Re: [MacGroup] The end of MacGroup

[Dan Crutcher]

Harry, I remember those days as well. I think we first met at a LAUG 
(Louisville Apple Users Group) meeting, probably in the mid-‘80s. I also 
remember times spent in Tom Guenthner’s basement talking about LAUG and how we 
could get more participants.

In 1987 I bought an Apple IIgs (having previously owned a IIe) and thought I’d 
been transported to computer heaven, with its 2.8 MHz, 16-bit processor. I 
souped it up with a RamKeeper card and a 30 MB hard drive ($600). Because the 
GS was text-based (in its ProDOS mode) it was incredibly fast: boot time was 
approximately 2 seconds. It also had a Maclike graphical user interface that I 
rarely used because it was so slow. 

You may recall that there was a bit of tension between the Apple II folks and 
the Mac users at LAUG meetings in the early days of Mac. Us IIGS users found 
the Macs (SE’s at that time?) intriguing but way too expensive and laughably 
slow with its clunky GUI. And a lot of us IIers were pissed off that Apple was 
devoting all its resources to the Mac and leaving the II series twisting in the 
wind. At that time the Apple II was the cash cow that was supporting the 
newfangled Macs and it felt traitorous that Apple abandoned it. 

Those LAUG meetings were also where I met Lee, who was the first one I can 
remember to own a Mac. He was pretty sure that the Mac was the wave of the 
future and I thought he was a bit daft. Look how that turned out. 

Dan

> On Feb 4, 2020, at 4:29 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer  wrote:
> 
> Lee,
> 
> Thanks so much for the long ride. I first discovered our little group when 
> you and Tom Guenthner managed a bulletin board which I accessed with a dial 
> up modem from my Apple //e. When Apple came out with the Apple //e enhanced 
> model Tom upgraded my computer.
> 
> One of my favorite memories was the group (led by Lee and Tom) building a 
> 60mb hard drive for group members. You found a box, cables, controller board, 
> and hard drive the computer shopper and we met at someone’s house and you 
> helped us put it all together. It cost us about $500 per unit. I used that 
> drive on my Apple //e. When I got my first Mac I reformatted it and used it 
> with my Mac.
> 
> I remember meetings at the Mac Store on Breckinridge Lane - it’s now Simply 
> Mac and they have moved from that location. We moved to the government center 
> on Shelbyville Rd. I think at some point the membership dwindled and then 
> you, Lee, set up this list serve.
> 
> To everyone who has ever submitted a question to the group and/or supplied an 
> answer a heartfelt Thank-you. And to Lee we ALL owe you a huge thanks and a 
> round of applause for all the time and effort you spent setting up the group 
> and answering questions.
> 
> See you in the could.
> 
> Harry
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Feb 4, 2020, at 2:25 PM, Lee Larson  wrote:
>> 
>> The Instructional Technology people at the University of Louisville have 
>> decided departmental mail servers are an unacceptable security risk. They 
>> are going to block external access to them beginning February 15. After they 
>> do this, it won’t be possible to host MacGroup on its present server. Unless 
>> another server can be found, the list will no longer be available after that 
>> date.
>> 
>> L^2
>> 
>> PS/ This list has had a long lifetime, compared to most mailing lists. My 
>> archives date back to July 16, 2007 and contain over 16,000 messages. When I 
>> first set up this list I had no idea it would last more than twelve years 
>> and migrate through at least three machine upgrades.
>> 
>> 
>> Lee Larson
>> leelar...@me.com
>> 
>> So long, and thanks for all the fish. — Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Trilogy, 
>> Volume 4
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Re: [MacGroup] The end of MacGroup

[Dan Crutcher]

I’ll be sorry to lose such a valuable resource. Thanks Lee for all you’ve done 
for the Mac community. 

Dan

> On Feb 4, 2020, at 11:26 AM, Lee Larson  wrote:
> 
> The Instructional Technology people at the University of Louisville have 
> decided departmental mail servers are an unacceptable security risk. They are 
> going to block external access to them beginning February 15. After they do 
> this, it won’t be possible to host MacGroup on its present server. Unless 
> another server can be found, the list will no longer be available after that 
> date.
> 
> L^2
> 
> PS/ This list has had a long lifetime, compared to most mailing lists. My 
> archives date back to July 16, 2007 and contain over 16,000 messages. When I 
> first set up this list I had no idea it would last more than twelve years and 
> migrate through at least three machine upgrades.
> 
> 
> Lee Larson
> leelar...@me.com
> 
> So long, and thanks for all the fish. — Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Trilogy, 
> Volume 4
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Re: [MacGroup] purported call from Apple Support

[Dan Crutcher]

Harry,

I have heard of spam calls that try to get you to make a call that generates a 
charge, like a 1-900 call. I’m not sure how that benefits the scammer, but it 
may be what they were trying to do. Check your next phone bill to see if you 
have any such charges.

> On Jun 3, 2019, at 9:56 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer  wrote:
> 
> I didn’t give them any information. Can they do or get anything from my phone 
> just from my being on the line with them?
> 
>> On Jun 3, 2019, at 12:50 PM, Chris Denny  wrote:
>> 
>> Apple never calls you, it’s a phishing attempt.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jun 3, 2019, at 12:46 PM, "eugene.wi...@conagra.com" 
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> You answered.:) I have only had apple call me one time in all the years I 
>>> have had their products. An it was during Beta testing.:)
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: macgroup-boun...@erdos.math.louisville.edu 
>>> [mailto:macgroup-boun...@erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Harry 
>>> Jacobson-Beyer
>>> Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019 12:42 PM
>>> To: MacUserGroup Listserve 
>>> Cc: Larson Lee 
>>> Subject: [MacGroup] purported call from Apple Support
>>> 
>>> Caution - External Email Message  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I just received a call on my iPhone from Apple Support, at least the caller 
>>> id said Apple Support
>>> 
>>> I foolishly answered the phone and heard a recorded message that said 
>>> something like this: "Your account has been compromised do not use any of 
>>> your apple devices till you speak with support. Press 1 to speak with 
>>> support.”
>>> 
>>> I did and got a person who asked what I wanted. I said you called me. After 
>>> a few more questions he asked what the message said and I told him. He put 
>>> me on hold and then the call was disconnected.
>>> 
>>> How  badly have I screwed up?
>>> 
>>> Thanks.


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Re: [MacGroup] Apple Pay at a shell station

[Dan Crutcher]

I saw one of those symbols two days ago at the Pilot in Simpsonville. I had 
already inserted my credit card, so I didn’t get to try it, but I was wondering 
how it would work in a situation where you haven’t actually purchased the 
product yet and don’t know how much it’s going to cost. Can Apple Pay “suspend” 
entering the amount until the purchase is completed?

Dan

> On Dec 26, 2018, at 10:29 AM, Lee Larson  wrote:
> 
> On Dec 25, 2018, at 10:32 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer  wrote:
> 
>> I pulled into a shell station to get gas. The pump had an applepay logo. I 
>> pulled out my trusty iPhone, opened my wallet and put the phone next to the 
>> ApplePay gizmo - nothing happened. I couldn’t get it to work.
>> 
>> What do you think is going on?
> 
> We drove to Tampa last week and stopped for gas near Atlanta. I tried Apple 
> Pay at the pump. It didn’t do anything with my default (Discover) setting, 
> but worked when I switched to a different card.
> 
> This is the same as always happens at Subway, even though they take the 
> Discover card. 
> 
> Happy Boxing Day!
> 
> L^2 
> 
> 


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Re: [MacGroup] What do you think?

[Dan Crutcher]

I just switched my default search engine to DuckDuckGo. Like you, I’d rather 
not support Google (or Facebook or Amazon) or anyone who makes money by 
capturing and selling information about me.

>> 
>>> On Oct 15, 2018, at 10:59 PM, Lee Larson >> > wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Oct 15, 2018, at 10:40 PM, John Robinson >> > wrote:
>>> 
 I would love to get away from Google, they are way too intrusive into our 
 lives but I didn’t like Bling so I’ve stuck with the dark side..
>>> 
>>> I’ve been using Duck Duck Go instead of Google for years and have been 
>>> quite satisfied. The one place where Google beats them hands down is with 
>>> maps.
>>> 
>>> L^2
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> ‌Lee Larson‌
>>> ‌leelar...@me.com ‌
>>> 
>>> ‌If all the world's economists were laid end to end, we wouldn't reach a 
>>> conclusion. ‌— George Bernard Shaw
>>> ‌Saturday Review of Literature, 1933‌
>>> 
>>> ‌‌‌
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
> 

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[MacGroup] Shared calendar

[Dan]

I set up a calendar in Apple’s Calendar app and shared it with a co-worker, so 
anytime either of us entered a calendar item and assigned it to that calendar, 
it shows up on both of our calendars.

I am no longer with that company and no longer want to see events that she has 
entered in this particular calendar. But, since I was the one who created the 
calendar, I cannot unsubscribe from it, I can only “stop sharing,” but if I do 
that, she loses all of the events in her calendar. What I’m trying to do is 
“switch” ownership of this calendar to her, so she can still use it and I can 
unsubscribe from it.

Does anyone know how to do that?

Can she create a new calendar on her computer and copy all of these existing 
shared ones to that calendar and thereby make them “hers” and not mine?

Thanks.

Dan Crutcher
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[MacGroup] Resolve IP addresses

[Dan]

Is there a utility program to resolve IP addresses — that is, to find the 
domain name associated with the numerical IP address?

If no such program, how to do it from Terminal?

Thanks.

Dan Crutcher
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Re: [MacGroup] Voicemail forwarded from my iPhone

[Dan]

What others said: obviously spam.

Aside from other reasons, clues are wrong syntax and poor grammar: “windows” 
not capitalized; “Micro Soft” as two words (and in other instances lower-cased 
as one word); “has been expired” rather than “has expired”; the use of “Let me 
repeat” and then “I will repeat.” Either written by non-native English speaker 
or someone who failed grade-school grammar.

> On Mar 12, 2018, at 5:48 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer  wrote:
> 
> I received this voice mail this afternoon. We got rid of the PC my wife used 
> for work three years ago.
> 
> Do you think this is legitimate? Or is it spam?
> 
> 
> Microsoft corperation has stopped the windows services in your computer to 
> renew the microsoft windows license key. Please call (866) 756-3777. Let me 
> repeat. This is a very important call to notify you that your microsoft 
> windows license key has been expired on your computer. So Micro Soft 
> corporation has stopped the windows services in your computer to renew the 
> microsoft windows license key. Please call (866) 756-3777. I will repeat 
> (866) 756-3777. Thank you.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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[MacGroup] iPhone voicemail weirdness

[Dan]

Lately my iPhone X has been refusing to play back voicemails. It transcribes 
them as best it can, but when I touch the play icon, nothing happens, it just 
sits there at 0 and does not progress. Any thoughts, advice?

Dan
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Re: [MacGroup] MacBook Pro charger and password manager

[Dan]

charging cable for one MBPro.

> On Jan 6, 2018, at 9:58 PM, Nelsn Helm <helmk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> for one computer or several?
> 
>> On Jan 6, 2018, at 14:43, Dan <dcrutc...@loumag.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Two questions:
>> 
>> 1. Does anyone have an extra charging cable for a vintage 2015 MacBook Pro, 
>> (a 5-prong connector that plugs straight in, rather than one of those that 
>> hugs the side of the computer) that they’d be willing to donate or sell?
>> 
>> 2. Any recommendations for a password-keeping app that works, and syncs, on 
>> Mac, iPad and iPhone? I don’t need the most sophisticated one, but it must 
>> be easy to use and understand, since it’s for my spouse, who is always 
>> losing those little pieces of paper she writes the passwords down on.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
>>> On Jan 5, 2018, at 4:23 PM, Bill Rising <bris...@mac.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 5, 2018, at 12:43, tom holloman <chuba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Just in case u have assistive touch on, right?
>>> 
>>> I don't have it on. If you're asking Jonathan about the pairing, my guess 
>>> is that Apple does this so that an outside agent cannot crack into a phone 
>>> simply by switching out a piece of hardware (like the button). Otherwise 
>>> all that nice encryption would be for nothing.
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[MacGroup] MacBook Pro charger and password manager

[Dan]

Two questions:

1. Does anyone have an extra charging cable for a vintage 2015 MacBook Pro, (a 
5-prong connector that plugs straight in, rather than one of those that hugs 
the side of the computer) that they’d be willing to donate or sell?

2. Any recommendations for a password-keeping app that works, and syncs, on 
Mac, iPad and iPhone? I don’t need the most sophisticated one, but it must be 
easy to use and understand, since it’s for my spouse, who is always losing 
those little pieces of paper she writes the passwords down on.

Thanks.

Dan

> On Jan 5, 2018, at 4:23 PM, Bill Rising <bris...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jan 5, 2018, at 12:43, tom holloman <chuba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Just in case u have assistive touch on, right?
> 
> I don't have it on. If you're asking Jonathan about the pairing, my guess is 
> that Apple does this so that an outside agent cannot crack into a phone 
> simply by switching out a piece of hardware (like the button). Otherwise all 
> that nice encryption would be for nothing.
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Re: [MacGroup] iPhone 6s Battery woes

[Dan Crutcher]

Thanks for the info, Jonathan. I’m having the same issues with my 6s. 

Dan Crutcher
Publisher
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> On Dec 24, 2017, at 12:03 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <li...@fletcherdata.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> You may have heard that there is significant gnashing of teeth (i.e, 
> lawsuits) over Apple’s decision to throttle back processor speed on iPhone 
> 6’s that have batteries nearing the end of their lives.
> 
> In their divine wisdom Apple just decided to do it without telling anyone. 
> Phones went from shutting off unexpectedly to lasting a bit longer, but with 
> the side-effect of running a lot slower.
> 
> After reading about it, I realized that I had recently begun to be frustrated 
> with my phone (iPhone 6s) on both counts: battery life and speed. Testing my 
> processor with a downloadable utility, I saw that the processor was indeed 
> running about half of what it should have been.
> 
> So I replaced the battery. This can be done at any iPhone repair place or the 
> intrepid/brave/stupid can attempt it themselves. Being the latter, I bought a 
> nice little kit off of Amazon for $25 and did the job myself in about 30 
> minutes.
> 
> It just so happens that my efforts were rewarded with what feels like a brand 
> new phone! The test utility now shows that the phone runs right at its 
> expected speed. And I don’t have to charge it three times to get it to last 
> through the day!
> 
> For anyone experiencing speed/longevity issues with an older phone, it’s 
> totally worth the effort.
> 
> This battery is inexpensive, has higher than normal capacity and comes in a 
> really nice metal box with all the tools you’ll need: 
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Re: [MacGroup] Urgent Question about Word AutoRecovery

[Dan]

Ed,

No, but those instructions are for the Windows versions 2010, 2013 and 2016. 
She’s using Mac version 2011 and I cannot find any Manage Document option in 
that, or anything that looks like it would do the same thing.

> On Nov 15, 2017, at 4:02 PM, Ed Wiser <wisero...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Has she done this?
> 
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> 
> On Nov 15, 2017, at 3:25 PM, Dan <dcrutc...@loumag.com 
> <mailto:dcrutc...@loumag.com>> wrote:
> 
>> The problem with searching Time Machine (or iCloud) for the file itself is 
>> that she didn’t save the file at any time during the day. I can find it 
>> easily on Time Machine, but it’s the version that was saved yesterday 
>> afternoon. Which is why I’m hoping that there might be some remnant of an 
>> autorecover file somewhere.
>> 
>>> On Nov 15, 2017, at 3:19 PM, John Robinson <profilecoven...@icloud.com 
>>> <mailto:profilecoven...@icloud.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dan,
>>> 
>>> I guess she doesn’t use iCloud as a backup of her desktop and documents?  
>>> That would solve her problem….
>>> 
>>> I also don’t use Microsoft enough to know how the backups work, I don’t 
>>> understand why she needs to look for the AutoRecovery file, why not search 
>>> for the file itself on TimeMachine?  
>>> 
>>> John
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 15, 2017, at 3:06 PM, Dan <dcrutc...@loumag.com 
>>>> <mailto:dcrutc...@loumag.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> We use Time Machine to back up her computer, and I was able to find hourly 
>>>> backups, but even in those I could not find an AutoRecovery file in the 
>>>> location that Word’s help file says it should be (in Microsoft User Data 
>>>> in Documents folder).
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Re: [MacGroup] Urgent Question about Word AutoRecovery

[Dan]

The problem with searching Time Machine (or iCloud) for the file itself is that 
she didn’t save the file at any time during the day. I can find it easily on 
Time Machine, but it’s the version that was saved yesterday afternoon. Which is 
why I’m hoping that there might be some remnant of an autorecover file 
somewhere.

