Messages In This Digest (13 Messages)
- 1a.
- MobileMe Replacement From: Randy B. Singer
- 1b.
- Divx and iMac From: Vince MacIsaac
- 1c.
- Re: Divx and iMac From: Randy B. Singer
- 1d.
- Re: Divx and iMac From: Vince MacIsaac
- 2a.
- Re: Seagate GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt Adapter & external HD case From: Andrew Buc
- 3a.
- Re: Old shows in iTunes format From: N.A. Nada
- 3b.
- Re: Old shows in iTunes format From: N.A. Nada
- 3c.
- Re: Old shows in iTunes format From: Harry Flaxman
- 4a.
- Re: PDF and OCR From: Josephine Bacon
- 4b.
- Re: PDF and OCR From: Randy B. Singer
- 5a.
- Re: Your Privacy and the Cloud #2 From: N.A. Nada
- 5b.
- Re: Your Privacy and the Cloud #2 From: Harry Flaxman
- 6a.
- Re: Why can't I print this? From: James Robertson
Messages
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MobileMe Replacement
Posted by: "Randy B. Singer" randy@macattorney.com randybrucesinger
Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:31 pm (PDT)
If you have been using MobileMe for webpages, iDisk and some of the
other features that are being curtailed or dropped, there is an
article at MacWorld about a company that is putting together a full
substitute for it you can find it here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/ 1166565/
macmate_offers_replacement_ service_for_ mobileme. html
or
http://macw.us/Ic7FoA
I know some have talked about losing their iWeb sites, and asking
about alternatives. Pricing looks good assuming it works well. The
service is in beta, but they want people to know before they start
piecing out their MobileMe stuff.
MacMate
http://www.macmate.me/
$89 for the first 15 months.
_____________________ _________ _________ ____
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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- 1b.
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Divx and iMac
Posted by: "Vince MacIsaac" simply.vinnie@gmail.com unclevinnnie
Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:35 pm (PDT)
Hey, I use Divx all that time as a video codec and it is working on the MacBook Pro fine. However when i put it on the iMac it won't work. Same codec same Lion OS. Any ideas?
Vinnie
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Re: Divx and iMac
Posted by: "Randy B. Singer" randy@macattorney.com randybrucesinger
Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:25 am (PDT)
On Apr 29, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Vince MacIsaac wrote:
> Hey, I use Divx all that time as a video codec and it is working on
> the MacBook Pro fine. However when i put it on the iMac it won't
> work. Same codec same Lion OS. Any ideas?
Use Perian instead:
Perian (free)
http://perian.org/
_____________________ _________ _________ ____
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: Divx and iMac
Posted by: "Vince MacIsaac" simply.vinnie@gmail.com unclevinnnie
Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:21 am (PDT)
On Apr 30, 2012, at 4:25 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
> Use Perian instead:
>
> Perian (free)
> http://perian.org/
Thanks!!! This works perfect.
Vinnie
"The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear." -Socrates
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Re: Seagate GoFlex Desk Thunderbolt Adapter & external HD case
Posted by: "Andrew Buc" andrewbuc@staxman.net andrewbuc
Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:11 pm (PDT)
On Apr 29, 2012, at 6:03 PM, Jim Saklad wrote:
> For drive docks, consider this:
A Wiebetech drive dock is already on its way to me, but thanks for
the suggestion.
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Re: Old shows in iTunes format
Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net
Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:06 pm (PDT)
Terry, it is good you are looking forward, but they are not going away that fast. Apple may not being installing them in every model, but they are still selling them as a external for the MacBook Air. It just does not fit the design of the MBA, and the low end Mini.
I did a quick search on Amazon, but I don't see what format they are in, so hopefully someone else can answer that question.
I don't know how downloaded movies from Amazon are played, but I have moved some of my movies from disk to a hard drive. These play will DVD Player just like a DVD. Streaming videos I have rented from Netflix play through a browser. Movies I bought through Apple iTunes, play in iTunes.
I hope you have a huge hard drive or RAID if you plan on storing movies that way. I have 117 movies on an external hard drive and they take up almost 800 GB of space. (I used to travel a lot for work.)
Brent
On Apr 29, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Terry Pogue wrote:
> I think we are fast approaching the time when there are no more optical drives in computers. They will all be like the Air or tablets. I want to have my movies and TV shows in the format that iTunes will play. Id love to see the mini-series Shogun again but the iTunes store doesn't have it.
> If I buy a downloaded video from Amazon will it load and play in iTunes?
> Terry
>
> Sent from my iPadHD
>
> On Apr 29, 2012, at 6:30 PM, Denver Dan <denver.dan@verizon.net > wrote:
>
> > Howdy.
> >
> > Terry, I don't understand your question.
> >
> > Are you afraid that the DVD player in your computers is/are failing?
> >
> > Are you afraid that the DVD video disc VIDEO_TS video format will
> > become obsolete?
> >
> > Do you just want to convert DVD videos from VIDEO_TS format to some
> > other single file convenient format?
> >
> > Denver Dan
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:31:02 -0400, Terry Pogue wrote:
> >> I fear that my computers will no longer be able to play DVDs soon so
> >> I'd like to get them to play thru iTunes. There are many that I have
> >> that I'd like to make sure I don't lose. I searched the iTunes store
> >> for Shogun. They don't have it. That seems to be true of a lot of the
> >> old shows which I have on DVD. Is there a place where I can purchase
> >> these old shows in the proper format? Or does Apple have a "old show
> >> store". <g> That's what I need.
> >> terry
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Re: Old shows in iTunes format
Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net
Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:10 pm (PDT)
BTW, I don't think you are going to find many old movies in downloadable or streaming format. I think you are stuck with buying a DVD for those, since there is just not enough of a market to have them converted.
