http://www.mactec.com.au Apple Mac onsite service, repairs and support in Brisbane Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:52:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whenever I come across a Brisbane City Council kerbside cleanup, I just can't help myself to drive around looking for old computers that people have chucked out..  Last weekend it was on in Tarragindi.  I knew my chances of finding some good old vintage computers were pretty slim, so instead ... http://www.mactec.com.au/archives/101 Personally, I don't see the point in having a nice sleek new iPhone and having it covered in a big clumsy rubber casing that makes it (nearly) as big as my old Nokia N90, it's like putting roof racks and a bull bar on a Porsche..  Anyway, when I started looking ... http://www.mactec.com.au/archives/88 This is my first attempt at writing a wordpress blog entry from my new iPhone http://www.mactec.com.au/archives/87 Today I finally decided that I was sick of looking at the weather in Sunnyvale California instead of Brisbane Queensland.. Had a look around, and found TheBom Weather Widget. It's a nifty little Mac OS X dashboard widget that displays current data from the BOM website. A ... http://www.mactec.com.au/archives/82 Upgrading to Mac OS x 10.5 Leopard can cause problems with Microsoft Office 2004.  Usually after upgrading,  Word Excel and Entourage won't open at all.. The following updates fix the problem: Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.0 Update Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.1 Update http://www.mactec.com.au/archives/72 Finally a low cost networked label printer! This thing was quite simple to setup, except a few problems with the Mac OS X drivers. The driver that came on the CD with the QL-580N was a package (.pkg) installer.  Great I thought, I'll just install the package on the 8 machines using ... http://www.mactec.com.au/archives/67 Basic Navigation The first level of navigation is the row of tabs at the top of the main window, each tab corresponds to a particular table or section of the database. On the blue line below the tabs is a series of buttons that show different layouts or views for each tab. Contacts Details ... http://www.mactec.com.au/archives/48 Mac OS X will allow you to name a file almost any way you like. This may seem like a good thing, but it can cause some major problems.. The following characters have special meanings in most operating systems (including Mac OS X), and in Windows they are reserved characters ... http://www.mactec.com.au/archives/47 I recently had a client that had problems with Photoshop files opened and saved on a shared volume (on an xServe via AFP) becoming corrupt. After looking through the AFP server log file, the AFP server did deny access to the problem file a few times (showed up as -5006 error), ... http://www.mactec.com.au/archives/46 PRODUCT NUMBER: AF204A The problems with the HP 1/8 Autoloader were: 1.  Backlit LCD display flickers. 2.  The HP 1/8 Autoloader randomly locks up the SCSI buss during backups.  The error presented by the backup software is (Bru Server Mac OS X):  "Short SCSI return in INQUIRY". The autoloader then needed to be powered ... http://www.mactec.com.au/archives/45