Re: Publisher

Hi Chris, I did convert a .pub publisher file a while back, it was over 2MB so In didn't use pdfonline - unfortunately I don't remember what I used (possibly ZAMZAR?) and I do remember the results weren't wonderful - however a quick Google shows some options: ZAMZAR claims to be able to handle .p

Re: Excel quirky

Hi Chris, Have you tried setting up another user account, opening excel and creating a new worksheet and trying in that. I would have thought that if that still gave you problems then it points to your version of excel (or possibly some conflict between excel and some particular software/hardware?

Re: Oberammergau Passion Play

Hi Stuart, You can always use Google Translate: I haven't had cause to use it too often and seem to remember the results were, shall we say, patchy. But it may well do what you need. HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8

Re: Whilst travelling I want to watch TV on my Mac

Hi Peter, The other thing to think about, depending on where you are travelling and what sort of internet access you expect, are the local online TV offerings. We are all aware of the excellent ABC iView and I believe SBS and the commercial networks have their own offerings (though not on the same

Re: new macbook pros - repairability might need to be considered

Hi Shane, You might have to be quick!! StaticIce is showing only four entries: And they are all over east ;o( Of these however, if you follow the store links, the only retailer still showing the 17" product (in 3

Re: Downloading ANZ Bank monthly statements

Hi Ian, Not an answer to your problem with ANZ & Safari - but I always like to have at least two separate browsers on my macs - currently Firefox, Safari & Opera (though I very rarely fire up Opera). Unfortunately LOTS of websites out there do not use fully complying code on their websites and, w

Re: Downloading ANZ Bank monthly statements

Hi Tim, Just a thought - I seem to remember this happening to me with a site a while back (probably not ANZ or banking) and it WAS actually downloading the pdf but giving it the .aspx file extension - if you let the .aspx file download completely and the change the .aspx extension to .pdf you may

Re: Mountain Lion - AirPlay Mirroring - older iMacs?

Bugger! I just went to check out AirParrot as I thought it would FINALLY let me view ABC iView directly on my AppleTV by playing full-screen on my iMac and then mirroring to the AppleTV - only to find: > it only supports video‹no audio is broadcasted via AirPlay. However, > AirParrot¹s developers

Re: Mountain Lion - AirPlay Mirroring - older iMacs?

I found eyeTV much better (as long as I remember > to record the show). > > Cheers > Alan > > On 19/06/2012, at 7:23 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > > Bugger! > > I just went to check out AirParrot as I thought it would FINALLY let me view > ABC iView directly

Re: Mountain Lion - AirPlay Mirroring - older iMacs?

itional RAM for my iMac and see > if that helps the iView problem. Haven't yet tried to watch a straight 30 > minute mirror to test the ATV sleeping issue. > > Cheers > Alan > > > > > > On 20/06/2012, at 10:36 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: > > Hi Alan

Re: Mountain Lion - AirPlay Mirroring - older iMacs?

but it is about as simple > as can be. For example you can save as DIVX or avi which you can put on a USB > stick and play from many TVs or recorders. > Hope you have as nice a fire going as I have, we only got to 9C up here on > Mount Clarence and lots of rain and hail to go with it

Re: Video playback slowed down.

Hi Adrian, I gather from your previous emails that the problem is just with streaming YouTube - rather than already downloaded video. Forgive me for asking the obvious - but you have checked your internet connection speed to make sure that you have not developed a problem in that area? Cheers

Re: Mountain Lion - AirPlay Mirroring - older iMacs?

e broadcast mirroring worked well with no > image break up.Ditto with a movie played via Quicktime and mirrored. And > iView continued to give poor quality, broken video, as well as dropping out > completely. > > In summary, I will persevere with this $10 application but hope

Re: Offsite backup

Hi Severin, If you have an alternative site to store it, you can also go with the rotating disk approach - disk 1 at home, disk 2 offsite - and rotate them on a weekly (or other) basis. Officeworks Albany are doing a really good deal on the 500GB WD MyPassport Studio (FW800 & USB2.0) - I bought o

Re: Anti Virus

Hi Peter, I'll second Ronni's experience that AVG Anti-Virus does a very good job. I've been happy with their free version on Windows XP running in Parallels (though, again, I do VERY little work in Windows) - just keep ignoring their option to upgrade to the FULL (paid) version ;o) Cheers Nei

Ipad pre-paid mobile broadband plans vs mobile hotspots

Hi, I've now (finally) got an iPad 4G and I'm contemplating mobile broadband plans. I have to stick with Telstra for the country coverage. I am probably going to go pre-paid and saw that people recommended the 12GB 365 day option (which should be more than enough for when I'm away from wi-fi) and

Re: Ipad pre-paid mobile broadband plans vs mobile hotspots

phone when I noticed this and reconnect - but it was a nuisance. Is this likely to be the same with the iPad? Is it just a matter of finding a setting to change? Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/12/12 9:20 PM, Neil H

Re: Ipad pre-paid mobile broadband plans vs mobile hotspots

x27;t gone to sleep > whilst the laptop is connected. > > Sent from my iPad > > On 14/12/2012, at 6:10 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> Hi replying (partially) to my own post ;o) >> >> It seems I was premature in my assumption: >>> Ideally I

Ipad - Cellular Data Number unknown - does not receive SMSs

I'm probably missing something obvious here ;o) OK, so I bought my $30 Pre-paid micro SIM for the iPad, installed it in the iPad, activated the SIM, connected to the net, set-up it up as a personal hot-spot and all is working fine (this email was sent from my iMac via the iPad personal hotspot)

Re: Ipad - Cellular Data Number unknown - does not receive SMSs

I should also say that I HAVE tried powering down and restarting the iPad - still no change. on 18/12/12 12:02 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > I'm probably missing something obvious here ;o) > > > OK, so I bought my $30 Pre-paid micro SIM for the iPad, in

Re: Ipad - Cellular Data Number unknown - does not receive SMSs

it doesn't send/receive sms messages. > > You can use apple imessage. > > --- > Susan Hastings > Mobile: 0409 688 004 > susanhasti...@mac.com > > > On 18/12/2012, at 12:07 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> I should also say that I HAVE tried powering down

Re: Ipad - Cellular Data Number unknown - does not receive SMSs

d to reassure me that all was OK. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 18/12/12 4:31 PM, Susan Hastings at susanhasti...@me.com wrote: > in body of message > --- > Susan Hastings > Mobile: 0409 688 004

Re: Ipad - Cellular Data Number unknown - does not receive SMSs

Hi Ronni, Yes, thanks, I already had that. Not too bad for a Telstra app ;o) It is a bit erratic though - sometimes it shows my remaining bonus data (which is all I have until I do my first recharge) and sometimes it doesn't (as in it misses out that section) - but then Telstra "My Account" will

Re: Help

Hi Juliet & Bill, not a long Christmas break, Ronni ;o) Ronni's method is, as usual, effective and well explained. As with many things, there are probably several other ways to do it - the best (for you) may depend on how you like to work and, among other things, how many recipes you have. For e

Re: dropbox

Hi all, In actual fact, it is even better than Ronni says - everybody signing up to Dropbox gets 2GB free but using a referral link also gives the person signing up an extra 500MB - so you actually get a free 2.5GB to start. It also gives the person supplying the link an extra 500MB (these bonuse

Re: Telstra iPad Recharge

Hi Rod, I'm in a similar situation & I figured the $180/365 day recharge had to be the best: € It works out to only $15/month so it's cheaper than the lowest 30 day recharge € It gives you an AVERAGE of 1GB/month - the same as the lowest 30 day recharge € It allows you to have several low u

Re: iTunes sync

Hi Peter, Ronni, Daniel Peter, I think the thing to remember is that if you and your kids use the same Apple ID then there is no "my stuff" "kids stuff" from the iTunes account point of view - it is all associated with that apple ID - so when you are in iTunes and signed into that account it is al

Re: Rant! you have been warned :-).

