Re: Internet speed test

You're making me envious. I'm getting 1Mb/s down and 0.5 Mb/s up.  NBN not due til end on 2019. But at least it wil be fibre to the Jerb. Rob On 13/4/18 8:03 am, Tim Law wrote: That’s interesting Peter, For me, the Google internet speed test shows about half that of Speedtest and speedof.me

Re:Strange Device

restart all devices? Sent from OPPO MailOn Diana & Graham Stevens , 29 Mar 2018 9:14 a.m. wrote:I have decided I can’t do without WAMUG, I shall pay my dues today. If this is a bit garbled please bear with me, I am very depressed, any fellow sufferers will know this

Re: Macpro lion freeze - no restart

Some good advice there... Rob On 21/3/18 9:54 pm, gary dorn wrote: An update I read something about dust affecting electronics  particularly ram chips, so I pulled the graphics cards and ram cards and gave all a good vacuum and wipe I also read that there are 2 buttons on a logic board -

Re: Obscure email problem

ring Can you get someone else you know with a gmail account to send him a message Sent from Tim's iPhone On 2 Mar 2018, at 8:55 am, Rob Phillips <r.phill...@iinet.net.au <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote: Initially, they were group emails sent through Mailman (and

Re: Obscure email problem

with a gmail account to send him a message Sent from Tim's iPhone On 2 Mar 2018, at 8:55 am, Rob Phillips <r.phill...@iinet.net.au> wrote: Initially, they were group emails sent through Mailman (and I checked the settings). Once it was clear that this failed, we tried a direct, person-to-person

Re: Obscure email problem

iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB On 1 Mar 2018, at 10:25 pm, Rob Phillips <r.phill...@iinet.net.au> wrote: Greetings This is a quite obscure problem, and not directly related to Macs. I'll understand if there is no response... :-) I have a gmail email account, which works fine (for most

Obscure email problem

Greetings This is a quite obscure problem, and not directly related to Macs. I'll understand if there is no response... :-) I have a gmail email account, which works fine (for most people). There is one person (a Windows user) who never receives my Gmail emails. Everybody else does! I

iDevice repairs

Hi all Where is a good place to get my iDevices looked at and repaired. The 2012 iPad is overheating and just not working most of the time The iPhone5s case has split open and is about to fall apart. Is there someone I should go to, or do I just try a corner store? Does MacWorx do this work?

Re: Strange case of "oversize video file" ?

not show up in Disk Utility. On 30 Nov 2017, at 6:38 pm, Rob Phillips <r.phill...@iinet.net.au <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote: Hi Stephen I've experienced this a few years ago. As I recall The drives are probably formatted with one of the old Windows formats - ca

Re: Strange case of "oversize video file" ?

Hi Stephen I've experienced this a few years ago. As I recall The drives are probably formatted with one of the old Windows formats - can't remember the name... FAT? On these drives the size limit of a single file is around 2GB If you format the drive with a modern Windows format, it

Re: FYI - Office 2016 for good price

I just kept the old version and installed the new version. There was no problem keeping the old version installed 'just in case'. It's a pity that each new version takes away really good functionality, just to make it like the Windows version... Rob On 3/10/17 2:18 pm, Stephen Chape wrote:

Re: Kernel Panic ?

Suggestions, without specifics of what to do - I don't have Ronni's memory for this. :-} * Time machine should not have re-installed the OS * There may be some corrupt prefs files which were coped back. * Use Console.app to look at the logs of what has been going wrong. Look at the time

Re: Download and upload speeds

I'm VERY envious. :-\ Rob On 2/10/17 3:13 pm, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi Graeme, What NBN Plan are you on? Are you FTTP or FTTN. You must be on a fairly low NBN Plan to be receiving the download & Upload speeds you mentioned below. With NBN Download Speeds & Upload Speeds depend on what NBN

Re: Download and upload speeds

In the wilds of Wanneroo, my download speeds (ADSL) average around 2Mbps. Uploads are, of course, slower. No NBN until possibly mid 2018. Rob On 1/10/17 9:09 pm, Neil Houghton wrote: Re: Download and upload speeds Hi Graeme, Down in darkest Albany, not on broadband: Ping 37ms Download

Re: U Tube video

I have experienced the same. I did some searching, but didn't find any good answers. Using a different browser helps. Ideas from others? Rob On 22/9/17 5:48 pm, Graeme Winters wrote: Sorry my earlier email contained an image which should not have been sent. Content now shown below I would

Keyboard covers MB Pro 2016?

