Re: Dad's iPad
Hi Ronni Thanks for sharing and making me laugh. Best wishes Laura On 20/03/2012, at 11:28 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi iPad owners, I was at a client’s house this morning doing a job and she showed me this little video. I thought I would share it with you ;-) Its entitled so Dad, how do you like the iPad we got you the humour transcends the language barrier. http://m.wimp.com/dadipad/ Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.3 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: Dad's iPad
Love it, though a bit painful watching and iPad being treated that way. Her expression at the end as she is rendered speechless... Sent from my iPad On 20/03/2012, at 11:28 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi iPad owners, I was at a client’s house this morning doing a job and she showed me this little video. I thought I would share it with you ;-) Its entitled so Dad, how do you like the iPad we got you the humour transcends the language barrier. http://m.wimp.com/dadipad/ Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.3 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
Dad's iPad
Hi iPad owners, I was at a client’s house this morning doing a job and she showed me this little video. I thought I would share it with you ;-) Its entitled so Dad, how do you like the iPad we got you the humour transcends the language barrier. http://m.wimp.com/dadipad/ Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.3 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
iPad DropBox
Good afternoon all! Can anyone please tell me how, on a iPd 3, you put a photo or document into DropBox. I can't see any way of moving anything around or doing an export or save as. Regards Adrian Sent from my iPad -- 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: iPad DropBox
Hi Adrian, https://www.dropbox.com/help/84 Upload to your Dropbox using the Dropbox iPad app The iPad version of the Dropbox mobile app allows you to upload any videos or photos synced to your gallery. If your iPad is upright in portrait mode, press the Dropbox logo at the top left of the screen. Press the Uploads tab from the tab bar at the bottom of the menu. Press the plus (+) sign at the top right hand corner. Tap the photos and videos you want to send to Dropbox from the resulting photo gallery. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 18/03/2012, at 4:19 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good afternoon all! Can anyone please tell me how, on a iPd 3, you put a photo or document into DropBox. I can't see any way of moving anything around or doing an export or save as. Regards Adrian Sent from my iPad -- 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: iPad DropBox
Thanks Ronni. Regards Adrian Sent from my iPad On 18/03/2012, at 4:47 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Adrian, https://www.dropbox.com/help/84 Upload to your Dropbox using the Dropbox iPad app The iPad version of the Dropbox mobile app allows you to upload any videos or photos synced to your gallery. If your iPad is upright in portrait mode, press the Dropbox logo at the top left of the screen. Press the Uploads tab from the tab bar at the bottom of the menu. Press the plus (+) sign at the top right hand corner. Tap the photos and videos you want to send to Dropbox from the resulting photo gallery. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 18/03/2012, at 4:19 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good afternoon all! Can anyone please tell me how, on a iPd 3, you put a photo or document into DropBox. I can't see any way of moving anything around or doing an export or save as. Regards Adrian Sent from my iPad -- 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: iPad missing Notes
Ronni and Peter Thank you both. That was the reassurance I needed before opening a .me account. I have now done that. Regards Laura On 14/03/2012, at 8:16 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 14/03/2012, at 8:03 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 13/03/2012, at 6:30 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni I assure you I have indeed read everything you have typed. Would I dare do otherwise? :) Also sure I have done what you asked. The reason I could not see anywhere to sign in is because I was looking on the iPad. It did not occur to me I needed to do that on my Mac. Sorry. So yes I can sign in to iCloud on my Mac and have done so. I can now see Contacts, Calendar and iWork. As previously mentioned, although I understand Mail requires a .me email account I am concerned that if I create this additional email address my normal email address could be affected. Glad you have knocked off for the day. Kind regards Laura Just to jump in while Ronni's on a break..:-) Creating a .me account will not affect your regular email address in any way. All that will happen is that you will see an extra account in your email client (and that's only if you choose to allow it). iCloud will only provide synchronisation for your .me account, not for any other such as iinet, so you if go ahead and create a .me account and then don't use it, then there will be nothing to sync anyway. Thanks Peter, I will be back on WAMUG later today and will respond with some more details for Laura. Yes, creating a .me account will not interfere with any other email account that Laura has. Having a .me account will just allow Laura to use Mail Notes in her iCloud account. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.3 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: iPad missing Notes
Hi Laura, I said I would get back to you today, so I will. A few things are troubling me with your setup of iCloud on the iPad. 1. You mention you have an iCloud Account on your iPad. Can you Sign-In to iCloud https://www.icloud.com/? What are you signing in with; an Apple ID or a .me.com/.mac.com account? 2. If you can Sign-In. Click on the Mail Icon; then in Mail - Under Folders Notes Are your Notes there? The two iCloud Services you CAN’T Turn On without a .me.com or .mac.com iCloud Account are Mail NOTES. Notes are ‘maintained’ by Mail, they are part of Mail, even though on the iPad Notes might appear to you to be a separate service or App. Your computer is running OS X 10.6.8 so therefore cannot use iCloud. So you can’t sync your iPad iPhone MBP via iCloud. If your iPhone is using iOS5 you can sync iPad iPhone via iCloud … but NOT the MBP. Note: iCloud: What if my device or computer doesn't meet iCloud system requirements?http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4929?viewlocale=en_US If you created an iCloud account from an iOS 5 device or Mac running OS X Lion, but have other devices or computers that don't meet the system requirements, you may be able to use some features of iCloud with limited functionality.” Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 5:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, OK, you can’t use iCloud on your Mac as iCloud requires Lion OS X 10.7. So I presume you are syncing “Contacts/Calendars/Mail Accounts/Notes via iTunes? NOT via iCloud. Have a read here: What is iCloud http://www.apple.com/icloud/what-is.html How to setup iCloud on all your devices… click on the “iPhone.iPad. and iPod Touch” image: http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/ I’ll give you time to absorb it all and I’ll get back to you tomorrow. Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 5:13 PM, Laura Webb wrote: On 12/03/2012, at 3:58 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, Do you have an iCloud Account? Yes but only on iPad. To Sync Notes via iCloud On your iPad: 1. Have Notes turned on in Settings iCloud Notes ON This where I am asked to create an @me.com email address to turn on Notes. I don't understand this request. 2. In Settings Notes, the Default Account is set to iCloud. In SettingsNotes, the only information is about Fonts, nothing about a Default Account but maybe that comes after the above requested email is created. On your Mac: 1. System Preferences iCloud I don't have an iCloud pane on my now rather elderly MacBook. Still with 10.6.8. Due for update after new iPad!!! This has not previously affected any Notes created on the iPad. You can also create, view, and sync notes with Mail in Mac OS X, if Mail Notes is selected in the iCloud pane of System Preferences. In Mail on your Mac: I can see the previously mentioned Notes under Reminders in Mail's sidebar so these are being synced. I don't need to create Notes on my Mac, just on the iPad. 1. To create a new note, click the Compose New Note  button in Mail’s toolbar. 2. Notes appear under Reminders in Mail’s sidebar. If you have more than one account set up, you can ensure that newly created notes sync with iCloud by choosing Mail Preferences, clicking Composing, and choosing your iCloud account from the Create Notes In pop-up menu. By default, notes also appear in your Inbox. Personally, I don’t want to clutter my Inbox with anything other than my most recent messages. I agree and because they are, or used to be, on the iPad I usually just delete them if they appear in the Inbox. I turn this off so that notes appear only under Reminders in the sidebar. Choose Mail Preferences, click Accounts, select your iCloud account, and uncheck Show Notes in Inbox under Mailbox Behaviours. Even without the iCloud account showing in my MacBook I was able to uncheck Show Notes in Inbox so have done that. Many thanks Ronni. Cheers Laura On 12/03/2012, at 3:54 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni The three notes are on my Mac not in iCloud. I don't have Notes turned on in iCloud because it requires a separate email address which I didn't understand. So is this the problem and would the Notes have stopped syncing with the advent of iCloud? Can't remember when that was. But then why are just odd ones still syncing with Notes? For example I did a Sync today and the Note added on 8/3 is in Notes where I expect it to be plus the two older ones of December and January. Is it possible that the missing Notes could be in iCloud? Cheers Laura Sent from my iPad On 12/03/2012, at 3:09 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Laura, In your Mail are Notes “On My Mac” or “iCloud”? You need Notes “iCloud” to be syncing via iCloud Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 2:31 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Good afternoon all Just wondering if anyone can help me solve the mystery of Notes that have
Re: iPad missing Notes
Hi Ronni Thank you for getting back to me. I have iCloud on my iPad with my usual Apple ID, but don't see anything asking me to Sign In. I don't have either Mail or Notes turned on because, as you so rightly say these require a .me email account which I don't feel comfortable about. No doubt because I simply don't understand why it is necessary. I sync using iTunes. ICloud is backing up Keynote and Pages. i can see the files that are backed up. Contacts. Calendars, Reminders and Bookmarks are ON but no evidence that they are being backed up. Until recently there was no trouble with Notes. I think I just have to accept that the missing ones have gone, even though a couple of old ones still remain and I'm curious as to why. As always your advice is very much appreciated, but on this occasion I do feel I have wasted enough of your precious time. I can live without the missing Notes. Kind regards Laura Sent from my iPad On 13/03/2012, at 3:28 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Laura, I said I would get back to you today, so I will. A few things are troubling me with your setup of iCloud on the iPad. 1. You mention you have an iCloud Account on your iPad. Can you Sign-In to iCloud https://www.icloud.com/? What are you signing in with; an Apple ID or a .me.com/.mac.com account? 2. If you can Sign-In. Click on the Mail Icon; then in Mail - Under Folders Notes Are your Notes there? The two iCloud Services you CAN’T Turn On without a .me.com or .mac.com iCloud Account are Mail NOTES. Notes are ‘maintained’ by Mail, they are part of Mail, even though on the iPad Notes might appear to you to be a separate service or App. Your computer is running OS X 10.6.8 so therefore cannot use iCloud. So you can’t sync your iPad iPhone MBP via iCloud. If your iPhone is using iOS5 you can sync iPad iPhone via iCloud … but NOT the MBP. Note: iCloud: What if my device or computer doesn't meet iCloud system requirements?http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4929?viewlocale=en_US If you created an iCloud account from an iOS 5 device or Mac running OS X Lion, but have other devices or computers that don't meet the system requirements, you may be able to use some features of iCloud with limited functionality.” Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 5:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, OK, you can’t use iCloud on your Mac as iCloud requires Lion OS X 10.7. So I presume you are syncing “Contacts/Calendars/Mail Accounts/Notes via iTunes? NOT via iCloud. Have a read here: What is iCloud http://www.apple.com/icloud/what-is.html How to setup iCloud on all your devices… click on the “iPhone.iPad. and iPod Touch” image: http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/ I’ll give you time to absorb it all and I’ll get back to you tomorrow. Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 5:13 PM, Laura Webb wrote: On 12/03/2012, at 3:58 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, Do you have an iCloud Account? Yes but only on iPad. To Sync Notes via iCloud On your iPad: 1. Have Notes turned on in Settings iCloud Notes ON This where I am asked to create an @me.com email address to turn on Notes. I don't understand this reques -- 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: iPad missing Notes
On 13/03/2012, at 5:26 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni Thank you for getting back to me. I have iCloud on my iPad with my usual Apple ID, but don't see anything asking me to Sign In. Hi Laura, I don’t mind trying to help you, but you don’t seem to have read anything I have typed before? 1. Can you Sign-In to iCloud https://www.icloud.com/ ?” Click on the link above and it takes you to iCloud where you Sign-In. I don't have either Mail or Notes turned on because, as you so rightly say these require a .me email account which I don't feel comfortable about. No doubt because I simply don't understand why it is necessary. Well you can’t use iCloud Mail and Notes as I mentioned before. I sync using iTunes. ICloud is backing up Keynote and Pages. i can see the files that are backed up. Contacts. Calendars, Reminders and Bookmarks are ON but no evidence that they are being backed up. Again, that is why I’m trying to find out if you have iCloud setup correctly, if you can’t Sign-In you haven’t. Until recently there was no trouble with Notes. I think I just have to accept that the missing ones have gone, even though a couple of old ones still remain and I'm curious as to why. That is what I am trying to find out for you, but you are making it difficult by not doing what I have asked. I’m knocking off from WAMUG for the day. Cheers, Ronni As always your advice is very much appreciated, but on this occasion I do feel I have wasted enough of your precious time. I can live without the missing Notes. Kind regards Laura Sent from my iPad On 13/03/2012, at 3:28 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Laura, I said I would get back to you today, so I will. A few things are troubling me with your setup of iCloud on the iPad. 1. You mention you have an iCloud Account on your iPad. Can you Sign-In to iCloud https://www.icloud.com/? What are you signing in with; an Apple ID or a .me.com/.mac.com account? 2. If you can Sign-In. Click on the Mail Icon; then in Mail - Under Folders Notes Are your Notes there? The two iCloud Services you CAN’T Turn On without a .me.com or .mac.com iCloud Account are Mail NOTES. Notes are ‘maintained’ by Mail, they are part of Mail, even though on the iPad Notes might appear to you to be a separate service or App. Your computer is running OS X 10.6.8 so therefore cannot use iCloud. So you can’t sync your iPad iPhone MBP via iCloud. If your iPhone is using iOS5 you can sync iPad iPhone via iCloud … but NOT the MBP. Note: iCloud: What if my device or computer doesn't meet iCloud system requirements?http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4929?viewlocale=en_US If you created an iCloud account from an iOS 5 device or Mac running OS X Lion, but have other devices or computers that don't meet the system requirements, you may be able to use some features of iCloud with limited functionality.” Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 5:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, OK, you can’t use iCloud on your Mac as iCloud requires Lion OS X 10.7. So I presume you are syncing “Contacts/Calendars/Mail Accounts/Notes via iTunes? NOT via iCloud. Have a read here: What is iCloud http://www.apple.com/icloud/what-is.html How to setup iCloud on all your devices… click on the “iPhone.iPad. and iPod Touch” image: http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/ I’ll give you time to absorb it all and I’ll get back to you tomorrow. Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 5:13 PM, Laura Webb wrote: On 12/03/2012, at 3:58 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, Do you have an iCloud Account? Yes but only on iPad. To Sync Notes via iCloud On your iPad: 1. Have Notes turned on in Settings iCloud Notes ON This where I am asked to create an @me.com email address to turn on Notes. I don't understand this reques -- 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: iPad missing Notes
Laura, Click on the link on your Mac not your iPad. You can't Sign-In to iCloud from your iPad only a computer. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 13/03/2012, at 5:48 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 13/03/2012, at 5:26 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni Thank you for getting back to me. I have iCloud on my iPad with my usual Apple ID, but don't see anything asking me to Sign In. Hi Laura, I don’t mind trying to help you, but you don’t seem to have read anything I have typed before? 1. Can you Sign-In to iCloud https://www.icloud.com/ ?” Click on the link above and it takes you to iCloud where you Sign-In. I don't have either Mail or Notes turned on because, as you so rightly say these require a .me email account which I don't feel comfortable about. No doubt because I simply don't understand why it is necessary. Well you can’t use iCloud Mail and Notes as I mentioned before. I sync using iTunes. ICloud is backing up Keynote and Pages. i can see the files that are backed up. Contacts. Calendars, Reminders and Bookmarks are ON but no evidence that they are being backed up. Again, that is why I’m trying to find out if you have iCloud setup correctly, if you can’t Sign-In you haven’t. Until recently there was no trouble with Notes. I think I just have to accept that the missing ones have gone, even though a couple of old ones still remain and I'm curious as to why. That is what I am trying to find out for you, but you are making it difficult by not doing what I have asked. I’m knocking off from WAMUG for the day. Cheers, Ronni As always your advice is very much appreciated, but on this occasion I do feel I have wasted enough of your precious time. I can live without the missing Notes. Kind regards Laura Sent from my iPad On 13/03/2012, at 3:28 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Laura, I said I would get back to you today, so I will. A few things are troubling me with your setup of iCloud on the iPad. 1. You mention you have an iCloud Account on your iPad. Can you Sign-In to iCloud https://www.icloud.com/? What are you signing in with; an Apple ID or a .me.com/.mac.com account? 2. If you can Sign-In. Click on the Mail Icon; then in Mail - Under Folders Notes Are your Notes there? The two iCloud Services you CAN’T Turn On without a .me.com or .mac.com iCloud Account are Mail NOTES. Notes are ‘maintained’ by Mail, they are part of Mail, even though on the iPad Notes might appear to you to be a separate service or App. Your computer is running OS X 10.6.8 so therefore cannot use iCloud. So you can’t sync your iPad iPhone MBP via iCloud. If your iPhone is using iOS5 you can sync iPad iPhone via iCloud … but NOT the MBP. Note: iCloud: What if my device or computer doesn't meet iCloud system requirements?http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4929?viewlocale=en_US If you created an iCloud account from an iOS 5 device or Mac running OS X Lion, but have other devices or computers that don't meet the system requirements, you may be able to use some features of iCloud with limited functionality.” Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 5:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, OK, you can’t use iCloud on your Mac as iCloud requires Lion OS X 10.7. So I presume you are syncing “Contacts/Calendars/Mail Accounts/Notes via iTunes? NOT via iCloud. Have a read here: What is iCloud http://www.apple.com/icloud/what-is.html How to setup iCloud on all your devices… click on the “iPhone.iPad. and iPod Touch” image: http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/ I’ll give you time to absorb it all and I’ll get back to you tomorrow. Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 5:13 PM, Laura Webb wrote: On 12/03/2012, at 3:58 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, Do you have an iCloud Account? Yes but only on iPad. To Sync Notes via iCloud On your iPad: 1. Have Notes turned on in Settings iCloud Notes ON This where I am asked to create an @me.com email address to turn on Notes. I don't understand this reques -- 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
How to get video off an iPad?
Hi Everyone I was just wondering how people are getting video files off iPads? My Google research so far has revealed Apps called Goodreader and iPad Transfer. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Anything that works better for them? Andrew -- Andrew McColl ski...@ucc.gu.uwa.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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iPad missing Notes
Hi Ronni I assure you I have indeed read everything you have typed. Would I dare do otherwise? :) Also sure I have done what you asked. The reason I could not see anywhere to sign in is because I was looking on the iPad. It did not occur to me I needed to do that on my Mac. Sorry. So yes I can sign in to iCloud on my Mac and have done so. I can now see Contacts, Calendar and iWork. As previously mentioned, although I understand Mail requires a .me email account I am concerned that if I create this additional email address my normal email address could be affected. Glad you have knocked off for the day. Kind regards Laura On 13/03/2012, at 5:55 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Laura, Click on the link on your Mac not your iPad. You can't Sign-In to iCloud from your iPad only a computer. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 13/03/2012, at 5:48 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 13/03/2012, at 5:26 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni Thank you for getting back to me. I have iCloud on my iPad with my usual Apple ID, but don't see anything asking me to Sign In. Hi Laura, I don’t mind trying to help you, but you don’t seem to have read anything I have typed before? 1. Can you Sign-In to iCloud https://www.icloud.com/ ?” Click on the link above and it takes you to iCloud where you Sign-In. I don't have either Mail or Notes turned on because, as you so rightly say these require a .me email account which I don't feel comfortable about. No doubt because I simply don't understand why it is necessary. Well you can’t use iCloud Mail and Notes as I mentioned before. I sync using iTunes. ICloud is backing up Keynote and Pages. i can see the files that are backed up. Contacts. Calendars, Reminders and Bookmarks are ON but no evidence that they are being backed up. Again, that is why I’m trying to find out if you have iCloud setup correctly, if you can’t Sign-In you haven’t. Until recently there was no trouble with Notes. I think I just have to accept that the missing ones have gone, even though a couple of old ones still remain and I'm curious as to why. That is what I am trying to find out for you, but you are making it difficult by not doing what I have asked. I’m knocking off from WAMUG for the day. Cheers, Ronni As always your advice is very much appreciated, but on this occasion I do feel I have wasted enough of your precious time. I can live without the missing Notes. Kind regards Laura Sent from my iPad On 13/03/2012, at 3:28 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Laura, I said I would get back to you today, so I will. A few things are troubling me with your setup of iCloud on the iPad. 1. You mention you have an iCloud Account on your iPad. Can you Sign-In to iCloud https://www.icloud.com/? What are you signing in with; an Apple ID or a .me.com/.mac.com account? 2. If you can Sign-In. Click on the Mail Icon; then in Mail - Under Folders Notes Are your Notes there? The two iCloud Services you CAN’T Turn On without a .me.com or .mac.com iCloud Account are Mail NOTES. Notes are ‘maintained’ by Mail, they are part of Mail, even though on the iPad Notes might appear to you to be a separate service or App. Your computer is running OS X 10.6.8 so therefore cannot use iCloud. So you can’t sync your iPad iPhone MBP via iCloud. If your iPhone is using iOS5 you can sync iPad iPhone via iCloud … but NOT the MBP. Note: iCloud: What if my device or computer doesn't meet iCloud system requirements?http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4929?viewlocale=en_US If you created an iCloud account from an iOS 5 device or Mac running OS X Lion, but have other devices or computers that don't meet the system requirements, you may be able to use some features of iCloud with limited functionality.” Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 5:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, OK, you can’t use iCloud on your Mac as iCloud requires Lion OS X 10.7. So I presume you are syncing “Contacts/Calendars/Mail Accounts/Notes via iTunes? NOT via iCloud. Have a read here: What is iCloud http://www.apple.com/icloud/what-is.html How to setup iCloud on all your devices… click on the “iPhone.iPad. and iPod Touch” image: http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/ I’ll give you time to absorb it all and I’ll get back to you tomorrow. Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 5:13 PM, Laura Webb wrote: On 12/03/2012, at 3:58 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, Do you have an iCloud Account? Yes but only on iPad. To Sync Notes via iCloud On your iPad: 1. Have Notes turned on in Settings iCloud Notes ON This where I am asked to create an @me.com email address to turn on Notes. I don't understand this reques -- 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
Re: How to get video off an iPad?
