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Volume XVI, Issue VI November19, 2002 What's Happening In MacMad Jim Staal, President Our part of the country is mov- sions on older machines (even ware such as iMovie, PhotoShop ing up. We now have an Apple some earlier than that). Many and FileMaker Pro. Our recent Store as close as Orlando. more seem to have moved to OS programs on these, as well as Several of our club members 9, and some are using OS X. The the operating systems, have made it to the grand opening, capability of the particular Mac revealed fascinating techniques although some reported getting is one factor, of course, but com- and results. I wonder how many there too late to receive t-shirts. fort with the particular system user groups have both tornado Seems that the store had a lot of also seems to be a major driver chasers and guard dog trainers early visitors. of which system is used. Some of using the Mac in their pursuits. us have legacy software that Actually, I believe that we are does not yet work well with the I am also continually well served here in Brevard by newer operating systems. Some impressed with the level of help our own Apple vendors. Even so, just like the feel of the older sys- given our members at the it’s nice to have the store within tems. Others have gotten so Wednesday meetings. It is really easy driving distance so that we familiar with the benefits of OS enjoyable to see the clusters of can see the whole line on dis- X that we find it difficult to people working on various hard- p l a y, take advantage of the move back to Classic or another ware and software issues. classes and presentations, and older OS. Personally, I really feel more like we are included in enjoy the OS X features, espe- One fascinating tidbit that the community. cially the stability. came out in the last meeting was how few of us are using our It’s interesting to see how the The use of particular applica- Macs for playing games. I know use of the various operating sys- tions also varies widely. Most of it is not from a lack of games, tem versions has developed us tend to use the standards since the more popular within the group. There are still such as A p p l e Works, but the games are continuing to many using one of the OS 8 ver- many also use specialized soft- move to the Mac. Inside This Issue continued on page 2 What’s Happening In MacMAD ...... 1, 2 iListen Reveiw ...... 4,5 Great Deals for MUG Members ...... 4, 7 Member’s Helping Members ...... 1 Classifieds ...... 7 About Last Meeting, ...... 3 Meetings ...... 8 Members P e r s o n a l l y, I use my Mac so focus is unknown. Yo u r much for business that I prefer MacMad Board would really Helping Members to be away from the computer rather respond to your Please be considerate and for my recreation time. I’m not requests than select for you, so call at a reasonable hour. Remember, these volunteer sure whether that is the reason let us know what you want. In also have a private life. for you others. Another factor is some cases we may have diffi- WordPerfect,…Canvas … the amount of other hobby-type culty finding a presenter to fill Brenda Foster…724-1948 pursuits available on the Mac. a request, such as the recent [email protected] one for AppleScript, but we will Photoshop, CorelDraw, Illustrator, This brings me to the subject of try. our upcoming programs. We Freehand, AOL, Color-It, Speaking of the Board, elec- ClarisWorks, Quark X-press have not heard much from the tions are coming after the first Cher Daley …724-8981… membership on the specific [email protected] applications or subject areas of the year. We always need Photoshop …Gayle Baker … that your would like to see. We additional members to fill the 7257632…sterlingphoto@mind- know that you like instructional positions on your MacMad spring.com or demonstration programs, but Board. If it seems that the Photoshop, Quark, whether you have a particular Illustrator…Randy Perry… same people are always on the Visit MacBits on the Web! Board, it is simply because (561) [email protected] We are now posting MacBITS on the If you are experienced with a www.macmad.org website! those people are willing to piece of software or hard - Click on files,sign in using your name serve. All of us welcome new ware, and wouldn’t mind a and few calls for help, volunteer password,click on newsletters and select faces. If you or someone you by giving your phone the issue of choice. Use Adobe Acrobat are talking to are willing to Reader Plug-in with your favorite web number to Cher Daley. browser to read.This is a free download help, please volunteer. from www.adobe.com

MACMAD http://www.macmad.org Meeting And Drinking Society est. 1984 http://bbs.macmad.org President ...... Jim Staal...... 953-4911 ...... [email protected] Vice President ...... Jay Fleming ...... 77 7 - 2 5 0 9 ...... ja y f l e m @ b e l l s o u t h . n e t ...... Ray Legall ...... 76 8 - 2 0 4 1 ...... ra i n m a n 5 6 @ m a c . c o m Secretary ...... Mark Fosgate ...... 725-0285 ...... [email protected] Treasurer/Membership. . . Tom Willing...... 773-4207 ...... [email protected] Sysop/Web Master ...... Jamie Cox ...... 255-5387 ...... [email protected] Editor...... Cher Daley (odd months) 724-8981 . . . . . [email protected] Lil Bits Editor ...... Cameron (Cammie) Donaldson (even months) [email protected] Created on Macintosh computers with Quark Xpress MacMAD does not condone or support software piracy. MacBits is an independent publication not affiliated or otherwise associated with or sponsored or sanctioned by Apple Computer, Inc. The opinions, statements, positions and views stated herein are those of the author(s) or publisher and are not intended to be the opinions, statements, positions, or views of Apple Computer, Inc.

