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

My friend is coming to Australia with his laptop from the UK.
To connect to the internet, does he use the same cable thingy that we
use to go from the computer to the phone line?

Latest Prices 18/7/05:
All goods are used unless otherwise stated and are for
private sale:
I also buy/accept old gear if you have something (Sydney)

If Steve Jobs can do this at the recent World Wide Developers Conference
(WWDC), then there must be a way!
Anyone know any further information on this? How did he do it exactly?
He said that all Mac software including all version of OS X have been

Here is one that is causing some concern.
A friend has an iBook G4 1.2 GHZ 500 Meg Ram etc.
She is using Tiger 10.4.1.
Now the display can only be set to 1024 x 768, there are no other

What's this about Mac going Intel?
Does it mean we will be able to run OSX on those other boxes?
Gerrit

I have some ".ogg" sound files on my Mac and I have read that they open with
Itunes.
I tried and it does not work.
They work with VLC Player.

Just wanted to know if anyone has seen something similar to these
laptop/keyboard legs by Lapworks:
http://www.thinkcomputers.org/beta/home.php?x=reviews&id=209
They raise the back of you laptop or keyboard to make typing easier.

Have just installed Tiger. During the installation it told me that the
speaker plug was not inserted correctly - remove and reinsert.
Did so and now I have no external speakers working. They are apple
speakers to match my G4 800mhz powermac.

Hello, All!
i'm getting my first mac in the next few weeks, and i have a friend coming
to my state from interstate who is a fulltime student. he is willing to
purchise my mac for me, but would a dealer accept an out of state student

any suggestions for a good source of Mac software in Sydney
especially looking for:
bbedit
vue 5 infinite

I am currently running OS 10.3.9 and am awaiting my 10.4 dvd to install.
could I get rid of all the classic stuff including the system [9.2.2] as
I never use it and it is just taking up HD space?

Just got my first Mac, an iMac G3 400Mhz.
It came with Mac OS 9.1 and I want to install OS X and have read
that the firmware has to be updated to 4.1.9 before installing OS X.
I've been into the System Profiler and it tells me the following:

Hi. I am tired of producing beautiful DVDs and then having to scrawl
their titles on them with marker pen - looks very uncool. Does anyone
have experience with printing on to DVDs with inkjet or thermal
printers? Any recommendations as to printers? I imagine that colour

I am the ever so proud owner of a wonderful new eMac running Tiger
1.42ghz and 768 ram
But my Microtek 3800 scanner doesn't work.
So I downloaded Microtek ScanWizard5 7.20.1 which is supposed to do the

I have an operational Apple IIe, sitting unused and taking up space.
I'd rather someone used the thing, as it all worked when someone gave
it to me, saying it was sitting unused and taking up space.
I'm in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, and it's probably easiest for me to