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I apologise again for the delay in getting back to WAMUG to let you know how this matter was going. All is now sorted out satisfactorily - very strangely, after a recent iTunes update, my ghosting problems sorted themselves out in the Mac, iPhone and iPad. It is a bit hard to understand exactly what the update has done, but I spent some time yesterday running through each device to see what was still ghosted out, and it definitely has changed in some way. Sometimes now a song may be shown twice in a row, or duplicated, and one of these now appears as ghosted out. I did not give any directions to the Mac to do this. Now I can also see a lot of older music, sometimes music I have put on the Mac from my own CD's, has also been treated in the same way. I will not ask any questions, I am just happy that I did not need to do anything further, and that I can listen to all of the songs that I have input or bought! Thanks for all the advice, Peta On 17/01/2013, at 6:45 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, Just to bring me 'up to speed', what your current situation is now with the Ghosted Tracks. You said below: On my Mac the ghosted songs are no longer ghosted, however they are still appearing ghosted out on my iPad and do not play. So all purchased tracks are showing and playing corrected in iTunes Library on your Mac. But 7 tracks are still showing ghosted and won't play on your iPad. 1. Plug your iPad into itunes. 2. When iTunes opens, go to your music library (thats where the ghostedsongs will play). Find the 7 songs that are ghosted (greyed out). 3. Right-Click (Control-Click) on a (ghosted) song and then click on Create AAC version. This makes a modified version of the song. 4. When the duplicate AAC is made, delete the original song (the one that wont play on your device). 5. Repeat with all your 7 greyed out songs, but make sure you are doing this in your music library. You will notice your duplicates added to your recently added playlist also. 6. When you are done duplicating the 7 songs ( deleting the 7 originals), go to your iPad via iTunes and Sync your music with your iTunes library music. 7. Once sync is completed, your greyed out songs should be no more and should play on your device. Let me know how you get on please. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 12/01/2013, at 4:12 PM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Hi Ronni Well I left the Mac and iPad alone for more than 24 hours - both turned on - no change on the iPad, the 7 songs still ghosted out. I will leave for the moment, I would imagine that my fiddling around has probably interfered with some of the settings Daniel had put in place last year, or possibly something else has corrupted or altered some settings. So, unless anyone has a brain storm, or if this has happened to someone else, just those 7 songs is not that vital overall. Many thanks for your advice anyway, Peta On 11/01/2013, at 2:57 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, It does take time for the music to stream from your iTunes Library on your Mac to the Cloud and then to your iPad. DON'T turn either off, you need both ON and your iTunes Library open on your Mac. Have you tried my second solution below? If that does not fix the problem: ON your iPad: etc It will take quite some time for the playlists from your Mac's iTunes Library to appear again on your iPad, so give it plenty of time... wait until they all appear :-) Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 11/01/2013, at 2:42 PM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Hullo Ronni I worked my way through the iPad, logging out and back in, setting up a new ID and password, i.e. the same as I had set up for my big Mac. At this stage no change, the 7 particular songs are still ghosted out. I will turn the big Mac and the iPad completely off and come back to them later - I will let you know what happens. Many thanks, Peta On 11/01/2013, at 7:48 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, As Daniel has mentioned make sure you are using the same Apple ID and Password on your Mac and all your devices (iPhone/iPad) somehow you have used a different ID on one of your devices, which now sounds like the iPad if the Mac is showing the purchased tunes correctly. On your iPad ... Log out and log back in with your Apple ID password you used on your Mac. Settings iTunes App Stores - then click the Apple ID - then Sign Out and then Sign back in with the correct ID Password. If that does not fix the problem: ON your iPad: 1. Turn OFF iTunes Match, then turn it back on (you will get a warning that this would replace the music library on this device, hit enable). 2. Wait a few seconds, and the greyed out songs and playlists will disappear and a bit later all the playlists from your Mac iTunes Library should appear again. Let us know how you get
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Ken, I don't know if this will help you. I have had the same problem occasionally when making slideshows. This seems to occur if I have a large file, the system doesn't want to accept any more photos. What I have done is just start again, and the second time seems to work a bit better - when I do this I make the whole slideshow in one sitting though. (Obviously important to give the second slideshow a different name, and then to delete the first/incorrect slideshow when you have it all working). Hopefully this will help you, Peta On 01/03/2013, at 12:41 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: Hi folks, I am trying to do a Slideshow for my brother in laws funeral IPhoto crashes (ball of death) when I try to add anything to the Slideshopw folder. This is SO So important as the funeral is next week. Can anyone help me quickly please? Have repaired permissions etc I noticed when I tried to delete the Apple.com.iphoto.plist that it is not there in preferences?? Help please? Thanks ^ regards to all, Ken -- Ken Jackson [image: logo] Tel: 08 9376 1680 | Mobile: 0450 400 772 kenjackson7...@gmail.com | www.littleriverstudios.com.au Get a signature like this: http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing?promo=29dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisestamp.com%2Femail-install%3Futm_source%3Dextension%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dpromo_29 Click here!http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing?promo=29dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisestamp.com%2Femail-install%3Futm_source%3Dextension%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dpromo_29 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130301/3c2a4c05/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: ghosted iTunes music -- in a group
Hi Ronni Sorry, I have been busy with outside commitments and not using the Mac, so have not been reading emails or having time to spend in my office. Thank you for following through Ronni, I will give this a go over the weekend and hopefully get it all back to how it was and should be. I will definitely let you know. Take that break you keep promising yourself Ronni! Have a good weekend, it is gorgeous outside at the moment, Peta On 17/01/2013, at 6:45 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, Just to bring me 'up to speed', what your current situation is now with the Ghosted Tracks. You said below: On my Mac the ghosted songs are no longer ghosted, however they are still appearing ghosted out on my iPad and do not play. So all purchased tracks are showing and playing corrected in iTunes Library on your Mac. But 7 tracks are still showing ghosted and won't play on your iPad. 1. Plug your iPad into itunes. 2. When iTunes opens, go to your music library (thats where the ghostedsongs will play). Find the 7 songs that are ghosted (greyed out). 3. Right-Click (Control-Click) on a (ghosted) song and then click on Create AAC version. This makes a modified version of the song. 4. When the duplicate AAC is made, delete the original song (the one that wont play on your device). 5. Repeat with all your 7 greyed out songs, but make sure you are doing this in your music library. You will notice your duplicates added to your recently added playlist also. 6. When you are done duplicating the 7 songs ( deleting the 7 originals), go to your iPad via iTunes and Sync your music with your iTunes library music. 7. Once sync is completed, your greyed out songs should be no more and should play on your device. Let me know how you get on please. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 12/01/2013, at 4:12 PM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Hi Ronni Well I left the Mac and iPad alone for more than 24 hours - both turned on - no change on the iPad, the 7 songs still ghosted out. I will leave for the moment, I would imagine that my fiddling around has probably interfered with some of the settings Daniel had put in place last year, or possibly something else has corrupted or altered some settings. So, unless anyone has a brain storm, or if this has happened to someone else, just those 7 songs is not that vital overall. Many thanks for your advice anyway, Peta On 11/01/2013, at 2:57 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, It does take time for the music to stream from your iTunes Library on your Mac to the Cloud and then to your iPad. DON'T turn either off, you need both ON and your iTunes Library open on your Mac. Have you tried my second solution below? If that does not fix the problem: ON your iPad: etc It will take quite some time for the playlists from your Mac's iTunes Library to appear again on your iPad, so give it plenty of time... wait until they all appear :-) Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 11/01/2013, at 2:42 PM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Hullo Ronni I worked my way through the iPad, logging out and back in, setting up a new ID and password, i.e. the same as I had set up for my big Mac. At this stage no change, the 7 particular songs are still ghosted out. I will turn the big Mac and the iPad completely off and come back to them later - I will let you know what happens. Many thanks, Peta On 11/01/2013, at 7:48 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, As Daniel has mentioned make sure you are using the same Apple ID and Password on your Mac and all your devices (iPhone/iPad) somehow you have used a different ID on one of your devices, which now sounds like the iPad if the Mac is showing the purchased tunes correctly. On your iPad ... Log out and log back in with your Apple ID password you used on your Mac. Settings iTunes App Stores - then click the Apple ID - then Sign Out and then Sign back in with the correct ID Password. If that does not fix the problem: ON your iPad: 1. Turn OFF iTunes Match, then turn it back on (you will get a warning that this would replace the music library on this device, hit enable). 2. Wait a few seconds, and the greyed out songs and playlists will disappear and a bit later all the playlists from your Mac iTunes Library should appear again. Let us know how you get on please. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 11/01/2013, at 7:18 AM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni I went through the steps several times. All iTunes updates have been done previously. As I said in my previous email, the little cloud appeared (on the left hand side though) next to my Music words, and I logged off and on from that area. Then I had to twice choose a new password. On my Mac the ghosted songs are no longer ghosted, however they are still
Re: ghosted iTunes music -- in a group
Hi Ronni Well I left the Mac and iPad alone for more than 24 hours - both turned on - no change on the iPad, the 7 songs still ghosted out. I will leave for the moment, I would imagine that my fiddling around has probably interfered with some of the settings Daniel had put in place last year, or possibly something else has corrupted or altered some settings. So, unless anyone has a brain storm, or if this has happened to someone else, just those 7 songs is not that vital overall. Many thanks for your advice anyway, Peta On 11/01/2013, at 2:57 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, It does take time for the music to stream from your iTunes Library on your Mac to the Cloud and then to your iPad. DON'T turn either off, you need both ON and your iTunes Library open on your Mac. Have you tried my second solution below? If that does not fix the problem: ON your iPad: etc It will take quite some time for the playlists from your Mac's iTunes Library to appear again on your iPad, so give it plenty of time... wait until they all appear :-) Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 11/01/2013, at 2:42 PM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Hullo Ronni I worked my way through the iPad, logging out and back in, setting up a new ID and password, i.e. the same as I had set up for my big Mac. At this stage no change, the 7 particular songs are still ghosted out. I will turn the big Mac and the iPad completely off and come back to them later - I will let you know what happens. Many thanks, Peta On 11/01/2013, at 7:48 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, As Daniel has mentioned make sure you are using the same Apple ID and Password on your Mac and all your devices (iPhone/iPad) somehow you have used a different ID on one of your devices, which now sounds like the iPad if the Mac is showing the purchased tunes correctly. On your iPad ... Log out and log back in with your Apple ID password you used on your Mac. Settings iTunes App Stores - then click the Apple ID - then Sign Out and then Sign back in with the correct ID Password. If that does not fix the problem: ON your iPad: 1. Turn OFF iTunes Match, then turn it back on (you will get a warning that this would replace the music library on this device, hit enable). 2. Wait a few seconds, and the greyed out songs and playlists will disappear and a bit later all the playlists from your Mac iTunes Library should appear again. Let us know how you get on please. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 11/01/2013, at 7:18 AM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni I went through the steps several times. All iTunes updates have been done previously. As I said in my previous email, the little cloud appeared (on the left hand side though) next to my Music words, and I logged off and on from that area. Then I had to twice choose a new password. On my Mac the ghosted songs are no longer ghosted, however they are still appearing ghosted out on my iPad and do not play. These songs appear in one set group. Music and books bought previously and since all appear in the usual way and have transferred to the iPad. I may not have time to play around again today with this, I just wanted to let you know what has happened so far. Have a good day, Peta On 10/01/2013, at 1:34 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Hullo Ronni Thank you for your reply. I have tried to work my way through your points 1-7. My screen commies up a little differently; however the Cloud emblem did appear and I signed out and signed in again. There was a little problem and I was required to feed in a new ID and a new Password. I did this and then signed out and in again. The cloud appeared again - next to my music - however there was nowhere that I actually could see to : 7. Select iCloud and Link Computer, as suggested by you. I followed your steps again, but could not manage to take myself to a screen exactly as you described. I have turned my iPad off and on a few times; however the same 7 songs are still ghosted and will not play (although they do play on my big Mac). Quite possibly I have missed something very basic! I will turn everything completely off for a while now and see if that helps - sometimes strangely enough it does. I will let you know later if there is any result! Thank you, Peta Hi Peta, Are you using iTunes Match? If you see the cloud icon next to Music, then iTunes Match has been abled. Try signing out your Apple ID and sign in again. 1. Go to the iTunes store in iTunes 2. Select your Apple ID in top right 3. When the popup opens, don't put in Password, just Sign Out 4. Go to the top right again in iTunes Store and it should say Sign In (where your ID was before) 5. Select Sign In and Sign In on the popup 6. On the left hand side you should see
Re: ghosted iTunes music -- in a group
Thanks Ronni I went through the steps several times. All iTunes updates have been done previously. As I said in my previous email, the little cloud appeared (on the left hand side though) next to my Music words, and I logged off and on from that area. Then I had to twice choose a new password. On my Mac the ghosted songs are no longer ghosted, however they are still appearing ghosted out on my iPad and do not play. These songs appear in one set group. Music and books bought previously and since all appear in the usual way and have transferred to the iPad. I may not have time to play around again today with this, I just wanted to let you know what has happened so far. Have a good day, Peta On 10/01/2013, at 1:34 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Hullo Ronni Thank you for your reply. I have tried to work my way through your points 1-7. My screen commies up a little differently; however the Cloud emblem did appear and I signed out and signed in again. There was a little problem and I was required to feed in a new ID and a new Password. I did this and then signed out and in again. The cloud appeared again - next to my music - however there was nowhere that I actually could see to : 7. Select iCloud and Link Computer, as suggested by you. I followed your steps again, but could not manage to take myself to a screen exactly as you described. I have turned my iPad off and on a few times; however the same 7 songs are still ghosted and will not play (although they do play on my big Mac). Quite possibly I have missed something very basic! I will turn everything completely off for a while now and see if that helps - sometimes strangely enough it does. I will let you know later if there is any result! Thank you, Peta Hi Peta, Are you using iTunes Match? If you see the cloud icon next to Music, then iTunes Match has been abled. Try signing out your Apple ID and sign in again. 1. Go to the iTunes store in iTunes 2. Select your Apple ID in top right 3. When the popup opens, don't put in Password, just Sign Out 4. Go to the top right again in iTunes Store and it should say Sign In (where your ID was before) 5. Select Sign In and Sign In on the popup 6. On the left hand side you should see iCloud 7. Select iCloud and Link Computer When this is complete, your music should be available for streaming again Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 10/01/2013, at 8:55 AM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Thank you Peter for your prompt reply. No, I have not touched rebuilding the iTunes Library (I have to confess I consider this nearly a technical step, and I am always concerned that I may mess something up badly. The problem only affects that batch of about 7 songs though, so maybe there is a really simple way of correcting whatever has caused this hiccough? Peta On 10/01/2013, at 8:28 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 10/01/2013, at 7:42 AM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Good morning I hope everyone is off to a good start for the New Year. I have a strange problem with my purchased music. This has been happening for about two months or so; not serious so I have not bothered about it particularly. At various times I purchase some music, and also some books, from iTunes. Sometimes, several songs in one hit, usually individual, and often quite varied in style and age. Mostly they appear in the normal way on my Mac, and also happily transfer themselves to my iPad, (and some of them send themselves off to my iPhone). However there is one batch of music that appears in my Purchased list that is ghosted out - on my Mac and my iPad. (Some of these songs do appear on my iPhone and others do not appear at all-rather strange but not mattering to me as I do not actually have my music set up to automatically appear on my iPhone. If I do want them I will do a separate sync from the big Mac at some time - it is just strange that some newly purchased songs appear on the phone whilst others do not). Is there any reason why about 6 individual purchases are ghosted - after that batch of songs, others purchased at later dates appear as normal and transfer as usual to the iPad. Yes, just purchased in the usual way, I did not do anything different. Hoping that someone has an answer! Many thanks in anticipation for any assistance, Peta Have you tried rebuilding your iTunes library? (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451?viewlocale=en_USlocale=en_US). I'm not sure if it will fix the problem, but it's a starting point. 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
Re: ghosted iTunes music -- in a group
Hi - sorry Ronni and Daniel - I don't know why, but I did not see your latest emails dated January 10 when I sent my email a few minutes ago. I will look into this, hopefully today. Yes Daniel, I thought we had it all sorted out re different ID's; this is why I don't like having a go myself at what sounds like just simple matters. I always believe that I will surely confuse my devices and myself! As I have obviously done somehow. I will let you know when I have carefully had a look a little later. Peta On 10/01/2013, at 1:51 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Peta Quick reply as driving, but just check you're using the same apple ID on all devices (as a while back you had a couple before we tided it up. Could be something in that as well. Just something to check. Hope that helps. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au ** For Everything Apple ** On 10/01/2013, at 1:34 PM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Hullo Ronni Thank you for your reply. I have tried to work my way through your points 1-7. My screen commies up a little differently; however the Cloud emblem did appear and I signed out and signed in again. There was a little problem and I was required to feed in a new ID and a new Password. I did this and then signed out and in again. The cloud appeared again - next to my music - however there was nowhere that I actually could see to : 7. Select iCloud and Link Computer, as suggested by you. I followed your steps again, but could not manage to take myself to a screen exactly as you described. I have turned my iPad off and on a few times; however the same 7 songs are still ghosted and will not play (although they do play on my big Mac). Quite possibly I have missed something very basic! I will turn everything completely off for a while now and see if that helps - sometimes strangely enough it does. I will let you know later if there is any result! Thank you, Peta Hi Peta, Are you using iTunes Match? If you see the cloud icon next to Music, then iTunes Match has been abled. Try signing out your Apple ID and sign in again. 1. Go to the iTunes store in iTunes 2. Select your Apple ID in top right 3. When the popup opens, don't put in Password, just Sign Out 4. Go to the top right again in iTunes Store and it should say Sign In (where your ID was before) 5. Select Sign In and Sign In on the popup 6. On the left hand side you should see iCloud 7. Select iCloud and Link Computer When this is complete, your music should be available for streaming again Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 10/01/2013, at 8:55 AM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Thank you Peter for your prompt reply. No, I have not touched rebuilding the iTunes Library (I have to confess I consider this nearly a technical step, and I am always concerned that I may mess something up badly. The problem only affects that batch of about 7 songs though, so maybe there is a really simple way of correcting whatever has caused this hiccough? Peta On 10/01/2013, at 8:28 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 10/01/2013, at 7:42 AM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Good morning I hope everyone is off to a good start for the New Year. I have a strange problem with my purchased music. This has been happening for about two months or so; not serious so I have not bothered about it particularly. At various times I purchase some music, and also some books, from iTunes. Sometimes, several songs in one hit, usually individual, and often quite varied in style and age. Mostly they appear in the normal way on my Mac, and also happily transfer themselves to my iPad, (and some of them send themselves off to my iPhone). However there is one batch of music that appears in my Purchased list that is ghosted out - on my Mac and my iPad. (Some of these songs do appear on my iPhone and others do not appear at all-rather strange but not mattering to me as I do not actually have my music set up to automatically appear on my iPhone. If I do want them I will do a separate sync from the big Mac at some time - it is just strange that some newly purchased songs appear on the phone whilst others do not). Is there any reason why about 6 individual purchases are ghosted - after that batch of songs, others purchased at later dates appear as normal and transfer as usual to the iPad. Yes, just purchased in the usual way, I did not do anything different. Hoping that someone has an answer! Many thanks in anticipation for any assistance, Peta Have you tried rebuilding your iTunes library? (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451?viewlocale=en_USlocale=en_US). I'm not sure if it will fix the problem
Re: ghosted iTunes music -- in a group
