2/18/2012

[macsupport] Digest Number 8748

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Re: Apple¹s iCloud Is No Dropbox Killer (It

Posted by: "Michel Munger" michel@macsupportcentral.com   mmungermtl

Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:23 am (PST)



If Apple wants to be competitive, it has to build cloud services for its
users. Otherwise, other companies will be happy to take its customers away.

The problem doesn't lie in Apple's hands. It's for communities,
companies and governments to handle. They need to put efforts together
for broadband to be accessible to as many people as possible.

Michel

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paul smith said:
> Bear in mind that iCloud is optional.
> And it's not just Apple. You could say that the tech industry in general has forgotten you. No cloud storage, multiplayer gaming or streaming content for you! (Just channeling Seinfeld's Soup Nazi... )
> Perhaps the bandwidth auction that was included in the just-passed extension of payroll tax cuts will eventually give you access to faster connections.

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Re: [macsupport] Apple¹s iCloud Is No Dropbox Killer (It

Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net

Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:21 am (PST)



Only, if that is a market they wish to be in, do they need to improve cloud services.

And they have entered markets before, where they had zero presence, to take the predominant position. Say music players, cell phones or the music industry.

Like AppleTV, think of Apple's iCloud as a hobby. It may be marketable by normal standards, but is not up to Apple standards. Why else would they make it free again?

And as Michel implied, universal broadband access is one of the stumbling blocks, if they want more people to use cloud services without local storage options. As we frequently hear on this list, for much of the world, unlimited data usage by internet connection is either not available or very expensive. Even here in the US there are areas with limited data usage or slow internet connection.

Personally, I don't trust the security of third party servers and cloud services, so I minimize my use of them. With the recent news of software developers downloading users information without permission, and no laws in place to prosecute this violation of personal privacy, why should I trust a third party server owner?

the other Brent

On Feb 18, 2012, at 8:23 AM, Michel Munger wrote:

> If Apple wants to be competitive, it has to build cloud services for its
> users. Otherwise, other companies will be happy to take its customers away.
>
> The problem doesn't lie in Apple's hands. It's for communities,
> companies and governments to handle. They need to put efforts together
> for broadband to be accessible to as many people as possible.

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Re: Apple's iCloud Is No Dro  pbox Killer (It

Posted by: "Rob Frankel" rob@robfrankel.com   robfrankeldotcom

Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:29 am (PST)



At 9:21 AM -0800 2/18/12, N.A. Nada wrote thusly:

>
>Like AppleTV, think of Apple's iCloud as a hobby. It may be
>marketable by normal standards, but is not up to Apple standards.
>Why else would they make it free again?
>

As I understand it, only the first few GB's are free. After they've
hooked you, you have to rent the extra space monthly.

Like any crack addict.

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Re: Apple¹s iCloud Is No Dropbox Killer (It

Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@me.com   hflaxman001

Sat Feb 18, 2012 9:41 am (PST)



On 2/18/2012 11:23 AM, Michel Munger wrote:
> If Apple wants to be competitive, it has to build cloud services for its
> users. Otherwise, other companies will be happy to take its customers away.

As I've seen so many reviewers, this week, mention: Apple is the first
company to tie all of it's existing ecosystem together as well as with
the cloud. It's a big step for any company.

I do believe that they have the jump on others by doing this, and a
pretty big one.

If the system is as decent as the tie between say, an iDevice and
iTunes, wirelessly, at this point, it will be impressive, to say the least.

Harry

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Re: [macsupport] Apple¹s iCloud Is No Dropbox Killer (It

Posted by: "bob morin" rbmorin11@gmail.com   rbmorin2002

Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:27 am (PST)




On Feb 18, 2012, at 11:21 AM, N.A. Nada wrote:
>
> And as Michel implied, universal broadband access is one of the stumbling blocks,

Speaking for the US I would support the idea that broadband service should be a public utility like electricity, water etc. It should be supported by taxes and a utility bill. Several major cities have proposed this but none have done it so far to my knowledge.

bob
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Re: [macsupport] Apple¹s iCloud Is No Dropbox Killer (It

Posted by: "Denver dan" denver.dan@verizon.net   denverdan22180

Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:35 am (PST)



There are well over 150 US cities with free public city-wide WiFi access. Probably more since the list I found online was from late in 2010.

I was recently in historically preserved Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, which had it, for example.

