JUNE 2007 www.limac.org NEWSLETTER OF THE LONG ISLAND MACINTOSH USERS GROUP LIMac was estab- lished in 1984, when May’s Meeting June’s Meeting the Mac was intro- On Friday night, May 11, we had a second Get ready… it’s time for the duced. Annual dues LIMac Inc. for membership presentation by James Lee, President and Dave Marra Experience P.O. Box 2048 are $36. (The first founder of Tropical Software. He showed the JUNE again! As in the past, Seaford, NY meeting is free.) newest version ofTop XNotes and the new Dave Marra, Apple Senior 11783-0180 For information, TopXNotes iPod. If you want to look at the Systems Engineer, will be President contact any of the basics of TopXNotes, download the January exploring the amazing new Bill Medlow following: 8 [email protected] 2006 Forum. TopXNotes is a combination of products recently released Membership Notepad and Stickies. Many of our members from Apple. First, we Vice President Donald Hennessy have found it to be a great organizer. The latest will take an in-depth George Canellis (516) 541-3186 version has many improvements. Among these look at the brand new [email protected] [email protected] are: universal binary; quartz text support; iPhone and Apple Treasurer Technical Advice scroll wheel and two-finger scrolling support; TV, as well as the next Donald Hennessy Bradley Dichter new import and export options; preferences generation AirPort [email protected] (631) 348-4772 control note organizer columns; note-level Extreme and the new Secretary [email protected] encryption; addition of styles colors and high- iPod Shuffle. And just in Bernie Flicker Program lighting; and possibly the best feature, a note case there are any other [email protected] Coordinator organizer that is similar to a table of contents. announcements, be ready for the scoop on The LIMac FORUM: Rick Matteson Basically, the new features make it much those too! Editors/Graphics rgmlimac Mo Lebowitz @optonline.net easier to keep yourself organized and have your Following Dave’s product update presen- Loretta Lebowitz Photoshop SIG needed information, such as online shopping tation, he will demonstrate podcasting, an addresses. Conveniently, these are all live links. exciting new way to create, publish and dis- [email protected] Brian Revere [email protected] [email protected] You can also have your user name, password, tribute your own dynamic multimedia content (516) 997-5370 and credit card information for each site avail- from your home, office, or classroom. With Board of Directors: MacBasic SIG able for copy/paste, freeing you from having to podcasting, anyone can have anywhere, anytime Rick Matteson Geoff Broadhurst type it out each time. access to the latest audio and video content, on a (Program Coordinator) Albert Zygier [email protected] Mac, on a Windows PC or on an iPod! Discover Worried about having this information on Geoff Broadhurst Multimedia SIG your computer? Don’t be, the note level encryp- how easy it is to get started in the exciting world George Canellis Al Zygier tion allows you to keep this information from of podcasting today! Al Choy [email protected] all eyes but yours. The addition of colors, styles, We will also hold our ever-popular Q&A, Donald Hennessy Produced using: and highlighting is really great if you need with Brad solving all your problems and satis- Bradley Dichter Tex-Edit Plus, to call attention to a specific note. Control of fying your thirst for knowledge about your Mac. (Technical Director) TextSpresso, which columns are visible allows you show only (June’s Meeting continues on Page 2) Scott Randell Adobe’s InDesign, what you need, saving desktop space. The note Bernie Flicker Photoshop, Illustrator, organizer is on the left and it makes it quite easy General meeting time schedule: Bill Medlow and Acrobat. to find and select your note. Meetings are held at The New York Institute of Technology, Harold Silvers Building 300 (Anna Rubin Hall), Old Westbury, Long Island. Brian Revere Fonts are ITC’s Another nice feature that is not really new, Franklin Gothic Meetings start promptly at 7:00 p.m. Richard Hickerson Compressed and but definitely worth mentioning again is the Bradley Q&A 7:00–7:30 p.m. Galliard Pro. MultiNote view. You can see as many notes Beginner’s Q&A 7:00–7:30 p.m. The FORUM is published monthly by LlMac. All (horizontally) as your display will allow. You can Featured presentation 7:30–8:20 p.m. contents, except where drag-and-drop from one note to another, or to followed by announcements and raffle drawings. noted, are copyright SIG (Special Interest Group) meetings 8:30–10:00 p.m. ©2007 by LIMac. and from