Macintosh—It Just Works! 1

The Newsletter for the Huntsville Macintosh Users Group in Huntsville, Alabama October 1999

might be causing conflicts, and (3) disable sleep in software on her machine just before this problem, Minutes of the the Energy Saver panel. Marius said that he had but removed it immediately when this problem Informal Meeting heard some conflict (I did not quite get the details) started. The group suspects some kind of a exten- that just turning off the sleep for the hard drive might sion conflict (the biggest source of problems). September 25, 1999 solve the problem without having to turn off the Maybe the installation of the new software put an by John McDonald sleep for the display. But, of course, the idea of extension on her system that she is not aware of? Janice Wright (our President) began the meeting at having a PowerBook go to sleep is to conserve iMac Not Starting Up 10:00 a.m.. battery power without having to shut down. Maybe Some friends of Janice have an iMac that will almost Things of Interest Lee can tell us which, if any, of these suggestions complete the start up process but fails at the last worked at the next meeting. second. It will boot with the extensions turned off Tennessee Valley MacExpo OS 8.5 Stops 6200 from Printing (hold down on the Shift key while starting the Janice gave a report on the progress of our efforts Another member reported that he had problems machine) so the group had to conclude that it was (along with Larry Stram of Mac Resource) to have a with a 6200 Mac after installing OS 8.5. The printer an extension conflict. Someone mentioned that the MacExpo here in the Tennessee Valley. An area in stopped working. He tired everything he could think order extensions load up can be an important factor the South Hall of the Von Braun Center has been of to get the printer to work. Finally he backed up the in the problem free operation of a computer. (I had rented and the date for the MacExpo is scheduled for information on the hard drive, did a low-level format a conflict with the drivers for my SyQuest and my the last Friday and Saturday of January (28th and and installed the OS 8.5 and all of the software that Iomega Zip. The SyQuest drivers, called HDT, loaded 29th). was on the machine. The printer works now. (I had before the Iomega and tried to control the Zip drive. Dealer for Hiwaay a problem with a 7500 at work, it never really I added a “z” to HDT so it would load last and it Keith Putnam (our Apple Ambassador) informed stopped working but some really strange things solved the problem.) the group that our status as a Dealer for Hiwaay was would happen. We finally did a low-level format, Blank Screen in question (according to letter from Hiwaay) but installed the operating system and software, and the Marius reported that a screen on one of his comput- that he would call the person in charge. machine was okay after that.) ers came up blank. He went through all kinds of Book from Epson 2GHz Chip checks trying to find what was wrong. Turned out to Epson is selling a book (on-line) called “Buying an Ink Word is that Motorola has a G5 chip in the works that be a bad adapter on the monitor cable. Jet Printers for Dummies.” It is available for $3 at will produce a 2 giga-hertz Mac by the year 2002! Reformat High-Density as 800k http://www.epson.com/whatsnew/ Modem Not Responding Gene Wiggins had some kind of problem that I did promotions/dummies.html Janice was having problems getting on-line. The not get (I can’t listen and write at the same time). program told her that the modem was not respond- The solution involved reformatting 1.4 meg disks to Website Marius (our WebMaster) reported that the server at ing. The only thing that worked was to uninstall the 800k. This can be done by covering the hole oppo- Fax software which she did not think she had in- site the lock on a high density disk. When you place A&M is still having problems. The web site is up but stalled. It worked for awhile but the problem keeps such a modified disk in the Mac, it allows you to it will not be stable for awhile. Please be patient until Marius has a chance to work on the problem. coming back. If she runs the software that uninstalls erase the disk and format it as an 800k. the “Fax Stuff” software she can get on line but it only Disk Warrior Group Buy? Flashes lasts awhile. One member had heard that Fax Stuff Steve Applebaum asked about the group buy for had some problems but if she is not running it how “Disk Warrior.” Gene Wiggins responded that he PowerBook Crashes could it have any effect. Janice had loaded some new when Waking Up had not been able to get a hold of the person Lee Jones reported that his G3 PowerBook will go to sleep but when he tires to wake it up the machine locks up on him. Suggestions were (1) trash the See the last two pages of this newsletter preference file (this can be cure for a lot of things), for information about our group. (2) disable the screen-saver utility he is using which 2 The Huntsville Macintosh Users Group Newsletter for October 23, 1999 Give-Away simearth (or any other sim game such as simant or The Contents of Lipmon Moy had a box of CD-ROMs produced by the simfarm). Marshall Space Flight Center on the History of Space Beginner - Listen Now 9/28/99 This Issue Flight that were available for free. Unless the rock you’ve been living under is particu- Presentation larly dense, you know that MP3 is one of the hippest HMUG Business and things happening in computerdom. I’ve recently Marius Schamschula gave a presentation on the discovered a $17.95 shareware MP3 player that is Information history and configuration of hard drives and various just as hip. It’s called Audion, is made by Panic, and methods of cabling a drive to a computer. ❑ Apple Ambassador’s Report ...... 2 plays not only MP3s but audio CDs as well as network audio. It features beautiful skins (Panic Calendar of Events...... 7 Apple terms them “faceplates,” a three-mode design that Mac Attack BBS ...... 9 allows you to quickly switch between MP3, CD, and Ambassador’s net play; drag and drop playlist support; and an Minutes of the Informal Meeting ....1 Report equalizer. You’ll like it a lot and can find your copy Minutes of the Business Meetings ...6 at by Keith Putnam http://www.macdownload.com Membership Application ...... 5 For special offers mentioned in this article, or to request evaluation software, contact me via e-mail at Beginner - Bugged Officers and Volunteers ...... 