Living In A Dust Bowl
I really don't know if I'm posting in the correct forum,,,, sorry if I'm not...
We live in Baja California Sur, Mexico..... Our town is a very small fishing village and all of our streets, (all 10 of them), are dirt. So,, you can just image what we live with dust wise..... I have to open up our 36" Sony once a year and blow / brush out the accumulation of fine silty dust along with other "stuff" to keep it happy.
My question is.... We have a relative new iMac 24" Aluminum Intel Core Duo 2.6 Ghz and it is was purchased November 2007. Should I take the back panel off and "dust" the old boy out??? If so, how do I remove the back.....?? I'm a retired American Honda Mechanical Engineer so I kinda know my way around some stuff. It would be nice to know if there are any little secrets to it? Shoot, I recently had to "carefully dissect" my little Mighty Mouse and clean the dust off the tiny little magnetic rollers so it would start scrolling up and down again....
Any suggestions would be appreceated. I just don't want this iMac to take a dump on us. It is an important part of our lives down here.
Hey,,,, How do I tell what "G" it is??? Or is it just an iMac "plain vanilla"....? S/N W874202KX8A
Thanks
The "G" designation stopped when Apple started using Intel chips. Now they go more by the year they were released, often with whether it was "early" or "late" in the year. For example, "Early 2009" for the current models. Kind of boring, I know...
This web site has a good listing of all the models and configurations.
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/index-imac.html
There are quite a few online references (and probably YouTube videos) for taking apart the aluminum iMacs. Doing so goes beyond normal +user access+, so I'm not sure how much detail the forum moderators will allow directly in the forum. I've taken apart earlier Macs, but not my Intel iMac (not yet anyways).
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I am a 78-year-old Senior Citizen.
I am a native "OKIE" and very proud of my state and "My Sooners" showed the world how to 'hang-together' to win a very exciting, over-time, game. First 'Bedlem" Overtime Game in a hundred years of the series. Of course, until a few years back, if the game was tied at the end of regulation time, it went into the books as a tie, and we've had a number of those. BUT, the Sooners lead the series by a wide margin and I'll never live long enough to see "the Pokes" catch-up or surpass us. I have lived just 25-miles from Oklahoma A&M, latter to become Oklahoma State University. I for one expect to see another name change in the not too distant future and then it will be known as "T-Boone U". I have been an OU fan for over 70 years now and I don't expect to "win them all" nor am I "off them", if they loose. I have been around long enough that I've "stuck by them" when they didn't win a game and I've there when they were 'National Champions'.
Also, we lived through our "Day of Infamy", April 19, 1995. We didn't lose as many as 9/11, and the media doesn't mention the "Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing" but those 168 men, women and the 20 children, were just as important to us as were those that were lost on 9/11. But, we "Okies" remember and we hold a "Memorial Service" at 9:02am every April 19, 1995. We are a fiercely loyal people and a friendly, welcoming, and loving bunch, as we proved when the rescue units came in and when their tour was over stated, "The next time we're called out to an emergency, if they don't live-up to the "OKLAHOMA STANDARD" we aren't going. The men, women, and K-9 Units that came from all over this great country of ours, never had to spend a dime.
Our TV stations stayed on 24-hours a day and when those precious people were in need of food for their dogs, special clothing for themselves, food, and a million other things, we 'OKIES' saw to it that they had the items they needed." They were never charged a penny for food and something to drink when they came off their 2 hour shifts of trying to find more people still alive and they mourned our losses, just as we did. They were given lodging, at no cost, they had hot meals waiting for them, at any tick on that 24-Hour clock. No, we are no longer the "John Steinbeck Images" of times past. Will Rogers, another one of our gifts to the world, made the statement during the dust bowl days and many people had to leave "for greener pastures" because they wanted to provide for the love of their lives, their families. But, Will Rogers said: 'There was a sign post out at the state line with two wooden arrows on it. One had 'California' written on it and pointed west. The other one, pointed south, had 'Texas' on it. Them that could read turn south and went to Texas, them that couldn't read went to California and all three states were better off for it!"
But, if any of y'all are down this way, please take time to visit the 'Oklahoma Memorial', you won't be sorry. Just follow the highway signs that are all over the City, you can't miss it. It is a very sacred place to us and if there are a thousand people milling around, you won't hear any loud voices, no blaring loud - speakers, it just a special place to us and will be to y'all if you'll take the time to visit. And the museum is a must see, too.
