May 2010 Section 6. LIMITATION OF AUTHORITY. Except as otherwise specified in these Bylaws, no member shall act in the name of the Association or take any action that would bind the Association. No Meeting Notice member may use the Association name, logos, All meetings, June through November, will be at symbols, or other such intellectual property as the Board may designate in the furtherance of any purpose the Grande Prairie Library at 3479 W 183rd St., without the express written consent of the Board. Hazel Crest. The December meeting will be Section 7. TERMINATION OF MEMBERSHIP. held at the Homewood Public Library. a. BY ASSOCIATION. Within one month of the April members meeting, regular meetings (April or NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING. December) of members, the Membership Secretary There will be a special meeting at 7:00 pm on June will mail a reminder notice to any member who is not 8, 2010 at the Grande Prairie Library for the current in dues. Membership shall be terminated if purpose of voting on the proposed amendments dues are not paid by the annual meeting regular below. meeting (December or April). b. BY MEMBER. Membership shall be terminated when a letter of resignation is tendered. Proposed Bylaw Amendments + Proviso While the bylaws authorize the board to set the amount dues, it makes sense to have the payment schedule in the bylaws. Therefore, the EDITORIAL board recommends adoption of the following amendments: Apple censors Pulitzer Prize Winning (1) an addition to Article III Sec 3 authorizing the new payment schedule (below) and Cartoonist (2) several fixes to Article III Sec 7a (below) (source: all over the web) regarding the new payment schedule. The board has already passed a proviso until the end of 2010 to prorate dues at $2.50 per month. Article III is printed Mark Fiore, who won the Pulitzer Prize in its entirety below. for editorial cartooning this week says Apple has asked him to resubmit an ARTICLE III -- MEMBERS iPhone app that it earlier rejected Section 1. MEMBERSHIP. The Association shall because it “ridicules public figures.” have one class of members. Members of the Association shall be all persons who have paid membership dues and whose membership has not As a librarian, this greatly upsets me – it terminated. is a perfect example of why censorship, Section 2. VOTING RIGHTS. Each member shall be of almost any kind, never works and entitled to one vote on each matter submitted to a vote of the members. Membership dues must be paid up to mostly backfires on the censor. It be eligible to vote or hold office. reminds me of the time that Apple Section 3. MEMBERSHIP FEES. Annual dues censored Gray’s Anatomy (the book, not shall be payable January 1. The annual dues for membership shall be determined by the Board. the TV show). PalmPilot sells handhelds with pre-loaded medical software, I Section 4. TRANSFER OF MEMBERSHIP. guess Apple did not want that market. Membership in the Association is not transferable or assignable. Section 5. CERTIFICATES. No membership (In My Humble Opinion Apple should certificates of the Association shall be required. check for functionality only – does it work – and nothing else. At the very should be able to decide what I do or do least Apple should hire censors who not find useful or proper. Free enterprise, know what is going on. The history of you know. ed.) censorship is littered with examples of ignorant censors. Ed.) Hewlett Packard buys Palm for 1.2 billion. [Related Editorial: Apple relented on this application, but continues to censor Apple buys , another chipmaker. other editorial cartoonists. They also refuse to list programs because they are Apple has patented a large number of not “of general interest”. How do they “gestures” – my guess is that the next think they can know what I would want lap- and desk- tops will be more ‘touch to use on my “iTouch”? That is like an screen”. Some of the gestures seem to auto maker saying that people can’t go call for more dexterity than your editor to, say, Corbin KY, because it is not a has. place that a lot of people want to go there. Suppose car makers only allowed Apple had huge profits last quarter, the their cars to be driven in glamorous biggest product was the iPhone. places? It has been predicted that the iPhone will Ok, Apple only has so much space on its be gone in five years – I agree because servers – why do they have to be the sole Apple will have introduced a successor. channel for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad software?] People have begun getting word that their iPad 3Gs started shipping April 28. Apple is eliminating its Software page. Mac developers, and at have been used as gunsights, least one user, are worried about what now the phrase is ‘augmented driving’. this means for Macintosh. Certainly the imaGinyze has introduced a $2.99 iPhone is the big seller. I, for one, will program for the iPhone that gives own a desktop computer if it’s a Mac something approaching a Heads Up great, but it’s beginning to look like my Display for cars using an iPhone. Sadly, next computer might be a Windows box. it doesn’t see anything more than what I’m not excited that my iMac is really a the driver does. I want to be able to see MacBook in two