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iMac Help

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Posted by Red Umpire on 14 January 2011 - 11:28pm.

So, we've taken the plunge and bought an iMac. It's obviously fantastic, but I feel like a Cornishman trying to have a conversation with a Glaswegian after we've both had several pints at present. I can sort of understand most things but then another difference pops up and I'm all at sea again.

My current, Word-website related, problem is this: wherever a video should be there's a little message saying "plug-in missing". I'm sure the answer is easy, but can someone please tell me what to do? You'll need to talk very clearly and slowly. Thanks.

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Install flash

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

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Fraser Lewry | 14 January 2011 - 11:37pm

But don't tell

Chairman Jobs...

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DougieJ | 14 January 2011 - 11:45pm

Thanks Fraser

That's the same in Cornish and Glaswegian, isn't it!?

Now can you tell me why my printer's not working...?!

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Red Umpire | 14 January 2011 - 11:41pm

Have you tried

turning it off and on again?

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Cadabra | 14 January 2011 - 11:58pm

Ha ha

...but yes. Several times.

I've now downloaded Flash but can't get it to work. Think I'll go to bed and tackle it with a clear head in the morning.

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Red Umpire | 15 January 2011 - 12:01am

This should help

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clivetemple | 15 January 2011 - 6:46am

Try

going to the printer manufacturers website and downloading the latest drivers for Mac OSX. If that doesn't work, wait for Fraser to tell you.

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Leedsboy | 15 January 2011 - 12:01am

It's installed properly

and we can print from the old PC (not decommissioning that for a while!) and from Mrs Umpire's laptop, but the iMac says the printer is offline...

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Red Umpire | 15 January 2011 - 12:03am

Ooh! Me too!

I've had a few problems. Enough to make the bloke on the other end of the Mac Helpline sweat a bit.

Thankfully, everything I wanted to transfer has been saved in triplicate in every format known to mankind. The bloke in the shop told me that a Mac'll handle everything Microsoft. He was talking bollocks.

The poxy bloody twatbar launchpad wankline thingy across the bottom is pissing me off already. Getting the printer to work was a twat about. With a Wintel machine, you plug in a printer, it all happens. Not so in Macland.

But lots and lots of things are also making me smile. And the plusses are outweighing the minuses.

The mega-huge screen is a bit odd, though. And I didn't get the mahusive 345" Officefucker Castanet Turbo one. Just a bog-normal one.

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Lenny Law | 15 January 2011 - 1:11am

You can set the

"poxy bloody twatbar launchpad wankline thingy" or "Dock" to hide out of the way until you need it.

Here's how:
Go to the Apple menu (the Apple icon in the top left corner of the screen), and in the Dock submenu select "Turn Hiding On". Now it will only pop up when you move the mouse down to the bottom of the screen. It still gets in the way occasionally, but it's at least an improvement.

If you do the same but instead select "Dock Preferences" you can change other things like the size, position and magnification of the dock.

I have mine as small as possible, with medium magnification, automatically hidden until I need it.

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Cadabra | 15 January 2011 - 2:44pm

You can set the PBTLWT to sproing out from the side of the

screen as well.

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stimpy | 15 January 2011 - 4:50pm

I thought

Macs 'just worked'?

You are obviously a Microsoft shill, sent to spread disinformation.

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Brookster | 15 January 2011 - 6:32am

Well...

...to balance things up: we bought an iMac because we were fed up with how crap our PC was!

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Red Umpire | 15 January 2011 - 2:41pm

Yeah, but

I've experience of using all flavours of Windows, Mac and Linux. None of them are foolproof and all of them sporadically require varying degrees of fannying about in their lifetimes (to use a technical term).

You could assume, through listening to some of the fanbois on the board, that a typical Mac unpacks itself, jumps on your desk, connects itself to the internet and seamlessly downloads everything you'll ever need.

I'm writing this on a four-month old Windows 7 laptop. Windows 7 is one of Microsoft's better efforts.

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Brookster | 15 January 2011 - 7:01pm

Whilst not doing all of those things, my new MacBook

certainly connected itself to the Internet the first time it was switched on.

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stimpy | 15 January 2011 - 7:09pm

All well and good

But so did my internet radio, my Kindle, my Android phone, my cheapo Ubuntu netbook and my Windows 7 laptop.

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Brookster | 15 January 2011 - 7:18pm

But you weren't referring to those devices in your previous post

[puzzled]

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stimpy | 15 January 2011 - 7:20pm

So did my Mac

So did my Mac. But it wouldn't download videos, or let me print. It's doing both now thanks to people's help. It's definitely a cool piece of kit. I'll be happier when I've transferred my iTunes over to it though. (See my other blog entry).

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Red Umpire | 15 January 2011 - 7:35pm

For balance

I should report that I swapped from PC to Mac a few months ago and have experienced none of the grief experienced by others. Sorry, I know that's not the least bit helpful.

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Lard | 15 January 2011 - 10:30am

Just had the same thing with printer

Searched 'printer offline' on safari and followed instructions. I.e go through system preference on desktop. Rebooted and works ok . Hope this sorts it out for you.

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vgom | 15 January 2011 - 11:59am

Thanks

Will give that a try.

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Red Umpire | 15 January 2011 - 2:39pm

Thanks everyone

I can now view Flash items and can print wirelessly. Thanks for your help folks. Much appreciated.

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Red Umpire | 15 January 2011 - 3:54pm
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