The original poster has done just that! I found a local repair facility who was able to replace the PSU but it still don't work! Might be the motherboard. Anyway, so far it's cost me about £85 and much as I love it I'm not prepared to spend more on the basis that it might work. If I were in the UK with my old workshop and lots of UK contacts I'd have a go myself. But I'm in Spain in a fifth floor flat with poor Spanish - so I've just purchased an iMac 21.5 2.7 Ghz. Hopefully it'll last me another ten years!

Thanks Milo and Mixture for your help.

iPad notification problem
 

When using newsstand apps for both The telegraph & MCN sport I can't get rid of a notification that says " connect to iTunes to use push notifications".

Each time I hit the "ok" the caption disappears and returns immediately.

Any ideas on how to rid my iPad of this problem message?

Sunnyjohn,

Enjoy !

I've just been playing around with the Premier Inn App on my iPhone and have discovered that it has googlemaps embedded in it; complete with a usable streetscene.
Just plonk in the location of your choice in the booking form, pick a hotel from the list it throws up then select 'show hotel on map' option.
You now have gold old googlemaps on your display.

A simple way to get round awful Apple maps if you're on IOS 6.0

Beware scuffs and chips on the iPhone 5. :suspect:

I swopped mine for a new one last Saturday as it was badly scuufed out of the box. New one looked OK in the shop and it went stright into a protective case.

5 days later the top is discoloured and the top front and leading edges are badly chipped, worse than the first. Not sure whether to request another swop for a white phone.

Only superficial, but it will severely affect resale value in future. :(:(

Are you serious ? :rolleyes:

You do not buy commodity, mass-produced pieces of technology with the resale value in mind. They depreciate like nothing else, the rate of depreciation rising even more rapidly with each new product release or EOL announcement.

Seriously, there's lots of business kit out there priced at many tens of thousands, but will be worthless 3-5 years down the line.

Exceptions to the rule are very rare, the only one I've found so far are high-end DSLRs hold their value relatively well... I got £800 for a Nikon D700 I sold off recently. But of course the Nikon lenses hold their value much, much better than the readily disposable bodies. The other exception I know of is rare early Apple machines,some of the original ones, if they are in working order of course.

(N.B. The D700 was sold prior to the public announcement of the D600, and so the D700 was still attractive for those who couldn't justify a D800 (which was never intended as a D700 replacement anyway, the D600 is, but I digress !) I suspect the D700 would not fetch as much now.)

You'd be surprised how well Macs laptops and iPhones hold their value. I just sold my Rev 1 (4 years old) MacBook Air for £400 and 3 year old MacBook Pro 17" for £800.

My iPhone 4 64Gb is on sale and should fetch £300+, but it is in pristine condition in it's original box with all the bits.

Nano-Sim iPhone5
 

OK so if I buy one of these new-fangled things I understand that my old sim card (pay as you go) will not fit. I further understand that I should be able to get a nano one from my service provider (Wind - Greece, Orange Botswana). Will I be able to keep the same phone numbers?

Many thanks.

Luddite.

If it's just a new SIM for the same account it should be the same out of the box. If you transfer to a new provider you can transfer the number, just get a PAC/MAC code, or whatever the Greek/Botswanan equivalent is, from your current provider.

I transferred from O2 to T-Mobile for the 4G network rollout and took my number with me. Normally takes 24 hours but, due to the numbers doing the same, it took 48 hours.

ORAC, many thanks for that. Now I'm being advised to buy a Samsun Galaxy S3 not an iPhone. :confused: Anyone any thoughts on this advice.

If you want HD quality video and to play movies then look at the Galaxy note. Google maps show up well on the 5.3'' screen as does everything else. The trouble is when you have one of those 'giants' anything else seems really small!

SIM cards
 

I couldn't be ar$ed waiting on hold to Telstra (oz) to swap my number to the nano sim, so I just trimmed my old sim down to fit. Took two minutes with my wife's sharp hairdressing scissors (don't tell her).

Works perfectly!

(I was already with Telstra and bought the phone outright, unlocked, from Apple)

IPAD Newstand problem
 

Try going to settings - Newstand and check that automatic downloads is selected on for the items you are interested in.

Anyone know when the 2012 iMac is due out?

