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Community / Just a short time to go…

« on: December 24, 2022, 02:48:17 PM »

 Here in the UK we are less than than three hours from midnight, so a good moment to send Best Christmas Wishes around the  world. Have a good one with your loved ones 

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Community / Frances is hit by fearsome weather

« on: December 13, 2022, 08:50:51 AM »

Shetland has been hit hard by snow, so Frances is likely to be a victim. I have not tried to contact her as I'm sure she has enough to do. Main problem is snow has frozen on to overhead power cables and brought many down. Energy bosses said this morning there were 3,800 without power on the islands.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-63954211

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Tech / Affinity launches V2 with 40 per cent discount on all apps

« on: November 14, 2022, 10:55:39 AM »

I can only offer the UK link... but our offer on UK site is 89.99 GBP; however since our wonderfully short-lived PM "improved" our lives the GBP is only a few pence different from the US dollar.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/

The discount tells only that the discount will be "time-limited". 30-day trial available.

For your money you get all three apps - Designer 2, Photo 2 and Publisher 2 - for MacOS and Windows.

Purchase the Universal License for access to all apps on all platforms, or buy individual licenses of the apps—it’s completely up to you.

I'm very tempted, but I need to find a convincing reason...   

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Tech / Rogue Amoeba celebrates 20 years with a gift

« on: September 23, 2022, 11:36:33 AM »

If you want to buy any of their software, including the fantastic Audio Hijack, before September 30, you can get a 20pc discount:

As part of our celebration of 20 years in business, we’re running a very limited-time sale. For our anniversary, we wanted to provide a simple discount to help even more users with our products. With that in mind, we’ve taken 20% off the price of every product we have for sale, through September 30.
 
You don’t need a coupon code for this sale, because all prices on our store have been marked down. Simply purchase before the end of September to get the reduced price.

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Community / MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL

« on: December 24, 2021, 04:21:00 PM »

In the UK we are just 1hr 40mins from the big day, so we wish all our Techsurvivors all the best for the season.


May Santa bring all the treats you deserve.


Keep happy, keep healthy 

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Tech / Copy iTunes music from Mac to iPad…

« on: December 19, 2021, 11:53:26 AM »

Not purchases from Apple, but material recorded from radio and CD. Preferably without extra software but if it’s necessary would appreciate recommendations    t

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Community / There are two types of countries...

« on: December 04, 2021, 05:43:38 AM »

Jim's sign-off...

THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF COUNTRIES
Those that use metric = #1 Measurement system
And the United States = The Banana system

There is a third. It's known as the UK, where we still use a mix -  we buy fuel in litres but always talk about our vehicles giving miles per gallon (MPG) and speeds in miles per hour.
Most groceries are sold in metric, but we still use "stones" (1stone = 14lb) when weighing ourselves; we still use miles for distance, though the Beeb is trying to convert us to km. Our satnav gives us distances under a mile in feet or yards (3ft) - "in 500 feet, turn left".

To add to the confusion, gallon in the US is different from ours - 3.79 litres US against 4.54 in UK. We used to use 3.79 but it was changed after 1776 and nobody bothered to tell the US 

Medics still give a new baby's weight in pounds and ounces for mothers, but log it officially in grammes.

Our currency went decimal in 1971, taking the place of the old £sd - 20 shillings in the pound and 12 pennies in the shilling. Decimal currency started with pounds, pence, plus a half-penny so we had a coin closer in value to the old (240) penny. The 'ha'penny' was abandoned years ago.

BBC report from 1966:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/1/newsid_2513000/2513943.stm

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Tech / Converting audio file from iPhone 8+

« on: November 01, 2021, 01:20:56 PM »

Audio file was created using Notes on iPhone. We saved it down and forwarded it by email to the MBP. It appeared on Mail as a small grey file which plays, but there is no way - apparently - to move it or drag it onto an app (Sound Studio) to edit it.


This was the first time we'd tried this exercise, so we were blundering in the dark; advice would be very much appreciated. 

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Tech / Recovering deleted history in Firefox

« on: September 18, 2021, 06:03:30 AM »

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014);
Mac OS High Sierra  10.13.6;
Firefox 91.0.1

We have a problem with SWMBO's MBP. Somehow the history in Firefox has vanished (possibly deleted accidentally...). I've plenty of Time Capsule backups, so it should be possible to reinstate (shouldn't it?). My problem is tracking down the history in TC - I've made simple recoveries in the past, but don't know where to start with this one! 

So we would both be ever so, ever so grateful if someone can point me in the right direction... 

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Community / We need more eccentrics (inspired by Jim's Trolls thread)

« on: June 16, 2021, 11:41:52 AM »

Perhaps not quite in the same class, but it reminded me of the American in Oxford who had a 25ft shark sticking out of the roof of his home, a modest terraced house. After a very long battle with the city council, he won his battle to keep the sculpture. The story is told in detail on Wikipedia and, speaking of eccentricity, it is available in Latin.


The shark was commissioned by Bill Heine, who had studied law at Oxford, and made by sculptor John Buckley.


Bill was not averse to rattle politicians. He ran a small cinema called the Moulin Rouge and had a huge pair of can-can legs on top of the building. Council said it was an advert that did not have permission and ordered it to be removed. He got over that by changing the cinema's name to Not The Moulin Rouge, so the legs were not advertising anything. He won that one too.


I got to meet him when I was selling a rather rusty old Mini that seemed to suit him. In his column in a local paper, he remarked that I seemed over-keen to point out the car's failings. He bought it anyway. 


Don't you just love the occasional rebel? 


For anyone who wants to get a detailed report of the legal shenanigans, this is page in the local history magazine

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Tech / Warning to Chrome users

« on: February 09, 2021, 11:02:44 AM »

From another forum: If you use the Chrome web browser, engadget is warning that a security flaw in Chrome is being "actively exploited" and that if auto update is not on, you should update now.

Link to article

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Tech / Apple downloads

« on: February 08, 2021, 06:17:44 AM »

Probably something everyone else but me has known for ages....   You can download earlier versions of Apple software - including iTunes - from Apple: https://support.apple.com/downloads/

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Community / A White Christmas

« on: December 25, 2020, 06:36:55 AM »

Well, in a few bits of the UK, but the weather people have declared officially that the UK is having a White Christmas - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55445380


No show in our neck of the woods, but we had frost on the roof tiles. Don't think that counts, though.


Hope everyone is happy and safe with their weather, even if it's not white 

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Tech / Is your Mac s-o-o-o slow? Do you have Chrome installed?

« on: December 16, 2020, 12:14:38 PM »

You may find these links interesting... and even useful

See this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMtr-u0v8bk

And: https://chromeisbad.com

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Tech / My System drive is almost full...

« on: November 14, 2020, 11:39:23 AM »

MacMini 2018, OS Mojave 10.14.6

Following on from Sooz's thread, I checked my MacMini's drive after being warned it was nearly full. It has a 250GB drive and when I checked storage it told me it contained 8.04GB for Apps; 201.96GB for System; "Other Volumes in Container" 2.84GB, leaving 28GB available. All videos, photos and documents are on external drives.


So what is clogging up the system?




Only other thing I can think of is Mail attachments, but those are generally small things like PDFs and cartoons, photos, etc.