Re: Inserting page break into a PDF from HTML

[David Noel]

Hi Pat, thanks a lot, I'll try that.

Best regards

David



On 29 May 2018 at 10:34, Pat  wrote:

> Hi, David,
>
> I haven’t done this, but my html book says:
> You can insert a page break before or after an element.
>
> Example: the html should say   this element.
>
> The css should be,  *.page-break-after { page-break-after: always; }
>
> And the same pattern for ‘page-break-before’.
>
> I hope this helps.
> Cheers,
> Pat
>
>
>
>
> On 29 May 2018, at 10:00, David Noel  wrote:
>
> Over the years, I've put together a large website of scientific articles,
> at AOI.com.au <http://aoi.com.au/>. It's been reasonably successful for a
> science site, clocking up half a million visitors.
>
> I write each article (eg Article2491.pages) directly in html, using Pages.
> To make a Pages article into a web article, I just export it to plain text
> (Article2491.txt) and change the .txt to .htm (Article2481.htm). I test by
> dragging the .htm over to a browser, which shows me how it will look on the
> Web, and when satisfied I upload the .htm and any associated graphics onto
> the live AOI site.
>
> Now I'm working on converting 6 of the website articles into a
> print-on-demand book with KDL, Kindle Direct Publishing (part of Amazon),
> to be called "How the Universe Works". KDL accepts the PDF of a book text
> to make the book layout, and a PDF can be made simply from an HTML article
> or book text by Printing to PDF.
>
> I'd like to find a way to put a marker into the HTML version of a
> book/article collection, so that when it's converted to a PDF, it will
> create a page break in the PDF. Page breaks are needed in the PDF to make
> new pages at the start of chapters and book preliminaries such as title
> page, contents page, etc.
>
> Can anyone suggest a simple way of doing this, please?
>
> Cheers, David Noel.
>
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Inserting page break into a PDF from HTML

[David Noel]

Over the years, I've put together a large website of scientific articles,
at AOI.com.au. It's been reasonably successful for a science site, clocking
up half a million visitors.

I write each article (eg Article2491.pages) directly in html, using Pages.
To make a Pages article into a web article, I just export it to plain text
(Article2491.txt) and change the .txt to .htm (Article2481.htm). I test by
dragging the .htm over to a browser, which shows me how it will look on the
Web, and when satisfied I upload the .htm and any associated graphics onto
the live AOI site.

Now I'm working on converting 6 of the website articles into a
print-on-demand book with KDL, Kindle Direct Publishing (part of Amazon),
to be called "How the Universe Works". KDL accepts the PDF of a book text
to make the book layout, and a PDF can be made simply from an HTML article
or book text by Printing to PDF.

I'd like to find a way to put a marker into the HTML version of a
book/article collection, so that when it's converted to a PDF, it will
create a page break in the PDF. Page breaks are needed in the PDF to make
new pages at the start of chapters and book preliminaries such as title
page, contents page, etc.

Can anyone suggest a simple way of doing this, please?

Cheers, David Noel.
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Re: opening appleworks docs

[David Noel]

Hi Gary, you may be able to open Appleworks text and spreadsheet files with
Pages and Numbers, respectively. Appleworks database files are more
difficult. Let me know if you need to open database files, but probably you
have text files.

Cheers

David Noel



On 25 May 2018 at 15:16, gary dorn <gd...@me.com> wrote:

> howdy
>
> I have some legacy appleworks docs ( from 1998)  which I would like to open
> is there any way of opening or viewing them
>
> Mac Os 10.11.6
>
> I can also boot into 10.5.7 and 10.7.5
>
> chow
> Gary
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Re: Security

[David Noel]

Just a thought, if you use more than one language, Command-blank will move
you down your language list, and it's easy to accidentally press
Command-blank.

(If you mouse to the language in your menu bar, just left of the date, it
will tick whatever the system thinks is your current input language.)

David


On 19 May 2017 at 21:14, Daniel Kerr <wa...@macwizardry.com.au> wrote:

> Hi Brian
>
> Nope,….just English (Australia) and English (UK). Then all the other
> English after that. :)
> Same as I’ve always used to post on both computer and iPhone. :)
>
> Kind regards
> Daniel
>
> Sent from my iPhone 7
>
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>
> > On 19 May 2017, at 8:59 pm, Brian RISBEY <risb...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you David and Ronni
> >
> > I had all the English languages in order with Australian at the top,
> Simplified Chinese was just after all the various English languages.
> >
> > A mystery...
> >
> > I wonder if Daniel has the same?
> >
> > Brian Risbey
> > OS10.3.2
> > 
> >
> >
> > On 19 May 2017, at 16:17, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Brian
> >
> > The message was mostly in Simplified Chinese Mandarin characters, but
> there were many invalid characters, and the message was not in Mandarin.
> You are probably right that it was a wrong font setting. I received the
> message in English, it was as following:
> >
> > "Hi Bill
> >
> > Just in with client, which is why quick replies (as just wanting for
> some software to install and quickly checking email between installs).
> > After you double click the DMG and then it opens a Finder window. Before
> you click anything else, that is where you need to hold down the Option key.
> > eg. You double click the DMG file. It opens to a “white disk looking
> icon” on the desktop. Then before you click whatever icon or installer is
> there, you hold down the Control key before you click on it. You’ll then
> get a pop up window that you choose “Open” from. the list.
> > It will ask if you want to approve the Application, and you then choose
> “open”. It should then open as normal.
> >
> > If you want to keep it all the time, and it’s not an installer, but an
> icon of the Application itself, you drag it into your Applications folder.
> > Then go to Applications folder and before doubling clicking it, you then
> use the Control key method. Then the same steps to open it.
> >
> > It should then open after that."
> >
> > Cheers, David Noel.
> >
> > PS. On a computer, Chinese characters use the equivalent of two English
> letters for one Chinese Character.
> >
> >
> > On 19 May 2017 at 15:52, Brian RISBEY <risb...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> > Hi Ronni
> > Daniel's text message was in an Asian language. I just was inquiring to
> if it was supposed to be or if I have a wrong font setting in my iPhone6.
> >
> > Brian Risbey
> > OS10.3.2
> > 
> >
> >
> > On 19 May 2017, at 13:47, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > You can still open any app by right-click (Control-Click) its icon,
> choosing Open, and then confirming that you want to open it.
> > So you are not prevented from opening any apps, you are simply protected
> against opening apps from unidentified developers.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ronni
> >
> >> On 19 May 2017, at 12:48 pm, Brian RISBEY <risb...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Daniel
> >> Could not quite understand your message 
> >>
> >> Brian Risbey
> >> OS10.3.2
> >> 
> >>
> >>
> >> On 19 May 2017, at 12:11, Daniel Kerr <wa...@macwizardry.com.au> wrote:
> >>
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Re: Security

[David Noel]

Hi Brian

The message was mostly in Simplified Chinese Mandarin characters, but there
were many invalid characters, and the message was not in Mandarin. You are
probably right that it was a wrong font setting. I received the message in
English, it was as following:

"Hi Bill

Just in with client, which is why quick replies (as just wanting for some
software to install and quickly checking email between installs).
After you double click the DMG and then it opens a Finder window. Before
you click anything else, that is where you need to hold down the Option key.
eg. You double click the DMG file. It opens to a “white disk looking icon”
on the desktop. Then before you click whatever icon or installer is there,
you hold down the Control key before you click on it. You’ll then get a pop
up window that you choose “Open” from. the list.
It will ask if you want to approve the Application, and you then choose
“open”. It should then open as normal.

If you want to keep it all the time, and it’s not an installer, but an icon
of the Application itself, you drag it into your Applications folder.
Then go to Applications folder and before doubling clicking it, you then
use the Control key method. Then the same steps to open it.

It should then open after that."

Cheers, David Noel.

PS. On a computer, Chinese characters use the equivalent of two English
letters for one Chinese Character.


On 19 May 2017 at 15:52, Brian RISBEY <risb...@bigpond.com> wrote:

> Hi Ronni
> Daniel's text message was in an Asian language. I just was inquiring to if
> it was supposed to be or if I have a wrong font setting in my iPhone6.
>
> Brian Risbey
> OS10.3.2
> 
>
>
> On 19 May 2017, at 13:47, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> You can still open any app by right-click (Control-Click) its
> icon, choosing Open, and then confirming that you want to open it.
> So you are not prevented from opening any apps, *you are simply protected
> against opening apps from unidentified developers.*
>
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>
> On 19 May 2017, at 12:48 pm, Brian RISBEY <risb...@bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Daniel
> Could not quite understand your message 
>
> Brian Risbey
> OS10.3.2
> 
>
>
> On 19 May 2017, at 12:11, Daniel Kerr <wa...@macwizardry.com.au> wrote:
>
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Re: Optical drive problem

[David Noel]

Hi John --

-- I don't know whether there are any problems with attaching an
external DVD drive to the Mac Mini, but doing this with my iMac was a
cheaper and quicker solution than going into the computer box. And
when I upgraded my iMac, I switched the DVD drive to the new model
without problems.

David


On 4 February 2017 at 15:48, Tim Law  wrote:
> John I had this problem to with my old Mac Mini and given I hardly used it,
> and my daughter bought an external DVD drive which I could borrow when I
> liked, I replaced the DVD with an SSD drive
>
> The results were not satisfactory and I couldn't get it to load consistently
> from the SSD, so I swapped it all back and run the SSD from an external
> enclosure.
>
> The point of this story for you is that now the DVD drive seems to work
> again, so maybe the exercise in removing and replacing has jolted it back to
> live, or a little twist here and there has resolved a dry joint. Or maybe
> it's just put the wind up it so it's come to its senses and spring back to
> life.
>
> I assume it  works now, I still never use it :-)
>
> By the way, running the Mac Mini from the external DVD drive and a USB port
> is WONDERFUL!!!
>
> Regards
> Tim
>
> Sent from Tim's iPhone
>
> On 4 Feb 2017, at 1:00 pm, Ronda Brown  wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> Neil's link:
> Super-MultiDrive Upgrades – For all Mac mini models (G4 and Intel Models
> 2006-2007)
>
> NOTE: Not for Mac mini Early 2009 or later. For the Early 2009 or later
> models a SATA 12.7mm drive is required.
>
> Regards,
> Ronni
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>
>
> On 4 Feb 2017, at 12:01 pm, Neil Houghton  wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> Well, I guess the obvious answer is replace the drive  ;o)
>
>
> Lots of info, including "how to" videos, here:
>  009_2010>
>
> I've used these guys before for RAM and they were quick and efficient.
>
> The thing to do would be to watch the "how to" video relevant to your
> particular model and see if it is the sort of procedure you would be happy
> to do yourself.
>
> If you are happy to do it yourself, it would be a relatively cheap option.
>
> Of course, if you are not comfortable with this sort of exercise then you
> could go to a professional - I guess it depends how much you want to spend
> on an 8 year old mac mini.  I'm sure Daniel could give you some advice here.
>
>
> I do understand your desire to keep the old machines going - I'm still using
> my late 2009 core i7 27" iMac and it is a lovely machine  :o)
>
>
> HTH
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> Neil
> --
> Neil R. Houghton
> Albany, Western Australia
> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
> Email: n...@possumology.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
> on 4/2/17 10:12, John Thompson at jetj...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My 2009 Mac Mini Optical drive has given up the ghost.  It does notappear to
>
> be recognised by the computer or disk utility.  Is there any fix?
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> John Thompson
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Re: Adding a graphic to an existing page in html

[David Noel]

Thanks so much for your help, Geoff and Neil -- greatly appreciated.
I'll work on what you suggest.

David.


On 3 February 2017 at 19:02, Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com> wrote:
> Do you mean something like this:
>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> JS picture button
>
>
> 
> function showPicture() {
> var sourceOfPicture =
> "<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://wallpaper-gallery.net/images/happy-image/happy-image-11.jpg&quot">http://wallpaper-gallery.net/images/happy-image/happy-image-11.jpg&quot</a>;;
> var img = document.getElementById('bigpic')
> img.src = sourceOfPicture;
> img.style.display = "block";
> }
> 
>
> 
>
>
>
> 
>
> 
> show image
>
> 
>
> 
>
>
>
> Copy the above and save as a text file with a .html extension and then open
> the file with your browser - you should see a page with just a button saying
> "show image".
>
> Clicking the button should load the image.
>
>
> I suspect there are many ways to achieve the same thing.
>
>
> HTH
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
>
> Neil
> --
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> Albany, Western Australia
> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
> Email: n...@possumology.com
>
>
>
>
>
> on 3/2/17 11:35, David Noel at lis...@aoi.com.au wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to work out if it is possible, in a displayed html page, to
>> add a button or link which if clicked will dynamically add a graphic
>> below the click point.
>>
>> Is this possible? Using Javascript maybe? Or would it require use of a
>> more powerful language?
>>
>> Any ideas welcomed --
>>
>> Cheers, David Noel
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Adding a graphic to an existing page in html

[David Noel]

I'm trying to work out if it is possible, in a displayed html page, to
add a button or link which if clicked will dynamically add a graphic
below the click point.

Is this possible? Using Javascript maybe? Or would it require use of a
more powerful language?

Any ideas welcomed --

Cheers, David Noel
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Re: Desktop suddenly expands

[David Noel]

Thanks very much for that, Peter, I'll try it and report back.

Cheers, David Noel


On 25 January 2017 at 07:41, Peter Hinchliffe <hinch...@multiline.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On 24 Jan 2017, at 4:21 pm, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> I have been having a problem where my desktop suddenly expands, adding
>> some centimetres of margin all round, and pushing windows to one
>> margin of the expanded desktop.
>>
>> Mousing down to one margin of the desktop scrolls that margin into
>> view. If accessing the bottom of the desktop image, menus etc at the
>> top of windows may disappear. Similarly, mousing to a side edge will
>> cause the contents of the opposite edge to slide out of view.
>>
>> The problem disappears if I restart, and can be coped with without
>> restart, but I'd like to know what's happening -- I assume something
>> in the System Preferences get reset. Any ideas, folks?
>>
>
> It sounds as though you have some apsect of Zoom turned on. Go to System 
> Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom, and see if any of the choices are 
> enabled. If so, trn them all off and see if the behaviour persists. Without 
> access to the computer, it’s difficult think what else might be going on.
>
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Desktop suddenly expands

[David Noel]

I have been having a problem where my desktop suddenly expands, adding
some centimetres of margin all round, and pushing windows to one
margin of the expanded desktop.

Mousing down to one margin of the desktop scrolls that margin into
view. If accessing the bottom of the desktop image, menus etc at the
top of windows may disappear. Similarly, mousing to a side edge will
cause the contents of the opposite edge to slide out of view.

The problem disappears if I restart, and can be coped with without
restart, but I'd like to know what's happening -- I assume something
in the System Preferences get reset. Any ideas, folks?

Cheers, David Noel
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Problem with Magic Mouse

[David Noel]

With my new iMac (Sierra 10.12.2), when I opened up this morning, the
behaviour of the (wireless) Magic Mouse was strange. Moving the mouse
would only move the on-screen arrow jerkily, and only a short
distance.

I disconnected it, and plugged in the mouse from my older iMac. This
worked normally, and I'm writing this message with it.

Going to System Preferences/Mouse with the old mouse was also normal.
When I disconnected the wired mouse and switched on the new wireless
mouse, the message "wait for a Bluetooth mouse to be discovered" came
up' followed by "Found Magic Mouse 2" and then, almost immediately,
"No mouse found". Turning the wireless mouse off and on again at first
repeated this sequence, but afterwards showed no recognition.

Is there anything further I can do to check the wireless mouse, or
should I seek help from Apple?

David Noel
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Re: Blocked from Google

[David Noel]

> certificate is in use.
>
> But the real rejections will begin by January 1, 2017, when browsers such
> as Google Chrome will completely stop supporting SHA-1 certificates.
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-04/new-security-
> standards-for-online/7066428
> ——
> SHA-1 certificates causing errors year 2017 <https://www.google.com.au/
> search?client=safarirls=enq=SHA-1+certificates+
> causing+errors+year+2017ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8gfe_rd=crei=
> 0a9oWLjqAuzI8gfV0KXQCg>
> ——
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>
>
> *13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) *1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo
> Boost to 3.3GHz
> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
>
> macOS Sierra 10.12.2
>
> On 1 Jan 2017, at 2:35 pm, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Forgot to mention to 'Restart your computer' after deleting or changing
> any certificates in Keychain Access.
>
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>
>
> On 1 Jan 2017, at 1:54 pm, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> As I mentioned originally, I’m 99% sure that the problem will be expired
> certificate/s in Keychain Access.
> 1. Open ‘Keychain Access’
> 2. Under Keychains (in left column) - Select ‘Login’
>  Under Category  ( in left column) - Select ‘All Items’
> 3. In Top Menu Bar of  Keychain Access > View  - select ‘*Show Expired
> Certificates*’
> 4. Type in the search field  - DigiCert High and press enter/return on
> your keyboard
> 5. Find "*DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA*" that is probably marked as
> Expired (a red* X*)
> 6. Click the expired certificate & Delete by pressing Delete on your
> keyboard
>
> 7. Check if there are any other expired certificates and delete them.
> Or Choose *Keychain Access > Certificate Assistant > Evaluate *(certificate
> name)
> If your certificate is not valid, it will have a red "x" and state the
> reason why.
>
> Generally the reason is "This certificate has expired" or "This
> certificate was signed by an unknown authority”.
>
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>
> On 1 Jan 2017, at 12:27 pm, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
>
> I'm having a problem again with connecting to popular sites on my new iMac
> running Sierra 10.12.2. I'm writing this on my old iMac running 10.6.8,
> which does not have these problems.
>
> On attempting to connect to Google, I get:
>
> This site can't provide a secure connection
> www.google.com.au <http://www.google.com.au/> <http://www.google.com.au/>
>  doesn't adhere to security
> ERR_SSL_SERVER_CERT_BAD_FORMAT
>
> I get similar results with other https sites like Youtube, iTunes, Chrome
> etc. Last time I had this problem (as below), I went through my Keychain
> (which showed no expired certificates) and through DigiCert High to check
> the certificates. After checking, the services worked OK again.
>
> This time I got through to SSL Server Test (https://www.ssllabs.com/
> ssltest/) and checked the certificates for Google, Chrome, Apple, etc,
> which all came up "A" or "A-".  But the new iMac still cannot connect to
> these sites.
>
> Other non-https sites can be accessed with Chrome, Safari, and Firefox,
> also some https sites like Unibank (Australian).
>
> I've also searched (on this old iMac) for people having similar problems.
> At
>
> https://community.rapid7.com/thread/9213, titled "Open Nexpose by use
> Chrome". it said:
>
> "We've seen this issue with Mac OS X Sierra in particular. It seems they
> have made an update to the system keychain that affects Chrome, Safari,
> curl, and any other applications that use the system for SSL/TLS
> connections. Firefox is not affected since it uses its own implementation.
>
> We are currently working on a fix in Nexpose to get around this issue,
> though."
>
> So it seems the problem may be in Keychain, rather than with the
> certificates themselves. And Firefox did not work for me. Can anyone throw
> any light on this, please?
>
> David Noel
> 2017 Jan 1
>
>
> On 19 December 2016 at 16:10, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
> Good to hear the problem is solved.
>
> Merry Christmas 
>
> Kindest Regards,
> Ronni
>
> Sent from Ronni's iPhone 7 Plus
>
> On 19 Dec 2016, at 4:01 pm, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
>
> -- Thanks so much, Ronni, I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I
> followed your instructions till I got somehow to SSL Certificate Checker at
> https://www.digicert.com/help/
> and when I typed in "google.com <http://google.com/> <http://google.com/>
> " it came back with a clea

Re: Blocked from Google

[David Noel]

I'm having a problem again with connecting to popular sites on my new iMac
running Sierra 10.12.2. I'm writing this on my old iMac running 10.6.8,
which does not have these problems.

