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Melbourne’s lockdown continues Wednesday Zoom training sessions, still running As the authorities adopt ever stricter measures to each week at 3pm and 8pm. This also applies to SIG ‘flatten the curve’, let us not forget some of the basics leaders concerned about managing attendees while of avoiding this highly contagious and deadly virus: running presentations or discussions. social distancing, frequent hand washing, staying home as much as possible and wearing a mask when Both one-one and Saturday Zoom training sessions venturing out. need to be booked at least 48 hours in advance of a Saturday meeting by writing to [email protected] And to help you remain at home as much as possible to organise a suitable tutor. it’s worth noting the plethora of online services available to purchase just about any item or service you can think of — from your local supermarket Online meetings attract new members to established monoliths like Amazon, eBay, With the advent of online meetings we are signing Kogan, Catch, Officeworks, JB HiFi, your AUSOM up more new members thanks to word of mouth by membership and so on. members. Our new acquisitions are keen to learn more about Zoom and are finding our training And, of course, you can also purchase one of the few sessions very helpful. Our trainers are now very remaining AUSOM branded power banks online for proficient with Zoom and can assist with all aspects just $30 (plus $10 postage) — please see page 43 of of the software as well as discussing techniques and the August edition of AUSOM News for full details. procedures for a richer meeting experience.
AUSOM desperately needs new members and Mastering the Brave New Online while CoM explores ways to achieve this, word of mouth from our existing members remains World the most effective immediate form of promotion. If you are concerned or unfamiliar with the security Every successful referral extends your membership aspects of online shopping you can talk to your bank payment date by another month! or access the ‘rich tapestry’ of expertise within the AUSOM membership. We even gained another international member recently as a result of our involvement with Online shopping and related issues like the creation AWUGU (Apple World User Group University) and of a PayPal account and such can be explored he attended the August main meeting. We were also discreetly in a one-one session at any Saturday visited by at least two other AWUGU members, one meeting. In fact, just about any topic can be covered of whom stayed well into the afternoon despite that via our one-one sessions with trusted AUSOM making a very late night for her in the US. members, knowledgeable and experienced in the relevant fields. The August Main Meeting Similarly, we encourage any AUSOM member yet Thanks so much to our Saturday main meeting to try out the Zoom software or who needs more participants for entering the online meeting early to experience using it to attend one or more of our avoid blockages prior to the 9am start. Mac users are
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Contents made co-hosts and sent to either the Lounge or eSIG To reduce our venue hiring costs we are proposing room of their choice. Please be sure to have a copy a schedule of meetings for 2021 that combines 4 of the day’s timetable on hand to further facilitate monthly physical meetings with 7 monthly online this process. meetings across each of our venues (please see the table on this page). The Saturday timetable remains Once inside a breakout room Mac users can move the same for both options so if any physical meeting freely from one breakout room to another by is cancelled for whatever reason we can seamlessly clicking on the Breakout Room button along the switch to the online option. bottom toolbar. With the addition of two ‘Quiet Booths’ — together with the current one-one and Zoom training rooms — small group discussions can take place without disturbing eSIG sessions.
Some members have been calling for more opportunities to gather in small groups outside of eSIG sessions and to that end CoM will look at keeping breakout rooms open the entire day leaving it up to attendees to move back to Reception for the Main Presentation and News@Noon.
Also, some members noted poor playback of shared videos during their eSIGs. It’s vital when sharing a full-screen video to tick a checkbox at the bottom of the Share Screen window (in the Mac version of Zoom) that reads ‘Optimize for full-screen video clip’. Please note also that an internet upload speed of at least 1.5Mbps is required to stream full-screen HD video.
As we shift from physical meetings to a hybrid Towards2023 Report Completed format we will continue to review the total fee CoM wishes to thank the T23 subcommittee for structure so please do keep paying your fees to help their thorough exploration of the challenges facing keep AUSOM viable in the challenging time ahead. AUSOM over the coming years. Within a month of their first meeting the subcommittee was able to identify, analyse and articulate the key issues we face Susan Jensen — ASCCA Director and suggest ways to deal with them. Finally, we congratulate our Apple Ambassador — Susan Jensen — on her recent appointment as T23 sourced an alternative printer for AUSOM News a Director on the board of ASCCA (Australian – Documents on Call – that should allow us to cap the Seniors Computer Clubs Association). As a national fee for the printed magazine to its current rate of $120 peak body for seniors computer groups ASCCA and is now in place with this edition of the magazine. is sure to benefit from Susan’s 20 plus years as an AUSOM member and accomplished volunteer and A website subcommittee has been established to we trust Susan will likewise enjoy and prosper from look at ways of revamping the AUSOM website. her new position. Zoom meetings are being held fortnightly from And a final reminder that details for this year’s Monday 10th August and we are looking for competition are now on the ASCCA website at interested members to chip in and help. No www.ascca.org.au — click on the banner on their experience is necessary and this may be a good home page to view a downloadable PDF explaining opportunity to learn about website design and such. everything you need to know. Entries close Please write to Doug at [email protected] or September 1 2020. contact the office.
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Creating Memorable Movies Join us if Movie Creating Memorable Chris McQuillen: Making is SIG tab at 9 am YOUR thing, but you don't Movies [email protected] know where www.ausom.net.au ROOM 1 to start
The focus of this SIG is creating and sharing memorable movies. All they have to be is memorable to you — creative can encompass the widest definition. We are still in 'Zoom learning mode'. The technology and presentation methods are different and require adjustments on my behalf. We have conducted separate tests to understand how to achieve the best video streaming to you after very poor transmission last month. Again I welcome any and all contributions so that we can continue to enjoy the creativity of movie making.
Finder Ivan Radywonik: finder- Fundamentals 9 am Finder Fundamentals [email protected] Make better use of Finder ROOM 2
Last month we looked at ways to organise and navigate folders within our Home folder plus using the Sidebar of the Finder window to provide quick and flexible access to frequently used or deeply nested files and folders. This month we'll go into this more deeply. Feel free to write with any topics you wish to have addressed.
Peter Emery: 9 am Internet Plus [email protected] ROOM 3 Internet PLUS
YOUR imagination PLUS Keynote, Pam Doughty: Numbers, Pages, SIG tab at 10 am Creativity Preview, iMovie, [email protected] Photos, Music & MORE www.ausom.net.au ROOM 1 Creativity Posts are made regularly to AUSOM's website. No login required to read. If you would like ideas for activities and challenges during the month send an email to [email protected]
A powerful Bill Ellemor & Geoff Wallace: easy-to-learn 10 am Filemaker Pro Database [email protected] ROOM 2 FileMaker
Mobile Multimedia Peter Emery: 10 am Mobile Multimedia ipod[email protected] ROOM 3
Want to add branches & leaves to your Avril Mitchell and Margaret family tree? Beginners & advanced help 1 pm Genealogy Rackham: Come to Genealogy ROOM 1 [email protected] Last month Alan Brown showed how he uses Reunion to tell stories of ancestors to pass to family members. This month we will cover resources for researching in India. Two examples will be given, showing how, using different sources and an understanding of the history, one can paint a fuller picture of families and their lives.
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Contents Zoom SIG Name Leader and email About SIG Notes Meeting 5th Sept.
Incredible Geoff Wallace: Things 1 pm iPhone Your [email protected] iPhone ROOM 2 iPhone Can Do
The place for help Susan Jensen: beginners@ with your Mac See page 44 for SIG 1 pm Beginners Beginners ausom.net.au SIG notes. ROOM 3
Who knows what we will cover next month. Beginners is a SIG where you can come to seek solutions. Come along and help each other.
iPad Coach Annie Cumming: See page 44 for SIG 2 pm iPad Coach ipad[email protected] notes. ROOM 1 for Beginners To join our email list send an email to: [email protected]
Stephen Withers: 2 pm MacOS Intermediate [email protected] ROOM 2 macOS Intermediate After our August meeting you should know what an Apple ID is and is not. This month, Anthony Caruana will bring us a preview of the still to be released Apple OS called Big Sur or OSX 11 (previewed at WWDC 2020). Anthony will be working from a beta version to give us a taste of the look and feel of the very latest from Apple. Apple is still to announce a release date but October is the best rumour around.
Judy Young: 2 pm GarageBand [email protected] ROOM 3
We will continue our exciting project-based journey through GarageBand on the iPad and on the Mac and invite questions and answers from the group. We will show how we created our projects. Ngaire Denne, Brad Smith and Bill Oldham: 3 pm Digital Photography Digital Photography digital-photography@ausom. Guests, Practical ‘How-Tos’, ROOM 1 Cameras, Software and everything net.au in between. The Saturday demonstrations vary from Guests and Practicals to 'How-To', Cameras, Software and everything in between.
News & Help Neville Owen: SIG tab at 3 pm News & Help [email protected] www.ausom.net.au ROOM 2 Obtain Help making the most of News from the Internet Read more on the latest Mac and computer stuff on page 25.
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Every Bill Ellemor & Geoff Wallace: Filemaker Pro Tuesday [email protected] Retirees and Others Come along and join the fun From art to tech. & everything between 10 am The AUSOM FileMaker SIG now meets weekly. This gives participants more frequent interaction with FileMaker, enabling faster progress with our project and increasing confidence with using FileMaker. A friendly hands-on session to learn about creating a database. Our project at the moment is a recipes collection. Ngaire Denne, Brad Smith and Every Join our email list. Digital Photography Bill Oldham: Digital Photography Tuesday Guests, Practical ‘How-Tos’, See below/ Cameras, Software and everything [email protected] in between. 2:45 pm If you'd like a relaxed, easy going SIG, then come along to our 'Hi-T with Bill & Brad' meetings. We talk about a wide variety of topics, mostly Software Apps, iPad & Mac things. To receive irregular newsletters, including invitations to our Zoom meetings, please send your name and email address with your interests. Every
Zoom Training Digital Photography Wednesday Guests, Practical ‘How-Tos’, Cameras, Software and everything in between. 3pm & 7pm There is always something you can learn at Zoom Training and our team of experts are here to help, whether you are a novice and want to navigate Zoom with confidence, or an experienced Zoom user wanting to expand your knowledge and expertise in this constantly evolving platform. Satellite Group Zoom Leader and email About Notes Name Meeting
Judy Young: 10am Retirees & Others [email protected] Retirees and Others 9th Sept Come along and join the fun From art to tech. & everything between
September Session 1: Geoff Wallace - 'Contacts and Calendar'. What Contacts & Calendar can do to help you organise your busy life. Session 2: Isabel Collins - ‘Working and Playing with Keynote’. Isabel made scenery and characters for the play 'Seize The Day' in August. This month she will demonstrate how she synchronised the animation and soundtrack. Then finally you will be able to enjoy the completed project. Advertisement on Page 9.
Neil Shelley: 5:00pm Mornington [email protected] 17th Sept
We start most meetings with a short video from Apple Support or MacMost, followed by the main presentation: •• In September we will have a presentation on Apple TV - the device, the app & the streaming service, •• In October we will have Michael Maguire presenting on Smartphone Connections After a short interval, we will have Q&A for macOS/iOS and a breakout group for Barry’s Camera & Photos. Advertisement on Page 9.
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Mornington Group Saturday 5th September Main Meeting Thursday 17th September 2020 5:00pm – 7:00pm Presentation Join from 4:45pm
Apple TV 2019 – Everything to know
We will start the evening with this short video
Apple TV 2020
What exactly is Apple TV – is it a device, an app or a GarageBand streaming service?
The unfortunately named Apple TV is all these things, so come Extravaganza along and learn about each of them!
Hands-on
This is YOUR chance to ask questions – we will have Q&A for Members of the GarageBand SIG macOS/iOS plus a breakout group for Barry’s Camera & Photos have pleasure in presenting their innovative projects for your enjoyment. Zoom Cloud Meeting Be entertained, informed and inspired Details will be supplied closer to the date … virtually everything …
the Playful, the Practical and the Contact Philosophical Neil Shelley at [email protected] or on 0438-557-178
A satellite group of AUSOM (Apple Users Society of Melbourne) 11.00 to 11.50 AUSOM Online Zoom Meeting
AUSOM Advertisement further details www.ausom.net.au/events/ Pam Doughty Retirees & Others Wednesday 9th September 2020 10.00am - 12.00noon come along and join the fun Sudoku 24 on ZOOM Meeting link will be distributed via Mailchimp email or login to https://ausom.net.au/locations/online
Session 1 Geoff Wallace Contacts & Calendar What Contacts & Calendar can do to help you organise your busy life.
Session 2 Isabel Collins Working & Playing with Keynote. Isabel will show she synchronised the animation and soundtrack to the play "Seize The Day” for which she had previously created characters and scenery. Finally she will play the completed project.
20 minute tea break between sessions
Second Wednesday of each month except January. 10:00am–12:00noon.
Email: [email protected]
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Notes from August Main Presentation — Rob Griffiths
Rob is a former writer for Macworld and founder of Macosxhints.com. In 2010 he left Macworld to join Peter Maurer at Many Tricks.
Many Tricks are makers of Butler, Name Mangler, Moom, Witch and other fine Mac software.
Rob joined us live from Portland, Oregon. He demoed Name Mangler, Moom and Witch. Following is a summary of the functions and features of these useful and user-friendly organisational apps.
Name Mangler Witch
Name Mangler is a powerful batch re-namer with a simple user-interface. Name Mangler makes most renaming tasks as easy as choosing your desired action from a pop-up menu, then configuring a Witch is a versatile switcher capable of switching few options for the chosen action. It is very useful apps, windows, or tabs. The built-in MacOS app for sorting photos according to single or several switcher is useful for one-window applications, but criteria by creating single or multistep actions. if you have many windows, apps, and tabs open, There are over 150 metadata fields available for use Witch is a more efficient option. It offers flexible in your renaming, e.g. ISO speed, dimensions, bit layout options. It also supports search-based rate and more. Presets let you store your often-used switching, allowing easy selection of the window or renaming actions in a menu for fast future access. tab that you want to activate.