Hi all I've been trying to get a keyboard cover for my 2016 model MacBook Pro. Macworx, Apple Store Perth and JB HiFi don't sell these. I bought one online from HK, but it was for the older model with Function Keys - waste of money! Does anyone know where I can reliably source one? Cheers

Re: Speccing a MacBookPro 15"

I've been away - hence the delayed reply... I bought a 2016 15" MB Pro last December. I decided on the 1TB SSD, because I couldn't justify the cost of the 2TB drive. I added a 3TB magnetic drive to 'archive' stuff not often used. I also bought an OWC Thunderbolt 2 dock, with USB, Firewire,

Re: Second hand macbook?

Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 30/5/17 21:29, Rob Phillips at r.phill...@iinet.net.au wrote: Greetings My 88yo father-in-law has a 2008 Macbook. Its battery died and he went with my brother-in-law to a northern suburbs mac dealer. He was sold a

Second hand macbook?

Greetings My 88yo father-in-law has a 2008 Macbook. Its battery died and he went with my brother-in-law to a northern suburbs mac dealer. He was sold a second hand Macbook as a replacement. Today, we picked this up, and he said it seemed slow compared to the old one - he has created some

Advice sought: internet-based home intercom

Hi I hope this isn't too far off-topic. Our property has 3 households (us, mother-in-law, sister-in-law) 100m apart. There is an ethernet cable between 2 of the houses which goes past the elderly mother-in-law, and wifi in each of the other dwellings. All traffic goes out to the world

Re: VueScan

Hi Peter. The Pro version of Adobe Acrobat lets you do this, but you might not want to pay for this. Maybe the free Acrobat Reader does this... Rob On 13/4/17 4:15 pm, Peter Curtis wrote: Hi all I’m using VueScan for some documents which I need to email to another person on their phone. I

Re: web browser keep saying can't connect

Hi Gary Suggestions: * quit and relaunch Safari * restart the Mac * if this doesn't work, check if it is only one (or some) websites which cause the problem. It could be that the Mac/ OS/ Safari version is too old to run new websites. If so, * Try a different browser Of course the

Re: Telstra

Who are your accounts with, and do they use IMAP or POP? Without this information Ronni won't be able to solve your problem.. :-) Rob On 15/3/17 10:16 am, Alan Fenton wrote: Hello. Telstra lost 5 email accounts Monday when I updated my mobile hotspot modem and added to my Telstra account.

Re: TechTool Pro Failure Alert

You're right. It was point 1. Time Machine backup to external drive. Thanks Oracle! Rob Phillips' iPhone > On 2 Mar 2017, at 6:29 am, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hi Rob, > > Do you use Time Machine for backups to an external drive? > TechTool Protection m

Fwd: TechTool Pro Failure Alert

Since we've been discussing TechTool Pro, can someone advise about this issue I have. I have set up TTP to warn me when my free disk space goes down to 15%. See below. However, I am getting this message when I have 253GB of 1000Gb free - 25%. This is an SSD drive. Are there some cache

Re: iMac periodically slows down ?

