For the record – 'sticky key' on iPad2
Hi muggers I've had an odd problem with my new iPad2 over recent days - weirdly the thing started to do things by itself, like open the mail app, start typing out email addresses, consistently using the letters V, T and F and lots of spaces. Others apps started to behave strangely as well. All this was intermittent and not at all predictable. I reset the thing a number of times which seemed to improve it, but eventually I decided I had a hardware problem located around the keys V, F and T (in landscape mode). Sometimes when I hit one of those keys they would repeat up to a dozen times. In portrait mode it was perfect. So a touch screen fault of some sort. I did find one reference to a similar problem in one of the forums, but certainly nothing to indicate it's an issue with them. I didn't bother raising it here as it seemed to be a rare event. But I will now so the problem and solution are here in the archives. Took it into the Apple Store today and managed to replicate the problem to one of the geniuses - presto, new iPad, no question. Great service. Thanks Apple Cheers Mike Mike Murray and Lesley Silvester TimeTrackers East Fremantle Western Australia Tel 08 9339 8078 Fax 08 9339 0519 British and Australian genealogical and historical research, education, publishing and film-making www.timetrackers.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: youtube music catcher
i have real player installed which gives me the realplayer downloader, it automatically starts when a youtube video is clicked lets you download the movie, with adaptor.app i extract the sound into a preselected format, all for free... James SAD Technic U3 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA Australia +618 9370 5307 mob 0414 421132 (international +614 14421132) sad...@iinet.net.au http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~saddas/ Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. On 25/09/2011, at 12:19 PM, lynn...@westnet.com.au wrote: hi all... sorry, accidently clicked the send button. what i was meant to say was that a colleague of mine has been using 'atube catcher' for to get music he likes from youtube. i was wondering if there is a similar app/software for mac which does the same thing. i was going to get atube catcher, but its a windoze software. many thanks all... :) regards lynn -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: youtube music catcher : PowerPoint converted to movie for Apple TV
Ronni Thank you so much for this advice. I have the latest version of MS for Mac 2011 and also Parallels; however I decided to open the PowerPoint slide show in Keynote. I only had a half hour or so this afternoon to play around with this. Things did not open quite as expected - 3. Playback Uses: Recorded Timing (If you wish to keep the same settings as original) I normally change these settings to ‘Fixed Timing' to fit my slide durations etc … probably best if you leave the setting as is though. No option to choose Fixed Timing. No option to enter full screen mode when opened. No option to: Select - Formats: Full Quality, Large Audio: select - Include audio (sound files, movie audio) Include the slideshow soundtrack Include the slideshow recording Tomorrow I will start from the beginning by downloading the slideshow again and following your steps. I will let you know how it all goes - I am sure it will be fine. Thank you again Ronni, have a nice evening. Nearly time for a glass of red! Peta On 26/09/2011, at 10:15 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 25/09/2011, at 6:05 PM, peta wrote: Hi - this is possibly way off the subject matter, but reading the links today re youtube music catcher jogged my memory. Someone sent to me a PowerPoint slide presentation, which is very topical for me and my family. I would like to convert this (if possible) to a movie so I can play it through my Apple TV. Has anyone tried to do this? Or is it not possible? Thanking anyone who would be able to help me with this. Hi Peta, I’m ‘guessing’ you are using Keynote’09 to open the PowerPoint Slide Presentation? If so you can export the slide presentation to Quicktime movie format H264 which Apple TV ’should’ be able to play. (I don’t have Apple TV so cannot test this out for you). I have exported numerous Keynote Slide Presentations of my own to Quicktime .mov and then created DVDs of them using iDVD for viewing on TV screens. 1. Open the PowerPoint Slide Presentation in Keynote 2. Go to ’Share’ Export To Quicktime 3. Playback Uses: Recorded Timing (If you wish to keep the same settings as original) I normally change these settings to ‘Fixed Timing' to fit my slide durations etc … probably best if you leave the setting as is though. Select: ‘Enter full screen mode when opened' Formats: Full Quality, Large Audio: select - Include audio (sound files, movie audio) Include the slideshow soundtrack Include the slideshow recording 4. Click ’Next’ 5. Save As: Name.mov Choose a Location for the saved .mov: Desktop 6. Click ’Export’ Your Keynote Slide Presentation will be converted and exported to the location you selected. 7. Quit Keynote Choose whether you wish to save the changes you have made or not. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard OS X 10.7 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
