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Old 8th Dec 2012, 23:09
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And thanks again, Milo; you've conjured up a hilarious picture of sprinting for the courtyard or street, belching flames and smoke from your midsection and epithets from your mouth. Glad you survived.

I'm acutely aware of the danger of batteries shorting, resulting in serious injuries or, IIRC death; seem to remember an instance reported on Pprune some years ago of a photographer whose Lio belt exploded when he was flying as a passenger. I've taken to wearing a photographer's or fisherman's vest, one of those with zillions of pockets, whenever i take gizmos with batteries with me.

Now I'm wondering what influence ambient air temp has to do with battery overheating. When I wrote yesterday the temperature was around 33C, the iPad was charging and, as I mentioned, one could fry eggs on it. Today I let the iPad go down to under 50% charge and only began charging in the late afternoon shade, temp around 25C and falling. The charge is up to 72% and rising rapidly, and the iPad casing is cool.

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Old 9th Dec 2012, 16:00
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iPad opera pop-ups

Does anyone know how to disable blocking of pop-ups in Opera on iPad 2. If so, would you care to share?

Company is using sabre, and opera seems to be the only browser that gives even partial functionality on an Apple device.

I have used opera on my MBPro with acceptable results.
However, using the same company website on iPad, Opera tells me to disable block pop ups, but I cannot find an option for it.

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Old 9th Dec 2012, 18:13
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Are you using Opera, or Opera Mini? Given that you are using an iPad I suspect its the Mini version

All the online help I can find indicates that Opera Mini does not support popups - which makes sense given the cloud-based rendering it uses.

Will the full Opera browser run on a iPad? If it will, try that
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Old 17th Dec 2012, 14:50
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Can anyone recommend a decent dvd maker/creator? I had an excellent one on the old MacBook Pro preinstalled but looks like I'll have to spend a few ££'s now I've had to upgrade to a new Pro! If I'm shelling out for a program, it may as well be a good one. I've made a couple of movies in iMovie already but it is very basic and can't even create a title menu - unless someone can educate me.

All I'm after is a simple program that can create a DVD title menu, create a combination of slideshows and movies (like iMovie), and if possible, also burn the final project to disk to be played in a normal DVD player. The last isn't a must as Burn does this excellently anyway.

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Old 17th Dec 2012, 15:26
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Roxio Toast might be an option worth looking into. Two versions: Standard is about £85, the Pro version is about £125.

Roxio Toast 11 Family - DVD Burning - Video Conversion - Music and Video Capture for Mac
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Old 17th Dec 2012, 16:27
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Doesn't iDVD do enough? I am sure it does a title page anyway and then can burn?
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Old 17th Dec 2012, 19:02
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IThink, that's my problem. iDVD was great and simple and I wish I had it. New Macs don't come with it and the only way to get it is to buy the iLife box off the shelf for £46 which comes with 5 programs, 3 of which I have already (pre installed) and the 5th that I would never use. I am after advice as to whether there is another app out there that for £46 or there abouts is actually a much better buy, or as already suggested, I may as well splash out another £46 and buy a super app.
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Old 17th Dec 2012, 19:38
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anyone tried this freebie?
might do what you need

Burn - Home
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Old 17th Dec 2012, 20:04
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Burn does what it says on the tin - burns. Want something that creates the full movie with titles/menus etc first. Basically I want iDVD, but want to see if shelling out £46 is worth it or if there is something better for that sort of cash.
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Old 17th Dec 2012, 20:52
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try this then
I've used it on PCs. Its not the best, but it will do a job, and will run on a Mac

DVDStyler - Free DVD Authoring Application
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Old 18th Dec 2012, 03:11
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Ahh 5 miles. I too changed macbook in the Summer and had iDVD on the old one, it seems that when I set up the new one (which I now realise didn't have it pre installed) i was given the option to port across software from the final back up of the old one. Looking at the APPs last night I assumed it got there pre-installed when on checking I now realise it came from the back up.
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Old 18th Dec 2012, 07:57
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Thanks Milo, will give that a go.

IThink - I had a graphics card failure in the old one that damaged the motherboard so I didn't get the luxury of porting. Fortunately I had nearly everything backed up on external hard drive!
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Old 18th Dec 2012, 21:02
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5milesbaby, surely a quick look in the App Store will point you in the right direction. There seem to be a few free ones, and a few paid ones (presumably the free ones don't have all the features of the paid ones).

Can you create your video in iMovie, and then burn it to disc?
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Old 18th Dec 2012, 22:08
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iTunes 11.01 - No Synch with iPad or iPhone

Nightmare! All of a sudden - possibly connected with upgrading iTunes to 11.01 - neither iPhone 4S nor iPad 3 will synch (both IOS 6) with the iMac. Tried both wireless and via USB cable. iTunes goes through the motions, but stuff does not transfer across.

Tried switching each off - and the iMac (OS X Lion 10.7.5), rebooted the router, made sure all the right Synch buttons are pressed in iTunes.

Maybe I'll have to try the Cloud, but last time I tried that, I got double entries all over the place and lost the lot trying to fix it.

Any ideas anyone please?
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Old 18th Dec 2012, 22:17
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So I lose my iPhone4, get a 5 and try to restore all the iPhone4 contacts to the new phone. (iTunes, iCloud etc)

Have a file I can see on my 'puter 'Contacts' but the new phone only downloads the ones in iCloud which seems to have saved only about 1/3 leaving me 258 contacts to update long hand. Ace.
(And the last 'Sync' was 1 day before losing the 4).

No photographs saved - good job I'd manually saved them to my 'puter.

Not very impressive at all Apple.
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Old 19th Dec 2012, 06:00
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No photographs saved - good job I'd manually saved them to my 'puter.
Not very impressive at all Apple.
iPhone backup and restore mechanisms are well documented on the Apple website. It is not entirely clear from your description, but it sounds like you did not follow these, in which case you've got nobody to blame but yourself.

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Well since you don't know what I did your opinion is worth jack.
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Old 19th Dec 2012, 10:09
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I downloaded some photographs from my camera (D300s) via the USB cable to my iMac, and then deleted them from the SD card once complete. I then found that they were nowhere to be found in iphoto album! However, when the screensaver comes on - with random photos - I see them passing by as if to taunt me!! Any ideas how to find them?

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Old 19th Dec 2012, 13:49
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Well since you don't know what I did your opinion is worth jack.
Thank you sir and welcome to my ignore list.

For a start, your description as posted above suggests you were trying to simultaneously use iCloud and local backup files... something which Apple tell you in multiple places is not supported.
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I downloaded some photographs from my camera (D300s) via the USB cable to my iMac, and then deleted them from the SD card once complete. I then found that they were nowhere to be found in iphoto album! However, when the screensaver comes on - with random photos - I see them passing by as if to taunt me!! Any ideas how to find them?
Make sure you have All My Files showing in the sidebar of the Finder. Select 'Show All' in Images and whizz through till you find them. Alternatively type .jpg in Spotlight and click Show All in Finder.

Are you sure you didn't download them in Image Capture?

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