Oh my, Jude, that sounds very tense. I can’t believe people starting fires though - are they camping, or what? If the creek is dry… Crazy! ?Has anyone tried speaking to them, or is that too risky? You never know, with some folks. I wish we could send you some of our surplus rain!
John, thank goodness you are safe! You do have some dramas, don’t you? Watch out! Regards
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Dearest Jude & Peter, Saw on the BBC news about fires in Eastern Australia. Hope you are OK. I've been a bit tied up recently, arranging a move from Pablo Escobar AKA my next door neighbour. The cops may have caught up with him last night. Can you imagine how I feel, having dedicated my life to make new medicines for mankind to have a drug dealer next door? John
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Gee, what I'd give for some boredom!
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Ok so far John thanks. Very dry. Tank water got low but we had one shower that topped us up a bit. But we have a decent bore about 300m from the house which pumps from 130ft down under and the water is good. We have been using it to top up the toilet cisterns which saves the drinking water and also we have been using it to top up the swimming pool. ?So we are better off than some people in our vicinity. ?Local Water truck delivery people are quoting up to six weeks to bring a load of drinking water - which is not a great help when you have small children I imagine. ?Loads of birds are clinging to us around the house for a handout and water. Our beautiful creek nearby is totally dry and stopped running at all. So how platypus and the likes are getting on I don't know. A hare has taken up residence in an old creamery shed - husband has surprised him but he didn't gallop off. A large snake has taken up residence in a pile of timber my husband has been working on in one shed. It started out as a big pile he has been taking nails out of but now the snake is down to four planks :-)?
I know it is not as exciting as your drug lab next door but we're all somewhat under no water stress. ?Air quality is a big worry for some. They reckon its been as bad as smoking 40 ciggies a day and worse than some town in India. ?But its been better today. ?We have set up a local messaging group locally so if a fire starts up the valley we will all message and be prepared. ?We have idiot town people turning up and starting fires in the creek bed would you believe in a total fire ban time.?
There's only one way out of here so we do have a fire plan and I have important papers, family history, and family photos packed and the cat cage and her papers at the front door, and suitcases prepared "in case". Lets hope not.?
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Dearest Jude & Peter, Saw on the BBC news about fires in Eastern Australia. Hope you are OK. I've been a bit tied up recently, arranging a move from Pablo Escobar AKA my next door neighbour. The cops may have caught up with him last night. Can you imagine how I feel, having dedicated my life to make new medicines for mankind to have a drug dealer next door? John
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The iPad was first heralded while we still had our business and were paying outselves monthly pocket money! I had been saving my pocket money for some time, as I knew Apple would come up with something nice, and I pre-ordered one as soon as I heard about it. I moved on, later, to an Air, now an Air 2 and also have Harvey’s cast-off Mini that still runs iOS 9 and is useful for older apps that won’t run on the latest iOS. Regards
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On 21 Nov 2019, at 00:14, Alice via Groups.Io < lwr32@...> wrote: Don’t say that too loud, Jude, or you could get inundated with nasty emails ?
When the iPad first came out I said it was a toy since really all it seemed like to me was a machine to play games on. Now I edit photos on it, keep a journal on it, read email, Skype and lots of other things. I find myself using it more than my Mac mini. It’s great for some but doesn’t meet the needs of others.? ? \ ? ? \ ?/\? ? ? ( ? ) ? ? ? ? ? ?Alice On Nov 18, 2019, at 4:40 AM, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
? I have yet to succumb to an iPad. Always regarded them as toy like because they don’t run full apps or do anything useful as far as I am concerned.? But I might weaken as I have a bit of a leaning towards art at the moment. Water colours was an interest in my early life and I even won competitions as a kid. Business partner of my cousin Angela in Scotland does wonderful digital art.? She’s well known in Scotland for her art.?
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That question was asked at the meeting but never seemed to get answered. Aluminium would be fairly lightweight. The battery in it might add a bit of weight. People at the meeting were trying to figure if the sum total of the iPad Pro and the case was more or less than MacBook Air and similar models. ?Probably on the website it might say for each individual iPad what the weight is. ?Weight is important if you travel things of course. We have some members who go to some very remote places with their gear. Me personally iPhone does everything I want on a short trip. I had a fortnight in UK in March - just took iPhone..?
