I bought a ipad a month ago, now I took ipad vpn connection from a company through online payment. I am trying to establish connection to remote server but It’s denying and ping replying through full speed. I am not able to connect can anyone tell me a way to connect it.

Did they specify it would work with iPad endpoints ? Do they provide technical support ? What did support say ?

iCloud versus MobileMe
 

I've migrated from MobileMe to iCloud a month ago and am disappointed at the loss of iDisk and the Photo Gallery.

I thought one of the ideas of cloud computing is to be able to access any type of file from any computer in the world. Now this feature is discontinued. MobileMe was supposed to be "Sharepoint for the rest of us".

Does anyone know of any rival systems I can subscribe to so I can still have my photo gallery AND iDisk features?

Lion is a GREAT operating system!:D

Tks,
BF

Bell_Flyer,

Try post #5 on this forum thread ? (N.B. Have not tried myself, just the result of a Google...)

MacRumors Forums - View Single Post - Will iCloud ever provide storage like iDisk?

BF - would something like DropBox work for what you're wanting.I don't know if you'd get all the iDisk features, but you would be able to access what you need once you've uploaded it

Thanks Mixture and TMT!! I am outback the next few days and will try that when I return to civilisation and fast internet.

I dabble with GIS information (very big files). With iDisk, I can click on the file in the cloud (Mobile Me cloud that is), click on sharing options and send a URL to the people who need to download it together with file password if necessary and a short message. I think with the Drop Box I will have to give them login details to my cloud so they can drag the doc down to their machine. I will test this next week and report back.

Thanks for your input.:)

Googe is offering the same for free!

Mixture and TMT - tried the link and it works well. It is good as a personal cloud backup.

Unfortunately it is not a 'share point for the rest of us' hence you can't share big files or pics with friends (unless you give them your login and password to iCloud).

Google features ain't as good as MobileMe, unfortunately.

thanks anyhow.
BF :)

iPAD stuck in French!
 

iPad purchased and having (unfortunately) registered my French address during the "Set-up" procedure the iTunes (and much else) assumes I am fluent in French. How do I either re-register or change the language to English? Please keep any advice simple, many thanks.

Settings -> General -> International -> Language

Et en francais . . .

Reglages -> General -> International -> Langue . . .

Thanks NR; already done all that; "itunes" still in French though! Any other ideas? Will turning off "Location Services" help?

iTunes will be registered using the Apple ID account you set up. If this was done using a French address and credit card, this might be what is tying iTunes to the French store. I don't know if changing your account details to a UK address and UK credit card will do the trick, or whether you'd need to create a new account using UK details and deauthorising the ipad from the old account and authorising it to the new one.

Apple update 10.7.3.

This has apparently caused significant internet connection and internet share errors for Apple computers. You might want to have a look at the downsides of this before downloading. There's a fair bit of stuff on the internet. Easiest way to correct the problem seems to be to go back in time and/or reinstall Lion OS X if that is what you're running. Hope the 10.6.8 for Snow Leopard has no jinxes.

cavortingcheetah,

There was a delta 10.7.3 update that had a few issues. However within a few days of its public release, Apple replaced the delta with a rollup update (only real downside being the larger file size).

I've been running 10.7.3 on a couple of my macs for a while now and have not seen any internet connection issues.

The talk now is about Mountain Lion. Anyone know what to expect?

It's getting close to an iPad!

Apple - OS X Mountain Lion. Even more innovation comes to the Mac.

mixture...
Thank you for that information and I shall investigate further. The Apple Store at Core Centre Johannesburg has had several customer complaints on he 10.7.3. I haven't a clue why it might be a problem in Johannesburg. I'll probably stay undownloaded until I head up north and get somewhere near a Genius Bar.

Apple ipad2 problem
 

I have an iPad 2 and have found that I have two problems when using this forum.

Firstly it does not seem possible to paste quotes in the same way as on a pc. By that I mean cutting the 1 at the end of the url.


Second is that the smillies don't work, it seems, on the iPad.


Anyone got a solution?

Are you using the web browser version or the "app" version ?

A quick google suggest the former might show some bugs if the PPRuNe admins have not applied the relevant patches to fix the problems in the forum software.

I have the app but usually connect via google.

The smillies puzzle me most as on the other sites I use they work fine.

Safari crashes on iPad running 5.0.1
 

Is anyone out there experiencing Safari crashes on their iPads? I've searched the apple forums for a cure - but no seems to have a solution that doesn't include my having to 'downgrade' a revision - something I am loathe to do. Thanks. :{

I Pad 2 Calendar issue
 

Greeting,
I have been using the calendar on my IP2 for a while now- very handy.
But as of this morning it does not allow me to add events and comes up with the followingmessages:

Cannot save event- that event does not belong to that event store.
and
Cannot save event- no calendar has been set.

I dont think I have messed about with settings etc
Any advice please?

