Re: iMac Good Practices
On 17/02/2011, at 3:24 PM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi Ronni and others This is really interesting and thanks heaps for speaking about it. I wasnt aware that files, folders and aliases on the desktop would take up ram and system efficiency. I also wasnt aware that it would be most efficient to use the Mac's folder system like you say Ronni. At the moment I have made a folder called Work (65000 items and 60gb of stuff) that sits with the Macs' folders; Applications, Documents, Library, Music etc etc. Would I be better off putting my 'Work' folder inside the Documents folder? Yes, it should be filed in the Documents folder in your Home Folder. I also can see the 'Documents' folder on the RH side of the Dock, and when I click it, it rapidly displays the folders with in Documents, on which I can click one and it opens in Finder, like normal. Is that what you are referring to Ronni? Your Documents folder shows in the Dock which points to the Documents folder in your Home Documents folder. What I was referring to, and I’ll use your Work Folder as an example (which is similar to my “Work in Progress folder” which is filed in my Documents folder and is sitting on my Dock for quick access. 1. File your “Work” Folder into your Documents folder in your Home folder 2. Then Drag your “Work” Folder down onto the Right Side of the Dock. If you look closely at your dock there is a dividing line. (Applications go on the left side of the divider, files and folders on the right ... Virtually using the Dock as a launcher, a place for launching applications or accessing commonly used folders) With this in mind, what is the optimum way to configure the filing/folder system? Keep all Documents in Documents folder. Create folders ‘and place documents within folders’ in your Documents Folder in your Home. I have numerous Folders in my Documents folder. Example, all documents relating to Leopard are in a 'Leopard Folder', Snow Leopard Documents are in a folder ’Snow Leopard’ etc. Drag any folders you use everyday onto the dock …Drag your ‘Work Folder’ onto the dock. Use the Dock for folders you access every day. Cheers, Ronni Thanks heaps for any advice Best regards Chris (Im using a MBPro Intel Dual 2.2 with 4gb Ram) and it is running pretty slow!!) -- 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 Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 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: How to remove a person from a Skype group conversation ?
Hi Ronni I could do delete the contact from my main contacts list ... whether that also removes the contact from the group discussion I'm not sure. Intuitively you'd expect so. However it's not what I want to achieve, and plus knowing how to do delete someone from a discussion will be handy to know for ongoing reference. As it turns out, there's now another person in the group discussion who I need to delete, but I don't want to remove from my contact list altogether. You can add people to the discussion (termed conversation by Skype) no problem, there's a little pop up window which you can activate, but you just can't delete them unless they've typed something, which then gives you this 'kick' option. But not too good if you have to say Ronni, can you please type something so that I can kick you out. Hoping for a solution in the next Skype release, unless of course someone works it out in the meantime. On 17/02/2011, at 2:07 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Steven, however the problem is that the person we want to remove, it's an old Skype name which she no longer uses, and has long since forgotten the password. I’m obviously missing something here ;-) Otherwise, why can’t you just Select the ’old’ contact in the Contacts list and hit Delete? Cheers, Ronni On 17/02/2011, at 11:04 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Thanks Ronni. A search on some of the text reveals you probably got it for this page. It doesn't seem to solve my problem though, but I suspect it may be relevant to verbal conversations. My problem involves text based chat for a group (my fault, didn't clarify that in my original question). I've now worked out that you can right click the name of someone who's contributed to the chat, and kick them, which seems to kick them out of that chat. However if a person is a member of the group discussion, but hasn't contributed, there doesn't seem to be a way of removing them. At the top of the Skype window for the group chat, each members name appears as a button, but no 'kick' or other removal option appears. An easy solution might be to ask the person to type something, so creating their name in the chat window, which can then be 'kicked', however the problem is that the person we want to remove, it's an old Skype name which she no longer uses, and has long since forgotten the password. I guess we'll just leave her there - I suspect it must be just a bug in the latest version of Skype. We could dispense with the existing conversation altogether, and start another, but then I presume we lose all the chat history. On 17/02/2011, at 11:06 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 17/02/2011, at 7:59 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Can anyone tell me how to remove a person from a particular group conversation in Skype 5.0.0.7994 ? There is a drop down menu for each person which allows Call, Send Instant Message, or Show Profile. I can't seem to drag these people off the screen or out of the conversation. I can Add people to the conversation, but I just can't figure how to remove them. Hi Steven, I found this in my documents folder, but unfortunately I didn’t keep the URL where I located it from. I’ve never used the information below, so I can’t comment on it. Two ways: Way A): 1. You should already be focused on the conversation containing both persons. If you VO+left of the HTML area, you will noticed two buttons. One button will have a menu pertaining to one person, and the other button will have the menu pertaining to the other. 2. Press the button for person A and a menu will pop up. 3. IF you choose, end call the call will be dropped for person A but continue for you and the other person. The person a can still be called again from the same menu or text chatted with. Way B) 1. Look just to the right of the tool bar. You'll notice a scrol area. Interact with this area. 2. Notice that you now can see the two individuals you're talking to. VO left or right till you come to the person upon whom you wish to have an effect. 3. Now, Cease interacting with that scrol area. 4. IF you then look at the window you've landed in, you will notice that it's the window pertaining to the person you wish to effect. In this window you have control over their aspect of the conversation. Pressing command+w should close their window and leave the rest alone. Or: And once again, I’ve never tried this. /kick skype_id Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 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: Application startup problem
Hi Severin, Just quickly before I have to get onto another job. You have enough Free space, more RAM would help, but probably not absolutely necessary. More RAM does make things faster ;-) Have you run Disk Warrior to check your Directory lately? If not I would suggest you do. Instead of trying to repair your existing directory, Disk Warrior examines that directory, scours your hard drive for files and folders, and then creates a new, optimized directory. Normally you would notice a speed increase after doing this. DiskWarrior requires that you reboot from the DiskWarrior CD, or a different hard drive containing the program. Cheers, Ronni On 17/02/2011, at 3:48 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: 4GB RAM and 470GB of free space on the startup drive. The RAM checks out OK with Tech Tool Pro. Severin On 17/02/2011, at 3:16 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 17/02/2011, at 3:06 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I am observing ongoing problems with applications starting or not starting. The dock icon bounces forever and gets nowhere. A Force Quit followed by a try again usually fixes things. I believe that the problem is more frequent when I click on an icon in the dock rather than on the application icon itself, ie via an alias. This is widespread and includes Word, Acrobat Pro 9, iPhoto, Filemaker Pro most recently. I suspect the preference files, for no very good reason, and anyway the applications eventually fire up. As far as I can tell everything is up to date, caches clean, maintenance scripts run, permissions repaired etc. Suggestions welcomed! Severin Crisp G5 SP1.8 OSX 10.5.8 Hi Severin, How much RAM do you have installed on the G5? Also how much free space on your Hard Drive? Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 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: Application startup problem
