Re: NEW MacMin has a HDMI Port!

Very true, us country folk always have to consider postage costs for these things. Perth folk can always just walk into one of Jaycars 4 WA stores: http://www.jaycar.com.au/stores.asp?State=Western%20Australia#Western%20Aus tralia And I do see that Jaycar list 10 Authorised stockists around

Re: ISP collation

Hi Lynn, Feel free to use my info ­ disregarding the 2007 info (which seems suspect to me) I guess info typical figures for me would be: Service Provider: Internode Suburb: Albany (Rowley Street) Distance from Exchange: 1km Speed as advertised: 1500/256 Actual Speed: Download: ?

Re: ISP's

To give a country perspective: I¹m on Internode¹s Home-1500-Explorer and I¹m located in Albany 1km from the Telstra Exchange Got the following test results this morning: Speedtest.net - through Perth Fast Hit server: Download: 1.32 Mbps Upload: .22 Mbps Ping: 31ms. Speedtest.net -

Re: Creating emails from Word

Hi Rob, AFAIK the 'No services apply' message is due to SL¹s improved handling of services ­ previously all the services would show but non-applicable ones would be greyed out ­ now only applicable ones will show. If you want to see real service options in Entourage, for example, first select

Re: Dropbox - TIP - how to add a Save PDF to Dropbox item (and other options) to your print menu

but I now find the two new one-click options really convenient and time-saving. It¹s little feature like this that I really love about OSX!! Cheers -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 8/5/10 7:42 PM, Neil Houghton at n

Re: How to draw a helix?

Hi Rob, SketchUp is free 3D software with a (very) large following - I haven't really played with it yet but I'm sure it can cope with a helix (and more) - check it out here: http://www.google.com/sketchup/download/ They have lots of examples and you may even find a ready-drawn spring in

Re: How to draw a helix?

=Search Hope that helps, Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 28/5/10 4:55 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Rob, SketchUp is free 3D software with a (very) large following - I haven't

Re: Sidebar Icons

. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/5/10 9:24 PM, Daniel Kerr at wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: On 26/5/10 8:02 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi all, You know how in Finder certain items display different icons

Re: Sidebar Icons

://www.stalkingwolf.net/software/cocothumbx/ Pat On 27/05/2010, at 2:06 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: I looked at Iconographer but it is now discontinued and the developer's website says the latest version (2.5) was last updated in mid 2003 - so I'm not too keen to mess with SL icons with it! It's no big

Re: Sidebar Icons

something to play with for now. Kind Regards Daniel OK, thanks for the ideas links Daniel. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com On 27/5/10 2:06 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Daniel

Re: Sidebar Icons

CocoThumbX from http://www.stalkingwolf.net/software/cocothumbx/ Pat On 27/05/2010, at 2:06 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist

Sidebar Icons

Hi all, You know how in Finder certain items display different icons in the sidebar than their normal finder icon - does anyone know how you can add a custom sidebar icon to a folder. I'm not talking about changing the normal finder icon associated with the folder (which you can change by

Re: wd passport

Will take your advice and contact Mediafour (MacDrive developer) for help cheers john On Thu May 20 12:27 , Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com sent: Re: wd passport Hi John, I have not been following this topic, so not sure of the background, etc. However, when

Re: Permissions Issues

, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Ronni Adam, I have been following this with interest ­ I have had to sort out permissions problems in the past, I generally get there in the end, but I still find many aspects of permissions confusing. I am hoping that Ronni could clarify how one area works

Re: Permissions Issues

miss the simplicity of Classic! Can¹t have it both ways, I guess! Cheers, Ronni On 20/05/2010, at 10:39 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Ronni, HeHe... Yes, I¹ve always been wary of the ³expert² tag ­ I used to work in an industry with lots of ³experts² and the standing joke was something

Re: wd passport

Hi John, I have not been following this topic, so not sure of the background, etc. However, when you say: Any body got any suggestions, bearing in mind that all I wanted was an external device that would work similiar to USB stick but larger capacity that would plug in to PC and MAC

Re: Permissions Issues

Hi Ronni Adam, I have been following this with interest ­ I have had to sort out permissions problems in the past, I generally get there in the end, but I still find many aspects of permissions confusing. I am hoping that Ronni could clarify how one area works: I can see how approach A works

