Re: Exporting/Converting Pages Doc to CMYK
From: Rod Blitvich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi John Still stuck with Outlook because I need access to the common address book. Cheers Rod My IT Dept told me I could only use Outlook for our email system. Since then however, I have managed to get Mail to play nicely with the Exchange Server. Had it working with 10.3, and now in 10.4 It may be worth a try. Worried that as I need to run Outlook for Mac in classic at work (yuk!) that maybe I should stay with 10.3 for a while. I'm also surprised you still need to run the old Outlook 2001 under Classic. We run Entourage 11.1.0 (part of Microsoft Office 10.4) at Curtin which supports Exchange's Global Address book (via LDAP) for address look-up within the To: field as well as shared calendars etc. It doesn't have all the capabilities of Outlook 2003 on the PC, but it's a pretty good replacement for the old Outlook 2001 on the Mac. -Mart
Re: Mail-Checking Hypertext Links
Ronda Try this, do a control + click (right click with a 2 button mouse) in the body of the new message then choose 'Edit Link' in the contextual menu. Now type or paste the URL in the box and and click ok, it will insert the it as an active link which you can try out before sending the message. Dave Watkins At 9:39 AM +0800 1/8/05, Ronda Brown said: Hello WAMUGgers, You used to be able to check hypertext links in an email before sending it. You could save the email as a 'Draft' then click on the web link to check it was correct. In Mail v2.0.2 Tiger OSX10.4.2 I am unable to do this. Is there anyway to do this please? Thanks.
Re: Exporting/Converting Pages Doc to CMYK
Thanks Martin and John I will look into this. ta Rod on 7/8/05 11:48 PM, Martin Hill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Rod Blitvich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi John Still stuck with Outlook because I need access to the common address book. Cheers Rod My IT Dept told me I could only use Outlook for our email system. Since then however, I have managed to get Mail to play nicely with the Exchange Server. Had it working with 10.3, and now in 10.4 It may be worth a try. Worried that as I need to run Outlook for Mac in classic at work (yuk!) that maybe I should stay with 10.3 for a while. I'm also surprised you still need to run the old Outlook 2001 under Classic. We run Entourage 11.1.0 (part of Microsoft Office 10.4) at Curtin which supports Exchange's Global Address book (via LDAP) for address look-up within the To: field as well as shared calendars etc. It doesn't have all the capabilities of Outlook 2003 on the PC, but it's a pretty good replacement for the old Outlook 2001 on the Mac. -Mart -- Rod BLITVICH Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003 Amy and Sam's Dad [EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256 http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
iDVD Burning Errors
Hi Yeah... I know I'm having a bad week! iMovie 5.02 iDVD 5.0.1 10.3.9 1GB RAM 8GB free on startup disk Working from external drive with plenty of space. Doing a 2 dvd disk set project of my Kimberley trip. Disk one burnt fine. Disk two keeps giving an error message 2 or 3 hours into the burning phase. Error 34506 - failed to burn or something similar. Have recreated the DVD project,tried a new disk etc but still happens. My guess is that one of the 3 movies in the project must be faulty in some way. Please does anyone know what error 34506 means? ta Rod -- Rod BLITVICH Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003 Amy and Sam's Dad [EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256 http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html --- Refuse Novocain... Transcend Dental Medication.
Re: iDVD Burning Errors
On 08/08/2005, at 6:17 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote: Hi Yeah... I know I'm having a bad week! iMovie 5.02 iDVD 5.0.1 10.3.9 1GB RAM 8GB free on startup disk Working from external drive with plenty of space. Doing a 2 dvd disk set project of my Kimberley trip. Disk one burnt fine. Disk two keeps giving an error message 2 or 3 hours into the burning phase. Error 34506 - failed to burn or something similar. Have recreated the DVD project,tried a new disk etc but still happens. My guess is that one of the 3 movies in the project must be faulty in some way. Please does anyone know what error 34506 means? From Googling Rod, it seems that a 34506 error is a multipluxing error. Somewhere along the line when it is encoding the dvd, an error occurs. One suggestion put forward was to create a disc image instead and burn that image with Toast. Give that a go! Seeya Rod!
