Messages In This Digest (25 Messages)
- 1a.
- Re: How do I get rid of a wireless mooch? From: Otto Nikolaus
- 1b.
- Re: How do I get rid of a wireless mooch? From: John Ennis
- 1c.
- Re: How do I get rid of a wireless mooch? From: Tod Hopkins
- 2a.
- Re: TechTool Protection Can Eat Up Time Machine Disk Space From: Tod Hopkins
- 3a.
- Re: Help me understand time machine From: Tod Hopkins
- 3b.
- Re: Help me understand time machine From: James Robertson
- 3c.
- Re: Help me understand time machine From: Denver Dan
- 3d.
- Re: Help me understand time machine From: James Robertson
- 3e.
- Re: Help me understand time machine From: Tod Hopkins
- 3f.
- Re: Help me understand time machine From: James Robertson
- 4a.
- Re: Uninstaller From: Tod Hopkins
- 5a.
- Flashback Analysis From: Tod Hopkins
- 5b.
- Re: Flashback Analysis From: paul smith
- 5c.
- Re: Flashback Analysis From: Randy B. Singer
- 5d.
- Re: Flashback Analysis From: Harry Flaxman
- 5e.
- Re: Flashback Analysis From: James Robertson
- 6a.
- Re: NEW IPAD CASES From: pat412255
- 6b.
- Re: NEW IPAD CASES From: Randy B. Singer
- 7a.
- Re: Toying with HTML: what application to use? From: Tight Guy
- 7b.
- Re: Toying with HTML: what application to use? From: Randy B. Singer
- 8a.
- Re: Buggy iTunes From: Michel Munger
- 9a.
- bike/ bike gear From: RobertL
- 9b.
- Re: bike/ bike gear From: Ron West
- 9c.
- Re: bike/ bike gear From: hester
- 9d.
- Re: bike/ bike gear From: John Masters
Messages
- 1a.
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Re: How do I get rid of a wireless mooch?
Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com nikyzf
Sun Mar 25, 2012 4:55 am (PDT)
Where are you seeing npi2ea693? As a network under Airport or a device in
your router's DHCP client list?
Otto
On 25 March 2012 03:37, Deborah Shanahan <debbys@verizon.net > wrote:
> I never had wireless internet until I got FIOS about a year ago. With
> 2 other users at home who didn't always want to be tethered to an
> ethernet wire, I decided to get wireless service. They love it.
> Unfortunately, somebody else is enjoying it too.
>
> Somebody with a computer named npi2ea693 shows up now and then. When
> I click on it, it says connection failed, so I can't get to him, but
> I'm afraid that he (or she) can see stuff on my computer. That was
> something I never worried about before.
>
> How do I get rid of this person? Is there a way to allow people to
> share only by permission?
>
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- 1b.
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Re: How do I get rid of a wireless mooch?
Posted by: "John Ennis" john@john-ennis.com ennisart
Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:19 am (PDT)
My Shared list shows a "new-host". Info shows this as a PC server. How
can I tell what or who this is?
Is there some way to disconnect it?
John
- 1c.
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Re: How do I get rid of a wireless mooch?
Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop
Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:28 am (PDT)
Don't fret too much. It's not likely an outside person. The name is too complex. Probably a device in your house like an Xbox or Tivo, or Blu-ray player. Besides, unless you live in a high-density community (apartment), any "mooching" is likely accidental or benign. Computers will connect to the first available wireless. If you do not have a password on your wireless, your neighbor may be connecting without realizing it, or maybe their Xbox. ;)
Call Verizon. They can confirm or change your setup to WPA2 with password over the phone. They can also turn off broadcasting your SSID. I wouldn't though. Too inconvenient.
Cheers,
tod
On Mar 24, 2012, at 10:37 PM, Deborah Shanahan wrote:
> I never had wireless internet until I got FIOS about a year ago. With
> 2 other users at home who didn't always want to be tethered to an
> ethernet wire, I decided to get wireless service. They love it.
> Unfortunately, somebody else is enjoying it too.
