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LIMac Inc. LIMac was established in 1984, Scott Randell Rick Matteson P.O. Box 2048 when the Mac was introduced. October Meeting November Meeting Seaford, NY , 11783-0180 Annual dues For October, several of our board members demonstrated their Traveling with your technology can be a President for membership are $36. favorite iOS apps. Most of these were iPad specific. After our pro- nightmare of too many devices, cables, adapters, Bill Medlow (The first meeting is free.) gram director, Rick Matteson, did the introduction, each partici- accessories and bags unless you have a good idea [email protected] For information,contact any NOVEMBER of the following: pant did their own presentation. of what you’ll actually need and use on your Vice President The first presenter was Richard Hickerson. The first app he trip. We all don’t necessarily need to carry the George Canellis Membership showed (iPad only) was The Daily. It is an entertainment and same things, but there are some items that are [email protected] Donald Hennessy [email protected] sports publication, created and designed from scratch for the iPad. 11 essential. Treasurer It is an US-based publication, that covers events around the world. LIMac’s November guest, Deb Shadovitz, Donald Hennessy Technical Adviser & [email protected] LIMac Webmaster The Daily combines print, web, and broadcast, giving you a differ- will take some of the mystery and scariness Secretary Bradley Dichter ent and distinct delivery methods, including interactive links. The out of what gear to bring on a trip. Ms. Shadovitz (she prefers Deb) is Bernie Flicker [email protected] app itself is free, but the magazine cost $0.99 per week, or $40.00 an author, speaker, instructor, consultant, event producer, and radio [email protected] Program Coordinator per year. He then spoke briefly about Flipboard. This app seems to person — specializing in Mac, Internet, and the Web. In her 20’s she The LIMac Forum: Rick Matteson require that you belong to social networks such as Facebook and spent three years traveling the world, living out of a backpack. Now Editor/Graphics [email protected] Twitter, you can however add URLs of your own. When you put on the eve of another trip, this time with her Mac, she’s stopping on Al Zygier Photoshop SIG in your information it sends you links to content you might be in- Long Island where she grew up. She hopes to make LIMac just one [email protected] Brian Revere terested in. Richard only had time for a brief description of this, so of the MUG stops on her extended and “make-it-up-as-I-go” tour of Proofreader [email protected] I went online to do some research. Even with that I am not exactly countries yet to be determined. Bradley Dichter MacBasics SIG sure how you would use this app. If you have an iPad (it is free) go You may not be planning to give lectures, presentations, or dem- Geoff Broadhurst to http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipboard/id358801284?mt=8 for onstrations like our guest this month, but there are basics that Board of Directors: [email protected] more information, or use iTunes download and try it. should be in everyone’s kit. Deb will break down the whats and whys Geoff Broadhurst Multimedia SIG Dave Ross was the next presenter. Both of the apps he present- of selecting items for different kinds of trips and show us some of her George Canellis Al Zygier ed are free. The first one is something I would definitely want if I favorite “tech toys.” Al Choy [email protected] Bradley Dichter had an iPad. It is called Fanhattan. It is an app that helps you locate Our general meeting will begin, as usual, with the two Q&A ses- Produced using: (Technical Director) movies and TV shows. It tells you where you can find them, and sions followed by announcements, including the presentation of the Adobe’s InDesign CS3, Bernie Flicker Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3. a lot of information on them including cost at the various sourc- slate of candidates for the 2012 election. Deb’s presentation will fol- Donald Hennessy Acrobat 8 es. It allows you to search by genre, day, or network. The next app low, then we’ll hold our monthly raffle. The evening will conclude Richard Hickerson he showed was the 9/11 Memorial Guide. With this app you can with SIG presentations. Rick Matteson Fonts are: (Program Coordinator) ITC’s Officina Sans explore the arrangement of names on the 9/11 Memorial at the It’s going to be an unusual, informative and fun meeting, so plan Bill Medlow and Galliard Pro, Impact, World Trade Center. you can also listen to remembrances of those to be there. See you then! 0 Scott Randell Kidprint who were lost, spoken by family and friends. In addition, you can Brian Revere September Meeting continued on Page 2 September Meeting continued from Page 1 also locate sponsored cobblestones on the The next app he demonstrated was The Memorial Plaza. This is an official app of Photographer’s Ephemeris (TPE). It is Meet a Mac - Bill Medlow the National September 11 Memorial & $8.99, and will work with iPhone and iPod Museum. touch, as well as iPad. It is a tool to help It all began in 1989 when Bill was look- er of the Mac, he extends that power to Rick was the final