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LIMac w a s est ab- lis he d in 1984, w he n May’s Meeting June’s Meeting t he Mac w a s int r o- Before starting hi s main pre- He’s b -a-a-a- c-k! Dave M arra L IM ac In c . duc e d. A nnual dues sent ation, Daniel E a st, told i s retur ning to LIMac for the P.O. B ox 2 048 f or m e mb e rs hip i s S e a f or d, NY $3 6 . First m e e t ing i s u s a bit about M aMug s. He third time! If you’ve never emphi sized that none of seen a Dave M arra Show, 11783-018 0 f r e e . F or in f or ma t ion, P r e s i d e n t c on t ac t an y o f t he the M aMugs people work you’re in for a treat. Dave’s B ill M e dlow f ollow ing: for Apple, and there i s no energy and produc t kowledge pack a heck of a archb i l [email protected] m M e m b e r s h i p selling. M aMug s includes lot into an hour present ation. V ic e Pr e side n t 57 local u ser s groups from As a S enior System s E ngineer for Apple D onald H e nnessy D onald H e nnessy (516) 5 41-3186 C onnec tic ut to Virginia, including C omputer, he ha s conduc ted over500 tech- about l i [email protected] m about l i [email protected] m our own. It provides program s, events and nology present ation s, keynote addres ses and Tr e as u r e r Te c hnic al A d v ic e training. Daniel i s the founder and president workshops for u ser groups, school s, bu sines ses Ma x R e c h t man B r adle y Dich t e r of M aMugs; he wa s a contributing reporter for and other profes sional organi zation s acros s maxl i mac@ (6 31) 348-4772 MACDESIG N, BOOKTECH, GRAPHIC & DESIG N, the United St ates and C anad a. Hi s specialty o ptonli ne.net b d i chter@o ptonl ine.net MACSIM U M PE RSPEC TIVE and other s. He ha s area s include digit al multimedia, Inter net S e c r e t a ry P r ogr a m al so been on PC Talk Radio. An interesting technologies and cros s-platfor m B e r nie Flicker C o o r d i n a to r note, M aMug s provides free tech support for integration. t wof l i ck@o ptonli ne.net R ick Ma tt es on u ser group member s. To investigate, go to: We will t ake an in- depth look at the cool rgml i mac T h e L IM ac For u m: @o ptonli ne.net www.mamugs.o rg. new iBook G4, PowerBook and eM ac s ystem s E d i to r s/Gr a p h i c s – all running on an AirPort E x treme wire- P h o to s h o p S IG In beginning hi s main present ation, Daniel M o Le b o w i tz R ich S c illia initiated a di scu s sion of people’s favorite sites, les s network – in addition to the new and Lor e tt a Le b o w i tz (516) 783-6 6 2 2 a s well a s those they absolutely di sliked, and ex tremely popular iPod mini. m o le [email protected] m r sc i l l ia@o ptonli ne.net the rea son s for each. He then di scu s sed design For software, we will have fun with iL ife D is t r i b u t i o n P h o togr a p hy S IG tool s and browser s. One of the main points he ’ 04 – featuring iTunes 4, iPhoto 4, iMo vie Wallac e Le pk in Mur r a y H o ff man made wa s, that in designing a site, or page, we 4, iDVD 4 and the brand new and simply D onald H e nnessy hoff mancame ra should try to make it look good on even the amazing GarageB and – a s well a s Final Cut P r i n t i ng @dav.net most modest of s ystem s, and , when viewed in Exp res s 2 .0, for profes sional-quality digit al W illow G r aphics B eg i n n e r s S IG video editing at an afford able price. 0 (6 31) 841-1177 G e o ff B r o adhurst any browser. S ome other tips he gave for both [email protected] m ex perienced and beginning Web designer s Frid ay, Jun e 11t h, at 7p.m., Building300 B o a r d o f D i r e c to r s: G e o ff B r o adhurst In t e r n e t S IG were: (Anna Rubin Hall), Ne w York Institute of | A l C ho y A l C ho y Avoid anything other than basic fonts Technology, Old We st bury, Long Island. | B r adle y Dich t e r achoy@o ptonli ne.net Avoid frames layer s and large images | Use emulator s and multiple browser s T h e In t e r n e t SI G: Be t hp ag e Public Library, (516) 931-3 9 07, on th e thir d B e r nar d Flicker M ul t i m e d i a S IG | D onald H e nnessy B e r nie Flicker Use favorite sites a s a model M o n da y of ea c h mo n t h at 7:30 p.m. M ul t i m e d i a SI G: Th e Mul t ime dia SI G no w me e ts on th e la st Frida y of th e R ick Ma tt es on t wof l i ck@o ptonli ne.net | Know your market | m o n t h at Ra y Nie v es ’s offi c e in West b ury. Me mb e rs c an co n t inue to e- mail B ill M e dlow Size you graphic s in an image editor such a s S c ott R ande ll P r o d u c e d us i ng: PhotoShop before placing them in the page Be rnie Flicke r fo r ann o unc e m e n ts an d dir e ct io n s. Tex t S p ress o, Tex-Ed it Ma x R e c h t man | Avoid long scrolling pages S I G s im m e d i a