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

email strange behaviour

2011-04-12 Thread James / Hans Kunz
hello guys a friends email 2.1.3 on emac ppc 10.5.8 installed has something strange with outgoing emails when i create a new email it goes straight away, when i forward an email (w/ attachement) then it goes into the outbox stays there sometimes for hours or days then suddenly it's gone i

Re: email strange behaviour

2011-04-12 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi James, Quit Mail, and in Finder navigate to your Home/Library/Mail folder Then to your particular email account name folder In there will be one called Outbox.mbox You can drag that whole Outbox.mbox to the trash. Open Mail App it will create a new Outbox.mbox Sent from Ronni's iPad On

Re: Old Macs for Schools

2011-04-12 Thread Adrian Stevens
Hello Roger, My old primary school were looking for some new or old Mac's for research and word processing. What type of Mac 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

Re: Old Macs for Schools

2011-04-12 Thread rkor...@iinet.net.au
Hi Adrian They are all G5 towers of varying speeds hard drives and memory :) Regards Roger On Tue Apr 12 16:40 , Adrian Stevens adrianosbia...@gmail.com sent: Hello Roger, My old primary school were looking for some new or old Mac's for research and word processing. What type of Mac is

Long running mystery solved

2011-04-12 Thread Severin Crisp
I have at long last cracked a long running problem with my G5 1.8SP/ OSX10.5.8. In general it has acted cranky, erratic and sluggish at times and in particular it was taking 25 secs to be put to sleep, rather than go immediately. The problem was in my fax setup. For my occasional faxing I

A passing

2011-04-12 Thread Severin Crisp
You may be interested to learn of the passing of Richard Dick Anderson, a regular name on WAMUG emails. He was a friend and colleague of mine since the late 1950s in the Physics Dept at at UWA. His funeral is tomorrow, he was 83. Severin Crisp

Re: A passing

2011-04-12 Thread Reg Whitely
Valé Richard It is sad to learn of the passing of a WAMUG friend. Can a friend be a friend if we never met, face to face? I believe so. I have not met many WAMUG friends but I value you all for your positive support and on-line friendship. Take care Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272

Re: email strange behaviour

2011-04-12 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi James, I’ve just found time to re-read your email and noticed that the problem you are having is when forwarding an email that already has an attachment in it. when i forward an email (w/ attachement) then it goes into the outbox stays there sometimes for hours or days then suddenly it's

AccountRight Plus

2011-04-12 Thread Jennifer Lefroy
Good Morning Everyone, A friend is hoping to change to a Mac, but is unsure whether there could be problems with the accounting software they use in their business,  AccountRight Plus.  Does anyone have any experience with this including successful importing of data? I couldn't see anything in

Re: A passing

2011-04-12 Thread cm
Yes indeed. The irrepressible Prof Dick Anderson taught me as an undergraduate. I am part of a cycling club that includes his daughter and ride with her of a Saturday. Prof Anderson will be fondly remembered by all who knew him. Carlo Sent from my iPad On 12/04/2011, at 21:53, Reg Whitely

Re: email strange behaviour

2011-04-12 Thread James / Hans Kunz
hello Ronni thanks for the advice we did the first suggestion: delete outbox.mbox now the forwarded letters are going out straight away many thanks James SAD Technic U3 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA Australia +618 9370 5307 mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132) sad...@iinet.net.au

Text-recognition software recommendation

2011-04-12 Thread Ray Forma
Do you have any recommendations for text-recognition software that will run natively on a 64-bit Intel Mac? If so, please let me know. I need such an application to convert standard scanned images to text files. Currently I have OmniPage SE that came as a freebie when G5s were

Re: Text-recognition software recommendation

2011-04-12 Thread Brian Scott
Hi Ray, You could look at ABBYY FineReader Express. |http://download.cnet.com/ABBYY-FineReader-Express-Edition/3000-2079_4-75146983.html?tag=mncol;1 | Works on Mac OS X 10.4 PPC/Intel/10.5 PPC/Intel/10.6 Intel I'm still on OS 10.5.8. I've been using it on old newspaper scans and it works

Re: Text-recognition software recommendation

2011-04-12 Thread cm
Hi Ray, I have only ever used free OCR products that come bundled with scanners so far, so I can't give a personal recommendation, but I read with interest the review that Brian provided of ABBYY Fine Reader Express. I just wanted to point out that if you bring up the Mac App Store and enter

Re: Text-recognition software recommendation

2011-04-12 Thread David Noel
Hi Ray -- -- I have a version of Omnipage SE which came free with my Canon MP140 printer. It seems to run fine with my Intel Core 2 Duo under 10.6.7. If you want more details, contact me off-list. Cheers -- David Noel 2011 Apr 13 = On 13 April 2011 13:07, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote:

FileMaker Mobile 2.1

2011-04-12 Thread Adrian Skehan
I have an un-used FileMaker Mobile 2.1which is headed for the trash bin, its old but if anyone wants it its free. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -