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Sat Aug 4, 2012 10:09 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Jurgen Richter" epsongroups
Hmmm - thanks for your comments. Seems WD is not so favoured...
I'm looking for speed and reliability, especially in a boot drive. If I
wait a bit longer, a decent size SSD ought to come down in price and
have a bit more "history" of reliability over time, and should probably
do the trick. I'll have to keep an eye out for the Kingston line most
readily available here in Canada, or see what OWC can recommend about
shipping here (I'm sure they do...)
I'm looking for speed and reliability, especially in a boot drive. If I
wait a bit longer, a decent size SSD ought to come down in price and
have a bit more "history" of reliability over time, and should probably
do the trick. I'll have to keep an eye out for the Kingston line most
readily available here in Canada, or see what OWC can recommend about
shipping here (I'm sure they do...)
Sat Aug 4, 2012 12:04 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Barry Austern" barryaus
At 2:52 AM +0000 8/4/12, HAL9000 wrote:
>
>
>One suggestion: power off the iPhone. Hold top button down till you
>are asked if you want to power off, then slide yes. Wait a minute.
>Power up and see if anything changed.
Sorry. "Menu bar" was incorrect wording. It is my DOCK, and it was on
a Mac, not an iOS device.
>--- In
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>Barry Austern <barryaus@...> wrote:
>>
>> Several days ago I got a notification in the menu bar icon that one
>> of my apps needed an update. It was WeatherMan Lite. I upgraded it.
>> After several restarts it still has the "1" in the icon in red. If I
>> go to the App Store it tells me that I do have one that needs
>> upgrading. I click on that and I get WeatherMan Lite, grayed out
>> because it says it is already updated. How do I get rid of this false
>> notification?
>> --
>> Barry Austern
>> barryaus@...
>>
>
>
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Barry Austern
barryaus@fuse.net
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>
>
>One suggestion: power off the iPhone. Hold top button down till you
>are asked if you want to power off, then slide yes. Wait a minute.
>Power up and see if anything changed.
Sorry. "Menu bar" was incorrect wording. It is my DOCK, and it was on
a Mac, not an iOS device.
>--- In
><mailto:macsupport
>Barry Austern <barryaus@..
>>
>> Several days ago I got a notification in the menu bar icon that one
>> of my apps needed an update. It was WeatherMan Lite. I upgraded it.
>> After several restarts it still has the "1" in the icon in red. If I
>> go to the App Store it tells me that I do have one that needs
>> upgrading. I click on that and I get WeatherMan Lite, grayed out
>> because it says it is already updated. How do I get rid of this false
>> notification?
>> --
>> Barry Austern
>> barryaus@...
>>
>
>
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Barry Austern
barryaus@fuse.
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Sat Aug 4, 2012 1:13 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Denver Dan" denverdan22180
Howdy.
The HP web site, drives and software section, says it has a
downloadable driver for Mac OS X 10.7 for you scanner model. It also
mentioned a separate Scanjet software patch that should be downloaded.
Download both and try them.
A driver that is too old won't hurt anything and won't cause any kind
of physical damage to either scanner or computer.
Most drivers are installed in this location:
System/Library/Extensions
You will see a bunch of files in this location for various devices such
as video cards, and scanning and other hardware devices. Many of these
end in the extension ".kext." This means a "kernel extension." A
kernel extension may sometimes not exactly be a driver but is an
interface between the computer's OS fundamental part and hardware
devices.
Denver Dan
On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:28:41 +0000, Gary wrote:
> One more question: My HP SCANJET 4370 has a USB connection but it my
> Mac doesn't acknowledge it. If I go to HP's site and download drivers
> will that help. It wouldn't harm the computer if I tried??
> Thanks
> Gary
The HP web site, drives and software section, says it has a
downloadable driver for Mac OS X 10.7 for you scanner model. It also
mentioned a separate Scanjet software patch that should be downloaded.
Download both and try them.
A driver that is too old won't hurt anything and won't cause any kind
of physical damage to either scanner or computer.
Most drivers are installed in this location:
System/Library/
You will see a bunch of files in this location for various devices such
as video cards, and scanning and other hardware devices. Many of these
end in the extension ".kext." This means a "kernel extension." A
kernel extension may sometimes not exactly be a driver but is an
interface between the computer's OS fundamental part and hardware
devices.