> On Nov 15, 2017, at 3:19 PM, John Robinson <profilecoven...@icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Dan,
> 
> I guess she doesn’t use iCloud as a backup of her desktop and documents?  
> That would solve her problem….
> 
> I also don’t use Microsoft enough to know how the backups work, I don’t 
> understand why she needs to look for the AutoRecovery file, why not search 
> for the file itself on TimeMachine?  
> 
> John
> 
> 
>> On Nov 15, 2017, at 3:06 PM, Dan <dcrutc...@loumag.com 
>> <mailto:dcrutc...@loumag.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> We use Time Machine to back up her computer, and I was able to find hourly 
>> backups, but even in those I could not find an AutoRecovery file in the 
>> location that Word’s help file says it should be (in Microsoft User Data in 
>> Documents folder).
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[MacGroup] Urgent Question about Word AutoRecovery

[Dan]

I have a writer who accidently closed a Word 2011 file that she was working on, 
and clicked “Don’t Save.” She thought she was closing another file. Result: 
she’s lost about five hours of work, roughly 2,000 words, and needless to say, 
is quite distraught.

She did have Word’s “Save AutoRecover every 10 minutes” option checked in 
Word’s preferences. However, because she closed the file, it appears that that 
file got deleted. 

We use Time Machine to back up her computer, and I was able to find hourly 
backups, but even in those I could not find an AutoRecovery file in the 
location that Word’s help file says it should be (in Microsoft User Data in 
Documents folder).

Does anyone have any ideas of other options to try to recover this file. And 
no, she apparently did not save it to disk during the entire time she worked on 
it today; the latest one I can find has a modified date of yesterday afternoon.

I do have DiskWarrior and Data Rescue programs if you think they might be able 
to somehow find a deleted autorecovery file (if autorecovery is even working).

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.



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Re: [MacGroup] Speed test

[Dan]

Jonathan,

Do tell, what service are you using to get such speeds? Do you have fiber 
direct to your home?

> On Oct 14, 2017, at 12:31 AM, Jonathan Fletcher <li...@fletcherdata.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Aw, Dan, I’m sorry you have to put up with that…
> 
> 
> 
> Hmm, a little slow on the download tonight…
> 
> [Ok, yeah, I'm bragging. Just a little.]
> 
> My next door neighbor installs for Spectrum and he has no idea what’s next 
> for them. They have no infrastructure beyond coaxial. Their advantage is that 
> building out their infrastructure is a lot cheaper, so maybe they will become 
> the cheaper alternative to the fiber option(s). 
> 
> I hear rumblings that Google fiber is going in the ground in my part of town 
> (if not my immediate neighborhood), so it’s started, and we will all (most of 
> us) have a wider (and more motivated) array of offerings in the 
> not-too-distant future. 
> 
> Rejoice, my friends!
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
>> On Oct 13, 2017, at 7:16 PM, Dan <dcrutc...@loumag.com 
>> <mailto:dcrutc...@loumag.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Tom,
>> 
>> The speeds you’re getting are very slow. I’m using Spectrum (in Louisville) 
>> and this is what I get from Speedtest on my computer. It’s pretty typical.
>> 
>> 
> 
> --
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Re: [MacGroup] backup application?

[Dan]

Lee,

I have just invented a new information storage technology that is guaranteed to 
last thousands of years. I call it StoneChisel and it’s exactly what its name 
denotes: chiseling into stone. I know that the ancients actually invented this 
a few thousand years ago, but I’m pretty sure they forgot to patent it.

> On Oct 3, 2017, at 2:35 PM, Lee Larson  wrote:
> 
> On Oct 3, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Pen Helm  > wrote:
> 
>> I would like to back up a lot of data to Blu-Ray discs.  Can anyone suggest 
>> a good application?  I have found Retrospect and Toast to be problematic.
> 
> 
> I recently backed up several bushels of scanned slides to Blu-Ray. I found 
> Toast 16 and Path Finder 7.6 to be reliable. Now my worry is how long Blu-Ray 
> disks last because CDs I burned ten years ago are failing.
> 
> L^2
> 
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> the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of mind. Politicians 
> should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Two-thirds 
> of 2001 is realistic — hardware and technology — to establish background for 
> the metaphysical, philosophical, and religious meanings later. ‌— Arthur C. 
> Clarke
> ‌The Making of Kubrick’s 2001‌
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Re: [MacGroup] Apple Pay - Check it out John Robinson

[Dan]

And while you’re at it, Harry, why don’t you try sending me some money too? 
$100 would do just fine, but if you want to send more, that’s okay too.

Dan

> On Sep 18, 2017, at 3:39 PM, John Robinson <profilecoven...@icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Harry, I’m doing the Happy Dance, and just to be sure it’s working correctly 
> once the new iOS is on our devices you might try sending me some money using 
> iMessage…I’ll gladly help you walk through this next phase…
> 
> Once you begin to use, you’ll not want to go back…Remember be mentioning that 
> I had purchased, through Amazon, an oil that is really helping with skin 
> tone, then I went to the firm directly and I was able to order using 
> ApplePay, it was fantastic…
> 
> Today I went back to the site and now ApplePay is gone…and I’m betting big 
> that it’s because the link to this firm in the first place was through 
> Amazon…which has forced them to remove ApplePay, Amazon wants our business 
> and those firms associated with them have to bow to their demands….
> 
> I’ve written to them telling them I had four items ready to check out and I 
> cancelled the order since ApplePay has been removed…I’m waiting for an 
> answer, which of course won’t be the actual reason…
> 
> If we all push hard enough a little noise can go a long way….
> 
> Thanks Harry, looking forward to your iMessage transfer..
> 
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sep 18, 2017, at 3:26 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <harr...@me.com 
>> <mailto:harr...@me.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Group and hi John,
>> 
>> Yesterday I set up my iPhone with Apple pay. Haven’t had an opportunity to 
>> use it yet, but looking forward to doing so soon.
>> 
>> Harry
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Re: [MacGroup] iPad Safari Taken Over

[Dan]

Have you tried clearing history in your Safari settings on the iPad? Go to the 
Settings on your iPad and you should find a group of settings for Safari that 
includes a “Clear History” option. That’s not the exact name of it, but it’s 
something like that.

> On Jul 5, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Richard D. Meadows  wrote:
> 
> I was surfing around and hit a malicious site and now on Safari all I can get 
> is the two pages below. The first one is the full page then the printer 
> choice box slides up, then down then up, then down.  I can’t kill the tab. I 
> have tried shutting the iPad off. Nothing seems to work to get rid of the 
> pages/tab.  Any ideas on how to get rid of this?  It is very rapid fire 
> action. 
> 
> Help?  Ideas? 
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [MacGroup] Adobe Photo Shop Problem

[Dan Crutcher]

Pen’s answer is the correct one, I believe. At least, that’s the way I would 
handle it. I have used that technique for PDFs, which I prefer to open in 
Acrobat rather than in Preview. The “Open With” item has a dropdown menu that 
allows you to choose the application you want to use to open the file and, as 
he says, the “Change All” button makes it universal for that file type.

Note that it works only for the specific file extension that you are changing. 
If you do this for a .jpg file, all .jpgs will open in Photoshop, but other 
image files, such as .tif or .png, will still open in whatever application they 
default to, so you have to do this for each file type that you want to change.

We don’t need no stinkin’ genius bar around here … we got MacGroup!

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> On Mar 25, 2017, at 2:42 PM, Pen Helm <pen-...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> If I understand you correctly, you can click on the file once in Finder, 
> choose File:Get Info, go halfway down where it says "Open with:" and change 
> it to not open with Bridge.  If you like, you can even "Change All" files 
> like that one.
> 
>> On Mar 25, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Richard D. Meadows <rmead...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:rmead...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Group,
>> 
>> Asking for a friend.
>> 
>> Do any of you photoshop users know how to turn off ‘bridge’ or what settings 
>> to change when you click on a file name in finder so that it does NOT open 
>> in bridge.  I am not  photoshop user but a friend of mine is a photographer 
>> and until about 3 weeks ago was a confirmed MS user. He got a new Macbook 
>> Pro and now when he wants to open a file to send it to the publisher, Adobe 
>> ps bridge comes up which does not allow for moving file to mail. It’s been a 
>> frustrating 3 weeks for him and he is ready to take his MacBook back. 
>> 
>> I gave him the right click work around but that does not fix the underlying 
>> problem. The genius bar could not help him. (I question that) We’ve only 
>> talked on the phone and i am going to his place tomorrow. He called Adobe 
>> and of course they said to get help with that he had to call the pay or help 
>> number.  
>> 
>> Richard
>> 
>> 
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Re: [MacGroup] email?

[Dan Crutcher]

I suspect j...@josephsaine.com <mailto:j...@josephsaine.com> has set mail that 
email address to be forwarded to josa...@att.net <mailto:josa...@att.net>, thus 
the ultimate failure being attributed to the att.net <http://att.net/> address.

The reason for failure is that one of the IP addresses (65.254.253.33) that 
this email was relayed through, probably as part of the forwarding, has been 
flagged by the DNSBL spam-blocking list for suspected spamming so the receiving 
host rejected it.

Dan Crutcher


> On Mar 8, 2017, at 10:14 PM, Anne Cartwright <cartw...@aye.net> wrote:
> 
> Can someone translate this for me. It looks like the message to email address 
>  josa...@att.net <mailto:josa...@att.net> failed to get delivered. However I 
> did not send message to josa...@att.net <mailto:josa...@att.net>. I sent it 
> to j...@josephsaine.com <mailto:j...@josephsaine.com> which is mentioned in 
> the last line.
> 
> I must tell you that this (j...@josephsaine.com 
> <mailto:j...@josephsaine.com>) was 1 of 226 email addresses sent in a batch. 
> And the only one that failed to work.
> 
> Thanks for any translation. (and the failure message goes on, but this is the 
> only part I’m interested in.
> 
> Anne
> 
> 
> 
> Mail Delivery System <mailer-dae...@yourhostingaccount.com 
> <mailto:mailer-dae...@yourhostingaccount.com>>
> 
> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
> 
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
> 
>  josa...@att.net <mailto:josa...@att.net>
>SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL 
> FROM:

Re: [MacGroup] Is this spam?

[Dan Crutcher]

Almost certainly spam. Even if you were expecting a parcel delivery it would 
contain more specific information than this, such as the name of the delivery 
company, the tracking number, etc.

I would never open any attached .zip file unless I was certain that it was 
coming from a trusted source, and even then, if it came unexpectedly I would 
verify that the trusted source actually sent it.

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> On Jan 5, 2017, at 10:25 AM, Stuart Ungar <stuartun...@icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Is this spam?  Hesitant about opening the file. 
> 
> Stuart 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [MacGroup] What is it for? Do you need it?

[Dan Crutcher]

Top one is HDMI: from computer or cable box to TV or projector. Carries 
high-quality video and sound from one device to another.
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> On Dec 22, 2016, at 3:51 PM, Nelsn Helm <helmk...@clockwinders.net> wrote:
> 
> 1. plugs are identical. What is it?
> <01.jpeg>
> 
> 
> 2. What is it for? RCA to disk?
> <03.jpeg>
> 
> 
> 3. USB2 to ethernet jack on Uninterruptible Power Supply
> so USB can shut down computer when power fails.
> Yours for asking.
> <04.jpg>
> 
> 
> 4. Yours for asking. May work with shaver or power supply.
> <05.jpeg>
> 
> 
> 5. Yours for asking. May work with shaver or power supply.
> 
> <06.jpeg>
> 
> 
> 6. ¿ skip the computer, send signal from amp to earphones? From telephone to 
> speakers?
> Please take it away.
> <07.jpeg>
> 
> 
> 7. Power supply from Acer Aspire One.  Rotates to fit on power strip.
> <08.jpeg>Note bottom left, “push” to turn.
> 
> 
> 8. 
>  <09.jpg>
> 
> 
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Re: [MacGroup] TWC price surge---should I switch?

[Dan Crutcher]

My two cents on all this: We had TWC — or its predecessor, Insight — for about 
five years, then we switched to AT Uverse about three years ago, mainly for 
cost savings. After two years of dropped internet service, slow, 
often-pixelated TV streams and constant router resetting, we switched back to 
TWC about a year ago. TWC internet and TV speed and reliability has been much 
better. We are paying about the same amount to TWC as we did to AT Yes, 
still too much, but at least we’re getting better results. And we actually have 
had good service experiences both with the person who installed and another who 
came back to troubleshoot an issue, and in a cable box exchange we did at the 
TWC store.

This fiber thing may change the equation when/if it comes to your neighborhood, 
but until that happens I’m sticking with TWC/Spectrum.

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[MacGroup] Invitation events multiplying in Calendar

[Dan Crutcher]

Lately events that I have been invited to through .ics attachments have been 
multiplying in my Calendar. It’s like whatever is generating the calendar entry 
isn’t getting turned off, so it keeps adding another iteration of the event 
every day, or maybe even every 12 hours. See screenshot below for an example of 
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Re: [MacGroup] Contacts

[Dan Crutcher]

Tom,

In Mail’s “Window” menu there is a “Previous Recipients” item. If you click on 
that you will see the names, email addresses and when they were last used of 
all the previous recipients of your emails. You can delete any that are no 
longer in use. I’m not sure if that will purge old group addresses, but it’s 
worth a try.

Dan

> On Oct 30, 2016, at 6:09 PM, Tom Guenthner <t...@aye.net> wrote:
> 
> I guess this is a question about eMail and/or Contacts. I have a number
> of contacts that have changed their eMail address. I have edited the
> contact info in Contacts. But when i send a message to a group the old
> address is used. The old address is not in the contact info when I look
> again. How does one purge old address?
> 
> 
> Tom Guenthner
> t...@aye.net
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Re: [MacGroup] Restart after sleep

[Dan Crutcher]

Yes, I do leave it plugged in at both places. I very rarely use it unplugged.

Hmmm, you may be on to something. I just clicked on my battery icon in the menu 
bar and it says “Condition: Replace Now.” I never noticed that before. 

How does one replace a battery in the newer laptops? 

> On Oct 17, 2016, at 2:30 PM, Sandy Price <scjpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dan --
> 
> Could it be the battery? Do you leave it plugged in at the office and home?
> 
> Sandy
> 
> On Oct 17, 2016, at 2:20 PM, Dan Crutcher <dcrutc...@loumag.com> wrote:
> 
>> I generally leave my MacBook Pro on as I travel from home to work and back 
>> each day. I shut the lid, put it in my travel case and open it up when I get 
>> to home or work. Until recently, it always woke up as soon as I opened the 
>> lid back up.
>> 
>> However, for the past couple of weeks, every time I open the lid after I get 
>> home or to work, the screen stays black and then, after a few seconds, the 
>> computer auto-restarts. It does this every time now  (it does not do it if I 
>> shut the lid and open it right back up). When it does this auto-restart it 
>> also opens all windows and mounts various network hard drives that I have 
>> previously connected to. 
>> 
>> On a couple of occasions it has gotten caught in a restart loop, where the 
>> progress bar goes halfway and then it restarts again and again and again. 
>> The only way I’ve found to get out of this is to do a safe boot. After safe 
>> booting, I have run disk first aid, which finds nothing amiss.
>> 
>> This behavior roughly coincides with upgrading to Sierra, but I’m not 
>> convinced that’s the cause of it.
>> 
>> Anyone have any idea what might be going on? 
>> 
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[MacGroup] Restart after sleep

[Dan Crutcher]

I generally leave my MacBook Pro on as I travel from home to work and back each 
day. I shut the lid, put it in my travel case and open it up when I get to home 
or work. Until recently, it always woke up as soon as I opened the lid back up.

