Re: Iphone apps - windows close down
OK Ronni, I¹ll check the app versions. Since the ipad runs a newer IOS I do tend to download the app updates as Apple indicates. I thought that, in the past, if an app version was not compatible with the iPhone then iTunes DID NOT apply it to the phone (only the iPad). I¹m not sure I use enough of the ³smarts² to justify pending over $1k on a new mobile phone just now. I could certainly live without the Telstra 24x7 app ;o) The Pebble app would be more of a problem I¹ll have to check how well it is working function wise the pebble cam app still lets me take photos with the iPhone from the watch and shows the camera view on the watch so the devices ARE communicating. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 27/11/15 12:47, Ronni Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: > Hi Neil, > > Yes, the iPhone4 is very limited now, you really need to upgrade to a newer > iPhone. > It sounds you might have downloaded versions that are not compatible with your > iPhone4 > > The following Knowledge Base article offers up the steps on how to install the > latest compatible¹ version. > > > Install the latest compatible version of an app on an earlier version of iOS > or OS X - Apple Support <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201377> > > > To download an earlier version of an app, follow these steps: > 1. Open the App Store or Mac App Store. > 2. Go to the Purchased screen on your iOS device or the Purchases tab on your > Mac. > 3. Find the app and choose Download. You'll see a message telling you if a > compatible version is available. Tap Confirm to install this version. > If a compatible version isn't available, you can try contacting the app > developer. Look for contact information on the app's product page in the App > Store or Mac App Store. > > Cheers, > Ronni > >> On 27 Nov 2015, at 12:10 PM, Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com> wrote: >> >> Hope someone can help me with an easy fix here ;o) >> >> Recently some apps on my iPhone have taken to shutting their windows as soon >> as I open them. The app opens but, almost immediately the window shuts and >> takes me back to the home screen. >> >> The apps are still running in that their window thumbnails show when I >> double-click the home button - but if I select that thumbnail - back to the >> home screen. >> >> Apps that I was seeing this with were: >> Google Maps >> Pebble App >> Telstra 24x7 >> >> I have checked the phone software is up-to-date, downloaded the latest app >> updates and hard re-booted the phone. This fixed Google maps but not the >> other two. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Phone is an iPhone4 so limited to IOS 7.1.2 >> >> >> 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>
Re: Iphone apps - windows close down
Hi Bill, Yes, tried that first - then moved onto the hard reboot - still no joy. I'll follow up on Ronni's suggestions. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 27/11/15 13:28, Bill Parker at ren...@westnet.com.au wrote: > That happens with my (³ancient²) iPhone 4. I switch it off and then on. It > has worked. Bill > On 27 Nov 2015, at 12:10, Neil Houghton > <n...@possumology.com> wrote: > > Hope someone can help me with an easy fix > here ;o) > > Recently some apps on my iPhone have taken to shutting their > windows as soon > as I open them. The app opens but, almost immediately the > window shuts and > takes me back to the home screen. > > The apps are still > running in that their window thumbnails show when I > double-click the home > button - but if I select that thumbnail - back to the > home screen. > > Apps > that I was seeing this with were: > Google Maps > Pebble App > Telstra 24x7 > > > I have checked the phone software is up-to-date, downloaded the latest > app > updates and hard re-booted the phone. This fixed Google maps but not > the > other two. > > Any thoughts? > > Phone is an iPhone4 so limited to IOS > 7.1.2 > > > 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> Dr Bill > Parker ren...@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> -- 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: Iphone apps - windows close down
Hi Neil, Yes, the iPhone4 is very limited now, you really need to upgrade to a newer iPhone. It sounds you might have downloaded versions that are not compatible with your iPhone4 The following Knowledge Base article offers up the steps on how to install the latest ‘compatible’ version. Install the latest compatible version of an app on an earlier version of iOS or OS X - Apple Support <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201377> To download an earlier version of an app, follow these steps: Open the App Store or Mac App Store. Go to the Purchased screen on your iOS device or the Purchases tab on your Mac. Find the app and choose Download. You'll see a message telling you if a compatible version is available. Tap Confirm to install this version. If a compatible version isn't available, you can try contacting the app developer. Look for contact information on the app's product page in the App Store or Mac App Store. Cheers, Ronni > On 27 Nov 2015, at 12:10 PM, Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com> wrote: > > Hope someone can help me with an easy fix here ;o) > > Recently some apps on my iPhone have taken to shutting their windows as soon > as I open them. The app opens but, almost immediately the window shuts and > takes me back to the home screen. > > The apps are still running in that their window thumbnails show when I > double-click the home button - but if I select that thumbnail - back to the > home screen. > > Apps that I was seeing this with were: > Google Maps > Pebble App > Telstra 24x7 > > I have checked the phone software is up-to-date, downloaded the latest app > updates and hard re-booted the phone. This fixed Google maps but not the > other two. > > Any thoughts? > > Phone is an iPhone4 so limited to IOS 7.1.2 > > > 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>
Re: Iphone apps - windows close down
That happens with my (“ancient”) iPhone 4. I switch it off and then on. It has worked. Bill > On 27 Nov 2015, at 12:10, Neil Houghton <n...@possumology.com> wrote: > > Hope someone can help me with an easy fix here ;o) > > Recently some apps on my iPhone have taken to shutting their windows as soon > as I open them. The app opens but, almost immediately the window shuts and > takes me back to the home screen. > > The apps are still running in that their window thumbnails show when I > double-click the home button - but if I select that thumbnail - back to the > home screen. > > Apps that I was seeing this with were: > Google Maps > Pebble App > Telstra 24x7 > > I have checked the phone software is up-to-date, downloaded the latest app > updates and hard re-booted the phone. This fixed Google maps but not the > other two. > > Any thoughts? > > Phone is an iPhone4 so limited to IOS 7.1.2 > > > 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> Dr Bill Parker ren...@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>
Iphone apps - windows close down
Hope someone can help me with an easy fix here ;o) Recently some apps on my iPhone have taken to shutting their windows as soon as I open them. The app opens but, almost immediately the window shuts and takes me back to the home screen. The apps are still running in that their window thumbnails show when I double-click the home button - but if I select that thumbnail - back to the home screen. Apps that I was seeing this with were: Google Maps Pebble App Telstra 24x7 I have checked the phone software is up-to-date, downloaded the latest app updates and hard re-booted the phone. This fixed Google maps but not the other two. Any thoughts? Phone is an iPhone4 so limited to IOS 7.1.2 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>
Windows 7
Sorry Ronni but, Would anyone have a legal copy of Windows 7 or 8 they don’t want and could sell me? Kind regards Peter -- 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: Creating Installation windows
Thanks for your reply, the book is also in pdf but I provide folders with worksheets in word or excel so that clients can open them change and ammend and then save, these are all linked through the web page. Tried Autorun.inf but that does not seem to work these days Thanks anyway. Peter On 19/10/2014, at 7:31 AM, Peter Faulks wrote: I have written a book in word and excel in a web page, to be put on CD and need to create those install windows where you drag the icon to the Applications to install the files. I need to do this so the CD can be used on a Mac or PC any suggestions of a suitable program that will launch a web based book from a CD for Windows or Mac? I was going to print the book but it is 300 pages long and my printer packed up so I now have a new Epson printer but have 3 sets of HP Printer print cartridges (HP02, HP94 and HP95) surplus to requirements. I am not sure what you mean by in word and excel in a web page, but no one else has answered so I wonder if you have considered saving your book as a PDF. This would make it generally available on Macs and PCs. Alternatively, just provide instructions to open the initial file in a web browser. It used to be possible to get this to happen automatically on a PC when the Cd was inserted, with an AUTORUN.INF file (plus a couple of other small files) but I do not know whether this still works with more recent versions of Windows. I do not think that this was ever possible on a Mac, because Apple took the security implications more seriously. Regards Geoff --- Kaye and Geoff k...@kgweb.org.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 -- 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 Page: http://members.iinet.net.au/~pfau...@westnet.com.au/ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify your system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. Please notify the sender immediately by email if you have received the email from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. -- 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: Creating Installation windows
Peter On 19/10/2014, at 7:31 AM, Peter Faulks wrote: I have written a book in word and excel in a web page, to be put on CD and need to create those install windows where you drag the icon to the Applications to install the files. I need to do this so the CD can be used on a Mac or PC any suggestions of a suitable program that will launch a web based book from a CD for Windows or Mac? I was going to print the book but it is 300 pages long and my printer packed up so I now have a new Epson printer but have 3 sets of HP Printer print cartridges (HP02, HP94 and HP95) surplus to requirements. I am not sure what you mean by in word and excel in a web page, but no one else has answered so I wonder if you have considered saving your book as a PDF. This would make it generally available on Macs and PCs. Alternatively, just provide instructions to open the initial file in a web browser. It used to be possible to get this to happen automatically on a PC when the Cd was inserted, with an AUTORUN.INF file (plus a couple of other small files) but I do not know whether this still works with more recent versions of Windows. I do not think that this was ever possible on a Mac, because Apple took the security implications more seriously. Regards Geoff --- Kaye and Geoff k...@kgweb.org.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
Creating Installation windows
I have written a book in word and excel in a web page, to be put on CD and need to create those install windows where you drag the icon to the Applications to install the files. I need to do this so the CD can be used on a Mac or PC any suggestions of a suitable program that will launch a web based book from a CD for Windows or Mac? I was going to print the book but it is 300 pages long and my printer packed up so I now have a new Epson printer but have 3 sets of HP Printer print cartridges (HP02, HP94 and HP95) surplus to requirements. Any advice welcome -- 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 Page: http://members.iinet.net.au/~pfau...@westnet.com.au/ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify your system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this email. Please notify the sender immediately by email if you have received the email from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. -- 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: iBook - On Windows/Android?
Hi Peter and Robin The product is a little crappy in places: They forgot to title the book!!! There is some place holder text in a couple of places They may not have totally adhered to copyright procedures The process involved a couple hours of class-time and a few hours of home time literally 2 or 3 five minute dems of how iBooks Author works Plus on our Moodle Course site i posted a couple of How To videos The kids picked it up real fast. Working in groups of 3 Each group in charge of a particular chapter of the Chemistry section Each group required to produce: text (preferably in their own words) graphics, pictures, illustrations relevant movies/animations - 1) located on the net and 2) produced by themselves end of chapter interactive multi-choice quiz glossary I then wanted to combine the various chapters into one or two books. It didn't seem too easy to do that. I googled and searched and asked on various email lists etc Finally one of my 13 year old girls discovered how to do it and wrote me an Idiot's Guide with screen shots and all.! I thought - if she's the expert then let her run the show - so she supervised and organised the groups exporting their various chapters and then she spent an hour or two importing them (probably while I was marking or drinking coffee). cheers Rod Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners On 30 Jun 2014, at 9:02 am, Robin Belford rbelf...@highway1.com.au wrote: I second Peter's suggestion. A presentation of the methods and the results would be almost as cool as the work itself. So many people will benefit. robin On 30 Jun 2014, at 7:56 am, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 27 Jun 2014, at 5:34 pm, Rod Blitvich rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi WAMUGers My Academic Extension/Technology Year 8 class have produced a 40 page iBooks Year 8 Chemistry textbook (using iBooks Author). With text, graphics, movies, Interactive quizzes etc I think it's cool AND my kids are cool. THEY figured out how to combine chapters produced by different kids into one document. I will be asked - does it work on Windows/Android? I THINK the answer is - we could convert it to epub or pdf and the text and graphics will show up but not the quizzes and movies. Is that correct? Thanks Blitto Well the obvious question for me (and I think I speak for the WAMUG committee here) is: would you be willing to come along to a WAMUG meeting and show off your kids' efforts? Perhaps have a couple of the authors talk about their work processes as well. The next meeting is tomorrow night (July 1, so the notice might be a little too soon :-) ) but it sounds to me is that this is work that should not be hidden under a bushel and could provide inspiration to many others wanting to get into this area but are lacking direction. I see it as a very important presentation, so I like to think that WAMUG can provide the ideal medium for showing it off. 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 -- 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: iBook - On Windows/Android?
On 30 Jun 2014, at 5:19 pm, Rod Blitvich rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Peter and Robin The product is a little crappy in places: They forgot to title the book!!! There is some place holder text in a couple of places They may not have totally adhered to copyright procedures What's far more important than content here is the process! Not many of us will be trying to replicate the book, but we all have our little projects just waiting to be turned into useful publications for us to use for all sorts of things. Most of use are just waiting to start, and there's nothing more inspiring than to see the work of others who have succeeded. The kids' work might be a little rough around the edges, but that's really to be expected from a group of 13 year-olds! It's the techniques and processes that make it happen, and clearly they've put the work in to get it nearly ready. I believe they need the chance to show off their efforts to an audience who will appreciate the technical side of the accomplishment, when the polish of the product will not be as important as it might be for a final presentation to a different group, eg, a parent/teachers' night. Please give the suggestion some serious consideration. It might even give the authors the incentive to smooth it out a bit more. 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: iBook - On Windows/Android?
On 27 Jun 2014, at 5:34 pm, Rod Blitvich rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi WAMUGers My Academic Extension/Technology Year 8 class have produced a 40 page iBooks Year 8 Chemistry textbook (using iBooks Author). With text, graphics, movies, Interactive quizzes etc I think it's cool AND my kids are cool. THEY figured out how to combine chapters produced by different kids into one document. I will be asked - does it work on Windows/Android? I THINK the answer is - we could convert it to epub or pdf and the text and graphics will show up but not the quizzes and movies. Is that correct? Thanks Blitto Well the obvious question for me (and I think I speak for the WAMUG committee here) is: would you be willing to come along to a WAMUG meeting and show off your kids' efforts? Perhaps have a couple of the authors talk about their work processes as well. The next meeting is tomorrow night (July 1, so the notice might be a little too soon :-) ) but it sounds to me is that this is work that should not be hidden under a bushel and could provide inspiration to many others wanting to get into this area but are lacking direction. I see it as a very important presentation, so I like to think that WAMUG can provide the ideal medium for showing it off. 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: iBook - On Windows/Android?
I second Peter's suggestion. A presentation of the methods and the results would be almost as cool as the work itself. So many people will benefit. robin On 30 Jun 2014, at 7:56 am, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 27 Jun 2014, at 5:34 pm, Rod Blitvich rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi WAMUGers My Academic Extension/Technology Year 8 class have produced a 40 page iBooks Year 8 Chemistry textbook (using iBooks Author). With text, graphics, movies, Interactive quizzes etc I think it's cool AND my kids are cool. THEY figured out how to combine chapters produced by different kids into one document. I will be asked - does it work on Windows/Android? I THINK the answer is - we could convert it to epub or pdf and the text and graphics will show up but not the quizzes and movies. Is that correct? Thanks Blitto Well the obvious question for me (and I think I speak for the WAMUG committee here) is: would you be willing to come along to a WAMUG meeting and show off your kids' efforts? Perhaps have a couple of the authors talk about their work processes as well. The next meeting is tomorrow night (July 1, so the notice might be a little too soon :-) ) but it sounds to me is that this is work that should not be hidden under a bushel and could provide inspiration to many others wanting to get into this area but are lacking direction. I see it as a very important presentation, so I like to think that WAMUG can provide the ideal medium for showing it off. 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
iBook - On Windows/Android?
Hi WAMUGers My Academic Extension/Technology Year 8 class have produced a 40 page iBooks Year 8 Chemistry textbook (using iBooks Author). With text, graphics, movies, Interactive quizzes etc I think it's cool AND my kids are cool. THEY figured out how to combine chapters produced by different kids into one document. I will be asked - does it work on Windows/Android? I THINK the answer is - we could convert it to epub or pdf and the text and graphics will show up but not the quizzes and movies. Is that correct? Thanks Blitto Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.mac.com/blitto I don't have a big ego, I'm way too cool for that. -- 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: iBook - On Windows/Android?
