Just tried the new FaceTime application for my Mac. It is very easy to use, has excellent video and audio reception. Kudos to Apple developers for a great new application that I will be utilizing with family and friends on a regular basis.
Setting up the app and installing was fast and easy and automatically connects with simply choosing person I wish to call with my contacts list that was automatically interfaced, loaded, and accessible from the app. This will be a great way for my family to communicate via our Macs and iPhone 4's.
I especially like the 'Favorites' tab, where you can use the + sign to select contacts to add to your favorites list. I set up my family in the 'Favorites' list and now can just do a simple click to call either their computer or iPhone 4 numbers to video conference with them. There is also a 'Recents' tab.
The quality is much better than using iChat. You can increase the size of the FaceTime display by using the lower right-hand corner to stretch the viewing area and the quality is still superb. Or you can use the option 'Zoom' from under the 'Window' menubar or use the 'green button' in the upper left corner of the FaceTime Screen. Under 'Video' menubar, you can also select 'Portrait', 'Landscape' or Full Screen mode and it seems to also change it on the receiving Mac as well.
Under the FaceTime Preferences, you can add additional email addresses for you account ID if you wish to give out different emails for your Contact info.
The Beta version .9 looks great and look forward to more options being added in the future.
It is amazing how far technology has come since my first experience with a video phone in 1968 when I visited the San Antonio Texas HemisFair, more than 35 years ago where I saw myself on a phone for the first time.
Can't wait to be able to use this on our new MacBook Air while traveling. What a great way to video conference with the children, grandchildren and especially the new grandson.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Saturday, October 09, 2010
iPod App on IPad Stops Working Fix
Yesterday I discovered that one of my iPad
apps called 'MyBeatPad' wasn't working and I automatically assumed it was the app which I had downloaded back in May or June of this year.
To resolve the problem, I first rebooted my iPad. That did not help. Second, I deleted the app from my iPad and then reloaded from the iTunes
app store. This did not help.
Over the years I have learned that when one has a problem with a computer, printer or other device, that one should always check the obvious. For example, if your printer doesn't print, be sure it is plugged into the wall socket and the cables connecting it to the computer are working. So in this case, I decided that since MyBeatPad was an app that utilizes the iPod
app on the iPad, that I needed to make sure that app was functioning properly. It wasn't. So now I had a new problem, a non-working iPod app that supplies my music features for my iPad.
Scouring the message boards and apple support discussions, I saw that others were also having an issue with the iPod
app not functioning on their devices. The most common solution was to restore the device, which means basically reloading everything back on to the device. I wanted to avoid this solution and instead took the option to just use the 'Reset All' under systems preferences on my iPad. Basically all my apps, music, and photos remained on the iPad. The apps arrangement on each page of my iPad became alphabetical and I lost my arrangement of favorite apps on various pages, but I can live with that until the iOS 4 system comes out this fall for the iPad. All my general settings for connecting to wifi, games, etc were reset, but my iPad now plays music again and the app MyBeatPad works again.
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apps called 'MyBeatPad' wasn't working and I automatically assumed it was the app which I had downloaded back in May or June of this year.To resolve the problem, I first rebooted my iPad. That did not help. Second, I deleted the app from my iPad and then reloaded from the iTunes
app store. This did not help.Over the years I have learned that when one has a problem with a computer, printer or other device, that one should always check the obvious. For example, if your printer doesn't print, be sure it is plugged into the wall socket and the cables connecting it to the computer are working. So in this case, I decided that since MyBeatPad was an app that utilizes the iPod
app on the iPad, that I needed to make sure that app was functioning properly. It wasn't. So now I had a new problem, a non-working iPod app that supplies my music features for my iPad.Scouring the message boards and apple support discussions, I saw that others were also having an issue with the iPod
app not functioning on their devices. The most common solution was to restore the device, which means basically reloading everything back on to the device. I wanted to avoid this solution and instead took the option to just use the 'Reset All' under systems preferences on my iPad. Basically all my apps, music, and photos remained on the iPad. The apps arrangement on each page of my iPad became alphabetical and I lost my arrangement of favorite apps on various pages, but I can live with that until the iOS 4 system comes out this fall for the iPad. All my general settings for connecting to wifi, games, etc were reset, but my iPad now plays music again and the app MyBeatPad works again.
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Sunday, October 03, 2010
Getting Rid of Pesky Recipients Who Don't Belong From Your Mail.app for Mac
When we type a few characters in the To: field of the Mail application
on a Mac, the auto fill-in feature of the Mail program selects an address list for possible recipients. Sometimes, when we make a typo and hit return we then have a bogus recipient on that list that inevitably gets called up as a possible email address.
There are several ways to get rid on this incorrect recipient on the auto fill list. The easiest way is to select the Window Menu bar and Previous Recipient from the menu options.
This will bring up a long list of the possible recipient auto fill choices. You can select the ones you want to remove and delete them.
Another way to get rid of the unwanted suggestions for recipients, involves typing in the unwanted recipient into the To: field of your email, then hit return key and then reselect the wrong address again and click on the small arrow to the right of the wrong or incorrect recipient address. A pop up window will display all the choices that are near to that wrong recipient's address. A check mark should appear next to the one you wish to remove. Click on 'Remove address'. This will also get rid of faulty addresses directly in the To: field of the mail message template.
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on a Mac, the auto fill-in feature of the Mail program selects an address list for possible recipients. Sometimes, when we make a typo and hit return we then have a bogus recipient on that list that inevitably gets called up as a possible email address.There are several ways to get rid on this incorrect recipient on the auto fill list. The easiest way is to select the Window Menu bar and Previous Recipient from the menu options.
This will bring up a long list of the possible recipient auto fill choices. You can select the ones you want to remove and delete them.
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