Re: Rumoured iMac specs,...wonder where iWork '11 is,...lol - Applestore back up. New iMacs

2011-05-04 Thread Ronda Brown
On 03/05/2011, at 11:38 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: That's all,..back to your normal program. Oh,..and does anyone know why Dunedin (as in Dunedin, NZ) doesn't seem to work in Dashboard weather anymore? I want to see how cold my Dad is, so I can hassle him,...lol. :O) Or it does work for

Weather widget

2011-05-04 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 4/5/11 2:11 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 03/05/2011, at 11:38 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: That's all,..back to your normal program. Oh,..and does anyone know why Dunedin (as in Dunedin, NZ) doesn't seem to work in Dashboard weather anymore? I want to see how cold my Dad is, so

Re: Weather widget

2011-05-04 Thread Neil Houghton
Hehe, The weather in Dunedin has been cancelled, due to lack of interest ;o) Could it be anything like the Christchurch earthquake taking out some of the infrastructure? Yes, I know Dunedin is several hundred km from Christchurch - but I always bullshit best when totally unhampered by any

Re: Weather widget

2011-05-04 Thread Daniel Kerr
Probably about right,..everyone's left. The Kiwi running joke is would the last person leaving NZ please turn off the lights ;o) I wouldn't think so Neil, as it actually hasn't worked for quite a while, long before the Earthquake. I just never got around to worry about it. And last night in my

Re: Weather widget

2011-05-04 Thread Jennifer Lefroy
Hello Daniel, Dunedin shows on the Dashboard weather widget on our imac version 10.4.8 and, yes, it is colder than here, 8 degrees. Regards, Jennifer On 4 May 2011 15:00, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: On 4/5/11 2:11 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 03/05/2011, at

Re: Weather widget

2011-05-04 Thread Ronda Brown
Weather Widget doesn't work as well in Snow Leopard. If you’ve used the Dashboard’s Weather Widget on Mac OS 10.5, you’ve probably noticed that the provider for weather data used to be AccuWeather.com. With Snow Leopard this has changed to a combination of Weather.com and Yahoo. AccuWeather

Re: Weather widget

2011-05-04 Thread Daniel Kerr
Thanks Jennifer and Ronni Thought it might be something like that. Shame really they changed. Oh well, Maybe they'll fix it in Lion :) lol. Not a big deal really,...but just interesting to know. At least it still works on my iPhone,.. :) Kind regards Daniel On 4/5/11 9:34 PM, Ronda Brown

iPad woes

2011-05-04 Thread Pat
My new iPad (my first) arrived yesterday. Hooray! I thought. Now I'll have some fun. I followed the enclosed instructions about installing the latest version of iTunes and connecting the iPad. The message then said, 'iTunes could not connect to the iTunes store. The host is down.' Well,

Re: iPad woes

2011-05-04 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Pat Not quite sure what you are doing or what stage you're at. Updates and Syncing processes are done from the devices themselves (mainly iTunes) - no need to go to App Store for this. I assume you have now updated iTunes to vers 10.2.2 as a precursor to plugging in your iPad. I also

Re: iPad woes

2011-05-04 Thread Pat
Success! I think the problem was with iTunes 2.2, which I had downloaded as per instructions. I retrieved iTunes 2.1 from my storage disk, and the sync is now happening properly. Thanks for your reply, Alan. Pat On 05/05/2011, at 6:16 AM, Pat wrote: My new iPad (my first) arrived

Time Machine ?

2011-05-04 Thread Stephen Chape
Hello folks, What are peoples thoughts on Apple Time Machine ? I am able to get the 1TB from Bankwest using my accrued Reward Points. However some stories on the web suggest they do not have a very long life span ! Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --