A not-for-profit, volunteer, member-supported organization The Forum is pub lished monthly by LlMac. NEWSLETTER OF THE LONG ISLAND MACINTOSH USER GROUP All contents, except where noted, are copyright © 2013 by LIMac. Opinions ex- pressed are the views of the authors and do not neces sarily reflect those of LIMac. Contents may be reprinted for non-commercial use, with due acknowl- edgment to LIMac. The LIMac Forum is an independent publication and has not been authorized, sponsored or otherwise approved by Apple, Inc. July 2013 www.limac.org LIMac Inc. LIMac was estab­­lished in 1984, Scott Randell Rick Matteson P.O. Box 2048 when the Mac was introduced. June Meeting July Meeting Seaford, NY , 11783-0180 Annual dues July is all about backup and recovery. President for member ship are $36. This past Friday, June 14th we were Prosoft Engineering, a company in the Bill Medlow (The first meeting is free.) treated to our annual presentation by Macintosh industry since 1985, will show- [email protected] For information,contact any JULY of the following: Dave Marra. I always look forward to case software which has been their focus Vice President Dave’s presentations, because I always since those early years of the Mac’s infan- George Canellis Membership pick up a few new tips and techniques, cy. Company President, Gordon Bell, will [email protected] Donald Hennessy [email protected] not to mention the excitement he gen- 12 discuss and demonstrate Prosoft’s data Treasurer erates. This year was no exception. recovery and utility software for pro- Donald Hennessy Technical Adviser & [email protected] LIMac Webmaster Before Dave got into his main pre- tecting and managing important data Secretary Bradley Dichter sentation, he went over the highlights from WWDC. Among on your Mac. In addition, Mr. Bell will introduce The Data Bernie Flicker [email protected] these were: Rescue Center, Prosoft’s professional data recovery service. [email protected] Program Coordinator • The added features of the up coming version of OS X 10.9 Mavericks Prosoft’s products include Drive Genius to maintain, man- The LIMac Forum: Rick Matteson • The new features that will be included in the coming iOS 7 age and optimize hard drives; Data Rescue for emergency Editor/Graphics [email protected] • The new Mac Pro coming later this year file recovery; Data Backup for easy, powerful and flexible Al Zygier MacBasics SIG • The upgrades on the new MacBook Air backups; Klix for digital picture recovery; and SoundBunny [email protected] Geoff Broadhurst Next, Dave began the main part of his presentation which to control application volumes independently. Proofreader [email protected] was on iWork for Mac and iOS. He started withKeynote , show- As a very special part of the presentation, Prosoft will Bradley Dichter Multimedia SIG ing all the cool things you can do in making a presentation. raffle off a $50 iTunes Gift Card. Each member will get one Al Zygier First he showed “Magic Move” which is a morphing animation raffle ticket and as a bonus, one more ticket for each prod- Board of Directors: [email protected] between slides. He then showed “Object Transition”, which is uct purchased. (Software purchase forms with special MUG Geoff Broadhurst Produced using: animation within a slide. Using these will give your presenta- pricing will be available at the meeting.) George Canellis Adobe’s InDesign CS3, tion some pizzazz. He also showed; text transitions, and chart Since backup is just about the most valuable habit you Bradley Dichter Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3. (Technical Director) Acrobat 8 animations. Some of these can be viewed at; http://www.apple. should have developed and recovery is almost as important Bernie Flicker com/iwork/keynote/. Dave also demonstrated the Keynote Re- you’ll likely get a lot of information to help you get a handle Fonts are: Donald Hennessy ITC’s Officina Sans mote App, which allows you to control your Keynote presenta- on these critical tasks during this presentation. Richard Hickerson and Galliard Pro, Impact, tion from your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. Later in the pre- There are no SIG meetings this month, but the Rick Matteson Kidprint sentation he showed how to: general meeting will begin with the two usual Q&A sessions (Program Coordinator) 0 Bill Medlow • Reorganize slides followed by the Prosoft presentation. Scott Randell • View all your slides at once using Light Table (you can also reor- ganize slides in this view) June Meeting continued on Page 7 Bradley’s Tech Session President’s Message Bradley Dichter