However, for the past couple of weeks, every time I open the lid after I get 
home or to work, the screen stays black and then, after a few seconds, the 
computer auto-restarts. It does this every time now  (it does not do it if I 
shut the lid and open it right back up). When it does this auto-restart it also 
opens all windows and mounts various network hard drives that I have previously 
connected to. 

On a couple of occasions it has gotten caught in a restart loop, where the 
progress bar goes halfway and then it restarts again and again and again. The 
only way I’ve found to get out of this is to do a safe boot. After safe 
booting, I have run disk first aid, which finds nothing amiss.

This behavior roughly coincides with upgrading to Sierra, but I’m not convinced 
that’s the cause of it.

Anyone have any idea what might be going on? 

Dan

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Re: [MacGroup] MiFi

[Dan Crutcher]

John,

Thanks for the info. So, do you sign up for a separate plan with the carrier 
for the MiFi, or can you use your current phone plan and just add the MiFi on 
that?

> On Oct 4, 2016, at 3:23 PM, John Robinson <profilecoven...@me.com> wrote:
> 
> Dan, 
> 
> I use both AT & Verizon.  Most places we travel the Verizon is best.  
> Download speeds are always better than the hotels, when away from Wi-Fi I 
> open the Mi-Fi's & can get the data I need when I connect the laptop.   Both 
> come with 5 gig a month as their base & yes more than one device can connect 
> at once but your going to reduce your download speed for you are using 
> cellular.   You charge them as you would your phone & you'll get several 
> hours of use, leave charged in & use as a normal router.  Rumors had surfaced 
> that the new Apple MacBook Pro might have cellular built on, oh don't we 
> wish. 
> 
> John. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Oct 4, 2016, at 1:53 PM, Dan Crutcher <dcrutc...@loumag.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Anyone out there know anything about MiFi routers (devices that allow 
>> computers to connect to the internet through cellular phone service)? 
>> Specifically, if one uses AT as the cellular carrier, does the MiFi use 
>> that same account for its cellular service, or does one have to create a new 
>> account? And what kind of range does a typical MiFi have?
>> 
>> The situation I’m looking at is one where there is no electricity or wifi 
>> readily available, but there is cell service. I want to be able to have 
>> three laptops nearby with internet connectivity. I believe there are 
>> battery-operated MiFi routers that would allow that. But I’ve never used one 
>> and know little about them, so I’m looking for guidance.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
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[MacGroup] MiFi

[Dan Crutcher]

Anyone out there know anything about MiFi routers (devices that allow computers 
to connect to the internet through cellular phone service)? Specifically, if 
one uses AT as the cellular carrier, does the MiFi use that same account for 
its cellular service, or does one have to create a new account? And what kind 
of range does a typical MiFi have?

The situation I’m looking at is one where there is no electricity or wifi 
readily available, but there is cell service. I want to be able to have three 
laptops nearby with internet connectivity. I believe there are battery-operated 
MiFi routers that would allow that. But I’ve never used one and know little 
about them, so I’m looking for guidance.

Thanks.

Dan Crutcher

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[MacGroup] OS X Mail Server

[Dan Crutcher]

Has anyone used the built-in email server in the Mac OS X Server app? Any 
opinions?

Dan Crutcher

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Re: [MacGroup] App Store updates

[Dan Crutcher]

No, I did not get any response to my post, but did find this page: 
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21867?locale=en_US 
<https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21867?locale=en_US>.

It looks like you can delete the non-essential Apple programs like GarageBand 
and iMovie. I don’t know if deleting them keeps the updater from notifying you 
of updates. I’ll just have to try that on a couple of machines and see what 
happens.

> On Aug 10, 2016, at 4:45 PM, Beth Phillips <beth.phill...@fastline.com> wrote:
> 
> Dan,
> 
> Curious if you had any responses on this? In a corporate environment and I
> would love to be able to get rid of a few things like Notifications and
> other Apple apps that are not utilized, or that our end users don't need
> access to.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> Beth Phillips
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> On 8/5/16 3:06 PM, "Dan Crutcher" <dcrutc...@loumag.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to turn off updating of Apple-installed apps? On some work
> computers that I manage, I don¹t want to update (or even use) certain
> applications, such as GarageBand, Keynote or iMovie, but am notified
> whenever there is an update available. Prior to the App Store, there was a
> checkbox for ³Don¹t notify of updates for this application² or something
> to that effect. But I don¹t see anything like that now.
> 
> Could I just uninstall the programs that I don¹t want to use or update
> (which is to say, drag them to the trash, as I don¹t know of any other way
> to uninstall them). I know that Apple won¹t even allow me to trash some
> programs, such as iTunes; not sure about ther other Apple apps.
> 
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[MacGroup] App Store updates

[Dan Crutcher]

Is there a way to turn off updating of Apple-installed apps? On some work 
computers that I manage, I don’t want to update (or even use) certain 
applications, such as GarageBand, Keynote or iMovie, but am notified whenever 
there is an update available. Prior to the App Store, there was a checkbox for 
“Don’t notify of updates for this application” or something to that effect. But 
I don’t see anything like that now.

Could I just uninstall the programs that I don’t want to use or update (which 
is to say, drag them to the trash, as I don’t know of any other way to 
uninstall them). I know that Apple won’t even allow me to trash some programs, 
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Re: [MacGroup] Any beer drinkers out there?

[Dan Crutcher]

I’d be careful with them thar’ bears, especially after seeing The Revenant!

(Sorry, couldn’t help myself.)

> On Apr 14, 2016, at 4:08 PM, John Robinson  wrote:
> 
> Be careful Harry, there are a lot to try!
> 
> John
> 
> 
>> On Apr 14, 2016, at 4:07 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer  wrote:
>> 
>> I was watching jeopardy last night and one of the contestants mentioned he 
>> had an app on his phone that listed bears and allowed him to mark the bears 
>> he has tried.
>> 
>> There are several beer apps in the app store  and just wondering if any of 
>> you know which app he is using.
>> 
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Re: [MacGroup] TimeWarner Speeds

[Dan Crutcher]

I think there was some discussion of this a while back, but what cable 
routers/models are recommended by people in this group that are capable of the 
new TWC speeds? Thoughts on whether it’s better to purchase or lease from TWC?

Dan

> On Apr 13, 2016, at 8:30 PM, John Robinson <profilecoven...@me.com> wrote:
> 
> Today was the first day for the new speeds.  It’s about 8:30 p.m. so there 
> should be a lot of usage but this isn’t bad.
> 
> 
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Re: [MacGroup] South Carolina and Corporate Bullying

[Dan Crutcher]

I don’t want to see this list devolve into political arguments, but I do think 
it’s important to point out that there are two quite distinct points of view on 
this issue. I disagree with most of what John says and am glad that Apple is 
putting pressure on South Carolina’s government not to enact laws that 
discriminate against transgenders. It is relevant to Apple, since the company 
needs to consider how the laws of any state affect its employees. Many other 
companies are taking stances — on both sides — in the states where such laws 
are being considered or have been enacted.
 
> On Apr 7, 2016, at 2:47 PM, John Humphries  wrote:
> 
> A business needs to stick to business and not meddle in social issues that do 
> not directly affect their products
> 
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Sandra Schreiber  > wrote:
> Well, I don't agree AT ALL.I don't consider transgender issues to be 
>> 
>> a "sickness of a segment of our society "
> Sandy
> On Apr 7, 2016, at 1:58 PM, David Harker wrote:
> 
>>> I DO NOT want them
>>> subjected to the sickness of a segment of our society 
> 
> Sandra G.  Schreiber
> Schreiber Appraisal Associates
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Re: [MacGroup] MacBook won't boot up

[Dan Crutcher]

Update: Another oddity was that the “automatic login” feature under Users & 
Groups was grayed out, so I couldn’t choose it. By Googling “automatic login,” 
I discovered that automatic login is disabled if FileVault is active on an 
account. I had forgotten that I’d turned it on a couple of months ago. I turned 
off FileVault and now see both users when I start up and am able to set 
automatic login and am able to boot into the account of the user that was not 
letting me do so before. Problem (temporarily?) solved.

Not sure is FileVault was the culprit, but that’s my current working 
hypothesis. Am still going to run Disk Warrior when it comes.


> On Mar 28, 2016, at 5:02 PM, Dan Crutcher <dcrutc...@loumag.com> wrote:
> 
> Beth,
> 
> Mine’s an early 2013 Retina. What’s even weirder is that I created a new 
> user, thinking maybe it would boot up for that user, but when I do a restart 
> it doesn’t even show that user as one of the available options. If I do a 
> safe boot, it does show (and boot into) that user.
> 
> I have ordered an update for Disk Warrior and will try that next. Meanwhile 
> I’ll just work in safe mode, I suppose.
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>> On Mar 28, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Beth Phillips <beth.phill...@fastline.com 
>> <mailto:beth.phill...@fastline.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dan, What model MacBook Pro are you using? I've had the same problem with
>> my Late 2011 MacBook Pro, along with some video issues.
>> 
>> 
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>> On Mar 27, 2016, at 9:17 PM, Dan Crutcher <dcrutc...@loumag.com 
>> <mailto:dcrutc...@loumag.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> My MacBook Pro, running 10.11.3, won¹t boot into anything but Safe Mode.
>>> When I try to do a regular boot, the progress bar goes about halfway,
>>> screen goes black, then it restarts itself. Again and again. From safe
>>> mode I have run Disk Utility¹s First Aid twice. I have reset PRAM, but
>>> get same behavior.
>>> Any suggestions?
>> 
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Re: [MacGroup] MacBook won't boot up

[Dan Crutcher]

Beth,

Mine’s an early 2013 Retina. What’s even weirder is that I created a new user, 
thinking maybe it would boot up for that user, but when I do a restart it 
doesn’t even show that user as one of the available options. If I do a safe 
boot, it does show (and boot into) that user.

I have ordered an update for Disk Warrior and will try that next. Meanwhile 
I’ll just work in safe mode, I suppose.

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> On Mar 28, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Beth Phillips <beth.phill...@fastline.com> wrote:
> 
> Dan, What model MacBook Pro are you using? I've had the same problem with
> my Late 2011 MacBook Pro, along with some video issues.
> 
> 
> Beth Phillips
> IT Associate
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> On Mar 27, 2016, at 9:17 PM, Dan Crutcher <dcrutc...@loumag.com> wrote:
> 
>> My MacBook Pro, running 10.11.3, won¹t boot into anything but Safe Mode.
>> When I try to do a regular boot, the progress bar goes about halfway,
>> screen goes black, then it restarts itself. Again and again. From safe
>> mode I have run Disk Utility¹s First Aid twice. I have reset PRAM, but
>> get same behavior.
>> Any suggestions?
> 
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[MacGroup] MacBook won't boot up

[Dan Crutcher]

My MacBook Pro, running 10.11.3, won’t boot into anything but Safe Mode. When I 
try to do a regular boot, the progress bar goes about halfway, screen goes 
black, then it restarts itself. Again and again. From safe mode I have run Disk 
Utility’s First Aid twice. I have reset PRAM, but get same behavior.

Any suggestions?




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[MacGroup] Dead iPhone

[Dan Crutcher]

A friend's iPhone "went kaput" (he said) as he was installing the latest 
update. Anyone know of a place that can recover data from a dead iPhone? Or 
have any other suggestions?

Sent from my iPad

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[MacGroup] Gigabit switch

[Dan Crutcher]

I’m looking for a 24-port gigabit unmanaged switch for our office network. 
We’ve been using a 100 Mb Netgear switch for many years and it’s worked fine. 
Does anyone out there is MacGroup land have any strong feelings about models or 
features I should look for? Or any recommendations about where to find one at a 
good price?

Thanks.

Dan Crutcher
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Re: [MacGroup] Shhh, it's a secret!

[Dan Crutcher]

Jonathan,

You are a prince of a fellow to take on this initiative, which I will support 
in whatever way I can. 

I remember when Marta first started contributing to the MacGroup list and I 
enjoyed her posts, and their literacy, enough to ask her if she might be 
interested in doing some writing for Louisville Magazine. She politely 
declined, but I have always been a fan of hers. I did not know her history, but 
I admire her even more after reading what you wrote.

I will certainly contribute money to the cause. Let me know if there is 
anything else I can do.

Dan

> On Feb 1, 2016, at 10:56 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <li...@fletcherdata.com> wrote:
> 
> MacFriends,
> 
> Lee has agreed to turn off Marta’s account for a couple days while you and I 
> discuss an upcoming milestone in her life.
> 
> Many of you know Marta in person. You knew her when she used to come to the 
> Louisville Computer Society meetings. You may remember her as cheerful and 
> energetic, or you may remember her take-no-prisoners demeanor. But, if you 
> met her you have not forgotten her. The rest of you have seen her posts over 
> the years and may have noticed that they are not as coherent as they once 
> were. 
> 
> Well, let’s give her a little slack! Marta is turning NINETY in a few weeks. 
> When I feel overwhelmed by my three-score-and-one I just think about her 
> being TWENTY-NINE years ahead of me! I can’t even imagine.
> 
> Well, as you might guess she has outlived the vast majority of her 
> contemporaries and all of her relatives. The one child she did have 
> tragically died in his early twenties. And yet, you have to see her smile and 
> chat up the room, even now. She’s always been a force to reckon with, and 
> even though she has to have 24-hour assistance now, you can still see an 
> incredible spark of the dynamo that she once was.
> 
> A few points (okay, more than a few) for those who don’t know her that well:
> 
> Marta Dietrich was born February 21, 1926 in between-the-wars Germany not too 
> far from the French border, grew up to be a multi-lingual teacher of great 
> intellect, breezing through her studies and suffering along with the rest of 
> her countrymen the horrors of the Nazi regime and the resultant war. She told 
> me that her family attended one of the many “Confessing Churches” across 
> Germany that had withdrawn from the reprehensible national German Church that 
> caved to Hitler’s demands. The churches of the "Confessing" body were 
> strongly opposed to Hitler and his mistreatment of the disabled and 
> “non-aryans,” and especially the Jews who were a vital part of Germany’s 
> prominent upper-middle class. She told me she heard something against Naziism 
> in every sermon.
> 
> When it was finally over, Marta found herself attracted to the friendliness 
> of the Americans she encountered during the occupation. (The French and 
> British were understandably less warm to the Germans.) She got a job as a 
> telephone exchange operator after the war, drawing the eye of the dashing 
> young non-comm that was her boss. 
> 
> Over the years since, Marta gradually found out that this charmer had once 
> been a professional baseball player, saw plenty of action in the war, had 
> been wounded, a prisoner-of-war (twice escaping), a real-life spy, a machine 
> gunner on the back of a General’s Jeep, had crossed paths several times with 
> General George Patton (whose refusal to sign the last dotted line on the 
> papers that all his other commanders had signed cost Dayton a Medal of 
> Honor), had participated in a scheme among the field commanders arrayed along 
> the Elba to deceive General Eisenhower about their crossing the river to 
> rescue fellow soldiers AGAINST the direct orders of the Supreme Commander of 
> the Allied Forces, and the first person to discover and liberate the horrible 
> Wöbbelin concentration camp. For all that he had been through, though, Dayton 
> was a warm and generous person. 
> 
> Dayton was sent back to the states and continued to correspond with her and 
> began participating in a shining symbol of the American people’s world-renown 
> post-war largess that came to be known as CARE. He sent CARE packages to 
> Marta’s family. (Since then, Marta and Dayton came to be sort of the 
> “poster-children” for the CARE program up until very recently, even getting 
> their picture in the New York Times a few years ago.[1])
> 
> Dayton went back to Germany a little later to collect his girl and they were 
> married under a tarp amid the rubble of a bombed-out church near her home 
> town.
> 
> He had to leave the next day, though, to return to duty in the states, and so 
> Marta followed by herself. She stepped off a boat in New York without a clue

Re: [MacGroup] Suction Cups

[Dan Crutcher]

To answer my own question, I found suction cups at Home Depot in the flooring 
section (I think they’re used to manipulate tile or glass). The ones they have 
are overkill, but it worked just fine in removing the front panel on an iMac. I 
bought two, but one is all you need.

