3/27/2012

[macsupport] Digest Number 8812

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1a.

Re: changing iCal font size

Posted by: "Willi Miller" caribsea@bellsouth.net   caribsea@bellsouth.net

Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:42 am (PDT)



I have iCal version 4.0.4, snow Leopard 10.6.8 on my iMac. I can make the text black but then the background is grey and I don't see an option for increasing the font size.

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Re: changing iCal font size

Posted by: "Jurgen Richter" yahoo-1@sympatico.ca   epsongroups

Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:25 am (PDT)



If you use Get Info, you can change the colour to one of the presets or use Other, which allows
you to use any colour, including black.
I have not found any option where you can set font size or style. Maybe there is a console level
command? or you have to hack the application itself...
You can however change the size of font if you want a printed version of your calendar. The size
is selectable (small, medium or large) in the print menu.

(I'm on 10.6.8; this might be different in later versions.)

Now if you happen to switch to a related product called BusyCal from BusyMac.com, you CAN assign
specific fonts and sizes to your calendars.
See: http://busymac.com/busycal/userguide/fonts.html

They have a product called BusySync for multiple users that need the same calendars, and BusyCal
is a paid upgrade. I do use BusySync myself, have paid for the upgrade to BusyCal (but not yet
installed it). I have no other connection to the company. It will be used to sync my calendars
without going to Lion once Mac.com or Me.com is terminated this June. I'm hoping it can use
iCloud as the host, but there are other options also.

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Re: changing iCal font size

Posted by: "Terry Pogue" tpogue@comcast.net   terrypogue_2000

Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:45 am (PDT)



I think iCal is a really bad design. Colors older people have trouble seeing. The designers got their mitts on this at the start and did a "Martha Stewart" look to it. I might like if I could see it. I don't know why we don't have control over font size at least.
</rant>
Terry

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On Mar 27, 2012, at 12:11 AM, Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.com> wrote:

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> On Mar 26, 2012, at 5:50 AM, caribsea@bellsouth.net wrote:
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>> Now that I have an iPad and want to sync the calendar on my iMac, I guess I have to get serious about abandoning Now Up-To-Date, which I've used since the beginning. The biggest problem is that I just can't see the entries in iCal because of the colors. Is there no way to make the background white and the text black? Or should i be looking at Google's calendar?
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> In iCal for me in Lion, the text is black and the background white. I don't remember what it was in Snow Leopard. I don't know what version you are running.
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Re: changing iCal font size

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

Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:39 pm (PDT)



I'll join that rant!

My old eyes need contrast to read and the muted colored text just don't do it for me. Give me contrast and I'm good to about 8pt text.

I wish they would either go back to the look of 10.5 for iCal and Address Book, or make the leather bound crap optional.

The leather bound crap belongs to the Club, as in the Mouseketeer Club.

It is not clean, nor elegant. No wonder there were rumors that Jonny Ives threatened to go back to England.

Just K.I.S.Sam,

Brent

On Mar 27, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Terry Pogue wrote:

> I think iCal is a really bad design. Colors older people have trouble seeing. The designers got their mitts on this at the start and did a "Martha Stewart" look to it. I might like if I could see it. I don't know why we don't have control over font size at least.
> </rant>
> Terry
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> Sent from my iPadHD
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> On Mar 27, 2012, at 12:11 AM, Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.com> wrote:
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> >
> > On Mar 26, 2012, at 5:50 AM, caribsea@bellsouth.net wrote:
> >
> >> Now that I have an iPad and want to sync the calendar on my iMac, I guess I have to get serious about abandoning Now Up-To-Date, which I've used since the beginning. The biggest problem is that I just can't see the entries in iCal because of the colors. Is there no way to make the background white and the text black? Or should i be looking at Google's calendar?
> >
> > In iCal for me in Lion, the text is black and the background white. I don't remember what it was in Snow Leopard. I don't know what version you are running.
> >
> > Daly

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Re: My first message

Posted by: "Jim" oldtechie@wi.rr.com   jimpurcell2001

Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:50 am (PDT)



Denver Dan,

Already raided the files section. :-)

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My First Problem, can't empty trash.

Posted by: "Jim" oldtechie@wi.rr.com   jimpurcell2001

Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:39 am (PDT)



I remembered Trashit but that doesn't work. I even downloaded it over again, but no dice.
The progress thingy says that overe 50k of trash is in the trash bin. Weird.

