Messages In This Digest (25 Messages)
- 1a.
- Re: Alternative to Quicken for Lion From: Daly Jessup
- 1b.
- Re: Alternative to Quicken for Lion From: jamesrob@sonic.net
- 2a.
- Re: Need help adding, naming, formatting new drives From: Denver Dan
- 2b.
- Re: Need help adding, naming, formatting new drives From: Tod Hopkins
- 2c.
- Re: Sorting files (was Need help adding, naming, .....) From: OBrien
- 2d.
- Re: Need help adding, naming, formatting new drives From: LouisD
- 3a.
- Re: Portable Hard Drive Issue From: Denver Dan
- 3b.
- Re: Portable Hard Drive Issue From: Rob Frankel
- 3c.
- Re: Portable Hard Drive Issue From: Tod Hopkins
- 4a.
- Re: Need Storage Recommendation Please From: paul smith
- 5a.
- Command-2 and Safari From: Bill B.
- 5b.
- Re: Command-2 and Safari From: Patsy Price
- 6a.
- Invites for iPhone Event 10/4 10a (Pacific) Finally out From: Bill Boulware
- 6b.
- Re: Invites for iPhone Event 10/4 10a (Pacific) Finally out From: Harry Flaxman
- 6c.
- Re: Invites for iPhone Event 10/4 10a (Pacific) Finally out From: Bill Boulware
- 6d.
- Re: Invites for iPhone Event 10/4 10a (Pacific) Finally out From: Harry Flaxman
- 6e.
- Re: Invites for iPhone Event 10/4 10a (Pacific) Finally out From: Ron West
- 6f.
- Re: Invites for iPhone Event 10/4 10a (Pacific) Finally out From: Harry Flaxman
- 6g.
- Re: Invites for iPhone Event 10/4 10a (Pacific) Finally out From: Bill Boulware
- 7a.
- 3g data plan with at&t only? From: Melissa tucker
- 7b.
- Re: 3g data plan with at&t only? From: Bill Boulware
- 7c.
- Re: 3g data plan with at&t only? From: Denver Dan
- 8a.
- New Trojan On The Loose From: Kathy Benitez
- 8b.
- Re: New Trojan On The Loose From: vixpix
- 8c.
- Re: New Trojan On The Loose From: OBrien
Messages
- 1a.
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Re: Alternative to Quicken for Lion
Posted by: "Daly Jessup" jessup@san.rr.com
Tue Sep 27, 2011 5:38 am (PDT)
On Sep 26, 2011, at 4:55 PM, Jim Showalter wrote:
> I found the import of Quicken files into MoneyDance to be nearly painless and extremely accurate. It is a two step process: import accounts/categories, then import data.
>
> I imported my Quicken files with data back to 1999. There was a small amount of cleanup to do after, but not significant. Learning the interface was not very difficult, either. I now also use the iPhone app to sync/interface with MoneyDance on the computer.
>
> I tried a couple of other trial apps as well, but I've been using MD for a couple of years now and can't remember what else I tried.
>
> Tidbits has some followup on apps to replace Quicken at: http://tidbits.com/article/ that includes responses from developers of some of the options.12503
Yes, I've read many of those sites. I was not so lucky as you were with MoneyDance. In my case, following their instructions exactly, I got a mess. All but one of 7 or 8 accounts was utterly wrong, in one case by tens of thousands of dollars. So I'm still looking.
Daly
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Re: Alternative to Quicken for Lion
Posted by: "jamesrob@sonic.net" jamesrob@sonic.net jamesrob328i
Tue Sep 27, 2011 5:56 am (PDT)
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups. , Daly Jessup <jessup@...>com
wrote:
>
> I kind of liked iBank when I tried it, even though it was more
"clunky" in my opinion, than Quicken. I can live with that. But it did a
HORRIBLE job of importing my perhaps moderately complex Quicken files.
They contain a lot of "splits." Plus of course investment accounts were
a disaster. My husband, who takes care of investments, just basically
started from scratch. But I couldn't stand the loss of more than a
decade of information. I tried Quicken Essentials and absolutely hated
the interface.
>
> So the final, perhaps drastic, decision, was to stay with Snow
Leopard, and I'm now running Lion in Parallels.
>
> Maybe if our finances were a bit simpler, or involved fewer years of
entries, I could tolerate the invenience. But I'm unwilling to manually
re-enter thousands of complex entries just to have Lion.
>
> I also tried MoneyDance, SEEFinance, and a few others. I just can't
find anything that works for me like Quicken (even though I also sort of
hate Quicken). If they would import Quicken properly, I'd force myself
to learn to love their interfaces. But the import (NOT import) is the
deal killer for me.
