Tue 14 Aug No. 344, August 2012 Tue 21 Aug Hughes Baptist Church Hall
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Tue 14 Aug No. 344, August 2012 7:30 Mac Basics with Trevor You bring the questions, we'll do the rest 8:15 Break for coffee & chat 8:30 A word from the President 8:35 Fun with Non-Apple systems Garry Brooke will demonstrate a variety of (mostly free!) operating systems you can run on a new Mac including MacOS9 (for old Classic programs), Windows8, Ubuntu Linux, AmigaDOS for gaming, PearOS, AROS and ReactOS! Hughes Baptist Church Hall Groom Street, Hughes Tue 21 Aug "Pressure? To upgrade to Mountain Lion? You're just imagining things! 7:30 Committee Mtg Take as long as you like." Raiders Weston Sports Club Photo copyright Cavensish Press Frank Pope [email protected] President E 0405 440 820 E John Armstead [email protected] Vice-president GENERAL HELP Garry Brooke [email protected] Secretary T David Menere [email protected] Treasurer EMAIL LIST T 6282 5445 Tony Hill [email protected] Webmaster I Richard Scotte [email protected] Training ACTApple Users Group hosts a M 6282 4887 General Help and Information vacant [email protected] EditorTraining email list. M vacant [email protected] Membership Officer Clive Monty [email protected] Any member may join and post O Ian Reynolds [email protected] messages seeking help for Mac C problems, offer assistance to Please only call committee and helpers between 6 and 9pm other members or provide news and views on the Mac world. Trevor Drover 6241 7558 P To join the list send an email to Hardware, OS X, OS 9 and earlier L the List Administrator Clive Huggan 6247 0672 E (Peter Sealy) MS Word, iPhoto H Ann Tündern-Smith [email protected] [email protected] L Excel, Genealogy, Photoshop or from our 'Members Only' area A Garry Brooke [email protected] on Basic Mac OS X, Quicken, Virtual Box, WINE, C UAE Amiga emulation and basic MS Office I www.actapple.org.au We are not computer professionals and our expertise is limited. If your Mac requires N professional service you can take it to Mac1 ANU (6257 0808 2 Hutton Street, Acton) H or Fyshwick (6280 0808 178 Gladstone Street) C For professional on-site service call Pat “The Mac Guy” Kelly on 0412 910 968 E T Page 2 ! 4 Presidents desktop r a S More dribble about the view from the top... F T ! 7 Tame Your Time Machine Backups o S N Time Machine has been around for more than a few years now, but not always to the satisfacton of those who use it. In , E this article Simon Fisk gives a great technical tip on how to make a set-up to get TM working just how you need it. n o T i ! 8 How An iPad Saved Our Trip To Europe L N Been stuck in Europe lately with nothing to do but scratch your head and look at your blank screens? Well Clive Monty has n 14 i O - and when it's your turn you'll wish you'd read his story! a C ! 9 OS-X Mountain Lion t u Mike Saclier takes a whirlwind advance look at mountain Lion and some of the revies available on the internet for those o Turn trying to find out more about what the upgrade has in store M ! 11 Bits And Pieces t An Old The regular mountain of updates, trivia, broken bits and u interesting pieces from Peter Sealy o Mac b "...there are a few ! 20 Why Did I Buy A Mac? A Into A Do you remember what you used to do with your first Mac? things to look out Even even what persuaded you to get it? Ian Reynolds does! w for on Mountain o Full Media ! 21 Fine Print And Legal Stuff n Lion" K Wth so many 10.8 reviews Centre out there, we peek across to o createdigitalmusic.com for a T slightly different view of the t upgrade from Peter Kirn a Users Helping Users h W Page 3 PRESIDENTS DESKTOP New sound system Sound quality at the church has been a problem for some time. Very pleased hi all, to announce that the committee has purchased an excellent and expensive What a busy month! Loads to tell you about which - given Fender all-in-one PA-system which should give us much more control over tone my total inability to use ten words when I can do it with and clarity. Looking forward to christening it this month. Big thanks to Dave twenty - could make for a lengthy desktop. I understand that Menere who drove to Sydney to pick it up. some people just like to hear themselves talk :), but is there AGM such a thing as liking to hear yourself type?? Early notice that the AGM is coming up in October. We'll have a few rather big issues about the direction, future and administration of the club to work CLUB STUFF through on the night, so would be good if you could be there to listen up and be in the discussion. Mike Saclier MEMBERSHIP DRIVE After years(!!) of blasting away doing the membership and editorial work for us, Mike has called it a day. Not even sure when he started. He took on the At last I get to announce this! Very excited about some of the things happening membership sometime around 2009, but took on the newsletter in 2004. 8 in the next month or so. ACTApple is on a membership drive. years. Thanking him here seems a little trivial but I'll do it anyway. He helped Part 1. 50 free memberships me transition the newsletter into a new format back in 2008, and the membership into a new database around the same time. Knowing Mike (and Lead off with the big guns! ACTApple will be advertising via leaflets, online and having been in his study) I'm sure he won't have any trouble at all finding traditional press with 50 free memberships to anyone who buys a new Apple things to put into the hours ACTApple used to fill. So thanks Mike, I'm looking computer, iPhone or iPad between 1-Aug and 11-Sep. This offer is only for forward to seeing you as just a face in the crowd at the presentation nights. new members and can only be taken up at our September meeting (which is going to be a big one). So spread the word. If you've got a friend who is thinking Information Security of buying an Apple product - let them know!!! With the increasing integration of your Mac to the outside world via iCloud, Part 2. iPads and iPhones Dropbox etc etc., information security has never been more important. Please be sure to protect your information. Use programs like 'Little Snitch' to control Pairing with the above, we are launching into the iPad/iPhone world in a big what programs send information from your computer, use File Vault or way. The club has bought a 16GB iPad, connected to Telstra, I'm using it at encrypted disk images from 'Disk Utility' to secure sensitive personal content the moment to review an O'Rielly book "iPad: The missing manual". Expect to in case your computer is stolen, choose decent passwords, look at password see that book as a door prize soon! So expect a LOT more from us on this management programs such as 'KeyPass' or '1Password' to help maintain front. The September meeting is going to be a big one for iPad people. But strong passwords across all your devices, and think about what you put on please, if you use one, consider helping us out. We struggle to get help with the "cloud". We'll be trying to find spots to put some security-focussed presentations and this will be no different. So please have a think and let me sessions into the next few months. know. Page 4 Part 3. Introduce a member of the group, to the extent that some will find enjoyment in a role to actively nurture the group ie. joining it's committee. However the big clue is that you We've pretty much always had this, have had a lot of members use it in the will often find a physical community giving rise to an online network eg. our past, but often forget its there and don't push it. But if you introduce a memebr ACTApple help mailing list, but you will rarely find the reverse ie. a brand new to the club, we'll give you 3 months free membership. this is separate from physical community sprouting from an online one. That's because most people our offer above (after all we're already giving away a year there), but if you give the things in their physical life an identity within their whole sense of self, know someone who already has a Mac then why not bring them our way and and see their online life as supporting those identities. They don't see it the get boost for yourself at the same time. other way around. Even if some might become "addicted" to facebook or use Part 4. Members at the coast it to isolate themselves physically, I would suggest that they are using facebook A big hi to our members on the coast. Lucky buggers. No details yet but as a tool to implement a desire to be isolated, and support that sense of I'm intending to run a meeting down there, current plan is 15-Sep.