Forgot to mention, Disk Warrior was the first thing I tried, it runs from a dedicated startup partition on another hard drive. Severin On 17/02/2011, at 4:11 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Severin, Just quickly before I have to get onto another job. You have enough Free space, more RAM would help, but probably not absolutely necessary. More RAM does make things faster ;-) Have you run Disk Warrior to check your Directory lately? If not I would suggest you do. Instead of trying to repair your existing directory, Disk Warrior examines that directory, scours your hard drive for files and folders, and then creates a new, optimized directory. Normally you would notice a speed increase after doing this. DiskWarrior requires that you reboot from the DiskWarrior CD, or a different hard drive containing the program. Cheers, Ronni On 17/02/2011, at 3:48 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: 4GB RAM and 470GB of free space on the startup drive. The RAM checks out OK with Tech Tool Pro. Severin On 17/02/2011, at 3:16 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 17/02/2011, at 3:06 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I am observing ongoing problems with applications starting or not starting. The dock icon bounces forever and gets nowhere. A Force Quit followed by a try again usually fixes things. I believe that the problem is more frequent when I click on an icon in the dock rather than on the application icon itself, ie via an alias. This is widespread and includes Word, Acrobat Pro 9, iPhoto, Filemaker Pro most recently. I suspect the preference files, for no very good reason, and anyway the applications eventually fire up. As far as I can tell everything is up to date, caches clean, maintenance scripts run, permissions repaired etc. Suggestions welcomed! Severin Crisp G5 SP1.8 OSX 10.5.8 Hi Severin, How much RAM do you have installed on the G5? Also how much free space on your Hard Drive? Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 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 Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.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
Re: iMac Good Practices
Fantastic advice Ronni thankyou very much indeed for your help. I am on it right now Best regards Chris On 17/02/2011, at 3:54 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 17/02/2011, at 3:24 PM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi Ronni and others This is really interesting and thanks heaps for speaking about it. I wasnt aware that files, folders and aliases on the desktop would take up ram and system efficiency. I also wasnt aware that it would be most efficient to use the Mac's folder system like you say Ronni. At the moment I have made a folder called Work (65000 items and 60gb of stuff) that sits with the Macs' folders; Applications, Documents, Library, Music etc etc. Would I be better off putting my 'Work' folder inside the Documents folder? Yes, it should be filed in the Documents folder in your Home Folder. I also can see the 'Documents' folder on the RH side of the Dock, and when I click it, it rapidly displays the folders with in Documents, on which I can click one and it opens in Finder, like normal. Is that what you are referring to Ronni? Your Documents folder shows in the Dock which points to the Documents folder in your Home Documents folder. What I was referring to, and I’ll use your Work Folder as an example (which is similar to my “Work in Progress folder” which is filed in my Documents folder and is sitting on my Dock for quick access. 1. File your “Work” Folder into your Documents folder in your Home folder 2. Then Drag your “Work” Folder down onto the Right Side of the Dock. If you look closely at your dock there is a dividing line. (Applications go on the left side of the divider, files and folders on the right ... Virtually using the Dock as a launcher, a place for launching applications or accessing commonly used folders) With this in mind, what is the optimum way to configure the filing/ folder system? Keep all Documents in Documents folder. Create folders ‘and place documents within folders’ in your Documents Folder in your Home. I have numerous Folders in my Documents folder. Example, all documents relating to Leopard are in a 'Leopard Folder', Snow Leopard Documents are in a folder ’Snow Leopard’ etc. Drag any folders you use everyday onto the dock …Drag your ‘Work Folder’ onto the dock. Use the Dock for folders you access every day. Cheers, Ronni Thanks heaps for any advice Best regards Chris (Im using a MBPro Intel Dual 2.2 with 4gb Ram) and it is running pretty slow!!) -- 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 Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 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 -- 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: iMac Good Practices
Good afternoon everyone, I have just read through the iMac Good Practices thread. Instant guilt! I have now dragged 12 PowerPoint files off my desktop into a new folder in my documents, appropriately named PowerPoint. These have sat on my desktop for more than 3 years since I bought my first Mac and they were transferred from my Windows machine. These big (Family Tree) projects are not actually finished yet, so I can plainly see they do not need to be in full sight. I decided they don't need to go into the Dock either as I am not at this stage working with them. Thanks everyone for the good advice. Peta On 17/02/2011, at 3:54 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 17/02/2011, at 3:24 PM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi Ronni and others This is really interesting and thanks heaps for speaking about it. I wasnt aware that files, folders and aliases on the desktop would take up ram and system efficiency. I also wasnt aware that it would be most efficient to use the Mac's folder system like you say Ronni. At the moment I have made a folder called Work (65000 items and 60gb of stuff) that sits with the Macs' folders; Applications, Documents, Library, Music etc etc. Would I be better off putting my 'Work' folder inside the Documents folder? Yes, it should be filed in the Documents folder in your Home Folder. I also can see the 'Documents' folder on the RH side of the Dock, and when I click it, it rapidly displays the folders with in Documents, on which I can click one and it opens in Finder, like normal. Is that what you are referring to Ronni? Your Documents folder shows in the Dock which points to the Documents folder in your Home Documents folder. What I was referring to, and I’ll use your Work Folder as an example (which is similar to my “Work in Progress folder” which is filed in my Documents folder and is sitting on my Dock for quick access. 1. File your “Work” Folder into your Documents folder in your Home folder 2. Then Drag your “Work” Folder down onto the Right Side of the Dock. If you look closely at your dock there is a dividing line. (Applications go on the left side of the divider, files and folders on the right ... Virtually using the Dock as a launcher, a place for launching applications or accessing commonly used folders) With this in mind, what is the optimum way to configure the filing/folder system? Keep all Documents in Documents folder. Create folders ‘and place documents within folders’ in your Documents Folder in your Home. I have numerous Folders in my Documents folder. Example, all documents relating to Leopard are in a 'Leopard Folder', Snow Leopard Documents are in a folder ’Snow Leopard’ etc. Drag any folders you use everyday onto the dock …Drag your ‘Work Folder’ onto the dock. Use the Dock for folders you access every day. Cheers, Ronni Thanks heaps for any advice Best regards Chris (Im using a MBPro Intel Dual 2.2 with 4gb Ram) and it is running pretty slow!!) -- 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 Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 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 -- 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 purchase HK?
