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Cover by Michele Patterson Masthead Publisher MPN, LLC Editor-in-Chief Robert L. Pritchett Assistant Editors Harry Babad Michele Patterson Consultants Harry {doc} Babad Ted Bade Advertising and Marketing Director Robert L. Pritchett Web Master Robert L. Pritchett Public Relations Robert L. Pritchett Contacts Webmaster at macCompanion dot com Feedback at macCompanion dot com Correspondence 1952 Thayer, Drive, Richland, WA 99352 USA 1-509-210-0217 1-888-684-2161 rpritchett at macCompanion dot com Skype: maccompanion macCompanion Staff Harry {doc} Babad Ted Bade Dr. Eric Flescher Eddie Hargreaves Jonathan Hoyle III Daphne Kalfon (I Love My Mac) Wayne Lefevre Daniel MacKenzie (Tech Fanatic) Michele Patterson Mike Potter (For Mac Eyes Only) Robert Pritchett Dan Robinson Dennis Sellers (Macsimum News) Rick Sutcliffe (The Northern Spy) Mike Swope (Swope Design) Tim Verpoorten (Surfbits) Julie M. Willingham Guest Authors: Anthony King Gene Ziegler Application Service Provider for the macCompanion Website: http://www.stephousehosting.com Our special thanks to all those who have allowed us to review their products! In addition, thanks to you, our readers, who make this effort all possible. MPN, LLC Copyright 2003-2009 Page 2 of 129 Volume 8 Issue 2 February 2009 http://www.tropic4.com/ MPN, LLC Copyright 2003-2009 Page 3 of 129 Volume 8 Issue 2 February 2009 ................................................................................. 6 Letter from the CEO .......................................................................................................... 6 Happy 25th, Mac! ........................................................................................................................ 6 According to Hoyle... .......................................................................................................... 8 Apple in the Post-Steve Jobs Era ............................................................................................. 8 Dan's Scans ...................................................................................................................... 13 Who Can You Trust? .............................................................................................................. 13 Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer ....................................................... 16 Ivory Tower February 2009 ............................................................................................. 21 MacMod 3.0 ...................................................................................................................... 26 Doc_Babad’s Macintosh Tips – A Macintosh Tip or Three… ...................................... 29 The Northern Spy ............................................................................................................. 41 Hinges of History and a Tale of Two CEOs .......................................................................... 41 Safe, Secure and Polite Macin’ — Things You Should Practice .................................. 48 How to Completely Erase the Hard Disk — Tips to Avoid Data Theft When Donating a Computer System {Even to your kids} .................................................................................. 48 Rants, Raves and Revelations – February ...................................................................... 56 Customer Service: A Study In Contrasts {SmileOnMyMac’s Browseback and Roxio’s Toast} ........................................................................................................................................ 56 ......................................................................................... 66 Amazon macCompanion Store ........................................................................................ 66 Adobe Creative Suite 3 Bible ........................................................................................... 67 Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies ........ 70 A Digital Photographer's Guide to Model Releases: Making the Best Business Decisions with Your Photos of People, Places and Things ............................................ 73 MediaWiki: Wikipedia and Beyond ................................................................................. 76 Photoshop CS4 for Dummies .......................................................................................... 79 MPN, LLC Copyright 2003-2009 Page 4 of 129 Volume 8 Issue 2 February 2009 ..................................................................... 81 The Greening Continues — The most eclectic of what we read. .................................. 81 Project Blue Beam Technologies and "False Christs" .................................................. 86 The Law of Unintended Consequences – CFLs and Wind Turbines ........................... 92 ............................................................................... 95 Plugz Earpollution Earplugs ........................................................................................... 95 Throwbax Earpollution Headphones .............................................................................. 97 iFrogz Toxix Earpollution ............................................................................................... 99 OtterBox Defender for iPod touch 2nd generation Defender Series™ ....................... 107 ............................................................................. 110 Cocktail 4.2.2 Maintenance Utility ................................................................................ 110 Advertisers Index............................................................................................................ 117 A Better Handyman and Contractor Service ...................................................................... 117 Apple Corporation ................................................................................................................. 117 Amazon.com - macCompanion Store .................................................................................. 117 AprèsVin ................................................................................................................................. 117 Century Roofing ..................................................................................................................... 117 Concert or the Living Waters Live H20 .............................................................................. 117 Evo Networks ......................................................................................................................... 117 H20 Hybrid Pro ...................................................................................................................... 117 OxySilver ................................................................................................................................ 117 PESWiki .................................................................................................................................. 117 3-Rivers Synergy Centre ....................................................................................................... 117 Tropical Software .................................................................................................................. 117 Advertising Information ................................................................................................ 128 MPN, LLC Copyright 2003-2009 Page 5 of 129 Volume 8 Issue 2 February 2009 Letter from the CEO Happy 25th, Mac! By Robert Pritchett macCompanion was not a magazine quite back then, but we started out as MacNut (way back when) and we have delighted in the progress we have seen as Apple has evolved and morphed the Mac during the last 25 years. Happy Birthday! And may you have many more. For a timeline, history etc. of the Mac see - http://www.macworld.com/article/138340/mac25anniversary.html?lsrc=mwweek http://schwarztech.us/articles/macat25-storie http://www.applegazette.com/dotmac/the-web-celebrates-25-years-of-macintosh/ And don't forget Fortune from January 30, 2009 - ""If a picture is worth a thousand words, here’s five grand worth of Apple (AAPL) news in charts and lists released over the past couple of days," Phillip Elmer-Dewitt reports for Fortune. MPN, LLC Copyright 2003-2009 Page 6 of 129 Volume 8 Issue 2 February 2009 Elmer-Dewitt covers: 1. Web Brands. Apple scored No. 10 in Nielson Online’s ranking of the top Web brands based on the number of unique visitors each site drew in December 2008. 2. Social Brands. The iPhone scored No. 1 — ahead even of its parent company at No. 3 — in the Virtue 100, a new ranking of blue chip brands by how often they get mentioned in blogs, photo-sharing sites and such social media entities. 3. Days to 1 Million. The rate at which the leading smartphones achieved the market penetration milestone of 1 million units. Apple's iPhone 3G crushed all comers. 4. Volume vs. Revenue. CounterNotions’s Kontra shows that what matters is not how many smartphones you sell, but how much you make on each sale. 5. Stock Price. Finally, a glance at Apple’s share price, which having suffered a thousand cuts in the past year finally picked up a little traction in the past two weeks." http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/01/30/five-easy-apple-charts/ This month, Harry Babad has begun a couple of columns, this time on "Greening" and its relationship to the Macintosh culture and also, "Safe, Secure and Polite Macin’ — Things You Should Practice". Harry is the "comeback