Messages In This Digest (25 Messages)
- 1a.
- Niifty apps From: Blaine Gordon
- 1b.
- Re: Niifty apps From: Harry Flaxman
- 1c.
- Re: Niifty apps From: Gijzette Strickland
- 1d.
- Re: Niifty apps From: N.A. Nada
- 2a.
- Re: Emoticons From: Ross Rasmussen
- 2b.
- Re: Emoticons From: Keith Whaley
- 2c.
- Re: Emoticons From: Forrest Leedy
- 2d.
- Re: Emoticons From: Bekah
- 2e.
- Re: Emoticons From: N.A. Nada
- 2f.
- Re: Emoticons From: Forrest Leedy
- 2g.
- Re: Emoticons From: N.A. Nada
- 3.1.
- Re: Keeping up with Malware From: John Mills
- 3.2.
- Re: Keeping up with Malware From: Earle Jones
- 3.3.
- Re: Keeping up with Malware From: OBrien
- 3.4.
- Re: Keeping up with Malware From: Randy B. Singer
- 4a.
- Re: Spinning beach ball problem From: vixpix
- 4b.
- Re: Spinning beach ball problem From: Otto Nikolaus
- 4c.
- Re: Spinning beach ball problem From: Randy B. Singer
- 5a.
- File attachments in Lion Mail vs. Entourage From: James Robertson
- 5b.
- Re: File attachments in Lion Mail vs. Entourage From: Randy B. Singer
- 6.
- iWeb problem From: caribsea@bellsouth.net
- 7a.
- Re: Converting old "AppleWorks" files to "MS Word" or "Pages" files. From: Earle Jones
- 8.
- ADMIN (was Re: [macsupport] Emoticons) From: Michel Munger
- 9a.
- Re: Lion's desktop on top of desktop From: Jim Saklad
- 10a.
- Re: Problem with keywords in iPhoto 11 From: Larson
Messages
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Niifty apps
Posted by: "Blaine Gordon" blainegordon@ymail.com blainegordon@ymail.com
Sat Dec 3, 2011 6:40 am (PST)
I went to the mac app store and typed in Kindle. It was there along with kobo and nook, I only like free books. There are plenty at both the kindle and kobo web sites and both work well with the iPad2. If anyone can make the nook work please tell me how. I just wanted to pass this along.
Blaine
Sent from my iPhone
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Re: Niifty apps
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Sat Dec 3, 2011 12:54 pm (PST)
I, unfortunately, bought a Nook last year. B&N has many free books, however, they are not very good. Most booksellers have free stuff. Do a search on 'free books' and you will find them.
Harry
On Dec 3, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Blaine Gordon wrote:
> I went to the mac app store and typed in Kindle. It was there along with kobo and nook, I only like free books. There are plenty at both the kindle and kobo web sites and both work well with the iPad2. If anyone can make the nook work please tell me how. I just wanted to pass this along.
> Blaine
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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Re: Niifty apps
Posted by: "Gijzette Strickland" gsstrickland@gmail.com gijzette
Sat Dec 3, 2011 1:01 pm (PST)
I use the Nook Study App on my Mac. It works fine. It says it is for
textbook, but it works fine or normal ebooks also.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ nookstudy/ college/download /index.asp
--Gijzette
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Blaine Gordon <blainegordon@ymail.com >wrote:
> I went to the mac app store and typed in Kindle. It was there along with
> kobo and nook, I only like free books. There are plenty at both the kindle
> and kobo web sites and both work well with the iPad2. If anyone can make
> the nook work please tell me how. I just wanted to pass this along.
> Blaine
> Sent from my iPhone
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Re: Niifty apps
Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net
Sat Dec 3, 2011 1:28 pm (PST)
On Dec 3, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Gijzette Strickland wrote:
> I use the Nook Study App on my Mac. It works fine. It says it is for
> textbook, but it works fine or normal ebooks also.
> http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ nookstudy/ college/download /index.asp
>
> --Gijzette
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Blaine Gordon <blainegordon@ymail.com >wrote:
>
> > I went to the mac app store and typed in Kindle. It was there along with
> > kobo and nook, I only like free books. There are plenty at both the kindle
> > and kobo web sites and both work well with the iPad2. If anyone can make
> > the nook work please tell me how. I just wanted to pass this along.
