finder key command - bring all to front

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi All, looking for a way to make the menu item Bring All to Front a key command, especially in the finder, but hopefully one that would apply to any currently active App. Searching Mac Help, Apple support Google turned up ZERO, which surprised me for such an much-used function! cheers

Re: finder key command - bring all to front clarification

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Hosking
On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 10:35 AM, Shay Telfer wrote: Hi All, looking for a way to make the menu item Bring All to Front a key command, especially in the finder, but hopefully one that would apply to any currently active App. Searching Mac Help, Apple support Google turned up ZERO, which

Re: finder key command - bring all to front clarification

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Hosking
Also, if you control-click (or right-click or hold the mouse down for 2 seconds) on the Finder icon or an Application's icon in the Dock, a menu pops up allowing you to choose any of the currently open windows of that app (or the Finder). Ahah!! that's the answer i was looking for, cheers

Re: finder key command - bring all to front clarification

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Hosking
Mobile: 0414 294 770 On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 10:57 AM, Greg Hosking wrote: On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 10:35 AM, Shay Telfer wrote: Hi All, looking for a way to make the menu item Bring All to Front a key command, especially in the finder, but hopefully one that would apply to any

Re: cd v mp3

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Hosking
you can also get car stereos with front-panel audio inputs, so you can plug in directly. Also available are cassette adaptors which are basically a casstte-shaped object with a cable coming out that plugs into the ipod. The unit transfers the signal to the cassette players' playback head.

DVD burning anyone?

2003-06-11 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi all, i'm after someone who can burn DVDs from data currently residing on my powerbook G4... please contact me offlist with cost, capacity such ta Greg

file-sharing between OSX OS9 - solution

2003-06-12 Thread Greg Hosking
hi all. this is just one for the archives: someone posted a link to some OSX tips last week: http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html on this site i found a solution to a problem that i have until now just been working around - how to connect my OS9 G4 to my OSX powerbook via

Re: media clean

2003-06-17 Thread Greg Hosking
Waves Restore is you got the $$ www.waves.com On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 05:11 PM, Glauert Familia wrote: Hello Is there a program that will clean up sound spikes? In MP3 files and aiff filles. thanks Jonathan Glauert -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: media clean #2

2003-06-17 Thread Greg Hosking
i meant Waves restore IF you got the $$ On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 09:18 AM, Greg Hosking wrote: Waves Restore is you got the $$ www.waves.com On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 05:11 PM, Glauert Familia wrote: Hello Is there a program that will clean up sound spikes? In MP3 files and aiff

Re: G5's

2003-06-18 Thread Greg Hosking
If you wait for the next new thing you'll never ever buy a computer i'd have to agree with this. i remember 2 years ago there was the promise of the first firewire multichannel audio interfaces coming out, i was thinking of waiting for such beasts, but decided to go for a PCI solution that

Mail.app RTF gobbledygook

2003-07-11 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi All i'm getting an inconsistent problem in Mail, where some incoming messages display partly in some kinda code. I have also had this with an outgoing message. If i change to plain text the text becomes normal eg: homePO Box 253 Deakin West ACT 2600 displays as: jqog RQDqz485

wanted to buy - early iMac

2003-07-23 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi all, on the lookout for an early iMac for a friend she doesn't need anything flash, will pay up to $350. Please email me offlist with price specs cheers Greg

Re: Firewire connection

2004-01-29 Thread Greg Hosking
Jon, i'm almost certain that target disk mode is only for laptops. I'd be wary about attempting this with a desktop (ie: damaged disks stuff) just use ethernet, get yrself a crossover cable g On Wednesday, January 28, 2004, at 10:00 PM, Jon Davison wrote: I would like to connect my G4

Re: Can Safari save Web Pages in different format?

2004-01-30 Thread Greg Hosking
My question on Safari is: can it save a web page in the 3 formats available from IE - Web Archive, HTML Source and Plain Text? saving pages may not have as many options as explorer, but you can always save as PDF that said, safari is the best browser i have ever used, kicks explorers'

Re: Audio Input for G4 Quicksilver

2004-02-04 Thread Greg Hosking
2. The instructions in Spin Doctor say to de-fragment the disk. What should I use to do this? I have the normal Apple Utilities plus Disk Warrior for both OS 9 and X. I thought de-fragmenting was supposed to be risky, is it possible to de-fragment just a partition? this is some serious

Re: 12 powerbook adaptor

2004-02-11 Thread Greg Hosking
while on this subject, it there a third party (read: cheaper) power supply available to suit these machines (15 powerbook G4)? On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 04:00 PM, Adam Yap wrote: On 11/02/2004, at 3:47 PM, Robert Howells wrote: On Wednesday, February 11, 2004, at 03:25 PM,

3d vector graphics app?

