Highlight Cells in newer version of Numbers

OK the intermittent restart issue has forced me to do some spreadsheet work on my newer computer. Was running Numbers 09 in Snow Leopard, but it did not copy over successfully to the MB Pro.

MBP is running version 3.6.2 of Numbers. I would like to be able to highlight certain rows but other than a method for doing conditional highlighting, I have not found a way to do it.

As a work around I have been able to copy and paste style within spreadsheets originally created in the older version. Have not been able to do it directly.

Any one have an answer??? Or is this one of Apple's dreaded improvements?

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Too Sensitive ???

So here's the story as it appears in the Calgary Herald:
Woman says Air Canada humiliated her, booted her off flight over non-contagious rash | Calgary Herald

No doubt Air Canada badly mismanaged an awkward situation, but seriously needing a shrink because of it?

Quote:

HALIFAX — An Edmonton woman says she was publicly humiliated and booted off an Air Canada flight after a rash was mistakenly labelled as contagious. Jeanne Lehman, a community activist and officer with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, said she is seeing a psychologist for mental trauma she endured boarding a plane at Halifax Stanfield International Airport. “How they treated me, I didn’t feel like someone who is an important client,” she said in a phone interview. “I feel, like, rejected and (given a) lack of consideration, you know. This is a shame for me.” Lehman is a black, French-speaking woman who calls the treatment systemic racism. Her trouble began when a rash appeared on the right side of her face during a trip to Halifax last week. Over the course of two days, the rash got worse and left her eye swollen. “At first I thought it was because I ate a lot of seafood and thought it was an allergy She went to an emergency room on Friday where the doctor told her she had a non-contagious rash and was OK to travel.

Long story short. The airline booted her from the flight telling everyone aboard she had a contagious skin condition. Had her checked out by an emergency doctor (Shingles=non contagious). Put her up in a hotel then flew her home first class the next day.

As I said at the beginning the initial incident was very badly handled. Highly likely a nearby passenger heard only the word contagious and reported it to staff. Overall a typical AC Fubar but hardly racist and IMO AC has done what it could to make it right, although a free round trip flight would be a good idea. Of course they might go ten toes up if the gave a free flight to every passenger upon whose toes they tread.

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Apple officially discontinues Airport Stations

Apple officially discontinues the Airport Line Up Today.. We have you covered with Commercial grade Datto Access Points call us and we will assist you with replacements.
Same pricing as the base stations were.

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Adobe Flash - fake installer warning

Are people still installing Flash on their computers? Sheesh...

New Fake Flash Player Installer Malware Hits The Mac, And It's Nasty! | MacTrast

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"white van" control thread - it was bound to happen

here we go attack the suppliers of "white vans" smh - liberals are delusional - this had nothing to do with vans.. all with the individual.

I am actually shocked how fast the idea was discussed.
Leave it up to the liberal media to to begin conversations how to prevent "white vans" from attacking us.. I have a thought... fix it at the borders - what is exactly is the rental agent going to do to thwart terror?

Only driver’s license and credit card required to rent van - Video - CityNews Toronto

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Multiple fatalities - Toronto - pedestrians

Horrible news from Toronto this hour:

‘This is not a car accident.’ At least 3 dead as van strikes pedestrians along Yonge St. in North York, driver in custody
Police say that a white van mounted the curb and struck pedestrians walking along the sidewalk.



(The Star)

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Stuck on https://ift.tt/2JiXmQX

I tried to access a website in Germany yesterday using Firefox and the browser kept getting "stuck on" http://rtb0.doubleverify.com.

It's website I look at about once a day for years now, never had that problem before.
Tried accessing it a few times always with the same message, something like "waiting for https://ift.tt/2JiXmQX"

Then this morning everything is fine again.

All I could find out so far that the server for this site is in Ireland - so maybe the routing went through that server.
But if the server is down or doesn't respond, shouldn't the routing bypass it?

I spoke to the IT guy looking after the website in Germany I was trying to access and he swears there is no problem on his end.

Anyone know, or have an idea, what happened here, especially since the problem continued even after multiple attempts to access that German website?

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RIP Sister Marie-Agnès Valois

If she did this today, the Progs would call her some kind of an -ist...