>
> Daly
Now that is a drastic solution. One essential application (personal
finance) forces you to run the latest iteration of your core OS
virtualized. If only there were a way to run SL in emulation under Lion,
I could live with that solution, at least for now. However, I'm not able
to buy SL Server to do so legally…
Since I'm one of those who's forced to run Windows every day on each of
my Macs, once I check out MoneyDance (apparently the only one of the
alternatives that supports Quicken's "classes" in addition to categories
and subcategories), I suspect I'll purchase a Quicken for Windows
license as my way forward. Then, if Apple can ever get its sleeping BOD
member to wake up and get the company he helped found (Intuit) to give
the Mac the respect it deserves, perhaps I'll have an easier route back
to a Quicken for Mac based on modern code. Stranger things have
happened.
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Re: Need help adding, naming, formatting new drives
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:06 am (PDT)
Howdy.
You can rename your current drive from Macintosh HD to Macintosh HD 2,
or anything you want without reformatting or erasing or disturbing
applications or data (Mac users have done this since 1984). You can
rename a drive in Finder just by clicking the text part of the drive
icon on the Desktop. Just don't use a colon or a forward slash or back
slash in the drive name. Occasionally you may encounter some
application that doesn't like a space in the drive name but those are
very rare and often something from the DOS/Windows world.
You can have two drives with the same names but it's confusing. The
"name" is a human convenience and the computer will, in any case, ID
the drives via a Disk Identifier number/term. This Disk Identifier can
be seen in Disk Utility by using the Info button/icon (the blue one) on
the Disk Utility Toolbar.
I like to make my drive names that will be seen and used on a network
very clear and I recommend that office groups rename their drives using
something similar to the following:
John Internal HD 1
John Internal HD 2
John External HD1
Susan Internal HD 1
Frank Internal HD 1
Frank External HD 2
Or, abbreviate, John Int HD1, John ExtHD1.
In my own house, I name my hard drives after cities where I've lived.
Works fine on a small network.
As a possibility, you can move your current boot drive in your MacPro
from drive bay 1 to drive bay 2. Then you can install the new SSD
drive in drive bay 1. You can still boot your Mac from the drive in
drive bay 2 and then format the SSD. If you do this, then use System
Preferences>Startup Disk panel to pick the drive you wish to boot from
during your various installs and then after installing systems, etc.,
pick the new drive to boot from in the same manner. Or, boot with the
Option key pressed to pick a boot drive.
You don't need detailed guidance to reformat a drive. There is,
however, one "gotcha" step that is often confused and missed. This has
to do with "partition."
To reformat/erase drive and reformat for Mac OS X Intel a GUID
partition table needs to be created. This step is somewhat not
obvious.
1. Launch Disk Utility.
2. Select the drive to reformat/erase. Be sure to select the drive
and not the volume or partition name which is seen indented under the
drive in the left column in Disk Utility.
3. Click the Partition tab.
4. Note that you can rename the drive during this process or
afterwards.
5. Here's the not obvious "gotcha" step. In the popup menu below the
term Partition Layout it will say "Current."
"Current" is the gotcha. This has to be changed to something else. "1
Partition" is just fine.
When you pick "1 Partition" from the popup menu, below the partition
window pane the Options button becomes available. If you keep the
Partition Layout at "Current" the Options button will not be
available. This is the "gotcha" part.
6. Click the Options button and pick GUID Partition Table. There is a
brief sentence of text explaining why. It has to do with being able to
boot an Intel processor Mac.
Then click OK.
7. Next, back in the Disk Utility window, click the Apply button.
The processor should take about 10 to 20 seconds. (Except I don't have
experience with how long it will take on an SSD drive - might be very
fast.)
That's it.
Denver Dan
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:16:04 +0000, LouisD wrote:
> I haven't done this before and need some guidance on how best to add
> and configure new drives for my Mac Pro Tower. (Mac Pro, 8-core, 2.26
> MHz, 16GB RAM, OSX 10.6.8, currently 3 HDD in 3 of 4 bays, external
> backup is a Voyager Q docking station using SATA drive).
>
> 1. My plan is to first backup my internal MacHD and my internal Data
> drives, using SuperDuper, which I use regularly. I have an internal
> and an external backup for safety. I'll use the incremental backup
> feature of SuperDuper unless that is not recommended. Sound OK?
>
> 2. I will be adding a 240 GB SSD to be my new OSX/Program drive. My
> old boot drive is named "MacIntosh HD", and it will eventually be
> wiped clean, reformatted, partitioned and renamed. Would it be best
> to name my new SSD "MacIntosh HD"? Can I have two drives installed
> with identical names, or will this confuse and screw things up? Will
> it make ANY difference when loading programs if my new SSD drive is
> named something else? I'm trying to keep things clean and simple.
>
> 3. Can a drive simply be renamed without wiping the data,
> reformatting, etc? That would make life very easy, I'd think.
>
> 4. Does one format an SSD drive exactly the same way as a
> conventional HDD, using Mac OS Extended (journaled)? Using Disk
> Utility?
>
> 5. Are there are good links or articles you can point me to that walk
> me through this procedure step by step? The more precise and
> detailed, the better.