HELP - dead iphone? - in Paris
Hi folks, This is a somewhat forlorn plea - as I think I know the unpalatable answer :o(( We are in Paris. I have been trying to use my iPhone. It has been hard as the so-called wi-fi internet at the apartment is an ibook with a 3G modem in it. I won't go into the details of that - I sort of got it working by creating a computer to computer network with airport and sharing the internet to it - it worked after a fashion - enough to do dropbox syncs etc. HOWEVER - I only mention this in case it has some relevance to my REAL PROBLEM - my iPhone appears to have totally died. This morning I was trying to dropbox synch some stuff from the computer to the phone and noticed that I kept losing the connection - the wifi was connected and then it wasn't - the phone was a matter of a few cm from the laptop so signal strength wasn't a problem. Each time I could reconnect OK but then I would lose the connection in a matter of seconds. I don't know if this is relevant or not as a sign of something failing. Anyway, I finally achieved the transfers I wanted and stuck the phone in my pocket. Around 10-15 minutes later I went to make a phone call and I couldn't wake the iPhone - pressing the home key, trying to invoke a shutdown/restart by holding down the power key - nothing happens. The battery was at about 95% when it went in my pocket - so that's not the problem. I've tried plugging the phone into my laptop but it is not recognised by iTunes or showing as an attached USB device on System profiler. It seems like the phone is completely powered down and won't switch on. To channel Monty Python - it has ceased to be - it is an ex iPhone. I have just checked the receipt and the warranty expired 26th August - exactly 1 month ago!! I must admit, I don't feel like paying Apple for another iPnone after just over a year of VERY light usage. I'm still commited to paying Telstra $49 a month for the plan (though I guess I could find another phone to stick it in). Any body have any ideas/tips/ tricks to bring my iPhone back to life? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
The Digest
The WAMUG mailing list seems to be working smoothly. The Digest is a welcome relief for me; my thanks to Matt for that. One suggestion: Visible separators for the Digest letters, eg lines. Cheers, Vlad James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: HELP - dead iphone? - in Paris
Hi Neil, Have you tried a Hard Reboot? A Hard Reboot : Hold the power and home buttons until you see the display go dark and Apple’s logo appears. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 26/09/2011, at 6:34 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi folks, This is a somewhat forlorn plea - as I think I know the unpalatable answer :o(( We are in Paris. I have been trying to use my iPhone. It has been hard as the so-called wi-fi internet at the apartment is an ibook with a 3G modem in it. I won't go into the details of that - I sort of got it working by creating a computer to computer network with airport and sharing the internet to it - it worked after a fashion - enough to do dropbox syncs etc. HOWEVER - I only mention this in case it has some relevance to my REAL PROBLEM - my iPhone appears to have totally died. This morning I was trying to dropbox synch some stuff from the computer to the phone and noticed that I kept losing the connection - the wifi was connected and then it wasn't - the phone was a matter of a few cm from the laptop so signal strength wasn't a problem. Each time I could reconnect OK but then I would lose the connection in a matter of seconds. I don't know if this is relevant or not as a sign of something failing. Anyway, I finally achieved the transfers I wanted and stuck the phone in my pocket. Around 10-15 minutes later I went to make a phone call and I couldn't wake the iPhone - pressing the home key, trying to invoke a shutdown/restart by holding down the power key - nothing happens. The battery was at about 95% when it went in my pocket - so that's not the problem. I've tried plugging the phone into my laptop but it is not recognised by iTunes or showing as an attached USB device on System profiler. It seems like the phone is completely powered down and won't switch on. To channel Monty Python - it has ceased to be - it is an ex iPhone. I have just checked the receipt and the warranty expired 26th August - exactly 1 month ago!! I must admit, I don't feel like paying Apple for another iPnone after just over a year of VERY light usage. I'm still commited to paying Telstra $49 a month for the plan (though I guess I could find another phone to stick it in). Any body have any ideas/tips/ tricks to bring my iPhone back to life? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: youtube music catcher
http://deturl.com/ This will save you a video, you can presumably extract the audio with something like iMovie probably. Regards, Trent On 25/09/2011, at 12:19 PM, lynn...@westnet.com.au wrote: hi all... sorry, accidently clicked the send button. what i was meant to say was that a colleague of mine has been using 'atube catcher' for to get music he likes from youtube. i was wondering if there is a similar app/software for mac which does the same thing. i was going to get atube catcher, but its a windoze software. many thanks all... :) regards lynn -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: HELP - dead iphone? - in Paris
