1/13/2012

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1a.

Re: chmod message

Posted by: "Alan Fry" ajf@afco.demon.co.uk   alanjohnfry

Fri Jan 13, 2012 4:36 am (PST)




On 12 Jan 2012, at 23:29, Les Streater wrote:

> Tried more terminal after an Apple search.
>
> id -gn gave staff
>
> ls -ladeO gave the following:
> LesStreater-imac:~ lesstreater-a$ ls -ladeO /Applications/Plustek/OpticalBook3800/PlustekOpticalBook3800.app
> drwx------+ 3 501 wheel - 102 12 Jan 22:52 /Applications/Plustek/OpticalBook3800/PlustekOpticalBook3800.app
> 0: user:lesstreater-a allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
>
> does this tell anyone anything new?
>

Yes Les -- I get quite different results, which suggests suggests something is fundamentally adrift in your machine. Specifically, I get the following results:

$ ig -gn
alanfry

$ ls -ladeO /Applications/Plustek/OpticalBook3800/PlustekOpticalBook3800.app
drwxr-xr-x 3 alanfry admin - 102 12 Jan 18:48 /Applications/Plustek/OpticalBook3800/PlustekOpticalBook3800.app

Firstly, I think you should not be getting 'staff' back from a -g (group) enquiry.
Secondly, you have '501 wheel' where you should be getting 'lesstreater-a admin'. And what the last line (beginning o:) is all about I have no idea at all.

The number '501' should translate to your user-name. For example for me:

$ id 501
uid=501(alanfry) gid=501(alanfry) groups=501(alanfry),.....

and I think you should get the same thing with 'lesstreater-a' in the brackets.

The only suggestion I can think of is to run the complete set of maintenance routines set out in Randy B. Singer's pages at <http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html> and then try reinstalling Plustek again.

Alan

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Re: How do I stop iPhoto sharing photos between users

Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com   nikyzf

Fri Jan 13, 2012 4:46 am (PST)



Is your library in Shared, or do you have sharing enabled in iPhoto itself?

Otto

On 13 January 2012 08:42, davidpriceuk <dprice@fireflyuk.net> wrote:

> For some reason, my iPhoto library is identical to the one in my son's
> account. So if I import a photo, it also appears on his iPhoto, and vice
> versa. I don't know how this happened exactly, but a couple of months ago I
> noticed my iPhoto library had disappeared from the Pictures folder and in
> replacing it, I seem to have caused this issue. Do you have any suggestions
> for stopping it happening?
>

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Office for Mac 2008 and Lion

Posted by: "hester reik" dhreik@gmail.com   drhester_06107

Fri Jan 13, 2012 6:20 am (PST)



Gurus,

Can my daughter who has a mbp 2011 with Lion use my 2008 Office for Mac?

hester

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Re: Office for Mac 2008 and Lion

Posted by: "James Robertson" jamesrob@sonic.net   jamesrob328i

Fri Jan 13, 2012 6:32 am (PST)




On Jan 13, 2012, at 6:20 AM, hester reik wrote:

> Can my daughter who has a mbp 2011 with Lion use my 2008 Office for Mac?

Technically, yes (Office 2008 for Mac is Lion-compatible).

Legally, it depends on your License. I think there are "family" licenses, but others may know more than I. If you have a single user license and you're on the same LAN, the registration codes may prevent more than one copy of any Office application from running at the same time.

--
Jim Robertson

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Re: Office for Mac 2008 and Lion

Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net   denverdan22180

Fri Jan 13, 2012 6:40 am (PST)



Howdy.

You can install Office 2008 on the MBP 2011 but possibly not legally.

The Microsoft EULA (End User Licensing Agreement) probably allows for a
copy of a purchased program to be installed and used on one main
computer and also on a 2nd and/or laptop computer, in the same
household, as long as the program is only run on one computer at a time
and the two computers are used by the same person.

I don't know if these terms have changed recently. Perhaps another
group member is more up-to-date on the MS EULA.

Denver Dan

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:20:46 -0500, hester reik wrote:
> Can my daughter who has a mbp 2011 with Lion use my 2008 Office for Mac?
>
> hester

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Re: More Seagate FreeAgent Woes

Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net   denverdan22180

Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:13 am (PST)



Howdy.

