Re: Bigpond 3.0

2012-02-23 Thread Tim Law
Hello Hugh, I have recently changed my Bigpond supplied Netgear CG814WG Cable modem which seemed to drop out several times a day. The helpful http://whirlpool.net.au/ forum guided me to purchase a Motorola 5101i single port modem from ebay. I have just this morning got the system functional

Re: ANZ Internet

2012-02-19 Thread Tim law
Which message is that Stuart?? Sent from my iPhone On 19/02/2012, at 6:56 PM, Stuart Breden bred...@highway1.biz wrote: I am unable to access my eStatements on my internet banking and keep getting this message. have checked but can't find why. Can some one help? Stuart Breden PO Box

Re: iPad 2 3G

2012-02-15 Thread Tim Law
Adrian, Not sure where you are planning to travel. I travelled through Europe with my iPad 1 with wifi only and iPhone late last year. I used a French SIM card in the iPhone but didn't use Hotspot. Data in Europe is measured by TIME, not DATA. So as is commonly advised, make sure you turn off

Re: Groups in Mail

2012-02-12 Thread Tim Law
Hi Michael, I take a slightly different approach and utilise the Smart Groups feature of Address Book. In all the Address Book cards of people who belong to a particular group, I put that groups name into the Text field in Address Book. I then set up a new Smart Group and set the rules so

Re: OS X 10.7.3 Lion Update - go Combo!

2012-02-04 Thread Tim Law
On 05/02/2012, at 12:52 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: This new build is reportedly showing up as “11D50b” instead of the client’s “11D50″ labelling. Thanks Ronni, To check which version I had downloaded, I clicked on the Apple Menu About this Mac More Info And the screen tells me Software Mac

Re: OS X 10.7.3 Lion Update - go Combo!

2012-02-04 Thread Tim Law
, Ronni On 05/02/2012, at 2:02 PM, Brian Risbey wrote: Hi Tim I had used combo update and mine shows this in about this mac - Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50) Brian On 05/02/2012, at 1:57 PM, Tim Law wrote: On 05/02/2012, at 12:52 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: This new

Re: Using iPhone maps

2012-02-03 Thread Tim law
Don't quickly pass over the standard 'Maps' app that comes with the iPhone. Like others have said, its quick, easy free and works great when you have 3G, but is not voice turn by turn. I've heard Melbourne is quite an advanced city, they use street signs too :-) Use the 'Maps' app to give

Re: strange email

2012-01-28 Thread Tim Law
Yes Merv, delete it. It's snuck through your ISP's SPAM filter so now it needs some 'fleshware intervention strategies'. I.e. You've gotta do something and figure it out. Is it from someone you know or a business you deal with? Does the subject or topic make sense? Is it relevant or

Re: iTunes video on iPad2

2012-01-28 Thread Tim Law
Brian, In iTunes, if you select the iPad in Devices, then Movies, you can automatically include all movies, along with a setting that allows you to view a variety of movies according to how recent or unwatched they are. Maybe you could use this setting to work up a solution for your problem.

Re: Mail

2012-01-12 Thread Tim Law
On 07/01/2012, at 8:50 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Only you see that photo. Its your profile photo selected when you set up the Mac. It appears on your vCard in Address Book. The photo is not attached to the mail and the person receiving the mail does not see it. Hi Ronni, I'm not so

Re: Mail

2012-01-12 Thread Tim Law
Ultimate (under sufferance) On 12/01/2012, at 5:05 PM, Tim Law wrote: On 07/01/2012, at 8:50 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Only you see that photo. Its your profile photo selected when you set up the Mac. It appears on your vCard in Address Book. The photo is not attached to the mail

Re: An unwell iMac G5

2012-01-08 Thread Tim Law
This may or may not be helpful, but I had a 20 iMac G5 of a similar vintage. The capacitors on the motherboard bulged, and the machine failed. This is obvious when checking them. They should be flat across the top, not bulging and certainly not leaking. If this is the problem, then the 'offlist'

Re: BitDefender for Mac ?

