No. 391 May 2012 Adventures in DLNA-land By Rick Branscomb, SNAC Time
When it came time to replace an old DVD player that had died, I opted to buy a Panasonic Blu-ray player with network capabilities. It was inexpensive enough, plus I had a $50 certificate to Amazon, so I took the plunge. In addition to Blu-ray, which I imagine I will never use (don’t snac Time get me started on Blu-ray) it has a lot of southern New Hampshire ApplE Core built in wireless network features: over the Internet, it has direct access to my Facebook Official Newsletter of the SNAC Apple User Group account, my Twitter account, my Netflix account, my Picasa Web photos, Youtube, Online: http://applepower-nh.org and more. With a special webcam, it even Less than an AppleTV allows Skype. It can do Amazon Instant Video movies and a variety of other paid But—and here’s the key point—it requires Upcoming Meetings services (like MLB.tv and Hulu Plus). Three special software to make a Mac into a notable omissions (for me anyway) are “DLNA Server.” (See “less than an AppleTV” Meetings are held on the last Wednesday of each month at Flickr, iTunes, and my iCloud Photostream. above). the Nashua Public Library at 7 PM. I suppose the potential is there for someone DLNA stands for “Digital Living to write a plug-in or app to expand the Network Alliance,” a non-profit (but not services, if Panasonic decides to allow such open source) organization which has Featured Topics things. established a set of standards which allow In some ways, it’s an AppleTV and more; MAY Over and Under: Overlooked and in some ways it’s less than an AppleTV. all kinds of media devices to access each Since it’s connected to my home wireless other and share files and media seamlessly. Underused Features network, it can also access some things A full-fledged DLNA server must be able June iPad app demo on the network—videos and music in my iTunes library, photos in my iPhoto library. dlna-land Continued on Page 1
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Reviews and Information The Presidents’ Hodge-Podge Column By Scott Silva, SNAC Time Adventures in DNLA-Land...... 1, 8 You may notice that some columnists online or in your local newspaper will use the Regular Features technique of stringing together a short mish-mash different topics to get a complete column. President Blog: My Thoughts on Lion....1, 8 The “while swimming down a river a consciousness”, these are my thoughts for the month. Secretaries Report...... 2-3 You tend to get these types of columns in the middle of summer. After a busy first four SNAC Bites...... 3-4 months of the year from Apple, things have quieted a bit before WWDC. So here is my SNAC HelpNet...... 4 “hodge-podge” column for the May edition of the SNAC Time. Reader bonus, plenty of pop Rambling On...... 5 culture references are thrown in to further lengthen the word count. Mac 911...... 6-7 SNAC Question of the Month...... 8 The Cloud: Around this time last year, I began a regular user of the DropBox service and the SNAC Membership Application...... 10 Amazon Cloud Drive. I still use both, but the Amazon service hasn’t really been integrated Established April 1979 h odge podge Continued on Page 9 Page 2 snacTIME May 2012
file formats does it support: Answer: tiff or jpeg. It April Meeting Notes can also export to Photoshop. Member User Group Meeting Notes by Dan Johnson, Secretary Place: Nashua Library, 2 Court St., Nashua, NH, April 25, 2012 Apple news CONNECTION Presided By: Scott Silva, President — Southern NH Apple Core –– Dropbox now has new features, you can share ...Some of the People that help make SNAC Work... files with people without drop box accounts. Membership Report With dropbox encore, you can have 2 instances of PRESIDENT Scott Silva [email protected] The following people have expired memberships: dropbox on your mac (ie., for home or work). VICE PRESIDENT Kerry Hurd [email protected] Arthur Des Meules, Bill Gerber, John Hostage, –– Apple WWDC june 11-15th. William Shuman, Bucky Williams SECRETARY Dan Johnson [email protected] –– On the earnings call, Tim Cook announced 11.8 The following people are due to renew on June 1st: million ipods were sold, more than double last TREASURER Paul Bendeck [email protected] Aileen Thibeault, Larry Weil, Joe Wozniak year. It took 24 years to sell that many macs. WEBMASTER Rick Branscomb [email protected] Apples’ stock went up 6.7 % after the earnings Treasurer’s report were announced. SNAC TIME STAFF –– Kickstarter projects were discussed. A kickstarter Tim Adams [email protected] The balance in the account is 1582.25 and we have 4 new members. is a crowd funded web site to create product. Scott Silva [email protected] Pebble is one of these projects. The pebble is watch that works with ios/android which has a USER GROUP Old Business gps, use notificationss, and tracks your walking AMBASSADOR Kevin McLaughlin [email protected] –– Scott asked for demos for future meetings. For speed. You can see who is calling and it has an May, Eric offered a demo of misc. mac tools and ON THE WEB open sdk, so people can make apps for it. If you http://applepower-nh.org tips. Paul could do an ipad demo also. pledge $115 you get a black one , for $125 you –– Scott has been added as the second person on the get any color. The screen is e-ink, it has 7 days ON FACEBOOK bank account. battery and is rechargeable. www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=171733775522 –– The ebook for April is filemaker pro 11. Members ON TWITTER can request what which eBooks are offered in Computer Questions twitter.com/#!