Monthly Meeting January 28, 2004 The Apple Store Westfarms Mall Panther demo, hands-on G5 trials, great deals, etc. NEWSLETTER OF CONNECTICUT MACINTOSH CONNECTION, INC.JANUARY, 2004 Danger! iPod Could instead of making her surface was clear. Inspection of the wait to Christmas for it. car revealed the side walls on both Be Hazardous To After all, if I didn’t, I passenger tires were torn, and one rim Your Health! would have to burn 25 was badly chewed up. She had Mouse Tales CDs so she could lis- obviously tangled both right wheels By Don Dickey, president ten to the new book! with the curb, but why? Answer: iPod There was a single distraction. Whenever a good deal condition to my gift, appears, I often call Joe Arcuri however. Before shelling out $640 for a new and ask him to “talk me out of chrome plated alloy rim and half that it” if he can. He sometimes does the same with me. The iPod I ordered for a pair of new tires, I realized just Simultaneous failures arrived a couple of how lucky we were. This was a lesson led us to both purchase Umax days before Joe’s, so she walked away from. Had it clones and scanners, Wallstreet one morning I met him and his daugh- happened on Interstate 91 at 65 miles PowerBook G3s, Toshiba M4 digital ter Savannah for breakfast and per hour, things could have been cameras, PowerBook G4s, PowerBoy brought along the iPod to show him. much more tragic, to say the least. drive enclosures, and most recently On the way over to Avon I realized Canon LiDE30 scanners. We are each just how distracting the iPod could be Needless to say, the cassette adapter other’s most expensive friend! A cou- and the inclination to play with it for the iPod no longer lives in the PT ple of months ago, similar while driving. So, I gave the iPod to Cruiser, and I may be burning some simultaneous failures caused us both Joyce under the condition that she MP3s to audio CD. I thought I owed to purchase 10gb iPods from never look at it while driving. She had it to the membership to point Apple.com for $169 each complete to start her book (or music) while out just how captivating an with remote and carry case. “Such a parked and turn it off while parked... iPod can be. The motto of deal”...or so I thought. and use only the remote control to this story is, “Leave home adjust the volume or control play. I’ll without it!” The iPod was going to be a Christmas bet you can tell where I’m heading... present for my wife Joyce. (She works right? with Joe’s wife at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in Wallingford. In Well, this past Thursday evening fact, that’s how Joe and I met... Joyce had an Adult Ed class at the through our wives.) With the long local high school. Just when I expect- In this Issue commute from West Hartford to ed to hear her coming into the house, Mouse Tales......................................... 1 Wallingford, Joyce often uses the the phone rang. It was her...reporting 911 by Chris Breen.............................. 2 travel time to listen to audio books. that she needed some help as she had OSX System Enhancers .......................3 She recently acquired a lengthy book two flat tires on her PT Cruiser. I Dye Sublimation Printers..................... 4 that came on 25 CDs, but fortunately Panther Makes PDFs ............................5 grabbed my portable floodlight, a pair Heartwarming Technology ...................6 a friend “ripped” them to MP3 which of extra jacks, and headed over to then fit on a single CD. Unfortunately, Download of the Month .......................6 mount a rescue. Panther Book Reviews .........................7 Joyce had no way to listen to MP3s in Meeting Photos.....................................7 the car. I expected to see a pile of glass or Web Picks of the Month ...................... 8 User Group Specials.............................9 I made the decision to give her the nails in the road that might have Meetings & Club News......................11 iPod at her birthday in early October caused her malady, but the road 1 (http://homepage.mac.com/jschrier/index Mac 911: .html), and Philippe Hupe’s Youpi Help Desk Optimizer (http://perso.club-internet.fr/ by Christopher Breen phupe/english/YOIndex.html). If you’re vexed by Portable Post Office I sync Microsoft Entourage with my Palm menu-bar items that Tungsten T and my Mac. This is great for won’t go away and my contacts but not for e-mail. How can I the hard-drive sync my e-mail with the Palm so that I can space annexed by work with it while I’m offline? unnecessary