2011-12-24 Thread Tim Law
Ronni, First, merry Christmas and thanks for all your help. Second, say ten times, 'I am on a break from responding to WAMUG!!' Especially at 6am on Christmas morning. Go on, off you go. We love you lots. :-) Tim On Sunday, 25 December 2011, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Stephen, You

iCal - responding to meeting requests from multiple email addresses

2011-12-09 Thread Tim Law
Hello, I use iCal 5.0.1, Mail 5.1 and OSX 10.7.2 on a Mac Mini. In iCal I have a number of calendars, basically one work calendar and one private calendar. I work from home. In Mail, I have a number of email accounts that are set up to show a different 'From' sender names to suit work and

Re: [COMMPOST] MacUpdate Promo Bundle - $49.99USD

2011-12-05 Thread Tim Law
Daniel, the link doesn't seem to work as I imagine you intended. It is a link for an RSS feed, not the page where we can click Yes I want to buy these products and help out WAMUG's corporate sponsor Tim On 05/12/2011, at 9:25 PM, Pedro wrote: Cheers Daniel I'll be using your link…

Re: Cannot open Pages documents on iPad

2011-11-30 Thread Tim Law
On 30/11/2011, at 3:46 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: I don’t think you will have any trouble now you have your iOS Pages App Pages Application on your Mac updated to current versions and iCloud syncing. Thanks for the reassurances Ronni. The more I use it, the more I'll learn to trust how it is

Cannot open Pages documents on iPad

2011-11-29 Thread Tim Law
First the good news; I bought a Apple Bluetooth keyboard on the Apple store sale last Friday. It arrived today and synced up easily with the iPad 1. It's a nice keyboard to use, good feel, and I'm looking forward to using it more - in particular with Pages which I've had on the iPad for over a

Re: Cannot open Pages documents on iPad

2011-11-29 Thread Tim Law
, at 20:30 , Tim Law wrote: First the good news; I bought a Apple Bluetooth keyboard on the Apple store sale last Friday. It arrived today and synced up easily with the iPad 1. It's a nice keyboard to use, good feel, and I'm looking forward to using it more - in particular with Pages which I've

Re: Cannot open Pages documents on iPad

2011-11-29 Thread Tim Law
needed. But it's a worry that this can happen following an upgrade. Cheers, Ronni Thanks Ronni. Tim On 30/11/2011, at 6:37 AM, Tim Law wrote: Thanks Carlo, When I go to https://www.icloud.com/ on either the iPhone or iPad, Safari flicks me through to a page

Re: Cannot open Pages documents on iPad

2011-11-29 Thread Tim Law
/2011, at 8:06 AM, Tim Law wrote: On 30/11/2011, at 7:48 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, 3. On return to Australia, I updated to OS5, updated Pages on the desktop, iPhone and iPad, and started using iCloud. So all the Pages documents were created on the iPad before you had iCloud

Re: Cannot empty trash

2011-11-20 Thread Tim Law
On Monday, 21 November 2011, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Bill, You must have “Empty Trash securely” selected in Finder Preferences Advanced. DON’T select “Empty Trash Securely” take the tick out of it. Cheers, Ronni Out of interest and learning Ronni - why is this not a good idea?

Re: Old Super 8 to digital

2011-11-18 Thread Tim Law
All, I was assisted by KBC Video in Karrinyup a few years ago. They have a website at http://kbcvideo.com.au/index.html I found their fees to be remarkably low, and wish I had got them to do more of my fathers Standard 8 rolls at the time. I thought they would not contain anything

Find my iPhone - Showing 'no device registered'

2011-11-09 Thread Tim Law
Hello, A friend of mine has lost her iPhone on Saturday, 6 days ago. She had turned on, registered and tested 'Find my iPhone' earlier this year and it all worked correctly. She has not migrated to iCloud and is still using MobileMe. When we check the MobileMe site me.com/find/ it says she

Re: Find my iPhone - Showing 'no device registered'

2011-11-09 Thread Tim Law
locating/wiping the iPhone, and they deactivated her SIM card or account, she will no longer be able to locate, display a message on, or remotely wipe the iPhone. Sent from Ronni's iPad On 10/11/2011, at 10:33 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hello, A friend of mine has lost