Hullo Ronni I worked my way through the iPad, logging out and back in, setting up a new ID and password, i.e. the same as I had set up for my big Mac. At this stage no change, the 7 particular songs are still ghosted out. I will turn the big Mac and the iPad completely off and come back to them later - I will let you know what happens. Many thanks, Peta On 11/01/2013, at 7:48 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, As Daniel has mentioned make sure you are using the same Apple ID and Password on your Mac and all your devices (iPhone/iPad) somehow you have used a different ID on one of your devices, which now sounds like the iPad if the Mac is showing the purchased tunes correctly. On your iPad ... Log out and log back in with your Apple ID password you used on your Mac. Settings iTunes App Stores - then click the Apple ID - then Sign Out and then Sign back in with the correct ID Password. If that does not fix the problem: ON your iPad: 1. Turn OFF iTunes Match, then turn it back on (you will get a warning that this would replace the music library on this device, hit enable). 2. Wait a few seconds, and the greyed out songs and playlists will disappear and a bit later all the playlists from your Mac iTunes Library should appear again. Let us know how you get on please. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 11/01/2013, at 7:18 AM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni I went through the steps several times. All iTunes updates have been done previously. As I said in my previous email, the little cloud appeared (on the left hand side though) next to my Music words, and I logged off and on from that area. Then I had to twice choose a new password. On my Mac the ghosted songs are no longer ghosted, however they are still appearing ghosted out on my iPad and do not play. These songs appear in one set group. Music and books bought previously and since all appear in the usual way and have transferred to the iPad. I may not have time to play around again today with this, I just wanted to let you know what has happened so far. Have a good day, Peta On 10/01/2013, at 1:34 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Hullo Ronni Thank you for your reply. I have tried to work my way through your points 1-7. My screen commies up a little differently; however the Cloud emblem did appear and I signed out and signed in again. There was a little problem and I was required to feed in a new ID and a new Password. I did this and then signed out and in again. The cloud appeared again - next to my music - however there was nowhere that I actually could see to : 7. Select iCloud and Link Computer, as suggested by you. I followed your steps again, but could not manage to take myself to a screen exactly as you described. I have turned my iPad off and on a few times; however the same 7 songs are still ghosted and will not play (although they do play on my big Mac). Quite possibly I have missed something very basic! I will turn everything completely off for a while now and see if that helps - sometimes strangely enough it does. I will let you know later if there is any result! Thank you, Peta Hi Peta, Are you using iTunes Match? If you see the cloud icon next to Music, then iTunes Match has been abled. Try signing out your Apple ID and sign in again. 1. Go to the iTunes store in iTunes 2. Select your Apple ID in top right 3. When the popup opens, don't put in Password, just Sign Out 4. Go to the top right again in iTunes Store and it should say Sign In (where your ID was before) 5. Select Sign In and Sign In on the popup 6. On the left hand side you should see iCloud 7. Select iCloud and Link Computer When this is complete, your music should be available for streaming again Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 10/01/2013, at 8:55 AM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Thank you Peter for your prompt reply. No, I have not touched rebuilding the iTunes Library (I have to confess I consider this nearly a technical step, and I am always concerned that I may mess something up badly. The problem only affects that batch of about 7 songs though, so maybe there is a really simple way of correcting whatever has caused this hiccough? Peta On 10/01/2013, at 8:28 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 10/01/2013, at 7:42 AM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Good morning I hope everyone is off to a good start for the New Year. I have a strange problem with my purchased music. This has been happening for about two months or so; not serious so I have not bothered about it particularly. At various times I purchase some music, and also some books, from iTunes. Sometimes, several songs in one hit, usually individual, and often quite varied in style and age. Mostly they appear
Re: ghosted iTunes music -- in a group
Aarghh! Sorry Ronni, I had already turned all off and have just come back into my office and seen your latest email. Yes, I did try your second solution before I turned the Mac off. In addition to having confused myself I guess my Mac and iPad are also now confused; I will shut the door and go away now. I will let you know, probably not today though, if there is any change. Have a good weekend, Peta On 11/01/2013, at 2:57 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, It does take time for the music to stream from your iTunes Library on your Mac to the Cloud and then to your iPad. DON'T turn either off, you need both ON and your iTunes Library open on your Mac. Have you tried my second solution below? If that does not fix the problem: ON your iPad: etc It will take quite some time for the playlists from your Mac's iTunes Library to appear again on your iPad, so give it plenty of time... wait until they all appear :-) Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 11/01/2013, at 2:42 PM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Hullo Ronni I worked my way through the iPad, logging out and back in, setting up a new ID and password, i.e. the same as I had set up for my big Mac. At this stage no change, the 7 particular songs are still ghosted out. I will turn the big Mac and the iPad completely off and come back to them later - I will let you know what happens. Many thanks, Peta On 11/01/2013, at 7:48 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, As Daniel has mentioned make sure you are using the same Apple ID and Password on your Mac and all your devices (iPhone/iPad) somehow you have used a different ID on one of your devices, which now sounds like the iPad if the Mac is showing the purchased tunes correctly. On your iPad ... Log out and log back in with your Apple ID password you used on your Mac. Settings iTunes App Stores - then click the Apple ID - then Sign Out and then Sign back in with the correct ID Password. If that does not fix the problem: ON your iPad: 1. Turn OFF iTunes Match, then turn it back on (you will get a warning that this would replace the music library on this device, hit enable). 2. Wait a few seconds, and the greyed out songs and playlists will disappear and a bit later all the playlists from your Mac iTunes Library should appear again. Let us know how you get on please. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 11/01/2013, at 7:18 AM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni I went through the steps several times. All iTunes updates have been done previously. As I said in my previous email, the little cloud appeared (on the left hand side though) next to my Music words, and I logged off and on from that area. Then I had to twice choose a new password. On my Mac the ghosted songs are no longer ghosted, however they are still appearing ghosted out on my iPad and do not play. These songs appear in one set group. Music and books bought previously and since all appear in the usual way and have transferred to the iPad. I may not have time to play around again today with this, I just wanted to let you know what has happened so far. Have a good day, Peta On 10/01/2013, at 1:34 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Hullo Ronni Thank you for your reply. I have tried to work my way through your points 1-7. My screen commies up a little differently; however the Cloud emblem did appear and I signed out and signed in again. There was a little problem and I was required to feed in a new ID and a new Password. I did this and then signed out and in again. The cloud appeared again - next to my music - however there was nowhere that I actually could see to : 7. Select iCloud and Link Computer, as suggested by you. I followed your steps again, but could not manage to take myself to a screen exactly as you described. I have turned my iPad off and on a few times; however the same 7 songs are still ghosted and will not play (although they do play on my big Mac). Quite possibly I have missed something very basic! I will turn everything completely off for a while now and see if that helps - sometimes strangely enough it does. I will let you know later if there is any result! Thank you, Peta Hi Peta, Are you using iTunes Match? If you see the cloud icon next to Music, then iTunes Match has been abled. Try signing out your Apple ID and sign in again. 1. Go to the iTunes store in iTunes 2. Select your Apple ID in top right 3. When the popup opens, don't put in Password, just Sign Out 4. Go to the top right again in iTunes Store and it should say Sign In (where your ID was before) 5. Select Sign In and Sign In on the popup 6. On the left hand side you should see iCloud 7. Select iCloud and Link Computer When this is complete, your music should be available for streaming again
ghosted iTunes music -- in a group
Good morning I hope everyone is off to a good start for the New Year. I have a strange problem with my purchased music. This has been happening for about two months or so; not serious so I have not bothered about it particularly. At various times I purchase some music, and also some books, from iTunes. Sometimes, several songs in one hit, usually individual, and often quite varied in style and age. Mostly they appear in the normal way on my Mac, and also happily transfer themselves to my iPad, (and some of them send themselves off to my iPhone). However there is one batch of music that appears in my Purchased list that is ghosted out - on my Mac and my iPad. (Some of these songs do appear on my iPhone and others do not appear at all-rather strange but not mattering to me as I do not actually have my music set up to automatically appear on my iPhone. If I do want them I will do a separate sync from the big Mac at some time - it is just strange that some newly purchased songs appear on the phone whilst others do not). Is there any reason why about 6 individual purchases are ghosted - after that batch of songs, others purchased at later dates appear as normal and transfer as usual to the iPad. Yes, just purchased in the usual way, I did not do anything different. Hoping that someone has an answer! Many thanks in anticipation for any assistance, Peta -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130110/ec5584e1/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: ghosted iTunes music -- in a group
Thank you Peter for your prompt reply. No, I have not touched rebuilding the iTunes Library (I have to confess I consider this nearly a technical step, and I am always concerned that I may mess something up badly. The problem only affects that batch of about 7 songs though, so maybe there is a really simple way of correcting whatever has caused this hiccough? Peta On 10/01/2013, at 8:28 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 10/01/2013, at 7:42 AM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Good morning I hope everyone is off to a good start for the New Year. I have a strange problem with my purchased music. This has been happening for about two months or so; not serious so I have not bothered about it particularly. At various times I purchase some music, and also some books, from iTunes. Sometimes, several songs in one hit, usually individual, and often quite varied in style and age. Mostly they appear in the normal way on my Mac, and also happily transfer themselves to my iPad, (and some of them send themselves off to my iPhone). However there is one batch of music that appears in my Purchased list that is ghosted out - on my Mac and my iPad. (Some of these songs do appear on my iPhone and others do not appear at all-rather strange but not mattering to me as I do not actually have my music set up to automatically appear on my iPhone. If I do want them I will do a separate sync from the big Mac at some time - it is just strange that some newly purchased songs appear on the phone whilst others do not). Is there any reason why about 6 individual purchases are ghosted - after that batch of songs, others purchased at later dates appear as normal and transfer as usual to the iPad. Yes, just purchased in the usual way, I did not do anything different. Hoping that someone has an answer! Many thanks in anticipation for any assistance, Peta Have you tried rebuilding your iTunes library? (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451?viewlocale=en_USlocale=en_US). I'm not sure if it will fix the problem, but it's a starting point. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: ghosted iTunes music -- in a group
Hullo Ronni Thank you for your reply. I have tried to work my way through your points 1-7. My screen commies up a little differently; however the Cloud emblem did appear and I signed out and signed in again. There was a little problem and I was required to feed in a new ID and a new Password. I did this and then signed out and in again. The cloud appeared again - next to my music - however there was nowhere that I actually could see to : 7. Select iCloud and Link Computer, as suggested by you. I followed your steps again, but could not manage to take myself to a screen exactly as you described. I have turned my iPad off and on a few times; however the same 7 songs are still ghosted and will not play (although they do play on my big Mac). Quite possibly I have missed something very basic! I will turn everything completely off for a while now and see if that helps - sometimes strangely enough it does. I will let you know later if there is any result! Thank you, Peta Hi Peta, Are you using iTunes Match? If you see the cloud icon next to Music, then iTunes Match has been abled. Try signing out your Apple ID and sign in again. 1. Go to the iTunes store in iTunes 2. Select your Apple ID in top right 3. When the popup opens, don't put in Password, just Sign Out 4. Go to the top right again in iTunes Store and it should say Sign In (where your ID was before) 5. Select Sign In and Sign In on the popup 6. On the left hand side you should see iCloud 7. Select iCloud and Link Computer When this is complete, your music should be available for streaming again Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 10/01/2013, at 8:55 AM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Thank you Peter for your prompt reply. No, I have not touched rebuilding the iTunes Library (I have to confess I consider this nearly a technical step, and I am always concerned that I may mess something up badly. The problem only affects that batch of about 7 songs though, so maybe there is a really simple way of correcting whatever has caused this hiccough? Peta On 10/01/2013, at 8:28 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 10/01/2013, at 7:42 AM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@me.com wrote: Good morning I hope everyone is off to a good start for the New Year. I have a strange problem with my purchased music. This has been happening for about two months or so; not serious so I have not bothered about it particularly. At various times I purchase some music, and also some books, from iTunes. Sometimes, several songs in one hit, usually individual, and often quite varied in style and age. Mostly they appear in the normal way on my Mac, and also happily transfer themselves to my iPad, (and some of them send themselves off to my iPhone). However there is one batch of music that appears in my Purchased list that is ghosted out - on my Mac and my iPad. (Some of these songs do appear on my iPhone and others do not appear at all-rather strange but not mattering to me as I do not actually have my music set up to automatically appear on my iPhone. If I do want them I will do a separate sync from the big Mac at some time - it is just strange that some newly purchased songs appear on the phone whilst others do not). Is there any reason why about 6 individual purchases are ghosted - after that batch of songs, others purchased at later dates appear as normal and transfer as usual to the iPad. Yes, just purchased in the usual way, I did not do anything different. Hoping that someone has an answer! Many thanks in anticipation for any assistance, Peta Have you tried rebuilding your iTunes library? (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451?viewlocale=en_USlocale=en_US). I'm not sure if it will fix the problem, but it's a starting point. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20130110/2ca71cb6/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml
New Spam?
This morning an email came through on my husband's iPad. This showed the Sender as : Web Account Services The content read that his - agreed usage was full and to click on the link within the text : validate here. ……… Of course he did not click on the link, but we were wondering if this is doing the rounds? Regards, and Best Wishes for the New Year, -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Google Search showing our WAMUG wmails
Good Morning All Responding to Merv's email, (although he was still on the topic of RSS Reader). I have noticed our emails etc popping up if we Google Search our own names - and I am not happy with this. Is there a security block or similar we are able to put into place to prevent this from happening? By the way - what an absolutely gorgeous day! Regards Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
printing the actual address book
Good morning I have looked in Archives and cannot find How To ... I am sure there is a method of printing out a hard copy of my Address Book. If the answer is yes, does the address book need to be formatted in any particular method first? I would like to see the Contact name, email address, plus any other notes etc which I have inserted. I am sure the answer will be so simple that I will spend the afternoon crawled under my desk! Not really, I will take my patient wee puppies for a walk right now, and come back hoping my answer will be here! Many thanks Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: printing the actual address book
On 11/11/2010, at 12:28 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 11/11/2010, at 12:09 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Good morning I have looked in Archives and cannot find How To ... I am sure there is a method of printing out a hard copy of my Address Book. If the answer is yes, does the address book need to be formatted in any particular method first? I would like to see the Contact name, email address, plus any other notes etc which I have inserted. I am sure the answer will be so simple that I will spend the afternoon crawled under my desk! Not really, I will take my patient wee puppies for a walk right now, and come back hoping my answer will be here! Many thanks Peta Hi Peta, 1. Open Address Book 2. Select “All Contacts” (In left Column under ‘Group’) 3. File Print 4. Style: Lists Paper Size: A4 Orientation: ↑ 5. Attributes Select the information to include from the Attributes list. 6. click ‘Print’ Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) Thank you so much Ronni. I had missed a step within Print; mainly I print photos or letters, even labels - but had no awareness of Style, nor therefore Lists! All printing away cheerfully now. Have a great day (my poor puppies have never had to walk so fast as we just did) - but they are happy now. As am I. Regards Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: New WAMUG Presidential Car
Ahhh, okay, but she did not make any arrangements to pay the balance! On 06/10/2010, at 11:59 AM, Reg Whitely wrote: My daughter's put a deposit on it for my birthday ;-) Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net Web: http://web.me.com/whitelyr/Reg/ http://beachlands.wordpress.com On 06/10/2010, at 10:23 am, Rod Blitvich wrote: and if you know Reg like I think I do... right now he is convincing his wife that they should buy one! :) image.gif Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.me.com/blitto I don't have a big ego, I'm way too cool for that. On 06/10/2010, at 10:16 AM, Reg Whitely wrote: Here's one for you all! http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2efWpg/www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/the-sickest-mobile-office-in/r:f Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net Web: http://web.me.com/whitelyr/Reg/ http://beachlands.wordpress.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Kindle
Thank you very much for this Susan. I don't actually have an iPad yet. I was going to stick with the Kindle as all I wanted was something simple just for reading, but.. I liked your idea of buying a small keyboard, as you mentioned in your earlier email to Laura. I could take my small keyboard from home if and when. Peta On 27/09/2010, at 4:09 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: Hi Peta, I was not actually able to get my overseas sim card to work, make sure if you get one that it comes preloaded with credit if you buy one in the country where you are staying, and get it up and running in the shop. So, I've been mostly relying on wireless access, which is just about everywhere, hotels, bed and breakfasts, pensions, restaurants, cafes, etc. We've had Internet access every day of our travels for at least enough time to check emails. If you are traveling in the UK, western or eastern Europe you can probably just rely on wifi. There are lots of third party apps for editing and uploading to online photo sites. You can also get the photos back onto your Mac. You have to turn on roaming before you get auto updates, so you won't have unexpected charges. I wouldn't use roaming at all unless you have an emergency. Cheers, Susan Sent from my iPad On 27/09/2010, at 1:53 AM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@mac.com wrote: Good morning Ronni We won't talk about the Football! It was an exciting game though - I hope the champagne was really excellent. Last night I had thought of a question about the iPad, which you have probably answered in your first email, below. My question is - when you take the iPad overseas, are there any unexpected horrible charges for using the iPad, such as with the iPhone? So if we were to download a book to read whilst we were overseas, would this be at a huge cost? Or if we send/receive emails? Or to look up something on the net? (Of course if someone was to use their iPhone overseas to play games, or if there are any automatic downloads or updates including the ones you have not requested, with the iPhone the cost would be huge). With the Kindle there is a button you can slide shut and remain off-line. Mainly this would preserve the battery life - with the way I use my Kindle there was nothing to automatically download, and I had ordered my books to read before leaving home. Also, I notice in your first email below, you mention that you look at your photos. Are you able to edit your photos direct from the iPad, and send/transfer that particular photo back to your Mac? I suppose if nothing else the photo/s could be emailed to your Mac. Later today I will go onto the sites you have recommended to Severin and Susan. Thanks again Ronni - one answer leads to many questions! Peta On 26/09/2010, at 9:12 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Susan, Have you checked out Barnes Noble App 'Nook for iPad'? I downloaded it tonight and like it. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/index.asp http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/BN-eReader-for-iPad/379002216/?cds2Pid=28709 Hi Severin, Worth reading 'Kindle vs Nook vs iPad review. Kindle Vs Nook Vs iPad If you are looking for an ebook reader, then the Kindle vs Nook vs iPad comparison presented in this article will be a helpful read. Here I provide a head to head comparison of these three ebook readers, that will make your choice simpler. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/kindle-vs-nook-vs-ipad.html Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 26/09/2010, at 4:07 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: I agree with Susan wholeheartedly ;-) I find since having a 64GB Wi-Fi +3G Model iPad, that I'm leaving my 17 MacBook Pro home more now ... With Kindle, Amazon App, Borders App on the iPad I have everything I need. Read a book, read my Tutorials, eBooks, listen to music, look at photos, check email, surf the web … do some work if I have to ;-) Reading in bed, on a train or aeroplane is great with the iPad. I find it easier to read a book on the iPad than holding and turning pages in a 'real book' especially hard cover books. Of course if you don't want, or need, the capabilities of an iPad, a Kindle is your better option I guess. Cheers, Ronni On 26/09/2010, at 2:56 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: Hi, I use the Kindle app on my iPad, there are heaps of books available through Amazon for Australians. I did have that concern, but it has proved unfounded. On the iPad I also have a Borders app thar allows me to order books online and read them on the iPad. Having this flexibility means I can order books by current Australian authors as well. When the iBooks app finally has more than the free older books available it will give me three sources. With the kindle applications on my Mac, iPhone and iPad, I can have my current book synced on all three, and pick up reading with whichever
Re: Kindle
