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LIMac Inc. LIMac was estab­­lished in 1984, Scott Randell Bradley Dichter P.O. Box 2048 when the Mac was introduced. January Meeting February Meeting Seaford, NY , 11783-0180 Annual dues For January, our technical advisor, Bradley Dichter presented This month, I (Bradley) will continue the de- President for member­ship are $36. the second installment of his “Mountain Lion - what’s hot, tailed coverage of Mountain Lion. Having Bill Medlow (The first meeting is free.) and what’s not.” He discussed only things that have changed already covered System Preferences to death [email protected] For information,contact any FEBRUARY of the following: since Lion. Bradley’s complete Mountain Lion handout can in September and January, we finally get to Vice President be downloaded as a PDF here: http://limac.org/Mountain_ the meat of the newest big cat, the applica- George Canellis Membership Lion_What’s_hot_&_what’s_not.pdf. He started where he left off tions. Again focusing on what is new rela- [email protected] Donald Hennessy in part one, the Mouse System Preference pane. It’s appear- 8 tive to Snow Leopard, we will see what’s Treasurer [email protected] ance depends on the model Mac you are using, and the type of new in the Finder, , Launch- Donald Hennessy Technical Adviser & [email protected] LIMac Webmaster pointing device attached to your Mac. The Trackpad pane is pad, Mission Control and Time Machine. Secretary Bradley Dichter now visible, even if you don’t have a trackpad. The only thing Also the programs that use iCloud like , , Bernie Flicker [email protected] new is under More Gestures, for example , , Mail, , Safariand TextEdit to [email protected] Program Coordinator is a two-finger swipe left. work with your iPad or iPhone or other OS X 10.8 Macs. There The LIMac Forum: Rick Matteson Mail, Contacts and Calendars, is all new for Mountain is a lot to cover, so bring your pen and paper and takes notes, as Editor/Graphics [email protected] Lion. It does make it easier to set up multiple linked services. If there won’t be time to answer questions till the end. 0 Al Zygier MacBasics SIG you are upgrading from Snow Leopard or Lion, some informa- [email protected] Geoff Broadhurst tion will already be filled in. Clicking on an existing account, Proofreader [email protected] will show you info and options for that account. The iCloud Bradley Dichter Multimedia SIG entry will show your iCloud storage info. Newly supported are: Al Zygier Yahoo, Twitter, Vimeo, and Flikr. There is also an account cat- Board of Directors: [email protected] egory for , which is the replacement for iChat. Geoff Broadhurst Produced using: Update, is now simplified, and relies on the App George Canellis Adobe’s InDesign CS3, Store. This makes sense for Apple software and third party Bradley Dichter Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3. (Technical Director) Acrobat 8 software downloaded from the App Store. For other things Bernie Flicker you will probably have to check the developers’ website, or Fonts are: Donald Hennessy ITC’s Officina Sans MacUpdate.com You will probably not want to enable ‘Down- Richard Hickerson and Galliard Pro, Impact, load newly available updates in the background’ and” install Rick Matteson Kidprint (Program Coordinator) system data and security updates’. You will lose control, Bill Medlow and not be aware of what is happening. Another option (for Scott Randell Admin users only) is to automatically download apps purchased on other Macs linked to your Apple ID. January Meeting continued on Page 3 Bradley’s Tech Session President’s Message

Bradley Dichter Bill Medlow Technical Advisor President [email protected] [email protected]

| I have an 60GB ex- is too small for the task. Come to think Over the past 29 years we have embraced what ternal hard drive con- of it, the Performas were SCSI equipped technology can do for us, and the computer has nected to my MacBook and modern Macs have no SCSI ports, afforded us the ability to do some things better or Pro. I want to use it for Time Machine. so these files probably have been passed faster, but at what price? The economy is growing in spite of How do I partition it for this? I don’t around over time, which tends to support low job growth. want to loose my old files from my a hope that the drive they are on now is LIMac members are growing because, much like the economy, Performa that are on this drive. big enough. ■ You don’t have to repartition the drive. we are striving to get to the top of the wave. We identify As long as the drive’s volume is formatted | My nephew just got a iPad mini and growing and having fun with the Mac, iPhone, iPad or iPod. It’s as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), it has a MacBook Pro and an iPhone in a great being part of everything new because it energizes us. should be fine. Ideally the drive should two story house, where the iPhone and My wife and I visited the Walt Whitman yesterday. be partitioned for the type of computer Mac work in every level of the house. We observed all the younger people. so fast and nimble as their you are backing up. That means GUID How can I fix this? thumbs texted or their fingers typed on keyboards, or they Partition Table for Intel based Mac and ■ First off, you may want to check if the Apple Partition Table for PowerPC based iPad has the latest iOS 6.0.2 which fixed were engaged in conversation with Apple’s tech crew. Their thirst Macs, like the Performa. Time Machine a WiFi related problem. Secondly I would will never be quenched as they lean out, wanting to grasp the running on an Intel based Mac will still relocate the wireless router to a more new, leaving no stone unturned. Watching this, brought us great allow you to select a volume on a drive central location. Remember the signal energy, which is something no member in the Mac group will ever that is partitioned with the “wrong” parti- strength drops by 25% for each typical lose. When I think of our group, I think of a Mac Apple Crew. tion scheme. It’s because the backup is not floor or wall. Your typical router is only I really want our group to grow in this new year of ours. I want bootable so it doesn’t matter. The reason good for unobstructed 150 feet range you don’t need to partition the drive is indoors in the first place. Apple’s wireless our energy to transmit to others, the way yesterday’s Apple that Time Machine puts everything into “airport” routers support creating a wire- store visit energized my wife and I. Looking forward to new a folder called “Backups.backupdb” and less distribution system which pickup and LIMac ‘crew’ members meshing all of our energies, that will keep each incremental backup in a sub-folder retransmit the signal and other options us the notable New York Apple user group and that’s my vision inside there. Any files already on the drive include higher gain external antennas and for us. will stay there. You could keep things range extender access points. Another As I write this, it’s still January and still correct to say Happy tidy and create a new top-level folder on option is replacing the wireless router with the drive and put your old stuff in there. a unit with a longer range. The units with New Year... to our present and future members of LIMac. Let’s The only issue is, is there enough free MIMO have the best performance, like make ’13 count as a lucky number moving forward, after all, the space on the drive to backup your cur- the Cisco/Linksys EA4500 or EA6500, world didn’t end last year. rent Mac? Considering the largest Apple but Apple’s latest Airport Extreme also supplied hard drive for a Performa was has MIMO. Bill Medlow just 1.2 GB and a modern OS X is closer to 6GB, and most folks use far more than | When I open an attached video in that, I would be concerned that the drive Bradley’s Tech Session continued on Page 3

