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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: March’s Meeting April’s Meeting archbill@optonline. Membership com Donald Hennessy Our March meeting featured a presentation Our April meeting will be Vice President (516) 541-3186 by Olympus America and Berger Brothers highlighted by a presentation George Canellis [email protected] Camera of Long Island. Dino Thomas and APRIL by MacSpeech, Inc. In case gwc11713@optonline. Technical Advice Mark Farb showed us gorgeous images you're getting a feeling of net Bradley Dichter Treasurer (631) 348-4772 designed to reveal the capabilities of the latest deja vu, don't worry... you line of Olympus consumer digital cameras. really haven't seen this demo Donald Hennessy bdichter@optonline. 11 [email protected] net Then Bradley and Yvonne Berger “brought it before. MacSpeech is the Secretary Program home” to Long Island. company who had to cancel Mark Farb showed that as always, good in December due to the Bernie Flicker Coordinator [email protected] Rick Matteson lighting technique and careful composition inclement weather on the night of our meeting. rgmlimac @opton- can make it difficult to tell if an image was We're sincerely hoping that CEO Andrew The LIMac Forum: line.net made with a high-megapixel camera model Taylor won't run into any foul weather this Editors/Graphics Mo Lebowitz Photoshop SIG or an inexpensive point-and-shoot box. Mark time! Loretta Lebowitz Brian Revere emphasized that good optics help, of course, The company's latest product,MacSpeech [email protected] brevere@optonline. and Olympus has its tradition of good optics Dictate, which premiered at Macworld/San [email protected] net from its experience with film-based imaging. Francisco in January, is an entirely new solu- (516) 997-5370 Four distinct camera lines are offered tion for speech recognition on the Mac. This Board of Directors: Rick Matteson MacBasic SIG now by Olympus. The FE series, derived all new product, written from the ground Geoff Broadhurst (Program Coordinator) from the previous D series, cameras stress the up for the Mac, provides amazing accuracy Albert Zygier gahoof@optonline. fun and easy aspect of imaging. One model with minimal training using the legendary net Geoff Broadhurst (the $150 FE310) features an 8.0 Megapixel, 5 Dragon Speech Recognition Engine by Nuance George Canellis Multimedia SIG X-zoom camera using readily available AA-type Communications, Inc. Andrew will show us Al Choy Al Zygier Donald Hennessy [email protected] batteries. with digital image stabilization (April’s Meeting continues on Page 6) (reducing blur from vibrations at slow shutter Bradley Dichter Produced using: (Technical Director) speeds) and facial detection software, its larger General meeting time schedule: Tex-Edit Plus, Scott Randell sensors reduce noise at high ISO settings for Meetings are held at The New York Institute of Technology, TextSoap,Adobe’s Bernie Flicker improved shadow detail. The FE 340 and 350 Building 300 (Anna Rubin Hall), Old Westbury, Long Island. InDesignCS3, Bill Medlow add features, wide-angle capability, and more. Meetings start promptly at 7:00 p.m. PhotoshopCS3, Harold Silvers Bradley Q&A 7:00–7:30 p.m. IllustratorCS3. The Stylus series of cameras is now two Brian Revere Beginner’s Q&A 7:00–7:30 p.m. Fonts are ITC’s series: the STD series has digital image stabi- Richard Hickerson Featured presentation 7:30–8:20 p.m. followed by Officina Sans and lization, reduced shutter lag time (between announcements and raffle drawings. The Forum is published Galliard Pro. pressing the button and recording the image), SIG (Special Interest Group) meetings 8:30–10:00 p.m. monthly by LlMac. All and the ability to preview different white bal- contents, except where Photoshop SIG: How to use the RGB channels in Photoshop. How to ance settings, but is not weatherproof. The noted, are copyright add spot colors to Alpha Channels. How to create a four-color effect ©2008 by LIMac. Opinions SW versions add the Shock and Waterproof fea- with just two channels (for hard-core expressed are the views of the authors and do not tures, with all-weather and macro capabilities graphic arts professionals). necessarily reflect those of including a macro LED light source for uni- Multimedia SIG: Join us for training in all LIMac. Contents may be form illumination in extreme close-up images. of Apple’s Video programs! reprinted for non-commer- cial use,with due The SP Series cameras feature extremely MacBasics SIG: An introduction to acknowledgment to LIMac. great zoom ranges (20X optical zoom, which iMovie. The LIMac Forum is an independent publication is 26-520mm for a 35mm film camera. Wow! | In bad weather, call (516) 686-7789. | The next LIMac board meeting will be at the and has not been autho- These models now shoot in the R AW format rized, sponsored or Plainedge Library, (516) 735-4133, otherwise approved (March’s Meeting continues on Page 6) on Wednesday, January 16th, at 8 p.m. by Apple Computer, Inc. Select individual If you’re a Firefox user, you probably know If