Re: Preview's Hidden Powers

> Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo > 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB > OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > On 19/03/2010, at 10:08 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> >> Hi Michael and

Re: Locked Keychain Problem

account that you don't have the password to and your user account that doesn't have admin privileges. > > They gave me a new username/password (both the same) when I got it, but > that one doesn't work either!!! > Is this the only account on the computer and, if not, d

Re: Locked Keychain Problem

Hi Barb, Glad to hear you finally cracked it and unlocked your keychain. >From your original post I see you are using OSX 10.3.9, so I expect the differences you now see are due to how Keychain Access has developed from 10.3 to 10.6. Personally, I had a big upgrade from 10.2 straight to 10.5, s

Re: Locked Keychain Problem

n on any mac before - never found it > necessary. > > I suspect the differences are due to the school IT team changing & > locking down certain items to keep the students out of them! > > Cheers .. BarbZ > > > > On 25 Mar 2010, at 6:40 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: &

Re: Iomega 1TB HD cheapies

Hi Peter & Paul, If you want one with an on/off switch, Harris Tech do the Iomega Prestige 1TB for $117 - I bought one a couple of weeks ago - seems fine so far... Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/4/10 1:46 P

Re: Will not appear in finder

Hi Severin, So just to confirm: In Finder preferences: - Under the general pane, "show these items on the desktop:" you have a tick against External Disks, but the disk doesn't show on the desktop - Under the sidebar pane, "show these items in the sidebar:" you have a tick against External D

Re: G4 Lost Ethernet Connection

Hi Peter, Your description is not very clear as to how your network is set-up. You say: > We connect to an Apple Airport Express which connect to a G5 and > Windows PC via Ethernet, they all work fine, just the G4 that's not > working. > So are you saying the internet connection is distribute

Re: Losing my connection

Hi Mike, I have a similar problem with my 27" iMac i7 - except that my connection to the net is wireless. I hadn't picked up on a pattern, so I can't confirm that it is limited to overnight sleep (though, if so, I don't think it occurs every time the machine sleeeps overnight). When I wake the

Re: G4 Lost Ethernet Connection

Hi Peter, Still not clear on a couple of things: on 5/4/10 1:39 PM, Peter Faulks at peterfau...@westnet.com.au wrote: > >> Hi Neil, > > > Thanks for your reply, > > > I have an Airport Express with a red Lead to the Westnet unit (we > connect via a satelite dish on the roof because we ca

Re: Losing my connection

Hi Mike, Thanks, I'll check those discussions out later and, like you, try turning off the Wake for network access in the Energy Saver preference pane first. In the meantime, I got the disconnect again and, this time, decided to try my network preferences ideas, ie: >> Secondly, to try to make

Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers

Hi All, I've got an annoying little problem at present - I'm sure the solution is simple - but its eluding me :( I got one of the new wireless keyboards with my new 27" i7 iMac - no problems there, all working fine. However, since I do a lot of spreadsheet work and I am used to having a numbers

Re: Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers

quot; it. - The keyboard is not in "discovery mode" because it is paired with the 27" iMac. So, if that is the case, how do I get around this? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/4/10 1:02 PM, Neil

Re: Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers - Solved

ns something new everyday!) -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/4/10 1:27 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > > Replying to my own post, from further reading of Apples support site: > >> When your keybo

Re: Bluetooth keyboard - how to swap computers - Solved - and a further question

reset" the keyboard to remove the pairing and initiate "discoverable mode? Cheers Neil (who just needs to know this stuff!) -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/4/10 3:01 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com

Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61%

Hi Peter, It's no problem to get a full numeric keyboard (instead of the cut-down wireless one) - you just specify that when you place your order - of course this does make it a special order (same as extra RAM or whatever) so you may not be able to just walk into a retailer and walk out with the

Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61%

stern Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/4/10 8:26 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: > > > On 20/04/2010, at 11:30 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> >> Hi Peter, >> >> It's no problem to get a full numeric keyboard

Re: Mouse battery level indicator stays on 61%

>> >> Thanks for all this. I think I would sooner have wireless keyboard >> than >> a numeric pad with a USB wired keyboard. >> >> Regards >> >> Peter... >> -Original Message- >> From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wa

Hitler's reaction to the iPhone leak

I just love these parodies - and this one is definitely on-topic! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Itunes won't play my cd

