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The President’s Message

George Carbonell

The March Internet and General Meeting featured topics relating to the Internet. The Internet topic was setting up an Airport router at the East Hartford Public Library. Many thanks to the Library for allowing us to access the Internet. Peter and Ralph did a very nice tech clinic in taking an Airport base station and completely reconfiguring it to be used during our meetings. Now we can have multiple wireless and one wired computer running during our meetings. The April General Meeting will feature a presentation If you do not want your computer by Charles on Stocks Online. like this one, install a virus protection The April Internet is member choice, and which is currently the best search engine. program

The Apple MUG Store A Great Deal The Apple MUG Store is giving away printers, MP3 players, extra RAM and more to MUG members with the purchase Steve Bass sent this 50% Belkin products offer out … to of select new Apple computers. To take advantage of these those of us who subscribe to his Yahoo Groups list. deals, or browse the selection of refurbished Macs and blowout specials, go to: http://www.applemugstore.com “The 50 percent Belkin discount is back. Use coupon User ID: iPod code “12345”. No expiration date given. My buddy Gus [Thanks, Gus!] doesnʼt know where the code is from, Password: mini but, he placed an order today and it worked. www. You can also order by calling one of the belkin.com” PowerMax consultants at 800–689–8191. Donʼt forget to tell them the name of your User To paraphrase Steve Bass—Iʼm only the conduit of this Group (HUGE). When you purchase and are a offer—I only send it as information about a discount confirmed Apple User Group member, your particular group offered by Belkin. I canʼt help you with anything other will receive special awards points which can be redeemed for than the fact that I forwarded the e–mail to you. merchandise and Apple logo materials. 2 This is a great product for teachers, students, or anybody GuruNet that does a great deal of searching for information in dictionaries, encyclopedias, or on the Internet. It may Stuart Rabinowitz not completely replace going to the library, but it will help you focus on where the information maybe located. GuruNet is a research tool, it is a bit less than an encyclopedia, a bit more than a dictionary, and a lot . more than an I nternet search engine. Actually, it is all of E the above, and a lot more, wrapped up in a rather small package. The only real problem I have with it is that it does not work on a Mac (yet). GuruNet allows both random (your curiosity carries you along) and structured (you follow the suggested links) searches. There is a set of links available for Opera 6.03 for Mac OS X starting a search. A number of tools are available to use. These include a dictionary (including pronunciation), Ted Bade encyclopedia, thesaurus, links to the web, and others. Company: The Opera Company email: press@opera. You can store the results of your searches within com Web Site: http://www.opera.com/company/ GuruNet or copy the information to your work Software web site: http://www.opera.com document. It even includes the information necessary for source citation. Access to all of the research tools are Cost: $39 (Check web site for specials, which do just a mouse click away, available either through the tool occur.) Free version includes advertising in the browser bar or tabs on the browser page. window. Download site: http://www.opera.com/ download/ One of the niftiest features I use is the hot–key function. While working in another application (writing that System requirements: MacOS X. Optimized for Panther. research paper or computer quiz) holding the cursor on Experience needed: Basic. Strengths: Quick. Offers a word, clicking the mouse button, while depressing a number of useful controls to the user. Weaknesses: the ʻaltʼ key opens a GuruNet browser window to Cost or live with advertising. Unique interface can take information on the selected word. The hot key is user– some getting used to. Some features arenʼt available for changeable so as not to conflict with other applications. MacOS X. GuruNet runs on PCs with Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000 or XP (Windows 95 is not supported). It requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 (or newer) to be installed; you do not have to actually browse with it, GuruNet is a browser. You do need to be on–line in order to use Opera is an excellent web browser, offers lots of features