Even before you buy a Kindle (which you do online, and once you have ordered it, it will arrive within one week) - go to amazon.com and have a look at what is available. Huge, huge range of books available. Type in one or two of your favourite authors and you will see your choice. Make sure before you click to order a book that you do choose the Kindle version of any book of course. Way, way in front of the iTunes books and not so frustrating as the iPad to order and for choice. My husband is quite limited in what he can actually order for thisiPad; although I am sure this will improve. On 26/09/2010, at 9:51 AM, Alexander Hartner wrote: I am also quite interested, but have been wondering where to get books from. Currently iTunes doesn't have any interesting ones. How does the kindle stack up against that here in oz? Alex On 26/09/2010, at 8:30, peta belczowski petabelczow...@mac.com wrote: Hi Severin When I went looking for an e-reader, not many shops actually carried any. Of course I wanted to hold it in my hands to tell if it would suit me, one of the main reasons being of course to read in bed, on the bus, on my chair in the evenings - obviously the weight in my hand was going to be important. However none of the shops that did carry any e-readers actually had anything set up on them that I could read, nor to play with. Frustrating. Fortunately I did know someone who had ordered one when they first became available in Australia, and he kindly brought his (smaller) one up for me to experiment with. Once I had sat down with it for 5 minutes I was positive that I wanted one, and that it definitely would suit me. If you can, arrange to hold one of each and see what you think. I personally do not find the bigger one any problem to hold nor to turn the pages. At the same time I think the smaller one would probably have also been suitable. It was my husband who kindly thought that maybe it would be better to go for the bigger size. We recently went overseas for a holiday and I happily read on the plane and in our room, by the pool, and also on the beach - my Kindle suited these needs very well. The size would probably come back to personal preference. The chap who brought his up to show me is completely satisfied with the smaller size. Like you I just wanted an outright reader, no toys, no internet, no games. Good luck Peta On 25/09/2010, at 11:28 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: Thanks for the feedback, Peta. Yes, I also see a Kindle as a part solution to the house full of books problem. We have plenty computers so it is a seen as a book reader ONLY. I had not thought seriously of the larger one, simply on the grounds of cost. Is it worth it? Severin On 25/09/2010, at 5:10 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Yes Severin I can answer positively. I have had my Kindle since March of this year (I did buy the bigger one, not really heavier than the smaller one). I am very pleased with it as I am an avid reader. Eventually there came the time when I could not fit any more books into the house! So, even though my husband thought I would wait for the iPads to come out, if you are just in the main after a reading device, go for the Kindle. Peta On 25/09/2010, at 4:52 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I am looking to purchase a Kindle. I have already read a number of Kindle books on a MacBook which is more or less fine but my wife has a habit of wanting her MacBook and it i not the most convenient for presleep reading in bed at night. Anyone have comments, all would be welcomed. Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List
iPad decision time
Lyn My husband has just been reading some of the messages re the topic of iPad decision time. He strongly believes in going for the maximum memory with your iPad. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Kindle
Good morning Ronni We won't talk about the Football! It was an exciting game though - I hope the champagne was really excellent. Last night I had thought of a question about the iPad, which you have probably answered in your first email, below. My question is - when you take the iPad overseas, are there any unexpected horrible charges for using the iPad, such as with the iPhone? So if we were to download a book to read whilst we were overseas, would this be at a huge cost? Or if we send/receive emails? Or to look up something on the net? (Of course if someone was to use their iPhone overseas to play games, or if there are any automatic downloads or updates including the ones you have not requested, with the iPhone the cost would be huge). With the Kindle there is a button you can slide shut and remain off-line. Mainly this would preserve the battery life - with the way I use my Kindle there was nothing to automatically download, and I had ordered my books to read before leaving home. Also, I notice in your first email below, you mention that you look at your photos. Are you able to edit your photos direct from the iPad, and send/transfer that particular photo back to your Mac? I suppose if nothing else the photo/s could be emailed to your Mac. Later today I will go onto the sites you have recommended to Severin and Susan. Thanks again Ronni - one answer leads to many questions! Peta On 26/09/2010, at 9:12 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Susan, Have you checked out Barnes Noble App 'Nook for iPad'? I downloaded it tonight and like it. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/index.asp http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/BN-eReader-for-iPad/379002216/?cds2Pid=28709 Hi Severin, Worth reading 'Kindle vs Nook vs iPad review. Kindle Vs Nook Vs iPad If you are looking for an ebook reader, then the Kindle vs Nook vs iPad comparison presented in this article will be a helpful read. Here I provide a head to head comparison of these three ebook readers, that will make your choice simpler. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/kindle-vs-nook-vs-ipad.html Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 26/09/2010, at 4:07 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: I agree with Susan wholeheartedly ;-) I find since having a 64GB Wi-Fi +3G Model iPad, that I'm leaving my 17 MacBook Pro home more now ... With Kindle, Amazon App, Borders App on the iPad I have everything I need. Read a book, read my Tutorials, eBooks, listen to music, look at photos, check email, surf the web … do some work if I have to ;-) Reading in bed, on a train or aeroplane is great with the iPad. I find it easier to read a book on the iPad than holding and turning pages in a 'real book' especially hard cover books. Of course if you don't want, or need, the capabilities of an iPad, a Kindle is your better option I guess. Cheers, Ronni On 26/09/2010, at 2:56 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: Hi, I use the Kindle app on my iPad, there are heaps of books available through Amazon for Australians. I did have that concern, but it has proved unfounded. On the iPad I also have a Borders app thar allows me to order books online and read them on the iPad. Having this flexibility means I can order books by current Australian authors as well. When the iBooks app finally has more than the free older books available it will give me three sources. With the kindle applications on my Mac, iPhone and iPad, I can have my current book synced on all three, and pick up reading with whichever device is available, but the iPad is the best of course in terms of size and portability. I have the apple case, and prop it in bed linen to read in bed, rather than holding it up - it would get a bit heavy I think. The iPad has a great screen for reading books, very clear and sharp, and the screen can be set to suit the lighting of the room you are in, so it's not glaring at night. So, I think either the kindle device or using the kindle app on an iPad is a great choice. Whilst we've been traveling, I've got books to read, tv shows to watch, a place to upload photos to the Internet, email, web surfing, and GPS, all on the one small device. We haven't missed having a laptop. Cheers, Susan Sent from my iPad On 26/09/2010, at 3:51 AM, Alexander Hartner a...@j2anywhere.com wrote: I am also quite interested, but have been wondering where to get books from. Currently iTunes doesn't have any interesting ones. How does the kindle stack up against that here in oz? Alex On 26/09/2010, at 8:30, peta belczowski petabelczow...@mac.com wrote: Hi Severin When I went looking for an e-reader, not many shops actually carried any. Of course I wanted to hold it in my hands to tell if it would suit me, one of the main reasons being of course to read in bed, on the bus, on my chair in the evenings - obviously the weight in my hand was going to be important
Re: Kindle
Once again - many thanks Ronni. I will pass this info on to the owner of the iPad in this household. (I am trying very hard to not be interested in an iPad). Another lovely day - enjoy. Peta On 27/09/2010, at 11:25 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Good morning to you Peta, On 27/09/2010, at 7:53 AM, peta belczowski wrote: Good morning Ronni We won't talk about the Football! Thank you for not mentioning the Football ;-( It was an exciting game though - I hope the champagne was really excellent. Thank goodness the Champagne was really excellent Last night I had thought of a question about the iPad, which you have probably answered in your first email, below. My question is - when you take the iPad overseas, are there any unexpected horrible charges for using the iPad, such as with the iPhone? Susan and others who travel overseas regularly with their iPads will be able to assist you, as I have not been overseas since having an iPad. You would need a micro-SIM Card for the country you are travelling to, I would not suggest using roaming on your AU micro-SIM card especially if you are with Telstra. I have a Telstra Pre-Paid micro-SIM card installed and only use it when I can't connect to a Wi-Fi Network. I turn Cellular Data OFF on the iPad and only turn it on when needed. Settings Cellular Data - OFF I believe that if your iPad is asleep it will use cellular data to push emails and other notifications to you because Wi-Fi is not available while it is asleep. So if we were to download a book to read whilst we were overseas, would this be at a huge cost? Or if we send/receive emails? Or to look up something on the net? (Of course if someone was to use their iPhone overseas to play games, or if there are any automatic downloads or updates including the ones you have not requested, with the iPhone the cost would be huge). With the Kindle there is a button you can slide shut and remain off-line. Mainly this would preserve the battery life - with the way I use my Kindle there was nothing to automatically download, and I had ordered my books to read before leaving home. As I mentioned above … Turn OFF Cellular Data, and you can also turn off Wi-Fi if you don't want anything accessing the Internet. Settings click Wi-Fi Wi-Fi - OFF Also, I notice in your first email below, you mention that you look at your photos. Are you able to edit your photos direct from the iPad, and send/transfer that particular photo back to your Mac? I suppose if nothing else the photo/s could be emailed to your Mac. To Edit Photos on the iPad, I find Adobe Photoshop Express for iPad is fine for any editing I need to do. http://itunes.apple.com/app/adobe-photoshop-express/id331975235?mt=8 Edit Photos on the iPad with Photoshop Express: http://www.labnol.org/software/edit-photos-on-ipad/14299/ Worth a look here: 8 Must Have iPad Apps for Photographers: http://www.bestappsite.com/2010/09/22/8-must-have-ipad-apps-for-photographers/ If you wish to download photos from your digital camera to your iPad, you need Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit: http://store.apple.com/au/product/MC531ZM/A?fnode=MTc0MjU4NjEmco=MTcyMTgxODc After you make the connection, your iPad automatically opens the Photos app, which lets you choose which pictures to import, then organises the selected photos into albums. When you sync iPad to your PC or Mac, the photos on your iPad are added to your computer's photo library. iPad and the Camera Connection Kit support standard photo formats, including JPEG and RAW. Later today I will go onto the sites you have recommended to Severin and Susan. Thanks again Ronni - one answer leads to many questions! Always seems to ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 26/09/2010, at 9:12 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Susan, Have you checked out Barnes Noble App 'Nook for iPad'? I downloaded it tonight and like it. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/index.asp http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/BN-eReader-for-iPad/379002216/?cds2Pid=28709 Hi Severin, Worth reading 'Kindle vs Nook vs iPad review. Kindle Vs Nook Vs iPad If you are looking for an ebook reader, then the Kindle vs Nook vs iPad comparison presented in this article will be a helpful read. Here I provide a head to head comparison of these three ebook readers, that will make your choice simpler. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/kindle-vs-nook-vs-ipad.html Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 26/09/2010, at 4:07 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: I agree with Susan wholeheartedly ;-) I find since having a 64GB Wi-Fi +3G Model iPad, that I'm leaving my 17 MacBook Pro home more now ... With Kindle, Amazon App, Borders App on the iPad I have everything I need. Read a book, read my Tutorials, eBooks, listen to music, look at photos, check email, surf the web … do some work if I have to ;-) Reading
Re: Kindle
Yes Severin I can answer positively. I have had my Kindle since March of this year (I did buy the bigger one, not really heavier than the smaller one). I am very pleased with it as I am an avid reader. Eventually there came the time when I could not fit any more books into the house! So, even though my husband thought I would wait for the iPads to come out, if you are just in the main after a reading device, go for the Kindle. Peta On 25/09/2010, at 4:52 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I am looking to purchase a Kindle. I have already read a number of Kindle books on a MacBook which is more or less fine but my wife has a habit of wanting her MacBook and it i not the most convenient for presleep reading in bed at night. Anyone have comments, all would be welcomed. Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Kindle
Hi Severin When I went looking for an e-reader, not many shops actually carried any. Of course I wanted to hold it in my hands to tell if it would suit me, one of the main reasons being of course to read in bed, on the bus, on my chair in the evenings - obviously the weight in my hand was going to be important. However none of the shops that did carry any e-readers actually had anything set up on them that I could read, nor to play with. Frustrating. Fortunately I did know someone who had ordered one when they first became available in Australia, and he kindly brought his (smaller) one up for me to experiment with. Once I had sat down with it for 5 minutes I was positive that I wanted one, and that it definitely would suit me. If you can, arrange to hold one of each and see what you think. I personally do not find the bigger one any problem to hold nor to turn the pages. At the same time I think the smaller one would probably have also been suitable. It was my husband who kindly thought that maybe it would be better to go for the bigger size. We recently went overseas for a holiday and I happily read on the plane and in our room, by the pool, and also on the beach - my Kindle suited these needs very well. The size would probably come back to personal preference. The chap who brought his up to show me is completely satisfied with the smaller size. Like you I just wanted an outright reader, no toys, no internet, no games. Good luck Peta On 25/09/2010, at 11:28 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: Thanks for the feedback, Peta. Yes, I also see a Kindle as a part solution to the house full of books problem. We have plenty computers so it is a seen as a book reader ONLY. I had not thought seriously of the larger one, simply on the grounds of cost. Is it worth it? Severin On 25/09/2010, at 5:10 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Yes Severin I can answer positively. I have had my Kindle since March of this year (I did buy the bigger one, not really heavier than the smaller one). I am very pleased with it as I am an avid reader. Eventually there came the time when I could not fit any more books into the house! So, even though my husband thought I would wait for the iPads to come out, if you are just in the main after a reading device, go for the Kindle. Peta On 25/09/2010, at 4:52 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I am looking to purchase a Kindle. I have already read a number of Kindle books on a MacBook which is more or less fine but my wife has a habit of wanting her MacBook and it i not the most convenient for presleep reading in bed at night. Anyone have comments, all would be welcomed. Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhone apps
Good morning all (what a gorgeous day) I was doing my morning read of the WAMUG questions, when this series of emails on iPhone Apps caught my attention. Only a theoretical question at the moment - well now that I think about it, three questions. We have more than 2 AppleMacs in the home, one iPhone and one iPad ( plus several iPods). Two household members each have their own completely separate iTune account and buy their own music of choice for their own Macs. Question One: If there are two iPads in the house, is it possible to buy Apps for two iPads from one account? Obviously the original iTunes account (set up many moons ago) was not initially set up for two of anything). Question Two: Was/is there a way to transfer the Apps from the iPhone to the iPad? (This may have happened automatically I can't follow through on that question within the household at the moment). Question Three: Is it possible that the Apps already purchased can be transferred from the existing iPad to a second iPad? I do of course know that iTunes music can be transferred from the AppleMacs onto the iPods and the iPhone, and that this also successfully transferred to the (one at the moment) iPad. Many thanks for any cheerful assistance (must be cheerful), Peta On 24/09/2010, at 9:45 PM, Brian Risbey wrote: Hi All I think there was some 'mischief' when initially setting up new iPhone4, which cleared after I re-synced my original iPhone. And yes, Pedro is correct the other apps then became available for the new iPhone. Brian On 24/09/2010, at 7:31 PM, Brian Risbey wrote: Thank you for that Pedro, some of haven't had the app phone capable phones before, we thought a camera was great! Brian On 24/09/2010, at 7:29 PM, Pedro wrote: Hi Brian You sure can. I have two iPhones on the same iTunes account and can share apps between them Cheers Pedro Another iPhone production On 24/09/2010, at 18:50, Brian Risbey risb...@bigpond.com wrote: We now have two iPhones under the roof, all seems good, will have to try facetime! I have two phones set up on iTunes - under the same store account ( it said I could add another phone as an option). My question is about 'apps' - I have paid for some, am I able to use them on both phones or are they limited to just mine? Brian -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPad Apps
Ronni Many thanks for your usual quick response. I really appreciate your - ... Cheerful Assistance Enjoy the Football. Perfect viewing weather for those of us in W.A. I may have to settle for a glass of red - no, champagne sounds pretty good actually! Peta On 25/09/2010, at 10:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, A quick reply before I have to give my undivided attention to supporting The Pies! Answers below each question. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 25/09/2010, at 9:47 AM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@mac.com wrote: Good morning all (what a gorgeous day) I was doing my morning read of the WAMUG questions, when this series of emails on iPhone Apps caught my attention. Only a theoretical question at the moment - well now that I think about it, three questions. We have more than 2 AppleMacs in the home, one iPhone and one iPad ( plus several iPods). Two household members each have their own completely separate iTune account and buy their own music of choice for their own Macs. Question One: If there are two iPads in the house, is it possible to buy Apps for two iPads from one account? Obviously the original iTunes account (set up many moons ago) was not initially set up for two of anything). Yes. You need to have both iPad's using the same iTunes account for this to work as the purchases are registered to that account. Question Two: Was/is there a way to transfer the Apps from the iPhone to the iPad? (This may have happened automatically I can't follow through on that question within the household at the moment). This should happen automatically when you connect the iPad to iTunes Question Three: Is it possible that the Apps already purchased can be transferred from theexisting iPad to a second iPad? Yes. You can sync the app on to up to 5 devices. Just make sure the apps are synced back to iTunes on your Mac or PC Connect the new iPad and on the Apps tab select the ones you want installed on it and Sync I do of course know that iTunes music can be transferred from the AppleMacs onto the iPods and the iPhone, and that this also successfully transferred to the (one at the moment) iPad. Many thanks for any cheerful assistance (must be cheerful), A cheerful assistance ... GO PIES! Cheers, Ronni who is very soon to enjoy some Chandon Cuvee Riche champagne in preparation for The Grand Final ... Good old Collingwood Forever! Peta On 24/09/2010, at 9:45 PM, Brian Risbey wrote: Hi All I think there was some 'mischief' when initially setting up new iPhone4, which cleared after I re-synced my original iPhone. And yes, Pedro is correct the other apps then became available for the new iPhone. Brian On 24/09/2010, at 7:31 PM, Brian Risbey wrote: Thank you for that Pedro, some of haven't had the app phone capable phones before, we thought a camera was great! Brian On 24/09/2010, at 7:29 PM, Pedro wrote: Hi Brian You sure can. I have two iPhones on the same iTunes account and can share apps between them Cheers Pedro Another iPhone production On 24/09/2010, at 18:50, Brian Risbey risb...@bigpond.com wrote: We now have two iPhones under the roof, all seems good, will have to try facetime! I have two phones set up on iTunes - under the same store account ( it said I could add another phone as an option). My question is about 'apps' - I have paid for some, am I able to use them on both phones or are they limited to just mine? Brian -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Sent from Ronni's iPad -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Almost Funny Mac vid
We - I did not have the precious time to waste that it took to watch this - BUT I smiled nearly all the way through it, ending up with a big grin and sigh. Thank you for sharing! Peta On 09/08/2010, at 1:09 PM, Ken Jackson wrote: Has anybody seen this before? It's a bit funny all about Macs.. one mans frustration http://matg.home.comcast.net/mac.swf Best, Ken -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: epson stylus photo R310 Printer
Thank you Ronni - I will put some time aside and deal with a batch of similar re-installations. Time to be taken from dealing with two new adorable puppies! Peta On 08/04/2010, at 8:12 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, Just adding to Daniel's expert advice. Sometimes when you transfer applications across, especially if you are coming from another version of OS X (OS X 10.5 to 10.6), you find you need to either re-install some applications or at least have to put in the serial numbers again. I have had two replacement Logic Boards for my 17 MacBook Pro and each time I have found I needed to re-install quite a lot of applications. Some just needed to be re-activated or Serial Numbers added. I remember particularly Adobe Acrobat Professional 8 CS4 required re-installing and activating. Cheers, Ronni On 08/04/2010, at 7:20 AM, peta belczowski wrote: Thank you Daniel, I will try these steps. Peta On 07/04/2010, at 8:35 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Peta Sounds like a few issues going on there. For the Epson one, it may pay to remove the printer and reset it up then see how it goes. For the Adobe software you can deactivate it on the old machine which then allows you to active it on the new machine. Other programs can be similar. Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel On 7/4/10 6:56 PM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@mac.com wrote: Thank you to all who replied to my Epson printer problem. Yes, I had discovered LITE when following Daniel's instructions. Also the message the printer is not registered once I arrived at this point; therefore I apparently cannot take things any further. Possibly my previous Mac had all the registration details. When my husband bought me my lovely Mac OS X, which of course has Snow Leopard, and I connected the external hard drive (which Daniel had installed onto my first Mac), all programs etc transferred/copied beautifully to this machine and I was soo impressed. The ink level status and buttons for “Nozzle Check” and “Head Cleaning”, not highlighted, cannot use. Problems - when we have bought programs for another Mac, I believe the newer Mac needs re-registering with new reg. numbers. For example, with my first earlier Mac I had bought and paid for Adobe. I was too busy learning and re-educating my ways of doing things from a PC and had never used the Adobe program. Now, although it has transferred to my new Mac, I cannot use the program. Too time consuming in today's world - of course I want instant results! Peta On 07/04/2010, at 5:58 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hey Daniel, Not your bad;-) You did give the correct path to the utility. Sorry to hear you are suffering with cold/flu ... Plenty of liquids (not my champagne) ... And Sleep! Do you remember what SLEEP is?? Get well. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPhone On 07/04/2010, at 5:16 PM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Oops thanks Ronni, my bad That's what I get for working off memory when away from my real computer. (plus having cold and flu, does that count as an oops pass as well?) :o) I was sort of close then. Lol :) Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: dan...@macwizardry.com.au Web:http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For Everything Macintosh** On 07/04/2010, at 4:50 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peta Daniel, The older Epson Printer Utility doesn't work in Snow Leopard. In Snow Leopard it was replaced by Epson Printer Utility Lite.app You will find it in your Macintosh HD Library Printers EPSON InkJetPrinter2 Utility UTL - Epson Printer Utility Lite.app And it is “Lite” – it shows a menu for printers, the Ink level status and buttons for “Nozzle Check” and “Head Cleaning”, but nothing else. Cheers, Ronni On 06/04/2010, at 7:34 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Peta You should have Epson Printer Utility, which almost always gets installed if the CD was used to install it. You *may* find an alias to it in your Applications folder. If you don't then there should also be one installed in the following location. NOTE: As the following is buried away in Library folders used by the system please don't move or change or rename anything in here, as all the folder structure is set a specific way the System requires it. Moving or changing things can have damaging effects to your computer. /end note. Macintosh HD - Library - Printers - EPSON - InkjetPrinter - Utilities Inside here should be a Utility called Epson Printer Utility (may have a 1 or 2 or 3 after it). If you run this it will allow you to do the Print Head clean. (If the alias for it isn't in the Application folder, once it's running then you can Control click on it's Dock icon and Choose Keep in Dock, that way it's there for whenever
