February 2007 Magazine

citrus macintosh users group
February 2007
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From:
Inverness — State Road 44 West. 1.5 miles
west of County Road 490. On S.R. 44 turn left at
entrance to Crystal Oaks on Crystal Oaks Blvd.
Clubhouse is .10 mile on left.
Crystal River — S.R. 44 East off U.S. 19.
Go 4 miles. Turn right at entrance to Crystal
Oaks on Crystal Oaks Blvd. Clubhouse is .10
mile on left.
Homosassa — U.S. 19 to Home Depot.
Turn east on W. Venable. Stay on this road for
5.5 miles. Do not worry about name change.
Clubhouse on right.
Homosassa via C.R. 490 — Turn left at
S.R. 44. Go 1.5 miles. Turn left at entrance to
Crystal Oaks on Crystal Oaks Blvd. Clubhouse
is .10 mile on left.
Curtis Herrin, President
[email protected]
341-5555
Bill Dean, VP/Tech
[email protected]
527-8405
Ed Romans, VP/Education
[email protected]
527-6522
Vito DePinto, Secretary
[email protected]
726-7787
Julie DePinto, Treasurer
[email protected]
726-7787
Alan Wentzell, Ambassador
[email protected]
302-5864
Jo Foster, Magazine Editor
[email protected]
726-1046
Carolyn Herrin, Membership
[email protected]
341-5555
Dealer Rep
Articles
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Beta – Gail Mitchell – 4
iWay on the Highway
– John Engberg – 6
Pages Inspector – Curt
Herrin – 3
Columns
From the President – 3
Lab Report – 7
Meeting Minutes – 10
Surf’s Up – 8
Pointers for the Perplexed – 7
PhotoPages
Family Album – 9
Member Gallery – 5
Citrus Macintosh Users Group Magazine is published online monthly by Citrus Macintosh Users
Group.
Citrus Macintosh Users Group Magazine was
produced using Adobe Photoshop CS and Adobe
InDesign 2.0.
Johanna Foster, Editor
Cover design by Johanna Foster
AboutCMUG
Citrus Macintosh Users Group is a tax-exempt, nonprofit educational organization, dedicated to helping all people in
our area become familiar with their computers.
We meet on the fourth Friday monthly at the Crystal Oaks Clubhouse. The meetings start at 6:30 p.m. with an informal question-and-answer period led by some of the club’s Mac tech people. A business meeting follows at 7 p.m., followed
by a presentation covering a variety of topics, such as graphics, web pages, or using hardware and software related to the
Macintosh computer.
On the Sunday following the meeting, we hold a Lab/Tune-up from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Crystal Oaks Clubhouse. At the
lab that is free for members, tech members correct problems with hardware and software.
We offer Saturday afternoon classes monthly. The classes allow participants to learn Mac software programs and techniques in a hands-on-setting. Cost for the classes are $10 for members, $15 for member families, and $20 for nonmembers.
The monthly magazine with articles from members is also a member benefit, as well as free special interest groups
(SIGs) that are formed by members who have an interest in exploring a particular area in depth.
We also offer an informal workshop for members at the Beverly Hills Community Building on the fourth Tuesday
monthly. The workshop can either cover a specific topic or address various computer problems of participants.
ClubDues
Annual dues for members are $20 for an individual membership, $30 for a family membership and $10 for a student
membership.The membership period begins Jan. 15 each year. Dues for new memberships after July are pro-rated; renewals
remain at the annual rate.
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FromthePresident
Pages. We all agree Pages will not replace Appleworks
and after what we saw of Pages—Apples vs. Oranges.
CurtHerrin
There is room for both in your work station.
This month we will continue with the classes on the
Our first meeting of ’07 was
iLife
6 suite of programs by offering iMovie. Bill Dean
well attended. We had to drag more
did a wonderful job with iPhoto. If you missed his class,
chairs out and couples were asked to
we will soon have a homemade tutorial of iPhoto 6
sit on each other’s lap. We are off to
on DVD. This will be available to members for just $5.
a good start with renewals.
iMovie will be available to those who can not make the
At the board meeting this month,
we will set the cut off date. I suspect March 1 will be class for the same price. All proceeds go directly to the
selected. At that time we change the password that club.
This month, we get to welcome back our new bionic
connects you to our message board and CMUG’s
man,
Emel Atkins—two new knees and a shoulder. Says
magazine. Just to see Jo Foster’s covers is worth the
he never felt better and is back to chasing Margaret
annual membership.
Dave Williams presented an introduction to iWork around the house.
See you at the February meeting.
at January’s meeting. He touched on KeyNote and
Pages Inspector
Curt Herrin
At this month’s meeting
during Dave Williams presentation of iWork’s Pages,
he briefly mentioned the
“Inspector.” Inspector just
happens to be the subject this
month of my fourth article in
my Pages series.
