From dave at davesevick.com Sun Jan 2 21:41:18 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 23:41:18 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Steve Wozniak to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free Message-ID: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/steve-wozniak-to-the-fcc-keep-the-internet-free/68294 Steve Wozniak to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free Steve Wozniak - Steve Wozniak is a computer engineer who co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. with Steve Jobs. He created the Apple I and Apple II series computers in the mid-1970s. After earning the National Medal of Technology in 1985, Wozniak left Apple to work on various business and philanthropic ventures. To whom it may concern: I have always loved humor and laughter. As a young engineer I got an impulse to start a Dial-a-Joke in the San Jose/San Francisco area. I was aware of such humor services in other countries, such as Australia. This idea came from my belief in laughter. I could scarcely believe that I was the first person to create such a simple service in my region. Why was I the first? This was 1972 and it was illegal in the U.S. to use your own telephone. It was illegal in the U.S. to use your own answering machine. Hence it also virtually impossible to buy or own such devices. We had a monopoly phone system in our country then. The major expense for a young engineer is the rent of an apartment. The only answering machine I could legally use, by leasing (not purchasing) it from our phone company, the Codaphone 700, was designed for businesses like theaters. It was out of the price range of creative individuals wanting to try something new like dial-a-joke. This machine leased for more than a typical car payment each month. Despite my great passion and success with Dial-a-Joke, I could not afford it and eventually had to stop after a couple of years. By then, a San Francisco radio station had also started such a service. I believe that my Dial-a-Joke was the most called single line (no extensions) number in the country at that time due to the shortness of my jokes and the high popularity of the service. Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats Too nobel to neglect Deceived me into thinking I had something to protect Good and bad, I define these terms Quite clear, no doubt somehow Ahh, but I was so much older then I'm younger than that now -- Bob Dylan Moving ahead, I have owned four homes in my life. None of these had cable TV, even though one was a new development where the law required cable. None of these had DSL, including my current home, which is only .8 miles up a hill from the populous (constant-homes) town I live in. I pay for a T1 line, which costs many times what DSL runs for about 1/10 the bandwidth. That's as close as I can come to broadband where I live. The local phone providers don't have any obligation to serve all of their phone customers with DSL. They also have no requirement to service everyone living in the geographic area for which they have a monopoly. This is what has happened without regulatory control, despite every politician and president and CEO and PR person since the beginning of the Internet boon saying how important it was to ensure that everyone be provided broadband access. As a side note, I once phoned the cable company in the town I lived in. I could look from my bedroom window at homes ? of a mile away which had cable. I told the cable company that I would be willing to pay the cost of laying cable to my home. The cable company looked into it and got back to me that they could not do this because there were not enough homes on my hill to pay for the monthly rental of running their cable on telephone poles. In the earliest days of satellite TV to homes, you would buy a receiver and pay a fee to get all the common cable channels. I had a large family (two adults, six kids) and felt like making every room a lot easier to wire for TV. Rather than place a satellite receiver in each room, I'd provide all the common channels on a normal cable, like cable companies do. In my garage, I set up three racks of satellite receivers. I paid for one receiver to access CNN. I paid for another to access TNT. I paid for others to access HBO and other such networks. I had about 30 or 40 channels done this way. I had modulators to put each of these channels onto standard cable TV channels on one cable, which was distributed throughout my home. I could buy any TV I liked and plug it in anywhere in the home and it immediately watch everything without having to install another satellite receiver in that room. I literally had my own cable TV 'company' in the garage, which I called Woz TV, except that I even kept signals in stereo, a quality step that virtually every cable company skipped. Then I got this idea that I could pretty easily run my signal through the wires in conduits up and down our 60-home neighborhood. The neighborhood had been partially wired for cable before the cable company went bankrupt as the neighborhood was being developed. I phoned HBO and asked how much they would charge me just to be a nice guy and share my signal with 60 neighbors. What came back was an answer that I couldn't do such a personal thing. I had to be a cable company charging my neighbors certain rates and then a percentage of what I was charging, with minimums, had to be paid for HBO. I instantly realized that you couldn't do something nice in your garage as a normal person and I gave up the idea. The Internet has become as important as anything man has ever created. But those freedoms are being chipped away. When young, I remember clearly how my father told me why our country was so great, mainly based on the constitution and Bill of Rights. Over my lifetime, I've seen those rights disregarded at every step. Loopholes abound. It's sad. For example, my (Eisenhower Republican) father explained the sanctity of