The 20th of December, that is one day before the end of the world according to the Mayans ;) Apple are pushing it somewhat if they still want to get it out this year. Maybe they'll hang on and bring it out early in the new year ?


SHJ

Ah! The old 2013 iMac trick!


SHJ said

"The 20th of December, that is one day before the end of the world according to the Mayans"


Just because some old Mayan priest said "Fcuk this, I'm not carving any more predictions, it's time to stop!" Throws down his chisel and the stone says Dec 21st 2012 and millions of present day stupids think that means an end to the world and and all it was was the end of the stonemason's elbow that the Priest had been getting for carving some future unverifiable stone chipped decades. :rolleyes:

Looking for a Calendar I can sync with family (mac)
 

Hi,

I'm looking for a Calendar that I can use on my macbook/ipad and sync with my wife's. We would like to both make changes to it and for the changes to show up in each others calendar via auto sync. I'm looking to see if Ical does it- but it seems via icloud it can only be done via one account?

Any tips?

Thanks.

That should be possible with iCal, see here:

iCloud: Share a calendar with others

Thanks, ICAL running a treat now!

Cheers!

IOS 6
 

Is it fixed sufficiently to be worth downloading to my 3GS iphone?

HTC

I've been using it on my iPhone 5 for a while and don't have an issue with it.

Admittedly I don't use the built-in Maps app much which seems to have been most people's bone of contention. I suspect Apple are working on a fix for that, but fixes will be released gradually but ASAP. I've got a copy of London AZ and various other city maps whose format I prefer anyway.

A couple of people I know with iPhone 3GS who have updated to iOS 6 and it appears to work. The thing they missed most was the old Maps app, but I don't recall them having much else to say about it. It doesn't get all of the bells and whistles, but I believe most of the useful stuff is there like, iCloud syncing of shared calendars and todo lists.

I see Apple have revamped the iMac and in doing so have denied me the pleasure of buying and installing Crucial RAM and OWC SSD drives as it is now Apple items or nothing.

My mistake - the 27" iMacs can have non Apple RAM....so much cheaper.....

Some iPad 3 [only 6 months old] owners are going to be pissed off - the iPad 4 is now available!

Reformating Mountain Lion - iphoto problems
 

I've just done a clean install of ML and put most folders back. However when it came to iphoto all the folders in it had disappeared. Instead all the photos were installed as one folder and in certain cases in triplicate. My question is do I have to go through over 1000 photos to delete the triplicates and make up new folders, or am I doing something wrong?

Is there a better solution to iphoto?

Could I ask someone to give me a bit of ipad help on how to send e mails using wifi in France please? [Yes I have spent a lot of time on google and still can't sort it]
For c 20 months I've used my ipad using wifi to send e mails from bars, hot spots etc.Although I couldn't get TalkTalk to work I could use gmail OK.
I've now signed up to SFR's 'wifi illimite' 7 euros a month contract as I have a very strong SFR WiFi Public signal in our appartment.But now the gmail doesn't work [for outgoing emails] either.
I know it's to do with the smtp server and blocked ports but, try as I might, I just can't get the configuration right.So, if I want to send an email ,I've got to go out to the internet cafe etc.
Anyone able to give me a [really] Noddy guide on what to do ?
I'm in the UK and going to France in Nov

As a general rule*, you need to use the SMTP (outgoing mail) server of the internet provider you're actually connected to at the time - not the one who provides the mail. They tend to check your IP address, so if you try to send via e.g. O2 UK when you're on Orange in France, it won't work. Try smtp.<provider>.fr e.g. smtp.wanadoo.fr , smtp.orange.fr etc.

* yes, there will be exceptions

Use a service such as smtp.com for roaming smtp sending.

I use the maps quite a lot so maybe I'll wait then.

HTC

bnt/Milo/mixture
Thanks
I'm going to France end of Nov-will report back [or, if successful, whilst I'm there]

Alternatives to iPhoto
 

iPhoto works well most of the time but when it has an aberration it is a pain in the backside. It upsets all your folders and puts photos in the wrong order and goodness knows what else. We've just spent weeks putting them all back in order after it had a go.

A good alternative is to download your photos straight into the Pictures folder and open them up in Preview. Preview has some editing features but I use Snapheal, available from the Mac Apps page. It has some really good editing features, not the least the fact that you can erase unwanted stuff like telephone wire and electricity pylons very easily and with no apparent side effects.