Name Mangler 3.6 requires MacOS 10.8 “Mountain Witch 4.3.5 requires MacOS 10.10 “Yosemite” or Lion” or newer. newer.
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Rob outlined and demonstrated the uses of Name Mangler, Witch and Moom. All of these fast and easy organisation/management tools are available on the Many Tricks website. Name Mangler and Moom are also available on the Mac App Store with slight differences due to Apple’s software protocol. Rob assured us that these apps will run smoothly on Apple’s Big Sur.
Thank you Rob for introducing us to some very useful software.
With Moom, you can easily move and zoom Note windows to half screen, quarter screen, or fill the screen; set custom sizes and locations, and Video of Rob’s presentation is available on the save layouts of opened windows for one-click AUSOM Website: positioning. Moving, zooming, resizing, centring, even moving to other displays–all are possible https://ausom.net.au/video/ via custom commands. Moom makes window management as easy as clicking a mouse button–or using a keyboard shortcut. ⌘
Pam Doughty (found in various emails) General Light Relief
The lion's birthday party. Q: A plane is carrying 100 bricks. One falls out, how many are left on the plane? A: 99 Q: What are the 3 steps for putting a giraffe in a fridge? A: Open the fridge, put the giraffe in, close the door Q: What are the 4 steps to putting an elephant in the fridge? A: Open the fridge, take the giraffe out, put the elephant in and shut the door Q: Today is the lion king's birthday party. All animals arrive except one. Which animal is missing and why? A: The elephant, he is stuck in the fridge. Q: Sally also has been invited but she must cross an alligator infested river. How does she make it across? A: Easily, the alligators are all at the party. Q: But Sally is killed en route to the party. How did she die? A: She was hit by a falling brick. ⌘ www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 11 Contents Pam Doughty: [email protected] General Interest Editorial
AUSOM News September Cover Search WITHIN a webpage on A very special thank you to Gus van der Heyde for the cover of AUSOM News this month — "Blue your iPad Forests Green Waters". Most people are familiar with pressing Command-F Gus also supplied the following thoughts: (Edit > Find...) when using Safari under macOS to search for something on a webpage. I recently "The likely environmental destruction — its entire discovered that fewer people know that this is also ecosystem — of Western Port Bay through plans to possible using Safari on an iPad. build an extensive gas import terminal affecting its marine life, animals and birds, led me to the "Blue The difference is you type your search into the URL Forests Project" and the importance to our whole bar and scroll down to the bottom of the options ecosystem of "Green Water" (not to be mistaken offered. with green algae). The samples below are from the AUSOM News "Hence the cover design for this month. Contents page on AUSOM's site.
"The red colour in the design represents the danger of total destruction of our environment through de- forestation, pollution of water etc."
Gus added that interested members can find extensive information about both issues on the internet by separately typing the Blue Forest Project and Green Waters.
But why did I propose a VERY special thank you to Gus? I hope he doesn't mind me passing on the following. Gus first agreed to supply a cover with an answer to my email while he was in 'rehab'... There is even more... Gus sent me the cover during a few days that he had at home before he needed to return to hospital. As I said a VERY special thank you, Gus.
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Contents Bill Oldham: [email protected] iPadOS From the Rabbit Burrow Using your iPad with iOS 13
Freebies — always a good starting point. One of the big selling points of Photoshop is the ability to use a mask to edit a local selection. Well, Please have a look at https://photography- now you can do a similar thing with Snapseed. playground.com/free-resource-library/?ck_ Similar but different. subscriber_id=204697342 In previous articles we have looked at opening Snapseed, and using either the Presets (the part Introduction rainbow icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen) or the Pencil icon for the tools in the middle For the past few weeks I have felt as if I was in a of the right hand side of the screen as the starting candy store trying so hard to choose some lollies point for editing our image. while being overwhelmed by all the choices and having only a small amount of money to spend.
So many topics have come up this month to grab my attention. And then I had to whittle it down to just two or three to discuss in the FTRB article for September AUSOM News. But it has been a fun month!
The first bag of candy to get my attention was the request to explain some of the intermediate and advanced features of the Snapseed app. So that’s a good starting point.
Part One — Use the Snapseed Using the Selective tool for local editing Selective tool for local editing I can do local editing by tapping on the Tools icon and then tapping on the Selective icon. This discussion is taken from Mobile Photography (Lynda.com) at https://www.lynda.com/ (1) Open up one of your favourite images in iPhone-iPod-iPad-tutorials/Snapseed-Beyond- Snapseed. Hopefully, your guideline here is making basics/480963/556335-4.html. You can log in to see one out of a hundred snapshots as a favourite. the details of this fifteen-minute video through your local library. (2) Tap on the Tools icon.
www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 13 Contents (3) Tap on the Selective icon This gives me my starting point:
(4) I am going to switch images here to one of a few (5) It’s easier to ask you to just find your way back trees and sky outside the house. The reason for this to the starting point of the second screen shot from is that the selective tool works better on larger areas above. such as the sky. (6) Tap on the Selective tool and you get this. Shown by the red circle (Well, approximately!)
Now I’ll go through the usual steps: •• open the image, •• crop it as necessary, and (7) If it is not already blue, then you need to tap on •• tune image. the Blue circle with the Blue plus sign in the middle. This is the rough red circle from the previous screen shot.
Do your friends need (8) Tap on the upper right hand corner of the image help learning more — somewhere in the blue sky — to add a control about things point that looks like this. You might need to swipe you can do up and down to get the alphabet soup to appear. B is with a Mac? for Brightness. C is for Contrast. S is for Saturation and the last S is for Structure (brings out detail in the mid tones).
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Contents (10) Use a two-finger pinch to make the mask as (9) Now touch the screen with a two-finger pinch. large or as small as you need. The mask is set to The screen turns a bright red to indicate the area recognise the edges of the trees and knows not to that is to be affected. This is Snapseed’s version of a include these. Very clever, these iPads and their apps! mask. If you pinch-in the red area becomes smaller and vice versa. (11) Slide a fingertip up and down on the screen to get the adjustment of your choice. In this case I am going for Saturation to make the sky a deeper blue.
(12) Now slide your fingertip across the screen from left to right. And reverse it. Go from right to left. Keep your eye on the blue scale at the top, which shows how much you are adding or taking away of that particular. Eventually you will reach a point that you think looks OK.
(13) Now comes the fun part. After playing with all the effects, I decided that I liked a dark and stormy night better than a perky blue sky. I got there by trying out the different effects one at a time and then two at a time and so on. Here is what I finished up with. Remember not to get too carried away and A short aside here, which you may find humorous. I finish up with something that is unrecognisable. was just about breaking a wrist trying to get a two- fingered pinch and at the same time pressing two buttons at opposite ends of the iPad. I consulted with the editor in the other end of the house. She did the pinch twist and I pressed the two buttons to get the screenshot. She then showed me how to add a Home button under the Assistive menu and to set it to take a screenshot with a double tap. Thank you, Pam! What a great tip.
Editor's Note: See Page 22.
Many SIGs provide notes in the SIG Notes area within the SIG Notes folder on FirstClass. Access FirstClass from the AUSOM website User ID visitorau and password peekdec16.
www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 15 Contents There are times when you might need more than just one control point to get the mask to spread evenly where you want it to go. I will try using the same image as before and show you how to copy, paste and move a new control point around.
(14) Here is the image that we started with. I have opened one control point. Tap and hold with your finger tip and move it around from one spot to another. You are not limited to where you first tapped to create the control point. You can change your mind. Unless you are a wishy-washy Pisces. Then you only upset those that have to put up with you changing your mind like a weather vane. Did I mention that I might be a Pisces? Now let’s move on from the Selective tool to the (15) Tap on the control point and you get a choice of Healing tool to remove objects from your image. Cut, Copy, Delete and Reset. This was one of the requests that we received last week during the High T session.
Part 2 — Using the Healing tool
It seems dead easy to begin with. Just use the Healing tool to paint a mask on what you want removed and then wait for the magic to happen. More at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftl5c3QhQ8c
Then we get into the harder parts of using the Snapseed Healing tool. I will ask you to have a watch (16) Try tapping on Paste. of a video using a double exposure of your image to show you how to get rid of objects without leaving (17) You should get another identical control point artefacts behind. You can find it at: on your screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq6f8Zl25Qg After playing with this for a while, I concluded that it is a lot easier to simply add new control points than to go through the durn painful way of Copy Conclusion and Paste. If you have any better luck, please let me know. And we have a very short FTRB this month.
(18) Add a few new control points. Next month will continue with the Snapseed Stack Editing techniques. (19) Now the only thing is to spend a bit of time playing with the different control points and seeing That’s all, folks! their separate and cumulative effects to change your snapshot into a great shot. Good luck! ⌘
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Contents Keith Bishop General Interest Photo Opportunities: Sept 2020
As I prepare this article, Melbourne is in and had a large area of fenced off-natural bush. He lockdown. All the usual Springtime Photo Ops had also planted other Australian natives to further are not available. All the flower festivals have been develop the bushland. We wandered along the track cancelled. Even with the end of lockdown one, there and admired the Australian wild flowers and natives was not enough time for the organisers to plan and that Jim pointed out. Naturally, I snapped them as have the festivals and activities. we walked. Jim was kind enough to name them for me. Following are my photos with the names. How The National Wool Museum opened in June with many can you photograph in your area? the WE THE MAKERS design showcase, featuring 21 professional and emerging designers. The theme is “Design for the future: sustainable and ethical textiles and fashion.” I had plans to visit with my youngest daughter, but the second stage lockdown stifled those plans. If the lockdown is lifted or you live outside Melbourne and can reach Geelong without travelling through, it is open until November 22, 2020. Numbers are limited, so it is strongly advised that a booking be made.
Rone in Geelong, at the Geelong Art Gallery, was Banksia bush – Banksia ericifolia mentioned in May AUSOM News. It has been moved to February 27–May 16, 2021. Something to look forward to.
Here is a Photo Op and challenge that can be done as you exercise in your local streets and parks. Some years ago the Southern travellers, my church’s travelling group, visited Inverloch for the Cup Day long weekend, One of our members invited us to visit the family farm, now managed by her brother. Jim explained that he ran beef cattle on the farm Eucalyptus caesia gum nuts – looking just like little wooden bells
www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 17 Contents Green gum nuts – Eucalyptus preissiona
Yellow Bottle Brush bush – Callistemon pallidus
Banksia blooms tinged with red — Banksia ericifolia
White Bottle Brush bush – Kunzea ambigua
White Banksia bloom — Banksia ericifolia Prickly ti-tree bush – Leptospermum continentale
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Contents Yellow Bottle Brush bush – Kunzea ambigua Wattle trees – Acacia mearnsii
Yellow Bottle Brush bush – Melaleuca squarrosa Banksia new growth – Banksia plagiocarpa
Red Bottle Brush bush – Callistemon Western Glory Red Grevillea Blooms – Grevillea longistyla
“Milkmaids” — Burchadia umbellata White Banksia – Kunzea ambigua
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Very long yellow Banksia bloom – Banksia attenuata
Yellow Grevillea bloom – Grevillea moonlight
Scarlet Banksia Bloom – Banksia coccinea New Banksia growth with spent Banksia blooms – Banksia praemorsa
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Contents The yellow and green mottled leaves of this Banksia indicates it is suffering from an iron deficiency
White wildflower – Agonis flexuosa
Red Grevillea bloom – cultivar Grevillea Sylvia
White Banksia bloom – Banksia coccinea (young flower)
Fluffy yellow balls of wattle – Acacia mearnsii
Yellow wildflowers – Hibbertia (groundcover form) Purple grevillea blooms – Grevillea banksii variety
Wattle blossom — Acacia mearnsii Pale pink ti-tree flowers – Leptospermum continentale
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Branches of Grevillea blooms – Please Advise Photo Ops Grevillea longistyla to [email protected] Grevillea bush – Grevillea longistyla
George Engel for AUSOM iOS14 Beta Feature also available iOS13 Accessibility ‘goody’
Look what I found, almost hidden from view on All of this with the touch of a screen icon! But, iOS14: an Accessibility feature for gamers, App but... there’s icons and data and Apps already there! users, and people with arthritic problems, amongst Where would you put this button? Wouldn’t it go others. In short, an always there, low opacity, away when you open an App? Great questions again, movable screen icon, that does lots of things with but those geniuses at Apple figured it out. Trust me, a tap/s or a long press of the icon. What kind of I’ve been playing with this and it’s great and not in things? Great question! Show and tell! your way at all; and... it works with every App I’ve tried so far. How about control or activation of Volume, Siri, Home, Rotation, Control Center, App Switcher, Shake, Dock, Gestures, Multi-Tasking, Restart and my favourite, the Screenshot.
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Contents Let’s look at how this works, okay? What I did was As you see on the following screen snap of a photo open Settings>Accessibility> Scroll down to Touch, I took, using my iPhone of my iPad screen (to show turn on Assistive Touch, with 40% Idle Opacity. the Assistive Touch icon in use on a racing App I You’ll notice an Icon on your screen (on any side use), I can move the icon up or down to where I can it appears.) You can move that icon up or down on easily use the ball of my right thumb to activate a any side you want; great for left or right-handed screen shot, as I’m using both hands to control the users. I know you have another question; what tilting of the iPad for steering purposes and my left about accidentally touching that icon button? I took thumb for braking, etc. If you’re left-handed, just a screen shot below, of my iPad with my iPhone to move the icon to the left side of the screen. The show what that icon looks like. Why did I do that? same for the top or bottom edge of the screens; fully Because, gentle reader, when you press that Assistive adjustable positioning. Once you become familiar Touch icon to do something, that icon disappears with this, you don’t want to be without it. The fine momentarily, and it would not show on the screen if delay setting is one that you might want to fine-tune I took a screen snapshot. for your individual preferences. I chose 0.75 seconds as ideal for games, etc. You just have to be able to predict where the subject will be at that time, and 0.75 seconds worked for me. As a real-time example, I took an action shot just now of racing a car after a starting line 20th position, accelerating down the line at 175 mph, just before a right-hand turn. Predicting that in 0.75 seconds I’d be too mentally busy with braking, turning and traffic on my right side to take a screen shot without careening into the concrete barrier, I took the Assistive Touch snap to show that the icon disappears when the screenshot takes place. And, at just 40% opacity, the icon is barely noticeable and it doesn’t provide a distraction to you at all in use. Just like driving in real life, distractions can kill you. Editor's Note: Ah ha George! A screen recording would have captured the icon for you :-). So far, every App that I use has worked fine with this feature. If an App has motion, predict that delay into Ah ha! And, you can customize how that icon works thumbing the Touch icon to get the screensnap you with a custom action like a Single-tap, Double-tap want. This is a great feature for me and I suggest you or Long Press on the icon. I chose a Long Press to try it out when you get the new iOS. You might find avoid an accidental tap of my finger/thumb. lots of uses for it, with all the taps and gestures and So, what is it that I want this Assistive Touch icon activations it can do. to do for me? So far, all I’ve done is show you how to activate it, right? I find that I do lots of screen snapshots for software reviews and show and tell stuff. This screen snap shows that I elected to do a Long Press>Screenshot. Furthering that action, you can then elect the time of that Long Press before the action takes place. I chose 0.75 seconds. Long enough to avoid an accidental press and short enough to think ahead of where that action was to take place, like a game or an App action. One example of a Screen snapshot scenario: with your iPhone or iPad, taking a snapshot you have to press either the Home button and another button with one finger while holding the device with the other. Not intuitive at all, and clumsy as all get out. ⌘ www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 23 Contents Geroge Engel General Interest Keep it Simple...
Up and Down; Up and Down; for weeks, Up and Down. I’m getting too old for this! But, the things we do for love, right? For the past month or so, ‘Arlene the Good, Arlene the Pure’, my partner in life has been asking me to turn on her remote fan for her, so she didn’t have to get her iPad and sleeping cat off her lap. Oooookay, no problem. That’s Called love... but for a month, day and night? Then, figuratively and realistically, the light bulb turned on.
What am I doing? The house is connected to our iPads, iPhones, Macs and all within our Network. Well, why not think simplistically? What do I need? It just so happened that I had a spare unused Wyze Plug in my Computer Room.
Imagine you’re on a trip 100 miles from home and your honey asks you if you turned off the ‘xxxx’ or closed the ‘xxxx’. What to do? If you kept it simple, open the Wyze App and check: Yep, the Chest Freezer is closed; the Garage Door is closed; the lights are all off, turned off remotely just now in the car; no noise in the house, as per your security cameras microphones; no deliveries on your porch, Think, George, think! After getting my Wyze as per the remote outside camera; all cameras Plug, and plugging it in to the outlet that her fan working, inside and out. Yep, everything is all right was using, reconnected her fan to the Wyze plug, and functioning; continue on with your trip, all connected the Plug to our home Network, checked secure! You can turn the lights on remotely later, or that it was on her iPad and iPhone ‘Wyze App’ just leave it to your preset vacation mode security screen, and turned her fan on from her now Wyze on-off settings. renamed ‘Arlene Fan’ plug. Phew! As you see here, As you can see, I try to make things simple and it’s turned ‘On’. Clicking the ‘On’ button turns it less work and less stressful in my life. Let’s think ‘Off’. Is she happy? I think so, but I am! All for the creatively and work smarter, not harder. Reduce price of $20 U.S. for a two-pack of Wyze Plugs. The stress, not increase it. Live longer! Another reason Wyze App is on the App Store. Simple! why I don’t do Newsletters anymore; lol
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Contents Neville Owen: [email protected] General Interest Inside the News
This is a condensed version of the News presented at the News and Help SIG. This data is sourced from the internet and more details can be revealed in Google using a few key words from each grab, by following the links provided or by going to www.ausom.net.au and looking for News & Help beneath the SIGs menu item.
Read more at: https://ausom.net.au/tag/news-and-help-sig/
Apple Updates, Improvements and Company News OS updates include macOS Catalina 10.15.6 and the corresponding security updates for Mojave According to industry analyst Gartner, Mac and High Sierra address a variety of serious shipments increased by 5.1% year-on-year during vulnerabilities. Safari 13.1.2 is part of Catalina the second quarter of 2020. Apple took an estimated 10.15.6 and is also available for Mojave and High 6.7% of the PC market — fourth behind Lenovo, HP Sierra. It addresses 11 security issues, some of which and Dell. Apple is reportedly increasing MacBook can be remotely exploited to execute arbitrary code. Pro production to meet increased demand. iOS 13.6 and iPadOS 13.6 include improvements Apple announced it will be carbon-neutral by 2030. to Apple News, the Health app, iCloud Drive, Wi- Its pledge covers itself and suppliers. Apple also Fi calling, digital car keys and other features. The unveiled Dave, a robot designed to extract precious updates also address a total of 29 issues that could metals from Apple devices. be variously exploited to execute arbitrary code, view sensitive information, and allow cross-site scripting, among others. iOS 12.4.8 and watchOS 5.3.8 delivers unspecified bug and security fixes. watchOS 6.2.8 supports the digital car key feature on Apple Watch Series 5 or newer, and addresses various security issues and other bugs. tvOS 13.4.8 delivers patches for security and other bugs. HomePod 13.4.8 delivers "general improvements for stability and quality."
A second developer beta of macOS Big Sur was released in early July. The second developer betas Apple Future Developments of iOS 15 and iPadOS 14 also appeared. Universal The new Tom Hanks movie Greyhound was so binary support in Big Sur doesn’t just cover ARM successful that Apple is reportedly planning to and Intel CPUs – Apple has documented that release a first-run movie each month on Apple TV+. ARM64, 32-bit PowerPC, 64-bit PowerPC, i386 and x86_64 code can be included in an app. Tipsters predict a September announcement for the iPhone 12, but with at least some models not
www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 25 Contents shipping until October. They also predict a 13- Mac OS 8.1. Various games and demos are inch MacBook Pro ($US1,099) and a 24in iMac preinstalled, including Oregon Trail, Duke Nukem with ARM CPUs will ship by the end of the year. 3D, Civilization II, Alley 19 Bowling, Damage An ARM MacBook Air ($US799) is tipped for late Incorporated, Dungeons & Dragons, Photoshop 3, 2020/early 2021. The latest version is that Apple Premiere 4, Illustrator 5.5, Stuffit Expander, and the will unveil the iPhone 12, the Apple Watch 6 and a Apple Web Page Construction Kit. The developer new iPad on 8 September, with updated Intel iMac warns “it's not the best nor the most performant configurations to be released any day now. Apple way to emulate an old Macintosh. It is, however, a has indicated that ARM-based Macs will support quick and easy way to experience a bit of nostalgia if Thunderbolt via USB-C. Apple believes the graphics you're not trying to do anything serious with it.” performance of ARM-based Macs could match or exceed that of Intel-based Macs with discrete GPUs. Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute (perhaps most famous for inventing the MP3, AAC and VVC An iPad Pro with mini LED display is tipped for codecs) investigated 127 home routers sold in the first quarter of 2021. Such displays have high Europe and concluded, “There is no router without brightness and contrast ratios, and a wider operating flaws. “AVM does a better job than the other temperature range than other technologies. vendors regarding most of the security aspects… ASUS and Netgear do a better job on some aspects Apple’s rumoured AR glasses for release in early than D-Link, Linksys, TP-Link and Zyxel.” AVM’s 2022, following a report claiming that their semi- FritzBox routers are sold in Australia. transparent lenses have “passed the prototype stage and entered trial production”, supposedly Fujitsu has updated ScanSnap Manager to V7, at Foxconn. The Big Sur beta contains various providing compatibility with Catalina. Chrome 84 references that some have interpreted as a signal that includes protection from “abusive notifications” by FaceID is coming to macOS. blocking notifications from untrustworthy sites. The Catalina bug that prevented disk cloning software Software making bootable clones (until the developers iWork (Numbers, Pages, Keynote) and GarageBand created their own workarounds) has been fixed in have been updated. macOS 10.15.6.
iOS 13.5.1 users are reporting battery drain issues Security updates have been released for Adobe relating to Apple Music, even when the app is not Photoshop, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Download actually in use. There’s no clear indication that iOS Manager, Adobe Prelude and Adobe Media Encoder 13.6 fixes the issue. (ALL critical), Adobe Genuine Service, Adobe ColdFusion, Chrome (critical), Firefox (twice, Experience with the Big Sur developer beta one high priority), Microsoft Office (important), suggests that you may need 50GB or more free VMware Fusion, TenFourFox. space to install the new OS. A technology preview of VMware Fusion using macOS’s Hypervisor framework has been released. The free Enplug Art Hardware cloud app turns your Apple TV (or similar from Apple hardware manufacturer Foxconn is reportedly other manufacturers) into a virtual art gallery “with investing $US1 billion in its facility in India, curated works from LACMA, the Metropolitan reportedly at Apple’s request. The expansion is Museum of Art, the Getty Museum and more.” expected to result in more iPhone models being The QEMU emulation and virtualisation software built in India, for local and export sales. potentially allows the use of Intel virtual machines on ARM Macs. macOS 11’s Rosetta 2 software will There are reports of AirPods Pro developing a take care of running most Intel Mac applications, rattling noise that seems to be linked to noise but not virtual machines. cancellation. It is thought to be a hardware issue.
The macintosh.js app (released via GitHub) Thunderbolt 4 provides “a truly universal cable emulates a Macintosh Quadra 900 running connectivity experience”, according to Intel. It
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Contents “always” delivers 40Gbps speeds, with data, video a fast charger via malware on a mobile device. If and power flowing over a single connection. the modification ignores the normal negotiation between charger and device that determines the Samsung’s new 870 QVO SATA SSDs come in 1, 2, 4 appropriate charging current, the charger can deliver and 8 TB versions. more current than the device can handle, resulting in damage and possibly a fire. Of 35 chargers tested, Western Digital is shipping its Gold 16TB and 18TB many showed this “BadPower” problem and 11 were CMR (conventional magnetic recording) drives, and vulnerable to a simple attack from a device that is preparing to ship a 20TB Ultrastar SMR (shingled supports the fast charging protocol. The researchers magnetic recording) drive. advise against plugging basic 5v devices into fast chargers with a USB to USB-C cable.
Mozilla (the organisation behind Firefox) has announced a VPN service. Priced at $US4.99 a month, the Mozilla VPN is now available on iOS (beta), Windows and Android, with support for macOS and Linux to follow. The WireGuard-based service is currently available in Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK, and the US, with more to come.
Clearview AI (the company that has created a face Security/Privacy recognition database by scraping social media and Some Macs have been hit by the ThiefQuest other sites) is the subject of a joint investigation ransomware, but security firm SentinelOne has by the Australian and UK governments. The released a free decryptor app. ThiefQuest has other company is also being investigated by the Canadian malware functions, so it is essential to do a full government. clean-up as well as decrypting affected files. macOS’s XProtect has been updated to detect more variants “If you close your Mac notebook with a camera of ThiefQuest. cover installed, you might damage your display because the clearance between the display and Security researchers discovered an unsecured server keyboard is designed to very tight tolerances. If you shared by several VPNs that exposed millions, must use a camera cover, Apple says it should be no possibly more than 20 million users’ private data more than 0.1mm thick – about the thickness of a including email addresses, home addresses, clear sheet of paper. text passwords and IP addresses. Affected services included UFO VPN, Fast VPN, Free VPN, Super VPN, Flash VPN, Secure VPN and Rabbit VPN. General NBN Co is in the process of adding 15% German academic researchers have identified a new to everyone’s speed, in line with an ACCC type of vulnerability in PDF readers. The approach recommendation that users should be compensated is to trick someone into signing a document that for protocol overheads. contains multiple layers. The vulnerability is supposed to have been fixed in the latest versions, K-pop fans are disrupting otherwise “legitimate” but affected Mac software includes Acrobat Reader, internet activity by occupying digital space. Acrobat Pro, Foxit Reader, Foxit PhantomPDF. At Predominantly impacting Twitter accounts, K-pop least 18 PDF programs for Windows are at least fans are flooding sites like Black Lives Matter, partly affected. Trump re-election sites and police informer sites with their favourite fan videos and overwhelming Researchers at Chinese company Tencent have the sites till they crash or other users simply give up. identified a method for modifying the firmware in
⌘ www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 27 Contents Chris McQuillen iOS and macOS Dictation Writing without having to Type
The main limitation for most of us in typing into a computer is that we are not trained touch typists. At best we may be able to type with two to four fingers. This becomes more limiting as we get older particularly with our iDevices and the keys becoming more difficult to accurately manipulate due to their size and possibly our deteriorating eyesight or arthritic fingers.
Dictation is an answer
Dictation is a feature in both MacOS and iOS. It can be a very important feature for people with disability and it fits appropriately into the Accessibility features that Apple has introduced.
It is, however, a very handy feature for most of us, particularly if you want to leave your history or life macOS — iMac and MacBooks story. After having lived three score and ten years or more years there is a lot to write. No matter You need Mountain Lion or later and it comes with how much we would love to be able to do it for our those OSX versions. children and grandchildren we just don’t get around to doing it. The first step is to find the Dictation option in System Preference… (beneath the Apple Icon) •• You can dictate on a Mac computer so that your and select Keyboard from the preference grid that computer types out your speech. appears. Once you have selected Keyboard it opens •• But before you can start using dictation, up a screen, which gives you more options, one of you’ll have to enable it via your Mac’s System which is Dictation. Preferences, and decide the shortcut you’ll use to turn it on, as well as the language it will dictate in. •• Here’s how to set up and use the dictation feature on a Mac computer.
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Contents You will see an icon of a microphone appear on your screen. It will also display a sound level meter and the language that it is to transcribe. It also has a Done option to turn it off.
Editing your Dictation
The biggest problem with using built-in MacOS Clicking on it reveals “on and off” buttons, which dictation is knowing how to edit. There are special can be switched to the “on” position. This allows you commands you can use to move the cursor, select, to choose your preferred language. Mine defaulted delete and replace text. There are also ways to get to English (Australia) and the next choice to be punctuation marks and special symbols. made is a shortcut. This isn’t immediately obvious if you’ve never done this before. This shortcut But remembering all of these dictation commands allows you to activate your microphone to dictate can be difficult. So MacMost has compiled a list into documents that you are producing in Notes of dictation commands for you to print and keep or Pages, for example. It simply means that you nearby while dictating text to your Mac. Make sure select a function that will automatically turn on you have Enhanced dictation turned on in System dictation for you in one of those documents when Preferences >Keyboard >Dictation to use these. you execute the shortcut. Clicking on the arrows Download it and pass it along! at the end of that shortcut selection will reveal several choices for you that will activate dictation. See the dictation table of commands at the end of this I chose a double press of the Command key for my article shortcut initiation of dictation. Now you can close the System Preferences and open up Notes or Pages to commence dictating your article after you have iOS — IPad or iPhone initiated your short cut. On iPhone 6s or later, and iPad, you can use You do not have to train dictation to recognise dictation without being connected to the Internet. your voice and way of speaking. That just seems to Earlier models of the iPhone and iPad require an happen automatically. Internet connection.
Once you enabled a dictation feature then here’s I think iOS dictation is a great addition to the how to use it: iPhone and iPad and seems to be even more accurate and easier to use than the MacOS version. 1. Open document. Dictation gives you the ability to talk to your iPhone 2. Place your cursor at the desired location. or iPad instead of typing. You can access it almost any time your keyboard is on screen, so you never 3. Use the shortcut you established when you set up have to type the text of an email note or a Facebook Dictation in System Preferences. message ever again!
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slower and articulate each word more clearly than EDITING iPhone and iPad we usually do. It works best when your iPhone or Bold [that |
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Contents macOS Enhanced Dictation Cheat Sheet Visit MacMost.com for Mac and iOS video tutorials, advice, tips and news.
Select
[Cut | Copy | Paste] that Use the clipboard with the current selection Delete that Delete the selected text Capitalize [that |
Caps [on | off] Next spoken segment will be in title case caps on Brown Fox All caps, all caps [on | off] Next word in caps, or on and off for caps lock all caps BROWN FOX Numeral, Roman numeral Following number in digits or roman numerals Roman numeral 2019 No space [on | off] Turn off spaces for next spoken segment no space quickbrownfox COMMANDS Literal [period | comma | colon | etc…] Use the word instead of punctuation* Literal period
, Comma ' Apostrophe = Equals sign @ At sign - Dash “” [Quote | Endquote] >< [Greater | Less] than | Vertical bar - Hyphen ‘’ [Begin | End] Single quote + - sign[Plus | Minus] sign © Copyright sign ; Semicolon & Ampersand % Percent sign ® Registered sign : Colon * Asterisk × Multiplication sign ™ Trademark sign . Period, Point, Full stop \ / [Back | Forward] Slash $ ¢ [Dollar | Cent] sign ↩︎ Press Return Key ? Question mark _ Underscore £ Pound sterling sign ↩︎ New Line
CHARACTERS & KEYS ↩︎ ! Exclamation mark · • [Large] center dot € Euro sign ↩︎ New Paragraph … Ellipsis # Hashtag, Pound sign ¥ Yen sign ⇥ Tab Key v1.0 * The literal command is very buggy and rarely seems to work Copyright © 2019 MacMost.com
www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 31 Contents Annie Cumming General Interest This is my take on the
ZOOM Rocket
Since March 2020, COVID-19 has driven the There is a tendency to think the person on the other ZOOM rocket at so many variable speeds with side of the screen understands all that is said. No, people coming on board and not knowing how and not always the case . where to start their journey, just jumping on and hoping for the best . There is a tendency to think the person on the other side of the screen can see everything you can. No, ZOOM has been the most downloaded Program for not always the case . many Major Companies, Community organisations, retailers, Not For Profit Organisations, Schools There is a lack of patience and empathy at times — the list goes on and on. I personally think it's when larger groups gather on the ZOOM rocket. awesome, but unfortunately at times very dangerous due to a lack of tech knowledge. Many, many folk There is a lack of explaining the etiquette that needs simply do not have any prior knowledge of the to be followed when joining a ZOOM Meeting, so basics with Video/Voice platform and are probably, simply put the details in the email that is sent out not through any fault of their own, failing the basic prior to a ZOOM Meeting, a simple copy paste. etiquette that should be followed on this platform, let alone the security measures. There is a tendency to assume everybody attending the ZOOM Meeting knows how to operate the Tabs Setting up a Free ZOOM account was a good way to on Screen. work out the basics, but purchasing my own ZOOM account was the best thing I did. There is a tendency to assume that people on screen cannot see what is in the room behind you I found my workplace did not have the capability nor the understanding to convey the ZOOM . training. My priority was to get NDIS clients on board with as little confusion as possible, I was lucky The lighting makes all the difference enough to have a manager who let me work in an autonomous manner and to be able to share my There is a tendency to think people cannot read learning with the staff. the information on your Desktop when you Screen Share . I have seen and experienced the joy and angst of folk who have never seen or used a tech device of any Even the most experienced ZOOM presenters and kind but attempt to embrace this new way of flying presentations that I have seen and attended have on the ZOOM rocket, skipping the basics such as accidentally had folders open on display, prior to Cybersecurity unfortunately . Screen Sharing their Keynote or PowerPoint with over one hundred people or so viewing.
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Contents For your own security reasons a Desktop should be As for the people who interrupt and call out or clear of any information, prior to Screen Sharing. don't see the need to Mute their microphone or turn For your family's security, they should be informed off the Video, I must say there are few differences about any ZOOM Meeting you are attending at within the various ZOOM Meetings I have attended home, so no-one interrupts by mistake. and seen and heard things that we gentle folk should not see . To sum up my experience with the ZOOM rocket — it has been AUSOM! One of the main things I do I teach 3 hours everyday on the ZOOM rocket, so it like is that I get to put names to faces and meet folk I will take a while, as we know email etiquette is still might never have met during our SIGS at NewHope. not there yet. Until ZOOM etiquette is universally enforced, confidentiality may be compromised. On the other hand I do miss presenting to folk in a room and being able to walk up and sit down to Keep safe and mask up. explain in a comforting and reassuring manner how they could use their iDevice, as it can be rather Cheers Annie difficult to try and work out the hidden issues with an iDevice unless you have it in your hands. ⌘ The article below has been reproduced with permission from ASCCA and author Jean Martin
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NOTES: 1. I imagine the ways of viewing websites shown here can also be achieved for those who use GoogleChrome or Firefox. If you prefer to use another web browser please write an article for AUSOM News to assist your fellow members.
2. If you are using an iPhone or iPad some websites can be easier to view if you turn your device sideways. The tips about using Reader View may also assist.
Original full-width page may be cluttered and confusing with two or three columns.
Move your cursor to the right-hand edge — click and drag to the left when you see the cursor change as shown by the arrow in the above image.
The resulting page might be a single column as shown in the next image.
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Contents Look at the left-hand end of the URL bar and click the image of lines (circled) to display Reader View.
You have NOT lost the menu bar. You can click the black bar (see arrow above) and menu items will be available. Now you can more easily scroll down to locate a topic of interest. Reader View can be further improved by: 1. Increasing or decreasing the font size, 2. Changing the background colour, 3. Changing the font.
Selecting File > Print and navigating to Save as PDF Tap the link (circled) or the icon to the left to read you can print your 'more readable' web page. more about the topic.
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Above shows part of the progress as I typed "How QuickPath are you" with three swipes across the keyboard. Shown is forming the word 'you' where I moved QuickPath is enabled by default after installing iOS back and forth on the same row of keys, and iOS 13 13. Just place your finger on the keyboard and swipe. got it right. I followed the 'dotted' path and noticed I had formed a part circle working anti-clockwise. I commenced by 'pinching' the on screen keyboard Yes, I had to experiment and found sometimes I on my iPad to obtain the tiny 'floating keyboard'... would make clockwise sweeps and sometimes anti- the screenshot below shows my screen looks more clockwise. Maybe someone know what that says like an iPhone than an iPad. about my inconsistent brain!
If you want to type "have" you start by placing a I DID however find a few words that were quite finger on the "h" key and without lifting the finger difficult to type this way. E.g. COT... the first few draw a line to the "a" followed by "v" and "e". times resulted in CHOIR. At first I thought I would Once you have finished, lift your finger from the need to make sure I didn't slide over the 'H' on my keyboard. way to the 'O'. Not the case. I just needed to slide my finger a little faster with no hesitation. I didn't have to be VERY accurate with my gestures — iOS seems to know what I'm trying to type as I My experiments have shown that the more you use slide across the keyboard. iOS will either get it right QuickPath, the better you get at it. or give the right option in the QuickType bar. If you don't like QuickPath and don't want it to be an option, you can turn it off in Settings > General > Keyboard > Slide on Floating Keyboard to Type. That is where I located the setting on my iPad.
Volume Indicator When you press the volume up or down buttons on your iPad or iPhone you'll see a small white line on your screen— in my case it is very near the top centre of the screen. The line is very tiny.
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Contents As you press the volume up button, the line goes or Other (i.e. any folder or location that can be up (or to the right), and down (or to the left) as you accessed via the Files app). press the volume down button.
But wait, there is more...
Once you start the process with a volume button, you can use your finger to slide the white bar up and down (or left and right), to more accurately adjust the volume level.
If you have recently downloaded a file using Safari As interesting as I found the exercise of adjusting but do not know where to locate it the easiest way is the volume using the above method I will probably to open a window in Safari. continue to use the Control Centre. The tiny volume bar moves very quickly and the volume up Locate the download icon in the tool bar. and down buttons are very tiny. I'm sure the entire system is designed for those with younger and smaller fingers ... sigh ... and with faster reflexes!
Change default Safari download location The download icon can be tapped to show a list of You can change Safari’s default download location. recently downloaded files.
The new downloads method within Safari in iOS makes it much more like a using Safari on a desktop/ laptop.
By default, the files downloaded from Safari are stored in the Downloads folder of your iCloud drive, but you can change the default location to anything you want. Tapping the magnifier glass icon takes you directly to the downloaded file. Go to Settings > Safari and look under the General heading.
You’ll see a Downloads option, which allows you to choose the exact folder to which you want Safari to download files — iCloud Drive, On My iPad/iPhone ⌘ www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 37 Contents Pam Doughty: [email protected] iOS Help Please What are Quick Actions?... OR... My apps no longer 'jiggle', what has gone wrong?
On the Home screen, in Control Centre, and in apps, you can see previews, open quick actions menus, and more. In the notes below I used 'touch and hold' to describe the process you might consider it a 'long press'.
Home screen: touch and hold an app icon briefly to Control Centre: touch and hold an item like open a quick actions menu. Camera or the brightness control to see options.
NOTE: Select Edit Home Screen if you want to Lock screen: touch and hold a notification to rearrange your apps and see that 'jiggle' or Delete respond to it. App if you want to delete that specific app.
Mail: touch and hold a message in a mailbox to preview the message contents and see a list of options.
Photos: touch and hold an image to preview it and see a list of options.
NOTE: If the image is a movie or animated gif the 'action' will be shown in the enlarged preview.
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Contents When typing: touch and hold the Space bar with one finger to turn your keyboard into a trackpad. The image below shows this is also available if you use the floating keyboard on an iPad.
My Favourite Uses Camera: The ability to use the Camera to take a Home Screen: Time is saved when selecting a selfie or record a video from either the Control recently used item for apps such as Pages or the Centre (see previous image) or from the Home book I was last reading in Books. Screen (below).
Notes: The ability to continue or start a new note by tapping the lock screen with the Apple Pencil is certainly handy.
I find that I often use Notes for its ability to scan a document such as a receipt.
This can be achieved by touch and hold the Notes app on the home screen. I have added Notes to the Control Centre to quickly locate it and access Scan Document.
(See Page 41 Scan to Files app).
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www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 39 Contents Isabel Collins General Interest Have Music Will Travel
Despite COVID-19 travel restrictions in place, and stay-at-home advice adhered to I have a way of travelling the world unhindered thanks to my trusty Apple laptop computer.
A project, to research material for a music video, More ideas for the movie came from wandering had me travelling in Morocco of all places, with around Moroccan markets. I saw an amazing array virtual transport, provided by my web browser. of carpets and homeware with intricate traditional I had an enjoyable time visiting Marrakech, Fez, designs. There were stalls with an abundance of Meknes, Casablanca and Rabat, among other fresh, colourful vegetables that caught my eye. places. My brain was stimulated to overflowing with And over the meat stalls hung carcasses of whole colours, sights, shapes, sounds and smells. Well, sheep and goats — sometimes just the heads were maybe not the full intensity of the smells exactly — displayed for sale (an image too gory to use in my but imagination is a clever thing! movie). Huge open sacks and baskets of warm- coloured spices were displayed, ready to blend and My journey started with Apple’s GarageBand use in Moroccan curries, to be slow-cooked in application and the choice of an Indian tabla loop. tagines with eye-catching designs. And sparkling The sonorous tones and rhythmic beat prompted glasses of traditional Moroccan mint tea, that looked the choice of complementary loops and once the delightfully refreshing, were also captured and sequence and rhythms were adjusted to my liking stored in my folder of images that I planned to use. my arrangement ended up sounding rather Celtic. I visited tourist sites and marvelled at the beauty of Once the music was fully developed I needed to palaces where the architectural detail and intricate capture its essence visually and this is how I came to decorative designs of the arches, doors and wall-tiles be a virtual traveller in north-west Africa. keep ancient history alive. Travelling into cities, like old Marrakech and Fez, I wandered down narrow The music conjured an image of camels, with their cobbled streets and interesting little alley ways, lined decorative saddle blankets fringed with tassels; with ancient buildings that appeared to have existed their traditional harness and trappings jingling, as forever. The traditional colours of the limed walls they walked along with a measured, swaying gait are so beautiful they had me sighing with pleasure. carrying their heavy burdens. I saw marketplace water carriers; and a man Google images quickly led me from camels to carrying a rolled carpet effortlessly on his head. deserts; to the mighty Sahara with pockets of On YouTube there were some excellent examples lush green oases. This led me to the various oases of belly dancing and I learned that the art was scattered around the world. The colours and shapes originally created to help pregnant women of some are quite exquisite. Most of these places I prepare for birthing. Other fascinating moments didn't know existed and will never be able to afford included watching a long camel train, loaded with to see as a real-life traveller. Google finally took me produce, depart on its regular desert crossing. to Morocco’s sweeping red sand dunes, which is Then YouTube had me driving for twenty minutes where my animated movie, 'Oasis', began. through a sandstorm, (did you know you could do that?) With virtual sand in my shoes, I visited the
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Contents great Merzouga desert and looked in awe at the a market place. There I captured mint leaves and spectacular Erg Chebbi dunes. had them dancing into an engraved silver teapot. In the next sequence I combined the images of a As well as reading about Moroccan society, culture, handcrafted Moroccan knife, a rusted iron plate, and fashion I was grateful to the tourists who blog mushrooms and mint leaves in an intricate a fast- about their travel experiences, and post amazing paced animation that dissolved into a sequence photos online. All this made my virtual travel a using Tagine pots and spices, that were chosen for fascinating experience and opened my eyes on a their shapes and delicious colours. world I wouldn't otherwise have visited or known much about. Creating visual stories using Keynote and GarageBand is a stimulating hobby. Using the With so many ideas to choose from, and four images available on the internet in a constructive minutes of music to fill, it was difficult to decide way to develop the movie 'Oasis' was an extremely which visual concepts to run with for my movie. satisfying project. Even now I can recall the effect of Finally I used sand dunes, an oasis, and camels the endorphins that swamped my brain as the music (of course) and then added ideas generated from and animation finally came together — and one day traditional architecture and designs plus my visits to soon I may pack my bag for another virtual travel the markets. That may seem a lot to incorporate into experience. a four-minute movie but some animated sequences only last for a few seconds. Note: The short animation, "Oasis", was shown at an AUSOM meeting some time ago, and is offered Moving past the dunes and oasis I used Apple's again (below) as a timely reminder that we can Keynote drawing tools to capture the richness of all still travel the world despite the COVID-19 Moroccan architecture and design in images that lockdown. led the viewer past a panel of traditional wall-tiles and through an arched doorway that opened onto ⌘
Pam Doughty iPadOS Scan to Files app
In an earlier article I wrote that it is quick and In any Files location (e.g. iCloud Drive or a folder convenient to scan a receipt or similar into Notes. It within iCloud Drive) tap the (...) button and select is quick to access from my home screen however it Scan Documents. After scanning a PDF is saved is another step to access Share to move it to iCloud to the iCloud Drive or the selected folder within Drive or other location. iCloud Drive.
Recent changes to the Files app gives me direct Summary: I find Notes faster to launch directly into access to any location (iCloud Drive, On My iPad, 'scan' and Files easier to scan to my chosen location. Dropbox...).
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TOOLS —from left to right. Pen, Marker Pen, Pencil, Eraser, Lasso, Rule, Colours...
Tap a tool to change its TRANSPARENCY (lower slider) or THICKNESS (top row)
If the Eraser Tool has an X on it (below) it will erase an entire object when you tap.
Without the X the eraser will act like a real eraser and lets you remove portions of an object.
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Contents Awesome Power Bank for iPhones and iPads
A limited number (40) of these AUSOM branded power banks are for sale at $30.00 each (that's less than half the recommended price of similar items at retailers).
The Big Boost power bank comes with three connector options, including a Micro-USB, USB-C and Lightning Adapter. It has a 6600 mAh charging capacity. Other features include: ▷▷Neat and tidy retractable cables; ▷▷A handy LED Torch that can be turned on and off by holding the status button; ▷▷High temperature shut down; ▷▷Short-circuit protection; ▷▷Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) protection; ▷▷Auto-on when device connected. Auto-standby when disconnected; and Auto-adapting charge current to support a variety of devices and optimise charge time
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www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 43 Contents Annie Cumming: [email protected] and Susan Jensen: [email protected] Notes from the SIGs
Enjoy your iPad and keep practising your screen shots, see you in September. Beginners At the August SIG we began with a tip that may not be available in every version of macOS though it is available back to El Capitan. As we age the detail we see on our screens gets smaller, (laugh). Not really of course but we find These Apps were screen shared at the ZOOM iPad SIG things a bit small to read. So I suggest you go to the Apple menu/system preferences/display. There you Thank you to everyone who attended the iPad may find the setting for the default resolution of the Coach SIG at the main meeting in August. screen. It will allow you to override that setting to As we continue this journey on the ZOOM rocket, go larger or even larger still. You may see a message we must always be mindful and gentle with folks asking if you are sure you want to do this, be brave, who join in and are sometimes a little confused as to and agree to the change. The screen will go black for which room or SIG they would like to attend and of a moment, that's normal. Now everything should course I am speaking about myself. be a bit larger so you can put away the magnifying glass. If you don't like the larger text you can go The four Apps I shared with SIG attendees were: back to the default setting. •• the Constitution, •• Auslan Tutor, The presenter explained that your Apple computer •• Tips and is your office. Welcome to the Finder. Open it using •• the Arts & Culture App. the icon of a half blue half white sure icon with a smiling face on it. The Arts & Culture App has been updated since I first introduced it and is really worth considering — a 360-degree look around. To all the AUSOM iPad users at AUSOM and friends of iPad users at AUSOM, just to let you know the iPad is the easiest and most inclusive technology device for anybody to learn to use, It is originally the leftmost icon in your dock. especially in these days of uncertainty and isolation. Filing cabinets are set up for you by Apple such as If you have an older iPad, maybe set it up for someone Documents, Downloads, Applications and others. with Apps, that do not require a WiFi connection. This is where you put your folders into which you Donating an old iPad is an AUSOM way of sharing add your files, just as it used to be in your office with folk who are isolated. If you do not have a friend filing cabinet. or relative who could use your older iPad we have a If you want to regularly see a folder in the sidebar lovely lady in the iPad SIG who does know of folk (that's the list on the left) you can drag it there, in who would be appreciative of the gesture. the position you would like to see it appear.
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Contents This arrangement can be permanent or you may only require it for a current project. If you no longer want the file or folder in the sidebar you can drag it off and it will disappear. You won't loose anything; the folder will still be in the original place. Another way is to add a folder to the toolbar of an open folder window. To do this press and hold down You will see where it's heading as it will show up the command key and drag the folder or file to the as a blue line. Drop the file where the blue line is toolbar. Now you have speedy access to it from any positioned, not on top of another file. finder window. Hold down the command key and drag it away from the toolbar when you no longer need it there. Some use can be made of colour coding some files using tags, after that you can search by tag colour. Next month I hope to be able to show you how to add a file called Today to the sidebar in the finder. Beginners is a SIG where you can come to seek solutions. Come along and help each other.
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www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 45 Contents AUSOM Membership Application Becoming a FirstClass Subscriber Joining a user group, such as AUSOM, puts you in touch with FirstClass provides local online discussion forums for over 200 a network of Apple users and gives you access to important users who enjoy this great source of help, advice and Apple information and support resources. With over 300 members, freeware, shareware and software demos — all for just $35pa. there is always somebody to help you with every aspect of computing and using your Apple products. To join FirstClass, these are the steps you should take. Joining AUSOM is as easy as filling out the application form •• First you must have an Internet Service Provider (or ISP), as available from our friendly and informative members who run you can only connect to FirstClass via the Intenet. the Service Desk at the monthly Saturday meetings, as well as •• Go to the AUSOM website at www.ausom.net.au and from the Thursday meeting at the AUSOM Mornington Group. the FirstClass drop-down menu click on 'FirstClass Software Downloads'. For your convenience — particularly our country and interstate •• This will take you to another web page. members — you can go to www.ausom.net.au and use the •• Locate the file ‘FirstClass Client for Mac OS X — setup Membership link to join online. Type your details into the instructions’ and click on the Download button to the right form and click on the Submit button to access one of the secure to download the file. payment options. •• (We recommend you print these instructions.) •• Select the FirstClass client and the processor type that is appropriate for your Mac (Intel for post 2006 models). AUSOM Membership Renewal •• To download the FirstClass Installer click on the Download You can renew your membership using one of 3 secure payment button to the right — the installer will arrive as a compressed options: BPAY, Paypal or Credit Card. (.zip) file in the Downloads folder which can be found inside To renew your membership using BPAY: AUSOM’s BPAY your Home folder. Biller Code number is 209627. Use the Customer Reference •• Double-click on the .zip file to expand it and mount the Number you see on your emailed renewal notice. image of the installer. Please note: BPAY is not available to new applicants — Customer Reference numbers are issued when membership is accepted. If you are new to BPAY look at www.bpay.com.au for The Setup instructions explain point by point (with more information. illustrations) what you need to do to configure the software and register your account on the AUSOM FirstClass server If you are registering for a "Trial Account" be sure to include AUSOM Membership Fees this as shown in the illustration of the Auto Registration form. Correct at publication date. To pay your subscription for FirstClass follow the online For current fees: www.ausom.net.au instructions above when completing the AUSOM Application form. Full Membership — $80 per year (less than the cost of 2 coffees a month) •• Concession Membership — $70 per year •• Associate Membership (Additional Family Members) — $30 per year AUSOM members may register to use FirstClass as a free Membership includes 11 issues of AUSOM News per year subscription trial for one month. (PDF), and access to all of our member-only monthly To do so follow the above instructions or write to events. Access is also provided to the member area of our [email protected] or phone 0421 126 175 website. NOTE: Guest Access for SIG notes is ALWAYS available Options User ID visitorau and password peekdec16 •• Printed & Posted AUSOM News Magazine, 11 Editions per year — $120 per year •• FirstClass Bulletin Board Service — $35 per year
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Various as One-on-one & Zoom training via Zoom is available by contacting [email protected] Australia's Largest Apple User Group: www.ausom.net.au arranged Saturday Meeting Dates: Sat. 5th Sept.; Sat. 3rd October 2020 AUSOM meets monthly (except January). See www.ausom.net.au/events/categories/main-meeting/ for location details. Most meetings are held on the First Saturday, if public holidays prevent this then members will be notified via AUSOM's website, Calendar or in AUSOM News. Satellite Group Meetings Mornington Group – Thurs. 17th Sept; Thurs. 15th Oct. Retirees & Others Group – Wed. 9th Sept; Wed. 14th Oct. 6:30 pm– 8:30 pm October to March 10 am–12 noon 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm April to September. Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month except January. Meets the 3rd Thursday of each month except January. Appendix 1 pdf version of AUSOM News LOOKING BACK... As we get older, we all remember the fun times. For me it was all the Apple User Groups I was with; the basement software copying/sharing parties (no copyrights then); all the Newsletters I started and grew up to 36 pagers and more. And all the contributing writers that never bothered to write for them. Ah yes, there was the [email protected] rub. What brings this about was an email in which I mentioned to Pam a writer that was writing for my News- letter then. I turned to my iMac and did a search for 1988 articles and lo and behold, up it popped. Here was some of the things that were mentioned in that two-page letter to myself:
Starting from just two of us, the User Group built up to over 650 members through hard work and fun-filled times, and at one point even having Claris and Adobe both at one of our meetings. Lots of handout at that meeting. Mentions of the Boston Mac Expo trips and the software vendor boat trips with music and dancing around Boston for User Group Leaders. Tee-Shirt handouts by the dozens at vendor booths, freebie Mac and Apple II goodies for the asking, bags of them taken home for the members. Great software and I owned, tested and wrote reviews about all of it. And all the games!
I remember writing about the 1988 H-P Scanner, weighing just 22.8 pounds, that cost $1,495 with the Mac interface costing another $495 U.S. That was when the Apple Laserwriter was selling for $6,995 U.S. and an Adobe Font FACE was selling for $200. I remember that because I installed two Laserwriters for a Dealer. Pagemaker 1 and Photoshop 1 were top dog then, with lots of fighting for Mac Paint programs like SuperPaint going on. Everybody wanted a piece of Apples’ MacPaint! Then there was Mitsubishi introducing their(1988) 37-inch color HiRes Monitor, with 640 x 480 lines of color! That was over 2-1/2 times larger than the current 25-inch large screen monitor. The cost was only $8,000 and weighed in at 286 pounds! “Without the Base.” And so it was with the hardware at that time.
