Outdated electronic equipment...

Hi all, Simple question: Is there anywhere where one can take outdated electronic equipment (old phones, cameras, PDAs, printers, computers, etc.) for recycling or disposal? Ken -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Re: Arrr gotta love advertising,... (Semi OT maybe?)

Typical comment from the lack lustre win doze world? Ken On 16/09/12 11:03 AM, Kevin Lock kal...@iinet.net.au wrote: And how about this .http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670760/will-apples-tacky-software-design -philosophy-cause-a-revolt Kev -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --

Apps on the iPad.

Hi all, And thanks to Ronnie and Carlo. Tried Ronnie's suggestion with no success. And as Roger has stated below, this only started after the last update, and only happens with apps that been purchased directly by the iPad. As far as I am aware I only have 1 account, and have authorised my

Re: Apps on the iPad.

, at 9:53 PM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ken, Do you have more than one Apple ID? Cheers, Carlo Sent from my iPad On 22/11/2011, at 21:48, Ken Woods logg...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi all, I have some apps on my iPad the for some reason have stopped responding, and also refuse

Apps on the iPad.

Hi all, I have some apps on my iPad the for some reason have stopped responding, and also refuse to sync with iTunes, displaying a message that says that these half a dozen or so apps cannot be synced because the computer has not been authorised, although it has. Would appreciate some info on

Re: Microsoft Sync Services.

Thanks Ronnie, will give this a go. Ken On 13/09/10 10:57 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Ken, You can turn off Sync Services in Entourage preferences until you can get time to fix your issues. Sync Services goes through a database called the truth. Until you get the database

Microsoft Sync Services.

Hi all, I have a problem with Entourage. It has started (in the last couple of days) coming up with the following message when launching, ²Microsoft Sync Services has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for any inconvenience². I click the restart Sync Services and it

Re: The Future of WAMUG

Hi everyone, Thanks Matt. Yes the meeting was I believe some sort of new beginning for WAMug although direction (from the members) is what we need. One thing everyone was agreed on was the need for WAMug to continue. So for what it is worth here are some ideas from humble me to kick the game

Palm Interest...

Hi all, A little of topic, but not that far! Recently Rod L. was asking for any information on new or pending releases of new Palm PDA devices. I didn't see any responses to Rod's query and was wondering what the results of this question were? I currently use a Tungsten T, but am considering

External Modem

Hi Guys and Gals, Just out of curiosity, does anyone have a 56k external USB modem with Windows drivers that they no longer need? My girlfriend's modem has died and we are having trouble replacing it. She does not want to go to broadband at this stage. Thanks Ken.

Re: Apple supports booting XP

AHHH...!!! On 5/4/06 9:31 PM, Matthew Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's called Boot Camp http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/ It allows you to bring your own copy of Windows XP and install it on any Intel-based mac. Have fun! - Matt -- The WA Macintosh User Group

Mail attachments.

Hi all, I have a problem with attachments that are sent to me via email. If more than one file is attached then they arrive at my end combined as a win.dat file??? The problem seems to be intermittent and to date only involves files created by Microsoft Office on a windoze PC. I am running

Speaker repairs.

Hi all, Just a quick one. Can anyone recommend a repairer for JBL speakers (Creatures). I only seem to have one channel working. Thanks in advance Ken

Re: Photoshop book.

Hi Tom, I have found Adobe's Classroom in a Book series to be very good. They come with a CD containing the exercise files needed and can be read from cover to cover, or simply used to practise a particular function or using a particular tool. The Photoshop CS2 edition doesn't cover all the

MacOS

Hi all, I have been hearing, and seeing, a lot of stuff regarding MacOS 10.5 (leopard). Has anyone else seen references to this. Seems strange to have another major update so soon after Tiger, so I suspect it is nothing but bland empty reporting. Comments anyone... Ken

Video editing.

Hi all, I have a query for the video/film gurus!!! We have some film footage that was shot using a Canon XL1 camera and captured on a windows pc using Avid software. The video clips were saved as .mov files. The video clips were then copied to an external USB2 hard disc which is set up using

Entourage

Hiall, I remember q quit a while a discussion thread about cleaning up Entourage! This involved holding down certain key combinations when booting up Entourage, could someone please let me know what this key combination was. Have searched the archive without success. Thanks in advance Ken.

