Volume 22.05 May 2005

The Official Journal of the

1 Meeting Details

ALL MEETINGS ARE HELD AT: (unless otherwise indicated) Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street, Wellington When: Monday 30 May, 2005 Time: 7.10 pm till 9.30pm (doors open 6.50pm)

The meeting will look at OS 10.4 ‘Tiger’ and general system maintenance. We will break for a short supper then conduct a Mac Help Desk session.

Other Group Meetings

Wellington Commercial Users Meeting

Monday 13th June 2005 from 5pm to 7.30pm at Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce Level 9, 109 Featherston Street, Wellington

New Media Users Group (web and publishing) Check

Digital Video Users Group 7–9.30pm, Wednesday 20 April 2005 at Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street, Wellington.

Cover Photo: Our new meeting venue of Turnbull House, built in 1918 for the private residence of of Alexander Turnbull, situated in lower Bowen Street opposite the Beehive.

2 3 President’s Report

Hi folks. Tiger upgrade issues Tiger is I haven’t upgraded my own comput- available er yet, but I have assisted other people in doing so and have made some observa- Mac OS X 10.4 tions in the process. I’ve also been keep- “Tiger” is now ing an eye on discussion on Macintosh available and will web sites. the main topic of our Most productivity applications used Home Users meet- by the typical home or small business ing this month. user will continue to operate perfectly See my article in last month’s is- well in Tiger (e.g. word processing, sue for general comments on machine spreadsheets, E-Mail, web browser). requirements. Some people with older System utilities are more problematic Mac models which are currently running and are likely to need updates to work Mac OS X 10.3.x “Panther” (or earlier) with Tiger. Some examples: will not be able to upgrade to Tiger. • Disk repair software must be up- If you bought a new Mac on or after dated to work with Tiger. TechTool April 12th, and it didn’t include Tiger, Pro has already been updated, and then you are entitled to a cheap upgrade DiskWarrior will be updated soon. (about NZ$17). You need to get a form • Norton Utilities is no longer being from Apple Australia’s web site and send supported by Symantec and will not it back with proof of purchase. See: work with Tiger. www.apple.com.au/macosx/ • Norton Antivirus is still supported uptodate/ and has been updated for Tiger. Your order must be sent by July 9th, • Tiger compatibility updates are so don’t miss out, even if you aren’t available for Roxio Toast and Dantz sure whether you want to upgrade to Retrospect. Tiger yet. If you are running older versions Anyone who bought their computer of some applications, you may need to prior to April 12th and is currently run- pay for an upgrade to the latest version ning “Panther” (or earlier) will have in order to get Tiger compatibility. (In to pay full price to get Tiger (about my case, I’m aware that I will need to NZ$220). If you want to run Tiger on upgrade Toast, Retrospect and Virtual more than one computer at home, the PC.) “Family Pack” is a very good option: Some applications are still not fully it allows you to run Tiger on up to five functional under Tiger. For example, Vir- computers, and it costs less than buying tual PC 7 cannot use one of its network two separate copies of Tiger. 2 3 sharing mechanisms, and has lost the If you have saved any files outside Windows Start menu on the Mac OS X of your home folder, make sure they Dock. These sort of issues should be are included in the backup. resolved over time. If your home folder is too large to Apple have already released the back up onto CD, and your computer Mac OS X 10.4.1 update (about 36 MB), doesn’t have a Superdrive, you may which fixes several problems with the need to back up to several CDs, by initial release of Tiger. copying selected folders onto each If you want to find out more about CD. compatibility issues with specific ap- As a general policy, I like to have plications, I can recommend MacIn- a complete backup of my computer Touch (www.macintouch.com). They before upgrading to a new version of have a detailed list of applications the operating system. I use an exter- for which people have commented on nal Firewire hard drive for this, and Tiger compatibility. the utility program “Carbon Copy General advice for Cloner”, which can copy everything without having to worry about file upgrading access privileges. The end result is a If you are going to move to Tiger, I bootable duplicate of my hard drive, recommend the following: which I can use to run the old system Make sure you have a backup of all again to compare notes, or as a source your important documents before at- to restore the previous system if the tempting a major system upgrade. new one turns out to be problematic. Some applications may need to be I also use Retrospect to maintain reinstalled after a system upgrade, so regular backups of all my documents make sure you know where to find your on CD, so I have at least one copy installation CDs and any downloaded (preferably two) of everything which application installers, plus your regis- cannot be replaced. Retrospect has the tration details for each application. advantage of doing incremental back- Backups ups, so it only copies files which have changed since my last backup. If you have kept your personal files well organised, everything important That’s all, folks! should be in the folders inside your If you wish to contact me, your best home folder (e.g. Documents, Pictures, option is to send E-Mail to . You could try ringing copy of your home folder would be a me at home (04 475 9755), but I’m not good starting point. This also gives you there very much these days, so leave a a backup of your Library folder, which message and I’ll get back to you when contains your mail, application prefer- I can. ences, Safari bookmarks, etc.

