Re: Mac and iOS-Friendly Printer

2014-12-01 Thread Brian Christmas
G’day Al Personally I have always preferred Epson 6 cartridge printers for photo printing with my iMacs. I believe they are the best photo printers bar non. Present printer is Epson Artisan 730. However, genuine Epson ink is expensive (I don’t use third party inks), so I have a small HP

Snow Leopard

2012-05-01 Thread Brian Christmas
G'day Listers Several weeks ago I sent Kelly a copy of Snow Leopard from Australia to her address in the US. She has just advised me that an Apple Tech support person had told her that Aussie software won't work on USA Macs. Whist I disbelieve this as a fact, does any wise head than mine

Re: Whew! So much help. Thank you

2012-04-13 Thread Brian Christmas
On 08/04/2012, at 2:47 PM, madamekelly wrote: I am in a small town in west central Oregon called Lebanon. We are on the map, but just barely I would love to have any software you are done with. I would even pay you for the postage. I am living on disability since my brain injury, and

Re: Whew! So much help. Thank you

2012-04-06 Thread Brian Christmas
On 05/04/2012, at 2:26 PM, madamekelly wrote: Ok, I read all of the lovely advice you all sent. I am still confused but getting better. I want to especially thank those of you who dumbed it down for me. Now, I have come up with what I hope are intelligent questions- First some background- I do

Re: Whew! So much help. Thank you

2012-04-06 Thread Brian Christmas
On 05/04/2012, at 2:26 PM, madamekelly wrote: Ok, I read all of the lovely advice you all sent. I am still confused but getting better. I want to especially thank those of you who dumbed it down for me. Now, I have come up with what I hope are intelligent questions- First some

spam email

2012-03-19 Thread Brian Christmas
G'day listers My daughter, who uses Lion on an iMac, has inadvertently sent the following email to everyone on her address book. Undoubtably it's a virus, but can anyone tell me if it's got any background processes that might be dangerous, and how she came to send it? The send time was when

Re: Problem with Toast

2012-03-16 Thread Brian Christmas
On 12/03/2012, at 10:07 AM, Christopher Collins wrote: It the drive is OK, then the other option is the media. If a burning program defaults to 2x, then generally the media is only good for 2x burning. I know that is how Burn and many others work. Not sure about toast, but I see no logical

Re: Problem with Toast

2012-03-11 Thread Brian Christmas
On 09/03/2012, at 1:52 PM, Dan wrote: At 5:45 PM +1100 3/8/2012, Brian Christmas wrote: Running Lion 7.3 with Toast 11. One of my granddaughters put an SD card into the CD slot, and by the time we managed to retrieve it, I needed a new drive. Well, better an SD card than oatmeal

Problem with Toast

2012-03-08 Thread Brian Christmas
G'day listers Running Lion 7.3 with Toast 11. One of my granddaughters put an SD card into the CD slot, and by the time we managed to retrieve it, I needed a new drive. Problem: Toast will only burn DVD's at 2x now, whereas the old drive burnt at 5x. Any suggestions as to remedies please?

Re: missing mail sounds

2012-03-06 Thread Brian Christmas
G'day Harry. All's OK now, turns out a couple of my Grandkids had been playing with the computer, and turned the Alerts volume right down. I completely missed it when checking Sounds. Regards Santa On 07/03/2012, at 3:49 AM, gifutiger wrote: Brian, You might also want to have a look at

missing mail sounds

2012-03-05 Thread Brian Christmas
G'day lister Running mail on Lion, i7 27 iMac. I downloaded some new mail sounds, and saved them in the ~/Library/Sounds folder I got sick of having iTunes as the default player, so with a get info, reset the default to Quicktime Now mail won't play any sounds at all, not even the wind sound

Re: upgrade from tiger to???

2012-02-01 Thread Brian Christmas
On 01/02/2012, at 5:54 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: You're right John, what I meant was that Leopard is becoming less and less useful to an average user. And yes, I completely forgot about Snow Leopard, that would also work. -Jonas G'day Kelly As I see it, you need three things. 1. a backup

Re: upgrade from tiger to???

2012-02-01 Thread Brian Christmas
On 01/02/2012, at 5:54 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: You're right John, what I meant was that Leopard is becoming less and less useful to an average user. And yes, I completely forgot about Snow Leopard, that would also work. -Jonas Kelly, this might help you understand about the memory

Re: Administrator question

2012-01-20 Thread Brian Christmas
G'day Bill There always has to be a full administrator user present on System X What I did with my daughters iMac (10.7.2) was to password block the admin user, and create a non-password user for the two grandkids. If a software update is required, it's a simple matter logging into the admin