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JUNE 2004 www.limac.org NEWSLETTER OF THE LONG ISLAND MACINTOSH USERS GROUP LIMac was estab- lished in 1984, when May’s Meeting June’s Meeting the Mac was intro- Before starting his main pre- He’s b-a-a-a-c-k! Dave Marra LIMac Inc. duced. Annual dues sentation, Daniel East, told is returning to LIMac for the P.O. Box 2048 for membership is Seaford, NY $36. First meeting is us a bit about MaMugs. He third time! If you’ve never emphisized that none of seen a Dave Marra Show, 11783-0180 free. For information, President contact any of the the MaMugs people work you’re in for a treat. Dave’s Bill Medlow following: for Apple, and there is no energy and product kowledge pack a heck of a [email protected] Membership selling. MaMugs includes lot into an hour presentation. Vice President 57 local users groups from As a Senior Systems Engineer for Apple Donald Hennessy Donald Hennessy (516) 541-3186 Connecticut to Virginia, including Computer, he has conducted over 500 tech- [email protected] [email protected] our own. It provides programs, events and nology presentations, keynote addresses and Treasurer Technical Advice training. Daniel is the founder and president workshops for user groups, schools, businesses Max Rechtman Bradley Dichter of MaMugs; he was a contributing reporter for and other professional organizations across maxlimac@ (631) 348-4772 MACDESIGN, BOOKTECH, GRAPHIC & DESIGN, the United States and Canada. His specialty optonline.net [email protected] MACSIMUM PERSPECTIVE and others. He has areas include digital multimedia, Internet Secretary Program also been on PC Talk Radio. An interesting technologies and cross-platform Bernie Flicker Coordinator note, MaMugs provides free tech support for integration. [email protected] Rick Matteson user group members. To investigate, go to: We will take an in-depth look at the cool rgmlimac The LIMac Forum: @optonline.net www.mamugs.org. new iBook G4, PowerBook and eMac systems Editors/Graphics – all running on an AirPort Extreme wire- Photoshop SIG In beginning his main presentation, Daniel Mo Lebowitz Rich Scillia initiated a discussion of people’s favorite sites, less network – in addition to the new and Loretta Lebowitz (516) 783-6622 as well as those they absolutely disliked, and extremely popular iPod mini. [email protected] [email protected] the reasons for each. He then discussed design For software, we will have fun with iLife Distribution Photography SIG tools and browsers. One of the main points he ’04 – featuring iTunes 4, iPhoto 4, iMovie Wallace Lepkin Murray Hoffman made was, that in designing a site, or page, we 4, iDVD 4 and the brand new and simply Donald Hennessy hoffmancamera should try to make it look good on even the amazing GarageBand – as well as Final Cut Printing @dav.net most modest of systems, and, when viewed in Express 2.0, for professional-quality digital Willow Graphics Beginners SIG video editing at an affordable price. 0 (631) 841-1177 Geoff Broadhurst any browser. Some other tips he gave for both [email protected] experienced and beginning Web designers Friday, June 11th, at 7p.m., Building 300 Board of Directors: Geoff Broadhurst Internet SIG were: (Anna Rubin Hall), New York Institute of | Al Choy Al Choy Avoid anything other than basic fonts Technology, Old Westbury, Long Island. | Bradley Dichter [email protected] Avoid frames layers and large images | Use emulators and multiple browsers The Internet SIG: Bethpage Public Library, (516) 931-3907, on the third Bernard Flicker Multimedia SIG | Donald Hennessy Bernie Flicker Use favorite sites as a model Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. Multimedia SIG: The Multimedia SIG now meets on the last Friday of the Rick Matteson [email protected] | Know your market | month at Ray Nieves’s office in Westbury. Members can continue to e-mail Bill Medlow Size you graphics in an image editor such as Scott Randell Produced using: PhotoShop before placing them in the page Bernie Flicker for announcements and directions. TextSpresso, Tex-Edit Max Rechtman | Avoid long scrolling pages SIGs immediately before or after the general meeting: Plus, Adobe InDesign, Beginners SIG: AppleWorks 6 databases. Rich Scillia Photoshop, Illustrator, Daniel also discussed the tools needed for a MacSkills SIG: iPhoto and Photoshop essentials. and Acrobat. good Web site. Among these were: WYSIWYG DTP/Photoshop SIG: (TBD). (What You See Is What You Get), Web design Photography SIG: (TBD). The FORUM is published monthly by LlMac. All con- programs such as GoLive, DreamWeaver, x LIMac meetings, unless otherwise noted, are held in Building 300 (Anna tents, except