I opened the Extreme
Newsletter template, and using the Help feature of Pages,
I got a list of over 50 task
when I typed in Inspector.
Let us look at a couple of
key tasks you can complete
by using some of the subfields—there are 10 listed in
the Inspector window.
The first one pertains
to the document itself and
when you click on the far
left icon and it is the first tab
on the left when the window
changes.
It is here that you set the
overall page margins, numbering style, etc. Another nice
feature with Pages is you can
chose to set, work and view
your page using a Landscape
format in this part of the In-
spector. Writing a book and
need the extra space for the
binding? Click on Facing Pages
and make adjustments for just
that. When you select the Info
tab, besides the listed info you
can assign keywords, titles,
comments and so forth. Good
for searches should you lose
tract of your document.
How text is handled
within each paragraph, section, header and every other
part of a document can be
completed under the T.
The More tab can make a
big difference if you want to
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make sure certain text or paragraphs remain with each
other. Even though you may have selected to hyphenate
within the document, it is here you can cancel that for
individual paragraphs or sections.
All this fine for straight text but if you want to
know how to handle columns, just click on the second icon in the Inspector window. As seen here, you
can manage each column within each section staying
within the confines of your document margins. I have
reviewed other tasks that can be accomplished by using the Inspector in previous series. The Inspector is a
real robust task master. It will take a short time to get
a feel for all its attributes but once you do you will fly
through each job.
Try opening more than one Inspector window to
speed things up. The toolbar short cut only opens one
Inspector. You will have to go under View and select
New Inspector if you want more than one. Play with
these things and look for a class on Pages sometime
this year.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta
Gail Mitchell
The next generation of the professional standard
in digital imaging,
Adobe Photoshop
CS3 delivers new
tools and enhancements that enable you to work more productively, edit with unrivaled power,
and composite with breakthrough
ease and control.
Please note that a beta is, by
definition, an unfinished product
that may or may not include all
the features and functionality that
will appear in the final release. And
while some may find the quality appropriate for use in a production
environment, the beta is not finalrelease quality and should not be
used for critical work. Adobe does
not offer technical support for the
Photoshop CS3 beta.
Terms of Use
Your use of Adobe Labs, including the downloading of software
and submission of comments, ideas,
feature requests, and techniques,
and Adobe’s rights to use such
submitted materials are governed
by the Adobe Labs Terms of Use
Please note
that a beta is,
by definition,
an unfinished
product that
may or
may not
include
all the features
and functionality
that will
appear
in the final
release
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using Adobe software and related
materials, you also agree to the appropriate Adobe Software License
Agreement, including the limitations
related to prerelease software.
Photoshop CS3 Beta Installer
The following downloads will
install an English-language beta of
Photoshop CS3 for Mac OS (OS X
10.4.8 or later) and Windows XP.
English
Download for Macintosh (DMG,
685 MB).
Important: A licensed copy
of Photoshop CS2, Creative Suite
2, Production Studio, Adobe Web
Bundle, or Adobe Video Bundle is
required to use this technology
beyond a two-day trial period. After
installation you will be prompted to
enter a CS3 beta serial number for
Photoshop. To obtain a beta serial
number, visit www.adobe.com/go/
photoshopcs3beta_serialnumber
and enter your CS2 serial number.
Although the beta is available only
in English, all language versions of
Photoshop and the products mentioned above qualify to participate.
John Engberg
Here’s a picture of one of our tech support staff in action.
Member
Gallery
Little contractor keeps
busy in the evenings
painting drywall. This
is from Arlene Nicoll’s
iPhotos.
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Chris said he took this picture
about three months ago.
Chris Dusombre
iWay on the Highway
John Engberg
For those who are thinking of
buying a GPS unit, Lowrance has a
new model, the iWay 600C, that is
Mac-compatible. This will allow you
to update your maps with your Mac.
Most GPS units require a PC for
updates/upgrades, but not this unit!
This iWay 600C has some really great features. It’s
got a large 5” hi-res display (640 x 480), and it’s a completely sealed unit to prevent internal corrosion. It has
both a street mode and a marine mode of operation;
plus, it has a media player for your JPEGs and MP3s.
In street mode, you can get actual satellite imagery
of your location and your route with street overlays
in addition to your normal road mapping. You can do
street searching and set up your route to avoid toll
roads and interstates and even left turns. It will do
an automatic recalculation of your
route if you miss a turn.
In marine mode, you have access to access to maps with the
depth contours of over 3000 U.S.
lakes. There are maps of the Great
Lakes and our coastal waters that
show depth contours, navaids, port services, tide and
current information, and other information.
