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4 Vo ume 24, Issue 1 les the minnesotas;s. apple. ■computer. ■ . users'■ ^"^ group,... inc..... mffKBSfSSSSSSKBKmmSSmB^ yy^y-^WtMmM:. J A N U A R Y 2 0 0 1 IN I IVION T"LJE | WED ; "Jj"**-'! FR' SAT 1 I 1 - I 2 " 3 I s 11 ^ 12 13 6:30 7:00 ^ 14 15 1187:00,-^1 19 20 -" i 7:00 E 7:00am 22 6:00/ 23 28 ! 29 Meet Your iMac / Mac SIG r. yy^: ft AppleWorks SIG Apple II / GS SIG, Call for meeting location 16 Augburg Library Liberty State Bank John Hunkins, Jr., 651-457-6950 7100 Nicollet Ave S, Richfield 176 Snelling Ave. N, St Paul Tom Gates 612-789-6981 Community Room m Brian Bantz, 952-956-9814 Board of Directors Photoshop-Digital Imaging Macintosh Novice SIG Dinner meeting at Qcumbers 17 Southdale Ubrary Liberty State Bank 8y<$k'.'^:iV\ II7465 France Ave S, Edina. 7001 York Ave S. Edina 176 Snelling Ave. N, St Paul Lisa Huston 651-457-6950 Gary Eckhardt, 952-944-5446 Community Room ii.iHiiiT.ru Richard Becker, 612-870-0659 Microsoft Word SIG Macintosh Consultants SIG Programming SIG 1°Xz\J 2850 Metro Drive Rm 124, 18 Embers Washburn Ltorary Bloomington n 7525 Wayzata Blvd 5244 Lyndale Avenue S, Mpls Tom Ostertag, D 612-951-5520 E i St. Louis Park Andre Benassi 763-502-0187 651-488-9979 Bob Demeules, 763-559-1124 11 cj.pl 1 Macintosh Main Quicken SIG FileMaker Pro SIG Washburn Library 18 2850 Metro Drive, Rm 124 Partners, Suite 5 5244 Lyndale Ave S. Mpls 1410 Energy Park Drive, St Bloomington Lisa Huston 651-457-6950 Dale Strand, 952-835-5872 Paul Steve Wilmes, 651-458-1513 Fourth Dimension SIG 151 8200 Humboit Ave South 2nd Fir. Conference Rm. E3 Bloomington David Rlngsmuth, 952-853-3024 For the latest Information please call mini'app'les Voice Mail-651-229-6952 mini'app'les The Minnesota Apple Computer Users' Group, Inc. P.O. Box 796, Hopkins, MN 55343 Board of Directors: Introduction - This is the Newsletter of mini'app'les, the Minnesota Apple Computer Users' Group, Inc., a President Lisa Huston Minnesota non-profit club. The whole newsletter is 651-457-6950 copyrighted © by mini'app'les. Articles may be repro [email protected] duced in other non-profit User Groups' publications Vice President Denis Diekhoff except where specifically copyrighted by the author. 612-920-2437 (Permission to reproduce these articles must be given by diek @mac.com the author.) Please include the source when reprinting. Secretary Andre' Benassi 763-502-0187 Questions - Please direct questions to an appropriate abenassi @mac.com board member. Users with technical questions should refer to the Members Helping Members section. Treasurer DonWalz 651-426-5602 Dealers - mini'app'les does not endorse specific dealers. The club promotes distribution of information Marketing Director which may help members identify best buys and ser vice. The club itself does not participate in bulk pur chases of media, software, hardware and publications. Publications Director John Pruski Members may organize such activities on behalf of 952-938-2818 other members. johnpruski @ aol.com SIG Director Bert Persson Advertisers - For information, see Newsletter Ad 612-861-9578 Rates box within this issue. [email protected] Newsletter Contributions - Please send contributions Past President Bruce Thompson directly to our Post Office, Box 796, Hopkins, MN 763-546-1088 55343 or upload them to our BBS at 952-595-9404. bthompson @macconnectcom Deadline for material for the next newsletter is the 1st Membership ErikKnopp of the month. An article will be printed when space Mac Software Bryan Lienke permits and, if in the opinion of the Newsletter Editor Apple II Owen Aaland or Manager, it constitutes material suitable for publication. Editor/Publisher: Tom Ostertag 651-488-9979 Newsletter Layout: John Pruski 952-938-2818, Bert Persson 612-861-9578 mini'app'les BBS - 952-595-9404, (co-located on Twin City Interlink BBS), 24 hrs. Settings: 8-1-0.Call in with FirstClass® Client software or any text-based terminal program. mini'apples Voice Mail - 651-229-6952 mini'apples WWW site: http://www.miniapples.org mini'app'les e-mail: [email protected] The mini'apples Newsletter is an independent publication not affiliated, sponsored, or sanctioned by Apple Computer, Inc. or any other computer manufacturer. The opinions, statements, positions, and views herein are those of the authors) or editor and are not intended to represent the opinions, statements, positions, or views of Apple Computer Inc., or any other computer manufacturer. Instead of placing a trademark symbol at every occurrence of a trade-marked name, we state that we are using the names only in an editorial manner, to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. mini'app'les Newsletter January, 2001 CHANGE OF ADDRESS Moving? Going to be away from home and leaving a for Table of Contents warding address with the Post Office? Please send us a February. 