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November 12 2013 A Publication of the Bellarine Mac User Group Inc ◆ Reg. No. A0049524J ◆ Founded May 2006 ◆ Meetings Second Tuesday of the Month ◆ http://bellarinemac.org.au Monthly Meeting NOVEMBER MEETING PRESENTATION Tuesday NOVEMBER 12 First Session: President’s Opening Remarks, followed by a session on “Organising files on my Mac” Starts 4.00 PM led by Michelle MacGregor. Cofee Break 4.45pm to 5pm. AT Second Session: St Peter’s Hall Dick Brown to give a presentation on “Making animated Christmas Cards” Corner Draper & Hodgson Streets Peter Oakley, led a video tutorial presentation and interactive discussion on the newly released iPad and Ocean Grove iPhone Operating System-iOS 7. Dick Brown illustrated in easy to understand graphics, how he uses Apple Numbers Spreadsheets on his Mac. Dick likes to keep records of Weather details, Health issues, Household Budgets, Leisure activities ALL WELCOME! and Work rosters..etc. The talk was not designed as a “How-To”, but merely to whet the appetite of members and encourage them to go away and experiment for themselves. Hot Tip - Taking a Panorama Photo with your iPhone BMUG Newsletter Layout When you want to snap a Panorama photo with your iPhone, you know the process: Tap the button, and & Masthead then slowly, steadily move your iPhone from left to right to capture the best possible panoramic photo. Designed by Peter Baldwin But what if you are already standing at the right side of your horizontally-oriented subject? It seems crazy that you need to head all the way to the opposite left side, just so you can snap your wide photo. Well, you don't have to! Instead, just tap on the Panorama arrow/line, and it flips directions. BMUG News is published monthly ◆ Created in Apple Pages Layout ◆ Converted to PDF format for transmission to members. November 12 2013 Table of Contents President’s Report ..............................................3 BMUG Tip of the Month: Make a stronger iDevice Password ...........................................................3 Lucky Door Prize .................................................3 iPad SIG Report ..................................................4 Garage Band SIG Report ....................................4 Web Building SIG Report ....................................4 Green Apples SIG Report ...................................5 Social Meal After Our Meeting From the Editor’s Desk .................................6 & 7 iTunes Tip ............................................................8 At the conclusion of this Meeting, from 6.30 Member Problem: Creating Styles in Pages, pm onwards, there will be an informal get Text Edit & Mail ..................................................9 together and meal at The Ming Terrace Popular Apps: “Airy You Tube Downloader (Chinese Restaurant), corner President’s for Mac” by Eltima .............................................10 Avenue and The Terrace, Ocean Grove. Popular Apps: “iResizer” by Teorex ................11 After opening the meeting, President Peter Popular Apps: “Inpaint” by Teorex ..................12 will obtain numbers of those who intend to Popular Apps: “iStudio Publisher for Mac” ......13 participate and will telephone a reservation Book Review: “iMac Portable Genius” Book from through to the Restaurant. Wiley Publishers ...............................................14 Book Review: “My Pages for Mac” Book from This initiative is something new being trialled by the Club and your Committee Penguin Australia ..............................................15 hopes that you will be able to participate and Product Update: Photo Maker X4 enjoy some convivial company and by Kaiser Baas ..................................................16 networking. New Product: Vinyl Converter by Kaiser Baas 17 BMUG Assist Program ......................................18 Discounted Books Available ..............................18 2 November 12 2013 As I write this (Oct 23), Apple announced that the new cutting edge OS X Mavericks will be available at the App store from today for free. Being a fairly new release it is Door Prize a long download, so if it is a laptop you are updating, plug in the power cord, and be prepared for a longish wait as it downloads and installs. Once you download OS This month the Lucky Door Prize X Mavericks, the following updates are available for download free from the App store: Pages V5.0, Numbers V3.0, Keynote V6.0, iMovie V10 and iPhoto’11 V9.5. is an iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 See whats new in OS X Mavericks: Urban Shield brushed aluminium https://help.apple.com/osx-mavericks/whats-new-from-mountain-lion case in Gold, kindly provided by OS X Mavericks is suitable for, from 2007 iMac and MacBook Pro, 2008 MacBook Air, MacBook Mac Cygnett. Pro and the 2009 Mac Mini. My 2007 iMac will be getting a whole new lease on life, but unfortunately its video card is not It is precision- supported to download the latest