parts. I really don’t like in fog, rain, snow, etc. Still, it’s a start. HAVING to be exactly in front of the To see a video go to YouTube or the monitor to see clearly. company’s web site. “The phrase that +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ pays” is “Augmented Driving”. SHORT NEWS Source: “All over the Web” Apple is going to eliminate its Macintosh software page. It seem that the Justice Department is investigating Apple for anti-trust Apple is now the largest cell phone violations. (What did Apple do? See my manufacturer in the US, passing editorial. I, at least, agree with DOJ. I, as Motorola. the customer, who is always right, There were several articles saying that if platform. If developers grow (we) had bought Apple stock instead of dependent on third party development Apple hardware we’d all be rich, or at libraries and tools, they can only take the very least comfortable. That advantage of platform enhancements if presupposes that somebody bought and when the third party chooses to Apple hardware. If we all bought stock adopt the new features. We cannot be instead of hardware Apple would have at the mercy of a third party deciding had plenty of stockholders, but no sales. if and when they will make our +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ enhancements available to our Jobs feuds with Adobe developers.”

As many of you know, Adobe’s Flash (Adobe responded less than positively, has become as much an issue with Steve Microsoft has joined Apple in its Jobs as iAd has become with me. He campaign against Flash and Adobe is recently listed five problems he has with re-writing the application it wrote for Flash: Wired Magazine in a different

Jobs argues five points against Flash: computer language.) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Flash is 100% proprietary, unlike the As people may know, Gizmodo open standards Apple supports, like recently published an article about the HTML5 and H.264. upcoming iPhone. What follows is an article about how the controversy Adobe claims that 75% of video on web about how they (may have) got a is in Flash but Jobs argues that Adobe sneak preview. ignores the fact that much of this video is also available in H.264. Apple's iPhone 4G Debacle: A Timeline Ian Paul Flash has poor security and is the Apr 20, 2010 number one reason why software on PC World Mac OS X crashes. (update from iLounge)

Flash performs poorly on mobile March 18, 2010: Apple engineer Gray platforms because of using software Powell makes a nighttime visit to The decoding. Gourment Haus Stadt. Powell was carrying with him an iPhone prototype-- Flash has almost no support for touch- purportedly the next-generation iPhone based interfaces. device--made to look like an iPhone 3GS. At the Haus Stadt, about a 24- Jobs’ parting shot: minute drive from Apple's headquarters, Powell had a few drinks, updated his “We know from painful experience Facebook status using the supposed that letting a third party layer of iPhone 4G and left the establishment. software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in March 18, 2010-March 19, 2010: sub-standard apps and hinders the Unbeknownst to Powell, he left behind enhancement and progress of the his iPhone test unit at the beer garden in Redwood City, where it was eventually commenter provides a photo of the picked up by an anonymous stranger. purported iPhone 4G claiming the device is a knock-off widely available in Japan . March 19, 2010: The next morning, the The Macrumors photo is later anonymous stranger, aware that Powell discredited. was the owner of the phone, tried turning on what he still believed to be an iPhone April 18, 2010: Engadget posts an older, 3GS. But the phone had already been very blurry, photo that shows something bricked by remote wipe, rendering the similar to the purported iPhone 4G lying device inoperable. After careful next to a pre-launch iPad , presumably at examination of the device, the stranger an Apple test lab. Later that day, Daring realized it was not a normal iPhone. Fireball blogger John Gruber, who is Eventually, he was able to remove the known for his contacts within Apple, iPhone's phony 3GS exterior, and calls his sources and subsequently discovered the iPhone prototype inside. supports Engadget's claims that the Aware he had made a significant iPhone 4G photos are authentic. discovery, Gizmodo says the stranger attempted to contact Apple with the April 19, 2010: Gizmodo reveals that it intention of returning the device, but was has the device and posts a detailed ignored by Apple representatives. At this review of the purported iPhone 4G point, the anonymous stranger started complete with pictures, videos and shopping the device around to gadget device specifications. The device had blogs. reportedly been running iPhone OS 4.0, but Gizmodo could not break the device Around April 12, 2010: Gizmodo out of its bricked state to confirm this. acquires the purported iPhone 4G from the anonymous stranger. The gadget April 19, 2010: Gizmodo describes in blog's parent company, Gawker Media, detail how the purported iPhone 4G was paid $5000 to acquire the device, lost and identifies Powell as the person according to the Associated Press. responsible for losing the device.