presenter. He demon- with the planning of all types of outdoor ing for information about his recent- his clients and offers the finest in state strated several photo editing apps with a photography, but particularly landscape ly purchased of the art services. Bill said, “one of the range of capabilities. First he showed Pho- and urban scenes. It is a map-centric sun Macintosh biggest kicks that I get is bringing a cli- toSync ($1.99), which allows you to make and moon calculator. It will help you to computer. A ent along to solve their issues and make wireless transfer of your photos/videos see how the light will fall on the land. Ba- librarian re- their aspirations possible.” This is ac- from or to your computer and other iDe- sically it helps you determine the best place ferred him to complished by providing different views, vices. PhotoSync also transfers to Dropbox, to stand when taking an outdoor picture, Bradley, who showing how all sides of a building relate Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, SmugMug, Zen- considering the lighting conditions at that introduced to each other, as well as to its surround- folio, and iDisk. time. More information can be found at: Bill to LIMac. ings. Different views express much more Rick then demonstrated the Adobe Pho- http://photoephemeris.com/ . After meet- than simple elevations and can put it all toshop Express app which lets you use Lastly, Rick demonstrated FontBook ing Brad, Bill in context, as seen on his web site, WT- simple gestures to quickly edit and share ($5.99). This was the only non-photo ed- joined, and the rest is history. MArch.com. Bill believes that the ease photos from your mobile device. Its edit- iting app he showed. FontBook is a com- Bill quickly became an active mem- of use and power of the Mac has allowed ing features include: crop, straighten, ro- prehensive typographic reference tool. It ber of the group and soon joined the him to translate ideas and express him- tate or flip, color management, soft focus, contains 110 type foundries and features Board of Directors. He was excited about self. He is proud that his office has been and sharpen. It also includes several ef- over 620,000 typeface specimens. You the Macintosh computer, its potential, 100% Macintosh fo rover 20 years and is fects, and the ability to add boarders. For can use the FontBook app to look up and and found the members to be friend- eager to use the many upgrades to come. more information go to http://itunes.ap- view fonts by name, style category, ty- ly and helpful. Sometime thereafter, he We know Bill best for his leadership ple.com/us/app/adobe-photoshop-express/ pographical sub-classification, designer was elected as Vice President and later at our LIMac general meetings, Board id331975235?mt=8. This is a free app, and it name, and foundry name. This app is for as President. His first Macintosh was an meetings, and certainly for his running works on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. identification only, you cannot add these Apple II+, which he still has, he owned of a successful monthly raffle where he Photogene ($1.99 for iPhone and iPod fonts to your computer. To learn more the first color Apple computer, the Ap- has the opportunity to speak to almost touch, and $2.99 for iPad) was up next. go to: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ ple IIGS, and his first Mac was a used every member in attendance. LIMac ap- This app also allows you to: crop and id448250130?mt=8 . Macintosh IIci. Indeed, there have been preciates all of its members because ev- straighten, sharpen, adjust color and ap- Our presenters did a great job. I would many others. Currently, he uses the Mac eryone brings something new and im- ply artistic filters. It also allows you to: add like to point out, without the work of vol- Pro, G5, Mac Book and iPhone. portant to the table. text bubbles, and special effects. For more unteers, like all of us on the board, and Bill’s life as an Architect revolves Aside from his work to maintain LI- information point your browser to: ht tp:// other members who volunteer to make pre- around the Mac, with ArchiCAD, a Mac as the premier computer organiza- itunes.apple.com/us/app/photogene-for- sentations, LIMac could not exist. I urge high-end Architectural CAD program tion in Long Island, Bill enjoys spending ipad/id363448251?mt=8. any of you who have something to share, used to produce designs, drawings, 3D time with his wife, J’ai, and his children, Another and slightly more expensive to see any of the board members (myself renderings, walkthroughs, as well as fly- Jill and Todd. When time allows, Bill is ($4.99) photo editor Rick showed was included). We would be happy to have you overs, of his various projects. These have keen to go golfing, sailing or fly fishing. Snapseed. This seems to do a lot of what make a presentation, and we will provide ranged from something as simple as a Undoubtedly, it is his repository of Macs the others do. For a complete description you with help if needed. Again, thanks to guard house to more challenging proj- that helps keep him organized, accom- go to: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ Richard, Dave and Rick for a great presen- ects such as data centers, banks or office plished and cutting edge. snapseed/id439438619?mt=8. tations. 0 buildings. Taking advantage of the pow-
