STANFORD/PALO ALTO MACINTOSH USERS GROUP NEWSLETTER Vol. 15 No.2 • February 2005 If you are into sound don’t miss this meeting Roku’s Mike Kobb Senior Software Engineer will be showing this exciting new product. Finally, a network music player that looks as good as it sounds! Roku SoundBridge plays your PC or Mac digital music files anywhere in the house – connecting your stereo or powered speakers to your computer’s digi- tal music library. Or, listen to a variety of Internet Radio stations, without even turning on your computer. WM A , MP3, AAC,AIFF and WAV music formats are supported — and it’s network ready with wired Ethernet or Wi-Fi. A large, bright display; Apple Rendezvous® and iTunes®* support;and Windows® Media Connect, Windows Media Player 10 and Windows Media DRM 10 support make the SoundBridge the most compatible music player around. SoundBridge makes playing your favorite music files a breeze. The only difference MACWORLD HIGHLIGHT between the M2000, M1000 and M500 models is the size Spotlight on the Approaching Ti g e r and capabilities of the display Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye IN THIS ISSUE Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? MacWorld Highlight.................................................1 If the mystic William Blake were aware of what influence Roku SoundBridge ..................................................1 personal computing might have in altering society by he SMUG February Meeting Schedule..................2 might have made this poem about Apple Computers lofting ambition to make information more accessible to the user. He Do you need a ride ?......................................2 of course was referring to divine logic and not to our attempts SMUG CD-Rom—Winter 2005 ......................3 to retrieve information with greater ease. Shareware—February Demo Items...............4 Apple has thrown down a gauntlet, which Microsoft has History of Micro from the vacuum tube .......6 yet to pick up, but they must. I refer of course the Smug Perks.................................................................6 Spotlight feature, which will become part of the Core search technology built-in to next Mac OS. This Calendar of SMUG Events.............................7 is only one feature that promises to make computing bet- SMUG new home page ter. Apple again will lead where the rest must follow. This http://www.pa-smug.org alone is not enough to persuade people to use Macs and 650–286–7539 foreswear Microsoft, but it will make them think! Page 1 Smug Contacts smug february 7 SMUG Office Meeting Schedule 6:30 - 9:00 P.O. Box 20132 Stanford CA, 94309 6:30 - 7:00 Q&A /Recap of MacWorld 650 286-7539 7:00 - 7:30 Shareware WEB Site Owen Saxton & Shareware team ht t p : / w w w . p a - s m u g . o r g 7:30 - 7:45 Bre a k Club Mailing List 7:45 - 9:00 Roku’s SoundBridge sm u g u s e r g r o u p @ y a h o o g r o u p s . c o m Mike Kobb Senior Software Engineer BOARD OF DIRECTORS 9:00 Raffle Frank Smith, Int. President We Will be meeting at the Redwood Room Bldg. 48 and Not at (510) 477- 0969 aq u a m a n 4 7 @ m a c . c o m Panofsky Auditorium (See map with directions on page 8). Tom Mathieu, Director Treasurer The March 7 Meeting will be at Panofsky Auditorium, Slac has the (650) 494-7760 tmathieu@p a - s m u g . o r g Redwood room booked for March 7. William Maxwell, Director 650-937-3280 [email protected] Jim Thornton Director DO YOU NEED A RIDE? [email protected] From time to time there may be some members who cannot get a Steve Bellamy Director ride on any stated meeting night at SLAC. Please don’t think that (650) 854-5895 [email protected] you have to miss a meeting because of this. We can always arrange NON-BOARD OFFICER for one or more of our members–or officers– to pick you up and Vice President/vacant ride to the meeting with them. But, please try and plan ahead and COMMITTEES leave enough time for us to arrange for your connection. Membership Ilana Braun, Chair If you have a wheelchair or walker we can also arrange to direct (650) 493-6197 you to, or assist you, to walk the pathways or climb the stairs to ilanab@p a - s m u g . o r g whichever meeting room we are scheduled for that night. Scott Spencer