>
> Obviously, I need guidance! Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Lou Dina
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Re: Need help adding, naming, formatting new drives
Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop
Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:52 am (PDT)
Very nice explanation, Dan.
One minor warning for Mac fans only peripherally relevant here. The one very dangerous place to use a space is at the beginning of a name. I see this "trick" a lot in Mac circles to force sorting to the top. Sometimes it happens accidentally. Do not do this. It can cause very serious problems when attempting to read that name from another file system or over a network.
Cheers,
tod
On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Denver Dan wrote:
> Howdy.
>
> You can rename your current drive from Macintosh HD to Macintosh HD 2,
> or anything you want without reformatting or erasing or disturbing
> applications or data (Mac users have done this since 1984). You can
> rename a drive in Finder just by clicking the text part of the drive
> icon on the Desktop. Just don't use a colon or a forward slash or back
> slash in the drive name. Occasionally you may encounter some
> application that doesn't like a space in the drive name but those are
> very rare and often something from the DOS/Windows world.
>
> You can have two drives with the same names but it's confusing. The
> "name" is a human convenience and the computer will, in any case, ID
> the drives via a Disk Identifier number/term. This Disk Identifier can
> be seen in Disk Utility by using the Info button/icon (the blue one) on
> the Disk Utility Toolbar.
>
> I like to make my drive names that will be seen and used on a network
> very clear and I recommend that office groups rename their drives using
> something similar to the following:
>
> John Internal HD 1
> John Internal HD 2
> John External HD1
>
> Susan Internal HD 1
>
> Frank Internal HD 1
> Frank External HD 2
>
> Or, abbreviate, John Int HD1, John ExtHD1.
>
> In my own house, I name my hard drives after cities where I've lived.
> Works fine on a small network.
>
> As a possibility, you can move your current boot drive in your MacPro
> from drive bay 1 to drive bay 2. Then you can install the new SSD
> drive in drive bay 1. You can still boot your Mac from the drive in
> drive bay 2 and then format the SSD. If you do this, then use System
> Preferences>Startup Disk panel to pick the drive you wish to boot from
> during your various installs and then after installing systems, etc.,
> pick the new drive to boot from in the same manner. Or, boot with the
> Option key pressed to pick a boot drive.
>
> You don't need detailed guidance to reformat a drive. There is,
> however, one "gotcha" step that is often confused and missed. This has
> to do with "partition."
>
> To reformat/erase drive and reformat for Mac OS X Intel a GUID
> partition table needs to be created. This step is somewhat not
> obvious.
>
> 1. Launch Disk Utility.
>
> 2. Select the drive to reformat/erase. Be sure to select the drive
> and not the volume or partition name which is seen indented under the
> drive in the left column in Disk Utility.
>
> 3. Click the Partition tab.
>
> 4. Note that you can rename the drive during this process or
> afterwards.
>
> 5. Here's the not obvious "gotcha" step. In the popup menu below the
> term Partition Layout it will say "Current."
>
> "Current" is the gotcha. This has to be changed to something else. "1
> Partition" is just fine.
>
> When you pick "1 Partition" from the popup menu, below the partition
> window pane the Options button becomes available. If you keep the
> Partition Layout at "Current" the Options button will not be
> available. This is the "gotcha" part.
>
> 6. Click the Options button and pick GUID Partition Table. There is a
> brief sentence of text explaining why. It has to do with being able to
> boot an Intel processor Mac.
>
> Then click OK.
>
> 7. Next, back in the Disk Utility window, click the Apply button.
> The processor should take about 10 to 20 seconds. (Except I don't have
> experience with how long it will take on an SSD drive - might be very
> fast.)
>
> That's it.
>
> Denver Dan
>
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:16:04 +0000, LouisD wrote:
> > I haven't done this before and need some guidance on how best to add
> > and configure new drives for my Mac Pro Tower. (Mac Pro, 8-core, 2.26
> > MHz, 16GB RAM, OSX 10.6.8, currently 3 HDD in 3 of 4 bays, external
> > backup is a Voyager Q docking station using SATA drive).
> >
> > 1. My plan is to first backup my internal MacHD and my internal Data
> > drives, using SuperDuper, which I use regularly. I have an internal
> > and an external backup for safety. I'll use the incremental backup
> > feature of SuperDuper unless that is not recommended. Sound OK?
> >
> > 2. I will be adding a 240 GB SSD to be my new OSX/Program drive. My
> > old boot drive is named "MacIntosh HD", and it will eventually be
> > wiped clean, reformatted, partitioned and renamed. Would it be best
> > to name my new SSD "MacIntosh HD"? Can I have two drives installed
> > with identical names, or will this confuse and screw things up? Will
> > it make ANY difference when loading programs if my new SSD drive is
> > named something else? I'm trying to keep things clean and simple.
> >
> > 3. Can a drive simply be renamed without wiping the data,
> > reformatting, etc? That would make life very easy, I'd think.