your home and how it could not easily be entered. It was your own private abode. And you had a right to listen to any radio signals that came because the air was free and if it came into your home you had a right to listen to it. That principle went away with a ban on radios that could tune in cell phone frequencies in the days of analog cell phones. Nobody but myself seemed to treat this as a core principle that was too much to give up. I was also taught that space, and the moon, were free and open. Nobody owned them. No country owned them. I loved this concept of the purest things in the universe being unowned. The early Internet was so accidental, it also was free and open in this sense. The Internet has become as important as anything man has ever created. But those freedoms are being chipped away. Please, I beg you, open your senses to the will of the people to keep the Internet as free as possible. Local ISP's should provide connection to the Internet but then it should be treated as though you own those wires and can choose what to do with them when and how you want to, as long as you don't destruct them. I don't want to feel that whichever content supplier had the best government connections or paid the most money determined what I can watch and for how much. This is the monopolistic approach and not representative of a truly free market in the case of today's Internet. Imagine that when we started Apple we set things up so that we could charge purchasers of our computers by the number of bits they use. The personal computer revolution would have been delayed a decade or more. If I had to pay for each bit I used on my 6502 microprocessor, I would not have been able to build my own computers anyway. What if we paid for our roads per mile that we drove? It would be fair and understandable to charge more for someone who drives more. But one of the most wonderful things in our current life is getting in the car and driving anywhere we feel like at this moment, and with no accounting for cost. You just get in your car and go. This is one of the most popular themes of our life and even our popular music. It's a type of freedom from some concerns that makes us happy and not complain. The roads are already paid for. You rarely hear people complain that roads are "free." The government shines when it comes to having provided us pathways to drive around our country. We don't think of the roadways as being negative like telecommunication carriers. It's a rare breath of fresh air. I frequently speak to different types of audiences all over the country. When I'm asked my feeling on Net Neutrality I tell the open truth. When I was first asked to "sign on" with some good people interested in Net Neutrality my initial thought was that the economic system works better with tiered pricing for various customers. On the other hand, I'm a founder of the EFF and I care a lot about individuals and their own importance. Finally, the thought hit me that every time and in every way that the telecommunications careers have had power or control, we the people wind up getting screwed. Every audience that I speak this statement and phrase to bursts into applause. That's how the people think. They don't want this to encroach on their Internet freedom. I was brought up being told that one of the main purposes of our government is to help people who need help. When I was very young, this made me prouder than anything else of my government. I felt that way until the year that the San Jose Draft board voted 5-3 to call me not a student because I'd submitted my grades instead of the proper form, and made me 1A for service in Vietnam. As soon as I got a safe draft lottery number, they sent me a letter saying that they would grant me a 2S student deferment, because then they could get a shot at me in a later year. What was this game? Why was the government doing this sort of thing to a citizen? They aren't always about helping the people. We have very few government agencies that the populace views as looking out for them, the people. The FCC is one of these agencies that is still wearing a white hat. Not only is current action on Net Neutrality one of the most important times ever for the FCC, it's probably the most momentous and watched action of any government agency in memorable times in terms of setting our perception of whether the government represents the wealthy powers or the average citizen, of whether the government is good or is bad. This decision is important far beyond the domain of the FCC itself. Sincerely, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110102/5d7a47c6/attachment-0001.htm From harmonyroute at mac.com Tue Jan 4 18:32:39 2011 From: harmonyroute at mac.com (harmonyroute at mac.com) Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:32:39 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Problem with Adobe Illustrator Message-ID: <34E748F4-C660-4D64-A83B-C5372FB2DE8E@mac.com> I am using Illustrator CS 4 on my Macbook Pro and I have 2 problems that I can't find a fix for. 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Below is the conversation I had with Dave Salsbury regarding the Illustrator CS4 problem I posted yesterday with the resulting solution. I was only able to find one pref file for the program shown here. However, after quitting the program and opening the Library I watched after deleting the plist file there that momentarily a new file appeared with the icon changed to the Adobe Illustrator Prefs file you see. CuZinBruce On Jan 5, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Dave Salsbury wrote: Ok glad it worked out The plist is just fonts Next time just delete the pref file - Dave On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:54 PM, Bruce Wells wrote: > Dave, > > Here's a follow up. After writing back to you I decided to quit everything and then repair the permissions. The repair said 3 hours and after about 10 minutes I gave up and restarted. I