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LIMac was estab -­­ Photo: Bill Medlow lished in 1984, when the Mac was intro- duced. Annual dues LIMac Inc. for member­ship 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 fve minutes to set up, and that includes backup and recovery utility; Spaces, an exciting Geoff Broadhurst gahoof@optonline. reading a passage to create a profle 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 pub­lished 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. neces­sarily 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. I would suggest not PowerlineEthernetAdapters/XETB1001.aspx down the Control nitely not all) or www.netgear.com/Products/Powerline key and type that would put Spaces on entering your sensitive data while at a public space’s number. To that list. It’s one of hotspot, but checking your personal E-mail Networking/PowerlineEthernet Adapters/ cycle from one those features that, should be OK. As for home wireless access, first XEB1004.aspx which offers up to four remote space to the next, once you start off, you should configure your wireless router computers and printers an 85Mbps connection. hold down Control using it, you find WEP WPA Airport connections can be unreliable. As for to use or security which requires a and press an arrow all sorts of handy password. WPA is more secure but it’s overhead the threat of your teenager invading your online key. (You can, of things to do with it. tends to slow things down for most wireless privacy, you should change the passwords on course, customize (Rob Griffiths, for routers. Your Mac can remember the password, the router as well as the wireless part, your these shortcut keys example, runs his so it’s not a problem, but it blocks out the causal Mac’s account(s) and your E-mail account and in the Exposé & Windows virtual interloper neighbor who could otherwise use of course the settings on the Mac to get your Spaces preference machines in Spaces E-mail. Could be a problem if only he knowns pane.) of their own.) your network. That prevents them from using your bandwidth and also prevents any illegal how to do these tasks. Turn off automatic –Joe Kissell Here are a few of activities they may do online be attributed to login in the Accounts System Preference. In the Move All Windows the tricks and tips your Internet account. Keeping them off your Security System Prefs panel, turn on “Require at Once: we’ve learned for password to wake from sleep or screen saver” network also blocks them from using any other What if you want to using Spaces – resources on your intranet, like a shared volume, which should help in case he can get to the move all of an along with Exposé printer or music files shared via iTunes. You can computer physically. By changing your E-mail application’s win- and Dashboard – also enable MAC address filtering to be really password, he can’t even look at your E-mail via dows to another as efficiently as sure nobody unauthorized gets on the wireless the WebMail option. To exert greater controls, space? Sure, you possible: network. The MAC address is also known as the change his account password on his computer, can drag them one Spaces & Exposé: and enable parental controls for his now non- by one, but that’s a Spaces supports Ethernet address and is unique to each computer and network printer. You can find your MAC admin account and you can then control which pain. Instead, hold numerous keyboard (Cont. on Page 3) shortcuts. For address for each Mac by going to the System (Q&A continues on Page 3.) example, to display The LIMac On-Line Forum/MAY 2008 (Continues from Page 2) Hone your search other Macs, click on the Shared button to it brings up two pull-down menus; by default, thing of the past.) If the Finder displays your The Finder window’s search bar contains sev- search networked machines as well. When the first is set to Kind, and the second is set search results in Icon view, you’ll probably eral options for tailoring your results. You your Mac is connected to other Leopard to Any – but there are other options to want to switch to List view to get a better can click on the File Name button (new in machines, Spotlight will search both file choose from. To narrow down your results, look at your results. You can then select the Leopard), which forces Spotlight to search names and file contents. But when your com- start by selecting one of the criteria in the column headers to sort by name, kind, or only for file names rather than names and puter is connected to a Mac running Tiger , first menu, such as Created Date, Last Opened date. If you prefer a more graphical approach, contents. Or you can click on to change the Spotlight will search only file names. Date, or Name. Or choose Other to call up switch to Leopard’s new Cover Flow view to target of your search from the folder you Add criteria many more options, including Authors, Audio look at previews of your files. were in when