7/16/2013

[macsupport] Digest Number 9654

15 New Messages

Digest #9654
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Re: Apple Airport Extreme 2013 by "redhillsranger" jsm5320432
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Re: Apple Airport Extreme 2013 by "David Putman" david_c_mac
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Re: Apple Airport Extreme 2013 by "Rob Frankel" robfrankeldotcom
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Sound problem by "RLN37" RLN37
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Re: Sound problem by "OBrien" conorboru
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Re: Sound problem by "N.A. Nada"
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Reliable way to rip audiofiles off of DVD? by "sandysdharma" sandysdharma
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Codec support for OSX by "Tony" tdale@xtra.co.nz
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Re: Codec support for OSX by "Pat Taylor" pat412255
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Re: Codec support for OSX by "Tony" tdale@xtra.co.nz
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Re: Codec support for OSX by "Pat Taylor" pat412255
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Re: Codec support for OSX by "David Brostoff" dcbrostoff
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Video codec by "Tony" tdale@xtra.co.nz

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Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:34 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"redhillsranger" jsm5320432

I have found that the new Extreme works well with the older (flat square) airports. I had an extended network with two of the older airports. The network extended from one building (concrete siding, 2x6 insulated walls, double pane windows) to a similar constructed building about 70 feet away.

The airport in the receiving building failed, so I purchased a new tower extreme. I put the new extreme (tower) in as the hub unit and extended the network with what was the old hub.

In the first building a new MB air can tap into the new tower (it is significantly faster when those two connect) and at the end of the network (at the far end of the second building - about 100-125 feet out from the hub) the signal is still strong but speed is about 1/2 what it is at the hub. I suspect this is a factor of signal degradation over distance and also that at the second building there are two older MB Pro models (2.66 mhz, 2009 models) and an older MB air.

Another benefit is that the signal is more resilient and much less likely to drop signal at the fringes of the network.

All printers work fine as well.

Hope this is of some help.

John

Tue Jul 16, 2013 7:21 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"David Putman" david_c_mac

I bought a new AirPort Extreme for my base & extended the network with my old Extreme. I used the Airport Utility. To set it up & was pretty easy. Works great.

David

On Jul 15, 2013, at 5:37 PM, "N.A. Nada" <whodo678@comcast.net> wrote:

> Ditto what Tony and Pat said about an Airport Express.
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> You did not specify what was at the receiving end and I assumed. Next time be more descriptive.
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> While you are at Small Dogs, ask them to go over how to connect the two. You might have to temporarily wire them to set up, and I have never done it.
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> Am I having deja vu, didn't we go over this about a month ago?
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> Brent
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> On Jul 15, 2013, at 3:12 PM, joan05061 wrote:
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> It is not my desktop computers that have any problems, it's my iPad and iPhones at the other end of the house, (about 75 feet away (the house is all on one floor in a long line) that have a weak signal. If I added an Airport Express, would it have to be connected via a cable to the Airport Extreme? That would mean drilling holes, etc. if so. I'd like to avoid that. I will go into Small Dog with a floor plan and distances and ask their opinion. Thanks for the suggestions.
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>> Physical object can interfere with the distance your WiFi signal, particularly metal objects, but wood and masonry can also block the signal.
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>> Have you tried moving the AEBS, Airport Extreme, closer to the computers, like on the same side of the house as the computers? If not, even moving the AEBS 6 - 12" can make all the difference, if you are able to give it a clear x-ray vision line of site to the computers.
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>> If your current AEBS is dual band, then it can switch to the 5 GHz band to get around most wireless phone interference, if your computers can receive it.
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>> I would give a WAG, wide guess, that the new AEBS has about a 10-20% chance of solving the problem. Adding a Airport Express mid-way, to relay the signal, probably has a better chance.
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>> Without seeing even a rough floor plan, distances, placements of certain items, and knowing the construction of the house, it is nearly impossible to give you firmer guestimates. Since you appear to be in Vermont, drop into Small Dogs, or another Apple dealer with a rough floor plan and specific information about your electronic equipment, for a better estimate. A rough floor plan with estimated distances is good enough. Any good, non-brand prejudiced computer dealer help you with this, if need be, but an Apple dealer will know the Apple products involved better, since your Macs and other equipment.
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>> Brent
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>> On Jul 15, 2013, at 7:48 AM, joan05061 wrote:
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>> I subscribe to Small Dog Electronics newsletter and recently there was a piece about the new Apple Airport Extreme that is shaped like a tower rather than just flat. I have the older Airport Extreme but I am still having problems with Wi-Fi reception at the other end of the house from where my office is and where the computers are located. Has anyone had any experience with this new Airport Extreme and would it be likely to boost my Wi-Fi reception at the other end of the house. Our house is all on one floor so there are telephones and a refrigerator that someone told me might interfere with reception. Is that the case?
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Tue Jul 16, 2013 7:43 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"Rob Frankel" robfrankeldotcom

FWIW, we have the same problem here, where everyone throughout the
house receives wireless via Airport Extreme and Express extenders.
One room, however, has trouble maintaining a signal, even though it
has its own Express that shows a green indicator light and shows up
on the Airport Utility as a viable part of the network.

