Apple stuff - Mac, iPad, iphone
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PCs and Macs can file share over a network, but it can be difficult to set up. I have encountered Windows machines that refuse to mount Mac shares and vice versa, even when settings are identical to other working pairs.
And if you really can't get shares going, you can also just resort to FTP or SFTP. The mac has both of those built-in and you can get free FTP/SFTP servers for windows.
NTFS is OK for a one way transfer from PC to Mac, as the Mac can read NTFS, but won't write to them.
See Paragon NTFS for Mac or Tuxera NTFS for Mac.
Paragon also do HFS+ for Windows.
Never used em myself because I use network shares to get around the file system format problem. But they are out there !
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Try Neooffice for your word processing requirements, its free! It also includes presentation, spreadsheet and database functions. As for photos, try Picassa, once again its free.
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NeoOffice was created when there was no Open/LibreOffice for Mac.
Used it for a while - pretty nice.
Now that Open/LibreOffice have Mac versions, little advantage and it costs.
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Used it for a while - pretty nice.
Now that Open/LibreOffice have Mac versions, little advantage and it costs.
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[sorry NeoOffice.....!]
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Can Ipad browse an OFFLINE website?
Under windoze this is trivial. Click on index.htm and off it goes, running the locally stored website tree off the hard drive etc.
There seems to be no obvious way of doing that on IOS. One may be able to fetch a website (going through every possible link, however) and somehow retain the cache, but the browser will reload many/most pages when you do Back etc...
The Ipad is not (yet) jailbroken but I can access some app directories using Iphone Explorer. For example I can drag/drop files into Goodreader's Documents directory and that works great for loading PDFs to read later, without messing with Itunes.
So I need an app whose Documents dir is externally accessible and which is a web browser
There seems to be no obvious way of doing that on IOS. One may be able to fetch a website (going through every possible link, however) and somehow retain the cache, but the browser will reload many/most pages when you do Back etc...
The Ipad is not (yet) jailbroken but I can access some app directories using Iphone Explorer. For example I can drag/drop files into Goodreader's Documents directory and that works great for loading PDFs to read later, without messing with Itunes.
So I need an app whose Documents dir is externally accessible and which is a web browser
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peterh337 ,
Sigh.... yet more un-necessary Apple bashing.
To be frank, browsing websites offline is not something your average punter is ever likely to feel the urge to do, whether they use Apple, Android or something else.
As for your "Politburo didn't intend" comment.... when was the last time you were involved in quality software development ? Adding a feature like offline browsing takes more than a couple of lines of code.
Hence the functionality is not built-in. Submit a feature-request if you want it to be on their radar for future developments, just like you would with any other vendor.
Sigh.... yet more un-necessary Apple bashing.
To be frank, browsing websites offline is not something your average punter is ever likely to feel the urge to do, whether they use Apple, Android or something else.
As for your "Politburo didn't intend" comment.... when was the last time you were involved in quality software development ? Adding a feature like offline browsing takes more than a couple of lines of code.
Hence the functionality is not built-in. Submit a feature-request if you want it to be on their radar for future developments, just like you would with any other vendor.
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As for your "Politburo didn't intend" comment.... when was the last time you were involved in quality software development ?
Adding a feature like offline browsing takes more than a couple of lines of code.
The basic issue is that IOS works hard to not expose what is normally called a "file system".
Yet, the file system is there, exposed perfectly well (to a degree supported by Apple) using widely used tools, with no jailbreaking involved.
Anyway, Atomic Web browser says it supports "Option to save webpages as HTML Only or Complete (Webarchive)" so I will give that a try
One has to go online first and let it grab the whole lot, which is OK.
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Emails disappearing from IPad
I was checking my emails on the IPad last night (TalktTalk account). I noticed there were 4 new ones but couldn't open them, then they all disappeared - opened and unopened ones. Not in the trash. Checked the account today on the PC - none of the ones I noticed last night were there. There was one email I particularly needed to read - anyone got any idea of what went wrong and what I can do to put it right?
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any chance someone else read then on another machine?
how much is in the mailbox? AOL impose a limit on how big a mailbox in their system can be. Not sure what it is, but when you hit it funny things like this can happen
how much is in the mailbox? AOL impose a limit on how big a mailbox in their system can be. Not sure what it is, but when you hit it funny things like this can happen
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and no chance anyone has hacked the account?
Symptoms suggest they were read and deleted from another machine - maybe by someone who has broken in.
Obviously I don't know if thats correct, but I'd treat it as time to change passwords on the account
Other logical option is that you deleted a bunch in error without realising - only you can answer to the liklihood of that
Symptoms suggest they were read and deleted from another machine - maybe by someone who has broken in.
Obviously I don't know if thats correct, but I'd treat it as time to change passwords on the account
Other logical option is that you deleted a bunch in error without realising - only you can answer to the liklihood of that
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No chance account was hacked - have recently changed password. I'm certain I didn't block-delete - couldn't even get the blessed things to open, then pfff, they were gone! I had a quick shufti at the TalkTalk customer forum - looks as if TT might be the cause of the problem as others are reporting missing emails/blocked accounts/unable to read mail etc. 
Can anyone recommend an alternative provider? 
Can anyone recommend an alternative provider?
Jailbreak my iPad?
I'm new to iPad and have read about jailbreaking. Can the cognoscenti outline the whys and wherefores of this, what the advantages and uses are, and opinions on the value of the procedure?