Hi Sam, Hi Ronni, Sam, if I understand you correctly, iTunes is playing your existing library of songs fine - in which case, I don't think it can be down to any general system sound/volume settings. >From what you are saying, a CD - presumably in the built-in CD player (you don't say what your c

[FOR SALE] Brand new HP Photosmart B109a (Printer/Scanner/Copier)

Hi All, I have a brand new unopened HP Photosmart B109a colour printer for sale which also scans, copies and works with Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 & 10.6. More info here: http://store.apple.com/au/product/TX973X/A?fnode=MTY1NDA1MQ&mco=MTU0Njg2NzU I am in Albany, in case anyone down here is interested

Re: Another great Preview tip

Hi Peter, Great tip!! I've just tried it on a pdf I recently compiled from 7 separate documents (plus a cover/contents sheet) and it works great - really quick & easy. Thanks very much for passing this on. On a related point, do you know if there is a similar, simple way to create a sidebar t

Re: Another great Preview tip

Hi Peter, Thanks for that info. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 7/5/10 8:28 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: > > > On 06/05/2010, at 12:27 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: >

Ipad/iPhone - SIMs, micro SIMs & dual SIMs, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)

I have read that ordinary SIMs can be cut down to micro SIMs (as used in the iPad) eg: Some commentators here suggest that that could be a workaround if specific iPad plans are too exorbitant. What really interested me though was the link to

Re: Ipad/iPhone - SIMs, micro SIMs & dual SIMs, Oh My (apologies to AA Milne)

pacity as I > currently carry a work and personal phone. > > Tim > > > > On 07/05/2010, at 12:52 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> >> I have read that ordinary SIMs can be cut down to micro SIMs (as used in the >> iPad) eg: >> <http://www.ipadinsider

Dropbox

Hi all, I recently set-up a free Dropbox account and was amazed at how easy and user-friendly it all was. A free account gives you up to 2GB of space - but you can get more with referrals. So, if anyone was thinking of opening an account, YOU can get an extra free 250 MB - AND get ME an extra f

Re: Dropbox

: > Morning all ... and Happy Mothers Day to all > > Thank you Neil, I will be taking you up on your offer as my partner has just > received her new MacBookPro from Daniel and it will come in very handy for her > > cheers > > Pedro > > On 08/05/2010, at 7:42 PM,

Re: Dropbox

d >> those who don't. >> >> Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips." >> >> The box said 'Required Windows XP or better'. So, I installed LINUX. >> >> I had a fortune cookie the other day and it

Re: Dropbox

gt; Thank you Neil, I will be taking you up on your offer as my partner has just >> received her new MacBookPro from Daniel and it will come in very handy for >> her >> >> cheers >> >> Pedro >> >> On 08/05/2010, at 7:42 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: &g

Re: Dropbox

stop it bringing the finder to the front > every time I save, and it backs up? Tried forums and a couple of bods > have the same complaint but no solution. > > Really annoying and it's going in the bin if I can't fix it. > > You can keep the 250 though! > > best >

Re: online banking issues

Hi Peter, This certainly used to be an issue in the very early days of Safari ­ and was the main reason I moved to Firefox at the time. However things have changed a lot and now I often go to Safari if I have a problem loading a page in Firefox! I don¹t use ANZ, so can¹t comment on their website

Re: Disc wont eject.

Hi Bob, I vaguely remember a problem like this where the CD was in the Mac but I couldn¹t see it in finder to eject. I THINK I solved it by finding and ejecting in another program ­ I don¹t remember which one, but the two that come to mind would be Disk Utility and Toast Titanium. Cheers Nei

Re: enter rage

Hi Pedro, I think your problem is that Entourage is set as your default mail client. To change it you need to open Mail and go to the preference pane to change the default. This page explains in more detail:

Re: what is it about macs and sleep?