Back to the business at hand. I have made the Sunday Bulletin [Program] at our Church for 52-years, NEVER MISSING A SUNDAY! The Ward has never been "charged" for it because it has been a 'work of love' and my husband and I have donated it as part of our showing our love for our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, the Savior of this world.
We have one child, a daughter, three granddaughters, and in this picture are four of our ELEVEN great-grandchildren. We thank Our Heavenly Father, every day, for our family and for living in the greatest country on the face of the earth.
Oh yes, I would be eternally grateful if someone can tell me how to move "MyGen" off my phone. I love doing 'Family History' but I need the almost 16,000 names on a flash-drive, so I can work with those names. Also, how to put a printer access on, since there have been many times I'd like to have saved it directly to a printer.
Thanks a Million, y'all and a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and the BEST OF NEW YEAR'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yes, I would be eternally grateful if someone can tell me how to move "MyGen" off my phone. I love doing 'Family History' but I need the almost 16,000 names on a flash-drive, so I can work with those names. Also, how to put a printer access on, since there have been many times I'd like to have saved it directly to a printer.
<Edited by Host>You would really have to ask the app developer if there is a way to export the data.
As for adding a printer, you would need to purchase an AirPrint compatible printer and connect it to your wireless network.
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My computer keeps blacking out
I have posted a topic like this a while ago, but it started again. When I'm on the computer, say playing WoW, all of a sudden the screen will turn black and the power light flashes on and off. My computer fan was a problem of Apples and it was in the right number group or whatever so I got the part for free I guess and they put it in and it worked for a couple months but now it's been having the same problem.. and alot. This morning I woke up and went to play WoW and within 10 minutes of play time the screen just turned off. We're sending it in again but I'm worried the same thing will happen after it's fixed again. Is there any way I can clean the fan out myself? They said there was a lot of dust inside it when they cleaned it is there a way I could remove that dust in my home? Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
As long as you don't have an iSight, you can open the case and vacuum out the dust. However, it should not have gotten dusty enough to stop working a just a couple of months unless you live in the middle of a dust bowl. I suspect that what you have is really a power supply problem and since it is less than three months since your repair, I advise you to call Apple immediately and tell them what's happening. If they replaced your power supply last time, probably along with the logicboard, you might have gotten a faulty replacement.
Do call them now and see what they can do for you.
Please post back with results,
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Anyone here make a living with Photoshop?
Does anyone here make a living with PS (or close to it)? I don't really mean in combination with anything else (like a graphics arts degree, or "I use it along with these six other programs I'm an expert in, too").
From what I'm gathering, relying solely on PS for income would leave one starving, and I understand that an employer - if one isn't a freelancer - would want an employee to have multiple areas of expertise.I'm 53 now so that made me 38 when I started using Ps. Not that far off from where you are today. All I can say is that it happened very gradually for me, first just playing around then trying to emulate what prepress houses were doing for my clients at the time on images I had shot, to finally doing small jobs myself, usually learning just enough at one time to figure out how to get that one project done.
Then after reading the early Real World books and later the Professional Photoshop series, I began to get a grasp of what it took to start to take on the responsibility of taking on projects where my contribution was a small part of a much larger budget - annual reports that cost a quarter million to print, large campaigns for public utilities that had billboards, busboards and ads all across L.A. I had to step up my game and not just be "as good" as those prepress and retouching houses that my clients used to use, I had to be significantly better. This involved not only being able to do anything they through at me but also saying yes when when they told me I could say no. It also involved learning as much as possible about digital color, digital color management and how to make digital images reproduce their best wherever and however the clients wanted to print. And that led to investment in hardware and software - tens or thousands of dollars in spectrophotometers and color management software that gave me a competitive advantage over my competition and tools that even though many print shops owned, very few knew how to use. It's that constant pushing forward and drive to improve your skills that keeps you interested in a very fascinating place in history.
There's room for anyone good, and even if you're just starting out, and somehow consider yourself mid-career, that's no reason to give up. Before you know it, you'll be able to offer services that others aren't willing to do for themselves and if you don't try to take on too much at once, you'll look back in a couple of years and ask yourself why you were so worried at the time.
