Re: Portable Battery Charger/Bank/Power Pack
On May 25, 2024, at 11:21?AM, Bev in TX via groups.io <countryone77@...> wrote:
Does anyone have recommendations for a good portable battery charger for iPhone and iPads? ?Since I’ve never used one, do you have any tips about using one of these?
I haven’t received (so haven’t used) it yet. but the NY Times WireCutter always gives positive reviews to stuff from OneWorld, who make (in China, of course) travel plug adapters. I bought one last year before a trip to Scotland. I didn’t really understand it. It’s a quite small plastic box with sliders on one side that protrude different sets of differently-shaped pins to adapt to the A/C receptacles in different countries. The latest iterations build on the notion of wirelesss charging and the triumph of USBc to enable charging one’s iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods simultaneously, and possibly even an iPad or MacBook all from that one little box’s tethering in an a/c socket.
My first use of last year’s less capable models was a bit TOO unsophisticated. I assumed that the boxy box ALSO reduced a/c voltage to its universal a/c output on the opposite side of the box. It does nothing of the sort, and the very first time I plugged in something that was not an a/c omnivore (who CARES about the voltage and the Hz), I plunged my Edinburgh hotel room (but, I hope, no others) into complete darkness. However, once I understood that I was still able to combine it’s UK a/c input layout with US a/c cords outputting that 240/50 Hz power to Apple switchable power supplies and a spaghetti of USBc and USB-A charger cords as a single-input Medusa for all my devices.
This summer’s travel target (Switzerland) was chosen by my spouse, and we’ve anted up (yes, I DID check a dictionary to figure out the past tense) to purchase this year’s Swiss Army Knife of plug adapters. The new wrinkle is the separate, attachable, charging pod that can also hold a 1,000 mAmp-hr charge for almost anything that Apple makes. Mine is somewhere over the Pacific, I think, hopefully not plunging 6,000 feet in clear air turbulence, and should be in my fists some time next week, but it COULD be the jack of all trades I’ll need in my suitcase.
Of course, if all you need is a mobile power reservoir for trips in your home country, you don’t need all that capability. There have been MANY options for that, most clever of which was/is a slot in the frame of AWAY branded carry on luggage, which basically lost its purpose almost upon release, because the FAA banned them (actually confined them to storage solely in checked luggage and even then not nested in their in-frame slots) almost as soon as they were marketed.
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Jim Robertson
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Portable Battery Charger/Bank/Power Pack
Does anyone have recommendations for a good portable battery charger for iPhone and iPads? ?Since I’ve never used one, do you have any tips about using one of these?
Thanks,
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Bev in TX
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Re: Safari windows exceed size of my screen
On May 23, 2024, at 1:57?PM, JAMES ROBERTSON <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
?I noticed that the horizontal extent of the Menu Bar itself is wider than the physical screen itself (which makes me wonder again if my machine upgrade using Migration Assistant but coming from a physical screen size of 16” on my old Intel Processor MacBook Pro to a 14” Apple Silicon M3 MacBook Pro is somehow responsible.
When I move the cursor to the extreme right of the physical display, the items in the MenuBar slide so that the extreme right of the “virtual” display is visible, and if I position the cursor immediately adjacent to the top left, the “stoplight” buttons (green, yellow, and red) come into view, but when I minimize a window into the dock, clicking its icon to bring it back to full size, that full size is again bigger than the physical size of the display.
TidBits to the rescue!
A kind user there realized that what was happening was that my entire logical screen had been “zoomed” to dimensions larger than the physical display, and that the remedy was in
System Settings>Accessibility>Zoom
So, things are back the way they belong. My only puzzle is that it seems that one must have that System Settings window open and manually toggle the control gestures or keyboard shortcuts in order to make the screen zoom in or out, so now I’m wondering if somehow those settings were still “adopted” from the logical screen dimensions of my previous (16” diagonal) MacBook”s screen because I set this one up using the Migration Assistant.
But, I’ll be overjoyed not to be always moving my cursor to the edges of the display to “peek around the corned to access the Apple Menu or the Control Panel!?
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Jim Robertson
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Budd T a MMS & Apple Messages question
Budd Turner, my favorite Ham Operator. The one I turn to for technical info on various radio and cellular communications.
Either I don’t understand something or had not noticed it before.
I use Apple Messages to communicate with a group of friends. Some use iPhones and some use Android phones, so Messages uses only MMS, multi-media, to communicate with the group. BUT ONLY IF CELLULAR DATA IS ON.
If my cellular provide sends a SMS text, (green ballons) it comes thru even if cellular data is off, but not if they send a MMS with an image. (They use a different phone number to send this from.) If my credit union, credit card or healthcare provider send a text, it comes thru with cellular data off (green balloons).
It appears, the mixed group forces it to receive (and send) as MMS and requires cellular data. If not on, the text I send fail to send.