Hi Blitto, On 27 Jun 2014, at 5:34 pm, Rod Blitvich rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi WAMUGers My Academic Extension/Technology Year 8 class have produced a 40 page iBooks Year 8 Chemistry textbook (using iBooks Author). With text, graphics, movies, Interactive quizzes etc I think it's cool AND my kids are cool. THEY figured out how to combine chapters produced by different kids into one document. I will be asked - does it work on Windows/Android? The short answer to your question... is no it will not. iBooks uses a proprietary format based on ePub3. I THINK the answer is - we could convert it to epub or pdf and the text and graphics will show up but not the quizzes and movies. Is that correct? The application does have an export option as PDF...but this obviously does not display the widgets and galleries etc. iBooks Author creates eBooks which can be viewed ONLYon iPads and Macs with Mavericks and iBooks app installed. Apple created the software and allow its use 'free of charge' and intend its use to allow self publishers to create and upload books to the iBooks store, and the software is being promoted along with other Apple products... to education at all levels from Kindergarden to University. It's ePub3 based, but is full of unknown or not standard content and properties. It's by design. Apple don't want simple ways to do iBooks conversions, in and out (They wish people locked in IBA for eBooks authoring). Apple simply does not want their books on other readers and want some exclusivity only on their store. So that's why their format is a incompatible, not standard. No ePub reader renders (nor is allowed to render) things like: ibooks-layout-hint: anchor page shape; ibooks-list-text-indent: 0.pt; ibooks-slot: textShape-2; ibooks-gutter-margin-left: 50.0pt; ibooks-positioned-slots: media-24, textShape-123, ... ; ibooks-box-wrap-exterior-path: directional contour both 12.0pt 0.50 false; iPhones can read ePubs, but they can't read iBooks. The iPhone is unable to read Apple’s proprietary ebook format. (You can’t view or purchase iBooks Author-only books on the iPhone, you must instead buy them on the Mac or iPad.) Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9.3 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) Thanks Blitto image.gif Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.mac.com/blitto I don't have a big ego, I'm way too cool for that. -- 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: Migration of iTunes from Windows to Mac
On 18 Dec 2013, at 11:11 am, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Ok Peter thanks for that. So that will set the mapping for the library content but what about the iTunes library extras, iTunes library.itl and all of the .ipa files for apps which are housed on the Windows C:\drive? Will I just copy them over and replace the new library files with old to retain playlists, ratings, play count etc? Regards Pete Everything pertaining to the iTunes library should be inside that iTunes folder. If there's anything external to that which you feel that iTunes requires will have to copied separately, but I doubt they will be recognised or used by iTunes on the Mac. AFAIK, iTunes used identical library structures on both platforms, but I am happy to be corrected. This article sums it all up fairly well http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/migrating-itunes-library-between-windows-and-mac-os-x/ 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
Migration of iTunes from Windows to Mac
Hi all, I am moving towards migrating my iTunes to my 'new' old Macbook from my 'work' Windows laptop. The Windows configuration is that iTunes is mapped to my external drive (formatted for Windows and Mac use). I'm moving to a 2008 Macbook 4.1 (circa 2008 vintage) that I've inherited from #2 son. It's got a clean instal of Snow Leopard (and a 120GB SSD so pretty quick) and I've yet to run iTunes and in turn set up the default folders and library files. This is an interim solution until I get my Macbook Pro Retina - migration to that should be more straightforward. I read previously to hold a key down whist setting up iTunes for the first time to set up a different path than the default path is necessary. My library is 220GB so way to big to hold in the C:\ drive. What key do I hold down? Do I attach the external drive first and then direct iTunes to the root folder during the setup process? Also there is the migration of the library.xml files from the Windows machine and all my app files (.ipa) over to the Macbook from my synched iOS devices. Are these files manually migrated or do I have have to download them all over again? I had a quick search in the archives and couldn't quickly see answers to this. Much obliged to any assistance on this. 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: Migration of iTunes from Windows to Mac
On 17 Dec 2013, at 9:39 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi all, I am moving towards migrating my iTunes to my 'new' old Macbook from my 'work' Windows laptop. The Windows configuration is that iTunes is mapped to my external drive (formatted for Windows and Mac use). I'm moving to a 2008 Macbook 4.1 (circa 2008 vintage) that I've inherited from #2 son. It's got a clean instal of Snow Leopard (and a 120GB SSD so pretty quick) and I've yet to run iTunes and in turn set up the default folders and library files. This is an interim solution until I get my Macbook Pro Retina - migration to that should be more straightforward. I read previously to hold a key down whist setting up iTunes for the first time to set up a different path than the default path is necessary. My library is 220GB so way to big to hold in the C:\ drive. What key do I hold down? Do I attach the external drive first and then direct iTunes to the root folder during the setup process? Also there is the migration of the library.xml files from the Windows machine and all my app files (.ipa) over to the Macbook from my synched iOS devices. Are these files manually migrated or do I have have to download them all over again? I had a quick search in the archives and couldn't quickly see answers to this. Much obliged to any assistance on this. Regards Pete. Simply plug that external drive you're using on your Windows machine into your Macbook and wait for it to mount. IMPORTANT NOTE: if the external drive is formatted as NTFS you will not be able to make any changes to your music library. You may have other problems if iTunes requires write-access to the drive (Mac OS X can read NTFS drives out of the box, but not write to them without additional software). Launch iTunes on your MacBook while holding down the Option (Alt) key. A small dialog will appear giving you the opportunity to nominate the location of your iTunes library. Simply choose the iTunes Folder on the external drive and you're good to go. 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: Migration of iTunes from Windows to Mac
Ok Peter thanks for that. So that will set the mapping for the library content but what about the iTunes library extras, iTunes library.itl and all of the .ipa files for apps which are housed on the Windows C:\drive? Will I just copy them over and replace the new library files with old to retain playlists, ratings, play count etc? Regards Pete On 18 Dec 2013, at 7:40 am, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 17 Dec 2013, at 9:39 pm, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi all, I am moving towards migrating my iTunes to my 'new' old Macbook from my 'work' Windows laptop. The Windows configuration is that iTunes is mapped to my external drive (formatted for Windows and Mac use). I'm moving to a 2008 Macbook 4.1 (circa 2008 vintage) that I've inherited from #2 son. It's got a clean instal of Snow Leopard (and a 120GB SSD so pretty quick) and I've yet to run iTunes and in turn set up the default folders and library files. This is an interim solution until I get my Macbook Pro Retina - migration to that should be more straightforward. I read previously to hold a key down whist setting up iTunes for the first time to set up a different path than the default path is necessary. My library is 220GB so way to big to hold in the C:\ drive. What key do I hold down? Do I attach the external drive first and then direct iTunes to the root folder during the setup process? Also there is the migration of the library.xml files from the Windows machine and all my app files (.ipa) over to the Macbook from my synched iOS devices. Are these files manually migrated or do I have have to download them all over again? I had a quick search in the archives and couldn't quickly see answers to this. Much obliged to any assistance on this. Regards Pete. Simply plug that external drive you're using on your Windows machine into your Macbook and wait for it to mount. IMPORTANT NOTE: if the external drive is formatted as NTFS you will not be able to make any changes to your music library. You may have other problems if iTunes requires write-access to the drive (Mac OS X can read NTFS drives out of the box, but not write to them without additional software). Launch iTunes on your MacBook while holding down the Option (Alt) key. A small dialog will appear giving you the opportunity to nominate the location of your iTunes library. Simply choose the iTunes Folder on the external drive and you're good to go. 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
Re: Experts urge PC users to disable Java, cite security flaw ( Incl OS X, Linux and Windows)
On 16/01/2013, at 10:13 AM, Reg Whitely rwhit...@internode.on.net wrote: Hi everyone You might find interest in this. I'm not sure if I need to take any specific action. http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/experts-urge-pc-users-to-disable-java-cite-security-flaw-20130111-2ckog.html Reg Since this is an exploit in Java and not the Ms OS, it can affect your Mac's security. The strong general recommendation is to disable Java in your browser (note that this is NOT to be confused with JavaScript, which is a different thing entirely). To disable Java in - Safari: Preferences Security Uncheck Enable Java Firefox: Tools Add-ons Plugins Click the Disable button for the Java Applet Plug-in 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
Experts urge PC users to disable Java, cite security flaw ( Incl OS X, Linux and Windows)
Hi everyone You might find interest in this. I'm not sure if I need to take any specific action. http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/experts-urge-pc-users-to-disable-java-cite-security-flaw-20130111-2ckog.html Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net -- 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: Formatting ext. drive for mac windows
On 15/12/2012, at 8:54 AM, Rod Blitvich rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: thanks Alan Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Just as a side note - Harvey Norman (certainly at the Canningto store, adn I presume others as well) have a bin full of 750Gb Seagate GoFlex USB 3.0 portable drives. They are marked for sale at $75, with box prices as high as $!20. The reason I'm mentioning them in particular, apart from the great price, is that the GoFlex drives are formatted as NTFS, but come with an installable NTFS driver for Mac users. Normally, OS X can only read NTFS format, not write. The driver allows Mac users to write to these drives simply by installing the supplied driver. This won't solve the requirement by Time Machine for HFS+, but it does get around the 4Gb file size limit imposed by MS-DOS. If you do want to use one of these units as a TM disk, you'll have to format it as HFS+, which is an effortless process. There are no hidden partitions as is sometimes the case with other models, so you get full use of the 750Gb, regardless of formatting. 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: VMWare Fusion/Windows XP Home Edition
Worked like a charm. I'm lucky! Will know for next time. Thanks! We would like to wish you, your staff and your families a very happy Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year 2013 Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email On 15/12/2012, at 8:18 AM, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi Stuart, Update VMWare Fusion to 3.1.4 or whatever the latest version is. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 15/12/2012, at 8:10 AM, Stuart Breden bred...@highway1.biz wrote: I am trying to install a copy of Windows XP Home Edition in VMWare Fusion 3.1.2. I have the correct product key and when I go to open I get the following messages in this order. Unable to retrieve kernel zone sizes Failed to initialise monitor device Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to. What is this all about and what can I do? We would like to wish you, your staff and your families a very happy Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year 2013 Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121215/97081a6f/attachment.htm -- 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 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121215/a1e4797f/attachment.htm -- 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 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121215/c2874e37/attachment.htm -- 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
Formatting ext. drive for mac windows
Dear WAMUGers Some of my students recently bought external drives to back up their laptops. Macbook Airs running 10.7 i think (12 months old) They said they want the Hard drive recognised by both windows and mac. I told them MS DOS FAT http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/22/format-drive-mac-pc-compatible/ but they claimed on friday that this did not work. Please - have I told them the wrong thing? ta blitto Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.mac.com/blitto I don't have a big ego, I'm way too cool for that. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121215/ab0d7483/attachment.htm -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.gif Type: image/gif Size: 1082 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121215/ab0d7483/attachment.gif -- 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: Formatting ext. drive for mac windows
Hi Blitto, Are the external drives Not recognised on the Windows or The Macbook Airs? I have all my external drives that I use on Windows Macs formatted MS-DOS (FAT-32), never had a problem. If they are using these external drives for Time Machine backups, they need to be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and partitioned GUID Partition Table - for Intel-based Macs. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 15/12/2012, at 5:53 AM, Rod Blitvich rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Dear WAMUGers Some of my students recently bought external drives to back up their laptops. Macbook Airs running 10.7 i think (12 months old) They said they want the Hard drive recognised by both windows and mac. I told them MS DOS FAT http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/22/format-drive-mac-pc-compatible/ but they claimed on friday that this did not work. Please - have I told them the wrong thing? ta blitto Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.mac.com/blitto I don't have a big ego, I'm way too cool for that. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121215/671890ff/attachment.htm -- 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
VMWare Fusion/Windows XP Home Edition
I am trying to install a copy of Windows XP Home Edition in VMWare Fusion 3.1.2. I have the correct product key and when I go to open I get the following messages in this order. Unable to retrieve kernel zone sizes Failed to initialise monitor device Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to. What is this all about and what can I do? We would like to wish you, your staff and your families a very happy Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year 2013 Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121215/97081a6f/attachment.htm -- 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: VMWare Fusion/Windows XP Home Edition
Hi Stuart, Update VMWare Fusion to 3.1.4 or whatever the latest version is. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 15/12/2012, at 8:10 AM, Stuart Breden bred...@highway1.biz wrote: I am trying to install a copy of Windows XP Home Edition in VMWare Fusion 3.1.2. I have the correct product key and when I go to open I get the following messages in this order. Unable to retrieve kernel zone sizes Failed to initialise monitor device Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to. What is this all about and what can I do? We would like to wish you, your staff and your families a very happy Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year 2013 Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121215/97081a6f/attachment.htm -- 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 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121215/a1e4797f/attachment.htm -- 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: Formatting ext. drive for mac windows
Hi Blitto This is an observation, not a fix! Perhaps the backup software has an impact. I had problems about a year ago. just manually copying individual files was OK, but an auto process using SuperDuper! would not work. SuperDuper insisted on the format Ronni mentioned for Time Machine, so my non-OSX backups can not be read by Windows. Cheers Alan On 15/12/2012, at 7:56 AM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Blitto, Are the external drives Not recognised on the Windows or The Macbook Airs? I have all my external drives that I use on Windows Macs formatted MS-DOS (FAT-32), never had a problem. If they are using these external drives for Time Machine backups, they need to be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and partitioned GUID Partition Table - for Intel-based Macs. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 15/12/2012, at 5:53 AM, Rod Blitvich rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Dear WAMUGers Some of my students recently bought external drives to back up their laptops. Macbook Airs running 10.7 i think (12 months old) They said they want the Hard drive recognised by both windows and mac. I told them MS DOS FAT http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/22/format-drive-mac-pc-compatible/ but they claimed on friday that this did not work. Please - have I told them the wrong thing? ta blitto Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.mac.com/blitto I don't have a big ego, I'm way too cool for that. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121215/671890ff/attachment.htm -- 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: Formatting ext. drive for mac windows
i see Ronni I see They probably thought they could use Time machine AND windows on same hard drive i will tell them on monday ta blitto Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from? On 15/12/2012, at 5:53 AM, Rod Blitvich rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Dear WAMUGers Some of my students recently bought external drives to back up their laptops. Macbook Airs running 10.7 i think (12 months old) They said they want the Hard drive recognised by both windows and mac. I told them MS DOS FAT http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/22/format-drive-mac-pc-compatible/ but they claimed on friday that this did not work. Please - have I told them the wrong thing? ta blitto image.gif Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.mac.com/blitto I don't have a big ego, I'm way too cool for that. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121215/fc867cf7/attachment.htm -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.gif Type: image/gif Size: 1034 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121215/fc867cf7/attachment.gif -- 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: Formatting ext. drive for mac windows
