Used Macbook Prices??

2011-09-28 Thread Rod Blitvich
Hi Guys I have to buy back some student laptops Using this site: http://www.mac2sell.net/index.au.php i came up with $380 and $440 for macbook core 2 duo, 13inch, 2.1 and 2.4ghz, 2 gb ram, 220 hd they are around 18 months to 2 yrs old. Is that a bit cheap or fair prices? your advice

WAMUG Meeting Reminder: This Tuesday 4 October 2011 (Please Do Not Reply)

2011-09-28 Thread Pete Smith
G'day all WAMUGGERs. Isn't the year just flying past and with it, another WAMUG meeting fast approaches. So set your iCals up if you haven't already; sync your iPhones and iPads and make sure you have next Tuesday 4 October 2011 marked for the October WAMUG meeting. See the website for full

AutoCad for Mac

2011-09-28 Thread Peter Bull
I have an upcoming project at home involving enclosing one side of our carport, and I would like to use software to produce working drawings rather than pencil, ruler and paper. Google's Sketch Up seems to be hard to use (or maybe it's me) and I would like to know what AutoCad-like software

Re: AutoCad for Mac

2011-09-28 Thread Stuart Breden
Peter, not sure if you saw this on the Procad site. You can go and learn how to use Sketch Up. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email http://www.procad.com.au/sketchup.htm# On 28/09/2011, at

Re: AutoCad for Mac

2011-09-28 Thread Stuart Breden
Peter, not sure if you saw this on the Procad site. You can go and learn how to use Sketch Up. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email http://www.procad.com.au/sketchup.htm# On 28/09/2011, at

Re: AutoCad for Mac

2011-09-28 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 28/09/2011, at 11:40 PM, Peter Bull wrote: I have an upcoming project at home involving enclosing one side of our carport, and I would like to use software to produce working drawings rather than pencil, ruler and paper. Google's Sketch Up seems to be hard to use (or maybe it's me)

Re: AutoCad for Mac

2011-09-28 Thread Greg Bell
Hi Peter, Use SketchUp. Looks hard until you make use of the ability to manually enter measurements. Once you learn how to do that (it's covered in the documentation) it becomes very, very easy to use and very accurate. The only thing it lacks is the ability to output working drawings, that,

Re: AutoCad for Mac

2011-09-28 Thread Eugene
I support this. A few tutorials will get you on task, then it is easy to use. Regards, Eugene -- next part -- On 29/09/2011, at 7:36 AM, Greg Bell wrote: Hi Peter, Use SketchUp. Looks hard until you make

Re: AutoCad for Mac

2011-09-28 Thread James / Hans Kunz
neooffice/openoffice, has a reasonable drawing package included, which also can include pics text you may have to 'donate' us$10.- for the 150meg download i'm using it for mechanical presentation drawings, i also made drawing for the installation of a gas heating in my house James SAD Technic

Re: AutoCad for Mac

2011-09-28 Thread Ronda Brown
On 28/09/2011, at 11:40 PM, Peter Bull wrote: I have an upcoming project at home involving enclosing one side of our carport, and I would like to use software to produce working drawings rather than pencil, ruler and paper. Google's Sketch Up seems to be hard to use (or maybe it's me)

Pages Security issue - any suggestions?

2011-09-28 Thread David Nicholas
I have just discovered what seems to be at first look a serious security problem with the latest Pages on Snow Leopard. Or perhaps it is just my machine. I have a pages document which is security protected with a Password. Today, not having closed the machine the night before, I used the

PRAM?

2011-09-28 Thread Ken Jackson
Hi folks, my G4 G5 are both repeatedly giving me the grey (restart your machine) window! I zap the PRAM it seems ok for a day or so then reverts. Do I need a new PRAM battery? What else would resolve it? Running 10.4.11 on both machines. Hope you're all well, Ken Ken Jackson

Re: Pages Security issue - any suggestions?

2011-09-28 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi David, I haven’t heard of this happening, but it is serious if this is so. You didn’t export the password protected pages document to another format did you? If the document you want to export is password-protected, the password protection is removed from Word, RTF, and plain text formats.”

Re: PRAM?

2011-09-28 Thread Ronda Brown
On 29/09/2011, at 12:34 PM, Ken Jackson wrote: Hi folks, my G4 G5 are both repeatedly giving me the grey (restart your machine) window! I zap the PRAM it seems ok for a day or so then reverts. Do I need a new PRAM battery? What else would resolve it? Running 10.4.11 on both machines.