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Forgot to mention I am using the Computers app on the Apple TV. From E.T.'s Keyboard... "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." -Helen Keller My e-Mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 2/9/2024 8:19 AM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hi all,    At the moment, I am running

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@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Home Sharing Simon, You should be good to go then. Whatever's in iTunes will play on the Apple TV. Go under Computers, to your computer, and AudioBooks should be in there. If the stars are aligned properly, and if you have your finger up your left nostril

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legroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn Sent: Saturday, 21 January 2017 3:37 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Home Sharing Hi Simon, In order for the Audiobook library to be visible to your Apple TV through Home Sharing, your AudioBook Library mu

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ogress. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn Sent: Saturday, 21 January 2017 3:37 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Home Sharing Hi Simon, In order for the Audiobook library to be visible to your Apple TV throug

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riting to the drive / partition but just wished to check sf From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn Sent: Friday, 20 January 2017 5:58 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Home Sharing Hi, I don't believe that Audi

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5:58 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Home Sharing Hi, I don't believe that AudioBooks are sharable via Home Sharing with the exception of on an Apple TV. There's info at https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202190 that can help with the iPad as it appears that the process

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I came to the conclusion that since music can be played via Home Sharing, I will delete that content from the iPad and then transfer my audiobooks to it. I will not bother with the iPhone, its too small. Geez, the trouble I am dealing with just to listen to some audiobooks. Oh well. We

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Hi, Yeah, I tried being sneaky and creating a playlist of AudioBooks. Then that playlist showed up in the Playlists section within the Home Sharing machine. No joy though, as soon as I opened the playlist, the Music app on the iPhone said that there was no music in this playlist. Bummer.

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That sure is disappointing. Maybe I should trade in the 64gig iPad for 128g. And I am still unable to get rid of the Looking for your music dialog. Batting .000 today. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On

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Hi, I don't believe that AudioBooks are sharable via Home Sharing with the exception of on an Apple TV. There's info at https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202190 that can help with the iPad as it appears that the process is slightly different. I

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Its strange. I do not see that dialog on the iPad. I rebooted the phone too. I did find out that iBooks is used for audiobooks but I do not see the titles there. Maybe in this case Home Sharing really is slow? From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Well, that narrows down things a little. I've seen Home Sharing be rather slow sometimes between iDevice and Mac, but not specifically what you're mentioning. I'll see if I can play a little tomorrow and figure something out for you. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 18,

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Yes. I am not subscribed to it so do mot meed it. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 1/18/2017 8:18 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, Do you have your iDevices set to not show Apple Music features. I believe that you'll

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Hi, Do you have your iDevices set to not show Apple Music features. I believe that you'll find this setting in Settings, Music. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 18, 2017, at 19:52, E.T. wrote: I am not sure if this is a Home Sharing problem.

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Hehehe. Apple only markets what they believe we want after all. Of course they are one step ahead of us and let us think its our idea. That said, as long as we have choices its ok. If I was on the move a lot I could see using Match. Or if I only cared about new music, then Apple Music

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Of course. With Apple, everything is obvious when you have consumed the appropriate mind-bending drugs. :) Well, with iCloud Match or Apple Music Library, I was thinking that since one feature is to show you an online library, you could take advantage of Home Sharing when you’re home, but

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Of course? Really? I never ever would have reached that conclusion. (smiles) Syncing something seems to act like a key. iTunes Match, does that allow one to listen to content because its in the cloud? So it can be accessed anywhere anytime? Crazy to pay Apple for that. Maybe I am a

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That checkbox in Preferences is irrelevant to Home Sharing; it only control sharing of music to other Macs/Windows/DAAP clients, i.e. iTunes running on a computer (but not iOS) or an iOS DAAP app. The control you want is in File, Home Sharing as you know. Put music on your iOS device, eh? Of

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Crazy as it sounds, the solution was to actually put some music on the iPhone! From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 5/29/2016 8:46 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: Well I forget the wording of the

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Videos work. When I open Videos I see my library under the Shared heading. I verified that Share entire library is checked in iTunes preferences. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 5/29/2016

