Name: emc
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Thanks Peter, I think staggering will work for me, unless someone has a better idea.

Beth

Name: peter ponda
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Sorry, I don't know any other way than Expose or just clicking on the window I want. I do kind of stagger them, so that I can see a bit of each window and know which is which. Maybe someone else can answer this and help us both out.

Name: emc
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Peter ponda.: cute name by the way.

Can you take me one step further and tell me how you manage the several windows. I did F9, that was a trip. Moved the pages all over the board. clicked on one and it went back together.

Seriously, how to you go from one to another. I have clicked on the yellow button on the top before and able to put a page down on the dock and then bring it back up. Is there another way?

Thanks again. Beth

Name: emc
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carol /ct this info is for you also. We can do it. Read Peter's post on how to open 4 sites. at once. Hooray.

Beth

Name: emc
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Peter Ponda thank you so much, It was soooo eassssyyy . This is great to share with each other. PC's have different methods of doing things. I get frustrated hearing them do stuff that I don't know how to do, and can't do it their way.

THANK YOU.

Beth

Name: peter ponda
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Beth, In the upper left corner of your desktop, click on "File", then click on "New Window". Or simply hit the command (apple) key and the letter "n". That will open a new, blank Safari window and you can enter any URL. You can have many of these opened at one time. Say, one for the Polar Bears, one for google, one for this forum thread, one for "videos and screenshots", one for "sightings and sounds". . . You get the idea. It can get confusing but on my mac, I can press the F9 key at the top of the keyboard. This is "Expose" and it shows me all of my open windows and I can click on the one that I am looking for. Try it.

Name: emc
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I would like help to learn how to open more than 1 page under Safari. Or maybe if I have to learn Camino to do this.

I know how to put a real player separate and have 1 safari page, but when I go to open another safari page, the first one is changed to the new one.

Please help me with this, but make the instructions like you would for a kindergarten child. Not techy at all :(

thanks.

Beth

Name: emc
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Judith, thank you for that reminder, I too was tired of the randy ellies. But the light show is fantastic. I don't usually see it in replay, cause I refresh too often to see if it's live again.

Also am going to go back in this thread to see if I too can learn how to open more than 1 window, (besides rp)

Thanks everyone for all the good info and helping each other.

Beth

Name: Judith in Ottawa
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I don't know about the rest of you, but I've finally had enough elephant p o r n. Although I'm definitely not usually either a human prude or unaware of how animals make babies, I'm finding Randy's repeated advances quite wearing!

I have finally (light bulb moment) figured out that I can move the playback position marker past the elephants, even on my mac. Just grab that button and pull it along the bar a bit. I find the picture is messed up at first, but sorts itself out quite quickly.

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Name: carol/ct
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I have an OSX with the intel chip, everyting is so new and so far really easy with a mac, but how do you get 4 cams running? I can do the real player and the webpage for 2 different cams at once. Love the fact there is a MAC group in this forum:)
Thanks to whoever started this sight!

Name: emc
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So nice to have this spot to go to. also nice to see how many of us there are. I know there are more. Jayell helped me alot when I was a newbie. Really appreciated that. There are others also.

Beth

Name: Susan
E-mail: bertnspike@aol.com

I have already learned so much more about this just by being here. I now have 4 cams running on my screen at a time & I can switch between them & everything still works without reloading! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Pete's Pond (and almost all of the cams I look at) is a lot more enjoyable now.

Yeah, I can't imagine a Mac user would get as bent-out-of-shape as a P.C. user. After all, we've had to put up with P.C. nonsense ever since we switched on our first Apple. 15 years, for me.....

Spike in FL

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bumpin' above the spam

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Anonymous:

Name: Lanny
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Oops! Sorry, Anne, by "startup" I meant setting RP to load a feed when it launches, as could be specified in the old player's prefs. But dropping your webloc clipping into the Dock is a decent workaround.

Sheesh, this is the only PP forum topic I read anymore. The others are so full of whining and discontent they've become a total turnoff. Some people must be awfully bored if they can't find anything more productive to do than complain about a free website.

Of course, Mac folk aren't like that...

Name: Lanny
E-mail: Not specified

Oops! Sorry, Anne, by "startup" I meant setting RP to load a feed when it launches, as could be specified in the old player's prefs. But dropping your webloc clipping into the Dock is a decent workaround.

Sheesh, this is the only PP forum topic I read anymore. The others are so full of whining and discontent they've become a total turnoff. Some people must be awfully bored if they can't find anything more productive to do than complain about a free website.

Of course, Mac folk aren't like that...

Name: Anne in SC
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Anonymous:

Name: Lanny
E-mail: Not specified

There's another browser choice, available from the same place as Firefox (mozilla.org), called Camino. It's the Mozilla guts inside a much more Mac-like shell, and it's FAST, especially on forums with as much gratuitous graphic foofaraw as this one. Some of you might like it better than Firefox or Safari. I'm using it now; as you can see, icons and smilies work fine.

