Select camera
I have a Sony mini DV video camera connected by firewire. This is fine for importing to iMovie and the like. In other situations, like QT Pro, I can not select it in preference to the iSight camera. Is there a preference setting for this? The Sony does not appear in the Devices list, I suspect this is be because it is Firewire, not USB. Severin Crisp Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) mail to: sevcr...@westnet.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: Select camera
On 10 Apr 2014, at 5:23 pm, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: I have a Sony mini DV video camera connected by firewire. This is fine for importing to iMovie and the like. In other situations, like QT Pro, I can not select it in preference to the iSight camera. Is there a preference setting for this? The Sony does not appear in the Devices list, I suspect this is be because it is Firewire, not USB. Hi Severin, USB will NOT work for MiniDV tape cameras - only FireWire will work. Do you have any QuickTime Plugins installed... such as Perian etc? If so 'Remove' and try again. Cheers, Ronni Severin Crisp Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) mail to: sevcr...@westnet.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: Printing from an iPad ?
Thank you Michael Daniel. I was in the Post Office today and saw a Canon Printer with AirPrint for $69.00 I might suggest this to my friend with the iPad. On 10 Apr 2014, at 11:09 am, Michael Hawkins michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au wrote: HP also has AirPrint On 9 Apr 2014, at 11:53 am, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: The option is to look at a printer that has AirPrint built into it. With some of them you can print directly to printer (sometimes even without a wireless network as the printer creates it's own). I think from memory a few if the Epson models do this, and they can be fairly inexpensive (between $100 through to around $300/$400). Just a thought down the track. (Like if the printer stops working or time to get a new one ) Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 5 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: danielATmacwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant 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 9 Apr 2014, at 11:48 am, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com wrote: Thank you Ronni. I will suggest she talks to the Library. They do have some knowledge of iPads because I took my grand daughter to an iPad class there a couple of months ago. On 9 Apr 2014, at 9:34 am, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 9 Apr 2014, at 7:56 am, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 8 Apr 2014, at 2:05 pm, Severin Crisp sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Not quite the solution to your friend’s problem but worth drawing attention to HandyPrint which enables AirPrint for networked printers. Thus I have a FujiXerox CP205(not wireless or AirPrint), running by USB cable to the USB socket on my Time Capsule which is the centre of my wireless network. I installed HandyPrint from my iMac and from thereon in it is available wirelessly to my wife’s MacBook and our shared iPad mini from anywhere in range, irrespective of the state (sleep or not) of the iMac. Super convenient. Severin Crisp I have a similar recommendation for Printopia http://www.ecamm,com Like HandyPrint, Printopia is a System Preference which runs on your Mac. As long your iPad and your Mac are on the same wireless network, you can print to any printer accessible from your Mac, from your iPad. Unlike HandyPrint, Printopia is not free, but it does have the bonus feature of being able to send your print job as a PDF to DropBox or Evernote, which alone makes it worth the price of admission. Hi Peter, But Printopia will not work on Windows computers and Stephen's friend only uses Windows computer and does NOT have a printer. For a Windows computer there is a product called FingerPrint from Collobos Software. It's close in functionality to Printopia and works on both Windows and Mac platforms. Setup and use is remarkably similar. You download the software on your computer and not your iPad. It then shares your physical and virtual printers so that they can be accessed from the Print function on any iOS device. But this still does not really help with Stephen's friend's situation. She only prints at a Library using their Printer... not at home. Both Fingerprint and Printopia share printers with users on the same wireless network. If the Library where she uses the Printer to print is connected to a wireless network that she can join wirelessly, perhaps she might be able to print from her iPad. I would suggest that Stephen's friend speaks with the Librarian at the Library where she prints. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 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 Regards, Stephen Chape Mac by choice Windows because my employer knew no better -- 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 -
MacBook Pro wont start up
My sons MBP (2012 Mavericks) has decided tonight it wont boot up. When starting it, the Apple logo comes up with the grey screen and the circulating little bar thing on regular start up. The difference is there is a progress bar at the bottom centre of screen which slowly progresses and it gets right to the end (100%) whereupon the hard disc shuts down and screen goes black. Repeating the process results in the same again. We have Time Machine back up so its recoverable in that sense but I wonder if this is a hard disc failure or an OSX error that needs the OSX rebuilding. About to do some Apple Support browsing but I thought I'd get this question out to see if any tips on what next? Please advise if any tips. Regards Pete -- 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: MacBook Pro wont start up
