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LIMac was estab -­­ Photo: Bill Medlow lished in 1984, when the Mac was intro- duced. Annual dues LIMac Inc. for member­ship are P.O. Box 2048 $36. (The first Seaford, NY meeting is free.) 11783-0180 For information, President contact any of the Bill Medlow following: May’s Meeting June’s Meeting [email protected] Membership Vice President Donald Hennessy Every time I see Dave What do you want to know George Canellis (516) 541-3186 Mara do a presentation, I gwc11713@optonline. [email protected] about iMovie? Tom Abruzzo think “WOW! it can’t get JUNE net Technical Advice from the Apple Store/Walt better than that.” Well, Whitman will be here to tell Treasurer Bradley Dichter Donald Hennessy guess what? It can. Dave’s you all you want to know. (631) 348-4772 [email protected] bdichter@optonline. presentation had me (and What don’t you know everyone else) in awe of just 13 Secretary net about iMovie that you’d what OS 10.5.2 (Leopard) is capable of doing. I Bernie Flicker Program like to know? Tom will [email protected] Coordinator have seen Leopard demonstrated before, but not show you those things, too. Rick Matteson quite like this. iMovie (part of the iLife suite of applications) is The LIMac Forum: Editors/Graphics rgmlimac@optonline. Dave gave us a couple of interesting facts: Apple’s entry-level movie editing tool, but it is net 1. From the moment Leopard began selling, it Mo Lebowitz by no means just basic. [email protected] Photoshop SIG sold two million copies in the first 54 hours Apple says, “iMovie ’08 makes viewing and [email protected] Brian Revere compared to the 39 days it took for Tiger to sell working with video as intuitive as enjoying brevere@optonline. that many copies. Board of Directors: your photos. A built-in library automatically Rick Matteson net 2. The fastest laptop to run windows is a Mac organizes your video, so all the clips you’ve (516) 997-5370 running it under Boot Camp. This is actually (Program Coordinator) captured and movies you’ve created are just Albert Zygier MacBasic SIG proven by tests done at PC Magazine. a click away. With its revolutionary interface, Geoff Broadhurst Geoff Broadhurst Next, he demonstrated the newDesktop . iMovie makes it quick and easy to browse your George Canellis gahoof@optonline. The Dock now has new folders for your applica- net (June’s Meeting continues on Page 7) Al Choy tions, documents and downloads. You can, as Donald Hennessy Multimedia SIG before, create more for yourself. You have the Bradley Dichter Al Zygier General meeting time schedule: choice of having the Dock folders display their (Technical Director) [email protected] Meetings are held at The New York Institute of Technology,Building contents as, fan, grid or list. He showed how 300 (Anna Rubin Hall), Old Westbury, Long Island. Scott Randell Produced using: easy it is to navigate the folders using the Meetings start promptly at 7:00 p.m. Bernie Flicker Tex-Edit Plus, display type you choose. Bradley Q&A: 7:00 – 7:30 p.m. Bill Medlow TextSoap, Dave then went on to the Finder. He Beginner’s Q&A: 7:00 – 7:30 p.m. Brian Revere Richard Hickerson Adobe’s InDesignCS3, showed the new Sidebar, and how it shows Featured Presentation: 7:30 – 8:20 p.m. PhotoshopCS3, followed by announcements and raffle drawings. what ever you elect, making it easier to navi- The Forum is pub­lished IllustratorCS3. SIG Meetings: (Special Interest Groups) 8:30 – 10:00 p.m. monthly by LlMac. All Fonts are: gate through you computer. It even shows the Photoshop SIG: Getting ready to make an Apple Book. In June, the contents, except where ITC’s Officina Sans path (directory) at the bottom to enable you STP/Photoshop Group will explore the possibilities for a Father’s Day noted, are copyright ©2008 by LIMac. Opinions and Galliard Pro. to get to your file, or folder the old fashioned or an anniversary gift. expressed are the views of way, if need be. The shared area of the Sidebar Reunion 9 SIG: David Ross, a member of our Genealogy SIG, will the authors and do not neces­sarily reflect those of makes it easy to get files and deposit files on give a demonstration (at the end of the regular meeting) in the back LIMac. Contents may be any computer in your network. The power of of the room. Some members have been asking to dig deeper into this reprinted for non-commer- the Sidebar even extends to your open and program and see how it can work for cial use,with due them in assembling their family acknowledgment to LIMac. save dialog boxes. Your dialog boxes include The LIMac Forum is an access to your media folders (example; iPhoto). history. independent publication | and has not been autho- Two new features in the Finder are Cover Flow, In bad weather, call (516) 686-7789. | The next LIMac board meeting rized, sponsored or which allows you to view your documents otherwise approved will be at the Plainedge Library, (516) by Apple Computer, Inc. the