Nobody know why the room's signal is weak or dropped, but I suspect
it's due to the kitchen below the room, where a refrigerator has two
compressors working to keep it cold. I've heard that machines with
motors can disrupt receptivity, and this seems to be the only reason
left why that one room's reception is spotty at best. Everything
else gets great reception, regardless of the device.

So the question would be whether there's any kind of electrical
disturbance between the Airport and the device.

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Tue Jul 16, 2013 8:17 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"halboye18" halboye18

I do carry my laptop with me. What I want to do is sync only one folder in Mail ... not all the folders, hal

--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, "N.A. Nada" <whodo678@...> wrote:
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> I have not done it, but I believe if you create the folders and the rules in iCloud, and then sync with your Macs and iDevices. When you start up the Mac at home, it should sync and voila!
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> If you are on a list with William Lane, I believe he does that, and for pretty much the same reason as you. Or maybe someone hear is doing that. Sorry I can not give you more help. I just take my laptop along when I travel.
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> On Jul 15, 2013, at 7:41 PM, halboye18 wrote:
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> In Mail, I have a folder of emails where I put messages I will want to have when I get home. We spend 3-4 months at a time on the road. So I set up a folder entitled "save for home." Pretty clever, huh?
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> Is there a way to sync this folder using dropbox? Or is there a better way to save these messages so that when I get home, I can access them on my desktop computer?
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> I have tried to drag said folder from the Mail window to the Dropbox icon ... doesn't work.
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> Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have, hal
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Tue Jul 16, 2013 12:25 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"N.A. Nada"

How do you manage to sync only one folder?

Could you sync another and resolve your original issue?

If not, why not? It would seem to be easier and cleaner to just use what you are doing, than to add another layer to things.

Brent

- Rube Goldberg inventions may be fun to watch, but I would not want to operate one.

On Jul 16, 2013, at 8:17 AM, halboye18 wrote:

I do carry my laptop with me. What I want to do is sync only one folder in Mail ... not all the folders, hal

--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, "N.A. Nada" <whodo678@...> wrote:
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> I have not done it, but I believe if you create the folders and the rules in iCloud, and then sync with your Macs and iDevices. When you start up the Mac at home, it should sync and voila!
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> If you are on a list with William Lane, I believe he does that, and for pretty much the same reason as you. Or maybe someone hear is doing that. Sorry I can not give you more help. I just take my laptop along when I travel.
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> On Jul 15, 2013, at 7:41 PM, halboye18 wrote:
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> In Mail, I have a folder of emails where I put messages I will want to have when I get home. We spend 3-4 months at a time on the road. So I set up a folder entitled "save for home." Pretty clever, huh?
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> Is there a way to sync this folder using dropbox? Or is there a better way to save these messages so that when I get home, I can access them on my desktop computer?
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> I have tried to drag said folder from the Mail window to the Dropbox icon ... doesn't work.
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Tue Jul 16, 2013 9:17 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"RLN37" RLN37

I'm a fairly new Mac user, and I am experiencing an annoying little problem:

When I do a restart, as I like to do once a week, I often find that when the machine starts back up, spontaneously I have an old sound track start playing. I think it's usually the last track I played previously. Not something I have deliberately stored on the machine,
but rather some "webinar" from the web that I listened to before.

The problem is I can't seem to find a way to kill this sound track. And if I try to play some other track, I get both playing at once.

Anyone know how to kill unwanted old sound tracks or files?

Thanks for the help.

Baseball Bob

Tue Jul 16, 2013 12:44 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"OBrien" conorboru

On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:17:37 -0000, RLN37 wrote:
> When I do a restart, as I like to do once a week, I often find that
> when the machine starts back up, spontaneously I have an old sound
> track start playing...

Where, specifically, is it coming from? Is it a website, an application, or what?


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Tue Jul 16, 2013 12:53 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"N.A. Nada"

Hi, Bob.

Please identify your Mac and OS when asking questions.

I don't have a complete answer for you, but some homework.

- Look in Sys Prefs/ Users & Groups/ (your user file)/ Login Items and see if there is any audio or video app there and tell us what it is.
- Open Applications/ Utilities/ and start Activity Monitor, again check for any audio or video app there and tell us what it is.
- Check to see if a somewhat hidden feature of 10.7 and above is on. It is called Resume, which will restart the apps that where open when you last shut down. I found it a bit aggravating and turned it off.

If after you figure out what app is playing the sound track, and you still want to turn off Resume, then go to Sys Prefs/ General/ go to the bottom of the section "Number of recent items" and uncheck �Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps�. But I would first just find the app and stop that one app from starting on login.