Bill Medlow Technical Advisor President [email protected] [email protected] | I’ve been working with header to re-sort your songs grouped by Over the course of 30 years we have seen the playlist folders in iTunes these playlist comments. If your playlists birth of many great computer tech ideas, some to manage my large col- are arranged in hierarchical folders, then I came and went while others became part of suggest the comments be edited in a like- lection of about a hundred playlists. I was our daily life. Now we hear of the evolution of the printer hoping to put everything of one genre wise fashion. With playlist folder “B” inside in one folder. There is no way to move a playlist folder “1”, I’d make the comment for office and home use, making it so accessible to nearly bunch of them (playlists) and move them. read “1 B” so the sorting will follow along. everyone. Unfortunately, these printers come with a high Is there something I’m missing? I sent price tag, but as the market blossoms, competition will bring them an email suggesting it. | I have a 2007 MacBook Pro run- affordability to many. ■ No, Apple gives you no way of selecting ning Mac OS X 10.6.8. I think I got it in Some of our upcoming LIMac presentations will involve the for, then moving, multiple playlists at once. November. I’m considering updating to different 3D printers available. These presentations will be very iTunes can be scripted and there are a few Mountain Lion. I think I have 4 GB of that help somewhat. For example, check memory. Do I have to load OS X 10.7 Lion exciting and inspirational because this is still a new field for these out: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/ first or can I go directly to OS X 10.8 ? I’ve consumers, and while not established in the home, they offer scripts/scripts06.php. I’d suggest you try got MS Office 2004. an exciting presence. If you can draw it, you can build it. iFolderer from http://www.tresrrr.com/ ■ The Late 2007 model came out on Just imagine, Today, you can purchase one for $1,200 in iFolderer/ENGLISH.html It allows you November 1, 2007, but even the Mid hot pink. to do your rearranging in the Finder to 2007 model, which came out on June force iTunes to comply with the 5, 2007 would still be able to install OS arrangement there, which is far easier X 10.8 Mountain Lion. See http://www. DAN DANGLO to multi-select and drag around your apple.com/osx/specs/ These are pre-uni- playlists. There is no manual, but watch body designs. As for the memory, 2 GB the video on the web site and you’ll see is the bare minimum, so 4 GB should be how to work it. OK for basic stuff. Keep in mind that 4 | Is there any way to click on a song and GB under OS X 10.8.x doesn’t go quite see what playlist it’s part of? as far as it did under Mac OS X 10.6. I ■ Yes and no. No basically, but you could hear that OS X 10.9 should be better add a comment to a group of songs and with memory management. Not only then while your Music library is in Songs can you go directly to 10.8 from 10.6.8, view, choose from the View menu, Show but you have no other choice, as the View Options and check the checkbox App Store doesn’t offer a 10.7 purchase/ for Comments under the Personal group. download anymore. You may want to rearrange the horizontal Of course you will have to get the order of the columns to bring it to the computer ready for the upgrade first. left adjacent to the (song) Name. You can Use System Profiler, under the Software then also click on the Comments column Bradley’s Tech Session continued on Page 3 THE LIMAC FORUM • JULY 2013 • PAGE 2 Bradley’s Tech Session continued from Page 2 - Applications category to find any Kind: Applications. Then I’d use Disk Utility to US. For many unsuported scanners, I guy can write up to 33 Mbps. A little PPC or even any left over Classic applica- Repair Disk Permissions and Verify Disk suggest, besides buying a newer model, more, like $30 gets you even faster and tions that can’t run even now. Universal (directories) and then make sure your getting Hamrick Software’s VueScan more durable. ones are OK. The scan could take quite backup is up-to-date, before installing Pro. check here first http://www.hamrick. While the USB flash drive is typically a while if you have many dozens of appli- the new operating system. Some newer com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#supported The formatted for Windows users in a FAT cations. Also check Software - Extensions programs work with 10.6.8 as well as Pro version is $79.95 which could come 32 format that the Mac can also read and and Frameworks as well.