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MACNJ Serving the Central New Jersey Macintosh Community since 1986 September 2011 It’s a double feature! Welcome back! Hope you’ve had a great summer. by Bill Barr, Program Chairman For the September meeting, we offer two presentations for newsrooms back when local radio stations actually had you. Keeping with our “How to promote your small business newsrooms. Now the managing editor of the Hunterdon or non-profit”, Democrat, Curtis sees the immediacy of the internet and the vitality of nj.com as the news medium not of the future, Mr. Curtis Leeds from the Hunterdon Democrat but of the present. will discuss getting your content published in the newspaper. He has been reporting with the Hunterdon Democrat over 20 years. His recent move up to Managing Editor takes advantage of his intimate knowledge about the local political scene. He knows what’s happening. He also knows what catches his attention and then gets published! He’ll tackle a number of our concerns on how to make best use of “the paper”. There’s a lot that’s new. Bring you own notebook. How’s your short hand? Our members, President David Davis and co-Newsletter editor Bob Fasanello, will give you an update on Apple’s latest operating system, “Lion - what to watch out for!” It’s a major update. So a lot is cooking! Oooops. Time to make the donuts - bagels - coffee and more. All are welcome! Come for a visit or join MACNJ. See you soon - Saturday morning - September 10, - at 9am to noon - Voorhees High School just north of High Bridge, NJ. I can’t wait. Curtis Leeds got his start in the news business the way many young boys once did - by delivering a daily newspaper. He tired of trudging through the snow that is the hallmark of Buffalo winters, however, and decided life might be Saturday easier if he worked as a photographer for his hometown weekly newspaper. Still too young to drive, he bicycled September 10, 2011 around his Niagara River town of Grand Island, New York, taking photos that earned him fame but - at $10 each - 9:00 AM - 12:00 NOON didn’t earn him wealth. (Curtis’ fee had to pay for film and darkroom chemicals, too.) It was the immediacy of radio that prompted his next move, where he worked in Buffalo radio Volume 26, Number 8 www.macnj.org page 1 Macintosh Association of Central New Jersey September 2011 What’s in our future? by Bill Barr, Program Chairman Coming up later this year will be interesting presentations take the place of iWeb? Will it be as easy? What extras can on Web publishing software (October meeting) plus a it do? That’s all coming in October. guest presenter for December, Allan Hoffman, Star Ledger Technology contributor to discuss “iPhoneography and the Allan Hoffman has gone so far in depth with iPhone Future of Photography”. photography that he wrote a book - Create Great iPhone Photos - available from Amazon.com. You can read his You may have heard that with the advent of The iCloud columns regularly in the Star Ledger. Psssst - I think he’s a from Apple - a transition from MobileMe - the iWeb Mac fan but can’t quite come and say it. Or maybe he will application may no longer work for us! Chod Lang will to our friendly audience! demonstrate Freeway 5.5 web authoring software. Will it How to Fax in Lion by Adam C. Engst Faxing has been around in one form or another since the mid-1800s [1], and while there’s no question that it’s disappearing from many businesses around the world, there are still industries that rely heavily on faxed documents, notably real estate and construction, where paper trails of it’s worth a try moving the drivers over and restarting in signed documents remain important. While standalone fax 32-bit mode. machines aren’t going away any time soon, it’s relatively easy to find multifunction print/scan/fax devices, and as A better solution that doesn’t require restarting or fussing Internet faxing has become commonplace, it has become with old kernel extensions is simply to buy a new USB more difficult to fax using a modem attached to your modem that does work in Lion. Reader James Cutler has telephone line. confirmed for us that the US Robotics USR5637 [4] modem works perfectly in Lion (you can download firmware and That’s especially true for users of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, which modem script updates [5] from the US Robotics Web site, but deprecates faxing in several ways. First, the Print & Fax which previously reported this model as being “Lion 10.7 preference pane from 10.6 Snow Leopard is now called Ready”). In a thread in the Apple Support Communities [6], Print & Scan, but when you click the + button to add a the Zoom 3095 [7] modem is also reported as functioning device, you can still add a fax modem. Second, the Apple under Lion. Both of these modems cost about $45. USB Modem (discontinued in 2009) won’t work in Lion because it relies on 32-bit drivers that don’t work (and thus These changes in Lion don’t affect us, since we rely on a aren’t included) in the 64-bit Lion. now-discontinued Epson AcuLaser CX11NF [8] multifunction printer for outgoing faxes of physical documents, and the Though I haven’t tested this, you can supposedly start MaxEmail [9] Internet fax service for incoming faxes, which Lion in 32-bit mode with these instructions [2] for 10.6 appears to be one of the cheapest around at $24 per year Snow Leopard, and user moonchilddave reported in the (for the “Lite Non-Local” fax-only plan). But your needs may MacRumors forum [3] that the old 32-bit drivers for the vary, and if that includes sending and receiving faxes from modem can be copied over from Snow Leopard to Lion. your Mac running Lion, a compatible modem is your best Others had trouble with his procedure, but if you have an option. Apple USB Modem that you need for a very occasional fax, continued on page 3 Volume 26, Number 8 www.macnj.org page 2 Macintosh Association of Central New Jersey September 2011 How to Fax in Lion by Adam C. Engst continued from Page 2 I’ve received several queries about alternatives to Smile’s for groups that need a fax server, Soft Solutions has a beta PageSender [10], which is full-featured fax software that has of 4-Sight Fax Server that claims to be compatible with Lion. capabilities well beyond just printing to fax in Mac OS X’s However, the cheapest package of 4-Sight Fax [11] costs $495, Print dialog. Smile tells me that they will continue to maintain so if you really don’t need a group fax solution, you might PageSender for use with Snow Leopard, but have no plans to find it easier to set up an old Mac mini with Snow Leopard update it for Lion. As far as I’ve been able to discover, there is and PageSender. no comparable Lion-compatible fax software for individuals; [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax#Wire_transmission [2]: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3773 [3]: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1193996 [4]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0013FDLM0/?tag=tidbitselectro00 [5]: http://www.usr.com/support/product-template.asp?prod=5637 [6]: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3164614 [7]: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001FCIOSW/?tag=tidbitselectro00 [8]: http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?oid=58311371 [9]: http://www.maxemail.com/ [10]: http://www.smilesoftware.com/PageSender/ [11]: http://www.4sightfax.com/ Unless otherwise noted, this article is copyright © 2011 TidBITS Publishing, Inc.. TidBITS is copyright © 2008 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Reuse governed by this Creative Commons License: http://www.tidbits.com/terms/. USE THE MACNJ FORUM! by Mike Fordice Our forum, using new software to keep out spambots, is only as good as we make it. All members are encouraged to use the forum. It can be of great help in answering questions, providing news, etc., between meetings. To Register: There are two links to the forum on the MACNJ home page; or go to macnj.org/forum/ and you are there. can also stay logged-in, if desired. Click on “register” (top right). You’ll have to agree to Look under Profile Information and enter your location conditions. (City, State). This is mandatory. Enter any other profile information which you choose to use. Enter a user name which can be used to identify you as member of MACNJ--not strange encrypted names such as Click “submit” button, bottom of page. You will be notified xyz123--or you won’t be approved. Check the member list by email that you are registered as a MACNJ Forum to see what names have been accepted. member. Enter a valid email address. Most questions about the forum are answered in the FAQ Section. Enter and confirm your password. Then remember it! You Volume 26, Number 8 www.macnj.org page 3 Macintosh Association of Central New Jersey September 2011 Hardware Review: iCapsule by Dave Greenbaum $100 http://www.rocketfishproducts.com/products/computers/ RF-ICAP12.html For many new iPad users, Apple’s magical and revolutionary device acts as a laptop and sometimes even a desktop replacement. Many iPad users just need to check email and surf the net and a traditional laptop or desktop Partially they are right.