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Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:22 pm (PST) . Posted by:
"Bill B." kernos501
Yes, iTunes, 11.0.1
I seem to remember having a choice of sources in older versions of iTunes (maybe way older) or maybe it was a script or plugin.
Bill
At 12:25 AM +0000 12/30/12, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
>You didn't say, but is this using iTunes? Where you only given one choice
>of info?
>
>iTunes uses the Gracenote CD database BTW.
>
>Otto
>
>On 29 December 2012 20:01, Bill B. <bill501@mindspring.com > wrote:
>
>> I go a 100 best songs for Christmas, but the internet import of titles and
>> composer are in Japanese. Is there an alternative way to get online info
>> for CDs via a script or plugin from some other site?
>>
I seem to remember having a choice of sources in older versions of iTunes (maybe way older) or maybe it was a script or plugin.
Bill
At 12:25 AM +0000 12/30/12, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
>You didn't say, but is this using iTunes? Where you only given one choice
>of info?
>
>iTunes uses the Gracenote CD database BTW.
>
>Otto
>
>On 29 December 2012 20:01, Bill B. <bill501@mindspring.
>
>> I go a 100 best songs for Christmas, but the internet import of titles and
>> composer are in Japanese. Is there an alternative way to get online info
>> for CDs via a script or plugin from some other site?
>>
Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:28 pm (PST) . Posted by:
"Bill B." kernos501
Try creating a new user and see if the problem goes away. If it does that strongly supports a software problem.
I agree that trying to look at activity monitor, sorted by %CPU may indicate a problem process. I'd also suggest zapping the PRAM.
Bill B.
At 4:23 PM -0500 12/29/12, Donna Ells wrote:
>Hi I wrote some time back about a new sleep issue on 27" iMac.
>
>I've now determined it is NOT a hardware issue, and wondering if it is a
>plist file or preferences and hoping someone might give me a clue.
>
>Problem: X.6.8 iMac takes 30-40 seconds to go to sleep. Something is causing
>it to "work" before it can sleep. Sometimes it wakes on its own, but goes
>back to sleep after the 15 minutes automatic setting.
>
>steps taken so far:
>
>phoned apple care who advised me it is likely a logic board and I should
>take it to the genius bar.
>
>HOWEVER
>
>I have an external HD. Half partitioned for TM, and half is a clone. When
>ext HD is unplugged, and no apps are running, the iMac still takes a long
>time to go to sleep.
>
>My husband has an identical iMac (but his is 21.5"). His iMac sleeps as it
>should. I put my external HD on my husband's iMac, and booted up.
>
>Using my external drive, the sleep issue still occurs, even on his iMac.
>
>Therefore, it cannot be hardware, right? It has to be a prefs or plist or
>something like that, right?
>
>Can anyone offer other suggestions PLEASE?
I agree that trying to look at activity monitor, sorted by %CPU may indicate a problem process. I'd also suggest zapping the PRAM.
Bill B.
At 4:23 PM -0500 12/29/12, Donna Ells wrote:
>Hi I wrote some time back about a new sleep issue on 27" iMac.
>
>I've now determined it is NOT a hardware issue, and wondering if it is a
>plist file or preferences and hoping someone might give me a clue.
>
>Problem: X.6.8 iMac takes 30-40 seconds to go to sleep. Something is causing
>it to "work" before it can sleep. Sometimes it wakes on its own, but goes
>back to sleep after the 15 minutes automatic setting.
>
>steps taken so far:
>
>phoned apple care who advised me it is likely a logic board and I should
>take it to the genius bar.
>
>HOWEVER
>
>I have an external HD. Half partitioned for TM, and half is a clone. When
>ext HD is unplugged, and no apps are running, the iMac still takes a long
>time to go to sleep.
>
>My husband has an identical iMac (but his is 21.5"). His iMac sleeps as it
>should. I put my external HD on my husband's iMac, and booted up.
>
>Using my external drive, the sleep issue still occurs, even on his iMac.
>
>Therefore, it cannot be hardware, right? It has to be a prefs or plist or
>something like that, right?
>
>Can anyone offer other suggestions PLEASE?
Sat Dec 29, 2012 6:09 pm (PST) . Posted by:
"Denver Dan" denverdan22180
Tarnation and goose feathers!!
Enabling Zoom worked!
I'm now zooming.
Thanks Otto!
