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16+ Years Serving e Mac Community
See the All New Adobe
Acrobat 6 Professional at
the April meeting!
Inside this issue:
Color calibrating your
monitor
Review of Scott’s New Book
Marine Aquarium 2 Review
Tips & Tricks
April 2003 • $3 US
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MacNews - April 2003
e’re so close tht  cn tﬆe it
Laﬆ month we were a mere 15
members away from having 400
members of MacGroup. I had a
goal of hitting 400 before the end
of March. Unfortunately, that goal
was not reached and now it’s going
to be a little harder to get there.
e problem is that while we have
a good ﬆeady ﬆream of new members joining each month and members renewing each month, we ﬆill
have some members that don’t
renew. We are ﬆill at an all-time
high right now. Our group has never
been larger. ere’s juﬆ something
magical (in my mind) about getting
to 400. Since we didn’t make 400
by the end of March, we now have
to work a little harder. Because of
some members dropping off, we
are now at 376. So we need to get
some more new members, some
renewals of folks that have memberships that expired and equally
important, we need to retain YOU!
So to make things intereﬆing, I
have secured two very nice prizes;
one for the 400 member and one
for the member that refers the
moﬆ new members from March
1ﬆ until we hit 400. I can’t tell you
what the prizes are, but truﬆ me
they are VERY NICE. If you have
recently joined or renewed, let me
say THANK YOU!
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MacNews - April 2003 3
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AWESOME NEW PHOTOSHOP BOOK
the photoshop boo for diitl photorphers
reviewe by hirley ussne
Have you ever discovered a book
so exciting and rich with possibilities for your business or hobby and
wanted to shout it to the world so
they too could share in the wealth
of information within its covers? I
juﬆ took delivery of such a book. It
is Scott Kelby’s new “photoshop
book for digital photographers”.
I’m only putting it down long
enough to share this with you. is
is one book that I am reading cover
to cover because I love Photoshop
and the infinite artiﬆic and photo
reﬆoration capabilities that have
been introduced here.
It seems Scott had no intention
of writing this book, but so many emails and queﬆions at his seminars
for information not addressed in
paﬆ books repeatedly kept coming
up. So he indulged himself in all
the books he could find for answers
to these queﬆions but found very
little. erefore, the birth of this
book. He purposely does not
include information that has tirelessly been repeated in every other
Photoshop book, but inﬆead has
expanded upon what has been
written in the paﬆ taking the “How
to...” to a new level.
Scott ﬆates this is not a
digital photography book, but
a Photoshop book aimed at the
professional and high-end user
using digital or moving to digital
photo. His lucid way of detailing
inﬆruion and illuﬆrating the
techniques is unsurpassed. Where
other books wade through a lot of
technical jargon, he cuts through
to the bare essentials of how to get
the result he is after, thereby saving
the reader time and generating
continual renewed intereﬆ. He
even gives you settings taking the
guesswork out for you. He tells
you if you own Photoshop, you can
follow his “simple, easy-to-underﬆand format”. To which I might
add, and marvel at the professional
looking results you are going to
obtain in the process. Plus you
learn exciting new techniques used
by high-end professionals in record
time. What a way to learn! What
more could you ask for!
Many people overlook the
acknowledgment liﬆing in a book,
but I encourage you to read Scott’s
acknowledgments of his immediate family, team members and our
own Terry White. It is one of the
moﬆ beautiful teﬆimonials I have
ever read. His foundation with
family and friends is firm and this
maﬆerpiece of a book is the result
of those reciprocal loving relationships. Scott even makes available
moﬆ of the photos used in his
book to praice with juﬆ in case
you don’t have any.
e book begins the moment
your digital photos come into
Photoshop. He has impeccably
sequenced ﬆep-by-ﬆep inﬆructions for every technique from
introducing the raw image to the
professionally finished image ready
for a client’s approval. As you
move through the book you are
ﬆimulated to apply the next applicable enhancement and watch your
photo blossom right before your
very own eyes.
He ﬆarts by introducing
the reader to the Photoshop File
Browser showing how useful it is
and how to make a conta sheet
for your CD’s. Included are lots
of tips and basics to help navigate
around this much-overlooked
feature.
e “Advanced Techniques For Pros only” logos are
scattered liberally throughout the
book and inﬆruions EASY to
follow! Some of what he covers
are new approaches to removing
color aliasing and reducing digital
noise created by low light situations. With color correing using
curves he gives RGB values to type
in for highlights, shadows and midtones if you are apprehensive about
what numbers to use. He also corres flesh tones for both RGB and
CYMK.
e new Camera Raw plug-in
for Photoshop that was introduced
at Photoshop World by Adobe is
covered so there is no loss of data
in transference.
A super trick
for editing 16-bit photos within
Photoshop is worth the value of
the book alone for professional
photographers.
When retouching portraits
the professional uses many skills
to enhance nature subtraing,
adding, removing, enhancing,
transforming and changing the
subje. All are covered in fresh
new ways, but none as dramatic
as the body sculpting done artfully
to male and female alike whether
in jeﬆ or for appeal. You’ll never
believe what you see in print again
when you see the artful use of these
“tons of tricks” to give one new rock
hard abs, great arms, legs, thighs,
buttocks, big eyes, lips, reshaped
nose, soft new skin, etc. All
magically changed, not to mention
changing color of hair, removing
love handles or dark circles under
one’s eyes, wrinkles, freckles, skin
blemishes and so on.
Love this book!! Now that I
have your attention you might like
to know that Scott’s book can be
ordered at www.photoshopvideos.c
om. I’d like to also mention NAPP
(National Association of Photoshop
Professionals) who will offer you a
discount if you are a member. It
is a great organization with tips,
discounts, videos, books, seminars,
etc. Well worth the nominal membership fee. If intereﬆed you can
enroll online or get more information at www.photoshopuser.com
In conclusion, I’d like to say
that I’m sure you have been excited
by a particular book that might
have enhanced your expertise
with knowledge from the world
of computers, graphics, cameras,
etc. that you could share with our
MacGroup family. We all have a
love of learning and this is in part
what keeps our group moving forward so please conta Terry White
and share the news with all of us.
Now back to my new book “the
photoshop book for digital photographers” by everyone’s photoshop
guru the dynamic and irreplaceable
Scott Kelby. ank you Scott! 
pple nnounces new pro
video produs t  2003
Apple typically uses the National Association of Broadcaﬆers expo to
showcase its professional video produs and new versions of produs
like Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro and Shake. Apple did not disappoint at
this years show either.
NAB, LAS VEGAS—April 6, 2003—Apple® today introduced Final
Cut Pro® 4, a major upgrade of Apple’s Emmy award-winning editing
software for film, HD, SD and DV. Packed with more than 300 new features, Final Cut Pro 4 introduces RT Extreme, for real-time compositing
and effes, powerful new interface cuﬆomization tools, new high-quality
8- and 10-bit uncompressed formats and for the firﬆ time in an editing
syﬆem coﬆing less than $100,000, full 32-bit floating point per channel
video processing. Final Cut Pro 4 also includes three completely new integrated applications—LiveType for advanced titling, Soundtrack for music
creation and Compressor for full featured batch transcoding.
Apple® announced DVD Studio Pro® 2, a completely new DVD authoring produ, rebuilt from the ground up with a breakthrough user interface and packed with innovative features that redefine professional DVD
authoring. With professionally designed and fully cuﬆomizable templates,
an innovative new menu editor, timeline-based track editing and a new
world-class, software-based MPEG-2 encoder, DVD Studio Pro 2 is a muﬆ
have application for every Final Cut Pro® editor, as well as any professional
who creates DVDs for a living.
Apple® also announced Shake® 3, the next generation of its induﬆryleading compositing and visual effes software. Shake 3 includes new
Mac® OS X only features such as the Shake Qmaﬆer network render management software and unlimited network rendering licenses which allow
visual effes artiﬆs to easily diﬆribute rendering tasks across a cluﬆer of
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ht ou see is not wht ou et
ntone Spder with OptiC b lorision
eviewe by ary rey
it th nvaluabl elp of ik olfor
did not apply. e inﬆruions
were fine for the firﬆ few pages but
then became quite confusing due
to a lot of jumping around from
PreCAL to OptiCAL - CRT to LCD
- Windows to MAC. I oke to Mike
Wolford at our laﬆ meeting and he
was kind enough to volunteer again
to come and assiﬆ me.