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Re: Attachments to incoming mail in Mail not able to be opened second time

Which email program are you using? Is it still occurring after a restart? Rob On 26/1/17 8:47 pm, Graham Rabe wrote: When receiving an email with an attachment - from only some senders - I can initially open the attachment. But when I go back to the email a second time to open the

Re: Crashes with Sierra

Hi Ronni Your google skills are indubitably superior to mine! :-) Thanks. Not that it solves my problem... :-( Rob On 17/1/17 3:12 pm, Ronni Brown wrote: On 17 Jan 2017, at 12:03 pm, Rob Phillips <r.phill...@iinet.net.au <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote: Greetings I rec

Crashes with Sierra

Greetings I recently bought the bullet and purchased a new Macbook Pro with a 1TB SSD drive. MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016) 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 It's running Sierra 10.12.2. I'm relatively pleased with the machine, except for the touchbar. I was able to turn the

Re: Problem with Magic Mouse

It sounds like you've got a flat battery in the magic mouse. Rob On 6/1/17 10:57 am, David Noel wrote: With my new iMac (Sierra 10.12.2), when I opened up this morning, the behaviour of the (wireless) Magic Mouse was strange. Moving the mouse would only move the on-screen arrow jerkily, and

Re: Mobile Broadband problem

Hi Alex Intriguing... I guess you have credit on the device? Restarted? Getting enough signal? Rob On 3/1/17 9:27 pm, Alex wrote: Hello WAMuggers I would appreciate some advice on this problem I have with my mobile broadband through Highway1/ZettaNet. (I also have a normal adsl for home

Re: Resetting iCloud - Photos sync data

I agree wholeheartedly! Rob On 1/1/17 10:40 am, Michael Hawkins wrote: Thanks Tim. What underpinned my email was my frustration with what I see as Apple's less than open tactic of making uploading to iCloud the default setting when iOS updates are released. I don't know what the privacy laws

Re: Disk Utilites

G'day I've just had a problem on one of my backup/ archive drives, and I was fiddling around trying to recover it. Diskutil didn't work, even though I tried it several times - this sometimes works to recover a disk. I bought Techtools last year, on a special advertised through WAMUG. It

Re: Spam purported to be from Apple

It's not google - it's a scam. The actual address, hidden in the long google string is 'staging.btvin.com'. I get these regularly, and ignore them. Rob On 23/11/2016 2:12 pm, clamsh...@iinet.net.au wrote: Just a heads-up: Received an email supposedly from Apple about resetting my Apple ID

Re: Linux

Hmmm. That could be a good transition plan. Thanks. I'll look into it when I get a chance. Rob On 22/11/2016 9:59 am, Ronda Brown wrote: On 22 Nov. 2016, at 8:57 am, Rob Phillips <r.phill...@iinet.net.au <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote: Time to start investigating L

Linux

Time to start investigating Linux??? I've been thinking this for a while... Rob On 22/11/2016 7:14 am, Ronda Brown wrote: Yes Brian, Apple are concentrating on the social media and entertainment customers. That's the way forward... They seem to be forgetting us customers that actually

Re: Unwanted e-mail address

the message reading " To log into iCloud" we figured that we would need to find the App(s) that we downloaded through activ8 and remove them. Then download them again. Thank you both for your advice. Kind Regards Tony Boddington Sent from my iPhone On 12 Nov. 2016, at 10:32,

Re: Unwanted e-mail address

A. I think I had this problem. I changed the email address that i logged into iCloud with. This was fine on my mac and iPhone, but not with my iPad, where it still wanted me to login with my old email address. After faffing around for ages trying various options, I finally deleted the

Re: ERRATIC BEHAVIOUR OF NOTIFICATION CENTRE NC

the ARCHIVE. OR Should I uninstall MAIL and reinstall it? How to do this efficiently is my new question? Cheers Marcus On 9 Nov. 2016, at 7:16 pm, Rob Phillips <r.phill...@iinet.net.au <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote: HI Marcus Just a quick reply which may save guru Ronni some time.

Re: Fwd: ERRATIC BEHAVIOUR OF NOTIFICATION CENTRE NC

HI Marcus Just a quick reply which may save guru Ronni some time. :-) 1. You don't need a Time Capsule to run Time Machine (if I understood you correctly) 2. Backing up lots of files to Dropbox may be OK in Singapore, but it isn't really an option in poor old Australia... 3. I suspect that

Re: Update to new iOS for iPhone 5 ?

