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MARCH 2006 www.limac.org NEWSLETTER OF THE LONG ISLAND MACINTOSH USERS GROUP LIMac was estab - February’s Meeting March’s Meeting lished in 1984, when the Mac was intro- Christopher Vozzo Northeast LIMac Inc. duced. Annual dues Region Account Manager P.O. Box 2048 for member ship is MARCH for Quark, Inc. will dicuss Seaford, NY $36. First meeting is and demonstrate Quark- 11783-0180 free. For information, XPress 6.5, highlighting President contact any of the Bill Medlow following: new features and migra- 10 tion paths from legacy [email protected] Membership Dave Brody showing the technologies. Time Vice President Donald Hennessy program: permitting, Chris might even Donald Hennessy (516) 541-3186 [email protected] [email protected] give us a sneak peak at the future, showing a bit of QuarkXPress 7 which is currently in Treasurer Technical Advice Max Rechtman Bradley Dichter beta. He will also discuss X-Ray magazine [email protected] (631) 348-4772 – the definitive guide for QuarkXPress users. Secretary [email protected] Promotional materials for the magazine 0 Bernie Flicker Program will also be available to the audience. twofl [email protected] Coordinator February’s meeting brought the stars to Rick Matteson LIMac as Dave Brody, Executive Producer and for the most advanced users, with prices ranging The LIMac Forum: rgmlimac Director of Media for Imaginova demonstrated from about $60 to $250) the software can call Editors/Graphics @optonline.net the wealth of features in the Starry Night on Internet databases periodically and update Mo Lebowitz Photoshop SIG family of astronomical software products. The positions of satellites, asteroids, and comets. Loretta Lebowitz Brian Revere large audience was “asking for more” even Starry Night can be used to plan an evening’s [email protected] (516) 997-5370 as Dave’s formal presentation ended around observing, highlight upcoming sky events, and Board of Directors: [email protected] 8:30 p.m., and many questions followed. link to related pages on the www.space.com Web Geoff Broadhurst Photography SIG Continually improved from the (Mac-only) site. George Canellis Murray Hoffman Starry Night Deluxe of about ten years ago, The large audience attendance demon- Al Choy hoffmancamera Bradley Dichter @dav.net this premiere application is still developed on strated a high interest in this type of software, and this author is willing to demonstrate some (Technical Director) MacBasic SIG Macintosh computers, although current soft- Fred Fertik Geoff Broadhurst ware packaging provides for the “other” plat- of the capabilities and possible personalized cre- 0 Richard Hickerson [email protected] form as well. ations at a future meetng. Rick Matteson Multimedia SIG This full-featured desktop planetarium can –Sam Storch (Sam is one of our long-time (Program Coordinator) Al Zygier display the sky from any location, at any time members and is a Professor of Astronomy.) Scott Randell [email protected] Harold Silvers of day or night, spanning the past, present, General meeting time schedule: and future. With visually compelling graphics, Produced using: Meetings are held at The New York Institute of Technology, The FORUM is pub lished Tex-Edit Plus, text- Starry Night can render the sky in beautiful Building 300 (Anna Rubin Hall), Old Westbury. Long Island. monthly by LlMac. All contents, except where SOAP, TextSpresso, colors or in screens suitable for mapping, charts, Meetings start promptly at 7:00 p.m. noted, are copyright Adobe InDesign, and use at the telescope. The latest version (5.x) Bradley Q&A 7:00–7:30 p.m. Beginner’s Q&A 7:00–7:30 p.m. ©2006 by LIMac. Photoshop, Illustrator, Opinions expressed are the incorporates larger databases, improve the Featured presentation 7:30–8:20 p.m. views of the authors and do and Acrobat. tab-based search and labelling functions, have followed by announcements/raffle drawing not neces sarily reflect those SIG (Special Interest Group) meetings 8:30–10:00 p.m. of LIMac. Contents may be an even more appealing user interface, and reprinted for non-com- can export still images, create 3-D QuickTime Multimedia SIG: Al Zygier will show how to make a children’s video mercial use, with due more exiting! acknowledgment to LIMac. movies of your cosmic travels, and more. The LIMac FORUM is an Photoshop SIG: Lead by Brian Revere. How to use Photoshop for animation. independent publication Users can select an object from the sky, MacBasics SIG: How to deal with e-mail and has not been author- magnify, get detailed information, or even ized, sponsored or other- attachments, plus PDFs: what they are wise approved by Apple travel