Re:
On 13/06/2009, at 1:46 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: As a similar reluctant Fusion/Windows user I can say I have been pleasantly surprised. CNET AVG Anti Virus is free and is updated regularly. Because Fusion is really a Mac application running, I do not blieve having it on a separate partition will offer any extra protection. Best wishes Severin Crisp Packages such as Parallels Desktop, VMWare Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox store their virtual machines in Disk Images, which are effectively software partitions. Either way the effect is the same: the Windows system is sandboxed away from your Mac OS stuff. In any event, even if Windows malware does land on your Mac, it cannot live on the Mac OS planet. The exception, of course, are the MS Office macro viruses, but then these are platform-agnostic, depending on Visual Basic rather than the OS itself. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Photo albums et al
Good morning all Recently I was given a great deal of help with the scanning of photos that I wanted to use to make an on line photo album. Thanks to all your advice, particularly Ronni, Neil and Susan, I have now created my first photo book using Snapfish (recommended by Susan). It's a great site and, interestingly, is now part of the iiNet freezone. I arranged for the book to be forwarded direct to the recipient who is delighted with the result. It's true that now having seen the finished product I can see room for improvement with the next one but that's part of the learning process. On a totally different subject, while searching for some information on French train journeys and using a French language site, even though my French is very basic, I saw alongside the result of one of my searches what looked like the iCal icon. Curious, I clicked on it and am amazed to find that the information has been sent to iCal on my Macbook, appearing on the appropriate date in September. Maybe this is not news to all you very experienced Mac users but for me it seemed like a small miracle!! Regards Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows on Mac security
Hi Peter Severin, Now you have got me thinking ;) My main use of windows is to use a specialised SMSF (DIY super) management package. I run XP pro under parallels. Whilst I do all of my general internet/email in OSX, the MySF software connects over the web to check for software updates but mainly to update the share prices in the MySF portfolio. Since I need to incorporate documents created in OSX into the MySF fund file and also to take info from MySF into my OSX spreadsheets, I have a shared folder setup (where an OSX folder appears as an additional windows drive). I can also, obviously copy and paste between windows OSX. Given the above, I am a little confused as to the extent of the windows/mac separation/sandboxing. First, I must confess that I know just enough about networking, virtualisation etc to appreciate just how much I DONT know :( I think I understand that the virtualisation software effectively keeps the whole windows machine in an OSX folder, which seems to mainly contain a disc image of the windows hard drive and a file which I presume contains information about the configuration of the virtual machine. So it seems to me that when you don't actually have parallels (or fusion) fired up and the virtual machine running then your mac is as secure (or not) as if you didn't have the windows/virtual machine installed. I am much less clear on the separation when the virtual machine is up and running. Whilst I am familiar with the sandbox term, I thought I would check how it was explained in Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(computer_security) and I noticed that it said: Network access, the ability to inspect the host system or read from input devices are usually disallowed or heavily restricted. Now my virtual machine must have network access to download the share prices, it can also read from input devices - this is one of their selling points (and lets me use my Windows only GPS map application to download maps onto my GPS) and the shared folder system seems to allow it to inspect the host system? - though I realise this is definitely restricted. When I print from my virtual machine (using bonjour for windows) I think I am effectively doing this over a Mac/windows network connection. Also, as I said, one can copy and paste between systems. So it seems to me that to get a lot of the functionality that makes parallels or fusion the great applications they are, they have to have the authority to access a lot of the Mac's built-in security systems at the highest level - so I wonder just how well the VM is sandboxed. Don't get me wrong, I am not getting overly paranoid about this. Like Severin, I have AVG Anti Virus installed and feel quite happy about firing up Windows - it just seems to me that the systems are not necessarily quite as separated as some of the discussion seems to imply. It also seems to me that if you were creating Mac malware then looking at getting in via parallels or fusion would be well worth investigating - I am just hoping that the subset of Mac users running parallels/fusion is still not large enough to get the malware creators motivated! Any thoughts/comments? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 8:09 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 13/06/2009, at 1:46 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: As a similar reluctant Fusion/Windows user I can say I have been pleasantly surprised. CNET AVG Anti Virus is free and is updated regularly. Because Fusion is really a Mac application running, I do not blieve having it on a separate partition will offer any extra protection. Best wishes Severin Crisp Packages such as Parallels Desktop, VMWare Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox store their virtual machines in Disk Images, which are effectively software partitions. Either way the effect is the same: the Windows system is sandboxed away from your Mac OS stuff. In any event, even if Windows malware does land on your Mac, it cannot live on the Mac OS planet. The exception, of course, are the MS Office macro viruses, but then these are platform-agnostic, depending on Visual Basic rather than the OS itself. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Photo albums et al