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I have always thought iPads over rated and not changed my mind. Just as people buy one its already defunct pretty rapidly and people moving on to the next. ?Development on iPads( which is highly over priced) has resulted in neglect of the proper computers in my opinion. I blame Tim Cook of course. His heart is only in the money end of lightweight products like iPhones iPads watches -- the bottom line his only interest it seems.?
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Don’t say that too loud, Jude, or you could get inundated with nasty emails ?
When the iPad first came out I said it was a toy since really all it seemed like to me was a machine to play games on. Now I edit photos on it, keep a journal on it, read email, Skype and lots of other things. I find myself using it more than my Mac mini. It’s great for some but doesn’t meet the needs of others.? ? \ ? ? \ ?/\? ? ? ( ? ) ? ? ? ? ? ?Alice ?.( ? ? ?). ?lwr32@...
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? I have yet to succumb to an iPad. Always regarded them as toy like because they don’t run full apps or do anything useful as far as I am concerned.? But I might weaken as I have a bit of a leaning towards art at the moment. Water colours was an interest in my early life and I even won competitions as a kid. Business partner of my cousin Angela in Scotland does wonderful digital art.? She’s well known in Scotland for her art.?
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Did the member say if it made their iPad any heavier? ? \ ? ? \ ?/\? ? ? ( ? ) ? ? ? ? ? ?Alice ?.( ? ? ?). ?lwr32@...
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?Chap had a aluminium smart case cover on his big iPad at our local Mac group meet yesterday -- it has inbuilt keyboard and apparently some sort of battery in it, I think he said it was the Premium model and the backlight on the keyboard can have different colours. ?He bought it from a mob called Goldandcherry. This one was for an iPad pro. He'd previously bought the Apple one and didn't like it. ?So bought this aluminium one instead and was very happy with it ?Thought I'd mention in case it's of interest. The range covers all sorts of iPad sizes and models.?
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I never knew what they looked like, or where they were from, just found that ignoring, or giving pointedly brief replies, usually made them get the message! Regards
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I’ve had a couple of silver foxes try to contact me ….and a handsome Egyptian gentleman. I never reply - I’d have to say I’m a very much married woman :-)
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Ooh I love that picture, Jude! ?I do have an iPad, an Air 2 so not the newest kind, but have never tried anything like that. ?My current fixation on my iPad is playing Words With Friends, or WordFeud, variations of Scrabble but handier to play as you can try out words, see your possible score, change your mind even. I used to play this on my MacBook Pro and I like the way you can start lots of new games with other people. You just get the very occasional creepy male, who tries to make conversation, find out where you live etc. but, if you don’t respond, they usually give up.
Regards Susan
I have yet to succumb to an iPad. Always regarded them as toy like because they don’t run full apps or do anything useful as far as I am concerned.? But I might weaken as I have a bit of a leaning towards art at the moment. Water colours was an interest in my early life and I even won competitions as a kid. Business partner of my cousin Angela in Scotland does wonderful digital art.? She’s well known in Scotland for her art.?
Jude
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I’ve had a couple of silver foxes try to contact me ….and a handsome Egyptian gentleman. I never reply - I’d have to say I’m a very much married woman :-)
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Ooh I love that picture, Jude! ?I do have an iPad, an Air 2 so not the newest kind, but have never tried anything like that. ?My current fixation on my iPad is playing Words With Friends, or WordFeud, variations of Scrabble but handier to play as you can try out words, see your possible score, change your mind even. I used to play this on my MacBook Pro and I like the way you can start lots of new games with other people. You just get the very occasional creepy male, who tries to make conversation, find out where you live etc. but, if you don’t respond, they usually give up.
Regards Susan
I have yet to succumb to an iPad. Always regarded them as toy like because they don’t run full apps or do anything useful as far as I am concerned.? But I might weaken as I have a bit of a leaning towards art at the moment. Water colours was an interest in my early life and I even won competitions as a kid. Business partner of my cousin Angela in Scotland does wonderful digital art.? She’s well known in Scotland for her art.?
