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

I had a USB 7-in-1 flash card reader working happily with OS9.1 on my
beige G3. Upgraded to 9.2.2 and it no longer works- the inserted card
mounts on the desktop, but attempting to open a folder merely opens the
same window again- just get endless clones of the original folder

On the lowendmac.com website it states that the DVD drive in the Lombard in not supported
under Mac OS X and that you have to boot to OX 8.6 - 9.2 to watch DVD movies.
Is this the same for the Pismo?
I will hopefully be getting a Pismo next week and will put Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) ...

Required  html/dreamweaver management of our website. No w.nkers or
wannabees ... just straight no bull webmasters/mistresses' to keep my
website current to up and going. Maybe about 6-10 hours per week. Located
outer west Sydney we have a dynamic website thats open to new and

Hi there. Got an iMac running Mac OS 9.2
And a new eMac running OS X 10.4
Ive been trying all morning trying to link the two using a ethernet
cable.

Hi. Does anyone know if Norton Utilities V5.0 and Nortons Anti-Virus
V6.0 will run under system 10? I cant get any help on the Symantec Site
as they're no longer current versions. Thanks,

have been doing some searching but cant seem to find a solution to my
problem. Hoping somebody may be able to advise.
Anybody having issues with Entourage 2004 using Internode IMAP? I keep
getting an error "Connection to the server failed or was dropped. Mail could

Just wondering if anyone had run into this problem at all.
I've had my iPod for about a year now and used to connect it to my iMac
via the Firewire cable which was supplied, after awhile using the
Firewire it just stopped connecting to my iMac (iPod icon would not

I am trying to set up a video cnferece with my Son, I have iChat on a
G4 running 10.4, he has AOL messenger on a PC laptop running XP.
We have followed all the instructions on the "Using AIM on Windows" FAQ
page, and iChat seems pretty simple, and we have both turned off our

My Mac Help will not work. I am running 10.3.9 but I noticed it was
occasionally failing when I had 10.3.8.
What could cause Help not to respond?
It  opens but will not go further.

Small is good..............but not essential.

To all of you who gave me advice a couple of weeks back when my iMac was
karking out, ta very much. It has progressively got worse so I've had to
bite the bullet and, guess what, I have purchased a new eMac, 1.42 ghz
with 768 mb ram and 10.4 Tiger. Next trick is to try to get ...

There are a few people on eBay that are selling Panther installation discs.
These discs were originally from a G4 iBook but the sellers say they will install
on any Mac that is compatible with Panther, is this true, I thought those discs
could only be installed onto the same type of ...

I have a client who just bought a new iMac G5 OSX10.4
She had an old purple iMac slot loader running 9.2.2
I got her favourites/bookmarks from Internet Explorer 5 into Safari and
her contacts from Outlook Express into Address Book so that Mail can see

I am using OSX .3.9 and would like to know about if you can change the
folder colour.
ALL the folders are blue and yes you can change the label to different
colours but what about the folder itself?

I want to be able to make my finder icon's a bit "different" so I want to
have them all animated. By animated I mean more animated than they are now,
so there isn't just one unclicked and one unclicked version. How can I do
this? do I need to install another package?