Re: Itunes not responding

2013-10-15 Thread Neil Houghton
wrote: On 15/10/2013, at 2:03 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 15 Oct 2013, at 12:28 pm, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Well, Ronni, you DID say you were curious ;o) For myself, I'm happy that it all seems to be working OK and don't really want to spend any more time

Re: Itunes not responding

2013-10-15 Thread Neil Houghton
:47, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Ronni, That¹s interesting. I will follow your procedure for clearing the DNS cache sometime in the next few days (I¹ve a few more things I need to attend to first) and report back. A couple of points worth noting: The message: 14/10

Re: Itunes not responding

2013-10-14 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi ronni, First off, I unplugged the AppleTV and let it sit for a while so that everything had a chance to recognise that. So the AppleTV itself is now out of the picture. Then I used Console to monitor messages whilst I restarted iTunes, it again locked up and I force quit - messages below:

Re: Itunes not responding

2013-10-14 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ronni, Due to all the console verbiage, I have trimmed the earlier responses from this reply and just addressed your last email. This response was generated over time, as I progressed through various steps and reported as I went: Cleared Console display and restarted iTunes. Console messages

Re: Vault File for 1Password ?

2013-10-13 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Stephen, Just to mention that, for me using 1Password 3 at least, the actual file name you are looking for is: 1Password.agilekeychain HTH Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/10/13 11:56, Daniel Kerr at

Re: Vault File for 1Password ?

2013-10-13 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Tim, A big +1 for 1Password from me too. I must admit when Peter talked about the problems that this type of software creates - I thought he was talking about AppCleaner (which deleted the keychain) rather than 1Password - though I now see it could be read either way ;o) Cheers Neil --

Itunes not responding

2013-10-13 Thread Neil Houghton
I've got a problem with iTunes since my last (iTunes) update. 27 iMac, 2.8GHz Core I7, OSX 10.6.8 running iTunes 11.1.1 I seem to remember that on first running iTunes after the 11.1.1 update some dialogue box came up - but I had also started iTunes downloading some app upgrades including a

Re: iOS 7.0.2 Update

2013-09-29 Thread Neil Houghton
Double oops ­ my first reply included Rick¹s pictures - may not make it through ­ my apologies ;o( Previous reply Oooh, adding pictures, you will be in trouble Rick ;o) I must admit, after looking at your screenshots, I will probably postpone upgrading to IOS7 ­ I prefer the

Re: Accessing US Store

2013-08-20 Thread Neil Houghton
I know I have a US iTunes account that I opened several years ago when there was lots of free stuff on the US store but not the Oz store ­ but I don¹t actually remember how I went about it ;o( It does let me access apps that aren¹t available on the Oz store ­ but I think I¹ve only used it for

Re: Accessing US Store

2013-08-20 Thread Neil Houghton
) You can change your account from one country to another as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1311 . Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 20/08/2013, at 7:16 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Re: Accessing US Store I know I have a US iTunes account that I opened

Re: Bento on iMac and iPad

2013-08-20 Thread Neil Houghton
Hehe, I reckon I can identify with ³my brain is full². However, since I still enjoy learning more more new things, I just use that as an excuse for the old ( not so old) stuff I keep forgetting - it just got pushed out by the new stuff coming in ;o)) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton

Re: Itunes

2013-08-13 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Bill, If you are just wanting to add/change info for a number of tracks in one go ­ say you have a penchant for Georgian Harp music and want to set that as a specific genre for a number of tracks ;o) You can shift select (or command select for non sequential) any number of tracks and then

Re: MBPro rapidly heating up

2013-08-08 Thread Neil Houghton
I like Firefox because of various extensions I use with it ­ particularly Adblock and Flashblock which cuts out a lot of the visual advertorial pollution on many sites. With Flashblock you just get an icon everywhere there would be flash content and if you actually want to see the flash content

Re: MBPro rapidly heating up

2013-08-08 Thread Neil Houghton
I forgot, if you want to know more about Flashblock: http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ I like Firefox because of various extensions I use with it ­ particularly Adblock and Flashblock which cuts out a lot of the visual advertorial pollution on many sites. With Flashblock you just get an icon

Re: No wireless synch for iPhone?

