apple sauce

St. Augustine Mac Users Group
APPLE SAUCE
:
S
P.O A M U
. Bo
x 8 G
Aug
6
usti
ne, 0237
Fl.
320
86
E
SAM
UG@ MAIL
SAM
UG.
WW
ORG
W.S
AMU
G.O
RG
St.
Topics for June
This month’s meeting will have a
variety of topics. You can expect
to learn about Apple Support,
tutorials and How To’s. If you have
a question or two that needs to be
answered now is the time. It really
makes it easier on Larry if you
email him with your question
before the meeting. That way if
there is any research to do, he can
have your answer ready on
Thursday.
Date June 2013
apple.com/iwork
Type to enter text
Meeting Information:
Date: June 20th - 6:30 PM
iPad and iPhone Special Interest Group
Meets at 5:45
The Center in the Record Building
Coming soon to a Mac near you........
SAMUG, P.O. Box 860237, St. Augustine, Fl. 32086 | www.samug.org | [email protected]
APPLE SAUCE
DATE JUNE 2013!
PAGE
2
Five Dictionary tricks I can't live without
Scholle Sawyer McFarland: Senior Editor, Macworld
Whether you need to know what a word means or just how to spell it, the days of leafing through
hefty paper dictionaries are gone. But few Mac users really know how to make the most of OS
X’s built-in Dictionary app. Today I’ll show you five tricks for doing just that.
1. Use pop-up definitions: A useful, and chronically underused, OS X feature is systemwide
pop-up definitions. In most Mac applications—including Safari, Mail, Pages, TextEdit, Twitter, you
name it—just position your cursor over the word you want to define and press CommandControl-D. A pop-up window appears containing the definition, synonyms, and any relevant
Wikipedia entry. Click the header for Dictionary, Thesaurus, Apple, or Wikipedia to open
Dictionary to the relevant page.
2. Use contextual menus: Say you’ve forgotten the Command-Control-D shortcut already. Are
you out of luck? Of course not. In most applications, you can instead select a word and Controlclick (or right-click). A contextual menu appears. Select Look Up in Dictionary (or Look Up) and
the definition appears.
3. Use Spotlight: Another quick way to look up a word is by using the Spotlight search menu.
Press Command-spacebar to activate it, and then type in the word you need defined. One of
your results will be ‘Look Up’ next to the Dictionary icon. You don’t have to select this and press
Return. Instead, simply hover your cursor over the entry and a pop-up menu will appear with the
full definition. If you don’t want to reach for your mouse, press Command-L to jump immediately
to the definition. For more options—like the ability to look for synonyms—select the Dictionary
entry (or press Command-D), and the Dictionary application will open to your word.
4. Make Dictionary talk: Perhaps your elementary school teachers taught you how to decipher
the pronunciation symbols provided by the dictionary, but…perhaps not. Did you know that you
can get Dictionary to pronounce words for you?
Go to System Preferences, click Dictation & Speech, click the Text to Speech tab, and choose a
voice.
To make Dictionary talk, select a word and Control-click (or right-click) it. From the contextual
menu, choose Speech > Start Speaking.
If the word isn’t split into syllables (say, down below in its Thesaurus entry), you don’t even have
to select it. Just point to it with your cursor and Control-click.
continued on next page
Apple Sauce | www.samug.org [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
APPLE SAUCE
DATE JUNE 2013
PAGE
3
continued from previous page
5. Change your sources: Dictionary comes with a bunch of built-in reference sources. Select
Dictionary > Preferences to see the list. Here you can determine which sources will show up
when you search and what order they’ll show up in. So, for instance, you could get rid of
Wikipedia, add a Spanish language dictionary, or switch out the American English dictionary for a
British English one.
Note that you have to be connected to the Internet to access Wikipedia. And what’s the Apple
dictionary, you may ask? It includes a glossary of Apple terms—helpful for those times when
you’re not interested in the type of apple you can eat.
APP Store Updated ?
A couple of times when I had already installed an update, it still said to update.
Apple tech support got rid of the problem by deleting the cache...
Finder > Go > Hold down Option key and select > Library…
Open the Caches folder and open folder > com.apple.store_helper
Move the Cache.db file from the com.apple.store_helper folder to the Trash.
Restart Mac.
ODDS AND ENDS
1) When passwords aren't being remembered: go to Utilities > Keychain Access- under the
menu on top, keychain access first aid - repair
2)

Hold down your Option and Shift keys and type the letter
K, like this ....
3) Don’t forget.......Software
update to 10.8.4
Apple Sauce - The Mac User Group Newsletter - Charles Reich - [email protected] - Dana Birch | [email protected]
APPLE SAUCE
DATE
JUNE 2013
PAGE
4
The Hooded Sweatshirt !
I’ve always wondered what
purpose a hooded sweatshirt
serves when worn indoors.
For all the times we sit at the
computer ~ I’ll have to get one
Charlie
Last month Charlie Reich showed us a small app that is used as wallpaper and screen saver.
I fell in love with it and downloaded and installed the next day. It depicts a watch (running
the correct time) and a broach (with a personal picture of your choice) that is on the
bottom of a stream. The water moves (splash, splash) and drops go plink plink. I was at work
the next day when my husband called with what he thought could be a major
problem.......there is water running somewhere in the computer room. He checked and there
are no water pipes anywhere around. I told him to hit the space bar on the iMac and he
would find the culprit. We had quite a laugh. Thanks Charlie.
www.samug.org | [email protected] | [email protected] - [email protected]
APPLE SEEDS!
