Re: Problem spell checking and selecting text in pages after update.

[kary johns]

Thanks all, cmd : does work. so that’s something at least. I preferred
cmd  ;, but spell checking is spell checking at the end of the day.
So I’m just happy I can spell check in any way.
Jürgen your way didn’t work, all it did was to start reading the
document, which to my understanding is what that key stroke is
supposed to do anyway, it reads all selected text nothing to do with
spell checking.
Thanks everyone for the help.
Kari.


On 10/5/17, kary johns  wrote:
> hi all,
> I updated to high Sierra, and now I can’t seam to spell check in pages
> using command :. It just says checking document and nothing else.
> It  also won’t read what text I’m selecting, Has anyone else seen this
> since updating?
> I use both things constantly for work and study, so it’s a bit of a
> deal breaker for me.
> Kerri.
>

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Re: Submitting Numbers bug report to Apple

[Robert Cole]

Hi,
I too have experienced this bug.
one way to report it is by email:
accessibil...@apple.com 


> On Oct 7, 2017, at 9:55 AM, Philip Halton  wrote:
> 
> I regularly Use numbers on the Mac, and have noticed that in recent updates, 
> VoiceOver no longer gives typing feedback in the formula editor. It used to 
> give  predictive feedback as you typed making formula entry a breeze, but no 
> longer gives much of any useful feedback.
> I’ve decided to report this to Apple as a bug report. How can I do this? Is 
> there an address for this sort of thing?
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permission to place an ad on the list...

[Cameron Strife]

Hi. I had sent you an e mail a while ago asking for permission to put
an ad on the list selling my iPad Air with case and my iMac.

I didn't hear back from you but perhaps I missed the message for some reason...

Thanks,

Cameron.

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Re: Where Are Safari Favorites Stored

[Anne Robertson]

Hello Bill,

If you’re wanting to edit Favourites in Bookmarks, you just need to press 
Cmd-Option-b while in Safari and you can edit all your bookmarks.

Cheers,

Anne



> On 7 Oct 2017, at 15:49, Bill Gallik  wrote:
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> Can anyone out here tell me where the Internet Favorites are stored? I need 
> to delete several folders and rename a few others and I find the Safari 
> management procedures incredibly tedious (just as I found the Microsoft 
> procedures to be when I used a PC).
> 
> 
> - Bill from Ino, Wisconsin
> - "Arguing with a woman is like reading a software license agreement.”
> - "In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I Agree."
> - Contributor Unknown, But I’ll bet at least 50% of us go along with this 
> sentiment! ;-) 
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Submitting Numbers bug report to Apple

[Philip Halton]

I regularly Use numbers on the Mac, and have noticed that in recent updates, 
VoiceOver no longer gives typing feedback in the formula editor. It used to 
give  predictive feedback as you typed making formula entry a breeze, but no 
longer gives much of any useful feedback.
I’ve decided to report this to Apple as a bug report. How can I do this? Is 
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Where Are Safari Favorites Stored

[Bill Gallik]

Can anyone out here tell me where the Internet Favorites are stored? I need to 
delete several folders and rename a few others and I find the Safari management 
procedures incredibly tedious (just as I found the Microsoft procedures to be 
when I used a PC).


- Bill from Ino, Wisconsin
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- "In the end you have to ignore everything, & click I Agree."
- Contributor Unknown, But I’ll bet at least 50% of us go along with this 
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Re: External hard drive formating problem

[Krister Ekstrom]

Hi,
That didn’t work at all. What worked though was erasing the whole disk not the 
volume. Now everything is as it should.
/Krister


> 6 okt. 2017 kl. 23:33 skrev Simon Fogarty :
> 
> Try partitioning the drive rather than just eraising it.
> 
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom
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> Subject: External hard drive formating problem
> 
> Hi,
> Sorry for cross posting but i need help with this strange problem.
> I bought a 6 Tb hard drive and got it yesterday.
> Upon connecting it to my iMac i noticed that the disk was formatted in NTFS, 
> which is a no go if you want the mac to be able to write to it so i thought i 
> would reformat it to a file system readable by the Mac.
> I went into disk utility where i clicked on ”erase” which is the Macs name 
> for format. When all was said and done with deciding what format to have and 
> so on i clicked ”erase” and got this message: ”Action failed. Media kit 
> reports there is not enough space to perform this action. Action failed.” 
> This is a very rough translation from Swedish.
> The disk has 6 unused terrabytes on it and Media kit claims there’s not 
> enough space? WTF? 
> So now i’m stuck with a hard disk that can’t be read because if you try 
> connecting the drive i get this: ”The computer is unable to read the drive, 
> please format” and a button that points to the disk utility which can’t 
> format because there’s ”not enough space to perform this action”.
> What to do next?
> /Krister
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Apple's tricky iOS 11 photo tech gets a helping hand - CNET

