Bought Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 - now I can't use it!

Hi,

I bought Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 on a DVD.
Installed it fine

Then Adobe wanted me to register an account - not too happy about that, but OK, I did that.
Then I'm ready to use it to edit an image, so I try to open the image with Elements 15, but no, I'm not done yet.
Adobe brings up a message that by default all my activity is going to be transmitted on line to Adobe - supposedly so they can improve their product and provide better support.

One is supposed to be able to opt out of that default but the opt out link doesn't do anything - it just merrily goes ahead and asks for ones birthday.

Well, complete name and birthday are the first steps to identity theft, so I'm mad already with the hoops I have to jump through to get the software I just bought to work, I decide to type in the default dates that come up - 1 January 2017.

Well, guess what - I get looked out completely because I'm too young to use it.
Yeah right - I'm two month old sitting at my keyboard trying to use the software.

So I try to call Adobe in Ottawa - google says they are open until 8pm, but no, their message system says they close at 4:30pm (I called at about 4:45pm).

So now I have to wait until tomorrow to get this resolved unless someone has a great idea how to reset the date I put in.

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President Trump - Tips Mexican Bus Boy $100 - Media silent

Inside Trump's Secret Dinner: A Side of the President You Don't Ever See

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Why has the search function always sucked so bad on ehMac?

I was just trying to look up a thread called Pet Corner. Simple right? Nope not on ehMac, I got a whole bunch of garbage. It has always been this way.

EhMac should get out of the stoneage when it comes to their search function. It would take a first year undergrad in computer science probably all of about 30 - 60 minutes to make it work properly. Of course I could be exaggerating, but it has been dysfunctional ever since I was here starting in 2007.

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Excel Character Headaches

Hi,

I wonder if anyone has a solution for me.....

I have a very long list of items in text edit in rtf format.

Copied that into an Excel spreadsheet using the paste text option

All looks great (I have done that many times before) but now I noticed that the single quotation mark ( ' ), whatever that is called, shows up as Õ in the Excel spreadsheet.

So I tried to use the replace function in Excel, but no matter what I do, Excel doesn't recognize the Õ character.

I tried typing it, it;s a capital O with a tilde.
I also copied and pasted the character and Excel still won;t recognize it as a character I want to replace.

Short of replacing the Õ manually with ' which would take hours, any suggestions what else I could try?

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2015 MacBook Pro explosion....

My 2015 MacBook Pro Retina exploded.

One afternoon as I was lying on my bed browsing the internet, my MacBook Pro suddenly turned off. I turned it back on and within a few seconds there was weird hissing sound, followed by white smoke and thin flames coming out of from the back.

I got up and ran with the laptop for the bathroom where I could put it on the ceramic tiles. Not more than ten seconds had passed and already the heat from the bottom of the laptop burnt my middle and ring fingers so badly I had to let it drop.

Just in time.

There was a bang as I backed away causing the back to pop and smoke kept pouring out. It kept sizzling for a few minutes and then finally it stopped.

(Medium)

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For Sale apple bluetooth keyboard and mouse

Selling an apple bluetooth keyboard and mouse. These are the latest, and are rechargable. $220 shipped in Canada

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Another Barn Find.. - 40 years later

Apparently someone forgot their jeep wagoner in a barn on a beach for 40 years LOL
I am thinking Barrett Jackson is gonna pass on this beauty. lol
i guess i will never understand how a barn is on a beach and second how someone forgets they have a jeep in a barn on the beach for 40 years LOL
Maybe they will get lucky and find an unopened Snickers bar in the glove box and it would take 2 hands to barely hold it up compared to the tiny bars today.

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RIP Bill Paxton

wow, Bill Paxton dies at 61..
he really wasnt known for his acting skills but yes i have seen him a few flicks..

Actor Bill Paxton dies at age 61 - CityNews

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Battery Recommendations

Looking for a replacement battery for my mid 2009 macbook pro. Tried newer tech, waste of money. Anybody have any good replacement recommendations?

Many thanks,

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If You Love Dogs . . .

You've got to watch this. Hell, even if you like dogs.