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Apple Music is off. On the My Music screen, there are no buttons you mention. This is really getting to me now. (smiles) Home Sharing is on, I have signed out and back in again. Its like my iPhone does not even see anything on my network. It sure ios not seeing the library. With Apple

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Well I forget the wording of the ad just now, but one of the buttons should be something like “Show my music” or some such thing. The other starts the subscription process for Apple Music. Press the continue to your library button and you’ll be in your music. Pretty slimy behaviour by Apple,

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"Don't miss a beat." How do I dismiss it? From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 5/28/2016 5:12 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: It’s not an empty library or an ad for Apple Music, is it? You might

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It’s not an empty library or an ad for Apple Music, is it? You might have to dismiss that. But definitely, once you’re in a list of your stuff, you should find the category button to switch with. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you

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Hi, It sounds like you have everything set correctly. The difference at the moment, is that I have my Music app showing my iTunes in the Cloud purchases. That shouldn't really make a difference, but I'll test things some a little later and get back to you. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort

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I apologize, but glad all is sorted now. > On 28 May 2016, at 16:15, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > In the past, we never used to need the Remote app and Apple's support > articles also don't claim that the Remote app is needed. I would guess that > it's either an iOS bug or

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I must still not have something set correctly. Everything is on the same network, same Apple ID and signed in, iTunes on the Mac is open, not using firewall. Home Sharing is on on both Mac and iPhone. With Music app open, My Music is selected. Swiping from My Account, I get My Music

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Yep, Tim has it right. The trick is the categories selector. Home Sharing will appear only when there is a Home Sharing iTunes library, i.e. iTunes is running and Home Sharing was switched on. Now, if Apple would allow the download of material to an iOS device from a home share, that would

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Ah, makes sense. thanks! Donna > On May 28, 2016, at 11:46 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi Donna, > > If you have a large media collection on your Mac that just won't fit on your > iPhone, and if the majority of this media is not purchased so not available > in iCloud without

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Hi Donna, If you have a large media collection on your Mac that just won't fit on your iPhone, and if the majority of this media is not purchased so not available in iCloud without an Apple Music or iTunes Match subscription, then streaming music from your Mac through your iPhone may be

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Hi all, Sorry if this is a dumb question, but why would anyone want to do this? I mean, if the music on your Mac and your phone are the same, why not just homeshare from your Mac? Cheers, Donna > On May 28, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > Figured it out.

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Hi, Figured it out. It's not a bug, nor a blocked port issue. They've just changed the way it's accessed. If Home Sharing is set up correctly on your computer and iDevice, then using your iPhone, go to the My Music tab, move your finger to the top of the screen where VO announces "My

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Hi, In the past, we never used to need the Remote app and Apple's support articles also don't claim that the Remote app is needed. I would guess that it's either an iOS bug or that there are ports blocked that need open. See https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202190 and any related links.

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Think you need the remote app for iOS. > On 27 May 2016, at 03:01, E.T. wrote: > > Have probably missed a step. I have Apple TV setup and sharing content from > the Mac. I also want to share that content with my iPhone which is also set > up for Home Sharing. When

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Hi, According to my research, the Shared button should be available within the My Music tab of Music on your iPad. It's different on the iPhone though. I used to see it as a separate tab, but it's been a while since I used it and without my real home network to test things on, I'm unable to

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Oh wait, that content is on the iPad itself. Sighs. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 5/27/2016 1:20 PM, E.T. wrote: An update, Tim. This works fine on the iPad. Am signed in under Home

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An update, Tim. This works fine on the iPad. Am signed in under Home Sharing on both. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 5/27/2016 10:17 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, I believe that you may be

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Yes I must be misunderstanding what Home Sharing is. It works on the Apple TY, why not the iPhone? I found information on Apple's support page that seems to suggest I have it right and that I should see the content on the My Music tab in the Music app. From E.T.'s Keyboard...