/applepower/ future months, a selection of books is on orielly. –– Question: Peron has an old and new macbook, com MUG User Group Store how can you move files from the old to new www.applemugstore.com/ computer. Use can fire 400 -> to 800 and can also New business we move via usb. There are also fire wire cables For login information send email request to Tim Adams. –W– e have updated flyers, we will distribute these with 400 on one side and 800 on other side. SNAC TIME in other locations outside Nashua. –– Question: Person has dome imac, how can they Published monthly, by the Southern New Hampshire Apple Core computer club as a dues supported service to its members. Published using Adobe InDesign 3.0.1. –– Should we have a list of items to give away? clear it out to give away to someone else. Answer: Contributed articles become the property of SNAC, with publication on a space available basis. Authors’ views and –– Scott has a contact at Access Nashua which is If you boot to CD, you can use disk utility to erase opinions are their own, and SNAC waives responsibility for editorial or typographical errors herein. Re-publication of articles originating herein is permitted on a non-commercial basis, with both author and SNAC credits given. public access TV station, you can’t do a ‘ad’ on disk. It will takes a while to clear out. APPLE, the APPLE LOGO, MAC & MACINTOSH are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. Additional company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the individual companies and are respect- the network but we could develop a show which –– Question: Person has DEC Robins with 156 k fully acknowledged. mentions snac. We can submit a jpeg or pdf image floppies. Is there a site to download files to a SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE APPLE CORE to advertise group. current format. Melrose Ma has a company that SNAC is a not-for-profit, dues supported organization, with membership open to anyone wishing to participate in our interest in the use and enjoyment of Apple Computers. Club services include libraries of public domain –W– e had a raffle of snapheal by macphun (free specializes in conversions of old files, this service software, a web site, and this newsletter. license). Scott gave a demo of it on OS 10 10.6.6 is not free. There is also Smart terminals for VAX. SNAC TIME is an independent publication not affiliated or otherwise associated with or sponsored or sanctioned by, Apple Inc. The opinions, statements, positions and views stated herein are those of the author(s) or publisher +. You can take an item and remove it, clone it or and are not intended to be the opinions, statements, positions or views of Apple Inc. crop images on the screen. Someone asked what me e ting notes Continued on Page 3 May 2012 snacTIME Page 3
any file format you can think of. Smart TV’s have software used to play different video formats. Perian Continued from Page 2 April Meeting Notes USB drives, but Mac Mini can also access Firewire is open source and flip4mac can be used to play 800, and HD files over TimeCapsule. There may wmv formats. Clicking command f will take an app If can boot it to network, you could transfer files have some skipping using TimeCapsule. full screen. If QuickTime X is used, the controls are to something newer. The Mac Mini before 2010 has a DVD drive. overlaid on the screen, which is one of the reasons –– Question: Malware on mac. It is ok to use Also the entire Internet is available. You can use the Kerry prefers using QuickTime Player 7. The Javascript, but it is recommended to turn off java EyeTV hybrid to record HD television. Logitech video resolution is determined by the monitor’s unless an app you need is using it. Javascript is has a wireless solar-powered keyboard available, resolution and can be all the way up to 1920x1080 not related to java. but make sure you get the Mac version rather than (full HD) if the monitor can handle it (as nearly –– Question: MBA update to address malware issue the Windows version. You can also use a Logitech all current TVs can). You cannot play bluray disc but the user has a Mac book pro. Answer: If the wireless mouse, there is only one receiver for the since Apple doesn’t want to license blueray CSS update is not offered, you should be all set. keyboard and mouse. The range of keyboard is at decryption. –– Question: User wants to upgrade hard