'Angel of Dieppe' nun who stood up to Nazi soldiers who saved British and Canadian soldiers' lives after disastrous Allied raid on occupied French port dies aged 103

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A French Augustian nun who became known as 'the Angel of Dieppe' for saving the lives of numerous British and Canadian troops following the disastrous Dieppe Raid during World War II has died at the age of 103. On one occasion Sister Marie-Agnès Valois stood between a Nazi officer brandishing a pistol and a Canadian soldier and told the German if he shot the young man the bullet 'would have to go through me'. Another time she was asked by a wounded man to kiss him the same way his mother would have done. She granted his request just before he died.

Thank you & kudos for your bravery, Sister.

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R.I.P. Vern Troyer

Verne Troyer, known for role in Austin Powers, dead at 49

Verne Troyer, the actor known for his role as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers films, has died at the age of 49.

According to his official Facebook page, the actor was struggling with "his own battles...But unfortunately this time was too much."

His family did not give a specific cause of death but made reference to depression and suicide being "very serious issues."

"You never know what kind of battle someone is going through inside."

(CBC)

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A useful utility - SuspiciousPackage

Do you actually know what you’re installing on your Mac?

With Suspicious Package, you can answer this question and more. Maybe you’re quite literally suspicious of a package you’ve downloaded. Or perhaps you’re just curious about what some package does. Or maybe you want to find out after the fact exactly what files a package scattered across your computer. Whatever the reason, Suspicious Package allows you to see inside an application installer package.

(GraphicMac)

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Only in Canada can we be so ridiculous

Supreme Court upholds law in cross-border beer case

As I age nothing seems logical any more.
So let me get this straight, we allow random people to just walk across our country’s border yet buying a legal product and crossing a provincial border in our own country is a problem. If it wasn’t so pathetic it would be humorous

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The Baseball Thread!

As long as I can remember the first true signs of spring were: kids playing ball hockey, robins, and the “Opening Day” of Major League Baseball.

As a kid in public school, it seemed everyone played the game. Now, where there used to be baseball diamonds there are soccer pitches. Fewer and fewer kids seem to be playing the game.

In this day and age of computer games with their flash and all too common violent based themes, no one seems to pickup a ball and glove and just enjoy tossing outside.

Which makes me wonder, is Baseball doomed, and if so, what’s wrong with the game?

Thoughts....

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MacPro 1,1 doing sudden restarts

MacPro 1,1 running Snow Leopard this morning had 4 sudden restarts. No big memory suckers, running, fans idle. Not seeing any signs of power fluctuations. No recent OS or security upgrades.

Log says: "hidd died". Not really sure what that means.

Are we talking something fatal waiting in the wings??

Any info on what is likely the cause??

Clock battery was good but I replaced it anyways. Also blew the dust out. Has not yet recurred but keeping fingers crossed.

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Warning / advice: High Sierra, thumb drive installer, etc.

I'll try to make this short... four days of remote-tech-support-hell.

A friend's 2011 MacBook Pro was behaving oddly, and incredibly slow. Unusable.

I walked her through various diagnostics and eventually determined that the Hard Drive was on its last legs... an original Hitachi 320gig unit.

We (very slowly but) successfully performed a Time Machine backup to a new 5-TB WD external.

I walked her through installing a new 1-TB hard drive (easy-peasy).

Started up with Internet Recovery to install the OS (she had misplaced her original system discs years ago when moving across the country).

Herein begins the saga.

Turns out the 2011 MBP (came with 10.7 Lion, but had been updated to 10.10) required a firmware update (which was never one of Apple's automatic or suggested updates via the App Store) in order to reinstall the OS from Internet Recovery. Took a crapload of searching web forums to find that out. Wasted time.

Fortunately she has an iMac in the house as well. Downloaded High Sierra (no others were available with her AppleID) with the intent of making a thumb drive installer to bypass this Internet Recovery stupidity. This is my first warning: apparently there was a recent change in how Apple is distributing the OS - you no longer get a full 5.x-gig installer; it's now a 20-meg installer that downloads the OS once the process begins. This isn't universal: some people are getting the full package; but nothing we did (several attempted workarounds found online) would do the trick. Eventually I found a way to get Sierra downloaded from the Apple Store via a direct link (provided by Apple in a tech support document).