Re: Dropbox

and a couple of bods have the same complaint but no solution. Really annoying and it's going in the bin if I can't fix it. You can keep the 250 though! best alastair On 08/05/2010, at 12:42 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, I recently set-up a free Dropbox account and was amazed at how

[FOR SALE] Brand new HP Photosmart B109a (Printer/Scanner/Copier)

Hi All, I have a brand new unopened HP Photosmart B109a colour printer for sale which also scans, copies and works with Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 10.6. More info here: http://store.apple.com/au/product/TX973X/A?fnode=MTY1NDA1MQmco=MTU0Njg2NzU I am in Albany, in case anyone down here is interested,

Re: Itunes won't play my cd

Hi Sam, Hi Ronni, Sam, if I understand you correctly, iTunes is playing your existing library of songs fine - in which case, I don't think it can be down to any general system sound/volume settings. From what you are saying, a CD - presumably in the built-in CD player (you don't say what your

Hitler's reaction to the iPhone leak

I just love these parodies - and this one is definitely on-topic! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3al_4HSteyE Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61%

a numeric pad with a USB wired keyboard. Regards Peter... -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Neil Houghton Sent: Wednesday, 21 April 2010 9:38 AM To: WAMUG Subject: Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61% Hi

Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61%

on 21/4/10 8:26 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 20/04/2010, at 11:30 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Peter, It's no problem to get a full numeric keyboard (instead of the cut-down wireless one) - you just specify that when you place your order - of course

Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61%

Hi Peter, It's no problem to get a full numeric keyboard (instead of the cut-down wireless one) - you just specify that when you place your order - of course this does make it a special order (same as extra RAM or whatever) so you may not be able to just walk into a retailer and walk out with

Re: Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers - Solved

Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/4/10 1:27 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Replying to my own post, from further reading of Apples support site: When your keyboard is on and paired, and the batteries are charged, the light will glow steadily

Re: Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers - Solved - and a further question

the keyboard to remove the pairing and initiate discoverable mode? Cheers Neil (who just needs to know this stuff!) -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/4/10 3:01 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: OK

Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers

Hi All, I've got an annoying little problem at present - I'm sure the solution is simple - but its eluding me :( I got one of the new wireless keyboards with my new 27 i7 iMac - no problems there, all working fine. However, since I do a lot of spreadsheet work and I am used to having a numbers

Re: Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers

, how do I get around this? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/4/10 1:02 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi All, I've got an annoying little problem at present - I'm sure the solution

Re: Losing my connection

Hi Mike, Thanks, I'll check those discussions out later and, like you, try turning off the Wake for network access in the Energy Saver preference pane first. In the meantime, I got the disconnect again and, this time, decided to try my network preferences ideas, ie: Secondly, to try to make

Re: G4 Lost Ethernet Connection

Hi Peter, Still not clear on a couple of things: on 5/4/10 1:39 PM, Peter Faulks at peterfau...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Neil, Thanks for your reply, I have an Airport Express with a red Lead to the Westnet unit (we connect via a satelite dish on the roof because we cannot get

Re: G4 Lost Ethernet Connection

Hi Peter, Your description is not very clear as to how your network is set-up. You say: We connect to an Apple Airport Express which connect to a G5 and Windows PC via Ethernet, they all work fine, just the G4 that's not working. So are you saying the internet connection is distributed

Re: Losing my connection

Hi Mike, I have a similar problem with my 27 iMac i7 - except that my connection to the net is wireless. I hadn't picked up on a pattern, so I can't confirm that it is limited to overnight sleep (though, if so, I don't think it occurs every time the machine sleeeps overnight). When I wake the

Re: Will not appear in finder

Hi Severin, So just to confirm: In Finder preferences: - Under the general pane, show these items on the desktop: you have a tick against External Disks, but the disk doesn't show on the desktop - Under the sidebar pane, show these items in the sidebar: you have a tick against External

Re: Iomega 1TB HD cheapies

Hi Peter Paul, If you want one with an on/off switch, Harris Tech do the Iomega Prestige 1TB for $117 - I bought one a couple of weeks ago - seems fine so far... Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/4/10 1:46

Re: Locked Keychain Problem

Hi Barb, Glad to hear you finally cracked it and unlocked your keychain. From your original post I see you are using OSX 10.3.9, so I expect the differences you now see are due to how Keychain Access has developed from 10.3 to 10.6. Personally, I had a big upgrade from 10.2 straight to 10.5,

Re: Locked Keychain Problem

to the school IT team changing locking down certain items to keep the students out of them! Cheers .. BarbZ On 25 Mar 2010, at 6:40 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Barb, Glad to hear you finally cracked it and unlocked your keychain. From your original post I see you are using OSX 10.3.9, so I

Re: Locked Keychain Problem

either!!! Is this the only account on the computer and, if not, does it have admin privileges: Open system preferences, go to the Accounts pane and see what accounts are listed - eg for me, at the top it shows under My Account the account Neil Houghton (that I am currently logged in under) with Admin

Re: Preview's Hidden Powers

Hi Michael and Ronni, I have the same problem with Preview - from memory it's been there pretty much since day 1 on my new machine with SL 10.6 - although, since it is somewhat intermittent, I can't be sure about that. A bit more info/description of the problem: Heres a typical example, this

Re: Printing a webpage

Also, as I mentioned, don't forget the Grab application that Apple provides in the Utilities folder - not only does it mean that an old bloke like me doesn't have to remember the various key combos for the different screenshots, it also offers a timed screen capture - not that I've had need of

Re: Preview's Hidden Powers

Just to add to this one thing which has changed in the latest version (since Snow Leopard, I think) - it confused me for a while until I learnt about how the change worked (can¹t remember now where I read it): It used to be that to add/copy pages from one pdf to another (or even, as Kirk notes,

Re: Printing a webpage

Hi Michael, No thoughts on what your actual problem is - but if you want a quick fix you can always take a snapshot of the browser window. In Snow Leopard, I use the Grab application, which lets you capture the screen, a window or just a selection of the screen. It can be found in the

Six tips for using the Dock efficiently

An interesting little article in Australian Macworld - I got a few new pointers out of it! http://www.macworld.com.au/help/view/six-tips-for-using-the-dock-efficientl y-4639 Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com --

Re: Six tips for using the Dock efficiently

...@possumology.com on 12/3/10 1:34 PM, Paul Weaver at pwea...@westnet.com.au wrote: Try http://www.macworld.com.au/help/view/six-tips-for-using-the-dock-efficiently-4 639 There was a space between l and y in the original URL. - Original Message - From: Neil Houghton n

Re: Printing shadow boxes in Word 2004 to an HP 8000 colour laser printer

Hi Tim, That forum post sounds similar but, in fact, is specifically related to Word 2008 - the first reply notes that it WASN'T a problem in Word 2004 but WAS a problem in Word 2008 and the next reply says it is (or was in April 2008) a known bug. So, assuming that Sally is still running Word

Re: Printing shadow boxes in Word 2004 to an HP 8000 colour laser printer

Hi Tim, Another thought, sometimes the problems are not as simple as: it is either: A Word problem A printer problem A computer/OS problem etc. - sometimes it is how a specific combination reacts. From your postings: On Sally's machine: - The text box looks fine in Word 2004 - a print from

Re: Printing shadow boxes in Word 2004 to an HP 8000 colour laser printer

OOOPS! Resend after seeing Ronni's post re the Intel G5 - Like Severin, I thought the G5 refered to the processor! So ignore my previous comment re 10.5.8! Confused of Albany ;) Hi Tim, Another thought, sometimes the problems are not as simple as: it is either: A Word problem A printer

Re: Entourage fun

Hi David, Regarding the permissions to check external mail - I had much strangeness with this after, I think, a MS Office update (or maybe migrating accounts - they both happened around the same time). Prior to the problem manifesting, all my email passwords (several email accounts) were in my

Re: Darken printing

Hi Peter, One thing you can do is to save as an image format and then use an image editor to adjust levels. As a check, I just opened a pdf in preview and then saved as a png. I could then open the png in both Graphic converter and iPhoto - both of which offered me options to set levels. I'm

Re: New EPSON printer says it's OFFLINE

Hi Denise, I'm not familiar with these printers setting them up wirelessly - but a couple of thoughts: 1) If you are under the gun to print out the boarding passes, why not just temporarily connect the printer by USB to print off the passes. Then you can fault-find your network printing

Re:External USB HDD (2 partitions) is not showing

(Re-sent with new subject as per Ronni's post) Hi Alan, Just an off-the-wall thought - you aren't running Windows under parallels or fusion are you? If you are - is the USB drive being captured by Windows and so unavailable to OSX (though, if so, I wouldn't have thought Time Machine could see

