Control of Messages

2014-04-03 Thread Alan Smith
Have you recommendations for a full guide on using (and managing) SMS texts and Messages? Three recent examples illustrate the problems - or perhaps the ignorance - I have. 1. My sister sent me a simple text message from her mobile phone. I did not receive it on my mobile phone. Many hours

Re: Control of Messages

2014-04-03 Thread Bill Parker
I don’t know about too many Apples Alan, but I have a similar (?) gripe about SMS reception from the WA Fire Brigades message service. I switched from Samsung to iPhone and lost my contact with the pager/messaging service. I have people at DFES investigating but so far no luck. We trying the old

Re: MBP Retina

2014-04-03 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi Peter, yes I am fully familiar with restoring a backup into a new machine. I noted that my iTunes and iPhoto libraries are on my external drive for space reasons, previously in my original enquiry. Your reply seemed to have most of the original content not carried forward. In any case, it

Re: Control of Messages

2014-04-03 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Alan, Are you sure you have setup 'Messages' correctly. http://www.apple.com/au/ios/messages/ 1. iMessage Not Delivered You send an iMessage to a fellow iPhone user and it doesn’t get delivered at all. (There’s this dreaded red exclamation mark popping up, right?) This can mean:

Re: Travelling to south of France

2014-04-03 Thread Jon Davison
Hi everyone. I'm sure this has been discussed before, but as technology changes so quickly I wonder if is any easier now. I am going to south of France for a month from next Monday, and wish to use my iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro. I'll be staying pretty much in one place that has no WiFi, so

Re: Travelling to south of France

2014-04-03 Thread Susan Hastings
Best is just to buy a local SIM and prepay. Sent from my iPad On 2 Apr 2014, at 3:52 am, Jon Davison jondcamera...@me.com wrote: Hi everyone. I'm sure this has been discussed before, but as technology changes so quickly I wonder if is any easier now. I am going to south of France for a

Re: Control of Messages

2014-04-03 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni Another pecularity of our high-tech millstone - -. Your email is time stamped in my Mail as received at 7:10 pm, hence this late reply. Anyway, back to topic. I’m wading through the iLounge website tutorial “The Complete Guide to FaceTime + iMessage/ Setup, Use and

Re: Travelling to south of France

2014-04-03 Thread Susan Hastings
Sorry, should also say that we did that recently in the US, and are in the UK now, with one month of access on our phones with local SIMs and extra data on one to use as a hotspot for the ipad. Telstra are not help whatsoever. I did ask them but they have no cheap overseas access. Sent from

emails on iPhone

2014-04-03 Thread Bill Parker
I have an iPhone 4. Latest OS. Today it has started downloading roughly 96 emails, all of which I have read. They are also coming to via my Macbook Pro. I just deleted 96 message off the phone only ti find the same 96 re-appeared a couple of hours later. I hit “get Mail” on the laptop,

iPhone 4s lost wifi

2014-04-03 Thread Marcus F Harris
I bought a new iPhone 5s. I still have my two year old iPhone 4s but I don’t have a SIM anymore. I had some issues with my 4s. (1) A light source appeared in the top left corner of the screen when switched from dormant to active. (2) when taking photos, they showed as existing frames but blacked

Re: Travelling to south of France

2014-04-03 Thread Peter Faulks
Hello Jon, We found the best option is to purchase a wifi device in France with a monthly pay as you go sim card, this will give you complete control over your wifi needs and it will seamlessly connect to you ipad or iphone. We travelled through Europe last year UK, France, Italy,

iPad 6 and iPad Air 2 Rumours

2014-04-03 Thread Rick Armstrong
I not sure whether this is of any interest to members or old news. http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/ipad/ipad-air-2-ipad-6-release-date-launch-rumours-leaked-images-3481268/-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -

Airport express

2014-04-03 Thread F.W. Hänel
Hello all, My AE has been retrenched. Since being connected to NBN all WiFi devices are now connected to iiNet’s BobLite. Can it be employed elsewhere or will it be permanently unemployed ? Cheers, Walter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: iPad 6 and iPad Air 2 Rumours

2014-04-03 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 4 Apr 2014, at 7:54 am, Rick Armstrong a...@iinet.net.au wrote: I not sure whether this is of any interest to members or old news. http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/ipad/ipad-air-2-ipad-6-release-date-launch-rumours-leaked-images-3481268/ Well actually it isn’t news at all. The rumour mill

Re: Control of Messages

2014-04-03 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Alan, I don't know why you are experiencing problems with Messages in iOS 7.1. I use Messages constantly on all my devices to converse with Apple users and Non-Apple users without any problems. They receive my messages either as iMessage or Text or SMS You say you have Messages setup

Re: WTB New iPad

2014-04-03 Thread Rick Armstrong
Thanks Ronni, We have decided on iPad Mini, just need some feedback on whether to get the Retina display version. Rick. On 28/03/2014, at 9:59 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Rick, https://www.apple.com/au/ipad/compare/ Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad4 On 27 Mar

Macbook

2014-04-03 Thread Juliet Kitson
Hello to all has anybody got a second hand 15 macbook pro they would like to sell. Regards Bill Juliet -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings

Re: WTB New iPad

2014-04-03 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Rick, Go with the Retina Display WiFi + Celluar Retina display 7.9‑inch (diagonal) LED-backlit Multi-Touch display with IPS technology 2048-by-1536 resolution at 326 pixels per inch (ppi) Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating – 7.9‑inch (diagonal) LED-backlit Multi-Touch display with IPS

Re: Travelling to south of France

2014-04-03 Thread Rob Phillips
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: Airport express

2014-04-03 Thread Stephen Chape
If you don’t have a smart TV, you could use it in the Ethernet Port of your TV or DVD Recorder. Just choose to set up as an addition to existing network. This way if either of them have internet capability you could make use of it. In other words as an Ethernet Bridge. I know it works because I