way you view your album covers in iTunes, 735-4133, on Wednesday, June 18th, and Quick Look, which allows you to actually at 8 p.m. (May’s Meeting continues on Page 6) File- size for you get in list view is all the info you might all sizes. As soon as you turn this On, it will folders in list ever need without even taking the time of start calculating the size. It might take a An opaque menu bar! view! pressing Command - I. The only thing is that while before they all appear. What is great I know I am posting another Leopard tip, but I think list view is the size of folders is not displayed. It is pos- about the way it is implemented is that it there is so much cool stuff to talk about (I probably the most sible to change this behavior though. In any remembers the size in your next session. I will come back to Tiger-compatible tips useful way of going Finder window that is in list view, press don’t get why this is not enabled by default. soon). This is a freeware that lets you change through the Finder. Command - J. The View Options will pop up. The only reason why it might be this way is the Leopard semi-transparent menu bar to What I really like about the new coverfow (in You can choose to apply the changes to all that it could possibly be a slowdown as the make it opaque. A lot of people complained Leopard) is that it still lets you browse in list windows or only to the active window. OS has to figure out the new sizes whenever that this was not optional in Leopard, so here view without changing the settings. What The feature is the last one called Calculate there is a change. –MacGeek (Continues on Page 3) 2 Bradley’s Tech Session President’s Message | I scanned a letter from my printer into As I am writing this, our next LIMac experi- Photoshop and I can’t seem to modify, delete ence (The June 2008 User Group meeting) is or add to it, correct the spelling, etc. What about four weeks away and the Apple pipeline am I doing wrong? It’s a Canon 830. is almost out of iPhones. Very few iPhones are What you are not doing is taking the scanned available as the Apple Stores have a very short Bradley Dichter image of text, which is just a bunch of dots supply and the AT&T supply dwindles as they Bill Medlow bdichter@opton- that looks like text, and passing it through a sell them at $150 (discounted off the list price) President line.net OCR or Optical Character Recognition applica- in its stores. ArchBill@opton- tion. That would be Nuance’s OmniPage Pro | Please take note that, Steve Jobs will deliver line.net X or OmniPage SE (formerly from Caere and the keynote address at the Apple World Wide then ScanSoft which merged with Nuance), Developer Conference on June 9th. Also, Let’s say you’ve launched Safari, which comes with Canon scanners, Readiris AT&T now lists a new color under the iPhone browsed for a bit, Pro (by IRIS) which the basis for the OCR heading … black. AT&T has also advised its then closed your part of Hewlett-Packard scanners, ABBYY sales force that the beginning of June is a time last browser FineReader Sprint bundled with Epson scan- not to take a holiday or vacation. Is it just spec- window. You’ve ners and ABBYY FineReader 5 Pro, NewSoft’s ulation that these supposed events have any- switched over to TIPS! Presto! PageManager, or finally the OCR part thing to do with each other, or Is the new TextEdit for a bit, but now want to go Open new windows of Hamrick Software’s VueScan or VueScan iPhone coming? Could this be the 3G iPhone check a Web page. via Command-Tab Pro. Many years ago there was a version of (wireless broadband)? In any case, our June To activate Safari in Leopard TextBridge Pro 8 for the Mac. Some Epson meeting is strategically placed four days after with a new window, by Rob Griffiths, scanners came with it. Assuming you do in the WWDC and we will provide first hand just press Com- Macworld.com fact have some OCR software, I’d look in your information of what Apple presents and pass it mand-Tab until As you probably Applications folder for one of these. I always on to our members. Safari is highlighted know, most OS X | thought OmniPage worked best but it has not When you think about Apple (its computers, in the application programs will run been updated in a while. Readiris Pro is the the Mac Operating System, iPod, iPhone, etc.), switcher. Still without any open only modern OCR program that is Universal it’s all about the user’s experience; and when holding down the windows – close the Binary. These programs should be able to you think about LIMac, we’re all about the Command key, press last window, and and hold the Option the program keeps process the image and save the text as a .rtf Apple Users (that’s you). key. Finally, release running. If you or .doc file you can edit in your favorite word See you in June. We will have another iPod the Command key switch to that pro- processor or page layout program. I assume as part of our monthly raffle and a live auction first, and then the gram by clicking its what you mean by a “Canon 830” is the of an iMac G4 that Bradley has restored. 