April 17, 2010: Engadget posts April 19, 2010: Gizmodo posts a letter photographs of the purported iPhone 4G. from Bruce Sewell, Apple's senior vice The device is said to have a higher president and general counsel, to resolution screen than the current Gizmodo Editorial Director, Brian Lam iPhone, a front-facing camera and 80GB stating that the purported iPhone 4G in of storage. Speculation runs wild in the Gizmodo's possession is Apple's tech blogosphere. Engadget did not property. The letter formally requests elaborate on how the photos came into that Gizmodo return the device to Apple. its possession. Gizmodo uses the letter as final proof of the iPhone's authenticity, and returns the April 18, 2010: Onetime Macworld device to Apple. contributor and respected Apple journalist judges the photos as a hoax, April 23, 2010 (iLounge) by Charles but leaves open the possibility that this Starrett Police entered the home of device is the real deal. A Macrumors Gizmodo editor Jason Chen late Friday evening, seizing a variety of computers, explained that implementing servers, and other electronic items as multitasking is easy if battery life and evidence possibly “used as the means of application performance isn't a concern, committing a felony,” related to the but Apple has taken its time to develop a recent prototype iPhone incident. system that it says avoids these common pitfalls. "We weren't the first to this Picture of students in the University of party, but we're going to be the best," Chicago Law School. This is from an Jobs said. article about high tution from the Chicago Tribune, still, I couldn’t help Multitasking but notice the logos on the laptops. Senior vice president of iPhone software engineering offered up more details. Apple looked at thousands of apps to determine what services apps would most need to keep running while in the background. "In iPhone OS 4, we're providing those services as APIs to developers," Forstall said. That way, iPhone OS can manage those services to best optimize battery life and Editor performance.

Multitasking (finally), iAd, and more Other potential uses for background coming in iPhone OS 4.0 processes were demonstrated or By Chris Foresman discussed, such as keeping Skype active to receive VoIP calls, or allowing GPS During a special media event held today apps like TomTom to continually track in Cupertino, Apple unveiled details your location. about the next major update to the iPhone OS that powers its iPhone, iPod Noting privacy concerns, Forstall touch, and iPad mobile devices. Slated to revealed a system-wide notification that arrive sometime this summer for the reveals which apps have requested iPhone and iPod touch, the update will location data. give developers (we know who the real target “users” are don’t we? Ed.) access Folders to over 1,500 new APIs to improve and extend the capabilities of their apps, as Apple detailed some new features for the well as give users over 100 new features iPhone OS' Springboard launcher. You like multitasking and improved can add custom backgrounds for both the enterprise support. lock screen and the home screen, just as you can on the iPad. For those with a Apple CEO detailed seven growing library of apps looking for a major new features that he described as new way to organize them, iPhone OS "tentpoles" for the OS. Addressing the now has folders. Apps can be dragged on number one request of most users is a top of each other to create a folder, and new app multitasking system. Jobs other apps can be added. Folders can be is new data encryption features. Users placed in the Dock for quick access to a will be able to encrypt their e-mail and group of apps, as well. With folders, attachments using a PIN code. And users can cram up to 2,000 apps onto developers will have an API to encrypt their devices. data within their own apps.