> >
> > 4. Does one format an SSD drive exactly the same way as a
> > conventional HDD, using Mac OS Extended (journaled)? Using Disk
> > Utility?
> >
> > 5. Are there are good links or articles you can point me to that walk
> > me through this procedure step by step? The more precise and
> > detailed, the better.
> >
> > Obviously, I need guidance! Thanks for any suggestions.
> >
> > Lou Dina
>
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com
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Re: Sorting files (was Need help adding, naming, .....)
Posted by: "OBrien" bco@hiwaay.net conorboru
Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:05 am (PDT)
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:52:37 -0400, Tod Hopkins wrote:
> The one very dangerous place to use a space is at the beginning of
> a name. I see this "trick" a lot in Mac circles to force sorting
> to the top.
The same thing can be accomplished by adding various symbols at the beginning of the file name, such as a dash, an asterisk, or a tilde. You can control the sorting even more: sort order is dash, asterisk, tilde. Also, two symbols (asterisks, for example) sort before one. I don't know if any of these, or other symbols can cause problems...using them on my non-networked Mac seems to be fine for my purposes.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
O'Brien ¡V¡V¡V ¡V... .-. .. . -. - 2d.
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Re: Need help adding, naming, formatting new drives
Posted by: "LouisD" lou@loudina.com ldina
Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:43 am (PDT)
Dan,
Thanks for the great write-up. Very clear and helpful to this old PC guy. It will make my reconfiguration process a lot easier. Also, thanks to Tod and OBrien for the extra info. I hope to get my new drives and install them tomorrow. I'll take it slowly, one step at a time.
Regards,
Lou
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups. , Denver Dan <denver.dan@com ...> wrote:
>
> Howdy.
>
> You can rename your current drive from Macintosh HD to Macintosh HD 2,
> or anything you want without reformatting or erasing or disturbing
> applications or data (Mac users have done this since 1984). You can
> rename a drive in Finder just by clicking the text part of the drive
> icon on the Desktop. Just don't use a colon or a forward slash or back
> slash in the drive name. Occasionally you may encounter some
> application that doesn't like a space in the drive name but those are
> very rare and often something from the DOS/Windows world.
>
> You can have two drives with the same names but it's confusing. The
> "name" is a human convenience and the computer will, in any case, ID
> the drives via a Disk Identifier number/term. This Disk Identifier can
> be seen in Disk Utility by using the Info button/icon (the blue one) on
> the Disk Utility Toolbar.
>
> I like to make my drive names that will be seen and used on a network
> very clear and I recommend that office groups rename their drives using
> something similar to the following:
>
> John Internal HD 1
> John Internal HD 2
> John External HD1
>
> Susan Internal HD 1
>
> Frank Internal HD 1
> Frank External HD 2
>
> Or, abbreviate, John Int HD1, John ExtHD1.
>
> In my own house, I name my hard drives after cities where I've lived.
> Works fine on a small network.
>
> As a possibility, you can move your current boot drive in your MacPro
> from drive bay 1 to drive bay 2. Then you can install the new SSD
> drive in drive bay 1. You can still boot your Mac from the drive in
> drive bay 2 and then format the SSD. If you do this, then use System
> Preferences>Startup Disk panel to pick the drive you wish to boot from
> during your various installs and then after installing systems, etc.,
> pick the new drive to boot from in the same manner. Or, boot with the
> Option key pressed to pick a boot drive.
>
> You don't need detailed guidance to reformat a drive. There is,
> however, one "gotcha" step that is often confused and missed. This has
> to do with "partition."
>
> To reformat/erase drive and reformat for Mac OS X Intel a GUID
> partition table needs to be created. This step is somewhat not
> obvious.
>
> 1. Launch Disk Utility.
>
> 2. Select the drive to reformat/erase. Be sure to select the drive
> and not the volume or partition name which is seen indented under the
> drive in the left column in Disk Utility.
>
> 3. Click the Partition tab.
>
> 4. Note that you can rename the drive during this process or
> afterwards.
>
> 5. Here's the not obvious "gotcha" step. In the popup menu below the
> term Partition Layout it will say "Current."
>
> "Current" is the gotcha. This has to be changed to something else. "1
> Partition" is just fine.
>
> When you pick "1 Partition" from the popup menu, below the partition
> window pane the Options button becomes available. If you keep the
> Partition Layout at "Current" the Options button will not be
> available. This is the "gotcha" part.
>
> 6. Click the Options button and pick GUID Partition Table. There is a
> brief sentence of text explaining why. It has to do with being able to
> boot an Intel processor Mac.
>
> Then click OK.
>
> 7. Next, back in the Disk Utility window, click the Apply button.
> The processor should take about 10 to 20 seconds. (Except I don't have
> experience with how long it will take on an SSD drive - might be very
> fast.)
>
> That's it.