Re: iDVD Burning Errors
Hi Rod, On 08/08/2005, at 6:17 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote: Hi Yeah... I know I'm having a bad week! Happens to all of us at some stage Rod. Me probably more than most. iMovie 5.02 iDVD 5.0.1 10.3.9 1GB RAM 8GB free on startup disk Working from external drive with plenty of space. Doing a 2 dvd disk set project of my Kimberley trip. Disk one burnt fine. Disk two keeps giving an error message 2 or 3 hours into the burning phase. Error 34506 - failed to burn or something similar. Have recreated the DVD project,tried a new disk etc but still happens. My guess is that one of the 3 movies in the project must be faulty in some way. Please does anyone know what error 34506 means? ta Rod Hi Rod, Are you burning from a Disk Image? I find this is safer. Check you don't have mixed audio 44.1KHz and 48KHz on the disc 2 project. Should all be 48KHz - 16bit Audio. Also -34506 errors are sometimes caused by Chapter Marker problems. http://dvd.kentidwell.com/?page_id=53 Cheers, Ronni
Re: DVDs
On 7/8/05 7:51 PM, thefrogs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 can I get three per disk with Mac machines? Both have menus. tom Try this: DVD2OneX http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19238 [versiontracker.com] to compress the dual-layer DVD's down to single layer size. You can get rid of extra audio tracks, chapters/extras you don't want, etc. Someone suggested it to me for this purpose. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Perhaps you can report if it does what you need. Rob
Re: DVDs
Try this: DVD2OneX http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19238 [versiontracker.com] to compress the dual-layer DVD's down to single layer size. You can get rid of extra audio tracks, chapters/extras you don't want, etc. Someone suggested it to me for this purpose. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Perhaps you can report if it does what you need. Rob Works fine for me. Be aware that it is shareware, not freeware for that program. Seeya Rod!
Re: Mail-Checking Hypertext Links
On 08/08/2005, at 1:15 AM, David Watkins wrote: Ronda Try this, do a control + click (right click with a 2 button mouse) in the body of the new message then choose 'Edit Link' in the contextual menu. Now type or paste the URL in the box and and click ok, it will insert the it as an active link which you can try out before sending the message. Dave Watkins At 9:39 AM +0800 1/8/05, Ronda Brown said: Hello WAMUGgers, You used to be able to check hypertext links in an email before sending it. You could save the email as a 'Draft' then click on the web link to check it was correct. In Mail v2.0.2 Tiger OSX10.4.2 I am unable to do this. Is there anyway to do this please? Hi Dave, Thanks for this tip. I couldn't get it to work at first until I realised you have to actually 'Highlight' the link first, then control click, choose 'Edit Link', type the URL click OK. Still wish I could check the links in 'Draft' like I used to. Also, I want the 'Status' bar back, I don't like having to manually open the Activity Viewer. Other than this I like everything in Tiger. Cheers, Ronni When Microsoft asks you, Where do you want to go today? Tell them, Apple!
Preview
Hi... Some cool tips about using Preview (How to do Image correction, add bookmarks, Spotlight keywords, annotate documents etc.) http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/07/19/preview.html Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
Outlook for Mac - was: Exporting/Converting Pages Doc to CMYK
Entourage (any version) won't play nice with Exchange Server 5.5, which many IT departments still use. You can't set up an Exchange account via the 'Exchange' profile, but you can set up an account via SMTP. It's a little ugly, and doesn't have any of the calendar functionality of Outlook 2001 though. Interestingly, Apple's Mail app does support Exchange 5.5 Servers for well, mail (no calendar stuff). Personally, I use a combo of Mail.app for E-mail, and run Outlook 2001 for Calendaring functionality - at least until my IT department installs Exchange 2003. :) T. on 7/8/05 11:48 PM, Martin Hill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm also surprised you still need to run the old Outlook 2001 under Classic. We run Entourage 11.1.0 (part of Microsoft Office 10.4) at Curtin which supports Exchange's Global Address book (via LDAP) for address look-up within the To: field as well as shared calendars etc. It doesn't have all the capabilities of Outlook 2003 on the PC, but it's a pretty good replacement for the old Outlook 2001 on the Mac.