Hi Glenn, are you hoping it will be cheaper to buy in Hong Kong than here in Australia? Have you looked at online prices for the iPad? Cheers, Susan. From: Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:18:46 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: iPad purchase HK? Does anyone have any suggestions re the pros/cons of buying an iPad in Hong Kong or Shanghai and bringing it back to Australia? Have a friend who is travelling and considering a purchase. Regards, 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
Is this serious!!
o: i...@nocoalitionmargaretriver.com Subject: Notice of Intellectual Property-Trademark Name Dear Manager, We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in Anhui, China. On February,17th,2011, We received HUNDI Company's application that they are registering the name nocoalitionmargaretriver as their Internet Trademark and nocoalitionmargaretriver.cn,nocoalitionmargaretriver.com.cn ,nocoal itionmargaretriver.asiadomain names etc.,It is China and ASIA domain names.But after auditing we found the brand name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar in China, it is our duty to notice you, so I am sending you this Email to check.According to the principle in China,your company is the owner of the trademark,In our auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for you firstly, but our audit period is limited, if you object the third party application these domain names and need to protect the brand in china and Asia by yourself, please let the responsible officer contact us as soon as possible. Thank you! Kind regards Angela Zhang Anhui Office (Head Office) Room 1008 Shenhui Building Haitian Road, Huli Anhui, China Office: +86 0553 4994789 Fax: +86 0553 4994789 web: rg-net.org web: www.rg-net.org -- 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: Is this serious!!
Nope, scam. Been covered before in the WAMUG archives. But short link here:- http://www.firetrust.com/en/blog/chris/domain-name-scams Kind Regards Daniel On 17/02/2011, at 6:17 PM, Clive Slater wrote: o: i...@nocoalitionmargaretriver.com Subject: Notice of Intellectual Property-Trademark Name Dear Manager, We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in Anhui, China. On February,17th,2011, We received HUNDI Company's application that they are registering the name nocoalitionmargaretriver as their Internet Trademark and nocoalitionmargaretriver.cn,nocoalitionmargaretriver.com.cn ,nocoalitionmargaretriver.asiadomain names etc.,It is China and ASIA domain names.But after auditing we found the brand name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar in China, it is our duty to notice you, so I am sending you this Email to check.According to the principle in China,your company is the owner of the trademark,In our auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for you firstly, but our audit period is limited, if you object the third party application these domain names and need to protect the brand in china and Asia by yourself, please let the responsible officer contact us as soon as possible. Thank you! Kind regards Angela Zhang Anhui Office (Head Office) Room 1008 Shenhui Building Haitian Road, Huli Anhui, China Office: +86 0553 4994789 Fax: +86 0553 4994789 web: rg-net.org web: www.rg-net.org -- 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: dan...@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: iPad purchase HK?
Hi Susan, I've been through Aus pricing with him, so he is aware. As he is travelling through HK Shanghai he can be on the lookout for iPads that are priced better than in Aus (possibly duty free options as well). *If* he sees an iPad that costs less (and doesn't seem to be a fake), if he buys it and brings it back to Australia, will he be able to use it here normally? Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: On 17 February 2011 17:21, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@me.com wrote: Hi Glenn, are you hoping it will be cheaper to buy in Hong Kong than here in Australia? Have you looked at online prices for the iPad? Cheers, Susan. From: Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:18:46 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: iPad purchase HK? Does anyone have any suggestions re the pros/cons of buying an iPad in Hong Kong or Shanghai and bringing it back to Australia? Have a friend who is travelling and considering a purchase. Regards, 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: iPad purchase HK?
Hi Glenn I was also thinking of getting my mate to get me one when he was going to the USA. But he also brought up the issue of warranty. I think Apple only does warranty only in the country where the ipad is bought (unless there is global warranty cover?). So if your friend gets his ipad from HK, he will have to send it back to HK for warranty? Can anyone please confirm. Regards Lynn - Original Message - From: Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 17 February, 2011 6:38:46 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: Re: iPad purchase HK? Hi Susan, I've been through Aus pricing with him, so he is aware. As he is travelling through HK Shanghai he can be on the lookout for iPads that are priced better than in Aus (possibly duty free options as well). *If* he sees an iPad that costs less (and doesn't seem to be a fake), if he buys it and brings it back to Australia, will he be able to use it here normally? Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: On 17 February 2011 17:21, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@me.com wrote: Hi Glenn, are you hoping it will be cheaper to buy in Hong Kong than here in Australia? Have you looked at online prices for the iPad? Cheers, Susan. From: Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:18:46 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: iPad purchase HK? Does anyone have any suggestions re the pros/cons of buying an iPad in Hong Kong or Shanghai and bringing it back to Australia? Have a friend who is travelling and considering a purchase. Regards, 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: iPad purchase HK?