Hi Mac, As I see it there are two issues here: 1) what cable would physically connect your turntable to your computer 2) if you make such a connection, will it do what you want (copy your records tracks to your computer) or not - or might it even damage one or both of the devices. 1) is easily a

Re: New iMac - Poor Audio Quality?

Hi Alan, A few thoughts/comments: * I agree with you that the general "dumbing down" of audio specifications and info is regrettable - and certainly the info given in the audio specifications section of the iMac product page on Apples site is very basic to say t

Re: SD Card reader/eraser

Well, I have seen wi-fi SD cards advertised, eg: Which looks like it might work with "another device" (eg tablet/smartphone but maybe not a hard drive) since it says: > Instantly and safely sends photos to your computer, tablet or smartphone. It also looks like it then eras

Re: Modem Router

Hi Severin, Yes, I'm starting to come to the same conclusion with my modem - reboots seem to get more & more frequent. ADSL2 modems are fine with ADSL1 - but, if you are going to get a new modem, you might also like to "future-proof" it to some extent by getting one that is also NBN ready. I've

Re: Modem Router

VOIP, for about the same length of time. > > Reg > > On 20/02/2013, at 6:54 pm, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> Hi Severin, >> >> Yes, I'm starting to come to the same conclusion with my modem - reboots >> seem to get more & more frequent. >> >

Iphone refuses to connect to wireless network

A strange problem here. I picked up my iPhone, at home, and noticed that it was not connected to my airport network. The network is working fine and my iMac and iPad are both connected and communicating just fine. I tried turning wifi off and then on again and the phone "sees" the network but do

Re: Iphone refuses to connect to wireless network

Just to add: € The iPhone was previously connecting to the network OK € I have now rebooted both the modem and the Airport Extreme - but with the same result - the iMac and iPad connect fine - the iphone sees the network but gives me a "incorrect password" dialogue on 26/2/13 11:5

Re: Iphone refuses to connect to wireless network

my self two weeks ago and that > resolved it instantly. I am curious if it works or not so please let me know > Neil. Regards Pete On 26/02/2013, at 12:36 PM, Neil Houghton > wrote: > Just to add: > > € The iPhone was previously > connecting to the network OK > € I

Re: Iphone refuses to connect to wireless network

t > iOS do you have on your phone? Regards Pete On 26/02/2013, at 6:27 PM, > Neil Houghton wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Thanks for that > - yes that sorted the problem ;o)) > > > Cheers > > > > Neil > -- > Neil > R. Houghton > Albany, Western

Re: Proxy Form for SMG 5 March 2013

Hi Pete, Hi Laura, All worked fine for me. Pete, I don't know if it will help you track down the problem - but my set-up/action was: OSX 10.6.8, Firefox 18.0.2 with pdf plug-in 2.4.4. When I click on the pdf link in Firefox, it opens in Firefox with the pdf plug-in. I then right-clicked and chose

Re: Question for the Gurus

Hi Peter, > To disable Java generally, go to System Preferences > Java (it's in the > "Other" group). If your version of Java is recent enough to be the Oracle > version (which it should be) the Java Control Panel will open in another > window. Click the "Java" tab, then the "View..." button. Unc

Re: Question for the Gurus

-- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 11/3/13 9:01 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: > > On 11/03/2013, at 8:50 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> Hi Peter, >> >>> To disable Java generall

Re: Java issues

Hi Severin, The main thing I have to turn Java on for is the landgate mapviewer (much better aerial photos than googlemaps if you select the right set) I also remember that the old ATO CSI software used it - though this is now replaced by Auske