Re: LCD TV/Monitors
Hi All WAMUGgers I'm interested in your feedback on a small/er LCD Tv that could also double as a monitor. Something portable that could be second TV at home and also I could I believe someone on the list has a 20 G5 iMac with eyetv connected, can watch tv, record and also use as a computer- almost an all in one. -- gary dorn north perth
Re: iDVD Burning Errors
On 08/08/2005, at 8:27 AM, Rod wrote: On 08/08/2005, at 6:17 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote: Hi Yeah... I know I'm having a bad week! iMovie 5.02 iDVD 5.0.1 10.3.9 1GB RAM 8GB free on startup disk Working from external drive with plenty of space. Doing a 2 dvd disk set project of my Kimberley trip. Disk one burnt fine. Disk two keeps giving an error message 2 or 3 hours into the burning phase. Error 34506 - failed to burn or something similar. Have recreated the DVD project,tried a new disk etc but still happens. My guess is that one of the 3 movies in the project must be faulty in some way. Please does anyone know what error 34506 means? From Googling Rod, it seems that a 34506 error is a multipluxing error. If it is a muxing (multipluxing) issue then the maths for the mpeg2 files is off. I do not use iDVD so I do not know are you able to create your own mpeg2 files if so visit the site below and it should be able to solve your computational problem. Redo compression encoding with desired results if still the same reduce bitrate more http://dvd-hq.info/Calculator.html If iDVD controls all of this which from memory is the case. Then somewhere in preferences it should allow some selection as too the quality of DVD try the lowest and work your way up. Test by encoding to desktop so it creates a disk image on hard drive, play this via dvdplayer accomplished by double clicking image file. If it is all OK try next selection until happy then use Disk Utility to burn file. Somewhere along the line when it is encoding the dvd, an error occurs. Yes as I explained above the maths is wrong, too high bitrate for amount of information. Reduce the quality and bitrate comes down hence more space. It is always a compromise and it depends on how much do I compromise. One suggestion put forward was to create a disc image instead and burn that image with Toast. Give that a go! Bit hard to create an image when it will not encode the information.. Cheers! `Rob...
Re: DVDs
On 07/08/2005, at 7:51 PM, thefrogs wrote: 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. 1 Is this an authored DvD, hence put into player and menu's appear? 2 Is this provided mpeg2 and audio files, or captured DV on Dvd. Maybe someother raw file format? 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 can I get three per disk with Mac machines? Both have menus. tom Cheers! `Rob...
DVD regional codes
I am helping a newbie Mac user and have come up against a problem I have not encountered before. He was given a couple of Chinese DVDs with different zone codes and copied them to his hard disk and got a warning that he had only 2 uses more and he would lose the use of his super drive. He is now worried. Is this use of a different zone recorded somewhere or is it in the firmware? In other words can doing a clean re-install of the OS wipe out that record. Or can we delve into the depths of the system and remove that record? Bye the way, I have no idea of why he would want to copy Chinese DVDs. :-) Any ideas or information would be of help. Thanks Lloyd
Re: DVD regional codes
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 11:06 +0800, Lloyd White wrote: I am helping a newbie Mac user and have come up against a problem I have not encountered before. He was given a couple of Chinese DVDs with different zone codes and copied them to his hard disk and got a warning that he had only 2 uses more and he would lose the use of his super drive. He is now worried. Is this use of a different zone recorded somewhere or is it in the firmware? It's in the firmware. In other words can doing a clean re-install of the OS wipe out that record. No. Or can we delve into the depths of the system and remove that record? Generally not, though it depends on the drive. What you *CAN* do, for some drives, is re-flash them with firmware that doesn't care about region codes. This isn't entirely safe, and you'd need to find firmware for the drive. There are also programs that run at the OS level that manage to make the drive overlook these issues. -- Craig Ringer
