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From Maxi to Mini Macworld SF 2005 By Don Dickey, Macworld San Francisco CMC president Apple CEO Last year’s rage was G5s. Big ones! delivered a keynote Whether you were looking at a G5 tower presentation Tuesday, or a G5 iMac with 20" integrated dis- Jan 11, at 9 AM PT, play, you were looking at some very introducing the latest hardware and large hardware. FireWire 800 and gigabyte ethernet. The products from Apple, low end Macs never made sense for pro- including iPod shuffle, For 2005, Apple introduced the “Mac fessional users anyway. , iLife ’05, mini.” What is it? Imagine a stack of five iWork ’05 and audio CDs. The Mini is a skosh bigger than If you’re a current Mac user looking for an Final Cut Express that, but not much. What’s it got? A G4 easy upgrade, the Mini represents a very HD and more. processor with most of the ports you’d get good value. This is especially true if you in an iMac, eMac, or iBook. What’s it already have a decent monitor which You can watch Apple’s Steve missing? Well, a keyboard and mouse, to would “go to waste” if you bought an iMac Jobs deliver the Macworld mention a couple! Yes, you do need them, or eMac. Got a blue and white G3 tower? Expo keynote address. See the but they’re “optional” and add $58 if you This machine is just right for you! You’ll video-on-demand webcast don’t already have a set. even get some desk or floor real estate back exclusively in QuickTime and in the bargain. MPEG-4 at the following: More importantly, who’s it for? A couple of http://www.apple.com/ different groups fall into the target market. If you don’t have a Mac, but are interested /qtv/mwsf05/ The obvious candidate is someone who in getting started, things get a little dicey. If already has an OK monitor, keyboard, and you buy the mini, add a keyboard, mouse, mouse, and just wants an easy upgrade. good 17" flat panel display, pair of ampli- You just swap CPUs and you’re up and fied speakers, and a USB microphone (for running in no time. iChat AV conferencing), you’d definitely spend more than you would have for an The less-than-obvious candidate is some- eMac. And, for a little more you could have body who found the iMac ($1,299), iBook had the new iMac G5 with it’s better ($999), and eMac ($799) just too darn chipset and the beautiful integration of an expensive. : Too darn expensive to all-in-one. The G5 has better longevity: Inside this Issue switch from a (cheap) Windows PC. you’ll be happier using it longer as OSX They’re really trying to attract more matures into Tiger this year and beyond. From Maxi to Mini...... 1 “switchers.” At least that’s my humble Member of the Month...... 2 opinion. I wrote this article because many of you are Review: Eye TV ...... 3 going to ask “Is the mini a good machine Review: Firefox ...... 4 Is it a good value? That’s not easy to for me?” I hope I answered some of your Download of the Month ...... 5 answer. It really depends on your needs. If questions, or at least focused your attention Phishing 101...... 6 you’re a graphic artist or video editor, I’d on what questions you need to ask yourself. MUG Special Offers...... 8 point you to a G5, since the software you’re Review: Airport Express ...... 9 using is probably optimized for that new Best wishes for a healthy and prosperous chip. You might also miss the speeds of 2005!  Meetings and Club News ...... 11

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3 Firefox: The Best Internet Explorer couldn’t be removed developers and two years later we from PCs and that Microsoft excluded have possibly the fastest, most cus- Browser for Mac or PC? other browsers from shipping with it’s tomizable and most secure browser OS. available. By Rich Lenoce CMC Vice President Firefox for Mac OS X: Review Having a secure browser for the Mac What free software has been down- is nothing new; we have Apple’s own loaded 15 million times? Why would browser. Relative to the now 11,000 people contribute thousands of defunct MSIE for Mac, Safari seems dollars to run a two-page advertise- fast but it pales in comparison to ment in the NY Times to advertise this MSIE for Windows. It also has very free software? What Mac browser limited customization and few plug- may be the safest, most compatible ins. Safari upgrades are also few and and fastest browser for the far between, usually timed with a new Macintosh? What software has release of OS X. There are many Microsoft very scared? The answer is: advantages to using Firefox over Mozilla FireFox. Safari, specifically security, speed, Microsoft defended advanced features and customization. History this stance saying Explorer was not a Firefox has a long and interesting his- separate application, but embedded Downloading and installing Firefox tory. Firefox is an outgrowth of the into Windows as part of the OS. This was as easy as it gets. Firefox, avail- Mozilla project. Conceived by advantage–from Microsoft’s perspec- able from Mozilla.org, comes in at a Netscape in mid-1994, Mozilla was tiveÐproved to be a huge vulnerability, svelte 8 mb download. Once down- seen as a new method to improve since hackers could use the browser as loaded, simply copy the application development of the Netscape browser a gateway to deliver viruses and spy- from the unstuffed disk image into by releasing its source code to the ware directly into systems and into the either your system or user application public. Being a free product, open heart of the OS. Since this OS integra- folder and launch. There is no sourcing Netscape would cause no tion in Explorer and the mail program “installer,” and you won’t be asked for financial harm and there would be no Outlook was key to Microsoft’s devel- an administrator password. Firefox development cost to Netscape, yet it opment strategy, the public wasn’t doesn’t need it because it doesn’t put was believed a better browser would going to get a fix from Microsoft. anything in your system folder. emerge. It wasn’t until late 1998 that Users needed to purchase expensive Getting my Safari bookmarks into Netscape released the code. Netscape anti-virus and spyware software to Firefox was simple, using a free appli- oversaw the first preview release of secure their machines. Users clamored cation called Safari Bookmarks Netscape Mozilla. They named it for a better and free option. Export available from Versiontracker Gecko and let the open source com- .com. Bookmark folders and menu munity go to it. The easy answer for users to better items imported flawlessly. If you use secure their PCs was to install another MSIE, you can directly import your At least 25 browsers were under browser. Mozilla seemed like the best IE Favorites from within Firefox. development based on the Netscape alternative, but Mozilla was slower Mozilla browser. On the Mac side than MSIE and it’s email, news reader Firefox takes security a couple of there were numerous Mozilla and web composer components steps farther than the already secure browsers such as the original OS 8 offered features most people didn’t Safari. When downloading an applica- Mozilla application and the carbon need. Also, with 25+ versions of tion, Safari will open StuffIt Expander based OS 9/X-ready version called Mozilla under separate development, or Disk Copy to unstuff or mount the Fizzilla. (It’s a joke on “carboniza- developers were splintered among downloaded file. Hackers could use tion.” Get it? Fizzilla?) The OS X various projects and not focused on these applications to deliver a virus, Cocoa version was called Chimera, creating one solid browser. One but it’s unlikely given the other securi- and later, Camino. Mozilla project showed an advantage ty measures Apple has placed in OS X as a browser-only application making and Safari. Firefox by default doesn’t Meanwhile in the PC World, it more speedy and efficient and was automatically open other applications Microsoft had been accused by the being designed for multiple platforms. after downloading a file, making it U.S. Justice Department of being a That browser is now Firefox. The call inherently more secure. monopoly and part of the govern- went out to other Mozilla project ment’s case was that Microsoft continued on page 5

4 continued from page 4 Firefox’s real strength is its customiza- gration is built in; you won’t have to tion. Since Netscape and Mozilla have wait for Tiger. Firefox has the potential to be faster, been around since the dawn of the depending on the version you down- World Wide Web, there are hundreds of One feature I really like is that Firefox load. I ran several tests between plug-ins, enhancements and widgets remembers web site IDs and passwords Firefox 1.0 and Safari and found that available to enhance the browsing and will ask you if you’d like to auto- they displayed equally well and experience and customize the look and matically log in the time you visit equally fast, until I discovered from feel of the browser. With MSIE and the site. This is great for people like me CMC member Kyle Demilo that there Safari, you either do things Microsoft’s who are constantly logging into work are separate versions of Firefox opti- way or Apple’s way. If you don’t like web-based email accounts or other mized for the G4 and G5 processors. the look of Firefox, there are themes to secure sites. For security reasons, you When I installed these versions on my change it. Want more menu buttons to could choose not to use this feature, G4 eMac and G5 desktop machines, control more features? Firefox has and in fact some web sites don’t sup- and ran the same tests, Firefox dis- them. The browser can truly be “yours” port it, but I find it makes my daily web played pages in half the timeÐacross and operate the way you do. use more enjoyable. the board! To download these G4 or G5 optimized builds, you’ll need to do My favorite feature is that Firefox sup- Firefox is under constant development a Google search for “G4 optimized ports multiple search engines from the by thousands of developers around the Firefox” or “G5 optimized Firefox” search window in the button barÐnot globe. New plug-ins are released daily since they aren’t official releases, but just Google. There are over 100 search and upgrade releases of Firefox for are merely optimizations of the code. engines that can be added to your list. Mac should be common. In fact, there I have found both work very well with And switching between them is as easy is a program called FireFix that will the exception of a couple of known as a pointing and clicking in the search automatically download nightly builds. issues listed at their web sites. Most window. I teach film history and I have issues should be fixed by the time you four movie database search engines at I wholeheartedly recommend Firefox read this to bring them in line with the my fingertips! I can even do my for your daily web browsing, as it is an official Firefox release. Amazon searching right from the excellent browser that works the way search window. Also, RSS news inte- you want it to! 

Download of the Month submitted by Debi Foss Hallon 0.8.2 http://homepage.mac.com/pgw3/hallon/download/Hallon.dmg This is the neatest thing: I have a red raspberry menu. You create a book- in my menu bar that allows me to play Clay mark by selecting what you Aiken without going to hunt for his songs, or want to bookmark and then even opening iTunes! I am listening to Bridge press a user-definable hot- over Trouble Water right now, with no fuss. So key or by choosing “Add...” easy …Bookmarks in the finder! Yes! in the Hallon menu. If you want, you can write and set a due date with alarm for each of Hallon can create bookmarks in many applica- the bookmarks. Hallon tions (like iTunes) that usually can’t create comes with support for bookmarks and they are always accessible from Address Book, Finder, a menu whatever you are doing. You can book- iPhoto 4, iTunes, Mail mark your favorite songs, an email that you have and Safari but you can to reply to later that day, some documents that yourself add support for you are working on or the contact information of many other applications a friend whom you need to call before the end of by downloading from the the week. And you play the song, open the site or creating your own. email, the document or the contact information Requirements: Mac OS just by choosing the bookmark in the Hallon X Panther (10.3)

5 Phishing 101 account from a “foreign IP” address and that is an asks me to log in to verify that my image tag. What they do is download By Bill Davies, MacNexus account had not been hijacked (i.e. real, corporate images from the actual Sacramento someone other than myself logged in to that they are trying to imitate. the account, and perhaps changed the Therefore, if you review the source of This is a semi-technical explanation of a password or contact information.) this message, you’ll see that it down- very common exploit of your personal loads ALL the “official” PayPal graphics information that was taking place at an Sounds good. Why would I be suspi- from the PayPal web site. Normally a exponential rate in 2004. The technique cious? Well, for one thing, I don’t think I person might say that this email came is called “phishing” and for that reason, I have a PayPal account. (And I’ve from PayPal since it uses graphics from have entitled this article “Phishing 101.” received similar for FirstBank their server. Except this is legal. Huh? and Citibank, and I don’t have accounts According to VISA’s web site, there, either!) Distressingly, if you’re not LESSON THREE: “Phishing” is an email scam that on the ball, this message looks very legit- HTML email can download images attempts to trick consumers into reveal- imate. Notice in the middle of the email from any server, including a different ing personal information—such as their they give you a link to click on that one than the product or service adver- credit or debit account , check- shows a PayPal URL. tised in the message. So MacNexus ing account information, Social Security might send out a message advertising a numbers, or banking account pass- LESSON ONE: raffle, and include an image of the new words—through fake Web sites or in a Frequently spam and phishing emails iPod using an embedded URL Web sites use familiar logos and slick but when you click on that link, they to Apple’s web site to obtain the graphic. graphics to deceive consumers into actually take you to a different place. When you get the email, it shows a pic- thinking the sender or Web site owner is How on earth would you ever know this? ture of an iPod. There’s nothing illegal a government agency or a company they That’s the ugly part. about doing this, at least so far. know. Sometimes the phisher urges intended victims to “confirm” account What I had to do in Apple’s Mail pro- OK, so if HTML email can legally information that has been “stolen” or gram was go to the Message Menu and include images from here, there, and “lost.” Other times the phisher entices choose “Raw Source” to see what was everywhere, how would you know that victims to reveal personal information actually going to happen if I clicked on this PayPal email is a scam? Well, the by telling them they have won a special that link. (See “Phishing2.”) critical part of the message is what I have prize or earned an exciting reward. highlighted in yellow in “Phishing3.” Phishing scams are among the fastest This is the part of the message where growing forms of fraud on the Internet. they tell you to “click here” to log in to According to the Anti-Phishing Working your account. In the “visual” part of the Group, phishing scams grew by 52 per- email that the reader sees, they show this cent from December 2003 to January link as https://www.paypal.com/cgi- 2004.” My goal with this article is to give bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run but as you you some basic knowledge as to what can see when you view the raw source, if you can do to see if an email you receive you click on that, it is really going to go is really from the sender that it says it is to http://217.112.229.216/ which ain’t from. PayPal, my friend. It Photo :Phishing2 is some computer Let’s start with an innocent-looking running somewhere email message. (See “Phishing1.”) As LESSON TWO: with a login form you can see from this graphic, we are in Learn enough and when you put in Apple’s Mail program, and it appears about HTML so your login and pass- that we have received an email from that you can look at word, the thieves PayPal. The raw source without will then possess message getting seasick. You your PayPal login tells me that want to see that raw information! Then PayPal has source, don’t you? they can login to Photo :Phishing3 noted an Then take a look your PayPal account attempt to the graphic at “Phishing3.” The way the and transfer money, presumably to log in to my scam artists do this is really very inter- themselves. P ayPal Photo :Phishing1 esting. First of all, any time you see continued on page 7

6 continued from page 6 recent payment.” Only problem here is What can you do to combat phishing? If LESSON FOUR: that I haven’t bought anything on eBay you can identify and document phishing If an HTML email asks you to click a for roughly three years. It seemed sus- attempts, most major web sites have link to verify information, view the picious to me, even though the links or departments where you can source to see what is actually going to criminals who wrote this had the report security breaches. I have reported happen when you click that link! audacity to include eBay logos and the phishing attempts to Citibank, PayPal, ‘trust•e” logo to make me think that it and eBay. eBay was the most cumber- Want to see another example? Then was official. I decided to view the some, as I had to eBay login and please review the graphics “Ebay1” and source of this message. As you can see login to their site before I could file a “Ebay2.” You will see that I received an in the second graphic, all the graphics report. The others just let me reveal the HTML email message telling me they come from eBay, but the login screen raw source of the offending message and goes to http://67.19.186.3. Where the were unable to process “my most paste it into a form. hell is that? I don’t know, but one would think that if all the graphics came from eBay, then the link to the Categorically, if you get a message that login page would also start with some- just doesn’t seem quite right to you, thing like https://www.ebay.com either investigate it and report the crimi- instead of directing to a raw IP address. nal to the appropriate authorities, or take no action and give out no information. If This is an overview of the current epi- this keeps up, many of us may just decide to conduct our banking by phone Photo :Ebay1 demic of phishing. It may seem technical, but all users should attempt or in person, and never type any infor- to master these skills to protect their mation into a web site because of the personal information. number of scams that are out there. 

© 2004 Bill Davies, MacNexus, the Sacramento Macintosh User Group. May be reprinted by any Mac user group with proper attribution. To view larger copies of the graphics in this article, go to http://www.hmaus.com/signal/topstories/documents/phishing101.html Photo :Ebay2

Photos from the December 15th CMC Pizza Party

If you feed them ...they will come!

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8 Review: since my G5 and I sit right next to house the stereo was outside my office the router and printer, I have no and I’d feed iTunes from my Mac's Airport Express need for radio waves speaker output to my stereo's RCA By Rich Lenoce piercing my flesh at input using a $5.00 Radio Shack CMC Vice President close range – I’ll adapter cable run under the carpet. stick with wired, Now the stereo is so far away, how can Apple’s new Airport thank you. I listen to my iTunes Music through- device, Airport Express, is out the rest of the house? The answer a mini marvel. You can I decided to instead was Airport Express AirTunes. I use Airport Express as a buy her an Airport bought a second Airport Express, con- 10-user base station to card for her comput- nected it to my stereo and ran the create a wireless “WiFi” er and one Airport Airport Express Wizard. Voila! First, a network, to extend an Express that would new “AirTunes” button showed up in existing wireless network, sit in my office. One iTunes and then the software saw the to act as a print server to share a USB of the Ethernet outputs second Airport Express and beamed printer wirelessly on a network, or to of the Netgear router would the music from one Airport Express to stream iTunes music wirelessly to a go to the Airport Express. another. stereo far from the computer (which Her Airport card would Apple calls AirTunes). You can also then see it and be given its The bad news is that there is no do all of the above at the same time! own IP address on the net- remote control for AirTunes! If I want work to receive Internet to change a song or playlist I have to I found Airport Express easy to set-up. wirelessly. I would then walk from the living room, up the Not much larger than a typical “Power plug my USB printer into stairs to the computer, manually make Plug”, you just plug it in the wall and, the Airport Express and I would be the change and go downstairs again. using the install disk, run the set-up able to see it on my wired network This is just plain dumb! It's a wireless wizard and it will walk you through because the router is running to the world and an optional remote should the steps. Or, if you are an Airport Airport Express. She’d also be able to have been provided to do just this. expert, install the software and manu- see it wirelessly as a printer on the Airport's WiFi technology is perfectly ally configure the product. network when she opens the Printer capable of doing this and in fact there Preference Pane. Theoretically, it are WiFi products that have remote At $129, Airport Express is pricey and should all be pretty transparent. controls that can control iTunes via isn't for everyone. For example, WiFIÐhowever, they won’t play back Airport and wireless routers are Connecting this system was easier Apple’s iTunes purchased music far cheaper than Airport ExpressÐin than I thought. I plugged the Airport because Apple refuses to license the fact, one Airport Extreme card and an Express, wired Ethernet and printer FairPlay digital rights management inexpensive wireless router costs into the Airport Express and then technology to them. It can be done about as much as one Airport Express. plugged the whole thing into the wall. and Apple could have done it. At $129 If you don't need AirTunes, USB I then ran the set-up wizard on her for an Airport Express, this is clearly a printing, etc, you are best to go that computer and magically it received an case of Apple dropping the ball. route. I had a problem more difficult IP address. I opened her printer pref- than that. i have a wired network in erences and there was the USB So Airport Express isn’t perfect. But it my office using a wired Netgear cable printer. It was as easy as that. Well, works flawlessly and if you need its modem/router combo unit feeding my not quite. It had some glitches. The functionality is worth the price. If you G5 and my wife's G3 iMac, and a Airport Express needed to be reset don't need its functionality, you may USB printer shared off my Mac. My every time something was changed want to look elsewhere. And, if you wife decided that in our new house Ðthis just requires unplugging it from don’t mind a long walk to change a she wanted to have her own office but power and plugging it in again. Each song occasionally, Airport Express still wanted to be on the network, time I did this Airport Express and her and AirTunes might serve as a new access her Internet and print to my iMac connected to the network with exercise machine Ð compared to a  USB printer. I could have gone hog the new changes taking effect. NordicTrak, it’s cheaper! wild and bought an Airport Base Station, put Airport cards in her iMac This worked so well, I decided to get and my G5 and spent almost $350 gluttonous. In our new house, my doing so. Airport Express seemed like stereo sits one floor down at the exact a perfect solutionÐless expensive and opposite side of the house. In our old

9 2004-2005 CMC Officers and Board of Directors

President Don Dickey Vice President Rich Lenoce Secretary Chris Hart Treasurer David Gerstein [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 860-232-2841 860-347-1789 860-291-9393

PR Jerry Esposito Past President/Ambassador Joseph Arcuri Newsletter Design George Maciel [email protected] [email protected] 860-485-1547 [email protected] 860-561-0319

Editor/Auction Deena Quilty Webmaster Brian Desmond Raffles Robert Sawyer [email protected] 860-678-8622 [email protected] (860) 668-8728 [email protected] 860-677-7787

Download of the Month Debbie Foss Special Events Jack Bass Parlimentarian/Historian Connie Scott [email protected] 860-583-1165 [email protected] [email protected] 860-584-9573 Caricatures by Bill Dougal of Lebanon, (860) 456-9041. Available for illustration assignments and event caricatures. 10 CMC Monthly Meeting Discounted Books! FREE Raffle! January 26, 2005 CMC continues to offer our cur- Every CMC member who attends our UConn Center rent members the opportunity to monthly meetings gets a raffle ticket. purchase any published book for This will give you a chance for one of 6 pm – Back To Basics either Mac or Windows at a 20% our free prizes every month! You Having trouble mastering mailing lists and discount. All major publishers are could win…t-shirts, toys, CDs, mugs, the printing of envelopes or labels on your carried by our source. software …there’s always something Mac? Back To Basics is here to help. This we’re giving away! And don’t forget month’s session will explore using Contact a Board Member or send the Free table at the back of the room AppleWorks to create and manage your mail- an email to [email protected]. where everything is...FREE! ing lists. Whether you’re running a small business or just trying to send out greeting Provide the book title, the pub- cards, we’ll walk you through the steps. lisher and the ISBN number, if Treasurer’s Report possible, and he will check on its 7 pm – iDVD availability. Normally, the wait is New Members! presented by Rich Lenoce not too long. We need new members! Have your iDVD is Apple’s powerful DVD creation friends and co-workers join us for fun and tool. With customizable themes and sophisti- learning about OSX and the Mac. cated navigation, anyone can simply create Total Membership: 126 highly stylized DVDs to distribute and SPECIAL archive their videos, photos and music. Account Balances Learn how to use this revolutionary program. NOTICE! Checking Balance ...... $2338.88 Savings Balance ...... $3964.06 Upcoming Meetings! Changes regarding Balances as of January 5, 2005 February 23, 2005 access to the Maintaining Your Mac CMC website: Presenter: Chris Hart Take Note of This! UConn Health Center www.ctmac.org You can get your own Apple logo G3s, G4s and G5s coupled with MacOSX • Member expiration date notepad and pen, as our thank you, brings a whole new level of sophistication when you complete a to computing but with it comes the • Membership number CMC survey! Plus, responsibility to perform routine mainte- (for free shipping at MacConnection) you'll get a chance at nance and to resolve problems as they • CMC Web site username free music from the occur. Chris Hart demonstrates the tools and password iTunes Music Store. and techniques to keep your Mac running in tip-top shape and how to identify and ...are now located on your We always want to hear what you need address common Macintosh problems. newsletter mailing label. and want from the group. Right now we're making that even easier by giv- March 30, 2005 Please make a ing you a way to share your opinions. The Macintosh in Astronomy note of it NOW! During December and January, CMC Presenter: John Pellino is conducting a survey of all its mem- Location: TALCOTT MOUNTAIN bers. You can tell us Ð anonymously Ð SCIENCE CENTER what you really think of the group. We all know Macs are used for creating dig- Are you receiving Your participation is essential to the ital media and in business but did you know our CMC emails? future of CMC. In addition to receiv- Macs play a leading role in Astronomy? The ing a thank you gift when you Macintosh’s imaging power and sophistica- We always send out advance complete the survey, you'll also be notice of the meetings, and some- tion are used by thousands of backyard and entered into our raffle for a $75 gift times for big news or special professional astronomers. The people at the certificate to the iTunes Music Store! Talcott Mountain Science Center will walk events (like our bus trip to Macworld). If you’re not getting What better gift for yourself, or the us through connecting and using iPod-lover in your family? Macintosh computers to home telescopes them, please email us at [email protected] with your and all of the things you can do with it. current email address and a subject Watch your email and check our web Hopefully the night will be clear! line of: ADD TO CMC EMAIL LIST site for details on how to participate.

11 41 Crossroads Plaza Ð PMB 1984 West Hartford, CT 06117

Monthly Meeting January 26 - 7 pm iDVD Learn how to use this revolutionary program. UConn Medical Center Back to Basics – 6 pm

CMC Meeting Location a PDF document containing a visual direction guide to UConn Health Center is available on our website: www.ctmac.org. Print and take it with you to find us easily!

Monthly meetings will be held at UConn Health Center in Farmington. When hands-on programs require computers for attendees, we will be using Middlesex Community College in Middletown.

Directions to UCHC, Farmington Directions to Middlesex C.C. From I-84: Take Exit 39 (if coming from I-84 West, From the Hartford area, take Route 9 South. A few Exit 39 is after 39A). Turn right at first traffic light onto miles south of downtown Middletown on Route 9, take Route 4 East (Farmington Avenue). At third traffic light, turn Exit 11 (Rt. 155, Randolph Road). At the end of the right to enter the Health Center campus. Go around the main ramp (for both N. & S. bound), turn right onto building to the right (at a Y in road), then take a left when Randolph Road. Continue to the traffic light at the top you get to the Academic Entrance. The road becomes two- of the hill and turn left onto Saybrook Road. Go a quar- way there so you should be able to tell where to turn. (Do ter of a mile and turn right onto Reservoir Road. Travel not go on straight to the two-way part). Then take the second past the stop sign, then take the first right onto Training right into parking lot A&B. this is close to the building. Go Hill Road. Your first left will lead into the Middlesex past the police station entrance on your left (small sign). You Community College Campus parking area. When you will see a continuation of the building with its own entrance arrive on campus, take a right onto Training Hill Road. area. This is the new research building. Enter on the ground Go to the second parking lot entrance and take a left floor, turn right and enter room EG-013 on your right. This into the upper lot. Directly in front of you will be Snow is the first room on your right. The rest rooms are on your Hall. Enter Snow Hall and go up the stairs to the 2nd left as you enter. floor and go to the last room on the right, Room 509.

12 Monthly Meeting February 23 - 7 pm Maintaining Your Mac Presenter: Chris Hart at UConn Medical Center

“Back To Basics” - 6 pm (see more info on page 11) NEWSLETTER OF CONNECTICUT MACINTOSH CONNECTION, INC.FEBRUARY 2005

all current Macs and would be worth a Camcorder + Mac = try. But I like Sound Studio from Felt Recording Studio Tip Software (www.felttip.com). This By Don Dickey, great program used to ship on many CMC president Mac models, but is available as share- ware for $49.99 and runs on OS 9 and Not long ago, if you wanted to OS X. make a concert recording, you’d buy a reel-to-reel or cassette If you’re recording recorder, plug in a couple of audio over FireWire, microphones, and press your choices are more “Record.” What you got was limited. You need a pro- fine for simple archival pur- gram that supports OS X poses, but you had to put up audio, called HAL, such with tape hiss, low frequen- as AudioX ($19.95) from cy hum, and other RealMacSoftware.com or Peak from 3.5mm sound input jack. If you have Bias-Inc.com distracting noises. The equipment to an iBook or other Mac without sound make noise-free digital recordings input, try the FireWire method. If you Once the audio is on your hard drive, was beyond the pocketbooks of most have a sound input jack, the analog amateurs and hobbyists. you can use Apple’s free iTunes soft- method is useful if you want to posi- ware to convert the files to MP3 tion the camcorder further from your I recently learned through experimen- format for the web, or burn them to a computer than the 12 foot limit of a CD to play in your car or home stereo. tation that you can use a camcorder FireWire connection. You can easily (on a tripod) and a Mac to create a Record the surf at your favorite beach extend the RCA type cable by 20 or to make good “sleeping music.” Make decent recording. You could record more feet. the concert with the camcorder, cap- your kid or grandchild a CD of their school concert or neighborhood band ture the footage on your Mac with The sound quality is very good using iMovie, and then extract the audio. and you’ll be a hero. Or, record a con- either method, and is largely depend- cert at church for shut-ins who can’t This process involves three steps. ent on the microphone in the Plus, you’re recording time would be attend, and you might be praised by a camcorder. A modest investment of higher authority!  limited to the length of your tape, usu- about $100 for a good external cam- ally only an hour. That’s simply not corder microphone will dramatically enough to record a typical concert improve your recordings. External without having to change tapes. This mics typically have better frequency Inside this Issue method’s only advantage is that you response and stereo separation, and don’t have to bring your computer to they’re also removed from any noises Camcorder+Mac=Recording Studio.... 1 the concert...which might be very use- generated by the camcorder’s motors. MacOSaiX Freeware...... 2 ful if that computer is a big G5. This is particularly important if you’re Download of the Month ...... 3 recording video to tape simultaneous- Review: DiskWarrior...... 4 Fortunately, there is a better way if ly. By the way, your movies will also you’ve got a . Connect the cam- sound better! Open Source Software...... 5 corder to your Mac and record the Review: iWorks...... 6 sound directly on the hard drive. You The one additional requirement for Under the OSX Hood ...... 8 can do this digitally using a FireWire recording on the hard drive is soft- cable or in analog mode using the MUG Special Offers...... 9 ware. What you use depends on the CMC Officers & Directors ...... 10 cable that came with your camcorder connection employed. Analog audio plus a small adapter to go from the can be recorded by just about any Meetings and Club News ...... 11 cable’s RCA plugs to the Mac’s audio software. Garage Band ships on

1 MacOSaiX you designate, including iPhoto. A Preview window displays the full Freeware image, with tile grid superim- By John Hershey posed if desired. NCMUG Member Glyphs and Googles Freeware Ð a word For those with not enough images, that conjures up other options of source imagery to memories of frequent be used as tiles are crashes, non-intuitive provided as choic- interfaces, one-trick-pony soft- es in the interface. ware and basically, not a whole You can choose lot of positive scenarios. Of Random Glyphs, Editor course, one might say, it’s free, for example. This Deena Quilty so “you takes your chances.” image source picks a random letter Content Contributor And take a chance I did. I saw a (known as a glyph) Don Dickey brief blurb in MacAddict about from a random font freeware that was included on on your computer Contributing Author their December 2004 disk called and draws it in a Rich Lenoce MacOSaiX. The name is a combination random color over a background of a of Mac, OS, and a tongue-in-cheek random color. Designer spelling of Mosaic. George Maciel Another choice is Google Image Terms. MacOSaiX You put in the terms and a Google Photographer After installing MacOSaiX, my free- search comes up with the images. You John Scott ware fears disappeared. This is one fun can also choose multiple sources, such little application that makes photo- as Glyphs and Googles. Publisher mosaicsÐof the type seen in high-priced Connecticut Macintosh advertising and magazine editorial illus- Let the Magic Begin trationsÐavailable to users with OS X Connection, Inc. What happens in a second window dis- 10.2 and above. Once this process was played to the left of the first is pure 41 Crossroads Plaza the exclusive domain of what I can only magic. Caution: You can use up a lot of PMB 1984 speculate to be mainframe computers your productive time playing with this West Hartford, CT 06117 running gazillions of bytes and calculat- application. It’s that impressive and that ing light, dark, and color to build a much fun. Sort of like that commercial: Printer single picture made up of thousands of “Your friends will think you spent hours Budget Printers little photos. preparing...” when all you do is set it up 1718 Park Street properly and go away for a few hours. Hartford, CT 06106 Mosaic set up How long depends on how many tiles Here’s how MacOSaiX works: You you are asking the software to create in We welcome submissions assign an image from which to make a order to make a picture. from members! mosaic. The devil is in the details, as it Please submit articles by first of says in MacOSaiX’s Web page FAQs at Stunning Results the month for inclusion in our http://homepage.mac.com/knarf/MacO The software may complete an image newsletter. There is much talent SaiX. Images with less detail require and still be searching for better matches in our group; it would be great fewer tiles and thus fewer images to for tiles. Therefore, the longer it runs, to have several member articles make the mosaic. the closer the detail gets to replicating in each issue. the big image. You can click on a tile You chose the shape of the tiles, and and choose a different image than the number of tiles across and down, from a one selected if you desire, although this default of 20 x 20 and on up. Your is a sluggish process. Once done, you source of images that will comprise the can export the image as a tiff or jpeg. mosaic can be (by default) your User > Pictures folder and/or any other folder Continued on page 3

2 Continued from page 2 “whited-out” brightness levels. I did not ware. Who knows? You might just need additional dark-biased photos come up with a practical application or The tiff I exported in my test using two since I had a lot of night shots. Only project to justify all that fun.  friends’ portrait was 124 Megs and at after adding the lightened shots was 300 ppi was 21 x 28 inches. The detail there a full range of light and dark to MacOSaiX Freeware download: was excellent. When I zoomed in on make a convincing mosaic. Don’t close http://homepage.mac.com/knarf/ screen I was able to see sharp renditions the application before exporting the MacOSaiX resulting mosaic or you will have to of my source photos in their tile posi- System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 start all over again. It does not save the tions. Check out some of the examples mosaic composite done to date, only the or above, 128 MB Memory (RAM), on the MacOSaiX Website noted above setup parameters. I suggest exporting 256 MB recommended. to see some impressive resolution. as a tiff and then down sampling to See a few examples from the Mosaic your needs. That way you still have the community at: http://homepage.mac. Caveats and Tips highest resolution original in the tiff. Sometimes you may have to create an com/knarf/MacOSaiX/Community/ artificially full-ranged selection of pho- Final Comments tos in order to give the software enough You can get Version 1 from images to fill in appropriate areas. A the MacAddict disk or folder of normally exposed shots may download it from the lack these extreme levels. Website. It’s free, so no frivolous spending is When the lighter areas in my photo required. Version 2 is in were slow to fill in with tiles, I took half beta. MacOSaiX has man- of my 1,000 original digital shots and aged to disprove all of my duplicated them, creating an action in cliché opinions about free- Photoshop to batch process them with

Download of the Month submitted by Debi Foss TextWrangler 2.0 http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.shtml

BareBones software, maker of TextWrangler is a... Note: If you are not using OS X yet, BBEdit, has just released version 2 ¥ General Purpose Text Editor go to http://www.versiontracker.com/ of their “lite” version known as ¥ Programmer’s Text Editor to download BBEdit Lite 6.1.2.This TextWrangler. Best of all, it is now ¥ Unix and Server Administrator’s is their pre-OS X version. They do totally free. This is one of the best Tool not support it anymore and do not text editors for the Mac (not count- ¥Powerful Text Transformer and have it on their site, but ing BBEdit, of course). Manipulator VersionTracker still has it available, ¥ Good Mac OS Citizen for now. Grab it while it is available. From the BareBones web site: ¥Powerfully Useful Tool TextWrangler 2 is the powerful gen- ¥TextWrangler was eral purpose text editor, and Unix developed in the best and server administrator’s tool. traditions of Bare Bones Software, with What is a text editor? At its most basic, a text editor is a high performance, ease tool for simply editing text. You can of use, a rich feature use a text editor for a wide variety of set, and the ability to tasks from cleaning up data, to edit- read its own release ing configuration files on your Mac notes or server, to writing HTML or coding

3 DiskWarrior: Tech, and who shall remain anony- what had actually happened? Hard mous, told me there was one repair drives have hundreds of thousandsÐand Fixing the application in his arsenal of repair in some cases millionsÐof files. You Unthinkable applications that he takes out when all can’t always see these files as they are else seems lost and it magically either invisible (hidden from view on By Rich Lenoce repairs seemingly dead drives: purpose so you won’t mess with them) CMC Vice DiskWarrior. On his advice I pur- or are part of a package. Applications, President chased a copy on sale and it has for example, are really packagesÐthey remained in the box. appear as a single file but may be made For those of us up of hundreds of little component files who rely on our I put the DiskWarrior CD in the drive each doing their part in making a pro- computers for our income, a computer and booted holding the “C” key down. gram run. So the few hundred files you crash can be devastatingÐso we tend It launched and found the disk. may see when exploring your hard not to think about them. My wife is a DiskWarrior is a ten-step process of drive may really be made up of thou- teacher and her Snow iMac holds her finding drive directory information sands or millions of hidden files. There syllabi, lesson plans, grades, and com- and rebuilding the directory. Before it is a master catalog and series of small- munications with students. She also rebuilds the directory it tells you er catalogs that keeps track of all these teaches a distance-learning course, so everything that is wrong with the files. her computer is essential to her job. drive, what it repaired and what it will The computer never gets turned off, do. It found 187 things wrong with my The best way to describe a hard drive but also never gets backed up or main- wife’s hard drive. Everything includ- is by comparing it to a phone book. tained. ing folders having gone invisible, to Phone books consist of tens of thou- sands of pieces of data. Let’s say each One evening I needed to access her entry is a file. When you first get the OS 9 applications to translate a file phone book, everything is in neat and to do so, I needed to reboot the order. The pages are in order and have computer into OS 9. Upon restart the no tears or creases, the sections are computer failed to boot into either OS whole (white, blue, yellow) and the 9 or X, giving me a very dangerous table of contents is where it’s sup- looking white screen that said “Open posed to be and helps guide you so Firmware.” I did the appropriate thing that when you need a “sewage excava- and booted from the OS X CD and tor” you look under “plumber,” not ran the Disk Utilities Disk Repair excavator for example. If you use the application. It found several errors phone book every day, over time that it claimed were repaired but upon pages will crease, rip, get smudged running Disk Repair a second time, I and sometimes even fall outÐso you got the same errors and when reboot- stick the fallen pages anywhere in the ed, I again got the Open Firmware book. The information isn’t lost, it just screen. gets out of place and may become dif- system files in the incorrect location ficult to find or read. A hard drive is I then tried the AppleCare TechTool that no longer allow the system to like that. It has catalog entries that act CD that came with the iMac. TechTool boot, or a system that is no longer as a table of contents to let the drive found the drive but said it was not “blessed.” It asked if we wanted to know where all the files are. The more mounted on the desktop and attempt- repair and replace the directory and that files are moved, copied, or delet- ed to repair the drive. TechTool “re-bless” the system folder. We ed, or that power hits occur, the stopped mid-way through the repair, clicked OK and in about 10 minutes greater the chance there will be some saying it could no longer continue as we were prompted to restart. corruption to these catalogs, or the the drive was “beyond repair and you files themselves. One day an impor- should back-up all data.” A backup is Amazingly the iMac booted and ran as tant file that is supposed to be in one impossible from an un-mounted disk good as new. place on the drive now can’t be found, so it appeared this hard drive was and the drive won’t start because the damaged beyond repair. What happened to the drive? computer can’t find that all-important I asked several Mac experts the ques- file. It’s still there, just not where it’s Finally, I remembered several years tions how could the drive get so bad supposed to be, or it got flagged as a ago a CMC member who is a Mac that it wouldn’t mount or start, and continued on page 5

4 continued from page 4 Open Source: different type of file because it’s now “The www.source- in the wrong place. Or somehow The Best in Free Apps forge.net web site maybe it got damaged and the catalog By Rich Lenoce provides a way for thinks it’s a folder not a file. CMC Vice President developers to control If this catalog and file corruption Recently, I wanted to purchase a and manage proj- occurs to any of the thousands of files photo printer, but was told by the ects as well as make responsible for starting the computer, manufacturer it was Windows only. contact you’re in trouble. When the computer What’s a Mac OS X user to do? asks the drive to load the files in the Look to the Open Source commu- with specific order it needs to boot, it can’t nity to write it for you. users.” because it can’t find all the files or is in the wrong place in the sequence or “Open Source” is a philosophy that are often quite is masquerading as another file. flies in the face of the profit- usable; the user is expected to send centered model of software bug reports. Since no one is being It takes a program like DiskWarrior to development, where consumers paid and there are no deadlines, examine the hard drive and ask and purchase software and pay for software may stay in beta for a long answer some important questions: updates. Open Source is similar to time without a full release. What files did this computer have? community barn-building, where a Where are they? Can I correct prob- community of developers and users SourceForge is a community of lems with them? Can I again put them collaborate on development and application developers who donate where they belong and rebuild the testing with the user obtaining soft- their time coordinates most Open hard drives directory and catalog ware, upgrades and enhancements Source efforts. The www.source- structure to find them again? It then free of charge. Presumably this forge.net web site provides a way rebuilds the directory information and promotes a higher standard of qual- for developers to control and man- replaces the bad one with the recon- ity and helps to ensure the age projects as well as make structed one. long-term viability of the applica- contact with users. A search of their tions. There is no company to go website reveals every type of appli- Important lesson: backup your files out of business and the software cation known to man. If you can’t regularly. I have a FireWire drive and can’t be dropped because it doesn’t find an application to meet a need, DejaVu software ($24.95) to backup sell. For a minority computer group then you can request a project be my home folder automatically each like the Mac, this means we get started. I requested the driver men- night. I like DejaVu because it repairs terrific software that would not be tioned above and it got assigned to Disk Permissions before each backup profitable for a business to develop. the GIMP printing group. to further protect the drive. You should also have your Mac on a regular quar- Today, there are over 2,000 Open One example of a rock solid OS X terly or monthly maintenance plan, Source OS X applications available Open Source application is Fire, an using programs like TechTool and/or and nearly 500 for OS 9. instant messaging client that DiskWarrior to resolve any issues includes AIM (AOL), Yahoo, MSN, before the problems become visi- It sounds almost too good to be Jabber, ICQ and IRC in one appli- bleÐor down right dangerous.  true; there are downsides. Since cation. NeoOffice is a Cocoa (Mac open source software development OS X) version of Open Office, a is a collaboration between develop- compatible replacement for Member of the Month ers and end users, projects are often Microsoft Office that is still in beta by David Gerstein under various stages of develop- testing but very usable. Larger proj- CMC Treasurer ment. Some are highly developed, ects like Mozilla and Firefox Since there was no January meeting very stable and as good or better (www.mozilla.org), have their own and hence no opportunity to inter- than similar commercial products, coordinated communities and web view a member for “Member of the while others are merely in the sites. The status and stability of Month,” we regret this new feature alpha stage and are unreliable. In each application is ranked at will not appear in this issue. Look for between, there are the many proj- SourceForge to warn users of  it to return in the next issue of of the ects in the beta stage that may still issues. CMC? Chronicle. have some bugs. These applications 5 Review: If you want to make a document always found desktop publishing pro- your own, Apple made it so easy grams cumbersome and complex to the iWorks Pages to customize a document that point where they are best left to the By Rich Lenoce you’ll impress anyone you show graphic design experts. Pages changes CMC Vice President it to. They’ll think you created all that with its ease of use and PDF it in Indesign, Quark or exporting option. I am writing this Pagemaker. review on Apple’s new Rough Spots and powerful “Word Style choices such as paragraph, My main criticism is with Pages’ dis- Processor with Style,” text, objects (charts, graphs, jointed interface. If you are like me and iWorks Pages. iWorks tables), borders etc. offer an infi- like to have your editing tools at your is being billed as a nite selection of customization. fingertips, you’ll need to open Pages replacement for Appleworks. I don’t With Pages, you don’t have to be a various drawers, inspectors and know if I’d go that far since graphic designer to make terrific look- browsers, leaving you with a scattered Appleworks comes with spreadsheet, ing documents. In fact, the manual mess on your desktop. These palettes database and many other smaller appli- gives pointers on how to approach doc- are all different sizes and don’t stack, cations, while iWorks only comes with ument design to create styles across an minimize, tile or collapse. Microsoft Pages and Keynote, Apple’s presenta- entire document. Styles (Body, Bullet, uses toolbars that neatly stack and tion software. Nevertheless, iWorks two Caption, Heading, Sub-Heading, etc.) Adobe uses perfectly sized and aligned programs are incredibly comprehen- reside in a style drawer placing all palettes by default. Why can’t Apple sive, stylish and elegant. For $79, is this styles at your fingertips; unlike Word, create a neat stackable interface similar a Microsoft Office deal-breaker? Well, no hunting is involved. There is a media to Microsoft, Adobe or their own Final we will get to that later. browser that let’s you add media from Cut and DVD Studio Pro products? your iLife library or you can drag and Also, frequently used formatting styles Installation drop media right into s document from (bold, italic, size) are not available from To install iWorks, you’ll need OS X and any iLife application as well as Safari or the toolbar at the top of the document at least a 500 mhz G3 with a G4 or G5 the Finder. Merging documents is as recommended. My installation disk easy as dragging one document to Another criticism I have is that Pages, came on a DVD rather than a CD. (I am another’s document window. Internal though integrated with iLife, is not inte- registered with Apple and they may and external hypertext and hyperlinks grated with other Mac OS X know that I had a DVD drive and there- can also be easily added. applications or .Mac. I can’t choose to fore sent that media. The instructions send a file directly to someone from do indicate to begin installation “insert Editing features are truly astounding. within Pages using Mail and there is no the DVD or first CD,” so clearly CDs Want to change the style of every head- ability to mail merge with Address are available.) Installation was fast and ing in a 75 page document? Simply Book. These are features even Word easy. The included serial number is select one heading in the document and has! I can’t preview PDF and HTML required. It should be noted that Apple in the Style Drawer click on heading documents in Preview and Safari. I includes two comprehensive manuals and choose “Select All Headings” and a opened a template and was told certain so there will be no need for a “Missing new style dialog box will appear and fonts weren’t loaded. Instead, Pages Manual for iWorks.” Take that David ask you what new style you want all should ask me if I want to turn them on Pogue! headings to be! Inserting text boxes and through FontBook. Finally, there is no sidebars into existing documents is intuitive way to publish documents to The minute you open Pages you imme- even easier and all text will align prop- .Mac Home Pages. Speaking of Web diately notice you are not in MS Word erly. Alignment tools are simple to use pages, Pages HTML exporting feature territory. At start-up, you are asked to and spacing is dead-on! is nothing short of horrendous. Pages’ choose from 40 gorgeous templates, or pre-made templates completely fall a blank page. There are syllabi for Are you catching my drift yet? This is a apart into an unorganized jumble of text teachers, resumes for job hunters, very powerful program! It is so easy to and images losing all structure and for- newsletters for desktop publishers; the use a child could create professional matting when displayed in a web list goes on. Like Keynote, these tem- looking documents. Pages bridges the browser. This makes creating web sites plates are professional looking and gap between a word processor and a and newsletters impossibleÐa feature fully customizable. That is the great desktop publishing application like Apple has been touting in advertise- thing about Pages: if you like the tem- InDesign. In fact, PDFs were nothing ments for Pages. plates the way they are you can just short of gorgeous and printed beautiful- jump right in and begin adding content. ly from Preview and Acrobat. I’ve continued on page 7

6 continued from page 6 documents to the Word .doc file format. ences between the products, and hiding There are some minor bugs with the With simple documents, the export to or eliminating the similarities. Pages is program. I can’t place the cursor within Word was excellent but with complex just similar and compatible enough but line breaks made with the Return key. templates that included lots of cus- not too compatible. This is because Pages doesn’t have tomization, Word could not display “Line Breaks” as such but uses vertical elements properly. Can Pages replace Word for most peo- character spacing instead to fill in gaps ple? It’s ease of use, the quality of the between lines. Weird. Even weirder, Pages needs to do a much better job documents and price certainly could Spell Checking always started at the maintaining Word formatting and style replace Word for many consumers. beginning of the document, not at the settings upon import and export. Sadly, However, Pages seems to be directed at cursor placement point and Mac prod- Pages does not work natively in the people who use AppleWorks daily and ucts are not listed in the spelling Word Doc file format like OpenOffice, those who want to dabble or become dictionary showing up as mistakes in Free Office and Neo Office. If these free proficient at desktop publishing. It is Pages documents. programs can work in Word file formats not directed at heavy Word users. For without exporting, and do a good job of those of us who need true Word com- Word Compatibility maintaining compatibility even with patibility and higher end business How compatible is Pages with Word complex documents, why can’t Pages? features such as mail merge, spread documents? The answer varies. When I It may be that Apple is fearful of tread- sheet integration, macros, etc., Pages opened simple Word documents the ing too much on Microsoft’s turf. If doesn’t cut it. For most people, con- conversion was flawless, however with Pages is too much like Word, fully com- sumers, businesses, designers, media complex Word documents, Pages patible and truly a competitor, junkies and myself included, Pages is changed the formatting, tables, media Microsoft might drop their Office prod- another tool in a broader arsenal of alignment and font sizes. Documents uct and that would be devastating to tools to quickly and easily create high even get renamed to “Untitled.” I Apple. They’d be known again as a end looking documents without paying believe these changes are because when niche computer company forcing a high end price. For that it is worth Pages converts the document, Pages schools, businesses and consumers that $79. Oh, and did, I mention the buffed applies the current Pages settings, not rely on Windows PCs and MS Office to up Keynote 2 comes with iWorks? I’ll the saved Word settings. Similarly, there drop Apple like a hot potato. Apple save that review for another day.  were problems with exporting Pages worked hard at accentuating the differ-

iLife ‘05 upgrade: data before installing any process. Once that process is complete, software updates. Be it an quit all programs on your computer, A Cautionary note OS X update, or something and then install iLife ‘05. by Chris Hart like migrating from iLife ‘04 CMC Secretary to ‘05, such an installation is As we go to press, Apple has issued a a major change for your sys- version 5.0.1 update for iPhoto, which If you have purchased or tem. Always make backups is intended to address this photo library will purchase Apple’s new before making changes to issue. But as I’ve said above, if you digital media suite known your Mac! have a highly prized collection of pic- as iLife ‘05, you should be tures in your iPhoto library, your safest aware of a potential glitch. This is espe- Now, what you need to do before course of action is to (1) make a back- cially important information for those installing iLife ‘05 is to rebuild your up of your library and (2) rebuild the of you who have a valuable collection photo library in your current iPhoto library before installing any upgrades. of photos stored in iPhoto. Specifically, version 4 (part of iLife ‘04). You do that many Mac users have been finding that by holding down the COMMAND- If you’ve already installed iLife ‘05 and their photos have become jumbled, or OPTION-SHIFT keys on your had problems occur with your iPhoto even disappeared upon upgrading to keyboard simultaneously while launch- library, you may still be able to recover the newest iPhoto (version 5, part of ing iPhoto. You will be asked if you from the situation. First, try installing iLife ‘05). There are some steps you want to rebuild your library. You can the 5.0.1 update. Second, use the key- can take to reduce the chances of this then let go of the keys on the keyboard. board commands listed above to get happening to you. On your screen, confirm that you want iPhoto to rebuild your library. Good to rebuild your photo library and allow luck and I hope you enjoy all the great First of all, I want to remind you that iPhoto 4 to complete the rebuilding new features in iPhoto 5!  you should create a backup of your

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9 2004-2005 CMC Officers and Board of Directors

President Don Dickey Vice President Rich Lenoce Secretary Chris Hart Treasurer David Gerstein [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 860-232-2841 860-347-1789 860-291-9393

PR Jerry Esposito Past President/Ambassador Joseph Arcuri Newsletter Design George Maciel [email protected] [email protected] 860-485-1547 [email protected] 860-561-0319

Editor/Auction Deena Quilty Webmaster Brian Desmond Raffles Robert Sawyer [email protected] 860-678-8622 [email protected] (860) 668-8728 [email protected] 860-677-7787

Download of the Month Debbie Foss Special Events Jack Bass Parlimentarian/Historian Connie Scott [email protected] 860-583-1165 [email protected] [email protected] 860-584-9573 Caricatures by Bill Dougal of Lebanon, (860) 456-9041. Available for illustration assignments and event caricatures. 10 CMC Monthly Meeting Discounted Books! FREE Raffle! February 23, 2005 CMC continues to offer our cur- Every CMC member who attends our UConn Health Center rent members the opportunity to monthly meetings gets a raffle ticket. purchase any published book for This will give you a chance for one of 7 pm – Maintaining Your Mac either Mac or Windows at a 20% our free prizes every month! You Presenter: Chris Hart discount. All major publishers are could win…t-shirts, toys, CDs, mugs, UConn Health Center carried by our source. software …there’s always something G3s, G4s and G5s coupled with MacOSX we’re giving away! And don’t forget Contact a Board Member or send brings a whole new level of sophistication the Free table at the back of the room an email to [email protected]. to computing but with it comes the where everything is...FREE! responsibility to perform routine mainte- Provide the book title, the pub- nance and to resolve problems as they lisher and the ISBN number, if Treasurer’s Report occur. Chris Hart demonstrates the tools possible, and he will check on its and techniques to keep your Mac running availability. Normally, the wait is New Members! in tip-top shape and how to identify and not too long. We need new members! Have your address common Macintosh problems. friends and co-workers join us for fun and learning about OSX and the Mac. 6 pm – Back To Basics: iChat Have you wanted to get involved in chat- Total Membership: 127 ting online with your friends or relatives? SPECIAL ❦❦❦❦❦❦❦❦ Thought about conversing with distant family members over the internet, instead NOTICE! Account Balances of paying long distance rates? iChat A/V, Changes regarding Checking Balance ...... $1928.13 that Apple includes with OSX, includes Savings Balance ...... $3956.94 what you need to get started. access to the Balances as of February 2, 2005 Upcoming Meetings CMC website: www.ctmac.org FREE Classified Ads March 30, 2005 • 7:00 PM • Member expiration date The Macintosh in Astronomy CMC Members can Advertise For Presenter: John Pellino • Membership number Sale, Swap, Trade, Giveaway or Want Special Location: TALCOTT (for free shipping at MacConnection) to Buy Items. This space can be used MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER by members to advertise non-business • CMC Web site username items which they are no longer using We all know Macs are used for creating dig- and password or upgrading. This is a FREE ital media and in business but did you know ...are now located on your service provided to our members. Macs play a leading role in Astronomy? The newsletter mailing label. Send submissions via email to Macintosh’s imaging power and sophistica- [email protected] tion are used by thousands of backyard and Please make a professional astronomers. The people at the Display Ad Rates Talcott Mountain Science Center will walk note of it NOW! us through connecting and using Any business items or services can Macintosh computers to home telescopes be advertised at the low monthly rates and all of the things you can do with it. listed below. Hopefully the night will be clear! Are you receiving Business Card ...... $10.00 our CMC emails? Quarter Page...... $20.00 April 27, 2005 • 7:00 PM • iDVD We always send out advance Half Page...... $30.00 Presenter: Rich Lenoce notice of the meetings, and some- Full Page (or insert) ...... $50.00 iDVD is Apple’s powerful DVD creation times for big news or special Submit all ad copy to the Editor on a disk tool. With customizable themes and sophisti- events (like our bus trip to (with nothing else on it) or e-mail it to cated navigation, anyone can simply create Macworld). If you’re not getting [email protected] for insertion in the highly stylized DVDs to distribute and them, please email us at following issue. Display ads must be archive their videos, photos and music. [email protected] with your submitted camera-ready in eps or pdf for- Learn how to use this revolutionary program. current email address and a subject mat with all fonts and graphics embedded. line of: ADD TO CMC EMAIL LIST Make check payable to CMC.

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Monthly Meeting February 23 - 7 pm Maintaining Your Mac Presenter: Chris Hart at UConn Medical Center Back to Basics – 6 pm

CMC Meeting Location a PDF document containing a visual direction guide to UConn Health Center is available on our website: www.ctmac.org. Print and take it with you to find us easily!

Monthly meetings will be held at UConn Health Center in Farmington. When hands-on programs require computers for attendees, we will be using Middlesex Community College in Middletown.

Directions to UCHC, Farmington Directions to Middlesex C.C. From I-84: Take Exit 39 (if coming from I-84 West, From the Hartford area, take Route 9 South. A few Exit 39 is after 39A). Turn right at first traffic light onto miles south of downtown Middletown on Route 9, take Route 4 East (Farmington Avenue). At third traffic light, turn Exit 11 (Rt. 155, Randolph Road). At the end of the right to enter the Health Center campus. Go around the main ramp (for both N. & S. bound), turn right onto building to the right (at a Y in road), then take a left when Randolph Road. Continue to the traffic light at the top you get to the Academic Entrance. The road becomes two- of the hill and turn left onto Saybrook Road. Go a quar- way there so you should be able to tell where to turn. (Do ter of a mile and turn right onto Reservoir Road. Travel not go on straight to the two-way part). Then take the second past the stop sign, then take the first right onto Training right into parking lot A&B. this is close to the building. Go Hill Road. Your first left will lead into the Middlesex past the police station entrance on your left (small sign). You Community College Campus parking area. When you will see a continuation of the building with its own entrance arrive on campus, take a right onto Training Hill Road. area. This is the new research building. Enter on the ground Go to the second parking lot entrance and take a left floor, turn right and enter room EG-013 on your right. This into the upper lot. Directly in front of you will be Snow is the first room on your right. The rest rooms are on your Hall. Enter Snow Hall and go up the stairs to the 2nd left as you enter. floor and go to the last room on the right, Room 509.

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would be your stereo or amplified Right now, I’m using an old Mac Media Server speakers. For photos and/or video, this SuperMac (not even a G3) to serve By Don Dickey, would typically include your TV or audio in my home. It has over 7,500 CMC president even a digital projector. songs on it! I often use my PowerBook as a portable photo and Media servers are where it’s at... at You can connect any Mac to most video server. I recently bought a video least in the Windoze PC world, that is. audio systems using a cable that has a projector, and it’s a great way to do If you’re “up” on this technology, you stereo 3.5 mm plug on one end and a family slide shows or watch a movie may already be planning to make one pair of RCA plugs on the other end. on “the big screen.” for yourself. If you’re not, you’re Video is a little more complex. Many probably wondering what a media Macs, particularly portables, have S or The other piece of the puzzle is the server is. Let’s get started! composite video outputs that can drive software. Apple makes this easy with most modern TVs. This is fine for nor- iLife! You can use iTunes to organize Media servers are computers that act mal resolutions. and play your music. iTunes can “rip” as repositories for all your digital the songs from your CDs to your hard stuff: pictures, music, and video. They If you want to go “all the way” to HD drive. iPhoto can organize all your must have the necessary connections (high definition), you’ll need a Mac digital photos and prepare slide shows to both receive such data and serve it. that has DVI video. Most G4-based complete with musical accompani- These connections are not usually the towers and and the new ment. iMove can capture your video to same! Mini have these jacks, as do all the hard drive and then “present it” PowerMac G5 towers. You should be full screen. Finally, QuickTime can To receive digital stuff, a media server able to connect this jack to the DVI show or play almost any file you must be able to grab your photos (usu- input of an “HD ready” monitor. might receive from somebody else. ally from your camera or Photo CDs), grab your music (usually from CDs You don’t need DVI or HD, though. Other programs can help with some of you own or from files you’ve bought These technologies represent the the more advanced tasks (like dealing and downloaded) and grab your “high end” right now. I’m using 800 x with your DVDs), but these are movies (usually from your camcorder 600 pixel output in my home with sat- outside the scope of this introduction. or from DVDs you’ve purchased). So, isfactory results. Continued on page 2 hardware requirements will obviously include a USB port for your camera, What kind of Mac makes a good an optical drive (either CD or media server? Answer: Any Mac that Inside this Issue has all the connections you need. You CD/DVD combo), plus a FireWire Mac Media Server ...... 1 port if a digital camcorder is involved. can easily add hard drive capacity with either a replacement internal Member of the Month...... 2 Mac 911 Help Desk...... 3 You also need space on your hard drive or an external FireWire drive. drive to store the media files. This can Many see the new Mini as an ideal iLife ‘05 - Sloppy Software...... 4 media server, and it’s relatively be a modest 60 gb drive for photos and Download of the Month ...... 5 affordable as such. It’s even ready for music, but can balloon to 250 mb or GarageBand ebooks...... 6 HD with the requisite DVI connector. more when lots of video is involved, Calibrating Your Monitor ...... 7 since a typical DVD takes 5 to 7 gb Skype’s The Limit ...... 8 each! MUG Special Offers...... 9 CMC Officers and Directors ...... 10 The media server also needs to con- Meetings and Club News ...... 11 nect to output devices. For audio, this

1 Continued from page 1 Member of the Month Closed track, professional drivers, by David Gerstein your mileage may vary, etc. CMC Treasurer So, the first step is often to try it with CMC Member what you have. Take your Mac and get of the Month is it hooked up to your stereo. Go one Philip Handler, who step further and get it hooked up to describes himself as your TV. Next, get some media on it. “a videographer/ Start with a hundred photos you want digital photographer/ to show. Add a few CDs of audio you architect.” want to listen to (and also use as back- ground for slide shows). Finally, if Q How long have you been a member Editor you have a digital camcorder, add a of CMC? Deena Quilty movie or two that are worth sharing A 13 or 14 years. with friends and family. Q How long have you been using a Content Contributor Connecting your server to the Internet Don Dickey Mac? and your home network will expand A Since 1991. My son bought one in its role in several ways. This can be college. I liked it and have been Contributing Author done wired via Ethernet, or wirelessly using them ever since. Rich Lenoce using an Airport card. Either way, you’ll gain the ability to play music Q How do you use it? Designer on Internet radio and download new George Maciel tunes from Apple’s online store. With A Mostly in conjunction with digital the sharing features of OS X and those photography. Even though I use built into iTunes and iPhoto software, Photographer videography, I take stills from the you’ll also be able to see and hear John Scott video. A digital camera and a Mac your media on other Macs connected is like having a darkroom without to your network. a darkroom. Publisher Connecticut Macintosh Q I assume this is all for a commer- Connection, Inc. cial enterprise. 41 Crossroads Plaza A Yes, my company is Fly on the PMB 1984 Wall Productions. West Hartford, CT 06117 [Inquirer’s clarification: Fly on the Wall Printer Productions uses videography and Budget Printers photography to capture visual and aural 1718 Park Street information for clients during the process of building construction.] Hartford, CT 06106 If you want to go “whole hog” you can even use screen sharing such as What changes in CMC have you We welcome submissions Apple’s Remote Desktop or freeware Q seen over the years? from members! called VNC (virtual network comput- More impotant than the changes is Please submit articles by first of ing) to see and control your server A from anywhere in your house. That’s the constant, members helping the month for inclusion in our members. Although there have newsletter. There is much talent how I control what’s playing on my server in the basement when I’m sit- been many transitions, this con- in our group; it would be great ting in the living room with my stant remains. to have several member articles PowerBook. in each issue. Q What improvements for the group The last step is to have fun with your can you suggest? new toy! I enjoy being able to find a A Since most people don’t have that music album with a few keystrokes in much time, I would like to see iTunes instead of thumbing through more reviews of products. stacks of CDs. The photos and videos are just icing on the cake! 

2 Mac 911 – Help Desk Avoiding the Browser Two-Step There and Back Again By Christopher Breen Lately, Safari has been displaying this I bought Mac OS X 10.3 to upgrade from message: “Safari can’t open the page Mac OS X 10.2.8 on my PowerBook. I want Windows Media Conversion ‘www.example.com/’ because it can't find to remove unwanted partitions, so it must be Is there a way to convert Windows Media the server ‘www.example.com/’.” I know a clean installation. But I want to preserve videos to a QuickTime format so I can import this is a bad error message because when I my Mail files, account settings, and junk- them into iMovie? Ð William E. Johnson press return, the site always loads the sec- mail filters; archive old Entourage ond time. Ð Mike Schell messages; and maintain my Network prefer- It depends on the kind of Windows ence settings. I can store this data on an Media movie files you want to import. expansion hard drive attached to my Pismo This problem appears to have been A tool such as Ronin no Sakurakai PowerBook. What's the best way to proceed? introduced by an Apple security update. Softronics’ $15 Forty-Two DVD-VX Ð Clark Peddicord Although there’s no surefire fix, many Plus can convert some Windows people have been able to eliminate the This kind of installation cries out for movies to a form of AVI file acceptable glitch by opening the Network prefer- Archive And Install, but you’ll have to to QuickTime and iMovie, but it won't ence pane, clicking on the TCP/IP tab, find another option because you need to work with movies generated by and entering their ISP’s DNS server wipe the drive to remove the partitions. Windows Media 9. Discreet's Cleaner 6 address in the appropriately named Rather than try to back up and restore can also convert some Windows Media DNSServers field. these files (and likely run into permis- files to QuickTime, but the product’s sion problems later), do this: $549 price tag is a lot to swallow for Regrettably, not all ISPs like to share this seemingly simple operation. their DNS server addresses. If yours Download Mike Bombich’s $5 Carbon won’t cough it up, launch Network Copy Cloner and clone your current And as much as I hate to suggest such a Utility (found inside the Utilities fold- system to the Pismo's expansion drive. thing in a magazine called Macworld, if er), click on the Lookup tab, enter your Open the Startup Disk preference pane you can get to a Windows PC, try ISP's domain name in the Lookup field, and choose that expansion drive as the Mystik Media’s $50 Blaze Media Pro. choose Name Server from the window's startup disk. Once you’ve booted from It can convert Windows Media Video pop-up menu, and click on Lookup. the expansion drive, run Disk Utility (WMV) files to MPEG-1 format, which The DNS server address should appear and format the internal drive (thus wip- you can play with QuickTime (as well after the SERVER entry. If you use a ing out its data). Install Panther on the as export to QuickTime's native format router, be sure that the DNS informa- expansion drive and use the Archive using Apple's $29 QuickTime Player tion on your Mac and router match. And Install option. Once you’ve config- Pro, and then import into iMovie). Other people have found that installing ured things the way you want them, use Java Update 1.4.2 Update 2 fixes the Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the Sleepy Mouse problem. expansion drive to the PowerBook’s When my computer falls asleep, my freshly scrubbed internal drive. disconnects. Do Send Print Preview Packing you know how to fix this problem? When I try to print my Microsoft Entourage Tip of the Month: Quiet Down, iPod! Ð Andre Bonk v. X e-mail, I have to go through two dialog I’ve read descriptions of the mysterious boxesÐEntourage's Print Preview and, once noise anomalies in some of the new Have patience. No, I’m not being face- I click on OK, the regular Print dialog box. . The only mystery to me is why tious. After a period of inactivity, the Is there some way to keep Entourage from Apple claims that it has no clue as to the mouse goes to sleep to save the battery's displaying the preview?ÐJack Stephens cause of the problem. The noise is the charge. After you click on a sleeping Peer into Entourage’s File menu, and result of a simple ground loop that mouse, it can take 30 seconds or more you'll see the Print One Copy command occurs when the exposed base of some to reestablish contact with the Mac. (Command-option-P). This is the key to earphones’ 1/8-inch stereo jacks makes Many people assume that the mouse avoiding both the program's Print contact with the chassis sur- isn’t working properly because Apple’s Preview and the Mac OS Print dialog rounding the headphone receptacle on wireless keyboard connects far more box. The command does exactly what it the top of the iPod. quickly. If the mouse refuses to rouse, suggestsÐprints one copy of the chosen You can easilyÐand completelyÐreme- install the latest software. If message without further interruption. dy the problem by insulating the base of that doesn't wake the rodent, give Apple Entourage 2004 kindly does away with the earphone jack (that is, wrapping a a call. You may have a defective input the extra step by placing Print Preview small amount of Teflon tape around the device. within Mac OS’s Print dialog box. base of the jack) or by purchasing an [Contributing Editor Christopher Breen is also Playlistmag.com’s editor in chief author of Macworld’s inexpensive Radio Shack headphone- tips and troubleshooting column, “Mac 911,” as well as Secrets of the iPod: Fifth Edition and Mac 911 volume controller (its 1/8-inch phono (Peachpit Press). Find Chris’ books at www.amazon.com and www.peachpit.com/ Get special user jack is fully insulated at the base). group pricing on Macworld Magazine! Subscribe today at http://www.macworld.com/useroffer.] Ð Peter E. Simson

3 iLife ‘05: duction of Garage Band; this tures. Web publishing is limited to the year it’s a significant upgrade .Mac service and not to other FTP and Sloppy Software to iPhoto. For people who WebDAV publishing services. By Rich Lenoce take lots of digital photos, Apple has done an excellent The Rest of iLife CMC Vice President job in improving sorting, iMovie and iDVD are the least organizing and editing of dig- improved in iLife ‘05. Unless you have Last month I reviewed ital photos. a $4,000 high definition camcorder, what I would call “slop- you’ll have no way of taking advantage py software” from With iPhoto, it is now much of their most advertised addition: high Apple: iWorks Pages. easier to sort pictures. definition compatibility. I had some This month Apple con- Albums can now be grouped HDV footage and was able to play with tinues to follow suit with in folders and keywords can be this feature and it worked very well, but what should be a stable, bug free and assigned to pictures. There are also new its use is very limited considering there advanced feature product, iLife ‘05. For ways of viewing photos such as the cal- is no high definition DVD standard yet. $30 more, that iLife ‘04, we get few endar view that arranges pictures in a Even though you can edit HD, there is feature additions and plenty of bugs. variety of ways. no way to output or play DVD footage except to send it back out to the camera Luckily, as I’ve done in the past, before iPhoto 5 has taken a whole new and play it back via analog HD to a TV. installing a new version of iLife, I back- approach to image editing, wisely When HD footage is brought into up my media libraries and move my moving away from auto-fixes like iDVD, it is down-converted to standard previous version of iLife’s applications, “enhanc,” and instead has added tools definition. in this case iLife ‘04, into a separate to correct common photo problems folder so the old applications don’t get such as exposure, color temperature iDVD offers some new themes that are deleted when the new iLife is installed. (white balance), saturation, skewing, both beautiful and more professional For the first time, I was thankful I took tint and sharpness. Like Photoshop, then past themes. Apple is moving these precautions. When you open an Apple includes a Histogram for evaluat- away from the cheesy amateur looks iLife ‘05 application, the newer appli- ing and adjusting images. The only and going for more useful themes. cation says it will change the iLife ‘04 fault is that with the histogram, there is DVD customization is enhanced by the Library such as the iPhoto Picture no way to adjust mid-tones, a definite addition of a menu play-head that Library or your iMovie or iDVD proj- shortcoming to an otherwise excellent allows you to add menu content at var- ect. You are warned that the library or tool set. ious points in time. project will be updated and will no longer work with older iLife applica- Finally, Apple has enhanced its photo- Apple fixed its most glaring omission to tions. This is problematic because if finishing choices with new album past versions of iDVD by adding status there are bugs in iLife ‘05 software you designs including new album sizes and information to the encoding and burn- would have no way of recovering old more economical softcover books. ing process. You can now see how far files or being able to run them using the Photo creation is still buggy and can be along the DVD creation process is at older applications. Loosing five years sluggish. Album creation works best any time. worth of digital photos and home when you use one of the templates, but Garage Band has several limited movies would be nothing short of dev- the minute you do any customization enhancements including the ability to astating to me which is why I take such such as changing a typeface, designs record multiple tracks at once, but precautions. Though iLife ‘05 didn’t become misaligned and iPhoto slows to you’ll need an expensive external box corrupt my media, enough people have a crawl. The best addition to iPhoto to take advantage of this feature. been reporting problems to make back- photofinishing is that prices are now GarageBand can also produce beautiful ing up your iLife ‘04 libraries and more in-line with other photofinishing musical notations of Midi notes. projects a must. Since the release of services, starting at just 19 cents for a 4 iLife ‘05, Apple has been releasing x 6 print. updates to correct the problems, but Bugs and Annoyances iLife ‘05 exhibits numerous bugs. Upon given this knowledge, is iLife ‘05 worth iPhoto slide show creation introduces the $79 upgrade price? its release, the Apple iLife support new transitions and other improve- forums were filled with complaints of ments. Slide show length can be destroyed iPhoto libraries and iMovie iLife and iPhoto matched to that of a soundtrack. Finally, As in the past, Apple focused on one projects. Apple immediately released one click of the mouse will send an fixes but these types of mistakes should application in the package to introduce iPhoto slide show to iDVD for burning. continued on page 5 or improve. Last year it was the intro- iPhoto still lacks some important fea- 4 continued from page 4 Download of the Month: NeoOffice/J never happen, especially with a fifth submitted by Debi Foss generation product. Though iPhoto 5 http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/download.php#download/ now seems solid, I find iMovie 5 quits often, forcing me to re-do project You don’t like Microsoft? You can’t small updates are made available on a changes. Apple definitely needs to do a afford Office? Well if you can run OS regular basis, as patches. better job of beta testing its software X, you are in luck! even if it means releasing the product It is available for free from the less than once a year. For these reasons, NeoOffice/J (J for java, not japanese) NeoOffice/J download page. I am for now sticking with iLife ’04, at is a full-featured set of office applica- http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/e least until the Apple Support Forums tions (including word processing, n/download.php#download show that the major bugs have been spreadsheet, presentation, and draw- thoroughly eliminated. ing programs) for Mac OS X. Based To install and run NeoOffice/J 1.1 on the OpenOffice.org office suite, Beta, you must have the following: One annoying iLife interface issue is NeoOffice/J has integrated dozens of * Mac OS X 10.2 or higher that many of the enhanced features and native Mac features and can import, * 256 MB of memory interface additions are taking place edit, and exchange files with other * 400 MB of free disk space through contextual menus otherwise popular office programs such as known as command-clicking. Hidden MicrosoftTM Office. Note: Because this download is rela- features have been added through tively large, we are option-clicking. Apple is moving Released as free, open-source soft- making available a towards this interface design strategy in ware under the GNU General Public limited number of all of its professional products, such as License (GPL), NeoOffice/J is fully copies on CD. The and DVD Studio Pro, but fails functional and stable enough for cost is $1.00 each. to mention this for iLife and particular- everyday use. The software is actively See Deb Foss at the ly iPhoto. Most users therefore miss developed, so improvements and meeting to obtain one. some very nice additions to the pro- gram. Apple should include better documentation explaining added fea- Laptop tures and where they can be found. Again, this lack of documentation is Batteries just plain sloppy. By Chris Hart CMC Secretary Is iLife ‘05 worth $79? Is it worth $30 Due to the num- more than iLife ‘04? The answer is an ber of questions unequivocal no! This is the first time I and complaints am not recommending Apple software. about batteries, With iLife ‘04, Apple introduced Apple has established a part of their site specifically for addressing questions GarageBand, which alone was worth and concerns on the topic. Find it at: http://www.apple.com/batteries/ $49, and the other iLife apps had very few bugs. With iLife ’05, it feels like Apple is using my digital life to beta test their products, and that just isn’t right. AND THE WINNER IS... However, for $79, I recommend people buy the very stable and much improved Nancy Zadroga’s name was drawn at Photoshop Elements 3. In fact, iPhoto 4 the February meeting, as the winner will allow you to set up a preference of the CMC Member Survey Raffle. where PS Elements becomes the exter- As her prize, Nancy chose $75 worth nal photo editor for iPhoto. Apple needs of downloadable music from the to realize that our commitment and pas- iTunes Music Store. Congratulations, sion for their products only extends to them when they are making good solid, Nancy! well-tested products that offer expand- ed features and value. As you can tell, I We’re grateful to everyone who found iLife ‘05 a big disappointment.  participated in the survey!

5 GarageBand 2.0 Ebooks by Jeff Tolbert) picks up where the “Take Control of Making Music with first ebook ends, looking at how to use GarageBand” version 2.0 Available from TidBITS/Take Control GarageBand to create musical com- by Jeff Tolbert Submitted by Bob Sawyer positions with vocals, drums, http://www.tidbits.com/takecontrol/ CMC Director guitars, MIDI keyboards, and even -music.html/ Take Control editor the kitchen sink! Jeff PDF format, 85 pages, free 27-page in chief Tonya Engst shares his GarageBand sample available Publication date: describes the first ebook, know-how and years of February 24, 2005 Price: $10.00 “Take Control of Making recording experience to help you get the “Take Control of Recording Music Music with GarageBand,” with GarageBand” version 2.0 as follows, “I’ve never been most out of your exist- ing gear or purchase by Jeff Tolbert musically inclined, and Apple’s intro- http://www.tidbits.com/takecontrol/ duction of GarageBand made me feel new equipment that fits your budget and style. garageband-recording.html/ old and terminally uncool. So when PDF format, 109 pages, free 37-page Seattle musician Jeff Tolbert proposed You’ll find real-world recording stu- dio techniques, learn how to use a sample available Publication date: writing a Take Control ebook about February 24, 2005 Price: $10.00  GarageBand, I figured that if he could microphone effectively, and discover hook me into using GarageBand, he how to apply effects like a pro. Clear could help anyone learn the program. steps and plenty of practical advice Amazingly enough, his step-by-step help you plan a recording session, instructions and linked audio exam- record multiple tracks at once, and fix ples (try that in a paper book!) mistakes easily. Two example songs allowed even me to create a tune that demonstrate many of the techniques sounded reminiscent of Pink Floyd discussed. Bonus! Linked-in audio (the height of cool for at least for lets you listen to examples while you some of us who graduated high school read about them. Remember us when in 1985). Jeff doesn’t stop at helping you’re famous! Both ebooks have beginners, though, and his mix of been comprehensively updated to music theory and GarageBand know- cover GarageBand 2.0, making them how will also help those with musical the first books about GarageBand 2.0 talent and GarageBand experience available! make even better songs. Usage tips and tricks abound, and there’s a nice Although the usual MUG discount of section on improving GarageBand’s 10% can be applied to the purchase of Here’s a sample of what is available: performance on older Macs or with these ebooks, anyone wishing to buy • Mac OS X Backups • Your AirPort Network both at once should instead use the • Sharing Files in Panther • Customizing Panther complex songs.” • Users/Accounts in Panther • Upgrading to Panther Buy Both! button on either book’s • Email with • Spam with Apple Mail The second ebook “Take Control of Web page (URLs below) in order to • What's New in Word 2004 • Buying a Mac Recording with GarageBand” (also pay only $17.50 ($2.50 savings). • Buying a Digital Camera • And Many More Titles!

