Be smart and cheeky- we have bounced off Harvey Good Guys and JBHifi -even Dick
Smith will try to gain a sell if you have the little time to compare. Take in a
printout of best price or Buy now from ebay and they will beat that too.
tom samson
On 04/02/2011, at 5:12 PM, Stephen Chape wrote:
We have just had a drop out. I have internet back up but phone is a no go. I
think it is the auth. Password which, apparently is not the same as the modem
password (modem Netcomm NB9WMAXX). I think the best thing to do is reload from
Time machine but where are the settings held?
tom samson
In have upgraded to Office 2011. It is okay But there are some pats of it that
are not wanted. So I uninstalled them and cleaned out the languages.
When it came to the latest update it could not find the folder until I
reinstalled the complete package. I had to down load the update again.
I
I did make a post indicating that one of my hard drives was dropping off the
desk top with the familiar put away warning box. I thought it was the drive
that was packing up. So I drought a new one. A few days ago the new one had
warning signs from Drive Genius 3 that it needed urgent repair.
:09 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
On 30/11/2010, at 5:34 PM, thefrogs wrote:
I did make a post indicating that one of my hard drives was dropping off the
desk top with the familiar put away warning box. I thought it was the drive
that was packing up. So I drought a new one. A few days ago
(I use the Ink Jet Printable discs).
Cheers,
Ronni
On 19/11/2010, at 10:58 AM, thefrogs wrote:
I really wish I had paid attention and copied it- like I usually do 01comes
to mind.
tom
On 19/11/2010, at 9:07 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Tom,
Your problem sounds different
Yes . Just burnt one of two episodes of Stargate universe- one an MKV file and
the other AVI. It took all night- the first attempt came back with an error
number so I quit out. I have never seen Toast that slow it was more like a slow
mouldy hardening.
tom samson
On 18/11/2010, at 5:38 PM,
I really wish I had paid attention and copied it- like I usually do 01comes to
mind.
tom
On 19/11/2010, at 9:07 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
Hi Tom,
Your problem sounds different to Peter's.
What Error Message did you receive?
Cheers,
Ronni
On 19/11/2010, at 6:02 AM, thefrogs wrote
Chicko roles were a long time off
Just for the sake of throwing in I pruchaced a full box set of Remastered off
ebay for $82 a few weeks ago
tom samson
On 17/11/2010, at 8:22 AM, Paul Weaver wrote:
Hi Ronnie, I've possibly seen you as a dot in the crowd in the old footage of
the Fab Four.
I have a back up drive that houses my time machine that un-mounts when I try to
access file within. It is not every time but it does happen frequently.
Sometimes it quits the finder as well. I have rebuilt fixed prefs started up
logged out. Every time I leave the mac to sleep and then awaken
I have just had to do a Restore from TimeMachine and now there is a folder
Private in my finder. I tried to move it but No that should not m=be done.
How can I make it invisible again?
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folder go 'Hidden' and you
won;'t have to use Terminal.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 28/10/2010, at 5:20 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
On 28/10/2010, at 5:02 PM, thefrogs wrote:
I have just had to do a Restore from TimeMachine and now there is a folder
Private in my finder. I tried to move
I may have missed this but My Time machine seems not to see the backupdrive on
my desk top. I can open preferences and manually select the drive and I get a
backup there and then. I have also noticed that the drive drops off the desk
top and then re-appears. Slightly annoying but what do I do
I don't know about this product but I have been using Mactheripper for years
and have never had a problem. Coupled with Mpeg Stream Clip They have gained me
snippets of movies that I can use.
tom Samson
On 13/10/2010, at 8:31 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
On 12/10/2010, at 9:23 PM, Eugene
I have noticed that some of the dvds I have burned are already failing- you can
see the data layer coming away from the plastic disc.
My question is: which DVD companies make the most reliable and robust discs
tom samson
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When I try to open DISCUS 424 I get this message but I do have Discus.Art in
the same folder in my applications. System OSX 10.6.