Hi Laura, Congratulations on your successful publication! One of the things I love about the Mac is how it allows you to be creative and even makes it fun :) I have been using Macs now for at least 20 years but I'm still constantly amazed at finding new tips/tricks/features (and many from this list). My latest: Although I'd known for many years that ⌘tab cycled through your open applications, it was only recently that I learnt that ⌘~ cycled through the open windows of your current application - now I use it all the time! (in case your mail browser doesn't display the symbol properly that's Command-tab to cycle applications and Command-tilde to cycle windows) Have fun! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 10:26 AM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Good morning all Recently I was given a great deal of help with the scanning of photos that I wanted to use to make an on line photo album. Thanks to all your advice, particularly Ronni, Neil and Susan, I have now created my first photo book using Snapfish (recommended by Susan). It's a great site and, interestingly, is now part of the iiNet freezone. I arranged for the book to be forwarded direct to the recipient who is delighted with the result. It's true that now having seen the finished product I can see room for improvement with the next one but that's part of the learning process. On a totally different subject, while searching for some information on French train journeys and using a French language site, even though my French is very basic, I saw alongside the result of one of my searches what looked like the iCal icon. Curious, I clicked on it and am amazed to find that the information has been sent to iCal on my Macbook, appearing on the appropriate date in September. Maybe this is not news to all you very experienced Mac users but for me it seemed like a small miracle!! Regards Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Odd Time Machine error message
Ronda Brown Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:02:31 -0700 On 11/06/2009, at 9:57 PM, Dennis Barnden wrote: Time Machine has reported an error with the message This backup is too large for the backup volume. The backup requires 1.0 GB but only 4.8 GB are available. Get Info on the destination drive reports 8.91 GB available. OSX 10.5.2 Intel iMac I am happy to format the destination and start again (I keep a SuperDuper backup off site). But... what is the problem? Dennis. Hello Dennis, You don't mention what size your internal harddrive is what size the external drive you are backing up to is? The internal drive is 300GB and the destination is 500GB but that is really not an issue. TimeMachine has been working since January without problems and is working still. I got that one error message that had the required size of 1GB but an available size four times that size. And the Finder reported twice as much again. For each backup that TM performs, it adds about 20% for workspace. I don't understand this. 20% of what? The recommended size of a TM drive is at least 2x to 3x the size of the internal drive. Cheers, Ronni I just had a thought (dosen't happen often) If the destination is full and TimeMachine delets the oldest backup then there is a potential increase in available space on the destination so that might explain the larger Finder report but the initial TimeMachine error still seemed to want less than what it said was there. Why would that be a problem? This is for interest only as all seems to be working fine now. Dennis. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Of Interest ?
Two points of interest ! 1. Note new Snow Leopard only for Intel Macs leaving most of us as usual behind on Apple upgrades 2. A friend has just aquired demonstrated to me a future must have toy which does for Video cameras what iPods did to Walkmans. A bunch of Apple Gooks who developed the iPod for Apple have left started new Start up Company Flip Video Check out ( http://www.theflip.com/products_flip_ultra_specs.II.shtml ) Basic large chunk initial development finance from Cisco now being manufactured in China by same companies which make Apple products. Solid state memory, Digital etc. Small as an ipod, 1 button On/Off self focusing comparitevly cheap but at present only available in USA Canada. Any body travelling that way please let me know I'll provide the money to buy cos I want one. Direct plug in to your computer instant download for teen generation Face book fans. Also being grabbed by NGO's journellists for quick easy recording. Excellent battery life etc. Ciao Phi Have fun -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Photo albums et al