This is the part I either don’t remember or don’t understand. I swear that about 2 months ago, this was not the case. That they went thru whether ir not cellular data was on.
About 2 months ago, I switched back from Xfinity Mobile (Vz) to Consumer Cellular (AT&T), and and I have upgraded from iO 17.4 to
17.5.
I’m on a tight budget. I’m at home 95% of the time, and use WiFi thru my Compost, uh, Xfinity gateway to play games. I’m on the lowest & cheapest plan, but Compost keeps dropping the wifi. So I turn off the cellular data.
Finally, here is my question. Can Apple Messages send MMS over WiFi thru my internet gateway, and thus to this group?
Currently, as a work around, I have to turn on cellular data to check and send “texts” to this group. I didn’t gave to do this 2 months ago. What changed?
Brent
On my iPhone Xr
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Re: Can Calendar be shared between iPad & Mac?
JR, you’re preaching to the choir on running old hardware and software.
In fact, I recall having a face to face conversation with someone running a commercial laser engraver with a Classic Macintosh (and probably System 7). The problem being that laser engraving vaporizes some of the metal, that then floats around the shop, getting inside the Macintosh and settling on the circuitboards. The cabling to the engraver was probably SCSI. Convertors from the current cabling to SCSI, were hard to find. My suggestion was buy ever Macintosh the shop could get their hands on , and store them off-site. It was cheaper than replacing the engraver for the next few years.
Brent
On my iPhone Xr
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On May 24, 2024, at 08:00, JR via groups.io <Yahoo_jr@...> wrote:
?Brent wrote:
I hung on to my old MBP and 10.7.5 for as long as I could. The shut down if various services and access took a couple of years. Syncing went first, then various browsers failed to access iCloud. Safari was the first to go.
Yes... I noticed that too when I booted up an old MacBook and tried to download a newer OS than was on it.
Safari was unable to connect with Apple to get it. Went on a new computer to get the installer. That worked.
While one's opinion to "move on" varies with utility of old devices, there are many among us who still "like" to tinker with old tech, like with old cars... some older units still have value in running old apps that were also never upgraded to newer OS versions and withered on the vine, i.e. Maclink Plus converters... can't find a new converter that will actually work to convert (yes ancient) WordPerfect files to something other and current... They might be one-trick ponies but they will do it well. Once that utility is gone, so will the old tech...
Another issue is particular apps that while working on one level of OSX got time-bombed into not working anymore on later OS versions... i,e, QuarkXPress... so an older version of the functional OS is required... not interested in buying an overpriced upgrade to recover some useful but old files....
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Can Calendar be shared between iPad & Mac?
Brent wrote:
I hung on to my old MBP and 10.7.5 for as long as I could. The shut down if various services and access took a couple of years. Syncing went first, then various browsers failed to access iCloud. Safari was the first to go.
Yes... I noticed that too when I booted up an old MacBook and tried to download a newer OS than was on it.
Safari was unable to connect with Apple to get it. Went on a new computer to get the installer. That worked.
While one's opinion to "move on" varies with utility of old devices, there are many among us who still "like" to tinker with old tech, like with old cars... some older units still have value in running old apps that were also never upgraded to newer OS versions and withered on the vine, i.e. Maclink Plus converters... can't find a new converter that will actually work to convert (yes ancient) WordPerfect files to something other and current... They might be one-trick ponies but they will do it well. Once that utility is gone, so will the old tech...
Another issue is particular apps that while working on one level of OSX got time-bombed into not working anymore on later OS versions... i,e, QuarkXPress... so an older version of the functional OS is required... not interested in buying an overpriced upgrade to recover some useful but old files....
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Re: Safari windows exceed size of my screen
On May 23, 2024, at 10:34?AM, Paul via groups.io <paul@...> wrote:
In either program, when the image is off screen, can you scroll to the extreme right, and select the bottom right corner of the window? If so then you should be be able to click in that corner and pull up diagonally to the left to resize it to your comfort level.
I was able to follow your suggestion, then minimize each window down into the Dock, but then I noticed that the horizontal extent of the Menu Bar itself is wider than the physical screen itself (which makes me wonder again if my machine upgrade using Migration Assistant but coming from a physical screen size of 16” on my old Intel Processor MacBook Pro to a 14” Apple Silicon M3 MacBook Pro is somehow responsible.
When I move the cursor to the extreme right of the physical display, the items in the MenuBar slide so that the extreme right of the “virtual” display is visible, and if I position the cursor immediately adjacent to the top left, the “stoplight” buttons (green, yellow, and red) come into view, but when I minimize a window into the dock, clicking its icon to bring it back to full size, that full size is again bigger than the physical size of the display.
I cannot remember this happening on any other Mac in any previous operating system.
And I do not and have not used any external displays on this computer.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Can Calendar be shared between iPad & Mac?