0 Option key, and Dock icon, a new Canon PIXMA MP830 multifunction printer/ Safari will spring to window will appear, | scanner. A quick check shows it came with I had a document I needed to scan and the foreground with ready for your use. OmniPage SE. You can access the OCR with e-mail. It was ten pages so I had to send a new window, all But if you use the the MP Navigator. After clicking Scan Photo/ ten attachments. Is there a way I could ready for your use. Command-Tab appli- Document button, setting the Document Type have sent only one? (If the program cation switcher, the pop-up to Text(OCR). Acrobat Pro can scan to PDF and append to already has an open program will acti- | window, this trick vate without If someone sends me a .pps file with assemble a multipage file. If you scanned them won’t open a opening a new photos, how can I pull one of those out? in some other program and saved them as PDF second window; window. You then I would just take a screen capture (Command- files, if you have Adobe Acrobat Pro you could instead, the have to press Shift-4) when that image is displayed. You may insert the second file after the first page and already-opened Command-N to open find that’s easier when you stop the slideshow so on, combining them into one ten page PDF window will be a new window in and flip through the images manually. If you file. If you have Leopard, then you can open active when you the application. are looking at the images in PowerPoint, make the first page in Preview, show the Sidebar switch.) Here’s a trick you the window pane with the image as large as (thumbnails of each page) and then drag If the program can use – in OS X possible to get the best resolution possible. If from the Finder, page two, and so on, below you’re switching to 10.5 only – to force you want to really maximize quality, you can the first page, adding new pages to make a has a docked the application window – but no switcher to open a buy File Juicer for $17.95 which can extract multi-page PDF file, then Save As... to make a other open windows new window when the images. There are instructions for creating new file you could e-mail, assuming this ten- – this trick will you activate an an Automator workflow in the Finder which page PDF file is not too big to e-mail in the (Cont. on Page 3) application without makes this process ever so easy. (Bradley’s Tech Session continues on Page 3) any active windows. The LIMac Forum/JUnE 2008 (Continues from Page 2) makes it much easier. There was already a now finally works in the Leopard version of file sharing on first). Add or remove Shared is the fix. The application is called shortcut for changing tab that worked in Safari. – MacGeek Folders, then specify the Users and their OpaqueMenuBar. You can download it and get Safari 2 and the beta of Safari 3. The shortcut rights! Click on Options to specify even more more information on the developer’s site. was Command - Shift - Left or right arrow” That Sharing: cool features. Like sharing with AFP, or FTP, (www.eternalstorms.at/utilities/opaque- still works, but the disadvantage is that it Remember how in Tiger you only had a “Drop or SMB (Windows)! – LeopardTricks menubar/index.html) –MacGeek doesn’t work if your cursor is in a text box. Box” to share your files? Unless you fiddled The more standard shortcut that also works with “sharepoints”. Now in Leopard, you can Stacks: Changing tab in the new Safari 3! in Camino and Firefox is Option - Command - share ANY folder and alter the permissions. By now you’ve fiddled with the new Stacks There is a new way to change tab in the new Right or left arrow. This really cool shortcut Jump into System Preferences, then, Sharing. feature in your Dock. It’s just so cool. Did you Safari 3 that is included with Leopard that that works even though you are in a text box Click on File Sharing. (you may have to turn (Continues on Page 4) More of Bradley’s Tech Session (Cont. from Page 2) excluded – I use 3 spring that window first place. Most e-mail systems would limit That $30 mouse came out in 2002 and is DejaMenu for menu free from the Dock. you to seven MB attachments, considering no longer sold. Maybe the problem was activation via the This is a handy way after encoding, the actual attachment can’t hardware, as the electronics in the mouse mouse). With to free docked win- exceed ten MB. If you don’t have Leopard nor may have failed and causing the Mac to Wraparound dows without Acrobat Pro, download (versiontracker.com freeze because of that. Even the 1984 installed, I just relying on the is your friend) the free PDFLab which works mouse had electronics in it that could flick my mouse mouse or navi- in Mac OS 10.3.9 or 10.4.x. For more control fail. That would explain why replacing right instead of left, gating the Dock via and options, consider the