you type the name of a Website in Firefox, First, make sure you have the Safari Debug columes from tables about its Downloads window (press i.e. apple.com, then hit Option-Return menu enabled. in Firefox: Command-J to open it). But did you know instead of Return, it will open up apple.com On the Debug menu in Safari, the Open If you hold down the that if you select one of your downloads in in a brand new tab. You must have tabs Page With menu item will list your installed Command key and Click- the window and press Command-I, you can activated for this to work. browsers; assuming you have Firefox Drag inside a table, you can select the data see from where the file was downloaded and installed, you’ll see an entry for Open Page just in one column (or any contiguous, reg- to where in your system it was downloaded? Easily open a URL from Safari in Firefox: With » Firefox.app. ular shaped block) of cells. Pretty simple, but useful. I’ve seen other ways to go about this, but Now quit Safari, and go to the Keyboard & here’s a nice and clean way to switch from Mouse System Preferences panel, click on the Info about files downloaded to Firefox: Open typed URLs in new tabs in Firefox: Safari to Firefox on a misbehaving page. (Continues on Page 3) 2 Bradley’s Tech Session President’s Message | Encountered after the meeting: This time of the year is always our busiest: If you have just installed the Security Update The weather is warmer, the days are longer, 2008-02 in Mac OS 10.5.2 Leopard, and you have members are starting to come back from lost the ability to print and you have either warmer climates, and this year, we have some Audio Hijack Pro or Airfoil installed, you need great Spring presentations: Bradley Dichter to update them to print again. Who would In March, we had Olympus with its world- Bill Medlow bdichter@opton- have thought these audio related add-ons renowned cameras (including one camera for President line.net could affect printing? the raffle prize). ArchBill@opton- | I have documents created in the old In May, we will have Dave Marra (an iPod line.net Broderbund’s Print Shop Deluxe from Mac is in the works for that raffle). OS 9. I can’t find anything that will open Attend these exciting meetings; bring a these files. How can I convert these files to friend. (Don't forget, if you bring a new person have to undock the something I can use under Mac OS X on my who becomes a member, you’ll save $12 from panel (if it’s new Mac? your membership dues! 0 docked) by clicking TIP! I would just buy ($69.95) Software MacKiev’s and dragging from its title bar. Then The Print Shop 2 for Mac OS X. It’s universal Horizontal Tools click on the small binary (Mac OS 10.2-10.5) and should be able to external SCSI Zip drive which was common, double arrows to Panel in Adobe open the old format files. It now ships with a they could copy Toast onto a Zip disk, loan you InDesign CS3 : the left side of the “Is there a way to full-color 184 page softcover User Guide. It the disk and drive, cables and power supply so title bar. This will make my Tools integrates with iLife and does far more than you could install Toast. You can’t boot off the change the panel horizontal?,” the old OS 8/9 version. After Broderbund sold external burner, so I’d buy the replaement configuration of a designer asked in out to The Learning Company and they didn’t drive to kill two birds with one stone, get the your Tools panel, a recent class. “It want to deal with the Mac products any more, bootable drive back in working shape and then with each click, keeps getting in MacKiev stepped in and updated the programs able to install other software, besides Toast to from a single col- the way when I’m that still had a following, or in other words, get files off the old 8100. You need only ordi- umn to a single working on the far horizontal row to they could make money with. That includes nary screwdrivers to remove the case (top and the familiar double left side of my KidPix and World Book. sides) and replace the drive from its plastic layout.” I answered, column [from CS2]. | I’m looking for a SCSI Castlewood ORB drive sled. To redock your Tools “Sure! If you find | this happening all drive for my old Power Macintosh 8100 Is there anyway to access an image in panel (no matter the time, you may with a dead CD-ROM drive, but got a cheap iPhoto directly inPhotoshop ? Do you have to what the config- want to change external CD burner, but I can’t install Toast export to the Desktop or go rooting through uration), click and your Preferences without a working optical drive. I was your Pictures folder? drag from its title (Command + K )and going to installToast through that. Just change the iPhoto preferences’, General bar to the far left look at the top of I would suggest downloading Toast 5 from category, where it says double-click photo, make side of your screen. When a highlight the Interface sec- Roxio and I don’t see how and ORB drive sure Edits photo is selected and below that, for appears, release tion). But if you would help, as the software comes on a the Edit photo: pop-up menu, change