Re: Time Capsule ?

2011-05-04 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Stephen, I’ve changed your Subject to ’Time Capsule ?’. I am assuming that the TC you are thinking of purchasing is the Dual-Band model which will allow you to configure your network for BOTH your newer Macs (n) 5GHz and your older hardware and iPhones (b/g) 2.4GHz My Experience with my

Re: Time Machine ?

2011-05-04 Thread David Wood
Hi Stephen, Yep all true I am afraid. Mine crashed and burned 4 weeks ago. Out of warranty of course18 months old. Never had a problem with it then suddenly it just burnt out. Many people seem to be having a similar problem with the earlier models the claim is that there was n

Re: Time Machine ?

2011-05-04 Thread Stephen Chape
YES ... sorry folks ... I meant Time Capsule ! On 05/05/2011, at 2:00 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > Hello Stephen, > > Do you mean 1TB Time Capsule? > > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > On 05/05/2011, at 1:55 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: > >> >> Hello folks, >> >> What are peoples thoughts on Apple

Re: Time Machine ?

2011-05-04 Thread Ronda Brown
Hello Stephen, Do you mean 1TB Time Capsule? Sent from Ronni's iPad On 05/05/2011, at 1:55 PM, Stephen Chape wrote: > > Hello folks, > > What are peoples thoughts on Apple Time Machine ? > I am able to get the 1TB from Bankwest using my accrued Reward Points. > > However some stories on t

Time Machine ?

2011-05-04 Thread Stephen Chape
Hello folks, What are peoples thoughts on Apple Time Machine ? I am able to get the 1TB from Bankwest using my accrued Reward Points. However some stories on the web suggest they do not have a very long life span ! Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archiv

Re: iPad woes

2011-05-04 Thread Pat
Success! I think the problem was with iTunes 2.2, which I had downloaded as per instructions. I retrieved iTunes 2.1 from my storage disk, and the sync is now happening properly. Thanks for your reply, Alan. Pat On 05/05/2011, at 6:16 AM, Pat wrote: > My new iPad (my first) arrived yester

Re: iPad woes

2011-05-04 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Pat Not quite sure what you are doing or what stage you're at. Updates and Syncing processes are done from the devices themselves (mainly iTunes) - no need to go to App Store for this. I assume you have now updated iTunes to vers 10.2.2 as a precursor to plugging in your iPad. I also as

iPad woes

2011-05-04 Thread Pat
My new iPad (my first) arrived yesterday. Hooray! I thought. Now I'll have some fun. I followed the enclosed instructions about installing the latest version of iTunes and connecting the iPad. The message then said, 'iTunes could not connect to the iTunes store. The host is down.' Well, new

Re: Weather widget

2011-05-04 Thread Daniel Kerr
Thanks Jennifer and Ronni Thought it might be something like that. Shame really they changed. Oh well, Maybe they'll fix it in Lion :) lol. Not a big deal really,...but just interesting to know. At least it still works on my iPhone,.. :) Kind regards Daniel On 4/5/11 9:34 PM, "Ronda Brown"

Re: Weather widget

2011-05-04 Thread Ronda Brown
Weather Widget doesn't work as well in Snow Leopard. "If you’ve used the Dashboard’s Weather Widget on Mac OS 10.5, you’ve probably noticed that the provider for weather data used to be AccuWeather.com. With Snow Leopard this has changed to a combination of Weather.com and Yahoo. AccuWeather us

Re: Weather widget

2011-05-04 Thread Jennifer Lefroy
Hello Daniel, Dunedin shows on the Dashboard weather widget on our imac version 10.4.8 and, yes, it is colder than here, 8 degrees. Regards, Jennifer On 4 May 2011 15:00, Daniel Kerr wrote: > > On 4/5/11 2:11 PM, "Ronda Brown" wrote: > > > > > > > On 03/05/2011, at 11:38 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:

Re: Weather widget

2011-05-04 Thread Daniel Kerr
Probably about right,..everyone's left. The Kiwi running joke is "would the last person leaving NZ please turn off the lights" ;o) I wouldn't think so Neil, as it actually hasn't worked for quite a while, long before the Earthquake. I just never got around to worry about it. And last night in my

Re: Weather widget

2011-05-04 Thread Neil Houghton
Hehe, The weather in Dunedin has been cancelled, due to lack of interest ;o) Could it be anything like the Christchurch earthquake taking out some of the infrastructure? Yes, I know Dunedin is several hundred km from Christchurch - but I always bullshit best when totally unhampered by any knowl

Weather widget

2011-05-04 Thread Daniel Kerr
On 4/5/11 2:11 PM, "Ronda Brown" wrote: > > > On 03/05/2011, at 11:38 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > >> That's all,..back to your normal program. >> Oh,..and does anyone know why "Dunedin" (as in Dunedin, NZ) doesn't seem to >> work in Dashboard weather anymore? I want to see how cold my Dad is, so