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February 2008 • $3 US
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MacNews - February 2008
MacGroup is going Green
by Terry White
I
t has been a long time coming and the day is finally here. For those of
you who have been members for several years probably know that I’ve
been pushing the group to move towards an electronic ONLY distribution of MacNews. We have been making PDFs of our newsletter ever since
Acrobat came onto the scene back in 1993 (yes it’s been over 10 years).
Back then there were several members who brought up valid reasons
why we should keep a printed newsletter. One of the biggest reasons was
that not everyone was online. Well that was kind of a show stopper! So
I waited. The last time this came up, the main argument was that there
were still several people on dial-up. Again, I waited. Then Adobe introduced Adobe InDesign and I got all excited about print publishing again,
so I waited.
What changed this time?
March 1995
The Monthly Newsletter of MacGroup-Detroit
$3
Version 9.6
The Paperless Office
Myth or Reality?
The March 1995 issue of MacNews
http://macgroup.org/
MacNewsPDFS/MacNews03-95.pdf
As I was sitting in the Macworld Keynote watching Steve introduce
the latest toys, it was at the end of his presentation when he talked
about how “green” the new MacBook Air was. How the case was made
of aluminum (a highly sought after material by recyclers) and how the
display was LED based, how the packaging was minimal to reduce energy
in moving them around the planet, etc. etc. This got me to thinking about
a lot of things and one of them was this newsletter and the amount of
effort, paper and mailing that we put into it. I won’t pretend to be a “green”
fanatic. I’m not! However, I do feel that if we all did ONE thing to conserve
our resources it would have an impact. So for MacGroup the one biggest
thing we can do is stop printing this publication.
I did a quick sanity check by emailing and talking with several members (not just those who are on the iBBS who would obviously be more
“online savvy”) and it was unanimous that a PDF version of MacNews is
sufficient. Most are reading the online version before they see the printed
version anyway. If they want a printed version of a particular article, well
they can simply print just the pages they need to take with them. If you
want a back issue here’s the trick. Simply change the month and year in
the URL below to the issue you want. They are all there all the way back to
the mid 90’s (yes over 10 years worth of back issues for your amusement).
http://macgroup.org/MacNewsPDFS/MacNews02-08.pdf
How else will this benefit us?
Our printer Zip Printing has been AWESOME to work with over the
years and they give us a GREAT deal on the printing. We spend about
$369 per month on printing and mailing MacNews, not including anyone’s time and gas. That’s just printing and mailing. That money will go
right back into the group! We’ll use it for door prizes and other meeting
benefits.
This is the last regularly printed version of MacNews!
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Creating your own Icons
by Chita Hunter
own icon. Since I wanted a variety
of colors and maybe custom icons,
the decision was made to design
my own.
Taking the plunge
O
ver the past few years, I’ve
rarely had to boot anything up in OS 9, so only a
few applications that never made
it over to OS X will be missed. But
there is one feature of OS 9 that I
have really missed not having the
ability to use in OS X. The ability
to color label folders. The way OS
X colors labels folders is not the
same as OS 9, and actually, it is
somewhat deceptive. At times, you
can think that a folder is selected
because of the way OS X color
labels the background of the folder
and its respective text. I want the
folder color labeled, just the folder,
not the text.
And one day, while doing a
little research, the possibility of
getting back that ability in OS X
revealed itself in a user friendly
way. I could search the web and
find a ready-made icon to just use
generically or I could design my
Wanting to make this as easy
as possible, I decided to start with
something already familiar. So, I
copied one of OS X’s folder images
(from the Get Info window) into a
128px x 128 px Illustrator document, then set that image layer
as a template. On a new layer, I
drew paths following the template
outline to create my folder graphic.
After creating the graphic in two
paths and coloring it, the path was
copied and pasted into a 128px
x 128px Photoshop document,
which had a transparent background.
any other layers with additional
graphic effects, I would need to
deselect the Layers checkbox
when saving as a .tif file so that it
was saved as a flattened ,tif.
Photoshop Save As TIFF dialogue box
The next step in the creation
process required a free application.