Re: DVD regional codes
The older powerbooks sometime have region free firmware depending on the model. The newest powerbooks are still waiting for region free firmware. I know because I'm still waiting for it :D Mal - Original Message - From: Craig Ringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 11:09 AM Subject: Re: DVD regional codes On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 11:06 +0800, Lloyd White wrote: I am helping a newbie Mac user and have come up against a problem I have not encountered before. He was given a couple of Chinese DVDs with different zone codes and copied them to his hard disk and got a warning that he had only 2 uses more and he would lose the use of his super drive. He is now worried. Is this use of a different zone recorded somewhere or is it in the firmware? It's in the firmware. In other words can doing a clean re-install of the OS wipe out that record. No. Or can we delve into the depths of the system and remove that record? Generally not, though it depends on the drive. What you *CAN* do, for some drives, is re-flash them with firmware that doesn't care about region codes. This isn't entirely safe, and you'd need to find firmware for the drive. There are also programs that run at the OS level that manage to make the drive overlook these issues. -- Craig Ringer -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: DVD regional codes
On 08/08/2005, at 11:06 AM, Lloyd White wrote: I am helping a newbie Mac user and have come up against a problem I have not encountered before. He was given a couple of Chinese DVDs with different zone codes and copied them to his hard disk and got a warning that he had only 2 uses more and he would lose the use of his super drive. He is now worried. Is this use of a different zone recorded somewhere or is it in the firmware? In other words can doing a clean re-install of the OS wipe out that record. Or can we delve into the depths of the system and remove that record? Bye the way, I have no idea of why he would want to copy Chinese DVDs. :-) Any ideas or information would be of help. Thanks Lloyd Hi Lloyd, If he only wants to play the DVD's. VLC Media Player allows you to play any region DVD WITHOUT firmware. So what you need to do is disable opening of DVD player when a DVD is inserted. Then open VLC and press play. A menu will come up asking you to select a file or disk to open. Select a disc and open the DVD and start playing. There is an 'interesting' read here: Set Your DVD Drive to Region Free http://www.powerbook-fr.com/dossiers/dezonage/indexGB.html Cheers, Ronni
Re: DVD regional codes
best solution I found was to get an external firewire/USB2 DVD drive that supports regionless operation and have it flashed on a PC to be regionless The older powerbooks sometime have region free firmware depending on the model. The newest powerbooks are still waiting for region free firmware. I know because I'm still waiting for it :D Mal - Original Message - From: Craig Ringer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 11:09 AM Subject: Re: DVD regional codes On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 11:06 +0800, Lloyd White wrote: I am helping a newbie Mac user and have come up against a problem I have not encountered before. He was given a couple of Chinese DVDs with different zone codes and copied them to his hard disk and got a warning that he had only 2 uses more and he would lose the use of his super drive. He is now worried. Is this use of a different zone recorded somewhere or is it in the firmware? It's in the firmware. In other words can doing a clean re-install of the OS wipe out that record. No. Or can we delve into the depths of the system and remove that record? Generally not, though it depends on the drive. What you *CAN* do, for some drives, is re-flash them with firmware that doesn't care about region codes. This isn't entirely safe, and you'd need to find firmware for the drive. There are also programs that run at the OS level that manage to make the drive overlook these issues. -- Craig Ringer -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- ~ Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph# 61-8-6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) Ubi fumus, ibi fumus
10.4x finder windows
