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The LIMac SEPTEMBER 1997 NEWSLETTER OF THE LONG ISLAND MACINTOSH USERS GROUP LIMac has been serving Macintosh Meet Mac OS8 users on Long Island since 1984, when the The September meeting OS8 is right for you. If LIMac Inc. Mac was introduced. of LIMac promises to be you love the Internet, P.O. Box 518 Annual dues for the best of the year with a you will not be able to Seaford,NY 11783 membership is $24. live demonstration of live without Mac OS8. President First meeting is free. Apple’s System OS8, the Mr. Hall brings to Balan Nagraj For information, you newest version. this event his many years [email protected] can contact any of This version of the of experience as a Vice President Bill Medlow the following: system software is not an Systems Engineer ser- [email protected] Membership incremental upgrade, but vicing Apple’s education Treasurer Alan Gordon a major revision inside clientele. (516) 538-7013 Donald Hennessy and out. | akgmac@villagenet. Later in the [email protected] com We are pleased to evening, as a part of the Secretary announce that Mr. Bill Public Domain presentation of the Wallace Lepkin Software Hall of Apple Computer, Educators Special [email protected] will be giving a detailed Helen and Interest Group (EdSIG), The LIMac FORUM Sheldon Gross presentation on the new I will be making a pre- “If you use the Internet, you will want Mac OS8. Editors/Graphics (212) 799-5655 Mac OS. His demonstra- sentation of the eMate If you need the Internet, Mac OS8 is right for you. Mo Lebowitz [email protected] tion will not only explain 300 product. This is the If you love the Internet, you will not be able to Loretta Lebowitz Technical Advice why the internal changes hottest product in the live without Mac OS8.” [email protected] Bradley Dichter make this the most stable education market today, (516) 874-4363 Distribution version of the Mac OS ever, but also how the and it has only now been released to the gen- Wallace Lepkin [email protected] changes in the Graphic User Interface (GUI) eral consumer market. If you long for the sim- Program Donald Hennessy make it the easiest and most productive for plicity of an earlier generation of computers in a Coordinator Printing Rick Matteson both high end and basic computer users. This is mere four-pound powerbook-like container, Willow Graphics (516) 379-0174 the best Internet operating system on the come to Room 316, Building 300 (see direc- (516) 785.5360 [email protected] market today. If you use the Internet, you will tions below) and meet the eMate 300. l Imagesetting Beginners SIG want Mac OS8. If you need the Internet, Mac –Kirk R. Cronk A&B Graphics Sy Bram (516) 433.8228 (516) 378-9076 [email protected] September’s Meetings The FORUM is DTP SIG published monthly by General Meeting: Friday, Sept.12, 7:00 P.M. Beginners SIG: Friday, Sept. 19, 7:00 P.M. LlMac.All contents, Balan Nagraj The September meeting of LIMac promises to The topic will be Inside Your System. (516) 427-0952 except where noted, be the best of the year. It’s a live demonstration are copyright ©1997 [email protected] The Beginners SIG will be held in Building 500 at NYIT. of Apple’s System OS8, the newest version. by LIMac. Opinions ED SIG DTP SIG: expressed are the Rick Matteson This month’s General Meeting will be held in Salten Hall at The This month’s meeting will be part of the views of the authors (516) 379-0174 New York Institute of Technology. Salten Hall is the first building on your left as you enter the campus from Northern Boulevard. Park on General Meeting. and do not neces- [email protected] the field at your right, across form Salten Hall. Internet SIG: Monday Sept.15, 7:30 P.M. sarily reflect those of Internet SIG Ed SIG: Friday, Sept.12, 9:00 P.M. LIMac. Contents may Al Choy Further exploration of the Internet. The A representative from Educational Technology be reprinted for non- [email protected] Internet SIG will meet in the auditorium of the Associates, our own Kirk Cronk, is bringing a commercial use, with Internet Address Bethpage Public Library. couple of eMates for us to look at and play with? due acknowledgment http://www.limac.org to LIMac. The next LIMac board meeting will be held at The EdSIG meeting will be held in Room 316, Building 300 at the New York Institute of Technology (right next to Salten Hall.) the Plainedge Library on Tuesday, September 16, 1997 Quicken 7.0 & Deluxe: Planner, the ability to download historical stock program for everyone, and that makes its twice. I need