2013-07-23 Thread Neil Houghton
8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com On 21/07/2013, at 3:18 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: A strange one, not sure what I'm missing. I had my iPhone and iPad set-up for wireless synching to iTunes and all was fine - though I seem to remember that maybe the iPhone

Re: No wireless synch for iPhone?

2013-07-23 Thread Neil Houghton
any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. On 23/07/2013, at 2:59 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Ronni, Comments below

Re: No wireless synch for iPhone?

2013-07-23 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ronni, I'd just replied to Daniel when your email came through - so restarting network has no effect. As per my previous email, restarting the iMac is not an option for me at the moment (whilst the iMac is sent to sleep regularly, it and the software I need to keep running have now been

Re: No wireless synch for iPhone?

2013-07-23 Thread Neil Houghton
the problem was. Many thanks for all the suggestions. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 23/7/13 16:30, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Ronni, I'd just replied to Daniel when your email came through

No wireless synch for iPhone?

2013-07-21 Thread Neil Houghton
A strange one, not sure what I'm missing. I had my iPhone and iPad set-up for wireless synching to iTunes and all was fine - though I seem to remember that maybe the iPhone was sometimes a little erratic in showing up in the iTunes sidebar. I think maybe I had to occasionally disconnect and

Re: Slow down

2013-07-06 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ronni, I was interested in your comment (below) - do you still get this overhead from aliases to items filed away (ie originals not on the desktop) - I had assumed aliases were not really causing much desktop overhead ­ but they have their icons like any other item? Cheers Neil (who is

Re: SBS Television Frequency

2013-06-10 Thread Neil Houghton
What has this to do with ³SBS Television Frequency² ?? -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 10/6/13 14:57, Marcus F Harris at cryptodo...@me.com wrote: Hi, Could someone assist me to resolve an issue with downloading updates Apps

Re: International date line

2013-06-09 Thread Neil Houghton
Well, your phone has inbuilt GPS and will automatically check for network access and soon obtain the info to know where it is ­ the macbook has to get that info from somewhere. According to this http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/automatically-set-time-zone-by-loca tion.php Generally your

Re: Safari handicap?

2013-05-23 Thread Neil Houghton
Just one of the reasons I always like to have at least 2 browsers available. Sometimes it may be down to websites using non-standard code which breaks more or less gracefully on different browsers. Sometimes it could be due to browser add-ons interfering. I recently had a similar experience in

Re: spam

2013-05-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Brett, Just a thought ­ may not even be relevant since I use Entourage, rather than Mail, as my email client. I use a lot of mailing rules to sort my mail into different folders, as it arrives, and sometimes find things where I don¹t expect them. Generally, I find that this is due to the

Re: Airport

2013-05-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Brett, As Tim said, migration assistant is the way to go here ­ and ­ if both machines have firewire and can be positioned to allow a firewire connection then that allows you to use Target mode. Whilst you CAN move data around manually, migration assistant is a much better tool to use ­

Re: Dropbox question ?

2013-05-13 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Stephen, When you install Dropbox it creates a folder on your mac (in your user folder) called ³Dropbox² it is this folder, and its contents, which Dropbox keeps synched. Place any folders/subfolders/files which you wish to keep synched into this ³Dropbox² folder. Easy as! The Dropbox

Ical - how to set 24 hour clock?

2013-05-13 Thread Neil Houghton
OSX 10.6.8, iCal 4.0.4 (1395.7) I haven't really used iCal before - but thought I would give it a try. I have system preferences (Date Time) set to use a 24 hour clock - which is how I'm used to working - but iCal would not accept a time like 17:30. I looked through iCal prefs and help, but I

Re: Ical - how to set 24 hour clock?

2013-05-13 Thread Neil Houghton
, at 11:14 AM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: OSX 10.6.8, iCal 4.0.4 (1395.7) I haven't really used iCal before - but thought I would give it a try. I have system preferences (Date Time) set to use a 24 hour clock - which is how I'm used to working - but iCal would not accept a time

Re: Extra storage via SD Card reader (v3)

2013-05-10 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ronni Rod, For me, Rod's recent posts (formatted versions) only display the signature - as did Ronni's last post (see below). I can see what the message should be if I go to view the source. When Rod resent the posts as plain text they displayed fine. Is this something to do with the recent

Re: problems with macbook pro restore help help please!!!!

