MACNJ Serving the Central New Jersey Macintosh Community since 1986 August 2012 Get Mountain Lion for Free with Recently Purchased Macs by Adam C. Engst
There’s always a lag between when Apple releases a new version of Mac OS X and when Macs start shipping with it. To address that, Apple has long made free updates available to those who buy a Mac after a certain date, and this is once again true of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, via the OS X Mountain Lion Up-to-Date Program [http://www.apple.com/osx/ uptodate/].
If you purchased a new Mac between 11 June 2012 and 25 July 2012, you must enter your purchase details by 24 August 2012 to claim your free upgrade to Mountain Lion, normally $19.99. Apple has a separate link on the Up-to-Date Program page for those who buy a Mac that doesn’t come with Mountain Lion on or after 26 July 2012. In this second case, you must apply within 30 days of your purchase.
The Up-to-Date Program also applies to the recent purchase of any Mac server that ships with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Server — you can apply to get both a free copy of Mountain Lion and a free copy of OS X Server, which is normally a $19.99 add-on from the Mac App Store. Scroll down on the Up-to- Date Program page to find the OS X Server offer.
Discussion on TidBITS Talk suggests that Apple will send email containing the necessary codes to redeem in the Mac App Store, but that it may take up to 72 hours for them to Ed. Note Our midsummer edition of The Window focuses on some interesting arrive. new features in Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Some of you may be Unless otherwise noted, this article is copyright © 2012 TidBITS Publishing, Inc.. using this newest version already, and may be able to add further TidBITS is copyright © 2008 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Reuse governed by tips to the members at our September 8 meeting. We have a review this Creative Commons License: http://tidbits.com/terms/. of a book which shows how the iPad is a business/work tool; and one on Open DNS which is recommended for you internet safety. Looking forward to seeing all in September!
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To complement the release of its latest big cat into the wild, In addition to iCloud compatibility, the iWork updates can Apple has updated its iWork suite of productivity apps to version now use Mountain Lion’s Dictation feature, and they’ve been 9.2, as well as individual apps purchased through the Mac App enhanced to take advantage of the MacBook Pro with Retina Store (Keynote 5.2, Numbers 2.2, and Pages 4.2). The updates Display. All updates are free and require at least Mac OS X are focused on bringing support for Mountain Lion’s Docu- 10.7.4, though you’ll need to be running Mountain Lion in ments in the Cloud feature, which enables you to store files in order to use the Documents in the Cloud and Dictation fea- iCloud and automatically keep them synced across any Mac tures. The iWork update weighs in at 317.7 MB via Software or iOS device that is linked to your iCloud account (and has Update, or 302 MB via direct download from Apple’s Support the appropriate app installed). Accordingly, the iOS versions Web site. If you purchased the apps individually, you can of Keynote, Numbers, and Pages have also been updated to download the updates from the Mac App Store. version 1.6.1. Unless otherwise noted, this article is copyright © 2012 TidBITS Publishing, Inc.. TidBITS is copyright © 2008 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Reuse governed by this Creative Commons License: http://tidbits.com/terms/. The shift to Documents in the Cloud also puts the final nail in the coffin of iWork.com, which is scheduled for closure on 31 July, 2012. If you have any documents saved at iWork.com, Apple recommends that you sign into the site and down- load all files to your computer. OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, the Little Details by Jeff Carlson
You might look at the list of new features in OS X 10.8 Moun- ance than improve- tain Lion and think, “Ho hum, no big deal,” but a lot goes into ment, so in Moun- a major update to an operating system. Rather than write tain Lion the auto- yet another comprehensive review for that, we want to touch matic lock feature on features and shortcuts that you might not easily is gone. You can encounter on your own — or that we think are so cool they still lock a docu- deserve mention. ment manually: position the mouse Save As Saved from the Dustbin – In 10.7 Lion, applications pointer over a doc- that used Auto Save lacked a Save As command. Although ument’s title bar, you could work around this disappearance, many experi- click the little tri- enced Mac users found it annoying. Now in Mountain Lion, angle that appears, and choose Lock from the menu. Save As is back! To access it, hold down the Option key while you open the File menu. Turn Off All Notification Alerts and Banners at Once — Mountain Lion’s new Notifications feature pops up alerts and Auto Save Auto Locking – Under Lion, Auto Save included banners for a variety of actions, such as new messages in the an auto lock capability — after a period of time, such as two Mail and Messages apps, Game Center alerts, and Twitter weeks, a document would be locked automatically to pre- mentions and direct messages. If you’d prefer to hide them, you vent accidental editing should you open it later. (Strangely, can do it in two ways: the preference to control this behavior was in the Time Ma- • Click the Notification Center icon at the right edge of the chine pane of System Preferences.) Apple must have gotten menu bar. Then — and this is a sneaky approach — drag the message that the nanny-esque feature was more annoy- (continued next page)