That application is Pic2Icon, available here:
http://www.download.com/
Pic2Icon/3000-2256_4-8881968.
htm
Paste and resize into Photoshop
When presented with the
paste options, I selected the
option to paste the file as pixels
and then resized the object to
fit the 128px x128px document
canvas. Now, from within Photoshop, I saved the file out as a .tif file.
(Prior to saving out the file, I could
add any manipulations in Photoshop I desired.) If I had created
Pic2Icon application window
Pic2Icon is a program that
creates 128x128 Mac OS X icons,
using a drag and drop method.
From within Pic2Icon, you can
further enhance how you want
your icon to look upon creation, by
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adding a drop shadow or even a
dog-eared corner. From the Finder
window, take the newly created
Photoshop .tif file and drop it
into the Pic2Icon window. You’ll
see that the Photoshop logo that
typically displays on the file will
change to display the image that is
in the actual file. This icon can now
be used as a folder icon or even a
web image.
That same Photoshop file can
be used many times over to create
any color folder desired, just by
selecting the color area with the
Magic Wand tool, deleting it, and
placing a new color in that area. I
found that creating a gradient that
blended from color to transparency gave the resulting icon a little
more character.
Now I have my color labeled
folders the way I want them, now
that I know how to create my own
icons, it’s time to get a little more
creative and daring. Enjoy.
Get Info window
For use as a folder icon, select
this file, choose Get Info, click on
the icon in the upper left corner,
copy and then paste into the same
Get Info window of the file you
want to change the icon of.
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Broadband, broadly
by Eric Fretz
were changing. It seemed that
every email, even spam, came with
a bandwidth hogging attachment.
The majority of websites were now
dialup hostile, requiring 500K, and
a few minutes at 56K, to even be
seen. What is a dedicated road
warrior to do?
EVDO service and cards
The mobile Mac
O
nce you commit to the
laptop lifestyle, and you
have Wi-Fi as part of your
home broadband network, you
really notice when you don’t have
it. With a laptop you get used to
“time shifting” your work so you can
turn otherwise wasted time in line,
or while traveling, into productive time (or just more productive
goof-off time). In all these cases
away from home though, you
eventually find yourself needing, or wanting, Internet access.
Maybe you need to check an
address, or send a quick email, you
just need a TCP/IP fix.
Prior solutions
Over the years, I came up with
a variety of ways to get my Internet
packets flowing when away from
home. Obviously at school and at
the better (and, now, pretty much
all) hotels you can find a good
wi-fi signal. I carried a retractable RJ-45 Ethernet cable with
me too, in order to avail myself
of the occasional unguarded
Ethernet port. Back when laptops had modems, I kept my AOL
dialup plan as a good backup
when out in the sticks. And, as I
have documented in two previous articles over the years, I had
great success (if not great speed)
with using my Sprint PCS phone
as a modem with the right data
cable (it was only dialup speed,
but was charged as a phone call,
not at data rates). These options,
sometimes in combination, were
less than ideal, but did get me the
internet access I needed, as long
as I was willing to wait. But times
I had watched the growth of
PCS networks, and the associated
possibilities for PCS data connections, with growing envy. Each
year brought revisions and new
acronyms (which true geeks always
love to learn and throw around). I
was particularly impressed with
EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized)
standard. With a dedicated PCS
modem (or a phone with a data
plan and Bluetooth) you could get
10 times dialup speed, or more.
The speed seemed to jump up
every few months! You can get
EV-DO cards that go into USB ports,
as well as more low profile cards
that go into the PC or Express card
slot on your laptop. The cards
were expensive ($100-$300) and
the data plans they required were
not cheap (often $100 per month
for unlimited use, or cheaper (?!)
per MB plans). Still, given the
cost, and the fact that when I just
HAD to have access I could almost
always suffer through my slow PCS
phone connection (or sniff out
some free Wi-Fi), I just could not
justify the expense.
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Possibilities
Then I got a special Christmas
present from my Uncle Sam. 3
weeks notice to mobilize for 420
days and head to Iraq! I was going
to have 3 weeks (which included
a planned drive to Disney) to
prepare and complete 40 hours
of online courses, then travel the
country to remote training bases
before leaving for a year. Hmmm,
now HOW ever would I be able
to do all this online work, and
maintain connection with my
family, as I travel all over the place?
