Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / June 2004

I'd like to hear of experiences with Virtual PC.  I switched to Mac
within the last year and as it's almost tax time I want to be able to do
my tax online with eTax.  I'm assuming that eTax won't be Mac compatible
again this year, if it is then great.

Ordered my eMac today.
So, what is the best brand of dvd to buy for my huge VHS archiving job?
Is there a cheaper alternative for "not so important jobs"?
Do some brands work better on the Superdrive than others?

i am thinking of getting ADSL and i am a bit confused with the set-up biz
i have a Cube 450MHZ running 10.3.4 and i have 1x ethernet port on it.
Does a plug just go straight in that from the ethernet modem?
You don't have to put some sort of "card" in the cube to get it working so ...

Finally...
As per previous, am going from a Twentieth Anniversary Mac, with Bose 2.1
audio (ie 2 "jewel" speakers and a sub)... to the eMac...
I see on Apple's website that it supposedly has 2 powerful stereo speakers...

The recent "upgrade" of Yahoo Mail took a little while to sink in, the
100MB storage sure sounds good, but...
The first day it was excruciatingly slow, the second day it was normal,
and then Netscape 7.02 can no longer go pass the sign-in page, it keeps

Howdy,
As per previous, am soon to own an eMac superdrive 512Mb/160Gb.
This is an upgrade from a TAM running OS 8.6...
What do I need to know about OS X?

Have been told when I ordered my eMac super 512/160G that there could be a
4-8 week wait for it to be built...
Anyone able to confirm this?
Cheers

I have ripped a DVD on my mac and that took up understandably nearly 5 GB.
My question is, can i compress this DVD (like say a ZIP file) down to
nearly 1/2  or nearly half?
Do i just use a zip program, so this and any other files like it to save space?

Apple manuals, hard drives, trackballs, software, SCSI cards, several
external SCSI cables, Apple OS software and more for sale.
I am also giving away hard drives.
For pictures and details go to:

G'day all,
I've finally convinced my wife to let me upgrade the HD in our iMac DV
(Kihei Slot Loading CD-ROM - circa 1999 -
http://www.lowendmac.com/imacs/dv.shtml)

Old stuff for sale
Yamaha CRW4416SX CD burner SCSII (very little use) $30
Global village platinum fax modem 33k $10
2 x 256Mb  PC2700 DDR SDRAM  chips  $130

Looks like I'm moving soon and I'm looking for a place wired for cable
so I don't have to get a landline installed. I use my mobile for voice
and if I can get away without paying the line rental, I will.
Unfortunately this also means I must use Tel$tra BigPong. I run an iBook

i've got these mpg video files i'm unable to play via quicktime (version
6). it says i'm missing a software component. no other info than that.
are there any other players i could try?...the files were burnt on pc.

i am thinking of getting an external firewire DVD burner for my Mac
cube running 10.3.4
The thing is, is this format business.
-r,+r, -rw,+rw...argghhh..

I have the following for sale:
iBook G3
900Mhz (last of the G3 series)
12" Screen