On Mar 1, 13, at 8:34 AM, halboye18 hal.horwitz@comcast.net> wrote:

> My Epson projector has a VGA connection; however, my MacBook Pro does not. What converter do I need to connect a VGA connection to my MacBook Pro?
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> O am assuming that I connect sound separately ... Correct?
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> Thanks in advance for your advice.
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> hal
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Hal: There is a small adapter cable about six inches long, with a VGA connector on one end and a small connector that will fit your MacBook on the other. I think mine came with the MacBook. If you go to an Apple Store or to Fry's (or equivalent), I would take the MacBook with me, to make sure you get the right one. There are several versions of this little adapter.

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Re: connecting Epson projector to MacBookPro (2011)

Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:49 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"halboye18" halboye18

Thanks ... I did just that this evening ..... thanks for your advice, hal

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> Go to the Apple Store, online or b&m, and buy the adapter. It is $29. Just bought a second one for traveling.
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> http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB572Z/B/mini-displayport-to-vga-adapter?fnode=53
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> Brent
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> On Mar 1, 2013, at 8:34 AM, halboye18 wrote:
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> My Epson projector has a VGA connection; however, my MacBook Pro does not. What converter do I need to connect a VGA connection to my MacBook Pro?
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> O am assuming that I connect sound separately ... Correct?
>
> Thanks in advance for your advice.
>
> hal
> hal.horwitz@...
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Re: connecting Epson projector to MacBookPro (2011)

Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:54 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"halboye18" halboye18

found what I needed and got it tonight

thanks for your advice, hal

--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, Dane Robison wrote:
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> Hi Hal,
>
> The first thing you need to do is identify exactly what sort of video connector your MacBook Pro has (http://www.everymac.com is a good resource). Then it's a simple matter of buying an adapter. If your projector only has VGA, you'll need to do audio separately. If you're lucky enough to have an HDMI connection on your Epson, and a video port on your laptop that passes audio, you'll be in great shape and able to do it all with one adapter and one HDMI cable.
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> Dane
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> On Mar 1, 2013, at 11:34 AM, halboye18 wrote:
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> > My Epson projector has a VGA connection; however, my MacBook Pro does not. What converter do I need to connect a VGA connection to my MacBook Pro?
> >
> > O am assuming that I connect sound separately ... Correct?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your advice.
> >
> > hal
> > hal.horwitz@...
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Crippled Spotlight

Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:46 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"HAL9000" jrswebhome

I discovered yesterday that in Mountain Lion, even if you enter a Terminal Command to reveal the User Library Folder, that Spotlight will refuse to search and find anything in the folder. To me there isn't any point in a search application that is crippled by design.

"Find any File" seems to be a lightning quick search alternative.

I wish I understood the logic of providing a search app that is designed to provide inaccurate results.

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Re: Crippled Spotlight

Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:20 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Randy B. Singer" randybrucesinger

On Mar 1, 2013, at 6:46 PM, HAL9000 wrote:

> I discovered yesterday that in Mountain Lion, even if you enter a Terminal Command to reveal the User Library Folder, that Spotlight will refuse to search and find anything in the folder. To me there isn't any point in a search application that is crippled by design.
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> "Find any File" seems to be a lightning quick search alternative.
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> I wish I understood the logic of providing a search app that is designed to provide inaccurate results.

Spotlight isn't "broken" and it does not in any way give "inaccurate" results. It works exactly as it was intended to. Spotlight isn't designed to search everywhere on your hard drive. Apple specifically designed Spotlight so that it doesn't search through folders that only contain files that have to do with system software/system functions. I assume that Apple did this so that there wouldn't be a huge number of irrelevant and/or confusing hits when doing a search. Spotlight is a tool for your average Mac user, not Mac power users.