drive, least 15 feet away. There are some helpful web sites to procure this but keep stuff on old one. Answer: You can get The Mac Mini also has HDMI out, optical audio Mac Mini version: monoprice.com, everymac.com, out and a sd card slot. It holds up to 8 gigs of RAM 123macmini.com, macminihomethearther.com. adapter kits (via owc.com), this consists of a and runs Snow Leopard (his favorite OS). It can be You can connect via HDMI directly to your TV or power supply and network connections to raw found on eBay for 500-600. The 2009 Mac Mini has receiver, if so equipped. Other things to be aware of: drive. You can also plug drive into usb port to HDMI but no SD card slot. The 2011 Mac Mini has with Comcast you get Internet cheaper if have TV clone drive. This is from Voyager.com for about no DVD drive but a faster processor. There is a mini service also. The appleTV only plays back iTunes $38 (With this solution you can boot up system display to hdmi cable but it may not transfer audio. video (mp4). There is a way to bring front row back and swap drives via usb). How to setup Mac Mini. If you have an HDTV, in Lion, if you use the iPad app as a remote, it allows you can use an HDMI cable for connection. If you you to control the video. Demo: Using a Mac Mini for home theater have standard def tv, they have adapters but the Kerry was asked why he didn’t like Lion. He said The May Demo was given by the club’s vice picture may be slightly off. It can use a TOSLINK he doesn’t want a 27 inch ipad and doesn’t like the president, Kerry Hurd. The topic was “Why use Mac cable to send 5.1 audio to the TV or receiver. The reliance on touch control and gestures, among other Mini as home theater device?” You can play nearly headphone output jack is the digital output. VLC is reasons. Thanks Kerry for the demo!!!
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Rambling On Tim Adams, SNAC Time Truth be told, virtually every Mac model is due to be upgraded and Intel has (or is about to) release their Apple Lawsuits in the news and WWDC rumors new ‘Ivy Bridge’ processors which everybody expect
Lawsuits still seem to be one of the main topics but some of the suits I’ve read about are just plain Apple to begin using as soon as possible. Tim Adams on several different Macintosh news or rumor ridiculous! sites, with the most recent ones talking about how The results in all of these lawsuits is varied. In think they should do, so we’ll all just have to wait a judge has ordered that both CEO Tim Cook and some cases, products will be held off the market for and see what happens. Samsung CEO Geesung Choi sit down and try to a short time, in others they will be changed slightly, work out a settlement in the California case. While and in others they might appear briefly then go Dangerous Habits the negotiations started this past Monday, very few, away altogether. In all cases however, you can be In other news, much more local and certainly in any, expected any results. Apple appears to have sure some law firm has made a bunch of money. something everybody should be made aware of, the upper hand and so has no reason to back down, a local (Plaistow) man was recently involved in and Samsung, well, they have lots of patents and WWDC a few weeks away a hit and run accident. He was distracted from don’t want to give up anything either. The rumor mills are gearing up for Apple’s his driving because he was downloading an Developer conference that is to be held early next App to his smartphone! Personally, in this case, Innovation in the courtroom? month. Speculation is all about what new features the smartphone has more intelligence than the One thing I have learned from reading several will be shown in iOS 6, what parts of Mountain person using it! Items like this will someday get articles (and I’ll likely get it wrong here so don’t Lion will be shown, if any, and just how many New Hampshire to pass a similar law to that in quote me), is that many of Samsung’s patent’s updated Macintosh models will be released. California. Hands free phone calls or nothing! I’m were released as FRAND (fair, reasonable, and Truth be told, virtually every Mac model is due still amazed at how many people still see texting non-discriminatory terms) and now because Apple to be upgraded and Intel has (or is about to) release is (apparently) using some of them are demanding their new ‘Ivy Bridge’ processors which everybody behind the steering wheel. The car might be at a terms that are no longer fair, reasonable or non- expect Apple to begin using as soon as possible. red light but it is still illegal, at least as far as I discriminatory. New models of the MacBook Pros, the iMac’s know. While no model phone was mentioned, the In at least one case, (who can keep them all and MacBook Airs, all with (rumored) higher ease at which a person can download an App with straight?), Apple is using a chip from a vendor resolution screens are almost a given. If we will an iPhone makes one jump to a (hopefully