The official journal of the Wellington Society Inc Volume 27.11 – November 2010

Come to one of Apple Donates MacPaint our meetings and QuickDraw Source Wellington Monday, 27 November Code to Museum 7.10pm – 9.30pm Subject: “Sharing your Recently reported by Glen Fleishman at TidBits.com is the donation stuff online” by Apple of one of the pieces of software that epitomised the first Kapiti Macintosh computers and was at Tuesday, 7 December the heart of its graphical user 7.10pm – 9.30pm interface. Subject: “Annual Xmas Dinner & Movie” Glen says “Through the efforts of Mac Basics* Andy Hertzfeld, an early and long- Monday, 14 February time Apple employee deeply 7pm – 9.30pm involved in the Mac's creation and Subject: System & development, Apple has donated the source code for QuickDraw and MacPaint to the Computer Monday, 21 February History Museum. Apple retains the Turnbull House copyright, but it's generous of the 7pm – 9.30pm firm to give an insight into the Help Desk* fundament of Macintosh's heart.” TBA Glen’s full report can be found at Wellington .

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*Please register by emailing Where to find us [email protected] Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings are held at Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street, Wellington. Kapiti meetings are held at the Kapiti Uniting Church, Raumati Road, Raumati.

The President writes p2 First Office 2011 for Mac Update INSIDE TidBits p4 Fixes Crashes p7 15 Secrets of iMovie ’11 p5 Useful Tips p7

CAPITAL APPLE – NOVEMBER 2010 PAGE 1 The president writes ...

If you would like to receive e- Here are some other useful web mail announcements about sites to try. upcoming Kapiti meetings, please For software updates and contact Hamish Turnbull finding software for a particular . task: Holiday Closedown As in previous years, WelMac or the “Mac OS X Software” has a holiday over most of item in the Apple menu, which David Empson December and January. We will not takes you Apple’s web site. [email protected] be publishing Capital Apple in For general Macintosh news, December, and will not be holding announcements of new and Seasons greetings any meetings after the ones listed updated products, and discussion above, until our next main meeting threads on various Mac issues: Wellington Meeting in Wellington at the end of January. Our main meeting in Capital Apple will be published Committee Changes Wellington will be held on in January, and other meetings Trevor Nixon has resigned from Monday 29 November, in the resume in February. the committee for personal Anteroom on the ground level of If you have any technical reasons. We wish him all the best, Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street, problems during the break, I may and I’d like to thank him for the Wellington from 7.10pm. be available to assist, but I’ll be input he was able to provide in This is our final Wellington trying to have a holiday. running the society, and for his meeting for the year, and to Some other options: help throughout the years. celebrate the holiday season we The WelMac e-mail discussion Trevor’s departure means that will have an extended supper, from list is relatively quiet and would we have another vacancy on the approximately 8.20 pm. benefit from more subscribers or committee, which I would like to The meeting will start with a discussion. You can join it at: fill with a temporary appointment brief Q&A session for those who anyone would like to assist with be appreciated if questions could The discussion forums at the administrative side of running be emailed in advance to have many the society, please contact me. The [email protected] so we active participants who can answer task is not difficult: attending one can plan ahead. questions. It is based in New committee meeting a month, The main topic of the meeting Zealand and relatively lightly used. possibly helping with other jobs is “Sharing your Stuff Online”: Apple’s discussion forums at according to your abilities, and using collaborative web sites such . contributing to decisions about as Flickr, Picassa, Dropbox, etc. for This is an extremely active service activities, meeting planning, etc. sharing photos and other files with and there are lots of people willing I also need to give advance family members, friends or anyone to help. warning that due to other else. When asking a question via a commitments, Gabrielle Appleton Kapiti Area Meeting web forum, it is a good idea to do a will be unable to continue to serve The next Kapiti meeting will search first to see if the question on the committee after the AGM. start at 7.10 pm on Tuesday 7 has already been answered. This means we will need to find a December 2010, at the Kapiti Google or your favourite search new secretary at the end of Uniting Parish, 27 Raumati Rd. engine is a good place to start: February. Any volunteers would This will be an end of year “pot simply type in your question in the be welcome. luck” dinner followed by a search field in your web browser comedy movie. and see what answers pop up.

