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The Newsletter for Sonoma County’s Mac and Windows Users September 2008 Vol .1 No 9 iMovie for Mac 9a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Pinnacle Software for Windows 10:30 a.m. - noon Date: Saturday, 9/13/2008 Place: Sonoma Public Library Time: 9 am to noon 755 West Napa Street Table of Contents User Group Benefits . 2 File Sharing How-To . 19 Audiobook Builder . 3 Camcorder Tapes . 19 Bean, a Brilliant Text Editor . 6 Google Maps Adds Walking Directions . 20 Jerky Scrolling Fix . 8 Peachpit Tips . 21 How to De-authorize iTunes . 8 MobileMe Mail . 21 iPod to Flad Screen TV Viewing . 8 iPhoto Slideshow Limits . 22 AntiVirus Programs . or Not . 9 8 Ways iMac Changed Computing . 23 Where Did RSS Feeds Come From? . 10 Peachpit - New Releases . 25 Can Downloading PDF Files Be Dangerous? 10 Best Buy to Sell iPhones . 26 Phishing . .11 Photo Backup Options While Traveling . 26 Ways for Making Wed-Ready Images . 12 Audio Codecs Demystified . 27 Mac Web Editors . 14 . and More . 28 iTunes Question . 18 Mac Computer Expo - Don’t Miss It!!! . 31 free and easy. All you have to do is Sonoma Valley DONATING answer a few, short questions in our Computer Group ongoing, online survey, which you USED can access on any book page. Don't OFFICERS FOR 2008 worry. President Beth Pickering COMPUTER [email protected] All of your information stays with Secretary Kathy Aanestad EQUIPMENT us--we won't sell it or give it away [email protected] The URL listed is for the to anyone. After you've filled out the Treasurer Joan Fabian Computer Recycling Center. All profile, you'll save 20% automati- [email protected] of the info needed (and then cally whenever you log on to http:// Newsletter Kathy Aanestad some) is listed on the site. www.newriders.com as a member. [email protected] http://www.crc.org/ It's that easy! Members-at-Large George Pick [email protected] Note that you may use your User Elizabeth Palmer Group Coupon Code ON TOP of [email protected] your Club Member savings. Just Jackie Smith remember to log in first when mak- [email protected] SVCG UG ing a purchase and then enter the Dennis Astrubel code at checkout as well! Contact SVCG Evangelist Veda Lewis BENEFITS & Kathy for code. [email protected] Webmaster Kathy Aanestad USER GROUP PEACHPIT [email protected] JOIN THE PEACHPIT CLUB DISCOUNTS You can save 30% on all books BOARD MEETINGS every day at peachpit.com simply by Open to all members. Call O’Reilly becoming a Peachpit Club Member. 935-6690 for further information. Members receive a 20% dis- Membership is free and easy. All you MEMBERSHIPS count on O'Reilly books and have to do is answer a few, short S.V.C.G. Annual Membership: $20. conferences. Contact Kathy for questions in our ongoing, online sur- S.V.C.G. Family membership: $30 the code. vey, which you can access on any (residing at same address). Membership book page. 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User group members should note ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION that once you've become a Peachpit Sonoma Valley Computer Group Newsletter is pub- Club member, you may use your lished monthly by Sonoma Valley Computer Group. user group coupon code ON TOP of Desktop publishing services donated by: Kathy the permanent savings you earn as a Aanestad. Call: (707) 935-6690, email aanestad@ member of the club. Just make sure vom.com. © 2008, SVCG. All rights reserved. you've logged onto the site before Sponsored by our local ISP, DataProfessionals, on 19480-8th St. East. MAILING ADDRESS: Sonoma Valley Computer Group PO Box 649 El Verano, CA 95433 Sonoma Valley Computer Group Newsletter 2 http://www.vom.com/svcg/index.html you make a purchase to ensure this permanent discount will be in effect, then enter coupon code (case-sensi- AUDIOBOOK tive) at checkout! This coupon code is an exclusive offer that may not be used in conjunction with any other BUILDER 1.0.7 coupon codes. Contact Kathy for code information. by Dan Frakes, Macworld.com Although “Books On Tape” may be a relic of an earlier decade, CD-based audiobooks are still quite popular. But the popularity of the iPod (and other portable media players) has led to a common SEPTEMBER question from Macworld readers: How do I get my CD audiobooks onto my iPod so everything works correctly? By correctly , the reader usu- TOPIC ally means getting those tracks to show up under Audiobooks rather than Music, keeping the book’s chapters together, letting you navigate between chapters, and allowing bookmarking. You can rip your audiobook CDs in iTunes and Mac Meeting: then spend some time massaging the resulting audio files into formats that work like audiobooks; * Your Q&A in fact, we recently explained the process. But that’s a hassle if you’re an avid book listener. * How to Create an iMovie An easier—and faster—alternative is Splasm’s Audiobook Builder 1.0.7 ( ; single user, $10; family pack, $15). This handy utility automates the process from beginning to end. It also lets you create true audiobook files out of audio files already on your hard drive; for example, tracks you previously ripped from a CD. Learn how to import images and video, create your movie, and burn to CD or DVD. SVCG ( Plugged into Technology 9 Sonoma Valley Computer Group Newsletter 3 http://www.vom.com/svcg/index.html When you first launch Audiobook Builder, you create a new Project—basically, a session for a particular book. (The benefit of this approach is that you can stop working on a Project at any time and come back to it later, and you can copy a conversion-in-progress to another Mac.) You choose the audio quality—Low, Normal, or High Quality, or custom settings—and then the format for the resulting audio files. For spo- ken-word audiobooks, Low Quality is likely adequate; if your audiobook includes music, Medium or High Quality is preferable. The default file format is “M4B (AAC, Bookmarkable),” which, as its name implies, allows iTunes and the iPod (any model since and including the iPod mini) to automatically bookmark your audiobook so you can pick up where you last stopped listening. The actual process of converting an audiobook has three steps: proving information about the book; importing (and organizing, if necessary) the audio files; and building the book. The first step takes place in Audiobook Builder’s Cover screen (see the image above): you input the book’s title and author—the title is pre-filled with the name you gave the Project, but you can change it if you prefer—and then drag YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE Sonoma Valley Computer Group Membership Application/Renewal Form New Applicant c Renewal c Name: _____________________________________ Address: ___________________________________ ___________________________________________ Platform: c Mac cPC c W i n X P Home Phone: ________________________________ Operating System: c OS Tiger c Win c WinVIsta Work Phone: ________________________________ c OS Leopard c Linux E-mail Address: ______________________________ c OS X c Win98 . Send c $20 (individual) c $30 (family) check to: Computer Make/Model: __________________________ How did you hear about SVCG? Sonoma Valley Computer Group POB 649 cclass c club member c newspaper c newsletter El Verano, CA 95433 User Level: c Novice c Intermediate c I give permission to use this info in the club roster which c Advanced c Expert is for members only Sonoma Valley Computer Group Newsletter 4 http://www.vom.com/svcg/index.html an image of the audiobook’s cover, if you have it, to can ignore these features.) the well in the middle of the window. (Unfortunately, you can’t copy the image—for example, from iTunes If an audiobook spans several CDs, place the next or Amazon.com—and paste it; you have to drop it in.) disc in your Mac and click on Import CD again; Cover art you provide here will appear as album art in repeat the process until you’ve imported the entire iTunes and on your iPod. book. Click the right-arrow button, or the Chapters button, The Chapters screen also lets you import audio to move to the Chapters screen. This is where you tell files already on your hard drive (for example, Audiobook Builder where to get the book’s audio. For a audiobook chapters downloaded from a Web site CD, you simply insert the CD in your Mac’s optical drive ) or files you’ve previously added to iTunes. For and then click on Import CD; an Import CD screen (see the former, click on Add Files and then choose the image at right) will appear files to import; for with the CD name at the the latter, select top and the tracks listed at the files in iTunes the bottom.