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the pane down to reveal a hidden Show Alerts and Banners Share System Audio to AirPlay Devices — In addition to toggle switch. Click the switch to Off, which pauses the noti- the new AirPlay Video Mirroring feature in Mountain Lion, fications for a day. which uses AirPlay to stream your entire screen to a second- or third-generation Apple TV and thence to an HDTV, AirPlay adds new audio-only options as well. AirPlay has long en- abled you to stream music from your Mac to a device such as a second- or third-generation Apple TV or AirPort Express, but before Mountain Lion you could stream only from an ap- plication that had a specific AirPlay output feature. Now, in Mountain Lion, you can also send your Mac’s system audio. Option-click the Sound control in the menu bar, where you’ll see a single (the • Much easier, and less sneaky, is to Option-click the Notifica- first alphabetical, tion Center icon to turn the alerts on or off. or the last used) AirPlay device Make Notification Center Appear Reliably with a Track- show up as an pad — Apple makes viewing Notification Center sound easy: audio destination. “just swipe to the left from the right edge of the trackpad.” You can find all After scrolling the Safari window to the right repeatedly, we available AirPlay figured out that Apple really means from the edge. Position devices and addi- your fingers off the right side of a Magic Trackpad or a laptop’s tional audio Air- built-in trackpad, and then swipe onto the pad’s surface. Play options in the Sound preference Access Accessibility Options Quickly — Press Command- pane under the Option-F5 and you’ll immediately see a pop-up dialog where Output tab. you can turn on and off core accessibility options, such as those for zooming and VoiceOver. Speaking of AirPlay Video Mirroring, be aware that not all Mountain Lion-capable Macs can take advantage of it. Incorporate Twitter Info into Your Contacts Database — Specifically, you need: With built-in support for Twitter, Mountain Lion enables you • iMac (Mid 2011 or newer) to compose and send tweets from the Share button in many • Mac mini (Mid 2011 or newer) applications, such as Safari, as well as from Notification Cen- • MacBook Air (Mid 2011 or newer) ter. But you can also pull information from your Twitter ac- • MacBook Pro (Early 2011 or newer) count into the Contacts application (formerly known as Address Book). Twitter photos and other information avail- Share Items from able from the people you follow can be imported, although Quick Look — not using the Contacts app itself. When you select an item in the (Before you do this, we suggest you back up your Contacts Finder and press data: Choose File > Export > Contacts Archive.) the Space bar to open a Quick Look Go to the Mail, Contacts & Calendars preference pane and preview, you’ll find click your Twitter account (assuming you’ve already set it up). a handy Share but- Then, click the Update Contacts button. This capability will ton present, just like in Finder windows. work for Facebook, too, when support is added in a few months. (continued next page)
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Tighter Screen Sharing — If you often use Screen Sharing New Finder Progress Indicator — Is that large file copied yet? to control remote computers, a pair of improvements will save You can quickly see how much has completed by observing you a lot of aggravation. When a Screen Sharing session is the new progress bar that appears on icons or next to file active, anything you copy on your computer is automatically names during copy operations. It appears in all Finder views. sent to the Clipboard of the remote computer when you switch to its Screen Sharing window — you don’t have to transfer the contents manually.
This option can be disabled by choosing Edit > Disable Shared Clipboard, but that applies only to the current ses- sion. To make the change permanent for future screen shar- ing sessions, choose Screen Sharing > Preferences and New Desktop Wallpapers — It wouldn’t be a proper Mac OS X disable the Use Shared Clipboard option. update without a few new desktop wallpaper images added to the Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane. Some of the Also, you can now copy files from your computer to the other photos have their own interesting stories, too. The default using drag-and-drop. desktop image, Galaxy, was enhanced by Apple from a NASA photo, and in the process a few galaxies disappeared. Semi-Smart Reminders — When you create an item in the Reminders application, it can pick up context from what you type. For example, typing “Pick up cake tomorrow at 4” cre- ates a reminder of “Pick up cake” scheduled for the next day at 4:00 PM. However, the feature is still spotty — it doesn’t recognize geofencing, and sometimes it doesn’t properly rec- ognize the time that was typed.
Change the Dictation Shortcut — The default keyboard shortcut for enabling the Dictation feature is to press the Fn (Function) key twice. If you don’t like that, or your keyboard lacks the Fn key, you can change it in the Dictation & Speech preference pane by choosing an alternative from the Short- cut pop-up menu, or specifying your own.
Create a Bootable Mountain Lion USB Drive — Having an external method of installing Mountain Lion is essential, in the event that your hard drive fails and you can’t access the Recovery HD partition to perform disk repairs or reinstall the operating system. If you ever created a bootable USB drive that contained the Lion installer, the steps are nearly the same, but with one key change: When you access the In- stallESD.dmg disk image from the Mountain Lion installation package, you must first mount that image before restoring its data to the USB drive. Dan Frakes at Macworld has the full rundown of steps required to create the drive. (continued next page)
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Easily Open Unsigned Apps — Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper the contextual menu. Mountain Lion asks you to confirm feature is designed to prevent malware from running on your that you want to open the file; click the Open button. This is system. The default behavior is to allow any application necessary only the first time you open an application — after downloaded from the Mac App Store and any application that it’s considered safe. whose developer has received a Developer ID from Apple. In the Security & Privacy preference pane, you can also choose Multi-volume Time Machine — Instead of relying on a whether to allow only apps from the Mac App Store to be single hard disk dedicated to Time Machine, you can rotate run, or allow any application to run. The latter is how Mac OS others into your backup system to ensure a level of redun- has always acted, but it’s the least secure option. dancy (and keep a drive offsite for further safety).