howdy WAMUG is there a way in the column view of the Finder Window to set what type is at the top of the column , ie folders -- gary dorn north perth
Re: DVD regional codes
I would also go this way. You can even change your System Preferences to open disks in VLC Media Player by default. Although not strictly legal, if he did need to burn a copy he could also use something like MacTheRipper to create a region free disk image for burning. -- All the best Greg Sharp President/Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Mac Users Group (AUSMUG) http://www.australian.macusersgroup.org On 8/8/05 2:02 PM, Ronda Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lloyd, If he only wants to play the DVD's. VLC Media Player allows you to play any region DVD WITHOUT firmware. So what you need to do is disable opening of DVD player when a DVD is inserted. Then open VLC and press play. A menu will come up asking you to select a file or disk to open. Select a disc and open the DVD and start playing. There is an 'interesting' read here: Set Your DVD Drive to Region Free http://www.powerbook-fr.com/dossiers/dezonage/indexGB.html
Re: Preview
Hi... Some cool tips about using Preview (How to do Image correction, add bookmarks, Spotlight keywords, annotate documents etc.) http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/07/19/preview.html I am glad I've read this, Tiger is great ( for those who don't have it yet) -- gary dorn north perth
Fwd: Re: Preview
Hi... Some cool tips about using Preview (How to do Image correction, add bookmarks, Spotlight keywords, annotate documents etc.) http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/07/19/preview.html I have saved this as a basic Pages document if anyone wants a copy., (without the adversting) -- gary dorn north perth
Re: Preview
On 08/08/2005, at 12:50 PM, gary dorn wrote: Hi... Some cool tips about using Preview (How to do Image correction, add bookmarks, Spotlight keywords, annotate documents etc.) http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/07/19/preview.html I am glad I've read this, Tiger is great ( for those who don't have it yet) -- gary dorn north perth OK ! So it says fill in forms . A quick check of Preview in Panther does not appear to allow that, on a file for Transfer of Motor Vehicle. Same file will allow fill in in Adobe Reader 7. So is it Tiger that gets that function working in Preview ?? Bob
iTunes Store Japan - something interesting.....
I noticed in the launch blurb that to access the iTunes Store in Japan you can purchase prepayed iTunes cards from computer, camera and records shops. This is, no doubt, because Japan has one of the lowest, possibly the lowest, rate of credit card ownership in the developed world. this could create a bit of a grey market for these prepayed cards I already have a card coming by snale mail from a friend in Japan so it will be interesting to see how things go with that - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/
Re: iTunes Store Japan - something interesting.....
I noticed in the launch blurb that to access the iTunes Store in Japan you can purchase prepayed iTunes cards from computer, camera and records shops. This is, no doubt, because Japan has one of the lowest, possibly the lowest, rate of credit card ownership in the developed world. this could create a bit of a grey market for these prepayed cards I already have a card coming by snale mail from a friend in Japan so it will be interesting to see how things go with that Apparently people have been selling the US cards on eBay for some time. (Couldn't your friend just e-mail you the magic numbers from the card?) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Preview
Hi... Some cool tips about using Preview (How to do Image correction, add bookmarks, Spotlight keywords, annotate documents etc.) http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/07/19/preview.html I am glad I've read this, Tiger is great ( for those who don't have it yet) I've posted my favourite undocumented feature, not even mentioned in this artical - regarding Previews ability to open RAW files from digital cameras and then edit (though without true colour balance it's a fudgy hit and miss afair) them and then save them as TIFF and JPEG images. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/
Re: iTunes Store Japan - something interesting.....
