Mail/Signatures
Today I changed the two signatures I have in Mail to National and International. Unfortunately the International has become the default signature. How do I make the National the default? Stuart Breden -- 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
Preview/Copy
In some PDF's I open in Preview I can copy details in the PDF. In some I can't. Who is this happening in some PDF's and not in others? Stuart Breden -- 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: iPad and overseas travel
Thanks Ronni. I had found out the apn, but still was unable to get it working. Sounds like I need to ring their support line. People who've bought sims with credit on it seem to find it works OK, so I may be able to add some credit that way. I've tried to do it under sim applications, but they don't do anything when I push the buttons. Sent from my iPad On 11/09/2010, at 11:44 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Susan, If not connected to a computer with iTunes running you have to enter the corresponding APN data manually. Settings Cellular Data APN Settings APN I found I had to do this with my Telstra Pre-Paid micro-SIM card as it had not activated while connected to iTunes before I had to leave on a trip. So In Settings Cellular Data APN Settings APN I typed telstra.iph (without the quotes). Check with your provider what the APN settings are. Cheers Sent from Ronni's iPad On 11/09/2010, at 4:24 PM, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@me.com wrote: Hi, I tried the idea of getting a local iPad micro sim when we arrived in England, but ran into a snag because the settings for accessing the provider are downloaded through iTunes, and as we only have the iPad with us it means we can't actually set up the micro sim. Has anyone found a solution to this? Of course, we normally find there is wireless access at our accommodation, plus at cafes and restaurants. So, we can still access the Internet every day. Regards, Susan Sent from my iPad -- 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: Windows can't see the network card
That yellow symbol says there is something wrong with that device, usually it's drivers, and that it wont work. So it sounds like you do need to download the appropriate bootcamp and or bootcamp drivers as Patrick has suggested. I have not personally done this so I can't advise on the specifics. It may also be worth investigating if it is related to the older Mac OS you are using. Good Luck Paul -- 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: Mail/Signatures
MailPreferencesSignaturesChoose Signature - then select the one you want (at random will do as name suggests)cheersBlitto Rod Blitvich-Amy Sam’s Dad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.auhttp://web.me.com/blittoA Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from? On 12/09/2010, at 1:58 PM, bred...@highway1.biz wrote:Today I changed the two signatures I have in Mail to National and International. Unfortunately the International has become the default signature.How do I make the National the default?Stuart Breden-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtmlGuidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtmlUnsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au --TheWAMacintoshUserGroupMailingList-- 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: Mail/Signatures
On 12/09/2010, at 1:58 PM, bred...@highway1.biz wrote: Today I changed the two signatures I have in Mail to National and International. Unfortunately the International has become the default signature. How do I make the National the default? Hello Stuart, I had made a mental note NOT to assist you anymore on WAMUG. My reasons being: Your attitude is abupt, you don't use proper WAMUG Mailing list etiquette or common good manners, and rarely give enough information of the issue. You never reply back to WAMUG list to let the list know that what we have suggested to solve all your problems has worked, so if others experience the same they will know what to do. You never say Thank you for all the effort we put into solving all your problems. You don't do any research of your own, your attitude is Why should I use my time to solve my problems when I have WAMUG people to do it all for me. We have given so much of our time and knowledge to you and I for one am becoming tired of your attitude that we are here purely to act as your Personal IT Consultants. Others on list appreciate what we do to help solve their problems, but you just take it for granted. I try to give as much time as possible to help WAMUG Mailing list members, but people like you, people who don't appreciate what we do for them, I have had a Gut Full of. Have you even bothered to read the WAMUG Guidelines and Etiquette? The link is at the bottom of every WAMUG message. Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml In answer to your query: Mail Preferences Signatures - select the email account, then - Choose Signature: National Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- 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: Preview/Copy
On 12/09/2010, at 2:00 PM, bred...@highway1.biz wrote: In some PDF's I open in Preview I can copy details in the PDF. In some I can't. Who is this happening in some PDF's and not in others? Hello Stuart, The author of a PDF can elect to disable that functionality. You can create a PDF in which copy is disabled. Why? Copyright and content theft protection are the normal reasons. PDF has an option to lock for copy or printing of the document. This is part of the properties that the creator of the document can set. This could be the reason for you not being able to copy the contents of the document ... Open the PDF in Preview, under Tools Show Inspector - click on 'Encyption (the lock) to check if is it locked for copying and /or printing.. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- 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 can't see the network card
Hi Peter Have you installed the Windows/Mac drivers from the OSX CD? When you install Bootcamp, you need to load the MacOSX CD which has Windows drivers for a lot of things on it. Quote from the Manual http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.6.pdf ---quote--- Step 4: Install the Boot Camp Drivers for Windows After installing Windows, install Mac-specific drivers and other software for Windows using your Mac OS X installation disc. The Mac OS X disc installs drivers to support Mac components, including AirPort, built-in iSight camera, the Apple Remote, the trackpad on a portable Mac, and the function keys on an Apple keyboard. The Mac OS X disc also installs the Boot Camp control panel for Windows and the Apple Boot Camp system tray item. To install the Boot Camp drivers: 1Eject the Windows installation disc. 2Insert the Mac OS X disc. If the installer doesn¹t start automatically, browse the disc using Windows Explorer and double-click the setup.exe file in the Boot Camp directory. 3Follow the onscreen instructions. If a message appears that says the software you¹re installing has not passed Windows Logo testing, click Continue Anyway. Windows that appear only briefly during the installation don¹t require your input. 11 If nothing appears to be happening, there may be a hidden window that you must respond to. Check the taskbar and look behind open windows. Important: Do not click the Cancel button in any of the installer dialogs. 4 After your computer restarts, follow the instructions in the Found New Hardware Wizard to update your software drivers (Windows XP only). 5Follow the instructions for any other wizards that appear. 6Check for updated Boot Camp drivers by using Apple Software Update or going to www.apple.com/support/bootcamp. ---end quote--- Kind Regards Daniel On 11/9/10 4:59 PM, Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.com.au wrote: Hi Paul, Thanks for your suggestions. I tried Device Manager and the Ethernet Controller and Network Controller both had a yellow question mark alongside. So I put the Windows XP CD in and used the Hardware Wizard to update the driver but I got the message that it Could not find the necessary software. In the Network Connections panel there are two connections showing: 1. One says Connecting through WAN Miniport (PPPoE). When I click on it I get a message that Error 769 : The specified destination is not reachable. If I double click the get the LAN Connection StatusSupport there is no IP address listed. 2. The second connection shows LAN or High Speed Internet 1394 connection. On my stand alone PC this panel shows Local Area Connection Connected, VIA PCI 10/100Mb fast Ethernet. Any clues as to what needs tweaking? On 09/09/2010, at 5:36 PM, Paul K wrote: It could also be the IP Address of the Windows Mac. Make sure the first four sections (octets) are the same as the other two machines. Try to 'Ping' between the machines. It's easy, try Google. To check if the drivers are the problem right click on 'My Computer' select 'Manage'. When this opens look down the list on the left for 'Device Manager'. You are looking for a warning beside 'Network Adapters'. Good luck Paul -- 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 Regards, Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.com.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 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- 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: Preview/Copy
There may be other reasons but this is my experience. I get a lot of PDFs from clients. Those that I can't copy from are generally scanned as PDF from the original and can't be copied by Preview. When this happens I use PDFpenPro. It does a quick ORC or the document and then you can highlight and copy from it. You then save the document in the new format and can use it anytime. Lloyd In some PDF's I open in Preview I can copy details in the PDF. In some I can't. Who is this happening in some PDF's and not in others? Stuart Breden -- 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: Calculator
I've found slow loading can be a problem if you have too many widgets on display than you need. Great that you can have any number of clocks showing different times around the world, or any number of Unit Converters so as not to have to change settings each time, but if you go overboard with the number of widgets which rely on the internet to pull data, dashboard loading can slow to a crawl. I imagine a data hungry widget or two would have the same effect. For instance, I had a widget from the Bureau of Meteorology. I noticed it always took a while longer than the others to load. So I deleted it, and the whole dashboard loading process increased in speed substantially. The preinstalled Calculator and Unit Converter widget combination are hard to beat for convenience, although the Calculator has only basic functionality. No doubt there's a fancier calculator widget out there though. Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 4:28 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Thanks Steven. I do have an Easy Currency Converter widget but Dashboard always seems slow to load meaning I have to wait for all the various items, clocks, weather etc to appear. I find Calculator in the dock a much better option for a quick currency conversion. Regards Laura On 12/09/2010, at 8:04 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Laura, this doesn't answer your calculator problem, but using the Unit Converter widget alongside your calculator might be easier in the sense that exchange rates are accessed each inquiry, therefore no need to manually look up and amend exchange rates. The Unit Converter widget is amongst those which come preinstalled on your Mac. Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 3:19 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Good morning all A simple question and I'm sure there is a simple answer! I regularly use Calculator (4.5.3 in Scientific Mode) and when converting currency always update the current exchange rate, Now for whatever reason when I press update nothing happens. Not of major importance as I know there are many other currency conversions available but I do like things to work as they should!! Any suggestions would be appreciated. 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: Home file copy