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General News the iPhone gained in iOS 4, Well the opposite happened: Apple Software Updates including multitasking of third Apple have announced that they Apple has released Mac OS X party applications, a task bar for will be discontinuing production of 10.6.5, the fifth minor update for switching to recently used apps, a the Xserve and will not accept any Snow Leopard. It is 644 MB if unified inbox in Mail, and many more orders for it after the end of downloaded manually, somewhat more features. January. Existing Xserves will be smaller via Software Update. It A point worthy of note is that if supported until the end of their provides many security and you have an iPhone 4, iPod Touch warranty period (including reliability fixes. (4th gen) or iPad running iOS 4.2, AppleCare coverage), and spare A corresponding Security Apple is making it possible to parts will be available as long as Update 2010-007 is available for create a free MobileMe account supplies last. Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.8). which can gain access to the “Find Apple are suggesting Xserve 5.0.3 (for Leopard and my iPhone” feature. Other users migrate to the Mac Pro (a Snow Leopard) and Safari 4.1.3 (for MobileMe features such as the new configuration is now available Tiger) are also available. Again, iDisk online storage still require with Mac OS X Server security and bug fixes. paying an annual fee for the server. preinstalled), or a Mac Mini Server. iTunes 10.1 adds support for If you also have older iOS devices, Those who require the rack iOS 4.2, and makes the Ping social you can add them to “Find my mount form factor may have to network optional again. iPhone” but the account has to be switch to servers from other iOS 4.2 available set up first using the latest companies running a different Apple have released iOS 4.2 generation devices. (e.g. Linux or updates for the iPad, iPhone (3G The Beatles on iTunes Windows). and later) and iPod Touch (2nd It has been a long time coming, It appears the Xserve was not generation and later). but you can finally buy The Beatles selling enough for Apple to justify For the iPhone and iPod Touch, albums and songs on the iTunes ongoing development or sales. the main change is the addition of Store. Those with long memories That’s all, folks! support for the AirPrint and may recall the events of the late I hope everyone has a great AirPlay features. 1980s, which saw The Beatles’ holiday season and we’ll see you AirPrint allows printing label (Apple Records) suing again in the new year. documents directly from the iOS Apple Computer to prevent them David Empson device to a compatible printer, selling any music related products. If you wish to contact me, it’s currently only a small range of The point of contention at the time b e s t t o e m a i l new models from HP, but this was an advanced sound [email protected]. feature is likely to support many generation chip in the Apple IIgs. I’m out quite a lot these days, more printers in future. Xserve to be discontinued but you can ring me at home (976 AirPlay allows media on the For those who are not familiar 9755) and leave a message. iOS device to be played directly to with it, the Xserve is Apple’s an Apple TV (2nd gen) or an enterprise server product, basically Airport Express (audio only). The equivalent to a Mac Pro but in a AppleTV requires an OS update rack mounted form, designed to be (also available now) to support grouped into racks in a machine AirPlay. room.   For the iPad, iOS 4.2 is a much Last month I speculated that          more significant update, as it is the Apple might be about to release a         first time iOS 4 or later has been new Xserve model, since it was the available on the iPad. This means only Mac model yet to be updated. the 4.2 update includes all features