Got the thumb drive installer made, booted the MBP, but the install would not complete. Something about the package failing an integrity check or some damn thing. Apparently this is a common problem (though it's the first time I've ever encountered it). After attempting *many* workarounds, we hit an impasse. She drove an hour to an Apple Store and had them reinstall Sierra (preferred over High Sierra).

She forgot to take her external along, so asked me to walk her through restoring her files. "Sure," I thought. Easy-peasy. NOPE. Booted up, launched Migration Assistant and it refused to see the external drive, could not find the backup. Exited MA and confirmed that the external drive can mount, and the .backup file is present.

Tried a reboot with Command-R into Recovery and attempted a Restore. It could see the backup drive, but still refused to identify the .backup file.

Many more attempts made, none successful, and my reputation as a long-distance tech guru has taken serious damage. She's off to the Apple Store again today to see if they can restore the backup.

Perhaps things would have gone more smoothly on the .backup side if I'd gotten her to use CCC to mirror the drive, but having done the TM route many times before, I was confident it would be a quick fix. It was not to be.... :( Waiting to hear how her Genius appointment went....

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Despicable attack by NS Premier, Cops, on teen

Fifteen cops showed up to arrest a teenager for using the internet

CBC reporter Jack Julian interviewed the 19 year old who was arrested in the mischaracterized “data breach” of the province’s Freedom of Information website. Julian’s article is a great piece of reporting; it is well-written, sensitive, informative, and enraging.

If police statements about how the teenager accessed the information are correct, the teenager did nothing at all wrong. He wrote a script to help him download documents from a public-facing website. He didn’t “hack” anything. He didn’t misrepresent himself. He didn’t try to hide his identity or mask his web presence. In fact, he didn’t do anything plenty of people and businesses legitimately do every day. A rich detail: the teenager was downloading the documents in order to research the government’s dispute with the teachers’ union.

Moreover, there’s been no allegation that the teenager used the documents he freely accessed to cause any harm. He didn’t steal identities or sell data.

No one with the provincial government or with the Halifax police department has provided any information to suggest that the the situation is anything other than described above.

* * *

The only way that I can understand why the province is so overreacting — going so far as Premier Stephen McNeil deeming a teenager guilty of a crime he hasn’t yet even been arraigned for — is that it is in major butt-covering mode.

The overreach goes right to the Halifax police,....

* * *

I’ve seen more subtle police raids to arrest people charged with murder.

There’s simply no excuse for this. None. The Halifax police have a lot to answer for.

But, the police do what the police do. The outsized police response was itself in response to a directive or complaint from the province. As someone pointed out to me last night on Twitter:

Quote:

There had to be someone who made an allegation of wrongdoing to start this off; that person needs to be accountable to what appears to be an instance of swatting to cover up technical incompetence by the government. — Kevin McArthur (@KevinSMcArthur) April 16, 2018

(Halifax Examiner)

SEE ALSO:

Nova Scotia filled its public Freedom of Information Archive with citizens' private data, then arrested the teen who discovered it

A 19 year old in Nova Scotia wanted to learn more about the provincial teachers' dispute, so he filed some Freedom of Information requests; he wasn't satisfied with the response so he decided to dig through other documents the province had released under open records laws to look for more, but couldn't find a search tool that was adequate to the job.

He noticed that the URL for the response to his request ended with a long number, and by changing that number (by adding or subtracting from it), he could access other public documents published by the government in response to public requests.

So he wrote a one-line program to grab all the public records, planning on searching them once they were on his hard-drive. On Wednesday morning, 15 police officers raided his home, terrorising his family (including his very young siblings -- they scooped one of his younger brothers up as he was walking home from school, arresting him on the street) and seizing all the family's electronics, including the phone and computer his father depends on for his livelihood. The young man now faces criminal charges and possible jail-time.

The reason for the raid and the arrests? The government had unwisely uploaded private, confidential documents to its open directory of public open records, and so they are charging this teen with improperly accessing these confidential documents.

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Harry Anderson RIP

Quote:

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Harry Anderson, the actor best known for playing an off-the-wall judge working the night shift of a Manhattan court room in the television comedy series “Night Court,” was found dead in his North Carolina home Monday. Anderson was 65. A statement from the Asheville Police Department said officers responded to a call from Anderson’s home early Monday and found him dead. The statement said foul play is not suspected. On “Night Court,” Anderson played Judge Harry T. Stone, a young jurist who professed his love for singer Mel Torme, actress Jean Harlow, magic tricks and his collection of art-deco ties. He also starred in the series “Dave’s World” and appeared on “Cheers” as con man Harry “The Hat” Gittes.