to the object itself and view the sky from and what to do with them. Computer, Inc. elsewhere! It’s even possible to journey out- | In bad weather, call (516) 686-7789. ward beyond the known local database of stars, | The next LIMac board meeting pass through the databases of known galaxies will be at the Plainedge Library, (516) and view the large-scale soap bubble structure 735-4133, on Wednesday, of the entire known universe. March 15th, at 8 p.m. Currently available in four different ver- sions (Complete Space and Astronomy package for beginners, Enthusiast, Pro, and Pro-Plus Path Finder 4 still shows the way: represents in the larger hierarchy of things? You No! Thanks to Path Finder 4, you can bypass To describe Path Finder’s interface in detail, by Matt Neuburg , [email protected] probably know about Command-clicking on a the Finder in favor of a sensible, rational, and to list all that it can do, would make for a The Finder is the application window’s title to see its path; but some people, like gorgeously clean environment for working huge article. So here are some highlights. that Mac OS X users love my mother, don’t – and in any case you still have with files and folders. At every step, in every Path Finder lists a folder’s contents in the to hate. Take a moment to to do something (the Finder doesn’t just show detail, Path Finder’s interface and behavior three standard views (icon, list, or column) plus think of something about you where you are), plus you can easily get lost in simply do the right thing. Plus, Path Finder a hierarchical menu, and you can toggle display the Finder that makes column view because columns have no headings. provides loads of extra information and power of invisible files, display of package contents, you absolutely furious. It The Finder is full of unnecessary shortcom- that the Finder lacks; indeed, Path Finder can and “smart” sorting (which groups applications, shouldn’t take long! Here are some examples: ings, big and small. After all, we all have to replace not only the Finder but several other folders, and files). A folder’s contents can also Why doesn’t the Finder say where you are? Why use the Finder constantly, every day, so we utilities you may already be using to compen- be filtered, so you can view and work with (for doesn’t it report what folder each window or column must simply live with it –mustn’t we? sate for the Finder’s general weeniness. example) just JPEGs, or just JPEGs and TIFFs. 2 Bradley’s Tech Session President’s Message | I keep getting e-mail attachments LIMac is off to a great start in 2006, with a that are supposed to be animated. great presentation from Bradley on Macworld: They open in Preview but they are receiving direct input from George Canellis not animated. How can I fix this? at Macworld and then Dave Brody showing Preview will show the individual frames of Starry Night in February. All of this and then Bradley Dichter a real opportunity with once again, George Bill Medlow an animated GIF-format file. What you can President [email protected] Canellis finding someone to support our raffle do is save the attachment and drag-and-drop [email protected] the .gif onto Safari. For a long term solution, (Designscapes, a landscape Design firm here on save the .gif file and Get Info... on the file, Long Island) by promising to purchase a new iPod each month for the next year. Truly a great again, even most of change the Open with to Safari and click the the updated features Change All... button and confirm to change opportunity. The iPod each month made for a 0 were still in place and the way the Mac handles .gif files in the future. very healthy raffle. functioning. I am a TIPS! Mozilla 1.7.12 (and perhaps other programs) happy camper.” can handle animated .gifs in e-mail bodies. re-edit your Address Book entry. Also be wary –MacFixit A combo updater | For the last couple of weeks, I’ve about allowing the options in Safari’s prefer- success story: been having problems with Internet ences about allowing AutoFill to use “User Security Lockdown: As we’ve noted on Explorer. I can’t seem to get online. names and passwords” and “Other forms.” If you’re a digital numerous occasions, | photographer (or re-applying the Internet Explorer was last updated in June of I have a iMac G5 (iSight) and I’m using 2003 and was discontinued on January first of an old version of Toast to make a copy anyone who shares most recent Mac images with clients CD OS X combination this year. Microsoft won’t allow you to down- of a , but I’m getting a message that via PDF), then updater has proven load it and won’t answer questions about it.

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