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Date February 2013
Processing Digital
Images - iPhoto,
iMovie and iDVD
Our original plan for this month was a
presentation by Charlie Reich on
Photo Shop Elements. Unfortunately,
Charlie is having some physical
problems and he is unable to give
that presentation.
When Fred Hathorn heard about this,
he offered to put together something
on digital media. We can expect to
hear about importing still images and
movies from a camera, using iPhoto
and iMovie to manipulate then
possibly exporting them to iDVD or
iPhone/iPad for viewing. Fred will not
focus on how you manipulate images
once they’re on your computer but
rather how the overall image
handling process hangs together.
This promises to be a very interesting
session.
Our thanks to Fred for
stepping in at the last moment. Not
an easy thing to do.
apple.com/iwork
Meeting Information:
Feb. 21 - 6:30 PM
iPad and iPhone Special Interest Group
Meets at 5:45
The Center in the Record Building
iPhoto
iMovie
iDVD
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Using Emoji Fonts in OSX Pages
By Charlie Reich
Emoji font’s funny little faces can be used in Mail and Text Edit but the Apple Color Emoji Font
has never worked in OS X Pages. The Emoji font was added to OSX starting with version
10.7. For some reason Apple has not yet updated the app so that Pages can use them. Until Apple fixes this problem in a future Pages update here's Charlie's secret workaround for
using Emoji fonts in Pages…
1. First insure your toolbar shows the Show Character Viewer and Show Keyboard Viewer icon
on the right side of your toolbar. If not, go to System Preferences and open the Keyboard >
Keyboard Shortcuts and check/select the “Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar”
2. Open your Character Viewer and select the Emoji font file. Then select the Emoji image you
want to use. An enlarged version will appear in the Emoji icon box.
3. Press and hold down the Shift and Command keys and select 4. Your cursor will now be a
crosshair +. Hold mouse down and drag the + cursor around the large Emoji icon into a box
frame and let up on mouse.
4. You have now captured the Emoji icon as a Screen Shot on your Desktop.
5. Click and drag the Emoji Screen Shot onto your Pages document.You will have handles all
around the image to resize it to fit your need. Then drag into place.
App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads with Almost Half in 2012
January 7, 2013
Apple has announced that customers have downloaded over 40 billion apps — nearly 20
billion in 2012 alone. The App Store has over 500 million active accounts and had a recordbreaking December with over two billion downloads during the month. Eddy Cue, Apple’s
senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, says, “It has been an incredible year
for the iOS developer community.” Developers have created over 775,000 apps for iPhone,
iPad, and iPod touch and have been paid over $7 billion by Apple.
Recently there was a security scare involving Java. Kai Long sent this link on disabling
Java in your web browser.
http://macmost.com/disable-java-in-your-browser.html
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Reviving a dead Apple remote
by Macworld’s ~ Mac 101
A reader inquires: “I have several old Apple remote controls—the white ones. I hear they work
with today’s Apple gear but all of mine are dead. Is there anything I can do to revive them”?
Sure. These things are battery operated
and, while it’s not obvious, you can change
those batteries.
Take a close look at the bottom of the
remotes and you’ll see a small round
dimple. This isn’t a decoration but rather a
hint that if you apply pressure to that spot,
something helpful will happen. In this case,
the spring-loaded battery tray will pop out.
However, I’ve yet to make one spring out
with just the pressure of a well-placed
finger.
Instead, grab a paper clip, straighten out
one end, and address the dimple with that
end. Plink, out comes the tray. Inside you’ll
find a 3 volt lithium battery (model CR2032).
These batteries are common enough that
you should be able to find them wherever
batteries are sold for well under a buck a
piece.
Interested in what your iPhone and iPad can do? Listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcexJQM-8W0&feature=share
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Apple TV Closed Captions
Q&A
Dear Dr Samug,
Q: With a lot of the foreign movies I try to
watch on Apple TV the subtitles don't come
through from Netflix.
A: Wait until the film starts playing, click and
hold down the select key (the one in the
center of the directional button ring), the
subtitles screen should immediately show up
(if any are available for your title). Some Netflix films don't have subtitles loaded and that could
be the basis for the problem. Also make sure you have the latest update for your AppleTV.
Upload Images Directly from Safari in iOS 6
iOS 6 now lets you upload images directly from Safari using standard web-based upload
forms. Not only can you upload directly from the Photos library and Camera Roll now, but you
can also upload an image directly from the camera after taking a picture.