Apparently people have been selling the US cards on eBay for some time. (Couldn't your friend just e-mail you the magic numbers from the card?) Have fun, Shay -- LOL I didn't know about the ones for the US - but I know from friends in Japan it was a big taking point with their students and thier own kids... as for the magic numbers well it was as much to have the physical card :) (OK so _I_AM_ an Apple tragc at times) - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/
ITMS Japan wastes the opposition
Amazing - in just 4 days the iTunes Music Store in Japan has sold a million songs - twice as many as all of the competing download music stores in Japan combined sell in a month. http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/08/07/itunesjapan/index.php?lsrc=mwrss You know Apple has finally arrived when commentators start referring to them as the 800 pound guerrilla in the market. And I still remember when the word beleaguered preceded every references to Apple in the press. Ey, 'tis a good time to be an Apple fan. :-) -Mart -- Martin Hill mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] homepages: http://mart.ozmac.com Mb: 0417-967-969 hm: (08)9314-5242
Re: LCD TV/Monitors
From: gary dorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm interested in your feedback on a small/er LCD Tv that could also double as a monitor. Something portable that could be second TV at home and also I could I believe someone on the list has a 20 G5 iMac with eyetv connected, can watch tv, record and also use as a computer- almost an all in one. We have a 17 iMac with an EyeTV 400 on our lounge room coffee table as our main TV, but we use PowerBooks wirelessly connected with Airport Extreme to stream live TV or recorded programs to the other rooms in the house every now and then using CyTV. It is a bit easier than carrying the iMac or a large LCD monitor from room to room though it can be a somewhat less than smooth solution over a wireless connection. We also export un-watched recorded TV shows and movies from EyeTV to DVD-ROM (3-4 movies or many more TV shows per DVD-ROM) to watch on a laptop on plane trips etc. -Mart
Re: ITMS Japan wastes the opposition
Amazing - in just 4 days the iTunes Music Store in Japan has sold a million songs - twice as many as all of the competing download music stores in Japan combined sell in a month. not surprising when the opposition sell the songs for around $2 to more than $2.50 per song. You see the same sort of bargins with CDs and DVD's New CD's in Japan are around about $40 DVD's about $60Aud. (or for serials like anime and serialised tv shows are only 1 hour but still cost about $30Aud.) but second hand CD/DVD's and grey market CD's (legit disks from China, Korea, Hong Kong etc) are usually one third the price. Little wonder trying to elbow your way through a second hand CD/DVD shop in Akihabara on the weekend is like trying to board a rush hour train at Tokyo's Shinjuko station
Re: LCD TV/Monitors
personally it amazes me that there is that much on TV worth watching/saving but then again as I don't have a TV my self and my housemates seem to have an unhealthy Big Brother addiction I guess I'm not getting any recent positive feedback re TV content (though I believe the ABC did recently run the History of the Blues series which is aparently quite good) - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/
X-Box Auteurs
For those that like Red V Blue :)) (Thanks Stu!) (Requires free registration if you haven't been there before) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/magazine/07MACHINI.html?ex=1281067200en= a105a383b4973c96ei=5088partner=rssnytemc=rss Rob
Re: ITMS Japan wastes the opposition
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amazing - in just 4 days the iTunes Music Store in Japan has sold a million songs - twice as many as all of the competing download music stores in Japan combined sell in a month. not surprising when the opposition sell the songs for around $2 to more than $2.50 per song. That no doubt has something to do with it :-) - however, price is not the only drawcard - after all, Wallmart in the US has been selling songs for US88c for ages now and have not gained any traction compared to Apple's marketshare. Apple has managed to really hit the sweetspot in marketing, iPod tie-in, ease-of-use, features (audible books, podcasts, music videos etc), that indefinable coolness factor as well as price. -Mart
Re: LCD TV/Monitors
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] personally it amazes me that there is that much on TV worth watching/saving but then again as I don't have a TV my self and my Indeed - since getting the EyeTV our amount of sitting in front of the box watching garbage* has drastically shrunk. Now we only watch what we want, when we want: the News, Stargate, Battlestar, the new Dr Who, movies, ABC documentaries, Beyond Tomorrow, Catalyst, Great Outdoors. Even these shows tend to bank up as we spend more time doing other things now. And of course virtually zero ads with EyeTV's jump function (unless something catches our eye as we jump past in 10 second increments). It is very liberating. :-) -Mart *If anyone wants to class ALL SciFi as garbage, I'll just go and sit in a corner and read my downloaded SF eBooks. ;-)
Re: iDVD Burning Errors (part II)
