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Volume 24.04 April 2007 1 Meetings Update
ALL MEETINGS ARE HELD AT: (unless otherwise indicated) Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street, Wellington When: Monday 30 April, 2007 Time: 7.10 pm till 9.30pm (doors open 6.50pm) Annual General Meeting 2005 The next Meeting of the Wellington Macintosh Society Inc. will be held on Monday 30 April 2007. This meeting will be held in the Ante Room on the Ground Level of Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street, Wellington from 7.10pm. The first part of the meeting will be a questions and answers session and this will be followed by supper. The main topic is Web sites we can’t live without. Most people have some favourite web sites that they visit regu- larly, and over time become an indispensable part of one’s Internet experience. Come along to the meeting and see some weird, wonder- ful and incredibly useful web sites. Tell us your favourite web site (or sites) so that everyone else can find out about them. Kapiti Area Meeting For those members living at or near the Paraparaumu area, our next Kapiti meet- ing will be held at our normal time on Monday 7 May 2007. It will be at the Rita King Cottage at St Marks Church in Ro- setta Road, Raumati. The subject of this meeting will be announced shortly. Digital Video Users Group 7–9.30pm, Monday 20th May 2007 at Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street, Wellington. New Media Group Check
2 3 President's Report
Hi folks. Whither iLife and iWork? Leopard is Apple have broken their recent pat- Delayed tern of releasing iLife and iWork updates at the MacWorld Expo in Apple have announced January. Given the extended delay, that the next major and the pending release of Leop- release of Mac OS X (10.5, “Leop- ard, it seems they have been held ard”) has been delayed. It was to up until Leopard is fi nished, or until be released somewhere between new features in the iLife and iWork April and June. They now expect applications can be completed. to have a “feature complete” beta version available for developers at It is most likely that the new versions the conference in June, but it won’t of iLife and iWork will be released at be available to everyone else until the same time as Leopard (October), October. but they might be delayed until next January. I don’t see this as a major issue, but it may impact on Apple’s sales I expect that the next versions of as some people wait to buy a new iLife and iWork will be able to run on computer if they are expecting a new late updates of Tiger, but will gain OS release soon. additional features when running on Leopard. If there are any further new features in Leopard that Apple haven’t an- Mac OS X 10.4.9 nounced yet, we will probably fi nd I didn’t have enough space to com- out about them in June. ment on it last month, but Apple New Mac models likely soon have released another update to Tiger. Depending on which computer Intel will be releasing updated ver- you have and how up to date you sions of their processors during May, are, the update is anything from 72 so it is likely that Apple will release to 310 MB. Its main benefi t is more updated Mac models in the next two bug fi xes and security updates, with or three months. The current models some minor new features. One such were introduced between August and feature is added support for some November last year, which is quite a models of USB webcams, giving long delay by Apple’s past habits. more options for doing video chats Apple have been busy with other over the Internet. projects: the iPhone is still on Since then, Apple have also released schedule for a June release (in the more security updates for 10.4.9 USA only), and the AppleTV is now and 10.3.9. available. Given the delay in Leopard (10.5),
2 3 it is likely that there will be another external hard drives), and prior to version update to Tiger (probably installing each system update I re- 10.4.10) in due course. If Apple place my oldest backup with a fresh follow the same pattern as with one. With system updates coming the Panther (10.3) to Tiger (10.4) out every two or three months, this upgrade, then the last update to gives me reasonably recent back- Tiger will include support for appli- ups of everything on my computer. cations that take advantage of new I also like to back up important features in Leopard but can still run documents more frequently. on Tiger. It is possible to do a full backup of Advice for Installing your hard drive using the “Restore” Updates facility in Disk Utility. This has the advantage that you can boot from As is common with major updates, your system CD or DVD to restore there have been some reports on the hard drive from the backup (or the Internet of problems after in- to take the backup copy), but the stalling the 10.4.9 update, but I’ve user interface is a little confusing. only seen one minor issue on one computer, and am aware of lots of