Denver Dan
On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:28:41 +0000, Gary wrote:
> One more question: My HP SCANJET 4370 has a USB connection but it my
> Mac doesn't acknowledge it. If I go to HP's site and download drivers
> will that help. It wouldn't harm the computer if I tried??
> Thanks
> Gary
Sat Aug 4, 2012 2:30 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"HAL9000" jrswebhome
Just my experience, but I will never purchase an HP printer again while using the OSX system. I spent many days with their tech support promising that their drivers worked with OSX, and getting no recognition via OSX. I gave up and bought a small Canon printer and it worked first time and every upgrade in system/driver since. I felt HP lied to me through out the entire fiasco. But it's just my experience and my $. jr
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com , Denver Dan <denver.dan@...> wrote:
>
> Howdy.
>
> The HP web site, drives and software section, says it has a
> downloadable driver for Mac OS X 10.7 for you scanner model. It also
> mentioned a separate Scanjet software patch that should be downloaded.
>
> Download both and try them.
>
> A driver that is too old won't hurt anything and won't cause any kind
> of physical damage to either scanner or computer.
>
> Most drivers are installed in this location:
>
> System/Library/Extensions
>
> You will see a bunch of files in this location for various devices such
> as video cards, and scanning and other hardware devices. Many of these
> end in the extension ".kext." This means a "kernel extension." A
> kernel extension may sometimes not exactly be a driver but is an
> interface between the computer's OS fundamental part and hardware
> devices.
>
> Denver Dan
>
>
> On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:28:41 +0000, Gary wrote:
> > One more question: My HP SCANJET 4370 has a USB connection but it my
> > Mac doesn't acknowledge it. If I go to HP's site and download drivers
> > will that help. It wouldn't harm the computer if I tried??
> > Thanks
> > Gary
>
--- In macsupportcentral@
>
> Howdy.
>
> The HP web site, drives and software section, says it has a
> downloadable driver for Mac OS X 10.7 for you scanner model. It also
> mentioned a separate Scanjet software patch that should be downloaded.
>
> Download both and try them.
>
> A driver that is too old won't hurt anything and won't cause any kind
> of physical damage to either scanner or computer.
>
> Most drivers are installed in this location:
>
> System/Library/
>
> You will see a bunch of files in this location for various devices such
> as video cards, and scanning and other hardware devices. Many of these
> end in the extension ".kext." This means a "kernel extension." A
> kernel extension may sometimes not exactly be a driver but is an
> interface between the computer's OS fundamental part and hardware
> devices.
>
> Denver Dan
>
>
> On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:28:41 +0000, Gary wrote:
> > One more question: My HP SCANJET 4370 has a USB connection but it my
> > Mac doesn't acknowledge it. If I go to HP's site and download drivers
> > will that help. It wouldn't harm the computer if I tried??
> > Thanks
> > Gary
>
Sat Aug 4, 2012 6:11 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"pat412255" pat412255
You also might try opening Image Capture (find it by typing that term in Spotlight which is the little magnifying glass on the right end of your menu bar) & see if the scanner is recognized there.
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com , John Engberg <mrbyte@...> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 4, 2012, at 8:28 AM, "Gary" <wx1u@...> wrote:
>
> > One more question: My HP SCANJET 4370 has a USB connection but it my Mac doesn't acknowledge it. If I go to HP's site and download drivers will that help. It wouldn't harm the computer if I tried??
> > Thanks
> > Gary
> >
>
> That's always a good option, and that will not be a problem, Gary.
>
> John Engberg
>
--- In macsupportcentral@
>
>
> On Aug 4, 2012, at 8:28 AM, "Gary" <wx1u@...> wrote:
>
> > One more question: My HP SCANJET 4370 has a USB connection but it my Mac doesn't acknowledge it. If I go to HP's site and download drivers will that help. It wouldn't harm the computer if I tried??
> > Thanks
> > Gary
> >
>
> That's always a good option, and that will not be a problem, Gary.
>
> John Engberg
>
Sat Aug 4, 2012 8:49 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Henry Kalir" snookey1000
Gary,
I had the same nonsense with the HP drivers. Get VueScan - it's simply WONDERFUL (to this very day!!) and you'll also have to wonder why the "geniuses" at HP couldn't do as well.