Hi Ronni and Bob Over the past ten days I have worked through your suggestions. At one stage Bob when I followed the forum item that you sent and I tried Pathfinder 5 and clicked off Alias I thought I had it - but the drive did not show for Disk Utility when I next tried. That meant I could not follow up on the suggestions that you had made Ronni. This left me with having to try WD Anywhere Backup (WAB). WAB had three levels, Quick start, Basic and Advanced. Quick start provided for the drag and drop mode of backup which both of you advised against. Basic involved using Safari as the interface to access the settings. I went through the steps but at the end of it could not access the target folders I had created, one for each computer. Did a lot of searching in the Western Digital support base but to no avail. Advanced seemed to be the only option - the first panels covered what I had already done in Basic until I got to the Folder Shares panel. Here I was able to set the properties (read/write etc) of the folders I had created. Logged out of set up and checked to see whether it had worked. Success!! I then connected, in turn, the iMac and iBook directly by ethernet to MyBookWorld and backed our respective User files. On completion I reconnected the ethernet to the modem and provided that we connect to MyBookWorld in the Finder we have live updates. Having the large backup done initially one hardly notices the small changes occurring. I must say that without the advice from both of you I would probably have settled for drag and drop. Thank you for making me persevere until success on Friday evening with what now appears to be a good outcome. All the best Merv On 1/09/10 9:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Merv, On 31/08/2010, at 9:01 PM, Merv Bond wrote: Ronda Brown wrote on31/8/10 Hi Merv, Just to clarify a couple of things. 1. From what you have told us, I understand you are wishing to backup to the WD Drive, only the User Folders (your wife's 'User Folder' on iBook/Tiger, and your 'User Folder' on iMac/Leopard), is this correct? Yes 2. You are backing up a Bootable Clone of both the iBook Intel iMac as part of your Backup Strategy, is this correct? Yes, each with its own firewire external HD. If so, you first need to Reformat Partition the WD MyBook World Edition to APM (Apple Partition Map) Scheme (If you were using it only on the Intel iMac your would use GUID Partition Scheme). Instructions How to Reformat Partition your WD External Drive for Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard, can be found here: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=3865p_sid=7NFTmP8kp_lva=#leopardandfriends http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=3865p_sid=7NFTmP8kp_lva=#leopardandfriends As you have stated the link instructs how to do a Reformat and Partition. I assume your advice to use APM is because it will cater for both the PPC and the Intel Mac. Is it therefore preferable to connect WDMyBook directly to the PPC and do the reformatting from that computer? I am happy to continue with SuperDuper backing up User Folders only for each Mac if the partitioning now avoids sparse images. Unfortunately it doesn't look like you can avoid Sparse images. The WD MyBook World Edition is a NAS (Network Attached Storage) on reading SuperDuper Manual. *Backing up over a network:* Backing up to a network volume with SuperDuper! is as easy as backing up to a local volume, with a few special considerations. First, SuperDuper! cannot write directly to the network volume itself. Instead, you must store your backup in an image – *preferably a Read/Write “Sparse” Image.* * * To date I have not been able see the WDMyBook in the left hand column of Disk Utility on either Mac, even when connected directly by ethernet. I have changed ethernet cables in case that was the problem but to no avail. In the Users Manual it states: Supported clients • Windows XP® • Windows Vista™ • Windows® 7 • Windows Server® 2003 (latest service packs required) • Mac OS® X® Tiger® • Mac OS® X Leopard® • Mac OS® X Snow Leopard™ So perhaps I can use SuperDuper without reformatting? Without knowing what format the WD Drive is, I can't comment. We need to know what Format this Drive is. The WD Drive Should show in Disk Utility. * Summary* My external hard drive is not powering on or is not recognized on my Mac system You can view this answer here. http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=505 Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- 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 -
Non-forwarding PDFs
Someone told me recently that she had come across a PDF attached to an e-mail that she was not able to forward to someone else. She produces a newsletter for a club and is interested in charging recipients for the digital newsletter, as only paid-up members currently receive a paper copy. If there is a way to prevent a PDF from being forwarded, she would like to know how it is done. I haven't heard of this before. I should add that she uses a Windoze machine, and is not very computer-literate. Does anyone know if such a method exists? Cheers, Pat -- 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: Calculator
Hi Steven Thank you. Yes you are no doubt correct in suggesting I delete some widgets. First to go will be the weather widget which does indeed take a long time to load. How do I find the Unit Converter to use with Calculator? I tried searching with Spotlight but all that comes up is today's emails to the List. Regards Laura On 12/09/2010, at 3:25 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I've found slow loading can be a problem if you have too many widgets on display than you need. Great that you can have any number of clocks showing different times around the world, or any number of Unit Converters so as not to have to change settings each time, but if you go overboard with the number of widgets which rely on the internet to pull data, dashboard loading can slow to a crawl. I imagine a data hungry widget or two would have the same effect. For instance, I had a widget from the Bureau of Meteorology. I noticed it always took a while longer than the others to load. So I deleted it, and the whole dashboard loading process increased in speed substantially. The preinstalled Calculator and Unit Converter widget combination are hard to beat for convenience, although the Calculator has only basic functionality. No doubt there's a fancier calculator widget out there though. Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 4:28 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Thanks Steven. I do have an Easy Currency Converter widget but Dashboard always seems slow to load meaning I have to wait for all the various items, clocks, weather etc to appear. I find Calculator in the dock a much better option for a quick currency conversion. Regards Laura On 12/09/2010, at 8:04 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Laura, this doesn't answer your calculator problem, but using the Unit Converter widget alongside your calculator might be easier in the sense that exchange rates are accessed each inquiry, therefore no need to manually look up and amend exchange rates. The Unit Converter widget is amongst those which come preinstalled on your Mac. Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 3:19 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Good morning all A simple question and I'm sure there is a simple answer! I regularly use Calculator (4.5.3 in Scientific Mode) and when converting currency always update the current exchange rate, Now for whatever reason when I press update nothing happens. Not of major importance as I know there are many other currency conversions available but I do like things to work as they should!! Any suggestions would be appreciated. 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
Fwd: thanks
Thanks Ronni.My friend is a happy chappy.cheersRod Begin forwarded message:From: JOHN BORMOLINI jcbormol...@bigpond.comDate: 12 September 2010 5:33:56 PM AWSTTo: Rod Blitvich rb...@iinet.net.auSubject: Re: Hey blitto Thanks for those suggestions – the first one that had the last resort “live chat” Once I got on it solved my problem in a few minutes of chat and questions – the basic answer to it all is what we suspected (and almost admitted by the the very helpful ”Jamila” on the chat line) that the password resetting links don’t work as they should. She did it for me at that end and it worked instantly – all fixed! Cheers for your help mate. Bomma On 11/09/10 8:36 PM, "Rod Blitvich" rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: Rod Blitvich rb...@iinet.net.au Date: 11 September 2010 8:10:17 PM AWST To: John__Carla Bormolini jcbormol...@bigpond.com Don't know if any of these help Bomma (they are all separate suggestions) 1) Hi Blitto, I'm away for a 'Mini Break' Daniel is going to kill me for answering :-( Because your friend has gone about this in an unusual way, really not the correct manner, he might have to resort to the last solution. This sometimes works: go to System PreferencesMobileMe; sign out. In place of your username and password, enter any old garbage: this will of course be rejected. Now enter your correct username (without the '@me.com') and password. See if this is accepted; if so try mounting your iDisk (command-shift-i). If it doesn't, go to the MobileMe website, http://me.com http://me.com/ (sometimes that address shows only 'Resource not available', but you can get usually in through https://auth.apple.com/authenticate ). Click on the Account button (the one with the cogwheels) in the toolbar, log in again with your password, click on Password Settings in the left sidebar, and change your password. Now return to System PreferencesMobileMe and enter the new password. Check it works by mounting your iDisk (command-shift-i). Failing all this, you could try signing out in System Preferences, then creating a new user account on your Mac and signing in to MobileMe in System Preferences there. If that works you should sign out (and you can delete the new user account) and you may find that this will have kick-started it, so to speak. If none of this works, it's time for Support: http://www.apple.com/support/mobileme In the left sidebar click on 'Account Billing' and wait for it to expand. Click on 'Member name and password' and you will get a link at the bottom of the page to 'Live Chat'. Sent from Ronni's iPad 2)http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20002962-263.html 3) Go to (user)/Library/Preferences, delete com.apple.DotMacSync.plist Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au x-msg://18/rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.me.com/blitto http://web.mac.com/blitto A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from? --TheWAMacintoshUserGroupMailingList-- 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: Calculator
