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LIMac Inc. LIMac was established in 1984, Scott Randell Bradley Dichter P.O. Box 2048 when the Mac was introduced. October Meeting November Meeting Seaford, NY , 11783-0180 Annual dues President for membership are $36. This month’s presentation was quite different than what we are Bradley Dichter will be continuing his Mac Bill Medlow (The first meeting is free.) used to. Ken Vanemon of Sapphire Marketing, Introduced us to 101 series, with E-mail, featuring Apple’s [email protected] For information,contact any NOVEMBER of the following: Crestron, a home and business automation system. “What does this Mail.app from Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Vice President have to do with the Mac? (or iOS units?)” you say, well I thought First, the basics of terminology and how George Canellis Membership the same. It seems that they have expanded their systems to work e-mail is transported. Then we will get more [email protected] Donald Hennessy [email protected] in conjunction with the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Ken showed 12 familiar with the features of the mail viewer Treasurer a 5 minute video and then proceeded to do a long Q & A about the window and it’s controls. Mail is useful for Donald Hennessy Technical Adviser & [email protected] LIMac Webmaster products. more than exchanging messages and attach- Secretary Bradley Dichter He showed the iOS app which is free to download. He then passed ments. You can follow RSS news from Apple and leave yourself Bernie Flicker [email protected] around two iPads that allowed us to examine the app first hand. With notes that will sync with your iPhone. We will discover the mys- [email protected] Program Coordinator Crestron hardware installed, you can use your iOS device to remotely terious columns and how to edit them. We will learn the proper The LIMac Forum: Rick Matteson control your lights, entertainment system, air conditioner etc. There account settings to avoid overloading Editor/Graphics [email protected] were many inquiries as to the mail server which would prevent Al Zygier Photoshop SIG what would be needed in us from getting any new mail. We will [email protected] Brian Revere order to install this system. understand the need to populate and Proofreader [email protected] As Ken explained, it needs a trim the address book and the list of Bradley Dichter MacBasics SIG central control box of which previous recipients. Bradley will show Geoff Broadhurst there are several to choose you how to make a fancy signature and [email protected] Board of Directors: from depending on your use Stationary. We will cover attach- Geoff Broadhurst Multimedia SIG needs. In addition, your ments, keeping in mind size limits. George Canellis Al Zygier lights and devices have to be There are a couple of easy ways to send photos from iPhoto. We Al Choy [email protected] Bradley Dichter modified so that they can will explore various text searches and filters. We will cover a little Produced using: (Technical Director) be controlled by the remote netiquette and edit forwarded e-mail. You can send the contents Adobe’s InDesign CS3, Bernie Flicker Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3. system. Once these are in of a web page and edit out the extraneous elements. Bradley will Donald Hennessy Acrobat 8 place you can use your iOS show us how to s