I've now posted many times on the dangers of Seagate FreeAgents and
Western Digital MyBooks. Just terrible stuff. Randy S and others have
also cautioned against these products.

I know that there are folks here with good stores about these brands
but my personal experience with both, the personal experience of my
neighbors, and that of people in this and other groups, online
articles, is a very big weight of evidence that shows these brands have
some ver serious reliability problems.

Denver Dan

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:52:44 +0000, Budd T wrote:
> Interesting
> Two years ago, I got a pair of "Free Agents" for myself and workmate.
> Both of them caused my iMac to lock up, requiring a mpu reset. She
> didn't believe me and had the same results on her MacBook Pro.
> Seagate said that had never happened before and blamed Apple. Apple
> wanted the "Free Agents" to test, but Good old CostCo had already
> accepted them back, no questions asked.
> We moved on to WD "My Books" that lasted a year before losing every
> file I ever had. WD graciously exchanged for a refurb that lasted
> another 10 months. This time they offered another at "Good Customer
> discount" which would have cost more to more than I could buy one
> from the local discount store.
> I've been rotating three Hitachis in a New Technology VoyagerQ since
> then. If I lose one, I've got backups. Time Machine occasionally
> has trouble finding the latest swap, but eventually is happily
> backing up again.

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Re: More Seagate FreeAgent Woes

Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net   denverdan22180

Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:19 am (PST)



Howdy.

I've not heard any bad reports about the New Technology VoyagerQ. It
seems like a quality drive dock.

I've been using two Thermaltake BlacX USB/eSATA drive docks and an
eSATA card in my MacPro. The BlacX drive docks have worked flaslessly.

I should note that a group member here, from a bit further west in
Virginia than my house, had a defective BlacX. While defective stuff
is always inconvenient it may not be an indication of low reliability,
at least in this case.

Denver Dan

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:52:44 +0000, Budd T wrote:
> I've been rotating three Hitachis in a New Technology VoyagerQ since
> then. If I lose one, I've got backups. Time Machine occasionally
> has trouble finding the latest swap, but eventually is happily
> backing up again.
>

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Re: More Seagate FreeAgent Woes

Posted by: "Jim Saklad" jimdoc@me.com   jimdoc01

Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:23 am (PST)



> Both Seagate and WD *external* hard drives have been less than ideal choices for several years now. I'd avoid either. External Hitachi drives are even worse.

Please distinguish more clearly between <hard drive enclosures> or <packages> and <hard drives>.

While I am distrustful of the enclosures, the Hitachi <drives> seem good.

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Re: More Seagate FreeAgent Woes

Posted by: "Dane Reugger" dane@downtownpc.com   dar2112

Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:21 am (PST)



Harddrives like everything else in technology have good runs and bad runs.
Based on my experiences I prefer and recommend Seagate FreeAgent drives - I
have at least 35 of them in use as server backup, archive, etc - in fact I
have 4 on my desk at the moment (2 brown w/ orange light, 1 silver, and 1
black) and have never had a problem. Western Digital, Samsung, and Hitachi
have all burned me on more than one occasions and even thought Lacie does't
actually make drives I don't trust their units either. That said it's all a
gamble you never know who is going to make the next good or bad run of
drives.

If the data is important then don't spend to much energy on the brand of
the drive - use something like raid in house then back it up offsite -
their are lots of cost effectives solutions for both these days.

-Dane

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@me.com> wrote:

>
> While I am distrustful of the enclosures, the Hitachi <drives> seem g

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Re: More Seagate FreeAgent Woes

Posted by: "Randy B. Singer" randy@macattorney.com   randybrucesinger

Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:27 pm (PST)




On Jan 13, 2012, at 8:22 AM, Jim Saklad wrote:

> > Both Seagate and WD *external* hard drives have been less than
> ideal choices for several years now. I'd avoid either. External
> Hitachi drives are even worse.
>
> Please distinguish more clearly between <hard drive enclosures> or
> <packages> and <hard drives>.
>
> While I am distrustful of the enclosures, the Hitachi <drives> seem
> good.

