Re: Apple HomePod Discontinued: Apple to Focus on Smaller, HomePod Mini, USA Today

[Mike Arrigo]

That's one major disadvantage of the home pods, if you want to play anything 
other than something on Apple music, you have to use your phone to stream the 
content and at that point, the home pod is basically functioning as an external 
speaker for your phone. The Amazon echo devices and Google Home devices support 
several radio streaming services directly. Unless Apple makes more services 
available directly on the Home Pod, it will never compete with the Echo or 
Google home devices.

> On Mar 16, 2021, at 6:23 PM, matthew dyer  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am referring to being able to tell the HomePod to play it directly without 
> having to use your phone.  For example, on my android phone and probably.e on 
> my iPhone 8+ though I have not tested this I should be able to tell Sirri to 
> play a station on Sirius-xm.  I can tell my Samsung device to do this and 
> google speakers can do this after you set it up.  You can not do this on 
> apple speakers,  HTH.
> 
> Matthew
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 16, 2021, at 9:42 AM, kliph miller Sr  
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Its been publicly announced that serious XM will be allowed to be your 
>> default music service in IOS14.5
>> 
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>>> On Mar 15, 2021, at 5:28 PM, matthew dyer 
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi, 
>>> 
>>> My only complante with apple is þ they don't have access to Sirius XM as 
>>> least not through the speaker.  I have considered a google home for that or 
>>> an amazon speaker.
>>> 
>>> Matthew
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com  On 
>>> Behalf Of Mary Otten
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2021 11:38 PM
>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>>> Subject: Re: Apple HomePod Discontinued: Apple to Focus on Smaller, HomePod 
>>> Mini, USA Today
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the link you sent in another message, I will be responding. My 
>>> problem is that a lot of the stations I want our foreign language. And the 
>>> Amazon devices and the Google devices will play them. Siri won’t. Why not? 
>>> And even HomePod aside, Siri just sends me to the web far too often. Even 
>>> on the watch. That’s ridiculous. Apple bought the leading AI of its time 
>>> and totally lost it. I don’t want apple digging into my privacy matters. So 
>>> I totally agree with you there. But I don’t think you have to know all 
>>> about me in order to play a given radio station in a foreign country that 
>>> exists on a service with which Apple supposedly has connections. It’s just 
>>> screwed up. This is one area where Apple totally lost it. And it’s so sad. 
>>> The homePod‘s are really nice speakers in my opinion.
>>> Mary
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
 On Mar 14, 2021, at 8:11 PM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries 
  wrote:
 
 Well, far be it from me to defend Siri, but she's gotten a lot better, at 
 least with regard to playing radio stations. I can now get her to play 
 every station I want to hear, either from public radio, Tune-In, or 
 iHeart.  You might give that another try.
 
 I don't get why some music just won't play, and that's still an issue. I 
 mean, it would make sense if they had foreign language titles, but some of 
 the albums that give the most trouble don't. I've just solved that by 
 creating  playlist with the album, and giving it a different name. But 
 you're right, that shouldn't be necessary.
 
 All this said, I don't see how focusing on the Mini is going to fix those 
 issues. The albums that won't play on my HomePod, also won't play on the 
 mini.
 Cheers,
 Donna
 
 
> On Mar 14, 2021, at 10:03 PM, Mary Otten  wrote:
> 
> Hi Donna,
> I agree with you with regard to privacy issues. But I honestly don’t 
> think Apple has done what they could or should have done with Siri and 
> never mind privacy issues. That is, privacy issues shouldn’t matter in 
> these cases. Why, for instance, can’t you get radio stations around the 
> world to play reliably? Why doesn’t music always play reliably? Why can’t 
> you switch among music providers? Apple made a really nice speaker, 
> better than Google certainly, and I don’t have the Amazon studio, so I 
> can’t compare. I mean really. HomePod aside, Siri still get an awful lot 
> of stuff wrong, and still sends you to the web Waymore than it should. 
> Didn’t Apple say that was one of their big focuses for this year? Well, 
> they blew it. So now, I have my nice HomePods which may or may not ever 
> see any more upgrades. The performance is not reliable. It’s not the 
> speaker. It’s the infrastructure. Apple screwed up.
> 
> 

Re: Issue with USB LAN connection

[Jonathan Cohn]

 I tried to find a online manual, but I don't think your vendor does this. It 
appears you are using a DSL line am I correct? That would explain your mention 
of PPOE. PPPOE  is often used with DSL to connect to the DSLAM. 
How many large phone style connectors (RJ-45 8 pin) are on your router, and do 
you have another device that provides WiFi?

It is possible that your Macintosh can talk PPOE, I haven't tried in quite a 
few years, but if your Mac talks PPOE to the DSL line then no other devices in 
your home will be able to connect. In the US, the ISP's are often fairly good 
at helping customers get their systems connected as long as the customers did 
not buy routers from from a store, but used ones provided/sold by the ISP. 

Best wishes,

Jonathan Cohn



> On Mar 13, 2021, at 13:15, Muhammad Fayed  wrote:
> 
> Huawei  DG8045

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Re: Searching For Particular Messages In Mail on Catalina

[Pete De Vasto]

Thanks to everyone who replied to my question. Quite honestly, I did mention 
Command-F and had forgotten about Command-Option-F, that works for me as well.