where noted, Freeway, Claris HomePage, and AOL Home. He Rubin Hall) at the New York are copyright ©2003 by LIMac. Opinions expressed also spoke about the HTML (text editors) such Institute of Technology on Northern are the views of the authors as BBEdit, NetSmith, and WebDesign X. Boulevard in Old Westbury, L.I. and do not necessarily reflect | those of LIMac. Contents may There was a lot more in his presentation In bad weather, call (516) 686- be reprinted for non-commer- than I can discuss in this column. What I can 7789. cial use, with due acknowl- | The next LIMac board meeting will edgment to LIMac. The LIMac tell you is: all those in attendance thoroughly FORUM is an independent enjoyed this extremely interesting and informa- be at the Plainedge Library, publication and has not been (516) 735-4133, author-ized, sponsored or tive presentation. We look forward to having otherwise approved by Apple on Wednesday, June 16th, at 8 p.m. Computer, Inc. Daniel East do a future presentation for us. 0 –Scott Randell Apple Confidential.2 difficult to believe (one particular ex-Pepsi Apple Confidential, so I can’t tell you how much the text is scattered with numerous small by Tony Williams employee stands out in this category). However, this book has changed. According to the pub- photos. Overall, it looks and reads a little like A number of books a recent title is a refreshing change: Owen lisher, No Starch Press, the book contains 60 a good quality magazine. It is well written and covering the history W. Linzmayer’s Apple Confidential 2.0: The new pages “including greatly revised chapters.” highly readable, and lends itself to dipping in of Apple Computer Definitive History of the World’s Most Colorful It has to be said that the table of contents is and out of the story almost anywhere. Once I’d have been released, Company. This cleverly written, well laid-out his- almost identical. finished the book, I found myself re-reading but none have tory of Apple Computer contains plenty of nug- I love the layout. Wide margins give various short sections for the next fortnight. satisfied me. They gets that all Apple aficionados will appreciate. Linzmayer the opportunity to place additional For example, I liked the chapter that gave were either too dry, I am, however, at a slight disadvantage with material such as anecdotes and quotes (many me the list of all the people whose signatures or were self-serving autobiographies I found this review. I haven’t read the first edition of referenced from other histories of Apple) and appeared inside the case of the original 2 Bradley’s Tech Session President’s Message | I’m trying to install a 60GB internal IDE May is always a tough time of the year for hard drive in my B&W G3 with the 9GB everyone. I’ve had two graduations and I don’t Ultra wide SCSI hard drive. I see some- remember anything like this. thing about jumper wires. What does that We’ve had two great presentations from mean? Microsoft and Dan East. This month, we will Bradley Dichter On the edge of the drive, between the 40 pins have Dave Marra, an Apple Senior Systems Bill Medlow President [email protected] of the IDE interface and the 4 pin power con- Engineer who has presented to us before with [email protected] nector are a group of 4 to 8 pins. You have to much success – always a great presenter. refer to the drive’s printed instructions, which In July, we will have the rescheduled iPod may be on the top of the drive itself, how to presentation to which we have been looking dump or symbol position zero, one or more little thing, it may forward. And we will pick the winning number table of an applica- tion, sample (profile) already be on this set of pins, may be black for the Apple PowerBook special raffle. 0 a running application, or grey, that connects two pins together with See you there. launch multiple a little conductor in there. For you the IDE instances of an REVIEW drive must be set as Master, as their is no slave. the liability for only Help Viewer. Just run application, launch Beating a path to Newer G4 Macs use cable select. Software Update. As always, be careful when as root, access the Path Finder 3.2: | I just heard about a security hole in Mac going to Web sites with which you are not command line, and The folks at OS X on TechTV’s The Screen Savers. What familiar. You could, in the meantime, com- so forth. In addition Cocoatech have can I do about it? press and delete the originals, both Help to numerous bug released version First off, it’s a problem in Jaguar and Viewer and Disk Utility to prevent them fixes, this version 3.2 of their flagship Panther, so 10.1.5 and earlier users don’t from being invoked by a Web site.