iMovie V10. machined from If you are buying a new Mac or iOS device the latest versions of iLife (iPhoto, iMovie & Garageband) premium-grade and iWork (Pages,Numbers & Keynote) now come free with your new purchase. brushed Pixelmator V3.0 supports OS X Mavericks, as does Digital Camera RAW Compatibility update V 4.09. aluminium. iOS7.0.3 for iPad & iPhone has also been released. Ultra-slimline, After this meeting it is proposed that interested members meet for a social meal at the Ming Terrace Chinese restaurant in Ocean Grove. At the beginning of the meeting I will ask for a show of close-fitting profile with hands to get the numbers for the reservation. The approximate cost of the meal for two people rubber-finish corners. Superb would be $50.00 if you drink tea with a main meal and plain rice. Wine is served by the glass, carafe detailing, with bevelled edges. or bottle. Easy access to all ports, controls Happy Computing. & connectors. Includes screen Peter Oakley President protector & microfibre cleaning cloth that guard against BMUG Tip of the Month: Make a stronger iDevice Password Apple automatically defaults in iDevices to a simple passcode - a 4-digit number which most people scratches & dust. use. You can make a longer, stronger passcode. Go to “Settings>General>Passcode Lock>Turn Don’t forget to Passcode Of”. If your Passcode is currently of, you will need to switch it on and it will then prompt get your Free you to enter a new one. Make whatever passcode you like. It can contain letters and numbers. There Ticket! is no required set of characters that passcode needs to include. 3 November 12 2013 iPad SIG Group We then covered backing up your iPad to iCloud, and to your main At our last meeting we downloaded the app for the computer. Details of how to do this can be obtained from myself. information book for IO7. Also, Pandora which is a free Bev Amey demonstrated an App called “InstaCard” which is free or app for music. You just type in the name of the artist you can obtain a Pro version for $1.99. It enables you to send Card you are looking for and it plays the music just like a emails with a short message and also include one of your photos radio station except that you have control who plays next. For embedded in the card. Various templates are available. example, if you want classical and have someone in mind, like Bach, We discussed “Google Now” which is linked to Google Maps for voice it will play something from his extensive collection. We learnt how to activated questions such as "where is the best cofee in Swan Hill?" create a new mailbox, for example, “iPad info” and move emails followed by “Get Directions to it”. from the inbox to the new mailbox. We also downloaded the Australian Red Cross First Aid App which is handy to have. Our next iPad SIG meeting is scheduled for 4th December. Report by Peter Oakley. Here are some of our Group: Garage Band SIG Group L to R Rear: The Garageband SIG is available on a one to one basis, Brian Day, Allan run by Brian Riggs at his home. Collier, Grant Brown Contact Peter Oakley to arrange a date and time with Front: Brian. Antoinette John, Catherine Day. Web Building SIG Our Convenor, Peter The Web Building SIG is planned to commence under Oakley was away on the leadership of Liddy Neville, on Tuesday 14th holiday for this February 2014, from 2pm to 5pm and from then meeting. onwards on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Members Photo and Report by Keerie Brown. who indicated that they desired to participate, will be notified of the final details. 2nd iPad SIG Group Meeting This SIG Group is now full, but you could still register your notice of We opened with discussion on the new operating system iOS 7.0.3, which most had already downloaded onto their iPads. interest by emailing Peter Oakley . 4 November 12 2013 Green Apples Several of the slides had animations, that is images and text bubbles that came into and then exited after a pre-determined delay. Inspired by this Carol went home and produced an Over the last two or three meetings we have animated slide show of her grandson, son and husband been looking at Preview and Text Edit at one session and then climbing trees with the words in speech bubbles instead of in Keynote at the other two sessions. text boxes under the images. Preview used to do what it’s Title says, Then at the last meeting following a suggestion previewing files, text or image. Over the years from Lorraine we looked at making animated many more useful actions have been added Christmas cards using Keynote. These can then be making it a much more powerful piece of saved as a Quicktime movie and sent as software. We now have the use of exactly the attachments by email to all your friends and same image adjustments that are in iPhoto in an identical family whether they want them or not! Inspector window. Scanning can be done from Preview, There was just one difculty we found with this we couldn’t providing of course that you have a scanner.