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It means that FigureFigure 2 2- Some LionLion Keystrokes Keystrokes for them too hese codes are truly ubiquitous and Continued on page 4 Con’t on page 3, Rick’s Place ApplePRESS – December 2011 www.dvmug.org Page 3 2 from MacWorld RSS from the ApplePRESS Preview the Print Audacity •By Caryn Lum - DVMUG Member Queue with Quick Look A question frequently asked on the BBS is, “I have by Lex Friedman - Macworld.com an MP3 file and want to extract a few minutes/ trim When you print documents with your Mac, they off the beginning or end/join it to another clip. How show up in your printer’s queue. You can view that do I do that?” When I respond, I usually recommend queue by clicking the printer icon in your Dock. Audacity, a free, open-source audio recorder and Sometimes, though, it’s difficult to tell exactly editor that is enormously powerful for those who which documents are which in that queue— understand all of its features and plug-ins, but which especially if you’re printing a bunch of untitled or also has a shallow learning curve and intuitive similarly-named files. Hints reader ppinheiro76 interface for casual users like me. I use Audacity for figured out a delightfully simple way to get quick recording and editing background music for iMovie, previews of the files you’re printing. QuickTime and YouTube vids and for making simple edits to MP3 files. Once you’re in the print queue, just double-click on an individual print job to open a Quick Look Some pointers for its use: preview of the document being printed; since it’s 1. Download Audacity at
Lex Friedman is a Macworld Staff Writer. He 2. Follow the directions to install Audacity (1.2 and formerly wrote for TidBITS and worked as the 1.3 are simple drag-and-drop installations). Senior Director of Product & Community at Demand Media. 3. Install the Lame Library. You need the Lame Library to export your work in Audacity to MP3 Con’t from page 2, Rick’s Place format. Download and installation instructions are at if this person ever forgets his password, he’ll be
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Dick Nerf, who does a great job maintaining the February 1 - MacLab Mtg KMUG website, would like to have an assistant. February 8 - MacLab Mtg http://web.me.com/kmug1/KMUG/Welcome.html February 16 - KMUG Mtg February 22 - MacLab Mtg Joe Williams, our newsletter editor would be willing February 29 - MacLab Mtg to assist anyone who might be interested in doing a KMUG newsletter. KMUG owns a copy of Adobe inDesign CS3, which produces professional results March 7 - MacLab Mtg with a minimum of experience. March 15 - KMUG Mtg March 21 - MacLab Mtg Lewis Coleman suggested we need to purchase an March 28 - MacLab Mtg external hard drive for our club laptop, to use for If you have any questions contact: backup to Time Machine, etc. He also suggested Warren Beauchene we install Lion on the laptop, in addition to Snow phone: 697-6681 Leopard which it already has, partitioning to allow email: [email protected] or Con’t on page 7, KMUG Minutes [email protected]
Disclaimer The KMUG Newsletter is a compilation of information related to the Macintosh community or areas which impact Macintosh computing. Content comes from a variety of sources: contributions, other user groups or internet news sources. All articles are given full credit for the author and it’s source. The information presented in the KMUG Newsletter does not reflect the opinion of KMUG, but is presented for its informational content. 6 from MacWorld RSS without pinching or spreading, the crop frame will move without changing size. (Unless you run into Edit with Trackpad in an edge, in which case it will shrink.) If you turn constrain off, you can move your fingers to change iPhoto the crop and the aspect ratio, from rectangular to by Dan Miller, Macworld.com square. OS X Hints reader tchenj discovered that, if you have one of Apple’s new gesture-friendly trackpads, Similarly, you can rest one finger (or, more it can make editing in iPhoto ‘11 (or ‘09) easier. conveniently, your thumb) in one corner of the trackpad and another finger in the opposite corner; For example: if you move just one, keeping the other in place, the Open a photo in iPhoto and click on Edit. Now corresponding frame-handle will move. So, with select the Straighten tool. With the mouse cursor on thumb at bottom right and index finger at upper the image and two fingers on the trackpad, rotate left, move your finger towards the center to pull the left or right to fine-tune the tilt. upper left corner of the frame inwards; move your thumb to pull up the lower right corner. Or select the Crop tool and turn on constrain. Now, with the mouse cursor over the image, pinch inwards Dan Miller is an executive editor of Macworld to shrink the crop frame while retaining the original print products. He makes contributions in the areas aspect ratio; move your fingers apart, and the crop of: Networking, File Servers, Routers, 802.11 and frame gets bigger. If you move both fingers around Bluetooth.
Con’t from page 6, KMUG Minutes from MacWorld RSS for both operating systems to be installed. Show Dates and Times Carl Broberg demonstrated how he could scan a bar code with an iPhone app to see if there is a better in Mail’s Message List price elsewhere for an item. The app to download by Dan Frakes - Macworld.com is Barcode Reader. One of the new features in Apple’s Mail app in Lion Don Diehl, Treasurer, reported there is a balance of (Mac OS X 10.7) is a widescreen-friendly, three- $2140 in the club treasury. column layout, displaying your mailboxes on the left, your message list in the middle, and a message Don Diehl stated that there is a need for volunteer preview on the right. I love this layout—I used a federal income tax preparers, who give free advice Mail add-on to get it under Snow Leopard (OS X and assistance around tax time. 10.6)—but it’s not without drawbacks.
