Need very basic help with calendar - I am such a beginner!!!

OK, I apologize in advance if this is a very silly question. But I'm new to all this stuff and really have no clue as to what I'm doing.
I just got a brand new iPhone. It's great! I am using the calendar feature that came with the phone. But I can't figure out how to make it "talk" to my husband's calendar. He uses Microsoft Outlook. I've skimmed through lots of articles about Microsoft Exchange... but I don't have any Microsoft programs. I am a stay at home mother, and have been out of the technology loop for a while. It looks like I need a Microsoft Exchange account? I can't figure out how to get Microsoft Exchange, and if it's going to cost a fortune.
I'm not even sure where to find which software is on my phone! There is no "about this phone" button that I can find. It's brand new, I think it was 3S and is 16GB if that helps.
Can someone please save me from myself?
Thanks!

You could have the TC join your existing wireless network as a client, or you can can connect the Time Capsule's WAN port to the modem/router.
In both cases the TC's "connection sharing" should be set to "Off (Bridge Mode)".
If the TC "joins" the wireless network you can only back up over your wireless connection, so the second option is preferable.

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yes!
you get one prime email address. the one you agreed to and the one to set up your bt mail, it was in letter confirming bt set up. (order ref)
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Need some basic help with Acrobat and LiveCycle

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/Re: Need a little Help with my new xfi titanium? ?
ZDragon wrote:
I'm unsure about the first question. Do you even have a 7. system and receiver? If you just have 5., you should be able to remap the audio in the THX console.
I do have a sony 7. reciever str de-995 its an older one but its only for my cpu. At first i didnt even have THX installed because it didnt come with the driver package for some reason until i downloaded the daniel_k support drivers and installed it. But it doesnt help in anyway.
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Just got my very first BB and could do with some help with my laptop and calendar (don't know if what I want is possible or available, so sorry it its not )
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Abi, welcome to the Forums.
Google Calendar sync is a perfect option.
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The buttons are in photoshop so can be exported with/without background/glow in any format.
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I am still having problems regarding issue Number 1. PLEASE ANYONE HELP?!
Sorry, I'm not sure about the motion menus. I avoid those whenever possible. But you might click on the menu in the storyline tab (whatever it's called -- the hierarchical view with the disc, tracks, slideshows, etc.) and look at the properties and see if there's anything you have to enable specifically for motion. And be sure the motion button is on on the main display/preview area, but it sounds like you already know how that works.
For your information, here is a screen grab of the menu I am trying to create:
http://www.redhavoc.co.uk/stuff/menu.jpg
I think it is obvious that when a button is hovered over, I want it to glow red, and the image to the right will change to match the respective button.
IS THIS GOING TO BE POSSIBLE????
Yes.
First, your menus have to be layered menus. Unfortunately, there's no way to convert non-layered menus to layered menus, so if you already have non-layered, you'll have to just delete them and create new layered menus. The button (and menu item) to create a layered menu should be right by the normal new-menu item.
Next, the graphical work is all in Photoshop.
Side tip: You may already know this, but I found it's best to use 640x480 for the Photoshop document. When I do text and leave it as a text object in the Photoshop file, it resizes poorly in DVDSP. So this ends up being another 720x480 vs. 640x480 square/rectangular pixel conversion thing. DVDSP plays in the 640x480 world, at least as far as the designer can see. So I keep my images at 640x480, and it doesn't have to resize, and everything looks right.
Moving on... Set up your basic background, the part that won't change (or will have other things covering it, like for your square image).
Then put in all the buttons and images you'll be using, each part in a separate layer. This could have fifteen buttons (you have five buttons, and there can be three versions for each -- inactive, selected, and activated versions) and five or six square images (you said one for each button, and you might want a blank default if, say, you want to add a "back" button on the menu and want some blank or default image for the square when they're on the "back" button).
Sometimes people don't bother with a separate "active" button state, but you usually want some visual feedback that they clicked the button. Also, I usually just build the default (unselected) button into the background; that's less hassle later on, and it will just draw the selected or activated buttons over that when the user is on that button.
Line up all your buttons and images. All the square images lined up perfectly on top of each other, all the buttons in the right places (so you'll have three buttons stacked on top of each other in each spot). Give each layer a short but quickly recognizable name, and line them up in a consistent order. (button1-default, button1-selected, button1-active, button1-squarepicture, then button2-default, ... etc.) Photoshop and DVDSP don't care, but it makes it easier for you later.
Note that earlier versions of DVDSP won't show Photoshop layer effects. (They handle layers, just not the effects, like inner glow, outer bezel, etc.) I don't remember when they changed this, but I think it was version 4.something. So if you're using that method to make your buttons glow, you may have to flatten each selected or active button layer, and you may even need to create a dummy blank layer underneath it first to give it something to flatten onto.
Save the file as a standard Photoshop file (.psd). Drag the file onto your DVDSP layered menu and set it as the background.
Now, in DVDSP, create all your buttons. Just drag boxes over/around the button pictures you have. Feel free to make them extra-big; users won't see the actual area you've selected, and bigger areas makes it easier for people to hit them if they're using a mouse on a computer to watch the DVD. You can point the buttons to their targets now if you want, and set the end jumps on the tracks if you want. (I tend to set the end jumps on the tracks so they automatically select the button for the next track.)
Now's the fun part, since it will actually hook everything up and should be easy if your naming layer order were consistent. Click on the layered menu (in that hierarchical view) and look at the properties window. (Sorry I can't remember the technical names for all these windows; I'm doing this all from memory. So feel free to ask more questions if you can't find what I'm talking about.) One of the properties tabs should have a grid of checkboxes with a list of your layers. Make sure the background is checked for all of the states. Then check the layers you want to show for each button state, as well as the corresponding square image to show for each.
Again, I'm doing this from memory, and I can't remember exactly how things are listed in that grid. But I remember it keeps your layers in the same order you put them in the Photoshop file and shows you those names, so it should make it easy to go down the list and check the right boxes.
And another side tip: You can update the Photoshop file, but once you've put it in DVDSP, if you change the layer order, it will screw up the check boxes you checked. It always shows you the layer names correctly, but it keeps the checkboxes in DVDSP simply assigned to the layer number, so the fifth layer will keep the same checkboxes even if you juggle them so some other layer is now the fifth layer. So if you do juggle the layers in Photoshop, go back and fix the checkbox list in DVDSP.
I put a sample Photoshop file based on yours in
http://dan.black.org/layered-menu-sample.psd
It's quick and dirty, but shows the layer layout, and you should be able to drop it on DVDSP to play with. (I also won't leave it there forever, maybe a few weeks, so anybody reading this in a month or more probably will get a 404 for that url.)
Again, doing this from memory, so feel free to ask if anything doesn't work or doesn't make sense.
G4/dual867 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2GB/0.8TB