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That is rather lovely, Jude!
My iPad is great for reading, the newspapers, pdfs, books and the Internet, of course. ?I’ve had iPad Mini for several years but grew tired of squinting at the screen; this iPad Air 64Gb is a speedy device, with a lovely screen and thinner than a credit card (hyperbole alert . . .).
But I love my MacBook as well. ?It’s great for photos processing while on the move and I can access files easily in the cloud (my iPad is a mobile data version and can provide good hotspot data.
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I have yet to succumb to an iPad. Always regarded them as toy like because they don’t run full apps or do anything useful as far as I am concerned.?But I might weaken as I have a bit of a leaning towards art at the moment. Water colours was an interest in my early life and I even won competitions as a kid. Business partner of my cousin Angela in Scotland does wonderful digital art.? She’s well known in Scotland for her art.?
Jude
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Ooh I love that picture, Jude! ?I do have an iPad, an Air 2 so not the newest kind, but have never tried anything like that. ?My current fixation on my iPad is playing Words With Friends, or WordFeud, variations of Scrabble but handier to play as you can try out words, see your possible score, change your mind even. I used to play this on my MacBook Pro and I like the way you can start lots of new games with other people. You just get the very occasional creepy male, who tries to make conversation, find out where you live etc. but, if you don’t respond, they usually give up.
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I have yet to succumb to an iPad. Always regarded them as toy like because they don’t run full apps or do anything useful as far as I am concerned.? But I might weaken as I have a bit of a leaning towards art at the moment. Water colours was an interest in my early life and I even won competitions as a kid. Business partner of my cousin Angela in Scotland does wonderful digital art.? She’s well known in Scotland for her art.?
Jude
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I have yet to succumb to an iPad. Always regarded them as toy like because they don’t run full apps or do anything useful as far as I am concerned.? But I might weaken as I have a bit of a leaning towards art at the moment. Water colours was an interest in my early life and I even won competitions as a kid. Business partner of my cousin Angela in Scotland does wonderful digital art.? She’s well known in Scotland for her art.?
Jude
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That is certainly tempting, Jude. ?But I have to remind myself that my 12” MacBook is not much bigger than my iPad Air (10.5”) and it has its own keyboard. ?That means that, much as I’d like another gadget, I must content myself with my current lineup.
I was interested that the chap was so pleased with it compared with the Apple version.
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Chap had a aluminium smart case cover on his big iPad at our local Mac group meet yesterday -- it has inbuilt keyboard and apparently some sort of battery in it, I think he said it was the Premium model and the backlight on the keyboard can have different colours. ?He bought it from a mob called Goldandcherry. This one was for an iPad pro. He'd previously bought the Apple one and didn't like it. ?So bought this aluminium one instead and was very happy with it ?Thought I'd mention in case it's of interest. The range covers all sorts of iPad sizes and models.?
Jude
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Chap had a aluminium smart case cover on his big iPad at our local Mac group meet yesterday -- it has inbuilt keyboard and apparently some sort of battery in it, I think he said it was the Premium model and the backlight on the keyboard can have different colours. ?He bought it from a mob called Goldandcherry. This one was for an iPad pro. He'd previously bought the Apple one and didn't like it. ?So bought this aluminium one instead and was very happy with it ?Thought I'd mention in case it's of interest. The range covers all sorts of iPad sizes and models.?
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Re: In case its of interest --- re Catalina and iPhotos
Speed was good - and yes, I will get used to phots but now retired I don’t use nearly as much......
Tag Gorton
Skype: tagorton
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On 10 Nov 2019, at 07:08, zuiko via Groups.Io <zuiko@...> wrote:
I have hesitated to contradict you, Tag, but I can’t imagine how iPhoto could be better than Photos; it must have lost something that you used, but it’s a very powerful application in terms of photo manipulation. I know that you can do less in the way of rating an image, but there are other facilities in that respect.
When it comes to photo processing Photos is way superior, almost as good as Aperture once was. I don’t use Photos exclusively, but I’m much happier with it now that I’ve used it for a couple of years. My main photo application is Capture One Pro, but I have little worry about using Photos.
