Re: It rained on my three MacBooks!

>I waited just a few minutes before trying to turn them on. I'm afraid that was a big mistake. I'm sorry to be harsh, but... how do you think a few minutes were enought to dry them?!? >There was no sign of life, no sparks, no flames, nothing. Most of computers' inner circuits work at or around 5

Re: It rained on my three MacBooks!

Il giorno 18/06/21 14:46, "Paul Londoner" ha scritto: >I immediately took action by closing the living room skylight and placing >the Macs keyboards facing down onto the sofa. After this, I tried to turn >on each Mac and found out that only the MacBook Pro (mid 2012, with 4Gb >RAM) would turn on.

Re: Which Mac group? The ALL MACS List!

>Valter, you said "I have installed OSX 10.9 Mavericks, and most software >has a version for it (you might have to look for it in some archives, >though)." > >What I meant by my question is that I want to know WHICH archives you >look in! Well, it depends :-) E.g.: I find an interesting app, I go

Re: Which Mac group? The ALL MACS List!

>I still don't know what people with Macs older than 2012 manage to do >with them. Would someone like to explain? I'm still using an Early 2009 24" iMac. It's going great (although upgraded with 8 GB Ram and 1 TB HD). I have installed OSX 10.9 Mavericks, and most software has a version for it (you

Re: Logitech trackball weirdness

>My M570 wireless trackball began making a single click behave like a >double-click a while ago. It¹s very maddening. I had this happening to several mice, when they become old. I think it's the microswitch becoming faulty/unreliable, hence when you press the button it clicks, then it "loses" the

Re: 2008 imac won't start

Il giorno 28/03/18 03:11, "fishjoy...@gmail.com" ha scritto: > In fact, I cannot get even a startup chime unless I pull one of the RAM > cards out. Ok, so it definitely has some RAM issue. Maybe a video card issue, too, but of course that comes later. > It doesn't matter whether the left one is

Re: 2008 imac won't start

Il giorno 27/03/18 03:17, "fishjoy...@gmail.com" ha scritto: > The machine worked fine for about a week, but today when I tried to wake > it, I got a black and white checked screen. Bummer. That screen makes me think about a damaged video card. I had a similar issue with an Early 2008 24" iMac: r

Re: adware solution for leopard

Il giorno 20/08/17 03:03, "Christopher Collins" ha scritto: > You are actually running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. > > If you¹re using Chrome, go to the Chrome web Store and download the extension > Adblock Plus from adblockplus.org . It¹s about the > best ad blocker there is.

Re: Apps and windows behaviour in OSX 10.9 Mavericks

Il giorno 05/08/17 21:09, "Bruce Johnson" ha scritto: > Perhaps an applescript tied to shutdown that closes all apps but Finder? That would be a step, but it would still require a manual intervention. I mean, since OSX is Unix, you can do bazillion things in Terminal. There must be something, so

Apps and windows behaviour in OSX 10.9 Mavericks

Hi, I just upgraded my iMac 24" Early 2009 to OSX 10.9 (from OSX 10.6), and I found a new behaviour I dislike. With 10.9, after boot the Mac opens up both the apps and the windows that I left open at the previous shutdown (if I turn on "Reopen windows when logging back in" in the shutdown dialogue)

Re: Why not?

Il giorno 19/07/17 08:22, "Dave" ha scritto: > Hmm. PCs do that with ease. I had three systems on one, triple boot > option... Oh yeah. Was Mac OSX *included* in those options...? :-) -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMac

Re: Why not?