Harry Anderson of 'Night Court' fame found dead in NC - CBS 17

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High Sierra will not connect to my printer

Hi
I just installed High Sierra (10.13.4) on my Mac Mini (2014 2,6Ghz and 8gig ram). My computer does not connect to my Hp Officejet pro 6978. What can I do?
Thanks

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RIP Milos Forman

Milos Forman: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus director dies - BBC News

but there is something that he said that will resonate more with me today than ever before - as my family has experienced both now it is becoming a full circle again. :

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MacBook Pro Back Lite Keyboard not bright enough

I have an older MacBook Pro operating 10.9.5 and the backlight functions normally but the brightness needs to be increased. I have searched the web but there does not appear to be an answer for a keyboard that functions normally ( ex. dims, shut off in bright light, turns on in dark surrouding), but is not bright enough.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Thanks in advance.

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How to install Yosemite?

I have a 2012 Mini that I think was originally shipped with OS 10.7
On that one I updated the OS to 10.11.6 (El Capitan)
Now I want to check some old floppies and found out that Apple discontinued support for those after OS 10.10

Luckily I made a Yosemite installed on a USB flash drive using diskmaker
OK I figure, no problem, I will just install Yosemite on an external, then boot from the external into Yosemite and read my floppies.

The extermal is a USB 3.0 drive with 4 partitions, each one 500 MB
I used Disk Utility to erase one of the partitions to install Yosemite on it

Plugged in my USB flash Yosemite installer
The installer icon comes up the way it should
But when I double-click on it, instead of asking me where I want to install Yosemite it comes up with this error message:
This copy of the “Install OS X” application is too old to be opened on this version of OS X.

Hmmm
So then I decide to restart holding down the option key but that doesn't help.

I'm obvious too dense to see the forest for the trees because this says I should be able to install Yosemite on an external drive with the Mac running OS 10.11
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7470094

I'm at the step:
boot the external installer disk and install Yosemite

Is the Yosemite installer supposed to show up when I reboot the Mac while holding down the option key?

PS: The external hard drive also has a 10.11 backup clone on it.
Strangely enough neither the 10.11 backup clone nor the 10.10 USB installer show up as a start up disk in system preferences.
I remember on older versions of the OS they always used to - at least the backups.

The back up clones DO show up when I boot up holding down the option key and I can then boot the Mac on any of the back ups.
Is missing the back up drive options in the start up disk window another one of the new features of OS 10.11?

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Apple Warns Employees To Stop Leaking Information To The Media — Or Face Potential Cr

