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LIMac Inc. LIMac was estab­­lished in 1984, Scott Randell Rick Matteson P.O. Box 2048 when the Mac was introduced. June Meeting July Meeting Seaford, NY , 11783-0180 Annual dues July is all about backup and recovery. President for member­ship are $36. This past Friday, June 14th we were Prosoft Engineering, a company in the Bill Medlow (The first meeting is free.) treated to our annual presentation by Macintosh industry since 1985, will show- [email protected] For information,contact any JULY of the following: Dave Marra. I always look forward to case which has been their focus Vice President Dave’s presentations, because I always since those early years of the Mac’s infan- George Canellis Membership pick up a few new tips and techniques, cy. Company President, Gordon Bell, will [email protected] Donald Hennessy [email protected] not to mention the excitement he gen- 12 discuss and demonstrate Prosoft’s data Treasurer erates. This year was no exception. recovery and utility software for pro- Donald Hennessy Technical Adviser & [email protected] LIMac Webmaster Before Dave got into his main pre- tecting and managing important data Secretary Bradley Dichter sentation, he went over the highlights from WWDC. Among on your Mac. In addition, Mr. Bell will introduce The Data Bernie Flicker [email protected] these were: Rescue Center, Prosoft’s professional data recovery service. [email protected] Program Coordinator • The added features of the up coming version of OS X 10.9 Mavericks Prosoft’s products include Drive Genius to maintain, man- The LIMac Forum: Rick Matteson • The new features that will be included in the coming iOS 7 age and optimize hard drives; Data Rescue for emergency Editor/Graphics [email protected] • The new coming later this year file recovery; Data Backup for easy, powerful and flexible Al Zygier MacBasics SIG • The upgrades on the new MacBook Air backups; Klix for digital picture recovery; and SoundBunny [email protected] Geoff Broadhurst Next, Dave began the main part of his presentation which to control application volumes independently. Proofreader [email protected] was on iWork for Mac and iOS. He started withKeynote , show- As a very special part of the presentation, Prosoft will Bradley Dichter Multimedia SIG ing all the cool things you can do in making a presentation. raffle off a $50 iTunes Gift Card. Each member will get one Al Zygier First he showed “Magic Move” which is a morphing animation raffle ticket and as a bonus, one more ticket for each prod- Board of Directors: [email protected] between slides. He then showed “Object Transition”, which is uct purchased. (Software purchase forms with special MUG Geoff Broadhurst Produced using: animation within a slide. Using these will give your presenta- pricing will be available at the meeting.) George Canellis Adobe’s InDesign CS3, tion some pizzazz. He also showed; text transitions, and chart Since backup is just about the most valuable habit you Bradley Dichter Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3. (Technical Director) Acrobat 8 animations. Some of these can be viewed at; http://www.apple. should have developed and recovery is almost as important Bernie Flicker com//keynote/. Dave also demonstrated the Keynote Re- you’ll likely get a lot of information to help you get a handle Fonts are: Donald Hennessy ITC’s Officina Sans mote App, which allows you to control your Keynote presenta- on these critical tasks during this presentation. Richard Hickerson and Galliard Pro, Impact, tion from your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. Later in the pre- There are no SIG meetings this month, but the Rick Matteson Kidprint sentation he showed how to: general meeting will begin with the two usual Q&A sessions (Program Coordinator) 0 Bill Medlow • Reorganize slides followed by the Prosoft presentation. Scott Randell • View all your slides at once using Light Table (you can also reor- ganize slides in this view)

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| I’ve been working with header to re-sort your songs grouped by Over the course of 30 years we have seen the playlist folders in iTunes these playlist comments. If your playlists birth of many great computer tech ideas, some to manage my large col- are arranged in hierarchical folders, then I came and went while others became part of suggest the comments be edited in a like- lection of about a hundred playlists. I was our daily life. Now we hear of the evolution of the printer hoping to put everything of one genre wise fashion. With playlist folder “B” inside in one folder. There is no way to move a playlist folder “1”, I’d make the comment for office and home use, making it so accessible to nearly bunch of them (playlists) and move them. read “1 B” so the sorting will follow along. everyone. Unfortunately, these printers come with a high Is there something I’m missing? I sent price tag, but as the market