It’s possible to More Tips — We’re sure that additional Mountain Lion tips keep your security and tricks will be discovered now that the teeming masses level as it is, but of Mac users can start poking and prodding at Apple’s latest also open unsigned big cat. If you discover any good ones, let us know in a applications with- comment and we’ll see about adding them to this article or out going into the a future one. Security & Privacy Unless otherwise noted, this article is copyright © 2012 TidBITS Publishing, Inc.. preference pane to TidBITS is copyright © 2008 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Reuse governed by this Creative Commons License: http://tidbits.com/terms/. change the system-wide setting. Right-click or Control-click an application you’ve downloaded and choose Open from
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Book Review: Book Review: Pad 2 for Seniors iPad for the Older for Dummies and Wiser by Dave Greenbaum by Dave Greenbaum I’m not sure why they call this for Seniors because this seems If you are giving or supporting an iPad like the average Dummies book. A good quality guide that for someone who is a baby boomer covers all the major information you need to know. This book or older, this is a great book! is extremely comprehensive and a novice might find it a bit intimidating. It’s geared more towards a intermediate user This book is specifically designed for that already feels somewhat comfortable with an iPad senior adults who may not always feel comfortable with technology The one “senior” aspect of this book is the typeface. It’s BIG. and face certain physical challenges Obviously it’s designed for those that may have trouble see- when eyesight and mobility begin ing. The book is designed for person that may not feel com- to fail. Unlike “dummy” style books, fortable with technology which includes not just seniors but this book respects their life experience and doesn’t talk down really anyone. to them.
Having worked with seniors, I think this book presented too Each chapter focuses on tasks rather than functions. Instead much information too quickly and the average novice might of presenting Safari, the chapter is entitled “Browsing the get overwhelmed with so Web”. For novices who didn’t grow up with these terms, fo- much to do and config- cusing on what the iPad can do rather than what it is called ure on the iPad, and the is vitally important. books goes way beyond the basics. The chapters state requirements as far as technology and skills. This way you’ll know if you have exactly what you need to Overall, for a senior that proceed. During the explanation tips and tricks are given already feels comfortable about how to use the iPad, but not as many tips on efficiency or with technology and is shortcuts. Newbies will love that because they may simply not eager to learn, this book know all the great things the iPad can do and don’t want to get is a good fit. For novices bogged down with a “simpler” way of doing it. They are just or those afraid of tech- trying to learn the basics. In particular I think the color coding of nology, this may be too this information was great. Red backgrounds for warning and much. green for tips makes it an easy read and less intimidating with too much black on white text. The ending of the chapters Pros: Lots of details, big type have a summary and a quiz to reinforce the learning. Outstanding Cons: Maybe too much for information presented too quickly The one major flaw of this book is the print size. It’s bigger that the 2 out of 5 Dogcows average manual but honestly, if your target market is older Originally published and written for the Lawrence Apple Users' Group 2.0 people with potential eyesight issues, I think the text should be [http:// www.laugks.org/news] and published by Dave Greenbaum much larger. Also, this is written in the UK and some of the at http://www.clickheretech.com Yahoo! Groups Links British spellings and terms might throw American readers a bit.
Pros: Focuses on tasks rather than technology, easy to un- derstand for novices without talking down to them Cons: Text should be larger 9 out of 10 Dogcows Originally published and written for the Lawrence Apple Users' Group 2.0 [http:// www.laugks.org/news] and published by Dave Greenbaum at http://www.clickheretech.com
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Book Review: iPad at Work by David Sparks pub. John Wiley and Sons available in iTunes: Great screen shots and succinct writing make this a quick $16.99/Amazon.com $18.36 and easy read and allows you to skip over the concepts you aren't interested in. Don't skip. Even if you know contact Forget about playing Angry Birds and watching Netflix, this management or word processing, the tips and tricks to opti- book is all about business and rightfully so. David Sparks is mize usage are well work the short reads. a legend in the Mac community and his books are always spectacular! If you use your iPad for a business or non-profit, The appendix of the book includes industry specific sugges- this is a must have. tions for law, medicine construction and more.
The organization of the book is extremely focused. Each A seriously awesome book by an industry luminary! chapter covers a different aspect of what a user might need to do with their iPad such as writing, contacts, or presenta- Pros: Organization and content focused on business tions. Instead of showing you the basics of the iOS apps Cons: Absolutely none included in the iPad, David takes a holistic approach suggesting not just a variety of alternative apps but discussing Five out of Five Dogcows suggested workflows and how to optimize these workflows for your individual business. No stone is Originally published and written for the left unturned here: billing/invoicing, Lawrence Apple Users' Group 2.0 http:/ www.laugks.org/news and published by Dave databases, project management and Greenbaum at http:/www. more business specific concepts. clickheretech.com"
The chapters start with the coverage of the primary iOS apps as well compli- mentary or alternative apps. Each app is given a QRcode making for easy down- loading on your iPhone. What a thoughtful and smart idea, but that's MacSparky – the online identify of David Sparks.
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Safari has never been a revolutionary browser, even if, at its There are many cosmetic changes in the new address field, debut, it outclassed others in terms of look-and-feel. Safari 6 resulting in an overall much cleaner look. The http:// URL prefix merely continues the app’s evolutionary development, introduc- doesn’t show, and everything after the domain name is in ing a few new traits, tweaking others, and totally dropping gray text. The Add Bookmark button has been detached from one that I depended on. In all, it feels much more like a 5.5 its left edge and promoted to toolbar-button status version than a leap to a new number. (although it is not part of the default set). The Reader button is integrated into the right edge of the field instead of floating The Address-Search Combo Field — Let’s start with the there loose — it’s merely dimmed when the feature isn’t most obvious change, an overdue interface adjustment: available for a Web page — and it no longer flips to an RSS there’s no separate search field. Its functionality has been button because… well, I’ll get to that in a bit. No progress rolled into the address field, which is now referred to with gear spins while a page loads any more, and the blue back- the catchy moniker “address and search field.” (While Firefox’s ground that fills the field as a progress indicator takes a multi-function “Awesome Bar” grates on my nerves because distinctly different visual approach. Along with the new it sounds like it was named by an unimaginative teenager, Show iCloud Tabs and Share buttons, be sure to note the Safari’s is worse — apparently involving an unimaginative, “Add…” notice in the status bar in this picture; for the screen- overly pedantic adult.) shot, the Shift key was down, so a click on that link would add the page to the Reading List. Type something into that field and Safari plucks a Top Hit suggestion from your history and bookmarks as well as pro- viding a list of matches; now, it also starts a Google search. The drop-down menu lists its suggestions in categories, lim- iting the number in each to keep the menu to a reasonable size. You can search your history more thoroughly with a “Search for… in History” command at the bottom of the menu. A nice, subtle touch: the menu also includes a “Find… on this page” command that displays the number of matches on the page. (The standard Command-L and Command- Option-F shortcuts now both make the address field active; you can still search within the page using the search bar invoked with Command-F.)
The combined ad- dress and search field means we’ve lost the previous View Multiple Tabs. (Sort Of.) — There’s finally a way to search field’s spe- view all the open tabs in a window: Tab View! That’s a cial drop-down for sardonic exclamation point, because while there is a way to changing your de- view them, it’s not a great way. It is, at least, slightly better fault search engine; than nothing. The View > Show All Tabs command or toolbar that option now button, or a pinch gesture, puts all the tabbed pages into the requires a trip to body of the window, where you can scroll horizontally to Safari’s General preference pane (where Google, Yahoo, and view them by swiping or using the left and right arrow keys; Bing remain the only choices; without an extension or other the dots at the bottom of the window indicate how many hack, you can’t add your own search engines, such as tabs there are, and clicking a dot also scrolls you to the Google’s Browse By Name service. appropriate tab.
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But you can see ticular miracle to occur. I have neither at this point, so I’ll only one com- just point out that this feature is part and parcel of Safari plete window at a bookmark syncing, and that you access it by clicking the time — the size of new Show iCloud Tabs button in the toolbar. the tabbed page changes with the • Notifications: We have a chicken-and-egg problem here. size of the win- Not many sites use the HTML5 notifications capability. dow — limiting When they do, you’ll be able to allow them to send alerts to the usefulness of Notification Center, and manage those permissions through Tab View. It didn’t occur to anyone to use the Top Sites visual Safari’s Notifications preference pane. approach, with multiple thumbnails showing? RSS RIP — I’d like to rant about Apple’s having pulled RSS Another drawback of Tab View as implemented is the use of support from Safari, but “rant” implies something a little a pinch as a way to trigger it: it quickly becomes a natural- lengthier (along the lines of a Louis Black tirade on The Daily feeling gesture, but if you’ve pinched to zoom the text in the Show) than what I have to say, which is: What the heck were window and then zoom back a few levels with more pinching, they thinking? RSS support has also been pulled from Apple it’s easy to slip into Tab View accidentally. Mail, meaning you must use a third-party app to handle RSS feeds on your Mac. I don’t use RSS for lots of sites, but for the Read Your Reading List Offline — The Reading List was sites I subscribe to, I use it a lot, so I’m quite… miffed at this born as nothing more than a special kind of bookmark — downgrade. (Hmm… perhaps Apple was thinking that you stored an informative link to a page so you could go back Notification Center could display RSS feeds?) to it later when you had time. In Safari 6, it has matured into what it should have been all along: a way to store the page New Preference Panes — Web site sign-ins are the chief itself, so you can read it later when you’re offline. While Safari cause of password proliferation, and concomitant hair- 6’s Reading List will sync with your iOS device, Safari there pulling when you lose track of which one goes where. If you still treats it as a list of links at this point; it’s a good bet that don’t use a third-party password manager like 1Password or offline reading will appear in the version of Safari in iOS 6. LastPass (which work in multiple browsers, if you ever switch back and forth), the Mac’s Keychain Access utility has been Share and Share Alike — I hope you’re not tired of sharing the crutch to get you through. But now Safari provides a stuff, or having stuff shared with you, because there’s no end Passwords preference pane that gives you faster (it’s right in sight. The Share button — the arrow curving out of a box there) and easier (it’s a straightforward