Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / January 2008

Won't Shut Down! - iMac 800 G3 - TIGER OS X.4
Hello,
I have an iMac 800 G3 17" flowerpot.... 768MB RAM... and I just
installed Tiger OS X.4.1 ... and now it won't shut down.

Australians will pay $1000 more than their US counterparts for the newly
introduced Apple MacBook Air.

For the past couple of days many of my incoming emails have been
infected with messages such as....
"The Lily Pond: MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from
"email.jacquielawson.com" claiming to be http://www.jacquielawson.com"

I have a MacMini (OSX.4.11) that has decided it won't turn itself off
fully without my pressing the button at the back after it has shut
itself down (i.e., the light on the front has gone off). Additionally, I
have it set to turn itself on at 8:00 am on weekdays and it now doesn't

Does anyone is Oz actually own or use on of these?  With the new features
released yesterday folks seem to be excited about.  Lets see -  movie
rentals - US- based and completely useless here. Hell you still cant buy TV
shows or movies at the Australia iTunes store.  Are the studios ...

Under Sys 9 it was easy - you could move sounds in and out of the Sound
Effects areas (now under Sys Prefs in OSX) - but I would like to import
a sound into Sound Effects and can't see how to do it. Can someone tell
me if it's possible and if so, how?

I have made a DVD of a local musical production and the First Act was
quite long.  The final version comes to well over the length for a
single layer DVD. Normally when that happens, I use a compressor program
like DVDRemaster to bring it back to a length short enough to fit the

You can do this by using the disk utility in OSX and image the
10GB drive to the 20GB drive.  You will then be able to use the 10GB
as a spare for backups etc.
Select Go-Utilities-disk utility.

Some outlets have MacBookPros with 10.4, the Apple Store has 10.5. Does
anyone have any opinions about
* benefits of a 10.5 factory install compared to an upgrade disc or a full
 retail disc

My iMac hard disk (500 GB) has recently been almost filled and I don't
really know why.
I first noticed the iDisk on the desk top indicating that I had a
massive amount of free space (800 plus GB rather than a total of 10GB)

I have a Powemac G4 which came with a 10 gig hard drive.
It has OSX 10.4 and Classic installed. The disk is full and I
can't see any large files I can delete to free up space.
I added a 20 gig hard drive as slave on the same controller