Re: Steve Jobs

2011-10-05 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Yes Very Sad day, He touched many lives during his short time on earth. RIP Roger On Thu Oct 6 8:30 , Brian Risbey risb...@bigpond.com sent: A dark day? Brian Sent from my iPhone -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml

Re: Steve Jobs

2011-10-05 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Very nicely said :) On Thu Oct 6 12:12 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: A very sad day. Steve Jobs will be remembered as a truly great man for many reasons. He was particularly inspirational and gave me the motivation I needed when I viewed and listened to his 'Stanford University’s 114th

Re: SSD recomendations

2011-09-07 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Ashley Buy the largest size you can afford and have a look OWC their drives have reviewed well. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/ Best regards Roger On Thu Sep 8 12:59 , Ashley Mulder ashley.mul...@student.curtin.edu.au sent: Ive been doing a bucket load of reading on SSD'sWhat

Re: Lion - step backwards?

2011-07-21 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Guys I have installed it on a new 15 MBP at the office and I will use that for testing, I have only had it up and running for about 2 hours now and haven't really formed an opinion as of yet. Somethings are quite different and on first impressions I don't like them but I want to see if it

Re: OSX Lion to hit App Store tomorrow

2011-07-20 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Guys It Might be wise to remind everyone to make sure they have a bootable backup of their current system before doing the upgrade to Lion. I will be doing one home machine and my office mac but on a spare HD and then test all our applications to see what happens :) I hope to be running

US store is back up :)

2011-07-20 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Have a look, new MacBook Air among other things -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au

Lion

2011-07-20 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
is on the store but when trying to buy it got a store error!!! On Wed Jul 20 20:45 , 'rkor...@iinet.net.au' rkor...@iinet.net.au sent: Have a look, new MacBook Air among other things -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist

Re: Lion

2011-07-20 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Its now working :) Go and get it Roger On Wed Jul 20 21:08 , cm cm200...@gmail.com sent: I like that the price is $32, just $2 more than price in US dollars. Cheers, Carlo On 2011-07-20, at 20:58, rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: is on the store but when trying to buy it got a store error

Re: US store is back up :)

2011-07-20 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Error Message. LOL. Oh well, I'll try later then,..lol. Kind regards Daniel On 20/7/11 8:45 PM, rkor...@iinet.net.au rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: Have a look, new MacBook Air among other things -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au

Re: Lion

2011-07-20 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
?viewlocale=en_US Sent from Ronni's iPad On 20/07/2011, at 9:08 PM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: I like that the price is $32, just $2 more than price in US dollars. Cheers, Carlo On 2011-07-20, at 20:58, rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: is on the store but when trying to buy it got a store error

Re: Does a Mac have this?

2011-07-18 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Kevin I don't like spotlight for that reason! I use EasyFind and there are a couple on the app store and I am sure many others :) Roger On Mon Jul 18 16:05 , Kevin kal...@iinet.net.au sent: A friend in Sydney has been a long time PC user and programmer and has recently bought a

Re: Seagate external drive

2011-04-25 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Alex I would assume its connected via USB? Attach the drive to the Mac (Will she need to use the drive on Windows in the future? if not then its best to format the drive) To do this go to the applications folder then open the utilities folder and double click on the disk utility.app a

Old Macs for Schools

2011-04-12 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Guys Does anybody know of any schools that would like some old G5's, within the next few weeks we will have around 12 or more ready to be donated. They will have been wiped clean and may have keyboards and mice. If you know of any please give them my email address and ask them to email

Re: Old Macs for Schools

2011-04-12 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
is it. I will e-mail my old teacher to ask the message to the principal. Thanks Adrian Stevens On 12/04/2011, at 2:32 PM, rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Guys Does anybody know of any schools that would like some old G5's, within the next few weeks we will have around 12 or more ready