Re: Family HIstory Search

Hi Merv, Not really an answer to your question as I've never tried it ;o) However: My only experience of "Just Answer" has been when it comes up in the google results when I'm troubleshooting some technical issue - I've never felt the need to cough up to see what an unidentified "expert" might sa

Re: Family HIstory Search

com.au So you might want to check out their website and/or have a chat. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 11/3/13 6:40 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > Hi Merv, > > Not really

Re: Strange iPhone messages

Hi Pat, +44 is the UK prefix - so perhaps not as strange as Kosovo ;o)) If you are really interested in who the phone numbers belong to you could always try a reverse look-up eg for Australia Or for the UK Thou

Re: Strange iPhone messages

Sorry, I really should have checked the links before posting - the UK apparently on longer allows this due to "privacy" reasons. on 15/3/13 7:53 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > Hi Pat, > > +44 is the UK prefix - so perhaps not as strange as Kosovo ;o))

Re: Westpac with iPad

Hi Severin, I do online bank with Westpac but don't use the ipad - so can't actually answer your question. BUT Thinking laterally... Why don't you just change your password to avoid uppercase ;o) Just a thought ;o) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 98

Re: Dropbox !

Hi Stephen, My experience is that everything that is in the ³dropbox² folder on your computer is indeed automatically uploaded to your dropbox online storage. Not only that but if you open your dropbox account in a browser you can see each version that has been uploaded as you change/edit them an

Re: Dropbox !

Stephen Chape at chap...@bigpond.com wrote: > Thank you Neil, > There must be a time lag then. > I checked an Excel file that I adjusted this afternoon and the changes were > NOT reflected about 5 minutes later. > I will keep an eye on it in future ! > > On 31/03/2013, at

Amazing old map site

OK, I'm going to maintain this isn't off-topic because: 1) His list of equipment he uses includes several macs AND 2) The best computer to enjoy this has to be a nice 27" iMac ;o)) I love old maps and there are many sites with extensive collections and great free downloads - but I just found this

Re: Green Coffee Bean spam

Hi Jennifer, And don't forget: Even if the "from" exactly matches one of your actual friends/relatives, it does not mean that either your or their email accounts have been compromised - it is easy to send an email with any "from" address you choose (I demonstrated this in a WAMUG post quite a whi

Re: problems with macbook pro restore help help please!!!!

Hi Rosemary, I am by no means a Time machine expert ­ so these are just a few of my thoughts: The good: the fact that you can see the sparsebundle from your old TM backup means you have not somehow accidentally erased it ­ so all your data is there (at the moment). Since your clone is not useab

Re: Extra storage via SD Card reader (v3)

Hi Ronni & Rod, For me, Rod's recent posts (formatted versions) only display the signature - as did Ronni's last post (see below). I can see what the message should be if I go to view the source. When Rod resent the posts as plain text they displayed fine. Is this something to do with the recent

Re: Dropbox question ?

Hi Stephen, When you install Dropbox it creates a folder on your mac (in your user folder) called ³Dropbox² it is this folder, and its contents, which Dropbox keeps synched. Place any folders/subfolders/files which you wish to keep synched into this ³Dropbox² folder. Easy as! The Dropbox websit

Ical - how to set 24 hour clock?

OSX 10.6.8, iCal 4.0.4 (1395.7) I haven't really used iCal before - but thought I would give it a try. I have system preferences (Date & Time) set to use a 24 hour clock - which is how I'm used to working - but iCal would not accept a time like 17:30. I looked through iCal prefs and help, but I c

Re: Ical - how to set 24 hour clock?

hope that is somewhere near correct instructions and helps you sort it out > ;-) > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > On 14/05/2013, at 11:14 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> OSX 10.6.8, iCal 4.0.4 (1395.7) >> >> I haven't

Re: spam

Hi Brett, Just a thought ­ may not even be relevant since I use Entourage, rather than Mail, as my email client. I use a lot of mailing rules to sort my mail into different folders, as it arrives, and sometimes find things where I don¹t expect them. Generally, I find that this is due to the fact

Re: Airport

Hi Brett, As Tim said, migration assistant is the way to go here ­ and ­ if both machines have firewire and can be positioned to allow a firewire connection then that allows you to use Target mode. Whilst you CAN move data around manually, migration assistant is a much better tool to use ­ partic

Re: Safari handicap?