Hi The issue will will be the version of OSX that the iPhone will try to pair with. If that's on old mac - you might not be able to sync contacts, music, etc. Rob On 5/11/2016 5:02 pm, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi Stephen, I 'upgraded' from a 5S to a 6 last week. Prior to the upgrade I had

Re: ERRATIC BEHAVIOUR OF NOTIFICATION CENTRE

Good to be careful... Just type in the 'instructions' after the 'cryptodomus$' bit, and press Return. That sends the 'instruction/command' to the processor, and it does things... Cheers Rob On 3/11/2016 9:08 pm, Marcus F Harris wrote: Hi Ronni, Great but I’ve not attempted to work in

Re: New Macbook Pros?

backward compatible with older USB devices. These new machines can drive two 5K displays or four 4K displays. That’s impressive. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 30 Oct. 2016, at 6:04 pm, Rob Phillips <r.phill...@iinet.net.au <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote: He doesn

Re: New Macbook Pros?

g. The last, a 17", now 8 years old, is still humming along. I don't know how upgradable this new one will be. Has ifixit torn one down yet? Maxing a special build maybe your only option if you don't want an external drive. My 2c worth, (& the other $6499.98) Brian Risbey  On 2

Re: Storage.

But this doesn't resolve your orignal question about wanting to delete unneeded photos on your Mac... Still, if you're happy, that's all that matters... Rob On 29/10/2016 7:52 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis wrote: Thanks Bill, along with yourself, Susan and Rob I now have it figured I save my

Re: Storage.

also made, it is the copies that I am attempting to find. Thanks Rob Tony BODDINGTON W.A. On 28 Oct 2016, at 6:37 pm, Rob Phillips <r.phill...@iinet.net.au> wrote: In other words, do you use iPhoto/ Photo to import your photos? If you do, you'll have to delete them using the app you import

New Macbook Pros?

of cables and 3rd party devices to use my computer as I move around? Any ideas about how to resolve the issue? Rob -- Dr Rob Phillips Sessional tutor School of Education, Curtin University rob.phill...@curtin.edu.au Life member, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Re: Storage.

In other words, do you use iPhoto/ Photo to import your photos? If you do, you'll have to delete them using the app you imported them with, so the database remains intact. If, as seems unlikely, you import them directly to a folder, you'll need to find out where that folder is, then delete

Re: iphone/ipad backups

Hi It is possible that this issue is caused by a newer version of iOS not working with an older version of OSX. My wife had this message last week. I looked into it and came up with this site:

Re: Mouse problems

i.e. in System Preferences. Although why both would change at the same time is a mystery... Rob On 13/09/2016 1:07 pm, Susan Hastings wrote: Have you checked the mouse settings on both computers? Sent from my iPad On 13 Sep 2016, at 12:17 PM, Juliet Kitson wrote:

Re: OSX on non-mac hardware?

on for a bit longer as we're expecting the new 15" MacBook Pro to be announced in October, alongside an upcoming iPad. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 11 Sep 2016, at 9:27 PM, Rob Phillips <r.phill...@iinet.net.au <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote: Thanks, Ron

Re: OSX on non-mac hardware?

rdware is compatible and what isn't. Hackintosh compatibility varies, depending on whether your computer was self-built or prebuilt, and whether it's a desktop PC or a laptop." Regards, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 10 Sep 2016, at 6:38 PM, Rob Phillips <r.phill...@iinet.net

OSX on non-mac hardware?

Greetings I'm looking at upgrading my hardware. Is it still the case that you can install OSX on non-mac intel based hardware? Rob -- Rob and Rita Phillips, Wanneroo r.phill...@iinet.net.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Switching to Naked DSL?