It is the same with older books, that have not gone to public domain, you just can't find them in downloadable audio format, or CD or cassette. I know there are a couple of books that I would love to "read" again in audio format.
Brent
On Apr 29, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Terry Pogue wrote:
> I think we are fast approaching the time when there are no more optical drives in computers. They will all be like the Air or tablets. I want to have my movies and TV shows in the format that iTunes will play. Id love to see the mini-series Shogun again but the iTunes store doesn't have it.
> If I buy a downloaded video from Amazon will it load and play in iTunes?
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Re: Old shows in iTunes format
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@me.com hflaxman001
Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:01 am (PDT)
On 4/29/2012 4:48 PM, N.A. Nada wrote:
> Try Qwikster, I mean Netflix DVD service. I doubt you will ever find it on streaming.
>
> Why not just buy an external DVD player for your Mac. I know mine in my MBP is pick as all get out about home burned DVD.
>
Depends upon your definition of 'old'. I've been able to find most of
Bogart's old stuff online, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, etc. Depends
upon where you look.
Harry
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Re: PDF and OCR
Posted by: "Josephine Bacon" bacon@langservice.com baconandeggs_2001
Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:29 pm (PDT)
Thanks, that's very useful Randy. Are there any decent OCR programs
for a)recent versions of the Mac b) the PC and c) that support right-
to-left languages?
Josephine Bacon
> .
>
>
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Re: PDF and OCR
Posted by: "Randy B. Singer" randy@macattorney.com randybrucesinger
Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:46 am (PDT)
On Apr 29, 2012, at 11:29 PM, Josephine Bacon wrote:
> Thanks, that's very useful Randy. Are there any decent OCR programs
> for a)recent versions of the Mac
ABBYY FineReader Pro $100
http://www.abbyy.com/FineReader_ for_Mac
Note that ABBYY is the best of a field of applications that are not
all that great. OmniPage Pro was by far the best for the Mac, and it
is a shame that it was purchased by Caere/Nuance and then never
updated again. I still maintain a Mac that runs OS X 10.4, in part
because it runs OmniPage Pro perfectly and nothing else can touch
OmniPage Pro.
> b) the PC
I don't use Windows much. There is a version of ABBY FineReader for
Windows, and I can only assume that it is very similar to the Mac
version:
http://finereader.abbyy.com/
Of course, there is still OmniPage for Windows, and that should be at
or near the best OCR product on the market for Windows, even with
right to left languages:
http://www.nuance.com/for-individu als/by-product/ omnipage/ index.htm
> and c) that support right-
> to-left languages?
The good news is that there is a version of ReadIRIS for the Mac that
will do this:
http://www.irislink.com/c2-1685- 189/Readiris- 12-for-Mac. aspx
The bad news is that ReadIRIS is generally not a really good product:
http://is.gd/By4ycZ
I don't know of any other OCR products for the Mac that are
specifically designed to be able to do right to left recognition.
_____________________ _________ _________ ____
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: Your Privacy and the Cloud #2
Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net
Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:55 pm (PDT)
Daly, would you click on a tiny URL like this, if it came from a good long time family friend? The source is trustworthy.
this is crazy check this out http://t.co/Hn***7Fh (I changed the link, so it is safe.)
She accidentally forwarded it to 70 close friends. BTW, it is the same link that was sent to me by a spammer.
You don't need to be able to read the whole URL to determine if you want to go there or not. Usually the domain is enough. I generally avoid ones that end with .ru, .cn, or say .me, or snakeoil.co, suckerbait.us, stupidestblog.com, etcetera.
In fact, someone posted a full URL to another yahoo list, yesterday. It included a URL that ended in apple.uk.com, asking if the offer was legit or not. It was a scam site. Apple uses apple.com/uk in the UK.
What is your last sentence in reference to?
Brent
On Apr 29, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Daly Jessup wrote:
>
> On Apr 29, 2012, at 4:11 PM, N.A. Nada wrote:
>
> > Since they are not human readable, and too many people use them, sometimes to directing people to bad sites. I want to be able to read the URL and then if I decide I want to type it or a portion of it into the address bar or search field, I can.
> If you get a three-line URL, can you really figure out if it's safer than a short URL? There MIGHT be hints, but at least in my experience (I'm NOT a geek) some of the long ones are absolutely incomprehensible, and no better at all than a short one. I depend on the source of t the link for the most part.
>
> And I depend on my backups.
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Re: Your Privacy and the Cloud #2
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@me.com hflaxman001
Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:02 am (PDT)
On 4/29/2012 7:11 PM, N.A. Nada wrote:
> Since they are not human readable, and too many people use them, sometimes to directing people to bad sites. I want to be able to read the URL and then if I decide I want to type it or a portion of it into the address bar or search field, I can.
>
>
It IS possible to verify the tinyURL prior to navigating there, however.
Harry
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Re: Why can't I print this?
Posted by: "James Robertson" jamesrob@sonic.net jamesrob328i
Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:30 am (PDT)
On Apr 29, 2012, at 8:10 AM, Forrest Leedy wrote:
> This is a PDF file and I ran into the same problem as you did because I did not notice that the PDF program shows options at the bottom of the page. If you chose any other print other than this one, you will get a blank page. Run your curser down to the bottom of the page and see if that does not bring up the option menu. It will fade away if you do not keep it active.
Thanks so much! That was exactly my problem. Curious that Safari handles some .pdf links like this and that other browsers apparently do not.
Thanks to everyone else who suggested other ways to get a hard copy printout as well.
(The ride was beautiful, by the way).
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Jim Robertson
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