What does the little bubble with three dots on the lower left side of the Messages screen on my iPhone 4 mean?

frequently, after messages are exchanged on my iPhone 4 there is a little bubble on the lower left of the message screen that has three dots. What do they mean?

It means the other person is typing.

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There is a circle on the lower left corner of the images in Event Library, what is the cause please?

I wouldn't spend too much time worrying, but also don't assume that it will continue functioning normally. I dropped a MacBook Pro and dented it in around the same place, and it worked fine for a month, then died out of the blue. Any physical trauma can produce damage that can worsen over time, as cracked or weakened connections expand and contract due to heating and cooling. In my case, repairs would have been more than $1,000. (I chose to just buy a new one instead.)
So, hope for the best, but plan for the worst. Make sure you are maintaining a good set of backups, and be prepared for the possibility of a large repair bill in the future.

What does the little circle with a line in it mean when in edit mode? how can I get rid of it?

What does a little circle with a line in it mean when I am trying to edit? how do I get rid of it?

robynlwitheridge
What version of Premiere Elements are you using and on what computer operating system is it running?
From your description "little circle with a line in it", that sound like a symbol when you are trying to do a cannot do operation.
What exactly are you doing in your edit activities when you see this circle with a line in it? Is it at the end of the mouse cursor?
Can you post a screenshot of it?
If my first impression of what this is happens to be correct, then "How do I get rid of it?" answer comes from
a. defining what you want to do
and
b. correcting any mis-steps you are taking in doing that
We will be watching for your follow up.
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What does the faded music with a dotted circle beside it mean in the on this iPhone tab

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Hi sjchr,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The red square with a red circle around it is a symbol for a download in progress.
Songs that have a cloud symbol beside them have been purchased, but don't reside on your device.
When you click on the cloud icon, the song will be downloaded to the device, and you see a red square with a circle moving around. If you wanted to stop the download, you would tap on the red square.
Sometimes there may be an issue with the download, or the file may be corrupt.
If the song is not playing correctly, the first thing I would suggest is to restart / reset your device:
iOS: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1430
If the issue persists, you may need to redownload the song.
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
Cheers,
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What does the little cloud with a down arrow next to a song mean

I upgraded my phone from iOS6 to iOS7 and had to remove all my music to get enough space which is fine because I wanted to reload it anyways. When I opened the music app, thinking there would be no music there, I was surprised to fine hundreds of songs each with a little cloud with a down arrow next to them. What does the little cloud with the down arrow mean? If I click on it am I purchasing something? Are they songs I can listen to for free? I don't use and have never signed up for an iCloud account so they can't be songs I purchased because I haven't purchased any songs.

Means they are stored in the cloud and you need to download them.
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I purchased a free app from App Store for my iPhone 5s, iOS version 7.1.2. It will not download; just gives me the little cloud with arrow pointing down. What do I need to do to get the app to load?

Hello mjhardy,
After reading your post, it sounds like you are experiencing an error while downloading apps. You may want to consider restarting the device first, and then resetting if that does not work. This article provides detailed instructions for Restarting, and Reseting:
Turn your iOS device off and on (restart) and reset
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Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button on the top of your device until the red slider appears. Then drag the slider to turn your device completely off.
After the device turns off, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button again until you see the Apple logo.
How to reset
You should reset your device as a last resort and only if you can't restart it.
To reset, press and hold both the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for at least 10 seconds, until you see the Apple logo.
Thank you for contributing to Apple Support Communities,
BobbyD

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2. The internal drive's directory structure has become damaged. This requires usage of an alternate bootable system to perform the repair.
3. Critical system files have been deleted. This requires usage of an alternate bootable system to reinstall them.
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What does Adobe export do with images within the PDF being exported?