the want to display your mouse and CD-ROM, not an ORB disk. selection to In Application... and then select the panel will be your Tools as a hori- | The 8100 doesn’t have a modem, so it’s Photoshop. For example, my pop-up currently zontal row tempo- docked in a vertical rarily, first you’ll not connected to the Internet. shows, for Edit photo: In Adobe Photoshop CS3... format. OK, I see. If you have a friend who does have a Now you can either double-click on an image –Jeff Witchel working optical drive or Internet access, and a or Right-Click (Control-Click on one button copy of Stuffit Deluxe, you can compress and mice or trackpads) and select Edit in external segment Toast 5 onto a series of six HD floppies, editor from the pop-up menu. So then when that would work. You could try replacing the you edit an image in Photoshop, save changes internal CD drive. Problem there is, it is SCSI and close and go back to iPhoto, it should build and nobody makes SCSI internal drives any a new thumbnail and you should see the edited more. I see a used, but tested, working, Apple photo in a few seconds back in iPhoto. Now, of 24x SCSI CD-ROM drive on eBay going for course, it would be safer to make a duplicate of $9.99 The original model was just 2x. I also see the original in iPhoto (Command-D) before a 12x model for $12.50. As the ORB was pretty editing. rare, maybe you can find a friend with an (Q&A continues on Page 3.)
The LIMac On-Line Forum/APRIL 2008 (Continues from Page 2) On my machine, Firefox was listed without Saft, though. one-click form fller. Here’s a way to get it. Keyboard Shortcuts tab, and create a new the .app extension, so that’s what I used for Download Google Toolbar, which includes keyboard shortcut. Choose Safari as the the new keyboard shortcut. Just match what Use Google Toolbar as a simple Firefox: an auto-fll button. It also comes with several application and enter Firefox.app as the menu you see in the menu on the shortcut panel This may be an obvious hint to power users, other functions that I didn’t want and that title. I chose Command-Option-R as my and it should work fne. Note that if you have but I haven’t seen it anywhere else so what take up a lot of screen space, especially on a shortcut, but feel free to choose whatever Saft installed, you’ll have to remove it to add the heck. Ever since I switched to Firefox, I’ve laptop. To keep things nice and neat, go to you think logical. Relaunch Safari and try new shortcuts – at least I had to. With Saft been missing Safari’s quick-and-easy auto-fll View>Toolbars>Customize. Drag the Google your new shortcut. Note the same trick works installed and active, newly assigned short- feature. True, there are Firefox add-ons, but autoFill button into your Firefox toolbar. Click with any browser in the Open Page With sub- cuts didn’t show in the Debug menu. They did I’ve found them either to be buggy or way too Done. Go to View >Toolbars and uncheck menu. appear when I launched Safari after removing complicated. All I want is a simple, no fuss, (Continues on Page 4) More of Bradley’s Tech Session 3 | I’ve found that deleting an image in computer is getting old, then hard drive is iPhoto, it’s still there when I dig through getting more likely to fail, and a replace- arrow keys to move the Pictures folder and I have to really drag ment drive would be safer and more likely between spaces, it to the trash in the Finder in this way. faster and higher capacity. Also you will press the spacebar There has to be an easier way. need to show iPhoto and iTunes where to or return to display TIPS! There certainly is. When you trash an find your stuff, as they won’t be in their the selected space, image in iPhoto, similar to how the Finder expected locations. Not a problem for or simply type a Id Macworld’s edi- works, it’s just moved toiPhoto’s Trash. You can iTunes, as you can set the location in it’s space number to tors were asked see the tiny Trash icon in the Recent section of Preferences in the Advanced category. display it instantly which new Leopard (spaces are num- features have iPhoto’s sidebar. You can even click on this icon iPhoto needs a little help, in the form of the to see what is still iniPhoto’s trash. You can shareware iPhoto Library Manager. See bered sequentially pleasantly sur- from left to right, prised them most, go to the iPhoto menu and select Empty Trash http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ The starting in the top many (but defi- even if you are currently looking at the Trash free version will be enough for the task of left corner). To nitely not all) contents. redirecting iPhoto to use a library in a non- move directly to would put Spaces Conversely, if you wish to rescue some- standard location. another space, hold on that list. It’s one thing from iPhoto’s Trash, highlight it and | Is there a way to selectively back up down the Control of those features select from thePhotos menu, Restore to Photo whatever is not already backed up? I did key and type that that, once you start Library or just drag it to the desired album. a backup of everything quite