recently presented the mouse with an Apple one solved though, and I’m keyboard shortcuts instantly at the left PDFpen ($49.95) or PDFpen Pro ($94.95) if the problem. If it was a software-only and arrow keys. edge of the main Note that this trick you have at least Mac OS 10.4. On the other problem, then consider that Logitech’s screen. This may not work on hand, some scanner software can handle a latest version of their software, version 2.4 requires moving my every application. document feeder and save a batch scan as a came out in November of 2007 and was eyes left while my The good news is multi-page PDF in the first place. If the paper- supposed to work with Leopard. SteerMouse hand moves right, that it’s quick and less office is your goal, look into a Fujitsu 3.9 ($20) is a newer, generic multi-button but I really didn’t easy to test it your- ScanSnap scanner (like their S510M 18 ppm mouse driver. Many people found the find it hard to self with your regu- sheet-fed duplex scanner) and DEVONthink Logitech software to be flaky. Leopard’s adjust to that at all, larly-used programs Pro Office ($149.95). built-in mouse driver would control a left but your mileage | I had a problem with my iMac G5 and and right button as well as the scroll wheel may vary. You can Wraparound the Apple Store got it working by set- and most people find that is enough. Still even drag windows is a little app that across screen removes your ting up a new user account. When I try to people use SteerMouse with Apple’s Mighty boundaries, moving screen’s hard edges. access the files in the old account, I can Mouse for the extra control offered by the them across many When it’s running, open them but not save changes. How can software. There is also the sofware USB inches of screen the leftmost edge I work around this? Overdrive for controlling multi-button real estate with the of your leftmost I would suggest moving them from the mice which has a longer history. If you smallest of mouse display is no longer old user folder’s sub-folder (like Desktop) don’t care for Apple’s Mighty Mouse physi- movements. a “wall.” Instead, into your current user’s folders (Desktop, cally, then consider a new Logitech mouse, Depending on when you cross the Documents, Movies,etc.) and then get info just use SteerMouse software instead. how many monitors leftmost edge of on the enclosing folders, click the lock and | Is there a way to get a Dashboard you have and how the screen, your authenticate to allow changes and add your- Widget to appear on the Desktop all the they’re laid out, cursor will jump to you specify which the rightmost edge self to the user list, then changing your access time? screen edges you’d of your rightmost to read and write and then making your user You can purchase Amnesty Singles ($9.95) like Wraparound to display. In my case, the owner and finally making all enclosed or Amnesty Widget Browser ($19.95) to ignore – up, down, I’ve got a 23” LCD items the same. You could also put files into encapsulate a Widget as an application and left, and right. In as my main display, the Shared User’s folder so every user can have then make that application open at login. my case, I have it and a 19” Sony to access, but you would still have to check the | How can you set a new default print set to ignore left its right. On the read/write permissions. After all the changes quality in Mac OS X? and right edges, Sony, I keep most to folders and user accounts, I would suggest You can make changes to any of the var- but enforce the top of my ‘ancillary’ running Disk Utility and have it repair permis- ious panel options and then save that as a and bottom edges. windows – iChat, sions. Preset instead of Standard and then select So you ask, stocks, iCal – while | 0 “What about Fitt’s I use the main After a long time troubleshooting and Last Used Settings as your desired Preset. Law? ” I’m glad you screen for the apps with the help of the Genius at the Apple asked. I actively work in. Store, I found why my Finder was freezing. PAY YOUR DUE$! PAY YOUR DUE$! Wraparound’s Without Wrap- It was the Logitech MX™300 optical PAY YOUR DUE$! PAY YOUR DUE$! Preferences in- around, if I’m on mouse. They suggested trying the standard PAY YOUR DUE$! PAY YOUR DUE$! cludes an auto-dis- the Sony screen and Apple mouse and it works fine. I dumped able feature with a need to get to the Logitech Control Center software and PAY YOUR DUE$! PAY YOUR DUE$! definable pixel something near the installed SteerMouse. Would SteerMouse PAY YOUR DUE$! PAY YOUR DUE$! range. With this left edge of the 23” work with Leopard and this mouse? It has PAY YOUR DUE$! PAY YOUR DUE$! option enabled, the display, it’s a really more options than Logitech’s software PAY YOUR DUE$! PAY YOUR DUE$! pixel area you long trip with the (Cont. on Page 5) mouse (menus anyway. After all, a mouse is just a mechan- PAY YOUR DUE$! PAY YOUR DUE$! ical pointing device. PAY YOUR DUE$! PAY YOUR DUE$!

