Query - transferring from Vista machine to iMac with Lion
I have a friend running Vista with MS Outlook (not sure what version of Outlook but whatever the latest version was about 3 years ago). She's just bought a new iMac, which we'll make sure is running 10.7.4 before we start, and wants to import mail and contacts from Outlook to Apple's Mail. Can somebody tell me the simplest method of exporting messages and contacts from Outlook on the windows machine, for import into Apple Mail ? Is Migration Assistant good for this? I do have a licensed version of Little Machine's O2M somewhere. Anybody know if that does anything over and above what Migration Assistant might offer? This friend uses Picasa for photo management, so I assume no need to transfer anything in this regard since Picasa is web based (happy to be corrected, I don't use Picasa myself). And she uses iTunes on her Windows machine. I'm guessing Migration Assistant would be good for bringing music collection across ? So I guess the question is, will Migration Assistant take care of everything, or will I need to do something else ? Cheers, Steven -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mountain Lion - AirPlay Mirroring - older iMacs?
Hi Alan, Thanks very much for this feedback. I will be interested to see if the extra RAM helps - it is also something I have been considering for one of my niggles - I tend to have multiple firefox windows open, each with multiple tabs (it's a long story) and sometimes if I get up to, say, 50 tabs spread over 4 or 5 windows it sometimes all grinds to a halt - not really surprising ;o) but extra RAM may well help. Currently, we are both running 10.6.8 with 4GB RAM and our iMacs are similar vintage - but different processors yours is the Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz whilst mine is the Core i7 2.8 GHz - I don't know how much difference that would make. Since my main reason for exploring this approach is to offer Georgie a simpler/better way of watching iView than sitting at her computer then, based on your feedback, I may hold fire for the moment - it doesn't sound too wife-friendly ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 20/6/12 12:52 PM, Alan Smith at sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil Responding re your AirParrot question: I've spent the last hour or so typing up a response, then testing AirParrot again. Final result is that it is too early to give a review, but it is much more promising than I first thought. The bad video effects may just be due to my relatively underpowered iMac having to download a compressed iView movie (that has artefacts at the best of time) while simultaneously converting to H.264 for sending to ATV. Another possible cause of poor video (untested) is that initial tests were done with Apple TV connected via ethernet, with todays tests using WiFi. Operation is a bit clumsy. For example, several items need to be checked in the menu to set up air play, but the menu window closes after each item. Sound quality is good. Audio is stereo analogue and is either desktop or ATV. Setup requires an audio driver to be activated. Desktop mirroring worked with no apparent problem, but I only used relatively static views for a short time. Could not read fine text, eg from an email open on screen. But I don't think iPad mirroring does any better. Video quality - initial impression was not very good. I recall video quality was very ordinary. Video streaming was slow with periods of frozen images - possibly the result of encoding everything to H.264 (I think) on the fly. I tested iView with a 5 minute Minuscule episode and an eyeTV mirroring clip just before I emailed my comment to WAMUG last night. I later watched a 15 minute iView program but ATV just switched to screen saver and cut off audio at about the half way mark. Problem not investigated. There was a known AirParrot issue with video failing when ATV went into sleep mode (supposedly fixed) but my ATV sleep setting is 1 hour. I tested video quality again this morning because of my initial poor rating. I used WiFi instead of ethernet. Only watched video for relatively short periods. Quality good. An eyeTV live broadcast mirroring worked well with no image break up.Ditto with a movie played via Quicktime and mirrored. And iView continued to give poor quality, broken video, as well as dropping out completely. In summary, I will persevere with this $10 application but hope that Mountain Lion will make it redundant. I will get additional RAM for my iMac and see if that helps the iView problem.Haven't yet tried to watch a straight 30 minute mirror to test the ATV sleeping issue. Cheers Alan On 20/06/2012, at 10:36 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Alan, OK, that's good to know. Many thanks for the feedback. When you say: App is a bit rough, but it works. What is the problem/roughness - is it in the interface/operability or is it in the resulting video/audio stream? Cheers Neil -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mountain Lion - AirPlay Mirroring - older iMacs?