Microsoft and General Motors...

This may or may be appropriate and many may have seen it before, but I think it is very good (and accurate) and worthy of a showing. Not that I¹m Microsoft bashing or anything! H, ok yes I am. For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our

Re: PowerPoint

Hi Lloyd, The only way that I know of is to select and copy the image then paste it into PhotoShop (or some other similar app.) and save it as whatever (I usually save as Jpeg). Regards Ken,... On 13/6/05 6:58 PM, Lloyd White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of extracting individual

Re: Interesting article on cpu switch

While all this is comment is well intended, (and I have not seen the keynote), I have no doubt that this move will cost Apple severely in sales, reason - most people, and I mean most people will draw absolutely no separation between Intel and Windows! While I'm sure there will be those that will

Re: Graphics/video workstation.

Thanks to all those who took the time to provide much appreciated and valuable advice on this subject. I have tried to convince the client about the benefits of the Mac, I even used the reliability of his new purpose built Windows XP machines (both Premiere and Avid machines), which keep crashing

Graphics/video workstation.

Hi all, This is slightly off the topic and I apologise for that in advance. I need some advice from those in the graphics and/or video (etc) editing world. I am considering the purchase of a machine from the dark side and would appreciate some advice on what type of mother board and processor

Re: New Powermacs out

Good on ya Rod... Really slacking off Daniel??? On 27/4/05 9:05 PM, Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All! New Powermacs have been announced: Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 1GHz frontside bus/processor 512K L2 cache/processor 512MB DDR400 SDRAM Expandable to 4GB SDRAM 160GB Serial ATA 16x

Re: Spamfire

Yes ...!!! I have had the same problems, the support people are currently looking into the problem... I am still waiting for an answer and a solution. Ken... On 18/4/05 7:43 AM, bill parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Anyone out there using Spamfire?I just upgraded to Ver2

Re: Hard Drive/Server names (was Re: Gimp Shop)

On 2/4/05 5:53 PM, Reg Whitely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken On 2 Apr 2005, at 5:15pm, Ken Woods wrote: Now I feel silly, of course you all know I meant HAL :-) There's a website somewhere where you can/could download screen pics and appearances and turn your Mac or win beast into a HAL

Re: Hard Drive/Server names (was Re: Gimp Shop)

I notice the absence of the most famous of them... ZEN (2001) Or are you afraid... Truly afraid... On 1/4/05 3:18 PM, Jude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually name my drives after computers from the movies, or TV. We've had Orac - Blakes Seven Zen - Blakes Seven Holly - Red Dwarf K9 -

Re: Hard Drive/Server names (was Re: Gimp Shop)

Now I feel silly, of course you all know I meant HAL :-) I notice the absence of the most famous of them... ZEN (2001) Or are you afraid... Truly afraid... On 1/4/05 3:18 PM, Jude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually name my drives after computers from the movies, or TV. We've had

Re: ITMS Oz

I will believe it when I see it...!!! Ken W. On 31/3/05 8:11 PM, Rod Blitvich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this for April fool's day? http://www.appletalk.com.au/ It's on again. Apple will announce the Australian iTunes Music Store at the end of April. AppleTalk sources have this

Re: Committee?

As before... They are doing such a great job. Ken... On 2/3/05 3:33 PM, Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... So, who are the new committee? Have fun, Shay

MacOSx Consultant...

Hi all, If anyone is interested Careerone have the following position advertised as of today 27/2/2005. *MacOSx Consultant* MAC NETWORK CONSULTANTS!! Step up to the plate!! High achievement = Career advancement+incentives+attractive rewards+trbr By:Greythorn Date posted:26/2/2005

Re: Getting an iPod Shuffle *today*. Is it possible?

