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The Newsletter for Sonoma County’s Mac and Windows Users March 2009 Vol .1 No 3 iCHAT DEMO + Q&A!! Date: Saturday, 2/14/2009 Place: Sonoma Public Library Time: 9 am to noon 755 West Napa Street Table of Contents User Group Benefits . 2 Add New Locations to iMovie ‘09 . 24 iCHAT - March Meeting Demo . 3 iBank Finance Software Review . 26 Pumped About Painter . 6 Mac Book Recommendations . 27 Finding E-Mail Easily with Flags . .11 Online Photo Storage Tip . 13 Mac Q&A at 9 a.m. Slow Mail Delete . 13 iCHAT demo at 9:30 a.m. Adobe Acrobat Reader Problem . 14 Office Type Program Recommendations . 14 SEE YOU SATURDAY Making the Move to Mac Easier . 15 You are welcome to bring coffee, tea, Search Tips . 15 snacks for yourself or to share! Using Disk Utility to Encyrpt Files . 16 Invite a friend. 1 Extracting Audio from Movies with iLife . 17 1 REMINDER: time to pay DUES! Troubleshooting OS X Startups . 20 Sonoma Valley DONATING USED Computer Group COMPUTER EQUIPMENT OFFICERS FOR 2008 - 2009 President Beth Pickering The URL listed is for the Computer Recycling Center. All of the [email protected] info needed (and then some) is listed on the site. Secretary Kathy Aanestad http://www.crc.org/ [email protected] Treasurer Joan Fabian SVCG USER GROUP [email protected] Newsletter Kathy Aanestad BENEFITS & DISCOUNTS [email protected] Members-at-Large George Pick O’REILLY [email protected] Members receive a 20% discount on O'Reilly books and conferences. Elizabeth Palmer Contact Kathy for the code. [email protected] Jackie Smith New Riders BOOKS [email protected] http://www.newriders.com Dennis Astrubel BECOME A NEW RIDERS CLUB MEMBER. You can save up to SVCG Evangelist Veda Lewis 20% on all books every day at newriders.com simply by becoming [email protected] a New Riders Club Member. Membership is free and easy. All you Webmaster Kathy Aanestad have to do is answer a few, short questions in our ongoing, online [email protected] survey, which you can access on any book page. Don't worry. BOARD MEETINGS All of your information stays with us--we won't sell it or give it away Open to all members. Call to anyone. After you've filled out the profile, you'll save 20% auto- 935-6690 for further information. matically whenever you log on to http://www.newriders.com as a MEMBERSHIPS member. It's that easy! S.V.C.G. Annual Membership: $20. S.V.C.G. Family membership: $30 (re- Note that you may use your User Group Coupon Code ON TOP of siding at same address). Membership renewals your Club Member savings. Just remember to log in first when mak- are due and payable at the beginning of each ing a purchase and then enter the code at checkout as well! Contact year. Kathy for code. GENERAL MEETINGS S.V.C.G. meets second Saturday of each month at Sonoma Public Library, 755 West Napa Street; HOURS: Mac: 9AM-10:30AM, Windows: 10:30AM-noon unless otherwise notified. Meetings free; guests welcome. ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION Sonoma Valley Computer Group Newsletter is pub- lished monthly by Sonoma Valley Computer Group. Desktop publishing services donated by: Kathy Aanestad. Call: (707) 935-6690, email aanestad@ vom.com. © 2009, SVCG. All rights reserved. Sponsored by our local ISP, DataProfessionals, on 19480-8th St. East. Sonoma Valley Computer Group Newsletter 2 http://www.vom.com/svcg/index.html PEACHPIT JOIN THE PEACHPIT CLUB You can save 30% on all books every day at peachpit.com simply by becoming a Peachpit Club Member. Membership is free and easy. All you have to do is answer a few, short questions in our ongoing, online survey, which you can access on any book page. Don't worry, all of your information is confidential and stays with us--we won't sell it or give it away to anyone. After you've filled out the survey, you'll save 30% automatically whenever you log on to http://www.peachpit.com as a member. It's that easy! USER GROUP COUPON CODE User group members should note that once you've become a Peachpit Club member, you may use your user group coupon code ON TOP of the permanent savings you earn as a member of the club. Just make sure you've logged onto the site before you make a purchase to ensure this permanent discount will be in effect, then enter coupon code (case-sensitive) at checkout! This coupon code is an exclusive offer that may not be used in con- junction with any other coupon codes. Contact Kathy for code information. MARCH MEETING iCHAT SVCG ( Plugged into Technology 9 Sonoma Valley Computer Group Newsletter 3 http://www.vom.com/svcg/index.html iChat AV brings multi-way video and audio confer- Text messaging