Re: Authorising of computers with Apple ID

2012-02-20 Thread Peter Crisp
/HT1420?viewlocale=en_USlocale=en_US Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 20/02/2012, at 10:12 PM, Peter Crisp wrote: Thanks Daniel, yes I do

Re: Dad - the internet is down

2012-02-20 Thread Peter Crisp
your Time Capsule 3. Click Edit 4. Then under the Network button you have these settings: Router Mode: DHCP and NAT Enable NAT Port Mapping Protocol (have this enabled) Cheers, Ronni On 21/02/2012, at 6:38 AM, Peter Crisp wrote: Thanks Alex and others. I will put the other

Dad - the internet is down

2012-02-18 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi Muggers, I have a Time capsule running in bridge mode from a D-Link DSL-G604T and its a very reliable combination. It's worked well for some years. I do however sometime need to reboot it all for inexplicable reasons. Of late, since my kids have become Minecraft mad users (on their

Shifting iTunes library

2012-01-15 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi all, I keep my iTunes library on a 500GB external drive and just recently upgraded the drive to a 1TB portable external drive to give room for more photos, music, Podcasts etc. I was within 15GB of the 500GB capacity. I have migrated all of the content to the other drive but don't want to

Re: Shifting iTunes library

2012-01-15 Thread Peter Crisp
! iTunes iTunes for Windows: Moving your iTunes Media folder http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1364 Go to Edit Preferences Advanced General and reset the path for iTunes Music Folder Location. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 15/01/2012, at 10:32 PM, Peter Crisp petercr

Old contacts to iMac and iPhone

2012-01-03 Thread Peter Crisp
Folks, my wife has had a Macbook for a couple of years now and has finally caught up with the times and has an iPhone 4s. She converted from an old LG phone which had only 1 attribute for any contact, so if a person had a phone number, a mobile number and an email address, there were 3 contacts

Re: Old contacts to iMac and iPhone

2012-01-03 Thread Peter Crisp
Thanks Ronni, a bit of reading to do. We already did the import of contacts to the 4s, but you've given some good leads there which we'll read and digest. Pete On 03/01/2012, at 9:52 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 03/01/2012, at 9:09 PM, Peter Crisp wrote: Folks, my wife has

Re: iphone 4s bluetooth

2011-12-30 Thread Peter Crisp
G'day Chris, I have the Blueant device as well. You must put the BLUEANT into pairing mode first. You do this by holding the green answering button at the same time as turning it on. Whilst it is in pairing mode, then on your iPhone go to Bluetooth devices and it should permit it to pair up

Re: iphone 4s bluetooth

2011-12-30 Thread Peter Crisp
No problem Chris. Just opened a nice '96 Cab Sauv. Anyway, I think the pre emotive is extremely good having never gotten used to it in previous Blackberry and Nokias I think it's great on the iPhone. But as its a personal thing, for you if off is better, then you'll be a happy user. Bye for

Re: Weatherzone

2011-12-28 Thread Peter Crisp
but hope all of you have a great day. D. On 10/12/2011, at 11:15 AM, Peter Crisp wrote: Thanks Ronni and Carlo for your advice, I'm sure I'll get out of trouble and be up to date with weather watching again very soon. Pete On 10/12/2011, at 5:45 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com

Find my iPhone

2011-12-28 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi, I've got a few issues with this app. Myself and wife both have iPhones and each of 3 kids have have 8GB iPods all with the app installed and all with latest 5.0.1 iOS. Find my iPhone works well with the iPhones 100% reliably. Trying to locate the iPods is about 5% reliable. Generally I get

Re: Find my iPhone

2011-12-28 Thread Peter Crisp
accurate. Regards, Eugene On 29/12/2011, at 10:01 AM, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi, I've got a few issues with this app. Myself and wife both have iPhones and each of 3 kids have have 8GB iPods all with the app installed and all with latest 5.0.1 iOS

Re: Find my iPhone

2011-12-28 Thread Peter Crisp
method of finding a position. The iPod ONLY uses the last method of location. Do not expect anything very accurate. Regards, Eugene On 29/12/2011, at 10:01 AM, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi, I've got a few issues with this app. Myself and wife both have