On attempting to connect to Google, I get:

This site can't provide a secure connection
www.google.com.au doesn't adhere to security
ERR_SSL_SERVER_CERT_BAD_FORMAT

I get similar results with other https sites like Youtube, iTunes, Chrome
etc. Last time I had this problem (as below), I went through my Keychain
(which showed no expired certificates) and through DigiCert High to check
the certificates. After checking, the services worked OK again.

This time I got through to SSL Server Test (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/)
and checked the certificates for Google, Chrome, Apple, etc, which all came
up "A" or "A-".  But the new iMac still cannot connect to these sites.

Other non-https sites can be accessed with Chrome, Safari, and Firefox,
also some https sites like Unibank (Australian).

I've also searched (on this old iMac) for people having similar problems.
At

https://community.rapid7.com/thread/9213, titled "Open Nexpose by use
Chrome". it said:

"We've seen this issue with Mac OS X Sierra in particular. It seems they
have made an update to the system keychain that affects Chrome, Safari,
curl, and any other applications that use the system for SSL/TLS
connections. Firefox is not affected since it uses its own implementation.



We are currently working on a fix in Nexpose to get around this issue,
though."


So it seems the problem may be in Keychain, rather than with the
certificates themselves. And Firefox did not work for me. Can anyone throw
any light on this, please?


David Noel

2017 Jan 1



On 19 December 2016 at 16:10, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
> Good to hear the problem is solved.
>
> Merry Christmas 
>
> Kindest Regards,
> Ronni
>
> Sent from Ronni's iPhone 7 Plus
>
> On 19 Dec 2016, at 4:01 pm, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
>
> -- Thanks so much, Ronni, I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I
> followed your instructions till I got somehow to SSL Certificate Checker at
> https://www.digicert.com/help/
> and when I typed in "google.com" it came back with a clear certificate,
> and then Google worked OK. Same for Apple and Youtube.
>
> -- I'm forever in awe with how you solve these problems! Sorry I
> mistakenly said my OS was El Capitan, I am on Sierra 10.12.1. I did click
> "Software Update" on "About this Mac" and it reported "No updates
> available", so maybe you have a later version from another source.
>
> All the very best, David.
>
>
> On 19 December 2016 at 15:03, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>> You mentioned below you are running 10.12.1 El Capitan… 10.12.1 is macOS
>> Sierra 10.12.1 & now has update 10.12.2
>>
>> Make sure all your Browsers are current latest versions.
>>
>> Also check Keychain Access for any ‘Expired Certificates’! Especially
>> look for the one I mention below.
>>
>> • On your Mac computer, at the top right, click Spotlight search <
>> oXRAmyqwVjPaSBxVVxwuQVApSxU-lIoeyEHAoziwKOzM0W9eWveB4lr3fS
>> d1l-Azvz8=w18-h18.png>.
>> • Enter "Keychain Access."
>> • In the results, click Keychain Access.
>> • At the top of your computer screen, click View [image: and then] Show
>> Expired Certificates.
>> • At the top right, click Search > lIoeyEHAoziwKOzM0W9eWveB4lr3fSd1l-Azvz8=w18-h18.png>.
>> • Type "DigiCert High" and press Enter on your keyboard.
>> • Find "DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA" that is marked as Expired [image:
>> Expired]. Click the certificate.
>> • Delete by pressing Delete on your keyboard
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>>
>> *13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)*
>> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
>> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
>> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
>>
>> macOS Sierra 10.12.2
>>
>>
>> On 19 Dec. 2016, at 2:25 pm, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ronni, no, I have no security-type software. Anything else, such as
>> a work-around?
>>
>> Cheers, David.
>>
>> On 19 December 2016 at 14:10, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> Are you using Kaspersky security software or Avast or some such software?
>>
>>
>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>>
>>
>> On 19 Dec. 2016, at 1:58 pm, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> I have a new iMac which I use for most purposes, running 10.12.1 El
>> Capitan. Since I upgraded from 10.11, I've had occa

Re: Magic mouse

[David Noel]

It might be of interest here, I have the current wireless Apple mouse
with a new iMac, the mouse has a fixed internal battery with a USB
port for recharging, like a phone. It's quite handy to not have to
worry about batteries, and the system tells you when the battery level
is low.

David Noel

On 19 December 2016 at 17:22, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> Thanks StevenAll my batteries are Apple batteries and a good snug fit
> Severin Crisp
> 
>
>  Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
>   ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
>mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au
> 
>
>
>
>
> On 19 Dec. 2016, at 17:19, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Severin.
> Mine is December 2012, so 4 years old.
> I used to have issues with is disconnecting and reconnecting a lot.
> Then I read about AA batteries being slightly different lengths.
> So I was advised to put some small pieces of folded aluminium foil at the
> terminal ends.
> This has the effect of packing out the battery and compensating for the
> shorter ones.
>
> I did this for about 12 months and had very little problem.
> But I eventually removed the foil and since then no problems.
> I must have acquired longer batteries lately !
>
> I just wish Apple would produce a wired magic mouse !
> I get a bit fed up with changing batteries.
> That is why my keyboard is wired with a full numeric keypad.
>
> On 19 Dec. 2016, at 4:34 pm, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> What is the usual lifetime of a Magic Mouse.   Mine is about 4 years old and
> has done a fair but not excessive amount of work.   Of late it is
> misbehaving - not registering - the second click of a double click.   At
> times it is fine, at others it is not.   I have brushed around the lights
> and the battery is good.  One click mousing is OK.   Is there a known
> solution or should I just put out a quick call to Santa Claus?
> Severin Crisp
> 
>
>  Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys
> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
>   ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
>mail to: sevcr...@westnet.com.au
> 
>
>
>
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Re: Blocked from Google

[David Noel]

-- Thanks so much, Ronni, I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I
followed your instructions till I got somehow to SSL Certificate Checker at
https://www.digicert.com/help/
and when I typed in "google.com" it came back with a clear certificate, and
then Google worked OK. Same for Apple and Youtube.

-- I'm forever in awe with how you solve these problems! Sorry I mistakenly
said my OS was El Capitan, I am on Sierra 10.12.1. I did click "Software
Update" on "About this Mac" and it reported "No updates available", so
maybe you have a later version from another source.

All the very best, David.


On 19 December 2016 at 15:03, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
> You mentioned below you are running 10.12.1 El Capitan… 10.12.1 is macOS
> Sierra 10.12.1 & now has update 10.12.2
>
> Make sure all your Browsers are current latest versions.
>
> Also check Keychain Access for any ‘Expired Certificates’! Especially look
> for the one I mention below.
>
> • On your Mac computer, at the top right, click Spotlight search [image:
> Search].
> • Enter "Keychain Access."
> • In the results, click Keychain Access.
> • At the top of your computer screen, click View [image: and then] Show
> Expired Certificates.
> • At the top right, click Search [image: Search].
> • Type "DigiCert High" and press Enter on your keyboard.
> • Find "DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA" that is marked as Expired [image:
> Expired]. Click the certificate.
> • Delete by pressing Delete on your keyboard
>
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>
> *13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)*
> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
>
> macOS Sierra 10.12.2
>
>
> On 19 Dec. 2016, at 2:25 pm, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Ronni, no, I have no security-type software. Anything else, such as
> a work-around?
>
> Cheers, David.
>
> On 19 December 2016 at 14:10, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
>
> Are you using Kaspersky security software or Avast or some such software?
>
>
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>
>
> On 19 Dec. 2016, at 1:58 pm, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
>
> I have a new iMac which I use for most purposes, running 10.12.1 El
> Capitan. Since I upgraded from 10.11, I've had occasional problems
> where my browsers can't access Google and Apple's own sites.
>
> Error message from Chrome on accessing gmail:
>
> "this site can't provide a secure connection, mail.google.com doesn't
> adhere to security standards".
>
> Error message from Firefox on accessing Apple:
>
> The owner of support.apple.com has configured their website improperly
> to protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not
> connected to this website".
>
> Safari did not produce an error message, but seemed unable to load
> certain sites.
>
> In the past, I've been able to clear this problem by Restarting, but
> this hasn't worked today. Has anyone any ideas on this matter?
>
> It's inconceivable that Google and Apple have the faults indicated. As
> I'm unable to access gmail, I'm sending this from my older machine
> still on 10.6.8 -- this does not have the above problem.
>
> Thanks and Merry Christmas --
>
> David Noel
>
>
>
>
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Re: Blocked from Google

[David Noel]

Hi Ronni, no, I have no security-type software. Anything else, such as
a work-around?

Cheers, David.

On 19 December 2016 at 14:10, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
> Are you using Kaspersky security software or Avast or some such software?
>
>
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>
>
> On 19 Dec. 2016, at 1:58 pm, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
>
> I have a new iMac which I use for most purposes, running 10.12.1 El
> Capitan. Since I upgraded from 10.11, I've had occasional problems
> where my browsers can't access Google and Apple's own sites.
>
> Error message from Chrome on accessing gmail:
>
> "this site can't provide a secure connection, mail.google.com doesn't
> adhere to security standards".
>
> Error message from Firefox on accessing Apple:
>
> The owner of support.apple.com has configured their website improperly
> to protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not
> connected to this website".
>
> Safari did not produce an error message, but seemed unable to load
> certain sites.
>
> In the past, I've been able to clear this problem by Restarting, but
> this hasn't worked today. Has anyone any ideas on this matter?
>
> It's inconceivable that Google and Apple have the faults indicated. As
> I'm unable to access gmail, I'm sending this from my older machine
> still on 10.6.8 -- this does not have the above problem.
>
> Thanks and Merry Christmas --
>
> David Noel
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Blocked from Google

[David Noel]

I have a new iMac which I use for most purposes, running 10.12.1 El
Capitan. Since I upgraded from 10.11, I've had occasional problems
where my browsers can't access Google and Apple's own sites.

Error message from Chrome on accessing gmail:

"this site can't provide a secure connection, mail.google.com doesn't
adhere to security standards".

Error message from Firefox on accessing Apple:

The owner of support.apple.com has configured their website improperly
to protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not
connected to this website".

Safari did not produce an error message, but seemed unable to load
certain sites.

In the past, I've been able to clear this problem by Restarting, but
this hasn't worked today. Has anyone any ideas on this matter?

It's inconceivable that Google and Apple have the faults indicated. As
I'm unable to access gmail, I'm sending this from my older machine
still on 10.6.8 -- this does not have the above problem.

Thanks and Merry Christmas --

David Noel
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Re: CD not working

[David Noel]

Hi Walter, don't know how to tell if the drive is defective, but if it
is, you're better off getting an external CD drive (eg Samsung, $80?)
rather than getting the internal drive replaced ($300??). And the
external drive Apple sell won't work with older iMacs, only with the
newer iMacs which were supplied without an internal drive. Cheers --

David Noel


On 31 October 2016 at 17:15, FW <whae...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My late 2009 iMac won’t draw in CDs.
> When I push in the CD the drive is not responding. It will go in without any 
> resistance and there is no noise.
> Is there a reset procedure or is the drive defective ?
>
> Thanks
> Walter
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Re: iMac won't switch on

[David Noel]

-- Thanks very much for that, Ronni. It looks as if the problem is
just in the Power switch itself -- it has no spring feel.

-- I find that my trusty iMac is now classed as 'obsolete' by Apple,
so authorized Apple repairers won't take it on. I'm asking Daniel by
CC about somebody who might fix it, the machine was working well up to
the moment I powered it down, so it should be recoverable.

-- I've ordered a new iMac, the old one was apparently eight years or
so old, so I think I got my value from it.

-- I have a 1.5 TB external drive attached to the old iMac, it is
bootable with a 10.6.8 system. On the new iMac, would I be able to
boot it from this external drive?

Cheers, David


On 8 September 2016 at 12:09, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> On 8 Sep 2016, at 11:34 AM, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
>
> HELP! I shut down my iMac and now the power switch on the back doesn't
> bring it back up -- what can I do?
>
>
> David Noel
>
> (writing this on my wife's MacBook pro).
>
>
> How to fix a Mac that won't start up: Step 1 - Check your Mac turns on
> First, let's check that the problem is that your Mac won't start up, and not
> that it won't turn on - those might sound like the same thing, but there's
> actually a big difference.
> Press the Power button on your Mac. If you don't hear a start-up chime, you
> don't hear any fan or drive noise, and there are no images, video or visuals
> of any sort on your display, then your Mac isn't turning on at all. You're
> not even getting to the point where it refuses to start up.
>
> A Mac that doesn't turn on calls for a different approach to one that
> doesn't start up. If your computer doesn't turn on then take a look at this
> My Computer Won't Turn On support document from Apple. Apple suggests that
> you:
>
> Check the connection to the power.
> Try a different power cord or adaptor (if you have one).
> Disconnect all accessories (such as printers and USB hubs).
> If you recently installed new memory or a new hard drive, make sure they are
> correctly installed and compatible (if possible re-install the old memory or
> hard drive).
>
>
> If none of these steps resolve the problem, then you should attempt to reset
> the SMC (System Management Controller)
> If inline link doesn’t work here is complete link to SMC reset:
> <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295>
>
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>
> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
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iMac won't switch on

[David Noel]

HELP! I shut down my iMac and now the power switch on the back doesn't
bring it back up -- what can I do?

David Noel

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Re: Problems recording SBS with EyeTV 250

[David Noel]

I'm delighted to report that by following Alan Smith's
recommendations, I've managed to get all the EyeTV tuner channels good
again. The important steps appeared to be cleaning or re-seating all
the links between the aerial and the tuner -- not only at the tuner
itself, but also at a booster/splitter in the line (TV reception in
Shenton Park is "shadowed", a booster is needed for an acceptable
signal). Thanks again, Alan.

David Noel

On 18 July 2016 at 11:42, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
> Many thanks to Alan for the comprehensive list of things to check. I
> already do buffering and start recording 10 min ahead, but I'll work
> through Alan's other recommendations and hopefully will find a
> solution.
>
> Cheers
>
> David
>
>
> On 17 July 2016 at 23:00, Alan Smith <sma...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> David
>>
>> I have some experience with EyeTV and television reception - and their 
>> problems.
>>
>> First check the signal strength of SBS as indicated by EyeTV.  Compare with 
>> other channels.
>>
>> Do you use live TV buffering?  I feel that problems I used to have with 
>> short breaks disappeared when I set the buffer to 500MB.   Another 
>> possibility - you could set the “extend recording” time to say 10 minutes 
>> before the scheduled start time.
>>
>> Standard PAL aluminium internal coaxial fittings will freeze with oxidation 
>> and give a poor electrical connection.  I do not think the “sticky tape” 
>> method is the real solution.  The electrical connections may be poor and/or 
>> not tightly fitting.  Manipulation may scratch away some surface corrosion 
>> and sticky tape may move the pin to actually touch its socket which has lost 
>> its springiness to make good contact. If the coax socket has lost its 
>> gripping tension, then perhaps you could poke a sliver of aluminium foil 
>> into the socket so the cable pin will be a tighter fit as well as make an 
>> electrical connection.
>>
>> The internal house cables and device connectors can be mechanically cleaned. 
>> Or replaced.  Start at the wall socket; pull out the cable and re-insert, 
>> twist the coaxial plug back and forward several times to try and get a 
>> cleaner electrical connection.  Pull apart all connections at the EyeTV unit 
>> and re-connect.  They should be close fitting but not loose and not jammed.
>>
>> External TV aerials do wear out!  Aluminium elements may corrode, get bent 
>> or broken, and not tune to channels properly.
>>
>> Some years ago I had intermittent and varying problems with EyeTV.  (Mainly 
>> SBS by coincidence.)   I eventually bit the bullet and replaced my complete 
>> aerial system with a modern quality unit designed for the digital broadcast 
>> band.  I installed quality cable with F-type connections (rather than PAL), 
>> and quality splitters.  But I still used a PAL cable from the wall socket to 
>> the EyeTV tuner.  The weight of the aerial lead pulling on the EyeTV tuner 
>> (I have the lightweight DTT Deluxe) can cause problems.  I use a short USB 
>> externsion cord for the EyeTV tuner so it is not subject to movement when I 
>> change other Mac cables.  The TV aerial lead is secured so its weight is not 
>> dragging on the EyeTV tuner.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>> On 17 Jul 2016, at 5:00 PM, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have an Elgato EyeTV 250 tuner on my iMac (10.6.8) with which I
>>> record TV programs on at a  time I can't watch. Results are generally
>>> quite satisfactory on all channels except for SBS. SBS broadcasts at
>>> 184.50 MHz, and recordings on any of the SBS/NITV channels at this
>>> frequency suffer from missing and broken frames, especially for the
>>> first few minutes of a recording (the problem slowly diminishes, but
>>> doesn't disappear, after 5-10 minutes).
>>>
>>> I've searched the Net for a possible fix for this problem, so far I've
>>> only found the item below from "EyeTV signal problems" at
>>> http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1184566, which suggest coating
>>> the "the inner conductor of the antenna plug with sticky tape". I've
>>> had a try at this, with no improvement, but I may not be understanding
>>> what's actually recommended -- the antenna lead terminates in a very
>>> thin solid bar in the centre, this goes into a thin cylinder in the
>>> centre of the tuner socket. Either is only about 1.5 mm across, and
>>> it's very difficult to wind a tiny piece of st

Re: Problems recording SBS with EyeTV 250

[David Noel]

Many thanks to Alan for the comprehensive list of things to check. I
already do buffering and start recording 10 min ahead, but I'll work
through Alan's other recommendations and hopefully will find a
solution.