Travelling Europe with iPad and iPhone4

2011-10-26 Thread Tim Law
I've most often seen questions about travelling with iPad and iPhones, so thought I'd send the group my recent experience which may help someone from asking the question over again. I have just spent a month travelling France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. Most of the time we were in

Re: Travelling Europe with iPad and iPhone4

2011-10-26 Thread Tim Law
Macintosh** On 26/10/2011, at 10:08 PM, Tim Law wrote: I've most often seen questions about travelling with iPad and iPhones, so thought I'd send the group my recent experience which may help someone from asking the question over again. I have just spent a month travelling France

Re: Repaired permissions again and again

2011-09-11 Thread Tim Law
This article might be helpful Lloyd. http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1448 It seems that to expect NIL Errors is just not going to happen. Given this list at http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1448 is quite long, plus they are safe to ignore, it would seem a pity that Apple hasn't tagged or flagged

Re: Mail Problem - Huge

2011-09-08 Thread Tim Law
On 08/09/2011, at 10:39 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, What I mentioned above should remove all messages from the Mail Server, why would Rick need to login to webmail also? Rick, also check In Mail, open ‘Get Account Info' window by choosing it from the Action menu (gear icon)

Re: Mail Problem - Huge

2011-09-07 Thread Tim Law
On 08/09/2011, at 8:50 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 08/09/2011, at 4:52 AM, Rick Armstrong wrote: For some reason Mail has triplicates of recent received messages from 1 Sept to 8 Sept. 1. Mail has now 931 unread triplicate messages. 2. I cannot delete them. 3. I have trashed the

Re: Apple Genius Bar service

2011-09-04 Thread Tim Law
On 04/09/2011, at 1:53 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, Yes, it is Sunday and I am ‘supposed to have a day off’, I do have to go out in a moment. Reboot the computer. Press 'F8' during restart. Select Disable Driver Signature Enforcement from the boot menu. See how that goes ;-)

Apple Genius Bar service

2011-09-03 Thread Tim Law
Hello, I've not used the Apple Genius bar service at the Apple Store in Perth before, so am wondering if my (sons) problem can be addressed by them. He bought an iPod Touch yesterday and plugged it into his (Yes I know this is the MAC user group :-) HP laptop running Windows 7 in 64 bit mode

Re: Apple Genius Bar service

2011-09-03 Thread Tim Law
On 04/09/2011, at 10:04 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 04/09/2011, at 9:44 AM, Tim Law wrote: Hello, I've not used the Apple Genius bar service at the Apple Store in Perth before, so am wondering if my (sons) problem can be addressed by them. He bought an iPod Touch yesterday

Re: Apple Genius Bar service

2011-09-03 Thread Tim Law
be able to help. As a matter of course we provide initial setup help at no extra cost for our customers, Windows or Mac. Unless of course he bought it online! Cheers, Stuart On 4/09/11 9:44 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Hello, I've not used the Apple Genius bar service

Re: Apple Genius Bar service

2011-09-03 Thread Tim Law
Thanks Ronni Last night I tracked down what the drivers were and where they were supposed to be, but I've not got their details at hand at the moment. I tried googling to see if someone had them stored for download but with no luck. I was thinking of installing iTunes on the version

Re: Apple Genius Bar service

2011-09-03 Thread Tim Law
On 04/09/2011, at 11:56 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: - If should find the correct device driver and install it back as an iPod, with the portable devices folder disappearing and in its place should be a whole load of USB controllers. Hi Ronni, Nope. Followed this process just now, but it

Re: Apple Genius Bar service

2011-09-03 Thread Tim Law
On 04/09/2011, at 12:44 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 04/09/2011, at 12:24 PM, Tim Law wrote: On 04/09/2011, at 11:56 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: - If should find the correct device driver and install it back as an iPod, with the portable devices folder disappearing and in its place should

Re: Mac App Store / Lion - hmmm

2011-08-31 Thread Tim Law
All, After a couple of weeks of using Lion with my Mac Mini and 27 monitor, I have not had any problems with it. It appears stable for my use. I've not got around to using some of the features such as Mission Control and Launch Pad. I do like the way the apps are displayed in Mission