On 21/2/05 6:57 PM, KEVIN Lock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have ordered a shuffle from Daniel, but I am not stressed by a delay. If I were, I would buy one of the many similar flash drive MP3 players. I would love to own a company marketing world wide that underestimated demand on such a

Re: .dat

Hi Lloyd Don¹t know what else this could mean, but, I know that .dat files are produced by MYOB Acounting Plus. So if you are not expecting an MYOB Data file, could be trouble. Regards Ken... On 12/2/05 11:39 AM, Lloyd White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have received an email with two

Broad band speeds

Good mornin' all, I am considering broadband, what does the list think is the best download and upload speed combination, and which is the recommended modem/whatever To get. Ken

JBL Speakers

Hi all, Anyone care to comment on why a set of JBL Creatures Speakers would suddenly be only providing sound from the left speaker (no right speaker or Sub)? I have checked the preferences and all seems to be ok! Is there anywhere else I should check before panicking. Thanks in advance Ken

Re: Good dealer - bad dealer

A very good idea Shay. I would give it my support. Ken. W On 5/8/04 10:35 AM, Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He gets my tick for service and attitude. Hmm... Perhaps the WAMUG committee should look at something like organising a people's choice dealer of the year award? Might be a

Re: [OT] Congrats to Rod and Lee and their new baby....

Welcome to Ethan I hope you enjoy your time in this world, may it be happy and prosperous. Well done to Lee what a great job you have done, and I suppose you did a good job to Rod :-) Ken...

Re: [OT] Is this thing on?

Ahhh the joys of fatherhood!!! On 6/7/04 3:18 PM, Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/7/04 2:52 PM, Matthew Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mailing list doing weird things... - Matt -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Spam and Spamcop.

Hi all, A friend of mine has informed me that her emails to me are being sent back to her with the message Blocked by Spamcop. However the messages she has sent have arrived at my inbox, but not from her normal Bigpond account. They from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have never had any dealing with

Re: Moving HD icon problem

This was an interesting exercise Peter! When I went to the 'Show View Options' and selected 'Keep Arranged by Kind', my desktop icon all formed into three piles. One in the top left corner, one just below that and the third in the top right corner. An interesting experience :-) Ken... On

Wireless protocols

Hi all, Just a quick one! Is the 802.11 wireless protocol Bluetooth or is it something else. Thanks in advance Ken...

Illustrator training.

Hi all, Can anyone recommend a good basic training course for Adobe Illustrator? Thanks in advance Ken W...

Re: System works and OS10.3

On 12/3/04 6:04 PM, bill parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any info regarding latest version of SystemWorks.? Just got myself a G4 PB (OS 10.3) and SystemWorks New Version is incompatible. The Symantec www site is no use. Bill -- The WA Macintosh User Group

Acrobat plug in

Hi all, I have a problem the answer to which is probably very simple, but it escapes me at the moment. I am clicking on a link on a web page, a table of contents that is a pdf file with hyperlinks to other parts of the document to be exact, which should open up in the web browser using the

Re: WARNING! (3417798801)

No idea, but your not alone. On 9/3/04 5:19 PM, Peter Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. How come I keep getting this email, again and again and again? Anyone know? Regards Peter Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (wamug administration) Date: 8 March 2004

Re: Filemaker 7 coming on Tuesday

On 9/3/04 8:02 AM, Peter Hinchliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Filemaker are expected to announce the release of FileMaker Pro 7 next tuesday, according to the following report: http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/03/08/10NNfilemaker_1.html If this is correct it sounds like a worthwhile

Palm OS

As an avid user of Now Up-To-Date/Contact I received advice from Now Software today about an upgrade, more to the point is this small snippet that was included in the email; Quote: Important notes: Recently PalmSource, the company that produces the Palm OS, announced that the future version of

Re: The Sounds of Silence (From the NY Times)

Very Sad On 9/2/04 7:56 PM, Mrs C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: February 9, 2004 Downloaders Can Get Nothing for Something From Apple By DAVID F. GALLAGHER he top-of-the-line iPod music player from Apple Computer can hold four solid weeks of music. But what if you just want a little

FW: An unappreciative Mac user..

Received this link today, humorous, but, there is a small amount of bad language in it. http://www-edlab.cs.umass.edu/~ahelblin/misc/mac.html -- End of Forwarded Message

New virus.

A problem has arisen that I am unable to explain!!! I have received numerous emails (and telephone calls) from people, informing me that I have sent them an email that contained a virus. This is interesting as I have an iMac, and didn't think the new virus affected Macs. Secondly my computer

Re: people should be more up to date than.....