You can add places for Spotlight to search through with:

Spotlight Indexer (free)
http://www.kelleycomputing.net/spotlightindexer/

You can drastically increase Spotlight's power and accuracy with this free utility:

NotLight (free)
http://sbc.apeth.com/downloads/NotLight.zip

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Re: Crippled Spotlight

Fri Mar 1, 2013 8:28 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"HAL9000" jrswebhome

It's useless. I found one app to search and give me all instances. Spotlight ought to be an optional install. It's crap.

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> On Mar 1, 2013, at 6:46 PM, HAL9000 wrote:
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> > I discovered yesterday that in Mountain Lion, even if you enter a Terminal Command to reveal the User Library Folder, that Spotlight will refuse to search and find anything in the folder. To me there isn't any point in a search application that is crippled by design.
> >
> > "Find any File" seems to be a lightning quick search alternative.
> >
> > I wish I understood the logic of providing a search app that is designed to provide inaccurate results.
>
> Spotlight isn't "broken" and it does not in any way give "inaccurate" results. It works exactly as it was intended to. Spotlight isn't designed to search everywhere on your hard drive. Apple specifically designed Spotlight so that it doesn't search through folders that only contain files that have to do with system software/system functions. I assume that Apple did this so that there wouldn't be a huge number of irrelevant and/or confusing hits when doing a search. Spotlight is a tool for your average Mac user, not Mac power users.
>
> You can add places for Spotlight to search through with:
>
> Spotlight Indexer (free)
> http://www.kelleycomputing.net/spotlightindexer/
>
> You can drastically increase Spotlight's power and accuracy with this free utility:
>
> NotLight (free)
> http://sbc.apeth.com/downloads/NotLight.zip
>
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> Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
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Re: Crippled Spotlight

Fri Mar 1, 2013 11:06 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Randy B. Singer" randybrucesinger

On Mar 1, 2013, at 8:28 PM, HAL9000 wrote:

> It's useless. I found one app to search and give me all instances. Spotlight ought to be an optional install. It's crap.

Or it may be that you don't know how to use it, and aren't willing to listen to learn how to use it.

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Re: iPhone - iMessage

Fri Mar 1, 2013 8:31 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Sharon" gram2one

I found this online and it worked!

"Go into Settings-General-Reset-Reset Network Settings (this will cause you
to forget your WIFI network passwords you have entered) but I have found
doing this to help me when I had weird imessage/texting issues."

Sharon

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Sharon catdogmom@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm receiving them, and I never had this problem before. It just started.
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> Sharon
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> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:58 PM, N.A. Nada whodo678@comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Send it in the smallest size possible.
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>> On Mar 1, 2013, at 5:58 AM, gram2one wrote:
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>> Basically whenever I click on a picture in iMessage it says loading
>> forever. the
>> same image works fine if I save it first and open it on my camera roll.
>> I've
>> tried resetting everything, any ideas on what to do?
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>> Thank You,
>> Sharon
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>> iPhone 4S
>> ios 6.1.2
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How to segment & zip?

Fri Mar 1, 2013 9:52 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Dave C" davec2468

Is it "segment & zip" or "zip & segment"?

I've "squeezed"; a PDF from 30 MB to 6 MB and need it to be smaller than 5 MB. So segmenting seems the only solution.

I have zip utilities but, understandably, zipping the file doesn't make it any smaller.

I want to use a utility that will allow Mac- and PC-users to download & reassemble these files into the original.

What is a free utility I can use to segment & zip (or zip & segment)?

I've searched and found several "how-to's" but it was not clear if these required the original zipping utility to expand it and/or join the files.

Thanks,
Dave

OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard
2011 Mini 2.7 GHz dual i7 / 16 GB / 250 GB & 750 GB

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Re: How to segment & zip?

Fri Mar 1, 2013 11:30 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Randy B. Singer" randybrucesinger

On Mar 1, 2013, at 9:52 PM, Dave C wrote:

>
>
> I've "squeezed"; a PDF from 30 MB to 6 MB and need it to be smaller than 5 MB. So segmenting seems the only solution.

