Replacement Battery Information for PRC that operates Mark IV Disklavier

Replacement Battery Information for PRC that operates Mark IV Disklavier

A couple of years ago (Oct 2013), my husband noticed our battery on the PRC for our Mark IV Disklavier was weak.  He had me order a replacement battery.  It is still working fine!  Here is the information for the replacement battery:

The original manufacturer of the battery (i.e. Sharp) has, apparently, stopped making the battery needed for the PRC.  However, there is a manufacturer in China (Hong Kong) that makes an equivalent available via EBay. Shipping is included in the $16.95 price.


Fit Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000, SL-C3000, SL-C3100 battery

			Fit Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000, SL-C3000, SL-C3100 battery US $16.95 New in Consumer Electronics, Multipurpose Batteries & Power, Battery Chargers
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Background:
The Sharp Zaurus was a personal digital assistant (which reportedly influenced the Newton) and was produced from 1993 until 2007. The picture of one below shows that it looks very similar to our Yamaha PRC.

Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 runningOpenZaurus and OPIE, with docking cradle and stylus was produced around 2001. We purchased our Yamaha DC7M42 31-Aug-2005.  You can easily see the PRC was just a custom version of this Zaurus line of personal digital assistants.
 
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Digital Photo Albums for My New iPad Mini 3

I generally use Apple iPhoto to create my photo albums to print.  I have traveled extensively over the past fifteen years and thought it would be nice to save some of my photo albums in digital format to view on my new iPad mini 3.

You can easily save the books in a suitable compressed pdf file format to load onto your iPad.  To do so, bring up your photo album project in iPhoto.  View in All Pages format.  Then click on the first page of the album while holding down the control key on your keyboard.  You should see a list of additional popdown menu options.  Select the Save as book option.  Give your album a name and safe to your hard drive.

I normally transfer pdfs to my iPad via iTunes file transfer method into GoodReader and then from there I use the "Open in .... " option to put directly into my iBooks on my iPad.  That works great and doesn't require syncing via iTunes.

Alternately, you can drag the pdf photo album file into your itunes ibooks and then sync your ipad using iTunes after you select the album and your other books to be synced again.

Once in iBooks you can organize all your photo albums into a category you create - say "My Photo Albums".

Now, you will have a digital copy of your printed photo albums to view on your iPad or iPhone.

I spent one summer making slide shows and albums of old family photos that were stored on DVDs.  Looks like now, most computers don't have DVD players and in an effort to have that archive of those family treasures, I am now proceeding with a digital version that can be stored on my old iPad.  Rather than selling my old iPad for a few dollars, I have opted to keep it for digital photo books and cookbooks.

I can also use my iPad in remote mode with Apple TV to view these albums on my big screen TV without having to load a DVD into a player.





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How to Copy Your Music from a Shared Library to Another Library

I store a copy of all my music CD's on my main Mac desktop to listen to in my office.  When I am home and using another computer or my laptop in another part of the house, it is easy to share my iTunes music library and listen to songs.   This gives me more room on my laptop for other files - mainly photographs and documents I am currently working on.  This morning, I decided I needed to transfer some of my music from my main Mac computer to my laptop so that I could listen to it while traveling.  My laptop is also the computer I use to sync my new iphone 6 plus and ipad mini 3 (which also need some music).

Itunes makes it easy to share music and to also copy music from one machine to another.  To copy your library contents you must authorize your iTunes account on the other computer.  To discourage users from sharing their library with lots of people, you are limited to sharing your library with five people.

If you haven't done so, authorize your computer by clicking on that option under the Store menu in iTunes.

Make sure both machines are set up for sharing music files.  Select Home Sharing under the File menu in iTunes and enter the apple id and password on both machines.

Next, click on the Home Sharing tab underneath the Sharing section in iTunes source list to view the shared library.   (Both computers should be using the same wifi network).

You have access to both libraries - your's and the other computer's.  You can select a song from either library and play it or copy it to your other library.

Merely, select the song or album you wish to copy from the other computer via wifi and select the Import button in the lower right hand corner of the iTunes window and your music selection will be copied to your library.




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