buddies are not visible until they come online.

HI Stephen,

Yes.
Go to the View menu in iChat.
Select the Show Offline Buddies.

There is also a further option to group them as a separate group.

You may regret this if you have a large number of Buddies.

However it is worth seeing them all if you have so you can manage them.

I currently have 5 groups with a total of 199 Buddies.
Time for a clean up for me.
I have one group just for those that test with me with 79 in it at the moment.

(Some of you are going to disappear from my Buddy List)





12:21 AM Thursday; May 18, 2006

HI Stephen,

Yes.
Go to the View menu in iChat.
Select the Show Offline Buddies.

There is also a further option to group them as a
separate group.

You may regret this if you have a large number of
Buddies.

However it is worth seeing them all if you have so
you can manage them.

I currently have 5 groups with a total of 199
Buddies.
Time for a clean up for me.
I have one group just for those that test with me
with 79 in it at the moment.

(Some of you are going to disappear from my Buddy
List)





12:21 AM Thursday; May 18, 2006

i am hitchhiking steven to your response about ichat...how do you insert that signature in the discussion box??
thanx in advance

ooops!! i meant RALPH!!

You can use a 3rd party application to insert signatures, it's called level4 and can be found at: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21973

HI Jerseygirl,

I actually use Textspander

This is a System Preference Pane add-on.
It come with several Presets for adding date and time to documents.
I have several of my own preset now that include the HTML code to work here.

So I type the required keys that Textspander recognises and substitues the HTML code for the Sig.

The code is a simple case of telling an image to be put in place. It goes on to add Date and Time of post.

The actual pic was created in Photoshop Elements 2. It was written by hand with a Graphire Wacom pad, which gave it a slightly more natural look. I used .gif format so that the background can be removed and stay clear. I messed about with Layer Styles to create the shadow.
The Image was then posted to Flickr There is also other services that will hold your pics or you could use any webspace you have.

The image can in fact be anything



For instance is http://static.flickr.com/1/130427790_1b4487a5c6.jpg?v=0

I held the mouse down and selected Properties from the menu.
The Address of the Pic has to be highlighted and then Use Control and C to copy to the clipboard. (The menu item for Copy does not work for this).

The rest is just the HTML code to make the pic show up.

<img src="add your pic http address here">



1:49 PM Thursday; May 18, 2006

I should also say that for longer prescripted pieces I do use Level 4

Like this one

New Discussions Reponses

The new system for discussions asks that after you mark your question as Solved. You should take the time to mark any posts that have aided you with the tag and the post that provided your answer with the tag. This not only gives points to the posters, but points anyone searching for answers to similar problems to the proper posts.

Alternatively, you can change the status to Answered.

If we use the forums properly they will work well...

2:01 PM Thursday; May 18, 2006