thanks Alan Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Good Ideas 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au On 15/12/2012, at 8:31 AM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Blitto This is an observation, not a fix! Perhaps the backup software has an impact. I had problems about a year ago. just manually copying individual files was OK, but an auto process using SuperDuper! would not work. SuperDuper insisted on the format Ronni mentioned for Time Machine, so my non-OSX backups can not be read by Windows. Cheers Alan On 15/12/2012, at 7:56 AM, Ronni Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Blitto, Are the external drives Not recognised on the Windows or The Macbook Airs? I have all my external drives that I use on Windows Macs formatted MS-DOS (FAT-32), never had a problem. If they are using these external drives for Time Machine backups, they need to be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and partitioned GUID Partition Table - for Intel-based Macs. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 15/12/2012, at 5:53 AM, Rod Blitvich rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Dear WAMUGers Some of my students recently bought external drives to back up their laptops. Macbook Airs running 10.7 i think (12 months old) They said they want the Hard drive recognised by both windows and mac. I told them MS DOS FAT http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/22/format-drive-mac-pc-compatible/ but they claimed on friday that this did not work. Please - have I told them the wrong thing? ta blitto Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.mac.com/blitto I don't have a big ego, I'm way too cool for that. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121215/671890ff/attachment.htm -- 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 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121215/e81931c5/attachment.htm -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.gif Type: image/gif Size: 1082 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121215/e81931c5/attachment.gif -- 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
Windows 8 Pro/touch screen
is it correct that the new Windows 8 Pro has the facility of using a touch screen? Touch screens not available from Apple? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121125/3c9cde6a/attachment.htm -- 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: Windows 8 Pro/touch screen
Good afternoon Stuart, My, we have a range of queries this afternoon... I have two touch screen Apple products, my iPhone and my iPad. Neither will run Windows 8, which I am rather grateful for. I turn my iPad into a computer by the addition of a bluetooth keyboard, so get the ability to type at length, and also the benefits of a touch screen. The same would work on the iPhone. I don't think they make anything bigger than the iPad, and when I entered Does Applie make a touchscreen into Google, all sorts of responses came up, mostly containing rumours. I hope this is helpful to you. Regards Tim On 25/11/2012, at 4:57 PM, Stuart Breden bred...@highway1.biz wrote: is it correct that the new Windows 8 Pro has the facility of using a touch screen? Touch screens not available from Apple? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121125/3c9cde6a/attachment.htm -- 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: Windows 8 Pro/touch screen
Windows machines could have touch screen before Windows 8. My husband has it on his PC running Windows 7. He doesn't use it at all because we are not used to inputting that way. I can imagine special applications where it might be useful, but the thought of finger prints on my beautiful 24 inch Mac appals me! Its enough to have to keep cleaning my ipad and iphone screens all the time. --- Susan Hastings Mobile: 0409 688 004 susanhasti...@mac.com On 25/11/2012, at 5:21 PM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Good afternoon Stuart, My, we have a range of queries this afternoon... I have two touch screen Apple products, my iPhone and my iPad. Neither will run Windows 8, which I am rather grateful for. I turn my iPad into a computer by the addition of a bluetooth keyboard, so get the ability to type at length, and also the benefits of a touch screen. The same would work on the iPhone. I don't think they make anything bigger than the iPad, and when I entered Does Applie make a touchscreen into Google, all sorts of responses came up, mostly containing rumours. I hope this is helpful to you. Regards Tim On 25/11/2012, at 4:57 PM, Stuart Breden bred...@highway1.biz wrote: is it correct that the new Windows 8 Pro has the facility of using a touch screen? Touch screens not available from Apple? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121125/3c9cde6a/attachment.htm -- 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 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121125/de7c42ef/attachment.htm -- 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
Where do I click, again? A guide to Windows 8
A couple of months ago I wrote a slightly tongue-in-cheek review of my experiences when encountering Windows 8 for the first time, in the form of the Windows 8 pre-release beta available through Parallels 7. While mine was not intended as a serious review (given it was only as first encounter), the following review from the Melbourne Age doesn't create a less confusing impression: http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/-28e73.html I have no doubt that many improvements and advances have been made in some of the underlying technologies, although you don't have to dig too deeply to find yourself back in the same processes that have been around since Windows 95, but the interface is going to be a deal breaker for many average users. It's just too confusing working out what you're doing at any point in time, or even worse, how to get back to what you were doing before. I think Windows 7 is here to stay for much longer than Microsoft would like to think, and it could do nothing more that increase the rate of migration to the Apple ecosystem. 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. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121031/75fff4e8/attachment.htm -- 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
Mountain Lion is safe from Windows 8
Just my own humble opinion, but after having had a run with the trial version of Windows 8, all I can say is that Apple's share of the desktop space can do nothing but increase. This thing will set Windows users all over screaming in all directions. Having upgraded my copy of Parallels to version 7 through one of the recent MacUpdate bundles, I thought I'd see what all the excitement was about and took advantage of the easy Windows 8 download/installation option offered on the Parallels start screen. All it has cost me so far has been 3 Gb of hard drive space, and time I'll never get back. Where to begin? Windows 8 is startling, to say the least. As illogical as it was, at least the Start Button was an identifiable object at the bottom left of the screen, where you knew could go to launch programs, call up Control Panels, gain access to the hard drive's contents, and even log out or shut down. Even if it was illogically named, at least most people were able to work out its many uses fairly quickly. Now, in Window 8's Metro Interface - it's gone! Now I can see that for Microsoft Windows, the only thing more illogical than the Start Button is NOT having a start button. It took me a good ten minutes of careful mousing around to discover how to shut down: you have to park your mouse in the very bottom right-hand corner of the screen, whereupon a transparent menu containing five icons pops out from the right-hand side of the screen. You then have to move mouse over this menu, at which point it turns black and the icons now have labels: Search, Share, Start (ah! there it is...), Devices and Settings. Perhaps the Shutdown command is under the Start icon (well, it's been like that for the last seventeen years!)? Nope. All that does is take you back to the Metro Interface. Oh, and by the way...if you object to Launchpad in Lion and soon Mountain Lion, you're going to HATE Metro in Windows 8. They've taken Launchpad and made it look ugly but hey! It does respond to gestures on the Mousepad! OK, so how do we shut down? Turns out that's in the Settings Icon! Of course. Everyone has been telling Microsoft for years that the Start Button was a silly place to go to shut down, so obviously, it's now a SETTING. Wow. Well let's try actually doing something. Let's try a few programs (which are all presented as icons displayed against garishly coloured panels). Let's try Maps. Nothing happens. OK, it is a trial, perhaps it's not ready yet. Let's try Calendar. Nope, I need a Microsoft account to do that. How about Weather? Yes, that works. Only trouble is that the temperatures are all in Fahrenheit. There is no obvious way to change this within Weather itself, so let's quit and try to find the Regions Control Panel. Hang on...THERE'S NO QUIT COMMAND. There's no window to close because the program takes up the entire screen. There is no window and there is no menu. There's an inactive Back Button and that's all. The only way out is to drag the mouse down to bottom right of the screen, rollup to the popout menu and click the Start Icon, which takes me back to the Metro Interface. Maybe I'm starting to get the hang of this. There's still no Control Panel though. What happens if I right-click on the background? Suddenly, a large green Dockish-lookng area pops up at the bottom of the screen, containing a single icon labelled All apps. I click this and I get as screen entitled Apps. That's right - APPS! How iOS of them, but now things are looking a little more hopeful. By now, Parallels has populated this screen with all of my Mac applications as well, so I can use Windows 8 as an Application launcher for the Mac if I really want to, but that's by the by. The important thing is I've now found the Control Panel. Click. I've now left the Metro Interface and I'm looking at a more familiar Windows 7-like screen. But not quite. There's still no Start Button, but perhaps even worse, there's absolutely no indication anywhere that the Weather app is still running! I would at least expect to see some sign of it in the Task Bar; but I'm trying sort this measurements problem, so I go to the Region settings, but there's no allowance for temperature measurements. There is a setting for Measurements which is set to Metric, but it has had no effect on the Weather program. There's more believe me, but it's all in the same vein. Much of the included software won't work without a Microsoft account. When in the new Metro Interface there are no menus, no windows (funny - it IS called Windows 8...), no clear or intuitive pathways to get back from wherever it is you end up. It is certainly possible to work it out, but it requires considerable patience, a bit of lateral thinking, and lots of poking into dark corners with the mouse cursor. Even right-clicking has completely unexpected results depending on where you are. You can get back to a Windows 7-like Desktop environment
Re: Mountain Lion is safe from Windows 8
Lol Peter are you sure you're not a comedy writer in your spare time :)) Nice Review ;) And OS X8 just makes it look funny,...all it needs is an ) under it,... X8) and it's smiley glass made (look sideways)...lol Aren't we glad we're Mac users,lol Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/07/2012, at 12:41 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: Just my own humble opinion, but after having had a run with the trial version of Windows 8, all I can say is that Apple's share of the desktop space can do nothing but increase. This thing will set Windows users all over screaming in all directions. Having upgraded my copy of Parallels to version 7 through one of the recent MacUpdate bundles, I thought I'd see what all the excitement was about and took advantage of the easy Windows 8 download/installation option offered on the Parallels start screen. All it has cost me so far has been 3 Gb of hard drive space, and time I'll never get back. Where to begin? Windows 8 is startling, to say the least. As illogical as it was, at least the Start Button was an identifiable object at the bottom left of the screen, where you knew could go to launch programs, call up Control Panels, gain access to the hard drive's contents, and even log out or shut down. Even if it was illogically named, at least most people were able to work out its many uses fairly quickly. Now, in Window 8's Metro Interface - it's gone! Now I can see that for Microsoft Windows, the only thing more illogical than the Start Button is NOT having a start button. It took me a good ten minutes of careful mousing around to discover how to shut down: you have to park your mouse in the very bottom right-hand corner of the screen, whereupon a transparent menu containing five icons pops out from the right-hand side of the screen. You then have to move mouse over this menu, at which point it turns black and the icons now have labels: Search, Share, Start (ah! there it is...), Devices and Settings. Perhaps the Shutdown command is under the Start icon (well, it's been like that for the last seventeen years!)? Nope. All that does is take you back to the Metro Interface. Oh, and by the way...if you object to Launchpad in Lion and soon Mountain Lion, you're going to HATE Metro in Windows 8. They've taken Launchpad and made it look ugly but hey! It does respond to gestures on the Mousepad! OK, so how do we shut down? Turns out that's in the Settings Icon! Of course. Everyone has been telling Microsoft for years that the Start Button was a silly place to go to shut down, so obviously, it's now a SETTING. Wow. Well let's try actually doing something. Let's try a few programs (which are all presented as icons displayed against garishly coloured panels). Let's try Maps. Nothing happens. OK, it is a trial, perhaps it's not ready yet. Let's try Calendar. Nope, I need a Microsoft account to do that. How about Weather? Yes, that works. Only trouble is that the temperatures are all in Fahrenheit. There is no obvious way to change this within Weather itself, so let's quit and try to find the Regions Control Panel. Hang on...THERE'S NO QUIT COMMAND. There's no window to close because the program takes up the entire screen. There is no window and there is no menu. There's an inactive Back Button and that's all. The only way out is to drag the mouse down to bottom right of the screen, rollup to the popout menu and click the Start Icon, which takes me back to the Metro Interface. Maybe I'm starting to get the hang of this. There's still no Control Panel though. What happens if I right-click on the background? Suddenly, a large green Dockish-lookng area pops up at the bottom of the screen, containing a single icon labelled All apps. I click this and I get as screen entitled Apps. That's right - APPS! How iOS of them, but now things are looking a little more hopeful. By now, Parallels has populated this screen with all of my Mac applications as well, so I can use Windows 8 as an Application launcher for the Mac if I really want to, but that's by the by. The important thing is I've now found the Control Panel. Click. I've now left the Metro Interface and I'm looking at a more familiar Windows 7-like screen. But not quite. There's still no Start Button, but perhaps even worse, there's absolutely no indication anywhere that the Weather app is still running! I would at least expect to see some sign of it in the Task Bar; but I'm trying sort this measurements problem, so I go to the Region settings, but there's no allowance for temperature measurements. There is a setting for Measurements which is set to Metric, but it has had no effect on the Weather program. There's more believe me, but it's all in the same vein. Much
Re: Mountain Lion is safe from Windows 8
Peter, thanks for some entertainment with your colorful review of Win8. It really was quite amusing to read. Regards Pete On 13/07/2012, at 1:46 AM, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Lol Peter are you sure you're not a comedy writer in your spare time :)) Nice Review ;) And OS X8 just makes it look funny,...all it needs is an ) under it,... X8) and it's smiley glass made (look sideways)...lol Aren't we glad we're Mac users,lol Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 13/07/2012, at 12:41 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: Just my own humble opinion, but after having had a run with the trial version of Windows 8, all I can say is that Apple's share of the desktop space can do nothing but increase. This thing will set Windows users all over screaming in all directions. Having upgraded my copy of Parallels to version 7 through one of the recent MacUpdate bundles, I thought I'd see what all the excitement was about and took advantage of the easy Windows 8 download/installation option offered on the Parallels start screen. All it has cost me so far has been 3 Gb of hard drive space, and time I'll never get back. Where to begin? Windows 8 is startling, to say the least. As illogical as it was, at least the Start Button was an identifiable object at the bottom left of the screen, where you knew could go to launch programs, call up Control Panels, gain access to the hard drive's contents, and even log out or shut down. Even if it was illogically named, at least most people were able to work out its many uses fairly quickly. Now, in Window 8's Metro Interface - it's gone! Now I can see that for Microsoft Windows, the only thing more illogical than the Start Button is NOT having a start button. It took me a good ten minutes of careful mousing around to discover how to shut down: you have to park your mouse in the very bottom right-hand corner of the screen, whereupon a transparent menu containing five icons pops out from the right-hand side of the screen. You then have to move mouse over this menu, at which point it turns black and the icons now have labels: Search, Share, Start (ah! there it is...), Devices and Settings. Perhaps the Shutdown command is under the Start icon (well, it's been like that for the last seventeen years!)? Nope. All that does is take you back to the Metro Interface. Oh, and by the way...if you object to Launchpad in Lion and soon Mountain Lion, you're going to HATE Metro in Windows 8. They've taken Launchpad and made it look ugly but hey! It does respond to gestures on the Mousepad! OK, so how do we shut down? Turns out that's in the Settings Icon! Of course. Everyone has been telling Microsoft for years that the Start Button was a silly place to go to shut down, so obviously, it's now a SETTING. Wow. Well let's try actually doing something. Let's try a few programs (which are all presented as icons displayed against garishly coloured panels). Let's try Maps. Nothing happens. OK, it is a trial, perhaps it's not ready yet. Let's try Calendar. Nope, I need a Microsoft account to do that. How about Weather? Yes, that works. Only trouble is that the temperatures are all in Fahrenheit. There is no obvious way to change this within Weather itself, so let's quit and try to find the Regions Control Panel. Hang on...THERE'S NO QUIT COMMAND. There's no window to close because the program takes up the entire screen. There is no window and there is no menu. There's an inactive Back Button and that's all. The only way out is to drag the mouse down to bottom right of the screen, rollup to the popout menu and click the Start Icon, which takes me back to the Metro Interface. Maybe I'm starting to get the hang of this. There's still no Control Panel though. What happens if I right-click on the background? Suddenly, a large green Dockish-lookng area pops up at the bottom of the screen, containing a single icon labelled All apps. I click this and I get as screen entitled Apps. That's right - APPS! How iOS of them, but now things are looking a little more hopeful. By now, Parallels has populated this screen with all of my Mac applications as well, so I can use Windows 8 as an Application launcher for the Mac if I really want to, but that's by the by. The important thing is I've now found the Control Panel. Click. I've now left the Metro Interface and I'm looking at a more familiar Windows 7-like screen. But not quite. There's still no Start Button, but perhaps even worse, there's absolutely no indication anywhere that the Weather app is still running! I would at least expect to see some sign of it in the Task Bar; but I'm trying sort this measurements problem, so I go to the Region settings, but there's
Re: Mountain Lion is safe from Windows 8