also gets a boost in Leopard, thanks encing directly to your Desktop with stunning, true- to these additions: to-life picture and crystal-clear conversation. Who will you chat with? The possibilities are limitless. * Tabbed chats Perhaps you will read bedtime stories to your grand- * Multiple logins children without concern for long distance charges. * Invisibility Or check in with home base from a hotel room when * Animated buddy icons you’re away on business. iChat AV lets you can chat * SMS forwarding with folks thousands of miles away in a full-screen * Custom buddy list order personal video conference over any broadband con- * File transfer manager nection. * Space-efficient views Crystal-clear audio. AIM to please. iChat uses the AAC-LD audio codec to deliver the iChat works with AIM, the largest instant messag- clearest possible sound during audio chats. A wide- ing community in the U.S. You and your buddies band codec that samples a full range of vocal frequen- can be either AIM or .Mac users. Text, audio, and cies, AAC-LD sounds great with any voice. video chat whether your buddies use a Mac or a PC. Sign in with your AIM account, and all your bud- Still the best for text. dies appear in your iChat buddy list. YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE Sonoma Valley Computer Group Membership Application/Renewal Form New Applicant c Renewal c Name: ______________________________ Address: ____________________________ ____________________________________ Platform: c Mac cPC c Home Phone: _________________________ WinXP Operating System: c OS Tiger Work Phone: _________________________ c Win c WinVIsta c OS Leop- E-mail Address: _______________________ ard c Linux c OS X c Win98 . Send c $20 (individual) c $30 (family) check to: Computer Make/Model: ___________________ Sonoma Valley Computer Group How did you hear about SVCG? c c c c POB 649 class club member newspaper newsletter User Level: c Novice c Intermediate c I give permission to use this info in the club c Advanced c Expert roster which is for members only Sonoma Valley Computer Group Newsletter 4 http://www.vom.com/svcg/index.html Chat from anywhere (or just look like it). Share and share alike. With the new video backdrops built into iChat, you can make it look like you’re chatting from the Eiffel Tower, Thanks to iChat screen sharing, you and your under the sea, or from the moon. You can also create buddy can observe and control a single desktop your own custom backdrops by dragging a picture or with iChat, making it a cinch to collaborate with video from iPhoto or the Finder into the video effects a colleague, browse the web with a friend, or pick window. Backdrops even show up on the screens of plane seats with your spouse. Share your own buddies who don’t have Leopard. desktop or your buddy’s — you both have control at all times. And iChat automatically initiates an audio chat when you start a screen sharing ses- Chat for effect. sion, so you can talk things through while you’re at it. Transform your video chats using new Photo Booth ef- fects. Add kapow! to a chat with the comic book effect. Get twisted with twirl. Soften your image with glow. Chatting for the record. Just choose an effect and your video changes instantly. Now you can save your audio and video chats for posterity with iChat recording. Before record- ing starts, iChat notifies your buddies and asks for their permission to record. When you’re done chatting, iChat stores your audio chats as AAC files and video chats as MPEG-4 files so you can play them in iTunes or QuickTime. Share them with colleagues, friends, and family or sync them to your iPod and play on the go. If your laptop is equipped with a built-in iSight camera, great. You’re good to go. If you don’t have a camera built-in, you can use a portable iCam or DV camcorder connected to your Mac. Why wait for a darkened room and a projector to pres- ent vacation photos or Keynote slides? iChat Theater See pg. 31 for more info on ‘Getting a Free, Non- Now you can do it all remotely, right in iChat. Put on Expiring Mac.com Address for iChat.’ a photo slideshow, click through a Keynote presenta- tion, or play a movie — in full screen, accompanied by And if you haven’t used iChat yet, you’re in for a a video feed of you hosting — while your buddy looks treat. See you Saturday at 9 a.m. :) on. In fact, you can show any file on your system that works with Quick Look. Sonoma Valley Computer Group Newsletter 5 http://www.vom.com/svcg/index.html PUMPED ABOUT PAINTER by Jackie Dove, Macworld.com Earlier this week, Corel rolled out a new version of Painter, its painting software.