Re: top ten worst Apple products

Hi Alan, Just an off-the-wall thought - you aren't running Windows under parallels or fusion are you? If you are - is the USB drive being captured by Windows and so unavailable to OSX (though, if so, I wouldn't have thought Time Machine could see it either - unless it can override the Windows

Re: Blocking Flash

Yes, I use Firefox but agree that these plug-ins are great for removing unwanted ads and flash - speeding up browsing significantly. There are several plug-ins for Firefox, but the relevant ones which I am currently running are: - Flashblock - as for clicktoflash on Safari it blocks all Flash

Re: Blocking Flash

-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Neil Houghton Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:49 AM To: WAMUG Subject: Re: Blocking Flash Yes, I use Firefox but agree that these plug-ins are great for removing unwanted ads and flash - speeding up browsing

Re: Deleting old email address

Hi Barb, You just need to send an unsubscribe message that is from the old address - the fact that the old setup no longer works doesn't stop you doing this - you just need to edit your old email account (in Mail or Entourage or whatever email client you use) so that the Sending Mail SMTP

Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite

Hi Peter, I haven¹t had a problem with the Magic mouse, but the wireless keyboard stopped working quite quickly with my new iMac ­ I didn¹t originally suspect the batteries as I had had so little use ­ however it finally occurred to me to try new batteries ­ I threw in some re-chargeables and

Re: Is This a Scam?

Hi Diana Susan, Susan, I think you are being a bit harsh here - as the link provided by Eugene http://www.hoax-slayer.com/breast-cancer-email.html indicates: However, 100% of funds generated via clicks on the Fund Free Mammograms button and a portion of the purchase price for products sold

Re: Parallels: Explorer won't connect to internet

Hi David, Others may come at this from a different direction, but I like to look at it in layers, starting at the outside and working in: 1. Computer/Mac OSX 2. Parallels software/VM configuration 3. Windows OS 4. Windows software Level 1 is obviously OK since your are accessing the internet,

Re: Entourage bug

Hi Peter, If you have a lot of old emails in Entourage, it might be worth checking out Entourage Email Archive X http://www.softhing.com/eeax.html if you want to archive your old Entourage emails prior to starting the brave new world of Mail. I have been looking at this to archive my many years

Re: Restore new mac from old Time Machine b.up

Hi Ronni Rod, I¹m not 100% sure on this ­ so please forgive me if I¹ve got hold of the wrong end of the stick! From Rod¹s email he wants to restore all a students accounts info from the Time machine backup of the students old macbook (which is dead) to a new macbook. I would have thought

Re: Restore new mac from old Time Machine b.up

-- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/2/10 2:03 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Ronni Rod, I¹m not 100% sure on this ­ so please forgive me if I¹ve got hold of the wrong end of the stick! From Rod¹s email

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

Hi Mike, If you log-in to your router configuration using your web-browser can't you see a list of the IP addresses allocated to connected devices? I'm going on old memories here - so its just a guess ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email:

Re: Entourage bug

Hi Ronni, No, I exclude Entourage from my Time Machine back-ups and rely on my SuperDuper clone as my back-up. I accept the risk of losing the emails between my SuperDuper clones. I do however close ALL open applications before cloning. Whilst I haven¹t regularly checked the entourage database

Re: Printer Error

Hi Maureen, The fact that it started working again and then stopped again tends to suggest an intermittent hardware fault to me. The first possible culprits to pop into my head are: 1) Faulty USB cable 2) Faulty USB port on the printer 3) Other fault with the printer 4) Faulty USB port on the

Ripple - an interesting idea

Hi all, I hope you will forgive me a slightly off-topic post, but I thought fellow WAMUG list readers might find this use of internet advertising interesting, I certainly did. Ripple http://ripple.org came up with the idea of using internet advertising as a means of easily raising money for

Re: HP 5380 all in one printer

...@possumology.com on 1/2/10 11:51 AM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Graeme, Sorry for the delay in replying to this - it was so long ago since I had done it that I couldn't remember the details! However, I have now just done the exercise again on my new iMac with my VM

Re: HP Printer

Hi Graeme, Glad to hear you finally got it working A USB was not enabled and all is now fine I assume you mean that a USB controller on the VM was not enabled -that is interesting - Does this mean that you now have the printer connected as a USB device, rather than as a Bonjour printer or as