Where does the ART4 file go or why has it not loaded?
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This may be off our usual topic but?
At home I have my mac set up with elgato eyeTV and it is brilliant. But our DVD
player in the lounge is getting old. We use it to play DVD and recordTV,
however it does not record HDTV and it sometimes fails on other region DVDs.
Has anyone brought or have
our son is after a new mac 27in 3.4 i7
has anyone seen these yet and who is likely to have one
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Have you tried shifting the arial around- it may have blown off target. I had
no SBS and ABC for a while then I cleaned the coax contacts and went up on roof
that did it- take Vaseline to cover contacts -it stops salt and dirt
tom samson
On 14/04/2010, at 3:05 PM, David Noel wrote:
Hi All
I used to refill but then I noticed the difference in colours -washed out
against real Epsom and real Canon now I buy the original brand. I sweem to
remember there was a fair amount of traffic on this a few years ago.
tomsamson
On 07/03/2010, at 6:55 PM, John Feltham wrote:
G'day john,
On
I have some older apple and claris works documents that I would love to open in
Pages. I can run Apple works 6 in Snow Leopard but it is one more program I am
sorry to ask help here, if there was a posting previously- I may simply have
turned a blind eye to it.
tom samson
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Our 2001 Powerbook G4 DVD drive has carked it and we need a replacement- does
anyone out there have a DVD player burner to fit and how much would you be
asking for it.
just a second thought is the RAm still available and how much.
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apart from the broken clip on the battery bay door- resolved with sticky tape
and the fact that it can chew up batteries - if left on -it is great. But when
you go back to an ordinary mouse you become confused as to why stroking it
gives nothing other than a slight purr- sorry that might be a
on the underside- inner face near the ocval cut out there is meant to be a
little bit that sticks out - this goes into a small opening when the black
button is pulled back- I cannot see it my eyes are not that good.this little
tab broke off now the mouse works with cellotape.
tom samson
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I have just downloaded Stargate universe from last week and it came as a folder
of fqm files. But stuffit cannot open join and open them. what does?
tom samson
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I have just downloaded Stargate universe from last week and it came as a
folder of fqm files. But stuffit cannot open join and open them. what does?
tom samson
Hi Tom,
Have you tried deleting the .fqm
Then see if you can open it.
Cheers,
Ronni
17 MacBook
Loved the Magic mouse then came changing the batteries and the battery bay
cover would not stay on. Apparently a little clip had broken off and so the
cover does not stay on. One month and the mouse cannot be fixed - they say it
is used damaged. Have no idea what this clip looks like or where
Will try those
tom
On 29/12/2009, at 12:35 PM, Paul K wrote:
According to some other forums you may need 7zip for Mac or UnrarX.
Good Luck
Paul
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If you have a battery pack that is detachable on the back- I'm not sure what
year your book is- lift out the battery and then you should be able to see
three little screws that hold a thin strip unscrew them and there you have you
will see the slots for RAM -they click out with a latch ground
JB Hifi had one in Osborn pk last week
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I was just cleaning my mail and noticed that an old account in User/Lib/mail is
still there. I cannot just delete it. I am on iinet and this one is bigpond
-obviously from before May- and it still has the same messages and mail as the
iinet-only duplicate.
anyone have any idea about this
tom
Have switched to iinet (May) Naked DSL and untill two weeks ago things
were fine now - second modem and latest iMac with Snow Leopard cannot
get any phone line from NetComm NB9WMAXX Modem. Reset so many times
reinstalled and still no calls in No calls out just dial tone and
crackle.
If
Keynote 5 in iWork 09 Snow leopard
trying to access older 2008 files and all i get is unexpected error
and then keynote quits
Any ideas form anyone will help
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On 04/09/2009, at 6:21 AM, thefrogs wrote:
Upgraded 24 iMac very nice and quick
Upgraded MacBook Hmmm!
Slow and half the information on the menubar including
sound airport and and intermittent spotlight that fades when you
move the curser.
Can not see timemachine
or user
In fact
Upgraded 24 iMac very nice and quick
Upgraded MacBook Hmmm!
Slow and half the information on the menubar including
sound airport and and intermittent spotlight that fades when you move
the curser.
Can not see timemachine
or user
In fact everything on the right of Help is not there
ANy ideas
First machine Apple 2 1987 first laptop Apple portable - or luggable
with the wet celled battery and 3 mg Ram -then the 512 'I think black
and white with one disk and a massive 40meg Hard drive and a really
slow dot matrix printer. I drooled over the Se and then brought a
colour
Apple store is up I just pre-ordered Snow leopard
tom samson
On 24/08/2009, at 8:42 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:
On 24/8/09 8:09 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
Possibly. It has been widely rumoured to be released on 28th August
2009.
So yes, perhaps Apple will surprise all the rumour
I have been trying to load small videos into Keynote some will just
get three quarters through and then the spinning ball
then force quit is needed. Is there a maximum size for movies ?
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this is what I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR. DO YOU HAVE THE PASSWORD FOR ME
PLEASE
TOM SAMSON
On 10/08/2009, at 5:57 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
This document can be downloaded by interested people from my Public
Folder.
It will be available for ten (10) days.
PDF copies of this document may be
and I have picked up quite a few- for other people as well as myself -
of the cable locks for laptops the last cost 99cents with $3 post
cheap by any account
tom
On 22/06/2009, at 3:14 PM, mince and pud wrote:
if you DO get dudded by a seller - don't expect any help from
ebay.
DO wait until the last minutes before you send in a bid- there is a
lot of gazumping.
Do watch items.
Do look down the full list before choosing
Do go through PAYPAL
Bigger items be very careful and watch for serial numbers
Do start off with small things to get the hang of it
Do remember
I use the free Tube TV program
small works very quickly and doesn't falter
tom samson
On 18/06/2009, at 3:03 PM, Robert Howells wrote:
On 18/06/2009, at 2:55 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
Is it possible to save video viewed from things like YouTube? I
suspect that Safari holds it in cache or
You are lucky I cannot get my machine to accept the new update the
last one was 1.7 was there a 1.8 because I have the feeling that they
have to go iun sequence.
That or IU will not bother with the 1.9
tom samson
On 16/06/2009, at 2:23 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
I have them back too!
Severin
Did you notice any other failures in the machines processes. We have
one that has fans running hot.
tom samson
On 07/06/2009, at 5:23 PM, Mike Murray wrote:
Hi muggers
Just to bring you up to date on my recent plea for help; my G5 iMac
has been diagnosed with a logic board failure = a new
thanks for all the input with regards to my blank monitor. Still no
luck.
Is there anyone in the Mount Hawthorn area who has a machine I can
test it, or my G5 on?
tom samson
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We have a Wacom -small- but still good - you could borrow that.
We are in Mount HAwthorn
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Tom and Barbara
On 29/05/2009, at 12:32 PM, mince and pud wrote:
Hi all
Just on the off-chance - I don't suppose anyone has a non-essential
wacom tablet (small; A5 or less) that I could
We have a G5 that now has a blank screen 10.4.(latest cannot see)
there is obviously something wrong
tried reset PRam, disconnected reconnected, checked drives in Target
mode. fear either dead screen - but it was so sudden no warning or
dead graphics card.
I would appreciate any ideas.
tom
G5 tower 1.6 mghz
Completely blank screen (Apple LCD) came with the tower when new.
tom samson
On 25/05/2009, at 7:55 AM, Robert Howells wrote:
On 25/05/2009, at 7:03 AM, thefrogs wrote:
We have a G5 that now has a blank screen 10.4.(latest cannot see)
there is obviously something wrong
At present I am using my Canon S530D to print to CD labels but I have
just bought a stack of printable CDs . Is there a good -yet cheap
printer CD printer that someone has used. My printer cannot get
beyond Insipid colours
tom samson
I have just downloaded some DVDs to my Mac -they are not Region 4 and
I am preserving my Region 4 DVD reading. SO I have 6.x originals But
then when I remove Macromedia and encryption they fall to about 1gig.
Is all that extra something about 4 gig encrypted language -as the
quality of the
I knew the maths was there but once again I am dumbed by the
eloquence of WAMuggers in their explanations.
I always feel safe when there are a lot of people who know a lot more
than I do Thanks
tom samson
Could someone please explain to me, again, the mathematics of bites.
I have an 80 gig HDD that falls to 74.53 on my G5 -in Drive A a loss
of 5.5 ^ gig
I have a 120 gig HDD that falls to 111.79 on my G5 -in Drive B a loss
of 8.1 gig
In times gone by I remember a gig was a gig
Any views
tom
for the first time since I have had an eye TV I have linked it up to
an arial but I get no reception other than a very bad 60 minutes.
has anyone had success with it. Oh it is eye TV USB
tom samson
Does anyone out there have DVD backup- the site that should have it
is underconstruction
tom samson
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I have an IBM travelstar 2.5 inch 20gig HDD from our laptop and it is
non-operational/ It is not the disk that is clicking it seems more
like the board. Does anybody have experience with these and does
anyone have a dead drive I can take the drive board off to try on
ours. There are a load
Our hard drive in our Tibook has died and we are in need of a new one
Does anyone sell these in Wmug?
I have seen them around the $95 mark for 40 gig.
This is urgent now.
Sorry to Wyvern for the wrong address
tom samson
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I am sitting here with a legitimately bought box set of Star trek
Enterprise Series 1 But Disk 5 is unreadable. I have had no response
from Paramount- This same thing happened in another box set of
Voyager a while ago.
I have a Dual layer burner And I was thinking that I could replace
the
Because we seem to be able to solve peoples problems easily
I have just broken Disk 1 of Series 3 of Startrek Enterprise . Has
any good soul out therre a way to making a copy of one
tom samson
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We are considering changing from Bigpond because now it looks like
iinet has Broadband 2 with VOIP phone cheaper than the ordinary
Broadband we have with Telstra. Is that really the case? What are the
best deals and how can we look at comparisons?
tom samson
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There appears no site for this but
I have just been to Coles Dogswamp and they already have easter
merchandise up -that was January 11th. A record of capitalism gone
grazy.
I was actually looking for those iPod cases $8-12 ).
tom samson
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I have a few old asian movies that are ruined by an excess of
subtitles. Has anyone ever tried getting rid of subtitles?
tom samson
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Does anyone know of a site that would walk me through taking apart an
ipod Mini to replace a broken screen
Whilst I am here I would like to see schematics and diagrams of our
recently purchased Powerbook G4 400 Ti
tom samson
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My last request was for pricing or availability of SODIMMS for power
book. No responses yet
Also- anybody out there have Hdrives for notebooks at reasonably
cheap prices?
tom samson
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Does anyone out there have any Powerbook memory SODIMM type I have
just picked up a powerbook 15in and 128 meg
Buy or I have two 128 DDM chips I don't use
tom samson
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Does anyone out there have any Powerbook memory SODIMM type I have
just picked up a powerbook 15in and 128 meg
Buy or I have two 128 DDM chips I don't use to swap. Looking for
something in the 256 range.
tom samson
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I have an existing copy of vuescan and a license but on uploading to
the latest version the 'unlimited' upload doesn't seem to work
because the serial doesn't seem to translate across. It still says,:
enter your serial here.
Can someone tell me where the serial is to translate it across by
I made a DVD +RW back-up of myf olders including photos,applications,
docs in toast 7. When I try to load the DVD Iget the spinning ball
for hours on end.
Any idea or have I lost valuable stuff
tom samson
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Can any one out there point me in the direction of the best book for
photoshop CS2 preferably colour pictures sine I have a colour screen.
There are just so many at different prices
tom samson
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Another for File maker
Is there an easy way to transfer Excel spread sheet to Filemaker 7
other than fully creating the page and going box by box
tom samson
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Anyone else had any problems with VLC. Every time I play a video
(VoB) clip with it my sound goes into mute and I have to get the damn
thing back to normal
tom samson
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Can some one who is really familiar with authoring and decoding
coding email me -Off List-
I want the bestr solution to putting files from avi to Vob to DVD
tom samson
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I have tried this before but...
I have a friend who uses Wintel machines and he gave me a DVD with
three 45 minute programs
on it. Using iMovie and IDVD I can only get two because the programs
say there is too much information to put on the disk. But the same
VOB... files are created. How
I am on my way to putting DVDs together
I have some favorite shows I want to put on to a DVD Now I want to
build a menu. Has anyone done this?
I have DVD Pro now to use But there must be easier ways I presume it
must be like Flash or something. Some help would have me bowing
tom samson
We, at school, Mount Lawley Senior High, have just started up our own
MUG- so many more macs than there have been for ages.
Can we do anything to link into WAMUG or other groups. Putting links
into the school web page would be good. Anything to promote who we
are and what we are doing.
tom
If there are any Dr Who Fans out there
I have just tried to watch my video tape of 1999 Dr Who ... From the
Ashes- a 1 1/2 hour ABC screening and the quality is almost not
there- the blurs the snow the flickers the headaches.
Did anyone else manage to record it?
tom samson
Thanks for the help to you all
Apple/shift /3 is the quickest option by far and for some reason one
has just decided to appear on my desk top
Apple/ shift/ 4 is slower because it is manual but it is more defined
I think the problem may lay with the fact that I had a demo copy of
Snapz Pro
has anyone out there looked into this I have an Eye TV USB that I
would like to not use to free upo a USB port.
tom
For some reason my screen captures Apple/shift/3 are not appearing on
my desk top.
I cannot see them any where (logical) any ideas?
tom
I have just tried to look at the qicktime files on a DVD I burned but
my machine will not recognise if Any ideas as to how to read it. I
don't want to say they are lost files
tom
I know there was a map application/applet whereis 0r something can
anyone direct me to where this is or what the name of the programme
actually is?
tom samson
I have just managed to get an iMac 333 up and running but I get a
blue screen with a command line indicating a boot failure.
Otherwise I can get a screen up for about one and a half minutes
before it blanks out.
The Drive is good. I can hear the CD spinning and loading but I
cannot see what
I have sections of t.v programmes that I would like to burn on to
Disk. But Popcorn and Toast 6.1 under 10.4 will not do it because it
says there are no audio files. Yet in VLC I can play it on my G5
Can anyone help
tom samson
I can now change ogg to Aiff but to MP# so that I tunes will see it Nah!
Can itunes see the AIFF nah! Something is incorrect somewhere?
tom samson
Ideas please
I have two imacs sitting here dying
1. Switch on and I can get the 10.1 screen with Apple logo up then it
cuts out and blackens
2. The other machine simply fails to do anything even though I can
see the power button as on.
Any further ideas?
One battery is down but the other as good as it is
I cannot play Ogg files inn iTunes even though they are present in
the play list window.
I get the same old unprotected kernal crash every time. Anyone tried
to save them as mp3/Aiff files
tom samson
At school I have two machines badly in need of more than 64mg of Ram.
The school is no longer supporting these 'old' machines but I can use
them. Is there anyone out there with RAm to fit them
TYPE: PC100 3.3v 168 pin
tom samson
Is anyone out there using skype?
What are the requirements
Do you need a net phone
What about with G5s
tom samson
Has anyone else out there had trouble running quicktime movies under
10.4
tom samson
I am running 10.4 with broad band.
I scanned some images but couldn't find them the vue scan program had
also to be reactivated from my serial number.
Then BTV Pro icon on the dock was lost.
I searched for my images and they were saved as aha.tiff in a folder
called Greek Holiday in my users
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