>
> Somebody with a computer named npi2ea693 shows up now and then. When
> I click on it, it says connection failed, so I can't get to him, but
> I'm afraid that he (or she) can see stuff on my computer. That was
> something I never worried about before.
>
> How do I get rid of this person? Is there a way to allow people to
> share only by permission?
>
> Debby
>
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com
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Re: TechTool Protection Can Eat Up Time Machine Disk Space
Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop
Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:55 am (PDT)
Tried running Tech Tool protection for a while. Was a disaster. Wasted too much of my time with false alarms and and bugs. This was before Time Machine. I find the vast majority of "monitoring" programs not worth the hassle. In the end, they kill more time, little-by-little than the problem they intend on solving. Death by a thousand cuts.
As for Time Machine, yes. It is useful to keep an eye on what it is backing up and exclude things that might waste it's time. Any location where you keep very large amounts of "temporary" data that is frequently changing is an obvious candidate. But you do have to put a bit of thought into it, and not having to think about it is the goal of TMs design.
Cheers,
tod
On Mar 24, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Jon Kreisler wrote:
> I found this out the hard way.
> If you are running TechTool Protection Directory Backup, then you should
> exclude the folder '/Library/Application Support/TechTool Protection' in
> Time Machine preferences.
> Every time Directory Backup runs, new data is added to this folder. It is a
> wonderful recovery tool, but, since it is updated so often, Time Machine
> will create a new backup copy whenever it runs after a Directory Backup, if
> you don't exclude it. This can overrun the disk space used by Time Machine.
> It happened to me in less than a month. I have more than 650 GB space
> available to Time Machine and my main disk normally uses under 200 GB. I am
> glad I figured out why Time Machine was running out of space. I am hoping
> this piece of advice can help someone before it is too late.
> Regards,
> Jon
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com
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Re: Help me understand time machine
Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop
Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:14 am (PDT)
Maybe this helps:
> If you have trouble finding a file backed up by Time Machine, try using the search field while you're in the Time Machine star field view.
>
> In the Finder window that Time Machine opens over the star field, type the filename in the search field in the upper-right corner.
> Use the arrows and the timeline along the right edge of your screen to browse through the Time Machine backups. Your search is performed in every window.
> If you're using Spotlight to search for an item and you can't find it, try clicking the Time Machine icon in the Dock to start Time Machine directly from your Spotlight search. Spotlight continues searching for the item in your backups.
>
Time Machine is going to search the foreground date first. That would be the most recent hourly backup. So you found your file. To search each backup going back through time, you page the search back through time and the search repeats for each time slice.
However, note the last comment. Time Machine is highly context sensitive. If you run a normal Spotlight search for the file, and then run Time Machine while in the Spotlight window, TM will run a full search through all of Time Machine. Actually, this is more or less how Time Machine is supposed to work. You can approach it two ways. If you search within TM, then it searches one backup at a time. If you enable TM while focused on an app or folder, it searches backups for that app or folder through time.
Now, if you use Spotlight's "Search All Files" function as Anna suggests, then Spotlight searches everything on the machine including files that it normally ignores, which includes the Time Machine backup directories (and all the rest of your system folders). In this case, TM is not directly involved. It's just a blanket search. But since the backup directories contain your files in readable form, Spotlight will find them. It just might take longer this way as these files are not fully indexed in Spotlight. When Time Machine makes a backup, I believe it includes a Spotlight snapshot of that moment in time.
Cheers,
tod
On Mar 24, 2012, at 11:06 AM, James Robertson wrote:
> There's a nice little tutorial on Macworld's website in the last few days that discusses exactly how to find deleted items using Time Machine. I figured I should try this exercise, so I created a two-sentence file in Pages, gave the file a name I knew would be unique, waited until the next hourly Time Machine Backup had occurred, then deleted the file.
>
> A few hours later, I set out to find the file. I thought I'd need to remember where it had been saved and crank back through my Time Machine backups one at a time, looking at that folder in a Finder window until the file's icon and/or name appeared. However, Time Machine is much smarter than that. All I really needed to do was enter Time Machine with a Finder window open, type the filename into the search box in the upper right corner of the window, and Time Machine scrolled back immediately to the appropriate hourly backup. Even better, I could enter a text string from the file contents (in quotes) in the Finder's search window and Time Machine would scroll right back to the same location!
