Magic Mouse

I am interested to hear comments regarding Magic Mouse battery life. I have one with my new iMac and like it but wonder about the battery life. I am using rechargeables and my first lot gave me three weeks+. I read a lot about this and also as to the interpretation of the battery level in the

Re: Magic Mouse

Severin I usually get about four weeks with rechargeables. I use Sanyo Eneloops which are said to have minimal discharge when idle. I will replace them when the bluetooth menu reports 50% or less as the voltage curve is far from linear and after this point they are close to discharged to a p

Re: Magic Mouse

Hi Severin I obtain longer battery life with alkaline cells in my Magic Mouse - but not precisely measured.I put the difference down to the nominal cell voltage: alkaline batts at 1.5V against nickel metal hydride rechargeables with 1.2V voltage. Both seemed to reach 5-10% life at around

Re: Magic Mouse

Hi Severin Since I switched from the super market variety rechargeable to those supplied by Apple I have had no problems with usage approaching 4 weeks Graeme On 22/08/2011, at 4:47 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: > I am interested to hear comments regarding Magic Mouse battery life. I have > one wi

Re: Magic Mouse

Hi Severin, I got a trackpad recently and bought the Apple rechargeables and charger to go with it ­ the package comes with 6 batteries. So now I have the charger plugged-in and to hand by the computer with: * One pair in the Magic mouse * One pair in the Trackpad * One pair in the charger I ign

Re: Magic Mouse

Good evening Severin, Barry & All, I was given a Magic Mouse last year and also a set of Apple rechargeable batteries. I do turn off the Magic Mouse at night, but as a rule it stays on from about 6:00pm to around 01:00am every night, and the week-ends virtually all day. I get about 3-4 months befo

Re: connect 2011 MBP to Panasonic tv & Image selection

Hi Chris & Peter, I support Peter in that if you do not like iPhoto, for whatever reason, then have a try of Graphic Converter. I use this application almost daily ever since I saw Peter demonstrating the application in an early session at the WAMUG, and that was many years ago, and I have never

That syncing feeling!

Evening all, I am totally confused about Synchronising my iMac, iPhone and MacBook Pro so am hoping someone can give me a clue about syncing iCal. It appears that it can be synced via MobileMe and/or @ Mail Contacts & Calendars and to add to the confusion you can have Calendars on MobileMe and

Re: Magic Mouse

Hello Severin, I get about four to five weeks out of my Magic Mouse using Energizer rechargeable batteries. I never switch it off as I assume it shuts down with the computer. The remaining power figure reported by the mouse is quite unreliable, however. It stays on 100% for an extended period

Re: That syncing feeling!

Hi Adrian, I have MobileMe syncing my Bookmarks, Calendars, Contacts, Keychains, Mail Accounts, Mail rules, Signatures, & Smart Mailboxes, and Notes with my MacBook Pro, iPad & iPhone all automatically. All my devices are always in sync with any changes made on any device. Basically this is ho

Re: USB bar code readers

On 22/08/2011, at 8:19 AM, Bill Parker wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a cheap bar code reader that will say feed into a field > in Filemaker? And I hope, a location where I can buy today in Perth? > > > Bill > > Pretty much any standard bar code reader will do it. All you need to do i

Re: USB bar code readers

Thanks Peter. On 23/08/2011, at 7:33 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > > > On 22/08/2011, at 8:19 AM, Bill Parker wrote: > >> >> Can anyone recommend a cheap bar code reader that will say feed into a field >> in Filemaker? And I hope, a location where I can buy today in Perth? >> >> >> Bill

Autosave in Lion

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I'm finding the autosave feature in Lion to be a bit of a deal breaker at this stage. I still have not deployed Lion as my full time OS, but during experimentation with it on the weekend, I found a disturbing feature. I tend to open most Excel files in Number

Re: Autosave in Lion

Hi Peter, On 23/08/2011, at 7:53 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > > Perhaps I'm missing something, but I'm finding the autosave feature in Lion > to be a bit of a deal breaker at this stage. I still have not deployed Lion > as my full time OS, but during experimentation with it on the weekend, I

Re: Autosave in Lion

Hi Peter, Ronni has covered the Autosave feature well. I just wanted to ask you what version of Numbers you are running and have you applied Software Updates? I am still using iWork '09 but from memory it has received a software update under Lion to version 2.1 (436). It behaves in exactly the

Re: Autosave in Lion

Hi Carlo, On 23/08/2011, at 9:52 AM, cm wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > Ronni has covered the Autosave feature well. I just wanted to ask you what > version of Numbers you are running and have you applied Software Updates? I > am still using iWork '09 but from memory it has received a software upda