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robynlwitheridge
What version of Premiere Elements are you using and on what computer operating system is it running?
From your description "little circle with a line in it", that sound like a symbol when you are trying to do a cannot do operation.
What exactly are you doing in your edit activities when you see this circle with a line in it? Is it at the end of the mouse cursor?
Can you post a screenshot of it?
If my first impression of what this is happens to be correct, then "How do I get rid of it?" answer comes from
a. defining what you want to do
and
b. correcting any mis-steps you are taking in doing that
We will be watching for your follow up.
Thanks.
ATR

My mac is running slow, the spinning beach ball constantly appears. it seems that when i am in the apple store with fast wifi its a bit better. genius at the apple store checked the hard drive, it's all fine. what can it be?

my mac is running slow, the spinning beach ball constantly appears. it seems that when i am in the apple store with fast wifi its a bit better. genius at the apple store checked the hard drive, it's all fine. what can it be? can it be a software issue with the wifi?
also i noted that it has only been doing this since quite recently, before it was fine
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First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
Step 1
This diagnostic procedure will query the log for messages that may indicate a system issue. It changes nothing, and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |hfs: Ru|I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|NVDA\(|timed? ?o' | tail | open -ef
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key.
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command. Normally the command will produce no output, and the window will be empty. If the TextEdit window (not the Terminal window) has anything in it, stop here and post it — the text, please, not a screenshot. The title of the TextEdit window doesn't matter, and you don't need to post that.
Step 2
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Reset the System Management Controller.
Run Software Update. If there's a firmware update, install it.
If you're booting from an aftermarket SSD, see whether there's a firmware update for it.
If you have a portable computer, check the cycle count of the battery. It may be due for replacement.
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Select All Processes from the View menu or the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
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Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combinationcommand-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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HT3964 What does a file folder with a question mark that appears upon startup?

What does a file folder with a question mark which appears on startup mean??

That folder with the question mark icon means that the MacBook can't find the boot directory. That can either mean it can't find the hard drive or the Operating System data on the hard drive is somehow corrupted.
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Or if you are running 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion or 10.9 Mavericks, boot from the recovery partition (Command +R on boot) and use Disk Utility to repair your OS 10.7 or 10.8 partition.
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If it is, then click on the Mac OS partition of your hard drive in the left hand list. Then select the First Aid Tab and run Repair Disk. The Repair Disk button won't be available until you've clicked on the Mac OS partition on your hard drive. If that repairs any problems run it again until the green OK appears and then run Repair Permissions. After repairing use Startup Disk from the same menu to choose your hard drive for restarting from your hard drive.
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Why method parameter end with three dots

