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Tuesday 9th October No. 346, October 2012

Upstairs 7:30 AGM Review of ACTApple for the past year and discussion of the club position and plans for the coming year. 8:30 Mac Basics with Trevor You bring the questions, we’ll do the rest.

Downstairs 8:30 iCloud A look at iCloud and cloud services, whether you need them, and some of the security considerations with using them. Hughes Baptist Church Hall Groom Street, Hughes

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7:30 Committee Meeting Raiders Weston Sports Club iMac, therefore iParticipate, therefore iAm! Frank Pope [email protected] President Frank Pope [email protected] 440 820 President John Armstead [email protected] 440 820 Vice President John Armstead [email protected] Vice-president Garry Brooke [email protected] Secretary GENERAL HELP Garry Brooke [email protected] Secretary [email protected] DavidDavid Menere Menere [email protected] Treasurer Treasurer 6282 5445 LIST 6282 5445 [email protected] TonyTony Hill Hill [email protected] Webmaster Webmaster RichardRichard Scotte Scotte [email protected]@mac.com Public Officer Training ACTApple Users Group hosts a 62826282 4887 4887 & Training Coordinator General Help and Information & Newsletter Sub-Editor vacant [email protected] Editor email list. Santovacant Giuliano [email protected]@actapple.org.au NewsletterMembership Editor Officer vacantIan Reynolds [email protected]@netspeed.com.au Membership Officer Any member may join and post seeking help for Mac Ian Reynolds [email protected]

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Users Helping  % Users "  A7@A !( %/ ,/ www.actapple.org.au Presidents Desktop the Bay for some time. Trevor and Pat Kelly came down to lend a hand and we had some good one-to-one time in addition to presenting several Hi all, topics. In the end we spent 2 hours in the morning with U3A people, participating in a general iPad session which included some really October has come around pretty quickly and we’re interesting chats from their members about how they used their . heading towards wrapping up a pretty eventful year for After lunch we had dedicated ACTApple sessions for around 5 hours. We ACTApple. got some new members from the day, and it was great to see some of the faces I’ve not seen for a while. All-in-all a very successful day and will Membership drive definitely be repeated. Current thinking is 3 times a year. September saw us get to the end of our membership drive with very mixed results. On the one hand we didn’t get a single new member Where to now from our “free membership” offer. Pretty disappointing on the face of The upshot of our efforts for the past few months is it, but the experience has given me a whole load of information and that I’ve got a clearer idea on where we’ll be spending perspective about where the committee will be using its limited energies our time, and why. We’ve not been as successful from this point so I’m certainly upbeat about the lessons in there for us at gathering new members in, so we’ll be seeing and confident in the direction to take. So a negative and a positive. considerably more effort in keeping the members we The exercise itself was also used as a for two other major have. We’ll be looking at other things we could be initiatives - getting iPads and onto the club agenda, and getting doing, checking our current approach, and re-visiting past work that has ACTApple back to the coast. So how did we go with those? dropped off or been left behind. I’ve been having a lot of phone chats with members, the committee has some good ideas for change, our current iDevices survey has done much to help with that (see below), and we’re certainly The September presentation night was heavily geared toward iDevices, not scratching our heads wondering what to do. including a well attended iPad session with Trevor. We had around 40 people there for the night with a dozen or so looking at the iPad with a Member numbers lot of interest. I’ve also had quite a lot of positive reaction about iPads So why all the carry-on about memberships? Well, as you’ll hear at the via email and conversation. We need to be confident about how to use the AGM, our current membership is around 165. That’s down about 25% limited resources of a small committee, so when I get clear outcomes like from where we’ve been for some time although I’m confident this is a this they are noted. Expect to see a lot more iDevices in our agenda. reversible trend ie. I don’t see the drop as indicative of the future of the group due to internet help forums etc. If that were the case we’d have Coast visit seen the impact long ago. My own research has shown clearly that it Its been years(!) since I last did a presentation on the coast, although comes down to a lack of resources on the committee ie. a lack of member Cyril Streatfield has been doing regular and well attended sessions at assistance with the to-do list. This has meant that the current committee

