Re: Rotating text in Preview

2011-07-02 Thread Ronda Brown
On 02/07/2011, at 1:30 PM, Chris Burton c...@it.net.au wrote: Also had another shock today while trying to do some basic stats in the new Excel 2011 but couldnt do anything as this version does not support the Analysis ToolPak, and add in normally supplied with previous versions.

full details of next meeting

2011-07-02 Thread Glenn Walker
Hi Have you got info on the next meeting please send the info of it. -- 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 -

Re: PDF printing

2011-07-02 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Bill, I’ve only now read this thread. Were the PDFs you are having the text quality with when printed, created in Pages Application? If so, try this: In Pages: 1. Go to “File Print” 2. When the dialogue box appears, click on “PDF” 3. Select “Save As Postscript” 4. Then double-click to open

Re: PDF printing

2011-07-02 Thread Bill Parker
All from Quark as far as I know Ronda. But the save as PS option looked a possibility. I'll try that later. Bill On 02/07/2011, at 2:54 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, I’ve only now read this thread. Were the PDFs you are having the text quality with when printed, created in Pages

Re: Mac OSX 10.6.8 Available

2011-07-02 Thread Derek Perry
Hi all, Just had a reminder to update from OSX 10.6.7 to OSX 10.6.8, size 478.3 MB, what does the combo consist of, that makes it 1.09 GB, as mentioned below, this did not come up as an option on update. Regards Derek Perry imac 27 inch, 3.4GHz i7 Quadcore, 8GB ram, 1TB hard-drive, 2GB Graphics.

Re: Mac OSX 10.6.8 Available

2011-07-02 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Derek, The “Combo updates contain all incremental updates and will update files that could have become corrupted. A combo update is every previous update in a single update package. You can update any 10.6 version to 10.6.8. Combo updaters will install on the same version as they're

Re: Mac OSX 10.6.8 Available

2011-07-02 Thread Derek Perry
Hi Ronda, Thanks very much for clarifying that for me, will be heading off to the Apple site, to download combo, as soon as i'm up, on an off peak period time, (iinet). Regards Derek On 02/07/2011, at 4:07 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Derek, The “Combo updates contain all incremental updates

Re: Mac OSX 10.6.8 Available

2011-07-02 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Derek, I’ve included FYI my post to WAMUG back on 30 June 2011 Subject: Installing 10.6.8 update: Follow these instructions and you should not experience any problems. - Download the OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo from here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399 Install OS X Updates correctly:

Re: Mac OSX 10.6.8 Available

2011-07-02 Thread Derek Perry
Hi Ronda, I did see the post on 30 June 2011, I kept it as a reference, it's great thank you very much, being a Newbie it has saved me a lot of hassle. Regards Derek On 02/07/2011, at 4:30 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Derek, I’ve included FYI my post to WAMUG back on 30 June 2011 Subject:

Re: PDF printing

2011-07-02 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Bill, I meant to mention before that for best quality printing of PDFs. Save as PDF-X - Generates a PDF-X of your print job to a destination of your choice. PDF-X files follow a series of printing related requirements not found in standard PDFs,

DNLA servers

2011-07-02 Thread Hugh Griffiths
Hi, does anyone in the group have any experience with DNLA servers on MACOS ? are there any recommended ones? Hugh -- This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole

Re: DNLA servers

2011-07-02 Thread Kyle Kreusch
Hi, Hugh It really depends on what you wanted to do and what devices you need it to work with. As certain software packages are best designed for certain devices like the Sony PlayStation or at Microsoft Xbox. -- Regards Kyle

Re: OT : iPhone syncing error

2011-07-02 Thread Kyle Kreusch
Thanks Ronni As I totally missed the error number that was mentioned above. -- Regards Kyle - Kyle Kreusch: - This E-Mail Was Dictated Using MacSpeech Dictate, [i]

Telstra starts censoring the internet

2011-07-02 Thread Matthew Healey
http://delimiter.com.au/2011/07/01/telstras-interpol-filter-goes-live/ Apparently Telstra is now censoring the connections of it's customers. Initially they appear to be doing it under the guise of child pornography, but I would expect them to start widening that fairly soon. Stephen Conroy

Serious problem

2011-07-02 Thread Pat Scott
Yesterday the boot disk of my Mac Pro suddenly began filling up with something unknown. Tech tool Pro put up messages saying the disk had only 13% free space left, out of 320 GB. The only thing I could think to do was try to find out where the excess was accumulating. This seemed to be the

Re: DNLA servers

2011-07-02 Thread Kyle Kreusch
Hi, Hugh It really depends on what you wanted to do and what devices you need it to work with. As certain software packages are best designed for certain devices like the Sony PlayStation or at Microsoft Xbox. DNLA is mostly referenced with TVs and most server software that you will find on the

Re: Serious problem

2011-07-02 Thread Rob Phillips
Hi Pat I am probably less qualified than others to respond, but in the interests of urgency I can think of two causes: your hard disk is rapidly becoming corrupt and there is a decreasing amount of usable space. something is writing huge

Re: Serious problem

2011-07-02 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Pat, In System Preferences Other - TechTool Protection, check the Directory Backup Interval. If you have it set for every 4 hours, if it is doing this on every drive that is ever connected to your Mac (backup drives / Time Machine etc) it can create a very large folder. I had similar to

