Re: AirPort Firmware 7.6.7/7.7.7 Released

2016-05-28 Thread Kevin Barry
Yes, simply put it into bridge mode. On Saturday, May 28, 2016, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Yeah, I’m not getting gigabit, > > > > As for getting a new router, yeah that’s a great Idea however the provider > isn’t happy about using a router that is not supported by them, guess they > don’t have contr

Multiconvert

2016-05-28 Thread Ben J. Bloomgren
Hi all, Back in the day, I used to use a very sweet app called Multiconvert. It converted just about everything. It rivaled http://www.onlineconversion.com if that tells you anything. Well, as far as I can tell, that app has been deprecated and isn't available anymore. What do you use for co

Apple pulls Airport routers, possible refresh coming

2016-05-28 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, Just FYI, don't buy an Airport router right now. Apple pulled them from its retail and online stores yesterday, and with WWDC just a couple weeks away, the chances are high that this indicates a refresh. The below article also notes that it could be due to changing regulations, but even

Re: air drop not working?

2016-05-28 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Yes you’re right. It seems to send the file for me but things does not work. Don’t know why they broke airdrop. Ok i have to send things to Icloud Drive instead. /A > 26 maj 2016 kl. 13:16 skrev Donna Goodin : > > Hi Anders, > > Yes, BT is on. My Mac is a 2013, and airdrop worked fine, until

Re: Pptp or vpn.

2016-05-28 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! BBC blocks their five live streams when the game is started so i only hear some kind of announcement. /A > 26 maj 2016 kl. 20:58 skrev Scott Granados : > > Hmmm, my hosted provider offers virtual servers in London. I feel an open > VPN coming on so I can listen to and watch F1 broadcasted c

Re: Pptp or vpn.

2016-05-28 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Well, licensed or not the Swedish radio can be heard from anywhere in the world so why can’t bbc? But thats another subject so i leave this for now. /A > 27 maj 2016 kl. 01:51 skrev Sabahattin Gucukoglu : > > As a TV-licence-fee payer, I suppose I should be glad you all appreciate BBC > cont

Re: AirPort Firmware 7.6.7/7.7.7 Released

2016-05-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Simon, Yes, for sure, the Extreme can be set to Bridge mode. Setting it to Bridge mode turns off all DHCP and NAT services so that those can be provided by your ISP. The setting for this is under the Network pane of the Airport Utility. The Router mode pop-up menu allows you to choose DHC

Re: Home Sharing

2016-05-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, In the past, we never used to need the Remote app and Apple's support articles also don't claim that the Remote app is needed. I would guess that it's either an iOS bug or that there are ports blocked that need open. See https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202190 and any related links. Late

Re: Home Sharing

2016-05-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Figured it out. It's not a bug, nor a blocked port issue. They've just changed the way it's accessed. If Home Sharing is set up correctly on your computer and iDevice, then using your iPhone, go to the My Music tab, move your finger to the top of the screen where VO announces "My Account

Re: Home Sharing

2016-05-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Sorry if this is a dumb question, but why would anyone want to do this? I mean, if the music on your Mac and your phone are the same, why not just homeshare from your Mac? Cheers, Donna > On May 28, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > Figured it out. It's not a bug, no

Re: Home Sharing

2016-05-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Donna, If you have a large media collection on your Mac that just won't fit on your iPhone, and if the majority of this media is not purchased so not available in iCloud without an Apple Music or iTunes Match subscription, then streaming music from your Mac through your iPhone may be desirab

Re: Home Sharing

2016-05-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Ah, makes sense. thanks! Donna > On May 28, 2016, at 11:46 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi Donna, > > If you have a large media collection on your Mac that just won't fit on your > iPhone, and if the majority of this media is not purchased so not available > in iCloud without an Apple Music or

exporting quicktime movie

2016-05-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I have a video I shot on my phone that I would like to export to a format that can be viewed on a non-Apple device. I found the export option in Quicktime, but couldn't tell which option I should choose. Can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks, Donna -- The following information i

Re: Home Sharing

2016-05-28 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Yep, Tim has it right. The trick is the categories selector. Home Sharing will appear only when there is a Home Sharing iTunes library, i.e. iTunes is running and Home Sharing was switched on. Now, if Apple would allow the download of material to an iOS device from a home share, that would ma

Re: exporting quicktime movie

2016-05-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, The first three options are HD versions of the movie and are meant for larger screens. The iPod, iPad, Apple TV version is meant for smaller screens although the Apple TV does transfer well to big screen TV's. The iTunes version will make it an m4v which is the usual format for iTunes vid

Re: exporting quicktime movie

2016-05-28 Thread Donna Goodin
As always, this is really helpful. Thanks, tim. Cheers, Donna > On May 28, 2016, at 1:09 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > The first three options are HD versions of the movie and are meant for larger > screens. The iPod, iPad, Apple TV version is meant for smaller screens > although the Ap

Re: Home Sharing

2016-05-28 Thread E.T.
I must still not have something set correctly. Everything is on the same network, same Apple ID and signed in, iTunes on the Mac is open, not using firewall. Home Sharing is on on both Mac and iPhone. With Music app open, My Music is selected. Swiping from My Account, I get My Music head

Re: AirPort Firmware 7.6.7/7.7.7 Released

2016-05-28 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Only 300 Mb/s, eh? You lucky sod. I can about get 68 down, 18 up. I’m not unhappy with that, particularly given that I have such a wonderful ISP, but my wouldn’t I give for a proper FTTP rollout. Perhaps if our neoliberal government spent less time navel-gazing about the UK’s laughable posit

Re: Home Sharing

2016-05-28 Thread christopher hallsworth
I apologize, but glad all is sorted now. > On 28 May 2016, at 16:15, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > In the past, we never used to need the Remote app and Apple's support > articles also don't claim that the Remote app is needed. I would guess that > it's either an iOS bug or that there are po

Re: Pptp or vpn.

