The LIMac JANUARY 1999 NEWSLETTER OF THE LONG ISLAND MACINTOSH USERS GROUP LIMac has been serving Macintosh users on Long Island January’s since 1984, when the LIMac Inc. Mac was introduced. Meeting. P.O. Box 518 Annual dues for SomethingVery Seaford, NY 11783 membership is $24. President First meeting is free. Different. Bill Medlow For information, you [email protected] can contact any of Vice President the following: Al Choy [email protected] Membership Treasurer Donald Hennessy Max Rechtman (516) 541-3186 [email protected] [email protected] Bradley Dichter and Kirk Cronk will give a Secretary Public Domain December’s Meeting Bernie Flicker demonstration of networking a personal file Software twofl[email protected] Helen and Bradley Dichter’s Q&A session and two game sharing. Using LIMac’s desktop and laptop G3 The LIMac FORUM Sheldon Gross demos preceded our holiday party. computers, they will connect them with both Editors/Graphics (212) 799-5655 Steven Rechtman started us off with PhoneNet and Ethernet. That done, they will Mo Lebowitz [email protected] Quake, a fast action search and destroy game clearly to demonstrate just what must be done Loretta Lebowitz Technical Advice where your computer screen is your view of in order to set up the file sharing network, and [email protected] Bradley Dichter realtime fast action. Steve went straight for the finally, actually move files back and forth. Distribution (516) 348-4772 difficult level as he moved through the halls Think of all the possibilities for your Mac. Wallace Lepkin [email protected] and rooms, showing us the 3-D game environ- This will be a first for a LIMac general Donald Hennessy Program ment, moving up stairs and across bridges. meeting. You can view all the action via two Printing Willow Graphics Coordinator Geoff Broadhurst gave a Riven demo – a projectors using two screens. What a show! Balan Nagraj (516) 785-5360 relaxed adventure and exploration in which What a great way to start a Happy Mac Year! Imagesetting (516) 427-0952 you mouse click your way at your own pace Bradley Dichter is a freelance Macintosh [email protected] A&B Graphics and travel wherever you want in the 3-D land consultant; Kirk Cronk is a systems engineer (516) 433-8228 Beginners SIG of Riven as you turn levers, open doors, go up with Educational Technology Associates in Donald Hennessy The FORUM is Wally Lepkin and down stairs as you explore to solve Hauppauge, a division of Custom Computer published monthly by [email protected] various puzzles. (See page 4 for the photos.) Specialists . LlMac.All contents, 0 0 Internet SIG –Donald Hennessy Friday, January 8th, 7 p.m., Room 408. except where noted, Al Choy are copyright ©1999 [email protected] Jazzy Stuff in January: by LIMac. Opinions Internet Address expressed are the http://www.limac.org All meetings formerly We are collecting $26 annual dues for 1999. views of the authors in Building 500 will Please pay at the door or send checks to: and do not neces- sarily reflect those of now meet in Room 408 Donald Hennessy LIMac. Contents may of Building 400. LIMac Inc. be reprinted for non- P.O. Box 518 Beginners SIG: commercial use, with Seaford, New York 11783 due acknowledgment Friday, January 15, to LIMac. at 7:00 P.M. LIMac Meetings, unless otherwise noted, are held at the New Guest speaker Alan York Institute of Technology (Building. 400), at Northern Gordon discussing Boulevard, Old Westbury. To see if school is open in bad weather, call (516) 686-7789. beginner Internet. The next LIMac board meeting will be at the DTP SIG: Friday, January 8, at 9:00 P.M. Plainedge Library on Monday, January 11, 1998 More Photoshop 5.0 (there’s still a lot to learn!). at 8:00 P.M. Internet SIG: Monday, Jan. 18, 7:30 P.M. Further exploration of the Internet in the auditorium of the Bethpage Public Library. separately? And wouldn’t it be provides “seamless integration of spell checking problem. Place it where it best suits your work fantastic if you had one single spell and other text tools into existing Macintosh habits in each application and SpellTools will checker that would work with all of your applications.” remember its location every time. applications? Is that what’s bothering All of SpellTools functions are controlled from SpellTools comes packaged with a wide assort- you, Bunky? a floating palette, which can be oriented either ment of plug-ins for many existing applications. SpellTools 1.3.3 by Frank Petrie Well, your worries are at an end. In the great vertically or horizontally.Another plus is that you But what if you have a program that isn’t main- Whatsa matter, Bunky? You say you’ve got a computer-user tradition of demanding something can place your floating palette in a different stream? Nothing to it. Simply drag the desired separate spell checker for each and every one of for nothing, I give you SpellTools, freeware from location for each separate application you use it application icon on to the SpellTools icon and your applications? And you’re constantly updating Newer Technology (the people who bring you in. So, if one position is good for your e-mail SpellTools automatically creates a plug-in for the each and every dictionary GURU and high-quality upgrade cards). SpellTools program, but not so good for your browser, no desired application.That’s it. 2 President’s Message Technical Corner Just a few words to say that 1998 was a suc- | Any feedback yet on OS 8.5.1 update? cessful year for both Apple and LIMac. The G3 It’s supposed to fix problems, but a few items and the iMac, really say it all for Apple, a real need updates, like Snitch 2.6.1 and we’re still success story. LIMac also had a great year with waiting for updates to TechTool Pro’s DNA file Bill Medlow many great presentations, including Bob so it can properly evaluate the System suitcase President LeVitus and David Pogue. for damaged resources. We have the OS 8.5.1 [email protected] For the upcoming year, Apple will start us update in our PD library or it’s about 3MB to off with Yosemite, the P1, and Lombard. download. Hopefully ending the year with Carbon (new | I have a G3 and just installed OS 8.5.1. It Bradley Dichter system) and Sawtooth (1000 MHz G4)! A lot to has a memory problem. After running [email protected] look forward to. Photoshop, the memory isn’t released. I have LIMac will start off with local area networks to restart to clear the problem. REVIEW and the Internet for beginners, along with Sounds like the standard memory fragmenta- some special remote meetings (March) and tion. If you run Photoshop and then something Noted with interest: more great general meetings, as we did last else, like QuarkXPress, for instance, and then Some ideas about STUFF! sensible backups year. With information from our questionaire, quit Photoshop, you’ve left a block of free excerpted from hopefully, we can identify items of interest, for memory where Photoshop was, plus whatever LIMac Board of Directors for 1999: MACADDICT (Dec.98). future meetings and SIGS. was left after QuarkXPress. You’ll notice the “…it’s not worth By the way, just to remind all of our 1999 About This Computer... window indicates the Broadhurst,Goeff backing up applica- members – when making a purchase from largest unused block, not just free memory. [email protected] tions and System files. DataVision (at the Fortunoff Source Mall) and You’ll have to quit out of your programs in Brown-Rosner, Sheree If disaster strikes, you smilephoto@smile CompUSA (adjacent to Roosevelt Field, reverse order of your launching them to avoid photo.com might as well just Garden City) – show your LIMac membership the problem. Applications must use a Choy,Al reinstall them from the card and you will be entitled to a discount contiguous block of memory when launched. appropriate Web sites [email protected] (there may be times where their price is below Jump Development’s RAMCharger 8 helps [or CDs]. No, the Cronk, Kirk things you can never ours). There will be more info available at our work around this problem by tricking the [email protected] next meeting, telling you exactly how this will system by scavenging unused memory blocks. recover are personal Dichter, Brad data such as archived work. This can easily, more than pay for your RAM Doubler helps somewhat, too. Now that [email protected] e-mail, address books LIMac membership. Happy New Year. 0 you’ve installed OS 8.5.1 in an attempt to fix Flicker, Bernard and handmade docu- the problem, make sure you’ve updated your twofl[email protected] ments. Exercising “We have no idea what Level 2 cache is. No one Extensions, Control Panels and utilities. Gordon,Al discretion can take does. That’s why you should ask a lot of ques- Hopefully the updates fix any memory related much of the hassle AKGMac@villagenet tions about it – just to let them know they can’t problems like a memory leak some old .com out of the backup mess with you. programs had. process – rather than Gross, Helen & Shel “Whatever it is, it sounds good. We, wish | The Apple System Profiler on my G3 reports archiving your Web [email protected] browser and its multi- they would. put it in more products. Why not two copies of the Control Strip.