Dan

> On Nov 3, 2015, at 10:36 AM, Ed Wiser <wisero...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The harbor freight ones are junk. Tried using them and they don't hold 
> suction. Threw them in the thrash. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Nov 3, 2015, at 10:13 AM, Brian O'Neal <br...@oneal.in> wrote:
>> 
>> Harbor freight. there's one on Dixie highway in Southlamd Terrace and there 
>> is one at the corner of Bardstown and hikes.
>> 
>> Brian
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 3, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Dan Crutcher <dcrutc...@loumag.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Anyone know where one might find suction cups for pulling the screen off an 
>>> iMac to get to its innards? Locally, preferably.
>>> 
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[MacGroup] Suction Cups

[Dan Crutcher]

Anyone know where one might find suction cups for pulling the screen off an 
iMac to get to its innards? Locally, preferably.


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Re: [MacGroup] MacPro Ethernet Assigned IP address?

[Dan Crutcher]

Go to System Preferences/Network. In the left pane, choose an Ethernet port (1 
or 2). When you do so, the setting for “Configure IPv4” should be “Using DHCP.” 
If it is not, change it to that. Do the same for the other Ethernet port.

You can also click on the “Advanced” button to see more information about the 
TCP/IP settings.

> On Sep 21, 2015, at 9:10 PM, John Robinson  wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I spent the entire day setting up a MacPro (new trash can model) for a 
> friend.  He has been a Windows guy and went whole hog in going to Mac.  In 
> addition to all the Mac equipment we also went to Best Buy and picked up a 
> switch, APC battery backup and a G-Technologies thunderbolt TimeMachine.
> 
> Installed all the upgrades, downloaded and installed the latest Microsoft 
> Office…everything went perfectly…..until I tried to hook him to the internet 
> using Ethernet.  Wireless worked fine but in network setups the 1st and 2nd 
> Ethernet ports could not be used as the dialogue stated the they "could not 
> be used as they had an assigned IP address"???
> 
> What gives?  Why?  How to disable this and have the ethernets DHCP?
> 
> I appreciate any help, thanks a bunch.
> 
> John
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Re: [MacGroup] Macs in the enterprise

[Dan Crutcher]

Kind of ironic, considering that original “PC’s” (using that abbreviation in 
the sense of “computers that use Microsoft’s operating systems) were known as 
“IBM-compatible” computers.

 Interesting change in the way IT views the Mac.
 
 http://www.computerworld.com/article/2956799/computer-hardware/in-a-huge-move-ibm-begins-pitching-apple-macs-for-enterprise-it.html
 




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Re: [MacGroup] Technological overload

[Dan Crutcher]

That’s a great idea. I have _lots_ of computers, cameras, cables, etc., etc, 
that I’d love to get rid of, but like you I’m too lazy to deal with it. I could 
even help you advertise it. When and where would you want to do it?

Dan

 On May 30, 2015, at 4:10 PM, Jonathan Fletcher li...@fletcherdata.com wrote:
 
 Hey y’all. 
 
 I have a bunch of old Macs, routers, phones, cameras and various other 
 electronics stuff. I would rather not just throw it all in the dumpster, and 
 I am too lazy to put it all on eBay, so I was thinking of having a yard sale. 
 I also thought it might be useful to have all my bestest buds in the whole 
 Mac world join me with whatever stuff they might want to contribute to the 
 mix.
 
 Is anyone else interested in unloading their technology at a blowout 
 technology yard sale?
 
 It would be great if we could reach a critical mass, advertise it and help 
 each other sell off the dust-collectors I know we all have.
 
 Let me know what interest in such a project you might have.
 
 Thanks!
 
 Jonathan
 
 
 --
 Jonathan Fletcher
 jonat...@fletcherdata.com
 
 Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group
 Next Meeting: 6/16/15
 
 
 
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Re: [MacGroup] external drive with 3 possible ways to connect to computer

[Dan Crutcher]

I agree that Firewire is usually faster. For short burst transfers, USB may be 
a slightly faster, but for big transfers of gigabytes of data, Firewire 800 is 
definitely faster.

 On May 13, 2015, at 9:15 AM, Lee Larson leelar...@me.com wrote:
 
 On May 13, 2015, at 9:04 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer harr...@me.com asked:
 
 The drive has a Firewire 400 port and a USB 2 port. The computer has a 
 thunderbolt port and I connect the drive to my computer with a 400 to 800 
 firewire adapter connected to a firewire 800 to Thunderbolt adapter.
 
 Do those adapters slow transfer speeds? Would I be better off using the 
 drives USB 2.0 port to connect it to my computer?
 
 “Theoretically” you’re better off with USB2 because its top speed is 480 mb/s 
 compared to the top speed of 400 mb/s on Firewire 400. But, I’ve always found 
 Firewire to be faster in practice because USB shuttles all the traffic 
 through the machine’s processor while Firewire has direct memory access. When 
 there’s heavy USB traffic, the machine does little else. With Firewire, other 
 processes can keep on running while the data is being shoveled around.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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[MacGroup] Test

[Dan Crutcher]

This is a test message to see if someone who’s just signed up for this list 
sees it. Gail, let me know if you do.


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Re: [MacGroup] Test

[Dan Crutcher]

You will know because you will get an email in your inbox from 
macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu mailto:macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu. 
That’s all it does. I presume you haven’t gotten a response because no one has 
responded to it yet. Someone usually will, but it isn’t always immediate.

I’m responding to both your personal email and the macgroup email account, so 
you probably will receive this one twice. When you reply to MacGroup you don’t 
need to include your own email address unless you want someone to reply to you 
personally and not to the group.

The fact that you saw my other message means that you are signed up and should 
be receiving any emails sent to the list. There are not necessarily posts every 
day, so don’t be surprised if you go several days without seeing any and then 
see a flurry of them about one subject. That’s usually the way it goes.


 On May 8, 2015, at 3:01 PM, G Kamenish schme...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
 I see this as an email in my inbox. No list or topics or anything. How will I 
 know if someone responds to my question? I sent a help request but haven't 
 gotten anything back. Why is this so difficult for me?
 
 
 
 On Friday, May 8, 2015 2:49 PM, Dan Crutcher dcrutc...@loumag.com wrote:
 
 
 This is a test message to see if someone who’s just signed up for this list 
 sees it. Gail, let me know if you do.
 
 
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Re: [MacGroup] Uh, what is this?

[Dan Crutcher]

I believe you may have captured the first recorded visual evidence of dark 
matter in the universe. Please contact American Astrophysical Association ASAP.

 On Apr 21, 2015, at 5:44 PM, John Robinson profilecoven...@me.com wrote:
 
 Folks, call me crazy…again, but I have a question that needs an answer
 
 ADT has been trying to install their Pulse system for a couple months.  The 
 first visit lasted 12 hrs and they came back, then back again today.  
 Included with this system is one indoor camera so I put it in my office on 
 one desk looking at my other desk.  The only time it records is when there is 
 movement, then it records a 30 second clip.
 
 This has been installed since their first visit, and every so often I will 
 check to see if it’s working.   When I check the clip will be when I go into 
 the room and it will record a short clip of me moving at my desk….then last 
 night at 7:35 I recorded something else, I wasn’t in the room so I didn’t 
 trigger the camera.
 
 This is a 30 second clip, 21 seconds in, with 9 seconds to go you will see a 
 white light appear from the upper left and fly across the room into the wall, 
 all in about 1 second.  If you stop the clip and then use the right and left 
 arrows you can move it a frame at a time across the room and it even looks 
 like it has a small explosion as it hits the wall.  
 
 I wanted the ADT guys to see this today so since it was just recorded last 
 night I had them take a loo,, I thought possibly it was something with their 
 camera…nope.  At first they thought it might be a moth, then a fly….until I 
 set to actual speed….now they were bug eyed and didn’t have a clue, making 
 all kinds of jokes.
 
 It appears to hit exactly at the intercom box, and going frame to frame it 
 seems to explode (very minor) as it reaches the box.  
 
 I have watched this over and over and over….
 
 Is there any type signal be it FM, radio, WiFi, etc. etc that somehow could 
 be captured by a camera?  This has never been there before, it’s a mp4 clip 
 playing in Quicktime.
 
 VERY strange but must have some explanation…
 
 One of you may have an answer, hope so…can’t send the clip as it’s almost 2 
 meg so I have to describe it.
 
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Re: [MacGroup] Apple Watch

[Dan Crutcher]

Lee,

I thought I spotted you in that ubiquitous TV ad for Sprint that ran during the 
NCAA’s — the one where the rich people drive from one jet to another on the 
tarmac, saying they don’t need to cut their phone rates because “we’re rich and 
we’ve already got everything we need.”

See you at the polo club. Cheerio.

Dan

 On Apr 14, 2015, at 10:22 AM, Lee Larson leelar...@me.com wrote:
 
 I'll admit I was originally debating whether to get out of bed at all today. 
 That changed when a note from my scheduling assistant reminded me today was 
 the debut of Apple’s newest wristwatch. In the yacht’s leisure room, I 
 perused my collection of rare old antiques from Rolex. As I certainly 
 couldn’t bear the shame of being seen in public without a standard timepiece, 
 I considered my choice with care. I chose to dress down, as I'd be among the 
 city folk today. A classic Rolex Explorer from 1956 was chosen for it’s 
 ambiance befitting the common man and it’s sporty good looks.
 
 Taking the elevator from my living quarters to the helicopter deck, I could 
 hardly contain my anticipation. After a short flight, we landed, and my 
 driver was waiting on the tarmac with the Bentley. I made haste, and reclined 
 into the hand-stitched, subtly cream-colored Herman Oak leather seating of 
 the Bentley. (I’m told the city people mostly confine themselves to Bentleys 
 and I shouldn’t wish to cause a stir with the Rolls Phantom, even though it 
 is ever so much more comfortable.)
 
 Finally, after what seemed an eternity of caviar and Belgian hors d’ oeuvres, 
 lightly touched with Grey Poupon, I arrived at the Apple store. I was aghast 
 at the mob of shabbily-dressed people queueing near the door! Luckily my 
 travel liaison had anticipated my arrival, and she was waiting to give me my 
 very own Apple watch. And wouldn’t you know, they’re quite a steal at only 
 ten thousand dollars. Of course, the bronze-tinted platinum Milanese loop 
 band adds several thousand more to the price, but I'm never one to quibble 
 over such insignificant details. 
 
 Now I’ve heard tell of people saying they’re quite a bit more after “tax”, 
 but I tell you I’ve no idea what they’re talking about. One of my accountants 
 assured me when I was young that this “tax” thing has no effect on people 
 like me. He told me that “tax” is the penalty you pay for being poor.
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[MacGroup] Yosemite slowness

[Dan Crutcher]

My MacBook Pro had been running a bit slower since installing Yosemite, despite 
the fact that it has 16 GB of RAM. I found the following discussion and 
solution helpful. Since following these steps, my memory usage in Activity 
Monitor has decreased significantly and everything feels snappier. It’s worth 
checking out if you’ve noticed any sluggishness since installing Yosemite.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6623697?start=0tstart=0


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Re: [MacGroup] Found on the 'Net

[Dan Crutcher]

I’ve always wondered what percentage of market share Macs have among people who 
actually choose the computers that they use. I read today in the New York Times 
that Microsoft’s Windows OS has a 91% market share among all computers in use. 
That does not really surprise me, as there are far more computers used in 
business and corporate environments then as truly “personal” computers, and few 
large companies use Macs as their base computing platform.

But whenever I see photos in the press of real people using computers, it’s 
overwhelmingly Macs. In my own businesses we have between 10 and 20 interns 
each year working for us at various times. The ratio of Macs to PCs is probably 
5 to 1 in favor of Macs.

Almost every employee I have hired that had previously used only Windows-based 
computers has converted to a Mac as their personal computer after using the 
Macs that we use in our offices.

Does anybody know of any statistics on Mac vs. PC usage among people who truly 
get to choose which kind of computer they use (as opposed to what they’ve been 
given to use at work)? I’ve got to think that the Mac market share is much 
higher than the usual 5-10% share that is reported in the press.


 On Jan 22, 2015, at 9:30 PM, R. D. Preston preston@twc.com wrote:
 
 Bah-ZING-gah!
 
 On Jan 22, 2015, at 9:14 PM, Lee Larson leelar...@me.com wrote:
 
 The press gallery at the State of the Union looks like an Apple ad.
 
 B71nB-TCAAAPp90.jpg:large
 
 And here’s the press room at the Windows 10 unveiling in Redmond.
 
 windows_10_event_macbooks.jpeg
 
 
 
 
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[MacGroup] Hosted anti-spam services

[Dan Crutcher]

I’m looking for a good hosted (cloud-based) anti-spam email service for my 
business. Roughly 25 email accounts. Cost is important. Any recommendations?


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Re: [MacGroup] AntiVirus

[Dan Crutcher]

I will second what Lee says. We’ve been using 15-20 Macs at our office for 20 
years, with dozens of different users, some of whom almost certainly have 
installed suspicious software and broken most other rules of security best 
practices, and even with that, the only virus that we have ever contracted (to 
my knowledge) is a Word 97 macro virus back in the late 90s.

There just aren’t enough active viruses out there that either target Macs or 
are able to get through Mac OS’s security procedures to worry about.

In fact, if there is anyone out there whose computer has been affected by a Mac 
virus, I’d like to know about it.

Dan Crutcher

 On Oct 7, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Richard D. Meadows wrote:
 
 I need to upgrade my anti-virus softward. SOPHOS just quit working.
 
 What do you all use and WHY?
 
 I don't use anything and haven't since the turn of the century. I don't think 
 I've been infected. Here is my reasoning:
 
 (1) I don't install software from suspicious sources. That is the most common 
 way infections occur. If I am installing something and the installer asks for 
 my password, I think hard about where I got the software before giving the 
 password.
 
 (2) My built-in firewall is turned on and the fewest practical number of open 
 ports is configured.
 
 (3) I use FileVault so no rogue process on the machine can peek at my data, 
 unless it can run as me.
 
 (4) I always have a strong password — more than ten characters. I often use a 
 line of poetry to make it long and memorable — something like 
 Quoth_the_raven,_Nevermore!
 
 (5) There are very few Mac viruses — fewer than 50 in the last list I saw, 
 and that list included quite a few that no longer work, such as Word macro 
 viruses. (There are hundreds of thousands of Windows viruses.) I don't see 
 any reason to slow down my system in order to protect from an almost 
 nonexistent threat. Kinda like driving slow in Louisville because there's 
 lots of snow in Minnesota.
 
 (6) Apple has malware protection built into OS X. It's called Xprotect and 
 it's updated automatically from the mother ship. (I think the other name for 
 it is File Quarantine.)
 
 (7) I don't believe the breathless warnings about doom and gloom from the 
 antivirus industry. Their job is to stir up the cauldron of paranoia and 
 ignorance to sell software. For example, the threat du jour is the shellshock 
 stuff with bash. Almost nobody is susceptible to it, but the press has been 
 having a grand old time scaring the computer illiterate masses. What they 
 don't say is it mostly affects Linux servers — not even Windows for a change!
 
 If I really wanted some anti-malware software, I'd try the free stuff first:
 
 iAntivirus
 ClamXav
 avast!
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[MacGroup] File Recovery

[Dan Crutcher]

Does anyone have any advice on how to recover a file that is (was) on a flash 
drive that got overwritten by a file of the same name?