wrong) that has licensed some patents from Samsung and see a new MacPro or not is however another story. conclusion. argues that since they are using a licensed part, While many professionals have been asking for they are covered by that license. And on it goes with them, Apple appears, to some anyway, to have Quote from the past no real end in sight. been moving away from the ‘professional market’ Another interesting tidbit that is worth In another suit, Apple is still fighting a with some of their recent software releases and so mentioning. When Michael Dell was asked back company called Proview over the iPad trademark. many think the Pro will also fall along the wayside, in 1997 what could be done to fix the Macintosh While I’ve read that Apple has presented papers similar to the rack mounted servers of a couple of maker, he responded “What would I do? I’d shut it signed by the (IIRC) CEO of Proview, they now years ago. down and give the money back to the shareholders.” claim that those people that actually signed the Personally, I can’t see Apple not continuing sales agreement didn’t have the authority to sell the MacPro since it is the only upgradable Mac With the most recent quarterly results now the Chinese Trademark rights. Sounds like just and there still are enough people that want just in, Dell is the company called ‘Beleaguered’ and another person trying to get a bite of the Golden such a system. Something you can add several is blaming some of their problems on “consumers Apple. monitors to, several external hard drives, and many shifting spending from PCs to ‘alternative mobile That is what a lot of these lawsuits appear to other things, depending on your needs. But I don’t computing devices,” a veiled reference to Apple’s be, one person or company seeking to get rich off work for Apple and they certainly don’t read my iPad tablet. Isn’t it wonderful how things can the sweat of Apple. No, Apple isn’t always right, comments or listen to me comment about what I change given a little time? Page 6 snacTIME May 2012
use Activity Monitor (found in /Applications/ Mac 911 Utilities) to see how your Mac is occupying its time—the processes its running, the amount of (The Mac 911 content is generously provided by Christopher Breen and Macworld for use in Mac User Group newsletters only, and memory (both real and virtual) consumed by needs to include the attribution included at the end of the article. various processes, and etcetera. If your Mac is Found here on the web macworld.com/weblogs/mac911.html) running slowly, it’s not a bad idea to fire up By Christopher Breen, Macworld.com Activity Monitor, click on the %CPU heading, and see which processes (or applications) float to the top. If one process/application appears there almost constantly and is eating up several dozen Locating and dispensing with old digits of your CPU, you could have a problem applications (though if that process/application is churning away on something serious—rendering video, for Reader Chas Hamilton has come down with a Use OS X’s Find feature to locate old applications case of spring-cleaning fever. He writes: example—that’s to be expected and the churning will stop when the job is complete). I was just looking at my Applications folder that Applications folder may contain files that haven’t With that out of the way, on to your questions. contains hundreds of apps and realized that been opened in the last two years.) there are a lot of old things in there that I never 1. With Microsoft Office 2008, Microsoft The list below should contain only those introduced the ability for its email client, used. I came up with the clever idea to sort my applications that you haven’t opened in the last applications by the date they were last opened so Entourage, to synchronize contacts with Apple’s two years. If you don’t see a Last Opened column in Address Book, events with iCal, and Entourage that I could toss out old apps. (I figured that if I this window, press Command-J to bring up the view hadn’t touched something in the last two years I Notes with MobileMe. The process tasked with options window and enable the Last Opened option doing this was called Microsoft Sync Services. It wasn’t likely to.) I’m running Snow Leopard and (which, in this case, does work). With this column would do this noble work if you opened Entourage’s the problem is that when I open my Applications visible you can then sort the list by date, making preferences, clicked on Sync Services, and enabled folder and choose View -> View Options, the it easy to locate those applications that you really, any of these three syncing options. option to view files by Last Opened is grayed out. really haven’t used lately. With Microsoft Office 2011 (with Service Pack Is there some way to make it active? Naturally, before tossing out these less-favored 1 or higher) you could also use these sync services applications you’ll want to examine them carefully (though in this case it appears in Activity Monitor You’re