language files, this month’s — Eli Zakay, Macworld.com forums Mac 911 is for you. Join me as I detail handy methods for removing extraneous For this kind of thing, I use Ligature Technologies’ Mail Courier ($25; www.lig- Editor items. I also address syncing e-mail with Palms and converting audio files for Final aturetech.com). Mail Courier is made up of Deena Quilty Cut Pro. a conduit, the Ligature Mail application that you install on your Palm, and an Content Contributors Ejecting Eject AppleScript that copies mail between the Don Dickey Rob Griffiths describes how to add an Eject devices. Within Palm’s HotSync Manager icon to the Mac’s menu bar in “Mac OS X (in the Conduit Settings window) you con- Contributing Authors Hints” (Secrets, August 2003). But he didn’t figure the program to synchronize Rich Lenoce provide instructions for removing it. Please Entourage’s e-mail database on the Mac and advise. the Palm, overwrite the messages on the — Matt Palomares, Asheville, NC Palm with those on the Mac, or overwrite Designer the messages on the Mac with those on the George Maciel To remove almost any item from the Palm. In Ligature Mail you browse your Entourage e-mail, reply to it, and create new Photographers Finder’s menu bar (except commands such as File, Edit, and View, which you can’t messages. The next time you run HotSync, John Scott remove by this method), just 1-click on the any messages you create on the Palm are Jack Bass item you’d like to eliminate and drag it to copied to your Mac, ready for sending from the Desktop. The resulting puff of smoke Entourage. Ligature Mail displays only text Publisher and “whoosh” sound effect indicate that the and doesn’t synchronize attachments, and Connecticut Macintosh menu item has hit the road. Note that this each message has a size limit of 32K (any- thing larger will be truncated). Connection, Inc. procedure doesn’t trash the original 41 Crossroads Plaza MenuExtra plug-in, it merely removes its icon from the menu bar. Mail Courier is a viable solution to your PMB 1984 problem only if you regularly toss out your West Hartford, CT 06117 You can also use this shortcut to drag items old e-mail. The program doesn’t let you to a new position on the menu bar. choose which e-mail messages it synchro- Printer nizes — it’s either all the mail in your Budget Printers Lost Languages Inbox, Outbox, Deleted Items, Filed Mail, The tip for freeing up disk space by deleting Drafts, and Sent Items mailboxes, or noth- 1718 Park Street ing. That’s perfectly ducky with me when Hartford, CT 06106 language files was helpful (“Mac OS X Hints,” Secrets, August 2003). Can I do the I’m on the road with my PowerBook — which holds just the e-mail I need for my We welcome submissions same kind of thing by using Find to locate the offending language files (searching for travels — but I’d never use it at home, from members! da.lproj, for example) and deleting them all where my Entourage Inbox contains thou- Please submit articles by first at once? sands of messages. of the month for inclusion in — Mei Chau Hayes, Bedford, NH iPod Is as iPod Does our newsletter. There is much Before I sold my iMac G4, I installed Jaguar talent in our group; it would be Although you can find such .lproj files with the Finder’s Find command, you can’t on my 30GB iPod and moved most of the great to have several member throw them away because you don’t have contents of my iMac’s hard drive to it. articles in each issue. the proper permissions to do so. Many of When I need a Mac, I borrow my room- these files are owned by the root user and mate’s PowerBook and boot from the iPod. are forbidden to you. However, I would still like to use the iPod as an iPod — sync my contacts, calendars, and Thankfully, a host of free utilities can strip music. Is this possible when you’re booting extraneous language files from OS X a computer from the iPod? volumes. Among them are Mike Bombich’s — Greg Lindus, Fort Collins, Colorado DeLocalizer (http://software.bombich .com), Joshua Schrier’s Monolingual Continued on page 3 2 Continued from page 2 the file to CD and then import it into iTunes as an AIFF file, but why both- Sure, a booted iPod is more than System Enhancers for OS X er when iMovie can convert the file by Don Dickey, president happy to perform its primary func- for you? tions. Bear in mind, though, that if the iPod’s music library is linked to your Open a new iMovie project and click As nice as OS X is, I’ve found a old iMac, you’ll lose your songs if you on the Audio button.