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Speed variations with Frontier DSL

2012-05-17T01:12:30Z

Can anyone offer insight about what's going on?

I have Frontier High Speed DSL. I am finding that the speed varies significantly during the day.

During the day it runs about 6MbpS download pretty consistently.

However it sometimes drops significantly from that. This evening it is consistently 2.6Mbps; over the weekend, on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, I saw dips a low as 1.5Mbps. (Measured via Frontier's speed test (http://rochester.speedtest.frontier.com/)

I had thought that one of the advantages of DSL is that the speed did not vary with loads.

I am running an iMac off of an airport express. Both are very close so S/N should not be an issue.

Thoughts welcome. I emailed Frontier, & they said "call us".

My only thought is that Frontier does not have enough capacity in their "central office" to handle peak demands.

Ken

Unable to sync iPad with MacBook Pro

2012-05-14T12:15:04Z

I attended the Saturday session in April and finally succeeded in getting my iPad to sync with my MacBook Pro as well as pick up my email from both the RoadRunner and Gmail accounts. Then an update just came out this past weekend, which I responsibly installed on both my Gen 4 iPod Touch and my iPad 2. The iPod works fine, but the iPad no longer syncs with my computer (It connects and acts like it does, but the calendar is not updating.) I also can no longer pick up any of my email via WIFI.

Suggestions? I'm going away in a little over a week, and I really need to have this working.

No Associated Application Could be found

2012-05-05T19:59:37Z

I get this message (No Associated Application Could be found) in various applications (Mail. IPhoto,etc)
Any clues as to the solution....and i don't know what started it!!
Cliff

RAM Upgrade to 4GB Modules for Mid-2011 27" iMac

2012-05-02T15:16:12Z

I am interested in upgrading the RAM memory in my mid-2011 27" iMac to 4 × 4GB modules. Any recommendations?

Main Meeting - March 14, 2012

2012-04-29T17:31:27Z

Apple CIDER
General Meeting
March 14, 2012

Dash with Cash:

iPad rubber rear cover: $2.00 Skip
320 GB Hard drive with USB hub: $35 Vicky

Q&A

Q: upgraded to Lion, MactheRipper doesn't work, upgraded to MactheRipper Pro, disappears when quitting.
A: Named MDRP, may be looking for wrong filename.

Q: Favorite DVD ripper?
A: Ripit, very easy, pretty cheap.

Q: Tax software fill-out form
A: PDF Pen will fill out PDF forms.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1165504 … tware.html

Q: how to make a video dvd?
A: iDVD authoring, MPEG-2
Roxio Toast, can also burn Blu-Ray.
30 min of BR will fit on a DVD SL
http://www.dvdxdv.com/, edit unprotected DVD

Q: with these program, can rip DVD from the library?
A: yes, but it's illegal.

Q: can iPhone signal be blocked?
A: classic problem with iPhone 4, "your holding it wrong". Look for little black bars on the antenna around the case, and don't cross the antenna.
http://www.antennagear.net/servlet/the- … nna/Detail

Q: iPhone case fixes reception:
A: not shorting antenna with hand.

Q: what to become of Flash now that Steve Jobs
has passed.
A: Adobe has already killed Flash Mobile. Flash Desktop may be discontinued too.
Replace with HTML5 and WebM video.

sellyourmac.com, use code iphonelife, get extra $10

Main Meeting - February 8, 2012

2012-04-29T17:28:46Z

Apple CIDER
General Meeting
February 8, 2012

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? USB battery backup storage device ($100 value) 480 hours. $50, Chris

? iPad Styluses, $10 David Broadbent

- iPhone clip, $5 Keith Jackson

MacWorld|iWorld News

Q&A
Q: CNN report on China on worker mistreatment
A: Much higher standard of living than the rest of China.

Q: 11 year old granddaughter, what is a good iPad artistic app
A: Bamboo Paper, ArtRage, others
Or, multiple styluses

Q: AOL user, signed up for GMail, didn't get some mail at Gmail. How to shut down AOL
A: AOL will forward to Gmail, or Gmail will pick up from AOL. Gmail has better spam protection, may not. In AOL, keyword Billing.