>
> The only niggle I could uncover with this was that, in Time Machine, when I'd Quick Look the file I'd found, it wouldn't glide open, oozing oh-so-smoothly from filename to full page view - it just jumped up on the screen (my 2011 quad-core i7 did a bit better with the eye candy than did my 2008 Mac Pro, but that was still a bit of a surprise).
>
> HOWEVER:
>
> Today, I went back and tried to find the same file again and was surprised that I couldn't. Is this because the file only existed on my Mac for about 2 hours, and hourly backups are only saved for a day? If so, that seems like a huge hole in the backup architecture.
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> --
> Jim Robertson
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com
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Re: Help me understand time machine
Posted by: "James Robertson" jamesrob@sonic.net jamesrob328i
Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:52 am (PDT)
On Mar 25, 2012, at 6:14 AM, Tod Hopkins wrote:
> Now, if you use Spotlight's "Search All Files" function as Anna suggests, then Spotlight searches everything on the machine including files that it normally ignores, which includes the Time Machine backup directories (and all the rest of your system folders). In this case, TM is not directly involved. It's just a blanket search. But since the backup directories contain your files in readable form, Spotlight will find them. It just might take longer this way as these files are not fully indexed in Spotlight. When Time Machine makes a backup, I believe it includes a Spotlight snapshot of that moment in time.
Thanks, Todd.
I think I'm struggling with a different problem. My goal was to understand how to find discarded email messages months later based on recalling something about what was discussed. I decided an "easiest case" for testing how to find text in a discarded document was to create a short document in Pages, let it sit on my computer for a few hourly backup cycles, then delete it and search for it later.
A few hours after deleting the file, I confirmed that I could still find it in Time Machine. The next day, however, I couldn't, and my understanding is that that I couldn't find it because it wasn't on my computer when Time Machine consolidated that days' backups into one daily backup. For most users, that wouldn't be a problem, because most users wouldn't create a document, delete it, resurrect it a few times within the next few hours, decide they really didn't need it, then try to find it again days or weeks later. However, it's still a hole in how Time Machine consolidates its work. Unless I'm not comprehending how Time Machine works, of course.
I've not ventured into searching for discarded email messages yet because when I start Time Machine while I'm in Mail, the search options are quite different. I want to make sure I understand what I should be able to retrieve (based on how long it was actually "living" on my computer) first.
I have discovered one oddity this morning. If I open a Finder Spotlight Search window (Command-Option-Spacebar while in the Finder), then search for a file I deleted several hours ago, Time Machine "tells" me that file is present both in the hourly backup just before it was deleted, and also in all the backups it did from the first time it backed up my computer. So, for example, if I remember getting a letter in June of 2007 and discarding it sometime thereafter, it's useful to begin my search at "now" and head back, but not useful to begin in May of 2007 and head forward. Not a big deal, but a curiosity.
--
Jim Robertson
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Re: Help me understand time machine
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Sun Mar 25, 2012 8:53 am (PDT)
Howdy.
There is a little useful trick to using Time Machine that makes it
almost an awesomely magical backup utility.
Note that Time Machine software has two parts:
1. The Time Machine panel is System Preferences is the first part.
This is what does the backups.
2. The Time Machine.app found in the Applications folder is the 2nd
part. Time Machine.app is the restore part of Time Machine. It's
sometimes called Time Machine Restore.
OK. So you want to find something to restore, right?
Here's the trick. It's a selective restore trick.
FIRST. Go to the folder in Finder that contained the file to restore.
This could also be an entire folder to restore.
SECOND. Select that folder containing the now missing file you want to
restore. "Select" means with one click.
THIRD. Launch Time Machine.app. It's usually on the Dock by default
but if you have removed the Dock app link icon then launch Time
Machine.app in the Applications folder.
Enjoy the visual fireworks on screen as Time Machine Restore kicks in.