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6 MacBasics 5: display in calibration. It’s not perfect, don’t like the results, you can just run in fact, it is very subjective, but you the Assistant again. Calibrating your monitor can’t beat the price. From Web Watch - 1/23/05, Do the adjustments it asks you to do. compiled by The MUG Center Now, the how. Go to the Apple Menu Just do your best. There really is no http://www.mugcenter.com and pull down to System Preferences. correct answer. When you get to the By Don Foy When the window opens, look for the Target White Point panel, this is where Displays panel. In the you can really make a difference. I Know how to calibrate displays panel, there work at a newspaper, using Photoshop your monitor? Know why are two tabs, Display to adjust photographs sometimes. So I you should? First the why, and Color if you have set my target white point very warm, then the how. a portable. A desktop which is to the left side, somewhere adds Geometry. If around 5,000. Most CRTs will have to You should calibrate your your image on your be set manually because the native monitor because every CRT is crooked or a white point will be 9,300. For LCDs, monitor is different, even little small for the the native white point will be about those from the same man- window or tilted 6,500. I keep my general use CRTs set ufacturer. Using the funny, Go to about 6,500 as well. You may like built-in tools in Mac OS Geometry and adjust yours set at 9,300. Hey, it’s your CRT; X, you can help your dis- that. You can always you can leave it that way if you like it play render color more go back to the factory that way. I find it too bright for my accurately and may be default if you mess it taste. able to extend the life of up too badly. your CRT (tube), or your In the next panel, check the box next to LCD screen. To calibrate the dis- “Allow other users to use this calibra- play, click on Color. tion.” In the next panel, give your This is because most dis- The Color tab shows calibration a name. The default name plays are shipped from the the display profile usually works. factory tuned to their options available for brightest setting. This may your display. I’m Once you have saved the calibration, look great when you writing this on a that name now appears in the Display power it up, but it if you PowerBook G4, so Profile Options window in the Color use your Mac in low light the profile options are panel of the Displays pref panel. You situations, it could make it LCD display, sRGB can select it to see the difference hard on your eyes. There and Generic RGB. I between the factory setting and your are some who say that dis- chose LCD display. new calibration. If you have multiple plays last longer when This way, the system users on the machine, each one can they are not turned up the knows what kind of have his own display prefs and his own their brightest settings. display you have. If calibration. And it makes it hard for you have a Samsung you to see your work sim- flat-panel display or a Ultimately, it’s up to you to decide ilar to what it will look Sony Trinitron CRT whether you like the calibration better like when printed. or whatever, look for or if you like the default settings. You your display in the are the one who has to look at the dis- Back in the olden days list. If it is not there, play.  (you know, 1993), display select Generic RGB. calibration was next to impossible Don Foy is a past president and cur- without spending a whole lot of money Next, click the calibrate button. At this rent Apple ambassador for the Upper and buying professional equipment. point, you should see the Display Cumberland Macintosh User Group in Even today professional calibration Calibrator Assistant. The procedure is Cookeville, Tennessee. He is also a equipment is available, but is really self-explanatory from this point. There former newspaper reporter who has only needed by imaging professionals. is a check box to turn on expert been fixing Macs for 13 years. His first options. I usually check it. You can try Mac was a Mac Plus maxed out with But Apple has provided built-in tools it without checking the box, or with 4MB of RAM and a 17MB hard drive. in OS X that will help you get your the box checked. Either way, if you

7 The Skype’s the Limit other IM service, and you can use Skype for IM if you want. Install a microphone By Charles Wu, NCMUG and speakers and you are ready Voice over IP, VOIP, to chat with others. If Internet telephony. you want to make calls These are a few of from your computer to Yes, I want to join CMC the words describing a regular phone, visit the latest and greatest the Skype web site and Benefits: application of the Internet, talking on the purchase SkypeOut credits in 10 Euro Monthly meetings, monthly newsletter, special phone. Phone companies such as AT&T, increments using your credit card. Skype events, discounted books, assistance with com- Vonage and Packet 8 have products that let doesn’t support US Dollars, and while the puter problem, network with other Mac users, Euro is very strong their rate is still very User Group Store discounts, and more. you use your regular phone over the Internet with hardware that connects to good. Once you have done this, you can call almost anywhere by typing in the Date ______your broadband. There are many ways Macintosh users can make phone calls phone number using the country code + Name ______over the Internet with software alone. city code + number to make a phone call. Before we get to how to make Internet You’ll be talking into your computer. The Address ______phone calls, we’ll answer the question cost is usually 0.02 - 0.03 Euros per why would I want to use my Mac to make minute depending on where in the world City ______phone calls? The first answer is that it can you are calling. save you money, especially if you make a State______Zip ______lot of international long distance calls. But Now in addition to making “phone” calls, a more interesting answer is that there are Skype has very good conference call capa- Phone (Home) ______a lot of new features that come with bilities. Allowing you to be able to have up Internet phone calling. to four lines to talk simultaneously. Even Phone (Office) ______with multiple SkypeOut calls it is much The first Internet phone application is cheaper and easier than using commercial Phone (Fax) ______iChat, included on every new Mac, it conference bridge services for small allows you to text, voice or video chat with groups. If you want to take advantage of Business______other Macintosh users. It is an excellent your home’s phone extensions, you can way to see how the Internet can improve create a conference call between your Occupation______how people communicate with each other. house phone and the number you want to The problem is that it only works with dial. Another neat application with Skype Email:______other Mac users, and we have to get better is for people who work collaboratively on extended projects, it’s possible to keep a Referred by:______at playing well with others. There is a free program called Skype that does just that. computer to computer “phone” line up for multiple hours without charge and be able Areas of special interest: ______Skype is an Internet telephony program to ask, informal questions without the ______from the creators of the peer to peer pro- necessity to make a phone call. A virtual gram Kazaa that is available for Windows, officemate. ______Linux and Mac. It does everything that iChat does but it also allows you to make Skype is not without its limitations. Much ______computer to computer voice calls whether of the quality of the call is a function of they use a Mac or not. It also does some- your microphone; my tests reveal that my Annual CMC Family thing else, it can make calls to almost any Powerbook’s internal microphone is suffi- phone in the world through a pay service cient for computer calls, but when using Membership - $25.00 they offer called SkypeOut.To get started, SkypeOut an external microphone Make check payable to CMC and download Skype from their website at improves clarity considerably. Lastly, mail to: www.skype.com. Installation is very sim- Skype calls seem to be inconsistent using 41 Crossroads Plaza, PMB 1984 ple, simply dragging it to your applications WiFi; for best results it’s best to be wired West Hartford, CT 06117 program and you’re done. Skype is contin- directly into your broadband connec- ...or ually improving so it is a good idea to visit tion.Despite these limitations, Skype’s pay online with PayPal at back every so often to download the latest quality of calls and its flexibility means it’s www.ctmac.org version. Launch Skype and create an easier than ever to “reach out and touch account, this is the same process as any someone” with your Mac. 

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9 2004-2005 CMC Officers and Board of Directors

President Don Dickey Vice President Rich Lenoce Secretary Chris Hart Treasurer David Gerstein [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 860-232-2841 860-347-1789 860-291-9393

PR Jerry Esposito Past President/Ambassador Joseph Arcuri Newsletter Design George Maciel [email protected] [email protected] 860-485-1547 [email protected] 860-561-0319

Editor/Auction Deena Quilty Webmaster Brian Desmond Raffles Robert Sawyer [email protected] 860-678-8622 [email protected] (860) 668-8728 [email protected] 860-677-7787

Download of the Month Debbie Foss Special Events Jack Bass Parlimentarian/Historian Connie Scott [email protected] 860-583-1165 [email protected] [email protected] 860-584-9573 Caricatures by Bill Dougal of Lebanon, (860) 456-9041. Available for illustration assignments and event caricatures. 10 CMC Monthly Meeting Discounted Books! FREE Raffle! March 30 • 7:00 PM CMC continues to offer our cur- Every CMC member who attends our rent members the opportunity to monthly meetings gets a raffle ticket. The Macintosh in Astronomy purchase any published book for This will give you a chance for one of Presenter: John Pellino either Mac or Windows at a 20% our free prizes every month! You Special Location: TALCOTT discount. All major publishers are could win…t-shirts, toys, CDs, mugs, MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER carried by our source. software …there’s always something we’re giving away! And don’t forget We all know Macs are used for creating dig- Contact a Board Member or send ital media and in business but did you know the Free table at the back of the room an email to [email protected]. where everything is...FREE! Macs play a leading role in Astronomy? The Provide the book title, the pub- Macintosh’s imaging power and sophistica- lisher and the ISBN number, if tion are used by thousands of backyard and possible, and he will check on its Treasurer’s Report professional astronomers. The people at the availability. Normally, the wait is Talcott Mountain Science Center will walk not too long. New Members! us through connecting and using We need new members! Have your Macintosh computers to home telescopes friends and co-workers join us for fun and and all of the things you can do with it. learning about OSX and the Mac. Hopefully the night will be clear! SPECIAL Total Membership: 128 DIRECTIONS FROM I-84 EAST NOTICE! Take Exit 43 “West Harford Center” and turn left onto Park Road. Park becomes Changes regarding Account Balances Sedgwick, and sweeps right and becomes access to the Checking Balance ...... $1541.76 Mountain Road. Follow Mountain Road CMC website: Savings Balance ...... $3967.61 to the intersection with Rt 44 (4.5 miles www.ctmac.org from the exit). Take a left onto Rt 44. Go 2 Balances as of March 3, 2005 miles, and take a right onto Montevideo • Member expiration date Road. Go in 1.5 miles. The entrance is on • Membership number FREE Classified Ads the right and the administration building (for free shipping at MacConnection) is the first building on your left. CMC Members can Advertise For • CMC Web site username Sale, Swap, Trade, Giveaway or Want DIRECTIONS FROM I-84 WEST and password to Buy Items. This space can be used Take Exit 39 “Rt 4 Farmington” and stay ...are now located on your by members to advertise non-business on the connector to the center of newsletter mailing label. items which they are no longer using Farmington. Take a right onto Rt 10 or upgrading. This is a FREE North. Follow Rt 10 North for approx. 6 Please make a service provided to our members. miles and take a right onto Rt 44 East. Go note of it NOW! Send submissions via email to 1 mile, take a left onto Montevideo Road. [email protected] Go 1.5 miles. The entrance is on the right and the administration building is the first CMC Elections Display Ad Rates building on your left. The members of the 2005 Any business items or services can CARPOOLING: We will meet in the park- Nominating Committee are be advertised at the low monthly rates ing lot at Crossroads Plaza (directly Connie Scott and Jerry Esposito. listed below. opposite the Bishops Corner Branch President, Vice President, Business Card ...... $10.00 Library lot) and will leave at 6:30 pm. Secretary and Treasurer positions Quarter Page...... $20.00 will be voted on at the May gen- Half Page...... $30.00 Back To Basics eral meeting. Anyone interested in Full Page (or insert) ...... $50.00 running for any of these positions There is no session this month. should contact Connie Scott Submit all ad copy to the Editor on a disk Look forward to its return in April. (with nothing else on it) or e-mail it to [email protected] or [email protected] for insertion in the April 27 • 7:00 PM – iDVD Jerry Esposito [email protected],or following issue. Display ads must be speak with either Connie or Jerry submitted camera-ready in eps or pdf for- Presenter: Rich Lenoce at any general meeting. mat with all fonts and graphics embedded. Make check payable to CMC. 11 41 Crossroads Plaza Ð PMB 1984 West Hartford, CT 06117

Monthly Meeting March 30 • 7 PM The Macintosh in Astronomy Presenter: John Pellino Special Location: TALCOTT MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER (carpool info and directions on page 11)

CMC Meeting Location a PDF document containing a visual direction guide to UConn Health Center is available on our website: www.ctmac.org. Print and take it with you to find us easily!

Monthly meetings will be held at UConn Health Center in Farmington. When hands-on programs require computers for attendees, we will be using Middlesex Community College in Middletown.

Directions to UCHC, Farmington Directions to Middlesex C.C. From I-84: Take Exit 39 (if coming from I-84 West, From the Hartford area, take Route 9 South. A few Exit 39 is after 39A). Turn right at first traffic light onto miles south of downtown Middletown on Route 9, take Route 4 East (Farmington Avenue). At third traffic light, turn Exit 11 (Rt. 155, Randolph Road). At the end of the right to enter the Health Center campus. Go around the main ramp (for both N. & S. bound), turn right onto building to the right (at a Y in road), then take a left when Randolph Road. Continue to the traffic light at the top you get to the Academic Entrance. The road becomes two- of the hill and turn left onto Saybrook Road. Go a quar- way there so you should be able to tell where to turn. (Do ter of a mile and turn right onto Reservoir Road. Travel not go on straight to the two-way part). Then take the second past the stop sign, then take the first right onto Training right into parking lot A&B. this is close to the building. Go Hill Road. Your first left will lead into the Middlesex past the police station entrance on your left (small sign). You Community College Campus parking area. When you will see a continuation of the building with its own entrance arrive on campus, take a right onto Training Hill Road. area. This is the new research building. Enter on the ground Go to the second parking lot entrance and take a left floor, turn right and enter room EG-013 on your right. This into the upper lot. Directly in front of you will be Snow is the first room on your right. The rest rooms are on your Hall. Enter Snow Hall and go up the stairs to the 2nd left as you enter. floor and go to the last room on the right, Room 509.

12 Monthly Meeting April 27 • 7 PM iDVD Presenter: Rich Lenoce UConn Health Center Room EG-013 Back To Basics – 6 PM (See info on page 11) NEWSLETTER OF CONNECTICUT MACINTOSH CONNECTION, INC.APRIL 2005

Just Out Of The Box Once you’ve plugged in your key- select a disk format type of Mac OS board, mouse, monitor (if not built Extended and not Unix. By Don Dickey, in), and power cord, it’s time to fire CMC president it up. When it asks you to cre- At the next screen, click the Customize ate an Apple ID choose to button. You can safely uncheck Extra You just arrived home with skip this step. Similarly, Speech Voices, Asian fonts, foreign lan- a brand new Mac. What’s when you get to the screen guages, and printer drivers for brands next? Read on to find out when it asks you for your other than the printer(s) you have. My where you should start and name, address, and other choice is to turn off all the printer driv- what you should do. contact info, you should type ers. Once OS X is installed, you can in your first name only. Then, download and install the latest driver The first step must be com- hold down the Command for the printer(s) you have (instead of pleted before you break the (Apple) key and press Q (for letting Apple install drivers for all seal on the box! Call at least one trust- Quit). Choose Skip from the dialog box Epson’s printers, for instance). ed Mac friend, hopefully a “guru,” to that pops up. Do not enter a password share the info of your recent purchase. when asked; just leave that field blank You can also uncheck applications you Questions you should ask include “Did for now. don’t want or need. Programs like I get a good deal?” and “Did I purchase iDVD and GarageBand take up giga- the right machine for my needs?” Once The next step involves a brief “kicking bytes of space and you can skip either you break the seal, a healthy restocking of the tires.” Just poke around and see or both of them if you don’t plan on fee applies to most returns to the Apple what’s installed on the hard drive. Try a using them on this computer. Store. You can usually avoid this fee by few programs and experiment with returning unopened computers within your new Mac to become familiar with You should install the BSD subsystem, the allowable time frame (usually two it. Don’t go too far, however, as the next however. Turning this off can prevent weeks). step erases everything you’ve done! other programs from running correctly later on. I found out when I skipped it Too many times I’ve learned about That’s right, the next step is to erase the on my PowerBook and later had trouble friends and family who bought a Mac hard drive and reinstall everything! with Acrobat. Installing the BSD sub- and later learned they could have gotten Why? Because default installations of system fixed my Acrobat problem! an educational discount, should have OS X that Apple ships include tons of custom ordered their machine with more stuff you don’t need. They’ve thrown in Some models such as the new Mini RAM, or should have bought a com- drivers for all makes and models of include AppleWorks as part of the sys- pletely different model for their needs. printers, fonts for Asian languages, and tem install DVD. I was surprised to find lots of other stuff you’ll never use. This Now that you’ve confirmed you got the excess baggage can be easily eliminat- Continued on page 2 right machine at a fair price, go ahead ed on Day One by doing a custom and open the box. Be careful to save reinstall of OS X. Just Out of the Box...... 1 everything, including the box and pack- Review: Magic Bullet Editor ...... 3 ing materials, just in case your machine To proceed, insert the OS X Install DVD Mac 911 Help Desk...... 4 is DOA (dead on arrival) or fails during (or first Install CD) and double-click the Recycle That Computer...... 5 the first two weeks. I’ve seen hard installer. This will reboot your new Mac Selecting Safe Passwords ...... 6 drives die on brand new computers. off the disc and start the installer. Click Review: Akvis Retoucher...... 8 They seem to last either a few days or a the lower left Options button to choose MUG Special Offers...... 9 few years, and in most cases, fortunate- an installation type to “Erase the Hard ly, the latter is true. Drive Before Installing.” Be sure to Meetings and Club News ...... 11

1 Continued from page 1 it was not selected by default, so if you AOL members will have to install that want AppleWorks you’ll need to check software from a CD as Apple no longer it’s box yourself pre-installs AOL. If you don’t have an AOL CD, I’ve seen them at local post Once the installer is running, go have a offices, supermarkets, and bookstores. coffee and relax for a few minutes. There’s nothing to worry about. If you Verify your Internet access is working forgot something, you can rerun the by launching Apple’s Safari web installer or manually install most com- browser from the Dock at the bottom of ponents later. your screen. If you’re online, the next step is to update your software. From Editor After the installer completes and your the Apple Menu choose Software Deena Quilty computer boots back up in OS X, Update. Any updates that were released you’re probably almost back to where since your OS X discs were created will you were when you powered up the show up here. TIP: A call to your Content Contributor first time. This time you can create the favorite “guru” might save you from Don Dickey Apple ID if you want or skip it. installing an update you don’t need or Similarly, you can fill out your person- shouldn’t run. It is very important that Contributing Author al info or skip it as before. The choice is any update process be allowed to com- Rich Lenoce yours as to how much info you want to plete before powering down your Chris Hart share with the mothership. computer! Pulling the plug during an update might leave you with an unsta- Designer Likewise, the choice is yours whether ble or unbootable computer. George Maciel you protect your Mac with a password. Just remember that if you do, you’ll Finally, once you’re online and updat- Photographer have to type it in every time you log on ed, you can configure Apple’s Mail (or John Scott or run an installer. your favorite email program) with your address and server info. Earthlink Publisher With your OS installed, you should use members can use their TotalAccess Connecticut Macintosh the Restore Disc to reinstall optional software to help with this step. Connection, Inc. components you might want such as 41 Crossroads Plaza Classic Mode (OS9). You can also run through the various PMB 1984 Control Panels in System Preferences If you have another Mac, current releas- and change the settings to suit your West Hartford, CT 06117 es of OS X installed on new Macs needs. If your system goes to sleep include a feature that can transfer your every time you answer the phone or Printer old data and applications automatically. your mouse isn’t responsive enough, Budget Printers You’ll need a FireWire cable between this is where you adjust such things. 1718 Park Street the two machines to use this feature. If Hartford, CT 06106 you don’t have one, you should buy or Lastly, install applications and hard- borrow one before going too far with ware drivers. You should check We welcome submissions the setup process as it could save you manufacturers’ web sites for updates or from members! some time and steps. current versions of software and driv- Please submit articles by first of ers. Examples include scanners and the month for inclusion in our If you have broadband Internet access, printers that shipped with drivers for newsletter. There is much talent you should set up your network next. Jaguar (OS X version 10.2.x) and need in our group; it would be great This may be automatic with some sys- new drivers for Panther (10.3.x). to have several member articles tems such as cable modems. If you Fortunately, your digital camera will in each issue. have a cable modem connected directly probably work with Apple’s iPhoto to your computer via Ethernet, you without even needing to install a driver! should power cycle the modem for it to “handshake” with your new machine. If I hope this article helped maximize your it doesn’t have a switch just unplug it’s “out of the box” experience. Now it’s power cord and plug it back in. time to have fun with your new Mac! 

2 Software Review: ter selection to the clip Thank Your that you’d like to add Magic Bullet Editors the preset to and ren- Lucky Stars from Red Giant Software der. You’re done. It’s CMC’s Board of Directors extends that easy. If you don’t By Rich Lenoce it’s sincere gratitude to the Talcott CMC Vice President like the look, you can Undo or adjust the Mountain Science Center for hosting our March meeting. There are very few pieces of many parameters. I software that I give a WOW found some of the In particular, we’d like to thank award to. Let’s face it, there’s looks a little overdone lots of good freeware and share- for what I needed, but TMSC’s Assistant Director John ware out there, so to me, laying out by adjusting a few of the filter param- Pellino for organizing the evening big cash for expensive software eters I was able to give my a and demonstrating some cool Mac means it not only needs to be good, it more subtle but still effective “look.” astronomy software, and TMSC needs to make me say WOW! Magic Astronomer Mark Meredith for a Bullet for Editors (List $299) is one Magic Bullet can also make video wonderful planetarium show and look like old film. Many companies that I’d call WOW software. view of the night sky from “the offer tools that add random grain and ridge.” Magic Bullet Editors is a Final Cut scratches to video. Magic Bullet’s is Pro plug-in that gives videos a film the first product that looks convincing because it makes the entire frame look Besides learning about TMSC’s ori- look. There are many parameters you gins and facilities, we were treated to can adjust to give your video the look like film, not video, and applies the great views of the night sky including of new or old film. Not only does scratches and dust to that look. Magic Jupiter, with several of it’s moons Magic Bullet add film-like qualities to Bullet also does an excellent job of video such as grain, soft edges and a converting color video to a black and visible, and Saturn, complete with it’s more film-like gamma, its true power white film look. colorful rings. Fortunately, Mother comes from the 50 presets that can Nature cooperated with the TMSC make clips within your video or your The downside of Magic Bullet Editors team to make this a meeting everyone entire video look like a specific film. is its slow render times. To apply attending enjoyed. Remember the bright yellow desert these complex filters Magic Bullet needs to render each pixel of each scenes in Traffic? Or the beautiful If you couldn’t be with us you’ll have frame with these very extensive greens and reds from Amalie? The to make do with a virtual tour! washed look of The Matrix? The sil- parameters to give the appearance of film. Depending on the look needed, Visit: g3.tmsc.org/astronomy/ for a ver sheen of Gladiator? There are look-see at what you missed. presets to make your video have the clips were taking hours to render on same look as these and 45 other films. my dual 2.0 ghz G5. You can preview You can adjust these presets to your the Magic Bullet look prior to output, liking using dozens of parameters. but expect long wait times to see the Magic Bullet truly duplicates the look final results. of a Hollywood film setting it apart from any other software. So, stop complaining about the garish look of digital video. If you are in no The software is easy to install and use. hurry, Magic Bullet is the tool to make any video look like processed Run the installer, type in the serial  number and files are placed in FCP film. WOW! plug-ins folder. Tip of the Month A Final Cut file comes with the from Jack Bass installer that provides the Magic You should be aware of the danger of destroying a CD or DVD disc by Bullet “Looks” Presets. When you are bending and snapping it in half. DON’T DO IT! I did it and had many ready to add your Magic Bullet clips pieces of the disc fly all over the room in all directions. This could to your project, simply double click very possibly injure your eyes. Plus, you find pieces of all shapes and the file while your FCP project is sizes of it days later, and even the silver foil delaminates from the open and the Magic Bullet “Looks” surface in small pieces too. preset palette will open. Drag your fil-

3 Mac 911 link, which will whisk you to the If the Hiragino font is missing, you Moviefone site, where you can view could get it back by reinstalling OSX, Help Desk the trailer (See screenshot). If Apple but there’s an easier way. Download By Christopher Breen has managed to get the feature work- Charles Srstka’s $20 share-ware utility ing again, vaporize not only that .plist Pacifist, and use it to extract the font Subpar Service file (found at your user folder/ from the Panther installer disc(s). You’ll I want to highlight text in an application, Library/Preferences), but also find the font by following this path: choose Send Selection from that program’s Sherlock’s cache folder (your user ContentsofOSInstall.mkpkg/Contents of Services menu, and watch as a new mes- folder/Library/Caches/ Sherlock). If EssentialSystemSoftware.mkpkg/ Contents sage opens in Apple’s Mail with the that doesn’t work, create a new user- ofEssentials.pkg/System/Library/Fonts. selected text ready to send. Instead, the account, switch to that account, copy Mail application window comes to the fore, its com.apple.Sherlock.plist file and Note that the font’s name includes a but the message with the selected text does Sherlock cache folder to the root level series of Japanese characters that you not. Is there a solution for this problem? of your hard drive, switchback to your might not be able to read. The font you —Larry Singer primary account, and replace that want has a name that ends with Pro user’s files with the ones from the W4.otf, and it weighs in at 9.6MB. It Look at the goal rather than the tool. account you just created. normally lives in theFonts folder within The Send Selection service is an inad- the System folder—a folder for which equate tool not only because it doesn’t Quite a Character you lack permissions. If you’d rather bring a new e-mail message to the I just upgraded to Microsoft PowerPoint not change those permissions, simply fore, but also because it works only 2004, and now when I launch the program add the font to your user account’s Font with Apple’s Mail. When I want to I see an alert that displays what appear to folder (your user folder/Library/Fonts). mail a chunk of text automatically, I be Asian characters and a message that use Script Software’s $30 macroutili- claims this font is unavailable on my com- If the Microsoft font is missing, insert ty, iKey. It gets the job (and any puter. My presentations don’t use this font, your Office 2004 disc, open the number of other jobs) done, and it so why the substitution? —Ken Chupp Microsoft Office 2004 folder, the does so with any e-mail client you Office folder therein, and then the Fonts want to use. PowerPoint 2004 displays this error folder inside that folder. Copy the MS message when it’s missing an Asian PMincho font to your user account’s Incredible as it may seem, clicking on font that’s installed with OS X or a font Fonts folder. Sherlock’s Movie Information for a that Microsoft Office installs when it link may be the only way to view first runs. The missing Apple font is Unsolicited Advice: Fix Font Book movie trailers in Sherlock. likely to be Hiragino KakuGothic Pro, While testing my advice to Ken Chupp, and the Microsoft font is MS PMincho. in “Quite a Character,” I used FontBook With iKey, I created a macro for copy- to disable both the Hiragino Kaku ing text to an e-mail message; the At this point, you have a couple of Gothic Pro and the MS PMinchofonts. macro copies the selected text, options. You can enable the fonts (or On completion of that testing, I launches my e-mail program, hides install them if they’re missing), or you attempted to reenable the fonts by other applications to ensure that the e- can tell PowerPoint to live without them. selecting them and clicking on Font mail client is the foremost app, creates Book’s Enable button. All went accord- a new message, and pastes the copied To instruct PowerPoint to proceed with- ing to plan when I selected the text into the message body. out certain fonts, open your PowerPoint grayed-out Hiragino font, butimagine presentation and choose Format: my consternation when I discovered Finding Sherlock’s Movies Replace Fonts. Select the Asian font in that the MS PMincho font had disap- Sherlock’s Movies channel has stopped the Replace pop-up menu, choose some- peared from Font Book. Repeated downloading trailers. I’ve trashed the thing more appropriate in the With field attempts to bring it back by employing com.apple.Sherlock.plist file in the hope (Times, for example), and click on the program’s Add Fonts command and that this would help. It didn’t. Do you Replace. The new font you’ve selected navigating to the location of the font did have a hint? —Paul Miller will replace all instances of the old one. no good. With luck, these fonts may still be on Yours is a two-part problem. Some- your Mac. To find out, launch Panther’s It was then that I recalled the existence times movie previews don’t load Font Book, select All Fonts from the of the com.apple.ATS.plist file (in your because of a failure on Apple’s end. In Collection column, and peer into the userfolder/Library/Preferences), which such cases, you can wait until Apple Font column. If one or both fonts are dis- tracks the fonts you’ve disabled in Font fixes it, or you can simply click on abled, select them and click on Enable. Sherlock’s Movie Information For continued on page 5

4 continued from page 4 Recycle That systems might refuse. I would urge you to put this special school at the top of Book and bars those fonts from loading Computer your list for computer donations. when you log in. I located and trashed by Chris Hart, this file and then logged out and back in CMC Secretary If your old equipment is so far gone that again. When I next launched Font no one wants it, then recycling is your Book, the MS PMincho font appeared During my presentation at the February smartest option. If you happen to live in in the Font list. meeting, on the topic of Caring For Your an area that has an electronics recycling Mac, some members asked about get- program operated by a town or utility, Tip of the Month: ting rid of old computers. I’m very glad you may be able to dispose of your Old-School Cursors to see that so many of you would like to computer hardware for free. For exam- In versions of Microsoft Word prior to see computers properly disposed of, and ple, a friend of mine who lives in Word 2004, Command-right arrow or not just thrown into the trash can. Orange, CT, has informed me that his town offers a yearly electronics recy- option-right arrow moved the cursor one Computers and related electronic equip- word forward, and Command-left arrow cling day for its residents. You may ment contain materials and compounds want to contact your town hall or local or option-left arrow moved the cursor that are harmful to the environment. one word back. Adding the shift key municipal recycling center about any Going out of your way to properly get such programs offered in your area. highlighted either the previous word rid of old computers and related acces- (left arrow) or next word(right arrow). sories will help us all to breathe easier. Your last option is a national computer recycling service, which accepts boxed The latest version has changed this so Out of a sense of social responsibility, shipments of computers and electronics. that only option-arrow moves the cursor many of the prominent computer manu- Unfortunately, protecting the environ- from word to word; press Command-left facturers have started offering computer ment is not free and these services arrow or Command-right arrow, and the recycling services in recent years. charge a fee, which varies according to cursor now jumps to the beginning or There are also independent computer the nature of the item(s) and the quanti- the end of a line, respectively. recyclers around the nation. ty. Yes, social responsibility has a price. But before you pursue recycling, you Below are some links to programs and After searching Word’s Tools: should consider donating that old com- Customize: Customize Keyboard: All services that either recycle or re-use puter. If it’s still functional, it may be computers. I hope you’ll find them use- Commandslist, I found WordLeft, suitable for donation to a not-for-profit WordRight, WordLeftExtend, and ful and you’ll go out of your way to keep organization that refurbishes and dis- your old computer out of the landfill. WordRightExtend(the latter two high- tributes used computers to those in light individual words). I changed need. These programs make computers Recycling by computer manufacturers: these commands to the familiar available to those who can’t afford to http://www.apple.com/environment/ Command-left arrow, Command-right buy one for themselves. recycling/nationalservices/us.html arrow, Command-shift-leftarrow, and https://warp1.external.hp.com/recycle/ Command-shift-right arrow to mimic Another great option for computer earlier Word keyboard navigation. If donation is your local school system. http://www-1.ibm.com/financing/ You’ll need to check with them as to you’re worried about losing the dispose/recycling.html what their requirements are for dona- StartOfLine, EndOfLine, StartOfLine tions, as many schools will no longer http://www.dell.com Extend, and EndOfLineExtend short- accept any and all computers offered. cuts, you can use the option key in Because the demands of the software Trade-Up Program From Gateway (PC): combination with an arrow key and they need to run is continuously https://www.gateway.tradeups.com the shift key for selecting lines. increasing, they may not be able to —Joe Kewekordes  Donating your computer for re-use: accept the computer you’re offering. Talcott Mountain Science Center John Pellino, Assistant Director [Contributing Editor Christopher Breen is However, there is a Hartford-area email: [email protected] also Playlistmag.com’s editorin chief school that is interested in a wide vari- http://www.cristina.org/dsf/ author of Macworld’s tips and trou- ety of computers. In fact, it’s where our http://www.c4k.org/pcdonations.php bleshooting column, “Mac911,” as well as March meeting was held Ð Talcott http://www.sharetechnology.org Secrets of the iPod: Fifth Edition and Mac Mountain Science Center in Avon. 911 (Peachpit Press). Find Chris’books at Those members who joined us on top of An example of a for-profit computer www.amazon.com and www.peachpit.com. the mountain can attest to the fact that recycler: Get special user group pricing on this facility gets the maximum mileage http://www.thegreenpc.com Macworld Magazine! Subscribe today at out of their computers! 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5 Selecting may make your life, it also makes the What To Use For A Password hacker’s life easy! Ideally, you would Safe Passwords Aim for at least six characters Ð have a different password for every the longer the better by Chris Hart, CMC Secretary single user ID, account, company, etc. Do use a password with mixed- As our personal and business lives that you do business with. However, I case alphabetic characters become more and more connected realize you may find that unreason- ably inconvenient. with the world of the Internet, our Do use a password with non- choice of passwords becomes more At a minimum, you should attempt to alphabetic characters (digits and and more critical. The pass phrases punctuation) you choose to protect your online use some variety in your passwords. accounts and information are essential For instance, use different passwords Do use a password that you won’t to keeping hackers out of your busi- for different purposes. For instance, forget use one password for your personal ness. If you’re careless with your password selections, access to your email, a second one for your logins at Do use a password that you can accounts could be easily compro- work, a third for your your online pur- type without having to look at the keyboard (which means it will mised by a resourceful hacker. You chases, etc.. Aligning your passwords with their uses in this way will help harder for those around you to could even find yourself the victim of observe the keys you type) identity theft Ð where another person you in remembering what password applies to the account you’re trying to assumes your identity in financial What Not to Use For A Password transactions and purchases Ð which access (helpful if you momentarily forget the password). Further, when it Don’t repeat your login name in could leave you responsible for the any form (even reversed, capital- debts accrued in your name. comes time to change a particular password, you know what accounts ized, etc.) you have to update with the new one. Thwarting The Hacker Don’t use any of your names, Your goal in choosing a password is to nicknames, or those of your imme- make a hacker’s life difficult. His first If you do employ a thematic approach diate family Ð no children! attempts at accessing your accounts to your passwords, I would strongly will utilize common words and phras- recommend that you not use it for Don’t use common names, such as es. He’ll also try educated guesses your financial accounts. These critical those from: religion, astrology, based on public information about areas, related to your ability to pay astronomy, cartoons, movies, TV, sports, and mythical stories you. Finally, he may employ auto- bills and conduct business, require the mated software that attempts to gain most careful of password selections. Your online banking pass phrases Don’t use information easily access by trying common combina- obtained about you Ð license plate tions of letters, words, numbers, etc. should be as long, convoluted and hard to guess as you can bear to live numbers, telephone numbers, social security number, the car you with. The good news is, while hackers are drive, the name of the street you determined folks, they can still be live on, etc. thwarted. A thoughtful effort on your If you use “public” computers part to choose an effective password (library, internet cafe, conference Don’t use a password with only will make the unlocking of your room), realize that it is very easy for digits, or only letters accounts require more effort and time your activity to be recorded (including Don’t use a word contained in than the average hacker wants to be every single key that you press). With (English or foreign language) dic- bothered with. He’ll move on to this in mind, you should have a pass- word for the accounts you access in tionaries or lists of common words cracking the accounts of someone and phrases who has been less smart than you in these venues. Change that password frequently and keep it unique. the selection of their passwords. Don’t use birth dates!