Il giorno 19/07/17 03:52, "'orthophonic' via iMac Group" ha scritto: > When phonograph records used to run at 33 1/3, 45 and 78 rpm, the > phonograph makers let us play them on the same machine by turning a switch. Of course, switching OSes is much more complicated than change the rotational speed

Re: early 2009 iMac dead after using patcher tool to install Sierra

Il giorno 17/07/17 20:28, "mike.ansberry1...@gmail.com" ha scritto: > I tried to use the patcher to install Sierra on my early 2009 iMac running > 10.7.5. I know it's not my business, but... why "forcing" an OS over a machine that's *eight* years older than the OS? I think that OS wouldn't run w

Re: Error 36 while copying a file

Il giorno 28/01/17 01.58, "Bill Spencer" ha scritto: > The file would not copy to the flash drive any more than it would to the > SSD on the Mini. Oh. Odder and odder If the file copied fine to your Windows PC, then the file in itself is fine. Regarding the flash drive, could it be that it

Re: Error 36 while copying a file

Il giorno 27/01/17 15.45, "Bill Spencer" ha scritto: > The disc with one file kept failing with an error 36 message. > P.S.: It plays fine on my Windows laptop at the office... Then it's most likely the issue is the Mac's optical drive. I know for sure many iMac optical drives are prone to failu

Re: Earlier Version of Opera Browser Needed - Opera 25

Il giorno 08/12/16 17.31, "dave" ha scritto: > I'm still left wondering where a legitimate download link > can be found that'll work on Snow Leopard. The link aeyoan suggested just > brought an error message: "Alert 550 Failed to change directory." I got that error when trying to download an FTP

Re: Earlier Version of Opera Browser Needed

Il giorno 07/12/16 16.35, "Jack Suggs" ha scritto: > Opera for Mac for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) (Intel) > http://www.oldapps.com/mac/opera.php?system=mac_os_x_10.6_snow_leopard_intel Beware! The above page looks fishy - or even dangerous. First, according to several sources the latest versio

Re: Macs and viruses

Il giorno 24/11/16 16.01, "Tom Coradeschi" ha scritto: > With regard to #1, that is a patently false statement. > > ClamXAv, Avast and several others are clearly good antivirus apps and are not > even remotely Trojan horses. I have been using Avast (free edition) for at least a year on my iMac 2

Re: How to keep the thing from going to sleep

> Hi there: I was using Audacity to digitize a couple of LPs over the > weekend, and discovered the hard way that when the Mini goes to sleep > Audacity stops capturing the signal. That sounds odd. I have an Early 2009 iMac with OSX 10.6, and in my experience the Mac never sleeps when it's "doing"

Re: iMac 24" Early 2009 - Power consumption info

Il giorno 17/10/16 06.38, "Bruce Johnson" ha scritto: > BootCamp is not emulated: it¹s running windows natively on the Mac hardware; > however the drivers for the Mac may well not be optimized for power > consumption. That might be it, but I think it's mostly Windows that's more "loaded" with my

iMac 24" Early 2009 - Power consumption info

Hi all! Today I measured various levels of power consumption of my Early 2009 iMac 24" 2.93 GHz (Intel Core 2 Duo processor). In case someone may be interested, I thought about sharing them here :-) My iMac has 6 GB Ram, and an ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphic card with 512 MB. I set the screen brightn

Re: Printer recommendations?

Il giorno 29/09/16 04.28, "William Spencer" ha scritto: > So I¹m wondering what anyone might recommend for > a basic laser all-in-one with wireless connectivity. Brother and Canon seem to > come up frequently but I¹m glad to get other opinions. The top price would be > $150, less is always better.

Re: Mac for Windows PC dummies

Il giorno 12/09/16 16.09, "J Janks" ha scritto: > so Mac has stopped supporting Tiger?? Oh, way worse than that. :-) Apple is currently supporting just the last three OSX versions; at the moment, it's 10.11, 10.10. 10.9 - anything before that (including Tiger, 10.4), is "on its own". That doesn't

Re: Free OS reimplementations (Re: OS X backup script)

Il giorno 07/08/16 06.54, "Russell Courtenay" ha scritto: > I frankly don¹t understand why the 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo with 2 gigs > of RAM in my iMac is so slow sometimes on a modern OS Most likely the culprit is your "measly" 2 GB of memory. My iMac is similar to yours, but with 4 GB it almost n