Pete

> On Mar 17, 2021, at 7:10 AM, CHUCK REICHEL  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> Command option f always works in mail for me also.
> Talk soon
> Chuck
> 
> On Mar 16, 2021, at 9:29 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> First of all, at least for me the search box is at the end of my Toolbar not 
>> the beginning, so I would expect VO-ENd to get there.
>> Secondly, when in the primary Mail pane, I always find that command-option-F 
>> gets me to the Mailbox search box. The command-F search functionality is 
>> usually set up for text string searches, like in mail bodies or word 
>> processing. When you want to get to the search toolbar in a finder window or 
>> someplace else that is providing a list of items you are trying to find 
>> which item contains specific criteria it usually is command-option-F that 
>> does this.
>> 
>> 
>>  Best wishes,
>> 
>> Jonathan Cohn
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 15, 2021, at 14:04, Brad Snyder >> > wrote:
>>> 
>>> On my Mac mini, using Mac Mail, on Catalina,, I was able to search for mail 
>>> from an individual sender as follows:
>>> 
>>> 1.  I navigated to, and interacted with the ToolBar in the Mail app.
>>> 2.  After interacting with the ToolBar, I pressed VO + Home, which landed 
>>> me in the Search text field.
>>> 3.  Next, I typed in the first few letters of the sender’s name, then used 
>>> the down arrow to access a drop-down list of result categories, and 
>>> selected the most relevant result, and then pressed Enter.
>>> 4.  I then used VO + J, to navigate to the Mailbox list, where the results 
>>> of my search are listed.
>>> 
>>> Note:
>>> 1.  I am using Column Layout.
>>> 2.  When finished, I returned to the Search edit box in the ToolBar, to 
>>> clear my search criteria.
>>> 3.  I am using a full size keyboard, with extended keys.  If using the 
>>> smaller MacBook keyboard, use FN + VO + RightArrow, to navigate to the 
>>> Search edit field, after interacting with the ToolBar.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> - Brad -
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 15, 2021, at 12:30, Pete De Vasto >> > wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> In Mail on Catalina, I want to find a message from a particular person. I 
>>> can get to the toolbar and a search button within that toolbar, but VO 
>>> keeps saying Search popup button, and I can’t seem to be able to get into 
>>> an edit box where I can type what I’m looking for. Doing Command+F to 
>>> invoke the Find command isn’t doing what I want, either, so I’m probably 
>>> missing something very obvious, or maybe going about this search in the 
>>> wrong way. I’d appreciate any help and/or ideas on this.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Pete De Vasto
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Re: Searching For Particular Messages In Mail on Catalina

[CHUCK REICHEL]

Hi Jonathan,

Command option f always works in mail for me also.
Talk soon
Chuck

On Mar 16, 2021, at 9:29 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:

> Hello,
> First of all, at least for me the search box is at the end of my Toolbar not 
> the beginning, so I would expect VO-ENd to get there.
> Secondly, when in the primary Mail pane, I always find that command-option-F 
> gets me to the Mailbox search box. The command-F search functionality is 
> usually set up for text string searches, like in mail bodies or word 
> processing. When you want to get to the search toolbar in a finder window or 
> someplace else that is providing a list of items you are trying to find which 
> item contains specific criteria it usually is command-option-F that does this.
> 
> 
>   Best wishes,
> 
> Jonathan Cohn
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 15, 2021, at 14:04, Brad Snyder  wrote:
>> 
>> On my Mac mini, using Mac Mail, on Catalina,, I was able to search for mail 
>> from an individual sender as follows:
>> 
>> 1.  I navigated to, and interacted with the ToolBar in the Mail app.
>> 2.  After interacting with the ToolBar, I pressed VO + Home, which landed me 
>> in the Search text field.
>> 3.  Next, I typed in the first few letters of the sender’s name, then used 
>> the down arrow to access a drop-down list of result categories, and selected 
>> the most relevant result, and then pressed Enter.
>> 4.  I then used VO + J, to navigate to the Mailbox list, where the results 
>> of my search are listed.
>> 
>> Note:
>> 1.  I am using Column Layout.
>> 2.  When finished, I returned to the Search edit box in the ToolBar, to 
>> clear my search criteria.
>> 3.  I am using a full size keyboard, with extended keys.  If using the 
>> smaller MacBook keyboard, use FN + VO + RightArrow, to navigate to the 
>> Search edit field, after interacting with the ToolBar.
>> 
>> 
>> - Brad -
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 15, 2021, at 12:30, Pete De Vasto  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> In Mail on Catalina, I want to find a message from a particular person. I 
>> can get to the toolbar and a search button within that toolbar, but VO keeps 
>> saying Search popup button, and I can’t seem to be able to get into an edit 
>> box where I can type what I’m looking for. Doing Command+F to invoke the 
>> Find command isn’t doing what I want, either, so I’m probably missing 
>> something very obvious, or maybe going about this search in the wrong way. 
>> I’d appreciate any help and/or ideas on this.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Pete De Vasto
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