I’m really impressed with this unit, and according
to our own Tom Davis, who tipped me off about this
new GPS, Lowrance is a highly respected manufacturer
of GPS and other nautical equipment. I’ve just touched
on some of the features that got my attention. For a
complete listing of the iWay 600 features visit the Lowrance Web site at www.lowrance.com/Automotive/
Products/iWay600C.asp.
I’m really
impressed
with this unit
Arlene Nicoll
Participants in the iPhoto class are Bob Johnson, above, and Jan Belland, right.
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You can use AOL Instant Messenger, a free download or a .mac account. Any Firewire video camera will
work with AIM. iSight cameras are hard to find and expensive now that Apple no longer ships them.
iChat AV is available at apple.com.You can find AIM
at versiontracker.com.
These tips came from About Focus on Macs. Sign
up for this weekly newsletter at macs.about.com/gi/
pages/mmail.htm.
Pointersforthe
Perplexed
BillDean
What time is it?
The Energy Policy Act of 2005
changes the start and end of Daylight
Saving Time so that we set our clocks
ahead on March 11 instead of the first Sunday in April.
We “fall back” on Nov. 4 instead of the last Sunday in LabReportBillDean
October. How does this affect our Mac clocks? If you
Ten of the 11 members who signed up came to
have Date and Time Preferences or Control Panels set
for automatic time settings, the time stamp will be an the Lab on Sun., Jan. 28. The one who didn’t come had
hour off. If you have OS 10.4.5 or newer, Apple has put taken care of the problem himself. Good for him.
Jan and Buzz Fredrickson did most of the
the patch in to allow for the change. Otherwise, you will
repartioning
of their G4 iMac’s hard drive, but needed
have to change the time manually.
This also means that sunrise on March 11 will be at assistance with software updates.
Mae Lewis and Ann Perko needed resolution of
7:35. And I will have to find a 12-year-old kid to set the
some iPhoto problems. Al Petry and Curt Herrin were
clock on my television.
able to correct the iPhoto Libraries.
Send files to a PC user
Chris Dusombre, who also helped with some the
Save any file—a picture or an AppleWorks docuproblems,
installed a second hard drive in his B&W G3
ment, for instance—as a PDF. Do this in the print dialog
and set it up as a backup startup disk.
box. Windows users can open and read PDFs.
Tom Bonnitt brought in his new MacBook with
E-mail web page links or Contents
With Safari 2 (Tiger), you can easily send links or a problem with his Firewire port. John Engberg
determined that it was a major hardware problem
entire Web page contents with Mail.
With the Web page open, go to File > Mail Link to and the MacBook will have to go to the Apple Store.
This Page. Mail will open with the link showing. Put in John also answered Tom’s questions about running the
the address and subject and send it. Do the same for the MacBook.
Fran Cooperrider recently signed up for a Road
page’s content with File > Mail Contents of This Page.
Runner account with Bright House and wanted help
Clean your screen
With the computer off, wipe the monitor
screen with monitor-cleaning pre-moistened
wipes, or with monitor-cleaning solution or
water sprayed onto monitor/eyeglass cloth.
Never spray anything directly on the screen.
When cleaning LCD screens, do not use
alcohol- or ammonia-based products as they
can damage the surface. Use water sprayed
onto monitor/eyeglass cloth or special LCD
cleaner (such as Klear Screen) only.
Do not spray water or cleaning solution
directly on the screen.
Using iChat AV
You don’t have a new Mac with built-in
video or one with an iSight camera? You can
still do video chat, although there are a few
restrictions. You need at least a G4 processor with a 600 MHz or faster processor and
Curt Herrin
firewire capabilities to use iChat AV 2.1.
New member Marlene Kaufman gets pointers from Dr. Bill at the January lab.
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setting up her Network and Mail Preferences. Bill Dean
helped her with that and installed a QuickTime update
on her iBook.
Marjorie Gleason wanted assistance setting up
a second account on her laptop. She needs a nonadministrator account for visitors to use. The Standard
setup keeps them out of her Home Folder.
Dick Klopfer recently had a bad iBook hard drive
replaced by Apple. He had used Tiger before the failure,
but Apple installed Panther. Al Petry helped Dick install
Tiger with the update to 10.4.8.
Marcia Bader brought her G4 with a mail problem
large file that caused Mail to freeze. John got that
cleared up and cleaned up the hard drive.
Tim Hoffman is a new member who is a fresh
switcher from Windows on an IBM. The whole tech
crew helped him get familiar with the Mac OS. Bill
updated his iPhoto to 6.0.5. Tim seemed fully satisfied
with what he can do with a Mac. Much better and
easier than a PC he said.
Surf’sUp
JohannaFoster
Olympus Photography
Lessons Online
Want to learn how to shoot
great landscapes, sunsets, portraits,
and close ups? Olympus Photography Lessons Online
shows how with cameras fit for amateurs to pros, with
accessories also suitable for amateurs or pros. Go to
www.olympusdigitalschool.com. The lessons are free
to anyone.