2013-04-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Rosemary, I am by no means a Time machine expert ­ so these are just a few of my thoughts: The good: the fact that you can see the sparsebundle from your old TM backup means you have not somehow accidentally erased it ­ so all your data is there (at the moment). Since your clone is not

Re: Green Coffee Bean spam

2013-04-09 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Jennifer, And don't forget: Even if the from exactly matches one of your actual friends/relatives, it does not mean that either your or their email accounts have been compromised - it is easy to send an email with any from address you choose (I demonstrated this in a WAMUG post quite a while

Amazing old map site

2013-04-07 Thread Neil Houghton
OK, I'm going to maintain this isn't off-topic because: 1) His list of equipment he uses includes several macs AND 2) The best computer to enjoy this has to be a nice 27 iMac ;o)) I love old maps and there are many sites with extensive collections and great free downloads - but I just found this

Re: Dropbox !

2013-03-31 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Stephen, My experience is that everything that is in the ³dropbox² folder on your computer is indeed automatically uploaded to your dropbox online storage. Not only that but if you open your dropbox account in a browser you can see each version that has been uploaded as you change/edit them

Re: Dropbox !

2013-03-31 Thread Neil Houghton
Chape at chap...@bigpond.com wrote: Thank you Neil, There must be a time lag then. I checked an Excel file that I adjusted this afternoon and the changes were NOT reflected about 5 minutes later. I will keep an eye on it in future ! On 31/03/2013, at 5:54 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com

Re: Westpac with iPad

2013-03-24 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Severin, I do online bank with Westpac but don't use the ipad - so can't actually answer your question. BUT Thinking laterally... Why don't you just change your password to avoid uppercase ;o) Just a thought ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8

Re: Strange iPhone messages

2013-03-15 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Pat, +44 is the UK prefix - so perhaps not as strange as Kosovo ;o)) If you are really interested in who the phone numbers belong to you could always try a reverse look-up eg http://www.reverseaustralia.com/ for Australia Or for the UK http://www.nnh.co.uk/reverse-phone-lookup.html Thought

Re: Strange iPhone messages

2013-03-15 Thread Neil Houghton
Sorry, I really should have checked the links before posting - the UK apparently on longer allows this due to privacy reasons. on 15/3/13 7:53 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Pat, +44 is the UK prefix - so perhaps not as strange as Kosovo ;o)) If you are really

Re: Java issues

2013-03-11 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Severin, The main thing I have to turn Java on for is the landgate mapviewer (much better aerial photos than googlemaps if you select the right set) https://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/bmvf/app/mapviewer/ I also remember that the old ATO CSI software used it - though this is now replaced by Auskey

Re: Family HIstory Search

2013-03-11 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Merv, Not really an answer to your question as I've never tried it ;o) However: My only experience of Just Answer has been when it comes up in the google results when I'm troubleshooting some technical issue - I've never felt the need to cough up to see what an unidentified expert might say

Re: Family HIstory Search

2013-03-11 Thread Neil Houghton
and/or have a chat. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 11/3/13 6:40 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Merv, Not really an answer to your question as I've never tried it ;o) However: My only

Re: Question for the Gurus

2013-03-10 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Peter, To disable Java generally, go to System Preferences Java (it's in the Other group). If your version of Java is recent enough to be the Oracle version (which it should be) the Java Control Panel will open in another window. Click the Java tab, then the View... button. Uncheck the

Re: Question for the Gurus

2013-03-10 Thread Neil Houghton
. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 11/3/13 9:01 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 11/03/2013, at 8:50 AM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Peter, To disable Java generally, go to System Preferences

Re: Proxy Form for SMG 5 March 2013

2013-03-01 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Pete, Hi Laura, All worked fine for me. Pete, I don't know if it will help you track down the problem - but my set-up/action was: OSX 10.6.8, Firefox 18.0.2 with pdf plug-in 2.4.4. When I click on the pdf link in Firefox, it opens in Firefox with the pdf plug-in. I then right-clicked and

Re: Iphone refuses to connect to wireless network

2013-02-26 Thread Neil Houghton
self two weeks ago and that resolved it instantly. I am curious if it works or not so please let me know Neil. Regards Pete On 26/02/2013, at 12:36 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Just to add: € The iPhone was previously connecting to the network OK € I have now rebooted