you started searching, to your On the right side of the Finder window’s Bit Rate, E-mail Addresses, Recipients (people entire Mac. If your computer is connected to search bar is a plus-sign button. Clicking on (Continues on Page 4) More of Bradley’s Tech Session (Cont. from Page 2) the Exposé and 3 Web sites he can see with the Parental Controls If Mail is in fact checking for two accounts, down the Shift or Spaces Preference Command key pane, perhaps limit the hours a day he can use you could seperate her E-mail by setting Pane, choose the before you click and the computer and even log what websites visited up some other program, like Thunderbird Spaces tab, click on hold on a window. and keep logs of his iChat conversations. These for her E-mail and disabling her account in the plus-sign (+) Then, still holding settings can be changed remotely from your Mail. This way you each have your own pro- button, navigate to down that key, drag Mac. If needed, you can even turn on screen gram for mail. the application, one window of a sharing on his Mac and watch everything he’s | A few months ago, I switched from a and click on Add. program; all that doing from your Mac. That’s assuming you PC to a Mac. I used Microsoft FrontPage Then choose Every program’s other are both running Leopard. The above applies to create a Web site. What software on Space from the windows will follow. regardless if your network is wired or wireless or the Mac can I use to continue working pop-up menu in the Space column next You can use a sim- any mix. on the site? ilar trick to move | to that applica- just one window to Sometimes in Apple’s Mail, I get a spinning There is no FrontPage for Mac OS X and tion’s name. The the exact same beach ball and then the progress pie charts it never got very far (1.0d) for Mac OS 8/9 Every Space setting physical location in next to each mailbox as it reads new mail. either. The professional choice on the Mac is appropriate for a new space. Say It’s configured for nothing but Apple’s .Mac is now Dreamweaver CS3; $400, but there applications you you’ve got a Finder account. My wife uses Optimum Online. is also GoLive 9, both from Adobe. Your use constantly, window open, and I would suspect either there is yet another new Mac came with the iLife ‘08 bundle, such as Stickies, it’s about 200 problem with the .Mac servers or you have a which includes the lightweight iWeb. On a iTunes (especially if pixels below and E-mail stuck trying to be sent. I would bring budget you may want to look at Softpress’ you have the 200 pixels to the up the Activity window to get a more detailed Freeway Pro ($249) or Freeway Express ($79) window minimized to the controller right of the Apple indication of just what Mail is trying to do. Of or Realmac’s $49 RapidWeaver, Karelia’s menu. To move this view), and iChat. window to the course, if someone is sending you a E-mail Sandvox ($49-$79) and Panic’s Coda ($79). –Joe Kissell exact same posi- with a very large attachment, then things could Front Page web sites may require the use tion in another take longer than usual. It’s possible that your of Front Page Server extensions. Many of Assign the Finder space, start drag- network is overloaded at the same time you are these can be replaced by platform indepen- to All Spaces: ging the window, trying to get new mail, and this the available dant CGI scripts. Of course, if you keep the Each space has its and then press and bandwidth is limited. The same thing could Front Page basis and just make less drastic own set of Finder hold the Shift key be happening if you are on a wireless network changes, then any editor will work as long windows – so if you before you drop the and the signal strength is weak, and thus the as you leave those bits alone. Most Web sites want access to one window into the available bandwidth is limited. It could be your are hosted on UNIX/LINUX servers which folder in several different spaces, new space. When neighbor is using your bandwidth because they don’t support these non-standard features, you drop the you’ll have to open window, it will got on your unsecured wireless network. Most so perhaps your Web site doesn’t use them, a new Finder move into the same routers can show you the network clients of the so you would have no problem switching to window in each position it had in DHCP server. If it show more network devices designing your Web site on the Mac. The space. If you find the first space. than you are aware of, that could indicate a LIMac Web site is edited with Adobe GoLive, this annoying, you –Rob Griffiths neighbor’s computer. You can also try the share- but considering it’s basic nature and the can set the Finder ware program called IP Scanner by 10base-t $400 price of GoLive, you may want to try to be the same in Assign an interactive. I’ve also seen malfunctioning something cheaper first. all your spaces. To Application to cable modems offering very limited speeds. | On the Leopard upgrade before the do this, follow the All Spaces: Sometime all it takes to clear that is to kill the latest, I could hold the Control key and preceding instruc- tions for assigning By default, a power to the modem and plug it in, wait a few click on the Airport symbol in the menu window will stay in an application to the space that was moments for it to boot up and then things are bar and then I could see channel and all spaces, but active when you back to full speed. Sometimes the cable modem signal strength information for the wire- navigate to the / opened it – so an is damaged, perhaps from a power surge, and less network I was connected to. It seems System/Library/ application may needs to be replaced. You should be able to to have disappeared after this 10.5.2 CoreServices folder have one or more replace it at your local Cablevision store. If your update. and select Finder. open windows in wife is checking for E-mail as well, it’s entirely After checking with Dave Marra, and a –Joe Kissell several spaces. If likely she has also configured Mail for her quick search online (Adam Engst’s TIDBits. (Cont. on Page 4) you want all of an account. If Mail is checking for both accounts com), I confirmed that the function is still application’s win- simultaneously, then of course it’s likely to be there, but the key to press first is the Option dows to appear in a bit slower, even if you are ignoring her mail. every space, go to (Q&A continues onPage 7)

The LIMac On-Line Forum/MAY 2008 (Continues from Page 3) When you select Other from the first pull- kind: keyword, only you don’t need to want. Finder-window searches let you specify who received a certain file), Layers (names of down menu, you’ll see a list of all the file remember the keywords or manually enter as many parameters as you want. Say you Photoshop layers), and much more. Click on attributes Spotlight recognizes. To make one them.) You can access more file types by want to search for all PDF documents you’ve the check box next to an item if you want it of these items appear in the main pull-down choosing Other from the Any menu and then created in the past week. To do this, leave to appear in the main pull-down menu for menu, place a checkmark next to its name. entering a kind of file in the text field, such the first menu set to Kind, and set the Any easy access in the future. As you select dif- as Excel or MP3. menu to PDF. Click on the plus sign in the ferent options, the second menu changes If you’re looking for a particular type of file, search bar to add another search parameter. dynamically so you can set the appropriate keep the first menu set to Kind, and use the Combine multiple queries Set the first two pull-down menus to Created parameters (such as dates, numbers, Any menu to select from Images, Documents, Sometimes a search requires more than one Date Is Within Last, enter 1 in the box, and and so on). Movies, and more. (It’s the same as using the set of criteria to summon the results you (Continues on Page 5) Sore Eyes (Cont. from Page 3) 4 Ok. We did it. We bought a new MacBook for be either automatic and/or possible. Transfer The Same Finder in Shelly to replace his old PowerBook. Actually, of the data is handled at the time you set it up. Every Space: If you as I think about it, we seem to get a new com- Supposedly!!!! When it transferred the data, want the Finder (or puter for one of us just the way we used to buy things like the Address Book data and the any other program) new cars. We stagger the purchases, one for Bookmarks for Safari did not appear where to appear in all your him and one for me, so that we are always cov- they should have. I called AppleCare and a spaces, choose ered by AppleCare one way or another, should very helpful techie taught me about Migration Every Space from we as always have questions. Now we are on Assistant and we tried again. No result that we the Space drop- down menu in the Leopard with the new MacBook and the new could see. Spaces Preference discoveries are overwhelming. We hardly know At this point, our own personal Systems pane. where to begin. Analyst arrived in New York for the holidays. Helen and We bought the new computer to replace He discovered that the Migration Assistant Change the Space- Sheldon Gross an old Power Book that had been misbehaving. on Leopard and the original transfer during Switch Delay: [email protected] Everything seemed to work except for the installation had both worked by creating When you drag a Mail program. Whenever we went to Mail, it Previous System 1 and Previous System 2 on the window to the edge Note: Sore Eyes site disconnected the computer from our internet new MacBook. Several hours later, we had of your screen and referrals are for your hold it there for a information only. wireless connection. After struggling with everything we needed where it was supposed it for days and several phone calls later, we to be and we could toss Previous System 1 