GuruNet, and a Broadband connection is best. It is not to make surfing the web safe and easy and is quick. But, yet available for or Linux. as a web browser that needs to be paid for, it is facing a tough market. There are some remarkable features that GuruNet is a 186K download (www.GuruNet.com) for make Opera stand out and worth considering. the installer. The installer then opens a connection to the site and installs the balance (about 1.5 MB) of the Opera considers itself the fastest web browser. I didnʼt package. You select whether to activate it upon start–up, perform any official specific speed tests, but it does feel load an icon on the desktop, or into the system tray. faster then both Netscape and Internet Explorer. I was quite impressed at how much faster Opera is in dealing There are several varieties available; GuruNet Free, with images and downloading them the Netscape (I use GuruNet, and GuruNet Homework Edition. The version 7.1 for MacOS X). Say you go to a site like differentiation is based on content, and advertising. A Macdesktops.com to look for a cool desktop image. full GuruNet content is available as a trial for the first The image you want to download is open in a browser seven days. The cost ranges from free to a $29.99 yearly window. What I do at this point is to right-click [control- subscription for single license, with discounts for group click] to get the contextual menu and select save image purchases for both corporate and educational customers from this menu. It is at this point that one notices that (deeper discounts). See www.GuruNet.com/products_ Opera is really fast. I downloaded the same image with GuruNet.html for full list. Opera, Netscape, and Safari. Netscape took the longest

3 Continued on page 4 Opera continued Opera, I imported my bookmarks from that program. What this created was a bookmark floating window and Opera was the fastest, but barely faster the Safari. which I can browse easily to get to my favorite places. There is an option to “dock” bookmarks. When I As far as other web sites, it is generally hard to selected to dock them, only the main bookmark determine if a site is slow because of web traffic or window disappeared (not the window of my imported a slow browser. In my opinion, Opera appears to be bookmarks), but it took me a while to find where it went. at least as fast as Safari while being faster the both I couldnʼt find it anywhere on the Opera window, until Netscape and Internet Explorer. Perhaps not the fastest, I noticed that when I waved the mouse over left hand but definitely fast. side of the window the cursor changed to one that lets you slide the window. Doing this exposed the hidden Opera offers another nice feature: built in search boxes bookmarks. similar to Safariʼs one for Google (or did Safari get the idea from Opera?). Essentially, you enter a search Another oddity that Opera has with regard to bookmarks string in the box, and this gets sent to the a search is where they go when you save one. Unlike Safariʼs engine, which brings up a page of possible sites. A very neat method of asking you where it should be placed, or the basic “just add it to the bottom of the list” ability of Netscape and MIE, Operaʼs method takes some getting used to. If one clicks on the “Bookmarks” menu item, one can slide down to a particular folder (which just appears as a heading), open that heading and select “Add page here” to put the page in that particular folder. When you select to add a bookmark, a window opens allowing you to edit the information about this web site, offering more controls then Safariʼs similar feature. What is confusing is at the top of the bookmark pulldown menu is a selection, “Add active page to bookmarks”. This will place the bookmark in the bookmark floating window that is in the foreground, inside the first open folder it finds or the last one your selected. This can be confusing because, as with my testing of this program, I had two bookmark windows open, the one that came with Opera and the one I imported. When I asked to save the active page it took a while for me to find where it was stored. Once I learned the trick of sliding down to the appropriate folder and using the add bookmark choice in that folder, things go easier. Another useful feature is adding a news web site to your bookmark window. This feature adds RSS news feeds directly into Opera instead of running another application. There arenʼt as many features in this window as in say, the NetNewsWire application, but it is useful. As I was perusing the features offered by Opera, that make it special, I