Neil, in the context of grabbing and saving from iView, which is an emergency measure for me as I (usually) record everything of interest on an HD recorder, I have been looking at Jaksta among other grabbers. It is nice and simple and certainly very convenient and you can save to a host of formats. It was in the recent MacUpdate bundle and costs $49 (or $59 for the Deluxe version). I don't know how Georgie friendly you will find it but it is about as simple as can be. For example you can save as DIVX or avi which you can put on a USB stick and play from many TVs or recorders. Hope you have as nice a fire going as I have, we only got to 9C up here on Mount Clarence and lots of rain and hail to go with it Severin On 20/06/2012, at 3:46 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Alan, Thanks very much for this feedback. I will be interested to see if the extra RAM helps - it is also something I have been considering for one of my niggles - I tend to have multiple firefox windows open, each with multiple tabs (it's a long story) and sometimes if I get up to, say, 50 tabs spread over 4 or 5 windows it sometimes all grinds to a halt - not really surprising ;o) but extra RAM may well help. Currently, we are both running 10.6.8 with 4GB RAM and our iMacs are similar vintage - but different processors yours is the Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz whilst mine is the Core i7 2.8 GHz - I don't know how much difference that would make. Since my main reason for exploring this approach is to offer Georgie a simpler/better way of watching iView than sitting at her computer then, based on your feedback, I may hold fire for the moment - it doesn't sound too wife-friendly ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 20/6/12 12:52 PM, Alan Smith at sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil Responding re your AirParrot question: I've spent the last hour or so typing up a response, then testing AirParrot again. Final result is that it is too early to give a review, but it is much more promising than I first thought. The bad video effects may just be due to my relatively underpowered iMac having to download a compressed iView movie (that has artefacts at the best of time) while simultaneously converting to H.264 for sending to ATV. Another possible cause of poor video (untested) is that initial tests were done with Apple TV connected via ethernet, with todays tests using WiFi. Operation is a bit clumsy. For example, several items need to be checked in the menu to set up air play, but the menu window closes after each item. Sound quality is good. Audio is stereo analogue and is either desktop or ATV. Setup requires an audio driver to be activated. Desktop mirroring worked with no apparent problem, but I only used relatively static views for a short time. Could not read fine text, eg from an email open on screen. But I don't think iPad mirroring does any better. Video quality - initial impression was not very good. I recall video quality was very ordinary. Video streaming was slow with periods of frozen images - possibly the result of encoding everything to H.264 (I think) on the fly. I tested iView with a 5 minute Minuscule episode and an eyeTV mirroring clip just before I emailed my comment to WAMUG last night. I later watched a 15 minute iView program but ATV just switched to screen saver and cut off audio at about the half way mark. Problem not investigated. There was a known AirParrot issue with video failing when ATV went into sleep mode (supposedly fixed) but my ATV sleep setting is 1 hour. I tested video quality again this morning because of my initial poor rating. I used WiFi instead of ethernet. Only watched video for relatively short periods. Quality good. An eyeTV live broadcast mirroring worked well with no image break up.Ditto with a movie played via Quicktime and mirrored. And iView continued to give poor quality, broken video, as well as dropping out completely. In summary, I will persevere with this $10 application but hope that Mountain Lion will make it redundant. I will get additional RAM for my iMac and see if that helps the iView problem.Haven't yet tried to watch a straight 30 minute mirror to test the ATV sleeping issue. Cheers Alan On 20/06/2012, at 10:36 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Alan, OK, that's good to know. Many thanks for the feedback. When you say: App is a bit rough, but it works. What is the problem/roughness - is it in the interface/operability or is it in the resulting video/audio stream? Cheers Neil -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe -
Re: imac for sale
