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April 2013
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Meeting Information:
April 18th - 6:30 PM
iPad
and
iPhone
Special
Interest
Group Meets at 5:45
The Center in the Record Building
Roger and Tina Van Ghent will be
presenting a program on Apple
Email at this months meeting.
Topics will include email etiquette,
setting up regular and "smart"
mailboxes, keeping your address
book up to date, sorting email
automatically, creating rules to
redirect your mail, handling
attachments and much more.
Discussion and questions are
welcomed. You can send your
questions in advance to
[email protected]. St. Augustine Mac User Group | www.samug.org | [email protected]
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COLORS
By Charlie Reich
For those of you that use your Mac for
graphic arts, drawing, painting, photography
or just like to work with colors read on...
Here’s a few basic little tips for Mac’s built-in
Colors toolbox.
The Show Colors toolbox is commonly used in creating different
color type in eMail, Text Edit, Pages and any other program that
offers a Font Color selection in it’s toolbar. Note that if you select
one of the colors in the small color selection window and then
select the Show Colors to open the larger multi-selection toolbox,
the selected color will appear in the oblong color swatch at the top
of the window (next to the magnifying glass icon)
You can then click your cursor in the color swatch and drag that
color down into a small check-box at the bottom of the window to
save it. If you ever want to use that exact color again on another
document, just open a new document and then open the Show
Colors large window and select that small saved color at the bottom. The color swatch will show
that color and the selected color will now be in your document’s toolbar color box to start typing in
that color.
I like to use the Crayon Box for my basic color selections because I can easily select a color and
it shows the colors name for future reference.
If you see any color applied to an image, painting, drawing or photograph in an eMail that you
would like to capture for future use, click on the magnifying glass icon in the Colors window (next
to the swatch box) and drag your magnifying glass cursor over the color you would like to capture
and release your mouse. The color will appear in your swatch box. You can now drag a color
swatch from the box down to the small save box at the bottom for future use.
For those of you that would like to analyze the RGB color mix that’s in your swatch box select the
RGB Sliders icon in the Colors toolbar.
You can capture any color you see on the screen, even a color in a webpage by making a Screen
Shot of the color. Then drag the magnifying glass over the opened Screen Shot to capture the
color into the Swatch Box.
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Font Size
By Charlie Reich ~ [email protected]
My old eyes ain’t what they used to be and I have a little trouble reading the small font size in the
emails on my wife’s iPad. I boosted the default type size to a 20 pt which improved things
considerably. Here’s the high’s and the low. You can only increase the font size on incoming
emails, your notepad and in Safari. New message creation can only be done in the small default
font. Hopefully this resize feature will be included in a future iOS update. Another of my
disappointments is that the emoji fonts are available in the iPad but they can only be viewed in
the extra small default size, too small to be viewed by the reader. Hopefully this shortcoming will
also be included in a near future iOS upgrade.
To increase your default font size; Launch your Settings App, tap General, and then scroll down
and choose Accessibility. Under the Vision window select Large Text. I would suggest you start
by selecting the 20pt size and try it out by reading one of your received emails, and scale up
further from there if needed. For me 20pt is Jess Wright.
ADULT: A person who has stopped
growing at both ends and is now
growing in the middle. COMMITTEE: A body that keeps minutes
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Emoji Character Fonts!
By Charlie Reich"
Your Mac’s Font folder is chock full of hundreds of these little character
fonts in several categories illustrating People, Nature. Objects, Places and
Symbols. You can use Emoji fonts in Mail and TextEdit, but the Apple color
Emoji font has never worked in Pages. MacWorld magazine recently
published an article on “How To” utilize the Emoji fonts in Pages documents.
The first thing you need to learn is how and where you can easily view and select
an Emoji Character Font. Go to your Toolbar > Edit> Special Characters; and within
the Character Viewer window select Emoji. Select a small character image and an
enlarged image will appear in the Emoji icon box.
You can drag and drop your highlighted selection into a line of type in an eMail or
Text Edit document. Note that all Emoji icons will insert in a 20 font size. You can
change the Emoji icon’s size simply by highlighting the Emoji icon in your document
and selecting your preferred font size in the Format Bar.
It takes a little more effort to use an Emoji Font within Pages, but the extra effort
far outweighs the benefits in the eMail and Text Edit versions, as the fonts can be
resized to whatever is required within your Pages document and its free floating so
it can be moved around to any location within the page.
Select a small Emoji font. An enlarged version will appear in the Emoji icon box.
Press Command-Shift-4, and your cursor will now be a crosshair. Click and drag the
crosshair around the large Emoji icon into a box frame and release your mouse or
trackpad. You have now captured the Emoji icon as a Screen Shot that is placed on
your Desktop.
Drag the Screen Shot from your Desktop onto your document. There will be handles
around the image, and you can resize it to your need and drag it to a different
location.
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iOS Photo Tip
MacWorld
Both the iPhone and the iPod touch make for stellar pocket cameras, and the iPad and iPad mini
aren’t too bad in a pinch either. An iOS device isn’t perfect for every photographic need. But it can
serve awfully well in many situations where you might once have needed a digital camera.