There is also some third-party people running 10.4.9 without any software which can do complete problems. (I haven’t got around to backups of the hard drive. My cur- installing it myself, mainly due to rent preference is for SuperDuper! lack of time and needing to tidy up as it has a much nicer user inter- my laptop first, to free up some face than the alternatives. I used disk space.) to use Carbon Copy Cloner, but my only complaint with it was the user A useful tip to minimise the chance interface. A new version has come of problems when installing software out recently which is supposed to updates: Quit all other applications be better, but I haven’t looked at prior to installing the update, and it yet. don’t do anything else on the com- puter during installation. Meeting Schedule If you are concerned about pos- The delay of Leopard and lack of sible problems after installing a new Mac models so far has com- major update, a good habit is to plicated our planning for meeting do a full backup of your computer topics this year. We have a draft (onto another hard drive) prior to meeting schedule which includes installing the update. This gives the following topics. Timing may you an easy way to get back to the be flexible. previous version. • April: Web sites we can’t live I generally do this anyway (for sys- without. tem version updates), because it is • May: games, widgets and tools. part of my normal backup process. I keep two complete backups of • June: Leopard and iPhone pre- my main computer (on separate view. (We may bump this in
4 5 favour of another topic.) how many members are interested in seeing particular meeting topics. • July: New Internet technologies: RSS feeds, podcasts and stream- Other meetings ing audio. The first weekend help desk meeting • August: Photography. went well, and we intend to repeat it on an occasional basis throughout • September: new Apple hardware the year (ideally every two or three (maybe), Microsoft Office 2008. months), according to availability of • October: Leopard (maybe). the venue and support people. • November: Christmas function I’m looking for volunteers who with guest presenter. would be willing to run a regular Mac Basics meeting (preferably two Some other topics I would like to or three people, so the workload can include if we can find a suitable be shared). This would probably be presenter, which would have to held on a Monday night at Turnbull replace or caombine with some of House, in the same seminar style as the above: our main meetings, covering how to • AppleTV, wireless networking. use a Mac from first principles. I’d like to see a similar pattern to the • Small business use of Macs (da- meetings we ran several years ago, tabases, accounting software, with a schedule of meeting topics etc.) that repeat every few months, plus • Genealogy. a short Q&A session. If anyone knows of someone who That’s all, folks! might be willing and able to pres- If you wish to contact me, your ent some of these topics, please let best option is to send E-Mail to
. You can I’d also like to hear any other sug- try ringing me at home (976 9755) gestions or requests for meeting and leaving a message, but I’m out topics, and try to get some idea of quite a lot these days.
4 5 Apple enthusiast has quite a core collection
Apple enthusiast has quite a core were released. They begin with the collection first colors, like “Blueberry” and “Tangerine,” to the last of the bunch, Betsy Taylor of associated Press re- known as “Snow.” ported recently that one Macintosh owner has gone a bit overboard with Another wall has nine iconic Macin- his computer collection. toshes arranged in chronological or- der. The computers range from the “Jeremy Mehrle’s got 99 comput- original Macintosh with 128 kilobytes ers” she wrote. “No, wait. Make of memory to the 20th-anniversary that 100. He just got another last Mac from 1997. night, he said during a recent visit to his home about 35 miles west of St. Jeremy has now got a full-time job Louis. Dozens of his Apple Macintosh at an Apple storeand he’s slowing computers are on display down here, the pace considerably when it comes a techie’s dream party pad.” to getting additional computers. His girlfriend is threatening to get a new pet every time he brings home another ma- chine. (This is quite a few more than WelMac has in its collection. Currently we have around thirty different Macintosh's with Jeremy’s bar is made out of 30 Mac the oldest being a Mac 128 and the Classics arranged next to and on newest a few coloured iMacs. Ed) top of each other. Along one wall, The full version of the article can be he’s got every color, or “flavour” of found at
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6 7 Macintosh User Groups Starting to be Half Full