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on my Mac running Mountain Lion, it may higher density chips come out but Apple prised when you install more RAM, then 3 GB of it. The other thing maybe the say “loading” and never get anywhere. I’ve never tests them for compatibility and you’ll have a bit less disk space, because MicroCenter staffer was thinking that even left it overnight. Works fine in Firefox. thus never certifies nor endorses any- of virtual memory swap files. Also with this much memory could not be used if Why is that and what can I do about it? thing higher. These guys did and later all that memory, you need 64 bit savvy you had a 32-bit operating system. Your ■ Do you have installed the appropriate other companies did test for compat- applications to take advantage of it. typical cheap Windows box with 4 GB of video helpers like Perian, VLC, Flip4Mac ibility with higher capacity chips. With That means CS5, CS5.5 or CS6. There RAM has a 32-bit operating system. He’s and RealPlayer? Safari is based on the a 64-bit operating system (Mac OS X is an example where one could install probably more familiar with that environ- WebKit layout engine from Apple, but 10.6.8 or newer) and applications, all RAM in a Mac, have the Mac see it and ment. As that generation iMac came with Firefox is not and has more built-in 32 GB can be used and there will be work, but only use part of it. The only Lion, which is a 64-bit native system, it media playing functions. That’s why you no overheating. Admittedly the iMac example of that would be a Late 2006 has no problem using all that memory. need the above video helpers for Safari. runs pretty warm anyway, but having MacBook Pro. You could in fact install 4 So the only question is; do you have By the way, there are video players for 32GB in there is not a thermal or power GB of RAM, but because of it’s hardware 64-bit applications to take advantage of iOS devices like the free VLC and iMedia problem. If you are concerned about design, applications can only address all that RAM? 0 Player. heat, then I suggest you download (free) and install and configure smcFanCon- | I use Sophos Anti-Virus. When it detected trol. See http://www.eidac.de/?p=243. It a Trojan, it puts it in the Quarantine puts up a menu extra that allows you to Manager, but as soon as I open the control the minimum fan speeds to keep Quarantine Manager, it disappears before your machine running cooler. For $16 I can do anything with it. Why is that and you may consider iStat Menus 4.03 from how can I change that behavior? http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/. Not ■ It sounds like your On-access Scanning only can you control the fans, but keep preferences is set for ‘When a threat is tabs in the menu bar of various tempera- found:’ to ‘Delete threat’ You may want ture sensors and memory usage. to switch to ‘Deny access’ setting instead I find that going to the Other World January Meeting continued from Page 1 so you can take a look at the problem file. Computing website, in your case, http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/ Text to Speech, and Speakable items, to each drive. This is a great feature, be- | I have a 2011 Core i5 iMac with a iMac/2011/DDR3_21.5_27 you will see have been available on the Mac since cause you can now have double protec- upgrade to 16GB of memory for use they offer a 32GB kit, which uses four before OS X. Brand new to Mountain tion. The other thing is that you can op- with Adobe Creative Suite. I wanted to 8GB modules instead of four 4 GB mod- Lion, is Dictation & Speech. Anywhere tionally encrypt your backups. go to 32 GB, but the guy in the back of ules. As that iMac came with two 2 GB you can type, you can use Dictation. It Accessibility, formally Universal MicroCenter says it can only take 16. I’ve modules, and two unoccupied, if you can be turned off and on using a key- Access got a major overhaul. The new Pic- gotten conflicting information on this. have upgraded to 16 GB, you now have board shortcut. It invokes a little record- ture-in-Picture zoom style allows you to What’s the real deal? They said the iMac four 4GB modules, so you would have to ing window, and you’ll see an animated focus more clearly on a particular part of would see it but couldn’t use it and it remove at least a pair of 4 GB modules microphone showing the sound input the screen. would overheat. to go higher. Luckily OWC has a trade in level. You can change the level by going As usual, Bradley gave us the informa- ■ I learned years ago, based on offerings rebate plan. It’s not a lot of money, but to the Sound preference pane. tion we needed to move (or decide not to from Trans International, that the official it helps. See http://eshop.macsales.com/ There are a couple of differences in the move) to Mountain Lion. Much thanks Apple policy is based on available den- tech_center/support/rebates/memory.cfm. Time Machine preference pane. You can to Bradley, for this, and everything else sity chips and DIMMs available during You could upgrade just two modules to now select two disks to backup to, and he does for our group. 0 product development. As time goes by, go to 24 GB of RAM. Just don’t be sur- Time Machine will back up alternately

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