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WARNING!!! iPhoto 11 Erases ENTIRE Time Machine will not properly back up your photos iPhoto Libraries if iPhoto is open. By Liz Castro It’s absolutely unconscionable that Apple should I was very excited to hear about iPhoto 11. I’m a release software that would erase an entire iPhoto longtime iPhoto user, with more than 50,000 photos Library. We must spread the word to minimize the in my iPhoto Library that lately has grown to 233Gb. damage. Thanks. The Full Screen feature looked great, and I’m dying As soon as I figure out how to upgrade to see the new books feature. I wrote an entire book successfully, I’ll post that information here. on iPhoto book themes and can’t wait to see what’s new. iPhoto ’11 9.1 Brings Calendars Back Until today. Upon upgrading to iPhoto 11, I got by Adam C. Engst the revolving gray wheel for a very long time, and Apple’s omission of support for creating and the Finder said that iPhoto had “stopped printing calendars in iPhoto ’11 was odd, and the responding” so I force quit and started again. I was company would initially say only that finally able to upgrade and rebuild my library, but support would return “very soon.” (See “iLife ’11 there was nothing there. Every event was labeled Updates Three of Its Apps,” 20 October 2010.) Given properly, and contained placeholders for my images the popularity of calendars as holiday gifts just with my labels and even my ratings, but the images before the new year, we were forced to recommend themselves were not there. They were all gone. that anyone planning to create a calendar for the holiday season hold off from upgrading to iPhoto ’11 (and the bug that caused photos to be deleted in the 9.0 release didn’t help either). Luckily, two weeks after the initial release of iPhoto ’11, iPhoto ’11 9.1 has now realized Apple’s “very soon.” This also comes less than a week after the 9.0.1 release that resolved the photo deletion bug (which may have been related to incorrect permissions within the iPhoto Library package, according to one site). You can download the new version directly from Apple’s Web site or get it from When I went to see how big my iPhoto Library Software Update. was, it said 6.3Gb. There’s no earthly way my 233Gb Apple says that iPhoto 9.1 not only provides the of photos could suddenly fit into 6.3Gb. Further capability to create and order calendars, it also confirmation is that suddenly there are 230 extra GB makes available additional letterpress holiday available on my hard drive. greeting card themes. The only other change I would be sick (and furious) except that I backed mentioned is a fix for an issue that prevented videos up my library twice before attempting the upgrade. downloaded from MobileMe or Flickr from Please pass this information on to everyone you importing correctly into iPhoto events. know so that no-one else loses their photos. Frankly, I’ll be upgrading my iPhoto Library on Apple’s Discussion Forums are full of other my main Mac now, and look forward to digging into people experiencing the same issue. Make sure you have at least one backup before attempting to the changes in a more-than-cursory way, since before upgrade. Also, if you depend on Time Machine, this I didn’t dare commit to an upgrade that would make sure Time Machine has been able to complete a play havoc with my calendar gift plans. full backup with iPhoto completely closed. Note that

CAPITAL APPLE – NOVEMBER 2010 PAGE 4 15 Secrets of iMovie ’11 by Jeff Carlson This feature isn’t a magical cure-all; Apple says it Apple’s introduction of iMovie ’11 focused largely works best on footage where the camera is panning left on the new Movie Trailers feature, audio editing or right. But it can fix wobbly video that might improvements, and One-Step Effects for automating otherwise be unusable. common editing operations. Those are just the Side by Side Edit -- iMovie ’09 introduced a Picture- highlights, however. Here are 15 features and bits of in-Picture edit that lets you play two at once, with trivia you may not be aware of about the latest version one appearing in a small box in a corner of the screen. of iMovie. iMovie ’11 takes the same idea and adds a Side by Side View Entire Portrait Photos -- When you add a still edit that splits the screen vertically. Drag a clip onto the photo that’s oriented vertically, iMovie automatically top of another clip in your project and then choose Side crops it to fit the project’s horizontal aspect ratio, which by Side from the action menu that appears. means you end up with only about one third of the In the Clip inspector, you can choose whether the photo visible. Click the new Allow Black button in the added clip appears on the left or right side of the Viewer to include the entire photo (with black bars on screen, and whether the image slides into frame from the edges). the side.