Hi Alastair, I don't know if it's relevant but I got a bad fright the first time my Mac screen went suddenly black in the middle of doing something Until I realised that I had a "Hot Corner" set to "Put Display to Sleep" and my cursor had wandered into the corner! To check if you have any "

Re: Permissions Issues

Hi Adam, Just to add to what Ronni said ­ Terminal is very powerful and lets you do all manner of things, however sometimes I find it easier to check out various hidden file using the Finder. The trick here is to add ³File Visibility² to the list of finder search criteria ­ to do this invoke the

Re: VMWare Fusion/One virtual machine shared by all users

Hi Stuart, If it is like Parallels, the issue may well be the permissions set on the VM file(s) I know, for me, I had a VM created by one user and wanted it to be usable by two users - I did some googling and found articles in the Parallels forums which let me sort it out by changing permissions

Re: Permissions Issues

Hi Ronni & Adam, I have been following this with interest ­ I have had to sort out permissions problems in the past, I generally get there in the end, but I still find many aspects of permissions confusing. I am hoping that Ronni could clarify how one area works: I can see how approach A works

Re: Permissions Issues

nce any permission problems. > But, I'm open to anyone disagreeing with this. > > Of course neither of these ways will be possible if Adam doesn't have a > complete backup of his old drive! > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 19/05/2010, at 10:47 AM, Neil Houghton wrot

Re: Permissions Issues

; > > Permissions are so interesting Š and confusing at the same time ;-) > Yes, I love the power and features of Snow Leopard, but sometimes miss the simplicity of Classic! Can¹t have it both ways, I guess! > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 20/05/2010, at 10:39 AM, Neil Hough

Re: wd passport

Hi John, I have not been following this topic, so not sure of the background, etc. However, when you say: > Any body got any suggestions, bearing in mind that all I wanted was an > external > device that would work similiar to USB stick but larger capacity that would > plug in > to PC and MAC

Re: wd passport

> HD on the work computer. Tried a few things which may have lost my ablity to > mount > again on the home Mac but can read on home PC > > Will take your advice and contact Mediafour (MacDrive developer) for help > > cheers > > john > > On Thu May 20 12:27

Sidebar Icons

Hi all, You know how in Finder certain items display different icons in the sidebar than their normal finder icon - does anyone know how you can add a custom sidebar icon to a folder. I'm not talking about changing the normal finder icon associated with the folder (which you can change by select

Re: Sidebar Icons

eport back! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/5/10 9:24 PM, Daniel Kerr at wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: > > On 26/5/10 8:02 PM, "Neil Houghton" wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >

Re: Sidebar Icons

m http://www.stalkingwolf.net/software/cocothumbx/ > > Pat > > On 27/05/2010, at 2:06 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: >> >> I looked at Iconographer but it is now discontinued and the developer's >> website says the latest version (2.5) was last updated in mid 2003 - so I'm

Re: Sidebar Icons

in the Finder - unless you set the finder icon size to 16x16 ;o) > Gotta get back to quotes and invoicing for now anyway,...lol. > But thought it might give you something to play with for now. > > Kind Regards > Daniel > OK, thanks for the ideas & links Daniel. Che

Re: Sidebar Icons

nd see if they stick. > > Cheers, > Pat > > On 27/05/2010, at 8:50 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> >> Hi Pat, >> >> Thanks for the link. >> >> Unfortunately this program is for creating thumbnail images - which is not >> what I am l

Re: How to draw a helix?

Hi Rob, SketchUp is free 3D software with a (very) large following - I haven't really played with it yet but I'm sure it can cope with a helix (and more) - check it out here: They have lots of examples and you may even find a ready-drawn spring in th

Re: How to draw a helix?

spring&styp=m&btnG=Search> Hope that helps, Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 28/5/10 4:55 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > Hi Rob, > > SketchUp is free 3D software

Re: Creating emails from Word

Hi Rob, AFAIK the 'No services apply' message is due to SL¹s improved handling of services ­ previously all the services would show but non-applicable ones would be greyed out ­ now only applicable ones will show. If you want to see real service options in Entourage, for example, first select som

Re: Dropbox - TIP - how to add a "Save PDF to Dropbox" item (and other options) to your print menu

ve as PDF...² action for other items but I now find the two new one-click options really convenient and time-saving. It¹s little feature like this that I really love about OSX!! Cheers -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 8/5/

Re: ISP's

To give a country perspective: I¹m on Internode¹s Home-1500-Explorer and I¹m located in Albany <1km from the Telstra Exchange Got the following test results this morning: Speedtest.net - through Perth Fast Hit server: > Download: 1.32 Mbps > Upload: .22 Mbps > Ping: 31ms. > Speedtest.net - th

Re: ISP collation

Hi Lynn, Feel free to use my info ­ disregarding the 2007 info (which seems suspect to me) I guess info & typical figures for me would be: > Service Provider: Internode > > Suburb: Albany (Rowley Street) > > Distance from Exchange: <1km > > Speed as advertised: 1500/256 > Actual Speed: >> Dow

Re: NEW MacMin has a HDMI Port!

