On 12/4/13, 11:16 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 12/4/2013 10:52 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 12/4/13, 10:40 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 12/4/2013 10:31 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:



Sounds like you guys were using the Apple MAIL app. I tried it a couple
of times and found it absolutely unsuitable for prime time. Too
complex,
too many cute features, too much grabbiness.



It must be. She hasn't installed any new programs or apps other than
what Apple told her to install to get the full setup.

Mrs.E. is actually enjoying the learning process and transition from her
PC to the Mac. She was just telling me that she now sees how similar
things are to her iPhone and iPad that she uses. She just installed
"iPhoto", opened it and it appears that all the photos that are on her
iPad and iPhone now show up on the iMac.

She's becoming a geek.



Around here, female geeks are either geekesses or geekettes.

My wife says she refuses to walk down the geekess path, though she's a
whiz with statistics, database design and management and the MS Word
suite. I am astonished at her high level of statistical abilities.

But if her printer at home won't print, I get the call. Downtown, her
employer has a pretty large and competent tech support crew whose ranks
include several women.

The world has changed.



Scary as it sounds, I've been the computer geek, fixer-upper, in house
"tech" or whatever when it came to our PCs. I have always managed to
untangle whatever issues Mrs.E. had with hers and, as a result, was
always "on call".

Her iMac will be different. *She* will have to become the geek. She
won't let me near it. :-)

I think I've pieced together what caused the issue with her mail. When
she first fired the iMac up, she set it to automatically sync to her
iPhone and iPad. I thought it was strange when she went to setup the
Comcast email account because we never entered any account information.
We just put "other" where it lists a bunch of email account options
... "yahoo, gmail, AOL, etc., and called it "Comcast". The iMac
obviously retrieved the account settings from her iPhone because we
never entered any of it. It automatically set itself up. Something
about the send server settings or what they were called was not
compatible with the OS in the iMac and it wouldn't work. Someday when
Mrs.E. isn't looking, I am going to try to find the Comcast account
settings and see what she and the Apple tech changed.



One of the problems with all these new apps is they have automatic
procedures to set **** up, and many times your **** isn't the sort of
**** these procedures can recognize.

When I was setting up my new router yesterday, it "reached out" to my
server and between the two of them, they changed enough settings so that
I could only reach it via a web address. I had to plumb my way through
all the server settings to straighten out the mess.

Also, the new router required me to change the SSID name on one of its
channels so my iPhone would recognize it. That never would have occurred
to me, but a good tech guy at Netgear and I worked together and found
the solution.

Incidentally, the new router isn't made in China. It's made in Vietnam.



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