Re: Christmas Question #2 (Very late)
Jim - ?I know it’s past Christmas but here are a couple things re backward/mirrored ?text/font on Mac. ?This is what I found online a few minutes ago but I also found a place ON one of my Mac's apps - but now I’ve lost track of that, too. ?There’s some program (“Mail?”) which will do it but … ????). ?
So I also accidentally found a website because I was trying to find it again on my MacBook Air - Sonoma 14.6.1. ? They’ve got a “flip” and a “mirrored” here - ?just go down the left-hand menu. ?
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I don’t know what else you can do with it?
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Becky?
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On Dec 26, 2024, at 10:01?AM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
On Dec 26, 2024, at 7:52?AM, Bev in TX via groups.io <countryone77@...> wrote:
Can it be in an email attachment? ?If so, you can easily create it in a word processor. ?If your friend doesn’t have the same word processor, then export it to a portable format.
Thanks so much. That should do it. Everyone in my stepson’s family has a Mac save for for his gaming wizard son, whose mantra is that if you cannot strip it down to bare metal and build a brand new but different gaming box from the case up, it’s just a toy. HE's now facing a dilemma as a graphic design major freshman college student that some courses DEMAND he use a Mac. But everyone else in the family prefers Macs.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: USB-C power connector
On Jan 3, 2025, at 9:50 AM, Jim Saklad via < jimdoc@...> wrote:
Jim Showalter wrote: My MacBook does not have a MagSafe connector, or I would have ?been using it. Only 2 thunderbolt ports, one of which seems to be defunct. Several years of Macbook Airs and 13” Macbook Bros had no MagSafe and only 2 Thunderbolt ports. Did you get Applecare?? If so, is it still in effect?
I bought it refurbished at Other World Computing with a 2 year warranty which expired in November last year.
Been considering getting a Macbook Air anyway. Must be time.
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Re: USB-C power connector
Jim Showalter wrote: My MacBook does not have a MagSafe connector, or I would have ?been using it. Only 2 thunderbolt ports, one of which seems to be defunct. Several years of Macbook Airs and 13” Macbook Bros had no MagSafe and only 2 Thunderbolt ports. Did you get Applecare?? If so, is it still in effect?
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Re: USB-C power connector
My MacBook does not have a MagSafe connector, or I would have ?been using it. Only 2 thunderbolt ports, one of which seems to be defunct.
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On Jan 2, 2025, at 5:30 PM, Jim McGarvie via < jim@...> wrote:
I haven’t had that problem, but then I usually use the Mag-safe connector. On Jan 2, 2025, at 12:22, Jim Showalter via <jshowalt@...> wrote:
The USB-C power connector on the MacBook Pro really sucks. It doesn’t stay snug to provide power consistently. Has anyone found a way to keep it firmly attached?
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Re: USB-C power connector
After wiggling the cable to see what might be loose, one thunderbolt port has completely stopped working. Guess that port was the problem. The other seems ok.
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Is the plug (male connector) loose in the port or the port loose in the chassis? Otto On 2 Jan 2025, at 19:22, Jim Showalter via <jshowalt@...> wrote:
The USB-C power connector on the MacBook Pro really sucks. It doesn’t stay snug to provide power consistently. Has anyone found a way to keep it firmly attached?
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Hi:I have a lot of photos and would like to delete some off my phone without losing them on my Mac. Everything is in the Cloud. When I have tried to delete something, it is deleted off everything. Thanks. Carol
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Re: USB-C power connector
I haven’t had that problem, but then I usually use the Mag-safe connector.
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On Jan 2, 2025, at 12:22, Jim Showalter via groups.io <jshowalt@...> wrote:
The USB-C power connector on the MacBook Pro really sucks. It doesn’t stay snug to provide power consistently. Has anyone found a way to keep it firmly attached?
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Re: USB-C power connector
Is the plug (male connector) loose in the port or the port loose in the chassis?
Otto
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On 2 Jan 2025, at 19:22, Jim Showalter via groups.io <jshowalt@...> wrote:
The USB-C power connector on the MacBook Pro really sucks. It doesn’t stay snug to provide power consistently. Has anyone found a way to keep it firmly attached?
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Re: USB-C power connector
If it is under warranty, take it in. If it is out of warranty, sounds like a user issue.?
I am currently going thru a deceased friends electronics to reset them to factory default, and many of his connectors are loose and there are several damaged cables. These are newer than my hardware which doesn’t have any loose connectors.?
Brent ?
On my Mac mini running 10.15.7?
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On Jan 2, 2025, at 11:22 AM, Jim Showalter via < jshowalt@...> wrote:
The USB-C power connector on the MacBook Pro really sucks. It doesn’t stay snug to provide power consistently. Has anyone found a way to keep it firmly attached?
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The USB-C power connector on the MacBook Pro really sucks. It doesn’t stay snug to provide power consistently. Has anyone found a way to keep it firmly attached?
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Re: iPadOS 18 Control Panel’s Sound Control Icon
On Dec 31, 2024, at 10:18?AM, Bev in TX via groups.io <countryone77@...> wrote:
Yesterday I noticed that even though audio is being routed to my HAs, the icon displayed on the Sound control is a headphone, not the ear as I expected.
I listen to my MacBook Pro frequently through my BT enabled hearing aids (they’re not over-the-ear acoustic wonders, but even gargantuan things like Mahler symphonies sound better than not listening—and of course, after 2 trips to the local Cinema to see A Complete Unknown, my end-of-eighth decade ears are being treated to a reverie of growing of age memories from the 1960s).