I've found the pre-installed weather widget loads quite quickly, ie. the one which if you click on 'i' for information is powered by The Weather Channel and Yahoo! If you bring up your Dashboard, you should see a black and white '+' symbol in the bottom left corner of your screen, ie. a white '+' on a black circular background. If you click on the '+' symbol, a row of optional widgets should slide open, each of which you can drag to the Dashboard as many times as you like (the more copies you drag onto your dashboard, the more slowly the Dashboard widgets load overall). If you don't see an icon for Unit Converter, you need to look at the bottom right corner of your screen, after you've clicked on the '+' symbol, and click on the right-pointing arrow. This should take you to the next suite of widgets available. If you still don't see Unit Converter, keep scrolling through your available widgets by clicking the right arrow again. You can scroll back by clicking the left arrow at the bottom left of your screen, near where the '+' symbol was which will have now turned into an 'x'. If for some reason Unit Converter isn't there, I presume you can find and install it via ... http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 1:41 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Steven Thank you. Yes you are no doubt correct in suggesting I delete some widgets. First to go will be the weather widget which does indeed take a long time to load. How do I find the Unit Converter to use with Calculator? I tried searching with Spotlight but all that comes up is today's emails to the List. Regards Laura On 12/09/2010, at 3:25 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I've found slow loading can be a problem if you have too many widgets on display than you need. Great that you can have any number of clocks showing different times around the world, or any number of Unit Converters so as not to have to change settings each time, but if you go overboard with the number of widgets which rely on the internet to pull data, dashboard loading can slow to a crawl. I imagine a data hungry widget or two would have the same effect. For instance, I had a widget from the Bureau of Meteorology. I noticed it always took a while longer than the others to load. So I deleted it, and the whole dashboard loading process increased in speed substantially. The preinstalled Calculator and Unit Converter widget combination are hard to beat for convenience, although the Calculator has only basic functionality. No doubt there's a fancier calculator widget out there though. Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 4:28 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Thanks Steven. I do have an Easy Currency Converter widget but Dashboard always seems slow to load meaning I have to wait for all the various items, clocks, weather etc to appear. I find Calculator in the dock a much better option for a quick currency conversion. Regards Laura On 12/09/2010, at 8:04 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Laura, this doesn't answer your calculator problem, but using the Unit Converter widget alongside your calculator might be easier in the sense that exchange rates are accessed each inquiry, therefore no need to manually look up and amend exchange rates. The Unit Converter widget is amongst those which come preinstalled on your Mac. Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 3:19 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Good morning all A simple question and I'm sure there is a simple answer! I regularly use Calculator (4.5.3 in Scientific Mode) and when converting currency always update the current exchange rate, Now for whatever reason when I press update nothing happens. Not of major importance as I know there are many other currency conversions available but I do like things to work as they should!! Any suggestions would be appreciated. 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
iPad books
My wife is an avid reader of modern fiction and because of the high price of books is thinking about an iPad. May someone could let us know about the following please: What's a typical file size for a novel? Can novels downloaded to an iPad be eventually saved to say an external hard drive, another computer or something like a CD? Would a 16GB iPad be sufficient for general purpose use, or are people finding them too small? Any other advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Paul (and Jill.) -- 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
Microsoft Sync Services.
Hi all, I have a problem with Entourage. It has started (in the last couple of days) coming up with the following message when launching, ²Microsoft Sync Services has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for any inconvenience². I click the restart Sync Services and it continues to display the fault every couple of seconds. Very annoying. Any suggestions?? -- 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: Microsoft Sync Services.
Hi Ken, Although I use Entourage, I have not personally used Sync Services. However, faced with your problem, I would probably try going to preferences/Sync services and unchecking any of the 3 items that you have set to sync. Then quit Entourage and restart it. Then re-enable the items you want to sync and see if that has reset things. The above refers to my Entourage version (11.4.0) - if you are running a different version I guess the set-up could be different. Anyway, just a thought. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 12/9/10 6:16 PM, Ken Woods at logg...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with Entourage. It has started (in the last couple of days) coming up with the following message when launching, ²Microsoft Sync Services has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for any inconvenience². I click the restart Sync Services and it continues to display the fault every couple of seconds. Very annoying. Any suggestions?? -- 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: Calculator
Hi Steven I thought you had meant that Unit Converter was an application similar to Calculator. No problem in managing widgets. Thanks for your response. I would still like to know why Calculator is no longer updating exchange rates. Cheers Laura On 12/09/2010, at 6:09 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I've found the pre-installed weather widget loads quite quickly, ie. the one which if you click on 'i' for information is powered by The Weather Channel and Yahoo! If you bring up your Dashboard, you should see a black and white '+' symbol in the bottom left corner of your screen, ie. a white '+' on a black circular background. If you click on the '+' symbol, a row of optional widgets should slide open, each of which you can drag to the Dashboard as many times as you like (the more copies you drag onto your dashboard, the more slowly the Dashboard widgets load overall). If you don't see an icon for Unit Converter, you need to look at the bottom right corner of your screen, after you've clicked on the '+' symbol, and click on the right-pointing arrow. This should take you to the next suite of widgets available. If you still don't see Unit Converter, keep scrolling through your available widgets by clicking the right arrow again. You can scroll back by clicking the left arrow at the bottom left of your screen, near where the '+' symbol was which will have now turned into an 'x'. If for some reason Unit Converter isn't there, I presume you can find and install it via ... http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 1:41 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Steven Thank you. Yes you are no doubt correct in suggesting I delete some widgets. First to go will be the weather widget which does indeed take a long time to load. How do I find the Unit Converter to use with Calculator? I tried searching with Spotlight but all that comes up is today's emails to the List. Regards Laura On 12/09/2010, at 3:25 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I've found slow loading can be a problem if you have too many widgets on display than you need. Great that you can have any number of clocks showing different times around the world, or any number of Unit Converters so as not to have to change settings each time, but if you go overboard with the number of widgets which rely on the internet to pull data, dashboard loading can slow to a crawl. I imagine a data hungry widget or two would have the same effect. For instance, I had a widget from the Bureau of Meteorology. I noticed it always took a while longer than the others to load. So I deleted it, and the whole dashboard loading process increased in speed substantially. The preinstalled Calculator and Unit Converter widget combination are hard to beat for convenience, although the Calculator has only basic functionality. No doubt there's a fancier calculator widget out there though. Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 4:28 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Thanks Steven. I do have an Easy Currency Converter widget but Dashboard always seems slow to load meaning I have to wait for all the various items, clocks, weather etc to appear. I find Calculator in the dock a much better option for a quick currency conversion. Regards Laura On 12/09/2010, at 8:04 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Laura, this doesn't answer your calculator problem, but using the Unit Converter widget alongside your calculator might be easier in the sense that exchange rates are accessed each inquiry, therefore no need to manually look up and amend exchange rates. The Unit Converter widget is amongst those which come preinstalled on your Mac. Cheers, Steven On 12/09/2010, at 3:19 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Good morning all A simple question and I'm sure there is a simple answer! I regularly use Calculator (4.5.3 in Scientific Mode) and when converting currency always update the current exchange rate, Now for whatever reason when I press update nothing happens. Not of major importance as I know there are many other currency conversions available but I do like things to work as they should!! Any suggestions would be appreciated. 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: iPad books
Hi Paul, Apple reckons a typical size for an iBook is around 2MB, see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4059 For their ³iBooks: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)² However, be aware that, at present there are very few books available on the Australia iBookstore presumably that will change in time as they sign deals with the various publishers. I don¹t have an iPad - but I¹ve just bought an iPhone and installed iBook and downloaded a free book to see how it all worked basically iTunes keeps a copy of the book on my computer so, yes, you could then copy the .epub file from your iTunes library to say an external hard drive, another computer or something like a CD for back-up purposes. Although iTunes manages the downloaded book, it does not let you read it on the computer However Adobe Digital Editions http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/ is a free download and does let you read epub files on your computer. I¹ve tried it and it worked fine with my free iBook. The Adobe program also lets you buy and ³borrow² ebooks so obviously includes DRM management however I don¹t know if the Adobe Apple DRM systems ³talk² to each other ie whether Adobe can read an Apple DRM protected iBook or whether an Adobe DRM protected ebook is readable by iBook on the iPhone or iPad. Regarding whether 16GB is sufficient it really depends what you want to have on it. 16GB would be a hell of a lot of iBooks and a fair bit of music start throwing a bit of video on there though and you could soon be looking for more? HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 12/9/10 6:14 PM, Paul Weaver at pwea...@westnet.com.au wrote: My wife is an avid reader of modern fiction and because of the high price of books is thinking about an iPad. May someone could let us know about the following please: What's a typical file size for a novel? Can novels downloaded to an iPad be eventually saved to say an external hard drive, another computer or something like a CD? Would a 16GB iPad be sufficient for general purpose use, or are people finding them too small? Any other advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Paul (and Jill.) -- 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: Non-forwarding PDFs
