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MAY 2008 www.limac.org LIMac was estab - Photo: Bill Medlow lished in 1984, when the Mac was intro- duced. Annual dues LIMac Inc. for member ship are P.O. Box 2048 $36. (The first Seaford, NY meeting is free.) 11783-0180 For information, President contact any of the Bill Medlow following: April’s Meeting May’s Meeting [email protected] Membership Vice President Donald Hennessy April’s presentation was Get ready! It’s time for “the George Canellis (516) 541-3186 by Donald MacCormick Dave Marra Experience” gwc11713@optonline. [email protected] from MacSpeech. It fea- MAY again! This month’s program net Technical Advice tured their new product is, “Introducing Mac OS X v. Treasurer Bradley Dichter Dictate, an upgrade Donald Hennessy (631) 348-4772 10.5 Leopard!” from their previous Packed with over 300 [email protected] bdichter@optonline. 9 product iListen. Dictate Secretary net amazing new innovations, uses the same engine as Mac OS X (v.10.5) Leopard. Bernie Flicker Program “Dragon Naturally Speaking,” so it should be an [email protected] Coordinator features a completely Rick Matteson improvement over iListen. Naturally Speaking new Desktop and Finder The LIMac Forum: Editors/Graphics rgmlimac@optonline. is known to be an excellent product and is used environment,making net by David Pogue. For those of you who don’t it even easier to quickly Mo Lebowitz Loretta Lebowitz Photoshop SIG know, all of these products are speech to text browse and locate your [email protected] Brian Revere software used for dictating into your computer files; Quick Look, to view [email protected] brevere@optonline. applications (using Mac OS X 10.4.11 or Mac OS the contents of your docu- net X 10.5.1 or greater). ments without opening Board of Directors: (516) 997-5370 Dictate will work with any application into them; Time Machine, a Rick Matteson (Program Coordinator) MacBasic SIG which you can type text. Donald said it takes revolutionary automated file Geoff Broadhurst Albert Zygier about five minutes to set up, and that includes backup and recovery utility; Spaces, an exciting Geoff Broadhurst gahoof@optonline. reading a passage to create a profile of your new way to keep your Mac clutter-free and net George Canellis voice. Certain spoken commands are needed organized; Dashboard with Web Clip, to create Al Choy Multimedia SIG to do things such as: include punctuation, and your very own Dashboard Widgets; iChat, for Donald Hennessy Al Zygier start a new paragraph. Dictate allows you to high-quality video and audio conferencing, Bradley Dichter [email protected] keep a window open that displays these com- remote screen sharing, slideshow and presenta- (Technical Director) Produced using: mands until you learn the which you need. You tion delivery; along with significantly updated Scott Randell Tex-Edit Plus, can then choose to hide the window if you like. versions of Spotlight, Safari, iCal, Automator, Bernie Flicker Bill Medlow TextSoap, You also must learn how to speak to the pro- (May’s Meeting continues on Page 6) Adobe’s InDesignCS3, Brian Revere gram; it is actually similar to the way you Richard Hickerson PhotoshopCS3, General meeting time schedule: IllustratorCS3. would dictate to a live secretary. You must speak slower than you would if you were Meetings are held at The New York Institute of Technology, The FORUM is pub lished Fonts are: monthly by LlMac. All having a conversation, clearly, and enunciate. Building 300 (Anna Rubin Hall), Old Westbury, Long Island. ITC’s Officina Sans Meetings start promptly at 7:00 p.m. contents, except where and Galliard Pro. Donald than preceded to demonstrate what noted, are copyright Bradley Q&A: 7:00 – 7:30 p.m. ©2008 by LIMac. Opinions the program could do. Despite a few rough Beginner’s Q&A: 7:00 – 7:30 p.m. expressed are the views of edges (remember this is version one), it was the authors and do not Featured Presentation: 7:30 – 8:20 p.m. neces sarily reflect those of quite impressive. followed by announcements and raffle drawings. LIMac. Contents may be After the demonstration, Donald answered SIG Meetings: reprinted for non-commer- cial use,with due the many questions our members asked. (Special Interest Groups) acknowledgment to LIMac. Dictate sells for $199 and includes a high- 8:30–10:00 p.m. The LIMac FORUM is an quality microphone (required for successful Photoshop SIG, MacBasics SIG: independent publication There will be no SIGS this Month. and has not been autho- use of the program). rized, sponsored or | If you need more information check out their In bad weather, call (516) 686-7789. otherwise approved 0 | The