9 [email protected] or at my daytime phone by Cheating 9/29/99 number: 256-890-4549. Having trouble navigating your six-legged protago- Submissions to the Newsletter ...... 9 nist through Pangea’s Bugdom? Perhaps using these Submission Specifications ...... 9 Aladdin Systems cheat codes would make the process easier: During play: Treasurer’s Report ...... 8 Mac News The following is excerpts from a newsletter. ~ (tilde) + F1 to skip the current level. We Invite You to Join Us! ...... 10 MacWorld’s Daily Tip ~ + F2 = win the game Reviews and Articles All tips contributed by Chris Breen ~ + F3 = Full Health These tips were gathered from MacWorld’s daily ~ + F4 = Full Ball Timer Oz Police Find Macs are Cheaper ...9 Mac Tip subscription. Subscribe/unsubscribe: ~ + F5 = Full Inventory Security Hole Uncovered http://www.tipworld.com/macworld/cgi- Beginner - Sherlock’s Other Brother in Palm Wireless Site ...... 9 bin/sub.cgi/macworld/change.html 9/30/99 Beginner - On the Case 9/22/99 Mac OS 9 with its Sherlock II search engine is just You can quickly change the case of words you around the corner, but perhaps you’re itchy to try a search utility a tad more capable than the version of responsible since he got a favorable response about highlight in Microsoft Word. To do so, highlight one Sherlock you currently own. Look no further than the group buy. Keith Putnam has been trying too. word or more and press Shift-F3. When you first do this, every letter in the selected word is capitalized. Copernic 99, a search utility that allows you to Zapping the PRAM If you press Shift-F3 again and all letters in the simultaneously consult many of the top search en- One of the methods of solving problems on the Mac selection move to lower case. Press Shift-F3 yet gines on the net. Using Copernic 99 you can rifle is zapping the PRAM. This was not mentioned at the again and the first letter of every selected word is through information on the web and in newsgroups meeting but when I got to work Monday morning my capitalized. as well as snoop around for people’s email ad- 7500 with a G3 upgrade card would not start up. It dresses. You can find your free copy at Beginner - Drop would boot with the extensions off (Hold down the http://www.macdownload.com Shift key while starting up) but any other time it Your Drawers 9/24/99 would freeze just after putting up my desktop pic- Looking to organize your life (or at least the part of Beginner - Total your life found on your Macintosh)? Then it may be ture. None of the disk icons or folders were dis- Annihilation Cheat 10/4/99 time to give Sig Software’s Drop Drawers a try. This played. I suspected extension conflict, of course, but MacSoft has recently released Total Annihilation I do not have Conflict Catcher. I picked up my “The $15 shareware application allows you to pack pull- Gold Edition which includes the original Total Anni- out drawers full of such things as aliases, URLs, Macintosh Bible” to see if it had an approach to hilation plus two expansion packs — Battle Tactics email addresses, pictures, movies, sounds, and even checking out extensions on my own. When I opened and The Core Contingency (such a deal!). Because the book I was viewing the page on zapping the bits of styled text that you can drag and drop into you’re a busy person you may not have time to play your documents. The tabs that represent the draw- PRAM. I decided to try it. It worked. To zap the PRAM through all the levels in order and may be seeking ers take up very little screen real estate and can be press the Cmd+Option+R+P keys simultaneously some outside assistance. Consider us your outside during start-up. When you hear a chime, let go of the moved anywhere on screen you like. assistance source. To pick among all of the levels, try keys. Unfortunately, the PRAM (Parameter Random You can find your copy at this: Access Memory) holds the parameters you have set http://www.macdownload.com In the New Campaign screen (the screen with the in your control panels. Zapping the PRAM sets all the New Campaign, Skirmish buttons) type “Drdeath” Beginner - SimTicker 9/27/99 control panels back to the default settings. For (without the quotes, okay?). A bone icon will ap- I recently told you how to cheat your way through example, if you are on an ethernet you will lose sight SimCity 3000, but those cheats aren’t the game’s pear. Click on this bone to select from among the of printers and such because the Appletalk control levels. only secrets. For more fun, press Command-Option- panel will be set to Appletalk instead of ethernet. Shift-C, type the following into the resulting dialog Beginner - iView Multimedia box, and keep your eye on the news ticker: fund 10/8/99 advisor moremoney maxis 1234 sc3k mayor hello Increasingly — thanks to digital cameras, MP3, and simcity money ticker porntipsguzzardo will wright the ready availability of cool QuickTime movies — Macintosh—It Just Works! 3 Mac users have more multimedia files to keep track home after spending just a few minutes with it. You Street), its accompanying adapter, and two fully- of. Sure, you could toss all your graphics, movie, and can find your copy at charged batteries. This person offers to loan you his audio files into a single “Multimedia Junk” folder http://www.macdownload.com adapter and just before you plug it in, you wonder, but why bother when a darned fine multimedia “Will this adapter work with my PowerBook or will Check it out. cataloging program is available for a scant $25 it reduce it to a puddle of molten plastic?” Here’s the shareware fee. Intermediate - Uninstalling answer: That darned fine program is Script Software’s iView QuickTime 4.0 9/23/99 It will work. In the last couple of years, Apple has You should know that when you use the QuickTime Multimedia 3.7 — a media cataloging application standardized its PowerBook adapters. If you have 4.0 installer to uninstall QuickTime 4.0, not all of that allows you to organize and preview most of the any of the PowerBook G3s (Bronze, Wall Street, or media you’re likely to find on your Mac. iView’s QuickTime’s components are removed. After launch- original PowerBook G3) you can power it with ing the installer, clicking through the license agree- interface is clean and easy to work with. The main Apple’s M4402 adapter. You can even use this ments, arriving at the Custom install screen, choosing window