Cheers

David


On 17 July 2016 at 23:00, Alan Smith <sma...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> David
>
> I have some experience with EyeTV and television reception - and their 
> problems.
>
> First check the signal strength of SBS as indicated by EyeTV.  Compare with 
> other channels.
>
> Do you use live TV buffering?  I feel that problems I used to have with short 
> breaks disappeared when I set the buffer to 500MB.   Another possibility - 
> you could set the “extend recording” time to say 10 minutes before the 
> scheduled start time.
>
> Standard PAL aluminium internal coaxial fittings will freeze with oxidation 
> and give a poor electrical connection.  I do not think the “sticky tape” 
> method is the real solution.  The electrical connections may be poor and/or 
> not tightly fitting.  Manipulation may scratch away some surface corrosion 
> and sticky tape may move the pin to actually touch its socket which has lost 
> its springiness to make good contact. If the coax socket has lost its 
> gripping tension, then perhaps you could poke a sliver of aluminium foil into 
> the socket so the cable pin will be a tighter fit as well as make an 
> electrical connection.
>
> The internal house cables and device connectors can be mechanically cleaned. 
> Or replaced.  Start at the wall socket; pull out the cable and re-insert, 
> twist the coaxial plug back and forward several times to try and get a 
> cleaner electrical connection.  Pull apart all connections at the EyeTV unit 
> and re-connect.  They should be close fitting but not loose and not jammed.
>
> External TV aerials do wear out!  Aluminium elements may corrode, get bent or 
> broken, and not tune to channels properly.
>
> Some years ago I had intermittent and varying problems with EyeTV.  (Mainly 
> SBS by coincidence.)   I eventually bit the bullet and replaced my complete 
> aerial system with a modern quality unit designed for the digital broadcast 
> band.  I installed quality cable with F-type connections (rather than PAL), 
> and quality splitters.  But I still used a PAL cable from the wall socket to 
> the EyeTV tuner.  The weight of the aerial lead pulling on the EyeTV tuner (I 
> have the lightweight DTT Deluxe) can cause problems.  I use a short USB 
> externsion cord for the EyeTV tuner so it is not subject to movement when I 
> change other Mac cables.  The TV aerial lead is secured so its weight is not 
> dragging on the EyeTV tuner.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers
> Alan
>
>
>> On 17 Jul 2016, at 5:00 PM, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> I have an Elgato EyeTV 250 tuner on my iMac (10.6.8) with which I
>> record TV programs on at a  time I can't watch. Results are generally
>> quite satisfactory on all channels except for SBS. SBS broadcasts at
>> 184.50 MHz, and recordings on any of the SBS/NITV channels at this
>> frequency suffer from missing and broken frames, especially for the
>> first few minutes of a recording (the problem slowly diminishes, but
>> doesn't disappear, after 5-10 minutes).
>>
>> I've searched the Net for a possible fix for this problem, so far I've
>> only found the item below from "EyeTV signal problems" at
>> http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1184566, which suggest coating
>> the "the inner conductor of the antenna plug with sticky tape". I've
>> had a try at this, with no improvement, but I may not be understanding
>> what's actually recommended -- the antenna lead terminates in a very
>> thin solid bar in the centre, this goes into a thin cylinder in the
>> centre of the tuner socket. Either is only about 1.5 mm across, and
>> it's very difficult to wind a tiny piece of sticky tape round either.
>>
>> Has anyone any idea what's going on here? Would it be possible to put
>> some sort of joiner in the line which might alleviate the problem at
>> the SBS frequency? I imagine it is tied up with the SBS frequency,
>> Channel 7 next below at 177.50 MHz and Channel 9 next above at 191.50
>> MHz have no problem. I'm really baffled here.
>>
>> David Noel
>>
>>
>> =
>> Since I moved house, EyeTV (with an EyeTV DTT) reported signal
>> strength 100% but signal quality 0%, rendering it unable to tune to
>> any channel. I replaced much of the antenna cabling with no effect.
>> Eventually I discovered that if I made *loose* contact on the antenna
>> plug, the signal quality jumped up. We used it like this for m

Problems recording SBS with EyeTV 250

[David Noel]

I have an Elgato EyeTV 250 tuner on my iMac (10.6.8) with which I
record TV programs on at a  time I can't watch. Results are generally
quite satisfactory on all channels except for SBS. SBS broadcasts at
184.50 MHz, and recordings on any of the SBS/NITV channels at this
frequency suffer from missing and broken frames, especially for the
first few minutes of a recording (the problem slowly diminishes, but
doesn't disappear, after 5-10 minutes).

I've searched the Net for a possible fix for this problem, so far I've
only found the item below from "EyeTV signal problems" at
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1184566, which suggest coating
the "the inner conductor of the antenna plug with sticky tape". I've
had a try at this, with no improvement, but I may not be understanding
what's actually recommended -- the antenna lead terminates in a very
thin solid bar in the centre, this goes into a thin cylinder in the
centre of the tuner socket. Either is only about 1.5 mm across, and
it's very difficult to wind a tiny piece of sticky tape round either.

Has anyone any idea what's going on here? Would it be possible to put
some sort of joiner in the line which might alleviate the problem at
the SBS frequency? I imagine it is tied up with the SBS frequency,
Channel 7 next below at 177.50 MHz and Channel 9 next above at 191.50
MHz have no problem. I'm really baffled here.

David Noel


=
Since I moved house, EyeTV (with an EyeTV DTT) reported signal
strength 100% but signal quality 0%, rendering it unable to tune to
any channel. I replaced much of the antenna cabling with no effect.
Eventually I discovered that if I made *loose* contact on the antenna
plug, the signal quality jumped up. We used it like this for months
but it was very difficult to get it right. Eventually I carefully
coated the inner conductor of the plug with sticky tape (scotch magic
tape to be precise), and it now gives signal quality 100% with the
plug firmly pressed in. I'm pretty comfortable that it will work
reliably in this state.
/
You sir, are a genuis. I registered with this forum to say thank for
your advice above. It worked a treat on my Netstream DTT. I was
literally minutes from putting it in the bin when I decided to try
your trick.
I put a small piece of sticky tape in the inner conductor rod of the
antenna connection and instantly I had a massive improvement. Who
woulda thought that would make such a difference. Crazy.

Anyway, thanks. And to those having similar problems, please try this
for VAST improvement on quality of picture and signal.
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Re: iPhone SIM for Europe?

[David Noel]

Does anyone have any experience of buying a SIM card in Athens for use on
the Greek Islands?

David Noel


On 20 June 2016 at 11:12, Peter Faulks <peterfau...@westnet.com.au> wrote:

> The Post Australia card did not work for us,
>
>
> So we purchased sim cards in USA (EASY) and then in Europe, Italy
> purchased a WIND Wi-Fi device ($30.00) and also  a world sim CARD  that
> proved cumbersome to use (you dialed a number then it stated no call
> allowed, then the phone rings you back and you accept the connection with
> costs, very slow process). Had 5gb Data so worked well with the wif-fi
> device. Unfortunately the WIND wi-fi and the 3 wi-fi in England were locked
> so of no use to us now.
>
> Actually I purchased a BLU mobile phone in Las Vegas ($89.00) with 30 day
> sim card ($15)  and this worked a treat as a hotspot for my lap top and as
> a phone in America. This phone had twin sim cards and an SD slot so now I
> use it as a mobile entertainment system with 10+ movies and lots of music
> stored on the SD card, it was only 5.5 Mpixel camera though.
>
>
> Faulksy.
>
> I know very little about this topic, but one thing I seem to remember is
> that Australia Post were selling a universal overseas-calling SIM based on
> an internationally-oriented telecomm in Estonia (apparently a leader in
> this field).
>
>
> Has anyone any experience with this, or was it one of my delusional
> experiences?
>
>
> David Noel
>
>
>
> On 10 June 2016 at 06:05, Rod Blitvich <rb...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> thanks Bill & Peter
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
>
> On 8 Jun 2016, at 7:16 AM, Bill Parker <ren...@westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> Rod
>
>
> My experience was simple.
>
>
> At Rome (FCO) there was a small phone company stand just beyond border
> check.
>
>
> Easy SIM card swap and worked all the way to Nice.  In France, it might be
> the same at CDG by if not, just find an Orange dealer and easy again.  You
> choose how many Euros you want.   Exchange rate on the day and no fees.
>
>
>
> Bill
>
> On 8 Jun 2016, at 06:31, Rod Blitvich <rb...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>
> Hi WAMUGers
>
> Please - your advice appreciated
>
> SIM card for Europe
>
>
> is this any good?
>
> https://www.prepaidzero.com
>
>
> ta
>
> blitto
>
>
> **
>
>
>
>
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Re: iPhone SIM for Europe?

[David Noel]

I know very little about this topic, but one thing I seem to remember is
that Australia Post were selling a universal overseas-calling SIM based on
an internationally-oriented telecomm in Estonia (apparently a leader in
this field).

Has anyone any experience with this, or was it one of my delusional
experiences?

David Noel


On 10 June 2016 at 06:05, Rod Blitvich <rb...@iinet.net.au> wrote:

> thanks Bill & Peter
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Rod Blitvich  - Amy & Sam’s Dad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> . . . . .  Good Ideas  0409 681 256 <0409%20681%20256>
>   rb...@iinet.net.au  *
>
> On 8 Jun 2016, at 7:16 AM, Bill Parker <ren...@westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> Rod
>
> My experience was simple.
>
> At Rome (FCO) there was a small phone company stand just beyond border
> check.
>
> Easy SIM card swap and worked all the way to Nice.  In France, it might be
> the same at CDG by if not, just find an Orange dealer and easy again.  You
> choose how many Euros you want.   Exchange rate on the day and no fees.
>
>
> Bill
>
> On 8 Jun 2016, at 06:31, Rod Blitvich <rb...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> Hi WAMUGers
> Please - your advice appreciated
> SIM card for Europe
>
> is this any good?
> https://www.prepaidzero.com
>
> ta
> blitto
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *Rod Blitvich  - Amy & Sam’s Dad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Re: Gmail putting wanted daily item in Spam

[David Noel]

"Creating a filter so the messages are never sent to Spam."
Cheers,
Ronni"

Wonderful, Ronni, you are a gem. As mentioned, I tried all the options
you suggest, except the last -- I had never noticed the tiny grey
triangle at the end of the search box, or realized that you could set
up your own special filters.  Now my Science Daily messages no longer
go to spam.

Cheers, David


On 11 November 2015 at 16:45, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> "If you find a message wrongly classified as spam, you can unmark the
> message. Just select the message, and click the Not Spam button that appears
> at the top and bottom of your current view.
>
> Unmarking a message will automatically move it to your inbox.
>
> If you find that some senders' messages are consistently being mislabeled as
> spam, you can prevent this by:
>
> Adding their email addresses to your Contacts list. Gmail will deliver
> messages from members of your Contacts list to your inbox, unless we know
> with high confidence that they are spam.
>
> Some messages sent from contacts which are very clearly spam can be sent
> directly to your Spam label. More importantly, in some cases messages from
> contacts will not be sent to Spam but will be marked with a red warning
> banner if the content is suspicious - for example, your friend's or
> contact's account has been compromised and used to send phishing messages.
>
> Creating a filter so the messages are never sent to Spam."
>
>
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>
>
> On 11 Nov 2015, at 10:50 AM, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
>
> Has anyone any suggestions on getting Gmail not to put a regular item
> in Spam? On most days I receive an update on science news items from
> Science Daily, and Gmail insists on putting it into Spam (their spam
> detector is pretty good, this particular item is the only one giving
> trouble).
>
> The item comes from:
> All Top News -- ScienceDaily<noreply+feedpr...@google.com>
> reply-to:All Top News -- ScienceDaily <newslett...@sciencedaily.com>
>
> I have tried putting all combinations of the above into my address
> book, but with no effect. Each day I open my Spam list, mark the
> Science Daily item "Not Spam", and clear the rest. Every couple of
> weeks, when I have marked the item "Not Spam", a message comes up from
> the Gmail Spam Team asking if they should take account of this. I
> always reply "Yes", and it makes no difference.
>
> I don't suppose there is anywhere I can contact the Gmail Spam Team
> directly to get a specific item like this not spammed out?
>
> Cheers, David Noel
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Gmail putting wanted daily item in Spam

[David Noel]

Has anyone any suggestions on getting Gmail not to put a regular item
in Spam? On most days I receive an update on science news items from
Science Daily, and Gmail insists on putting it into Spam (their spam
detector is pretty good, this particular item is the only one giving
trouble).

The item comes from:
All Top News -- ScienceDaily<noreply+feedpr...@google.com>
reply-to:All Top News -- ScienceDaily <newslett...@sciencedaily.com>

I have tried putting all combinations of the above into my address
book, but with no effect. Each day I open my Spam list, mark the
Science Daily item "Not Spam", and clear the rest. Every couple of
weeks, when I have marked the item "Not Spam", a message comes up from
the Gmail Spam Team asking if they should take account of this. I
always reply "Yes", and it makes no difference.

I don't suppose there is anywhere I can contact the Gmail Spam Team
directly to get a specific item like this not spammed out?

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Re: Gmail putting wanted daily item in Spam

[David Noel]

Hi Stephen, thanks for the suggestion. Gmail does a good job for me,
just this one annoyance.

I can understand how others prefer to store their emails on their own
computer(s), but for me, the advantages of storing everything in the
Cloud, permanently available at any time anywhere in the world, and
not having to worry at all about backups, work very well. For example,
I have scans of my passport stored as attachments -- if I was
unfortunate enough to have my passport stolen in Azerbaijan, I could
quickly print out a copy as ID.

David Noel


On 11 November 2015 at 12:55, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> What about using the email address supplied by your provider.
> Then you can use Apple Mail (or an equivalent).
> Then you can tell Mail it is not junk.
>
> I don’t understand why anyone uses external email (Gmail, Yahoo, etc) unless
> they are travelling a lot and therefore require that facility ?
>
> On 11 Nov 2015, at 10:50 AM, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote:
>
> Has anyone any suggestions on getting Gmail not to put a regular item
> in Spam? On most days I receive an update on science news items from
> Science Daily, and Gmail insists on putting it into Spam (their spam
> detector is pretty good, this particular item is the only one giving
> trouble).
>
> The item comes from:
> All Top News -- ScienceDaily<noreply+feedpr...@google.com>
> reply-to:All Top News -- ScienceDaily <newslett...@sciencedaily.com>
>
> I have tried putting all combinations of the above into my address
> book, but with no effect. Each day I open my Spam list, mark the
> Science Daily item "Not Spam", and clear the rest. Every couple of
> weeks, when I have marked the item "Not Spam", a message comes up from
> the Gmail Spam Team asking if they should take account of this. I
> always reply "Yes", and it makes no difference.
>
> I don't suppose there is anywhere I can contact the Gmail Spam Team
> directly to get a specific item like this not spammed out?
>
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Re: Links in emails retrieved from Spam no longer clickable?

[David Noel]

-- That's a good thought, Ronni, but clicking Not Spam puts a
message in the Inbox, but the links remain inactive.

-- I've tried classing a routine message (with links) as Spam, then
reclassifying as Not Spam, and the links are preserved.

-- Maybe we can get more clues from WAMUG members who also have
messages which Gmail has mistakenly marked as Spam?

David

===

On 29 April 2015 at 12:42, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
 Hello David,

 I don't use Gmail, but I would think you would have to click Not Spam for
 the link to become live after being previously marked a Spam.
 Can you select the message and click Not Spam at the top of the message?

 Cheers,
 Ronni

 Sent from Ronni's iPad4


 On 29 Apr 2015, at 11:19 am, David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au wrote:

 I use Gmail, which has very active Spam Filters, removing more and
 more emails to Spam. OK, I understand how to (try to) re-set the spam
 filters so it doesn't filter off types of message I actually want.

 So I go through the Spam periodically to retrieve stuff which isn't
 spam for me. The problem is, when such messages are retrieved into the
 Inbox, links they contain are apparently no longer clickable. Among
 the cases here, I use a Wordpress site for comment review, and when
 Wordpress sends me a message for review, I can no longer Approve or
 Discard it, because the links don't work.

 Has anyone worked out a solution to such problems? TIA.

 David Noel
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Links in emails retrieved from Spam no longer clickable?

[David Noel]

I use Gmail, which has very active Spam Filters, removing more and
more emails to Spam. OK, I understand how to (try to) re-set the spam
filters so it doesn't filter off types of message I actually want.

So I go through the Spam periodically to retrieve stuff which isn't
spam for me. The problem is, when such messages are retrieved into the
Inbox, links they contain are apparently no longer clickable. Among
the cases here, I use a Wordpress site for comment review, and when
Wordpress sends me a message for review, I can no longer Approve or
Discard it, because the links don't work.

Has anyone worked out a solution to such problems? TIA.

David Noel
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Re: Opening winmail.dat

[David Noel]

Could the sender save the (text?) file in .rtf? Or, if you don't need
to amend it, in .pdf? David.


On 18 February 2015 at 15:39, Michael Hawkins
michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au wrote:
 Thanks David,

 Texedit, unlike TNEF, opened the attachment but it is not in any language I 
 can read.

 I fave Word on my computer. It will not open winmail.dat

 The sender has saved the document in Word as .doc

 I suspect the problem is in the preferences in the email program she is 
 using. She assures me that she is using .doc and .docx but I think that is at 
 the Word stage and she has not looked at preferences in Outlook on her 
 Windows computer.

 Cheers,
 Michael.