The Sydney Morning Herald is of the Anthony Caruana, past president opinion that computer hobbyists and of the Melbourne Internet Macin- Mac User Groups (MUGs) may be a tosh User Group, commented that dying breed, thanks to the Internet, he thought the local user group is busy schedules, and less interest in coming to an end. the internals of a computer, according “Online communities are taking to a recent report. They went on to over, and I am not even thinking say “The Apple Users’ Society of Mel- of things as sophisticated as Sec- bourne (AUSOM) was one the biggest ond Life, but stuff like Yahoo! or groups of their kind in the world and Google groups and online forums,” in its heyday, had more than 1300 Mr. Caruana said. “There’s so much members, and in the Macintosh information and community avail- sphere, was second in size only to able through the internet that the the famed Berkeley Macintosh User need for a bricks and mortar group Group (BMUG) in California. is diminishing.” “That was in the late 1980s, when Perhaps more alarming is the re- everyone was computer-mad,” says duced interest in the social aspects AUSOM president Dick Johnson. “The of these clubs. Meeting people in kids today think they know everything person and developing technical and already, and they are not interested personal relationships seems to out in joining a club to talk about the of favor compared to the Internet technology and learn about it.” where aggressive personal opinions Few seem interested in the social are better tolerated. aspect of a club: making friends Another factor is instant gratifica- face-to-face and enjoying personal tion. The pace of society no longer contact and debate, he says. Their allows for tinkering and hobbyist meeting places - sources of informa- computing. There is just too much tion and, for want of a better term, going on for a computer to be bro- soap boxes from which they can ken for long. project their frequently aggressive opinions - are on the internet. Mr. Caruana believes that the strength of the clubs is now on- AUSOM continues with a still-healthy line. “Members can be active from membership of about 900, but BMUG anywhere in the world and don’t is no more, having morphed into a need to physically attend a meet- totally online group called Planet ing,” he said. MUG. The pace of life has made everyone
8 9 time-poor. Socializing in a club, (to a formal organisation), and meet especially for the technologically casually in places such as pubs.” engaged, is becoming harder and iMUG tends to attract small business harder. professional, rather than amateur, The Victorian Macintosh User Group Mac users, but “the group is defi- (then known as VMUG) had 1400 nitely on the grey side”, Mr Caruana members in the mid-’90s. That says. plunged to just 116 by about 1998, A vigorous marketing campaign two before the club developed its online years ago brought in about 60 new identity and became iMUG. Mem- members, but Mr Caruana says the bership today is about 217, mostly strength of iMug is now in its online people in their late 40s or older. discussion forum. Noel Jackling, an iMUG program “Members can be active from any- organiser, says that because the where in the world and don’t need young now learn about comput- to physically attend a meeting,” he ers at school, they don’t need the says. The other factor leading to an kind of club support their parents older membership was that retired required. people tended to have the most free “Society itself has changed,” Mr time.” Jackling says. “People work longer The full article can be found at
8 9 Apple Unveils Final Cut Studio 2
Apple unveiled Final Cut Studio 2 at 4.2 for SD and HD DVD authoring. the National Association of Broad- Final Cut Studio 2 also introduces casters conference in Las Vegas on “Color,” a professional color grading April 15, a significant upgrade to the and finishing application for ensur- industry’s leading video production ing consistent color and creating suite that delivers new creative tools signature looks. designed expressly for editors. “Final Cut Studio 2 was specifically designed to enable the rap- idly growing community of over 800,000 Final Cut edi- tors worldwide to animate, mix, grade and deliver their work as a natural extension of the editorial process,” said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s vice president of Applications Product Marketing. “Final Cut Studio 2 is the most powerful production suite on the planet.” At the core of Final Cut Studio 2 is Final Cut Pro 6, the lat- Final Cut Studio 2 includes Final est version of Apple’s Emmy Cut Pro 6, which introduces Apple’s award-winning editing software ProRes 422 format for uncom- which includes a new Open Format pressed HD quality at SD file sizes Timeline that lets editors mix and and support for mixed video formats match virtually any video format and frame rates in a single Time- and frame-rate in a single Timeline line; Motion 3 featuring an intuitive without transcoding. ProRes 422, a 3D environment, paint and new new full raster, 10-bit 4:2:2 post behaviors; Soundtrack Pro 2 with production format produces stun- dozens of innovative tools for mul- ning HD quality at SD file sizes, titrack editing, surround mixing and making it ideal for working efficiently conforming sound to picture; Com- across a SAN or on a MacBook Pro pressor 3 delivering powerful batch in the field. encoding for multiple formats with Companies including Panasonic, a single click; and DVD Studio Pro Sony and RED are embracing ProRes 10 11 422 as they continue to innovate on particles, video or pictures. the next generation of cameras. Fi- A simple, yet highly precise match nal Cut Pro 6 also includes optical moving tool automatically maps any flow based SmoothCam technol- image or effect to the path of any ogy to remove unwanted or jarring other object. New retiming behav- camera movement with simple, iors enable editors to slip and slide easy-to-use tools. Deep integration retiming effects on the Timeline with Motion includes the ability to without keyframes, while new au- edit Motion templates with video dio behaviors allow users to easily drop zones and editable text fields create animations that respond to directly in Final Cut Pro. soundtrack volume and frequency. New to Final Cut Studio is Color, Motion 3 includes over 1500 new de- which puts a logical task-based color sign elements including professional grading and finishing workflow in the stock imagery, beautifully animated hands of every Final Cut Pro editor. line drawings and stunning vector The primaries in Color include ad- artwork. vanced color correction tools such as Soundtrack Pro 2, a brand new ver- gamma, lift and gain adjustments, sion of the audio editing applica- as well as custom R, G, B and luma tion in Final Cut Studio 2, features curves, and the secondaries provide powerful new multitrack editing and the ability to isolate specific areas of recording tools in a streamlined in- an image with soft-edged mattes and terface that simplifies every aspect custom-shaped vignettes, which can of the audio post production pro- be tracked with ease. Professional cess. Soundtrack Pro 2 introduces a scopes provide precise monitoring of breakthrough heads up spotting dis- chrominance and luminance values play that lets editors precisely align via waveforms, histograms and new effects and dialog with picture. 3D scopes. Color includes over 20 signature looks which can be cus- Advanced take management tools tomized to create a unique mood enable editors to quickly combine for any given project, and offers a pieces of the best takes to craft seamless roundtrip workflow where seamless performances. Stereo and projects can be sent from Final Cut surround mixing tools enable users Pro 6 directly to Color for grading, to create 5.1 and stereo mixes in finishing and final rendering with 32- the same project, saving time and bit float 4:4:4 image processing. eliminating costly errors. Editors can work with a royalty-free library of Motion 3, the latest version of Ap- over 5,000 professionally produced ple’s groundbreaking motion graph- foley and sound effects, including ics software, takes all the familiar over 1,000 surround sound effects Motion tools and extends them to and evocative multi-channel music a 3D environment. New camera tracks. A powerful new Conform behaviors add depth and realism tool enables users to synchronize with drag-and-drop simplicity. Vec- and track changes between picture tor based paint tools allow editors and sound editorial. to easily create brushes with color,
10 11 Compressor 3, the latest version of Apple’s industrial strength encoding tool, comes with a new streamlined interface and simplifi ed workfl ows that make encoding and delivering in multiple formats easier and more effi cient than ever. Powerful batch processing and job chaining capabili- ties enable editors to create pristine quality output for a wide range of delivery formats with a single click. Compressor 3 extends support for industry-standard codecs such as MPEG-2 and H.264 to include new drag-and-drop presets for delivery to broadcast television, web, iPod, Pricing & Availability Apple TV™, DVD and mobile phones. Final Cut Studio 2 will be available Dynamic fi lters applied during pre- in May through the Apple Store processing now support timecode (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail overlays, audio/video fade in and stores and Apple Authorized Re- out, and animated watermarks that sellers for a suggested retail price can be applied directly from Motion of $1,299 (US). Registered users projects. of the current version of Final Cut Apple today also introduced Final Studio can upgrade for $499 (US) Cut Server, a powerful new server and registered users from any pre- application that works seamlessly vious version of Final Cut Pro can with Final Cut Studio 2 to provide upgrade for $699 (US). Full system media asset management and requirements and more information workfl ow automation for post pro- on Final Cut Studio 2 can be found at duction and broadcast professionals. www.apple.com/fi nalcutstudio.