2004-04-19 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi All I'm interested in some OSX 3d software that can work with export vector graphics (ie illustrator, freehand etc) Don't really need fancy rendering, more after the line-work I'm thinking along the lines of the olde adobe dimensions, though hopefully something that works a little better

Re: New PowerBooks At AppleStore Too!

2004-04-20 Thread Greg Hosking
are these in the same cases as the previous models? ta g On Monday, April 19, 2004, at 09:12 PM, Richard Kay wrote: 12 inch PowerBook Combo Drive A$ 2,599.00 12.1-inch TFT Display 1024x768 resolution 1.33GHz PowerPC G4 256MB DDR333 SDRAM 60GB Ultra ATA/100 NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 (64MB DDR)

Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...

2004-05-06 Thread Greg Hosking
the export preset press uses acrobat 4 format. change this to version 5 (or later, if you are using CS i guess). v5 handles transparency much better methinks g On Wednesday, May 5, 2004, at 09:16 PM, Darren Kam wrote: I have one fairly major problem : * Some PDFs display correctly but don't

weird email

2004-05-20 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi all, i have received a handful of emails over the last week that are completely devoid of any information, no to info, no 'from', subject, body, no attachments, nothing. If i hit reply there is no to address in the reply email. Any ideas? Greg

Re: Tandy sells iPods

2004-07-05 Thread Greg Hosking
and JB HiFi too! On Saturday, July 3, 2004, at 08:26 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: Hi... Was walking past a Tandy store today and noticing they've got big ads up saying that they now sell iPods. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth,

graphics tablet

2004-08-17 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi all, thinking about investing in a graphics tablet, but know nothing about them, never used one! any recommendations for good models, what to look out for, and a good store to try them out? using with powerbook 15, panther, photoshop illustrator cheers Greg

Re: Umax scanner

2001-09-26 Thread Greg Hosking
On 26/9/01 10:45 am, Paul S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter, Either do it in Photoshop or ask the printers to convert it for you. If they're any good, they'll check for RGB images and change them anyway. and if they have any scraps of dignity left, they'll charge you for it too.

OT - swap compact flash for memory stick anyone?

2001-10-02 Thread Greg Hosking
I have a 32Mb compact flash card here that I have no use for... anyone wanna swap for Memory Stick? (will consider other swaps) greg

Re: RGB to CMYK

2001-10-04 Thread Greg Hosking
- From: Ray Forma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 2 October 2001 4:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RGB to CMYK Greg Hosking [EMAIL PROTECTED] kindly corrected my claim that No scanner scans CMYK directly, as follows: for the record, this is not true, both our scanners here

Re: peer to peer / Mp3 download

2001-10-05 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi James I asked this question the other day got these suggestions - I haven't tried them yet, so let me know how you go... http://www.audiogalaxy.com http://www.musiccity.com or is it http://www.musicity.com ? greg Hi wamug. What is your mp3 download /peer 2 peer weapon of choice? We

G5 rumourmongering

2001-10-11 Thread Greg Hosking
http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/cgi-bin/getframeletter.cgi?/2001/10_oct/ features/cw_mac_g5_mot.htm for those who like to speculate about such things...

Re: recent folders

2001-10-16 Thread Greg Hosking
here here! (at the risk of sounding all political-like) Also check out Default Folder (also available through Versiontracker, naturally). It has more features to do with folders than you'll need, and should have been built into MacOS years ago. It's an indispensable install, IMHO, and widely

Re: Apple Movie Trailers

2001-10-16 Thread Greg Hosking
instead of clicking the link, control-click ( hold down) and select download link to disk (in IE, something similar for netscape no doubt). Then just save it where is suits. Alternatively you can dive into your browsers prefs to change the way it processes downloads on a permanent basis. But

html email

2001-10-17 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi folks My boss wants to send html email (boo! hiss!) - I am using Entourage but Entourage Help states that ³Although you cannot create complex-HTML messages in Microsoft Entourage, you can receive them.² Great. any suggestions for an app that could do this? Nothing too flash, just some images