I've been thinking of VOIP (Naked DSL) as well, but It's been hard to find out information about running several phones in the house on the Naked system. What sorts of hands-free phone systems can you plug in? Cheers Rob On 27/01/2016 6:51 pm, Alan Smith wrote: Hi Rod My experience with

Re: Annual Mamber Fee Payment

I haven't received an invoice... Rob On 14/01/2016 7:08 pm, Marcus F Harris wrote: Hello Secretary, I paid my dues today as “CRYPTODOMUS”, by EFT. I couldn’t locate another way to inform you. Happy New Year /Marcus/ Marcus Harris P.O. Box 7135 Marcus Harris Shenton Park Western Australia 6008

Re: Recording Skype conference calls

A technique I have used with webconferencing software is to record the minutes on the fly, while sharing the screen with everyone. This way, everyone sees the minutes as they are being written and can point out inaccuracies in the moment. The other advantage is that the minutes are available

Re: What is process PID 208?

On 12/12/2015 4:10 pm, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi Alan, Just a quick reply. I don’t know why you are so obsessed with viewing System Logs… It's probably more fun than most TV shows... :-) Rob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Telstra

First find out when the NBN is coming to you. They might be locking you into something inferior once the NBN arrives. Cheers Rob On 23/10/2015 8:51 pm, John Daniels wrote: I know there have been many discussions about Telstra service over the years but I'm interested to know if they have

New Macbook

? Hoping for some creative solutions... Rob -- Adjunct Associate Professor Rob Phillips School of Education, Murdoch University, Perth, Western AUSTRALIA r.phill...@iinet.net.au Phone: +61 (0)416 065 054 Life member, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Fellow, Higher

Re: QT problem

Another example of Apple deciding what we can or cannot do? Rob On 16/10/2015 1:53 pm, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi Severin, Are you running El Capitan 10.11? The QuickTime plugin is no longer supported on OS X 10.11. Apple disables the QuickTime plug-in in 10.11. If the QT movies are the ones on

Re: How to convert a POP email account to IMAP

Hi Pete I think the problem might be in trying to use the same email address. A possible way forward is (with lots of backups and care - including downloading recent emails onto a second device) * create a new email address - gmail - or even better a second westnet address associated with

Re: How to convert a POP email account to IMAP

(hopefully). Regards Pete On 14 Oct 2015, at 2:54 PM, Rob Phillips <r.phill...@iinet.net.au <mailto:r.phill...@iinet.net.au>> wrote: Hi Pete I think the problem might be in trying to use the same email address. A possible way forward is (with lots of backups and care - including downlo

Re: Food for thought

This is an interesting discussion, and it resonates with the way I have been thinking. I agree with Bill "I want stuff that works when I need it." Over recent years, I've become increasingly dissatisfied with Apple Mac products, because they continue to remove functionality that I have been

Re: How to convert a POP email account to IMAP

I guess this should all work, as long as you don't get one of your POP accounts to delete messages from the server when you download it. Rob On 14/10/2015 7:08 pm, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Pete, Hi Daniel, I've been following this thread with some interest. If I understand the thread, the

Re: How to convert a POP email account to IMAP

I use Thunderbird not Mail, but have you changed the mail server address? It should be something like imap.westnet.com.au, instead of pop.westnet.com.au. Hope this helps. Rob On 13/10/2015 8:13 pm, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi, have any of you done the below process of moving from a POP Mail

Re: OSX 10.9.5 Finder won't show Folder contents

Was the machine working OK until you tried to access the folder? I suggest you Shut Down, wait a minute and then restart. If the problem persists, run Disk Utility and repair the disk. Cheers Rob On 24/09/2015 2:19 pm, Graham Green wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for the suggestions. When I go to

Re: yosemite - HD full

It could be that your hard disk is corrupt and some sectors aren't available for use. This means running Disk Utility to verify and/or repair the disk. You will probably need to boot up in 'diagnostic mode' to do this. Hold down 'd' when restarting and then choose Disk Utility from the menu

Re: Epson printer network visibility

Thanks. Good tip. Rob On 15/09/2015 9:27 pm, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi all, with Ronni’s help again off list Ronni (with permission) reviewed my printer status report. The report indicated that the bonjour service was not enabled. Ronni indicated this should be enabled. Once on the trail I was

Re: How to wrap your power adapter.