Re: Screen Scrambles on Wake

Il giorno 05/08/16 02.19, "Al Poulin" ha scritto: > My workhorse is the last 24 inch iMac that Apple produced. Running 10.9.5 > Mavericks. I have a similar iMac to yours, mine is just a 2,93 GHz. I usually run OSX 10.6, but I have and use 10.9 also. Never experienced issues like yours. > When wak

Re: Trouble booting from external drive

Il giorno 24/06/16 08.59, "Russell Courtenay" ha scritto: > The external drive is a clone of the internal drive, I don't think I formatted > it, don't remember... One partition. Well, it sounds unlikely, but if it's factory formatted, maybe there's some quirk that gets in the way; a GUID hard dri

Re: Trouble booting from external drive

Il giorno 24/06/16 07.09, "Russell Courtenay" ha scritto: > Thanks for the response. Well, I checked and it is indeed GUID partition map. > So any other ideas anybody? I'd say you could try to reformat the drive anyway. Maybe there's some quirk (unless you already formatted it yourself in the fir

Re: SSD over Firewire 800/400

Il giorno 06/05/16 09.40, "Eric B. Volker" ha scritto: > I do have 4GB. Swapping one of my 2GB SODIMMS for a 4GB to hit 6GB would cost > $80 - $100. That¹s too much to spend for an extra 2GB I have 4 GB too. I think that's adequate for most uses (I even run all Adobe CS3 apps together, and still

Re: SSD over Firewire 800/400

Il giorno 05/05/16 23.07, "Eric B. Volker" ha scritto: > I still get the beachball fairly often. This sounds obvious but, how much Ram do you have? If it's 2 GB or less, I strongly suggest to upgrade to 3 or - better - 4 GB. 2 GB are fairly cheap nowadays, and it's often the most "bang for your b

Re: Video Card for an I mac Late 2009

Il giorno 29/07/15 19.31, "Peter Hall" ha scritto: > Can I upgrade the video card in this machine, with any standard MXM video > card or am I stuck with an amd 4670 card from another Imac? > Cpu upgrade AFAIK, no CPU or GPU upgrade are possible on an Intel iMac. I might be wrong, though, so let's

Re: External Drive for OS 10.4 Tiger

Il giorno 24/05/15 01.25, "Colin Yarwood" ha scritto: > If its not too late - tell your contact to buy a flash memory card of > however many Gbs they need and put it in a USB Card reader plugged into the > iMac. The speed and silence is brilliant and the costs are very reasonable! Beware, flash d

Re: I get to buy a new computer!

Il giorno 24/04/15 03.22, "Bill Spencer" ha scritto: > I assume a 24-inch (diagonal?) would be fine, I don't really > need Cinerama on my desk. I bought an used 24" iMac (Early 2009) a couple of years ago. I just LOVE this iMac and its compact all-in-one form-factor (YMMV). It's just a thing of b

Re: 2001 iMac. Is this machine still useful?

Il giorno 08/04/15 16.33, "Mark My Word" ha scritto: > My understanding is that to enable > this machine to run Safari, Mozilla, or a newer IE, it would need to move > up to a version of OS10, rather than the OS9.1 that is installed. Yes and no. In Mac OS (I mean 9 or previous), you can still us

Re: External Drive for OS 10.4 Tiger

Il giorno 16/01/15 00.36, "Bruce Johnson" ha scritto: >> A user group member wants to buy an external hard drive to back up her old >> iMac with 10.4 Tiger. > any USB drive should work on any USB-capable Mac. Most likely. But that iMac better have USB 2.0 ports, otherwise USB 1.1 slowness will

Re: Converting PAL to DVD?