Hi Peter, Great Review! Honestly written by a Mac expert... I loved it :-)) Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 13/07/2012, at 12:41 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: Just my own humble opinion, but after having had a run with the trial version of Windows 8, all I can say is that Apple's share of the desktop space can do nothing but increase. This thing will set Windows users all over screaming in all directions. Having upgraded my copy of Parallels to version 7 through one of the recent MacUpdate bundles, I thought I'd see what all the excitement was about and took advantage of the easy Windows 8 download/installation option offered on the Parallels start screen. All it has cost me so far has been 3 Gb of hard drive space, and time I'll never get back. Where to begin? Windows 8 is startling, to say the least. As illogical as it was, at least the Start Button was an identifiable object at the bottom left of the screen, where you knew could go to launch programs, call up Control Panels, gain access to the hard drive's contents, and even log out or shut down. Even if it was illogically named, at least most people were able to work out its many uses fairly quickly. Now, in Window 8's Metro Interface - it's gone! Now I can see that for Microsoft Windows, the only thing more illogical than the Start Button is NOT having a start button. It took me a good ten minutes of careful mousing around to discover how to shut down: you have to park your mouse in the very bottom right-hand corner of the screen, whereupon a transparent menu containing five icons pops out from the right-hand side of the screen. You then have to move mouse over this menu, at which point it turns black and the icons now have labels: Search, Share, Start (ah! there it is...), Devices and Settings. Perhaps the Shutdown command is under the Start icon (well, it's been like that for the last seventeen years!)? Nope. All that does is take you back to the Metro Interface. Oh, and by the way...if you object to Launchpad in Lion and soon Mountain Lion, you're going to HATE Metro in Windows 8. They've taken Launchpad and made it look ugly but hey! It does respond to gestures on the Mousepad! OK, so how do we shut down? Turns out that's in the Settings Icon! Of course. Everyone has been telling Microsoft for years that the Start Button was a silly place to go to shut down, so obviously, it's now a SETTING. Wow. Well let's try actually doing something. Let's try a few programs (which are all presented as icons displayed against garishly coloured panels). Let's try Maps. Nothing happens. OK, it is a trial, perhaps it's not ready yet. Let's try Calendar. Nope, I need a Microsoft account to do that. How about Weather? Yes, that works. Only trouble is that the temperatures are all in Fahrenheit. There is no obvious way to change this within Weather itself, so let's quit and try to find the Regions Control Panel. Hang on...THERE'S NO QUIT COMMAND. There's no window to close because the program takes up the entire screen. There is no window and there is no menu. There's an inactive Back Button and that's all. The only way out is to drag the mouse down to bottom right of the screen, rollup to the popout menu and click the Start Icon, which takes me back to the Metro Interface. Maybe I'm starting to get the hang of this. There's still no Control Panel though. What happens if I right-click on the background? Suddenly, a large green Dockish-lookng area pops up at the bottom of the screen, containing a single icon labelled All apps. I click this and I get as screen entitled Apps. That's right - APPS! How iOS of them, but now things are looking a little more hopeful. By now, Parallels has populated this screen with all of my Mac applications as well, so I can use Windows 8 as an Application launcher for the Mac if I really want to, but that's by the by. The important thing is I've now found the Control Panel. Click. I've now left the Metro Interface and I'm looking at a more familiar Windows 7-like screen. But not quite. There's still no Start Button, but perhaps even worse, there's absolutely no indication anywhere that the Weather app is still running! I would at least expect to see some sign of it in the Task Bar; but I'm trying sort this measurements problem, so I go to the Region settings, but there's no allowance for temperature measurements. There is a setting for Measurements which is set to Metric, but it has had no effect on the Weather program. There's more believe me, but it's all in the same vein. Much of the included software won't work without a Microsoft account. When in the new Metro Interface there are no menus, no windows (funny - it IS called Windows 8...), no clear or intuitive pathways to get back from wherever it is you end up. It is certainly possible to work
windows on a mac
Hi all I have the unfortunate job of trying to run windows xp on a mac. Windows on any computer is dog. My mac is a 15macbook pro running 10.6.8. The windows xp is a DEET version run using VMware Fusion 4.1.1. On this I am trying to run a data base called LXR Test 6.1. After many hours on the net and down loading many windows patches, I can get the LXR to install, however I am unable too get the mac to win conversion utility to install. The LXR test software does run on a DEET dell laptop. The conversion utility does work in that it converts some of my files with out crashing, but strips out all graphics. Not nice. As I do not own a windows computer (what a waste of money), I need to be able to run this software on my mac. A mac version of LXR Test did exist for non intel mac but is unfortunately no longer supported. I would like to know if any other windows emulator runs better of easier than VMware and whether any other form of windows (2000, NT or similar age dog would solve my problem. regards Neil Botterill -- 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: windows on a mac
Hi Neil, I presume you have read and tried this: http://www.lxrtest.com/site/supportHowDoI_macWinCvtr.aspx Convert Existing LXR*TEST 5.1 Macintosh Formatted Banks for Use in LXR*TEST 6.1 As a courtesy to our LXR*TEST 6.1 customers, we have included a copy of the LXR*TEST 5.1 Mac-to-Windows Bank Converter Utility on the LXR*TEST 6.1 installation CD, for your convenience. Please be aware that we do not provide actual support on the compatibility or use of the bank converter utility on your systems. Click on the following link if you would like to access a copy of the documentation on the bank converter utility: Documentation on Using the LXR*TEST 5.1 Mac-to-Windows Bank Converter Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 02/12/2011, at 6:27 PM, botter...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi all I have the unfortunate job of trying to run windows xp on a mac. Windows on any computer is dog. My mac is a 15macbook pro running 10.6.8. The windows xp is a DEET version run using VMware Fusion 4.1.1. On this I am trying to run a data base called LXR Test 6.1. After many hours on the net and down loading many windows patches, I can get the LXR to install, however I am unable too get the mac to win conversion utility to install. The LXR test software does run on a DEET dell laptop. The conversion utility does work in that it converts some of my files with out crashing, but strips out all graphics. Not nice. As I do not own a windows computer (what a waste of money), I need to be able to run this software on my mac. A mac version of LXR Test did exist for non intel mac but is unfortunately no longer supported. I would like to know if any other windows emulator runs better of easier than VMware and whether any other form of windows (2000, NT or similar age dog would solve my problem. regards Neil Botterill -- 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: windows on a mac
Hi again Neil, The conversion utility does work in that it converts some of my files with out crashing, but strips out all graphics. Not nice. I don’t know what format your graphics are in but this might be of some help to you. You can download the PDF from the link below. http://www.lxrtest.com/site/support/pdf/51macwincvt.pdf On Page 253 of 'Mac-to-Windows Bank Converter PDF' (which is the third page of this extract PDF) /Begin Quote: Mac-to-Windows Bank Converter: Graphics Conversion If the Mac bank you are converting has any graphics, you have several choices to consider. You may choose to use the built-in graphics conversion software which is integrated with the Converter or you may use one or more third-party graphics conversion software tools which directly interface with the Converter. Note: If your graphics exist in a TIFF format within your Mac question banks, no conversion is necessary from Mac to Windows under version 5.1. The graphics issue primarily is one of getting Mac PICT graphics to a graphic format supported by Windows. The PICT graphics format is really a “meta-format”—that is, it can contain both ‘bitmap” and “object” images. Bitmap and object graphics are sometimes referred to as “raster” and “vector.” Basically a bitmap image is one that consists of a series of “dots” (generated by “paint” programs). An object image is one that is represented algebraically (generated by “drawing” programs). Why do you care? You may care because some third party graphics conversion tools may operate better with one graphic type than with another. You may also care because the quality and size of your images can vary dramatically depending on the type of graphics that are being converted and method of conversion being used. /End Quote: Cheers, Ronni On 02/12/2011, at 8:07 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Neil, I presume you have read and tried this: http://www.lxrtest.com/site/supportHowDoI_macWinCvtr.aspx Convert Existing LXR*TEST 5.1 Macintosh Formatted Banks for Use in LXR*TEST 6.1 As a courtesy to our LXR*TEST 6.1 customers, we have included a copy of the LXR*TEST 5.1 Mac-to-Windows Bank Converter Utility on the LXR*TEST 6.1 installation CD, for your convenience. Please be aware that we do not provide actual support on the compatibility or use of the bank converter utility on your systems. Click on the following link if you would like to access a copy of the documentation on the bank converter utility: Documentation on Using the LXR*TEST 5.1 Mac-to-Windows Bank Converter Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 02/12/2011, at 6:27 PM, botter...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi all I have the unfortunate job of trying to run windows xp on a mac. Windows on any computer is dog. My mac is a 15macbook pro running 10.6.8. The windows xp is a DEET version run using VMware Fusion 4.1.1. On this I am trying to run a data base called LXR Test 6.1. After many hours on the net and down loading many windows patches, I can get the LXR to install, however I am unable too get the mac to win conversion utility to install. The LXR test software does run on a DEET dell laptop. The conversion utility does work in that it converts some of my files with out crashing, but strips out all graphics. Not nice. As I do not own a windows computer (what a waste of money), I need to be able to run this software on my mac. A mac version of LXR Test did exist for non intel mac but is unfortunately no longer supported. I would like to know if any other windows emulator runs better of easier than VMware and whether any other form of windows (2000, NT or similar age dog would solve my problem. regards Neil Botterill -- 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: Safari not opening windows
Thanks for the info Geoff. The problem has now been solved by removing an extension called AdBlock. Regards Lloyd On 3/10/11 11:15 AM, Geoff and Kaye k...@kgweb.org.au wrote: Lloyd On 03/10/2011, at 9:42 AM, Lloyd White wrote: Hi everyone, I hope everyone who backed the wrong team has now come to terms with reality! :-) It's only a game! I use Safari without problems, except that one website will not open. As a career-change consultant I am constantly going to the Govt job site to find a position. When I click on the link it takes me to the Bigredsky site but no position comes up. E.g. http://search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pageID=160AdvertID=123302source=o th er But it does in Firefox or Google Chrome. It opens OK for me using Safari 5.0.2 on an iMac running 10.6.5. This is more likely to be a problem with the web page than with Safari; more specifically that the web page uses non-standards-compliant code which Safari cannot interpret. However it is interesting that Chrome can display it because I understand that Chrome uses Apple's rendering engine. Of course they could in your case be using different versions. I assume that you have checked the Safari Activity window to see if there are any files which it failed to find at all. If you get a blank page then the next thing to do is to look at the source code for the page (View/View source). If there is nothing there, or only a limited number of lines of code, then the page has not downloaded for some reason or has been truncated. If there is masses of code, normally ending in /html, then the entire file (at least the main one) has downloaded completely. If this is the case but nothing is displayed, there almost certainly will be an error (or many) reported in the error console (Develop/Show Error Console). If you do not have Develop in your Safari menu you can turn it on, as I recollect, in the preferences. The nature of the error message hopefully will give you an idea about what the problem is. Interestingly, my version of Firefox displays the page but finds quite a few things which it does not understand in the code, mostly in the style sheets so they are not fatal. Safari reports no warnings or errors except a missing favicon.ico, which is not relevant to displaying the page. Regards Geoff -- Geoff and Kaye k...@kgweb.org.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 -- 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: Safari not opening windows
Hi Lloyd, You don’t need to disable AdBlock, you just need to stop blocking on that URL ... ‘Add the URL into AdBlock Options'. 1. Open Safari, click the AdBlock icon in the Safari Toolbar (looks like a stop hand) It will open AdBlock Options 2. Click on ‘Customize’ 3. Under ’Stop Blocking ads': 4. Click ’Show ads on a webpage or domain Paste in this URL: http://search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pageID=160AdvertID=123302source=other 5. Click OK Now open the webpage and it will show correctly. 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) On 03/10/2011, at 10:30 AM, Lloyd White wrote: Thanks Barry and Ray Because it worked for you and not for me, I checked through all my settings and discovered that in the Extensions section of my Preferences I had and extension called AdBlock. I turned it off and now I can see the information you are seeing. Apparently the Job Description Form was seen as an advertisement by AdBlock. Problem solved. Thanks Lloyd On 3/10/11 10:14 AM, Barry Sexstone bjsexst...@netspace.net.au wrote: Lloyd Link opens for me with no problem. Barry iMac 10,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz 8GB RAM 1.0 TB HD OS X 10.6.8 On 03/10/2011, at 9:42 AM, Lloyd White wrote: Hi everyone, I hope everyone who backed the wrong team has now come to terms with reality! :-) It's only a game! I use Safari without problems, except that one website will not open. As a career-change consultant I am constantly going to the Govt job site to find a position. When I click on the link it takes me to the Bigredsky site but no position comes up. E.g. http://search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pageID=160AdvertID=123302source=o th er But it does in Firefox or Google Chrome. Is this only my machine or is there a problem with Safari? Also - slightly related - why do some links insist on opening in Google Chrome rather than Safari when Safari is my default browser? Lloyd -- 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: Windows AirPlay to Apple TV?
Hi Ronni Just a final wrap up on this issue. The Apple ecosystem now overlaps the Microsoft domain. I created a non-internet local wireless network with an Airport Express unit to include an Apple TV. My iPad2 can see this WiFi network OK.I then installed the latest iTunes on an Acer laptop with Windows XP. Only problem was that the ATV had to be connected to the internet initially (via another network) to update the software and to authorise Home Sharing with an Apple ID. Now all devices (Acer laptop and iPad) can use AirPlay to stream music and video to the Apple TV. As a bonus, the ATV can play my Acer iTune library collection. Thanks to Craig who sold me the gear and insisted it was technically possible to set up the network as I wanted. Cheers Alan On 02/10/2011, at 6:57 PM, Alan Smith wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for the links. Got a clue (a revelation?) from a reference in the second link. All that needs doing (apparently) is to install iTunes (or Bonjour) on the Windows PC: Airplay (transmit) is included. The Apple website is partly down for scheduled maintenance so I can't read the fine print or download iTunes for PC for a quick test. I hope AirPlay doesn't need Windows 7. I've dusted off my old XP laptop and am charging it ready for the big download. Cheers Alan On 02/10/2011, at 5:08 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 02/10/2011, at 1:49 PM, Alan Smith wrote: Is there an AirPlay application to allow a Windows laptop to transmit to a 2nd generation Apple TV? I am setting up a second home network using AirPort Express as the WiFi source. This is independent of the internet, iTunes, and my standard iMac network. The purpose is to allow visiting iPad2 and iPhone guests to transmit pre-loaded files to an Apple TV via AirPlay. And to cater for the guest who brings his Windows laptop. Google search results are swamped with something called AirPlay for Windows Media Centre, which allows IOS devices to send photos and videos to a Windows Media Centre.That's not what I want. Any other suggestions for resolving the Windows guest dilemma? Perhaps run the real version of AirPlay! Can OSX be installed on a Windows PC? Something like Boot Camp or Parallels perhaps? Can the PC and ATV Ethernet connection be used somehow in lieu of AirPlay? Cheers Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 4M - OSX 10.6.8 iPad2; ATV2 Hi Alan, You have probably read all the information from the below links in your searching. I ’thought’ Airplay only works within the Apple ecosystem. But things might have changed? http://gizmodo.com/5634087/forget-apple-tv-airplay-is-apples-sneak-attack-on-television http://ipod.about.com/od/usingairportexpress/ss/airtunes-use.htm Shairport4w Brings Apple AirPlay Audio Playback To Windows PC http://ipod.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJzTi=1sdn=ipodcdn=gadgetstm=44f=10tt=12bt=1bts=0st=10zu=http%3A//www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/shairport4w-brings-apple-airplay-audio-playback-to-windows-pc/ Or TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/44ldblt Sorry I’m not much help as I don’t have Apple TV, I only have Elgato EyeTV 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 -- 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: Safari not opening windows
Thanks Ronni, Your suggestion works for that particular position, but the URL changes for each position - different numbers etc. Once I try to see it, can see the URL and could paste it in, but it is easier and quicker to open preferences and uncheck that box, and then re-ceck it when I am finished. As I would only go there four or five times a week it would not be such a problem. Or I could just leave it unchecked or use Firefox for those particular searches. Lloyd On 3/10/11 4:38 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Lloyd, You don¹t need to disable AdBlock, you just need to stop blocking on that URL ... Add the URL into AdBlock Options'. 1. Open Safari, click the AdBlock icon in the Safari Toolbar (looks like a stop hand) It will open AdBlock Options 2. Click on Customize¹ 3. Under ¹Stop Blocking ads': 4. Click ¹Show ads on a webpage or domain Paste in this URL: http://search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pageID=160AdvertID=123302source=ot her 5. Click OK Now open the webpage and it will show correctly. Cheers, Ronni -- 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: Windows AirPlay to Apple TV?