FORTH. The trick is that by pre selecting the folder of the missing
file(s) Time Machine.app will take you directly to that folder in the
backup. You can then use the "way back" ladder of backup dates at far
right of the Time Machine Restore screen to find the exact file
date/file you want to restore. You might want to go back a few backups
to a somewhat earlier version of the file, as an example.
FIFTH. Click the Restore button.
That's it.
Denver Dan
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:06:04 -0700, James Robertson wrote:
> There's a nice little tutorial on Macworld's website in the last few
> days that discusses exactly how to find deleted items using Time
> Machine. I figured I should try this exercise, so I created a
> two-sentence file in Pages, gave the file a name I knew would be
> unique, waited until the next hourly Time Machine Backup had
> occurred, then deleted the file.
>
> A few hours later, I set out to find the file. I thought I'd need to
> remember where it had been saved and crank back through my Time
> Machine backups one at a time, looking at that folder in a Finder
> window until the file's icon and/or name appeared. However, Time
> Machine is much smarter than that. All I really needed to do was
> enter Time Machine with a Finder window open, type the filename into
> the search box in the upper right corner of the window, and Time
> Machine scrolled back immediately to the appropriate hourly backup.
> Even better, I could enter a text string from the file contents (in
> quotes) in the Finder's search window and Time Machine would scroll
> right back to the same location!
>
> The only niggle I could uncover with this was that, in Time Machine,
> when I'd Quick Look the file I'd found, it wouldn't glide open,
> oozing oh-so-smoothly from filename to full page view - it just
> jumped up on the screen (my 2011 quad-core i7 did a bit better with
> the eye candy than did my 2008 Mac Pro, but that was still a bit of a
> surprise).
>
> HOWEVER:
>
> Today, I went back and tried to find the same file again and was
> surprised that I couldn't. Is this because the file only existed on
> my Mac for about 2 hours, and hourly backups are only saved for a
> day? If so, that seems like a huge hole in the backup architecture.
>
> Thanks so much,
>
>
> --
> Jim Robertson
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Re: Help me understand time machine
Posted by: "James Robertson" jamesrob@sonic.net jamesrob328i
Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:33 am (PDT)
On Mar 25, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Denver Dan wrote:
> There is a little useful trick to using Time Machine that makes it
> almost an awesomely magical backup utility.
>
> Note that Time Machine software has two parts:
>
> 1. The Time Machine panel is System Preferences is the first part.
> This is what does the backups.
>
> 2. The Time Machine.app found in the Applications folder is the 2nd
> part. Time Machine.app is the restore part of Time Machine. It's
> sometimes called Time Machine Restore.
>
I think what I'm doing is similar. I open a Spotlight "find file" window, type a portion of the filename in the search box, then click Time Machine in the dock. Time Machine opens to now, and when I click the wayback machine arrow it glides right back to the most recent hourly backup that contained the file I'm looking for.
My current question focuses on just one thing: if I create a file but delete it before the day's hourly backups have been replaced by a single backup for the day, is it the case that the deleted file is not saved by Time Machine?
Thanks again,
Jim Robertson
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Re: Help me understand time machine
Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop
Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:38 am (PDT)
On Mar 25, 2012, at 10:52 AM, James Robertson wrote:
> A few hours after deleting the file, I confirmed that I could still find it in Time Machine. The next day, however, I couldn't, and my understanding is that that I couldn't find it because it wasn't on my computer when Time Machine consolidated that days' backups into one daily backup.
I see. If you create and delete in the course of the day, it may disappear after 24 hours, if we are conceiving this correctly. There are always "holes" created when you "thin" backups. One basic presumption of standard backup routines is the items that have shorter lives are also of lesser value. In the real world, a file you keep for less than a day is likely a low priority file and does not need to be preserved for a long time. But it is certainly possible to imagine a scenario where this would not be true.
I checked and ".trash" is apparently part of the standard exclusion. In theory, including your recycle bin in your backups might close this hole, at least presuming you don't empty the trash as well.
