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Jools
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What I do is use the built-in Disk Utility application (in Utilities).
Click "New Image" and enter a name and location to save it.
Make the Size whatever you need (it can't be changed later so make it big enough).
Choose AES-128 encryption, and Read/Write format
Click Create, and enter a nice secure password when asked.
The disk image will mount on the desktop and you can fill it with your files.
When finished, drag the Disk Image icon (not the ___.dmg) to the Trash.
You can copy this .dmg file to anywhere, (e.g. USB Flash Disk) and when you want to access the files, just double-click it to mount the disk image.
No-one can access it without your password!
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haynesycop
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Great thanks will use that then.
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haynesycop
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You know ichat can you add people with a hotmail address as buddies or do people need to have a .mac address or AIM name?
I would really like to use ichat as it has the built in isight facility to use which msn doesn't support but all of my contacts are on msn.
So annoying!!!
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Jools
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With iChat you can set it up to use Jabber which adds support for MSN, ICQ, IRC, GTalk etc.
Have a browse through the following links, which have a number of tutorials on setting this up:
http://www.google.com/search?[....]tacts%20in%20ichat&sa=N&tab=iw
I've never tried it myself, so can't say which links are the best!
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haynesycop
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Hmm thanks it was easy enough to set up but it is not very stable so think i will just leave it, plus there is no video support.
Just have to hope that msn add support sooner rather than later.
Thanks
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Jools
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There was a new version of Microsoft Messenger released yesterday for Mac...
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/[....]/misc/messenger51_download.xml
Dunno if that's any better...
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haynesycop
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Seems pretty similar than the last one really, thanks.
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Luke-the-magic-man
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Hi, ok I was playing with automator last night treying to make a wake up timer, basically I have my hi-fi connected to my pc via a wireless connection using a airport express bease station.
What I wan to do is start the pc, run automator, load itunes, set volume, play music in 10 min blocks, each time it switches off and somes back on I want it to increase in volume.
All I can do so far is load itunes, set volume then play music, o and boot the computer when I wan under the powersaving options.
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Jools
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These could save you some work:
Aurora 1.1.2
iTunes Music Alarm Clock 7.5.1
iTuneSleep 2.0b12
iWake 1.0
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Luke-the-magic-man
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your right, cheers man, I never thought about a program to do it, but have one question, I'm using arura or whatever its called, it says wake from sleep, does this mean it will switch on the pc? Cheers
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Jools
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Yes.
You can also set the Mac to automatically wake/start up and sleep/shutdown using the 'Energy Saver' preference pane too (click 'Schedule')
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Luke-the-magic-man
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Yeh, I know that, but was wondering about the progam doing it for me, guess I will see 2moz morning lol. Also is there a program that switches off the mac when you run it, but like a timer version?
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Jools
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There's this: Pause 2.1.1 and Shut Up 1.1 which may do what you want.
Have a search on www.macupdate.com for others...
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solidsingh
Joined: Jan 15, 2004
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i just got a g4 powerbook and i think windows is a lot easier to use so im selling it , drop me a PM if anyones interested, its th 12 inch model
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haynesycop
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Windows easier WTF! 
Just kidding i guess macs are not for everybody have you even given it much of a chance i mean it may take awhile to get used to it doesnt happen overnight.
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