Re: iPad and iPhoto syncing

2011-08-27 Thread Tim Law
Cache folder and delete this folder. Try syncing photos again. All selected photos will need to be re-optimized again, which will automatically create a new iPod Photo Cache folder in your iPhoto library, Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 27/08/2011, at 9:35 PM, Tim Law t

Plain text files in vBulletin forum

2011-08-25 Thread Tim Law
Hello, I'm looking for some confirmation of what I think is the problem for me. A forum I participate in will not accept postings I make with text I have pasted into the thread. The scenario. I am one of those curious characters who use fish and chip shop oil to power my Landcruiser - let's

Re: Annotations in preview

2011-08-21 Thread Tim Law
Neil, Preview under Lion has added a number of cool features. One of them is that adding text is now left aligned. I cannot find a way to centre or right align it. Left align is fine with me. It also adds the very nice features of a Speech Bubble and a Thought Bubble. Speech bubble creates

Re: eCensus

2011-08-08 Thread Tim Law
Seeing this is working fine, Bring on on line voting for elections! It's great to see how this technology is being used, without apparent major drama or a big concerns about privacy, and it means the data can collated quicker and used for all our benefit. Imagine an election when you didn't have

eCensus

2011-08-08 Thread Tim Law
Bring on on line voting for election. It's great to see how this technology is being used, without apparent m drama or concerns about privacy, and it means the data can collated quicker and used for all our benefit. On Monday, 8 August 2011, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Unless they stay the

Re: Posting to list not coming back as email

2011-08-07 Thread Tim Law
that are sent by yourself. Use the Gear icon, Mail Settings, Labels and under System Labels make sure you can see the All mail view. If you check in that view you'll probably see emails that originate from you. Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: On 7 August 2011 12:26, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au

Re: Posting to list not coming back as email

2011-08-07 Thread Tim Law
this is the case, but at least I have refined down where the problem may lie and I have a work around - simply select Bigpond server when sending a message to the list. Thanks Tim On 07/08/2011, at 2:57 PM, Tim Law wrote: Thanks for the thought Glenn, I have checked the Gmail settings as you

Re: Posting to list not coming back as email

2011-08-07 Thread Tim Law
Kyle - wonderful - so I am not alone... Yay. Yes, this is what happens to me!!! I use POP to access my Gmail accounts in Apple Mail So it seems all is normal and I've nothing to fuss over. If I send a new post to WAMUG, then I'll assume it has gone out to the list. And if I want to see my

Re: Posting to list not coming back as email

2011-08-07 Thread Tim Law
Hello Kyle, What I have been expecting is what Daniel describes. What I have been getting is what you and I experience. Now I know I am not alone, and that the list IS getting any posting I make, I'm settled with this outcome. I tried IMAP before and for some reason was pleased when I moved

Re: Posting to list not coming back as email

2011-08-07 Thread Tim Law
, but was just clarifying it from another perspective ;o) Kind regards DAniel On 7/8/11 10:40 PM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Kyle - wonderful - so I am not alone... Yay. Yes, this is what happens to me!!! I use POP to access my Gmail accounts in Apple Mail So it seems all

Moving attached document from iPhone

2011-08-06 Thread Tim Law
Stuart, If you have stored the documents in your MobileMe iDisk, then there an iDisk app for iPad and iPhone that allows you to read them from those devices. With the demise of MobileMe, another cloud app such as DropBox will provide similar functionality. Tim On Saturday, 6 August 2011,

Posting to list not coming back as email

2011-08-06 Thread Tim Law
Hello, When I make a post to this list, my contribution appears in the archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/index.html but I don't receive any email back from the list containing my post. I get everyone else's posting, just not mine. And no subsequent discussion of the same

Re: Posting to list not coming back as email

2011-08-06 Thread Tim Law
, at 9:32 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 07/08/2011, at 9:10 AM, Tim Law wrote: Hello, When I make a post to this list, my contribution appears in the archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/index.html but I don't receive any email back from the list containing my post. I