4 5 Taking out the Trash

by Peter Sealy blocs can now be refilled. Now when you next put something on your hard disk, Just like at home sometimes you put not necessarily save something, just do stuff in the trash and then have to retrieve some writing for example, the new data it later. For your Mac it’s pretty easy. You bits will over-write some or all of the just open the trash can and drag the item small blocs recently declared by the Di- back to the desk top or wherever it came rectory to be available for re-use. That is from or use the Undo item in the Edit why when you immediately realise that menu of the Finder if it was the last item you have really trashed a file which you you trashed. should not have and you are going to try But if you empty the trash, or again to recover it you should not do any more just like at home the garbage truck comes work at all on your Mac. and empties your trash can, then it’s Stop everything. It may be that any Goodnight Charlie! Trash gone! But has new disk activity will not overwrite all it? At home, the garbage truck takes your the data blocs you wish to retrieve but trash to the tip and if you really really Murphy’s Law tells you that at least want to, you can retrieve it before it gets some of them will be. If you do not covered up by the next truck load. Same realise your mistake until some time thing with your Mac. But let’s stop with has elapsed and you have just carried the analogy, we could go for ever. on working for that time it is a fair bet Can you retrieve a file after the trash your deleted data is gone for ever, for has been emptied? Short answer: yes. ordinary mortals anyway. Longer answer: how much time and One thing you can try if you can money do you wish to expend retriev- catch the situation soon enough is to ing the file? run a special program from the highly For OS X when you delete or empty a recommended suite of diagnostic and file from the trash it does not really dis- troubleshooting applications which appear into cyber space. It actually stays make up the TechTool Pro collection of on your hard disk using up a number of utilities. TechTool Pro comes either on small data spaces called blocs on your a CD or you can download it from the hard disk. What happens is that your maker’s web site [www.micromat.com]. computer’s Directory, which is a list of You obviously can not download it if you all the files on your computer [tens of have not already got it before the tragedy thousands of them], is amended to re- strikes. Now I must stress, although I do move the details of the file you deleted own TechTool Pro, I have not used it to so for all intents and purposes the file has recover deleted files in OS X so I can not

4 5 confirm whether it works. I have seen CDs and then run their recovery applica- several comments on web sites saying tion. You can buy the TechTool Pro CD in it does so but that is all. I use TechTool Australia but I do not know about Data Pro for other purposes. I recall using an Rescue. Both are about $US90. There is an- earlier version back in the days of OS 7 other way you can try to recover deleted or 8, I think, with only partial success but files and that is to engage a commercial that is only my experience. firm which specialises in such things. I The only other software solution to re- don’t know of any but I have heard there trieving deleted files that I know of is an is one in Perth. You would expect there application called Data Rescue obtainable must be some in the Eastern States. But from . I be prepared to take out another mortgage have not used this although have seen it if you do go this route. Nuff said. frequently recommended in Mac email Of course the Security and Law lists. But once again unless you already Enforcement agencies can recover files have it there is no point in downloading from your computer if they wish but it to try to recover any deleted file on the that is another story. The only other way same hard disk you use for download- to replace a deleted file is if your backup ing. is sufficiently recent to enable you to just If the lost file is really important you quickly find the original and pop it back will have to leave your Mac untouched in place. But that depends on the timing while you purchase either of those two and type of backup you do.