Just one of the reasons I always like to have at least 2 browsers available. Sometimes it may be down to websites using non-standard code which breaks more or less gracefully on different browsers. Sometimes it could be due to browser add-ons interfering. I recently had a similar experience in re

Re: International date line

Well, your phone has inbuilt GPS and will automatically check for network access and soon obtain the info to know where it is ­ the macbook has to get that info from somewhere. According to this > Generally yo

Re: SBS Television Frequency

What has this to do with ³SBS Television Frequency² ?? -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 10/6/13 14:57, Marcus F Harris at cryptodo...@me.com wrote: > Hi, > Could someone assist me to resolve an issue with downloading updates Apps

Re: Slow down

Hi Ronni, I was interested in your comment (below) - do you still get this overhead from aliases to items filed away (ie originals not on the desktop) - I had assumed aliases were not really causing much desktop overhead ­ but they have their icons like any other item? Cheers Neil (who is prob

No wireless synch for iPhone?

A strange one, not sure what I'm missing. I had my iPhone and iPad set-up for wireless synching to iTunes and all was fine - though I seem to remember that maybe the iPhone was sometimes a little erratic in showing up in the iTunes sidebar. I think maybe I had to occasionally disconnect and reconn

Re: No wireless synch for iPhone?

te might fix it ­ at the moment I have the need to keep some software running (no quit, no reboot) so that will have to wait. As always, MANY thanks for your suggestions/tips, Ronni. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com

Re: No wireless synch for iPhone?

dingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any > information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept > liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to > be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author b

Re: No wireless synch for iPhone?

Hi Ronni, I'd just replied to Daniel when your email came through - so restarting network has no effect. As per my previous email, restarting the iMac is not an option for me at the moment (whilst the iMac is sent to sleep regularly, it and the software I need to keep running have now been runnin

Re: No wireless synch for iPhone?

r the problem was. Many thanks for all the suggestions. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 23/7/13 16:30, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > Hi Ronni, > > I'd just replied to Daniel when your

Re: MBPro rapidly heating up

I like Firefox because of various extensions I use with it ­ particularly Adblock and Flashblock which cuts out a lot of the visual advertorial pollution on many sites. With Flashblock you just get an icon everywhere there would be flash content and if you actually want to see the flash content (s

Re: MBPro rapidly heating up

I forgot, if you want to know more about Flashblock: I like Firefox because of various extensions I use with it ­ particularly Adblock and Flashblock which cuts out a lot of the visual advertorial pollution on many sites. With Flashblock you just get an icon ever

Re: Itunes

Hi Bill, If you are just wanting to add/change info for a number of tracks in one go ­ say you have a penchant for Georgian Harp music and want to set that as a specific genre for a number of tracks ;o) You can shift select (or command select for non sequential) any number of tracks and then Comm

Re: Accessing US Store

I know I have a US iTunes account that I opened several years ago when there was lots of free stuff on the US store but not the Oz store ­ but I don¹t actually remember how I went about it ;o( It does let me access apps that aren¹t available on the Oz store ­ but I think I¹ve only used it for free

Re: Accessing US Store

US (credit card billed to a valid US > Address or gift cards purchased in US) > > You can change your account from one country to another as explained here: > <http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1311> > . > Cheers, > Ronni > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > On 20/08/

Re: Bento on iMac and iPad

Hehe, I reckon I can identify with ³my brain is full². However, since I still enjoy learning more & more new things, I just use that as an excuse for the old (& not so old) stuff I keep forgetting - it just got pushed out by the new stuff coming in ;o)) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Alban

Re: iOS 7.0.2 Update

Double oops ­ my first reply included Rick¹s pictures - may not make it through ­ my apologies ;o( Previous reply Oooh, adding pictures, you will be in trouble Rick ;o) I must admit, after looking at your screenshots, I will probably postpone upgrading to IOS7 ­ I prefer the IOS

Re: Vault File for 1Password ?