Password Advice Password Guidelines Don’t use common abbreviations The number one piece of password Now that I’ve shared some password advice I would give you is to never use advice, let me give you some specific Don’t use keyboard patterns, such the same password for all your guidelines that will be useful in choos- as “qwerty” and “asdf” accounts. Regardless of how easy this ing actual passwords: continued on page 7

6 continued from page 6 (Almost) No Worries Making Passwords Memorable With the proper precautions taken and some smart choices for passwords, Choose a line from a favorite you’ll be able to bank online and movie, song or poem, and use the make those impulsive eBay purchases, first letter of each word. For exam- ple, the lyric “I’m as free as a bird with the confidence that your accounts now’’ could be used as “iAfAAbn” are safe. Be careful out there! Consider using the same number Safe Places For Passwords of characters in all your pass- words, so that you’ll always know The following software provides how many characters to type. encrypted information storage: Use alternate, phonetic spellings Apple’s of words Ð examples: “rootEEn’’, (included with OS9 and OSX) “eluhVate”, “deZZurt” http://www.apple.com/support/ minimum level of protection that you Combine words you personally should consider using. Steel find memorable with a punctua- http://homepage.mac.com/ gabrieledesimone/Steel/ tion character between them Ð The safest place to store your private e xamples: “snoW*Kats”, data is an encrypted document. iNotePad “coffEE+crEEm”, “biLLy%goots” http://www.vojousoftware.com Encryption actually scrambles the contents of a file, so that anyone unau- Passwords Plus Change Passwords Regularly thorized will not be able to determine works on Mac, Palm and Windows Passwords should be changed on a what’s inside. The utilities listed at http://www.dataviz.com regular basis Ð as frequently as you the end of this article encrypt the doc- SplashWallet can tolerate. uments they create, which means that works on Mac, Palm and Windows they are virtually unhackable. This http://www.splashdata.com Saving Your Passwords kind of security is essential, for exam- While security experts advise that you Password Master ple, if you have a laptop computer as a http://www.railheaddesign.com never write down your passwords any- constant companion and you want to (click on Software link at top) where, I realize how impractical that use it for retaining valuable personal advice is. So I must urge you to never Vault information. www.geocities.com/dagronf/vault/ leave your list of passwords out in the open, or in a place that is easily accessed in your absence. When list- ing your passwords, consider Download of the Month: PiquantMenu 1.6.1 recording just a part of the actual submitted by Debi Foss sequence. For instance, using the PiquantMenu 1.6.1 is a small menu that eppc protocol). Play list navigation is sim- above example “coffEE+crEEm” does five things well: ple & fast. You can automatically play a playlist, upon opening PiquantMenu, for Applications Menu for accessing applica- you could write down just “coffee+ use as alarm . _____”. This will remind you of the tions. Menus divide Apple applications password when you see it, but won’t and non-Apple Applications, don’t add Various options regroup “hidden” launched applications and don’t show options for Dock, Finder, & Exposé©. give away the full code to anyone who folder for minimum items. Contains Password Generator and Page may get their hands on your password Updater module. list. Files browser for fast access from menu bar. Function proposes advanced options And, PiquantMenu regroups utilities and for display items of folder sub-folder on small applications downloaded during If you store your passwords on your current folder level (same menu), this limit your visits on the Net; they move to a computer, don’t keep them in a docu- number of sub-menus to be displayed. A “Modules” folder and are added to the ment that anybody can access with sub-menu control can be grafted for man- general menu. just a double click. For instance, ager items with traditional operations Product Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3. Stickies would be a bad place. (copy & past, get infos, delete...) without Finder. http://www.versiontracker.com/php/dlpage. Documents that are password-protected php?id=21635&db=mac&pid=45332&kind Ð such as using the document locking iTunes AS menu controls iTunes on your =&lnk=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mparrot. feature in Microsoft Word Ð offer the Mac or other Mac on the network (using net%2Fdownloads%2Fpiquantmenu.dmg

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9 2004-2005 CMC Officers and Board of Directors

President Don Dickey Vice President Rich Lenoce Secretary Chris Hart Treasurer David Gerstein [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 860-232-2841 860-347-1789 860-291-9393

PR Jerry Esposito Past President/Ambassador Joseph Arcuri Newsletter Design George Maciel [email protected] [email protected] 860-485-1547 [email protected] 860-561-0319

Editor/Auction Deena Quilty Webmaster Brian Desmond Raffles Robert Sawyer [email protected] 860-678-8622 [email protected] (860) 668-8728 [email protected] 860-677-7787

Download of the Month Debbie Foss Special Events Jack Bass Parlimentarian/Historian Connie Scott [email protected] 860-583-1165 [email protected] [email protected] 860-584-9573 Caricatures by Bill Dougal of Lebanon, (860) 456-9041. Available for illustration assignments and event caricatures. 10 CMC Monthly Meetings Discounted Books FREE Raffle! Monthly CMC Meetings are held on last CMC continues to offer our cur- Every CMC member who attends our Wednesday of the month from 7:00 - 9:00 rent members the opportunity to monthly meetings gets a raffle ticket. P.M. (except November and December purchase any published book for This will give you a chance for one of when the meetings are held one week either Mac or Windows at a 20% our free prizes every month! You earlier due to the holidays). Location below. discount. All major publishers are could win…t-shirts, toys, CDs, mugs, Board meetings are held on the first carried by our source. software …there’s always something Thursday of the month. If you wish to we’re giving away! And don’t forget Contact a Board Member or send attend a Board meeting, contact an officer the Free table at the back of the room for time & location. an email to [email protected]. where everything is...FREE! Provide the book title, the pub- Wednesday, April 27, 2005 lisher and the ISBN number, if possible, and he will check on its Treasurer’s Report 6:00 P.M. – Back to Basics availability. Normally, the wait is This month’s session will explore using not too long. New Members! AppleWorks to create and print lists. We need new members! Have your Whether you’re running a small business friends and co-workers join us for fun and or just trying to send out greeting cards, NOTICE! learning about OSX and the Mac. we’ll walk you through the steps. • Member expiration date Total Membership: 131 7:00 P.M. – iDVD • Membership number Presenter: Rich Lenoce (for free shipping at MacConnection) Account Balances Location: UConn Health Center • CMC Web site username Checking Balance ...... $1300.55 iDVD is Apple’s powerful DVD creation and password Savings Balance ...... $3969.46 tool. With customizable themes and sophisti- ...are now located on your cated navigation, anyone can simply create Balances as of April 6, 2005 newsletter mailing label. highly stylized DVDs to distribute and archive their videos, photos and music. Make a note of it NOW! FREE Classified Ads Learn how to use this revolutionary program. CMC Members can Advertise For Upcoming Meetings & Events CMC Elections Sale, Swap, Trade, Giveaway or Want May 25, 2005 to Buy Items. This space can be used The members of the 2005 by members to advertise non-business Tiger OSX Nominating Committee are Connie items which they are no longer using Presenter: The Scott and Jerry Esposito. President, or upgrading. This is a FREE Location: Apple Store, WestFarms Vice President, Secretary and service provided to our members. Treasurer positions will be voted on Send submissions via email to July 12 – 14, 2005 at the May general meeting. Anyone [email protected] MacWorld Expo Boston interested in running for any of these positions should contact Connie Location: Hynes Convention Center Display Ad Rates Scott [email protected] As in past years, CMC will offer a group daytrip or Jerry Esposito [email protected],or Any business items or services can to MacWorld Expo. Look for details on how to speak with either Connie or Jerry at be advertised at the low monthly rates secure your seat on the bus in upcoming issues any general meeting. listed below. of our newsletter! You can register for a free Business Card ...... $10.00 MacWorld Expo Exhibit Hall pass until June 10th at: www.macworldexpo.com/ When fill- Getting CMC emails? Quarter Page...... $20.00 ing out the order form, use priority code Half Page...... $30.00 B0201 (zeroes, not the letter “O”). We always send out advance notice Full Page (or insert) ...... $50.00 of the meetings, and sometimes for big news or special events (like our Submit all ad copy to the Editor on a disk bus trip to Macworld). If you’re not (with nothing else on it) or e-mail it to FOR SALE Accessories for a 2nd Gen. [email protected] for insertion in the iPod. New, unused replacement battery getting them, please email us at [email protected] with your following issue. Display ads must be (still wrapped), Griffin iTrip, Remote control. current email address and a subject submitted camera-ready in eps or pdf for- Email [email protected] mat with all fonts and graphics embedded. line of: ADD TO CMC EMAIL LIST Make check payable to CMC. 11 41 Crossroads Plaza Ð PMB 1984 West Hartford, CT 06117

Monthly Meeting April 27 – 7 PM iDVD Presenter: Rich Lenoce at UConn Health Center Room EG-013 Back To Basics – 6 PM (See info on page 11)

CMC Meeting Location a PDF document containing a visual direction guide to UConn Health Center is available on our website: www.ctmac.org. Print and take it with you to find us easily!

Monthly meetings will be held at UConn Health Center in Farmington. When hands-on programs require computers for attendees, we will be using Middlesex Community College in Middletown.

Directions to UCHC, Farmington Directions to Middlesex C.C. From I-84: Take Exit 39 (if coming from I-84 West, From the Hartford area, take Route 9 South. A few Exit 39 is after 39A). Turn right at first traffic light onto miles south of downtown Middletown on Route 9, take Route 4 East (Farmington Avenue). At third traffic light, turn Exit 11 (Rt. 155, Randolph Road). At the end of the right to enter the Health Center campus. Go around the main ramp (for both N. & S. bound), turn right onto building to the right (at a Y in road), then take a left when Randolph Road. Continue to the traffic light at the top you get to the Academic Entrance. The road becomes two- of the hill and turn left onto Saybrook Road. Go a quar- way there so you should be able to tell where to turn. (Do ter of a mile and turn right onto Reservoir Road. Travel not go on straight to the two-way part). Then take the second past the stop sign, then take the first right onto Training right into parking lot A&B. this is close to the building. Go Hill Road. Your first left will lead into the Middlesex past the police station entrance on your left (small sign). You Community College Campus parking area. When you will see a continuation of the building with its own entrance arrive on campus, take a right onto Training Hill Road. area. This is the new research building. Enter on the ground Go to the second parking lot entrance and take a left floor, turn right and enter room EG-013 on your right. This into the upper lot. Directly in front of you will be Snow is the first room on your right. The rest rooms are on your Hall. Enter Snow Hall and go up the stairs to the 2nd left as you enter. floor and go to the last room on the right, Room 509.

12 Monthly Meeting May 25 • 7 PM Tiger OS X Apple Store Westfarms Mall Directions: http://www.apple.com/ retail/westfarms/map/ NEWSLETTER OF CONNECTICUT MACINTOSH CONNECTION, INC.MAY 2005

My Wish List PowerTab You would purchase the Mini module Tablet PCs have been around in the with the optical and hard drive options By Don Dickey, Windoze world for some time now. desired, purchase the Cinema display CMC president It’s amazing that Apple has never size desired, and simply screw the Apple is regarded by done this, but I’d be interested in see- CPU module to the back of the dis- many as one of the ing them implement a tablet running play. The mating connectors would most innovative com- OS X. Here’s the concept in a nut- supply video and power to the display, panies in its field. shell: take a PowerBook, allow the lid so you’d only have to connect the Using my experi- to pivot horizontally and flip so the power brick to the computer module. ence in product exposed top surface when closed can development, either be the aluminum exterior or the Putting the power supply in a brick I’ve given some exposed screen. Instead of the usual would make the desktop equipment thought to TFT display, use a custom version of lighter, quieter, and cooler. You would their current product line and decided Wacom’s Cintiq. You would navigate be able to mix and match CPUs and to offer some suggestions to “plug the with a stylus (or your fingertip) displays, and you’d have a nice clean holes.” The main rule I’ve followed is instead of a mouse, and the OS X desk with no visible CPU box. The that every suggestion must be feasible, Inkwell technology would instantly power supply would come with the with a minor extension of today’s recognize your printing for text input. display, not the CPU module. That technology. This would enable the With the screen opened conventional- way the displays would be universal “mothership” to capitalize on such ly, the PowerTab would use traditional and could also be used with ideas within a 12 month timeframe. keyboard and track pad inputs. PowerMac G5 towers and Windoze Flipping the lid would automatically PCs since the video connector is a PowerMac G5 Quattro put it into tablet mode and make the standard DVI jack. Over a year ago Steve Jobs promised Cintiq screen and Inkwell operational. us the Dual 3 ghz PowerMac G5. Suggested retail pricing for the PC manufacturers could even come up Unfortunately, IBM has been unable PowerTab would be $2999 (with a with a CPU module containing a to produce a steady stream of fast SuperDrive, of course). Pentium chipset that could mate with enough processors to make this a real- Apple’s Universal Display. Apple ity. I offer a solution to Apple for iMac G5 Modular System would probably sell a lot more of their those power users out there who yearn This system is really three components. beautiful displays. I doubt they’d for more juice: The PowerMac G5 The first is a G5 version of the Mini but loose any CPU sales either because with integrated DVI display and coaxi- Quattro would leverage the present Continued on page 2 day 2 ghz G5 chip by implanting not al power connectors on its bottom, and a pair of thumb screws on its top. The two but four processors in its heart. My Wish List ...... 1 second component is an updated Using 2 ghz chips instead of the over- Hidden Gems...... 4 clocked and heat pumping 2.5 chips Cinema display with integrated rear- facing DVI and power connectors. The Digital Photography Websites ...... 5 should be cooler, more reliable, and Take Control Ebooks-Tiger OS X...... 6 cheap enough to offer the new Quattro third component is a single power brick A PIM Comparison...... 8 at a price point of $2,999, right where capable of powering both the computer Upgrading a Linksys Router ...... 8 Apple usually positions its top-of-the and display components and would be MUG Special Offers...... 9 line tower. very similar to that supplied with the existing Mac Mini. Meetings and Club News ...... 11

1 Continued from page 1 “switchers” are actually fairly rare in but photos and movies to your TV both camps. They might even gain a wirelessly. What a boon to folks doing few as people buying an Apple display slide shows and making iMovies! Of and a Pentium module could easily course, it would come with the stan- purchase a Mac module later on. dard S-Video to composite adapter Apple ships with several products. It You could use an inexpensive Mini would sell for $149, with the older (G4) with the new displays, but you’d Express dropping to $99. have to shell out more $$$ to get a G5 chip and have the integration that gets AirPod the CPU off your desk. With the DVI Take a standard iPod and add a card Editor connector on the bottom of the CPU slot. This slot could be used to read Deena Quilty and those ugly thumbscrews on top, digital photos into the AirPod from you’d be more likely to buy Apple’s digital media, but more importantly, it Designer display than a cheaper universal PC- could be used to hold a WiFi card. George Maciel type display. Besides, you’d have to This could be used to stream audio shell out another $99 to buy that and/or video directly from the AirPod Photographers optional power brick since it comes to an Airport Express or the new John Scott with Apple’s displays and not the Airport Express A/V. Look ma, no Jack Bass CPU modules! wires! AirPods would sell for $50 more than standard iPod models, $100 Publisher PowerDrive more in a kit including the WiFi card. Connecticut Macintosh Take a standard iPod, remove the Another option would be to simply Connection, Inc. screen and buttons from the face, and integrate the WiFi functionality into 41 Crossroads Plaza voila: you’ve got a slick powered the iPod to make the AirPod models. PMB 1984 FireWire/USB portable hard drive. It’s West Hartford, CT 06117 embedded OS is smart enough to be TalkPod taught how to provide automatic License the iPod technology to Nokia, Printer backup and syncing of your OS X’s Siemens, Kyocera, and Motorola so Budget Printers “Home” folder when connected. It they can implement it in their next 1718 Park Street could automatically grab photos from generations of cell phones. Sure, some Hartford, CT 06106 your digital camera, and it could even cell phones have built-in MP3 players, “capture” video directly from a but none work seamlessly with iTunes We welcome submissions MiniDV camcorder over FireWire. and the store. You could from members! Sure, other companies make external use the phone’s broadband cell con- Please submit articles by first of hard drives, but none would be as nection to download new songs the month for inclusion in our slick or have a built-in battery to work directly without any wires. You could newsletter. There is much talent on the underpowered FireWire and sync the phone to your Mac when you in our group; it would be great USB ports especially common on get home using Bluetooth, and this to have several member articles Windoze . What a great way to could even happen automatically if in each issue. recycle iPods that come in with dam- desired. aged screens! Suggested retail prices for the PowerDrive: $199 for 20 gb, In your eyes, this may be one of the $249 for 40 gb, and $299 for 60 gb most useless columns I’ve ever writ- models. ten. We’ll just have to wait and see. If any of these products come out during Airport Express A/V the next year or two, you’ll know Take a standard Airport Express and whom to thank while you’re having add an S-video jack to it so you could fun with your new Apple gear!  stream not only sound to your stereo

2 CMC Photo Gallery Photos by John Scott Catch The Bus To March – Talcott Mountain Science Center Macworld Expo in Boston by Chris Hart, CMC Secretary

CMC’s annual day trip to Macworld Expo in Boston is set for Wednesday, July 13th.

CMC members enjoy a discounted ticket price of $20, while non-mem- bers are invited to join us at a still-reasonable $25. Do the math — taking fuel and a day’s worth of park- ing into account — and you’ll see why there’s no question that the CMC Bus is the best way to get to Macworld Expo!

Plus, you’ll enjoy the day rubbing elbows (sometimes literally) with fel- April – iDVD presented by Rich Lenoce low Mac enthusiasts, while our bus driver chauffeurs you to the event! No traffic hassles, no parking hassles, and curbside service. How can you beat that?

Tickets will go on sale soon, so watch this space for details!

If you haven’t already reserved your free admission to MacWorld, you need to hurry! After June 10th you’ll have to pay to get into the event. To order, direct your web browser to the official web site: http://www.mac- worldexpo.com Your ticket order will become free when you enter the prior- ity code B0201 (those are zeroes, not the letter “O”)

Don isn’t the only one with an Apple wish list. So, in the spirit of “having fun with your Mac”, here are a few wish list pictures from the web. Anything is possible...but feasible?

freewarerocks.com from www.geekculture.com (joyoftech.com) freewarerocks.com

3 Off the Beaten Path: From their web page, these are some Finally, Mac of Sidenote’s features: OS 10.3 (or Hidden Gems You Might ¥ Note colors ‘Panther’ as all Have Missed ¥ User definable Hotkeys the cool kids By Kyle DeMilo, CMC ¥ Clean and unobtrusive interface call it) added ¥ The screen edge border can be this cool new When you surf the web as much as I totally hidden feature called fast user switching, do, you sometimes come across the ¥ Native RTF note format which allows a shared Mac to have occasional diamond in the rough, so to several users logged into it simultane- speak. This column points out those The best part about Sidenote (besides ously, without a noticeable hit in hard-to-find freeware and shareware that fact that it’s Mac-only!) is that it’s speed. It’s perfect for when your kids items for your Mac that you might free! are playing a game while you’re think you didn’t need, but prove to be expecting an important email. They really handy! ➤ Get it from here: can pause their game, and you are able http://www.chatelp.org/?s=Sidenote to quickly switch to your account and Sidenote is this cool check Mail for that message from cross between a Did you upgrade your boss. Notepad and a to Tiger and are Sticky Note appli- you wondering The problem? The full user’s name cation. It’s a what they were appears in the Menu Bar, which isn’t graceful drawer smoking when bad if your name is, say, John Smith, that slides from the they designed the but pretty lousy if your name is John left or right side of your Mail 2.0 interface? Here’s a free app Jacob Jinglheimerschmidt (yeah, screen that lets you drag clippings, that will switch it back to the Classic yeah, his name is my name, too). The text, you name it Ð and it hides itself Aqua look you know and love. It’s answer? A freeware app called when not in use, which is great for called CageFighter, and it’s a free WinSwitch. Instead of the long name users with small screens. This is no program that will turn off the new used by Apple, it uses the short name lightweight scrapbook, either. toolbar buttons and get back Mail’s (John), a generic ‘user’ icon, or your Sidenote has support for OS X eye beloved retro look. user picture. candy such as adjustable transparency, Services, and full printing support. ➤ Get it from here: ➤ Get it from here: http://otierney.net/cagefighter/ http://winswitch.wincent.com/

Download of the Month submitted by Debi Foss Galerie v. 5.0.1 Galerie generates galleries on web Converter, with a selection pages with pictures and QuickTime in a iView MediaPro cata- media files (VR panoramas, video, log, with a selection in sounds). For each picture or media Extensis Portolio 7 catalog, file, a separate page will be created or with files or folders with navigation to next and previ- dragged from the Finder. ous pages. One or more index pages will show thumbnail images Collections of editable of all pictures, each linked to the templates and many Get it here: corresponding page in the gallery. options enable creating a large vari- http//www.myriad-online.com/ ety of different galleries with en/products/galerie.htm Galerie will work with a selection different designs and different fea- in iPhoto, with a selection in a tures. Galerie runs on Mac OS X browser window of Graphic (10.2 and later).

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5 Take Control Ebooks “Take Control of Users & Accounts in Tiger” by Kirk McElhearn The Help You Need with Tiger by Robert Sawyer, CMC Raffles Does dealing with user accounts in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger make your head The release of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is spin? In this ebook, Kirk McElhearn undoubtedly the most anticipated helps you take control of users and event in the Macintosh world so far accounts! Kirk explains why you need this year, and we’ve been working hard at least two accounts, tells you every- for the last few months to create not thing you need to know about one, not two, not three, but four ebooks different types of accounts, and shows about Tiger. The ebooks help you how to create the right types of Macintosh users upgrade to Tiger suc- accounts for the different people who cessfully, customize the new operating use your Mac. Learn how to use a system, work with user accounts, and troubleshooting account to solve mad- share files among multiple networked dening problems, make the best use of computers. They are: Fast User Switching, and share files “Take Control of Upgrading to Tiger” “Take Control of Customizing Tiger” between by Joe Kissell by Matt Neuburg users. Special digital lifestyle advice for families! Kirk reveals undocu- Thousands of Mac users upgraded to It’s Day 2 of Tiger, and you’ve played mented tricks for sharing music and Panther successfully with Joe Kissell’s with the new features. But you can photos among multiple users on your become even more productive if you previous best-selling ebook, “Take Mac using iTunes and iPhoto. Newly Control of Upgrading to Panther,” and customize Tiger for your needs. Turn to updated for Tiger, this ebook explains Joe is back with detailed new advice Matt Neuburg for a road map on how to and uses Tiger terminology through- for upgrading to Tiger. Joe’s expert start using new features in Tiger. Matt out, and it covers the new parental guidance, developed over numerous shows you how to configure and use test installations, thoroughly explains efficiently for finding files on controls. $5 the seven steps necessary before your hard disk, and once you’ve found upgrading, which of Tiger’s three them, he helps you set up Smart Folders and the four tasks you must perform Dashboard, which gives you instant after the upgrade finishes. Also includ- access to mini-applications. In other PDF format, 73 pages, free 25-page ed are instructions if you’re upgrading parts of the ebook, you’ll learn how to sample available from Mac OS 9. manage the status menus in your menu bar, how to customize keyboard short- “Take Control of Sharing Files in Tiger” Worried that something might go cuts (and even disable the Caps Lock by Glenn Fleishman key!), and how to get started with wrong? Joe provides practical trou- No Mac is an island when it comes to bleshooting tips for the most common Automator. Matt has updated his advice sharing files. In this detail-packed problems, step-by-step instructions on about essential customizations that ebook, networking expert Glenn how to downgrade to your previous Tiger brings up from Panther, including Fleishman makes file sharing easy, system if necessary, and in-depth dis- how to work with Exposé, the sidebar, cussions of what exactly each the toolbar, Finder windows, Font whether it’s between two Macs on a installation option does (and does not Book, Unicode, and more. Additional local network, among a mixed-plat- do). Frankly, this ebook is a must-read help for those new to Mac OS X: 150 form office workgroup, or between for anyone upgrading to Tiger. $5 basic ways to customize your Mac! $5 far-flung computers on the Internet. Learn how to set up Mac OS X 10.4 TRK-0018-TCMUG> AppleShare, Samba, FTP, the Web, and WebDAV. Glenn shows you how PDF format, 87 pages, free 27-page PDF format, 100 pages, free 27-page to avoid the risks of sharing files sample available sample available continued on page 7

6 continued from page 6 across the Internet, provides instruc- photos across a network with iTunes 10% can be applied to the purchase of tions for accessing shared files from and iPhoto! $10 these ebooks, anyone wishing to buy common operating systems, and more than one should also check out the three free updates that kept the for Tiger bundle (all four ebooks for Panther edition of this ebook up to PDF format, 122 pages, free 34-page 20% off). date, this new release has been thor- sample available oughly revised for Tiger. Extra section The bundles are available from the - learn all the ways to share music and Although the usual MUG discount of relevant ebooks’ web pages. 

Apple iCal PalmOne Palm NowSoftware Now Up- Microsoft Entourage Desktop To-Date/Contact A PIM Comparison Current Version 1.5.5 4.2.1 4.5.3 11.1.0 Cost Free Free $159.90 $399* by Kyle DeMilo, CMC Third-party add-ons? ✔✖ ✖ ✔ Syncs with PDA? ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Supports iCalendar ✔✖ ✖ ✔ A PIM is an acronym for personal informa- format (.ics) Supports vCalendar ✖ ✔ ✖ ✔ tion manager. It’s an application that format (.vcs) usually includes an address book and also Supports vCard ✔† ✔✖ ✔ format organizes unrelated information, such as Is this updated ✔ ✖ ✔ ✔ regularly (ie: will notes, appointments, and names, in a useful there be future way. My dad uses his Filofax as his PIM. I versions)? Built-in web ✔‡ ✖✔ ✔ have yet to settle on the right one for me. sharing? Cross-platform ✔ ✔¤ ✔ ✔ sharing of data Print to paper ✖✔ ✔ ✔ I have a challenge to all the Mac users out planner there. The next time you are Links to files outside ✖ ✔ ✔ ✔ of application (ie: at the house of a Windows- Word or AppleWorks using friend or family documents) member, see what they use All-in-one ✖✔ ✖ ✔ Runs under Classic? ✖✔ ✔** ✔†† as a PIM. Chances are, they’re either using some form of Outlook (not Outlook Express, that’s There are some other minor players on the Mac, such as just e-mail), or Palm Desktop. That’s it. DayLite, Organizer, and MeetingMaker, but they’re more niche products, in my opinion. Oh sure, there are other programs out there. Mozilla’s Sunbird, and the I don’t have a laptop, so all my data has to sync nicely application in Microsoft Works come to with my PalmOne Treo 600. So, I have been comparing mind, but I will stick my neck out and say these four PIM applications to see which one would that the majority of Windows users use work best for me. Here is my comparison chart that I cre- Outlook or Palm Desktop. Have you seen ated. It’s helpful to me; perhaps it will be helpful to you some of the available choices for us Mac as well. users?

¥ Apple iCal * Includes full versions of Word, Excel, and Powerpoint as well. † vCards supported in Address Book, a separate application. ¥ Palm Desktop ‡ Requires .Mac subscription ($99/year) or a WebDAV server. ¤ Requires manual vCalendar and vCard emailing. ¥ Now Up-To-Date/Contact ** Version 4.0.3 is an older version of NUDC, which is still supported. ¥ Microsoft Entourage †† Version 2001 is an older version of Entourage, which is no longer being developed, except for secuity fixes.

7 Upgrading a Linksys downloaded your firmware make sure Router with OS X it is named code.bin. by Joe Arcuri, CMC Ambassador Now comes the scary part. Start the ter- minal. Once in terminal mode you’ll I tend to use a variety of routers in my need to change directories to the folder Yes, I want to join CMC client network installs and most of where you downloaded code.bin. For them have a browser interface for doing example, if you downloaded it to your Benefits: upgrades to the firmware. One of the documents folder you’d type: Monthly meetings, monthly newsletter, special few that doesn’t have a browser events, discounted books, assistance with com- upgrade path is also one of the most cd/Users/jarcuri/Documents/ puter problem, network with other Mac users, popular routers on the market, Linksys. (change the user name -jarcuri- to your User Group Store discounts, and more. For clarification purposes the firmware username) in a router is basically the mini operat- Date ______ing system that runs the router and Now just type the following (shown in allows it to do its job. Firmware bold text) in Terminal. Note that I’m Name ______upgrades can add features and fix bugs also showing what you’ll see: so they are important to utilize. Address ______/usr/bin/tftp Typically when I’ve done Linksys $/usr/bin/tftp City ______firmware upgrades, I’ve had to use a tftp> connect 192.168.0.1 PC and use the utility provided by tftp> bin State______Zip ______Linksys, but I finally put my foot down tftp> verbose and said “there has to be a way to do Verbose mode on. Phone (Home) ______this with my Mac!” And there is. tftp> put code.bin putting code.bin to Phone (Office) ______The method that Linksys uses to upload 192.168.0.1:code.bin [octet] the file is a protocol called TFTP, Sent 757760 bytes in 34.4 seconds Phone (Fax) ______Trivial File Transfer Protocol. TFTP is [176223 bits/sec] exactly what it sounds like: a simpler tftp> quit Business______implementation of FTP. Fortunately, OS X has a TFTP client in it’s arsenal. That’s it! You’ve successfully upgraded Occupation______the firmware. You can now go back and One of the oddities of Linksys’ imple- reset your password and at the same Email:______mentation of TFTP is that they use a time confirm that the upgrade has taken password which TFTP normally does- place by checking the firmware rev on Referred by:______n’t recognize, so you’ll have to disable the status screen. the password on your router temporari- Areas of special interest: ______ly. To do this, login to your router and For those who are curious, here’s a just delete the settings for the pass- breakdown of what you’re doing in the ______word; after we’re done you can go back above commands: and reset it. At the same time, remem- ______ber the IP address of your router; you’re /usr/bin/tftp going to need it later. In our example (launch the tftp program) ______we’ll use 192.168.0.1. tftp> connect 192.168.0.1 Annual CMC Family To begin, you need to go to linksys.com (connect to your router) and download the latest firmware for tftp> bin Membership - $25.00 your router. Make sure that when (switch to binary mode for the upload) Make check payable to CMC and you’re asked your operating system tftp> verbose mail to: you specify “Other;” this allows you to (verbose mode outputs feedback to the 41 Crossroads Plaza, PMB 1984 download the firmware without the screen) West Hartford, CT 06117 associated Windows TFTP client. In ...or the event you download the zipped tftp> put code.bin pay online with PayPal at Windows version, you can just extract (putting the file into the router) www.ctmac.org the firmware out of the zip file. It will tftp> quit be a file called “code.bin”. Once you’ve (quit out of tftp)

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9 2004-2005 CMC Officers and Board of Directors

President Don Dickey Vice President Rich Lenoce Secretary Chris Hart Treasurer David Gerstein [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 860-232-2841 860-347-1789 860-291-9393

PR Jerry Esposito Past President/Ambassador Joseph Arcuri Newsletter Design George Maciel [email protected] [email protected] 860-485-1547 [email protected] 860-561-0319

Editor/Auction Deena Quilty Webmaster Brian Desmond Raffles Robert Sawyer [email protected] 860-678-8622 [email protected] (860) 668-8728 [email protected] 860-677-7787

Download of the Month Debbie Foss Special Events Jack Bass Parlimentarian/Historian Connie Scott [email protected] 860-583-1165 [email protected] [email protected] 860-584-9573 Caricatures by Bill Dougal of Lebanon, (860) 456-9041. Available for illustration assignments and event caricatures. 10 CMC Monthly Meetings Discounted Books FREE Raffle! Monthly CMC Meetings are held on last CMC continues to offer our cur- Every CMC member who attends our Wednesday of the month from 7:00 - 9:00 rent members the opportunity to monthly meetings gets a raffle ticket. P.M. (except November and December purchase any published book for This will give you a chance for one of when the meetings are held one week either Mac or Windows at a 20% our free prizes every month! You earlier due to the holidays). Location below. discount. All major publishers are could win…t-shirts, toys, CDs, mugs, Board meetings are held on the first carried by our source. software …there’s always something Thursday of the month. If you wish to we’re giving away! And don’t forget Contact a Board Member or send attend a Board meeting, contact an officer the Free table at the back of the room for time & location. an email to [email protected]. where everything is...FREE! Provide the book title, the pub- lisher and the ISBN number, if possible, and he will check on its Treasurer’s Report availability. Normally, the wait is not too long. New Members! We need new members! Have your friends and co-workers join us for fun and NOTICE! learning about OS X and the Mac. • Member expiration date Total Membership: 131 • Membership number (for free shipping at MacConnection) Account Balances Wednesday, May 25, 2005 • CMC Web site username Checking Balance ...... $1126.53 Apple Store, Westfarms Mall and password Savings Balance ...... $3971.52 7:00 P.M. –Tiger OS X ...are now located on your Balances as of May 11, 2005 Directions: www.apple.com/ retail/westfarms/map/ newsletter mailing label. Back To Basics Make a note of it NOW! FREE Classified Ads Takes A Summer Break CMC Members can Advertise For There will be no Back To Basics sessions Sale, Swap, Trade, Giveaway or Want in May, June, or July, due to the nature of May Elections to Buy Items. This space can be used the meetings and venues. Look for the Four positions will be voted on at by members to advertise non-business return of these sessions later this year. the May meeting. They are items which they are no longer using President, Vice President, or upgrading. This is a FREE Wednesday, June 29, 2005 service provided to our members. Secretary, and Treasurer. We Send submissions via email to Middlesex Community College have candidates for President, [email protected] 7:00 P.M. – Three Hands on Vice President, and Treasurer. We currently have no volunteers Sessions (subjects TBD) for the Secretary position. Please Display Ad Rates Wednesday, July 13, 2005 consider running for this posi- Any business items or services can tion; contact Connie Scott at be advertised at the low monthly rates MacWorld Expo Boston [email protected]. listed below. Hynes Convention Center Business Card ...... $10.00 (See page 3 for details) Getting CMC emails? Quarter Page...... $20.00 Half Page...... $30.00 Wednesday, July 27, 2005 We always send out advance notice Full Page (or insert) ...... $50.00 of the meetings, and sometimes for CMC Summer Picnic big news or special events (like our Submit all ad copy to the Editor on a disk 6:00 P.M. – followed by bus trip to Macworld). If you’re not (with nothing else on it) or e-mail it to getting them, please email us at [email protected] for insertion in the “Stump The Geeks” Q&A [email protected] with your following issue. Display ads must be (Location TBD) current email address and a subject submitted camera-ready in eps or pdf for- mat with all fonts and graphics embedded. line of: ADD TO CMC EMAIL LIST Make check payable to CMC. 11 41 Crossroads Plaza Ð PMB 1984 West Hartford, CT 06117

Monthly Meeting May 25 • 7 PM Tiger OS X Apple Store Westfarms Mall Directions: http://www.apple.com/ retail/westfarms/map/

CMC Meeting Location a PDF document containing a visual direction guide to UConn Health Center is available on our website: www.ctmac.org. Print and take it with you to find us easily!

Monthly meetings will be held at UConn Health Center in Farmington. When hands-on programs require computers for attendees, we will be using Middlesex Community College in Middletown.

Directions to UCHC, Farmington Directions to Middlesex C.C. From I-84: Take Exit 39 (if coming from I-84 West, From the Hartford area, take Route 9 South. A few Exit 39 is after 39A). Turn right at first traffic light onto miles south of downtown Middletown on Route 9, take Route 4 East (Farmington Avenue). At third traffic light, turn Exit 11 (Rt. 155, Randolph Road). At the end of the right to enter the Health Center campus. Go around the main ramp (for both N. & S. bound), turn right onto building to the right (at a Y in road), then take a left when Randolph Road. Continue to the traffic light at the top you get to the Academic Entrance. The road becomes two- of the hill and turn left onto Saybrook Road. Go a quar- way there so you should be able to tell where to turn. (Do ter of a mile and turn right onto Reservoir Road. Travel not go on straight to the two-way part). Then take the second past the stop sign, then take the first right onto Training right into parking lot A&B. this is close to the building. Go Hill Road. Your first left will lead into the Middlesex past the police station entrance on your left (small sign). You Community College Campus parking area. When you will see a continuation of the building with its own entrance arrive on campus, take a right onto Training Hill Road. area. This is the new research building. Enter on the ground Go to the second parking lot entrance and take a left floor, turn right and enter room EG-013 on your right. This into the upper lot. Directly in front of you will be Snow is the first room on your right. The rest rooms are on your Hall. Enter Snow Hall and go up the stairs to the 2nd left as you enter. floor and go to the last room on the right, Room 509.

12 Monthly Meeting Wednesday, June 29 Middlesex Community College 7:00 P.M. Three Hands on Sessions: • Mastering iPhoto • Creating a Personal Website • Photoshop - All About Layers NEWSLETTER OF CONNECTICUT MACINTOSH CONNECTION, INC.JUNE 2005

Confessions restarted. The software was reinstalled almost daily. There had to be a better I MAKE FUN OF and Clemency WINDOWS USERS ALL way! Then I noticed something: my lit- THE TIME, AND FEEL SO By Don Dickey, SUPERIOR, YET WHEN MY tle Mac LC was a happy little machine, MAC DOES STUPID CMC Past President THINGS, I FEEL SO by comparison. It was a faithful friend, SHAMEFUL... needing little care, and even greeted me As I write my last cover every day with a smiling face instead of page feature for the CMC a “C:/” prompt! newsletter, I am reflecting on events of the past that had The lathe was made by a company in a significant impact on my England, and its software was created life. One such event was by a fellow in Germany. One day when “the switch.” Yes, as I bare I was speaking with him, he mentioned all before you, I am publicly there was a Mac version of his lathe WOULD YOU admitting that I was once a LIKE TO SEE software, and that he would “Express” ONE OF OUR staunch PC user. COUNSELORS? me a copy.