The merits of the Mac Book Pro and the Mac Book One of those is that there’s less room to display Air were compared, both having excellent qualities, information about each message in the message but the Air being lighter in weight, and the Pro being list. As a result, Mail shortens the date display heavier but having more features. dramatically compared to what you’d see in the “classic” Mail layout. Specifically, for messages There being no further discussion, the meeting was received today, Lion Mail shows only the time adjourned. received; for messages received yesterday, Mail displays just the word Yesterday; and for messages Respectfully Submitted, received prior to yesterday, Mail displays just the Betty M. Sarachene, Secretary KMUG date. 7 Con’t on page 8, Mail Con’t from page 7, Mail Macworld reader Lynn P. wanted to know if there’s a way to get Mail to display both the date and time for all messages. Though I haven’t found a way to display the date and time for messages received yesterday—Mail is downright determined to use just Yesterday for those messages—with a bit of trickery, it’s possible to add the date for messages received today, and to add the time to messages received prior to yesterday.
For messages received today or prior to yesterday, Mail uses your preferences for time and date format, type a comma (,), then paste (Edit: Paste) the date- respectively, in the Language & Text pane of System format you copied earlier. The result should look Preferences. Here’s how to tweak those settings to something like 12 : 00 AM , 1 / 5 / 11. get today’s messages to also display the date, and older messages to also display the time: The format is now fixed for messages received today, but you still need to fix it for older messages. Open the Language & Text pane of System Select the entire Short field’s contents and, again, Preferences. Click the Formats tab. The Dates copy (Edit: Copy), then click OK. Click Customize format—specifically, the Short format in the for Dates. Delete everything in the Short-format Customize dialog for Dates—is what Mail uses field, and then paste (Edit: Paste) what you copied for days prior to yesterday. The Times format— from the Times dialog. Click OK. specifically, the Short format in the Customize dialog for Times—is what Mail uses for today. But You should now have the same Short format, you’ll notice that time options aren’t listed in the showing both the time and date, in both the Times Dates dialog, and date options aren’t listed in the and Dates dialogs. Mail’s message list should Times dialog. immediately reflect these changes, displaying both the time and date for all messages (except those Here’s the trick: Click Customize for Dates. Set received yesterday). up your preferred date format in the Short field. Select everything in that field (Edit: Select All) Note that these changes also affect the display of and copy it (Edit: Copy). Click Cancel to exit the the Short date and time in other places throughout Date-format dialog without saving your changes. OS X—for example, the Date Modified and Date Click Customize for Times, and then set up your Created columns in Finder windows. If you ever preferred time format in the Short field. Now put decide to go back to the original date and time the cursor at the end of the Short-format field, press the right-arrow key (to be sure nothing is selected), Con’t on page 9, Mail Need some technical assistance? There are several local people who are in the business of providing technical assistance for the Mac. You may have seen and heard them making presentations and answering questions at KMUG meetings. If you need help, look at the Professional Technical Assistance Referral area on the KMUG Website. http://www.homepage.mac.com/kmug1
8 from MacWorld RSS from MacWorld RSS How to Re-Sort Photos Share Reminders with on Your iPhone iCloud, Add Them by Lex Friedman - Macworld.com with Siri An anonymous Hints reader was flummoxed: He by Lex Friedman - Macworld.com (or she) used iTunes to sync pictures from iPhoto to his (or her) iPhone. But when he looked at the While the new Reminders app that Apple built pictures on his phone, iPhoto Events didn’t appear into iOS 5 isn’t as full-featured as some other task in the order he wanted. As far as he could tell, management apps in the App Store, it does offer a neither iTunes nor the iPhone offered any option to few clever niceties. Among the app’s best features change the phone’s photo-sorting behavior. are its ability to sync to-do lists and share them with other users via iCloud and its tight integration with As the anonymous reader discovered, however, Siri on the iPhone 4S. there is a solution—one that’s less obvious than it might appear at first. The iPhone will honor You’d be forgiven, though, if you didn’t know about whichever sorting option you select within iPhoto. that first one—the ability to subscribe to and share To change the sorting order there, launch iPhoto, to-do lists with other folks—because it’s not actually select Events, and then choose View -> Sort Events. discoverable from within the app itself. Instead, you You can then sort Events by date (in chronological first need to head over to iCloud.com and log in with or reverse-chronological order), alphabetically by your iCloud email account. (If the iCloud website name, or in a manual order of your own creation. immediately takes you to the Find My iPhone screen when you log in, press the Back button in your But, wait, there’s more: If