A wireless iPad is no problems. If 3G, they are supposed to be sold 'unlocked', that is, not locked to any one carrier. So, no problems there either. Warranty is another matter. He may be taking a risk. From: Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:38:46 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: iPad purchase HK? Hi Susan, I've been through Aus pricing with him, so he is aware. As he is travelling through HK Shanghai he can be on the lookout for iPads that are priced better than in Aus (possibly duty free options as well). *If* he sees an iPad that costs less (and doesn't seem to be a fake), if he buys it and brings it back to Australia, will he be able to use it here normally? Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: On 17 February 2011 17:21, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@me.com wrote: Hi Glenn, are you hoping it will be cheaper to buy in Hong Kong than here in Australia? Have you looked at online prices for the iPad? Cheers, Susan. From: Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:18:46 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: iPad purchase HK? Does anyone have any suggestions re the pros/cons of buying an iPad in Hong Kong or Shanghai and bringing it back to Australia? Have a friend who is travelling and considering a purchase. Regards, 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: iPad purchase HK?
Hi Lynn, I can't tell you the official policy, but a month or so ago the Apple Retail Store in Perth replaced a Time Capsule that I purchased while living in Canada. They also transferred the data from the failed Time Capsule to the new one for no charge. I didn't even require a receipt. The Genius (Apple's marketing term for their technicians) looked on their computer system and saw when and where I had purchased the Time Capsule. It was at an authorized Apple reseller which I assume is relevant. The above experience and another from just last week is one of the many reasons I continue to buy and use Apple products. Cheers, Carlo Sent from my iPad On 17/02/2011, at 19:01, lynn...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Glenn I was also thinking of getting my mate to get me one when he was going to the USA. But he also brought up the issue of warranty. I think Apple only does warranty only in the country where the ipad is bought (unless there is global warranty cover?). So if your friend gets his ipad from HK, he will have to send it back to HK for warranty? Can anyone please confirm. Regards Lynn - Original Message - From: Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 17 February, 2011 6:38:46 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: Re: iPad purchase HK? Hi Susan, I've been through Aus pricing with him, so he is aware. As he is travelling through HK Shanghai he can be on the lookout for iPads that are priced better than in Aus (possibly duty free options as well). *If* he sees an iPad that costs less (and doesn't seem to be a fake), if he buys it and brings it back to Australia, will he be able to use it here normally? Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: On 17 February 2011 17:21, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@me.com wrote: Hi Glenn, are you hoping it will be cheaper to buy in Hong Kong than here in Australia? Have you looked at online prices for the iPad? Cheers, Susan. From: Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:18:46 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: iPad purchase HK? Does anyone have any suggestions re the pros/cons of buying an iPad in Hong Kong or Shanghai and bringing it back to Australia? Have a friend who is travelling and considering a purchase. Regards, 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 -- 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 purchase HK?
Hi Glenn, One (1) Year Limited Warranty - Worldwide http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/worldwidewarranty_popup Sent from Ronni's iPad On 17/02/2011, at 7:18 PM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Lynn, I can't tell you the official policy, but a month or so ago the Apple Retail Store in Perth replaced a Time Capsule that I purchased while living in Canada. They also transferred the data from the failed Time Capsule to the new one for no charge. I didn't even require a receipt. The Genius (Apple's marketing term for their technicians) looked on their computer system and saw when and where I had purchased the Time Capsule. It was at an authorized Apple reseller which I assume is relevant. The above experience and another from just last week is one of the many reasons I continue to buy and use Apple products. Cheers, Carlo Sent from my iPad On 17/02/2011, at 19:01, lynn...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Glenn I was also thinking of getting my mate to get me one when he was going to the USA. But he also brought up the issue of warranty. I think Apple only does warranty only in the country where the ipad is bought (unless there is global warranty cover?). So if your friend gets his ipad from HK, he will have to send it back to HK for warranty? Can anyone please confirm. Regards Lynn - Original Message - From: Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 17 February, 2011 6:38:46 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: Re: iPad purchase HK? Hi Susan, I've been through Aus pricing with him, so he is aware. As he is travelling through HK Shanghai he can be on the lookout for iPads that are priced better than in Aus (possibly duty free options as well). *If* he sees an iPad that costs less (and doesn't seem to be a fake), if he buys it and brings it back to Australia, will he be able to use it here normally? Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: On 17 February 2011 17:21, Susan Hastings susanhasti...@me.com wrote: Hi Glenn, are you hoping it will be cheaper to buy in Hong Kong than here in Australia? Have you looked at online prices for the iPad? Cheers, Susan. From: Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:18:46 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: iPad purchase HK? Does anyone have any suggestions re the pros/cons of buying an iPad in Hong Kong or Shanghai and bringing it back to Australia? Have a friend who is travelling and considering a purchase. Regards, 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 -- 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: iMac Good Practices
Keeping your desktop clean is really important because every icon, folder or alias on it is loaded into the RAM, slowing your system down. This explains why every computer my sister uses seems to suffer a huge drop in performance. She has so much junk on the desktop that there are icons stacked upon multiple other icons. I'd just like to clarify whether the contents of a folder on the desktop are also loaded into the RAM or if it was just the folder its-self. Thanks Ruben On 17/02/2011, at 2:18 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Alan, I will only add one comment to Daniel’s excellent (as always) post. My comment is in regard to Q4 ‘Files on the Desktop’ and is in the colour ‘purple’. On 17/02/2011, at 2:03 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Alan Some answers may be different for different people, but here's my opinion. (Each answer below your question) On 17/2/11 1:52 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: What is the short list of iMac good practices? I have been trying to trace my iMac sleep apnoea problem by noting setup changes and their effect. (iMac wakes from sleep after a short period - usually less than 30 minutes.) I am finding lots of red herrings in my pursuit of the cure! Some of my tests give inconsistent results. I have removed external devices, reset most preferences to default, deleted some .plists, removed unused third party programs, etc etc.One problem is that it can take up to one hour to