Photos Appear in Viewer -- Speaking of photos, when you click a thumbnail in the Photo browser, the Blue Screen -- Another new edit is Blue Screen, image now shows up in the Viewer so you can get a which makes blue areas of a video transparent. iMovie better look at it. Also, pictures you import sport a green ’09 introduced a Green Screen feature for swapping out checkmark icon. backgrounds or other effects—you shoot footage Rolling Shutter Fix -- Here’s an addition that could against a green backdrop, then replace the background be very helpful, depending on the type of camera you with an image or other video in iMovie. The problem, own. Many still cameras capture images using a CMOS of course, is that any green items in the shot, such as sensor, which records every shot in horizontal bands clothing, would also become transparent. Blue Screen from top to bottom. When used to capture video, that gives you another option if you happen to shoot things technique can produce an effect called a “rolling that are often green. shutter”: objects in appear rubbery because iMovie Drop Box -- Following the lead of iTunes, they’ve moved slightly by the time the sensor records iMovie now has an iMovie Drop Box folder, located at the entire frame. ~/Movies/iMovie Events. If you want to iMovie can now attempt to compensate for the add a lot of movie files in the Finder, add them to that effect. Double-click a clip, or select it and press the I folder; the next time you launch iMovie, you’ll be asked key, to bring up the Clip inspector. Mark the if you want to import the videos. Stabilization: Smooth Clip Motion checkbox to analyze Change All Title or Transition Styles -- If you the clip (if it hasn’t already been analyzed separately). decide to change the style of an existing title, you can When that’s done, click the Rolling Shutter: Reduce drop a new style onto the section of the clip the title Motion Distortion checkbox, and choose one of the four occupies (the video clip turns bright blue to indicate options from the Amount pop-up menu (Low, you’re affecting the title). Now, when you replace a title Medium, High, Extra High). style, iMovie asks if you’d like to replace just the one Continued on next page

CAPITAL APPLE – NOVEMBER 2010 PAGE 5 15 SecretsThe president of iMovie ’11 continuedwrites ... title or all titles in the project. The same option applies such as Universal or Paramount; the names are replaced to replacing transitions, too. with three dashes. Quickly Jump to Titles -- When the Advanced Tools Also, when choosing a trailer style, if you watch the option is enabled in iMovie’s preferences, the for the Action trailer, the character of “Matt” is Comment marker and Chapter marker tools become actually iMovie developer Randy Ubillos. visible in the upper-right corner of the Project browser. Quick Mute a Range of Audio -- iMovie ’09 let you Clicking the downward-facing triangle just to the right mute a clip quickly: with an entire clip selected, press of the buttons lists all the markers you’ve placed in Command-Shift-M to mute the track. That still works your movie, letting you jump to those sections quickly. in iMovie ’11, but you may not want to mute the entire In iMovie ’11, that list now also includes all titles in the clip. Instead, select a range in a clip’s audio waveform project. and press the Delete key to drop the volume level to Preview with Stabilization -- After you analyze a zero. Pressing delete on a range that’s been edited clip in the Event browser for stabilization, you usually returns it back to its default. don’t see the effects of the stabilization until you add Cloudy Forecast -- If you add the Blue Marble Globe the clip to a project. Right-click (or Control-click) the map, bring up the Clip inspector and enable the Show clip in the Event browser and choose Play with Clouds option to add a light layer of cloud cover. Also, Stabilization Preview to see how the stabilized footage a Show Route Line/Cities option lets you turn off the will appear. Indiana Jones-style travel line and city labels if you Movie Trailer Customization -- The movie trailers wish. that you can create are fairly rigid in the number of clips that are included, because the edits are timed to the background music. (You can convert a movie trailer to a regular project and then edit it as you wish, however—choose File > Convert to Project.) Several of the trailer templates offer customization options. For example, in the Pets trailer, you can choose whether the trailer is about a dog, cat, horse, or monster, Avoid Skim Drift -- Skimming is an integral part of with accompanying animal track images based on your working within iMovie: whenever your mouse pointer selection. appears in the Project browser, the playhead appears In the Blockbuster, Friendship, and Travel trailers, and the current frame is shown in the Viewer. you can set between two and six cast members; there Sometimes, as you’re dragging, your pointer may drift are five different music tracks to accommodate the up or down and out of a row (unless you’re being very changes, all timed correctly. deliberate about moving your mouse or finger on a trackpad perfectly horizontal). If this happens to you frequently, as it does to me, hold down Option and Shift when skimming. The cursor is held in the middle of the row, even if you drift with the mouse pointer. More to Discover -- These are just some of the bigger changes in iMovie ’11. There are a lot more tiny details in how the program works, such as animated panel openings and closings, the capability to split Made with Morse -- Speaking of trailers, you can detached audio tracks using the contextual menu, and choose which studio logo appears at the front. In the direct import from an iPhone. Although movie trailers Signals Across the Globe trailer, the music that plays in have gotten the bulk of the attention, this version of the background is actually Morse code for “Made with iMovie is a pretty deep update. iMovie.” Still More Trailer Trivia -- That spinning globe studio looks awfully familiar, doesn’t it? To avoid any legal entanglements, Apple made sure that you can’t type real movie studio names in the logo sequences,