Re: HP Printer

not print in Apple until I had closed Windows down I had not expected that. I guess it is not really a problem as generally I will only be in Windows when doing some MYOB work Graeme On 01/02/2010, at 8:08 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Graeme, Glad to hear you finally got it working

Re: HP 5380 all in one printer

...@possumology.com on 2/2/10 8:14 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 01/02/2010, at 7:45 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: (following my previous post Graeme phoned me and we went through these checks over the phone) Hi Graeme, To sum up what we found - together with a couple

Re: HP Printer

Well, interesting the things you find out in this sort of exercise: on 2/2/10 12:58 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: snip Whereas for a Bonjour printer (approach 2 on another VM) I see: Port name(s): http://NRH-iMac27.local:631/printers/Canon_iP4000 snip When my post

Re: HP 5380 all in one printer

there is no printer available I have tried going into Add/Remove and done a repair but still no luck The HP is shared Have I missed a step? Graeme On 26/01/2010, at 11:13 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Graeme, When I started with Parallels 3.0, running Windows XP pro, the printing was fine

Re: iPad

Hehe... I have to agree that people have been talking about the paperless office for well over 20 years! However, the momentum HAS been building.. at first very slowly, but now, I think, we are reaching critical mass. I'm not talking about the demise of books here, but electronic data and

Re: iPad

Hi Paul, I don't know if it is of interest, but, if she is happy with the online version, I see that the student price is only $150 (only!!) and there is a 5 day free trial: http://www.bcaillustrated.com.au/ BCA Illustrated is an online version of the Building Code of Australia (BCA), with

Re: Word problem on iMac

Hi Peter, Generally whenever I want to create a document accessible to both Windows/Mac users (without tying them into having proprietary paid software) I just create the document in whatever software suits ME for the particular task and then just print it as a pdf (which is so easy in OSX).

Re: HP 5380 all in one printer

Hi Graeme, When I started with Parallels 3.0, running Windows XP pro, the printing was fine - just using the shared Mac printer. Then, sometime along the way, it stopped working - I don't remember what triggered it - might have been a software update (OSX, Windows or Parallels) but at the time

Re: Keynote DVD

Hi Laura, on 20/1/10 10:18 AM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni snip 2. When played on the TV/DVD player, part of the text under the photos on the slides is not visible on the extreme LH side. This could just be because my TV is old and not a flat screen. Before I try

Re: Change of email address bulk mail out

Hi Peter, I recently purchased a .org.au domain from Netregistry http://www.netregistry.com.au/ It all went very well and everything seems to work as it should. They had a special at the time - so it cost me all of $8.25 for two years registration - though come renewal time it will be back to

Re: Keynote DVD

Hi Laura, Sorry, I have no experience/help to offer in this area. However, I do have a couple of suggestions to make regarding how you are attempting to solve this and use the list: Rather than saying something like ³I'm still having problems² give details on just WHAT problems you are

Re: Keynote DVD

responded to my initial post on this issue. I did go through his email step by step with comments about what I had done, at least that's what I thought I had done! Your input is much appreciated. Regards Laura On 19/01/2010, at 1:56 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Laura, Sorry, I have

Re: Permissions not accepted

Hi Jon, When I have these sort of problems, I often find that it is down to trying to share across different user accounts. For example, assuming that: 1) there are two user accounts - User A and User B and 2) that these two user accounts have been set up identically on all machines on the

Re: Hyperlinks

It is also the same in Entourage - so it may be standard for email clients? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 12/1/10 1:02 PM, Merv Bond at m...@iinet.net.au wrote: The same happens in Thunderbird.

Re: Bluetooth Magic Mouse

Yeah Ronni, Another neat little trick! Interestingly with my two iMacs sat about 1.5m apart in the same room, the plastic-backed older 24² iMac consistently shows a transmit rate of 54 (ie the max for my ³g² level Airport Express) whereas the new metal-backed 27² iMac shows a lower transmission

Re: Google quirks

Hi Severin, For what its worth, for me the search results were: * Google Australia (google.com.au) * Search term: newarts (no quotes) -Search the web: www.newarts.org.au was # 3 (of about 3,170,000 for newarts) Note that #1 was

Coupon for Parallels Desktop 5

Hi all, I recently bought the Parallels Desktop 5 update and also received a $10 off coupon to pass on: Your order also includes a coupon for $10 off our full version of Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac that you can give to a friend. Your friend can use this coupon at

Re: Strange error message

Hi Ian, Googling your error message gives this post on the Intuit community forum: http://community.intuit.com/post/detail/a7cIz0eBir3zw9abTJhmjm The error message seems to be related to your Quicken product, but I don't know if the solution posted will help you. (I don't use Quicken myself).