 On 18 Feb 2015, at 3:32 pm, David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au wrote:

 Hi Michael --

 TextEdit should open .docx and .doc formats. Hope this helps

 David Noel


 On 18 February 2015 at 15:19, Michael Hawkins
 michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au wrote:
 I have been sent by email a document which was saved on a Windows computer 
 in .doc and in .docx formats.
 It is received on my computer as winmail.dat

 TNEF enough will not open the attachment.

 Any suggestions?

 Thank you

 Michael Hawkins
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Re: Opening winmail.dat

[David Noel]

Hi Michael --

TextEdit should open .docx and .doc formats. Hope this helps

David Noel


On 18 February 2015 at 15:19, Michael Hawkins
michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au wrote:
 I have been sent by email a document which was saved on a Windows computer in 
 .doc and in .docx formats.
 It is received on my computer as winmail.dat

 TNEF enough will not open the attachment.

 Any suggestions?

 Thank you

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Re: DVD burner/reader plugged into Panasonic TV?

[David Noel]

-- Thanks very much for explaining that, Ronni. Another bright idea crashed!

Every good wish, David.



On 6 January 2015 at 12:07, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
 Hi David,

 If it is a  Samsung SE-208DB ODD
 I downloaded the Manual to have a look for you.
 Under - How to Use - scroll down to:

 How to use the AV Connectivity function:

 NOTE:
 * This product works in ODD mode by default when the power is supplied.
 * The supported media file formats are determined by whether they are
 supported by the AV device.
 * In AV Connectivity mode, files cannot be saved and files are accessed in
 read- only mode.
 * Since the product works like an external type HDD in AV Connectivity mode,
 you cannot burn a disc or play a DVD title.
 * AV Connectivity works depending on whether the mode is supported by the
 connected device and not like a DVD player.

 http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/201209/20120907093951629/SE-208DB_EN_Final.pdf

 Cheers,
 Ronni

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 Does anyone know if I can plug my Samsung SE-208 portable DVD writer
 into my Panasonic TH-L32G10A TV, to play a DVD on the TV? The TV has
 HDMI and AV terminals, would a USB adapter for these work?

 Cheers --

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Re: DVD burner/reader plugged into Panasonic TV?

[David Noel]

Sorry, it is a bit off-group. It relates to DVDs burnt using eyeTV on my iMac.

David.


On 5 January 2015 at 21:40, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com wrote:
 Hi David,
 I suspect you may have emailed this to the wrong group.
 It does not seem Mac related ?


 On 5 Jan 2015, at 3:41 pm, David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au wrote:

 Does anyone know if I can plug my Samsung SE-208 portable DVD writer
 into my Panasonic TH-L32G10A TV, to play a DVD on the TV? The TV has
 HDMI and AV terminals, would a USB adapter for these work?

 Cheers --

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DVD burner/reader plugged into Panasonic TV?

[David Noel]

Does anyone know if I can plug my Samsung SE-208 portable DVD writer
into my Panasonic TH-L32G10A TV, to play a DVD on the TV? The TV has
HDMI and AV terminals, would a USB adapter for these work?

Cheers --

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Blocked Flash player

[David Noel]

-- 1. Using Safari, I find that trying to open a page which has Flash
content gives:

Adobe Flash Player is out of date.
The version of Adobe Flash Player on your system does not contain
the latest security updates and has been blocked. To continue using
Adobe Flash Player, download an updated version from Adobe's
website.

-- However, if I click on Download Flash... and apparently do the
installation, the same message comes up with Safari, even after
closing and opening Safari. What can I do? If I open the same page
with Firefox, it works OK.

-- 2. If I open my gmail account with Safari, it opens and works OK,
but has a banner at the top:

This version of Safari is no longer supported. Please upgrade to a
supported browser. Dismiss.

-- I'm using OS X 10.6.8 and Safari 5.1.10. Safari doesn't seem to
have a Check for updates command. Any advice, please?

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Re: Blocked Flash player

[David Noel]

Hi Ronni, thanks very much for the information. I was able to solve
the Flash problem using your instructions.

All the best for Christmas and the New Year, hope you have a good break... ?

David


On 15 December 2014 at 09:52, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
 Hi David,

 OS X 10.6.8 and Safari 5.1.10 are the last versions available.
 Snow Leopard is no longer supported. It is an outdated OS and won't be
 updated again.
 Unless you upgrade to a newer OS X you will continue to have problems using
 Safari no matter which version of Safari you have installed.

 For your Flash Player issue:

 1. Completely uninstall and reinstall Flash Player.

 Uninstall Flash Player | Mac OS

 http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-mac-os.html


 2 Then download and run the installer again.

 http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/support/install_flash_player_osx.
 dmg


 For your Gmail security issue, the only thing I can suggest is use Google's
 Safe Browsing for Firefox browser
 http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/

 Cheers,
 Ronni
 On 14 Dec 2014, at 11:25 pm, David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au wrote:

 -- 1. Using Safari, I find that trying to open a page which has Flash
 content gives:

 Adobe Flash Player is out of date.
 The version of Adobe Flash Player on your system does not contain
 the latest security updates and has been blocked. To continue using
 Adobe Flash Player, download an updated version from Adobe's
 website.

 -- However, if I click on Download Flash... and apparently do the
 installation, the same message comes up with Safari, even after
 closing and opening Safari. What can I do? If I open the same page
 with Firefox, it works OK.

 -- 2. If I open my gmail account with Safari, it opens and works OK,
 but has a banner at the top:

 This version of Safari is no longer supported. Please upgrade to a
 supported browser. Dismiss.

 -- I'm using OS X 10.6.8 and Safari 5.1.10. Safari doesn't seem to
 have a Check for updates command. Any advice, please?

 David Noel


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DVD burn gives blank disc

[David Noel]

I am wondering if anyone can give me a suggestion as to why burning a
DVD with Toast sometime gives me a blank disc.

I'm using both Toast 8 and Toast 10, and burning a disc image created
previously by Toast. The burn appears to go normally, and Toast 10
even says Disc XXX burned successfully, but on inserting the disc
into a reader (OS X 10.6.8, 2 GHz Intel Core Duo iMac), the system
says You have inserted a blank disc.

I actually have 2 disc burners, the internal one (now not always
reliable), and an external Samsung one which I use routinely. I have
wondered if the system gets confused which drive it is writing to,
though I do check the Recorder Settings carefully.

The problem happens quite a lot, but not always, sometimes the burn
goes straightforwardly. Any ideas?

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Re: Yosemite with chrome downloads

[David Noel]

Sorry not an answer for Rosemary, but allied problem. I use both
Safari and Chrome (also sometimes Firefox), but since about 2 weeks
ago, Safari has the heading This version of Safari is no longer
supported. Please upgrade to a supported browser..

I'm still on 10.6.8, which is probably why the message appears. Do I
just carry on using the unsupported Safari until it collapses, or is
there any way of updating it while still on 10.6.8?

David Noel


On 24 October 2014 14:09, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
 Any reason Why you are using Chrome instead of Safari?
 Safari in Yosemite is faster than Chrome and Firefox

 http://www.macrumors.com/2014/10/22/apple-encouraging-safari-downloads/

 http://www.cnet.com/au/news/safari-8-browser-on-yosemite-shows-major-speed-boost/

 I don't have Chrome installed and won't install it.

 Either ‘Shift-Command-F’ or ‘Ctrl-Command-F’ should solve it if it was just
 that.  It is NOT that.  It's some sort of bug.


 Cheers,
 Ronni

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 On 24 Oct 2014, at 12:29 pm, Rosemary Spark arkaysp...@gmail.com wrote:

 Anyone have any problems with Chrome downloads or inserting files?
 When I try to download a file or attach one the window is too large. I can't
 do anything but press enter and hope. There is no way to close or cancel.
 I can't re-size the window upwards to see the button.
 The dock is in the way.
 Anyone got any ideas?

 Cheers

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Re: Yosemite with chrome downloads

[David Noel]

Yes, I'm using Safari 5.1.10. David.

On 24 October 2014 14:48, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
 What version of Safari are you using in OS X 10.6.8?
 Safari 5.1.10 for Snow Leopard  - http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1569

 Cheers,
 Ronni

 On 24 Oct 2014, at 2:28 pm, David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au wrote:

 Sorry not an answer for Rosemary, but allied problem. I use both
 Safari and Chrome (also sometimes Firefox), but since about 2 weeks
 ago, Safari has the heading This version of Safari is no longer
 supported. Please upgrade to a supported browser..

 I'm still on 10.6.8, which is probably why the message appears. Do I
 just carry on using the unsupported Safari until it collapses, or is
 there any way of updating it while still on 10.6.8?

 David Noel


 On 24 October 2014 14:09, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:

 Any reason Why you are using Chrome instead of Safari?
 Safari in Yosemite is faster than Chrome and Firefox

 http://www.macrumors.com/2014/10/22/apple-encouraging-safari-downloads/

 http://www.cnet.com/au/news/safari-8-browser-on-yosemite-shows-major-speed-boost/

 I don't have Chrome installed and won't install it.

 Either ‘Shift-Command-F’ or ‘Ctrl-Command-F’ should solve it if it was just
 that.  It is NOT that.  It's some sort of bug.


 Cheers,
 Ronni

 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage

 OS X 10.10 Yosemite

 On 24 Oct 2014, at 12:29 pm, Rosemary Spark arkaysp...@gmail.com wrote:

 Anyone have any problems with Chrome downloads or inserting files?
 When I try to download a file or attach one the window is too large. I can't
 do anything but press enter and hope. There is no way to close or cancel.
 I can't re-size the window upwards to see the button.
 The dock is in the way.
 Anyone got any ideas?

 Cheers

 Rosemary Spark
 PO Box 781
 South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia
 Phone: + 61 8 94336609
 Mobile: 0414268043
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Re: IceTV widget

[David Noel]

I have used the IceTV widget in the past, but for many months now,
when I open the Dashboard, this widget has This feature is currently
unavailable. Our team is working hard to improve the quality of our
Recommendations and a new methodology will be in place shortly.

I downloaded the IceTV Dashboard Widget as suggested by Ronni and
followed the procedure to install it (replacing the existing copy),
but the result is just as before.

David Noel


On 26 September 2014 21:45, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
 Hi Neil,

 Have you tried downloading and installing a fresh copy of the IceTV Widget?

 Download our IceTV Dashboard Widget here. It will be downloaded to your
 desktop, or the location you've chosen in your browser's preferences.
 Double click the .ZIP file to unarchive it (this may happen automatically
 for you, depending on your settings).
 Double click the widget's icon to install it in Dashboard.
 You will be asked if you wish to install the widget. Click Install.
 Click keep to keep the widget.
 Follow instructions below to authorise the widget.

 Cheers,
 Ronni

 Sent from Ronni's iPad4


 On 26 Sep 2014, at 8:06 pm, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote:

 I have used the IceTV OSX dashboard widget for several years now.
 Occasionally the window has problems or locks up and usually removing it
 from the dashboard and then re-adding fixes it.

 Recently I had a problem with only part of the window showing so, as before,
 I removed it from the dashboard and then re-added it. After this it is again
 working OK and showing all the programs etc EXCEPT that the channel
 logos/identifiers are all missing from the left-hand side - for each
 channel, all that is there (to the left of the program info) is a white box.

 In other words, I have all the program details and times, split into
 channels, I just don't know which channel is which!! You can see a
 screenshot which illustrates the problem here:
 https://www.dropbox.com/s/cqw49i66uuc3lgh/IceTV%20widget.jpg?dl=0.

 This rather limits it's usefulness until I can fix it ;o(

 Anybody having the same problem or know how to fix it?


 I tried raising an IceTV customer support request but, three days later, I'm
 still at:

 This request is awaiting assignment to a support agent


 You will receive a notification when the request status is updated by our

 staff.

 So I'm not holding my breath!


 I also tried raising it on the IceTV forums:
 http://forum.icetv.com.au/iceforum/index.php/topic,4377.0.html
 but no suggestions/anwsers yet.



 I know that we have a few EyeTV users on the list so IO wondered if we also
 had a few IceTV widget users?


 TIA



 Cheers



 Neil
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 Neil R. Houghton
 Albany, Western Australia
 Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
 Email: n...@possumology.com


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Re: Safari corruption

[David Noel]

Hi Severin --

-- I had a similar problem a couple of months ago, and somebody else
brought it up on WAMUG recently. It's actually nothing to do with Safari,
instead it is an adware creature which happens to have attacked Safari
first. Left unattended, it will spread to your other browsers.

-- After doing some investigation, I solved the problem for myself by
installing TSM Adware Removal Tool (free). There are other possible
solutions, but I am happy with the one used.

Cheers --

David Noel

On 11 September 2014 16:50, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote:

 Suddenly this afternoon  Safari started to act up.   Looking at my own
 websites, I have several, it was as if words had been highlighted and made
 into links which then gave popups telling me how too earn money and the
 like.  I notified Westnet who checked and reported no malfunction and
 suggested it was browser related.  Sure enough, no worries with Google
 Chrome or Firefox so the sites themselves are clean.  I guess I need to
 purge Safari.   It is only on my own sites and Safari is fine on outside
 sites.  I am really puzzled here, what is special about my sites?
 Has anyone else encountered this.  Started this afternoon, was fine this
 morning.  I use Intego and NetBarrier is set to block everything and virus
 barrier has reported nothing during realtime scanning.
 Severin Crisp
 

 * Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys*
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Re: Screen dump from video

[David Noel]

Many thanks to Ronni for all that explanation. However, the actual instance
where I had the failure of Command-Shift-4 to capture a screen shot appears
to have some other origin than being 'protected'.

The video I was accessing was that referenced by

http://www.alexanderslostworld.com/episode-guide/episode-5-the-land-of-the-golden-fleece/

and was recorded via EyeTV.

It seems that when viewed with DVD Player, Command-Shift-4 on a paused
frame of ANY video does not work, it only gives a checkerboard image.

However when the video is viewed with VLC, as suggested by Peter
Hinchcliffe, then a paused frame can be captured with Command-Shift-4 as
expected.  Thanks again to all helping here!

David Noel
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Screen dump from video

[David Noel]

I use the Command-Shift-4 sequence to select part of the Desktop for a
number of purposes -- the image is saved (by default to Desktop) as a
'Screen shot ...date/time...png' file. It's a good way to quickly capture a
web-usable image from a web source or a graphics-handling app without
having to Save it from the app.

However, when I recently tried this on a paused frame of a video clip, the
sequence just produces a grey-white chequerboard pattern of the same size
as the selection. Can anyone tell why this is, and maybe how to save a
video frame?

Cheers, David Noel
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Re: Screen dump from video

[David Noel]

Hi Ronni --

-- Thanks very much for your information. However, it seems strange if the
video I wanted a frame from could be DRM protected -- it was just a natural
history TV program I had burned onto a blank DVD for later viewing. Can DRM
protection be inherent in a broadcast TV program? Still puzzled

David



On 30 August 2014 14:47, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:

 Hi David,

 On 30 Aug 2014, at 2:23 pm, David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au wrote:

  I use the Command-Shift-4 sequence to select part of the Desktop for a
 number of purposes -- the image is saved (by default to Desktop) as a
 'Screen shot ...date/time...png' file. It's a good way to quickly capture a
 web-usable image from a web source or a graphics-handling app without
 having to Save it from the app.
 
  However, when I recently tried this on a paused frame of a video clip,
 the sequence just produces a grey-white chequerboard pattern of the same
 size as the selection. Can anyone tell why this is, and maybe how to save a
 video frame?

 You have used the correct method to capture a paused video frame
 screenshot... as long as the video is NOT  DRM protected.

 Just a grey/white checkered pattern indicates you may have encountered a
 copyright / fair use issue with the protected content from which you want
 to make a screen capture. The laws and standards for fair use vary by
 country and the content owners and software implementers of course must try
 to account for all that.

 If this turns out to be the issue and you have done the legal research to
 prove what you want to do is allowed under the principle of fair use then
 you may want to investigate using software with a different implementation
 of the protection schemes that will allow you to make the screen capture.

 One piece of software which may work from a technical standpoint would be
 the VLC Player. http://videolan.org/

 Cheers,
 Ronni

 
  Cheers, David Noel
 

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Re: Safari popup adds

[David Noel]

I strongly recommend using the Adware Removal Tool on
http://www.thesafemac.com/art/. It's free, and filters off all adware on
all (as far as I know) your browsers.

David Noel
2014 Aug 14




On 14 August 2014 13:00, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com wrote:

 Has she installed Mac Keeper at some point ?

 On 14 Aug 2014, at 12:28 pm, Jon Davison jondcamera...@me.com wrote:

 A friend of mine uses Safari 7.0.5, and she has hundreds of adds popping
 up, all in their own window, they appear in the browser and windows behind
 the browser. Often the address bar on these adds is 'Mac Keeper'.
 To get around this, she used an open source add blocker ABP which seemed
 to block some adds. For instance seven hundred and twenty adds were blocked
 over two days. Now Safari is showing say up to 12 adds are being blocked
 over 10 minutes. But others are appending in windows all the time.

 She has emptied the history and cache, plus cleaned the system with Onyx
 and Disk Utilities.

 Mavericks OS 10.9.4/4GB RAM/2.3 GHz//MacBook Pro 2013/15 screen/

 Any idea how she may stop this? or is this a virus issue?


 Thanks
 John

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Re: WAMUG 30th - Memories

[David Noel]

There's some anecdotal stuff about early work with computers in my MT article:

A Complicated Recipe : Diversity and Infocap Content [MT105]
http://www.aoi.com.au/MTSite/MT105.htm

You can google
Dissolving the Device-Handler Code
for the section.

At the time, I was programming a PDP-8 computer to run the fall-back
system for the UWA Library (the full system was run on the WARCC
PDP-10, but that was months late in getting to the running stage).

It's amazing in today's terms, that an extra 4K of computer memory
cost enough that we clubbed together to buy the PDP-8 a lottery ticket
to finance the purchase.

Another memory, not in the article, is that the operating system for
the PDP-8 was tailored in a lengthy process after selecting the bits
of the system you needed. I would start the assembly process at the
end of Friday afternoon before going home, it was still running on
Monday morning after the weekend, taking almost 3 days to complete.

David Noel

On 24 July 2014 17:34, Maureen Smith topsm...@internode.on.net wrote:
 Hello fellow WAMUGgers,

 As we are celebrating 30 years of WAMUG I though it might be interesting to
 share what memories we have of all things Macintosh /Apple and beyond.