Denver Dan
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:40:02 +0000, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
> This has been part of iOS as long as I can remember. Mine's a 3GS,
> currently running iOS 6. The feature is described in Accessibility, p612 of
> the iBooks iPhone Use Guide for iOS 6. You might not have it enabled: check
> Settings > General > Accessibility > Zoom.
>
> Otto
>
> On 29 December 2012 21:01, Denver Dan <denver.dan@verizon.net > wrote:
>
>> Howdy and Happy.
>>
>> I just tried double tapping with 3 fingers on my iPhone 5 in several
>> apps including Contacts and zip/nada zoom occurs.
>>
>> Could there be an app that does this?? Or maybe a feature present on
>> older iPhones??
Enabling Zoom worked!
I'm now zooming.
Thanks Otto!
Denver Dan
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:40:02 +0000, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
> This has been part of iOS as long as I can remember. Mine's a 3GS,
> currently running iOS 6. The feature is described in Accessibility, p612 of
> the iBooks iPhone Use Guide for iOS 6. You might not have it enabled: check
> Settings > General > Accessibility > Zoom.
>
> Otto
>
> On 29 December 2012 21:01, Denver Dan <denver.dan@verizon.
>
>> Howdy and Happy.
>>
>> I just tried double tapping with 3 fingers on my iPhone 5 in several
>> apps including Contacts and zip/nada zoom occurs.
>>
>> Could there be an app that does this?? Or maybe a feature present on
>> older iPhones??
Sat Dec 29, 2012 8:07 pm (PST) . Posted by:
"Bob Stern" bobbystar
Maybe I am misreading this thread but as suggested I went into Settings> General > Accessibility and turned on zoom.
Now I can do a three finger tap double tap in Contacts and the whole listing becomes larger, including the phone number.
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Now I can do a three finger tap double tap in Contacts and the whole listing becomes larger, including the phone number.
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Sat Dec 29, 2012 8:13 pm (PST) . Posted by:
"Ross Rasmussen" rossrasmussen
I have used this in OSX; In Contacts, click on phone number then right click (or control click) on the number and choose Large Type. The number will be as large as your screen.
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Sun Dec 30, 2012 4:56 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf
The OP referred to " zoom the phone number entry into large green text ". I
was not aware of this so suggested the standard 3-finger tap as an
alternative.
Otto
On 30 December 2012 04:07, Bob Stern <bobbystar@yahoo.com > wrote:
> Maybe I am misreading this thread but as suggested I went into Settings>
> General > Accessibility and turned on zoom.
> Now I can do a three finger tap double tap in Contacts and the whole
> listing becomes larger, including the phone number.
>
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was not aware of this so suggested the standard 3-finger tap as an
alternative.
Otto
On 30 December 2012 04:07, Bob Stern <bobbystar@yahoo.
> Maybe I am misreading this thread but as suggested I went into Settings>
> General > Accessibility and turned on zoom.
> Now I can do a three finger tap double tap in Contacts and the whole
> listing becomes larger, including the phone number.
>
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Sun Dec 30, 2012 6:39 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Daly Jessup" dalyjessup
On Dec 29, 2012, at 12:25 PM, James Robertson wrote:
> What I remember REALLY distinctly is something that would zoom just the phone number so that it almost filled the screen. I remember seeing that demonstrated, either at an Apple Store or perhaps by David Pogue at Macworld, but I sure can't figure out how to do it now :-(
Is it possible that you are remembering that "large type" feature in AddressBook on the computer itself? I agree that it would be a great feature for the phone, but I can't remember seeing it on the phone.
Daly
Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:07 am (PST) . Posted by:
"James Robertson" jamesrob328i
On Dec 29, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Ross Rasmussen <ross2752@mac.
> I have used this in OSX; In Contacts, click on phone number then right click (or control click) on the number and choose Large Type. The number will be as large as your screen.
BINGO!
THAT's where I've seen this before. Of course, as others have stated, it's the PHONE where the typeface natively is quite small. It sure would be nice to have something like this for phone numbers system wide in iOS! (The obvious retort is that there's no need, because all you have to do with a phone number is select it; the obvious retort to THAT I've already made: there are still many places where ATT doesn't grace us with decent cell coverage, so it's a daily occurrence that I need to read a phone number on my iPhone to dial it on a landline phone)
I upped the default font size on my iPhone by the smallest increment permitted by the Accessibility section, and it didn't seem to help, so I selected a disgustingly LARGE size. That enlarged the names in the list in Contacts, but had no effect whatsoever on the information recorded in the app's data fields. I would suggest that's a solution for the wrong problem: most of us with aging eyes have no trouble interpolating "cl" in the context of a word to parse it as c-l-i-p, rather than d-i-p, but strings of digits with no contextual relationship are what give us trouble in daily life.