Hi Ronni, That would have fixed it! As it happens, we decided we really had to get out and see some more of Paris and I ascertained that there was actually an Apple store underneath the Louvre - right next to an inverted pyramid letting light into the spacious area - talk about location, location, location - so a friendly french apple tech had a jiggle around and got it working - when I asked what the problem was eet is just a leeetle bug - no need to worry - when I asked him how he had got it to start up he said to hold the two buttons - which (thanks to your explanation) I now know is a hard reboot So, I have no idea what caused it - but at least it is fixed and Georgina and I can again contact each other if we separate :o)) Many thanks Ronni - I really was worried I had somehow killed my iPhone!! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 26/9/11 3:18 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Neil, Have you tried a Hard Reboot? A Hard Reboot : Hold the power and home buttons until you see the display go dark and Apple¹s logo appears. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 26/09/2011, at 6:34 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi folks, This is a somewhat forlorn plea - as I think I know the unpalatable answer :o(( We are in Paris. I have been trying to use my iPhone. It has been hard as the so-called wi-fi internet at the apartment is an ibook with a 3G modem in it. I won't go into the details of that - I sort of got it working by creating a computer to computer network with airport and sharing the internet to it - it worked after a fashion - enough to do dropbox syncs etc. HOWEVER - I only mention this in case it has some relevance to my REAL PROBLEM - my iPhone appears to have totally died. This morning I was trying to dropbox synch some stuff from the computer to the phone and noticed that I kept losing the connection - the wifi was connected and then it wasn't - the phone was a matter of a few cm from the laptop so signal strength wasn't a problem. Each time I could reconnect OK but then I would lose the connection in a matter of seconds. I don't know if this is relevant or not as a sign of something failing. Anyway, I finally achieved the transfers I wanted and stuck the phone in my pocket. Around 10-15 minutes later I went to make a phone call and I couldn't wake the iPhone - pressing the home key, trying to invoke a shutdown/restart by holding down the power key - nothing happens. The battery was at about 95% when it went in my pocket - so that's not the problem. I've tried plugging the phone into my laptop but it is not recognised by iTunes or showing as an attached USB device on System profiler. It seems like the phone is completely powered down and won't switch on. To channel Monty Python - it has ceased to be - it is an ex iPhone. I have just checked the receipt and the warranty expired 26th August - exactly 1 month ago!! I must admit, I don't feel like paying Apple for another iPnone after just over a year of VERY light usage. I'm still commited to paying Telstra $49 a month for the plan (though I guess I could find another phone to stick it in). Any body have any ideas/tips/ tricks to bring my iPhone back to life? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: HELP - dead iphone? - in Paris
Hi Neil, I believe there is an Apple Store in Paris, Carrousel du Louver, they may be able to help you. Good luck, Peder On 26/09/2011, at 21:18 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Neil, Have you tried a Hard Reboot? A Hard Reboot : Hold the power and home buttons until you see the display go dark and Apple’s logo appears. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 26/09/2011, at 6:34 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi folks, This is a somewhat forlorn plea - as I think I know the unpalatable answer :o(( We are in Paris. I have been trying to use my iPhone. It has been hard as the so-called wi-fi internet at the apartment is an ibook with a 3G modem in it. I won't go into the details of that - I sort of got it working by creating a computer to computer network with airport and sharing the internet to it - it worked after a fashion - enough to do dropbox syncs etc. HOWEVER - I only mention this in case it has some relevance to my REAL PROBLEM - my iPhone appears to have totally died. This morning I was trying to dropbox synch some stuff from the computer to the phone and noticed that I kept losing the connection - the wifi was connected and then it wasn't - the phone was a matter of a few cm from the laptop so signal strength wasn't a problem. Each time I could reconnect OK but then I would lose the connection in a matter of seconds. I don't know if this is relevant or not as a sign of something failing. Anyway, I finally achieved the transfers I wanted and stuck the phone in my pocket. Around 10-15 minutes later I went to make a phone call and I couldn't wake the iPhone - pressing the home key, trying to invoke a shutdown/restart by holding down the power key - nothing happens. The battery was at about 95% when it went in my pocket - so that's not the problem. I've tried plugging the phone into my laptop but it is not recognised by iTunes or showing as an attached USB device on System profiler. It seems like the phone is completely powered down and won't switch on. To channel Monty Python - it has ceased to be - it is an ex iPhone. I have just checked the receipt and the warranty expired 26th August - exactly 1 month ago!! I must admit, I don't feel like paying Apple for another iPnone after just over a year of VERY light usage. I'm still commited to paying Telstra $49 a month for the plan (though I guess I could find another phone to stick it in). Any body have any ideas/tips/ tricks to bring my iPhone back to life? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Hard Drive used for time machine