conduct just one test, which involves a change then watching for the result (usually a bright active screen.) I am not ready to beg WAMUG help on the Sleep problem (yet!) as there still seems to be too many variables. A basic problem is that I don't know what all the general iMac good practices are. Q1. IMac is connected to router via an Ethernet cable. Should Air Port be turned off? Don't really need to. Only don't need it on if you have them both connected, ie you really shouldn't have a connection to your router via both Airport AND Ethernet. It creates two IP addresses for one machine and can create some headaches. (eg you might have two Ips like 192.168.0.3 and 192.168.0.4. It gets messy). But if not being used, no harm in having it on (or off for that matter). Q2. Should iMac be Restarted after each software change such as a preference or program deletion? Most preference changes seem to take immediate effect but a Restart seemed to be necessary to activate the Magic Mouse defaults after the Magic Preferences (mouse) program was deleted. Most software changes don't really need a restart. Only major updates, which will generally tell you (eg Safari 5.0.3, OS 10.6.6. And some others). If it doesn't tell you to restart, don't really need to on most occasions. Q3. Is it safe for deleted files to remain in Trash during the test period? For ever? I don't know if I'd call it safe. If you're not sure if you want it or not, just create a folder on the desktop called Undecided or something. Only put things in the trash you really don't want, and just empty it. That's my best practice. As I say to clients who put things in the trash, but won't empty it just incase. Someone else may not know your just in case and empty it. Then it's gone. You wouldn't put something in your green curbside bin,..just incase. Once that's gone, it's gone. :o) So personally, I'd say best practice is not put it there unless you really really don't want it. I like my trash can empty all the time, then I know if something has gone in there I didn't put there, so I can see. Q4. Are files (or copies) left on the Desktop (or in Trash) completely inactive (if I don't open them)? Yes, anything not open isn't being used. So fine sitting there. A desktop is exactly what it sounds like: a place to store temporary projects. Once you’re done working on a project, store it in a folder. The folder system is really well done on OSX, just go to Macintosh HD User YourName and you’ll find 8 different folder categories, ranging from music to documents. Use these to store your files. Keeping your desktop clean is really important because every icon, folder or alias on it is loaded into the RAM, slowing your system down. If there is a certain folder or file you need to access regularly, leave it where it should be and slide it into the right side of the OSX dock; this will create a stack, a feature that is incredibly useful. Q5. If iMac is Shut Down (Apple menu) then can iMac ONLY be turned on by using the power switch? Generally yes. Unless you have the setting in Energy Saver for start up after power failure. There is also one to start up at Set times. Sometimes, some programs can turn it on too, eg eyeTV I think can do it as well. But yes generally, only the button will wake it up. Q6. Is it advisable to remove external power from iMac after it is Shut Down? I never unplug my
Re: iMac Good Practices
Hi Ruben, I'd just like to clarify whether the contents of a folder on the desktop are also loaded into the RAM or if it was just the folder its-self Short Answer: it is just the folder itself. It doesn’t matter how many items are in that folder or how much space those items take up. To the operating system, it’s just another window. Longer Reply about the Desktop: Keep your desktop clean. Your desktop is actually a folder. It lives at (your startup disk, usually called “Macintosh HD”) Users (your user name) Desktop. The difference is that the desktop folder displays it’s contents on your desktop as icons. These are not your normal icons, because the operating system treats every icon on the desktop as a window. So having 100 icons on your desktop is like having 100 windows open at the same time. This uses tremendous amounts of system resources and slows everything down. It’s easy for the desktop to get out of hand. Icons on the desktop are generally laid out in a grid. When the grid fills up, the operating system starts to place any additional icons in the same place, stacking them on top of icon for your start-up disk! So now, the problem is getting worse and worse and you don’t even realize it. The solution is easy. Start by creating a new folder on your desktop. Call it “Stuff to file”, or something like that. Then, take everything on your desktop and put it in that folder. It doesn’t matter how many items are in that folder or how much space those items take up. To the operating system, it’s just another window. Once you have done that, you should notice an immediate improvement in performance. Next, do some house cleaning. Start moving things from the “Stuff to file” folder into the the proper folders in your home folders: Documents, Music, Pictures or Movies. Create sub-folders in those folders, if necessary. Then, just keep track of the amount of icons on your desktop. . Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 18/02/2011, at 12:18 AM, Dark1 da...@iinet.net.au wrote: Keeping your desktop clean is really important because every icon, folder or alias on it is loaded into the RAM, slowing your system down. This explains why every computer my sister uses seems to suffer a huge drop in performance. She has so much junk on the desktop that there are icons stacked upon multiple other icons. I'd just like to clarify whether the contents of a folder on the desktop are also loaded into the RAM or if it was just the folder its-self. Thanks Ruben -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
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Re: iMac Good Practices
On 18/02/2011, at 12:18 AM, Dark1 wrote: Keeping your desktop clean is really important because every icon, folder or alias on it is loaded into the RAM, slowing your system down. This explains why every computer my sister uses seems to suffer a huge drop in performance. She has so much junk on the desktop that there are icons stacked upon multiple other icons. I'd just like to clarify whether the contents of a folder on the desktop are also loaded into the RAM or if it was just the folder its-self. Thanks Ruben I once had a client who complained that his eMac had slowed down so much it had become impossible to use, taking up to five minutes or more to do such simple things as opening a menu. When I saw his computer I found out why. He had almost 800 icons all piled up in the top RH corner of his desktop! Mac OS X does not like piling icons! Don't forget that modern Mac OS X icons are 512 x 512 pixels (roughly the same size as the screen size of the original 1984 Macintosh!), and take the same amount of memory when displayed at 16 x 16 pixels as they do when drawn at full size. The eMac was running Tiger, so the icons were not quite that large, but the physics are the same. Trying to display that many icons all at once, together with the processing power required to track them all, was taxing the poor old eMac to its limit. I showed him how to move all those items to other locations and left him to it... Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 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: iMac Good Practices