Page 2 About Last grams Share function. Ad d i t i o n a l l y , However this info is outdated. I Jamie showed how Image Capture tried just adding the Meeting … AUTODISKMOUNT line to my by Mark Fos g a t e could be used in Mac OS X. hostconfig file, but this didn't October 15,20 0 2 Jamie switched into OS 9 to show work. Then I tried comparing how the software that came with his the hostconfig file from a work- digital camera could be used to do a ing system to this one, and found it was also missing AUTO- Panorama file ^(3)stitching^(2) the CONFIG=-YES- . However even Jim Staal opened the meeting at three pictures of the group present with these edits the machine 7:00pm with approximately 25 per- into one continuous panorama pic- refuses to mount external so n s . ture. Not all digital camera compa- media. As a request was made by Ron nies provide this type of software; so if this is important to you, look before S o l u t i o n on the M a c f i x i t Schnurer to do the Pledge of forums. Allegiance, saying the pledge with you buy. Otherwise you’ll have to Ron leading officially opened the meet- pay out of pocket for this capability. It calls for a real Homer head- in g . slap - DOH! I guess for security's Dinner site voted on was Bennigan’s. sake I deleted the "unknown" Next meeting is supposed to be con- Meeting adjourned at 8:30pm. group from Netinfo. This group ducted by Carl Carter on Ap p l e Wo r k s . must exist in order to mount Jim asked about doing a Christmas external media, including disk images, as I discovered. Oh well, party this year and no consensus was so much for thinking I knew ma d e . what I was doing and being nice Jamie Cox was introduced as the and secure. I was able to put guest speaker for the evening on the Humpty back together again by HOT TIP! looking at the settings on a subject of iPhoto. A p r o b l e m that occurred in nearby machine that works and Jamie started off by taking several 10.0.x has come back. A n y copying them from that Netinfo. pictures of the group as a means for mountable volume (disk image, showing the import of pictures from a CD, etc.) inserted into the 10.1.5 I wonder why Apple hasn't G4 533 MHz shows up as posted this in their knowledge- digital camera and explaining how the base yet. process works. Jamie showed how to unreadable. I found an Apple support doc for 10.0.x giving the adjust the sizes of photos, how to correct hostconfig document cor- Just in case any of you run into search, how to create and apply key- rections, this - another possible "gotcha" words, and do simple edits of pictures. h t t p : / / d o c s . i n f o . a p p l e . c o m / a r t i- is that you must save your Jamie also showed the different func- cle.html?artnum=106345 changes in Netinfo before deau- thenticating, or it will nicely tell tions that are available in the pro- you that all your changes are being lost with no chance of sav- ing them. Not a huge deal to reproduce the changes,but it’s getting late and I’m tired.