[M. Taylor]

CNET News - Friday, October 6, 2017 at 5:57 AM
Apple's tricky iOS 11 photo tech gets a helping hand - CNET
Apple's new phone software means your photos take up half the space they
used to, and that's great. But it also can bring some complications. 
Good news: New tools are emerging to help you avoid the hassles -- and to
take better advantage of the change.
The new photo compression technology comes with the HEIC image format Apple
built into iOS 11, the iPhone and iPad software that arrived in September.
HEIC is a version of technology called HEIF -- High Efficiency Image Format
-- that needs less storage space than the decades-old JPEG format. It throws
other photography advancements into the bargain, too, to help with things
like Apple's portrait mode.
 
The Half app lets you convert your iPhone's JPEGs into smaller HEIC files,
then delete the JPEGs.
Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET 
Apple was careful to add safeguards that prevent HEIC compatibility problems
and to warn app developers to take similar precautions. For the most part,
HEIC images are in effect an internal format that gets converted into JPEG
when it's time to post a photo to Facebook or email it to your cousin.
The trouble comes when HEIC images leak out of their protective Apple
confines, as, for example, when you're experimenting with the format. You
can't display an HEIC image on incompatible devices like Windows laptops,
Android phones or Macs that don't run the latest MacOS software. It's tough
moving beyond file formats as entrenched and useful as JPEG -- but that's
where the new utilities come into play.
HEIF and HEIC exemplify the pitfalls of progress in the computing industry.
You often can't benefit from shiny new tech until it's widely adopted  --
think of owning the first fax machine or a Mac with USB-C ports that don't
work with old peripherals. But technology companies are scared to embrace a
new technology until they're convinced wide adoption will happen.
That kind of chicken-and-egg problem has hurt other image standards, like
Microsoft's JPEG XR and Google's WebP.
Smoothing the way
Happily, there are tools that make HEIC's arrival easier to manage, whether
that's avoiding its pains or embracing its benefits.
Free online tools let you convert HEIC images into JPEG if you're stuck with
one you can't handle. Vietnamese developer Tran Dang Khoa added an HEIC
converter alongside many other conversion tools. And Beamr, maker of the
JPEGmini software for optimizing photo and video file sizes, added its own
online HEIC-to-JPEG converter that can handle up to 30 photos at a time. If
you want to convert HEIC photos on your Windows or Mac PC, the free iMazing
app can help you there.
These cropped-in views of a larger image show how HEIF, left, offers richer
colors and fewer speckly artifacts near high-contrast borders compared to a
JPEG of about the same size.
Nokia 
But what if you want to go the other way, shrinking your JPEGs into HEIC
photos? For that, a $3 iOS app called Half for iOS devices can help. Half
also sells a $5 version for Macs. The unrelated HEIF Utility gives Windows
users a conversion option, too.
With Half, you tell the app which photos to shrink and it'll tell you how
much smaller the HEIC version is and ask whether you want to delete the
original JPEG. A batch mode to convert photos en masse is on the way, said
developer Christina Statescu, as is a tool to shrink videos into HEIC's
close relative, HEVC.
File-sync fixes
The obvious way HEIC photos could leak out is with file-sync apps like
Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive. Fortunately, the companies
behind those tools have you covered.
Dropbox can automatically ingest your photos, but on iOS by default it
converts HEIC files to JPEG. If you want to keep the HEIC images, open the
Dropbox app, tap the "recents" tab at the bottom left, tap the settings gear
icon on the upper right, tap "camera uploads" and change "save HEIC photos"
to HEIC.
 
iMazing's converter can help if you're stuck with an HEIC image you need to
change to JPEG.
iMazing 
Microsoft OneDrive also converts to JPEG. "This puts a user's photos in the
most compatible format and will allow them to view their photos on OneDrive
mobile apps, OneDrive.com, and in Windows 10," Microsoft said in a
statement. If you don't like it, you can disable automatic conversion by
opening settings, tapping on "advanced," then turning off the "Upload Most
Compatible" feature.
The PhotoSync app, which synchronizes photos across your devices and
photo-sharing services like Flickr and 500px, also converts HEIC into JPEG. 
Google Drive leaves HEIC files as HEIC, but the app now can view them on iOS
and Android and through the drive.google.com website.
Apple settings
If you're running iOS 10 or earlier or have an older iPhone, you won't get
an option to save HEIC images in the first place. But if you're using a
newer phone, you can enable it through the iOS settings app. Scroll down to
"Camera," tap 