Need a little help with Slimbox (Lightbox clone) and Spry data sets

Hello guys!
First of all let me say that I'm not a programmer in any way,
shape or form, and somehow I managed to build me a dynamic
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This is of course only thanks to the many great examples
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script to work with the Spry-generated thumbnail gallery.
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examples aren't available anymore).
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http://www.riotdesign.com.ar/misc/gallery/test1.html
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Okay I guess that's it for now, sorry for the long post and
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Kev,
Where exactly does the .evalScripts = true; text need to go?
Does it go in the href call?
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Thanks for any assistance.
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I hope that some kind soul here is able to help me. My sister-in-law asked me if I could help her re-edit a video that they made of a conference she gave because she didn't like the way some parts were edited. I oh-so-kindly (and perhaps stupidly) offered to help her out!
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The DVD she gave me does NOT look HD. In fact, it looks SD (4:3), so I don't believe it's that.
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If it's the MPEG Streamclip ripping that I'm doing wrong, what are the settings I should be using? What format should I be using so that it is VERY iMovie-friendly?
I want the final video that I would edit to look exactly as the one she gave me. That IS possible, right?
For extra information, if needed, I am running a MacBook Pro, 13", i7 with 4 GB of RAM and am running OS 10.6.6. I've been a Mac user since the OS 9 days.
Thanks in advance for anyone who helps me out.
Serge

Ok. Got it!!!
Z, thanks a lot!! Now things don't look pixelated and my test burn looks exactly like the dvd my sister-in-law gave me... except for ONE THING:
There are these graphics done in I-don't-know-what program with a cube transition. They look like when you do 3D cube transitions in virtual desktop, you know?
Anyway, HER dvd looks completely smooth when you see these transitions but MY dvd looks... well, not right. It looks a bit like the screen or the letters "tremble" or shake a bit. I hope you can understand what I'm saying.
I followed your advice to the letter and everything is perfect with the exception of those transitions (because after the transition passes and you see the slide with the writing, it looks completely smooth).
Do you know of something that I can do to help with this problem?
Thanks again!
Serge

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Hi
I am new to adobe after effects and I have recently purchased a file from videohive (http://videohive.net/item/photo-album-v2/44575) which is great. I am trying to tweak it a little and as I am new to after effects, I would love to ask anyone for some basic help? I will be leaving the country in 2 weeks to get married and my UK wedding reception will be a week after I return so I am in pretty much a hurry to get a slideshow rendered and put onto dvd to play in the reception. I have mastered how to render in PAL format and get onto DVD but I am having a little trouble with basic elements such as adding keyframes.
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Thank you for any help anyone could provide in my panic to get complete.
Best regards
Sean.