Re: epson stylus photo R310 Printer
Thank you to all who replied to my Epson printer problem. Yes, I had discovered LITE when following Daniel's instructions. Also the message the printer is not registered once I arrived at this point; therefore I apparently cannot take things any further. Possibly my previous Mac had all the registration details. When my husband bought me my lovely Mac OS X, which of course has Snow Leopard, and I connected the external hard drive (which Daniel had installed onto my first Mac), all programs etc transferred/copied beautifully to this machine and I was soo impressed. The ink level status and buttons for “Nozzle Check” and “Head Cleaning”, not highlighted, cannot use. Problems - when we have bought programs for another Mac, I believe the newer Mac needs re-registering with new reg. numbers. For example, with my first earlier Mac I had bought and paid for Adobe. I was too busy learning and re-educating my ways of doing things from a PC and had never used the Adobe program. Now, although it has transferred to my new Mac, I cannot use the program. Too time consuming in today's world - of course I want instant results! Peta On 07/04/2010, at 5:58 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hey Daniel, Not your bad;-) You did give the correct path to the utility. Sorry to hear you are suffering with cold/flu ... Plenty of liquids (not my champagne) ... And Sleep! Do you remember what SLEEP is?? Get well. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPhone On 07/04/2010, at 5:16 PM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Oops thanks Ronni, my bad That's what I get for working off memory when away from my real computer. (plus having cold and flu, does that count as an oops pass as well?) :o) I was sort of close then. Lol :) Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: dan...@macwizardry.com.au Web:http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For Everything Macintosh** On 07/04/2010, at 4:50 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peta Daniel, The older Epson Printer Utility doesn't work in Snow Leopard. In Snow Leopard it was replaced by Epson Printer Utility Lite.app You will find it in your Macintosh HD Library Printers EPSON InkJetPrinter2 Utility UTL - Epson Printer Utility Lite.app And it is “Lite” – it shows a menu for printers, the Ink level status and buttons for “Nozzle Check” and “Head Cleaning”, but nothing else. Cheers, Ronni On 06/04/2010, at 7:34 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Peta You should have Epson Printer Utility, which almost always gets installed if the CD was used to install it. You *may* find an alias to it in your Applications folder. If you don't then there should also be one installed in the following location. NOTE: As the following is buried away in Library folders used by the system please don't move or change or rename anything in here, as all the folder structure is set a specific way the System requires it. Moving or changing things can have damaging effects to your computer. /end note. Macintosh HD - Library - Printers - EPSON - InkjetPrinter - Utilities Inside here should be a Utility called Epson Printer Utility (may have a 1 or 2 or 3 after it). If you run this it will allow you to do the Print Head clean. (If the alias for it isn't in the Application folder, once it's running then you can Control click on it's Dock icon and Choose Keep in Dock, that way it's there for whenever you need it next, without having to and relook for it) Once you open it, just follow you nose. It should bring up a window listing your model of printer, which you click next arrow, and it will show it's connected via USB. Once you click through enough arrows etc it will take you to a main choice window, where one of the options will be Head Cleaning. (Looks like this link, although not for your printer model):- http://files.support.epson.com/htmldocs/r800__/r800__rf/softx_4.htm#epson%2 0printer%20utility%20functions%20b (Or if the above link doesn't work, here's a tiny one) http://tinyurl.com/yagu6k4 That should get it working for you (hopefully). Kind Regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 6/4/10 7:16 PM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@mac.com wrote: Thanks for this, but no, as I explained to Ronni, this option has never come up since we connected the Epson to the Mac (it used to show up with my Toshiba pc). So I cannot access in this way and there is definitely a problem with horizontal lines. (The printer therefore has not been cleaned for the past 2 years or so.) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au
Re: epson stylus photo R310 Printer
Thank you Daniel, I will try these steps. Peta On 07/04/2010, at 8:35 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Peta Sounds like a few issues going on there. For the Epson one, it may pay to remove the printer and reset it up then see how it goes. For the Adobe software you can deactivate it on the old machine which then allows you to active it on the new machine. Other programs can be similar. Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel On 7/4/10 6:56 PM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@mac.com wrote: Thank you to all who replied to my Epson printer problem. Yes, I had discovered LITE when following Daniel's instructions. Also the message the printer is not registered once I arrived at this point; therefore I apparently cannot take things any further. Possibly my previous Mac had all the registration details. When my husband bought me my lovely Mac OS X, which of course has Snow Leopard, and I connected the external hard drive (which Daniel had installed onto my first Mac), all programs etc transferred/copied beautifully to this machine and I was soo impressed. The ink level status and buttons for “Nozzle Check” and “Head Cleaning”, not highlighted, cannot use. Problems - when we have bought programs for another Mac, I believe the newer Mac needs re-registering with new reg. numbers. For example, with my first earlier Mac I had bought and paid for Adobe. I was too busy learning and re-educating my ways of doing things from a PC and had never used the Adobe program. Now, although it has transferred to my new Mac, I cannot use the program. Too time consuming in today's world - of course I want instant results! Peta On 07/04/2010, at 5:58 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hey Daniel, Not your bad;-) You did give the correct path to the utility. Sorry to hear you are suffering with cold/flu ... Plenty of liquids (not my champagne) ... And Sleep! Do you remember what SLEEP is?? Get well. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPhone On 07/04/2010, at 5:16 PM, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Oops thanks Ronni, my bad That's what I get for working off memory when away from my real computer. (plus having cold and flu, does that count as an oops pass as well?) :o) I was sort of close then. Lol :) Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: dan...@macwizardry.com.au Web:http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For Everything Macintosh** On 07/04/2010, at 4:50 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peta Daniel, The older Epson Printer Utility doesn't work in Snow Leopard. In Snow Leopard it was replaced by Epson Printer Utility Lite.app You will find it in your Macintosh HD Library Printers EPSON InkJetPrinter2 Utility UTL - Epson Printer Utility Lite.app And it is “Lite” – it shows a menu for printers, the Ink level status and buttons for “Nozzle Check” and “Head Cleaning”, but nothing else. Cheers, Ronni On 06/04/2010, at 7:34 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Peta You should have Epson Printer Utility, which almost always gets installed if the CD was used to install it. You *may* find an alias to it in your Applications folder. If you don't then there should also be one installed in the following location. NOTE: As the following is buried away in Library folders used by the system please don't move or change or rename anything in here, as all the folder structure is set a specific way the System requires it. Moving or changing things can have damaging effects to your computer. /end note. Macintosh HD - Library - Printers - EPSON - InkjetPrinter - Utilities Inside here should be a Utility called Epson Printer Utility (may have a 1 or 2 or 3 after it). If you run this it will allow you to do the Print Head clean. (If the alias for it isn't in the Application folder, once it's running then you can Control click on it's Dock icon and Choose Keep in Dock, that way it's there for whenever you need it next, without having to and relook for it) Once you open it, just follow you nose. It should bring up a window listing your model of printer, which you click next arrow, and it will show it's connected via USB. Once you click through enough arrows etc it will take you to a main choice window, where one of the options will be Head Cleaning. (Looks like this link, although not for your printer model):- http://files.support.epson.com/htmldocs/r800__/r800__rf/softx_4.htm#epson %2 0printer%20utility%20functions%20b (Or if the above link doesn't work, here's a tiny one) http://tinyurl.com/yagu6k4 That should get it working for you (hopefully). Kind Regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 6/4/10 7:16 PM
Re: epson stylus photo R310 Printer
Thanks for this, but no, as I explained to Ronni, this option has never come up since we connected the Epson to the Mac (it used to show up with my Toshiba pc). So I cannot access in this way and there is definitely a problem with horizontal lines. (The printer therefore has not been cleaned for the past 2 years or so.) On 06/04/2010, at 11:04 AM, Kaye and Geoff wrote: Peta, I have had my Epson Stylus Photo R310 Printer for several years (probably a few several years!) Do you have Printer Setup Utility? If so, open this, select your printer, then click on the utility button to get access to head cleaning, etc. Cheers, K -- Kaye Stott and Geoff Prince email: k...@kgweb.org.au web: http://www.kgweb.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
epson stylus photo R310 Printer
Hullo all I have had my Epson Stylus Photo R310 Printer for several years (probably a few several years!) This printer was used mainly just for printing photos from my other PC (Microsoft stuff). When I bought my first Apple Mac we plugged the Epson into the Apple and this is the only printer I use with the Mac. This has worked fine for about 2 years, but now there is a deterioration in the quality of my photos; i.e. I ca now see horizontal lines across each photo (faint, light). Also, I don't think the colour is as sharp as it should be. I don't use the printer all that often, because we can take bulk photos to Officeworks etc, so usually I just use the Epson when I have a small number of photos which I want immediately. Plus general printing (which seems to be okay - I think, no need to print very often). I cannot find anything in WAMUG archives dealing with this problem specifically, and nor can I obtain any help from going online to Epson. Does anyone have any advice on how I can tell the Mac to clean the printhead or similar? I do hope it is not anything manual that I have to do. Keep the messy fingers for the computers nowadays please! Many thanks in advance Peta Mac OS X V.10.6.3 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: epson stylus photo R310 Printer
Ronni - Many thanks for this. At least you are not stuck in traffic coming home from a mini-break somewhere! I have tried to follow your instructions - however when I click on Options Supplies Utility I can only choose from General : Driver or Supply Level. The option to click on either Clean Print Heads or Open Printer Utility then Head Cleaning is not there. I can remember that in the past when I try to check my various Ink Supply cartridges I have to go through several steps, which are not as I previously did when the printer was connected to my HP laptop, and it takes me a while to remember and work out how to establish my ink levels for each cartridge. So the main message in General is - Queue Name: Epson Stylus-R310. In Driver Version: 5.2.3 URL: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%2ODR3107 serial=MGP10403170313500. When I click on the Driver, this reads Print Using : Epson Stylus Photo R310-Gutenprint v523 To take full advantagecheck printers documentation. When I click on the tab Supply Levels the message is just Information Not Available. I am not sure if there is another way to approach this. Any suggestions very gratefully received! Peta On 05/04/2010, at 4:56 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 05/04/2010, at 4:33 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Hullo all I have had my Epson Stylus Photo R310 Printer for several years (probably a few several years!) This printer was used mainly just for printing photos from my other PC (Microsoft stuff). When I bought my first Apple Mac we plugged the Epson into the Apple and this is the only printer I use with the Mac. This has worked fine for about 2 years, but now there is a deterioration in the quality of my photos; i.e. I ca now see horizontal lines across each photo (faint, light). Also, I don't think the colour is as sharp as it should be. I don't use the printer all that often, because we can take bulk photos to Officeworks etc, so usually I just use the Epson when I have a small number of photos which I want immediately. Plus general printing (which seems to be okay - I think, no need to print very often). I cannot find anything in WAMUG archives dealing with this problem specifically, and nor can I obtain any help from going online to Epson. Does anyone have any advice on how I can tell the Mac to clean the printhead or similar? I do hope it is not anything manual that I have to do. Keep the messy fingers for the computers nowadays please! Many thanks in advance Peta Mac OS X V.10.6.3 Hi Peta, Sounds like you need to do Head Cleaning. In System Preferences Print Fax, click on your EPSON R310, then click on Options Supplies Utility. Then click on either Clean Print Heads or Open Printer Utility then Head Cleaning. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Off Topic ?
Very funny, I smiled. On 21/02/2010, at 4:58 PM, John Feltham wrote: -- Bill Gates In Heaven Bill Gates died and, much to everyone's surprise, went to Heaven. When he got there, he had to wait in the reception area, which was about the size of Massachusetts. There were millions of people living in tents. Food and water were being distributed from the backs of trucks, while staffers with clipboards slowly worked their way through the crowd. Bill lived in a tent for three weeks until, finally, a staffer in his late teens approached him. The young man was wearing a blue T-shirt with the words TEAM PETER emblazoned on it in large yellow letters. Hello, said the staffer in a bored voice. My name is Gabriel and I'll be your induction coordinator. Bill started to ask a question, but Gabriel interrupted him. No, I'm not the Archangel Gabriel. I'm a guy from Philadelphia named Gabriel who died in a car wreck at 17. Now give me your name, last name first, unless you were Chinese, in which case it's first name first. Gates, Bill. Gabriel started searching through the sheaf of papers on his clipboard, looking for Bill's Record of Earthly Works. What's going on here? asked Bill. Why are all these people here? Where's St. Peter? Where are the pearly gates? Gabriel ignored the questions until he located Bill's records. It says here that you were the president of a large software company. Is that right? Yes. Well do the math! When this St. Peter business started, it was easy. Only a hundred or so people died every day, and Peter could handle it by himself. But now there are over five billion people on earth. When God said to 'go forth and multiply,' he didn't say 'like rabbits!' Ten thousand people die every hour, over a quarter-million a day. Do you think Peter can meet them all personally? I guess not. You guess right. So he had to franchise the operation. Now, Peter is the CEO of Team Peter Enterprises, Inc. Franchisees like me handle the actual inductions. Gabriel looked though his paperwork some more and then continued. Your paperwork seems to be in order. And with a background like yours, you'll be getting a plum job assignment. Job assignment? Of course. Did you expect to spend eternity sitting on your bum and drinking ambrosia? Heaven is a big operation. You have to pull your weight around here! Gabriel took out a triplicate form, had Bill sign at the bottom, and then tore out the middle copy and handed it to Bill. Take this down to induction center no. 23 and meet up with your occupational coordinator. His name is Abraham--and no, he's not that Abraham. Bill walked to induction center no. 23 and met with Abraham after a mere six-hour wait. Heaven is centuries behind in building its data-processing infrastructure, explained Abraham. As you've seen, we're still doing everything on paper. It takes us a week just to process new entries. Your job will be to supervise Heaven's new data processing center. We're building the largest computing facility in creation. Half a million computers connected by a multisegment fiber-optic network, all running into a back-end server network with a thousand CPUs on a gigabit channel. Fault tolerant, distributed processing, the works. Bill could barely contain his excitement. Wow! What a great job! This is really Heaven! We're just finishing construction, and we'll be starting operations soon. Would you like to go see the center now? You bet! Abraham and Bill caught the shuttle bus and went to Heaven's new data processing center. It was a truly huge facility, a hundred times bigger than the Astrodome. Workers were crawling all over the place, getting the miles of fiber optic cables properly installed. But the center was dominated by the computers. Half a million computers, arranged nearly row-by-row, half a million... Macintoshes. .. all running Apple software! Not a PC in sight! Not a single byte of Microsoft code! The thought of spending eternity using products he had spent his whole life working to destroy was too much for Bill. What about PCs??? he exclaimed. What about Windows??? Excel??? Word??? You're forgetting something, said Abraham. What's that? asked Bill plaintively. This is Heaven, explained Abraham. If you want to build a data processing center based on PCs running Windows, then you'll have to go elsewhere! __._,_.___ ooroo -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe -
Re: Creating a Slideshow in iPhoto 8 OneStep DVD in iDVD 7
Ronni Hooray! Thank you so much - I have been hoping for something like this for quite a while! Sometimes when our various questions are asked (definitely including mine) on a specific subject, and there are many responses with more queries popping up over the months from other people, I have wished for a volunteer to gather up all of the information and place it into logical steps so even the basic beginner - and those who do know a lot - can just follow simple steps. Again thank you. I will look forward to some more How To tutorials in the future. I will email you off list. Regards Peta On 21/02/2010, at 8:34 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello WAMUG Members, I've had a few people asking if I would do a How To showing how to create an 'Easy-Simple' Slideshow in iPhoto and output it to a DVD to view on a TV set. I've created a 13 page PDF with screenshots showing how to create a simple iPhoto Slideshow and then how to create a OneStep DVD of the Slideshow in iDVD. This is an easy way to be able to show clients (if you are a Professional Photographer), or family friends, a DVD of photos you have taken for them. They can insert the DVD in a standard DVD player connected to a TV and it will immediately play for them to watch and enjoy. You can of course create much more professional DVDs with great looking Themes and Menus Customising in iDVD. I especially like, and use a lot, 'Revolution' Theme, 'Reflection White'Theme 'Memories' Theme. Among projects I do, I have filmed a few Weddings, and edited them in iMovie HD ( trying to find time to learn Final Cut Express 4), and produced the DVDs in iDVD using the 'Wedding White Theme', with rolling credits at the end with every guest included in the credits. They have all turned out beautifully. I give copies of the DVD to the couple and their parents. They all love and cherish the DVD of their Weddings. I keep Disc Images of all the projects I do, so I am always able to burn another copy for people. When I can find some time, I perhaps will do more 'How To' tutorials. The PDF is named CREATING A SLIDESHOW IN iPHOTO 8 OneStep DVD in iDVD 7, and I have uploaded it to my website. I have Password Protected my website as last time with my iPhone 3G S Settings Menu PDF I had over 700+ downloads. So more than WAMUG Members were hitting on my site and downloading my work. If anyone wishes to download the PDF ( 2.5MB ), please email me Off-List I will supply you with Username Password. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Long Service Leave for Second Semester 2010
Hullo Reg Well this is a good idea - to make a plan for this time! Just for interest - assuming that there may be WAMUGgers out there with the following moments - (including me) - have you thought of combining Mac related-private tuition for those who are not so technically minded, but would like to be shown some how to strategies for the particular interests they have with their Macs? If this is a consideration (and even with your other skills of gardening, teaching, etc etc), perhaps you would need to set out a price list for prospective clients? Happy retirement planning. Peta On 11/02/2010, at 10:17 PM, Reg Whitely wrote: Dear WAMUGgers I'm planning to take 6 months long service leave from school in 2nd Semester. I'm not planning to travel far; just to take a good break from school and consider transition to retirement options in 2011. I might be interested in doing some work around town, ICT, Mac related, private tuition and teaching, gardens or other. Please keep it in mind. Regards Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Work: 08 9921 1793 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net Web: http://web.me.com/whitelyr/Reg/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: [NQMUG] Apple's Find Out How series
Thanks for this info. I have had a quick brief look and will look into this a bit more later. Sounds good. Peta On 11/02/2010, at 7:58 AM, John Feltham wrote: G'day, Apple has released some of its Find Out How series of videos as podcasts. Details can be found at the link. http://www.macworld.com.au/help/view/apple-offers-find-out-how-tutorials-as-podcasts-4518 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
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message ' iphotos locked
Help. I now have (for about 2 months) a Mac OS X Version 10.6.2, running on Snow Leopard - (which I did not know until today - when I foolishly declared that Snow Leopard had not caused me any problems). I have not used the Mac a great deal lately, but have downloaded my Christmas photos. I just clicked onto iPhotos in the dock to look at my photos, but immediately received a spinning ball and a blank iPhoto box, and eventually a message which flashed quickly on the screen along the lines of iPhotos is locked - it was too quick for me to take notes. A report was sent to Apple. How would I reinstate my iPhotos (which is the main reason for having my Mac). Thanking you in anticipation, Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: message ' iphotos locked