contains three tabs that represent different adapter with the PowerBook 3400 and 1400. Better views of your media files-Info, a list view; Thumb- uninstall, and running the uninstaller script you’ll yet, according to Apple, that sleek, wind-up power find that although most of QuickTime 4.0’s compo- nail, where you can see previews of your files in four adapter that will ship with the iBook (model nents have been removed, the Sound Manager ex- selectable sizes; and Media, where you can view M7387LL/A) can be used with the PowerBook G3s. graphic files at magnifications ranging from 25-to- tension remains in your Extensions folder. If you want to remove every vestige of QuickTime, you Intermediate - Resetting Old Apple 2,000 percent, play movies, or listen to audio files. must manually drag the Sound Manager extension to Monitors 9/28/99 The variety of files you can import into iView is the trash. If you have an old Apple Multiple Scan 17 or Multiple impressive-these include any media type supported Scan 20 Display and would like to quickly return Note, however, that many applications depend on by QuickTime 4.0 as well as EPS, Freehand, Illustra- them to their factory settings, here’s how: To reset the Sound Manager and you should have a copy tor, AppleWorks, Flash, PageMaker, and, with the brightness and contrast, press the Reset button with addition of Script Software’s $48 iViewXT extension, installed. If you suspect that the copy of Sound the tip of an unbent paperclip or ballpoint pen. To Manager you have installed is causing a problem — QuarkXPress documents. reset all picture controls, hold down the Control it’s corrupt, for example — and feel that it really You can find your copy at http:// button (the one next to the recessed Reset button) www.macdownload.com must go, you can get a new copy by reinstalling and then employ the paperclip or pen. To reset all QuickTime 4.0 or an earlier version of QuickTime. Intermediate - CD-ROM Does Too the picture controls except brightness and contrast, Mount 9/20/99 Intermediate - What’s the select any of the set-up buttons (press the Command A lot of people are under the impression that if you Difference 9/23/99 button on the monitor) and then press the Reset Apple recently announced the three models that hold down the Mac’s Shift key at startup, you can’t button. make up the Power Macintosh G4. Other than their use your CD-ROM drive. After all, the Apple CD/DVD megahertz ratings (400, 450, and 500 MHz), what’s Intermediate - G4 = USB Driver extension didn’t load, so a CD shouldn’t Satisfaction 9/29/99 the difference between the three? mount. This isn’t exactly true. What is true is this: An under-reported advantage of Apple’s upcoming The low-end model (model M7631) includes a PCI If you have a bootable CD-ROM in the drive at startup Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics, ie. the-more-expen- that contains the Apple CD/DVD Driver (or Apple graphics slot (and accompanying PCI graphics card), sive-models) is that these Macs come with separate no wireless networking capabilities, no digital video- CD-ROM driver) the Mac OS will use that driver, 12Mb USB controllers for each USB port. So what? in support, hardware DVD decoding, and the same load it into memory, and your CD-ROM will mount. So this: This works for Mac OS discs and the startup discs modem used in the Blue & White Power Mac G3s. You can now attach up to 127 USB devices to each that came with your Mac. The 450- and 500 MHz models (models M7232 and USB port. On previous USB-compatible Macs (and M6921) use an AGP graphics slot (and accompany- So, what good is this tip? Just this: That driver stays on the low-end G4) you can share 127 USB devices in memory as long as your Mac is running. You can ing AGP graphics card, support wireless networking between the two ports. (AirPort), support video-in with an appropriate therefore eject the CD-ROM disc you used to mount Also, unlike previous Macs, you can boot from a USB video card, offer software DVD decoding, and use a the disc and slip another CD-ROM into the Mac — device with the new G4s. it too will mount. This is useful for those times when special modem designed for the G4. From the outside you can distinguish the low-end Intermediate - Beep Codes 9/30/99 you need to troubleshoot your Mac — with Exten- Modern day Macs no longer issue the dreaded model from the middle and high-end machine by the sions off — with a utility that’s contained on a CD- “Chimes of Doom” when they fail to pass their ROM disc. arrangement of the microphone and speaker jacks on the back of the Macs. The low-end model has the hardware startup tests. Instead, they beep. But, they’ll beep differently depending on the problem Intermediate - NetFinder two jacks placed side-by-side while on the higher Saved My Bacon 9/22/99 encountered and the Mac model. Here are the In these days when downloading files that consume end machines the jacks are vertically arranged. And because Apple can’t seem to release a professional codes: tens-, or even hundreds of megabytes is more and Mac without putting part of its name in parentheses, On an iMac, Blue and White G3, Power Mac G4 (PCI more common, there’s little more aggravating than Graphics), and PowerBook G3 Series (Bronze key- losing your connection to an ftp server just minutes you may also find that Apple refers to the low-end model as Power Mac G4 (PCI Graphics) and the board): before completing a 68MB download. In the bad old other two as Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics). days of ftp transfer you’d have the begin the down- 1 beep = No RAM installed/detected. load all over again. You no longer need to if you have Intermediate - Power to the People 2 beeps = Incompatible RAM type installed. a copy of Peter Li and Vincent Tan’s $35 shareware 9/27/99 3 beeps = No RAM banks passed memory testing. Here’s the situation: You’ve left the house in a hurry ftp client, NetFinder. This baby allowed me to pick 4 beeps = Bad checksum for the remainder of the up where I left off three separate times while I with your PowerBook G3 (Bronze keyboard) and boot ROM. attempted to download a 164MB file last weekend. upon reaching your destination you realize that you’ve left your power adapter at home and your 5 beeps = Bad checksum for the ROM boot block. Resuming downloads isn’t NetFinder’s only strength. Unlike many other ftp clients, NetFinder looks and battery is nearly drained. Thankfully, the person On a Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics): sitting right next to you has a PowerBook G3 (Wall operates like a Mac application. You’ll feel right at 1 beep = no RAM installed. 