was surprised to find that I couldnʼt use several of them in the MacOS X version. For instance, skins. If you are into giving your programs a special look and feel, you might find skins appealing. Operaʼs website is loaded with interesting skins. But when I tried convenient feature. Opera comes stock with boxes using one that I downloaded from their site, I couldnʼt for Google, Amazon.com and eBay.com. figure out how to use it. The site provides instructions, which fall apart quickly, since they donʼt appear to apply [A feature I found useful is a floating bookmarks to the MacOS X version. menu. Since I moved from another browser to try 4 Continued on page 5 Opera continued typical Preference menu window which open to allow one to change preferences as they like. Too much security. That sounds like an odd statement, but when security features make it a hassle to visit paid Overall, I find it hard to decide if I like Opera or not. for web sites, then one can say there is too much security. Because its interface is sometimes the same as other Opera works with Appleʼs Keychain, but depending upon browsers and sometimes very different, I find myself the site you are visiting, getting oneʼs password in can being annoyed with it at times because it just doesnʼt do be a hassle. For instance, visiting one site, I enter my what I expect. I found myself sometimes looking for help password and user name, click on the button allowing for and reading FAQs. Making Opera slightly more difficult my browser to remember this. When I return to the site, to use then the average browser, nothing comes up in the user name/password boxes, not until I enter my user name and password, then a window Finally, the tight security of this program can be a hassle. comes down which asks me if I want to use the Keychain However, and let me stress this, security and controls like information, but this was after I went through the effort this can be very useful if you use a public machine or of digging out and entering the information myself! share your machine. While dealing with passwords can be a hassle if you are the sole user of a machine, Opera On Apples support site, the web page indicated that makes it almost impossible to accidentally leave your Cookies needed to be enabled for automatic login personal passwords exposed. to work. This worked after I turned on cookies and restarted the application. Apparently, (I discovered by Would I recommend Opera for MacOS X users? experimentation), one has to restart Opera before some of Possibly. If security is an issue (as in you use a public the preferences take effect. At other sites, I found signing or shared machine), you want a very fast browser and in to be difficult with all the warnings provided by Opera. for some reason donʼt like Safari, or you just want to try However, my situation might be different from yours. something different, then I would recommend it. Opera is If you share a computer or use one in a public area, this type of security is very useful, because it makes it almost TidBits impossible for your to accidentally leave a password around for another to use. Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.3.3 —Apple released Not all the security features are bad ones. Opera makes the latest free update to Mac OS X 10.3. Version it relatively easy to manage cookies. There are options 10.3.3 offers a long list of enhancements (see Appleʼs to refuse them altogether, display them as they arrive, Knowledge Base article), but one weʼre pleased to see accept them from selected servers only, and just accept is the inclusion of network–mounted volumes in the list them all. You can even have Opera delete all of them of volumes shown in the sidebar of Finder windows and Open/Save dialogs. The update also incorporates other networking fixes and improvements for cross–platform compatibility and AppleTalk; improves .Mac iDisk synchronization performance and behavior; provides fixes for Finder, DVD Player, iPhoto, Mail, Address Book, and Image Capture; and improves start–up time for some computers that were slowed down by the 10.3.2 update. Mac OS X 10.3 Panther owners may upgrade via Software Update (58.8 MB) or download a standalone installer from Apple. [MHA] http://docs.info.apple.com/article. html?artnum=25711 The New Face of FaceSpan — After a long hiatus, FaceSpan has returned in a new version completely rewritten for Mac OS X. FaceSpan 4.0 is an application construction kit with AppleScript as the programming when you quit. A cookie feature Opera offers, but not to language: you “draw” your interface, you