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On 15 Nov 2023, at 22:49, Jim Saklad via groups.io <jimdoc@...> wrote:
Write a testimonial to Apple.
Maybe they¡¯ll help out with replacement, and use it in an advertisement. I agree. Worth doing even without the possible help with replacement. I¡¯d look for an as-new used replacement, but that¡¯s just me. Otto
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Jim Robertson wrote: I forgot to mention that I¡¯ve gotten a time and materials quote for a new screen of $350, which is WAY under the price for a refurbed unit from Apple. Of course, even with a new screen it will have ¡°rough edges¡± (literally), but I think the keyboard may be less salvageable than the tablet itself. Right now, when I open the clamshell, tiny bits of sand (I don¡¯t know if it¡¯s silicon from the screen or from the interstate highway) are littered between the tablet and keyboard.
Somehow, I think Apple could use this in a testimonial ad regarding just how well built Apple¡¯s ¡°no moving parts¡± hardware is built. After all, the speed limit (which I was just barely obeying) where the iPad bid goodbye to my right front fender is 80 mph.
Write a testimonial to Apple. Maybe they¡¯ll help out with replacement, and use it in an advertisement.
jimdoc@...
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On Nov 15, 2023, at 3:37 PM, JAMES ROBERTSON <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
follow this link to see some incriminating photos:
I forgot to mention that I¡¯ve gotten a time and materials quote for a new screen of $350, which is WAY under the price for a refurbed unit from Apple. Of course, even with a new screen it will have ¡°rough edges¡± (literally), but I think the keyboard may be less salvageable than the tablet itself. Right now, when I open the clamshell, tiny bits of sand (I don¡¯t know if it¡¯s silicon from the screen or from the interstate highway) are littered between the tablet and keyboard.
Somehow, I think Apple could use this in a testimonial ad regarding just how well built Apple¡¯s ¡°no moving parts¡± hardware is built. After all, the speed limit (which I was just barely obeying) where the iPad bid goodbye to my right front fender is 80 mph.
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Jim Robertson
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On Nov 15, 2023, at 8:43 AM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
The device is still pleading to Apple¡¯s FindMy servers for help
About an hour after that post, I received a call from a Highway Patrol officer who proclaimed ¡°I have your iPad, and it still works, although I cannot imagine HOW.¡±
A picture is worth 10,000 words, they say, so follow this link to see some incriminating photos:
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Jim Robertson
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On 15 Nov 2023, at 18:20, Jim Saklad via < jimdoc@...> wrote:
I presume the first 12 columns after the year are months, the next is the year¡¯s mean, and the last is the high-temp ranking.
Does EACH month's temperature column have its own conditional formatting? I see, e.g., that 17's, 18's, and 19¡¯s are orange in July, but red in September.
Jim, I only showed the bottom few rows of that table as an example, but I¡¯m not surprised that you would work it out. Yes, each month and yearly average is coloured according to which quartile it falls in for that month or average, but with max and min shown with white on red or blue to make them stand out. I wanted a simple system to show trends. There are only 6 colours, which I hope are intuitive. The top few rows are
Thanks for your interest. :-)
Otto
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Otto Nikolaus wrote: One of my interests is the CET (Central England Temperature), the oldest continuous temperature record in the world. Here¡¯s a small part of one table in my Numbers sheet, with conditional colour formatting:
I presume the first 12 columns after the year are months, the next is the year¡¯s mean, and the last is the high-temp ranking.
Does EACH month's temperature column have its own conditional formatting? I see, e.g., that 17's, 18's, and 19¡¯s are orange in July, but red in September.
jimdoc@...
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Just an observation.
I know the amount of spam varies month to month, but wow, this month had a vast increase. I just deleted about 150 spam emails in October on my Apple email account, caught in the Junk folder. The filters are working fine. My usual haul is 0-10, and an occasional 20.