2016-05-28 Thread christopher hallsworth
Would a VPN connection based in the UK work? Examples include Hide My Ass. > On 28 May 2016, at 11:52, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > BBC blocks their five live streams when the game is started so i only hear > some kind of announcement. > /A >> 26 maj 2016 kl. 20:58 skrev Scott Granados : >>

Re: Home Sharing

2016-05-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, It sounds like you have everything set correctly. The difference at the moment, is that I have my Music app showing my iTunes in the Cloud purchases. That shouldn't really make a difference, but I'll test things some a little later and get back to you. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray

Re: renaming photos again

2016-05-28 Thread Jonathan Cohn
It is possible to set both description and name using AppleScript. Not sure if that would be any help though I could also get the file path of the photograph from AppleScript, so perhaps we could figure out how to sent the photo to Microsoft's AI engine and then read back the description. I ha

Re: State of PDF accessibility?

2016-05-28 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, Does either PDF Pen products take advantage of PDF tags? This can generally be determined 1. Graphics get labeled. 2. Headings are recognised just as on the web. 3. Artefacts are not read. That third item would be a bit harder to tell, but with tagging of the PDF artefacts are ruler li

Re: Home Sharing

2016-05-28 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
It’s not an empty library or an ad for Apple Music, is it? You might have to dismiss that. But definitely, once you’re in a list of your stuff, you should find the category button to switch with. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you h

Re: Apple pulls Airport routers, possible refresh coming

2016-05-28 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Well I hope it’s not that they’re leaving the market, that’s for sure. I only recently had the dubious honour of setting up a Netgear Wi-Fi extender, and wish it had been an AirPort. A new one is not off the cards for me. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Vi

Re: Home Sharing

2016-05-28 Thread E.T.
"Don't miss a beat." How do I dismiss it? 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 5/28/2016 5:12 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: It’s not an empty library or an ad for Apple Music, is it? You might hav

Re: Multiconvert

2016-05-28 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Ben, Are you trying to do this on iOS, or on the mac. If the ladder, I kind of remember there being a dashboard widget that would do this. Chris. On 5/28/2016 6:08 AM, Ben J. Bloomgren wrote: Hi all, Back in the day, I used to use a very sweet app called Multiconvert. It converted ju

Re: Multiconvert

2016-05-28 Thread ben J. Bloomgren
The app itself was on iOS. I remember something about a dashboard widget. > On May 28, 2016, at 20:00, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Ben, > > > Are you trying to do this on iOS, or on the mac. If the ladder, I kind of > remember there being a dashboard widget that would do this. >

RE: AirPort Firmware 7.6.7/7.7.7 Released

2016-05-28 Thread Simon Fogarty
Thanks Tim, Makes sense, Might have to look in to this a bit more. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn Sent: Sunday, 29 May 2016 2:55 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: AirPort Firmware 7.6.7/7.7.7 Released Hi

RE: AirPort Firmware 7.6.7/7.7.7 Released

2016-05-28 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yeah sounds great, but sorry it's not happening as good as it should be. And I'd prefer to have full N or even ac eifi for data transfer between my servers and data storage -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

Re: Apple pulls Airport routers, possible refresh coming

2016-05-28 Thread Kevin Barry
I have an airport extreme, it is not all that it's cracked up to be. Aside from its deliberately limited ability to customize, the app on my iPhone often crashes, and it repeatedly asks me to enter my password, even during the same session. In addition, it was never that competitive as far as range

Re: AirPort Firmware 7.6.7/7.7.7 Released

2016-05-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Simon, You could test this scenario with your Express. Use the same instructions I suggested for the Extreme configuration. If it behaves properly, you'd then know if it would work with the Extreme. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 28, 2016, at 22:59, Simon Fogarty wr

navi%gating in itunes 12.4

2016-05-28 Thread don bishop
Just got a macbook which has itunes 12.4 and trying to figure out how to get to my music: I click on "my music", but can't seem to locate anything. Also, I go to "for you" and only can find one item. I assume I'll figure it out eventually, but in the meantime, does anyone have any pointers on n

Re: Apple pulls Airport routers, possible refresh coming

2016-05-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Limited in which respect? I've not experienced these sorts of crashes that you're speaking of and had much more reliable and better performance than many other products. Have also set numerous ones up in schools where classes of students were accessing them without issue and with reasonab

Re: Multiconvert

2016-05-28 Thread Michelle's Home Emails
Hi Ben Michelle here, I used Siri to convert weight, currency etc. This works really well. I am using IOS 9:02 Just say and hold down home button convert and ask Siri to do it for you. It comes with the phone. Michelle -- The following information is important for all members of the Ma

Re: navi%gating in itunes 12.4

2016-05-28 Thread christopher hallsworth
Try enabling the sidebar with command-option-s or “show sidebar” from the view menu. > On 29 May 2016, at 06:21, don bishop wrote: > > Just got a macbook which has itunes 12.4 and trying to figure out how to get > to my music: I click on "my music", but can't seem to locate anything. > Also, I