External hard drives include the enclosure, bridge and power supply.
Internal hard drives are simply the internal mechanism.

Seagate, WD, and Hitachi external hard drives are all junk.

However, Hitachi still makes decent (though no longer great) internal
hard drives, as does Seagate. WD internal hard drives tend to be
junk, but there are a couple of good models that they make.

The biggest problem is that there are now only two 3.5-inch hard
drive manufacturers: Seagate and WD. They have purchased every other
maker. Lack of competition causes there to be no need to produce
quality.

Western Digital purchased Hitachi which had previously purchased
IBM's hard drive division
<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/wd-buys-hitachi-gst-the-good-and-
the-bad/1309>

Seagate purchased Samsung's hard drive division
<http://blogs.forbes.com/briancaulfield/2011/04/19/seagate-agrees-to-
buy-samsungs-hard-drive-business-in-1-375-billion-deal/>

Earlier Seagate purchased Maxtor which had previously purchased Quantum
<http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/05/12/21/1311235/Seagate-buys-
Maxtor-for-19B>
<http://articles.sfgate.com/2000-10-05/business/17663615_1_maxtor-
quantum-ceo-michael-brown-net-loss>

Toshiba purchased Fujitsu's hard drive division
<http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2009/02/18/toshiba-to-buy-
fujitsu-hdd-division/1>

Basically there are now only three players in the rotating disk hard
drive field. Toshiba concentrates on 2.5-inch drives for mobile
computers.

___________________________________________
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: why CC oneself ???

Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com   todhop

Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:14 am (PST)



I BCC everything. Not as an smtp check and reminder, but also because I find it extremely useful to file my mail with all other mail in the thread. When reviewing, I can see the entire thread including my responses.

Cheers,
tod

On Jan 12, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Oneal Neumann wrote:

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> I frequently get emails where the sender has put a personal addy on the CC line. (I know that the term is ideed in Mail as 'Cc', but I prefer the big guys, as with BCC.)
>
> What‚s the point of CCing oneself when all emails are savable? Thanx. Oneal
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Re: bedeviled by glitches

Posted by: "Bill B." bill501@mindspring.com   kernos501

Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:47 am (PST)



At 1:52 PM -0500 1/12/12, Oneal Neumann wrote:
>In general terms, if knowable, what is producing this drift into operative wonkiness? Why do things that once worked fine no longer work as they used to? Will a (soon) move to Lion (10.7) remedy my still-minor problems, or will I just be bringing them along for the ride?<<

Prefs, caches and extension conflicts. Trash prefs, clean caches. Check fonts too. It that doesn't help I would do a clean install of everything after cloning and erasing a disk.

Bill B.

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CES Annual Show in Las Vegas & "Ghost of Apple"

Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net   denverdan22180

Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:46 am (PST)



Howdy.

Here's a fun article on the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in
Las Vegas.

<http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/12/technology/apple_ces/index.htm>

Apple's ghost hangs over CES

By Stacy Cowley @CNNMoneyTech, January 13, 2012: 12:32 PM ET

While Apple isn't official present at CES there is, according to the
article, an 80,000 square foot (7,432 m squared) special space called
the "iLounge" for iOS oriented products.

Micro$loth, trailing behind as ever, has announced that this is the
last year for them to have an official presence even though Uncle
Fester gave yet another keynote address demonstrating his disconnect
with reality.

As one reviewer who heard that keynote wrote, (sorry, can't remember
who now), "People listened politely as Ballmer talked about how Windows
Mobile 7 Phone (or whatever it's called this quarter) will take over
the entire world of mobile computing and then they wandered out of the
hall Twitting, texting, and emailing on their iPhone and Android
devices."

Be sure to read about the startup company that makes it possible to use
your iPhone as a BBQ meat thermometer. OK.

Alright, I tried to look it up. Is it Windows Phone 7 this year?

Denver Dan

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Re: CES Annual Show in Las Vegas & "Ghost of Apple"

Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com   nikyzf

Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:08 am (PST)



Windows Phone succeeds Windows Mobile, although it is not compatible (apps
for one won't run on the other).
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone>

I wonder if Nokia will survive?