blossoms, competition will bring them an email suggesting it. | I have a 2007 MacBook Pro run- affordability to many. ■ No, Apple gives you no way of selecting ning Mac OS X 10.6.8. I think I got it in Some of our upcoming LIMac presentations will involve the for, then moving, multiple playlists at once. November. I’m considering updating to different 3D printers available. These presentations will be very iTunes can be scripted and there are a few Mountain Lion. I think I have 4 GB of that help somewhat. For example, check memory. Do I have to load OS X 10.7 Lion exciting and inspirational because this is still a new field for these out: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/ first or can I go directly to OS X 10.8 ? I’ve consumers, and while not established in the home, they offer scripts/scripts06.php. I’d suggest you try got MS Office 2004. an exciting presence. If you can draw it, you can build it. iFolderer from http://www.tresrrr.com/ ■ The Late 2007 model came out on Just imagine, Today, you can purchase one for $1,200 in iFolderer/ENGLISH.html It allows you November 1, 2007, but even the Mid hot pink. to do your rearranging in the Finder to 2007 model, which came out on June force iTunes to comply with the 5, 2007 would still be able to install OS arrangement there, which is far easier X 10.8 Mountain Lion. See http://www. DAN DANGLO to multi-select and drag around your apple.com/osx/specs/ These are pre-uni- playlists. There is no manual, but watch body designs. As for the memory, 2 GB the video on the web site and you’ll see is the bare minimum, so 4 GB should be how to work it. OK for basic stuff. Keep in mind that 4 | Is there any way to click on a song and GB under OS X 10.8.x doesn’t go quite see what playlist it’s part of? as far as it did under Mac OS X 10.6. I ■ Yes and no. No basically, but you could hear that OS X 10.9 should be better add a comment to a group of songs and with memory management. Not only then while your library is in Songs can you go directly to 10.8 from 10.6.8, view, choose from the View menu, Show but you have no other choice, as the View Options and check the checkbox doesn’t offer a 10.7 purchase/ for Comments under the Personal group. download anymore. You may want to rearrange the horizontal Of course you will have to get the order of the columns to bring it to the computer ready for the upgrade first. left adjacent to the (song) Name. You can Use System Profiler, under the Software then also click on the Comments column Bradley’s Tech Session continued on Page 3

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- Applications category to find any Kind: Applications. Then I’d use Disk Utility to US. For many unsuported scanners, I guy can write up to 33 Mbps. A little PPC or even any left over Classic applica- Repair Disk Permissions and Verify Disk suggest, besides buying a newer model, more, like $30 gets you even faster and tions that can’t run even now. Universal (directories) and then make sure your getting Hamrick Software’s VueScan more durable. ones are OK. The scan could take quite backup is up-to-date, before installing Pro. check here first http://www.hamrick. While the USB flash drive is typically a while if you have many dozens of appli- the new operating system. Some newer com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#supported The formatted for Windows users in a FAT cations. Also check Software - Extensions programs work with 10.6.8 as well as Pro version is $79.95 which could come 32 format that the Mac can also read and and Frameworks as well. A selected 10.8.4, so you can install them before the close to the price of a new entry level write most to without a problem, it application will show it’s location at the upgrade. Some newer releases require scanner. does tend to be slower with this format bottom of the window. Use the Finder 10.7 or newer to download or install in If you are upgrading a program like and it does not work well with applica- to trash these. They won’t run after the first place, so you will have to wait till Adobe Photoshop, the new version is tions and other files that have both a the upgrade. I’d check this web site for after the system upgrade before you can 64-bit which means it needs 64-bit plug- data fork as well as a resource fork, nor- reports on various applications’ compat- install them. ins (e.g. Alien Skin, Extensis Suitcase, mally invisible to Mac users. Pictures and ibility with Mountain Lion: http://roar- Some programs like Microsoft Office Nik Software, and OnOne Software) movies from a digital camera/camcorder ingapps.com/apps:table 2011 will install conflicting older versions which also includes scanner drivers like do not have a resource fork. So for my If the program has a newer compatible of some typefaces, so you will have to the popular SilverFast, so the assorted 32 GB USB 3.0 flash drive, which I version, it won’t be a problem opening use Font Book to fix the problem. While