Thanks Gijzette. I was only finding the Kindle app in the Mac App Store.
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Re: Emoticons
Posted by: "Ross Rasmussen" ross2752@mac.com rossrasmussen
Sat Dec 3, 2011 7:33 am (PST)
Yes, emoticons have evolved. I texted my high school senior son and used the emoticon ;)
He was quick to respond that I shouldn't use that emoticon because it means "DTF". I responded "?"
He responded "I'll tell you tonight".
I looked it up and was aghast. Who knew?
Ross
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Re: Emoticons
Posted by: "Keith Whaley" keith_w@dslextreme.com keith9600
Sat Dec 3, 2011 8:18 am (PST)
Ross Rasmussen wrote:
> Yes, emoticons have evolved. I texted my high school senior son and used
> the emoticon ;)
> He was quick to respond that I shouldn't use that emoticon because it
> means "DTF". I responded "?"
> He responded "I'll tell you tonight".
> I looked it up and was aghast. Who knew?
> Ross
As a frequent emoticon user, I appreciate knowing that. To me it was
merely a smile and a wink.
I'd say it is a devolution, not an evolution!
But, I do appreciate knowing that small fact. It will keep me from
inadvertently offending.
keith <smile>
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Re: Emoticons
Posted by: "Forrest Leedy" f.leedy@comcast.net forrkazu
Sat Dec 3, 2011 9:35 am (PST)
On Dec 3, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Ross Rasmussen wrote:
> Yes, emoticons have evolved. I texted my high school senior son and used the emoticon ;)
> He was quick to respond that I shouldn't use that emoticon because it means "DTF". I responded "?"
> He responded "I'll tell you tonight".
> I looked it up and was aghast. Who knew?
> Ross
There are 42 definitions of this acronym, of which 6 may apply. Which one made you aghast?
Forrest
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Re: Emoticons
Posted by: "Bekah" bekah0176@sbcglobal.net bekalex
Sat Dec 3, 2011 10:02 am (PST)
(grin) & (chuckle)
Bekah
On Dec 3, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Forrest Leedy wrote:
>
> On Dec 3, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Ross Rasmussen wrote:
>
>> Yes, emoticons have evolved. I texted my high school senior son and used the emoticon ;)
>> He was quick to respond that I shouldn't use that emoticon because it means "DTF". I responded "?"
>> He responded "I'll tell you tonight".
>> I looked it up and was aghast. Who knew?
>> Ross
>
> There are 42 definitions of this acronym, of which 6 may apply. Which one made you aghast?
>
> Forrest
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Re: Emoticons
Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net
Sat Dec 3, 2011 11:24 am (PST)
On Dec 3, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Forrest Leedy wrote:
>
> On Dec 3, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Ross Rasmussen wrote:
>
> > Yes, emoticons have evolved. I texted my high school senior son and used the emoticon ;)
> > He was quick to respond that I shouldn't use that emoticon because it means "DTF". I responded "?"
> > He responded "I'll tell you tonight".
> > I looked it up and was aghast. Who knew?
> > Ross
>
> There are 42 definitions of this acronym, of which 6 may apply. Which one made you aghast?
Apparently it was the TV Trash definition.
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Re: Emoticons
Posted by: "Forrest Leedy" f.leedy@comcast.net forrkazu
Sat Dec 3, 2011 12:51 pm (PST)
On Dec 3, 2011, at 2:24 PM, N.A. Nada wrote:
>
> On Dec 3, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Forrest Leedy wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 3, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Ross Rasmussen wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, emoticons have evolved. I texted my high school senior son and used the emoticon ;)
>>> He was quick to respond that I shouldn't use that emoticon because it means "DTF". I responded "?"
>>> He responded "I'll tell you tonight".
>>> I looked it up and was aghast. Who knew?
>>> Ross
>>
>> There are 42 definitions of this acronym, of which 6 may apply. Which one made you aghast?
>
> Apparently it was the TV Trash definition.
It could be anything, however, I looked it up on <http://www.acronymfinder.com/ >, which for the uninitiated is a Acronym Finder site. Total *known* acronyms from this site for these three letters is 42 and then they broke it down to subgroups. I assumed it was in the last sub group, but really do not know. However, here again, Mr. Nada, I did not see a TV Trash definition. However, that is okay because this thread has gone to far any ways. Any further enlightenment should be made directly to me and not this group, please!