 Earlier this month, Severin Crisp wrote to me of his experiences 40 + years
 with computers and his association with Apple . It makes for a very
 interesting read.
 He has given permission to share it to the list.

 I am sure others have had lengthy and/or interesting associations with
 Apple. It would be great to hear your memories.

 Cheers,

 Maureen

 Severin Crips’ Email

 My introduction to computing was on a Bendix G15 at National Research
 Council of Canada in Ottawa where I was a PostDoctoral fellow from 1960.  It
 was a single user machine on which you booked time and it had paper tape
 input and typewriter output and had a regular maintenance outage for one
 hour every morning!   Shortly before we left Canada in 1964 (plus two sons
 who had materialised in our time there) the division acquired a new machine,
 still paper tape input but which ran Fortran, to which then I was
 introduced.  Back in Physics at UWA an IBM 1620 card machine had been
 acquired and was a huge advance.   Still single user for which you could
 book time but many jobs run by the Computing Centre staff as batches.  I
 remember almost wheelbarrow loads of boxes of cards!   Then a DEC10 time
 sharing machine appeared, a huge step forward in speed and capability
 including direct talk to the computer from a terminal! and the announcement
 that this would satisfy the University’s computing needs for at least the
 next 5 years. In 6 months it was up to saturation and the CDC Cyber
 machines, extensive mainframes with card readers, magtape drives, line
 printers  and the works all running principally batch  more or less took
 over.  A later DEC machine ran as an adjunct, usable from remote terminals
 around campus for direct input/output, a foreshadowing of desktop machines.

 The PCs started to appear, both IBM and others and Physics elected to go
 Mac, a brilliant choice as far as I was concerned!  Machines proliferated
 through teaching and research, I had a DEC PDP-8(?) controlling my X-ray
 spectrometer and collecting data and communication directly with a Mac in my
 office.  For home I bought one of the first 128K bundles, with a dot matrix
 printer and a carrying case, around $2000 from memory.  It was subsequently
 upgraded to a MacPlus with a massive 4MB of memory and used as office
 computer in my wife’s art gallery. On my desk at work I had stepped up to an
 SE 30, a real speed machine, and progressed through a series of upgradings
 until my retirement in mid 1964 at which time we moved to Albany and I
 purchased a PowerMac which since then has progressed though a series of
 necessary(??!) indulgences to my current 21.5inch iMac, which cost a similar
 amount to that first 128k Mac.

 In my time at NRC in Ottawa and in Physics at UWA there was always expert
 advice and comment for problems immediately to hand, usually from someone
 just a door or two down the corridor or at the help desk in the Computing
 Centre, a vital thing when unravelling Fortran puzzles!  In Albany that was
 not similarly available and at some stage I discovered WAMUG on who/which I
 have relied heavily every since.   So many times a seemingly hopeless
 impasse has been resolved by an exert input, I know my experience mirrors
 that of many others.  Notably Ronni and Daniel have pointed me in the right
 direction many, many times as have so many other members.  Much information
 sits in the archives to be unearthed; I admit to laziness and just reask the
 question.  I cannot speak too highly of the benefits I have had from my
 WAMUG membership, my $30 annual fee is trivial for the return I get, not
 only from direct answers and speedy resolution with no time wasted when
 problems arise, but from general learning from  seeing solutions emerge from
 other

Adverts on browsers

[David Noel]

I use 3 browsers regularly, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. Lately the
last two have been plagued with adverts and extra ad pages opening up.
These are not only very irritating, sometimes they halt showing a page
for long periods while the ads or ad pages try to load up.

I've apparently managed to suppress ads on Chrome by loading the ABP
extension, and could probably find something similar for Firefox. But
I'd like to know if others have had these problems, and what's the
best approach to dealing with them?

Cheers,
David Noel

(iMac and MacBook with 10.6.8.)
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Re: Eye tv

[David Noel]

Hi Julie --

-- Are you trying to burn something to DVD directly from an eyeTV
recording compacted after editing?

-- If so, it's best to always follow these stages:
1. Edit the original item(s) with the eyeTV editor.
2. Open Toast and (on video setting) write the items to Disc Image.
3. Double-click on the disc image, double-click each item in turn (it
will open in DVD Player), and quickly drag right through each item
using the bar.
4. If all the items play successfully, only then double-click the disc
image (brings up Toast), command-W to get the image list (you can
check here at options to see how compressed the result will be), then
click on the orange ball at bottom right, and insert blank DVD when
requested.

-- If any items don't play successfully from the disc image, Export
those items to Documents using Elementary Streams option, then later
try to make a new disc image using the item from Documents instead of
the the eyeTV edited version.

-- There's more complications if you need details, but a Sense key
Error usually means that Toast has found a problem with reading the
eyeTV file. Proceeding as above means you don't waste a DVD on a file
which gives Toast problems.

David Noel


On 28 May 2014 14:03, Juliet Kitson billand...@gmail.com wrote:
 hello all
 Equipment
 MacBook Air
 1.3Ghz intel core I5
 4Gh 1600 MHz DDR3
 Mavericks 10.9.2

 Toast 11.0.0

 Eye tv 2008 Vers 2.5.3

 Record with eye tv edit out extra bits.
 When recording with toast the following error
 The drive reports an error
 Sense key=0x21,0x02
 Buffer underrun

 Works on IMac using snow leopard.
 Regards Bill

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Re: Setting up a password?

[David Noel]

Hi Denise --

-- As Stephen says, you can set up a password in System Preferences.

-- I used to run my iMac without a password. Since I added a password,
for the same reasons as you, I find:

1. If there is a power outage etc or unexpected shutdown, the system
does not come up again automatically, until you have inserted the
password. I use  eyeTV to record TV programs, and this doesn't work if
the system goes down at night.
2. It's quite easy to forget your password, so if you take your
computer overseas, after a long period at home without needing the
password, you must be prepared for this.

-- The usual balance of convenience against security 

David Noel


On 25 May 2014 22:27, Denise Williams wamugh...@bigpond.com wrote:
 Hi All
 I have a 27 iMac, OS 10.7.5 . I have never setup a password on this computer 
 so anyone can access it (simply by leaving the password box empty). I am 
 about to go O/S  just in case it's
 stolen while I'm away, I want a password in place. I would like to know is it 
 as simple as just typing in a password in this box? Or do I set up the 
 password another way. Silly question I know, but it's the simple things that 
 can confuse us the most!!.

 Thanks for any advice
 Denise Williams
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Re: Appleworks

[David Noel]

Hi Peter --

You can open Appleworks text documents with Pages, and save them in
converted form.

Appleworks database are more tricky. You need to open the database
with a version of Appleworks, and copy a list version of the data,
then paste into your current database app. If you need to convert
database documents, WAMAU has some experts in this. I've done it, but
I'm not expert here.

Cheers --

David Noel


On 21 May 2014 14:47, Peter Curtis pe...@augold.com.au wrote:
 Hi everyone
 I have discovered some appleworks documents I would like to access. Is there 
 a program (or way) I can do this?
 Kind regards
 Peter
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Re: Clearing Wikipedia links in Pages

[David Noel]

Thanks very much Ronni, that did the trick. I found that the second
option, pasting into a plain TextEdit document, was better for me. The
first option, turning off hyperlinks, did work OK, but it left the
former links underlined in blue, which was a bit confusing.

Praise and thanks to the Master. (better not put Mistress).

David / Mar 3


On 26 February 2014 16:18, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
 Hi David,

 Turn OFF  hyperlinking for all URL's in your document in the same Inspector
 window (the one with the white arrow on a blue circle).
 select 'Make all hyperlinks inactive'

 Does that achieve what you want?

 Or - If you don't care about losing some of the formatting of the content
 that you are transferring, you can first 'Paste And Match Style' into a
 'plain text' TextEdit document and then copy from there into your Pages doc.

 Links don't survive Paste and Match Style in TextEdit, as they do in Pages.

 Cheers,
 Ronni

 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 Thunderbolt
 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD

 OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks
 Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)



 On 26 Feb 2014, at 3:21 pm, David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au wrote:

 I make a lot of use of Wikipedia, often including short quotes in
 articles on my website. These quotes pass through drafts written in
 Pages.

 Wikipedia is often very rich in links, a 4-line paragraph may have 20
 or more links in it. I know how to clear an individual link (so
 clicking near it does not go off to the linked page in Wikipedia), by
 using the Link Inspector in Pages and de-selecting Enable as a
 hyperlink. Is there any way of clearing all the links in a paragraph
 or selection in one go?

 Earlier, Ronni gave a great tip for clearing all the font
 characteristics of an extract copied from a web page -- first copy
 with the usual Command-C, then paste on to the destination with
 Command-Option-Shift-C. This strips off all the font characteristics,
 but does not clear links. Any suggestions?

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Clearing Wikipedia links in Pages

[David Noel]

I make a lot of use of Wikipedia, often including short quotes in
articles on my website. These quotes pass through drafts written in
Pages.

Wikipedia is often very rich in links, a 4-line paragraph may have 20
or more links in it. I know how to clear an individual link (so
clicking near it does not go off to the linked page in Wikipedia), by
using the Link Inspector in Pages and de-selecting Enable as a
hyperlink. Is there any way of clearing all the links in a paragraph
or selection in one go?

Earlier, Ronni gave a great tip for clearing all the font
characteristics of an extract copied from a web page -- first copy
with the usual Command-C, then paste on to the destination with
Command-Option-Shift-C. This strips off all the font characteristics,
but does not clear links. Any suggestions?

David Noel
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Re: Bento on iMac and iPad

[David Noel]

Hi Ronni --

-- Thanks for blast from the past. I worked at UWA for 24 years, starting
in 1964, and was one of the early users of the PDP-6 -- in those days users
came in with their punch cards, mag tapes, or paper tapes and sat at the
console themselves to operate the beast. It was a huge step up from the IBM
1620 accounting machine, which did run on punched cards, but was programmed
by plugging wires into a logic frame. I actually did the Macro course at Mt
Lawley Tech --  by then it may have been to use on the PDP-10, the language
was the same.

Cheers, David




On 21 August 2013 21:18, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:

 Hey David,

 Did you do the course on Macro at UWA? This might bring back memories.

 The PDP-6 Computer Delivered to UWA in May 1965
  
 http://www.is.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/2357574/DEC-PDP6-Facts.pdf
 

 Cheers,
 Ronni
 Sent from Ronni's iPad4

 On 21/08/2013, at 12:17 PM, David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au wrote:

 Well, fervent thanks to Ronni and Peter for the explanations, they worked
 a treat! It would have taken me forever to have worked all that out by
 myself. I'm continually and totally gobsmacked by the expertise and clear,
 concise answers given to us lucky Wamuggers.

 Years ago I did a course on Macro, the machine language for DEC's PDP6.
 The instructor told us that he had given up learning anything new, as his
 brain was full. I'm knowing more and more what he meant. I suspect that
 Ronni, Peter, and doubtless other WAMUG stars must have their brains synced
 to a mess of cloud servers in order to produce the wonderful advice they
 give.

 David Noel

 2013 Aug 21

 =




 On 20 August 2013 08:08, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.auwrote:


 On 19/08/2013, at 2:41 PM, David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au wrote:

  -- Hi, can anyone help with this? I have been using Bento quite widely
 on my iMac, and have about 20 libraries up, including a Chinese-English
 pinyin (romanization) and character store. Now my wife and I are due to go
 on a 'Silk Route' trip through Central Asia, Istanbul to Beijing.
 
  -- This trip we thought we would take my wife's iPad instead of my
 MacBook, so I downloaded Bento on the iPad, after updating to the latest
 iOS (also updated to the latest version of Bento on the iMac). I would like
 to transfer (sync) the Chinese library from the iMac onto the iPad. This is
 certainly possible with the Sync command from iMac Bento.
 
  1). The main problem is, that with the Sync command, no mobile devices
 show up as the target for the Sync. Is this because my wife's iPad has her
 details (email address etc) as the user, and if so, how can I get round
 this? I have both devices side by side, the iMac connected to the router by
 Ethernet, the iPad by wireless.
 
  -- Some of the other problems will be because I am a complete novice
 with the iPad, and have had to be shown how to switch on and off, alter
 volume levels etc. Some questions:
 
  2). If I can run the Sync successfully, will it transfer the whole
 Bento database (all libraries), or only the library open at the time of
 syncing?
 
  3). If the library/database is synced, how do I type Chinese pinyin
 into, say, the Search box? On the iMac, I choose 'Pinyin - Simplified' on
 the Input Source menu or by a keyboard shortcut (Command-Space). I don't
 know how to access either of these on the iPad.
 
  Any suggestions, or tips on the concept of taking an iPad to Central
 Asia, much appreciated.
 
  David Noel
  2013 Aug 19
 

 Since Ronni has answered question 1 for you, I'll try to help with 2  3.

 2) With Bento 4 on the iPad, the synchronisation between desktop and iPad
 is quite complete. You will see a record-for-record, layout-for-layout copy
 of your desktop libararies on your iPad.

 3) Easy. First go to Settings on your iPad, then go to General 
 Keyboard. You will see a setting labelled Keyboards   . Choose this
 then tap Add New Keyboard. You will then see a comprehensive list of
 alternative keyboards. At about position 8 on this list you will see
 Chinese  - Simplfied (Pinyan). Select this adn it wil lbe added to your
 list of available keyboards.

 Exit out of Settings. Now, whenever the keyboard appears at the bottom of
 the screen, you will see a new button, at the left of the spacebar,
 containing a World icon. Tap this and the keyboard will change to the
 Chinese one. Note that if you have more than two keyboards assigned this
 button cycles between all of them.

 As for using the Chinese keyboard - I'm afraid I'll have to leave that up
 to you. My Chinese language powers are somewhat underdeveloped. Rest
 assured, however, that it works fine in Bento.

 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

Re: Bento on iMac and iPad

[David Noel]

Well, fervent thanks to Ronni and Peter for the explanations, they worked a
treat! It would have taken me forever to have worked all that out by
myself. I'm continually and totally gobsmacked by the expertise and clear,
concise answers given to us lucky Wamuggers.

Years ago I did a course on Macro, the machine language for DEC's PDP6. The
instructor told us that he had given up learning anything new, as his brain
was full. I'm knowing more and more what he meant. I suspect that Ronni,
Peter, and doubtless other WAMUG stars must have their brains synced to a
mess of cloud servers in order to produce the wonderful advice they give.

David Noel

2013 Aug 21

=




On 20 August 2013 08:08, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote:


 On 19/08/2013, at 2:41 PM, David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au wrote:

  -- Hi, can anyone help with this? I have been using Bento quite widely
 on my iMac, and have about 20 libraries up, including a Chinese-English
 pinyin (romanization) and character store. Now my wife and I are due to go
 on a 'Silk Route' trip through Central Asia, Istanbul to Beijing.
 
  -- This trip we thought we would take my wife's iPad instead of my
 MacBook, so I downloaded Bento on the iPad, after updating to the latest
 iOS (also updated to the latest version of Bento on the iMac). I would like
 to transfer (sync) the Chinese library from the iMac onto the iPad. This is
 certainly possible with the Sync command from iMac Bento.
 
  1). The main problem is, that with the Sync command, no mobile devices
 show up as the target for the Sync. Is this because my wife's iPad has her
 details (email address etc) as the user, and if so, how can I get round
 this? I have both devices side by side, the iMac connected to the router by
 Ethernet, the iPad by wireless.
 
  -- Some of the other problems will be because I am a complete novice
 with the iPad, and have had to be shown how to switch on and off, alter
 volume levels etc. Some questions:
 
  2). If I can run the Sync successfully, will it transfer the whole Bento
 database (all libraries), or only the library open at the time of syncing?
 
  3). If the library/database is synced, how do I type Chinese pinyin
 into, say, the Search box? On the iMac, I choose 'Pinyin - Simplified' on
 the Input Source menu or by a keyboard shortcut (Command-Space). I don't
 know how to access either of these on the iPad.
 
  Any suggestions, or tips on the concept of taking an iPad to Central
 Asia, much appreciated.
 
  David Noel
  2013 Aug 19
 

 Since Ronni has answered question 1 for you, I'll try to help with 2  3.

 2) With Bento 4 on the iPad, the synchronisation between desktop and iPad
 is quite complete. You will see a record-for-record, layout-for-layout copy
 of your desktop libararies on your iPad.

 3) Easy. First go to Settings on your iPad, then go to General  Keyboard.
 You will see a setting labelled Keyboards   . Choose this then tap
 Add New Keyboard. You will then see a comprehensive list of alternative
 keyboards. At about position 8 on this list you will see Chinese  -
 Simplfied (Pinyan). Select this adn it wil lbe added to your list of
 available keyboards.

 Exit out of Settings. Now, whenever the keyboard appears at the bottom of
 the screen, you will see a new button, at the left of the spacebar,
 containing a World icon. Tap this and the keyboard will change to the
 Chinese one. Note that if you have more than two keyboards assigned this
 button cycles between all of them.

 As for using the Chinese keyboard - I'm afraid I'll have to leave that up
 to you. My Chinese language powers are somewhat underdeveloped. Rest
 assured, however, that it works fine in Bento.

 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.

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Bento on iMac and iPad

[David Noel]

-- Hi, can anyone help with this? I have been using Bento quite widely on
my iMac, and have about 20 libraries up, including a Chinese-English pinyin
(romanization) and character store. Now my wife and I are due to go on a
'Silk Route' trip through Central Asia, Istanbul to Beijing.

-- This trip we thought we would take my wife's iPad instead of my MacBook,
so I downloaded Bento on the iPad, after updating to the latest iOS (also
updated to the latest version of Bento on the iMac). I would like to
transfer (sync) the Chinese library from the iMac onto the iPad. This is
certainly possible with the Sync command from iMac Bento.

1). The main problem is, that with the Sync command, no mobile devices show
up as the target for the Sync. Is this because my wife's iPad has her
details (email address etc) as the user, and if so, how can I get round
this? I have both devices side by side, the iMac connected to the router by
Ethernet, the iPad by wireless.

-- Some of the other problems will be because I am a complete novice with
the iPad, and have had to be shown how to switch on and off, alter volume
levels etc. Some questions:

2). If I can run the Sync successfully, will it transfer the whole Bento
database (all libraries), or only the library open at the time of syncing?