Re: Iphone refuses to connect to wireless network

2013-02-26 Thread Neil Houghton
on your phone? Regards Pete On 26/02/2013, at 6:27 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Peter, Thanks for that - yes that sorted the problem ;o)) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com

Iphone refuses to connect to wireless network

2013-02-25 Thread Neil Houghton
A strange problem here. I picked up my iPhone, at home, and noticed that it was not connected to my airport network. The network is working fine and my iMac and iPad are both connected and communicating just fine. I tried turning wifi off and then on again and the phone sees the network but

Re: Iphone refuses to connect to wireless network

2013-02-25 Thread Neil Houghton
Just to add: € The iPhone was previously connecting to the network OK € I have now rebooted both the modem and the Airport Extreme - but with the same result - the iMac and iPad connect fine - the iphone sees the network but gives me a incorrect password dialogue on 26/2/13 11:56 AM, Neil

Re: Modem Router

2013-02-20 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Severin, Yes, I'm starting to come to the same conclusion with my modem - reboots seem to get more more frequent. ADSL2 modems are fine with ADSL1 - but, if you are going to get a new modem, you might also like to future-proof it to some extent by getting one that is also NBN ready. I've

Re: Modem Router

2013-02-20 Thread Neil Houghton
length of time. Reg On 20/02/2013, at 6:54 pm, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Severin, Yes, I'm starting to come to the same conclusion with my modem - reboots seem to get more more frequent. ADSL2 modems are fine with ADSL1 - but, if you are going to get a new modem

Re: SD Card reader/eraser

2013-02-19 Thread Neil Houghton
Well, I have seen wi-fi SD cards advertised, eg: http://www.eye.fi/ Which looks like it might work with another device (eg tablet/smartphone but maybe not a hard drive) since it says: Instantly and safely sends photos to your computer, tablet or smartphone. It also looks like it then erases

Re: New iMac - Poor Audio Quality?

2013-02-18 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Alan, A few thoughts/comments: * I agree with you that the general dumbing down of audio specifications and info is regrettable - and certainly the info given in the audio specifications section of the iMac product page on Apples site http://www.apple.com/imac/specs/ is very basic to say the

Re: Rant! you have been warned :-).

2013-02-06 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Mac, As I see it there are two issues here: 1) what cable would physically connect your turntable to your computer 2) if you make such a connection, will it do what you want (copy your records tracks to your computer) or not - or might it even damage one or both of the devices. 1) is easily

Re: iTunes sync

2013-01-28 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Peter, Ronni, Daniel Peter, I think the thing to remember is that if you and your kids use the same Apple ID then there is no my stuff kids stuff from the iTunes account point of view - it is all associated with that apple ID - so when you are in iTunes and signed into that account it is all

Re: Telstra iPad Recharge

2013-01-04 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Rod, I'm in a similar situation I figured the $180/365 day recharge had to be the best: € It works out to only $15/month so it's cheaper than the lowest 30 day recharge € It gives you an AVERAGE of 1GB/month - the same as the lowest 30 day recharge € It allows you to have several low

Re: dropbox

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, In actual fact, it is even better than Ronni says - everybody signing up to Dropbox gets 2GB free but using a referral link also gives the person signing up an extra 500MB - so you actually get a free 2.5GB to start. It also gives the person supplying the link an extra 500MB (these

Re: Help

2012-12-30 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Juliet Bill, not a long Christmas break, Ronni ;o) Ronni's method is, as usual, effective and well explained. As with many things, there are probably several other ways to do it - the best (for you) may depend on how you like to work and, among other things, how many recipes you have. For

Re: Ipad - Cellular Data Number unknown - does not receive SMSs

2012-12-18 Thread Neil Houghton
...@possumology.com on 18/12/12 4:31 PM, Susan Hastings at susanhasti...@me.com wrote: in body of message --- Susan Hastings Mobile: 0409 688 004 susanhasti...@mac.com On 18/12/2012, at 1:55 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Thanks for the speedy reply, Susan :o)) OK... so

Re: Ipad - Cellular Data Number unknown - does not receive SMSs

2012-12-18 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ronni, Yes, thanks, I already had that. Not too bad for a Telstra app ;o) It is a bit erratic though - sometimes it shows my remaining bonus data (which is all I have until I do my first recharge) and sometimes it doesn't (as in it misses out that section) - but then Telstra My Account will

