Re: My Mac is Still Dead

2019-04-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi tim, Yes exactly, For some reason I thought he had a seconnd mac of some type that I thought might work, I guess I got that wrong. Oh well I see you’ve iven thhe set time / date command and hope that will assist with what he’s doing. Sent from my iPhone On 1/05/2019, at 2:31 AM, 'Tim K

Re: PrimePhonic an app for a Classical Music lovers

2019-04-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yeah I oticed that whe I went to purchase the bles brothers and tthat some tracks are not available on the itunes music store. Kind of a pain in the a realy Sent from my iPhone > On 1/05/2019, at 4:07 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > I was trying to listen to the bluesbrothers film soundt

Re: Text Editors for Mac

2019-04-30 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Just type " texteditor" with no space and it should be the first result. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 4/30/2019 11:48 AM, 'Dan' via MacVisionaries wrote: text editor -- The following info

RE: My Mac is Still Dead

2019-04-30 Thread richring
Wow! The guy from Apple had me reset the time for some reason known only to him, and that was for whatever reason not allowing me to contact the recovery server. Thanks to your help, I am now reinstalling the OS! Thanks!! From: 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Re: Text Editors for Mac

2019-04-30 Thread 'Dan' via MacVisionaries
Hello, Who's this app manufactured by? In this way, I'll be sure to download the proper app. There are loads of text editor apps on the app stor. TIA. Dan > On Apr 30, 2019, at 10:36 AM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Well this sure turned into a project but thanks to all. And I

Re: Text Editors for Mac

2019-04-30 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Well this sure turned into a project but thanks to all. And I believe I have it nailed down. I did dump VDR. Will keep it on the iPad. While searching for a TextEdit app for the iPhone I found one. ‎TextEditor Rich Text Editor. Its free. And its accessible. Yup. The app has support for

Re: Safari web experience getting less and less satisfying

2019-04-30 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Ok, this is on mac for me. I don’t use safari much on the Iphone or Ipad. /A > 28 apr. 2019 kl. 02:15 skrev Yuma Decaux : > > Thanks for confirming. I actually forgot to mention this is for IOS devices. > the experience is less than stellar. > > > > >> On 28 Apr 2019, at 9:55 am, Lorie M

Re: Safari web experience getting less and less satisfying

2019-04-30 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I have had issues doing the last step in a shopping on the internet. Safari then begins with its busy busy busy thing. Works like a charm on chrome. /A > 27 apr. 2019 kl. 23:18 skrev Yuma Decaux : > > Hi Everyone, > > I'm trying to do some simple things like shopping for a jacket, looking at

Re: Airplay from a Safari web player on the Mac

2019-04-30 Thread Mary Otten
Thanks, Tim. I used to use airfoil quite a bit when I got my first Mac with snow leopard. I don’t have a current version, so I guess I will have to see how the newer version works. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 30, 2019, at 7:19 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > >

Re: PrimePhonic an app for a Classical Music lovers

2019-04-30 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I was trying to listen to the bluesbrothers film soundtrack but there were a few there that wasn’t availlable through apple music. Only if i buy the album all songs are availlable. And i found an album on apple music yesterday i couldn’t play because i was in the wrong region. THe album was a

Re: PrimePhonic an app for a Classical Music lovers

2019-04-30 Thread Mary Otten
The best thing about this Primephonic app is the search feature. How many times have you searched in Apple Music or tried to get Siri to play something there, only to have it playing a single movement or play stuff out of order etc.? That’s the great thing about this new service, even if you don

Re: PrimePhonic an app for a Classical Music lovers

2019-04-30 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Well maybe i don’t hear that good but to me most classical music i listen to has a really good quality on apple music. Exept the shubert album i added lately where the piano was not the best and the recording itself was a disaster to me.’ However its good you have a choice where you have loss

Re: Text Editors for Mac

2019-04-30 Thread 'Devin Prater' via MacVisionaries
You may also be able to share an RTF file to pages. Then, when you open a RTF file, it'll go to Pages. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 30, 2019, at 10:48 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been following this thread, but until this morning haven't had much >

RE: My Mac is Still Dead

2019-04-30 Thread richring
When I enter this command in terminal, I receive the answer “command not found. From: 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries Sent: Monday, April 29, 2019 3:17 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: My Mac is Still Dead Hi, When in recovery mode, go up to the menubar to Utilitie

Re: Text Editors for Mac

2019-04-30 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi all, I've been following this thread, but until this morning haven't had much time to work on finding a solution. But, I have found one. ET, if you access the rtf file through Pages rather than files, it will open in Pages rather than VDR. So do the following: 1. Open Pages. 2. Scroll thro

Re: Can't view rewards in the Starbucks app

2019-04-30 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Huh, that's weird. All I see on my home screen are messages, which I never ever care about. Cheers, Donna > On Apr 30, 2019, at 9:20 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > hello, > > I had an issue with the Starbucks app this morning, but not that one. On my > home screen, it read I had 360 stars and

Re: My Mac is Still Dead

2019-04-30 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi Simon, The only problem in this specific situation, is that he would need his Mac, or another Mac, to create the Mojave installer. Since his Mac is out of commission, this would need to have been done prior to the mess-up to make it work for him. You are totally correct though in that usin

Re: reset iPad pro

2019-04-30 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi Simon, Two things. First, if you did a restore from a previous iPad or iPhone backup on your new iPad, then the first 24 to 36 hours could be a killer on battery life. What's happening during the restoration process is that your iPad first brings all the settings and app/media markers down

Re: Can't view rewards in the Starbucks app

2019-04-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
hello, I had an issue with the Starbucks app this morning, but not that one. On my home screen, it read I had 360 stars and next to that was a button to get details about rewards. At the beginning of the month they changed the awards program. For 50 stars you get an extra shot, for 400 stars yo

Re: Airplay from a Safari web player on the Mac

2019-04-30 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Normally, VoiceOver would be a part of that set, but you are able to change which direction VO sound is going within the VO Utility. This is similar to using a Bluetooth speaker. If VO sound is set to the System Default, then VO will go through the Bluetooth speaker, whereas if it is set

Re: Airplay from a Safari web player on the Mac

2019-04-30 Thread 'Matthew Dierckens' via MacVisionaries
Hi Mary, Personally, I swear by Airfoil. It's simply fantastic! You can send the same audio to multiple devices, including airplay speakers, bluetooth speakers and iOS devices. The demo lets you send audio for 10 minutes and then will produce static. I think its around $25 or $35. If you need he

Re: Text Editors for Mac

2019-04-30 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi Jonathan and all, I experience this same behavior. I actually took VDR off my iPhone, because I couldn't find any other way to stop RTF files from opening in that app. Cheers, Donna > On Apr 30, 2019, at 6:13 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > > So for iCloud files my understanding is IOS will

Can't view rewards in the Starbucks app

2019-04-30 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi all, I was just using my Starbucks app, and it looks like it is no longer possible to view any info about rewards. I can't see anywhere how many I have, or what my progress is toward the next one. I've looked on the home screen, I've looked under cards, I don't see this info anywhere.. Ha

Re: reset iPad pro

2019-04-30 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello Simon, I am glad you have it as you want it. I thought that you said you had skipped the passcode stage therefore, there was not a passcode to provide. I did question in my mind whether that was possible but you said you had skipped the step. Enjoy. > On 30 Apr 2019, at 10:38, Simon Fo

Re: Text Editors for Mac

2019-04-30 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
So for iCloud files my understanding is IOS will look at the Macintoshes creator tag which indicates the application that created the file and if that exists on iOS want to use that. Why, your iOS is defaulting to reader for RTF, I do not know. But, if you start a file in pages on the Mac it sho

RE: How to reset your old AirPods when you've bought a new set - and what to do with them, Apple Insider

2019-04-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yeah I got sick of having 2 sets in pretty much the same container so I gave my series 1 pods to my neace who thinks I'm just bloody awesome As for the series 2 They're fantastic so I can't wait to see what the reviews on the beats pro is like. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@

RE: reset iPad pro

2019-04-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Mark, Yeah stupid setup mistake of my own, Don't know how I missed it after I've done this so many times on so many devices. Anyway have now fixed the issue. As a matter of interest, How do you find the battery usage on your Pro? To me my device is going through battery quicker than I'd exp

RE: My Mac is Still Dead

2019-04-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Anyone can do it, They just need to connect to the wifi network which they should see From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of richr...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2019 6:59 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: My Mac is Still Dead Hi, Will the sighted person tha

RE: My Mac is Still Dead

2019-04-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yes you can connect to wifi in this state but may require sighted help, Do you by any chance have another mac computer? From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of richr...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2019 6:17 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: My Mac is Still Dead

RE: My Mac is Still Dead

2019-04-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Not by default, You will have to connect your mba to the network if your starting up in the recovery console, It doesn’t connect to wifi automatically in this situation. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of richr...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2019 5:40 AM To: macvisionari

RE: reset iPad pro

2019-04-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Tim, Yeah I restarted the device to see what happened and it turns out as usual You need the passcode to get into a newly powered on IOS device as face id doesn’t work. But yes you got it correct, I had to take it to work and plug it in to my 2018 MBP as I didn’t have a USB A to USB C cable.

RE: My Mac is Still Dead

2019-04-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Tim, Also worth trying is headphones incase the volume for vo is low in the recovery console, I’ve truck this myself. From: 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2019 2:59 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: My Mac is Still Dead Hi, It sounds like even t

RE: My Mac is Still Dead

2019-04-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
I personally don’t believe this to be true, I have a number of times reinstalled from scratch the Mac OS version without sighted assistance and from a similar state to which you find yourself in. If you have a USB Flash drive of approx. 8 GB then you could do this yourself without issue. From:

RE: reset iPad pro

2019-04-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Georgina, Yeah there is and smart me thought of that, however you need the passcode to then eraise the device, Turns out plugging the iPad in to itunes and doing the volume up, volume down and then power button from device off puts it in to the restore state which then allows you to reset f