How did you get the video on in the first place. On 13/03/2012, at 10:40 , Andrew McColl wrote: Hi Everyone I was just wondering how people are getting video files off iPads? My Google research so far has revealed Apps called Goodreader and iPad Transfer. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Anything that works better for them? Andrew -- Andrew McColl ski...@ucc.gu.uwa.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 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: How to get video off an iPad?
Hi Andrew As you have not stated the source of the video, I will assume that you have recorded it with the iPad2's camera. Once you plug the iPad into the computer, open iPhoto (if it doesn't open automatically) and you should be given the option to import. This will import both photos and video recorded on the iPad. To use the video in iMovie or other apps, you will need to export it from iPhoto. HTH Daniel F. On 13/03/2012, at 19:35, Alexander Hartner wrote: How did you get the video on in the first place. On 13/03/2012, at 10:40 , Andrew McColl wrote: Hi Everyone I was just wondering how people are getting video files off iPads? My Google research so far has revealed Apps called Goodreader and iPad Transfer. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Anything that works better for them? Andrew -- Andrew McColl ski...@ucc.gu.uwa.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 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: iPad missing Notes
On 13/03/2012, at 6:30 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni I assure you I have indeed read everything you have typed. Would I dare do otherwise? :) Also sure I have done what you asked. The reason I could not see anywhere to sign in is because I was looking on the iPad. It did not occur to me I needed to do that on my Mac. Sorry. So yes I can sign in to iCloud on my Mac and have done so. I can now see Contacts, Calendar and iWork. As previously mentioned, although I understand Mail requires a .me email account I am concerned that if I create this additional email address my normal email address could be affected. Glad you have knocked off for the day. Kind regards Laura Just to jump in while Ronni's on a break..:-) Creating a .me account will not affect your regular email address in any way. All that will happen is that you will see an extra account in your email client (and that's only if you choose to allow it). iCloud will only provide synchronisation for your .me account, not for any other such as iinet, so you if go ahead and create a .me account and then don't use it, then there will be nothing to sync anyway. 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: iPad missing Notes
On 14/03/2012, at 8:03 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 13/03/2012, at 6:30 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni I assure you I have indeed read everything you have typed. Would I dare do otherwise? :) Also sure I have done what you asked. The reason I could not see anywhere to sign in is because I was looking on the iPad. It did not occur to me I needed to do that on my Mac. Sorry. So yes I can sign in to iCloud on my Mac and have done so. I can now see Contacts, Calendar and iWork. As previously mentioned, although I understand Mail requires a .me email account I am concerned that if I create this additional email address my normal email address could be affected. Glad you have knocked off for the day. Kind regards Laura Just to jump in while Ronni's on a break..:-) Creating a .me account will not affect your regular email address in any way. All that will happen is that you will see an extra account in your email client (and that's only if you choose to allow it). iCloud will only provide synchronisation for your .me account, not for any other such as iinet, so you if go ahead and create a .me account and then don't use it, then there will be nothing to sync anyway. Thanks Peter, I will be back on WAMUG later today and will respond with some more details for Laura. Yes, creating a .me account will not interfere with any other email account that Laura has. Having a .me account will just allow Laura to use Mail Notes in her iCloud account. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.3 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
iPad missing Notes
Good afternoon all Just wondering if anyone can help me solve the mystery of Notes that have disappeared. I have had my iPad since the end of 2010 and since then, using the built in Notes App have added notes on all kinds of matters as and when the need arose. Now just recently I find that for some inexplicable reason they have all disappeared except, rather oddly, one added on 18/12/11 one on 3/1/12, and the most recent one on 8/3/12. These three notes also appear in Mail on my MacBook under Reminders, Notes. I have to assume it is something to do with the Sync process but am not aware of any changes made that would have has this effect, nor does it have anything to do with the recent IOS upgrade. The problem was discovered prior to that upgrade. Although I am sorry to lose the Notes I can do without them, but would like to avoid a similar occurrence in the future. Any thoughts would be most welcome. Cheers Laura -- 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: iPad missing Notes
Hi Laura, In your Mail are Notes “On My Mac” or “iCloud”? You need Notes “iCloud” to be syncing via iCloud Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 2:31 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Good afternoon all Just wondering if anyone can help me solve the mystery of Notes that have disappeared. I have had my iPad since the end of 2010 and since then, using the built in Notes App have added notes on all kinds of matters as and when the need arose. Now just recently I find that for some inexplicable reason they have all disappeared except, rather oddly, one added on 18/12/11 one on 3/1/12, and the most recent one on 8/3/12. These three notes also appear in Mail on my MacBook under Reminders, Notes. I have to assume it is something to do with the Sync process but am not aware of any changes made that would have has this effect, nor does it have anything to do with the recent IOS upgrade. The problem was discovered prior to that upgrade. Although I am sorry to lose the Notes I can do without them, but would like to avoid a similar occurrence in the future. Any thoughts would be most welcome. Cheers Laura -- 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: iPad missing Notes
Hi Ronni The three notes are on my Mac not in iCloud. I don't have Notes turned on in iCloud because it requires a separate email address which I didn't understand. So is this the problem and would the Notes have stopped syncing with the advent of iCloud? Can't remember when that was. But then why are just odd ones still syncing with Notes? For example I did a Sync today and the Note added on 8/3 is in Notes where I expect it to be plus the two older ones of December and January. Is it possible that the missing Notes could be in iCloud? Cheers Laura Sent from my iPad On 12/03/2012, at 3:09 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Laura, In your Mail are Notes “On My Mac” or “iCloud”? You need Notes “iCloud” to be syncing via iCloud Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 2:31 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Good afternoon all Just wondering if anyone can help me solve the mystery of Notes that have disappeared. I have had my iPad since the end of 2010 and since then, using the built in Notes App have added notes on all kinds of matters as and when the need arose. Now just recently I find that for some inexplicable reason they have all disappeared except, rather oddly, one added on 18/12/11 one on 3/1/12, and the most recent one on 8/3/12. These three notes also appear in Mail on my MacBook under Reminders, Notes. I have to assume it is something to do with the Sync process but am not aware of any changes made that would have has this effect, nor does it have anything to do with the recent IOS upgrade. The problem was discovered prior to that upgrade. Although I am sorry to lose the Notes I can do without them, but would like to avoid a similar occurrence in the future. Any thoughts would be most welcome. Cheers Laura -- 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: iPad missing Notes
Hi Laura, Do you have an iCloud Account? To Sync Notes via iCloud On your iPad: 1. Have Notes turned on in Settings iCloud Notes ON 2. In Settings Notes, the Default Account is set to iCloud. On your Mac: 1. System Preferences iCloud You can also create, view, and sync notes with Mail in Mac OS X, if Mail Notes is selected in the iCloud pane of System Preferences. In Mail on your Mac: 1. To create a new note, click the Compose New Note  button in Mail’s toolbar. 2. Notes appear under Reminders in Mail’s sidebar. If you have more than one account set up, you can ensure that newly created notes sync with iCloud by choosing Mail Preferences, clicking Composing, and choosing your iCloud account from the Create Notes In pop-up menu. By default, notes also appear in your Inbox. Personally, I don’t want to clutter my Inbox with anything other than my most recent messages. I turn this off so that notes appear only under Reminders in the sidebar. Choose Mail Preferences, click Accounts, select your iCloud account, and uncheck Show Notes in Inbox under Mailbox Behaviours. (If you created notes in any other accounts, you’ll have to do the same there.) Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 3:54 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni The three notes are on my Mac not in iCloud. I don't have Notes turned on in iCloud because it requires a separate email address which I didn't understand. So is this the problem and would the Notes have stopped syncing with the advent of iCloud? Can't remember when that was. But then why are just odd ones still syncing with Notes? For example I did a Sync today and the Note added on 8/3 is in Notes where I expect it to be plus the two older ones of December and January. Is it possible that the missing Notes could be in iCloud? Cheers Laura Sent from my iPad On 12/03/2012, at 3:09 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Laura, In your Mail are Notes “On My Mac” or “iCloud”? You need Notes “iCloud” to be syncing via iCloud Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 2:31 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Good afternoon all Just wondering if anyone can help me solve the mystery of Notes that have disappeared. I have had my iPad since the end of 2010 and since then, using the built in Notes App have added notes on all kinds of matters as and when the need arose. Now just recently I find that for some inexplicable reason they have all disappeared except, rather oddly, one added on 18/12/11 one on 3/1/12, and the most recent one on 8/3/12. These three notes also appear in Mail on my MacBook under Reminders, Notes. I have to assume it is something to do with the Sync process but am not aware of any changes made that would have has this effect, nor does it have anything to do with the recent IOS upgrade. The problem was discovered prior to that upgrade. Although I am sorry to lose the Notes I can do without them, but would like to avoid a similar occurrence in the future. Any thoughts would be most welcome. Cheers Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iPad missing Notes
On 12/03/2012, at 3:58 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, Do you have an iCloud Account? Yes but only on iPad. To Sync Notes via iCloud On your iPad: 1. Have Notes turned on in Settings iCloud Notes ON This where I am asked to create an @me.com email address to turn on Notes. I don't understand this request. 2. In Settings Notes, the Default Account is set to iCloud. In SettingsNotes, the only information is about Fonts, nothing about a Default Account but maybe that comes after the above requested email is created. On your Mac: 1. System Preferences iCloud I don't have an iCloud pane on my now rather elderly MacBook. Still with 10.6.8. Due for update after new iPad!!! This has not previously affected any Notes created on the iPad. You can also create, view, and sync notes with Mail in Mac OS X, if Mail Notes is selected in the iCloud pane of System Preferences. In Mail on your Mac: I can see the previously mentioned Notes under Reminders in Mail's sidebar so these are being synced. I don't need to create Notes on my Mac, just on the iPad. 1. To create a new note, click the Compose New Note  button in Mail’s toolbar. 2. Notes appear under Reminders in Mail’s sidebar. If you have more than one account set up, you can ensure that newly created notes sync with iCloud by choosing Mail Preferences, clicking Composing, and choosing your iCloud account from the Create Notes In pop-up menu. By default, notes also appear in your Inbox. Personally, I don’t want to clutter my Inbox with anything other than my most recent messages. I agree and because they are, or used to be, on the iPad I usually just delete them if they appear in the Inbox. I turn this off so that notes appear only under Reminders in the sidebar. Choose Mail Preferences, click Accounts, select your iCloud account, and uncheck Show Notes in Inbox under Mailbox Behaviours. Even without the iCloud account showing in my MacBook I was able to uncheck Show Notes in Inbox so have done that. Many thanks Ronni. Cheers Laura On 12/03/2012, at 3:54 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni The three notes are on my Mac not in iCloud. I don't have Notes turned on in iCloud because it requires a separate email address which I didn't understand. So is this the problem and would the Notes have stopped syncing with the advent of iCloud? Can't remember when that was. But then why are just odd ones still syncing with Notes? For example I did a Sync today and the Note added on 8/3 is in Notes where I expect it to be plus the two older ones of December and January. Is it possible that the missing Notes could be in iCloud? Cheers Laura Sent from my iPad On 12/03/2012, at 3:09 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Laura, In your Mail are Notes “On My Mac” or “iCloud”? You need Notes “iCloud” to be syncing via iCloud Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 2:31 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Good afternoon all Just wondering if anyone can help me solve the mystery of Notes that have disappeared. I have had my iPad since the end of 2010 and since then, using the built in Notes App have added notes on all kinds of matters as and when the need arose. Now just recently I find that for some inexplicable reason they have all disappeared except, rather oddly, one added on 18/12/11 one on 3/1/12, and the most recent one on 8/3/12. These three notes also appear in Mail on my MacBook under Reminders, Notes. I have to assume it is something to do with the Sync process but am not aware of any changes made that would have has this effect, nor does it have anything to do with the recent IOS upgrade. The problem was discovered prior to that upgrade. Although I am sorry to lose the Notes I can do without them, but would like to avoid a similar occurrence in the future. Any thoughts would be most welcome. Cheers Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing
Re: iPad missing Notes
Hi Laura, OK, you can’t use iCloud on your Mac as iCloud requires Lion OS X 10.7. So I presume you are syncing “Contacts/Calendars/Mail Accounts/Notes via iTunes? NOT via iCloud. Have a read here: What is iCloud http://www.apple.com/icloud/what-is.html How to setup iCloud on all your devices… click on the “iPhone.iPad. and iPod Touch” image: http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/ I’ll give you time to absorb it all and I’ll get back to you tomorrow. Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 5:13 PM, Laura Webb wrote: On 12/03/2012, at 3:58 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, Do you have an iCloud Account? Yes but only on iPad. To Sync Notes via iCloud On your iPad: 1. Have Notes turned on in Settings iCloud Notes ON This where I am asked to create an @me.com email address to turn on Notes. I don't understand this request. 2. In Settings Notes, the Default Account is set to iCloud. In SettingsNotes, the only information is about Fonts, nothing about a Default Account but maybe that comes after the above requested email is created. On your Mac: 1. System Preferences iCloud I don't have an iCloud pane on my now rather elderly MacBook. Still with 10.6.8. Due for update after new iPad!!! This has not previously affected any Notes created on the iPad. You can also create, view, and sync notes with Mail in Mac OS X, if Mail Notes is selected in the iCloud pane of System Preferences. In Mail on your Mac: I can see the previously mentioned Notes under Reminders in Mail's sidebar so these are being synced. I don't need to create Notes on my Mac, just on the iPad. 1. To create a new note, click the Compose New Note  button in Mail’s toolbar. 2. Notes appear under Reminders in Mail’s sidebar. If you have more than one account set up, you can ensure that newly created notes sync with iCloud by choosing Mail Preferences, clicking Composing, and choosing your iCloud account from the Create Notes In pop-up menu. By default, notes also appear in your Inbox. Personally, I don’t want to clutter my Inbox with anything other than my most recent messages. I agree and because they are, or used to be, on the iPad I usually just delete them if they appear in the Inbox. I turn this off so that notes appear only under Reminders in the sidebar. Choose Mail Preferences, click Accounts, select your iCloud account, and uncheck Show Notes in Inbox under Mailbox Behaviours. Even without the iCloud account showing in my MacBook I was able to uncheck Show Notes in Inbox so have done that. Many thanks Ronni. Cheers Laura On 12/03/2012, at 3:54 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni The three notes are on my Mac not in iCloud. I don't have Notes turned on in iCloud because it requires a separate email address which I didn't understand. So is this the problem and would the Notes have stopped syncing with the advent of iCloud? Can't remember when that was. But then why are just odd ones still syncing with Notes? For example I did a Sync today and the Note added on 8/3 is in Notes where I expect it to be plus the two older ones of December and January. Is it possible that the missing Notes could be in iCloud? Cheers Laura Sent from my iPad On 12/03/2012, at 3:09 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Laura, In your Mail are Notes “On My Mac” or “iCloud”? You need Notes “iCloud” to be syncing via iCloud Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2012, at 2:31 PM, Laura Webb wrote: Good afternoon all Just wondering if anyone can help me solve the mystery of Notes that have disappeared. I have had my iPad since the end of 2010 and since then, using the built in Notes App have added notes on all kinds of matters as and when the need arose. Now just recently I find that for some inexplicable reason they have all disappeared except, rather oddly, one added on 18/12/11 one on 3/1/12, and the most recent one on 8/3/12. These three notes also appear in Mail on my MacBook under Reminders, Notes. I have to assume it is something to do with the Sync process but am not aware of any changes made that would have has this effect, nor does it have anything to do with the recent IOS upgrade. The problem was discovered prior to that upgrade. Although I am sorry to lose the Notes I can do without them, but would like to avoid a similar occurrence in the future. Any thoughts would be most welcome. Cheers Laura -- 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
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Can anybody help? Receiving forwarded messages on my ipad OS5.1 but the attachment arent visable. Login to webserver and can see them there. John Sent from my iPad -- 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
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Hi John, Is there an attachment icon showing in the email or a paperclip in the left column? Or are you seeing a ? If seeing a ?; Press and hold the ? icon a pop up says 'quick view', then select 'quick view’. Cheers, Ronni On 13/03/2012, at 11:55 AM, John Hatch wrote: Can anybody help? Receiving forwarded messages on my ipad OS5.1 but the attachment arent visable. Login to webserver and can see them there. John Sent from my iPad -- 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: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Sweet success at last, the new partition is in place and Find My Mac is working. Thanks again for the assistance. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 2:16 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! Wiping the drive was just an expression of my worst fears, knowing my luck I figured that is what I would have to do. Thanks to WAMUG's my luck is better than I had thought. Thanks again. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 1:51 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni Carlo for the assistance, it sure makes life easy. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 1:44 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! Running the 10.7.3 updater did not restore the missing partition so I imagine that my only option now is to wipe the HD and start again as you have described. It is time consuming but achievable with TimeMachine. Its a pity the technician didn't mention that when he replaced the HD. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 1:28 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, On 10/03/2012, at 8:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: My humble apologies Ronnie, my last reply was done in a hurry and was largely a case of going off half cocked. I checked for the recovery partition as you suggested and as you suspected there is not one. This was a bit of a surprise to me; could it have gone missing when the HD was replaced a few weeks ago? Yes, this could happen if, as I mentioned in my previous email: If you cloned your old Hard Drive, the Lion Recovery Partition got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognise the other partition because it is hidden). The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. You need to install Lion on a New Hard Drive FIRST, then Restore/ Migrate either from your Bootable Clone or a Time Machine Backup. If you saved your Lion “InstallESD.dmg” and created a bootable Flash Drive you should have started from that after you installed the new Hard Drive. Then after you had installed Lion from the USB Flash Drive, you could have restored your data to the new Hard Drive from your Time Machine backup or CCC/SuperDuper backup. I am downloading the 10.7.3 combo Update and will see if it will restore the partition. I’m not confident this will re-create the Lion Partition, but worth trying first before other options. Cheers, Ronni I will be attending a workshop for board members of the NFP charity I have been involved with for the last 12 years which will take up a large part of the day so I will report back later. Thanks again! Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 7:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, You are making it more difficult for me to keep helping, by not including my previous text 'thread' in your replies I have to keep referring back to what I have already sent you. How did you install Lion first? Did you create a Recovery Partition in the initial install? Does your computer only have ONE partition? Sounds like you might not have installed the 'Recovery Partition HD' when you installed Lion. The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. The recovery partition is a hidden partition to take the place of the old disks if you need to run diagnostics or repairs. If you cloned, it got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognize the other because it is hidden). You do need the Recovery Partition HD for the Find My Mac feature to work, also File Vault. To check whether you do or don't have the partition. Restart with the Option key held down - if you are not presented with an option to boot from the recovery partition, you don't have it. If that is the case, you 'might' be able to reinstall Lion without having to Wipe your Drive. But first you could try running the Lion 10.7.3 Combo Update over top of your Lion install and see if that re-creates the Recovery Partition. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484 I will be returning home sometime today, but until then I will be offline again. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 09/03/2012, at 3:57 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Under Find My Mac it says Recovery partition required Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that says
Re: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Excellent to hear Adrian. A really good result. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/03/2012, at 4:19 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Sweet success at last, the new partition is in place and Find My Mac is working. Thanks again for the assistance. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 2:16 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! Wiping the drive was just an expression of my worst fears, knowing my luck I figured that is what I would have to do. Thanks to WAMUG's my luck is better than I had thought. Thanks again. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 1:51 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni Carlo for the assistance, it sure makes life easy. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 1:44 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! Running the 10.7.3 updater did not restore the missing partition so I imagine that my only option now is to wipe the HD and start again as you have described. It is time consuming but achievable with TimeMachine. Its a pity the technician didn't mention that when he replaced the HD. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 1:28 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, On 10/03/2012, at 8:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: My humble apologies Ronnie, my last reply was done in a hurry and was largely a case of going off half cocked. I checked for the recovery partition as you suggested and as you suspected there is not one. This was a bit of a surprise to me; could it have gone missing when the HD was replaced a few weeks ago? Yes, this could happen if, as I mentioned in my previous email: If you cloned your old Hard Drive, the Lion Recovery Partition got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognise the other partition because it is hidden). The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. You need to install Lion on a New Hard Drive FIRST, then Restore/ Migrate either from your Bootable Clone or a Time Machine Backup. If you saved your Lion “InstallESD.dmg” and created a bootable Flash Drive you should have started from that after you installed the new Hard Drive. Then after you had installed Lion from the USB Flash Drive, you could have restored your data to the new Hard Drive from your Time Machine backup or CCC/SuperDuper backup. I am downloading the 10.7.3 combo Update and will see if it will restore the partition. I’m not confident this will re-create the Lion Partition, but worth trying first before other options. Cheers, Ronni I will be attending a workshop for board members of the NFP charity I have been involved with for the last 12 years which will take up a large part of the day so I will report back later. Thanks again! Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 7:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, You are making it more difficult for me to keep helping, by not including my previous text 'thread' in your replies I have to keep referring back to what I have already sent you. How did you install Lion first? Did you create a Recovery Partition in the initial install? Does your computer only have ONE partition? Sounds like you might not have installed the 'Recovery Partition HD' when you installed Lion. The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. The recovery partition is a hidden partition to take the place of the old disks if you need to run diagnostics or repairs. If you cloned, it got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognize the other because it is hidden). You do need the Recovery Partition HD for the Find My Mac feature to work, also File Vault. To check whether you do or don't have the partition. Restart with the Option key held down - if you are not presented with an option to boot from the recovery partition, you don't have it. If that is the case, you 'might' be able to reinstall Lion without having to Wipe your Drive. But first you could try running the Lion 10.7.3 Combo Update over top of your Lion install and see if that re-creates the Recovery Partition. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484 I will be returning home sometime today, but until then I will be offline again. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 09/03/2012, at 3:57 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Under Find My Mac it says Recovery partition required Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote
Re: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Hi Adrian, You are making it more difficult for me to keep helping, by not including my previous text 'thread' in your replies I have to keep referring back to what I have already sent you. How did you install Lion first? Did you create a Recovery Partition in the initial install? Does your computer only have ONE partition? Sounds like you might not have installed the 'Recovery Partition HD' when you installed Lion. The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. The recovery partition is a hidden partition to take the place of the old disks if you need to run diagnostics or repairs. If you cloned, it got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognize the other because it is hidden). You do need the Recovery Partition HD for the Find My Mac feature to work, also File Vault. To check whether you do or don't have the partition. Restart with the Option key held down - if you are not presented with an option to boot from the recovery partition, you don't have it. If that is the case, you 'might' be able to reinstall Lion without having to Wipe your Drive. But first you could try running the Lion 10.7.3 Combo Update over top of your Lion install and see if that re-creates the Recovery Partition. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484 I will be returning home sometime today, but until then I will be offline again. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 09/03/2012, at 3:57 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Under Find My Mac it says Recovery partition required Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that says Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error occurred while evaluating the JavaScript for the package Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 2:54 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The Apple website says that both the WiFi only version, and the 4G version will geotag your photos. I suspect the goetagging is done using WiFi signals, much the same as the Find My Friend app does to locate Apple devices with location services turned on. You will need the iPad with WiFi + 3G/4G version in order to navigate with GPS. I use my iPhone to hotspot my iPad regularly, it works like a charm. You just need to watch your Data Download on the iPhone Data Plan. Did my suggestions fix your “Find My Mac” problem? 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 -- 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: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
My humble apologies Ronnie, my last reply was done in a hurry and was largely a case of going off half cocked. I checked for the recovery partition as you suggested and as you suspected there is not one. This was a bit of a surprise to me; could it have gone missing when the HD was replaced a few weeks ago? I am downloading the 10.7.3 combo Update and will see if it will restore the partition. I will be attending a workshop for board members of the NFP charity I have been involved with for the last 12 years which will take up a large part of the day so I will report back later. Thanks again! Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 7:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, You are making it more difficult for me to keep helping, by not including my previous text 'thread' in your replies I have to keep referring back to what I have already sent you. How did you install Lion first? Did you create a Recovery Partition in the initial install? Does your computer only have ONE partition? Sounds like you might not have installed the 'Recovery Partition HD' when you installed Lion. The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. The recovery partition is a hidden partition to take the place of the old disks if you need to run diagnostics or repairs. If you cloned, it got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognize the other because it is hidden). You do need the Recovery Partition HD for the Find My Mac feature to work, also File Vault. To check whether you do or don't have the partition. Restart with the Option key held down - if you are not presented with an option to boot from the recovery partition, you don't have it. If that is the case, you 'might' be able to reinstall Lion without having to Wipe your Drive. But first you could try running the Lion 10.7.3 Combo Update over top of your Lion install and see if that re-creates the Recovery Partition. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484 I will be returning home sometime today, but until then I will be offline again. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 09/03/2012, at 3:57 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Under Find My Mac it says Recovery partition required Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that says Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error occurred while evaluating the JavaScript for the package Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 2:54 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The Apple website says that both the WiFi only version, and the 4G version will geotag your photos. I suspect the goetagging is done using WiFi signals, much the same as the Find My Friend app does to locate Apple devices with location services turned on. You will need the iPad with WiFi + 3G/4G version in order to navigate with GPS. I use my iPhone to hotspot my iPad regularly, it works like a charm. You just need to watch your Data Download on the iPhone Data Plan. Did my suggestions fix your “Find My Mac” problem? 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 -- 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: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Hi Adrian, On 10/03/2012, at 8:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: My humble apologies Ronnie, my last reply was done in a hurry and was largely a case of going off half cocked. I checked for the recovery partition as you suggested and as you suspected there is not one. This was a bit of a surprise to me; could it have gone missing when the HD was replaced a few weeks ago? Yes, this could happen if, as I mentioned in my previous email: If you cloned your old Hard Drive, the Lion Recovery Partition got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognise the other partition because it is hidden). The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. You need to install Lion on a New Hard Drive FIRST, then Restore/ Migrate either from your Bootable Clone or a Time Machine Backup. If you saved your Lion “InstallESD.dmg” and created a bootable Flash Drive you should have started from that after you installed the new Hard Drive. Then after you had installed Lion from the USB Flash Drive, you could have restored your data to the new Hard Drive from your Time Machine backup or CCC/SuperDuper backup. I am downloading the 10.7.3 combo Update and will see if it will restore the partition. I’m not confident this will re-create the Lion Partition, but worth trying first before other options. Cheers, Ronni I will be attending a workshop for board members of the NFP charity I have been involved with for the last 12 years which will take up a large part of the day so I will report back later. Thanks again! Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 7:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, You are making it more difficult for me to keep helping, by not including my previous text 'thread' in your replies I have to keep referring back to what I have already sent you. How did you install Lion first? Did you create a Recovery Partition in the initial install? Does your computer only have ONE partition? Sounds like you might not have installed the 'Recovery Partition HD' when you installed Lion. The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. The recovery partition is a hidden partition to take the place of the old disks if you need to run diagnostics or repairs. If you cloned, it got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognize the other because it is hidden). You do need the Recovery Partition HD for the Find My Mac feature to work, also File Vault. To check whether you do or don't have the partition. Restart with the Option key held down - if you are not presented with an option to boot from the recovery partition, you don't have it. If that is the case, you 'might' be able to reinstall Lion without having to Wipe your Drive. But first you could try running the Lion 10.7.3 Combo Update over top of your Lion install and see if that re-creates the Recovery Partition. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484 I will be returning home sometime today, but until then I will be offline again. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 09/03/2012, at 3:57 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Under Find My Mac it says Recovery partition required Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that says Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error occurred while evaluating the JavaScript for the package Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.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: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Thanks Ronni! Running the 10.7.3 updater did not restore the missing partition so I imagine that my only option now is to wipe the HD and start again as you have described. It is time consuming but achievable with TimeMachine. Its a pity the technician didn't mention that when he replaced the HD. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 1:28 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, On 10/03/2012, at 8:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: My humble apologies Ronnie, my last reply was done in a hurry and was largely a case of going off half cocked. I checked for the recovery partition as you suggested and as you suspected there is not one. This was a bit of a surprise to me; could it have gone missing when the HD was replaced a few weeks ago? Yes, this could happen if, as I mentioned in my previous email: If you cloned your old Hard Drive, the Lion Recovery Partition got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognise the other partition because it is hidden). The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. You need to install Lion on a New Hard Drive FIRST, then Restore/ Migrate either from your Bootable Clone or a Time Machine Backup. If you saved your Lion “InstallESD.dmg” and created a bootable Flash Drive you should have started from that after you installed the new Hard Drive. Then after you had installed Lion from the USB Flash Drive, you could have restored your data to the new Hard Drive from your Time Machine backup or CCC/SuperDuper backup. I am downloading the 10.7.3 combo Update and will see if it will restore the partition. I’m not confident this will re-create the Lion Partition, but worth trying first before other options. Cheers, Ronni I will be attending a workshop for board members of the NFP charity I have been involved with for the last 12 years which will take up a large part of the day so I will report back later. Thanks again! Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 7:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, You are making it more difficult for me to keep helping, by not including my previous text 'thread' in your replies I have to keep referring back to what I have already sent you. How did you install Lion first? Did you create a Recovery Partition in the initial install? Does your computer only have ONE partition? Sounds like you might not have installed the 'Recovery Partition HD' when you installed Lion. The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. The recovery partition is a hidden partition to take the place of the old disks if you need to run diagnostics or repairs. If you cloned, it got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognize the other because it is hidden). You do need the Recovery Partition HD for the Find My Mac feature to work, also File Vault. To check whether you do or don't have the partition. Restart with the Option key held down - if you are not presented with an option to boot from the recovery partition, you don't have it. If that is the case, you 'might' be able to reinstall Lion without having to Wipe your Drive. But first you could try running the Lion 10.7.3 Combo Update over top of your Lion install and see if that re-creates the Recovery Partition. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484 I will be returning home sometime today, but until then I will be offline again. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 09/03/2012, at 3:57 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Under Find My Mac it says Recovery partition required Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that says Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error occurred while evaluating the JavaScript for the package Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Hi Adrian, I was in the exact same position last year after porting Lion from an external drive to my MacBook Pro internal drive. My notes tell me that I proceeded as follows: Restore Recovery Partition After using Carbon Copy Cloner to move Lion install from an external drive to the internal drive of MacBook Pro, the recovery partition was gone. This means I could not enable Find My Mac in iCloud settings. To restore the Recovery Partition, I reinstalled Lion 10.7 from the paid download over the top of the data and then re-ran the 10.7.2 combo update. Cheers, Carlo On 10/03/2012, at 8:41 , Adrian Skehan wrote: My humble apologies Ronnie, my last reply was done in a hurry and was largely a case of going off half cocked. I checked for the recovery partition as you suggested and as you suspected there is not one. This was a bit of a surprise to me; could it have gone missing when the HD was replaced a few weeks ago? I am downloading the 10.7.3 combo Update and will see if it will restore the partition. I will be attending a workshop for board members of the NFP charity I have been involved with for the last 12 years which will take up a large part of the day so I will report back later. Thanks again! Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 7:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, You are making it more difficult for me to keep helping, by not including my previous text 'thread' in your replies I have to keep referring back to what I have already sent you. How did you install Lion first? Did you create a Recovery Partition in the initial install? Does your computer only have ONE partition? Sounds like you might not have installed the 'Recovery Partition HD' when you installed Lion. The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. The recovery partition is a hidden partition to take the place of the old disks if you need to run diagnostics or repairs. If you cloned, it got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognize the other because it is hidden). You do need the Recovery Partition HD for the Find My Mac feature to work, also File Vault. To check whether you do or don't have the partition. Restart with the Option key held down - if you are not presented with an option to boot from the recovery partition, you don't have it. If that is the case, you 'might' be able to reinstall Lion without having to Wipe your Drive. But first you could try running the Lion 10.7.3 Combo Update over top of your Lion install and see if that re-creates the Recovery Partition. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484 I will be returning home sometime today, but until then I will be offline again. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 09/03/2012, at 3:57 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Under Find My Mac it says Recovery partition required Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that says Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error occurred while evaluating the JavaScript for the package Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 2:54 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The Apple website says that both the WiFi only version, and the 4G version will geotag your photos. I suspect the goetagging is done using WiFi signals, much the same as the Find My Friend app does to locate Apple devices with location services turned on. You will need the iPad with WiFi + 3G/4G version in order to navigate with GPS. I use my iPhone to hotspot my iPad regularly, it works like a charm. You just need to watch your Data Download on the iPhone Data Plan. Did my suggestions fix your “Find My Mac” problem? 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 -- 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: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Hi Adrian, No need to wipe your data. See my previous email. Cheers, Carlo On 10/03/2012, at 13:44 , Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! Running the 10.7.3 updater did not restore the missing partition so I imagine that my only option now is to wipe the HD and start again as you have described. It is time consuming but achievable with TimeMachine. Its a pity the technician didn't mention that when he replaced the HD. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 1:28 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, On 10/03/2012, at 8:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: My humble apologies Ronnie, my last reply was done in a hurry and was largely a case of going off half cocked. I checked for the recovery partition as you suggested and as you suspected there is not one. This was a bit of a surprise to me; could it have gone missing when the HD was replaced a few weeks ago? Yes, this could happen if, as I mentioned in my previous email: If you cloned your old Hard Drive, the Lion Recovery Partition got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognise the other partition because it is hidden). The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. You need to install Lion on a New Hard Drive FIRST, then Restore/ Migrate either from your Bootable Clone or a Time Machine Backup. If you saved your Lion “InstallESD.dmg” and created a bootable Flash Drive you should have started from that after you installed the new Hard Drive. Then after you had installed Lion from the USB Flash Drive, you could have restored your data to the new Hard Drive from your Time Machine backup or CCC/SuperDuper backup. I am downloading the 10.7.3 combo Update and will see if it will restore the partition. I’m not confident this will re-create the Lion Partition, but worth trying first before other options. Cheers, Ronni I will be attending a workshop for board members of the NFP charity I have been involved with for the last 12 years which will take up a large part of the day so I will report back later. Thanks again! Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 7:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, You are making it more difficult for me to keep helping, by not including my previous text 'thread' in your replies I have to keep referring back to what I have already sent you. How did you install Lion first? Did you create a Recovery Partition in the initial install? Does your computer only have ONE partition? Sounds like you might not have installed the 'Recovery Partition HD' when you installed Lion. The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. The recovery partition is a hidden partition to take the place of the old disks if you need to run diagnostics or repairs. If you cloned, it got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognize the other because it is hidden). You do need the Recovery Partition HD for the Find My Mac feature to work, also File Vault. To check whether you do or don't have the partition. Restart with the Option key held down - if you are not presented with an option to boot from the recovery partition, you don't have it. If that is the case, you 'might' be able to reinstall Lion without having to Wipe your Drive. But first you could try running the Lion 10.7.3 Combo Update over top of your Lion install and see if that re-creates the Recovery Partition. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484 I will be returning home sometime today, but until then I will be offline again. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 09/03/2012, at 3:57 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Under Find My Mac it says Recovery partition required Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that says Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error occurred while evaluating the JavaScript for the package Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http
Re: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Thanks Ronni Carlo for the assistance, it sure makes life easy. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 1:44 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! Running the 10.7.3 updater did not restore the missing partition so I imagine that my only option now is to wipe the HD and start again as you have described. It is time consuming but achievable with TimeMachine. Its a pity the technician didn't mention that when he replaced the HD. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 1:28 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, On 10/03/2012, at 8:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: My humble apologies Ronnie, my last reply was done in a hurry and was largely a case of going off half cocked. I checked for the recovery partition as you suggested and as you suspected there is not one. This was a bit of a surprise to me; could it have gone missing when the HD was replaced a few weeks ago? Yes, this could happen if, as I mentioned in my previous email: If you cloned your old Hard Drive, the Lion Recovery Partition got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognise the other partition because it is hidden). The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. You need to install Lion on a New Hard Drive FIRST, then Restore/ Migrate either from your Bootable Clone or a Time Machine Backup. If you saved your Lion “InstallESD.dmg” and created a bootable Flash Drive you should have started from that after you installed the new Hard Drive. Then after you had installed Lion from the USB Flash Drive, you could have restored your data to the new Hard Drive from your Time Machine backup or CCC/SuperDuper backup. I am downloading the 10.7.3 combo Update and will see if it will restore the partition. I’m not confident this will re-create the Lion Partition, but worth trying first before other options. Cheers, Ronni I will be attending a workshop for board members of the NFP charity I have been involved with for the last 12 years which will take up a large part of the day so I will report back later. Thanks again! Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 7:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, You are making it more difficult for me to keep helping, by not including my previous text 'thread' in your replies I have to keep referring back to what I have already sent you. How did you install Lion first? Did you create a Recovery Partition in the initial install? Does your computer only have ONE partition? Sounds like you might not have installed the 'Recovery Partition HD' when you installed Lion. The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. The recovery partition is a hidden partition to take the place of the old disks if you need to run diagnostics or repairs. If you cloned, it got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognize the other because it is hidden). You do need the Recovery Partition HD for the Find My Mac feature to work, also File Vault. To check whether you do or don't have the partition. Restart with the Option key held down - if you are not presented with an option to boot from the recovery partition, you don't have it. If that is the case, you 'might' be able to reinstall Lion without having to Wipe your Drive. But first you could try running the Lion 10.7.3 Combo Update over top of your Lion install and see if that re-creates the Recovery Partition. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484 I will be returning home sometime today, but until then I will be offline again. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 09/03/2012, at 3:57 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Under Find My Mac it says Recovery partition required Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that says Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error occurred while evaluating the JavaScript for the package Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml
Re: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Thanks Carlo, I was just typing instructions for Adrian, but posted my reply re Stuart’s email first… you have saved me from having to complete my reply to Stuart. Thanks as I also have a couple of clients offlist wanting my attention. The only thing I will add to your instructions are Adrian might find if he goes to the Mac App Store to re-download Lion install he might receive a message saying Lion is already installed on this Mac (or some such message). Try holding down the Option key while clicking on the Purchased icon? It should re-install right over his current setup giving him the Recovery Partition. Cheers, Ronni On 10/03/2012, at 1:45 PM, cm wrote: Hi Adrian, I was in the exact same position last year after porting Lion from an external drive to my MacBook Pro internal drive. My notes tell me that I proceeded as follows: Restore Recovery Partition After using Carbon Copy Cloner to move Lion install from an external drive to the internal drive of MacBook Pro, the recovery partition was gone. This means I could not enable Find My Mac in iCloud settings. To restore the Recovery Partition, I reinstalled Lion 10.7 from the paid download over the top of the data and then re-ran the 10.7.2 combo update. Cheers, Carlo On 10/03/2012, at 8:41 , Adrian Skehan wrote: My humble apologies Ronnie, my last reply was done in a hurry and was largely a case of going off half cocked. I checked for the recovery partition as you suggested and as you suspected there is not one. This was a bit of a surprise to me; could it have gone missing when the HD was replaced a few weeks ago? I am downloading the 10.7.3 combo Update and will see if it will restore the partition. I will be attending a workshop for board members of the NFP charity I have been involved with for the last 12 years which will take up a large part of the day so I will report back later. Thanks again! Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 7:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, You are making it more difficult for me to keep helping, by not including my previous text 'thread' in your replies I have to keep referring back to what I have already sent you. How did you install Lion first? Did you create a Recovery Partition in the initial install? Does your computer only have ONE partition? Sounds like you might not have installed the 'Recovery Partition HD' when you installed Lion. The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. The recovery partition is a hidden partition to take the place of the old disks if you need to run diagnostics or repairs. If you cloned, it got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognize the other because it is hidden). You do need the Recovery Partition HD for the Find My Mac feature to work, also File Vault. To check whether you do or don't have the partition. Restart with the Option key held down - if you are not presented with an option to boot from the recovery partition, you don't have it. If that is the case, you 'might' be able to reinstall Lion without having to Wipe your Drive. But first you could try running the Lion 10.7.3 Combo Update over top of your Lion install and see if that re-creates the Recovery Partition. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484 I will be returning home sometime today, but until then I will be offline again. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 09/03/2012, at 3:57 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Under Find My Mac it says Recovery partition required Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that says Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error occurred while evaluating the JavaScript for the package Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 2:54 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The Apple website says that both the WiFi only version, and the 4G version will geotag your photos. I suspect the goetagging is done using WiFi signals, much the same as the Find My Friend app does to locate Apple devices with location services turned on. You will need the iPad with WiFi + 3G/4G version in order to navigate with GPS. I use my iPhone to hotspot my iPad regularly, it works like a charm. You just need to watch your Data Download on the iPhone Data Plan. Did my suggestions fix your “Find My Mac” problem? Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist
Re: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
My pleasure, Adrian and Ronni. Good tip about re-downloading, Ronni. Cheers, Carlo On 10/03/2012, at 13:57 , Ronda Brown wrote: Thanks Carlo, I was just typing instructions for Adrian, but posted my reply re Stuart’s email first… you have saved me from having to complete my reply to Stuart. Thanks as I also have a couple of clients offlist wanting my attention. The only thing I will add to your instructions are Adrian might find if he goes to the Mac App Store to re-download Lion install he might receive a message saying Lion is already installed on this Mac (or some such message). Try holding down the Option key while clicking on the Purchased icon? It should re-install right over his current setup giving him the Recovery Partition. Cheers, Ronni On 10/03/2012, at 1:45 PM, cm wrote: Hi Adrian, I was in the exact same position last year after porting Lion from an external drive to my MacBook Pro internal drive. My notes tell me that I proceeded as follows: Restore Recovery Partition After using Carbon Copy Cloner to move Lion install from an external drive to the internal drive of MacBook Pro, the recovery partition was gone. This means I could not enable Find My Mac in iCloud settings. To restore the Recovery Partition, I reinstalled Lion 10.7 from the paid download over the top of the data and then re-ran the 10.7.2 combo update. Cheers, Carlo On 10/03/2012, at 8:41 , Adrian Skehan wrote: My humble apologies Ronnie, my last reply was done in a hurry and was largely a case of going off half cocked. I checked for the recovery partition as you suggested and as you suspected there is not one. This was a bit of a surprise to me; could it have gone missing when the HD was replaced a few weeks ago? I am downloading the 10.7.3 combo Update and will see if it will restore the partition. I will be attending a workshop for board members of the NFP charity I have been involved with for the last 12 years which will take up a large part of the day so I will report back later. Thanks again! Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 7:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, You are making it more difficult for me to keep helping, by not including my previous text 'thread' in your replies I have to keep referring back to what I have already sent you. How did you install Lion first? Did you create a Recovery Partition in the initial install? Does your computer only have ONE partition? Sounds like you might not have installed the 'Recovery Partition HD' when you installed Lion. The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. The recovery partition is a hidden partition to take the place of the old disks if you need to run diagnostics or repairs. If you cloned, it got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognize the other because it is hidden). You do need the Recovery Partition HD for the Find My Mac feature to work, also File Vault. To check whether you do or don't have the partition. Restart with the Option key held down - if you are not presented with an option to boot from the recovery partition, you don't have it. If that is the case, you 'might' be able to reinstall Lion without having to Wipe your Drive. But first you could try running the Lion 10.7.3 Combo Update over top of your Lion install and see if that re-creates the Recovery Partition. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484 I will be returning home sometime today, but until then I will be offline again. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 09/03/2012, at 3:57 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Under Find My Mac it says Recovery partition required Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that says Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error occurred while evaluating the JavaScript for the package Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 2:54 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The Apple website says that both the WiFi only version, and the 4G version will geotag your photos. I suspect the goetagging is done using WiFi signals, much the same as the Find My Friend app does to locate Apple devices with location services turned on. You will need the iPad with WiFi + 3G/4G version in order to navigate with GPS. I use my iPhone to hotspot my iPad regularly, it works like a charm. You just need to watch your Data Download on the iPhone Data Plan. Did my
Re: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Hi Adrian, I NEVER mentioned wiping your drive!!! I said if you had cloned your old Hard Drive it would have wiped the “Lion RecoveryPartition”, I never said for you to wipe your drive and start again. You have obviously misinterpreted my reply ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 10/03/2012, at 1:46 PM, cm wrote: Hi Adrian, No need to wipe your data. See my previous email. Cheers, Carlo On 10/03/2012, at 13:44 , Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! Running the 10.7.3 updater did not restore the missing partition so I imagine that my only option now is to wipe the HD and start again as you have described. It is time consuming but achievable with TimeMachine. Its a pity the technician didn't mention that when he replaced the HD. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 1:28 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, On 10/03/2012, at 8:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: My humble apologies Ronnie, my last reply was done in a hurry and was largely a case of going off half cocked. I checked for the recovery partition as you suggested and as you suspected there is not one. This was a bit of a surprise to me; could it have gone missing when the HD was replaced a few weeks ago? Yes, this could happen if, as I mentioned in my previous email: If you cloned your old Hard Drive, the Lion Recovery Partition got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognise the other partition because it is hidden). The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. You need to install Lion on a New Hard Drive FIRST, then Restore/ Migrate either from your Bootable Clone or a Time Machine Backup. If you saved your Lion “InstallESD.dmg” and created a bootable Flash Drive you should have started from that after you installed the new Hard Drive. Then after you had installed Lion from the USB Flash Drive, you could have restored your data to the new Hard Drive from your Time Machine backup or CCC/SuperDuper backup. I am downloading the 10.7.3 combo Update and will see if it will restore the partition. I’m not confident this will re-create the Lion Partition, but worth trying first before other options. Cheers, Ronni I will be attending a workshop for board members of the NFP charity I have been involved with for the last 12 years which will take up a large part of the day so I will report back later. Thanks again! Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 7:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, You are making it more difficult for me to keep helping, by not including my previous text 'thread' in your replies I have to keep referring back to what I have already sent you. How did you install Lion first? Did you create a Recovery Partition in the initial install? Does your computer only have ONE partition? Sounds like you might not have installed the 'Recovery Partition HD' when you installed Lion. The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. The recovery partition is a hidden partition to take the place of the old disks if you need to run diagnostics or repairs. If you cloned, it got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognize the other because it is hidden). You do need the Recovery Partition HD for the Find My Mac feature to work, also File Vault. To check whether you do or don't have the partition. Restart with the Option key held down - if you are not presented with an option to boot from the recovery partition, you don't have it. If that is the case, you 'might' be able to reinstall Lion without having to Wipe your Drive. But first you could try running the Lion 10.7.3 Combo Update over top of your Lion install and see if that re-creates the Recovery Partition. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484 I will be returning home sometime today, but until then I will be offline again. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 09/03/2012, at 3:57 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Under Find My Mac it says Recovery partition required Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that says Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error occurred while evaluating the JavaScript for the package Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist
Re: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Thanks Ronni! Wiping the drive was just an expression of my worst fears, knowing my luck I figured that is what I would have to do. Thanks to WAMUG's my luck is better than I had thought. Thanks again. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 1:51 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni Carlo for the assistance, it sure makes life easy. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 1:44 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! Running the 10.7.3 updater did not restore the missing partition so I imagine that my only option now is to wipe the HD and start again as you have described. It is time consuming but achievable with TimeMachine. Its a pity the technician didn't mention that when he replaced the HD. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 1:28 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, On 10/03/2012, at 8:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: My humble apologies Ronnie, my last reply was done in a hurry and was largely a case of going off half cocked. I checked for the recovery partition as you suggested and as you suspected there is not one. This was a bit of a surprise to me; could it have gone missing when the HD was replaced a few weeks ago? Yes, this could happen if, as I mentioned in my previous email: If you cloned your old Hard Drive, the Lion Recovery Partition got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognise the other partition because it is hidden). The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. You need to install Lion on a New Hard Drive FIRST, then Restore/ Migrate either from your Bootable Clone or a Time Machine Backup. If you saved your Lion “InstallESD.dmg” and created a bootable Flash Drive you should have started from that after you installed the new Hard Drive. Then after you had installed Lion from the USB Flash Drive, you could have restored your data to the new Hard Drive from your Time Machine backup or CCC/SuperDuper backup. I am downloading the 10.7.3 combo Update and will see if it will restore the partition. I’m not confident this will re-create the Lion Partition, but worth trying first before other options. Cheers, Ronni I will be attending a workshop for board members of the NFP charity I have been involved with for the last 12 years which will take up a large part of the day so I will report back later. Thanks again! Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 10/03/2012, at 7:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, You are making it more difficult for me to keep helping, by not including my previous text 'thread' in your replies I have to keep referring back to what I have already sent you. How did you install Lion first? Did you create a Recovery Partition in the initial install? Does your computer only have ONE partition? Sounds like you might not have installed the 'Recovery Partition HD' when you installed Lion. The Recovery HD will only be created if you install Lion on the drive using the Lion installer. Restoring a backup will not create the Recovery HD. The recovery partition is a hidden partition to take the place of the old disks if you need to run diagnostics or repairs. If you cloned, it got wiped out in the process (it will do that because both CCC and SuperDuper can only clone one partition and don't recognize the other because it is hidden). You do need the Recovery Partition HD for the Find My Mac feature to work, also File Vault. To check whether you do or don't have the partition. Restart with the Option key held down - if you are not presented with an option to boot from the recovery partition, you don't have it. If that is the case, you 'might' be able to reinstall Lion without having to Wipe your Drive. But first you could try running the Lion 10.7.3 Combo Update over top of your Lion install and see if that re-creates the Recovery Partition. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484 I will be returning home sometime today, but until then I will be offline again. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 09/03/2012, at 3:57 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Under Find My Mac it says Recovery partition required Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that says Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error occurred while evaluating the JavaScript for the package Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives
iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Good morning all! Can anyone tell me if any model of the new iPad actually has a GPS receiver installed or is it reliant on the mobile phone network? In iCloud Preferences (System) Find My Mac is greyed out and the More option says Find My Mac requires a recovery partition. In my iCloud the iMac shows up as Offline. The Mac Help system tells me what it does but not a clue on how to activate it. Any help will be appreciated. iMac 7 Intel OS X 10.7.3 Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.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
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Hi Adrian, The 4G models include GPS. The assisted part refers to the use of the cell connection to make the localization quicker. However, access to a cell signal is not required. The built in GPS will work on its own. It is unfortunate that Apple used the term assisted GPS. It seems to confuse a lot of people. The iPad (1,2 and 3) have a FULLY FUNCTIONAL GPS, and it works extremely well! As stated above, the assisted part refers to it's ability to use the cellular towers for a quicker initial fix, in some locations. The New iPad Specifications: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ Cheers, Ronni On 09/03/2012, at 11:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good morning all! Can anyone tell me if any model of the new iPad actually has a GPS receiver installed or is it reliant on the mobile phone network? In iCloud Preferences (System) Find My Mac is greyed out and the More option says Find My Mac requires a recovery partition. In my iCloud the iMac shows up as Offline. The Mac Help system tells me what it does but not a clue on how to activate it. Any help will be appreciated. iMac 7 Intel OS X 10.7.3 Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.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
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Yes quite right. Assisted GPS is the combination of a GPS unit, positioning form triangulation of cell-phone towers, and positioning using wifi hot spots. There is one caveat, however, the Wifi only models of the iPad have no GPS unit and also cannot contact cell-phone towers. These Wifi only models can only use wifi triangulation to determine their position. This can be quite accurate on occasions but can have an inaccuracy of a kilometres on other occasions. Cheers, Carlo On 09/03/2012, at 12:23 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The 4G models include GPS. The assisted part refers to the use of the cell connection to make the localization quicker. However, access to a cell signal is not required. The built in GPS will work on its own. It is unfortunate that Apple used the term assisted GPS. It seems to confuse a lot of people. The iPad (1,2 and 3) have a FULLY FUNCTIONAL GPS, and it works extremely well! As stated above, the assisted part refers to it's ability to use the cellular towers for a quicker initial fix, in some locations. The New iPad Specifications: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ Cheers, Ronni On 09/03/2012, at 11:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good morning all! Can anyone tell me if any model of the new iPad actually has a GPS receiver installed or is it reliant on the mobile phone network? In iCloud Preferences (System) Find My Mac is greyed out and the More option says Find My Mac requires a recovery partition. In my iCloud the iMac shows up as Offline. The Mac Help system tells me what it does but not a clue on how to activate it. Any help will be appreciated. iMac 7 Intel OS X 10.7.3 Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
I have an iPad 1 with WiFi only. To overcome the lack of a proper GPS - ie one that reads data from satellites when away from any wifi and 3G cell towers, I purchased a Bad Elf GPS unit that plugs into my iPad 1. This works well for away from civilisation navigation. Of course, I cannot rely on web based mapping services and the iPad holds a vast array of digital maps onboard. I understood only the 3G iPads, not the WiFi only, had a proper read the satellites GPS. This was certainly the case with my iPad 1. Tim On 09/03/2012, at 12:30 PM, cm wrote: Yes quite right. Assisted GPS is the combination of a GPS unit, positioning form triangulation of cell-phone towers, and positioning using wifi hot spots. There is one caveat, however, the Wifi only models of the iPad have no GPS unit and also cannot contact cell-phone towers. These Wifi only models can only use wifi triangulation to determine their position. This can be quite accurate on occasions but can have an inaccuracy of a kilometres on other occasions. Cheers, Carlo On 09/03/2012, at 12:23 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The 4G models include GPS. The assisted part refers to the use of the cell connection to make the localization quicker. However, access to a cell signal is not required. The built in GPS will work on its own. It is unfortunate that Apple used the term assisted GPS. It seems to confuse a lot of people. The iPad (1,2 and 3) have a FULLY FUNCTIONAL GPS, and it works extremely well! As stated above, the assisted part refers to it's ability to use the cellular towers for a quicker initial fix, in some locations. The New iPad Specifications: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ Cheers, Ronni On 09/03/2012, at 11:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good morning all! Can anyone tell me if any model of the new iPad actually has a GPS receiver installed or is it reliant on the mobile phone network? In iCloud Preferences (System) Find My Mac is greyed out and the More option says Find My Mac requires a recovery partition. In my iCloud the iMac shows up as Offline. The Mac Help system tells me what it does but not a clue on how to activate it. Any help will be appreciated. iMac 7 Intel OS X 10.7.3 Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
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Tim I would be interested to know from where you get your maps. I also have a Bad Elf but have found the selection of suitable digital maps fairly poor. Barry On 09/03/2012, at 12:39 PM, Tim Law wrote: I have an iPad 1 with WiFi only. To overcome the lack of a proper GPS - ie one that reads data from satellites when away from any wifi and 3G cell towers, I purchased a Bad Elf GPS unit that plugs into my iPad 1. This works well for away from civilisation navigation. Of course, I cannot rely on web based mapping services and the iPad holds a vast array of digital maps onboard. I understood only the 3G iPads, not the WiFi only, had a proper read the satellites GPS. This was certainly the case with my iPad 1. Tim On 09/03/2012, at 12:30 PM, cm wrote: Yes quite right. Assisted GPS is the combination of a GPS unit, positioning form triangulation of cell-phone towers, and positioning using wifi hot spots. There is one caveat, however, the Wifi only models of the iPad have no GPS unit and also cannot contact cell-phone towers. These Wifi only models can only use wifi triangulation to determine their position. This can be quite accurate on occasions but can have an inaccuracy of a kilometres on other occasions. Cheers, Carlo On 09/03/2012, at 12:23 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The 4G models include GPS. The assisted part refers to the use of the cell connection to make the localization quicker. However, access to a cell signal is not required. The built in GPS will work on its own. It is unfortunate that Apple used the term assisted GPS. It seems to confuse a lot of people. The iPad (1,2 and 3) have a FULLY FUNCTIONAL GPS, and it works extremely well! As stated above, the assisted part refers to it's ability to use the cellular towers for a quicker initial fix, in some locations. The New iPad Specifications: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ Cheers, Ronni On 09/03/2012, at 11:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good morning all! Can anyone tell me if any model of the new iPad actually has a GPS receiver installed or is it reliant on the mobile phone network? In iCloud Preferences (System) Find My Mac is greyed out and the More option says Find My Mac requires a recovery partition. In my iCloud the iMac shows up as Offline. The Mac Help system tells me what it does but not a clue on how to activate it. Any help will be appreciated. iMac 7 Intel OS X 10.7.3 Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iPad GPS mapping
Hi Barry, I have yet to find a suitable solution for me. I use OziExplorer on a small HP device on my 4WD dashboard, and purchased a second hand PC laptop to run OziExplorer and take away into the bush. I also use Parallels to run Ozi on my OSX desktop. This has worked fine for a number of years, but now I have an iPad, I'm looking for other options for me to know where I am. I am hoping to find a solution for me to mount the iPad in my Landcruiser and dispense with the need for an additional laptop whilst travelling. the bigger screen over the 5 HP will be a real bonus for viewing maps!! I have bought a couple of 'extension leads' so I can mount the Bad Elf remotely on the dash board close to the windscreen and the lead will come back to the iPad on the console, or hand held by the passenger. Re the maps, most of mine are the 250k Geosciences series I purchased via Exploroz. Over time I have added various other collections such as the Hema desert maps and more recently some 100k maps scanned by Greg Harewood of the south coast, west coast and goldfields. All these are via the Exploroz website. I find I can load these onto the iPad, not so easily but I can load them, and I use Bit Map on the iPad to read them. I am yet to be convinced of it's accuracy, so am continuing to look for better options. I also use MotionX-GPs but they use different maps, as do NavFree and Sygic. I've not got VMS but that is getting good reports from the off road crowd, although it does require their own maps. Whilst travelling in Europe I found CityMaps2Go very good, as long as I planned ahead and downloaded the PDF file of the next city I was visiting on the hotel wifi the day before, I found the maps accurate and useful. I did not use any 3G data download in Europe, and found the European version of NavFree and Sygic unhelpful as they really require 3G to give full functionality. Really wished I had some paper maps then!! With CityMaps2go, you pay a few dollars for the app, then a few dollars for each city map you download. As I say, a good option for city travelling. I hope that helps. Tim On 09/03/2012, at 12:56 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: Tim I would be interested to know from where you get your maps. I also have a Bad Elf but have found the selection of suitable digital maps fairly poor. Barry On 09/03/2012, at 12:39 PM, Tim Law wrote: I have an iPad 1 with WiFi only. To overcome the lack of a proper GPS - ie one that reads data from satellites when away from any wifi and 3G cell towers, I purchased a Bad Elf GPS unit that plugs into my iPad 1. This works well for away from civilisation navigation. Of course, I cannot rely on web based mapping services and the iPad holds a vast array of digital maps onboard. I understood only the 3G iPads, not the WiFi only, had a proper read the satellites GPS. This was certainly the case with my iPad 1. Tim On 09/03/2012, at 12:30 PM, cm wrote: Yes quite right. Assisted GPS is the combination of a GPS unit, positioning form triangulation of cell-phone towers, and positioning using wifi hot spots. There is one caveat, however, the Wifi only models of the iPad have no GPS unit and also cannot contact cell-phone towers. These Wifi only models can only use wifi triangulation to determine their position. This can be quite accurate on occasions but can have an inaccuracy of a kilometres on other occasions. Cheers, Carlo On 09/03/2012, at 12:23 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The 4G models include GPS. The assisted part refers to the use of the cell connection to make the localization quicker. However, access to a cell signal is not required. The built in GPS will work on its own. It is unfortunate that Apple used the term assisted GPS. It seems to confuse a lot of people. The iPad (1,2 and 3) have a FULLY FUNCTIONAL GPS, and it works extremely well! As stated above, the assisted part refers to it's ability to use the cellular towers for a quicker initial fix, in some locations. The New iPad Specifications: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ Cheers, Ronni On 09/03/2012, at 11:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good morning all! Can anyone tell me if any model of the new iPad actually has a GPS receiver installed or is it reliant on the mobile phone network? In iCloud Preferences (System) Find My Mac is greyed out and the More option says Find My Mac requires a recovery partition. In my iCloud the iMac shows up as Offline. The Mac Help system tells me what it does but not a clue on how to activate it. Any help will be appreciated. iMac 7 Intel OS X 10.7.3 Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.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
Re: iPad GPS mapping