Hi Stephen, Just to mention that, for me using 1Password 3 at least, the actual file name you are looking for is: 1Password.agilekeychain HTH Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/10/13 11:56, Daniel Kerr at dan...@macwiza

Re: Vault File for 1Password ?

Hi Tim, A big +1 for 1Password from me too. I must admit when Peter talked about the problems that "this type of software" creates - I thought he was talking about AppCleaner (which deleted the keychain) rather than 1Password - though I now see it could be read either way ;o) Cheers Neil --

Itunes not responding

I've got a problem with iTunes since my last (iTunes) update. 27" iMac, 2.8GHz Core I7, OSX 10.6.8 running iTunes 11.1.1 I seem to remember that on first running iTunes after the 11.1.1 update some dialogue box came up - but I had also started iTunes downloading some app upgrades including a larg

Re: Itunes not responding

Hi ronni, First off, I unplugged the AppleTV and let it sit for a while so that everything had a chance to recognise that. So the AppleTV itself is now out of the picture. Then I used Console to monitor messages whilst I restarted iTunes, it again locked up and I force quit - messages below: ---

Re: Itunes not responding

Hi Ronni, Due to all the console verbiage, I have trimmed the earlier responses from this reply and just addressed your last email. This response was generated over time, as I progressed through various steps and reported as I went: Cleared Console display and restarted iTunes. Console messages g

Re: Itunes not responding

on 15/10/13 17:23, Ronni Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: > On 15/10/2013, at 2:03 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> >>> On 15 Oct 2013, at 12:28 pm, Neil Houghton wrote: >>> >>> Well, Ronni, you DID say you were curious ;o) >>> >>> For myself,

Re: Itunes not responding

22_localhost.crash > --- So something else is the culprit :o(( Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/10/13 19:47, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > Hi Ronni, > >

Re: Itunes not responding

m.apple.usbmuxd[1137]_heartbeat_failed heartbeat > detected detach for device 0x1-192.168.2.101:0! > 16/10/13 19:36:48com.apple.launchd[1](com.apple.usbmuxd[1137]) Job > appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault > 16/10/13 19:36:48com.apple.usbmuxd[3163]usbmuxd-323 on Jul 29 2013 at > 23:21:29

Re: Itunes not responding

uts or slowdowns at other times? > > I will be rather busy with clients work for the next couple of days, but will > get back to you when possible. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > On 16 Oct 2013, at 7:51 pm, Neil Houghton wrote: > >

Running a virtual OSX machine in parallels.

OK, I'm not really a luddite but I'm still running Snow Leopard ;o) There are a number of reasons for this - I REALLY like Snow Leopard, I wasn't impressed when I had a play with Lion, Snow Leopard provides a constant OSX across our 4 machines (desktops and laptop across 2 locations) including a

Re: Running a virtual OSX machine in parallels.

you're installing Snow Leopard Server when you're really > just installing Snow Leopard. > > Cheers, > Ronni > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > On 26 Oct 2013, at 8:26 pm, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> OK, I'm not really a luddite but I'm still running

Re: Screen Grab on iPad mini

Hi Severin, I just tried it on my iPad (not mini ­ but should be same) and it shows up straight away in photos. Now I had not previously taken any photos with the iPad ­ so, as the only photo on my iPad, it was easy to find ;o) When I opened photos, it opened straight to ³Moments², ³Today² - and

Re: Screen Grab on iPad mini

; That is my problem. The screen grab is not there either in my camera roll, >> my photo stream or any of the albums. >> Severin >> On 28 Oct 2013, at 11:05 am, Ronda Brown wrote: >> >>> Hi Severin, >>> >>> The Screenshots appear in Photos > Ca