THE LIMAC FORUM • NOVEMBER 2011 • PAGE 2 Bradley’s Tech Session President’s Message HDTV too. I’m not sure that’s a good Bradley Dichter idea. iCloud also immediately syncs new Bill Medlow Technical Advisor President [email protected] calendar events with reminders, and that [email protected] IS a good thing to keep straight your cal- | endar on all your family’s iOS devices. In I hear iCloud in the Steve Jobs: 1955-2011 news today. Is it all it’s a related fashion, a rather cool function is cracked up to be? you get a mobileme IMAP mail account. ■ I’d say it’s a waste of time if you don’t As the mail is on the server, any change The man has left behind a monumental legacy that few people have a iPhone/iPad and Mac OS X 10.7.x, you make on, say your home computer, can claim. A master, an innovator, a nobody who turned a then it’s a waste of time. It’s not useful including moving messages to a folder, dream into billions of dollars, changing the world we live in. to synchronize a Mac to another Mac. It gets mirrored on your iOS device too. Of course he had a little help from his friends. Even when he That mirroring extends to your contact pushes newly purchased music, books and was down, he found his way back for greater success, Steven apps, new photos, email and contacts and list information and notes, so a field user calendar events from your iOS 5 device to can update the records back in the office Paul Jobs a.k.a. visionary. I would have loved being inside his any other iOS 5 device or Mac running immediately if some new information brain for even one hour.....genius. Just as he commanded the Mac OS X 10.7.x. This allows you to start comes up. The bookmarks in Safari also stage in jeans and a black turtleneck, he commanded the world watching a video say on your iPhone and stay in sync, which can be handy. of computers and beyond. finish it on your iPad or Mac because it If you have both a iPhone and a iPad There is one quote that I, as an Architect, had such say, you could start a document in Pages will be put there for you and your left off appreciation for, because what is true of perfection as an moment marked for picking up from that on the iPad and continue working on it point. Assuming you leave your Mac on on your iPhone if you happen to be away Architect was echoed by Steve Jobs’ reference to an Apple all day long when you are doing stuff with from your iPad. Assuming you had Pages computer. “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest your iOS 5 devices. You can take a photo installed on both devices. Say in the bath- of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on on your iPhone and it pops up in iPhoto room, I don’t know. It seems a bit far the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will for you automatically. Apparently wirelessly fetched to me, but I don’t have a iPad. Of ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a course that little magic requires a iCloud- syncing when you get home isn’t good beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well enough. I guess if your assistant (using enabled iOS app. I’m sure there will be your Apple ID configured device) takes more in the future besides Pages, Keynote at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the a photo with their iPhone, you can then and Numbers. Maybe some more appli- way through.” almost immediately edit it on your iPad cations on the Mac itself. In the mean- There’s only one way for Apple to go and that is upward or Mac in some other location. Of course time, Apple has set up https://www.icloud. because Steve Jobs is looking down wishing all of us who if you take a photo of your mistress, then com/#iwork where anyone (even a Windows made Apple a success, continued success of our own. Vista or Windows 7 user) can see your the wife will know it immediately. Apple We’ll continue with our meetings and holiday parties, knowing calls this Photo Stream. The stream flows Pages, Numbers and Keynote documents you created on your iPad or iPhone. Not they’re only possible because of Apple. Apple....changing the both ways, if you are an avid photographer 0 and come back from vacation with 500 from your Mac versions though. You can world one Apple at a time. new photos and import them into iPhoto, download a copy for use on your Mac with iCloud will copy them all to each of your iWork ’09, Microsoft Office or in a PDF iOS devices. iOS 5 includes the Apple TV, format. I’m glad us old-school folks with so you can get the latest on the big screen Bradley’s Tech Session continued on Page 4
THE LIMAC FORUM • NOVEMBER 2011 • PAGE 3 Bradley’s Tech Session continued from Page 3 to send a remote passcode lock or remote Mac is getting pushed aside, step-by-step. is in fact running very hot, I’d make sure I personal computers can still participate. wipe to erase the iPhone (at least the per- George Canellis reported on the new blew out the dust from my computer when
