Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / April 2005

Folks, I have a 667 G4 powerbook with a busted hinge, and a distorted frame
around the monitor (the latter causing a vertical distortion band
<............................> that wide down the screen.
I'm looking for a plug-in unit, preferably a flat screen, may as well be big

G'day All,
I'd like to get a more serious Mac machine, but am undecided whether to go
for a Mac Mini, or a G4 733MHz-ish.
Seems like the Mini has is over the G4 in terms of grunt, but the idea of

G'Day Mac Users,
I'm using iMovie HD 5.0.1 to capture some mini DV images that originally
came from poor quality VHS.  The original tape suffers "drop-outs" every
10 second or so.

Hi all!  :)
I bought a 9.1 gig SCSI hard drive for my PowerMac 7300/180, but when I
ran Drive Setup, and cliked on the drive, I got the message -
'Cannot modify a disk with non 512 byte sectors'

I went to Apples web site and Tiger , 10.4 is coming out on the 29th.
(yea!!)
Now, I have to start backing up etc (I have backed up stuff but have to make
sure things are there etc)

G'day One and All,
I have too many monitors, keyboards and meeses as it is...
Now that I have a G4 destined to sit on my desktop, I would like to use a
KVM to at least use a single monitor between the G4 and a couple of other

Has anyone else noticed that ever since that spammer got seriously
burned in a US court a few days ago, the level of spam has dropped off
significantly? On one of my accounts it has dropped to zero; on another
it is less. Hope it lasts!  

After having a lot of trouble with ENTOURAGE not sending email (not
recognizing servers or something at one moment, then choosing to send
the emails ten minutes later) I decided to switch over to the MAIL app
that comes with Panther (I've got a graphite G4 desktop)

Guess "Which Bank" has decided to lock Safari users out of Netbank?
Yes it's the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
They are currently trialling a new netbanking site and you won't be
able to use Safari or Mozilla Firefox on the new site.

We had a discussion in this group about this a couple of months ago, and
I was very happy to find that I could connect the DV camera to the
output from the VCR, record programs to tape in the camera, and then
play them back into iMovie for editing and saving.

When I was using OS9 and even Jaguar I would regularly defrag my HD
using speeddisk.
Now that Ihave Panther I cannot use Nortons.
Is there any other way to defrag the HD? It always seemed to speed up

We are about to be visited by our Grandchildren, 14 and 16, for several
weeks.
The boy has been found visiting unsuitable sites in the past.
Any suggestions on the best way to vet the sites he can visit on his login

Just wondering if anyone has found an alternative to TiPaint to repair
TiBooks?  I have read some bad reports on TiPaint (and don't actually know
anyone here who has received it).  Anyone tried a two pack or acrylic
lacquer based paint?

I have a file which has been compressed by Stuffit, and when I attempt to
expand the file, I am asked for a "Decryption passphrase"
How I got the file or from where is irrelevant, I am running OS 10.3.8
TIA

Looks like the poor Aussies miss out again. Ordering the excellent
picture books is available in just about all the western world except
for Australia :-(