2001 Preview 3 Change of Address when you are informing others. By using M e m b e r s H e l p i n g M e m b e r s 4 a moment of your time and a Meet your iMac/Mac and Macintosh Novice meetings 5 few cents to drop us a card, you save the club some money Opus] [CD-ROM Ships! 5 and you get your newsletter T e r m i n u s b y V i c a r i o u s V i s i o n s 5 delivered promptly to your new address. If you don't Apple eNews December 14, 2000 Volume 3, Issue 26 9 inform us, the Post Office puts A 2 N e w s a n d N o t e s N o v e m b e r 2 0 0 0 1 0 your newsletter in the trash From: UGNN User-Groups.net 11 (they don't forward third class mail) and charges the club for Membership Application 13-14 informing us of your new address. Change of Address January Photoshop / Digital Imaging SIG 15 should be sent to the club's Meet your iMac/Mac and Macintosh Novice meetings map 15 mailing address: mini'app'les, Attn: Membership Director, Box 796, Hopkins, MN 55343. FOR RENT: BRILLIANT PRESENTATIONS Proxima On Call" Rental Program. For the Multimedia February 2001 Preview Projector You Need. When You Meed ft. Here is the tentative calendar of our Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings for « Local service and February 2001. Please pencil these events on your calendar. As always, when support doubtful of a SIG date, time, or location, confirm with one of the following: • Fast delivery • Our BBS, the Calendar Folder in the Conferences Folder • PC and Macintosh • Our Voice Mail Telephone number: 651-229-6952 eompntfbli'rty 3 • A variety Of projector* • The cognizant SIG Leader and panels to choose from • Export advice Monday February 5 Board of Directors meeting on selecting equipment Wednesday February 7 AppleWorks nee ClarisWorks SIG •Rental credit Thursday February 8 Macintosh Main SIG program Monday February 12 Apple II / GS Main SIG For morm information rcqardlng: Wednesday February 14 Microsoft Word SIG Computer Projection System*— Thursday February 15 Macintosh Consultants LCD. Data or Video Projectora Thursday February 15 Quicken SIG Comotete Conference and Training Rooms Printers • LabeKng • Signage Systems Monday February 19 Fourth Dimension SIG All A/V Equipment—Sales • Service • Rentals Wednesday February 21 PhotoShop / Digital Imaging SIG PLEASE CALL Thursday ebruary 22 FileMaker Pro SIG Monday SeSxiERnEy ebruary 26 Macintosh Novice SIG ♦♦^BROTHERS BMC Monday ebruary 26 Meet Your iMac / Mac SIG 3300 Unrvereity Ave. S.E Wednesday ebruary 28 Macintosh Programming SIG Mnneapoiis, MN 55*14-9652 612-331-5500 • 1-800-933-7337 (Aak for Extonsion 254) mini'app'les Newsletter January, 2001 Members Helping Members Need Help? Have a question the manual doesn't answer? Members Helping Members is a group of volunteers who have generously agreed to help. They are just a phone (or an e-mail) away. Please call only during the appropri- ate times, if you are a member, and own the software in question. Apple II / IIGS Software & Hardware 1, 5, 8,14 1. Les Anderson 651-735-3953 DEW ClarisDraw 2 2. Mike Carlson 218-387-2257 D AppleWorks / ClarisWorks 7,8,9 3. Eric Jacobson 651-645-6264 D FileMaker Pro 4. Nick Ludwig 612-593-7410 DEW FirstClass 5. Tom Ostertag 651-488-9979 EW HyperCard 11 6. Ardie Predweshny 612-823-6713 DEW MacWrite Pro 7. Owen Strand 763-427-2868 D Microsoft Excel 2,5,6 8. Bruce Thompson 763-546-1088 EW Microsoft Word 5 9. Pam Lienke 651-457-6026 EW MYOB 6 10. TomLufkin 651-698-6523 EW PhotoShop 3,13 11. BenStallings 612-870-4584 DEW Quicken 2,6 12. Rodney O. Lain 651-452-5821 EW QuickBooks and QuickBooks Pro 6 13. Gary Eckhardt 952-944-5446 EW Mac OS 7 8 14 Michael Cumings-Steen 651-644-8653 DEW Mac OS 8 WordPerfect 4 D: Days, generally 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cross-Platform File Transfer 5,14 E: Evenings, generally 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Networks 11 W: Weekends, generally 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. New Users 10,11 PowerBooks 11 Classic Macs 11 Power PC 601 Power Macs iMacs 12 Please call at reasonable hours, and ask if it is a convenient time for them. By the way, many of these volunteers can also be contacted on our BBS.