The LIMac Forum/JUNE 2008 (Continues from Page 3) ated application. Great for text files, pdf, spaces. Go into your spaces Prefs, add an app As you probably know, most OS X programs know you can navigate a stack while it’s open html, php, doc, xls, and so on. Did you know to to the application assignments section. will run without any open windows – close with the arrow keys? You can even find a file you can open the file in full screen (presen- Choose Every Space next to the app and from the last window, and the program keeps run- in a stack by starting to type it’s filename. tation mode) by holding down the Option key now on when you launch a particular applica- ning. If you switch to that program by Watch as the file changes color as you navi- before clicking the quick view eye button? tion it will follow you to each space you navi- clicking its Dock icon, a new window will gate or type. – LeopardTricks – LeopardTricks gate to. Excellent for iChat or Skype! appear, ready for your use. But if you use the Command-Tab application switcher, the pro- Quick View presentation mode: Keep an app on all spaces: Open new windows via Command-Tab in gram will activate without opening a new Here’s a cool trick. When in Finder, you can Here’s a really neat trick for those of you who Leopard window. You then have to press Command-N quick view a file without opening it’s associ- like to have a certain app on all of your by Rob Griffiths, Macworld.com (Continues on Page 5) 4 Sore Eyes We just received the greatest present from dreds and hundreds of applications were made LIMac. We have to admit that we were not available to users. LIMac developed a large among the founding fathers of the organiza- library of these programs and made up a Disk tion. Although we have owned and used a of the Month for distribution to its members. Macintosh since 1984, we were a little slow and Shelly and I took over the job from others after TIP! it took us about a year or so until we found the a while and we kept doing this for many years. club. At that time, User groups were about the We wrote up a listing of the new programs in “I scaled my design only source for everything Macintosh. When a column in The Forum. Finally, the Internet (in Adobe llus- we began, there were few applications that we trator CS3) and replaced us. I believe this was an early example now the shadows could use to do our work. According to of workers being replaced by technology. We are miniscule.” LowEnd Mac; Dan Knight Publisher which I changed the column name from “Off The In a recent training Helen and found on the Net, The Classic was Introduced Shelf” to (Site for)“Sore Eyes” when we session, an artist Sheldon Gross as the first sub-$1,000 Macintosh in October stopped making the disks available and began complained that he [email protected] 1990, the basic Classic came with 1MB of RAM, to write about and evaluate programs and had scaled his a SuperDrive, and space to mount an internal locations for shareware and freeware. We con- design and now all Note: Sore Eyes site SCSI hard drive. The hard drive version came the shadows were referrals are for your tinued to publish a catalog, listing old and new with 2MB of memory and a 40MB hard drive. sources for some time, starting about 1994. At way too small. information only. “I bet you scaled Neither the Grosses RAM expansion was via a 1MB daughter card this point there are so many sources, and the with two open slots, which could accept a pair your design up a lot nor LIMac endorse Net is so prevalent, that we can’t begin to keep larger,” I said. KB MB SIMM any of the sites or of 256 or 1 s. This made ht tp:// up. However, we still write the column, but “How did you their products. lowendmac.com/compact/macintosh-classic. now it’s just about our own experiences with know?,” he asked. html memory upgrades far easier than on the the Mac. I kidded, “That’s http://lowendmac.com/compact/macintosh-plus. At any rate, we finally got to see the DVD what happens when html Plus or http://lowendmac.com/compact/ of LIMac that was made by CableVision, We you don’t tell macintosh-se.html SE, since the ht tp:// thoroughly enjoyed seeing so many of our old Illustrator exactly lowendmac.com/compact/macintosh-classic.” friends. Some have moved to distant parts. what you want. motherboard didn’t have to be removed. Max Rechtman moved to Florida, and Bob When you double- Other than MacWrite and MacPaint, McAteer to Maine. We’ve only given up Long click on your Scale tool (S), and fill in which came with the computer, we just about Island for Manhattan. However, we still recall a percentage, make had to create our own programs. I recall the fun. It