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Hi, I believe that you may be misunderstanding things a little. The My Music tab simply shows the music either on your device, or the music available in iCloud through your Apple ID. Normally, there is a Shared tab for accessing music or other media from another device in the Home Sharing

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Yes you do. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Scott Berry sb356...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there, Do I have to leave iTunes open for home share to work? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

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Hi Mark, HomeSharing is a method of sharing media between devices using the same Apple ID within the same subnet. Therefore, this HomeSharing is done via ethernet or a WIFI connection within that network. You must first ensure that HomeSharing is turned on on each device. You can confirm

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Hi, some NAS devices have a iTunes Server. Qnap does have this. But I haven't used it yet. This is a interesting thread since it is what I wanted to do myself as well. I want to access all the movies, audiobooks, music, etc via the NAS on the ITv. But if I cannot control what is seen by

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That's the same reason I first figured it out was to keep the kids from messing up my wife's laptop when they were watching movies and such. I also did the parental controls stuff to keep them from accidentally deleting things. CB On 2/6/12 6:42 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Well I answered my

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Ricardo, I thought about that, but here is a question that perhaps you will have an answer for. So, I have to use my APple ID to setup the Home Sharing. If I were setup a separate iTune library, how do I tell the Apple TV which library to use? In particular because the APple TV is connecting

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Hi Tim, As I said to Ricardo, this idea crossed my mind, but I am not sure how to tell the APple TV once I use my iCloud/iTunes ID which library needs to be used. I assume the first order of business it is to simply create the library by holding down the option key at startup and setting up

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Hi, I don't see why you shouldn't be able to use the same apple ID your using now in the new library. I'm not 100% certain of this but, I would think your Apple TV would share with whatever library happens to be active at the time. I'm pretty curious to know how this turns out. lol Ricardo

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Hi Scott, If you had a 1st Generation Apple TV with the built-in HD, this would work as once the Apple TV is synced, you wouldn't need to have the iTunes Library actually active. Now, of course, they're hard to find now and you need sighted assistance to set them up, but after that, you'd be

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As an aside, an old MacMini would also make a nice media computer if you want real storage and more than what an AppleTV will get you. The headphone jack is actually a digital optical output which you can connect to any typical surround-sound stereo to get the full 5.1 output from DVDs and

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Hey Tim, Well for now I scrapped the entire idea and just have to accept that everything is exposed. I wish I could use my NAS device for this, but apparently it will not work because the APple TV 2nd generation has to authenticate back to a running version of iTunes. Apple really needs to do

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Chris, Yes a Mini would work in this case, but not looking to go that route. I'm done buying computers for a while. :) So, with that said my wife is a user on my Mac. I could obviously log in as her and setup iTunes and that would work great. However, I do not know how I could have us both

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I'm saying you can have two different users both logged into the same Mac and both with their own instance of iTunes running. Give it a try by creating a second account and then switching to that user without logging out of the current user. If you launch iTunes you'll find a pristine library

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Chris, Yes I understand that is possible, but unfortunately and unless I am missing something here, the issue is I would have to log in as that user and launch iTunes. THis means I could not be logged in as myself because it would not be possible to effectively have two instances of iTUnes

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You can be logged into one box multiple times as different users, each running a copy of iTunes. Each instance of iTunes has it's own library and preferences. So I was logged into my laptop both as myself and an account I called Test. Each one ran iTunes and had sharing turned on. Then on

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Hi Scott, If you turn Fast User Switching on in system Preferences, then you can actually have two users logged in at the same time. You should then be able to run iTunes from both accounts like Chris mentioned. When using Fast User Switching, you can just go between the various logged

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Ah, now you two gents are just to clever. See I had not really had a need for fast user switching, but now knowing this I can have my cake, doughnuts, and coffee as well. Now the only final question is since I use my Apple ID, does that other user have to be me or can I make it a test user if I

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I guess that depends on how much content you have tied to that ID. For me I would keep it the same. CB On 2/6/12 3:34 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Ah, now you two gents are just to clever. See I had not really had a need for fast user switching, but now knowing this I can have my cake, doughnuts,

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Well I answered my own question and thanks a lot gents. I set this up and it works exactly as I had hoped. In fact the really great side benefit is the library has only those things my wife and kid want which is the movies. Now we don't even need the DVD player. :) On Feb 6, 2012, at 1:30 PM,