Very true, us country folk always have to consider postage costs for these things. Perth folk can always just walk into one of Jaycars 4 WA stores: And I do see that Jaycar list 10 Authorised stockists around t

Re: Keychain help please

Hi Laura, I've only just caught up with this thread so, firstly, good to hear you now have mail working. > Until I know how to use Keychain I shall keep well away from it. I agree that it is best not to start changing things in Keychain unless you know just what you are doing (and why). However

Re: doing emails while in Europe

Of course, with a steady hand and a sharp blade you can cut down a regular SIM to microsim size - quite a lot of info on the web about this, eg: And there are also adaptor carriers available t

The iPad is magic

-- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - Guidelines -

Re: The iPad is magic

But don't sell your Grand piano just yet <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvplGbCBaLA> on 29/6/10 10:25 AM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: The iPad is magic > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATpSPNIuj3M> -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Austral

Re: Transfer files between mac and iPhone

Hi Rod, I haven¹t actually bought a mobile phone yet :-o) so I can¹t confirm this ­ but I would have thought Dropbox WOULD do what you want OK. Certainly on the Mac the dropbox folder is an actual folder, on the Mac, with actual files in it ­ the network connection is only required for the synchi

Free Sound Library

Hi all, I thought others may find this interesting I just came across this online sound library: Which offers a free Mac Sound Librarian application (OSX 10.5 & 10.6) giving access to: > Sound Library is a resource centre with over 14,000 sound onli

Re: Capturing YouTube etc videos

Hi David, I use a firefox add-on; download helper: Obviously it's only applicable if you use Firefox ;o) It's very easy to use and where there are different uTube resolutions available, it lets you select which one to download. I'm sure there are other altern

Re: PowerPC G5 iMac not starting up

Hi Stuart, Ray, If the problem is with the internal hard drive, it shouldn't stop you from booting from an external hard drive, or from the install disk. Stuart, when you say: > I tried to use Disk Utilities from an external hard drive but could not open > the external hard drive for he same

Re: Capturing YouTube etc videos

Hehe Just make sure you go via the link that Peter provided... If (like me) you Google VideoBox you will find that, apparently: > VideoBox is the internet's best porn DVD site. And, sadly, most of the search results which come up seem to follow this theme. (If it was me, I'd probably just

Re: Alternatives to Things/Network/iDisk

Hi Stuart, on 3/7/10 8:21 AM, Stuart Breden at bred...@highway1.biz wrote: > > I want to share To Do's, research topics etc with my IT support > person. We can do this by e-mail but that is very cumbersome and > unwieldy. We could sue To Do's in iCal but that is limited. > > Things appears

How to set "print to pdf" page margins (or just Firefox page margins?)

Hi all, Maybe I'm missing something obvious here but... I often find good recipes on and then save them as pdfs and then print them out if & when I want to try them. Often I find that what could be a one page recipe carries over to two pages with just a line or two

Re: How to set \"print to pdf\" page margins (or just Firefox page margins?)

Hi Bob, Good to hear from you again :) Thanks for the idea, I'm not really looking to scale though (which I could do anyway in Firefox's "Page setup" menu) as that reduces the printed width, photos etc - just to print on more of the "paper" top and bottom - when I am browsing pdfs, I just want

Re: How to set "print to pdf" page margins (or just Firefox page margins?) - solved - sort off!

t dialogue, rather than having to reconfigure Firefox. However, it is quick and easy - and it works! (and I can always increase the margins later if I want). Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/7/10 4:59 PM, Neil Ho

Re: WD My Passport HD for Mac ?