Perhaps with use you’ll come to get on with it, if not love it :-) There is plenty of advice online to help, if you have the time to use it (not a given, I know . . .).
Cheers
Chris
On 5 Nov 19, at 15:57, blue yonder via Groups.Io <tag.gorton@...> wrote:
Have just updated to Catalina and have lost iPhoto. Luckily I am no longer working so this is not too much of a problem but certainly it is not as good as iPhoto. Still exploring Catalina but I have lost some excellent progs....
Yours Aye
Tag Gorton
Tel:01752 845938
Skype name 'tagorton'
?On Tuesday05/Nov/19:46, 14:46Tue, 5, Nov, 2019, "Purler" <[email protected] on behalf of susan.platter@...> wrote:
I had no idea I could have kept iPhoto going. I meekly updated it to Photos, which I’ve been using for some time now, but which lost some of the useful features of iPhoto in the transition. This is not a good thing that Apple has done, blithely effectively destroying the functionality of apps that are popular and useful. It should not be up to outsiders to fix this. I suppose a partial, if not too convenient, answer is to keep older kit or to partition your drive into newer and earlier OSes; I don’t even know if the latter is possible.
Regards
Susan
On 5 Nov 2019, at 09:01, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
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Never happened again after I stopped using alcohol 35 years ago.....
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On 10 Nov 2019, at 07:10, zuiko via Groups.Io < zuiko@...> wrote: The mind boggles, Tag!
Chris On 9 Nov 19, at 11:28, blue yonder via Groups.Io < tag.gorton@...> wrote:
That happened to me in the West Indies in my drinking days. I was at a party and ended up sleeping ?in my chair cos of too much booze and the host's wife took advantage of me. The next day I had to meet the new Commander (my boss) and, given we were wearing tropical working rig (shirt shorts and sandals) my red painted toenails were there for every one to see. I certainly got some stick that day - and it two days scrubbing to get rid of it...
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That happened to me in the West Indies in my drinking days. I was at a party and ended up sleeping ?in my chair cos of too much booze and the host's wife took advantage of me. The next day I had to meet the new Commander (my boss) and, given we were wearing tropical working rig (shirt shorts and sandals) my red painted toenails were there for every one to see. I certainly got some stick that day - and it two days scrubbing to get rid of it...
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Re: In case its of interest --- re Catalina and iPhotos
I have hesitated to contradict you, Tag, but I can’t imagine how iPhoto could be better than Photos; it must have lost something that you used, but it’s a very powerful application in terms of photo manipulation. I know that you can do less in the way of rating an image, but there are other facilities in that respect.
When it comes to photo processing Photos is way superior, almost as good as Aperture once was. I don’t use Photos exclusively, but I’m much happier with it now that I’ve used it for a couple of years. My main photo application is Capture One Pro, but I have little worry about using Photos.
Perhaps with use you’ll come to get on with it, if not love it :-) There is plenty of advice online to help, if you have the time to use it (not a given, I know . . .).
Cheers
Chris
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On 5 Nov 19, at 15:57, blue yonder via Groups.Io <tag.gorton@...> wrote:
Have just updated to Catalina and have lost iPhoto. Luckily I am no longer working so this is not too much of a problem but certainly it is not as good as iPhoto. Still exploring Catalina but I have lost some excellent progs....
Yours Aye
Tag Gorton
Tel:01752 845938
Skype name 'tagorton'
?On Tuesday05/Nov/19:46, 14:46Tue, 5, Nov, 2019, "Purler" <[email protected] on behalf of susan.platter@...> wrote:
I had no idea I could have kept iPhoto going. I meekly updated it to Photos, which I’ve been using for some time now, but which lost some of the useful features of iPhoto in the transition. This is not a good thing that Apple has done, blithely effectively destroying the functionality of apps that are popular and useful. It should not be up to outsiders to fix this. I suppose a partial, if not too convenient, answer is to keep older kit or to partition your drive into newer and earlier OSes; I don’t even know if the latter is possible.
Regards
Susan
On 5 Nov 2019, at 09:01, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
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