Ipad - Cellular Data Number unknown - does not receive SMSs

2012-12-17 Thread Neil Houghton
I'm probably missing something obvious here ;o) OK, so I bought my $30 Pre-paid micro SIM for the iPad, installed it in the iPad, activated the SIM, connected to the net, set-up it up as a personal hot-spot and all is working fine (this email was sent from my iMac via the iPad personal hotspot)

Re: Ipad - Cellular Data Number unknown - does not receive SMSs

2012-12-17 Thread Neil Houghton
I should also say that I HAVE tried powering down and restarting the iPad - still no change. on 18/12/12 12:02 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: I'm probably missing something obvious here ;o) OK, so I bought my $30 Pre-paid micro SIM for the iPad, installed it in the iPad

Re: Ipad - Cellular Data Number unknown - does not receive SMSs

2012-12-17 Thread Neil Houghton
messages. You can use apple imessage. --- Susan Hastings Mobile: 0409 688 004 susanhasti...@mac.com On 18/12/2012, at 12:07 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: I should also say that I HAVE tried powering down and restarting the iPad - still no change. on 18/12/12 12:02

Ipad pre-paid mobile broadband plans vs mobile hotspots

2012-12-14 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi, I've now (finally) got an iPad 4G and I'm contemplating mobile broadband plans. I have to stick with Telstra for the country coverage. I am probably going to go pre-paid and saw that people recommended the 12GB 365 day option (which should be more than enough for when I'm away from wi-fi)

Re: Ipad pre-paid mobile broadband plans vs mobile hotspots

2012-12-14 Thread Neil Houghton
this and reconnect - but it was a nuisance. Is this likely to be the same with the iPad? Is it just a matter of finding a setting to change? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/12/12 9:20 PM, Neil Houghton at n

Re: Ipad pre-paid mobile broadband plans vs mobile hotspots

2012-12-14 Thread Neil Houghton
to sleep whilst the laptop is connected. Sent from my iPad On 14/12/2012, at 6:10 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi replying (partially) to my own post ;o) It seems I was premature in my assumption: Ideally I would use my iPad as a mobile broadband hotspot but, if I

Re: Anti Virus

2012-06-28 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Peter, I'll second Ronni's experience that AVG Anti-Virus does a very good job. I've been happy with their free version on Windows XP running in Parallels (though, again, I do VERY little work in Windows) - just keep ignoring their option to upgrade to the FULL (paid) version ;o) Cheers

Re: Offsite backup

2012-06-27 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Severin, If you have an alternative site to store it, you can also go with the rotating disk approach - disk 1 at home, disk 2 offsite - and rotate them on a weekly (or other) basis. Officeworks Albany are doing a really good deal on the 500GB WD MyPassport Studio (FW800 USB2.0) - I bought

Re: Mountain Lion - AirPlay Mirroring - older iMacs?

2012-06-24 Thread Neil Houghton
for my iMac and see if that helps the iView problem.Haven't yet tried to watch a straight 30 minute mirror to test the ATV sleeping issue. Cheers Alan On 20/06/2012, at 10:36 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Alan, OK, that's good to know. Many thanks for the feedback. When

Re: Video playback slowed down.

2012-06-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Adrian, I gather from your previous emails that the problem is just with streaming YouTube - rather than already downloaded video. Forgive me for asking the obvious - but you have checked your internet connection speed to make sure that you have not developed a problem in that area? Cheers

Re: Mountain Lion - AirPlay Mirroring - older iMacs?

2012-06-20 Thread Neil Houghton
/2012, at 10:36 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Alan, OK, that's good to know. Many thanks for the feedback. When you say: App is a bit rough, but it works. What is the problem/roughness - is it in the interface/operability or is it in the resulting video/audio stream? Cheers

Re: Mountain Lion - AirPlay Mirroring - older iMacs?

2012-06-20 Thread Neil Houghton
put on a USB stick and play from many TVs or recorders. Hope you have as nice a fire going as I have, we only got to 9C up here on Mount Clarence and lots of rain and hail to go with it Severin On 20/06/2012, at 3:46 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Alan, Thanks very much for this feedback

Re: Mountain Lion - AirPlay Mirroring - older iMacs?