On 26/09/2011, at 11:56 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: I always prefer and recommend using an external drive exclusively for Time Machine backups, then use another external drive for ’Storage’. But this is just my preference, others might not agree ;-) I certainly agree with this given the current price of hard drives, and the availability of devices like NewTech's Voyager hard drive caddy. A bare 1Tb drive will set you back around $60 from Austin Computers, and few of these in combination with the drive caddy allows for an almost unlimited choice of backup routines. I have one for Time Machine backups (which is mounted most of the time), another I swap out once a week for a complete Carbon Copy clone, and yet another with a full installation of Lion. Then there a couple of 500Gb USB drives which I use for roaming data storage on my laptop. There may still be some specific reasons for partitioning a hard drive, but economy of space is no longer one of them. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: HELP - dead iphone? - in Paris
Just a word of warning - that store was rather hard to find! Look for the glass pyramid at the louvre, the store in underneath... If you try to look for the address on Rue de Rivoli you will most likely get lost. Regards Daniel Forsdyke -- An Apple iPhone4 creation On 27/09/2011, at 6:49, Peder Kristensen ped...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Neil, I believe there is an Apple Store in Paris, Carrousel du Louver, they may be able to help you. Good luck, Peder On 26/09/2011, at 21:18 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Neil, Have you tried a Hard Reboot? A Hard Reboot : Hold the power and home buttons until you see the display go dark and Apple’s logo appears. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 26/09/2011, at 6:34 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi folks, This is a somewhat forlorn plea - as I think I know the unpalatable answer :o(( We are in Paris. I have been trying to use my iPhone. It has been hard as the so-called wi-fi internet at the apartment is an ibook with a 3G modem in it. I won't go into the details of that - I sort of got it working by creating a computer to computer network with airport and sharing the internet to it - it worked after a fashion - enough to do dropbox syncs etc. HOWEVER - I only mention this in case it has some relevance to my REAL PROBLEM - my iPhone appears to have totally died. This morning I was trying to dropbox synch some stuff from the computer to the phone and noticed that I kept losing the connection - the wifi was connected and then it wasn't - the phone was a matter of a few cm from the laptop so signal strength wasn't a problem. Each time I could reconnect OK but then I would lose the connection in a matter of seconds. I don't know if this is relevant or not as a sign of something failing. Anyway, I finally achieved the transfers I wanted and stuck the phone in my pocket. Around 10-15 minutes later I went to make a phone call and I couldn't wake the iPhone - pressing the home key, trying to invoke a shutdown/restart by holding down the power key - nothing happens. The battery was at about 95% when it went in my pocket - so that's not the problem. I've tried plugging the phone into my laptop but it is not recognised by iTunes or showing as an attached USB device on System profiler. It seems like the phone is completely powered down and won't switch on. To channel Monty Python - it has ceased to be - it is an ex iPhone. I have just checked the receipt and the warranty expired 26th August - exactly 1 month ago!! I must admit, I don't feel like paying Apple for another iPnone after just over a year of VERY light usage. I'm still commited to paying Telstra $49 a month for the plan (though I guess I could find another phone to stick it in). Any body have any ideas/tips/ tricks to bring my iPhone back to life? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Mac Wavelets
I have been trying to get a Java application to work but can't get past the first page. The first page asks for an institution name which I correctly insert but the Continue button responds with an error sound. When I quit out I find a .dat file has been created and Kind labels it as a Mac Wavelets WBIN document of 4 KB. What is a Mac Wavelet? Merv -- The whole psychology of modern disquiet is linked with the sudden confrontation with space-time. (Teilhard de Chardin, 'The Phenomenon of Man') -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
OSX Lion Firewall.