t e l y be f o r e or aft e r th e ge n e r a l me e t i ng: Plus , A d o b e I n D esign, B eg i n n e r s SI G: A p p l eWorks 6 da tab a ses. R ich S c illia Photosho p, I l lustrator, Daniel al so di scu s sed the tool s needed for a M a cS k i l l s SI G: i Photo an d Photosh o p esse n t ial s. and A crobat. good Web site. Among these were:WYSIWYG D T P/P h o t o s h o p SI G: (TB D). (What You S ee I s What You G et) , Web design P h o t og r a p hy SI G: (TB D). Th e FORUM i s p u b l i s h ed m o n t h ly b y Ll M a c . Al l co n- program s such a s GoL ive, DreamWeave r, x LI Ma c me e t ings , unless ot h e rw i se no t e d, ar e he ld in B uilding 300 (Anna t e n ts, e x ce p t w h e re n o t ed , Freeway, Cl aris HomePage, and AOL Home. He R ubin Hall) at th e Ne w Yo rk a re co p yri gh t © 2 003 b y LI M a c . O p i n i o n s e x p ressed al so spoke about the HT ML (tex t editor s) such In st i t u t e of Te c hn o lo gy on No rt h e rn a re t h e vi ews o f t h e a u t h o rs a s BBEdit, Ne tSmit h, and WebD esign X. Bo ule v ar d in Old West b ury, L. I . a n d d o n o t n ecessa ri ly refl ect | t h ose o f LI M a c . Co n t e n ts m a y T here wa s a lot more in hi s present ation In ba d we a t h e r, c all (516) 68 6- b e re p ri n t ed f o r n o n-co m m e r- than I can di scu s s in thi s column. What I can 778 9. c i a l u se , w i t h d u e a c k n o w l- | Th e ne xt LI Ma c bo ar d me e t ing will ed gm e n t t o LI M a c . Th e LI M a c tell you i s: all those in attend ance thoroughly FORUM i s a n i n d e p e n d e n t enjoyed thi s ex tremely interesting and infor ma- b e at th e P laine dg e Library, p u b l i ca t i o n a n d h a s n o t b ee n (516) 735-4133 , a u t h o r- i z ed , s p o n so red o r tive present ation. We look forward to having o t h e rw i se a p p ro v ed b y Ap p l e o n We dnesda y, June 16 t h , at 8 p.m. Comp u t e r, In c . Daniel E a st do a future present ation for u s.0 – Scott R andell 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. Instead, augments the “Swiss Army Knife” quality Finder replacement, have to worry. Secondly, nobody to date what I did was install the free More Internet Path Finder. With of Path Finder, Path Finder, you can has been negatively affected by the potential Preference Pane 1.1.1 available from http:// adding the capability navigate your hard problem, but they are calling it extremely homepage.mac.com/diggorylaycock/.cv/diggory- to burn a CD, take a disks, see invisible critical because of it’s potential. It affects laycock/Public/MoreInternet1.1.1.dmg-link. screen shot, connect items, sort in many Internet Explorer 5.2.3, Mozilla as well as dmg. Open System Preferences, click on the to remote servers, ways (including Safari 1.2.1. The problem is a web page with More Internet icon. Scroll the list and click and more. Many “smart” sorting, HTML with a help:runscript tag can run mali- on Help and click on the Change button and popular utilities, which distinguishes cious code on your Mac if you’ve signed on select Chess from your Applications folder. It’s such as LaunchBar, applications, folders, as an administrator. The defined protocol harmless and obvious if invoked. Do the same DragThing, and Zinng, and packages helper application Help Viewer can be passed for ‘ssh’ and ‘telnet’ and then click the Add... support Path Finder. Try it; you might from normal files), an AppleScript to do whatever the referenced button to make a new entry for Disk Protocol. make a new file or never bother with the folder (without its AppleScript is programmed to do. That could The description is not critical, I put in Disk Finder again. Path jumping around the include erasing parts of your hard drive or Utility. Then press the Add… button to close Finder 3.2 is a free window!), list files installing spyware that could report every the window, then click the Change button update for registered into a text file, copy keystroke back to the bad guys. It’s actually a to assign again Chess to this new protocol. users of version 3.0. a pathname, accu- problem in Help Viewer, a part of Mac OS X. As time goes by, and we get more reports of It is a $10 upgrade mulate files from It’s set to automatically run whatever scripts similar exploits, we many need to make more from earlier versions. many locations to be it’s passed. Disk Utility and NetNewsWire changes with this method. Otherwise it costs moved or copied to a may also be affected, but I don’t have a fix | Will Panther run Mac OS 9 programs? I $35. It requires Mac single location (the for that yet. Besides the help and disk pro- have Jaguar now. How about Tiger? OS X 10.3 Panther. A feature-complete “Drop Stack”), get tocols, it seems that telnet protocol may be Not as such, but yes, in layman’s terms. extensive informa- 21-day demo is avail- tion about items on vulnerable to exploit in this same manner. Panther-equipped new Macs come with the able. www.cocoatech. disk, and loads of I used a terminal routine I learned from Classic Environment as well, which is basi- com/pf.php 0 other things you wish www.macintouch.com to remove the liability. cally Mac OS 9.2.2, you just can’t boot off of –TidBITS you could do from If you are afraid of using Terminal, then it. Also if you are contemplating upgrading the Finder. There just run the new program Don’t Go There, an older Mac with Panther, then almost all are also many power GURLfriend! 1.1 available at http://homepage. Panther-compatible older Macs, that’s those user features: you mac.com/olliewagner/dgtgf.dmg. Apple has with G3 or better processors and USB on can examine files now released Security Update 2004-05-24 the motherboard, will have some version of in hex, get a class for Jaguar and for Panther which addresses Mac OS 9, which can be upgraded to Mac OS

THE LIMAC FORUM/JUNE 2004 Macintosh 128K, their job descriptions at the and the large number of quotes and related what better time to set down the details than [Tony Williams is a Macintosh IT Manager time, and where they are now. I appreciated information in the margins adds to the book’s the present? and has previously been a programmer, the various timelines, such as one listing the light feel and readability. Apple Confidential 2.0 is a highly readable journalist, and magazine editor. You can read various Macintosh models and another for the Despite the wealth of material, I felt that the account of the people and events that surround more of his reviews at Tony’s Book Spot.] various version of the Mac OS. The inclusion of book seems slightly rushed towards the end. I’d arguably the most exciting computer company –TidBits.com chapters covering NeXT and Pixar is marvelous like to see more space given to recent history, in the world. I’d recommend it to anyone who – after all, Mac OS X was built from NeXTstep, even though most of the recent information would like to understand where their Macintosh and Pixar is the company that made Steve Jobs is much better known than the old. Still, with comes from. The book is 304 pages and costs a billionaire. Linzmayer also focuses well on the this update it seems that Linzmayer’s book $20 retail. 0 people at Apple, not just the events. This focus strives to be an ongoing chronicler of Apple;

More Of Bradley’s Technical Session page PDF file into an InDesign document? 3 9.2.2 for free. When booted as Panther, aka essentially untouched, but should work faster No problem! Just Mac OS 10.3, then the Mac OS 9.2.2 System than before. You could wipe out a hard drive choose File>Place or Folder becomes the Classic Environment. and reinstall Panther from a set of retail CDs. press Command-D TIPS! Almost all your Extensions, Control Panels You would then not be able to run Mac OS 9 as usual. In the resulting dialog box, Work the way you and Applications that worked before when applications because the Classic Environment select the PDF file, want to in InDesign booted as Mac OS 9.2.2 will still work with does not come with the Panther CDs. You but before you click (CS): the Classic Environment. The most notable would have to restore the Classic System Folder Open, select the You may have exceptions are driver extensions and applica- and Applications (Mac OS 9) some other way. Show Import Options noticed that tions that need to talk directly with some Newer Macs have System Restore CDs or DVDs check box. Then, in InDesign CS is a connected hardware, like a scanner, printer or that can do a custom restore of just the Classic the resulting dialog little palette-crazy. card reader. Hardware support must be done parts. This is mostly found on the newer Macs box, select or enter Even if you have in native Mac OS X applications and drivers. that can’t boot up in Mac OS 9. The older the page number you the ability to use want to place and two monitors (one Now that doesn’t mean most people still can’t Macs that came with OS 9 install CDs can boot print from Classic applications. Most drivers off the CD and install Mac OS 9 from there. click OK. Just the for viewing pages page number you OS 9.2.2 and one for viewing work through the Operating System and the Any requisite upgrades to get to Mac indicated places in palettes), you’ll find “good old” Chooser should still show your should then be done. The System Folder and your document. it easier to work in printers, both network- and