Here here! I also value the advice and time you both dedicate to WAMUG! Ken Sent from my iPad On 19/06/2012, at 9:44 PM, Jennifer Lefroy lefroy.jenni...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Daniel and Ronni for very clear expositions of what one can and cannot do under differing conditions. It is very helpful to those of us who are less knowledgeable. Regards, Jennifer On 19 June 2012 19:21, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi People, I was not going to respond to Derek's comments to me for bringing it to his attention and WAMUG members that what he was anticipating doing was contravening software copyright laws. I'm am upset with his attitude towards me, and now towards Daniel. I'm only the messenger here, doing what I do for WAMUG, giving informed and correct information to the group. Derek has put himself and WAMUG in a delicate position. He has again posted on a public mailing list after being warned he was contravening copyright laws and could cause repercussions for WAMUG. As I mentioned previously Apple Reps troll our mailing list quite often. I have had very good feedback from them as they do appreciate what we are doing on our mailing list. We can not appear as a group to condone software piracy of any kind. Daniel and I put in a lot of time to support people on WAMUG mailing list, and only ever give helpful advice and correct information in a very friendly and professional manner. Like Daniel I will not be having anything more to say on this matter. I have done what was the correct and right thing to do and that was inform Derek and members of the legalities. Kind Regards, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 19/06/2012, at 4:30 PM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: screen stand
Hi Reg Is this what you are after? http://www.macfixit.com.au/shop/index.php?_a=viewProdproductId=2704 Pedro On 20/06/2012, at 9:59 AM, Reg Whitely rwhit...@internode.on.net wrote: Have a look at this clever one from Quirky http://www.quirky.com/products/22-The-Space-Bar-Desk-Organizer Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net On 20/06/2012, at 9:20 am, gary dorn wrote: howdy I wonder if any can suggest where we can go to have a look at screen stands for 21 iMac I saw on youtube the Monitor in Motion which is sort of what we are after. http://www.monitorsinmotion.com/products ta -- gary dorn north perth -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Mountain Lion - AirPlay Mirroring - older iMacs?
Hi Severin, Unfortunately, our digital TV doesn't have USB input and we don't have a HD recorder. So other than live free-to-air TV, all our digital viewing is via the AppleTV (which is why iView direct on the the AppleTV would be great). I don't have a problem downloading and saving iView - but to play over the AppleTV, I have to also import it into iTunes - and then, unless I want everything just showing up as a huge list of movies, I have to edit the metadata to change to TV show, set-up genres, series and episodes etc - which is what I do for stuff I deem worthy of repeat viewing. For the one-off missed episode/program, I generally find that too much trouble and just go to the computer to watch iView ;o) I had a look at Jaksta, but I didn't like that you actually had to have iView running in a browser all the time you are recording: In your browser, navigate to and start to play a stream on ABC iView. Jaksta will automatically detect and begin to record the stream! Ensure you continue watching in your browser as iView streams are secured and can not be downloaded independently of the browser. I would find this distracting and it also means that you need to wait for a recording to finish and then find the next program you want to save and start that in iView. Whilst the iView_Downloader_OSX_7.0.command Terminal script is a bit clunky, I can create a download queue of several programs and then set it to download them all - which all happens in the background while I do other things. I figure that by the time I decide to upgrade the TV, iView and recording to USB drives will all be included in the TV (I believe they are in some newer models already). Of course, by then, Apple may have produced a real AppleTV with all those features we didn't even know we wanted until they showed us ;o) Yes, I have heaters on around the house and after listening to the rain/hail I'm hiding inside - didn't even make it out for a coffee today ;o(( Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 20/6/12 4:24 PM, Severin Crisp at sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Neil, in the context of grabbing and saving from iView, which is an emergency measure for me as I (usually) record everything of interest on an HD recorder, I have been looking at Jaksta among other grabbers. It is nice and simple and certainly very convenient and you can save to a host of formats. It was in the recent MacUpdate bundle and costs $49 (or $59 for the Deluxe version). I don't know how Georgie friendly you will find it but it is about as simple as can be. For example you can save as DIVX or avi which you can put