STANFORD/PALO ALTO MACINTOSH USERS GROUP NEWSLETTER Vol. 13 No. 4 • April 2004 Ronald McDonald House pays a visit to SMUG at the March meeting Ronald McDonald House Serving families of seriously ill children since 1979 Ronald McDonald House at Stanford provides a home-away-from-home and compassionate support for families with children with life-threatening illnesses receiving treatment at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital or Stanford Hospital and Clinics. Dedicated administrative and volunteer staff focus on the family so the family can focus on the needs of their sick child. Families support and coach each other. Children, often self conscious and embarrassed about their illnesses, feel very much at home in this warm and nurturing environment. CLIK (Computer Learning for Ill Kids) This program began at the Ronald Those children who master basic skills McDonald House in May 1993. Since become CLIK Kids who are then enti- then this program has given the chil- tled to use the equipment without a vol- dren who stay at the House an opportu- unteer being present. nity to learn computer skills, use The expanded House will have a new sophisticated systems, send and receive CLIK Room specially configured to Frank Smith and Mary Esther e-mail, and genuinely enjoy themselves accommodate 15 computer stations in the Candy–RMH volunteers coord. in a carefree activity that can help take Main House. The Immune Wing will also their minds off the serious nature of their feature upgraded computer facilities. various diagnoses. Please visit us at: www.clikkids.org CLIK is the brainchild of Ross Moran, TH A N KY O U a cystic fibrosis patient who was all too Ronald McDonald House want to than k all familiar with the isolation, loneliness, the SMUG members who donate computer and boredom so much a part of a seri- equipment it was very much appreciated. ous, lingering illness. But he knew that Pat Tomaris & Mary Barron, he, as well as others in similar circum- just for fun staff with RMH CLIK program stances, could derive a lot of satisfac- tion from a computer. Ross put it this way: “Even when I’m worn out by IN THIS ISSUE my illness, I usually have the energy to Ronald McDonald House . .1 push the mouse and feel just as able as the other kids.” Apple Computer, Inc. recog- SMUG April Meeting . .2 nized this too and donated four computers. CMS March Meeting . .2 The program has since grown, now Spring CD - Rom . .3 housing 12 computers in two rooms Shareware for April . .4 (one in the Immune Wing and one in Freeware Mac Utilities . .5 the Main House). Given this opportuni- We need your input . .5 ty to explore new interests and expand Join us for the OS 9 and OS 10 their environment, the kids smile, laugh, Freeware Mac Utilities . .5 Easter Egg Hunt at our April meeting. and squirm with delight as they design the My Most Used Aps . .6 Software programmers have a long ultimate playground, play a challenging history of putting useless little features Hard Disks Drives . .6 game, or send a photo to grandma. called Easter Eggs in there programs. Calendar of Events . .7 CLIK volunteers have trained well Did you ever wonder where they are or what they look like? SMUG new home page over 1,000 children and adults, and worked closely with many others. Do you have any Easter Eggs to share? http://www.pa-smug.org Page 1 Smug Contacts SMUG March 1 SMUG Office Meeting Schedule 6:30 - 9:30 P.O. Box 20132 6:30 - 7:00 Questions and Answers Stanford CA, 94309 650 286-7539 7:00 - 7:30 Shareware WEB Site Dave Aston /Shareware Team ht t p : / w w w . p a - s m u g . o r g 7:30 - 7:45 Break Club Mailing List 7:45 - 8:00 Easter Egg Hunt 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 8:00 - 9:00 Why OS 9 vs OS 10 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Frank Smith, int. President 9:00 Raffle (510) 477- 0969 aq u a m a n 4 7 @ m a c . c o m CMS Produ ct s World’s EASIEST Backup & Storage Solutions Tom Mathieu, Director Treasurer Morgan Williams—Our March Presenter (650) 494-7760 tmathieu@p a - s m u g . o r g Morgan is CMS’s Apple Channel Manager. Lorrie Bleiler, Director CMS has been in business for over 20 years, is (650) 948-1400 phone /fax bases in So. Calif. and has a long relationship with [email protected] Apple. If you ever had a hard drive fail or a co m p u t - Jim Thornton Director er stolen, you know the pain associated with the loss of [email protected] data and the time it took with getting up and running again. Bo u n c e B a c k creates an exact copy of your Steve Bellamy Director (650) 854-5895 computer hard drive enabling you to replace your [email protected] failed hard drive with your backup drive or boot direct- ly from your external backup drive (Mac only). And boy—does it work FAST. NON-BOARD OFFICER Vice President/vacant Bo u n c e B a c k does not use compression, does not delete files (and archives even the trashed files) and will back up SCSI drives on the chain. Their software even COMMITTEES includes a backup capability for hidden files in UNIX. Membership Ilana Braun, Chair CM S also sells a variety of OEM hard drives which they integrate into their cases (650) 493-6197 with Bo u n c e B a c k software to make a complete backup system with a 3 year war- ilanab@p a - s m u g . o r g rantee and unlimited tech support. They are compatible with OSX, Serial ATA’s for Scott Spencer Assistant Apple G5’s (no SCSIs here), and notebook HD upgrades (G3s and older). Their smug _ [email protected] back up hand held hard drives come in neat small cases in 80 Gig to 280 Gig with an OXFORD chip for their desktop models and another chip for laptops. But their NEWSLETTER Lorrie Bleiler, Director prices are steep—if you try to put together a similar BU system you might be able Editor/Designer to cut the price in half—but you would not end up with the (650) 948-1400 phone /fax same hardware/software combination that would afford [email protected] you the same degree of reliability and ease of use. (See pix John Schipper, Staff Writer at right for their little handheld gem) (650) 493-8048 If you purchase a CMS drive you can download OS 9.1 John Kaufmann, Distribution BounceBack software (or they will send you a disk of (650) 494-0703 [email protected] the 9.1 compatible software for those not using OSX. Louis Bookbinder, News and Tips booky@p a - s m u g . o r g SPECIAL DISCOUNT FOR SMUG MEMBERS S H A R E W A R E Bounce Back software is $99-. But for SMUG members they Owen Saxton have setup a promo-coupon on our website that will provide a (650) 966-1775 15% discount on any purchase at www.cmsproducts.com. [email protected] Coupon: PA-SMUG (code for our discount) WEB SITE James W. Higgins, To redeem coupon, enter the coupon code into the Sales & Webmaster/Secretary Discounts box during checkout and hit “apply”. [email protected] Sylvia Salinas, Sales contact, CMS Products, Inc. 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