Cool! On 30/08/2015 6:33 pm, Brian Risbey wrote: Hi All Anyone else seen this? http://www.cultofmac.com/257538/heres-much-better-way-store-transport-macbook-power-cord-os-x-tips/ Brian -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: Delays in sending mail

to that of the MBAir will probably solve the problem, but how can I find out what the full name of the account is on the MB Air and change it on the iMac to that name? Thanks Ronni. Cheers, Graham -- Rob Phillips r.phill...@iinet.net.au Mobile: 0416 065 054 Webmaster: Nanga Music Festival - Where music

Off-topic: museum/ collectors for old electronic devices

Sorry this is off topic, but there seem to be some people on this list who collect old electronic stuff. We've just replaced our old, 1980s Toshiba microwave. It's in good working order, and it seems a shame to just throw it away. Does anyone know anybody who collects this sort of stuff, or

Re: VPN

Hi Peter, I don't currently use a VPN on my home network. I am considering it. My son, who has been living in China, has had to use a VPN service to circumvent the Chinese government's blocking of particular sites (like Facebook), and potential eavesdropping on his traffic. With the Federal

Re: Mail problem

Yes. In Thunderbird, check the Offline submenu under the File Menu. Rob On 17/07/2015 10:55 am, Kaye and Geoff wrote: Hello Bill On 17/07/2015, at 8:13 AM, Bill Parker wrote: I should have said all servers are said to be offline I have an old version of Mail, but if yours is similar to

Re: Data transfer MBPro to imac

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Re: Traveling with Apple products (Europe) info

Replying to a thread from a year ago We're going to Europe in a couple of days, but my spies over there tell me that mobile roaming services will be required to provide a Europe-wide tariff from the end of 2015. In other words, no matter where you buy your European SIM, you'll get the

Replacement laptop keys

and you can purchase a missing key which also comes with the mechanism. Predictably they are in the US but they are very cheap ($10). http://www.replacementlaptopkeys.com/ http://www.replacementlaptopkeys.com -- Dr Rob Phillips I don't know about you, but I live in a society, not an economy Member

Re: Travelling to south of France

Interesting discussion. Can I confirm, Peter, that the SIM card you purchased worked at the same rates across countries. It used to be that you had to pay roaming costs if you went outside the country where you bought this. I had heard that this was going to change to a European-wide

Re: Thunderbird

Hi Kevin I use Thunderbird (24.3.0) and I can't understand what your issue is. I don't have a scroll bar across the top. Check out the View Menu and Layout Options. Also possibly Toolbars. I use the Classic layout. Tabs across the top, Folders down the left; Mailbox at top right and message

Re: Thunderbird problem

OK. It's all under the View menu. Yours certainly looks strange I recreated your symptoms, then I had to spend a while getting back to normal! In the View/Layout sub-menu, you need to have Folder Pane and Message Pane ticked. These items appear only to be active when you are in the

Re: emails: unwanted deletion

also on desktop, iPhone and iPad. Deleting on the iPhone deletes from the server, but this doesn't affect those already downloaded and these are the ones going missing and as far as I know only from the laptop. I hope that helps, Jennifer On 19 February 2014 13:09, Rob Phillips r.phill

Re: emails: unwanted deletion

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Re: map app

Yes. This area needs lots of research. I found that printed HEMA maps weren't good enough. WikiCamps is a cool app for finding camping sites, but it uses Apple maps, and the detail is woeful. I did some research in December, and came across

Re: map app

bound 'Roads and TrAcks Western Australia' by QPA as it has 250k and 500k mapping, in conjunction with the electronic mapping. The latter shows me where I am, the former provides the bigger picture of where I am going. Tim Sent from my iPhone On 2 Feb 2014, at 11:29 am, Rob Phillips r.phill

Re: Typing drops off into hole

I have a similar problem, except I miss only a few characters, especially after I type a 'c'! It doesn't matter which app, or keyboard, and it's intermittent. Weird... OS 10.8.5 Rob On 24/01/14 10:01 AM, David Noel wrote: I'm experiencing a strange thing which I can't work out. I'm typing