4 The Huntsville Macintosh Users Group Newsletter for October 23, 1999 2 beeps = incompatible RAM types. If you do indeed want these components updated Secondly, remember that GLIDE games won’t run in 3 beeps = no good banks. you can either move them back to their original a window, they must run in full screen. Therefore, if location and rerun the updater, or, if you tossed you’ve been playing a game that supports both RAVE 4 beeps = no good boot images in the boot ROM them out, reinstall them from the Mac OS 8.5 and GLIDE — Unreal, for example — and you (and/or bad sys config block). installer and then run the 8.6 update. decide you want to switch from RAVE to GLIDE, be 5 beeps = processor is not usable. Intermediate - PowerBook Blues sure that the game is configured to start up full Should you hear any of these beeps, and haven’t just 10/11/99 screen, not in a window. Unreal has a setting in the installed new RAM or otherwise mucked about with If your PowerBook or iBook is acting oddly — not Advanced Settings window that allows you to config- the insides of your Mac, Apple suggests that you call waking from sleep, refusing to power on, or failing ure the game this way. your Apple Authorized Service Provider for trouble- to charge the battery — it’s possible that its Power Just so you know: Yes, you can cut down on this “you shooting assistance. Manager has become corrupted. If you suspect that be Monitor 1 this time” fandango by dragging the Intermediate - Really such is the case, the method for attacking the images of the monitors on top of one another in the Sleepy Battery 10/1/99 problem is to reset the Power Manager. Here’s how Monitors & Sound control panel so that the moni- If you have a PowerBook G3 (Bronze keyboard) and you do it with the PowerBook G3 (Wall Street), tors mirror each other, but this really kills perfor- have noticed that the battery icon on your PowerBook G3 (Bronze Keyboard), and the iBook mance. PowerBook’s menubar has a red X over it, your (No Parentheses Necessary): For previous tips and all other Macintosh help, battery has gone into a deep discharge state and may Wall Street: Shut down the PowerBook, press the please go to: not be recognized by your PowerBook. To wake this Shift, Fn, Ctrl, and Power On keys at the same time. http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/mac_help/ slumbering battery up, try this: Wait five seconds. Restart. mac_help.html Shove the battery into either bay and leave it there for Bronze Keyboard: Shut down the PowerBook, press Copyright (c) 1999, Macworld Communications 30 seconds or so. Then remove the battery — the Reset button on the back of the ‘book (between Inc. pulling it out just about an inch. Leave the battery in the video port and modem jack). Wait five seconds. that precarious position for a few seconds and then Restart. iMac Update - reinsert it into the bay. Leave it in the bay for another iBook: Shut down the iBook, press the Reset button September 16 & 30, 30 seconds and if the X doesn’t disappear, repeat the (use a paperclip to push this small button that’s October 7 in and out procedure. Apple claims you may have to located above the Power button). Wait five seconds. perform this operation 10 to 12 times before the X Sharing iMac Comes Easy Restart. disappears and you can fully charge the battery. with Mac OS 9 Alternatively you can recharge the battery with an Power User - For Game Geeks Only You like a plain vanilla desktop and a decisive font external battery charger. 9/22/99 like Techno. He prefers a picture of Waldo—your If you’re a hard-core gamer you may be considering springer spaniel—on his desktop and Sand as his Intermediate - Word’s Double- the possibility of employing both a Rage 128 and a system font. Clickable Shortcuts 10/6/99 Voodoo 3 video card — after all, RAVE games look Word 98 offers quick access to certain dialog boxes But now you two don’t have to compete for desktop great on the Rage 128 and for GLIDE games, you dominance. You can each set up your shared iMac when you double-click on the appropriate item. must have a 3Dfx card and the Voodoo 3 is the Here are a few you might like to try: just the way you want by taking advantage of a great current top of the heap. Of course, because both the new feature of Mac OS 9: Multiple Users. Double-click on: Rage 128-based video cards and the Voodoo 3 are 2D and 3D cards, you must have a separate monitor Multiple Users lets you define all of the characteris- Indent marker in the Ruler to open the Paragraph tics of your personal work and play environment on dialog box. for each. iMac. From the time you log in to the moment you The Ruler to open the Document dialog box. Let’s suppose that you’re so hard-core (and wealthy) leave, Mac OS 9 remembers who you are and how A Tab to open the Tabs dialog box. that you can afford this set-up. Will it work? Yes, but you like things set up. only if you arrange it this way: The Go To status bar to open the Go To section of the To read about some of the other new features of Mac Find and Replace dialog box. An empty space in a To begin with, you must configure your monitors so OS 9, visit: that the card running a particular game is desig- menu bar to bring up the Customize dialog box. http://www.apple.com/macos/reserve9.html nated monitor 1 in the Monitors & Sound control Intermediate - Updater May Not panel (monitor 1 is the monitor on which the Mac’s And, effective immediately, you can reserve your Update 10/7/99 menubar appears). For example, if you’re running copy of Mac OS 9 at the Apple Store or a participating The Mac OS 8.6 updater is a bit choosy about what a RAVE game, the monitor attached to the Rage 128 reseller in your area: it will and won’t update. For example, it will only card must be monitor 1. To give a monitor this http://www.apple.com/store/ update components that reside in their original designation, open the Monitors & Sound control Nine Internet Power Tools—And location. If you move a component, this updater is panel, click the Arrange button, and drag the small not about to search for it — it assumes you moved $20 Back menubar that appears in the picture to the monitor That’s what you get when you upgrade Mac OS 8.5 or it because you didn’t want it and the updater isn’t you want to designate monitor 1. about to presume that you’d like an updated copy of Mac OS 8.6 to Mac OS 9. You get the tools that make an unwanted component. Mac OS 9 your Internet co-pilot—like Sherlock 2,