Pat, I know of no method of making a pdf 'non-forwardable'. However, to make it more difficult for third parties to make use of an e-mailed pdf you can make a pdf where the receiver needs a password to open that pdf, and where the receiver cannot alter that pdf to remove the password protection. A person forwarding such a pdf would therefore also have to forward the password to open it. That would be similar to someone photocopying a printed document and giving someone else the photocopy; also difficult to prevent. Some email programs don't automatically include attachments in forwarded e-mails; you have to manually re-attach the attachment before sending the forwarded message. That's probably what happened to your informant making her think it was the pdf, and not the email software that was stopping the attachment from being forwarded. On 12/09/2010, at 17:39 , Pat wrote: Someone told me recently that she had come across a PDF attached to an e-mail that she was not able to forward to someone else. She produces a newsletter for a club and is interested in charging recipients for the digital newsletter, as only paid-up members currently receive a paper copy. If there is a way to prevent a PDF from being forwarded, she would like to know how it is done. I haven't heard of this before. I should add that she uses a Windoze machine, and is not very computer-literate. Does anyone know if such a method exists? Cheers, Pat -- 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 Regards, Ray Forma 50 Harvest Road, North Fremantle WA 6159, Australia Tel Fax +61 (0)8 9335 6568 Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- 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: iPad books
Hi, you can buy heaps of current books for the iPad using the kindle(amazon) or Borders applications, the apple iBooks application only has free books out of copyright at present. You can read your Kindle books on any device that can have a kindle application, such as your Mac or iPhone. Once you are reading a book it saves your place and you can pick it up on any device in the same place, provided it connects to the Internet. You set this up through the Amazon online bookstore.The Borders application also does this as well, but I think only works for the iPhone and iPad. I love reading books on the iPad, they still have a cost, but not as much as printed books or audio books. I don't know of any way to save books to a cd. If you were mainly using the iPad for reading, then 16gig would be enough. If you want to store tv shows and movies, you might find you need more space. Cheers, Susan Sent from my iPad On 12/09/2010, at 1:17 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Paul, Apple reckons a typical size for an iBook is around 2MB, see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4059 For their “iBooks: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)” However, be aware that, at present there are very few books available on the Australia iBookstore – presumably that will change in time as they sign deals with the various publishers. I don’t have an iPad - but I’ve just bought an iPhone and installed iBook and downloaded a free book to see how it all worked – basically iTunes keeps a copy of the book on my computer – so, yes, you could then copy the .epub file from your iTunes library to say an external hard drive, another computer or something like a CD – for back-up purposes. Although iTunes manages the downloaded book, it does not let you read it on the computer – However Adobe Digital Editions http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/ is a free download and does let you read epub files on your computer. I’ve tried it and it worked fine with my free iBook. The Adobe program also lets you buy and “borrow” ebooks so obviously includes DRM management – however I don’t know if the Adobe Apple DRM systems “talk” to each other – ie whether Adobe can read an Apple DRM protected iBook or whether an Adobe DRM protected ebook is readable by iBook on the iPhone or iPad. Regarding whether 16GB is sufficient – it really depends what you want to have on it. 16GB would be a hell of a lot of iBooks and a fair bit of music – start throwing a bit of video on there though and you could soon be looking for more? HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 12/9/10 6:14 PM, Paul Weaver at pwea...@westnet.com.au wrote: My wife is an avid reader of modern fiction and because of the high price of books is thinking about an iPad. May someone could let us know about the following please: What's a typical file size for a novel? Can novels downloaded to an iPad be eventually saved to say an external hard drive, another computer or something like a CD? Would a 16GB iPad be sufficient for general purpose use, or are people finding them too small? Any other advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Paul (and Jill.) -- 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: Calculator
Hi David Thanks for that link. At least now I know it is a real problem for everyone using Calculator. A pity, because a simple unit converter is not nearly so convenient as having all the Calculator attributes available. Regards Laura On 12/09/2010, at 10:34 PM, David Brown wrote: Laura Webb wrote: Hi Steven I thought you had meant that Unit Converter was an application similar to Calculator. No problem in managing widgets. Thanks for your response. I would still like to know why Calculator is no longer updating exchange rates. Cheers Laura Hi Laura There is a discussion on this topic at: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2571756tstart=0messageID=12248963#12248963 Possibly Apple is not too concerned with fixing this aspect of Calculator since there is now the widget to do the job. Cheers David -- 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: Preview vs Acrobat Pro for scanning
On 10/09/2010, at 10:22 PM, Tim Law wrote: I don't particularly care about this, so don't want anyone to fuss about helping me work it out, it's moreso another example of how useful Preview is out of the box. Of course, if there is a simple solution, I'd be happy to know. BTW, I was also able to scan using the Print driver in System Preferences - all very simple and straight forward, unlike Acrobat Pro!! Long live Preview :-) Tim I think this is part of a common affliction shared by several longtime Apple software writers, Adobe and Microsoft being notable examples, in that they seem unable to recognise that Mac OS X is not MacOS Classic! Mac OS X has always used central resources for items such as TWAIN drivers, Address Book, fonts, etc, while Classic relied on developers choosing heir own locations, leading to much duplication. Adobe in this case are insisting that the TWAIN drivers live in their standard location which is probably somewhere in their application's folder, and it won't be looking for them anywhere else. Preview, of course, is looking in the correct Mac OS X location, as will any other correctly-written application which allows scanning. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 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: Home file copy
Hi Merv, That is good news Merv. Thank you for posting back to the list with your results. The Advanced level was the only option you had to achieve what you wished to do. The WD My Book World Edition's seven-page Quick Install Guide instructions are sufficient to get you operational, but it only provides information on how to access the drive's public folders. As you wanted to set up private folder shares etc, you needed to look at the electronic user manual on the bundled CD, which does explain the Advanced Mode Private Folder shares. It does pay to persevere … perseverance pays in the end ;-) A quote I use often at the bottom of my signature … “Good is the enemy of Excellent. Talent is not necessary for Excellence. Persistence is necessary for Excellence, and Persistence is a Decision.” Cheers, Ronni On 12/09/2010, at 5:28 PM, Merv Bond wrote: Hi Ronni and Bob Over the past ten days I have worked through your suggestions. At one stage Bob when I followed the forum item that you sent and I tried Pathfinder 5 and clicked off Alias I thought I had it - but the drive did not show for Disk Utility when I next tried. That meant I could not follow up on the suggestions that you had made Ronni. This left me with having to try WD Anywhere Backup (WAB). WAB had three levels, Quick start, Basic and Advanced. Quick start provided for the drag and drop mode of backup which both of you advised against. Basic involved using Safari as the interface to access the settings. I went through the steps but at the end of it could not access the target folders I had created, one for each computer. Did a lot of searching in the Western Digital support base but to no avail. Advanced seemed to be the only option - the first panels covered what I had already done in Basic until I got to the Folder Shares panel. Here I was able to set the properties (read/write etc) of the folders I had created. Logged out of set up and checked to see whether it had worked. Success!! I then connected, in turn, the iMac and iBook directly by ethernet to MyBookWorld and backed our respective User files. On completion I reconnected the ethernet to the modem and provided that we connect to MyBookWorld in the Finder we have live updates. Having the large backup done initially one hardly notices the small changes occurring. I must say that without the advice from both of you I would probably have settled for drag and drop. Thank you for making me persevere until success on Friday evening with what now appears to be a good outcome. All the best Merv On 1/09/10 9:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Merv, On 31/08/2010, at 9:01 PM, Merv Bond wrote: Ronda Brown wrote on31/8/10 Hi Merv, Just to clarify a couple of things. 1. From what you have told us, I understand you are wishing to backup to the WD Drive, only the User Folders (your wife's 'User Folder' on iBook/Tiger, and your 'User Folder' on iMac/Leopard), is this correct? Yes 2. You are backing up a Bootable Clone of both the iBook Intel iMac as part of your Backup Strategy, is this correct? Yes, each with its own firewire external HD. If so, you first need to Reformat Partition the WD MyBook World Edition to APM (Apple Partition Map) Scheme (If you were using it only on the Intel iMac your would use GUID Partition Scheme). Instructions How to Reformat Partition your WD External Drive for Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard, can be found here: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=3865p_sid=7NFTmP8kp_lva=#leopardandfriends http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=3865p_sid=7NFTmP8kp_lva=#leopardandfriends As you have stated the link instructs how to do a Reformat and Partition. I assume your advice to use APM is because it will cater for both the PPC and the Intel Mac. Is it therefore preferable to connect WDMyBook directly to the PPC and do the reformatting from that computer? I am happy to continue with SuperDuper backing up User Folders only for each Mac if the partitioning now avoids sparse images. Unfortunately it doesn't look like you can avoid Sparse images. The WD MyBook World Edition is a NAS (Network Attached Storage) on reading SuperDuper Manual. *Backing up over a network:* Backing up to a network volume with SuperDuper! is as easy as backing up to a local volume, with a few special considerations. First, SuperDuper! cannot write directly to the network volume itself. Instead, you must store your backup in an image – *preferably a Read/Write “Sparse” Image.* * * To date I have not been able see the WDMyBook in the left hand column of Disk Utility on either Mac, even when connected directly by ethernet. I have changed ethernet cables in case that was the problem but to no avail. In the Users Manual it states: Supported clients • Windows XP® • Windows Vista™ • Windows® 7 • Windows