Page 4 has been run ragged. I’m still amazed at how much I saw in progress I’ve looked at the half-way results of this current survey and I’m much when I stepped back in some months ago. Do I think we can deal with much more interested in what it has to say. As much as anything the this? Definitely. Things go by the wayside and the club looks like it process has reinforced my ongoing confidence in the current committee. doesn’t deliver value. So yes, I think that’s reversible and when we do Garry Brooke did an extremely good job getting the survey together. His then our member numbers will reflect it. egoless approach to peer review and then the ownership shown by all the committee members has without doubt produced a much better survey. The club is taking the hit in 2 main areas - financials and skill sharing. The number of responses tells me as much about the interest level of We have around $1500 less income from that drop and it brings us members for ACTApple’s future. We’ll be presenting the results at the down to around where the operational budget sits, so we’re close to the AGM. line. But our ability to purchase new hardware to ensure we can provide support is a concern. Skill sharing is affected because new members Annual General Meeting bring new skills and sometimes bring a willingness to share those skills. So, in finishing, a quick reminder about the A loss in this steady refreshing of the club skill base is a longer-term AGM. Apart from the normal formalities we’ll issue that is harder to address. We won’t see much action on that front have a revised constitution to vote on, a survey for a while - unless you can add to the resources I have? If you can chip to discuss and some financials to look at. For in with skill sharing ideas, I can find time to work it through with you. timing and resource reasons we won’t have audit So you can see why the outcomes of the membership drive - good and results to look at, they will have to wait a couple bad - have been valuable. The priority at the moment is to fix what’s in of months. We can still show EOFY figures, we front of us - member turnover - by aiming the committee at improving just won’t vote on them. ACTApple AGM’s are and re-stating the value of membership. usually reasonably good conversations, seldom dry, and this one will be the same. We’ll make time to talk about club directions and value, and take Survey your thoughts on how the club needs to exist for another year. Looking forward to seeing you there. We’ve had a really pleasing response to the club survey, thanks to all who participated. I’ve seen a few Editor ACTApple surveys come and go, and people who have been on past committees with me will know I’m no On behalf of the committee and my free time, I’m very pleased to fan of them. They get in the face of members, usually welcome Santo Giuliano as editor for our newsletter. Please feel free to ask the wrong questions and generally don’t give me new information. send him a whole bunch of articles to make his life busy! Yes I’m happy to find out things we’re doing right (all very nice), but Cheers, I’d much rather know what is being done wrong with the paint stripped Frank Pope back and where the gaps are. [email protected]

Page 5 The set of formats that I now use is shown in the screen dump following: Address Book (aka Contacts)

About a year or so ago I started using Address Book on my iMac. I wasn’t completely happy with it but didn’t have time to work it out - I now have to my satisfaction and would like to share what I found. This application has been renamed as Contacts in the latest release of OSX - my comments below will probably relate to that too but I have not checked it out. The main aspect I had difficulty with was the formatting of telephone numbers. That is, have numbers display with spacing between. For example have a home phone number display in the form “02 1234 5678”. When the + sign is pressed a new format line is opened and the second Of course, the numbers can be made to look right by typing in the column is available to type in the format instructions. The # is used to denote . However, if a mobile phone is synced with the Address any number and specific numbers can be put in to distinguish the different Book data those spaces could interfere with the auto dialling of a types of numbers. Thus the ‘04’ and ‘13” prefixes are used to show how number. So the need is to type in a number without spaces but have the ten digit mobile phone and 1300 business numbers should be formatted it display with the appearance of spaces in the right places. Address differently from the ten digit STD numbers. I have found that the trick is to book can do it and I have worked out how. order the different formats in the form of a logical decision tree the Mac can follow. Hence the six digits first, eights digits second and then the ten digits There is a major complication of course, and that is, there are quite with the generic one of these last. a few different telephone number formats: Changes to the formatting can be added by clicking on a line by and then six digit 13# ### for contact numbers for some clicking on the Edit button. A refinement to my line 5 might be to put brackets businesses around the first two digits for the STD code. The brackets will then appear in eight digit #### #### for local calls to land lines all the STD numbers in the Address Book. Similarly, dashes between number ten digits ## #### #### for STD calls to land lines groups can be added. ten digits #### ### ### for mobile phone and 1300 numbers This automatic formatting really appeals to my neatness side and I enjoy watching the formatting happen as I type in a string of numbers. As can be To organise the automatic formatting, in Address Book go to the seen, I keep my formats simple but like any good Mac application, there are menu ‘Address Book/Preferences’ and click on the Phone icon. Tick lots of ways to adjust things to suit yourself. STD codes are a good example the ‘Automatically format phone numbers’ box and click on the of that - as I sync my Address Book to my mobile phone, I always include triangle to expand the window. The + sign down at the bottom right the STD code to numbers I record. This ensures that the number will work is used to add a new format. anywhere in the country. But its not compulsory!