Great result Alan, There is always a way … you just need the will to stick at finding the solution ;-) Well done! Thanks for posting back the solution. Cheers, Ronni On 03/10/2011, at 5:02 PM, Alan Smith wrote: Hi Ronni Just a final wrap up on this issue. The Apple ecosystem now overlaps the Microsoft domain. I created a non-internet local wireless network with an Airport Express unit to include an Apple TV. My iPad2 can see this WiFi network OK.I then installed the latest iTunes on an Acer laptop with Windows XP. Only problem was that the ATV had to be connected to the internet initially (via another network) to update the software and to authorise Home Sharing with an Apple ID. Now all devices (Acer laptop and iPad) can use AirPlay to stream music and video to the Apple TV. As a bonus, the ATV can play my Acer iTune library collection. Thanks to Craig who sold me the gear and insisted it was technically possible to set up the network as I wanted. Cheers Alan On 02/10/2011, at 6:57 PM, Alan Smith wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for the links. Got a clue (a revelation?) from a reference in the second link. All that needs doing (apparently) is to install iTunes (or Bonjour) on the Windows PC: Airplay (transmit) is included. The Apple website is partly down for scheduled maintenance so I can't read the fine print or download iTunes for PC for a quick test. I hope AirPlay doesn't need Windows 7. I've dusted off my old XP laptop and am charging it ready for the big download. Cheers Alan On 02/10/2011, at 5:08 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 02/10/2011, at 1:49 PM, Alan Smith wrote: Is there an AirPlay application to allow a Windows laptop to transmit to a 2nd generation Apple TV? I am setting up a second home network using AirPort Express as the WiFi source. This is independent of the internet, iTunes, and my standard iMac network. The purpose is to allow visiting iPad2 and iPhone guests to transmit pre-loaded files to an Apple TV via AirPlay. And to cater for the guest who brings his Windows laptop. Google search results are swamped with something called AirPlay for Windows Media Centre, which allows IOS devices to send photos and videos to a Windows Media Centre.That's not what I want. Any other suggestions for resolving the Windows guest dilemma? Perhaps run the real version of AirPlay! Can OSX be installed on a Windows PC? Something like Boot Camp or Parallels perhaps? Can the PC and ATV Ethernet connection be used somehow in lieu of AirPlay? Cheers Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 4M - OSX 10.6.8 iPad2; ATV2 Hi Alan, You have probably read all the information from the below links in your searching. I ’thought’ Airplay only works within the Apple ecosystem. But things might have changed? http://gizmodo.com/5634087/forget-apple-tv-airplay-is-apples-sneak-attack-on-television http://ipod.about.com/od/usingairportexpress/ss/airtunes-use.htm Shairport4w Brings Apple AirPlay Audio Playback To Windows PC http://ipod.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJzTi=1sdn=ipodcdn=gadgetstm=44f=10tt=12bt=1bts=0st=10zu=http%3A//www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/shairport4w-brings-apple-airplay-audio-playback-to-windows-pc/ Or TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/44ldblt Sorry I’m not much help as I don’t have Apple TV, I only have Elgato EyeTV 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: Windows AirPlay to Apple TV?
On 02/10/2011, at 1:49 PM, Alan Smith wrote: Is there an AirPlay application to allow a Windows laptop to transmit to a 2nd generation Apple TV? I am setting up a second home network using AirPort Express as the WiFi source. This is independent of the internet, iTunes, and my standard iMac network. The purpose is to allow visiting iPad2 and iPhone guests to transmit pre-loaded files to an Apple TV via AirPlay. And to cater for the guest who brings his Windows laptop. Google search results are swamped with something called AirPlay for Windows Media Centre, which allows IOS devices to send photos and videos to a Windows Media Centre.That's not what I want. Any other suggestions for resolving the Windows guest dilemma? Perhaps run the real version of AirPlay! Can OSX be installed on a Windows PC? Something like Boot Camp or Parallels perhaps? Can the PC and ATV Ethernet connection be used somehow in lieu of AirPlay? Cheers Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 4M - OSX 10.6.8 iPad2; ATV2 Hi Alan, You have probably read all the information from the below links in your searching. I ’thought’ Airplay only works within the Apple ecosystem. But things might have changed? http://gizmodo.com/5634087/forget-apple-tv-airplay-is-apples-sneak-attack-on-television http://ipod.about.com/od/usingairportexpress/ss/airtunes-use.htm Shairport4w Brings Apple AirPlay Audio Playback To Windows PC http://ipod.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJzTi=1sdn=ipodcdn=gadgetstm=44f=10tt=12bt=1bts=0st=10zu=http%3A//www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/shairport4w-brings-apple-airplay-audio-playback-to-windows-pc/ Or TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/44ldblt Sorry I’m not much help as I don’t have Apple TV, I only have Elgato EyeTV 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: Windows AirPlay to Apple TV?
Hi Ronni Thanks for the links. Got a clue (a revelation?) from a reference in the second link. All that needs doing (apparently) is to install iTunes (or Bonjour) on the Windows PC: Airplay (transmit) is included. The Apple website is partly down for scheduled maintenance so I can't read the fine print or download iTunes for PC for a quick test. I hope AirPlay doesn't need Windows 7. I've dusted off my old XP laptop and am charging it ready for the big download. Cheers Alan On 02/10/2011, at 5:08 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 02/10/2011, at 1:49 PM, Alan Smith wrote: Is there an AirPlay application to allow a Windows laptop to transmit to a 2nd generation Apple TV? I am setting up a second home network using AirPort Express as the WiFi source. This is independent of the internet, iTunes, and my standard iMac network. The purpose is to allow visiting iPad2 and iPhone guests to transmit pre-loaded files to an Apple TV via AirPlay. And to cater for the guest who brings his Windows laptop. Google search results are swamped with something called AirPlay for Windows Media Centre, which allows IOS devices to send photos and videos to a Windows Media Centre.That's not what I want. Any other suggestions for resolving the Windows guest dilemma? Perhaps run the real version of AirPlay! Can OSX be installed on a Windows PC? Something like Boot Camp or Parallels perhaps? Can the PC and ATV Ethernet connection be used somehow in lieu of AirPlay? Cheers Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 4M - OSX 10.6.8 iPad2; ATV2 Hi Alan, You have probably read all the information from the below links in your searching. I ’thought’ Airplay only works within the Apple ecosystem. But things might have changed? http://gizmodo.com/5634087/forget-apple-tv-airplay-is-apples-sneak-attack-on-television http://ipod.about.com/od/usingairportexpress/ss/airtunes-use.htm Shairport4w Brings Apple AirPlay Audio Playback To Windows PC http://ipod.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJzTi=1sdn=ipodcdn=gadgetstm=44f=10tt=12bt=1bts=0st=10zu=http%3A//www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/shairport4w-brings-apple-airplay-audio-playback-to-windows-pc/ Or TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/44ldblt Sorry I’m not much help as I don’t have Apple TV, I only have Elgato EyeTV 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
Re: Windows AirPlay to Apple TV?
Hi Alan, Yes, Apple Support has been down all day, Friday MobileMe was offline all day. So my ro...@mac.com that I use for my Support address was off most of the day, I was flood with support emails from clients when it eventually came back online ;-( Apple getting everything ready to release iCloud? Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 02/10/2011, at 6:57 PM, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for the links. Got a clue (a revelation?) from a reference in the second link. All that needs doing (apparently) is to install iTunes (or Bonjour) on the Windows PC: Airplay (transmit) is included. The Apple website is partly down for scheduled maintenance so I can't read the fine print or download iTunes for PC for a quick test. I hope AirPlay doesn't need Windows 7. I've dusted off my old XP laptop and am charging it ready for the big download. Cheers Alan On 02/10/2011, at 5:08 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 02/10/2011, at 1:49 PM, Alan Smith wrote: Is there an AirPlay application to allow a Windows laptop to transmit to a 2nd generation Apple TV? I am setting up a second home network using AirPort Express as the WiFi source. This is independent of the internet, iTunes, and my standard iMac network. The purpose is to allow visiting iPad2 and iPhone guests to transmit pre-loaded files to an Apple TV via AirPlay. And to cater for the guest who brings his Windows laptop. Google search results are swamped with something called AirPlay for Windows Media Centre, which allows IOS devices to send photos and videos to a Windows Media Centre.That's not what I want. Any other suggestions for resolving the Windows guest dilemma? Perhaps run the real version of AirPlay! Can OSX be installed on a Windows PC? Something like Boot Camp or Parallels perhaps? Can the PC and ATV Ethernet connection be used somehow in lieu of AirPlay? Cheers Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 4M - OSX 10.6.8 iPad2; ATV2 Hi Alan, You have probably read all the information from the below links in your searching. I ’thought’ Airplay only works within the Apple ecosystem. But things might have changed? http://gizmodo.com/5634087/forget-apple-tv-airplay-is-apples-sneak-attack-on-television http://ipod.about.com/od/usingairportexpress/ss/airtunes-use.htm Shairport4w Brings Apple AirPlay Audio Playback To Windows PC http://ipod.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJzTi=1sdn=ipodcdn=gadgetstm=44f=10tt=12bt=1bts=0st=10zu=http%3A//www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/shairport4w-brings-apple-airplay-audio-playback-to-windows-pc/ Or TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/44ldblt Sorry I’m not much help as I don’t have Apple TV, I only have Elgato EyeTV 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 -- 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
Safari not opening windows
Hi everyone, I hope everyone who backed the wrong team has now come to terms with reality! :-) It's only a game! I use Safari without problems, except that one website will not open. As a career-change consultant I am constantly going to the Govt job site to find a position. When I click on the link it takes me to the Bigredsky site but no position comes up. E.g. http://search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pageID=160AdvertID=123302source=oth er But it does in Firefox or Google Chrome. Is this only my machine or is there a problem with Safari? Also - slightly related - why do some links insist on opening in Google Chrome rather than Safari when Safari is my default browser? Lloyd -- 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: Safari not opening windows
Lloyd, the computer forensics investigator page opens with for me ok on Safari 5.1, as well as Firefox 7.0.1. Running under MacOS 10.6.8 on a MacPro5,1. Can't help you further because you don't give any info about versions and OS. For what it's worth in answering your last question I have Firefox set as my default browser and have never had a page open in Safari, my only other installed browser. Don't have Chrome. On 03/10/2011, at 9:42 AM, Lloyd White wrote: Hi everyone, I hope everyone who backed the wrong team has now come to terms with reality! :-) It's only a game! I use Safari without problems, except that one website will not open. As a career-change consultant I am constantly going to the Govt job site to find a position. When I click on the link it takes me to the Bigredsky site but no position comes up. E.g. http://search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pageID=160AdvertID=123302source=oth er But it does in Firefox or Google Chrome. Is this only my machine or is there a problem with Safari? Also - slightly related - why do some links insist on opening in Google Chrome rather than Safari when Safari is my default browser? Lloyd Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- 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: Safari not opening windows
Lloyd Link opens for me with no problem. Barry iMac 10,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz 8GB RAM 1.0 TB HD OS X 10.6.8 On 03/10/2011, at 9:42 AM, Lloyd White wrote: Hi everyone, I hope everyone who backed the wrong team has now come to terms with reality! :-) It's only a game! I use Safari without problems, except that one website will not open. As a career-change consultant I am constantly going to the Govt job site to find a position. When I click on the link it takes me to the Bigredsky site but no position comes up. E.g. http://search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pageID=160AdvertID=123302source=oth er But it does in Firefox or Google Chrome. Is this only my machine or is there a problem with Safari? Also - slightly related - why do some links insist on opening in Google Chrome rather than Safari when Safari is my default browser? Lloyd -- 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: Safari not opening windows
Thanks Barry and Ray Because it worked for you and not for me, I checked through all my settings and discovered that in the Extensions section of my Preferences I had and extension called AdBlock. I turned it off and now I can see the information you are seeing. Apparently the Job Description Form was seen as an advertisement by AdBlock. Problem solved. Thanks Lloyd On 3/10/11 10:14 AM, Barry Sexstone bjsexst...@netspace.net.au wrote: Lloyd Link opens for me with no problem. Barry iMac 10,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz 8GB RAM 1.0 TB HD OS X 10.6.8 On 03/10/2011, at 9:42 AM, Lloyd White wrote: Hi everyone, I hope everyone who backed the wrong team has now come to terms with reality! :-) It's only a game! I use Safari without problems, except that one website will not open. As a career-change consultant I am constantly going to the Govt job site to find a position. When I click on the link it takes me to the Bigredsky site but no position comes up. E.g. http://search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pageID=160AdvertID=123302source=o th er But it does in Firefox or Google Chrome. Is this only my machine or is there a problem with Safari? Also - slightly related - why do some links insist on opening in Google Chrome rather than Safari when Safari is my default browser? Lloyd -- 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: Safari not opening windows
Lloyd On 03/10/2011, at 9:42 AM, Lloyd White wrote: Hi everyone, I hope everyone who backed the wrong team has now come to terms with reality! :-) It's only a game! I use Safari without problems, except that one website will not open. As a career-change consultant I am constantly going to the Govt job site to find a position. When I click on the link it takes me to the Bigredsky site but no position comes up. E.g. http://search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pageID=160AdvertID=123302source=oth er But it does in Firefox or Google Chrome. It opens OK for me using Safari 5.0.2 on an iMac running 10.6.5. This is more likely to be a problem with the web page than with Safari; more specifically that the web page uses non-standards-compliant code which Safari cannot interpret. However it is interesting that Chrome can display it because I understand that Chrome uses Apple's rendering engine. Of course they could in your case be using different versions. I assume that you have checked the Safari Activity window to see if there are any files which it failed to find at all. If you get a blank page then the next thing to do is to look at the source code for the page (View/View source). If there is nothing there, or only a limited number of lines of code, then the page has not downloaded for some reason or has been truncated. If there is masses of code, normally ending in /html, then the entire file (at least the main one) has downloaded completely. If this is the case but nothing is displayed, there almost certainly will be an error (or many) reported in the error console (Develop/Show Error Console). If you do not have Develop in your Safari menu you can turn it on, as I recollect, in the preferences. The nature of the error message hopefully will give you an idea about what the problem is. Interestingly, my version of Firefox displays the page but finds quite a few things which it does not understand in the code, mostly in the style sheets so they are not fatal. Safari reports no warnings or errors except a missing favicon.ico, which is not relevant to displaying the page. Regards Geoff -- Geoff and Kaye k...@kgweb.org.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: Safari not opening windows
Hi Geoff, Perhaps you did not see Lloyd’s reply, the problem has been solved earlier Geoff ;-) /Quote from Lloyd’s reply to the Mailing List @ 10:30AM: Thanks Barry and Ray Because it worked for you and not for me, I checked through all my settings and discovered that in the Extensions section of my Preferences I had and extension called AdBlock. I turned it off and now I can see the information you are seeing. Apparently the Job Description Form was seen as an advertisement by AdBlock. Problem solved. Thanks Lloyd / End Quote: Cheers, Ronni On 03/10/2011, at 11:15 AM, Geoff and Kaye wrote: Lloyd On 03/10/2011, at 9:42 AM, Lloyd White wrote: Hi everyone, I hope everyone who backed the wrong team has now come to terms with reality! :-) It's only a game! I use Safari without problems, except that one website will not open. As a career-change consultant I am constantly going to the Govt job site to find a position. When I click on the link it takes me to the Bigredsky site but no position comes up. E.g. http://search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pageID=160AdvertID=123302source=oth er But it does in Firefox or Google Chrome. It opens OK for me using Safari 5.0.2 on an iMac running 10.6.5. This is more likely to be a problem with the web page than with Safari; more specifically that the web page uses non-standards-compliant code which Safari cannot interpret. However it is interesting that Chrome can display it because I understand that Chrome uses Apple's rendering engine. Of course they could in your case be using different versions. I assume that you have checked the Safari Activity window to see if there are any files which it failed to find at all. If you get a blank page then the next thing to do is to look at the source code for the page (View/View source). If there is nothing there, or only a limited number of lines of code, then the page has not downloaded for some reason or has been truncated. If there is masses of code, normally ending in /html, then the entire file (at least the main one) has downloaded completely. If this is the case but nothing is displayed, there almost certainly will be an error (or many) reported in the error console (Develop/Show Error Console). If you do not have Develop in your Safari menu you can turn it on, as I recollect, in the preferences. The nature of the error message hopefully will give you an idea about what the problem is. Interestingly, my version of Firefox displays the page but finds quite a few things which it does not understand in the code, mostly in the style sheets so they are not fatal. Safari reports no warnings or errors except a missing favicon.ico, which is not relevant to displaying the page. Regards Geoff -- Geoff and Kaye k...@kgweb.org.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 -- 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
Windows AirPlay to Apple TV?