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Speed Navigating in Save As Writer in Classic mode. Nisus had of course released Nisus Writer Express Want to speed things up by using the some years before, but it was a pale keyboard to get around in the Save shadow of the original Nisus Writer, As dialog? There’s just one thing you and all that makes me even happier have to do first — press the Tab key. to hear that they’ve now released a That removes the highlighting from public beta of Nisus Writer Pro for Mac the Save As naming field, and chang- OS X, the application that’s supposed es the focus on the sidebar (notice to replace the original Nisus Writer. the blue highlight rectangle around the sidebar shown here). Once the Features new to Nisus Writer Pro sidebar is highlighted, you can use from the Express version upon which the Up/Down Arrow keys to move up it’s based include style-based table and down the sidebar. Press Tab again of contents generation; indexing; and the search field is active. Press bookmarks to locations within the Tab once more and the Column (or document; cross references to book- list) view is highlighted, and you can marks, footnotes, and list items; at- use the Arrow keys on your keyboard tribute-sensitive search and replace; to quickly get right where you want floating images with text wrapped to be. When you get there, press the around them; customized line num- Tab key again to highlight the Save bering; widow and orphan control; As field so you can name your file, enhancements to the Nisus Macro and then hit the Return key to “make Language; and greater flexibility in it so!” footnote and endnote styling, along with footnotes that can span multiple Note: if you don’t see the sidebar or pages.v viewing modes, click on the little blue down-facing arrow button to the right With the first release of Nisus Writer of the Save As field. Pro, Nisus Software is focusing on bringing back the much-missed func- Nisus Writer Pro Released to tionality of the classic Nisus Writer, Public Beta which means that most of these features are aimed at increasing the I used to be a huge fan of Nisus Soft- core word processing power of the ware’s Nisus Writer in the classic Mac application. However, conversations OS days. In fact, producing TidBITS I’ve had with the company over the each week relied on a collection of last few years lead me to believe Nisus Writer macros I’d written. But that they’re open to adding features the program never made the leap to that will set Nisus Writer Pro apart Mac OS X, and when we moved to our from other current word processors, new issue-generation approach last such as built-in collaborative editing year, I no longer needed to run Nisus capabilities. I’d also like to see Nisus
12 13 Writer Pro support common markup Your Mac is pretty good at keeping languages and be able to act as a track of which Apple supplied appli- front-end to blogs and other Web cation and operating system updates publishing systems - it’s essential have been installed, but sometimes that a modern word processor be it’s nice to double-check the list your- able to “print to the Web” as well as self. Mac OS X keeps a log with the it can lay words on paper. Similarly, date, time, and version number of another area Nisus Writer Pro could every Apple update installed on your stand out would be in generating truly computer. If you want to see that log, good PDFs, complete with tables of here’s what to do: contents, PDF bookmarks, hot-linked • Launch System Preferences. You references, and more. can find it by choosing Apple menu Neither pricing nor release date has > System Preferences. been determined, although Nisus • Select the Software Update Prefer- Software is aiming to release in ence Pane. “Spring 2007,” which probably means “before July.” The Nisus Writer Pro • Click the Installed Updates tab. public beta requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 The installed update log can sort your or later, with 10.4 or later required updates, too. Just click the column for full right-to-left text support; headers to sort by date, name, or it’s a 40 MB download. Needless to version number. The log is useful say, there’s no tech support beyond if you want to verify that a