correct, Apple disabled that option in so that you don’t discard something that you as SyncServicesAgent). Snow Leopard. I’ve attempted to edit the com.apple. anticipate needing some day. 2. As for its usefulness, it depends on how finder.plist file in order to make it active with no Note that if you’re running Lion, this isn’t you manage your contacts and calendars. If you luck (though you can edit this file to enable other an issue as Date Last Opened is enabled in view view options). But where there’s a will (or, at least, options. sync this kind of data with iCloud, Outlook’s Sync a Chris), there’s a way. Services do you no good whatsoever as Entourage Open the Applications folder and then press and Outlook’s syncing is not compatible with iCloud Command-F. In the resulting search window (they don’t support the CalDAV and CardDAV click on Applications at the top of the window so Sync services gone crazy! standards used by iCloud). If you manage this data that you’re searching that folder. Configure the Reader Dale Creekmur has been ferreting only on your computer, it could be useful if you pop-up menus at the top of the window to read around in Activity Monitor and finds an entry that want events and contacts that you create in these Last Opened Date is Before X/X/2010 (a data concerns him. He writes: Microsoft applications to appear in Apple’s Address approximately two years ago). Click the Plus button Book and iCal. to create another condition. Configure this one to For the benefit of readers who are unaware of read Kind is Application. (You do this because your Activity Monitor’s many glories, the lowdown: You mac911 Continued on Page 7 May 2012 snacTIME Page 7
You say that Disk Utility found no problems yet Pinpoint your location Mac911 you still can’t empty the trash. If you like pushing Continued from Page 6 buttons, return to Disk Utility, select your startup Reader Catherine Bailey is interested in 3. To prevent it from running, simply turn volume, choose First Aid, and click the Repair marking her territory. She writes: off Sync Services in Entourage or Outlook’s Permissions button. Any luck? I thought not. preferences. If you’re at the end of your rope in a “For cryin’ When I’m out with my iPhone I sometimes need out loud, Chris, just tell me how to empty the to mark locations nearby. I try to do that by dratted trash already because I’m pretty sure this Empty the #$&@! trash already! is a case of a corrupt file” kind of way, okay, here’s dropping a pin in the Maps app, but I can drop the answer. Download a utility that ignores OS X’s only one pin. Can I add more? Reader Jim Young has a trash that’s starting to objections and takes out the trash like you asked it stink up the place. He writes: to. There are a variety of these tools—all of which The ability to drop only one pin is a regrettable I found that I was running out of space on my plaster a nice GUI on Unix commands. The one I limitation of the Maps app, but you’re not entirely prefer is Titanium Software’s Onyx. It’s free and it hard drive so I located some large files and tossed out of luck. In Maps drop your first pin by tapping them in the trash. But when I tried to empty the works. What more could you ask for? trash I received a warning indicating that the Launch Onyx and allow it to run a couple and holding on the iPhone’s display. The familiar trash couldn’t be emptied because of a –8003 of tests on your drive. Once those tests come up purple pin will drop down. error. I really need to empty the trash but it won’t negative select the Utilities tab, click the Trash Tap on the blue > button on the right side of respond. What can I do? tab in the window, and make sure that the Delete the small label that appears and in the resulting option is selected. Click on Execute and Onyx I wouldn’t bother trying to learn what that Dropped Pin window tap Add to Bookmarks. In the should go where the Mac OS refused to and empty specific –8003 error means. The Mac can throw the trash. Add Bookmark window that appears, enter a name up all kinds of error codes and very few of them for your pin and tap Save. make sense (or have much published about them). Just to be sure that the problem’s root isn’t Instead, just assume something’s mucked up and go deeper down in the system, quit Onyx, toss a file Repeat this from there. you don’t need in the trash, and empty the trash. If process for any We’ll start with general muckage. Launch Disk it flushes as expected you should be good to go. additional pins Utility (/Applications/Utilities), select your startup drive in the left side of the window, click the First you wish to drop. Aid tab, and click Verify Disk. Disk Utility will When you need to perform a check of your startup volume looking for locate one of these any obvious errors. If it finds any errors, boot from another volume (in Lion this can be the Recovery locations, tap the HD partition, in earlier versions of the Mac OS, Bookmarks icon boot from the latest OS X installer disc). Again, in Map’s Search run Disk Utility from this new volume, select your regular startup volume, and click Repair Disk. field, and tap the With luck, everything will be repaired, you’ll appropriate entry. return to your startup drive, and be able to empty Maps will place the trash. Without that luck, you may have to a red pin at that turn to a sterner utility such as Alsoft’s $100 Disk Pinpointing your location on your Warrior. If all else fails, try Onyx location. iPhone Page 8 snacTIME May 2012
