Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / November 2006

I was wondering if anyone out there in mac-land, or MP3-land, has had
trouble with  some of the last batch of 512 meg ipod shuffles breaking
off at the USB connection when being removed from their computer.
As you can gather, my daughter had this happen with her shuffle. It is

Does anyone know of a bug that would cause my 17" powerbook running tiger
10.4.8  not to allow me to type small zzzzz's I can do upper case but not
smaller case. I'm sure it only started recently
David Rowe

Mac Stuff CDs, A to Z, updated 2006/November/22, and Win & Mac
programs, 'WinMac', 'PC/MaC', 'Win-Mac', 'Multi', 'Multi-Platform',
'MultiFormat', 'MULTIOS', 'HYBRID'
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I just tried to play some of the news videos at the Sydney Morning Herald's
site at
http://www.smh.com.au/
In Safari, the video player window opens with a large white area at top left

Can someone please confirm my concern, perhaps I am doing something
wrong??!!!
1. MacBook Pro, 15in 2Ghz, 1gig ram (new)
2. IM R51, 15in, 1.6ghz, 512ram (1 yr old)

The web site of the Commbank doesn't work with non-IE browsers. I've
identified the problem as a CSS file (that specifies the formatting of
text) that is only provided to IE browsers. If you use any other browser
the file is not sent.

With MacPro on OS 10.4.8, Mac will not shutdown, restart, or logout,
from the apple menu. There is no action wen I select those. It wil
sleep, and all other actions are OK.
I have run disk repair from the install OS disk..."no repairs

Earlier I posted  problem with not being able to shutdown, restart from
Apple menu.
I contacted Apple. Tests showed it was software related.
We ran all diagnostics they could think of.  Nothing fixed the issue.

There's what seems to be a good deal on Dell colour laser printers at
the moment - just wondering what experience others have had hooking up
these printers to Mac computers - I am interested in particular to
networking one of these between a MacMini, and iMac, and possibly a PC

Anyone have suggestions for a reasonably  priced domain host
Rowey
www.ripview.com.au

Anyone got a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo into their grubby little hands
yet? I ordered mine about last Monday (from a reseller, not from
Apple directly) but it hasn't arrived yet. Just wondering if anyone
else had got one.

Check out https://www.nintek.com.au/x/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=8352
Peter G

Claris MacDraw Pro, MacWrite Pro, Filemaker Pro.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=014&item=330034591846&rd=1&s
spagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

And if so, where?