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MacNews - September 2002
Wow! – What a great time to be a
Mac user
by Terry White
Jaguar! This launch was the most
successful OS launch in Apple’s history. They sold more than 100,000
copies in the first weekend. I have
been running Jaguar since it was
introduced and it has lived up to
the hype for me. It’s faster and even
more stable. It also fixed a couple of
minor problems I was having with
10.1.5. Be sure to attend our October
meeting for a complete run down
on Jaguar and my favorite OS X tips
and tricks.
August was an awesome month for
Michigan Mac users. We started
Our first Apple Retail Store
off with the 16th Anniversary of
MacGroup-Detroit. The anniverOn August 31st Apple opened
sary meeting was very well attended
Michigan’s 1st Apple Retail Store
and it marked the 1st time we were
in Novi at the Twelve Oaks Mall!
able to record the meeting and offer This was one the most exciting Mac
it to those who couldn’t attend, via
events in Michigan’s history. I estiQuickTime streaming off our web
mate that over 1,500 people came to
site. We will continue to work with
see the store on opening day. There
this technology to get the best pos- were at least 350 people in line by
sible quality to deliver the most
the 10am opening. Also at least 100
bandwidth friendly stream we can. MacGroup members attended this
Also during our August meeting we “big Mac” party! Rumor has it that
were able to bring one more person
the amount of business done on
into the Mac fold and that was Heidi
opening day blew away the expec(a person in need). Heidi was given
tations of store management. If
the chance to get an iMac, some
you missed the opening day of the
donated accessories and free mem- Twelve Oaks Store, no need to worry.
bership to MacGroup.
You will get your chance to attend
another opening soon! AccordThere’s a Jaguar loose…
ing to this article in the Detroit
On August 24th, Apple Com- News
http://www.detnews.com/
puter shipped the long awaited 2002/technology/0209/12/b02major update to Mac OS X, 10.2 584862.htm Apple will be opening
the 2nd store in Troy’s Somerset
Collection on Saturday, October
12th 2002. It’s important that we
support these stores. Mac users have
complained for years about the Mac
retail shopping experience being
less than desirable. Now we will
have not one, but two stores that
are 100% dedicated to the Mac. So
now there is no more excuse. It’s
also important that we continue to
support the retail efforts of Micro
Center and CompUSA. I say this
only because Apple has recently
started staffing the Mac sections of
these stores with Apple reps. Our
very own Eric Blomberg works as
an Apple rep at the Troy CompUSA
(behind Oakland Mall). We also
have several MacGroup members
working at the Twelve Oaks Apple
Store and the soon to open Apple
Somerset store. So if nothing else
support these three locations. Also
let ‘em know you’re a member of
MacGroup when you’re there. The
more they hear our name the easier
it will be to negotiate User Group
nights and User Group Discounts!
See all the pictures and video of
the Twelve Oaks Grand Opening by
going to http://www.macgroup.org
You have questions…
We have answers! I have personally answered the questions of
several MacGroup members for
years via email. I have helped more
people than I can remember. I wish
to continue helping members, but I
also need to maximize my time on
this volunteer effort. Three months
ago on June 10th, we launched our
New iBBS (Internet Bulletin Board
Service), this web based system
allows “members” to post Topics on
various subjects of interest including
support questions. One of my favorite posts is this one from Elaine:
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Welcome to
MacGroup-Detroit™
Metro Detroit’s Largest Apple® Macintosh® User’s Group
MacGroup-Detroit
PO Box 760399
Lathrup Village MI 48076-0399
248-569-4933
FAX 248-557-9403
http://www.macgroup.org
email: [email protected]
Officers & Volunteers
President ............................... Terry L. White
MacNews Editor .........................Orie Carter
Meeting Coordinator................ Carla White
Special Interest Group (SIG) Leaders
Genius Table (Q&A SIG) ....... Phyllis Evans
Beginner’s SIG............... Loretta Sangeorsen
Internet SIG........................ Howard Parsons
Digital Video Detroit.......Michele Kotlarsky
Digital Video SIG..................... Bill Johnson
PDA/PowerBook ........................ Terry White
Adobe Photoshop.......................Bruce Spike
Webmaster & BBS Sysop
Webmaster ................................. Terry White
Sys Op .................................... Allen Herman
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You and your friends are invited to attend our next meeting.