About 25 were from a canceled account from a publisher for two professional magazines I cancel over 10 years ago. They decided that I wanted to start it up again. I guess someone got a new marketing vp or consultant.
Can anyone guess at how the filters caught a legitimate business, sending legitimate emails, if I had re-subscribed?
I just checked, I don¡¯t have a listing in my Contacts for them or their various business names.
Either way, I haven¡¯t seen this much spam in many years.
Brent
On my iPhone Xr
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I¡¯ve used various spreadsheets since the early 90s. I used Excel at work and then some version of Open Office when I got my first Mac. When iWork 09 came along I thought I¡¯d try Numbers. At first I found it strange but soon got to like it a lot, despite its limitations. The most glaring one IMO is the lack of a ¡®lock cells¡¯ function to prevent accidental overwriting or deletion of formulae.
Now when I try the more Excel-like Libre Office or PlanMaker Office (the one that Randy S recommends so often), I find *them* strange!
One of my interests is the CET (Central England Temperature), the oldest continuous temperature record in the world. Here¡¯s a small part of one table in my Numbers sheet, with conditional colour formatting:
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I know the spreadsheet is your baby. I need to remember time zones when responding.
I¡¯m +7 or +8 hours from you, and a late riser on top of that.
I also do some of my better thinking on complex issues using spreadsheets. I prefer using Excel over Numbers. I tried using Numbers for a year, to avoid the cost of buying Office, but an employer bought me Office for a traveling job. I could not get used to Numbers and thought it was very lacking.
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I know the spreadsheet is your baby. I need to remember time zones when responding.
I¡¯m +7 or +8 hours from you, and a late riser on top of that.
I also do some of my better thinking on complex issues using spreadsheets. I prefer using Excel over Numbers. I tried using Numbers for a year, to avoid the cost of buying Office, but an employer bought me Office for a traveling job. I could not get used to Numbers and thought it was very lacking.
Brent
On my iPhone Xr
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On Nov 15, 2023, at 02:18, Otto Nikolaus via groups.io <otto.nikolaus@...> wrote:
?Brent,
I apologise as I often do the same. The good thing is that Tony¡¯s spreadsheet is OK now.
Otto
On 15 Nov 2023, at 08:09, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
Otto, I most often check email once a day. I read them in chronological order, not by thread, as others also do.
This time I went two whole days, so what?!?!
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On Nov 14, 2023, at 11:12 PM, Patti Robertson <pattiandken@...> wrote:
Yes! ?I dropped an apple device - an AirPod pro - in the grass in my yard - and find my helped me find it!
Unfortunately, my iPad is still resting against the wall on that overpass. The first Highway Patrol trooper recruited to pick it up called me promptly, but that was before I misunderstood the suggestion from FindMy that it had moved (which of course was just my misinterpretation of the report). I asked for help a second time about 16 hours ago. The device is still pleading to Apple¡¯s FindMy servers for help, but I¡¯ve not received a callback from Montana¡¯ finest. I¡¯ll try again¡
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Updating from an Intel to 14" M3 Pro MacBook Pro
On Nov 14, 2023, at 1:42 PM, Bev in TX <countryone77@...> wrote:
Have you tried looking at:
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I had not, but¡¯I¡¯ll do so. The computer arrives tomorrow, so some may recognize a welcome respite from my endless online ruminations?:
At first glance viewing the link you posted, my eyes were drawn to the bottom left of the table, where I read
Showing 1 to 10 of 9,135 apps
Fortunately, the resulting vision of a year of ¡°all nighters,¡± command-tabbing back and forth between ¡°System Reports's¡± list of installed apps, roaringapps¡¯s compatibility table, and Safari links to their publishers was but a momentary delusion. There¡¯s a ¡°search¡± input box in the upper right!
Thanks so much, Bev!