Cheers,
tod
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com
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Re: Help me understand time machine
Posted by: "James Robertson" jamesrob@sonic.net jamesrob328i
Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:50 pm (PDT)
On Mar 25, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Tod Hopkins wrote:
> I see. If you create and delete in the course of the day, it may disappear after 24 hours, if we are conceiving this correctly. There are always "holes" created when you "thin" backups. One basic presumption of standard backup routines is the items that have shorter lives are also of lesser value. In the real world, a file you keep for less than a day is likely a low priority file and does not need to be preserved for a long time. But it is certainly possible to imagine a scenario where this would not be true.
>
Thanks! I did my little exercise of creating and deleting a file quickly so I'd have an easy testbed for seeing what happens to other files that appear and disappear quickly. Likely real world examples of this would be incoming email messages that I read, ponder for a few moments, then discard. Let's suppose that a month later, I remember that there was a thread about the topic that wasn't important to me at the time, but now I'd like to see one message from one person. Ideally, Time Machine might help me find that message, but unless the message "lives" on my Mac for 24 hours or more it may not be retrievable. Maybe what that means is I need to change my email reading workflow.
I also know that the user interface for finding deleted Mail.app messages via Time Machine isn't as intuitive as the same interface for finding files in the finder.
--
Jim Robertson
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Re: Uninstaller
Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop
Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:17 am (PDT)
I use Appcleaner. Simple and free.
http://www.freemacsoft.net/appclean er/
Cheers,
tod
On Mar 24, 2012, at 3:54 PM, BLAINE F GORDON wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good uninstalled for apps. I want one that gets all the junk off the system. I don't mind paying a little money for a good one.
> Thanks,
> Blaine
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com
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Flashback Analysis
Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop
Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:32 am (PDT)
For the techies. A good analysis of the current state of Flashback infections including modes, mechanisms and removal with links to F-Secure which did the analysis.
http://reviews.cnet.com/ 8301-13727_ 7-57403430- 263/detecting- and-removing- the-flashback- malware-in- os-x/?part= rss&tag=feed& subj=MacFixIt
I'm curious. Have those of you on the front lines seen these infections yet?
Cheers,
tod
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com
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Re: Flashback Analysis
Posted by: "paul smith" kullervo@nycap.rr.com waldonny
Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:33 am (PDT)
I don't recall ever seeing one of those attempts, but I am profoundly skeptical by nature, and always avoid unsolicited material of any sort.
--
PSmith
MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, OS 10.7.3 iPhone 4S 64 GB, iOS 5.1
On Mar 25, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Tod Hopkins wrote:
For the techies. A good analysis of the current state of Flashback infections including modes, mechanisms and removal with links to F-Secure which did the analysis.
http://reviews.cnet.com/ 8301-13727_ 7-57403430- 263/detecting- and-removing- the-flashback- malware-in- os-x/?part= rss&tag=feed& subj=MacFixIt
I'm curious. Have those of you on the front lines seen these infections yet?
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Re: Flashback Analysis
Posted by: "Randy B. Singer" randy@macattorney.com randybrucesinger
Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:44 pm (PDT)
On Mar 25, 2012, at 6:32 AM, Tod Hopkins wrote:
> For the techies. A good analysis of the current state of Flashback
> infections including modes, mechanisms and removal with links to F-
> Secure which did the analysis.
I haven't heard from a single person that has encountered Flashback.
However, I have been recommending that users disable Java (NOT
JavaScript, which is something different) in their browser. This is
quick and easy to do, and Web sites that use Java are extremely rare
these days.
See:
http://www.reedcorner.net/news. php/?p=368
_____________________ _________ _________ ____
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: Flashback Analysis
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@me.com hflaxman001
Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:56 pm (PDT)
On 3/25/2012 3:44 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
>
> On Mar 25, 2012, at 6:32 AM, Tod Hopkins wrote:
>
>> For the techies. A good analysis of the current state of Flashback
>> infections including modes, mechanisms and removal with links to F-
>> Secure which did the analysis.
>
> I haven't heard from a single person that has encountered Flashback.
>
> However, I have been recommending that users disable Java (NOT
> JavaScript, which is something different) in their browser. This is
> quick and easy to do, and Web sites that use Java are extremely rare
> these days.