specific a discussion forum, and this is beta update has been installed, like a Java software, so you could lose data by or security update, without using Ter- using it (although it can auto-save minal and Unix commands. It does every minute, making it unlikely that not, however, list installed updates for you’d lose much work). non-Apple applications like Microsoft Address Book: See Which Office or the Adobe Creative Suite. Groups They’re In Security Update 2007-004 If you have a contact that appears Released in more than one Group, you can in- Apple has released Security Update stantly see which of your Groups this 2007-004, which fixes a wide variety individual appears in by simply click- of obscure security holes and includes ing on his or her contact and holding new versions of several open source the Option key. When you do this, components of Mac OS X, including every Group that they appear within fetchmail and ftpd. Of particular will become highlighted. interest are fixes to Mac OS X’s file This is handy if you want to clean sharing client software, the elimina- up your Groups by deleting extra tion of several bugs identified by the instances of people who appear in Month of Apple Bugs project, and multiple Groups. fixes for holes in the Login Window authentication dialog. Academic us- Tracking Software Updates ers should also note that Security
14 15 Update 2007-004 addresses three an Apple spokesperson as saying that different exploits aimed at the Ker- the new option for the Mac Pro gives beros secure authentication support software developers a platform from in Mac OS X. The update is available which they can prepare their appli- in four versions, for Mac OS X 10.4 for cations for a future when eight-core PowerPC-based Macs (9.3 MB) and for technology is more prevalent. Our Intel-based Macs (16.1 MB), and for question: Is this really a custom Mac Mac OS X 10.3.9 Client (37.6 MB) and for Adobe’s development team to en- Server (54.1 MB). Or just let Software sure that the CPU-hungry Photoshop Update do the job for you and friends will be able to chow down on eight cores in a forthcoming major Apple Introduces Eight-Core update to the Mac Pro? Mac Pros One Click From Mail to For those who have been waiting Address Book for new Mac desktops to land, Apple has one message: eight is great. Last Apple’s Mail application treats email week the company added an 8-core addresses as objects called Smart Ad- Intel Xeon processor configuration to dresses. The cool thing about Smart the Mac Pro. The 8-core Mac Pro relies Address objects is that they give you on two “Clovertown” 3.0 GHz quad- one-click access so some of Mail’s core Xeon 5300 series processors, features - including adding a new available as a custom option when contact to Address Book. assembling a system at the online When I get an email from someone Apple Store for $1,500 more than that I want to add to my Address the default configuration of a pair Book library, I let the Smart Address of dual-core Xeons. Each processor contextual menu handle the dirty features 8 MB of L2 cache (16 MB total), 128-bit SSE3 vector engine, work for me. Here’s how and 64-bit data paths and registers. •Search through your email for a Otherwise, the specifications for the message that the person you want Mac Pro remain essentially the same to add to Address Book either sent as the quad-core configurations that you, or was listed as a recipient along are still available, including up to 3 with you. TB of internal storage (increased from 2 TB thanks to Apple selling 750 GB • Click the disclosure triangle on that drives), up to 16 GB of RAM, and a person’s Smart Address object. 16x SuperDrive with double-layer • Choose Add to Address Book from support. the pop-up menu. If you’re wondering what difference Smart Addresses also let you perform eight cores makes to performance, other tasks, like replying to a single you’re not alone. Apple has not up- person from a group email, initiate an dated its benchmark listings for the iChat session, create a Smart Mailbox new configuration, and the company or perform a Spotlight search for that didn’t even issue a press release for person, and more. the new Mac Pro. Macworld quotes
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