Buffering Stream
Since upgrading to iTunes 10, I find that I can no longer listen to the 30-second grabs in the iTunes Music Store. Instead, the preview suffers from a series of Buffering Stream... messages which appear every few seconds, rendering the preview unplayable. I have never experienced this before in the entire time I have been using iTunes. Is it just me, or are others experiencing this as well? Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 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: Buffering Stream
On 13/09/2010, at 8:57 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: Since upgrading to iTunes 10, I find that I can no longer listen to the 30-second grabs in the iTunes Music Store. Instead, the preview suffers from a series of Buffering Stream... messages which appear every few seconds, rendering the preview unplayable. I have never experienced this before in the entire time I have been using iTunes. Is it just me, or are others experiencing this as well? Hi Peter, I'm not experiencing this in iTunes 10, the 30 sec previews play through to the end without any problem. Hmm, I wonder why you are having a problem. I guess you have checked your Network for any hiccup. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- 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: Buffering Stream
Hi again Peter, I just checked my settings in iTunes preferences. iTunes Preferences Advanced and my setting for Streaming Buffer Size: is Medium. I wonder if you play around with that setting and see if it helps, perhaps try 'small'? Cheers, Ronni On 13/09/2010, at 9:03 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 13/09/2010, at 8:57 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: Since upgrading to iTunes 10, I find that I can no longer listen to the 30-second grabs in the iTunes Music Store. Instead, the preview suffers from a series of Buffering Stream... messages which appear every few seconds, rendering the preview unplayable. I have never experienced this before in the entire time I have been using iTunes. Is it just me, or are others experiencing this as well? Hi Peter, I'm not experiencing this in iTunes 10, the 30 sec previews play through to the end without any problem. Hmm, I wonder why you are having a problem. I guess you have checked your Network for any hiccup. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- 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: Buffering Stream
On 13/09/2010, at 9:03 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 13/09/2010, at 8:57 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: Since upgrading to iTunes 10, I find that I can no longer listen to the 30-second grabs in the iTunes Music Store. Instead, the preview suffers from a series of Buffering Stream... messages which appear every few seconds, rendering the preview unplayable. I have never experienced this before in the entire time I have been using iTunes. Is it just me, or are others experiencing this as well? Hi Peter, I'm not experiencing this in iTunes 10, the 30 sec previews play through to the end without any problem. Hmm, I wonder why you are having a problem. I guess you have checked your Network for any hiccup. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) At least that suggests it's just me, and not a problem with iTunes 10 per se. Thanks Ronni, I'll look further into it. It's obviously still a networking issue from here. I've checked the obvious things: account status, download speeds, etc. It may be that for some reason I'm simply hitting an overloaded server. I'll check again tonight. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 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: Home file copy
Hi Bob No, I still can't see it with Disk Utility. The volume that I set up for my computer appears on the desktop when I connect but not MyBookWorld itself. However, when I open the Finder MyBookWorld appears in the Sidebar in the Shared area and a click on that gives me access to the folders on it so that I can connect to whichever I select. I did not buy Pathfinder so maybe that is why the tick-a-box did not survive - it was supposed to be a full version for a trial period. All the best Merv On 13/09/10 7:39 AM, Robert Howells wrote: Good Morning Merv, For future reference can you please tell us Now that you can make use of your WD OK. are you able tp see that hard drive with Disk Utility ? Regards Bob On 12/09/2010, at 5:28 PM, Merv Bond wrote: Hi Ronni and Bob Over the past ten days I have worked through your suggestions. At one stage Bob when I followed the forum item that you sent and I tried Pathfinder 5 and clicked off Alias I thought I had it - but the drive did not show for Disk Utility when I next tried. That meant I could not follow up on the suggestions that you had made Ronni. This left me with having to try WD Anywhere Backup (WAB). WAB had three levels, Quick start, Basic and Advanced. Quick start provided for the drag and drop mode of backup which both of you advised against. Basic involved using Safari as the interface to access the settings. I went through the steps but at the end of it could not access the target folders I had created, one for each computer. Did a lot of searching in the Western Digital support base but to no avail. Advanced seemed to be the only option - the first panels covered what I had already done in Basic until I got to the Folder Shares panel. Here I was able to set the properties (read/write etc) of the folders I had created. Logged out of set up and checked to see whether it had worked. Success!! I then connected, in turn, the iMac and iBook directly by ethernet to MyBookWorld and backed our respective User files. On completion I reconnected the ethernet to the modem and provided that we connect to MyBookWorld in the Finder we have live updates. Having the large backup done initially one hardly notices the small changes occurring. I must say that without the advice from both of you I would probably have settled for drag and drop. Thank you for making me persevere until success on Friday evening with what now appears to be a good outcome. All the best Merv On 1/09/10 9:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Merv, On 31/08/2010, at 9:01 PM, Merv Bond wrote: Ronda Brown wrote on31/8/10 Hi Merv, Just to clarify a couple of things. 1. From what you have told us, I understand you are wishing to backup to the WD Drive, only the User Folders (your wife's 'User Folder' on iBook/Tiger, and your 'User Folder' on iMac/Leopard), is this correct? Yes 2. You are backing up a Bootable Clone of both the iBook Intel iMac as part of your Backup Strategy, is this correct? Yes, each with its own firewire external HD. If so, you first need to Reformat Partition the WD MyBook World Edition to APM (Apple Partition Map) Scheme (If you were using it only on the Intel iMac your would use GUID Partition Scheme). Instructions How to Reformat Partition your WD External Drive for Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard, can be found here: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=3865p_sid=7NFTmP8kp_lva=#leopardandfriends http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=3865p_sid=7NFTmP8kp_lva=#leopardandfriends As you have stated the link instructs how to do a Reformat and Partition. I assume your advice to use APM is because it will cater for both the PPC and the Intel Mac. Is it therefore preferable to connect WDMyBook directly to the PPC and do the reformatting from that computer? I am happy to continue with SuperDuper backing up User Folders only for each Mac if the partitioning now avoids sparse images. Unfortunately it doesn't look like you can avoid Sparse images. The WD MyBook World Edition is a NAS (Network Attached Storage) on reading SuperDuper Manual. *Backing up over a network:* Backing up to a network volume with SuperDuper! is as easy as backing up to a local volume, with a few special considerations. First, SuperDuper! cannot write directly to the network volume itself. Instead, you must store your backup in an image – *preferably a Read/Write “Sparse” Image.* * * To date I have not been able see the WDMyBook in the left hand column of Disk Utility on either Mac, even when connected directly by ethernet. I have changed ethernet cables in case that was the problem but to no avail. In the Users Manual it states: Supported clients • Windows XP® • Windows Vista™ • Windows® 7 • Windows Server® 2003 (latest service packs required) • Mac OS® X® Tiger® • Mac OS® X Leopard® • Mac OS® X Snow Leopard™ So perhaps I can use SuperDuper without reformatting? Without knowing what format the WD
Sleep
Good morning all, Indulge me in another chapter in the ongoing debate about sleeping computers, if you will. My home iMac is turned on in the morning and shut down at the end of the day. In between, I set it to sleep manually when I'm away for more than a few minutes. What practice do you follow? I know the user guide says to shut down when the computer is not in use for more than a few days, but I've always thought giving it a break overnight was a good idea. I'm keen to learn the opinions of other Mac users. Thanks in advance, Clinton -- 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: Sleep
I do exactly the same as you Clinton. I am interested to hear what others do and think is good practice. Peter T Albany On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Clinton Ducas clintondu...@iinet.net.auwrote: Good morning all, Indulge me in another chapter in the ongoing debate about sleeping computers, if you will. My home iMac is turned on in the morning and shut down at the end of the day. In between, I set it to sleep manually when I'm away for more than a few minutes. What practice do you follow? I know the user guide says to shut down when the computer is not in use for more than a few days, but I've always thought giving it a break overnight was a good idea. I'm keen to learn the opinions of other Mac users. Thanks in advance, Clinton -- 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: Microsoft Sync Services.
