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

Hi y'all:
I manage 50 Macs and 15 PCs in a small university dept., OS8.6-Tiger and
Win98-XP. Of course the wintel boxes take up most of my time for lots of
reasons but *none* of that has been spent trying to recover corrupted MS

I have a new iMac, and I predict that the DVD zone set up will hit home
soon - I have a set of US and Aus DVD's and not surprisingly want to be
able to play them all.
A quick google search shows some hacks are available to kill the zone

I have just got a MP3  file and double clicked on it and thought, oh yea
ITUNES will add/play this.
Guess  what...nope
Why is this so?

Hello all, Anyone know of any independent Apple certified techs in Perth WA
???? Or do you have to go to one of the main apple stores for any work to be
done and not effect your warranty???
H

This dashboard thing is fun, and when I set the weather for Sydney, I
thought 'Hey are we in for a nice hot winter'. hehe. Sydney turns out
to be in Flordia (dont those Merkins have any imagination?).
Anyone got any clues about how I can get OUR weather (interesting as

I am having trouble mounting on the desktop cds that are 2 years old --
I put stomper labels on them at the time when they were trendy and I
now wish I didn't. The CD brand is Princo, a cheaper type of CD, but
other Princo CDs fom around that time without labels still read okay.

I have a computer which identifies itself as a "Powermac g4 800Mhz" and
I can find nothing about it on the apple sites.It is the one on which
the monitor sticks up on a stalk and the base is half a ball.
In a previous post requesting info about installing an external

Word 2004 (part of Office) recently developed a strange problem running on
10.3.9, 1.2 Ghz G4, 960 Mb RAM.
It launches fine, it opens a document fine
However, as soon as I start to edit existing document, it gives my a beach

I was wondering if my problem is endemic to the older imams. I have a 350 MHz Mac
running OS9.1. The internal 56k modem seems to have a time of it keeping up to even
my basic dailup needs. It seems to drop out quite a lot, and usually requires a
couple of goes just to connect. As I ...

Currently looking for a G3 based iMac - 350MHz model or better capable
of running OS X.
If you have such a machine, please email me initially at <bjbounce2002
at hotmail.com>.

This is not specifically a Mac question but my experience is that Mac
owners know more about most things than anyone else! I have a little 1
gig mp3 player bought on ebay. It ran perfectly for some time and all
its other functions even now are fine, except that I can't get it to

A lot of the second hand G3 Powerbook's on eBay need new battery packs
as they don't hold a charge.
If you run a Powerbook on mains all the time with a dead battery, will it do
any damage.

If I never use OS 9, I've got 10.3.9, do I need to keep classic on my
HD? Seems like a waste of space.

I have iMac flatscreen 800Mhz and would like to use VOIP.
Is there any way to connect a microphone/headset? There is a speaker
jack but no Mic jack, as far as I can see.

I'm having a problem burning DVD's with my Powerbooks Superdrive.
I've authored the videos and attempting to burn using Roxio Popcorn. So
far made about $10 worth of coasters.  -
Getting the error: