Re: confused icons
The Dock is fine, everything else is fine. Showed up in the Force Quit window. Just odd. Restart has cured it, but still got me wondering. shalom, ncoom ncoom@... <mailto:ncoom@...>
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ncoom gilbar
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Re: confused icons
Don't know, But try using the right-click and "Info" menu. Then select the good icon, copy it to the clipboard. Then to the bad icon, select it, and paste it in, if this is even possible. Or, if
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John
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confused icons
What would cause a program to hijack the icon of another program? For example, in a Force Quit window, Finder is showing the icon of another program currently open (HistoryHound)??? shalom, ncoom
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ncoom gilbar
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Re: Apple Computer
Well stated Randy. You hit the nail on the head. Cheers, John
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John
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Re: Apple Computer
Well, I didn't mean to perpetuate such a long thread, but I suppose I knew this topic would hit a common cord. Glad the posts have all been upbeat, friendly, interesting, and insightful. BTW, I am
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John
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Re: Apple Computer
I appreciate the defense of us seniors. First off, let me explain that I¡¯m not simply talking about seniors. I¡¯m talking about middle-aged and up folks. Just as an example, I¡¯m on a half dozen
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: Message question
Thanks ! Dutch
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Dutch Junge
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Re: Apple Computer
As an old person who continues to assist younger people, I've seen that so many younger people foist the resistant image on older people that the older ones think it must be right. I've seen two women
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Barbara Mende
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Re: Apple Computer
That is the common perception, but one that I believe is not totally correct. The old have seen more ways to do things than the young. They have seen more change than the young. The have more muscle
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Brent
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Re: Message question
It took me forever to figure this one out when I upgraded my iMac to a Mac Mini a while back. I could not find e a setting on the Mac mini to fix this¡because the setting was on the iPhone. Find the
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Mary Ann Niesen
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Message question
My wife has an iPhone 15 and a Mac laptop running Mohave. When I send her a Message of course it shows up on her iPhone but not in Messages on her laptop and I¡¯m wondering why ? Dutch
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Dutch Junge
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Re: Apple Computer
Thanks for some sane observations, Randy. It¡¯s all in how open a person is to learning new things, I think. I got my first Apple Computer in 1985, my first Mac a coupla years later. Today I¡¯m 71,
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Stephen Tiano
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Re: Apple Computer
Someone on a different forum asked if their original Mac was worth anything, or if they should throw it in the garbage. I did some quick research and found that those original Macs have become
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: Apple Computer
AI is just another tool. It¡¯s not a separate mind, it¡¯s a tool wielded by humans. Just like using a computer was considered ¡°cheating¡± by some in the very early days of personal computing, AI
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: Apple Computer
The difference is that the old tend to get scared easily and give up. The young keep on banging at it until they become masters of it. That¡¯s why you can usually ask your twelve year old child to
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: Apple Computer
Apple is a company, and well above anything else, the reason that a company exists is to make money. A company can usually be expected to do whatever makes them money, with little regard for their
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: Apple Computer
A little off topic but my early Mac club, the Beta Traders, had a motto. ¡°If you have to read the manual, it¡¯s not Mac enough¡± I¡¯ve had a Mac since February of 1984. Still have it with the
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Dutch Junge
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Re: Apple Computer
Best take on that I¡¯ve heard is someone wandering through the monkey field, stops, rips a page out of the typewriter (giggles), and says: Got it! ¡°To be or not , to be, that is thrchxraohh
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ncoom gilbar
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Re: Apple Computer
Interesting discussion. I had a similar one with my son and daughter-in-law last week. He's a successful YouTuber (I add successful because YouTuber still sounds so trivial to me) and his wife is a
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Susan Tropeano
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Re: Apple Computer
International Harvester, the heavy truck division anyway, used Macs for years. Don¡¯t know if they still do as it¡¯s been years since I have needed parts for any ¡°Binders¡±. Bob
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Bob Hasselbrink
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