on a USB stick and play from many TVs or recorders. Hope you have as nice a fire going as I have, we only got to 9C up here on Mount Clarence and lots of rain and hail to go with it Severin On 20/06/2012, at 3:46 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Alan, Thanks very much for this feedback. I will be interested to see if the extra RAM helps - it is also something I have been considering for one of my niggles - I tend to have multiple firefox windows open, each with multiple tabs (it's a long story) and sometimes if I get up to, say, 50 tabs spread over 4 or 5 windows it sometimes all grinds to a halt - not really surprising ;o) but extra RAM may well help. Currently, we are both running 10.6.8 with 4GB RAM and our iMacs are similar vintage - but different processors yours is the Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz whilst mine is the Core i7 2.8 GHz - I don't know how much difference that would make. Since my main reason for exploring this approach is to offer Georgie a simpler/better way of watching iView than sitting at her computer then, based on your feedback, I may hold fire for the moment - it doesn't sound too wife-friendly ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 20/6/12 12:52 PM, Alan Smith at sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Neil Responding re your AirParrot question: I've spent the last hour or so typing up a response, then testing AirParrot again. Final result is that it is too early to give a review, but it is much more promising than I first thought. The bad video effects may just be due to my relatively underpowered iMac having to download a compressed iView movie (that has artefacts at the best of time) while simultaneously converting to H.264 for sending to ATV. Another possible cause of poor video (untested) is that initial tests were done with Apple TV connected via ethernet, with todays tests using WiFi. Operation is a bit clumsy. For example, several items need to be checked in the menu to set up air play, but the menu window closes after each item. Sound quality is good. Audio is stereo analogue and is either desktop or ATV. Setup requires an audio driver to be activated. Desktop mirroring worked
Re: screen stand
Looks good Pedro, but it was Gary who was after one. Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net On 20/06/2012, at 5:40 pm, Pedro wrote: Hi Reg Is this what you are after? http://www.macfixit.com.au/shop/index.php?_a=viewProdproductId=2704 Pedro On 20/06/2012, at 9:59 AM, Reg Whitely rwhit...@internode.on.net wrote: Have a look at this clever one from Quirky http://www.quirky.com/products/22-The-Space-Bar-Desk-Organizer Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net On 20/06/2012, at 9:20 am, gary dorn wrote: howdy I wonder if any can suggest where we can go to have a look at screen stands for 21 iMac I saw on youtube the Monitor in Motion which is sort of what we are after. http://www.monitorsinmotion.com/products ta -- gary dorn north perth -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Query - transferring from Vista machine to iMac with Lion
On 20/06/2012, at 3:32 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I have a friend running Vista with MS Outlook (not sure what version of Outlook but whatever the latest version was about 3 years ago). She's just bought a new iMac, which we'll make sure is running 10.7.4 before we start, and wants to import mail and contacts from Outlook to Apple's Mail. Can somebody tell me the simplest method of exporting messages and contacts from Outlook on the windows machine, for import into Apple Mail ? Is Migration Assistant good for this? I do have a licensed version of Little Machine's O2M somewhere. Anybody know if that does anything over and above what Migration Assistant might offer? This friend uses Picasa for photo management, so I assume no need to transfer anything in this regard since Picasa is web based (happy to be corrected, I don't use Picasa myself). And she uses iTunes on her Windows machine. I'm guessing Migration Assistant would be good for bringing music collection across ? So I guess the question is, will Migration Assistant take care of everything, or will I need to do something else ? Migration Assistant should handle all the heavy lifting for you, as long as the Windows machine is malware-free and happily talks to the Mac via an ethernet connection. Problems arise when this dialogue is prevented from occurring, in which case the O2M solution becomes essential. Of course, O2M only handles Outlook mail and contacts. Migration Assistant is far more comprehensive, dealing not only with this, but also all documents, images, music, user accounts, etc. In fact, everything but the applications (of course). Without Migration Assistant, the whole process becomes much more messy. 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