Re: iPod not Recognised

2011-12-22 Thread Peter Crisp
, it may request to do an iOS update, if it isn't already the most current (5.0.2 I think). The iOS update took me 3 hours to download the other day on one of my (kids') 3 iPod Touch's. It's around 750MB. Regards Peter Crisp Project Services Manager (A) GHD T: 61 8 6222 8365 | V: 618365 | M

Re: iPod touch software update 5.0.1

2011-12-19 Thread Peter Crisp
I concur with Ronni on this Chris. I've done the update to iOS 5.0.1 on three iPod Touch's in my house via iTunes on MacBooks, seamless with each one and restored without issue. Just make sure you've done a full sync FIRST. Pete On 20/12/2011, at 11:59 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote:

Weatherzone

2011-12-09 Thread Peter Crisp
I've had a little app which boots up on start up for about a year on SWMBO's Macbook (White plastic one with Snow leopard). It's been very reliable and informative. It is a Mac OSX app I grabbed off the Weatherzone website way back then. Just today it bounces on the dock on startup and then

Re: Weatherzone

2011-12-09 Thread Peter Crisp
/com.weatherzone.app-name.plist Where ~ represents the path /Users/SWMBO-account-name and app-name could be something like weather-tracker 3) Restart the app by clicking on the icon in the dock. Let me know. Cheers, Carlo On 09/12/2011, at 23:21 , Peter Crisp wrote: I've had a little app which boots

Re: Weatherzone

2011-12-09 Thread Peter Crisp
or Pocket Weather AU, these apps may not get their data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Apart for that I will leave it up to others to chime in with their favourite weather apps. Cheers, Carlo On 09/12/2011, at 23:59 , Peter Crisp wrote: Hi Carlo, it is an icon which sit

Re: HyperDrive iFlashDrive HyperDrive HardDrive for iPad

2011-11-15 Thread Peter Crisp
Yep, I got it plenty of times too I lost count, but it was interesting to read it over and over and over again Ronni. Regards Pete On 15/11/2011, at 2:44 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Stuart, No, I did not have a book resting on the send button …. Entirely out of my

iPhone 4 and iPod Touch Find my iPhone app

2011-10-25 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi all, I have an anomaly occurring and not sure if it is something I am/ am not doing or otherwise. I have an iPhone 4 (iOS 4.3.7) and kids each have an iPod Touch 4th generation (all iOS5). all 4 machines have Find My iPhone app installed. The iPhone for the moment cannot be upgraded to iOS5

Toolbar disappearing

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Crisp
knowingly. Mail is fine, Excel is fine, Powerpoint is fine. Very odd. I can bring the toolbars back by untagging the relevant toolbar in Word then reactivating, and also by selecting ViewToolbar in Safari it comes back ok. Has anyone had this and any tips on a cure? Kind Regards Peter Crisp

Re: Apple TV

2011-06-13 Thread Peter Crisp
, Peter Crisp wrote: For the first time last night I purchased a movie to watch on the Apple TV. It was fine to watch through the preview which is no charge of course. But when I purchased the movie it says Rented up the top of screen but when pressing 'Play' it says after a moment An error has

Apple TV

2011-06-11 Thread Peter Crisp
For the first time last night I purchased a movie to watch on the Apple TV. It was fine to watch through the preview which is no charge of course. But when I purchased the movie it says Rented up the top of screen but when pressing 'Play' it says after a moment An error has occurred with this

Airport express setup

2011-06-01 Thread Peter Crisp
I was asked to help a friend of my wife's to debug a problem he had in getting his Airport Express (few months old) to work stably with his Macbook Pro (Snow Leopard) about 1 year old. The network worked fine for his wife's Toshiba Windows laptop, but he couldn't get to any web site on the MBP

Re: Office for Mac

2011-05-21 Thread Peter Crisp
) is selling on special for ~$165 and the single license is around $139. I am willing to part with this for $90 or near fair offer. This offer is open if Peter is not interested. Shayne On Friday, May 20, 2011, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: I have three Macbooks in the house here

Office for Mac

2011-05-20 Thread Peter Crisp
I have three Macbooks in the house here (SWMBO + son1 + son2) and soon to add an iMac 27 I hope. I bought office for Mac which comes with three licences and they are all naturally loaded on the three current machines. Rather than just going and buying Office for Mac all over again - which

Re: Moving files in Finder

2011-05-16 Thread Peter Crisp
Ok, I tried that and it worked fine. managed to shift 183 jpg files (each 3MB in size approx) - around 1.4GB total I think all in one hit. thanks for the easy fix. Regards Peter. On 14/05/2011, at 10:26 PM, Peter Crisp wrote: Ok, i will try that Ronda. that sounds like a solution along

Moving files in Finder

2011-05-14 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi all, I have a continuous problem only mildly annoying but enough to warrant this note. So i have an 500GB external drive in the USB of the Macbook and I have two finder windows open, one looking at the folder on the 500GB external drive, the other looking at the destination folder within

Re: Moving files in Finder

2011-05-14 Thread Peter Crisp
wouldn't appear to be a hold up. Regards Peter. On 14/05/2011, at 2:55 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, Is your external drive formatted as HFS+ (Mac format) or FAT32 (old PC format)? What is the size of the 30 selected jpgs”? Cheers, Ronni On 14/05/2011, at 2:43 PM, Peter Crisp

Re: Moving files in Finder

2011-05-14 Thread Peter Crisp
...@possumology.com on 14/5/11 2:43 PM, Peter Crisp at petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi all, I have a continuous problem only mildly annoying but enough to warrant this note. So i have an 500GB external drive in the USB of the Macbook and I have two finder windows open, one looking at the folder

Re: Moving files in Finder

2011-05-14 Thread Peter Crisp
format)? What is the size of the 30 selected jpgs”? Cheers, Ronni On 14/05/2011, at 2:43 PM, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi all, I have a continuous problem only mildly annoying but enough to warrant this note. So i have an 500GB external drive in the USB of the Macbook and I have two

new iMac

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Crisp
I have noted a couple of outlets in Perth (Dick Smit, JB Hi Fi et al) have been discounting the iMac - a friend last weekend bought a 27 iMac. Is this a precursor to an update or is it just cyclic discounting. I am on the lookout for the next edition of the iMac and wondering when I'll see

Re: Rumoured iMac specs,...wonder where iWork '11 is,...lol

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Crisp
Thanks Daniel, seems to be sooner than I was expecting. is Lion around the corner too? Peter On 03/05/2011, at 7:28 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Here is the rumoured iMac specs apparently:- (And price appears to have dropped maybe $100 too,time will tell)

Re: Rumoured iMac specs,...wonder where iWork '11 is,...lol

2011-05-03 Thread Peter Crisp
So I just googled Ronni Wrong - only 4 hits. seems it can't happen! Peter. On 03/05/2011, at 8:11 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Ronni wrong??? Doesn't happen,... /goes check iCal,..arr yes,..there it is,..March 18th 2009, :o) Time to go rest again for a bit,... Kind Regards Daniel On

Re: Apple TV and movie hire ?

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi all, I have been through a couple of iterations since getting my Apple TV V2. I too had an amplifier that was built not long after the ark, but it did have an optical input. So when I had the 'old' amp, I had an HDMI cable directly from the ATV to the Plasma set AND the optical connection

iTunes Home Sharing

2011-04-17 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi, I have all Macs (3 of them) and one Windows laptop in the house set up with home sharing under the one Apple ID. I have iTunes on my laptop open at all times but not always the case on the others. when I open up iTunes on one of the others, the Home sharing on the laptop does not report

Re: iTunes Home Sharing

2011-04-17 Thread Peter Crisp
, Ronni / End pasted email On 17/04/2011, at 5:31 PM, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi, I have all Macs (3 of them) and one Windows laptop in the house set up with home sharing under the one Apple ID. I have iTunes on my laptop open at all times but not always the case on the others. when I open up

Re: iTunes Home Sharing

2011-04-17 Thread Peter Crisp
, Ronni — AND From: Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au Date: 29 January 2011 9:59:51 AM AWST To: 'WAMUG Mailing List' wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: RE: iTunes sharing Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Hi Ronni, I have accidentally made some progress with this. I did as you

Wireless network range extender

2011-04-02 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi, I have a house which necessarily has my Time capsule up one end of the house where the study is located. This makes the wireless signal pretty weak up the other end and I want to correct this. I happen to have a surplus and unused Linksys 'N' modem-router bought at a time when I thought my