Re: html email preaching to the converted

2001-10-17 Thread Greg Hosking
+0800, Greg Hosking wrote: My boss wants to send html email (boo! hiss!) - I am using Entourage but Entourage Help states that ³Although you cannot create complex-HTML messages in Microsoft Entourage, you can receive them.² Great. Just because you can jump of the bridge doesn't mean you should

Re: html email preaching to the converted

2001-10-17 Thread Greg Hosking
At 14:36 17/10/01 +0800, Andrew Nielsen wrote: And yet Onno, you use PCs, and have been known to use Windows sometimes. :-) Huh? I was following you all the way, but I didn't get this one... PS, anyone know how to change the colour of an SMS message? yeah, and what about adding a logo

Re: NAB and MAC

2001-10-18 Thread Greg Hosking
Hello As a member of NAB customer trial group I received this email. Their support officer told me that there had been very little interest shown by MAC users. That's probably because they've been annoying the Mac customers so much over the past 2 or more years by not implementing it that

Re: NAB

2001-10-19 Thread Greg Hosking
promise that something will be happening soon. Two years later and it still hasn't happened yet. Do you spend ALL your money on closing braches down? ;-) No wonder there is little interest from mac users - they have all changed banks Greg Hosking Happy Mac user Bankwest client

Re: Apple to launch 'digital device' next week

2001-10-19 Thread Greg Hosking
I'd like to see a solid state MP3 MPG recorder player, web browser, email client, mobile phone human thought logger. It would all be powered run transparently via a firewire port installed at the base of one's neck, lose the 'puter all together. Monitoring takes place from VR style sunglasses,

service agent

2001-10-19 Thread Greg Hosking
could anyone recommend a local repairer for a G3 powerbook? (Close to bayswater if possible) ta greg

FW: Fraction Fonts

2001-10-23 Thread Greg Hosking
-- Forwarded Message From: Kevin Phyland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: Fraction Fonts Hi Greg, I have one called SansFractions...try looking that up. Cheers, Kevin from Wycheproof. -Original Message- From: Greg Hosking[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wamug[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon

Re: Ipod connections

2001-10-24 Thread Greg Hosking
Stores data in FireWire disk mode does anyone know the disk format of the iPod? HFS, HFS+, iso9600 (yeah, right!) seems like this is an apple - only product, only charging from an apple firewire bus stuff? I guess the idea is that you have all this cool stuff that only works with an apple

Re: The iPod

2001-10-24 Thread Greg Hosking
Oh, and as soon as one of the surgeons here saw it, he wanted me to order one. So yes... They will sell. true if it could RECORD too, I'd be handing my cash over right now!

USB on a Nubus Mac?

2001-10-25 Thread Greg Hosking
hi folks, this was asked on another list I am on - thought someone might know some answers here... greg Anybody know of a way to get USB on a Nubus Mac? The speed of the connection is completely irrelevant (it's for an iLOK USB dongle only).

Re: convert your own alert sounds

2001-10-26 Thread Greg Hosking
Paul there a shareware program called Agent Audio that will replace any sound in any program with any sound you can lay your hands on (make sure you read the blurb before you go hackin') greg (PS: do you study film?) Hi Muggers, Can anyone tell me how to convert a quicktime sound file into

FS - 128Mb ram - PB G3

2001-11-02 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi all - high profile upper slot 128 Mb RAM chip for the powerbook G3 lombard or pismo (not wallstreet) offers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 9362 4344 thanks Greg

Re: mini CD in slot load macs?

2001-11-05 Thread Greg Hosking
thanks for the info (for a friend who is considering releasing an EP on mini CD) greg Hi Greg This would be a very big no. I can tell you from experience, i.e the number of machines I have seen come to a service centre, that they get stuck, as the iMac won't feed them in. Sorry if it

Re: Vinyl LPs to CD

2001-11-07 Thread Greg Hosking
Coaster is fine for what you want, Lloyd, you just need to click the little scissors button between songs. This divides the files into 'recording1', 'recording 2' etc or, you can use auto recording set it up to sense the space between tracks, a bit tricky with vinyl The only other thing to

strange filemapping - warning!

2001-11-07 Thread Greg Hosking
this morning I created a text file in BBedit containing all the upload details for a client's website. I named it after the domain (stroud.net.au) upon trying to open the file later, I discovered it had assumed the creator code icon for quicktime. Needless to say quicktime wouldn't open it, but

Re: strange filemapping - warning!