Thank you Ronni for your prompt reply. I followed your steps carefully and unlocked the padlock. Unfortunately iPhoto still does not open, and I receive the same message Caution - the iPhoto Library is locked, on a locked disk or you do not have permission to make changes to it. No-one except me goes into these files. I transferred all information etc painlessly from my earlier Mac 10.6.2 about a month ago, and have had no problems since. I have edited photos, made slideshow etc. in the usual way. My version of iPhotos shows as V.8.1.1. I always carry out updates when prompted. Thanking you for your efforts. Peta On 01/01/2010, at 8:53 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 01/01/2010, at 8:18 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Help. I now have (for about 2 months) a Mac OS X Version 10.6.2, running on Snow Leopard - (which I did not know until today - when I foolishly declared that Snow Leopard had not caused me any problems). I have not used the Mac a great deal lately, but have downloaded my Christmas photos. I just clicked onto iPhotos in the dock to look at my photos, but immediately received a spinning ball and a blank iPhoto box, and eventually a message which flashed quickly on the screen along the lines of iPhotos is locked - it was too quick for me to take notes. A report was sent to Apple. How would I reinstate my iPhotos (which is the main reason for having my Mac). Hi Peta, What version of iPhoto are you using? Do you have iPhoto on an external disk or on your Mac? Try this anyway: 1.Click in the Finder icon (square blue smiley face) to bring up a Finder window. 2.It should open to your Home (if not, click on your user name on the left column). 3.Double click on your Pictures folder. 4.Select IPhoto Library by clicking on it once. 5.Select Get Info from the File menu (or click Command-I) and look for Sharing Permissions at the bottom of the Get Info window. 6.If you only see the name, click the black triangle to its left to open the section. 7.Select your user name on the left and set your privileges to Read Write. You may need to click the padlock icon on the lower right and enter your user name and password to enable the change. Let us know what your result is please. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: message ' iphotos locked
Good morning Ronni Just after I had sent you the email below my Mac died, I just had a spinning wheel (it had asked me to do a software download). Not the coloured ball. This continued all night and I have only just done the old fashioned turn it off at the back - and then on again after a few minutes. So of course I did not get any emails etc. until just now. I will now try your steps. **By memory yes, I did see a Read Write permission. (Not that my memory is always reliable). Yes, there was a bit of panic on my part. Hoping to let you know shortly that this has worked! Peta On 01/01/2010, at 9:17 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Peta, When you unlocked the padlock ... Do you have Read Write permissions? If you do iPhoto is on your Mac, not an external drive. Try rebuild the library: hold down the apple and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup. Ronni On 01/01/2010, at 9:10 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Thank you Ronni for your prompt reply. I followed your steps carefully and unlocked the padlock. Unfortunately iPhoto still does not open, and I receive the same message Caution - the iPhoto Library is locked, on a locked disk or you do not have permission to make changes to it. No-one except me goes into these files. I transferred all information etc painlessly from my earlier Mac 10.6.2 about a month ago, and have had no problems since. I have edited photos, made slideshow etc. in the usual way. My version of iPhotos shows as V.8.1.1. I always carry out updates when prompted. Thanking you for your efforts. Peta On 01/01/2010, at 8:53 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 01/01/2010, at 8:18 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Help. I now have (for about 2 months) a Mac OS X Version 10.6.2, running on Snow Leopard - (which I did not know until today - when I foolishly declared that Snow Leopard had not caused me any problems). I have not used the Mac a great deal lately, but have downloaded my Christmas photos. I just clicked onto iPhotos in the dock to look at my photos, but immediately received a spinning ball and a blank iPhoto box, and eventually a message which flashed quickly on the screen along the lines of iPhotos is locked - it was too quick for me to take notes. A report was sent to Apple. How would I reinstate my iPhotos (which is the main reason for having my Mac). Hi Peta, What version of iPhoto are you using? Do you have iPhoto on an external disk or on your Mac? Try this anyway: 1.Click in the Finder icon (square blue smiley face) to bring up a Finder window. 2.It should open to your Home (if not, click on your user name on the left column). 3.Double click on your Pictures folder. 4.Select IPhoto Library by clicking on it once. 5.Select Get Info from the File menu (or click Command-I) and look for Sharing Permissions at the bottom of the Get Info window. 6.If you only see the name, click the black triangle to its left to open the section. 7.Select your user name on the left and set your privileges to Read Write. You may need to click the padlock icon on the lower right and enter your user name and password to enable the change. Let us know what your result is please. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: message ' iphotos locked
Hooray - hullo again Ronni I printed off your first set of advice ready to follow the steps listed in your second set of advice. Out of curiosity, I clicked on my iPhoto icon first to see if it would open. This happened successfully, so your first piece of advice did work. Just because there was some other unknown hiccup with the Mac I could not access anything. Again, thank you so much. Have a great day. Best regards Peta PS Ronni, would you recommend that I purchase the iWorks 09? On 01/01/2010, at 9:17 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Peta, When you unlocked the padlock ... Do you have Read Write permissions? If you do iPhoto is on your Mac, not an external drive. Try rebuild the library: hold down the apple and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup. Ronni On 01/01/2010, at 9:10 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Thank you Ronni for your prompt reply. I followed your steps carefully and unlocked the padlock. Unfortunately iPhoto still does not open, and I receive the same message Caution - the iPhoto Library is locked, on a locked disk or you do not have permission to make changes to it. No-one except me goes into these files. I transferred all information etc painlessly from my earlier Mac 10.6.2 about a month ago, and have had no problems since. I have edited photos, made slideshow etc. in the usual way. My version of iPhotos shows as V.8.1.1. I always carry out updates when prompted. Thanking you for your efforts. Peta On 01/01/2010, at 8:53 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 01/01/2010, at 8:18 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Help. I now have (for about 2 months) a Mac OS X Version 10.6.2, running on Snow Leopard - (which I did not know until today - when I foolishly declared that Snow Leopard had not caused me any problems). I have not used the Mac a great deal lately, but have downloaded my Christmas photos. I just clicked onto iPhotos in the dock to look at my photos, but immediately received a spinning ball and a blank iPhoto box, and eventually a message which flashed quickly on the screen along the lines of iPhotos is locked - it was too quick for me to take notes. A report was sent to Apple. How would I reinstate my iPhotos (which is the main reason for having my Mac). Hi Peta, What version of iPhoto are you using? Do you have iPhoto on an external disk or on your Mac? Try this anyway: 1.Click in the Finder icon (square blue smiley face) to bring up a Finder window. 2.It should open to your Home (if not, click on your user name on the left column). 3.Double click on your Pictures folder. 4.Select IPhoto Library by clicking on it once. 5.Select Get Info from the File menu (or click Command-I) and look for Sharing Permissions at the bottom of the Get Info window. 6.If you only see the name, click the black triangle to its left to open the section. 7.Select your user name on the left and set your privileges to Read Write. You may need to click the padlock icon on the lower right and enter your user name and password to enable the change. Let us know what your result is please. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: message ' iphotos locked
Thank you Ronni - I will get to this. Regards Peta On 02/01/2010, at 11:42 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, I would suggest you use the 'Snow Leopard Install Disc' or at least use 'Disk Utility' and Repair Permissions on your iMac. iPhoto should not have locked as it did, your iMac should not have required a Force Shutdown as it did. I don't recommend a Force Shutdown by pressing the Power Button, (I know sometimes this might be the only way). turn it off at the back - and then on again after a few minutes Warning: Forcing a shutdown or restart will likely result in the loss of unsaved changes in open documents. Other potential consequences include hard disk, cache, or preferences corruption. Some keyboard Shortcuts for Shutdown/Sleep Commands: Control-Eject: The dialog box Are you sure you want to shut down? appears with options to Restart, Sleep, Cancel or Shut Down. Control-Command-Eject: Quits all applications (after giving you a chance to save changes to open documents) and restarts the computer. Control-Option-Command-Eject: Quits all applications (after giving you a chance to save changes to open documents) and shuts the computer down. Control-Shift-Eject: Put display to sleep Cheers, Ronni On 02/01/2010, at 10:17 AM, peta belczowski wrote: Good morning Ronni Just after I had sent you the email below my Mac died, I just had a spinning wheel (it had asked me to do a software download). Not the coloured ball. This continued all night and I have only just done the old fashioned turn it off at the back - and then on again after a few minutes. So of course I did not get any emails etc. until just now. I will now try your steps. **By memory yes, I did see a Read Write permission. (Not that my memory is always reliable). Yes, there was a bit of panic on my part. Hoping to let you know shortly that this has worked! Peta On 01/01/2010, at 9:17 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Peta, When you unlocked the padlock ... Do you have Read Write permissions? If you do iPhoto is on your Mac, not an external drive. Try rebuild the library: hold down the apple and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup. Ronni On 01/01/2010, at 9:10 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Thank you Ronni for your prompt reply. I followed your steps carefully and unlocked the padlock. Unfortunately iPhoto still does not open, and I receive the same message Caution - the iPhoto Library is locked, on a locked disk or you do not have permission to make changes to it. No-one except me goes into these files. I transferred all information etc painlessly from my earlier Mac 10.6.2 about a month ago, and have had no problems since. I have edited photos, made slideshow etc. in the usual way. My version of iPhotos shows as V.8.1.1. I always carry out updates when prompted. Thanking you for your efforts. Peta On 01/01/2010, at 8:53 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 01/01/2010, at 8:18 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Help. I now have (for about 2 months) a Mac OS X Version 10.6.2, running on Snow Leopard - (which I did not know until today - when I foolishly declared that Snow Leopard had not caused me any problems). I have not used the Mac a great deal lately, but have downloaded my Christmas photos. I just clicked onto iPhotos in the dock to look at my photos, but immediately received a spinning ball and a blank iPhoto box, and eventually a message which flashed quickly on the screen along the lines of iPhotos is locked - it was too quick for me to take notes. A report was sent to Apple. How would I reinstate my iPhotos (which is the main reason for having my Mac). Hi Peta, What version of iPhoto are you using? Do you have iPhoto on an external disk or on your Mac? Try this anyway: 1.Click in the Finder icon (square blue smiley face) to bring up a Finder window. 2.It should open to your Home (if not, click on your user name on the left column). 3.Double click on your Pictures folder. 4.Select IPhoto Library by clicking on it once. 5.Select Get Info from the File menu (or click Command-I) and look for Sharing Permissions at the bottom of the Get Info window. 6.If you only see the name, click the black triangle to its left to open the section. 7.Select your user name on the left and set your privileges to Read Write. You may need to click the padlock icon on the lower right and enter your user name and password to enable the change. Let us know what your result is please. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au
Re: message ' iphotos locked
Ronni Again, many thanks. I will go ahead and buy this. I don't think (at this stage anyway) that Relative Hyperlinks and Bookmarks will effect me much, so I should be fine for how I am using my Mac. (Of course the law of averages being what they are, one week after I buy iWorks 09 and install it, someone will show me some fantastic ways to use these). Oh well, I know where to go to ask for help! Have a great week. Peta On 02/01/2010, at 12:57 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 02/01/2010, at 10:28 AM, peta belczowski wrote: PS Ronni, would you recommend that I purchase the iWorks 09? Hi Peta, I have used all versions of iWork and find each version has improved (as also iLife versions have). I use iWork a lot for my projects, especially Pages. I use Pages'09 to write Technical eBooks, but still find I use Adobe Acrobat Professional v8.0 to do my Bookmarks that link to certain sections on a page. Pages does let you create Bookmark 'links' to other pages, but I have not been able to get Pages'09 to 'link' to sections (subheadings) on the same page. I know you are supposed to be able to, but as yet I haven't found 'the way' to do exactly what I require ;-) Also Pages does NOT support Relative Hyperlinks, it turns all Relative Hyperlinks into Absolute Hyperlinks (therefore placing a http in front of Relative Hyperlinks, changing them to URL's). Pages'09 only supports 'Absolute' links (URL's) This would not concern most people, but when I wrote What to do if you loose your Broadband Internet Connection, I needed to create a PDF with Relative Hyperlinks to Mac Help Viewer articles, Pages could not do this, I had to use other applications. In Text Edit all the links work 'Absolute' 'Relative' ... until you export to PDF or use the Print Save as PDF. But yes, I would recommend iWork'09. Taken from CNET Reviews-The Interface tweaks make commonly used features more accessible. Flashy, eye-catching presentations are even easier to make. iWork apps play well together with added interoperability across the suite. http://www.apple.com/iwork/ The iWork Tutorials are a good place to start learning how to use each application. http://www.apple.com/iwork/tutorials/#pages Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhoto
Graeme As Paul has said, I am sure you will find that your photos will be in Photos and also in Events. Originally, nearly 2 years ago, I also was not happy with the way in which iPhoto sorted out my photos, and I battled (am battling) on in various ways to try and force iPhoto to put my photos where I wanted, and as I had them originally placed on my PC. Having actually lost photos right off the system (because I was trying to cut and paste as I had done on my PC) I had to accept and give in, still trying to adapt to the way the Mac handles photos. This date order that iPhoto works on is actually a nuisance to me because many of my photos have been taken from old slides; or having been scanned in from an old/new photo. iPhoto recognises the dates of these photos as the date they actually are placed into iPhotos., so old-by-date photos, when imported into an existing folder, place themselves up with the most recent-in-date photos. (No problems with dates with digital cameras). Two things that I have found of great help. One, is to work from Events, then you can place these - by dragging the folders - in the order you want them. You can also merge one folder into another when you want to, by dragging one file onto the top of another folder. EG, I have Christmas 1979, Christmas 1980, Christmas 1981; Holidays 1999, Holidays 2000; Birthdays 2000, Birthdays 2001 and so on. If I come across more Christmas 1979 photos I import these and then go into Events and add to/merge my earlier file. So each section in Events is in the order and date order that suits me. The second thing I have done (I have gone over every photo, nearly 10,000, gradually and done this, - now I do it each time I place photos by whatever method into iPhoto) - is to rename each photo. This helps greatly in the excellent search function in iPhoto. (**I have also renamed, where I think it appropriate) each file name. So within Family Tree Smith file (bearing in mind some of my photos areninserted from slides, or which I have scanned in) have been renamed so each individual photo reads, EG Smith F.T. Pemberton Pool, Denis, Janet 1940's. Then I can search by Smith or by Pemberton, or by Denis, and up come my photos. It is always better to give a time frame whenever you can to save problems later, EG much better when possible to firstly show 2009-09-11; or even Sept. 2009. With really old photos I try to put at least, 1940 ish. Sometimes I have photos given to me by another person and these may have been put onto a USB stick. Then it is important to also retain the same name that your source has given to them - EG Smith F.T. Farm, Mum, Gran 1950 ft ks 115619. Partially meaningless to us, but important if we need to ask our source any questions about that particular photo at a later date. Hopefully this also will help you a little. Have fun Peta On 21/12/2009, at 10:29 PM, Paul van der Mey wrote: Graeme My experience with iPhoto is that all the images appear in Photos AND Events. The difference being that Events groups the photos by time (the default on import?, Go to iPhoto - Preferences - Events to see the other options) Go to the events view and slowly drag across one of the images. You should see a slide show of the images in that Event. Double click to view the images in the Event. You should find all Events are groups of images taken on the same day. It is possible to turn the auto-splitting on import function off when importing from the finder (a check box in the Event Preferences) in which case you would see events as folder names that have been imported. Thank you Paul van der Mey p...@interactive-knowledge.biz Mob. 0419 201 477 On 21/12/2009, at 5:48 PM, Graeme Winters wrote: Greetings to all As a very recent Imac user I transferred all of My Photos from my PC to the new Mac using a Belkin Switch to Cable system and everything appears to have come across. I had many years of photos on my old PC and the transfer took some time I had over a 100 folders including many from a recent trip to Europe. These most recent photos were taken on a Canon and a Fuji. The Canon downloaded all pictures neatly into folders according to the date the photo was taken whereas the Fuji did not and I then sorted each Fuji download into folders according to the town or place we visited over 70 days. There was nearly 9Gb of photos from this recent trip Curious thing now is that a great number of My Pictures have ended up in Photos and the rest in Events It does appear as though the Mac may have decided that if the folder was the name of a person then those photos went into Photos and if the folder was named say by a location then this lot went into Events. This was not the case in 100% of cases but simply a guess on my part at the moment Those photos now in Photos appear also to be sorted by the date the photo was
Re: Growl App - Console Log warning
Ronni Thank you for your instructions on removing Growl. Like Alan, I also was puzzled as to where this had come from, and why it kept appearing on my desktop A newer version of Growl is Available. Click to Install. I could not establish what it was for. You would not believe it - I thought - okay, Leopard, Growl, must be connected So I had clicked yes to download. Following your instructions I have now manually removed this. Peta On 11/12/2009, at 7:31 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Alan, To manually remove Growl: 1) Go into the Growl preferences in system preferences 2) Uncheck Display Growl Status in the menu bar 3) Uncheck Start at Login 4) Stop Growl 5) Click on Show All at the top of system preferences 6) Control+click the Growl preferences, then click to remove Growl Cheers, Ronni On 11/12/2009, at 7:17 AM, Alan Smith wrote: What should I do with Console now it is on the Dock and logging new data frequently?This morning the Console log popped onto desktop at the same time as the requested DiskUtility.log.(Coincidence?) Console shows a steady count of 4000 messages so I assume the oldest entries are being removed. Recent messages mainly relate to the Growl application. I never requested Growl but it recently self installed. It appeared about the time I installed DropBox. Is the Growl app necessary or even useful? The last couple of thousand entries show Growl attempting to do things unsuccessfully over the last few days. Notwithstanding glowing references, a Google search for Growl information doesn’t inspire me it is a must-have tool. Regards, Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5 Nov 2009 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz / 4 MB OSX 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Maxtor Basic 500GB USB HDD partitioned for Time Machine and Music -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Label addresses app.
Hullo Ronni Did you mean that you have devised a Template of your own to work with Labels, or were the instructions below, addressed to David and Bill, your guide for working with the address book or with Keynote on the Apple? If you have devised your own template to do this, if possible, I also would very much appreciate working with your Template for Labels. At this stage I have been continuing to use my Labels on my PC because I have them all set up and I am very familiar with what I want to do. I would certainly be interested in setting up all of this information on the Mac. My attempts at using Avery Labels with the Mac did not quickly fall into line with my wishes! If this is possible Ronni that would be great. Peta On 24/11/2009, at 6:07 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi David Bill, I decided to have a fiddle around with a Label Template in Pages'09 to be able to Mail Merge a Group from Address Book. The completed Template will work with Avery Address Labels - 1” x 2-5/8” - 30 labels per sheet (5160, 5260, 5520, 5630, 5660, 5960, 8160, 8250, 8460, 8660) + more. Because I also needed (as David for his Return to Sender) to be able to Mail Merge just my own contact details with this Template, I also created a Group in Address Book named ME (which only has my contact in it). To use The Template: 1. Double click on Address Labels.pages 2. Once the Template opens in Pages go to Edit Mail Merge 3. Select a Mail Merge Source (select Address Book), then Select your Group 4. Click Merge One Page of 30 Labels for every person in your Group will be created. If you only have one person in your Group (i.e - my ME Group), one page of 30 Labels will be created. If this Template is useful to David Bill (or anyone on list), you are welcome to use it. I have not tried printing from it yet, as my Printer is at the 'Printer Doctor' :-( I can email it to you if you wish to try it. Cheers, Ronni On 24/11/2009, at 11:32 AM, David Noel wrote: -- I too have had a need for multiple copies of the same label, in my case a 'Return to Sender' label for mail to a discontinued entity. -- The simplest way is just to set up a complete label sheet, eg with 30 labels, using 30 copies of the same record, and then use N copies at the print stage to get 30N labels. Just a reductionist thought. Cheers -- David Noel 2009 Nov 25 On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi John, Bill was wanting to print his Return Address on Mailing Labels to a Group he has in Address Book. You cannot as far as I'm aware include your Return Address on the Mailing Labels. Address Book does not have that facility. You can, however, configure it to print envelopes with an addressee and your return address, but this is not what Bill wants to do. You can create a label in a word processor then replicate it on a label template. Pages, and other word processors have Avery label templates. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard On 23/11/2009, at 9:09 PM, John Winters wrote: Umm Bill, You know you can set up your own address in Address Book. You can even select that card and go to the menu Card and select Make this my card. When you print the labels from your card, you have the return address capability ...built in to it just as you desire. No need to invoke MS BS or complain to any department at Apple. If you wanted to get really fancy, you could also set up a graphic logo with your return details and print this onto every label by default. Go to print, then set Style as Mailing Labels. Click on the Label tab, and on the second last line, choose Image: and click the button Set... to choose your pre-prepared logo. HTH John From: Bill Cole bill.c...@bigpond.com Reply-To: User Group Mac User Group Mac WA wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:15:29 +0800 To: User Group Mac User Group Mac WA wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Label addresses app. Hi All, once again thanks to Ronda, Neil, Mervyn Giuliana, for their input ( always willing to help ) I shall be using apples Address Book for printing my address labels , as for the return address labels I have done those on my MS word 2004 ( much to my disgust) I am amazed that Apples Address Book, whilst it does almost everything relating to mailing , it does not have this built into it. I certainly don't want to us MS by choice .can anyone supply me with the email address of the appropriate department at Apple, and I will send it to them to see if they could consider putting it into Address book ! Once again thank you for all your time help Bill On 20/11/2009, at 11:04 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Bill, I don't know of a way to use the Mailing Labels function for multiple copies of the
Re: Label addresses app.