Roger Bernau  Page 6 iPad: The Missing Manual, 4th Edition We start with initial set-up and basic interactions, then getting online and J.D. Biersdorfer working with online programs like browsing and email. That’s about one-third Publisher: O’Reilly Media of the book. Now we move into getting applications onto the device, reading : 368 books and magazines, and using iWork. Then finally we go to media - setting up to keep files in sync and working with audio, video and photos.The last chapter gives a brief look at iCloud. Appendices cover the iPad settings in more detail, and a good amount of troubleshooting information. With a device such as the iPad, sold All up, quite an extensive coverage of the device which would allow the user to predominantly on the basis of its ease of use, pause at several points according to their comfort zone. one of the first questions that springs up for a missing manual is ‘what could it tell me?’. As it turns out, quite a bit. A lot of people who Getting set up buy iPads have never used Apple gear, a lot don’t use iPhones, a lot don’t The first 6 chapters provide a very solid background for the new user. Useful use iTunes. In short, whilst it has ease of use, the iPad still has a fair bit information on where to find things, connection ports, battery life and charging, under the bonnet and it can take some time and patience to get the best navigation, printing and finger moves. And of course the critical link with from it. iTunes. Some but not all of these topics are self evident, and therein lies the So my initial thoughts for this book were in that direction - will it help strength of the ‘missing manual’ series. They assume nothing and deliver even with the setup and then, once done, help me make changes to extend it if the most basic of information - one of the reasons new and experienced users I’m keen to. Lets see how it went. alike continue to get benefit and buy them. Once working with the device, we’re told how to connect to a home wi-fi or 3G phone network, use mobile Basics hotspots (aka traveling and visiting coffee shops - there’s even a section on traveling with the iPad) and using to keep in touch. Lastly we work The book itself is extremely well produced. Full colour with heavy, through web surfing and setting up your email to keep in touch for both IMAP glossy pages and high quality images and illustrations. There is no CD, and POP email accounts. instead these days O’Reilly allow access to additional information via their website. This was very easy - found the book on the website in no Making it work time. The book is also available as an ebook, which of course means you can read it on the iPad itself. You can buy either format, or both at a Up to this point the information has been to get the iPad set up and provide much reduced price. information on how to physically use the device via gestures etc. So now its time to start getting it into action. This means the user will need to know how Just the one table of contents (some technical books like to have to find and install applications, play some games and cover some of the most summary contents then detailed ‘within chapter’ contents). Fortunately common requirements. We get this information through to chapter 11. this book is not large enough to need that. 360+ pages for 17 chapters and 2 appendices. For the person who is brand new to the iPad and touch- Having got the device working with iTunes and taken it online, the information device world, the chapter layout would seem logical and easy to follow. now is to get familiar with the productivity apps you get on a new iPad. Page 7 Calendars, Contacts, , Maps and . Notifications is features are simply not obvious enough. usefully included here because, whilst not a standard app, if set up The next three chapters cover audio, video and photos in good detail from correctly it can be very useful to reduce how much ‘bouncing around’ capturing and playing to editing and managing your files. you do. Now, at last, knowing pretty much all we have out of the box, its useful Wrapping up to go online to find more specific apps for things we need. A walkthrough The manual rounds off with a chapter dedicated to iCloud, quite relevant of the App Store and managing the apps you find is all that is needed, given the release of Mountain Lion and its integration of iCloud services. and gives the background for the subsequent information Lastly we have some more detailed explanations of iPad settings, and of getting the iPad into reading material and having a bit several pages on trouble shooting which are always a necessary inclusion of fun with it via games. There is certainly no shortage of in manuals of this kind. Trouble shooting is generally a mechanical step- people who want to have fun with their iPad, and - given by-step affair. One of the issues is that people are generally afraid to work the dedicated ‘’ app - it was a good choice to through the options because they don’t know them, or are concerned about include a chapter dedicated to gaming. the consequences of an action. This final chapter is straightforward with As expected a lot of people also like to use the iPad for document good explanations, so the user will be clear on what each action will do and processing. A chapter dedicated to Apple’s iWork programs, with some when it might be used. This is a good approach which will keep the book additional information on accessing documents such as from MS-Office useful long after the user has become comfortable with the device. and Windows programs, closes this loop. With the increasing desire for open-sourced software, it would have been nice to see some information Summary on how to work with the open office solutions. This is an inexpensive book, and is recommended for its target audience of inexperienced iPad users. The information it contains will take them well Media and the iPad into all that the device can offer with simple instructions, and should be a Working properly with media files on the iPad really is dependent on useful resource for quite some time after the user has become proficient. knowing more about working with iTunes and to an increasing extent iCloud. The last part of the manual starts with just that, including the iTunes Store (which differs from the App Store), authorising computers, Review by Frank Pope  automatic syncing and streaming files with AirPlay. There is actually quite a bit to be covered with iTunes if you want iPad: The Missing Manual, 5th to get the best from it and it would be well worth a detailed visit. So Edition (due out November 22, 2012) I’m pleased to say that is exactly what we get. After seeing all that Paperback: 416 pages functionality, we have an extensive chapter dedicated solely to working Publisher: O’Reilly Media with iTunes, giving it your preferred look, playlists, file formats, genius ISBN-10: 1449325564 mixes and album art. A very worthwhile chapter - I see a lot of people ISBN-13: 978-1449325565 who don’t like iTunes but its usually because some of its most powerful Estimated List Price: US$24.99 Page 8 Making Something Old New Again!