Henry
MBP 2.33 GHz, OS: 10.6.8
On 08/04/12, HAL9000 <jrswebhome@yahoo.com > wrote:
>
> Just my experience, but I will never purchase an HP printer again while using the OSX system. I spent many days with their tech support promising that their drivers worked with OSX, and getting no recognition via OSX. I gave up and bought a small Canon printer and it worked first time and every upgrade in system/driver since. I felt HP lied to me through out the entire fiasco. But it's just my experience and my $. jr
>
> --- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com , Denver Dan <denver.dan@...> wrote:
> >
> > Howdy.
> >
> > The HP web site, drives and software section, says it has a
> > downloadable driver for Mac OS X 10.7 for you scanner model. It also
> > mentioned a separate Scanjet software patch that should be downloaded.
> >
> > Download both and try them.
> >
> > A driver that is too old won't hurt anything and won't cause any kind
> > of physical damage to either scanner or computer.
> >
> > Most drivers are installed in this location:
> >
> > System/Library/Extensions
> >
> > You will see a bunch of files in this location for various devices such
> > as video cards, and scanning and other hardware devices. Many of these
> > end in the extension ".kext." This means a "kernel extension." A
> > kernel extension may sometimes not exactly be a driver but is an
> > interface between the computer's OS fundamental part and hardware
> > devices.
> >
> > Denver Dan
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:28:41 +0000, Gary wrote:
> > > One more question: My HP SCANJET 4370 has a USB connection but it my
> > > Mac doesn't acknowledge it. If I go to HP's site and download drivers
> > > will that help. It wouldn't harm the computer if I tried??
> > > Thanks
> > > Gary
> >
>
>
>
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I had the same nonsense with the HP drivers. Get VueScan - it's simply WONDERFUL (to this very day!!) and you'll also have to wonder why the "geniuses" at HP couldn't do as well.
Henry
MBP 2.33 GHz, OS: 10.6.8
On 08/04/12, HAL9000 <jrswebhome@yahoo.
>
> Just my experience, but I will never purchase an HP printer again while using the OSX system. I spent many days with their tech support promising that their drivers worked with OSX, and getting no recognition via OSX. I gave up and bought a small Canon printer and it worked first time and every upgrade in system/driver since. I felt HP lied to me through out the entire fiasco. But it's just my experience and my $. jr
>
> --- In macsupportcentral@
> >
> > Howdy.
> >
> > The HP web site, drives and software section, says it has a
> > downloadable driver for Mac OS X 10.7 for you scanner model. It also
> > mentioned a separate Scanjet software patch that should be downloaded.
> >
> > Download both and try them.
> >
> > A driver that is too old won't hurt anything and won't cause any kind
> > of physical damage to either scanner or computer.
> >
> > Most drivers are installed in this location:
> >
> > System/Library/
> >
> > You will see a bunch of files in this location for various devices such
> > as video cards, and scanning and other hardware devices. Many of these
> > end in the extension ".kext." This means a "kernel extension." A
> > kernel extension may sometimes not exactly be a driver but is an
> > interface between the computer's OS fundamental part and hardware
> > devices.
> >
> > Denver Dan
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:28:41 +0000, Gary wrote:
> > > One more question: My HP SCANJET 4370 has a USB connection but it my
> > > Mac doesn't acknowledge it. If I go to HP's site and download drivers
> > > will that help. It wouldn't harm the computer if I tried??
> > > Thanks
> > > Gary
> >
>
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Sun Aug 5, 2012 12:33 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Josephine Bacon" baconandeggs_2001
The truth is that an elephant will work with a cement mixer if you
just have the right software. Clearly these HP "engineers" were
incompetent, you should have tried from the Mac end. I heard a story
once of someone who bought a piece of firmware and asked the salesman
if it was Mac-compatible (in the days when Macs were much rarer). The
salesman said he would have to check and went into some back room.
While was there, the customer idly took out his Mac laptop and plugged
the firmware in and it started working immediately, although to use it
with a PC he would have had to install an extra piece of software. The
salesman came back and informed him 'No, sorry, it doesn't work with
Mac'.