Hmmmmm. Let’s see.
So, I zipped down to my local
Sprint store, bought the card,
signed up for the plan, and they
activated the card for me. They
said I could complete the second
step of activation at home. This
is truly FOR PCs! It seems there
are still a few behind in the times
programmers and marketing
folks who don’t take simple steps
to ensure the Mac experience is
equivalent to the PC side. A return
to the Sprint store found a more
knowledgeable person in the back
who brought out the Mac setup
software on a USB drive (itís not on
the package CDÖ why??). Once
that runs, the card auto-provisions
(meaning it sets ITSELF up over the
network). I did not even have to
enter so much as a password! Cool.
Now THAT is more Mac-like.
Once the card is inserted, it
shows an icon in the menu bar and
auto-connects. Then it is available under NETWORK preference
pane as an option. If you are not
online any other way, then that
connection becomes primary. I
did a speed test with 5 of 5 bars
and got 2000K download, 1500K
upload. 40x dialup! Sweeeet!
That’s more than enough to use
online courseware, and to iChat. I
have to say it certainly saved my
bacon in the 3 weeks I had before
mobilizing. What would have
been two 15 hour blocks of dead
time (as we drove down and back
to Orlando) became the perfect
time to grind out all my required
online courses. I could iChat with
friends who wanted to check in
with me. If the hotel wireless was
down, I didn’t care! On average I
could reliably get 756K download
and upload. Even with NO signal
strength, I could still get about 56K.
Even now, in the middle of a South
Carolina pine forest, at Camp
McCrady (home of the Armyís IA
Combat Course), with at best, one
bar, I can Skype to my family at
home. When the base wireless
network goes down, I become the
most popular man on base when I
click on my “share internet connection” via AirPort pane! I love my
Mac.
I’ll hand off the card to a friend
to use while I am in Iraq (gotta
love those long term contracts!),
but it was still SO worth it. If you
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can justify the $100 for the card
($250 with a $150 rebate), and the
$59 per month, the joy of “broadband anywhere” is pretty intense.
Depending on how much you are
away from home, and if you get a
good signal at home, you could
let this service replace your home
broadband and the cost offset
would make it even more attractive. Future upgrades to the network should allow for even greater
speeds to come!
Caveats
The Sprint EVDO card is not a
perfect solution. The PCS network is not 100% nationwide and
primarily follows highways and
population centers. Thus, in cities
and on highways you are in great
shape. Everywhere else, you signal
strength will vary with proximity
to towers (you can watch it cycle
up and down as you ride in a car,
but the connection almost never
drops and if it does, it picks up
again automatically). I have found
a few dead zones in rural areas.
Signal strength equals bandwidth
to some degree, so you’ll only get
real broadband performance with
two bars or better, but I have done
some blocky iChats with one bar.
You also have to be careful with
the card. If you bump it, it can
come unseated (both awake and
asleep), and then it just slips out.
I’m still looking for a nice snug
padded case to put the card in. I
keep it loose in my bag for now,
and have dropped it several times
so far with no ill effects, but I don’t
recommend dropping electronics,
as a rule. Lastly if flashing lights
easily annoys you, be careful what
card you choose. Mine flashes
green while connected well (about
120 flashes per minute), and at a
slower rate or in red when connections are weak or intermittent.
I suppose you could darken the
LED with a Sharpie or cover it with
electrical tape too.
Summary
It’s not cheap, but if you want
broadband anywhere and don’t
spend a lot of time in rural areas,
EV-DO is a broadband option
whose time has come. The card
and service have been reliable, and
setup is a snap. If you can find a
way to justify or offset the cost, I’d
say give it a try!
THE AUTHOR
Is a proud Mac User since 1985,
and UM dual PhD candidate, now
mobilized for over a year to Iraq
(blogging his adventure on .Mac
at homepage.mac.com/ebfretz).
Long ago, he was affiliated with
the Detroit area’s premier Mac
service and sales organization,
MacProfessionals, www.macprofessionals.com (check out their
fancy new showroom!) He can be
reached for questions, comment,
and discussion at EBFretz@AOL.