seems remarkable that so many of sure to check the working with Dbase I, II, III to create storage the early members are still around and active. Scale Strokes and programs. Eventually we worked with FoxBase. The purpose of the User Group has changed, Effects’ Option, Apple had a wonderful philosophy at that time, along with everything else, but the friendship before pressing OK, If you created an application early on, all the and good feelings continue. Without Bradley so that your Effects games and other programs that were created Dichter to answer all our questions, we’d never will be scaled in by users could be made available to others. be able to make sense of the new capabilities of proportion to your Apple would distribute them and not charge the Macintosh. Thanks to all those who keep objects.” –Jeff Witchel for distribution. This, of course, was a contin- LIMac going. Long may it prosper. uation of their policy developed with the sale We send our dues promptly each year and of the original Apple Computer, the Apple II will continue as long as we can continue to use Plus and following versions. As a result, hun- the Mac. 0

User Group News The following is just a small sampling of the animated graphics for video and multimedia vendor offers available to LIMac members. production. With over 1,500 professional Please visit the LIMac Bulletin Board at animations, Suite Imagery, LLC offers a wide www.limac.org/invboard/ for a complete, variety of themes, including high tech, wed- George Canellis up-to-date list. ding, sports, home video, church, globes and gwc11713@optonline. ActionBacks is a collection of royalty-free (User Group News continues on Page 7) net The LIMac Forum/JUNE 2008 (Continues from Page 4) Safari with a new window, just press window will be active when you switch.) and easy to test it yourself with your to open a new window in the application. Command-Tab until Safari is highlighted in If the program you’re switching to has a regularly-used programs Here’s a trick you can use – in OS X 10.5 only the application switcher. Still holding down docked window – but no other open windows –to force the application switcher to open a the Command key, press and hold the Option – this trick will spring that window free from Turn off the Use disk for Time new window when you activate an applica- key. Finally, release the Command key first, the Dock. This is a handy way to free docked Machine? warning tion without any active windows. Let’s say and then the Option key, and Safari will windows without relying on the mouse or by Rob Griffiths, Macworld.com you’ve launched Safari, browsed for a bit, spring to the foreground with a new window, navigating the Dock via keyboard shortcuts In OS X 10.5, each time you connect an then closed your last browser window. You’ve all ready for your use. (If the program already and arrow keys. external drive for the first time, the system switched over to TextEdit for a bit, but now has an open window, this trick won’t open a Note that this trick may not work on every will thoughtfully ask if you’d like to use that want to go check a Web page. To activate second window; instead, the already-opened application. The good news is that it’s quick (Continues on Page 6)

TypeTalk (Cont. from Page 3) specify will act as a 5 Q. How can I create my own font? What Studio, and while it can be used to create hard wall in the program is best to use? basic OpenType fonts, it doesn’t support the corners of the screen. You can A. The answer depends on what you want to advanced OpenType features. If you think you then fling your do. To create new, full-blown, professional- might want to include small caps, for example, mouse to the top quality OpenType fonts, FontLab Studio ($649) or both lining and old style figures,TypeTool left corner of the Ilene Strizver is the way to go. This professional font editor is not the solution for you. If you want a screen and have it Ilene@thetypestudio. is used by foundries and typeface designers professional-quality font editor, but don’t slam into the Apple com alike. It is the only program that fully supports plan to work with or create OpenType fonts, menu and stop. Ilene Strizver, You can also founder of The Type the advanced OpenType features, including Fontographer ($349) might be the way to go. extended characters sets, advanced kerning This venerable program was once the profes- specify that you Studio, is a typo- want Wraparound to graphic consultant, and hinting capabilities, and complete Unicode sionals’ program of choice. When FontLab support. If you go this route, check out Ltd. bought Fontographer from Macromedia, work in all applica- designer, writer