It’s not as bad as it sounds! Then, Addison-Wesley offered me a This was over a decade ago Fortunately, this was covered under copy of AutoCAD r12 for Mac as long the extended AppleCare Plan. (1993), and I was actually a as I was willing to write a review of it power DOS user. Sure, it was Mac must be a very small island, per- for them. With the arrivals of Mac ver- “Gatesware,” but not the Windows fla- haps too small. If it were any good, sions of AutoCAD and the CNC vor that many Mac users hold with wouldn’t more people be using it? software to drive my lathe, I was in disdain. My “killer app” at that time My next position was as manager of heaven! For the first time, I could “play was AutoCAD r12, and it ran consid- product development in a company engineer” on my Mac. I think this was erably better (and faster) under DOS selling products in the technology edu- the turning point in my life from which than Windows. AutoDesk knew this, cation market. When I reported to work, I’ve never seriously looked back. and Windows was not as pervasive I soon found that all curricula was pro- then, so r12 was delivered as either a duced in software foreign to me called Because of this experience, and like- DOS or Windows installation. Quark XPress. My need to edit and wise for many Mac users with a similar write such curricula meant that for the past rooted in the PC world, I have a Until this time, I really didn’t under- first time my desktop held two comput- sound understanding of what it means stand the Mac. I saw no real difference ers: my “main” Intel-based machine to be a “switcher.” It also enabled and between Windows and the Mac. Both and a strange little pizza box called a encouraged me to share my experiences were graphic, both used a mouse for Mac LC. I was then writing curricula with others in the PC world, which can navigation and data entry, and many for CNC (computer numeric control), lead to a sort of “family tree” of switch- apps ran on both, AutoCAD r12 which ran in DOS. With it I could ers! I count our most recent past among them. I suggest that many pres- design a part in AutoCAD and then use president Joe Arcuri as a branch of my ent day Windows users see life through the CNC software to operate a desktop family tree, and I’m sure he has added similar eyes and don’t perceive any lathe to “turn” the part, all in a matter of cousins to our common tree as well. real difference or advantage to switch- minutes. ing to a Mac. In fact, they look at the There’s a lesson in this, and that’s the acres of software for their PC at The software crashed often. The lathe point of my article. Some of us are so CompUSA and compare this to a half went awry on more than half the opera- Continued on page 2 isle of Mac software and agree that the tions. The PC was constantly being

1 Continued from page 1 far into Mac lore and religion that we tainly help him cross the divide and feel actually repel members of the PC world at least partially “at home” with a new and keep them from getting too close. machine. We may need to humble ourselves, offer the gentlest of encouragement, or This leads me to my last act as your perhaps even lend a friend a Mac when outgoing president: I am hereby declar- their PC is in the shop, along with ing clemency for those among us who enough hand-holding to help them were former PC users! They made a along their way. If you’re on foreign hard choice, they paid their dues, and turf here, ask a “switcher” for help! its time for us to forgive and embrace There are plenty of us around, and we them as brothers and sisters in our fra- Editor can identify with those “on the edge” ... ternity. These folks are the ones who Deena Quilty making that decision to replace an will most likely create branches on the aging PC with either a new black Dell family tree. They’ve “been there, done or a new white Mac. that,” and can lead the way to their PC Designer friends as many of us already have. George Maciel Do you think there’s a reason the iMac is white? You bet your single button It has been my pleasure to serve as an Photographer mouse there is... to distinguish it from elected officer on CMC’s board, and I John Scott the sea of mostly black PeeSees out look forward to the fresh ideas and there. And be sure to encourage a great things the newly elected executive Publisher switcher friend to trash his brand new officers will bring to our organization. Connecticut Macintosh Apple mouse! In fact, make it your job Connection, Inc. to outfit a switcher friend with a two Best wishes, 41 Crossroads Plaza button optical USB mouse complete Don PMB 1984 with a scroll wheel. This will most cer- West Hartford, CT 06117

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We welcome submissions CMC Member of the Month is from members! middle-schooler Juli Woolard of Bristol. Please submit articles by first of the month for inclusion in our Q Juli, where do you go to school? You’ve been to meetings. What newsletter. There is much talent Q do you find useful or interesting? in our group; it would be great A I'm in the 8th grade at Memorial to have several member articles Boulevard. A The Black Eyed Peas... in each issue. Q How long have you used the Mac? Q Black Eyed Peas??? A Ever since the first grade, back A You know...the band. When you in Colorado. showed the photos and played the music. Garage Band. Cool. Q And what do you use if for? Q What would you like us to do A Oh, to download music, chat with better? friends and my cousins. My friend Ellie uses hers for her Sims. A Sometimes things go wrong. The computer crashes. It’s nice to find out the answer to things

2 Off the Beaten Path: separate functions (Get Info for files, Download Safari for URL’s, etc). This is one- Hidden Gems You stop shopping for your Mac. of the Month: Might Have Missed ➤ Get it from here: http://www.rubi iAlert 6.0 By Kyle DeMilo, CMC Secretary code.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/ Submitted by Debi Foss When you surf the web as much as I do, The third and final piece is a great you sometimes come across the occa- http://angeman.perso.cegetel.net/ donationware application called iSnip. sional diamond in the rough, so to speak. iAlert/?language=en What is donationware? It’s shareware This column points out those hard-to- without the nagging; it’s freeware with Do your kids annoy you? Your dogs? find freeware and shareware items for a tip jar. You can use it for free, but if The neighbors? Well then why not your your Mac that you might think you don’t you do use it, it’s suggested you kick software? need, but prove to be really handy! in whatever you think it’s worth. iAlert is a preference pane which This month features a trio of apps that allows you to display an alert with a are all free, and really helpful. I per- What does it do? It’s a clipboard his- transparent floating window whenever sonally use them on a daily basis. tory manager. Have you ever copied a particular event occurs and lets you an item and then find yourself copying interact with the application that The first is from long-time NeXT something else before you had a launched it. developers Devon Technologies. Their chance to paste the first item? It’s hap- The built-in plugins show alerts when: DevonThink, DevonNote, and pened to me Ð and nothing is worse ¥ web sites are updated DevonAgent applications are three than the mad dash to run back and find ¥a download is completed in Safari | powerful (but not free) tools for that first item to edit once more. Not or Firefox research. However, lurking on the free- with iSnip: any time you copy items to ¥new articles are fetched in Safari ware section of their site is a free app the Mac’s clipboard, it keeps a running RSS that blows away the built-in “Find” history of it. You can also specify ¥ you receive new messages in Mail, function in OS X. It’s called EasyFind recurring items called ‘snippets’, Entourage or Thunderbird and it can search for file names as well which can be sorted into folders and ¥ you receive new messages or your as content. How it works is a mystery to subfolders. friends get connected on iChat me, but it’s fast! ¥a new song is played in iTunes ➤ It’s great for web browsing, boiler- Get it from here: www.devon-tech plate text, anything where you would You can also set up alarms and timers. nologies.com/download/shareware.php need to reference stuff you’ve placed The alerts are fully customizable and Our next one is a module for your on the Mac’s clipboard. you can control their size, their posi- tion on the screen, their opacity, their System Preferences called ➤ Get it from here: http://www.isnip.net RCDefaultApp, which allows you to color and their background picture. set the default applications for URLs, Feedback? Something I missed? Email iAlert is freeware and comes in a documents, MIME types, etc. me at: [email protected] version for Panther or Tiger.  Normally this is done through several

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3 One Month in Mail so that old Sherlock Indexing but is far with Tiger when files or more powerful and much faster. By Rich Lenoce, emails meet a Spotlight not only catalogs all of CMC President certain criteria, your files but the contents of the the file or email file, the file attributes and meta- You can read about the 200 gets placed in the assigned Smart data. Meta-data is additional data enhancements Apple has put in OS Folder or Smart Mailbox. For that further describes a file such as X.4 Tiger on their website, but I example, I have my work email the date, time and exposure of a think that what strikes me about forwarded to my SBC account but digital photo written by the camera this version of OS X is that it those emails are always getting when the photo was taken, or the seems to be making a jump to the mixed up with my personal emails. name of the CD album hidden in next level of OS. I always I set up a Smart Mailbox so that the song file when you imported it feltÐfrom the original OS X when Mail receives an email in my to iTunes. through Jaguar and then SBC Mailbox with the subject line PantherÐthat Apple was trying to that says “FWD from rlenoce@mxcc. Spotlight is nothing short of aston- recreate the older Classic OS in a commnet.edu,” that email gets sent ishing. After you install Tiger, new form, and that it was poised to to a special Smart Mailbox I creat- Spotlight indexes your drives use its UNIX routes to be a break- ed called Work Emails. I used to examining every aspect of your through OS. That time is here! perform this same task manually at files and catalogs the information. With Tiger, Macintosh OS X has the end of each day, moving all my When you perform a search from a finally come into its own: breaking work emails to a special mailbox. Finder window or from the new new ground offering powerful fea- The difference between Smart Spotlight Menu located all the way tures, better Windows integration Folders and Smart Mailboxes is to the right on the menu bar, you and adding a level of sophistica- that with Smart Folders the actual will see a list of results. Type a tion that puts the Mac OS ahead of file is not placed in the folder, only word or phrase and Spotlight will any other OS on the market. an alias. The original file still instantly provide the results of all resides in the original location. files containing the word or Does that mean everyone should Email does get moved to the Smart phrase. The downside is that if the upgrade? If it sounds like you Mailbox, eliminating clutter. word is common, you’ll receive might need Tiger’s powerful fea- thousands of results that you must tures, you’d certainly be happy Smart Mailboxes and Smart wade through. But, like any good upgrading, however many people Folders save me several minutes search engine, you can use key- won’t need or may never use each day. I set up Smart Folders words to narrow your search or Tiger’s advanced features, and for for various projects I’m working place phrases or file names in them Panther will certainly remain on so that documents get properly quotes to get exact results. I keep good enough. So look at the fea- filed. Again, you could manually everything on my computer very tures and decide for yourself if do this or let a program like organized, so Spotlight isn’t essen- Tiger is worth the $129 to you. Entourage do it for you, but Tiger tial for me. However, I could see does this for you elegantly and eas- where it would be useful for many Spotlight/Smart Folders ily. Can I live without Smart people especially those who have and Mailboxes Folders and Smart Mailboxes? multiple documents with similar One of the handiest and most pow- Certainly...but I like ‘em! information—such as a sales per- erful features in Tiger is Smart The ability to perform these son who has multiple documents Folders and Smart Mailboxes. sophisticated functions comes for an account (invoices, quotes, These two features are functional- from Apple’s Spotlight technology, records, etc.). Spotlight coupled ly similar, allowing you to set up the new search feature built into with Smart Folders/Mailboxes is folders in the Finder or mailboxes Tiger. Spotlight is similar to the continued on page 5

4 continued from page 4 URL is finally fixed. Bug fixes and There were also some areas of functional enhancements to Safari Tiger that didn’t get the makeover an extremely powerful pairing. and .Mac should have been done as needed. Fontbook is still almost Personally, I’d like a way to go a Panther update. Apple has to stop too simplistic to be useful for back to Panther’s more basic with the “we’ll fix these problems power users, and burning a CD or search feature and call up Spotlight in the next release” attitude. DVD in the Finder still isn’t very as needed. flexible. I also wish there were There are too many enhancements additional maintenance utilities Dashboard to each application that comes with built into Tiger. But, I’m just nit- Dashboard, Apple’s other well-pub- Tiger to mention. Apple should picking here; there are many third licized feature, has also gotten a lot begin including a manual, even a party applications that can manage of press. Dashboard consists of user basic manual in PDF form, with all these OS functions. installable mini-applications called OS releases and applications. They Widgets that run in the background supplied an excellent manual with With Tiger, I found few “must have” and are activated and brought to the iWork for Pages and Keynote and I new features but plenty of “wow screen forefront by pressing F12 or thought this might be a trend. Much that’s great” features. Overall, Tiger the Dashboard dock icon. I have of the enhancements in Tiger and is another tremendous Apple inno- widgets installed for 5-day the latest release of iLife are hidden vation particularly for power users. forecasts and Doppler radar, TV and a manual would help us wade Casual users may find the additions program schedules, a Webcam of through the changes rather than overkill, especially for $129. Venice Italy, air flights, and an waiting months for a Missing Beginners to the Mac OS should get Amazon search tool. In the past, Manual or Dummies book to appear. a good manual, as there’s a lot of these were tasks that I would look For example, there are many new power under the hood. up using Safari bookmarks or using features to the way Address Book, the widget based application, Calendar and Mail interact but Tiger Migration Guide Available Konfabulator. Again, do I need without documentation most users For users making the move to Dashboard to do this? No, but it is will miss some of Tiger’s best fea- Tiger, I strongly recommend Erik an elegant way to reduce bookmark tures. Also, Spotlight is very Vlietinck’s Tiger Migration Guide, clutter…and it’s fun. complicated; there are many ways an eBook for helping users migrate to perform a search but looking at a from earlier versions of Mac OS X Safari and .Mac Spotlight dialog box you’d never be to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. The free For those people with a .Mac aware of that. The new Tiger appli- version of the eBook account, you’ll be happy to learn cation, Automater, similar is available in PDF that iDisk synchronization finally to Applescript but easier to form for on screen works as advertised. It’s much use, looks interesting but darn viewing. A high-res- faster and works seamlessly with if I can figure out how it works. olution printable the Finder. I was always annoyed version is available by the sluggishness of iDisk and There were some disappoint- for $5. Additionally, the slowness of the synchroniza- ments to Tiger. iChat’s new buyers will receive tion process, and Apple seems to video conferencing features a bonus chapter have addressed these issues. Sadly, are highly over-rated since containing the short- I had to pay $129 for Tiger on top you need a G5 or dual 1ghz G4 to cuts of new and changed features of the $99 a year to get .Mac, just host an H264 conference. Apple’s in Tiger.  to have my iDisk to work it’s sup- changes to Mail’s look and color posed to. Also, Safari has gotten scheme to me isn’t as attractive, affected its ability to find web sizes isn’t as accessible is in pages the first time you select a Panther.

5 Instructions from Robin Williams and John Tollett for a Outer Space: few nights, and although we had GPS Car Navigation directions to their house, and thus had the final road name, we didn’t have by Adam C. Engst their street address handy. We were [email protected] able to fool the GPS phone into giving reprinted from TidBITS#780/16-May-05 us directions anyway by guessing that the house number was 1 instead of Have you ever found yourself driving tion or entering an address. Once you 2745 or something, and we were at high speed or in heavy traffic in an entered the address, the phone used lucky, since in some cities, that differ- unfamiliar area while the person in the Nextel’s data network to download ence could have put us entirely across passenger seat frantically attempts to driving directions from your current town. A bed and breakfast we stayed read the map and tell you where to location, determined by the GPS, and at in Chimayo had only a P.O. box for turn next? If you’re like me, it’s stress- then both read them out loud to you an address, and the device’s database ful. And if you’re anything like Tonya, via its speakerphone and displayed the had never heard of County Road 0100, trying to figure out the current loca- next turn on the screen, with running so it wasn’t much help there. tion on a map and give coherent countdowns of how far until your next directions, all while the car is moving turn and until you reached the eventu- Although Tonya found a GPS menu in is equally as stressful, plus a bit nau- al destination. It always started talking the phone’s interface somewhere, we sea-inducing. about half a mile away, and it repeated itself as you got closer, but never so never managed to see if it would give us a map view of the area (and my Our recent trip to New Mexico was much that it was annoying. As you reading of the phone’s user’s guide made even more enjoyable by our came up on a turn, a progress bar afterwards would seem to indicate decision to spring for the extra $10 per showed you how many meters until not). It would have been helpful to be day to rent a GPS-enabled (global the turn; that was great in situations able to point at a spot in the map and positioning system) cell phone from where there were two turns quite close say “Go there!” It would also have Alamo that spoke directions for each together. been useful on at least one occasion to upcoming turn. It was brilliant, see a map view and which direction despite some notable design flaws. Although the interface was poor, and we were traveling; luckily my normal We’re not gadget freaks, but we’ve it took us longer to figure out than handheld GPS device showed us that already decided to look into buying a ideal (remember, we were driving; it’s we were headed in entirely the wrong similar device for the next time we not like you have time to sit down direction. That was before we’d quite have to do any significant driving in with the thing beforehand, and Alamo realized how helpful the GPS phone unknown parts. didn’t include any instructions at all), we quickly became addicted to the would be, and we hadn’t planned on using it that trip, since our final desti- Driving by Wireless driving instructions. With one excep- nation in Los Alamos didn’t have an Alamo wasn’t forthcoming about tion - where the GPS phone would address (it was probably classified what the device actually was and how have had us get off an arterial, cross a information, though we were again it worked, so my apologies in advance road, and get right back on - the able to fool the phone into taking a if my deduction and speculation prove instructions were extremely accurate. random address on the final street). somewhat incorrect. From what I And interestingly, a second pass According to the user’s guide, the could tell, the GPS device itself was a through the area where it gave the phone can communicate with a com- Motorola i58sr cell phone with Nextel foolish instructions did not repeat puter to work with mapping software, service; the phone had a relatively them; it’s conceivable that we were in though it was unclear if it would real- small black & white screen, and a different lane and thus triggered dif- ly work on the Mac or not. Alamo provided a suction cup mount ferent instructions. If you missed a so it could attach to the windshield. turn (the mistake was the only direc- tion we ignored), it detects that you’re kind of specialized Java application new directions to reroute you. that asked for your permission (pre- As you might expect, the reliance on sumably because you could have been More problematic, particularly in the Nextel’s data network for instructions tracked through the device) and then rural parts of New Mexico, was that proved problematic in several loca- dumped you into a predictably lousy you had to enter a full address. We interface for searching for an attrac- were staying with fellow authors continued on page 7

6 continued from page 6 absolutely can’t stand the feeling that choices if you don’t want to take free- I’m going to be late because I took a ways (or if you want to take only tions, since Nextel’s coverage where wrong turn somewhere. And in turn, freeways), and more. Voice instruc- we were in Taos and Santa Fe was Tonya doesn’t enjoy reading maps tions are key, since paying attention to poor to non-existent. We were fine get- and feeding me navigation instruc- gadget interfaces in the car is danger- ting to those locations, since the phone tions while we’re driving. So the ous. A few of the devices I’ve found downloaded all the instructions it clearly enunciated directions both and plan to look into further include: needed initially, but it couldn’t access increased my peace of mind while any new instructions until we were driving and Tonya’s relaxation level. ¥ Magellan RoadMate 300/500/700 within range of a Nextel tower again. Such voice-enabled GPS devices are Motorola GPS phone; it’s not accept- not new; I’ve been hearing people talk able to be without directions just ¥ Garmin StreetPilot about them for years. But they’re because you can’t get cell service. It c320/c330/2610/2620 pricey ($400 to $1,000), and particu- also sounds from this PC World arti- roads well, I couldn’t justify the expensive: the cost of a Nextel data expense of such a device. But this plan plus $11 per month for the GPS ¥ TomTom GO 300/700/Rider GPS phone and associated service, service. gory of gadgets that improved our article/0,aid,115273,00.asp> life. Particularly when I’m under time If you’ve used one of these devices, or pressure to arrive somewhere, I’m not There are a number of dedicated GPS another voice-enabled GPS system one of those people who is relaxed devices that promise features well for providing navigation, let us know about potentially getting lost. I hate beyond what the GPS phone provid- on TidBITS Talk what you think. 

Two Gigabytes or Bust 2 GB, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) connected web- by Glenn Fleishman mail. An AIM account will link to a webmail account. [email protected] AIM accounts are free and self-standing and can be used It’s all about with iChat. the Gmail. Reprinted from Tidbits Google contin- #780/16-May-05 ues to control the vertical and horizontal for nearly everything they Yahoo upped its mailbox to 1 GB a few months ago, and touch, and Gmail’s upgraded capacity of 2 GB of free offers 2 GB for $20 per year. Apple’s .Mac service email storage has set the target for other companies that includes just 250 MB of storage for $100 per year, with want some of that sweet, sweet ad revenue from people 1 GB total available for $50 extra per year. Hotmail who use webmail instead of their ISP’s service. ISPs includes 250 MB - with only 25 MB of that available in must be sweating a little, because unbundling email the first 30 days - with 2 GB costing $20 per year. means that the pipe to the ISP is really just delivering water, not chicken soup, coffee, and bisque (to stretch a metaphor). AOL is the latest entrant, and a surprising one. They pur- Of course, Google is still tweaking their approach. When chased Mailblocks almost a year ago, a provider that they lifted the limit on April Fool’s Day from 1 GB to 2 offers challenge-response based email so that only recip- GB, they said it was only the beginning. And it’s true. My ients with human characteristics wind up in your In box. mailbox keeps getting slightly larger. I have about 535 MB Mailblocks charges modest fees for its modest storage of stored mail (it’s an automatic CC’d backup for my main service, but AOL used their technology to build their free, account) and every day the upper limit rises slightly.

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9 2005-2006 CMC Officers and Board of Directors

Congratulations! 2005-2006 CMC Officers!

President Rich Lenoce Vice President Chris Hart Treasurer David Gerstein Secretary Kyle DeMilo [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 860-347-1789 860-291-9393

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Monthly Meeting Wed., June 29 • 7:00 P.M. Middlesex Community College Three Hands on Sessions: • Mastering iPhoto • Creating a Personal Website • Photoshop - All About Layers (driving directions below)

CMC Meeting Location a PDF document containing a visual direction guide to UConn Health Center is available on our website: www.ctmac.org. Print and take it with you to find us easily!

Monthly meetings will be held at UConn Health Center in Farmington. When hands-on programs require computers for attendees, we will be using Middlesex Community College in Middletown.

Directions to UCHC, Farmington Directions to Middlesex C.C. From I-84: Take Exit 39 (if coming from I-84 West, From the Hartford area, take Route 9 South. A few Exit 39 is after 39A). Turn right at first traffic light onto miles south of downtown Middletown on Route 9, take Route 4 East (Farmington Avenue). At third traffic light, turn Exit 11 (Rt. 155, Randolph Road). At the end of the right to enter the Health Center campus. Go around the main ramp (for both N. & S. bound), turn right onto building to the right (at a Y in road), then take a left when Randolph Road. Continue to the traffic light at the top you get to the Academic Entrance. The road becomes two- of the hill and turn left onto Saybrook Road. Go a quar- way there so you should be able to tell where to turn. (Do ter of a mile and turn right onto Reservoir Road. Travel not go on straight to the two-way part). Then take the second past the stop sign, then take the first right onto Training right into parking lot A&B. this is close to the building. Go Hill Road. Your first left will lead into the Middlesex past the police station entrance on your left (small sign). You Community College Campus parking area. When you will see a continuation of the building with its own entrance arrive on campus, take a right onto Training Hill Road. area. This is the new research building. Enter on the ground Go to the second parking lot entrance and take a left floor, turn right and enter room EG-013 on your right. This into the upper lot. Directly in front of you will be Snow is the first room on your right. The rest rooms are on your Hall. Enter Snow Hall and go up the stairs to the 2nd left as you enter. floor and go to the last room on the right, Room 509.

12 Monthly Meeting Wednesday, July 27 CMC Summer Picnic Special Time & Location: Starts at 6:00 P.M. Wolcott Park, W. Hartford (see directions & info on page 11) NEWSLETTER OF CONNECTICUT MACINTOSH CONNECTION, INC.JULY 2005

Apple and CMC One thing that is abun- for your hobbies and calling on a club dantly clear is that while friend for assistance when needed. And, in Good Health the Macintosh’s market let’s not forget, having fun is important By Rich Lenoce, share has increased, our to good health! CMC President membership has remained steady. Not a Today, Apple is the epitome of good My grandfather taught bad thing until you go to health. The corporation is extremely me that the one thing we an Apple Store event like profitable with billions in the bank and should all cherish is our the release of Tiger and many analysts feel its stock is grossly health. When I first hand out flyers to Mac undervalued. When Macs move to Intel joined CMC, Apple was owners who say “I didn’t processors there will be no excuse for unhealthy and its future know there was a people not to own a Mac. Comparisons was unknown and rather bleak. Today Hartford area user group.” Clearly, we of price and performance between it’s a completely different story as Apple need to get the word out to Mac users Wintel and Macs will be obliterated. is one of the most successful and prof- through publicity and public relations. has commented that Macs itable computer and consumer Jerry Esposito, new to the Board, has may be able to run Windows but not visa electronic manufacturers. taken on this task and I plan on working versa. Michael Dell, who always trivial- with Jerry to set some PR goals for the izes Apple and its innovations, recently CMC is also healthy and as president, club. Also, these Mac users who say said he’d like to distribute his PCs with I’d like to continue our forward momen- they don’t know about our group are just OS X on them. Fat chance, Mike! If you tum. Like Apple, we have money in the the ones who would benefit most from want OS X, buy a Mac. I foresee Apple bank to benefit our shareholders (you) membership. I’ll be spending the next taking business away from the Dell’s of allowing us to run education programs, two months developing a proposal for a the world. hold events and programs, print a terrif- membership drive to present to our ic newsletter, publish a website and board. For all of us, this move to Intel, though provide information and tech support to it poses some challenges, will mean our membership. We also have a loyal I also believe to remain healthy we need Apple and CMC will continue to remain following of 130+ members who are to re-evaluate our mission and develop a healthy. It looks like we will have much active and engaged. Our Board, like strategic plan so we know better who we to look forward too. My grandfather Apple’s, is dedicated to customer satis- are collectively and where we want to would tell us to cherish and nurture this faction and being responsive to go to better serve you. The groundwork good health. I look forward to working members needs. I’m fortunate to have for that has already been laid thanks to with you in helping nurture the health inherited such a healthy organization the member survey developed by Chris and future of CMC and the Macintosh. thanks to previous presidents who came Hart. The results of that survey will be  before me. They continue to serve you, an excellent tool to aid the Board in looking out for the health and well being developing these plans. Apple and CMC in Good Health...... 1 of the organization. Review: Trying My Hand at iPoker...... 2 Another goal is to have more social Off The Beaten PathÐHidden Gems.....3 I recognize that to stay healthy and to events for our membership. Stronger A Change for the Better ...... 4 continue to meet the goals of our user bonds among our members helps make Live Free in the Land of MP3 ...... 6 group, like Apple, we need to continual- for a stronger club and allows each of us Download of the Month ...... 7 ly evaluate the future and change with it. to draw more efficiently on the knowl- MUG Special Offers...... 8 I’m in the process of working with the edge and diversity of our membership. Review: You Type, It Typinates...... 9 Board to set some goals for the club This can aid many of you in job searches, Meetings and Club News ...... 11 over the next two years. knowledge for your work, information

1 Trying My Hand single window. Cards are dealt in hori- zontal rows left to right, making it easy at Poker: iPoker to see every player’s cards. by Jeff Carlson iPoker also takes a more general Reprinted from TidBITS#785/27-June-05 approach to the game overall. It’s one long ongoing marathon poker session, If your knowledge of poker comes which you happen to be able to jump from watching television shows such as into and out of at will; when you quit the World Series of Poker or Celebrity the application, the current standings Poker Showdown, you might think that are saved, so that the next time you play the only type of poker game is Texas every player has the same amount of Hold ‘Em. money as before. This approach can be Editor However, Hold ‘Em is just the current exhilarating if you’ve managed to hand Deena Quilty popular variation in the United States out some bad beats to your opponents (and to my surprise, poker still seems and stored up a mountain of chips, but Designer to be primarily a U.S. game, as one of it’s depressing when you’re thousands George Maciel our Japanese translators pointed out to of dollars in the hole and fighting to just me). Variations were played as early as break even. Unfortunately, in this case Photographer the Civil War, and spread across the only way to start fresh is to delete America as settlers moved west. John Scott iPoker’s preferences file. If you’re looking for more than just Having a rolling session simulates Publisher Hold ‘Em on the Mac, you’re looking what you’d likely be doing at a casino, Connecticut Macintosh for Scenario Software’s iPoker. It fea- carrying your winnings (hopefully) Connection, Inc. tures 101 poker games that range from from table to table trying different 41 Crossroads Plaza simple 5-Card Stud to some that entail games, or simply playing a home PMB 1984 a bewildering array of rules, wildcards, game. You can choose the game type West Hartford, CT 06117 and antes. For example, take a look at yourself, or enable a preference so that the iPoker description for the poker the dealer chooses the game. Unless game called Baseball: 7-Card Stud is you’re familiar with all 101 games, or Printer played with all threes and nines wild. are comfortable losing a few hands to Budget Printers When a three is dealt face up, the play- see how it’s played, you can also limit 1718 Park Street er must either match the pot or drop. the dealer’s choice to just recent games. Hartford, CT 06106 When a four is dealt face up, the dealer The Rocks and the Fish — iPoker can immediately gives that player an addi- pit you against as many as 10 other play- We welcome submissions tional face-up card. With eight wild ers, though your screen resolution and from members! cards and the ability to have more than processor seem to determine just how Please submit articles by first of seven cards in your hand, you’ll need at many are possible. On my 15-inch, 1.25 the month for inclusion in our least four-of-a-kind to win this game. GHz PowerBook G4, I can play com- newsletter. There is much talent If that weren’t enough, you can cus- fortably with five opponents using a in our group; it would be great tomize the rules to each game to an Bigger Graphics setting, or eight oppo- to have several member articles extent that I didn’t realize was possible nents with a More Players setting but in each issue. for a card game. Want to honor a three- with slower performance. iPoker won’t card straight instead of the normal five even let me choose 10 or 11 players. cards? Use joker cards? Award chips to Unlike the computer opponents in the a player for being dealt a specific card? current version of DD Tournament Poker, All easily done. the players in iPoker retain their own skill The Buy-In — With so many games to characteristics. Claire Voyant (just one of manage, iPoker doesn’t try to mimic the several entertaining names) possesses the layout of a real poker table, aside from same playing traits each time you go up the look of the cards, the table surface, against her, making it easier to guess and the chips - all of which can be cus- when she might be bluffing or holding a tomized. Instead, players are listed top strong hand. You can tweak those traits, to bottom at the left of the program’s Continued on page 3

2 Continued from page 2 the dealer’s hand snaps its fingers Off the Beaten Path: too, by double-clicking the player’s once, then twice, then three times to icon and moving sliders that determine make sure you’re paying attention. Hidden Gems You the strength of skills such as Poker Might Have Missed Best of all, you can control the speed Mathematics, Psychological Deception, of the animation via a slider, which By Kyle DeMilo, CMC Secretary and Betting Courage. by extension speeds up play overall. When you surf the web as much as I do, you The players exhibit some personality I don’t need to wait for Rhonda Voo sometimes come across the occasional dia- as well. Each player is represented to figure out which move to make mond in the rough, so to speak. This column by a photo of a real person, which is (especially considering that the deci- points out those hard-to-find freeware and animated if you enable QuickTime sion was probably made in a few shareware items for your Mac that you might player movies. Watching them fur- nanoseconds). think you don’t need, but prove to be really row their brows in concentration, However, I quickly turned off the handy! grumble when they lose, and smile dealer’s narration of the action. And when they win is a fun addition... for although I like the sound effects, I used to be a Firefox fanatic www.get a while. But there are only so many there’s no in-game volume control. firefox.com.I still am a champion for what little facial QuickTime movies So, if I’m listening to music using they’re doing, which is giving web surfers a included for each person, so their iTunes at moderate volume, the choice in web browsers. However, since Mac antics became a distraction and I sound of shuffling cards is louder OS X 10.3.9 came out, Safari has gotten a turned off that feature. than it needs to be. I’d like to see a whole lot better. I like the speed, the polished A clever, if unnecessary, feature is simple volume control in an upcom- feel, and the bookmark syncing of .Mac, too. the capability to use an iSight or dig- ing version, instead of having just ital camera to project video of your the choice of enabling or disabling One thing that Safari is missing that Firefox own face on your player’s icon. After sound effects entirely. has is the ability to warn me when I do a dumb a few minutes, though, you realize move like closing a window full of tabs when Shuffle Up — iPoker is a program that you’re looking at your cards and I meant to close just one. That has been cor- that loves the game’s seemingly not yourself, and are likely to turn rected by a freeware add-on called Taboo. unlimited capacity for variety. It’s the feature off. If iPoker were a net- great for trying out different poker ➤ worked game, and I were playing Get it from here: http://www.ocdev.com/ permutations, or just for those days against real people, it might be fun to when you have a few minutes to see video of my opponents, but that’s The next application is an open source DVD- spare and want to pick up a few not the case. to-MPEG-4 ripper. This allows you to make hands without investing the time in backup copies of your movies onto your hard The Sound of Winning — One well- playing a full tournament-style drive. From there, you can use Toast to make implemented aspect of iPoker is its game. iPoker 3.4.1 requires Mac OS a backup disc of them, or edit them in animation and sound. I’m not a fan of X 10.2 or later and is a 36.2 MB QuickTime Pro or a program like iMovie. whizzing graphics just for the sake of download. The unlicensed version ➤ whizziness, which is why I think offers unlimited play, but only of 7- Get it from here: Scenario Software has done a good Card Stud; a license costs $30 and http://handbrake.m0k.org/ job of spicing up the play of the game unlocks the full version of the game. with minimal, but effective, effects.  Our final installment is from a new software Cards spin as they’re dealt, with a sub- Copyright 2005 TidBITS: development house from the original cre- tle whiss sound of a card’s surface Reuse governed by Creative Commons license ators of Now Utilities, now called You sliding against another card. The chips Software (by the way, Now Utilities is now Contact: sound as if the developers recorded owned by Power On Software Ð you can get real chips clicking together it and its OS 8 replacement, Action Utilities (although larger chip values hit at http://www.poweronsoftware.com/prod- the table with a heavier thud, ucts/actionUtilities/default.asp). They have a which doesn’t seem realistic great iTunes controller called You Control: but adds weight to the fact that Tunes you just tossed in a $100 chip ➤ Get it from here: http://www.yousoft- instead of a $5 one). There’s ware.com/itunes/ even some calculated whimsy: if it’s your turn and you’re tak- Feedback? Something I missed? Email me ing too long to act, the icon of iPoker: at: [email protected]

3 A Change For The Better Pentium is because of the Intel mar- barrier in their desktop computers. In keting machine. You’ll rarely see a PC a keynote speech, Apple CEO Steve By Chris Hart, advertisement that doesn’t end with Jobs promised they would reach that CMC Vice President the “Intel Inside” logo and accompa- level by a certain date. We are already Word has spread quickly throughout nying theme music. This marketing a year past that date and the goal has the Mac community of Apple’s approach has been very effective in not been achieved. Apple’s processor announcement that they will transi- boosting Intel’s brand identity and partners (IBM and Motorola, who tion their computer line to Intel making the company and its products actually manufacturer the processors processors in the near future. I know ubiquitous. Simultaneously, this that currently go inside Macs) report- that many of you have questions (and unforgettable slogan has been the sub- edly have not been able to produce worries) about what this change ject of mockery throughout the processors of this performance level means. Perhaps you even fear this to computer industry, especially in the quantities that Apple requires. be a sign of Apple Computer becom- amongst Macintosh zealots. ing a maker of “Pcs.” Well, I’m here Also overdue is an upgrade to the to put your worried mind . Indeed, some of the Mac users around lineup of Apple laptops. A common the world are angry about this Intel question at CMC meetings over the I’ll say up front that I’m all for this processor announcement. They view last year has been “Any word on G5 change. I feel a new optimism for this news as a sign of Apple joining PowerBooks?” There has been no the future of the Macintosh plat- word on this expected evolution form and I look forward to the of the laptop product line, faster computers that are over the because the development of these horizon. Best of all, this change products has been hampered. The will help to remove long-stand- processors available to Apple use ing stigmas regarding MacsÐthat too much power and produce too they use out-of-date processors much heat to be practical for lap- and run slower than PCs. top applications. If a PowerBook G5 prototype exists, and you What’s the big deal about a were to have the chance to use it processor? From a technical for an afternoon, you’d probably point of view, a processor is a find that it would burn your very big deal because it’s the thighs and run out of battery heart of the computer. Nearly power quickly. every bit of data that courses through the computer will pass I believe that these product through the processor at some development failures are through point. But from an “end user” per- “the dark side” of the computer world. no fault of Apple. They have highly spective (meaning you, the person However, these people are assigning skilled and resourceful engineering sitting at the keyboard), the processor too much sentimentality to a comput- teams and if these things were possi- should not be a big deal. The comput- er company and too much importance ble, they would make them happen. er should just work, performing the to the internal components of a com- But one can only work with the tools tasks you ask of it as seamlessly and puter. What it comes down to is Apple available, and this has been Apple’s efficiently as is possibleÐwithout need has to service their long-term interests hindrance. for you to know about the inner work- and their shareholders. Based on all ings. This has always been the forté of the information available to them, it So, where’s a computer company to Macintosh. However, history has has become clear that this course of turn? Apple, of course, gave a call to shown that this isn’t enough to assure action is the best path for boosting the most recognized name in proces- the success of Mac. Mac competitiveness, Mac sales, and sors and asked if they might consider shareholder returns. a partnership. By all indications, Intel What’s necessary is the ability to brought Apple into their secret rooms, compete with PCsÐcomputers that While current Macs are far from slow, showed them secret documents and wear badges touting Ultra this, many models are operating at a speed had some secret discussions. Satisfied Gigahertz that, Centrino here, deficit, when compared to PC prod- with what they saw, Apple returned to Pentium there. And the reason you ucts. For example, Apple is overdue their HQ and thought over what this for breaking the 3-gigahertz speed recognize those words Centrino and continued on page 5

4 continued from page 4 inside will change and some of the work (following some software performance specifications will updates from the manufacturers). changeover would entail. You can bet change, but the overall Mac experi- These new computers will not run that all departments were in on these ence will remain much as it is now. Classic, so if that’s an issue for you, discussions and that the decision Mac OS X will stay as it is, aside from I’d suggest you plan on holding onto would not have been made unless it its natural evolution that would still your current Mac for your OS was appropriate and necessary. have occurred without this 9/Classic tasks. No one can yet say changeover. whether the forthcoming Intel-based You may wonder how Apple knows computers will have a lower cost than what they’re in for with such a dra- While the Mac operating system will current models, but this would cer- matic transition. How do they know never run Windows software “native- tainly help lure more switchers from that they can navigate their way ly,” it is possible that future Macs will the land of Windows. through this change and safely come be able to simultaneously run Mac OS out the other side? To some degree X and a version of the Windows oper- Another common question is whether there is still doubt lingering over this ating system. You might be able to or not this announcement will have a endeavor; we won’t know the out- switch back and forth between the two near-term effect on sales of Macintosh come until we truly do reach the other environments with a key press or computers. My belief is that, yes, side. But at the same time, Apple has click. This capability might also come there will be a negative impact. confidence based on experiments with better Windows performance Because of customers being unsure they’ve conducted in their labs. To the than is currently possible with emula- about what this transition means, they shock of many, Apple revealed that tion products like Virtual PC. may hold off on making a purchase. I for five years they have been experi- imagine some of you reading this menting with the combination of Mac So when does all this start to happen? share that trepidation. My opinion is OS X and Intel processors. At the time Starting in early 2006, Apple will to not postpone the joy of having a of the public announcement, the begin introducing computers that fea- faster and more capable computer. Of changeover was already fully under- ture Intel processors. They’re course a good used computer is way within the confines of the Apple expected to start with the low-end always an alternative to consider as compound in Cupertino. models (such as eMac and Mac Mini) wellÐsomething that, while not the and I imagine the laptops will follow latest and greatest, is certainly better Those of you who have used the Mac next. Sometime in 2007, the entire than what you’re working with now. for a while will recall that Apple Mac product line will become an all- already has a similar transition under Intel lineup. While Apple has done all Thanks to its strong financial assets, its belt. In the 90s, they transitioned of us a service by announcing this Apple has enough money to carry it the Mac platform from what was coming change well in advance, I through any drop in Macintosh sales known as the 680x0 processor to the wouldn’t count on them being any during this transition period. Once current technology, known as more forthcoming in the future. For this storm passes, however, the fore- PowerPC. While that change wasn’t example, I don’t expect that we’ll cast for the Mac platform is very without its share of bumps, for the know the technical details of the Intel- sunny. In three to four years time, I most part it went quite nicely. The based computers until the day they’re envision us all enjoying faster Macs result was absolutely for the best and actually available for sale. that compete toe-to-toe with their PC had that transition not been made, counterparts and more people than Apple Computer would probably have However, I will answer some common ever joining the Macintosh communi- not lived to see the year 2005. questions to the best of my knowl- ty. Only time will tell if my vision edge, such as: “Will my current comes true.  So what does this Intel changeover software work with these new com- mean for you, as an Apple customer? puters? “Will my accessories still Will Mac computers look more like work? “ “What about the Classic envi- PCs? Will they work more like PCs? ronment?” “Will these new computers Will Macs run Windows software? be less expensive?” The answer to the Will the new computers wear “Intel first question is that a good percentage Inside” badges? The answer on all of current software will work on the counts is “No.” Apple will continue to new computers, thanks to Apple’s innovate and make unique products, advanced planning and a technology which work as simply and straightfor- they’re calling Rosetta. I also expect ward as possible. Some of the parts that most accessories will continue to