2001-11-07 Thread Greg Hosking
On Wednesday, November 7, 2001, at 03:30 , Greg Hosking wrote: this morning I created a text file in BBedit containing all the upload details for a client's website. I named it after the domain (stroud.net.au) upon trying to open the file later, I discovered it had assumed the creator code icon

Re: Ti667 Dead Pixels

2001-11-14 Thread Greg Hosking
how many are we talking about? if it's just a few here there that occasionally flash on off, this is normal for a TFT screen (or at least that's what I was told when I got my lombard!) greg Hello Finally received one of the new TiBook 667/512/30/DVD machines only to find that it has some

OT: MacHotRodz

2001-11-15 Thread Greg Hosking
is there any sort of award system to reward hardcore gearheads, especially folks dedicated to hotting up old machines? this bloke is on another mailing list I am on - I thought he was worthy of some recognition: OS 9.1 9600/G3 400 XLR8 Pro Tools on a 13 slot SBS Xpansion chassis with 7 cards

Re: LP to CD

2001-11-21 Thread Greg Hosking
Lloyd, are you burning an audio CD (as opposed to a mac or ISO 9600 format CD)? Also, are the resolution frequency set to 16 bit 44.1 kHz respectively AIFF files should present no problems to toast Greg More on my problems with converting LPs to CDs. I have used SpinDoctor, part of

powerbook G4 running same system?

2001-11-30 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi all short version I back up my powerbook to the G4's HD is there anything stopping me running the G4 from the (backed-up) powerbook system folder? - - - - long version I have a lombard powerbook running 8.6 for graphics internet a G4 400 (gigabit) running 9.1 - one

Re: File sharing and DOS formatted Zip disks

2001-12-13 Thread Greg Hosking
sorry paul, I don't have any answers, but if anyone knows a way to turn off file sharing removable media - zip disks, microdrives, flash cards - all theses things need to be erased quite regularly it's a pain having to turn file sharing off back on all the time greg Hi All, I have an iMac

Re: File sharing and DOS formatted Zip disks

2001-12-13 Thread Greg Hosking
disks without any fuss, or having to turn something on or off. PC Exchange needs to be enabled, but not file sharing. Don't know if this helps you at all. It sounds a most frustrating problem. Susan. On 13/12/01 10:40 AM, Greg Hosking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry paul, I don't have

Re: File sharing and DOS formatted Zip disks

2001-12-14 Thread Greg Hosking
oh. Well, at least I know, now. Thanks Peter! On Thursday, December 13, 2001, at 11:36 AM, Greg Hosking wrote: sorry, maybe I didn't explain properly - I meant this: When I go to erase a disk, any disk, I must turn filesharing off first, and then turn it back on when I'm done. I thought

Re: Too close to the truth - G5 hoax?

2001-12-17 Thread Greg Hosking
speaking of rumours, has anyone seen this? http://www.imotep.be/home.html looks pretty fancy, with FIVE PCI slots everything else wireless, including monitor. I personally can't see a spherical computer being viable ($$). And if it had 5 PCI slots it would have to be enormous! greg

Re: Apple menu - sub-menus not appearing

2001-12-20 Thread Greg Hosking
of course, you have the Contextual Menu Extension in your extensions folder? g Hi, I've just had to clean install after a rather difficult crash (trying to sort out Netscape 6.1 problems). Luckily, I have a second System Folder on another disk, and was able to install 8.5 and the 8.6

old gear idea

2002-01-07 Thread Greg Hosking
Hiya Folks I have noticed that there's a lot of people trying to get rid of old gear/software/books etc on the list, and I have a bit of it myself - just thought I'd raise the idea of a wamug garage sale, where everyone donates all the stuff they don't use anymore the proceeds go to wamug or

Re: What the...

2002-01-08 Thread Greg Hosking
Can anyone properly explain the extra 6% (=$237/$3958). perhaps there is some other cost factor, like, hmm, licensing, rent, wages, advertising, the need to make a profit, that kinda thing?

Re: What the...

2002-01-08 Thread Greg Hosking
On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, at 08:57 , Greg Hosking wrote: Can anyone properly explain the extra 6% (=$237/$3958). perhaps there is some other cost factor, like, hmm, licensing, rent, wages, advertising, the need to make a profit, that kinda thing?