DLNA is built into Windows 7 (via Windows Continued from Page 1 DLNA-land Media Player 12) but not OSX. Apple has its own set of proprietary media-sharing standards which to connect to a network and send files in a format are not compatible with the DLNA standard. that can be understood by your specific DLNA Surprise, surprise. So to use DLNA devices with a receiver. Since my Panasonic is DLNA compliant, Mac, you need a third-party DLNA server. with the right kinds of DLNA server software, my There are a lot of them out there, some free, iMac could become a media server to connect with some fairly pricey: TVMOBiLi, Twonky, Serviio, the Panasonic and thus show my iTunes and iPhoto PS3 Media Server (yes, the Playstation 3 is media on my TV. Just like the AppleTV. Almost. DLNA compatible). And a whole raft of others. None of them have anywhere close to acceptable functionality and reliability, however, and there’s The iSedora user interface the rub. Message boards and other sites are full of complaints about every single one of them. Snac None is perfect, and, of the ones that sort of work due to quirks in Apple’s file-naming system, which almost OK, all have strange and nearly unusable iSedora is unable to translate into meaningful Question interfaces. names. So far, in just one folder I have over 200 I tried nearly every one that offered a free trial, movies, and iSedora can open the folder and display and was stunned and disappointed by how bad they the names, but you have to figure out what they Do you listen to podcasts? This includes are. mean. And then you have to page through 45 radio shows, but downloaded and listened at a time There are two kinds of problems characteristic screens to get to the Y and Z files. There’s no Search that is convenient to you. of Mac DLNA servers: unreliable connections or Find function. And it’s during this paging that (frequent dropping of the connections) and limited iSedora likes to drop its connection and make you compatibility of filetypes. Most of the ones I tried start all over. either could not connect at all, or established very So I have learned two things from my 46% flaky connections that dropped out with reckless abandon. The server I had highest hopes for was El adventures in DLNA-land: first, DLNA, despite Gato’s EyeConnect. El Gato is the maker of EyeTV, having been around for nearly 10 years, is still in and I have had fairly good luck with my EyeTV, so its infancy. Expect problems. And second, research I expected high quality. Plus it was outrageously it thoroughly to find the particular package that expensive ($50.00), so I figured if nothing else I works for you. More than with any other class would pay through the nose but at least the product of software that I’ve seen, DLNA standards and 54% would work. No dice—EyeTV on my machine interoperability are an illusion. What works for the cannot keep a connection more than 60 seconds at next guy will almost certainly not work for you; a time. count on it. I finally discovered iSedora, a fairly cheap And I guess there’s a third: if you want a DLNA server that connects and keeps its network-ready media device for your TV, despite its connection fairly reliably. Once it starts streaming content, I’ve never had it drop the connection; the few shortcomings, AppleTV still rules. And when Yes No problems only seem to occur when paging through Mountain Lion hits the market with its capability the lists of media to select. of displaying your computer screen through your Survey results courtesy of SurveyMonkey.com All of the servers that I tried have very ugly AppleTV onto your TV, all remaining obstacles will and almost-unusable interfaces. Part of this may be evaporate. May 2012 snacTIME Page 9
streaming music service Spotify announced that but received well over 70K. The way the game Hodge-Podge Column Paul McCartney’s back catalog will be remastered works is that as you go out on your run, the audio Continued from Page 1 for streaming. Good news for Paul fans. The first story unfolds. You are in a Zombie Apocalypse and album up on the sight is his second post-Beatles, while you are out running (joggers and walkers into my workflows. The DropBox is as indispensable Ram. can also participate), you are reaching certain as MobileMe/dotmac. The Amazon service is good, Good thread to catch up: Over the long holiday goals. The more you head out to get the mileage, but not as useful because of the way that I use weekend, Rick Branscomb posted a question