Re: what's the cheapest reliable BW printer?

2004-08-08 Thread J Philippe Chaperon
on 7/8/04 3:57 PM, Tom Lewis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember them! Sorry - it's an original imac running 9.2. T Yes ! An old Stylewriter II would do the job. Bit then you don't say what Mac or OS ? Bob Tom Lewis, now not in beautiful Jervis Bay, NSW, Oz, but in cold

Re: Dumb Questions About Broadband

2004-08-08 Thread Shay Telfer
Hi Folks Finally Telstra and iiNet have got their act together and my ADSL application has been approved. Please can you help with the following dumb questions: I plan to connect the service to our G3 iMac in the study. My wife and I connect our iBook and powerbook to the iMac by Software

Re: what's the cheapest reliable BW printer?

2004-08-08 Thread Tom Lewis
I've actually been using a Xerox laser as a main printer for some years - it goes through a toner cartridge every two years or so, and at around $100 a new one I suppose that is pretty cheap. T I use a Brother HL1430 laser via USB port and OSX though. It is cheap to run and has excellent

Re: what's the cheapest reliable BW printer?

2004-08-08 Thread Susan Hastings
what about a cheap laser printer. ink jets never work out to be cheap, particularly as they get a little bit older and the cartridges are impossible to get. However, there is that place in Oats St, Vic Park, which sells cartridges for inkjets, sometimes cheaper. Maybe a good idea to ask them

Re: Extracting JPG's from Excel

2004-08-08 Thread Andrew Nielsen
At 22:52 +0800 07/08/2004, Stephen Chape wrote: I have been presented with a huge Excel Workbook that contains a great many images in column A in numerous worksheets. Does anyone know a speedy way of extracting all the images as individual files (JPG perhaps) and placing them into a new

Iphoto

2004-08-08 Thread Lloyd White
Is there any way of stopping iPhoto starting up every time I insert a Compact Flash card in the USB Card Reader. It always opens after some waiting time and then I have to close it again. I would prefer Graphic Converter to open but I donĀ¹t think this can happen. Lloyd

Re: Iphoto

2004-08-08 Thread Jon Davison
Hi Lloyd I have the same problem, and find it very annoying particularly when I use Photoshop to file and optimize etc. I have actually removed the iPhoto prefs and taken out the app. Now I can open the Flash card icon and simply drag the files to my HD, where I can access them via File

Re: Iphoto

2004-08-08 Thread James Devenish
On 08/08/2004, at 6:11 PM, Lloyd White wrote: Is there any way of stopping iPhoto starting up every time I insert a Compact Flash card in the USB Card Reader. It always opens after some waiting time and then I have to close it again. I would prefer Graphic Converter to open but I don?t think

Re: Iphoto

2004-08-08 Thread Phillip McGree
System Preferences... CDs DVDs... set When you insert a picture CD to Ignore (or whatever program you would prefer). Regards, Phil Is there any way of stopping iPhoto starting up every time I insert a Compact Flash card in the USB Card Reader. It always opens after some waiting time and

Re: Iphoto

2004-08-08 Thread Lloyd White
Thanks James, That was the way to do it. A small but annoying problem now fixed. Thanks Lloyd On 08/08/2004, at 6:11 PM, Lloyd White wrote: Is there any way of stopping iPhoto starting up every time I insert a Compact Flash card in the USB Card Reader. It always opens after some waiting

Re: Iphoto

2004-08-08 Thread Lloyd White
That works for CDs but not for Card Readers. James's fix did work. Thanks Lloyd System Preferences... CDs DVDs... set When you insert a picture CD to Ignore (or whatever program you would prefer). Regards, Phil Is there any way of stopping iPhoto starting up every time I

Re: Iphoto

2004-08-08 Thread Phillip McGree
That works for CDs but not for Card Readers. Odd... I transfer my digital photos onto my PowerBook with a PCMCIA Compact Flash card reader. Until I changed that preference, iPhoto would open up whenever I put the adaptor/reader into the PCMCIA slot. Phil Thanks Lloyd System

Compact flash cards

2004-08-08 Thread Lloyd White
I need extra Compact Flash cards for my Nikon 5700. Are there any brands or types of cards to be wary of and can anyone recommend a good source. Thanks Lloyd

Copying a DVD

2004-08-08 Thread Stephen Chape
HELP ! I have recently started using iMovie and have completed 2 projects so far. When I want another copy of a DVD it takes ages to burn again (actually the asset encoding takes ages). I believe it is possible to copy an existing DVD using something in OSX 10.3 Utilities. I have looked in

Re: Copying a DVD

2004-08-08 Thread James / Hans Kunz
i'm using charismac discribe as cd/dvd burn utility, has a direct cd/dvd copy feature, can work with single drive systems, reads the lot into hd as image after eject ask for an empty disk holds image untill you go back to main menue, so you can make multiple copies very easy James On