Re: Tabbing Through Applications

2002-01-29 Thread Greg Hosking
if you use the tear-off application menu instead of tabbing, then you can use option-click to make all applications hide (except the one you are clicking, of course) greg Hi All When apple-tabbing through applications, is there a way to hide the application one has just tabbed from as the

Re: E-mail responses

2002-02-01 Thread Greg Hosking
There are many reasons to put the message you're responding to first, such as * It encourages the recipient to *read* the original message before reading the reply. (Not that this usually works!) * It encourages the sender to reduce the message they're replying to down to the relevant

Re: E-mail responses

2002-02-01 Thread Greg Hosking
conversation? More likely I would already be familiar with the thread and I don't need to reference all that stuff below, as I'm sure you are in this case. enough! have a good weekend, huh? greg Bits I would normally have deleted: At 3:17 PM +0800 1/2/02, Greg Hosking wrote: There are many reasons

Re: Interesting

2002-02-04 Thread Greg Hosking
thanks for this scott! The Magic of the Option Key snip!

Re: Posting Guidelines - v0.3

2002-02-06 Thread Greg Hosking
Could we just presume that everyone will follow all the guidelines, except the 'revolutionaries' who will dissent in respect of law #4? if this is the only violation of these holy commandments, I dare say even Onno will be happy ;-) Greg It's all good, but I do find it difficult to conform

Re: Posting Guidelines - v0.3 7 year itch...

2002-02-08 Thread Greg Hosking
I wish people would read the RCF. It's more than just a personal preference. It's the way things are supposed to be done. RFC 1855, Netiquette Guidelines http://rfc.net/rfc1855.html Sorry Doug but I beg to differ. The RFC is merely a set of guidelines, and to quote from the RFC itself:

rename utility?

2002-02-20 Thread Greg Hosking
I have been trialing some re-naming utilities, some of which do some very impressive things... but the one's i've tried don't seem to be able to rename a file without losing the extension (eg: DSC0023.jpg -- picture.jpg)... i would have thought this would be a basic feature! any recommendations

Re: rename utility?

2002-02-22 Thread Greg Hosking
Thanks for these suggestions, but I have tried both drop rename ABFR: neither have facility to keep file extensions intact any other suggestions? thanks Greg I have been trialing some re-naming utilities, some of which do some very impressive things... but the one's i've tried don't seem to

Re: rename utility?

2002-02-22 Thread Greg Hosking
On 22/2/02 12:16 pm, Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Drop rename has search and replace, surely that keeps the file extensions intact? Perhaps if you gave us an example of how you wanted the files renamed? ok, first up is digital photos, where I might have a folder full of pix named

Re: rename utility?

2002-02-23 Thread Greg Hosking
On 23/2/02 11:41 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know you've already expressed disinterest in using File Buddy, but really, it does this job on its head. ya, looks like this is the go. Oh well, I'm sure if there *was* an alternative it would have been suggested... Thanks for the advice,

Re: Going portable

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Hosking
One thing you're gonna love, and I might be a small thing, but I really appreciate it: the powerbook remembers which monitors you're using, so when I unplug from a 17 (or the TV) at home plug into a 21 at work, it remembers the resolutions physical placement configs for each monitor. sweet greg

Re: rename utility? - we have a winner

2002-03-06 Thread Greg Hosking
with minimum fuss. Very intuitive. The file browser ability to save renaming routines saves a lot of unnecessary mousing around. Greg On 1/1/70 8:39 am, Paul Caroline van der Mey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Hosking wrote: On 23/2/02 11:41 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know you've already

Re: Help on sorting hard disk contents display

2002-03-07 Thread Greg Hosking
click the little arrow on the far right, it reverses the order of whatever sort routine you have selected greg Hi all Ever since I got my 5500/250, running 8.1, the display of hard disk contents has been alphabetical, A few days ago, while transferring half a dozen files into a higher

amusing quote attributed to Steve Jobs

2002-03-08 Thread Greg Hosking
12. My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading. (Steve Jobs-Founder of Apple Computer)

Re: Cardbus firewire for powerbook

2002-03-18 Thread Greg Hosking
Keith I think what Clay is interested in is a Cardbus firewire interface so that he may run a multichannel firewire audio interface, like MOTU 828, metric Halo MiO etc... thus he is not so much interested in the disks he can plug in, but in the actual card-bus firewire device itself. He needs to