There is so much more good information and better, less expensive tools readily available that it's easier today that ever before. Hell, I can remember participating in a Monday night live AOL chat where Chris Cox, the Adobe engineer was the guest and asking him when they were going to start supporting ColorSync and ColorSync profiles, to which he replied something on the order that that was not a very good direction to go in. My how things have changed.
I just finished what it probably one of the most difficult Ps jobs I've done to date - the 2010 Manhattan Wine Auction Poster - for Manhattan Beach, Ca. not Manhattan, NY. It really pushed the limits of my own capabilities, both in the actual shooting and certainly in the digital post production. Here's a link to their website which has the poster on the first page.
http://manhattanwineauction.com/
This was every bit as hard as it looks but most importantly, involved another helicopter ride, taking the doors off a Robinson 44 and hanging out over the ocean. There were three bottles of wine involved in what you see here - a bottle of two buck chuck from Trader Joe's that I drilled a 1/4 inch vent hole in to facilitate a smoother pour, an opened $400 bottle of wine for the open neck and a full bottle so it wouldn't be too transparent - all blended together to form one perfect union. The splash was from a rubber ball dropped on a fishing line into a washtub full of wine colored Kool-Aid and then the concentric ripples from a can of Dust-Off compressed air shot into the same washtube, all photographed with the Canon 1DsMKIII and a 90mm Tilt-Shift lens with a Broncolor strobe that had a 1/7500th of a second flash duration to stop the action. I populated the pier with people from alternate aerial shots and finally used surfing shots from Body Glove for the three surfers at the bottom. The final file was prepped for printing at Lithocraft in Anaheim using a custom profile I made for their press and the printed piece looked as close to what I saw I my screen as anything else I have taken to press. -
Dust under the plastic cover (XPERIA Z1)
Hi, just got the Xperia Z1 I applied immediately Cover of Plastic, supplied in the box with Sony. I made sure to remove all the dust, but as I see it has been a while, and I only noticed after applying the cover.
Now my question is: Can I Remove the Plastic Cover provided by Sony?
Void the Warranty?
How can I fix?
I purchased the Smartphone Z1 from Amazon.co.uk, but I'm living in Italy. There is a safe way to proceed in these cases? The Sony logo on the front will come off if I remove the plastic cover?
The problem is quite annoying when I read in the sun or in the evening in browser with white background.
I am attaching explanatory photos.
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Thank you for your assistance in advance.
Solved!
Go to Solution.Salvo.. simple question.. you said you put on a cover of plastic i.e. a screen protector on top of the screen. Now if there is dust under this screen protector and you remove it then you do not void your warranty... however, if you didnt apply something new and the dust is indeed under the original protector with the sony logo (I dont think this is easy to achieve anywy) then removing the screen protector with the sony logo will void your warranty.
Its rather simple if you have put on an additional screen protector like you said... If so just peel it off....
Don't forget to give Kudos and / or mark the correct answer. -
Dust leaking through my camera lenses
hi, my name is tommy. i lived in indonesia. last december i bought my iphone 5 in US, phoenix.
i have a problem with my camera lenses; there are some dust coming in to my lenses and its become more and more in the last 3months.
right now i have around 10 spot that become sort of shadow when i took photos. i know that this may product defect.
anyone know any way to fix this problem??
here in indonesia; there are only reseller and they dont want to fix my iphone; they dont even want to check it first.
should i go to US or another country which have apple store retail shop to just fix this problem??
any way to fix this?
thanks anyoneyes, but this is such a hard choice for me to bring my iphone to country that have apple store to just fix about this camera issue.
about this issue; can i at least contact the apple repair representative via email??
Are there any appointed reseller or shop that could at least fix the camera without breaking the warranty??
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Cleaning the Dust! Performance Issues
Lately my eMachine T3265 desktop PC has started running really slowly. It's about four years old. I've been told it could be a number of things: RAM, processor or simply that there are too many dust bunnies living inside and it needs to be cleaned. Because the dust bunnies are something I can probably handle on my own, I'm wondering what's the best way to clean the machine..... Once I've disconnected everything and have taken it outside, should I take the cover off and spray the entire INSIDE with air OR do I just simply spray the vents, fans, connections from the outside.