Scenario: User is working on a file called FILE1 and saving it periodically to 
a USB flash drive that is connected to her computer. She also has a file called 
FILE1 on her computer’s hard drive, but that FILE1 has little information in 
it; all of the new information has been saved in the one on her flash drive. At 
some point she copies the old FILE1 from her computer to the flash drive, 
overwriting the FILE1 that had all the new information.

No other data has been saved to that flash drive since the file was overwritten.

Is there any way to recover the data that was in the overwritten FILE1 on the 
flash drive?

I have Data Rescue and have run a Deep Scan on the flash drive, which recovered 
36 files, but none of them were the overwritten FILE1.


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Re: [MacGroup] Longtime Apple director steps down from board

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All good points. But I must point out that we have been using AccountEdge 
(formerly MYOB) as our accounting program at Louisville Magazine and 
Louisville.com since I bought the magazine in 1993 and it has served us well. 

Our accountant has worked with us by coming in to our offices to use the 
program on our machines the few times that was necessary, which some 
accountants might not do. Generally, AccountEdge’s ability to export to Excel 
has sufficed. And the non-availability of a robust version of QuickBooks has 
allowed a Mac-based competitor such as AccountEdge to survive. I was also glad 
to be able to show that no, you didn’t need to have a PC in the house to run a 
small business.

We have also used a Mac-based subscription management program called InHouse 
(which runs on the 4D database platform) to handle all our subscription needs, 
which is another task that many publishers think can only be done on a PC.

But you are undoubtedly right that the lack of a viable QuickBooks version has 
hurt Mac acceptance in the business world. Even though most of the city and 
regional magazines I know of use Macs for design and editorial purposes, I 
don’t know of any other than us that use Macs in the business and circulation 
departments.

 You are right, Marta, and did have a twinge of guilt in writing that. It's 
 just that the magnitude of Bill Campbell's one big transgression is too 
 great. 
 
 It all started when he moved from being the CEO of Claris (the old software 
 arm of Apple) and became the CEO of Intuit, the maker of QuickBooks, the de 
 facto standard for small business accounting the world over.
 
 When faced with the opportunity to make the Mac an equal partner in the 
 business world, what did he do? During his tenure he released anemic versions 
 of QuickBooks for the Mac that were legendarily buggy, difficult to use, 
 lacked key features, weren't multi-user, and (worst of all) wouldn't share 
 files between the Mac and PC versions. What that meant was that if even if a 
 small business was willing to overlook the program's other gross deficiencies 
 they still couldn't send a report file to their accountant, where there was 
 zero chance that they were using the Mac version.
 
 Think of what that means to all the lost Mac sales over the years. If a 
 company wanted to go all Mac, they would still have to have that one PC just 
 to run Quickbooks. What a bother--let's just get PCs to begin with they (or 
 their IT bosses) probably said all too often.
 
 Now think of all the cascading sales that that one deficiency has caused. All 
 the people who never heard of a business using Macs would say, The Mac is 
 not a business computer. I heard that way too many times! As a result, few 
 people considered Mac for businesses. Software companies also thought the Mac 
 business market too risky to write apps for them.
 
 Then, when it was time to buy a home computer, all those employees bought 
 what they used at work. It would be a long time before the general buying 
 public would see the superiority of the Mac for their own use, because 
 EVERYONE uses PCs, right? I still hear that today!
 
 Now think of what the world would be like if all those Macs had actually sold 
 to businesses because there had been feature parity between the Mac and PC 
 versions of QuickBooks? Think of all the viruses that wouldn't be able to 
 have a happy home on a welcome PC. Think of all the spam that would NOT now 
 be sent worldwide by spam-bots running on infected versions of Windows XP, 
 because more Macs would be sold. At the very least, M$ would have been forced 
 (sooner) to keep up rather than get fat and lazy milking their virus-laden 
 spam-bot cash cow for so long.
 
 Think of what might have been!
 
 And Bill Campbell had it within his power to evangelize Intuit as its CEO 
 (and later chairman of its board), while he had a fiduciary responsibility to 
 the Apple stockholders lo these 17 years on ITS board, and simply work to get 
 a version of QuickBooks out the door that didn't, um, inhale sharply. 
 
 I credit him with single-handedly costing Apple millions (units, not dollars) 
 of Mac sales. ALL WHILE BEING ON APPLE'S BOARD!
 
 He dropped that ball and it rolled down the hill and under one of those 
 machines that grinds up and resurfaces asphalt roads.
 
 Me? Angry? 
 
 Naw.
 
 Livid.
 
 And now he's leaving Apple's board like a conquering hero. And the irony 
 doesn't dawn on the people who are honoring him the most that they are the 
 people he hurt the worst. He's right up there with Eric Schmidt (industrial 
 spy, and simultaneous Google CEO and Apple board member) in the damage done 
 to the people he has fiduciary responsibility to.
 
 j.
 
 P.S. And while we are imagining a world that might have been, imagine one 
 where you can log on to your mortgage company's site (me), or apply for 
 unemployment online (my wife) in the state of Kentucky without being required 
 to use a Windows 

Re: [MacGroup] Junk Mail

[Dan Crutcher]

This is true, but even with assiduous training Mail does not do a very good job 
of filtering out junk email if you really get bombarded with it, as I do. I 
highly recommend SpamSieve for more robust filtering. 

http://spamsieve.en.softonic.com/mac

Sent from my iPad

 On Jul 5, 2014, at 11:49 AM, Lee Larson leelar...@me.com wrote:
 
 Anne Cartwright cartw...@aye.net asked:
 
 The junk mail filter doesn't seem to be filtering out much. Is there 
 something else I should be doing? I vaugely remember something about 
 training the junk mail filter. Does that process still exist?
 
 When you first start using the junk mail filter, it doesn't catch anything. 
 When you read mail, you should be identifying stuff you consider to be junk 
 by flagging it with the menu item 'MessageMarkAs Junk Mail'. When you do 
 this, the email is moved to the Junk mailbox and the filter is taught about 
 what you consider to be junk mail. Over a few weeks, it will slowly get 
 better about automatically flagging junk.
 
 
 
 
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Re: [MacGroup] Mac repair

[Dan Crutcher]

Yes, and it’s not there any more. As far as I know, the only places that can 
repair Macs are the Apple Store and MacAuthority on Breckenridge Lane.

 Hey Group --
 
 There used to be a Mac repair shop behind Mall St. Matthews in the industrial 
 park. It had a short name and I took a MacBook there many years ago. I was 
 sent there by a genius at the Apple store. They did a good job at a fair 
 price and I was hoping to take this one to them but I can't find them online. 
 Anyone know the shop I'm referring to and if they are still around?
 
 Thanks,
 
 Sandy
 
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Re: [MacGroup] Remote images not displaying in Mail

[Dan Crutcher]

No that does not work. I've tried changing that setting back and forth multiple 
times and it makes no difference.

Sent from my iPad

 On Apr 20, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Ed Wiser wisero...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 So this doesn't work?
 Please, follow the instructions below to resolve your problem:
 - Open 
 - In the top menu bar, click Mail Preferences
 - Go to the Viewing category
 - Verify that the Display remote images in HTML Messages or Display images 
 and embedded objects in HTML messages isSELECTED.
 - Save that and close the window.
 —
 Sent from Mailbox for iPhone
 
 
 On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Dan Crutcher dcrutc...@loumag.com wrote:
 On my Macbook Pro, running 10.9.2, Apple Mail will not display remote images 
 in emails, despite the fact that I have Display remote images in HTML 
 messages” checked in Mail’s Viewing preferences. 
 
 Example: I receive an HTML newsletter that is supposed to display an ad that 
 is called from a remote server (not the same as the one that sent the 
 newsletter), but that ad does not display when I open the email with that 
 newsletter in Apple Mail on my MacBook Pro. It does not even display the 
 little blue box question mark that I sometimes get when images can’t load. 
 However, images embedded in the HTML of the newsletter do show up. 
 
 When I open the same newsletter on my iPad the remote image does display. 
 
 Any ideas on why this happens? 
 
 
 
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Re: [MacGroup] Remote images not displaying in Mail

[Dan Crutcher]

Yes.

Sent from my iPad

 On Apr 20, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Ed Wiser wisero...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 This is Mavericks right?
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Apr 20, 2014, at 1:04 PM, Dan Crutcher dcrutc...@loumag.com wrote:
 
 No that does not work. I've tried changing that setting back and forth 
 multiple times and it makes no difference.
 
 Sent from my iPad
 
 On Apr 20, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Ed Wiser wisero...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 So this doesn't work?
 Please, follow the instructions below to resolve your problem:
 - Open 
 - In the top menu bar, click Mail Preferences
 - Go to the Viewing category
 - Verify that the Display remote images in HTML Messages or Display 
 images and embedded objects in HTML messages isSELECTED.
 - Save that and close the window.
 —
 Sent from Mailbox for iPhone
 
 
 On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Dan Crutcher dcrutc...@loumag.com 
 wrote:
 On my Macbook Pro, running 10.9.2, Apple Mail will not display remote 
 images in emails, despite the fact that I have Display remote images in 
 HTML messages” checked in Mail’s Viewing preferences. 
 
 Example: I receive an HTML newsletter that is supposed to display an ad 
 that is called from a remote server (not the same as the one that sent the 
 newsletter), but that ad does not display when I open the email with that 
 newsletter in Apple Mail on my MacBook Pro. It does not even display the 
 little blue box question mark that I sometimes get when images can’t load. 
 However, images embedded in the HTML of the newsletter do show up. 
 
 When I open the same newsletter on my iPad the remote image does display. 
 
 Any ideas on why this happens? 
 
 
 
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Re: [MacGroup] Remote images not displaying in Mail

[Dan Crutcher]

I don’t know if it happens with other email senders. The one that I’m trying to 
get to display the ads is the Weekender email from Louisville.com. I see them 
on my iPad but not on my MacBook Pro. I’m starting to wonder if there is not a 
preference file or two that needs to be deleted. I would be interested in 
knowing if anyone else who gets this weekly email newsletter sees the ads that 
are (usually) at the top or on one of the sides.

If you’d like to sign up for the Weekender, go to louisville.com and click on 
“Weekender” in the menu bar.

Dan

 Dan is it from a certain sender or email address ?
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Apr 20, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Dan Crutcher dcrutc...@loumag.com wrote:
 
 Yes.
 
 Sent from my iPad
 
 On Apr 20, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Ed Wiser wisero...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 This is Mavericks right?
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Apr 20, 2014, at 1:04 PM, Dan Crutcher dcrutc...@loumag.com wrote:
 
 No that does not work. I've tried changing that setting back and forth 
 multiple times and it makes no difference.
 
 Sent from my iPad
 
 On Apr 20, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Ed Wiser wisero...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 So this doesn't work?
 Please, follow the instructions below to resolve your problem:
 - Open 
 - In the top menu bar, click Mail Preferences
 - Go to the Viewing category
 - Verify that the Display remote images in HTML Messages or Display 
 images and embedded objects in HTML messages isSELECTED.
 - Save that and close the window.
 —
 Sent from Mailbox for iPhone
 
 
 On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Dan Crutcher dcrutc...@loumag.com 
 wrote:
 
 On my Macbook Pro, running 10.9.2, Apple Mail will not display remote 
 images in emails, despite the fact that I have Display remote images in 
 HTML messages” checked in Mail’s Viewing preferences. 
 
 Example: I receive an HTML newsletter that is supposed to display an ad 
 that is called from a remote server (not the same as the one that sent 
 the newsletter), but that ad does not display when I open the email with 
 that newsletter in Apple Mail on my MacBook Pro. It does not even display 
 the little blue box question mark that I sometimes get when images can’t 
 load. However, images embedded in the HTML of the newsletter do show up. 
 
 When I open the same newsletter on my iPad the remote image does display. 
 
 Any ideas on why this happens? 
 
 
 
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Re: [MacGroup] strange response to a message I sent out.

[Dan Crutcher]

Harry,

Got to watch your language. “Chock full” … “sourpusses” … “twit” … “dark 
evenings” … I mean, c’mon, anybody with a lick of sense can figure out the code 
words. And pretty much everybody knows by now that “bridge club” is just 
another word for “orgy.”

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Dan

 I sent a message to a group of friends who gather once a month to play 
 bridge. 
 
 Within seconds of sending the email I received this message in return from 
 
   Administrator@TrendMicroWFBS.Local
 
 The subject of the message reads
 
   [MailServer Notification][WFBS Security Server: 
 file1a.akers.com, Messaging Security Agent: MAIL]Content Filtering 
 Notification
 
 
 The message reads in part:
 
   This email has violated the PROFANITY.
 and Quarantine entire message has been taken on 2/2/2014 20:07:53.
 Message details:
 Server: MAIL
 
 
 The rest of the message listed the recipients to whom I sent the email and 
 the subject of the message I sent out.
 
 
 There was no profanity in the message. 
 
 Any clue what’s happening?
 
 Thanks.
 
 Harry
 
 Here is the text of my message:
 
 
 
 Hello Bridge buddies,
 
 Can you believe it? 2014 is well under way and January has come and gone.
 It is said time flies when you are having fun, but I think time flies even if 
 you are not having fun.
 
 February is chock full of holidays. Today is Groundhog’s Day, the 14th is 
 Valentine’s Day, and President’s Day is the 17th. 
 
 In addition to the above it’s National Grapefruit month (which is celebrated 
 by sourpusses the country over :-) ) and National Twit Month. I won't bore 
 you with the rest.
 
 
 This month couples bridge will be hosted by Nancy and Tom Groves. We will 
 gather at  their house (address and directions below) at 6:30 pm on Friday, 
 February 21 (appropriately Card Reading Day”). 
 
 (Remember, the group decided to meet at 6:30 p.m. during the dark evenings of 
 eastern standard time).
 
 The Groves have room for 4 tables.
 
 If you plan to attend please reply to Nancy nancyjgro...@yahoo.com no later 
 than Tuesday, February 18.
 
 Let her know if you will bring table snacks, appetizers, or desserts.
 
 Please do not reply to me.
 
 
 
 Nancy  Tom Groves
 10307 Long Home Rd.
 (40291)
 239-7774. 
 
 Go south on Gene Snyder Parkway to exit 17, Bardstown Road.
 At bottom of ramp turn east / south on to Bardstown Road and 
 go thru 4 traffic lights, (approx. 1.8 miles) to Long Home Road.
 Turn left on to Long Home Road and the Groves’ house
 is the 4th house on left.
 
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Re: [MacGroup] Mail

[Dan Crutcher]

Lee,

I know this isn’t any help to you, but I’m using Mavericks and Apple Mail and I 
am not having the problems you are, so maybe there is some other interaction 
going on in your system that’s causing these glitches. I don’t use Gmail and 
numbers 5 and 6 don’t apply to my setup, so I can really only talk about points 
1 and 2, both of which are working fine for me, as far as I can determine.

Dan

 I’m finally ready to give up on Apple's mail. Since the Mavericks upgrade, it 
 has become unreliable. Here are some of the problems I see all the time with 
 version 7.1 (1827) of Mail under OS X 10.9.1.
 
 
 (1) This morning I sent a several emails, but none of them are cached in the 
 Sent mailbox. A search of the machine finds them nowhere. In fact, none of 
 the many emails I sent yesterday afternoon can be found in the Sent mailbox. 
 All the sent mail since 9:32 yesterday morning has vanished.
 
 (2) The smart mailboxes regularly lose count of unread messages. I have 
 several smart mailboxes right now showing two unread messages when there are 
 actually none. I've tried rebuilding mailboxes and marking all the messages 
 as read. I've even gone so far as to delete the mailboxes and recreate them 
 and even kill the plist files. The problems return. The worst is the VIP 
 smart mailbox that's hard-wired into Mail. My VIP mailbox shows five unread 
 messages with none to read.
 
 (3) I've had Gmail vanish as I was reading it.
 
 (4) Mail regularly fails to notice new messages in Gmail.
 
 (5) Mail regularly gets confused when using secure, authenticated SMTP 
 servers. It starts asking for the password and will never authenticate.
 