Old Techie

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Re: My First Problem, can't empty trash.

Posted by: "Jim" oldtechie@wi.rr.com   jimpurcell2001

Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:42 am (PDT)



Suddenly the fact that Trashit requires a password, I entered one and it
worked. Wow.

Jim
>
> I remembered Trashit but that doesn't work. I even downloaded it over
> again, but no dice.
> The progress thingy says that overe 50k of trash is in the trash bin.
> Weird.
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Re: My First Problem, can't empty trash.

Posted by: "Jeannie" nikonjeannie@gmail.com   chloe898

Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:11 am (PDT)



Where can you get trashit. I sometimes have trouble with emptying the
trash, and it drives my crazy. I think that is one area that my old PCs
excelled in.

Jeannie

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Jim <oldtechie@wi.rr.com> wrote:

> I remembered Trashit but that doesn't work. I even downloaded it over
> again, but no dice.
> The progress thingy says that overe 50k of trash is in the trash bin.
> Weird.
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Re: My First Problem, can't empty trash.

Posted by: "Jim" oldtechie@wi.rr.com   jimpurcell2001

Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:40 am (PDT)



Jeannie,

I just Googled for it. Of course you may get some nin Mac results but the real one should show up.
I already had Trashit on my Mac but I googled thinking that my problem was that my version was old or that I had messed it up. But thkeold and new ones were the same.

Jim

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Re: My First Problem, can't empty trash.

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

Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:55 am (PDT)



Press Option and Empty Trash. The Option key is an override.

If Option doesn't work, restart and try Empty.

I've never had a problem emptying Trash in OS X since 2001.

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On Mar 27, 2012, at 11:11 AM, Jeannie <nikonjeannie@gmail.com> wrote:

> Where can you get trashit. I sometimes have trouble with emptying the
> trash, and it drives my crazy. I think that is one area that my old PCs
> excelled in.
>
> Jeannie
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> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Jim <oldtechie@wi.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I remembered Trashit but that doesn't work. I even downloaded it over
>> again, but no dice.
>> The progress thingy says that overe 50k of trash is in the trash bin.
>> Weird.
>>
>> Old Techie
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Second problem

Posted by: "Jim" oldtechie@wi.rr.com   jimpurcell2001

Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:01 am (PDT)



The first problem almost solved itself, second one is not so willing.
I have always had problems with font sizes, but the ones in Thunderbird for Mac can't seem to be enlarged. I like T-Bird but I just discovered that rewgular Mac Mail is OK. So I guess I have to use that instead.

Jim

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Re: Second problem

Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com   todhop

Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:31 am (PDT)



I like Mail. It has some limitations, but it's not bad. Filters are called Rules and are in the preferences.

My one frustration with Mail at the moment is it's lack of "stationary" in the sense of a full templates, nor are their any outgoing filters. I have a problem that I need special settings for some outgoing mail (like list mail) that I don't want to set manually every darn time.

There are a few other clients frequently recommended on this list. Search the archives for alternative suggestions if Mail does not do what you want.

On Mar 27, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Jim wrote:

> The first problem almost solved itself, second one is not so willing.
> I have always had problems with font sizes, but the ones in Thunderbird for Mac can't seem to be enlarged. I like T-Bird but I just discovered that rewgular Mac Mail is OK. So I guess I have to use that instead.
>
> Jim
>
>

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Re: Help me understand time machine

Posted by: "James Robertson" jamesrob@sonic.net   jamesrob328i

Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:09 am (PDT)




On Mar 26, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Tod Hopkins wrote:

> hat may be because it's still trying to index that app. When I did this with Mail earlier today, it took a while before it would let me enter anything. I could see that it was indexing all the matching mail. Once it was done indexing, I could use Mail's own search field just as I would normally search.

Can you tell me how you have mail set up? I can't get a window in Mail that allows me to enter a search string when I'm in Time Machine, and if I enter the search string in the search box above Mail's new "Lion" 3 pane horizontal view (Mailboxes, Message Precis, and then the message), THEN trigger Time Machine in the Dock, I open to a window that's selected the same messages that were already selected, and I have no place to enter a search string (the search entry box disappears when I go into Time Machine).

As far as getting a second chance to review messages I delete when I read them is concerned, I guess I'll have to set my IMAP account preferences to keep deleted messages in the appropriate IMAP "deleted messages" or "Trash" folders for a week so that I don't fall victim to the problem I started this thread talking about - no backup of documents that "live" before being trashed less than 24 hours (Mail.app's choices for being deleted from the machine are 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, never, and when I quit the app).