>
> See:
> http://www.reedcorner.net/news. php/?p=368
>
This is not a new 'issue', so to speak. As you mention, SOP should be
to disable Java in Safari, or any other browser that allows it to be
disabled.
I have yet to hear from anyone encountering this, even though it's been
around for awhile. Seems to me that many people do quite a bit of
digging to find the least little possibility that affects OS X. This
has been the case in the past. Hopefully no one jumps too quickly.
Harry
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Re: Flashback Analysis
Posted by: "James Robertson" jamesrob@sonic.net jamesrob328i
Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:54 pm (PDT)
On Mar 25, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
> I have been recommending that users disable Java (NOT
> JavaScript, which is something different) in their browser. This is
> quick and easy to do, and Web sites that use Java are extremely rare
> these days.
That's not true in the Healthcare space. For example, Kaiser Permanente's secure remote access to it electronic medical record system is built on Java. I'm aware of three separate Health Care Systems who build their remote access to the premier online medical education textbook (UpToDate, from Harvard's Burton Rose) in Java.
--
Jim Robertson
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Re: NEW IPAD CASES
Posted by: "pat412255" pat412@mac.com pat412255
Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:38 am (PDT)
I would take a look at Amazon or Best Buy. The clear Belkin case that I use for the back of my new iPad is the one I was using on the iPad2. I think I bought it at Best Buy.
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups. , Michael Moloney <moloney.icloud@com ...> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Can anyone suggest where to buy a hard case for a new iPad for the back of the device?
>
> Many thanks.
>
>
> Michael Moloney
> moloney.icloud@...
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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Re: NEW IPAD CASES
Posted by: "Randy B. Singer" randy@macattorney.com randybrucesinger
Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:31 pm (PDT)
On Mar 24, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Michael Moloney wrote:
> Can anyone suggest where to buy a hard case for a new iPad for the
> back of the device?
Check out this vendor:
http://is.gd/xyOI9D
They list 12 pages of iPad cases, all at excellent prices!
I've used Eforcity many times, and I've always been impressed with
the very high quality of their goods for incredibly low prices.
_____________________ _________ _________ ____
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: Toying with HTML: what application to use?
Posted by: "Tight Guy" jcrowe@jcrowe.net jcrowe1950
Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:21 am (PDT)
Keith, Randy et al,
If you wish to do more than simple html, or wish to make use of
dynamic content, there are several open source projects worth looking
at. I am currently testing with these three template driven Content
Management Systems (CMS) that basically allow all sorts of secure,
dynamic website content. They are, in order of ease of use, Wordpress,
Joomla and Drupal. I have my domain hosted on a service that supports
all three at some level. I have set up several test subdomains and will
be porting all of my websites over at some point. I started out doing
handmade HTML websites at work in the early to mid 90s, added
hand-hacked CSS and xhtml in the 2000s and became somewhat adept at
using MySQL and PHP.....it's pretty powerful but fairly tedious....worth
knowing but time consuming and slow. These CMS programs allow WYSIWYG
interfaces to accomplish all sorts of content.....blogs, slideshows,
static content, multi-level menus, embedded video, secure email forms
and they typically do it by generating xhtml/css code via PHP scripts
that do things on the fly. In any case, I'd say that Wordpress is the
easiest to use. For pay programs, there's Rapid Weaver. Just a thought.
I'm not totally sold on the template model....it can be very, very well
done but it does limit one's overall abilities unless one is willing to
go in and hack the CSS and PHP scripts. Still, for simple uses it's
great.
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups. , Keith Whaley <keith_w@...com >
wrote:
>
> Randy is highly conversant with Mac and Wndoes OS, and when he
> recommends something, one need have any fear it will work as he says
it
> will.
>
> I thought this interesting because it works for both Mac AND Windows.
> The instructions are, as he says, interchangeable between the two
platforms.
>
> I thought of you because you occasionally do some web site authoring.
>
> P.
> Randy B. Singer wrote:
> > I highly recommend:
> >
> > BlueGriffon (FREE and open-source)
> > http://bluegriffon.org/
> > Randy B. Singer
Best of luck in your endeavors.