Assistant smug _ [email protected] Please call or e-mail me and I will coordinate with the membership NEWSLETTER to get this done. Lorrie Bleiler 650.948-1400 [email protected] Lorrie Bleiler Editor/Designer (650) 948-1400 phone /fax [email protected] - - - IMPORTANT READ-ME - - - John Schipper, Staff Writer Security and You (650) 493-8048 To pass through the security gate on February 7 you will need: John Kaufmann, Distribution (650) 494-0703 • To be on our list of members [email protected] If your membership has lapsed, send me an Louis Bookbinder, News and Tips email by Saturday, February 5 booky@p a - s m u g . o r g • aq u a m a n 4 7 @ m a c . c o m , to tell me you plan to attend S H A R E W A R E • (Of course, err, um, don’t forget to pay your Owen Saxton dues at the meeting) (650) 966-1775 [email protected] AND !!! Be prepared to show a photo ID at the gate. All guests are welcome as always, but you or they must WEB SITE email me by February 7 so they can be on the list of James W. Higgins, Webmaster/Secretary attendees to be submitted to SLAC security. [email protected] Thanks for your cooperation.-Frank Smith Page 2 SMUG WINTER 2005 CD-ROM NEW CONTENTS MacSSH 2.1fc3 (Cls) Audio & Music Productivity Mozilla X 1.8a5 * Movmeter 0.4 BuddyPop 2.2 Mozilla 1.2.1 (Cls) MP3 Trimmer 2.2.1 Check Off 3.0b1 MT-NewsWatcher X 3.4 Play Sound 1.5.2 CocoaBooklet 1.3 MT-NewsWatcher 3.1 (Cls) PlayPod 0.3.3 iAddressX 3.2.2 Netscape X 7.2 RadioLover 1.3 InterCal 2.0.4 Netscape Communicator? 7.0.2 (Cls) Vocal Lab 2.1 JunkMatcher 1.19c Netscape MRJ Plugin X 1.0.1 MenuCalendarClock 1.5.1 Comm Netscape MRJ Plugin 1.0b5 (Cls) BluePhoneMenu 1.2.15 MyMind 1.2 Niftytelnet SSH 1.1r3 (Cls) Cyberduck 2.4b1 Picture Address Book 6.0 OmniWeb 5.1b5 * Fugu 1.1.1 Tofu 1.2 IPMenu 1.1 Opera 7.54u1 * NetNewsWire 2.0b10 Utilities Outlook Express 5.0.3 (Cls) NetNewsWireLite 2.0b6 Addressix 1.4.5 RealPlayer X 10.0 * NewsFire 0.5 AppleJack 1.3 RealPlayer 8 6.0 (Cls) PithHelmet 2.1.1 BootCD 0.6 Thunderbird 1.0 * Carbon Copy Cloner 2.3 RBrowser 3.3.6 Windows Media Player X 9 Chaos Antidote X 1.0.1 RBrowserLite 3.3.6 Windows Media Player 7.1.3 (Cls) RCDefaultApp 1.2.1 Do Something When 1.0 FastScripts 2.1 SafariSource 1.6.1 Others Saft 7.4 FileWrangler 1.1 GeekTool 2.1 BBEdit Lite 6.1.2 (Cls & Cbn) Development Gumby 1.0b49 BBTidy 1.0b10 EditiX 2.1.1 Liberer 1.5 DarkSide of the Mac 5.0.6 (Cls) PageSpinner 4.6.1 MenuMeters 1.2 Extension Overload 5.9.9 (Cls) Taco HTML Edit 1.6 OnyX 1.4.9 MacTracker X 3.0 * Tag 1.1.5 osxutils 1.6 MacTracker 3.0 (Cls) * SwapMenu 1.1 Mariner LE 3.1.4 (Cls) Fun and Games Text Wallet 1.6 MP3 Rage 5.8.4 (Cbn) Airburst 1.055 TEXTreme 1.0 SoundApp 2.7.3 (Cls) Gish 1.3 TinkerTool System 1.35 SoundJam MP Free 2.5.3 (Cls) Goban 3.2.2v65.2 TNEF's Enough 2.0 Tex-Edit Plus X 4.8.2 * Solitaire Till Dawn X 1.4 Tex-Edit Plus 4.1.3 (Cls) Zen Puzzle Garden 1.14 textSOAP 4.0.7 * STOCK CONTENTS Interface Graphics Utilities Butler 4.0b21 GIFBuilder for OSX 1.0 Adobe Reader 7.0 * CoolBackground 2.4 GifBuilder 1.0 (Cls) Acrobat Reader 5.1 (Cbn) CornerClick 0.6 Goldberg X 2.4 ADBProbe 1.0.3 (Cls) Dockless 1.3.3 Goldberg 2.4 (Cls) Aladdin DropStuff 6.0.1 Drop Drawers X 1.6.5 GraphicConverter X 5.4 * Aladdin Expander? 6.0.1 FontCard 1.2.4 GraphicConverter 5.4 (Cls) * Andrew's Disk Copy Scripts 2.1.1 FruitMenu 3.2.1 Jade 1.2 (Cls) AntiWordService 2.0.1 Keyboard Maestro 2.0.2 Default Folder X 1.9.7b1 * Launch Items X 1.7.4 Internet Default Folder 3.1.5 (Cls) Marine Aquarium 2.0.6 AOL Instant Messenger 4.7 (Cbn) FinderPop 1.9.2 (Cls) MenuStrip 3.0.1 Better Telnet 2.0b4 (Cls) PopChar Lite 2.7.2 (Cls) Shapeshifter 2.0.1 Camino 0.8.2 * PopChar X 2.2.1 * WinSwitch 3.0b Eudora X 6.2 * PrintToPDF 2.4.4 (Cls) Kitchen Sink Eudora 6.1.1 (Cls) SCSIProbe 5.2 (Cls) Delicious Library 1.0.6 Fetch 4.0.3 ShrinkWrap? 2.1 (Cls) Freefall 1.0.1 Firefox 1.0 * Sleeper 3.5 (Cls) MAL Conduit 1.0.4 iCab X 2.9.8 Snitch 2.6.7b2 (Cls) iCab 2.9.8 (Cls) TechTool Lite 3.0.4 (Cls) Multimedia TinkerTool 3.3b * Interarchy 7.2.1 DVD2oneX 1.4.1 Interarchy 6.3 (Cls) * New or updated since the previous HandBrake 0.6.2 CDOQ ImageBuddy 3.1.3 Internet Explorer X 5.2.3 Sizzle 0.5b2 Internet Explorer 5.1.7 (Cls) Page 3 Shareware News • A clipboard extension.