Re: New iMac

2011-03-09 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Adrian If you are running 10.6.6 you will have access to the App store, there are quite a few things on there that may help with homework. Some may be free and some will chargeable. You do need an iTunes account though! Roger On Thu Mar 10 7:01 , Adrian Stevens

Re: i7 MacBook Pro 17' SSD (Solid State Drives)

2011-01-07 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Guys I have a MBP 2.8 core 2, 15 and have installed a 128gb crucial SSD, boot up time and app start up times are very fast. Reason I went for the 128gb was cost I got it for less than $300 and there are quite a few below $300 now, so getting more reasonable :) I wanted to reduce power

Re: [4Sale] 30' Apple Cinema Display

2010-11-10 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Chris Also remember that the new 27 screen is only $1,299.00! Regards Roger On Wed Nov 10 17:21 , Christopher Phillips shry...@jaruth.com sent: Hi Ken. 30% PA depreciation may have been a little optimistic - it depends how much value people place on having 30% more screen area than

Re: Apple discontiune Xserve - get them while they last

2010-11-08 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
I have been reading a lot since Apple announced this and still have no real idea what they are thinking! I would really like to know what they are using in their new data centre? or is it Unisys mainframes? I have decided I will buy my last xServe next week and hope that when the time comes

stolen MBP 17 2.5 ghz

2010-09-12 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Guys One of our VJ's at the office had her house broken into and they stole her MBP s/n w88120hhyp4, they didn't take the power adaptor. If you see this please contact the police please, oh and let me know :) Many thanks Roger -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives

Re: Disconnection problems

2010-09-02 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi laura We will need more info! Does the router loose connection to Telstra or is it just the iMac loosing connection? Regards Roger On Fri Sep 3 7:34 , Laura Webb el...@iinet.net.au sent: Good morning all This is a query on behalf of a friend who is a fairly new Mac user. She loves

apple Store

2010-08-19 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
The Apple store was down for a while tonight and has just come back up!! Are the prices cheaper or am I dreaming? Regards Roger -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -

Re: apple Store

2010-08-19 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
. Hope that helps Kind Regards Daniel On 19/8/10 10:52 PM, rkor...@iinet.net.au rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: The Apple store was down for a while tonight and has just come back up!! Are the prices cheaper or am I dreaming? Regards Roger -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List

Re: 12Core MacPro now up

2010-08-09 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Yes I saw that and we will get one for around 9000.00 mark I think, this is at the office not mine :( What do people think? Buy a single CPU 6 core or 2 CPU quad core This will be for one of our artists, so the normal stuff CS4 and Fusion with CS3 Any ideas would be welcome :) best

Re: OT Going Solar Power. - longish reply

2010-08-03 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Thanks Gary I found that very interesting and informative :) Regards Roger On Wed Aug 4 11:16 , gary dorn garyd...@ausconnect.net sent: We are building new house and will hopefully be having Solar power and water. Any advice would be gratefully received, OT of course :-) Mac and

Re: new imac wanted

2010-08-02 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
I don't know where you got the specs from 27in 3.4 i7? 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 is on the apple store for 3 business day delivery :) I am sure some of the local guys should also be able to help :) Roger On Tue Aug 3 9:27 , thefrogs thefr...@iinet.net.au sent: our son is after a

Re: WAMUG Meeting Final Reminder **NEW VENUE**: This Tuesday 6 July 2010 (Please Do Not Reply)

2010-07-05 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Would you believe it I have to work !!! I hope I can make the next one at Christ Church :) On Mon Jul 5 20:31 , Pete Smith smudd...@internode.on.net sent: G'day again all WAMUGGERs. I hope you've marked (or edited) your iCals for tomorrow's WAMUG Monthly Meeting, Tuesday, 6 July 2010. This

Re: Patiently waiting

2010-06-26 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Guys Wouldn't it be best that people with slow or limited bandwidth or downloads change the settings in the mail clients to not download anything above a size they deem to be OK for their needs? Regards Roger On Sun Jun 27 9:25 , Alexander Hartner a...@j2anywhere.com sent: I am