Hi Ken, You can turn off Sync Services in Entourage preferences until you can get time to fix your issues. Sync Services goes through a database called the truth. Until you get the database cleared of the problem you are going to keep having problems. Turn off Sync Services. Select one device as the primary source. Clean up the data in the primary source. In Entourage you might want to export all contacts and events as .rge file and import to clear any corruption. Follow details here to reset: NB: When you are resetting Sync Services as described, be sure you have backups. How to reset sync services and start fresh http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/syncservices.html#ss2 More info: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070205125711148 http://www.microsoft.com/mac/help.mspx?MODE=ctCTT=PageViewclr=99-2-0target=ff4ddfd5-af2f-4c8c-bda5-d98ab232c94a1033srcid=ep=8rtype=2pos=1quid=4bf1b944-c1e6-4b53-a6aa-704740710652 Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 12/09/2010, at 7:07 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Ken, Although I use Entourage, I have not personally used Sync Services. However, faced with your problem, I would probably try going to preferences/Sync services and unchecking any of the 3 items that you have set to sync. Then quit Entourage and restart it. Then re-enable the items you want to sync and see if that has reset things. The above refers to my Entourage version (11.4.0) - if you are running a different version I guess the set-up could be different. Anyway, just a thought. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 12/9/10 6:16 PM, Ken Woods at logg...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with Entourage. It has started (in the last couple of days) coming up with the following message when launching, ”Microsoft Sync Services has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for any inconvenience”. I click the restart Sync Services and it continues to display the fault every couple of seconds. Very annoying. Any suggestions?? -- 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: Sleep
On 13/09/2010, at 10:36 AM, Clinton Ducas wrote: Good morning all, Indulge me in another chapter in the ongoing debate about sleeping computers, if you will. My home iMac is turned on in the morning and shut down at the end of the day. In between, I set it to sleep manually when I'm away for more than a few minutes. What practice do you follow? I know the user guide says to shut down when the computer is not in use for more than a few days, but I've always thought giving it a break overnight was a good idea. I'm keen to learn the opinions of other Mac users. Thanks in advance, Clinton Hi Clinton, This is an article that I have always adhered to: SHOULD I SLEEP OR SHUT DOWN MY MAC?: This topic is oft debated in many Mac forums, and does not really have a concrete answer; a lot depends on what you do with your Mac, and what Mac you use. Before deciding whether to shut down or sleep your Mac, you should know (a) what happens in each process, and (b) the pros and cons to both practices. Sleeping Many computer users (myself included) almost NEVER shut down their computers. There are many positive benefits to this (especially if you're a Mac user). When a Mac goes to sleep, almost every component inside the computer is turned off; what is not turned off is set in a 'low-power mode'. The contents of the RAM and Video RAM are saved, the network ports might still get a little power, and a few other subsystems stay on, but pretty much everything else is off. PC laptops are a little different - because MS can't get its act together, PCs 'hibernate' - like a really deep sleep. The hard drive is accessed a lot during the 'hibernate' and 'unhibernate' times, causing a lot of wear and tear and much energy usage. This also takes a lot longer than the Mac way. I don't like PCs much (can you tell?). On a laptop, this mode uses VERY little battery power - if you're going to use your laptop again within a day or so without the power adaptor plugged in, this could actually save battery power, as shutting down/starting up uses a lot more energy (much more disk access, processor power, etc.). On a desktop, this could save a little energy (thus a few $$$), especially if you put it to sleep a few times a day when you know you won't be using it. The best advantage to sleeping is that the computer (a) goes to sleep almost immediately, allowing quick transport of a laptop, and no vigilance after clicking 'Shut Down...' on a desktop, and (b) wakes up almost immediately, allowing you to get to work right away. Shutting Down Shutting down a computer has a few benefits as well. One is that NO power is being used at all - for laptops, it's best to shut it down if you're not going to use it for a day or two, as it will save a little bit of energy and heat from being wasted in your laptop. On a desktop, you might wish to shut down so that you can transport it, or if you won't use it for a long while. Also, shutting down completely wipes away the computer's RAM (random access memory), which might have some corrupt/junk data left in it from various things the computer does. It also lets the computer's components cool down. I definitely recommend shutting down at least once a month or so. However, when you shut down and start up your computer, the hard drive and other components get more wear and tear, and use more energy. The Verdict I recommend all Mac users to sleep their computers unless they won't be used for more than a day or two, and all Mac users should shut down their computers at least once a month to clean out all the gibbledygook that collects inside the components. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- 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: Non-forwarding PDFs
Thanks, Ray - I think you are probably right. Pat On 12/09/2010, at 10:39 PM, Ray Forma wrote: Pat, I know of no method of making a pdf 'non-forwardable'. However, to make it more difficult for third parties to make use of an e-mailed pdf you can make a pdf where the receiver needs a password to open that pdf, and where the receiver cannot alter that pdf to remove the password protection. A person forwarding such a pdf would therefore also have to forward the password to open it. That would be similar to someone photocopying a printed document and giving someone else the photocopy; also difficult to prevent. Some email programs don't automatically include attachments in forwarded e-mails; you have to manually re-attach the attachment before sending the forwarded message. That's probably what happened to your informant making her think it was the pdf, and not the email software that was stopping the attachment from being forwarded. On 12/09/2010, at 17:39 , Pat wrote: Someone told me recently that she had come across a PDF attached to an e-mail that she was not able to forward to someone else. She produces a newsletter for a club and is interested in charging recipients for the digital newsletter, as only paid-up members currently receive a paper copy. If there is a way to prevent a PDF from being forwarded, she would like to know how it is done. I haven't heard of this before. I should add that she uses a Windoze machine, and is not very computer-literate. Does anyone know if such a method exists? Cheers, Pat -- 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 Regards, Ray Forma 50 Harvest Road, North Fremantle WA 6159, Australia Tel Fax +61 (0)8 9335 6568 Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- 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
iPhone4 and multitasking / memory
Quick note here (maybe someone knows how to avoid this issue?) My iPhone4 (running iOS 4.0.2) stopped working on the weekend. There was plenty of charge (60% it later turned out), but I just had a black screen, no response to on/off and no response to being plugged in to charger. A visit to the Apple Store and talking to a genius solved the problem. 1. When you open an app (built in or 3rd party) it stays open - this uses up some memory 2. Over time - if you don't shut down apps manually - the iPhone runs out of memory and won't respond The solution: - double tap home button to see list of apps that are open - tap and hold one of them to put them in to edit mode - tap the red minus icon to switch off apps It seems apps will stay running (multitasking) until you manually switch them off. Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: -- 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: Sleep