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?But I¡¯ll add that your respite will be brief. Apple¡¯s spell checker tells me that there is no ¡°s¡± adorned plural of rumination. I don¡¯t know at the moment whether my saintly English literature professor and prescriptive grammarian mom failed me, or whether the truth is that it¡¯s impossible to worry about more than one thing at once, and Herr Heisenberg is not immediately available to comment. For the moment, I¡¯m blaming my mom or the spell checker.
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Jim Robertson
Find My led me to my missing AirPods Pro that my cats had batted under the kitchen stove! I also use it frequently to track a traveling family member.
Pat
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On Nov 14, 2023, at 11:12 PM, Patti Robertson <pattiandken@...> wrote:
Yes! I dropped an apple device - an AirPod pro - in the grass in my yard - and find my helped me find it!
Patti
On Nov 14, 2023, at 4:56 PM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
?This morning, I ¡°parked¡± my iPad on the R front fender of my car while coercing our sweetheart English Lab into the back seat. She just LOVES to hold out for a bribe/treat, and this morning that was enough to activate my forgetfulness gene. It wasn¡¯t until we reached our destination, 15 miles away on the local 80 mph speed limit interstate highway, that the tablet surfaced into my conscious mind once again, and of course it was no longer ¡°resting¡± where I¡¯d left it. However, Find My reported that it was only about 2 miles prior to my destination that it had become dislodged, likely onto a freeway overpass (although FindMy identified it as being adjacent to the street that crossed under the highway).
Since we¡¯d driven on that overpass, and since FindMy gave me frequent updates to its constant apparent location, we returned to that location and saw it, wedged against the 3 ft tall wall at the edge of the overpass. Of course, with average vehicle speeds in excess of 80 mph, I did NOT dare trying to retrieve it.
Over the next 45 minutes, those updates continued, but then the reported location suddenly changed to a cluster of restaurants nestled a few hundred feet away from the overpass. The reports provided a very specific street address, at which two separate restaurants were located. I called them both, and neither reported a customer trying to leave a device at the business closest to where it had originally been reported. Curiously, however, after about 30 minutes, the device location reports returned to their original location, making me realize that they depended a LOT on the location of the identifying device. And, driving over that overpass once more revealed my iPad still resting where we¡¯d found it previously.
I¡¯ve been told that a highway patrol trooper will retrieve it, but that was now almost 4 hours ago. Being accelerated into a wall at 70 mph won¡¯t be kind to it, but hope springs eternal .
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Re: Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner recommendation
On Nov 15, 2023, at 5:29 AM, Bev in TX <countryone77@...> wrote:
There is a note about duplex scanning on that page. Thanks! I learn something new everyday. This MX922 has been the most amazing device. It was years before I found some of the somewhat hidden amazing features that it has. __________________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice __________________________________________________
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Re: Color, Inkjet, Wireless, Printer/scanner recommendation
On Nov 14, 2023, at 8:27?PM, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:
I have a Canon MX922 sitting right here. ?I¡¯ve never found a two sided scan feature.
From the online manual: | |
There is a note about duplex scanning on that page.
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Bev in TX
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Brent,
I apologise as I often do the same. The good thing is that Tony¡¯s spreadsheet is OK now.
Otto
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On 15 Nov 2023, at 08:09, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
Otto, I most often check email once a day. I read them in chronological order, not by thread, as others also do.
This time I went two whole days, so what?!?!
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Re: Good Email Service Providers?
That is possible, but I won¡¯t waste my time with someone with one-way email.?
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On Nov 12, 2023, at 17:19, Jim Showalter <jshowalt@...> wrote:
? Well, I sure get a lot of emails from lots of sources that never asked me if I was willing to receive it. Maybe the person you tried to send to had some sort of block on their account. On Nov 12, 2023, at 4:50 PM, Barbara Mende < barbara@...> wrote:
It was years ago, but if I sent an email to someone on Earthlink I was asked to go through another step to find out if that person was willing to accept emails from me. Otherwise I was blocked and the person never knew about it. If that doesn't happen any more, great.
On Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 05:56:49 PM EST, Jim Showalter < jshowalt@...> wrote:
I have no idea what you are talking about about blocking people who want to contact you. I ?have never experienced that. On Nov 12, 2023, at 2:22 PM, Barbara Mende < barbara@...> wrote:
Does it still block people who want to contact you? Fortunately everyone I know who was ever on Earthlink has left it. Has anything changed?
JMTC, Barbara
On Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 04:22:02 PM EST, Jim Showalter < jshowalt@...> wrote:
Earthlink has been our service for decades with minimal problems ever.?
This is a bit off topic. ?Does anyone have recommendations for good email service providers? ?For email clients, I use Apple Mail, while my husband accesses his via a browser most of the time. ?Every once in a while he has issues logging into his yahoo account, and their account verification process is not straightforward. ?For example, when I helped him this morning, it sent a verification code but it timed out before I could open the verification email ID, read the message, and go back to the other tab to enter it. ?He had gone through the same time out, but missed seeing the countdown. ?I wasn¡¯t very slow doing that either when it timed out on me. ?He is paying $5 a month now. ? I¡¯ve been using free email accounts, but I would be willing to pay for something more secure than Yahoo & Gmail. ?I considered doing this in the past, but the thought of changing all online accounts to the new address was daunting.
i looked at a couple ¡°best email providers in 2023¡± articles but lately I¡¯ve gotten the impression that such articles are just ADs. ?One article¡¯s top suggestion was Proton Mail. ?I see that¡¯s based in Switzerland so I¡¯m wondering about how good that service would be here in the USA. ?I¡¯d?appreciate any recommendations. ?It would help if they provide good support. Thanks
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Bev in TX
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I rcently replied to someone using Earthlink, and got back that i basically had to get white listed first for my email to go thru.?
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On Nov 12, 2023, at 14:56, Jim Showalter <jshowalt@...> wrote:
? I have no idea what you are talking about about blocking people who want to contact you. I ?have never experienced that. On Nov 12, 2023, at 2:22 PM, Barbara Mende < barbara@...> wrote:
Does it still block people who want to contact you? Fortunately everyone I know who was ever on Earthlink has left it. Has anything changed?
JMTC, Barbara
On Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 04:22:02 PM EST, Jim Showalter < jshowalt@...> wrote:
Earthlink has been our service for decades with minimal problems ever.?
This is a bit off topic. ?Does anyone have recommendations for good email service providers? ?For email clients, I use Apple Mail, while my husband accesses his via a browser most of the time. ?Every once in a while he has issues logging into his yahoo account, and their account verification process is not straightforward. ?For example, when I helped him this morning, it sent a verification code but it timed out before I could open the verification email ID, read the message, and go back to the other tab to enter it. ?He had gone through the same time out, but missed seeing the countdown. ?I wasn¡¯t very slow doing that either when it timed out on me. ?He is paying $5 a month now. ? I¡¯ve been using free email accounts, but I would be willing to pay for something more secure than Yahoo & Gmail. ?I considered doing this in the past, but the thought of changing all online accounts to the new address was daunting.
i looked at a couple ¡°best email providers in 2023¡± articles but lately I¡¯ve gotten the impression that such articles are just ADs. ?One article¡¯s top suggestion was Proton Mail. ?I see that¡¯s based in Switzerland so I¡¯m wondering about how good that service would be here in the USA. ?I¡¯d?appreciate any recommendations. ?It would help if they provide good support. Thanks
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Bev in TX
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Otto, I most often check email once a day. I read them in chronological order, not by thread, as others also do.
This time I went two whole days, so what?!?!
Brent
On my iPhone Xr
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On Nov 12, 2023, at 11:59, Otto Nikolaus via groups.io <otto.nikolaus@...> wrote:
?Brent,
Tony¡¯s spreadsheet is fine now. You might want to catch up with the thread. ;-)
Otto
On 12 Nov 2023, at 18:56, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
Tony, that is about as simple a spreadsheet using a formula as can be.
