Hi Philip: we're deep in the Apple Ecosystem and enjoying it, though I admit it took me a bit to make the adjustments--both hardware and software, but I'm a stronger user now, and when I have to use Windows I absolutely hate it.
Have fun with your new system. It may be a little frustrating at first as you make the transitition, but hang in there. It's really worth it. Cheers, Christine Sent from my iPad > On Mar 11, 2014, at 10:30 PM, Philip Northeast <rnort...@bigpond.net.au> > wrote: > > The auto time out is in System Preferences (in the applications folder) and > is under Energy Saver > > Philip Northeast > > www.aviewfinderdarkly.com.au > >> On 12/03/2014 2:21 pm, John wrote: >> In case anyone is actually interested in my baptism by fire ... >> >> Finally finished reading the instruction books, hooked everything >> together & turned it on. Mostly semi-intuitive setting it up. There's a >> few things I need to figure out yet. >> >> Had to log into the App Store which required me to update my billing >> information. No big problem there. It tells me I'm currently at OS X >> 10.8.3. It's currently downloading OS X Mavericks (it said free update?). >> >> Is that going to fix that "goto fail" bug? Or am I going to have to get >> a later version? >> >> I also got a bunch of emails from Apple telling me my Apple ID is being >> used with a new computer that it's never been associated with before, >> but since it's notifying me of things I just did a few minutes before to >> get it up & running, it's not that worrisome ... >> >> Except, it says I've used my Apple ID to log into Facetime & iMessage. I >> have only the vaguest idea what those are (something like Skype & AOL >> Instant Messenger??). I'll have to figure out where to turn them off in >> a bit. >> >> I already turned off bluetooth & Wi-Fi. I don't use either of those on >> my home network. >> >> The other thing I need to find is how to set the auto-time-out so I >> don't have to hover over it and move the mouse every few minutes to >> prevent it from going to sleep while I'm doing other things. Right now >> it looks like it's set at about 5 minutes. It's gone down twice in just >> the time it's taken me to write this. >> >> Tomorrow night I start looking at getting the recording software installed. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