and tions, only listed specializing in all “Learn FontLab Fast” by Leslie Cabarga. they updated the application for Mac OS X but applications, or all aspects of typo- If you prefer a basic font editor without all didn’t include OpenType support, reserving except the listed graphic communica- the bells and whistles,TypeTool is an option. that for their premiere font editor, FontLab. applications. tion, from the TypeTool ($99) is intended for students, hobby All three programs are available from www. Finally, there are aesthetic to the typographers, and creative professionals who fontlab.com. Students and educators can take modifier keys you technical. Ilene only occasionally create or customize fonts. advantage of the hefty (20% to 45%) educational can set to wrap all conducts Gourmet It’s obviously a lot cheaper than FontLab discounts. edges or wrap no Typography Training edges. So if I Shift- internationally. For drag the mouse, I more information, can move out of the visit www.the- top or bottom of typestudio.com. the screen, and if I Command-drag the mouse, then all edges become solid again. As I stated up front, you’ll prob- ably either love this app or hate it – but it’s free to try, so if you’ve got a couple monitors and are tired of long-haul mouse movements, give it a shot. In my testing, it uses a trivial amount of CPU power (though there’s a slider that let you vary that to suit your needs), and it’s a simple application: if you don’t like it, just delete it and it’s gone. It’s staying Send your $36 check to: on my machine, Long Island Macintosh Users Group, however! P. O . Box 2048 –­Mac OSX Hints Seaford, NY 11783-0180

The LIMac Forum/JUNE 2008 (Time Machine warning Cont. from Page 5) now, I think you’d be able to figure out how haven’t, the required preferences file won’t Time Machine, but would still like to get rid of drive for your Time Machine backup. The first I’m going to answer that question by now!” yet exist). Open Terminal (in Applications > the warning, you can try this command: time you see this, you think “Wow, that’s a I’ve got four amazingly powerful CPU cores Utilities), and enter this command: defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple. nice touch, Apple! Always thinking about and 4GB of RAM at my disposal, and still, defaults write com.apple.TimeMachine TimeMachine DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup what’s best for me!” that’s apparently not enough power to DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup -bool YES -bool YES But if you’re like me, FireWire and USB hazard a guess at my answer? But I digress… From now on, when you connect external That will write the preference in the global drives come and go through your workspace Thankfully, there’s a way to disable this alert. drives, OS X will not ask if you’d like to use file, which is what OS X should be using when like dust in the wind. As such, by the tenth It requires one command in Terminal and the them with Time Machine. To restore the it can’t find the localPreferences file. Note, time you see that dialog, you’re instead first version below assumes you’ve already default behavior, repeat the above command, however, that I haven’t tested this version thinking “I’ve said no nine times in a row set up Time Machine on one drive (if you but replace YES with NO. If you haven’t set up (Continues on Page 7)

without leaving 6 significant“holes” that encourage fragmentation by “Monitor on a Stick” was one of the deleting anything comments when Steve Jobs unveiled on the drive (unlike Disk fragmenta- it on January 7, 2002 at MacWorld some other prod- tion: the inevi- ucts, SuperDuper! table slowdown: in San Francisco. Do you remember actually skips files Straight out of the the iMac with the f lat-screen dis- it’s been told not to box, a new Macin- copy, as opposed to tosh feels fast! play, and the entire CPU within deleting them after Everything seems its half-round base? the fact). To zippy: starting up, accom-plish this logging in, launch- Well, now one of those basic defragmenta- ing applications. ground-breaking-design tion, simply clone There’s nothing your boot drive to quite like it. iMacs could be yours. ano- ther volume But, after you’ve It’s guaranteed to bring a using the Backup – used your system all files Copy Script, for a while, you may little excitement to the meeting (along with making sure to notice that it grad- the free door prize drawing and the raffle). check the Reboot ually, inevitably from volume name slows down. Place your bids, and some lucky person option to boot from Usually, this is will bring it home. it when you’re done. most noticeable You should