Safari is a fine browser, as long as you're content with Apple's "my way or the highway" philosophy. Not very flexible. The main attraction of Firefox is the bajillion free extensions people have written for it--the possibilities are astounding.

In most Mac browsers, control-click on the video (or right-click if you have a 2-button mouse) and one of the options will be Play in RealPlayer. That will open RP, in which you can bookmark Pete's Pond as a Favorite. Unfortunately, I haven't yet found a way to get RP10 to load a feed automatically on startup, as OS9 versions could. No biggie, but if you've got a secret method, Anne, please share!

Okay, this works in Safari. I couldn’t get it to work in Firefox.
Copy and paste this link into your browser address line. DON”T hit “Enter.”

http://play.rbn.com/ngm/ngm/live/live.rm

Click on the “globe” icon in the address line and drag it on to your desktop.

Something like this should appear on your desktop.


You can try it to be sure but it should work.

Then, go to you System Preferences and click on “Accounts.”
Under Accounts, click on “Login Items.”

Click on “+” on the lower left side. When the drop down box appears, click on desktop and then click on the @http icon. Then click on the “Add” button and you should be good to go.

Hope that helps!

Name: FSH
E-mail: Not specified

Thanks to everyone who answered my real player question. I now have Petes Pond and the polar bears on my desktop. The real player icon is on the desktop. When I double click on it real player opens up to whatever I closed last. I have both in my favorites and can open a second real player window to watch both.

Thanks again.

Name: sharon
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Hi all - I'm a Mac newbie and a PP newbie. I found a program called SnapZ which allows me to capture video and pictures on my mac. I'm just learning to use it but it is for Mac. I'd love other ideas for programs.

Name: Judith in Ottawa
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Anonymous:

Name: FSH  I have not been able to get a direct real player link for watching the polar bears or Australia. When I want to look at those I have to watch the real player screen on the NGM sites for those webcams. Anyone know how to find those links on real player? I have tried and they don't come up.

Try this for the polar bears:  ngm/bear/live/live.rm&proto=rtsp&rbnkey=1

Kakadu cam currently has no connection so I can't get a url for that one right now.  I had difficulty just getting the right page to open!

Name: shareware options
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Anonymous:

Name: emc E-mail: Not specified

Anonymous:

Name: Paige E-mail: Not specified So maybe this thread will give some of use help. Ihave a Mac and still cant figure some things out. Can we capture video with any free software or not? Please help. Only 2 weeks left and Im desprate to to know. And can we or not download video from youtube? I want some on my ipod! Paige

Paige, there is no free video capture for OS10. Might be for OS 9, I don't know.

Well, there are a couple, but they are rated very poorly by those who have tried them - difficult to use and not well documented.  There are some very reasonably priced shareware applications, though, and you can try them for free before deciding whether to pay.

Name: Gerie
E-mail: Not specified

I, too, have been watching Pete's Pond on my 7 year old mac. I've had no problems at all with my viewing other than those that have originated at the pond or in Real Player. The only issue I have is that my computer is so old and slow (even with cable modem) and short on memory that running other programs while watching the pond takes a bit longer.

I have PCs in the school where I teach, but the network won't allow Real Player to work. The tech support folks have tried, but after two years I've stopped asking. Such a loss that I can't share it with my students.

Name: emc
E-mail: Not specified

Anonymous:

Name: Paige
E-mail: Not specified

So maybe this thread will give some of use help. Ihave a Mac and still cant figure some things out. Can we capture video with any free software or not? Please help. Only 2 weeks left and Im desprate to to know. And can we or not download video from youtube? I want some on my ipod!
Paige

Paige, there is no free video capture for OS10. Might be for OS 9, I don't know.

Name: Lanny
E-mail: Not specified

There's another browser choice, available from the same place as Firefox (mozilla.org), called Camino. It's the Mozilla guts inside a much more Mac-like shell, and it's FAST, especially on forums with as much gratuitous graphic foofaraw as this one. Some of you might like it better than Firefox or Safari. I'm using it now; as you can see, icons and smilies work fine.

Safari is a fine browser, as long as you're content with Apple's "my way or the highway" philosophy. Not very flexible. The main attraction of Firefox is the bajillion free extensions people have written for it--the possibilities are astounding.

In most Mac browsers, control-click on the video (or right-click if you have a 2-button mouse) and one of the options will be Play in RealPlayer. That will open RP, in which you can bookmark Pete's Pond as a Favorite. Unfortunately, I haven't yet found a way to get RP10 to load a feed automatically on startup, as OS9 versions could. No biggie, but if you've got a secret method, Anne, please share!