CAPITAL APPLE – NOVEMBER 2010 PAGE 6 First Office 2011 for Mac Update Fixes spreadsheet cells when related data has changed will Crashes also be happy to learn that affected cells now update by Michael E. Cohen properly. Word users who have seen crashes when Barely two weeks have passed since the formal using the Equation Tools will find this problem fixed as release of Office for Mac 2011 from Microsoft and its well. PowerPoint bug fixes include one that led to first update is now out the door, bringing with it an crashes during slide shows, and another that caused assortment of “improvements to security, stability, PowerPoint to display numbered lists incorrectly in compatibility, and performance.” presentations created in PowerPoint 2007 and The security fixes address a vulnerability, rated PowerPoint 2010. Important by Microsoft, that allows remote code The newest Office for Mac application, Outlook 2011, execution when a user previews or opens a specially came in for its share of fixes. Aside from patching the crafted RTF email message in Outlook 2011. previously mentioned security vulnerability, the Microsoft’s security bulletin notes that a successful update fixes a number of other Outlook issues. A flaw exploit of this vulnerability gives an attacker the that caused only one email message to be deleted when same privileges as the Mac’s current user: those who multiple in an IMAP account were selected run their Macs from an administrator account are for deletion has been fixed; Sync Services Agent no the most vulnerable. longer requires users to quit it manually when In addition to patching the vulnerability, the installing a new update; passwords are no longer Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.0.1 Update applies deleted from the keychain when Outlook imports new fixes and improvements for Excel, Word, mail accounts; database rebuilds no longer delete PowerPoint, and Outlook. It also provides form- mailing list rules; and when users import identities, based authentication for all Office applications when Outlook no longer prematurely ends the import when users connect to a SharePoint server, and fixes an it encounters an identity with a category called issue that erroneously locked images copied to “Untitled.” ChemDraw from any Office application. The free 110.5 MB update requires a Mac running Excel users who have experienced crashes when Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later. It is available directly from enabling a macro will be glad to hear that Microsoft Microsoft or can be obtained by running Microsoft claims to have fixed this problem; those who have AutoUpdate: in any Office 2011 application, choose seen Excel fail to update some calculated Help > Check for Updates.

Enabling Auto Spelling Correction in Snow Leopard In Snow Leopard, the automatic spelling correction in applications is not usually activated by default. To turn it on, make sure the cursor's insertion point is somewhere where text can be entered, and either choose Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Correct Spelling Automatically or, if the Edit menu's submenu doesn't have what you need, Control-click where you're typing and choose Spelling and Grammar > Correct Spelling Automatically from the contextual menu that appears. The latter approach is particularly likely to be necessary in Safari and other WebKit- based applications, like Mailplane. Move Multiple Windows Simultaneously in Spaces Command-drag a window in Spaces to move all windows associated with the dragged window's application to a new space. Control-drag will do the same thing, and will also preserve the same screen position in the space in which you drop the windows. Keyboard-based Dock Navigation If you're a fan of keyboard shortcuts and navigation, you may want try accessing the Dock from your keyboard. Press Control-F3 to enter the Dock's keyboard access mode. Then you can press a letter corresponding with an item's name to select it; press Return to open it, Command-Q to quit the selected application, or Escape to exit keyboard access mode. You can also use the arrow keys, Tab key, and other keyboard navigation keys to toggle between the Dock items.

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