I might not want to tackle this on my own. So if I do decide to take this to the Geek Squad to handle, what additional things can they do as far as cleaning that I can't do on my own AND how much is that service? What are the pros of letting them do it? Also, do I need to bring it into a store or is this a service that is also provided in-home?
Thank you!wow u really like doing colors.
cleaning out dust is pretty easy. there's no "official way" to do it.
1) if it's REALLY dusting, this is what i usually do. get a vaccuum cleaner. get the thinest hose u have with the vaccuum. suck up all the dust first.
2) get those air can thing. they are high pressure but don't worry, your computer component is solder on the board so nothing will come lose
3) while u're blowing the dust off inside the computer, use the same vaccuum cleaner to suck up all the dust that's flying off, because once u blow it off from one location, it'll just land on another location. so use the vaccuum to suck up the air borne dust.
and viola u're done!
or go buy a leaf blower. one blow, every dust will come off :-D (<---- do not attempt, cuz u'll probably rip everythign else apart too)
u said it was emachine right? im guessing low memory. u can try updating the memory. u'll be surprise adding another gig of memory can boost system performance. you got the emachine so i guess when you got the computer it was built barely enough to run the operating system.
if your not comfortable, u can bring ur computer in for 1) hardware diagnostic 2) optimization. sometimes hardware deteoriation cause computer to slow down too. heat can cause the parts to go bad. so the hardware diagnostic can actually detect if something is wrong.
optimization allows geeksquad to completely clean out your computer. software-wise. clean up the junk, tweak your registry, shut down unnecessary program that are running in the background. that will free up some memory for you to do other stuff. -
Hi,
Our setup
A new iPod Touch 5 with iOS 8.3.
Living room speakers that use a Logitech Bluetooth Audio Adapter.
Kitchen speakers that use an AmazonBasics Bluetooth 4.0 Audio Receiver.
The iPod connects to both but always wants to play to the kitchen. To play in the living room, we have to unplug the power to the kitchen speakers. Bluetooth settings screen doesn't let you select between Bluetooth connections. All I seem to be able to do is forget the connection.
We also have an old iPod Touch (not sure of the generation, but it has iOS 6.1.6). On that one, there is a little icon on the now playing screen that would open a little pull-down menu to let you select which Bluetooth connection to use for playing audio.
I don't see the "select output" icon on the new now playing screen
Jimmy
PS the iPod seems very aggressive in connecting. I hear the living room speakers activate when my wife gets out of the car in the driveway. Then as she comes into the living room, the sound switches to the kitchen.Thanks, this was the clue I needed to figure it out.
From Settings you can pull up Control Center.
In Control Center you can enable "Access from within Apps" (also "Access from Lockscreen")
Now when I'm playing music, I can swipe up from the bottom and a little control center window slides up. Neat - this is new since my old iPod. On this window, the name of the current Bluetooth connection appears. Tap on that, and a list of connected Bluetooth items appears. I just tap on the one I want to connect to and I am now playing through the speakers I want.
Jimmy -
I am unable to connect wifi on my phone 4s since last 2 weeks... I am living in shanghai and did not have this issue since 2 weeks... iPad works fine... Please suggest some measures... Tried the on off reset settings etc. but no luck ...
In fact after updating the software to the latest version I am having more of this... Sometimes the wifi button freezes an I can't even slide it to on / off...
ThanksNoooo! Actually I too had d same prob wit my iPhone 4S. When I connect to my wifi network it won't get connected or it wil be grey scaled! I took it to d istore and since I had warranty they replaced my IPhone. It iPad charger has high volt than ur iPhone charger so when u connect wit it, there is a chance where large amount of current passes thru ur iPhone. So for sure it wil damage ur motherboard and its parts! Many said that iOS 6 or 6.0.1 or 6.1 was d reason for tis wifi prob! But apple never made its mistake wit it's software. If and only if u hav hardware prob u wil hav these sort of wifi prob Bluetooth prob! So best way s to replace ur iPhone!
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Can i return my ipod if there is dust underneath the screen
can i return my ipod if there is dust underneath the screen
If under warranty and defective and not abused, Apple will exchange your iPod for a refurbished one.