moment, you move Neither the Grosses that window to the AND nor LIMac endorse attempted to reinstall theTiger Operating Previous System 2 in the trash where they space next to that any of the sites or System. Since we didn’t want to lose every- belonged. Now all that remains is to empty edge of your screen. their products. thing, we used Archive and Install. We ended the old PowerBook of our fles and set it up for The default delay up with a folder named Previous System and our daughter, who will have to go through the before the window were no better off than before. We took it to process of copying her old fles from her older moves to the next the Genius Bar at the Apple Store who rein- iBook. That’s the way we pass them down. It’s space is 0.75 sec- stalled things and we nevertheless decided that called recycling, I believe. onds. To change a replacement was our next step. More about Leopard when we learn some- that delay to half a The new computer is lovely, so far. It looks thing about it. 0 second (for ex- great and all sorts of things are supposed to ample), open Terminal and enter defaults write com. User Group News apple.dock work- spaces-edge-delay - The following is just a small sampling of the Stellar, a leader in data recovery since 1993, float 0.5. Press vendor offers available to LIMac members. proudly announces a discount offer for Stellar Return, and then Please visit the LIMac Bulletin Board at www. Phoenix iPod Recovery for Mac which provides enter killall Dock. limac.org/invboard/ for a complete, up-to-date quick, simple and powerful data recovery soft- You can replace 0.5 –­ half a second – George Canellis list. ware for crashed or unresponsive Apple iPods. with whatever gwc11713@optonline. Maximize your research time with EndNote It helps recover data from damaged, deleted value you wish. 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The LIMac On-Line Forum/MAY 2008 search – to exclude criteria or to create an ated and updated Word files once a month, your smart folder a permanent fixture in (Continues from Page 4) OR search. Once you have one condition set so you can back them up? There’s no reason that locale. select Weeks from the last menu. Spotlight up, you can add a Boolean term to your next to manually type the same commands every Whenever you open this smart folder, will display all files you created or updated condition by option-clicking on the plus time. You can save yourself some work by Spotlight will run the search again and within the past month. sign. The plus sign will turn into an ellipsis preserving the searches you run regularly – update the results with any new files that This search collects all the PDF files cre- (…), and you’ll get a new pull-down menu as smart folders. To save your current search fit the criteria. 0 ated in the past week. When you’re done, you with options for Any (OR), All (AND), or None as a smart folder, click on the Save button in –Kirk McElhearn can click on Save to store the search in the (NOT). the search bar, enter a name for the folder, sidebar for future use. and select a location to save it in. Enable the Although it’s not obvious, you can also Save searches for later What if you plan to search for recently cre- Add To Sidebar option if you want to make use Boolean search terms to set up a Finder TypeTalk key with modifiers. 5 Type On A Curve Open the Exposé & Setting type along a curve is a task most Spaces preference pane and switch to designers encounter at one time or another. If the Exposé tab. you think our state-of-the-art digital typeset- Choose your first ting tools make this as simple as placing type basic shortcut key; Ilene Strizver on a horizontal baseline, think again! Setting I use F3, which I Ilene@thetypestudio. type on a curve creates spacing and kerning assigned to Show com issues that need to be addressed on line-by- Desktop. Then hold Ilene Strizver, down a modifier founder of The Type line basis – sometimes even letter by letter. key, such as Option, Studio, is a typo- Placing curved baseline alters relationship and select the same graphic consultant, between characters in unpredictable ways. function key from designer, writer and Most often, overall spacing of your type may the All Windows specializing in all become too open when placed on a curve. pop-up menu; that aspects of typo- If this happens, reduce the tracking of the modifier key is now graphic communica- whole piece of text as needed until the desired part of the shortcut. tion, from the spacing and readability are achieved. Finally, hold down a aesthetic to the Another common problem with curved different modifier technical. Ilene text is that the spacing between certain letter key, or combination conducts Gourmet of modifier keys, Typography Training combinations will become unbalanced in and assign the internationally. For relationship to the rest of type. Tof x this, same function key more information, adjust the kerning between the combinations to Application visit www.the- in question until the spacing is correct. This is Windows. typestudio.com. a matter of your tastes. –Dan Frakes Sometimes, even tweaking the tracking 1. This type is correctly spaced, as long as it stays on a straight hori- zontal baseline. 