cable internet

2010-09-08 Thread Hugh Griffiths
Hi, I am with Telstra and have been for many year mostly because my phone line is not eligible for asdl through some other providers and I have a Telstra cable to my house. I have had no problems with Telstra but want to know what my options are for other providers using cable, and who might

Re: Strange Finder and OS behaviour and some resolutions

2010-09-08 Thread Rob Phillips
Hi Ronni On 6/09/10 2:33 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Rob, Sorry to hear you are still having problems with your MBP. You are not going to particularly like what I have to say … sorry :-( OSX requires plenty of Free Unused Hard Drive space to run well. Also you only have 2GB RAM, Snow

excel on an iphone

2010-09-08 Thread Hugh Griffiths
Two posts in one day! Does anyone have any recommendations for an app that will allow excel spreadsheets sent to an iphone to be edited in a rudimentary way on the iphone? Best Regards Hugh Griffiths mobile +61 407 477 311 office +61 (0) 8 6424 4801 Any commercial terms stated or implied are

Re: excel on an iphone

2010-09-08 Thread James / Hans Kunz
you may check this http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/features.php#neomobileiosapp James On 08/09/2010, at 15:17, Hugh Griffiths wrote: Two posts in one day! Does anyone have any recommendations for an app that will allow excel spreadsheets sent to an iphone to be edited in a rudimentary

Entourage problem

2010-09-08 Thread Lloyd White
I recently passed my old (and loved) iMac to my daughter and she set up her four email accounts in Entourage. OS 10.4.11 Now when she checks for new mail the following message crops up, but only for one email account. The server for account .. returned the error Your mailbox is already

Re: Entourage problem

2010-09-08 Thread Ronda Brown
On 08/09/2010, at 4:29 PM, Lloyd White wrote: I recently passed my old (and loved) iMac to my daughter and she set up her four email accounts in Entourage. OS 10.4.11 Now when she checks for new mail the following message crops up, but only for one email account. The server for account

Windows can't see the network card

2010-09-08 Thread Peter Bull
I recently installed a downgrade called Windows XP Service Pack 2 on my iMac OS 10.5.8 using Boot Camp. I have installed Office on the Windows partition and that works fine. Windows can't find my Brother printer connected with Ethernet through a 4 port router even though the Mac and

Re: Entourage problem

2010-09-08 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Lloyd If it's who I think it is, that's happened before with her email accounts. (which I'd worked on before to fix) :o) As Ronni has mentioned it's when the Mailbox is being accessed too quickly, or two things (accounts or devices) trying to access it at the same time. It then gets locked

Re: Strange Finder and OS behaviour and some resolutions

2010-09-08 Thread Ronda Brown
On 08/09/2010, at 3:16 PM, Rob Phillips wrote: Hi Ronni On 6/09/10 2:33 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Rob, Sorry to hear you are still having problems with your MBP. You are not going to particularly like what I have to say … sorry :-( OSX requires plenty of Free Unused Hard Drive

Re: Entourage problem

2010-09-08 Thread Lloyd White
Thanks Ronni and Daniel, for your quick and learned responses. These are good suggestions and we will try quitting Entourage from the other laptop before accessing emails from the iMac. Not sure if her iPhone or iPad are also trying to access the email. I wonder why the other three email

Re: excel on an iphone

2010-09-08 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Hugh, James, I note that their site does say: Please note that the NeoOffice Mobile application requires that you have a NeoOffice Mobile account and the application only supports viewing, not editing, of your published documents. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western

Re: excel on an iphone

2010-09-08 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Hugh A quick google search for Edit excel on iPhone seems to turn up Mariner Calc. http://iphonecto.com/2009/03/06/want-to-edit-excel-spreadsheets-on-iphone-n ow-you-can/ And their site:- http://www.marinersoftware.com/products/calciphone/ Looks to be about USD$4.99 and you can download a

Re: Samsung CLP-315

2010-09-08 Thread Glenn Cardwell
Agree with Daniel. Bought a Brother printer off him back in the 19th century. Still works a treat. Thanks Daniel. Glenn Cardwell On 08/09/2010, at 1:13 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: I agree with Ronni there. Cheap printers,..cheap quality. Also, it's only USB, so only connects to one computer