Ronni - thank you so much. Yes, (referring to your reply to Bill) - I also wonder where you find the time to respond to various cries for help whenever I see your name pop up on this list - and this seems to be more and more frequently. I guess that it must be a compulsion with you to answer each challenge, and I personally have certainly benefited from your replies. Please take a break over Christmas! Peta On 24/11/2009, at 8:10 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, The Template is for Pages'09. It is for using Mail Merge of a Group from Address Book, as explained below to David Bill. I'll email it to your private address and you can play around with it to see if it suits your needs. Cheers, Ronni On 24/11/2009, at 7:44 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Hullo Ronni Did you mean that you have devised a Template of your own to work with Labels, or were the instructions below, addressed to David and Bill, your guide for working with the address book or with Keynote on the Apple? If you have devised your own template to do this, if possible, I also would very much appreciate working with your Template for Labels. At this stage I have been continuing to use my Labels on my PC because I have them all set up and I am very familiar with what I want to do. I would certainly be interested in setting up all of this information on the Mac. My attempts at using Avery Labels with the Mac did not quickly fall into line with my wishes! If this is possible Ronni that would be great. Peta On 24/11/2009, at 6:07 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi David Bill, I decided to have a fiddle around with a Label Template in Pages'09 to be able to Mail Merge a Group from Address Book. The completed Template will work with Avery Address Labels - 1” x 2-5/8” - 30 labels per sheet (5160, 5260, 5520, 5630, 5660, 5960, 8160, 8250, 8460, 8660) + more. Because I also needed (as David for his Return to Sender) to be able to Mail Merge just my own contact details with this Template, I also created a Group in Address Book named ME (which only has my contact in it). To use The Template: 1. Double click on Address Labels.pages 2. Once the Template opens in Pages go to Edit Mail Merge 3. Select a Mail Merge Source (select Address Book), then Select your Group 4. Click Merge One Page of 30 Labels for every person in your Group will be created. If you only have one person in your Group (i.e - my ME Group), one page of 30 Labels will be created. If this Template is useful to David Bill (or anyone on list), you are welcome to use it. I have not tried printing from it yet, as my Printer is at the 'Printer Doctor' :-( I can email it to you if you wish to try it. Cheers, Ronni On 24/11/2009, at 11:32 AM, David Noel wrote: -- I too have had a need for multiple copies of the same label, in my case a 'Return to Sender' label for mail to a discontinued entity. -- The simplest way is just to set up a complete label sheet, eg with 30 labels, using 30 copies of the same record, and then use N copies at the print stage to get 30N labels. Just a reductionist thought. Cheers -- David Noel 2009 Nov 25 On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi John, Bill was wanting to print his Return Address on Mailing Labels to a Group he has in Address Book. You cannot as far as I'm aware include your Return Address on the Mailing Labels. Address Book does not have that facility. You can, however, configure it to print envelopes with an addressee and your return address, but this is not what Bill wants to do. You can create a label in a word processor then replicate it on a label template. Pages, and other word processors have Avery label templates. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard On 23/11/2009, at 9:09 PM, John Winters wrote: Umm Bill, You know you can set up your own address in Address Book. You can even select that card and go to the menu Card and select Make this my card. When you print the labels from your card, you have the return address capability ...built in to it just as you desire. No need to invoke MS BS or complain to any department at Apple. If you wanted to get really fancy, you could also set up a graphic logo with your return details and print this onto every label by default. Go to print, then set Style as Mailing Labels. Click on the Label tab, and on the second last line, choose Image: and click the button Set... to choose your pre-prepared logo. HTH John From: Bill Cole bill.c...@bigpond.com Reply-To: User Group Mac User Group Mac WA wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:15:29 +0800 To: User Group Mac User Group Mac WA wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Label addresses app. Hi All, once again thanks to Ronda, Neil, Mervyn
Re: iPhoto printing
Hullo Ronni I have been stewing on your reply to my query on October 26, and Eugene's later reply to my query re reverting to original situations. I have experimented with this successfully; however, your comment about Moving things, renaming things has been bothering me. When I receive photos to place into iPhoto they come from various sources, i.e. someone may email them to me, or they come from a USB stick, or they may be scanned in. Some of these photos are very old and there is no clue as to the true date the photo was taken. The Mac of course gives them the date that they were placed into iPhoto (not of course photos from a digital camera where we can always obtain the true date). Sometimes I wish to place these photos into a relevant Family Tree folder, or e.g., 2008 Christmas folder. Then, in order to use the excellent Search button in iPhoto I like to show the names of the people in the photo. Some photos just show Img 24 and have not been named, obviously originally from a digital camera, or scanner. Sometimes the person who has given me the photos has their own code for naming photos. Sorry, I am rambling on - now, when I receive a photo as a single or as a group, I re-name each photo with a code which is meaningful to me, e.g. Family Tree Smith 1931-ish Mum, Dad, Gran. Then of course that or those photos are placed into the Family Tree Smith folder. Therefore, I assume that I have interfered with the original and it may not be able to be reverted, whether or not I have actually modified the actual photo? Thanks for any advice on this, I just wanted to absolutely clarify this point. Have a good day. Peculiar weather! Peta On 26/10/2009, at 12:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, iPhoto never deletes the original. It always preserves it, treating it like a film photographer minds his negative. There is no way to remove the Original from iPhoto. This facilitates the Photos - Revert to Original command in iPhoto and the non-destructive editing feature. This is one of the reasons we are always telling people, NEVER touch anything in the iPhoto Library, do everything in iPhoto application, then the originals are protected. Do not remove the original file yourself: Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos. Cheers, Ronni On 26/10/2009, at 12:31 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Thank you so much Ronni So simple, yet so amazing! Peta On 26/10/2009, at 12:20 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, In iPhoto you can select the photo, then go to 'Photos' in the Menu Bar and Revert to Original. Cheers, Ronni On 26/10/2009, at 12:15 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Hullo Eugene I have just read with interest your reply to John. My question for you is at a tangent though. If iPhoto keeps 3 copies of each photo, is it possible to recall/ reinstate the original (which I assume is hidden somewhere in the depths of my Mac? I hate to admit it, but when I first began working with iPhoto over 18 months ago, I did not always keep my original photo and then edit a copy of that photo. (I do now). So, what has happened is that occasionally iPhoto has not given me the results that I have been after - e.g. iPhoto does not do such a great job with red-eye. Now quite a few of my photos have badly edited red-eyes and my subjects appear to be wearing a lot of badly applied eye-shadow. Is there a way of reinstating the originals into iPhoto so that I can re-work with them? Thanks to anyone who can assist with this, Peta On 26/10/2009, at 11:06 AM, Eugene wrote: Hi John, the iPhoto library folder on your computer does keep 3 copies of the photo. The original, the modified version (if you have altered contrast/cropped/ rotated etc the picture) and finally a thumbnail for quick viewing the image. When you move your picture to an external storage device such as the memory stick you mentioned you usually do this by exporting the image from iPhoto or simply drag it from iPhoto. This will place only one file (image) on your memory stick. The only way you would have all 3 files on your memory stick that I can think of is if you dragged the whole iPhoto library to you memory stick. Regards, Eugene -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/ guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au (null) 4.tiff On 26/10/2009, at 9:35 AM, John Daniels wrote: Hi Wamuggers I †ook a memory stick into Cameraland to print from iPhoto shots. They told me
Re: iPhoto printing
Thank you Ronni and Eugene for your prompt replies. This makes perfect sense to me; however I did feel it necessary to clarify what I was doing is in fact okay (because this also makes perfect sense to me!) I promise I will never, ever go into the depths of iPhoto or anything else deep within the Mac to fiddle or change anything. A little knowledge is usually just enough for me. Best regards Peta On 06/11/2009, at 10:14 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, As long as you are doing everything in the iPhoto Application you are fine. You can rename, batch change the name of a group of photos, edit photos, place them into albums etc. iPhoto will always keep the original that you can revert back to at any time. My comment Moving things, renaming things is referring to the 'iPhoto Library' in your Home Pictures - iPhoto Library, NOT Library in the iPhoto Application. Don't touch or move anything in the 'iPhoto Library' in your Home Pictures folder! Do all your work in the iPhoto Application itself and you won't have problems. NEVER touch or move anything in the iPhoto Library in your Home Pictures folder. My original comments were: This is one of the reasons we are always telling people, NEVER touch anything in the iPhoto Library, do everything in iPhoto application, then the originals are protected. Do not remove the original file yourself: Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos. I hope this has cleared things up for you. Cheers, Ronni On 06/11/2009, at 9:41 AM, peta belczowski wrote: Hullo Ronni I have been stewing on your reply to my query on October 26, and Eugene's later reply to my query re reverting to original situations. I have experimented with this successfully; however, your comment about Moving things, renaming things has been bothering me. When I receive photos to place into iPhoto they come from various sources, i.e. someone may email them to me, or they come from a USB stick, or they may be scanned in. Some of these photos are very old and there is no clue as to the true date the photo was taken. The Mac of course gives them the date that they were placed into iPhoto (not of course photos from a digital camera where we can always obtain the true date). Sometimes I wish to place these photos into a relevant Family Tree folder, or e.g., 2008 Christmas folder. Then, in order to use the excellent Search button in iPhoto I like to show the names of the people in the photo. Some photos just show Img 24 and have not been named, obviously originally from a digital camera, or scanner. Sometimes the person who has given me the photos has their own code for naming photos. Sorry, I am rambling on - now, when I receive a photo as a single or as a group, I re-name each photo with a code which is meaningful to me, e.g. Family Tree Smith 1931-ish Mum, Dad, Gran. Then of course that or those photos are placed into the Family Tree Smith folder. Therefore, I assume that I have interfered with the original and it may not be able to be reverted, whether or not I have actually modified the actual photo? Thanks for any advice on this, I just wanted to absolutely clarify this point. Have a good day. Peculiar weather! Peta On 26/10/2009, at 12:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, iPhoto never deletes the original. It always preserves it, treating it like a film photographer minds his negative. There is no way to remove the Original from iPhoto. This facilitates the Photos - Revert to Original command in iPhoto and the non-destructive editing feature. This is one of the reasons we are always telling people, NEVER touch anything in the iPhoto Library, do everything in iPhoto application, then the originals are protected. Do not remove the original file yourself: Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos. Cheers, Ronni On 26/10/2009, at 12:31 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Thank you so much Ronni So simple, yet so amazing! Peta On 26/10/2009, at 12:20 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, In iPhoto you can select the photo, then go to 'Photos' in the Menu Bar and Revert to Original. Cheers, Ronni Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml
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Hullo Eugene I have just read with interest your reply to John. My question for you is at a tangent though. If iPhoto keeps 3 copies of each photo, is it possible to recall/ reinstate the original (which I assume is hidden somewhere in the depths of my Mac? I hate to admit it, but when I first began working with iPhoto over 18 months ago, I did not always keep my original photo and then edit a copy of that photo. (I do now). So, what has happened is that occasionally iPhoto has not given me the results that I have been after - e.g. iPhoto does not do such a great job with red-eye. Now quite a few of my photos have badly edited red-eyes and my subjects appear to be wearing a lot of badly applied eye-shadow. Is there a way of reinstating the originals into iPhoto so that I can re-work with them? Thanks to anyone who can assist with this, Peta On 26/10/2009, at 11:06 AM, Eugene wrote: Hi John, the iPhoto library folder on your computer does keep 3 copies of the photo. The original, the modified version (if you have altered contrast/cropped/ rotated etc the picture) and finally a thumbnail for quick viewing the image. When you move your picture to an external storage device such as the memory stick you mentioned you usually do this by exporting the image from iPhoto or simply drag it from iPhoto. This will place only one file (image) on your memory stick. The only way you would have all 3 files on your memory stick that I can think of is if you dragged the whole iPhoto library to you memory stick. Regards, Eugene -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au (null) 4.tiff On 26/10/2009, at 9:35 AM, John Daniels wrote: Hi Wamuggers I †ook a memory stick into Cameraland to print from iPhoto shots. They told me that iPhoto creates 3 copies of each image in small, medium and full resolution. Therefore they were unable to identify on their server which copy to print. The person who explained it to me has some knowledge of Mac stuff. Can anyone confirm that this is what happens? Cheers John -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
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Thank you so much Ronni So simple, yet so amazing! Peta On 26/10/2009, at 12:20 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, In iPhoto you can select the photo, then go to 'Photos' in the Menu Bar and Revert to Original. Cheers, Ronni On 26/10/2009, at 12:15 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Hullo Eugene I have just read with interest your reply to John. My question for you is at a tangent though. If iPhoto keeps 3 copies of each photo, is it possible to recall/ reinstate the original (which I assume is hidden somewhere in the depths of my Mac? I hate to admit it, but when I first began working with iPhoto over 18 months ago, I did not always keep my original photo and then edit a copy of that photo. (I do now). So, what has happened is that occasionally iPhoto has not given me the results that I have been after - e.g. iPhoto does not do such a great job with red-eye. Now quite a few of my photos have badly edited red-eyes and my subjects appear to be wearing a lot of badly applied eye-shadow. Is there a way of reinstating the originals into iPhoto so that I can re-work with them? Thanks to anyone who can assist with this, Peta On 26/10/2009, at 11:06 AM, Eugene wrote: Hi John, the iPhoto library folder on your computer does keep 3 copies of the photo. The original, the modified version (if you have altered contrast/cropped/ rotated etc the picture) and finally a thumbnail for quick viewing the image. When you move your picture to an external storage device such as the memory stick you mentioned you usually do this by exporting the image from iPhoto or simply drag it from iPhoto. This will place only one file (image) on your memory stick. The only way you would have all 3 files on your memory stick that I can think of is if you dragged the whole iPhoto library to you memory stick. Regards, Eugene -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au (null) 4.tiff On 26/10/2009, at 9:35 AM, John Daniels wrote: Hi Wamuggers I †ook a memory stick into Cameraland to print from iPhoto shots. They told me that iPhoto creates 3 copies of each image in small, medium and full resolution. Therefore they were unable to identify on their server which copy to print. The person who explained it to me has some knowledge of Mac stuff. Can anyone confirm that this is what happens? Cheers John Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
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Thank you Eugene, Peta On 26/10/2009, at 12:44 PM, Eugene wrote: Thanks Ronnie your answer was timely. The only thing I would add for Peta is if she wishes to keep both the edited photo as well as the original she could duplicate the edited photo and then click on it and revert to original. Now she can have both. Regards, Eugene -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au (null) 4.tiff On 26/10/2009, at 12:20 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, In iPhoto you can select the photo, then go to 'Photos' in the Menu Bar and Revert to Original. Cheers, Ronni On 26/10/2009, at 12:15 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Hullo Eugene I have just read with interest your reply to John. My question for you is at a tangent though. If iPhoto keeps 3 copies of each photo, is it possible to recall/ reinstate the original (which I assume is hidden somewhere in the depths of my Mac? I hate to admit it, but when I first began working with iPhoto over 18 months ago, I did not always keep my original photo and then edit a copy of that photo. (I do now). So, what has happened is that occasionally iPhoto has not given me the results that I have been after - e.g. iPhoto does not do such a great job with red-eye. Now quite a few of my photos have badly edited red-eyes and my subjects appear to be wearing a lot of badly applied eye-shadow. Is there a way of reinstating the originals into iPhoto so that I can re-work with them? Thanks to anyone who can assist with this, Peta On 26/10/2009, at 11:06 AM, Eugene wrote: Hi John, the iPhoto library folder on your computer does keep 3 copies of the photo. The original, the modified version (if you have altered contrast/cropped/ rotated etc the picture) and finally a thumbnail for quick viewing the image. When you move your picture to an external storage device such as the memory stick you mentioned you usually do this by exporting the image from iPhoto or simply drag it from iPhoto. This will place only one file (image) on your memory stick. The only way you would have all 3 files on your memory stick that I can think of is if you dragged the whole iPhoto library to you memory stick. Regards, Eugene -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au (null) 4.tiff On 26/10/2009, at 9:35 AM, John Daniels wrote: Hi Wamuggers I †ook a memory stick into Cameraland to print from iPhoto shots. They told me that iPhoto creates 3 copies of each image in small, medium and full resolution. Therefore they were unable to identify on their server which copy to print. The person who explained it to me has some knowledge of Mac stuff. Can anyone confirm that this is what happens? Cheers John Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: WAMUG Offlist Emails - Please Read
Hullo all Wamug Readers I would just like to thank and acknowledge all who do take the time to reply to various desperate cries for help, obviously to Ronni and Daniel and some of the other regular WAMUG group in particular, who reply to all requests for help, sometimes perhaps seemingly insignificant problems, and sometimes absolutely huge problems. I also agree all queries should be kept non-personal unless we are invited to reply off-line. Thank you all so much to everyone who has replied to my own personal various little calls for help since I switched to Apple Mac. Peta On 07/10/2009, at 10:24 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Rod All, I am not going to add to Daniel's post as there is no need to. Rod, your suggestion I had already tried (other than the out of office reply) a while back when I had to take a break from WAMUG as I got to Burn Out stage. I unsubscribed my wn.com.au email address from WAMUG when I re- subscribed I used my mac.com address ... so now I get off list emails to both addresses ;-) I have clients, and friends, who keep me extremely busy. Like a lot of our contributors I really don't have the time to do WAMUG. But, I have trouble not helping people when I see they need help. I believe in WAMUG and want our mailing list to continue. I'm sure that now Daniel has explained the situation to our list that correct protocol will be followed by all members of WAMUG Mailing list. Kind Regards, Ronni On 07/10/2009, at 11:24 AM, Rod wrote: Hi All, I agree with what Dan has said, so no need to reiterate what has been said. One thing Ronni could do is subscribe to the list with a different email address, then set an out of office reply to anyone who emails direct to that address. Obviously her current email address might need to be retired, but it might solve this issue if the perpetrators don't heed the group's wishes! Seeya Rod! Sent from my iPhone -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: copy slide shows to DVD or USB
Thank you Peter Peta On 21/08/2009, at 8:10 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 20/08/2009, at 9:04 AM, peta belczowski wrote: There are programs which I have which I have never somehow found/ made the time to look at yet. I definitely do not have Toast. iLlife'09 does not show in my list in Finder. iLife is a collection of applications, so you won't find it with a file search. iLife is made up of iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb and Garageband. If you have iDVD, therefore, you have iLife. The applications of iWork, on the other hand, are typically installed inside a folder called iWork, and consequently CAN be found with file search. Presumably the reason for this is that iLife comes already installed on a new Mac, whereas iWork does not. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
copy slide shows to DVD or USB
Hi In the days before I acquired my AppleMac, I had quite a few different slide-show projects on my PC using PowerPoint. I have these copied onto my Mac and have done some work on them using the package I bought with my Mac - (very much a project for when time allows). So all of these slideshows consisting of a great amount of time and effort have been put aside for now. However, since I have had my Mac, I have become used to quickly making great slideshows with very little effort using iPhoto. These slideshows are really quite good, and of course there are several options to use as to which format to view the photos in, the length of time for each picture, and also which music to add and so on - really simple and really quite effective. It suddenly occurred to me - is there a way that I can save these quick slideshows onto a disc and play and view them using a DVD player direct to the television, (or another computer), or to give someone a disc of e.g. a child's birthday party? Hopefully this will be possible. Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: copy slide shows to DVD or USB