Hi Ronni -- -- This discussion has been very useful to me, as I used to keep my Desktop like my real world, very cluttered. So I've had a good speed increase by putting everything on the Desktop in folders. -- I am wondering about 'open' files which I've stood aside into the dock (pressed yellow button on top left). Does the OS count these as open, or is the dock just like a folder too? Cheers -- David Noel 2011 Feb 18 == On 18 February 2011 06:46, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Ruben, I'd just like to clarify whether the contents of a folder on the desktop are also loaded into the RAM or if it was just the folder its-self Short Answer: it is just the folder itself. It doesn’t matter how many items are in that folder or how much space those items take up. To the operating system, it’s just another window. Longer Reply about the Desktop: Keep your desktop clean. Your desktop is actually a folder. It lives at (your startup disk, usually called “Macintosh HD”) Users (your user name) Desktop. The difference is that the desktop folder displays it’s contents on your desktop as icons. These are not your normal icons, because the operating system treats every icon on the desktop as a window. So having 100 icons on your desktop is like having 100 windows open at the same time. This uses tremendous amounts of system resources and slows everything down. It’s easy for the desktop to get out of hand. Icons on the desktop are generally laid out in a grid. When the grid fills up, the operating system starts to place any additional icons in the same place, stacking them on top of icon for your start-up disk! So now, the problem is getting worse and worse and you don’t even realize it. The solution is easy. Start by creating a new folder on your desktop. Call it “Stuff to file”, or something like that. Then, take everything on your desktop and put it in that folder. It doesn’t matter how many items are in that folder or how much space those items take up. To the operating system, it’s just another window. Once you have done that, you should notice an immediate improvement in performance. Next, do some house cleaning. Start moving things from the “Stuff to file” folder into the the proper folders in your home folders: Documents, Music, Pictures or Movies. Create sub-folders in those folders, if necessary. Then, just keep track of the amount of icons on your desktop. . Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 18/02/2011, at 12:18 AM, Dark1 da...@iinet.net.au wrote: *Keeping your desktop clean is really important because every icon, folder or alias on it is loaded into the RAM, slowing your system down. * This explains why every computer my sister uses seems to suffer a huge drop in performance. She has so much junk on the desktop that there are icons stacked upon multiple other icons. I'd just like to clarify whether the contents of a folder on the desktop are also loaded into the RAM or if it was just the folder its-self. Thanks Ruben -- -- 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
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Best Practice - Removal of External Devices
Best Practice comment on removing unused USB cords from iMac ports please! Just checked the Console log to try and find clues to the cause of my iMac Sleep (or Wake!) problem.(iMac had been waking at irregular times around 5 - 20 minutes after display went black.) All external devices had been SUPERFICIALLY removed. That is, physical devices were removed but I had one USB cord left plugged into the iMac port with the cord dangling at the front for ease of reconnection. Today looked at Console/Database Searches/All Messages rather than just Console Messages. It shows an entry every few seconds to the effect that iMac is having trouble enumerating a USB device plugged into Port 4. My unused cable in fact. I completely removed the USB cable and message logging stopped. I let the iMac to go to Sleep. I had to wake it after 60 minutes to see if it was still alive! (More uninterrupted sleep than I've being getting lately!) I guess there have been some lessons there. One positive is that I now have a lean and mean internal drive with all old and unused files and applications removed. Plus a clean and uncluttered desktop with no odd files and folders covering up the wallpaper. Regards, Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5 Nov 2009 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz / 4 MB OSX 10.6.6 Snow Leopard Time Machine in 1TB WD My Studio Firewire -- 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
was :iMac Good Practices now: winoze desktop and ram usage
Maybe a stupid question, but is this the same in windoze? Ie your desktop clogs up ram? Best Regards Hugh Griffiths mobile +61 407 477 311 office +61 (0) 8 6424 4801 Any commercial terms stated or implied are subject to final approval and negotiations. Not an offer or acceptance. All correspondence directly pertaining to the act of doing business will continue to be transmitted for your information as allowed under the SPAM Act 2003. This includes but is not limited to quotes, order confirmation, and shipment advices. -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2011 3:54 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: iMac Good Practices On 17/02/2011, at 3:24 PM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi Ronni and others This is really interesting and thanks heaps for speaking about it. I wasnt aware that files, folders and aliases on the desktop would take up ram and system efficiency. I also wasnt aware that it would be most efficient to use the Mac's folder system like you say Ronni. At the moment I have made a folder called Work (65000 items and 60gb of stuff) that sits with the Macs' folders; Applications, Documents, Library, Music etc etc. Would I be better off putting my 'Work' folder inside the Documents folder? Yes, it should be filed in the Documents folder in your Home Folder. I also can see the 'Documents' folder on the RH side of the Dock, and when I click it, it rapidly displays the folders with in Documents, on which I can click one and it opens in Finder, like normal. Is that what you are referring to Ronni? Your Documents folder shows in the Dock which points to the Documents folder in your Home Documents folder. What I was referring to, and I'll use your Work Folder as an example (which is similar to my Work in Progress folder which is filed in my Documents folder and is sitting on my Dock for quick access. 1. File your Work Folder into your Documents folder in your Home folder 2. Then Drag your Work Folder down onto the Right Side of the Dock. If you look closely at your dock there is a dividing line. (Applications go on the left side of the divider, files and folders on the right ... Virtually using the Dock as a launcher, a place for launching applications or accessing commonly used folders) With this in mind, what is the optimum way to configure the filing/folder system? Keep all Documents in Documents folder. Create folders 'and place documents within folders' in your Documents Folder in your Home. I have numerous Folders in my Documents folder. Example, all documents relating to Leopard are in a 'Leopard Folder', Snow Leopard Documents are in a folder 'Snow Leopard' etc. Drag any folders you use everyday onto the dock .Drag your 'Work Folder' onto the dock. Use the Dock for folders you access every day. Cheers, Ronni Thanks heaps for any advice Best regards Chris (Im using a MBPro Intel Dual 2.2 with 4gb Ram) and it is running pretty slow!!) -- 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 Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 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 -- This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. -- 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: iMac Good Practices
