Re: Five tips to speed up your Mac - CNET

2020-05-24 Thread Eric Oyen
Very true. Every time I try to open the Cnet website on safari, the browser goes into total lockdown and I am forced to use the force kill system application in order to break the lockout. It seems that some (or all) of the ads on that site cause resource issues inside the the browser. Btw, thi

Re: Five tips to speed up your Mac - CNET

2020-05-24 Thread Brad Snyder
Interesting. I had no problem viewing the CNET website using SaFari v13.1 on macOS Catalina. Of course my new Mac mini 2018 has maxed out RAM, so maybe that makes a difference. - Brad - On May 24, 2020, at 09:48, Eric Oyen wrote: Very true. Every time I try to open the Cnet website on safari

Re: Five tips to speed up your Mac - CNET

2020-05-24 Thread Eric Oyen
Well, it probably doesn’t help that I am using an older model Mac mini (2014) with 8 GB of ram and a 1 TB ssd installed. Oh, and it is running the latest OS version. -Eric > On May 24, 2020, at 8:02 AM, Brad Snyder wrote: > > Interesting. > I had no problem viewing the CNET website using SaF

Re: Five tips to speed up your Mac - CNET

2020-05-24 Thread Brad Snyder
Those specs aren’t bad unless you have the low-end processor, and your system shouldn’t have had a problem. The CNET site is definitely a resource hog. - Brad - On May 24, 2020, at 10:08, Eric Oyen wrote: Well, it probably doesn’t help that I am using an older model Mac mini (2014) with 8 GB

Logictech K780 keyboard questions

2020-05-24 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello, Have any of you successfully set up the Logictech K780 bluetooth keyboard with the Logictech Options App on the latest Catalina? If so what benefits does it offer over not installing this App? A Google search suggests that the App does not work properly on Catalina. I am currently using

Re: Five tips to speed up your Mac - CNET

2020-05-24 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I have a top of the line 2016 Air and I rarely have problems with busy on web sites, however when I clicked on your link, and then went back to reading mail without actually reading the article, after about 10 minutes my fan came on and remained on until I from closedthe C'Net page. Maybe

Re: Five tips to speed up your Mac - CNET

2020-05-24 Thread Brad Snyder
It wasn't my link. - Brad - On May 24, 2020, at 11:59, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: I have a top of the line 2016 Air and I rarely have problems with busy on web sites, however when I clicked on your link, and then went back to reading mail without actually reading the article, after about 10 m

Re: Music shortcut and repeating

2020-05-24 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
I managed to fix the repeating problem. Not sure how I managed to turn it on, but once I worked out how to expand the mini player in my music app I found that the repeat button was set to all. I double tapped it and it then said repeat once, so I double tapped it one more time and it said off. I

Re: How do I check the time on the mac?

2020-05-24 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
Hi Anne, What’s the best way to find all of the other commands one can do with the keyboard commander turned on? Now that my brain has court up with the rest of you and I’ve worked out that I was being an idiot as I was getting the trackpad commander confused with the keyboard commander so now I

Re: New update for Apple Watch. A problem?

2020-05-24 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! No i have other complications that does not show the name. And it wants me to log in to my apple id . /A > 22 maj 2020 kl. 20:59 skrev 'Kawal Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries > : > > I have just updated my watch and I have probably started it 10 times as the > breathing and heart rate are not

Re: Music shortcut and repeating

2020-05-24 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Wow, good for my eliptical machine training. /A > 22 maj 2020 kl. 22:41 skrev Petrus Tuerlings : > > Well Rime of the ancient Mariner by Iron Maiden is 15 minutes long and there > are loads of classical tracks out there that are 20 minutes or longer. > >> On 22/05/2020, at 22:07, Simon A

Re: Apple Glass and iPhone 12 Rumors, iOS 13.5 Update, and More!

2020-05-24 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! The Powerbeats i bought last month are really great. You can’t drop them as the wire between them is a neck band and it has hooks on each headphone so it hangs on your ear. /A > 24 maj 2020 kl. 08:04 skrev Simon A Fogarty : > > Yeah but I think this is the push to Bluetooth headphones rathe

Re: Five tips to speed up your Mac - CNET

2020-05-24 Thread Anders Holmberg
H! Chrome has other problems instead. So i am really not sure on what browser to use these days. /A > 24 maj 2020 kl. 16:48 skrev Eric Oyen : > > Very true. > > Every time I try to open the Cnet website on safari, the browser goes into > total lockdown and I am forced to use the force kill syst

Re: Five tips to speed up your Mac - CNET

2020-05-24 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, When Safari does the busy thing for me, I turn off VO, press cmd-tab to go to a different app, then turn VO back on, and cmd-tab my way back to Safari. Nine times out of ten, this seems to help. Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) For