notice after a system –Donald Hennessy that this fresh copy update, especially a is significantly large one: updates faster! When you’re tend to be com- satisfied that prised of hundreds More of May’s Meeting everything is run- or thousands of ning properly on small files. The view any document even if you do not have the a bookmark that will automatically open these the new volume, result: slower oper- application. Dave did very impressive demon- sites as tabs. The coolest new Safari feature is just clone it back ation due to strations of both of these features. The most Web Clip. This allows you to take a portion of over the original as extreme disk frag- revolutionary feature included in the Finder a Web page that you look at on a regular basis, described in the Appendix. mentation. OS X and assign it to Dashboard. Now all you have is Spaces. The last two versions of had The result: How to use Exposé, as does Leopard. This feature basically to do is activate Dashboard, and this clip of the SuperDuper! to do a a faster system! very basic defrag- has three functions: site will come up as an open Widget, which will A Better Solution: mentation: (1) The F9 key makes all open windows update content as the page is updated. the Safety Clone. People kept visible on you screen as thumbnails. Dave demonstrated many other new fea- By simply creating asking us why, after (2) The F10 key shows just the windows of tures in Applications such as: Preview, Spotlight a Safety Clone, copying with the front applications, and… (part of OS X) the help menus, and the most you’ll roughly SuperDuper!, their (3) the F11 key clears the Desktop. This exciting – Text to Speech. The new voice in Text defragment your OS seemed to run feature helps you work with crowded Desktops. to Speech is Alex. Alex actually sounds like a system files which – faster. We found The F8 key brings up Spaces, which takes human voice, and it accentuates, and pauses in for the most part – that one of the pos- the proper places. Think of this as your built-in are the primary this one step – actually many steps – further. problem after an itive side effects of You can now set up individual Desktops. Each proofreader. a file-by-file disk update. clone is that your Desktop (or space) can be set up to maximize We would really like to thank Dave for this So, by creating files are roughly efficiency for each of the projects on which exciting presentation. This article can in no (and occasionally defragmented you may be working. You can navigate to each way do justice to what you would have seen if updating) your during the copy space using either the mouse or the arrow keys. you were there. When Dave’s next presentation Safety Clone, you’ll operation. Dave also demonstrated the new features in is announced, make sure you mark it in your also be assured of a SuperDuper! Safari. These included merging windows, and calendar (which should be iCal) as a must see. fast, mostly defrag- copies your files, creating bookmarks that include multiple sites. Also, remember to visit Dave’s Web site at mented system – one after the other, This latter feature will allow you to choose www.marrathon.com/. 0 –Scott Randell with minimal wasted time. 0

The LIMac Forum/JUNE 2008 (Continues from Page 6) back to the way it was drawn with all its unrotate method that doesn’t involve drag- toward the first anchor point that you picked myself, as all my machines are using Time sides parallel to the Artboard. The steps ging on Ruler Guides. Her tip included a video, as the center of rotation. As you drag, the Machine. Nothing bad will happen if it included dragging on Ruler Guides, turning so the following is my play-by-play account. Smart Guides at some point will indicate doesn’t work, however. on Smart Guides, and rotating the rectangle Start by turning on Smart Guides align 0°. Unrotating a rotated with the Rotate tool. In response to my tip, (View>Smart Guides). Select the Rotate tool When you reach that center of rotation, rectangle in Illustrator CS3. Monika Gause, a graphic designer, trainer (R) and click on the corner of the rotated the Smart Guides will indicate anchor. Several months ago I and author of two books about Illustrator, rectangle that is closest to the bottom of the Release your mouse and the rectangle will wrote a tip about how to who is based in Hamburg Germany (http:// page to set the center of rotation. Click on snap right into place with all sides perfectly unrotate a rotated rectangle to get it vektorgarten.de), suggested a much quicker the other bottom anchor point and drag back parallel to the page. –Jeff Witchel

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