Otto

On 13 January 2012 17:46, Denver Dan <denver.dan@verizon.net> wrote:

> Howdy.
>
> Here's a fun article on the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in
> Las Vegas.
>
> <http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/12/technology/apple_ces/index.htm>
>
> Apple's ghost hangs over CES
>
> By Stacy Cowley @CNNMoneyTech, January 13, 2012: 12:32 PM ET
>
> While Apple isn't official present at CES there is, according to the
> article, an 80,000 square foot (7,432 m squared) special space called
> the "iLounge" for iOS oriented products.
>
> Micro$loth, trailing behind as ever, has announced that this is the
> last year for them to have an official presence even though Uncle
> Fester gave yet another keynote address demonstrating his disconnect
> with reality.
>
> As one reviewer who heard that keynote wrote, (sorry, can't remember
> who now), "People listened politely as Ballmer talked about how Windows
> Mobile 7 Phone (or whatever it's called this quarter) will take over
> the entire world of mobile computing and then they wandered out of the
> hall Twitting, texting, and emailing on their iPhone and Android
> devices."
>
> Be sure to read about the startup company that makes it possible to use
> your iPhone as a BBQ meat thermometer. OK.
>
> Alright, I tried to look it up. Is it Windows Phone 7 this year?
>

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Re: CES Annual Show in Las Vegas & "Ghost of Apple"

Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net   denverdan22180

Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:34 am (PST)



Howdy.

I think Nokia will survive in some form or another. But they got
caught so far behind after release of the iPhone and haven't made much
progress in catching up in five years.

Nokia teaming with Microsoft for a mobile OS smacks of desperation.

But it is important to remember that Nokia is still the largest maker
of all types of cell phones but the smartphone market has eluded them.

IMO, the iOS / iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad data that really overwhelms
all others is not the absolute number of these devices in the world but
the percent of online sales of products, gifts, downloads, movie
downloads, book downloads, data, holiday shopping that is done on the
iOS devices.

This online use/percent by iOS is what just blasts the Nokias out of
contention and their stock price reflects it. Same with Blackberry.

At this moment (US dollars), share prices are:

Apple (AAPL on NASDAQ) $419.64
Nokia (NOK) $5.22
Research In Motion (RIMM) $16.09
Microsoft (MSFT) $28.07

Denver Dan

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:08:28 +0000, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
> Windows Phone succeeds Windows Mobile, although it is not compatible (apps
> for one won't run on the other).
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone>
>
> I wonder if Nokia will survive?
>
> Otto
>
> On 13 January 2012 17:46, Denver Dan <denver.dan@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Howdy.
>>
>> Here's a fun article on the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in
>> Las Vegas.
>>
>> <http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/12/technology/apple_ces/index.htm>
>>
>> Apple's ghost hangs over CES

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Re: CES Annual Show in Las Vegas & "Ghost of Apple"

Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com   todhop

Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:58 am (PST)



It's no longer about the hardware. That's why Google got Motorola "cheap" and Nokia wants alliance with Windows (probably mutual)... and Blackberry... well, they are fighting for their lives.

Cheers,
tod

On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Denver Dan wrote:

> Howdy.
>
> I think Nokia will survive in some form or another. But they got
> caught so far behind after release of the iPhone and haven't made much
> progress in catching up in five years.
>
> Nokia teaming with Microsoft for a mobile OS smacks of desperation.
>
> But it is important to remember that Nokia is still the largest maker
> of all types of cell phones but the smartphone market has eluded them.
>
> IMO, the iOS / iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad data that really overwhelms
> all others is not the absolute number of these devices in the world but
> the percent of online sales of products, gifts, downloads, movie
> downloads, book downloads, data, holiday shopping that is done on the
> iOS devices.
>
> This online use/percent by iOS is what just blasts the Nokias out of
> contention and their stock price reflects it. Same with Blackberry.
>
> At this moment (US dollars), share prices are:
>
> Apple (AAPL on NASDAQ) $419.64
> Nokia (NOK) $5.22
> Research In Motion (RIMM) $16.09
> Microsoft (MSFT) $28.07
>
> Denver Dan
>
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:08:28 +0000, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
> > Windows Phone succeeds Windows Mobile, although it is not compatible (apps
> > for one won't run on the other).
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone>
> >
> > I wonder if Nokia will survive?
> >
> > Otto
> >
> > On 13 January 2012 17:46, Denver Dan <denver.dan@verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Howdy.
> >>
> >> Here's a fun article on the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in
> >> Las Vegas.
> >>
> >> <http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/12/technology/apple_ces/index.htm>
> >>
> >> Apple's ghost hangs over CES
>

Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com

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Re: CES Annual Show in Las Vegas & "Ghost of Apple"

Posted by: "Jim Saklad" jimdoc@me.com   jimdoc01

Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:07 pm (PST)



> At this moment (US dollars), share prices are:
>
> Apple (AAPL on NASDAQ) $419.64

November, 2007 it was $187

> Nokia (NOK) $5.22

November, 2007 it was $40

> Research In Motion (RIMM) $16.09

November, 2007 it was $127

> Microsoft (MSFT) $28.07

November, 2007 it was $37

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NAS for network backups - free software

Posted by: "Tim O'Donoghue" tjod@drizzle.net   timodonoghue

Fri Jan 13, 2012 11:44 am (PST)



Hi all;

I'm posting this just for general reference. Although it is not specifically Mac-related, it can be used with the AFP protocol, among others like NFS and CIFS.

I was looking for a way to use an old Windows box that has been replaced by Bootcamp partitions on my MacBook Pro and Mac Mini, and found this software:

http://www.freenas.org/

It's a free Network Area Storage (NAS) solution described as

"FreeNAS™ is an Open Source Storage Platform based on FreeBSD and supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems. FreeNAS™ 8 includes ZFS, which supports high storage capacities and integrates file systems and volume management into a single piece of software."

I'm currently using it as a NAS for several Mac and Windows machines, and as storage for videos. It may not be for everyone and does require some networking knowledge, but it's reasonably well documented. Best of all it's free.

All you need is an old PC capable of booting to USB with one or more drives (RAID is supported), a USB stick (I'm using a 2 GB Sandisk "Cruzer" drive) and a CD/DVD to boot the installer disc. It does not require a very powerful machine, so even a P2 or P3 machine will suffice.

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Re: Apple-font diacritics

Posted by: "Oneal Neumann, nonPhD" wardell.h.s@gmail.com   newalander

Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:22 pm (PST)




I have a core group of fonts that I like to use, however just about all suck when it comes to Hungarian, which goes German diacritics a few better.

Most fonts can handle the standard diacriticked vowels: <ááá>, <ééé>, <ííí>, <óóó>, <úúú>. Most can also handle short umlauts: <ööö>, <üüü>. My problem is with long umlauts: <Å'Å'Å'>, <űűű>, which do not exist in German, which only has 30 letters compared to 40 Hungarian.

The problem that I have experienced is that most fonts become distorted when trying to effect the long umlauts (<Å'> and <ű>). That’s a visual nono.

I have only found Trebuchet MS to be able to handle all the Hungarian letters properly, however I’ve only sampled a dozen or so fonts. Can anybody out there who is font-savvy recommend other fonts that can also work alongside Trebuchet? Thanx.

Hope these fonts show on the list. Oneal

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Re: Apple-font diacritics

Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com   nikyzf

Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:26 pm (PST)



Is this using the Hungarian keyboard mapping? What's the distortion you are
seeing? Are these distorted?
Å'Å'ŐŐűűŰŰ

Is <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_alphabet> any help as a
reference?

Otto

On 13 January 2012 08:33, Oneal Neumann, nonPhD <wardell.h.s@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> I have a core group of fonts that I like to use, however just about all
> suck when it comes to Hungarian, which goes German diacritics a few better.
>
> Most fonts can handle the standard diacriticked vowels: <ááá>, <ééé>,
> <ííí>, <óóó>, <úúú>. Most can also handle short umlauts: <ööö>, <üüü>. My
> problem is with long umlauts: <Å'Å'Å'>, <űűű>, which do not exist in German,
> which only has 30 letters compared to 40 Hungarian.
>
> The problem that I have experienced is that most fonts become distorted
> when trying to effect the long umlauts (<Å'> and <ű>). That’s a visual nono.
>
> I have only found Trebuchet MS to be able to handle all the Hungarian
> letters properly, however I’ve only sampled a dozen or so fonts. Can
> anybody out there who is font-savvy recommend other fonts that can also
> work alongside Trebuchet? Thanx.
>
> Hope these fonts show on the list. Oneal
>