Forrest
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Re: Emoticons
Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net
Sat Dec 3, 2011 1:26 pm (PST)
On Dec 3, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Forrest Leedy wrote:
>
> On Dec 3, 2011, at 2:24 PM, N.A. Nada wrote:
>
> >
> > On Dec 3, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Forrest Leedy wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Dec 3, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Ross Rasmussen wrote:
> >>
> >>> Yes, emoticons have evolved. I texted my high school senior son and used the emoticon ;)
> >>> He was quick to respond that I shouldn't use that emoticon because it means "DTF". I responded "?"
> >>> He responded "I'll tell you tonight".
> >>> I looked it up and was aghast. Who knew?
> >>> Ross
> >>
> >> There are 42 definitions of this acronym, of which 6 may apply. Which one made you aghast?
> >
> > Apparently it was the TV Trash definition.
>
> It could be anything, however, I looked it up on <http://www.acronymfinder.com/ >, which for the uninitiated is a Acronym Finder site. Total *known* acronyms from this site for these three letters is 42 and then they broke it down to subgroups. I assumed it was in the last sub group, but really do not know. However, here again, Mr. Nada, I did not see a TV Trash definition. However, that is okay because this thread has gone to far any ways. Any further enlightenment should be made directly to me and not this group, please!
A quick web search brought up a reference to Jersey Shores or whatever the program is called and referred to Snooky giving "Down to (fornicate)" as the meaning.
TV Trash is the new Trailer Trash.
"Por Nada."
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Re: Keeping up with Malware
Posted by: "John Mills" jsm5320432@yahoo.com jsm5320432
Sat Dec 3, 2011 8:27 am (PST)
Fellows:
I have asked more than a few questions to members in this group. Talented and knowledgeable people like Randy who offer help are a great asset for following this group on a regular basis. This holds true whether one asks questions or just reads the words of the wise, or can from time-to-time offer some assistance, it is a great "community" of Mac users.
My own practice is in a rural area in which, aside from public schools, is a "sea" of windows users and the nearest Apple store is about 90 minutes away. The point being there is no help locally and thus getting any advise/help is usually by phone or internet. While Apple Care is a big help, I've been quite thankful for some of the insights and knowledge that is offered by our esteemed members.
I recently had a problem with a new version of a windows excel file that baffled me as well as the folks at Apple and even at Microsoft. It was about a month worth of research and I did ask Randy directly about the problem when all other avenues were dead ends.
While I don't consider this group to be "Mac First Responders" I have found that when all else has failed there are some very experienced and smart folks who contribute here.
Thanks to all of you!
John
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Re: Keeping up with Malware
Posted by: "Earle Jones" earle.jones@comcast.net earlejones501
Sat Dec 3, 2011 5:30 pm (PST)
On Nov 30, 11, at 11:02 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2011, at 5:50 AM, Tod Hopkins wrote:
>
> > Interesting article on increasing OSX malware threat..
>
> By what standard is it increasing? The fact that there have been a
> couple of Trojan Horses that are exceedingly rare, released in the
> past year?
>
> How many people do you know who have had a verifiable problem with
> Mac malware where they sustained damage?
> How many of us are downloading pirated software from torrents so that
> we are even exposed to these Trojans?
>
> Here is a list of all known Mac malware:
> http://www.reedcorner.net/guides/ macvirus/ malware_catalog. php
>
> Where is this big increase in Mac malware? Especially Mac malware
> with a significant threat level?
>
> _____________________ _________ _________ ____
> Randy B. Singer
> Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
*
Randy: In 20+ years of Mac experience, I have had one detected virus. It was the old "Windows Definition" WDEF virus, which I loaded myself from a floppy to test some Norton virus detection software.
Thanks for your reference to all known Mac malware. Keep up the good work!
Cheers!
earle
*
_____________________ __
Earle Jones
501 Portola Road #8008
Portola Valley CA 94028
Home: 650-424-4362
Cell: 650-269-0035
earle.jones@comcast.net
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Re: Keeping up with Malware
Posted by: "OBrien" bco@hiwaay.net conorboru
Sat Dec 3, 2011 6:19 pm (PST)
On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 17:30:17 -0800, Earle Jones wrote:
> Randy: In 20+ years of Mac experience, I have had one detected
> virus. It was the old "Windows Definition" WDEF virus, which I
> loaded myself from a floppy to test some Norton virus detection
> software.