list) access to your that’s all over iOS — has made its way into many places in Web site usernames and passwords. There’s no password Mountain Lion, including the Safari toolbar, where it provides a hint option as there is in Keychain Access, but entering your menu that’s echoed in the new File > Share submenu. system password temporarily displays all the passwords in Stretching the definition of “share,” the button’s menu starts with the list, so I don’t miss the hints. Add To Reading List and Add Bookmark. Both menus provide Email This Page, Message, and Twitter commands; a Facebook The Privacy preference pane lets you remove or block cookies, option is scheduled to be added in a couple of months. limit a site’s access to location services, and tell (or “ask”) sites not to track you. Features-in-Waiting — Two items are ready for prime time, but prime time’s not quite ready for them: As mentioned above, the Notifications preference pane • iCloud Tabs: Open Safari tabs on one device and see them The Appearance preference pane is gone — no more iden- on your other devices through the miracle of iCloud. But tifying your default monospaced and proportional fonts and you’ll need a mobile device running the yet-to-be-released their sizes; it is, after all, the twenty-first century. If you want iOS 6, or a second Mac with Mountain Lion on it, for this par- to override a site’s font choices, you must create a CSS style
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sheet and specify it through the Advanced preference pane. easier reading — either in a separate window or in a split The Default Encoding menu that used to live in Appearance pane; the split-pane view offers several tools that should has also moved to the Advanced pane. make troubleshooting your page design a little easier. • The Email This Page command — from the File > Share Mac OS X Compatibility — While Safari 6 is installed along submenu or the Share button’s menu — seems to limit with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, it’s also compatible with 10.7 you to emailing the page instead of only the link. Pressing Lion. For the latter, use Software Update to download the Shift, however, changes the Share submenu item to Email latest version. Lion users won’t get Mountain Lion-level fea- Link To This Page (or you can use Command-Shift-I). You tures such as sharing, notifications, and iCloud Tabs; they can’t change the command in the Share button; however, won’t get Tab View, either. 10.6 Snow Leopard and earlier are a Control-click on the URL in the address field provides a stuck with Safari 5. menu from which you can select Share > Email, which gives you only the link. In addition, once you’re in Apple Oh, and while we’re on the topic of operating system com- Mail with the page or the link in the message window, you patibility, Safari 6 is not available for Windows, and it’s easy can change your mind about how you want to send the to assume that it never will be. Safari 5.1.7 remains available information. The nifty Send Web Content As menu in the for Windows users who can find it on Apple’s Support site. bar just above the message area lets you choose to send the information as a page, a link, a PDF, or as “Reader” A Few More Things… — Some quick observations and tips: (formatted in the body of the message the way an article • There’s a new visual effect when you’re downloading — is formatted in Safari’s Reader). the item jumps to the Downloads folder in the Dock rather Version Envy or Pragmatism? — At this point, Web than to the Downloads button in the toolbar. Remove the browsers are a mature class of software — note that none of Downloads folder from the Dock, and the jump target the three major browsers has any notable feature that the reverts to Safari’s Downloads button. others lack. Safari 6 seems to have earned its version number • Shift-click a link to send the page to the Reading List; largely through its inclusion in Mountain Lion; from a feature Option-click a link to download it. standpoint, it rates no more than a 5.5, and that mainly • Pressing the Delete key no longer triggers the Back com- because we get an offline Reading List. mand, displaying the previous page in the window. (Some people considered that convenient, but I always felt it was But it’s also possible that Apple wanted to avoid falling too a bit of an interface sin. Venial, but a sin nonetheless.) Use far behind Firefox, whose version number Mozilla has the alternatives of Command-left arrow or Command-[ if artificially jacked up to 13.0.1 (whoops, that’s now 14.0.1!) to you want a keyboard option instead of using the Previous compete with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10 and Google button. Chrome, which never advertises its version number (under- • You can edit bookmark names directly in the Bookmarks standably, since it’s currently at 20.0.1132.57 on the Mac). bar either when you first drag them there or afterward, by a click-and-hold on the name until it’s activated for editing. Or perhaps we assign too much importance to version Super convenient! numbers these days. They’ve historically been a signal of how • Installing an extension from a downloaded file instead of significant an upgrade is deemed to be, but the truth is that through the Extension Gallery is slightly streamlined. Double- without them, it’s difficult to be accurate when talking about clicking the file switches you to Safari with its single changes or troubleshooting problems (“the new iPad,” anyone?). confirmation dialog instead of going through two such Unless otherwise noted, this article is copyright © 2012 TidBITS Publishing, Inc.. dialogs. (The rest of the extension management interface TidBITS is copyright © 2008 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Reuse governed by this is still half-hearted at best.) Creative Commons License: http://tidbits.com/terms/.nse: • The View Source command that used to be in the View http://tidbits.com/terms/. menu now exists only in the Develop menu, which is still hidden until you turn it on in the Advanced preference pane. You can view the source code — now colorized for
