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February 2008

UPCOMING MEETINGS Apple reports best

MARCH Search Engine quarterly revenue and Optimization of Web Sites. earnings in its history Special Meeting Notice Announcing financial results for its A shortened version of a seminar. fiscal 2008 first quarter, which The full seminar on Search ended December 29, 2007, Apple Engine Optimazation costs today posted revenue of $9.6 billion $39.00 but we get a free at and net quarterly profit of $1.58 the March meeting! billion, or $1.76 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue Meetings will be held from June of $7.1 billion and net quarterly through December at the Grande profit of $1 billion, or $1.14 per Prairie Public Library. diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. In attaining its highest  revenue and earnings in company history, Apple shipped 2,319,000 Andrea Jung Joins Apple’s Macs, a 44% unit growth and 47% revenue growth over the year ago Board of Directors quarter; sold 22,121,000 , representing five percent unit CUPERTINO, California—January growth and 17 percent revenue 7—Apple® today announced that growth over the year-ago quarter; Andrea Jung, chairman and chief and sold 2,315,000 in the executive officer of Avon Products, quarter. [Jan 22, 2008] was elected to Apple’s board of directors. Andrea also serves on the  board of directors of the Company and is a member Tickled pink over new of the New York Presbyterian iPod nano Hospital board of trustees and the Catalyst board of directors. With “Valentine’s Day around the corner” Marc Saltzman

 (usatoday.com) tells us that “it brings significant new features to pulled on my heart strings enough iPhone. After installing the update, to report that Apple has added a iPhone customers will be able to pink iPod nano to its line-up, just automatically find their location in time for you to buy it for your using the redesigned Maps sweetie.” The new 8GB iPod nano application; text message multiple “costs $199 and includes free people in one message; create Web engraving on the back and free Clips for their favorite websites; shipping when purchased at customize their home screen; and Apple.com’s web store.” watch movies rented from the new iTunes Movie Rentals right on Apple Introduces New Mac their iPhone. [Jan 15, 2008]

Pro Major software upgrade available for iPod touch Fastest Mac Ever—Eight

Processor Cores Standard With the installation of this major software upgrade, the best iPod CUPERTINO, California—January becomes even more: the world’s 8, 2008—Apple® today introduced best Wi-Fi mobile device. The the new Mac® Pro with eight upgrade—available from iTunes for processor cores and a new system just $19.99—adds five more great architecture that delivers up to mobile applications to iPod touch: twice the performance of its Mail, Maps, Stocks, Weather, and predecessor*. The new . It also includes such new combines two of ’s new 45 features as Web Clips, a nanometer Quad-Core Xeon customizable home screen, and the processors running up to 3.2 GHz, ability to watch iTunes Movie powerful new graphics and up to Rentals on iPod touch. [Jan 15, 4TB of internal storage to offer the 2008] ideal system for creative professionals, 3D digital content Introducing the new creators and scientists. The Xserve—the most powerful standard 8-core configuration starts at just $2,799. Apple server ever

Starting at just $2,999, the new New software update Xserve has up to two Quad-Core enhances revolutionary 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon processors for iPhone 8-core performance, a new server architecture, faster front side iPhone Software Update 1.1.3, a buses, faster memory, up to 3TB of free software update available internal storage and two PCI today via iTunes 7.5 or later, Express 2.0 expansion slots for

 greater performance and flexibility. Introducing Time “With the latest Intel processors Capsule—wireless backup and no client access licenses, for all your Macs Xserve offers unbeatable server performance and value for under $3,000,” said Philip Schiller, A backup appliance that works Apple’s senior vice president of seamlessly with Time Machine to Worldwide Product Marketing. automatically and wirelessly back [Jan 08, 2008] up everything on one or more Macs running Mac OS X Leopard, Time Apple introduces MacBook Capsule combines an 802.11n base station with a server grade hard Air—the world’s thinnest disk in one small package. “Bring notebook Time Capsule home, plug it in, click a few buttons on your Macs Apple today introduced the world’s and voilà—all the Macs in your thinnest notebook: MacBook Air. It house are being backed up measures an unprecedented 0.16 automatically, every hour of every inches at its thinnest point while day,” said , Apple’s CEO. its maximum height of 0.76 inches When it ships in February, Time is less than the thinnest point on Capsule will be available in models competing notebooks. In addition featuring 500GB and 1TB hard to a stunning 13.3-inch LED- drives for $299 and $499, backlit widescreen display, respectively. [Jan 15, 2008] MacBook Air offers a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing, and a spacious trackpad with multi-touch gesture  support, letting users pinch, rotate and swipe. The new notebook is NEW SOFTWARE powered by a 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz (From CNET and APPLE) Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache and it includes as Updated Products standard features 2GB of memory, an 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive, and SubRosaSoft released Version the latest 802.11n Wi-Fi technology 6.1.5 of its Salvage Suite of data and Bluetooth 2.1. Starting at just recovery utilities, updating them $1,799, MacBook Air begins with Leopard compatibility, shipping in two weeks. [Jan 15, autosaving searches, a more robust 2008] preview engine, and a more powerful data recovery engine. The utilities include FileSalvage, PodSalvage, CameraSalvage, MovieSalvage, and OfficeSalvage.

 SubRosaSoft Salvage is available transfer and storage between an for Mac OS X 10.3.9 and up. iPhone or iPod Touch and a Mac, including and photo Eastgate Systems' Tinderbox downloading with iTunes and 4.1 is personal content iPhoto integration. This release management and outlining provides access to the iPhone's call application that allows you to store log and SMS text message history free-form notes and ideas, link and and makes it possible to view and browse them in a variety of ways, download photos taken with the export them to HTML, set iPhone's camera. iPhoneDrive is attributes, create agents, and $19.95 for Mac OS X 10.4.10 and more. This release adds the ability up (). to display additional information in maps and outlines (including ZappTek's iPresent It 2.2 project status, word counts, topics, converts PowerPoint, PDF, and tags, etc.), dates back beyond 1904, Keynote presentations into improved list formatting, and slideshows that can be synced to control of mail filing and the iPod Photo and later models. processing. Tinderbox is $229 for This release adds support for Mac OS X. PowerPoint 2008. iPresent It is $17.95 for Mac OS X 10.3 and up PhotoAcute Studio 2.75 (Universal Binary) or Windows.

A photo enhancement application Hyperbolic Software has posted a that works by merging several TidyUp 1.3.3 update for photos of the same scene to provide compatibility with iTunes 7.6, and increased resolution, noise it also adds three new filters and a reduction, dynamic range few bug fixes. The $30 shareware expansion, increased depth of field, utility is designed to make quick and more. This release adds work of finding and removing profiles for over 30 new camera duplicate files and folders. It's a lenses and fixes a problem saving universal binary, compatible with JPEGs on PowerPC machines. Mac OS X 10.3.9 and up, including PhotoAcute Studio is available Leopard. for Mac OS X 10.4.8 and up  (Universal Binary), Linux (via Wine), or Windows, with prices (From the Apple User Group Page for ranging from $19 (for cell phone longer reviews see: http://ugab.typepad.com/ugresources/) cameras) to $49 (for consumer cameras with non-removable lenses) to $119 (for all digital cameras include DSLRs).

Ecamm Network's iPhoneDrive 1.4 enables drag-and-drop

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Graphisoft Archicad 9.0 r1 (from the Internet) International – $69 The unboxing should be performed in a setting of ultimate zen-like visit "2008microsoftdeals .com" in calm and tranquility. The phone Internet browser should be taken off the hook, wives given money to go off an buy shoes, Roxio Digital Media Studio Deluxe children allowed to run riot on the Suite 7.0 - $49 busy road outside.

Apollo Divx2dvd divx to dvd Play music. Burn incense. Turn creator v3.3.0 - $29 down the lights. Vigorously clean the space the Mac will go Media Tools Professional 5 - $39 beforehand. No frustrations or interruptions must disturb the Mindjet Mindmanager 7 for Mac - peace. There's nothing worse than $39 the new virginal white mouse to be sullied by two day old pizza left McAfee Internet Security Suite carelessly on the desk. version 7.0 - $29 Open the box slowly. Regard each Masterwriter 1.0 - $49 flap individually. Sit and look upon the custom made sticky tape with Discreet Combustion 4.0 for rounded corners (Steve loves windows - $69 rounded corners) holding the box closed. Note how everything nestles Coreldraw Graphics Suite x3 - together just so, like the courses in 59ms a Japanese box. Take each component out separately. Peacefully look at the component Windows XP Professional with sp2 for at least ten minutes (yes, even - $49 (this seems almost too good to the Apple stickers). Don't plug be true Ed.) anything in, just look at it, perhaps gently pick it up with fingertips (email Buzz for more details) and admire from every angle.

 The whole process may take hours. It's a bit like tantric sex, in fact.

Then boot it up and look at porn.

 Dr. Mac/War Stories To Wit:

This could also be titled “What I Learned From That”. This is a space for how people recovered from a problem, an accidental discovery (usually caused by bad typing, etc), and other tidbits of information. I will not ask people to say how they got into the I love that big blue arrow – a situation being talked about. I screen shot can’t show it, but the think that people know that if you arrow actually blinks! got into a bad place, you got there  by doing something wrong.

For example, I picked up the Apple Pictures from the bullets from an email list. Yes, I December meeting know there is a keyboard combination to make it happen, but copying from somewhere is so much easier.

My embarrassing story ends: ALWAYS make an appointment before visiting an for service. (You are not going to hear how it starts.)

So, let’s hear about how you fixed your oopsies.

 Leopard Features

Stuart Kurtz’ presentation in January on Leopard was excellent, but he missed some of the small things that are valuable to Your Editor. For example the Help system has been revamped and made a bit more idiot friendly.

(ED: If anyone wants to take pictures of SSMUG events, I will publish almost anything, space permitting. Like any editor, I’m always looking for something to print. All I ask is that it be copyright free, Mac-related, and accurate (or labeled as opinion), If anyone wants to contribute to the newsletter, be my guest. PLEASE]