ones for USB drives. Can anyone suggest their favourite

Re: New Office for Mac 2011 due in October

That is so awesome. i have been waiting ages for this. Wonder how long it will take for the fist service pack to be released. Smiles Aurora -- An Apple a day. On 05/08/2010, at 1:56 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > > Just saw this: > >

New Office for Mac 2011 due in October

Just saw this: > Microsoft said this week it would start selling the next version of its Office > programs for Apple's Mac computers at the end of October. And > The Home and Student edit

Re: .ocx files

Thanks everyone for your help, Just was not thinking straight and should have known it was .docs. Mac On 05/08/2010, at 9:09 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > > On 04/08/2010, at 12:38 PM, Malcolm McCallum wrote: > >> >> >> I have been sent an .ocx file which 'pages' has happily opened but when

Re: .ocx files

Thanks everyone for your help, Just was not thinking straight and should have known it was .docs. Mac On 05/08/2010, at 9:09 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > > On 04/08/2010, at 12:38 PM, Malcolm McCallum wrote: > >> >> >> I have been sent an .ocx file which 'pages' has happily opened but when

Network speed

Hi there In my practice there is a delay in the invoicing that I generate in my consulting room being transmitted via the network to reception. We have a small wholly Macintosh network. How can I increase the speed of our network? Stuart Breden -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List

Re: Off-Topic: Bearer of sad news,...

What sad news of Ken. I looked after his father in his terminal illness, They are a great family and he will be missed by many people all over WA. RIP Mac On 05/08/2010, at 9:30 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > > > On 04/08/2010, at 10:29 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > >> >> Hi All >> >> I just re

Re: .ocx files

Thank you for this article, Peter. I responded to the list in a one-liner suggesting to save the file out of Pages as a pdf and for Malcolm to send that to his daughter but I can not recall seeing my comment in any follow-up string. Cheers Merv On 5/08/10 9:09 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On

Re: Off-Topic: Bearer of sad news,...

On 04/08/2010, at 10:29 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > > Hi All > > I just received an email earlier this evening with some bad news. > Ken Houghton passed away on Tuesday 3rd August. > For those that knew him they will remember him from the meetings and his > love for Mac. He may not have posted lo

Re: .ocx files

On 04/08/2010, at 12:38 PM, Malcolm McCallum wrote: > > > I have been sent an .ocx file which 'pages' has happily opened but when I > send it to my daughter whose computer is on the darkside she cannot open it > :-( > > Where do I go next? > > > Mac > > While the general suggestion has

Re: Off-Topic: Bearer of sad news,...

So sad to hear that my commiserations to his friends and family. Regards Roger On 04/08/2010, at 10:29 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > > Hi All > > I just received an email earlier this evening with some bad news. > Ken Houghton passed away on Tuesday 3rd August. > For those that knew him they wil

Re: Off-Topic: Bearer of sad news,...

Sad news Daniel. I never met Ken but appreciated his contributions to the list. Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net Web: http://web.me.com/whitelyr/Reg/ http://beachlands.wordpress.com t On 04/08/2010, at 10:29 pm, Daniel Kerr wrote: > > Hi

Re: Off-Topic: Bearer of sad news,...

I was shocked to read of Ken's death. In the past he visited our house for conversations on some non-Mac matters. My commiserations to his family. Paul. Dr Paul R. Weaver http://fremantlebiz.livejournal.com/calendar - Original Message - From: "Daniel Kerr" To: "WAMUG" Sent: Wednesday

Re: OT Going Solar Power. - longish reply

Greetings! Your post was very informative and to the point. The only point you did not cover is the installation of a battery system to supply power in the evenings. I think the most important aspect of building a solar home is to build your home using insulation in the form of Styrofoam or Polysty

Off-Topic: Bearer of sad news,...

Hi All I just received an email earlier this evening with some bad news. Ken Houghton passed away on Tuesday 3rd August. For those that knew him they will remember him from the meetings and his love for Mac. He may not have posted lots to the list, but he certainly read it all and took a lot of i

Re: PREVIEW - add pages to a PDF

Neil good explanation A.. is what we did, I'll have a go at B.. thanks - very helpful Hi Gary, The thing about Preview in Snow Leopard is that it works a little differently to previous versions. The thing to remember is that you can now have several documents open in the same window - you c

Re: PREVIEW - add pages to a PDF

Hi Gary, The thing about Preview in Snow Leopard is that it works a little differently to previous versions. The thing to remember is that you can now have several documents open in the same window - you can see this when opening pdfs: Double-click a number of pdfs individually and they will ea

Re: PREVIEW - add pages to a PDF

I also use combinepdf which works a treat Best regards Justin Davies m...@justindavies.com.au www.justindavies.com.au 0414 567 638 9309 9309 Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/justinkdavies Business website: www.emergination.com.au Twitter: www.twitter.com/justinkdavies On 4 Aug 2010, a

Re: PREVIEW - add pages to a PDF

On 04/08/2010, at 5:16 PM, gary dorn wrote: > > howdy > my wife received via email a 2 separate of pages of a manual ( scans). > > we moved these into a single PDF of 2 pages - easy enough to do > (Mac OS 10.6.2) > > BUT > > if we go to reopen this created PDF at a later date, it only has a

Re: PREVIEW - add pages to a PDF

Open the first page in preview, then drag the second PDF onto the page that is showing in the sidebar. You should see a red box appear around the first page - release the mouse button. This should add the second document to the first. Do a 'save as' to save as 1 document. Next time you open th

PREVIEW - add pages to a PDF

howdy my wife received via email a 2 separate of pages of a manual ( scans). we moved these into a single PDF of 2 pages - easy enough to do (Mac OS 10.6.2) BUT if we go to reopen this created PDF at a later date, it only has a single page in the side bar, there is nothing else in it. We tr

Re: Can Spotlight search a DVD

Thank you James. I may have been trigger happy with my first request, as the DVD contained over 5500 pages of documents and Spotlight might not have indexed them when I made the first couple of attempts to search the DVd. I was also confused by the fact that the Spotlight window referred to the i

Re: Can Spotlight search a DVD

basically it canbut you may have to add the dvd volume to the searchable items... i actually just tested it osx.4.11: put the dvd in, start spotlight after the volume logo is on the desktop, then type in the search term...that's it James On 04/08/2010, at 9:14, Michael Hawkins wrote:

Re: Can Spotlight search a DVD

Thank you Adrian. After restarting my computer and repairing permissions, Spotlight now lists items on the DVD. On 4/8/10 2:52 PM, "Adrian Skehan" wrote: > > I tried several DVDs including a windows only one and an external drive, it > found what I asked for each time, however, I had to clic