USB-connected. Applications (Mac OS 9) folder can be backed –Element K Journals InDesign if you take SCSI devices are another matter. The reason I up and restored from an external hard drive a moment to create said not as such at the top of this topic is that by simple dragging in the Finder. Mac OS X is your own personal Panther itself does not run Mac OS 9 appli- more particular and has several invisible files workspace. To do so, cations, but the Classic Environment does. and folders. If you need to backup for a re- display and arrange the palettes you use Typically a Mac running Panther will also have install or a hard drive replacement, I suggest the way you like. You the Classic Environment there as well, either using Carbon Copy Cloner by Mike Bombich. can drag and drop from before in a Mac OS 9-only use or always Available as donation-ware from www.bombich. TIP! panes from one the two operating systems were installed from com/software/ccc.html. As for the future of Mac Safari full screen: palette to another, Apple. As you are upgrading from Jaguar to OS 10.4, code named Tiger, Apple is not talking Type in the following attach palettes Panther, your Classic Environment will be about Classic Environment issues, but I suspect JavaScript into the together, have them it will still support it, in the same manner as Safari address bar display as single Special Powerbook raffle. Panther and Jaguar before it. (with no spaces): or double columns LIMac will have a special raffle for an Apple | How about my Mac OS 10.2 programs? javascript:self. or single rows (a G3 400MHz PowerBook (PISMO) with a 14.1" Will they work with Panther? moveTo(0,0);self. General Options 1024x768 color active matrix LCD display, resizeTo(screen. preferences setting), Most will, some will need to be updated to DVD-ROM 2X drive, 2 USB ports & 2 Firewire work with Mac OS 10.3. A few come to mind availWidth,screen. and so on. Once availHeight); ports, VGA output, 10/100 Base-T Ethernet, that needed an update at the time: AOL, your palettes are set Press Return and up just the way you V.90 56k internal modem, 1 PC Card slot and QuicKeys, Retrospect, Roxio Toast Titanium, your browser should like them, choose rechargable battery. Extensis Portfolio, Jaguar Cache Cleaner, Print expand to full screen. Window > Workspace This PowerBook’s processor is upgradeable Center Repair, Norton Utilities, Drive 10, Next, drag the blue > Save Workspace. to faster G3s & G4s, the RAM is upgradeable TechTool Pro, Spell Catcher, Palm Desktop, Print globe icon in the Enter a name for to 1 Gb. You can also upgrade the hard drive. Explosion, Unsanity’s products, firmware for Address Bar to the your workspace in Donald will be selling tickets for $5.00 each various FireWire hard drives. Use the www. Bookmarks Bar the resulting dialog during the months of May, June and July, and versiontracker.com/macosx/ site to check for below it. Rename the box, and then click this special raffle will be held during the July updates. I use a commercial software that bookmark Full Screen OK. You can create 0 in the dialog that however many general meeting on July 9th. works with the VersionTracker site, called VersionTracker Pro 3.5, that scans your hard appears, and click workspaces you may OK. The next time you need. About our annual flea market: drive and indicates what is out of date, and want to expand the –Element K Journals Please contact Harold Silvers while at the June it keeps checking and flagging what’s out of Safari window to full and July meetings to let him know that you date, so you never need to spend a lot of time screen, just click the Place just one of want to bring equipment for the flea market seeking the updates you need. So many pro- Full Screen bookmark. many pages of a to be held in August. You can bring in your grams nowadays have built-in updaters to help To get back to a PDF file into Adobe old computers, monitors, scanners, books, check for and download updates for smaller window, click InDesign (2/CS 3): wires, etc., – any computer related items. 0 themselves. 0 the green widget in Want to place just the window’s title bar. one page of a multi- –Ben Zoller/MacAddict THE LIMAC FORUM/JUNE 2004 Long Island Macintosh Users Group Post Office Box 2048 Seaford, New York 11783-0180

He’s b-a-a-a-c-k! Dave Marra is returning to LIMac for the third time! If you’ve never seen a Dave Marra show, you’re in for a treat. Dave’s energy and product knowledge pack a heck of a lot into an hour presentation. Friday, June 11th, at 7p.m., Building 300 (Anna Rubin Hall), New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, Long Island.

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