I remember that virus...never had it. I've been using Macs since 1986, and have never had any sort of virus, worm, trojan horse, or anything else. (I've never used any sort of anti-virus software.)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
O'Brien ––– –... .-. .. . -. - 3.4.
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Re: Keeping up with Malware
Posted by: "Randy B. Singer" randy@macattorney.com randybrucesinger
Sat Dec 3, 2011 9:40 pm (PST)
On Dec 3, 2011, at 8:27 AM, John Mills wrote:
> I recently had a problem with a new version of a windows excel file
> that baffled me as well as the folks at Apple and even at
> Microsoft. It was about a month worth of research and I did ask
> Randy directly about the problem when all other avenues were dead
> ends.
For those who want more information, John was sent an Excel file with
"lots of embedded macros" and was told that it wasn't working for him
because "the Mac can't handle that."
I don't recall your telling me, John, did my suggestion to try the
demo of Office 2011 work? Or did you find some other solution?
_____________________ _________ _________ ____
Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts. html
_____________________ _________ _________ ____
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Re: Spinning beach ball problem
Posted by: "vixpix" vixpix@frontiernet.net nyskater
Sat Dec 3, 2011 3:33 pm (PST)
Thank you Randy!! I'm not quite sure what it was, but after running down the list and doing what you suggested, the beach ball went away! I hope it stays away!
THANKS AGAIN!! You're a saint for being so helpful!
Vickie
Sent from my iPad's big sister
On Dec 3, 2011, at 3:22 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
> It does indeed sound as if you have migrated over a piece of outdated/
> incompatible stay-resident software that is causing your problem.
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Re: Spinning beach ball problem
Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com nikyzf
Sat Dec 3, 2011 4:41 pm (PST)
Let me just say that having Activity Monitor running can tell you a lot.
Click on the CPU column as Randy said, then drag the window into the bottom
right corner of your screen so that just the first 3 columns and the top 3
rows of processes are visible (the rest are off-screen). When you have a
problem it can be hard even to get anything running, AM included, but if
it's already there you have a good chance of seeing what's hogging CPU.
You might even put it your Login Items.
Otto
On 3 December 2011 23:33, vixpix <vixpix@frontiernet.net > wrote:
> Thank you Randy!! I'm not quite sure what it was, but after running down
> the list and doing what you suggested, the beach ball went away! I hope it
> stays away!
>
> THANKS AGAIN!! You're a saint for being so helpful!
>
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Re: Spinning beach ball problem
Posted by: "Randy B. Singer" randy@macattorney.com randybrucesinger
Sat Dec 3, 2011 9:27 pm (PST)
On Dec 3, 2011, at 3:33 PM, vixpix wrote:
> Thank you Randy!! I'm not quite sure what it was, but after running
> down the list and doing what you suggested, the beach ball went
> away! I hope it stays away!
>
> THANKS AGAIN!! You're a saint for being so helpful!
My pleasure, Vickie! I'm glad that I could be of assistance.
If you could give us more information as to which of the things that
I suggested that you did, and give us a guess as to which one might
have done the trick, that would be very helpful for the next person
that has this problem.
My experience is that Adobe Flash causes the spinning beachball
problem the most often.
_____________________ _________ _________ ____
Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts. html
_____________________ _________ _________ ____
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File attachments in Lion Mail vs. Entourage
Posted by: "James Robertson" jamesrob@sonic.net jamesrob328i
Sat Dec 3, 2011 4:44 pm (PST)
I've always used Entourage until about a month ago. One thing I don't seem able to do in Mail.app is send attachments "clipped" to the message so that the filename but not an image of the file itself appears in the body of the message. Is there a way to do this in Mail?
--
Jim Robertson
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Re: File attachments in Lion Mail vs. Entourage
Posted by: "Randy B. Singer" randy@macattorney.com randybrucesinger
Sat Dec 3, 2011 9:31 pm (PST)
On Dec 3, 2011, at 4:44 PM, James Robertson wrote:
> One thing I don't seem able to do in Mail.app is send attachments
> "clipped" to the message so that the filename but not an image of
> the file itself appears in the body of the message. Is there a way
> to do this in Mail?