 (6) Mail won't list all the possible completions from an LDAP server, if 
 there are more than about a dozen possibilities. (This may be a Contacts 
 problem.)
 
 
 Oddly, Mail on iOS doesn't have these problems. I've started using my iPad to 
 read Gmail.
 
 So … are there better alternatives? It seems that Apple has sucked the air 
 out of the email developers by shipping a free product. I've tried 
 Thunderbird and find it klunky. Sparrow looked promising, but was bought by 
 Google and development has ceased. MailForge is a Eudora clone and seems to 
 be dead in the water.
 
 Unless I find something better, I'll move on to Thunderbird.
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [MacGroup] Windows connection to LAN

[Dan Crutcher]

Thanks Jeff. Let me try something from one of the links that Ed sent to me 
first and if I can’t get that to work, I’ll give you a call.

 Dan,
 We'd be happy to do a free remote session to figure it out for you if you 
 like.
 Happy weekend,
 
 Jeff Slyn, Owner
 SLYN Systems  Peripherals
 (502) 426-5469
 http://www.SLYNsystems.com ad...@slynsystems.com Twitter: @SLYNsystems
 serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985!
 
 
 -- Original Message --
 From: Dan Crutcher dcrutc...@loumag.com
 To: macgroup macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu
 Subject: [MacGroup] Windows connection to LAN
 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:22:41 -0500
 
 We have an intern using a Dell computer running Windows 8 that I would like 
 to be able to access our all-Macintosh local area network for simple 
 file-sharing and printing. We�ve tried using various settings in Windows 8 
 but haven�t had any success in finding the network.
 
 On a Mac I would do this by going to the Connect to Server option under 
 Finder�s �Go� menu and clicking browse. All network computers with 
 file-sharing turned on would appear. Is there something similar that I could 
 do in Windows to �browse� the network. He is using our internal Wi-fi to 
 connect to the Internet, so he should have the ability to find our internal 
 network.
 
 To find and set up the printer on a Mac, I would go to System 
 Preferences/Printers  Scanners; is there something similar to that in 
 Windows 8? I�ve done this before on XP, but 8 is a different beast.
 
 Thoughts?
 
 
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[MacGroup] Windows connection to LAN

[Dan Crutcher]

We have an intern using a Dell computer running Windows 8 that I would like to 
be able to access our all-Macintosh local area network for simple file-sharing 
and printing. We’ve tried using various settings in Windows 8 but haven’t had 
any success in finding the network.

On a Mac I would do this by going to the Connect to Server option under 
Finder’s “Go” menu and clicking browse. All network computers with file-sharing 
turned on would appear. Is there something similar that I could do in Windows 
to “browse” the network. He is using our internal Wi-fi to connect to the 
Internet, so he should have the ability to find our internal network.

To find and set up the printer on a Mac, I would go to System 
Preferences/Printers  Scanners; is there something similar to that in Windows 
8? I’ve done this before on XP, but 8 is a different beast.

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Re: [MacGroup] Mavericks

[Dan Crutcher]

I’ve been running Mavericks for about a week and have also found it solid as 
far as hangs or crashes go. My only beef is that they’ve done something that 
interferes with Quickeys, which I use for a lot of basic functions. Quickeys 
still works, but sometimes I have to press the keystroke combinations that 
launch the scripts several times before they launch. I suspect/hope there will 
be a Quickeys update coming out soon.

 On Oct 29, 2013, at 10:07 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:
 
 What does the group think about upgrading to Mavericks?
 
 I have had Mavericks running on two machines (mini, laptop) for a week or so. 
 The operating system itself is very solid — no crashes — and just feels 
 faster than Mountain Lion on both machines. The biggest interface difference 
 for me is they finally fixed multiple monitor support, which has been hobbled 
 for years.
 
 Most everything worked. The Mail Act-On  plug-in for mail doesn't work. Path 
 Finder freezes. 
 
 On the down side — the new iWork programs are a big step backward from their 
 predecessors.
 
 For example, I switched over to Numbers for my minimal spreadsheet use a 
 while back. I had written a few simple scripts to do some sorting. Numbers no 
 longer supports scripting. And the sort operation is just plain busted. I 
 can’t  find any way to sort a selection; it will sort the whole column or row 
 all the time. This is just plain unacceptable in a modern spreadsheet.
 
 I rarely use Pages, but I've read the newest version also has no scripting.
 
 Apple also changed the file formats in both Pages and Numbers. I had to 
 export it into a Numbers 09 format to use an older Numbers on my data. (At 
 least they have this export option. Somebody at Apple must have realized 
 there would be problems.)
 
 I moved over to Numbers because I wanted the versatility of being able to 
 open my files on both the Mac and iPad. It looks like I'll be moving back to 
 one of the Open Office or Libre Office spreadsheets.
 
 
 
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Re: [MacGroup] anyone need an older disk?

[Dan Crutcher]

Believe it or not, I’d like to get that 10GB drive. I have an old voice-mail 
system that runs on DOS 6.6 and can’t handle any drive larger than that — and 
the smaller ones are getting hard to find.

 Hey all,
 
 Does anyone have any need for a still-functioning Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 
 internal SATA drive with a once-awesome 320GB capacity? It's yours for the 
 taking if you can make any use of it.
 
 If anyone wants any real antiques [1], I also have a 10.2GB IDE drive, a 60GB 
 IDE drive, an 80GB EIDE drive and a Barracuda 7200.7 160GB EIDE drive. I'm 
 not sure who would want them, but they're all functional.
 
 I also have a 250GB PATA Maxtor drive which I remember as fading away, though 
 I just overwrote it with 0's to erase it without any problem.
 
 You might be able to tell that I found a shelf in a desk which had an old 
 horde from the desktop days.
 
 Bill
 
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[MacGroup] Installing OS 10.8.x on multiple Macs

[Dan Crutcher]

In days of yore when a new Mac OS version came out, I would order the disks and 
use that one set of disks to install the new version on various Macs at work. 
Now that it's all done through the App Store, I'm not sure how (or whether) I 
can do that. 

Can I download the new version from the App Store to my computer and copy that 
download to other computers and install it on them? Or do I have to go to the 
App Store from each computer I want to install it on, enter my Apple ID and 
download and install it anew each time?

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Re: [MacGroup] IPv6

[Dan Crutcher]

Thanks Lee. I wondered about that Link-local only setting. Since the only time 
I really need Bonjour is within the LAN, I will try that setting. I suspect, as 
you suggested, that the main slowdown is in my somewhat old Netgear switches, 
which I plan to upgrade in the near future.

Dan

 On Aug 29, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
 
 A tech guy was in our offices today checking out our network and he 
 recommended that we turn off IPv6 on all our Macs. He said we don't use it, 
 as we're on IPv4 and that it slows down the network.
 
 Can anyone out there advise me on whether his information is correct, and if 
 so, how does one turn off IPv6? My Network panel has an option to Configure 
 IPv6, but the only options offered are Automatically, Manually and 
 Link-local only; there's no option to disable or turn off. A Google search 
 shows how to turn it off via Terminal commands, but I'm reluctant to do that 
 without unless someone I trust can verify that it won't hurt anything.
 
 I suspect this is a question for Lee, whom I trust to know everything 
 knowable about all aspects of every kind of computer hardware or software 
 ever devised. Don't let me down, Lee!
 
 I'll do my best. This is sort of a complicated subject.
 
 I leave it on because Bonjour uses it. This makes it a lot easier to set up 
 printers and such by discovery instead of having to know IP addresses. It's 
 also the way the Airport Utility finds an Airport Extreme.
 
 I suppose the added overhead could slow down Web surfing a tad because most 
 ISPs aren't IPv6 smart (cough, TWC, cough), but I've never noticed any 
 difference with the cable Internet, and I've tried it both ways.
 
 A lot of the possible Web slowdown depends on your router's method for 
 dealing with IPv6 packets. If you're really worried about it, you could try 
 setting your Macs and your router to Link-local only. This should keep all 
 the IPv6 packets inside your LAN. (Link-local only seems kind of like using 
 the 192.168.xxx.xxx addresses in IPv4.)
 
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[MacGroup] IPv6

[Dan Crutcher]

A tech guy was in our offices today checking out our network and he recommended 
that we turn off IPv6 on all our Macs. He said we don't use it, as we're on 
IPv4 and that it slows down the network.

Can anyone out there advise me on whether his information is correct, and if 
so, how does one turn off IPv6? My Network panel has an option to Configure 
IPv6, but the only options offered are Automatically, Manually and Link-local 
only; there's no option to disable or turn off. A Google search shows how to 
turn it off via Terminal commands, but I'm reluctant to do that without unless 
someone I trust can verify that it won't hurt anything.

I suspect this is a question for Lee, whom I trust to know everything knowable 
about all aspects of every kind of computer hardware or software ever devised. 
Don't let me down, Lee!

Thanks.

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Re: [MacGroup] Time Warner Speed Issues and 911

[Dan Crutcher]

I have Uverse (fortunately a substation is only a block away from my house) and 
my problem is not the speed coming into the house, it's that the coverage from 
their wifi isn't very good within the house. We barely get a signal in a back 
room that is only about 40 feet from the wifi hub — with three walls and a 
kitchen in between, so I'm wondering if the kitchen appliances are interfering 
— or from an upstairs bedroom that is almost right above the router.

When we had cable internet going through an Airport Extreme we had good 
coverage all over the house. Does anyone know if we can connect the Uverse 
modem/router/wifi thingie to our Airport and let that do the wifi, and if so is 
that likely to provide better coverage? The Uverse router currently provides 
the local IP addresses, so I wouldn't want both of them trying to do that, 
which I guess means one of them would have to be in bridge mode?

With Uverse, all of our TVs also receive their signal wirelessly from the 
Uverse wifi, so I'm not sure whether using an Airport for internet wireless 
would affect those signals.

 
 It's fiber to the closest ATT substation.  I have one about 3/4 a mile from 
 me, exactly 500 feet too far for me to sign up.  
 
 About a year ago they said their map qualified me, I signed up.  The tech 
 from Indianapolis came out and said the substation with the fiber was 500 
 feet too far away, copper is used to run to the homes.  I felt I was cheated 
 for the crazy folks ran under a 4 lane highway to a box on the other side, 
 they used copper for this and had they put fiber under the highway I would 
 have been close enough, however if phone lines are going away I am not sure 
 how many on U-verse will be affected.  
 
 I guess if fiber is on the pole outside your home you are O.K., but an 
 installation like most of us have in our area are going to be out of luck if 
 the landlines have to go away for none of our area is wired with fiber, only 
 the trunk line.
 
 
 On Jul 11, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Ed Wiser wisero...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 U verse is a fiber optic based system so it has a higher band width than the 
 current cable lines in town.  
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 On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:27 AM, John Robinson profilecoven...@me.com 
 wrote:
 
 Not sure what you mean Ed, if ATT is not allowed to have phone lines why 
 would they maintain the infrastructure?  Yes, if a limb takes down a pole 
 both the phone and cable go out but if there are no longer landlines through 
 ATT (and any other Bell or independent phone company)  what is their reward 
 for keeping all this maintained?   Maybe you meant something else.  
 
 I am interested in how this is going to hurt ATT's bottom line, and will 
 the institutions (62.2% of their stock held by institutions) begin to dump 
 and we all know what that can mean to a company i.e., Apple when the herd 
 mentality work in unison.  
 
 For we users I guess we have to understand we will all be going to TWC for 
 phone and TV and internet.  We will have to get used to the horrors of 
 dealing with TWC and we'll need to consider if we really want to go U-verse 
 if in a few short years it won't be around.   
 
 
 
 On Jul 11, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Wiser, Ed ewi...@ralcorpfrozen.com wrote:
 
 Cable goes out Phones go out.
  
 From: macgroup-boun...@erdos.math.louisville.edu 
 [mailto:macgroup-boun...@erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of John 
 Robinson
 Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:34 AM
 To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers
 Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Time Warner Speed Issues and 911
  
 James,
  
 To follow up on this, all the discussion on this list about the good and 
 bad between ATT and Insight are really mute conversations, we ALL are 
 going to have to go to TWC for landline phones in the not too distant 
 future no matter our preference.  
  
 So, what will ATT be doing with all their employees?  Will they still be 
 required to maintain the infrastructure so the cable guys will have a pole 
 to hang their wire?  When there is a storm that takes out their lines (that 
 then will go to nowhere for ATT) will they be required to do the repairs?  
 How will their revenue stream be replaced, the little old ladies that 
 depend on the (current) 5.06% dividend, will that be greatly reduced?  WOW, 
 lots to think about.
  
 John
  
  
 On Jul 11, 2013, at 8:08 AM, Dr. James Priest drpri...@fireresearch.org 
 wrote:
 
 
 Within 5 years the POTS lines will be a thing of the past. The FCC ruled 3 
 years ago they had 8 years eliminate.  In some areas it is gone altogether. 
 
 Dr. James Priest PhD 
 Sr. Fire Strategist/Researcher
 
 On Jul 10, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Jonathan Fletcher li...@fletcherdata.com 
 wrote:
 
 On Jul 10, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Richard D. Meadows rmead...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 
 
 Who is the private service who does the charts and graphs and speed detail? 
  Approximate Cost?
  
 We still have POTS at home as well as our cell phones.  I would not 

[MacGroup] Mobile email spam question

[Dan Crutcher]

Has anyone found a good solution for managing spam email on mobile devices? I 
have SpamSieve on my laptop and that does a good job, but when I'm away from my 
computer and relying on my iPhone or iPad for email, all of the junk that 
SpamSieve filters out still comes through and it's a lot.

Ed, I notice that you're using Mailbox for iPhone rather than iOS's Mail app. 
Does that offer any junk-filtering capabilities?

My email server is a straight POP server (no IMAP option) that does some 
junk-mail filtering on its own, but still lets a lot come through, which is why 
I need a local rather than server-based solution.

Dan

 My father in law had one of those last year. I have trained him to never 
 click on any links without me looking at the code. :)
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 On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Bill Rising bris...@mac.com wrote:
 
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Re: [MacGroup] Maybe someone

[Dan Crutcher]

That does interest me. I have a transcription pedal that I have used so far 
only for transcription. I had never thought to try it on audio or video 
programs, but will do so now just to see if it works. It might be a good way to 
work on learning to play a particular song, where you need to play a certain 
part over and over.

Dan

 I had ask the question a few months ago if anyone had ever used a 
 transcription pedal to control applications on the Mac.  I didn't get any 
 response so this message today will most likely not be of interest to 
 anyonebut there is a way.
 
 I ordered the Vpedal USB Transcription Foot Pedal 3 Function from Amazon.  
 The software is clunky BUT it does work.  You can set it up to work with any 
 of the default applications and then choose the one you are wanting to use 
 from a drop down menu.  You can delete any of those you know you won't be 
 using it with and you can add your own applications.  I only wanted it to 
 work with iTunes to Play, Pause, Fast Forward, Rewind.   
 
 It works beautifully, playing only when you hold the pedal down, stopping 
 when you let up.  Pressing the pedal will rewind a few seconds (which is 
 great for my application) before it continues.  The fast forward and rewind 
 also work beautifully.  If you are now ready to use iTunes normally simply 
 double click on your selection and iTunes plays as normal.  
 
 If you have a need to slowly go through a Podcast, Book, University class, 
 words of a song, or whatever, and take notes this is much better than hitting 
 the spacebar to stop and start iTunes.
 
 John
 
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Re: [MacGroup] Adobe Subscription?

[Dan Crutcher]

I read an article the other day that said version 6 would be the last 
standalone version and that all subsequent versions would be through the 
Creative Cloud subscription model. I did the math a few weeks ago and it looked 
like, comparing it to an every-other-version upgrade path with the standalone 
CS Design Standard, the subscription model comes out to pretty much of a wash 
costwise over several years. I think that was taking into account the current 
discounts being offered to v5 or higher users, and it did not reflect any 
possible increase in pricing. I'm going to look at it again and will let you 
know what I find. If you find any special deals, please let me know.