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Hi Scott, The Username of the user account is immaterial to the Apple ID. If most of your media content is tied to your Apple ID, and in order to use Home sharing properly, you'll probably need to use the same Apple ID. This will not use up a computer authorization as that is already handled

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Hey Tim, Yep it works and the way I worked around the issue of the media was to keep it on an external drive and do not let iTunes import it. Since this is what I wanted to do from the beginning, I got what I intended accomplished. The whole idea was to put the movies and other video content

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Hi, Why not set up another iTunes library just for this purpose? Its sounds like the easiest way to segregate your content. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 5, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Hi all, I am trying to

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Hi Scott, I've only been able to restrict things when using the Sharing pane of iTunes Preferences, not when using Home sharing. The problem is that the Apple TV 2 uses Home sharing so I, so far, think the second Library idea is your best option. Later... On 2012-02-05, at 2:33 PM, Scott

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Hi, I don't think you can. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Dec 27, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Chris G wrote: Hello, I have a question about home sharing and the apple TV. The apple TV sees my libraries on my mac and windows

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in my opinion, thats a major design flaw. On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:55:43 -0500 Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I don't think you can. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Dec 27, 2010, at 12:42

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Hello Julie, I am catching up on email so am sure this question has been completely answered but, just in case it has not, the answer to your question is yes; one can not only play media from one Mac/PC to another using Home Sharing but one can actually import the media to another Mac/PC also.

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Yes It does I listened too mikes series Will those from down under Thanks, - Julie On Aug 1, 2010, at 12:27 AM, Allison Manzino gwennac...@gmail.com wrote: HI Julie, I think the equivalent of my computer would be the finder window on the dock. It has all the drives and devices

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[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 504a...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 12:21 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Home sharing Hello Nice to meet you too All help would be greatly appreciated. Yes 15 plus years with a pc and JFW Still use them at work

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Hi Julie, You're welcome any time. I'm always glad to help. I learned a lot from Vision Australia and from Mike's series as well. Whenever I use a Windows machine now, I think they are very slow smile. I hope you are having a great day. Allison My birds are winged blessings, they help me

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Ok I'm stupid here but hwat is home hsaring? sounds a lot like networking and if so me and networking don't get along at all. On Aug 1, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Allison Manzino wrote: Hi Julie, You're welcome any time. I'm always glad to help. I learned a lot from Vision Australia and from

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Yes Like a network but seems limited and no server. I am likely the wrong one to answer It seems to allow some file sharing - Julie On Aug 1, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Sarah Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I'm stupid here but hwat is home hsaring? sounds a lot like networking and if

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Home sharing is very easy, nothing to setup really. activate home sharing on your mac where your music library is and if you have another mac or your friend brings their mac around, you will be able to see and stream content from another iTunes library. On 1 Aug 2010, at 20:24, Sarah Alawami

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, and am really enjoying it thus far. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 504a...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 12:21 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Home sharing Hello Nice to meet

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Hi Julie, Nice to meet you. I'm Allison. I don't know if you can share content other than Itunes by enabling home sharing. I'm new to the Mac as well. I've only had mine since April. Were you a Windows user previously? MaybeI can help if you'd like offlist so the learning curve won't be so

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Hello Nice to meet you too All help would be greatly appreciated. Yes 15 plus years with a pc and JFW Still use them at work but a year with the I phone and a desire to support that out of the box access and here I am Mac 101!! Any hints? - Julie On Jul 31, 2010, at 10:07 PM, Allison

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Hi Julie, Yes, I usedto use JFW also, switched to Hal and then finally Window-Eyes. I think the hardest thing for me to get used to is that you have to interact with an element in order to get more info. In my mind, I have mapped the mac keys to their Windows equivalents. For example, command

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Yes it helps. What about the equivalent of my computer? - Julie On Aug 1, 2010, at 12:07 AM, Allison Manzino gwennac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Julie, Yes, I usedto use JFW also, switched to Hal and then finally Window-Eyes. I think the hardest thing for me to get used to is that you

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HI Julie, I think the equivalent of my computer would be the finder window on the dock. It has all the drives and devices on it. Or you can use spotlight to search for things that way as well. I listened to several podcasts on the Mac by Mike Arrigo, and then on the Australian Mac podcast. I