And just an addendum to Neil's hint, if you go Command+shift+tab it cycles through in reverse. Sometimes useful if you have too many applications open or you accidently skipped past the app you wanted. I tell my students that command+tab was one of the few things the Mac stole from the windows environment. Regards, Eugene On 15/06/2009, at 11:22 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Laura, Congratulations on your successful publication! One of the things I love about the Mac is how it allows you to be creative and even makes it fun :) I have been using Macs now for at least 20 years but I'm still constantly amazed at finding new tips/tricks/features (and many from this list). My latest: Although I'd known for many years that ⌘tab cycled through your open applications, it was only recently that I learnt that ⌘~ cycled through the open windows of your current application - now I use it all the time! (in case your mail browser doesn't display the symbol properly that's Command-tab to cycle applications and Command-tilde to cycle windows) Have fun! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 10:26 AM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Good morning all Recently I was given a great deal of help with the scanning of photos that I wanted to use to make an on line photo album. Thanks to all your advice, particularly Ronni, Neil and Susan, I have now created my first photo book using Snapfish (recommended by Susan). It's a great site and, interestingly, is now part of the iiNet freezone. I arranged for the book to be forwarded direct to the recipient who is delighted with the result. It's true that now having seen the finished product I can see room for improvement with the next one but that's part of the learning process. On a totally different subject, while searching for some information on French train journeys and using a French language site, even though my French is very basic, I saw alongside the result of one of my searches what looked like the iCal icon. Curious, I clicked on it and am amazed to find that the information has been sent to iCal on my Macbook, appearing on the appropriate date in September. Maybe this is not news to all you very experienced Mac users but for me it seemed like a small miracle!! Regards Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Photo albums et al
Thanks Neil. I envy you having been able for so long to enjoy being a Mac user. Some of us take a bit longer to learn about the finer things in life :) Perhaps your tip only applies to Leopard, I am still with Tiger. Command-tab for me just brings up the dock while Command-tilde does nothing at all. The same applies to Eugene's tip, it brings up the dock. I know that Shift+Option+K = but how do I type the Command symbol? I've had a look at the Keyboard Viewer but not sure how it works. Regards Laura On 15/06/2009, at 11:22 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Laura, Congratulations on your successful publication! One of the things I love about the Mac is how it allows you to be creative and even makes it fun :) I have been using Macs now for at least 20 years but I'm still constantly amazed at finding new tips/tricks/features (and many from this list). My latest: Although I'd known for many years that ⌘tab cycled through your open applications, it was only recently that I learnt that ⌘~ cycled through the open windows of your current application - now I use it all the time! (in case your mail browser doesn't display the symbol properly that's Command-tab to cycle applications and Command-tilde to cycle windows) Have fun! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 10:26 AM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Good morning all Recently I was given a great deal of help with the scanning of photos that I wanted to use to make an on line photo album. Thanks to all your advice, particularly Ronni, Neil and Susan, I have now created my first photo book using Snapfish (recommended by Susan). It's a great site and, interestingly, is now part of the iiNet freezone. I arranged for the book to be forwarded direct to the recipient who is delighted with the result. It's true that now having seen the finished product I can see room for improvement with the next one but that's part of the learning process. On a totally different subject, while searching for some information on French train journeys and using a French language site, even though my French is very basic, I saw alongside the result of one of my searches what looked like the iCal icon. Curious, I clicked on it and am amazed to find that the information has been sent to iCal on my Macbook, appearing on the appropriate date in September. Maybe this is not news to all you very experienced Mac users but for me it seemed like a small miracle!! Regards Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows on Mac security
I have recently installed Parallels, via the MacUpdate bundle. I find it much more user-friendly than Fusion. As for how the virtual machine connects with the outside world, there are three choices. You find them by clicking on the Virtual Machine menu in Parallels, run down to Configure (with the crossed tools icon, which also appears on the bar at the top of the Windows Xp - Parallels Desktop) and then choose Network Adaptor 1 in the sidebar. Make sure that the boxes for Enabled and Connected are ticked. Then you will see 3 radio buttons, from which you should choose one. Down at the bottom of the window is an information line that gives a brief description of how each button works. Roughly, this is what they all say: Virtual Machine Configuration: Shared Networking. This type of networking allows the virtual machine to use the current network connections of your physical computer. - By default, all virtual machines created using the Express Windows and Typical modes are set to work in the Shared Networking mode. In this mode your virtual machine can access other computers on your local network and the Internet by using the IP address of the physical computer. The virtual machine itself does not have its own IP address on the network. Bridged Ethernet. This type of networking allows the virtual machine to use one of the physical computer's network adapters, which makes it appear as a separate computer on the network the physical computer belongs