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6 7 Yahoo Swaggers Into The Music Subscription Fray

by Geoff Duncan Yahoo Music Engine, an iTunes-like ap- plication based on MusicMatch Jukebox; users can then share songs and playlists Whilst the iTunes Music Store is not yet amongst other subscribers using Yahoo available in New Zealand, its worth watch- Messenger. Subscribers can play music ing what is currently happening overseas as acquired through the service as long as this will have an impact on what will be on they maintain an active subscription, offer when music stores hit our shores. Ed and also transfer tracks to a selection of portable music players. Last week, Internet behemoth Yahoo took the wraps off Yahoo Music Unlim- scription market. For Mac users, Yahoo Music Unlimited is just another party However, because Yahoo’s new ser- to which we aren’t invited, since it only vice relies on Microsoft’s WMA digital supports recent versions of Windows rights technology, the list of supported and, in fact, doesn’t even let music from players does _not_ include Apple’s iPod. its subscription service play on iPods. Ya- iPods support only Apple’s FairPlay hoo Music Unlimited is more interesting DRM technology, and to date Apple has for the pressure it puts on its primary unmercifully squelched efforts to enable competition - Rhapsody and the re-born support for other DRM systems on the Napster - and, less directly, on MSN Mu- iPod. But you know what? Other online sic and Apple’s iTunes Music Store. music subscription services don’t work with iPods either, so Yahoo’s offering is art=07756> A (Not So) New Hope Yahoo Music Unlimited is an all-you- The Revenue Strikes Back can eat subscription service which pro- vides access to more than 1 million tracks. What’s new about Yahoo Music Un- The service is largely built on Yahoo’s ac- limited is its price - $6.99 a month, or quisition of MusicMatch last year: users annual subscriptions for $59.88 (which search for and manage music using the translates to $4.99 a month) - and the fact

6 7 that it’ll be a component of one of the for more than 15 million white earbud- world’s most-trafficked Internet sites. wearin’, head-boppin’ iPod aficionados. Yahoo’s prices substantially under- (In comparison, Napster has yet to crack cut both RealNetworks’ Rhapsody and half a million subscribers.) For another Napster, which charge $14.95 a month. thing, the iTMS model of purchasing Yahoo isn’t saying whether Yahoo Mu- downloaded music - rather than merely sic Unlimited prices are an introduc- purchasing _access_ to it for the dura- tory offer or how long they might last. tion of a subscription - still seems to However, considering that both Napster hold mind-share: according to Piper and RealNetworks’s music subscription Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, right now businesses have been struggling at their only about 15 percent of online music current rates and many of the businesses’ consumers would prefer to rent music costs are similar (music and technology rather than own it outright. licensing, bandwidth, user support, staff- ing, etc.) Yahoo’s initial pricing likely The real question is the degree to which Yahoo cares. Yahoo has both Nonetheless, both the online music deeper pockets and a substantially and wider technology industries are still more diversified business model than setting their sites on Apple and iTMS, either RealNetworks or Napster, and can if for no other reason than it’s not yet probably afford to subsidize an online worth the trouble of aiming at other music venture longer than its immediate market players. If Yahoo Music Unlim- competition can stay out of a price war. ited succeeds, Apple may have to offer If Yahoo can bring enough eyeballs - and music subscription services in addition mouse pointers - to its music service, it to its paid- download model. (It’s worth may be able to make up any loss on noting that all the subscription services subscription fees via advertising. And as also let subscribers purchase music at one of the most frequently visited sites prices comparable to iTMS; of course, on the Internet, Yahoo’s high-margin those fees are on top of base subscription online advertising business is a virtual costs.) On the other hand, if Yahoo’s mu- juggernaut. sic subscription service fizzles or turns in Return of the FUD-y lackluster numbers, it may represent the last serious effort to redefine the online Right now, Yahoo Music Unlimited music space as a renters’ market, rather doesn’t pose a direct threat to Apple’s than a buyers’ market. iTunes Music Store. For one thing, in- Perhaps the darker cloud on the compatibility with Apple’s iPod makes horizon of Apple’s music business is, iTMS the primary online music store ultimately, whether devices like the

