Mac versus PC!

[ssimkins]

I use a Mac for work and have a PC at home and find that there are a lot of features on the PC that either the Mac doesn't have or that on the Mac they don't work!
1. When I try to add a web link to a flipchart I can get the link to appear on the page but it is stuck at the link and won't let the site/game carry forward. (I have to go out of Activprimary 3 and onto the school server) AND the web window in Activprimary goes heywire!!!!!!
2. I cannot activate the spotlight to appear on the next flipchart page - possible on the PC.
3. Sometimes when I create a flipchart on the PC and transfer it to the Mac ibook actions don't work, text is changed and everything is out of alignment.
Does anyone else have these problems?:eek:

[markrobinson]

Do check you have the latest versions/patches of MAC and PC software that should remedy some of these issues.

When it comes to fonts - you need to make sure the same ones are on PC and MAC - fancy fonts may not be - but commons ones like Helvetica, Times, Verdana are.

Is the link problem on MAC or PC?

[JanP]

Hi Mark,

The link problem that ssimkins is talking about is on the Mac. I have just posted this question on the TLA forum to see if any of the TLCs have noticed this.

Basically, when you go to a website using the Promethean Browser some links on the site will work and other don't. For example, going to www.prometheanworld.com (http://www.prometheanworld.com) will allow you to click and open UK and Rest of World. But once here the link for Planet or Learning won't open.

On this wesite http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/celts/ . You will need to skip the intro and when you get to the main activity clicking on the artifacts in the mud should take you to a new page but doesn't. The links on the right don't seem to work either.

I am wondering if this is just a default setting problem on the Mac and could be fixed easily.

Using the AP for PC browser all the links seem to work as they should.

Janice

[ictfacilitator]

You need to think about using Safari. in the prefs..linked file hosting...use web browser. This turns off the default browser. You lose some functionality but you get reliability.