Photos: Try using Dropbox, Google+, or any of the other cloud storage services to upload your pictures from your phone. Then they're all just online, doesn't matter whose computer it is.Mike O said:
Have a new computer. Don't want to sync iPhone because it has a bunch of old photos synced from old compromised computer which was hacked. I'd have SWORN I backed up my pictures on the external hard drive I used to keep most of my iTunes music, but can find it there. Outside of sending these hundreds of pictures via e-mail and then saving them onto the PC hard drive out of order since they'd all dated from when I took them and of like to keep it that way, can I do anything else? Having trouble with the Podcasts too. Why does Apple no longer have a download all option?! I keep trying to put them in from the hard drive, and the computer gets scrambled and can't seem to find the source files for them. I've tried asking about the stuff on Apple's forums, and I can't find any information from them, because apparently no on feels like answering.
Podcasts: The Apple Podcasts app is unusable, no one answers you because no one is using it. I only use it if there are files I have downloaded I want to listen to as podcasts (RiffTrax, other MP3 commentaries), and that's only because it syncs with iTunes. I use Overcast now, which costs a few dollars if you want to use some of the fancy features (like SmartSpeed, which I highly recommend), but the free version should function much better than Podcasts. Downcast is also a good choice, it allows you to load files you have downloaded into the app.
I realize this is an incredibly stupid question, but as I still live with my parents, it is technically their computer. As they paid for, I have no right to complain or ask for specific features, but I want to know if the computer is capable of handling HD, and if there was any method of connecting the DVR to it to preserve some recordings I have which are not available on video. How would I tell this?Most computers built in the recent past should be able to "handle" HD. The DVR thing is a bit more complicated, as I hear you have to not only have to hook it up, but find various morally questionable scripts to decode the stream.
On another note, the fact that Netflix advertises super HD, I have so far been unable to get my Blu-ray player or my father Smart TV to buffer up to 1080 P, even though they are both advertised as being capable of doing it. Is it possible to get the Wi-Fi to do it without anything that cable connected to the device? It's possible to do without a VPN (which I do not want to pay for). I have heard that most ISPs will not admit it, but they throttle streaming services. When I used Vudu, sometimes it is full 1080p, but it frequently blurs. How can I tell how fast the Wi-Fi is going? When I contacted AT&T via their customer chat, they sent me to a website, and told me that the speed at which my modem was running and my wife I wore it was running more optimal, but I do not remember what that number was, or if they were simply telling me when I should get better. I'm a major digital skeptic (RIP Kodak :(), but if they want me to adopt did you want to see you soon and streaming over physical media, one of the first steps would be figuring out how the hell to solve problems like this one the data loads are so heavy.I've never had a problem streaming 1080p over WiFi, even on multiple devices. And I have Comcast, which everyone says throttles such streams. speedtest.net should be able to tell you how fast your connection is over WiFi if you use a device connected wirelessly, but that's no guarantee the ISP isn't being a dick.