plug-in upgrades could add up big time. intend to use mostly for use with Macs, the older version’s documents. Microsoft you’re there, you’ll probably want to To be honest, many folks can’t deal with I used Disk Utility to partition the drive, Office 2004 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, disable the bunch of non-English fonts the trouble of reviewing and upgrading mostly as a Mac OS Extended volume Entourage) won’t run, so you’ll have to Apple puts in. By the way, Microsoft all their programs. It’s time consuming and a much smaller Windows parti- upgrade. For a program like AppleWorks, AutoUpdate often won’t detect that there and expensive. On top of that, learning tion. Not that it’s likely to be useful for you will have to do something to handle is in fact an update past version 14.1, the new programs and operating system. everyone, I also made a small Mac parti- the files. Apple’s can open the but there are two more jumps after that, tion and restored a Mountain Lion instal- word processing style .cwk AppleWorks 14.2.3 and the latest 14.3.5 which you | What hard drive would I recommend for lation disk image to it, so I can install files and Apple’s can open the can get from http://www.microsoft.com/ sharing files between my Mac running Mac Mountain Lion on people’s machines spreadsheet style .cwk files. Pages can mac/downloads. OS X 10.5.8 and a PC running Windows? with it. When you insert this paritioned also open your Word files and Numbers For folks with a good number of 3rd About 32 GB. flash drive, all the partitions will mount can open your Excel files. Considerably party applications, skating by with older ■ They don’t make portable hard drives- on a Mac but only the Windows parti- cheaper than Office:Mac 2011 Home software under Mac OS X 10.6.x, the that small anymore. Smallest I could find tion will be seen by the typical Windows and Business. Finding what each one is upgrade to OS 10.8 can be very expensive was a wireless/USB 2.0 one at 64 GB for machine. TransMac from Acute Systems, can be a problem if they are not seper- as they have to upgrade this other soft- $90. You probably are better off with the $48, or Paragon HFS+ for Windows, ated somehow. Database format .cwk files ware. You may also find that your scanner even more portable USB flash drive of 32 $19.95 or the $49.64 MacDisk from will have to be exported first to an inter- or printer is no longer supported by GB. I see one for just $21.99 at newegg Logiciels & Services Duhem will allow a change format file for them to be opened the manufacturer. In many cases, Apple that supports USB 3.0, but downward PC to read the Mac partition. by some other program. offers printer and scanner drivers. The compatible with USB 2.0 The USB 3.0 FAT32 volumes have a problem where Any old programs at startup or scanner driver tends to be a ICA plug- spec models are internally faster than the you can’t put a file on it that is larger invoked with a LaunchDaemon or in for Apple’s Image Capture application USB 2.0 spec models, so even when you than 4 GB. You will find NTFS on hard LaunchAgent or StartupItems from your which tends to be less functional than the connect them to the slower USB 2.0 port drives larger than 137G in capacity. If /Library folder could be a problem, so original scanning program. Check this in your older iMac, it will work as fast you are sharing large files with a PC, review them first. Check your System page out: http://support.apple.com/kb/ as possible. The write speeds tend to be and you opt for an external USB hard Preferences - Other as well as your HT3669?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en slower than the read speeds, but this little Bradley’s Tech Session continued on Page 4

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drive, which will be formatted as NTFS, 17.85 MB total message size. (It’s actu- new message window to change the sent Assuming the overall message size isn’t then be aware that the Mac can read ally 25 MB, but encoding generally adds size of these images. The originals are too big, just click the Send button. If from but not write to a NTFS volume 40%) If the total is too high, look on the left at the resolution they were. By the you have changed iPhoto’s preferences to without some help. The best is Paragon bottom right were there is a Image Size way, any movies in iPhoto can be dragged use Mail to send email, then when you Software’s NTFS for Mac v10.0.2 for pop-up menu. By default it says Actual in as well. have made your selection and clicked $19.95. Besides just read/write access, it Size, but there are other choices like Recent versions of iPhoto have their the Share button and selected Mail, then adds to Disk Utility the ability to format Large, Medium and Small. An image own options for emailing up to ten you get a small dialog box where you can a volume as “Windows NT Filesystem” copy resampled as “Small” will be 320 images. Depending on iPhoto’s