to. When operating in the Bridged Ethernet mode, your virtual machine appears on the network as a stand-alone computer with its own IP address and network name. This mode also allows you to specify port forwarding rules for the virtual machines running on your Mac, which can be especially useful when running HTTP, FTP, or other types of servers in virtual machines. Host-only networking. This type of networking allows the virtual machine to access only the physical computer and other virtual machines residing on it. So there are 3 levels of exposure to the internet. It's easy to swap back and forth, so you might need to use Bridged Ethernet if you need to connect directly to a Windows site, such as Activating your copy of XP. When that is done, you can go directly back to Host-only Networking, with the safety of your Mac OS. Cheers, Pat On 15/06/2009, at 11:01 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Peter Severin, Now you have got me thinking ;) My main use of windows is to use a specialised SMSF (DIY super) management package. I run XP pro under parallels. Whilst I do all of my general internet/email in OSX, the MySF software connects over the web to check for software updates but mainly to update the share prices in the MySF portfolio. Since I need to incorporate documents created in OSX into the MySF fund file and also to take info from MySF into my OSX spreadsheets, I have a shared folder setup (where an OSX folder appears as an additional windows drive). I can also, obviously copy and paste between windows OSX. Given the above, I am a little confused as to the extent of the windows/mac separation/sandboxing. First, I must confess that I know just enough about networking, virtualisation etc to appreciate just how much I DONT know :( I think I understand that the virtualisation software effectively keeps the whole windows machine in an OSX folder, which seems to mainly contain a disc image of the windows hard drive and a file which I presume contains information about the configuration of the virtual machine. So it seems to me that when you don't actually have parallels (or fusion) fired up and the virtual machine running then your mac is as secure (or not) as if you didn't have the windows/virtual machine installed. I am much less clear on the separation when the virtual machine is up and running. Whilst I am familiar with the sandbox term, I thought I would check how it was explained in Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_(computer_security) and I noticed that it said: Network access, the ability to inspect the host system or read from input devices are usually disallowed or heavily restricted. Now my virtual machine must have network access to download the share prices, it can also read from input devices - this is one of their selling points (and lets me use my Windows only GPS map application to download maps onto my GPS) and the shared folder system seems to allow it to inspect the host system? - though I realise this is definitely restricted. When I print from my virtual machine (using bonjour for windows) I think I am effectively doing this over a Mac/windows network connection. Also, as I said, one can copy and paste between systems. So it seems to me that to get a lot of the functionality that makes parallels or fusion the great applications they are, they have to have the authority to access a
Keyboard shortcuts
Thanks Bob. I am aware of that but what I want is how to actually type both the symbols on the Apple (Command) key. So far I've only managed the Apple! Regards Laura On 15/06/2009, at 1:03 PM, Robert Howells wrote: On 15/06/2009, at 12:51 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Thanks Neil. I envy you having been able for so long to enjoy being a Mac user. Some of us take a bit longer to learn about the finer things in life :) Perhaps your tip only applies to Leopard, I am still with Tiger. Command-tab for me just brings up the dock while Command-tilde does nothing at all. The same applies to Eugene's tip, it brings up the dock. I know that Shift+Option+K = but how do I type the Command symbol? I've had a look at the Keyboard Viewer but not sure how it works. Regards Laura Command is the Apple on an Apple keyboard Bob On 15/06/2009, at 11:22 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Laura, Congratulations on your successful publication! One of the things I love about the Mac is how it allows you to be creative and even makes it fun :) I have been using Macs now for at least 20 years but I'm still constantly amazed at finding new tips/tricks/features (and many from this list). My latest: Although I'd known for many years that ⌘tab cycled through your open applications, it was only recently that I learnt that ⌘~ cycled through the open windows of your current application - now I use it all the time! (in case your mail browser doesn't display the symbol properly that's Command-tab to cycle applications and Command-tilde to cycle windows) Have fun! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 10:26 AM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Good morning all Recently I was given a great deal of help with the scanning of photos that I wanted to use to make an on line photo album. Thanks to all your advice, particularly Ronni, Neil and Susan, I have now created my first photo book using Snapfish (recommended by Susan). It's a great site and, interestingly, is now part of the iiNet freezone. I arranged for the book to be forwarded direct to the recipient who is delighted with the result. It's true that now having seen the finished product I can see room for improvement with the next one but that's part of the learning process. On a totally different subject, while searching for some information on French train journeys and using a French language site, even though my French is very basic, I saw alongside the result of one of my searches what looked like the iCal icon. Curious, I clicked on it and am amazed to find that the information has been sent to iCal on my Macbook, appearing on the appropriate date in September. Maybe this is not news to all you very experienced Mac users but for me it seemed like a small miracle!! Regards Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Photo albums et al