Re: A MS Word puzzle

Well done Daniel. This is a good suggestion to a problem that was puzzling me. I couldn't think of a sensible answer, but if Sev's system uses (or replaces) a document font which doesn't have a printable version, then this could be the solution. If Daniel's idea is correct, I would suspect

Digital video/ quicktime question

be embedded in a web page. Is this still a quicktime feature? Can you do this with other video formats? Cheers Rob -- Dr Rob Phillips I don't know about you, but I live in a society, not an economy Member of the Moore-Cowan regional group of the Greens (WA) rphillips6...@gmail.com 0416 065 054

Re: iOS7 battery drain!

- http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- Dr Rob Phillips Educational Design Project School of Education, Curtin University rob.phill...@curtin.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)416 065 054 Life member, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Fellow, Higher

Re: Mavericks - Unhide the User Library Folder

And I use the free/ shareware (remember that term!) app TinkerTool to set a bunch of settings like this. Not sure if it's available for Mavericks yet. Rob On 29/10/13 1:00 PM, Ronni Brown wrote: Hi Mavericks adoptees, Mavericks hides the user Library folder ( ~/Library) by default, just as

Re: iPad with Internet ?

Just beware. I used a 12 month prepaid card in a 4G modem in my camper van on a recent trip. I ran the ipad, iphone and 2 macbooks of the wireless network generated by the modem. I was chewing through the quite limited download quota very quickly and it was costing a fortune. I had to

Re: Restoring my iPhoto Library

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Re: Restoring my iPhoto Library

. Select the options you want to use. 6. Click Rebuild to begin the rebuild process. This may take a few minutes to complete. Cheers, Ronni On 06/08/2013, at 3:32 PM, Rob Phillips r.phill...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi David If you hold down the option key when you launch iPhoto, you will get

Re: Restoring my iPhoto Library

Command keys held down until you are prompted to rebuild the library. 5. A dialog will appear with rebuild options. Select the options you want to use. 6. Click Rebuild to begin the rebuild process. This may take a few minutes to complete. Cheers, Ronni On 06/08/2013, at 3:32 PM, Rob Phillips

Re: Laptops and tea

from my iPhone 5 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** On 06/05/2013, at 12:31 PM, Rob Phillips r.phill...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi people This is one for the hardware people

Laptops and tea

? * What is the cost of a replacement motherboard? MacBook Pro 15-inch, Mid 2012 Processor 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 384 MB Cheers Rob -- Rob Phillips, 30 Ashby St, Wanneroo r.phill...@iinet.net.au Mobile: 0416 065 054 semi-retired

Re: Wi Fi provider in Europe

Yeah. Reinforcing Tim's comments. You'll probably need an address in the country you're going to. When I was in Europe last year, there was talk of the EU requiring carriers not to price gouge on cross-country roaming rates. It would be worth checking that out, because I don't know when it

Re: Onno

I met up with him a couple of weeks ago. He's back in perth and still running his ITMaze business. He's not much of a Mac user anymore. Rob Rob Phillips' iPhone On 02/02/2013, at 3:06 PM, Curtis Peter pe...@augold.com.au wrote: I liked Onno! plus he knew what he was talking about

Re: My clock keeps stopping

digital in Menu Bar. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 10/01/2013, at 2:05 PM, Rob Phillips r.phill...@murdoch.edu.au wrote: Hi people This is a strange one. For the last two days, the system clock which shows in my menubar has been stopping. I have Date and Time Preferences set

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Looks like it might have been istat menus. There was a recent update which: Fixed an issue where items wouldn’t update. Fixed an issue where where the world clocks list didn’t display correctly. I've installed it. I'll report if the problem recurs. Rob -- Associate Professor Rob Phillips

My clock keeps stopping

OS10.7.5 Rob -- Dr Rob Phillips Greens WA candidate for Wanneroo, 2013 rphillips6...@gmail.com 0416 065054 If you think, vote Green, for true progress! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http

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