Reaching the membership of over 50 required a Newsletter, so I started one; then when the Group went over 300, the News- letter grew to over 32 pages, but there were no writers other than myself and an 1988 occasional random who wrote under threat of personal harm (hey, whatever works!) At one point I just started writing under a contributing pseudonym as a member.
That worked, so I created another, and another, and ...you get the point. To get into the feeling of that contributor, I’d put on a lumberjack shirt for Pierre Emile Le Dieux, my sometime Trapper in Moody, Maine, who trapped in his northern camp near a PC-owning trapper named Crooked Leg Papadeux, who had a watch bear named Old Yellow Tooth. These two coots argued all the time over the merits of Macs and PC’s. My wife would hear my arguments between the two as I was typing them out downstairs. I really got into the characters I was writing about, even the English/French Canadian verbiage, Eh?
Then I had Titus LaFarge and Omar Reilly in Sissquat, Maine, who didn’t get much technical input up there, being a little behind in Newspapers, don’t ya see. They started getting a little ner- vous when younger folk started talking about UNIX. They believed that them UNIX fellers can’t reproduce like normal folk, ‘cause they were ‘fixed’, don’t ya see. Just ask Clara-Jean Wiskert, the Post Mistress. She knows about all them people. Whew!
Ralph was a SAC B-52 pilot who got his first Mac 128 and bought (3) 400k Floppy disks. Then he met me, and bought (4) boxes (the next week). Then I gave him a copy of ResEdit, my 1st mis- take! Because of his untiring molestation of the Mac’s OS, he got the nickname of ‘the Mac Mo- lester’. His story was “... the origin of the self-immolation of the Mac’s self OS destruction phobia Early type designer is shrouded in the dim light of the Mac beginnings, and has been passed down from generation to generation. As far back as the Mac 128, there were mysterious stories, wrought with intrigue, about those who had tried ResEdit and were never heard from again. It was Satan’s work! If anyone used it and survived, they were greeted with... “yeah, fine for you, but I’ve got a wife and children.” Historians have traced back through time to the original ‘backup’ and believe that the dreaded ResEdit was its creator! True story, that! Yet, there were naysayers - those who
www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 49 Contents tried it and ‘bombed’, again and again, and finally succeeded. They left the Mac User Group and formed a Mac Coven, which exists to this day”.
Harry Phontmangler got his nickname because he just had to have every font face that came out, and once True Type came out, all bets were off! I’d get calls all hours of the morning and night. He just HAD to try that font face out, whether it was tested or not. Apple’s Font/DA Installer got a real workout with Harry. He wrote good Font articles, though. He was heav- en-blessed when Adobe’s Laserwriter Postscript fonts and Open-Type came out. I think they took him to a Home, if you get my drift. I almost miss him!I needed a hard-hitting character for the latest hints and tips about the Mac News scene, so I created Scoop Jackson, who was a beer-swilling, chain-smoking, take no prisoners, killer of the headlines. He would never mince words, or typewriter keys. Went through a keyboard a month. Articles always short. To the point. Always in a staccato fashion. One after another. Ten, twenty items, blasting away. What a guy. Late at night, Arlene would hear Scoop and I, chat- ting away over donuts and coffee and a keyboard; always a keyboard at the ready. I miss him too, and his banged up fedora I would wear with him and the keyboard.
The hammer of our group of writers was Ivar Thorenson, the geek- iest of the geeks, who knew the innards of all the Apple stuff and could piggyback a 128K’s Ram chips to make them into a 512K Mac Plus. He even made a dozen Mac 512k’s before Apple did. In fact, the Mac Molester got his first one. I still have Ivar’s 128K schematics (never from Apple Computer!) Here’s a copy I saved all these years. Ivar was our Mac Savant who brooked no nonsense in the Mac scene. He kept us all straight. Technical articles came from him, and all hardware review articles ran past Ivar.
Lastly, the queen savant of our group was Phoebe Denquiste. When Arlene was missing one of her hats and lady scarf, she knew where to look. Phoebe was our ‘wordsmith’ of the group. She had that talent of speaking out to the women of our group, understanding the needs and wants of the gender regarding software and how to do things, the feminine way. She described childrens needs of software that no man could. Needlepoint, cross-stitching, cooking software, etc; all fell under her domain. Woe be to those who used language un-befitting the article that she proof- read. She wielded humorous prose that no one else could. She was more than a woman; she was a Lady first! We all missed her when she moved away to a rolling farmland that she always wanted, to be near her ailing husband and children. A sweet- heart to talk to and a lending ear when needed. The members really missed her. I still talk to her occasionally.
These were my writers who I depended on, and when we all met for a writers discussion in my computer room in the base- ment, it drove Arlene near to a disaster. She was missing so many of her clothes!
On one issue of my Newsletter, I had all seven writers, plus myself, that wrote articles. Compliments from the members on the articles and letters to the Editor thought we had lots of talented writers. With the exception of those screwballs up north Titus and Omar, but they were funny, and then that wackadoodle Pierre, who they could hardly understand anyway. But their Mac/PC controversies started lots of discussions in the Group, so there’s that!
As I mentioned to Pam and Monty, writing with different Non De Plumes could be taxing, changing costumes while writing to keep my characters writing in style. Yes, I did, for each character! At one point, I had a member criticize this Editor for allowing one of my personages to allow errors in proper verbiage. They used the writings of Phoebe to contrast the writings of another of my writers! They liked Phoebe for her good writing, feminine good taste and humorous prose-like style. They even wanted me, the Editor, to take notes and learn from her in my own writing! Good grief!
I used all this to my own advantage, of course, and had all my writers chime in, in their own way, especially Ivar Thorenson, my techie, who finally crushed all in his path. That lasted a good six months of controversy, what with all the ‘Letters to the Editor’, whether real or imagined that took place. Even my fake ‘Letter’ contributors helped to stoke the fires a bit.
All eight of me had a great time! It was great to be the Editor! george engel for ausom
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George M Engel What makes a Good Photo? [email protected] Part 4- Emotive
Why are bunnies, kittens, puppies and baby pictures so popular on the Web? They’re so Emotive! They bring out the mothering and fathering in us all. You want to cuddle and pro- tect them. They’re so precious! A good photographer (all of us reading this) will attempt to bring this out in their photo. Spot and create the scene in your mind, the emotion of it, frame it, and then slowly press the shutter button, again and again. Always more than one for that perfect scene (hope- fully capturing that one perfect frame). Like, capturing my Grand-daughter above, now that she’s preparing for college. Maybe, for a future blackmail ransom photo?
Now for something different! In 1985, National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry was unknowingly about to take the most famous photo that has ever graced their magazine. This was the ‘Afghan girl’, no name, that has been the most asked-for reprint in their history. Those haunted eyes kept coming up to the Editors, and finally made it to their June ‘85 cover. For 17 years, people were continually asking ‘what ever happened to her?’ Finally, an expedition was initiated by National Geographic and Steve.
The story unfolded: In 1985, when the Russians invaded their Afghanistan, this Pashtun ‘Afghan girl’ watched her parents die. Her Grandmother shep- herded all 5 children to Pakistan, hiding in caves to avoid Russian planes and bombs day and night. Reaching a Pakistan refugee camp with millions of other refugees, they waited for years until the Russians left. This is where Steve found this girl with the haunted eyes. He was able to take her picture before she was old enough to hide behind a Burkha.
Now, the final story! Seventeen years later, in 2002, and a long time tracing villagers, she was locat- ed back in Afghanistan, a six hour drive and three hour trek to her village. She’s never allowed without a burkha, but her husband listened to the story and allowed one picture of her unveiled face. No one, other than her husband, has ever seen her smile! That’s the way it is in their culture!
Even her only brother has seen her smile once! Once! At her wedding! They wanted an FBI facial analyst and an Iris Computer Expert on hand to agree that this was the girl. They all agreed that this was the girl, Sharbat Gula, who has three children. She doesn’t understand what all the hoohah is about. She says ‘Life goes on.’ Today, only her husband sees her true face.
I still have both National Geographic magazines in front of me while I’m writing this. When I look at the first cover, those eyes haunt me still. I can see what Steve McCurry saw when he took that photo. This young girl that saw death, starvation, brutal war, and freezing cold, begging blankets and food, living in caves with her brothers and sisters, not knowing if they were going to be alive the next day. This is what he captured in those 10-11 year-old eyes! This is what I mean by Emotive- Soul Inspiring and Captivating
www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 51 Contents For a different emotion this time, it’s about three sisters meeting once every three or four years. They kind of go wild when their hus- bands aren’t around, of course, but to catch them in the act is near impossible. Remember the ‘cheese’ factor? So, as they’re watching me fiddle with my camera, I’m telling them to get closer to fit in the picture.
While the one on the right and Arlene in the middle kind of fit together, the left-most sister is having a little problem. As you can see, this gets a little hysterical and I’m lucky enough to get that picture I really wanted and treasure. This is what a real Sis- ter moment is about! I’m giggling right now writing about it, as I’m remembering the scene in my mind. Emotive - humor/free spirit.
Next, whenever I feel emotion like what’s happening about me, like this Covid-19 Virus thing, I need to step back and relax my body, both men- tally and physically. It even works when I’m going to sleep or taking a nap. Normally, I do this at night and start sleeping within five minutes or so.
Arlene thinks I’m weird, but I mentally picture a scene that’s very soothing to me; and I have several that I can call upon. One of them is this scene of a time that we were on a family vacation of the ‘Three Sisters Cruise’ and we rented a Cabana for the day. The reserved chaise lounge chairs were shaded; the sand was warm, the breeze was warm and steady, and the music relaxing. Dozing in the shade, all your problems, thousands of miles away. The food smells were wafting though the air, people playing in the surf, the waves rythmically lapping the beach... It’s easy to mentally picture this scene in my mind. And so to sleep! Do you have any scenes like this in your mind? Happy thoughts? Emotive - Warm and Sleepy moments.
This last Photo is more about composition and technique, as well as an emotion like the above. I’ll point this out with my little red arrows. Note on the right that by the ‘rule of thirds’ (another lesson later on) 1/3 is sky and 2/3 is water; water being one of the dominant features of the photo, as it’s where the action is taking place. The water foam shows action. The Orange door opens up to the lady on the left, who is on the upper left quadrant, more ‘rule of thirds’ theory. At this point in post-editing, I un- ashamedly used what I call a ‘Hollywood Glow’ technique, which is a blurring that smooths the skin, almost to the point of showing no pores, ala Vogue-ish photos. The Emotion shows an at-peace with the world, rested, satisfied, untroubled look about her that I still remember. One of the ‘Sisters’ pictures that I cherish on the ‘Three Sisters Cruise’. Emotive - Peaceful Techniques gme for Ausom
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1. Warmed-up leftovers.
I am afraid that in the July issue I got up from the didactic dining table early, leaving untouched a tasty dessert. I had been feasting so well on the optional apostrophe as served to us by the retail world that I neglected to partake of one or two appetising vintage consumer products so well- known that we may have stopped noticing whether or not they wore an ’. Can you remember clearly which of the following ‘household names’, all presented in the following list without an apostrophe, sported one in their ads … and which companies dispensed with it?
Cadburys? Wrigleys? Allens Sweets? Arnotts Biscuits? Hills Hoist? Uncle Tobys Oats? H’mmmm? I’ll be back with message after this More. For there IS more, and it’s all happening in my “You can guess wrong” department. When emailing my grandson in London as recently as June 2 of this year, I spelled Regents Park without the apostrophe. His return message included it, and I was suitably chastened by my own failure to recognise the obvious. My immediate response, on the same day, held this relevant section
As a point of interest, I wrote an article for AUSOM News about the use and misuse of apostrophes and am currently supplementing that with an assessment of its optional use in official names and signs. Consequently I omitted it in "Regent's Park", erroneously thinking that it had been dropped. I'm glad you put me right … I just checked my London Tube map and it is full of necessary apostrophes. St. James's Park, for instance. Full stop after the 't' too! I am still certain that there is ONE station that had omitted it, but I don't have time at the moment to flush the blighter out. I still have to convince the occasional doubter that this is just Monty Maizels's opinion (and not "Monty Maizels' opinion".)
My weak excuse for the unwarranted assumption about the apostrophe’s untimely demise in the London Tube map is that I grew us as a child of the Art Deco/Bauhaus era and throughout the ’30s worshipped at the shrine of the straight line, orderliness and simplicity of design I saw in the new architecture and furniture. In these qualities the London Tube map was exemplary so, without referring to one, I assumed that the same damage had occured as that wrought on the face of BRASHS by some typographical neatness freak who removed a ‘blemish’, only to leave behind a name that was unpronounceable without facial contortion and, possibly, unseemly spitting. So attractive were the geometric layout of the map and the Gill Sans typeface, the apostrophe must surely have been seen as intrusive – and summarily rejected. No. In this I was wrong on two counts: 1.Where already in print, it seems to have been uniformly preserved. 2. The renowned sculptor and typographer Eric Gill, while undoubtedly the creator of the beautifully rounded SansSerif font that bears his name, was not responsible for the map design or its lettering. The former was designed by Harry Beck in 1931, so that falls within my memory span. The latter was the brainchild of Edward Johnston, a wizard calligrapher of the day, and Gill was his pupil. Johnston’s London Underground type was designed in 1916 for London Transport (if that was its official name back then – its latest incarnation is as Transport for London (TfL) in the "London Underground" face (commonly known as "P22 Johnson"). And, as if that weren’t already enough to upset our APPLE-cartography, I now read that the font was changed in 1980 so that is what we will be seeing 40 years later.
All of these stations rightly preserve the possessive apostrophe: St. John’s Wood, St. James’s Park. Regent’s Park, Earl’s Court. Queen’s Park, King’s Cross. Each refers to a single individual, and the most patent example is that of the eponymous Prince Regent, later to reign as King George IV.
www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 53 Contents ARNOTT’S Biscuits. I never doubted that one for a minute.