Hi Peter, What version of Mavericks?...Had your son installed Mavericks 10.9.2 update? If so it sounds like it might not have completed the update successfully. Can he bootup in Safe Mode? 1. Restart the computer in Safe Mode, then restart again, normally. If this doesn't help, then: 2. Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the Utilities menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button. 3. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows. When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say Verified then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is Verified then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu. 4. Reinstall Mavericks: Reboot from the Recovery HD. Select Reinstall Mavericks from the Utilities menu, and click on the Continue button. After reinstalling Mavericks install the OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 Update (Combo). Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 10 Apr 2014, at 8:19 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: My sons MBP (2012 Mavericks) has decided tonight it wont boot up. When starting it, the Apple logo comes up with the grey screen and the circulating little bar thing on regular start up. The difference is there is a progress bar at the bottom centre of screen which slowly progresses and it gets right to the end (100%) whereupon the hard disc shuts down and screen goes black. Repeating the process results in the same again. We have Time Machine back up so its recoverable in that sense but I wonder if this is a hard disc failure or an OSX error that needs the OSX rebuilding. About to do some Apple Support browsing but I thought I'd get this question out to see if any tips on what next? Please advise if any tips. Regards Pete -- 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: MacBook Pro wont start up
Hi Ronni, we tried the Safe mode boot and that didn't work. I return home tonight and will be moving on to the next steps per your instructions. Will advise outcomes after that. Regards Pete On 10 Apr 2014, at 10:07 pm, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, What version of Mavericks?...Had your son installed Mavericks 10.9.2 update? If so it sounds like it might not have completed the update successfully. Can he bootup in Safe Mode? 1. Restart the computer in Safe Mode, then restart again, normally. If this doesn't help, then: 2. Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the Utilities menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button. 3. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows. When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say Verified then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is Verified then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu. 4. Reinstall Mavericks: Reboot from the Recovery HD. Select Reinstall Mavericks from the Utilities menu, and click on the Continue button. After reinstalling Mavericks install the OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 Update (Combo). Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 10 Apr 2014, at 8:19 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: My sons MBP (2012 Mavericks) has decided tonight it wont boot up. When starting it, the Apple logo comes up with the grey screen and the circulating little bar thing on regular start up. The difference is there is a progress bar at the bottom centre of screen which slowly progresses and it gets right to the end (100%) whereupon the hard disc shuts down and screen goes black. Repeating the process results in the same again. We have Time Machine back up so its recoverable in that sense but I wonder if this is a hard disc failure or an OSX error that needs the OSX rebuilding. About to do some Apple Support browsing but I thought I'd get this question out to see if any tips on what next? Please advise if any tips. Regards Pete -- 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
Mavericks is it worth upgrading?
I see lots of questions about Mavericks, I now keep getting update requests to go to Mavericks. My wife and I are both retired and we each have an iMac 9 with 2.66GHZ Intel Core processors running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. With 2Gb Hard Drive. (Plus we have a Mac Book Pro Lap Top, iPad and iPhones) We use Microsoft Office 2004, Adobe CS3 and Eudora but I don't want to have to go out and purchase new software! Plus we have some recreational games that keep us amused so if we upgrade to Mavericks, how much will this change what we currently use and is it worth upgrading? PS we haven't upgraded to Lion because we heard that most of our software will not run on Lion? and being oldies we are wary of change... Any suggestions Many thanks Peter Irene -- Peter Irene Faulks Unit 1, 9 Newsam Close PARKWOOD Western Australia 6147 Phone: +618 9457 0747 (h) Fax:+618 9457 0444 Peter Mobile: 0416 187 937 Irene Mobile: 0439 933 404 Email: peterfau...@westnet.com.au Web: http://members.iinet.net.au/~pfau...@westnet.com.au/index.html -- 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: MacBook Pro wont start up
On 10 Apr 2014, at 8:19 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: My sons MBP (2012 Mavericks) has decided tonight it wont boot up. When starting it, the Apple logo comes up with the grey screen and the circulating little bar thing on regular start up. The difference is there is a progress bar at the bottom centre of screen which slowly progresses and it gets right to the end (100%) whereupon the hard disc shuts down and screen goes black. Repeating the process results in the same again. We have Time Machine back up so its recoverable in that sense but I wonder if this is a hard disc failure or an OSX error that needs the OSX rebuilding. About to do some Apple Support browsing but I thought I'd get this question out to see if any tips on what next? Please advise if any tips. Regards Pete This behaviour is typically seen when upgrading or repairing firmware, rather than being a software issue. You can try starting up while holding holding down the D key to enter the Apple Hardware Test. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509?viewlocale=en_USlocale=en_US This is not really for the faint hearted, but it is endorsed by Apple and can help you work out if the problem is related to hardware or software. 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: Mavericks is it worth upgrading?
On 11 Apr 2014, at 7:20 am, Peter Faulks peterfau...@westnet.com.au wrote: I see lots of questions about Mavericks, I now keep getting update requests to go to Mavericks. My wife and I are both retired and we each have an iMac 9 with 2.66GHZ Intel Core processors running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. With 2Gb Hard Drive. (Plus we have a Mac Book Pro Lap Top, iPad and iPhones) We use Microsoft Office 2004, Adobe CS3 and Eudora but I don't want to have to go out and purchase new software! Plus we have some recreational games that keep us amused so if we upgrade to Mavericks, how much will this change what we currently use and is it worth upgrading? PS we haven't upgraded to Lion because we heard that most of our software will not run on Lion? and being oldies we are wary of change... Any suggestions The bad news is that none of the software you use will work with Mavericks, since they all require Rosetta to be active, which was discontinued by Apple in Lion (Mac OS 10.7). The good news is that there are excellent free or low-cost substitutes for all of them. It’s difficult to comment fourth in details since I don’t know to what extent you use products such as Office and Abobe’s Creative Suite, but I can tell you from personal experience as someone who has recent versions of both products running under Mavericks, that I rarely use either of them. Pages, Numbers and Keynote can take care of most of your needs when it comes to Office, and if not there is always Open Office or any of its variants such as NeoOffice. Many of the basic photo manipulation tasks of Photoshop are easily handled by iPhoto or even Preview. For anything more sophisticated there are apps such as Pixelmator, Acorn and others which are faster and easier to use, and use all of Apple’s modern technologies as well, unlike the Adobe products. There are also good substitutes for Illustrator, and the Mavericks version of Apple’s own Preview makes Acrobat Professional all but obsolete. If you’re not happy to use Apple’s Mail, there’s always Thunderbird, which is the basis for the current version of Eudora anyway. Unfortunately, you’re not going to be able to escape this situation. You’ll certainly be faced with it if you ever want to buy a new Apple computer. 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: Mavericks is it worth upgrading?
Hi Peter, If your software won't run in Lion, the software won't run in Mavericks! Starting with Lion, Apple removed Rosetta, the software that enabled older, PowerPC applications to run on Intel-based Macs. As a result, upgrading to Mavericks entails living without software that requires Rosetta. To find out what PowerPC software is on your disk, follow these steps: Use System Profiler to check all your Applications. Go to “About This Mac” under the Apple Menu, and click the “More Info” button. This will launch System Profiler. Scroll down the list of contents at the left of the window until you get to the “Software” section and click on “Applications”. Give the list a few moments to populate, then look for your application in the list. Widen the window if necessary until you see the “Kind” column. You can sort this column by clicking on the column header to make searching easier. Any items labelled “Classic” or “PowerPC” will not work in Lion. ONLY Universal Intel will run in Lion OS X 10.7 or Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 or Mavericks OS X 10.9 RoaringApps keeps maintains a wiki listing hundreds of Mac and iOS apps and the current status of their compatibility with various operating system versions, as reported by users. Although this list is neither exhaustive nor definitive, it provides a quick way to check on the applications most important to you. (http://roaringapps.com/apps?index=ain case the inline link above doesn't work for you.) Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 11 Apr 2014, at 7:20 am, Peter Faulks peterfau...@westnet.com.au wrote: I see lots of questions about Mavericks, I now keep getting update requests to go to Mavericks. My wife and I are both retired and we each have an iMac 9 with 2.66GHZ Intel Core processors running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. With 2Gb Hard Drive. (Plus we have a Mac Book Pro Lap Top, iPad and iPhones) We use Microsoft Office 2004, Adobe CS3 and Eudora but I don't want to have to go out and purchase new software! Plus we have some recreational games that keep us amused so if we upgrade to Mavericks, how much will this change what we currently use and is it worth upgrading? PS we haven't upgraded to Lion because we heard that most of our software will not run on Lion? and being oldies we are wary of change... Any suggestions Many thanks Peter Irene -- Peter Irene Faulks Unit 1, 9 Newsam Close PARKWOOD Western Australia 6147 Phone:+618 9457 0747 (h) Fax: +618 9457 0444 Peter Mobile: 0416 187 937 Irene Mobile: 0439 933 404 Email:peterfau...@westnet.com.au Web: http://members.iinet.net.au/~pfau...@westnet.com.au/index.html -- 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
Adobe Flash message
Just recently I have noticed what purports to be a message from Adobe Flash. It has two options Accept or Deny. Deny doesn’t work and the message window sits right in the centre of the video frame ( on SBS for e.g.) It cannot be moved. The request says “resources.sbs.com.au” wants the information at first. When I then click on the program of choice it becomes “resources. whatever… It also controls the pause function on the SBS site So I hit “accept” from frustration, not having any clear knowledge of what Adobe Flash wants to store on my computer. Normal access resumes. I assume its telling me that Cookies are being set. I also use the anti-tracking add-ons from Firefox. What I do everyday is clear all history in Firefox, including cookies. What info is this process looking for? Bill -- 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: Adobe Flash message
