Home network suitability for Facetime and Find My iPhone

2012-05-24 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi folks, some of you may recall my previous posting re issues with getting my kids' (3 of them) iPod Touch's being able to be seen using the Find My iPhone app and also recent occurrence with my wifes new iPad in the house (WiFi only) not being able to be seen by Find My iPhone and Facetime

Re: Home network suitability for Facetime and Find My iPhone

2012-05-24 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Peter, 'Find My iPhone' uses a mix of GPS, Wi-Fi data, and cell tower data to locate the phone. The use of all of these services is helpful when you need to locate a missing phone and a GPS signal can't be established--for example, inside a building. You do have to have Location Services

Re: Home network suitability for Facetime and Find My iPhone

2012-05-24 Thread cm
Hi Peter, Here's my anecdote for you consideration. I'm not sure if any conclusion can be drawn from it but it could indicate some sort of slowdown in the Find My iPhone service. I have 6 iCloud devices in the house and had previously set up all of them with location services and Find My

Re: Home network suitability for Facetime and Find My iPhone

2012-05-24 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Peter, Have you changed your Network since 21Feb 2012 when you had a problem; Subject: Dad the Internet is down again? You mention below: I have a D-Link DSL-G604T in bridge mode to a Time Capsule for my wireless network. Time Capsule is setup as your Wireless Network isn't it? If so you

Re: Home network suitability for Facetime and Find My iPhone

2012-05-24 Thread Peter Crisp
Thanks Ronni and others, yes the Time Capsule is in Bridge mode NOT the D-Link. D-Link is simply acting as a Modem only. I will check out the links and the settings here and revert when next milestone achieved. Cheers. Peter. On 24/05/2012, at 10:49 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, Have you

G5 tower problem

2012-05-24 Thread Kevin Lock
One of the G5 towers I am refurbishing restarts by itself after a shutdown.It is not an immediate restart, but some time later I find it running. It does not however power up the monitor. Any ideas for me on this one? Thanks, Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives

Re: G5 tower problem

2012-05-24 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Kevin, Disconnect all peripherals except KB, Mouse, Monitor, Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup). Does it do the same from Safe Boot? Also reset the PRAM Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.4 Lion

Re: G5 tower problem

2012-05-24 Thread Kevin Lock
Thanks Ronni, I am running Disk Warrior on it at the moment and will report back if either DW or your suggestions have solved the problem. Regards, Kevin On 25/05/12 11:44 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Kevin, Disconnect all peripherals except KB, Mouse, Monitor, Safe Boot from the HD,

Re: Publisher

2012-05-24 Thread Chris Griffiths
Hi everyone, Can you guys help me with this? I have a publisher document 4.8Mb that has a whole heap of photos a client wants me to use in an InDesign doc. I can't open it and have done a search on Google to see if there is a solution. They said to use Pdfonline.com and convert into a pdf.

Re: Publisher

2012-05-24 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Chris, There is no application on a Mac that can open Windows Publisher .pub files that I know of. Can you get the client to export the file as html? Publisher can export as a HTML file. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 25/05/2012, at 10:39 AM, Chris Griffiths ch...@ilink.com.au

Re: Publisher

2012-05-24 Thread Chris Griffiths
That's what I thought. Thanks heaps. Just didn't want to disturb the client. Chris Griffiths Mac lover On 25/05/2012, at 11:45 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Chris, There is no application on a Mac that can open Windows Publisher .pub files that I know of. Can you get the client to export

Re: Publisher

2012-05-24 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Chris, I did convert a .pub publisher file a while back, it was over 2MB so In didn't use pdfonline - unfortunately I don't remember what I used (possibly ZAMZAR?) and I do remember the results weren't wonderful - however a quick Google shows some options: ZAMZAR claims to be able to handle

Re: G5 tower problem

2012-05-24 Thread Kevin Lock
Ronni, did a DW scan and tried your suggestions to no avail.I now think it is a problem with the start button because as I plugged in the power cord back in, it started without pressing the start button. I will look at replacing the button with one from a U/S G5 I have here. Report back

Color Laser printer

2012-05-24 Thread Severin Crisp
My trusty Fuji-Xerox DocuPrint C525A is sadly breathing its last after many, many pages of printing. I am investigating a replacement and would welcome suggestions and experience. My use is for text printing with coloured letterhead and occasional artwork of non critical standard.