I can't edit formulas in Numbers

2020-05-24 Thread 'Robert Cole' via MacVisionaries
Dear List, For the longest time, I have been copying the formula and pasteing it into Text Edit, to edit it. For example, my formula is SUM(B6:B40) If I tried to edit in numbers, VoiceOver will not read by characters. It just repeats SUM sum ) Pressing up or down arrow gets the same results. I ev

Re: I can't edit formulas in Numbers

2020-05-24 Thread Phil Halton
I have been dealing with that same problem for quite a while now. The way I get around it is to go to the beginning of the formula with a VO plus shift plus home and then cursor to the right. Each press of the cursor will speak the current field value be at a token, or a arithmetic character, or

Re: I can't edit formulas in Numbers

2020-05-24 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Press option-return on the cell you wish to edit. then arrow through the formula to make changes. Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 24, 2020, at 4:05 PM, 'Robert Cole' via MacVisionaries wrote: Dea

Re: Pages and custom template

2020-05-24 Thread Leo Bado
Hello Anne, it kind of worked, but not as I expected. Whenever I launch pages, I press command plus n, but instead of opening my custom template, the template chooser shows up, so I press escape and press command plus n again, and finally pages opens my custom template. I don't know why...

Re: I can't edit formulas in Numbers

2020-05-24 Thread 'Robert Cole' via MacVisionaries
That is how I do it. Sent from my iPhone > On May 24, 2020, at 7:34 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > Press option-return on the cell you wish to edit. then arrow through the > formula to make changes. > > Later… > > > Tim Kilburn > Jamf Certified Tech > Apple T

Re: I can't edit formulas in Numbers

2020-05-24 Thread 'Robert Cole' via MacVisionaries
Ok, are you saying that I cannot delete just the b40 and replace it with b45, without retyping most of the formula? Sent from my iPhone > On May 24, 2020, at 9:15 PM, Robert Cole wrote: > >  > That is how I do it. > > > Sent from my iPhone > >>> On May 24, 2020, at 7:34 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' vi

Re: Pages and custom template

2020-05-24 Thread Brad Snyder
If you open Pages Preferences, under the General tab,, the first item allows you to choose whether when opening a new document, you want to use the Template Chooser or use the default template. HTH - Brad - On May 24, 2020, at 20:09, Leo Bado wrote: Hello Anne, it kind of worked, but not

Re: I can't edit formulas in Numbers

2020-05-24 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, After pressing option-return, the cursor is placed at the end of the formula. The step that you’re missing is to VO-left to the “Formula Options” button. VO-space on this button and select the “Show Formula as text” item. Now the formula within the cell is editable text, including the ce

Cellular Apple watch

2020-05-24 Thread Angus MacKinnon
I have a Series 5 Apple watch with cellular and Watch OS 6.2.5. I tried making a call with the Watch uncovered and the vollume was so low I had to put my ear so close to the watch to bearly hear the output. Does anyone know why the volume was so low and how the volume could be increased? Thank y

Re: Five tips to speed up your Mac - CNET

2020-05-24 Thread Donald Goosens
On my laptop the ctrl-e to lower the volume and ctrlI to increase the volume has no effect. I thought that this program only plays different kinds of media. > Donald > On May 24, 2020, at 10:08 AM, Eric Oyen wrote: > > Well, it probably doesn’t help that I am using an older model Mac mini (

Re: Oddities using a PC USB Keyboard with my Mini

2020-05-24 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Thanks to everyone who responding to my quandry. You're all the best! I swapped the problematic USB keyboard for a different, a built more substantially built 104 key PC keyboard. The Apple Wizzard recognized it right away, and I've had no trouble with passwords or the missing @ symbol since! Tha

Re: Zoom on the mac?

2020-05-24 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
I started using Zoom via my Mac Mini last week. I used it with my Bose Q700 bluetooth headset for several business teleconferences with excellent results. It took some setting up, and there seem to be several key gotchyas to be mindful of. At least, that's my experience. Here's what I learned: *

Syncing Music From My iPhone

2020-05-24 Thread Joy Cyr
Good morning, I just bought some songs from iTunes and have downloaded them to my iPhone. How can I sync/access them on my iMac? I am running Catalina and would really appreciate any advice PLEASE! Thank you, Joy "Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. ... Life

RE: Apple Glass and iPhone 12 Rumors, iOS 13.5 Update, and More!

2020-05-24 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Yeah but I already have the power beats pro And apple airpods series 2, Oh and a couple of pair of bose over head headphones, One set Bluetooth and one set not. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Anders Holmberg Sent: Monday, 25 May 2020 8:58 AM To: '