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STANFORD/PALO ALTO MACINTOSH USERS GROUP NEWSLETTER Vol.17 No. 8 August 2007 AUGUST 6, 2007 SMUG MEETING PRESENTER DERRICK STORY PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER WRITER INSTRUCTOR He authored "Digital Photography Hacks," "Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Ed.," and co-authored the popular series, "iPhoto: The Missing Manual" with David Pogue. Derrick's photo articles are a regular feature in Macworld Magazine. Derrick is the digital media evangelist for O'Reilly Media (http:// digitalmedia.oreilly.com). He also runs a virtual camera club at www.thedigitalstory.com that features weekly photography podcasts, reader-submitted photos, and pro tips. Derrick will be showing Tips and Tricks what comes out the other side. Good data in, good results with iPhoto out. You might not realize it, but your digital camera is a very sophisticated data input device—which also happens iPhoto is a solid photo management application that to be lots of fun if used properly). ships on every Mac. But there's more to this pro- gram than initially meets the eye. In his presenta- And; it becomes even more enjoyable when you learn how tion, Derrick shows you how to become an iPhoto to tap its vast creative potential. Derrick will show you how to power user and unlock some of its magic. capture great pictures with your digital compact or DSLR and how to prepare that output for printing. Do you have questions on digital photography or your digital camera? Digital photography is like any computer-related IN THIS ISSUE activity: the data you input has a great impact on August Presenter Derrick Story.....................1 A D V A N C E R E M I N D E R SMUG August Meeting Schedule ..................2 SMUG July Meeting Report .............................2 The “September” meeting will be on Monday “September 10”, due to the Labor Day weekend. Summer 2007 CD-Rom ...................................3 Shareware—August Demo Items...................4 The Presenter for the September meeting will be We fix Mac’s Coupon .....................................6 StuffIt Deluxe 11. O’Reilly Notice.................................................7 StuffIt Deluxe 11 provides a suite of tools that Calendar of SMUG Events..............................7 help you access, compress, manage, protect, send, SMUG home page and backup all your important files and images! http://www.pa-smug.org Page 1 Smug Contacts SMUG Monday August 6 MEETING SCHEDULE MONDAY 6:30 - 9:00 SMUG Office August Meeting at the Redwood Room P.O. Box 19466 Stanford CA, 94309 6:30 - 7:00 Q & A 7:00 - 7:45 SHAREWARE: Dave Aston WEB S I T E h t t p : / w w w . p a - s m u g . o r g 7:45 - 8:00 BREAK Club Mailing List 8:00 - 9:00 Derrick Story Presenter s m u g u s e r g r o u p @ y a h o o g r o u p s . c o m 9:00 - 9:15 RAFFLE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Steve Bellamy President July Meeting Report: (650) 854-5895 [email protected] by Dave Strom—Vice president & director David Strom, Vice President /Director iPhone Presentation (650) 574-8398 [email protected] Scott Spencer, Treasurer Lynda Fudold, an Apple Authorized Business Agent, talked about how smug _ [email protected] to buy a Mac. Later in the meeting, she showed us her brand new iPhone, (650) 854-5495 and discussed her experience with it. Jim Thornton Director [email protected] DO YOU NEED TO BUY? (408)252-7364 If you have a Mac that is working OK, you may not need to buy a new one. Ric Smith, Director Use “MacTracker” (mactracker.dreamhosters.com) is a freeware applica- r i c @ g a r l i c . c o m tion that lists all models of Macs. You can use that to check out the Mac NON-BOARD OFFICER you have and all its specs; is it upgradeable, can you add more RAM, etc. David Strom, Vice President WHEN? COMMITTEES It used to be that you should wait till MacWorld, MacExpo, and similar Scott Spencer announcements. Lynda showed a table from the book Take Control of Buying a Membership Assistant Mac; we could see that in 2002, 2003, not 2004, and not 2007, new Macs were smug _ [email protected] announced at MacWorld. A lot of new releases of Macs are n o t tied to expos (650) 854-5495 anymore. Another such example is in 2002 and 2006 Aug, even though