8 9 iPod or devices like mobile phones will a music subscription model than a pur- be the primary means by which consum- chase model. ers purchase and listen to music. Sure, Apple has sold more than 15 million shipped in 2003 alone (75 million of Germany, Microsoft founder Bill Gates commented that he felt the current iPod Nonetheless, it’s too early to start business model was unsustainable, and writing an epitaph for the iPod or iTMS. he’d bet on mobile phones taking over The online music market is still volatile, the top spot for music listening. (He and in the last few years it has shown even drew a parallel between Apple’s only two constant themes: 1) unexpected current iPod success and its early lead success and innovation from Apple, and with graphical user interfaces.) Current 2) pundits and industry leaders claiming mobile phone technologies and business Apple can never succeed. models are certainly more supportive of

8 9 A New Dimension for iChat AV

by Jeff Carlson (The Audio and Video status buttons in iChat’s Buddy List show up as stacked Last year I “attended” a briefing with icons to indicate that a person is running a few Apple representatives while sitting iChat AV 3.0 and is capable of multi-person in my office chair in Seattle. They were in chats.) A fourth person added appears on Cupertino, and thanks to the video chat ca- a similar plane, but facing straight-on. The pabilities of iChat AV, we had a face-to-face idea is that you’re all sitting around a confer- conversation. But since there were three of ence table, and Apple enhances the illusion them, they had to crowd into the frame by by providing surface reflections below each sitting behind each other so that I could see person’s plane; I have to admit that I spent them all. most of my first multi-person video chats If we have a similar briefing now, I’ll staring at the reflections, which update in have a much clearer picture of each per- real time. son. iChat AV 3.0, included in Mac OS X up to four people (you and three others), before. This capability comes with a price, Unlike the previous version, not just however, as some Macs aren’t capable of anyone can start a multi- person video participating. chat. The originating computer performs video synchronization, leading to stringent Multi-Person Chats hardware requirements: a Mac with at least dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 processors, or one The multi-person video chat is one with a PowerPC G5 CPU, along with 384 of the snazziest-looking new features of Kbps of Internet bandwidth. Unfortunately, Tiger, which is why Apple has included that rules out Apple’s entire laptop line as screenshots of it in action on most of the video chat initiators. company’s advertisements I’ve seen. When Participation in a multi-person video two people are chatting, iChat AV 3.0 uses chat is less demanding: you need at least the same appearance as in iChat AV under a 1 GHz PowerPC G4 or a dual 800 MHz Panther: you appear in a small corner win- PowerPC G4-based Power Mac - along with dow, and the other person occupies the rest 100 Kbps of Internet bandwidth. iChat AV of the window. also supports video chat with Windows us- But as soon as you add a third person, ers running the latest version of AIM (AOL your participants appear on planes angled Instant Messenger), but only one to one, not in 3D, as if you had set up two LCD screens. for multi-person chats.

10 11 As advertised by Apple, the video qual- default Away status). ity is improved due to iChat’s use of the The Groups feature is also improved, H.264 video codec, but the quality also de- with a more comprehensible interface. I pends on the connection and the hardware never bothered with groups before, but involved. Slower connections appear blur- now I can arrange my buddies according rier than faster ones; that isn’t necessarily a to affiliations (such as a TidBITS group), bad thing, as iChat is sacrificing fine detail in which appear under banner headings in favor of more fluid motion (see the image at the Buddy List. the second URL above for an example). For companies looking to secure their in- iChat AV 3.0 also features audio chats stant message traffic, iChat AV 3.0 now sup- of up to 10 people, which doesn’t carry the ports Jabber, which can encrypt messages. same hardware and connection demands. You can sign onto existing Jabber servers, or Hosting a 10-person conference requires a use the Jabber-based iChat Server included Mac running a 1 GHz G4, dual 800 MHz with Mac OS X 10.4 Server. G4, or G5 processor and a 128 Kbps Internet connection. Participation in an audio chat Kbps connection. Apple also incorporated a popular Miscellaneous Changes third-party feature into iChat. In addition to Available and Away status messages, you The multi-person chats are the star can choose to display the title and artist of attractions, but iChat AV 3.0 includes a the song currently playing in iTunes (which number of other noticeable changes. It’s I used to use iChat Status for). Clicking an easier to switch among several iChat or arrow at the right edge of the status message AIM accounts using a new Switch To item takes you to that song in the iTunes Music under the iChat menu. You can set a profile Store if you want to sample (or buy) music that describes you when other people view your friends are playing. your information from their Buddy Lists by choosing Change My Profile from the Bud- dies menu; previously, you had to launch Video Future the AIM application to edit this field. I use iChat every day for text-chatting Speaking of switching, iChat includes a with friends and colleagues, and only preference that dictates what the program occasionally chatting via audio or video. should do when you use Fast User Switch- Although the new multi-person video ing to go to another user, either to log out chatting capability is cool, I’m curious to of iChat (the old method), or to change see how often people end up using it. Still, your status to Away. If you are away, and it does provide an inexpensive, built-in someone chats you up anyway, you can set way to participate in video conferences, iChat to fire back with a reply (either your something that formerly required more custom status message or “Auto-reply: I expensive, often proprietary services to am away from my computer” if set to the accomplish.