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iFrom Denver Dan's iPhone

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On Feb 18, 2012, at 1:27 PM, bob morin <rbmorin11@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Feb 18, 2012, at 11:21 AM, N.A. Nada wrote:
>>
>> And as Michel implied, universal broadband access is one of the stumbling blocks,
>
> Speaking for the US I would support the idea that broadband service should be a public utility like electricity, water etc. It should be supported by taxes and a utility bill. Several major cities have proposed this but none have done it so far to my knowledge.
>
> bob
>
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Re: [macsupport] Apple¹s iCloud Is No Dropbox Killer (It

Posted by: "bob morin" rbmorin11@gmail.com   rbmorin2002

Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:39 am (PST)




On Feb 18, 2012, at 12:35 PM, Denver dan wrote:

> There are well over 150 US cities with free public city-wide WiFi access. Probably more since the list I found online was from late in 2010.
>

Thanks for the info, I haven't lived in one of those cities. The big issue to come is service for the more rural communities.

bob

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Re: [macsupport] Apple¹s iCloud Is No Dropbox Killer (It

Posted by: "D. Brett Woods" brettlyw@mac.com   brettlyw

Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:50 pm (PST)



We have free WiFi in downtown Denver.

Brett
On Feb 18, 2012, at 11:39 AM, bob morin wrote:

>
> On Feb 18, 2012, at 12:35 PM, Denver dan wrote:
>
> > There are well over 150 US cities with free public city-wide WiFi access. Probably more since the list I found online was from late in 2010.
> >
>
> Thanks for the info, I haven't lived in one of those cities. The big issue to come is service for the more rural communities.
>
> bob
>
>

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2a.

Re: Internal Hard Drives

Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net

Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:57 am (PST)



There have been several variations to the definition.

It may be because I believe that one configurations is not redundant, and is used to capture data that is generated faster than write capabilities, like some video work.

On Feb 18, 2012, at 4:02 AM, Ian Gillis wrote:

> On 18 February 2012 08:28, N.A. Nada <whodo678@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Random Array of Independent Drives, or RAID
>
> I believe the "R" is usually taken as meaning "Redundant"; the "I"
> used to be "Inexpensive" but is now normally understood to be
> "Independent".
> See http://foldoc.org/RAID
>

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3a.

App Store - 25 billion Downloads

Posted by: "Denver dan" denver.dan@verizon.net   denverdan22180

Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:26 am (PST)



Apple has a count down clock going on App Store downloads.

The person who downloads the 25,000,000,000th app wins a $10,000 gift card.

How many apps can $10,000 buy???

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Re: App Store - 25 billion Downloads

Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@me.com   hflaxman001

Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:12 pm (PST)



On 2/18/2012 1:26 PM, Denver dan wrote:
> Apple has a count down clock going on App Store downloads.
>
> The person who downloads the 25,000,000,000th app wins a $10,000 gift card.
>
> How many apps can $10,000 buy???

Don't see a counter on my store?

Harry

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4a.

Disappearing desktop icons

Posted by: "ELIOT PYLE" lpyle@pacbell.net   lpyle@pacbell.net

Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:23 am (PST)



This is a "new" feature of OSX 10.7.3 , that is very annoying. At times my desktop of file icons disappear. I use the desktop for short term storage of files that I am working on and to find them gone is a bit of a nuisance. Others have reported this problem also and have offered some help, but I haven't found a fix yet. Apple support kind of left me hanging on this one.

Any ideas?

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Re: Disappearing desktop icons

Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net   denverdan22180

Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:53 pm (PST)



Howdy.

I've read that this is a problem for a few users who upgraded to Mac OS
X 10.7.3 (as you mention).

It seems to also be a problem for some QuarkXPress users who see the
tools in tool pallets disappear. This is QuarkXPress ver. 9 on Mac OS
X 10.7.3 Lion. So it's not just Mac Desktop icons that are having this
problem.

Similar problems may be seen in other applications also but I don't
have a list of them.

I'm on 10.7.3 but have not seen this problem on my own MacPro but
others certainly have.

I'm sure a fix will be coming out but at this time, at least, Quark is
recommending that Mac users not upgrade from Mac OS X 10.7.2 to Mac OS
X 10.7.3.

Denver Dan

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:23:46 +0000, ELIOT PYLE wrote:
> This is a "new" feature of OSX 10.7.3 , that is very annoying. At
> times my desktop of file icons disappear. I use the desktop for short
> term storage of files that I am working on and to find them gone is a
> bit of a nuisance. Others have reported this problem also and have
> offered some help, but I haven't found a fix yet. Apple support kind
> of left me hanging on this one.
>
> Any ideas?

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Re: Disappearing desktop icons

Posted by: "Randy B. Singer" randy@macattorney.com   randybrucesinger

Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:48 pm (PST)




On Feb 18, 2012, at 11:23 AM, ELIOT PYLE wrote:

> This is a "new" feature of OSX 10.7.3 , that is very annoying. At
> times my desktop of file icons disappear. I use the desktop for
> short term storage of files that I am working on and to find them
> gone is a bit of a nuisance. Others have reported this problem also
> and have offered some help, but I haven't found a fix yet. Apple
> support kind of left me hanging on this one.
>
> Any ideas?