Outine Where do I use an Apple ID? This document summarises the procurement procedure and results for a hardware upgrade to ACTApple hardware, posted here to possibly assist You can use your Apple ID for Apple services members considering a similar upgrade. such as iCloud, iTunes, Apple Online Store, Genius Bar, Product Registration, Apple Support, iChat, MobileMe, and more. Requirement The requirement is to delay the purchase Setting up an iTunes or App Store account? The email of a new laptop for the club and instead address you use is your Apple ID, which allows you to access all other Apple services. You don’t have to create improve 2008 Macbook laptop speed by a new account for each service—just use your Apple ID. replacing the existing 320GB drive with a solid state drive (SSD) and replacing the Here are some places you can use your Apple ID: CD “Superdrive” reader with a standard Apple Online Store hard disk drive (HDD) to the CD bay Apple Online Support (apple.com/support) using a special bracket. Apple TV Concierge (for appointments at Genius Bar) FaceTime Budget $400. iPhone Game Center iBooks and iBookstore Maximum transfer rates iChat The club 2008 laptop will only transfer data at 1.5Gb/s SATA. iCloud SATA 1.5Gb/s max 150MB/s iMessage iTunes Genius SATA2 3Gb/s max 300 MB/s iTunes Home Sharing SATA3 6Gb/s max 600 MB/s iTunes Store Thunderbolt 10Gb/s max 1250MB/s iPhoto and Purchases iWork Publishing (publish..com) MB/s rates are less than maximum due to data transfer overheads of about Mac OS X Lion 20%. These rates are still much more than current drives can reach. Drive MobileMe My Support Profile performance is only really affected by seek time (rpm and head movement), register.apple.com not by data transfer speeds, so SSD will still deliver performance improvements because of no moving parts. Most HDD’s would normally only get 50 to 100MB/s (even in new laptops). SSD’s can go close to the limits above. Depends on the computer setup.

Page 9 Newer drives are built for SATA3 but there is no real price advantage in $54. Decided not to get one. I don’t really need it (the club already has an getting older slower drives. external dvd reader/burner) and easy to get later if needed for some reason.

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08/12/12 Time Sensitive quick reference guide page 12 of 16 Junk Filter Mail will ask whether you’re happy with the results and offer to switch to ‘automatic’ (figure 2). If, like me, you get a lot of junk mail, it can help to have visual clues to help identify and get rid of them a little faster. It certainly helps to not have to open them to check. Apple’s Mail program offers an effective junk mail filter which can make it a bit easier. Activate the filter via the Junk Mail icon in Mail Preferences. This will give you a panel of options (figure 1). Figure 2 - switch to ‘automatic’ message Doing this marks messages as junk but moves them to a junk mail folder. Junk messages will be deleted according to the preferences for the mail account, set under the Accounts icon (figure 3). You can see that I’ve chosen to never delete the junk messages, which means I will always have to delete them manually. This allows me to check through them to satisfy myself that a ‘real’ message hasn’t been mistaken for junk. If for some reason you want to reset Mail’s junk filtering, you can use the Reset button in the Junk Mail Preferences. Mail will forget what it’s learnt, and start the learning process from the beginning.

Figure 1 - junk mail preferences Frank Pope  Select “enable junk mail filtering”. Initially you will want to run in ‘training’ mode, which allows Mail to learn to tell junk mail from ordinary mail, assisted by times when you manually tell it that a message is or is not junk. This is done via a button in Mail. When you click on any message to highlight it, the button changes to allow you to specify whether the selected message is “Junk” or “Not Junk”. Messages marked as junk are left in your in-box until you manually delete them. After a while, Figure 31 - Junkjunk mailmail deletiondeletion preferencespreferences

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Figure 3 - junk mail deletion preferences Applescript – The Missing Manual scattered throughout the text. The book itself is black and white text and Adam Goldstein graphics, bound with a ‘detached spine binding’ to help the book lay flat on Publisher: O’Reilly Media the desk. The writing style is easily readable, as we’ve come to expect from ISBN: 0-596-00850-3 David Pogue inspired work. There is no CD included, but the purchaser can access an online resource for 45 days.

