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Walnut
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Apple Store to at least remove adware viruses from the 2012 MacBook Pro's Chrome and Safari Browsers, pick up a new visual adaptor for same, explore the possibility of re-installing the original operatiing system on the 2009 MacBook, and get answers to as many questions as possible re below...
2009 MACBOOK / 2014 YOSEMITE
FINDER
Any way to make it look less kindergardeny?
Lower Status Bar for Storage info?
Percentage Power?
OS
Possible to load two Operating Systems?
Revert back to (Snow?) Leopard (2009)
2012 MACBOOK PRO / MOUNTAIN LION
BROWSERS - CHROME and SAFARI
Adware needs to be removed
ENCORE and WONDERSHARE
Older versions do not work
FINDER
Undo and Searchlight do not always work
No "Save As" (one step) - is there anything better than "Duplicate" and "Export" (2 steps)
HP
Any Possiblility of downloading Photosmart Studio?
ICLOUD
"This Mac can't connect to iCloud because of a problem with mus21stc@gmail.com"
IPHOTO
Why no picture 3000?
OS X
Updates Available - "Details" "Restart" - why no "not now"?
Thumbnails to left - how to place them on right?
Always open to page 2 - why?
PREVIEW
Anything more substantive than "Least" "Best"? i.e. number of KB / GB?
SCREEN VIEW
Distorted in Movies and Pictures - too vertical, not horizontal enough
Pictures are dark, even on brightest (blinding) screen setting
Pictures are often fuzzy
VISUAL CABLE ADAPTOR
Last one only worked by jiggling - why?
WHEEL OF DEATH
Why so often?
IPHONE
AVAILABLE STORAGE
What is it the "Other" that takes up so much space?
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Adware indeed removed, visual cable purchased, many (but far from all) questions answered, and a return is made to an earlier operating system re the MacBook, but Snow Leopard (the oldest available onsite), rather the the original Leopard, which brings back GarageBand, iMovie, information on GB's remaining, "Save As" in Preview, and allows for Dropbox and printing, but not scanning. Resolution and the newer non-jukebox iTunes still problematic, older programs such as the original Mac Encore, Photoshop Studio, and Word likely to be gone forever.
Another totally delightful day with Harriet, and we proceed from here to Diablo Valley to test-drive the newer equipment, and everything works fine in this new capacity (interesting that the older machine fails to connect, so another persuasive reason for proceeding apace with the newers situation), and we decamp to Concord BJ's for a repast both spicy and tasty -- eventually returning to edit Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel: 1906 - Alma Mahler / Gustav Mahler, Op. 232, No. 28 (3 pages total), on the 18th interval of spring... high 62, warmest day of the year thus far (after January 13's 61: 2 Day 60's / 16 Days 50's), with .43 more rain (9.51 since July 1).
Oh yes, also score-study pages 8 of Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat: I. Soldier's March and the opening tutti re Sergei Prokofiev's Fiery Angel, Op. 37.