3). If the library/database is synced, how do I type Chinese pinyin into,
say, the Search box? On the iMac, I choose 'Pinyin - Simplified' on the
Input Source menu or by a keyboard shortcut (Command-Space). I don't know
how to access either of these on the iPad.

Any suggestions, or tips on the concept of taking an iPad to Central Asia,
much appreciated.

David Noel
2013 Aug 19
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[David Noel]

-- This looks very much like a (new?) scam. What's the State government
scam warning address, please?

David Noel
2013 May 15



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Storing DVDs in paper envelopes

[David Noel]

Hi Everyone --

-- I've accumulated a couple of thousand burnt DVDs, which I number
and keep in the square paper envelopes. Can anyone recommend a
reasonable cheap storage solution, probably with drawers which can be
pulled out to check the numbers? At the moment, I keep many of them in
old library catalogue card drawers, spread out on a table (I have the
drawer cases, but these only take the drawers when holding 3 x 5
cards).

Cheers --

David Noel
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Re: 'Interface Error -50' on DVD burn

[David Noel]

-- Thanks for the suggestions Ronni, I'm using OSX 10.6.8 and Toast 10
or Toast 8. I always burn from a disc image, so I think my problem
must be a mechanical one in the burner, rather than a software
problem. It doesn't always show up.

Cheers

David

===

On 13 October 2012 12:43, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
 Hi David,

 What version of Toast are you using, also what version of OS X?
 Are the DVDs Blu-Ray or ?
 Are you selecting the correct burn speed or just using 'best'? A slower burn 
 speed is best.

 A couple things to try: One is to choose Save as Disc Image instead of 
 clicking the burn button. When that is done choose the .toast file that is 
 saved using the 'Image File' setting in the Toast Copy window to burn the 
 disc.

 Cheers,
 Ronni
 Sent from Ronni's iPad

 On 13/10/2012, at 12:30 PM, David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au wrote:

 -- Lately, on burning a DVD with Toast, I've had the message:

 Interface Error -50 -- The connection is not stable.

 -- The burn appears still successful, but what does the message imply?
 Is my (iMac internal optical) drive going on the blink? Is there
 anything I can do, other than wait for a complete failure and take the
 machine for service? Any advice much appreciated.

 Cheers --

 David Noel
 2012 Oct 13
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'Interface Error -50' on DVD burn

[David Noel]

-- Lately, on burning a DVD with Toast, I've had the message:

Interface Error -50 -- The connection is not stable.

-- The burn appears still successful, but what does the message imply?
Is my (iMac internal optical) drive going on the blink? Is there
anything I can do, other than wait for a complete failure and take the
machine for service? Any advice much appreciated.

Cheers --

David Noel
2012 Oct 13
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Re: Proposed name change to Apple Users WA

[David Noel]

Hi All, I'm quite happy with WAMUG as an acronym for the group, so,
for those who want to emphasize the Apple connection, why not change
the way WAMUG is interpreted? Just off the top of my head, say, the
Westralian Apple Multidevice User Group? I'm sure others can improve
on this..

David Noel
2012 Sep 15

==

On 15 September 2012 10:00, Pete Smith smudd...@internode.on.net wrote:
 G'day Daniel.

 No offence taken, nor even thought about.

 I enjoy reading your posts when you explain things. After all, you're the 
 wizard and I'm just happy cruising through at the lower levels. You know my 
 knowledge - when they mentioned a couple of domains, I got all excited 
 thinking we going to crack a Domaine Chandon champagne or two - alas...

 I missed your (below) post on Thursday. I was downloading the Apple Event 
 podcast when my iTunes told me of the update to 10.7 so I quickly posted it 
 to the list and didn't even see your one. Today's the first day back at the 
 computer. Well, mine, anyway, I'm sick of work's one.

 The Apple Event was good. iPhone 5 - you little beauty

 Cheers,

 Pete Smith

 On 13/09/2012, at 15:09 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:

 I've ummmered and aed about replying to this, and whether to or not,…but 
 well, obviously trom my post I am about to…..

 First off, this is not meant to in any way to cause offence, or be seen to 
 be having a go, especially to you Pete and I apologise up front if it seems 
 that way.  I also apologise if it gets taken the wrong way as well,…as it's 
 meant in the sincerest way.

 Though I understand that wanting to grab the domains before someone else 
 did, this is a lot more difficult for .org.au's to do. Sure, if this was a 
 .com then I'd tend to agree.
 A .com.au and .org.au hold a bit more weight to them when aiming to be 
 purchased. A .com.au can only be purchased with an ABN and has to have some 
 close resemblance to the Business Name or organisation.
 A.org.au can only be purchased by a non-profit of charity organisation. And 
 normally those parties have to have a Certificate of Incorporation before 
 they can purchase it. (And perhaps a constitution as well, I'm not 100% sure 
 on that one). But it's certainly a lot harder for someone to sit on them for 
 the sake of sitting on them,….if that makes sense. i fully understand about 
 aiming to get them  before someone else did and as long as a regulated 
 business is used to check domain names the risk of this happening is a lot 
 less (I've never been overtaken on checking a name for clients I've set 
 them up for and looked up, but I always use a well known and trusted domain 
 checker. And I can understand about worry about the use of a name in a 
 public forum where it may get taken, but realistically I feel this is quite 
 low for .org.au. The work involved to try and get it versus the reward from 
 it would be almost negligible. (if possible as well). The AuDA is very 
 strict on these sort of things, and even if someone did without the right 
 paper trail I have a feeling it would be overwritten if the wrong party 
 did it for that sole practice.
 A .com is a completely different story of course,…lol. You see those go for 
 silly sums sometimes! lol.
 I know the cost is minimal, and I guess it's not like we had 4 or 5 to 
 choose from,…lol :)) (or had been purchased,…lol).

 Again, Pete this is not to meant to seem like an attack on you or anything 
 like that,.. I just really wanted to partially clarify that information for 
 interests sake. (if people were looking at domains later, it's not too 
 scary). ;o))


 I, like others have mentioned, are a bit concerned at the AUWA acronym, as I 
 feel it could be associated to do with UWA. That's why my first thought is 
 when I see it, as others have mentioned to me as well. So we could get 
 ourselves into some hot water with UWA as well. Hey, I could be wrong,..but 
 that's my first thought with it as well. The same, as Ronni mentioned, with 
 using Apple in the name. More so now that Apple are really pushing into 
 everything themselves with the Apple branded stores, and everything 
 associated with it. We certainly wouldn't want to get in trouble with them, 
 or assumed that we're something to do with Apple direct. That's a whole lot 
 of hot water to get into,…lol.
 So, I could see, like Vlad mentioned (which Shane bought up), if it was to 
 be changed (at all) to be WA Apple Users Group. (WAAU or WAAUG - however 
 you'd' pronounce them) it's less in your face Apple.
 Either way, whichever is used, WAMUG, AUWA, WAAU, WAAUG etc etc et), you'll 
 always need to explain it. I think that goes without saying. Even if 
 advertising WA Macintosh User Group, Apple Users WA, WA Apple Users, WA 
 Apple Users Group,..etc etc it can be seen as long,..or shorted to the 
 acronym, which will still need to be explained. So either way, I don't think 
 that's an issue (not a major one anyway I feel. Besides, any type of 
 explanation

Wireless mouse not connecting

[David Noel]

Hi, I'm overseas with my MacBook Pro, and I can't get my wireless
mouse to connect. Clicking on Mouse under System Preferences says
Found Apple Wireless Mouse and Connecting, but numerous attempts
end with The pairing attempt was unsuccessful.

I've changed the mouse batteries, that made no difference. Is there
anything else I can try? Thanks for help --

David Noel
2012 Aug 30
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Re: Blast from the past

[David Noel]

Isn't there a Computer Museum at Wireless Hill or somewhere which
would benefit from this?

David
2012 Jul 31

===

On 31 July 2012 09:24, Diana  Graham Stevens diag...@iinet.net.au wrote:
 I remember this collection, he had all the early models. I think there was 
 even a Lisa which was the first Mac I ever used.

 Diana

 Sent from my iPad

 On 31/07/2012, at 8:52 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote:

 Many long time members will well remember Tony Stefanetti of Computer Trade 
 Centre fame. Tony has been out of the business for five years now, but I got 
 a phone call from him the other day. He has a large collection of legacy 
 Macs (from the sound of things they are probably all pre-Intel) and before 
 he sets the wheels in motion to dispose of them, he is wondering if there 
 are any WAMUG members interested in taking some of them off his hands.

 If you are interested at all please let me know ASAP. Their days are 
 numbered.


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 FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
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 Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948
 
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Re: Stubborn items in sidebar

[David Noel]

Thanks to both, I now know a little more David.

===

On 29 July 2012 13:04, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
 Hi Noel,

 You are using Snow Leopard, not Lion or Mountain Lion so your User Library is 
 NOT hidden.
 The .plist file is not hidden. The path I gave you can be found in a search.

 Spotlight does not include system files in default searches and anything in 
 your library folder counts as a system file.
 You can include system files in finder search but not in spotlight search.

 This is one of the strange default settings in spotlight, it excludes system 
 files from default searches.
 To include system files in a search do the following

 To find library files you need to include system files in a search.

 1. Enter the search term in the Finder window's search field.
 2. Click the [+] button in the search bar to add a search option.
 3. In the first drop down menu choose Other.
 4. Choose “System Files” from the list that pops up (and check the box to 
 place in drop down menu to avoid this step later,)   click on the OK button.
 5. Now back in the Finder choose Include from the second drop down menu.

 On 29/07/2012, at 11:40 AM, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au 
 wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote:

 Hi Noel,

 Glad to hear it sorted itself out. The self healing computers of the future 
 will make groups like this redundant. :-)

 When you searched for the file if you were using Spotlight, 
 sidebarlists.plist would likely not show up. Spotlight is an end-user tool 
 and thus by default only shows files that one would be looking for on a 
 functioning system -- the likes of MSWord or Pages documents, applications, 
 web pages, contacts, photos, and emails. You can if you want use the unix 
 find command from a Terminal window. It will find any file that the user 
 has read permissions on.

 Regards,
 Carlo

 Carlo Margio
 Real World Computing

 mob: 0404 296 965
 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au
 www.realworldcomputing.com.au

 On 29/07/2012, at 11:18 , David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au wrote:

 Hi Carlo --

 -- Thanks for that, the problem has been fixed. I can't understand why
 I couldn't find the sidebarlists in my user account before, I was
 certain that I had looked in the correct place.

 -- However, it has occurred to me that a double-check I had done of
 searching for all files containing 'sidebarlists' might not have been
 effective if these were 'hidden' files. Is this so, and if so, how do
 you broaden a search to include 'hidden' files?

 Cheers --

 David
 Jul29

 

 On 28 July 2012 11:27, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au
 wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote:
 Hi Noel,

 When you say the usual sidebar removal procedure, do you mean pressing the 
 command key and dragging the folder out of the side bar? It should 
 evaporate in a puff of smoke if all goes well.

 Are you certain your com.apple.sidebarlists.plist is missing? I hope I am 
 not stating something that is already clear to you but in the path below 
 you must substitute the name of your personal user account for yourname.

 /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

 It might be something like

 /Users/noel/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist.

 If none of the above works post back as there are sterner measures you can 
 try. :-)

 Regards,
 Carlo


 On 28/07/2012, at 11:03 , David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au wrote:

 Hi, I've again got items stuck in the Sidebar which I can't remove.
 Ronni suggested deleting:

 /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

 but I can't find this file in my Library Preferences. I'm still on
 10.6.8, which I think the original email applied to. I've tried the
 usual sidebar removal procedures without any joy. Can anyone help
 here?

 David Noel
 2012 Jul 28
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Re: Stubborn items in sidebar

[David Noel]

Hi Carlo --

-- Thanks for that, the problem has been fixed. I can't understand why
I couldn't find the sidebarlists in my user account before, I was
certain that I had looked in the correct place.

-- However, it has occurred to me that a double-check I had done of
searching for all files containing 'sidebarlists' might not have been
effective if these were 'hidden' files. Is this so, and if so, how do
you broaden a search to include 'hidden' files?

Cheers --

David
Jul29



On 28 July 2012 11:27, wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au
wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au wrote:
 Hi Noel,

 When you say the usual sidebar removal procedure, do you mean pressing the 
 command key and dragging the folder out of the side bar? It should evaporate 
 in a puff of smoke if all goes well.

 Are you certain your com.apple.sidebarlists.plist is missing? I hope I am not 
 stating something that is already clear to you but in the path below you must 
 substitute the name of your personal user account for yourname.

 /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

 It might be something like

 /Users/noel/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist.

 If none of the above works post back as there are sterner measures you can 
 try. :-)

 Regards,
 Carlo


 On 28/07/2012, at 11:03 , David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au wrote:

 Hi, I've again got items stuck in the Sidebar which I can't remove.
 Ronni suggested deleting:

 /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

 but I can't find this file in my Library Preferences. I'm still on
 10.6.8, which I think the original email applied to. I've tried the
 usual sidebar removal procedures without any joy. Can anyone help
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Stubborn items in sidebar

[David Noel]

Hi, I've again got items stuck in the Sidebar which I can't remove.
Ronni suggested deleting:

/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

but I can't find this file in my Library Preferences. I'm still on
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usual sidebar removal procedures without any joy. Can anyone help
here?

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Re: Writing to PDF

[David Noel]

Hi Peter, I'm not sure exactly what you mean by to write to/on a
PDF. You can make pretty well any file into a PDF version by going to
Print and then choosing PDF in the bottom left corner. You can write
on an existing PDF file by opening it with Preview, choosing Annotate
in the top menu, and then using the Annotate Tools which appear in the
menu at the bottom. Maybe you want something more complicated than
this?

Cheers, David Noel
2012 Jun 27

===

On 27 June 2012 10:13, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote:
 And if you want yet another option, there is Skim which is free and 
 open-source. Skim has quite a few capabilities as well as PDF markup, but is 
 a bit harder to use than the other tools. Here is an article describing its 
 use:

 http://doctoralschool.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/skim-scrivener-research/

 Just thought I would give you the option.

 Regards,
 Carlo

 On 27/06/2012, at 9:42 , Severin Crisp wrote:

 I regularly use PDFpen.  It works just fine for me.
 Severin Crisp

 On 27/06/2012, at 9:20 AM, Curtis Peter wrote:

 Hi
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Re: Writing to PDF

[David Noel]

-- Hi Carlo, how does the signature capture mechanism work? Could you
do a sketch and pretend it's a signature to add it to a PDF?

david

=

On 27 June 2012 12:34, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Peter,

 The annotation tools in Preview are tantalisingly close to being useful, but 
 for some reason Apple has resisted adding the ability to do free hand 
 sketching on a PDF. For me it was lack of that feature that sent me in search 
 of another tool. In Apple's defence, they have added a remarkably well 
 implemented signature capture mechanism.

 Regards,
 Carlo

 On 27/06/2012, at 12:26 , David Noel wrote:

 Hi Peter, I'm not sure exactly what you mean by to write to/on a
 PDF. You can make pretty well any file into a PDF version by going to
 Print and then choosing PDF in the bottom left corner. You can write
 on an existing PDF file by opening it with Preview, choosing Annotate
 in the top menu, and then using the Annotate Tools which appear in the
 menu at the bottom. Maybe you want something more complicated than
 this?

 Cheers, David Noel
 2012 Jun 27

 ===

 On 27 June 2012 10:13, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote:
 And if you want yet another option, there is Skim which is free and 
 open-source. Skim has quite a few capabilities as well as PDF markup, but 
 is a bit harder to use than the other tools. Here is an article describing 
 its use:

 http://doctoralschool.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/skim-scrivener-research/

 Just thought I would give you the option.

 Regards,
 Carlo

 On 27/06/2012, at 9:42 , Severin Crisp wrote:

 I regularly use PDFpen.  It works just fine for me.
 Severin Crisp

 On 27/06/2012, at 9:20 AM, Curtis Peter wrote:

 Hi
 Can someone recommend a simple program to allow me to write to/on a PDF?
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Re: Noisy Fan

[David Noel]

Thanks to all for the useful advice!

David Noel / Jun 18

==

On 18 June 2012 11:05, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote:
 Just an additional note, there are at least two types of noisy fan problem 
 that you can distinguish by the different sounds they make. Responses below 
 related to a fan running too fast. Alternatively, there is a worn fan bearing 
 which makes a whining or scraping noise. A worn fan bearing can only be fixed 
 by replacing the fan.

 Regards,
 Carlo

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 David,

 I had a very similar problem a couple of years ago with a different model of 
 Mac.  My problem turned out to be a faulty heat sensor on the logicboard.  
 NextByte in Nedlands fixed it.  It was still under warranty at the time, so 
 I can't tell you what the cost was.

 Good luck with it.

 Bill Chesnutt.
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 Can anyone advise re a fan problem? I powered down my iMac (2 GHz
 Intel Core 2 Duo, OSX 10.6.8) this morning, and when I powered it on
 again, immediately the fan started and is quite noisy. Generally I
 can't even hear the fan.

 I powered down and up a couple of times (once with a 2-hour wait), and
 each time the fan starts up when powering up. I checked the temps with
 iStat Pro, the only setting is HD = 27 deg.

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Noisy Fan

[David Noel]

Can anyone advise re a fan problem? I powered down my iMac (2 GHz
Intel Core 2 Duo, OSX 10.6.8) this morning, and when I powered it on
again, immediately the fan started and is quite noisy. Generally I
can't even hear the fan.

I powered down and up a couple of times (once with a 2-hour wait), and
each time the fan starts up when powering up. I checked the temps with
iStat Pro, the only setting is HD = 27 deg.

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Re: Posting to mailing list soon for WAMUG members only

[David Noel]

-- Did anyone explain how to check whether a membership is currently
paid up, please?

David / Jun 7

==

On 7 June 2012 17:16, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote:
 Lol they do? :)

 Noted, no more emoticons then 8~(
 :p.    :)
 And here I thought I was always on my best behaviour.

 Kind regards
 Daniel
 (who wants to buy more hours in the day pleasedo you think Apple can work 
 on that for me please) :)


 Sent from my iPhone 4s

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 Well sometimes your emoticons do appear threatening.    ;-)




 On 7/06/12 7:47 AM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote:

 LOl,.hadn't released we'd had any cyber bullying or email rage on our 
 list,…..
 