On 6/1/04 4:26 PM, Phillip McGree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SyQuest stuff and floppy disks are sort of like nuclear contamination...there's a half life, and it takes thousands of years for it to vanish to an unnoticeable level. Very good Phil, I had quit a chuckle at your comparison. Ken W

Anti Spam Software

Evenin' all, I am considering the purchase of some anti spam software, 'Spamfire' to be exact. Can anyone offer any comments on this product or perhaps recomm3end another? Thanks in advance Ken W...

Re: [OT] My next G5 computer room,....well maybe not

Sigh...!!! On 20/9/03 11:37 PM, Daniel Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.chaosmint.com/mac/techclusterphotos/

Re: Password problem

Ditto... I have the same experience. Some days are ok, on others I can get the home page but no email, yet again on others I can receive email but cannot send it (or vice versa). Numerous calls have been made to their tech support line, and everything on the face of the earth has been blamed

Re: double posts

Yes , I too am receiving double posts, but only spasmodically. Ken W... On 29/8/03 3:08 PM, Phillip Arena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm getting double posts...anybody else? Phil

Re: Online Banking

I am currently using Safari and have had no problems accessing Westpac's web site. I regularly use the pay anyone feature and have had no trouble to date (touch wood)! I will however, be on the look out for problems with this site. Ken On 21/8/03 1:46 PM, Keith Palmer, Zytech [EMAIL

Re: [ADMIN] It's ALIVE!!!

Here here... Great work - well done. Ken Woods On 6/8/03 4:45 PM, Neil Gay Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, you are a hero! Thanks for all the hard work in getting the new list up and going - and for patiently responding to my 'exiled from WAMUG' messages. Well done Neil

Page layout.

Hi wamuggers Can anyone recommend a some good books on Page layout, desktop publishing etc. Ken... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: Safari

Hi Chris, I to down loaded Safari and made it my default browser. However, I didn't do anything to make my IE favourites available, they just appeared in the bookmark list under Imported IE Favourites. I assumed that safari just automatically imported them. Ken W... On 13/7/03 11:26 AM, Chris

Re: Realist of the year

Tut Tut!!! The solution to me is obvious, but I must ask the question. Why would a company that builds (in this persons view) such crummy computers supply such magnificent software? I wonder if this person has ever seen a Mac or used one, me thinks not! On 29/5/03 4:14 PM, Phillip McGree

Computer Furniture.

Good morning all, Aside from the likes of Harvey Norma etc., can anyone recommend a good place to buy computer furniture (desk etc). Ken W... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

File extensions enquiry

Can anyone tell me what sort of file has a .pif extension. Thanks Ken [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

File extension

Thanks to all who answered my query about the .pif file extension. I received an e-mail from someone I don¹t recognise with this file attached and little else. I have deleted it without opening the file (untrustworthy so so that I am). Thanks again Ken... [Non-text portions of this message

SPAM!!!!

) spoke about a National Initiative against Spam and Spamers that is currently being conducted. To participate you will need to go to the following web site: http://www.iia.net.au/nospam/ I haven¹t checked it out thoroughly yet, but I¹m sure it is worth looking at. Regards Ken Woods [Non-text

SPAM!!!!

) spoke about a National Initiative against Spam and Spamers that is currently being conducted. To participate you will need to go to the following web site: http://www.iia.net.au/nospam/ I haven¹t checked it out thoroughly yet, but I¹m sure it is worth looking at. Regards Ken Woods [Non-text

Re: Spam

DITTO I also use iinet and while I cannot recall the Bioresonance Therapy Spam, I do get about half a dozen a day. This has only started in the past six months and is getting steadily worse. Ken W... On 12/4/03 8:33 AM, KEVIN Lock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our ISP is iinet. I use Eudora and

Simple question...