Our membership is only $40 per year, entitling you to this newsletter each
month and many more benefits.
If you would like to become a member or get more info on MacGroup, feel
free to check out our web site at
www.macgroup.org. Also see the
membership form on page 14.
Meetings are held at the
Bloomfield Township
Public Library
1099 Lone Pine Rd.
Bloomfield Hills MI
Welcome New Members
Bobby Alcott
Horatio Bennett
Lawrence Biggs*
John Glick
Lora Harville
Brian Herskovitz
Cordell Hill*
Thelma Kahn*
Michael Koran
Jim Nichols*
Erick Reickert*
Elaine Rysztak*
Elaine Rysztak*
Thomas Smith
Christopher Thompson*
What’s Inside...
* = Renewals
Wow! – What a great time to be a Mac user...2
Welcome New Members .......................................3
We’re Madly In Love………… ..............................6
with Photoshop .........................................................6
Digital Cameras ???…Bah, Humbug !!! .............7
Mini Reviews ..............................................................9
Tips and Tricks ........................................................10
Apple Events ............................................................13
MacGroup-Detroit Volunteer Help Lines ........13
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“Success!!! I am so grateful
for your iBBS. Although I attend
most of MacGroup’s meetings, I
am embarrassed to ask “stupid questions”. Nobody has ever made me feel
this way--IT IS ME.
Now in the comfort of my home,
I can ask “stupid questions” and I
get wonderful answers that have my
computers running perfectly.
I installed Elements on the G/3
PowerBook and I am writing you this
response on the PowerMac 9600,
which is sending and receiving email
through the Comcast address. Everything is running smooooooth. What
a wonderful feeling! Thank you very
much and I am sure another problem
will occur but this time I will contact
you again and not feel stupid.”
Elaine has discovered what a
wonder resource our iBBS can be.
In most cases questions are answered
within minutes. In an effort to help
as many people as I can, I have willingly answered questions via email
in the past. Also with Apple’s New
iChat (Apple’s AOL Instant Messenger compatible technology) built
into Mac OS X 10.2 you can often
catch us online and chat live with
us. Many members have put their
iChat screen name in their iBBS
profile.
While I still enjoy helping
people, I’m trying to concentrate my
time and effort in one place and that
one place is the New MacGroup
iBBS. As a MacGroup member you
can register on the iBBS and post as
many questions as you like. Many
members camp out on the iBBS
almost 24 hours/day just to help
other members with their Macs.
Answers are usually pretty timely
and the bigger benefit is that everyone can share in the answers. Please
direct all future questions to the
iBBS at http://macgroup.infopop.cc
as I will be spending more time
there than I do on email.
Thanks for your understanding...
ICal
On
Tuesday,
September
10th
Apple announced
the availability of
iCal, Apple’s new
free calendar app.
According to Apple, “iCal is an
elegant personal calendar application that helps you manage your
life and your time better than ever
before. iCal lets you keep track of
your appointments and events with
multiple calendars featuring at-aglance views of upcoming activities
by day, week or month.
iCal lets you create separate
color-coded calendars for your
home, school and work schedules,
and it lets you view all your different calendars at the same time from
within a single unified window.
That way you can quickly spot
scheduling conflicts — and just as
quickly identify where you still have
lots of time.”
One of the major cool benefits of iCal is that calendars can be
shared via the internet and posted
to your .Mac account. If you post
your iCal to .Mac it will automatically be converted to html so that
anyone with a web browser can view
it “AND” it will also be available to
iCal users to subscribe to it. I have
published the MacGroup calendar
of events in this format. If you have
iCal you can subscribe to our calendar and receive automatic updates.
If you don’t have iCal you can still
view the calendar via your web
browser using the links below.