Hi Tim I have found I can download the geoscience 250K series from memory map directly to my iPad but as you know these are a bit dated and don't provide a great deal of detail. Hema maps are also available for direct download to iPad using 'memory map' but at a price. I have previously used OziExplorer but would like to use the iPad without having to go through various conversions etc. I notice that there are plenty of downloadable maps for USA and parts of Europe but have had problems finding anything for Oz apart from the above. Many thanks for your comments Barry On 09/03/2012, at 2:25 PM, Tim Law wrote: Hi Barry, I have yet to find a suitable solution for me. I use OziExplorer on a small HP device on my 4WD dashboard, and purchased a second hand PC laptop to run OziExplorer and take away into the bush. I also use Parallels to run Ozi on my OSX desktop. This has worked fine for a number of years, but now I have an iPad, I'm looking for other options for me to know where I am. I am hoping to find a solution for me to mount the iPad in my Landcruiser and dispense with the need for an additional laptop whilst travelling. the bigger screen over the 5 HP will be a real bonus for viewing maps!! I have bought a couple of 'extension leads' so I can mount the Bad Elf remotely on the dash board close to the windscreen and the lead will come back to the iPad on the console, or hand held by the passenger. Re the maps, most of mine are the 250k Geosciences series I purchased via Exploroz. Over time I have added various other collections such as the Hema desert maps and more recently some 100k maps scanned by Greg Harewood of the south coast, west coast and goldfields. All these are via the Exploroz website. I find I can load these onto the iPad, not so easily but I can load them, and I use Bit Map on the iPad to read them. I am yet to be convinced of it's accuracy, so am continuing to look for better options. I also use MotionX-GPs but they use different maps, as do NavFree and Sygic. I've not got VMS but that is getting good reports from the off road crowd, although it does require their own maps. Whilst travelling in Europe I found CityMaps2Go very good, as long as I planned ahead and downloaded the PDF file of the next city I was visiting on the hotel wifi the day before, I found the maps accurate and useful. I did not use any 3G data download in Europe, and found the European version of NavFree and Sygic unhelpful as they really require 3G to give full functionality. Really wished I had some paper maps then!! With CityMaps2go, you pay a few dollars for the app, then a few dollars for each city map you download. As I say, a good option for city travelling. I hope that helps. Tim On 09/03/2012, at 12:56 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: Tim I would be interested to know from where you get your maps. I also have a Bad Elf but have found the selection of suitable digital maps fairly poor. Barry On 09/03/2012, at 12:39 PM, Tim Law wrote: I have an iPad 1 with WiFi only. To overcome the lack of a proper GPS - ie one that reads data from satellites when away from any wifi and 3G cell towers, I purchased a Bad Elf GPS unit that plugs into my iPad 1. This works well for away from civilisation navigation. Of course, I cannot rely on web based mapping services and the iPad holds a vast array of digital maps onboard. I understood only the 3G iPads, not the WiFi only, had a proper read the satellites GPS. This was certainly the case with my iPad 1. Tim On 09/03/2012, at 12:30 PM, cm wrote: Yes quite right. Assisted GPS is the combination of a GPS unit, positioning form triangulation of cell-phone towers, and positioning using wifi hot spots. There is one caveat, however, the Wifi only models of the iPad have no GPS unit and also cannot contact cell-phone towers. These Wifi only models can only use wifi triangulation to determine their position. This can be quite accurate on occasions but can have an inaccuracy of a kilometres on other occasions. Cheers, Carlo On 09/03/2012, at 12:23 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The 4G models include GPS. The assisted part refers to the use of the cell connection to make the localization quicker. However, access to a cell signal is not required. The built in GPS will work on its own. It is unfortunate that Apple used the term assisted GPS. It seems to confuse a lot of people. The iPad (1,2 and 3) have a FULLY FUNCTIONAL GPS, and it works extremely well! As stated above, the assisted part refers to it's ability to use the cellular towers for a quicker initial fix, in some locations. The New iPad Specifications: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ Cheers, Ronni On 09/03/2012, at 11:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good morning all! Can anyone tell me if any model of the new iPad actually has a GPS
Re: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
On the matter of the iPad thanks for that all!; It was my thought that if I bought the WiFi only model and when I required the internet outside my usual WiFi haunts I should be able to use the iPhone as a Hotspot, is this feasible? Having said that; I will like to use the iPad camera when ever it is practical but it sounds like there may be a problem with its ability to determining its location. I give up a couple of hundred bucks of data download each month on my iPhone plan that I cant use so I am reluctant to get a separate plan for the iPad. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com P.S. I'm still working on the Find My Mac problem. On 09/03/2012, at 12:23 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The 4G models include GPS. The assisted part refers to the use of the cell connection to make the localization quicker. However, access to a cell signal is not required. The built in GPS will work on its own. It is unfortunate that Apple used the term assisted GPS. It seems to confuse a lot of people. The iPad (1,2 and 3) have a FULLY FUNCTIONAL GPS, and it works extremely well! As stated above, the assisted part refers to it's ability to use the cellular towers for a quicker initial fix, in some locations. The New iPad Specifications: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ Cheers, Ronni On 09/03/2012, at 11:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good morning all! Can anyone tell me if any model of the new iPad actually has a GPS receiver installed or is it reliant on the mobile phone network? In iCloud Preferences (System) Find My Mac is greyed out and the More option says Find My Mac requires a recovery partition. In my iCloud the iMac shows up as Offline. The Mac Help system tells me what it does but not a clue on how to activate it. Any help will be appreciated. iMac 7 Intel OS X 10.7.3 Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Hi Adrian, The Apple website says that both the WiFi only version, and the 4G version will geotag your photos. I suspect the goetagging is done using WiFi signals, much the same as the Find My Friend app does to locate Apple devices with location services turned on. You will need the iPad with WiFi + 3G/4G version in order to navigate with GPS. I use my iPhone to hotspot my iPad regularly, it works like a charm. You just need to watch your Data Download on the iPhone Data Plan. Did my suggestions fix your “Find My Mac” problem? Cheers, Ronni On 09/03/2012, at 2:48 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: On the matter of the iPad thanks for that all!; It was my thought that if I bought the WiFi only model and when I required the internet outside my usual WiFi haunts I should be able to use the iPhone as a Hotspot, is this feasible? Having said that; I will like to use the iPad camera when ever it is practical but it sounds like there may be a problem with its ability to determining its location. I give up a couple of hundred bucks of data download each month on my iPhone plan that I cant use so I am reluctant to get a separate plan for the iPad. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com P.S. I'm still working on the Find My Mac problem. On 09/03/2012, at 12:23 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The 4G models include GPS. The assisted part refers to the use of the cell connection to make the localization quicker. However, access to a cell signal is not required. The built in GPS will work on its own. It is unfortunate that Apple used the term assisted GPS. It seems to confuse a lot of people. The iPad (1,2 and 3) have a FULLY FUNCTIONAL GPS, and it works extremely well! As stated above, the assisted part refers to it's ability to use the cellular towers for a quicker initial fix, in some locations. The New iPad Specifications: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ Cheers, Ronni On 09/03/2012, at 11:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Good morning all! Can anyone tell me if any model of the new iPad actually has a GPS receiver installed or is it reliant on the mobile phone network? In iCloud Preferences (System) Find My Mac is greyed out and the More option says Find My Mac requires a recovery partition. In my iCloud the iMac shows up as Offline. The Mac Help system tells me what it does but not a clue on how to activate it. Any help will be appreciated. iMac 7 Intel OS X 10.7.3 Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.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: iPad GPS mapping
Thanks Barry, I will try Memory Map. I don't mind the Geosciences maps for what they are. The 100k maps are quite out of date around cities, but the tracks in the bush don't change much over the years. Hema maps are far more informative and appear more up to date. As I said, the 4WD forums seem to give a good rap to VMS and their maps, but it's not so cheap to purchase and add maps. All this planning, and so little time to get out there and use it!! Tim On 09/03/2012, at 2:39 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: Hi Tim I have found I can download the geoscience 250K series from memory map directly to my iPad but as you know these are a bit dated and don't provide a great deal of detail. Hema maps are also available for direct download to iPad using 'memory map' but at a price. I have previously used OziExplorer but would like to use the iPad without having to go through various conversions etc. I notice that there are plenty of downloadable maps for USA and parts of Europe but have had problems finding anything for Oz apart from the above. Many thanks for your comments Barry On 09/03/2012, at 2:25 PM, Tim Law wrote: Hi Barry, I have yet to find a suitable solution for me. I use OziExplorer on a small HP device on my 4WD dashboard, and purchased a second hand PC laptop to run OziExplorer and take away into the bush. I also use Parallels to run Ozi on my OSX desktop. This has worked fine for a number of years, but now I have an iPad, I'm looking for other options for me to know where I am. I am hoping to find a solution for me to mount the iPad in my Landcruiser and dispense with the need for an additional laptop whilst travelling. the bigger screen over the 5 HP will be a real bonus for viewing maps!! I have bought a couple of 'extension leads' so I can mount the Bad Elf remotely on the dash board close to the windscreen and the lead will come back to the iPad on the console, or hand held by the passenger. Re the maps, most of mine are the 250k Geosciences series I purchased via Exploroz. Over time I have added various other collections such as the Hema desert maps and more recently some 100k maps scanned by Greg Harewood of the south coast, west coast and goldfields. All these are via the Exploroz website. I find I can load these onto the iPad, not so easily but I can load them, and I use Bit Map on the iPad to read them. I am yet to be convinced of it's accuracy, so am continuing to look for better options. I also use MotionX-GPs but they use different maps, as do NavFree and Sygic. I've not got VMS but that is getting good reports from the off road crowd, although it does require their own maps. Whilst travelling in Europe I found CityMaps2Go very good, as long as I planned ahead and downloaded the PDF file of the next city I was visiting on the hotel wifi the day before, I found the maps accurate and useful. I did not use any 3G data download in Europe, and found the European version of NavFree and Sygic unhelpful as they really require 3G to give full functionality. Really wished I had some paper maps then!! With CityMaps2go, you pay a few dollars for the app, then a few dollars for each city map you download. As I say, a good option for city travelling. I hope that helps. Tim On 09/03/2012, at 12:56 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: Tim I would be interested to know from where you get your maps. I also have a Bad Elf but have found the selection of suitable digital maps fairly poor. Barry On 09/03/2012, at 12:39 PM, Tim Law wrote: I have an iPad 1 with WiFi only. To overcome the lack of a proper GPS - ie one that reads data from satellites when away from any wifi and 3G cell towers, I purchased a Bad Elf GPS unit that plugs into my iPad 1. This works well for away from civilisation navigation. Of course, I cannot rely on web based mapping services and the iPad holds a vast array of digital maps onboard. I understood only the 3G iPads, not the WiFi only, had a proper read the satellites GPS. This was certainly the case with my iPad 1. Tim On 09/03/2012, at 12:30 PM, cm wrote: Yes quite right. Assisted GPS is the combination of a GPS unit, positioning form triangulation of cell-phone towers, and positioning using wifi hot spots. There is one caveat, however, the Wifi only models of the iPad have no GPS unit and also cannot contact cell-phone towers. These Wifi only models can only use wifi triangulation to determine their position. This can be quite accurate on occasions but can have an inaccuracy of a kilometres on other occasions. Cheers, Carlo On 09/03/2012, at 12:23 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The 4G models include GPS. The assisted part refers to the use of the cell connection to make the localization quicker. However, access to a cell signal is not required. The built in GPS will work on its own
Re: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Thanks Ronni! I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that says Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error occurred while evaluating the JavaScript for the package Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 2:54 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The Apple website says that both the WiFi only version, and the 4G version will geotag your photos. I suspect the goetagging is done using WiFi signals, much the same as the Find My Friend app does to locate Apple devices with location services turned on. You will need the iPad with WiFi + 3G/4G version in order to navigate with GPS. I use my iPhone to hotspot my iPad regularly, it works like a charm. You just need to watch your Data Download on the iPhone Data Plan. Did my suggestions fix your “Find My Mac” problem? 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: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Hi Adrian, I’m rushing out the door should have left 20mins ago ;-( It’s the Lion Recovery Update package http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1464 and download the Lion Recovery Update package manually, and install it. If it is not allowing you to. What is the message you are seeing under Find My Mac? Is it saying Recovery system update required If so: Run Disk Utility, and Verify Disk. You will likely notice errors that require you to reboot to the Recovery Partition, and run Disk Utility from there, to Repair Disk. After running Repair Disk, reboot to the main partition, and run Repair Permissions from Disk Utility. Then install the Recovery System Update again. Note: To boot into the Lion recovery partition, hold down the Option key on your Mac while restarting. When you see the screen that shows your hard drives, (Macintosh HD) use your keyboard or mouse to select “Recovery HD,” then click or press enter on your keyboard to begin booting into “Recovery HD partition. Find My Mac requires the recovery partition! Gotta go, I possible won’t be available anymore today but should be back online tomorrow sometime. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 Cheers, Ronni On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that says Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error occurred while evaluating the JavaScript for the package Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 2:54 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The Apple website says that both the WiFi only version, and the 4G version will geotag your photos. I suspect the goetagging is done using WiFi signals, much the same as the Find My Friend app does to locate Apple devices with location services turned on. You will need the iPad with WiFi + 3G/4G version in order to navigate with GPS. I use my iPhone to hotspot my iPad regularly, it works like a charm. You just need to watch your Data Download on the iPhone Data Plan. Did my suggestions fix your “Find My Mac” problem? 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 -- 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: iPad GPS and Find My Mac
Under Find My Mac it says Recovery partition required Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 3:14 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni! I am still having the same problem, I have downloaded the Recovery HD Update twice but when I try to install it there is a error message that says Lion Recovery Update can't be installed on this disk. An error occurred while evaluating the JavaScript for the package Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 09/03/2012, at 2:54 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, The Apple website says that both the WiFi only version, and the 4G version will geotag your photos. I suspect the goetagging is done using WiFi signals, much the same as the Find My Friend app does to locate Apple devices with location services turned on. You will need the iPad with WiFi + 3G/4G version in order to navigate with GPS. I use my iPhone to hotspot my iPad regularly, it works like a charm. You just need to watch your Data Download on the iPhone Data Plan. Did my suggestions fix your “Find My Mac” problem? 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 -- 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
Last minute iPad rumours,...
Well, not long til the release of what ever Apple are going to release, Whether it will be called the iPad3 or iPad HD,...time will tell. Had to laugh at all the coverage about it on the radio today and caught the end of a watch sunrise and see the first details about the iPad 3. The Apple PR hype machine is certainly in full swing!! What other company can get people so excited about things,. Some of the last minute rumours coming in sound quite interesting,..if it does show,... http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/07/ipad-3-to-include-haptic-display-technology-to-provide-on-screen-textures/ Dual Core processor A5X, 1GB memory,..Retina Display,...the list keeps growing! I'm sure next it will also make your coffee on demand (Or at least Siri will tell you from your iPad where the nearest coffee shop is.) :o) AppleTV - meant to be same price as current but handle 1080p. http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/06/updated-apple-tv-with-1080p-video-support-to-maintain-99-price-tag/ iOS5.1 AppleStore down,. All will be revealed,...very soon :)) Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Last minute iPad rumours,...
Yes not sure if I should wait up and get the piecemeal text reporting with the excitement of knowing that it's live, or wait until tomorrow for the more informative full webcast. An iPad with haptic technology would be outstanding! C On 07/03/2012, at 23:08 , Daniel Kerr wrote: Well, not long til the release of what ever Apple are going to release, Whether it will be called the iPad3 or iPad HD,...time will tell. Had to laugh at all the coverage about it on the radio today and caught the end of a watch sunrise and see the first details about the iPad 3. The Apple PR hype machine is certainly in full swing!! What other company can get people so excited about things,. Some of the last minute rumours coming in sound quite interesting,..if it does show,... http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/07/ipad-3-to-include-haptic-display-technology-to-provide-on-screen-textures/ Dual Core processor A5X, 1GB memory,..Retina Display,...the list keeps growing! I'm sure next it will also make your coffee on demand (Or at least Siri will tell you from your iPad where the nearest coffee shop is.) :o) AppleTV - meant to be same price as current but handle 1080p. http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/06/updated-apple-tv-with-1080p-video-support-to-maintain-99-price-tag/ iOS5.1 AppleStore down,. All will be revealed,...very soon :)) Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT 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 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: Last minute iPad rumours,...
Yeh, not as much fun anymore they don't have live video streaming of these things. Arrr, those were the days :) Akamai servers doing their bit to stream it around the world :) Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: dan...@macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 07/03/2012, at 11:14 PM, cm wrote: Yes not sure if I should wait up and get the piecemeal text reporting with the excitement of knowing that it's live, or wait until tomorrow for the more informative full webcast. An iPad with haptic technology would be outstanding! C On 07/03/2012, at 23:08 , Daniel Kerr wrote: Well, not long til the release of what ever Apple are going to release, Whether it will be called the iPad3 or iPad HD,...time will tell. Had to laugh at all the coverage about it on the radio today and caught the end of a watch sunrise and see the first details about the iPad 3. The Apple PR hype machine is certainly in full swing!! What other company can get people so excited about things,. Some of the last minute rumours coming in sound quite interesting,..if it does show,... http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/07/ipad-3-to-include-haptic-display-technology-to-provide-on-screen-textures/ Dual Core processor A5X, 1GB memory,..Retina Display,...the list keeps growing! I'm sure next it will also make your coffee on demand (Or at least Siri will tell you from your iPad where the nearest coffee shop is.) :o) AppleTV - meant to be same price as current but handle 1080p. http://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/06/updated-apple-tv-with-1080p-video-support-to-maintain-99-price-tag/ iOS5.1 AppleStore down,. All will be revealed,...very soon :)) Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT 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 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
New iPad details
Woke up at 2am accidentally, so here's the latest news. So the new iPad has an extremely high resolution Retina screen 2048x1536 or exactly twice the resolution (4x the number of pixels) as the iPad 2. 1 million more pixels than a Full HD TV. Not bad for 4G LTE (and newer faster HSDPA up to 42Mbps) A5x w quad core GPU chip 5 megapixel camera on back Auto focus Image stabilization 1080p video recording Slightly thicker (9.4mm vs 8.8mm) and little bit heavier than iPad 2 (in order to get same battery life despite 4G) Voice dictation (but no Siri) Same prices as iPad 2 Available March 16 Still has a physical Home button Minor upgrade to AppleTV - now supports 1080p and movies in iCloud New iWork apps new GarageBand and iMovie New iPhoto app ( supports sharing to Facebook) iPad 2 now available for $399 (16GB wifi) - whoa, that's going to hurt competitors It's just called the new iPad. No 3 or HD or 2s. Weird. No iOS update mentioned. Hmm. -Mart -- 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: New iPad details
Yes. The name is a bit baffling. You can only call it the the new iPad once. Is next year's model the newer iPad, then the yet newer iPad. :-) Cheers, Carlo On 08/03/2012, at 3:26 , Martin Hill wrote: Woke up at 2am accidentally, so here's the latest news. So the new iPad has an extremely high resolution Retina screen 2048x1536 or exactly twice the resolution (4x the number of pixels) as the iPad 2. 1 million more pixels than a Full HD TV. Not bad for 4G LTE (and newer faster HSDPA up to 42Mbps) A5x w quad core GPU chip 5 megapixel camera on back Auto focus Image stabilization 1080p video recording Slightly thicker (9.4mm vs 8.8mm) and little bit heavier than iPad 2 (in order to get same battery life despite 4G) Voice dictation (but no Siri) Same prices as iPad 2 Available March 16 Still has a physical Home button Minor upgrade to AppleTV - now supports 1080p and movies in iCloud New iWork apps new GarageBand and iMovie New iPhoto app ( supports sharing to Facebook) iPad 2 now available for $399 (16GB wifi) - whoa, that's going to hurt competitors It's just called the new iPad. No 3 or HD or 2s. Weird. No iOS update mentioned. Hmm. -Mart -- 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: New iPad details
They might just call this one the new iPad. Then when they do something even more WOW next version it will be called the iPad 3,...or something,... But lol yes,...the new iPad! hehe I'd like to buy an iPad. Sure, we can sell you the iPad 2 or the new iPad. u. Is that the iPad 3? No, it's the new iPad /silence :o)) --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 08/03/2012, at 3:28 AM, cm wrote: Yes. The name is a bit baffling. You can only call it the the new iPad once. Is next year's model the newer iPad, then the yet newer iPad. :-) Cheers, Carlo On 08/03/2012, at 3:26 , Martin Hill wrote: Woke up at 2am accidentally, so here's the latest news. So the new iPad has an extremely high resolution Retina screen 2048x1536 or exactly twice the resolution (4x the number of pixels) as the iPad 2. 1 million more pixels than a Full HD TV. Not bad for 4G LTE (and newer faster HSDPA up to 42Mbps) A5x w quad core GPU chip 5 megapixel camera on back Auto focus Image stabilization 1080p video recording Slightly thicker (9.4mm vs 8.8mm) and little bit heavier than iPad 2 (in order to get same battery life despite 4G) Voice dictation (but no Siri) Same prices as iPad 2 Available March 16 Still has a physical Home button Minor upgrade to AppleTV - now supports 1080p and movies in iCloud New iWork apps new GarageBand and iMovie New iPhoto app ( supports sharing to Facebook) iPad 2 now available for $399 (16GB wifi) - whoa, that's going to hurt competitors It's just called the new iPad. No 3 or HD or 2s. Weird. No iOS update mentioned. Hmm. -Mart -- 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: New iPad details
They may be migrating to Macs style nomenclature. You just buy an iMac or a 15 MacBook Pro, or a MacBook Air, you don't specify a model number. So perhaps from here on in there are just iPads. C On 08/03/2012, at 3:32 , Daniel Kerr wrote: They might just call this one the new iPad. Then when they do something even more WOW next version it will be called the iPad 3,...or something,... But lol yes,...the new iPad! hehe I'd like to buy an iPad. Sure, we can sell you the iPad 2 or the new iPad. u. Is that the iPad 3? No, it's the new iPad /silence :o)) --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 08/03/2012, at 3:28 AM, cm wrote: Yes. The name is a bit baffling. You can only call it the the new iPad once. Is next year's model the newer iPad, then the yet newer iPad. :-) Cheers, Carlo On 08/03/2012, at 3:26 , Martin Hill wrote: Woke up at 2am accidentally, so here's the latest news. So the new iPad has an extremely high resolution Retina screen 2048x1536 or exactly twice the resolution (4x the number of pixels) as the iPad 2. 1 million more pixels than a Full HD TV. Not bad for 4G LTE (and newer faster HSDPA up to 42Mbps) A5x w quad core GPU chip 5 megapixel camera on back Auto focus Image stabilization 1080p video recording Slightly thicker (9.4mm vs 8.8mm) and little bit heavier than iPad 2 (in order to get same battery life despite 4G) Voice dictation (but no Siri) Same prices as iPad 2 Available March 16 Still has a physical Home button Minor upgrade to AppleTV - now supports 1080p and movies in iCloud New iWork apps new GarageBand and iMovie New iPhoto app ( supports sharing to Facebook) iPad 2 now available for $399 (16GB wifi) - whoa, that's going to hurt competitors It's just called the new iPad. No 3 or HD or 2s. Weird. No iOS update mentioned. Hmm. -Mart -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: New iPad details