Let us know what you find.

Brent

On Jul 16, 2013, at 9:17 AM, RLN37 wrote:

I'm a fairly new Mac user, and I am experiencing an annoying little problem:

When I do a restart, as I like to do once a week, I often find that when the machine starts back up, spontaneously I have an old sound track start playing. I think it's usually the last track I played previously. Not something I have deliberately stored on the machine,
but rather some "webinar" from the web that I listened to before.

The problem is I can't seem to find a way to kill this sound track. And if I try to play some other track, I get both playing at once.

Anyone know how to kill unwanted old sound tracks or files?

Thanks for the help.

Baseball Bob

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Tue Jul 16, 2013 11:18 am (PDT) . Posted by:

"sandysdharma" sandysdharma

I want to play the audio from some DVD's I have of educational presentations so
that I can transfer them to my iPhone and listen to them when I'm out and about.

I think I saw something years ago about using Handbrake for that, but I can't seem to find it when searching old topics.

I located a tutorial online and followed it's directions...it's a 2-step process, using Handbrake and then 'Extract Movie Soundtrack.&#39;

http://www.macworld.com/article/1146240/dvd_audio_ripping.html

...but it only seems to extract roughly HALF of the audio from each of the two DVD's I've tried this with.

I could just do this in real time, using my Tascam DR-08 to capture just the sound as I play the DVD, but I'm hoping someone out there knows a quicker way to reliably rip the audio from DVD's...

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

I also have Toast Titanium 8 on my aging 2007-vintage MacBook 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running OSX 10.6.8, and I'm wondering if it will do the job? Have searched on Google but haven't found anything useful about that...

Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:53 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"Tony" tdale@xtra.co.nz

Is there a codec that will support ML? So that I can play non mp4 video in QT or Divx Player?

I installed Persian but it doesnt support 10.8

I am a newbie moving from Windows, learning OSX

Cheers

Tony NZ

Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:06 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"Pat Taylor" pat412255

Have you tried VLC? I think it's free & you can Google for it.

On Jul 16, 2013, at 6:53 PM, Tony <tdale@xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Is there a codec that will support ML? So that I can play non mp4 video in QT or Divx Player?
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> I installed Persian but it doesnt support 10.8
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> I am a newbie moving from Windows, learning OSX
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> Cheers
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> Tony NZ
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Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:17 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"Tony" tdale@xtra.co.nz

EEK!  My Windows brain failed me, I searched in the Mac Store for VLC, never thought to google it, doing now!
 
Next question, I installed Perian codec but doesn't support 10.8. How do I uninstall it as its not an app as such, not in Applications, it just added codecs
 
Tks Pat

From: Pat Taylor <pat412@mac.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, 17 July 2013 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: [macsupport] Codec support for OSX

Have you tried VLC?  I think it's free & you can Google for it.

On Jul 16, 2013, at 6:53 PM, Tony <tdale@xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Is there a codec that will support ML? So that I can play non mp4 video in QT or Divx Player?
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> I installed Persian but it doesnt support 10.8
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> I am a newbie moving from Windows, learning OSX
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> Cheers
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> Tony NZ
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Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:36 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"Pat Taylor" pat412255

From the Perian site:

How do I remove Perian?
Open the System Preferences. Select the Perian pane and 'Remove.' Now 'Show All' preference panes, control-click the Perian pane and 'Remove "Perian" Preference Pane.'

On Jul 16, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Tony <tdale@xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> EEK! My Windows brain failed me, I searched in the Mac Store for VLC, never thought to google it, doing now!
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> Next question, I installed Perian codec but doesn't support 10.8. How do I uninstall it as its not an app as such, not in Applications, it just added codecs
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> Tks Pat
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> From: Pat Taylor <pat412@mac.com>
> To: macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, 17 July 2013 1:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [macsupport] Codec support for OSX
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> Have you tried VLC? I think it's free & you can Google for it.
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> On Jul 16, 2013, at 6:53 PM, Tony <tdale@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
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> > Is there a codec that will support ML? So that I can play non mp4 video in QT or Divx Player?
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> > I installed Persian but it doesnt support 10.8
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> > Cheers
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Tue Jul 16, 2013 7:08 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"David Brostoff" dcbrostoff

On Jul 16, 2013, at 18:17 , Tony <tdale@xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Next question, I installed Perian codec but doesn't support 10.8. How do I uninstall it as its not an app as such, not in Applications, it just added codecs

Perian is no longer being developed but it seems that it still works with 10.8.
<http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1412134>
<https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5136407?start=0&tstart=0>

Maybe someone knows differently though?

David

Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:59 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"Tony" tdale@xtra.co.nz

Is there a codec that will support ML? So that I can play non mp4 video in QT or Divx Player?

I installed Persian but it doesnt support 10.8

I am a newbie moving from Windows, learning OSX

Cheers

Tony NZ

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