Re: firewire vs usb

Hi John, I¹m surprised the WD drive didn¹t come with a FW800 cable (both my WD drives, so far, came with both FW USB cables). However, I¹ve found places like Austin computers (Osborne Park) generally carry a good range of cables ­ though their site at present only seems to show FW400 and FW800

Re: Fonts in MS Office

Hi Severin, One of the problems which I was alerted to for running Office 2004 on SL was that there would be font duplication issues with the old MS fonts and newer SL fonts - the solution was to use Font Book to identify the duplicate fonts and disable them. I know that this is not your

Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)

Hi all, I just got a new 27iMac i7 (Merry Xmas to me!) and The first question from she-who-must-be-obeyed was why do you need a new one - the old one is only 2 years old - what are you going to do with it?! Peace and harmony was restored when I pointed out that the old windows machine that her

Re: Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)

Hi Ronni, Thanks for the feedback. Responses below against your comments. on 13/12/09 4:41 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: On 13/12/2009, at 3:56 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a whopping 1TB HD, I would

Re: Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)

Yes, thanks Joe ­ I currently have a mix of WD and LaCie and I¹m also looking to have some ³cloud² back-up/synch for more critical stuff. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/12/09 7:22 PM, Joe Mastrella at

Re: Systems, partitions, applications, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)

on 13/12/09 6:30 PM, Dark1 at da...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil There shouldn't be any problems running Office with rosetta. Generally most apps run fine in SL with the exception of a few niche ones. In terms of your backup system I'd advise you to get another hard drive (quiet cheap

Re: New iMac wanted

Hi Rod, I note the Apple store is currently showing 27² iMac delivery as: Estimated Ship: 5-7 business days for the 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo standard model, and Estimated Ship: 7-10 business days for the 2.66GHz Intel Core i5 standard model For what its worth, I succumbed to the urge

Re: Setting up a wireless network

Hi Severin, Michael From memory, the thing about Airport Express is that for non-network enabled printers, printer/scanners etc only basic printing is supported. Eg for my canon IP4000, if plugged in via USB I can launch the printer utility and check ink levels, clean nozzles etc - however if

Re: migration assistant problem

Hi Justin, I think this problem is usually when you set-up the new computer with a user account that is not exactly the same as on the old machine ­ the folders with the red negative file are what you see if you try and look at another user¹s folders. If you used migration assistant to migrate

Re: .clp files

Hi Kim, I googled your surveillance system and came up with this manual: http://www.pacom.com.au/ebooknoprice/catalogue/images/S75402.pdf I don’t know if this is your actual system but looking at the specs is says: Under recording and playback: * Compression Method - MPEG-4, Simple Profile *

Re: TGI Friday Specials day at MAXstyle

And don¹t forget, with the time difference you can check at the Apple store from 9pm tonight! Shopping event is available at the Apple Online Store and 133 MAC (622) only on November 27 from 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. AEST. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61

Re: Word to Pages transfer

Hi John, The usual way would be just to open the .doc word file in pages and then save as in the native pages format. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 19/11/09 5:48 PM, John Daniels at jdani...@westnet.com.au

Re: numbers

Hi Martin, Excel is hugely powerful and can do all that and more - I've been using it for many years and still there are a huge amount of features, formulas etc that I haven't even touched on. Typically that's why some people find it harder to use - it's one thing to know Excel can do it but

Re: Label addresses app.

Hi Bill, Many of the label vendors (Avery etc) have templates to suit their various label sheet layouts - you then just use the templates with a normal word processor. Try here for starters: http://www.averyproducts.com.au/avery/en_au/Templates--Software/Templates HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil

Re: Label addresses app.

Also check out: http://www.averyproducts.com.au/avery/en_au/Templates--Software/Templates/ How-to-Use-Templates.htm For how-to instructions and note that although they show this on windows all the MS Word templates should also work just fine on Word on the Mac. Also there is nothing to stop you

Re: numbers

for all the helpful answers On 19/11/2009, at 10:22 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Martin, Excel is hugely powerful and can do all that and more - I've been using it for many years and still there are a huge amount of features, formulas etc that I haven't even touched on. Typically that's

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