Re: apple store is down internationally as well as here in Australia

2010-06-15 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
New Mac Mini On Tue Jun 15 15:24 , Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au sent: I could be wrong here,..or I'm remembering it incorrectly. But I think all the Applestores (online) are controlled from the US, it's just localised for local pricing. So when they take it down, they do them at the

Re: Safari 5

2010-06-14 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Lloyd I can see the page in Safari 5 and in Chrome :) Roger On Tue Jun 15 11:47 , Lloyd White lloydwh...@iinet.net.au sent: I have a problem with Safari 5 - and also had it with Safari 4. When I click on a URL supplied to me by a client, the page opens up but the contents are not shown.

Re: *** IMPORTANT NOTICE ***

2010-06-02 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Christy It would have to be the committee members who reply to you :) but from my part north of the river would really suit me and I would come to more meetings :) Roger On Wed Jun 2 13:52 , Christy Dangerfield cdangerfi...@ccgs.wa.edu.au sent: Re: *** IMPORTANT NOTICE *** WAMUG

Re: Downloads

2010-04-14 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Can you login to your router and see who is connected? also is there any logging turned on? It will depend what router you have and what has been set up as to what information you can get. Roger On Wed Apr 14 18:02 , Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com sent: Believe it or not I have been

Re: information wanted :-)

2010-04-01 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
have a look at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmV5ntogBUI regards Roger On Thu Apr 1 14:34 , Malcolm McCallum doc...@westnet.com.au sent: I would like to know with confirmatory evidence whether the file 'extraordinaire_instrument_de_musique' which shows balls bouncing off stings

Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
wow every few days!!! I have been using my magic mouse at the office for 2 months now on the same set of original batteries and being at the office it gets continual use. This is on my MacPro on the other iMac here its been on there for about 6 weeks but that is my spare so is not used so

RE: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Peter No I never turn it off and while I am in the office its in continual use, I just checked the battery level and its down to 15% so not bad for at least 8 weeks heavy use ! Roger On Thu Feb 11 9:31 , 'Crisp, Peter' pcr...@hatch.com.au sent: I don’t ever turn off the switch

Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Peter I have that turned on Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer something else is going on, but hard to tell what remotely :( Roger On Thu Feb 11 12:09 , James Devenish jndeven...@gmail.com sent: Hi Peter, Perhaps if your System Preferences are to Allow Bluetooth devices to

Re: Magic Mouse battery appetite

2010-02-10 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
haha after saying how good my batteries are going they just run out!! But I just checked of when I started to use it and its been just under 9 weeks. Roger On Thu Feb 11 12:58 , 'rkor...@iinet.net.au' rkor...@iinet.net.au sent: Hi Peter I have that turned on Allow Bluetooth devices

Re: Purchasing non 'ebay' goods using PayPal - Alert

2010-01-14 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
There is also one other benefit of using paypal it isolates your credit card from who ever you are buying from so less chance of it being used for fraud. Roger On Fri Jan 15 8:24 , James / Hans Kunz sad...@iinet.net.au sent: i'm aware of this since i signed up with paypal, if goods are

Re: My Magic Mouse is a dog

2010-01-03 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi I have a magic mouse on my office MacPro that has 2x20 screens and my desk is a pine desk! I have no problems at all and to go from one screen to the other is just a flick of the wrist. I am not to sure what to suggest in your case but it works fine for me :) I am using 10.6.2 as you

Re: iMac 20' G5 screen repair

2009-11-01 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Glen You can get 21 LCD's from around $170 now so maybe a good option until you get a 27 iMac :) Roger (in China) On Sun Nov 1 17:23 , Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au sent: Thanks everyone for all the information, I can see the main options are: - contents insurance - external monitor