>
> Denver Dan
>
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:16:04 +0000, LouisD wrote:
> > I haven't done this before and need some guidance on how best to add
> > and configure new drives for my Mac Pro Tower. (Mac Pro, 8-core, 2.26
> > MHz, 16GB RAM, OSX 10.6.8, currently 3 HDD in 3 of 4 bays, external
> > backup is a Voyager Q docking station using SATA drive).
> >
> > 1. My plan is to first backup my internal MacHD and my internal Data
> > drives, using SuperDuper, which I use regularly. I have an internal
> > and an external backup for safety. I'll use the incremental backup
> > feature of SuperDuper unless that is not recommended. Sound OK?
> >
> > 2. I will be adding a 240 GB SSD to be my new OSX/Program drive. My
> > old boot drive is named "MacIntosh HD", and it will eventually be
> > wiped clean, reformatted, partitioned and renamed. Would it be best
> > to name my new SSD "MacIntosh HD"? Can I have two drives installed
> > with identical names, or will this confuse and screw things up? Will
> > it make ANY difference when loading programs if my new SSD drive is
> > named something else? I'm trying to keep things clean and simple.
> >
> > 3. Can a drive simply be renamed without wiping the data,
> > reformatting, etc? That would make life very easy, I'd think.
> >
> > 4. Does one format an SSD drive exactly the same way as a
> > conventional HDD, using Mac OS Extended (journaled)? Using Disk
> > Utility?
> >
> > 5. Are there are good links or articles you can point me to that walk
> > me through this procedure step by step? The more precise and
> > detailed, the better.
> >
> > Obviously, I need guidance! Thanks for any suggestions.
> >
> > Lou Dina
>
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Re: Portable Hard Drive Issue
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:27 am (PDT)
Howdy.
What Tod H says. :-)
Except I would add that if the portable has an external power brick
(which may have failed) you can get replacements at places like OWC.
Be sure you match the electrical requirements of a replacement unit. A
call to OWC tech support or customer service might help with this.
There are even switchable power bricks available that have a selector
for voltage.
Of course, it's hard to know if it's the power supply in any case and
buying a new power supply may be the solution but if the problem is
with a bridge chip in the case (fairly common) then the above won't
solve the problem.
Denver Dan
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:24:27 -0700, Rob Frankel wrote:
> I got this iomega 1TB portable hard drive. Used it with Carbon Copy
> Cloner just fine as a back up for about a year. Cloned it every two
> months.
>
> All of a sudden, it won't mount. It lights up, it whirs, but doesn't
> show up on the desktop.
>
> I Googled it. Tried DU, DW, different cables (USB, FW 800),
> rebooted the machine -- everything. Doesn't mount or show up
> anywhere.
>
> Am I missing anything? I just thought I'd ping you before I throw it
> into the sea. It's only a year or two old and been kept in my safe,
> so it hasn't been knocked around....
>
>
> --
> Rob Frankel
>
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Re: Portable Hard Drive Issue
Posted by: "Rob Frankel" rob@robfrankel.com robfrankeldotcom
Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:07 am (PDT)
At 10:27 AM -0400 9/27/11, Denver Dan wrote thusly:
>Howdy.
>
>What Tod H says. :-)
>
>Except I would add that if the portable has an external power brick
>(which may have failed) you can get replacements at places like OWC.
>Be sure you match the electrical requirements of a replacement unit. A
>call to OWC tech support or customer service might help with this.
>There are even switchable power bricks available that have a selector
>for voltage.
>
>Of course, it's hard to know if it's the power supply in any case and
>buying a new power supply may be the solution but if the problem is
>with a bridge chip in the case (fairly common) then the above won't
>solve the problem.
>
>Denver Dan
>
Mine is an Iomega portable. No brick. No external power supply.
Still lights up, still whirs, doesn't click or anything.
Just sits there.
--
Rob Frankel, Branding Expert
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Re: Portable Hard Drive Issue
Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop
Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:20 am (PDT)
Pulling power from the buss. May have power regulation circuitry though. Not sure how that works with buss power. However, I do know that sometimes buss powered devices simply can't draw enough from a given buss and this can be a problem. I don't know why, but to check... if laptop, make sure the laptop is plugged in. Weak batteries are one apparent cause. Make sure it is the ONLY device on the buss. Unplug everything else. A given buss has limited power. If possible, try on another system, preferably a desktop.
If none of these works, I'd order an cheap mini-drive enclosure from OWC or somewhere and swap the drive out. If it doesn't work, you'll have the enclosure for a future spare mini-drive. If you can get, or want to order, an SATA dock or adapting cable, that would give you the best "testing" device for this. I now consider a drive dock an essential tool for anyone who handles a lot of bare drives.
Cheers,
tod
On Sep 27, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Rob Frankel wrote:
> At 10:27 AM -0400 9/27/11, Denver Dan wrote thusly:
> >Howdy.
> >
> >What Tod H says. :-)
> >
> >Except I would add that if the portable has an external power brick
> >(which may have failed) you can get replacements at places like OWC.
