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May 2010 Dedicated to the memory of Richard Rohde President’s Corner by N.C. Sizemore The May meeting starts a new year primary interest is in how they sync to or otherwise work with for the club! If you did not pay your a Mac. dues for the new year at the April 2. We are going to experiment with using Facebook as an meeting please pay them at the May additional way to publicize our club and to reach out to our meeting. Dues are $30.00 per year for an members and the public. Hopefully this will help us attract individual or for a family. We have some new officers and some younger members. This does NOT replace our excellent some old ones - one very old one (ME). We have some new faces website or MUGSHOT; it is an additional communication tool. on the Board of Directors and I’m expecting we will see some fresh ideas and energy from them. Please check out the web 3. After serving as our Apple Ambassador for several years, page or elsewhere in this newsletter for our new officers and Tim Rankin was ready to pass this task on to someone else. directors if you do not remember them from the April meeting. Phil Davis is our new Ambassador. We had our first board meeting last Saturday at 10AM. Some 4. We are willing to form some Special Interest Groups if interesting things came from that meeting: enough people are interested. It takes three people to petition the board and a willing leader to form a SIG. If you are willing We are going to clean up our membership list. Persons who to lead a SIG find two others who will petition with you and it have not paid their dues after the May meeting will be dropped can happen. We have had expressions of interest but no from the roll and will be reinstated when they pay the annual volunteers to lead SIGs in digital photography and iWork. dues. Remember, we welcome guests for one or two meetings, but permanent “guests” are unfairly riding on the dues paying 5. Our Raffles will begin immediately to offer some higher members. value items: 1 each meeting. We have acquired a number of one gigabyte flash drives. They 6. We may establish the ability to buy bulk purchases of are being loaded with legal and useful Mac software. They will software (like a family pack) but only with software vendors be personalized with your name and one will be given to each who permit this practice. We will not engage in sharing member who is current with their dues. Members who paid in practices that are illegal. April will get their flash drive at the May meeting and so on. 7. We may start offering in-depth Saturday workshops on These drives can be updated from time to time as the software selected subjects. The first one is tentatively scheduled for July. gets updated. Kudos to Phil Davis who is loading the software 8. Burt Stephens is our new program coordinator and has a on the drives and to Judy Rankin for personalizing them! lot of interesting ideas. He needs your feedback. See his article in another section of this MUGSHOT. His email address is Burt Other items from the board meeting you may be interested in: Stephens <[email protected]>. Please let Burt know what 1. We are a Mac user group as opposed to an Apple User you are interested in. Those who speak out are far more likely group. We will not ignore other Apple products but we will to get programs to their liking! Please CC me. concentrate on Macs. When dealing with other products, our <[email protected]> I like to know what you want! m Next OMUG Meeting We’ll be looking forward to seeing a great turnout at the upcoming meeting. See you next Tuesday, the 11th of May, at 7:00 PM! May 2010 | MUGSHOT Newsletter | 1 saved your best combination of Security On The Mac— settings as presets, an excerpt from a CNET News story featuring teen hacker, Marc Maiffret you’ll have a hard time going back to You look at companies like Adobe and they are iPhoto’s simple where Microsoft was 10 years ago. Adjust palette, In what way exactly? How Was It Done??? which suddenly Maiffret: Adobe, and even Apple, is a good looks barren com- example. They are starting to get black pared to Aperture’s eyes with people saying Adobe is a bigger The monthly masthead for MUGSHOT has featured a “theme” Adjustment Inspec- worry than Microsoft is at the moment. photo integrated into the masthead graphic for the past several issues. tor. As those things are happening, Adobe and Some of you have wondered how the effect is achieved. It’s simple, Apple and other companies are starting to and was easily done in Photoshop CS2. Then there’s Aperture’s robust, pay attention and care more. But a year In the case of this month’s issue, a stock shot of a flower to go along project-based ago, it was still very much a marketing with the idea that “April showers bring May flowers” was obtained. file-management thing. People from both companies treated You can substitute a shot of your own. The flower shot was dropped system, which it as a marketing problem. They didn’t into the “masthead” file as a new layer above the masthead have good technical structures behind the provides impressive background colors, downsized to fit using “Transform> scale” and scenes. Now they are staffing up and flexibility and positioned where desired. hiring industry notables like Window organizational Snyder [ex-Microsoft security employee With the layer selected, the “quick mask” icon was clicked to add powers, regardless a mask. In the tools palette, the foreground color should be set to recently hired by Apple]. They’ve really of how many only begun in the last six months or so white and the background color to black. I selected the “gradient images you throw tool” clicked on the flower at about midpoint and dragged to the taking security seriously and understanding at it. And the best right, clicking again just beyond the flower background’s edge. that it impacts their business in a serious part is, the Aperture way. The mask fades the background of the flower into the masthead interface has been And you think Apple is also taking it image. I wanted a bit more “fade” effect so I selected the “eraser” simplified so you seriously now? tool, set the brush to a medium size and the opacity to about 15%. I get all of this power Maiffret: Oh yeah. It’s even a little scarier then gradually applied the tool to the right edge area to increase the in a friendly, with them because they try to market flower background fade to the transparency desired at the edge. iPhoto-like themselves as more secure than the PC, environment. That’s it! —Al Sypher that you don’t have to worry about viruses, Does that mean etc. Anytime there’s been a hacking con- that Aperture is for everyone? Certainly test, within a few hours someone’s found not. If you’re using iPhoto now and are a new Apple vulnerability. If they were How to move comfortable with how you’re able to taking it seriously, they wouldn’t claim to from iPhoto ‘09 organize and correct your images, you can be more secure than Microsoft because to Aperture 3 stay right where your are. Aperture 3 is they are very much not. And the Apple for those who are feeling constrained by community is pretty ignorant to the risks iPhoto’s tools and are ready for more that are out there as it relates to Apple. by Derrick Story, Macworld.com powerful image editing controls and The reason we don’t see more attacks out flexible file management. there compared to Microsoft is because You’ve decided to pack-up your digital their market share isn’t near what Micro- Space does not permit reproducing the photo library and make the big move from soft’s is. iPhoto ‘09 to Aperture 3. Luckily, if you’re complete story here. To read the full text of using the latest versions of both applications, this article and see “screen-grab” photos Are they on par as far as code? the transition has never been easier. iPhoto please go online to: Maiffret: I think Microsoft does a better job ‘09 integration is one of the many improve- Aperture Macworld Article. with their code auditing than folks like ments added to Aperture 3. With a little Apple do. We’ve only seen a scratching of planning, you can migrate your iPhoto the surface as far as Apple vulnerabilities library quickly and easily. because nobody cares to find them. There’s nothing inherent with Apple themselves Why move to Aperture 3? and their development. The only reason Aperture 3’s prowess is apparent at every Apple gets little increase in security is point in the digital photography workflow. because they’re running on top of a Unix- The two areas that I‘ve found it the most based operating system and they can take impressive are image editing and organi- advantage of some of the things that have zation. After you’ve experienced localized been done for them. Coming up next t retouching with Aperture’s brushes, or Read the full article online– click here! May 2010 | MUGSHOT Newsletter | 2 surface of another world.