London tube stations without apostrophe are: WRIGLEY’S? By Gum, their advertising never left home without one. I can’t remember when I last chewed gum, nor when I last saw anyone else indulging. Even Kylie Mole’s over-the-top Golders Green, Barons Court and Parsons Green. Historically, do they all refer to multiples? More bubble-gum stretching-and-twisting seems a world away: “It goes, it goes, it goes …” and, than one Golder and Parson being green? Large numbers of Barons being court … speeding on their thankfully, it has gone. I never became an addict to the habit during my youth but in my extreme way to Runnymede in 1215? I am fairly well acquainted with Barons Court and Earl’s Court since age I would now rather like to join the long list of those who profess to be able to walk and chew they are adjacent on the Piccadilly Line on the way to and from Heathrow airport. I had previously gum at the same time. In fact, if I could regain the ability to walk, I’d be quite prepared to forgo the never heard of Parsons Green but there it is, tucked away on the District Line to the south-west a other half of the deal. mere five stations before Wimbledon. Missing In Action
If you are keen on Clean and fans of Sans, you might find uses for the solid and round Underground HILLS Hoist? and its copycat mates below. In the early 2000s, when I first started archiving some of my favourite On reviewing this subject, I find that the presence or absence of an apostrophe must take second classical LPs on the Mercury label, I soon learned how much more music could be transferred to the place to the wonder that for the first 22 years of my life this universal domestic device did not exist. new medium. Sometimes a substantial extra work by the same composer. So the LP album front 22 years of corded clotheslines extended between fences, trees or sturdy poles in the back garden, needed to be scanned (in two parts, then reassembled) and the new title or titles added. Typed in with washing held in place by split wooden pegs, and raised up by a single wooden prop with Verdana because it was identical to the existing print, or else a very close match. I still fancy this forked upper end. The Hoist was not manufactured and marketed until 1945 by the (singular) font for 20th Century contemporary or avant-garde classical works and call your attention to its Lance Hill. being the only one of the three which differentiates between upper case ‘I’ (I), the number ‘1’, (1) and lower case ‘ell’ (l ). My personal preference vote for quotation marks goes to the curly UNCLE TOBYS Oats? I fell badly at this hurdle. Full of surprises, the vendors of basic needs and services, aren’t they? ones of Underground rather than Verdana’s cats-eyes. But in a couple of clicks they can always be Yet it is only now that I notice on the packet the proof of their long-earned right to historical invited in for a guest appearance. correctness: FUELLING GENERATIONS SINCE 1893. So venerable and reputable a brand would LONDON UNDERGROUND surely have bowed to the requirements of literary accuracy and retained the apostrophe? Well, you ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 1234567890 ‘ ’ could have fuelled me! london underground Never assume! I allowed myself to be misled by the unmistakeable probity of their portrait Lower case gets you this: of this portly avuncular figure wearing hunting gear and a shiny top hat — at first sight, obviously being given a final grooming before setting forth on what Oscar Wilde termed “the unspeakable in GILL SANS full pursuit of the uneatable”. Ninety years ago, in my earliest days of porridge foraging, our family ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 1234567890 ‘ ’ devoured oatmeal from a packet bearing the image of a an even more admirable character. The company selected the name Quaker Oats to imply that the sect’s reputation for integrity, honesty VERDANA and purity were equally applicable to their product. They should know; they had been milling it ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 1234567890 ’ ‘ ‘ ’ since the 1850s, many years before founding the Quaker Mill Company in 1877 and immediately applying for the very first trademark for a breakfast cereal, “a man in Quaker garb”. In effect a man ‡∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞‡ of peace and not prone to quibbling, who led a simple life and had no need for new-fangled fripperies such as apostrophes. Back, then, to Uncle Toby ... but not before dropping a note that the 2. Answers to August product quiz confectionery companies of Cadbury, Rowntree and Fry were all founded by Quakers.
The first four all kept their apostrophes THEN NOW?
CADBURY’S. Well, why not? I could not imagine its exclusion being pursued by a company who trumpeted, at least to Australia, the hypnotic and compelling bonding exercise “I Want Cadbury’s” – even if it WAS accomplished with the aid of a 19th Century popular song about a gold miner and his comely daughter with enormous feet. In this case, it is easy to imagine the apostrophe as providing a symbolic hook.
ALLEN’S Sweets it definitely was. On all their advertising, as well as on the truly impressive 30m by 20m neon sign above the building on what is now Southbank, close to Queens Bridge which does not have an apostrophe. The bridge has survived, the sign has gone and the sweets have gone — to Nestlé. (We used to call them ‘Nessles’, but you can’t hear an apostrophe when you say it.)
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London tube stations without apostrophe are: WRIGLEY’S? By Gum, their advertising never left home without one. I can’t remember when I last chewed gum, nor when I last saw anyone else indulging. Even Kylie Mole’s over-the-top Golders Green, Barons Court and Parsons Green. Historically, do they all refer to multiples? More bubble-gum stretching-and-twisting seems a world away: “It goes, it goes, it goes …” and, than one Golder and Parson being green? Large numbers of Barons being court … speeding on their thankfully, it has gone. I never became an addict to the habit during my youth but in my extreme way to Runnymede in 1215? I am fairly well acquainted with Barons Court and Earl’s Court since age I would now rather like to join the long list of those who profess to be able to walk and chew they are adjacent on the Piccadilly Line on the way to and from Heathrow airport. I had previously gum at the same time. In fact, if I could regain the ability to walk, I’d be quite prepared to forgo the never heard of Parsons Green but there it is, tucked away on the District Line to the south-west a other half of the deal. mere five stations before Wimbledon. Missing In Action
If you are keen on Clean and fans of Sans, you might find uses for the solid and round Underground HILLS Hoist? and its copycat mates below. In the early 2000s, when I first started archiving some of my favourite On reviewing this subject, I find that the presence or absence of an apostrophe must take second classical LPs on the Mercury label, I soon learned how much more music could be transferred to the place to the wonder that for the first 22 years of my life this universal domestic device did not exist. new medium. Sometimes a substantial extra work by the same composer. So the LP album front 22 years of corded clotheslines extended between fences, trees or sturdy poles in the back garden, needed to be scanned (in two parts, then reassembled) and the new title or titles added. Typed in with washing held in place by split wooden pegs, and raised up by a single wooden prop with Verdana because it was identical to the existing print, or else a very close match. I still fancy this forked upper end. The Hoist was not manufactured and marketed until 1945 by the (singular) font for 20th Century contemporary or avant-garde classical works and call your attention to its Lance Hill. being the only one of the three which differentiates between upper case ‘I’ (I), the number ‘1’, (1) and lower case ‘ell’ (l ). My personal preference vote for quotation marks goes to the curly UNCLE TOBYS Oats? I fell badly at this hurdle. Full of surprises, the vendors of basic needs and services, aren’t they? ones of Underground rather than Verdana’s cats-eyes. But in a couple of clicks they can always be Yet it is only now that I notice on the packet the proof of their long-earned right to historical invited in for a guest appearance. correctness: FUELLING GENERATIONS SINCE 1893. So venerable and reputable a brand would LONDON UNDERGROUND surely have bowed to the requirements of literary accuracy and retained the apostrophe? Well, you ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 1234567890 ‘ ’ could have fuelled me! london underground Never assume! I allowed myself to be misled by the unmistakeable probity of their portrait Lower case gets you this: of this portly avuncular figure wearing hunting gear and a shiny top hat — at first sight, obviously being given a final grooming before setting forth on what Oscar Wilde termed “the unspeakable in GILL SANS full pursuit of the uneatable”. Ninety years ago, in my earliest days of porridge foraging, our family ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 1234567890 ‘ ’ devoured oatmeal from a packet bearing the image of a an even more admirable character. The company selected the name Quaker Oats to imply that the sect’s reputation for integrity, honesty VERDANA and purity were equally applicable to their product. They should know; they had been milling it ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 1234567890 ’ ‘ ‘ ’ since the 1850s, many years before founding the Quaker Mill Company in 1877 and immediately applying for the very first trademark for a breakfast cereal, “a man in Quaker garb”. In effect a man ‡∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞§∞‡ of peace and not prone to quibbling, who led a simple life and had no need for new-fangled fripperies such as apostrophes. Back, then, to Uncle Toby ... but not before dropping a note that the 2. Answers to August product quiz confectionery companies of Cadbury, Rowntree and Fry were all founded by Quakers.
The first four all kept their apostrophes THEN NOW?
CADBURY’S. Well, why not? I could not imagine its exclusion being pursued by a company who trumpeted, at least to Australia, the hypnotic and compelling bonding exercise “I Want Cadbury’s” – even if it WAS accomplished with the aid of a 19th Century popular song about a gold miner and his comely daughter with enormous feet. In this case, it is easy to imagine the apostrophe as providing a symbolic hook.
ALLEN’S Sweets it definitely was. On all their advertising, as well as on the truly impressive 30m by 20m neon sign above the building on what is now Southbank, close to Queens Bridge which does not have an apostrophe. The bridge has survived, the sign has gone and the sweets have gone — to Nestlé. (We used to call them ‘Nessles’, but you can’t hear an apostrophe when you say it.)
www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 55 Contents However much he may enjoy porridge for breakfast, your average Joe (or even Toby) does not as a rule seek intellectual nourishment from scanning the printed cardboard it comes in. That is usually No! The artist’s intention here is to shatter all illusion. (Or else to create one that would escape our discarded after the life-giving grain is transferred to a container that pours more easily — every attention?) This character is no-one’s ancient Uncle. ‘Fuelling generations since 1893’, eh? The cardboard spout of my acquaintance calls to mind the classic image of a panicking crowd jammed hunting jacket, shiny top hat and cut of the pants suggest the first quarter of the nineteenth century: into the few exits of an auditorium after someone has yelled “Fire”.* The only reason I have been representing 70 years of maturity, stability, solidity and reliability all implied to the late Victoriana able to sift the evidence now being presented is that other content is currently occupying the large period consumer. Misleading advertising? Well, clearly this is a virile young man and I have my pour-easy container, and the big red box has not yet been consigned to the recycle bin. Naturally, doubts that this little hussy so solicituous in primping him up for a day out riding with the boys is the scans were made before opening, raw oats not being on the recommended diet list for Epson his niece. Enough said. At least he is old enough to decide for himself whether on not he needs an printers. apostrophe.
Careful examination of the printed result reveals that the eye of the dedicated porridge punctuation Final word: whether or not there is still an Uncle Toby in the family is now irrelevant to that expert may have been confused by the tiny ® sign to the northeast of the letter S, which might have subject. Like Allen’s Sweets, he has long gone to Nestlé-we-used-to-call-them-‘Nessles’. registered in the wrong place … our Universal Unconscious … as an apostrophe...... * A similar abservation about tomato sauce is attributed to Ogden Nash: You shake and shake the ketchup bottle, nothing comes, and then a lot’ll.”
3. Numb … and Number
Let us start with the Number 4. This is the fourth of my little essays into the way in which we are spoon-fed the language we use. Readers who have been with me since its inception will recall that my original title was to have been “Word Processing My Way” and that my intent in 2007 was to However, it was only after viewing an enlargement of the evocative image that I realised that this examine some of the millions of bits of information thrown at all of us constantly by the media, Toby is not a Toby of tradition. Historical associations must be pushed aside, without ceremony. primarily press. I have been very lax. And possibly self-indulgent. I have left the busy highway of Forget Toby Jugs and Shakespeare’s bibulous Sir Toby Belch. Better still, forget that I mentioned them. They hardly confirm the propriety I was according a male of advanced age, a carefully communication and wandered down back-alleys that bloomed and flourished for me in the manner constructed image that would warrant veneration and the consequent assumption that he would of Melbourne’s city lanes before the days of Covi-D and lockdown, where I have been seduced to adhere to the Best of the Past, including the apostrophe. linger over-long over apostrophe coffees and pronunciation pastries. 4! Yes, it’s about time. A four-letter word none of us wants to give up.
* * * * * * * * * * * * 1. The word ‘number’ is always singular, right? 2. And what we read in the daily press is always right, right?
I have known since my schooldays that proposition (2) is untenable, since I was already collecting egregious examples of inattention to faulty spelling and incongruous grammmar in the British daily press and American magazines, many with humorous outcomes that appealed to my juvenile mind. My bookshelves contain a few booklet collections of such printed gaffes. I also retain and treasure the same juvenile mind. However, it was not until the 1980s that I encountered an excellent reason to condemn strict adherence to the first statement. And it was all the more telling in that it did not come from the printed word but from Radio ... and an afternoon ABC News bulletin, at that. I can’t remember the exact wording, but it was an item about political upheaval in the island nations to our north and contained the bad news that in the conflict “a number of Malayans was killed”. This horrified me and it still does. The use of the singular neglects the undeniably unique character of those who suffered. Living beings dehumanised by the language for the sake of some non-existent or misconceived “rule”. There is nothing sacred about the word “number” that gives it the status of a unitarian deity. It is, and must be, modified by whatever it describes in the words that
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Contents However much he may enjoy porridge for breakfast, your average Joe (or even Toby) does not as a rule seek intellectual nourishment from scanning the printed cardboard it comes in. That is usually No! The artist’s intention here is to shatter all illusion. (Or else to create one that would escape our discarded after the life-giving grain is transferred to a container that pours more easily — every attention?) This character is no-one’s ancient Uncle. ‘Fuelling generations since 1893’, eh? The cardboard spout of my acquaintance calls to mind the classic image of a panicking crowd jammed hunting jacket, shiny top hat and cut of the pants suggest the first quarter of the nineteenth century: into the few exits of an auditorium after someone has yelled “Fire”.* The only reason I have been representing 70 years of maturity, stability, solidity and reliability all implied to the late Victoriana able to sift the evidence now being presented is that other content is currently occupying the large period consumer. Misleading advertising? Well, clearly this is a virile young man and I have my pour-easy container, and the big red box has not yet been consigned to the recycle bin. Naturally, doubts that this little hussy so solicituous in primping him up for a day out riding with the boys is the scans were made before opening, raw oats not being on the recommended diet list for Epson his niece. Enough said. At least he is old enough to decide for himself whether on not he needs an printers. apostrophe.