You may be able to shrink the PDF further. There is a little known trick, using only the software that comes with OS X, to gain complete and excellent control over the file size/quality trade-off in PDF files.

You can create custom Colorsync filters to reduce PDF file size while optimizing quality:
http://www.hoboes.com/Mimsy/hacks/quality-reduced-file-size/
(Using this tip, I've been able to create a filter than appears in the Print to PDF dialog that drastically compresses most PDF's while maintaining a surprisingly high level of quality.)

If you go to this Apple forum site
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6109445&tstart=0>.
In the first entry of that Apple forum there's an outdated link. Here is the updated link:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/41548940/PDF%20compression%20filters%20%28Unzip%20and%20put%20in%20your%20Library%20folder%29.zip>
This person has already developed a bunch of custom filters with various levels of compression. Download the filters from his site, unzip the package, then install into your Filters folder inside your Library folder or into the root Library folder so that every user has access. The next time you run Preview and do a Save As all these filters will be available to you.

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> I have zip utilities but, understandably, zipping the file doesn't make it any smaller.
>
> I want to use a utility that will allow Mac- and PC-users to download & reassemble these files into the original.
>
> What is a free utility I can use to segment & zip (or zip & segment)?
>
> I've searched and found several "how-to's" but it was not clear if these required the original zipping utility to expand it and/or join the files.

You need a utility to segment the archive that you will create, and you need a utility that has the ability to reassemble the segments and decompress them. For the Macintosh, this free utility will handle both:

Keka (free, donation requested)
http://www.kekaosx.com/en/

You can also use the command line to segment and re-assemble segmented Zip files on the Mac:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/12371/how-can-i-compress-a-folder-into-multiple-zip-files>

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5.1 Re: external hard drive

Sat Mar 2, 2013 9:13 am (PST) . Posted by:

"James Robertson" jamesrob328i

On Feb 28, 2013, at 3:03 PM, N.A. Nada whodo678@comcast.net> wrote:

> It depends upon the external drive.

How about disk image files mounted on the desktop?

On my Mac Pro (which I've read can use $80/month electricity just sitting there with the monitors blanked and disks spun down but the processors still idling), I began using sleep a month or two ago. I've paid a usability price for this:

1. When I return to the computer and wake it up, I'm told that I didn't remove mounted disks correctly - typically the "victim" is the drive image file for my Garmin 800 GPS bike computer, and I've not lost any data (yet).

2. Once the Mac Pro goes to sleep, anyone trying to use a Bonjour shared printer is out of luck unless they go into my office and wiggle the mouse.

Is there some way I can save energy/money when not using the Mac Pro but simultaneously avoid these nuisances (I do have "wake for network access" checked in System Prefs. Mac Pro is running fully updated 10.8.2.

Thanks,

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5.2 Re: external hard drive

Sat Mar 2, 2013 10:42 am (PST) . Posted by:

"N.A. Nada"

I'm not certain I understand the question about disk images, at least not the first question.

I believe that you are mistaken about the power consumption, that sounds more like a year's cost. That is higher than my whole bill for a month. I pay slightly less than the national average per KWh and about half of Hawaii's rate. Several years back I used to keep 3 Macs running 24/7, along with a refrigerator, small freezer, and a large homemade plywood beer bar, and my bill was never over $135 per month, and that is with electric baseboard heaters and electric water heater. Check with your local library, some lend KillaWatt meters.

My MBP is on for hours daily, but is set to go to sleep and require a password to awaken. This one travels with me and needs to be secure in a work environment.

I use encrypted disk images to protect some data, and my MBP is set to go to sleep in 15 minutes of inactivity. I have never seen it close or dismount a disk image. Only on shut down. Look at your settings for sleep and if that fails, I would look at the way the disk image was created and set up. Why do you need a disk image for your bike computer? Why won't a simple folder do? Also remember, most Garmin software originated as Windows software. Is the disk image for data or to run an application?

Change the way you connect to the printer. Don't share it through the Mac Pro, make it available directly to the LAN.

