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The South Bay Mug The South Bay Mug A Monthly Cupful For South Bay Apple Mac User Group Members, Dec. 2005 Safari was one of the first to support tabbed browsing, a Bookmarks bar and an integrated Google search bar. A personal view from Bob Other, less obvious, capabilities are: • Select text in any Safari window, control-click and Web Browsers search using Spotlight or Google. ne of the most useful applications on your Mac • Control-click a web image to download it or add it Ois the web browser. It’s an application that lets to your iPhoto Library. you display and interact with HTML documents (web pages) on the Internet or on your Mac. Macs comes • Save a page as a "web archive." This stores all the with Safari, an excellent, browser, but there are others. contents of the page for later viewing. http://darrel.knutson.com/mac/www/browsers.html • Email contents of a web page using Apple Mail. lists over 80 browsers that work in OS X and most are free. For those still using OS 9 the choice is very lim- • Enter text in the Google bar, hit Command-return ited. Except for iCab, support of OS 9 browsers has and the search will open in a new tab. ceased. Netscape and Internet Explorer 5 are still vi- • View RSS feeds of articles in the browser window. able but don’t support new web standards. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) lets you quickly Browsers I use are Safari, Firefox, Opera, iCab, scan large numbers of articles. Mozilla, Camino, Netscape and Internet Explorer. I • There’s a search field at the bottom of the Book- just downloaded a new, interesting one called Flock, mark view to search bookmarks, history or RSS that’s based on FireFox and still a beta. It has built-in feeds in a specific folder or the entire collection. capability to add entries to your blog, share bookmarks • View and download PDF files directly. Control- with del.icio.us, and add photos to Flickr. click to page through it or zoom in and out. The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition • Turn on private browsing to prevent any browsing fighting for standards that ensure simple, affordable information from being stored on your Mac. access to web technologies for all. They have put to- gether a test page called Acid2 that tests a browser Select content (text and images) in the browser win- against a battery of web standards. Go test your dow and copy-paste or drag to a TextEdit window. browser. Safari stacks up well. Everything is copied, including graphics and links. Un- fortunately, if you select a table its tabular format is not Unfortunately there are some web sites that don’t ad- preserved. This is not a problem with some of the other here to standards and may work with only some browsers, e.g. FireFox, Camino. Flock and iCab. browsers, so it necessary to have more than one in your arsenal. Because Microsoft is such a big force and Golly! I’m at the end and I’ve only talked about Safari. likes to go it’s own way, some sites require Internet Maybe more in future months. Explorer. Use Terminal or the free program Safari En- hancer to activate a Debug menu with many useful functions. It lets Safari impersonate Internet Explorer. It can tell a web site, “Hey, I’m Internet Explorer for Windows, so open the door.” Welcome to South Bay Apple Macintosh User Group You and your friends are invited to attend our next meeting. Our membership dues are only $35 per year, entitling you to this newsletter each month and many more benefits. If you would like to become a member or get more info on SBAMUG, feel free to check out our web site at: www.sbamug.com P. O. Box 432 Redondo Beach, CA Meetiiings are hellld at the 90277-0432 Redondo Beach Community Center 320 Knob Hill, Redondo Beach 310-644-3315 (see map & directions on page 11) Email: [email protected] Offiiicers & Volllunteers: Membershiiip Report: (You may notice your name is in larger letters on your card. President..............................Glen Terry That is so it can be used as a name tag at the meetings.) Vice President......................Bob Brooks Secretary..............................Wayne Inman Current Membership - 179 Treasurer..............................John Bernardo Directors at Large: Dave Nathanson, CW Mitchell, Welcome New Members - Jim Pernal, Dorothy Weeks & LJ Palmer Membership Chairman.........CW Mitchell Larry Bender WebMaster & User Group Ambassador... Bob Brooks Thank You Member Renewals - Technical Administrator........Dave Nathanson Paul Curry, Larry Bates, David Moorhead, USPS Liaison......................Don Myers Richard Zigrang & Sylvia Zinman. PD Disk Editor......................Jim Pernal Program Chairman...............George