Re: Posting to list not coming back as email

2011-08-06 Thread Tim Law
On 07/08/2011, at 9:57 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: O Hi again Tim, I just had a look at your message’s Long Headers compared it to mine. I noticed that your message rates a spam “suspectscore=8” where as mine is “suspectscore=2 === Tim’s Message - View Message Long Headers:

Re: Posting to list not coming back as email

2011-08-06 Thread Tim Law
On 07/08/2011, at 11:02 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 07/08/2011, at 10:23 AM, Tim Law wrote: On 07/08/2011, at 9:57 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Tim, My junk mail settings vary a little from yours, I find the optimal Apple Mail Junk mail settings are: Enable junk mail filtering When

Re: Posting to list not coming back as email

2011-08-06 Thread Tim Law
By they way, showing Long Headers in Mail app doesn't show up *X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: for me. Is there a way I can configure this?* Thanks for your suggestions. Tim In addition, I have checked a number of my previous contributions to the WAMUG list and the long headers are quite

Re: Posting to list not coming back as email

2011-08-06 Thread Tim Law
I am sending this via Gmail web mail, and will see if it is any different. Thanks Tim Sorry for going on about this What I am finding is that if I send a message to the WAMUG list using my webmail account, then it is coming into my Mail account as I would expect. If I send a

Re: LastPass

2011-07-22 Thread Tim Law
On 22 July 2011 07:21, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: On 21/07/2011, at 9:25 AM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote: I just updated Safari to 5.1 but LastPass caused it to crash while opening. The fix - if you have LastPass installed in Safari, download the app again (using

Lion - step backwards?

2011-07-21 Thread Tim Law
Do I assume that the swiping and dragging feature is only relevant to laptop users? And that desktop users don't get any benefit from this particular part of Lion? Tim On Friday, 22 July 2011, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I guess liking or not liking a piece of software is a

Re: Telstra starts censoring the internet

2011-07-09 Thread Tim Law
I've always been mindful that this is a Mac user group, and any computer query that I have that is not specifically Mac related, I do not post here. Whirlpool for example is a much more appropriate forum for broader policy discussion such as this. http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/ Tim On

Re: MobileMe personal domain hosting

2011-06-15 Thread Tim Law
, Ronda Brown wrote: On 16/06/2011, at 8:23 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 15/06/2011, at 11:26 AM, Tim Law wrote: Sandvox has let me know about some of their software updates, but also added that with the demise of MobileMe that they also cease hosting personal domains - which is what I

MobileMe personal domain hosting

2011-06-14 Thread Tim Law
Sandvox has let me know about some of their software updates, but also added that with the demise of MobileMe that they also cease hosting personal domains - which is what I have. This is the first I've had clearly spelt out that this would be happening. Is it fair to assume this is correct

Re: iPhone/GPS

2011-06-10 Thread Tim Law
MotionX GPS allows me to load maps whilst connected to the network for viewing later when there is no network. You can only load a limited range/resolution of maps. Tim On 11/06/2011, at 11:06 AM, cm wrote: Hi Stuart, What may have happened is that the GPS was working but you were

Re: Descriptions for Applications

2011-05-31 Thread Tim Law
me know. Cheers, Carlo On 2011-05-31, at 08:13, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 30/05/2011, at 10:18 AM, Tim Law wrote: The other thing to note is that while some installers will allow you to specify a location for the App at installation time, the vast majority do not. Usually

Re: Descriptions for Applications

2011-05-29 Thread Tim Law
The other thing to note is that while some installers will allow you to specify a location for the App at installation time, the vast majority do not. Usually, they just install to the Applications folder, but there is usually nothing to prevent you from moving the Application to a

Descriptions for Applications

2011-05-28 Thread Tim Law
Hello, Over the years, I have gathered some 214 Applications. Some of which I use frequently and I have them in the dock. Some of which I rarely or never use, but don't want to delete them 'just in case'. From time to time I want to do something a bit different, for example with images, so I