Hi Stephen, One more vote here for using Time Machine for ongoing back-up on one drive and Superduper as the secondary, bootable, back-up on another drive. If it was me though, I wouldn¹t rely on the WD erase function to give me a clean start for the Superduper backup drive ­ I would prefer to us

Re: Epson Stylus Pro 3880

Hi Rosalyn, I don't know if it will help, but you can check various aspects of the printer/print queue by using your browser to look at the CUPS area (behind the scenes in the Mac OS) - easier to do than to explain! On my computer, the following URLs are relevant (for your computer you would rep

Re: Epson Stylus Pro 3880

!! CORRECTION!! Following up on this - with my original URLs (using computer name) some links (eg the Admin page) gave "403 forbidden" errors. Rob Davies' post pointed me in the right direction - use "local host" (thanks Rob!) For completeness, I have corrected my original post (below) to refle

Re: trnasferring files Windows to Mac

Hi Adrian, Just a thought - if she has any Windows specific software or if for any other reason she might also want to run /windows on the iMac she will probably want to use Parallels or Fusion to do so. If that is the case, she could just import her entire Windows XP machine as a virtual machin

Re: wireless-router

Hi Merv, I have been running a Billion 7402 VGP for over four years now - same unit, hasn't skipped a beat (touch wood!) VOIP with Internode's nodephone is indistinguishable from fixed line. It has fixed line support so my standard phone will receive the fixed-line calls coming in and make outgoi

Re: Connecting Macbook pro to iMac

Hi Rod, Yes, you should be able to do that. It¹s a relatively new feature for the iMac (from late 2009 model) so yours should be fine ­ from the Apple site: You can use your iMac as a display, via the Mini DisplayPort: > > Mini DisplayPort. > > Th

Re: Third Party Software

But note that the list was last edited in December 2009 ­ so any compatible releases/upgrades since then won¹t be on the list. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/7/10 12:33 PM, Jim D at sappe...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Apple Store is down...

Or would it be the iPhone4? - given that pricing and plans have just been released: Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com

Re: Applestore back up,..new iMac's, MacPros, 27" LED Screen and Magic Trackpad oh and Apple AA Charger.

Interesting - you can now get the 27"iMac with two internal drives - one SATA plus one solid state. You need to save up lots of pennies for the solid state though! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 27/7/10 10:00

Re: WAMUG Meeting (August) Postponed

Hi all, I would echo John¹s comments - in these litigious times, WAMUG probably needs to be incorporated and covered by public liability insurance if only to protect the rights and positions of the members, particularly those elected/volunteered to administer the group. Like John, I have no prof

What Apple, Hells Angels and Salvos have in common

Hehe It's brand power, apparently! Illustrious company indeed ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@pos

Re: PREVIEW - add pages to a PDF

Hi Gary, The thing about Preview in Snow Leopard is that it works a little differently to previous versions. The thing to remember is that you can now have several documents open in the same window - you can see this when opening pdfs: Double-click a number of pdfs individually and they will ea

New Office for Mac 2011 due in October

Just saw this: > Microsoft said this week it would start selling the next version of its Office > programs for Apple's Mac computers at the end of October. And > The Home and Student edit

Re: New Office for Mac 2011 due in October

f the hasssle involved if you change computers and need to re-activate the new computer/hardware set-up. Bugger! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 5/8/10 1:56 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: >

Re: New Office for Mac 2011 due in October

gt; So many old copies of Office lying around. > > Glenn Nicholas > > > On 5 August 2010 13:56, Neil Houghton wrote: >> >> Just saw this: >> >> <http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/new-office-for-mac-2011-due-in >> -october-20100803-114at

Re: New Office for Mac 2011 due in October

> > Reg Whitely > > Home: 08 9921 7272 > Mob: 04 8899 7313 > Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net > Web: http://web.me.com/whitelyr/Reg/ > http://beachlands.wordpress.com <http://beachlands.wordpress.com/> > t > > > > On 05/08/2010, at 1:56 pm, Neil Houghton

Re: TV DVD Recording

Hi David, I believe the mac mini (or other mac) only has one audio input (unless you buy specialist add-on audio gear) also a 78/45/33 turntable will need an equalising pre-amp (unless you get one of the new usb ones - not sure if they do 78!) - so you are not going to be able to just plug all th

Re: TV DVD Recording

Just one more thing... I just saw this article "Hands on: Apple Mac mini" on SMH Digital life: It has some discussion regarding using the Mac mini as a media centre. It raises so

