From: "Milton Aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: July 24, 2009 1:54:48 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Just starting

Mark;

You may need to re-boot before it takes effect. Apple has all sorts of skanky notification kexts installed, and it may still be active and not gotten the message or read the updated preferences that it should stop that behavior.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@...> wrote:

Hi Terry,

Now I`ve come back to the computer I notice it`s already assigned me  

an AIM account. I`ve unchecked the box Milton`s talking about in  

Preferences (& the other 2 boxes there with it) but on plugging the  

camera in I`m still getting an automatic opening of iChat!? It`s got  

me bollocksed!

Mark.

On 24/07/2009, at 7:44 AM, Terrence Redding wrote:

Start a AIM account on AOL.  There free and iChat is just as happy  

to use AIM.  Once you have more that two accounts, the name at the  

top of the AIM Buddy List becomes clickable and selectable.

Terry - W6LMJ

Terrence R. Redding, Ph.D. RTN

http://olt.net/learningstyle/Site_2/Learning_Style_Research.html

How do amateur astronomers learn?

On Jul 23, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Mark Gaffney wrote:

Thanks for the clue Milton,

But to use Preferences in iChat I have to open an account it seems.  

I must have tried 15 or more different combinations of my ID info &  

still it`s denying me. I have this trouble annoyingly very often  

with my Apple ID`s because they can`t sort themselves out  

between .mac & .me! Perhaps I`m supposed to remember my  

original .mac set-up ID from 2005 or perhaps it`s some strange  

hybrid?! At any rate I can`t find the correct information!

Mark

On 24/07/2009, at 3:42 AM, Milton Aupperle wrote:

Hi Mark;

Thanks for the iChat grabbing reminder. I keep forgetting to  

mention this in the manual.

You can permanently force iChat not to do this by unchecking the  

"Automatically open iChat when camera is turned on" in the Video  

panel of the iChat Preferences. Then it doesn't launch and grab  

the camera each time it gets plugged in.

HTH..

Milton J. Aupperle

On 23-Jul-09, at 9:33 AM, Mark Gaffney wrote:

Hi Terry,

I presume you`ve connected the TIS camera via firewire cable to  

the FW port on your Mac. You should get iChat opening straight  

away. Cancel that by going to iChat in the menu bar & Quit iChat.  

Open Astro IIDC (put it in the Dock for convenience) go to the  

camera window in the menu bar & Open Camera. Then press Start  

Video. You should get a Video Preview window come up. You won`t  

get anything marvellous inside but presuming you point the camera  

at a light source (say a desklamp) you should see the Video  

Preview window light up...?

Mark.

On 23/07/2009, at 11:40 PM, Terrence Redding wrote: