by MarkFosgate,ClubSecretary ed oln…SX Ready &Rolling…OS OS XR MPL Lagoon), 7:00-whenever. Joe’s restaurantontheIndianRiver Pineapple Avenue (nexttoConchy (EGPL), Gallie PublicLibrary informal helpsessionattheEau keyboard and it’s instantly goes to sleep, Ijust touch the start up.When the machine waiting for anapplicationto instantly ready to go. Nomore select the appIwant, and I’m the Dock(hidden also) and the one Iwant orgo down to apps, Ijust CMD-TAB tillIget 9. When Ineed to switch Classic environment of Mac OS many others, including the Sherlock, QuickTime 5,and Explorer (IE),Entou routine apps, like in the background, all of my X, Icanleave running, hidden Because of the stabilityof OS no problems inMac OS X. 2000, and PhotoShop 6with of every month, of every EGPL C I center), (downtown Melbourne,nearcivic (MPL)onFeeAvenuePublic Library month,attheMelbourne of every Tues., Mar. 18,MPL Wed., Mar. 4,EGL Tues., Mar. 20,MPL Wed., Mar. 7EGL Tues., Feb.20MPL Wed., Feb.6EGL variety ofMac-relatedtopics. programs featuringspeakerson a Word/Excel 2001,Quicken ’ve beenable to use MS ALENDAR LI’L BITS :O :T H THIRD THE N EFIRST HE MacMAD EVIEW W MacMAD EDNESDAY hosts educational T UESDAY rage, Fire, hosts an evening evening a $25sha where to look). Oryou canuse know to have (you window accessed through aterminal in firewall (ipfw) thatcan be security, Mac OS Xhasabuilt- probable near future change). cation thatit’s analias(a although there’s no clear indi- to the application, Dock, allyou are adding isan When you add items to the text apps, graphics apps, etc.). use things (like Internet apps, Dock, grouped by the way I currently have 34items inmy as you add more appsto it.I age the Dockwillgo through determine how much shrink- work. Your initialsettings will applications withinits frame- almost unlimitedamount of desktop. you openaswell asfor the background for folders that can do now issetadifferent attached. Another thing you road to have asmallfee the really coolones down the coming and you cancount on all have beenfree. More are ers are providing alot. Sofar, from and third party now includes several to select missed screensavers, Apple work withother Macs &PCs. tomizable &very easy to net- ities, OSXisnow very cus- shareware & freeware eral awake. Withthe release of sev- For those concerned with The Dockcanhold an For those of you thathave reware reware (it’s a“10”not“ex”) utility called develop- util- to runXWi and others have released tools Windows For those thatlike the X Unix command line interface. wi develop Tools to enhance the OSand tional CDcalled Developers Mac OSXcomes withanaddi- also use hardware routers. or being finalized.You can mercial fi wall access programs and com- device. Other sha your computerasahosting use allthe way upto using home average for save, and presets thatyou canimport even made available groups of functions. The author has use access to the fi site) thatgives you easy-to- www.versiontracker.com search the (look on Brickhouse under Mac OSX.And hold on games released to runnative applications, utilities, and sion 1.2now. Photoshop) canrunupto ver- software program much like like orneed GIMP(anopen- the Mac GUI.Sopeople that you. Contact Cammie [email protected] If you’rerecording musiconyourMac,we’d liketohearfrom For the seasoned Unixuser, Everyday, there are more Mark applications, plus the rewalls are available environment, Tenon ndow provides ndow ndows ndows continued on back on continued Making ontheMac? reware fire- reware apps from rewall club guruonopens/w please seeJohn’s fullarticle: with x86PCsrunning Linux, value of the new iMac compared features &price/performance FOR ADETAILED REVIEW tures, you might want the iMac. unique styling and specificfea- never recommended). Butfor running Linux (Windoze ty PC by going withanx86commodi- eral use machine for less money can get agreat web surfer/gen- there’s speedand price…you won’t befor months. And then shipping and the entry the new iMac configurations are the baseconfiguration. None of ROM/CD-RW burner aspartof devices, and having aDVD- for Firewire, video, and wireless adjustable screen, great support new iMac]? Goodmarks for W by John Apfelbaum, slightly a from EXCERPTS [EDITED Worth theWait? G4 iMac New The www.concentric.net/~johnapf/apple.html geeky look at Apple’s new baby] new Apple’s at look geeky latest entry hat do Ithinkof Apple’s ERAY2002 FEBRUARY level PC[the level noted of MacMAD to your hats, folks, because this summer Photoshop (demo’d at the San Francisco Meeting & Drinking (late July) there will be an avalanche of Macworld Expo; estimated release date 2nd Society Established 1984. applications available for OS X as Apple will quarter 2002). Other things will come soon. MacMAD does not condone or start including OS X on ALL new shipping As of this writing, OS X version 10.1.2 has support software piracy. units. Thousand of developers have commit- been released. You can now burn CDs and On the www.macmad.org