5 Live Free in want to enjoy music on something other of these formats has the wide compatibility the Land of MP3 than an iPod, is that iTunes defaults to stor- of MP3, and cannot be played on a wide ing your music in AAC files (these files variety of devices. by Chris Hart typically have suffixes such as .m4a and CMC Vice President .m4p, for example “Velvet Jones.m4a”). To make sure that your iTunes is creating While AAC (a.k.a. MPEG4) is arguably MP3 files, you need to check the Import As I write this article, Apple has superior to MP3, there are few playback setting in preferences. To do this: Open made a revision to their iPod lineup devices (outside of Apple’s own iPods of iTunes; go to the iTunes menu; select and added color screens to all the course) that can recognize the resulting Preferences; click on the icon named hard-disk models (in other words, all those song files. MP3 simply has much greater Importing. Make sure that the first selector $300 and above). While that’s great and I versatility and it’s an open standard that has “import using” is set to MP3 Encoder and certainly enjoy an illuminated, color screen been widely adopted throughout the elec- below that choose the quality level that you as much as the next guy, not everyone tronics industry. desire (figure 1). wants to plunk down that kind of cash. So, don’t despair about iTunes’ AAC habit Among those experienced with MP3 files, While many CMC members have an iPod, my friend, because you can coerce this little opinions vary widely on the preferred qual- I know that probably just as many of you app into providing the MP3 files you need. ity setting. I’ll not get into a lengthy own a portable music player that isn’t made Let me assuage any fear you may have of discussion on the matter, but suffice to say by Apple. Or perhaps you do have an iPod, this change hampering compatibility with you are choosing the compromise that suits but a member of your family who likes to any iPods in your life. Apple’s player works your needs. The higher the quality setting, share your music library has chosen to use fine with both MP3 and AAC files. So, as a the better your music will sound, but fewer another type of music player. Or, maybe result of making this change, your song songs will fit on your player. Going in the you’ve got a DVD player in your living files will work with nearly every portable opposite direction, the lower the quality you room that can play MP3 files and you’d like music player on the planet. (The notable use, the more songs you can squeeze in. to use it for entertaining your dinner guests. exception being models from Sony that However, I would urge you not to get car- Some after-market car stereos even have the were manufactured before spring 2005. I’ll ried away with a desire for more music and ability to play MP3 files, allowing you to spare you my soapbox rant on Sony and never set this selector below the “good” set- enjoy several hours of music on the road their insistence on doing things in a propri- ting (128 kbps), or your music will suffer from one CD. Even more common are etary fashion). greatly. portable CD players that play both audio CDs and MP3 CDs, which can be had for as At this point I should warn you to expect Once you have clicked OK in the little as $40. slightly larger song files, because MP3 files Preferences window, the settings to import are somewhat bigger than their AAC coun- music in the MP3 format will take effect. If you’ve been trying to use iTunes to share terparts. But I doubt most of you will be From now on, when iTunes imports music your music with non-Apple devices such as troubled by this, as MP3 files are still from your CDs, it will create MP3 files these, you’ve likely found that it didn’t small. Besides MP3 and AAC, other com- instead of AAC files. If you haven’t yet work. Why is that? Well, the first thing you pression formats available in iTunes imported music into your iTunes library, have to know is that all modern music play- include AIFF, ALC ( then you’re all set to begin the process. But ers work with music in a compressed form. Codec) and WAV. All three formats have if you have already imported some music, The compression process removes some of superior sound quality, but they also create then of course those songs defaulted to the–shall I say “less important”–musical song files that are sometimes as much as 10 being stored as AAC files. If you haven’t details in order to make your music fit into times larger than MP3 or AAC. Plus, none already imported a hefty load of songs, smaller files. The type of compression then I feel that the best way to proceed being used is what determines which would be to delete the AAC songs players can play the resulting song (which came from CDs that you own) files. While several compression from your iTunes library and re-import types have been thrust into the world them from the original CDs. of consumer electronics, MP3 remains the most widely compatible If you’re not sure which songs in your format. library are in AAC format, then follow these steps: Click once on the Library iTunes started life as an MP3-only icon at the top of the left column; go to tool, but when it came time to address the Edit menu and select View the copyright infringement concerns Options; in the window that appears of the recording industry, Apple intro- put a check mark next to Kind; click duced their own format called AAC. The unfortunate detail for those who Figure 1 continued on page 7

6 continued from page 6 be able to enjoy your right to duplicate the will also be the name of the MP3 CD and music you own for personal and family enjoy- you should avoid strange characters and OK. Your list of songs will now indicate ment. But first, of course, you need to get the unnecessary punctuation.) As you add whether the song is AAC, MP3 (MPEG) or MP3 files out of iTunes and onto your music- songs to the playlist, be aware of the total some other format. (Note: Scroll to the playing device. How you do this depends on number of megabytes listed at the bottom right to see this new column.) the type of device you want to use. of the iTunes window. The maximum amount of data you can fit on a typical CD If re-importing your songs is impractical First, let’s deal with portable music players is 700 megabytes. Once you have built a due to their sheer number, then there are that connect to your computer via USB (or playlist you like, click once on the name of two utilities to choose from to perform a memory card). Once the player’s icon has the playlist, and then click on the Burn conversion from AAC to MP3Ðmac3dec appeared on the desktop of your Mac’s Disc icon in the upper right corner of the and iTunes-LAME Encoder. The latter is screen, you can drag your MP3 tracks from iTunes window. The result will be an MP3 the easier of the two to use, because it inte- the iTunes window onto your music player CD that should play in nearly any CD or grates with iTunes nicely, retains the song (you may wish to create folders first). DVD player that is capable of MP3 play- titles (a.k.a. tags), and can perform conver- Alternatively, while in iTunes go to the File back. (Note: You do not need to use an sions in batches. After using iTunes-LAME menu, select Show Song File and you will “Audio CD” for the MP3 CDs you make; Encoder, you will end up with duplicate be taken to the actual MP3 file(s) on your standard CD-R discs will work fine. Also songs in your iTunes library. Use the indi- hard drive. You can then drag these folders note that many CD and DVD players do cator in the “kind” column to differentiate (or individual files) to your music player’s not like CD-RW discs, and it would be best the MP3 (MPEG) files from the AAC files. icon and they will be copied over. (Note: to use only CD-R media.) Once you have confirmed the MP3 files You are inside the iTunes music library and work fine, you can trash the AAC files. it is absolutely essential that you do not You are now able to enjoy the freedom that modify files in here. Do not move, rename, MP3 song files provide. Your music will If your AAC songs were purchased from reorganize, delete, or otherwise change play on any portable music player current- the iTunes Music Store, then your situation these files. Doing so may cause significant ly on store shelves and any that will come is more complex. All songs purchased problems in iTunes.) to market in the foreseeable future. Now, from the iTunes Music Store are protected doesn’t that make you want to dance? from duplication and conversion by a If you intend to listen to your song files in a DRM mechanism. A utility called JHymn CD or DVD player that plays MP3 files, then Software Referenced: can often strip the DRM protection from you will need to create what iTunes calls an JHymn AAC files. However, there’s no guarantee “MP3 CD.” Your first step to create this type http://hymn-project.org it will work on all song files, as Apple is of disc is to go into iTunes Preferences; click constantly revising their methods. on the icon named Burning; under the cate- iTunes-LAME Encoder Remember that if you are successful in gory Disc Format click on the button next to http://www.blacktree.com stripping the DRM information from the MP3 CD; click OK. (click on Apps) song files, it is your duty to respect the copyrights in place and to not infringe Now, create a playlist in iTunes that con- mac3dec them by engaging in abusive duplication tains the songs you want on the CD. (When http://sourceforge.net/ and illegal sharing. (Note: It would be naming the playlist, keep in mind that this projects/mac3dec/  advisable to make a backup of the iTunes folder in your Home/User folder before trying to remove the DRM protection from your iTunes song files.) 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8 You Type, It Typinates by Matt Neuburg Reprinted from TidBITS#785/27-June-05

Ergonis software, whose PopChar and Yes, I want to join CMC KeyCue utilities have been mentioned Benefits: in TidBITS, now throws its hat into the Monthly meetings, monthly newsletter, spe- typing assistant ring with Typinator. cial events, discounted books, assistance with The idea is that you provide Typinator that what precedes is an abbreviation; computer problem, network with other Mac with a set of abbreviations and expan- instead, it watches to see whether users, User Group Store discounts, and more. sions; when you’re working in any you’ve typed an abbreviation at the start program, if you type an abbreviation, of a word, and if you have, it just Date ______Typinator substitutes the corresponding expands it (and if that isn’t what you expansion. For example, I could type intended, Undo restores the abbrevia- Name ______“tb” to generate “TidBITS”, or “AS” to tion in most applications). Typinator generate “AppleScript”, and so on for also does some smart things such as let- Address ______any boilerplate, short or long, that I ting you use the capitalisation of the City ______expect to use. of the expansion (useful for ordinary words that should be capitalised at the State______Zip______start of a sentence but not elsewhere). Typinator’s primary competition is Phone (Home) ______TypeIt4Me, which I’ve also mentioned And that, aside from letting an expan- sion enter current time and date in these pages. The approaches taken by Phone (Office) ______the two utilities vary radically. information in a variety of formats, is about all Typinator does; it doesn’t per- TypeIt4Me is an input method; you Phone (Fax) ______switch to it using your Input menu (the mit multiple abbreviation files, or status menu at the right end of the menu application-specific abbreviation files, Business ______bar whose icon is usually some coun- like TypeIt4Me. try’s flag), which means that you can’t Occupation______use it in conjunction with any other input As usual with Ergonis’s products, method or keyboard layout. Typinator, simplicity and reliability are the watch- Email:______on the other hand, is an ordinary appli- words. Like PopChar, Typinator can cation. It watches the characters you enter characters from throughout the Referred by: ______actually enter by typing – I don’t know Unicode repertoire; and like PopChar, it how - and when you type an abbrevia- seems to work just about anywhere - I Areas of special interest: ______tion, it uses GUI scripting to select it and wasn’t able to find many applications to substitute the expansion. This is done that give Typinator trouble (though I did ______by pasting, which means that Typinator quickly find one, Panorama). Typinator can enter images if an application allows requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later, and ______this. It also means that entering a costs just $20; you can try it out for free Typinator expansion wipes out whatever (a 500K download), the only limitation was on the clipboard; I don’t quite see being the number of abbreviations the Annual CMC Family why this is necessary, since it ought to be trial version remembers. Membership possible for Typinator to restore the old Copyright 2005 TidBITS: Reuse governed by $25.00 clipboard contents afterwards, but in any Creative Commons license case you can work around this, if you Make check payable to CMC and mail to: find it problematic, with a multiple clip- Contact: board utility such as CopyPaste or 41 Crossroads Plaza, PMB 1984 ClipBlock. ...or Typinator also doesn’t require you to

9 ★★★★ 2005-2006 CMC Officers and Board of Directors ★★★★

President Rich Lenoce Vice President Chris Hart Treasurer David Gerstein Secretary Kyle DeMilo [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 860-347-1789 860-291-9393

PR Jerry Esposito Past President Don Dickey Ambassador Joseph Arcuri Design George Maciel [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 860-232-2841 860-485-1547 860-561-0319

Editor/Auction Deena Quilty Webmaster Brian Desmond Raffles Robert Sawyer [email protected] 860-678-8622 [email protected] (860) 668-8728 [email protected] 860-677-7787

Download of the Month Debbie Foss Special Events Jack Bass Parlimentarian/Historian Connie Scott [email protected] 860-583-1165 [email protected] [email protected] 860-584-9573 Caricatures by Bill Dougal of Lebanon, (860) 456-9041. Available for illustration assignments and event caricatures. 10 CMC Monthly Meetings FREE Raffle! FREE Classified Ads Monthly CMC Meetings are held on last Every CMC member who attends CMC Members can Advertise For Wednesday of the month from 7:00 - 9:00 our monthly meetings gets a raffle Sale, Swap, Trade, Giveaway or Want P.M. (except November and December ticket. This will give you a chance to Buy Items. This space can be used when the meetings are held one week for one of our free prizes every by members to advertise non-business earlier due to the holidays). Location below. month! You could win…t-shirts, items which they are no longer using or Board meetings are held on the first toys, CDs, mugs, software upgrading. This is a FREE service Thursday of the month. If you wish to …there’s always something we’re provided to our members. Send to: attend a Board meeting, contact an officer giving away! And don’t forget the [email protected] for time & location. Free table at the back of the room where everything is...FREE! FOR SALE Wednesday, July 27 Brookstone Mouse Pad and CMC Summer Picnic with Gel Wrist Pad NOTICE! $10.00 USB 2.0 8 in 1 card reader. and Q&A Session Never used; $10.00. Call Shirley at Special Time: 6:00 P.M. • Member expiration date 860-747-8833. Special Place: • Membership number (for free shipping at MacConnection) FOR SALE Wolcott Park, West Hartford • CMC Web site username Inspiration 5.0, creative brainstorm- Bring a blanket or chairs, an appetite and and password ing software (great for teachers!). lot’s of your Mac questions for our ...are now located on your New, but older version for OS 9/ experts. Our picnic will begin at 6pm at newsletter mailing label. Classic. Also Kensington TripleTreks the picnic area adjacent to Chatfield Flapover Case for laptops. New, Drive. Parking in the Chatfield Drive lot is Please, make a $20.00. Call 860-678-8622. limited so, if you can, car pool. Additional note of it NOW! parking is available at the opposite end of FOR SALE the park or on side streets. One Palm m515 with 16mg SD disc Rain cancels so check your email or the Getting CMC emails? Ð very good condition $100 CMC website for cancelation information. If cancelled we We always send out advance notice One practically new Canon PIXMA will hold the meeting in our regular of the meetings, and sometimes for iP5000 bubble jet printer Ð I made UCONN Health Center location. big news or special events (like our about six 8x10 great prints, but I bus trip to Macworld). If you’re not Directions: want a larger printer. List $199. getting them, please email us at From Route 9, follow to I-84 East. For sale $100. Jack Bass email: [email protected] with your [email protected] or 324-4224 From I-84 East, get off at New Britain current email address and a subject cell phone Ave. exit. Left off ramp, go about 100 line of: ADD TO CMC EMAIL LIST yards, take next right on Chatfield Drive. Treasurer’s Report Display Ad Rates From I-84 West, at end of ramp, left on Ridgewood Rd for 50 yards to New New Members! Any business items or services can Britain Ave. Left on New Britain Ave for be advertised at the low monthly rates 1/4 mile. Right onto Chatfield Drive. We need new members! listed below. Have your friends and co-workers Business Card ...... $10.00 join us for fun and learning about OS X and the Mac. Quarter Page...... $20.00 Half Page...... $30.00 Total Membership: 133 Full Page (or insert) ...... $50.00 Submit all ad copy to the Editor on a disk Account Balances (with nothing else on it) or e-mail it to [email protected] for insertion in the Checking Balance...... $1247.36 following issue. Display ads must be Savings Balance ...... $3975.83 submitted camera-ready in eps or pdf for- mat with all fonts and graphics embedded. Balances as of July 7, 2005 Make check payable to CMC. 11 41 Crossroads Plaza Ð PMB 1984 West Hartford, CT 06117

Monthly Meeting Wednesday, July 27 CMC Summer Picnic Special Time & Location: Starts at 6:00 P.M. Wolcott Park, W. Hartford (see directions & info on page 11)

CMC Meeting Location a PDF document containing a visual direction guide to UConn Health Center is available on our website: www.ctmac.org. Print and take it with you to find us easily!

Monthly meetings will be held at UConn Health Center in Farmington. When hands-on programs require computers for attendees, we will be using Middlesex Community College in Middletown.

Directions to UCHC, Farmington Directions to Middlesex C.C. From I-84: Take Exit 39 (if coming from I-84 West, From the Hartford area, take Route 9 South. A few Exit 39 is after 39A). Turn right at first traffic light onto miles south of downtown Middletown on Route 9, take Route 4 East (Farmington Avenue). At third traffic light, turn Exit 11 (Rt. 155, Randolph Road). At the end of the right to enter the Health Center campus. Go around the main ramp (for both N. & S. bound), turn right onto building to the right (at a Y in road), then take a left when Randolph Road. Continue to the traffic light at the top you get to the Academic Entrance. The road becomes two- of the hill and turn left onto Saybrook Road. Go a quar- way there so you should be able to tell where to turn. (Do ter of a mile and turn right onto Reservoir Road. Travel not go on straight to the two-way part). Then take the second past the stop sign, then take the first right onto Training right into parking lot A&B. this is close to the building. Go Hill Road. Your first left will lead into the Middlesex past the police station entrance on your left (small sign). You Community College Campus parking area. When you will see a continuation of the building with its own entrance arrive on campus, take a right onto Training Hill Road. area. This is the new research building. Enter on the ground Go to the second parking lot entrance and take a left floor, turn right and enter room EG-013 on your right. This into the upper lot. Directly in front of you will be Snow is the first room on your right. The rest rooms are on your Hall. Enter Snow Hall and go up the stairs to the 2nd left as you enter. floor and go to the last room on the right, Room 509.

12 Monthly Meeting Wednesday, Aug. 31 UConn Health Center Final Cut Express 7:00 P.M. Back to Basics - iTunes 6:00 P.M. NEWSLETTER OF CONNECTICUT MACINTOSH CONNECTION, INC.AUGUST 2005

If Classic means something thinking software, and then canceling Adobe Persuasion: that is timeless… them for no apparent reason. Take A terrific presentation application these four: but it couldn’t compete with When is Classic Microsoft’s Powerpoint. not Classic? Hypercard: Simple yet advanced multimedia By Rich Lenoce, AutoCad: authoring application. It was so The standard in architectural and CMC President simple, elementary school stu- engineering software that never dents could use it to create As you read in made the leap to OS X. No OS X learning games yet multi-media last month’s issue, equivalent available for this developers could create sophisti- we Mac users have industry standard. ?? cated interactive documents and nothing to fear with applications. Another revolutionary Digidesign ProTools LE/Free: Apple’s switch to product from Apple that is now gone. The leader in pro audio software Intel processor unless made a full featured audio appli- you need to run Classic applications Home Page: cation that could run separately not available for OS X. Though a pro- A WYSWYG web page creator from ProTool’s proprietary hard- gram called Rosetta will enable Power that was as easy to use as a word ware and offered it for free. No PC OS X apps to run on Intel, appar- processor but used to create beau- similar OS X version. Still avail- ently there will be no such emulator for tiful web pages. able from Digidesign pre-OS X applications. http://www. digidesign.com/ Cyberdog: products/details.cfm?template I still use some applications in Classic The smallest (2 mb), fastest =overview&product_id=2040 daily. Inevitably, a student sends me a and simplest web browser ever. paper in Corel WordPerfect or Probably, the shortest lived too. Macromedia SoundEdit 16: Microsoft Works formats on Windows Simple, inexpensive, fast and effi- and I need the Mac Classic versions Claris Emailer: cient audio recorder and editor. under OS X to open them. Or, I am A powerful, efficient and compre- working on a media project and need hensive email reader that could Casady & Greene’s Sound Jam: any number of tools that never made it receive AOL mail. Had no support Yes, Apple bought this and turned to OS X. I keep a PowerBook 1400 for many modern email protocols it into iTunes, but first they and an iMac G3 for running those like SMTP authentication. stripped its ability to record audio applications that won’t run under OS and broadcast Internet radio. X or under OS X Classic. Gone but Not Forgotten Continued on page 2 Here are some applications that never Here are some OS 7-9 apps that either made the move to OS X and left the have no OS X equivalent; or have an When is Classic not Classic...... 1 Mac altogether. OS X equivalent but the OS 7-9 ver- Off The Beaten PathÐHidden Gems.....3 sion was much better; or are Corel Word Perfect: iPod_Now Enviromentally Friendly.....3 applications that won’t run under OS Fast, expandable and to this day MacWorld Best of Show ...... 4 X Classic at all, requiring a Mac that still puts Microsoft Word “bloat- Free WiFi Security...... 5 can boot into OS 7-9. ware” to shame. Just goes to show Download of the Month ...... 5 you, the best application doesn’t MacWorld-An Intimate Affair...... 6 Apple Applications always win. Now available for free. Special MUG Offers...... 8 Apple has this nasty habit of offering http://acmfiles.csusb.edu/corel/ Meetings and Club News ...... 11 some of the best and most forward wpmac.html

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VSE Be Found: Desktop Printer and the docu- Takes a web site, examines its ments will be converted into content and registers the site with exact HTML replicas, complete search engines saving hours or with table layout! It’s so magical days of work. Nothing like it any- I don’t know how it works and where. VSE still offers monthly can’t live without it. Last year, a updates but no OS X version. client asked me to convert a 500- page catalog created in Adobe Comet CG: PageMaker to a web site. If I did A CG is a Character Generator, a this manually it would have taken hardware or software tool that is weeks. Myrmidon turned the Editor used in video production and multi-page document in an entire Deena Quilty broadcasting to create graphics. website in 90 minutes complete This was an easy method to create with buttons and links. It took me Designer broadcast level graphics on the two hours to clean it up and make George Maciel Mac. Today, dozens of similar a table of contents. I was home by products are available for lunch! Available now for free as Photographer Windows PCs but none are avail- wel as the low-end Go-Click soft- John Scott able for Macintosh. ware at www.terrymorse.com/

Publisher Macromedia Authorware: StripCam: Connecticut Macintosh Hugely popular multimedia A control strip module that when Connection, Inc. development software for teach- activated, takes any camera con- 41 Crossroads Plaza ers and instructional designers nected to the Mac and turns it into PMB 1984 that uses a flowchart metaphor to a WebCam. Activate the Mac file West Hartford, CT 06117 design applications and learning sharing control strip and it will modules. No OS X version. serve the camera to the Internet. Great for security. Printer Control Strip and Chooser: Budget Printers Since the Control Strip and There you have my round-up of 1718 Park Street Chooser are not part of OS X or favorite OS 7-9 applications that are Hartford, CT 06106 Classic, these applications have no longer available or won’t run in no OS X equivalent and won’t run Classic. I’ll bet you have your own We welcome submissions in OS X Classic. I keep an old software you can’t live without that from members! Mac around just to use these very only runs in Classic or on an OS 7-9 Please submit articles by first of useful tools. only machine. the month for inclusion in our newsletter. There is much talent Adobe Distiller: Email me at [email protected] in our group; it would be great Drag a file or folder containing and I’ll print the results next month. to have several member articles any document type over the in each issue. Distiller Desktop Printer and they’ll instantly be converted to PDF. Adobe offers Distiller for OS X but it’s painfully slow. A folder of 100 Word Docs took 5 minutes to convert under OS 8 while the same docs took one hour in OS X. That’s progress?

Myrmidon: Like Distiller, drop any document type or an entire folder of docu- ments on to this Chooser-based

2 Off The Beaten Path: iPod – Now Hidden Gems For Your Mac You Might Have Missed Environmentally Friendly By Kyle DeMilo, CMC Secretary By Chris Hart, CMC Vice President When you surf the web as much as I do, you sometimes come across the Despite the cost of iPod portable music players, occasional diamond in the rough, so to speak. This column points out those they are sometimes considered disposable items. hard-to-find freeware and shareware items for your Mac that you might Because the cost of servicing an iPod is sometimes think you don’t need, but prove to be really handy! nearly as much as the cost of a new one, many peo- ple choose to cut their losses and toss their old iPod. One of the best things about the Mac is choice. You’re not limited to using one service, or one program. You have choices. It’s this line of thinking that Considering the millions of units being sold in a brings us to our trio of items for your Mac. year, this kind of approach could quickly result in lots of units ending up in landfills or other waste You may or may not know that processing facilities. The problem with that is the there is a feature in the Address presence of numerous environmentally harmful Book to bring up a map of a con- chemicals inside an iPod (as with any computer). tact’s location via Mapquest by clicking on the address label Many customers and environmental protection action (“home” or “work”). The cool part groups have been pushing Apple to respond to this is that this plugin allows you to use issue and provide a responsible method for dealing Google Maps instead. Choice is with dead equipment. In early June, Apple announced cool, no? It requires: Apple Address Book, and Mac OS X 10.3 or higher. that they will now accept iPods for recycling, free of ➤ Get it from: www.briantoth.com/addressbook/ charge to the customer. Further, they will offer a 10% discount on the purchase of a replacement iPod dur- The second item is a program for OS X that touts itself as “The only ing that same visit to an Apple Store. good PC feature, now on the Mac.” It’s called “Show Desktop,” and it’s based on the Windows feature of the same name. What it allows you to I certainly applaud this announcement. You may do is click on an icon in either the Menu Bar or in your Dock and recall that I’ve written in these pages about the instantly hide all of your open windows and applications. issue of computer recycling and the fact that Apple accepts old computers for processing for a While you can do this with Panther and Tiger’s Exposé, what’s neat about fee of $30. Unfortunately this new announce- this implementation is that you ment has no impact on the computer recycling can configure certain applica- program, and recycling your old computer will tions to remain visible (think still cost you money. iChat AV buddy lists) after you hide the other applications. The I urge Apple to lower consumer costs across their best part? It’s free! It requires: entire recycling program. Obviously shipping a Mac OS X 10.1 or higher. computer for recycling costs considerably more ➤ Get it from: www.everydaysoftware.net/showdesktop/index.html than shipping an iPod, but that cost should be covered by the profit of selling a consumer a new Finally, here’s something for all of you Tiger users out there that computer at an Apple Store. Considering the might find the Terminal a little daunting. It’s called “Shellac”–a col- industry-leading position that Apple strives for in lection of Automator actions that run such UNIX power tools as cat, the design of their products, they now need to cut, grep, head, paste, sort, tail, uniq, wc and more in a more user- lead by example with a CPU recycling program friendly graphical interface. that is equally noteworthy. They’ve thought of everything Ð even More info: www.apple.com/environment Tooltips! They’re not free, but only 99¢ an action, and you only pay for what you want to use. Shellac is a steal for folks who want to use the power of Tiger’s UNIX core, but don’t want to learn how to use the command line. ➤ Get them from: www.pixelglow.com/shellac/ Feedback? Something I missed? Email me at: [email protected]

3 Macworld Boston Parliant’s PhoneValet combined SketchUp 5.0, from Last Software, 2005 Best of Show Awards hardware/software product turns a is an architectural Mac into a call design tool Reprinted from TidBITS#788/18-Jul-05 center, with for Mac by Geoff Duncan [email protected] features like OS X. The voicemail and Our friends at Macworld magazine new version call history (see and Mac Publishing announced five e xpands “PhoneValet, Best of Show winners at the IDG libraries, Can You Get offers augmented sketching tools, Macworld Conference and Expo 2005 That?” in TidBITS-699 for a review in Boston. To be eligible, products had improves file import/export, and of the initial release). Two new adds a collection of “sandbox” to be introduced at the show itself (or enhancements take PhoneValet two tools for landscape designers. recently enough that they generated steps further. The PhoneValet excitement amongst attendees) and be Anywhere server software enables http://www.sketchup.com/ available for hands-on evaluation by PhoneValet Message Center 3.0 the Macworld editorial staff. Not sur- users to access voicemail messages, Transpod for iPod shuffle is an FM prisingly given the success of Apple’s reports, logs, and phone books from transmitter for Apple’s iPod, winners included products anywhere via the Internet. iPod shuffle portable aimed at the digital music market. PhoneValet Podcast is an extension music player which to PhoneValet Message Center 3.0 can tune to any avail- which includes tools for recording The winners are: able FM frequency. It phone conversations and later edit- Harman Kardon’s Drive + Play, plugs into a car’s ing them via VST-enabled editions scheduled to be of BIAS’s Peak Express and cigarette lighter or available in SoundSoap 2, creating a powerful accessory jack, September for solution for podcasters and others simultaneously $200 (plus sev- who conduct phone interviews or plays music and eral hours of record events via phone for later charges an iPod shuffle via USB, installation time broadcast or publication. and offers a 3.5 mm stereo output. if you want to The small size of the iPod shuffle hide the cables, http://www.parliant.com/ may make the Transpod for iPod or an estimated shuffle more successful than the $100 to $150 in http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi? tbart=07380 previous Transpod, which was installation awkwardly designed and clumsy costs), is an in- http://www.bias-inc.com/ to use. car iPod music system featuring a backlit LED The Print Shop for Mac 2.0, http://www.dlodirect.com/ display which lets users see the This inexpensive software from contents of their iPod and control MacKiev will the “Brain,” the interface which be shipping this connects to the iPod (and charges August, and it it while driving). Most interesting starts to take on is the LED-illuminated controller, the big boys of whose rotating wheel and four page layout by buttons mimic the iPod’s click- introducing new tools like grid- wheel. A 3.5 mm output jack lines, rules, and snap functionality, plugs into a car stereo, although plus a new project window which the Drive + Play can also broad- enables users to group items into cast to any unused FM frequency four predefined categories. The as well as route audio from other Print Shop also gains drag & drop devices such as a satellite radio. It functionality with Apple’s iPhoto, demoed well in a fancy BMW, Mail, and other programs, and though many people were also draws on the capabilities of Mac quite taken by the car’s color LCD OS X 10.4 Tiger’s Spotlight and navigation screen. technologies. See the complete article at http://www.macworld.com/news/ http://www.harmankardon.com/drive www.mackiev.com/print_shop.html 2005/07/13/bestofshow/

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5 Macworld Boston 2005: restaurants on the trendy Newbury Francisco. The cost of exhibiting was Street and within walking distances of on par with Macworld San Francisco, An Intimate Affair numerous hotels. It’s all too common so at least some vendors selling prod- Reprinted from TidBITS#788/18-Jul-05 to go to a trade show and see no more ucts at booths found the reduced by Adam C. Engst of the host city than the streets to and number of attendees problematic, from the . even if the people present were buying at the usual rate. Similarly, attendees Apologies in advance if my title either Also successful were the special pro- were disappointed mostly if they had had you hoping for a hot and steamy ductions: Andy Ihnatko’s keynote was anticipated spending a lot of time tale of nookie behind the trade show hilarious as always, and it was browsing through booths of products floor curtains or caused you to think enhanced by the guys who signed his they hadn’t seen before. With only of an awful made-for-TV movie star- talk for anyone in the audience who five or six aisles (there were six, but ring out-of-practice celebrities. No, was deaf; even though I don’t know some weren’t full) of booths, it didn’t the joke is merely that whenever American Sign Language, I was at take long to work the floor, and rela- someone came up to me at Macworld times torn between watching Andy tively little was new to anyone who Expo last week in Boston and said, “I and watching how the guys doing the has been paying attention to the world can’t believe how small the show is!” signing translated his jokes into an of the Macintosh of late. As with other I’d always reply, “It’s not small, it’s uproarious combination of facial recent shows, a number of the vendors just an intimate gathering of a few of expressions and body language. The were showing iPod accessories. our closest friends.” Mac Brainiac Challenge was once again a hoot, even if my team lost in Expo Notables — This will be the Seriously, Macworld Expo again the end (though I was pleased that my first time in ages that we’re not doing shrank to new lows in terms of the Classics degree came in handy for a superlatives article calling out the number of exhibitors and attendees. answering the question of the source most notable products and happenings I’d put the number of exhibitors at of Lorem Ipsum, the dummy text that at the show. Put bluntly, there just under 60 and the rumblings I heard designers use to test the look of new wasn’t much that warranted mention, place the attendance figures slightly layouts: it’s from Cicero). The Geeks and our friends at Mac Publishing lower than last year, when 8,000 to & Gadgets stage on the show floor pretty much pegged it with their Best 10,000 people were expected. (In con- was popular too, particularly for the of Show awards (see Geoff’s trast, January 2005’s Macworld Expo iPod sessions, all of which were “Macworld Boston Best of Show in San Francisco saw nearly 36,000 mobbed. Awards” elsewhere in this issue), attendees). As always, IDG World although a few other booths and prod- Expo did a good job managing the http://www.lipsum.com/ ucts caught my attention. perceived size, so the aisles on the first day felt crowded and busy, and On the downside, the changed hours Rimage had guys outside the Hynes the session rooms were small enough enjoyed mixed reviews at best; start- Convention Center handing out entry to seem full, even with fewer people ing at 11 AM on Tuesday and forms to win their Rimage 360i (a in the seats. Wednesday worked well for letting CD/DVD recording/printing device); people sleep off the previous night’s the cool bit was that they were wear- The choice of Boston’s Hynes events, but keeping the show floor ing 35-pound (16 kg) backpacks Convention Center was an inspired open until 7 PM was awful. It ran containing laptops and LCD screens move, since it’s far more appropriate through dinner time for many people, on arms that projected over their for a show the size of Macworld Expo the floor was nearly bereft of atten- heads advertising the company’s prod- than last year’s site: the cavernous dees, and the people working the ucts. We may one day see cloth that Boston Convention and Exposition booths were even more exhausted can display moving images, but it Center (BCEC). Navigating the Hynes than normal. On Wednesday, when I won’t be nearly as eye-catching as a Convention Center never took more spoke to the Boston Macintosh Users guy with a monitor suspended over his than a few minutes compared to some Group after the show ended, I talked head. of the hikes necessary in the BCEC, straight through until nearly 9 PM. during which you started wondering if http://www.rimage.com/ you should have brought provisions. Despite the small size, most people I But even more enjoyable was the fact talked with weren’t unhappy, unless Tonya and I were also impressed by that the Hynes Convention Center is they were expecting a show more the stylish iPod-holding purses and on Boylston Street in the heart of along the size of Macworld San Boston, one block from the shops and continued on page 7

6 continued from page 6 form the Apple Specialists Marketing local vendors and attendees. Given the Co-op (ASMC), which has negotiated shrinking size, the question of backpacks from the amiable wife- (and in some cases helped design) whether it will happen again comes and-husband team of Joallyn and exclusive products like the miniG down to whether IDG World Expo Dave Cartwright (Delarew Designs). series of hard drives from Transintl, earned enough money to make it Joallyn put a lot of thought into the iListen MX voice-recognition and worthwhile. IDG World Expo has said designing bags that protect the iPod headset/microphone bundle, and that it is committed to future shows in while allowing the user to see and more. The ASMC also held a one-day Boston at the Hynes Convention control it through a clear plastic win- “best practices” meeting on 11-Jul-05 Center, though at press time no dow that faces inward to avoid that included presentations, round- announcements of dates for next year advertising the iPod’s presence; the table discussions, a table-top vendor have been made. earbud cable feeds through another fair, and a “vendor speed dating” opening. Then there was Cableyoyo, event that must have been hilarious www.macworld.com/news/ with a slim plastic device that you use (“You have 3 minutes to introduce 2005/07/15/idg/index.php to wind up your cords; it’s elegant, but yourselves and generate the rough essentially a fancy twist-tie. Lastly, outline of a reseller agreement. Got Assuming it was profitable enough to Quark was once again present, and I your business cards ready? Go!”). continue, or could be further refined couldn’t resist chuckling at the sign to be profitable, I’d encourage IDG they had posted with their presenta- www.applespecialists.com/ World Expo to consider replicating tion schedule, which laid out, in great the concept of a small regional show detail, in case you were confused, just www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/ in a variety of cities. With the expec- to be absolutely clear, that they would press/2005/050711a.html tation that such a show wouldn’t have be discussing QuarkXPress 6.5 every www.transintl.com/store/minig.cfm tens of thousands of attendees, the big hour on the half-hour. www.macspeech.com/news/ name exhibitors wouldn’t feel the need to attend every show (or have www.delapod.com/ pr.html?id=105 their presence missed, as was the case www.cableyoyo.com/ More Like a Soiree — The fact is, at Macworld Boston), and a lot of people who would be unlikely to trav- www.tidbits.com/resources/788/ Macworld Boston 2005 simply wasn’t el to either San Francisco or Boston quark-sign.jpg a news event. Few new products were introduced at the show, and nothing could still take advantage of the train- ing sessions and the opportunity to The booth that most surprised me, that happened really qualified as see and talk with vendors. Such an though, was the Apple Specialists news. The small press room was never approach would also acknowledge the Pavilion, co-produced with HP, so it full when I happened to stop by, and I reality of Macworld San Francisco as featured lots of current Macs along saw almost no mainstream press in the most important event in the main- with HP printers that use a new ink- attendance. stream Macintosh world, rather than based printing technology. I’ve been pretending that Macworld Boston will hearing the term for All that said, it was a fine show, even ever regain the equal status it held in years, and I knew that TidBITS spon- if it has become more of a limited the glory days of yesteryear. sor Small Dog Electronics was an regional event aimed at networking Apple Specialist, but I’d never inter- nalized what is special about them. It turns out that the Apple Specialist program collects over 160 independ- ent Macintosh dealers and service centers like San Diego’s Crywolf and New York’s Tekserve, all of which have survived by earning the undying loyalty of their customers over the years. About 50 Apple Specialists were represented in the largest booth on the show floor, and the technical know-how was amazing. But even more interesting is that the Apple Specialists have banded together to

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Monthly Meeting Wednesday, Aug. 31 UConn Health Center Final Cut Express 7:00 P.M. Back to Basics - iTunes 6:00 P.M.

CMC Meeting Location a PDF document containing a visual direction guide to UConn Health Center is available on our website: www.ctmac.org. Print and take it with you to find us easily!

Monthly meetings will be held at UConn Health Center in Farmington. When hands-on programs require computers for attendees, we will be using Middlesex Community College in Middletown.

Directions to UCHC, Farmington Directions to Middlesex C.C. From I-84: Take Exit 39 (if coming from I-84 West, From the Hartford area, take Route 9 South. A few Exit 39 is after 39A). Turn right at first traffic light onto miles south of downtown Middletown on Route 9, take Route 4 East (Farmington Avenue). At third traffic light, turn Exit 11 (Rt. 155, Randolph Road). At the end of the right to enter the Health Center campus. Go around the main ramp (for both N. & S. bound), turn right onto building to the right (at a Y in road), then take a left when Randolph Road. Continue to the traffic light at the top you get to the Academic Entrance. The road becomes two- of the hill and turn left onto Saybrook Road. Go a quar- way there so you should be able to tell where to turn. (Do ter of a mile and turn right onto Reservoir Road. Travel not go on straight to the two-way part). Then take the second past the stop sign, then take the first right onto Training right into parking lot A&B. this is close to the building. Go Hill Road. Your first left will lead into the Middlesex past the police station entrance on your left (small sign). You Community College Campus parking area. When you will see a continuation of the building with its own entrance arrive on campus, take a right onto Training Hill Road. area. This is the new research building. Enter on the ground Go to the second parking lot entrance and take a left floor, turn right and enter room EG-013 on your right. This into the upper lot. Directly in front of you will be Snow is the first room on your right. The rest rooms are on your Hall. Enter Snow Hall and go up the stairs to the 2nd left as you enter. floor and go to the last room on the right, Room 509.