Re: Strange Finder and OS behaviour and some resolutions

2010-09-08 Thread Rob Phillips
Yes, Ronni.  I knew about the free disk space, and I try to keep about 20% free.  In fact I had about 20% free, but it was fragmented. I still have about 20% free and still have problems.  With a replacement machine with more disk space, I should be allright for a

Re: Reunion software package

2010-09-08 Thread Graeme Winters
Hi Ronni Sorry I had not come back earlier. You have no idea how quickly the day/weeks fill up when retired I do not fully understand your reply. I have tried/experimented with the formats of both Pedigree and cascading pedigree charts and do see value in both of these. In the second part

Re: Second hand iMac wanted for single mum

2010-09-08 Thread Stephen Chape
Thanks Ash .. but looking for something a little more up to date. Perhaps I am being too optimistic !! On 07/09/2010, at 10:18 PM, Ashley Mulder wrote: Stephen I have a 17 iMac 4,1 for sale atm specs are: 1.83Ghz Intel Core Duo 1.5GB Ram 165GB HD x1600 128mb vid card Running 10.5

Re: Reunion software package

2010-09-08 Thread Adrian Skehan
Its in the chart menu when you create on. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 08/09/2010, at 7:49 PM, Graeme Winters wrote: Hi Ronni Sorry I had not come back earlier. You have no idea how quickly the day/weeks fill up when retired I do not fully understand your reply. I have

Re: Reunion software package

2010-09-08 Thread Graeme Winters
Many thanks Adrian I knew it was in there somewhere and once again the list proved to be so useful Graeme On 08/09/2010, at 8:21 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Its in the chart menu when you create on. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 08/09/2010, at 7:49 PM, Graeme Winters wrote:

Re: Samsung CLP-315

2010-09-08 Thread S Beach
There is one of these printers (or similar model) collecting dust at my workplace. It was cheaper to buy a new Dell printer than to replace the colour cartridges in the Samsung apparently. Regards Shayne On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Glenn Cardwell gl...@glenncardwell.comwrote: Agree with

Re: cable internet

2010-09-08 Thread Woomara
I have an ADSL2 account with an ISP who provide ADSL2+ with apparent 24 mb/sec download / 1 mb/sec upload rates at competitive price BUT I cannot get more than ~7mb/sec download and 0.7 mb/sec upload. From weeks long investigation including changing modems, I conclude that that I am getting

Re: Entourage problem

2010-09-08 Thread Rob Findlay
iphones lock out mailboxes for some ridiculous length of time after popping. Best if the iphone is set to get mail to set it to manual, turn push or automatic setting off. On 08/09/2010, at 5:48 PM, Lloyd White wrote: Thanks Ronni and Daniel, for your quick and learned responses. These

Re: cable internet

2010-09-08 Thread James / Hans Kunz
i'm in bayswater have 2.8mb/s a friend in bicton has 0.5mb/s telstra ruling says from 0.064mb/s it's broad band, that's the reason why we never get a prober internet in WA James On 08/09/2010, at 21:54, Woomara wrote: I have an ADSL2 account with an ISP who provide ADSL2+ with apparent 24

Re: Windows can't see the network card

2010-09-08 Thread Patrick Lawrence
Hi Peter Have you installed the Boot Camp drivers from the OS X Install DVD? That DVD contains all the drivers for things like your network card and video card so Windows can use them. You can also get the latest copy of the Boot Camp drivers from the Apple website:

Re: Strange Finder and OS behaviour and some resolutions

2010-09-08 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 08/09/2010, at 5:36 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: This includes OS X's built-in disk defragmentation system, Excellent link! I haven't seen OS X's defragmentation schemes explained quite this easily before. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth,

Re: The passing of an era

2010-09-08 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 08/09/2010, at 10:01 AM, Alexander Hartner wrote: There is always still http://www.macupdate.com/ Yes, this at least is closer to the familiar VersionTracker look and feel. I'll be going there instead of the CNET site from now on. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services

Re: Strange Finder and OS behaviour and some resolutions

2010-09-08 Thread Ronda Brown
On 08/09/2010, at 6:41 PM, Rob Phillips wrote: Yes, Ronni. I knew about the free disk space, and I try to keep about 20% free. In fact I had about 20% free, but it was fragmented. I still have about 20% free and still have problems. 20% is the bare minimum as I mentioned previously.