Budd, I understand your reluctance to let go, but I think this is still the case.?
I hung on to my old MBP and 10.7.5 for as long as I could. The shut down if various services and access took a couple of years. Syncing went first, then various browsers failed to access iCloud. Safari was the first to go.?
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On May 23, 2024, at 11:18, Budd Turner via groups.io <n7eoj@...> wrote:
?The iPad 4G is used mainly for use of the last standalone ($35/month subscription free) version of 1Password. ?
Many of its orphaned apps are compatible with current OSs in the newer hardware, and the current app versions on them.
It backs up to the still accessible iCloud.?
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Re: Safari windows exceed size of my screen
Ahhh. Never mind.?
I was thinking the whole Desktop, not one app.?
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On May 23, 2024, at 11:56, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
? Are you using the display on the MBP or an external monitor?
If an external monitor, are you using an old HDMI connection. If the monitor has a version 1 HDMI port, Apple and the monitor/TV industry had a disagreement on the standard and you will find that you are missing the outer edge on all 4 sides of the desktop missing.?
I have a 2009 Vizio TV/monitor using HDMI ver. 1, with a late 2012 Mac mini using HDMI ver 2 and I am missing about 3/4” of the Desktop on all 4 sides. The Menu Bar is missing, about half the Dock and both the lrft and right edges.?
There are apps that will allow you to customize the size in pixels, and aspect, but I can’t figure it out.? On May 23, 2024, at 06:24, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
? My primary computer these days is a 14” M3 MacBook Pro running Sonoma 14.5. Safari is 17.5.
Quite frequently, Safari windows expand so that their lateral borders are beyond the edges of my screen. Shrinking them by clicking the amber menubar window, then expanding them again doesn’t help.
Is there some magic I can invoke to confine the windows to the actual size of my screen?
I’m also wondering whether it’s possible that because I populated this device using the Migration Assistant FROM a 16” MacBook Pro (Intel, 2020), whether there might be some display preference copied from that laptop that is causing this.
I should note also that some other apps; e.g., Mail sometimes display the same behavior.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Can Calendar be shared between iPad & Mac?
JR, this will sound crazy, but the old OS cannot access iCloud. That is where the problem lies.
As the OS ages, the browsers that will work aren’t accepted at various web sites for security and certificate reasons. Even if the site updates its certificates, the browser doesn’t recognize them. You can work around that for a while, but eventually they fail. I fought this battle for a couple of years.
Brent
On my iPhone Xr
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On May 23, 2024, at 07:52, JR via groups.io <Yahoo_jr@...> wrote:
?My old Macs and iPads, iPhones are all running BusyCal app instead of Apple's Calendar app, and they've been working fine since installation years ago.
The iOs devices all sync to iCloud and to my Macs; iPads sync via WiFi.
To access iCloud with BusyCal one has to generate an Application Password after signing in to iCloud and using that password to access the iCloud-based calendars.
You can also publish your personal calendars from your host machine and then have (anyone) subscribe to those calendars on their own devices.
My 2?...
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Re: Safari windows exceed size of my screen
Are you using the display on the MBP or an external monitor?
If an external monitor, are you using an old HDMI connection. If the monitor has a version 1 HDMI port, Apple and the monitor/TV industry had a disagreement on the standard and you will find that you are missing the outer edge on all 4 sides of the desktop missing.?
I have a 2009 Vizio TV/monitor using HDMI ver. 1, with a late 2012 Mac mini using HDMI ver 2 and I am missing about 3/4” of the Desktop on all 4 sides. The Menu Bar is missing, about half the Dock and both the lrft and right edges.?
There are apps that will allow you to customize the size in pixels, and aspect, but I can’t figure it out.?
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On May 23, 2024, at 06:24, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
? My primary computer these days is a 14” M3 MacBook Pro running Sonoma 14.5. Safari is 17.5.
Quite frequently, Safari windows expand so that their lateral borders are beyond the edges of my screen. Shrinking them by clicking the amber menubar window, then expanding them again doesn’t help.
Is there some magic I can invoke to confine the windows to the actual size of my screen?
I’m also wondering whether it’s possible that because I populated this device using the Migration Assistant FROM a 16” MacBook Pro (Intel, 2020), whether there might be some display preference copied from that laptop that is causing this.
I should note also that some other apps; e.g., Mail sometimes display the same behavior.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Can Calendar be shared between iPad & Mac?
The iPad 4G is used mainly for use of the last standalone ($35/month subscription free) version of 1Password. ?
Many of its orphaned apps are compatible with current OSs in the newer hardware, and the current app versions on them.
It backs up to the still accessible iCloud.?
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Re: Safari windows exceed size of my screen
Hi Jim,
In either program, when the image is off screen, can you scroll to the extreme right, and select the bottom right corner of the window? If so then you should be be able to click in that corner and pull up diagonally to the left to resize it to your comfort level.