We currently have three licenses for CS5 and it is absolutely vital software 
for my business, so I need to figure out the best way forward. I hate to even 
think about going back to Quark, but I suppose it's worth a look.

Dan

 I wondered what other members of the group think of Adobe's Creative Cloud?
 
 I don't like the subscription model at all. I used to be in the habit of 
 upgrading every other version. Then when they announced that full version 
 upgrades would come out every 2 years, and upgrade pricing would only be 
 available to users who had the most recent full version, we figured we had to 
 upgrade every 2 years, to the tune of about $600 for Design Standard. I had 
 an online chat with Adobe yesterday, and was told that we could still upgrade 
 from CS5.5 to CS6, but that the Creative Cloud would be a better idea. I 
 explained that we are in print only, and do not need the full range of 
 software, especially since the subscription would cost more in the long run, 
 and when you discontinue the subscription, you lose all of the software. They 
 refused to answer my question about whether or not there will be a CS6.5, or 
 whether they will discontinue all standalone software. Creative Pro believes 
 that standalone software from Adobe is a thing of the past.
 
 I feel screwed. What are your thoughts?
 
 Wendi Williams
 Print Source Consulting
 (502) 458-5116
 (502) 458-4970 fax
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Re: [MacGroup] New Mac

[Dan Crutcher]

There are people who swear by AppleCare and then there are people like me who 
never buy it. As one who has owned, for business or personal use, more than 100 
Macs in the past 20 years I can testify that hardware problems have been few 
and far between. And I'm usually buying used, not new, so one would expect an 
even higher rate of failure. If had spent even $100 on warranties on each of 
those computers, it would have cost me at least $10,000. I would be surprised 
if I've spent even $2,000 on all Mac hardware failures combined over that 
period.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Dan

 Well I went to Mac Authority and picked up a Mac Mini the dual core not the 
 quad core which was about $200 more.
  
 Daniel suggested that I go to Best Buy and pick up a DVD Drive as theirs was 
 about $79 and he said I could get one at BB for about $40?
  
 I want to make sure that I get a DL as I just switched out for one in my G5.
  
 I have not opened it yet but also wanted to know if the Apple plan is worth 
 the extra $150?
  
 Steve Brown
  
 P.S. Thanks for every ones help!
  
  
 
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[MacGroup] iOS vs. Android Internet usage

[Dan Crutcher]

I know this phenomenon has been noted elsewhere, but I still find it remarkable 
and puzzling:

According to the latest stats I can find on U.S. smartphone ownership, 38% have 
iPhones, 52% have Android devices and 10% have other types. In tablets, iPad 
has 54%, Android devices 43% and 3% are other.

Presuming that there are many more smartphones than tablets, it's obvious that 
Android has a greater share of the mobile OS market than Apple (profits, of 
course, are an entirely different matter). Yet when I look at the Google 
Analytic statistics for Louisville.com, I see that in the month of March we had 
34,858 visits from iOS users, 12,638 from Android users and 741 visits from 
other mobile OS's.

In percentages, that's 72% iOS, 26% Android and 2% other.

So why, if there are more internet-capable Android devices than iOS devices, do 
iOS users outnumber Android visitors on our site by almost 3 to 1? Is it that 
iOS devices give users a better Internet experience or is that iOS users are 
more Internet-centric and savvy or …. what?

Any ideas? 

And, by the way, let me note that for the first time since I've been tracking 
Louisville.com statistics — going back to the late '90s — there were more 
non-Windows-OS visitors to the site than Windows in a one-month period (March), 
with a 51% to 49% margin for non-Windows devices. To compare over time, in 2007 
94% of our visitors used Windows OS. What a remarkable turnaround in just five 
or so years.

Macintosh OS (11%) and iOS (26%) represented 37% of our March visitors, 
compared to Windows' 49%. Unless Microsoft can make some significant inroads 
into Windows smartphones and tablets in the next few years, it looks like 
Apple's combined OS's will overtake Microsoft's in internet-access usage within 
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Re: [MacGroup] Uverse

[Dan Crutcher]

We switched our home connections to UVerse (from Insight) about three weeks 
ago, and it's been a mixed bag. On the one hand, we're saving a little money. 
The internet connection speed is about the same as it was with Insight. They 
claim a 17 Mb download speed for our level of service; we usually get in the 
10-12 range. The television reception, however, has been problematic. 
Initially, we were having problems with long screen freezes (and this during 
one of U of L's NCAA tournament games! Aaaargh!), but they came out and tweaked 
it and made it some better, but we still get momentary freezes that interrupt 
the flow of the program.

Actually, I have no complaints (yet) about their service or the speed of 
getting a technician to our house. One of the technicians was very 
knowledgeable and gave me a lot of useful information about how UVerse works. 
Then again, I never had any major problems with Insight's service either; it 
was just their pricing that ended up driving us off.

Maybe the good service is only because we're new customers and they're giving 
us special attention. We'll see.

Dan



 Maybe we can get Google Fiber.:) Everyone loves to hand over all their 
 privacy of a high speed data connection.:)
  
 From: macgroup-boun...@erdos.math.louisville.edu 
 [mailto:macgroup-boun...@erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Tanya
 Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 11:48 AM
 To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers
 Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Uverse
  
 Sorry Ed,
 
 Don't want to be a hater. Just really believe in customer service and well, 
 being kind and offering a good product or service. Umm ATT ain't on that 
 list for me.
 
 I have become disillusioned with Verizon as well. And since I will be 
 traveling over seas more often Verizon and my large bill doesn't work there. 
 So I refuse to pay more to have that service when other cellular companies 
 offer that at no extra charge.
 
 Like I said takes all kinds to make the world go round.
  
  
 Tanya Hahn
 Hahn  Associates
 Marketing  Business Development
 502.558.0487
 Be open to everything and attached to nothing
 From: Ed Wiser wisero...@gmail.com
 To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers 
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 Cc: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers 
 macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu 
 Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 9:17 AM
 Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Uverse
  
 From what I can see everyone hates all the carriers. :)
  
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 On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:04 AM, John Stone johnsst...@gmail.com wrote:
 Amen to that Tonya.
  
 On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Tanya tha...@yahoo.com wrote:
 um NEVER!
  
 Very hard to get help or get rid of service and . . . on an on and on.
  
 I bought a mifi and don't deal with that garbage anymore.
  
 In all fairness I despise ATT and refuse to give them any money, so take 
 what I say with a grain of salt.
  
 Tanya Hahn
 Hahn  Associates
 Marketing  Business Development
 502.558.0487
 Be open to everything and attached to nothing
 From: Harry Jacobson-Beyer harr...@me.com
 To: Macintosh computers related to Apple and Topics 
 macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu 
 Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 7:04 PM
 Subject: [MacGroup] Uverse
 
 Hello All,
 
 I currently have (and have had for years) Bellsouth (ATT???) dsl. A friend 
 recently upgraded his dsl to Uverse. 
 
 I don't have cable nor do I wish to get cable.
 
 So, any thoughts on Uverse?
 
 Thanks.
 
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[MacGroup] Remote Desktop

[Dan Crutcher]

Lee,

I'm not sure I understand how to do this. My router already has port 5900 
forwarded to a specific computer (e.g., 192.168.1.10). The other computer that 
I want to screen share with is at, let's say, 192.168.1.11. 

Currently, if I connect remotely to my office IP (we'll call it 22.33.44.56) at 
vnc://22.33.44.56, I get to the computer at 192.168.1.10, and that works fine.

I went into my router and forwarded port 6000 to 192.168.1.11 and then tried to 
connect at vnc://22.33.44.56:6000, but that did not work, presumably because 
the machine at 192.168.1.11 expects a vnc connection to come in on port 5900, 
not 6000. 

So… when you say forward port 6000 to port 5900 of the appropriate machine, I 
understand the logic, but don't know how to do that in my router, or whether I 
can do that. It seems as if I need to tell my router: If a request comes in 
for port 6000, send it to port 5900 of the computer at 192.168.1.11. (Even 
though 5900 has already been assigned to a different local IP.) I know how to 
forward a port to a specific LAN IP address, but not how to forward a port to 
another port at a specific IP address. 

Or is this something I need to do at the receiving computer: tell it to accept 
vnc calls at port 6000 rather than 5900? And if that's the case, I don't know 
to do that.

Any further guidance is appreciated.

Thanks.

Dan

 From: Lee Larson leelar...@mac.com
 Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Remote Desktop
 Date: March 22, 2013 11:30:41 AM EDT
 To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers 
 macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu
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 On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Lee Larson leelar...@mac.com wrote:
 
 Just set up your router to forward port 6000 to the appropriate machine.
 
 I realized this is not completely clear. Forward port 6000 to port 5900 of 
 the appropriate machine.
 
 
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 Date: March 22, 2013 11:23:15 AM EDT
 To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers 
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 On Mar 22, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Dan Crutcher dcrutc...@loumag.com wrote:
 
 I followed your instructions and forwarded port 5900 to the LAN IP of the 
 computer I wanted to access and it worked like a charm. Thanks.
 
 Now, is there a way to remotely access more than one computer on a LAN using 
 that method? If 5900 is forwarded to a specific computer, it can't also be 
 forwarded to another computer, can it? Is there a way to use some other port 
 to connect via VNC?
 
 Yup. You can specify the external port that VNC connects to by changing the 
 URL. For example, vnc://22.33.44.56:6000 tries to connect to port 6000. Just 
 set up your router to forward port 6000 to the appropriate machine. (This is 
 also easier with iCloud because Apple takes care of the port mapping for you.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [MacGroup] Syncing bellsouth

[Dan Crutcher]

Harry,

I had the same problem and solved it, sort of, using a somewhat complex method 
that works pretty well once it's set up.

In brief, it works like this: I installed SpamSieve on my main computer, which 
I find to be a much better spam filterer than the Junk mail option in Apple's 
Mail program. Aside from being a better spam detector, SpamSieve gives you a 
lot of options on how to handle your spam, including ranking it by color 
according to its likelihood to be real spam — the darker the color the better 
chance that's it's real spam. Once I had determined that it was nearly (if not 
completely) 100% accurate down to a certain color level, I set it up to 
automatically delete all messages of that color or darker immediately. That 
gets rid of about 95% of my spam email immediately, and that email does not get 
downloaded to my iOS devices.

Of course, the main computer has to be on and downloading email on a regular 
basis (mine does every 5 minutes) for this to work. And you need to train 
SpamSieve for a few weeks so that it gets good at recognizing your spam email.

Dan

 I can do that, and will until I figure out something different, but the only 
 problem with doing this is when you delete a message from one device it is 
 still on the others and when I delete the mail from my ipad or iphone 
 Bellsouth I always have 50 or so messages which I previously deleted from the 
 computer waiting for me on the ios devices.
 
 
 On Mar 26, 2013, at 9:59 PM, John Robinson prof...@insightbb.com wrote:
 
 I do exactly as Jonathan says, on every devise but one I have the deletion 
 set to a month, or whatever the max is, then on my main computer I have it 
 set to delete from server when downloaded.  Works perfect.   Not fancy, not 
 like the cloud, and putting up with ATT requires nerves of steel and a 
 personal psychiatrist.  
 
 John
 
 
 On Mar 26, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote:
 
 Harry,
 
 BellSouth has always been POP only and have no syncing, per se. But you 
 can adjust your settings to get the mail on both computers. 
 
 It involves adjusting the settings in your email accounts dealing with the 
 server. Go into Mail preferences, select the Accounts tab and then select 
 the BellSouth account. Click on the Advanced tab and change the settings 
 for Remove copy from the server after retrieving a message: to something 
 longer, like a week or a month. 
 
 That way when one of your devices retrieves the mail the other still has 
 time to get their copy before the server throws it away.
 
 It may still not work perfectly, but this is one thing that will help.
 
 HTH
 
 
 j.
 
 
 
 
 On Mar 26, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer harr...@me.com wrote:
 
 I use my me.com account for personal email (and this Listserve). I use my 
 bellsouth.net email for all non-personal email, as when I sign up for a 
 store rewards card, for example. 
 
 Up till now this hasn't been a problem because I only had one computer. 
 Now that I have an iMac and a laptop I realize my bellsouth account 
 doesn't sync between computers. I recently went out of town and took my 
 laptop with me. The bellsouth email I received on my laptop isn't on my 
 iMac, and the bellsouth email on my iMac isn't on my laptop. 
 
 A friend has the same problem and was told by the good folks at 
 MacAuthority that ATT/Bellsouth is the culprit. 
 
 Is there a way to have the bellsouth email sync between both computers?
 
 
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Re: [MacGroup] Remote Desktop

[Dan Crutcher]

I followed your instructions and forwarded port 5900 to the LAN IP of the 
computer I wanted to access and it worked like a charm. Thanks.

Now, is there a way to remotely access more than one computer on a LAN using 
that method? If 5900 is forwarded to a specific computer, it can't also be 
forwarded to another computer, can it? Is there a way to use some other port to 
connect via VNC?

 
 On Mar 21, 2013, at 10:08 PM, Dan Crutcher dcrutc...@loumag.com wrote:
 
 Through System Preferences/Sharing I've turned on what look like all the 
 appropriate remote sharing settings on a computer at work. How do I get my 
 computer at home to connect to it? 
 
 Suppose the IP address at work is 22.33.44.55 and the computer's LAN IP on 
 the is 192.168.1.10. How would I tell my home computer to go to that address 
 and start remote screen sharing?
 
 There are at least two ways to do this.
 
 (1) Turn on Back to My Mac in System Preferences--iCloud in the computer you 
 want to connect to. Then, it will show up in the Finder sidebar on other 
 computers using that same iCloud account. This way, you can bypass lots of 
 port fu and firewall nonsense.
 
 (2) Since Apple's screen sharing is the same as standard VNC, it uses 
 external port 5900. You have to set up the router to forward port 5900 to 
 192.168.1.10. Then, you can connect to it by Finder--Go to the address 
 vnc://22.33.44.56. (This will work to connect to any VNC-enabled machine 
 connected to the remote LAN.)
 
 With Timbuktu I had to open a specific port on my router to send the sharing 
 request to the right computer. Do I need to do something like that with 
 Apple's built-in screen sharing software? Or can you direct me to some 
 instructions on how to do this?
 
 I’m sure Apple's got a technote or three or four about this. Google is your 
 friend—even though it sometimes lies.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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[MacGroup] Remote Desktop

[Dan Crutcher]

I've been using Timbuktu for years to connect to and control my work computers 
from home, but it's been flaky lately, so I'm looking at other options. Does 
Apple Remote Desktop allow you to log in and control computers at remote 
locations over the internet, or is it just for remote access on a local area 
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Re: [MacGroup] Remote Desktop

[Dan Crutcher]

Lee,

Through System Preferences/Sharing I've turned on what look like all the 
appropriate remote sharing settings on a computer at work. How do I get my 
computer at home to connect to it? 

Suppose the IP address at work is 22.33.44.55 and the computer's LAN IP on the 
is 192.168.1.10. How would I tell my home computer to go to that address and 
start remote screen sharing?

With Timbuktu I had to open a specific port on my router to send the sharing 
request to the right computer. Do I need to do something like that with Apple's 
built-in screen sharing software? Or can you direct me to some instructions on 
how to do this?

Thanks.

Dan

 On Mar 21, 2013, at 3:50 PM, Dan Crutcher dcrutc...@loumag.com wrote:
 
 I've been using Timbuktu for years to connect to and control my work 
 computers from home, but it's been flaky lately, so I'm looking at other 
 options. Does Apple Remote Desktop allow you to log in and control computers 
 at remote locations over the internet, or is it just for remote access on a 
 local area network?
 
 The screen sharing software that's built into Mac OS X will allow you to log 
 into remote computers over the Internet. It's basically Apple's VNC 
 implementation, so you can also use it to log into Linux and Windows machines 
 running VNC server software.
 
 I use it all the time to remotely control office Mac and Linux machines from 
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Re: [MacGroup] Advise needed

[Dan Crutcher]

My first question to any slowness problem would be: how much RAM do you have 
installed? And how full is the hard drive?