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Worldwide Smartphone Sales: Apple Continues To Lose Market Share

How long can Apple survive with such expensive phones? Cheaper phones are taking over the market and I think it is all about price.

Worldwide Smartphone Sales: Apple Continues to Lose Market Share

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Updating OS 10.6

It looks like I'm going to have to do this finally. Ironically because one of the things I can't update is Flashplayer, which sadly I still seem to need. (IciMusique requires it and I require IciMusique). Radio is the principal use of the MB now. Plus my grandson needs to use it for his school courses.
Also, I have to update Safari, it seems, and no updates are available anymore. Too bad really.
Incidentally, I'd like to keep GarageBand 4.1.2. It accommodates a 3mm stereo input jack, function Apple decided to get rid of to save money no doubt. Saved them a couple of bucks and cost me $160 for an interface to use with GB 10.1.3.
The question is which OS I should upgrade to to get max functionality and have it still work on this MB, which is indestructible and good.
MacBook 10.6. 4GB RAM, 256 GB hd. I could upgrade to 8GB RAM if I had to.
Thanks.

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FileFinder replacement

Anybody found such a thing? And with new OS's is it even necessary?
I'm trying to find the remains of a 15MB download of scanner drivers and can't, either in Finder of Spotlight.

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ModBook Pro X

Never actually knew this OSX tablet existed. Anyone here ever use one and have any comments?

Modbook Pro [Mac OS X]

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Anyone running a 2008 iMac?

Hi all, is anyone out there running a 2008 iMac? I'm currently using Lion 10.7.5 after an SSD install and was wondering if I should upgrade the OS. My concern is a slowdown in speed with a newer OS. Will Mountain Lion slow my system down? Can I (should I) go even higher? Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks a lot,

Joe

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Nuclear incident?

Has There Been A "Nuclear Incident" In The Arctic?

There have been rumblings regarding some sort of nuclear incident—or possibly incidents—in the Arctic over the last month. Multiple reports, some of them from official monitoring organizations, have reported iodine 131—a radioactive isotope often associated with nuclear fission—has been detected via air sampling stations throughout the region.

The first detection of the isotope came during the second week of January, via an air sampling station located in Svanhovd, on Norway’s border with Russia’s Kola Peninsula. Within days, air sampling stations as far south as Spain also detected the presence of small amounts of the isotope. The fact that iodine-131 has a half-life of just eight days would point to the release occurring just days earlier, and not being a remnant of a past nuclear event.

* * *

After weeks without answers, the story seemed to pass as a peculiarity, not nearly an unprecedented one at that, until Friday when the US dispatched its WC-135 Constant Phoenix atmospheric testing aircraft to Europe without explanation. The highly unique aircraft are specifically designed to respond to nuclear incidents....

(Read more at TheDrive)

PS: Here's a running thread on Reddit

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For Sale iphone 7 128 gig in box, warranty

I have an unused iPhone 7 128 in box with warranty. Unlocked. $900 shipped in Canada. Paypal or EMT, local pick up welcome as well.

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For Sale iphone 6s 16 gig

I have a telus iphone 6s 16 gig with 8 months warranty left. comes with original box and all accessories. $450 shipped in Canada

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R.I.P. Al Jarreau

Jazz, R&B, and Pop Singer Al Jarreau Dies at 76

Vocalist Al Jarreau, who won seven Grammys for his R&B, jazz, and pop music, died in a Los Angeles hospital on Sunday morning at the age of 76.

Joe Gordon, Jarreau’s manager, told the New York Times that Jarreau had been hospitalized two weeks earlier for exhaustion, forcing him to cancel upcoming tour dates only three days ago. Last year, Jarreau performed 50 concerts, including one at the White House.

(More at: Jezebel)

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For Sale iphone 7 128 gig

iphone 7 128 gig with rogers. Clean imei, no iCloud lock. Still has warranty until Sept 2017. Phone has some superficial scratches on back, but none on front. $950 shipped in Canada.