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Apple Inc. warned employees to stop leaking internal information on future plans and raised the spectreof potential legal action and criminal charges, one of the most-aggressive moves by the world’s largest technology company to control information about its activities. The Cupertino, California-based company said in a lengthy memo posted to its internal blog that it “caught 29 leakers,” last year and noted that 12 of those were arrested. “These people not only lose their jobs, they can face extreme difficulty finding employment elsewhere,” Apple added. The company declined to comment on Friday. Apple outlined situations in which information was leaked to the media, including a meeting earlier this year where Apple’s software engineering head Craig Federighi told employees that some planned iPhone software features would be delayed. Apple also cited a yet-to-be-released software package that revealed details about the unreleased iPhone X and new Apple Watch. No one is buying Apple’s HomePod smart speaker. Here are the many reasons why 9.7-inch iPad review: Few (but significant) changes make for the most complete entry-level tablet Apple unveils red versions of iPhone 8, 8 Plus to keep line fresh mid-cycle Leaked information about a new product can negatively impact sales of current models, give rivals more time to begin on a competitive response, and lead to fewer sales when the new product launches, according to the memo. “We want the chance to tell our customers why the product is great, and not have that done poorly by someone else,” Greg Joswiak, an Apple product marketing executive, said in the memo. The crackdown is part of broader and long-running attempts by Silicon Valley technology companies to track and limit what information their employees share publicly. Firms like Google and Facebook Inc. are pretty open with staff about their plans, but keep close tabs on their outside communications and sometime fire people when they find leaks. In 2016, Google fired an employee after the person shared internal posts criticizing an executive. The employee filed a lawsuit claiming their speech was protected under California law. Apple is notoriously secretive about its product development. In 2012, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook pledged to double down on keeping the company’s work under wraps. Despite that, the media has continued to report news on the firm to satisfy demand for information on a company that’s become a crucial part of investment portfolios, many of which support public retirement funds for teachers and other essential workers. In 2017, Apple held a confidential meeting with employees in another bid to stop leaks. Since then, publications, including Bloomberg News, published details about the iPhone X, a new Apple TV video-streaming box, a new Apple Watch with LTE, the company’s upcoming augmented-reality headset, new iPad models, software enhancements, and details about the upcoming iPhones and AirPods headphones. Here’s the memo: Last month, Apple caught and fired the employee responsible for leaking details from an internal, confidential meeting about Apple’s software roadmap. Hundreds of software engineers were in attendance, and thousands more within the organization received details of its proceedings. One person betrayed their trust. The employee who leaked the meeting to a reporter later told Apple investigators that he did it because he thought he wouldn’t be discovered. But people who leak — whether they’re Apple employees, contractors or suppliers — do get caught, and they’re getting caught faster than ever. Who’s leaking? In many cases, leakers don’t set out to leak. Instead, people who work for Apple are often targeted by press, analysts and bloggers who befriend them on professional and social networks like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook and begin to pry for information. While it may seem flattering to be approached, it’s important to remember that you’re getting played. The success of these outsiders is measured by obtaining Apple’s secrets from you and making them public. A scoop about an unreleased Apple product can generate massive traffic for a publication and financially benefit the blogger or reporter who broke it. But the Apple employee who leaks has everything to lose. The impact of a leak goes far beyond the people who work on a project. Leaking Apple’s work undermines everyone at Apple and the years they’ve invested in creating Apple products. “Thousands of people work tirelessly for months to deliver each major software release,” says UIKit lead Josh Shaffer, whose team’s work was part of the iOS 11 leak last fall. “Seeing it leak is devastating for all of us.” The impact of a leak goes beyond the people who work on a particular project — it’s felt throughout the company. Leaked information about a new product can negatively impact sales of the current model; give rival companies more time to begin on a competitive response; and lead to fewer sales of that new product when it arrives. “We want the chance to tell our customers why the product is great, and not have that done poorly by someone else,” says Greg Joswiak of Product Marketing. Stopping leaks Investments by Apple have had an enormous impact on the company’s ability to identify and catch leakers. Just before last September’s special event, an employee leaked a link to the gold master of iOS 11 to the press, again believing he wouldn’t be caught. The unreleased OS detailed soon-to-be-announced software and hardware including iPhone X. Within days, the leaker was identified through an internal investigation and fired. Global Security’s digital forensics also helped catch several employees who were feeding confidential details about new products including iPhone X, iPad Pro and AirPods to a blogger at 9to5Mac.Last year Apple caught 29 leakers.Leakers in the supply chain are getting caught, too. Global Security has worked hand-in-hand with suppliers to prevent theft of Apple’s intellectual property, as well as to identify individuals who try to exceed their access. They’ve also partnered with suppliers to identify vulnerabilities — both physical and technological — and ensure their security levels meet or exceed Apple’s expectations. These programs have nearly eliminated the theft of prototypes and products from factories, caught leakers and prevented many others from leaking in the first place.Leakers do not simply lose their jobs at Apple. In some cases, they face jail time and massive fines for network intrusion and theft of trade secrets, both classified as federal crimes. In 2017, Apple caught 29 leakers. 12 of those were arrested. Among those were Apple employees, contractors and some partners in Apple’s supply chain. These people not only lose their jobs, they can face extreme difficulty finding employment elsewhere. “The potential criminal consequences of leaking are real,” says Tom Moyer of Global Security, “and that can become part of your personal and professional identity forever.” While they carry serious consequences, leaks are completely avoidable. They are the result of a decision by someone who may not have considered the impact of their actions. “Everyone comes to Apple to do the best work of their lives — work that matters and contributes to what all 135,000 people in this company are doing together,” says Joswiak. “The best way to honor those contributions is by not leaking.

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Yahoo Mail More Invasive

I have a couple of Yahoo Mail accounts that I use when corresponding with unknowns, that is people who may or may not be trustworthy.