Careful examination of the printed result reveals that the eye of the dedicated porridge punctuation Final word: whether or not there is still an Uncle Toby in the family is now irrelevant to that expert may have been confused by the tiny ® sign to the northeast of the letter S, which might have subject. Like Allen’s Sweets, he has long gone to Nestlé-we-used-to-call-them-‘Nessles’. registered in the wrong place … our Universal Unconscious … as an apostrophe...... * A similar abservation about tomato sauce is attributed to Ogden Nash: You shake and shake the ketchup bottle, nothing comes, and then a lot’ll.”
3. Numb … and Number
Let us start with the Number 4. This is the fourth of my little essays into the way in which we are spoon-fed the language we use. Readers who have been with me since its inception will recall that my original title was to have been “Word Processing My Way” and that my intent in 2007 was to However, it was only after viewing an enlargement of the evocative image that I realised that this examine some of the millions of bits of information thrown at all of us constantly by the media, Toby is not a Toby of tradition. Historical associations must be pushed aside, without ceremony. primarily press. I have been very lax. And possibly self-indulgent. I have left the busy highway of Forget Toby Jugs and Shakespeare’s bibulous Sir Toby Belch. Better still, forget that I mentioned them. They hardly confirm the propriety I was according a male of advanced age, a carefully communication and wandered down back-alleys that bloomed and flourished for me in the manner constructed image that would warrant veneration and the consequent assumption that he would of Melbourne’s city lanes before the days of Covi-D and lockdown, where I have been seduced to adhere to the Best of the Past, including the apostrophe. linger over-long over apostrophe coffees and pronunciation pastries. 4! Yes, it’s about time. A four-letter word none of us wants to give up.
* * * * * * * * * * * * 1. The word ‘number’ is always singular, right? 2. And what we read in the daily press is always right, right?
I have known since my schooldays that proposition (2) is untenable, since I was already collecting egregious examples of inattention to faulty spelling and incongruous grammmar in the British daily press and American magazines, many with humorous outcomes that appealed to my juvenile mind. My bookshelves contain a few booklet collections of such printed gaffes. I also retain and treasure the same juvenile mind. However, it was not until the 1980s that I encountered an excellent reason to condemn strict adherence to the first statement. And it was all the more telling in that it did not come from the printed word but from Radio ... and an afternoon ABC News bulletin, at that. I can’t remember the exact wording, but it was an item about political upheaval in the island nations to our north and contained the bad news that in the conflict “a number of Malayans was killed”. This horrified me and it still does. The use of the singular neglects the undeniably unique character of those who suffered. Living beings dehumanised by the language for the sake of some non-existent or misconceived “rule”. There is nothing sacred about the word “number” that gives it the status of a unitarian deity. It is, and must be, modified by whatever it describes in the words that
www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 57 Contents closely follow; generally separated by that tiny but indispensible binding bundle of possessiveness, For a long time I have wondered why there haven’t been an ad similar to the Grim Reaper the word “of”. Thus: “...a number of Malayans were killed”. And, if one stopped thinking about ones to frighten us into sensible behaviour, considering the common sense approach has failed an artificial statistic and concentrated on the human loss, I would say that an even greater number miserably. If we can be scared into more careful writing and proofreading, I’m all for it! were grieving. Same page, same column: as someone in their mid-30s I don’t see how how my superannuation If we are to have the consistency in our written language essential to knowing at all times what the can benefit from an industry that is winding down … etc. other person means, we have to be aware that the limitations presented by the word itself extend to Written by someone with multiple personalities and unwilling to reveal “their” sexuality, a an entire family of relatives, and there are many. There’s one for a start! MANY — also Loads, ploy foiled by the give-away of “their” very masculine name as signatory to the letter! Lots, More than one can poke a stick at, Stacks, Tons … all escaping criticism here because they are all plural. They “are”, and “are” is what we will write naturally no matter what noun follows, Why do AFL footballers, who are demanding payment during the shutdown, think they are whether attached to living beings, inanimate objects or ideas. I venture that it would be difficult to more important than anyone else in the community who has lost their jobs and subsequently find examples of the above words appearing in print without such attachment being stated or their wages? Maybe the members who have paid their subscriptions can ask for a refund. implied. A real mishmash of number here. Any one person who has lost whose jobs? Read: “than others in However, we have evolved one particular linguistic convention related to number that the community who have lost their jobs”. But why the ‘politically-correct’ weaselling? Isn’t it prompts us to see only the forest and miss the individual trees, converting a “them” of great generally accepted by the community that AFL players are men? diversity into a single “it” that demands to be spoken about or written down in connection with a singular verb. It is called a Collective Noun. A number (undefined) of human beings, each with his The Age — editorial content or her own background, feelings and aspirations, differing markedly from others in the selected group, but all lumped together as an indissoluble Host, or Multitude, or Crowd, or Mob, or Pack – Those with money and influence can get away with most things in planning and and so on, some of these appellations more judgmental than others. The point here is that each term environmental law. This is the real “law and order” issue, and neither of the major is made a singularity and when written or spoken of in the present tense is more likely be followed parties want to talk about it . by “is” than “are”. As example, the sports commentator’s: “The crowd is going wild”. Other Only two parties indicated, and isolated, by “neither”. So neither wants to talk about it, nobody in substitute terms for large numbers such as Abundance and Plethora are patently singular, but since I the parties wants to talk about it. Neither do I at the moment. I’ll gladly join in when they all want have never known them to be applied to individuals, I declare them harmless. Use them as you will! to talk about it.
Monty’s general rule-of-thumb-and-index-finger numbering that allows him to count to two. We’re seeing inflated case numbers for the simple reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer requires doctors to do testing. To be followed by “is” : One; None; Each; Every; Everyone; Either: Neither; Nobody, Somebody. Ullo! Ullo! Ullo! Wot’s goin’ on ’ere then? If the Centers for DC&P is/are a monolithic entity, then (Other verbs in present tense comply with this rule, as in “Nobody likes a smartarse”.) to my eye it doesn’t sit well on the page. Ah! Online check reveals: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a national public health institute in the United States. That To be followed by “are”: Few; Fewer; Many; Most; Not many; any Number from 2 to infinity. explains it — actually the misspelling of centres gave the game away. And reminds me of the sign noted on May 8 at the counter of my local Post Office: Keep 1.5 meters distance. Had they upped it For me, more concerned here with the peccadillos of the press, the good news is that most of what to 2 meters, I would gladly have allowed them to keep my Electricity and Gas ones. we read is reported and so not in Present Tense. Back in the past, third person singular loses its double identity of Final “s”-on or Final “s”-off. Yesterday’s Grand Final, then, ended with “-ed”. “… but let us not forget the many adults who are still languishing in Australian offshore And we are all free to write: “Nobody cheered” and “Few cared”. Whereas, “Nobody cheer” and camps. After all, they are all somebody’s child.” “Few cares” must be shunned. Shall we have a look at how our daily press does our word If this is true, then that “somebody” must have been exceedingly prolific and should have been processing for us … THEIR way? named and shamed for contributing to our overpopulation. How about: After all, everyone is somebody’s child. (N.B. “is” and not “are”) * * * * * * * * * * * * May 13 The Age The Age (Letters) "and, to the best of my knowledge, none of them are mass murderers or child rapists. The asthmatic child of a Qantas cabin crew member has been diagnosed with COVID-19 Surely: None of them is a mass murderer or child rapist after contracting the virus from their mother. The child is among four family members and a flatmate of Qantas staff who caught the virus Fees of $20,000 is only part of the price paid for a sense of entitlement. from flight crew exempt from mandatory quarantine rules and returned home after working Either Fees are OR A fee is. And this obviously refers to a school of high educational attainment on international flights. — and considerable expense.
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Contents closely follow; generally separated by that tiny but indispensible binding bundle of possessiveness, For a long time I have wondered why there haven’t been an ad similar to the Grim Reaper the word “of”. Thus: “...a number of Malayans were killed”. And, if one stopped thinking about ones to frighten us into sensible behaviour, considering the common sense approach has failed an artificial statistic and concentrated on the human loss, I would say that an even greater number miserably. If we can be scared into more careful writing and proofreading, I’m all for it! were grieving. Same page, same column: as someone in their mid-30s I don’t see how how my superannuation If we are to have the consistency in our written language essential to knowing at all times what the can benefit from an industry that is winding down … etc. other person means, we have to be aware that the limitations presented by the word itself extend to Written by someone with multiple personalities and unwilling to reveal “their” sexuality, a an entire family of relatives, and there are many. There’s one for a start! MANY — also Loads, ploy foiled by the give-away of “their” very masculine name as signatory to the letter! Lots, More than one can poke a stick at, Stacks, Tons … all escaping criticism here because they are all plural. They “are”, and “are” is what we will write naturally no matter what noun follows, Why do AFL footballers, who are demanding payment during the shutdown, think they are whether attached to living beings, inanimate objects or ideas. I venture that it would be difficult to more important than anyone else in the community who has lost their jobs and subsequently find examples of the above words appearing in print without such attachment being stated or their wages? Maybe the members who have paid their subscriptions can ask for a refund. implied. A real mishmash of number here. Any one person who has lost whose jobs? Read: “than others in However, we have evolved one particular linguistic convention related to number that the community who have lost their jobs”. But why the ‘politically-correct’ weaselling? Isn’t it prompts us to see only the forest and miss the individual trees, converting a “them” of great generally accepted by the community that AFL players are men? diversity into a single “it” that demands to be spoken about or written down in connection with a singular verb. It is called a Collective Noun. A number (undefined) of human beings, each with his The Age — editorial content or her own background, feelings and aspirations, differing markedly from others in the selected group, but all lumped together as an indissoluble Host, or Multitude, or Crowd, or Mob, or Pack – Those with money and influence can get away with most things in planning and and so on, some of these appellations more judgmental than others. The point here is that each term environmental law. This is the real “law and order” issue, and neither of the major is made a singularity and when written or spoken of in the present tense is more likely be followed parties want to talk about it . by “is” than “are”. As example, the sports commentator’s: “The crowd is going wild”. Other Only two parties indicated, and isolated, by “neither”. So neither wants to talk about it, nobody in substitute terms for large numbers such as Abundance and Plethora are patently singular, but since I the parties wants to talk about it. Neither do I at the moment. I’ll gladly join in when they all want have never known them to be applied to individuals, I declare them harmless. Use them as you will! to talk about it.
Monty’s general rule-of-thumb-and-index-finger numbering that allows him to count to two. We’re seeing inflated case numbers for the simple reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer requires doctors to do testing. To be followed by “is” : One; None; Each; Every; Everyone; Either: Neither; Nobody, Somebody. Ullo! Ullo! Ullo! Wot’s goin’ on ’ere then? If the Centers for DC&P is/are a monolithic entity, then (Other verbs in present tense comply with this rule, as in “Nobody likes a smartarse”.) to my eye it doesn’t sit well on the page. Ah! Online check reveals: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a national public health institute in the United States. That To be followed by “are”: Few; Fewer; Many; Most; Not many; any Number from 2 to infinity. explains it — actually the misspelling of centres gave the game away. And reminds me of the sign noted on May 8 at the counter of my local Post Office: Keep 1.5 meters distance. Had they upped it For me, more concerned here with the peccadillos of the press, the good news is that most of what to 2 meters, I would gladly have allowed them to keep my Electricity and Gas ones. we read is reported and so not in Present Tense. Back in the past, third person singular loses its double identity of Final “s”-on or Final “s”-off. Yesterday’s Grand Final, then, ended with “-ed”. “… but let us not forget the many adults who are still languishing in Australian offshore And we are all free to write: “Nobody cheered” and “Few cared”. Whereas, “Nobody cheer” and camps. After all, they are all somebody’s child.” “Few cares” must be shunned. Shall we have a look at how our daily press does our word If this is true, then that “somebody” must have been exceedingly prolific and should have been processing for us … THEIR way? named and shamed for contributing to our overpopulation. How about: After all, everyone is somebody’s child. (N.B. “is” and not “are”) * * * * * * * * * * * * May 13 The Age The Age (Letters) "and, to the best of my knowledge, none of them are mass murderers or child rapists. The asthmatic child of a Qantas cabin crew member has been diagnosed with COVID-19 Surely: None of them is a mass murderer or child rapist after contracting the virus from their mother. The child is among four family members and a flatmate of Qantas staff who caught the virus Fees of $20,000 is only part of the price paid for a sense of entitlement. from flight crew exempt from mandatory quarantine rules and returned home after working Either Fees are OR A fee is. And this obviously refers to a school of high educational attainment on international flights. — and considerable expense.
www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News September 2020 v 59 Contents One possible set of inferences: The asthmatic child caught the virus from an unspecified mother of unspecified children. The child is among four family members so afflicted and is also a flatmate of Qantas staff. Either the child or its flatmate, or both, contracted the disease from flight crew, and the child returned home after working on international flights, swearing never again to fall for child exploitation.
Personally, I have found this more open to liberal interpretation than the Book of Genesis, and would welcome alternative scenarios derived from the above printed evidence . Interested readers please forward to Pam.
See you next month with:
Me, Myself and I — call the shrink.
Participles, Gerunds and Gerundives (or why sesquipedalian terminology is a no-no except in newly-metricated hardware stores.)
And maybe lots less.
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