2012-06-19 Thread Neil Houghton
Bugger! I just went to check out AirParrot as I thought it would FINALLY let me view ABC iView directly on my AppleTV by playing full-screen on my iMac and then mirroring to the AppleTV - only to find: it only supports video‹no audio is broadcasted via AirPlay. However, AirParrot¹s developers

Re: Mountain Lion - AirPlay Mirroring - older iMacs?

2012-06-19 Thread Neil Houghton
On 19/06/2012, at 7:23 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Bugger! I just went to check out AirParrot as I thought it would FINALLY let me view ABC iView directly on my AppleTV by playing full-screen on my iMac and then mirroring to the AppleTV - only to find: it only supports video‹no audio

Re: Downloading ANZ Bank monthly statements

2012-06-18 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Tim, Just a thought - I seem to remember this happening to me with a site a while back (probably not ANZ or banking) and it WAS actually downloading the pdf but giving it the .aspx file extension - if you let the .aspx file download completely and the change the .aspx extension to .pdf you may

Re: Downloading ANZ Bank monthly statements

2012-06-14 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ian, Not an answer to your problem with ANZ Safari - but I always like to have at least two separate browsers on my macs - currently Firefox, Safari Opera (though I very rarely fire up Opera). Unfortunately LOTS of websites out there do not use fully complying code on their websites and,

Re: new macbook pros - repairability might need to be considered

2012-06-13 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Shane, You might have to be quick!! StaticIce is showing only four entries: http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=Apple+17%22+macbook+prosp os=1 And they are all over east ;o( Of these however, if you follow the store links, the only retailer still showing the 17 product (in 3

Re: Whilst travelling I want to watch TV on my Mac

2012-06-10 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Peter, The other thing to think about, depending on where you are travelling and what sort of internet access you expect, are the local online TV offerings. We are all aware of the excellent ABC iView and I believe SBS and the commercial networks have their own offerings (though not on the

Re: Oberammergau Passion Play

2012-06-03 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Stuart, You can always use Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/ I haven't had cause to use it too often and seem to remember the results were, shall we say, patchy. But it may well do what you need. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8

Re: Excel quirky

2012-05-30 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Chris, Have you tried setting up another user account, opening excel and creating a new worksheet and trying in that. I would have thought that if that still gave you problems then it points to your version of excel (or possibly some conflict between excel and some particular

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: Adding a Time Capsule - network options/decisions

2012-05-16 Thread Neil Houghton
AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 15/05/2012, at 8:11 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Thanks very much for the lightning response Ronni! On the network set-up, you have confirmed what I thought about setting up the TC as the primary

Re: Adding a Time Capsule - network options/decisions

2012-05-16 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ronni, That's interesting; I'm not sure how much difference the limestone vs granite would make but I have noticed that the signal travels pretty well through the floor/ceiling interface - so the fact that only your downstairs is limestone probably gives you a relatively wall-free path through

Adding a Time Capsule - network options/decisions

2012-05-15 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, I was wandering through Officeworks (Albany) this weekend when I saw they had a 1TB time capsule on clearance, marked down to $160. I realised that this was not the current model but it seemed like a good deal - which got even better when they scanned it and it came up as $100! So now I

Re: Adding a Time Capsule - network options/decisions

2012-05-15 Thread Neil Houghton
Dual-Band 802.11n Wi-Fi Base Station, so all devices automatically connect to the band they require. eg. newer Macs iPad to the 5GHz band, iPhone to 2.5GHz band. If you wish to download the tutorial from my website, post back and I'll give the link. On 15/05/2012, at 2:56 PM, Neil

Re: Re problems setting up website.

2012-05-13 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Robert, I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do - if you mean can you direct a second domain address to you hosted website then the answer is probably yes - if your hosting package/domain management includes the feature. I setup our website www.potoroo.org several years ago and then

Re: Setting up a website to replace Mobileme

2012-05-12 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Robert, I don't know how your web-hosting package is set-up, but I have set-up 3 web-sites, including one which gets updated reasonably frequently, and I have yet to find that I need ANY FTP program. Both web-hosting companies I use offer C-panel controls for the web-hosting which means I do

Re: Missing Folder in HD

2012-05-10 Thread Neil Houghton
I find the sequence of events somewhat hard to follow - but have just one observation: If you had the G4 mounted as a target drive on the iMac and then aborted a transfer to the iMac and deleted the destination folder on the iMac then you obviously wouldn't expect to have it on the iMac - but, as

Re: a question for photoshop users.