Josephine Bacon
On 4 Aug 2012, at 22:30, HAL9000 wrote:
> Just my experience, but I will never purchase an HP printer again
> while using the OSX system. I spent many days with their tech
> support promising that their drivers worked with OSX, and getting no
> recognition via OSX. I gave up and bought a small Canon printer and
> it worked first time and every upgrade in system/driver since. I
> felt HP lied to me through out the entire fiasco. But it's just my
> experience and my $. jr
>
>
Josephine Bacon
Tamr Translations Limited
179 Kings Cross Road
London WC1x 9BZ
Tel:+44 207 833 0607
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just have the right software. Clearly these HP "engineers" were
incompetent, you should have tried from the Mac end. I heard a story
once of someone who bought a piece of firmware and asked the salesman
if it was Mac-compatible (in the days when Macs were much rarer). The
salesman said he would have to check and went into some back room.
While was there, the customer idly took out his Mac laptop and plugged
the firmware in and it started working immediately, although to use it
with a PC he would have had to install an extra piece of software. The
salesman came back and informed him 'No, sorry, it doesn't work with
Mac'.
Josephine Bacon
On 4 Aug 2012, at 22:30, HAL9000 wrote:
> Just my experience, but I will never purchase an HP printer again
> while using the OSX system. I spent many days with their tech
> support promising that their drivers worked with OSX, and getting no
> recognition via OSX. I gave up and bought a small Canon printer and
> it worked first time and every upgrade in system/driver since. I
> felt HP lied to me through out the entire fiasco. But it's just my
> experience and my $. jr
>
>
Josephine Bacon
Tamr Translations Limited
179 Kings Cross Road
London WC1x 9BZ
Tel:+44 207 833 0607
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Sat Aug 4, 2012 3:52 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Paul Cartwright" mactechservices
Hi,
You should be able to set it up in bridge mode with your own network name and login passwords
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 4, 2012, at 9:53, Otto Nikolaus <otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com > wrote:
> Are the hotels limiting you to only one computer on their Wi-Fi? Wi-Fi
> routers generally allow multiple connections.
>
> Otto
>
> On 4 August 2012 13:50, James Robertson <jamesrob@sonic.net > wrote:
>
> > I've occasionally "shared my Internet Connection" with my wife's laptop
> > using Ethernet cables between the two devices to avoid two charges for the
> > WiFi access point in hotel rooms during domestic trips (in the US).
> >
> > Next week we leave for Europe for 2 weeks. Each of the hotel rooms we'll
> > be staying in ostensibly offers WiFi internet access. Is it the case that I
> > should be able to use the Airport Express (N) router I have lying unused on
> > my shelf to create a LAN in the hotel room? We've not needed to do this in
> > the past because our phones could get their internet access using cellular
> > data, and everything I read tells me I should turn cellular data "off" on
> > our iPhones before the plane takes off in the US and not turn it back on
> > again until we're back on ATT soil (weak attempt at a double entendre
> > there).
> >
> > The specific question, I guess is that the hotel's router will be doing
> > dhcp, and I'll want my Airport Express to do dhcp for our little private
> > LAN in the hotel room. Will that be possible? Is there any preliminary
> > configuration I can do (creating the network SSID and password for example)
> > using Airport Utility on one of my Macs here at home before we leave?
> >
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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You should be able to set it up in bridge mode with your own network name and login passwords
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 4, 2012, at 9:53, Otto Nikolaus <otto.nikolaus@
> Are the hotels limiting you to only one computer on their Wi-Fi? Wi-Fi
> routers generally allow multiple connections.
>
> Otto
>
> On 4 August 2012 13:50, James Robertson <jamesrob@sonic.
>
> > I've occasionally "shared my Internet Connection" with my wife's laptop
> > using Ethernet cables between the two devices to avoid two charges for the
> > WiFi access point in hotel rooms during domestic trips (in the US).
> >
> > Next week we leave for Europe for 2 weeks. Each of the hotel rooms we'll
> > be staying in ostensibly offers WiFi internet access. Is it the case that I
> > should be able to use the Airport Express (N) router I have lying unused on
> > my shelf to create a LAN in the hotel room? We've not needed to do this in
> > the past because our phones could get their internet access using cellular
> > data, and everything I read tells me I should turn cellular data "off" on
> > our iPhones before the plane takes off in the US and not turn it back on
> > again until we're back on ATT soil (weak attempt at a double entendre
> > there).
> >
> > The specific question, I guess is that the hotel's router will be doing
> > dhcp, and I'll want my Airport Express to do dhcp for our little private
> > LAN in the hotel room. Will that be possible? Is there any preliminary
> > configuration I can do (creating the network SSID and password for example)
> > using Airport Utility on one of my Macs here at home before we leave?