Then quit and relaunch. It should remember the last window size you used.
++++++++++++++++++++++++ Helping Los Angeles area computer users since 1988?
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On May 23, 2024, at 6:24?AM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
My primary computer these days is a 14” M3 MacBook Pro running Sonoma 14.5. Safari is 17.5.
Quite frequently, Safari windows expand so that their lateral borders are beyond the edges of my screen. Shrinking them by clicking the amber menubar window, then expanding them again doesn’t help.
Is there some magic I can invoke to confine the windows to the actual size of my screen?
I’m also wondering whether it’s possible that because I populated this device using the Migration Assistant FROM a 16” MacBook Pro (Intel, 2020), whether there might be some display preference copied from that laptop that is causing this.
I should note also that some other apps; e.g., Mail sometimes display the same behavior.
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Jim Robertson
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Can Calendar be shared between iPad & Mac?
My old Macs and iPads, iPhones are all running BusyCal app instead of Apple's Calendar app, and they've been working fine since installation years ago.
The iOs devices all sync to iCloud and to my Macs; iPads sync via WiFi.
To access iCloud with BusyCal one has to generate an Application Password after signing in to iCloud and using that password to access the iCloud-based calendars.
You can also publish your personal calendars from your host machine and then have (anyone) subscribe to those calendars on their own devices.
My 2?...
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Safari windows exceed size of my screen
My primary computer these days is a 14” M3 MacBook Pro running Sonoma 14.5. Safari is 17.5.
Quite frequently, Safari windows expand so that their lateral borders are beyond the edges of my screen. Shrinking them by clicking the amber menubar window, then expanding them again doesn’t help.
Is there some magic I can invoke to confine the windows to the actual size of my screen?
I’m also wondering whether it’s possible that because I populated this device using the Migration Assistant FROM a 16” MacBook Pro (Intel, 2020), whether there might be some display preference copied from that laptop that is causing this.
I should note also that some other apps; e.g., Mail sometimes display the same behavior.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Can Calendar be shared between iPad & Mac?
Sorry, it sounds like the iOS on your iPad is too old to be compatible with current OS and your iCloud account.
The easiest way verify this is call Apple Support and give them you device and OS info. Ask if they are compatible and the minimum to access the iCloud. Or you could search the web.?
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On May 22, 2024, at 14:02, Budd Turner via groups.io <n7eoj@...> wrote:
?iPad 4G, running 10.3.4 when orphaned
M2 iPadPro, running 17.5
M1 iMac, running 14.5
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Re: Can Calendar be shared between iPad & Mac?
iPad 4G, running 10.3.4 when orphaned
M2 iPadPro, running 17.5
M1 iMac, running 14.5
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Re: Can Calendar be shared between iPad & Mac?
What is the model of each device and what OS does each run?
Why? Because my early 2008 MBP, running 10.7.5, won’t sync with? my late 2012 Mac mini, running 10.15.7,? my iPhone XR, running iOS 17.5.1,? or my iCloud account.?
The mini, the iPhone, and my account are all synced. Just not my older devices.?
I believe my iPad gen 3 and iPhone 4S won’t sync either, running iOS 9.
They all use the same account, but the old OSes are tooooo old.?
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On May 21, 2024, at 08:29, Budd Turner via groups.io <n7eoj@...> wrote:
?I thought it was…But not between my iPads & iMac. ?All three use my one & only Apple ID on iCloud.
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Re: Can Calendar be shared between iPad & Mac?
I thought it was…But not between my iPads & iMac. ?All three use my one & only Apple ID on iCloud.
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Re: Can Calendar be shared between iPad & Mac?
There are three places to check. I am looking this up on an iPhone, and am not familiar with the recent Macs or macOSes.?
On iOS 17.5:
- Settings, scroll down to Calendar, adjust the settings as needed.?
- Same with Notes.?
- Settings, (your name), iCloud, scroll down to the section “apps using iCloud”, make adjustments to Calendar and Notes.?
Every OS is a little different, so you may have to hunt around a bit.?
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On May 20, 2024, at 10:18, Barbara Mende <barbara@...> wrote:
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Since buying a MBP 3 with Sonoma, syncing the calendar with my phone has been sporadic. I want it to go through the computer, not iCloud, and it's not listed as an app that syncs to icloud. Notes seems to sync OK. Where do I check on all this?
Confused - Barbara
On Monday, May 20, 2024 at 12:54:15 PM EDT, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176@...> wrote:
I believe it is? on iCloud because it doesn’t show up in my Bluetooth devices list.? But my? Calendar and Notes sync just fine.? (Maybe others.) Becky > On May 20, 2024, at 9:53?AM, Julian Thomas < jt@...> wrote: > > Isn’t calendar shared in iCloud? > Julian Thomas >
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