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Genealogy buffs, take note! Leister Productions has released Reunion 10 also sports several new reports and charts, Reunion 10 [ http://www.leisterpro.com/], a significant including a report that lets you see the makeup of an individual’s upgrade of their venerable genealogy tool, with a focus on family on a particular date, an obituary report, and a chart improving navigation of complex family trees. Most obvi- showing the rela- ously, the Family Card, the initial view showing the source tionship between individual, their parents, spouse, spouse’s parents, and all two specific indi- children, has been replaced with the far more customizable viduals. Plus, non- Family View. Along blood relatives can with numerous dis- now be shown in a play options, every relationship report person’s card can or chart (for exam- now contain a ple, someone who picture as well as is the daughter of the spouse of your second cousin). Other any event or fact new and improved reports include an events report that you care to display. shows a list of events for people in the family and a multimedia usage report that helps you identify where files are linked. Also notable is the new Tree View, Although these new display and reporting features are welcome, which replaces the they’re aimed at providing a better overview of data that’s former Overview already in Reunion. Instead, my favorite and offers a scroll- new feature is the built-in Web search able tree (either that enables me to perform a quick in hourglass or search for a given person on a number pedigree format) of key genealogical Web sites, either enabling you to one at a time or a set of favorites at all explore the family once. In just a few minutes of playing tree in a more fluid around, I found the death certificates manner. and the names of the parents of my great-great-grandfather. A new right sidebar — populated by clicking items in the left sidebar — provides different lists including people, sources, There are many other smaller improve- multimedia, relatives (people sorted by their relationship to ments along with videos explaining a specified individual), ages, places, treetops (the oldest Reunion’s top ten new features, which join a long list of known ancestors on every branch of the tree), and more. You genealogical goodies for those who aren’t yet familiar with can hide this sidebar to provide more screen real estate to Reunion’s existing capabilities. the information-heavy Family and Tree views. The sidebar also serves as a source for dropping places into place fields New copies of Reunion 10 are available directly from Leister in appropriate views, and you can drop people into Relatives, Productions for $99; upgrades from earlier versions cost Treetops, and Ages sidebars to show the associated data. $49.95. Companion iPhone and iPad apps that work with both Reunion 9.0c and 10.0 are available for $14.99 each. Unless otherwise noted, this article is copyright © 2012 TidBITS Publishing, Inc.. TidBITS is copyright © 2008 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Reuse governed by this Creative Commons License: http://tidbits.com/terms/.
Volume 24, Number 11 www.macnj.org page 11 MACNJ Serving the Central New Jersey Macintosh Community since 1986 August 2012 Minutes of MACNJ meeting 6/2/12 5/12/12 by Lia DiStefano by Hugh Murphy Jr.
We started right off with Q&A .Ed Lavan had a FileMaker The meeting was opened at 0923 by President Davis with an issue which JimTrier went one on one with. alarming, comical alarm clock movie. He then announced that the June meeting would be held a week early on June David reminded us that Apple's early success was in part 2d, since Voorhees High School would be closed on the because of VisiCalc, a spreadsheet program that ran only regular meeting day. The club will meet in Room 169 on the new Apple computers. instead of the Music Room.
Doris asked how to open troublesome ZIP files.Where do Mobile me and mac.com will continue to be available. It is decompressed ZIP files reside once opened? We discussed not necessary to upgrade to Lion to keep a mac.com email using spotlight to find recently used files. Also View address. .me and mac.com are the same thing. Menu> show paths. There was a discussion and demonstration of DropBox, Dot mac was automatically transferring to the iCloud service. which is available for storage from any computer. A link Dot Mac and me.com e-mail accounts will remain active as may be provided to allow others to access files. 2 GB are part of iCloud. We were reminded that, if we were not eligible free; more may be purchased, or gained from referrals. to use iCloud, to download any files that were stored on iDisk before June 30th, or we'd lose them. Email was discussed. Bill Barr and Chod Lang had both eliminated accounts which were causing them problems. David then asked each person to think of one item that we iCloud will be free ( 5 GB ); if there are additional costs, the might discuss at a future MACNJ meeting. He planned to information will posted on the Forum. ask all members to do the same! Dave proceeded with the topic of the meeting - Photoshop Some suggestions were: using Automator; How you can Elements. He described the reason for his search in The upgrade your computer with out messing it up!; Utilities to Window for a less expensive photo editor than Photoshop. troubleshoot computer problems; re-explain the DROPBOX Unfortunately, the version of Photoshop Elements he service; how to stay abreast of latest Apple news. Ways to installed on his wife's computer was the German version, send out html style emails ; Safety issue of keeping aliases and he couldn't resolve the problem. Subsequent to the instead of actual files on your desktop. A report on the use meeting, he went back to the App Store and found the of iPads at Del Val High School where every student will be procedure for resolving the problem at the end of the given one for their personal use instead of printed textbooks. description of the application.
We then had break for the 50/50 He demonstrated Photoshop Elements with a photo from iPhoto using Quick Edit, Guided Edit, and Healing Brush. David presented a keynote presentation showing the evo- He also showed changing of colors. He removed the back- lution of Apple products through its various advertising ground from a photo and replaced it with the background approaches. Most of the video portion was gleaned from from another photo. A type path can be selected for type the posted ads online. Starting with the Apple 1 all the way to which may be varied as font, color, and size. the latest iPad, we saw the ofttimes humorous approaches to winning our hearts and minds in competition to the PC world at large. It was a very informative and entertaining look.