2012-05-06 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Tom, Not really an answer to your question (which others have already answered) but, really, taking the idea further. I have seen some very effective interpretive displays where images have been made by drilling holes of various sizes through sheet metal - the effect basically works the same

Re: Sharing folders

2012-05-02 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Daniel, Has something changed in Lion? This is not quite how it works on my SL computers - what you describe is only applicable to my Drop Box folder within my public folder: If I put an item in the main Public folder in my user folder then another connected computer user can access that file

Re: QuickTime Player in Lion

2012-05-01 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Alan, I am not sure what is causing your problem but I run Snow Leopard and have no such problems. My setup: OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.8 QuickTime Player 10.0 (131) Perian 1.2.2 I have many downloaded iView programs which all happily play in QuickTime Player, or iTunes or direct from the finder

Re: Lost movies in iTunes

2012-04-25 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Alan, These are just my thoughts on how I would first try to do this - I am far from an iTunes expert so I can't say that it would necessarily work ;o) As you know iTunes normally creates Artist folders and album folders you can see in Finder. My experience has been that if you change the

Re: Routers

2012-04-23 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi David, Just a thought but - if you are going to change your router, think about whether you might want to change your phone to VOIP and, if so, whether you want to look at a router that incorporates VOIP - Billion is one manufacturer which offers this. We did this several years ago with a

Re: Apple Now Giving Away Snow Leopard To MobileMe Customers For Free

2012-04-21 Thread Neil Houghton
...@possumology.com on 20/4/12 7:41 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Ronni, Thanks for clarifying that. As I understand it, I am not able to migrate to iCloud since I am not (and will not be) running Lion. It's not a problem really - luckily I never actually signed up anyone else

Re: Apple Now Giving Away Snow Leopard To MobileMe Customers For Free

2012-04-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ronni, Thanks for that - it gives much better details than the post I had found which just gave the general idea. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/4/12 7:28 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Neil,

Re: Apple Now Giving Away Snow Leopard To MobileMe Customers For Free

2012-04-20 Thread Neil Houghton
17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 ³Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.3 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 20/04/2012, at 12:25 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: That would be right - a couple of months after I decided to spring for the $39 and buy the SL

Re: Apple Now Giving Away Snow Leopard To MobileMe Customers For Free

2012-04-19 Thread Neil Houghton
That would be right - a couple of months after I decided to spring for the $39 and buy the SL to update my older iMac to match my main iMac (which came with SL installed). I wonder if they would give me a refund ;o) Oh well - at least it was only $39 - not Windows pricing! It reminded me

Re: Dropbox (for Dummies)

2012-04-11 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Blitto, Ronni (as usual) has given you lots of good stuff and links to more - so I won't try to add to the general stuff. With regard to your specific query re the phone version: Another question: if i load the dropbox ap on my iphone - will ALL the stuff somehow sync to the phone as

Re: WordPress

2012-04-04 Thread Neil Houghton
Or, if you don't want to map it across, you can just move the whole blog over: http://wpsites.net/site-move/how-to-move-your-blog-from-wordpress-com-to-wo rdpress-org/ Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 4/4/12 1:05

Re: Portable HD Firewire 400

2012-04-03 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Merv, As far as I know, you don't need the firewire port on the drive to be FW400 - FW 800 is backward compatible. All you need is a FW400 to FW800 cable, depending on the drive you buy it may even be thrown in. When FW800 drives first came out, they tended to ship with both fw800 fw400

FW: Scale of the Universe.... COOOLLL!

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Houghton
OK, so I know it¹s off-topic ­ but it IS a really great web page - probably best viewed on a 27² iMac ­ there, I mentioned a Mac ;o) Be sure to use the slider to zoom in and out ­ from the Plank Length and quantum foam to the Hubble Deep Field and the limits of the observable universe. The

FW: Scale of the Universe.... COOOLLL!

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Houghton
Oh, I just noticed that scrolling up/down also zooms in/out and is much nicer than using the slider ­ well it is using a Magic Mouse anyway ­ see, another Mac reference ;o) OK, so I know it¹s off-topic ­ but it IS a really great web page - probably best viewed on a 27² iMac ­ there, I

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