Is there an AirPlay application to allow a Windows laptop to transmit to a 2nd generation Apple TV? I am setting up a second home network using AirPort Express as the WiFi source. This is independent of the internet, iTunes, and my standard iMac network. The purpose is to allow visiting iPad2 and iPhone guests to transmit pre-loaded files to an Apple TV via AirPlay. And to cater for the guest who brings his Windows laptop. Google search results are swamped with something called AirPlay for Windows Media Centre, which allows IOS devices to send photos and videos to a Windows Media Centre.That's not what I want. Any other suggestions for resolving the Windows guest dilemma? Perhaps run the real version of AirPlay! Can OSX be installed on a Windows PC? Something like Boot Camp or Parallels perhaps? Can the PC and ATV Ethernet connection be used somehow in lieu of AirPlay? Cheers Alan Alan Smith iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 4M - OSX 10.6.8 iPad2; ATV2 -- 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
Windows/Boot Camp/eTax questions
I had a bright idea about sending in my tax return electronically for the first time. I remembered that I had the install disk for Windows XP Home Edition (version 2002) that belonged to an old wintel PC that ended up here many years ago. I found the package, still unopened, so decided to see if it would install on my Mac. Fired up Boot Camp assistant and created a 20GB Fat-32 partition on my HD. Unpacked and inserted the Windows CD and it started installing. After a while the installer asked for the product key from the Certificate of Authenticity label that was on the old wintel PC. Could not proceed because I had long ago put out in the white-goods collection the sick old wintel PC. The questions therefore are: 1 Will the tax software run under Windows XP Home Edition (version 2002) running on my Mac with Boot Camp? 2 How can I find out what was the product key on the Certificate of Authenticity label that was on the discarded wintel PC? 3 Should I just give up and stick to the paper tax return? Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows/Boot Camp/eTax questions
Don't know about BootCamp but eTax runs a treat under Windows XP and VMWare Fusion. Finding missing product keys, now that is a nasty one! Severin Crisp On 05/09/2011, at 9:57 PM, Ray Forma wrote: I had a bright idea about sending in my tax return electronically for the first time. I remembered that I had the install disk for Windows XP Home Edition (version 2002) that belonged to an old wintel PC that ended up here many years ago. I found the package, still unopened, so decided to see if it would install on my Mac. Fired up Boot Camp assistant and created a 20GB Fat-32 partition on my HD. Unpacked and inserted the Windows CD and it started installing. After a while the installer asked for the product key from the Certificate of Authenticity label that was on the old wintel PC. Could not proceed because I had long ago put out in the white-goods collection the sick old wintel PC. The questions therefore are: 1 Will the tax software run under Windows XP Home Edition (version 2002) running on my Mac with Boot Camp? 2 How can I find out what was the product key on the Certificate of Authenticity label that was on the discarded wintel PC? 3 Should I just give up and stick to the paper tax return? Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto: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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: windows 7
On 23/08/2011, at 1:36 PM, Ingmar Klaasen wrote: Hi. I'm a new member to wamug. I have a macbook pro 13inch. Have recently installed os x lion. I have managed to partition the hard-drive using bootcamp assistant. So far successfully downloaded windows support software and burned to disc/dvd as requested by bootcamp assistant. The process cannot be continued, however, without a genuine copy of ms windows 7. I have tried with windows xp professional but system does not recognise/accept this. Does anyone have a copy of windows 7 that I can purchase? I think you're going to be very lucky with that in a Mac User Group! You will find that a much easier option will be to download a copy Virtual Box (http://www.virtualbox.org/). The latest version runs fine with Lion, and you can install pretty much any version of Windows you like (or Linux or anything else!). You also have the huge advantage that you don't have to stop what you're doing on the Mac just to run Windows, not to mention that there's no need to configure the installed version of Windows since it will use the Mac's resources for things like networking, printing, folder access, etc. 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
windows 7
Hi. I'm a new member to wamug. I have a macbook pro 13inch. Have recently installed os x lion. I have managed to partition the hard-drive using bootcamp assistant. So far successfully downloaded windows support software and burned to disc/dvd as requested by bootcamp assistant. The process cannot be continued, however, without a genuine copy of ms windows 7. I have tried with windows xp professional but system does not recognise/accept this. Does anyone have a copy of windows 7 that I can purchase? Ingmar Klaasen +61 (04) 2125 0912 (Aus Mobile) +61 (08) 9293 4345 (Work Number) iklaas...@gmail.com or ingmarklaa...@rocketmail.com Skype name: ingmarklaasen Twitter: @ingmarklaasen Perth Australia -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Andriod -- Microsoft Windows for smart phones
It seems that the Googles wild west attitude to smartphones is coming back to bite them. There is a plague of malware on Android phones while most owners don't even know their phone is compromised. A careful reading of the article also shows that there is no malware on an iPhone that has not been jailbroken -- though articles often claim that malware is part of life for all smartphone owners by using jailbroken iPhones as an example. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/03/lookout_retrevio_warn_of_growing_android_malware_epidemic_note_apples_ios_is_far_safer.html Cheers, Carlo -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows division of Microsoft down 2%
Hi Ronni, The admirable German culture provides a number of intriguing words that are needed in certain situations and that don't seem to have an equivalent in English. We may be witnessing the Götterdämmerung of Microsoft. (full disclosure -- I had to look up the spelling :-) Cheers, Carlo On 2011-07-24, at 07:12, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Carlo, The German part of me agrees with your choice of word ;-) The company's results comes as a stark contrast to Apple's blowout performance in the June quarter. The Cupertino, Calif., company posted $28.57 billion in revenue and a 125 percent leap in profits to $7.31 billion, nearly 25 percent more than its rival's profits. It was just last quarterthat Apple beat Microsoft's profits for the first time in decades. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 24/07/2011, at 1:13 AM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wamuggers, While Apple continues to grow on almost every financial measure, the Windows division of Microsoft declined by 2% this financial year. It's difficult not to feel just a little schadenfreude. :-) http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/21/microsoft_record_earnings_beat_street_but_windows_revenue_declines_2.html Cheers, Carlo -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows division of Microsoft down 2%
Hi Carlo, Ha ha … very good, the Götterdämmerung of Microsoft” … I like it ;-) The German word Götterdämmerung is a translation of the Old Norse Ragnarök which in Scandinavian mythology refers to the destruction of the gods in a battle with evil, resulting in the end of the world.” The end of Microsoft ??? ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 24/07/2011, at 5:55 PM, cm wrote: Hi Ronni, The admirable German culture provides a number of intriguing words that are needed in certain situations and that don't seem to have an equivalent in English. We may be witnessing the Götterdämmerung of Microsoft. (full disclosure -- I had to look up the spelling :-) Cheers, Carlo On 2011-07-24, at 07:12, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Carlo, The German part of me agrees with your choice of word ;-) The company's results comes as a stark contrast to Apple's blowout performance in the June quarter. The Cupertino, Calif., company posted $28.57 billion in revenue and a 125 percent leap in profits to $7.31 billion, nearly 25 percent more than its rival's profits. It was just last quarterthat Apple beat Microsoft's profits for the first time in decades. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 24/07/2011, at 1:13 AM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wamuggers, While Apple continues to grow on almost every financial measure, the Windows division of Microsoft declined by 2% this financial year. It's difficult not to feel just a little schadenfreude. :-) http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/21/microsoft_record_earnings_beat_street_but_windows_revenue_declines_2.html Cheers, Carlo -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows division of Microsoft down 2%
The various replies to Carlo's email are starting to sound too much like hubris to me. That's dangerous. My first Mac was a Mac 512, and I started with M$ Word V1 and PageMaker V1 on that $3600 machine (= to lots of hamburgers in those days). A few years later I started with PhotoShop V1. I have therefore been around the Mac world long enough to have lived through the dark years when Steve Jobs was ousted and Apple was in the hands of the Pepsi-Cola salesman John Sculley, followed by Michael Spindler, and then Gil Amelio, with Apple producing expensive and uninspiring product, and extremely low share prices. It was only the return of Jobs that led to the current renaissance. If his tumour stops Steve from contributing, will Apple remain what it is? Don't crow too much today or you may have to eat your words in a few years time. There are still many ex-Pepsi salesmen and their mates out there. On 24/07/2011, at 1:13 AM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wamuggers, While Apple continues to grow on almost every financial measure, the Windows division of Microsoft declined by 2% this financial year. It's difficult not to feel just a little schadenfreude. :-) http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/21/microsoft_record_earnings_beat_street_but_windows_revenue_declines_2.html Cheers, Carlo Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows division of Microsoft down 2%
Hi Ray, I agree completely with your comments below, and I apologise if my reply was taken as showing arrogance or excessive pride. I can remember the dark years of Apple when Steve Jobs was ousted. I’m very concerned as to how Apple will continue when Steve Jobs does not have the ‘Helm’. Cheers, Ronni On 25/07/2011, at 9:39 AM, Ray Forma wrote: The various replies to Carlo's email are starting to sound too much like hubris to me. That's dangerous. My first Mac was a Mac 512, and I started with M$ Word V1 and PageMaker V1 on that $3600 machine (= to lots of hamburgers in those days). A few years later I started with PhotoShop V1. I have therefore been around the Mac world long enough to have lived through the dark years when Steve Jobs was ousted and Apple was in the hands of the Pepsi-Cola salesman John Sculley, followed by Michael Spindler, and then Gil Amelio, with Apple producing expensive and uninspiring product, and extremely low share prices. It was only the return of Jobs that led to the current renaissance. If his tumour stops Steve from contributing, will Apple remain what it is? Don't crow too much today or you may have to eat your words in a few years time. There are still many ex-Pepsi salesmen and their mates out there. On 24/07/2011, at 1:13 AM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wamuggers, While Apple continues to grow on almost every financial measure, the Windows division of Microsoft declined by 2% this financial year. It's difficult not to feel just a little schadenfreude. :-) http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/21/microsoft_record_earnings_beat_street_but_windows_revenue_declines_2.html Cheers, Carlo Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Windows division of Microsoft down 2%
Hi Wamuggers, While Apple continues to grow on almost every financial measure, the Windows division of Microsoft declined by 2% this financial year. It's difficult not to feel just a little schadenfreude. :-) http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/21/microsoft_record_earnings_beat_street_but_windows_revenue_declines_2.html Cheers, Carlo -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows division of Microsoft down 2%
Hi Carlo, The German part of me agrees with your choice of word ;-) The company's results comes as a stark contrast to Apple's blowout performance in the June quarter. The Cupertino, Calif., company posted $28.57 billion in revenue and a 125 percent leap in profits to $7.31 billion, nearly 25 percent more than its rival's profits. It was just last quarterthat Apple beat Microsoft's profits for the first time in decades. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 24/07/2011, at 1:13 AM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wamuggers, While Apple continues to grow on almost every financial measure, the Windows division of Microsoft declined by 2% this financial year. It's difficult not to feel just a little schadenfreude. :-) http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/21/microsoft_record_earnings_beat_street_but_windows_revenue_declines_2.html Cheers, Carlo -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Kids Website production software for Windows and Mac
Hi All WAMUGgers Is there a free (ish) website production program for Windows, similar to iWeb or Sandvox, or a Web 2 site that does this? I want the kids to be able to experiment and develop simple web pages but in my classroom we have mainly Win XP2 machines along with my three MacBooks with iWeb and Sandvox. They can't all use the Macs, sadly, hence the need to preferably go cross platform, or use something in Windows which is similarly user-friendly, just like Comic Life does. Failing this I may well just use Wordpress and get them to set up blog sites. Regards Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Kids Website production software for Windows and Mac
On 09/05/2011, at 7:34 PM, Reg Whitely wrote: Hi All WAMUGgers Is there a free (ish) website production program for Windows, similar to iWeb or Sandvox, or a Web 2 site that does this? I want the kids to be able to experiment and develop simple web pages but in my classroom we have mainly Win XP2 machines along with my three MacBooks with iWeb and Sandvox. They can't all use the Macs, sadly, hence the need to preferably go cross platform, or use something in Windows which is similarly user-friendly, just like Comic Life does. Failing this I may well just use Wordpress and get them to set up blog sites. Regards Reg There's always Seamonkey (Mozilla) with its Composer module. http://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/features. Composer is a basic WYSIWYG HTML Editor. I haven't used it in years, but it is still there, and completely cross-platform. Ir doesn't have the slickness of iWeb or Sandvox, but it certainly allows for the creation of simple web pages, and being a full HTML Editor (unlike iWeb or Sandvox) allows for plenty of experimentation. 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Windows Printer Sharing Woes / Outlook 2011
I'm trying to help some people set up a new Samsung SCX series printer. It's connected via USB to a Windows 7 PC (with printer sharing and LPD enabled) which is hard wired to the router. A Macbook Pro with 10.5.8 is the target machine. Not for love nor money can I get the Mac to see the printer. I've even tried adding it as a LPD device (//PCname/Sharename) without luck. Anything I've missed? I'm tempted to hang it off a USB print server (I wish people would just buy network printers for shared environments!) And on a side note - I need to connect them to an Exchange server with Outlook. I take it from the MS site that Office 2011 is only available as a package? (unlike the PC version where you can get Outlook by itself!) Cheers, Anton. -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows Printer Sharing Woes / Outlook 2011
Hi Anton, On 29/03/2011, at 9:28 AM, Antony N. Lord wrote: I'm trying to help some people set up a new Samsung SCX series printer. It's connected via USB to a Windows 7 PC (with printer sharing and LPD enabled) which is hard wired to the router. A Macbook Pro with 10.5.8 is the target machine. On the Win7 PC, you have turned on the LPD protocol using turn Windows features on and off, and ensured the printer is shared? Not for love nor money can I get the Mac to see the printer. I've even tried adding it as a LPD device (//PCname/Sharename) without luck. Anything I've missed? I'm tempted to hang it off a USB print server (I wish people would just buy network printers for shared environments!) When you tell the MBP to look for Printers in System Preferences Print Fax , can you see the Windows 7 computer, but can’t see the attached printer? Do you get asked for a Windows print server Username Password, or the Windows 7 User Name Password? Have you tried enabling the Guest Account on Windows 7 and then select this on the MBP? Have also tried connecting to a folder in your Users directory. For example, open Finder and select Go Connect to Server. Then type smb://computer_name/Users/User_Name/Desktop or even smb://computer_name/C$. You should then get prompted for your user account details. Enter what you believe is correct and see if this connects for you. When adding the printer on OS X, If you use the lpd protocol, you will need to enter a queue name (the Windows printer share name) in the add printer dialog. If you want to use Windows Printing, you will have to disable the new homegroup feature of Windows 7, to revert to normal windows sharing (smb). I admit, I don’t know much about Windows 7 and Printer Sharing. I did once have a Printer sharing from a WindowsXP computer to three Macs with no problems. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) And on a side note - I need to connect them to an Exchange server with Outlook. I take it from the MS site that Office 2011 is only available as a package? (unlike the PC version where you can get Outlook by itself!) Cheers, Anton. -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Print to pdf from Windows - tip
Hi all, I love the OSX print to pdf feature - I use it all the time. I was recently forced back to the dark-side by etax (still waiting for the Mac version!) and really missed the feature when using Windows XP (under parallels) When my printing from etax suddenly went bad (printing as pale cyan - hard to read!) I decided to look a bit harder and discovered CutePDF: http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/Writer.asp It all installed very easily in Windows - I had overlooked the Requires PS2PDF converter such as Ghostscript (recommended) requirement - but it offered to go and fetch it from CutePDF's website and now it all works very well. I save the pdfs in a folder shared between Windows OSX and just review them with quicklook (or Preview) - but, when I wanted a printed copy, the problem document printed just fine to pdf and the pdf printed fine under OSX - so problem solved. I am sure there are probably many other ways to do this - but for any of you that run Windows, I can highly recommend CutePDF as an easy way to print to pdf. 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Print to pdf from Windows - tip
I echo your frequent use of Print to PDF, Neil, a real convenience. I am similarly tied to Windows for eTax but have had no such printing problems with Windows XP under VMWare Fusion v3. All done for this year now - maybe Mac e-Tax will appear next year. Severin Crisp On 28/10/2010, at 3:04 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi all, I love the OSX print to pdf feature - I use it all the time. I was recently forced back to the dark-side by etax (still waiting for the Mac version!) and really missed the feature when using Windows XP (under parallels) When my printing from etax suddenly went bad (printing as pale cyan - hard to read!) I decided to look a bit harder and discovered CutePDF: http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/Writer.asp It all installed very easily in Windows - I had overlooked the Requires PS2PDF converter such as Ghostscript (recommended) requirement - but it offered to go and fetch it from CutePDF's website and now it all works very well. I save the pdfs in a folder shared between Windows OSX and just review them with quicklook (or Preview) - but, when I wanted a printed copy, the problem document printed just fine to pdf and the pdf printed fine under OSX - so problem solved. I am sure there are probably many other ways to do this - but for any of you that run Windows, I can highly recommend CutePDF as an easy way to print to pdf. 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto: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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Which Windows for Boot Camp?
