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The South Bay Mug MACINTOSH April/May 2010 A M O N T H L Y C U P F U L F O R S O U T H B A Y A P P L E M A C U S E R G R O U P M E M B E R S Joan King Presents Bento for the Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad on April 28 Seen here with a baby ocelot that will not attend the meeting, Joan says, “The idea of a database program on my Mac never QCN: Laptop Network via Stanford’s QCN Network particularly appealed to me. But when I learned that I could also (http://qcn.stanford.edu/) access the database on my iPod Touch, I got interested. I started logging the books I read in 2007 just Have you heard about the Quake Catcher Network? I heard about it for to see how much I actually read in a the first time on Larry Mantle’s KPCC Mar. 31, 2010 interview. The year—I’ve always been an avid Quake-Catcher Network is a joint collaborative initiative run by reader. I used Excel to list the books, Stanford University and UC Riverside that aims to use computer based pages, dates started and finished and accelerometers to detect earthquakes. It uses the BOINC volunteer compute a total for each year. But it computing platform (a form of distributed computing, similar to was hard to determine what books I SETI@home). had read by an author, and It currently supports newer Mac laptops which have the built-in impossible to do when I was at a accelerometer (used to park hard drive heads if the laptop is dropped), and bookstore. I found myself buying a the newer IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads. It also supports two external USB book I had already read, but devices currently - the codemercs.com JoyWarrior 24F8 and the forgotten about until I started MotionNode Accel. reading it again. But Bento and my iPod Touch changed all that. Once I With your help, the Quake-Catcher Network can provide better got into Bento, I discovered other understanding of earthquakes, give early warning to schools, emergency uses for it as well. response systems, and others. The Quake-Catcher Network also provides educational software designed to help teach about earthquakes and I’ll tell you all about it at the April earthquake hazards. SBAMUG meeting.” (continued on page 6) P. O. Box 432 Redondo Beach, CA Welcome to 90277-0432 South Bay Apple Mac User Group (SBAMUG) 310-644-3315 Email: [email protected] You, your friends and colleagues, are invited to attend our monthly meetings. Our membership dues are only $35 per year, entitling you to this newsletter by mail or online each month. If you would like to become a member or get more information about SBAMUG, feel free to check out our web site at: http://www.sbamug.com. Our meetings are held at the: Lomita VFW Hall 1865 Lomita Blvd. - Lomita, California (see map & directions on page 7) Officers & Volunteers: Membership Report: President:................LJ Palmer Vice President:...........Bob Goodman (You may notice your name is in larger letters on your card. That Secretary:................Wayne Inman is so it can be used as a name tag at the meetings. Contact Treasurer:................CW Mitchell Directors at Large:.......Dave Nathanson, Membership Chair CW Mitchell at [email protected] if George Kiefer, Louise Polsky, Martin Laurent, you have spelling corrections. Your membership cards are in the Chuck Mulvey, Fran Pullara mail! Membership Director:......CW Mitchell Current Membership - 153 Greeter........:..........Chuck Mulvey User Group Ambassador:....Bob Brooks Server Director:..........Dave Nathanson New Members: Echo Davis. USPS Liaison:.............Don Myers PD Disk Editor:...........Jim Pernal Thank You Member Renewals: Sandy Friedfeld, Julie Programming:..............George Kiefer Jensen, Frank Scholz, Chuck Morris, Michael Blair, Peter Newsletter Editor:........Fran Pullara Lewis, John Bernardo, Herbert Epp, Tom Rische, Peter Newsletter Proofreader....Bill Berks Membership Development....Martin Laurent Myers, Jay Ankeney, George Kiefer. MONTHLY CALENDAR 1st Sat. - SBAMUG Core Group Meeting @ announced locations, 10 a.m. - noon Last Wed. - SBAMUG Monthly Meeting 6:30 p.m., VFW Hall, Lomita Last Sat. - TRW / Northrop Ham Radio & Computer Swap Meet, 7 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. At Apple Computer’s User Group site, http://www.apple.com/usergroups/, you can search for other meetings you might wish to attend. The SOUTH BAY MUG (ISSN 1058-7810) is published monthly for $35 per year by South Bay Apple Mac User Group, 2550 Via Tejon, Suite 3J, Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274. 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Articles may be edited to fit in available space. Please send to: [email protected] April Public Domain CD (PD CD) by Jim Pernal, PD Editor to 10.6 Shareware $29.95 This month there are nine programs, but two are important textsoap6.zip This is a program to clean up text, find and replace. It can also get rid of invisible formatting and updates of last month’s disks. So I will just substitute the newer versions onto the bi-monthly CD. marking text. OSX 10.5 to 10.6 PPC/Intel Shareware $39.95 Bookdog.dmg Save,manage, sync bookmarks in Safari, Things_1.3.3 This is an update of the program in the March Firefox, Opera, and other browsers. OSX 10.4 to 10.6 PPC/ Intel. Shareware $19.95 2010 article. It is highly reviewed but has several updates so I’ll include this version on the CD as I stated above. It is a BulkFileMerger1.4d.dmg A utility to merge Excel, Word, personal task manager and has tags and a filter bar for organizing. OSX 10.4 to 10.6 PPC/Intel. Shareware $49.95 CSV text or regular text together . 10.4 to 10.6 PPC/Intel Shareware $28.00 Thunderbird 3.0.4 This is a second update of a program in Lumen-2.0.zip A graphical puzzle game using lasers. OSX the March 2010 article. There are critical security updates, so in this case there is no question for me to give you the 10.5-10.6 PPC/Intel. Shareware $10.00 latest. Thunderbird is an e-mail and newsreader program. An RSS reader, tabbed e-mail, and spam filters are some of its Perian_1.2.1.dmg This is the latest version of this Quicktime plug-in. It will let Quicktime playback .Avi, Flash, and features. OSX 10.4-10.6 PPC/Intel. Freeware. MKV file formats. This update has bug fixes and a new Indeo 5 codec support. Freeware OSX 10.4.7 or better. WriteIt4.dmg This is a text editor program for essays, books or reports. It has word, line and character counting and TextExpander_3.0.1.zip A program to let you use predefined templates, and HTML support. OSX 10.5 to 10.6 PPC/Intel Shareware $7.95 abbreviations for frequently used text strings and images. It is now an application not a preference pane. This allows it to CD for this month will be at the April 2010 meeting as the be more powerful, but a few are complaining. OSX 10.5 March-April CD. See you at the April meeting. KYLO HDTV Free Browser in Beta purposely large. ! Without being hooked to the TV, KYLO still works by Mike O’Kane on my MacBookPro. Other browsers will get the same locations, but KYLO is designed for clarity and simplicity--a browser more for the consumer than the computer operator. I explored it and watched a couple of full-length Simpson programs on Fox. Then, I typed in Jon Stewart in the address slot and watched a pot-pourri of a week of his programs. In both cases, I was able to find the "full screen" button and enjoyed a large, clear picture. What I particularly enjoyed was the ability to watch what I chose, when I chose. Do they call this "time-shifting"? I believe it also will record on my hard disk, but I have yet to Recently, I learned about KYLO, a free browser from a explore that. company that sells a wireless mouse that looks like and is ! But I did introduce KYLO to my bedridden sister in called the Loop. KYLO is a browser designed to use when Danby, Vt. She is wild about it, because it's easier for her to our Macs or PC's are connected to our HDTV's. How is it receive videos and music from many sources. So, for her, at different? It has a grid of "stations," each one is a large, least, it isn't a half-truth, but a whole one.

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