Noticed a recent change under privacy:

Quote:

Communication Products This policy describes our current privacy practices for the Oath Communications brands, websites, features, products, apps, software and other services (“Communications Services”). All information collected, provided to Oath or stored in your Oath Account will be treated, used and protected in accordance with the Oath Privacy Policy. This information may change as Oath revises these Communications Services by adding or removing features or using different service providers. Some Communications Service features are only available if you are a registered user. This page describes specific privacy practices with respect to Yahoo Address Book, Yahoo Calendar, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger or other instant messaging services and Yahoo Notepad. Information Collection and Use Practices - General Oath’s systems may analyze and store all communications content, including email content from incoming and outgoing mail, as well as incoming and outgoing messages to messaging apps. We also may analyze and store all other content and other information you provide when you use our Communications Services. This can include information within or about the content you provide, such as photos, attachments and other communications Our systems may analyze all communications content (such as Mail, Groups, Calendar, Address and Messenger content including instant messages and SMS messages) for the purposes outlined in our main Privacy Policy page. This analysis may occur on all communications content as it is sent, received, and when it is stored, including content from services synced with your account. For example, in certain use cases, we run automated algorithms on commercial communications to create generic templates of such documents (e.g., using common language to identify the elements of an airline receipt). These templates do not include the recipient’s personal data. Oath employees may review the templates to improve our services and our personalization of your experience. We may also manually review certain communications to improve our masking template capabilities, develop tools to assist the automated scanning process, improve segmentation and other automated functions and create generic templates of such documents (e.g., using common language to identify the elements of an airline receipt). Our anti-spam team may review messages flagged as “spam” or “not spam” to improve our anti-spam defenses.

IOW they are making free and loose with eMail and message contents. Have been considering closing these accounts for some time, this may be the straw!

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Trying to Get a Keynote Presentation from Mac to iPad: My Epic Saga

Rant Warning!

I created a Keynote presentation on my Mac and wanted to present it on my iPad. Should be simple right?

Good God, it was a 3 hour exercise in utter frustration.

I followed this: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph3497?locale=en_US

First, I tried to use the iTunes method to share the file. Keynote just didn't show up in iTunes no matter what I tried (synch, update, etc.).

Then, I tried to email the file between the devices. That sort of worked but the Keynote did not open in iOS Keynote. It opened in some kind of viewer app.

Then I tried sharing via iCloud. The file shows up in iCloud but when I try to open it on my iPad, I get a message that I need to turn on iCloud sharing in my Keynote settings. I checked 5 times and it's on. But the message keeps on keeping on.

Finally, I thought I'd try to share it via Google Drive. The file is there but it's greyed out.

I think, at the root of it, it's all due to incompatibility of Keynote versions. This is the same sort of frustration that caused me to abandon Pages.

"The versions are sort of but not really compatible. We don't really give you any path for converting the various versions. And we certainly don't offer any message to let you know that's the problem"

So right now, I'm in the midst of recreating the entire presentation. USING GOOGLE SLIDES.

That might be the absolute last time I try using an Apple desktop app. What happened to the Apple I used to know and love? Sigh.

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File synchronization software

Hey folks,

I have a bunch of gigs of photos and videos of our family that I'd like to sync onto my folks' home back in Canada. I thought of using BT-Sync, which I had played with years ago, but just discovered it's now a commercial product (Resilio) and even the home version is a $60 purchase.

Suggestions for an alternative?

I like the process of BT-Sync - just identify a folder on each computer, link 'em, and watch 'em sync.

I suppose I could drop them all into my iCloud Drive (I pay for the 50 gig option)... but that would mean logging into my iCloud account on the remote computer as well, which is already associated with an AppleID (my folks), and not an ideal solution. I haven't explored Family sharing yet... that might be a solution...

Thoughts?

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Fixing a date time screw-up

One of the joys of bouncing back and forth between DST and standard time is resetting the clocks on my cameras. This year I messed up with both of them mis-setting the dates when I attempted to adjust the time.:eek: Had about 2 dozen images.

A better finder attributes came to the rescue. Was able to properly reset the creation, modification and EXIF dates to match the date the images were taken.:) Even found an older version that worked with SnowLeopard.