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GB RAM and a 1280 x 800 display. Word textual menu item for the files in this new 2011 should be able to open, perhaps only folder. As mentioned earlier, it’s a bit like via the Open… dialog box if you have not iCloud in that it works from iOS device been using file name extensions, any file to the Mac but it can work Mac to Mac North SIG, and a Music SIG (for musicians or those who are going back to version 1.0 Mac OS X 10.6 and supports older Mac OS X generations. interested in making music on the Mac). and newer, no longer use the file’s type and You can create a new folder on your Mac If you are interested in either, or both, please come creator codes to associate the file with an and eventually the iPhone will update to with ideas and be ready to share. application, so you may find a lot of files reflect the new structure, but you can’t of kind ‘Unix Executable File’ because it create folders on the iPhone’s dropbox. has no file name extension. Newer gener- West East ations of Word save the file with the now | Renewal What is “the cloud”?. Membership renewal for 2011 takes place from October onwards. A required .doc or .docx file name extension ■ Basically the Internet. Cloud computing so that Macs and Windows machines know bonus discount was passed by the Board of Directors a few years ago: refers to various services available via the Bring in a new dues-paying member and get a$12 discount off your what to do with these files. Internet. That could include web applica- membership renewal. Bring in three new members and your renewal tions like Google Apps for Business, which is free! | South Bringing in a new member also includes getting a past member What is Dropbox? itself composed of Business Gmail, Google back into the group. ■ I’d go to their website and read more Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites. General meeting time schedule: Meetings are held at Make your $36 check out to LIMac and bring it to the next meeting, about it: https://www.dropbox.com/tour. These programs and your data all stay on or mail to LIMac, Post Office Box 2048, Seaford NY 11783-0180 The New York Institute of Technology, Basically it’s a free service for sharing files their servers back in some data center, Building 300 (Anna Rubin Hall), with other computers and iOS devices somewhere. Dropbox uses their servers Old Westbury, Long Island. How to better visually enjoy the Forum: Your Editor prefers For more detailed information about this location go to and even Android and BlackBerry smart in the cloud of all the millions of servers you to use Adobe Reader 9 as long as your Mac meets the limac.org phones. Any file you save to your Dropbox connected to the Internet so offer a func- requirement of Mac OS 10.4.11 or newer. PostView 1.8 ($22) will automatically save to all your Dropbox tion useful to your personal devices. As works from Mac OS 10.2 all the way up to 10.5 for PowerPC Meetings start promptly at 7:00 p.m. and Intel based Macs. configured computers and iPads/iPhones. long as you trust their system and your Bradley’s Q&A: 7:00 – 7:30 p.m. You just need the free Mac or iOS App. It Internet Service Provider with your data MacBasics Q&A: 7:00 – 7:30p .m. shows up as a blue icon in your menu bar. being passed around, it can be very handy Beginner Q&A meetings Sign up for a free Dropbox account.You get to juggle your information into some little Photoshop SIG: On Hold while Brian recovers For a Year’s membership 2GB of space free to temporary storage of section of the cloud that is the Internet. Featured Presentation: 7:30 – 8:20 p.m. Send your $36 check to: followed by announcements and raffle drawings. your shared files. It’s $10 for 50GB. Your Of course sometimes the Internet is not Dropbox is a special folder in your home available, so it can be tricky to rely on Mac Basics The MacBasics Schedule is for word processing on the Mac. Macintosh Users Group folder on your Mac or iPad. An alias for the some private part of the Internet for your LI With AppleWorks effectively killed off for the Macintosh P.O. Box 2048 Dropbox folder gets put in your sidebar. daily tasks. Apple’s new iCloud is like that Seaford, NY 11783-0180 Simply drag and drop in copies of files and too. Great for sharing files to your iPhone, platform, what are recommended programs for writing letters, memos, or longer documents? How easy are they they will instantly propagate to your other assuming it can connect to the Internet. to learn, and how much do they cost? And very SPECIAL NOTICE Dropbox enabled devices. You can even I don’t know about you, but often times, importantly, are there free-program alternatives? This edition is made for viewing on your computer grab the files from any Mac or PC via the it can’t for some reason and then it comes screen. If you want to print this version I have now website. If someone else adds new files to back. 0 New Sigs? compensated for some printers that don’t print too the group and you get your copy, you’ll At the November general meeting, we will also give close to the edge, if however, you wish a more printer members the opportunity to discuss the possible creation friendly edition without all the colors just email me at get a notification of the new files and how of two new SIGS (Special Interest Group): an iPad (or iOS) [email protected] and I’ll be happy to send you one. many there are. You even get a new con- (Al Zygier)
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