write MacOS X is the ability to keep selected cookies and toss AppleScript code in scripts attached to the interface all the rest. That would be a useful feature! items, you compile, and presto, youʼve got a stand–alone application. Like Appleʼs AppleScript Studio, FaceSpan A nice preference feature of Opera is a short set of is written in Cocoa, it builds Cocoa applications, it “Quick Preferences” which can be used to turn on or can call Cocoa (Objective–C) methods, and it uses the off Pop-ups, enable, disable cookies, and other features AppleScriptKit dictionary. http://www.facespan.com/facespan/ as well using quick menu selections. There is also the pagespeed/url/features4.0 5 Continued on page 7 A Little Computer Quiz March Answers , Stuart Rabinowitz The trivia and minutiae of the computer related world. 1. On Jan. 1, 1991 Linus Torvald released the first version of Linux kernel, what was the version The answers will appear next month, or you can submit an number? answer sheet at the General Meeting. Good Luck! A. It was released as v0.01 This month I thought Iʼd do something a little different, 2. What version of the Linux kernel was officially with a theme.Many of you have heard of “Easter Eggs” licensed under the GNU General Public License or even gone on a hunt for a few, not necessarily the and when? eating kind. In honor of the season, here is the first and A. v0.12 was released on Jan. 16, 1992 possibly last HUGE Easter Egg Hunt. 3. What is ʻGNUʼ an acronym for? What is an “Easter Egg”? The term “Easter Egg,” as we A. “GNUʼs Not Unix”. If you donʼt believe me, use it here, means any amusing tidbit that someone hid their site is www.GNU.org in computer hardware or software, movies, music, art, books, or your watch. 4. Linux kernel v1.0 was the first version to achieve stability on Intelʼs x86 hardware, when was it 1. What world–famous computer command did the first released? IBM PC technical manual, the ʻPurple Bookʼ, omit? A. It was released on March 14, 1994 Here are a few eggs for you to enjoy. If you like them, check out WWW.EEGGS.COM for about 6,000 + more. 5. Which Linux kernel version provided support for the Motorola 68k and PowerPC? On an Apple iPod: A. v2.2 was released on Jan. 25, 1999 If you select “About” from the main menu, then hold the center button for a couple seconds, a mini breakout 6. What is the latest (as of Feb. 6, 2004) Linux kernel game appears on the screen. version released and when? A. v2.6.1 was released Jan. 9, 2004 Have the Apple IIGS say “Apple II” 1. Remove all disks from the drives. 2. Restart the computer. 3. When you see the Open–Apple move back and forth, For some reason if you type “bill” and then any word it Press Control–OpenApple–Option–N. also works (not just with “gates”) 4. Sit back and enjoy! Any G3 Mac, MacOS X & a keyboard On a Newton In MacOS X, while in the finder, open any window 1. Create a new note. & click the minimize button (yellow) at the top of the 2. Enter the text “Egg Freckles” (with out quotes). window while holding command+shift. 3. Highlight the entire text entry. This will minimize the window in slow motion using the 4. Tap the Assist icon at the bottom of the screen & new “genie effect” minimize function of Mac OS X. should see a Doonsbury Cartoon In OS X, PCalc2 (comes w/ OS X) In Mac OS X and a compatible microphone Find pCalc2 in the Applications folder. Launch it — 1. Open the System Preferences. Notice the icon “6x7=?” 2. Go to the speech pane. Go up to the “constants” menu, and choose the 1st one: 3. Turn on speakable items, and to speak back text. “Ultimate Answer.” This is actually from Douglass 4. Ask the computer by saying, “Tell me a joke.” Adamʼs “Hitchhikerʼs Guide To The Galaxy” 5. These are random jokes In PalmOS v2 1. In Terminal (included with all copies of OS X) 1. Go to Preferences, General Tab Log in to OS X, and open Terminal. (/Applications/ 2. Draw a small circle, counter–clockwise, on the screen Utilities) right above the calculator silk–screen button. If done If a session is not open already, open one, and type “bill properly, you should see an Easter Egg appear. gates” (caps donʼt matter), and hit Enter or Return. 3. Now, hold down the page down button in any You will receive a rather humorous response... “OK? application (you might need to exit the Prefs app – some kill gates?” have reported this) and draw a line from the middle of