to the more missions are completed. As of right now, DropBox. the Applepower yahoo mailing list regarding a this is only available on the iPhone, but an Android I have less than 30 days to make the switch slow iMac. I won’t go into the details because you version is in the works. Link here https://www. to iCloud. I will do it. I just have been putting it can find it here, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ zombiesrungame.com/. Sounds fun. off because… well, because I can. It’s not for the applepower-nh/message/6010, see “iMac impossibly excessive notifications from Apple. I did take Apple Final Cut Pro X Trial: If you have ever been interested slow”. But the responses and dedication of the in making the move up from iMovie to Final Cut up on the free Snow Leopard for one of my Leopard membership points to the incredible resource are Pro, you should know that Apple allows you to computers. The next project. Once my computers available to anyone who uses this service. have been upgraded and I have made the switch to download a 30-day trial. I have been tinkering iCloud, I will test out iTunes Match. That I’m really Old iPhone 3GS: I have been plodding along with my with video and quickly realized what I needed to looking forward to. iPhone 3GS and not ready to make the leap to the do could not be done easily with iMovie. I more The Amazon Cloud Music player is just about latest model. I have noticed that when I stream than likely will purchase Final Cut, but I have to unusable. I tried it for the first time in a long time using the an app called Radio.com, the battery will say that so far I am really enjoying the experience. a few days ago and the streaming was unlistenable drain; even though it is plugged in and charging I’ve been using Lynda.com to learn many of the at work. Plus, with the Spotify service, there isn’t on the computer. I do not believe this is always techniques necessary to cut video. I was afraid that really a need to load up a bunch of music in the the case. I need to see if it is the app, or if it has my two-year old MacBook Pro would run sluggish. cloud to play elsewhere. At the time, I thought that something to do with where the iPhone is connected Not the case at all. I’m still getting adjusted Amazon needed to make an app for the iPhone. to the computer. to some of the editing features, but most of the Never happened. I would like to see some type of Runner Technology: I ran a race over the Memorial features behave much like iMovie. I know that DropBox player that would allow you to play music Day weekend and I couldn’t help but notice that the FCP community was very upset when Apple and video files in your DropBox folder. Even better, Apple is the product of choice among runners. completely redesigned the application last summer, let us move the files from DropBox into the iTunes iPhones, shuffles, nanos, Touches.; all varieties, all and I can understand that, but for coming in as a music app, just like adding photos from DropBox to sizes. Pre mp3 players, it use to be taboo to race new user, nothing but high praise. your Camera roll. with a walkman or headphones. Now, it is still less Upcoming Demos: The next few months I’m hoping than 50%, but it is much higher than it use to be. Radio Listening: During the 90’s WFNX was my radio to preview some interesting demos. I need station of choice. It could have been my age, and I typically train with my iPhone, but do not race with it. Because I was running solo and I wanted to confirmation, but I think that we will have our musical tastes at the time. This, of course, pre-dates first iPad demo through the projector screen. We mp3, Napster, iTunes, and the all other things track my average pace, I plugged in with a playlist on the fly. My application of choice for tracking my tested out the adapter at the last meeting and Paul digital. This month it was announced that WFNX runs is Nike + GPS. Bendeck hopes to show some of his favorite iPad was sold and will most likely only live on the Zombies, Run! A somewhat new take on the apps. Internet, similar to that of WBCN. I was fortunate “Running” app is an adventure iPhone app game Some other demos that I’m looking to line up to catch the DJs last show; though via Internet that plays out in an audio game while you run. are iBooks Author (July/Oct.), getting a traditional streaming. Between all of our options in the Apple I have not tried it, but I’m certainly intrigued. (Aug/Oct) artist using the iPad to transform his eco-system for listening to music, the radio DJ and The name of the app is called Zombie Run! This work, and the application Home Inventory software discovering music in that way is a thing of the past. was Kickstarter project that was fulfilled back in (Sept.) and how to get all the items in your home or Sir Paul on Spotify: In the last few days, the October 2011. The developers requested $12,500, apartment itemized. Page 10 snacTIME May 2012
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