there NEWSLETTER was a Paris Mac expo in Sept, there was a Mac release in August. So if Apple is Lorrie Bleiler not doing expo releases, what can you do to decide when to buy? Editor/Designer (650) 948-1400 phone /fax BUYERS GUIDE [email protected] “Buyersguide.macrumors.com” John Schipper, Staff Writer The macrumors website has several tabs: latest rumors, page 2, the iPhone, (650) 493-8048 and a buyers guide. This guide goes by product; it shows a recommendation John Kaufmann, Distribution for each Mac if you should buy or not. If the Mac was updated recently, it (650) 494-0703 [email protected] recommends you buy now; if not upgraded for the average number of days between upgrades it recommends you wait. It shows the last release for that S H A R E W A R E Mac, the number of days since the last update, and the average number of Owen Saxton days between updates. (650) 966-1775 [email protected] WHAT MAC? WEB SITE “www.systemshootouts.org” Steve Bellamy The fellow at this site does a lot of comparisons between Mac and PC. He discuss- Webmaster (650) 854-5895 es the internal and external expansion, graphics/video/audio, speech recognition, [email protected] specifics such as NVIDIA and why it is good; speech recognition, etc. One com- parison shows that a Mac was $5 more expensive that the PC. He also does Mac- to-Mac comparisons: Apple desktop lineup, Apple laptop lineup. Page 2 July Meeting Report- continued on page 5 SMUG SUMMER 2007 CD-ROM AUDIO & MUSIC MULTIMEDIA STOCK CONTENTS Amadeus Pro 1.0.3 Billable 1.1.2 Graphics Sound Grinder 3.0.2 DVD Cache 1.4.4c GIFBuilder for OSX 1.0 (PPC) Sound Menu 1.5.1 FRS Spelling Challenger 1.3 Goldberg X 2.5 (PPC) SpotDJ 0.3.2 Master Math Word Problems X 1.9 GraphicConverter X 5.9.5 * SRS iWOW 1.1.8 Skim 0.4.1 JPEGDeux 1.8 (PPC) StartupSound.prefPane 1.1b1 Virtual ][ 5.7 TotalTunes Control 1.1.3 Internet PRODUCTIVITY Camino 1.5 * COMM Action Tracker 1.3.1 (PPC) Eudora X 6.2.4 (PPC) Adium X 1.0.4 Action Tracker Runtime 1.3.1 (PPC) Fetch 5.2.1 * Chax 1.4.9b1 Dates to iCal 1.0.3 Firefox 2.0.0.4 * Flock 0.7.14 LiveCalc 2.1 iCab X 3.0.3 LogMeIn Free 3.0.611 MagiCal 1.1a11 Interarchy 8.5.3 * MailFollowup 1.1 Midnight Inbox 1.2.2 Internet Explorer X 5.2.3 (PPC) MailRecent 1.0.4 Records Master 5.5 Java Embedding Plugin 0.9.6 (PPC) NetNewsWire 3.0.1b18 Scrivener 1.055b Mozilla X 1.7.13 (PPC) NetNewsWire Lite 2.1.1 Sidenote 1.7.2 MT-NewsWatcher X 3.5.2 Shiira 2.1 Spell Catcher X 10.2.3 Netscape X 7.2 (PPC) SSH Tunnel Manager 2.0b3 (PPC) Netscape MRJ Plugin X 1.0.1 (PPC) UTILITIES Nvu 1.0 (PPC) DESIGN & GRAPHICS AskPoirot 2.0.9 (PPC) OmniWeb 5.5.4 Art Text 1.2.1 Bookdog 4.2.9 Opera 9.21 * Pipette 1.0r1 Caffeine 1.0 RealPlayer X 10.1 (490) * Sandvox 1.2.1 DownloadComment 1.1.1 SeaMonkey 1.1.2 * FUN AND GAMES Doze 1.0 Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 * Arcadrome 1.0.1 DropCopy 1.3.2 Windows Media Player X 9 (PPC Arctic Quest 1.0 EasyFind 3.9 CornerChaos 1.1.5 File Juicer 4.8 Others Mystery Case Files: Huntsville 1.5 (PPC) Google Desktop 1.0.3.301 BBEdit Lite 6.1.2 (Cls & Cbn) GrandPerspective 0.99 BBTidy 1.0b10 (PPC) INTERFACE Keyboard Cleaner 1.0 MacTracker X 4.2 * AutoPairs X 3.0 Media Indexer 2.4 MP3 Rage 5.8.4 (Cbn) BBAutoComplete X 1.5 Net Monitor 4.3.12 Tex-Edit Plus X 4.9.8b1 (PPC) Blue Skies Mac Screensaver 1.0 OmniDiskSweeper 1.5.2 TextSoap 5.6.1 * (PPC) SMARTReporter 2.2.5 TextWrangler 2.2.1 * DejaMenu 1.2.1 Springy 1.2.2 DotFiles 1.2 TrimTheFat 0.7 DragThing 5.8.1 xProcess1 1.4.2 UTILITIES FileCutter 1.3.2 Adobe Reader 7.0.5 (PPC) SideTrack 1.4.1 WIDGETS AntiWordService 2.0.1 (PPC) Visionary Saver 1.0 Currency Converter 0.6.5 Application Enhancer 2.0.3 Earthlink Shopping Widget 0.1 Default Folder X 3.0.5 * EasyEnvelopes 1.0.5 FinderPop 2.0.1 KITCHEN SINK Phonetic Alphabet 1.0 PopChar X 3.1 Billable 1.1.2 Symbol Caddy 1.0 TinkerTool 3.7a * DVD Cache 1.4.4c TremorSkimmer 3.0 FRS Spelling Challenger 1.3 * New or updated since the previous Master Math Word Problems X 1.9 CDOQ Skim 0.4.1 Virtual ][ 5.7 Page 3 Shareware News master; this is a most relaxing game for all ages! Recent AUGUST changes: Added option to disable changing backgrounds. The game now sends difficulty level to high score table. Demo Items Graphical optimizations. Demo by Dave Aston Requires OS X 10.0+.