You need:
Attachment Tamer $15
http://lokiware.info/Attachment- Tamer
_____________________ _________ _________ ____
Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts. html
_____________________ _________ _________ ____
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iWeb problem
Posted by: "caribsea@bellsouth.net" caribsea@bellsouth.net caribsea@bellsouth.net
Sat Dec 3, 2011 5:03 pm (PST)
I insert a Web counter on the pages and save but it does not appear on the site. Can't figure it out. Any ideas?
Willi
iMac OS10.6.8
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Re: Converting old "AppleWorks" files to "MS Word" or "Pages" files.
Posted by: "Earle Jones" earle.jones@comcast.net earlejones501
Sat Dec 3, 2011 5:19 pm (PST)
On Nov 29, 11, at 8:03 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
>
> On Nov 29, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Earle Jones wrote:
>
> > Is there a convenient and quick way to convert a big group of old
> > "AppleWorks" files to "MS Word" or "Pages" files?
>
> Have a look at:
> http://www.wilmut.webspace. virginmedia. com/notes/ aw/page2. html
>
> In short, only Pages will open AppleWorks word processing documents
> close to perfectly and allow you to save them in a modern format. And
> unfortunately, it won't do it in a batch. (However, since Pages is
> scriptable, you could use Automator or AppleScript to create a script
> to do this pretty easily.)
>
> Also, recent versions of Microsoft Word include an AppleWorks file
> converter available for installation on the install disk that it comes
> on. I don't know how well this converter works, and I doubt that it
> will convert files in a batch either.:
> http://lin.wsd.wednet.edu/ trthelp/techhelp PDF/wordopenappl eworks.pdf
>
> There used to be a batch translator from DataViz, but it stopped
> being sold a couple of years ago. You might be able to find it on eBay.
>
> _____________________ _________ _________ ____
> Randy B. Singer
> Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
*
Randy: Many thanks! That's a big help.
earle
*
_____________________ __
Earle Jones
501 Portola Road #8008
Portola Valley CA 94028
Home: 650-424-4362
Cell: 650-269-0035
earle.jones@comcast.net
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ADMIN (was Re: [macsupport] Emoticons)
Posted by: "Michel Munger" michel@macsupportcentral.com mmungermtl
Sat Dec 3, 2011 6:03 pm (PST)
Guys, this topic has NOTHING to do with the Mac. Stop it.
Michel (Group owner)
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Re: Lion's desktop on top of desktop
Posted by: "Jim Saklad" jimdoc@me.com jimdoc01
Sat Dec 3, 2011 8:14 pm (PST)
> I'm new this week to Lion. I used to use Expose to flip back to my desktop. All the open windows would conveniently slide off the screen so I could access my Hard Drive, and my photo folders which live on the desktop. Now when I use Expose to slide the open windows off, they don't slide off, but I get all the open windows, plus the old desktop still on the screen, but over a brand new, gray canvas-like desktop, and I can't even see my Hard Drive or the folders that used to be on the old desktop. I assume this is normal for Lion.
Open System Preferences - Mission Control.
You will see that the default key combination for "Show Desktop" is <F11> (on my laptop, <fn><F11>).
If you click on "Hot Corners...", you can assign Desktop to one of the corners.
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Jim Saklad mailto:jimdoc@me.com
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Re: Problem with keywords in iPhoto 11
Posted by: "Larson" pix@maksimo.de yovard@ymail.com
Sat Dec 3, 2011 8:38 pm (PST)
On 01.12.2011, at 17:09, harpangel36 wrote:
> I just upgraded to iphoto 11. I used to be able to see my keywords under the photo and add keywords under the photo. I also would be able to type in the shortcut for a keyword and it would fill it in automatically. Now, I am unable to type anything under the photos
Seems that we are the only ones who use iPhoto on this list, therefore I will answer your question. In iPhoto 11 (which for some strange reason is in fact v. 9, mine is 9.2.1) you should be able to enter the title under the photo. You can also click on the stars under the photo to assign the photo rating.
> and adding keywords can only be done in the info bar. Is that new on iPhoto 11?
>
Yes.
Anna
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