What is Applescript? The bad news first If there was ever an Apple technology that is yet to live up to it’s promise, it would have to The image quality of the screen snapshots is average, certainly not as clear be Applescript. as the text. Whilst I like having tips and sidebars to break up the text, I’m still undecided as to their value. There are a lot in this book, at least Applescript is a computer programming a couple per page. When I see that many I start to worry about whether language unique to Macs. Applescript programs enough thought has gone into organising the information, and what I’m (aka ‘scripts’) can control and send commands to any other program you missing if I don’t read them all. run on your Mac, including the . For example, using Applescript you could take a photo from your pictures’ folder, modify it using a graphics The table of contents was poor. These are not novels program, extract a list of mail recipients from a database program, then mail to be read cover to cover, even if attempts have been the photo to each of them using your mail program. All with a single click made to write them as such. They are reference books to run the script. which will provide long-term value when used to deal with specific questions. In this regard I found the table The fact that so many Mac users don’t know what Applescript is, let alone of contents wanting, with sub-sections not listed. As a how to use it, suggests that it has missed it’s primary goal of helping non- result I found myself having to scan a whole chapter to technical people automate their routine tasks. One of the often quoted (and get a feel for it. I don’t want to have to know a text that valid) reasons for this is the inadequate documentation provided by Apple. well before I can make use of it. At the same time I found the index good, Enter Mr. Goldstein and his missing manual. and to be fair that’s where I go most of the time anyway. There’s no CD. I would’ve liked a CD. I had to join the O’Reilly Overview Technical Bookshelf to get access to the online resources, however this access is limited to 45 days. I provided my email, a password (wonderful Adam Goldstein is a young author who has assisted David Pogue with other – another password), name and address before agreeing to terms and O’Reilly texts. This is Adam’s first full publication, a soft cover book of 300 conditions. The access code in the book contained a mixture of zeros and odd pages, 15 chapters divided into three sections, with a few appendices. uppercase ‘O’ which I entered incorrectly (doh!). Once in, I was given the Part 1 provides an overview of Applescript, part 2 details how you can use it option of registering the book, which I couldn’t do because the ‘go’ button in various ways and part 3 goes into more detail for the ‘power user’. Print didn’t work for me. Refreshing the page got my browser more than a little quality is good, and there are plenty of screen shots to explain the concepts. confused. After about 30 minutes of back and forward I had to re-enter the Like most pseudo-texts these days, it has a wealth of sidebars, notes and tips Page 13 coupon code on an account maintenance page, to be told the book wasn’t A play in 3 parts yet available. Not impressed. All I wanted was softcopy of the code snippets Part 1 gives instruction in where to find what you’ll need, and the types of included in the book. More on that later. Time for a coffee. scripts you’ll commonly see. You’ll work through the editor provided by Apple, and create a simple script. The purpose of this small section is to Content get your fingers on the keyboard so you can tinker, and remove some of the nervousness that all beginners have until they experience for themselves. Well, sorry for all the moan and groan so let’s forget the online experience These tools are simple and easy to use. By keeping the section short the and move onto the book itself. I’m firmly of the view that Applescript is one author has helped to reinforce this point. of the most unfriendly languages I’ve ever worked with. It may be easy to read, but it is not easy to write. Part of the reason for this is it’s non-rigid Part 2 is the meat and potatoes. Every programming language has it’s own syntax. This may be good in a conversation, but when writing computer technique. An approach that makes the design and code creation process code it does not make life easier. I accept that you’ll quickly find opposing more obvious and more successful. How much you need to know about this views to this on internet discussion boards, but in my view it’s a major only really becomes clear when you try to get your new code to work – aka problem and I was more than a little keen to see how it was tackled in this debugging. I think the author could have explored this more, and I think book. part 2 would benefit from a discussion of the language itself similar to the conceptual discussion provided before part 1. It’s certainly a challenge. Providing software education is not easy. The best way to learn any computer language is by Nonetheless, part 2 provides an excellent grounding. Instead of diving into example – parrot fashion. Look at how things are done and chapters describing the technical elements of the language, the author has do the same. Let the reasons follow later. When you’re good chosen to come at it from a functional perspective. I was impressed by this enough, have a go at doing things differently. A good book approach, which resists the temptation to create what would normally be a like this one will help you do that. dry language reference manual. Read the introduction. It starts with an explanation of the pros and cons Chapters include “Manipulating text”, “Controlling files”, “Creating lists”. of Applescript and summarises similar languages for the Mac. This is a Others cover multimedia, internet and databases. These are topics that are simple but great start because it sets a realistic framework and manages significantly more recognisable to non-technical people – the exact people expectations. Professional developers know that every computer language this book hopes to benefit. The approach can be risky – who’s to say your has strengths and weaknesses, and it’s common for a developer to select a usage needs will be covered? – but it makes the core of the book more language depending on the requirement. By providing this introduction, the comfortable and therefore more accessible to those who want to learn from author has enabled non-technical readers to realise that Applescript – like it. Even if your needs are unique, you will definitely use the lessons covered any language – won’t do everything. This in turn will help them decide in part 2 to get to where you want to be. It works here because the author when it’s fit to use. has included all the requisite areas you need to know as a beginner. There is plenty of example code, which is critical to parrot-fashion learning. A lot of the examples actually do useful things for you – like taking backups