12 Monthly Meeting Wednesday, Sept. 28 UConn Health Center Celebrity Night: Andy Ihnatko Special Time 6:30 p.m. NOTE: “Back To Basics” To allow time for our guest, there will be no session this month. NEWSLETTER OF CONNECTICUT MACINTOSH CONNECTION, INC.SEPTEMBER 2005

Of Tiger, Smart Folders For this article, I dug my 1983 ADAM out Special Thanks to of the basement. It started right up and our Presenter & Spotlight and a 22 I spent hours playing with these Year Old Computer fun and still useful applications. At our August meet- By Rich Lenoce, I can honestly say it is still that ing, we enjoyed a CMC President same great tool I remembered. presentation from Rummaging through the box, video production professional and My first computer was a I found an electronic planner, Connecticut Final Cut Pro Users 1983 Coleco ADAM, made finance and graphics software, Group founder, Keith Larsen. right here in West Hartford, CP/M software (capable of talk- (see photos page 7) CT. It had an operating system ing to an IBM server), and a simple with a GUI, a word processor, multimedia development program for CMC would like to thank Keith spreadsheet, database software, and kids called LOGO. ADAM worked as for his detailed presentation of Coleco smart Basic (really Apple Soft advertised, albeit slowly with its 64k of Apple’s Final Cut Express video Basic). It had a modem (300 baud) for memory. What I found in playing with editing application. For those who Internet, email, BBS, Telnet and Prodigy, ADAM 22 years later is that the computer have outgrown the capabilities of RS232 serial and parallel ports, color experience hasn’t really changed much. iMovie, Final Cut Express is the graphics, dual tape drives, three expansion next step in creative control, slots and one bay, an optional 5.25” floppy Today, most people still use computers to allowing you to make profession- disk drive and later, a hard drive adaptor. It word process documents, create spread- al looking videos and DVDs. We used the same processor as an Apple II sheets, send email, enter information into appreciate Keith sharing his (z80) and could play arcade, Colecovision databases and surf the ‘net. Though we insight and experience with us and and Atari 2600 video games. do it more elegantly today, ADAM had a encourage you to visit the group’s GUI (Graphical User Interface) that web site at www.ctfcpug.org I bought ADAM while searching for my made all these operations intuitive two first post-college job. At the time, I was years before the introduction of the For a comparison of the features and going broke paying a woman $5 to word- MacÐand in color. Granted, today we capabilities of Apple’s iMovie and process each cover letter I needed. have fantastic audio, video and multime- Final Cut video editing software prod- ADAM saved me money because I could dia capabilities that are far beyond ucts, see the comparison table at: write cover letters and resumes and print ADAM, but that doesn’t make comput- www.apple.com/finalcut/ them myself with the included print- ers any “smarter” than a computer like quality daisy wheel printer. Like today’s ADAMÐuntil Tiger. In fact, until Tiger, word processors, I was able to keep a we’ve had to use our computers the way database of possible employers and mail the programmers who designed the soft- Of Tiger, Smart Folder & Spotlight...... 1 merge the data into my letters. ware and hardware wanted us to. Off The Beaten Path ...... 3 CMC Member Observations ...... 3 I mailed 175 cover letters and resumes Take word processors. The word proces- and received three job offers from people sor in my ADAM isn’t any better or Review: DEVONthink...... 4 who didn’t know me from… ADAM. All worse than Microsoft Word. What’s Review: Mac OS X Tiger Killer Tips ...... 5 commented how professional my letters more, after 22 years, Word adds nothing Download of the Month...... 5 that helps me write betterÐthe only differ- and resumes looked compared to those Mac 911 by Chris Breen...... 6 they received from other applicants. ence is how the software’s features are organized, and that seems more a matter Vendor Offers for MUGs ...... 8 All of this hardware and software power of the programmers taste than of purpose. Meetings and Club News ...... 11 cost $599 at Zayre. Continued on page 2

1 Continued from page 1 technologies, tracking more than file names but content and meta-data. Whether it’s ADAM or Microsoft Word, the word processor is only a tool, Can smart software that helps me in not a collaborator. other important ways be far behind? Applying the principles introduced in Tiger and its associated applications Tiger, we may see some fantastic soft- including iLife, add “smarts” to com- ware coming our way. For example, puting. For the first time I can tell my I’ve often complained that though MS OS, my email and my iLife applica- Word is a fine word processor, it’s still tions to do things the way I want them really no better or worse than the one done using features such as Smart that came with ADAM because it does- Folders, Smart Mailboxes, Smart n’t help me write. Based on technology Editor Albums, Spotlight, Magic iMovie like Magic iMovie and Spotlight, I can Deena Quilty (which automates movie-making) and see a day when word processors will One-Step DVD in iDVD. understand the subject of my document Designer and can therefore make smart spelling George Maciel Tiger Mail’s Smart Mailboxes auto- and grammatical decisions, auto-for- sorts the 100 emails that I receive each mat paragraphs, automatically apply Photographer day by importanceÐas defined by me, styles, scour the Internet for quotes, John Scott rather than the more programmer-cen- create footnotes and citations on-the- tric subject/sender/date method I had fly and examine my writing for Publisher previously been forced to use. This unintentional plagiarism. The word processor could one day be not just a Connecticut Macintosh saves me at least an hour a day going through these communications because glorified non-linear typewriter, but a Connection, Inc. Smart Mailboxes acts as my personal true writing collaborator. 41 Crossroads Plaza assistant, telling me what emails need PMB 1984 immediate attention, what emails I can The same intelligent computing can be West Hartford, CT 06117 wait on and which ones deserve to be applied in other areas. Smart computers trashed. (The to-be-trashed emails out- may be able to organize and design page Printer number the others 2 to1.) layouts from a folder of text documents, Budget Printers design architectural structures based on 1718 Park Street iMovie 5’s Magic iMovie feature is the computer owners’ needs and tastes, Hartford, CT 06106 another tool where the computer is my and buy and sell stocks unattended editing collaborator. Magic iMovie is a based the owners financial criteria. We welcome submissions simple tool to use. Just plug in your DV from members! camera, set some parameters and If all of this sounds like science fiction, Please submit articles by first of iMovie will import and edit your movie thanks to Apple innovation it isn’t. As I unattended. If the information is entered mentioned in my initial review of Tiger the month for inclusion in our correctly, a few tweaks may be all that is back in May, with Tiger Apple is final- newsletter. There is much talent needed to finish the movie. It’s like hav- ly going beyond the Classic OS and all in our group; it would be great ing an assistant editor there to pre-cut other existing operating systems from to have several member articles your movie. Magic iMovie’s results are the 70s, 80s and 90s and into a new age in each issue. startling when you see them for the first of smart computing. Until you really time. Best of all, the movie is still your explore it, you may not realize it’s more movie, as the parameters were defined than just another pretty OS. User by you, not some programmer in groups like ours can help you better Cupertino, Redmond or West Hartford. understand these innovations by net- working with others on how they best Like Smart Mailboxes, Smart Folders use their computers and Tiger. It’s a sets parameters to auto-organize docu- great time to be a Mac owner! ments based on user-defined criteria. This is great for handling documents By the way, if you know of anyone who according to project or purpose. wants to get rid of old ADAM stuff drop Spotlight is the power behind these me an email Ð being subservient to an old computer can still be fun.

2 Off The Beaten Path: In David’s words: Some CMC Member’s “It is very easy to Observations – Hidden Gems For Your Mac You fall into bad habits TIME Macworld Boston, 2005 Might Have Missed when using a computer OUT By Kyle DeMilo, CMC Secretary for hours on end. You By David Gerstein, CMC Treasurer care about what you When you surf the web as much as I are doing, so can Greg Allen: I remember when they start- do, you sometimes come across the sometimes push yourself too far, or ed in Boston and then went to New York. occasional diamond in the rough, so to over-strain yourself. The human body Now they’re back in Boston. I preferred it speak. This column points out those isn't built to sit in one position for end- in Boston when they were huge. hard-to-find freeware and shareware less hours, gripping a mouse or typing Compared to the previous ones in Boston items for your Mac that you might on the keyboard. Dejal Time Out! is and in New York, this one does not meas- think you don’t need, but prove to be here to help. It will gently remind you ure up. Usually when I go to a Macworld really handy! to take a break on a regular basis.” conference, I never get to see everything. There were two or three competing ven- Our first item Time Out requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 dors competing with each other. Now all this month is or later. It is Tiger and Intel compati- the big ones, Apple, Epson, Lexmark, from Mac ble. It’s free, too! Adobe, were missing. But I’m not giving Shareware ¢ Get it from here: up. I’ll be back. guru David http://www.dejal.com/timeout/ W atanabe, David Litchfield (a new member at his author of NewsFire (a RSS reader for Our final application is from BeLight first Macworld Conference): I thought it Mac), and Acquisition (a LimeWire- software, a Ukrainian company who was fine. It was enjoyable and not over- based Cocoa app for downloading focuses solely on Macs. Their newest whelming. I didn’t find any one thing files). It’s a plug-in for Safari 2.0 application is called Image Tricks, outstanding. I was disappointed by the called Inquisitor that does predictive and it’s an image manipulation appli- absence of Apple. But there were plenty of text entry in your Google search box. cation in the genre of Kai’s Power typical vendors that I’ll probably see at the Goo. It uses the power of Tiger’s Core DV East conference. Some things were Huh? Image technology to transform your over my head. I’m not at this professional- After installing it, start typing in the digital photos and other images by ly, not a knowledgeable user of Apple Google search box, and it will try to applying different effects to them. products. But [being there] helped gel predict what you are looking for, by some things. By the way, the best part of attempting to complete the entry. As Although the the whole thing was the bus trip. an example, if you were to type requirements “amer” into the search field, Inquisitor can seem kind IMAGE Al Boyer (a member not only in good will provide the suggestions “ameri- of hefty, it will standing, but in long standing): Since work on almost can idol”, “american airlines”, TRICKS Apple was not there, I thought it was “american express”, etc., as these are any modern Mac. miniscule. I noticed that most vendors the most probable completions to your Requires Mac OS were involved in the iPod which is a big input, as based on the search history X v.10.4 (Tiger) and later. Image product. I think one could walk around of others. It saves me many, many Tricks can work with wide range of that show at leisure in about an hour and a keystrokes (and many minutes) in the graphics cards. It is recommended to half. It was fun to be with old friends and process. Best part? You guessed it use cards that support the Core Image we had a good time together. –it’s free! Mac OS 10.4 is required. technology, like: ¢ Get it from here: ¥ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 Joseph Greene: I think that the sponsor- http://www.inquisitorx.com/ ¥ATI Radeon 9550, 9650, 9600, ing of the trip by the club is super great. I 9600 XT, 9800 XT, X800 XT enjoy going, seeing the new equipment, Our second application comes from a ¥nVidia GeForce FX Go 5200 the new software, but was disappointed one-person Macintosh software devel- ¥nVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra that the major manufacturers and software opment company, Dejal Systems, LLC, ¥nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL, people boycotted the meeting. I came to owned and run full-time by David 6800 GT DDL look at a couple of specific items, but none Sinclair. It’s called Time Out, and it’s a ¢ Get it from here: of them were available at the show. I was simple application designed to keep you http://www.belightsoft.com/ interested in cameras but there were none from working too long at the computer. products/imagetricks/overview.php on the floor. Also, a lot fewer retailers [were] there.

3 DEVONthink Goes Pro make DEVONthink cooperate with Apple Creates Rev-1 other applications - fetching all links from reprinted from TidBITS #793/22-Aug-05 iMac G5 Repair Program by Matt Neuburg - [email protected] the current Safari Web page, for example, or importing selected email messages. Reprinted from TidBITS #793/22-Aug-05 DEVONthink is a What's more, a script can be attached to a snippet keeper, where file or a folder within the database, so the a snippet can be any- script is triggered when the item is opened; thing from a few words in the case of a folder, for instance, this of text to a Web page, a capability enables the creation of a "smart Word document, a PDF, folder" that populates itself automatically or any of several other when opened. DEVONthink also comes formats. Within DEVONthink's data- with some Automator actions, along with Four months after my iMac G5 went base, documents can be organized example Automator workflows. "Up In Smoke" (see TidBITS-777), hierarchically and mutually referenced along with those of untold numbers of via hyperlinks. DEVONthink can link to publicly that there's a problem, institut- emerges when the file is something it Another new feature is the capability to ing an official repair program for can parse and index, giving play to its download Web pages linked from a given revision-1 iMac G5s. According to mighty powers of searching, cataloging, page. That's a terrific idea, and I was Apple, symptoms eligible for free and cross-referencing. eager to try it, but I found it nearly repair include scrambled, distorted, or missing video (caused, I believe, by When I reviewed DEVONthink in impossible to tweak the settings so as blown capacitors on the midplane) or TidBITS-720, I praised its interface and to obtain the desired results. its searching capabilities, but I pointed to (DEVONthink's developers could no power (the problem I had - there is, one shortcoming in its architecture: usefully study the SiteSucker utility.) of course, no mention on Apple's page of smoke and an evil smell emanating there could be only one database. This, I suspected, would ultimately prevent me from the computer). Apple lists the from using the program at all; and I was Also new is that you can make a page range of serial numbers of affected right. Now, however, that restriction is that's like a simple database table, where machines. These are all revision-1 17- lifted, thanks to the long-awaited release each column is a field and each row is a inch and 20-inch iMac G5s; the of DEVONthink Professional 1.0. record; such pages (unaccountably termed revision-2 faster machines released "sheets") can't have styled text, though, starting in May 2005 are apparently Finally, it's worth noting one feature con- products/devonthink/overview.php> boolean searches are still not implement- ed, even after years of complaints from http://www.apple.com/support/imac/re In DEVONthink Professional, a database users and promises from the developers. pairextensionprogram/ functions as a kind of document. Only one database can be open at a time, but I DEVONthink Professional is a big step The good news is that Apple will repair don't regard this as an impediment. With closer to what DEVONthink should have affected machines for free, even if they separate databases for different collec- been all along. Whether that warrants the are no longer under warranty. The ini- tions of data, I'm at last able to use "Professional" label or the price tag ($75), tial program is for two years from the DEVONthink seriously. market forces will show. Meanwhile, you date of purchase, but Apple may should definitely try this program for your- extend this at its option. The bad news The other major innovation in self; the demo download expires after 150 is that in order to qualify, it appears DEVONthink Professional is its hours of use and is not limited in any other that you must place your machine AppleScript support. Earlier ver- way. Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther is the min- sions were a little bit scriptable, but physically before the eyeballs of an imum operating system version required, Apple representative or service DEVONthink Professional takes but given the number of new technologies scriptability much further - and wears provider. It will be interesting to learn it uses, to run DEVON think on anything whether this means that repairs like its scriptability on its sleeve. The pro- less than Tiger would be a pity. gram has a Scripts menu and comes mine, where Apple simply shipped with many example scripts that users will no longer be available. [MAN]

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5 Mac 911 Command-shift-L Spam Scam Solutions to your most keyboard shortcut, I regularly get “Undelivered mail vexing Mac problems which switches this returned to sender” messages in my e- by Christopher Breen option on and off. mail inbox. According to the information (You can also in the message, someone else is hiding Trimmer iPhoto Library access this com- If you turn off iMovie his or her identity by using my e-mail Is there any way to make Apple’s iPhoto mand by control- HD’s Show Clip Volume address to send pornography out over the Levels option, you can save changes to an original photo, short clicking on an audio trim your audio clips. Internet. I’m offended that someone is of moving the altered photo completely clip and choosing using my address for this purpose. Is out of the program and importing it the command from the contextual menu. there any way to resolve this issue? again? For example, when I reduce red- —Jim Klausen eye, I end up with the original photo and Put HTML in Your Outbox the altered one. Sometimes this is a I want to send HTML e-mail messages Not really. For people unfamiliar with waste of hard-drive space. that look like Web pages. So far, the such a scenario, I’ll explain: spammers —Eric Anderson only way I have found to do this is by have spoofed Jim’s e-mail address, mean- creating the page in Macromedia ing that vermin like souls have stolen his I agree that this feature is both a blessing Dreamweaver, uploading everything to address and are pretending that it’s theirs. and a curse. Granted, you can always a server (for access to the graphics), and On occasion, an ISP blocks these perni- gain access to your unaltered original: then inserting the Dreamweaver file cious messages and bounces them back to just select the edited picture and choose into Microsoft Outlook on a PC. But is the alleged “sender”—a perfectly silly Photos: Revert To Original. But iPhoto there any mail program on the Mac that practice that wastes bandwidth and makes the magic happen by squirreling can send complex HTML? I’ve tried punishes innocent parties who had noth- away two copies of the photo—the orig- Apple Mail and Microsoft Entourage ing to do with the original messages. inal and the edited version. (v. X), but both just seem to attach an If you receive multiple bounced mes- HTML file. sages from a particular ISP, you might To free up hard-disk space, consider —Steve McGillivray Martin Fuhrer’s free iPhoto Diet. This contact it and suggest that it stop bounc- utility slenderizes your photo library by You have a friend in Rob Buckley, who ing messages, as the practice is both eliminating duplicate photos, removing created the free Send Complex HTML futile and annoying. To protect yourself backups of rotated or modified photos, with Inline Files 2004 AppleScript. against this annoyance, employ a spam stripping out your photos’ thumbnail This script allows you to embed com- filter and teach it to recognize these icons, and locating and disposing of plex HTML files in messages created messages as junk. photos never added to an album. with Entourage v. X or 2004. It works this way: After placing the script in the Liberating Location Audio Clip Control Entourage Script Menu Items folder I have a PowerBook G4, which I use I consider myself a veteran user of (/your user folder/Documents/ frequently at home and work. Because iMovie, but I’m vexed by the latest Microsoft User Data/Entourage Script my Internet connections are different incarnation, iMovie HD. Before, I was Menu Items), create a new e-mail mes- at the two locations, I have config- always able to trim audio clips in the sage in Entourage and address it. If you ured my Network preferences with timeline viewer simply by hovering the like, add a subject (if you don’t add a Home and Work settings. Can I make pointer over either end of the audio clip. subject, the script will place the title of the default printers change automati- In the current version, all this does is the HTML page in the Subject field). cally when I switch? move the clip. What gives? Choose the script from Entourage’s —Daryl Thornton —John Smith AppleScript menu and, in the resulting Choose A File dialog box, select the What you’re looking for is something Apple has changed the behavior of HTML file you want to send. Click on like OS 9’s Location Manager—a utili- audio clips. If iMovie HD’s Show Clip Choose, and Entourage lets you either ty whose functionality OS X doesn’t Volume Levels option is enabled (View: send the message now or send it later. (If duplicate. Thankfully, you’ll find many Show Clip Volume Levels), clicking on elements in the file are missing—one of of the old Location Manager’s capabil- an audio file in the timeline allows you the page’s graphics, for example—the ities in Alex Keresztes and Greg only to adjust the clip’s volume or move script will return an error message.) If Novick’s Location X 2.0 ($20). (note: the file—you can’t trim it. Turn this everything goes according to plan, the Version 2.5, which became available option off, and you’re welcome to trim script will then embed the appropriate after our August 2005 issue went to to your heart’s content. For this reason, HTML code into the message. it’s a good idea to memorize the continued on page 7

6 continued from page 6 Tip of the Month: Mac, first eject the disk image and then eject the shuffle. Note that the files you press, adds Tiger compatibility.—Ed.) Flexible iPod Files You can use an iPod shuffle to hold data copy onto a Mac disk image will not be The OS X files from your Mac by going to iTunes: available to a PC using that device. If Network Preferences, clicking on iPod, and acti- you need to use the iPod shuffle or preference vating the Enable Disk Use option. another Flash-based storage device to pane allows Unfortunately, because the iPod shuffle share files between a Mac and a PC, you to create is formatted as a FAT32 volume (to leave those files on the main partition locations that make it work on both Macs and and not inside the Mac disk image. include net- Windows PCs), it will not transfer Mac —Jonathan Woolson Nagged by warnings and alerts work settings files with certain characters in their from programs you thought you such as the names when you try to copy those files [Contributing Editor Christopher Breen is had deleted long ago? Instead of also Playlistmag.com’s editor in chief, trashing an application by hand, default net- to the iPod shuffle. The list of characters use the installer’s uninstall option. work port, IP includes slashes (/ and \), question marks author of Macworld’s tips and trou- address, and (?), angle brackets (< and >), colons(:), bleshooting column, proxy settings, but Location X takes this asterisks (*), and quotation marks (“). “Mac911,” as well as a step further. It lets you assign a default Secrets of the iPod: printer, an SMTP server, a time zone, a To fix this limitation, use Disk Utility Fifth Edition and Mac QuickTime connection speed, Energy (in your Applications/Utilities folder) 911(Peachpit Press). Saver preferences, Mail and to create a new disk image (Images: Find Chris’ books at Entourage preferences, and a Web New: Blank Image). In the New Blank www.amazon.com and browser’s home page that differ, Image dialog box, specify a disk-image www.peachpit.com. depending on where you are. size that will fit on your iPod shuffle Get special user group pricing on (leave some room for music), and Macworld Magazine! Subscribe today Just fire up the program, create a new choose the read-write option from the at http://www.macworld.com/useroffer location, and add the options you’d like pop-up menu. Copy the image onto the to assign to it—Energy Saver and iPod shuffle and then double-click on Default Printer, for example. Then quit the image. It will appear in the Finder the application. When you’re ready to as a generic white removable-disk icon. change your location settings, launch Copy any Mac files with Mac-legal file Location X, select the desired location, names onto that disk image. To discon- and click on the Make Active button. nect the iPod shuffle safely from the

Thank you to our guest presenter, Keith Larsen who demonstrated how to get started with Apple’s Final Cut Express software at our August monthly meet- ing. Keith is a professional video editor and founder of the Connecticut Final Cut Pro Users Group. photos by John Scott, CMC photographer

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10 CMC Monthly Meetings FREE Raffle! Discounted Books Monthly CMC Meetings are held on last Every CMC member who attends CMC continues to offer our current Wednesday of the month from 7:00 - 9:00 our monthly meetings gets a raffle members the opportunity to purchase P.M. (except November and December ticket. This will give you a chance any published book for either Mac or when the meetings are held one week for one of our free prizes every Windows at a 20% discount. All earlier due to the holidays). Location below. month! You could win…t-shirts, major publishers are carried by our Board meetings are held on the first toys, CDs, mugs, software source. Thursday of the month. If you wish to …there’s always something we’re Contact a Board Member or send an attend a Board meeting, contact an officer giving away! And don’t forget the email to [email protected]. for time & location. Free table at the back of the room where everything is...FREE! Provide the book title, the publisher Wednesday, September 28 and the ISBN number, if possible, and Special Time: 6:30 p.m. NOTICE! he will check on its availability. UConn Medical Center Normally, the wait is not too long. Celebrity Night with • Member expiration date Andy Ihnatako • Membership number CLASSIFIED ADS (for free shipping at MacConnection) Our special guest this month is Andy Ihnatko. (Please note the early start time of • CMC Web site username G4 COMPUTER FOR SALE 6:30). If you didn’t get a chance to see and password With Free delivery and a Free hour of Andy in his previous visit to CMC, then professional setup: PowerMac G4 are now located on your tower, 450mhz (upgradeable!), here is your chance. If you did see Andy, newsletter mailing label. we know you are looking forward to this 512MB RAM, 40GB hard drive, return visit! Not only is Andy one of the Please, make a DVD, MacOSX 10.3 or 10.4 (your most highly recognized figures in the choice), iLife 04, Contact Chris at 860- Macintosh computer world, but he is fun! note of it NOW! 291-9393 or [email protected] Andy is a columnist for the Chicago Sun- Times newspaper and Macworld magazine, FREE Classified Ads and his writing has appeared in numerous Getting CMC emails? magazines. Additionally, he has authored a We always send out advance notice CMC Members can Advertise For number of Macintosh-related books, the most of the meetings, and sometimes for Sale, Swap, Trade, Giveaway or Want recent being “The Mac OS X Tiger Book.” big news or special events (like our to Buy Items. This space can be used Andy will share with us his thoughts on bus trip to Macworld). If you’re not by members to advertise non-business recent Mac developments Ð in his humor- getting them, please email us at items which they are no longer using or ous and irreverent style. Plus, the evening [email protected] with your upgrading. This is a FREE service will end with a charity auction to benefit current email address and a subject provided to our members. Send to: The Red Cross. Up for bid will be all sorts line of: ADD TO CMC EMAIL LIST [email protected] of hardware and software gadgets donated by Andy. Please bring your checkbook! Treasurer’s Report Display Ad Rates Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting, Any business items or services can so please bring along your friends and co- New Members! be advertised at the low monthly rates workers who share an interest in the Mac! We need new members! listed below. Have your friends and co-workers Business Card ...... $10.00 join us for fun and learning about Quarter Page...... $20.00 Back To Basics OS X and the Mac. To allow as much time as possible for our Half Page...... $30.00 special guest, there will be no session this month. Total Membership: 133 Full Page (or insert) ...... $50.00 Upcoming Events: Submit all ad copy to the Editor on a disk Account Balances (with nothing else on it) or e-mail it to ¥ October: RSS Newsfeeds and [email protected] for insertion in the Podcasting, presented by Joe Arcuri Checking Balance...... $660.59 following issue. Display ads must be ¥ November: CMC Auction Savings Balance ...... $3980.22 submitted camera-ready in eps or pdf for- mat with all fonts and graphics embedded. ¥ December: Favorite Gadgets Balances as of September 8, 2005 Make check payable to CMC.

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Directions to UConn Health Center, Farmington From I-84: Take Exit 39 (if coming from I-84 West, Exit 39 is after 39A). Turn right at first traffic light onto Route 4 East (Farmington Avenue). At third traffic light, turn right to enter the Health Center campus. Go around the main building to the right (at a Y in road), then take a left when you get to the Academic Entrance. The road becomes two-way there so you should be able to tell where to turn. (Do not go on straight to the two-way part). Then take the second right into parking lot A&B. this is close to the building. Go past the police station entrance on your left (small sign). You will see a con- tinuation of the building with its own entrance area. This is the new research building. Enter on the ground floor, turn right and enter room EG-013 on your right. This is the first room on your right. The rest rooms are on your left as you enter.

12 Monthly Meeting Wednesday, Oct. 26 UConn Health Center 7:00 p.m. Your News – Your Way! “ RSS and ” Back To Basics 6:00 p.m. “Downloading” NEWSLETTER OF CONNECTICUT MACINTOSH CONNECTION, INC.OCTOBER 2005

Disconnecting Cartoon Network, Thanks, Andy and Reconnecting etc. Educationally- oriented PBS Kids A special guest, who deserves a By Rich Lenoce, programming couldn’t special thanks; Andy Ihnatko CMC President compete with the made our September meeting one As I write this editorial, flashiness of those wiz to remember. He regaled us with the summer is drawing bang commercial stories of his travels across to a close. As I look channels. When given America and adventures in the around the Mac land- a choice, my son would world of technology. The scape things are quiet as watch Sponge Bob over result was enough laughs-per- Apple develops its Intel playing ball in the yard. minute to be heard by passersby to Macs. Most likely all we’ll see between One day I actually watched these make them think there was a con- now and next year are a few upgrades programs and realized the messages vention of comedians going on to the current Mac line. coming out of these shows were inside, and surely not a computer anti-parent, anti-social and anti-intel- user group meeting. My summer vacation was spent tuning lectual and then the stations would go out and disconnecting. My family has to commercials that were pro-eat junk, In addition to having good fun, historically been the type of people pro-buy junk and pro-spend your we did good deeds, by capping off who tune-in and stay connected. We parent’s money. These weren’t the the evening with an auction to have or should I say had, cell phones, messages we wanted to teach our kids benefit The Red Cross. Andy pro- Palms, 200 channels of cable TV and so we began unplugging. vided the booty for bidding from Macs – 2 , a Powerbook 1400, a his private stash of hardware and G5 and an old Newton eMate. First, we disconnected our $85 a software. CMC members provid- month Cable TV and bought $7 ed their generosity and gave a Our days seemed to be built around “Rabbit Ears”. For what we spent on total of $1000. Bravo members! being connected. Constant cell phone cable we can now go to Cape Cod for We sincerely thank Andy for calls to use up our 200 “free” minutes. a week. It now seems 6 channels is all making time in his schedule to Our evenings would be spent wearing we ever really needed. The only chil- visit us. The User Group commu- out the remote control searching dren’s station we get is CPTV and nity greatly appreciates people through 200 channels to only discover their programming is positive and like you, Andy. nothing was on. And we lived by the Palm, making all our decisions based Continued on page 2 on whatever was in the little device and fearing ever losing it. Connecting and Reconnecting ...... 1 As a media teacher, I’m familiar with Off The Beaten Path...... 3 all the studies on the negative effects Podcasting...... 4 of media. Not only health concerns Download of the Month...... 5 but on the development of kids. I Book Review: Photoshop Restoration...6 never noticed it before being a TV junkie myself as a child until my son Google TIps...... 7 learned to use the remote control Vendor Offers for MUGs...... 8 before he could walk. He’d flip Take Control Books ...... 9 between kid’s channels like a master: Meetings and Club News ...... 11 Nickelodeon, Disney 1-4,

1 Continued from page 1 Mailboxes based on subject impor- tance and the mail rules I setup before healthy and limited in hours so my son we left sent auto-responses to various wants to get outside more. people depending on who they were (my boss, students, etc). Upon my Then the cell phones went. We keep return, I spent 20 minutes catching up an emergency $30 Walmart pay-as- on communications, not the two you-go cheapy around for the hours it usually takes. occasional breakdown, but it stays in my wife’s glove box and we hope we’ll While sitting on the porch of our never have to use it. Besides, I’m Vermont cabin, I had some time to much happier not being interrupted think about all the things Apple must at all hours. be developing for Mac users once the Editor Intel transition is complete. First, I Deena Quilty Then the Palm went and with it life think the transition is going to happen has gotten its spontaneity back. A faster than Steve Jobs led us to believe. Designer small pocket calendar and address I also think there are Mac products in George Maciel book supplied free from my local real- development that will blow the minds tor suffices just fine and if I lose it, I of PC users. Imagine Apple releasing Photographer don’t go nuts. consumer electronic products that John Scott connect to these Intel Macs using the Besides saving a fortune each month same processors found on PCs but are Publisher from all these services and devices, I only for people running OS X. These Connecticut Macintosh find we talk in more meaningful ways products will be as cool or cooler than Connection, Inc. and we’re not tied to the technology the iPod and it will frustrate PC 41 Crossroads Plaza to do so. I’ve discovered that though diehards enough to buy a Mac. PMB 1984 we think we rule technology, once Theoretically they should still be able West Hartford, CT 06117 you disconnect, you realize how to run Windows applications but after much technology has ruled you. Our taking a Mac and all it’s great features Printer family has rediscovered books and and software for a spin few will need or classic movies and has settled into a want to run Windows on a Mac. Budget Printers slower pace. 1718 Park Street What would I like to see? I’d really like Hartford, CT 06106 And then there’s the Mac. Unlike the to see all of the powerful Unix server other devices, I’ve found the Mac underpinnings we’ve heard so much We welcome submissions from allows me to work more effectively, about put to good use with a true members! the way I want to work and not be so Media Server built into every Mac. Please submit articles by first of tied to the technology. For example, Music and video files could be shared the month for inclusion in our communications can be blocked, fil- among computers, home stereos and newsletter. There is much talent tered, read all at once or not at all TVs. There’d be a stylish control in our group; it would be great saving time. Tools in Tiger, like Smart interface on each computer and TV to to have several member articles Mailboxes and Folders, can sort and select media content and a remote in each issue. pre-sort information for me. I can control that can control the Mac’s spend time communicating in more media server from anywhere in a effective ways via iChat or by sending house. Video files such as movies and pictures easily and quickly. After TV shows could be downloaded from implementing some of Tigers features an iTunes-like Store and played and properly organizing my computer directly to a standard or high defini- I’ve been able to cut the time spent on tion TV as easily as an Airport Express my computer time significantly. can send iTunes music.

Last week, we went to Vermont for Again, it would be audio and video on four days with no phone or computer. our terms—thanks to our Mac. When I returned my Mac had already pre-sorted my mail into Smart

2 Textpander Off The Beaten Path: Our final item this month is a utility Hidden Gems For Your Mac You Might Have Missed that helps you type more efficiently By Kyle DeMilo, CMC Secretary and more accurately. Textpander lis- tens to what you type and inserts When you surf the web as much as I do, you sometimes come across the predefined text snippets on the fly occasional diamond in the rough, so to speak. This column points out whenever you enter their correspon- those hard-to-find freeware and shareware items for your Mac that you might think you don’t need, but prove to be really handy! ding abbreviations. LED Spectrum Analyser SnapNDrag Our next item is a plug-in for iTunes, Our first item this month is called Apple’s music management program. SnapNDrag, and it’s a utility that fits in Most visual plug-ins that I’ve seen so nicely between the “Command + Shift far just create more trippy graphics that dance to the music. This one, + 3” keystroke (free), and SnapzPro X LED Spectrum Analyser for iTunes, 2 (not free). Like Mac OS X’s built-in recreates the look of the old stereo commands, it can easily take screen- “EQ” meters. For us older folks, it shots of your desktop, or a selection of even can recreate the look of the your screen. Like SnapzPro X 2, you classic “VU” meters. All created using Here are a few examples for what you can customize the capture area, and Apple’s Extreme rendering can do with Textpander: define a countdown, so you can prepare technology for smooth-looking • Insert standard greetings, text frag- your subject area first. meters, no matter how hard your Mac ments, and signatures – including is working. formatted text and pictures (for This application is free and requires example, your handwritten signa- Mac OS X 10.2 or higher. If you like ture in an email). Insert the SnapNDrag, you can upgrade to current date and time in any for- SnapNDrag Pro for even more features: mat you prefer. • Ability to scale down screenshots • Global hot keys for quick access • You can have Textpander correct • Option to turn off sponsor’s message typos automatically (no more Klye DeMilo for me!) ¢ Get it from here: http://www.yel- LED Spectrum Analyser for iTunes is • Import text snippets from other lowmug.com/snapndrag/ freeware and requires a Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or typing utilities. later, and iTunes 3 or later. A speed of Textpander is donationware, and 500 MHz or better will give best requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or greater. results. Any G3, G4 or G5 processor is fine. Display performance will ¢ Get it from here: depend on which settings you use. www.petermaurer.de/textpander That’s it for now. See you next ¢ Get it from here: http:// month! Feedback? Find a hidden gem Click to Capture Drag Off homepage.mac.com/graham.cox/ that I missed? Email me directly at: LEDSA/Spectrum.html [email protected]

Mac Tip Can’t remember the exact word or spelling of Enter the first part of a word anywhere you View Suggested a word, while using your Mac? Well, if you’re can type - for example, in the subject title for working in a Cocoa-based application (like a new email - and then press the option and Word Completions Mail, Safari, and TextEdit) you can use OSX’s escape keys at the same time. OSX will pres- By Chris Hart, auto-completion feature to find the word ent you with a list of words that start with that CMC Vice President that’s stuck deep in your brain. word fragment.

