Re: Clearing Wikipedia links in Pages

2014-02-26 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi David, Turn OFF hyperlinking for all URL's in your document in the same Inspector window (the one with the white arrow on a blue circle). select 'Make all hyperlinks inactive' Does that achieve what you want? Or - If you don't care about losing some of the formatting of the content that

Re: Problems following update to OS X 10.9.2

2014-02-26 Thread Ronni Brown
On 26 Feb 2014, at 2:10 pm, Barry Sexstone bjsexst...@netspace.net.au wrote: This morning i attempted to update my iMac OS from 10.9.1 to 10.9.2 It appeared to go through the normal update procedure and shutdown as expected for a restart. The restart was unsuccessful and went only as far

Re: Problems following update to OS X 10.9.2

2014-02-26 Thread Barry Sexstone
Ronni Thanks for your advice. As I have followed your advice in the past I actually did as you suggest with the exception I down loaded the update from the App store. I am aware that the update can take a while to complete, but over an hour? I will try again later in the week using the

USB Ports

2014-02-26 Thread Paul Willemse
Hi All, Is there a way to reset the USB port address to 1. I can do it by restarting the computer but that seems to be the hard way. It gets reset to usually port 3 if I (accidentally) disconnect the Arduino that is normally connected there. Regards, Paul PS. Mail is working as it should after

Re: QT behaviour

2014-02-26 Thread Pat
Hi, Ronni, I looked very hard for the original email but couldn’t find it; it would have been about 7 or 8 years ago, different computer, different backup disk. Since it has been such a long time, several different OSs intervening, I have decided to cough up again for it and make sure, this

An iPad for my 94 year old mother ?

2014-02-26 Thread Stephen Chape
Hi folks, My 94 year old mother uses email, internet and has a smart phone (unfortunately a Samsung). In fact does all her banking online and also uses Skype. She also uses Windoze because I haver a “backward” brother who tells her how bad Apple products are. Because her spine has become so

Re: An iPad for my 94 year old mother ?

2014-02-26 Thread Rick Armstrong
Hi Steve, My mother was of similar age and was reluctant to purchase or upgrade anything even though she had the money, so the trick was to say that things were cheaper then they were then make up the difference. On 27/02/2014, at 12:55 PM, Stephen Chape chap...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi folks,

Re: An iPad for my 94 year old mother ?

2014-02-26 Thread Susan Hastings
Hi Stephen, as she uses a Samsung smartphone I would suggest a Samsung tablet. Learning a whole new way of doing things is too challenging for an older person I think. And a Samsung tablet will do everything she wants. The touch interface is just as good as on Apple tablets. It's important that

Streaming movies

2014-02-26 Thread Severin Crisp
My wife’s website, which I manage, has among other things number of streaming movies running for up to 9mins. I have recently noticed that there is a vast difference between the startup time on different browsers. In summary I note:- Safari fine Firefox very slow Chrome

Re: Mavericks 10.9.2 and Mail

2014-02-26 Thread Ronni Brown
On 26 Feb 2014, at 10:48 am, Alan Smith sma...@iinet.net.au wrote: Since applying the OSX update, Mail preferences has changed from “SSL” checkbox option to “TLS Certificate = none”. My previous settings were gmail = SSL ticked and iiNet = not ticked. (These were default settings

Re: Streaming movies

2014-02-26 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Sev, I watch a lot of streaming video on a variety of sites. My first impressions: * In either firefox or safari, clicking the QT preview image opens another small window to play the movie in ­ why do this, why not embed whatever player you use directly in the page? * With either browser

Re: Streaming movies

2014-02-26 Thread Geoff and Kaye
Sev On 27/02/2014, at 1:32 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: My wife’s website, which I manage, has among other things number of streaming movies running for up to 9mins. I have recently noticed that there is a vast difference between the startup time on different browsers. In summary I note:-

Re: Streaming movies

2014-02-26 Thread Severin Crisp
Thanks for the comments, Neil. I can include the player controller to give access to full screen mode. I am loath to involve another server, no positive reason, just a wish to be as self-contained as possible. On 27 Feb 2014, at 3:04 pm, Neil Houghton n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Sev,