another application. Also, an old but Opinions expressed are the very useful feature is the floating palette that Photoshop SIG: Photoshop CS 2 – Layers views of the authors and do Multimedia SIG: “Do’s and Don’ts on Vacation Videos” by expert Al Zygier. not necessarily reflect those allows you to call up your note from the Finder, of LIMac. Contents may be MacBasics SIG: More of what’s included “free” on your Mac. reprinted for non-com- or while you are working in another application. Demonstrations and discussions of mercial use, with due The last part of James Lee’s presentation Calculator, System Profiler, Chess and some acknowledgment to LIMac. The LIMac FORUM is an showed the new TopXNotes iPod. It is basically important Preference Panes – including independent publication identical to TopXNotes, but iPod export is added. Energy Saver, International, Keyboard & and has not been author- ized, sponsored or other- We would like to thank James Lee for a very Mouse, and Universal Access. wise approved by Apple informative presentation. I am sure many of you | In bad weather, call (516) 686-7789. Computer, Inc. will find this product quite useful.0 | The next LIMac board meeting will be at –Scott Randell the Plainedge Library, (516) 735-4133, on Wednesday, June 13th, at 8 p.m. Sleep, Shut Down, Power Off? for more than 20 minutes however, drain the battery in your Mac until you how much your time is worth. If it takes a long Guidelines from the U.S. Department of Energy | Both the CPU and monitor if you’re no going to resume use. Ed.) time to shut down the Mac and then restart it (From UCDA’s “Designer” publication) use your Mac for more than two hours. Most Macs reach the end of their useful life later, the value of your time will probably be Though there is a small surge in energy when Make sure your monitors, printers, and other due to advances in technology long before the much greater than the value of the electricity you a computer starts up. The small amount of accessories are on a power strip/surge protector. effects of being switched on and off multiple will save by turning off the Mac. energy is still less than the energy used when When this equipment is not in use for extended times have a negative impact on their service life. Power down or sleep mode features: a computer is running for long periods of time. periods, turn off the switch on the power strip The less time a Mac is on, the longer it will last. Macs today come with a power-down or sleep For energy savings and convenience consider to prevent them from drawing power even when Macs can also produce heat, so turning them off mode feature for the CPU and monitor. Energy turning off: shut off. If you don’t use a power strip, unplug reduces building cooling loads. Star Macs power down to a sleep mode that con- | The monitor if you aren’t going to use your Mac extra equipment when it’s not in use. (You will, For cost effectiveness, you also must consider (Sleep continues on Page 3) 2 Bradley’s Tech Session President’s Message | I have generic icons on my desktop that Some of the board members were talking a few used to be regular icons for QuarkXPress weeks ago and the heart of the conversation files. I’m runningMac OS 10.4.9. How do I was that the feature presentation is only the tip fix them? of the LIMac “iceberg.” You can use the free OnyX from Titanium Our meetings start off with ourQuestion Bradley Dichter Software to reset the LaunchServices database. & Answer session which is invaluable, especially Bill Medlow President [email protected] That might restore your icons assuming your since Bradley will place the questions with [email protected] QuarkXPress application still has it’s bundle bit responses in the next Forum which will then set so the system canfi nd the correct (type & appear on our Web site, what coverage! We all creator code) resources. Mac OS 9’s Finder have questions. database (Desktop DB and Desktop DF invisible Following this, we have our featured pre- files you probably rebuilt often) relied exclu- sentation which covers a wide variety of subjects sively on this information. Mac OS X relies also for broadening our Mac experience, followed and Swatches panel on file name extensions. Unless the applica- by our raffle and announcements. (New Swatch). By default, these TIP! tions automatically add the file name exten- Our SIG meetings offer special help. Some sions while saving, most old time users never of our members offer questions, some consult Swatches are named Additions to by CMYK value, which Swatches Panel put them in themselves. In the case of on projects at a professional level.