Thanks for this information Ronni and also John I had tried something similar a few days ago, but obviously it is not going to be as easy as just copying/exporting my existing slideshow(s) onto a disc. I tried doing the steps only as John suggested, but nothing transferred onto the disc (I really suspected this would be the case but worth a try for a shortcut). So I had been taken into another step/program for further editing etc when I was hoping that that was all I had to do. Later, maybe not today, I will follow Ronni's steps and will let you all know when I have success. Obviously I need to make the time to learn more about iDVD/QuickTime. I am so looking forward to the finished product! Have a good day, Peta On 19/08/2009, at 4:23 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, A couple of tips. You can create great slideshows in iDVD, but seeing as you have already created your Slideshows in iPhoto, you can as John suggests Send to iDVD create a DVD of your slideshows. Landscape photos work better than portrait photos, which have large black borders. iPhoto sends saved slideshows to iDVD as QuickTime movies, which you can’t edit inside iDVD. Remember to choose the 4:3 format for your slideshow! Use iDVD’s Preview heavily, and run through all your slideshows from start to end before burning. Make sure Always Scale Slides to TV Safe Area is set in iDVD’s Slideshow preferences pane (choose Preferences from the iDVD menu and click the Slideshow button). Cheers, Ronni On 19/08/2009, at 2:35 PM, John Winters wrote: Would this help? From the menu bar choose Share-Send to iDVD John __ John Winters Phone +61 8 9244 4564 Fax +61 8 9446 7709 john.wint...@kidsdentist.com.au From: peta belczowski petabelczow...@mac.com Reply-To: User Group Mac User Group Mac WA wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:17:46 +0800 To: User Group Mac User Group Mac WA wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: copy slide shows to DVD or USB Hi In the days before I acquired my AppleMac, I had quite a few different slide-show projects on my PC using PowerPoint. I have these copied onto my Mac and have done some work on them using the package I bought with my Mac - (very much a project for when time allows). So all of these slideshows consisting of a great amount of time and effort have been put aside for now. However, since I have had my Mac, I have become used to quickly making great slideshows with very little effort using iPhoto. These slideshows are really quite good, and of course there are several options to use as to which format to view the photos in, the length of time for each picture, and also which music to add and so on - really simple and really quite effective. It suddenly occurred to me - is there a way that I can save these quick slideshows onto a disc and play and view them using a DVD player direct to the television, (or another computer), or to give someone a disc of e.g. a child's birthday party? Hopefully this will be possible. Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: copy slide shows to DVD or USB
Hullo Ronni Wow. Thank you for all of this information. I need to carefully check what exactly I do have on my Mac. There are programs which I have which I have never somehow found/made the time to look at yet. I definitely do not have Toast. iLlife'09 does not show in my list in Finder. I do have iDVD 7.0.4 - not in my dock but I know it is there; and iMovie 8.0.4; Final Cut Express 4.0.1; my iPhoto is Version 8.0.4; (also Adobe Help Center and Photoshop Elements 4.0;) - all basically not looked at by me yet! Also I have iWork '08. QuickTime Player 7.6.2. Probably other Applications etc. which I have not used, and maybe some of which need updates! My Mac is : Mac OS X Version 10.5.8. I carry out my Updates when the Mac asks me to. There is not going to be any quick short-cut for me regarding copying my slide shows! Do you recommend Toast as being more user friendly than iDVD? (I am very friendly although obviously alarmingly not at all knowledgeable)! Unfortunately I will be tied up for a few more weeks with other stuff, but I will definitely be appealing for help again as soon as I can get back to this. Thank you so much Ronni - I'll be back. Peta On 19/08/2009, at 9:47 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, You asked how to create a DVD of your iPhoto Slideshows, so they can be played on a standard DVD Player connected to a TV. You need to understand Video Formats. http://gizmodo.com/5093670/giz-explains-every-video-format-you-need-to-know To achieve what you want, you need to use an Authoring Software (such as iDVD or Toast) which will create a DVD by adding a Menu (all DVD's must have a Menu), and convert the Video to MPEG-2 format (DVDs use MPEG-2 video format). iMovie is Editing software iPhoto is a photo manager that offers light yet powerful photo-editing tools software, iDVD is Authoring software. You need to let people know what versions of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD you are using as different versions do things slightly differently. So for us to give you help we need this information. If you are using iLife'09 - iDVD version 7.0.4 you need to set the preferences in iDVD to Projects: PAL, Encoding - Professional Quality Turn on Show TV Safe Area from View Menu, so you can see exactly what will show on TV you can place your Titles to fit inside the TV safe area. A good place to start is Apple Support pages. http://www.apple.com/ilife/idvd/ Video Tutorials http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#idvd When you get the project in iDVD as you want it and it previews satisfactorily, a good idea is to use the File-Save as Disk Image menu option. Then open the disk image on the desktop and launch DVD Player to play the project. If the disk image plays OK with DVD Player then the encoding was good and you can burn the disk image to disk using Disk Utility or Toast. This will save you from making bad discs or coasters as they are called. Always use good quality DVD-R Media Discs. I find Verbatim Inkjet Printable DVD-R (SL) DVD+R (DL) most compatible with DVD Players and I burn at 4x 2x This should at least get you started on your way to producing some great DVDs. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.5.8 On 19/08/2009, at 4:46 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Thanks for this information Ronni and also John I had tried something similar a few days ago, but obviously it is not going to be as easy as just copying/exporting my existing slideshow(s) onto a disc. I tried doing the steps only as John suggested, but nothing transferred onto the disc (I really suspected this would be the case but worth a try for a shortcut). So I had been taken into another step/program for further editing etc when I was hoping that that was all I had to do. Later, maybe not today, I will follow Ronni's steps and will let you all know when I have success. Obviously I need to make the time to learn more about iDVD/ QuickTime. I am so looking forward to the finished product! Have a good day, Peta On 19/08/2009, at 4:23 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, A couple of tips. You can create great slideshows in iDVD, but seeing as you have already created your Slideshows in iPhoto, you can as John suggests Send to iDVD create a DVD of your slideshows. Landscape photos work better than portrait photos, which have large black borders. iPhoto sends saved slideshows to iDVD as QuickTime movies, which you can’t edit inside iDVD. Remember to choose the 4:3 format for your slideshow! Use iDVD’s Preview heavily, and run through all your slideshows from start to end before burning. Make sure Always Scale Slides to TV Safe Area is set in iDVD’s Slideshow preferences pane (choose Preferences from the iDVD menu and click the Slideshow button). Cheers, Ronni On 19/08/2009, at 2:35 PM, John Winters wrote: Would this help? From the menu bar
strange set up for my wamug mail
Hi I have just decided to check to see if I had any WAMUG mail. Somehow, over the past few hours, my settings have changed themselves (?) Does anyone know how I can reinstate the settings as they were previously - i.e. so that if I click on Ronda Brown, her message appears on the bottom 1/2 of the screen? Then so on with any other name I click on. All I have is the total list of names: FROM SUBJECT DATE RECEIVED TIME This is all messages from today back to when I first began receiving mail from WAMUG (except obviously for the ones I have deleted). Where have the actual messages gone? If I double click on the person's name the message will appear in a formal set up. Has this happened to just me? Probably so basic and simple I will be mortified. Thank you Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: strange set up for my wamug mail
Daniel - thank you so much. You're a genius! Such a tiny dot to cause me so much bother. Peta On 17/08/2009, at 10:43 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 17/8/09 10:11 PM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@mac.com wrote: Hi I have just decided to check to see if I had any WAMUG mail. Somehow, over the past few hours, my settings have changed themselves (?) Does anyone know how I can reinstate the settings as they were previously - i.e. so that if I click on Ronda Brown, her message appears on the bottom 1/2 of the screen? Then so on with any other name I click on. All I have is the total list of names: FROM SUBJECT DATE RECEIVED TIME This is all messages from today back to when I first began receiving mail from WAMUG (except obviously for the ones I have deleted). Where have the actual messages gone? If I double click on the person's name the message will appear in a formal set up. Has this happened to just me? Probably so basic and simple I will be mortified. Thank you Peta Hi Peta I'm assuming you're using Apple Mail (Based on the list names you mentioned, as Entourage as a different list). At the bottom of the list of all those messages, you'll see a little dot in the middle of the bar at the very bottom. Drag this up, and you'll then see the message preview like you had before. That should then get it working again. Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Shared file: exploring_pages_08_with_pages_08.pdf
Ronni Is it possible that that you also send me the password for this? Many thanks, Peta On 10/08/2009, at 5:57 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: This document can be downloaded by interested people from my Public Folder. It will be available for ten (10) days. PDF copies of this document may be distributed free to Macintosh Users. Contact me for the password to access this file. Cheers, Ronni exploring_pages_08_with_pages_08.pdf Portable Document Format -- If you are having problems accessing this file, copy and paste the link below into your web browser: http://files.me.com/ronni/6zwxuj This file is shared using MobileMe iDisk. Learn more. Copyright © 2009 Apple Inc. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
test - no messages all Saturday or today
Test Is anybody Out There? Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhone Update
Thank you Pedro, Ronni and Susan for your prompt replies. I have passed the info on to my husband and hopefully he can go ahead with this. He bought his iPhone about 2 weeks ago from the Big Apple Shop in Sydney where we were having a few days visit! Why didn't I see that one coming? Unfortunately he does not have his Mac with him at the moment so I don't know if he will be able to go ahead with this update using only the iPhone. Do you know if is it possible to do this from an ordinary PC and the iPhone? We may find out very soon - it may be me letting you know! Peta On 03/08/2009, at 2:26 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Susan, I did the update as soon as it was released ... apparently at the time the Apple Servers were on overload ;-) Should not take near as long now as everyone has probably done the update by now. But, I thought I should warn Peta just in case. Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2009, at 2:14 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: Ronni, I did this update a couple of days after it was released, and it took 4 minutes to download. So, it may not take all that long for that part, although installation and reboot was a wait. cheers, Susan. On 03/08/2009, at 1:59 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, Has your Husband previously connected his iPhone to his computer done a sync in iTunes? He needs to have set what he wants to sync to his iPhone in iTunes. Then to download and install this update: 1. Your husband just needs to connect his iPhone to his computer and open iTunes (if it doesn't automatically open). 2. Then backup his iPhone, and sync (as he normally would when he connects his iPhone). 3. Then click on Check For Update 4. iTunes will download the file and install the update and his iPhone will do a restart. Tell him it takes a long time to download and install this update. The file is large ... It's a 297.9MB download. It took me an hour to download the update then a long time to install reboot. He must NOT disconnect his iPhone while doing this download and installation. iTunes will let him know when it is safe to Disconnect the iPhone. Disconnect the iPhone from within iTunes Cheers, Ronni On 03/08/2009, at 1:39 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Hi Further to Pedro's message of July 31 re sms security problem. My husband has tried to open the 9-5 mac link given in Pedro's email (having just bought an iPhone), (http:www9to5mac.com/). He is a bit confused as to where to go once he opens the link ,and as he is unfortunately limited as to the times he can access the net etc he is hoping for some extra help as soon as anyone is able to give this. Would anyone be able to provide me with the next steps he needs to follow so I can carefully relay these to him? Many thanks, Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhone Update
Peter - thanks for this, I will let my husband know this too! Peta On 04/08/2009, at 8:03 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 03/08/2009, at 3:06 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Do you know if is it possible to do this from an ordinary PC and the iPhone? As long as you have iTunes installed on the ordinary computer. Just make sure you have all syncing turned off in iTunes on that computer, or else whatever is on your iPhone in the form of music, contacts, calendar data, etc, will be replaced. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
iPhone Update
Hi Further to Pedro's message of July 31 re sms security problem. My husband has tried to open the 9-5 mac link given in Pedro's email (having just bought an iPhone), (http:www9to5mac.com/). He is a bit confused as to where to go once he opens the link ,and as he is unfortunately limited as to the times he can access the net etc he is hoping for some extra help as soon as anyone is able to give this. Would anyone be able to provide me with the next steps he needs to follow so I can carefully relay these to him? Many thanks, Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Faces IPhoto 09
Hullo Ronni I also have thousands of photos and have been a bit frustrated in the way in which iPhoto argues with me constantly and puts my photos in the order in which this mere machine thinks is correct. I have battled on, become accustomed to, won a few/lost a few arguments, and was pleased when I saw your reply to Peter. Thank you for another idea that I have now used, and which works. (Some time ago I also used your Batch Change/Rename tip, this was very useful to me). So - I have been experimenting with your method and as I said above, it does work; however I did not find it a lot quicker than typing in for a general search of, e.g. Charlie ,than in creating an Events- based album. Does anyone know of a way in which we can isolate every photo of e.g. Charlie, Jack, etc instead of receiving the whole of the file in which these people occur? Thereby having sometimes a very large file(s) of photos to sort through in which Jack may appear only once. For example, sometimes I work with my various quite large Family Tree type files, and at times I would just like every photo I have of a particular person. In my battles with iPhoto, I have learnt to give the file I am downloading from my camera or from a USB stick a meaningful date and name. Sometimes I am working from very old scanned photos and iPhoto places these where it decides to, generally choosing from the date the photos were downloaded onto it, or the scanning date. Even when I change a date under each actual photo, and make sure the individual name of various photos shows the names of the individuals within that particular photo, I cannot make iPhoto comply with the way I envisage my file. Muddling along with this I accidentally discovered how to merge new photo files additions by going into Events, to join up or separate various batches of photos. This is useful and good. Of course we can drag each folder within Events into the order and grouping we like. So I have all my Family Trees with their sub-division type of name in the order I like; the same with Christmas 2001, 2002, Holiday at ...,. in 2004 and so on. However, I cannot drag and insert the files within Photos in the order that suits me, or as I can do in Events. In fact early 2008 when I received my Apple Mac I lost quite a few photo files thinking I was cutting and pasting, as with the other PC's. Where did they go? Grrr. Any ideas to overcome iPhotos stubborn approach would be very much appreciated. What else am I going to worry about on this rainy dreary day? Peta On 12/07/2009, at 4:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello Peter, You could Create Events-based iPhoto albums featuring specific people. 1. First select Faces from the Library section of iPhoto’s sidebar, then double-click on the face of the person you’re interested in using for the all-events album. 2. Use drag-select to select all the “known” faces for that person, and then click on Events in the Library section of the iPhoto sidebar. 3. When you click back into Events, you’ll see that any events containing the faces you selected are now highlighted. 4. Click the Plus sign to create a new album, and make sure that the “Use selected items in a new album” option is checked in the dialogue that appears. 5. Type in a name for your new album, click Create, and you’re done— the new album will contain every event in which the selected person’s image appears at least once. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.5.7 On 12/07/2009, at 4:02 PM, Peter Tomlinson wrote: Hello WAMUG Members I have been sorting my photo's and adding names to faces. I now have over 300 faces and was wondering can I sort and group them To make it easier to find people. The alphabetical sort is just too big now. Also It seems very slow now. Can't find anything about it on the net. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Peter Tomlinson Albany 20 IMac Intel Core Duo 266Ghz/ 4 Gb Ram/ 800 Mhz / 320 GB OS X 10.5.7 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Light Crafts releases Aurora for Mac: Free for 24 Hours - Enjoy!
Well I could see that it was no longer 9:00 am but everyone else had a go so I thought I would try. I printed off and followed the steps that were given. Everything went through okay, I sent off my form which was accepted all okay (around 4:00 pm Perth time) - however I have not received any reply email so I guess I was one of the unlucky people who will not receive the free version of Aurora! Peta On 16/07/2009, at 8:25 PM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Followed your steps Peter. Downloaded and it is working. Merv On 16/07/2009, at 3:14 PM, Michael Bradley wrote: Make sure you when you enter the free24 thingo, to press the little whirlpool icon, immediately to the right of the free24 box. Found the problem, given others' success. I was simply copying the FREE24 text from the Tom Nelson blog page. I found that there was an extra space character coming across with the copy. Got rid of that and it all worked. Happy now -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Light Crafts releases Aurora for Mac: Free for 24 Hours - Enjoy!
Yes Daniel, I also received my receipt around the 4:00 pm. I was a bit puzzled and so I have gone through the whole process again, received another receipt - (5 minutes ago) - but no email or anything has come through. Peta On 16/07/2009, at 9:00 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Strange. As I've been out all day and just literally walked in the door. Thought, I'll have a go and it all went through fine, applied the discount and an receipt/invoice for $0.00USD was sent through. Guess I will see what happens with it. Kind Regards Daniel On 16/7/09 8:54 PM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@mac.com wrote: Well I could see that it was no longer 9:00 am but everyone else had a go so I thought I would try. I printed off and followed the steps that were given. Everything went through okay, I sent off my form which was accepted all okay (around 4:00 pm Perth time) - however I have not received any reply email so I guess I was one of the unlucky people who will not receive the free version of Aurora! Peta On 16/07/2009, at 8:25 PM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Followed your steps Peter. Downloaded and it is working. Merv On 16/07/2009, at 3:14 PM, Michael Bradley wrote: Make sure you when you enter the free24 thingo, to press the little whirlpool icon, immediately to the right of the free24 box. Found the problem, given others' success. I was simply copying the FREE24 text from the Tom Nelson blog page. I found that there was an extra space character coming across with the copy. Got rid of that and it all worked. Happy now -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Light Crafts releases Aurora for Mac: Free for 24 Hours - Enjoy!
Well it is now 9:23 pm and I have still not received any email regarding this - I did, as I said, receive a receipt though! (On each attempt). Which reminded me - several months ago (March ?) I had paid for a copy of MacHeist which was at a special price. I have never been able to successfully download all of these and on some segments there is no serial no. available - yet, please be patient (from March)! I just had another try. I give up. Peta On 16/07/2009, at 9:05 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Yes Daniel, I also received my receipt around the 4:00 pm. I was a bit puzzled and so I have gone through the whole process again, received another receipt - (5 minutes ago) - but no email or anything has come through. Peta On 16/07/2009, at 9:00 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Strange. As I've been out all day and just literally walked in the door. Thought, I'll have a go and it all went through fine, applied the discount and an receipt/invoice for $0.00USD was sent through. Guess I will see what happens with it. Kind Regards Daniel On 16/7/09 8:54 PM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@mac.com wrote: Well I could see that it was no longer 9:00 am but everyone else had a go so I thought I would try. I printed off and followed the steps that were given. Everything went through okay, I sent off my form which was accepted all okay (around 4:00 pm Perth time) - however I have not received any reply email so I guess I was one of the unlucky people who will not receive the free version of Aurora! Peta On 16/07/2009, at 8:25 PM, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Followed your steps Peter. Downloaded and it is working. Merv On 16/07/2009, at 3:14 PM, Michael Bradley wrote: Make sure you when you enter the free24 thingo, to press the little whirlpool icon, immediately to the right of the free24 box. Found the problem, given others' success. I was simply copying the FREE24 text from the Tom Nelson blog page. I found that there was an extra space character coming across with the copy. Got rid of that and it all worked. Happy now -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/ guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Light Crafts releases Aurora for Mac: Free for 24 Hours - Enjoy!