Page 14 arranged in chronological order by expiration date -- see pages 4-5, 12 for Newest Offers or running Photoshop actions. This helps because you’ll be more likely to involvement of David Pogue you get an idea of what to expect. A technical type the example in and use it, thereby getting closer to the language. It also topic exposed for those who are easily lost in such jargon. Adam Goldstein means you’ll be more likely to find ways to modify the example to do just does a good job to make Applescript accessible. I like the way the book is what you want. It’s this final step that will actually provide you with the structured, and the way he has explained each topic. I have some complaints most benefit, but it’s useful examples that will get you there. Until you want (don’t we all), but I think they are less important than the benefit this work to get deeper and really start to drive the language. will provide toMac those Video who Training:feel threatened 12 Free by the Library topic. IfPasses you’re interested in having a play with Applescript, but haven’t been able to make much And so to part 3 which has been written to macProVideo.com is a leading producer of high quality tutorial-videos that show people how to use popular Mac software. They areheadway focused on usingeducating Apple’s new people help to help system them become or the better scripts Mac users.you getAs a withsponsor, your macProVideo.com Mac, will turn some extra lights on, showing the power provide dozen door prizes for your members; each winner gets a 1-Month "Core Library Pass" (retail value of $24.95). This passthen provides “Applescript instant access – to The macProVideo.com's missing manual” Online Tutorial will Library,provide and you comes with in an aattractive good fold-out, user what toys are in the sandpit. By this point 100% recyclableintroduction. box. you should know where you want to go. These Your Apple user group must have a current website, then sign up by filling out the form: chapters could have gone into advanced coding https://www.macprovideo.com/user-groups/Oh, and remember my whine. about sidebars, organising info and getting an techniques, but they focus on the Applescript Once yourelectronic group is verified, copy they of willcode send snippets? you 10 "Core I’ve Library just Passes". found macProVideo.com instructions will in also a sidebar provide each on sponsored user group with 2 free, NFR passes to the Online Tutorial Library (a $199 /year value). This offer is limited to ‘environment’, increasing the likelihood that the one sponsorshippage 24 per for user downloading group. the ‘Applescript Examples’ that go with this book. audience will understand more of how Applescript It’s only a 430k download, and I highly recommend that you get it. This worldwide offer is ongoing. operates within the Mac. Controlling programs that are not Applescript compliant, advanced testing and debugging Review by Frank Pope  tools and techniques, integration with Unix, and working with Xcode’s Applescript Studio. I would have liked to see more specific attention given The AUG Resource blog is a great source for information about Apple user groups, vendor discounts, special events, interesting reviews, stimulating training, and more. to understanding and working with application dictionaries, but the topics covered are still advanced and appropriate for this level of text. Not too When you go to the URL to see all active vendor discount offers, advanced for the target audience but also not patronisingly simple. enter the password “ugspecials” from May 16, 2011, to November 15, 2012: http://appleusergroupresources.com (with codes) So what has been left for the appendices? Some notes about applications which work with Applescript, notes about transferring into FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: scripts, and pointers to web sites etc. for further reading. ======Tom Piper: [email protected] Conclusion This is not a language reference manual. There are not many books out there on Applescript, and if you want detailed notes about syntax and the language there are better books than this one. But such books require a level of knowledge before you pick them up. That’s not what this book tries to be, and that’s why it works. With the http://appleusergroupresources.com/ http://ugab.typepad.com/ugresources/ ======Page 15

08/12/12 Time Sensitive quick reference guide page 16 of 16 Checking your start up programs: QUICK LINKS While it is not often necessary to shut down your computer, it is not a bad idea to do so from time to time. especially if you plan to travel with your laptop.

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Lifehaker Austrralia WANTED! Newsletter articles, opinions, guides, discoveries, nuggets • of information and interesting of all kinds!!! http://www.lifehacker.com.au/ This is just one of those incredible websites that has guides, reviews, I am sure all the newsletter readers, including yourself, have apps and websites and devices and software and ... lots of Top Tens, helpful and surprising information, on Mac software ... but things you love about our Maccentric world. also on PC software, hardware, trends, lifestyle, devices, technology So please share them by emailing them to me at: ... and many many other things of interest. [email protected] Page 16 RAID and Firewire tips FireWire vs. USB 2.0 - Architecture FireWire, uses a “Peer-to-Peer” architecture in which the peripherals are RAID Question: Can I Mix Drives (and Use old intelligent and can negotiate bus conflicts to determine which device can Drives) for my RAID? best control a data transfer

Answer: NO, All Raid Enclosures Require NEW Hi-Speed USB 2.0 uses a “Master-Slave” architecture in which the Identical MAKE/MODEL/CAPACITY Drives. computer handles all arbitration functions and dictates data flow to, from and between the attached peripherals (adding additional system overhead Firewire Question: Can I use more than one and resulting in slower data flow control) firewire enclosure on one computer system? FireWire vs. USB 2.0 Hard Drive Performance Comparison Answer: Yes, but only if your devices controlling chips have different Read and write tests to the same IDE hard drive connected using FireWire ID (GUID) addresses. You can find the ID address when you connect and then Hi-Speed USB 2.0 show: it to your computer under System Profiler>FireWire. Note the GUID address and that it is different to other devices GUID address. External Read Test: enclosures, usually the cheaper units I have bought, have used the 5000 files (300 MB total) FireWire was 33% faster than USB 2.0 Prolific controlling chip and had the same ID address. So if you attempt 160 files (650MB total) FireWire was 70% faster than USB 2.0 to connect them at the same time to the computer, the computer will not see them as it cannot distinguish which enclosure has that address. Write Test: I spent hours trying to figure this out with others experiencing the same 5000 files (300 MB total) FireWire was 16% faster than USB 2.0 issue with Prolific controlling chips. After some searches on the internet 160 files (650MB total) FireWire was 48% faster than USB 2.0 I found some answers and released the reasons and limited solutions. Useful reading and references Note that the Cooler Master enclosures the Group bought several years http://aricsblog.blogspot.com.au/2005/04/multiple-conflicting-firewire. ago have the Initio controlling chip, each having a different ID address. I http://www.cooldrives.com/firewireinfo.html discovered this as I bought two Cooler Master enclosures. http://www.usb-ware.com/firewire-vs-usb.htm John Armstead  Question: If Hi-Speed USB 2.0 is a 480 Mbps interface and FireWire is a 400 Mbps interface, how can FireWire be faster? Stay one step ahead of the Answer: Differences in the architecture of the two interfaces have a huge scammers! CLICK to visit impact on the sustained throughput. SCAMwatch. SCAMwatch is a website run by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Page 17 BITS AND PIECES SECURITY MEMORY CACHE NOT PURGING Bit of a bag of security stuff. http://osxdaily.com/2012/09/08/how-to-disable-java/?utm_ Memory used by an application should be freed up when you quit that source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+osxdaily+%2 application. Sometimes that does not occur and may be a cause of your 8OS+X+Daily%29 system slowing down. http://osxdaily.com/2012/09/17/how-to-encrypt-an-external-drive-quickly-in- http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57505624-263/purge-command-not- mac-os-x/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed% working-in-os-x-10.8.1/ 3A+osxdaily+%28OS+X+Daily%29 http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/internet-explorers-huge- MOUNTAIN LION WALLPAPER security-hole-20120918-2635k.html I haven’t looked at these, don’t have ML at the time of writing. But you may http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57501517-263/new-java-7-exploit-can- find them decorative on your Mac. potentially-affect-macs/ http://osxdaily.com/2012/09/07/40-gorgeous-secret-wallpapers-os-x- http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2012/09/why-you-dont-need-mac- mountain-lion/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaig anti-virus-software-plus-what-you-do-need.php n=Feed%3A+osxdaily+%28OS+X+Daily%29 http://www.cultofmac.com/189532/heres-how-to-unlock-43-amazing- CLOUD FORMATIONS wallpapers-hidden-in-os-x-mountain-lion/ I have not yet progressed to using Cloud-anything but here are a couple of items for you if you have done so. ACTIVITY MONITOR http://www.cultofmac.com/191521/cloudmagic-for-ipad-searches-acrossmail- I use my Activity Monitor a lot. maybe you don’t. This article is a good evernote-dropbox-everything/ explanation of AM’s features. Well worth saving in your Documents folder. http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/28/move-file-to-icloud-from-mac-os-x/?utm_ http://mac.tutsplus.com/tutorials/os-x/activity-monitor-demystified/?utm_ source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+osxdaily+%2 source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+mactuts+(Ma 8OS+X+Daily%29 ctuts%2B) STARTUP PROBLEMS SYSTEM UPDATES If you encounter problems booting your system, apart from the dreaded question Quite a few system updates over the last few weeks. If you have not yet mark signifying the system can not find a valid OS, you may find these articles caught up here are the ones I found. Maybe others? Let us know. helpful. But of course if you can not start your Mac you won’t be able to read http://www.cultofmac.com/191679/apple-pushes-efi-update-for-macbook- them will you? Yes, you will. Because you will have at least one external bootable pro-with-retina-display-should-fix-cpu-hang-ups/ system available to start from and it will have these articles backed up won’t it. http://osxdaily.com/2012/09/19/os-x-lion-10-7-5-update-available/?utm_ http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57501552-263/troubleshooting-power-up- source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+osxdaily issues-for-mac-systems/ +%28OS+X+Daily%29 http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57345273-263/troubleshooting-the-boot- http://www.cultofmac.com/191190/every-single-feature-that-is-new-in--6- process-for-intel-macs/ mega-guide/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/review-ios-6-gets-the-spit-and- polish-treatment/ SPEAK TO ME, MY MAC ... http://www.cultofmac.com/191566/the-ten-killer-features-of-ios-6-feature/ I have mentioned previously the facility for having your Mac say kind things to you. http://osxdaily.com/2012/09/19/os-x-mountain-lion-10-8-2-released/?utm_ This seems to be a refinement. http://osxdaily.com/2012/09/15/speak-selected-text-with-a-keystroke-in-mac- source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+osxdaily os-x/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+o +%28OS+X+Daily%29 sxdaily+%28OS+X+Daily%29