Afternoon, Domain Server Compatibility:- OS X server does not support Windows 7 at all as per Apple information release MacWindows: Apple, MS, say Win 7 client can't join OS X Server PDC Domain But some have made it work others have not. I have no success yet utilising PDC in SMB, but Samba can be configured to work with many other Linux alternatives ClearOS, eBox/Zentyal and the usual binaries...ClearOS Firewall/Gateway here excepts Win7 as PDC, which I can then authorise against OS X server. WinXP has no issues with any at all. Everything works in XP without fault somewhere somehow, and I still use within MacBook Pro. So in a OS X environment check with Admins, if Windows environment again check, but would suggest Windows 7. I find Win 7 works great on all Mac Intel machines especially latest offerings, remember to install Bootcamp from OS X install disk once Windows installed. This updates system and makes Windows OS X keyboard and other machine compatible. This same for WinXP also. Windows 7 is available as a Academic offering for $49, but will need a previous version of windows installed, email of list. WinXp also has some deals again email. There are some companies that have not released Win7 Drivers or plug-ins so check all devices planning on using; especially phones for tethering and ADSL modems. 64bit or 32bit both work on Mac Intel lots of memory on machine go 64Bit, but maybe a few more hassles with drivers and overall compatibility on Macs usually not issue, BUT. Avoid VISTA Windows XP will be supported by Microsoft for sometime yet, but only Service Pack 3 and beyond. Professional version for all offerings as it offers the network connectivity. Cheers! `RobD... On 17Oct2010, at 6:47 pm, Peter Bull wrote: I need to buy a copy of Windoze for my iMac. The choice is between Windows XP with Service Pack 3, or Windows 7. What is the preference? Is one better/worse than the other? Personally, I think Windows is rubbish anyway, but I am hoping to gain some desk space by running Windows on the Mac and getting rid of my PC. Regards, Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
E-mail OS 10.6/Windows
I found something useful today that others may be interested in. I was trying to access the RACGP secure members site in Windows XP in VMWare Fusion. My usual logon details would not work and an error message suggested that I contact the web administrator. So I did as was told , yes I am a good little boy, and low and behold Outlook Express opens and I then asked to open an account. Fortunately I had someone very Windows savvy and we entered the same details as my OS Mail account. I sent a test message to this very savvy person's Mac address and low and behold when she answered it I got the reply in my OS Mail Inbox and not in the Outlook Espresso (Sorry, I need a coffee fast!) Inbox. The thing that I like about this is that if I send messages in Outlook Express they all come back to my Mac Mail account. I only have to deal with one Inbox. Good stuff. It takes me several hours a week just to deal this this Inbox let alone another. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Which Windows for Boot Camp?
I need to buy a copy of Windoze for my iMac. The choice is between Windows XP with Service Pack 3, or Windows 7. What is the preference? Is one better/worse than the other? Personally, I think Windows is rubbish anyway, but I am hoping to gain some desk space by running Windows on the Mac and getting rid of my PC. Regards, Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Which Windows for Boot Camp?
HI Peter I run Windows XP as that is all the software I run requires. So maybe think about what you wish to run and its requirements now and for the near future, and buy the OS to suit. Always the best place to start. then look at the requirements for the OS in regard to performance on the machine you have. Cheers Kane On 17/10/2010, at 6:47 PM, Peter Bull wrote: I need to buy a copy of Windoze for my iMac. The choice is between Windows XP with Service Pack 3, or Windows 7. What is the preference? Is one better/worse than the other? Personally, I think Windows is rubbish anyway, but I am hoping to gain some desk space by running Windows on the Mac and getting rid of my PC. Regards, Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows Snow Leopard
On 06/10/2010, at 10:27 AM, Alan Smith wrote: Very interesting responses Peter and Ronni to accessing Windows on an external drive (and good question Michael). Before I jump in and break a leg (or the old PC) do you think a simple transplant of the old PC (Windows XP) hard drive directly to a USB caddy would work (via VMWare) from my Snow Leopard iMac? Retaining all the old files and MOS etc? But given my success rate with external drives on my Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz 4 MB iMac I shouldn't even try --. Cheers, Alan No, this approach probably would not work, since your VM software relies on the presence of specific Windows-compatible drivers it installs on the VM Disk Image in order to communicate with your Mac for such things as networking, printing, screen resolutions, etc. What IS possible, however, is to create a Virtual Machine from the Windows installation on your USB Drive. In this way you would certainly achieve what you want. Your VM software documentation will contain all the details. You could always download a 30-day demo for testing this. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
RE: Windows Snow Leopard
Thanks Peter For a while I was fantasising about how simple my computing world could be. Back to my simple iMac (without VM) and the stand-alone PC clunker. Cheers, Alan -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Peter Hinchliffe Sent: Thursday, 7 October 2010 7:49 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Windows Snow Leopard On 06/10/2010, at 10:27 AM, Alan Smith wrote: Very interesting responses Peter and Ronni to accessing Windows on an external drive (and good question Michael). Before I jump in and break a leg (or the old PC) do you think a simple transplant of the old PC (Windows XP) hard drive directly to a USB caddy would work (via VMWare) from my Snow Leopard iMac? Retaining all the old files and MOS etc? But given my success rate with external drives on my Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz 4 MB iMac I shouldn't even try --. Cheers, Alan No, this approach probably would not work, since your VM software relies on the presence of specific Windows-compatible drivers it installs on the VM Disk Image in order to communicate with your Mac for such things as networking, printing, screen resolutions, etc. What IS possible, however, is to create a Virtual Machine from the Windows installation on your USB Drive. In this way you would certainly achieve what you want. Your VM software documentation will contain all the details. You could always download a 30-day demo for testing this. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.862 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3179 - Release Date: 10/06/10 02:34:00 -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows Snow Leopard
Hi Michael, Ah, Voice Recordings ... As I mentioned in my first reply iTunes can run into trouble with lower resolution voice recorder WAVs. If they won’t play in iTunes: Rather than trying to convert from WAV to MP3 which would lose a lot of the quality, you might want to try converting from WAV to another lossless format. My suggestion is that you try to convert the WAVs to Apple Lossless (which sound just as good as WAV files, but only take up about half as much space) If you wish to send me one of the tracks ( Offlist ) that won't play for you, I'll have a look at it see if I can convert it to a suitable format. Cheers, Ronni On 05/10/2010, at 1:23 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: Ronda, It is not a commercial CD, but was made by professionals as a series of voice recordings. Import settings in iTunes are set as WAV Encoder with settings Automatic. Have also tried preference MP3. Regards and thanks again, Michael Hawkins. On 5/10/10 12:00 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Is this a commercial music CD? What are your import settings in iTunes? iTunes Preferences General - When you insert a CD 'Import Settings'? Cheers, Ronni On 05/10/2010, at 11:47 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: Thanks for responding, Ronda. iTunes opens but only 7 of the 100 or so recordings are detected even though I have selected import. Regards, Michael. On 5/10/10 11:12 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 05/10/2010, at 10:52 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: I have a cd of which about 7 out of 100 tracks play on my Apple. The tracks are wav format. I have latest version of windows media player, flip for mac, QuickTime pro, QuickTime 7 and Perian installed. OS is 10.6.4. I have had trouble getting the cd to play on Windows computers, but have succeeded on two that have Windows 7 installed. I'm reluctant to install Windows OS and software on the hard drive of my 17 MacBook Pro. Can it be installed on an external hard-drive, and (assuming the cd works) will I be able to listen to it by putting it in the dvd slot on my MacBook and using Windows on the external drive? Regards and thanks in anticipation, Michael Hawkins MacBook Pro OS 10.6.4 2.4 GHz core 2 Duo 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Hi Michael, Won't the WAV files play in iTunes? iTunes is usually fine with CD-quality (44/16) WAV files, but often runs into trouble either with higher resolution (e.g., 96/24) or lower resolution (e.g., voice recorder) WAVs. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows Snow Leopard
Hmmm, Well, as Ronni says, rather than mp3, you can use a lossless formula - which will not degrade the quality - though I guess any file conversion may affect the integrity of the recording in that it will no longer be the WAV file recorded. I would have thought that keeping a backup of the original WAV CD would maintain the integrity of the recording - in that you can always get back to the original file - whilst having a converted copy allows for convenience of use/listening. If you want to maintain the integrity of the original WAV recordings: You say: It is not a commercial CD, but was made by professionals as a series of voice recordings. Import settings in iTunes are set as WAV Encoder with settings Automatic. Have also tried preference MP3. So instead of using Automatic you could try using Custom and ask your professionals what WAV parameters they used and then plug those values into your Custom settings. Of course, you can always run Windows 7 on your Mac - through various approaches - but if you have no other use for Windows, it seems like overkill just to listen to unusual audio files. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 5/10/10 1:50 PM, Michael Hawkins at michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au wrote: Thanks Neil, Unfortunately I can't do anything which may affect the integrity of the recording. Regards, Michael. On 5/10/10 1:33 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: On 05/10/2010, at 1:23 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: Ronda, It is not a commercial CD, but was made by professionals as a series of voice recordings. Import settings in iTunes are set as WAV Encoder with settings Automatic. Have also tried preference MP3. Regards and thanks again, Michael Hawkins. -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows Snow Leopard
On 05/10/2010, at 10:52 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: I have a cd of which about 7 out of 100 tracks play on my Apple. The tracks are wav format. I have latest version of windows media player, flip for mac, QuickTime pro, QuickTime 7 and Perian installed. OS is 10.6.4. I have had trouble getting the cd to play on Windows computers, but have succeeded on two that have Windows 7 installed. I'm reluctant to install Windows OS and software on the hard drive of my 17 MacBook Pro. Can it be installed on an external hard-drive, and (assuming the cd works) will I be able to listen to it by putting it in the dvd slot on my MacBook and using Windows on the external drive? Notwithstanding the various considerations regarding the playability of the WV files on that CD, the answer to your original question is Yes, if you use virtualisation software such as Parallels Desktop, VMWare or VirtualBox. All you need to do is designate the external drive as the location of your Virtual Machine when you are creating it. It is also possible to create the VM on your internal HD, move it to your external drive, then tell your software the new location. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows Snow Leopard
Thank you Peter. On 6/10/10 8:17 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 05/10/2010, at 10:52 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: I have a cd of which about 7 out of 100 tracks play on my Apple. The tracks are wav format. I have latest version of windows media player, flip for mac, QuickTime pro, QuickTime 7 and Perian installed. OS is 10.6.4. I have had trouble getting the cd to play on Windows computers, but have succeeded on two that have Windows 7 installed. I'm reluctant to install Windows OS and software on the hard drive of my 17 MacBook Pro. Can it be installed on an external hard-drive, and (assuming the cd works) will I be able to listen to it by putting it in the dvd slot on my MacBook and using Windows on the external drive? Notwithstanding the various considerations regarding the playability of the WV files on that CD, the answer to your original question is Yes, if you use virtualisation software such as Parallels Desktop, VMWare or VirtualBox. All you need to do is designate the external drive as the location of your Virtual Machine when you are creating it. It is also possible to create the VM on your internal HD, move it to your external drive, then tell your software the new location. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows Snow Leopard
On 06/10/2010, at 8:17 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 05/10/2010, at 10:52 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: I have a cd of which about 7 out of 100 tracks play on my Apple. The tracks are wav format. I have latest version of windows media player, flip for mac, QuickTime pro, QuickTime 7 and Perian installed. OS is 10.6.4. I have had trouble getting the cd to play on Windows computers, but have succeeded on two that have Windows 7 installed. I'm reluctant to install Windows OS and software on the hard drive of my 17 MacBook Pro. Can it be installed on an external hard-drive, and (assuming the cd works) will I be able to listen to it by putting it in the dvd slot on my MacBook and using Windows on the external drive? Notwithstanding the various considerations regarding the playability of the WV files on that CD, the answer to your original question is Yes, if you use virtualisation software such as Parallels Desktop, VMWare or VirtualBox. All you need to do is designate the external drive as the location of your Virtual Machine when you are creating it. It is also possible to create the VM on your internal HD, move it to your external drive, then tell your software the new location. Hi Peter, That's interesting, I was always under the impression that Microsoft would not allow Windows to be installed on an external drive, because of licensing , etc. But thinking more about this, using Parallels and creating a VM would work as you are using the Parallels software on your Mac to access the Windows on the external drive. From Parallels support forum: Parallels Desktop can create virtual machines on any connected networked or physical drive. Create a custom virtual machine and set the location to the other drive where you want the virtual machine to be saved. Parallels will warn you: The virtual machine files are located either on a mounted volume or on a network share. Make sure this volume or network share is mounted to your Mac all the time the virtual machine is running. Otherwise, Parallels Desktop may work incorrectly and the data inside the virtual machine may become damaged. The file with the Virtual Machine (Windows 7) sits on the external drive; the Parallels application sits on the Mac’s internal drive. You need to remember to plug the drive in when you start Parallels, otherwise Parallels will ask me where the VM lives :-) Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
RE: Windows Snow Leopard
Very interesting responses Peter and Ronni to accessing Windows on an external drive (and good question Michael). Before I jump in and break a leg (or the old PC) do you think a simple transplant of the old PC (Windows XP) hard drive directly to a USB caddy would work (via VMWare) from my Snow Leopard iMac? Retaining all the old files and MOS etc? But given my success rate with external drives on my Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz 4 MB iMac I shouldn't even try --. Cheers, Alan -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown Sent: Wednesday, 6 October 2010 8:45 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Windows Snow Leopard On 06/10/2010, at 8:17 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 05/10/2010, at 10:52 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: I have a cd of which about 7 out of 100 tracks play on my Apple. The tracks are wav format. I have latest version of windows media player, flip for mac, QuickTime pro, QuickTime 7 and Perian installed. OS is 10.6.4. I have had trouble getting the cd to play on Windows computers, but have succeeded on two that have Windows 7 installed. I'm reluctant to install Windows OS and software on the hard drive of my 17 MacBook Pro. Can it be installed on an external hard-drive, and (assuming the cd works) will I be able to listen to it by putting it in the dvd slot on my MacBook and using Windows on the external drive? Notwithstanding the various considerations regarding the playability of the WV files on that CD, the answer to your original question is Yes, if you use virtualisation software such as Parallels Desktop, VMWare or VirtualBox. All you need to do is designate the external drive as the location of your Virtual Machine when you are creating it. It is also possible to create the VM on your internal HD, move it to your external drive, then tell your software the new location. Hi Peter, That's interesting, I was always under the impression that Microsoft would not allow Windows to be installed on an external drive, because of licensing , etc. But thinking more about this, using Parallels and creating a VM would work as you are using the Parallels software on your Mac to access the Windows on the external drive. From Parallels support forum: Parallels Desktop can create virtual machines on any connected networked or physical drive. Create a custom virtual machine and set the location to the other drive where you want the virtual machine to be saved. Parallels will warn you: The virtual machine files are located either on a mounted volume or on a network share. Make sure this volume or network share is mounted to your Mac all the time the virtual machine is running. Otherwise, Parallels Desktop may work incorrectly and the data inside the virtual machine may become damaged. The file with the Virtual Machine (Windows 7) sits on the external drive; the Parallels application sits on the Mac's internal drive. You need to remember to plug the drive in when you start Parallels, otherwise Parallels will ask me where the VM lives :-) Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.862 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3179 - Release Date: 10/06/10 02:34:00 -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Windows Snow Leopard