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Re: Toying with HTML: what application to use?
Posted by: "Randy B. Singer" randy@macattorney.com randybrucesinger
Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:28 pm (PDT)
On Mar 25, 2012, at 7:21 AM, Tight Guy wrote:
> If you wish to do more than simple html
BlueGriffon, which I recommended, does far more than simple HTML.
In addition to the content management programs (which some folks
don't consider to be full Web site creation programs) there are also
the Web-based services which will allow you to create a Web site
using templates to make things easier:
SquareSpace
http://www.squarespace.com/
Wix (free)
http://www.wix.com/
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Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
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Re: Buggy iTunes
Posted by: "Michel Munger" michel@macsupportcentral.com mmungermtl
Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:36 am (PDT)
Did it yesterday and so far it is working. Thanks.
Michel
Denver dan said:
> Did you delete any iTunes pref / .plist files before re-installing?
>
>
> !i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i!i! i!i!i!i!i! i!i!i!i!i! i!i!i!i!i! i!i!i!i!i! i!i!i!i
> iFrom Denver Dan's iPhone
>
> — my magical animal is a butterfly
>
> On Mar 24, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Michel Munger<michel@macsupportcentral.com > wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I have the latest iTunes on the latest Lion and I am getting tired of
>> its buggy behavior. It usually locks my Mac when I'm trying to play music.
>>
>> I have reinstalled the thing and rebuilt my music library, but that was
>> only in vain.
>>
>> I can't seem to find any way to fix it. Have you ever seen this?
>>
>> Michel
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bike/ bike gear
Posted by: "RobertL" robert.lyman@yahoo.com robert.lyman
Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:06 am (PDT)
For Sale: Novara hybrid mountain bike, Shimano clip shoes (9 wms, 12 mns), helmets (Giro & Bell), Wms shirt (M short sleeve) , Mens yellow wind breaker, Camelback Hydration System (Classic and Rogue), Mt. Bike tire pump, Many other items. Robert Lyman 623-363 7245
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Re: bike/ bike gear
Posted by: "Ron West" ronwest@gmail.com ronwestb12
Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:08 pm (PDT)
is this the model with the Mac OS built in?
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:05 PM, RobertL <robert.lyman@yahoo.com > wrote:
> **
>
>
> For Sale: Novara hybrid mountain bike, Shimano clip shoes (9 wms, 12 mns),
> helmets (Giro & Bell), Wms shirt (M short sleeve) , Mens yellow wind
> breaker, Camelback Hydration System (Classic and Rogue), Mt. Bike tire
> pump, Many other items. Robert Lyman 623-363 7245
>
>
>
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Re: bike/ bike gear
Posted by: "hester" dhreik@gmail.com drhester_06107
Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:16 pm (PDT)
:)
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups. , Ron West <ronwest@...com > wrote:
>
> is this the model with the Mac OS built in?
>
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:05 PM, RobertL <robert.lyman@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > For Sale: Novara hybrid mountain bike, Shimano clip shoes (9 wms, 12 mns),
> > helmets (Giro & Bell), Wms shirt (M short sleeve) , Mens yellow wind
> > breaker, Camelback Hydration System (Classic and Rogue), Mt. Bike tire
> > pump, Many other items. Robert Lyman 623-363 7245
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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Re: bike/ bike gear
Posted by: "John Masters" johnmasters@me.com joemastersk
Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:23 pm (PDT)
On 25 Mar 2012, at 20:07, Ron West wrote:
> is this the model with the Mac OS built in?
>
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:05 PM, RobertL <robert.lyman@yahoo.com > wrote:
>
Yeah, but it's Tiger so don't attempt Everest just yet.
>> **
>>
>>
>> For Sale: Novara hybrid mountain bike, Shimano clip shoes (9 wms, 12 mns),
>> helmets (Giro & Bell), Wms shirt (M short sleeve) , Mens yellow wind
>> breaker, Camelback Hydration System (Classic and Rogue), Mt. Bike tire
>> pump, Many other items. Robert Lyman 623-363 7245
>>
>>
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