Re: Games changers ...

2010-12-30 Thread Macs R We
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Re: Games changers ...

2010-12-27 Thread Macs R We
of business. Magazines trumpeted the end of the video game fad. Then the Japanese entered the market, and cleaned everybody's clocks. 24 years later, market demand is still strong, and they still own it. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far

Re: emptying trash

2010-12-26 Thread Macs R We
, but the last 5 take forever and the fan comes on. I've seen this exact symptom happen when I had trashed files on an external drive, then unmounted the drive. The easiest way to fix it was to re-mount the drive and empty the trash, and it went away immediately. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh

Re: Back to My Mac control

2010-12-26 Thread Macs R We
working properly across the wired/wireless barrier on my home network, and in my Mikrotik router so that VPN users can see my printers, but those aren't Apple problems.) -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas

Re: Quicktime stalling when playing from The Internets

2010-12-18 Thread Macs R We
server issue, but that wouldn't apply to movie streaming. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX

Re: Wifi power

2010-12-15 Thread Macs R We
On Dec 15, 2010, at 6:35 AM, LuKreme wrote: On 15-Dec-2010, at 00:11, Macs R We wrote: On Dec 14, 2010, at 8:42 AM, LuKreme wrote: The numbers in the opt-click wifi menu don't mean anything to me (RSSI: -62, Channel 153, MCS Index: 13). the only one that seems useful is the Transmit

Re: Wifi power

2010-12-14 Thread Macs R We
at all points in the house, but you also have to read the received signal at the router location from the computer as you take it all around the house. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http

Re: Redirect via hosts?

2010-11-25 Thread Macs R We
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Re: Redirect via hosts?

2010-11-24 Thread Macs R We
browser. I don't see this happening short of writing a full proxy service. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk

Re: MacBook Battery

2010-11-20 Thread Macs R We
cord is connected. The first step after opening the current line of laptops to do ANYTHING is to disconnect the battery plug. Is it possible it didn't get reattached properly? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas

Re: Snow Leopard Exposé Bug - Anyone Else?

2010-11-17 Thread Macs R We
it, you have to release command and start over. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk

Re: Screen Sharing / ARD

2010-11-04 Thread Macs R We
On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Stefano Mori wrote: On 4 Nov 2010, at 16:25, Macs R We wrote: In either Leopard or Snow Leopard they shortened the max length of an Apple Remote Desktop password to eight characters or so. I have found that machines that have long passwords left over from

Re: Screen Sharing / ARD

2010-11-04 Thread Macs R We
, the dots stop short and the thumper noise plays. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk

Re: AppleCare Protection Plan (for iMac): Is it worth it?

2010-11-03 Thread Macs R We
is 3-5 years! You'd be surprised how smooth the RMA process is. Absolutely guaranteed that a manufacturer will NOT directly honor a warranty on an Apple-labeled drive. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas

Re: AppleCare Protection Plan (for iMac): Is it worth it?

2010-11-03 Thread Macs R We
On Nov 3, 2010, at 3:43 AM, Jared Earle wrote: On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: Absolutely guaranteed that a manufacturer will NOT directly honor a warranty on an Apple-labeled drive. Will Apple honour the same warranty period? That's the important

Re: AppleCare Protection Plan (for iMac): Is it worth it?

2010-11-02 Thread Macs R We
), the failing graphics processors (Intel iMacs), and the overheating power supplies (G3/G4 portables). -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: AppleCare Protection Plan (for iMac): Is it worth it?

2010-11-02 Thread Macs R We
On Nov 2, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Karl Kuehn wrote: On Nov 2, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Macs R We wrote: FWIW, I generally don't for computers that are primarily single-user and safely situated on a desk for their lifetime (barring the occasional move). For hardware that will be carried around a lot

Re: Help files ?