a while space’s number. To using it, you find iPhoto can get confused and it’s database dam- ago. cycle from one all sorts of handy space to the next, things to do with it. aged if you mess around in the iPhoto Library You should, of course, back up more fre- folder. Apple made the iPhoto Library into a quently, depending on how much you can hold down Control (Rob Griffiths, for and press an arrow example, runs his package with the latest version ofiPhoto to dis- afford to loose. Generally, I would suggest key. (You can, of Windows virtual courage users from messing around in there. a program like Super Duper! that can do a course, customize machines in Spaces | I’ve been building up a collection of Smart Backup. It scans your primary hard these shortcut keys of their own.) photo and music. Should I move my stuff drive and compares it to the backup drive, in the Exposé & Here are a few of to a backup drive and free-up space on my and only backs up whatever is new or Spaces Preference the tricks and tips internal drive? I would imagine over time changed since the last backup. The backup pane.) we’ve learned for you would slow down the workings of the would be identical and bootable (assuming –Joe Kissell using Spaces – computer when you fill up the hard drive. we are still talking about backing up the along with Exposé Move All Windows and Dashboard – as While that is an option used frequently by primary boot volume) The program can be users of laptops which usually have small set to automatically backup every day or at Once: efficiently as pos- What if you want to sible. internal drives that fill up quickly, the problem every week. If you set the Energy Saver move all of an is the other drive is supposed to be a backup of System Preference Schedule, you can have application’s win- Spaces & Exposé data on the internal drive. If you delete it off the computer start up or wake up a couple dows to another Navigate Spaces the internal, then you no longer have a backup. of minutes before SuperDuper! is timed to space? Sure, you with the Backing up data implies there are two or more backup and then SuperDuper!’s options can drag them one Keyboard: locations. You would be left with just one. could be set to automatically, after com- by one, but that’s a Spaces supports Who is to say your external drive won’t fail pleting the backup, either sleep or shut- pain. Instead, hold numerous keyboard first, leaving you with nothing. If you bought down your Mac. Great for unattended back Cont. on Page 4) shortcuts. For example, to display a second external drive for extra storage space, ups in the middle of the night. Having a an overview of all if you move your music and photos onto it up-to-date bootable clone of your hard your spaces, press (implying that they are no longer on the drive is great when something goes terribly F8. In this view, internal drive) then you will not have them if wrong. Leopard has a backup program you can use the you take the computer away without the new included called Time Machine, but it’s back drive. It certainly is true, that as you fill up a ups are not bootable and of course not hard drive, it will work slower, most notably everybody is running Leopard. when you have less than 10% left. You might SuperDuper! 2.5 works with Tiger as well. If want to consider backing up everything on the you are still running Jaguar 10.2 or Panther internal drive and putting in a bigger internal 10.3, there are older versions available. drive. Some older Macs can only accomodate (v2.1.4 and v1.5.5) internal drives up to 120GB. Of course if your (Q&A continues onPage 6)
The LIMac On-Line Forum/APRIL 2008 (Continues from Page 3) with a single click. As I noted, this is a basic tion by accident: Force quite Firefox (Cmd- Firefox 2.0 Google Toolbar, which will hide it (except for form fller – it doesn’t support multiple Opt-Esc), and the next time you launch Pros the button you just moved). names and addresses. But I didn’t need any- Firefox it will ask you if you want to restore Standards-compliant rendering engine; easily Now set up auto-fill. Go to Tools>Add-Ons thing that complicated, and I suspect a lot of your session and will load all the tabs and extensible with powerful add-ons. and click on the Google Toolbar for Firefox other people don’t either. windows you had open before the quit. A Cons add-on. Go to Preferences>Features> AutoFill hack, yes, but a useful feature not imple- Sluggish loading and tabbed browsing; lacks Settings. Fill in your info. The next time you Resume browsing session in Firefox: mented in the normal interface! some useful interface features. come across a Web form, the felds for name, I often need to restart my computer or quit –Mac OSX Hints With its ready-for-anything rendering engine address, etc., will automatically turn yellow, Firefox to free up RAM, but don’t want to lose and amazing expandability, Firefox 2.0.0.12 is letting you know that they can be flled in all my open tabs. I fnd the following solu- (Continues on Page 5) Sore Eyes