COM or at (734)-284-3999.
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DYMO DiscPainter
by: Don Dubois
I
f you are familiar with Discus
software, you are already able
to produce beautiful covers
for your CDs and DVDs. The
DiscPainter is the printer to use
with the Discus software (same
company). The latest innovation
in direct CD / DVD printing is the
DYMO DiscPainter. This compact
printer is designed solely for
printing on CDs and DVDs and
amazingly prints while the disk
is spinning. Discus supports this
printer directly and integrates
perfectly with the DiscPainter. Just
starting to ship in early fall of
2007, it is compatible with both
Windows and Macintosh. Included
are the USB cable, power cord,
setup document, one blank CD,
and the DVD with software and
PDF manual. Bruce Mitchell and
I purchased this product for our
DVD production business, after
we saw it mentioned in the Event
DV magazine. We found the Epson
printer that we used to be cum-
bersome, lining up the trays and
placing the proper notch for CDs
and DVDs printing. The standard
price of $279.95 sounds high, but
compared to other printers of its
kind, we found it to be practical in
many ways. It works cross-platform,
for all versions of MacOS X, prints
in full color, prints in
60 seconds, and
prints over
the whole
CD / DVD
from
edge
to hub.
It only
uses
one ink
cartridge,
which is
multi-color,
for the price of $39.95
per cartridge. What I like is the
compact footprint and portability. With desk space at a minimum,
this printer is a space saver. For
those on site print-on-the-go
jobs, this is very useful and easy to
transport and connect.
Step-By-Step:
Purchase the Printer -includes the
printer, blank disc, Software CD,
power cord, USB cable, ink cartridge, and Quick Start Guide
Setup the printer
-insert the ink cartridge -connect
the power cord -install the soft-
ware -connect the USB cable when
instructed to do so -insert a blank
disc
Create the Disc Design and print
-open the Discus for DYMO software -choose disc layout -select
the canvas (similar to Discus
software designs ) -add symbols,
photos, grids, text, and/or
paint -select project preview and print (fast for
text, normal for most
designs, or best )
-allow time for disc
to dry
Don Dubois retired
teacher (38 years)
BA, MA, EdS
Web Sites:
http://global.dymo.com/
enUS/DiscPainter/default.
html
http://www.magicmouse.com/
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MacNews - February 2008
Digital Video Column part 16
by Ken Bean
I have been told that USB 2
can support transfer speeds as fast
as Firewire 400. While this may be
the case, there is some functionality that would be lost if you relied
exclusively on USB 2 connections.
The connectors at the ends of
all USB cables are different. This
limits the flexibility of how you can
connect devices. I am not sure if
your editing software can control
cameras or decks using USB connections.
With either Firewire speed,
you can “daisy chain” a number
of external drives if you want to.
There are very few computers that
have Firewire 800 ports, though
most (if not all) have at least one
Firewire 400 port. You can connect
Firewire 400 drives to Firewire 800
drives using adaptor cables.
In any case, you would be
limited to the slowest through
connecting speed.
In addition, most video cameras that are coming out have
a 4-pin Firewire port so you can
capture the best quality video
and audio possible. You would
need an adapting cable to go
from the 4 pin to either the 6 pin
Firewire 400, or 9 pin Firewire 800
configurations.
Most of the newer external
hard drives with Firewire run at
7,200 rpm.
There had been some that
ran at 5,400 rpm. If you are doing
video, you need to make sure that
they run at 7,200 rpm because it
is easier for them to handle the
large files that video generates.
External Hard Drives
I was near the Genius Table at
a recent meeting and overheard
a question about whether to
get two 500 gig drives or one 1 T
drive. I think the discussion would
prove to be an interesting topic
of consideration when selecting
external hard drives. You may
not know that drives like the 500
gig and larger are basically a box
that holds more than one drive
mechanism.
The 500 gig is actually two
250 gig drives in a single box,
and the 1 TB drive is four 250 gig
drives. These comments are for
the basic external hard drive and
not necessarily for G-RAID or other
specialty drives directed more to
the special purpose or the high
end user.