next LIMac board meeting will be at by Apple Computer, Inc. Web site at www.macspeech.com. the Plainedge Library, (516) 735-4133, –Scott Randall on Wednesday, May 14th, at 8 p.m. Find Files Fast open a Finder window and run your query window and use the search box at the top, You can also access the Finder window after by Kirk McElhearn, from there. This will let you access a wider press Command-F to convert any open Finder you’ve started a query in the Spotlight menu Macworld.com range of attributes and search criteria, let window into a search window, or press com- (useful if you’re having trouble narrowing The Spotlight menu is often you combine multiple criteria to define your mand-option-spacebar to open a brand-new down your results). Simply choose Show All the quickest way to start a searches more precisely, and give you more search window. at the top of the menu, and Spotlight will search. And with the right keywords and options for sorting and viewing your results. Press Command-F to open a search window in display the results of that search in a Finder Boolean operators, the Spotlight menu can the Finder. You can limit your search to window. (Note that Tiger’s dedicated dish up impressive results. But finding the Start a Finder search specific areas of your system or network. Spotlight results window – which appeared files you need isn’t always as simple as typing There are several ways to access Spotlight via Click on a column header to changer how when you chose Show All Results – is now a a few words. For large or complex searches, the Spotlight. You can open a generic Finder results are sorted. (Continues on Page 3) 2 Bradley’s Tech Session President’s Message | I’ve read that you should take precautions LIMac is always ready to meet the needs of when using the WiFi hotspots like Panera its members. During the last few months the bread. Should we take similar precautions Board has been considering something new to at home? “Could my savvy teenager be add to our monthly meetings: “Short Takes.” reading my E-mails? He set up the com- The main idea of which is to introduce a how- Bradley Dichter puter in the first place.” to-do-something task each month. Each Short Bill Medlow bdichter@opton- There are several possible problems at a public Take will be only fifteen-minutes long. President line.net hotspot. Make sure you connect to the (infra- If you have any ideas or requests for some ArchBill@opton- structure mode) WiFi network with the SSID Mac tasks you’d like to be shown (technical, line.net (network) name specified by the provider. At creative, etc.), please let us know. 0 a Panera bread, the official wireless network an overview of all may be named panera, but someone in range Profiler, clicking on Network and click on your your spaces, press “active service” which would be your Built-in F8. In this view, you may be hosting their own ad-hoc mode peer- can use the arrow to-peer wireless network called panera1 and Ethernetor Airport. The MAC address is shown keys to move you could log into his spoofed network and as a six-place, two-digit hexidecimal number between spaces, you could enter sensitive account information separated by colons. By locking down just your press the spacebar TIPS! on their pirate Web site. Think of it as an evil Macs and (heaven forbid) PCs, even if a family or return to display twin. Even before you do connect to the wire- member invites a friend over with a laptop, and the selected space, Spaces, Exposé, gives out the wireless network name and pass- or simply type a Dashboard: less router, in System Preferences, turn on your space number to Leopard Survival Firewall and turn off file sharing to protect word, it won’t be able to get on as it’s not on the display it instantly Guide your Mac. While there, in the Network system approved list. Of course this adds an additional (spaces are num- If you asked preference, turn off the option to automatically hassle when you upgrade to a newer machine bered sequentially Macworld’s editors and have to modify the router to permit it connect to the strongest open network and from left to right, which new Leopard only connect to trusted networks. Also these Internet access. For remotely located desktop starting in the top features have unsecured wireless networks do no encrypt computers, I’ve suggested the speedier and left corner). To pleasantly sur- any data sent or received, so it is possible that more secure powerline bridge options. See www. move directly to prised them most, your data could be intercepted by a savvy and netgear.com/Products/PowerlineNetworking/ another space, hold many (but defi- unscrupulous user nearby.