Re: Cardbus firewire for powerbook

2002-03-18 Thread Greg Hosking
On 18/3/02 2:35 pm, Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that CardBus is a 32bit standard that supports video cards, I'd be surprised if it wasn't fast enough for audio work (depends how many channels you're using, I guess). Not that I'm sure what they mean by 9600 SCSI bus. mm, and

Re: SCSI connection bubblejet

2002-03-20 Thread Greg Hosking
On 20/3/02 4:01 pm, Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone out there have a secondhand SCSI bubblejet for sale? A friend of mine needs one for a 9600. You probably mean a parallel bubblejet. The connector looks very much like a SCSI connector. SCSI is used for hard drives,

crash at shutdown

2002-03-20 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi all I have a powerbook G3 lombard (OS8.6, 320Mb) it's a reasonably well behaved machine, but if it's gonna crash, it's usually when I shut it down. I have tried some obvious things, like quitting all my apps disconnecting ARA before choosing shutdown (to no avail) (This usually happens at

Re: crash at shutdown

2002-03-20 Thread Greg Hosking
(This usually happens at work, when I have a 21 monitor scsi hard disk connected, if that makes any difference) Does it happen if you don't have the SCSI drive connected? No, not that I can recall Hmm. Maybe I could un-mount it before I shut down. Why should a scsi disk cause a crash,

getting dirty with Postscript Printer Descriptions

2002-03-22 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi All We have a new printer (Kyocera Mita FS-8000C) and it defaults to a screen setting which makes the print look like a bubblejet output. We can manually change it to print in contone every time, but I was wanting to modify the printer PPD so that it defaults to contone , so that all our

Re: Desperately Seeking Software

2002-03-25 Thread Greg Hosking
Restore does amazing things. from the propellorheads/steinburg stable that bought you rebirth, recycle reason I have been searching for a really good audio restoration program especially designed to remove pop hiss noise etc. Can anyone help or have some software for sale. It is either my

auto-run for windows mac

2002-03-25 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi All I am helping prepare the html section of a CD soon to be released for a local non-profit collective (ie: it's a favour!) They want the html to load automatically upon insertion of the CD into a Mac or Windows machine. (The CD is a hybrid Audio/ISO9660 disc) Can anyone point me in the

Re: G4 second monitor

2002-04-02 Thread Greg Hosking
Keith, it may end up being cheaper to go with the apple monitor because you will need to buy a card (or adaptor) with the DVI output to run the phillips monitor, whilst the apple will run on the G4's inbuilt ADC equipped card. As you say, the old 17 CRT will run on 'any old' PCI card, which you

AIFF player?

2002-04-11 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi all just wondering if there is a way to set up a playlist for quicktime player, much like an MP3 player's playlist or, could anyone recommend another AIF player than has these features? (I found aif 3 player references on versiontracker, 2 with broken links one that was complete garbage)

Re: AIFF player? - solutions

2002-04-12 Thread Greg Hosking
Thanks to all who made suggestions... and the nominations are: iTunes, which I guess seems pretty obvious, but I didn't realise it played AIF. Unfortunately this is not an option for me unless I upgrade to OS9 Peak - uses playlists, but it's pretty fiddly setting them up Logic Audio (et al) I

Re: IE 5.1 opens PDF

2002-05-08 Thread Greg Hosking
manually: control click select download to disk, (rather thn just clicking the link) automatically: remove the pdf viewer plug-in from IE plug-ins folder. also check out yr setting in preference receiving files file helpers pdf greg Does anyone know how to stop Internet Explorer 5

Re: Domain registration - slightly OT

2002-05-08 Thread Greg Hosking
www.gandi.net for a site using this no-frills service check out www.thesaurus-rex.net Hi Quick one here - anyone know a cheap source for domain registration? Already have a server lined up so just need cheap registration and transfer to my chosen server. Thanks Angus -- The

Re: OT virus stuff going on? - Taking my email address in vain.