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Computer Quiz continued interface is remarkably intuitive; another is that a script can be attached to an individual control, and stands in the Graffiti input area to the left edge of the screen right an inheritance relationship with the container of that between the applications and menu silkscreen buttons. control – for example, a button in a window has a script that can “see” the windowʼs script, similar to HyperCard. In Excel ʻ97 & perhaps others Optionally, FaceSpan also integrates with Late Night Open a new worksheet. Softwareʼs 3.0.8 for much better Press ʻf5ʼ & type “X97:L97” in the reference box & debugging than Apple provides. FaceSpan comes in two enter. versions: the full version is $200; the “lite” version is Press ʻtabʼ, then hold ʻctrl–shiftʼ & click on Chart Wizard $90, and limits any compiled applications to running on the toolbar on a computer where FaceSpan is installed. Owners of You should be able to fly around with the mouse previous versions can upgrade for $100. [MAN] http:// right button = forward db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06667 left button = reverse if you look around you may find a black monolith. Perl Made Easy with Affrus 1.0 — Late Night Software has a history of picking up where Apple leaves off. Mac In Word ʻ97 & perhaps others OS X includes AppleScript, but Appleʼs own Script Open a new a new document. Editor isnʼt all that great as an editing environment, and Type “blue” it canʼt debug at all. Late Nightʼs Script Debugger makes Select the word up for this, making AppleScript easily editable and Go to format/font, choose font style bold color blue. debuggable. Late Night Software has continued in the Back in the main screen type a space after “blue” & click same vein with the announcement of Affrus, which does on “help/about” the same for Perl. (Conflict of interest disclaimer: I wrote On the word icon do a “ctrl–shift–left–clickʼ the manuals for both programs.) Use ʻzʼ for left flipper —ʻmʼ for right flipper—ʻescʼ to exit Perl is a popular Unix ; Mac OS X includes Perl, but has no native application for easy Timex Data–Link Watch editing and debugging of Perl scripts. Affrus meets 1.Note: This will RESET the time and data on your this need. You can step through Perl scripts, or run to watch! breakpoints that you set, evaluating expressions and 2. Reset the watch by pressing the 2 buttons on the left examining variables in their runtime context. Syntax side of the watch at the same time. coloring clarifies the scriptʼs meaning; a pop–up menu 3. Hold down the buttons for 5 seconds until you see the lets you navigate to a subroutineʼs definition, even if itʼs screen go crazy. in an external module. Affrus costs $100 and requires 4. Wait for the 6–digit number to disappear, then you Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar or higher; a 30–day demo is will be back on the normal screen. 5. Press the MODE available as a 4.9 MB download. [MAN] http://www. button 5 times to enter TO–DO mode. latenightsw.com/affrus/ 6. There you are! Press the top–right button to cycle through the List of Programmers . Style Master 3.5 Works Web Site Wizardry — Western Civilizationʼs Style Master has long been my Timex Ironman Triathlon Watch favorite application for creating, editing, and previewing Warning! Using this will reset all data entered into the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in Web pages (see watch. “Precision Web Pages with Style Master” in TidBITS– Incredibly simple. Press all 6 buttons at once and the 501_). It encapsulates a difficult language in an easy watch will reset. The credits will scroll across the bottom interface; put another way, it knows CSS so you donʼt of the screen. Easy! have to (although you can certainly use it to edit your . CSS directly if you wish). And now, you _really_ donʼt E have to know any CSS, because the version 3.5 includes TidBits continued “wizards”. http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=05602 Of course, AppleScript Studio has the advantage A wizard is a dialog sequence; it guides you through of being free (see “AppleScriptʼs Studly Studio” in choices about how you want your Web pages to look TidBITS–610_). But FaceSpan is small (less than 8 MB), (font, margins, borders, and so forth), and then generates self–contained, and easy to use – so easy that I wrote the corresponding CSS and some HTML to illustrate my first application without even reading the manual. those attributes. And, beyond the level of general page (Okay, so all it did was add two numbers together, but layout, wizards are also included for such common page thatʼs a start.) One reason for its simplicity is that the elements as site navigation bars and “breadcrumbs” 7 Continued on page 8 TidBits continued

