Messages In This Digest (7 Messages)
- 1a.
- Re: Time for a new Airport? From: paul smith
- 2a.
- Re: No Sound with HDMI? From: Jurgen Richter
- 3a.
- Re: ignore conversation in Mac Mail? From: Jurgen Richter
- 4a.
- Re: Blowout quarter for Apple From: Denver Dan
- 5a.
- Bootcamp Key Mapping From: Arjun Singhal
- 5b.
- Re: Bootcamp Key Mapping From: N.A. Nada
- 6.
- Automator or Applescript....... From: cjc1959au
Messages
- 1a.
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Re: Time for a new Airport?
Posted by: "paul smith" kullervo@nycap.rr.com waldonny
Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:08 pm (PST)
I am signed up for service at 20 Mbps with a "boost" feature that is supposed to raise the speed to 30 Mbps for brief intervals during heavy network activity. The speeds are measured between my network and servers in other cities more than 100 miles away.
--
PSmith
MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, OS 10.7.2 iPhone 4S 64 GB, iOS 5.0.1
On Jan 24, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
Interesting, but what is the nominal speed of your internet connection?
Or is this speed *within* your own network?
Otto
On 24 January 2012 19:24, paul smith <kullervo@nycap.rr.com > wrote:
> I just replaced a D-link wireless router that was about 3 years old with a
> refurbished Airport Extreme purchased from the Apple Store. Although both
> were 802.11n, my speed has increased from around 17 to 20 Mbps with the
> D-lonk, to around 24 to 28 Mbps with the Airport Extreme.
>
- 2a.
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Re: No Sound with HDMI?
Posted by: "Jurgen Richter" yahoo-1@sympatico.ca epsongroups
Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:36 pm (PST)
I have an older Mac mini that has DVI out, and with that I can only get
good video. This older unit does not have the digital audio either, so
my audio is limited to stereo (2 channel) regardless of the download
quality. I have the stereo audio out hooked to my amp with a mini-jack
to RCA connection, and the DVI goes out directly to my plasma's DVI input.
If I had a slightly newer mini, then digital audio out could go into the
optical audio-in on the amp for the 5.1 or better audio decoding.
If I had a really recent mini, I could simply plug its HDMI directly
into the amp or the TV for decoding audio and video as best as it gets.
At the end of the day, the TV is a honkin' big monitor and it does look
great, and the audio feed comes from its source digitally, when not
watching something downloaded on the mini.
- 3a.
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Re: ignore conversation in Mac Mail?
Posted by: "Jurgen Richter" yahoo-1@sympatico.ca epsongroups
Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:42 pm (PST)
Forrest wrote:
If in fact though, you just want to edit out some lines in the email and
retain the rest of it, I know of no program that will do that.
====
Well yes you can - simply copy the desired text and send a reply to
yourself, if you want to retain the subject thread.
Or cut and paste it into a new email with a more on-target subject line
and save it as a draft and/or email it to yourself...
That can be done with any email software. I can also edit the actual
email itself within Thunderbird - I have a plug-in/extension called
Header Tools which allows me to completely edit the whole message as
required. I use this to change subject lines, so that the can be
properly filed for future reference...
hth
- 4a.
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Re: Blowout quarter for Apple
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:32 pm (PST)
Howdy.
Apple has long been involved in product placement in movies and TV
shows. Remember "Seinfeld" with a different Mac model in the corner by
the window in every episode? This got even funnier when Micro$loth, as
always tone deaf, paid Seinfeld, a known Macintosh user, a vast amount
of money to appear with Bill Gates in a couple of Apple killer
commercials. The commercials were so senseless and bad that the series
was cancelled almost immediately.
Since a lot of movie's have their shooting schedules done on Macintosh
it's like an inside track.
The recent Mission Impossible with Tom Cruise saw the world get saved
with iPads and MacBooks (and Tom Cruise).
Apple has had, at least in the past, a policy that an Apple product
used in a film is not supposed to be seen doing something evil or
causing immediate death.
Sometimes in movies made in the Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 era you can see a
Macintosh that, to those of us who tried it out, is running a fun
utility that altered the look of the Finder dramatically.
Remember the movie Robocop? Set in a nasty Detroit of the future?
Look carefully at what Robocop is seeing on his vision screen and
you'll see Macintosh.
As an exercise in trivia does anyone remember the name of one of those
utilities that could change the look of the Finder to look like
Windows, or Amiga, or DOS?
Denver Dan
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:23:44 +0000, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed that if laptops are seen in a factual/science TV
> programme (UK on BB2/4 and C4), they seem increasingly to be
> MacBooks/MacBook Pros? iPads seem to be everywhere too, and all this
> despite the higher price compared with the "competition". Is this product
> placement?
>
> Otto
- 5a.
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Bootcamp Key Mapping
Posted by: "Arjun Singhal" arjunsinghal@yahoo.com arjunsinghal
Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:31 pm (PST)
Hi
My father just moved from his Windows XP laptop to a Macbook Pro 15 in and we're running Windows 7 Ultimate with Bootcamp on it. There are some Windows software that are not available for Mac and contain a lot of data for over 15 years that we cannot migrate onto another platform.
Now, in the Windows environment he uses the keyboard shortcut of Alt+Delete to remove certain account heads in the package, but after he's moved to Bootcamp environment, the Delete key (Windows) on the keyboard is no longer there. While one is within the Mac environment, our Delete key (which is called Backspace in Windows) works like Delete on Windows if one presses the Fn button. But the Fn button doesn't work inside Bootcamp.
Can anyone help with the functionality? Because he needs to use this feature and it won't be a successful migration to Mac until this works for him.
Regards,
Arjun
- 5b.
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Re: Bootcamp Key Mapping
Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net
Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:04 pm (PST)
On Jan 24, 2012, at 9:30 PM, Arjun Singhal wrote:
> Hi
>
> My father just moved from his Windows XP laptop to a Macbook Pro 15 in and we're running Windows 7 Ultimate with Bootcamp on it. There are some Windows software that are not available for Mac and contain a lot of data for over 15 years that we cannot migrate onto another platform.
>
> Now, in the Windows environment he uses the keyboard shortcut of Alt+Delete to remove certain account heads in the package, but after he's moved to Bootcamp environment, the Delete key (Windows) on the keyboard is no longer there. While one is within the Mac environment, our Delete key (which is called Backspace in Windows) works like Delete on Windows if one presses the Fn button. But the Fn button doesn't work inside Bootcamp.
>
> Can anyone help with the functionality? Because he needs to use this feature and it won't be a successful migration to Mac until this works for him.
I was going to suggest the fn key, but you already have.
There is a basic Windows keyboard mapping app, I don't remember the name, have you tried that? You can download it from MS.
Brent
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Automator or Applescript.......
Posted by: "cjc1959au" maclist@analogdigital.com.au cjc1959au
Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:59 pm (PST)
Hi All,
Need some help for a clients backup. Want to make it even easier for them to finish.
Currently we are using Drobo Copy from their Drobo-FS to a USB mounted external drive. The name of the Drobo folder is "Storage_1". The name of the external drive is "Daily_Backup" and the name of the folder is "Backup_New".
What I would like to do is put an app or script on his desktop which would do the following:
Rename "Backup_New" to "Backup_2011_01_24" which is yesterdays date. I don't need time, just the full date is fine. I would rather it put the date of the day before today, rather than todays if that is possible.
Create a new folder on the external drive called "Backup_New".
Eject the USB drive.
Any ideas for some simple and effective ways to make this happen.
Have had very little to do with Applescript &/or Automator.
Thanks everyone for your help.
Christopher
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