> >Be sure you match the electrical requirements of a replacement unit. A
> >call to OWC tech support or customer service might help with this.
> >There are even switchable power bricks available that have a selector
> >for voltage.
> >
> >Of course, it's hard to know if it's the power supply in any case and
> >buying a new power supply may be the solution but if the problem is
> >with a bridge chip in the case (fairly common) then the above won't
> >solve the problem.
> >
> >Denver Dan
> >
>
> Mine is an Iomega portable. No brick. No external power supply.
> Still lights up, still whirs, doesn't click or anything.
>
> Just sits there.
>
> --
> Rob Frankel, Branding Expert
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Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com
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Re: Need Storage Recommendation Please
Posted by: "paul smith" kullervo@nycap.rr.com waldonny
Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:03 am (PDT)
My experience has been that the SSD is good for *all* read/write operations. Operations that were slow on HDD become snappy. Operations that were snappy become instantaneous.
It's similar to the experience of going from dial-up to broadband. You get "spoiled" by the speed. ;)
--
PSmith
MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, OS 10.7.1
On Sep 27, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Tod Hopkins wrote:
All I'm saying is that the SSD is good for whatever takes the most time to load and that one should examine ones working style to determine what goes on the SSD.
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Command-2 and Safari
Posted by: "Bill B." bill501@mindspring.com kernos501
Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:32 am (PDT)
I accidently hit command-2 while browsing in Safari 5.0.5 which removes some CSS formatting including, background colors and images, link colors, font colors. Basically, it changes a web pages to black text on a white background, with blue links and red visited links. It makes some pages MUCH easier to read. It does not mess with images unless they are background images for the body, table cells or div's.
I have a bookmarklet called Zap Colors that does the same thing. I'm not sure if the cmd-2 is associated with the bookmarklet or is indigenous to Safari. I use Safari 5.0.5, but recall it also working in 5.1.
Try it and let me know if it works without the bookmarklet.
Cheers,
Bill
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Re: Command-2 and Safari
Posted by: "Patsy Price" beyondwords@shaw.ca beyondwords2
Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:26 am (PDT)
I too use the Zap Colors bookmarklet---very helpful!
In Safari 5.1 on OS 10.6.8 I tried Cmd-2. It took me to my local TV
listings, a page I hadn't visited for a couple of weeks, but for
which I do have a bookmark in the bookmarks bar. Tried Cmd-2 several
times, from a blank page and from other pages. It always took me to
the same page (TV listings).
So Cmd-2 certainly doesn't work the same for me as it does for Bill B.
Now I'm curious!
Patsy
>I accidently hit command-2 while browsing in Safari 5.0.5 which
>removes some CSS formatting including, background colors and images,
>link colors, font colors. Basically, it changes a web pages to black
>text on a white background, with blue links and red visited links.
>It makes some pages MUCH easier to read. It does not mess with
>images unless they are background images for the body, table cells
>or div's.
>
>I have a bookmarklet called Zap Colors that does the same thing. I'm
>not sure if the cmd-2 is associated with the bookmarklet or is
>indigenous to Safari. I use Safari 5.0.5, but recall it also working
>in 5.1.
>
>Try it and let me know if it works without the bookmarklet.
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Invites for iPhone Event 10/4 10a (Pacific) Finally out
Posted by: "Bill Boulware" bill.boulware@gmail.com boulware0224
Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:46 am (PDT)
Apple confirms October 4 event: Let̢۪s talk
iPhone<http://9to5mac.com/2011/ >09/27/apple- confirms- october-4- event/
http://9to5mac.com/2011/ 09/27/apple- confirms- october-4- event/#more- 94888
[image: apple-october-4-invite1. jpg]
*The Loop* reports<http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/ >09/27/apple- announces- iphone-5- event-for- oct-4/
that
Apple has finally confirmed the long-awaited media event. The wait will soon
be over: Apple has scheduled a press conference next Tuesday, October 4. The
event will take place at Apple̢۪s home turf, its Cupertino campus in
California at 10am PT, as
rumored<http://9to5mac.com/2011/ >.09/25/apples- iphone-announcem ent-to-be- held-on-home- court/
If an email invitation is any indication, this will definitely be an
iPhone-focused media event. *AllThingsD* has it on good
authority<http://9to5mac.com/2011/ >that09/21/allthingsd -apple-ceo- tim-cook- to-unveil- iphone-5- at-october- 4-media-event/
Apple CEO Tim Cook will deliver the presentation, a first for Cook in his
new CEO role.
As *9to5Mac* reported
<http://9to5mac.com/2011/ >yesterday, Apple̢۪s next09/26/the- new-iphone/
iPhone will sport a dual-core A5 chip from iPad 2
with nine times faster graphics, giving the handset a leg up over the latest
Android phones in the graphics department and gaming. The processor will
pack in 1GB of RAM, twice as much as the iPhone 4′s A4 chip or iPad 2′s A5
processor.