10 11 Xbox 360 Demos on Macs

by Victoria Maciulski The new console from Microsoft is based on a similar IBM PowerPC ar- My brother Mark, who lives in Seattle, chitecture used in Apple G5 PowerMac has a good friend who is in management computers. The Xbox 360 uses three at Microsoft. He called and told me that 3.2GHz symmetrical cores, according his friend was able to get a used (and up- to the company. Ever the trailblazer, graded with lots or RAM) dual processor Apple has been using PowerPC chips G5 very cheaply, because Microsoft was since 1994. done with them. He said they had been Microsoft recently switched from the used to design the new Xbox 360. Mark Intel processors used in the first Xbox is not very technical, so I wasn’t sure if console to a custom Xbox processor he had the details right. based on IBM’s PowerPC in its new A few days later, Microsoft an- Xbox 360. All of us happy PowerPC nounced the Xbox 360 and showed users can predict they will be happy product demos on an MTV special. It with them. appears that they were trying to be first The new Xbox 360 has features that to market with a new console. (Sony and make it sound more like a computer, Nintendo are expected to announce such as its 20GB hard drive, DVD-ROM fairly soon.) drive and 500MHz ATI graphics proces- Well, it turns out that the cool clips sor. Microsoft says up to 40 titles will be of video games supporting Microsoft’s announced for the Xbox 360 by the end new Xbox 360 console are actually run- of the year. ning on Apple PowerMac G5s! Mi- I’m thinking that if the Xbox 360 and crosoft confirmed this on May 13. The PowerMac G5 are cousins, it shouldn’t current systems being shown at product be hard to port games to the Mac. introductions are prototypes. Final sys- tems are expected to come out by the end of the year. The Xbox 360 is not quite ready for prime-time and they wanted to announce before the competition, so.... Microsoft purchased a raft of Apple G5’s because very specific hardware components of the G5 allow develop- ers to emulate some of the technology behind future Xbox products and ser- vices. The Power Mac G5s that make it all possible