Re: Wireless network range extender

2011-04-02 Thread Peter Crisp
be utilised without cable connecting routers, but come with overheads approximately half bandwidth. Very simplified explanation, more information if required. Cheers! `RobD... On 02Apr2011, at 7:40 pm, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi, I have a house which necessarily has my Time capsule up one

Re: Wireless network range extender

2011-04-02 Thread Peter Crisp
, and then retransmit. Can't help with that, sorry. Some one else might give a more technically correct step by step process. Tim On 03/04/2011, at 7:45 AM, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi Rob, thanks for this. Are you able to make the notes more idiot proof - ie step by step connection

Re: Telephone scam - your computer has viruses etc.

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Crisp
Yes, I have personally tried this approach I use Windows 3.11 which results in the same confusion and you can't use that, it's not on my list!! Much enjoyment for me during this windup. Regards Peter. On 26/03/2011, at 5:43 AM, Peter Sealy wrote: I have not had any of these calls. I

RE: Incomplete Mail Import from Thunderbird

2011-03-18 Thread Peter Crisp
--- 'Outlook2Mac' http://www.littlemachines.com/ On 18/03/2011, at 5:37 AM, Peter Crisp wrote: G'day Alan, a while back I had reason to be doing this and I used O2M on Ronni's recommendation. It is a $10 download and worked flawlessly, with all emails transferred, with attachments, subject line

Re: Incomplete Mail Import from Thunderbird

2011-03-17 Thread Peter Crisp
G'day Alan, a while back I had reason to be doing this and I used O2M on Ronni's recommendation. It is a $10 download and worked flawlessly, with all emails transferred, with attachments, subject line and folderising (not sure if that's a kosher word but gets the message I think) as you'd

iPhone as an Apple TV Version 2 remote

2011-03-15 Thread Peter Crisp
I've figured out how to do the above, at least found the instructions - but no iPhone yet. So question I have is the following. If the iPhone is commanding the Apple TV to do something - is it a wireless based command (ie over the network) or does it need to be line of sight to the black box

Apple Tv web browser

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi, I've had my Apple tv (version 2) for about a month now and its great, home sharing around 3 Macbooks and one PC in the house all working nicely. I've used (or at least kids have) most features inc You Tube and so therefore this device has web access and capability. Even though I new it

Re: Apple Tv web browser

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Crisp
, http://blog.firecore.com/3371 TV Flash http://www.appletvhacks.net/2010/12/02/atv-flash-black-for-apple-tv-2g-now-available/ Sent from Ronni's iPad On 12/03/2011, at 10:43 PM, Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi, I've had my Apple tv (version 2) for about a month now and its

Re: Lion OSX

2011-02-22 Thread Peter Crisp
at the moment. Bye. Pete... On 22/02/2011, at 10:29 AM, Derek Perry wrote: Maybe the new iMacs will have the 2nd generation Sandybridge chip in them, which will make them faster, as well as LION OSX. Derek - Original Message - From: Peter Crisp petercr...@westnet.com.au To: 'WAMUG Mailing

Lion OSX

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi all, i am itching to get a 27 imac but patient enough to hold out for Lion to hit the stores. Does anyone have any inclination about when it is due? I gather June approx is likely but in typical Apple fashion it is a highly covert exercise up till the day it is released. Are there any

RE: Home sharing in iTunes

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Crisp
Of Nicholas Pyers Sent: Monday, 21 February 2011 8:59 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Home sharing in iTunes On 21/02/2011, at 11:25 PM, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi all, I understand from using the iTunes Home Sharing function recently, that iTunes permits up to a maximum of 5 machines

RE: Lion OSX

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Crisp
Of Nicholas Pyers Sent: Monday, 21 February 2011 9:03 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Lion OSX On 21/02/2011, at 11:35 PM, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi all, i am itching to get a 27 imac but patient enough to hold out for Lion to hit the stores. Does anyone have any inclination about when

RE: Lion OSX

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Crisp
to Leopard -- in actuality there were enourmous changes under the hood including 64 bit. Cheers, Carlo On 2011-02-21, at 21:11, Peter Crisp wrote: Ok then, given that it might be September, what would a SL to Lion upgrade likely cost me and is this a pretty seamless exercise to those who have

