http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:15:36 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000950.html iCloud looks great on paper, but the effects of choices you must make to enable it are not obvious, so, as a busy person with more than enough troubleshooting to do, I am shutting it off for now. No replacement for iDisk yet. --> I'm probably one of the few people that use iDisk, but I do use it. I... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000879.html If you get this error when trying to upgrade the operating system on an iPhone or iPad: "There are purchased items on the iPhone (iPad) "[name of device]" that have not been transferred" Things to try:... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000794.html When browsing certain sites like Flickr on the iPad, you may be frustrated by an apparent bug in Safari that causes scrollbars within elements on the page to disappear. This can make it impossible to perform certain functions. For example without the scrollbars in the photo selection window, it's very difficult to select the right images to add to Flickr's... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000774.html A lot of people are unaware that it's possible to set up multiple email accounts on Mail.app. You can even add your office GroupWise account! This is true for most mail clients, including Entourage and Outlook, but I'm just going to discuss Mail.app here, since everyone's getting iPads these days, it seems...  ... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000773.html Novell's Groupwise version 7 is not compatible with the iCalendar (.ics) format. This makes viewing your Groupwise calendar a challenge on an iPhone or iPad. In the past, I've used a kludgy method of syncing my Groupwise calendar to iCal by delegating any received appointments to a Google calendar, then subscribing to that calendar with iCal. This was hardly a... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000653.html A few days ago, my iTunes started giving me messages like "iTunes could not sync contacts to the iPhone "My iPhone" because the iPhone disconnected." It wasn't syncing anything to the iPhone anymore. After reading this forum thread I tried resetting the sync history in the iSync application preferences. This did not help and instead caused iSync reminder messages to... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000596.html If you are having problems sending mail from the iPhone, try the following. Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars Under Accounts, click the account you are having trouble sending mail with. Scroll down to Outgoing Mail Server and select it. Make smtp.att.yahoo.com the Primary mail server, if it isn't already, and make sure it is set to "On". Check that Use... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000561.html There are many iPhone applications available, but so far, no one has come out with an official application that does video recording. To get that functionality, you must jailbreak the iPhone and install one of the unofficial video recorder apps, and some type of networking so you can transfer the video files back to your computer. The main problem with... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000504.html My ipod classic died again the other day, after being alternately frozen and baked in my car for several months. I don't believe in coddling my appliances. I tried the frozen ipod reset trick, and recharged it overnight, but nothing helped. All that appeared on it's tiny screen was a "Battery Charging" icon or the "Sad iPod" face with Apple's... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000427.html My old first-generation iPod finally gave up the ghost a few months ago. It showed the Folder-with-a-questionmark icon, no matter what I did. I fully charged it, attempted to restore it, reset it numerous times, all to no avail. Since I had just purchased an iPhone, I didn't really need it, so I didn't bother to send it in and... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000343.html Well, I am just about fed up with this iPod! The "Disc cannot be written to" message is back again, and I can't sync or copy ANYTHING to it, no matter what method or format I use. On any computer! This is getting a little tiresome. Time to write Apple service again. Their page on the topic is not terribly... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000315.html Resolving a "Disk cannot be read from or written to" error with an iPod used between two computers. http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000192.html If your iPod freezes up, as mine did several times before dying completely, follow these instructions: To reset iPod mini, iPod mini (Second Generation), iPod photo, and iPod (Click Wheel) Toggle the Hold switch on and off. (Slide it to Hold, then turn it off again.) Press and hold the Menu and Select buttons until the Apple logo appears, about...