H. Loads and loads of hype and expectation. This morninglike a slow leaking balloon...or the expectation of a great Xmas present and you get undies. It's nice and maybe I need itbut. Maybe it's just that it's not Steve? On 8/03/12 3:32 AM, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: They might just call this one the new iPad. Then when they do something even more WOW next version it will be called the iPad 3,...or something,... But lol yes,...the new iPad! hehe I'd like to buy an iPad. Sure, we can sell you the iPad 2 or the new iPad. u. Is that the iPad 3? No, it's the new iPad /silence :o)) --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 08/03/2012, at 3:28 AM, cm wrote: Yes. The name is a bit baffling. You can only call it the the new iPad once. Is next year's model the newer iPad, then the yet newer iPad. :-) Cheers, Carlo On 08/03/2012, at 3:26 , Martin Hill wrote: Woke up at 2am accidentally, so here's the latest news. So the new iPad has an extremely high resolution Retina screen 2048x1536 or exactly twice the resolution (4x the number of pixels) as the iPad 2. 1 million more pixels than a Full HD TV. Not bad for 4G LTE (and newer faster HSDPA up to 42Mbps) A5x w quad core GPU chip 5 megapixel camera on back Auto focus Image stabilization 1080p video recording Slightly thicker (9.4mm vs 8.8mm) and little bit heavier than iPad 2 (in order to get same battery life despite 4G) Voice dictation (but no Siri) Same prices as iPad 2 Available March 16 Still has a physical Home button Minor upgrade to AppleTV - now supports 1080p and movies in iCloud New iWork apps new GarageBand and iMovie New iPhoto app ( supports sharing to Facebook) iPad 2 now available for $399 (16GB wifi) - whoa, that's going to hurt competitors It's just called the new iPad. No 3 or HD or 2s. Weird. No iOS update mentioned. Hmm. -Mart -- 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 Stuart Evans T4 Technology ALBANY Shop 6, 69 Lockyer Avenue, Albany, WA, 6330 T 08 9842 9660 F 08 9842 9664 E stuart.ev...@t4.com.au BUNBURY Unit 2/14 Rose Street, Bunbury, WA, 6230 T 08 9721 9660 F 08 9842 9664 P PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE YOU PRINT THIS E-MAIL _ IMPORTANT INFORMATION: DISCLAIMER This correspondence is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information or both. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mis-transmission. If you receive this correspondence in error, please immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender. You must not disclose, copy or rely on any part of this correspondence if you are not the intended recipient. Any opinions expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the opinions of T4 Technology. Neither the sender nor T4 Technology warrants that any communication via the Internet is free of errors, viruses, interception or interference. T4 Technology disclaims all liability and responsibility for any direct or indirect loss arising from this electronic mail and any attachments. Information is distributed without warranties of any kind. _ -- 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: New iPad details
That makes sense. Except that they kept the iPad 2. It's a bit like iPhone 3/3G/4S. Maybe they could have iPad HD and iPad FHD??? :-) On 8/03/12 3:37 AM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: They may be migrating to Macs style nomenclature. You just buy an iMac or a 15 MacBook Pro, or a MacBook Air, you don't specify a model number. So perhaps from here on in there are just iPads. C On 08/03/2012, at 3:32 , Daniel Kerr wrote: They might just call this one the new iPad. Then when they do something even more WOW next version it will be called the iPad 3,...or something,... But lol yes,...the new iPad! hehe I'd like to buy an iPad. Sure, we can sell you the iPad 2 or the new iPad. u. Is that the iPad 3? No, it's the new iPad /silence :o)) --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 08/03/2012, at 3:28 AM, cm wrote: Yes. The name is a bit baffling. You can only call it the the new iPad once. Is next year's model the newer iPad, then the yet newer iPad. :-) Cheers, Carlo On 08/03/2012, at 3:26 , Martin Hill wrote: Woke up at 2am accidentally, so here's the latest news. So the new iPad has an extremely high resolution Retina screen 2048x1536 or exactly twice the resolution (4x the number of pixels) as the iPad 2. 1 million more pixels than a Full HD TV. Not bad for 4G LTE (and newer faster HSDPA up to 42Mbps) A5x w quad core GPU chip 5 megapixel camera on back Auto focus Image stabilization 1080p video recording Slightly thicker (9.4mm vs 8.8mm) and little bit heavier than iPad 2 (in order to get same battery life despite 4G) Voice dictation (but no Siri) Same prices as iPad 2 Available March 16 Still has a physical Home button Minor upgrade to AppleTV - now supports 1080p and movies in iCloud New iWork apps new GarageBand and iMovie New iPhoto app ( supports sharing to Facebook) iPad 2 now available for $399 (16GB wifi) - whoa, that's going to hurt competitors It's just called the new iPad. No 3 or HD or 2s. Weird. No iOS update mentioned. Hmm. -Mart -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug Stuart Evans T4 Technology ALBANY Shop 6, 69 Lockyer Avenue, Albany, WA, 6330 T 08 9842 9660 F 08 9842 9664 E stuart.ev...@t4.com.au BUNBURY Unit 2/14 Rose Street, Bunbury, WA, 6230 T 08 9721 9660 F 08 9842 9664 P PLEASE CONSIDER THE ENVIRONMENT BEFORE YOU PRINT THIS E-MAIL _ IMPORTANT INFORMATION: DISCLAIMER This correspondence is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information or both. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mis-transmission. If you receive this correspondence in error, please immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender. You must not disclose, copy or rely on any part of this correspondence if you are not the intended recipient. Any opinions expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the opinions of T4 Technology. Neither the sender nor T4 Technology warrants that any communication via the Internet is free of errors, viruses, interception or interference. T4 Technology disclaims all liability and responsibility for any direct or indirect loss arising from this electronic mail and any attachments. Information is distributed without warranties of any kind. _ -- 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
Matt iPad Screen Protector
My present iPad screen protector is shiny and hard to read outside, even in the shade. I should like to get a matt one. Does anyone know where I can buy one? I have to go into Perth CBD tomorrow, would the Apple Store have one? Best wishes from Diana -- 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: Matt iPad Screen Protector
Hi Diana If the Apple store doesn't have any, these may suit http://www.belkin.com/au/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=633089 (Which I think I can still get from the local wholesaler here). Hope that helps Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 27/02/2012, at 10:22 PM, Diana Graham Stevens wrote: My present iPad screen protector is shiny and hard to read outside, even in the shade. I should like to get a matt one. Does anyone know where I can buy one? I have to go into Perth CBD tomorrow, would the Apple Store have one? Best wishes from Diana -- 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: Matt iPad Screen Protector
Hi Daniel That URL gives an error. Tried the Belkin site same error. Please get one for me if you can, I don't really want to walk as far as the Apple Store at present! Best wishes from Diana On 27/02/2012, at 10:38 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Diana If the Apple store doesn't have any, these may suit http://www.belkin.com/au/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=633089 (Which I think I can still get from the local wholesaler here). Hope that helps Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 27/02/2012, at 10:22 PM, Diana Graham Stevens wrote: My present iPad screen protector is shiny and hard to read outside, even in the shade. I should like to get a matt one. Does anyone know where I can buy one? I have to go into Perth CBD tomorrow, would the Apple Store have one? Best wishes from Diana -- 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: Matt iPad Screen Protector
Lol, actually. Just found I had one with what I thought was only iPad1 Screen Protectors. But it's the MatteOverlay for iPad2. So will post it out to you. No problems at all. :o) Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 27/02/2012, at 10:46 PM, Diana Graham Stevens wrote: Hi Daniel That URL gives an error. Tried the Belkin site same error. Please get one for me if you can, I don't really want to walk as far as the Apple Store at present! Best wishes from Diana On 27/02/2012, at 10:38 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Diana If the Apple store doesn't have any, these may suit http://www.belkin.com/au/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=633089 (Which I think I can still get from the local wholesaler here). Hope that helps Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 27/02/2012, at 10:22 PM, Diana Graham Stevens wrote: My present iPad screen protector is shiny and hard to read outside, even in the shade. I should like to get a matt one. Does anyone know where I can buy one? I have to go into Perth CBD tomorrow, would the Apple Store have one? Best wishes from Diana -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Australia's LTE networks iPad
Thankyou Ronda Alan for these interesting snippets of info; most useful. On 16/02/2012, at 2:19 PM, Alan Smith wrote: I've been researching 4G/LTE this past week. I note that Telstra is offering typical speeds of 2 to 40 Mb/s, with coverage in CBD only (then carried more slowly over 3G). Still short of the minimum 54Mb/s required noted in Ronni's clip. Most specs of high speed 4G refer to stationary or slow moving users (not node-jumping in a vehicle). Also note that National Broadband is expecting a peak of 12 Mb/s for (stationary) users towards rim of cell area using 4G/LTE. LTE Advanced Release 10 is the holy grail planned to give a peak of 1Gb/s for stationary users. Release 8 is planned to deliver 300Mb/s. Hoping and waiting - - Cheers Alan On 16/02/2012, at 1:36 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Ray, A Google search produces this article which is more informative. http://www.zdacomm.com/news-events/lte-technology.html Both LTE and LTE Advanced are high speed 4G wireless technologies. LTE and LTE Advanced provide great speed access to Internet similar to FE connection. By using 4G wireless technologies, mobile users can get pleasure from voice calls, video calls and top speed download or upload of any data, and enjoy internet TV in live or on required services. Below are three difference between LTE and LTE Advanced : (1) LTE Advanced can backward compatible with LTE while LTE has no possible to backward compatible with LTE Advanced. (2) Both LTE and LTE Advanced will be forward and backward compatible with each other. (3) LTE can offer as much as 326 Mbps and LTE Advanced can offer to the maximum of 1200 Mbps (1.2 Gbps). Telstra LTE (FD-LTE) and Vividwireless LTE (TD-LTE) are two different kinds of LTE technology that will be used in 4G network in Australia . Telstra is going to use its present 2G spectrum (1800MHz) to utilize 4G LTE network with the help of FD-LTE technology. Vividwireless is a quite young company that got into telecommunication industry only one year's ago with the unveiling of its 4G wireless broadband network. VividWireless is broadening its network to the center of CBDs in main cities. Vividwireless has the permit for 70 MHz and 100 MHz of 2.3 GHz and 3.5 GHz spectrum in almost every Australian capital city, except for Hobart and Darwin. It is presently making use of its 2.3 GHz spectrum for the purpose of its WiMAX network in Perth and offering service by using the Huawei USB modem. It has prepared to improve its Wimax network by using TD-LTE technology. It is going to work with Huawei in network implementation. Vividwireless is proud of its download speed of 40-70Mbps and upload speed of 4-7Mbps with its TD-LTE network. Once 4G is unveiled and if you have at the least 54 Mbits/s (Worst case) download on your phone, on one hand ,you can experience any internet application just like you do in your desktop computers. For instance you can manage Skype, YouTube, IP TV apps, Video on Demand, VoIP Client and so on. On the other hand, you can easily subscribe to any local area numbers to your mobile VoIP client and begin to receive calls on your mobile by means of IP. No matter where you go around 4G coverage or Wi-Fi area you can easily receive calls to your Toronto Number.” Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 1:29 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Ray, As I am definitely not technically conversant with Mobile Phones, have you read this article: 'LTE-Advanced is the future, but no rocket ship’ http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/413467/lte-advanced_future_no_rocket_ship/ Cheers, Ronni 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
iPad 2 3G
Good morning all I have concluded that of my MacBook Pro is a serious over-kill for what I use it for and i am thinking of disposing of it and getting a iPad for when I go away on holidays but I cant seem to find a definitive answer to the following questions: Is it necessary to have a separate data plan for a 3G iPad 2 to access the internet or can the iPhone 4 be connected to it for internet access? and Can the iPad 2 WiFi access the internet via the iPhone? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.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: iPad 2 3G
It can indeed. It's how I'm responding now. You can use your iPhone to set up a personal wifi hotspot. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 16/02/2012, at 11:03 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good morning all I have concluded that of my MacBook Pro is a serious over-kill for what I use it for and i am thinking of disposing of it and getting a iPad for when I go away on holidays but I cant seem to find a definitive answer to the following questions: Is it necessary to have a separate data plan for a 3G iPad 2 to access the internet or can the iPhone 4 be connected to it for internet access? and Can the iPad 2 WiFi access the internet via the iPhone? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iPad 2 3G
Thanks Callum. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 16/02/2012, at 11:07 AM, Callum Prior wrote: It can indeed. It's how I'm responding now. You can use your iPhone to set up a personal wifi hotspot. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 16/02/2012, at 11:03 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good morning all I have concluded that of my MacBook Pro is a serious over-kill for what I use it for and i am thinking of disposing of it and getting a iPad for when I go away on holidays but I cant seem to find a definitive answer to the following questions: Is it necessary to have a separate data plan for a 3G iPad 2 to access the internet or can the iPhone 4 be connected to it for internet access? and Can the iPad 2 WiFi access the internet via the iPhone? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iPad 2 3G
Hi Adrian, I have used my iPhone to Personal Hotspot to my MacBook Pro and iPad on occasions when no Wi-Fi is available. I have to watch my Data Download though as I only have a 1.5GB Data plan on my iPhone. The Personal Hotspot can accept up to three simultaneous connections, letting you connect a Mac or two as well, when no Wi-Fi is available. Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 11:07 AM, Callum Prior wrote: It can indeed. It's how I'm responding now. You can use your iPhone to set up a personal wifi hotspot. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 16/02/2012, at 11:03 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good morning all I have concluded that of my MacBook Pro is a serious over-kill for what I use it for and i am thinking of disposing of it and getting a iPad for when I go away on holidays but I cant seem to find a definitive answer to the following questions: Is it necessary to have a separate data plan for a 3G iPad 2 to access the internet or can the iPhone 4 be connected to it for internet access? and Can the iPad 2 WiFi access the internet via the iPhone? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iPad 2 3G
Thanks Ronni I have also used the iPhone personal hotspot from time to time without a problem but most of the time I log into friends relies WiFi systems. I have a Telstra pre paid and with the bonuses that comes with it I have never been able to use it up in-spite of the fact that we never use the house phone for any out going calls. Seeing that the iPad 2 has been out for a fair while now I am wondering just when the next model is likely to appear. Its usually my luck to by something and have it superseded in a couple of weeks. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 16/02/2012, at 11:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, I have used my iPhone to Personal Hotspot to my MacBook Pro and iPad on occasions when no Wi-Fi is available. I have to watch my Data Download though as I only have a 1.5GB Data plan on my iPhone. The Personal Hotspot can accept up to three simultaneous connections, letting you connect a Mac or two as well, when no Wi-Fi is available. Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 11:07 AM, Callum Prior wrote: It can indeed. It's how I'm responding now. You can use your iPhone to set up a personal wifi hotspot. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 16/02/2012, at 11:03 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good morning all I have concluded that of my MacBook Pro is a serious over-kill for what I use it for and i am thinking of disposing of it and getting a iPad for when I go away on holidays but I cant seem to find a definitive answer to the following questions: Is it necessary to have a separate data plan for a 3G iPad 2 to access the internet or can the iPhone 4 be connected to it for internet access? and Can the iPad 2 WiFi access the internet via the iPhone? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iPad 2 3G
Rumoured to be early March. So yeh, hold off if in no rush. Have a look at www.macrumors.com - lots of info about it there. (if rumours are true of course. Though, pretty good odds) :) Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: dan...@macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au ** For Everything Apple ** On 16/02/2012, at 11:49 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni I have also used the iPhone personal hotspot from time to time without a problem but most of the time I log into friends relies WiFi systems. I have a Telstra pre paid and with the bonuses that comes with it I have never been able to use it up in-spite of the fact that we never use the house phone for any out going calls. Seeing that the iPad 2 has been out for a fair while now I am wondering just when the next model is likely to appear. Its usually my luck to by something and have it superseded in a couple of weeks. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 16/02/2012, at 11:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, I have used my iPhone to Personal Hotspot to my MacBook Pro and iPad on occasions when no Wi-Fi is available. I have to watch my Data Download though as I only have a 1.5GB Data plan on my iPhone. The Personal Hotspot can accept up to three simultaneous connections, letting you connect a Mac or two as well, when no Wi-Fi is available. Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 11:07 AM, Callum Prior wrote: It can indeed. It's how I'm responding now. You can use your iPhone to set up a personal wifi hotspot. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 16/02/2012, at 11:03 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good morning all I have concluded that of my MacBook Pro is a serious over-kill for what I use it for and i am thinking of disposing of it and getting a iPad for when I go away on holidays but I cant seem to find a definitive answer to the following questions: Is it necessary to have a separate data plan for a 3G iPad 2 to access the internet or can the iPhone 4 be connected to it for internet access? and Can the iPad 2 WiFi access the internet via the iPhone? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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: iPad 2 3G
Hi Adrian, If you are thinking of buying an iPad in the very near future, it may be prudent to wait a couple of weeks. It is only a rumour, albeit a persistent one, but Apple may announce the next version of the iPad (iPad 3 or even perhaps iPad 2s) on March 7. http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/13/ipad-3-announcement-on-march-7th-with-quad-core-and-4g-lte/ Cheers, Carlo On 16/02/2012, at 11:49 , Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni I have also used the iPhone personal hotspot from time to time without a problem but most of the time I log into friends relies WiFi systems. I have a Telstra pre paid and with the bonuses that comes with it I have never been able to use it up in-spite of the fact that we never use the house phone for any out going calls. Seeing that the iPad 2 has been out for a fair while now I am wondering just when the next model is likely to appear. Its usually my luck to by something and have it superseded in a couple of weeks. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 16/02/2012, at 11:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, I have used my iPhone to Personal Hotspot to my MacBook Pro and iPad on occasions when no Wi-Fi is available. I have to watch my Data Download though as I only have a 1.5GB Data plan on my iPhone. The Personal Hotspot can accept up to three simultaneous connections, letting you connect a Mac or two as well, when no Wi-Fi is available. Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 11:07 AM, Callum Prior wrote: It can indeed. It's how I'm responding now. You can use your iPhone to set up a personal wifi hotspot. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 16/02/2012, at 11:03 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good morning all I have concluded that of my MacBook Pro is a serious over-kill for what I use it for and i am thinking of disposing of it and getting a iPad for when I go away on holidays but I cant seem to find a definitive answer to the following questions: Is it necessary to have a separate data plan for a 3G iPad 2 to access the internet or can the iPhone 4 be connected to it for internet access? and Can the iPad 2 WiFi access the internet via the iPhone? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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: iPad 2 3G
Hi Adrian, I had a Telstra Pre Paid Micro-SIM for my iPad when I was traveling down south regularly. I am expecting the iPad 3 to be released fairly soon, certainly in 2012. Rumour sites are indicating as early as March 2012 ;-) I did not purchase the iPad 2, but am thinking seriously of upgrading to iPad 3. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 16/02/2012, at 11:49 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni I have also used the iPhone personal hotspot from time to time without a problem but most of the time I log into friends relies WiFi systems. I have a Telstra pre paid and with the bonuses that comes with it I have never been able to use it up in-spite of the fact that we never use the house phone for any out going calls. Seeing that the iPad 2 has been out for a fair while now I am wondering just when the next model is likely to appear. Its usually my luck to by something and have it superseded in a couple of weeks. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 16/02/2012, at 11:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, I have used my iPhone to Personal Hotspot to my MacBook Pro and iPad on occasions when no Wi-Fi is available. I have to watch my Data Download though as I only have a 1.5GB Data plan on my iPhone. The Personal Hotspot can accept up to three simultaneous connections, letting you connect a Mac or two as well, when no Wi-Fi is available. Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 11:07 AM, Callum Prior wrote: It can indeed. It's how I'm responding now. You can use your iPhone to set up a personal wifi hotspot. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 16/02/2012, at 11:03 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good morning all I have concluded that of my MacBook Pro is a serious over-kill for what I use it for and i am thinking of disposing of it and getting a iPad for when I go away on holidays but I cant seem to find a definitive answer to the following questions: Is it necessary to have a separate data plan for a 3G iPad 2 to access the internet or can the iPhone 4 be connected to it for internet access? and Can the iPad 2 WiFi access the internet via the iPhone? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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: iPad 2 3G
Adrian, Not sure where you are planning to travel. I travelled through Europe with my iPad 1 with wifi only and iPhone late last year. I used a French SIM card in the iPhone but didn't use Hotspot. Data in Europe is measured by TIME, not DATA. So as is commonly advised, make sure you turn off any data roaming. Safest is to run on Airline mode. The iPhone used 30€ overnight just checking on things to keep itself happy. Each time it goes looking for data, there is a flagfall fee, which is the killer for data use. I imagine locals can purchase a plan, but for casual users, 3G and data downloads are an expensive luxury. I found the iPad just fine for writing a blog, photo storage, mapping etc., but I do recommend you ensure you download as many offline maps as possible before you leave home. CityMaps2Go is a good option. As my iPad1 with wifi does not come with built in GPS, I purchased an add on device - Bad Elf GPS. This allowed the iPad to function well as a stand alone mapping tool with out needing to be connected to a network of any kind. I believe that with the iPad 2, both models have a built in proper GPS, but best to check. Blogging and note taking was fine using the iPad screen keyboard. But when I got home I started to explore using the iPad for more data entry and have bought an Apple Bluetooth keyboard along with a very sweet cover. The cover folds open and forms a holder for the iPad. With the long battery life of the iPad, and cool appearance, it is streets ahead of a laptop for my purposes. For normal holiday travelling, the addition of a BT keyboard might be over the top. Depends on how much data entry you think you will do. The other thing for travelling, especially overseas, is to put together an album of Australiana photos. I have travelled extensively through the bush, so have a big collection of photos on the iPad. But when chatting to locals, I really could have done with a 20 or 30 photo album showing the delights of WA. They really liked seeing where I came from and searching through the big iPhoto library was cumbersome. Hope this helps. Tim On 16/02/2012, at 11:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, I have used my iPhone to Personal Hotspot to my MacBook Pro and iPad on occasions when no Wi-Fi is available. I have to watch my Data Download though as I only have a 1.5GB Data plan on my iPhone. The Personal Hotspot can accept up to three simultaneous connections, letting you connect a Mac or two as well, when no Wi-Fi is available. Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 11:07 AM, Callum Prior wrote: It can indeed. It's how I'm responding now. You can use your iPhone to set up a personal wifi hotspot. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 16/02/2012, at 11:03 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good morning all I have concluded that of my MacBook Pro is a serious over-kill for what I use it for and i am thinking of disposing of it and getting a iPad for when I go away on holidays but I cant seem to find a definitive answer to the following questions: Is it necessary to have a separate data plan for a 3G iPad 2 to access the internet or can the iPhone 4 be connected to it for internet access? and Can the iPad 2 WiFi access the internet via the iPhone? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: iPad 2 3G
Hey Carlo, iPad 3 release date March 7 2012; in US stores March 16; and then be available in Australia March 30th ;-) Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 16/02/2012, at 11:59 AM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Adrian, If you are thinking of buying an iPad in the very near future, it may be prudent to wait a couple of weeks. It is only a rumour, albeit a persistent one, but Apple may announce the next version of the iPad (iPad 3 or even perhaps iPad 2s) on March 7. http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/13/ipad-3-announcement-on-march-7th-with-quad-core-and-4g-lte/ Cheers, Carlo On 16/02/2012, at 11:49 , Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni I have also used the iPhone personal hotspot from time to time without a problem but most of the time I log into friends relies WiFi systems. I have a Telstra pre paid and with the bonuses that comes with it I have never been able to use it up in-spite of the fact that we never use the house phone for any out going calls. Seeing that the iPad 2 has been out for a fair while now I am wondering just when the next model is likely to appear. Its usually my luck to by something and have it superseded in a couple of weeks. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 16/02/2012, at 11:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, I have used my iPhone to Personal Hotspot to my MacBook Pro and iPad on occasions when no Wi-Fi is available. I have to watch my Data Download though as I only have a 1.5GB Data plan on my iPhone. The Personal Hotspot can accept up to three simultaneous connections, letting you connect a Mac or two as well, when no Wi-Fi is available. Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 11:07 AM, Callum Prior wrote: It can indeed. It's how I'm responding now. You can use your iPhone to set up a personal wifi hotspot. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 16/02/2012, at 11:03 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good morning all I have concluded that of my MacBook Pro is a serious over-kill for what I use it for and i am thinking of disposing of it and getting a iPad for when I go away on holidays but I cant seem to find a definitive answer to the following questions: Is it necessary to have a separate data plan for a 3G iPad 2 to access the internet or can the iPhone 4 be connected to it for internet access? and Can the iPad 2 WiFi access the internet via the iPhone? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.co -- 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: iPad 2 3G