You can do up to 5 images at a time in the trial version. Saw nothing to lead me to believe that it would stop working after a few days. At $15 US, not a horrible price to pay if you have a whack of images that need fixing. Say an entire European trip where you forgot to reset to local time.

http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderAttributes/

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For Sale 2012 13" Apple Unibody MacBook Pro and Accessories

For Sale: 13" Unibody 2012 MacBook Pro with SSD and Accessories - $850 or best FAIR offer.

I am selling a MINT condition 13" 2012 Apple MacBook Pro. No dings, dents or scuff - works great, never dropped or abused. It spent more of it's life as a desktop than as a portable computer. The specs are as follows: 13" LED Display, Backlit keyboard, Intel Core i5 2.5 Mhz Processor, 8GB RAM, 300GB solid state HDD (SSD), and DVD. Usual ports and other stuff. The SSD makes the laptop super fast, boots up in seconds. The laptop will come with a clean install of OSX 10.13.3 High Sierra.

For full details: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/m...sb3-specs.html

This Macbook Pro works great as a laptop and a desktop - the best of both worlds - to make the desktop part happen it also comes with a Apple Magic Mouse 2, Apple Full Sized Aluminum USB keyboard, RainDesign Aluminum Laptop stand and a 20" Apple Cinema Display. All power adaptors and cable are included as well as long with the original box and packaging. I've upgraded to a iPad Pro so no longer required.

Asking $850 or best fair offer. Email for more details or questions. Delivery to a mutual convenient location or pickup in Orillia. All lowball offers will be ignored, no trades please.

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To Update or not update - that is the question

Currently running El Capitan on a mid 2010 iMac. 12 Gb Ram - runs fine, just a bit slower these days (both me and my machine)

I still have and use InDesign for serious layout, but for quick notes to friends I use Pages 09.

I understand Apple has released a 2018 update, which has some of the missing features returned, but does not appear to be available for El Capitan.

Two Step Question

A) Is the latest iWork update any good? runs OK? ( I believe the coming end to 32bit compliance will doom the older versions anyway)

B) High Sierra - OK? worth upgrading? Problems I should know about
I suspect it might be the last OS which will run on my machine.

I’ve checked on line, read several reviews, but I’d like to hear members opinions.

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legal protection in canada

this is my first post so I hope I am doing this correctly.
We have a warehouse off the main road in Chatham Ontario and in last 2 months have been broken into 26 times. We are a small city but have a large amount of meth users who as early as 6pm start searching for items they can steal. We have a fence around the compound but it is down in many areas and cannot be fixed. We also have security cameras and an alarm system monitored by ADT on the main building but when they call the police , the police don't usually show up. They started breaking into our locked garbage bins and moved to our locked storage containers and then to the main building. I'm a father of 3 and recently the kids aged 11-14 shows up at 10 to unload our van and was attacked by an angry/high male with a bat. I'm asking if anyone can tell me our rights to protect ourselves and property. I cannot move atm . thanks for any help

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Airport Express utility problem

My problem began when it seem my Apple Airport Express went into flashing yellow mode. Usually it's simply a matter of unplugging/replugging the unit, but when that didn't work today I did a hard reset of the unit (when I'm guessing I should have unplugged/replugged the modem). Anyway, I tried to reconfigure the unit with its utility, but I'm getting an error message saying my OS is incompatible. I went to CNET and downloaded what the site said was the most current version of the Airport Express utility, no dice. I am currently running High Sierra (10.13.3) on my nine-year-old iMac (3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/8megs of RAM.



Ideas, suggestions welcome.

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New MacBook pro and time machine not restoring apps

I replaced my old 15" rMBP with a new 13" MacBook Pro. I had done a time machine backup before relegating the old laptop to some duties here at work. When the new one arrived today I started up, selected the option to restore from a time machine backup and away I went. All went smoothly I thought till I logged in and found none of my apps were restore, none of my music and none of my photos. Some files seemed to have been restored as I see stuff on my desktop from the old computer.

What has happened here? Is there some other setting I need to do in order to get my apps, music and photos back?

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20 Pieces Samsung Galaxy S9 (www.BizFests.com) 128GB $8,480

Its on sales

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new Secure DNS servers

new servers for Secure DNS ..
secure servers which will not track or sell your surfing as well it is faster than Google DNS servers..

https://1.1.1.1

it is strictly for speed and private surfing. .but if you are looking protection.. use ULTRA DNS or have a firewall in place like Sophos etc.

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