Well, thank you to the few people who have decided this free program is not that good after all!I feel much better about not receiving any copies despite receiving their receipt! I do have Adobe on my Mac (which I have not yet used) and have used various quite good programs on my other PC. I do use iPhoto - I think this is quite good EXCEPT for the way it deals with Red Eye. Not a strong point. Peta On 16/07/2009, at 2:13 PM, Paul Burke wrote: http://macs.about.com/b/2009/07/15/light-crafts-releases-aurora-for-mac-free-for-24-hours.htm Light Crafts has released Aurora for Mac. The company is celebrating the release of this photo editing software with a 24-hour giveaway. From now until 9:15 am ET on July 16, 2009, Aurora is free. Once the promotion ends, Aurora will be $19.95 USD. Paul Burke Systems Engineer Anvil Mining Limited -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: [COM] - WAMUG Specials
Hi Daniel I will need probably the WDMyBook 1 TB drive - I will try to phone you shortly. If not, I may have to wait until next week's specials. Thank you On 23/06/2009, at 1:19 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi All Time to start throwing some specials back to WAMUG! :O) So here goes,... Western Digital MyBook 1TB drive Quad Interface (USB2, Firewire400, Firewire800, eSATA) New Retail $279, WAMUG Special $265 WAMUG Financial Member Special - $260 2GB PC1066 DDR3 1066MHz SODIMM (Suit current MacBookPro, iMac) RRP $80, WAMUG Special $70 WAMUG Financial Member Special - $65 Microsoft Office 2008 Home and Student Edition (Has 3 licence keys) RRP $229, WAMUG Special $209 WAMUG Financial Member Special - $200 Belkin 8-way SurgeBoard -2metre cable with Telephone protection (Model F9G820au2M-GRY) RRP $169.95, WAMUG Special $139 WAMUG Financial Member Special - $129 Neoprene Sleeve for iBook, PowerBook G4 (Not all sizes available. Some sizes too small or large for the current MacBook/MacBookPro). RRP $39, WAMUG Special $15 WAMUG Financial Member Special - $10 iMask Keyboard cover for iBook / PowerBook G4 (Doesn't Suit current MacBook/MacBookPro range) RRP $29, WAMUG Special $15 WAMUG Financial Member Special - $10 Just a few specials to get it going again,.. Not a financial member? No problem. Contact the treasurer to join up for $30/year. Hope to have a few more specials next week (and some clearance items,..) Enjoy!! Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** Note: For sales information all prices include GST. Prices are valid for 14 days from quote. EOE. Freight charges are additional. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: 35 mm slides/Digital images
Stuart Speaking from my own (very novice) experience and having faced this same problem a few years ago, I found the only answer (well the cheapest) is to buy a very good Epson scanner which will handle slides and prints, and allocate yourself hours and hours each week to manually scan these in a few at a time. It is very expensive to pay someone professional to do this for you. Maybe you could offer to pay a high school student. This is a very boring task. I made a few executive choices along the way as to which photos and slides really were important to me, and just got stuck into it. Realisation came only recently - I will not in my lifetime be able to make the time to scan everything I have. Good luck! Peta Kalamunda On 31/05/2009, at 1:31 PM, Stuart Breden wrote: I have 100's of 35 mm slides and photo prints. I want to digitise them. What is the best way of doing this most efficiently and economically? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Hm Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Wk Ph: (08) 9291 4599 Mbl: 0417 053 266 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Renumber digital photos
Hullo Stephen Okay, I was really happy to read that we can change/rename multiple photos at the same time (as I can and do successfully carry out on my HP PC). So today I transferred from our cameras the photos from a recent holiday. I successfully put these firstly into date order, and then tried to do as suggested by you and (I think Adrian Skehan - i.e. Photo/Batch Change.) This gave me a description to type in with the comment append to existing I have done this 4 times and my Apple says updating photos - however there is no change in my iphoto file, and they are still named only by the numbers allocated from the camera. Where have these one, what has actually happened? What I thought I could do, (as with my HP), is to rename them something like 2009 Bali Holiday and the Apple would number each of those as 2009 Bali Holiday (1); (2); (3);etc. Then, what I have been doing on the HP is manually further adding where relevant, e.g. pool, my name, husband's name, friend's name and so on after the (1) number, to assist in any future searches. Is this possible? If so, how do I make the Apple work with me on this? Thank you anyone for the answer! Peta On 07/03/2009, at 9:13 AM, Stephen Chape wrote: I do that in iPhoto !! On 06/03/2009, at 8:58 PM, Nichole Shervington/Paul Vilkas wrote: Greetings All, Would any of you know if there is a program that can rename and renumber multiple digital photos at one time? Thank you Nichole Shervington -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Renumber digital photos
Hi Ronda Thank you so much - absolutely what I wanted. The step I was missing was in Description, I had not noticed the options there - so of course I chose Title and now all is just as I wanted. Also I can add a further relevant key word - i.e. - name of person or place individually to any photo to help find a particular photo quickly. Excellent. Have a good day. Peta On 22/03/2009, at 9:14 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello Peta, You first have to select all the photos you want to change ... Edit Select All (or select photos individually) - Then 'Photos' 'Batch Change'. If you want multiple photos to have the same title, date, or comment information, you can edit them all at once. Choose Photos Batch Change, choose Title from the Set pop-up menu, and then choose an option from the “to” pop-up menu. When you’re done, click OK. If it is specifically for the date and time, you can also use “Adjust Date and Time…”. Cheers, Ronni On 22/03/2009, at 6:55 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Hullo Stephen Okay, I was really happy to read that we can change/rename multiple photos at the same time (as I can and do successfully carry out on my HP PC). So today I transferred from our cameras the photos from a recent holiday. I successfully put these firstly into date order, and then tried to do as suggested by you and (I think Adrian Skehan - i.e. Photo/Batch Change.) This gave me a description to type in with the comment append to existing I have done this 4 times and my Apple says updating photos - however there is no change in my iphoto file, and they are still named only by the numbers allocated from the camera. Where have these one, what has actually happened? What I thought I could do, (as with my HP), is to rename them something like 2009 Bali Holiday and the Apple would number each of those as 2009 Bali Holiday (1); (2); (3);etc. Then, what I have been doing on the HP is manually further adding where relevant, e.g. pool, my name, husband's name, friend's name and so on after the (1) number, to assist in any future searches. Is this possible? If so, how do I make the Apple work with me on this? Thank you anyone for the answer! Peta On 07/03/2009, at 9:13 AM, Stephen Chape wrote: I do that in iPhoto !! On 06/03/2009, at 8:58 PM, Nichole Shervington/Paul Vilkas wrote: Greetings All, Would any of you know if there is a program that can rename and renumber multiple digital photos at one time? Thank you Nichole Shervington -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Fwd: iPhoto Issue
Hullo David Thank you for replying - and thanks to everyone else who has been trying to help with my iPhoto problem. I have tried various suggestions from WAMUG and also some given to me off-line, however with no luck. I work with my iPhotos a lot, nearly every day - this is my passion - so if I lost my thousands and thousands of photos it would be a disaster for me. To those who have recommended that I find someone to come and look at the Apple, I think that it is best I now do this. I am starting already to have difficulty remembering what steps I have taken to rectify the problem, so I think it is time to call a halt. Maybe the Apple help-line may be able to talk me over a solution on Monday morning, but maybe not. Incidentally, I think the iPhoto Library was under my name, which was next to a home emblem, so perhaps something strange happened when I was first set up early this year with my (first) Apple. My Apple details are as follows: Mac OSX v.10.5.5 Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM *Startup Disc - Information for this is not under the Apple emblem, with the above info. I live in Kalamunda - I can see that you seem to be in Manjimup David! Do you know of anyone who lives up this way? Does anyone know of an Apple expert who lives near to Kalamunda? Any names/phone no's. would be appreciated. Many thanks - what a lot of frustration this rainy Saturday. Again, thank you to everyone who responded. Peta On 20/12/2008, at 4:22 PM, David Moyle wrote: Hey Peta You seem to be experiencing some serious issue with iPhoto there, where abouts do you live? Cheers Thanks, David Moyle Manjimup, WA e: moyla...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Problem Solved: iPhoto Issue
Thank you all so very much for your efforts to help me with my missing iPhoto and my icon dropping from the dock (two problems). This problem was caused by, in some mysterious unknown way, the iPhoto having placed intself into the wrong directory. Now, a happy ending, I am reunited with my photos. Have a great weekend and a fantastic Christmas/New Year break. Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Problem Solved: iPhoto Issue
Thanks for this Ronni Yes, I had plugged in my Maxtor external hard drive (which I had been using with my Toshiba notebook and which was set to automatically back up every 24 hours) when I bought my Apple earlier this year. I unplugged the Maxtor a while ago because I don't think it was that happy to work with the Apple. So on my list of things to buy was an external hard drive for the Apple. These were really expensive at that time, so it was put onto hold. I note they have been coming down in price more and more recently. Any recommendations of brand/size or other thoughts? *Incidentally, I did not discover and solve the (various) problems with iPhoto by myself - I had a very patient and helpful off-line helper, during nearly the whole of Saturday. So much appreciated - there was no way that I could have solved this by myself! Peta On 21/12/2008, at 7:58 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peta, You mentioned in one email how important your photos are to you, it would be devastating to loose all your photos. I work with my iPhotos a lot, nearly every day - this is my passion - so if I lost my thousands and thousands of photos it would be a disaster for me. Make sure you are doing current backups of your iPhoto Library onto an External Firewire Drive, or at least burn CD's / DVD's of all your photos. Cheers, Ronni On 20/12/2008, at 6:19 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Thank you all so very much for your efforts to help me with my missing iPhoto and my icon dropping from the dock (two problems). This problem was caused by, in some mysterious unknown way, the iPhoto having placed intself into the wrong directory. Now, a happy ending, I am reunited with my photos. Have a great weekend and a fantastic Christmas/New Year break. Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Russell Mather - iPhone
Russell - there is a message addressed to me with your smartchat address in the WAMUG list. However, there was no message apart from Sent from my iPhone. Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
backup - possibly DROBO Storage Robot
Thanks everyone for suggestions. I will contact Daniel. Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
iphoto dropped off dock
Hi - I am sure this is simple to fix, for those who know how! I have always had iphoto appear in my dock until 2-3 days ago. For some reason it no longer shows. I went into finder and clicked make alias (assuming I could then drag or drop or similar an alias (copy) into the dock. Question 1 - how do I now get rid of the alias which I have just created, from the Finder? Question 2 - how do I put iphoto back into my dock, which is where I want it to be? Question 3- what does alias actually mean/do in Apple jargon? Many thanks. Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iphoto dropped off dock
Thanks for this Eugene. Unfortunately, your suggestion did not work! I dragged the alias of iPhoto into Trash. Then I (at least 8 times) tried dragging my iPhoto from within Finder, down into the dock. It did not stay and remained in Finder. I just know there is a way, however that way is not working for me. Peta On 19/12/2008, at 7:24 PM, Eugene wrote: Hi Peta, instead of dragging the alias onto the dock, drag the original item there. An alias is a small file that points to the original application, document or even a server. You can use them to create shortcuts to launch the actual items. When you accidentally lost iPhoto from the dock you actually only lost an alias (pointer). When you drag an item onto the dock you create a new pointer to that item. To remove items from the dock simply drag them off. Delete alias' by dragging them to the trash. You won't remove the original item by doing this. Hope this helps. Regards, Eugene On 19/12/2008, at 6:46 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Hi - I am sure this is simple to fix, for those who know how! I have always had iphoto appear in my dock until 2-3 days ago. For some reason it no longer shows. I went into finder and clicked make alias (assuming I could then drag or drop or similar an alias (copy) into the dock. Question 1 - how do I now get rid of the alias which I have just created, from the Finder? Question 2 - how do I put iphoto back into my dock, which is where I want it to be? Question 3- what does alias actually mean/do in Apple jargon? Many thanks. Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iphoto dropped off dock
Sorry guys, my brain has now seized up. This is very late at night for me. I tried Daniel's and Robert's suggestions. Well I tried to; didn't quite catch up to where either of them were. I now have in my dock a Preview of the picture we get with iIPhoto and another little logo in front - the word Preview appears. I cannot open anything from here though. When I click on them or in the Application file I receive a message that the Library could not be found and did I want to make one. I said Yes, - now I get a file with no photos. Help, this is really serious for me, I am sure they are on the system but where? In my Applications folder there now is iPhoto library, but looks like the new one I made, dated tonight at around 10:24 pm. Any ideas where the original file has gone? I am closing up and hopefully tomorrow my brain will kick back into gear. Peta On 19/12/2008, at 9:51 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Peta IF you find you can't drag and drop it into the dock (Applications must go on left side and files and folders go on the right hand side of the little line). The other way you can do it is to Double Click and open the Application iPhoto. Once it's running either Command click or right click on and you should get a pop up menu show up. You can then choose Keep In Dock. It will then stay there when you click open it next time. That should get it working for you. Kind Regards Daniel On 19/12/08 9:37 PM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@mac.com wrote: Thanks for this Eugene. Unfortunately, your suggestion did not work! I dragged the alias of iPhoto into Trash. Then I (at least 8 times) tried dragging my iPhoto from within Finder, down into the dock. It did not stay and remained in Finder. I just know there is a way, however that way is not working for me. Peta On 19/12/2008, at 7:24 PM, Eugene wrote: Hi Peta, instead of dragging the alias onto the dock, drag the original item there. An alias is a small file that points to the original application, document or even a server. You can use them to create shortcuts to launch the actual items. When you accidentally lost iPhoto from the dock you actually only lost an alias (pointer). When you drag an item onto the dock you create a new pointer to that item. To remove items from the dock simply drag them off. Delete alias' by dragging them to the trash. You won't remove the original item by doing this. Hope this helps. Regards, Eugene On 19/12/2008, at 6:46 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Hi - I am sure this is simple to fix, for those who know how! I have always had iphoto appear in my dock until 2-3 days ago. For some reason it no longer shows. I went into finder and clicked make alias (assuming I could then drag or drop or similar an alias (copy) into the dock. Question 1 - how do I now get rid of the alias which I have just created, from the Finder? Question 2 - how do I put iphoto back into my dock, which is where I want it to be? Question 3- what does alias actually mean/do in Apple jargon? Many thanks. Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iphoto dropped off dock
Hi Ronni Thank you so much for replying. Sadly we still do not have Lift Off! I opened Macintosh HD - yes - iPhotos wording shows there. I went through Finder and opened Applications. iMovie is there. iPhoto Library is there (the one which you suggest I drag to Trash). Nothing called iPhoto application is there, only the iPhoto Library. However, using the Finder, Places, under my own name/file is an iPhoto Library, (and also the iPhoto alias which I made yesterday which I would imagine I also drag into Trash). Possibly the files which should show under Applications are somehow under my name? I had found this last night and I had opened iPhoto Library and ticked Create Library. This was obviously the wrong thing to do because now I cannot find any photos. (N.B. Ronni please do not tell me that I have somehow deleted my photos). So - just now I followed the same step you recommended, and this time I chose Choose Library. This step took me back to Applications (no picture file here). So I clicked on my name/file again, just above the application file. This eventually took me to Pictures. I clicked this and then up came an iChat icon. My photos did not appear. Are there any more steps I can follow? Thanks Ronni Peta On 20/12/2008, at 9:48 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello Peta, When you drag the iPhoto Application (from your Applications) to the Dock, don't drop it on the dock until a space appears, then drop the iPhoto Application. It will stay in the dock then. The Preview you are talking about is the Preview Application, you won't open anything from it. Preview Application is for viewing PDF's, images etc. There should NOT be a iPhoto Library in your Applications folder, only the iPhoto Application should be in Applications. Drag the iPhoto Library that is in Applications to the Trash. Your iPhoto Library is in your HD / Users / Pictures folder DON'T move or touch any files in this folder. iPhoto likes everything in it's correct place. Open iPhoto Application. You will probably get a dialogue window saying Your iPhoto Library was not found. Do you want to find your iPhoto Library, click Choose Library and choose your iPhoto Library that is in your Pictures Folder. Cheers, Ronni On 19/12/2008, at 10:32 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Sorry guys, my brain has now seized up. This is very late at night for me. I tried Daniel's and Robert's suggestions. Well I tried to; didn't quite catch up to where either of them were. I now have in my dock a Preview of the picture we get with iIPhoto and another little logo in front - the word Preview appears. I cannot open anything from here though. When I click on them or in the Application file I receive a message that the Library could not be found and did I want to make one. I said Yes, - now I get a file with no photos. Help, this is really serious for me, I am sure they are on the system but where? In my Applications folder there now is iPhoto library, but looks like the new one I made, dated tonight at around 10:24 pm. Any ideas where the original file has gone? I am closing up and hopefully tomorrow my brain will kick back into gear. Peta On 19/12/2008, at 9:51 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Peta IF you find you can't drag and drop it into the dock (Applications must go on left side and files and folders go on the right hand side of the little line). The other way you can do it is to Double Click and open the Application iPhoto. Once it's running either Command click or right click on and you should get a pop up menu show up. You can then choose Keep In Dock. It will then stay there when you click open it next time. That should get it working for you. Kind Regards Daniel On 19/12/08 9:37 PM, peta belczowski petabelczow...@mac.com wrote: Thanks for this Eugene. Unfortunately, your suggestion did not work! I dragged the alias of iPhoto into Trash. Then I (at least 8 times) tried dragging my iPhoto from within Finder, down into the dock. It did not stay and remained in Finder. I just know there is a way, however that way is not working for me. Peta On 19/12/2008, at 7:24 PM, Eugene wrote: Hi Peta, instead of dragging the alias onto the dock, drag the original item there. An alias is a small file that points to the original application, document or even a server. You can use them to create shortcuts to launch the actual items. When you accidentally lost iPhoto from the dock you actually only lost an alias (pointer). When you drag an item onto the dock you create a new pointer to that item. To remove items from the dock simply drag them off. Delete alias' by dragging them to the trash. You won't remove the original item by doing this. Hope this helps. Regards, Eugene On 19/12/2008, at 6:46 PM, peta belczowski wrote: Hi - I am sure this is simple to fix, for those who know how! I
Re: keynote - music stops sometimes then re-starts
Thank you Ronni - Re: Problem 2 I will try this so I can have several favourite tracks with my longer Slide-shows. It makes sense! Peta Re: Problem 1 - Does anyone know why the music stops and starts (I have completely deleted all music and replaced with a fresh track at least 20 times - so it is not the particular piece of music). I have never had this problem in Powerpoint. On 29/09/2008, at 12:52 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 29/09/2008, at 11:36 AM, peta belczowski wrote: Hi I have taught myself Powerpoint on my notebook but have now bought an Applemac. I usually make slide shows from my (many) scanned and digital photos on various topics. I am now trying to work with Keynote to do similar projects as with Powerpoint, and have taught myself a reasonable amount. However, I have two problems. Problem 1 I can successfully add music from my itune library to my slideshow. However, when I play my slideshow this music sometimes stops for no reason, then restarts - several times during the slideshow. Sometimes jiggling the mouse seems to help. At times the whole show just stops until the music is ready to start up again. Problem 2 Instead of looping the music to recommence when it has played all the way through, sometimes on a long slide show I would like to add a second (or third) song after the whole of the first song has played. This does not seem to be possible, as working with Inspector just replaces the first song which I had inserted. Hello Peta, The only way to play more than one music track completely and in succession is to create a soundfile or playlist of the music tracks off-line (for example in Garage Band or iTunes) and then import this soundfile as the Soundtrack for the slideshow. You can do this in the Inspector Document Audio Soundtrack menu. This will play as the slideshow progresses and changes slides. The Soundtrack will begin playing together with the first slide of your slideshow and continue until the end of the audio. To get all of the Builds and Transitions in your slides to synchronise with the audio track, you will need to Record the track, which also can be done from this same window. Also, remember that if you do have a Soundtrack, you need to remove any individual audio tracks you may have imported into any slides. Otherwise, they will play simultaneously when the slide comes up. Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
keynote - music stops sometimes then re-starts
Hi I have taught myself Powerpoint on my notebook but have now bought an Applemac. I usually make slide shows from my (many) scanned and digital photos on various topics. I am now trying to work with Keynote to do similar projects as with Powerpoint, and have taught myself a reasonable amount. However, I have two problems. Problem 1 I can successfully add music from my itune library to my slideshow. However, when I play my slideshow this music sometimes stops for no reason, then restarts - several times during the slideshow. Sometimes jiggling the mouse seems to help. At times the whole show just stops until the music is ready to start up again. Problem 2 Instead of looping the music to recommence when it has played all the way through, sometimes on a long slide show I would like to add a second (or third) song after the whole of the first song has played. This does not seem to be possible, as working with Inspector just replaces the first song which I had inserted. Peta -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