Kiefer Newsletter Editor.................John Bernardo Raffle Chairman...................George Griffiths Refreshment Crew..............The Apple Blossoms MONTHLY CALENDAR 1st Wed - SBAMUG Core Group Mtg @ announced locations, 7:30 pm 1st Thur - LB Mug @ Emerson School, Palo Verde & Willow, Long Beach, 7 pm 1st Sat - Orange Apple UG, Orange Coast College, Chem Bldg, Costa Mesa, 8am-1pm 3rd Sat - Adobe Tech Exchange Toyota Bldg on Grammercy near 190th, 9 am; $10 Last Wed - SBAMUG Monthly Meeting Last Tues - WOCMUG @ Emerson School, Palo Verde & Willow, Long Beach, 7 pm Last Sat - TRW / Northrop Ham Radio & Computer Swap Meet, 7 am - 11:30 am The South Bay MUG is published by the South Bay Apple Macintosh User Group (non-profit). Excerpts may be reprinted by user groups and other non-profit media. Credit must be given to SBAMUG and the author. In addition, a copy of all reprinted materials must be sent to us at the address listed above. The South Bay MUG is an independent publication not affiliated or otherwise associated with or sponsored or sanctioned by Apple® Computer, Inc. The opinions, statements, positions and views stated herein are those of the author(s) or publisher and are not intended to be the opinions, statements, positions or views of Apple® Computer, Inc. Members are invited and encouraged to submit articles and original artwork for publication. Newsletter deadline is the first Saturday of the month. Articles may be edited to fit in available space. Please send to: [email protected] SBAMUG December 2005 PD CD appy Holidays to one and all. Full eight Memtest412.dmg Hitems so lets get started. A comprehensive memory tester. Can run from the finder, but best run from the single user BoomRecorder-2.0.5.dmg command line without any of OSX parts run. Likely too high end for most folks, but this shows User manual explains how, advanced beginners what you can get in Mac Shareware. and up will find it easy. Saves results in a log file Simultaneous recording of up to 32 channels of you can review after you reboot into OSX. Does audio. Timecodes and the like for movie studio take a while to run,; I had to shut down my recording needs, but this should work for live machine to write this article . The advantage here music and the like too. Alas I do not have a is that is may catch subtle ram issues missed in a multichannel audio input setup card, so I can’t 30 second test, especially since the Ram needs of really check this program out. For OSX 10.4 or the operating system of OSX leaves a lot of better. memory un-testable, because it’s in use. earthdesk.dmg MSHVolcanoCam.wdgt Desktop screen saver program that shows the real Another Widget, so for OSX 10.4 only. Shows time earth, sun and night, the moon, city lights the Internet Mount St Helens cameras, plus the and if you wish goes out to the internet and grabs alert level. Reminds me of a Washington State the clouds too! OSX 10.2 or better. couple that said they would not live in California because of the natural disasters that could occur, KeithsIPodPhotoReader.sitx.txt Folder and nothing could ever happen in their state! This utility will pull the small “thumbnail” size photos off the iPod and copy them to any Mac Podner.dmg computer. Per the beginners group question, this Another program I can’t fully evaluate, since I is not the full size photo which is just another data don’t have a video iPod. If you do, then this file for storage if you set your iPod up to do this. program makes it easy to convert and make video Now the small files are small to save room on the playlists. Can batch convert multiple videos at iPods, and at the small size of the screens one one sitting. OSX 10.3.9 or better. can’t notice. These thumbnails won’t print out great, but if you need this then this is the TextWrangler_2.1.1.dmg program. Text editor with powerful search and replace capabilities. Good Unix and Server Admin tool, Gremdan Teleprompter Display in addition to general use. “Best Traditions of Turns your Mac into a teleprompter. Displays Barebones Software”. For OSX 10.3.5 or better. speech text as a full screen scrolling text. Adjust fonts, size and scrolling speed. Drop in a text clipping or type it in. OSX CD for this month will be at the December meeting as the November-December 2005 CD. Catch you at the January 2006 meeting, Jim Pernal PD Editor FRESHLY SQUEEZED REVIEWS: Once you've completed your site, it's time to RapidWeaver v3.2 publish your site onto the web so that you can share it with others. And it's made easy as the publish button By Frank Petrie ~ Macsimum is located atop the body pane and allows you to upload to a FTP site or your .Mac account.
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