Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / September 2003

I have a G4 running OSX 10.2.6 and about 6 months ago bought a Logitech
MX700 cordless mouse for it. Everything worked fine until a couple of
months ago when I started getting intermittent problems with the mouse.
After a few hours of use I'd find the mouse buttons and scroll ...

I had been using Yahoo Messenger with no problem: G3 "Beige", OS8.6 and
CarbonLib 1.6.
After updating YM from 2.5.2 to the current 2.5.3, it worked well for
two days, and this morning it started playing up big time: on connection

I have recently purchased a canopus convertor for use with fcpro4. I
am having trouble inputing analog footage. I hook up canopus, open up
Final cut, but when I go into log and capture and select
non-controllable device it states no communication. If I select DV -

trying to log on, the modem makes all the normal sounds, but either
doesn't connect or disconnects straight away (i hear the modem
disconnect)and i get the error "Remote side not responding". called
optusnet support and they said to trash the modem and tcp/ip prefs

Fixing up a dead machine for a poverty stricken student and need a cheap
working power supply replacement.
Thanks,
j'

I have an older Mac clone.. PowerComputing Power Base.. slow.. like 128
Mhz.. anyway, I have hooked up two external hard drives (2 gig from Club Mac
and 1 gig Apple) and an external CD.  Seems like the hard drives get lost
over time.. I'll start it up and the system can't find the ...

I discovered the Poser site (curiouslabs.com) and bought a program which I
thought contained Poser 4, but it didn't. Can't read! So now I have this
fairly expensive program, which is plugins for a program I can't get!
Poser uis a program for creating poses of human forms.

I want to sell my old Powermac 7200/120. It has 32mb ram, 1.2gb HD, 8x
CDROM, OS 8.6, 15" Viewsonic screen (with PC-Mac adaptor) etc. I have no
idea how much to ask for it. I've seen similar systems going for anything
between $150 and $300 in the trading post.

What is a good photo stitcher for panoramas on the mac
Any shareware ?
David
www.ripview.com.au

available from software update, or download the combo installer from
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25524

What would be the going price for a 1998 G3 series powerbook?
Commonly known as 'wallstreet'. It's 300 MHz, 14.1 screen,
384 MB RAM and 8 GB HD. This is the pre-firewire model.
The battery is dead (replacement around $300).  I've had

I am new to  applescript but was wondering can u use it to delete junk mail?
I don¹t use mail.
I use entourage and I am curious about this..
If so what would be the commands to put in the script?

I have office X and I have no spelling.
The spelling tab is ³greyed² out in preferences.
Weird...
How do I get this to work please?

No flames please. I can switch it on and prepare reports and print them
out but I know diddely squat re software conflicts etc.
I suspect I have a problem, because my iMac G3 seems to have slowed down
a hell of a lot,  and  I get cut off a hell of a lot when online (much

does anyone know of a reliable mpeg2 to dv25 convertor?
I tried it with mencoder which does claim to do this, but the results
where nasty, with lots of dropped/duplicated frames etc.
command line would be ideal