Mail iPhone OS 4.0 will also give IT admins mobile device management, and they'll Mail will get a number of longed-for be able to distribute apps wirelessly to improvements in iPhone OS 4.0. Apple mobile devices without relying on has finally added a unified inbox to iTunes syncing. In addition to multiple Mail, so those of you setting up multiple Exchange account capabilities, Apple is e-mail accounts on your iPhone can see adding Exchange Server 2010 support. all your mail at once without switching accounts. Business users will likely "" applaud the ability to add more than one Exchange account. And Apple made Apple is building its own "social gaming switching between different inboxes network," akin to Open Feint and much faster. Ngmoco's Plus+, that developers can include support for in their games. In Other improvements include a threaded addition to leaderboards and message view, which keeps related achievements, it will offer a standardized replies together, and the ability to open way for players to "challenge" each mail attachments if you have an app other to best one another's scores. Apple installed that can handle a particular file is including a feature to automatically type. find other players of similar ability with a particular game, sparing novices the iBooks for the iPhone and iPod touch embarrassment of being trampled by a more experienced player. Apple is also making a version of iBooks that will work on iPhone and iAd iPod touch. It's essentially a miniature version of iBooks for iPad, replete with Jobs spent a good chunk of the event the bookshelf and access to the discussing the seventh "tentpole"—a iBookstore. You'll be able to access the centralized mobile ad network called (as same library of books from any of your rumored) "iAd." Developers will have iDevices, and bookmarks and last APIs to add support for ads into their will wireless sync between them. apps, and Apple (via its acquisition of Quattro Wireless) will handle all the Enterprise necessary ad sales.

Jobs noted that 80 percent of Fortune The ads will help support free apps, and 100 companies are using iPhones in developers will get an "industry some way with the blessing of their IT standard" 60 percent of ad revenue. Jobs departments. One new enterprise- noted that Apple will soon have as many friendly goody coming in iPhone OS 4.0 as 100 million mobile devices running iPhone OS in the wild, offering as many there is more than enough advertising in as 1 billion advertising opportunities per my life now. Ed.) day. "This is a pretty serious opportunity," Jobs noted, while saying Availability that a lot of current mobile advertising "just sucks." iPhone OS 4.0 will be available this summer for iPhone and iPod touch. The Jobs said that iAd will offer advertisers latest devices—the iPhone 3GS and the a way to add the "emotion" that video 3rd-gen iPod touch—will get all the ads on TV often have, but that Web and features mentioned today and more. The mobile advertising currently lacks. That previous generation—iPhone 3G and includes building interactive ads using 2nd-gen iPod touch—should get "most" HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. He then of the features, but unfortunately that demoed ads that Apple built to show off doesn't include multitasking (Boo!). The what iAd could do, including ones for original iPhone and iPod touch will get Toy Story 3, Air Jordans, and Target. nothing and like it. Perhaps the best announced feature of , though, is that it doesn't take you iPad owners, which already have a few outside of the app you're using to view of the features in iPhone OS 4.0, will be the ads. Dismiss the ad whenever you able to upgrade in the fall. want, (instantly, if not sooner – I would pay for an ad blocker ed.) and Other tidbits you're right back where you left off. During the announcement, Jobs also briefly detailed some impressive sales (I had a rant written about iAd, but John for the first few days of the Moltz said it better than I can: iPad's availability. So far, Apple has sold 450,000 . Users have purchased ”You may question whether adding ads over 3.5 million iPad apps and 600,000 to your iPhone is a "feature." As John e-books from the iBookstore. The Moltz humorously noted on his website: number of iPad-specific apps in the is over 3,500 and counting. iAds. AWESOME. Now we can watch During the Q&A session, Jobs reiterated ads on our iPhones. YES. At long last. Apple's position on adding Flash or Java The feature we’ve all be asking for. Our support for its mobile devices. In a word, long national nightmare is over. All hail "no," it's not happening. our wise corporate overlords who always have our best interests at heart. We have The iPad also came up. The response to always been at war with Eurasia.