Re: New Perth Apple store for Garden City

2012-04-21 Thread Daniel Kerr
Plus the resellers (and others) can sometimes do a bit better on price, and get in extras that the Apple Store's don't (or want) carry. Plus they sometimes don't alway look after some of the third party warranty, then sent you to the company/manufacturer, whereas a reseller/dealer will tend to

Re: Apple Now Giving Away Snow Leopard To MobileMe Customers For Free

2012-04-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Just a follow-up - to mention a couple of things I have now seen on some of the forum posts: Some people are suggesting that a 10.6.9 SL update will come before shut-off and offer iCloud compatibility - though, personally, I wouldn't hold my breath ;o) Someone else said: Actually you can start

Re: Apple Now Giving Away Snow Leopard To MobileMe Customers For Free

2012-04-21 Thread Daniel Kerr
Lol,..that' 10.6.9 with iCloud support has been hanging around since iCloud was first announced. I'd be surprised if they write it in. They want people to upgrade to Lion. :o) In saying that, there is a way to actually upgrade to iCloud and still keep syncing your iCal and Address Book if

iTunes Personal password questions

2012-04-21 Thread Tim Law
Evening, I've been into iTunes to download some new apps, and come across a new screen that I cannot bypass, insisting I complete three security questions that have preset questions that I will have to remember. These are not self selectable questions but some no doubt selected by a person

Re: iTunes Personal password questions

2012-04-21 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Tim I had the same with clients, but all the questions, when you click on the choices there was one(s) that let you create your own questions and answers, so you didn't have to use their rubbish ones. You can still change it to something you want. If you log in to AppleID

Re: Apple Now Giving Away Snow Leopard To MobileMe Customers For Free

2012-04-21 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Neil, And there is a work around to keep your @me.com email address in Snow Leopard without upgrading to Lion. http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudmail.html Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 21/04/2012, at 7:04 PM, Daniel Kerr wa...@macwizardry.com.au wrote:

ISP

2012-04-21 Thread Stuart Breden
Not seen much on the list of late about preferred, apple friendly ISP's As you can see I'm currently using Highway 1. Not sure if that is the best ISP for Apple Lion etc. Heard the Iinet is Apple friendly. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please

Re: Apple Now Giving Away Snow Leopard To MobileMe Customers For Free

2012-04-21 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Ronni, Thanks for that - it gives much better details than the post I had found which just gave the general idea. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/4/12 7:28 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Neil,

Re: Apple Now Giving Away Snow Leopard To MobileMe Customers For Free

2012-04-21 Thread Tim Law
On 21/04/2012, at 7:04 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Just don't try do it with a Leopard machine,...that's near impossible. Near impossible, or completely impossible I've got two G5 machines and so cannot update to Snow Leopard, let alone Lion, so AFAIK cannot use iCloud with them. This isn't

Re: ISP

2012-04-21 Thread Tim Law
First question is why do you want to change? Highway1 has been around for ages, as have iinet. If you change ISP, you'll lose your email address. Unless you move to your own domain name, you're tethered to your ISP unless you want to send out an email to everyone on your mailing list telling

Re: Apple Now Giving Away Snow Leopard To MobileMe Customers For Free

2012-04-21 Thread Daniel Kerr
Um,...I'm pretty much class it as completely impossible. There were quite a few links to try to get it working, but after a LOT of playing around, it didn't want to work. It seemed to be a bit hit and miss for Leopard (but was ok for SL). And one of those things,..how many hours do you spend

Queries - working with mail across an iMac and iPad

2012-04-21 Thread Steven Knowles
I don't have an iPad, but I am trying to help somebody out who does have one, as well as an iMac. The iMac is running Snow Leopard I think, and although the iPad has just been purchased, he bought an iPad 2. Traditionally this guy runs two separate mail accounts, one set up as IMAP, one set

Finder icon size

2012-04-21 Thread Stuart Breden
I know that this is basic stuff bu t I've searched the Apple site and done a google search. Since upgrading to Lion all the icon on the finder are larger. How can I reduce these ison sizes? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the

Re: Finder icon size

2012-04-21 Thread Roger Kortas
at the finder View Menu Show View Options select the size you want On 22/04/2012, at 8:14 AM, Stuart Breden wrote: I know that this is basic stuff bu t I've searched the Apple site and done a google search. Since upgrading to Lion all the icon on the finder are larger. How can I reduce

Re: Queries - working with mail across an iMac and iPad

2012-04-21 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Steven, I have MBP/iPad/iPhone and 3 IMAP (1of the 3 is iCloud @mac.com) 1 POP3 email accounts. No problem with the 3 IMAP accounts syncing to all my devices. No problem with POP3 email Inbox messages on all my devices (as explained below) My Answers in situ below. On 22/04/2012, at 12:34

Re: Ominous iMac Ticking.

2012-04-21 Thread Callum Prior
Just wanted to post something of a resolution in case anyone else has similar problems. Unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to eject the drive properly. The sequence of events: 1. iMac hard drive makes ticking noise, machine becomes unresponsive. 2. Boot into safe mode, run disk

Re: Finder icon size

2012-04-21 Thread Stuart Breden
I knew it was simple but on Sundays I'm simple. Thanks! Looked in the preferences but did not in the View menu. Great stuff. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email On 22/04/2012, at 8:19

Re: Ominous iMac Ticking.

2012-04-21 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Callum, Sorry to hear about your data loss. This is why I always include a bootable backup in my Backup Strategy. I can't afford 'Down Time' I need to be able to get back working quickly when a hard drive dies. Have you read my Backup Strategy? I've posted it plenty of times to WAMUG ;-)

IQ Elite -- Is this a scam?

2012-04-21 Thread David Noel
-- I recently received an email allegedly from a friend, actually from nore...@iqelite.com, saying: Hello, Aaaa B has written you a message... You can view the message on IQ Elite, the platform for personality and intelligence tests that are also fun! To read your message now, go to the

Re: Queries - working with mail across an iMac and iPad

2012-04-21 Thread Steven Knowles
Thanks Ronni. On 22/04/2012, at 11:30 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: snip You can setup a gmail IMAP in Apple Mail. There's a thought. Now I know that I can set up a mydomain.com POP email address within gmail (gmail doesn't allow same for IMAP), and as far as the rest of the world is concerned,

Re: IQ Elite -- Is this a scam?

2012-04-21 Thread Ronda Brown
Oh David, No way would I click on a link in this type of email. This IQ Elite.com is phishing. If you had given your email address it would have been used to phish someone in your address book. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 22/04/2012, at 11:02 AM, David Noel lis...@aoi.com.au

Re: ISP

2012-04-21 Thread Stuart Breden
Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email On 21/04/2012, at 9:36 PM, Tim Law wrote: First question is why do you want to change? Highway1 has been around for ages, as have iinet. Good