12 13 Tidbits off the Internet

Apple Recalls Laptop Fetch 5 Ready for a Walk Batteries Proving that you can teach an old Apple has announced a voluntary dog new tricks, Jim Matthews and Fetch recall of certain rechargeable laptop Softworks today released Fetch 5, a sleek batteries sold with, or sold separately new version of the earliest FTP client still for use with, its 12-inch iBook G4, in active development for the Macintosh. 12-inch PowerBook G4, and 15-inch With Fetch 5, Jim focused on simplify- PowerBook G4 models from Oct-04 ing the user interface to improve ease through May-05. The company, which of use and adding support for low-level acted in cooperation with the United technologies like SFTP. Fetch now sports States Consumer Product Safety Com- a new toolbar for quick access to com- mission and international authorities, monly used functions, Back and Recent says the affected batteries could over- buttons for easier navigation to previ- heat, posing a potential fire hazard. The ously viewed folders, a more Finder-like batteries will be replaced at no cost to list view, and a status pane at the bottom the owner. of each transfer window. Other interface niceties include a file transfer progress sensitive help, and a recent connections dialog. Under the hood, along with SFTP support, Fetch 5 now offers resuming of The recalled batteries include those binary uploads, automatic detection of with model numbers A1061, A1078, FTP and SFTP servers on your local net- and A1079, and have serial numbers work if they advertise their presence via that begin with HQ441 through HQ507, Bonjour (formerly called Rendezvous), and 3X446 through 3X510. There are importing of Interarchy and Transmit unaffected batteries with the same bookmarks, support for using StuffIt to model numbers but different serial compress files automatically on upload numbers, so check both. After verifying and expand automatically on download, the battery is from the affected batches, improved handling of non-ASCII and Apple will ship a replacement battery Unicode file names, and “Automatic at no charge to the user, who will then Passive Mode” for automatic detection return the original battery using the of proper connection modes for reliable same packaging and an included pre- transfers through firewalls and NAT paid shipping label. gateways. Fetch 5 works with Mac OS X 10.2.4 or later (including Tiger), and 12 13 it costs $25, with upgrades from Fetch 4 Mac to PC - No Way priced at $15. New copies of Fetch and Courtesy of Dennis Hamblin upgrades may both be purchased direct- In the June 2005 issue of Photogra- ly from within Fetch 5; choose Purchase pher's Mail there is an article about the or Purchase Upgrade from the Fetch ap- professional processing lab, PCL Imag- plication menu. Users at educational and ing Ltd, in Auckland. They were estab- non-profit charitable organizations may lished in 1973 and are possibly the largest apply for a free license. such company in New Zealand. Basically it is an interview with the owner Jack Culverwell and outlines The conversation then moves to the computers they have to drive the photo Qualcomm Acknowledges processing gear. They have always been Eudora Bug Mac users :16 currently in use with 20 to 30 in storage ( i.e. Out of date ones) As reported by our friends at MacIn- When asked “ have you ever enter- Touch, Qualcomm has acknowledged tained the idea of changing to PCs and that recent versions of its Eudora email Windows ? “ software for Macintosh could incorrectly Culverwell aswered; delete messages from the Inbox associ- “Yes. But then we took an aspirin, lay ated with an IMAP account. down and waited for the thought to go

The company has told site license eMac Sees Boost support providers that an upcoming re- The CRT-screen-based eMac con- lease of Eudora, version 6.2.3, addresses tinues to be Apple’s quiet inexpensive the problem. Early advice to revert to workhorse, and that’s even more true Eudora 6.1 won’t help, as the code that thanks to last week’s improvements to could cause that bug is in 6.1 as well. the all-in-one computer. The new eMac Qualcomm recommends installing the configuration includes a 1.42 GHz Pow- public beta of version 6.2.3, or turning on erPC G4 processor, 512 MB of memory, the “Show Deleted Messages” function a Radeon 9600 graphics card with 64 MB in the mailbox options menu at the bot- of memory, and an 8x dual-layer Super- tom right of the Mailboxes window. The Drive. The $800 low-end configuration rare bug only affects mailboxes accessed now sports an 80 GB hard disk, while with the IMAP protocol. Users who use the $1,000 model has a 160 GB hard disk. the POP3 protocol for retrieving mail will They both ship with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger not be affected. and iLife ‘05.

14 15 Trade Directory

Amber Technology Ltd NP Solutions 4th Floor, 7 Vivian St, Wellington 236 Middleton Road, Johnsonville Phone: 64-4-801 8797 Telephone: (04) 477-6851 Web: http://www.amber.co.nz Email: [email protected] Catch 22 Protel Ltd (Mac support, Web/Filemaker 15 Walter St, Wellington development) Phone: 64-4-801 9494 Telephone: (04) 939 0840 Web: http://www.protel.co.nz Email: [email protected] Second Image Ltd Digerati 16 Ihakara Street. Paraparaumu Level 5, 265 Wakefield St, Wellington Telephone: (04) 902-3735 Telephone: (04) 801-6958 Facsimile: (04) 902-6734 Facsimile: (04) 801-6319 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] The CBD-IT Centre Ltd Educational Computers NZ 4 Panama Street, Wellington Ltd Telephone: (04) 4714150 (Victoria University) email [email protected] Cotton Building, Victoria University Telephone (04) 499-1911 Palmerston North Email: [email protected] Sideline Systems Ltd First Bite of the Apple (From Old Macs to iMacs) (Mac Support and Training) PO Box 876, Palmerston North Telephone: (021) 630-687 Telephone: (06) 353-0050 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] MagnumMac Wellington Taupo 5-7 Vivian St, Wellington MacCOM Telephone: (04) 384-1155 Facsimile: (04) 384-1166 26 MacDonell St, Taupo Email: [email protected] Phone (06) 378-0232, Fax 06) 378-0236 Email: [email protected]

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