you switched to iTunes browser or click on the small cloud icon near the now, your photos still wouldn’t be in the order upper left to get to the main menu of options.) you wanted; they’d be out of order on your phone, too. You must first quit and relaunch iPhoto. Once There’s no Reminders option on the iCloud you’ve done so, iTunes will notice the new sort homepage. Instead, you need to click on the Calendar order you’ve set for your Events. When you sync icon; just as Reminders syncs with iCal on the Mac, your iPhone this time, events will appear the way it syncs with the Calendar app in iCloud. On the left you want them to. side of the Calendar view, you’ll see a list of your iCloud-synced calendars, followed by any iCloud- Lex Friedman is a Macworld Staff Writer. He synced Reminders lists. formerly wrote for TidBITS and worked as the Senior Director of Product & Community at If you don’t see any Reminders lists in that left Demand Media. pane, that means you haven’t yet created any in the Con’t on page 10, Reminders Con’t from page 8, Mail book author, as well as an authority on digital music, the iPod and iPhone and audio. He is currently a formats, you can just open the Customize window Senior Editor at Macworld magazine, where he’s for date and time and, in the Short field, delete the also the lead technical writer for iPod, iPhone, capsules for time and date, respectively. audio and mobile gear. He also contributes to the TidBITS electronic newsletter and writes articles Dan Frakes is a respected technology writer and for various other publications. 9 Want to make things even simpler? You can make your shared list the default Reminders list—that’s the one Siri will add to if you simply say, “Remind me to buy eggs.” To change your default list, launch the Settings app, tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars, and scroll to the bottom, where Reminders is listed. There, you’ll see an option to change your default list.
Normally, if you say, “Remind me to buy eggs,” Siri will then ask you when to remind you. If you don’t want to assign a specific time to your task, just say, “I don’t know,” and Siri gets the idea.
If you want to get really fancy, you can take advantage of Reminders’s ability to alert you when Click on the circular Broadcast icon to choose whom you’d like to share your list with. you arrive at a specific location. Add your local supermarket as a contact in your iPhone’s address Con’t from page 9, Reminders book, and of course add its address. (I called mine iOS app. No worries: You can even create a new “The Supermarket.”) Now, you can say, “Remind list from the iCloud website. Click on the gear icon me to buy eggs when I get to the supermarket”; at the upper right, and choose New Reminder List. when you—or whomever you’ve shared your list Type a name for your new list, and you’re good to with—arrives at the supermarket, Reminders will, go. well, remind you—or whomever—about the item(s) on your list. Once you’ve identified the list you’d like to share with someone else, click on the Broadcast icon— Lex Friedman is a Macworld Staff Writer. He the one that looks a bit like the Wi-Fi signal icon. formerly wrote for TidBITS and worked as the In the pop-up window, enter the email address of Senior Director of Product & Community at the person (or people) you’d like to share that list Demand Media. with.
When you add people to a Reminders list, they receive an email. If they click to join the list, that list and its entries will now appear for them, on their iCloud and iCal lists and in the Reminders iOS app. You can choose whether list subscribers can merely view the list, or (the default) view and edit it.
Now that my wife and I share a shopping list, we can both add items to a list that we can both access. Even better, with the iPhone 4S, I can add items to our shared list by talking to Siri—though Siri requires that you use a specific syntax to add items to a non-default list: Add ‘two gallons of skim milk’ to my Cloud list. Remember that sentence structure, and you can easily add new items to your shared list through speech. With the right syntax, you can use Siri to add items to your shared list, too. 10 KMUG’s home page is now at: http://homepage.mac.com/kmug1 ------ABOUT MEMBERSHIP ------To join Kitsap Macintosh User’s Group send name, address (e-mail and snail mail), phone number and dues ($20/year) to: KMUG P.O. Box 1271, Silverdale, WA 98383 or come to one of our meetings and sign up! ------ABOUT KMUG ------Officers /Board of Directors President ...... Bill Gremmert Web Master ...... Richard B. Nerf VP - Programs ...... Bob Denby ([email protected]) Librarian ...... Vacant Apple Ambassador ...... Richard B. Nerf Discussion Leader ...... Lewis Coleman Treasurer/Newsletter Distrubution ...... Don Diehl Members-at-Large - Technical Issues ... Lewis Coleman & ([email protected]) Richard B. Nerf Secretary ...... Betty Sarachene Mac Lab Coordinator ...... Warren Beauchene Alternate Secretary ...... Vacant ([email protected]) or 697-6681 Newsletter Editor ...... Joe Williams Evening Meeting Chairperson ...... Vacant ([email protected]) Other Members-at-Large ...... As needed ------RENEWING MEMBERSHIP ------Renewal notices will be delivered by email. Renewal dues are $20. ------ABOUT MEETINGS ------Luncheon Meetings Third Thursday of each month at 10:30 A.M. Solarium Room, All Star Lanes, Myhre Road, Silverdale (one block East of Silverdale Way)
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