When using your device’s rear-facing camera, you can enable HDR (high dynamic range) for your
photos by tapping the Options button and toggling HDR on. Dynamic range is the light spectrum
that an eye—or a camera sensor—can read, and the HDR option can be great for shots with
multiple light levels. Your sunset-portrait shot, for example, will capture both your subject and the
fire-red sky. Apple’s HDR setting takes three images at different exposures (underexposed,
overexposed, and in the middle) and combines them.
Because your device’s HDR setting frequently results in improved images, it’s tempting to leave it
on all the time. After all, you can set the camera to save regular and enhanced copies of each
photo to your Camera Roll (by going to Settings > Photos). That way, if the HDR shot doesn’t wow
you, you still have the original photo as well. Unfortunately, each HDR photo takes several
seconds to save. And if you’re short on storage space, the data required to save an additional,
larger version of each image file can add up fast.
If there is any movement of your subject during a HDR photo you will get ghosting in the final
shot as the three exposures are taken at slightly different times. Never tap the shutter button to
take your photo - it can result in cameraphone shake and a blurry photo. Instead place your
finger on the shutter button and slide it slowly off - the photo is actually taken as your finger
comes off the button, not when you tap it. That's why some photos can be blurry - people think
think the've taken the photo, move slightly and the exposure is taken. Likewise this technique can
produce better photos than using the volume buttons to snap the photo, because there is less
potential for movement of the phone during the snapshot.
WRINKLES: Something other people have, Similar to my character lines.
My memory is really bad Mildred, so I changed my password to
“incorrect.” That way when I log in with the wrong password,
the computer will tell me....”Your password is incorrect.”
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Reading iBooks on a Kindle
By Charlie Reich
iBooks can only be read on an Apple iOS device, yet many avid reading families own both the
iPad and a Kindle. Some prefer the non-backlit screen that Kindle provides for night time reading
and would like to be able to read their iBook library collection on a Kindle. A free App is available
that allows reading iBooks on a Kindle, converting them to eBook format. Check out the following
website for details and download.
Calibre-ebook.com offers a free and open source library management application that allows
different eBook formats to play nice together.
TOMORROW: One of the greatest labor saving devices of today. Viewing a .docx file on a Mac
If you’re trying to view that .docx file while working from a Mac, here is a simple solution.
1. "
Rename the .docx extension to .zip
2. "
Unzip the file (double click on the renamed .zip file)
3. "
Open Safari and click File > Open File
4. "
Navigate to the document .xml file in your extracted zip directory. For example: filename/word/document.xml
5. "
Open If all goes well, you should now be able to read the .docx file from Safari using
your Mac.
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Q: I select Shut Down and my iMac won’t shut down?
A: The next time you restart it; on the Start Up tone hold down the Option
Key and start up by selecting the Recovery partition icon. Then run Disk
Utilities; select/highlight your Hard Drive icon and select Repair Disk
Permissions. Once complete repeat the process again. When you exit Disk
Utilities restart in Safe Mode by holding down the Shift Key until the progress bar appears, this
will reset some caches. After it has fully booted restart normally and test your Mac for a Shut
Down.
Q: I want to shut down my iMac at night and have it stay shut down. Currently I Shut Down and
when I wake up the next morning I find my iMac has opened itself and is in Sleep mode?
A: If you shut down your Mac at night and find it turned on and in Sleep mode when you wake
up in the morning, meaning you can just click a keyboard key or double-click your mouse in the
morning and the screen will open with your email all freshly downloaded…
Go to; System Preferences > Energy Saver
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At bottom of window select > Schedule
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Deselect > Start up on wake
Your iMac can then Shut Down and stay Shut Down until power button is engaged to re-open…
(or you may like this feature to set the time to open your Mac just prior to your work schedule to
have it warmed up and ready to go, when you arrive. You can also select your Mac to sleep or
shut down at a selected time).
Note: MacBooks also provides Energy Saver's timed on and off procedure. In addition the
Energy Saver window shows what % of charge is left on your battery and estimated time
remaining.
Here is a “must watch” from Elsie Thull on the iPhone heart
monitor. Excellent information.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=r13uYs7jglg
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Mail & Safari Window Resize
By Charlie Reich
A Simple Fix !
I use a 27” iMac and suddenly my Mail’s Inbox and my opened new messages filled my screen
full-size. I’d pull them back by dragging the arrow on the right side of the message and the next
time I opened Mail the screen was a full size desktop image again. Here’s the fix:
Open Mail and drag the lower right hand corner to resize the Inbox to the width and height you
want as a default. Then open a received mail and resize that document to your desired size. Then
open a New Message and drag the window to the size you desire. You can drag each type
window to your preferred location on the desktop. Now select: Mail > Quit Mail from the Mail
toolbar. Reopen Mail, the windows will now open in their new re-sizes and newly placed locations.
Safari window can be resized in same way. Resize the window by dragging the lower RH corner
and then drag the window to wherever you want it placed. Select: Safari > Quit Safari from the
toolbar. Reopen Safari, it will now open resized and in the newly placed location.
The next time you open Mail or Safari their new window resizes and locations will continue to
open in your newly selected sizes and placements on your Desktop window.
SECRET:
Something you tell to one person at a time. Computers on page 1:
1984 Macintosh running OS1
1986 MacPlus with OS 3.2
1997 Power Book - OS 77.6
1999 iBook
1998 iMac with OS 8
2006 iMac
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