On 08/08/2005, at 10:41 AM, Rob Davies wrote: On 08/08/2005, at 8:27 AM, Rod wrote: On 08/08/2005, at 6:17 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote: Hi Yeah... I know I'm having a bad week! iMovie 5.02 iDVD 5.0.1 10.3.9 1GB RAM 8GB free on startup disk Working from external drive with plenty of space. Doing a 2 dvd disk set project of my Kimberley trip. Disk one burnt fine. Disk two keeps giving an error message 2 or 3 hours into the burning phase. Error 34506 - failed to burn or something similar. Have recreated the DVD project,tried a new disk etc but still happens. My guess is that one of the 3 movies in the project must be faulty in some way. Please does anyone know what error 34506 means? snipd From searches of mailing lists at Apple iDVD it seems to be a common error, with several solutions and reasons for occurring... Chapter markers. Chapter Markers within 2 secs of beginning or end of timeline although this is a problem with DVDSP 3 also. Audio 44khz instead of 48khz. H264 codec or iMovie HD codec? FCE creating issues. I would suggest a visit of this Discussion region to solve problem. http://discussions.info.apple.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@idvd Thanks Rod for questioning and rectifying issues which compelled further research. Cheers! `Rob
Re: LCD TV/Monitors
on 08/08/05 23:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: personally it amazes me that there is that much on TV worth watching/saving but then again as I don't have a TV my self and my housemates seem to have an unhealthy Big Brother addiction I guess I'm not getting any recent positive feedback re TV content (though I believe the ABC did recently run the History of the Blues series which is aparently quite good) The History of the Blues was/is? IMHO excellent. I'm not sure if it's finished yet - I watched an episode on Saturday but don't know if it was the last one? - Definitely TV I would save if I had an eye TV ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anti Virus Software
Hi folks, I know this must sound a bit paranoid but well you just never know. I have Virex installed but my .Mac membership expired about 3 months ago. I don't think the updates work any more because of this ?? Is this correct ? I can't see any way of actually checking. I noticed someone recently recommending ClamXav. I have downloaded it but have not yet installed it. Would this be a good replacement for Virex ? Or (if Virex still woks) a I better off staying with Virex ? Regards, Stephen Chape ClamXAv will not remove viruses (it just detects them), whereas Virex will attempt to do so in most cases. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Virtual memory
My iMac G5 20 ran out of memory tonight - wouldn't even copy a single word in Word. Surprising considering it has 512 Mb RAM and a 250 Gig HD. Activity monitor showed over 5 Gigs allocated to virtual memory. I was shocked. The Real Memory allocated was about 140Mb. I suspected the problem might be related to putting the machine to sleep, rather than shutting it down each night, over a period of several weeks. Sure enough, a re-boot solved the issues, though VM remains just under 4 Gigs. Has anyone heard of this issue? Is it a problem? I certainly noticed a significant slowing in speed over the last week or three. The re-boot has helped, but it seems there is a lot of stuff happening in the background, stealing performance. It seems that even with only about 13 items running in My Processes there is a vast array of other items running - say 40 to 50 under All Processes One kernel task has 46 Mb of real memory and a huge 708 Mb of VM. Should I shut down instead of sleep my iMac? Is there a means of rationing virtual memory (I have 233 Gb free space). Any performance boosting tips? Thanks Bill
iTMS in Austraia
Fo those of you p*ssed off with the wait for the itunes music store, the following is a very informative read about the state of online music in Australia: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/08/oz_legit_downloads_fail/ print.html Sony bmg, get off your butts and go in on itms for heaven's sake! Dave Choy On 07/08/2005, at 5:04 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: WAMUG Mailing List Digest #740 1) Re: Exporting/Converting Pages Doc to CMYK by Mervyn Giuliana Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2) Re: Exporting/Converting Pages Doc to CMYK by Ronda Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3) Re: Exporting/Converting Pages Doc to CMYK by Rob Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4) World of Warcraft (mac users) by [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5) Re: Exporting/Converting Pages Doc to CMYK by Rob Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6) WTD: Cheap ADB Wacom tablet by Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7) Re: iTMS Japan by Andrew Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8) Re: iTMS Japan by Robert Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9) Anti Virus Software by Stephen Chape [EMAIL PROTECTED] This digest is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list wamug@wamug.org.au. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch to the FEED mode, E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send administrative queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Received: from belgarion.it.net.au ([203.8.116.1] verified) by wamug.org.au (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 1390760 for wamug@wamug.org.au; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 07:42:15 +0800 Received: from [202.148.94.10] (dial00-010.dy.it.net.au [202.148.94.10]) by belgarion.it.net.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-7.1) with ESMTP id j75Netb4017247; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 07:40:56 +0800 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 16:28:57 +0800 From: Mervyn Giuliana Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Exporting/Converting Pages Doc to CMYK Rod I know it is great to use the applications that come with a new system but for my druthers I'd download the free for not for profit desktop publishing application Ragtime Solo www.ragtime-online. com and use that. Change your photographs as advised by others in Photoshop from RGB to CMYK, set the picture frame in Ragtime to CMYK and import your pictures. If Rhonda's print suggestion converts the document to the required PDF then fine. I am still with 10.2 and have no Adobe Distiller but can export the file as a postscript. The printer converts to the required PDF and prints. Output fine. Merv At 6:55 AM +0800 5/8/05, Rod Blitvich wrote: Hi Not being highly creative or intelligent, I used Apple's Pages software to create the School Newlstter (with the aid of one of the great templates). I exported it to PDF and took it to the printer who said the fonts and resolution etc were all fine but he had to convert it from RGB to CMYK. He showed me how some of the colours, particularly the blues, were out. He said before I bring him the next Newsletter, I need to convert it to CMYK. I have searched Pages and cannot find any option/preference/export feature that enables me to do this. Any advice would be gratefully accepted please. ta Rod -- Rod BLITVICH Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003 Amy and Sam's Dad [EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256 http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html --- At work I always try to go the extra mile... but my boss always finds me and brings me back. -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see. -- Received: from vscan02.westnet.com.au ([203.10.1.132] verified) by wamug.org.au (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 1390802 for wamug@wamug.org.au; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 12:30:47 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB671192E3; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 12:29:20 +0800 (WST) Received: from vscan02.westnet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vscan02.westnet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30759-02; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 12:29:20 +0800 (WST) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (dsl-220-235-156-236.wa.westnet.com.au [220.235.156.236]) by vscan02.westnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A67D11894F; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 12:29:20 +0800 (WST) In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Ronda Brown [EMAIL
Re: Virtual memory
I'm a little rusty but here goes. Virtual memory used it not necessarily memory used. A program can allocate as much virtual memory as it wants so long as it doesn't overload the virtual memory address space available. RAM is only used when a page in the virtual memory is paged-in. Swap is used when a page in the VM is swapped-out. If a page is sitting there unmapped it basically is just there waiting for a program to page something into it. Note. There are two different concepts at work: paging and swapping. Paging loads and purges data into and out of the program's address space respectively. Swapping is for swapping a page from RAM to a backing store (swap, etc) and vice-versa. This page might be able to shed a bit more light: http:// www.memorymanagement.org/glossary/v.html#virtual.memory-1 Mal On 08/08/2005, at 9:31 PM, Denise Bill wrote: My iMac G5 20 ran out of memory tonight - wouldn't even copy a single word in Word. Surprising considering it has 512 Mb RAM and a 250 Gig HD. Activity monitor showed over 5 Gigs allocated to virtual memory. I was shocked. The Real Memory allocated was about 140Mb. I suspected the problem might be related to putting the machine to sleep, rather than shutting it down each night, over a period of several weeks. Sure enough, a re-boot solved the issues, though VM remains just under 4 Gigs. Has anyone heard of this issue? Is it a problem? I certainly noticed a significant slowing in speed over the last week or three. The re- boot has helped, but it seems there is a lot of stuff happening in the background, stealing performance. It seems that even with only about 13 items running in My Processes there is a vast array of other items running - say 40 to 50 under All Processes One kernel task has 46 Mb of real memory and a huge 708 Mb of VM. Should I shut down instead of sleep my iMac? Is there a means of rationing virtual memory (I have 233 Gb free space). Any performance boosting tips? Thanks Bill -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