I can't wait to get my hands on one! :-) Cheers, Carlo On 16/02/2012, at 12:17 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hey Carlo, iPad 3 release date March 7 2012; in US stores March 16; and then be available in Australia March 30th ;-) Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 16/02/2012, at 11:59 AM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Adrian, If you are thinking of buying an iPad in the very near future, it may be prudent to wait a couple of weeks. It is only a rumour, albeit a persistent one, but Apple may announce the next version of the iPad (iPad 3 or even perhaps iPad 2s) on March 7. http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/13/ipad-3-announcement-on-march-7th-with-quad-core-and-4g-lte/ Cheers, Carlo On 16/02/2012, at 11:49 , Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks Ronni I have also used the iPhone personal hotspot from time to time without a problem but most of the time I log into friends relies WiFi systems. I have a Telstra pre paid and with the bonuses that comes with it I have never been able to use it up in-spite of the fact that we never use the house phone for any out going calls. Seeing that the iPad 2 has been out for a fair while now I am wondering just when the next model is likely to appear. Its usually my luck to by something and have it superseded in a couple of weeks. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 16/02/2012, at 11:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, I have used my iPhone to Personal Hotspot to my MacBook Pro and iPad on occasions when no Wi-Fi is available. I have to watch my Data Download though as I only have a 1.5GB Data plan on my iPhone. The Personal Hotspot can accept up to three simultaneous connections, letting you connect a Mac or two as well, when no Wi-Fi is available. Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 11:07 AM, Callum Prior wrote: It can indeed. It's how I'm responding now. You can use your iPhone to set up a personal wifi hotspot. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 16/02/2012, at 11:03 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good morning all I have concluded that of my MacBook Pro is a serious over-kill for what I use it for and i am thinking of disposing of it and getting a iPad for when I go away on holidays but I cant seem to find a definitive answer to the following questions: Is it necessary to have a separate data plan for a 3G iPad 2 to access the internet or can the iPhone 4 be connected to it for internet access? and Can the iPad 2 WiFi access the internet via the iPhone? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.co -- 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
Australia's LTE networks iPad
With rumours flying about the next iPad version having LTE reception ability I'm trying to find out if any Australian provider is offering LTE Advanced, or are they merely offering LTE (release 8) and touting it as 4G, even though release 8 does not pass the official 4G standard. Does anyone who is technically more conversant with mobile phones than I am, know? 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: Australia's LTE networks iPad
Hi Ray, As I am definitely not technically conversant with Mobile Phones, have you read this article: 'LTE-Advanced is the future, but no rocket ship’ http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/413467/lte-advanced_future_no_rocket_ship/ Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 1:19 PM, Ray Forma wrote: With rumours flying about the next iPad version having LTE reception ability I'm trying to find out if any Australian provider is offering LTE Advanced, or are they merely offering LTE (release 8) and touting it as 4G, even though release 8 does not pass the official 4G standard. Does anyone who is technically more conversant with mobile phones than I am, know? 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: Australia's LTE networks iPad
Hi Ray, A Google search produces this article which is more informative. http://www.zdacomm.com/news-events/lte-technology.html Both LTE and LTE Advanced are high speed 4G wireless technologies. LTE and LTE Advanced provide great speed access to Internet similar to FE connection. By using 4G wireless technologies, mobile users can get pleasure from voice calls, video calls and top speed download or upload of any data, and enjoy internet TV in live or on required services. Below are three difference between LTE and LTE Advanced : (1) LTE Advanced can backward compatible with LTE while LTE has no possible to backward compatible with LTE Advanced. (2) Both LTE and LTE Advanced will be forward and backward compatible with each other. (3) LTE can offer as much as 326 Mbps and LTE Advanced can offer to the maximum of 1200 Mbps (1.2 Gbps). Telstra LTE (FD-LTE) and Vividwireless LTE (TD-LTE) are two different kinds of LTE technology that will be used in 4G network in Australia . Telstra is going to use its present 2G spectrum (1800MHz) to utilize 4G LTE network with the help of FD-LTE technology. Vividwireless is a quite young company that got into telecommunication industry only one year's ago with the unveiling of its 4G wireless broadband network. VividWireless is broadening its network to the center of CBDs in main cities. Vividwireless has the permit for 70 MHz and 100 MHz of 2.3 GHz and 3.5 GHz spectrum in almost every Australian capital city, except for Hobart and Darwin. It is presently making use of its 2.3 GHz spectrum for the purpose of its WiMAX network in Perth and offering service by using the Huawei USB modem. It has prepared to improve its Wimax network by using TD-LTE technology. It is going to work with Huawei in network implementation. Vividwireless is proud of its download speed of 40-70Mbps and upload speed of 4-7Mbps with its TD-LTE network. Once 4G is unveiled and if you have at the least 54 Mbits/s (Worst case) download on your phone, on one hand ,you can experience any internet application just like you do in your desktop computers. For instance you can manage Skype, YouTube, IP TV apps, Video on Demand, VoIP Client and so on. On the other hand, you can easily subscribe to any local area numbers to your mobile VoIP client and begin to receive calls on your mobile by means of IP. No matter where you go around 4G coverage or Wi-Fi area you can easily receive calls to your Toronto Number.” Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 1:29 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Ray, As I am definitely not technically conversant with Mobile Phones, have you read this article: 'LTE-Advanced is the future, but no rocket ship’ http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/413467/lte-advanced_future_no_rocket_ship/ Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 1:19 PM, Ray Forma wrote: With rumours flying about the next iPad version having LTE reception ability I'm trying to find out if any Australian provider is offering LTE Advanced, or are they merely offering LTE (release 8) and touting it as 4G, even though release 8 does not pass the official 4G standard. Does anyone who is technically more conversant with mobile phones than I am, know? 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: iPad 2 3G
Thanks for that everyone, I will be waiting for the iPad 3 to come out. In the meantime is anyone interested in a 17 MacBook Pro? Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 16/02/2012, at 11:58 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Rumoured to be early March. So yeh, hold off if in no rush. Have a look at www.macrumors.com - lots of info about it there. (if rumours are true of course. Though, pretty good odds) :) Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: dan...@macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au ** For Everything Apple ** On 16/02/2012, at 11:49 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni I have also used the iPhone personal hotspot from time to time without a problem but most of the time I log into friends relies WiFi systems. I have a Telstra pre paid and with the bonuses that comes with it I have never been able to use it up in-spite of the fact that we never use the house phone for any out going calls. Seeing that the iPad 2 has been out for a fair while now I am wondering just when the next model is likely to appear. Its usually my luck to by something and have it superseded in a couple of weeks. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 16/02/2012, at 11:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, I have used my iPhone to Personal Hotspot to my MacBook Pro and iPad on occasions when no Wi-Fi is available. I have to watch my Data Download though as I only have a 1.5GB Data plan on my iPhone. The Personal Hotspot can accept up to three simultaneous connections, letting you connect a Mac or two as well, when no Wi-Fi is available. Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 11:07 AM, Callum Prior wrote: It can indeed. It's how I'm responding now. You can use your iPhone to set up a personal wifi hotspot. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 16/02/2012, at 11:03 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good morning all I have concluded that of my MacBook Pro is a serious over-kill for what I use it for and i am thinking of disposing of it and getting a iPad for when I go away on holidays but I cant seem to find a definitive answer to the following questions: Is it necessary to have a separate data plan for a 3G iPad 2 to access the internet or can the iPhone 4 be connected to it for internet access? and Can the iPad 2 WiFi access the internet via the iPhone? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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: Australia's LTE networks iPad
I've been researching 4G/LTE this past week. I note that Telstra is offering typical speeds of 2 to 40 Mb/s, with coverage in CBD only (then carried more slowly over 3G). Still short of the minimum 54Mb/s required noted in Ronni's clip. Most specs of high speed 4G refer to stationary or slow moving users (not node-jumping in a vehicle). Also note that National Broadband is expecting a peak of 12 Mb/s for (stationary) users towards rim of cell area using 4G/LTE. LTE Advanced Release 10 is the holy grail planned to give a peak of 1Gb/s for stationary users. Release 8 is planned to deliver 300Mb/s. Hoping and waiting - - Cheers Alan On 16/02/2012, at 1:36 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Ray, A Google search produces this article which is more informative. http://www.zdacomm.com/news-events/lte-technology.html Both LTE and LTE Advanced are high speed 4G wireless technologies. LTE and LTE Advanced provide great speed access to Internet similar to FE connection. By using 4G wireless technologies, mobile users can get pleasure from voice calls, video calls and top speed download or upload of any data, and enjoy internet TV in live or on required services. Below are three difference between LTE and LTE Advanced : (1) LTE Advanced can backward compatible with LTE while LTE has no possible to backward compatible with LTE Advanced. (2) Both LTE and LTE Advanced will be forward and backward compatible with each other. (3) LTE can offer as much as 326 Mbps and LTE Advanced can offer to the maximum of 1200 Mbps (1.2 Gbps). Telstra LTE (FD-LTE) and Vividwireless LTE (TD-LTE) are two different kinds of LTE technology that will be used in 4G network in Australia . Telstra is going to use its present 2G spectrum (1800MHz) to utilize 4G LTE network with the help of FD-LTE technology. Vividwireless is a quite young company that got into telecommunication industry only one year's ago with the unveiling of its 4G wireless broadband network. VividWireless is broadening its network to the center of CBDs in main cities. Vividwireless has the permit for 70 MHz and 100 MHz of 2.3 GHz and 3.5 GHz spectrum in almost every Australian capital city, except for Hobart and Darwin. It is presently making use of its 2.3 GHz spectrum for the purpose of its WiMAX network in Perth and offering service by using the Huawei USB modem. It has prepared to improve its Wimax network by using TD-LTE technology. It is going to work with Huawei in network implementation. Vividwireless is proud of its download speed of 40-70Mbps and upload speed of 4-7Mbps with its TD-LTE network. Once 4G is unveiled and if you have at the least 54 Mbits/s (Worst case) download on your phone, on one hand ,you can experience any internet application just like you do in your desktop computers. For instance you can manage Skype, YouTube, IP TV apps, Video on Demand, VoIP Client and so on. On the other hand, you can easily subscribe to any local area numbers to your mobile VoIP client and begin to receive calls on your mobile by means of IP. No matter where you go around 4G coverage or Wi-Fi area you can easily receive calls to your Toronto Number.” Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 1:29 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Ray, As I am definitely not technically conversant with Mobile Phones, have you read this article: 'LTE-Advanced is the future, but no rocket ship’ http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/413467/lte-advanced_future_no_rocket_ship/ Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 1:19 PM, Ray Forma wrote: With rumours flying about the next iPad version having LTE reception ability I'm trying to find out if any Australian provider is offering LTE Advanced, or are they merely offering LTE (release 8) and touting it as 4G, even though release 8 does not pass the official 4G standard. Does anyone who is technically more conversant with mobile phones than I am, know? 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 -- 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: iPad 2 3G
Hi Adrian I have a convert at work who is looking for a 17 inch pro. Can you send through the specks and a rough idea of price Cheers Pedro On 16/02/2012, at 2:18 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks for that everyone, I will be waiting for the iPad 3 to come out. In the meantime is anyone interested in a 17 MacBook Pro? Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 16/02/2012, at 11:58 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Rumoured to be early March. So yeh, hold off if in no rush. Have a look at www.macrumors.com - lots of info about it there. (if rumours are true of course. Though, pretty good odds) :) Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 4s --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: dan...@macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au ** For Everything Apple ** On 16/02/2012, at 11:49 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Thanks Ronni I have also used the iPhone personal hotspot from time to time without a problem but most of the time I log into friends relies WiFi systems. I have a Telstra pre paid and with the bonuses that comes with it I have never been able to use it up in-spite of the fact that we never use the house phone for any out going calls. Seeing that the iPad 2 has been out for a fair while now I am wondering just when the next model is likely to appear. Its usually my luck to by something and have it superseded in a couple of weeks. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 16/02/2012, at 11:19 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Adrian, I have used my iPhone to Personal Hotspot to my MacBook Pro and iPad on occasions when no Wi-Fi is available. I have to watch my Data Download though as I only have a 1.5GB Data plan on my iPhone. The Personal Hotspot can accept up to three simultaneous connections, letting you connect a Mac or two as well, when no Wi-Fi is available. Cheers, Ronni On 16/02/2012, at 11:07 AM, Callum Prior wrote: It can indeed. It's how I'm responding now. You can use your iPhone to set up a personal wifi hotspot. Cheers! -- Callum Prior On 16/02/2012, at 11:03 AM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: Good morning all I have concluded that of my MacBook Pro is a serious over-kill for what I use it for and i am thinking of disposing of it and getting a iPad for when I go away on holidays but I cant seem to find a definitive answer to the following questions: Is it necessary to have a separate data plan for a 3G iPad 2 to access the internet or can the iPhone 4 be connected to it for internet access? and Can the iPad 2 WiFi access the internet via the iPhone? Thanks in anticipation. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- 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: ipad dock to DVI connection
Thanks Mark and Carlo for the tips, and to the shops I go. Much obliged. DD On 23/01/2012, at 10:12, cm wrote: Hi David, It won't be multiple cables as such. There is a cable from the 30 pin connector to HDMI but then an adaptor (a matchbox sized double ended piece of plastic) to convert from HDMI to DVI. I needed a similar setup on one occasion and picked up the adaptor for Dick Smiths. Cheers, Carlo On 23/01/2012, at 9:54 , David de la Hunty wrote: Hi, Anyone seen or heard of a connector to change the 30 pin ipod/pad dock port to a standard DVI? Apple have one which goes to VGA, and one which goes to HDMI but no mention of DVI. My projector is a little older so no HDMI, and I'd like a bit better res than VGA. Dodgy Brothers version seen on ebay and on a badly spelt website, both based in Hong Kong - too scary. I imagine I could go Dock-to-HDMI and then adapt HDMI-to-DVI but multiple cables is also a bit of a worry. Thanks for any tips (Daniel Kerr are you out there?) dd -- 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
ipad dock to DVI connection
Hi, Anyone seen or heard of a connector to change the 30 pin ipod/pad dock port to a standard DVI? Apple have one which goes to VGA, and one which goes to HDMI but no mention of DVI. My projector is a little older so no HDMI, and I'd like a bit better res than VGA. Dodgy Brothers version seen on ebay and on a badly spelt website, both based in Hong Kong - too scary. I imagine I could go Dock-to-HDMI and then adapt HDMI-to-DVI but multiple cables is also a bit of a worry. Thanks for any tips (Daniel Kerr are you out there?) dd -- 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: ipad dock to DVI connection
HDMI supports single channel DVI signal so a HDMI to DVI convert /should/ work. 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, On 23/01/12 9:54 AM, David de la Hunty david...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi, Anyone seen or heard of a connector to change the 30 pin ipod/pad dock port to a standard DVI? Apple have one which goes to VGA, and one which goes to HDMI but no mention of DVI. My projector is a little older so no HDMI, and I'd like a bit better res than VGA. Dodgy Brothers version seen on ebay and on a badly spelt website, both based in Hong Kong - too scary. I imagine I could go Dock-to-HDMI and then adapt HDMI-to-DVI but multiple cables is also a bit of a worry. Thanks for any tips (Daniel Kerr are you out there?) dd -- 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: ipad dock to DVI connection
Or to clarify HDMI supports single channel DVI-D so So long as the projector/display supports digital input a HDMI to DVI-D converter should work. 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, On 23/01/12 10:04 AM, Mark Secker mark.sec...@uwa.edu.au wrote: HDMI supports single channel DVI signal so a HDMI to DVI convert /should/ work. 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, On 23/01/12 9:54 AM, David de la Hunty david...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi, Anyone seen or heard of a connector to change the 30 pin ipod/pad dock port to a standard DVI? Apple have one which goes to VGA, and one which goes to HDMI but no mention of DVI. My projector is a little older so no HDMI, and I'd like a bit better res than VGA. Dodgy Brothers version seen on ebay and on a badly spelt website, both based in Hong Kong - too scary. I imagine I could go Dock-to-HDMI and then adapt HDMI-to-DVI but multiple cables is also a bit of a worry. Thanks for any tips (Daniel Kerr are you out there?) dd -- 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: ipad dock to DVI connection
Hi David, It won't be multiple cables as such. There is a cable from the 30 pin connector to HDMI but then an adaptor (a matchbox sized double ended piece of plastic) to convert from HDMI to DVI. I needed a similar setup on one occasion and picked up the adaptor for Dick Smiths. Cheers, Carlo On 23/01/2012, at 9:54 , David de la Hunty wrote: Hi, Anyone seen or heard of a connector to change the 30 pin ipod/pad dock port to a standard DVI? Apple have one which goes to VGA, and one which goes to HDMI but no mention of DVI. My projector is a little older so no HDMI, and I'd like a bit better res than VGA. Dodgy Brothers version seen on ebay and on a badly spelt website, both based in Hong Kong - too scary. I imagine I could go Dock-to-HDMI and then adapt HDMI-to-DVI but multiple cables is also a bit of a worry. Thanks for any tips (Daniel Kerr are you out there?) dd -- 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
Remote Viewer (for iPhone/iPad)
Good morning all, Perchance has anyone out there used the following app at all? If so how useful has it been? Remote Viewer (for iPhone/iPad) iOS application that brings the contents of your Macintosh right to the screen of your iPhone, iPod, or iPad using Mac OS X Quick Look technology. Remote Viewer client requires iOS 4.3 or higher. RV Server requires Mac OS X 10.6 or higher. Get Remote Viewer Free from the iTunes App Store Get Remote Viewer for $0.99 from the iTunes App Store Download RV Server program for Mac Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.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
Handset connected to iPad
I have been presented with a Moshi POP Phone handset. Has anyone used this device on an iPad? It plugs into the earphones socket and one can hear music. However, I wish to use a Voip app on ipad to make and receive calls. I already have a Voip account with iinet and would wish to access that. Any suggestions please/ Merv -- The whole psychology of modern disquiet is linked with the sudden confrontation with space-time. (Teilhard de Chardin, 'The Phenomenon of Man') -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
For Next Christmas - TouchFire iPad keyboard
Here is an interesting concept for an iPad keyboard. It is still in the prototype phase. It obviously wouldn't handle reorientation of the keyboard on the screen, or the new keyboard splitting feature, but I think it will be worth a trial when it hits the shops: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/12/touchfire-ipad-keyboard/ 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Using the iPad as your main computer
Here is an interesting article about a tech writer who now does 80% of his computing on an iPad -- the remaining 20% being done on a MacBook Air. For those interested in photography there are even suggestions for partial replacements for Photoshop. I like the author use a wireless keyboard for longer text input task but unlike him I use a standard Apple aluminium wireless keyboard. http://technologizer.com/2011/12/05/how-the-ipad-2-became-my-favorite-computer/ 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 Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Cannot open Pages documents on iPad
On 30/11/2011, at 3:46 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: I don’t think you will have any trouble now you have your iOS Pages App Pages Application on your Mac updated to current versions and iCloud syncing. Thanks for the reassurances Ronni. The more I use it, the more I'll learn to trust how it is working. Tim -- 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
Cannot open Pages documents on iPad
First the good news; I bought a Apple Bluetooth keyboard on the Apple store sale last Friday. It arrived today and synced up easily with the iPad 1. It's a nice keyboard to use, good feel, and I'm looking forward to using it more - in particular with Pages which I've had on the iPad for over a year. Whilst travelling in October this year, I wrote a number of diary notes/blogs in Pages on the iPad. When I arrived back in Australia, I upgraded to the new version of Pages, and also OS5 and started syncing with iCloud. Now I find I cannot open the documents I created in Europe. I cannot select them either when using the Edit command in Pages. There are about 15 documents. Some of them have a bar across the bottom that looks like it is waiting to download. Others have an arrow on the top right hand corner, but when I tap them to open them, I get a message saying I need to be connected to the internet. But I already am connected These are not documents created on the Mac with a desktop version of Pages, these are documents I created on the same iPad, but now since an upgrade, I cannot do anything with them. Fortunately the stories have already been pasted into a proper online blog, but if they hadn't been, I'd be really stressed about not being able to open them. I have an iPad 1, with all software up to date. I've not tried to find these documents on my desktop Mac Mini or open them on Desktop Pages. Should I? Ta Tim -- 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: Cannot open Pages documents on iPad
Hi Tim, Yes I like the small and light, yet totally functional Apple bluetooth keyboard as well. You could try looking on the iCloud website to see what state iCloud itself believes the documents are in. If the documents are there you can then download them to your Mac. To check the iCloud website: 1) Point Safari at https://www.icloud.com/ and log in using your Apple ID and password. Check the keep me logged in checkbox if you like. 2) Select the iWork icon if it is visible on the screen. If it is not visible select the cloud icon at the top left of the page and then select the iWork icon. 3) You will then see all the iWork documents that you have stored on iCloud. If the documents you are after are there, clicking on them will display a Download button that will allow you to download a copy to your Mac. Cheers, Carlo On 29/11/2011, at 20:30 , Tim Law wrote: First the good news; I bought a Apple Bluetooth keyboard on the Apple store sale last Friday. It arrived today and synced up easily with the iPad 1. It's a nice keyboard to use, good feel, and I'm looking forward to using it more - in particular with Pages which I've had on the iPad for over a year. Whilst travelling in October this year, I wrote a number of diary notes/blogs in Pages on the iPad. When I arrived back in Australia, I upgraded to the new version of Pages, and also OS5 and started syncing with iCloud. Now I find I cannot open the documents I created in Europe. I cannot select them either when using the Edit command in Pages. There are about 15 documents. Some of them have a bar across the bottom that looks like it is waiting to download. Others have an arrow on the top right hand corner, but when I tap them to open them, I get a message saying I need to be connected to the internet. But I already am connected These are not documents created on the Mac with a desktop version of Pages, these are documents I created on the same iPad, but now since an upgrade, I cannot do anything with them. Fortunately the stories have already been pasted into a proper online blog, but if they hadn't been, I'd be really stressed about not being able to open them. I have an iPad 1, with all software up to date. I've not tried to find these documents on my desktop Mac Mini or open them on Desktop Pages. Should I? Ta Tim -- 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: Cannot open Pages documents on iPad