No headphones, or accessories / box

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iPhones: tranferring messages and texts

Hello

"Updating" from one iphone 4s to another iphone 4s.

If i first backup old iphone to a mac via iTunes, wipe new iphone, and restore from mac to new iphone, will old iMessage, phone text messages, contacts, calendar, photos, apps etc transfer to the new phone?

Do I need to set up anything on the new iphone? Is this like "cloning" a hard drive?

Thanks.

(Using iOS 9, latest iTunes, Mavericks. Both iphones 32GB.)

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HELP! iPad screeching

Hi, a friend's iPad (I think it's iPad Air 2) began to screech instead of play audio.

Google coughed up complaints but any "solutions" were dated years ago. Anyone have experience with this issue? She thinks it's off warranty, and rather than pay to have it repaired, she has announced that she will just turn off the sound.

Her whole world is in that iPad. Please give me a place to start. Thanks

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McDs reinvents the straw and I am excited.

McDs reinvents the straw !
OMG!!! i cant wait !! seriously i can't
[If they really copied Ive and Apple the straw would not be included, ship 3 months late and cost $100.]

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Want to unlock an iphone 4s

Looking for the cheapest, but guaranteed reeliable place, to unlock an iphone 4s that is currently locked to Telus.

Any suggestions?

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RIP Stuart Mclean

Stuart McLean dead at 68 - Entertainment - CBC News

What a loss. He was a great Canadian. He was loved and people loved him. Heard him live a couple of times in St. John's. :-(

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DCIM file

I have a Sony Cyber shot camera and when I connect to my imac and when I click the untitled icon I get a DCIM file listing the just taken photos plus a sub-file showing some previous photos. However, the previous photos are from a year ago and not even recent ones. I know I deleted these photos from my camera so why are these particular photos showing up in the DCIM sub-file? Anyway to prevent this? I know I can delete these photos in the sub-file without effecting them in iphoto but I still would like to know what gives.

Thanks in advance.

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E-Mail Not Working

I have 2 Rogers e-mail accounts, that I'm unable to access on my Mac.
On my iPhone & iPad I can access these accounts.

I have gone into my keychain to see the passwords & still get the error msg. unable to verify account name or password.

My OS is 10.12.3
Mail is 10.2 (3259)

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Wanted To Buy iPhone 5, 5C or 5S on Rogers

Looking for an iPhone 5, 5C or 5S on Rogers to replace one that just died.

Don't want to spend more than $150+shipping to Haliburton. I'm not in close proximity to any major center so will have to rely on your good word to ship me what we agree on.

Thanks.

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Blackmagic disk speed test

Does anyone use Blackmagic disk speed test for their iMac? I downloaded it last week from the app store and can't get it to boot. I know it says it requires a 64 bit processor (which mine has according to the Terminal). I have a 2008 24" iMac running Lion 10.7.5.

Any suggestions?

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Oroville Dam Failure Imminent?

Wow double the people evacuated than the McMurray fire.

188,000 under evacuation orders near Oroville Dam in Northern California | abc7.com

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Wanted To Buy 2010 Mac Mini Motherboard

Looking to buy a good working 2010 Mac mini 2.4ghz motherboard.

one of my ram slot has failed and looking to replace the motherboard. let me know what you have and how much and will go from there.

Thank you :clap:

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iPad update coming in March?

Hi all, anyone know if there will be an iPad update coming soon? My wife and I are looking to update from an iPad2 (mine) and an iPad mini (hers). I want a faster iPad and she wants a bigger screen. I was thinking of an iPad Air2 for her and and iPad pro 9.7 or maybe a 12" for me.

Any comments on the rumour or suggestions on the update would be welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Joe

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Noobie here saying hi

Hi all, I've been an iMac user/owner since 2008 and a user for many years before that (in education). Currently, I'm upgrading my 24" iMac to a 500 gb SSD (Samsung 850). I also use my ipad 2 daily for news, browsing and entertainment. I'm considering upgrading my ipad to either an air 2 or a 9.7" pro. Any words of wisdom from the population here would be greatly appreciated.

