http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/ Silicon Valley Mac User Group Tue, 21 May 2013 22:27:43 GMT Jose Francisco Medeiros http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5842 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5842 Tony, What type and model Big Screen TV do you have? You can easily connect your Mac to your TV if it has a HDMI / DVI / VGA input, adapters are under 10.00 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:06:28 GMT Jose F. Medeiros http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5841 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5841 Greetings, I am not in the Bay Area this week, and will not be able to attend tonight's SVMUG meeting. Two members in the group offered to bring their Snow Mon, 20 May 2013 18:02:44 GMT Charles Gousha http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5840 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5840 You could easily do this using an AppleTV from an iPhoto album, but you'd need to manually assemble that album within iPhoto or have an Automator script that Mon, 20 May 2013 14:59:30 GMT danielt3@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5839 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5839 I didn't know these. Hopefully they can help someone else http://www.macworld.com/article/2038420/five-dictionary-tricks-i-cant-live-without.html#tk.nl_mwbest Mon, 20 May 2013 01:19:47 GMT Tony Cappellini http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5838 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5838 I want to be able to watch my jpgs on my big screen TV. I've got Snow Leopard on the Mac. What is the best way to watch them over the TV? I used to be able to Sat, 18 May 2013 18:04:59 GMT Lynda Gousha http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5837 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5837 Len, this tends to vary from month to month. I'd suggest we just go to the 'usual' door, and get whatever instructions are appropriate for this month. Lynda Sat, 18 May 2013 05:51:00 GMT Len http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5836 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5836 Pam, last month, back in our regular room, we had to undergo a different security procedure. Everyone had to go to the lobby for that building, which was on Sat, 18 May 2013 05:37:36 GMT Len http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5835 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5835 I have now taken the second step, that of trying to create a bootable USB disk with the OS X Mountain Lion installer on it. That step failed. However, when Sat, 18 May 2013 03:34:27 GMT pam_svmug http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5834 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5834 Hello svmug members & friends! The next meeting of the Silicon Valley Macintosh User Group (svmug) is on Monday, May 20, 2013 at 7:00PM.  As always, meetings Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:44 GMT Len http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5833 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5833 http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57584485-263/how-to-create-an-os-x-installer-from-apples-internet-recovery/ This link, titled, "How to create an OS X Tue, 14 May 2013 05:31:11 GMT Len http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5832 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5832 Sorry, I wasn't in time to put in my two cents. To me, this sounds like either bad RAM, which is always difficult to diagnose, or a symptom of overheating. Tue, 14 May 2013 03:56:01 GMT irish.masms http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5831 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5831 ... No one chimed up; but I will update - on my second visit to the Genius bar the MBA decided to shut down twice. Off to the repair facility it went! Should Tue, 14 May 2013 03:44:46 GMT Cortland Klein http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5830 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5830 Hi all, Some of you wanted to keep informed of what I'm up to in Japan. Here's a monthly newsletter you can sign up with of you are. http://eepurl.com/yQab9 Mon, 13 May 2013 02:10:48 GMT Robert Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5829 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5829 Hello SVMUG and SMUG members, Here is the latest from O'Reilly, via Marsee Henon and Jon Johns. I believe the O'Reilly affiliate program is open to anyone who Sat, 11 May 2013 22:35:25 GMT Len http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5828 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svmug/message/5828 This afternoon, I was suspecting that I had a hardware problem with my June 2012 13.3 inch MacBook Pro (non-Retina) screen. Over a half dozen fuzzy grey