There’s nothing fancy that you’ll need to do, just tap any normal upload button from Safari and
you’ll see the pop-up image selector shown in the screenshot, whether you’re on an iPhone,
iPad, or iPod touch.
This is obviously a great feature for anyone who shares pictures around the web through any
of the many web-based image services, and also a nice change for bloggers, whether they’re
professionals or just your moms simple blogspot.
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Changing the Default File Save Location from iCloud to your Local Disk
OS X Mountain Lion increases the use of iCloud for sharing data between a desktop Mac and
a remote device such as an iPhone or an iPad. This is great for things like Notes,
Reminders, Contacts, or Calendar where you want all of the information in those apps to be
available on both devices. Unfortunately, it can be frustrating if you’re just trying to save a
file in Pages, Preview, TextEdit, or Numbers to your Mac and the default storage location
shows up as iCloud.
At this point, it takes a few clicks to expand the save dialog and save the file locally. Not a
major problem, but annoying if you have to do it each time you save a new file. If you
regularly save to your desktop, there’s a shortcut that helps — just hit Command+D and the
“Where” location automatically changes to the desktop.
You can also change the default save location from iCloud to your local disk on a permanent
basis though by doing the following:
Launch the “Terminal” app, found in /Applications/Utilities/, cut and past the following
command into the terminal window and press “return”.
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false
For the change to take effect, either log out and log back in, or just reboot your Mac. If you
ever change your mind and want to restore iCloud as the default storage location, just
launch Terminal and run the following:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool true
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iPad iOS 6 Update
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Q&A
Dear Samug ! !
Q: I installed the latest iOS 6 update and then discovered neither
iPad charged. The battery life percentage did not change and neither
one generated any heat. It's like the batteries are dead. However
they both do function OK. Any one else have this problem?
A: Apple on-line-help advises to hold down home button and sleep/wake button at same time
until screen turns black and apple logo appears. Use this procedure to reset all your default
settings whenever your iPad may incur an erratic behavior. (This procedure cured the above
problem).
The Mac also provides a similar fix using a restart to free up memory or Ram and oft times
cures erratic OSX behavior.
iPad Error Correction
If you make an error or want to go back and add a word or letters you can move the cursor
precisely where you want it to make a correction.
Press and hold on screen to activate the magnifying glass, which lets you slide it smoothly
through text to the required insertion/deletion point. When the cursor is exactly where you want it
release your finger. You can now add or delete text from where the cursor is.
Another option is to double tap then long hold. Once you get the right combo you will notice
instead of a round magnifying glass, you get a rectangular magnified text box that you can then
drag for more specific word groups or sentences for copying, pasting or replacing.
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Add Bold, Underline, & Italics to Stylize Text in iOS Mail
Stylizing text with bold, underline, or italics in the iOS Mail app is easily done with the same tapand-hold contextual menu that also allows you to select text, block quote, and insert photos. To
access the text styling menu:
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Tap and hold on any text in Mail app, choose “Select” and adjust the sliders to the text you
want to select
Tap the “B I U” button to reveal the text styles (you may need to tap the > arrow button to
reveal the option if device is in portrait orientation)
Choose either “Bold”, “Italics”, or “Underline”
Repeat to apply additional styling
As you probably guessed, this litte-known trick works the same in Mail on iPhone, iPod touch, and
iPad. Technically the stylize feature appears in a few other places in iOS too, but we’re focusing
on the Mail app because this feature is universally supported there, whereas apps like Notes do
not yet support it. This could be new from iOS 6 onward, I don’t have an older iOS device handy at
the moment to give it a try and find out for sure.
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Preview’s Magnifying Glass
By Charlie Reich
Preview in OSX Lion was updated to include a
helpful magnification tool that follows the mouse
cursor. To activate it in Lion OS X 7 just hit the
Shift ~ (tilde) key, or In Mountain Lion OS X 8 hit
the Control ~ (tilde) key with an image open in
Preview. If using the trackpad you can pinch or
spread to increase or decrease the size of the
magnifier. Re-hit the Shift ~ or Control ~ key to
stop the magnifier.
The magnifier can be useful and offers a much
more precise option than zooming in on a full
sized image with the command + and –
shortcuts and then navigating around.
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