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Re: Help me understand time machine

Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com   todhop

Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:41 am (PDT)



Not on Lion yet. You'll need a Lion user to help you sort that out.

I always leave mail on my POP servers for several days. Oddly, I've always done this to protect against the backup "holes" we're discussing, going back long before TM. If my system crashes, my past several days of mail, the most important mail, will still be on the servers. No loss of access while I rebuild. No backup hole.

In IMAP, I would only delete true trash (Spam, alerts, ads, etc) and simply file everything else, at least in the short run. You might periodically "archive" and delete, but that's different.

In Mail, the Trash is a searchable folder, so if you only empty it every few days, it should not fall into the daily backup "hole" we talked about. It should not have the same limitation as the Finder Recycle bin which is not backed up.

Cheers,
tod

cheers,
tod

On Mar 27, 2012, at 11:09 AM, James Robertson wrote:

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> On Mar 26, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Tod Hopkins wrote:
>
> > hat may be because it's still trying to index that app. When I did this with Mail earlier today, it took a while before it would let me enter anything. I could see that it was indexing all the matching mail. Once it was done indexing, I could use Mail's own search field just as I would normally search.
>
> Can you tell me how you have mail set up? I can't get a window in Mail that allows me to enter a search string when I'm in Time Machine, and if I enter the search string in the search box above Mail's new "Lion" 3 pane horizontal view (Mailboxes, Message Precis, and then the message), THEN trigger Time Machine in the Dock, I open to a window that's selected the same messages that were already selected, and I have no place to enter a search string (the search entry box disappears when I go into Time Machine).
>
> As far as getting a second chance to review messages I delete when I read them is concerned, I guess I'll have to set my IMAP account preferences to keep deleted messages in the appropriate IMAP "deleted messages" or "Trash" folders for a week so that I don't fall victim to the problem I started this thread talking about - no backup of documents that "live" before being trashed less than 24 hours (Mail.app's choices for being deleted from the machine are 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, never, and when I quit the app).
>
> --
> Jim Robertson
>
>

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Re: Help me understand time machine

Posted by: "Terry Pogue" tpogue@comcast.net   terrypogue_2000

Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:35 am (PDT)



I don't get it. I just click on the file that I want to replace and THEN run Time Machine. Then choose the date I want from that date thing on the far right. I must not be using it well but it's always replace the thing I want replaced. I must be missing a bunch of features it has.
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To Tod

Posted by: "Jim" oldtechie@wi.rr.com   jimpurcell2001

Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:13 am (PDT)



>For me, it is a change of mindset. You must lead a PC. You must let the Mac lead you. Yeah, it sounds kinda of "big brother"-ish, and it is at it's heart (read "Steve Jobs" if you want to really understand), but it's not as evil as it sounds. Just a different way of thinking.

I don't see it as evil, but Steve was so iconoclastic that he seemed to be the epitome of 'It's my way or the highway.

>However, you CAN control the Mac and it's very powerful under the hood, if you are so inclined.

I'm not sure that under the hood power is as important as it once was. After all, Steve did switch to the Intel chip. I recall when Jho Dvorak predicted that change and Leo Laport thought he was wrong.

I think the problems I have is that I have been on this planet for so long and so much of my computing has been shaped by the PC and so much of that is automatic that I forget which platform I am on momentarily.

>There is no uninstall. You simply delete the app.

Yes, that IS a good thing, no 'registry' to muck things up.

> it can get more complicated if you like, but that's "under the hood" thinking.

>There is no "Start" menu. Just the Dock, the Applications folder (easily accessible), and Spotlight.

But if you use a lot of apps the dock can be too small. I found a dock for my PC that hold nearly all the apps I use regularly.

>Learn to use Spotlight!

Ihardly ever use it. I will have to try it.

>… Win7 Start search, it's similar, but simpler.

I don't like the Win7 Start, all those up front individual apps before the main folders. And some seem not to have a main folder.

>That little box in the upper right of folder windows.

You mean that little mag - glass. :-)

I saved your whole previous message, it has lots of good stuff.