“ the iPad has been "beyond belief" (from John Mosltz’s blog via iPhone according to SVP of worldwide JD) marketing . Jobs said that he received several thousand e-mails If I am listening to an audiobook and am praising the device, and that he isn't in the middle of a tense passage I do not worried about competitors moving in want an interruption for ‘a word from anytime soon, either. "If our competitors our sponsor.’ If I wanted that I would ever produce a competitive product to watch TV. As far as I am concerned iPad, they'll be hoping they can get Store, and consuming mobile media 3,500 apps after the first year, and we've (video, photos, and e-books). seen that in less than a week," he said. Nevertheless, in other areas, notebooks, A la Carte WiFi Access With Boingo the iPhone, or an iPod may be more WiFi Credits appropriate. This clear segmentation of by Kiet Chieng capabilities suggests that cannibalization may be less of a concern than most A new app from ubiquitous WiFi currently believe.” provider Boingo will come in handy for those of you toting iPod Touch’s or new WiFi iPad’s after this weekend. The On the subject of iPad pricing, Apple newly released Boingo WiFi Credits indicated that it would cut the price of will give users the option of purchasing the iPad if demand wasn’t meeting WiFi access one hour at a time from expectations reporting that Apple over 125,000 hotspots all over the world. management would stay “nimble” on pricing. HARDWARE (Apple has lowered prices by $30.00 as Apple's iPhone 4G Debacle: A Timeline of April 13. Ed.) Ian Paul Apr 20, 2010 New MacBook Pro: 10-Hour Battery, PC World Hi-Res Screen, i7 CPU By Charlie Sorrel April 13, 2010 Wired

Apple Could Lower iPad Pricing on Apple has, at last, updated its MacBook Demand Pro Line with new CPUs and graphics. The 15-inch can now be had with ’s Yesterday, 12:52 PM Core i5 and i7 chips and the 17-inch gets by Alex Brooks the i5 as standard and the i7 as an option. This speeds things up, although the Apple has stated that it intends to stay clock speeds actually drop, maxing out “nimble” on iPad pricing if sales are now at 2.66GHz instead of the previous sluggish upon release. The information 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo (or 3.06GHz special comes from a note to clients from order). analyst Bill Shope on behalf of Credit Suisse recounting meetings with Apple The graphics chip has been bumped to executives. NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, with a choice of graphics memory options. The Shope starts with downplaying the idea biggest change here is that you can now of potential cannibalisation of other switch between the low power and the Apple products by the iPad. Shope wrote high performance modes without that, “the company [Apple] believes it rebooting or logging out: the MacBook could eventually be seen as superior to switches for you. both handheld and notebook devices for browsing the Internet, using the App The 15-inch MacBook also gains the option of a higher resolution screen: 1680 x 1050 pixels against the standard towers, which have only gotten a slight 1440 x 900. This combines with the new speed bump since they were introduced NVIDIA chips to give proper HD video. well over a year ago.

The other big change is battery life. All Apple is also dealing with the issue that models get a boost of a couple hours, MacBook Pros have also not been pushing the 13-inch MacBook Pro up to updated in some time, despite the fact ten hours (although this is no iPad, so that mobile Core i3, i5, and i7 parts have expect that to be lower in real life). The been available since January. 15 and 17-inchers manage a respectable (Introduced April 13, 2010) 8-9 hours.