Hi David, Sorry for the delay in replying, but I’ve been busy doing clients work. I’ll try to answer your query and clarify RAM usage a little more. -- I am wondering about 'open' files which I've stood aside into the dock (pressed yellow button on top left). Does the OS count these as open, or is the dock just like a folder too? Yes, the ‘Yellow Dot' only “minimises” the file. The Application that uses the file is still Active (Open). Also if you press the ‘Red Dot’ it just closes the window, it doesn’t Quit the Application. (unless its System Preferences, and a few programs that do actually Quit when you press the “Red Dot”, rather than simply close the window. Generally speaking, these are Applications that either do not need to save before quitting, or that have been written in such a way as to save automatically on Quit. The iLife Applications are an example.) ‘Open’ Files in the Dock: Minimise - Click the yellow button (−), and the window “minimises” (shrinks to the size of a postage stamp and flys into the right side of the Dock). A bit more information: Remember that anything in the Dock is an Alias. The greater the number of application aliases the larger amount Dock.app uses. The dock is an application and takes about 5 Mb of RAM by itself. Each application alias in the dock uses about 0.1 Mb of RAM. This is very little amount of RAM so you won't notice the difference between 5 application aliases compared to 50. ‘Open’ Applications in the Dock: If there's a blue dot below the app icon in the dock, then that app is running, and using background RAM. Lots of apps with blue dots under them means your computer will be slowing down a little. If there is no blue dot under the icon, then the icon is just a link, which has not been activated, and takes almost no RAM. An easy way to both see which apps you have running and to quickly switch between them is to press Command-Tab. (Command-Q closes the current app, and can be done at the same time as Command-Tab) I often notice ex-windows users don't know or realise how many apps they have active, and only notice their Mac slowing down because there's about 10-15 apps active and running in the background. You can use Activity Monitor to track memory usage. Or, open Terminal (In Applications/Utilities) and enter the top command. It gives a very good breakdown of memory usage by program. Or, open Terminal and enter man top. Peruse this document, then enter the top combination with the combination of trailers you want, to limit the number of listings or sort it by CPU usage, for example. The problem with any of these tools is that they also take memory. Look in top, for example, and see how much (and what %) of your memory top itself takes. This goes back to the whole If you measure a particle's position, you change its velocity, and if you measure its velocity, you change its position quagmire. However, these processes will still give you what you want. Activity Monitor Pie Chart The Activity Monitor pie chart shows four types of memory usage: Free (green), Wired (red), Active (yellow), and Inactive (blue). In order to understand your memory usage, you need to know what each memory type is and how it affects available memory. http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/os-x-memory-usage.htm When you launch a program, it gets loaded into active memory. When you quit a program, however, it doesn't get removed from RAM; rather, it gets bumped into inactive memory. This is why it is often faster to re-launch a program -- it is still in RAM (try this with a Application like Firefox). Once all your memory is used (free memory is 0), the OS will write out inactive memory to the swapfile to make more room in active memory. If a program gets paged out to the swapfile, and you re-launch it, it'll get pulled from the swapfile into active memory. So in short, you actually shouldn't care if your free memory is low. In fact, you want it to be low -- free memory is wasted memory (as the OS isn't using it for anything). When examining how much memory your computer is using, you actually want to pay attention mostly to Swap used, which tells you the size of the virtual memory swapfile, and Page ins, which tells you how often the OS has to pull memory from the swapfile into active memory. To explain how OS X uses memory would ‘fill a book’. A good start is Mac OS X Reference Library: Memory Usage Performance Guidelines. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Performance/Conceptual/ManagingMemory/ManagingMemory.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/1160-SW1 http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Performance/Conceptual/ManagingMemory/Articles/AboutMemory.html Hope this is of benefit to you David. Cheers, Ronni On 18/02/2011, at 9:46 AM, David Noel wrote: Hi Ronni -- -- This discussion has been very useful to me, as I used to keep my Desktop like my real world, very
Re: was :iMac Good Practices now: winoze desktop and ram usage
Hi Hugh, Answer is Yes! A lot of icons sitting on your desktop (even in Windoze) will slow up the computer. Having a clean desktop is important enough that back in Windows XP days it asked you to clean up unused desktop icons. If you ignored the prompt, you had to either clean them up manually by right clicking your mouse on them and selecting delete or you could access the Windows XP program by: • Start • Control Panel • Double-click Display. • Click the Desktop tab. • Click the Customize Desktop button at the bottom. • Click the General tab. • Click the Clean Desktop Now button at the bottom. Over time, the amount of space that is required by these “desktop items” can really bog down the system that they are placed on. When Windoze loads, it must load all of these files on the desktop. If you have many, this will take a tremendous amount of time. Cheers, Ronni On 18/02/2011, at 11:08 AM, Hugh Griffiths wrote: Maybe a stupid question, but is this the same in windoze? Ie your desktop clogs up ram? Best Regards Hugh Griffiths mobile +61 407 477 311 office +61 (0) 8 6424 4801 Any commercial terms stated or implied are subject to final approval and negotiations. Not an offer or acceptance. All correspondence directly pertaining to the act of doing business will continue to be transmitted for your information as allowed under the SPAM Act 2003. This includes but is not limited to quotes, order confirmation, and shipment advices. -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2011 3:54 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: iMac Good Practices On 17/02/2011, at 3:24 PM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi Ronni and others This is really interesting and thanks heaps for speaking about it. I wasnt aware that files, folders and aliases on the desktop would take up ram and system efficiency. I also wasnt aware that it would be most efficient to use the Mac's folder system like you say Ronni. At the moment I have made a folder called Work (65000 items and 60gb of stuff) that sits with the Macs' folders; Applications, Documents, Library, Music etc etc. Would I be better off putting my 'Work' folder inside the Documents folder? Yes, it should be filed in the Documents folder in your Home Folder. I also can see the 'Documents' folder on the RH side of the Dock, and when I click it, it rapidly displays the folders with in Documents, on which I can click one and it opens in Finder, like normal. Is that what you are referring to Ronni? Your Documents folder shows in the Dock which points to the Documents folder in your Home Documents folder. What I was referring to, and I'll use your Work Folder as an example (which is similar to my Work in Progress folder which is filed in my Documents folder and is sitting on my Dock for quick access. 1. File your Work Folder into your Documents folder in your Home folder 2. Then Drag your Work Folder down onto the Right Side of the Dock. If you look closely at your dock there is a dividing line. (Applications go on the left side of the divider, files and folders on the right ... Virtually using the Dock as a launcher, a place for launching applications or accessing commonly used folders) With this in mind, what is the optimum way to configure the filing/folder system? Keep all Documents in Documents folder. Create folders 'and place documents within folders' in your Documents Folder in your Home. I have numerous Folders in my Documents folder. Example, all documents relating to Leopard are in a 'Leopard Folder', Snow Leopard Documents are in a folder 'Snow Leopard' etc. Drag any folders you use everyday onto the dock .Drag your 'Work Folder' onto the dock. Use the Dock for folders you access every day. Cheers, Ronni Thanks heaps for any advice Best regards Chris (Im using a MBPro Intel Dual 2.2 with 4gb Ram) and it is running pretty slow!!) -- 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