 Hi all,
 
 Having some issues with my Mac mini and could use some sage advise. The 
 computer is several years old (i think its the last year of the older larger 
 one) and has started to run VERY slow. Seeing the color wait ball a lot. And, 
 lately it's taking forever to boot up. This morning I was thinking it just 
 may not boot up at all. But, I shut everything down and let it rest and then 
 it booted up. 
 
 My son (he's 14) has started to use the computer much more. Mostly gaming, 
 but also thinking he may be visiting some questionable sites. I don't want to 
 blame him (could just be the age if the computer) but at this point I don't 
 know what's wrong. 
 
 What should I do?  I have family photos on the computer and also need it for 
 work, so it's important!
 
 Thank you!
 Stuart
 
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Re: [MacGroup] Mail Folder

[Dan Crutcher]

What is the name of that folder and what version of Mac OS are you using?

 OK I've got the mailbox I want on my backup external HD. How do I move that 
 folder to my iMac or maybe I should ask where do I move it?
 
 
 
 
 On Jan 29, 2013, at 10:10 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
 
 Do you use Time Machine or some other backup program?
 
 I seemed to have accidentally deleted one of the folders in my Apple Mail. 
 Is there any way to get it back?
 
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Re: [MacGroup] Mail Folder

[Dan Crutcher]

You should be able to put it back in that same location. That is, copy the 
Travel folder to HomeLibraryMailMailboxes. Then restart Mail (you may have 
to restart the computer) and it should show up again in your Mail sidebar. 

If it doesn't, you may be able to import the emails inside it using the Import 
Mailboxes …  command under Mail's File menu.

 Good questions. Sorry I didn't include before.
 
 The Folder is HomeLibraryMailMailboxesTravel
 
 Using a 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo running Mac OS X 10.6.8.
 
 My new iMac is supposed to arrive tomorrow and I should definitely just start 
 over with mail (and many other folders) since at the moment even without the 
 travel folder it takes up close to 3.5 GB for over 20,000 items. Sort of 
 unwieldy when it comes to finding anything.
 
 Anne
 
 
 On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
 
 What is the name of that folder and what version of Mac OS are you using?
 
 OK I've got the mailbox I want on my backup external HD. How do I move 
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Re: [MacGroup] Mail Folder

[Dan Crutcher]

Do you use Time Machine or some other backup program?

 I seemed to have accidentally deleted one of the folders in my Apple Mail. Is 
 there any way to get it back?
 
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[MacGroup] Louisville.com stats for OS

[Dan Crutcher]

For the past several years I've posted to this group the December statistics 
for operating systems used by computers that access our website, 
Louisville.com. This year's 2012 OS stats give the breakdown by percentage of 
the 120,897 computer users who visited Louisville.com in December 2012 and 
compares this year's numbers to the same month's numbers going back to 2007. 

The continuing and still accelerating decline of Windows as the OS of people 
coming to the site is particularly striking, as is the meteoric rise of the 
mobiles, iOS and Android. 2013 will no doubt be the year that Windows visitors 
drop to less than half of the users visiting our site. Who would have predicted 
that in 2007?

I have no idea how our stats (from Google Analytics) compare to national stats, 
but I have no reason to think that Louisville.com would differ much from other 
sites. If anyone has national stats, I'd like to see them.

Dan

DEC 2007DEC 2008DEC 2009DEC 2010DEC 2011
DEC 2012
Percentage  
Windows 94% 90% 84% 78% 65% 51%
iOS 0%  1%  3%  6%  14% 25%
Macintosh   5%  9%  12% 14% 14% 12%
Android 0%  0%  0%  2%  7%  10%
Linux   0%  1%  0%  0%  0%  1%
Other   0%  0%  0%  0%  0%  1%

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Re: [MacGroup] Default Settings for printer

[Dan Crutcher]

The settings I'm trying to change are the specific printer settings, such as 
paper size, color, etc., that are found within the Default Settings for each 
printer, not which printer is the default one.

And … I found instructions on how to do what I want at 
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4094827?start=0tstart=0, but it appears 
that my printer does not offer an option to change the color setting, which is 
what I want to do.

Thanks.

Dan

 Dan,
 
 In the system pref. under printer you can set a particular printer as the 
 default, or the last used.  If that can't be changed I have no idea what is 
 going on.  
 
 John
 
 
 On Dec 19, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
 
 Next question:
 
 Is there a way to change the Default Settings for a printer? I know how to 
 save different presets for printers in the Print dialogue, but it won't let 
 me overwrite the Default Settings preset, nor can I delete it. 
 
 
 
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[MacGroup] CD/DVD drive won't accept disk

[Dan Crutcher]

The CD/DVD drive on my MacBook Pro will not let me insert a disk into it. I'm 
pretty sure that there is not a disk in there now — there is not one showing on 
the desktop and I don't remember inserting one that wasn't ejected. I can put 
the disk about 2 inches into the drive slot and then it hits something solid 
that will not let it go in any further. Since the slot has felt-like material 
covering the opening I can't see what's going on inside.

Anyone out there experienced this or have any ideas on how to fix it, or is it 
time to visit a genius?

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Re: [MacGroup] CD/DVD drive won't accept disk

[Dan Crutcher]

Tom,

That did the trick, though not in the way one would expect. There was not a 
disk stuck in the drive, but apparently the mechanism was stuck in the up 
position. I did the restart while holding down the touchpad a couple of times, 
and I could hear the drive make a trying to eject noise each time, but 
nothing came out. So the next time I tried inserting a disk while doing that 
same procedure, and when the drive made it's trying to eject noise, it 
accepted the disk I was inserting. I then was able to eject that disk and 
insert another one by normal process.

I presume what happened is that when it tries to eject during the 
restart/touchpad procedure it moves the intake/eject mechanism up and down, and 
once it allowed a disk to be inserted during that movement, it returned things 
to a normal state. Just a guess.

Hopefully, it will continue to work properly now.

Dan

 To force eject restart and hold down the touchpad. Sounds like one is stuck 
 in there. More info here.
 
 http://techtips.salon.com/force-cd-eject-macbook-2729.html
 Sent from my iPad
 
 On Dec 19, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Dan Crutcher dcrutc...@loumag.com wrote:
 
 The CD/DVD drive on my MacBook Pro will not let me insert a disk into it. 
 I'm pretty sure that there is not a disk in there now — there is not one 
 showing on the desktop and I don't remember inserting one that wasn't 
 ejected. I can put the disk about 2 inches into the drive slot and then it 
 hits something solid that will not let it go in any further. Since the slot 
 has felt-like material covering the opening I can't see what's going on 
 inside.
 
 Anyone out there experienced this or have any ideas on how to fix it, or is 
 it time to visit a genius?
 
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[MacGroup] Default Settings for printer

[Dan Crutcher]

Next question:

Is there a way to change the Default Settings for a printer? I know how to save 
different presets for printers in the Print dialogue, but it won't let me 
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Re: [MacGroup] To do list app recommendations

[Dan Crutcher]

Apple's Reminders works well for me, plus syncs with iCloud so it's on all 
devices.

 Wondering if anyone has any recommendations about a good to do list app for 
 iOS. I've tried a few and haven't been impressed yet. I don't need anything 
 fancy. But ideally something fun (or at least well designed) that will 
 encourage my ADD brain to use it on a regular basis. : )
 
 Thoughts appreciated. 
 
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Re: [MacGroup] digital voice recorder

[Dan Crutcher]

Oh Jonathan, you're such a fanboy! Well, in a good way, I guess.

 On Dec 3, 2012, at 8:27 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer harr...@me.com wrote:
 
 I need a digital voice recorder. Anybody use one? Have a recommendation?
 
 
 I'm going to be contrary, Harry, and say that you should just get one of the 
 4,287 voice recorders that are available on the iPhone and then you won't 
 need to carry anything else around with you. The mic is totally adequate if 
 you're just doing voice. The nice thing about using the iPhone is that you 
 have good options for sharing your results with your devices and others'.
 
 j.
 
 
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Re: [MacGroup] time change equals a time app

[Dan Crutcher]

I'm with John on this one. What they don't know…

 Funny story, I think...
 I've been wanting my wife to update her iPad to the latest OS but she wasn't 
 really interested, or didn't want to fool with it. For the last week she has 
 been laid up with knee surgery recovery and the iPad has just sat unused. I 
 thought what a perfect time to get the new and improved installed, so one day 
 I hit update and all went smoothly. Last night she was checking her emails on 
 it, and told me how cool it was that since the time changed last week, there 
 was now a clock/ time app on her main iPad home page.  I agreed that it was 
 cool and reminded her what a great company Apple is. 
 I'll fess up after her pain meds are gone.
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Re: [MacGroup] Lee's Answer prompts a question

[Dan Crutcher]

Not to nitpick, but I think you left a word out. It should be I'd rather have 
a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Or Dean Martin's variation: I would rather have a free bottle in front of me 
than a pre-frontal lobotomy.

 I had a friend who always said, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than 
 a lobotomy.  That might be easier than the surgery, and a heck of a lot more 
 fun!  :)
 
 Luann
 
 
 On Oct 29, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Neal Hammon wrote:
 
 Maybe the best way to answer this question is to get half of a frontal 
 lobotomy, and see which talents you loose.
 
 Neal
 
 On Oct 29, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Ed Wiser wrote:
 
 I come from an art background. But work in technical field. I am always 
 searching for answers weather for myself or others. Has lead me to learn a 
 great deal on how to find answers.
 Finding is the fun part of the search.
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Oct 28, 2012, at 9:57 PM, John Robinson prof...@insightbb.com wrote:
 
 This has nothing to do with Mac, it has to do with those that answer our 
 questions.  Ever notice that folks like me (that don't know much) flitter 
 around with verbiage that leads in circles while those in the know, like 
 Lee and many others,  get right to the question, often giving answers that 
 are so in depth.  I love it and have techno envy.
 
 My question.  All my life I have thought the scientific, the technical, the 
 mathematical were considered RIGHT BRAINED folks while those on the artsy 
 side of life were considered LEFT BRAINED.  My daughter mentioned that it 
 was just the opposite, I disagreed and began a search to find BOTH answers, 
 I couldn't believe I was not able to find a definitive, nail it on the wall 
 answer.
 
 So, Lee, are the folks like yourself considered Right or Left Brained, 
 while those as myself that dwell in a cloud somewhere are undoubtedly the 
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[MacGroup] Cursor/keyboard hanging

[Dan Crutcher]

My MacBook Pro is behaving very strangely this morning. Specifically, the 
trackpad pointer/cursor is hanging if I don't move it for about 5 or 6 
seconds. That is, after that period of inactivity, if I swipe my finger across 
the trackpad to move it, it does not move. If I keep swiping back and forth for 
a few seconds, it eventually starts moving and acts normally as long as I keep 
using it without pausing for that 5 or 6 seconds. Once I stop using it for that 
amount of time, it hangs again. Every time. The I-beam cursor, such as the one 
you get in Mail or a word processing program, does the same thing.

It is as if the trackpad (or the cursor) has fallen asleep and needs a few 
seconds of shaking to wake up. While typing this message I have discovered that 
the keyboard is doing the same thing — if I don't type a keystroke for 5 or 6 
seconds, the next letter or space I try to type doesn't appear for several 
seconds. The cursor just keeps flashing and then, if I've hit the space bar 
five times during the hang it proceeds to enter five spaces once it starts 
working again.

I will note that I do not get this same behavior if I do a Safe Boot. In that 
case, the cursor (and the keyboard, I presume) works as it should. 

I have turned off every extension, file sharing setting, iCloud, etc., etc., 
that I can find, but it seems to make no difference.

A possible clue: This morning I got a notification that updates were available 
from Apple's App Store; one of which was an update from OS X 10.8.1 to 10.8.2. 
After installing this update a window appeared asking me to sign in to iCloud 
(which I had been signed into prior to the update). When I entered my Apple ID 
to do so, it gave a message that my Apple password was invalid and that I would 
have to change it. I clicked on a link in that window to change password and 
went to what looked like Apple's change password screen (the URL was 
forgot.apple.com). It asked me to enter my Apple ID (my email address) and then 
the method of authentication. I chose Email authentication and the next 
screen said I was to follow the directions in the email to reset your 
password. I never received an email from Apple. My Apple ID and password still 
work (or iCloud, iTunes, etc.).

At this point I got (and still am) a little paranoid: Had something harmful 
been installed? Was something maybe even logging my keystrokes or somehow 
coming in between my keyboard/trackpad and the computer?

I'm still trying different things to see if I can isolate something that's 
causing this, but so far without success. Has anybody else experienced anything 
strange like this after updating to 10.8.2?

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Re: [MacGroup] Cursor/keyboard hanging

[Dan Crutcher]

I don't think that's the source of the problem, mainly because everything works 
fine if I Safe Boot. That suggests that it's something in the OS. If I can't 
figure out what's causing this, my next step is probably to do a full reinstall 
of the operating system.

 Do you need new batteries?
 
 On Sep 23, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
 
 My MacBook Pro is behaving very strangely this morning. Specifically, the 
 trackpad pointer/cursor is hanging if I don't move it for about 5 or 6 
 seconds. That is, after that period of inactivity, if I swipe my finger 
 across the trackpad to move it, it does not move. If I keep swiping back and 
 forth for a few seconds, it eventually starts moving and acts normally as 
 long as I keep using it without pausing for that 5 or 6 seconds. Once I stop 
 using it for that amount of time, it hangs again. Every time. The I-beam 
 cursor, such as the one you get in Mail or a word processing program, does 
 the same thing.
 
 It is as if the trackpad (or the cursor) has fallen asleep and needs a few 
 seconds of shaking to wake up. While typing this message I have discovered 
 that the keyboard is doing the same thing — if I don't type a keystroke for 
 5 or 6 seconds, the next letter or space I try to type doesn't appear for 
 several seconds. The cursor just keeps flashing and then, if I've hit the 
 space bar five times during the hang it proceeds to enter five spaces once 
 it starts working again.
 
 I will note that I do not get this same behavior if I do a Safe Boot. In 
 that case, the cursor (and the keyboard, I presume) works as it should. 
 
 I have turned off every extension, file sharing setting, iCloud, etc., etc., 
 that I can find, but it seems to make no difference.
 
 A possible clue: This morning I got a notification that updates were 
 available from Apple's App Store; one of which was an update from OS X 
 10.8.1 to 10.8.2. After installing this update a window appeared asking me 
 to sign in to iCloud (which I had been signed into prior to the update). 
 When I entered my Apple ID to do so, it gave a message that my Apple 
 password was invalid and that I would have to change it. I clicked on a link 
 in that window to change password and went to what looked like Apple's 
 change password screen (the URL was forgot.apple.com). It asked me to enter 
 my Apple ID (my email address) and then the method of authentication. I 
 chose Email authentication and the next screen said I was to follow the 
 directions in the email to reset your password. I never received an email 
 from Apple. My Apple ID and password still work (or iCloud, iTunes, etc.).
 
 At this point I got (and still am) a little paranoid: Had something harmful 
 been installed? Was something maybe even logging my keystrokes or somehow 
 coming in between my keyboard/trackpad and the computer?
 
 I'm still trying different things to see if I can isolate something that's 
 causing this, but so far without success. Has anybody else experienced 
 anything strange like this after updating to 10.8.2?
 
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Re: [MacGroup] Insight

[Dan Crutcher]

What kind of Wifi router are you using? We had a fairly late model Linksys that 
would go in and out on us regularly, and I finally replaced it with an Apple 
Airport Extreme that has been rock solid since we got it about three months 
ago. It cost us an extra $100 or so, but it's been well worth it.

 From a back bedroom I can get online easily during the day, but at night it's 
 just a nightmare trying to get and stay connected.
 
 It occurred to me that Insight must be dialing back its Internet connection 
 during the evening. So I conducted a speed test; and sure enough, I'm getting 
 just half the Internet speed I'm paying for in the evening.
 
 Please tell me if I'm wrong. Otherwise, they will hear from me on Monday!!!
 
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