There are a very extensive set of suggestions in this discussion thread:

<https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3193793?start=0&tstart=0>
or
http://is.gd/iUkTtd

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5a.

Dell 105 printer with MacBook Pro

Posted by: "Bob" 1belami@gmail.com   bombino21217

Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:37 pm (PST)



Can anyone point me in the direction to find a driver that make the Dell 105
(not a multifunction) printer work with 10.7.3 on a MacBook Pro?

TIA

Bob

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Re: Dell 105 printer with MacBook Pro

Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net   denverdan22180

Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:48 pm (PST)



Howdy.

Dell isn't interested in selling products, except a few monitors, to
Macintosh users.

I've not seen any Dell printer drivers for Macintosh.

It is possible, however, that if the Dell is some kind of networked
PostScript laser printer or PS clone printer that a generic PostScript
printer driver might work.

I doubt that there are any ink jet Dell printers that have Dell drivers
for Macintosh.

I checked the GutenPrint / SourceForge site for printer drivers
included with GutenPrint (formerly GimpPrint) and only about 10 Lexmark
drivers are included and seem to be all for lasers.

GutenPrint is a set of about a thousand printer drivers for all kinds
of printers. It's an open source printer driver project. GutenPrint
is included with all recent Mac OS X system installs. GutenPrint
project has no Dell printer drivers.

Here's the web site for GutenPrint.

<http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/index.php>

Here's GutenPrint's list of Supported Printers (printer drivers):

<http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php>

BTW, GutenPrint was so useful and a great source for drivers for older
printers that Apple bought it some years ago but has kept it open
source.

You can also see GutenPrint drivers in Print & Fax (Print & Scan in
Lion) panel in System Preferences when you add a printer using the Plus
button and then click the Print Using popup menu. A LONG list of
included drivers will be shown and the ones that are GutenPrint have
the term GutenPrint as part of the info line. There are no Dell
drivers listed.

I've read that most of Dell's printers are actually made by Lexmark.
If you could find a Macintosh driver from Lexmark for the equivalent
Lexmark model printer, you might make it work.

Denver Dan

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:37:07 -0500, Bob wrote:
> Can anyone point me in the direction to find a driver that make the Dell 105
> (not a multifunction) printer work with 10.7.3 on a MacBook Pro?
>
> TIA
>
> Bob
>

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6a.

Application Safari Web Content

Posted by: "Tanya Metaksa" tanya.metaksa@att.net   tanya.metaksa@att.net

Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:30 pm (PST)




As I mentioned in a previous email, I installed Private Eye. As it runs it shows a lot of activity from the Application Safari Web Content. Could anyone tell me what it does and can one detele it?

Thanks,
Tanya

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Re: Application Safari Web Content

Posted by: "Tim O'Donoghue" tjod@drizzle.net   timodonoghue

Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:47 pm (PST)



From the description on the website, it's a monitor that shows network activity between your Mac and the outside world. If the browser is running, it will be showing all the activity in and out.

You can delete the app by dragging it to the trash like any other app.


On Feb 18, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Tanya Metaksa wrote:

>
> As I mentioned in a previous email, I installed Private Eye. As it runs it shows a lot of activity from the Application Safari Web Content. Could anyone tell me what it does and can one detele it?
>
> Thanks,
> Tanya
>
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Re: Application Safari Web Content

Posted by: "Jim Saklad" jimdoc@me.com   jimdoc01

Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:54 pm (PST)



>> As I mentioned in a previous email, I installed Private Eye. As it runs it shows a lot of activity from the Application Safari Web Content. Could anyone tell me what it does and can one detele it?
>
> From the description on the website, it's a monitor that shows network activity between your Mac and the outside world.

I think it is clear that this is already known by the user.

> If the browser is running, it will be showing all the activity in and out.
> You can delete the app by dragging it to the trash like any other app.

If you manage to delete Safari Web Content, do you have a preference for what browser to surf the web with?

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Re: Application Safari Web Content

Posted by: "Daly Jessup" jessup@san.rr.com

Sat Feb 18, 2012 5:51 pm (PST)



On Feb 18, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Jim Saklad wrote:

>>> As I mentioned in a previous email, I installed Private Eye. As it runs it shows a lot of activity from the Application Safari Web Content. Could anyone tell me what it does and can one detele it?
>>
>> From the description on the website, it's a monitor that shows network activity between your Mac and the outside world.
>
> I think it is clear that this is already known by the user.
>
>> If the browser is running, it will be showing all the activity in and out.
>> You can delete the app by dragging it to the trash like any other app.
>
> If you manage to delete Safari Web Content, do you have a preference for what browser to surf the web with?