Desktop and .DS file
Hi all Thankyou to Ronni for all that info. It certainly has speeded up my Mac. I have one icon on the desktop named .DS-store and I cannot get rid of it. If I put it in Trash it comes back and it refuses to go anywhere and tells me it is invisible. Has anyone an answer I can use without going into Terminal about which I know zilch? Cheers John -- 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: iMac Good Practices
-- Thanks so much much, Ronni. If I follow what you're saying for the next hundred years, I may become as well-informed as you! Cheers, David === On 18 February 2011 12:50, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi David, Sorry for the delay in replying, but I've been busy doing clients work. I'll try to answer your query and clarify RAM usage a little more. -- I am wondering about 'open' files which I've stood aside into the dock (pressed yellow button on top left). Does the OS count these as open, or is the dock just like a folder too? Yes, the *'Yellow Dot'* only *minimises* the file. The Application that uses the file is still Active (Open). Also if you press the *'Red Dot' *it just closes the window, it doesn't Quit the Application. (unless its System Preferences, and a few programs that do actually Quit when you press the Red Dot, rather than simply close the window. Generally speaking, these are Applications that either do not need to save before quitting, or that have been written in such a way as to save automatically on Quit. The iLife Applications are an example.) *'Open' Files in the Dock:* Minimise - Click the yellow button (-), and the window minimises (shrinks to the size of a postage stamp and flys into the right side of the Dock). *A bit more information:* Remember that anything in the Dock is an Alias. The greater the number of application aliases the larger amount Dock.app uses. The dock is an application and takes about 5 Mb of RAM by itself. Each application alias in the dock uses about 0.1 Mb of RAM. This is very little amount of RAM so you won't notice the difference between 5 application aliases compared to 50. *'Open' Applications in the Dock:* If there's a blue dot below the app icon in the dock, then that app is running, and using background RAM. Lots of apps with blue dots under them means your computer will be slowing down a little. If there is no blue dot under the icon, then the icon is just a link, which has not been activated, and takes almost no RAM. An easy way to both see which apps you have running and to quickly switch between them is to press Command-Tab. (Command-Q closes the current app, and can be done at the same time as Command-Tab) I often notice ex-windows users don't know or realise how many apps they have active, and only notice their Mac slowing down because there's about 10-15 apps active and running in the background. You can use Activity Monitor to track memory usage. Or, open Terminal (In Applications/Utilities) and enter the *top* command. It gives a very good breakdown of memory usage by program. Or, open Terminal and enter *man top*. Peruse this document, then enter the top combination with the combination of trailers you want, to limit the number of listings or sort it by CPU usage, for example. The problem with any of these tools is that they also take memory. Look in top, for example, and see how much (and what %) of your memory top itself takes. This goes back to the whole If you measure a particle's position, you change its velocity, and if you measure its velocity, you change its position quagmire. However, these processes will still give you what you want. *Activity Monitor Pie Chart* The Activity Monitor pie chart shows four types of memory usage: Free (green), Wired (red), Active (yellow), and Inactive (blue). In order to understand your memory usage, you need to know what each memory type is and how it affects available memory. http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/os-x-memory-usage.htm When you launch a program, it gets loaded into active memory. When you quit a program, however, it doesn't get removed from RAM; rather, it gets bumped into inactive memory. This is why it is often faster to re-launch a program -- it is still in RAM (try this with a Application like Firefox). Once all your memory is used (free memory is 0), the OS will write out inactive memory to the swapfile to make more room in active memory. If a program gets paged out to the swapfile, and you re-launch it, it'll get pulled from the swapfile into active memory. So in short, you actually shouldn't care if your free memory is low. In fact, you want it to be low -- free memory is wasted memory (as the OS isn't using it for anything). When examining how much memory your computer is using, you actually want to pay attention mostly to Swap used, which tells you the size of the virtual memory swapfile, and Page ins, which tells you how often the OS has to pull memory from the swapfile into active memory. To explain how OS X uses memory would 'fill a book'. A good start is Mac OS X Reference Library: Memory Usage Performance Guidelines. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Performance/Conceptual/ManagingMemory/ManagingMemory.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/1160-SW1
Re: Desktop and .DS file
Hi John, The .DS-store file is showing because you have finder set to show hidden files. In UNIX a hidden file is one the name of which starts with a period. You will often also see a .localized file on the desktop as well and in regular directories a whole zoo of hidden files including .Spotlight, .Trashes and more. To turn this feature off, issue the following command from a Utilities = Terminal window: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO Cheers, Carlo On 2011-02-18, at 15:12, John Daniels wrote: Hi all Thankyou to Ronni for all that info. It certainly has speeded up my Mac. I have one icon on the desktop named .DS-store and I cannot get rid of it. If I put it in Trash it comes back and it refuses to go anywhere and tells me it is invisible. Has anyone an answer I can use without going into Terminal about which I know zilch? Cheers John -- 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: Desktop and .DS file
On 18/02/2011, at 3:12 PM, John Daniels wrote: Hi all Thankyou to Ronni for all that info. It certainly has speeded up my Mac. I have one icon on the desktop named .DS-store and I cannot get rid of it. If I put it in Trash it comes back and it refuses to go anywhere and tells me it is invisible. Has anyone an answer I can use without going into Terminal about which I know zilch? Cheers John Hi John, It is an invisible file that is created by the finder, sort of like the thumbs.db on windows. For some reason it seems you have invisible files being shown on your computer. Do you have TinkerTool installed? If so you can use it to “Hide Invisibles”. Another option is to download a program like TinkerTool and use the options in there (there's a checkbox in the Finder pane) to set things appropriately. If not you need to go into Terminal. Don’t panic if you know ‘zilch’ about Terminal. I’ll give you a command you just need to 'copy paste’ into Terminal. To hide them open up Terminal in Utilities: 1. Go to Applications Utilities Terminal 2. Copy and then Paste the following command defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles OFF 3. Press Enter Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.6 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