i generate hibernate pojos + hybernate mapping + dao. in dao class i have some doubt in coding please clear.
package org.triology.blog.hibernate;
import org.triology.blog.GenericDAO;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import org.hibernate.Criteria;
import org.hibernate.FlushMode;
import org.hibernate.Query;
import org.hibernate.LockMode;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.criterion.Restrictions;
import org.hibernate.criterion.Criterion;
import org.hibernate.criterion.Example;
* Generated at Wed Jul 30 16:57:35 IST 2008
* @author Salto-db Generator v1.0.16 / Pojos + Hibernate mapping + Generic DAO
* @see http://www.hibernate.org/328.html
public abstract class AbstractHibernateDAO<T, ID extends Serializable> implements GenericDAO<T, ID> {
private Session session;
private Class<T> persistentClass;
public AbstractHibernateDAO() {
this.persistentClass = (Class<T> ((ParameterizedType) getClass().getGenericSuperclass()).getActualTypeArguments()[0];
public void setSession(Session session) {
this.session = session;
protected Session getSession() {
if (session == null)
session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession();
return session;
public Class<T> getPersistentClass() {
return persistentClass;
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public T getById(ID id) {
return (T) getSession().get(getPersistentClass(), id);
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public T getById(ID id, boolean lock) {
if (lock) {
return (T) getSession().get(getPersistentClass(), id,
LockMode.UPGRADE);
} else
return getById(id);
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public T loadById(ID id) {
return (T) getSession().load(getPersistentClass(), id);
public void save(T entity) {
getSession().save(entity);
public void update(T entity) {
getSession().update(entity);
public void saveOrUpdate(T entity) {
getSession().saveOrUpdate(entity);
public void delete(T entity) {
getSession().delete(entity);
public void deleteById(ID id) {
getSession().delete(loadById(id));
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public List<T> findAll() {
return findByCriteria();
* Use this inside subclasses as a convenience method.
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
protected List<T> findByCriteria(Criterion... criterion) {
Criteria crit = getSession().createCriteria(getPersistentClass());
for (Criterion c : criterion) {
crit.add(c);
return crit.list();
* Find by criteria.
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public List<T> findByCriteria(Map criterias) {
Criteria criteria = getSession().createCriteria(getPersistentClass());
criteria.add(Restrictions.allEq(criterias));
return criteria.list();
* This method will execute an HQL query and return the number of affected entities.
protected int executeQuery(String query, String namedParams[], Object params[]) {
Query q = getSession().createQuery(query);
if (namedParams != null) {
for (int i = 0; i < namedParams.length; i++) {
q.setParameter(namedParams, params[i]);
return q.executeUpdate();
protected int executeQuery(String query) {
return executeQuery(query, null, null);
* This method will execute a Named HQL query and return the number of affected entities.
protected int executeNamedQuery(String namedQuery, String namedParams[], Object params[]) {
Query q = getSession().getNamedQuery(namedQuery);
if (namedParams != null) {
for (int i = 0; i < namedParams.length; i++) {
q.setParameter(namedParams[i], params[i]);
return q.executeUpdate();
protected int executeNamedQuery(String namedQuery) {
return executeNamedQuery(namedQuery, null, null);
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public List<T> findByExample(T exampleInstance, String[] excludeProperty) {
Criteria crit = getSession().createCriteria(getPersistentClass());
Example example = Example.create(exampleInstance).excludeZeroes().enableLike().ignoreCase();
for (String exclude : excludeProperty) {
example.excludeProperty(exclude);
crit.add(example);
return crit.list();
in above class my doubt is
* Use this inside subclasses as a convenience method.
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
protected List<T> findByCriteria(Criterion... criterion) {
Criteria crit = getSession().createCriteria(getPersistentClass());
for (Criterion c : criterion) {
crit.add(c);
return crit.list();
why we pass findByCriteria parameter end with three dots (Criterian...)
Edited by: BalaTTPL on Jul 31, 2008 8:53 AM

protected List<T> findByCriteria(Criterion... criterion) {
    Criteria crit = getSession().createCriteria(getPersistentClass());
    for (Criterion c : criterion) {
        crit.add(c);
    return crit.list();
}The "Criterion..." argument just means that you can call the method with any number (zero or more) of Criterion references. Within the method criterion is treated like an array - for instance in the for loop.
The notation is known as "varargs" and is described in the JDK1.5 [Tech notes|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/language/varargs.html].

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Dan,
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I discovered these two occurrences by doing Metadata > Export Keywords, opening the exported file in an editor, and then searching for "gwenn". I found two occurrences of "gwenn":
gwenn
schwartz
{gwenn}
From this, you can see that the keyword "schwartz" has 9 synonyms, of which "gwenn" is one.
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This illustrates the behavior I mentioned above: The criterion "Keywords contains x" will match against any of a pic's assigned keywords, any of those keywords' ancestor keywords, and any of the synonyms of the assigned keywords and their ancestors.
So LR is operating correctly here, if not in a way that's easy to understand.
It appears that you are using the synonyms of "schwartz" to represent individual members of the Schwartz family. A better way of representing family relationships is to have a parent keyword "Schwartz", with subkeywords for each family member, e.g. "Gwenn Schwartz", "Joe Schwartz", "Jane Schwartz", etc. Repeating the family name in the subkeywords has a couple of advantages. LR usually only displays the "leaf" name of a keyword, so instead of showing you just "Joe", it will show you "Joe Schwartz", helpful when there are a number of different people whose first name is "Joe". Also, if you ever export your pics to other software, it may not understand the LR hierarchy and won't show the parent keywords, so again it's more informative to see a keyword named "Joe Schwartz" rather than "Joe".

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I have realized when I type something on imessage other person can tell when I am typing by a bubble with 3 dots appers.
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please helpppppp!

You can't get rid of it.
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