When I have looked at external drives in the past, the bigger
the drive (box), the cheaper per
gig the drive was. The prices
changed significantly when you
went from a 500 gig drive to a 1
TB drive, with the 1 TB drive being
more expensive per gig of space. If
this continues under the current
prices of external hard drives, it
would be better to get the two 500
gig drives rather than the one 1 T
drive from a simple price comparison.
There are a number of reasons why you may even want to
get four 250 gig drives, rather
than having only one or two big
boxes. To simplify the math, let
us take a 250 gig drive to have
250 gigs of usable space. Let us
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also take a MiniDV tape using
QuickTime to take up 12.5 gigs
of space for each hour of footage. That means that you could
get 20 hours of footage into the
250 gig drive. How many projects
do you have that would use more
than 20 hours of footage? I am
ignoring the space that might be
taken up in the Edit Decision List
(EDL), the photos, the rendering,
the music, and any other comparatively small files that you may need
for a project.
Even if you did have a project
that you needed more than 20
hours of footage for, the convenience of “daisy chaining” FireWire
drives and the ability of programs
like Final Cut and others to store
files in more than one spot or hard
drive, would make the argument
for one big, or really big external
hard drive irrelevant.
You also have the issue of
what would happen if that external drive failed. The first consideration is the fact that if you had to
pay someone to recover data from
your drive, they charge by the size
of the drive, and not the amount of
data that is on the drive. By having
the projects spread over a number
of smaller drives, you might be
willing to live with the loss of the
data on one smaller drive, but you
might not want to lose all of your
data on a larger drive, though you
might find yourself having to by
the prohibitive cost.
This brings us to another
advantage of having a number of
smaller hard drives, and that is the
ability to back up your projects. If
you had a project on one smaller
drive, you would then be more
likely to back that entire drive onto
a second drive on a more frequent
basis.
Another advantage of having
relatively smaller external drives
(i.e. 250 gig) is that if you are working on a number of projects, you
can spread those projects onto
different drives, without the issue
of having to partition the drives
and then to adjust the partition
size if one project gets significantly
larger than you had planned for.
If you are working on projects
with other people, and you both
had the same version of the editing program, you would only have
to transport the external drive
when you are getting together to
work on it. If you are working on
another project with someone else,
you would then be able to trans-
port only the second drive. You
could also leave one of the drives
with the other person, and you
could work on a second project on
another drive.
The next question you need
to consider is: Do you need all of
that hard drive space now or in
the near future? As we have all
noticed, the price of hardware and
software decreases, or if it stays
the same, the number of features
increases. Not that long ago, a 500
gig external hard drive was near $
1,000. It is now down to $ 117 for
some models. It might be advantageous to buy a smaller drive that
serves your immediate needs, and
purchase others as your needs
increase with time, as the future
purchases are likely to be less
expensive.
One thing that I was not aware
of when I first got my external
drives is that even if the computer
is off, the external hard drive will
continue to cycle if it has power. I
found this out the hard way when
one of mine started having problems. This leads to another reason
for having smaller hard drives, or
at least not all of your files in one
big hard drive.
In researching and writing
these comments, and realizing
that 500 gig hard drives can be as
little at $ 117, you might consider
ignoring some of the options mentioned here, as drives are getting
so inexpensive that you are more
likely to be able to afford to purchase two hard drives and use one
for your projects, and the other as
a back up for the first.
To be continued next month...
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MacNews - February 2008
Fund Raising for MacGroup-Detroit
by Leonard Mazerov
I thought it might be time to bask for a moment in what might be some success in our fund raising activities. Why? Well, since its inception (at about the time we became a 501(c)(3) corporation) we have raised
about $5,000. Nice. At least for the moment.
Our original goal was to infuse our organization with $10,000 and so you see we have some way to go.
But, hey. We are half way there and we say that with a certain amount of pride-pride that the members of
MacGroup Detroit care enough to back us up and help get us where we want to go.
Let me once again define what we mean by “Donations” and what we mean by “Contributions.”
DONATIONS
This is where one can claim
a tax deduction (after consulting with one’s tax preparer).