Brent
15" MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz, early 2008, Mac OS X 10.7.5
32" Visio TV as a second monitor
G4 Quicksilver 2002, Mac OS X 10.5.8
17" Apple Studio Display
iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1.2

On Mar 2, 2013, at 9:13 AM, James Robertson wrote:

On Feb 28, 2013, at 3:03 PM, N.A. Nada whodo678@comcast.net> wrote:

> It depends upon the external drive.

How about disk image files mounted on the desktop?

On my Mac Pro (which I've read can use $80/month electricity just sitting there with the monitors blanked and disks spun down but the processors still idling), I began using sleep a month or two ago. I've paid a usability price for this:

1. When I return to the computer and wake it up, I'm told that I didn't remove mounted disks correctly - typically the "victim" is the drive image file for my Garmin 800 GPS bike computer, and I've not lost any data (yet).

2. Once the Mac Pro goes to sleep, anyone trying to use a Bonjour shared printer is out of luck unless they go into my office and wiggle the mouse.

Is there some way I can save energy/money when not using the Mac Pro but simultaneously avoid these nuisances (I do have "wake for network access" checked in System Prefs. Mac Pro is running fully updated 10.8.2.

Thanks,

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Re: Seeing some bad changes in Apple!

Sat Mar 2, 2013 9:26 am (PST) . Posted by:

"James Robertson" jamesrob328i

On Feb 28, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Jane Klorer janemajesty11@aol.com> wrote:

> Was on a screen share with a senior advisor at iPhoto

I hesitate to say this because of your challenges, but it does seem you live your written life at too high an excitement level! Every sentence ends with an (!)! That can be as offputting for some readers as typing in all caps 50 years after we graduated from 24 X 80 character displays!

There can be less than stellar employees everywhere (go to Macintouch.com and read the tale of the NYC Apple Store Customer shaken down by the sales associate for pocketing the charger brick he'd just purchased using Apple's "Easy Checkout"), but keep in mind that phone support people are typically on a clock and may well be paid based on the length of their average call. Did you tell the support person that you were disabled and that you needed to step away from the phone with an estimate of the time it would take you to get back?

Jim!
Robertson!

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Re: Seeing some bad changes in Apple!

Sat Mar 2, 2013 10:39 am (PST) . Posted by:

"apple" tanya.metaksa@att.net

Yes, phone support people are given kudos and probably $$ if they get over some number of customers per hour. My grandson is a phone support person.

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 2, 2013, at 9:26 AM, James Robertson jamesrob@sonic.net> wrote:

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> On Feb 28, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Jane Klorer janemajesty11@aol.com> wrote:
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> > Was on a screen share with a senior advisor at iPhoto
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> I hesitate to say this because of your challenges, but it does seem you live your written life at too high an excitement level! Every sentence ends with an (!)! That can be as offputting for some readers as typing in all caps 50 years after we graduated from 24 X 80 character displays!
>
> There can be less than stellar employees everywhere (go to Macintouch.com and read the tale of the NYC Apple Store Customer shaken down by the sales associate for pocketing the charger brick he'd just purchased using Apple's "Easy Checkout"), but keep in mind that phone support people are typically on a clock and may well be paid based on the length of their average call. Did you tell the support person that you were disabled and that you needed to step away from the phone with an estimate of the time it would take you to get back?
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> Jim!
> Robertson!
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7 Mac vs PC software prices

Sat Mar 2, 2013 9:54 am (PST) . Posted by:

"neelie" neeliec2000

I'm a Mac user from the mid 1990's and LOVE all Apple products....BUT....I'm so tired of the premium prices we sometimes have to pay for software!

Today I got an email from Ancestry.com for a special price on family tree software. It sounded good - regular price $59.99 on sale for $39.99. But at the bottom of the notice was the dreaded "not for Macs" message, with a link for the Mac version. That turns out to be $69.99, with NO sale price.

Will this ever cease?