You can view the MacGroup
iCal
calendar
at:
http:
//ical.mac.com/macgroupdetroit/
MacGroup
If you have Mac OS X 10.2
and iCal you can subscribe to our
calendar at:
webcal://ical.mac.com/
macgroupdetroit/MacGroup.ics
To learn more about iCal or to
download a copy, go to
http://www.apple.com/ical
In order to use iCal you have to
be running Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar.
Apple has posted all kinds of
cool iCals to subscribe to, such as
sporting schedules, movie releases,
DVD releases, Apple Store Presentations, etc. at http://www.apple.com/
ical/library/
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Promoting MacGroup
We have two new ways to
promote MacGroup to potential
members. We have always had
MacGroup fliers and brochures and
will continue to do those. However,
we can’t always leave fliers in certain locations such as the new Apple
Stores. One of the most successful
ways to build our membership in the
past has simply been word of mouth.
Therefore we want to arm our members with a couple of tools to make it
easier to share the MacGroup experience. One of those ways is the New
MacGroup Business Card. These
new cards simply state the benefits
of MacGroup and give the web site
address. Members can take a hand
full of cards from the registration
table at the next meeting and pass
them out to people that they come
in contact with while shopping or
doing their daily routine. Many of
you do this already, now you have a
simple reminder to give someone so
that they don’t have to jot down the
info on their own.
The next item was something
that we have been working on for
quite some time and recently Carol
Goodell jarred my memory about
it. That is the New MacGroup TShirt. Yes, you can show your pride
in being a MacGroup member by
wearing the new “T”. Members
Mary and Joseph Grey designed the
shirts. I’m in the process of getting
the shirts printed and we’ll start
taking orders at the next meeting. I
hope to see you in your new shirts at
the Somerset Apple Store Opening!
A New Place to Eat after the
meeting
Many members have starting
hanging out immediately after the
meeting at local area restaurants.
This provides a more relaxed casual
atmosphere to chat with other Mac
users. MacGroup member Art
Payne suggested a new place, Roosevelt’s. Roosevelt’s has the advantage
over other places by offering a WiFi
(802.11b AirPort compatible) internet connection to its patrons. So
we’re going to give ‘em a shot at our
business after the September 22nd
meeting. They don’t open til 6PM
on Sundays.
Roosevelt’s
27843 Orchard Lake Road
I-696 Orchard Lake exit NW cornor
of 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
248-488-1990
Keep in mind that Roosevelt’s
is a pub atmosphere. Probably not a
good place to bring the kids.
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We’re Madly In Love…………
with
Photoshop
(or Confessions of Two
Photoshop Junkies)
Now I bet you think this is going
to read like every other review of
Photoshop 7– great program, great
update, great new features, blah,
blah, blah! Wrong!! Been there,
done that. This is the story of two
people who are not only hooked on
Photoshop – they are madly in love
with one feature of Photoshop in
particular.
Back to our story
Joe is now hooked on digital
photography and all the possibilities
that are now available to manipulate
the photographs in PS7. It seems
that we now spend at least three
mornings a week together downloadA LITTLE HISTORY
ing and saving and/or manipulating
Joe worked for 45 years in the
the photographs. There are so many
advertising industry. He created
photos to take and so little time. Joe
and supervised the shooting of hun- is torn between his fine art and his
dreds of ads (print and tv). Way back photography.
when, the creative person went on
Now keep in mind that since
the shoots with the photographers to August of 2001 we have probably
select the best locations and oversee
taken over 2000 photos. They were
the shots taken When everything
all burned on to CDs ---but try to
was done he had to pore over the find a particular photo when you
contact sheets to select the best shot
want to use it and we were lost.
for the ads.
Skip ahead now to the fateful
Now let’s step back to August
day Terry mentioned the Contact
2001 – “THE THING”, came into Sheet and we decided to read the
our home. “THE THING” is a Manual for PS7….yes, we did it
Canon Pro90IS. And of course, - and we admit it – we read part of the
Adobe brought out Photoshop 7 a
manual!!!
bit later. A combination made in
Well Lo and Behold! – what to
heaven. Life has never been the
our wondering eyes should appear
same.