But, on topic: I’ve NEVER seen an “ear” icon in the menubar, and my iPhone also shows an image of over the ear headphones.
FWIW.
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Jim Robertson
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iPadOS 18 Control Panel’s Sound Control Icon
I wear HAs (Hearing Aids) that I connect to my iPad. ?In the past, I was always able to readily see that they were connected by looking at Control Panel’s Sound control, where:
? ? ?speaker = iPad’s speaker
? ? ?headphone = headphones?
? ? ?ear = hearing aids
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Yesterday I noticed that even though audio is being routed to my HAs, the icon displayed on the Sound control is a headphone, not the ear as I expected.
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I’m wondering whether anyone else has noticed this? ?I’m running iPadOS 18.2.
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As an aside, I’m also having more HAs connectivity issues. ?I used to very infrequently encounter such problems.
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Bev in TX
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Both actually, but more the second.
One can format a rotating disk drive with APFS, it does not have to be HFS+.
99% of all website programmers program for windows, not accepted standards. Because it is easier for them.
cjc
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On 30 Dec 2024, at 10:06?am, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
On Dec 29, 2024, at 2:41?PM, Christopher Collins via groups.io <maclist@...> wrote:
What a foolish thing to assume.
Were you referring to my misunderstanding regarding SSDs vs. rotating platter drives, or to the likelihood that a major website platform hires skilled programmers?
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Jim Robertson
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On Dec 29, 2024, at 2:41?PM, Christopher Collins via groups.io <maclist@...> wrote:
What a foolish thing to assume.
Were you referring to my misunderstanding regarding SSDs vs. rotating platter drives, or to the likelihood that a major website platform hires skilled programmers?
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Jim Robertson
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What a foolish thing to assume.
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On 30 Dec 2024, at 4:43?am, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
On Dec 29, 2024, at 9:35?AM, Randy B. Singer via groups.io <randy@...> wrote:
Yes. ?Why do you suppose that it wouldn’t it be possible?
Because I simply didn’t know (that current versions of macOS could run on a rotating platter drive and/or one formatted HFS).
One theory that I’ve just now discarded is that the problem is just sloppy html wrangling by an amateur site designer or coder, because after watching the magnificent?A Complete Unknown last night I’ve buried myself in interviews and reviews about the film and Dylan himself (because the same Bob Dylan who ?refused to go to Stockholm to collect his Nobel Prize sat with the movie's director for 18 hours discussing it while it was in preparation and production), and one of the things that's turned my Mac into a sea anchor this morning is the ?website. I’m pretty sure ITS owners have sufficient resources to make certain they employ skilled developers and programmers…
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Jim Robertson
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On Dec 29, 2024, at 9:35?AM, Randy B. Singer via groups.io <randy@...> wrote:
Yes. ?Why do you suppose that it wouldn’t it be possible?
Because I simply didn’t know (that current versions of macOS could run on a rotating platter drive and/or one formatted HFS).
One theory that I’ve just now discarded is that the problem is just sloppy html wrangling by an amateur site designer or coder, because after watching the magnificent?A Complete Unknown last night I’ve buried myself in interviews and reviews about the film and Dylan himself (because the same Bob Dylan who ?refused to go to Stockholm to collect his Nobel Prize sat with the movie's director for 18 hours discussing it while it was in preparation and production), and one of the things that's turned my Mac into a sea anchor this morning is the ?website. I’m pretty sure ITS owners have sufficient resources to make certain they employ skilled developers and programmers…
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Jim Robertson
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On Dec 29, 2024, at 6:23 AM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
Is it even possible to DO that (boot from a rotating platter external drive) in Sonoma on an M3 MacBook Pro? Yes. Why do you suppose that it wouldn’t it be possible? __________________________________________________ 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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On Dec 29, 2024, at 01:20, Randy B. Singer via groups.io <randy@...> wrote:
Especially if you are booted from a rotating disk hard drive. Is it even possible to DO that (boot from a rotating platter external drive) in Sonoma on an M3 MacBook Pro?
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On Dec 28, 2024, at 10:09?PM, Christopher Collins via < maclist@...> wrote:
Try a different browser with the same sites & see what the result is.
It may well be a problem with how the site itself is written.
Thanks for your suggestions, Chris. I think that what I’ve done on my spouse’s new Mac Air (sporting slightly earlier versions of macOS Sonoma and Safari coming out of its shipping box), with the same site NOT causing these problems offers clues that it’s not JUST the site’s coding that’s causing the issue.
You say “JUST the site’s coding” but isn’t it the job of any browser to deal with any such issues as part of what it routinely does?
Otto
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On 16 Dec 2024, at 19:22, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
Thank you Jim Robertson for including a link to this article.
This is unrelated to the OP’s issue, but did me resolve one I had, an shows the similarities between the current macOSes and iOSes.
I recently posted about getting a message that I needed more Storage (I got it correct this time) to install iOS 18 on my iPhone.
While skimming the article, I looked in Settings> General> iPhone Storage and noticed Apple usd the same graphic format as the article showed used in more current macOSes. So I dug around and deleted a few unused Apps, then checked to see if iOS 18 was agreeable to being installed. It was.
My issue was resolved. Thanks , Jim.
And it showed me why there was so much vocal resistance to change with iOS 18. There are many changes in this version. Yes! I don’t recall any iOS version having so many changes compared with the previous version, as 18. Otto
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Becky Lindroos
Jim Saklad
Brent