Apple - Support - iPod - Service FAQ -
Satellite A200-1TW: loud cooling module due to the dust
Hey,
My fan gets louder by the day, and I think this is because there is a lot of dust inside my fan.
I have my laptop for about a year now, and live in an old house (= a lot of dust), so I was wondering: is there a tutorial somewhere on how to open it?
I can't find anything on this site, and on google neither.
The closest thing I found was this http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/02/04/toshiba-laptop-disassembly-manuals/, but unfortunately, it does not cover my laptop :(.
So I was wondering, does anyone have a tutorial on how to do this?
Or some experience themselves with it? I am mostly wondering whether I only have to take off the bottom, or the keyboard too?
Oh, and a last question: how about my warranty? If I open my laptop, do I loose it?Hi
> Oh, and a last question: how about my warranty? If I open my laptop, do I loose it?
This is the most important reason why you should not disassemble your notebook!!!
Firstly you will lose the warranty secondly you could damage other parts!
Ive got other suggestion; why you dont clean the ventilators using a compressed air spray?
There are different compressed air sprays designed especially for such procedures!
This will help you to remove dust and debris from the cooling modules
I cleaned my fans many times using a compressed air this helped a lot of time -
I lived in the US for a few years, spent a fortune on iTunes [my then local Apple ID account]. Now I live in South Africa and want to use Match. I have a local credit card but how do I use my new / 2nd Apple ID and gain access to all my US music??
You have to be in a country to use its store - you will need to be in the US and have a US billing address on your account to be able to use the US store (that applies to buying and redownloading).
You can use iTunes Match in South Africa, do you not have a backup copy of all of your US iTunes purchases so that you can subscribe to it and upload those that aren't in the South African store to it ? -
I am an American living in France and I water damaged my iPhone4s what are my options?
I am living in Europe for 6 months and recently water damaged my iPhone and it will not turn on. What are my options and can i simply just take it to the nearest apple store?
Yes go to the Apple store.
There you will be able to purchase a new phone.
Try keeping the new one dry. -
Help... Have ate in living room & bedroom & I could works fine on iPhone4 as well as ipad2 wifi. I have home sharing enabled on all but when I rented a movie it was all good & charged but the download took over 24 hours & only in the bedroom.... Please help
The remote app can either automatically find libraries available on a network (with home sharing available) or if you haven't got home sharing enabled, you can manually pair an itunes library with the remote app (using a number that is generated by the app and then typed into the itunes library).
That is why I am so confused, as it seems to be the home sharing that is the problem! -
Need help configuring Cisco/Linksys wireless router to extend wi-fi signal to living room
My U-verse wireless gateway is in the back of our house. We live in an old 1920's home with solid wood walls. For our macbooks, we get a pretty decent signal, but my wife's iPad 2 get's poor wi-fi speeds. I bought a Cisco/Linksys WRT160N wireless N broadband router. I have a wired connection in my living room (going to a 4 port switch) then connected to my DVR. I tried hooking up the new router but ended up getting no signal on the iPad. In fact, it caused other issues. I ended up disconnecting it and re-booting my gateway. All came back fine. This wireless router replaces a similar unit that went out in after a power failure, so I know this can be done, but I forget exactly how I confiured the old one. I would like it to "extend" my signal to the living room, but I am also willing to create a new network (different SSID). Do I need to turn of DHCP? Are there any web sites that can assist me in configuring the router? I wish I didn't have to deal with this. The signal from the RG is great when you are in the back room (20+ down). But my wife gets about 3 down on her iPad in the living room. Thanks in advance.
Hi ,
I was doing some research on how this can be done. It does not appear there is an option in the Cisco router to set it up as an access point, but there are several options you can do to extend your network.
The first thing you can do is just set it up as a router behind router setup, and you will just have two separate networks. Make sure the DHCP pool does not conflict with the U-verse's gateway of 192.168.1.x.
The second thing you can do is connect the Ethernet cable to one of the LAN ports on your Cisco router instead of using the internet port. This should make it work like a smart switch.
With both setups, you want to probably change the SSID, network key, and wireless security settings to the same thing for wireless roaming abilities. That way, anyone that configures their wireless connection will be connected to both networks. Just make sure the wireless channels are not the same, and I would suggest having them at least 5 apart.
Hope this helps.
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