– YOU CAN MAKE CONTACT
SHEETS VERY EASILY.
You can make contact sheets in
any number of set-ups – we chose 6
across, 7 down. You can, however,
choose to make the thumbnails
larger or smaller. Your can print
them at any dpi you choose. All you
do is go under File - Select Automate
and then choose Contact Sheet II. A
window will ask you to choose the
folder of photos you want to show
and then make the set-up for the
number of thumbnails per page.
From there on it’s pure heaven – the
program selects each photo, places
it in the proper alignment and will
even start the next page if it is necessary. It also prints whatever title you
have on each photo. Only thing left
to do is print.
AND IT GETS BETTER
We no longer have to try to
remember which of 30/40 CDs contains a particular photo. (We only
back up the original image right off
the camera – there are no names on
the individual photos – only numbers). Instead of having to open up
every image on the selected CD to
find the one we want – we can now
merely look at the contact sheet and
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Digital Cameras ???…
Bah, Humbug !!!
Joseph Grey
select and download only the photo
we want.
Now you might say Soooo!!!!!
Well so now, when we want to use a
particular photo – guess what – WE
CAN FIND IT.
We also discovered another
use - if you want to send photos to
someone that doesn’t have a computer and you have to print a few
shots - select them - raise the dpi
and choose a larger thumbnail size,
print them on Photo Paper and off
you go. This also works in the same
situation if you want to send all the
photos to someone so that they can
choose which ones they would like
printed - of course, in this situation
don’t raise the dpi but do make the
thumbnails a reasonable size.
Don’t know about you younger
folks – but when you get to our age
– anything that makes life easier and
more fun to boot is just fine.
Like the title says – We are
hooked on, and madly in love with
Photoshop and Contact Sheet in
particular.
Mary Grey
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That’s right - film is king - long live
the king. That’s what I said, I have
five 35mm, one two and a quarter
and two movie cameras and I have
been shooting for about fifty years.
Even paid for most of the equipment doing some small trade ads.
One day Mary and I heard from
a photo studio showing off some
digital cameras and equipment. We
went over to see what all the hubbub was about. When we got there
they showed us how it works and
asked if we would like our picture
taken. Wow! you could count every
pore and every strand of gray hair
(eight years ago I didn’t have that
much gray ) on a 20 x 24 print. Well
I said yeah, but you have a hundred
thousand dollars worth of equipment. They said no not nearly that
much. Yes I was impressed but the
cost ruled out any ideas of purchasing a digital for an amateur.
A few years went by and I
kept looking at digitals but was not
impressed with what was on the
market. One day we went into a
well known local photography store
and talked to a salesman about digital cameras. He showed us a 2 mg
camera and said this is as high as
they will ever go – the technology
simply isn’t there. (DUH!!!) Well,
I had been reading and doing my
homework on various cameras. So
last year as prices began to drop and
mgs began to go up we decided to
take the plunge and purchased a
Canon Pro90 IS.
Forget about the old film
cameras - these digitals are mini
computers. Oh oh!! I’m in trouble.
I thought they worked just like their
brothers, the film cameras. First of
all the image area covered is smaller
in the digital camera which means
with a 100 mm lens you really are
shooting a 160mm. That’s great for
photographers who like to reach out
when they want to grab a distant
shot - but not so good for wide angle
shots such as fashion photographers
who like to work with a wide angle
lens which transfers a 28mm into
35mm.
One big difference that I am
still getting used to is the lag time,
the time you press the shutter
button until the shutter releases.
As you can see from these three
photos…I stopped the ball before
it was hit in Photos 1 & 2…in Photo
3 I missed the action and the ball is
out of the photo. I never did get the
point of impact. This might cause
a little trouble for sports or rapid
sequence shots until you adjust to
it - but there is a great setting built
in that lets you shoot a sequence of
action at about a second apart. In
all honesty I had not discovered
this setting yet so these photos were
taken at the normal setting.