Camera on the back will be
upgraded<http://9to5mac.com/2011/ >to04/01/howard- stringer- says-sony- image-sensors- delayed-for- apples-ipad/
eight megapixels and will sport a backlit sensor that takes incredibly
high-resolution
and clear shots<http://9to5mac.com/2011/ >,09/07/first- public-picture- taken-with- iphone-5s- 8-megapixel- camera/
even in low light conditions. The camera app might support panorama
photography<http://9to5mac.com/2011/ >.06/08/apple- plans-native- panorama- camera-functiona lity-in-ios- 5/
Other treats include a Qualcomm Gobi baseband chip so a single hardware SKU
should address both GSM and CDMA networks.
The biggest selling point is understood to be a voice activated feature
called Assistant<http://9to5mac.com/2011/ >,07/22/ios- 5s-siri-like- system-navigatio n-is-called- assistant- uses-device- info-to-handle- actions/
stemming from Apple̢۪s acquisition of Siri, a search intelligence startup.
The “Let’s talk iPhone†tagline on the invitation could be deciphered as a
subtle hint at Assistant.
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Re: Invites for iPhone Event 10/4 10a (Pacific) Finally out
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harryo43@gmail.com hflaxman001
Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:25 am (PDT)
On 9/27/2011 11:39 AM, Bill Boulware wrote:
> Apple confirms October 4 event: Let̢۪s talk
> iPhone<http://9to5mac.com/2011/ >09/27/apple- confirms- october-4- event/
> http://9to5mac.com/2011/ 09/27/apple- confirms- october-4- event/#more- 94888
Wow and MORE Wow!
No mention of LTE or other network upgraded capability, unless I missed it.
Harry
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Re: Invites for iPhone Event 10/4 10a (Pacific) Finally out
Posted by: "Bill Boulware" bill.boulware@gmail.com boulware0224
Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:28 am (PDT)
Nothing definitive until event which is at this time, we will be 30 minutes
in this time next week.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 13:25, Harry Flaxman <harryo43@gmail.com > wrote:
> **
>
>
> On 9/27/2011 11:39 AM, Bill Boulware wrote:
> > Apple confirms October 4 event: Let's talk
> > iPhone<http://9to5mac.com/2011/ >09/27/apple- confirms- october-4- event/
> > http://9to5mac.com/2011/ 09/27/apple- confirms- october-4- event/#more- 94888
>
> Wow and MORE Wow!
>
> No mention of LTE or other network upgraded capability, unless I missed it.
>
> Harry
>
>
>
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Re: Invites for iPhone Event 10/4 10a (Pacific) Finally out
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harryo43@gmail.com hflaxman001
Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:29 am (PDT)
On 9/27/2011 11:39 AM, Bill Boulware wrote:
> Apple confirms October 4 event: Let̢۪s talk
> iPhone<http://9to5mac.com/2011/ >09/27/apple- confirms- october-4- event/
> http://9to5mac.com/2011/ 09/27/apple- confirms- october-4- event/#more- 94888
Wonder if this is any indication of what the new iPod Touch will be
like, (sans cell capability)?
Some really nice upgrades/updates there!
Harry
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Re: Invites for iPhone Event 10/4 10a (Pacific) Finally out
Posted by: "Ron West" ronwest@gmail.com ronwestb12
Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:36 am (PDT)
The only rumor that I've heard about the iPt is that it is going to
come in white (yawn), a display coating (yawn), and and a revised
ambient light sensor (yawn). Feeling very sleepy now...
They really need to update the crap camera in it.
It's just the same doll with a new hat.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Harry Flaxman <harryo43@gmail.com > wrote:
>
>
>
> On 9/27/2011 11:39 AM, Bill Boulware wrote:
> > Apple confirms October 4 event: Let's talk
> > iPhone<http://9to5mac.com/2011/ >09/27/apple- confirms- october-4- event/
> > http://9to5mac.com/2011/ 09/27/apple- confirms- october-4- event/#more- 94888
>
> Wonder if this is any indication of what the new iPod Touch will be
> like, (sans cell capability)?
>
> Some really nice upgrades/updates there!
>
> Harry
>
>
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Re: Invites for iPhone Event 10/4 10a (Pacific) Finally out
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harryo43@gmail.com hflaxman001
Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:38 am (PDT)
On 9/27/2011 1:36 PM, Ron West wrote:
> The only rumor that I've heard about the iPt is that it is going to
> come in white (yawn), a display coating (yawn), and and a revised
> ambient light sensor (yawn). Feeling very sleepy now...
>
> They really need to update the crap camera in it.
>
> It's just the same doll with a new hat.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Harry Flaxman<harryo43@gmail.com > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 9/27/2011 11:39 AM, Bill Boulware wrote:
>>> > > Apple confirms October 4 event: Let's talk
>>> > > iPhone<http://9to5mac.com/2011/ >09/27/apple- confirms- october-4- event/
>>> > > http://9to5mac.com/2011/ 09/27/apple- confirms- october-4- event/#more- 94888
>> >
>> > Wonder if this is any indication of what the new iPod Touch will be
>> > like, (sans cell capability)?
