Re: MBPro blank blue screen

2012-12-14 Thread Ronni Brown
t; Im a bit worried: While using Firefox (17) on two occasions (yesterday and >>>> today) the screen on my MPBPro (2.2GHz i7 10.6.8) just went a blank blue, >>>> and stayed like that. I was only running Firefox, Mail, iCal, Adobe reader >>>> and had a few finde

Re: ipad

2012-12-14 Thread Juliet Kitson
G'day Pete Yes it helps now that we have worked out how to set up for sync, we only opened the new ipad today took 2 hoursto work out how to get it started now we are going thru Itunes and unticking all songs then we can tick the ones we wan't, as you can see we are new at this game thanks again. R

Re: MBPro blank blue screen

2012-12-14 Thread Chris Burton
reen. >>> >>> I powered down using the power button, left it for awhile and powered back >>> up. All seems fine now. >>> >>> I ran Disk Utility to verify disk (OK) then repaired permissions. >>> >>> Is there any other program I can run just to

Re: ipad

2012-12-14 Thread Pete Smith
Hi Juliet. My iPad 2 gets its music from my iMac whenever I sync with iTunes. You can choose the whole library or just those songs ticked. This sync is automatic. You can also sync manually. The music has to be in iTunes, though. I also have ticked the box to covert those songs above 128kbs to

Re: Eudora 6.2

2012-12-14 Thread Kevin Lock
Ronni, I am receiving mail. The problem seems to be that there is no outgoing server selected. When I follow the instructions to select an outgoing server from the list there is no list. Going out now and I will try later. I am thinking I am a looney for having three different mail clients d

Re: Formatting ext. drive for mac & windows

2012-12-14 Thread Rod Blitvich
thanks Alan Rod Blitvich - Amy & Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Good Ideas 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au On 15/12/2012, at 8:31 AM, Alan Smith wrote: > Hi Blitto > > This is an observation, not a fix! Perhaps the "backup software" has an > impact.

Re: Formatting ext. drive for mac & windows

2012-12-14 Thread Rod Blitvich
i see Ronni I see They probably thought they could use Time machine AND windows on same hard drive i will tell them on monday ta blitto Rod Blitvich - Amy & Sam’s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au A Life? Cool! Where can I download o

Re: Formatting ext. drive for mac & windows

2012-12-14 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Blitto This is an observation, not a fix! Perhaps the "backup software" has an impact. I had problems about a year ago. just manually copying individual files was OK, but an auto process using SuperDuper! would not work. SuperDuper insisted on the format Ronni mentioned for Time Machi

Re: VMWare Fusion/Windows XP Home Edition

2012-12-14 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Stuart, Update VMWare Fusion to 3.1.4 or whatever the latest version is. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 15/12/2012, at 8:10 AM, Stuart Breden wrote: > I a

VMWare Fusion/Windows XP Home Edition

2012-12-14 Thread Stuart Breden
I am trying to install a copy of Windows XP Home Edition in VMWare Fusion 3.1.2. I have the correct product key and when I go to open I get the following messages in this order. Unable to retrieve kernel zone sizes Failed to initialise monitor device Cannot find a valid peer process to connect t

Re: Eudora 6.2

2012-12-14 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Kevin, Mail > Preferences > Accounts - Account Information - User Name: Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 15/12/2012, at 4:25 AM, Kevin Lock wrote: > Merv,

Re: Formatting ext. drive for mac & windows

2012-12-14 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Blitto, Are the external drives Not recognised on the Windows or The Macbook Airs? I have all my external drives that I use on Windows & Macs formatted MS-DOS (FAT-32), never had a problem. If they are using these external drives for "Time Machine backups", they need to be formatted Mac OS E

Re: Eudora 6.2

2012-12-14 Thread Kevin Lock
Merv, Thanks. Eudora is up and running well, however the problem with Apple Mail still exists and I cannot see where to change the username as I did in Eudora. Not a biggy, Kev On 14/12/12 10:58 PM, Merv Bond wrote: > Hi Kev > Launch Eudora. In the main menu click on Eurdora and run down t

Formatting ext. drive for mac & windows

2012-12-14 Thread Rod Blitvich
Dear WAMUGers Some of my students recently bought external drives to back up their laptops. Macbook Airs running 10.7 i think (12 months old) They said they want the Hard drive recognised by both windows and mac. I told them MS DOS FAT http://osxdaily.com/2012/04/22/format-drive-mac-pc-compatible/

Re: Ipad pre-paid mobile broadband plans vs mobile hotspots

2012-12-14 Thread Neil Houghton
Thanks Susan, that's good to hear ;o)) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 14/12/12 8:47 PM, Susan Hastings at susanhasti...@mac.com wrote: > I find that the iPad works great as a mobile hotspot. It hasn't gone to

Re: Ipad pre-paid mobile broadband plans vs mobile hotspots

2012-12-14 Thread Susan Hastings
I find that the iPad works great as a mobile hotspot. It hasn't gone to sleep whilst the laptop is connected. Sent from my iPad On 14/12/2012, at 6:10 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > Hi replying (partially) to my own post ;o) > > It seems I was premature in my assumption: >> Ideally I would use my

Re: Eudora 6.2

2012-12-14 Thread Merv Bond
Hi Kev Launch Eudora. In the main menu click on Eurdora and run down to Preference. Top of the list Getting Started. Click on that and a box occurs with User Name, Mail Server, Real Name, SMTP Server and Email Address. Fill these in as per Ronni's recent email and you are up and running. Merv O

Re: Eudora 6.2

2012-12-14 Thread Merv Bond
Hi Daniel As you point out there are lots of changes happening in the background as servers are updated. Only when it interferes by making something malfunction on our computers do we become aware of these changes. Thanks for reminding us of the "big picture". Merv On 14/12/12 4:29 PM, Daniel Ke

Re: Ipad pre-paid mobile broadband plans vs mobile hotspots

2012-12-14 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi replying (partially) to my own post ;o) It seems I was premature in my assumption: > Ideally I would use my iPad as a mobile broadband hotspot but, if I > understand it correctly, I can only do this with the iphone not the iPad? Based on looking for the same hotspot menu on the iPad as on the i

Ipad pre-paid mobile broadband plans vs mobile hotspots

2012-12-14 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi, I've now (finally) got an iPad 4G and I'm contemplating mobile broadband plans. I have to stick with Telstra for the country coverage. I am probably going to go pre-paid and saw that people recommended the 12GB 365 day option (which should be more than enough for when I'm away from wi-fi) and

Re: Eudora 6.2

2012-12-14 Thread Kevin Lock
Yep, Eudora is back up and running, but i cannot see a username setting for mail. Kev >I have Eudora on one machine, Apple Mail on another and Thunderbird on >another; all with iinet. Thunderbird works still, but Mail and Eudora >won't play ball. I will look at the miscreants and see i

Basic

2012-12-14 Thread Malcolm McCallum
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Re: Eudora 6.2

2012-12-14 Thread Kevin Lock
I have Eudora on one machine, Apple Mail on another and Thunderbird on another; all with iinet. Thunderbird works still, but Mail and Eudora won't play ball. I will look at the miscreants and see it the user-name thing fixes the problem(s). BTW I have used Eudora for years and the only proble

Re: Eudora 6.2

2012-12-14 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Merv Not that it affects things, but it could be that they had mail servers that handled just "username" rather then "usern...@iinet.net.au" and after a software update on their end (i.e. their servers) some (or all) of their mail servers now no longer recognise that. (or specific protocols