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The opinions, statements, position 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.” Macintosh—It Just Works! 5 the ultimate search engine; voice- http://www.apple.com/appleworks/ print passwords; Keychain, which Membership Application resources.html lets you keep the passwords for all Here’s a simple way to add a column of please check one please check one your accounts in one place and figures in an AppleWorks spreadsheet. Just Individual membership ($25 per year) New member unlock them with one password; select the column, plus one more cell at the Renewal and industrial-strength file encryp- Family membership ($30 per year) end of the column, and then click the tion. AutoSum button. The total appears in the On top of all that, Apple is offering Last Name ...... open cell. a $20 rebate to users of Mac OS 8.5 First Name(s) ...... 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Sherlock 2, click on the shopping cart, The iMac Is Such a Work E-mail address ...... type “Sheryl Crow,” and let Sherlock 2 Blessing. search a few online shops for you—Ama- It’s such a powerful computer, and Permission to notify you via e-mail or phone of special Yes zon, for example, and Barnes & Noble. In it’s so affordable. There’s no other events and upcoming programs? No seconds, Sherlock 2 creates a list of CDs way a writer like me—in less than for you to consider. You can sort them by a year—could have gone from run- When HMUG signs members up with HiWaay Information title, price, or availability. Double-click ning my office in a garage to a Services (a local Internet Service Provider), the fee for the Yes your choice, and Sherlock will start your 5,000-square-foot design and teach- first month is rebated to HMUG. Would you like more No browser and transport you to the appro- ing facility that employs 10 people. information on HiWaay? priate Internet shop. 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Take, for example, “Visual QuickStart Guide: It’s a way to have lots of fun on iMac or iBook while Getting to Know AppleWorks AppleWorks 5 for Windows and Macintosh” from creating all sorts of colorful printed materials: greet- As you may have discovered, AppleWorks is one Peachpit Press: versatile product, offering considerable potential ing cards, banners, certificates, signs, calendars, http://www.peachpit.com/books/catalog/ business cards...you get the idea. for students, educators, small business owners, and K5860.html anybody else who uses a computer to draw, write, A software product from Nova Development, Print outline, or create spreadsheets, databases, charts, Or “Ultimate AppleWorks Solutions 5.0”: Explosion was designed exclusively for the Macintosh and tables. http://www.edupress.com/ and joins a number of other Nova Development Interested in other book titles? Then visit: products that just about any Macintosh customer is likely to enjoy. For more information: 6 The Huntsville Macintosh Users Group Newsletter for October 23, 1999 http://www.novadevelopment.com/main/ movie, with titles and a voice-over explanation, of a Kodak DC240i megapixel digital camera. Available macproducts.html spider building her web? in those five familiar flavors, it has automatic focus Looking for Distinguished Movie making just got easy. That’s because of iMovie, and exposure, 6X zoom capability, and many more Educators a new product from Apple that comes preinstalled features that let you capture detailed images and Do you know an outstanding K-12 educator? Maybe on iMac DV computers. It’s a digital video editing download them to your Mac via USB. a teacher, maybe an administrator—but someone application, amazingly easy to use, that turns you Get the details on this colorful camera at: you’d describe as truly excellent? If so, urge that into the director and producer of your own home http://www.kodak.com/ person to apply for the Apple Distinguished Educa- movies. With iMovie, you can capture video from Hear Britain’s biggest rock band, Stereophonics, tor Award. Find out about the qualifications for an your digital camcorder and select the best scenes on Apple Distinguished Educator—and how to apply your computer screen. Add sound effects, music, performing live at Morfa Stadium in Wales. You can see the video at any Virgin Megastore in the U.S.— for the class of 2000: maybe blockbuster- style titles—and at the end, let and you can also see it, through the end of October, the credits roll. http://www.apple.com/education/k12/ on the QuickTime Showcase at: teachlearn/ade/index.html Find out how you can be your own director with http://apple.com/quicktime/showcase/live/ iMovie: iMac Rebirth Announcement stereophonics Yes, there was a happy event this month. It’s the http://www.apple.com/imovie rebirth of iMac—the birth, in fact, of an all-new Quick Takes The User Group iMac family. This special edition of iMac Update So far as Walter S. Mossberg of the Wall Street Connection reveals the vital statistics. Journal is concerned, “the standout feature on the HMUG members are encouraged to subscribe to the Redesigned from top to bottom, the three new iMac iBook is its battery life and power management UGC Mac member listserv. Email to mug-member- models are sleeker and more beautiful than ever system: they are flat-out exceptional:” [email protected] “subscribe” in sub- before. They’re faster than ever, too. There’s a http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/ ject line. PowerPC G3 processor in every model—so speedy 1,1249,115007876,00.html? it outraces even the fastest Pentium III. About This Did you know that the Sherlock 2 window is now Particular Mac But that barely begins to describe what’s amazing resizable? You can make it as large as your screen, about the new iMac. A couple of teasers: ATPM is a free newsletter packed with news, tips and if you like. Sherlock 2 is only one of the features that opinions. It is presented in the stand-alone docu- - The built-in RAGE 128 VR graphics accelerator make Mac OS 9 your Internet co-pilot: ment format DocMaker, a product of Huntsville’s blazes through 3D games. http://www.apple.com/macos/reserve9.html own Green Mountain