Hi Laura, Good to hear your Photo Album project turned out well. To type the Apple Command symbol: Open the Character Palette, then select Technical Symbols you will find it there ⌘ If you haven't got the Input Menu showing in your Menu bar on the desktop. Go to System Preferences International - Input Menu and check Character Palette check Show input Menu in Menu Bar. International Cheers, Ronni On 15/06/2009, at 12:51 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Thanks Neil. I envy you having been able for so long to enjoy being a Mac user. Some of us take a bit longer to learn about the finer things in life :) Perhaps your tip only applies to Leopard, I am still with Tiger. Command-tab for me just brings up the dock while Command-tilde does nothing at all. The same applies to Eugene's tip, it brings up the dock. I know that Shift+Option+K = but how do I type the Command symbol? I've had a look at the Keyboard Viewer but not sure how it works. Regards Laura On 15/06/2009, at 11:22 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Laura, Congratulations on your successful publication! One of the things I love about the Mac is how it allows you to be creative and even makes it fun :) I have been using Macs now for at least 20 years but I'm still constantly amazed at finding new tips/tricks/features (and many from this list). My latest: Although I'd known for many years that ⌘tab cycled through your open applications, it was only recently that I learnt that ⌘~ cycled through the open windows of your current application - now I use it all the time! (in case your mail browser doesn't display the symbol properly that's Command-tab to cycle applications and Command-tilde to cycle windows) Have fun! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 10:26 AM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Good morning all Recently I was given a great deal of help with the scanning of photos that I wanted to use to make an on line photo album. Thanks to all your advice, particularly Ronni, Neil and Susan, I have now created my first photo book using Snapfish (recommended by Susan). It's a great site and, interestingly, is now part of the iiNet freezone. I arranged for the book to be forwarded direct to the recipient who is delighted with the result. It's true that now having seen the finished product I can see room for improvement with the next one but that's part of the learning process. On a totally different subject, while searching for some information on French train journeys and using a French language site, even though my French is very basic, I saw alongside the result of one of my searches what looked like the iCal icon. Curious, I clicked on it and am amazed to find that the information has been sent to iCal on my Macbook, appearing on the appropriate date in September. Maybe this is not news to all you very experienced Mac users but for me it seemed like a small miracle!! Regards Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Photo albums et al
Hi Laura As a fellow tigerite - command-tab (I don't know how to type the symbol either - but Neil does! - perhaps he'll tell us...) does indeed bring up the dock - but tab again and things are highlighted in turn Command ~ would do nothing if you only have one window open in the current application. Or you're in photoshop, where it doesn't work for some reason... best Alastair On 15 Jun 2009, at 05:51, Laura Webb wrote: Thanks Neil. I envy you having been able for so long to enjoy being a Mac user. Some of us take a bit longer to learn about the finer things in life :) Perhaps your tip only applies to Leopard, I am still with Tiger. Command-tab for me just brings up the dock while Command-tilde does nothing at all. The same applies to Eugene's tip, it brings up the dock. I know that Shift+Option+K = but how do I type the Command symbol? I've had a look at the Keyboard Viewer but not sure how it works. Regards Laura On 15/06/2009, at 11:22 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Laura, Congratulations on your successful publication! One of the things I love about the Mac is how it allows you to be creative and even makes it fun :) I have been using Macs now for at least 20 years but I'm still constantly amazed at finding new tips/tricks/features (and many from this list). My latest: Although I'd known for many years that ⌘tab cycled through your open applications, it was only recently that I learnt that ⌘~ cycled through the open windows of your current application - now I use it all the time! (in case your mail browser doesn't display the symbol properly that's Command-tab to cycle applications and Command-tilde to cycle windows) Have fun! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 10:26 AM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Good morning all Recently I was given a great deal of help with the scanning of photos that I wanted to use to make an on line photo album. Thanks to all your advice, particularly Ronni, Neil and Susan, I have now created my first photo book using Snapfish (recommended by Susan). It's a great site and, interestingly, is now part of the iiNet freezone. I arranged for the book to be forwarded direct to the recipient who is delighted with the result. It's true that now having seen the finished product I can see room for improvement with the next one but that's part of the learning process. On a totally different subject, while searching for some information on French train journeys and using a French language site, even though my French is very basic, I saw alongside the result of one of my searches what looked like the iCal icon. Curious, I clicked on it and am amazed to find that the information has been sent to iCal on my Macbook, appearing on the appropriate date in September. Maybe this is not news to all you very experienced Mac users but for me it seemed like a small miracle!! Regards Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Photo albums et al