TNX

Jim

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Re: To Tod

Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com   todhop

Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:09 am (PDT)




On Mar 27, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Jim wrote:
>
> I think the problems I have is that I have been on this planet for so long and so much of my computing has been shaped by the PC and so much of that is automatic that I forget which platform I am on momentarily.
>
I've been dual platform for years and predominantly Mac for only three. My instincts are now Mac biased. Learning to deal with Win7 has been quite a chore.
>
> But if you use a lot of apps the dock can be too small. I found a dock for my PC that hold nearly all the apps I use regularly.
>
I actually don't use the Dock much at all anymore except for my startup apps.
>
> >Learn to use Spotlight!
>
> Ihardly ever use it. I will have to try it.
>
It's great as an app launcher. CMD-space, first couple of letters, Enter. Between it learning what you want and you learning how it thinks, it becomes really quick over time, and help with a major problem for me. I use so many apps, and so many of them so infrequently, that I can't ever remember what anything is called. Now I only need to remember the tiniest bit of a name.
>
> >… Win7 Start search, it's similar, but simpler.
>
> I don't like the Win7 Start, all those up front individual apps before the main folders. And some seem not to have a main folder.
>

The new Start menu search box in Win7 works pretty well. Faster than Spotlight, though not quite as smart. As an app launcher though, it's quicker than Spotlight.
>
> You mean that little mag - glass. :-)
>
That's the one. Next time you run a search, look at the line of options underneath and explore them. The + sign to the right adds additional filters. Pull down the left hand selector and select "other". Check out that list. The most important one for geeks is "System Files." By default, Spotlight does not include system files, so when you are looking for an odd ".plist" file, this is essential.

Oh, if you still exchange files with PCs, two things. First, discover the ExFAT file format. Second, get the NTFS-3G driver (free) or one of the two commercial equivalents. FAT-32 is fine, but it's slow, and it fails at 4GB file size or with extremely large directories (several thousand files).

Cheers,
tod

>

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Re: To Tod

Posted by: "Earle Jones" earle.jones@comcast.net   earlejones501

Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:24 am (PDT)




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Tod: In a recent post, you said that Spotlight is "great as an app launcher."

Could you tell us exactly how you use Spotlight to launch apps.

Many thanks!

earle
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> It's great as an app launcher. CMD-space, first couple of letters, Enter. Between it learning what you want and you learning how it thinks, it becomes really quick over time, and help with a major problem for me. I use so many apps, and so many of them so infrequently, that I can't ever remember what anything is called. Now I only need to remember the tiniest bit of a name.

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Re: To Tod

Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com   todhop

Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:54 am (PDT)



On Mar 27, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Earle Jones wrote:

> Tod: In a recent post, you said that Spotlight is "great as an app launcher."
>
> Could you tell us exactly how you use Spotlight to launch apps.
>

Type CMD-Space. This puts the cursor in the Spotlight entry field.
Type a couple of letters in the name of the app. They do not need to be the first letters.
Example "Fi" for Firefox, or "Duck" for CyberDuck
Spotlight will quickly match your typing to the most likely choices, with Apps sorted to the top and top selection highlighted.

As soon as Spotlight highlights the app you want)...tap Enter... the app launches.

It's more complicated to describe than it is to do. It can be done very fast. Over time, Spotlight learns your picks so you can essentially create shortcuts. For instance, if when you type "du", you always choose CyberDuck, then Spotlight will learn this and start presenting Cyberduck first, even though there is another app called "Dump" that would otherwise come first but now doesn't come up until you type "dum". Spotlight also remembers your last choice. So if you launch Cyberduck using Spotlight, close it, and then want to launch it again, you can just hit Spotlight (CMD-space) then Enter.

If Apps are not sorting to the top of the list, you need to change your preferences for Spotlight. Apps are the default I believe. If you are document centric, then move Documents to the top of the list.

If you are using 10.4 or earlier, the top choice will not be highlighted by default. You have to hit the down arrow which is annoying. I think I've been told you can change this behavior to automatically highlight the top choice. OSX does this by default in 10.5 and higher.