The great advantage over film
is an instant response, and with CF
cards you take a picture and bingo
- there is your image with no waiting
time. No dark room with red lights
and messy chemicals in developing trays to see what kind of image
you got. (I hate to tell you how
many rolls of film that I messed up
because I forgot to change an ASA
setting for a different film.) Also
the advantage of the card is if you
don’t like any of the shots you have
taken you can edit right then and
there and get rid of the ones you
don’t care for. Another advantage is
shooting a black and white shot in
the middle of a color sequence with-
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out having to switch a roll of film,
which can eat up a whole lot of time
unless you have two cameras, one
B/W and one Color.
Now most cameras have a white
balance menu built in, and this has
saved me a lot of headaches when
shooting inside with artificial lights
after coming in from doing outdoor
shots. I like to leave the camera ISO
set at 50 or 100 - your chances of
picking up noise (or snow as I like
to call it) is much lower. I also find
that leaving the resolution high
at all times will give you a much
broader playing field when working
in Photoshop later on. Usually the
camera is set for JPEG all the time,
RAW will give you the advantage
of doing a lot of work and not lose
any image quality. (However, RAW
creates much larger files so that the
card does not hold as many photos.)
At this point – after owning the
camera for a year – I’m still in the
process of discovering the various
ways that the camera can be used. I
still have not availed myself of all its
capabilities.
If you are impatient, as I am
and want to see you work in a
hurry just use the USB cable from
the camera to the computer. Voila!
there is your work in full color on a
giant 19” computer screen.
As for that salesman who said
the technology simply wasn’t there
– Hello!!! ever heard of the Canon
D60 which has 6.3 megapixels or
that some professional photographers are using 48 megapixels?
Well all I can say is the trusty
ole cameras I swore by are sitting in
the closet gathering dust. Some day
I will look back and say yeah, those
were the good old days… but then
again maybe they weren’t all that
good - H’mmm
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Mini Reviews
Kensington FlyFan and FlyLight , not just for portables
Kensington has a couple USB powered products designed for portables but work great for desktop computers too.
FlyLight
My wife’s computer is in the same vicinity as our television, the problem is the room light
causes glare on the TV and I prefer to have a darkened room when watching DVD’s for the
full theater experience, well that problem causes another problem, it’s hard for my wife to see
the keyboard in the dim lighting. Solution, I picked up a Kensington FlyLight for her computer, we just plugged it into an open USB port on her keyboard and we are both happy.
It has a metal flexible neck for just about any position and an LED light with a 100,000
hour life expectancy . It is available with a red or white light.
Requires an open USB port and that’s all.
SRP $19.99
FlyFan
My 2 computers are in the spare bedroom, now the “computer room” but the circulation is not the best and it
tends to get warm and stuffy with 2 CRTs and 2 CPU’s (The Cinema Display barely emits any heat) running 24/7.
The room fan just seems to push the warm air around, so I decided to try out the Kensington FlyFan. I plugged it
into an open USB port on my Sony monitor and was surprised at how well it works. The only complaint I have is the
noise it makes from the vibration of the fan depending where it is plugged in. I tried it on the keyboard port and that
was even noisier and I had the same noise plugging it in the Cinema Display, but if I am watching TV or listening to
music in the room it is barely noticeable.
This too has the same flexible neck that the FlyLight has. The blades are made of soft nylon that are gentle to
the touch if you happen to touch it while it’s running.
The only requirements for this is an open USB port just like the FlyLight.
SRP $19.99
www.kensington.com
--------------------------------Large FlyLight image:
http://www.kensington.com/images/62641M.jpg
Large FlyFan image:
http://www.kensington.com/images/62648M.jpg
Jim Nichols
[email protected]
Scanner heaven
One of the biggest stumbling blocks in moving from OS 9 to Mac OS X is scanner
support. Most of what scanner manufactures needed to make their scanners compatible with OS X didn’t arrive until Mac OS 10.2 Jaguar. Jaguar has Twain support
built-in at the OS level. Now the work for scanner manufacturers just got a
whole lot easier. Not waiting on Apple, companies like Epson and Canon
started building drivers once OS 10.1 shipped. For the most part these drivers
remained in beta form until recently. As many of you know, my OLD favorite
scanner was the Umax Astra 6400. However, Umax has dropped off my list
completely with their bonehead decision not to make OS X drivers for the
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Tips and Tricks
by Phyllis Evans
[email protected]
With the release of Jaguar, I’ve
made the transition to OS X completely. I use Classic only for my
LabelWriter printer, postage meter
and the calendar program I use for a
newsletter I produce. As I learn new
tricks and shortcuts, be assured that
I’ll be passing them along.
