I can bold etc in iOS 7 on my iPad: Bold, italics (first select the text then use the pop-up BIU sub menu). It is a bit tedious. Curly quotes need to be specially selected, I hate straight ons too! Regina Sent from my iPad On May 1, 2014, at 1:50 PM, Doug Bale <dougbale@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: It's too bad iOS doesn’t offer a way to italicize text in Mail, so we wouldn’t have to invoke capitals for emphasis. And while I’m complaining, it’s too bad that the iOS punctuation default is for straight quotation marks rather than curly ones, with no option to automatically change them to the typographically correct style. I would bet that better than 95% of the times anyone types ' on their phones, it should really be ’. > On May 1, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Doug Bale <dougbale@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Me too, but i think the encrypted options are relatively new additions, are > they not? I don't remember seeing them when setting up my present Time > Capsule a couple of years back. If encryption IS available, it would seem to > be a good thing to choose. The only downside would be that recovering a whole > hard drive's worth of files in the case of a catastrophic failure might take > a little longer, but that's something we expect to have to do only rarely if > ever, so speed's hardly an essential consideration. I might use mine perhaps > once a month to restore some single file I've botched irreparably, but > scarcely oftener than that. > In any case, though, really essential and/or confidential (banking, contact > lists, etc.) files ought to be encrypted and backed up individually, yes? > >> On Apr 30, 2014, at 9:19 PM, Wayne Dobson <pwdobson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Same here. >> >>> On Apr 30, 2014, at 6:40 PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote: >>> >>> I have always chosen Mac OS Extended (journaled) and it seems to work well. >>> >>> >>> Gerhard >>> gerhardk@xxxxxxx >>> >>> <bug.gif> >>> >>>> On Apr 30, 2014, at 6:31 PM, LINDA ✽ <blueskies.7lb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> Mac OS Extended (journaled) >> >> Wayne Dobson >> pwdobson@xxxxxxxxxx >> (519) 474-1253 res. >> (519) 860-2725 cell