logged into the profile I have for doing backups and repairing permissions. The permissions still said 3 hours so I set my computer to ignore mode and watched TV. After about 20 minutes I checked back and the permissions were complete. > > Then I opened up AI and Adobe wanted to know if I wanted to register my program like it was the first time use. When opened a new document everything worked properly. Bottom line I think after deleting the .plist I should have restarted the machine. > > Thanks again for your help. > Bruce > > On Jan 4, 2011, at 9:27 PM, Dave Salsbury wrote: > > forgot the screenshot > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Dave Salsbury >> Subject: Illustrator >> >> Hi Bruce, >> >> maybe I can help. >> >> first question >> for all objects, you can change what's called the reference point, using the Transform Panel. (see attached screen shot). by default, it is set to the center of the object, but you can change it, by clicking any of the other points of the proxy on the Transform panel. >> >> >> second question >> the only time I know of that this occurs, is when you hold down the alt key - that is the modifier key to create a duplicate, the cursor changes to a double arrow. if you are only click/dragging with the selection tool (top arrow in the tool bar) then it should only move your object. >> >> as far as the line tool, it will create a segment each time that you click and drag. if you select all of the segments, and then group them. (Object>group) you should then be able to move them as one whole. >> >> not sure if this answered your last question or not. >> >> Just let me know if this helped. >> >> Dave Salsbury > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A reporter with the Global Times, who discovered the activity on Taobao, paid $5 for an iTunes username and password. When accessing the account they found that it contained credit card details and the address of a user based in the United States. What isn't entirely clear is whether fraudulent accounts have been set up with stolen credit card details, or whether these are existing iTunes accounts that have been seized by cybercriminals - perhaps after login details have been stolen through phishing attacks. Certainly it's not the first time that users have experienced problems with their iTunes accounts. Last year, many iTunes users reported that they had received unauthorised charges of up to $1000 after an apparent security breach. Regardless of precisely how the cybercriminals selling access to the iTunes accounts managed to gain control over them, my advice is that you ensure that you have chosen a secure, non-dictionary word as your iTunes password that you never share with any other person or website. ----end clip----- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110106/2797f4a8/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Fri Jan 7 12:19:55 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:19:55 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Microsoft explains why they are the most important company on earth in a video Message-ID: <1AC1E5DC-26AF-407D-95B9-66391F50781B@davesevick.com> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8M6S8EKbnU See this video and you can decide for yourself. Dave From dave at davesevick.com Fri Jan 7 12:56:38 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 14:56:38 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Microsoft explains why they are the most important company on earth in a video Message-ID: <14F2DFED-F790-4D53-AF5C-AD23D199A8A6@davesevick.com> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8M6S8EKbnU See this video and you can decide for yourself. Dave From kim at equiparts.net Fri Jan 7 14:34:14 2011 From: kim at equiparts.net (Equiparts - Kim Coles) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:34:14 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Verizon Wireless To Host Tue Event; IPhone News Anticipated Message-ID: <8BD22374-B34D-4FD3-A2C0-889655C9B5C7@equiparts.net> Hmmm... http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110107-710685.html ? JANUARY 7, 2011, 3:57 P.M. ET Verizon Wireless To Host Tue Event; IPhone News Anticipated NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Verizon Wireless said Friday that it would host an event in New York City on Tuesday, fueling speculation of an announcement regarding a Verizon-powered iPhone. The invitation was scarce on details, failing to say what the announcement would entail, other than Verizon President Lowell McAdam would host it. Verizon Wireless wasn't immediately available for comment, and iPhone maker Apple Inc. (AAPL) declined to comment. It has been widely expected that Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon and Vodafone Group PLC (VOD), would start selling the iPhone sometime in early 2011. In addition to the invitation, there have been Internet reports suggesting Apple has been prohibiting some retail employees from taking vacation at certain points over the next month, adding to speculation that a major product launch looms. -By Steven Russolillo, Dow Jones Newswires; 212-416-2180; steven.russolillo at dowjones.com ; From dave at davesevick.com Fri Jan 7 19:02:05 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:02:05 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] WSJ: Verizon Wireless to announce Apple iPhone deal on Tuesday, January 11th Message-ID: <8C692AA4-BB7D-4186-B939-78DCE91C3AF3@davesevick.com> http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/wsj_verizon_wireless_to_announce_apple_iphone_deal_on_tuesday_january_11th/ WSJ: Verizon Wireless to announce Apple iPhone deal on Tuesday, January 11th Fri, Jan 07, 2011 - 08:55 PM EST ? AAPL: 336.12 (+2.39, +0.72%) | NASDAQ: 2703.17 (-6.72, -0.25%) "The iPhone is finally coming to Verizon Wireless," Shayndi Raice and Yukari Iwatani Kane report for The Wall Street Journal. "The largest U.S. wireless carrier will