The iPhone Didn't Emerge From Nothing. Here's What Came Before It

[M. Taylor]

On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stood on the MacWorld stage in his jeans and
a black turtleneck. "Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes
along that changes everything," he declared. "Today, Apple is going to
reinvent the phone."
The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World, by Anthony
Brandt & David Eagleman
catapult

Even after years of speculation, the iPhone was a revelation. No one had
seen anything like it: here was a communication device, music player, and
personal computer that you could hold in the palm of your hand. The media
hailed it as trailblazing, almost magical.

Bloggers called it the "Jesus phone." The introduction of the iPhone was
characteristic of great innovations: they come at us unexpectedly, with
novelty that seems to have come from nowhere.

But, despite appearances, innovations don't come from nowhere. They are the
latest branches on the family tree of invention. Research scientist Bill
Buxton has curated a collection of technological devices for decades, and he
can lay out the long genealogy of DNA that has forged a path to our modern
gadgets. Consider the Casio AT-550-7 wristwatch from 1984: it featured a
touchscreen that allowed the user to finger-swipe digits directly onto the
watch face.

Ten years later-and still thirteen years before the iPhone-IBM added a
touchscreen to a mobile phone.

The Simon was the world's first smart phone: it used a stylus and had a
collection of basic apps. It was able to send and receive faxes and emails,
and had a world time clock, notepad, calendar, and predictive typing.
Unfortunately, not many people bought it. Why did the Simon die? In part
because the battery lasted only one hour, in part because mobile phone calls
were so expensive at the time, and in part because there was no ecosystem of
apps to draw upon. But just like the Casio touchscreen, Simon left its
genetic material in the iPhone that followed "from nowhere."
Twenty-two years after Kramer's idea, Apple debuted the iPod.
Kane Kramer

Four years after the Simon came the Data Rover 840, a personal digital
assistant that had a touchscreen navigated in 3-D by a stylus. Contact lists
could be stored on a memory chip and carried around anywhere. Mobile
computing was gaining its footing.

Looking through his collection, Buxton points to the many devices that paved
the way for the electronics industry. The 1999 Palm Vx introduced the
thinness we've come to expect in our devices today. "It produced the
vocabulary that led to the super thin stuff like today's laptops," Buxton
says. "Where are the roots? There they are, right there."

Step by step, the groundwork was being laid for Steve Jobs' "revolutionary"
product. The Jesus phone didn't come from a virgin birth after all.

A few years after Jobs' announcement, the writer Steve Cichon bought a stack
of timeworn Buffalo News newspapers from 1991. He wanted to satisfy his
curiosity about what had changed. In the front section, he found this Radio
Shack advertisement.
Steve Cichon/Buffalo Stories archives

Cichon had a revelation: every item on the page had been replaced by the
iPhone in his pocket. Just two decades earlier, a buyer would have spent
$3,054.82 for all this hardware; they were now taken care of by a five-ounce
device at a fraction of the cost and material. The ad was a picture of the
iPhone's genealogy.

Groundbreaking technologies don't appear from nowhere-they result from
inventors "riffing on the best ideas of their heroes," as Buxton observes.
He likens Jonathan Ive, the designer of the iPhone, to a musician such as
Jimi Hendrix, who often "quoted" other musicians in his compositions. "If
you know the history and pay attention to it, you appreciate Jimi Hendrix
all the more," Buxton says.

In a similar vein, science historian Jon Gertner writes:

We usually imagine that invention occurs in a flash, with a eureka moment
that leads an inventor towards a startling epiphany. In truth, large leaps
forward in technology rarely have a precise point of origin. At the start,
forces that precede an invention merely begin to align, often imperceptibly,
as a group of people or ideas converge, until over the course of months or
years (or decades) they gain clarity and momentum and the help of additional
ideas and actors.






Like diamonds, creativity results from pressing history into brilliant new
forms. Consider another of Apple's breakthroughs: the iPod.

In the 1970s, piracy was a major issue in the record industry. Retailers
could return unsold albums to a record company for a refund; many took
advantage of this to send back counterfeit copies instead. In one case, two
million copies of Olivia Newton-John's album Physical were printed, and in
spite of the album topping the charts, an astounding three million copies
were returned.

To stop the rampant fraud, British inventor Kane Kramer came up with an
idea. He would develop a method to transmit music digitally across phone
lines, and an in-store