Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Kristyn Leigh
I have the 2010 Macbook Air running Lion. I did not mean to imply that you are wrong about the Macbook Pro. I was just adding that it is quite the opposite with the Air. Kristyn On Aug 12, 2011, at 1:58 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Really? > > Oh. It certainly doesn't on the Macbook pro mi

RE: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Missy Hoppe
PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users Really? Oh. It certainly doesn't on the Macbook pro mid 2010. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 12, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Kristyn Leigh wrote:

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Yes, this is what I meant. Thanks for correcting me on this. I assume since this is the behavior of the MBP and plastic macbook, that the air would be the same. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 12, 2011, at 1:32 PM, Kristyn Leig

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
Really? Oh. It certainly doesn't on the Macbook pro mid 2010. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 12, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Kristyn Leigh wrote: > That's not true on my Macbook air running Lion. If I set the screen > brightness to 0, it stay

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Kristyn Leigh
The message I replied to does not refer to turning off screen curtain. He wrote "On the Mac, restarting your macbook will turn back up screen brightness. ." On Aug 12, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > Ricardo did not say that, he said if you turn the screen curtain on it will > turn

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Moore
Or should I say, that is what he implied, he's a smart cookie :) On 12 Aug 2011, at 18:24, Chris Moore wrote: > Ricardo did not say that, he said if you turn the screen curtain on it will > turn itself off after a reboot, this behaves the same way on iOS devices too. > On 12 Aug 2011, at 18:19,

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Moore
Ricardo did not say that, he said if you turn the screen curtain on it will turn itself off after a reboot, this behaves the same way on iOS devices too. On 12 Aug 2011, at 18:19, Kristyn Leigh wrote: > That's not true on my Macbook air running Lion. If I set the screen > brightness to 0, it st

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Kristyn Leigh
That's not true on my Macbook air running Lion. If I set the screen brightness to 0, it stays there when I reboot. On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:17 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Right, > > Its not possible to turn off the display as it were, without locking the > device. I guess they figured, why would

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
Ok, And you said from the last 3 podcasts including Apple to the core 3 right? I will start digging around my hard drive for them now. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 12, 2011, at 4:35 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > Ricardo, you are too da

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Moore
Ricardo, you are too damn sensible! I think logical is your middle name young man :) PS I still want ya bonus beats from those podcasts On 12 Aug 2011, at 08:17, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Right, > > Its not possible to turn off the display as it were, without locking the > device. I guess the

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
Right, Its not possible to turn off the display as it were, without locking the device. I guess they figured, why would anyone want such a feature. You would have a lot of paniced sighted folks. lol. On the Mac, restarting your macbook will turn back up screen brightness. But there's no in

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Moore
If only we could turn the screen brightness down to complete zero on the iPhone too (it is still visible with the brightness way down). On 12 Aug 2011, at 08:06, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > Just like to add to this, If using a macbook, turning on screen curtain is > not a substitute for tur

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Just like to add to this, If using a macbook, turning on screen curtain is not a substitute for turning down screen brightness in regards to battery conservation. If all you do is turn on screen curtain, your display is still blazing away just with well, a black curtain over it. lol. hth

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-11 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Johnny, You can enable/disable the screen curtain on the MacBook Pro by triple-finger, triple-tapping the track pad. Mark On Aug 11, 2011, at 3:39 PM, John Chilelli wrote: > Hi! > > How does one enable and disable the screen curtain? > > Thanks, > > Johnny > > On Jul 24, 2011, at 6:22

RE: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-11 Thread Missy Hoppe
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users Hi! How does one enable and disable the screen curtain? Thanks, Johnny On Jul 24, 2011, at 6:22 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > Hi! Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I've already confirmed more > than once that my keyboard

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-11 Thread John Chilelli
Hi! How does one enable and disable the screen curtain? Thanks, Johnny On Jul 24, 2011, at 6:22 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > Hi! Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I've already confirmed more > than once that my keyboard's backlight is > completely turned off. I have light perception, and

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-25 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Odd. I've been running this all day off battery power and for me this thing hasn't gotten hot or lost battery power at all. I never use Ical unless I have to. Shawn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-25 Thread Shen
Hello, I am not sure what I am looking for when you said to check my power supply. If you mean it might not work, well, it is definitely working. It charged my battery in roughly 2 hours which is what it has always done. As for Activity Monitor, the 2 processes that seems to peak the highest are

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-25 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: Have you checked your power supply. I had the same issue, and my power supply was bad. On Jul 24, 2011, at 10:36 PM, Shen wrote: > Unfortunately, I know this is not the issue. It would make things easier. > I know this because up until a couple of weeks ago, I didn't know that my > keyboard

RE: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-25 Thread Missy Hoppe
aries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users Hi, In part yes it would. iCal actually runs as a daemon process and unless you kill the process then it is always running in memory. There are ways to do this but it's not recommended. I myself am waiting for the updates

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-25 Thread Keith Watson
L. > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Keith Watson > Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 6:27 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users >

RE: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-25 Thread Missy Hoppe
ssage- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Keith Watson Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 6:27 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users Sean, I believe that this will occur with any of the Mac notebooks. I

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-25 Thread Keith Watson
Sean, I believe that this will occur with any of the Mac notebooks. I saw an article about there being an infinite loop associated with iCal that is causing this issue. Apple is aware of it and I would expect an update either this week or next. I have no inside information on this it's just spe

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-25 Thread Chris Westbrook
Have you looked in activity monitor to see if any processes are using a lot of cpu? On Jul 24, 2011, at 11:36 PM, Shen wrote: > Unfortunately, I know this is not the issue. It would make things easier. > I know this because up until a couple of weeks ago, I didn't know that my > keyboard brightn

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-25 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I'm using a mid 2010 MBP and when I set the backlight to 0% (which I take to mean off) in system prefs/keyboard under the keyboard, when I go back in there the slider is set back to 100% which I take as never turn off the backlight. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalk

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-25 Thread Justin Thornton
hi I turned my backlight all the way down thanks for pointing this out, it really helped a lot On Jul 24, 2011, at 8:20 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > Hi, > When i hit f5 and f6 it bonks at me. So not sure why. > On 2011-07-24, at 6:22 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > >> Hi! Thanks for the suggestion. Unfor

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-24 Thread Shen
Unfortunately, I know this is not the issue. It would make things easier. I know this because up until a couple of weeks ago, I didn't know that my keyboard brightness was set to maximum. With no light perception, how can I know? And my Mac still gave me 10 hours of battery life with SL. And now

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-24 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
I'd like to know if the increase of heat and decrease in battery life when running Lion also effects Standard MacBook users. If so, then I know what I should look out for. When I was using SL, my battery ran for about 5 or 6 hours depending on what I was doing. So it'll be interesting tomorrow t

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-24 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Matt, Odd. When I use those keys VO tells me the brightness is getting dimmer, though it never says its as low as it goes. I like the handling of screen brightness in which it reads percentages, that's easier for me to comprehend I think. Best, Zack. On Jul 24, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Matt Dierck

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-24 Thread Matt Dierckens
That's correct and when I hit those keys it doesn't say or do anything. On 2011-07-24, at 8:23 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi, > My guess is that you have your keyboard set to use the function keys for > software functions. You need to use fn-f5 and f6 in this case. > Hope this helps, > Zack. >

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-24 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, My guess is that you have your keyboard set to use the function keys for software functions. You need to use fn-f5 and f6 in this case. Hope this helps, Zack. On Jul 24, 2011, at 5:20 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > Hi, > When i hit f5 and f6 it bonks at me. So not sure why. > On 2011-07-24, a

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-24 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi, When i hit f5 and f6 it bonks at me. So not sure why. On 2011-07-24, at 6:22 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > Hi! Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I've already confirmed more > than once that my keyboard's backlight is > completely turned off. I have light perception, and am about 95 percent

RE: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-07-24 Thread Missy Hoppe
Hi! Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I've already confirmed more than once that my keyboard's backlight is completely turned off. I have light perception, and am about 95 percent definite that the backlight is not glowing at all. Same with the screen. I keep brightness at 0 and also enab