 Kind regards
 Daniel

 Sent from my iPhone 4s

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 Hopefully this will give better control to the list and stop cyber bulling
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IQ Elite -- Is this a scam?

[David Noel]

-- I recently received an email allegedly from a friend, actually from
nore...@iqelite.com, saying:

Hello,

Aaaa B has written you a message...

You can view the message on IQ Elite, the platform for personality and
intelligence tests that are also fun! To read your message now, go to
the following link:

.

Regards,
IQ Elite Team

This message was meant for (me)@gmail.com. If you do not want to
continue receiving such mails from IQ Elite, please click on this
link: 
http://a.iqelite.com/common/unsubscribe/?code=1f8e7ea5email=(me)@gmail.com.
IQ Elite is a service by IQ Elite S.L. with main office: C/ Gran De
Gràcia 15, 2a 1a, 08012 Barcelona, Spain.

-- This link went to:

http://a.iqelite.com/en/connect/google/personality/#

-- Out of interest, I went through the various question in the 'Swiss
Personality Test', but at the end, evaluation, stage, the quiz asked
for the password to my gmail account. Alarm bells sounded, and I
pulled out. Is this a scam?

David Noel
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Escaping from hung EyeTV edit

[David Noel]

-- I use the edit function to clean up EyeTV recorded items, usually
this works fine, but occasionally it hangs for no obvious reason, and
never recovers.

-- Up till now, I've had to go to 'Force Quit'
(Command-Option-Escape), which will show Eye TV not responding', in
red, and click on 'Force Quit'. Of course you lose the edits that you
had put in, but the original recording is OK and you can again try an
edit.

-- I've found (more or less by accident) that if you open Activity
Monitor, this will also also tell you that EyeTV is not responding.
But, if you click twice on EyeTV in the Process Name list, it restores
EyeTV to life, and you haven't lost your edits!

-- Apologies to those who already knew this, it was new to me -- maybe
it will help others deal with app hangs.

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WordPress

[David Noel]

-- Hi, does anyone have experience with WordPress? I have a lot of
science articles up on the Web (at aoi.com.au, hosted on iiNet), and
it's been suggested that I could use WordPress to quickly set up
Commenting facilities for these.

-- I have no experience with WordPress. If I understand aright, using
it means accessing a module on your server, which holds WordPress
templates modified for the particular use.

-- The sort of things I would like to know, are, what are the costs
for using WordPress? You don't necessarily have to use a module on
your own server, right? Are there free hosts? (I'm thinking maybe to
have Comments pages on another server, while keeping the main articles
on the aoi domain).

Yours in blissful ignorance.

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Re: WordPress

[David Noel]

Hi Justin, thanks very much for your comments on WordPress.

I checked with my server, iiNet, they charge $160 per year to use
WordPress with them. For a trial, I will try a free page at
WordPress.com, we'll see how that works out.

All the best --

David Noel
2012 Apr 4

==

On 3 April 2012 19:44, Justin Davies m...@justindavies.com.au wrote:
 David, wordpress is terrific.

 YOu can get a site hosted by wordpress at wordpress.com or arrange your own 
 on your own hosting by downloading the software at wordpress.org. There are 
 many hosting sites.

 You can also talk to Glenn Nicholas at OM4 who provides wordpress hosting, a 
 regular contributor to this forum and that allows you to focus on the content 
 rather than the technology...

 Best regards



 Justin Davies




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 -- Hi, does anyone have experience with WordPress? I have a lot of
 science articles up on the Web (at aoi.com.au, hosted on iiNet), and
 it's been suggested that I could use WordPress to quickly set up
 Commenting facilities for these.

 -- I have no experience with WordPress. If I understand aright, using
 it means accessing a module on your server, which holds WordPress
 templates modified for the particular use.

 -- The sort of things I would like to know, are, what are the costs
 for using WordPress? You don't necessarily have to use a module on
 your own server, right? Are there free hosts? (I'm thinking maybe to
 have Comments pages on another server, while keeping the main articles
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Re: FW: Scale of the Universe.... COOOLLL!

[David Noel]

-- And clicking on an object brings up more about it.

David Noel / Mar 28

=

On 28 March 2012 11:43, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote:
 OK, so I know it¹s off-topic ­ but it IS a really great web page - probably
 best viewed on a 27² iMac ­ there, I mentioned a Mac ;o)

 Be sure to use the slider to zoom in and out ­ from the Plank Length and
 quantum foam to the Hubble Deep Field and the limits of the observable
 universe.


 The Scale of the Universe

 Zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime and learn
 the scale of things along the way!

 http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white
 http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white



 Enjoy


 Cheers



 Neil
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Re: found iphone 4

[David Noel]

-- I'd like to see the Insurance Company named, only then will
public/customer opinion have any effect.

David / Mar 12



On 12 March 2012 08:26, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Peter,

 Where the policy says in control of the phone is the implication that 
 someone must snatch the phone from your daughter's hand or from in front of 
 her if she is sitting at a cafe? That seems to be covering an extremely rare 
 contingency.

 Cheers,
 Carlo

 On 12/03/2012, at 8:05 , Peter Hinchliffe wrote:


 On 10/03/2012, at 12:57 PM, Roger Kortas wrote:

 Well so far.

 I have phoned Apple
 Phoned Optus
 Driven to the Wembley Police station and found its closed and only open 
 Monday to Friday
 Phoned the police and was told please take it to a police station!

 So see what I mean thats a few hours already for being honest and still 
 have to try and find time to get to an open police station

 If it was mine it would be insured and also have my contact number on the 
 login screen.

 Roger


 Don't waste your money on insurance if you think it will protect you against 
 theft. My daughter's iPhone 4s was stolen along with her handbag at a public 
 swimming pool a few weeks ago. She had taken the precaution of insuring 
 it, but upon making a claim she was told she was not covered because (and I 
 quote) she was not in control of the phone at the time it was stolen. 
 Apparently this was somewhere buried deep within the fine print…

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Changing video dimensions with Toast

[David Noel]

-- Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has advice about handling non-720x576
EyeTV video items when burning to disc with Toast.

-- Standard items broadcast from all the local TV stations are at
720x576 pixels. These can be recorded with EyeTV and burnt to DVD
quickly and routinely using Toast. I prefer to have everything on disc
at 720x576 because then the disc can be played on any Australian DVD
player.

-- Some broadcast items are HD, High Density, at 1440x810 pixels. If I
need a copy of these, at the moment I use the Export facility in EyeTV
to convert them to PAL 720 x 576 4:3 QuickTime movies, writing them to
a folder. Then I use Toast to write them to a disc image on my hard
disc, and after checking the disc image plays OK, I burn this to a
blank DVD.

-- This procedure usually works OK, but there are problems. First,
each conversion stage, to or from a QuickTime movie, takes a long time
(hours). I am wondering if there is a quicker way to resize these HD
items. Second, in the conversion to QT, there is usually some
distortion of the movie clip, with scenes pixellated, sometimes the
sound track gets out of phase with the video. Sometimes the corruption
is bad enough so that the later disc image stops halfway or will not
play. Sometimes Toast reports that it has copied a clip correctly, but
on playing the clip, it stops after 10 or 20 minutes as if it has
found the end marker, rather than showing the 60 or 90 minutes of the
original. Sometimes, not always, the pixellation and false end can be
reduced by again re-editing the original with EyeTV and again
compressing to a QT movie.

-- I'm just feeling my way and don't necessarily understand what is
happening, so if there are ways to cut out or shorten the conversion
stages I'd be grateful for suggestions. Or for reducing the corruption
on compression to 720x576.

-- Some broadcast items are at a third size, 720 x 404 pixels. These
can often be written to a disc image together with normal 720x576
items directly, but sometimes this doesn't work. Then I need to
convert to a PAL 720 x 576 4:3 QuickTime movie as for HD, a very slow
process. Any comments very welcome.

Cheers --

David Noel

2012 Feb 14
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Re: Safari will not allow Mac to turn off

[David Noel]

-- Another great tip, Ronni, to use Activity Monitor for a force quit.
I was able to use it to get of an unwanted application (Nokia
Multimedia) which wasn't a real problem, but didn't work

David / Feb 8

==

On 8 February 2012 11:11, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:
 Hi Peta,

 I found time to read your email again … I was doing too many things at once 
 when I first quickly replied to you :-)
 You mention they tried to ‘Force Quit’ Safari, but did they try Force Quit 
 from the Apple Menu?

 Try force quit from under the Apple menu (Apple icon)

 If that doesn't work:

 1. Open the  Activity Monitor  /Applications/Utilities

 2. Select ‘My Processes’ from the pop up menu on the right.

 3. Then click on ‘Process Name’ (so everything stays still so you can select 
 a process)

 4. Select Safari.

 5. Click the Red Force Quit button.

 Does Safari Quit?
 See if they can now correctly shut down the Mac … Apple Menu  Shut Down.
 I don’t want them turning the Mac off from the switch at the back.

 Cheers,
 Ronni

 On 08/02/2012, at 10:34 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:

 Hi Peta,

 Was he running Windows in …Parallels?
 If so did he quit Safari while in Windows / Parallels an then shut down 
 Windows?

 Cheers,
 Ronni

 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt
 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD

 OS X 10.7.3 Lion
 Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)


 On 08/02/2012, at 10:25 AM, peta wrote:




 Good Morning

 I have just had a phone call from my daughter regarding a message on her 
 Mac.

 Her son had been working on homework on a Windows application and using 
 Safari.

 All of the Windows applications are closed, no light showing underneath 
 them on the dashboard.  The only lights on the Dashboard are below Finder, 
 as normal, and under Safari.

 However, they cannot Quit/Exit Safari, it will not allow them to do this 
 and the Quit/Exit option is not highlighted.

 They have tried Force Quit with no luck at all.  When they try to turn the 
 Mac off from the switch at the back, they get a message something like 
 Safari will not allow the Mac to close.

 They now have to leave to go to school and work, and were just going to 
 try and put the Mac to sleep.  I don't know if they were able to do this.

 Does anyone have any advice that I can pass on to them?

 Many thanks in anticipation,

 Peta


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Re: Scan Failure Canon MP 600

[David Noel]

-- That's a very useful tip, Peter, scanning from Preview!

David Noel
2012 Jan 30

==

On 30 January 2012 08:22, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote:

 On 29/01/2012, at 8:40 PM, Jennifer Lefroy wrote:

 Hello Everyone,
 Today attempts to scan just result in the message scan failed.  I am
 using Mac OS X 10.6.8, operating on Snow Leopard.  The printer is Canon
 Pixma 600 and I have tried both Canon Utilities MP Navigator and using the
 dial on the printer. I have updated the scan drivers today.  I am pretty
 sure we have used it successfully since updating to Snow Leopard.

 Looking on the internet, most of the information I found was too old or too
 technical for me to follow.

 Does anyone have any suggestions, please?



 Try scanning from Preview: launch Preview, and choose File : Import from 
 Scanner. Do you see the MP 600 listed as a choice? If so, choose it, which 
 will cause the built-in Image Capture app to start. Click the Show Details 
 button and the scanner should start. If that works, try scanning with your 
 Canon software under a different user account. Have tried the classic first 
 step - close down, leave for at least 30 seconds , reboot, and try again?



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Re: TV antennas

[David Noel]

Hi Mac, just a general point, if you now only use a digital TV, of
course you will not need one of the old-style antennas with wide bars
-- as far as I know, they are only needed for analogue TV.

David Noel
2011 Dec2

===

On 2 December 2011 08:49, McCallum Malcolm doc...@westnet.com.au wrote:
 We are just about to get TV Antenna put up on our new house :-) Is there any 
 points to consider or any particular suggestions from the group? TIA for any. 
 Can hardly wait to get in (14th Dec) :-) We are in Woodlands




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Re: TV antennas

[David Noel]

OK, I stand corrected. But I was not suggesting that a poorer antenna
was as good, only that the wide bars on the old antennas were not
needed -- I was under the impression that the bar lengths were a
reflection of the signal wavelengths to be collected, and that if you
were using only digital TV (broadcast on higher frequency, shorter
wavelength) and no longer needed analogue (longer wavelength), you did
not still need a wide-bar antenna. But I'm pretty ignorant in this
area, I only wanted to comment that a user should check if they still
needed analogue (some parts of WA are still without a digital signal).

Cheers --

David Noel

==

On 2 December 2011 14:28, James / Hans Kunz sad...@iinet.net.au wrote:
 sorry to interfere here:
 Hi Mac, just a general point, if you now only use a digital TV, of

 course you will not need one of the old-style antennas with wide bars
 -- as far as I know, they are only needed for analogue TV.

 this statement is wrond!
 you need a better antenna then for analog quite often with booster, reason:
 1) less power on transmitter
 2) digital tv is more sensitive to interferences
 3) digital tv is within the same frequency range as the old analog (180 to 
 700 mhz)

 i normally suggest the second or largest antenna, in many cases in the metro 
 the houses are on a down hill side pointing to the beach thus less 
 reception.. your antenna should point toward kalamunda  morley areas,
 eg in the Girrawheen area i had to fit the largest available antenna (vhf  
 uhf combo) plus a 30db booster, since that installation the customer has now 
 perfact dtv reception on 3 tvs in the house

 if you move house then check if there is a optical cable connection, you may 
 have dtv on that one.
 in the Clarkson area i found a dtv connection within the optical box for the 
 phone  internet, the signal was strong enough to feed 3 tvs through a passiv 
 4way splitter

 James

 SAD Technic
 U3 6 Chalkley Pl
 Bayswater WA
 Australia
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 mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132)
 sad...@iinet.net.au
 http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~saddas/

 Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties 
 disappear and obstacles vanish.

 On 02/12/2011, at 9:07 AM, McCallum Malcolm wrote:

 Thanks David.


 Malcolm McCallum

 doc...@westnet.com.au
 Skype docmactor



 On 02/12/2011, at 8:55 AM, David Noel wrote:

 Hi Mac, just a general point, if you now only use a digital TV, of
 course you will not need one of the old-style antennas with wide bars
 -- as far as I know, they are only needed for analogue TV.

 David Noel
 2011 Dec2

 ===

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 We are just about to get TV Antenna put up on our new house :-) Is there 
 any points to consider or any particular suggestions from the group? TIA 
 for any. Can hardly wait to get in (14th Dec) :-) We are in Woodlands




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Re: 27 iMac Screen going black but not sleeping

[David Noel]

-- I hesitate to mention this, but it isn't just the Energy Saver settings?

David Noel // 2011 Nov 30



On 30 November 2011 12:45, S Beach sbscr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Thanks Carlo

 I'll get him to give the Apple store a call.

 Good point re firmware. I'll check that too.

 Regards

 Shayne Beach


 On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:36 PM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Shayne,

 As far as the original receipt is concerned I believe your friend will be
 OK. I have actually had a piece of hardware replaced at the Apple Store and
 they didn't even ask to see the receipt. Using the serial number, their
 computer records showed that the item was registered to me. I don't know if
 this is standard policy or a one-off polite Apple rep., but your friend
 could give the store a call and check.

 As for the black screen, I seem to remember that there was some discontent
 surrounding the iMac display some years back. I don't recall the details of
 the problem but I believe Apple issued a firmware fix. Does your friend
 have the latest firmware?

 Cheers,
 Carlo

 On 30/11/2011, at 12:12 , S Beach wrote:

  Hi All
 
  A fiend of mine has a problem with a 27 iMac (bought early 2009).
  Occasionally the screen goes black but everything seems to keep going in
  the background (music keeps playing etc).
  If he turns it off (using the power button) it restarts OK then the
 screen
  goes black again. If he turns off and leaves it for a while it starts OK
 
  doesn't go black for a while.
  I suspect it is a heat problem with either the screen itself or the
  qraphics card. I have seen some discussion on various websites (including
  the apple support forums) of heat problems with these iMacs but the
  symptoms don't seem quite the same.
  I noticed what I assume is a slotted vent hole on the back of the iMac
  (lower centre) with a bit of dust around it but as it is obscured by the
  stand I couldn't get a proper look at it.
 
  Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of:
 
    1. iMacs showing similar symptoms and the likely cause - is this a
 known
    issue
    2. How to check for, and clean out dust
    I often have to clean dust out of various computers (including my Mac
    Pro) by blowing or vacuuming but it is best to determine where the
 dust is
    built up so you draw the dust out of the build up rather than forcing
 it
    further in. And of course these iMacs are not easy to get into.
 
  It is still under apple care (just) and he is hoping to make use of that
  but is not yet sure if he can find the original receipt.
 
  Regards
 
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Fwd: Alert (Scam???)

[David Noel]

Hi All --

-- The following is, I suspect, a scam (eg first sentence has 2
'detected's, no 'google' in address. Has anyone else had one?

Cheers --

David Noel
2011 Oct 24

==


-- Forwarded message --
From: Gmail Team google-upd...@donotreply.com
Date: 24 October 2011 04:28
Subject: Alert
To: david.n...@gmail.com


Dear Email Client, We detected an unsuccessful login attempt from an
unfamiliar location was detected in your account. For the security of
your account, kindly verify your account below
Verify Account
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Extracting only some images from .toast file?

[David Noel]

Hi All --

-- If I've made an image of, say, 6 episodes of a program with Toast (info
says DVD/CD-R Master Image), by using Write To Disk Image under Video, can I
extract only some of those episodes and write them to a new disk image?
Advice gratefully received.

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Booking.com scam

[David Noel]

-- In case WAMUG members haven't come across this scam, today I
received some false invoices for purported hotel bookings in Morocco,
which I hadn't ordered. I googled Booking.com and scam, apparently
they are pretty active. Here's one reference which has a list of their
nefarious activities:

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/scam-c347501.html

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Re: Filemaker activation

[David Noel]

-- Severin, do you really have worldly gods? Surely they would be
out-worldly?

David / Aug 3



On 3 August 2011 01:16, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote:


 On 02/08/2011, at 4:35 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:

 I  have Filemaker Pro9 which I have imported with all the rest of my
 computer worldly gods from my G5 (now erased) into my iMac.  On trying to
 open Filemaker it goes off and checks activation then, after a long time,
 comes up with general activation error 50040.  I did not deactivate it
 first (as I did with Photoshop!) and wonder what the next step is.  Phone
 support in Sydney have packed up for the night itv seems.
 Severin Crisp



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Reluctant cursor

[David Noel]

Hi all --

-- For some months now I've had a minor annoyance with the cursor not
appearing when I click on a point in some existing text. If I then
type a character, the cursor appears after the typed character, and
stays in position until I click somewhere else in the text.