Hi Bill, Are you using SBS Downloader or something? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 11 Apr 2014, at 9:02 am, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: Just recently I have noticed what purports to be a message from Adobe Flash. It has two options Accept or Deny. Deny doesn’t work and the message window sits right in the centre of the video frame ( on SBS for e.g.) It cannot be moved. The request says “resources.sbs.com.au” wants the information at first. When I then click on the program of choice it becomes “resources. whatever… It also controls the pause function on the SBS site So I hit “accept” from frustration, not having any clear knowledge of what Adobe Flash wants to store on my computer. Normal access resumes. I assume its telling me that Cookies are being set. I also use the anti-tracking add-ons from Firefox. What I do everyday is clear all history in Firefox, including cookies. What info is this process looking for? Bill -- 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: Adobe Flash message
No, just streaming. Never download.BillOn 11 Apr 2014, at 9:11, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:Hi Bill,Are you using SBS Downloader or something?Cheers,RonniSent from Ronni's iPad4On 11 Apr 2014, at 9:02 am, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote:Just recently I have noticed what purports to be a message from Adobe Flash. It has two options Accept or Deny. Deny doesn’t work and the message window sits right in the centre of the video frame ( on SBS for e.g.) It cannot be moved. The request says “resources.sbs.com.au” wants the information at first. When I then click on the program of choice it becomes “resources. whatever… It also controls the pause function on the SBS siteSo I hit “accept” from frustration, not having any clear knowledge of what Adobe Flash wants to store on my computer. Normal access resumes.I assume its telling me that Cookies are being set. I also use the anti-tracking add-ons from Firefox.What I do everyday is clear all history in Firefox, including cookies.What info is this process looking for?Bill-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtmlGuidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtmlSettings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug Dr Bill ParkerSenior ConsultantAbelard ConsultingWESTERN AUSTRALIAbparke...@abelard.com.au1800 601 1160403583676 -- 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: Adobe Flash message
Hi again Bill, Check you have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player version: 13.0.0.182 http://www.zdnet.com/adobe-issues-flash-security-update-728211/ Adobe Systems released security updates for Flash Player and AIR in order to address four critical vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution and information disclosure. The newly released updates are Flash Player 13.0.0.182 for Windows and Mac http://www.pcworld.com/article/2141580/adobe-patches-a-critical-flaw-in-flash-player-and-air-shown-at-pwn2own-contest.html Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 11 Apr 2014, at 9:11 am, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Bill, Are you using SBS Downloader or something? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 11 Apr 2014, at 9:02 am, Bill Parker ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: Just recently I have noticed what purports to be a message from Adobe Flash. It has two options Accept or Deny. Deny doesn’t work and the message window sits right in the centre of the video frame ( on SBS for e.g.) It cannot be moved. The request says “resources.sbs.com.au” wants the information at first. When I then click on the program of choice it becomes “resources. whatever… It also controls the pause function on the SBS site So I hit “accept” from frustration, not having any clear knowledge of what Adobe Flash wants to store on my computer. Normal access resumes. I assume its telling me that Cookies are being set. I also use the anti-tracking add-ons from Firefox. What I do everyday is clear all history in Firefox, including cookies. What info is this process looking for? Bill -- 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: MacBook Pro wont start up
Thanks Peter, will give this a go following the steps from Ronni's previous email. Regards Pete On 11 Apr 2014, at 8:00 am, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 10 Apr 2014, at 8:19 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: My sons MBP (2012 Mavericks) has decided tonight it wont boot up. When starting it, the Apple logo comes up with the grey screen and the circulating little bar thing on regular start up. The difference is there is a progress bar at the bottom centre of screen which slowly progresses and it gets right to the end (100%) whereupon the hard disc shuts down and screen goes black. Repeating the process results in the same again. We have Time Machine back up so its recoverable in that sense but I wonder if this is a hard disc failure or an OSX error that needs the OSX rebuilding. About to do some Apple Support browsing but I thought I'd get this question out to see if any tips on what next? Please advise if any tips. Regards Pete This behaviour is typically seen when upgrading or repairing firmware, rather than being a software issue. You can try starting up while holding holding down the D key to enter the Apple Hardware Test. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509?viewlocale=en_USlocale=en_US This is not really for the faint hearted, but it is endorsed by Apple and can help you work out if the problem is related to hardware or software. 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