Thanks Carlo, When I go to https://www.icloud.com/ on either the iPhone or iPad, Safari flicks me through to a page that will only allow me to 'Set up iCloud', 'install find my iPhone', and 'Install Find my friends'. There is no option to log in.iCloud IS setup on both devices and apart from this, is functioning as I would expect. I cannot find a place to 'see' the documents as they are stored on iCloud, unlike I could with iDisk in the good old days :-) However, when I go to https://www.icloud.com/ on my Mac Mini, and then to iWork, I see the documents I am seeking. Any that are in Word, or created with the new version of Pages on the iPad (I created a test document yesterday before asking for help) are working as expected and will download. However the documents I created on the iPad in October remain a problem. I can select them and delete them. But if I click on them to try to download them, a flag comes up on the document saying 'Updating' and stays there for ages, like 10 minutes. It looks like these documents are toast. As I said in my original query, the contents of them have already been pasted over into my wordpress travel blog, but geez, if not, I'd be mighty miffed. I imagine I'm not alone. The sequence of events again is. 1. Travelling in Europe, I created a document each day as a diary. It was easier to write into Pages, than straight into the wordpress blog site which I could only do when online. The version of Pages on the iPad was the one current in September/ October, 2011 2. Whilst I was away, iCloud and the updated version of Pages for iPad was released. I did not update whilst away as I needed to connect to my desktop computer. 3. On return to Australia, I updated to OS5, updated Pages on the desktop, iPhone and iPad, and started using iCloud. 4. Browsing through Pages yesterday so I could test my new bluetooth keyboard with the intention of recording investigation reports on the iPad, I find these documents written in the previous version are not functioning. This has shaken my confidence in Pages, as if for example I'm in the middle of a major investigation in a workplace dispute and have recorded the evidence of several respondents, then Pages gets updated; am I going to lose access to all my work??? That's a concern for the future. For now, I'll use iWork online to delete these older documents, unless someone has an idea that might resurrect them. For anyone that's interested, my blog is at lawtbm.wordpress.com. It documents a family trip to Europe using Eurail pass for the trains and a self organised itinerary. Thanks Tim On 29/11/2011, at 10:07 PM, cm wrote: Hi Tim, Yes I like the small and light, yet totally functional Apple bluetooth keyboard as well. You could try looking on the iCloud website to see what state iCloud itself believes the documents are in. If the documents are there you can then download them to your Mac. To check the iCloud website: 1) Point Safari at https://www.icloud.com/ and log in using your Apple ID and password. Check the keep me logged in checkbox if you like. 2) Select the iWork icon if it is visible on the screen. If it is not visible select the cloud icon at the top left of the page and then select the iWork icon. 3) You will then see all the iWork documents that you have stored on iCloud. If the documents you are after are there, clicking on them will display a Download button that will allow you to download a copy to your Mac. Cheers, Carlo On 29/11/2011, at 20:30 , Tim Law wrote: First the good news; I bought a Apple Bluetooth keyboard on the Apple store sale last Friday. It arrived today and synced up easily with the iPad 1. It's a nice keyboard to use, good feel, and I'm looking forward to using it more - in particular with Pages which I've had on the iPad for over a year. Whilst travelling in October this year, I wrote a number of diary notes/blogs in Pages on the iPad. When I arrived back in Australia, I upgraded to the new version of Pages, and also OS5 and started syncing with iCloud. Now I find I cannot open the documents I created in Europe. I cannot select them either when using the Edit command in Pages. There are about 15 documents. Some of them have a bar across the bottom that looks like it is waiting to download. Others have an arrow on the top right hand corner, but when I tap them to open them, I get a message saying I need to be connected to the internet. But I already am connected These are not documents created on the Mac with a desktop version of Pages, these are documents I created on the same iPad, but now since an upgrade, I cannot do anything with them. Fortunately the stories have already been pasted into a proper online blog, but if they hadn't been, I'd be really stressed about not being able to open them. I have an iPad 1, with all software up to date. I've
Re: Cannot open Pages documents on iPad
Hi Tim, 3. On return to Australia, I updated to OS5, updated Pages on the desktop, iPhone and iPad, and started using iCloud. So all the Pages documents were created on the iPad before you had iCloud syncing setup? Did you sync the Pages Documents to your Mac as soon as you returned home to your computer and BEFORE setting up iCloud? You won’t see these Pages Documents in iCloud if you didn’t. DON’T delete the Pages Documents until we have time to sort out what has happened and ways to restore the documents. I haven’t had time to read your post thoroughly, as soon as I’m able I’ll get back to you and try to give any assistance I can. Just don’t delete the Pages documents because once deleted they are gone! Cheers, Ronni On 30/11/2011, at 6:37 AM, Tim Law wrote: Thanks Carlo, When I go to https://www.icloud.com/ on either the iPhone or iPad, Safari flicks me through to a page that will only allow me to 'Set up iCloud', 'install find my iPhone', and 'Install Find my friends'. There is no option to log in.iCloud IS setup on both devices and apart from this, is functioning as I would expect. I cannot find a place to 'see' the documents as they are stored on iCloud, unlike I could with iDisk in the good old days :-) However, when I go to https://www.icloud.com/ on my Mac Mini, and then to iWork, I see the documents I am seeking. Any that are in Word, or created with the new version of Pages on the iPad (I created a test document yesterday before asking for help) are working as expected and will download. However the documents I created on the iPad in October remain a problem. I can select them and delete them. But if I click on them to try to download them, a flag comes up on the document saying 'Updating' and stays there for ages, like 10 minutes. It looks like these documents are toast. As I said in my original query, the contents of them have already been pasted over into my wordpress travel blog, but geez, if not, I'd be mighty miffed. I imagine I'm not alone. The sequence of events again is. 1. Travelling in Europe, I created a document each day as a diary. It was easier to write into Pages, than straight into the wordpress blog site which I could only do when online. The version of Pages on the iPad was the one current in September/ October, 2011 2. Whilst I was away, iCloud and the updated version of Pages for iPad was released. I did not update whilst away as I needed to connect to my desktop computer. 3. On return to Australia, I updated to OS5, updated Pages on the desktop, iPhone and iPad, and started using iCloud. 4. Browsing through Pages yesterday so I could test my new bluetooth keyboard with the intention of recording investigation reports on the iPad, I find these documents written in the previous version are not functioning. This has shaken my confidence in Pages, as if for example I'm in the middle of a major investigation in a workplace dispute and have recorded the evidence of several respondents, then Pages gets updated; am I going to lose access to all my work??? That's a concern for the future. For now, I'll use iWork online to delete these older documents, unless someone has an idea that might resurrect them. For anyone that's interested, my blog is at lawtbm.wordpress.com. It documents a family trip to Europe using Eurail pass for the trains and a self organised itinerary. Thanks Tim On 29/11/2011, at 10:07 PM, cm wrote: Hi Tim, Yes I like the small and light, yet totally functional Apple bluetooth keyboard as well. You could try looking on the iCloud website to see what state iCloud itself believes the documents are in. If the documents are there you can then download them to your Mac. To check the iCloud website: 1) Point Safari at https://www.icloud.com/ and log in using your Apple ID and password. Check the keep me logged in checkbox if you like. 2) Select the iWork icon if it is visible on the screen. If it is not visible select the cloud icon at the top left of the page and then select the iWork icon. 3) You will then see all the iWork documents that you have stored on iCloud. If the documents you are after are there, clicking on them will display a Download button that will allow you to download a copy to your Mac. Cheers, Carlo On 29/11/2011, at 20:30 , Tim Law wrote: First the good news; I bought a Apple Bluetooth keyboard on the Apple store sale last Friday. It arrived today and synced up easily with the iPad 1. It's a nice keyboard to use, good feel, and I'm looking forward to using it more - in particular with Pages which I've had on the iPad for over a year. Whilst travelling in October this year, I wrote a number of diary notes/blogs in Pages on the iPad. When I arrived back in Australia, I upgraded to the new version of Pages, and also OS5 and started
Re: Cannot open Pages documents on iPad
On 30/11/2011, at 7:48 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, 3. On return to Australia, I updated to OS5, updated Pages on the desktop, iPhone and iPad, and started using iCloud. So all the Pages documents were created on the iPad before you had iCloud syncing setup? Yes, All the Pages Documents I can no longer access were created on the iPad before iCloud. Documents I have created since updating Pages, OS5 and sync to iCloud work as expected. Did you sync the Pages Documents to your Mac as soon as you returned home to your computer and BEFORE setting up iCloud? You won’t see these Pages Documents in iCloud if you didn’t. They are in iCloud, so I assume I did everything correctly. But I cannot download them and by clicking on them they have a flag come up saying they are updating. This never completes - well, after ten minutes anyway. I didn't upgrade for a few days after arriving home, so 'assumed' Pages synced as it normally would have done prior to upgrading. I don't recall doing anything special - y'know, just let the Mac do it's thing DON’T delete the Pages Documents until we have time to sort out what has happened and ways to restore the documents. I haven’t had time to read your post thoroughly, as soon as I’m able I’ll get back to you and try to give any assistance I can. Just don’t delete the Pages documents because once deleted they are gone! Sure. I won't delete them, but as the posting (below) says, they are no longer needed. But it's a worry that this can happen following an upgrade. Cheers, Ronni Thanks Ronni. Tim On 30/11/2011, at 6:37 AM, Tim Law wrote: Thanks Carlo, When I go to https://www.icloud.com/ on either the iPhone or iPad, Safari flicks me through to a page that will only allow me to 'Set up iCloud', 'install find my iPhone', and 'Install Find my friends'. There is no option to log in.iCloud IS setup on both devices and apart from this, is functioning as I would expect. I cannot find a place to 'see' the documents as they are stored on iCloud, unlike I could with iDisk in the good old days :-) However, when I go to https://www.icloud.com/ on my Mac Mini, and then to iWork, I see the documents I am seeking. Any that are in Word, or created with the new version of Pages on the iPad (I created a test document yesterday before asking for help) are working as expected and will download. However the documents I created on the iPad in October remain a problem. I can select them and delete them. But if I click on them to try to download them, a flag comes up on the document saying 'Updating' and stays there for ages, like 10 minutes. It looks like these documents are toast. As I said in my original query, the contents of them have already been pasted over into my wordpress travel blog, but geez, if not, I'd be mighty miffed. I imagine I'm not alone. The sequence of events again is. 1. Travelling in Europe, I created a document each day as a diary. It was easier to write into Pages, than straight into the wordpress blog site which I could only do when online. The version of Pages on the iPad was the one current in September/ October, 2011 2. Whilst I was away, iCloud and the updated version of Pages for iPad was released. I did not update whilst away as I needed to connect to my desktop computer. 3. On return to Australia, I updated to OS5, updated Pages on the desktop, iPhone and iPad, and started using iCloud. 4. Browsing through Pages yesterday so I could test my new bluetooth keyboard with the intention of recording investigation reports on the iPad, I find these documents written in the previous version are not functioning. This has shaken my confidence in Pages, as if for example I'm in the middle of a major investigation in a workplace dispute and have recorded the evidence of several respondents, then Pages gets updated; am I going to lose access to all my work??? That's a concern for the future. For now, I'll use iWork online to delete these older documents, unless someone has an idea that might resurrect them. For anyone that's interested, my blog is at lawtbm.wordpress.com. It documents a family trip to Europe using Eurail pass for the trains and a self organised itinerary. Thanks Tim On 29/11/2011, at 10:07 PM, cm wrote: Hi Tim, Yes I like the small and light, yet totally functional Apple bluetooth keyboard as well. You could try looking on the iCloud website to see what state iCloud itself believes the documents are in. If the documents are there you can then download them to your Mac. To check the iCloud website: 1) Point Safari at https://www.icloud.com/ and log in using your Apple ID and password. Check the keep me logged in checkbox if you like. 2) Select the iWork icon if it is visible on the screen. If it is not visible select
Re: Cannot open Pages documents on iPad
Hi Tim, I had started typing a reply earlier this morning, but had to halt and do a client’s job and my ‘draft' email did not save :( So I’ve now had to try and get my train of thought back and remember what I was going to say. On 30/11/2011, at 8:06 AM, Tim Law wrote: On 30/11/2011, at 7:48 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, 3. On return to Australia, I updated to OS5, updated Pages on the desktop, iPhone and iPad, and started using iCloud. So all the Pages documents were created on the iPad before you had iCloud syncing setup? Yes, All the Pages Documents I can no longer access were created on the iPad before iCloud. How did you get these Pages documents from the iPad onto your Mac when you returned? Did you export / transfer them into iTunes File sharing section Pages App and then selected them all and ‘Save To’ to save them to a location on your Mac? Did you do this BEFORE you updated Pages Application and setup iCloud? If so would the documents open in Pages then? Documents I have created since updating Pages, OS5 and sync to iCloud work as expected. As we would expect them to as they are all compatible with each other since updating. Did you sync the Pages Documents to your Mac as soon as you returned home to your computer and BEFORE setting up iCloud? You won’t see these Pages Documents in iCloud if you didn’t. They are in iCloud, so I assume I did everything correctly. But I cannot download them and by clicking on them they have a flag come up saying they are updating. This never completes - well, after ten minutes anyway. You will need to let them update to the new format. Depending on how large the 15 documents you created on the iPad while you were away are , I presume this could take quite some time. I'm also a bit concerned (not knowing exactly what you did immediately you returned home to your Mac) if the Pages documents that were created on the iPad prior to updating Pages App iCloud etc, have not been properly downloaded to the Mac Pages format are still in the iOS format? The Mac and iOS versions of the same iWork document are different. When you load a Mac version of an iWork document into an iOS iWork app, the document is converted to the iOS format. I didn't upgrade for a few days after arriving home, so 'assumed' Pages synced as it normally would have done prior to upgrading. I don't recall doing anything special - y'know, just let the Mac do it's thing…. How were you syncing, via MobileMe or iTunes? Did you check you could open the Pages Documents first before you did a sync? Cheers, Ronni DON’T delete the Pages Documents until we have time to sort out what has happened and ways to restore the documents. I haven’t had time to read your post thoroughly, as soon as I’m able I’ll get back to you and try to give any assistance I can. Just don’t delete the Pages documents because once deleted they are gone! Sure. I won't delete them, but as the posting (below) says, they are no longer needed. But it's a worry that this can happen following an upgrade. Cheers, Ronni Thanks Ronni. Tim On 30/11/2011, at 6:37 AM, Tim Law wrote: Thanks Carlo, When I go to https://www.icloud.com/ on either the iPhone or iPad, Safari flicks me through to a page that will only allow me to 'Set up iCloud', 'install find my iPhone', and 'Install Find my friends'. There is no option to log in.iCloud IS setup on both devices and apart from this, is functioning as I would expect. I cannot find a place to 'see' the documents as they are stored on iCloud, unlike I could with iDisk in the good old days :-) However, when I go to https://www.icloud.com/ on my Mac Mini, and then to iWork, I see the documents I am seeking. Any that are in Word, or created with the new version of Pages on the iPad (I created a test document yesterday before asking for help) are working as expected and will download. However the documents I created on the iPad in October remain a problem. I can select them and delete them. But if I click on them to try to download them, a flag comes up on the document saying 'Updating' and stays there for ages, like 10 minutes. It looks like these documents are toast. As I said in my original query, the contents of them have already been pasted over into my wordpress travel blog, but geez, if not, I'd be mighty miffed. I imagine I'm not alone. The sequence of events again is. 1. Travelling in Europe, I created a document each day as a diary. It was easier to write into Pages, than straight into the wordpress blog site which I could only do when online. The version of Pages on the iPad was the one current in September/ October, 2011 2. Whilst I was away, iCloud and the updated version of Pages for iPad was released. I did not update whilst away as I needed to connect to my desktop computer. 3
Re: Cannot open Pages documents on iPad
On 30/11/2011, at 1:00 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, I had started typing a reply earlier this morning, but had to halt and do a client’s job and my ‘draft' email did not save :( So I’ve now had to try and get my train of thought back and remember what I was going to say. On 30/11/2011, at 8:06 AM, Tim Law wrote: On 30/11/2011, at 7:48 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, 3. On return to Australia, I updated to OS5, updated Pages on the desktop, iPhone and iPad, and started using iCloud. So all the Pages documents were created on the iPad before you had iCloud syncing setup? Yes, All the Pages Documents I can no longer access were created on the iPad before iCloud. How did you get these Pages documents from the iPad onto your Mac when you returned? I didn't. I left them on the iPad. As I didn't need them any more, I didn't need to do anything with them. Whilst travelling I used them to write my blog on the train for example, then uploaded them to the wordpress site when I had wifi. I could have deleted from the iPad at the time, but never got around to it. My concern was raised last night when I couldn't open them on the machine they were created on. Did you export / transfer them into iTunes File sharing section Pages App and then selected them all and ‘Save To’ to save them to a location on your Mac? Nope. As above. Did you do this BEFORE you updated Pages Application and setup iCloud? Nope. As above. If so would the documents open in Pages then? Documents I have created since updating Pages, OS5 and sync to iCloud work as expected. As we would expect them to as they are all compatible with each other since updating. Did you sync the Pages Documents to your Mac as soon as you returned home to your computer and BEFORE setting up iCloud? You won’t see these Pages Documents in iCloud if you didn’t. They are in iCloud, so I assume I did everything correctly. But I cannot download them and by clicking on them they have a flag come up saying they are updating. This never completes - well, after ten minutes anyway. You will need to let them update to the new format. Depending on how large the 15 documents you created on the iPad while you were away are , I presume this could take quite some time. I'm also a bit concerned (not knowing exactly what you did immediately you returned home to your Mac) if the Pages documents that were created on the iPad prior to updating Pages App iCloud etc, have not been properly downloaded to the Mac Pages format are still in the iOS format? I suspect this is the case. They would have been created in the old IOS format. I'm going out for my own work now, so will try to open them in iCloud/iWorks again. However this morning, nothing upgraded despite me leaving the computer for an hour. If I try to open them on the iPad or iPhone, both running OS5, there is a little blue activity bar across the bottom of each one for a second or so, then the action stops. The Mac and iOS versions of the same iWork document are different. When you load a Mac version of an iWork document into an iOS iWork app, the document is converted to the iOS format. I didn't upgrade for a few days after arriving home, so 'assumed' Pages synced as it normally would have done prior to upgrading. I don't recall doing anything special - y'know, just let the Mac do it's thing…. How were you syncing, via MobileMe or iTunes? MobileMe. Did you check you could open the Pages Documents first before you did a sync? No. Ronni, I suspect that will the upgrades of both Pages, and the OS and the move to iCloud, these documents have been lost/locked in some past version timewarp. This is not a real problem for me now, but I'm cautious for the future. Should I be downloading every Pages document I have created on the iPad immediately onto the Desktop Mac?? Thanks Tim DON’T delete the Pages Documents until we have time to sort out what has happened and ways to restore the documents. I haven’t had time to read your post thoroughly, as soon as I’m able I’ll get back to you and try to give any assistance I can. Just don’t delete the Pages documents because once deleted they are gone! Sure. I won't delete them, but as the posting (below) says, they are no longer needed. But it's a worry that this can happen following an upgrade. Cheers, Ronni Thanks Ronni. Tim On 30/11/2011, at 6:37 AM, Tim Law wrote: Thanks Carlo, When I go to https://www.icloud.com/ on either the iPhone or iPad, Safari flicks me through to a page that will only allow me to 'Set up iCloud', 'install find my iPhone', and 'Install Find my friends'. There is no option to log in.iCloud IS setup on both devices and apart from this, is functioning as I would expect. I cannot find a place to 'see' the documents as they are stored
Re: Cannot open Pages documents on iPad
Hi Tim, I don’t think you will have any trouble now you have your iOS Pages App Pages Application on your Mac updated to current versions and iCloud syncing. Automatic syncing between Macs and iCloud happens in the Mobile Documents folder. However, this is not a folder that Apple intends for end-user access. So be careful if you go meddling there. It is of limited value in any case. You may note that documents in this folder appear as folders, not actual documents. To convert one of these folders to an iWork document, remove the “-tef” from the extension in its name. Do this with a copy, moved elsewhere, not the original. Even if you do this, the document will not open in the Mac versions of iWork documents. It remains in an iOS-only format. I’ve included some information for you to read and a web link where I think you will find answers to your questions. 1. If you can’t open a document displaying a downward-pointing arrow: If you’re not connected to the Internet, you may find that you’re unable to open an older document that you haven’t looked at in a while. This happens if the memory on your device becomes full so that it can’t contain all of the documents that are available through iCloud. The complete contents of older documents are temporarily suspended from the overloaded device to make space for those that have been viewed more recently. Connect to the Internet, and then try opening the document again. The document becomes a recently viewed document, and another older document is suspended from your mobile device to make space for it. To free up space and allow more room to store your documents, you can delete music, photos, videos, apps, or other items stored on your mobile device. 2. Keep documents up to date across your mobile devices using iCloud: iCloud stores your documents and keeps them up to date across your iPad, your iPhone, your iPod touch, and the web, so that you always have the most current versions at hand, no matter which mobile device you were using when you made your latest edits. After you set up iCloud on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, every time you edit a document in Pages on one mobile device, your changes are automatically sent to your other mobile devices where you’ve installed Pages and turned on iCloud. You can also access any documents created or edited on your mobile device from your computer. Use your computer’s browser to visit the iCloud website at icloud.com/iwork, where you can download documents in Pages ’09, PDF, or Microsoft Word file format. You can also upload documents in Pages ’09 or Word file format to the iCloud website, and have them automatically appear in Pages on your mobile device. To learn more about iCloud, see the relevant topics in your device’s User Guide (in Safari bookmarks on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, tap the User Guide link, and then search for “iCloud”). Here are a few things to keep in mind about how iCloud helps you manage your documents across devices: If you edit and close a document, but you’re not connected to the Internet at the time, an upward-pointing arrow in the document’s thumbnail image indicates that the edited document will be uploaded as soon as an Internet connection becomes available. The edited document is uploaded along with a history of the edits you made, so when you open the document on another device, you can undo individual edits, just as if you had made the edits on that device. If you delete a document, it’s deleted from Pages on all your mobile devices and from iCloud storage. If you organize your documents into folders on one device, all your devices are updated to reflect the same folder organization. If you change the title of a document on one device, the title is changed on all your devices. If you upload a new document to icloud.com/iwork from your computer, it appears on your mobile device only after you open Pages and connect to the Internet. http://help.apple.com/pages/ipad/1.5/#tan79be8e93 http://help.apple.com/pages/ipad/1.5/# —— 3. Pages for iOS: Changes when importing a Pages for Mac document: Summary: In most cases, you will see no difference when you import a document to Pages for iOS from Pages for Mac. During the import process, Pages for iOS creates a copy of the imported document and retains the original. After the import process, changes made to the content or document layout are listed for your review. Below is a list of the changes that are made to Pages for Mac documents that are imported and converted to the Pages for iOS optimized file format