Software. Issue 4.05 has a very - The revolutionary digital audio system (brought to The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is coming up, nice summary of shortcuts under Op Ed: The Per- you by Apple and Harman/Kardon) delivers adrena- and Apple is taking part. There’ll be hands-on sonal Computing Paradigm. Current and back line-pumping hi-fi sound. workshops and presentations on all kinds of educa- issues can be acquired from the ATPM Web Page: But maybe the hottest feature of all is the tion solutions, from wireless networking to http://www.atpm.com groundbreaking digital video technology that comes QuickTime streaming. Over 3,500 hundred attend- ❑ with the two iMac DV models. It’s like having the ees are expected. Find out how you can be one of magic of Hollywood inside your computer. (We’ll them at: tell you more about it below.) http://www.apple.com/education/hed/ Minutes of the Get your first peek at the new iMac family at: educause/index.html Business Meeting http://www.apple.com/imac Just announced from Microsoft: Word 98 Special Edition for the iMac and iBook. It’s the complete October 9, 1999 Grab the Popcorn and Sit Back by John McDonald Two of the three new iMac models are called iMac word processor, plus greeting card templates, clip DV. DV stands for digital video. The iMac CD-ROM art images, Internet Explorer 4.5, and Outlook Things of Interest drive has been replaced with a DVD-ROM drive, Express 4.5 for easy e-mail. Apple Business Seminar which means you can pop in a DVD movie (easier http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ Janice Wright (our President) announced there will than ever, because now the drive is slot-loading) 000word98info.htm be an on-line Apple Business Seminar on November and suddenly your computer is a personal movie Over 145 higher education institutions now have 3. Check the time at Apple’s web site theater—you see a full- screen, hi-res image with Apple Campus Representatives. They’re students http://www.Seminars.Apple.com/series/ incredible sound. who are Mac technical experts, available to answer sbsf002 To get you started, Apple has included a movie with their fellow students’ computing questions— about every iMac DV: “A Bug’s Life,” the first completely everything from AppleWorks to web design. Find out On-line Backup Service digital animated feature. if there’s an Apple Campus Rep at your school: Janice also told the attendees that Synectics Business Solutions, Inc. are offering an On-line Backup Ser- Sneak a preview at: http://www.apple.com/education/hed/ campusreps/ vice. She had brochures available, but for those not http://www.apple.com/imac/dv.html at the meeting you can check out this service at iMac delivers impressive sound—all the way down That’s You in the Director’s Chair to those thrilling low notes. You can extend the http://www.backjack.com Aunt Tillie can’t make it to little Jason’s third birth- power and range of the audio system by attaching the day party. Why not make a movie of the event, Tennessee Valley MacExpo complete with birthday song, and send it to her via USB iSub subwoofer by Harman/Kardon. Find out all General Information about it at: e-mail? Janice reported on the MacExpo that is being spon- http://www.apple.com/imac/graphics.html sored by HMUG and Mac Resources. Invitations to a You want to do a bang-up job on your arachnid report for science class. How about including a Now you can color-coordinate your digital camera majority of the possible exhibitors has been either e- with your iMac or iBook. Check out the just-released mailed or snail mailed and some positive responses Macintosh—It Just Works! 7 have been coming back. More invitations are being example, one recipient replied that we should take and monitor preference file. Another suggestion sent out as additional potential exhibitors are dis- him off our mailing list because he did not own a was to allocate more memory to the application. covered. A portion of the Von Braun Center has Macintosh. Obviously this was not the correct per- 1400 Upgrade already been reserved for the TVME. son in the company to contact because the company Steve Applebaum was looking for upgrade cards for Volunteers Needed! does make products that can be used by the Mac! the 1400 Mac and could not seem to find anything. The process of locating the exact person to contact When Keith Putnam received this reply he sent Two other members said that the 1400 did have at the various vendors that might exhibit at TVME has another message to someone else in that company. upgrade cards and they were pretty sure they were been difficult. Although we have sent out e-mails and At least we got a reply and Keith was able to sent still available. It was suggested that he check out another message to another party. But what about snail mailings, we can not be sure that a no response http://www.upgradestuff.com means there is no interest. It might be that the those that do not reply? mailings have simply gone to the wrong person. For We need volunteers to get on the phones (provided and the MacConnection and MacMall catalogs. by Larry Stram at Mac Resource) and stay on the line Global Village Dying to make sure that we have reached the correct Ted Fronefield said that he was having problems 1999 Calendar person. Since these people must be contacted dur- with his Global Village modem. It has been cutting ing the day we need volunteers that can devote time out on him unexpectedly. Tony said that his GV acted of Events during normal working hours. For those of us who like that just before it died. There is nothing known Business Meeting ...... November 13 work we have volunteered to go in early and make that can be done about it. calls to potential exhibitors on the East Coast. But it Informal Meeting ...... No meeting* Init Strings for 56k Hayes Modem is obvious that we need people to come in at other Steve Applebaum has a 56K Hayes Modem but Business Meeting ...... December 11 hours and contact vendors, especially those in the cannot find the init (initializing) string to make it Informal Meeting ...... No meeting* Mid-West and the West Coast. Call Larry Stram at function properly. It was suggested that he try 721-1700 (Mac Resource) to volunteer. We need Shiva.com to find init strings (I hope this is correct: 2000 Calendar you! Editor) Report from the Neural Networks of Events Webmaster Steve Applebaum is interested in learning to pro- Business