ted themselves to porting existing software watch DVD movies (very well, I might add) WEB http://bbs.macmad.org & creating new applications. Some apps will and if you have a superdrive (the DVD burn- President Kathy Pihlaja Lacina, 757-8618, be aimed squarely at the casual user, but er/CD-RW burner combo drive in the high- [email protected] many more developers are thinking along end Macs, including the new iMac G4 800), Vice President OPEN Secretary Mark Fosgate, 725-0285, the lines of the enterprise folks and that, you can create your own home/business [email protected] my friends, can only be good for increasing movies or slide shows for use on a regular Treasurer Brenda Foster, 724-1948, needle- Apple’s market share. The *nix world has DVD home player. Roxio (makers of Toast for [email protected] already created quite a few applications for Macs) recently released an update to their Membership Monte Zelazny, 773-4207, the Mac OS X environment. software, so now you have two ways of mak- [email protected] Sysop/Web Master Jamie Cox, 255-5387, There are some things that Mac OS X ing CD-Rs: Apple’s and Roxio’s. [email protected] doesn’t support yet, like my Handspring Apple is upping the ante with their own MacBits Editor (odd-numbered months) Cher PDA (although Palm just released a Preview new apps and PC users are converting Daley/Jim Staahl, 724-8981, [email protected] Beta of their software). But when I because they see how easy the Mac makes Li’l Bits MacBits (even months) Cameron Donaldson, [email protected] absolutely need to sync my PDA, I can boot video editing (iMovie2 & Final Cut Pro 3), Director of Acquisitions Bill Bernett, 253-4813, into Mac OS 9 and do so from there. My OS digital image cataloguing and editing [email protected] of choice now is Mac OS X, with Mac OS 9 (iPhoto), and music cataloguing (iTunes2 & running on top for the times that I need the new iPod). Database management is sup- Members Helping Members ported by FileMaker Pro 5.5. There are now Call at a reasonable hour or yer name is... THE MINUTES over 2,500 Mac OS X native applications out WordPerfect, Canvas: Brenda Foster, 724- About Last Meeting, January 15, 2002 there and more being announced daily. Stay 1948, [email protected] Photoshop, CorelDraw, Illustrator, Freehand, by Mark Fosgate, Club Secretary abreast of releases & updates with www.ver- AOL, Color-It, ClarisWorks, Quark X-press: Kathy Pihlaja Lacina opened the meeting at 7:10pm with siontracker.com. Cher Daley, 724-8981, [email protected] approximately 40 persons present. Kathy’s first order of business was to explain to the club Apple specifies a minimum of 128MB of Photoshop: Gayle Baker, 7257632, sterlingpho- populace the need to curtail the current amount of time one is RAM to run Mac OS X and Mac OS 9.2.2 [email protected] in office. Current bylaws specify a two-year term for club board together. This is a bare minimum. I recom- Photoshop, Quark, Illustrator: Randy Perry, officers (President, Vice President (vacant) and Secretary). (561) 589-6449, [email protected] Kathy asked for a motion to change the club bylaws to mend upgrading to as much memory as you reflect a one-year term. Cameron (Cammie) Donaldson made can afford, within reason. I have 384MB of If you are experienced with software or hard- the motion to change the bylaws and Dr. Maurice Kurtz sec- ware, and wouldn’t mind a few calls for help, onded the motion. The members present took a vote with no RAM installed in my 333 iMac. All new ship- VOLUNTEER: call Cher at 724-8981. one against. The motion passed. ping Macs will support 1GB of RAM or more. Cammie Donaldson volunteered to take over the duties of Rumors are that Version 10.2 is coming MacBits is an independent publication not affili- club editor every other month [even-numbered months]. ated or otherwise associated with or sponsored Kathy then introduced Cammie Donaldson as the guest soon. Things can only get better as Apple or sanctioned by Apple Computer, Inc. The speaker of the night at about 7:20pm. Cammie gave a very releases additional updates to this exciting good presentation on how to create and use a database using opinions, statements, positions and views stat- FileMaker Pro version 5. A lot of the info that Cammie present- new era in Apple’s history. ed herein are those of the author(s) or publisher ed applies also to ClarisWorks or AppleWorks database func- and are not intended to be the opinions, state- tions as well. FileMaker pro version 5.5 is now native to Mac OS [Ed: Mark’s awesome review was about 900 words too long for this ments, positions, or views of Apple Computer, X as well as Mac OS 9. Li’l Bits newsletter, so if you’re thirsting for more details about OS Dinner site voted on was Bennigan’s. The meeting was X, check out www.macmad.bbs OR email the editor, cam- Inc. Created on Macintosh computers with [email protected]. WORTH THE READ!] Quark Xpress. adjourned at 8:40pm.

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