Page 18 ... AND TELL ME MY out_whats_keeping_your_mac_awake.html#lsrc.nl_mwhints_h_crawl I suppose this is the inevitable follow on from the last tip. http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/31/read-emails-aloud-speak-to-write-back- iTUNES PLAY ios/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ There is any number of these song notification apps available. This is another osxdaily+%28OS+X+Daily%29 one. Free. http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120827235540457 DASHBORED WIDGETS They say the Dashboard has been improved in Mountain Lion. I don’t know yet. PREVENT EXTERNAL VOLUMES MOUNTING http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/28/put-dashboard-widgets-into-folders/?utm_ I know I will find this useful. I have three external HDDs for backup and during source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+osxdaily+ most of the day I keep them unmounted [won’t go into why]. But whenever I %28OS+X+Daily%29 reboot my iMac either by logout or cold boot the external volumes mount on the desktop. So then I have to unmount them again. Not hard BOUNCING DOCK SYNDROME http://hints.macworld.com/article. to do but I am lazy and I don’t want the hassle of them php?story=20120831090135157 mounting in the first place unless I choose to. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57507755-263/ how-to-prevent-a-volume-from-mounting-at-boot-in-os-x/ SAVE AS ... Lion returned the Save As feature but it was a bit EVERNOTE JOURNAL convoluted to enable. I never bothered to use it. AgileBits 1Password and more: This is a free add on for your iGadget. That is, if your life is But apparently Mountain Lion has a full featured so important you have to maintain a journal. Save As either in the File menu or a keyboard 25% Discount http://www.cultofmac.com/189703/journal-for-evernote- shortcut. your-new-daily-diary/ http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/27/ Too many passwords to remember? enable-save-as-os-x-mountain-lion/?utm_ 1Password 3 for Mac is a password source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_ca AND ONE LAST THING mpaign=Feed%3A+osxdaily+%28OS+X+Daily%29 manager that goes beyond simple Yes I know the iPhone 5 has just been released and Apple’s password storage by integrating directly share price has again hit the ceiling. But this just an opinion MOUNTAIN LION ACCESSIBILITY with your web browser to automatically piece to get you thinking. log you into websites, enter credit card http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57513365-37/ This one may have escaped your diligent attention. we-now-know-the--and-apple-jumped-the-shark- http://www.cultofmac.com/187111/enable- information, fill registration forms, and in-2011/ accessibility-options-anywhere-in-mountain-lion- easily generate strong passwords. os-x-tips/ That’s all for now. As an Apple user group member, you are Feel free to offer corrections or suggestions MAC SLEEP entitled to get new licenses of 1Password We have mentioned many times previously the for Mac at 25% below the normal retail problems of your Mac going to sleep, waking from price. You also get a 25% discount on Peter Sealy  sleep, not sleeping, etc. But this page will help [email protected] you find out why your Mac is insomniacal [is that a new licenses for everything else in the word?]. AgileBits store. http://www.macworld.com/article/1168151/find_ Get yours today: https://agilebits.com/store?d=MUG

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