Pentagon to acquire Apple and Android devices
 

Pentagon plans to buy iPhones, Androids in threat to BlackBerry&rsquo;s market share - The Washington Post

Is it possible to secure Apple and Android devices to the same (not perfect) standard as Blackberry's ?

I haven't tried it, but on reading the enterprise deployment documentation for iOS devices, it sound feasible. My understanding is that you can for example, lock down an iOS device so that it can only connect via VPN to the Internet. The VPN end-point would be your own corporate servers, thus subjecting the iOS device, where ever it is, to the same filtered Internet the in-house employees get. It also means the iOS device effectively operates inside the company network, and is able to access the usual corporate intranet services.

Android is not something I've looked into. We had a couple of projects that wanted to use it, but they had great difficulty securing the systems to the satisfaction of the Information Assurance bods. That was a couple of years ago though, so maybe things have changed. I haven't seen the security model of Android either, as I have for iOS.

There was a report by the SANS Institute in late 2011, that describes how some of the techniques, like those native to the iOS Enterprise deployment tools, can be implemented, but at that time they were pretty much a DIY job. This involved getting messy with command line access to the device over SSH. That was a year ago, so I would be surprised if things haven't moved on and Google and third parties haven't developed tools and scripts to automate much of this.

TWT,

Can't speak much for Android, but its certainly viable with Apple.

For a start, the platform itself is very solid and stable. If you don't jailbreak an iPhone/iPad it has a very small vulnerability footprint.

There are already enterprise deployment tools available (for free or little cost I might add... especially compared to the expense of Blackberry and BES Enterprise !). The more large customers Apple gets onboard, the more features the enterprise tools will gain.

But the existing Apple tools already cover most of the core bases e.g. ability to set key restrictions (e.g. no app install, no camera, no you tube, no iCloud etc. ). And it works well .... for example, if you restrict camera usage, the iPhone hides all references to the camera (i.e. no camera app to be seen).

With Apple's APNs service (free at point of use, just need a low cost developer account to get a certificate) corporates can push notifications to intranet apps they may build. No need for Apple servers either, you can push messages from a 5-10 line PHP/Python/Perl script ! Push email is a given with Exchange and probably other major platforms too.

A colleague and I have recently switched from Blackberry 9900s to iPhone 5s and I tell you, I'm not bemoaning the loss of the Blackberry.

Thanks for your comments mixture,much appreciated.

To those wanting to order a new iMac I am told the Apple Store preorder page may be [May be!] updated tomorrow Wed 14th Nov. I am not holding my breath though.....

Something must be screwing up the delivery of Late 2012 iMacs as I have never known the present non availability [even non preorder situation] for such a long period.

Will the 27" be in stores by Christmas even? Nearly a 2013 model then.......

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Macbook Pro Parallels and OAT CBT problem!
 

Hi everybody!

I have a Macbook Pro and I've just installed Windows 7 on Parallels. It runs perfectly.
However every time I try to install the OAT Essential Mathematics and Essential Physics part 1 & 2 software, an error like this comes up:

"Could not open input file
\\psf\lessons\FM-ene-conserv.dxt"

If I choose to ignore every file, other errors like this comes up!

Does someone know how to solve this problem? I have searched the web for information but i have found absolutely nothing.

Thank you for your attention,

Luca

"\\psf\lessons\FM-ene-conserv.dxt"


This refers to a shared drive, likely on your employer's servers.

Has your employer provided a remote access mechanism ? Sounds like this isn't working correctly. Speak to your IT department and tell them that "the remote access mechanism is not correctly mapping the shared drive on psf".

Oh, and don't mention Mac and Parallels to them.... they should troubleshoot the Parallels install of Windows 7 just like a normal Windows 7 machine.

I have no employer! I'm only a 19 yo guy trying to pass the assessment at OAA! :O

How can I fix it on my own?

In which case, it sounds like a software developer at OAA might not have removed a hard-coded link to the shared drive.

Much as I'd like to help more, I think you'll need to speak to the IT people at whoever provided the software.

Best of luck with the training.

one possible answer is that you've incorrectly configured the installation as a client / server setup, rather than as standalone