2010-10-27 Thread Macs R We
drive like Spotlight to determine what applications you own and what applications you don't own, and combine all of them into the first index screen. Or maybe you do... but it just doesn't. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas

Re: signed software :: installer -- system software and package installer tool (Apple *.pkg)

2010-10-24 Thread Macs R We
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Re: signed software :: installer -- system software and package installer tool (Apple *.pkg)

2010-10-24 Thread Macs R We
button, you finally get to woops, there's actually no free trial available for this. One wonders why they expended the effort to offer it in the first place. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas

Re: FaceTime for Mac

2010-10-22 Thread Macs R We
, especially if you are using your machine shirtless at the time. Methinks this needs further introspection. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: lion

2010-10-22 Thread Macs R We
On Oct 22, 2010, at 10:50 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: And is Apple proposing to do away with this? NO. Apple is adding in new options. Kinda like when they added the CD drive, but still kept the floppy drive. Oh, wait... :-) -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support

Re: use APPLE Magic Trackpad and mouse in parallel

2010-10-18 Thread Macs R We
Try this: When it stops working, put your computer to sleep by the keyboard (ctrl-f2 to activate the menu, keyboard the apple menu, sleep). Let it sleep, and then wake it up. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas

Re: default downloading app?

2010-10-11 Thread Macs R We
can define any app you want to handle any file suffix you want. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list

Re: Color profiles

2010-10-04 Thread Macs R We
as the range allows, and go from there. Video looks outstanding on it. Is there some clearing house of color profiles other people have come up with? Sounds like this device will require hardware calibration. I use the Spyder2PRO and get results that satisfy me. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh

Re: Apple Certified Macintosh Technician ACMT review

2010-10-02 Thread Macs R We
on October 1, so having a certification date in early October is a pain because Apple doesn't always publish the recertification requirements and material far enough in advance of that date, and the exams aren't available to be taken until that date. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service

Re: iTunes background

2010-10-02 Thread Macs R We
us all how you managed to issue the CLI commands to enable high-contrast mode in the first place, without ever remembering having done it. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http

Re: mbp sleep issues

2010-09-28 Thread Macs R We
figured out it was because I had left Speakable Items on, using a keyword trigger. Any background noise in the room resulted in CPU activity, therefore the machine never even went to screen saver. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley

Re: does Speakable Items works for anybody?

2010-09-07 Thread Macs R We
On Sep 3, 2010, at 10:45 PM, Macs R We wrote: On Sep 3, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Sven Aluoor wrote: Hi folks I enabled Speakable Items - press ESC - a window appears - I speak quit firefox and nothing happens and no movment on window with label Esc. Go to Speech / Speech Recognition

Re: iTunes 10

2010-09-04 Thread Macs R We
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Re: does Speakable Items works for anybody?

2010-09-03 Thread Macs R We
calibration is all the way up, which is entirely unsuitable because it overdrives the audio. I had to set mine down to the 30% mark for best results. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http

Re: Apple Mail vs. Mozilla Thunderbird [comparison]

2010-09-01 Thread Macs R We
fortune file. Share? (That's the single thing I miss from Eudora, now that Apple Mail finally has a decent search function.) -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: restore system ?

2010-08-28 Thread Macs R We
in Preferences etc). This is equivalent to asking the question, What migration program will correctly determine what matters TO ME? I don't see any possible answer other than do it by hand. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas

Re: Access right values above 500'000

2010-08-21 Thread Macs R We
. Then how did it happen? Evil leprechauns. If you disagree, then how did it happen? The rules of logic require you to support your claim, they don't require him to disprove it. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas

Re: Access right values above 500'000

2010-08-21 Thread Macs R We
) in it. Rebuilding the Spotlight database cured this syndrome reliably. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list

Re: yucko ... Safari 5.01

2010-08-10 Thread Macs R We
have clients on OS 9) can no longer even display Apple's home page properly. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk

Re: WPA capability

2010-07-30 Thread Macs R We
if the other channel is set to WPA. I don't own one, so I can't just try it. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk

Re: WPA capability

2010-07-29 Thread Macs R We
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Re: WPA capability

2010-07-29 Thread Macs R We
upgrades. I'm guessing the Airport card doesn't support WPA2, as it's the regular card, not Extreme, and the firmware is 9.52. Yeah, you didn't specify originally that you were running WPA2, just WPA. WPA can be sort of iffy, but WPA2 is a definite no. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh

Re: Repartitioning disks (Disk utility)