> >
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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Sat Aug 4, 2012 5:23 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"James Robertson" jamesrob328i
On Aug 4, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Otto Nikolaus <otto.nikolaus@
> Are the hotels limiting you to only one computer on their Wi-Fi? Wi-Fi
> routers generally allow multiple connections.
I've not seen that (after all, I don't think they have one room per access point). However, what I usually DO see in hotels is a charge for each device that connects to the WiFi network. My hope is that there's some way I can make the single device whose MAC identifier is seen by the hotel's WiFi access point be the Airport Express, which in turn will dole out local IP addresses to my MacBook Pro and my iOS devices (2 iPhones and an iPad). That way I could pay for one connection to share among the 4 OS X and iOS devices.
--
Jim Robertson
Sat Aug 4, 2012 5:25 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"James Robertson" jamesrob328i
On Aug 4, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Paul Cartwright <paul@mactechservice
> You should be able to set it up in bridge mode with your own network name and login passwords
Sorry to be so dense, but I think you're saying I set up the Express in Bridge mode to connect to the hotel's WiFi router, and the Express then provides local IP addresses known only to my devices. Is that the case?
Thanks so much,
Jim Robertson
Sat Aug 4, 2012 4:11 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"T Hopkins" todhop
OWC, which sells upgrades and upgrade parts, does an excellent job of matching parts and tools to models and giving you a good idea of how hard a specific upgrade is. It varies a lot from model to model.
I second iFixIt if you want to see the nitty-gritty.
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins-at-hillmanncarr.com
On Aug 3, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Carol wrote:
> How hard/easy is it? My MacBook seems to need one and I live where it it hard to find anyone to repair a mac.
>
> Since I am using a library computer, it will be a while before I can check replies.
>
>
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I second iFixIt if you want to see the nitty-gritty.
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins-at-
On Aug 3, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Carol wrote:
> How hard/easy is it? My MacBook seems to need one and I live where it it hard to find anyone to repair a mac.
>
> Since I am using a library computer, it will be a while before I can check replies.
>
>
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Sat Aug 4, 2012 10:31 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"Bill Boy" billmboy
This inexpensive printer from epson works great. I bought several of them for church members who need to print and copy and they are very happy with them. I buy after market ink off eBay and they just keep on printing.
Bill
On Aug 3, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Gary wrote:
> I'm looking at this:
> http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_query=epson+printer&ic=16_0&Find=Find&search_constraint=0
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Bill
On Aug 3, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Gary wrote:
> I'm looking at this:
> http://www.walmart.
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Sun Aug 5, 2012 12:07 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Michael Moloney" moloney_mj
Hi there,
Does anyone know of any good Defrag Programs that are available for MAC?
Michael Moloney
moloney.icloud@gmail.com
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Does anyone know of any good Defrag Programs that are available for MAC?
Michael Moloney
moloney.icloud@
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Sun Aug 5, 2012 3:03 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Imran Gmail" sj.imran
Hi Michael,
One of the below can do the job.
iDefrag , Drive genius.
Regards
Imran
Regards
Imran
+97152 913 2215
On Sunday, August 5, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Michael Moloney wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Does anyone know of any good Defrag Programs that are available for MAC?
>
> Michael Moloney
> moloney.icloud@gmail.com (mailto:moloney.icloud%40gmail.com)
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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One of the below can do the job.
iDefrag , Drive genius.
Regards
Imran
Regards
Imran
+97152 913 2215
On Sunday, August 5, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Michael Moloney wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Does anyone know of any good Defrag Programs that are available for MAC?
>
> Michael Moloney
> moloney.icloud@
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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Sun Aug 5, 2012 3:03 am (PDT) . Posted by:
"Randy B. Singer" randybrucesinger
On Aug 5, 2012, at 12:07 AM, Michael Moloney wrote:
> Does anyone know of any good Defrag Programs that are available for
> MAC?
There is only one defragmentation program that I'd ever consider
using for the Macintosh:
iDefrag ($31)
http://www.coriolis
iDefrag is the only product that I know of that does a smart
defragmentation of your hard drive.
But before you rush to download a copy, you might want to read this:
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattor
Item#6
You might not need a defragmentation program at all. At least not yet.
____________
Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattor
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