Solution HERE, possibly, I know not ipad, but might work.

and HERE for various other methods.

Sorted- many thanks!

Imessage Beta is available for MAC's, google it and you will find it on the Apple site, not the store. This is the Beta version, the non-Beta version comes out this summer with their new software - Mountain Lion.

Enjoy

Mutt

Apple Inc. Shares Top $600 US
 

This morning, for the first time in its history, Apple Inc. shares topped $600!!!!

Wow!

I can very well remember back in the dark days of Apple Computer when share prices were around $12/share!

Amazing feat.

Indeed, and achieved through their hard work and determination in bringing quality product to the market.

And a fantastic marketing department for engendering such a slavish fan-boy culture.

Seriously XV105, give it a rest.

Apple puts a significant amount of R&D effort into developing both hardware and software platforms.

Why do you think none of their competitors come even close in terms of product adoption ? Its simply because they can't' afford (or don't want to spend) the same amount of money on R&D.

As you well know XV105. In IT, marketing only goes so far.... the manufacturers eventually have to put their money where their mouth is and deliver the goods. Apple does that very well. Their platform and industrial design is light years ahead.

Believe me, I'm no fan-boi. I've spent enough time working in the murky depths of the IT industry to be able to see through all the hype the vendors throw out and recognise a quality product when I see one.

I do not wish to knock their products. SWMBO is addicted to her ipad. It is a real neat product. If I could afford any Apple stuff, I'd possibly buy it.

I do wish to knock their tax policies and their pricing. They pay virtually NO tax in Europe, anywhere. None. De nada. Zero.

They flog stuff for USD 800 that costs them much less than USD 80. All the profits are taken through tax mixing in Holland, and "taxed" in Ireland - which roughly translated means they are not taxed as Ireland have yet to tax any of the big Yank firms for any dollars earnt outside Ireland. From there, the untaxed loot goes to the Caribbean. It might get taxed if they take it in to USA, so they only move it carefully, when it suits them, and not the revenue.

Anyway, my chief gripe is Tax. None of Facebook, google or Apple pay their fair share of taxes, anywhere.
They have zero integrity.

All that^^^^.


Nice products are one thing. Greedy pricing, brainwash marketing creating legions of fondleslab fanbois & a hugely aggressive legal ton of bricks ready for any dissenter is another matter.

Shares at a record high
Massive cash pile
Anyone checked when they last paid a dividend?

Something does not add up

Exactly.. Anything "iX..." is the victory of marketing over good sense.

Nope. Just prudent management.

Incase you hadn't noticed, some of those unable to compete with Apple have decided to try their luck at launching frivolous patent lawsuits. Apple needs a bit of spare cash to put up a firm defence.

Apple also has a tendency to like to do a bit of M&A activity and buy the occasional company or buying up some IP when an opportunity arises (Nortel).

Nothing wrong with being cash rich.

Nothing wrong with not paying dividend either, and incase you hadn't noticed, Google, Amazon, Ebay, Microsoft and Dell don't pay one either.

Microsoft does actually pay a quarterly cash dividend of $0.20 / share

But overall it just shows how the public have been taken for a ride by all these IT companies. Companies that profitable, refusing to pay part of those profits to their shareholders, is a con

ooohh... big deal... 15p .... who here has the few thousand Microsoft shares that you would need to make the dividend received a remotely meaningful amount ?

As I said, not paying dividends is no bad thing, especially as your average Joe investor doesn't hold enough shares to get a meaningful amount of money out of dividends anyway.

You know, if you're going to be supercillious with other people, then you should expect the appropriate opprobrium in return for:

Do you actually know how much cash Apple is sitting on? Either you don't in which case you are ignorant, or you do in which case your attitude needs a kick in the nuts.

BBC News - Apple holding more cash than USA

Sprogs
We must stop agreeing like this . People will talk.

That cash is not held in the US of A. It is mainly held in the Caribbean where no tax authorities can get hold of it.

That amount of loot would buy whole countries, and all of New York's lawyers are for sale at much cheaper prices than that !!

They can do whatever they want with divis. The shareholder buys knowing their policy. However, evading the taxman like they do causes you and I to pay higher taxes.

Sprogget,

The underlying fact is that simply hunting dividends will lead you to miss many investment opportunities where dividends are either not paid or are paid, but are fairly meaningless to the average punter because they don't hold many shares anyway. Total return is what matters, not just your meagre dividend income.

Dividends are like the icing on the cake...sure they're nice to have, but you shouldn't throw your toys out of the pram just because chef served you a delicious cake but with no icing.

That's the point I was trying to make even if I perhaps didn't quite phrase it in the best way first time round ! :cool:

Anyway, what has this whole thread got to do with "Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting" ? Money and investing has an inherent tendency to create strong opinions, all no doubt equally valid to one extent or another, but where the chance of 100% agreement is minimal. So how about we shake hands, put this thread to bed and resume normal service on the usual techie content of this part of the forum ?