4 We’re writing this column from the VIP lounge The biggest advantage is having varying to move just one at the airport in Quito, Ecuador. The trip was e-mail accounts. Depending upon the wire- window to the very exciting as we visited Machu Pichu in less connection, some do not work every- exact same physical Peru and the Galapagos Islands off the coast where. Usually you can read anything, but location in a new of Ecuador where everything except natural not send e-mail. I mentioned this factor when space. Say you’ve changes happens very quickly, and no trains we were in China because China doesn’t (or got a Finder window or planes leave anywhere near their scheduled maybe didn’t) accept Verizon and, there, I open, and it’s about 200 pixels below time. used Google. But I have had trouble in South and 200 pixels to There are advantages to traveling with America, Peru and Ecuador (in particular), and the right of the the computer. We can download our photos the only thing that let me send e-mail there Apple menu. To from the camera every day and do not need to was Dotmac. Have them all; it’s loads of fun! move this window Helen and change the card in the camera. That’s great. Of course, the best part of traveling with to the exact same Sheldon Gross Of course, we have so many pix that the hard the computer is the availability of constant position in another [email protected] drive is filling up. Luckily, when we left home, two-way communication with those at home. space, start drag- I threw a keychain storage drive into the It’s much better than postcards.H aving a ging the window, Note: Sore Eyes site and then press and referrals are for your suitcases. I’m now sold on this gadget. If you wonderful time. don’t have one, I suppose you could just toss a “Wish you were here.” hold the shift key information only. before you drop the Neither the Grosses few blank CDs into the bag, but the key chain We should be back in the USA tomorrow – 0 window into the nor LIMac endorse device is so much simpler. if LAN airlines ever takes off. More later on. new space. When any of the sites or you drop the their products. User Group News window, it will move into the same The following is just a small sampling of the away. iData 3 imports e-mail, bookmarks, and position it had in vendor offers available to LIMac members. more; lets you design and print envelopes and the first space. Please visit the LIMac Bulletin Board at www. labels; and even dials the phone. User Group –Rob Griffiths limac.org/invboard/ for a complete, up-to-date price: $49.95, way below the regular price of list. $69.95. www.idata3.com/id3mug.html. Coupon Assign an Application to All D MUG eMedia Music offers a line of award-winning code: i 3 438. This offer is valid through Spaces: and critically acclaimed software for learning April 30, 2008. By default, a guitar, piano and more. Guitar Method YourView, an innovative video tagging applica- window will stay in CD-ROM includes 165 step-by-step lessons with tion, allows users to tag video at the touch of the space that was over 50 large-format videos featuring songs a button to create highlights, filter, watch and active when you opened it – so an George Canellis from Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and more. share, turning hours of boring video into application may gwc11713@optonline. Piano & Keyboard Method includes over 300 favorite moments. YourView exports your clips have one or more net lessons from a former Juilliard instructor. Learn straight into iMovie HD/08, and allows you to to read music and play songs. Provides specific publish to YouTube and the video-sharing com- open windows in interactive feedback on your playing. Over one munity, or share with family and friends via several spaces. If you want all of an million have learned to play the eMedia way… your iPhone, iPod Touch or Apple TV. This user application’s win- it’s the easiest way to learn – guaranteed. This group special offers YouView for $14.99, which dows to appear in (Cont. from Page 3) user group special offers Guitar Method or is half the retail price of $29.99. www.yourview. down the shift or every space, go to MUG command key Piano Method for only $44.96, regularly $59.95. tv/offer. Promotion code: 123 This offer is the Exposé & Spaces before you click Start learning to play today:Piano: www.emedia- valid through April 30, 2008. preference pane, and hold on a music.com/macuser_PKM Guitar: www.eme- SMART Utility is an application to scan the choose the Spaces window. Then, diamusic.com/macuser_GM1 This offer is valid internal hardware diagnostics system of hard tab, click on the still holding down through April 30, 2008. drives. SMART is a system built into hard drives plus-sign (+) that key, drag one “A Memory Upgrade For Your Brain” iData by their manufacturers to report on various button, navigate to window of a pro- 3 is a flexible database for storing (and easily measurements of a hard drive’s operation such the application, and click on Add. gram; all that pro- retrieving) freeform text, field-based text, as mechanical or electrical problems, and poten- gram’s other Then choose Every images, links, and more. It is