Re: SanDisk Compact Flash card for Nikon

2009-09-13 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Lloyd just did a quick check and it maybe only able to use 2gb cards max!!! could be wrong as its not very clear RegRDS ROGER On Sun Sep 13 16:48 , Lloyd White lloydwh...@iinet.net.au sent: Fools rush in where angels fear to tread! Again! I have Nikon CoolPix 5700 camera that uses

Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA

2009-08-26 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
I'm about to show my age here :) My first Apple was an Apple II+ Then: IIe IIGS Mac+ SE 6100 7200 BW G3 G4 G5 and now 3 macbook Pro's And does anyone remember the Apple Credit card? Roger On Thu Aug 27 7:02 , lynn...@westnet.com.au sent: omg, hypercard, clarisworks (homepage to be

Re: Some Mac NOSTALGIA

2009-08-26 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
The IIGS was a very nice machine excellent sound and graphics at the time :) I remember buying a CPM card for my Apple II + in 1979 and also a 128k ram card!!! Roger On Thu Aug 27 11:55 , David Peake dpe...@printforce.com.au sent: While we're all getting nostalgic, if anyone has a Mac Plus,

Re: print on canvas?

2009-07-26 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
, Rosalyn On 23/07/2009 12:02 PM, Roger Kortas rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: Can anyone recommend a place to get a print on canvas and stretched? I have been quoted around $550 which I thought was very high! I am looking at a size of 140cm by 100cm many thanks Roger Roger P Kortas

Re: Safari 4.0.1 slows down over time

2009-07-08 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Guys There is and update to safari this morning, might be worth testing that as well :) Roger On Thu Jul 9 9:38 , Susan Hastings susanhasti...@me.com sent: Thanks to people who've given suggestions, I've forwarded them on. We have suggested that she use Firefox, and so she's giving

Re: Video card upgrade

2009-07-08 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Adrian When you say processing what do you mean? Are you trying to digitise the DVD? Roger On Thu Jul 9 9:45 , Adrian Skehan adrianske...@mac.com sent: Hi all, I am having a bit of trouble putting up with the length of time my intel 13 MacBook and iMac G5 take to process DVDs' and

Re: Video card upgrade

2009-07-08 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Adrian A video card will not help you here, what you need is more processing power ie: faster Mac. If you are doing this a lot it would be worth buying the fastest Mac you can afford or do what you are doing now and do it over night :) best regards Roger On Thu Jul 9 10:50 , Adrian

Re: New MacBook Pros Boot From SD Cards

2009-06-16 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Guys I have one on order and have also ordereda 32gb SD card and will let you know how it works :) roger On Tue Jun 16 15:54 , Ronda Brown ro...@wn.com.au sent: Hello WAMUGers interested in purchasing the new MacBook Pros, I read this from TidBits this morning and found it Interesting:

Re: G5 imac won't start - ever again. Update

2009-06-07 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Guys quite a few of the older G5 iMacs had a problems with bulging and leaking capacitors, there used to be an Apple repair program for them but not sure if it is still available? Regards Roger On Mon Jun 8 9:53 , Warwick Gaff cappadonag...@virginbroadband.com.au sent: Can some one

Re: G5 imac won't start - ever again. Update

2009-06-07 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
it there was a dog of a powerbook with a screen problem that took some sorting out). As someone said recently, things break. Backup is the key. Cheers Mike On 08/06/2009, at 10:14 AM, rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Guys quite a few of the older G5 iMacs had a problems with bulging

add file extension to a filename

2009-06-02 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Does anyone have or know off a utility that will look at a file and then give it the correct extension? We are moving away from our AFP file server and will be only using SMB connections so of course loose the resource fork nd as we have many thousands of file without extensions this will

Re: add file extension to a filename

2009-06-02 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
...@iinet.net.au at rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Does anyone have or know off a utility that will look at a file and then give it the correct extension? We are moving away from our AFP file server and will be only using SMB connections so of course loose the resource fork nd as we have many