my checkbook with me, and I don't A review by Max Rechtman prices and financial news from the internet.Also purchase well worth the modest cost. have a Newton with which to do my finances. Quicken 7 and Quicken included in the Deluxe version is a Mutual Fund Quicken can track your investments, assets, For me, using Quicken as a checkwriter is like Deluxe 7 from Intuit are two Finder that utilizes data from Morningstar, and debts, income and expenses, manage your bank trying to kill an ant with an atomic bomb. of the best programs written allows for the searching and creation of fund accounts, and maintain your checkbook.With However friends that use the checkbook for personal financial management. Quicken lists based on a variety of user defined criteria Quicken you will no longer have an excuse for feature, rightly point out that I lose the ability to Deluxe comes on a CD-ROM and offers several such as risk level, rate of return, minimum your checkbook being out of balance. track my expenses.Also, many banks will allow features not found in Quicken 7, such as finan- investment etc. Personally, I don't use the checkbook feature. I you to do on- line banking with Quicken. cial planning tools (Net Worth Analysis, It is impossible to review every feature that find that I don't have the discipline to enter all Reconciling the checkbook is quick, easy and Retirement Planner, and Debt Reduction Quicken has to offer.There is something in the income and expenses into a check register always correct. 2 President’s Message Technical Corner If politics makes strange bedfellows, do business | While organizing fonts with ATM Deluxe circumstances create stranger bedfellows? The 4.0 and Adobe Type Reunion 2.0 get error front page article in THE NEW YORK TIMES message stating Find File needs more RAM. regarding Steve Jobs keynote address at I have 10MB for System software out of MacWorld Expo had a large photograph of Bill 72MB total. What can I do to solve this Balan Nagraj problem? Gates on the monitors. Compare this with the President Open your System Folder, then the Apple Menu [email protected] much smaller photograph of Steve Jobs. Is Big Items folder, then Get Info... on Find File. It’s Brother …? Larry Ellison is named as a director an application so you can allocate more simultaneously with the announcement memory to it. The default is 280K, so give it Brad Dichter regarding Microsoft’s investment in Apple! 25% more (as a general rule). The fact that you [email protected] Much is being written about this collabora- have 72MB (or four times that much) of RAM tion. After the initial shock, my attitude is: wait is unimportant; the way you allocate that and see! About 8 years back, there was a major memory is far more important. Take a look at announcement about a collaboration between the About This Computer in the Apple Menu. DEC & Apple. Did anything come out of that The bar for System software should have about announcement/hype? I can think of other 15-20% white space at the end. The white space announcements that came to naught. Perhaps is the System Heap Space. Think of it as the best thing at present is to repeat a currently breathing room for the System to expand due to popular phrase: Show me the money! loaded shared libraries and other components. For us, the immediate issues of concern are The shareware, HeapTool, is ideal for fixing this. the performance and stability of Mac OS8 and The commercial Extension managers like Now Apple’s policy regarding the licensing program Startup Manager and Conflict Catcher have of the OS. Our September meeting, with a pre- options that take of this for you. They have the sentation on Mac OS8, is an excellent way to advantage of setting a floating percentile rather kick off our Fall programs and the big member- than just the absolute value of HeapTool. When ship drive. We are holding this meeting in a you turn off Extensions and Control Panels, the bigger room to accommodate the large atten- System’s memory requirements drop, so the dance expected. LIMac has steadily grown over System Heap space should adjust. Apple was the past twelve years thanks to the dedication supposed to take care of this with the introduc- and volunteerism shown by many members. tion of System 7.0, but never did. TIP! Surprisingly absent from the Jobs keynote | Using System 7.5.3 on a PowerMac 7200. address was the issue regarding OS licensing. I thought the font set I used to create a doc- Spacing Dotted Only a few weeks back, Apple had indicated ument was standard Apple issue.