Even though each lesson is based on a particular
Olympus camera model, most of the information can
be applied to other brands. Olympus offers the lessons
with the idea that they help to make better buying decisions about its products.
I perused three lessons: “Close Ups and Macros,”
“Helpful Hints for Shooting Sunsets,” and “Getting the
Best Possible Exposure.”
The exposure lesson used Photoshop layers to
incorporate different parts of multiple exposures by
using Layer Masks.
An added bonus of visiting this site is that it also
has a free drawing for an Olympus camera and accessory photography equipment. Just fill out the survey
On the “photo lessons” page, click on the picture for the lesson
you want. All the pictures in the lesson click to a larger view to
see details easier.
after checking out the site and some of the lessons.
Be a winner—shoot better photos.
On the Olympus Photography Lessons Online Web site, click on the name of the section to navigate to it.
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Family Album
John Durr
You won’t let me go to the Apple
Store in Tampa unless I bring money, my
money not our money, the green kind and
I don’t really (ha) need any more software,
hardware or associated gadgets. So, this
is my world and if it’s a mess I know
where all the important stuff is buried. I
can lay my hand on the requested items,
but give me a minute to remember. Needless to say, I have not purchased anything
lately. Now our
son Kevin, who
lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with
his new bride,
Talitha, told us
originally, to “buy
an Apple, Dad,
anybody can use
them.” I wonder
if there was a
message that I
missed. Well, Jo
has asked for a
contribution and
said pictures are
welcome on most any subject, I have pictures of our son’s
wedding this past Memorial Day in Manila, P.I. The bride is
Talitha Christianne Espiritu-Durr and the groom is Kevin
Gregory Durr.
Some wonderful happy and bright pictures of the affair.
The people of the Philippine Islands have a tradition that the
family accompanies the newly wed couple for a beach party.
Everybody goes, uncles and aunts, cousins, brothers and
sisters and everybody has a wonderful time. I’m not sure
this is a universal tradition, but in Talitha’s close-knit family
where she has moved to the States and they see her all to
infrequently, that was the way it was going to be. Beyond
Kevin and Talitha, I don’t have a clue as to who these beautiful people are. When they next visit we will have a “show
and tell” session.
Now, if I can find my “TO DO” list, I could get the rest
of the “honey do” stuff done!
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January26,2007meetingMinutesVitoDePinto
Attendance: 36 members and three guests attended the meeting. Curt welcomed the following
guests—Ruth & David Houser and Tim Hoffman. David
Houser also became a new member.
Committee Reports
Scholarship—Jo reported that the scholarship
deadline was January 19th.
Magazine—Jo appealed to everyone to send her
any good or bad Mac problems that they might have
encountered and the solutions to the those problems
and she will publish them in the magazine.
Curt mentioned what a great job Jo was doing on
the magazine and everyone agreed with a rousing applause.
Membership—Carolyn reported that we had 282
members last year and so far this year we have 115
renewals and 15 new members.
Treasure—Julie reported the club
has over $3,000 plus renewal checks.
Tech report—Dr. Bill reported that
“Intel Macs” are gaining momentum
with member ownership. He spoke
on various subjects, but the one thing
he impressed upon us was to write
down our “password” and to put it in
a place where we can find it! He sited
several stories as to the disastrous
results of not remembering a password.
Classes—In Ed Roman’s absence, Curt briefed the
members on the following up and coming classes.
In February, Curt Herrin will present iMovie, and in
March, John Engberg will present iDVD. The April class
subject has not been decided as yet.
Meeting Topics—January featured iWork, February’s presentation will be Genealogy by Betty Blockus,
and in March we will have our annual party.
CDs—Curt reminded the members about the availability of Mail Address Book and Beginning System 10 on
CDs. And coming soon, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD will be
offered. The CDs can be purchased for $5 each.
Lab—A Lab is being offered on Sunday, January 28.
Library—Curt reminded everyone about the many
software tutorials that are available in the club’s library.
Renewal forms—A Renewal form, for membership
Bill Dean
The whole Workshop gang watches Curt Herrin demonstrate
the iPhoto 6 Calendar feature.
to the club, is available online.
Tonight’s Presentation—iWork by Dave Williams. Dave started his presentation by running a DVD
showing the salient points of iWork. He then went on
to demonstrate various subject areas that the program
tackles, such as mail merge with address book, Pages,
which has word processing as well as page layout for
newsletters and such. He showed us how “Keynotes”
is Apple’s answer to “Powerpoint.” Thanks to Dave’s
Gail Mitchell clarity, we all left with a much clearer understanding of
Dave Williams gave a presentation of iWork at the January meet- how iWork can be helpful.
ing.
Next meeting—February 23, 2007
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