Tip #1 — Permissions! Permissions drove me nuts for a while. The
multi-user permissions thing is great
if you have other people using your
computer, but no one touches my
computers but me. I would dearly
love to see a way to permanently stop
the requests for permission if I could
do it without leaving my computers
vulnerable. The next best thing is
knowing what to do when your computer says “You can’t trash that. You
don’t have the authority.” When you
get that message, highlight the item
or folder and do a “Get Info” (Command-I). Click on the triangle next
to Ownership and Permissions, click
on the padlock, fill in your password,
then toggle owner to your master
identity. When that’s done, you
can now do whatever you want with
that bad boy. For whatever reason,
occasionally I can’t add something
to the Applications or Documents
folders. When I do a “Get Info” it
always shows Owner as Unknown.
Doing the above procedure restores
accessibility.
Tip #2 — Go to system prefs >
international > input menu. Among
the different keyboard layout
options is a “Character Palette”
option. If you choose this item, you
get an icon in the menu bar from
which you can invoke this palette
and insert special characters in the
current app. The special characters
are arranged by type. Very handy.
Tip #3 — For those who used
TomeViewer to extract single files
from the Apple installers in OS
9, there is a freeware utility called
Pacifist that allows you to do the
same thing in OS X. Apple’s custom
installations still seem to do what
they want, rather than what you
want, so I avoid using the installer to
replace a single corrupt file. I don’t
want 200 printer files installed if all
I need it the driver for my Epson
740i. Pacifist is available at http:
//www.charlessoft.com
Address Book
Apple’s new Address Book has
a couple of really neat features.
Click on the designator next to a
phone number and select large
type. The phone number fills your
screen so you can see it from across
the room. Click on the designator
next to an address and you can have
it launch your browser and take
you to mapquest.com for a map
of that area. Can’t speak for other
programs, but importing addresses
from Entourage is a snap. Create
an empty folder on the desktop.
Select all entries in your Entourage address book, then drag to the
empty folder. A .vcf file will be created for each contact. Open Address
Book and select Import vCards from
the File menu. That’s all there is to
it. Oh yes, you can also drag a photo
of each contact into the designated
space on each card.
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Missing Text
After upgrading to Jaguar, I ran
into a frustrating problem with bits
of text disappearing, or partially
disappearing. Mostly, it happened
intranet and internet. Both
can also be used to transfer
files, and I discovered that a
single, uncompressed jpeg
can actually be displayed in
the chat window. We’ve had
some interesting sessions
lately, with as many as 6 or
7 of us in one chat room.
My iChat buddy ID is the
same as my email address,
[email protected] and I
usually have iChat active
most evenings. Join us. It’s
fun.
That’s it for this month.
Hope to have more Jaguar
tips next month.
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in Internet Explorer, but I was also
seeing it occasionally in Entourage
and even in Microsoft Word. Clicking on the missing text would generally bring it back, but then other text
would disappear. I found one mention of it in one of the OS X forums
that said it could be fixed by trashing a bunch of prefs. I tried it and it
worked for a day or two, but then it
was worse than ever. I finally found
another thread linking the problem
to Quartz Smoothing. I went into
the preferences in all three applications, disabled Quartz Smoothing
and all has been well. Good old
Microsoft.
iChat
Some of us have been talking
via iChat in the evenings, lately.
iChat is the new Mac instant
messaging system and is compatible with AIM, AOL’s IM system.