You can't delete it. It's part of Safari. See this:
<http://dynamicsubspace.net/2011/07/28/safari-web-content-hogging-ram-and-cpu-time-thread-on-apple-support-communities/>

There is a suggestion there to delete caches to tame it a bit. The only reason she knows about it is that she installed PrivateEye.
I just checked in Activity Monitor and found that for me, Safari Web Content is using 0% of CPU. I don't know why, as I don't often delete caches.

Just Google it and see if you get other suggestions about how to tame it. One person said that it went more active when he opened new tabs in Safari.

Daly
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7.1.

Re: Finder alternative

Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com   nikyzf

Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:51 pm (PST)



Jim,

You have confirmed what several of us have already said, but I hope you
realise that you can sort on *any* column in List View just by clicking on
the column header, just as in many other apps (and Win Explorer!).

Otto

On 17 February 2012 15:09, Jim McGarvie <jim@mcgarvie.us> wrote:

> With encouragement from some of the friendly folks here I have been
> spending more time with Finder. Following one suggestion I put Finder in
> the column mode, and that solves the two-pane issue (in fact it will give
> several panes as one drills down through the tree). But the second levels
> and beyond don't put the folders at the top (unless that is an option I
> haven't yet found), so it is a little more difficult to find the next
> subfolder you are looking for. But I find you can get there pretty quickly
> by typing the first two or three characters of the subfolder name (assuming
> I remember it!).
>
> One CAN get folders on top by arranging by "Kind" but then the files below
> the folders are also arranged by kind.
>
> But then when I get to the subfolder I want, the files are in alpha order.
> I like to sort a file manager by date modified, most recent on top, but
> then that is personal preference.
>

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Re: Finder alternative

Posted by: "Jim McGarvie" jim@mcgarvie.us   jgarv2002

Sat Feb 18, 2012 8:55 pm (PST)



Thanks Otto. Yes, I realize in list view I can sort on any column by clicking in that column header. But in order to obtain the two (or more) panes I thought I had to go to column view, and in column view I don't have a column header. Am I missing something?

On Feb 18, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Otto Nikolaus wrote:

Jim,

You have confirmed what several of us have already said, but I hope you
realise that you can sort on *any* column in List View just by clicking on
the column header, just as in many other apps (and Win Explorer!).

Otto

On 17 February 2012 15:09, Jim McGarvie <jim@mcgarvie.us> wrote:

> With encouragement from some of the friendly folks here I have been
> spending more time with Finder. Following one suggestion I put Finder in
> the column mode, and that solves the two-pane issue (in fact it will give
> several panes as one drills down through the tree). But the second levels
> and beyond don't put the folders at the top (unless that is an option I
> haven't yet found), so it is a little more difficult to find the next
> subfolder you are looking for. But I find you can get there pretty quickly
> by typing the first two or three characters of the subfolder name (assuming
> I remember it!).
>
> One CAN get folders on top by arranging by "Kind" but then the files below
> the folders are also arranged by kind.
>
> But then when I get to the subfolder I want, the files are in alpha order.
> I like to sort a file manager by date modified, most recent on top, but
> then that is personal preference.
>

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Re: Line wraping

Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com   nikyzf

Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:00 pm (PST)



On 18 February 2012 00:05, Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.com> wrote:

>
> Don't be silly. He/she was obviously talking about line wrapping.
>

Not silly at all. We have been given no app or context.

Otto

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Re: Line wraping

Posted by: "Daly Jessup" jessup@san.rr.com

Sat Feb 18, 2012 5:52 pm (PST)



On Feb 18, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Otto Nikolaus wrote:

> On 18 February 2012 00:05, Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Don't be silly. He/she was obviously talking about line wrapping.
>>
>
> Not silly at all. We have been given no app or context.

Okay, let's just say that to me it was so obvious what was being said that I thought you guys were teasing the original poster.

Daly
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9.

Battery life

Posted by: "brcrnamae" robison.brenda@gmail.com   brcrnamae

Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:56 pm (PST)



Hi gurus...
I have an older MBP and I replaced the battery last year (via OWC).
Are some of them just duds?
It's less than a year old.
It holds the charge for MAYBE an hour...then I'm into the red zone.
This is just doing simple tasks like Email and web browsing, no other programs open. I have it set to energy saving in Sys Pref.

I have calibrated it according to instructions at the Apple site, but it didn't seem to make any difference.

Suggestions?

Thanks!
brenda
MBP
OS 10.5.8

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