PAGE
5
Type Foreign Currency Symbols on the
iPhone & iPad
Posted: 27 May 2013 12:19 PM PDT OS X Daily
Foreign currency symbols can be accessed and typed iOS easily, all you need to do is be
somewhere with keyboard access, and then do the following:
■
Tap “123″ and then hold down the “$” dollar sign to reveal the currency pop-up
window
For the USA keyboard, this reveals the symbols for Yen, Euro, Dollar, Cent, British Pound,
and the Korean Won, and the process is identical whether you’re on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod
touch.
Simple and intuitive, and in many ways this is easier than how it’s done on the Mac since
you don’t have to remember any quirky keystrokes per symbol.
Add Additional Currency Symbols for Other Nations
Want to have access to more currency symbols for other nations? That’s easy, but you will
need to add the keyboards for those respective countries, this is done by:
■
Go to Settings then tap on General, followed by “International”
■
Choose “Keyboard”, and then go to “Add New Keyboard” and locate the country whose
currency you are looking to add to the list
Once the other nations keyboard has been added, you will need to toggle to that keyboard by
hitting the little globe button on the keyboard, select the new keyboard layout, and it will
appear in the same place as usual. You may find that other regional currencies are sometimes
available as well, though Dollar and Euro seem to be accessible all the time regardless of the
keyboard used. A nice side effect to adding international keyboards is gaining additional
TLD’s for that nation or region as well.
Remember this the next time you’re traveling with an iPhone or iPad, though it’s also
undoubtedly useful for expats, business people, accountants, and a million other situations
where accessing other currencies is a necessity.
www.samug.org | [email protected] | [email protected] - [email protected]
APPLE SEEDS
JUNE 2013!
PAGE
6
How to Open Zip Files & Extract Archives on the iPhone &
iPad
If you’ve ever run into a .zip file on an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad you will
probably have discovered it’s a bit of a dead-end initially, because by default
there isn’t much you can do with zips or any other archive format. That
doesn’t mean you can’t open ZIP files though, and in fact these archives
can be viewed, unzipped, and opened in iOS with relative ease, but you will need to download a
free third party app before you’ll have the function included on your device. This will allow you
view all of the contents of any zip file quickly, and also decompress the entire archive, or just
extract a single file from a larger archive, providing quick access to the zip contents which can
be saved locally or opened in another application of choice.
Requirements for unzipping files in iOS
These are fairly basic, but for now you will need to download a third party utility to work with
archive files in iOS:
•
•
Download WinZip for iOS free from the App Store
Any iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running a modern version of iOS (iOS 4.2 or later)
Yes, WinZip, the classic Windows-based archive manager that has been around since ancient
times has a version of itself for iOS, and it retains the same name from it’s desktop past. Now
on iOS, it’s actually a great app that is free, fast, and efficient, and does exactly what we want it
to do, plus it handles password protected zips with ease. The only complaint is the developers
haven’t yet updated the app for the iPhone 5 resolution so it looks a little weird on that device,
but the functionality remains intact and thus allows the (likely temporary) UI resolution oddity to
be ignored. There are a few other options on the App Store, but WinZip is really the best choice
we have come across.
Opening Zip Files in iOS
Once you have WinZip downloaded and installed in iOS, you will gain a new option available
anytime you run into a .zip file, whether the archive is found on the web through a link, or even if
has been included as an attachment to an email.
continued on page 7
www.samug.org | [email protected] | [email protected] - [email protected]
APPLE SEEDS! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Page 7
!
Once the app has been
installed, coming across zip
files now provides an “Open
in Winzip” button, as
highlighted below. Tapping
that button then launches the
zip file into the WinZip app,
revealing the contents of the
zipped archive:
Unzipping Archives & Saving the Contents to iOS
Tapping on any of the individual items within the contents list will show a preview of the specific
file, though for now they remain zipped in the archive. To unzip the item you are currently
viewing, tap the “Open In” button and choose an option from the action list.
In the screen shot example, we are viewing a photo contained within a zip file that contains a
variety of resolutions of the same image. For pictures, you’ll find options to save the image to
camera roll, send it through email or Twitter, print it, copy it for pasting elsewhere, and the
ability to open it in various compatible apps that
you have installed on your iOS device (in this
case, Skitch and Snapseed).
This post was inspired by some confusion
coming out of the incredibly popular Tahiti Wave
wallpaper, that was posted in this recent
wallpaper roundup article. That wallpaper
happened to be downloadable only as a zip
archive, which contains multiple files of the image
at various resolutions for different devices, yet,
because it’s a zip file, there is no immediately
obvious way to open it in iOS (at least by default).
Frankly, iOS should probably have a native
simple unarchive utility just like the one bundled
in OS X, because it’s pretty common to come
across archives on the internet and it would be
ideal to be able to open them without requiring additional apps. Maybe some day…
www.samug.org | [email protected] | [email protected] - [email protected]
APPLE SAUCE
8
DATE JUNE 2013
PAGE
Still think you are having a
Bad Day?
A woman came home to find her
husband in the kitchen shaking
frantically, almost in a dancing
frenzy, with some kind of wire
running from his waist towards
the electric kettle. Intending to jolt
him away from the deadly current,
she ran outside and grabbed a
handy plank of wood and
smacked him with it, breaking his
arm in two places. Up to that
moment, he had been happily
listening to his iPod.
Charlie's hint for the day:
When I want font color changes in email or
documents I like to select them from the
crayon box as the colors seem to me to be
more vibrant (especially blue and red) than the
selectable shades of each color available from
the color selection checkerboard.
Here's my Keyboard Crayon Box selector tip…
Shift - Command - C It's quicker and much easier and faster than
obtaining the crayon box through the color's
checkerboard pull-down menu route.
www.samug.org | [email protected] | [email protected] - [email protected]