highly user-con- tial failure. SMART Utility can read and display Space from the windows will figurable, but has well-chosen default settings, all of these attributes that hopefully allows time follow. You can pop-up menu in the use a similar trick making it easy for anyone to begin using right (User Group News continues on Page 6) Space column next (Cont. on Page 5) The LIMac On-Line Forum/APRIL 2008 (Continued from Page 4) (Continued from Page 4) lessly in Firefox. add new abilities to existing sites) to add- Unfortunately, enabling new add-ons a superb choice for power users who want to Firefox is also full of nice interface ons that block malicious scripts, create and requires you to restart the browser. That can do more than simple surfng. It’s a polished, touches, from the easy ways to clear private edit blog posts, and more. be a pain, since Firefox isn’t exactly speedy professional alternative to Safari. data to the handy scrollbar that lets you zip Though Firefox’s default interface is to load. In my testing, Firefox took anywhere Firefox’s Gecko engine renders standards- through multiple tabs. Even better, that already clean and appealing, you can down- from three to eight seconds to fully load, compliant HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with interface is extremely customizable. Firefox load themes to personalize its look-and-feel. compared to between one and three seconds barely a hiccup. In my testing, complex supports free, user-created add-ons that And while Firefox’s built-in search defaults to for Safari. pages that gave Safari heartburn – such as extend its capabilities. You’ll fnd hundreds Google, you can expand it to include every –Nathan Alderman 0 the multilayered interactive menus of azcen- of those add-ons on the Mozilla site, from major search engine, along with such popular tral.com’s entertainment page – loaded faw- the popular GreaseMonkey (which lets users sites as Flickr and Wikipedia. TypeTalk 5 Spacing of Periods include Adobe's Universal News & Commercial Q. I don't like the awkward spaces that Pi, Symbol, Linotype European Pi, Bigelow & to be the same in result when superscript characters or quota- Holmes’ Lucida Math, Linotype Mathematical all your spaces. To tion marks are followed by a period. Do you Pi, and Linotype Universal Greek with Math Pi, do this, follow the kern the period to the left so it’s positioned and Adobe's Arno Pro and Hypatia Sans Pro. preceding instruc- tions for assigning Ilene Strizver under the quote marks or superscript? I refer to straight typewriter quotes as Ilene@thetypestudio. an application to A. Yes, those awkward spaces do look bad and primes because that’s what most designers are com all spaces, but can interrupt readability. To achieve a more familiar with, and because most fonts don't Ilene Strizver, navigate to the professional look for any combinations that have true primes. But strictly speaking, you are System/Library/ founder of The Type result in this kind of gap, kern the pair of char- Studio, is a typo- absolutely correct. CoreServices folder graphic consultant, acters to reduce the space. In the case of the and select Finder. designer, writer and superscript followed by the period, you might –Joe Kissell specializing in all get a better result if you put the period before aspects of typo- the superscript, then reduce the kerning. The Same Finder in graphic communica- How much to kern is a matter of taste and Every Space: tion, from the the font in question, but my preference is to If you want the aesthetic to the have the two characters almost aligning. Finder (or any other technical. Ilene program) to appear conducts Gourmet The difference between typewriter quotes (upper left), which are in all your spaces, Typography Training often used as primes, and true primes (upper right) are obvious in choose Every Space internationally. For this example set in Adobe’s Arno Pro, one of the few typefaces that from the Space more information, has true primes. The typographically correct smart quotes are on the drop-down menu in visit www.the- second line of the fgure. the Spaces prefer- typestudio.com. Word Spacing in Text ence pane. Q. Is there a way to adjust the word spacing Change the Space- (Cont. from Page 3) for a block of text that is set flush left, rag Switch Delay: to that applica- right? When you drag a tion’s name. The Awkward spacing can result around a period next to certain charac- A. As you’ve already noticed, the built-in, pre- window to the edge Every Space setting ters, as shown in the top example, set in Linotype Memphis. You can determined word spacing varies from font to of your screen and is appropriate for improve spacing with custom kern pairs, as illustrated in the bottom font. In addition, the word spacing’s appear- hold it there for a applications you example. ance varies depending on the point size of the moment, you move use constantly, True Primes setting. The spacing should not be so little that that window to the such as Stickies, Q. I’m a textbook designer who has been the words start to run into each other, and not space