make the long-awaited announcement at an event Tuesday in New York City, a person familiar with the matter said Friday," Raice and Kane report. "The move will for the first time let U.S. consumers choose the network that carries their iPhone and perhaps give them additional pricing options that could affect their monthly bills. It wasn't immediately clear when Verizon would have the device in stores. The Verizon phone will be similar to the iPhone 4 but run on the carrier's CDMA technology, people familiar with the matter have said." "AT&T has had the iconic device to itself since its introduction in June 2007," Raice and Kane report. "Since then, the iPhone has fueled much of the carrier's subscriber growth and has given it a solid lead in smartphone customers." Raice and Kane report, "While Verizon's network is popularly perceived to be better than AT&T's, it has yet to be tested by the heavy volume of data use that accompanies the iPhone. The carrier has been strengthening and testing its network for months to avoid the public relations nightmare AT&T has suffered from, one person familiar has said." Read more in the full article : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704739504576068170230339348.html MacDailyNews Take: Fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over! Soon Verizon customers will have no reason to settle for pretend iPhones and the bloodbath shall intensify exponentially. ================ Dave Sevick's Take: I cannot wait to switch away from AT&T and back to Verizon. This has been a painful three year span from Jan 2007 to Jan 2011. Thanks Apple for finally getting a deal with Verizon. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110107/88a8298d/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Sat Jan 8 06:33:47 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 08:33:47 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Creative use of social media to explain ancient situations with humor Message-ID: <49C72F41-B39A-41D0-BBFB-44D39491D336@davesevick.com> This creative video : A Social Network Christmas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sghwe4TYY18 ... explains how our lives today are indeed revolving around FaceBook and other social media. The video you are about to see has a clever sense of humor when telling of the reality of communications as it would have happened back in Israel in the time of the Nativity with social media. Music is warm and well done. ============ Another great example with more of a humorous tone and more fast moving is: THE DIGITAL STORY OF THE NATIVITY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkHNNPM7pJA ========== Enjoy these really truly great works ! Dave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110108/8021f864/attachment-0001.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Sat Jan 8 12:06:31 2011 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:06:31 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update for Friday, January 7, 2011 Message-ID: Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Rich Fitzgibbon, Tucker Trainor, Bob Wray, Marty Swartz and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex" yesterday. We got off to a great start for 2011. A surprising number of the eMacs we brought to our new location are in great shape, and we're able to refurbish them quickly. We flirted with our one-day record yesterday as we refurbished 30 Macintoshes, mostly G4 eMacs. Our all-time total is now 2,816. We de-manufactured three other Macs, and sent two Mac displays into the recycling chain. Our biggest challenge seems to be hitting on a new catch phrase for the year. I've tried using "Candygram for Sevick!" each time we finish a Mac, but it seems to be falling flat. Perhaps it grew tiresome after 30 times, or maybe its a fear that Mel Brooks' lawyers might become involved. We're now miles away from Goodwill's new campus, so we're not yet aware of what Macs they've taken in during our holiday absence. We still need those USB keyboards and mice. The new parking arrangements in the Goodwill lot across the street from our new 2400 East Carson St. location are fantastic. No hassles in finding a spot on the street! If you think you may want to join us some Friday, please send me your car make, color and license number so we can let Goodwill know you will be in the lot. We'll have another work day on Friday, January 14, 2011. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From patrick at cranstoninc.com Tue Jan 11 09:55:47 2011 From: patrick at cranstoninc.com (Patrick Cranston) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:55:47 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Verizon iPhone 4 - Available Feb 10 Message-ID: <99F7E62E-C76B-4E19-A896-3D75926D2313@cranstoninc.com> It's official. http://www.apple.com/ What will we all talk about now? Patrick Cranston Cranston IT, Inc. 888-813-5558 www.CranstonIT.com patrick at cranstonit.com Twitter: @cranstonIT Unlimited Support for your Macs, Network and Data Backup for one low price. http://www.cranstonit.com/home -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Bill James From genemyrapa at gmail.com Thu Jan 13 14:13:58 2011 From: genemyrapa at gmail.com (Gene & Myra Fozard) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:13:58 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Verizon iPhone/Hot Spot, Capabilities & Pricing Message-ID: I just received a solitious (sp?) phone call from a Verizon rep "offering" a no cost upgrade to my current Verizon MmiFi plan that has 11 months to go on its 2 year contract: a new MiFi @ no cost & a $10.00/month reduction in the current bill of $59.95 for the same 5 GB usage cap if I agree to a new 2 year contract. Am I overly suspicious in wondering why Verizon would offer to loose $240 of my $$$ in the next 24 months? Has corporate America gone soft? When I expressed interest in the Verizon iPhone & its 5 user "Hot Spot" capabilities, he said it (iPhone) would only work on 3G & would have the current Verizon 2 GB/month cap when a Verizon cell phone used tethered. That 2 GB would cost an extra $20/month in addition to the mandatory $30/month data usage charge. He was emphatic in saying the new Verizon iPhone would NOT work on the 4G/LTE network. "Such a deal!" Guess I'll stick with my current MiFi for the foreseeable future. Here's the MacWorld link to its article: http://www.macworld.com/article/157110/2011/01/hotspots_explained.html?lsrc=nl_mwnws_h_crawl Gene O! SHALOM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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They image rather quickly, and we hope to be able to do more in the near future as soon as we can find out how many Pentium 4 PCs Goodwill wants to do. We're still trying to figure out how to deal with the new product in our database, so we'll count them later. We refurbished 25 Macintoshes, mostly G4 eMacs. Our all-time total is now 2,841. We de-manufactured 11 other Macs. We took our first truck delivery from Goodwill's new CRC location in Lawrenceville this afternoon with all the Mac donations that have come in since mid-December. We exchanged a pallet of Mac for two bins of de-manufactured parts. On the truck were just five USB keyboards, two missing keys, and four mice, one with the cord cut off. Yep, still need 'em. The new parking arrangements in the Goodwill lot across the street from our new 2400 East Carson St. location are fantastic. No hassles in finding a spot on the street! 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Honestly, your weekly posts just keep getting better..... And Beth, how great for you to help those fellows! I think they're absolutely wonderful. Mim On Jan 14, 2011, at 6:38 PM, Robert A. Donaldson wrote: > Dear Mac friends: > > Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Rich Fitzgibbon, Tucker Trainor, Marty Swartz, Noah Covert and his dad, Damon, Beth Lynn Eicher and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex" today. > > Our hot streak continued today as our stash of eMacs is still in better shape than anticipated. We completely exhausted our supply today, and will now turn to the eMacs that have "issues." > > It was also a landmark day as Linux whiz Beth Lynn Eichner imaged our first PC box with Edubuntu Linux 10.4 (photo of Beth and Dave with "Linus," the first one imaged below). Noah Covert did the honors on a second PC. They image rather quickly, and we hope to be able to do more in the near future as soon as we can find out how many Pentium 4 PCs Goodwill wants to do. We're still trying to figure out how to deal with the new product in our database, so we'll count them later. > > We refurbished 25 Macintoshes, mostly G4 eMacs. Our all-time total is now 2,841. We de-manufactured 11 other Macs. > > We took our first truck delivery from Goodwill's new CRC location in Lawrenceville this afternoon with all the Mac donations that have come in since mid-December. We exchanged a pallet of Mac for two bins of de-manufactured parts. > > On the truck were just five USB keyboards, two missing keys, and four mice, one with the cord cut off. Yep, still need 'em. > > The new parking arrangements in the Goodwill lot across the street from our new 2400 East Carson St. location are fantastic. No hassles in finding a spot on the street! If you think you may want to join us some Friday, please send me your car make, color and license number so we can let Goodwill know you will be in the lot. > > We'll have another work day on Friday, January 21, 2011. We hope to see you there! > > <011411 Beth Lynn & Dave.jpeg> > > Robert A. Donaldson > radonaldson at mac.com > (H) 412-922-3303 > (M) 412-477-9188 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From dave at davesevick.com Sat Jan 15 13:59:37 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:59:37 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] HP Laserjet 2600n color printer for sale Message-ID: <956A0D9B-BB4A-4498-8E44-DF933F5E81CE@davesevick.com> I have an HP Laserjet 2600n color printer for sale. It needs work. It prints lines that run top to bottom through the page. Parts to repair run somewhere around 150.00. This is a small office printer. 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Boy am I glad that I made the switch to Mac those many years ago. > > http://jtsblog.com/spyware-rubbernecking > > > JT Ray > > Website: http://jtsblog.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/JT_Ray > > > > > > > -- ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110115/63e01374/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Mon Jan 17 06:44:43 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:44:43 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Dave Marra - iPad event Sat Feb 5 Message-ID: In coordination with MacOutfitters and the Apple Stores, the NPMUG invites everyone to a free event ! Discover iPad - A magical and revolutionary product at an unbelievable price. Designed to be thin and light enough to take anywhere, iPad is the best way to experience the web, email, photos, and video. With a large, high- resolution display, an incredibly responsive Multi-Touch screen and an amazingly powerful Apple-designed chip, iPad isn't just the best device of its kind, it's a whole new kind of device. Discover iPad today! Place: MacOutfitters of Cranberry 20395 Route 19 Cranberry Township, PA 16066 P: 724-776-8075 Contact ( Don Kelly ) Time: Saturday Feb 5, 2011 10AM - 12noon Lunch to follow the two hour presentation, with open Question and Answer session with Apple's Dave Marra from 12noon to ???? As always you can email Dave Marra your questions in advance. He delivers presentations on Apple products daily as and engineer and leader in the Apple User Group community. marra at apple.com Senior Systems Engineer, Apple, Inc. (NJ/NY/DE/PA) Apple Education: http://www.apple.com/education Apple User Groups: http://www.apple.com/usergroups Apple Support: http://www.apple.com/support About Dave Marra: Known for his dynamic delivery style and exciting demos, Dave Marra has conducted thousands of technology presentations, keynote addresses and workshops for schools, Mac and PC user groups, businesses and other professional organizations across the United States and Canada. Certified as both an Apple Certified Technical Coordinator and an Apple Certified Systems Administrator, his specialty areas include digital multimedia, internet technologies, accessibility and Mac/PC integration. http://marrathon.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110117/bc582830/attachment-0002.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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"At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health," he said in a statement to the Apple staff released by the company. "I will continue as C.E.O. and be involved in major strategic decisions for the company." Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/technology/18apple.html?emc=na Sent from my iPhone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110117/46fdcc1a/attachment.htm From harmonyroute at mac.com Tue Jan 18 15:18:53 2011 From: harmonyroute at mac.com (harmonyroute at mac.com) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:18:53 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] copying to Western Digital My Passport 1TB Message-ID: <304BA4F4-6610-4A3C-8C13-967F6EE47010@mac.com> I am working with a gentleman who has a WD My Passport 1TB drive. When it is connected to a Mac files can be taken from it but it disallows copying files to it. 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Fullerton) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:27:34 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] copying to Western Digital My Passport 1TB In-Reply-To: <304BA4F4-6610-4A3C-8C13-967F6EE47010@mac.com> References: <304BA4F4-6610-4A3C-8C13-967F6EE47010@mac.com> Message-ID: <0837D86F-AFF3-451D-864B-3667CE65A709@mac.com> On Jan 18, 2011, at 5:18 PM, harmonyroute at mac.com wrote: > I am working with a gentleman who has a WD My Passport 1TB drive. When it is connected to a Mac files can be taken from it but it disallows copying files to it. I would call that read only, but as shown in the disk utility screen shot its status is Read/Write. The drive is probably formatted with NTFS rather than FAT32 (the screenshot appears to be showing the formatting options, not showing us its current format status). Unless they've changed something recently, Mac OS X can read NTFS partitions but not write to them. I'm pretty sure the "write status" in Disk Utility indicates a hardware capability (an already burned disc, for instance, would be read-only), not whether the OS will support the software format. Selecting the drive's icon in Finder and choosing "Get Info" from the File Menu will give you better information about the current format of a hard drive (see the graphic below). - Nathan Nathan W. Fullerton Technology Trainer (both group and private lessons) Apple Certified Trainer - Final Cut Pro Apple Certified Pro - Motion, DVD Studio Pro, Color, & Aperture Photoshop Guru, Filmmaker, Editor AvailabilitySchedule: http://www.nathanfullerton.com/Site/Availability_black.html http://www.nathanfullerton.com 412-450-0622 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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My humble advice is to save the files somewhere, and reformat the drive for a Mac. In other words, start over. I suspect there may be a permissions issue hiding in the background, and I'm sure the MS-DOS isn't helping. I have had unpleasant experience with external enclosure drive by WD. I have a MyBook external I bought for a SuperDuper! clone only to find out it won't boot a PPC Mac due to some goofiness instituted by WD. It's a "feature!" Mark D wrote: My bet is it's NTFS, which is read-only on the Mac. Try selecting "My Passport" in disk utility - the file system type will be listed by "Format" To work around - either reformat as MS-DOS (and lose everything on it), or grab a utility that'll mount it read/write. Make sure you have a good backup first :-) Cheers, ++md Nathan F wrote: The drive is probably formatted with NTFS rather than FAT32 (the screenshot appears to be showing the formatting options, not showing us its current format status). Unless they've changed something recently, Mac OS X can read NTFS partitions but not write to them. I'm pretty sure the "write status" in Disk Utility indicates a hardware capability (an already burned disc, for instance, would be read-only), not whether the OS will support the software format. Selecting the drive's icon in Finder and choosing "Get Info" from the File Menu will give you better information about the current format of a hard drive (see the graphic below). - Nathan On Jan 18, 2011, at 5:18 PM, harmonyroute at mac.com wrote: I am working with a gentleman who has a WD My Passport 1TB drive. When it is connected to a Mac files can be taken from it but it disallows copying files to it. I would call that read only, but as shown in the disk utility screen shot its status is Read/Write. Most of my drives are MS-DOS (FAT) and they work just fine. Anyone have any thoughts on why we can't write?? Thanks in advance, CuZinBruce _______________________________________________ NPMUG mailing list NPMUG at davesevick.com http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From dave at davesevick.com Wed Jan 19 10:46:54 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:46:54 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Standing room only expected for the iPad event - will need to RSVP to get a seat Message-ID: <5A9E133E-8BCE-4ABC-8370-AC0D15AB8F9F@davesevick.com> Dave Marra from Apple will be presenting on the iPad on Sat Feb 5, 10am-12noon with lunch to follow. We will all pitch in a few bucks for pizza and salads during Dave's presentation and have it delivered at 12noon. Dave will be staying for personal questions and answers after the show, no hurry to leave and enjoys talking with the community of users. This event is FREE, but we do ask you register. Please go to this site to do a quick reservation of your seat. 