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Luke-the-magic-man
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achually miss c - solid doesnt give a shit about the mac, I dbout he will even try to use it when he gets it. He bought it to sell on and is achually using this thread as a marketing tool to advertise the mac.
Mr jools I do have a question for you, I have one of those airport express base stations to print my music through, today I decided to change it so I can also print through it - the printer I am using for this is a dymo 330 turbo. When I go to print it doenst print though, all it does is come up with a error on screen, but under airport options its shown as a wireless printer under airport options and bonjour . Any ideas?
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Jools
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I must admit that wireless networking is something I know next to nothing about, not having one myself or ever used one!
I would suggest disconnecting and deleting the Dymo printer from the 'Print & Fax' preference pane, re-connect it via the Airport Base Station, then re-add the printer in the 'Print & Fax' preference pane.
The Mac may have got confused about the location/connection of the printer.
Other than that there's not much else I can suggest!
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mrao
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@jools... i need to find out how to enable the spam filter on Entourage...im a windows person myself..but a mate of mine has acquired a new mac  rool:, but cant figure this one out...im as clueless when it comes to macs...so any advice is greatly appreciated ..tia 
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Jools
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The Spam filter in Entourage 2004 is under the Tools menu > Junk E-mail Protection
You then choose the level you want. It learns and gets better as time goes by.
Any reason why your friend isn't using Apple's Mail program? I find it better than Entourage and is much better integrated with the OS. For instance, the system wide Address Book is available in Mail, whereas with Entourage you need to maintain a separate Contact list. It's very easy to migrate all your messages and contacts to Mail if he decides to switch.
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mrao
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Thanks for the quick response, mate
As i mentioned, im as much of a noob on macs as a third of computer users  but ill most certainly suggest your recommeendation to my friend....thanks again
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Luke-the-magic-man
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jools, as I think you know I recently bought a airport express, but sold it the otherday due to me getting annoyed that when I as using high levels of bandwith when playing music on my hi-fi it kept cutting out (as my macs old it doesnt have a 54mbps card but a 11mbps card). So as I thought the idea was pretty cool I went out and ordered a roku m1000 (probally 1 of the 2 compatable wirless music reciever thingies) anyway not being very clever I went out and ordered it pretty quick (should be here in like 12 hours) but I didnt think to check if id have the same problem as with the airport. Do you think it would be likely? As the aiport express just recieved music, but the roku achually uses the mac as a remote itunes server basically, can you see it stopping etc or slowing down my interent? Cheers
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Gigs
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Luke: If you're streaming between one point and another, other things can be slowed down IF the connection is saturated, that means if its being used to most of its capacity.
Ideally you'd want to look at an 802.11g card for your mac, that way you'll have plenty to spare while streaming and your internet shouldn't be effected. (I just went to a wireless router for my main pc and laptop, absolutely loving it! Both are g however, bandwidth hasn't been a problem as I share lost episodes from my laptop to my main pc)
Not sure about the mac side of things but you might also have a setting either on the mac side or the airport side (if it allows settings?) for QoS (quality of service) - Using QoS you can reserve bandwidth on a connection so no matter how much you throw across your local network it always reserves some. (So for instance for your internet)
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Luke-the-magic-man
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@ gigs, yep your right. Idealy id like to upgrade my card to a 54mps airport extreme card, but unforchantly due to the age of my mac its not possible, it won't make alot of difference as in about 3-5 months im plannning on upgrading my mac before uni, to a mac book pro (just waiting for a 17" model lol)
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fatreg
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Folks,
When i get my mac is it gonna be safe for me to leave it on 24/7?
i currently use an VPN thro my pc and want to do the same with the mac, failing that im just gonna use an FTP thats connected to my mac,
but basically i wanna know if ill be able to leave my 20" imac dual core jobby on all the time? its not gonna melt or owt is it?
If it is im a bit screwed and might have to spend a bit more money and get a power mac G5 if they can stay on!
cheers
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Luke-the-magic-man
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my old power book (details above) is on for hors at a time, probally about 20 hrs a day every day lol, I think its pretty safe to asume itl be fine and if it melts just complain to apple lol
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remo74tg
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Just picked up a new Intel based Mac Mini and I have a few questions,
1). I'm looking for a good Bittorrent client I downloaded Azureus, but can't figure out how to install it.
2). Do I have to maually enable Java, because some web pages won't show java images.
3). A good video player VLC does'nt support Intel Macs yet.
4). A program do convert avi's to DVD and burn DVD's.
5). How can I import my iTune library from my windows machine to my Mac.
6). Any other must have programs and any other tips, I'm totally new to OS X, but loving it so far.
I appreciate any help.
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Jools
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1). I use Transmission.
http://download.m0k.org/trans[....]files/Transmission-0.5-OSX.dmg
To install it, just download the .dmg file above. Double-click it, then a new disk will appear on the desktop. In there just drag the 'Transmission' icon to your Applications folder.
2). Java should be automatically installed and enable. Can you list some of the sites you're having problems with?
3). VLC Media Player 0.8.5a2 supports Intel Macs. Also, download Flip4Mac to play WMV files in QuickTime Player and DivX 6 for DivX videos.
4). MPEG StreamClip and Roxio Toast
5). You should be able to just copy the whole 'iTunes' folder (containing 'iTunes Music Library.xml', 'iTunes Library' and 'iTunes Music' folder) to your users 'Music' folder.
6). Tell me what you want to do, and I can recommend some programs!
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remo74tg
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Thanks for all the links, but flipformac says it does'nt support Intel macs yet is there another plugin for Safari to watch .wmv movies. And I was also wondering is there a quicker way to see the desktop if you have a few windows open instead of minimizing them one by one. |
Jools
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Ah... I guess you'll have to wait for Flip4Mac Intel version - sorry!
To see the desktop just press F11
To see all open windows press F9 then click in the window you want to bring to front.
To see all open windows in the current application press F10
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remo74tg
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Another Question...Do I need firewall protection? If yes which one would you recommend. |
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