Meeting ...... January 8 Our Webmaster, Marius Schamshula, was not at the gram neural networks and was curious if anyone at the meeting could give him some tips on a quick way Informal Meeting ...... January 22* meeting but our web site seems to be running okay. (Note from the editor: I am still working on the back to get started. As it turned out, Steve knew more or Business Meeting ...... February 12 log of PDF files of the newsletter for the web site but as much about the subject as anyone else at the Informal Meeting ...... February 26 I was not able to get very many done last week meeting. His description sounded really interesting. Business Meeting because of illness.) neural networks are capable of “learning” and making decisions based on experience. Election of Officers ...... March 11 Treasurer’s Report Dual Monitor Setup Informal Meeting ...... March 25 Pete Belcher gave his report (see sidebar for de- Another person was having problems with his dual Membership must be renewed tails) and said that we had 51 paid members. monitor setup that he has been using. He has a 9500 before the first of April The HMUG has lent $1,000 to the Tennessee Valley Mac and upgraded to OS 8.6. After the upgrade his Business Meeting ...... April 8 MacExpo to provide start-up expenses and Pete has machine would not set up his system on his primary established a separate account for the TVME busi- monitor. He has to do in manually each time after the Informal Meeting ...... April 22 ness to keep track of the income and expenses. start-up. Since both monitors have cards it was Business Meeting ...... May 13 Adapter for suggested that he switch cards, install the extensions Informal Meeting ...... May 27 for the cards again, or trash the preference files for Projector Missing the cards. Business Meeting ...... June 10 When we tried to hook up the projector at the Informal Meeting ...... June 24 Photo CD meeting we could not. The connectors did not match Another member could not open the Photo CD he up! There is an adapter missing. Business Meeting ...... July 8 got from Wolf Camera. Jeff Weimer was able to solve Informal Meeting ...... July 22 Flashes the problem after the meeting but I did not find out what the problem was. Business Meeting ...... August 12 Long Flashes Session Informal Meeting ...... August 26 Editors note: The session was long and involved at Won’t Print ’til the this meeting and it was difficult for me to keep up Application is Quit Business Meeting ...... September 9 A member reported that he was having difficulty Informal Meeting ...... September 23 with everything that was said. But I did my best to remember as much as I could. printing files from the application, Reunion (I be- Business Meeting ...... October 14 lieve that is a genealogy software). It was suggested Trouble with AV Informal Meeting ...... October 28 that he might not have enough memory allocated to Janice has been having trouble trying to record the Epson Print Monitor. The Epson Print Monitor is * During the holidays, the Informal Meetings using MP Express. Recording seems to work on two an application and more memory can be allocated machines but on another machine she cannot get it are canceled. The November newsletter is to it, just like any other application, in the info box to record. Suggestions were to try recording alert (See the sample of allocating more memory to an HP delivered at the Business Meeting in sounds with the sound control panel to determine if PrintMonitor in the illustrations below). Find the December. The December newsletter will be the problem was hardware related. If that test was application on the disk. Click once with the mouse combined with the January newsletter and okay, it was suggested that she try trashing the sound to select its icon. Press Cmd+I simultaneously to delivered to the January Informal Meeting. open the Get Info, and change the Preferred Size to 8 The Huntsville Macintosh Users Group Newsletter for October 23, 1999 enough memory to do the job (start of with at least twice the Suggested Size). Treasurer’s Report Default to Black and White Instead of Color Transaction Detail Report - September 1999 One member was wondering if there Balance (Beginning of the Month) ...... $ 2,373.81 was some way to change the default on —————————————————————————— his printer. Every time he prints some- Date Description Memo Category Amount thing that is just black and white, which 09-07-99 ...... Deposit ...... Dues x 2 ...... Dues ...... $ 55.00 most of the time, he must change the 09-14-99 ...... Deposit ...... Dues x 3 ...... Dues ...... $ 80.00 mode from color to black and white. 09-21-99 ...... Transfer to TV MacExpo ...... Start-Up Funds ...... TVME ...... $ -1,000.00 Everybody agreed they had the same 09-21-99 ...... Janice Wright ...... Name Tag Holders ...... Membership Sup ... $ -21.40 problem but no solution was offered. 09-25-99 ...... John McDonald ...... Printing ...... Newsletter ...... $ -31.75 iMac to LaserWriter —————————————————————————— One member wants to print on a Balance (End of the Month) ...... $ 1,455.66 LaserWriter from his iMac. There is a —————————————————————————— software fix for this called LaserWriter Total Inflows ...... $ 135.00 Bridge but you also have to have an Total Outflows ...... $ -1,053.15 ethernet cable and hub to make the —————————————————————————— physical hook up. It was suggested that Net Total ...... $ -918.15 he read an article about it in this months (October?) issue of MacWorld. Graphic Converter Tennessee Valley MacExpo Report One member asked about the applica- tion Graphic Converter. Many mem- Transaction Detail Report - September 1999 bers agreed that the application was Balance (Beginning of the Month) ...... $ 0.00 worth its $35 shareware fee, or for —————————————————————————— those with less need for full capability Date Description Memo Category Amount there is a freeware version. The appli- 09-21-99 ...... Opening Balance ...... TVME ...... $ 0.00 cation will open many formats of bit- 09-21-99 ...... Transfer from HMUG ...... Start-Up ...... HMUG Checking .... $ 1,000.00 mapped graphics that Photoshop, for 09-21-99 ...... Von Braun Center ...... Deposit of VBC Rooms ...... Rental Fee Deposit $ -750.00 example, cannot open). Very handy if 09-21-99 ...... Postmaster ...... Postage ...... Postage ...... $ -66.00 you get formats from the dark side. It —————————————————————————— also has cataloging and viewing. Balance (End of the Month) ...... $ 184.00 Copy Paste —————————————————————————— Steven Applebaum told the assembly Total Inflows ...... $ 1,000.00 about a program, Copy Paste, that ex- Total Outflows ...... $ -816.00 tends the clip board idea to allow —————————————————————————— multiple clipboards. The freeware ver- sion allows 10 clipboards where the Net Total ...... $ 184.00 payware version allows 100. It comes in real handy in copying several items Total Liabilities ...... $ 0.00 Total of Both Balances (End of the Month) ...... $ 1,639.66

To allocate more memory to an application, single click on the application icon with the mouse to highlight it. Press Cmd+I (or select Get Info under the File menu). When the Info box opens change the Preferred size to an allocation that will solve the problem and close the Info box. Macintosh—It Just Works! 9 from several documents and then pasting them into System Operator other documents. Security Hole Geoffrey Hintze Uncovered in FirstClass Graphical BBS System Using a Trouble Getting On-Line 33.6 kbps Supra V42.bis modem donated by Larry Janice Wright is still having trouble with her modem Palm Wireless Site Stram of MacResource. Hundreds of megabytes when she tries to get on-line. It has something to do on-line including the HMUG library and the latest with the Fax Stuff software. Every time she wants to provided by Lipmon Moy BBS in a Box CD. get on-line she has to deinstall the Fax Stuff software from the ZD NET ANCHORDESK with Jesse Berst for (which she does not believe she has ever installed) Tuesday, October 12, 1999 Submissions to the Newsletter to get the modem to work. Another member sug- http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?/adeska/ contact John McDonald gested that she look for a FAX/Modem extension in ada1012ex/3969:1522540 —on the Mac Attack BBS— the Extension Manager and disable it. A flaw in Palm’s new wireless service puts users at Please send messages and files directly to John Sherlock will not Run risk. The hole was discovered by AnchorDesk Tech McDonald —by phone— One member is having problems with Sherlock Director Jon DeKeles. 3Com has acknowledged the Home (256) 882-0766 or running under OS 8.6. If Sherlock is not the first problem and is working on a fix. Jon has all the Work (256) 382-1188 (Ext. 1113) application opened then it will not run. Tony said details at the site. ❑ —by e-Mail— that he had heard of some problems with OS 8.6 and [email protected] or Sherlock. No suggestion for a cure was given, but [email protected] this sounds like a good time to check Apple’s web —by mail— site. Apple might have a patch for this problem. 8422 Hogan Drive Huntsville, Al 35802 Presentation Jeff Weimer gave a presentation on the Palm Pilot See Our Website Organizer and the software to interface it with a Information http://www.caos.aamu.edu/HMUG Macintosh. He has found the Palm Pilot invaluable or for keeping him informed about his schedule and about the http://home.hiwaay.net/~hmug/ q events. Huntsville Submission Specifications Deadline for the Newsletter News of the Macintosh The deadline for the newsletter is the third Satur- day of the month. That gives us about five days to World: Oz Police Users Group get the publication ready for reproduction. Remember the five Ws - Find Macs are Officers and Volunteers When turning in news items or announcements, try to answer as many of the following questions as • President - Janice Wright Cheaper possible: Who?, What?, When?, Where?, and ([email protected]) by Steven Noble, editor, Australian Macworld Why?. provided by Lipmon Moy • Vice President - Marius Schamschula ([email protected]) Formatting Submissions to the MacNews St. Kilda West, Australia — “Macs are too expen- Step 1 - Create the text in your favorite word sive” is a common cry of those with pro-PC preju- • Secretary - Jeffery Weimer processor. Please identify yourself by inserting a dices, but a recent study shows that deploying Macs ([email protected]) “by line” after the title. Create the graphics in your through an organization can actually slash the total • Treasurer - Pete Belcher favorite application. Keep the graphics and text cost of information-technology ownership. ([email protected]) files separate. Refer to the graphics in the text by Figure or Table number. According to the NetBridge study (which used Gartner • Programs Chairperson - Marius Schamschula Group methodology), the Queensland Police • Membership Chairperson - Pete Belcher Step 2 - Save the text as Text Only (TXT) format, or in the Interchange Format, also called Rich Text Service’s use of Macs delivered tangible cost ben- • Newsletter Editor - John McDonald 256-882- Format (RTF). efits of almost 30 million Australian dollars (close to 0766 ([email protected]) Step 3 - Save the graphics in a format suitable for 20 million American dollars) in the operational year • Newsletter Distributor - John McDonald importing into PageMaker such as PICT, EPS, 1998. The QPS uses Macs for 90 percent of its • Apple Ambassador - Keith Putnam 256-890- EPSF, or TIFF. information-technology needs. 4549 ([email protected]) Step 4 - Use the Figure or Table numbers to name Apple Computer Australia Managing Director Diana • IEEE Computer Fair Chairperson - Dianne the graphics files and an abbreviated name of the Ryall described this research as one of the first Boylston article for the text and graphics files. For example, large-scale total cost of ownership (TCO) studies in • Publicity Chairperson - Bob Doehrman an article about Norton Utilities could have the following filenames: Australia. She said Apple would initiate further stud- • Web Master - Marius Schamschula ❑ NorUtil-Text.rtf ies of this sort to verify its results. • Web Apprentice - Keith Putnam NorUtil-Fig01.pict • MacAttack BBS System Operator - Geoffrey NorUtil-Fig02.pict Hintze ([email protected]) NorUtil-Fig03.eps Step 5 - Place everything in a single folder before Mac Attack BBS submitting. Alternate - If you cannot do the steps above, then Mac Attack BBS send your submission in anyway that you can and (256) 882-6573 we will attempt to read the files. Voice Assistance (256) 882-2802 E-mail [email protected] 10 The Huntsville Macintosh Users Group Newsletter for October 23, 1999 discuss problems, solutions, news, etc.) and We Invite You To demonstration of software, hardware, or tech- MME

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