Re: iPad notes disappear

2011-05-27 Thread Tim Law
Notes that I create on my iPad are synced with MobileMe and then appear in Mail on the desktop. They appear under 'Reminders', right at the bottom of the list in the left hand window of Mail. Tim On 27/05/2011, at 6:53 PM, cm wrote: Hi John, Did you ever actually see the notes on

Re: iPad problems

2011-05-18 Thread Tim Law
Ian, I perform all my upgrades/updates either by using the App Store from the iPhone iPad, or when syncing with iTunes. this gives me the option to 'update all' which it does after entering my iTunes store password. If things are still playing up or doing odd things, don't be afraid to turn

Re: Digital radios

2011-04-18 Thread Tim Law
I found this review on CNET for Digital Radios. I'm not sure how this request is related to Mac's, but post the link nevertheless for those interested. http://www.cnet.com.au/pure-one-flow-339312993.htm?ocid=nl_w_18042011_rev_l5 On 17/04/2011, at 8:32 AM, Brian Risbey wrote: Digital

Re: Certificate Hijacking

2011-04-18 Thread Tim Law
, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 18/04/2011, at 10:44 AM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: The app store was also not loading quickly for me, so I returned the setting to the default and it has resolved. It never got to the same point as Peter as I reverted the setting. Tim

Re: Wireless network range extender

2011-04-02 Thread Tim Law
Hi Peter, I have a second wireless router and I'll try to step you through how I did this. I connected the second router via ethernet cable to the network and logged into it's control panel Turn OFF the setting that says 'find DNS automatically' this may be 'find IP Address automatically'

New features in iPhone software update

2011-03-24 Thread Tim Law
All, I have an iPhone 4 and can now send multiple photo's in an email. This wasn't possible with the previous OS. I've discovered this today and haven't seen it covered before here. The new software update has apparently added this new feature. I do not know if it works for other

Re: Travels with my iPad

2011-03-19 Thread Tim Law
people have found useful. Ta Tim On 19/03/2011, at 10:44 AM, Darrel McGuiness wrote: Hi Tim, Just Google query;- travelling with an iPad. Lots of information Regards Darrel On 19/03/2011, at 9:44 AM, Tim Law wrote: Folks, I often see separate threads with queries about

Re: Travels with my iPad

2011-03-19 Thread Tim Law
people have found useful. Ta Tim On 19/03/2011, at 10:44 AM, Darrel McGuiness wrote: Hi Tim, Just Google query;- travelling with an iPad. Lots of information Regards Darrel On 19/03/2011, at 9:44 AM, Tim Law wrote: Folks, I often see separate threads with queries about

Re: Travels with my iPad

2011-03-18 Thread Tim Law
Folks, I often see separate threads with queries about travelling overseas with iphones, ipads, or laptops. Has anyone found a useful Australian based website where a summary of the solutions people have used successfully are documented? It seems like we always start from scratch each time

Re: Travels with my iPad

2011-03-18 Thread Tim Law
Folks, I often see separate threads with queries about travelling overseas with iphones, ipads, or laptops. Has anyone found a useful Australian based website where a summary of the solutions people have used successfully are documented? It seems like we always start from scratch each time

Re: Travels with my iPad

2011-03-18 Thread Tim Law
people have found useful. Ta Tim On 19/03/2011, at 10:44 AM, Darrel McGuiness wrote: Hi Tim, Just Google query;- travelling with an iPad. Lots of information Regards Darrel On 19/03/2011, at 9:44 AM, Tim Law wrote: Folks, I often see separate threads with queries about

Re: iMac Good Practices

2011-02-16 Thread Tim Law
Keeping your desktop clean is really important because every icon, folder or alias on it is loaded into the RAM, slowing your system down. So Ronni, are you saying that even tho an alias is just 'an alias' and only takes up a few kb, that it still takes enough RAM to make a difference? I

Re: iMac Good Practices

2011-02-16 Thread Tim Law
prefer to drag folders of documents I’m working on regularly onto the right side of the Dock where I can access/launch them quickly. Cheers, Ronni On 17/02/2011, at 2:32 PM, Tim Law wrote: Keeping your desktop clean is really important because every icon, folder or alias on it is loaded

Re: Smaller iPhone May Be Available In Mid-2011 - What about new MacBooks

2011-02-11 Thread Tim Law
It intrigues me that for a company the size of Apple, with affiliates all over the place that the are so often rumours, hunches, guesses and indeed a whole raft of people trying to guess what's next - and no one leaks!! There must be some might strong glue holding all these secrets in place.