I have a cd of which about 7 out of 100 tracks play on my Apple. The tracks are wav format. I have latest version of windows media player, flip for mac, QuickTime pro, QuickTime 7 and Perian installed. OS is 10.6.4. I have had trouble getting the cd to play on Windows computers, but have succeeded on two that have Windows 7 installed. I'm reluctant to install Windows OS and software on the hard drive of my 17 MacBook Pro. Can it be installed on an external hard-drive, and (assuming the cd works) will I be able to listen to it by putting it in the dvd slot on my MacBook and using Windows on the external drive? Regards and thanks in anticipation, Michael Hawkins MacBook Pro OS 10.6.4 2.4 GHz core 2 Duo 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows Snow Leopard
On 05/10/2010, at 10:52 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: I have a cd of which about 7 out of 100 tracks play on my Apple. The tracks are wav format. I have latest version of windows media player, flip for mac, QuickTime pro, QuickTime 7 and Perian installed. OS is 10.6.4. I have had trouble getting the cd to play on Windows computers, but have succeeded on two that have Windows 7 installed. I'm reluctant to install Windows OS and software on the hard drive of my 17 MacBook Pro. Can it be installed on an external hard-drive, and (assuming the cd works) will I be able to listen to it by putting it in the dvd slot on my MacBook and using Windows on the external drive? Regards and thanks in anticipation, Michael Hawkins MacBook Pro OS 10.6.4 2.4 GHz core 2 Duo 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Hi Michael, Won't the WAV files play in iTunes? iTunes is usually fine with CD-quality (44/16) WAV files, but often runs into trouble either with higher resolution (e.g., 96/24) or lower resolution (e.g., voice recorder) WAVs. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows Snow Leopard
Thanks for responding, Ronda. iTunes opens but only 7 of the 100 or so recordings are detected even though I have selected import. Regards, Michael. On 5/10/10 11:12 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 05/10/2010, at 10:52 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: I have a cd of which about 7 out of 100 tracks play on my Apple. The tracks are wav format. I have latest version of windows media player, flip for mac, QuickTime pro, QuickTime 7 and Perian installed. OS is 10.6.4. I have had trouble getting the cd to play on Windows computers, but have succeeded on two that have Windows 7 installed. I'm reluctant to install Windows OS and software on the hard drive of my 17 MacBook Pro. Can it be installed on an external hard-drive, and (assuming the cd works) will I be able to listen to it by putting it in the dvd slot on my MacBook and using Windows on the external drive? Regards and thanks in anticipation, Michael Hawkins MacBook Pro OS 10.6.4 2.4 GHz core 2 Duo 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Hi Michael, Won't the WAV files play in iTunes? iTunes is usually fine with CD-quality (44/16) WAV files, but often runs into trouble either with higher resolution (e.g., 96/24) or lower resolution (e.g., voice recorder) WAVs. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows Snow Leopard
Is this a commercial music CD? What are your import settings in iTunes? iTunes Preferences General - When you insert a CD 'Import Settings'? Cheers, Ronni On 05/10/2010, at 11:47 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: Thanks for responding, Ronda. iTunes opens but only 7 of the 100 or so recordings are detected even though I have selected import. Regards, Michael. On 5/10/10 11:12 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 05/10/2010, at 10:52 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: I have a cd of which about 7 out of 100 tracks play on my Apple. The tracks are wav format. I have latest version of windows media player, flip for mac, QuickTime pro, QuickTime 7 and Perian installed. OS is 10.6.4. I have had trouble getting the cd to play on Windows computers, but have succeeded on two that have Windows 7 installed. I'm reluctant to install Windows OS and software on the hard drive of my 17 MacBook Pro. Can it be installed on an external hard-drive, and (assuming the cd works) will I be able to listen to it by putting it in the dvd slot on my MacBook and using Windows on the external drive? Regards and thanks in anticipation, Michael Hawkins MacBook Pro OS 10.6.4 2.4 GHz core 2 Duo 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Hi Michael, Won't the WAV files play in iTunes? iTunes is usually fine with CD-quality (44/16) WAV files, but often runs into trouble either with higher resolution (e.g., 96/24) or lower resolution (e.g., voice recorder) WAVs. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows Snow Leopard
Try using VLC... It's not just a video player and I've had it open some so called standard video and audio formats that both Quicktime and WMP On 5/10/10 11:12 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 05/10/2010, at 10:52 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: I have a cd of which about 7 out of 100 tracks play on my Apple. The tracks are wav format. I have latest version of windows media player, flip for mac, QuickTime pro, QuickTime 7 and Perian installed. OS is 10.6.4. I have had trouble getting the cd to play on Windows computers, but have succeeded on two that have Windows 7 installed. I'm reluctant to install Windows OS and software on the hard drive of my 17 MacBook Pro. Can it be installed on an external hard-drive, and (assuming the cd works) will I be able to listen to it by putting it in the dvd slot on my MacBook and using Windows on the external drive? Regards and thanks in anticipation, Michael Hawkins MacBook Pro OS 10.6.4 2.4 GHz core 2 Duo 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Hi Michael, Won't the WAV files play in iTunes? iTunes is usually fine with CD-quality (44/16) WAV files, but often runs into trouble either with higher resolution (e.g., 96/24) or lower resolution (e.g., voice recorder) WAVs. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au mark.sec...@uwa.edu.au Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU) Teaching Facilities Administrator Business School IT Services The University of Western Australia - CRICOS provider number 00126G M261 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009 Phone 6488 1855, Fax 6488 1055, -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows Snow Leopard
Thanks Mark. Yes, I'd tried VLC but forgot to include it in the list. Regards, Michael Hawkins. On 5/10/10 12:22 PM, Mark Secker m...@biz.uwa.edu.au wrote: Try using VLC... It's not just a video player and I've had it open some so called standard video and audio formats that both Quicktime and WMP On 5/10/10 11:12 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 05/10/2010, at 10:52 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: I have a cd of which about 7 out of 100 tracks play on my Apple. The tracks are wav format. I have latest version of windows media player, flip for mac, QuickTime pro, QuickTime 7 and Perian installed. OS is 10.6.4. I have had trouble getting the cd to play on Windows computers, but have succeeded on two that have Windows 7 installed. I'm reluctant to install Windows OS and software on the hard drive of my 17 MacBook Pro. Can it be installed on an external hard-drive, and (assuming the cd works) will I be able to listen to it by putting it in the dvd slot on my MacBook and using Windows on the external drive? Regards and thanks in anticipation, Michael Hawkins MacBook Pro OS 10.6.4 2.4 GHz core 2 Duo 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Hi Michael, Won't the WAV files play in iTunes? iTunes is usually fine with CD-quality (44/16) WAV files, but often runs into trouble either with higher resolution (e.g., 96/24) or lower resolution (e.g., voice recorder) WAVs. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au mark.sec...@uwa.edu.au Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU) Teaching Facilities Administrator Business School IT Services The University of Western Australia - CRICOS provider number 00126G M261 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009 Phone 6488 1855, Fax 6488 1055, -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows Snow Leopard
Hi Ronni, Hi Michael, I wouldn't think it would be a commercial music CD with 100 wav files on it ;o) I would think that someone has created this on a (Windows?) PC - and maybe they used some strange encoding parameters. Michael, You say you can play it only on a couple of Windows PCs that have Windows 7 installed - will Itunes for Windows, running on these Windows 7 machines import the tracks? Either way, if Mark's suggestion of VLC doesn't work (or if it's an easier route for your situation) I would think your best bet would be to get the CD in one of the Windows 7 machines that plays it OK and then re-encode it in a standard format to suit you - mp3 or whatever you prefer. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 5/10/10 12:03 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Is this a commercial music CD? What are your import settings in iTunes? iTunes Preferences General - When you insert a CD 'Import Settings'? Cheers, Ronni On 05/10/2010, at 11:47 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: Thanks for responding, Ronda. iTunes opens but only 7 of the 100 or so recordings are detected even though I have selected import. Regards, Michael. On 5/10/10 11:12 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 05/10/2010, at 10:52 AM, Michael Hawkins wrote: I have a cd of which about 7 out of 100 tracks play on my Apple. The tracks are wav format. I have latest version of windows media player, flip for mac, QuickTime pro, QuickTime 7 and Perian installed. OS is 10.6.4. I have had trouble getting the cd to play on Windows computers, but have succeeded on two that have Windows 7 installed. I'm reluctant to install Windows OS and software on the hard drive of my 17 MacBook Pro. Can it be installed on an external hard-drive, and (assuming the cd works) will I be able to listen to it by putting it in the dvd slot on my MacBook and using Windows on the external drive? Regards and thanks in anticipation, Michael Hawkins MacBook Pro OS 10.6.4 2.4 GHz core 2 Duo 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Hi Michael, Won't the WAV files play in iTunes? iTunes is usually fine with CD-quality (44/16) WAV files, but often runs into trouble either with higher resolution (e.g., 96/24) or lower resolution (e.g., voice recorder) WAVs. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows Snow Leopard
Thanks Neil, Unfortunately I can't do anything which may affect the integrity of the recording. Regards, Michael. On 5/10/10 1:33 PM, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Ronni, Hi Michael, I wouldn't think it would be a commercial music CD with 100 wav files on it ;o) I would think that someone has created this on a (Windows?) PC - and maybe they used some strange encoding parameters. Michael, You say you can play it only on a couple of Windows PCs that have Windows 7 installed - will Itunes for Windows, running on these Windows 7 machines import the tracks? Either way, if Mark's suggestion of VLC doesn't work (or if it's an easier route for your situation) I would think your best bet would be to get the CD in one of the Windows 7 machines that plays it OK and then re-encode it in a standard format to suit you - mp3 or whatever you prefer. Cheers Neil -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows can't see the network card
That yellow symbol says there is something wrong with that device, usually it's drivers, and that it wont work. So it sounds like you do need to download the appropriate bootcamp and or bootcamp drivers as Patrick has suggested. I have not personally done this so I can't advise on the specifics. It may also be worth investigating if it is related to the older Mac OS you are using. Good Luck Paul -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows can't see the network card
Hi Peter Have you installed the Windows/Mac drivers from the OSX CD? When you install Bootcamp, you need to load the MacOSX CD which has Windows drivers for a lot of things on it. Quote from the Manual http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Boot_Camp_Install-Setup_10.6.pdf ---quote--- Step 4: Install the Boot Camp Drivers for Windows After installing Windows, install Mac-specific drivers and other software for Windows using your Mac OS X installation disc. The Mac OS X disc installs drivers to support Mac components, including AirPort, built-in iSight camera, the Apple Remote, the trackpad on a portable Mac, and the function keys on an Apple keyboard. The Mac OS X disc also installs the Boot Camp control panel for Windows and the Apple Boot Camp system tray item. To install the Boot Camp drivers: 1Eject the Windows installation disc. 2Insert the Mac OS X disc. If the installer doesn¹t start automatically, browse the disc using Windows Explorer and double-click the setup.exe file in the Boot Camp directory. 3Follow the onscreen instructions. If a message appears that says the software you¹re installing has not passed Windows Logo testing, click Continue Anyway. Windows that appear only briefly during the installation don¹t require your input. 11 If nothing appears to be happening, there may be a hidden window that you must respond to. Check the taskbar and look behind open windows. Important: Do not click the Cancel button in any of the installer dialogs. 4 After your computer restarts, follow the instructions in the Found New Hardware Wizard to update your software drivers (Windows XP only). 5Follow the instructions for any other wizards that appear. 6Check for updated Boot Camp drivers by using Apple Software Update or going to www.apple.com/support/bootcamp. ---end quote--- Kind Regards Daniel On 11/9/10 4:59 PM, Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.com.au wrote: Hi Paul, Thanks for your suggestions. I tried Device Manager and the Ethernet Controller and Network Controller both had a yellow question mark alongside. So I put the Windows XP CD in and used the Hardware Wizard to update the driver but I got the message that it Could not find the necessary software. In the Network Connections panel there are two connections showing: 1. One says Connecting through WAN Miniport (PPPoE). When I click on it I get a message that Error 769 : The specified destination is not reachable. If I double click the get the LAN Connection StatusSupport there is no IP address listed. 2. The second connection shows LAN or High Speed Internet 1394 connection. On my stand alone PC this panel shows Local Area Connection Connected, VIA PCI 10/100Mb fast Ethernet. Any clues as to what needs tweaking? On 09/09/2010, at 5:36 PM, Paul K wrote: It could also be the IP Address of the Windows Mac. Make sure the first four sections (octets) are the same as the other two machines. Try to 'Ping' between the machines. It's easy, try Google. To check if the drivers are the problem right click on 'My Computer' select 'Manage'. When this opens look down the list on the left for 'Device Manager'. You are looking for a warning beside 'Network Adapters'. Good luck Paul -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Regards, Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows can't see the network card
Hi Paul, Thanks for your suggestions. I tried Device Manager and the Ethernet Controller and Network Controller both had a yellow question mark alongside. So I put the Windows XP CD in and used the Hardware Wizard to update the driver but I got the message that it Could not find the necessary software. In the Network Connections panel there are two connections showing: 1. One says Connecting through WAN Miniport (PPPoE). When I click on it I get a message that Error 769 : The specified destination is not reachable. If I double click the get the LAN Connection StatusSupport there is no IP address listed. 2. The second connection shows LAN or High Speed Internet 1394 connection. On my stand alone PC this panel shows Local Area Connection Connected, VIA PCI 10/100Mb fast Ethernet. Any clues as to what needs tweaking? On 09/09/2010, at 5:36 PM, Paul K wrote: It could also be the IP Address of the Windows Mac. Make sure the first four sections (octets) are the same as the other two machines. Try to 'Ping' between the machines. It's easy, try Google. To check if the drivers are the problem right click on 'My Computer' select 'Manage'. When this opens look down the list on the left for 'Device Manager'. You are looking for a warning beside 'Network Adapters'. Good luck Paul -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Regards, Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows can't see the network card
It could also be the IP Address of the Windows Mac. Make sure the first four sections (octets) are the same as the other two machines. Try to 'Ping' between the machines. It's easy, try Google. To check if the drivers are the problem right click on 'My Computer' select 'Manage'. When this opens look down the list on the left for 'Device Manager'. You are looking for a warning beside 'Network Adapters'. Good luck Paul -- 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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Windows can't see the network card
I recently installed a downgrade called Windows XP Service Pack 2 on my iMac OS 10.5.8 using Boot Camp. I have installed Office on the Windows partition and that works fine. Windows can't find my Brother printer connected with Ethernet through a 4 port router even though the Mac and another PC on the home network can. Nor can I access the Internet. I have just spoken to the ISP who think that Windows can't find the network card or the drivers. Where do I find them and how do I get them onto Windows? Thanks in advance. Regards, Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Windows can't see the network card
Hi Peter Have you installed the Boot Camp drivers from the OS X Install DVD? That DVD contains all the drivers for things like your network card and video card so Windows can use them. You can also get the latest copy of the Boot Camp drivers from the Apple website: http://support.apple.com/downloads Patrick On 8/09/10 4:46 PM, Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.com.au wrote: I recently installed a downgrade called Windows XP Service Pack 2 on my iMac OS 10.5.8 using Boot Camp. I have installed Office on the Windows partition and that works fine. Windows can't find my Brother printer connected with Ethernet through a 4 port router even though the Mac and another PC on the home network can. Nor can I access the Internet. I have just spoken to the ISP who think that Windows can't find the network card or the drivers. Where do I find them and how do I get them onto Windows? Thanks in advance. Regards, Peter Bull pb...@bbnet.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Kind Regards Patrick Lawrence Systems Administrator Christ Church Grammar School Queenslea Drive Claremont WA 6010 Phone: (08) 9442-1660 Fax: (08) 9442-1690 plawre...@ccgs.wa.edu.au www.ccgs.wa.edu.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Windows and QuickTime
Evening all, When I post a video clip on my MobileMe Gallery my brother finds that he cant play them on his Windows machine. When he tries he gets a prompt saying it requires QuickTime 7.2 even though he is running QuickTime 7.6, I believe he is using XP. Does anyone out there know of a solution to this problem. Model Name: iMac Processor Name: Intel Core i7 Mac OS X: 10.6.4 Adrian http://www.skehan.id.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 Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