Only cells in column G or Balance should have a formula in them. With the exception of the first entry in the balance cell. You have to carry that one forward and enter it manually.
The rest of the cells should be manual entries.
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Lucky you didn¡¯t mow the grass then¡¡
cjc
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On 15 Nov 2023, at 5:12 pm, Patti Robertson <pattiandken@...> wrote:
Yes! I dropped an apple device - an AirPod pro - in the grass in my yard - and find my helped me find it!
Patti
On Nov 14, 2023, at 4:56 PM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
?This morning, I ¡°parked¡± my iPad on the R front fender of my car while coercing our sweetheart English Lab into the back seat. She just LOVES to hold out for a bribe/treat, and this morning that was enough to activate my forgetfulness gene. It wasn¡¯t until we reached our destination, 15 miles away on the local 80 mph speed limit interstate highway, that the tablet surfaced into my conscious mind once again, and of course it was no longer ¡°resting¡± where I¡¯d left it. However, Find My reported that it was only about 2 miles prior to my destination that it had become dislodged, likely onto a freeway overpass (although FindMy identified it as being adjacent to the street that crossed under the highway).
Since we¡¯d driven on that overpass, and since FindMy gave me frequent updates to its constant apparent location, we returned to that location and saw it, wedged against the 3 ft tall wall at the edge of the overpass. Of course, with average vehicle speeds in excess of 80 mph, I did NOT dare trying to retrieve it.
Over the next 45 minutes, those updates continued, but then the reported location suddenly changed to a cluster of restaurants nestled a few hundred feet away from the overpass. The reports provided a very specific street address, at which two separate restaurants were located. I called them both, and neither reported a customer trying to leave a device at the business closest to where it had originally been reported. Curiously, however, after about 30 minutes, the device location reports returned to their original location, making me realize that they depended a LOT on the location of the identifying device. And, driving over that overpass once more revealed my iPad still resting where we¡¯d found it previously.
I¡¯ve been told that a highway patrol trooper will retrieve it, but that was now almost 4 hours ago. Being accelerated into a wall at 70 mph won¡¯t be kind to it, but hope springs eternal .
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Yes! I dropped an apple device - an AirPod pro - in the grass in my yard - and find my helped me find it!
Patti
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On Nov 14, 2023, at 4:56 PM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
?This morning, I ¡°parked¡± my iPad on the R front fender of my car while coercing our sweetheart English Lab into the back seat. She just LOVES to hold out for a bribe/treat, and this morning that was enough to activate my forgetfulness gene. It wasn¡¯t until we reached our destination, 15 miles away on the local 80 mph speed limit interstate highway, that the tablet surfaced into my conscious mind once again, and of course it was no longer ¡°resting¡± where I¡¯d left it. However, Find My reported that it was only about 2 miles prior to my destination that it had become dislodged, likely onto a freeway overpass (although FindMy identified it as being adjacent to the street that crossed under the highway).
Since we¡¯d driven on that overpass, and since FindMy gave me frequent updates to its constant apparent location, we returned to that location and saw it, wedged against the 3 ft tall wall at the edge of the overpass. Of course, with average vehicle speeds in excess of 80 mph, I did NOT dare trying to retrieve it.
Over the next 45 minutes, those updates continued, but then the reported location suddenly changed to a cluster of restaurants nestled a few hundred feet away from the overpass. The reports provided a very specific street address, at which two separate restaurants were located. I called them both, and neither reported a customer trying to leave a device at the business closest to where it had originally been reported. Curiously, however, after about 30 minutes, the device location reports returned to their original location, making me realize that they depended a LOT on the location of the identifying device. And, driving over that overpass once more revealed my iPad still resting where we¡¯d found it previously.
I¡¯ve been told that a highway patrol trooper will retrieve it, but that was now almost 4 hours ago. Being accelerated into a wall at 70 mph won¡¯t be kind to it, but hope springs eternal .
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Brent
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