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 Contents 10 pages 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.