pref- choose size and get checkbox options for which can then be used with a Windows pixels on it’s longest edge. That would erences, it can handle the emailing all including Titles, descriptions or Location machine as well as the Mac. be about 152 KB. You should be able on it’s own, or handoff the sending to information. It estimates the file size to attach about 46 images resampled to Apple’s Mail. Assuming for the moment, right here. Of course even if you selected | How do you move multiple iPhoto images “Small.” “Medium” resamples to 640 iPhoto is set to Email photos in iPhoto 11 photos, it’s going to send 10 of them. into an email?. pixels on the longest edge, while “Large” itself, just make a selection and click the Don’t even try 31 photos - it will lock up ■ I can think of several ways. The prob- is 1296 pixels on the longest edge. Share button and select Email from the iPhoto. So you click Compose Message lems come from the fact that people Predictably then, “Medium” images are pop-up menu. If the selection does not and you are dropped into Mail with a now have high resolution cameras, about 304 KB, so you can attach 23 of include videos, you get a new compose pre-composed email with a subject of which makes sending multiple images these. Depending on the importance of panel in the center of the iPhoto window. 10 great iPhotos. Or perhaps a lower a problem. If you have your Mail com- individual images, you can compromise Start typing the name of the recipient number if you selected less than 10. pose window open as well as the iPhoto and make some small and some medium and it will pull your from your Often the size is set wrong, but easily window open, select your photos. and some large or even actual size. Address Book/Contacts. The title by fixed and the size estimation was poor. Remember that shift-clicking the suc- You can also use the Window menu in default is “Photos from” and the name So unless you like a themed arrangement ceeding images will do a contiguous Mail and select Photo Browser. There of the album from whence the images of eight small photos, (or some even extension and command-clicking can you may see a line for Aperture and one came from. You can select which of your number lower than 8) I think it’s better add arbitrary photos to the selection. for iPhoto and one for Photo Booth. email accounts to attribute this email’s to leave the composition in Mail. Then drag one of the selected into the If you click the disclosure triangle for From field. iPhoto offers a selection of body of the email and they will all go. iPhoto, you will see indented Events, ten themes to artfully arrange eight of | I got an iPhone with a 2GB/month data The cursor will include the thumbnail Photos, Faces, Places, some recent date, your photos. You can click above the first plan that’s been going over with a lot of of the photo you clicked on to start the Last Import, Last 12 Months, Flagged photo and type some text. If you choose data at night. No Pandora and I do quit group drag and a red dot at the lower and your custom albums. Finally you either the Classic or Journal theme, you apps I’m not using. right with the number of photos being may see FaceBook and Flickr albums. can pick different size images. Similar ■ I would turn off the diagnostics in dragged as well as a green dot with a plus Click on any of these and a series of to Mail, on the lower right is a Photo Settings - General - About - Diagnostics sign showing you are adding content to thumbnails will appear below. This Size pop-up menu where you can switch and Usage and also kill the iClould the email. Once in the email’s body they window can be resized. Double-clicking from Actual Size to Small, Medium or backup. I’d also try disabling location are still selected and highlighted. If you on any thumbnail will make it fill this Large. There is a unique option called services. The phone may be on WiFi, but look at the bottom of the window, on area where the thumbnails were before. Optimized which offers a greater amount when it goes to sleep, it’s not entirely the left side you will see the total size of Click again to restore the thumbnail of JPEG compression without undo asleep and switches to using the cellular the message. This must remain below 7 view. You can click and drag individual resolution compromise. iPhoto will not connection. You might also try a little MB if you are using Optimum Online images into the body of your message allow you to use a different photo size experiment at bedtime. Leave WiFi on, or Verizon email. Gmail and Yahoo or make a multiple selection and drag in for one picture and another size for but disable the cellular data part. Settings users can have much larger attachments. several at a time. Again you can use the another photo. What it can do is offer a - General - Cellular. Gmail/Yahoo mail users can have up to Image Size pop-up at the bottom of the zoom and pan option for each picture. 