JANUARY 2008 www.limac.org NEWSLETTER OF THE LONG ISLAND MACINTOSH USERS GROUP LIMac was estab­­- lished in 1984, when December’s Meeting January’s Meeting the Mac was intro- MacSpeech, makers of iListen speech recog- Have you upgraded to duced. Annual dues LIMac Inc. for member ship nition software, was scheduled to give the Leopard yet? Have you had P.O. Box 2048 are $36. (The first presentation for December. Unfortunately, JANUARY a chance to delve into all Seaford, NY meeting is free.) they could not make it due to weather. Apple’s purported 300 new 11783-0180 For information, In spite of that, the meeting was great features in Leopard? Do President contact any of the fun. Bradley did an extended Q&A in which you even know if Leopard Bill Medlow following: he answered many questions aboutLeopard . 11 will run on your current [email protected] Membership There were also quite a few questions about hardware? No matter how Vice President Donald Hennessy the new iMacs. In addition people asked you answered any of those George Canellis (516) 541-3186 about other new software such as Adobe questions you’re going to get your chance to [email protected] [email protected] Creative Suite 3, and, the various flavors of see Mac OS X 10.5 put through its paces at this Treasurer Technical Advice virtualization software, such as Parallels month’s meeting. Tom Abruzzo and Rick Donald Hennessy Bradley Dichter Desktop, and VMware’s Fusion for the Mac. Johnson from the Walt Whitman Apple Store [email protected] (631) 348-4772 After the Q&A, we had the raffle and our will be here to show you what Leopard can do Secretary [email protected] annual holiday party. People enjoyed the and how it can benefit you and add to your Bernie Flicker Program various goodies available and got a chance enjoyment of using your Macintosh, whether for [email protected] Coordinator to spend some time talking and exchanging work, play, school or all of those. The LIMac FORUM : Rick Matteson ideas with other members. We don’t get Of course, the meeting will open with Editors/Graphics rgmlimac Mo Lebowitz @optonline.net to do this too often, so this was a pleasant Bradley’s Q&A (with MacBasics’ own beginner’s Loretta Lebowitz Photoshop SIG change of pace. Members got chance to tell Q&A across the hall) and will wind up with our others about their new hardware and soft- monthly raffle followed by our SIG meetings. [email protected] Brian Revere [email protected] [email protected] ware acquisitions, and in turn other members If you want to see what’s new in Mac OS X (516) 997-5370 were able to get firsthand feedback on those 10.5, this meeting’s for you. See you there. 0 Board of Directors: MacBasic SIG items which would aid them in making –Rick Matteson Rick Matteson Geoff Broadhurst future purchases. (See Photos on Page 3) (Program Coordinator) Albert Zygier [email protected] LIMac membership for 2008 is under way! Since there was no presentation, I will Geoff Broadhurst Multimedia SIG use this space to talk about another product As a volunteer run organization with no paid George Canellis Al Zygier made by the company of a previous presenter, staff, we rely on our membership dues to pay Al Choy [email protected] SmileOnMyMac. Their labeling application, expenses such as insurance and $1820 to NYIT Donald Hennessy Produced using: DiscLabel, is one of the bestCD/ DV D label- for a year’s use of the meeting facility in 2007 Bradley Dichter Tex-Edit Plus, making programs I have seen. Its flexibility and 2008. (Technical Director) TextSpresso, is amazing. You can wrap text around the Bring your $36 check made out to LIMac Scott Randell Adobe’s InDesign, circular shape of the disc in an unlimited and save us 82¢ in billing costs!0 Bernie Flicker Photoshop, Illustrator, number of ways. You can choose one of the Bill Medlow and Acrobat. included templates (DiscLabel includes lots General meeting time schedule: Harold Silvers Brian Revere Fonts are ITC’s of these) create your own, or edit the tem- Meetings are held at The New York Institute of Technology, Franklin Gothic Building 300 (Anna Rubin Hall), Old Westbury, Long Island. Richard Hickerson Compressed and plates any way you like. DiscLabel allows you Meetings start promptly at 7:00 p.m. Galliard Pro. to easily import song lists fromiTunes and Bradley Q&A 7:00–7:30 p.m. The FORUM is pub lished monthly by LlMac. All include any information you like. Beginner’s Q&A 7:00–7:30 p.m. contents, except where (See screenshots below).