This will be seem by some as a simple (although off the topic) question! What DVD region is Australia in?? Thanks for info Ken [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: iiSP Tech Support

On 4/3/03 11:32 PM, Phillip McGree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At last night's WAMUG meeting, ii recall something about someone calling a certain iiSP. ii have rung this iiSP myself on numerous occasions. They have regular failures and when ii call them ii net some pretty frustrating answers

Re: Software Update via CLI

On 15/7/02 9:17 AM, Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok I'm stuck (not being a user of the terminal)! When I follow these instructions I get the message no entry for softwareupdate in the manual Help? Erm... probably a good sign you shouldn't be relying on the commandline to do

Re: Software Update via CLI

Ok I'm stuck (not being a user of the terminal)! When I follow these instructions I get the message no entry for softwareupdate in the manual Help? ken On 14/7/02 11:27 AM, Matthew Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jus thought you might all like to know that you can now use Software Update

Re: largest hard drive for 6200

I have a 6300 and tried to put a 10gb HD in it. No chance the system (perhaps the power supply) can't cope. I did eventually settle on a 2gb HD and Apple say even this is pushing the limit. Ken W... On 9/7/02 10:05 AM, sonic_echidna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just don't know where

Re: Getting buggy with 10.1.4

On 6/5/02 8:58 PM, Nathalie Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: Has anyone else out there had some buggy situations since installing 10.1.4? Some examples on my behalf: 1. Some installers won't work, when they worked in other versions of 10.1 (Stuffit for OSX for instance) 2.

Re: [ANN] WAMUG's New Web Site

Congratulations Matt, the new web site looks great. Well done Ken W... On 29/4/02 10:31 AM, Matthew Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Well, the new site is finally up. There is still a lot to do though. Feel free to have a look around and send me your comments. Regards

Modem Dialling...

Hi guys and gals, I don't know if this has come up before, but on Saturday my iMac suddenly decided it has to have an internet connection before it will boot up! I have a special edition (700mhz) iMac running system 10.1.3 (9.2.2), and when I turn it on I get to the blue screen and then it wants

Re: Now Up-To-Date Guru's

Hi Matt, I had some problems with NUTD recently and found Luke Marslen at Pica Softwares support team very helpful. If you are interested his email address is below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He certainly went out of his way to help me! Regards ken... On 4/2/02 1:15 PM, Matthew Healey [EMAIL

Re: After a Complete OSX Reinstall

Hi Michael, I had the same trouble and managed to solve it as follows: First you need to run the OSX software updater, as there is an update to the installer program in OSX that you need to install before it will install 10.1.1. Regards Ken W... on 15/12/01 12:10 PM, Michael Schmidt at

Re: Steve's pre Expo keynote... should be interesting!

I'll be there. I'm on holiday's so can sleep in the next day. What date is it happening in Frisco. Ken W... on 13/12/01 3:50 PM, Matthew Healey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13/12/01 3:10 PM, Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hopefully this will be webcast. If so bet your bottom dollar

Xmas BBQ.

to be able to put faces to some of the names I now recognise on the list. I wish everyone at WAMUG, and all Macintosh users in general a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. See you all in February, 2002. Ken Woods. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

OsX Native Software.

For those that are interested ³Now Up-To-Date/Contact (v4.1) is now available for download from poweron software¹s web site. www.poweronsoftware.com This new version is MacOS X native! Ken W. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: MYOB

Are you sure the windows file extension for First Accounts is .dat, I know the .dat extension works fine with the full version of MYOB (v11), but I'm not sure if First Accounts uses the same file extension Ken W... on 28/11/01 6:45 PM, Angus Sue Jordan Russell (Phuket) at [EMAIL

Re: MacOS

meant to be easy. Many thanks again Ken W... On Tuesday, November 13, 2001, at 09:58 PM, Ken Woods wrote: I have a Mac with OS 9.1 installed, and wish to reformat the drive and install MacOS 8.6. How do I do this??? The drive set up program will not run, with the exception of the 9.1

MacOS

Hi everyone, This is probably a very basic question as far as you guys go but the answer eludes me all the same. I have a Mac with OS 9.1 installed, and wish to reformat the drive and install MacOS 8.6. How do I do this??? The drive set up program will not run, with the exception of the 9.1

Simpler than Medical Package!

schedule or diary for several people, client records, a database for client addresses, invoicing, etc. If anyone can make any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Ken Woods [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: Re Meeting notice!

Suggestion I like, unfounded criticism I don't, after all these people do this for nothing and in their own time! Perhaps given the circumstances, you feel you could a better job??? From: P.Trouchet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:05:29 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: MYOB problem

This could be a conflict problem, or something similar, with Os9, considering the current version of MYOB is 11. Ken From: Edward Arrowsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 19:40:05 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MYOB problem Hello I installed v3.5 MYOB. When setting up