Re: Passing iPhone on to another user ?

2011-02-06 Thread Tim Law
Hi Stephen Essentially yes, this is all you need to do It would be best if, once you have got your iPhone 4 working, then plug in your iPhone 3 into iTunes and at the main screen, trigger a Restore. This removes your name and all your details, and contacts, music everything, from your

Re: emails to iphone

2011-02-03 Thread Tim Law
The other advantage of a Google account is that I use Bigpond as my ISP and often have trouble sending mail via their servers from the iPhone. Selecting the Gmail servers as the sending servers has resolved all of these glitches. Westnet may be more reliable. I have turned off SSL on the send

Re: Iphone 4 as a modem on a PC

2011-01-29 Thread Tim Law
Yep, I did this yesterday with the Telstra NextG network on my iPhone4 and my sons PC laptop. Turn on Tethering in System Prefs/Network. Easiest is to plug the iPhone into the laptop via a USB cord. The iPhone flashes a blue top part of the screen indicating it is in tethering mode The

Meeting requests from PC Outlook to iCal

2011-01-03 Thread Tim Law
Hello, I've got a business partner that has a suite of Macs but is wedded to Microsoft Office. She had a major crash in Entourage last year that caused her heaps of grief, and I am encouraging her to move to Mail, Address Book and iCal for her own peace of mind and the easy ability for us to

Re: Looking for Adobe Creative Suite 5

2011-01-02 Thread Tim Law
I paid $350 from JB HiFi in September last year for the CS5 Student and Teacher edition. Then had to go through the registration process to prove my eligibility. Tim On 03/01/2011, at 12:15 PM, Cari Jansen wrote: David, Adobe’s End User License Agreement for Student and Teacher

Re: Tool to measure data use on home network to individual connections

2010-12-30 Thread Tim Law
Thanks very much for your excellent expose James. I have resolved my query to the group and appreciate the time people have put into it. I hope others have learnt from this too. My solution is a fundamental parenting technique. I.e. Tell them that unless they cut back they will have to

Re: Skype start up

2010-12-30 Thread Tim Law
Hi Chris, I assume that I need to re-install Skype when I want to start using it? I havnt done so yet but look forward to it as many more friends are now using it. No, not at all. What you have done is simply turn it off from starting up automatically when you start your computer; as

Re: Tool to measure data use on home network to individual connections

2010-12-29 Thread Tim Law
be run from OS X, but it depends on which machine is the server allowing access to internet as this is point of contact or Router/Modem which also can be used for monitoring... Cheers! `RobD On 23Dec2010, at 9:45 am, Tim Law wrote: Hello, I have 5 Mac devices, two PC laptops

Re: Tool to measure data use on home network to individual connections

2010-12-29 Thread Tim Law
over time. http://homepage.mac.com/rominar/net.html Sent from Ronni's iPad On 29/12/2010, at 6:56 PM, Tim Law t...@peoplehelp.com.au wrote: Thanks Rob, How is your home network setup i.e., server software or distribution? The best answer I can give was in my original posting: I

Re: Tool to measure data use on home network to individual connections

2010-12-23 Thread Tim Law
Thanks Kyle, I appreciate your thoughts. The difficulty is that none of us understand where the data is going. I agree YouTube clips are potential culprits as they seem to watch the replays of other players Starcraft games and they last half an hour or so each. But without evidence of how

Re: Hidden: theft tracking software for your laptop

2010-12-23 Thread Tim Law
Site is back up now. https://hiddenapp.com/tracking/ On 23/12/2010, at 5:12 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 23/12/2010, at 4:10 PM, Kyle Kreusch wrote: Looks interesting, but they are having some problems at the moment. -- Regards Kyle

iCal not syncing with MobileMe

2010-12-22 Thread Tim Law
Hi, iCal on my Mac Mini running 10.6.5 has stopped showing any calendar data. I 'think' I have viewed iCal on the Mac Mini after I upgraded the MobileMe calendar to the new version, but maybe this is the first time and I have come across a glitch. I CAN view the data if I log onto the