Cheers,
tod

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Re: To Tod

Posted by: "Earle Jones" earle.jones@comcast.net   earlejones501

Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:55 pm (PDT)




On Mar 27, 12, at 11:53 AM, Tod Hopkins wrote:

> On Mar 27, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Earle Jones wrote:
>
> > Tod: In a recent post, you said that Spotlight is "great as an app launcher."
> >
> > Could you tell us exactly how you use Spotlight to launch apps.
> >
>
> Type CMD-Space. This puts the cursor in the Spotlight entry field.
> Type a couple of letters in the name of the app. They do not need to be the first letters.
> Example "Fi" for Firefox, or "Duck" for CyberDuck
> Spotlight will quickly match your typing to the most likely choices, with Apps sorted to the top and top selection highlighted.
>
> As soon as Spotlight highlights the app you want)...tap Enter... the app launches.
>
> It's more complicated to describe than it is to do. It can be done very fast. Over time, Spotlight learns your picks so you can essentially create shortcuts. For instance, if when you type "du", you always choose CyberDuck, then Spotlight will learn this and start presenting Cyberduck first, even though there is another app called "Dump" that would otherwise come first but now doesn't come up until you type "dum". Spotlight also remembers your last choice. So if you launch Cyberduck using Spotlight, close it, and then want to launch it again, you can just hit Spotlight (CMD-space) then Enter.
>
> If Apps are not sorting to the top of the list, you need to change your preferences for Spotlight. Apps are the default I believe. If you are document centric, then move Documents to the top of the list.
>
> If you are using 10.4 or earlier, the top choice will not be highlighted by default. You have to hit the down arrow which is annoying. I think I've been told you can change this behavior to automatically highlight the top choice. OSX does this by default in 10.5 and higher.
>
> Cheers,
> tod
>
> Tod Hopkins

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earle
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Adding images to the desktop wallpaper collection

Posted by: "Jim" oldtechie@wi.rr.com   jimpurcell2001

Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:22 pm (PDT)



How would one do that, and can I select more than one of the image groups?

Jim

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Re: Adding images to the desktop wallpaper collection

Posted by: "OBrien" bco@hiwaay.net   conorboru

Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:49 pm (PDT)



On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:22:23 -0000, Jim wrote:
> How would one do that, and can I select more than one of the image groups?

I create a new folder in Library > Desktop Images, and I save the image I want to use for the Desktop in that folder. When you want to change the Desktop image in Sys Prefs, I navigate to the new folder I created, and select the image.

I'm not sure what you mean by selecting more than one image group.


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Re: Adding images to the desktop wallpaper collection

Posted by: "oldtechie" oldtechie@wi.rr.com   jimpurcell2001

Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:09 pm (PDT)



OBrien,

I have become a fanatic about multi-image slide show desktop images [or wallpaper, as they used to be called.] I was asking aboiut dragging images among image folders,

I had to hunt for the correct library, but I then just dragged images in the nature folder which is the one I had chosen. Now I have jillions of them for my desktop slideshow. :-)

TNX

Jim

> I'm not sure what you mean by selecting more than one image group.

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Re: Adding images to the desktop wallpaper collection

Posted by: "OBrien" bco@hiwaay.net   conorboru

Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:26 pm (PDT)



On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:09:49 -0500, oldtechie wrote:
> I had to hunt for the correct library, but I then just dragged
> images in the nature folder which is the one I had chosen. Now I
> have jillions of them for my desktop slideshow. :-)

I see what you mean.

You can create all the folders you want inside the Desktop Pictures folder, and place whatever image files you want to in them.


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Re: How do I get rid of a wireless mooch?

Posted by: "Deborah Shanahan" debbys@verizon.net   debbyshanahan

Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:55 pm (PDT)



To answer Otto, I see the address in my sidebar, under shared, along
with the addresses of the other computers in the house.

I have a WEP password.

I put the ip address into my browser, as suggested, and my hp2605
printer came up. But that's not the ip address that I usually use,
and it's the same printer I've had for years. Why the sudden change?
I turned it off and the number ip remains. Nonetheless, I feel more
secure now, knowing that it's my own printer and not an outsider.

Thanks to all for their suggestions

Debby
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>6d. Re: How do I get rid of a wireless mooch?
> Posted by: "Dane Reugger" dane@downtownpc.com dar2112
> Date: Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:03 pm ((PDT))
>
>I have only setup 1 FIOS router as unfortunately it's not available in my
>city but the one I setup had password encryption on by default.
>
>Could this be something other than a computer? Like a network printer as
>the name hints or some other device like a Tivo, Apple TV, iPad, Roku,
>etc.? Try putting the ip into a browsr and see if anything comes up.
>
>-Dane
>
>On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Barry Austern <barryaus@fuse.net> wrote:
>
>> protect your router to keep others off.

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