Re: cable internet

2010-09-08 Thread Ray Forma
Hugh, You say you have Telstra cable to your house. That means that you can get Foxtel, and Telstra-only Internet trough that cable. That Internet should have very satisfactory speed. The national telecommunication competition arrangement forces Telstra to allow other providers to use

Re: Samsung CLP-315

2010-09-08 Thread Ray Forma
Glenn, Daniel is definitely not old enough to have been around in the 19th century, nor did anyone except Jacquard even dream about computers and printers during that century. Did you mean that Daniel supplied your printer in the 20th Century? On 08/09/2010, at 18:04 , Glenn Cardwell

M/sot Office Apple Scripts

2010-09-08 Thread Adrian Skehan
Good morning all, A friend of mine is having an annoying episode with M/soft Office applications, while Word etc functions OK the Apple Scripts Icon just hangs there, on its own, at the left end of the menu bar (all other menus etc disappear) until he clicks on the screen (anywhere) before it

Ethernet drivers

2010-09-08 Thread Peter Bull
I recently installed a downgrade called Windows XP Service Pack 2 on my iMac OS 10.5.8 using Boot Camp. I have installed Office on the Windows partition and that works fine. Windows can't find my Brother printer connected with Ethernet through a 4 port router even though the Mac and

Re: Samsung CLP-315

2010-09-08 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Ray I think it was meant more that I sold it to him a long time ago, and it's still going strong :o) That was my take on it anyway. Either that, or I just hide my age well :o) hehehe. (And thanks Glen) :O) Kind Regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414

Accessing Entourage from separate mac

2010-09-08 Thread William Crabb
Can Entourage messages be accessed from another Mac? The other Mac is connected by network cable, 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

Re: cable internet

2010-09-08 Thread Gordon Campbell
Hi Hugh, I've got Telstra Cable, pretty much for the same reason you're looking at it. Even though I was eligible for ADSL, the speed was terrible (2-3Mbps if I was lucky) and it would constantly drop out and be generally unstable, requiring many reboots of the router. Telstra Cable on the other

RE: cable internet

2010-09-08 Thread Hugh Griffiths
Gordon, thanks for that, what is wrong with the NetGear? I as you have, have been by and large very happy with Telstra, even though they don't theoretically support mac for self install of the modem, the Telstra guy talked me through it and was very patient. I have a Motorola surfboard sbg900

Re: cable internet

2010-09-08 Thread Gordon Campbell
On 9 September 2010 10:41, Hugh Griffiths hgriffi...@lgc.com wrote: Gordon, thanks for that, what is wrong with the NetGear? The issue I had with the Netgear was regular rebooting. There's quite a bit of discussion about this on Whirlpool and it has been traced back to issues with the number of

Iwork 10?

2010-09-08 Thread Lloyd White
I know I asked this question months ago but I have been waiting for Apple to do something. Is there going to be a new version of iWork for 2010? My version is 2008 and I am reluctant to buy the 2009 version because, according to Murphy's Rule, the day after I do, the new version will be

Re: Iwork 10?

2010-09-08 Thread S Beach
Hey Lloyd Hurry up and buy iWork 2009 so Apple can release a new version the day after for the rest of us :-) Regards Shayne On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Lloyd White lloydwh...@iinet.net.au wrote: I know I asked this question months ago but I have been waiting for Apple to do

RE: Iwork 10?

2010-09-08 Thread Crisp, Peter
Yes Lloyd, Apple is waiting on you to pull out your credit card. Unfortunately I have not heard of such a thing as a reliable rumour. In seriousness, I looked on the Macrumours site and it didn't give me any tips on this coming soon. Maybe some others have some other sources. Regards