next to that iTunes (especially if around long enough that some of my ear- so much that your eye has trouble reading edge of your screen. you have the liest books were set in hot metal. In your The default delay window minimized groups of words because it’s interrupted by previous column the straight marks you before the window to the controller large white blocks. moves to the next view), and iChat. referred to as primes aren’t really primes. space is 0.75 sec- –Joe Kissell True primes for inch and foot marks are onds. To change slanted like an acute accent (for example, é). that delay to half a Assign the Finder A. I agree, the straight marks in most fonts second (for to All Spaces: aren’t primes from a historical point of view. example), open Each space has its They’re typewriter characters that were used as Terminal and enter own set of Finder both quotes and primes. defaults write com. windows – so if you Unfortunately, when typewriters transi- apple.dock work- want access to one tioned to computers, most typefaces main- spaces-edge-delay folder in several tained the straight typewriter quotes instead -float 0.5. Press different spaces, Return, and then you’ll have to open of offering the angled ones, which is why enter killall Dock. a new Finder most fonts don’t have correctly angled primes. You can replace 0.5 window in each Several symbol and Pi fonts, as well as some Word spacing that is too tight (upper left) or too open (upper right) – half a second – space. If you find of the newer OpenType fonts, do have true can reduce readability. The bottom example shows appropriate word with whatever this annoying, you primes in addition to smart quotes and old- spacing for best readability and good color and texture. Set in House value you wish. To 0 can set the Finder fashioned typewriter quotes. Those typefaces Industries Neutraface. return to the orig- (Cont. on Page 6) The LIMac On-Line Forum/APRIL 2008 PayPal: tures, according to Michael Barrett, PayPal's Macintosh computers and the iPhone, but it technology that turns the address bar green Steer clear of Safari chief information security officer. is also available for the PC. Both Firefox and when the browser is visiting a legitimate by Robert McMillan "Apple, unfortunately, is lagging behind Opera run on the Mac. Web site. If you're using Apple's what they need to do, to protect their cus- “Unlike its competitors, Safari has no When it comes to fighting phishing, Safari browser, PayPal has tomers," Barrett said in an interview. "Our built-in phishing filter to warn users when "Safari has got nothing in terms of security some advice for you: Drop it, at least if you recommendation at this point, to our cus- they are visiting suspicious Web sites,” support, only SSL (Secure Sockets Layer want to avoid online fraud. tomers, is use Internet Explorer 7 or 8 when it Barrett said. Another problem is Safari's lack encryption), that's it," he said. Apple repre- Safari doesn't make PayPal's list of recom- comes out, or Firefox 2 or Firefox 3, or indeed of support for another anti-phishing tech- sentatives weren't immediately available to mended browsers because it doesn't have Opera." nology, called Extended Validation (EV) cer- comment on this story. two important anti-phishing security fea- Safari is the default browser on Apple's tificates. This is a secure Web browsing An emerging technology, EV certificates
(Cont. from Page 5) March’s Meeting (Continued) inal value, enter modifier key is now 6 the commands (March’s Meeting continues from Page 1) the camera, from your older OM lenses to the part of the shortcut. again with the as well as the traditional .jpg format, have latest 50mm f/2.8pancake lens. Finally, hold down a different modifier value 0.75. full manual-operation capability and even a Brad Berger traced the history of the –Joe Kissell key, or combination wireless extension flash for use with telephoto Berger Brothers Camera Store from its begin- of modifier keys, lenses. nings in Amityville back in 1951 to its cur- Troubleshoot and assign the Finally, the SLR Series cameras are fully- rent two stores. Emphasizingcome and learn Spaces with Dock same function key Restart: capable digital single-lens reflex cameras. 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The program broadens gets from Dash- and, with it, Spaces. (from film cameras). The mechanical image your capabilities by having you shoot as you (Alternatively, you board to the can also restart the stabilization (theE 510, for instance) is in the learn. desktop; thanks to Dock from Activity camera body, useful for any lens attached to –Sam Storch Web Clip, that can Monitor.) be more useful than –Rob Griffiths ever. (AprilMeeting continues from Page 1) (Users Group News continues from Page 4) Show Widgets on Assign All Exposé how easy it is to use Dictate right out of the to backup data, and replace the drive. Receive the Desktop: Modes to a Single If you want to have box, with the included high quality headset, 25% off regular $20 retail price of the 10-unit a widget available Key - By default, in the applications you use every day like MS license. www.volitans-software.com. 