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. February 2013 www.limac.org LIMac Inc. LIMac was estab­­lished in 1984, Scott Randell Bradley Dichter P.O. Box 2048 when the Mac was introduced. January Meeting February Meeting Seaford, NY , 11783-0180 Annual dues For January, our technical advisor, Bradley Dichter presented This month, I (Bradley) will continue the de- President for member ship are $36. the second installment of his “Mountain Lion - what’s hot, tailed coverage of Mountain Lion. Having Bill Medlow (The first meeting is free.) and what’s not.” He discussed only things that have changed already covered System Preferences to death [email protected] For information,contact any FEBRUARY of the following: since Lion. Bradley’s complete Mountain Lion handout can in September and January, we finally get to Vice President be downloaded as a PDF here: http://limac.org/Mountain_ the meat of the newest big cat, the applica- George Canellis Membership Lion_What’s_hot_&_what’s_not.pdf. He started where he left off tions. Again focusing on what is new rela- [email protected] Donald Hennessy in part one, the Mouse System Preference pane. It’s appear- 8 tive to Snow Leopard, we will see what’s Treasurer [email protected] ance depends on the model Mac you are using, and the type of new in the Finder, App Store, Launch- Donald Hennessy Technical Adviser & [email protected] LIMac Webmaster pointing device attached to your Mac. The Trackpad pane is pad, Mission Control and Time Machine. Secretary Bradley Dichter now visible, even if you don’t have a trackpad. The only thing Also the programs that use iCloud like Calendar, Reminders, Bernie Flicker [email protected] new is under More Gestures, for example Notification Center Contacts, Game Center, Mail, Notes, Safariand TextEdit to [email protected] Program Coordinator is a two-finger swipe left. work with your iPad or iPhone or other OS X 10.8 Macs. There The LIMac Forum: Rick Matteson Mail, Contacts and Calendars, is all new for Mountain is a lot to cover, so bring your pen and paper and takes notes, as Editor/Graphics [email protected] Lion. It does make it easier to set up multiple linked services. If there won’t be time to answer questions till the end. 0 Al Zygier MacBasics SIG you are upgrading from Snow Leopard or Lion, some informa- [email protected] Geoff Broadhurst tion will already be filled in. Clicking on an existing account, Proofreader [email protected] will show you info and options for that account. The iCloud Bradley Dichter Multimedia SIG entry will show your iCloud storage info. Newly supported are: Al Zygier Yahoo, Twitter, Vimeo, and Flikr. There is also an account cat- Board of Directors: [email protected] egory for Messages, which is the replacement for iChat. Geoff Broadhurst Produced using: Software Update, is now simplified, and relies on the App George Canellis Adobe’s InDesign CS3, Store. This makes sense for Apple software and third party Bradley Dichter Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3. (Technical Director) Acrobat 8 software downloaded from the App Store. For other things Bernie Flicker you will probably have to check the developers’ website, or Fonts are: Donald Hennessy ITC’s Officina Sans MacUpdate.com You will probably not want to enable ‘Down- Richard Hickerson and Galliard Pro, Impact, load newly available updates in the background’ and” install Rick Matteson Kidprint (Program Coordinator) system data files and security updates’. You will lose control, Bill Medlow and not be aware of what is happening. Another option (for Scott Randell Admin users only) is to automatically download apps purchased on other Macs linked to your Apple ID. January Meeting continued on Page 3 Bradley’s Tech Session President’s Message Bradley Dichter Bill Medlow Technical Advisor President [email protected] [email protected] | I have an 60GB ex- is too small for the task. Come to think Over the past 29 years we have embraced what ternal hard drive con- of it, the Performas were SCSI equipped technology can do for us, and the computer has nected to my MacBook and modern Macs have no SCSI ports, afforded us the ability to do some things better or Pro. I want to use it for Time Machine. so these files probably have been passed faster, but at what price? The economy is growing in spite of How do I partition it for this? I don’t around over time, which tends to support low job growth. want to loose my old files from my a hope that the drive they are on now is LIMac members are growing because, much like the economy, Performa that are on this drive. big enough. ■ You don’t have to repartition the drive. we are striving to get to the top of the wave. We identify As long as the drive’s volume is formatted | My nephew just got a iPad mini and growing and having fun with the Mac, iPhone, iPad or iPod. It’s as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), it has a MacBook Pro and an iPhone in a great being part of everything new because it energizes us. should be fine. Ideally the drive should two story house, where the iPhone and My wife and I visited the Walt Whitman Apple store yesterday. be partitioned for the type of computer Mac work in every level of the house. We observed all the younger people. so fast and nimble as their you are backing up. That means GUID How can I fix this? thumbs texted or their fingers typed on keyboards, or they Partition Table for Intel based Mac and ■ First off, you may want to check if the Apple Partition Table for PowerPC based iPad has the latest iOS 6.0.2 which fixed were engaged in conversation with Apple’s tech crew. Their thirst Macs, like the Performa. Time Machine a WiFi related problem. Secondly I would will never be quenched as they lean out, wanting to grasp the running on an Intel based Mac will still relocate the wireless router to a more new, leaving no stone unturned. Watching this, brought us great allow you to select a volume on a drive central location. Remember the signal energy, which is something no member in the Mac group will ever that is partitioned with the “wrong” parti- strength drops by 25% for each typical lose. When I think of our group, I think of a Mac Apple Crew. tion scheme. It’s because the backup is not floor or wall. Your typical router is only I really want our group to grow in this new year of ours. I want bootable so it doesn’t matter. The reason good for unobstructed 150 feet range you don’t need to partition the drive is indoors in the first place. Apple’s wireless our energy to transmit to others, the way yesterday’s Apple that Time Machine puts everything into “airport” routers support creating a wire- store visit energized my wife and I. Looking forward to new a folder called “Backups.backupdb” and less distribution system which pickup and LIMac ‘crew’ members meshing all of our energies, that will keep each incremental backup in a sub-folder retransmit the signal and other options us the notable New York Apple user group and that’s my vision inside there. Any files already on the drive include higher gain external antennas and for us. will stay there. You could keep things range extender access points. Another As I write this, it’s still January and still correct to say Happy tidy and create a new top-level folder on option is replacing the wireless router with the drive and put your old stuff in there. a unit with a longer range. The units with New Year... to our present and future members of LIMac. Let’s The only issue is, is there enough free MIMO have the best performance, like make ’13 count as a lucky number moving forward, after all, the space on the drive to backup your cur- the Cisco/Linksys EA4500 or EA6500, world didn’t end last year. rent Mac? Considering the largest Apple but Apple’s latest Airport Extreme also supplied hard drive for a Performa was has MIMO. Bill Medlow just 1.2 GB and a modern OS X is closer to 6GB, and most folks use far more than | When I open an attached video in Safari that, I would be concerned that the drive Bradley’s Tech Session continued on Page 3 THE LIMAC FORUM • FEBRUARY 2013 • PAGE 2 Bradley’s Tech Session continued from Page 2 on my Mac running Mountain Lion, it may higher density chips come out but Apple prised when you install more RAM, then 3 GB of it. The other thing maybe the say “loading” and never get anywhere. I’ve never tests them for compatibility and you’ll have a bit less disk space, because MicroCenter staffer was thinking that even left it overnight. Works fine in Firefox. thus never certifies nor endorses any- of virtual memory swap files.