Re: eyetv hybrid

Hi Kevin, Down here in albania we have two different transmitters covering us (Albany & Mt.Barker). My digital TV had both sets of channels tuned in (courtesy of auto-tune) - so I had 2 versions of all the SBS channels. The reason this is relevant is that a few weeks ago half these channels disap

Re: Ring tones

I see that the Australian National Botanic Gardens has (FREE) downloadable Australian birdsong files at: - they include magpies and currawong - the currawong almost sound like a telephone ring ;o) Then just follow Ronni's instructions to create the ringtone. HTH

Re: Ring tones

And here's another site with downloadable birdsongs: <http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/birds/featured/Top-40-Bird-Songs> Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 1/12/13 18:52, Neil Houghton at n...@possumolog

Ipad problem or charger problem??

We had a power outage down here in Albania this morning. My iPad was connected to it's charger - which was plugged in. I was not in the same room when the power went out (I was asleep!) or when the power came back on - so I did not notice anything happening on way or the other. Later, whilst worki

Re: Ipad problem or charger problem??

ps. I will get > back with more ASAP Kind Regards, Ronni > On 2 Dec 2013, at 12:45 pm, Neil > Houghton wrote: > > We had a power outage down here in > Albania this morning. My iPad was > connected to it's charger - which was > plugged in. I was not in the same room >

Re: Ipad problem or charger problem??

ccept > liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to > be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be > requested. > > On 02/12/2013, at 1:40 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> Yep, one of the first things I tried ;

Re: Ipad problem or charger problem??

> Kind Regards, > Ronni > > On 4 Dec 2013, at 12:20 pm, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> Re: Ipad problem or charger problem?? Hi Daniel, Hi Ronni, >> >> I can now report that the problem was the iPad charger failing ­ it has now >> totally failed and gives no ³bee

What is the purpose/method of this spam?

Hi all, Like everyone, I suspect, I get some spam that slips through the junk mail filtering. Generally they are soliciting some response or trying to get you to click some link ­ so it is easy to imagine some nefarious purpose or other being behind the spam generation. Then there are the others,

Re: What is the purpose/method of this spam?

, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/1/14 7:45, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: > > On 12 Jan 2014, at 12:22 pm, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> What is the purpose/method of this spam? >> Hi all, >> >>

Re: Off topic UPS - Uninterrupted Power Supply

Hi Brian, 1) Yes 2) I used to do this when computer, modem and home phone base station were all in close proximity. Currently, computer is relocated and UPS has moved with it - so modem etc now go down with power :o( I'm even thinking off second UPS to regain the functionality. 3) I've been very

Facetime strangeness

Hi, Hope someone with more experience of Facetime can explain this for me. We've recently been setting up Facetime on our phones/computers/ipad - including georgie's 93 yr old Mum ;o) Our iPhones are model4 (not 4s) so we understand that they will only Facetime over wifi, not 3G. The iPad is ne

Re: Facetime strangeness

surely SHOULD work - if it works to the computer and to the iPad to/from either phone then why not between the phones. The next thing to try is for one of us to go to some other public wifi zone to see if the problem is inherent between the 2 phones or only the 2 phones on the same wifi network. Curios

Re: Facetime strangeness

fire up with no apps running?! > > Some Apps which use certain background services can be restarted automatically > after a hard reset. > > > > Sent from Ronni's iPad > >> On 24 Jan 2014, at 6:58 pm, Neil Houghton wrote: >> >> Hi Ronni, &

Fun exercise - make your own Quicklook preview service.

First-off, a disclaimer - this is all as done on my set-up on OSX 10.6.8 - things may have changed in later operating systems. I use Quicklook a LOT - checking back through older documents or newer downloads - whether to just check something without having to open the associated application or som

Re: Streaming movies

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 there

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