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(Users Group News continues on Page 7) (Continues on Page 7) The LIMac On-Line Forum/APRIL 2008 (Continues from Page 6) University published a study showing that, that they're visiting a legitimate site. that Safari was a safer browser, but at this are already supported in Internet Explorer 7, without training, people were unlikely to Over the past few months, IE 7 users have point it isn't." 0 and they've been used on PayPal's Web site for notice the green address-bar notification pro- been less likely to drop out and abandon the more than a year now. When IE 7 visits PayPal, vided by EV certificates. process of signing on to PayPal, he said. "It's a the browser's address bar turns green – a sign Still, Barrett says data compiled on PayPal's several percentage-point drop in abandon- to users that the site is legitimate. Upcoming Web site show that the EV certificates are ment rates," he said. "That number is... mea- versions of Firefox and Opera are expected to having an effect. He says IE 7 users are more surably lower for IE 7 users." support the technology. likely to sign on to PayPal's Web site than Opera, IE, and Firefox are "safer, precisely But EV certificates have their critics. Last users who don't have EV certificate tech- because we think they are safer for the year, researchers at Microsoft and Stanford nology, presumably because they're confident average consumer," he added. "I'd love to say
(Q&A continues from Page 3) These virtual environments can use the same (Cont. from Page 6) data sitting on your Boot Camp partition, so 7 other windows. If | We just got a new Mac laptop and we you can use them when convenience is para- you want more con- understand we can run MicrosoftWindows mount, or restart as real Windows when Del.icio.us Resize Web Clip trol over the way and Apple’s operating system together. Is needed. There is a small performance hit when your widgets work Widgets: outside Dashboard, that hard to do? running virtually, but for many things it’s not If you use Safari’s use Amnesty Widget There are a few ways to go. Leopard comes noticable. Believe it or not, the MacBook/ new Web Clip fea- Browser or Amnesty with a Boot Camp installer, which walks you MacBook Pro makes for a pretty decent ture to make a Singles ($20 and through burning a driver CD and partitioning Windows machine, particularly the MacBook Dashboard widget $10, respectively). your hard drive and installing your own copy Pro models, as they have a dedicated graphics out of a small Web –Joe Kissell of Windows XP Pro service pack 2 or Windows chip. It’s mostly games that require the item, you may be Vista Business on this new partition. To use advanced driver support possible with the Boot dismayed to find Launch Dashboard Windows (either one) you have to restart, Camp option. As Apple’s laptops don’t have that Safari enforces with the Mouse: specify the boot partition and then you are two buttons with the trackpad, you’ll probably a minimum size of If you have a multi- about 128 by 128 running Windows and not the Mac OS X. This want a wired or wireless mouse. If you are run- button mouse and pixels; you can’t want to avoid using method is the cheapest and the fastest and ning a virtual environment, you will need make the Web Clip the keyboard just most compatible, but also inconvenient, more RAM memory than normal, as you will selection smaller to invoke Dash- because you have to stop everything on the be supporting two operating systems at once. than that. The solu- board, assign a Mac side and restart to run Windows, you can’t I’d max out the computer to a full 4GB of tion is simple if not mouse button to it have both at the same time. The other option RAM. As for ease of use, it’s easier to install obvious: after cre- instead. Let’s say is to buy either of two inexpensive ($80) pro- Windows under Parallels Desktop than on a real ating the widget, you have an Apple grams, either Parallel’s Desktop 3.0 for Mac or PC. click on the I on Mighty Mouse. Go VMware’s Fusion 1.1. These are called virtual- | Can someone running Windows get the the widget’s face to the Keyboard & ization products as you can run Windows information I create with the Mac? I do and then click on Mouse preference Edit. You’ll be able within (a window) the Mac OS X. You can bookkeeping for other people. pane and click on to resize and the Mouse tab. Then print, access the Internet, exchange files from Sure, it’s just like you are running any other reframe the widget choose Dashboard Mac OS X to Windows. Each product has it’s Windows machine. If the other person has a as you wish. from the pop-up strengths and weaknesses and some people compatible version of the software you use, –Rob Griffiths menu corre- will tell you one is faster than the other but it’s then it’s no problem. If you use, say sponding to one of very dependant on the programs you need to QuickBooks Pro 2008 or MYOB Plus under the buttons (I sug- use under Windows. 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