I am using an Epson v850 Perfection scanner with my iMac on MacOS 15.7.7. Occasionally the connection fails and does not reconnect after starting and restarting the scanner and scanning utility. All cabling seems to be okay. I try again later or next day and it works fine.

The scanner is about 3M [10'] away so is the distance an issue?

Finally went to the Apple Store and bought my Series 11 watch. Unfortunately my phone is too old for it and I had to buy an iPhone 17 also. I sure hope I can become comfortable with using it. Plan on taking some tutorials also. Took an hour on the phone with ATT to get it paired. Frankly it was an exhausting day. But at least if I fall off the ladder someone will know about it.

Just got a warning from Apple that OS27 and up will no longer support Intel-based apps. I've used Open Office for 15 years, and have several gigs of documents. Can't use Pages to open them - I just tried. I contacted Open Office support, and they've gone radio silent. Am I doomed to Microsoft Office or is there a work around? TIA

I greatly appreciate all these suggestions for other free programs, but they all run on Intel. Apple is updating to Rosetta, and none of these programs are going...

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I recently discovered endnotes in Pages and am getting carried away with them in the document i am working on.

Just discovered something very handy. When i am reviewing a document and i come to an endnote, i double click on the endnote and the document jumps down so i can see the endnote. Saves a ton of scrolling time.
Endnotes BTW put the note at the end of the document.

Pages/Format (toolbar)/Footnotes (Rt. side, top of sidebar)/Type -

Three choices ;

1...

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I have recently encountered a problem where I cant login to building society accounts. Its seems I need the current OS to do this but my Mac is 2017 and wont update.
Is there any solution apart from a new Mac?

My son, bless his heart gave me a Google Gemini for Home speaker for my birthday;



Honestly, I dont know what to do with it. I didn't have the heart to explain (again) my anti Google policy and I did set it up with him. Yes, its AI is better than Siri, yes, you can have a conversation with it and yes, it has fantastic sound quality. I tried pairing it with my iPhone and played a playlist on Spotify, it's far superior to my Sony Bluetooth Tube but it requires AC power so it's...

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Hi there,

I recently switched to a Mac, coming from a Windows background. There are a few things about the Mac OS that are quite annoying wich I'm trying to compensate through tools.
One major downside (for me) I've yet to "fix" is the click behavior of background windows. In Mac OS there is this "feature" that prevents a mouse click from performing an action on a background window and brings it to the front instead. I really would like to disable this behavior and have "click through"...

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