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Malicious Web sites install code without our knowledge, or OpenDNS features are free; the firm offers a $20 per year account rely on our gullibility, in order to hijack our computers. Anti- with additional reporting, support, and controls, and more malware software can help by blocking known attacks, but expensive business and academic institution accounts.) does little or nothing about new vectors. Some software, like McAfee’s security package, can show whether a site linked But it can do more. OpenDNS built a system called PhishTank via a search engine is known to be safe or malicious. But that accepts reports of “phishing,” or schemes in which spam OpenDNS [ http://www.opendns.com/] can go a step further. email messages lure unwary recipients to counterfeit Web sites designed to steal passwords, credit card numbers, or OpenDNS promoted itself as a way to other personal information. PhishTank avoid being exploited by the Flashback relies on community reporting and re- malware last month, but it takes a little view, letting users unpacking of that claim to understand examine reports and vote on whether how the service can help. Flashback attacked Macs by using a given Web site should be categorized as one that’s associ- an exploit in Java triggered when a user visited a Web site ated with phishing. hosting the necessary malicious code. Once the malware was installed, Flashback attempted to contact command-and- Here’s the key for how OpenDNS can protect you from mal- control servers at obscured domain names built into the ware. When you’re using OpenDNS, if you visit a Web site code. (Security firms and anti-virus companies ferreted out identified as being involved in phishing scams, the site is these domains and registered those that weren’t already blocked, and OpenDNS displays a message warning you controlled, while those already registered were blocked by about the site. Other network applications that try to connect ISPs and other parties.) When successful, Flashback’s goal was to a PhishTank-listed IP address are simply blocked. to infect network applications and steal identity and financial OpenDNS also maintains a list of servers that are used to con- information, transmitting it back to those command-and- trol zombified computers, and blocks access to those as well. control servers. Finally, OpenDNS can optionally keep DNS from resolving to private address ranges, the ones reserved for use only on You could thus be protected from infection if your computer local networks (like the 192.168.0.0–192.168.255.255 set) were deterred from visiting compromised and malicious sites that would never be used for publicly reachable domain that have all manner of code that could cause you trouble. names. That might seem unnecessary, but malware can try And you could reduce the liability of being infected if Flash- to rewrite DNS to point to other compromised machines on back were blocked from connecting to its command-and- the same network or to load a Web site from the computer control sites. OpenDNS provides both those benefits by on which it’s running. controlling DNS lookups. I’ve been using OpenDNS for years, and I also recommend it DNS (Domain Name System) is as complex as any other bit as something you could set up for friends, family, and col- of Internet plumbing, but simple to explain at its highest leagues who may not be sophisticated enough to avoid level. It converts a name of a host and domain, like www. phishing attacks, or who ask you for help in protecting their tidbits.com, into an Internet Protocol (IP) number, like computers. Adam and Tonya Engst point out that kids — 173.255.250.214. DNS enables users to initiate connections notably young teenagers — are also a prime audience for to remote servers by using human-readable names instead protection via OpenDNS, since the teens that they’ve of the numeric IP addresses that operating systems rely on. observed often click seemingly randomly on Web pages (and in program interfaces in general), exercising little or no When you switch your Mac or router to use OpenDNS discretion as to whether a risk is involved. instead of your ISP’s DNS servers, OpenDNS can intercept a DNS request and respond based on what it knows about the You can use OpenDNS at either the level of a single com- destination IP address. This is used for simple but useful puter, or, more effectively, at your router, so it protects your purposes, such as fixing a typo like .cmo to .com. (Basic entire network. (In fact, for laptops, it’s worth doing both, so (continued next page)
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you’re protected even when you’re away from your home or 208.67.220.220 office network.) For a single Mac, manually enter OpenDNS’s into the Second- two DNS server IP addresses (208.67.222.222 and ary DNS Server 208.67.220.220) into the DNS view of the appropriate field. network adapter’s Advanced dialog. A final option for advanced users is to use OpenDNS’s DNSCrypt soft- ware, currently in beta. DNSCrypt encrypts DNS lookups, which can prevent malicious redirection on public networks or in subverted nations. OpenDNS certainly can’t prevent malware attacks or even protect against unknown malicious Web sites. But by using DNS as part of an Internet-wide reporting and deterrence approach, and equiring that you install no software to take advantage of the benefits, OpenDNS can play a useful role in your over- all security strategy. Unless otherwise noted, this article is copyright © 2012 TidBITS Publishing, For an AirPort base station, run AirPort Utility, edit your base Inc.. TidBITS is copyright © 2008 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Reuse governed by this Creative Commons License: http://tidbits.com/terms/.enables you to station’s configuration, and in the Internet view, enter manage permissions for Web site notifications. It also provides a shortcut 208.67.222.222 in the Primary DNS Server field and to the Notifications pane in System Preferences.