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Donaldson) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:25:21 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, January 21, 2010 Message-ID: <65CC4B74-4787-4E14-9B46-043E6F75D5AF@mac.com> Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Rich Fitzgibbon, and Tucker Trainor, for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex" yesterday. We didn't have any snow travel issues, but our production took a dip this week as our remaining stock proved to be not as viable as the previous two weeks. We refurbished eight Macintoshes to make our all-time total 2,849. We de-manufactured ten other Macs. Our excess time leads to other productive ventures. We have a 1.0 ghz eMac that works perfectly, but has, uh, a "deformed" case, rendering it unfit for sale. Charlie Hutchens is converting it to an in-house computer we can use as an Target Disk mode imaging station. Yesterday, he learned just why swapping out the hard drive on an eMac is an "ordeal." He did it with NO screws left over. Buy this guy a drink! We didn't receive any donations this week, so that means NO USB keyboards or mice. Yep, still need 'em. The new parking arrangements in the Goodwill lot across the street from our new 2400 East Carson St. location are fantastic. No hassles in finding a spot on the street! If you think you may want to join us some Friday, please send me your car make, color and license number so we can let Goodwill know you will be in the lot. We'll have another work day on Friday, January 29, 2011. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dave at davesevick.com Tue Jan 25 16:32:31 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:32:31 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Happy 27th Birthday Macintosh - January 24, 1984 Message-ID: <92C8E70E-B8D1-4C07-BE11-936C4F6995DC@davesevick.com> http://theflickcast.com/2011/01/24/happy-27th-birthday-macintosh/ Happy 27th Birthday Macintosh It?s an historic day Apple fans as we look back 27 years ago at the first time Apple unveiled the Macintosh computer to the world. Steve Jobs introduced the revolutionary Mac on January 24, 1984 to a crowd of around 3000 people and, needless to say, they were quite enthusiastic about it. The original Apple Macintosh was the first personal computer to run the Mac operating system, then known as System 1.0. It featured impressive (for the time) specs including a 9-inch greyscale monitor, an 8 MHz processor with 128 K of RAM and no internal hard drive, just a floppy. It did, however, feature a really cool rectangular mouse, which you can see in the photo above. The price? $2495. Which seemed high then and seems really high now. Good thing prices have come down, at least a little. To celebrate, check out the video of Jobs revealing the new Mac after the jump. As someone who uses a Macintosh every day (I?m writing this on one right now) I thank you Steve Jobs and the entire Mac team for inventing this great machine. Here?s to 27 more years. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110125/ac88c30a/attachment.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Tue Jan 25 17:25:08 2011 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:25:08 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Listserv issues... Message-ID: <75093BA0-6BE1-428E-8537-DF2BE2B65600@mac.com> For those of you who got the weekly CRC update today, Tuesday, which refers to "yesterday," please be advised it's been resting in server limbo since Saturday... You may now to back to Tweeting and Facebooking, or whatever. I'm reading a book. On paper, no less. Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dave at davesevick.com Wed Jan 26 07:32:50 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:32:50 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] "iPad is Iconic" .... new ad released Message-ID: <62DF43BA-66B9-4709-AB02-D385D4E24872@davesevick.com> "iPad is Iconic" http://youtu.be/XXPhoYAqRhE?hd=1 From ronladams7 at gmail.com Wed Jan 26 10:12:35 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:12:35 -0700 Subject: [NPMUG] Mobility... Message-ID: <92C80BDA-F85D-4C90-B4B1-19F2A8F2120C@gmail.com> My first thought seeing this is Honda has figured mobility will be a big profit opportunity when you count the number of aging baby boomers? youtube.com/watch_popup?v=cuIJRsAuCHQ From marty.swartz at gmail.com Wed Jan 26 10:46:08 2011 From: marty.swartz at gmail.com (Marty Swartz) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:46:08 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Mobility... In-Reply-To: <92C80BDA-F85D-4C90-B4B1-19F2A8F2120C@gmail.com> References: <92C80BDA-F85D-4C90-B4B1-19F2A8F2120C@gmail.com> Message-ID: A very interesting device indeed, unless you happen to be a person with balance problems to start with, or other problems that necessitate the use of a wheelchair. One more thing to think about. What happens when this thing hits a bad sidewalk joint, where the next section is 1" higher than the one you are on now. Anybody in the crowd take Physics 101? Maybe Apple will invest, call it the iSplat... :) - Marty (don't get me started on jetpacks or electric skateboards) Swartz -- "What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Johann von Goethe On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Ron_A wrote: > My first thought seeing this is Honda has figured mobility will be a big profit opportunity when you count the number of aging baby boomers? > > youtube.com/watch_popup?v=cuIJRsAuCHQ From genemyrapa at gmail.com Wed Jan 26 12:18:55 2011 From: genemyrapa at gmail.com (Gene & Myra