Posts by Graham Reeves

I was pretty annoyed when Apple dropped support for PPC, as I had loads of old applications that would not run, including Quicken, the 2007 version of Office, and old games and utilities. I found I didn't really miss most of the...

I upgraded to 10.7.3 about 2 weeks ago. The good news In 10.7.2 I needed to restart the machine quite often, when coming out of sleep mode, because the screen appeared to be inaccessible. This was a major problem happening everyday,...

I made a resolution not to do OS upgrades till the noise dies down, but was so fed up with the post sleep problems that required a restart that I did this upgrade as soon as I had time. Prior to the upgrade, whenever my new iMac went...

Quote: Originally Posted by boriscleto Just turn off Automatic upload in iPhoto. Right, but even better if they could figure out the stuff you want and upload automatically. So deleting photos you delete in iPhoto and replacing...

This is a good step in making Photostream useful, by getting rid of photos you don't want to keep anywhere. Even more importantly, it now needs the same change on Mac in IPhoto. Problem now is you take 20 photos on a camera, and...

Quote: Originally Posted by Graham Reeves Today, I set up a new Time Capsule. I replaced an old LaCie Disk and an old Airport, changing the network name along the way. All of our devices are ok, and backups running smoothly ok,...

Today, I set up a new Time Capsule. I replaced an old LaCie Disk and an old Airport, changing the network name along the way. All of our devices are ok, and backups running smoothly ok, apart from inability to print. I have a...

Quote: Originally Posted by gdog i think lion is better in almost every way. if you have a new mac it should run smooth. i upgraded office and quicken and i think both upgrades are slightly improved. lion tweaks 1.3 software fixes...

Quote: Originally Posted by AppleLover123 I am about to purchase a new MacBook Pro with OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard installed and I was wondering if I should bother upgrading to OS X Lion. It has been getting loads of bad press and it is...

As mentioned the method of blanking out the password in Mail prefs no longer works. The way to do it is to deliberately put a bad password in prefs. Goofy but it works.