It actually has two components,
iChat and Rendezvous. Rendezvous
works only over an internal network,
while iChat can be used for both
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Mini-reviews continued from page 9
Astra line. One monkey doesn’t stop the show, so *¢&*X@! Umax. Life will go on just fine without them. My search
began for a new scanner. While I do enjoy scanning using my Canon LiDE 20 (which works natively in OS X) while
on the road, I needed a workhorse for my day-to-day scanning needs. The Umax spoiled me in two ways. For one, it
was FireWire based which meant that it was FAST!!! The second way was that it had a wonderful feature that allows
you to scan multiple images at the same time. In other words if you can fit 5 images on the glass, you can select each
image after doing the initial preview and then hit the scan button and have 5 separate images in Photoshop. Canon’s
OS X driver has this feature and it’s called “Multi-Image” scanning. However, it’s completely automatic and doesn’t
work most of the time. I have been unsuccessful in making this feature work consistently. So my search continued.
I posed the question on the MacGroup iBBS and MacJeff responded with the solution! The Epson scanners have
the same feature, but it’s called “Batch Scanning.” I got a chance to try this out (with MacJeff’s guidance) at the
Novi Apple Store (a great benefit of having an Apple Store is that you get to try stuff out before you buy). The feature
worked just as he described, while it wasn’t as easy as the Umax interface, it was easy enough! One problem though,
speed! Apple had the Epson Perfection 1650 on display. They were out of the Perfection 2450. The 1650 is USB based
and it was just too slow for my taste (I hate waiting). I re-confirmed that I had to have FireWire! The Epson Perfection
2450 is both USB and FireWire based and although it was “many money more”, it was the one for me. I waited a week
and went back to the Apple store and they still didn’t have any 2450’s. They seemed to be out of stock everywhere
including the Epson Online store. On my way home from the Apple Store I called Micro Center and they had one
left! You know the rest of the that story.
This scanner is amazing. Superb image quality. Works with Adobe Photoshop 7 and Elements 2 on Mac OS X
10.1 and higher (and of course Mac OS 9). It works with OmniPage X for OCR and as an added plus it’s one of the
few scanners supported by Apple’s Image Capture in Jaguar. The Perfection 2450 is a 48bit scanner that has an optical resolution of 2400 dpi and has a built-in transparency adapter for scanning slides, negatives and transparencies. If
you’re in the market for a new scanner and running Mac OS X, I strongly recommend the Epson line. The Perfection
2450 goes for $399. It comes with everything you need except a FireWire cable. It does come with a USB cable. You
will need to download the OS X drivers. If you are strapped for cash and have a UMAX Astra 6400 and want to scan
in OS X, the 6400 does work with the shareware program VueScan ($40 shareware fee).
Terry White
AT&T’s Wireless mMode
I just wanted to report on my progress with connecting a PowerBook G4 to the internet via a
Bluetooth enabled cell phone. In a nutshell, it Works!
A few months ago I signed up for AT&T’s mMode plan and bought a Sony Ericsson T68
phone. The T68 was the ONLY option for a Bluetooth enabled phone in the Michigan area at the
time. It was almost impossible to find any information on getting this phone in the Michigan area.
Perseverance paid off and I am a happy camper. I have DLink Bluetooth adapter on my PowerBook
and Apple’s Bluetooth software installed. I found the instructions on how to make this phone work
with Jaguar on the http://www.tsixtyeight.com web site. I have been successfully connecting to the
Internet wirelessly over Bluetooth and the T68. Life is good!
As an added bonus, the New System wide Address Book built-in to Mac OS X 10.2 supports Bluetooth!
This means that you can pull up a contact, click their phone number and wirelessly dial the T68 phone
and start talking. Also when a call comes in (if you have this turned on), your Address Book will go to
that contact and display the caller ID info including their picture. If you have the Bluetooth headset,
you can make calls and take calls without ever touching the phone. Also if you have the Bluetooth
SD card for the Palm M series handhelds you can dial your T68 phone from the Palm wirelessly
over Bluetooth too. This is the way I have always envisioned communications working. It feels so
Star Trek like J
For more information on the service and phone go to:
http://www.attws.com/mmode/
The Sonyhttp://www.apple.com/bluetooth/
Ericsson Bluetooh
http://www.sonyericsson.com/T68/
wireless headset
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Terry White
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