Glad to have joined the site and look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Joe

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For Sale Older original Apple hardware

Original Apple Graphite AirPort Base Station, M7601LL/B
Remains in great condition complete with box and original contents, documentation, etc.
$10

Original Apple Mac Graphite USB keyboard (M2452) + mouse (M4848) set.
Both remain in great condition. Includes snap-on Macsense iCatch to improve mouse comfort.
$10


Apple iBook G3/500/128/10G/DVD, M7692LL/A
LCD is not operational. Fully functional with an external monitor/display.
Includes composite video out, VGA adapter, power adapter/supply, original box.
$25

Please feel free to contact with any questions, or to arrange a local GTA pick-up. Thanks for stopping by

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A Vile, Obscene, Sickening And Repulsive Failure Of Canadian Justice

Once again, I am sickened to my fundament. Murderer and cannibal Vincent Li has been released into Canadian society with no restrictions and no further monitoring. You may remember this monster as the one who murdered young Tim McLean, decapitated him and ate parts of his body on a Greyhound bus near Portage La Prairie, Manitoba.

What possesses these boards (in this case the Manitoba Criminal Code Review Board) to release sick, twisted, dangerous criminals back into society? Every Canadian man, woman and child is now at significant risk of attack from this unsupervised ghoul.

God damm these boards, infested as they are with liberal and socialist bleeding hearts who can’t bear to see animals put away for the good of everyone.

I cannot even imagine how the family of the victim must feel, abandoned as they are, of Canadian justice.

Man who beheaded Greyhound bus passenger granted full discharge | Globalnews.ca

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Vector files on MS Word?

As a graphic designer, I created a branding program for a non-profit animal sanctuary in a small community that has a major expansion program underway. Their volunteer board member is doing some of their graphics following the Identity Standards I set up. BUT that person only uses her own PC based MS Word and Publisher. She cannot use Mac Illustrator CS6 .AI vector files (logo, animal vector graphics, etc). She asked if I can convert them to files usable in MS docs. They cannot afford right now to buy a Mac OS and buy Adobe Creative Cloud. Which I don't even want to use!

I can convert the graphics to JPEGs, BUT...
they will be only in RGB colour mode. Problem to prepare an ad for print.
Enlarging will be a problem. If they want to do large sign graphics.
The logo will have a white box around it when placed on a background colour. Amateurish.
etc.

Are there any other suggestions for MS Word?
If they decide to use a Mac at some point, would buying AFFINITY DESIGN be a cheaper option than using Creative Cloud?

Thanks for good suggestions!

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Hoping we can we do this in Canada!!

Speaker Bercow: Trump should not speak in Parliament - BBC News

Donald Trump WON'T speak in Parliament on UK state visit | Daily Mail Online

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RIP Steve Lang

APRIL WINE Bass Legend STEVE LANG Passes Away At 67 - Bravewords.com

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For Sale MiniStack V3 External HDD Case Firewire 800

For Sale: MiniStack V3 External HDD Case by Newer Technologies - $20

This is the case designed to pair with your Mac Mini. Same footprint and the Mac mini sits right on top. eSATA, 2 Firewire 800. Firewire 400, and 4 USB ports makes this HDD case perfect to expand the storage needs of any computer. I bought this for an external case for my Mac Mini which I no longer have

Includes the case, power supply and cable, Firewire 800 cable and original packaging. Uses any size SATA HDD (not included).

email for more details, I can ship Canada wide at buyer's expense

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For Sale Sans Digital Raid or JBOD box

hi Folks,

A great way to back up your computer(s) or connect additional hard drives.

This is an extremely cost-effective way to back up your photos and videos or any other important documents.

Comes with a Rocket Raid PCExpresss E-SATA card for your computer. Works on Mac or PC.

Also comes with two esata cables and power cable.

Only used for one year. Selling because I am downsizing.

Hard drives are not included btw

I had this connected to my 12 core 2010 MP before I sold it.

$75
Located in Ottawa.
Local pick up.