Re: add file extension to a filename

2009-06-02 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Thanks Steve I did have a look at that and it didn't work, so would have to look at the code and I am a little busy. But I may look at it tomorrow and also Automator. thank you On Tue Jun 2 15:45 , Woods Steve sc...@mac.com sent: On 02/06/2009, at 3:23 PM, rkor...@iinet.net.au wrote

Re: add file extension to a filename

2009-06-02 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
/namecleaner/ I'm pretty I used this when I migrated out office from AFP+OS9 to Windows XP back in 2004... Cheers, Tobes. -Original Message- From: WAMUG Mailing List [wa...@wamug.org.au','','','')wa...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of rkor...@iinet.net.au Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:58 PM To: WAMUG

Re: Ghostscript

2009-05-26 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Guys Ghostscript does work but the quality of the PDF hasn't always been good, we have had some issues with ghostscript where we have had to put the file back through Acrobat to get it working. But as always everyone has different thoughts. Regards roger On Wed May 27 13:08 , Mervyn

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-22 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
I also got it but to my Office address!!! Roger On Thu Apr 23 13:32 , James Devenish jndeven...@gmail.com sent: Hi, Mine came through to an address that I have not used since 2004 or 2005. The address is not currently associated with any mailing lists or online stores, so Tony Mike must have

Re: MacResolve Spam

2009-04-22 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Digilife could be the connection as they would have had my office address but not my personal email address! On Thu Apr 23 12:22 , Matthew Healey mat...@mac.com sent: Did anyone else get spammed by Tony Mike from MacResolve? I got an email from them and would like to see where they got their

Re: Agriculture WA Explorer only?

2009-04-08 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
did you go to this site and download the plugin? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 On Wed Apr 8 15:16 , David Paul dp...@cyllene.uwa.edu.au sent: Thanks Roger but this site still will not let me register even after upgrading to Firefox3! Perhaps I am missing a basic step.

Re: Music CD catalog app

2009-03-11 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi peter have a look at cdpedia I use DVDpedia and its great. Roger CDpedia is a CD manager software for Mac OS X. Its familiar iTunes style interface makes it easy to use. It integrates with iTunes so that you may know what CDs in your collection you have imported. You also have access to all

Re: using itunes store

2009-03-08 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Chris I have been using iTunes since it was released and find it a great system for my needs. Remember it also has movies, video music clips of a lot of bands and also pod casts and some of those are great. I have had no problem with given them my credit cards details but some people do!

Re: on the scrounge again

2009-02-18 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Kevin I may have some ram and will look but also it is possible I will have some quick silver and mirror doors available in the next few weeks if you are interested?? If you are we would require a letter from you stating what you are doing and what you want them for. regards roger On Thu

Re: FS: White Macbook 4gig RAM

2009-01-21 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Jude I run Warcraft on a Dual 2.3 G5 and also a MacBook Pro 2.4 and it will run slow on Both at times. It depends how many things are happening at the same time and how many computer opponents you are playing. As for World of Warcraft I don't play that but again Warcraft puts quite a load on

Re: FS: White Macbook 4gig RAM

2009-01-21 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Yes I think it would not be worth it maybe put the money to one of the newer macs with better graphics cards would be the better option :) Roger On Thu Jan 22 14:43 , Jude ibr...@iinet.net.au sent: Hmm. Well it's World of Warcraft he wants to play. The latest patch - the Lich King says the

Re: online Quokka

2009-01-16 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi All they are having hardware problems at the moment with no eta yet Roger On Fri Jan 16 18:14 , Robert Howells rhowe...@arach.net.au sent: Hi All , I am unable to access that site http://www.quokka.com.au/ Is it meor are other people having the same problem ? Thanks Bob -- The

Re: AppleTV

2008-12-21 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Malcolm I have had an Apple TV since it as released and love it :) I would like more functions like a HD turner but that will come I think. I am not too sure about buying one right now though as it could be due for an update. Regards roger On Mon Dec 22 14:03 , Malcolm McCallum