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Volume 24, Number 11 www.macnj.org page 14 MACNJ Serving the Central New Jersey Macintosh Community since 1986 August 2012 MACNJ Member Directory from the MACNJ membership database Officers and Committee Chairs David L. Davis, President ...... (908) 782-0788 Doris Kiziah ...... [email protected] Robert H. Peabody, Emeritus This and That .(908) 995-9110 Chod Lang ...... [email protected] Bill Barr, Program Chair ...... (908) 730-8418 Ed Lavan ...... [email protected] Michael W. Fordice, PhD, Webmaster ...... (973) 361-3715 Kent Loudon ...... [email protected] Bob Fasanello, Co-Newsletter Editor ...... (908) 537-2803 Debbie Lynch ...... [email protected] John D’Almeida, Co-Newsletter Editor . . . . .(908) 216-5493 Bryan Marten ...... [email protected] Graham Curtis, Treasurer ...... (973) 762-9366 Dennis McAvoy ...... [email protected] Hugh Murphy, Jr., Secretary ...... (609) 660-1052 Don McBride ...... [email protected] Jim McMekin ...... [email protected] General Membership Sheila Meiman ...... [email protected] Xochitl (Sheila) Barnes ...... [email protected] Stan Menscher ...... [email protected] Bill Barr ...... [email protected] Barbara Middleton ...... [email protected] Bob Brickman ...... [email protected] Michael Middleton ...... [email protected] Ronni Buffington ...... [email protected] Margo Murphy ...... [email protected] Rosemary Carnali ...... [email protected] Hugh Murphy Jr...... [email protected] Chris Carter ...... [email protected] Bob Peabody ...... [email protected] Walter Chandoha ...... [email protected] Barbara Peabody ...... [email protected] Jonathan Clymer ...... [email protected] Frank Peluso ...... [email protected] Kathy Counterman ...... [email protected] Lee Roth ...... [email protected] Graham Curtis ...... [email protected] Dennis Spence ...... [email protected] John D’Almeida ...... [email protected] Bruce Thomson Jr...... [email protected] David Davis ...... [email protected] Jim Trier ...... jamesjtrier@gmail Lia DiStefano ...... [email protected] Allan Warner ...... [email protected] Erika Eick ...... [email protected] Geoff Withington ...... [email protected] John Elick ...... [email protected] Christine Wojtaszek ...... [email protected] Bob Fasanello ...... [email protected] Mike Fordice ...... [email protected] About the Member List Herbert Goodfriend ...... [email protected] Every effort is made to keep the member directory current. If your name has disappeared from the list, you may be delinquent in your dues. Stephanie Griffin ...... [email protected] Please check with treasurer Graham Curtis. Send all other address updates, Salimah Griffin ...... [email protected] changes and corrections to President David Davis. Thank you.
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MACNJ’s general monthly meetings are usually held on the second Saturday of each month at Voorhees High School, in High Bridge, New Jersey, from 9 AM to noon. Visitors are welcome.
From the Morristown area Go west on State Route 24 to County Route 513. Go southwest on 513 for 4.9 miles through Califon. Continue on 513. Voorhees High School will be on the left at 256 Route 513, across from Voorhees State Park.
From the Somerville area Go north on US Route 202 until it intersects with interstate 287. Take I-287 northwest for 4.2 miles to I-78 west. Follow I-78 west for 13 miles to Route 31 north (this is the Clinton/Washington exit.) Follow Route 31 north 2.1 miles to a traffic light where there will be a sign for High Bridge. Turn right onto County Route 513. Follow 513 north for two miles into the town of High Bridge. photo by Bill Barr Bill by photo Voorhees High School is two miles further north at 256 Route 513, on the right, across from Voorhees State Park.
From points west Go east on I-78 to exit 15 (Clinton/Washington exit for Route 31 north) Follow 31 north 2.1 miles to a traffic light with a sign for High Bridge. Turn right onto County Route 513 North. Follow 513 for two miles into the town of High Bridge. Voorhees High School is two miles further at 256 Route 513, on the right, across from Voorhees State Park.
From the Flemington area Take Route 31 north past Clinton to a traffic light with a sign for High Bridge. Turn right onto County Route 513 north. Follow 513 for two miles into the town of High Bridge. Voorhees High School is two miles further at 256 Route 513, on the right, across from Voorhees State Park.
Parking and Entrances Parking is plentiful and free. Park in the main parking lot of the school, enter the main entrance by the flag pole, and follow the signs for the MACNJ meeting room in the choir room on the first floor. The MACNJ newsletter, The Window, is an independent publication not affiliated or otherwise associated with or sponsored or sanctioned by Apple. The opinions, statements, positions, and views stated herein are those of the author(s) or publisher and are not intended to represent opinions, statements, or views of Apple. Non-commercial reproduction of material from this newsletter by another user group is permitted, provided credit is given to MACNJ and the author, and a copy of material reproduced sent to MACNJ editor.
Volume 24, Number 11 www.macnj.org page 16 MACNJ Serving the Central New Jersey Macintosh Community since 1986 August 2012 MACNJ Membership Annual dues are $24, due each January. Members joining during the year pay $2 per month for the months remaining in the current year. Families may join for $35. Please make all checks payable to “MACNJ”. Checks can be given to Treasurer Graham Curtis at the monthly meetings, or mailed to:
MACNJ Membership c/o Graham T. Curtis 33 Woodland Road Maplewood, NJ 07040 fill out this form and return it with your payment
MACNJ Membership Form check one: membership renewal new member membership renewal
month membership begins amount enclosed ($2 per month, $24 for the entire year/$25 per family)
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