Q: iPad charger?
A: iPhone is 5W/1A, iPad is 10W/2.1A

Keith says NewEgg has them for $5.

Two versions of Quicktime

2012-04-22T11:57:00Z

Curious. I've got Quick Time 7 installed in the utilities folder and QT 10 installed in the Applications folder.

I'm not sure how that happened.

I am assuming they are redundant and that I can discard the older version?

midi to mp3 conversion? How to?

2012-04-22T00:04:47Z

I there some way to convert a midi file to an mp3 or WAV file without using one of the "free" sites that offer this? I am inherently suspicious/paranoid about such offers.

Seems like I should be able to do this within my Mac, (iTunes, etc.). I have a couple of midi files that I generated a long time ago and I'd like to convert them. I also have Audacity. I don't see a path to accomplish this.

I've only got two files that I'm interested in, so I'm not really interested in buying a stand-alone program to do this, if I can avoid it.

Unable to send a youtube video to my email address.

2012-04-12T17:23:15Z

You tube has always worked flawlessly for me. Since yesterday I can no longer "share" a video by sending it to my email address. It says it has sent the video to my email address, but it never shows up in my "Mail". I haven't changed anything myself. I was wondering if the youtube/google thing might have something to do with it.

I have a MAC & have been sending these youtube videos to my email address for a number of years with not one problem in all that time.

Any thoughts from the experts....

Still stuck with strange screen;please help!!

2012-04-06T01:36:44Z

Evidently so far no one has solved my problem. If you have any ideas I'll be listening!!
Cliff

If anyone has at least a clue to my problem, please speak up.
Cliff

Sudden odd screen appearance

2012-04-04T21:06:05Z

All of a sudden yesterday my screen took on an odd coloration and extremely high contrast. The resolution of small letters is also not good. I think it may have been caused by my using something I read on Small Dogs newsletter where you could change the appearance of your web page by holding down the CTRL,OPt,and Command keys and typing in something else...lie a number. I don't remember what that was. (Don't ask why I did it.It was a moment of idiocy!!) At any rate, please help me get things back to normal. All my looking in various manuals hasn't helped me.
Cliff

iMac G4 unable to Renew DHCP lease

2012-03-24T00:03:13Z

I'm trying to help my father restore his internet access on his iMac G4.
Just today he did have internet connectivity then for no reason he
can think of he got a message that another program had changed his
internet settings.

He has an iMac G4 running OS X 10.4.11 (Tiger). He is on DSL
We spoke to his internet provider and I tried running the network
diagnostics. His provider wasn't able to help us any further and
in fact they took us through the steps I've already tried.

We have found that he is unable to Renew his DHCP lease and get
his IP address to release and reset.

When I looked at his ethernet connection status the message said
that the iMac had a self-assigned IP address that may not allow
the computer to connect to the internet.

Somehow through nothing my father did the IP address seems to
have been reset to some self-assigned number. We are unable
to release and renew the IP address through the Renew DHCP lease
function in the TCP/IP tab of the network configuration settings.

Using the Renew DHCP lease doesn't affect or change the IP address
at all.

Does anyone have any ideas? The computer has been restarted
several times. The DSL modem has been restarted and all lights are
green. All connections are solid. No cables are loose.

Thanks in advance for you help,

iPad HD. the Pad. whatever

2012-03-08T19:00:13Z

Anyone have one, plan to get one? Opinions?

Empty Trash

2012-03-05T20:50:14Z

I am having trouble emptying my trash. There is a "defective" copy of TurboTax 2011 in the trash. When I pull it out, it has a "Do Not Use" type icon on it and a message saying it is defective. However, when I put it in the trash and try to empty the trash, it tells me "The operation can't be completed because the item "TurboTax 2011" is in use". I don't have any applications open and I have a good copy of that application in my Applications folder. I've tried every key sequence I can think of, but none of them have worked yet to remove the file from my system.

Suggestions?

Mountain Lion

2012-02-22T18:41:42Z

What do we know about Mountain Lion? When is it expected to roar and why so soon after Lion?