Fozard) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:18:55 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] G4 "Clock" Message-ID: Do you think the "designer" of this device is cuckoo? http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/26/visualized-the-power-mac-g4-clock/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Johann von Goethe From ronladams7 at gmail.com Wed Jan 26 15:18:47 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:18:47 -0700 Subject: [NPMUG] Mac mini - HDMI vs mini displayPort Message-ID: If I were to connect a Mac mini to a HDTV, which connection should I use? HDMI or mini displayPort? The mini displayPort seems to have higher resolution. http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_mini?mco=MTQzMDMxODY -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110126/8d9dbcbe/attachment-0001.htm From dave at davesevick.com Thu Jan 27 07:47:10 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:47:10 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] BlackBerry and Apple problems ... 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URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110127/948c191d/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Thu Jan 27 11:08:59 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:08:59 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] All hands on deck - emergency move to a new room at 2400 Carson with Goodwill Message-ID: <91C29CEE-C850-4127-BEDC-C15A722A90D1@davesevick.com> Sorry for such short notice ... less than 24 hours actually. We have been notified that Goodwill has found a new renter of our temporary recycling space. They want to move in immediately. We have to move to another large room in the same building at 2400 Carson. No other details provided at this time. FYI ,they are not quite ready for us to make the shift over to Lawrenceville yet. So, any and all hands on deck would be appreciated. Dave and Bob and the team thanks you all ... From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Jan 28 16:14:48 2011 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:14:48 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, January 28, 2011 Message-ID: <31C4A9C8-8BDF-4F70-9F94-4E218CD73B92@mac.com> Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Rich Fitzgibbon, Tucker Trainor, Bob Wray, Marty Swartz and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex" yesterday. Our day was characterized by the mythical Col. Sherman T. Potter, commander of the 4077 M.A.S.H., when he proclaimed "BUG OUT!" Yes, we were suddenly confronted with having to move our location within the 2400 East Carson St. building today as Goodwill has found a paying customer for the luxurious space we've been occupying since the end of November. Goodbye carpet, goodbye space large enough for a ballroom. We DO get to keep the quiet. And we now have a refrigerator! The eight of us, plus a like number from Goodwill, managed to disassemble our 16-station ethernet network, disconnect our server, move all our material, disassemble and move our benchwork all before lunch and relocate it in the adjacent space formerly occupied by the Elderberry Junction adult day care. The server was reconnected and Internet service reestablished before we dined. We held off re-wiring the benchwork until our next workday, so if anyone wants a free class in punching wires for multiple ethernet connectors, we have a course for you on Feb. 11. John Hamill's RAM testing operation was back up and running before we finished moving boxes. For those of you participating in the current SuperBowl mythology surrounding the number seven, add this to your list: Our new setup is our seventh location refurbishing Macs. The week's donations were pretty much Macs for de-manufacturing, but we did take in five working USB keyboards, the first time we've taken in more keyboards than working Macs. Just one mouse, though. The parking arrangements in the Goodwill lot across the street from our 2400 East Carson St. location remain the same. No hassles in finding a spot on the street! If you think you may want to join us some Friday, please send me your car make, color and license number so we can let Goodwill know you will be in the lot. We will be taking next week off due to some previous commitments involving travel to the Poconos, and, uh, Dallas (moi?). Our next work day will be on Friday, February 11, 2011. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dave at davesevick.com Sat Jan 29 11:20:40 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:20:40 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] TikTok & LunaTik ... makes you want to wear a watch again Message-ID: 03:31 vimeo TikTok+LunaTik Manufacturing by Visere View the above videos and more on vimeo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110129/c312a73d/attachment-0001.htm From marty.swartz at gmail.com Sat Jan 29 13:52:05 2011 From: marty.swartz at gmail.com (Marty Swartz) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:52:05 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] TikTok & LunaTik ... makes you want to wear a watch again In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: That is so awesomely geeky and cool. Takes me back to when the first red-LED watches came out. You remember, you had to press a button in order to make the display come on. 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From dave at davesevick.com Mon Jan 31 15:43:47 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:43:47 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Two seats for Dave Marra's Feb 5 10AM-12noon demo are available Message-ID: <82698E85-C2E5-48AC-8A1F-DCFE7CA813F7@davesevick.com> Just got notice that two attendees are willing to give up their morning tickets to the Dave Marra event at MacOutfitters. Contact me at dave at davesevick.com if you'd like one or both of these free tickets. First come - First serve. Dave