Cheers
Brian

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R.I.P. Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger, Champion of Folk Music and Social Change, Dies at 94

Pete Seeger, the singer, folk-song collector and songwriter who spearheaded an American folk revival and spent a long career championing folk music as both a vital heritage and a catalyst for social change, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 94.

His death, at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, was confirmed by his grandson Kitama Cahill Jackson.

Mr. Seeger’s career carried him from singing at labor rallies to the Top 10, from college auditoriums to folk festivals, and from a conviction for contempt of Congress (after defying the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s) to performing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at an inaugural concert for Barack Obama.

For Mr. Seeger, folk music and a sense of community were inseparable, and where he saw a community, he saw the possibility of political action.

(NYTimes)

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Post Difficult Debates and Discussions

I will start this off with a couple examples.

A Brexit debate before the term came about.

Rights and freedom of speech debate in Canada.

This is not intended to be only long debates, but I would prefer that short quips and snarky comeback clips be limited. Naturally, my preferences cannot be enforced.

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The Day the Music Died

On Feb. 3rd, 1959, 22 year old Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, aged 17, died in a crash shortly after take-off from Clear Lake, Iowa, the pilot of the single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza plane was also killed. Holly hired the plane after heating problems developed on his tour bus. All three were travelling to Fargo, North Dakota, for the next show on their Winter Dance Party Tour which Holly had set - covering 24 cities in three weeks, to make money after the break-up of his band, The Crickets. :-(

The Day The Music Died

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Purgeable

When I select Get Info for my Macintosh HD I see
Available: 81.81 GB (3.25 GB purgeable)
What does purgeable mean here, and how can I purge it to liberate 3.25 GB?

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For Sale 16 GB Ram for 2013 Mac Pro

Hi Folks,

I upgraded the ram on my 2013 Mac Pro (trash can style) so I have these available.

These sticks were a bonus 16 GBs (4 sticks x 4 GB per) when I bought it from the refurb store.

PC3-14900

Works fine.

$100

Pick up locally only please

Located in Ottawa (Stittsville).

Cheers,
Brian

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For Sale Airport Extreme

Hi folks,

Selling my 4th Gen Airport Extreme.

Model A1354

Works perfect. Just upgraded and live in a small house so I don't need to keep it as a network extender.

$50.

Ottawa area (Stittsville).

Local pick up only unless you're willing to pay for shipping. No upcharges for shipping - I'll simply quote based on your postal code and which service you would like to use.

Payment: Paypal over the web and cash if picking up

Cheers,
Brian

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Happy Pre-Groundhog Day

16 hours and counting here in Nova Scotia for the official start of Groundhog Day here in Canada and the rest of North America.

Shubenacadie Sam is a famous Canadian groundhog who lives at the Shubenacadie Wildlife Park in the town of Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. Every February 2, on Groundhog Day, Sam's shadow is closely observed at 08:00 AST to make the traditional prediction whether there will be an early spring. Due to Nova Scotia's Atlantic time zone, Sam makes the first Groundhog Day prediction in North America.

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Those new LG 5K Monitors? Things to be aware of....

LG 5K display must be kept at least 2 meters away from Wi-Fi routers

The spiritual successor to Apple's Thunderbolt Display, the LG UltraFine 5K monitor, which only started shipping out from the Apple online store this week, appears to suffer from a major fault: when placed within two metres (6.5ft) of a wireless router, the display starts to flicker; move it really close, and the monitor goes black and becomes unusable. An LG Electronics support person confirmed the issue, saying it "only happens for the 5K monitors we have, not other LG monitors."

If that wasn't bad enough, 9to5Mac's Zac Hall reports that his LG 5K monitor, under the duress of a nearby Wi-Fi router, can freeze the MacBook Pro that it's plugged into, forcing a reboot to bring it back. When he moved the router (an Apple AirPort Extreme) from beside the monitor to another room, everything went back to normal.

A support rep for LG Electronics confirmed that the 5K monitor can be adversely affected by a nearby wireless router and said that the issue doesn't affect any other LG monitors. Hall was asked to place the router "at least 2 metres away" from the monitor and "to let us know" if the problem still persists after that.

(ArsTechnica)

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