2. When the same type is placed on a curve, the and kerning won’t be enough to give you Desktop: Like Tiger, (Cont. from Page 4) spacing becomes too open and uneven. 3. Reducing the tracking exactly the right result. In these cases it’s Leopard lets you want to reboot your improves the overall spacing, but there are still some uneven letter worth it to set the problematic characters move widgets Mac, try going to combinations. 4. Consistent spacing is fnally achieved by adjusting separately from the rest of the text, allowing from Dashboard to Terminal and typing the kerning between problematic letter pairs. Spacing has been the desktop; killall Dock. The for more flexibility in placement. reduced between the EW, IT and TY and increased between the YO. Dock will restart Setting type along a curve makes a strong thanks to Web Clip, and, with it, Spaces. graphic statement. By paying careful attention type will remain even in color, attractive and that can be more (Alternatively, you to these relatively minor details, your curved very readable. 0 useful than ever. can also restart the Dock from Activity Show Widgets on Monitor.) Quick-Toggle Dock Magnifi- even more keyboard-friendly. As before, you the Desktop: –Rob Griffiths cation: You can enable and dis- can activate the Dock by pressing Control-F3. If you want to have able Dock Magnification (which But now, in addition to using the left- and a widget available Assign All Exposé enlarges Dock icons as you move right-arrow keys to select icons, you can type from the desktop, Modes to a Single your mouse cursor over them) via the first letters in the name of the program, not just Dashboard, Key: turn on Dashboard’s the Dock’s preference pane. If file, or folder you’d like to select. The Dock will developer mode. By default, Magnification is disabled but you want to highlight matches as you type. Matching is Exposé’s three (You could do this modes enable it temporarily so you can get a better based on the full name of the program as in Tiger, but thanks All Windows, look at a particular icon, simply hold down shown in the Finder, so you may want to do to Web Clip and the Application Shift-Control as you move your mouse cursor some renaming to make this more intuitive. ability to create Windows, and Show over the Dock. Icons will be magnified as long For instance, if you remove Microsoft from the your own custom- Desktop are assign- as you hold down those keys. This also works names of Office applications, you can type Exc, ized widgets, it’s ed to three dif- in reverse: if Dock Magnification is enabled, Pow, and Wor to select Excel, PowerPoint, and more useful than ferent function holding down shift-control will temporarily Word, respectively. And as before, once you’ve ever in Leopard.) In keys. If you’re run- disable it.–Dan Frakes selected an icon, pressing Return will open it, Terminal, enter ning short on func- defaults write com. Navigate the Dock with the Keyboard: You while pressing the Up-Arrow key will summon (Cont. on Page 6) tion keys, you can could use your keyboard to control the Dock in its Dock menu. assign those three OS X modes to a single previous versions of , and Leopard’s Dock is –Rob Griffiths The LIMac On-Line Forum/MAY 2008 Leopard Tip: whatever is on your display will be enlarged. imum and minimum zoom levels and decide and see what else you’ll find that might make Enlarge Your Screen (Use the equal sign that appears at the top of how you want the display to react to your your Mac-ing easier like Seeing; Hearing (a If you find interface ele- the regular keyboard rather than the one on cursor; whether it should scroll only when flash to alert you to alert sounds and a sound ments too small to read the keypad.) Press 1-option-hyphen (-) and the cursor reaches the edge of the screen, level adjuster); Keyboard (Sticky Keys for aid in comfortably, OS X will let the display zooms out. If your mouse has a follow the cursor continuously, or keep the pressing more than one key at a time) and you zoom in for a better scroll wheel or scroll ball, you can also zoom cursor centered. To quickly turn the Zoom Mouse assistance (To control Mouse pointing look. Choose System Preferences from the in and out by simply holding down the feature on or off, press Command-Option-8. with the keys only). Apple menu, click on Universal Access, and, in Control key while moving the scroll wheel up –Rob Griffiths –(The Editor) the Seeing tab, enable the Zoom option. Now and down. By clicking on the Options button when you press 1-option-equal sign (=), next to the Zoom entry, you can set the max- While you are in Universal Preferences stop

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