A pretty solid update with one surprise: Additional delays may also be caused by the 13-inch MacBook Pro doesn’t look constrained supply of Intel's mobile so pro anymore, which is a pain to those processors. that need the power but don’t want the big screen. Who says that size doesn’t Hints matter? (Macworld Hint) 12-core Mac Pros, 27" Cinema Snow Leopard has a built-in grammar Display may be coming soon checker (in Cocoa and other certain by Chris Foresman apps) that will place green dotted lines AppleInsider under any possible grammatical errors it detects. (You may have to enable this Apple has been very busy on the mobile first, in the program's Edit » Spelling front, with the iPad launching in two and Grammar » Check Grammar With weeks and iPhone OS and hardware Spelling.) However, accessing the upgrades expected this summer. corrections panel using Control-Click » However, Apple hasn't forgotten about Spelling and Grammar » Show Spelling its Mac business—sources for and Grammar has always seemed AppleInsider report that long overdue cumbersome. updates to Apple's Cinema Display and will be also appear by June. Now I've discovered that simply hovering the mouse over the underlined word pops up a tool tip description of the Expected to join the 24" LED Cinema error. (This last doesn’t work for me in Display that Apple launched in Word. Ed.) October of 2008 is a 27" LED Cinema display based on the same panel Finding and reinstalling lost Apple- currently used in the 27" iMac. Issues supplied applications in OS X with the panels caused problems for by Topher Kessler Apple that resulted in shipping delays Macworld for the 27" iMac, though those problems April 16, 2010 have been rectified.

Apple is also said to be wrapping up an In OS X there are times when you may update to its Mac Pro workstation have deleted items from your Applications folder that were put there by the OS X installer. Sometimes people 3.Use Combo Updaters Using Apple's have done this intentionally for items combo updaters is the better alternative they do not use to clear up clutter and than using the installation DVD if the free hard drive space, but at other times application has been updated, so if the people have inadvertently deleted them, application you are looking for is in the including important items like the combo updater, then use these with System Preferences. If this happens, you Pacifist first (or just reinstall the full may see the respective application in the combo updater again, which will not Dock appear as a translucent question hurt your system). For the application mark. There are several ways to restore that have been updated in the latest the lost programs and utilities, some of Combo updaters for various versions of which may be more convenient based on OS X, see the following table: (Table the resourced available to you. Keep in deleted) mind that regardless of which method you use, be sure to run a full permissions File Sharing enabled on your system, so fix after restoring lost applications that go to the "Sharing" system preferences came with OS X. and check the box next to "File Sharing."

1. Using Time Machine. If you have a With File Sharing enabled (it only needs full system backup using Time Machine, to be enabled once), just follow these you can go to the Applications folder in steps to quickly share any folder: the Finder, invoke Time Machine, and 1. Get info on the folder locate a backed up version of the desired 2. Click "Shared folder" application for restoration. The folder is now shared and should 2.Copy from another Mac If you have appear in the "File Sharing" section of another Mac handy that is running the the "Sharing" system preferences. If the same version of OS X as yours (check in permissions are the default where your the "About This Mac" option in the account has read/write access, and Apple menu), you can copy the desired "everyone" has read-only access, then Application to your Mac via the anyone on the network who connects to network, by emailing it to yourself, or your system will be able to view the through removable media such as flash contents of the folder. They will not be drives or CDs/DVDs. able to write to your system unless you either change the permissions for the 3.Use the OS X Installation DVD If you "everyone" group or give a specific have your OS X installation DVD person write access. available, you can use the utility "Pacifist" to open the DVD install Managing Access package and locate the lost application Once the folder is shared, instead of for extraction. While this is one option, having everyone be able to read files you it is not the preferrable one because the can customize permissions so that only selected application may have been specific users have access. To do this, updated in a more recent version of OS once you have authenticated by clicking X than the one which is on the DVD. the little lock, first set the "everyone" group to "no access" so guest users on sharing setup is to be temporary. the network will not be able to see your files. Then click the "plus" button and If you forget which folders you have you will be presented with