(Continues on Page 6) Featured presentation 7:30–8:20 p.m. followed by announcements and noted, are copyright raffle drawings. ©2008 by LIMac. Opinions expressed are the SIG (Special Interest Group) meetings 8:30–10:00 p.m. views of the authors and do Photoshop SIG: Photoshop automation and actions. How Photoshop not neces sarily reflect those of LIMac. Contents may be operates automatically. reprinted for non-com- Multimedia SIG: Come join us for training in mercial use, with due all of Apple’s Video programs! acknowledgment to LIMac. The LIMac FORUM is an MacBasics SIG: Basic font management in independent publication OS X using Apple’s font management tools. and has not been author- | In bad weather, call (516) 686-7789. ized, sponsored or other- | wise approved by Apple The next LIMac board meeting will be at Computer, Inc. the Plainedge Library, (516) 735-4133, on Wednesday, January 16th, at 8 p.m. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard–Updates in the future; there’s no way this can or should this article in an e-mail edition of TidBITS, since Rather than write oodles of short articles that be a comprehensive list.) It’s important to note it will continue to grow over time. Eventually, of mostly note that a new version of some utility that this list also doesn’t include software that course, Leopard compatibility will no longer be adds compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, runs fine in Leopard without needing an update interesting, and we’ll let the article remain static we’re going to take advantage of our new – don’t infer anything if a program isn’t included after that point. Until then, though, here’s what TidBITS Publishing System to create a list on the list. we know. -R! of important or interesting software that We’ll add new items to the top of the list, blog- For releases that are purely for Leopard com- -R-R has been updated. (Our definition of important style, and we’ll tweak the modification date each patibility, we won’t go beyond listing the name, G-R or interesting largely revolves around products time so those reading via RSS will be alerted version number, and link; for those releases that that we’ve covered in the past or plan to cover when there are changes. We won’t be publishing (Continues on Page 3) 2 Bradley’s Tech Session President’s Message | My son sent me a DVD disc which played Well, it has been WHO’S THAT? on my computer. I try to play it on the another great year DVD player connected to my TV and it says for LIMac and we the disc is incompatible. Why is that? have terrific presenta- There are a couple of possibilities why not. tions lined up Bradley Dichter First the DVD was burned as a Mac OS through the summer. Bill Medlow President [email protected] Extended, or an ISO, a hybrid of these two or a George Canellis [email protected] UDF format disc, or perhaps a DivX format, all has arranged for of which works on the Macintosh. Your DVD Designscapes to player cannot read any of these formats. It donate iPods for the is expecting a DVD-Video format disc. Some next year, so we will DVD players can also read a Video-CD and/ have great meetings or a Super Video CD. The other likelihood and raffles. Thank you, is the disc was burned on a DVD-R disc and George and Designscapes. TIP! perhaps the DVD player cannot read this To start off 2008 we will have Tom & R ick, choose “Pantone format media. There are some players than some very interesting and knowledgeable pre- color bridge CMYK PC” New Pantone® Color can read only the DVD+R format, a type senters from the Apple Store giving us the latest under the Color Mode Libraries in Adobe only some burners can burn, less popular on info on Leopard this January. This will be the popup menu. Select InDesign CS3: the Pantone color Pantone recently the Macintosh, but has been around longer week before Macworld San Francisco and you’re like to add, upgraded their on the Windows side. Apple has supported which will set the pace for the rest of the year. and click “OK” to add Swatches and DVD-R since the earliest SuperDrives and By the time you read this, we will be into the new Swatch or introduced Pantone the more recent can also burn DVD+R as the new year and I hope only the best for you “Add” to add several Color Bridge, a guide well. You should be able to check the disc and your family. 0 Swatches. to “bridge” the gap label or center clear area for an indication of If you’ve followed between solid spot whether this former blank was a DVD+R or the old one, accessing whatever Web sites and along with the steps colors, CMYK pro- DVD-R.