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The files for updating our iOS devices (2 iPad 2s, 2 iPhones, one iPad 1) are big and our DSL is no champ on speed (oh thank you VZ & Comcast for shorting the rural areas of the USA). For the latest one (5.0.1) we availed ourselves of the download first then install later option. Sounds easy, and doesn't thereby tie up your iOS device and your MBP. Good so far.

Then I decided to install the update for our iPad 1, to make sure all was well. Hooked it up for synch, and lo and behold, no option appeared to avoid ANOTHER download before doing the install of the update. What????

I hit the web and found instructions for a iOS "manual update", seemed easy. But when I browsed to find the file the instructions named, one apparently named or suffixed "IPSW", no could find.

I did a spotlight search separately, no luck.

Can anyone help me on this? The manual update instruction set says it takes about 10 minutes. Re-downloading will take a collective many hours!!

Thanks as always,

Jim Hardwick

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--- In macbook@yahoogroups.com, Glenn Gutierrez <yah@...> wrote:
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> On 11 Nov 2011, at 10:33 PM, J2210 wrote:
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> > I do a fair amt of scanning from my MBPro running 10.6.8 using an HP 8600 all in one printer, et al. For some reason I can no longer scan using a 125 dpi resolution & Image Capture. Only 100 & 150 presets are available now. It's not a huge, deal but unless I am crazy something changed in the last few days since I used to be able to set any res I wanted, even if not in a preset. 125 is a happy medium for file size vs readability that I had worked out for what I usually scan.
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> > Anyone have a clue, or is this just another one of those Apple dicta sent down to us users whether we like it or not?
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> It could be Apple simplifying overall HP drivers based on HP's own specs. If your scanner has a native resolution based on multiples of 300, which most seem to, then 100 and 150 may have slightly better results anyway (simpler interpolation math)

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The presets shown are definitely such multiples.

Hmm, I'll have to check out the interpolation idea. But without being able now to make and compare a 125 of the same subject, not sure what I can do. The scanner is not new. This change just showed up yesterday. I do now recall an HP sw update, and various Mac updates, recently.

Thanks for the ideas, like I said it's not the end of my world, just annoying.

JH

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On 11 Nov 2011, at 10:33 PM, J2210 wrote:

> I do a fair amt of scanning from my MBPro running 10.6.8 using an HP 8600 all in one printer, et al. For some reason I can no longer scan using a 125 dpi resolution & Image Capture. Only 100 & 150 presets are available now. It's not a huge, deal but unless I am crazy something changed in the last few days since I used to be able to set any res I wanted, even if not in a preset. 125 is a happy medium for file size vs readability that I had worked out for what I usually scan.
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> Anyone have a clue, or is this just another one of those Apple dicta sent down to us users whether we like it or not?

It could be Apple simplifying overall HP drivers based on HP's own specs. If your scanner has a native resolution based on multiples of 300, which most seem to, then 100 and 150 may have slightly better results anyway (simpler interpolation math).

If HP is relying on Apple's generic drivers to handle a relatively new device, that's a little lame, but there's not much choice. I finally had to move from Epson Scan over to Image Capture with my 12-year-old scanner since Epson doesn't want to deal it anymore.

You might check if VueScan supports the HP 8600, if it's worth another $40 to have that exact resolution--and if VueScan can even offer that.

http://www.hamrick.com/

G

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I do a fair amt of scanning from my MBPro running 10.6.8 using an HP 8600 all in one printer, et al. For some reason I can no longer scan using a 125 dpi resolution & Image Capture. Only 100 & 150 presets are available now. It's not a huge, deal but unless I am crazy something changed in the last few days since I used to be able to set any res I wanted, even if not in a preset. 125 is a happy medium for file size vs readability that I had worked out for what I usually scan.

Anyone have a clue, or is this just another one of those Apple dicta sent down to us users whether we like it or not?

JH

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Is anyone using FIOS with airport? Is it possible to use FIOS as the modem and Airport as the wireless router?

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If anyone is interested I can go down on the price and repost it for a cheaper price just for a group member!! Let me know and I will post it and send you the link in a private email

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> I am selling a brand new 128GB SSD on Amazon and private for ship for $160
> if anyone is interested here is the link!!
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I am selling a brand new 128GB SSD on Amazon and private for ship for $160
if anyone is interested here is the link!!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B003Z6Q8Y8/sr=/qid=/ref=olp_tab_used?ie=UTF8&coliid=&me=&qid=&sr=&seller=&colid=&condition=used

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Hi,

As a PC user for many years I've finally succumbed to the allure of Apple computing with the purchase of an iPAD 2. To be honest I haven't been totally faithful to the PC because I've had an iPOD for quite some time but I don't count that since I only use it for my music.

Hope to join in the discussions here now,

Trevor

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Sounds good, thanks. But where is it?

From: macbook@yahoogroups.com [mailto:macbook@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
William
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 9:40 AM
To: macbook@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MacBook] Good article on Macworld.com Managing battery life for
iOS 5 devices.

Worth reading for those of us who have iOS 5 devices.

Long list of switches to flip if you want longer battery life.

I decided to turn off iCloud for the time being and some other "bells and
whistles".

Regards.

Bill.

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Worth reading for those of us who have iOS 5 devices.

Long list of switches to flip if you want longer battery life.

I decided to turn off iCloud for the time being and some other "bells and whistles".

Regards.

Bill.

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On 1 Nov 2011, at 5:50 AM, Cochi wrote:

> My address book now has double entries of every v card I have. How do I erase the duplicate ones? Using "find duplicates" then deleting them does not work. It occurred after I synced to iCloud.

I just had the same thing happen here. I had enabled iCloud contacts sync in the system preference, but apparently not in Address Book. Boom, two of (most) everything.

It makes sense in a way, since we are switching on a different set of contacts. If you click on the red tab at the top of the "book" to view groups, you can simply select the "All iCloud" group and be done. Then you'll be working with just the set of contacts on iCloud.

If you really don't want duplicates, you could select "All on My Mac", select all the contacts on the list, and hit Delete. I'm about to try that. But first go to File > Export > Address Book Archive... just in case. Also, look for weird stragglers. Of 300 or so contacts, I had 2 that hadn't updated yet (because I thought everything was syncing) and 3 others that didn't match up exactly.

G

ps- I've also turned off Google sync right now. I'm hoping iCloud contacts still count as "local" at least enough to sync back out to Google. I'll wipe everything and re-populate on the Google side if I have to. We'll see.

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Hi Rey,

My iPad does the same thing but only in iCal. I think because my laptop is not connected to iCloud the iPad sees two entries. One from the laptop and one from iCloud. I think once I get the laptop upgraded this problem will go away.

Bill

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My MBP got all loaded up with horrow movies last night, iTunes had a ton of
horror genre movies for just 5 bucks. How was everyones halloween?

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Hi,

My address book now has double entries of every v card I have. How do I erase the duplicate ones? Using "find duplicates" then deleting them does not work. It occurred after I synced to iCloud.

I also have my data backed up in time machine. How do I replace the old data (which has no duplicates) with the new data (which has duplicates).

Rey

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