Hi from the Atlantic

Hi wamuggers Im back offshore of Gabon for a second rotation, and nothing much has changed except for the very equatorial weather, with cloudy skies and almost daily storms and heavy rain: at least the ship is nice and clean!! Im just wondering if someone can tell me what the new font is that

Re: Hi from the Atlantic

Hi Chris, The iOS 8 Font is Helvetica Neue. It’s bundled by default with every version of OS X so you don’t need to download or add any fonts to use the look. There are actually a few variations of Helvetica Neue that are used by Apple on our iPhones, iPads, and iPods, including: •

Re: Hi from the Atlantic

Hey Ronnie, great to hear from you. Thanks for the details on this font, I didnt realise there were so many types!! Im actually hoping I can use this font in PS (or Illustrator) so would it available on my MBPro? I cant seem to find it by doing a search on my mac so I guess not? I just did a

Re: Hi from the Atlantic

Hi Chris, You don’t mention what OS X you are running. The new system font in Yosemite is HelveticaNeueDeskInterface.ttc. Open “Font Book.app” in Applications and click on “All Fonts collection” to see all the Fonts. There are three main places fonts live on your Mac: 1. Macintosh HD System

Re: Hi from the Atlantic

Hi and sorry Ronni, I keep forgetting about my OS; Its still 10.6.8 as I have yet to do an update, and that reminds me as I recall you saying my machine is not one that will go to Yosemite, but will do Mavericks (MacBookPro8,2, i7, 2.2ghz)? I guess my OS doesnt have H Neue if it is in Yosemite?

Re: Hi from the Atlantic

Hi Chris, I wouldn't have told you you can't install Yosemite on your MacBook Pro. In previous emails you asked about upgrading to Mavericks I mentioned Mavericks was no longer available to download. Yosemite will install on MacBook Pro (17-inch, Late 2007 or newer) -

Mail problems again

For no apparent reason, suddenly Mail on my Mac is not connecting to the wifi. I can't send or receive anything. This letter is being written on the iPad. The wifi is working properly: the iPad and my husband's laptop have no difficulty with it. There are apps on the iPad that interact with the

Re: Mail problems again

Hi Pat, Just quickly - Check to don't have any Proxy Server in System Preferences Network Wi-Fi 'Advanced' Proxies Nothing selected under Proxies Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 23 Nov 2014, at 11:12 am, Pat Scott clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: For no apparent reason, suddenly Mail on my

iMac fails to complete start up sequence

Help please! My late 2009 iMac 21.5 Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM with OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks fails to complete the start-up sequence. Mac was powered off via Apple - Shut Down. Power-up sequence starts normally: chime and grey screen, then the Apple logo and daisy wheel. Then I get a

Re: Mail problems again

Hi, Ronni, The only entry on the Proxy panel is at the bottom where it says: Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts Domains: *.local, 169.254/16 Should this be removed? Thanks, Pat On 23 Nov 2014, at 11:58, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Pat, Just quickly - Check to don't have

Re: Mail problems again

Hi Pat, Comments below. On 23 Nov 2014, at 1:43 pm, Pat Scott clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi, Ronni, The only entry on the Proxy panel is at the bottom where it says: Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts Domains: *.local, 169.254/16 Should this be removed? NO... As long as

Re: iMac fails to complete start up sequence

Update on issue - - -. Booted from a 4-week old SuperDuper backup (on a Firewire drive). Held Option key while powering on. Operations are very slow and I don’t know if I’m responding to the SuperDuper or iMac messages. Got boot disk options - Macintosh HD; recovery disk and SuperDuper