a list of shared, you can always go back to the available people, which include local "File Sharing" section of the "Sharing" user accounts as well as contacts in your system preferences and manage your address book. shared folders from there. NOTE: Newly created user accounts will need to be With a sharing-only user added (ie, removed or otherwise managed via the johnny), you can set special permissions "Accounts" system preferences. for that user in the "Sharing & Permissions" section, and keep this Access from Windows window open to manage access for temporary file-sharing setups. To allow access from Windows Keep in mind that the people in your machines, check the option to enable contacts list do not have local accounts "SMB" file sharing. on the system, but are available so you OS X has built-in support for Windows can easily give them a "sharing only" file sharing, which will not only allow account from this interface. Sharing-only you to access Windows computers but accounts will not be able to log in to also share files with them. By default your system locally and run applications. only the Apple Filing Protocol (Mac- They can only access files for which only sharing) is enabled, so you will they are permitted from other computers need to specifically enable Windows on the network. sharing if you want to enable access to and from Windows machines. Select a desired user, or click the "New To do this, go to the "File Sharing" Person" button to add a user name, and section of the "Sharing" system you will have to then give that user a preferences, and click the "Options..." password. With the password set, the button. Then click "Share files and new user will appear in the users list, folders using SMB (Windows)" option, and clicking "Select" will add that user and check the box next to the accounts to the info window. that you wish to grant access to the computer via SMB. Doing this will From here, you can then set special require you to enter the account's permissions for that user account, password, so do this for the current and allowing them to either read, write, or new accounts you wish to give access, both read and write to the folder. and they should then be able to connect from Windows computers on the local As long as these permissions are set, the network. users and groups will have to follow them. There is no need to close the Set a different background for each information window for any changes to Space take effect, which is convenient because MacWorld Hints you can keep the info window open to use as a control panel for managing Leopard and Snow Leopard's Spaces access to that folder, especially if your feature lets you configure multiple virtual workspaces; today's Hint shows Meeting Notes you one way of configuring a different Desktop image for each workspace. The February meeting was canceled due to a snowstorm. March brought a discussion of Global Positioning Dr. Mac Software (GPS) and equipment for and a discussion of Hi Drs. Mac,We just finished our Filemaker’s “little brother”, . 2009 taxes :-) and are in the process of printing and backing up. One GPS option is to back up to our MobileMe account. This sounded The advantage of using a computer over like a good idea until we got the using a dedicated device is that you have attached alert. Is it security-wise to the laptop there anyway – don’t you? back up to MobileMe? Judy & Larry Seriously, the screen is bigger and once +++++++++++++++++ one has paid for the initial map, there is FROM TODD. no cost for upgrades. I would be reluctant to do that. Instead, I would use the option to Bento back up everything, including Turbo Todd Smith Tax itself, to a CD. Then you can file the CD with a printed copy in Filemaker’s little brother. According to the place of your choosing (like a Todd Smith, Bento has many of the safety deposit box). same features as the more expensive Filemaker. Sadly, it lacks the critical, to If you do want to save a copy on many, feature of being able to print MobileMe, I can show you how to mailing labels. store it in an encrypted disk image. How Computers Work ++++++++++++++++++ Bill Geraci FROM Bill Don't do it. I mean, it's *likely* to be Computer troublehooting was discussed. OK, but, no. Here's what I would do. Get (I’m not being grouchy, just that there is a copy of Knox encryption software no one or two sentence summary – either (there are others that do this task, this is very short or very long ed.) the one I'm familar with and have bought). Use Knox to create a (As it happened, an article from "sparseimage" file (which mounts as a MacWorld, which I have published, volume) and is encrypted. Copy your covered much the same ground. I files to that volume and then unmount considered publishing my notes from that volume. Then copy that file (which Bill’s talk, but I think that putting his is those encrypted files) up to your iDisk talk through my notes might cause a (which is part of your mobile me problem. If you are interested in seeing account. Let me know if this doesn't what I have, email me at work or doesn't make sense. [email protected] and I will make a copy and send it to you. Ed)