>> >
>> > Some really nice upgrades/updates there
I believe that in the past, the iPod Touch was not updated at the same
time as the iPhone, but it seemed to happen a refresh later. I hope
they don't do that again.
Harry
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Re: Invites for iPhone Event 10/4 10a (Pacific) Finally out
Posted by: "Bill Boulware" bill.boulware@gmail.com boulware0224
Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:45 am (PDT)
This is the time that the iPod line / Music event has happened for the past
decade - they pushed the iPhone launch from late June/early July back to
October - to captivate the holiday season, because of technically /
development reasons or some other internal reason (Jobs health?).
While logistically it would not make sense to release new iPhone and iPods
at the same time - I can't see them forgoing new devices this holiday season
....
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 13:38, Harry Flaxman <harryo43@gmail.com > wrote:
>
>
> I believe that in the past, the iPod Touch was not updated at the same
> time as the iPhone, but it seemed to happen a refresh later. I hope
> they don't do that again.
>
> Harry
>
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3g data plan with at&t only?
Posted by: "Melissa tucker" melissatucker4@att.net
Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:32 am (PDT)
Mine is 3g with at&t. Am I stuck with that plan, or are there other companies that I can get a data plan for my ipad 2 with?
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Re: 3g data plan with at&t only?
Posted by: "Bill Boulware" bill.boulware@gmail.com boulware0224
Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:43 am (PDT)
If you bought the AT&T model of the iPad that is the only carrier it is
going to work with - they sold 18 models 3 sizes (16, 32, or 64GB), 2 colors
(Black or White) with either WiFi, AT&T, or Verizon so 6 WiFi, 6 AT&T, 6
VZW.
If you want to use a different cellular carrier you would have to have a
"WiFi Hotspot" which are built into most phones (including iPhone) and all
Android phones that typically costs $20-$30 in addition to data plan) or
sold as a stand alone device that costs $40-$60/mo depending on usage.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 13:08, Melissa tucker <melissatucker4@att.net >wrote:
> **
>
>
> Mine is 3g with at&t. Am I stuck with that plan, or are there other
> companies that I can get a data plan for my ipad 2 with?
>
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Re: 3g data plan with at&t only?
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:54 am (PDT)
Howdy.
Assuming that you are located in the USA (this is an international
group) . . .
Verizon and ATT both sell the iPad.
The term "3G" and "4G" is pretty much a marketing concept rather than a
technology.
Sprint may soon be selling an iPhone 4 and that could mean also iPad.
Verizon's "3G" service is a different technology than ATT "3G."
You may find that in some cases Verizon's service is a bit faster but
generally ATT seems to have fewer restrictions in terms of data caps
that we've recently seen implemented by Verizon.
Check with other companies.
Since it's an iPad you won't be making cell phone calls but if you had
an iPhone then ATT's cell service allows for talking on the phone while
browsing for data or using the iPhone's Safari and Verizon's service
does not allow for this double-use technology.
Denver Dan
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:08:44 -0400, Melissa tucker wrote:
> Mine is 3g with at&t. Am I stuck with that plan, or are there other
> companies that I can get a data plan for my ipad 2 with?
>
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New Trojan On The Loose
Posted by: "Kathy Benitez" kabenitez@gmail.com kabenitez
Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:34 am (PDT)
I'm worried I downloaded the Trojan.
Yesterday I had a window appear on my computer saying it was an update to
Adobe Flash and I downloaded it.
Does this mean I have a Trojan?
If so how do I get rid of it?
I'm using Snow Leopard 10.6.8
Thanks
Kathy
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Re: New Trojan On The Loose
Posted by: "vixpix" vixpix@frontiernet.net nyskater
Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:05 am (PDT)
I always get these updates and always download no problem so far.
Vickie
Sent from a spoiled little iPad
On Sep 27, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Kathy Benitez <kabenitez@gmail.com > wrote:
> I'm worried I downloaded the Trojan.
>
> Yesterday I had a window appear on my computer saying it was an update to
> Adobe Flash and I downloaded it.
>
> Does this mean I have a Trojan?
>
> If so how do I get rid of it?
>
> I'm using Snow Leopard 10.6.8
>
> Thanks
> Kathy
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Re: New Trojan On The Loose
Posted by: "OBrien" bco@hiwaay.net conorboru
Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:59 am (PDT)
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:33:42 -0400, Kathy Benitez wrote:
> Yesterday I had a window appear on my computer saying it was an update to
> Adobe Flash and I downloaded it.
>
> Does this mean I have a Trojan?
I don't know...maybe, if you haven't opened/installed the file you're OK.
For future reference: NEVER respond to such notices. Always go to the website to download any update, IMO.
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