Is there a way to suggest an iOS enhancement to someone at Apple?
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Jim Robertson
Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:19 am (PST) . Posted by:
"James Robertson" jamesrob328i
On Dec 30, 2012, at 6:39 AM, Daly Jessup <jessup@san.rr.
> Is it possible that you are remembering that "large type" feature in AddressBook on the computer itself?
Unfortunately, that indeed is what I was misremembering (my justification for having forgotten it was that when I was first exposed to it I thought "that's cool" but really had no need for it on my Macs).
I'd REALLY like something like this in iOS that works JUST for the phone number. Once I've navigated into a specific person's contact record and selected a specific phone number entry but can't read it, I don't need to blow up the whole screen (zoom), and the "help" Apple has chosen to give me in <Accessibility/
By the way, I'm curious: for reasons entirely unclear to me, Mail.app on my Mac has decided to fragment this discussion into four separate ones, all bearing the identical subject. Has that happened to others?
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Jim Robertson
Sat Dec 29, 2012 7:32 pm (PST) . Posted by:
"Jim Saklad" jimdoc01
> Control + click on the number. A menu comes up that offers "Large Type"
<Option><click> on a Mac (not, obviously, on an iPhone).
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<Option><click> on a Mac (not, obviously, on an iPhone).
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Sat Dec 29, 2012 8:15 pm (PST) . Posted by:
"HAL9000" jrswebhome
Hi Dan, did, just that a couple of weeks ago. The drive is fine. Rebacked up all. Just a connection issue I think. I've had backups several hours in a row this evening, no problems. Just have to remember when adjusting the screen. jr
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com , Denver Dan <denver.dan@...> wrote:
>
> Howdy and Happy.
>
> JR, I think you have a valid point about the FW 800 port on back of
> iMac. I use FW 800 from my MacPro tower (which doesn't swing around,
> of course) to an OWC FW800 external designated as my Time Machine
> backup drive. Zero problems.
>
> Why don't you turn off Time Machine, erase/reformat the drive, test it,
> do the repair routines in Disk Utility, then try it again?
>
> I'd still suggest trying a new or different FW800 cable, too.
>
> Denver Dan
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:12:28 +0000, HAL9000 wrote:
> > Dan, the firewire 800 connection on back the iMac is poorly designed.
> > If you move the screen of the iMac, the stupid 800 connected wire on
> > the back of the screen tends to always loosen. One might expect a
> > connection to snap into the iMac, but it only slides onto the 800
> > connection. And yet Apple allows us to swing the screen to adjust,
> > which is fine, if it doesn't loosen anything on back that's slid into
> > place.
> >
> > However, the 800 connection isn't always loose, and Time Machine
> > STILL hangs on occasions. That is why I asked if there is any
> > firmware updates for this external HD.
> >
> > Hope you and the list have a peaceful holiday. jr
>
--- In macsupportcentral@
>
> Howdy and Happy.
>
> JR, I think you have a valid point about the FW 800 port on back of
> iMac. I use FW 800 from my MacPro tower (which doesn't swing around,
> of course) to an OWC FW800 external designated as my Time Machine
> backup drive. Zero problems.
>
> Why don't you turn off Time Machine, erase/reformat the drive, test it,
> do the repair routines in Disk Utility, then try it again?
>
> I'd still suggest trying a new or different FW800 cable, too.
>
> Denver Dan
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:12:28 +0000, HAL9000 wrote:
> > Dan, the firewire 800 connection on back the iMac is poorly designed.
> > If you move the screen of the iMac, the stupid 800 connected wire on
> > the back of the screen tends to always loosen. One might expect a
> > connection to snap into the iMac, but it only slides onto the 800
> > connection. And yet Apple allows us to swing the screen to adjust,
> > which is fine, if it doesn't loosen anything on back that's slid into
> > place.
> >
> > However, the 800 connection isn't always loose, and Time Machine
> > STILL hangs on occasions. That is why I asked if there is any
> > firmware updates for this external HD.
> >
> > Hope you and the list have a peaceful holiday. jr
>
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