Hi A new iMac running Lion. The only ports we need open are for SSH (22), BackToMyMac (443) and Filemaker (5003). Do they get closed when I turn on the Firewall? Can I preconfigure it? The machine I am tweaking is via BackToMyMac so I fear losing contact if I do this remotely. Is there a Lion app that will tell me what ports are open? Stephen --- Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Dennis the Peasant, Monty Python and the Holy Grail -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: OSX Lion Firewall.
On 27/09/2011, at 8:38 AM, Stephen Wonfor wrote: Hi A new iMac running Lion. The only ports we need open are for SSH (22), BackToMyMac (443) and Filemaker (5003). Do they get closed when I turn on the Firewall? Can I preconfigure it? The machine I am tweaking is via BackToMyMac so I fear losing contact if I do this remotely. Is there a Lion app that will tell me what ports are open? Hi Stephen, Do you have the above TCP UDP ports open on your Router. (TCP 22, TCP UDP 443, TCP UDP 5003)? If so and you have “Allowed Incoming Connections” for the applications that use these ports in the Lion Firewall. They won’t be closed with the Firewall ON … I hope you haven’t been using Lion without the Firewall enabled? The firewall in Lion works basically the same as in OS X 10.5 10.6. The firewall was changed in OS X from port-specific to application-specific. So, if you enable a single application, it will be allowed to open any ports it needs. The System Preferences panel for Security in Lion OS X 10.7 had its name changed to Security Privacy” has an extra panel “Privacy”. I won’t go into detail about all the security settings in this email, just the Firewall. The “Firewall” Panel: It is now application-focussed rather than port-focussed. The Firewall panel has basic information for the user and two buttons: Start (or Stop if the Firewall is ON) and Advanced. It is in the advanced panel, which can be accessed only if the security padlock icon is open, that the important settings are made or changed. The Advanced panel has three checkboxes. Above the main (applications) list is Block all incoming connections. If this is selected only essential services will be able to use internet access. The applications list panel allows a program the correct access instead of specifying port numbers as was the case before Leopard. There are now two settings for each application in the list: Allow incoming connections” and Block incoming connections”. Below this panel are two icons (+/-) for adding applications to or removing them from the list. Pressing the Add (+) reveals a panel which allows you to choose an item to be included. As software is installed, this adding is usually carried out automatically. Pressing the remove (-) removes an app with no warning. Below the applications panel is a second checkbox (related to the Block item at the top) allowing signed software — software that is known to be trusted — to receive incoming connections. One more check box in the Advanced panel allows activation of Stealth mode, so that any outside probing that occurs (such as that shown in the logs) will have no response: the computer will not even appear to exist. So when you sign in to MobileMe and enable 'Back to My Mac', TCP ports 443 and 5354 are used. For connections between machines, Back to My Mac typically uses UDP port 4500. If you have used Filemaker you will possibly see ddfmsoc is listed and set for Allow incoming connections”. Well known TCP and UDP ports used by Apple software products: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1629 Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard OS X 10.7 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Hard Drive used for time machine
Thank you both for the advice, Kind regards, Jennifer. On 27 September 2011 07:14, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.auwrote: On 26/09/2011, at 11:56 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: I always prefer and recommend using an external drive exclusively for Time Machine backups, then use another external drive for ’Storage’. But this is just my preference, others might not agree ;-) I certainly agree with this given the current price of hard drives, and the availability of devices like NewTech's Voyager hard drive caddy. A bare 1Tb drive will set you back around $60 from Austin Computers, and few of these in combination with the drive caddy allows for an almost unlimited choice of backup routines. I have one for Time Machine backups (which is mounted most of the time), another I swap out once a week for a complete Carbon Copy clone, and yet another with a full installation of Lion. Then there a couple of 500Gb USB drives which I use for roaming data storage on my laptop. There may still be some specific reasons for partitioning a hard drive, but economy of space is no longer one of them. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