also due to how extensive the changes are – and release (links showing where the user is located within your notes that accompany them – between revisions. Now, site). If even wizards are too much trouble, you can GraphicConverter has turned 5, gaining a browser just use one of a dozen included pre– built CSS page search feature, improved handling of EXIF data, the templates (provided under a Creative Commons capability to export a photo slideshow as a movie file, license). There is also now built–in page previewing, and lots of other enhancements and bug fixes (a small along with CSS validation within Style Master or 5.0.1 version released late last week fixes an error that online using W3Cʼs validator. Now anyone can set up cropped up when saving files). GraphicConverter 5.0.1 great–looking, valid CSS–based Web sites in about a runs on Mac OS 8.5 and higher, including Mac OS X, minute. Style Master requires Mac OS X 10.0 or higher, and is a 6 MB download. [JLC] http://www.lemkesoft.com/ and costs $60; this update is $40 for existing owners. en/graphcon.htm A 30–day demo is available as a 5.8 MB download. [MAN] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/ http:// PDFpen from SmileOnMyMac jigsaw.w3.org/css–validator/ by Adam C. Engst [email protected] Belkin Offering External Microphone Adapter for Adobeʼs PDF format has become commonplace as iPod — Belkinʼs latest iPod add–on lets you plug in a replacement for paper, but unless you own the full an external microphone for recording audio to your Adobe Acrobat package, you canʼt do much more than iPod. The Universal Microphone Adapter accepts 3.5 read and print PDF files. For a number of standard tasks mm microphones and plugs into the special headphone/ that youʼd expect to be able to perform with paper, that adapter jack found on the dock–based iPod series. The can now change with PDFpen from SmileOnMyMac; adapter shipped 17–Mar–04 and costs $60 from Belkin; itʼs a utility that enables you to edit PDF files in several or about $40 from resellers. The adapter records 16–bit useful ways. PDFpen lets you insert and remove pages, audio (ostensibly stereo) at 8 KHz, which is adequate move pages around in a document, and copy them for voice recording but would be sub–par for live music between documents. You can also overlay text, images, recording. The adapter has its own headphone jack and even freehand drawings on top of PDF documents, to replace the one itʼs using, a level indicator, and a and you can even keep a library of frequently used three–position gain switch to adjust sound sensitivity items for fast access. Now you can easily add your on the microphone you attach. http://catalog.belkin.com/ signature to PDF documents and return them via e–mail IWCatProductPage.process?&Product_Id=158384 (or SmileOnMyMacʼs Page Sender fax software) without having to print a document just to sign and fax Belkinʼs previous offering, the Voice Recorder, was it back. PDFpen is also fully scriptable and comes with a mono recorder with relatively low fidelity and a variety of example scripts that show how to perform no adjustments, although a reasonable choice for actions like adding page numbers to a PDF document. compactness. In low ambient noise conditions, the PDFpen requires Mac OS X 10.2.5 or later. http://www. Voice Recorder performed well. But at any distance smileonmymac.com/pdfpen or with any complex sound situation, the recorder lost distinction and rendered sound somewhat unintelligible. By contrast, the Universal Microphone Adapter lets you change sensitivity on the fly. The level indicator – which displays tones that range from green through yellow to red – ensures that youʼre actually recording sound and that itʼs not breaking up at the loudest end. As with Belkinʼs previous product, itʼs extremely hard to use the iPodʼs hold button since itʼs partially covered by the adapter. [GF] GraphicConverter 5.0.1 Released — TidBITS readers with long memories have probably already noted that we tend to mention Lemke Softwareʼs image processing utility GraphicConverter often in these issues (at least 21 times since 1997, in fact). Largely this is due to the fact that this robust shareware application competes on almost all fronts with Adobe Photoshop, the powerhouse of image processing – yet costs a measly $30. But itʼs 8 Membership: Anyone may become a member. Dues are $24 per year and include a one-year subscription to The PULP Staff Pulp as well as access to the HUGE Public Domain disk Editor Maris Bowers libraries and BBS. 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