Re: EyeTV vs set-top box (was Re: Used Macbook)

on 11/8/10 8:55 PM, Martin Hill at marth...@iinet.net.au wrote: > - EyeTV DTT - The cheapest option which is good if you just want to record a > single digital channel at a time. > > - EyeTV Hybrid - Good if you want the option of switching between a single > digital TV receiver or the optio

WordPerfect Spotlight & QuickLook Plug-ins

One for the old-timers out there. If you are like me you used to use Wordperfect on the Mac and, maybe, like me you still have a bunch of old archived files kicking around. I still keep the files because they have correspondence/faxes etc that I (very) occasionally want to check back on. Since I

Re: iPad mail problem

Hi Barry, If I understand you correctly, the problem is with one specific email message that is downloaded onto your iPad. You want to delete it - but the action of selecting it (in order to delete it) causes Mail to lock up. I do not use Mail myself, but have encountered the same problem in En

Can't sign up to mobile me

I'm sure I must be missing something obvious but I just tried to sign up for the 60 day mobile me trial. I finally get a useful username that's not taken, fill-in the first page and get to page 2 where you provide your credit card details. The first time I submit it it tells me your credit

Re: Can't sign up to mobile me

l: n...@possumology.com on 21/8/10 7:59 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > > I'm sure I must be missing something obvious but > > I just tried to sign up for the 60 day mobile me trial. > > I finally get a useful username that's not taken, fill

Re: Can't sign up to mobile me - confirmed Oz Mastercard problem

the billing details section of my MobileMe account - or whether that will generate the same problem. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 22/8/10 4:04 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > > Well, it se

Re: Can't sign up to mobile me - confirmed Oz Mastercard problem

iencing any problems. > > > Regards, > > Adrian > adrianske...@me.com > > On 22/08/2010, at 6:41 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> >> Just to confirm, the problem does seem to be tied to Australian MasterCards >> (don't know about Australian Visa cards). >>

Re: Can't sign up to mobile me - confirmed Oz Mastercard problem

Ronni's iPad >> >> On 22/08/2010, at 7:51 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, I had a problem with renewing using a Mastercard. Fortunately had a visa >>> card which worked. So it's not just signing up for a trial. Cheers, Susan >&

Re: Can't sign up to mobile me - confirmed Oz Mastercard problem

ad a visa > card which worked. So it's not just signing up for a trial. Cheers, Susan > > Sent from my iPad > > On 22/08/2010, at 7:13 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> >> Hi Adrian, >> >> Thanks for that feedback - maybe the problem is o

Re: Disk Utility/Repair Disk

OK Ronni, Now you've got me worried... Recently I ran "Verify disc" on my startup HD and it indicated that a repair was required - I had not experienced any specific problem - I was just going to do some software updates and decided to verify the disc (just because it had been a while since I d

Re: Disk Utility/Repair Disk

the Mac OS X hard disk (or disk partition) > and Disk Utility finds errors on it, there is not necessarily anything wrong. > Only when started up from the DVD/ CD should Disk Utility reports of errors on > the Mac OS X hard disk (or disk partition) be considered accurate. > > Cheers,

Re: Disconnection problems

Hi Laura, Hi Ronni, Just to add an observation, when Ronni says: > Make sure your modem is working: All the lights should be on except one and > that should be blinking erratically. I have found that - if the lights are not correctly lit, it will indicate a problem - BUT just because the lights

Re: excel on an iphone

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 Aust

Re: Android Phone?

Hehe, Good link Rob. And here is the same thing from the other side... Same warning applies ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 10/9/10 10:31 AM, Rob Findlay at r..

Re: Another Device is Using your computers IP Address

Hi Rod, Just a thought ­ in network settings (network, advanced, TCP/IP) there are various ways to set-up IP addresses ­ the two more common ways would be: Automatically: Configure IPv4 ³Using DHCP² where the router assigns the IP addresses Manually: Configure IPv4 ³Manually² where you manually a

Re: Microsoft Sync Services.

Hi Ken, Although I use Entourage, I have not personally used Sync Services. However, faced with your problem, I would probably try going to preferences/Sync services and unchecking any of the 3 items that you have set to sync. Then quit Entourage and restart it. Then re-enable the items you want

Re: iPad & books

Hi Paul, Apple reckons a typical size for an iBook is around 2MB, see: For their ³iBooks: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)² However, be aware that, at present there are very few books available on the Australia iBookstore ­ presumably that will change in ti

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