-- This seems to happen anywhere in the system where I'm looking at
existing text. I thought the cause would eventually become apparent,
but so far, no. Can anyone help solve this annoyance?

Cheers --

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Re: Reluctant cursor

[David Noel]

Hi Ronnie --

-- Spot on as usual, that seems to have fixed it. I thought I had
repaired permissions (for other reasons) a few times recently, but not
to fix the cursor. Possibly it's something that intrudes itself from
time to time, and I don't notice it until it does. Whatever, thanks
again, I now know what to do!

David / Jul 27

==

On 27 July 2011 12:04, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:

 Hi David,

 Have you done a 'Repair Permissions’?

 Cheers,
 Ronni

 On 27/07/2011, at 11:55 AM, David Noel wrote:


 Hi all --

 -- For some months now I've had a minor annoyance with the cursor not
 appearing when I click on a point in some existing text. If I then
 type a character, the cursor appears after the typed character, and
 stays in position until I click somewhere else in the text.

 -- This seems to happen anywhere in the system where I'm looking at
 existing text. I thought the cause would eventually become apparent,
 but so far, no. Can anyone help solve this annoyance?

 Cheers --

 David Noel
 2011 Jul 27


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Re: DVD

[David Noel]

-- Juliet, you will find this tip (recommended to me by another WAMUG
member) very useful:

-- After you have selected 'Video' in Toast, and dragged over one or
more items to be burnt, click on 'Save As Disc Image' on the bottom
right, and let the disc image (extension .toast) be written to your
selected folder (mine is called Toast Images).

-- Make sure you have an disc-image-reading app called VLC installed
(free download). Open VLC and choose the .toast file, it should play
the converted item. If there are any problems with the image file,
work on the original recording with the EyeTV editor till it reads
correctly (ads etc stripped out).

-- When you are happy with the image file, open Toast again and choose
Copy. Drag the image file over to the Toast panel, insert a blank DVD,
and click on the red burn button on the bottom right. You may first
need to close a menu panel which comes up showing the items to be
burnt.

-- With this approach, you will hardly ever burn a dud DVD. Also, with
this setup, Toast will automatically compress movies etc, so you can
get about 4 hours of play from multiple items on the DVD. When you
have the image over in Toast Copy mode, you can click on 'Options' to
check the quality after any compression. Hope this helps!

David Noel
2011 Jul 24



On 23 July 2011 10:45, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:


 On 23/07/2011, at 10:26 AM, Juliet Kitson wrote:


 Hello all
 I am a recent convert to mac stil got my pc as I still have a few teething 
 probs with my wife's Imac. My problem is I recorded with eyetv recorded to a 
 dvd with toast 10 but the dvd will not play on the mac or the standard dvd 
 player but will play dare I say it on my pc note book any suggestions.
 Bill Grey nomad at present in Wagin”

 Hi Bill  Juliet,

 Welcome to the Mac world ;-) What version of OS are you running OS X 10.6.8 
 Snow Leopard or OS X 10.5.8 Leopard?
 Did you burn the DVD using the instructions below?

 Toast has a built in Media Browser.
 Select Media -EyeTV, and drag items from the listing of EyeTV
 recordings to Toast.

 To burn a disc from within EyeTV, using Toast:
 1.  Open the EyeTV Programs window, choose the Recordings section, and select 
 the video
 recording you wish to archive by clicking on it once to highlight it.

 2.  Drag it from the Recordings section of the EyeTV Programs window, to 
 Toast’s Video section.
 Then,select what format you want to use (VCD, SVCD,DVD) in Toast.

 You can also highlight the recording, and then press the Toast button at the 
 top of the Programs window, or choose for Toast via the Export command.

 Also, did you BURN the DVD at a slow speed 4X ?
 Can you play other DVDs on the iMac?


 Cheers,
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Excess drop-down menus

[David Noel]

Hi All --

-- My sister-in-law asked me to look at a problem on her fairly new
iMac, and although I was able to sort something out, use of the iMac
was greatly hindered by unwanted appearance of drop-down menus. For
example, trying to log into gmail, if you clicked on the box for
username, up would come a drop-down menu starting with Copy / Edit /
Paste. Clicking anywhere on a page in most applications also would
bring up these menus.

-- Mostly the menu would disappear on typing Return, and usually the
box could then be typed into. Sometimes, though, clicking on a blank
box would not select it. I tried to run Repair Permissions on her
machine, but although I could select her main drive, I was unable to
select the RP option.

-- Has anyone any ideas on this? The iMac does have a wireless
keyboard (which I'm unfamiliar with), but can't think that this would
be relevant. I couldn't find anything useful on Apple Help regarding
menus. TIA.

David Noel
2011 Jun 28



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Re: Excess drop-down menus

[David Noel]

-- Thanks all, the problem has gone away, so it looks as if Carlo's
suggestion of a temporarily sticking Control key is likely the answer.

Cheers --

David /Jun 29

=

On 28 June 2011 17:38, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi David,

 That sounds as though it has everything to do with the keyboard. Rather than 
 a standard mouse click, you seem to be getting a Control mouse click. Try a 
 different keyboard temporarily to see if things change. If the problem goes 
 away it could be a stuck key or a hardware issue.

 Cheers,
 Carlo

 On 2011-06-28, at 17:19, David Noel wrote:


 Hi All --

 -- My sister-in-law asked me to look at a problem on her fairly new
 iMac, and although I was able to sort something out, use of the iMac
 was greatly hindered by unwanted appearance of drop-down menus. For
 example, trying to log into gmail, if you clicked on the box for
 username, up would come a drop-down menu starting with Copy / Edit /
 Paste. Clicking anywhere on a page in most applications also would
 bring up these menus.

 -- Mostly the menu would disappear on typing Return, and usually the
 box could then be typed into. Sometimes, though, clicking on a blank
 box would not select it. I tried to run Repair Permissions on her
 machine, but although I could select her main drive, I was unable to
 select the RP option.

 -- Has anyone any ideas on this? The iMac does have a wireless
 keyboard (which I'm unfamiliar with), but can't think that this would
 be relevant. I couldn't find anything useful on Apple Help regarding
 menus. TIA.

 David Noel
 2011 Jun 28




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Re: Preparation for LION

[David Noel]

-- An amusing little ditty I saw years ago about Backups:

Yesterday
All my backups were a waste of pay
Now my database has gone away...
I remember
Yesterday

(for the tune, see the Beatles' number 'Yesterday').

David Noel
2011 Jun 26

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On 26 June 2011 10:13, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:


 On 25/06/2011, at 12:54 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:



 On 24/06/2011, at 9:26 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:

 Hi Daniel  Peter,

 Excellent posts!

 I’m tossing up whether to Install Lion on an external firewire drive  (as 
 Daniel is aware, I have heaps of spare drives ;-), OR “Install  Dual-Boot 
 OS X 10.7 Lion  OS X 10.6.7 on my MBP? This way I would have TWO separate 
 installations of Mac OS X,  (Lion  Snow Leopard) on my MBP  can boot into 
 Lion for testing purposes.
 If I find I don’t want to keep Lion, I can uninstall it without having to 
 do a system restore from a Snow Leopard backup.
 i.e Create a 20GB partition for Mac OS X Lion (after of course BACKING UP 
 my current Snow Leopard system).

 I would then still use Snow Leopard as my primary daily working system, but 
 boot into Lion for testing.

 I will give this a lot more thought before I decide which way to go.
 But I  would be very interested in your comments on which way I should go 
 (watch it Daniel … if you suggest “where I should go, instead of which :-)

 Cheers,
 Ronni

 One of the best investments I have ever made was the little NewerTech 
 Voyager hard drive dock which I bought from Daniel. This brilliant little 
 device allows me to have a virtually unlimited number of hard drives at my 
 disposal. The Voyager has a couple of Firewire 800 ports, in addition to a 
 Firewire 400 and a USB 2 port (with an eSATA port to boot), so I always have 
 access to the fastest backup technology available.

 Shortly after taking delivery of my nice shiny new 27 i5 iMac last week, 
 the first thing I did was to take myself off to Austin Computers and pick a 
 couple of new bare 1Tb hard drives for about $65 each. One of these is for 
 my constant Time Machine backup, and the other is for a weekly clone using 
 Carbon Copy Cloner. All I have to do is remember to pop out the Time Machine 
 drive each Saturday night and drop in the clone drive, ready for the 
 scheduled clone which will happen on Sunday morning at 9:00am.

 The point of all this is that upon the release of Lion, it will be an 
 extremely simple process to get another drive purely for the purpose of 
 testing Lion on a fresh clone of my hard drive AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE, and 
 not have to worry about upsetting any current apple carts.

 Thanks Peter for your comments, I appreciate you taking the time.

 I’m leaning towards a completely separate drive to test Lion on ( I have 
 plenty of spare external FW Drives ;-).
 The only reason I was going to install it on a separate partition on my MBP 
 was to save having to carry another drive in my computer bag if clients ask 
 to see a demo of Lion.
 My computer bag already has extra drives in it to backup computers before I 
 work on them (people that don’t heed my warning “BACKUP BACKUP”!)

 Thanks again.

 Cheers,
 Ronni

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Re: RipIt

[David Noel]

-- Thanks everybody for the advice.

David
Jun 20



On 20 June 2011 07:59, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote:


 On 17/06/2011, at 1:12 PM, David Noel wrote:


 There is a promo for RipIt available from MacUpdate today --

 RipIt 1.5.5 for $9.99 - 50% off 

 Has anyone any comments on this?


 I bought RipIt as part of a bundle at one time. I've only used it once, but 
 it worked very well. I ended up with a 1 to 1 copy of the original Music DVD 
 I copied, complete with menus and features. Handbrake would have given me the 
 video component, but not a faithful copy of the DVD.

 Peter Hinchliffe        Apwin Computer Services
 FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
 Perth, Western Australia
 Phone (618) 9332 6482    Mob 0403 046 948
 
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RipIt

[David Noel]

There is a promo for RipIt available from MacUpdate today --

RipIt 1.5.5 for $9.99 - 50% off 

Has anyone any comments on this?

Cheers

David Noel
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Re: Stubborn Sidebar Places

[David Noel]

Hi Ray --

-- Try holding down Control and clicking and holding the mouse down on the
item you want to remove. A menu opens up, slide down to 'Remove from
Sidebar' and release the mouse, the item should disappear.

Cheers --

David Noel
2011 May 1

==

On 1 May 2011 12:53, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:



 On 01/05/2011, at 11:46 AM, Ray Forma wrote:

 
  A friend has a MacBookPro3,1 (Core 2 Duo 2.2Ghz), 2GB SDRAM, MacOS
 10.5.8.
 
  When I open a Finder window the window's Sidebar lists two 'burn' items
 in the 'Places' section. The item names are Untitled CD 4 and Untitled
 CD, and both have the yellow and black circular 'burn' icon after their
 name.
 
  When I click on either item I get a message that 'The volume for
 Untitled 4.fpbf cannot be found'.
 
  When I click on the 'burn' icon behind the item's name the computer asks
 for a blank CD, and then burns that CD. I end up with a CD that has no files
 on it.
 
  Neither item allows me to drag it out of the Sidebar.
 
  A Finder File Find finds neither item as a visible or invisible file.
 
  A Directory rebuild with DiskWarrior 4.3 found lots of problems that were
 fixed, but the problem items remain.
 
  A 'Repair Disk Permissions' also has no effect.
 
  Any suggestions about how can I get rid of these two items? Is there a
 plist I could try deleting?

 Hi Ray,

 Try a “click and hold” (that is press but DO NOT RELEASE the mouth button),
 and then drag the offending folder icon out of the Sidebar to the Desktop,
 and release the mouse button. The item should then go “poof” and be gone.

 If that doesn’t work you can delete the Sidebar preference plist to return
 it to the default state. Remove this file:

 /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

 Then log out and back in, restart, or relaunch the Finder.

 Cheers,
 Ronni

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 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD

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Re: Sidebar 'Places' empty, can't add items

[David Noel]

-- Thanks for the suggestion, Ronni, I did it all, but problem still there.

-- I tried dragging a folder over into Places, it didn't go in, as before.
The system had made a new 'com.apple.sidebarlists.plist' file, this did show
that the folder had been tried.

-- I tried opening a file in Appleworks and doing a Save As, this did offer
the dragged-in folder under 'Places', but it didn't show under the Finder
sidebar still.

-- Can you think of anything else to try? I can send you
the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist file if that would help. Anyway, thanks
very much for the suggestions.

Cheers --

David / Apr 25

===

On 25 April 2011 12:33, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:



 On 25/04/2011, at 12:01 PM, David Noel wrote:

  -- Hi, can anyone point me to the answer to the following problem, which
 has me baffled?
 
  -- In the 'Places' section of the Finder sidebar, I had maybe 15 items,
 suddenly they have all disappeared. Under 'Finder Preferences' in 'Places' I
 have 4 items ticked (Desktop, Applications, etc), but they don't show up on
 the sidebar. If I try to drag a folder into places, it briefly shows a blue
 line, but the folder doesn't insert. Under the Finder top menu, File, 'Add
 to Sidebar' is greyed out. So I'm stuck.
 
  -- I'm running 10.6.7 with a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.

 Hi David,

 Drag this preference file to the Trash.
 Restart your Mac

  /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

 Then set your Finder Preferences.

 Cheers,
 Ronni

 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7
 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD

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Re: Sidebar 'Places' empty, can't add items

[David Noel]

Dohhh!

On 25 April 2011 16:35, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:

 Hmmm David,

 Normally deleting the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist and restarting your Mac
 corrects the problem.

 Have you tried deleting both your User Finder preferences and User Sidebar
 preferences
 com.apple.finder.plist and
 com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

 Empty the Trash
 Restart you Mac

 Also have you repaired permissions lately. Wouldn’t hurt to do it anyway.

 Remember to drag and drop, not onto an icon, but into a
 space between icons.

 Silly question … but you do have the arrow next to ‘PLACES’ open?

 Cheers,
 Ronni

 On 25/04/2011, at 3:07 PM, David Noel wrote:

 -- Thanks for the suggestion, Ronni, I did it all, but problem still there.

 -- I tried dragging a folder over into Places, it didn't go in, as before.
 The system had made a new 'com.apple.sidebarlists.plist' file, this did show
 that the folder had been tried.

 -- I tried opening a file in Appleworks and doing a Save As, this did offer
 the dragged-in folder under 'Places', but it didn't show under the Finder
 sidebar still.

 -- Can you think of anything else to try? I can send you
 the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist file if that would help. Anyway, thanks
 very much for the suggestions.

 Cheers --

 David / Apr 25

 ===

 On 25 April 2011 12:33, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:



 On 25/04/2011, at 12:01 PM, David Noel wrote:

  -- Hi, can anyone point me to the answer to the following problem, which
 has me baffled?
 
  -- In the 'Places' section of the Finder sidebar, I had maybe 15 items,
 suddenly they have all disappeared. Under 'Finder Preferences' in 'Places' I
 have 4 items ticked (Desktop, Applications, etc), but they don't show up on
 the sidebar. If I try to drag a folder into places, it briefly shows a blue
 line, but the folder doesn't insert. Under the Finder top menu, File, 'Add
 to Sidebar' is greyed out. So I'm stuck.
 
  -- I'm running 10.6.7 with a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.

 Hi David,

 Drag this preference file to the Trash.
 Restart your Mac

  /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

 Then set your Finder Preferences.

 Cheers,
 Ronni

 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7
 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD

 OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard
 Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)




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Fwd: Sidebar 'Places' empty, can't add items

[David Noel]

Dohhh! ... It was the arrow... (creeps away in shame).

David / Apr 26

=

On 25 April 2011 16:35, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:

 Hmmm David,

 Normally deleting the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist and restarting your Mac
 corrects the problem.

 Have you tried deleting both your User Finder preferences and User Sidebar
 preferences
 com.apple.finder.plist and
 com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

 Empty the Trash
 Restart you Mac

 Also have you repaired permissions lately. Wouldn’t hurt to do it anyway.

 Remember to drag and drop, not onto an icon, but into a
 space between icons.

 Silly question … but you do have the arrow next to ‘PLACES’ open?

 Cheers,
 Ronni

 On 25/04/2011, at 3:07 PM, David Noel wrote:

 -- Thanks for the suggestion, Ronni, I did it all, but problem still there.

 -- I tried dragging a folder over into Places, it didn't go in, as before.
 The system had made a new 'com.apple.sidebarlists.plist' file, this did show
 that the folder had been tried.

 -- I tried opening a file in Appleworks and doing a Save As, this did offer
 the dragged-in folder under 'Places', but it didn't show under the Finder
 sidebar still.

 -- Can you think of anything else to try? I can send you
 the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist file if that would help. Anyway, thanks
 very much for the suggestions.

 Cheers --

 David / Apr 25

 ===

 On 25 April 2011 12:33, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:



 On 25/04/2011, at 12:01 PM, David Noel wrote:

  -- Hi, can anyone point me to the answer to the following problem, which
 has me baffled?
 
  -- In the 'Places' section of the Finder sidebar, I had maybe 15 items,
 suddenly they have all disappeared. Under 'Finder Preferences' in 'Places' I
 have 4 items ticked (Desktop, Applications, etc), but they don't show up on
 the sidebar. If I try to drag a folder into places, it briefly shows a blue
 line, but the folder doesn't insert. Under the Finder top menu, File, 'Add
 to Sidebar' is greyed out. So I'm stuck.
 
  -- I'm running 10.6.7 with a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.

 Hi David,

 Drag this preference file to the Trash.
 Restart your Mac

  /Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

 Then set your Finder Preferences.

 Cheers,
 Ronni

 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7
 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD

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Possible scam -- Fwd: MAIL ABUSE 157387292

[David Noel]

Hi All, the attached (one of several) looks like a scam, though I haven't
opened it. Any advice?

Cheers --

David Noel
2011 Apr 26

==

-- Forwarded message --
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Date: 26 April 2011 10:19
Subject: MAIL ABUSE 157387292
To:


 Dear Mail User,
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