Ronny's suggestion is a good one i have set go to sleep if no activity 10m (battery powered) 1h (mains powered) most of the nights my powerbook is just at sleep (lid closed) once a week i shut down for the night to clear the system reports, ram and also it reloads the settings (which can go corrupt) James On 13/09/2010, at 11:04, Ronda Brown wrote: On 13/09/2010, at 10:36 AM, Clinton Ducas wrote: Good morning all, Indulge me in another chapter in the ongoing debate about sleeping computers, if you will. My home iMac is turned on in the morning and shut down at the end of the day. In between, I set it to sleep manually when I'm away for more than a few minutes. What practice do you follow? I know the user guide says to shut down when the computer is not in use for more than a few days, but I've always thought giving it a break overnight was a good idea. I'm keen to learn the opinions of other Mac users. Thanks in advance, Clinton Hi Clinton, This is an article that I have always adhered to: SHOULD I SLEEP OR SHUT DOWN MY MAC?: This topic is oft debated in many Mac forums, and does not really have a concrete answer; a lot depends on what you do with your Mac, and what Mac you use. Before deciding whether to shut down or sleep your Mac, you should know (a) what happens in each process, and (b) the pros and cons to both practices. Sleeping Many computer users (myself included) almost NEVER shut down their computers. There are many positive benefits to this (especially if you're a Mac user). When a Mac goes to sleep, almost every component inside the computer is turned off; what is not turned off is set in a 'low-power mode'. The contents of the RAM and Video RAM are saved, the network ports might still get a little power, and a few other subsystems stay on, but pretty much everything else is off. PC laptops are a little different - because MS can't get its act together, PCs 'hibernate' - like a really deep sleep. The hard drive is accessed a lot during the 'hibernate' and 'unhibernate' times, causing a lot of wear and tear and much energy usage. This also takes a lot longer than the Mac way. I don't like PCs much (can you tell?). On a laptop, this mode uses VERY little battery power - if you're going to use your laptop again within a day or so without the power adaptor plugged in, this could actually save battery power, as shutting down/starting up uses a lot more energy (much more disk access, processor power, etc.). On a desktop, this could save a little energy (thus a few $$$), especially if you put it to sleep a few times a day when you know you won't be using it. The best advantage to sleeping is that the computer (a) goes to sleep almost immediately, allowing quick transport of a laptop, and no vigilance after clicking 'Shut Down...' on a desktop, and (b) wakes up almost immediately, allowing you to get to work right away. Shutting Down Shutting down a computer has a few benefits as well. One is that NO power is being used at all - for laptops, it's best to shut it down if you're not going to use it for a day or two, as it will save a little bit of energy and heat from being wasted in your laptop. On a desktop, you might wish to shut down so that you can transport it, or if you won't use it for a long while. Also, shutting down completely wipes away the computer's RAM (random access memory), which might have some corrupt/junk data left in it from various things the computer does. It also lets the computer's components cool down. I definitely recommend shutting down at least once a month or so. However, when you shut down and start up your computer, the hard drive and other components get more wear and tear, and use more energy. The Verdict I recommend all Mac users to sleep their computers unless they won't be used for more than a day or two, and all Mac users should shut down their computers at least once a month to clean out all the gibbledygook that collects inside the components. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- 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 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 over 40 years in electronics -- 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: iPhone4 and multitasking / memory
Great information, thank you, seemed most of my apps were running, no wonder the iPhone had to be recharged often. June On 13/09/2010, at 11:16 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: Quick note here (maybe someone knows how to avoid this issue?) My iPhone4 (running iOS 4.0.2) stopped working on the weekend. There was plenty of charge (60% it later turned out), but I just had a black screen, no response to on/off and no response to being plugged in to charger. A visit to the Apple Store and talking to a genius solved the problem. 1. When you open an app (built in or 3rd party) it stays open - this uses up some memory 2. Over time - if you don't shut down apps manually - the iPhone runs out of memory and won't respond The solution: - double tap home button to see list of apps that are open - tap and hold one of them to put them in to edit mode - tap the red minus icon to switch off apps It seems apps will stay running (multitasking) until you manually switch them off. Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: -- 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: Sleep
I only occasionally shut down (thunderstorms, outages); I use a UPS. The computer is on 16-17 hours daily; manually put to sleep at night. I sometimes put the unit to sleep during the day if I know it will be several hours before I use it. The display is set to darken after 3 minutes. I pretty closely follow the guidelines in the article cited by Ronni. I have have followed this routine for many years. Vlad James wireless (NetComm 3G21WB) 27 iMac 2.8 GHz i5 8GB OS X 10.6.3 On 13/09/2010, at 10:36 AM, Clinton Ducas wrote: Good morning all, Indulge me in another chapter in the ongoing debate about sleeping computers, if you will. My home iMac is turned on in the morning and shut down at the end of the day. In between, I set it to sleep manually when I'm away for more than a few minutes. What practice do you follow? I know the user guide says to shut down when the computer is not in use for more than a few days, but I've always thought giving it a break overnight was a good idea. I'm keen to learn the opinions of other Mac users. Thanks in advance, Clinton -- 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: iPhone4 and multitasking / memory
Hi Glenn, It shouldn't be necessary for you to manually quit iPhone applications. iPhone puts strict limits on multitasking, by limiting background applications to 10 mins of continuous activity, after which any unfinished processes are forcefully terminated. The reason for 10 mins is to give programmes (e..g, Mail download) a bit of leeway in the background to finish your last request. So in general, a programme can only remain in the background if it is sleeping after 10 minutes. There are only a few exceptions, like if a programme is playing audio in the background. So after 10 minutes, your iPhone should be idle even when there are dozens of programmes in the background. I currently have 48 simultaneous applications open on my iPhone, and it is idle. Also, iPhone automatically closes background applications when memory gets low. If fact, you can check this on a Mac that is synchronised with iPhone. In ~home/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice you will find a listing of apps that have crashed or reached low-memory. Because this is automatic, you shouldn't have to close applications manually. However, if a programme stalls in the foreground, then it can prevent your iPhone from responding. In this case, quitting apps via the genius procedure can help. Also, holding down Home and Power for a few seconds will allow you to shut down the iPhone (i.e. turn the power off). It sounds like there is a bug that caused a problem for you Glenn. According to the design intention, it should never have happened. I've found that iOS 4.1 fixes several bugs for me, relative to iOS 4.0.2. James On 13 September 2010 11:16, Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au wrote: Quick note here (maybe someone knows how to avoid this issue?) My iPhone4 (running iOS 4.0.2) stopped working on the weekend. There was plenty of charge (60% it later turned out), but I just had a black screen, no response to on/off and no response to being plugged in to charger. A visit to the Apple Store and talking to a genius solved the problem. 1. When you open an app (built in or 3rd party) it stays open - this uses up some memory 2. Over time - if you don't shut down apps manually - the iPhone runs out of memory and won't respond The solution: - double tap home button to see list of apps that are open - tap and hold one of them to put them in to edit mode - tap the red minus icon to switch off apps It seems apps will stay running (multitasking) until you manually switch them off. Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: -- 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: iPhone4 and multitasking / memory
Hi Glenn, How Mobile Multitasking Works The major new feature of Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 4, is multitasking. How you use it: When you press the Home button twice, Apple’s iOS 4 displays a “drawer” allowing you to switch between apps. The drawer shows your most recently used apps. This is similar to the “alt-tab” functionality we’re accustomed to on traditional PCs. What’s going on: When you leave an app in iOS 4, it’s not actually closing (unlike previous versions of the OS). Instead, it’s going into frozen, suspended animation, sitting inertly in the background. So when you relaunch an app, it opens instantly to pick up from where it left off before you “closed” it. That behavior allows you to switch between apps very quickly — a feature called Fast App Switching, which is the core functionality of Apple’s iOS multitasking. (TidBITS has an excellent in-depth explanation ofFast App Switching.) Fast App Switching isn’t all iOS 4 multitasking does, as there are a few exceptions for specific types of apps. Apple allows apps that play audio, connect with voice-over-IP or use location detection to run quietly in the background while one thread is still active. So that’s why, for example, you can leave the Pandora app, and the music will still be playing in the background while you check your e-mail. Likewise, you can leave Skype while on a VoIP call, and you won’t hang up on your buddy while you’re browsing Safari, for example. Third, you can leave a mapping app or a fitness tracker like RunKepper and come back to it, and it’ll still have a lock on your location. It’s up to third-party app developers, of course, to tell their apps to behave this way with the new iOS 4 software development kit. Another sort of background activity iOS supports is push notifications, which keeps a specific internet port active while the iPhone is in hibernation, so you can receive e-mails, instant messages and alerts even when the screen is off. These alerts pop up on the screen in the same way as SMS on the iPhone. WIRED Fast App Switching is indeed fast and stylish, avoids draining battery. All apps are constantly running inertly, so you can quickly switch between them all. TIRED Only allows a single application thread to continue running; only certain kinds of activities are allowed to run in the background. Push notifications scream for your attention at the center of the screen. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 13/09/2010, at 11:16 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: Quick note here (maybe someone knows how to avoid this issue?) My iPhone4 (running iOS 4.0.2) stopped working on the weekend. There was plenty of charge (60% it later turned out), but I just had a black screen, no response to on/off and no response to being plugged in to charger. A visit to the Apple Store and talking to a genius solved the problem. 1. When you open an app (built in or 3rd party) it stays open - this uses up some memory 2. Over time - if you don't shut down apps manually - the iPhone runs out of memory and won't respond The solution: - double tap home button to see list of apps that are open - tap and hold one of them to put them in to edit mode - tap the red minus icon to switch off apps It seems apps will stay running (multitasking) until you manually switch them off. Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: -- 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: Sleep
Thanks Ronni for that useful summary. One question - for the purposes of clearing all the gibbledygook, is a restart the same as a shutdown? best alastair On 13/09/2010, at 5:08 AM, Vladimir James wrote: I only occasionally shut down (thunderstorms, outages); I use a UPS. The computer is on 16-17 hours daily; manually put to sleep at night. I sometimes put the unit to sleep during the day if I know it will be several hours before I use it. The display is set to darken after 3 minutes. I pretty closely follow the guidelines in the article cited by Ronni. I have have followed this routine for many years. Vlad James wireless (NetComm 3G21WB) 27 iMac 2.8 GHz i5 8GB OS X 10.6.3 On 13/09/2010, at 10:36 AM, Clinton Ducas wrote: Good morning all, Indulge me in another chapter in the ongoing debate about sleeping computers, if you will. My home iMac is turned on in the morning and shut down at the end of the day. In between, I set it to sleep manually when I'm away for more than a few minutes. What practice do you follow? I know the user guide says to shut down when the computer is not in use for more than a few days, but I've always thought giving it a break overnight was a good idea. I'm keen to learn the opinions of other Mac users. Thanks in advance, Clinton -- 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: iPhone4 and multitasking / memory
Sorry people, I did not make a 'live link' for the TidBITS explanation in my previous email, so have reset it :-( Hi Glenn, How Mobile Multitasking Works The major new feature of Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 4, is multitasking. How you use it: When you press the Home button twice, Apple’s iOS 4 displays a “drawer” allowing you to switch between apps. The drawer shows your most recently used apps. This is similar to the “alt-tab” functionality we’re accustomed to on traditional PCs. What’s going on: When you leave an app in iOS 4, it’s not actually closing (unlike previous versions of the OS). Instead, it’s going into frozen, suspended animation, sitting inertly in the background. So when you relaunch an app, it opens instantly to pick up from where it left off before you “closed” it. That behavior allows you to switch between apps very quickly — a feature called Fast App Switching, which is the core functionality of Apple’s iOS multitasking. (TidBITS has an excellent in-depth explanation of Fast App Switching.) Fast App Switching isn’t all iOS 4 multitasking does, as there are a few exceptions for specific types of apps. Apple allows apps that play audio, connect with voice-over-IP or use location detection to run quietly in the background while one thread is still active. So that’s why, for example, you can leave the Pandora app, and the music will still be playing in the background while you check your e-mail. Likewise, you can leave Skype while on a VoIP call, and you won’t hang up on your buddy while you’re browsing Safari, for example. Third, you can leave a mapping app or a fitness tracker like RunKepper and come back to it, and it’ll still have a lock on your location. It’s up to third-party app developers, of course, to tell their apps to behave this way with the new iOS 4 software development kit. Another sort of background activity iOS supports is push notifications, which keeps a specific internet port active while the iPhone is in hibernation, so you can receive e-mails, instant messages and alerts even when the screen is off. These alerts pop up on the screen in the same way as SMS on the iPhone. WIRED Fast App Switching is indeed fast and stylish, avoids draining battery. All apps are constantly running inertly, so you can quickly switch between them all. TIRED Only allows a single application thread to continue running; only certain kinds of activities are allowed to run in the background. Push notifications scream for your attention at the center of the screen. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 13/09/2010, at 11:16 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: Quick note here (maybe someone knows how to avoid this issue?) My iPhone4 (running iOS 4.0.2) stopped working on the weekend. There was plenty of charge (60% it later turned out), but I just had a black screen, no response to on/off and no response to being plugged in to charger. A visit to the Apple Store and talking to a genius solved the problem. 1. When you open an app (built in or 3rd party) it stays open - this uses up some memory 2. Over time - if you don't shut down apps manually - the iPhone runs out of memory and won't respond The solution: - double tap home button to see list of apps that are open - tap and hold one of them to put them in to edit mode - tap the red minus icon to switch off apps It seems apps will stay running (multitasking) until you manually switch them off. Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: -- 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: Sleep
Hi Alastair, James Devenish perhaps can answer more technically than I. Short answer, no effective difference. A restart (at least in a Unix environment, which the Mac is), dumps EVERYTHING, and boots fully from a zeroed state. ALL processes are released and reinitiated from scratch. Even if there were anything residual in any cache, it would be overwritten anyway when the system was being restored. A shutdown simply powers down the machine almost entirely and does not attempt to start the operating system again until you press the power button. A restart simply ends your session in Mac OS X, shuts the operating system down, and then re-loads the operating system again. Cheers, Ronni On 13/09/2010, at 12:20 PM, mince and pud wrote: Thanks Ronni for that useful summary. One question - for the purposes of clearing all the gibbledygook, is a restart the same as a shutdown? best alastair On 13/09/2010, at 5:08 AM, Vladimir James wrote: I only occasionally shut down (thunderstorms, outages); I use a UPS. The computer is on 16-17 hours daily; manually put to sleep at night. I sometimes put the unit to sleep during the day if I know it will be several hours before I use it. The display is set to darken after 3 minutes. I pretty closely follow the guidelines in the article cited by Ronni. I have have followed this routine for many years. Vlad James wireless (NetComm 3G21WB) 27 iMac 2.8 GHz i5 8GB OS X 10.6.3 On 13/09/2010, at 10:36 AM, Clinton Ducas wrote: Good morning all, Indulge me in another chapter in the ongoing debate about sleeping computers, if you will. My home iMac is turned on in the morning and shut down at the end of the day. In between, I set it to sleep manually when I'm away for more than a few minutes. What practice do you follow? I know the user guide says to shut down when the computer is not in use for more than a few days, but I've always thought giving it a break overnight was a good idea. I'm keen to learn the opinions of other Mac users. Thanks in advance, Clinton -- 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
iPhone etc and your DSLR camera
If you have an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and a Canon EOS or Nikon DSLR, then the following could be a useful app: http://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=38#cameras Regards, Ray Forma 50 Harvest Road, North Fremantle WA 6159, Australia Tel Fax +61 (0)8 9335 6568 Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- 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
stolen MBP 17 2.5 ghz
Hi Guys One of our VJ's at the office had her house broken into and they stole her MBP s/n w88120hhyp4, they didn't take the power adaptor. If you see this please contact the police please, oh and let me know :) Many thanks Roger -- 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