2010-07-20 Thread Macs R We
, and the cable will be faster (especially if your device does gigabit). -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list

Re: Airport Extreme / MacBook Pro issue

2010-07-16 Thread Macs R We
? Much appreciated. To check for a weak Airport card or bad antenna, put the MBP into create a network mode on a different channel, then use a second laptop to report on the signal strength it sees at various distances from the MBP. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support

Re: Repartitioning disks (Disk utility)

2010-07-16 Thread Macs R We
. It can't even resize non-journaled HFS+ partitions. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk

Re: Repartitioning disks (Disk utility)

2010-07-16 Thread Macs R We
created by using Disk Utility's restore function from a DVD to a partition with erase previous contents checked. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: iTunes won't see audio CDs

2010-07-14 Thread Macs R We
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Re: Disk I/O error and hfsdebug (was: Re: sqlite error:)

2010-07-14 Thread Macs R We
the fact that a personal file belonging to a user who hasn't logged in for a year is a hot file suggests that perhaps there is a reused address problem going on between that file and some other file that is actually hot. Sounds like a good time to run DiskWarrior. -- Macs R We -- Personal

Re: OS X and links and SMB shares

2010-07-14 Thread Macs R We
a link off a shared network volume to a non-shared network volume. It works fine locally because the access model is different in OS X. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-09 Thread Macs R We
it. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-09 Thread Macs R We
, Robert Mueller, Ban Ki-Moon, and Western Union, and Mail diagnoses only a fraction of these. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: video screenshot caputure tool for Mac OS X

2010-07-08 Thread Macs R We
this, but it's trivial to try and I wouldn't be surprised if it worked right out of the box. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX

Re: Apple keyboards

2010-05-12 Thread Macs R We
all of this is a roundabout way of saying that you may indeed be looking at the very same part under both numbers. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: Playing a sound when certain emails come in

2010-05-11 Thread Macs R We
other rule is catching some of your messages first? Ordering your rules is important here. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: Playing a sound when certain emails come in

2010-05-11 Thread Macs R We
a suggestion: I use zero spam-filtering software (other than the Mail rules). Do you guys who see the sound failure happen to be running any add-on packages like Spam Sieve or equivalent? Or any other add-on packages to Mail? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support

Re: Playing a sound when certain emails come in

2010-05-11 Thread Macs R We
not entirely reliable. yeah, my BIL has been complaining about it since Snow. Used to work flawlessly. Ah! Well, that may have something to do with it. I am still using a G4 (until Friday) so am still on Leopard. The sounds have worked flawlessly for me. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh

Re: Search reliabilities

2010-04-29 Thread Macs R We
enough annoyance, you may decide to turn it back on. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk

Bonjour if by land, adieu if by air

2010-04-13 Thread Macs R We
from anywhere in the network, and I will if I have to. But I'd like to be able to understand what the heck is going on with Bonjour, and be able to continue to run via it if possible. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas

Re: Secure erase

2010-04-12 Thread Macs R We
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Re: Adding to a PDF

2010-04-06 Thread Macs R We
identical, I suspect I would be able to make a good mitigating case should it be stolen and misused on some strange document. And I'm a guy who has never done anything more than scribble illiterately into credit card machines just to go through the motions for cashiers. -- Macs R We

Re: Adding to a PDF

2010-04-06 Thread Macs R We
that someone stole it? Certainly it wouldn't be ironclad proof, but it would serve as an indication. Like a signature from a physical rubber stamp is considered potentially more questionable than a pen-and-ink one. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg

Re: Adding to a PDF

2010-04-06 Thread Macs R We
. :-) -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman

Re: Selecting beginning of line

2010-04-03 Thread Macs R We
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Re: Finder window setting changes if opened by alias

2010-03-27 Thread Macs R We
trashing the alias and recreating it from the folder as its display settings are set now? -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com

Re: Overtemp shutdown reset

2010-03-18 Thread Macs R We
noise budget. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com

Re: First impression: Working with the new 27 iMac

2010-02-16 Thread Macs R We
in our society these days though). You waste yours? I part mine out and sell the components on eBay. I make enough to pay for about half the new system. I prefer not to think of myself as green -- just thrifty. -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg

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