Handbrake conversion of AVI for iTunes

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi all, I converted an AVI file using the latest version of Handbrake. My intention was to use my Apple tv to view it after importing into iTunes. I was hoping the resulting file was iTunes compatible but it wouldn't import. the M-PEG4 file would not import. What have I done wrong? Has

Re: Handbrake conversion of AVI for iTunes

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Crisp
the Handbrake preset for Apple TV or iPhone from the outset. Cheers, Carlo On 2011-02-20, at 18:44, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi all, I converted an AVI file using the latest version of Handbrake. My intention was to use my Apple tv to view it after importing into iTunes. I was hoping the resulting

RE: iTunes Determining Gapless Playback

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Crisp
, I've changed your subject from RE: iTunes 10.1.2 to above Subject. On 13/02/2011, at 8:56 PM, Peter Crisp wrote: The problem I have now is during the Determining Gapless Playback it reaches a point part way through that where it says something like register error, shutting

RE: iTunes Determining Gapless Playback

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Crisp
changed your subject from RE: iTunes 10.1.2 to above Subject. On 13/02/2011, at 8:56 PM, Peter Crisp wrote: The problem I have now is during the Determining Gapless Playback it reaches a point part way through that where it says something like register error, shutting the application down. SO

RE: iTunes 10.1.2 - file moving

2011-02-13 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi Ronni and other's here. I have a similar but not identical predicament with my media management. I want the portability of my media so have to have an external drive to do that - a 500GB WD formatted to be Mac and Windows compatible. I have approx 200GB of music + more in movies,etc. I

RE: iTunes sharing

2011-01-28 Thread Peter Crisp
To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: iTunes sharing On 26/01/2011, at 5:14 PM, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi all, i set up the iTunes sharing with the Windows PC, and 3 Macbooks in the house. it all works fine and i can see any of others' libraries IN FULL. which was fine to begin with but i wanted

RE: iTunes sharing

2011-01-28 Thread Peter Crisp
Windows PC iTunes library? Regards Peter.. -Original Message- From: Peter Crisp [mailto:petercr...@westnet.com.au] Sent: Friday, 28 January 2011 9:16 PM To: 'WAMUG Mailing List' Subject: RE: iTunes sharing Hi Ronni, thanks for your response. Yes I checked and I have just one item kids

Re: iTunes sharing

2011-01-28 Thread Peter Crisp
Ok, further to this. another test between the two Macbooks revealed the same issue. The full library was visible despite selecting only one playlist for visibility to others. at least that proves that Windows is not soley the culprit. Regards Peter.. On 29/01/2011, at 8:05 AM, Peter Crisp

RE: iTunes sharing

2011-01-28 Thread Peter Crisp
, Ronni On 29/01/2011, at 8:23 AM, Peter Crisp wrote: Ok, further to this. another test between the two Macbooks revealed the same issue. The full library was visible despite selecting only one playlist for visibility to others. at least that proves that Windows is not soley the culprit. Regards

Re: iTunes sharing

2011-01-28 Thread Peter Crisp
:59 AM, Peter Crisp wrote: Hi Ronni, I have accidentally made some progress with this. I did as you suggested by tilting the arrow, and still the whole library visible and playable. So I went AdvancedTurn Off Home Sharing on one of the kids Macbooks. This still left Peters Library showing

Re: iTunes sharing

2011-01-28 Thread Peter Crisp
: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/77534.aspx Cheers, Ronni On 29/01/2011, at 10:33 AM, Peter Crisp wrote: Ok, thanks for that Ronni. however, the kids also want to share their libraries between themselves - whether I agree with the need for them to share

Re: iTunes sharing

2011-01-28 Thread Peter Crisp
passes, or heads out to sea where it won’t do as much damage. Cheers, Ronni On 29/01/2011, at 12:21 PM, Peter Crisp wrote: Ok, that seems to make sense. i'll have a look through the links so I understand a bit clearer. It seems then to be behaving as it should. Cheers. PEter

iTunes sharing

2011-01-26 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi all, i set up the iTunes sharing with the Windows PC, and 3 Macbooks in the house. it all works fine and i can see any of others' libraries IN FULL. which was fine to begin with but i wanted to regulate who could see what on other libraries in the house. so i went into Sharing on the

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