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Re: Apple-font diacritics

Posted by: "Ian Gillis" tessel.bas@gmail.com   ianjgillis

Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:54 pm (PST)



On 13 January 2012 09:33, Oneal Neumann, nonPhD <wardell.h.s@gmail.com> wrote:
> Most fonts can handle the standard diacriticked vowels: <ááá>, <ééé>, <ííí>, <óóó>, <úúú>. Most can also handle short umlauts: <ööö>, <üüü>. My problem is with long umlauts: <Å'Å'Å'>, <űűű>, which do not exist in German, which only has 30 letters compared to 40 Hungarian.
>
> The problem that I have experienced is that most fonts become distorted when trying to effect the long umlauts (<Å'> and <ű>). That’s a visual nono.

They all appear correctly viewed using UTF-8 and Verdana. It's the
character encoding that is the problem - so many US users stick with
USASCII.
regards,
Ian
Who can't predict how this will appear on _your_ screen!

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10.

Drip-Casting

Posted by: "Denver dan" denver.dan@verizon.net   denverdan22180

Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:46 pm (PST)



More stuff from CES.

There have been several press mentions of a new technology to deliver video to mobile / cell devices. Apparently announced at CES.

Drip-Casting would send videos in partial chunks over time but not run up a big bandwidth usage or fees.

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iFrom Denver Dan's iPhone

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11.

Changing an Airport Express name

Posted by: "Ken" avlisk@cox.net   avliska

Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:15 pm (PST)



Hi. I now have 2 Airport Expresses, and the main wireless router, an Airport Extreme. My question is about the 2 Expresses. In iTunes, they both turn up as Airport Express, having the very same name. Is there a way to re-name one of them. The problem is more of an aggravation, in that they feed audio to different parts of the house, and it's a trial-and-error thing when choosing one over the other. If they even stayed in the same order in the iTunes' list, I could remember which one went where, but they flip-flop their order too.
Thanks
Ken Silva

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12a.

Re: Looking for an alternative to Address Book and iCal

Posted by: "Michael Grant" mgrant@gmail.com   maclingua

Fri Jan 13, 2012 2:45 pm (PST)



Contactizer Pro was one of the better ones, but unfortunately the
company seems to have gone out of business â€" at least, they haven't
responded to support queries by e-mail or on their own forum for
months, and there was a rather cryptic tweet on Twitter back in
December about how the lead developer (at least I think that was his
role) had "betrayed" the company. Very disappointing.

Michael

> CONTACTIZER (<http://www.objective-decision.com/>) looks nice and it can link contacts and the pertaining files (letters, mails). Any drawbacks, folks?
>

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13.

Real Player Folder

Posted by: "Rick" ballyrick@yahoo.com   ballyrick

Fri Jan 13, 2012 3:53 pm (PST)



It seems "Real Player Downloader" pops up from time to time while I am about to view e-mail, as if it has a mind of its own.

I opened the "Real Player" Folder and found about 4,500 items, some of which are the photos I have in iPhoto or the music I store in iTunes.

But the majority of items/icons, are things I do not recognize and as such, I wonder if I should be deleting some or if in the entirety they are consuming too many GB`s, although it does not seem to be the case.

At the same time many of these may be valuable to the computer`s on going functions.
Examples are as follows:
"Portable Net," "Graphics," Quick Draw," "Word 2003 Format and Template,"
"HTML Document," "Tiff Image," "Apple Loop" and more.

Since I am not the original owner, could the above examples be things that were never purged before I took possession?

Would the group kindly advise me, if my examples are recognizable, if they are essential or if they have no value and if so, how do I delete them? I presume I can drag a few to trash every day for the rest of my life. ;o)

I have an older PowerBookG4 running 10.5.8 and for my limited use I am elated with this MAC.

Thanks for your continued support.....
Rick

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