2002-05-10 Thread Greg Hosking
Oh, shoulda checked mail before sending.. do these two problems sound like the same thing? On 10/5/02 1:19 pm, Greg Hosking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to the multitude of .pif files I have received over the past few weeks, I have got couple of emails like this one (below). I have

Re: Installing Fonts

2002-05-10 Thread Greg Hosking
are you sure it's a macintosh font? The fact tat it has an extension makes me suspicious. If you double click it, does it open up a preview of the the font? under get info, does it say kind:font? g Hi I've just been trying to install a font that I need. The font file is called CAC

drag n' drop in entourage

2002-05-13 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi all a simple question with a simple solution, I'm sure: Entourage has ceased to perform drag n' drop: drag-copying text, draggin messages to folders, draggin files onto emails as attachments etc etc, all have stopped working, while drag drop works fine in all other applications. Any ideas

Re: STOP - Zapping the PRAM and Rebuilding the Desktop - STOP

2002-05-21 Thread Greg Hosking
Quoting from a message that Greg Hosking contributed in August 2000 about (among other things) Zapping the PRAM: just for the record, I was quoting an article (or something), not my words as such... greg Resetting the PRAM should only be tried in cases where PRAM-resident settings

sporadic drag n' drop

2002-05-21 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi all drag drop seems to be all weird @ the moment. I thought it was just entourage, but there seems to be a few applications that will drag drop, and a few that won't: normal Drag Drop: finder quark photoshop bbedit explorer broken Drag Drop: Entourage Interarchy GoLive 5.0 got me

Re: sporadic drag n' drop CarbonLib

2002-05-22 Thread Greg Hosking
had some joy with this, upon delving into the deepest of apple OS 8 archives, I have unearthed some kind conflict between drag drop functions CarbonLib. Apparently CarbonLib 1.4 is especially problematic... can anyone advise which is a good version of CarbonLib to install for maxiumum

Re: Multiple Musings

2002-06-14 Thread Greg Hosking
On 13/6/02 6:05 pm, Antony N. Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7) Anyone remember the name of the Photoshop plug that does the TV scanline effect (not the Xenofex one.) Filter Sketch Halftone Pattern... pattern type=Line

a bit OT: graphics apps recommendation

2002-06-19 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi all sorry if this is a bit OT, but there are lots of graphix folks on the list: I'm after recommendations for an illustration package that handles technical illustrations in 3D. (Pre OSX) Don't really need any fancy rendering stuff, it's mainly for exploded diagrams of machinery stuff for

Re: Audio input jacks

2002-06-27 Thread Greg Hosking
talk to brian @ music park 9470 1020 Hi Shay et al., I too am keen to get some of my old vinyl put into some more permanent form (i.e. CD via MP3) and was curious that my new iBook didn't seem to have any audio input jack. Do I assume that third-party USB means some sort of USB --- audio

Re: multi ISP

2002-06-27 Thread Greg Hosking
aha, location manager! I will look into this, never used it before. thanks, Greg does anyone know of a way to use my email accounts at home work without having the change SMTP of all accounts details every time? Eudora supports multiple profiles (groups of usernames, SMTP and other

Re: G3 and G4 printing to Kyocera Network printer qn

2002-07-03 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi All! Just a quick question I have a client that has a BW G3 and a G4 400 with exactly the same software specs, connected via an ethernet hub to a Kyocera FS 7000P. The main application they are printing from is Quark 4, and PCs have no problems printing anything to this printer.

TFT/LCD monitors

2002-07-05 Thread Greg Hosking
hi all considering a 15 flat panel for a second monitor on a G4 a few questions: my only extensive experience with LCD is the screen on my lombard powerbook... how does the current crop compare to this 3 year old technology? also is there a difference between TFT LCD? how do graphic designers

Re: Internet disconnections - re-visited

2002-07-09 Thread Greg Hosking
Neil you are after modem scripts which tell the modem to limit connection speed. search the net The wamug archives, there are scripts floasting around for this purpose: a script for each connection speed I have the scripts for my powerbook G3 (lombard), but I think you would need different

Re: Emailing more than 20 people from Outlook Express

2002-07-23 Thread Greg Hosking
could be a dodgy email address, or even the wrong character(s) separating two addresses... (like a return instead of a comma or something) you can edit a list of addresses as text in bbedit (et al), then just paste into an email to or BCC field greg I've been trying to send an email to 197

Re: MP3 music servers - ta!

2002-07-29 Thread Greg Hosking
Thanks for all the feedback on this topic everyone! greg On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 01:08 AM, Scott Palmer wrote: Try Limewire, Acquisition, Phex or Neo. The new version of acquisition is great. Limewire tends to run really slowly. I have been bumbling along with Limewire. Gave

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