Hi Laura, No it's not just a leopard thing. I think you may have misunderstood the command thing. You don't have to type the Command symbol just press the command key. So when I say ⌘tab or Command-tab it means to hold down the command/⌘ key while you press the tab key (or the ~/tilde key for window cycling) The command/⌘ key is the key immediately to the left of the space bar (at least on my keyboard) and is the key used for most menu shortcuts in the mac eg: ⌘C (command-C) is copy ⌘V (command-V) is paste ⌘O (command-O) is open ⌘P (command-P) is print Or are you saying that this doesn't work for you? Hope that makes sense. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 12:51 PM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thanks Neil. I envy you having been able for so long to enjoy being a Mac user. Some of us take a bit longer to learn about the finer things in life :) Perhaps your tip only applies to Leopard, I am still with Tiger. Command-tab for me just brings up the dock while Command-tilde does nothing at all. The same applies to Eugene's tip, it brings up the dock. I know that Shift+Option+K = but how do I type the Command symbol? I've had a look at the Keyboard Viewer but not sure how it works. Regards Laura On 15/06/2009, at 11:22 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Laura, Congratulations on your successful publication! One of the things I love about the Mac is how it allows you to be creative and even makes it fun :) I have been using Macs now for at least 20 years but I'm still constantly amazed at finding new tips/tricks/features (and many from this list). My latest: Although I'd known for many years that ⌘tab cycled through your open applications, it was only recently that I learnt that ⌘~ cycled through the open windows of your current application - now I use it all the time! (in case your mail browser doesn't display the symbol properly that's Command-tab to cycle applications and Command-tilde to cycle windows) Have fun! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Photo albums et al
Hi Ronni I do have the Input Menu showing in my Menu bar but had chosen Keyboard View rather than Character Palette. However there is still no Technical Symbol option so maybe another Tiger/Leopard difference. Thanks anyway. Regards Laura On 15/06/2009, at 1:19 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, Good to hear your Photo Album project turned out well. To type the Apple Command symbol: Open the Character Palette, then select Technical Symbols you will find it there ⌘ If you haven't got the Input Menu showing in your Menu bar on the desktop. Go to System Preferences International - Input Menu and check Character Palette check Show input Menu in Menu Bar. International Cheers, Ronni On 15/06/2009, at 12:51 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Thanks Neil. I envy you having been able for so long to enjoy being a Mac user. Some of us take a bit longer to learn about the finer things in life :) Perhaps your tip only applies to Leopard, I am still with Tiger. Command-tab for me just brings up the dock while Command-tilde does nothing at all. The same applies to Eugene's tip, it brings up the dock. I know that Shift+Option+K = but how do I type the Command symbol? I've had a look at the Keyboard Viewer but not sure how it works. Regards Laura On 15/06/2009, at 11:22 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Laura, Congratulations on your successful publication! One of the things I love about the Mac is how it allows you to be creative and even makes it fun :) I have been using Macs now for at least 20 years but I'm still constantly amazed at finding new tips/tricks/features (and many from this list). My latest: Although I'd known for many years that ⌘tab cycled through your open applications, it was only recently that I learnt that ⌘~ cycled through the open windows of your current application - now I use it all the time! (in case your mail browser doesn't display the symbol properly that's Command-tab to cycle applications and Command-tilde to cycle windows) Have fun! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 10:26 AM, Laura Webb at el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Good morning all Recently I was given a great deal of help with the scanning of photos that I wanted to use to make an on line photo album. Thanks to all your advice, particularly Ronni, Neil and Susan, I have now created my first photo book using Snapfish (recommended by Susan). It's a great site and, interestingly, is now part of the iiNet freezone. I arranged for the book to be forwarded direct to the recipient who is delighted with the result. It's true that now having seen the finished product I can see room for improvement with the next one but that's part of the learning process. On a totally different subject, while searching for some information on French train journeys and using a French language site, even though my French is very basic, I saw alongside the result of one of my searches what looked like the iCal icon. Curious, I clicked on it and am amazed to find that the information has been sent to iCal on my Macbook, appearing on the appropriate date in September. Maybe this is not news to all you very experienced Mac users but for me it seemed like a small miracle!! Regards Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Photo albums et al
on 15/6/09 1:03 PM, Robert Howells at rhowe...@arach.net.au wrote: On 15/06/2009, at 12:51 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Thanks Neil. I envy you having been able for so long to enjoy being a Mac user. Some of us take a bit longer to learn about the finer things in life :) Perhaps your tip only applies to Leopard, I am still with Tiger. Command-tab for me just brings up the dock while Command-tilde does nothing at all. The same applies to Eugene's tip, it brings up the dock. I know that Shift+Option+K = but how do I type the Command symbol? I've had a look at the Keyboard Viewer but not sure how it works. Regards Laura Command is the Apple on an Apple keyboard Bob Or on the new keyboards like mine the Apple has gone! and the key is actually printed with command ⌘ (on the left of the space bar) or ⌘ command (on the right of the space bar) End of an era eh? ;) On 15/06/2009, at 11:22 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Laura, Congratulations on your successful publication! One of the things I love about the Mac is how it allows you to be creative and even makes it fun :) I have been using Macs now for at least 20 years but I'm still constantly amazed at finding new tips/tricks/features (and many from this list). My latest: Although I'd known for many years that ⌘tab cycled through your open applications, it was only recently that I learnt that ⌘~ cycled through the open windows of your current application - now I use it all the time! (in case your mail browser doesn't display the symbol properly that's Command-tab to cycle applications and Command-tilde to cycle windows) Have fun! Cheers Neil -- -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Photo albums et al
Hi Laura, In Character Palette View: All Characters - By Category ... Symbols (open the arrow) ... scroll down to Technical Symbols. Cheers, Ronni On 15/06/2009, at 1:32 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni I do have the Input Menu showing in my Menu bar but had chosen Keyboard View rather than Character Palette. However there is still no Technical Symbol option so maybe another Tiger/Leopard difference. Thanks anyway. Regards Laura On 15/06/2009, at 1:19 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, Good to hear your Photo Album project turned out well. To type the Apple Command symbol: Open the Character Palette, then select Technical Symbols you will find it there ⌘ If you haven't got the Input Menu showing in your Menu bar on the desktop. Go to System Preferences International - Input Menu and check Character Palette check Show input Menu in Menu Bar. International Cheers, Ronni On 15/06/2009, at 12:51 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Thanks Neil. I envy you having been able for so long to enjoy being a Mac user. Some of us take a bit longer to learn about the finer things in life :) Perhaps your tip only applies to Leopard, I am still with Tiger. Command-tab for me just brings up the dock while Command-tilde does nothing at all. The same applies to Eugene's tip, it brings up the dock. I know that Shift+Option+K = but how do I type the Command symbol? I've had a look at the Keyboard Viewer but not sure how it works. Regards Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
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with the error 0vFFDC just my 2c for the archive i burned 3 dvd coasters before i got the idea: get an external harddisk or use a second partition creata a folder in that seperate volume all the files/folders you want to burn copy them into that folder you may get now error messages telling you a certain file is unreadable delete the copied part of the file in the new folder try to open the original file (sometimes this may recover the file) if it opens appears ok then save it to the new folder copy the rest of the files now see if you have more of these errors during copying when all is copied rename the new folder (many burn application assume the disk name from the first folder put into the burn list) burn disk verify the burn i did exactly that have now a data dvd without errors (there were 5 corrupted files which caused the burn application to interrupt the burning eject a coaster) cheersJames SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Photo albums et al
Sorry Laura, I think it was me that misunderstood what you were saying! As Alastair says, in Tiger, command-tab does indeed bring up the dock - but tab again and things are highlighted in turn Command ~ would do nothing if you only have one window open in the current application - try opening, for example, a number of browser windows and then try it. Regarding how to type ⌘ - as Ronni says I did use the character palette - just select the character and click the insert button. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/6/09 1:14 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Laura, No it's not just a leopard thing. I think you may have misunderstood the command thing. You don't have to type the Command symbol just press the command key. So when I say ⌘tab or Command-tab it means to hold down the command/⌘ key while you press the tab key (or the ~/tilde key for window cycling) The command/⌘ key is the key immediately to the left of the space bar (at least on my keyboard) and is the key used for most menu shortcuts in the mac eg: ⌘C (command-C) is copy ⌘V (command-V) is paste ⌘O (command-O) is open ⌘P (command-P) is print Or are you saying that this doesn't work for you? Hope that makes sense. Cheers Neil -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