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Dear All,
Requirement: PO sapscript layout after some modifications (say, ZMEDRUCK) has to be converted to pdf. Through me9f user will be able to give ranges of PO numbers and can view the print preview for the po. After that on clicking the print button we get the printout of the pos one after another based on the user input of PO numbers.
Our requirement is that when the user will click on the "Print Preview" of po (rather than pressing the print button) it i.e. PO sapscript layout has to get converted to pdf.
If you have already encountered this scenario, could you please send me the source code regarding this at the earliest. If you want to email it to my personal id, please let me know so that I can give it to you. Thank you.
It will be very beneficial for mine if you can send me some source code in this regard. (FYI. We want only Print output of PO sapscript. So, Print Program /SMB40/FM06P [after copying it to our ZSMB40/FM06P program] need to be modified for downloading the PO into PDF where there is no FMs like OPEN_FORM, WRITE_FORM, CLOSE_FORM. So already available source code in SAP forums can not help me.)). Kindly help me at the earliest. Its VERY URGENT
Thank you.
Thanks & Regards
Sudipta

Hi Chaith,
Could you please provide me the source code regarding this at the earliest.
We want only Print output of PO sapscript. So we need to modify only the Print Program SAPFM06P after copying it to ZSAPFM06P for downloading of modified PO (ZMEDRUCK) sapscript layout into PDF.
I am already having some source code from sdn portral. I am attaching it herewith. But it's not working as some constants and variable values need to be given. We want to take download of PO into PDF from ME9F transaction itself.
Could you please provide necessary values in the missing constants and variables and kindly resend the corrected modified Source code to me so that I can run the same code to download the modified PO ZMEDRUCK into PDF . Need YOUR URGENT HELP...
DATA: l_druvo LIKE t166k-druvo,
        l_nast LIKE nast,
        aux_nast LIKE nast,
        l_from_memory,
        l_doc   TYPE meein_purchase_doc_print,
        ent_screen TYPE c,
        ent_retco TYPE i,
        toa_dara TYPE toa_dara,
        arc_params LIKE arc_params,
        aux_form LIKE tnapr-fonam.
DATA: otf LIKE itcoo OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE,
        lt_docs      TYPE TABLE OF docs,
        pdf_bytecount TYPE i,
        nom_archivo TYPE string.
aux_form = 'ZMEDRUCK'.
l_from_memory = c_true.
SELECT *
    FROM nast
    INTO aux_nast
    UP TO 1 ROWS
    WHERE kappl = c_po     " Purchase Order
    AND   objky = t_datos-ebeln
    AND   aktiv = space
    ORDER BY erdat DESCENDING eruhr DESCENDING.
ENDSELECT.
aux_nast-sort1 = c_swp.
CLEAR ent_screen.
CLEAR ent_retco.
IF aux_nast-aende EQ space.
    l_druvo = c_1.
ELSE.
    l_druvo = c_2.
ENDIF.
l_druvo = '2'.
CALL FUNCTION 'ME_READ_PO_FOR_PRINTING'
    EXPORTING
      ix_nast        = aux_nast
      ix_screen      = ent_screen
    IMPORTING
      ex_retco       = ent_retco
      ex_nast        = l_nast
      doc            = l_doc
    CHANGING
      cx_druvo       = l_druvo
      cx_from_memory = l_from_memory.
CHECK ent_retco EQ 0.
CALL FUNCTION 'ECP_PRINT_PO'
    EXPORTING
      ix_nast        = l_nast
      ix_druvo       = l_druvo
      doc            = l_doc
      ix_screen      = ent_screen
      ix_from_memory = l_from_memory
      ix_toa_dara    = toa_dara
      ix_arc_params = arc_params
      ix_fonam       = aux_form
    IMPORTING
      ex_retco       = ent_retco.
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CALL FUNCTION 'READ_OTF_FROM_MEMORY'
    EXPORTING
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    TABLES
      otf          = otf
    EXCEPTIONS
      memory_empty = 1
      OTHERS       = 2.
CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERT_OTF_2_PDF'
    IMPORTING
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    TABLES
      otf                    = otf
      doctab_archive         = lt_docs
      lines                  = pdfout
    EXCEPTIONS
      err_conv_not_possible = 1
      err_otf_mc_noendmarker = 2
      OTHERS                 = 3.
CONCATENATE c_dest t_datos-ebeln c_ext INTO nom_archivo.
CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'
    EXPORTING
      bin_filesize = pdf_bytecount
      filename     = nom_archivo
      filetype     = c_bin
    IMPORTING
      filelength   = pdf_bytecount
    TABLES
      data_tab     = pdfout.

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I should say right up front, though, that although I do pretty well with my own Macs, I know almost nothing about THIS subject. So, please, any help or information you choose to give me, it will need to be in plain, old English as I don't understand all this stuff.
My setup is this: (I don't know what is relevant or not) ......I have a desktop G4 running 10.4.3 that will be the computer I will use to remotely control the Mini. The Mini is also running 10.4.3 (or will be when I get it set up for her). I am connected to the internet through a wireless connection to my ISP. I have a Linksys router and connect to that via Ethernet. We have 4 other computers here at home connected to our network wirelessly.
My Mom will connect to the internet using a modem and AOL
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I've read so much about clients, servers, etc. here lately that my head is swimming and I’m more confused than ever!
Can I even do what I'd like? It'd sure be a sweet deal for me and avoid a lot of frustration for my Mom .......who, incidentally, is switching to a Mac from a PC at the tender young age of 75! Cool, huh? I'd really like to make it as painless for her as possible.
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