Page 3 iListen Makes Dictation Easy A review by Cher Daley: and control application, nav- igate the desktop by speech. • Huge 300,000 word vocab ulary • Runs on Mac OS 9 and Mac OS 10 iListen™ is easily script- able with Applescript, and if you’re using keyboard com- mands iListen™ has includ- ed TypeKey helper 1.2. a The control window allows you to change modes, third-party application that turn the mic on and off and check spelling. enables you to write scripts for key commands such as iListen’s options pop-up from the System requirements: copy and paste (command C) and dock G3 or G4 (command V), or close window Co m p u t e r (command W). The possibilities are Mac OS 9.2.2 and 192 MB of RAM endless. It even gives you a quick iListen offers Mac OS X.1.5 or higher and 256 start guide to get you started (for a variety of those of you we don’t want to read MB of RAM. “faces” you ACD-ROM player. the manual, and you know you are). can apply to MacSpeech is a Mac-only compa- Another thing I liked about ny, with software developers who iListen™ is you don’t have to use a the command have been creating speech recogni- headset to speak into the Mac. You window. tion software for many can use a PlainTalk microphone, a years.iListen™, MacSpeech’s first USB microphone, or it will work dictation product, is speaker depen- with many headphone sets. This is dent voice recognition software, based on a proprietary implemen- particularly useful when you only tation of the Philips FreeSpeech have one arm to work with. Not speech engine from Philips Speech only can you speak and have Processing. iListen™ type for you, you don’t have the hassle with fitting head- iL i s t e n ™ 1 . 5 . 1 , created by MacSpeech phones around your head! I mainly is an easy to use dictation, editing, tran- use my power book, you know the scription, and speech navigation appli- one, the G4 titanium and I am cation. Whereas its competitor IBM speaking approximately a foot and Via V oice; only works in certain pro- a half away from it. I’m only using grams, iListen™ works in almost every the built-in microphone! application including e-mail apps. A microphones to work with your sys- good example of this is the program I’m I also tested iListen with the tem. Naturally, if you bought your working in now, Quark Xpress, I used to Andrea NC-7100, USB headset microphone from MacSpeech along have to cut and paste copy from one that I had previously purchased. with iListen™, you can be sure it application to another. Now I don’t have both worked well, but I prefer not will work with the software. to do this because ilisten works in to struggle with the headset. See the MacSpeech Web site at Qu a r k ! other microphones available are: www.macspeech.com for up-to-date You also are able to use the digital PlainTalk microphones: information on supported micro- voice recorder to time-record now and Andrea NC-71 Mono phones. transcribe later. iListen will record from VXI iParrott Mono You can also use the Griffin your WAV and AIFF audio files. VXI iParrott Stereo Technologies (www.griffintechnolo- ilisten™ features include: USB microphones: gy.com) iMic USB to Audio micro- • Direct dictation into any application Andrea NC-7100 phone adapter to convert an analog • Correct in any application VXI Jamaica Mono headset to one that will work with • Learns new words easily Telex H-841 USB systems. • Transcription support - generate If you already have a microphone iListen™ cooperates with Apple text from audio files that isn’t on the list, don’t worry; • New doc menu gives one quick Speakable Items so you can do chances are it will work. iListen’s things like open applications, save access to iListen™ Set Up My Microphone assistant • Speech navigation - open, close, files, close Windows, or just about should adjust the levels of most Page 5 anything that you can command Window gives you a running list of appear in this window as the con- your Mac to do. the commands that are available text for those commands changes. iListen™ is exclusively written for for you to speak at any given time. iListen™ has three modes it oper- the Mac unlike VIA Voice which is ates in: dictation, command, & ported from the PC side. Therefore, spell. You will probably use the dic- I believe this makes it much easier tation mode the most. There are and smoother for installation and three ways to switch modes: training your voice. speech, menu, and with a customiz- able keyboard shortcut that you The program has capabilities of will find in the iListen™ applica- training several profiles so more tion. than one person will be able to use it on the same computer. A profile All around, I would recommend is iListen’s record of your voice this application for any MacUser. It model, along with details regarding is about the same price as VIA your headset and the amount of Voice and seems to operate much background noise it heard while s m o o t h e r. It will require some setting things up for you. training, but the more you use it, the more it will recognize your style Beside dictating text, you can also of speech. use iListen™ to control your Mac without using the mouse or key- Street price: board. iListen™ allows you to use iListen™ $99.00 speech as a “third hand.” Speaking iListen™ with Headset $149.00 to your computer can be faster and can help you accomplish tasks more iListen™ is offering a special for easily than constantly moving your the MacMAD newsletter. If read- hands from keyboard to mouse. ers call into the sales on (603) 644- 7253 and quote reference: iListen™ has an extensive com- Because what you can do with iListen™ will vary depending on “MacMAD November” ilisten will mand vocabulary and “what can I give you a 20% discount on the say” window. What Can I Say what’s happening on your screen, you will see different commands software. $79 (without microphone)

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