Re: USB bar code readers

Hi Peter, I tried to access the link below but found its not free. I don't ind forking out the U$99 but not sure what I am getting for the outlay. Bill On 23/08/2011, at 7:33 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > > > On 22/08/2011, at 8:19 AM, Bill Parker wrote: > >> >> Can anyone recommend a c

Re: USB bar code readers

Hi Bill, I don’t profess to know anything about Filemaker (Peter is the expert on Filemaker), or bar code readers, but I understood that Barcode readers work like this: 1. You click into a field in any program. 2. You pick up the scanner and scan a barcode. 3. The barcode reader decodes the bar

Re: Autosave in Lion

Hi Ronni, I agree, there are a couple of defects in Lion. Notably for me Mail.app still crashes about twice a week (but fortunately saves a draft so I do not lose any typing) and the Safari reverse pinch does not reformat the zoomed in paragraph correctly. Apart from that I find the new gestur

Re: Autosave in Lion

Hi WAMUGers, Firstly I recommend people purchase the Take Control Ebooks. Both Daniel & I have recommended purchasing these Ebooks before on WAMUG Mailing List. They are cheap for the knowledge they contain. With the interest in “Auto-Save” in Lion I’ve put together some excerpts from my purch

Re: Desktop freezes

Update, Since resetting the PRAM (and trashing the desktop plist) I have had only one freeze ­ good news. However I have modified my behaviour a bit as well. When waking it from Sleep, I wait a few more moments before doing anything. It seems to take a little time to do other things, like backing u

Re: USB bar code readers

Got it very clear there, the confusion is arising (for me) because I am getting choice of bars and mosaics (like airport check-ins). I guess its suck it and see before I buy a scanner. I used them before with Filemaker a long while back but seeing a sample of what I have to handle, I began

Re: Desktop freezes

Hi Lloyd, How much RAM do you have installed in your iMac? Also ‘Free' space on your Hard Drive? You might just have too much happening as it wakes from sleep for your processor to handle, so it freezes. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 720

Cannot start in Lion

Folks, I have a problem with another MacBook pro 13 inch purchased end of June from Dick Smith's. It had Snow Leopard as bought. From the Apple AUS website, Lion was offered as download as a free purchase ( this info came from the Apple website). The laptop worked for two weeks. Today

Re: Cannot start in Lion

Hi Bill, Turn the MAC on and immediatley hold down the option/alt key After a few seconds you'll be shown the bootable options screen. Select your Mac HD and click the arrow beneath it. This should boot you into Lion. >From here go to System Preferences - Startup Disk and choose your Mac HD th

Re: Cannot start in Lion

Hi Bill, When you install Lion you get a hidden Recovery partition on your had drive. You can try to boot into the recovery partition by holding down the Option key just after you power on your MacBook Pro. You should see an image for each bootable device. Select Recovery and press Enter to bo

Re: Cannot start in Lion

Thanks Ronni and carlo, Mission accomplished. Restored normal serice. New WAMUG member recruited?!! Bill On 23/08/2011, at 12:23 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > > Turn the MAC on and immediatley hold down the option/alt key > After a few seconds you'll be shown the bootable option

Re: Autosave in Lion

Hi Carlo, I’m actually waiting for the next OS to be released: OS X 10.8 Domestic House Cat ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 23/08/2011, at 11:10 AM, cm wrote: > > Hi Ronni, > > I agree, there are a couple of defects in Lion. Notabl

windows 7

Hi. I'm a new member to wamug. I have a macbook pro 13inch. Have recently installed os x lion. I have managed to partition the hard-drive using bootcamp assistant. So far successfully downloaded windows support software and burned to disc/dvd as requested by bootcamp assistant. The proce

Re: Desktop freezes

Hi Ronnie, I have an iMac, 3.06 Ghz, Core 2 Duo 4 GB 800 Mhz SDRAM (whatever that all means! ) Lloyd > Hi Lloyd, > > How much RAM do you have installed in your iMac? Also ŒFree' space on your > Hard Drive? > You might just have too much happening as it wakes from sleep for your > processo

Re: Desktop freezes

Sorry ­ forgot the fee space. Used 335 Gigs out of 500. Lloyd > Hi Lloyd, > > How much RAM do you have installed in your iMac? Also ŒFree' space on your > Hard Drive? > You might just have too much happening as it wakes from sleep for your > processor to handle, so it freezes. > > Cheers,

Re: Desktop freezes

Hi Lloyd, 4GB RAM … I would be at least doubling the memory. The minimum requirements to just install Lion is 2GB RAM, but experts recommend at least 8GB. Once you factor in everything you’ll be doing with Lion, like watching videos, organising photos and music, web browsing, and so much more.