Re: iOS apps without iTunes

2018-06-05 Thread Michael Caplinger
> I really dislike that iTunes doesn’t do it anymore…Apple removed perfectly > good functionality from it… My recollection is that for years the ‘tech pundits’ complained that iTunes 'did too much' and was ‘bloated’. I’ve always thought removing the iOS App Store from iTunes was a response t

Re: iPad 3: More of the same?

2012-03-07 Thread Michael Caplinger
On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:31 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote: > > I think Nathan may be referring to a way to control the Apple TV with your > voice from the iPad (or other iOS device), or perhaps use the iPad as a > traditional remote or even a trackpad for the Apple TV (via WiFi). > > These I believe wi

Safari Top Sites lost update notifiation

2012-02-02 Thread Michael Caplinger
Hi all, Since I upgraded to 10.7.3 and Safari 5.1.3 I no longer get blue stars to show sites with changes in the Top Sites view. I can't find any setting that seems to control that, so I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this, or if I'm missing something stupid. Thanks! Mike __

Re: Syncing Pages documents via iCloud and iDevices (and other Macs)

2012-01-30 Thread Michael Caplinger
On Jan 30, 2012, at 2:14 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > Looking for button or keyboard shortcut in Pages (desktop) toolbar to > post/sync/share my document to iCloud and notify my devices. > Is there a button to do that? Not yet, I'm hoping 10.7.3 gives us that capability. Right now you have t

Re: Security 101 for Macs

2011-09-12 Thread Michael Caplinger
> A quick Google turns up > which states > that the utility is now available if you boot into the Lion Recovery Volume. > If so, this makes it substantially less secure, as now _anyone_ who has > access to the machine can reboot in

Re: iTunes on Lion

2011-07-24 Thread Michael Caplinger
On Jul 24, 2011, at 5:34 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > > I also discovered a bunch of digital clicking when playing back a movie I > took with my iPhone 4. > A reboot fixed the iTunes sync between local and streaming signals and it > fixed the clicking. Interestingly, last night iTunes 10.4 on 1

Re: Howto build a native Mac application from source with Xcode (without Makefile, no UNIX tool)

2011-04-26 Thread Michael Caplinger
> I wish to build https://github.com/PeyloW/Screen-Grabber from source. > Didn't found a howto with Google. I just downloaded the tarball, expanded it and opened the .xcodeproj file with Xcode, then compiled it. It seems to be working fine. Mike ___

Re: Anyone know how to get the "Live at the Coliseum, 1964" Beatles vid onto an iPad?

2010-11-16 Thread Michael Caplinger
On Nov 16, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > > okay .. but all the tunes and the mini documentaries got copied with the > exception of the 41 minute video of their concert ? > I can play that video just fine on the computer ... looks like a standard > video, nothing special ... It was

Re: Anyone know how to get the "Live at the Coliseum, 1964" Beatles vid onto an iPad?

2010-11-16 Thread Michael Caplinger
On Nov 16, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > > Is there a way to copy the "Live at .. " vid from iTunes to an iPad or > iPhone? I think I read that the extra content is in iTunes LP format, isn't that coming in 4.2? So you may have to wait a week or two. Mike ___

Re: HOWTO watch YouTube clips without Adobe Flash plugin?

2010-11-03 Thread Michael Caplinger
> HOWTO watch YouTube clips without Adobe Flash plugin? I read a lot of > headlines about Google's own WebM and HTML5, but this seems to be only > theory? Take a look at: http://www.youtube.com/html5 Mike ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omni

Re: lion

2010-10-21 Thread Michael Caplinger
On Oct 21, 2010, at 2:44 PM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: > > Guess I'll need multiple computers to get things done efficiently in Lion. > Pretty smart of Apple. Heh heh, yeah, I'm sure they will be removing all ability to switch between apps ;) Seriously though, the screenshots and ideas behind Missio

Re: iPhoto 11

2010-10-21 Thread Michael Caplinger
On Oct 21, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > iPhoto 11 has colored icons But it looks like Mail.app will be losing them... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/10/21/apples_ical_to_get_year_view_mail_to_get_itunes_like_interface_in_mac_os_x_lion.html Mike

Re: use APPLE Magic Trackpad and mouse in parallel

2010-10-18 Thread Michael Caplinger
On Oct 18, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: > To get the Magic Trackpad working again, I have to remove all of my local and > home Preference Panes and reboot. Then I put them back again because I need > them and reboot again, and it keeps working for another few days. I've tried > remo

Re: best app to move tunes, apps and photos to new computer from iPod Touch

2010-07-27 Thread Michael Caplinger
I have used Senuti to do this with success. It used to be free, looks like you have to pay if you have over 1000 songs now... http://www.fadingred.com/senuti/ Mike ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailm

Re: Airport Extreme / MacBook Pro issue

2010-07-16 Thread Michael Caplinger
On Jul 16, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Steven DeWitt wrote: > > I bought one of the new MacBook Pros several months ago. For several years I > have also had an Airport Extreme router. About 2 weeks ago my laptop began > consistently losing the router connection as soon as I take it any more than > about

Re: Software for DVD shrinking?

2010-07-11 Thread Michael Caplinger
On Jul 10, 2010, at 9:11 PM, Vince LaMonica wrote: > http://www.dvd2one.com/ > > The site says that 2.4.0 is Snow Leopard compliant, so maybe it is > multi-treading. A brief look at their forum didn't reveal any info, nor > did their FAQ/manual. Thanks, it is multi-threaded, and performed the

Software for DVD shrinking?

2010-07-10 Thread Michael Caplinger
Hi Everyone, I've been using Toast 8 to shrink DVD images to fit on a 4.7GB single-sided disk. This is a single-threaded task, and I hate watching 7 cores sit around idle while Toast takes 15 minutes to shrink an image. Does anyone know of a mutli-threaded app to do this? Or if there a reaso