3 Podcasting, the New ments. The majority of podcasts are traditional radio. There are talk created by amateur radio personalities shows, guest interviews, and interac- Alternative to Radio and do not require a profit as their tions with callers. Unlike radio, by Laura Fargione shows are inexpensive to create. podcasts have no time limits or dead- lines. Shows can be posted as often as Podcasting is going to change the Already many public radio stations, needed. Podcasts can also reach a way consumers listen to radio. While including WGHB in Boston and global audience, not limited to the the term “podcasting” is a portman- WNYC in New York, have shows distance of a broadcast signal. teau of Apple’s popular “iPod” and available as podcasts. Christus Podcasts are created on just about any “broadcasting,” podcasting does not Broadcasting, Inc. has placed its com- topic. You can find information on require an iPod (“Podcasting”), any pany owned radio stations for sale to music and technology, or the more MP3 player an be used or you can start the American Podcasting obscure like wine and fishing. subscribe and listen right on your Network. Paul Montoya, CEO and a Podcasts, similar to satellite radio, Mac. In podcasting, free subscrip- 31 year veteran of the broadcasting “don’t have to conform to the FCC’s tions to downloadable prerecorded industry stated, “I was there when FM broadcast decency regulations: radio shows, called podcasts, are syn- Radio came into its own and saw the They’re downloads”. As a result, pod- chronized to an MP3 player. impact on AM radio. I have also seen casters are provided more freedom Subsequently, you can listen to them then terrestrial radio. whenever and wherever you want. You can even pause, rewind, or fast Subscribing forward through a program. This “on Subscribing to a podcast is extremely demand” format has become the new easy. First select a podcast client to alternative to radio. install such as iTunes, iPodderX, YamiPod, Poddum Feeder, Simple History Podcast and MaxPod. Subscribe to a Adam Curry, former MTV Video podcast through your client’s directo- Jockey, and Dave Winer, RSS devel- ry or from a podcast directory website. oper, are credited with the creation of Once you subscribe there is no need podcasting. RSS (Really Simple to revisit the website, your client will Syndication) is a format of XML that regularly download and sync podcasts syndicates web content. Originally to your iPod or MP3 player usually via developed for blogs, it is now also iTunes. If you do not have an iPod or used for podcasts. While attending the impact satellite radio has had on MP3 Player, you still can listen to BloggerCon, Curry met Winer while FM radio. I can now see the incredi- podcasts. he was showcasing his new develop- ble possibilities that podcasting can ment for RSS called “enclosures”. An have globally on the way people lis- Creating Podcasts enclosure allows a file to be attached ten to content. Now they can listen Creating a podcast show is sig- to a RSS feed. Winer convinced to programs they want to listen to, nificantly less expensive then a Curry that what people really want is when they want to listen to it” traditional radio show. All you need is the ability to “take the internet away (“Broadcaster Dumps”). The America a Mac and some software to be a pod- with you and listen to it on head- Podcasting Network plans to keep pod- caster. First, download and install phones”. With this new idea, Curry casts free by generating revenue one of the many free, shareware or created iPodder, the first podcast through advertising in programs. commercial audio recorders available client. iPodder automatically down- Clear Channel, America’s largest from the web. Some choices are loaded MP3 files and stored them to radio station owner, plans to make Audacity or GarageBand. Attach a Curry’s iPod. Curry released his client five-minute, ad-supported segments microphone and headphone to your as an Open Source application. available for download from station computer and start recording. You sites with highlight clips of their on- can go back and edit out any mis- Curry launched iPodder.org in air personalities. It’s clear commercial takes. When you’re done, save your August 2004 with his own podcast radio is taking notice of Podcasting. recording as a MP3 file. iTunes can “The Daily Source Code”. Curry, like convert any audio file to an MP3. other podcasters, provides his podcast Podcasting Content Make sure MP3 is selected as the free of charge and without advertise- Many podcasts use a similar format as continued on page 5

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5 Photoshop Restoration white, something easily Occasionally, everyone with an interest and Retouching done in a darkroom with in photo retouching runs into a prob- a couple of filters. Just lem where restoration is required. by Katrin Eisman converting an RGB to Maybe it’s a recent photo you consider Review by Richard Lenoce grayscale color space beautifully composed, taken at the right CMC President doesn’t work. Midtones moment, but your camera wasn’t coop- turn a dark gray, dulling erating. The color balance is heavily New Riders Press what was once a beauti- weighted to the blue or red and the ISBN: 0321316274 ful, high contrast, color exposure, brightness and contrast of the $49.99 photo and making image is so far off it’s hard to distinguish Caucasian faces go flat. people from a muddy background. Or Are you interested in digital photog- Eisman’s book gives you five techniques maybe that old photo of grandma on raphy and want your pictures to look based on the quality of the original to her wedding day is ripped, torn, faded their very best? Do you have old pho- convert the photo helping you identify and at a stage where the photo looks tos you need to restore while potential problems and ways to resolve hopeless. Eisman walks you through the maintaining their antique beauty? If them during the conversion. She steps required to evaluate a photo and there is one, and only one, Photoshop assumes all photos are different and then apply techniques to correct prob- book you should own its Photoshop helps you identify issues and then lems that seem insurmountable. She Restoration and Retouching by Katrin explores the techniques to make your makes the impossible easy and that’s Eisman. This book is a must for any- photos look their best. And, isn’t that where the book really shines. one who wants to make adjustments the point of any discussion about photo to their pictures beyond iPhoto’s lim- retouching? To aid you in the restoration of old ited editing abilities. photos, the book features chapters on This is not a book for the Photoshop Whether it’s color adjustments, putting newbie. Though she does a great job of • Dust, Mold and Removal the finishing touches on what’s already explaining the tools and methods used, • Damage Control and Repair a good photograph, converting color I strongly suggest you be comfortable • Rebuilding, rearranging and photos to black and white or repairing with Photoshop’s tools and working Recreating Portraits a torn, ripped and faded 100 year old with layers before you delve to deep sepia tone photograph, this book walks into the book. You can learn those Once you buy this book, you’ll be able you through the step by step techniques basic steps at an adult education course to go through those old shoeboxes full necessary to make your photos look or by using any number of fine intro- of photos and bring them back to life. their best. ductory Photoshop books and tutorials. And, you’ll have fun doing so. Once that preparation is behind you, Every year for the last five I have bought you’ll discover Eisman’s book to be a I highly recommend Photoshop similar books that were either too sim- rich text that will give you expert con- Restoration and Retouching for anyone plistic or too complex expecting me to trol over your photographs. interested in correcting new and old either know too little or too much. The photographs. This will be the only books either made me feel stupid or Photoshop Restoration and Retouching is book you’ll ever need on the subject. inadequate. This book made me want a well organized, well written book. to attack a problem photo demonstrat- Chapters include: ing that with Photoshop I have the expert’s tools at my fingertips. Eisman’s • Improving Tone and Contrast book takes a problem solving approach • Exposure Correction to digital photography. She clearly • Working with Color defines problems and presents several • Refining and Polishing and Image techniques to resolve the problem. She • Portrait Retouching walks the reader though each technique • Glamour and Fashion Retouching and explains in clear language why some techniques work better than oth- All of the techniques in these chapters ers given certain situations. will greatly improve your everyday pho- tos, making them look not just better, For example, I have always had difficul- but professional. Old photos will jump ty converting color photos to black and back to life. Author Katrin Eisman

6 David Pogue’s Google Tips ® Google is a global White Pages and ® Google is Wal-Mart’s computer. From his NYTimes.com column Yellow Pages. Search for “phonebook: Type in a UPC bar code number, such submitted for reprint by Kyle Demilo home depot norwalk, ct,” Google as “036000250015,” to see the instantly produces the address and description of the product you’ve just phone number of the Norwalk Home “scanned in.” (Thanks to the Google Depot. This works with names Blog, http://google.blogspace.com, for (“phonebook:robert jones las vegas, this tip and the next couple.) NV”) as well as businesses. ® Google is an aviation buff. Type in ® Don’t put any space after “phone- a flight number like “United 22” for a www.google.com book.” And in all of the following link to a map of that flight’s progress examples, don’t type the quotes I’m in the air. Or type in the tail number ® Phrase your question in the form of showing you here. you see on an airplane for the full reg- an answer. “After all, you’re not look- istration form for that plane. ing for Web pages that ask your ® Google is a package tracker. Type a question,” explains director of tech- FedEx or UPS package number (just ® Google is the Department of nology Craig Silverstein. “You’re the digits); when you click Search, Motor Vehicles. Type in a VIN (vehi- looking for pages that answer it.” So Google offers a link to its tracking cle identification number, which is instead of typing, “What is the aver- information. etched onto a plate, usually on the age rainfall in the Amazon basin?”, door frame, of every car), like you might get better results by typing ® Google is a calculator. Type in an “JH4NA1157MT001832,” to find out “The average rainfall in the Amazon equation (“32+2345*3-234=”). Click the car’s year, make, and model. basin is.” Search to see the answer. ® For hours of rainy-day entertain- ® This is an old one, but very impor- ® Google is a units-of-measurement ment, visit http://labs.google.com. tant: Put quotes around phrases that converter. Type “teaspoons in a gal- Here, you’ll find links to new, half- must be searched together. If you put lon,” for example, or “centimeters in finished Google experiments-like quotes around “electric curtains,” a foot.” Click Search to see the Google Voice, in which you call Google won’t waste your time finding answer. (650) 623-6706, speak the words you one set of Web pages containing the want to search for, and then open word “electric” and another set con- ® Google is a stock ticker. Type in your browser to view the results. taining the word “curtains.” AAPL or MSFT, for example, to see a Disclaimer: It wasn’t working when I link to the current Apple or tried it. (Ditto a lot of these experi- ® Similarly, put a hyphen right before Microsoft stock price, graphs, finan- ments.) any word you want screened out. If cial news, and so on. you’re looking up dolphins, for exam- ® Poke around the “Services & ple, you’ll have to wade through a ® Google is an atlas. Type in an area Tools” link on the Google.com home million Miami Dolphins pages unless code, like 212, to see a Mapquest map page, and you’ll find some of the bet- you search for “dolphins -Miami.” of the area. ter-known lesser-known Google features, if that makes any sense.

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8 “Take Control of Permissions in Mac OS X” Mac users who have long been at the mercy of arcane permissions from Mac Submitted by Robert Sawyer OS X’s Unix underpinnings can now regain mastery of their Macs with CMC Board Member “Take Control of Your iPod: “Take Control of Permissions in Mac OS X,” the latest entry in the Take Beyond the Music” Control library. Written by Unix guru and Mac aficionado Brian Tanaka, the f you own an iPod or are thinking 90-page ebook mixes practical how-to about purchasing one, our latest details and troubleshooting tips with iebook “Take Control of Your iPod: just the right amount of theory as it Beyond the Music” - will help you You can read explains permissions in relation to how make the most of your iPod experience. more about the you keep your files private, copy files to Although this ebook covers the basics of ebook, down- and from servers, set the Ignore plugging in a new iPod and transferring load a free Permissions option for external disks, music to it, most of its 128 pages focus 31-page sample, and place an order at: repair screwy permissions, and delete on all the other cool stuff you can do http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/ those files that just won’t die. For those with your iPod. And since an iPod is ipod-btm.html who want to learn advanced concepts, still fairly expensive, it’s great to put it to the ebook also delves into topics like work in ways other than playing music. Although we were poised to release the sticky bit, symbolic vs. absolute this ebook several weeks ago, we ways to set permissions, and how to The ebook’s author, Steve Sande, has delayed slightly in order to incorporate work with bit masks. The book covers an infectious enthusiasm for all things the latest info about iTunes 5, the iPod managing permissions from the iPod, and I’ve enjoyed learning how to nano, and - for the sake of .Mac users - Finder’s Get Info window, with more- transfer my calendar and contact infor- Backup 3. Because the iPod and iTunes capable Macintosh utilities, and from mation from Now Up-to-Date & are used by many Windows users, the the Unix command line. Contact to the iPod, how to read long ebook includes cross-platform details, text-based ebooks on the iPod screen, making it useful for Windows-using Full details are available below, and you and how to off-load photos from my friends and colleagues. can place an order with the 10% MUG digital camera to the iPod. Those are discount already applied via: just my favorite topics... Steve also Book Details explains how to synch other calendar “Take Control of Your iPod: Beyond Options=PREVALIDATE puter, use an iPod to drive a slideshow PDF format, 128 pages, free 31-page COUPON&PT=TRK-0026-TCMUG> presentation, turn an iPod into an sample available Platforms covered: alarm clock, play iPod games, and even Mac OS X, Windows Publication date: Book Details install Linux on an iPod. On the audio October 6, 2005 “Take Control of Permissions side of life, Steve also discusses effective Price: $10 in Mac OS X” by Brian Tanaka ways to record meetings or voice ISBN: 1-933671-01-7 http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/ memos, listen to speech-synthesized permissions-macosx.html?14@@!pt= ebooks, and move podcasts and an vari- TRK-0026-TCMUG ety of audiobook formats to the iPod. PDF format, 90 pages, free 26-page sample available. Platforms covered: If you’re looking to buy a new or used Mac OS X Publication date: iPod, a detailed appendix helps you October 13, 2005 wrap your head around all the different Price: $10 models by explaining the current mem- ISBN: 1-933671-00-9 bers of the iPod family and providing a complete timeline of iPod releases.

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Upcoming Meetings CMC Meeting Location • October: RSS & Podcasting A pdf document containing a visual direction guide to the location of our meet- • November: CMC Auction ing in the UConn Health Center is available on our website: www.ctmac.org • December: Favorite Gadgets Monthly meetings will be held at UConn Health Center in Farmington. When hands-on • January: Photoshop Layers programs require computers for attendees, we will be using Middlesex Community College

Directions to UConn Health Center, Farmington From I-84: Take Exit 39 (if coming from I-84 West, Exit 39 is after 39A). Turn right at first traffic light onto Route 4 East (Farmington Avenue). At third traffic light, turn right to enter the Health Center campus. Go around the main building to the right (at a Y in road), then take a left when you get to the Academic Entrance. The road becomes two-way there so you should be able to tell where to turn. (Do not go on straight to the two-way part). Then take the second right into parking lot A&B. this is close to the building. Go past the police station entrance on your left (small sign). You will see a continuation of the building with its own entrance area. This is the new research building. Enter on the ground floor, turn right and enter room EG-013 on your right. This is the first room on your right. The rest rooms are on your left as you enter.

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I’ve Seen the TV. These two new hooked to a TV. It accepts most other Future of the Macintosh iMacs are meant to be Quicktime files, not just those offered the center of a home through the Apple Music Store. The By Rich Lenoce, entertainment system, only Quicktime compatible files I CMC President not just a computer. couldn’t transfer into iTunes were DIVX (.avi) files popular with The Macintosh world has been This is just a glimmer Internet movie pirates. This may have quiet since June when Apple of what is to come been done to convince Hollywood of announced the when Apple moves the iPod’s viability as a secure digital Mac was moving to Intel. The video player that would protect their to Intel. Since disappoint- copyrighted content. then I’ve have had a tough time ment is the finding news to fill this column. Now rest of us can’t experience the Front Apple also released iTunes 6 giving I have some news. It’s not just news, Row media center and Photobooth as users the ability to import Quicktime but with recent announcements we they’re only available on new iMacs. videos into iTunes and transfer them can glimpse the future of Apple and I’m not sure why this is other than to to the iPod and to purchase and the Macintosh. leave the rest of us salivating. download music videos, Pixar shorts and some ABC/Disney TV shows First, on October 11, Apple And, from the Steve Jobs is a fibber through the Apple Store. Can movies announced record quarterly revenues department, we now have the video be far behind? of $3.68 billion and record profits of iPod. Steve once said there was “no $430 million. Wall Street lowered market for a video iPod” but also on For $2.00 I thought I’d download a Apple stock because they sold only 6.5 October 12 he released the device. video and give you my results of how million iPods and 1.23 million When asked about his previous state- they looked and played. , which did not meet their ment he replied, “with the video iPod expectations. That’s 1.23 million we are creating the market.” How silly The 42 minute pilot episode of the Macs in four months at a time when of me to misinterpret his original ABC series, Lost took 40 minutes to you’d think people would hold off on comments. He also once said no one download using DSL and weighed in buying Macs until the Intel release! wanted to watch video on a 3" screen at 208 megabytes. The .MPV file con- but apparently that also has changed. tains MPEG-4 video (I assume H264) The next day, Steve Jobs announced and AAC audio. The file is protected two new iMac models with built-in Will people watch video on a Continued on page 2 iSight cameras, media center software 3"screen? You bet, at least if initial called Front Row, a remote control to sales are any indicator. Video iPods control the media center and have potential beyond watching I’ve Seen the Future of Macintosh...... 1 Photobooth digital photography soft- videos on a 3" screen as it can be DTV 0.7 ...... 3 ware. There’s also Download of the Month ...... 3 faster RAM, a Mac 911...... 4 video output and Easter Eggs...... 6 enough video memory (128mb) DVD Review OS X Training ...... 8 to drive both the Review: Papyrus Office...... 9 LCD monitor and Take Control Books...... 9 a high definition Meetings and Club News ...... 11

1 Continued from page 1 management and the demand for hardware like the iPod and home by the same Fair Play digital rights media centers before they’ll join with management scheme as iTunes music Apple and only then the quality will downloads playing only on author- go up. Whatever the reason offering ized computers. These protected files low quality video is short sighted con- can’t be burned to DVD (you get an sidering the number of people sharing unsupported file message when you decent quality illegal content over try) and the audio and video can’t be various P2P networks such as extracted using Quicktime Pro. The BitTorrent, Usenet and Gnutella. only way to get the video out of the computer is by hooking the computer What seems clear is that Apple is to a TV, transferring the file to an readying us for bigger and better Editor iPod and watching the video on it’s things: computers that go beyond tra- Deena Quilty 3" screen or though the iPod’s video ditional uses. Clearly, Apple wants output. the Mac to be a central hub for home Designer entertainment to download, store, George Maciel The sad news is that the video is of manage and display iLife and com- poor quality with a display size of only mercial audio and video content. Not Photographer 320 X 240 pixels at 24 frames per sec- just music and low quality videos, but John Scott ond, which is one quarter the size of high quality motion pictures and TV the 640 X 480/30 fps used by the TV series. There’s even a video podcasting Publisher industry. I’m sure the videos look fine feature in iTunes 6 to view and possi- Connecticut Macintosh on 3" iPod screen, but by any stan- bly distribute iLife created content. Connection, Inc. dard of taste that is low-resolution If you don’t like the TV shows you 41 Crossroads Plaza video when viewed on a TV. Full see, you can create your own. PMB 1984 screen mode magnifies the image 4 West Hartford, CT 06117 times making it look like a very bad Hollywood may not be ready, VHS copy with muted colors, little but we are. Printer detail and a very soft pixilated look. “Yucky” would be the term. The Budget Printers sound however is CD quality. 1718 Park Street Thanks, Joe Hartford, CT 06106 What gives? Apple doesn’t compro- October's CMC meeting marked mise in quality with its AAC audio the return of Past President (and We welcome submissions from files. After all, didn’t Apple proclaim current group Ambassador), Joe members! this the “year of HD” video with Arcuri, as a presenter. He brought Please submit articles by first of iMovie HD, Final Cut HD, iDVD 5 an everyman's approach to the hot the month for inclusion in our (HD) and the H264 Quicktime video topics of RSS news subscriptions newsletter. There is much talent codec capable of delivering standard and Podcasting. If you couldn't in our group; it would be great and high definition video at low bit tell, Joe's addicted to this stuff and to have several member articles rates? Why aren’t the videos deliv- he thinks everybody should be in each issue. ered in that high quality format? hooked! Thanks, Joe, for a great presentation and don't wait so I can’t answer these questions. long before the next one! Possibly consumer and industry pres- sures forced Apple to offer the service too early. It’s clear Disney is the only studio involved in digital downloads and they could have possibly used low quality to not anger their broadcast affiliates. It just may be that Hollywood isn’t ready for legal video downloads. Maybe the other studios need to be “sold” on digital rights Photo by Jack Bass

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3 Mac 911 Avoiding interference from the Bookmark Management Solutions to your most phone will be trickier. At one Is there any way to alphabetize my vexing Mac problems time, 2.4GHz phones used just one bookmark collection in Safari? channel–usually 11. Newer phones – Christian Gilbert by Christopher Breen use something called frequency hopping technology that allows You could do it by hand, of course, but Crossed Signals them to leap from channel to what a bother–particularly if you rou- To boost my wireless network’s signal channel, looking for the strongest tinely add new bookmarks. If you’re strength, I have an Apple AirPort one. If the phone lands on the chan- using Tiger, you can alphabetize your Extreme Base Station on the second nel you’ve assigned to your base Safari bookmarks with Sheep Systems’ floor of my town house and an station, you could get interference Bookdog–priced at an introductory AirPort Express on the first floor. even after switching channels. $10 as I write this, but it’ll be $15 when Aside from the neighbors’ occasional version 2.0 ships. It can organize not 2.4GHz phone call, everything has A Matter of Some Import only individual bookmarks, but also worked fine. Lately, however, several When I launch Mail 2.0 in Tiger, it the folders containing those book- 802.11 networks have popped up in starts importing old messages from marks. You can also use Bookdog to my vicinity, and one of them has a sig- Mail 1.0. Apparently, there’s an old track down and delete duplicate book- nal strong enough to prevent me from sent-mail message that Mail 2.0 doesn’t marks. connecting to my network when I’m like: the application hangs on one mes- on the first floor. How can I improve sage and stops importing sent mail. Use the company’s free SafariSorter the signal strength? – Chris Tatian When I cancel, the whole thing stops. if you’re running OS X 10.2 to 10.3.8 I’ve tried launching Mail again, but the (it’s not compatible with 10.3.9). Instead of attempting to boost the whole process repeats. Where does that strength of the signal, try avoiding old message live? I’d like to delete it Crippled QuickTime interference from your neighbors’ before I launch Mail 2.0, and skip the In QuickTime Player 6, the video con- wireless networks. How? Change import step altogether. – Jeff Hounshell trols let me lighten, darken, change the channels. contrast of, and tint videos. I upgraded You’ll find all of Mail’s mailbox files to QuickTime 7, and that feature seems To change the channel that your (called mbox files) by following this to no longer be there–the A/V AirPort uses, launch AirPort Admin path: /your user folder/Library/Mail/ Controls cover only audio and play- Utility (in the /Applications/ Utilities name of account, where name of back speed. Is there any way to access folder). Select your base station in the account is the name of your e-mail the video controls in the new version? resulting window and click on account – POPtestingmail.example. – Rich Root Configure. If asked to, enter the pass- com, for example. Inside this folder is a word. Click on the AirPort tab, choose Sent Messages.mbox folder. Give this QuickTime Player 7’s A/V Controls a new channel from the Channel pop- folder the bum’s rush (in other words, allow you to edit video only on Macs up menu, and then click on Update. delete it); that should fix the problem. with video cards that support Apple’s Core Image technology – generally Ideally, the channel you choose should You can also choose to import some of video cards made by ATI and not those be at least four or five channels away your old mail by choosing File: Import from Nvidia. You’ll know that your from that of the adjacent wireless net- Mailboxes. In the Import dialog box video card lacks support if you can’t see work or phone – for example, if a that appears, select the Mail For Mac the video adjustment sliders in the nearby network is broadcasting on OS X option, click on Continue, and A/V Controls window–you’ll be able channel 1, you’ll choose channel 6 for select the account folder from which to adjust only speed and audio settings. your network. To learn which chan- you want to import messages. In the This is the case in both the free version nels nearby networks are using, next window, choose the mailboxes you of QuickTime and the $30 Pro version. download Spintriplet’s free Air Traffic want to import and click on Continue. Control widget if you’re running Tiger; This will place your old mail in an However, this limitation doesn’t exist give the free MacStumbler a go if Import folder in Mail’s sidebar. if you use QuickTime Player 6.5.2 you’re using an earlier version of OSX. Alternatively, you can enable the Other with QuickTime 7. Hopefully, you Each of these utilities lists local wireless option in the Import window and selec- still have a copy of this older version networks along with their channel tively import individual mbox files. of Player. If you don’t, download the information. continued on page 5

4 continued from page 4 shows, it won’t export that slide show • Dig for Deals to iDVD with the file name in place. If If you’re looking for deals on new and QuickTime 6.5.2 Reinstaller, and you want the name to appear in iDVD reconditioned Apple laptops and extract QuickTime Player with (or in a QuickTime movie you export peripherals, check out PowerBook CharlesSoft’s $20 Pacifist. This ver- to iDVD), you must use iPhoto 5 (part Central. The site routinely lists bar- sion of QuickTime Player, coupled of the iLife ‘05 suite, $79). Here’s how: gains on the laptops you love. with QuickTime 7.X, will offer a video option in A/V Controls even if Assemble a slide show in iPhoto 5 (File: • Keep Up on Upgrades your graphic card doesn’t support New Slideshow) and click on the Accelerate Your Mac is a terrific Core Image. Settings button at the bottom of the resource for learning how to upgrade iPhoto window. In the resulting sheet, any Mac, laptops included. If you’re Dodgy Discs enable the Show Titles option and click interested in replacing your iBook’s or I routinely receive large files on CDs on OK. Choose Share: Send To iDVD. PowerBook’s hard drive, media drive, or that were created on a Windows PC, This creates an MPEG-4 QuickTime processor, this should be your first stop. and those discs fail to mount on my movie file that’s stored in the Movies Mac. What instructions can I give folder within your user folder. You’ll see • Find It on the Forums those Windows users so that the discs the title of each picture in a small box This puts me at risk of accusations they send me will mount on my in the movie frame’s upper left corner that I’m shilling for the home team, Mac? – Gregory Payne (see “Name in Frame”). but it’s unavoidable: Macworld.com’s Portable Macs and Handhelds forum Politely ask your PC pals to stop using iDVD will open with the slide show in is a great place to pose your perplexing Roxio’s DirectCD or Drag-to-Disc util- place. If you like, burn it onto a DVD. PowerBook and iBook questions and ities to burn their discs. These Otherwise, open your Movies folder, help others get out of similar jams. programs support packet writing, locate the QuickTime movie that which allows you to burn files to a CD- iPhoto created for iDVD, and do with Tip of the month R or CD-RW multiple times using a it what you will. Lost for words file format called UDF (Universal Disc Say you’re typing in the Tiger version Format). This format is a convenient of a text-centric Apple application Tools of the trade way to append files to a disc designed such as TextEdit, Mail, iChat, or • The lowdown on laptops as write-once, but discs produced using Stickies, and you can’t conjure up the There’s a reason–other than the pure it aren’t Mac-compatible. Discs made complete word you’re looking for. Just awkwardness of it–that Apple didn’t by other means on the PC will almost type the first couple of letters in the christen its laptops the Apple certainly be burned in the ISO 9660 word and press the escape key. A list of Macintosh PowerBook and the Apple format, which the Mac understands words that begin with the letters Macintosh iBook. Laptops are differ- completely. you’ve typed appears. Select the one ent beasts from desktop computers. you want, and it replaces the letters They deserve a special name, as well If the disc format doesn’t appear to be you’ve typed. – Scott Mahrer the problem, check the kind of media as special resources for their care and people are sending you. The Mac loves feeding. CD-R media but can act finicky with Contributing Editor Christopher Breen is • Peruse Peripherals CD-RW discs. also Playlistmag.com’s editor in chief The Apple Store is a perfectly fine author of Macworld’s tips and place to browse iBook and PowerBook Slugging Slide Shows troubleshooting column, “Mac 911,” as peripherals, but suppose you want a Is there a way to put the file name of well as Secrets of the iPod: Fifth Edition third-party high-capacity battery for each picture somewhere on screen dur- and Mac 911 (Peachpit Press). ing a slide show created in iMovie, your iBook or a wireless PC Card for your PowerBook? The Store doesn’t iDVD, or iPhoto? This would be help- Find Chris’ books at www.amazon.com stock such non-Apple items. Instead, ful for viewers who want to extract a and www.peachpit.com. Get special turn to Froogle, Google’s product find- few favorite photos from the DVD. user group pricing on Macworld er. Froogle allows you to be very – Doug Fehr Magazine! Subscribe today at specific in your searches. If you type http://www.macworld.com/useroffer While you can configure Apple’s PowerBook G4 15" high capacity bat- iPhoto 4 so that it displays the file tery , for example, you’ll get dozens of name of each picture during its slide hits (including sales on eBay).

5 Easter Eggs However, These days Thanks! by Kyle DeMilo Easter Eggs are a dying breed. Auction Donors Large software development hous- Our November 16th annual CMC CMC Secretary es like Apple or Microsoft frown auction raised hundreds of dollars for them upon. They feel that all of our group. We wish to thank the An Easter Egg is a hidden feature or the effort needed to create them many companies and individuals who novelty that the programmers have could be used to fix another bug, donated: put in their software. In general, it is or add another feature. any hidden, entertaining thing that • Microsoft a creator hides in their creation Another reason is that • MYOB only for their own personal rea- the creators usually • Macworld sons. This can be anything from a put their names in • CodeTek hidden list of the developers, to their creations, and • Circus Ponies hidden commands, to jokes, to companies like • Dantz funny animations. Apple didn’t want headhunters cherry- • Extensis According to eeggs.com (an picking their talent. • Total Training online collection of Easter • Other World Computing Eggs), an Easter Egg must satisfy However, some can • O’Reilly/Pogue Press the following criteria: still sneak past. Here • Wiley is one unearthed just a • It must be undocumented, few days ago (requires • Sybex hidden, and not obvious Microsoft’s Office 2004) • Webster Bank An Easter Egg can't be a legiti- • Apple mate feature of a product, or be an START UP THE APP: obvious part of a storyline. Easter • Jack Bass Eggs will usually stand out either /APPLICATIONS/MICROSOFT OFFICE • Focal Press because they totally don't fit with 2004 / OFFICE / MICROSOFT OFFICE their context (like the pinball NOTIFICATIONS Plus a huge thanks to Don, Joe, game in Word 97), or because Bob, Debi, Chris and all for they have a deeper hidden person- HOLD DOWN CONTROL, COMMAND making this year’s auction a al meaning to the creators, so they & OPTION KEYS AND SELECT 'ABOUT lot of fun and a great success. threw it in for entertainment. OFFICE NOTIFICATIONS' • It must be reproducible Every user with the same product NOW CLICK THE LITTLE BLACK & or combination of products must WHITE ICON THAT APPEARS ABOVE be able to produce the same result THE 'OK' BUTTON. given the instructions. HAVE FUN :) • It must be put there by the creators for personal reasons The Egg must have been put there on purpose, and furthermore have a personal significance to the cre- ators beyond just making a better product. • It must not be malicious Easter Eggs are there for fun, not to do damage. • It must be entertaining! The most important element...if Please accept our it's not there for entertainment, apologies if we have it's not an Easter Egg. inadvertently left out anyone from this list!

6 DVD Review: point would be his say, although he could have easily post- OS X Training For Windows Users discussion of how a ed a slide listing the top ten items, or Windows person done title overlays on the video to high- by Bill Davies, MacNexus would get their data light what he was talking about, but he www.macnexus.org/index.php?option= to the Mac. He notes has not done that. So you have to listen content&task=view&id=365&Itemid=2 the existence of keenly to what he has to say, even Detto’s Move2Mac though I believe the learning experi- In this review I critique a new DVD by product for $49, and ence would be much better with some Terry White entitled “MacOS X also suggests that data textual slides mixed in with the video. Training for Windows Users.” Who can be copied via CD-R or by net- the heck is Terry White? In my opin- work if the two computers are This DVD appears to have been made ion, the guy pretty much walks on networked. My feeling is that the aver- in the May-June 2005 time frame. It water. He founded and has kept alive age Windows user would have no idea includes discussion of Apple’s one-but- MacGroup-Detroit, which is where their data even lives on the ton mouse and discussion of what a Michigan’s largest Macintosh user computer, such as their address list or Windows user who wants a two-button group. In fact, he’s still the president their email, and this DVD provides mouse might do. Time, and product and driving force behind the group. So absolutely no detailed information on cycles march on, and this DVD makes when I heard that he was putting out a the nuts and bolts things a Windows no mention of Apple’s “Mighty Mouse” DVD, I thought it might be interesting person would need to know to success- product which is like a two-button to give it a spin. fully migrate to the Mac. Nor does he mouse on steroids, and soon will be shipping with all Pro Macs, if not I’ve watched most of the DVD, and I’m already. So even before the publicity going to start with the conclusion: If ...But were it me machine cranks up around this DVD, it you’re trying to learn your way around marketing this DVD, I is already slightly out of date. OS X and want someone to show you would call this version around, this is a great DVD. On the “Basic MacOS X Training Given Mr. White’s job description and other hand, if you’re a Windows user For Newcomers To Mac” his vast array of equipment, I have no and moving to OS X, as the title of this doubt that over time he will be able to DVD implies, then I did not see any- continue to enhance this video produc- thing particularly helpful to the mention any of the pitfalls, or things tion, perhaps add some textual slides or Windows expatriate, and I think the that, quite frankly, a Windows user overlays for the user to read on the title of the DVD is misleading. will not find on a Mac. For example, screen, and drill down with a bit more there is some discussion of how he can detail on the more bothersome topics. So, upon what do I base my conclu- open a Microsoft Word document on But were it me marketing this DVD, I sions? First and foremost, Terry White the Mac without having Word on his would call this version “Basic MacOS X has a very laid back personality and he computer, but there is no discussion of Training For Newcomers To Mac” and gives a nice tour of OS X. He’s easy to the settings in Apple Mail to “send leave out any representation that this listen to and covers all the basics of Windows-friendly attachments” or of DVD will help a Windows user success- creating, finding, and organizing your file suffixes, or of file types that are fully migrate to the Mac platform. It’s a data. That is why I suggest that if common to both Windows and great DVD for basic MacOS X training. you’re a little timid about how to oper- Macintosh. So the flavor I got from ate the Finder or the computer in the training was that once you success- Mac OS X Training general, this DVD will raise your con- fully migrate to the Mac, you really for Windows Users DVD fidence and help you find your way don’t need to worry about successfully Produced and narrated by Terry White around the system. interoperating with your Windows Terry White Productions friends anymore. That seems a bit P.O. Box 760399 However, specific to the Windows user, short-sighted to me. Lathrup Village, MI 48076-0399 Mr. White discusses some of the basic $34.95 similarities (such as noting that a The DVD starts with Mr. White’s dis- http://terrywhite.tv/index.html “shortcut” in Windows is called an cussion of the “Top Ten” things a user User group members can save $10 by “alias” on the Mac), but there is no new to OS X needs to know about. But ordering online and using voucher real depth to the discussion. A case in the discussion is entirely oral, that is to code 112051289.

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8 Papyrus Office New Microsoft Office Competitor Submitted by Robert Sawyer CMC Board Member Papyrus OFFICE is a high-end Microsoft-compatible office suite from Take Control otherwise-impenetrable spec sheets. R.O.M Logicware in Germany. Papyrus of Digital TV Tonya and I are due to buy a new TV Office consists of an integrated word- sometime soon – we’re still watching a processing program (Papyrus WORD) Although many 20-inch set that we bought when we got and a powerful database (Papyrus of us know a fair married in 1991. Armed with the BASE). The product includes word amount about knowledge we’ve picked up from read- processing features such as: non-contin- Macintosh ing this ebook, I’m sure we’ll be able to uous text selection, format and copy, hardware, buy the right TV more quickly and for micro-kerning of text, DTP control of delving into less money. Do note that this ebook text and graphics, tables with spread- the world of digital television is a covers digital TV from the North sheet-capable formulas, rotate text and humbling experience - it involves a American perspective; standards and objects at will, output to HTML, import baffling array of buzzwords and formats differ in other parts of the world. and export to MS Word format, etc. acronyms, and that’s before you get into deciding between direct view Book Details Papyrus OFFICE is only $99. This and projection TVs and trying to “Take Control of Digital TV” product has been available in Germany tease out the relevant differences by Clark Humphrey for years, but it took a long time to port between LCD, plasma, DLP, and petitor to Microsoft Word for the holiday season, or if you already own PDF format, 72 pages, Macintosh, feature-wise. Check out a digital TV but worry that it might free 23-page excerpt available the screenshots (screenshots for the not be positioned or adjusted proper- Platform-independent German version are the only ones on ly for optimal viewing, you can find Publication date: November 10, 2005 R.O.M. Logicware’s site). The inter- friendly guidance in our latest ebook, Price: $10 face is quite attractive! “Take Control of Digital TV.” ISBN: 1-933671-05-X HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! edit recommended by MacAttorney the time they began Take Control, they Soft-& Hardware GmbH had authored or edited more than 25 tra- Raschdorffstraße 99 In this ebook, Seattle journalist and ditional books and written hundreds of 13409 Berlin (Germany) TV maven Clark Humphrey magazine articles for major Mac maga- Fax: +49 / (0)30 / 4999 73 72 explains the jargon, compares all the zines. And, they'd spent the last 15 years Telephone: +49 / (0)30 / 4999 73 73 different display technologies, and gaining experience in Internet publishing E-Mail: helps you find the right digital TV with TidBITS, their weekly electronic for your budget, living space, and newsletter and Web site about Mac and media viewing habits. You’ll also Internet topics. Free downloadable OS X demo: learn how to position a large-screen and connect external speakers, adjust the display for the best pos- sible image quality, and add extras such as a digital video recorder or video game console. Clark rounds out his advice with suggestions of where to find digital program- ming, a hand-picked list of Web resources, and an extensive glos- sary you can use to decipher

9 2005-2006 Connecticut Macintosh Connection Officers and Board of Directors

Yes, I want to join CMC! CMC Benefits: Monthly meetings, monthly newsletter, special events, dis- counted books, assistance with computer problem, network President Rich Lenoce Vice President Chris Hart Treasurer [email protected] with other Mac users, User Group Store discounts, and more. [email protected] David Gerstein 860-347-1789 860-291-9393 [email protected]

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10 CMC Monthly Meetings Discounted Books FREE Raffle!

Monthly CMC Meetings are held on last CMC continues to offer our cur- Every CMC member who attends our Wednesday of the month from 7:00 - 9:00 rent members the opportunity to monthly meetings gets a raffle ticket. P.M. (except November and December when purchase any published book for This will give you a chance for one of the meetings are held one week either Mac or Windows at a 20% our free prizes every month! You earlier due to the holidays). discount. All major publishers are could win…t-shirts, toys, CDs, mugs, Board meetings are held on the first carried by our source. software …there’s always something Thursday of the month. If you wish to we’re giving away! And don’t forget Contact a Board Member or send attend a Board meeting, contact an offi- the Free table at the back of the an email to [email protected]. cer for time & location. room where everything is...FREE! Provide the book title, the pub- lisher and the ISBN number, if CMC Membership Meeting possible, and we will check on its Special Date and Location: availability. CMC Passwords Wednesday, December 14 7:00 p.m. The Resource Site for Mac User Groups Keller Hall http://homepage.mac.com/ www.applemugstore.com UConn Medical Center ugab/offers/vendorcodes.htm Valid:11/01/2005 - 1/31/2006 Password:xxxxx User ID:xxxx • Password:xxxx CMC’s Annual Holiday Party and Celebration of Gadgets • CMC Web site username and password • Member expiration date • Membership number (for free shipping at MacConnection) CMC’s annual holiday party is also a ...are now located on your newsletter mailing label. celebration of gadgets. So members, bring in your favorite gadgets and show them off. While we hope you’ll bring stuff that is Mac-related, any technologi- Getting CMC emails? FREE Classified Ads cal items are welcome. Everyone will We always send out advance notice CMC Members can Advertise For have an opportunity to talk briefly about of the meetings, and sometimes for Sale, Swap, Trade, Giveaway or Want why they like their gadgets so much big news or special events (like our to Buy Items. This space can be used (you’re welcome to bring more than one bus trip to Macworld). If you’re not by members to advertise non-business with you). getting them, please email us at items which they are no longer using [email protected] with your or upgrading. This is a FREE serv- Of course a party isn’t a party without current email address and a subject ice provided to our members. Send to: food. So, free food and drink will abound. line of: ADD TO CMC EMAIL LIST [email protected] Bring your appetite and your gadgets and we’ll see you at 7:00 in Keller Hall. Treasurer’s Report Display Ad Rates New Members! Any business items or services can Directions: be advertised at the low monthly rates Follow signs for the main hospital entrance We need new members! listed below. (not the Emergency entrance). Park in Have your friends and co-workers Business Card...... $10.00 join us for fun and learning about any of the lots near the main entrance. There Quarter Page ...... $20.00 should be plenty of parking available. Once OS X and the Mac. Half Page ...... $30.00 inside, take the escalator downstairs to Keller Total Membership: 136 Full Page (or insert) ...... $50.00 Auditorium. Submit all ad copy to the Editor on a disk Account Balances (with nothing else on it) or e-mail it to Back to Basics [email protected] for insertion in the will be back in January. Checking Balance ...... $654.40 following issue. Display ads must be The CMC officers and board members wish Savings Balance ...... $3982.35 submitted camera-ready in eps or pdf for- mat with all fonts and graphics embedded. everyone happy and safe holidays! Balances as of November 1, 2005 Make check payable to CMC.

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CMC Monthly Meeting Wednesday, Dec. 14 7:00 p.m. Special Location: Keller Hall UConn Health Center CMC Annual Holiday Party and Celebration of Gadgets (see page 11 for info & directions)

NOTE: CMC Meeting Location The CMC December 14, A pdf document containing a visual direction guide to the location of our meet- ing in the UConn Health Center is available on our website: www.ctmac.org 2005 Meeting will be held in Keller Hall at UConn Health Monthly meetings will be held at UConn Health Center in Farmington. When hands-on Center. See page 11 for info programs require computers for attendees, we will be using Middlesex Community College and special directions. Directions to UConn Health Center, Farmington From I-84: Take Exit 39 (if coming from I-84 West, Exit 39 is after 39A). Turn right at first traffic light onto Route 4 East (Farmington Avenue). At third traffic light, turn right to enter the Health Center campus. Go around the main building to the right (at a Y in road), then take a left when you get to the Academic Entrance. The road becomes two-way there so you should be able to tell where to turn. (Do not go on straight to the two-way part). Then take the second right into parking lot A&B. this is close to the building. Go past the police station entrance on your left (small sign). You will see a continuation of the building with its own entrance area. This is the new research building. Enter on the ground floor, turn right and enter room EG-013 on your right. This is the first room on your right. The rest rooms are on your left as you enter.

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