Recent content by cheeryble

Dear all hi from Thailand in the early rainy season! I have an iBook but can't get stuff on Mac from a couple of websites I visit daily about stockmarket trading. I have decided to also buy a desktop PC. I can get a box with a combo drive built in or I can get an external combo which...

Thankyou Fryke...yes i'll stick with Textedit. Andychrist....yes I'm aware 256 is not great but i'm loathe to spend more money on my iBook....I just had the combo drive won't work and now the charger adapter is kaput. Despite careful use. This on top of two logic board replacements! It's two...

Thanx for your help too Bob, I got it quite easily: Textedit>Services>textedit>Open selected file and it opened a certain amount of gobbledegook followed by the text followed by a mass of gobbledegook. Picked the text out, copied and pasted and I'm a happy bunny. I must say Appleworks has...

Thankyou for the advice Adam... I don't have iWork, and without wishing to appear thick, I can't find BBEdit in TextEdit or anywhere else for that matter. I couldn't give a toss about whether I lose any formatting, so if you can point me to BBEdit and how to use it to open my file that...

iBook G3 900/256 combo MacOSX 10.4.4 PLEASE HELP! I can't quite believe this on top of having my combo drive go down, and my adapter fizzle out. Last night I was continuing to write my life story in Appleworks, when I got the "spinning pizza" cursor. It didn't go away for a long time so I had...