Tool to measure data use on home network to individual connections

2010-12-22 Thread Tim Law
Hello, I have 5 Mac devices, two PC laptops and occasionally an Xbox, that are connected via ethernet or wifi to my home network and to the internet through Bigpond Cable. I am trying to determine where the main data munchers are, or as least to confirm my suspicions that it is the PC

Re: Skype iPhone

2010-12-20 Thread Tim Law
I use a number of SIP and VOIP type products on my iPhone and all of them are found wanting with regard voice quality and delay in particular on 3G. I'd hoped to be able to call mobile to mobile via SIP and 3G. Using a SIP or VOIP client over 3G is not up to standard yet in my experience. It

Re: Opening ASPX files that have been downloaded

2010-12-11 Thread Tim Law
On 11/12/2010, at 2:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: So Tim, to view these files on a Mac you have to change the extension at some stage from .aspx to .pdf (which you have already worked out). When you click on the file in Safari, doesn't a box appear showing the file you wish to save as an .ASPX

Re: Opening ASPX files that have been downloaded

2010-12-11 Thread Tim Law
Sure, but ronni's rules sounds so much better :-) Sent from my iPhone On 12/12/2010, at 10:33 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 11/12/2010, at 5:45 PM, Tim Law wrote: On 11/12/2010, at 2:41 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: So Tim, to view these files on a Mac you have to change

Opening ASPX files that have been downloaded

2010-12-10 Thread Tim Law
Hello, In various websites I download a document and it goes into my Downloads folder wearing an .aspx extension. The only way I can open it is to manually change the extension to .pdf when Preview will open it without fuss. The other solution I have just discovered is that by right

Re: strange phone call

2010-12-09 Thread Tim Law
I fond this happens from time to time on my iPhone. It is fixed by turning the device off and then back on Tim Sent from my iPhone On 10/12/2010, at 12:41 PM, John Hatch j...@iinet.net.au wrote: Roni, Seems it's happening with some of my new emails. Was able to remove kens by rotating

Re: iPhone not triggering iTunes on sync

2010-11-30 Thread Tim Law
. If I open iTunes manually, the sync progresses as normal. In iTunes preferences, Devices, the checkbox for Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically is unchecked. Ta Tim On 30/11/2010, at 2:09 PM, Tim Law wrote: Hello, I have an iPhone 3G running the latest

Re: iPhone not triggering iTunes on sync

2010-11-30 Thread Tim Law
this iPhone is connected Cheers, Ronni On 30/11/2010, at 7:06 PM, Tim Law wrote: Thanks Ronni, No luck. On 30/11/2010, at 5:21 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: When you Quit iPhoto does iTunes recognise your iPhone then? iTunes did not start up when I quit iPhoto. I have turned off

Re: iPhone not triggering iTunes on sync

2010-11-30 Thread Tim Law
, Stephen Chape ch...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hi Tim, I am sure there is another check box in iTunes ... something like sync automatically !! On 30/11/2010, at 2:09 PM, Tim Law wrote: Hello, I have an iPhone 3G running the latest OS 4.2.1 and syncing with a Mac Mini running 10.6.5

Re: iPhone not triggering iTunes on sync

2010-11-30 Thread Tim Law
preferences and settings were preserved. Hope this works for you too, Carlo On 2010-11-30, at 21:28, Tim Law wrote: Brilliant Ronni, iTunesHelper wasn't installed in System Preferences. It is now and it DOES work as expected. I appreciate your time. Not sure if this has been part

iPhone not triggering iTunes on sync

2010-11-29 Thread Tim Law
Hello, I have an iPhone 3G running the latest OS 4.2.1 and syncing with a Mac Mini running 10.6.5 When I plug in the iPhone to the computer, iPhoto will open automatically, but iTunes will not so the iPhone will not automatically sync as it should. The checkbox in iTunes to open iTunes when

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