SCHEDULING MAC APPLICATIONS

Q::In Australia a lot of ISP’s offer On Peak as well as off peak bandwith useage ratios for your account. ie.. you get 30gig a month useage during the month off peak and 30 gig a month on peak. How can I set iTunes to download podcasts ONLY over night during my non-peek bandwith times?

Mike
Melbourne, VIC

There doesn’t seem to be any way to control when iTunes downloads podcasts. As soon as it runs it starts downloading. You can cancel these downloads manually, of course.

It might be easier to automatically launch iTunes during off-peak times and let it do the bulk of its downloading then. On Macintosh computers you can schedule programs to run automatically. Create an iCal event that repeats at a particular time daily. In that event, click Alarm, then select Open File. Click the application and select “other” - select iTunes, and iCal will open iTunes and begin the downloads on schedule.

DIAL UP CONNECTIONS

Q::Could you please give me an idea of what speed should average on dial-up. I am getting all kinds of different speeds from people in different areas. My speed is usually 21.6Kbps and lately I connect at 14.0 Kbps . It is horrible. I have called the phone company said not their fault and then my subscriber who has changed the dail in number and modem number and blames the phone company. I have disconnected all phones in the house and still comes in at 14.0Kbps. Now I have also noticed more than a couple of times that when go on explorer it says connect but nothing happens and also when I go on google it says connecting at the bottom of page but everything seems as though frozen yet my computer will work on other programs, so it has not froze. So what I am asking is could you please tell me my problem. SUBCRIBER, PHONE COMPANY or IS IT MY COMPUTER? I am a beginner at the computer.

Wilma
Pointe-Au-Baril, ON

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SLOW COMPUTER

Q::I have a dell computer and when i bought it in oct last year it was very fast ever since jan or feb it has been very slow i tried to restore and nothing worked . I have windows xp home and avg 7.5 antivrus scann installed.Every time i turn it on it takes 2 mins to load main windows screen the desktop.

Gordon
St. Albert, AB

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