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THE LIMAC FORUM • JULY 2013 • PAGE 6 June Meeting continued from Page 1 Up was Numbers. Dave showed: • Skip slides • Hides slides • Add media • How to use templates • Record your slide show • How to add the most common North Renewal Next, Dave showed Pages. He showed functions Membership renewal for 2013 takes place from now onwards. A how to start a new document using tem- • How to make and edit charts bonus discount was passed by the Board of Directors a few years ago: plates, and how to edit an existing docu- and graphs Bring in a new dues-paying member and get a$12 discount off your ment. Dave explained, that you can open • How to use print view to enable you to membership renewal. Bring in three new members and your renewal is free! Microsoft Word files using Pages. He also print the spreadsheet and any charts Bringing in a new member also includes getting a past member mentioned that you can open other Micro- you created on a single page West East back into the group. soft Office documents using their iWork At this point, he showed the iOS ver- Make your $36 check out to LIMac and bring it to the next meeting, equivalents. Later in the presentation, he sion of iWork, and how to use iCloud to or mail to LIMac, Post Office Box 2048, Seaford NY 11783-0180 showed how to export iWork files to Micro- make your iWork documents available on soft Office files. During the Pages demo he all your devices. He showed that if you edit How to better visually enjoy the Forum: Your Editor prefers showed formatting, adding images, enhanc- a file on one device, the changes will auto- you to use Adobe Reader 9 as long as your Mac meets the ing images with frames and borders, and us- matically happen on all your devices. South requirement of Mac OS 10.4.11 or newer. PostView 1.8 ($22) ing text wrap, to wrap words around imag- As always, you had to be there to really General meeting time schedule: works from Mac OS 10.2 all the way up to 10.5 for PowerPC and Intel based Macs. es. In OS X Lion and above, Dave explained, appreciate the presentation. This is espe- Meetings are held at The New York Institute of Technology, every save creates a version of the document cially true with Dave’s presentations, be- Building 300 (Anna Rubin Hall), with the most recent changes you have made. cause so much of it is visual. All in atten- Old Westbury, Long Island. When you bring up versions, you can copy dance, learned new things, and had fun in For more detailed information about this location go to and paste elements of the document be- the process. On behalf of LIMac I would limac.org tween older and newer versions. He conclud- like to thank Dave for his continued sup- Meetings start promptly at 7:00 p.m. ed the Pages segment by showing how to ex- port of our group. I look forward to the For a Year’s membership Bradley’s Q&A: 7:00 – 7:30 p.m. Send your $36 check to: port your document as an ePub file, which next (as LIMac VP George Canellis calls MacBasics Q&A: 7:00 – 7:30p .m. can be easily read on mobile devices. it) Marra-palooza. 0 Featured Presentation: 7:30 – 8:20 p.m. followed by announcements and raffle drawings. Macintosh Users Group Bradley’s Tech Session continued from Page 4 LI MacBasics SIG: Q&A session only P.O. Box 2048 | My iPhone’s speaker on the bottom audio output was left set to something other Seaford, NY 11783-0180 than the iPhone, meaning it’s built-in speaker, stopped working yesterday. It’s happened | In bad , call (516) 686-7789. instead sending the audio off to some now before. I tried cleaning the little holes on SPECIAL NOTICE the bottom. It’s not the switch on the side. unavailable AppleTV or perhaps a bluetooth | T he next LIMac board meeting will be at the Plainedge This edition is made for viewing on your computer th Before I bring it to the , what device which could be your car. Double-tap Library, (516) 735-4133, on Wednesday, July 17 , at screen. If you want to print this version I have now 7:30 p.m. For more detailed information about this do you suggest? the home button and swipe the strip at the compensated for some printers that don’t print too location go to limac.org close to the edge, if however, you wish a more printer ■ I would first try to clean any debris from bottom of recently used apps left to right twice to reveal the Airplay icon. Tap that and change friendly edition without all the colors just email me at the inside of the headphone jack as well as [email protected] and I’ll be happy to send you one. the dock connector, which could cause the the sound output. Sometimes it’s a hidden (Al Zygier) speaker to stop working while the head- software issue and the earpiece speaker doesn’t phones would still work. Try inserting and work either. For that you should go through removing the headphone plug a few times. a restore process which should reload the iOS 0 It could be that AirPlay was used and the operating system.

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