Il giorno 07/01/15 19.17, "Bill Spencer" ha scritto: > Hi there: I picked up a DVD while visiting England last summer, thinking > that one of our players was region-free. Well, I was wrong on that...so how > can I convert this PAL DVD to an NTSC DVD so we can watch it? Bill, have you searched for

Re: Epson RX700 Printer error

Il giorno 22/12/14 06.07, "Jane (Portland, OR)" ha scritto: > I have downloaded the SSC Service Utility and opened it with > Wine/Crossover. Two problems arise. It seems the emulator (Wine) was able to run the SSC software, but the software cannot reach the printer. This is not surprising: emulat

24" Intel iMac video failures

Il giorno 06/05/14 20.27, "Jim Scott" ha scritto: > be quite leery of > any 24" Intel iMac (BGA failures of video chips on daughterboards). Jim, are you talking about ANY 24" Intel Macs, or just the earlier versions? Because I own an Early 2009 24" Intel Mac, 2.93 GHz with an ATI Radeon 4850 gra

Re: Help please: slow iMac

Il giorno 26/11/13 00.54, "N. Shani" ha scritto: > - Have you tried clearing your browser and other user caches? Browser: > affirmative. What other caches do you have in mind? The System's caches. You can try with Onyx, a System maintenance tool (free): http://www.titanium.free.fr/ (use the Cleani

Re: Help please: slow iMac

Il giorno 24/11/13 13.38, "N. Shani" ha scritto: > Need your collective wisdom to identify what is causing the above to slow > down. > > The particulars are: > - late 2006 17" model 5,1 > - OS is 10.6.8, with current updates Apart from Jim's excellent troubleshoot guide, the only things that com

Re: Office may need upgrade

Il giorno 31/10/13 13.04, "Shields E-mail" ha scritto: > The power button on the iMac is getting glitchy making me nervous > that it will die before I have a plan. If you decide to get another (used) Mac, keep in mind any G3 and most G4 models will support OS9 (any PowerMac G4 except the G4 MDD FW

Re: Looking for OS X 10.4, 10.5, or 10.6 for G4

Il giorno 20/10/13 20.00, "Paul Brown" ha scritto: > At the moment I've got a Power Mac G4 "Quicksilver" which I can't use. I > got it from freecycle.org with OS X 10.3.9 installed. This version prevents > me from doing various things, but it's also become corrupted. I think the > error message is

Re: Bootcamp (was: Using MS Windows)

Il giorno 11/07/13 04.13, "NODEraser" ha scritto: > I've never been a partitioner... Don't really understand the logic > behind it, unless you need different formats for some reason. This "horse" has been beaten to death... and there's still people loving partitions, and other who do not. :-) Le

Bootcamp (was: Using MS Windows)

Il giorno 10/07/13 05.41, "NODEraser" ha scritto: > Let's see if I get this straight... You tried to partition the drive > yourself? I did not try... I did. :-) I have been partitioning my HDs since my Beige PowerMac G3. When I bought the iMac I'm using right now, I didn't know about Bootcamp be

Re: Using MS Windows

Il giorno 10/07/13 04.54, "NODEraser" ha scritto: > depending on what you need Windows for, you could use Bootcamp or > Parallels/Fusion. Bootcamp creates a separate partition for Windows, > and you can "boot" into it natively, just like you would on a PC Yes, but the OP should know that, in ord

Re: Using MS Windows

Il giorno 09/07/13 02.49, "W.Adrian D'Alessio" ha scritto: > You would be much further ahead to go to Walmart and buy a cheap Windows > machine. Agreed. If you're on tight budget, you could even look for an used PC, they usually sell away for peanuts. Some PC store have them for sale (left by pe

Re: core duo imac project

Il giorno 13/12/12 02:16, b...@wa.net ha scritto: > I've had a 20-inch core duo imac for nearly 2 years. > Since i got it i have had video and or overheating issues. First, which model? Which specs? (model year, CPU speed, Ram quantity, graphic card, OS version...) IMO, every time we talk about p