CONTRIBUTIONS
This can be anything from a
dollar or two to anything you
can afford without expecting
a tax deduction.
Let me again point out that to keep MacGroup running at the level we have been enjoying, i.e., obtaining
the best presenters and topics for our membership, it takes a lot of money. Such things as a high rent to the
Temple, guest fees and housing, printing costs, some equipment costs, some raffle expenses and administrative costs are expensive. And these costs seem to keep going up each year. Now then, while our annual dues
help offset some of these costs, they are not enough to continue at the level we want to maintain for our
members.
And so, we again ask you to help us cover the rising costs of keeping our group alive and financially healthy
for now and the future.
Please use the form below to make donations and feel free to contribute a dollar or two at our Registration
Desk when you check in. We’re in this together and our future depends on all of us helping.
MacGroup-Detroit Donation Form
Date_____________Donation Amount $_______________
Name______________________________________________
Address__________________________________________
City_____________________State_____Zip______________
Phone and/or Email________________________________
Hand your donation to our Registration Desk, or
Mail to: MacGroup-Detroit, Inc.
P O Box 76099
LathrupVillage, MI 48076-0399, or
Online @ www.macgroup.org (PayPal accepted)
o Check o MasterCard o Visa o Cash
Credit Card #_____________________
Expiration Date_________cvv2*_______
Signature_________________________
Please check with your tax preparer to make sure
that your donation can be deducted from your taxes!
*The three-digit number on the reverse side of your card.
YOUR DONATION WILL HELP
US CONTINUE TO WORK WITH
YOU AND FOR YOU AND FOR THE
FUTURE OF MacGroup-Detroit.
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MacGroup-Detroit Volunteer Help Lines For Members ONLY!
Name
Can Help With
Contact via
Hours Available
Loretta Sangeorzan
Clarisworks, MS Word 5.1, Beginners-graphics
810-225-9820
Tue., Fri., Sat., Sun.
Ralph Marontate
Adobe FrameMaker, Photoshop,
248-354-3252
Mon., Tue., Wed.
evenings
Mary Grey
General
248-645-9740
Mon.-Fri. 10 am - 7
pm
Chita Hunter
Adobe, Microsoft & QuarkXPress
Chuck Freedman
Mac hardware and OS thru OSX,
General Mac support, General DTP,
DVD Authoring, Cross Platform
connectivity.
[email protected]
anytime
Jerry McBride
Utilities, MS Word 5, PageMaker 6,
Illustrator 6, Freehand 5.5, Clarisworks 4, Painter 3.1, many other
graphic programs
[email protected]
810-887-3330
Mon.-Sat. 4-9pm
Howard Parsons
iMac G5 questions, OS X (Tiger), iPhoto, [email protected]
iTunes, Photoshop CS2 (photo editing 248-435-7438
only), FileMaker Pro, Excel, NisusWriter
Express
e-mail checked
daily. by telephone
most evenings
before 9pm or
weekends
Terry White
Mac questions in general, Adobe
Products, Digital Video, Networking
anytime
anytime
http://macgroup.org/ibbs
http://macgroup.org/ibbs
March 2008
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Wednesday
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Thursday
27
Steve Jobs Birthday
Robert Krawiec’s Birthday
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Apple Events
Friday
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Carla White’s Birthday
4
Donald Clark’s Birthday
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John Blase’s Birthday
Richard Hen…, III’s Birthday
Daylight Savings Time Begins
Jerry Allen’s Birthday
18
St. Patrick's Day
Fred Meinberg’s Birthday
24
Mac OS X released in 2001
Barbara Coden’s Birthday
William Stre!on’s Birthday
Louis Abundis’s Birthday
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Mark Lemko’s Birthday
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Pamela White’s Birthday
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Apple Comp…nded in 1976
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America/Detroit Time Zone
Saturday
29
Rodney Broder’s Birthday
29
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5
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out the form below to avoid expiration of your membership privileges. We value your membership and the
membership of your friends
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February 17 • Road Warrior! iPhone, PDAs, Gadgets for the Mac user on the go.
March 16 • Adobe Photoshop Elements 6
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See what topics we’ll cover in the coming months:
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