Re: Serious problem

2011-07-02 Thread Daniel Kerr
Also, just to add to Ronni's post. If you still find after searching that nothing turns up large files anywhere a couple of other things to look out for are:- 1) backups that are saving back to the original hard drive instead of another drive (eg Silverkeeper, Time Machine, Deja Vu.) Sometimes if

Re: Accounting software

2011-07-02 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Severin, Apple Seminars Online: Accounting and ERP on the Mac - MoneyWorks Watch Grant Cowie demonstrate this feature rich but easy-to-use solution for small-to-medium organizations. Look beyond the ledger. Expanding your business? Starting a new venture? MoneyWorks is a smart way to

Re: Rotating text in Preview

2011-07-02 Thread Chris Burton
Hi Ronni Thanks very much for your reply and link. I had another good look at the installation disk and found the customise section and included the VBA install. However there is no sign of the Analysis ToolPak. When I reopened Excel I have a small window appear, saying 'Cannot find the

Two finger tap for contextual menu missing from magic trackpad

2011-07-02 Thread Wendy S Austin
Greetings All I had to restart my iMac and now the two finger tap brings up Expose. I have checked the track pad settings and the two finger tap option is selected. I have done the latest OS upgrade and that did not cause the problem. Any further ideas? With thanks. Wendy Wendy's iPad

Re: Telstra starts censoring the internet

2011-07-02 Thread Paul K
Different to the Govt.'s filter? I agree with you Matt. -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au

Re: Two finger tap for contextual menu missing from magic trackpad

2011-07-02 Thread Paul K
Have you restarted again? -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au

Re: Accounting software

2011-07-02 Thread Severin Crisp
Thanks, Ronni, interesting. From other feedback I already have Moneyworks up and running. Severin On 03/07/2011, at 8:46 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Severin, Apple Seminars Online: Accounting and ERP on the Mac - MoneyWorks Watch Grant Cowie demonstrate this feature rich but easy-to-use

Re: Accounting software

2011-07-02 Thread Curtis Peter
Hi I tried, but have been unable to watch the demonstration. It appears to be corrupted as I can watch other online demonstrations, is this just me or do others have the same problem? Regards Peter On 03/07/2011, at 11:39 AM, Severin Crisp wrote: Thanks, Ronni, interesting. From other

Re: Accounting software

2011-07-02 Thread Roger Kortas
Hi Guys I have just been looking at a new application call SEE Finance it looks interesting, in fact I brought it :) Roger On 03/07/2011, at 11:58 AM, Curtis Peter wrote: Hi I tried, but have been unable to watch the demonstration. It appears to be corrupted as I can watch other online

RE: DNLA servers

2011-07-02 Thread Hugh Griffiths
Kyle thanks for the info, what I am trying to do is to connect my bravia to the internet, it has a Ethernet port and reading the manual ( which is not very clear) it says I need to have a dnla server, I am not really sure what I want to do, it just seems that if I have an Ethernet port I should

Re: full details of next meeting

2011-07-02 Thread cm
Hi Glen, Until the official reminder circulates, probably tomorrow, I'll send you this brief message so that you can reserve a spot in your calendar. The WAMUG monthly meeting for July will be at the usual time and place When: Tuesday, July 5, 7:00 pm Where: FutureSphere, Level 1 Building L

Re: Rotating text in Preview

2011-07-02 Thread Philippe Chaperon
Good morning Chris All, I am not sure if this can help, but I do not have the Analysis ToolPak in my Office 2011 version (latest one). Instead this I what Excel returns when I did a search for the Analysis Tool: Cause: Excel 2011 does not include the Analysis ToolPak. Solution: Download

Re: Rotating text in Preview

2011-07-02 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Chris, http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macexcel/what-happened-to-the-data-analysis-toolpak-or/740ff33a-6ed9-4553-bc09-5cef06ce5f23 Solver was added to Office for Mac 2011 in the Service Pack 1 update. You can download and install Office for Mac 2011’s Service Pack

Re: Two finger tap for contextual menu missing from magic trackpad

2011-07-02 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Wendy, How is ‘freezing cold’ Hobart? It is real “Wendy Weather” so guess you are happy ;-) Is Control-Click still working for contextual menu? With two finger tap: Try this. 1. In the system preferences, uncheck the two finger tap. 2. Log out, log back in, now check it again. Cheers,

Re: Accounting software

2011-07-02 Thread Skehan Adrian
Yep, it wont work for me either. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 03/07/2011, at 11:58 AM, Curtis Peter wrote: Hi I tried, but have been unable to watch the demonstration. It appears to be corrupted as I can watch other online demonstrations, is this just me or do others have

Re: Accounting software

2011-07-02 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Adrian Peter, Works ok for me. You do need a fast internet connection to watch Apple Seminars. Setup to view Streamed Videos and Webcasts: http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/wctest/apple/level2/wctest.html Cheers, Ronni On 03/07/2011, at 12:57 PM, Skehan Adrian wrote: Yep, it

Re: DNLA servers

2011-07-02 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Hugh, OK, given that I always bullshit best when unencumbered by any real knowledge of the facts ;o) a couple of thoughts: I suspect I will only get the same stuff I get from my apple tv in terms of connectivity, if that is the case then I don¹t really need to do it. Not

Re: Serious problem

2011-07-02 Thread Pat
Thanks so much, everyone, Ronni, Rob and Daniel, It looks like it was TechToolPro that was the culprit. The main disk was down to 0 and now it has 163 GB free after I threw out the entire TechTool folder. Neither of the other 2 disks had any problem. Is TechTool of real value, worth having