One thing was very clear in
the inﬆruions, never plug in the
Spyder firﬆ – however, neither
Mike nor I could find an inﬆruion
When Terry asked me to use and
as to when to plug it in. Of course,
then write an article about Spyder
there was a point in the inﬆrucwith OptiCAL I thought it would
tions at which, if it wasn’t plugged
be a breeze. Laﬆ year Mike Wol- in, you were going nowhere. So be
ford was kind enough to bring
prepared to read the inﬆruions
his Spyder and calibrate our CRT multiple times.
monitor which works with our G3.
(Now this may seem petty to
It didn’t seem too difficult and the
some of you professionals out
results were much improved (we
there, however, keep in mind, that
had a lot of problems eecially
the purpose of this article was to
with blues). However, to be honeﬆ, find out if an uninitiated person
when someone else does the work
like myself could do this alone.)
for you, you tend to let what you
cround
learned go after a while.
I’m reviewing the Spyder with
ettin Strted
OptiCAL – which is the more
Firﬆ thing I did was to print
a copy of the excellent color teﬆ
image supplied by ColorVision
and then I printed the 17 page
PDF inﬆruions. Since this is an
expensive and delicate piece of
equipment I didn’t want to mess
anything up.
Next I followed the inﬆructions (separate sheet) to put the
Spyder together. Note: there are different pieces to use with the LCD
and the CRT.
I then proceeded to read the
inﬆruions and to underline what
was pertinent to my screen (more
on this later) – also to X-out what
expensive of the two software
programs (PhotoCAL is the other
program)
•
OptiCAL is for professional photographers, graphic
designers and artiﬆs who have
demanding clients. If you are a
professional – then you do need
this program.
•
e Spyder is available with two different software
options - OptiCal, $388.00, has
more features than PhotoCal,
$288.00 – both come with the
same USB Spyder that can be used
on an LCD or CRT monitor. If
you want two or more monitors
to match, then OptiCal is needed.
A comparison of features is on the
ColorVision.com site.
•
If you want to print
images from your computer and
you will be satisfied with pleasing
colors – it may be as simple as teﬆing the monitor/dilay generic
profiles that came with your MAC.
Open an image in Photoshop and
print it out. To see what monitor
profile you are currently using, and
to sele another one to teﬆ, go
to (OS X): preferences> dilay>
color> color sync profile. (OS 9):
control panels> monitors> color>
color sync profile. Hold the print
that you made up to the monitor
and try the different profiles one
at a time to see which one matches
beﬆ. Note what profile you ﬆarted
with, and any you liked better. is
may be all you need to do. You can
also create your own cuﬆom profile using the CALIBRATE option
in the color sync profile dialog
window where the monitor profiles
were.
he fs
Firﬆ we’ll discuss my LCD
monitor on a 17” iMac and the
Spyder, which is plugged direly
into the computer (a muﬆ).
It is important to note here
that before you ﬆart using this program on an LCD screen you muﬆ
eﬆablish a repeatable viewing position for the screen and a repeatable
lighting condition for working.
Both are important so that you are
always seeing the monitor with the
same colors on any given item. An
image on a LCD can only be viewed
accurately from a ﬆraight-on angle
- some perceived color accuracy is
loﬆ when viewing off center is
is eecially important on the flat
screen iMacs because the screens
are very easily tilted. Also, you
muﬆ be careful not to allow the
suion cups on the Spyder to
attach to your LCD screen.
e aual running of the
software is very smooth and selfexplanatory. e Spyder does all
the work – all you have to do is save
and name the new profile.
Now we’ll discuss the CRT,
which is a tube ﬆyle monitor.
It is important to warm up a
CRT for at leaﬆ one hour
before profiling. e
Spyder is then attached
to the screen with the
suion cups. (It is
necessary to remove the weight and
hanger as well as change the back
piece on the Spyder – the inﬆructions are good for this) is too, is
a smooth operation, but requires
hands on assiﬆance from you. You
can easily follow the inﬆruions
on the screen, and it definitely takes
longer than the LCD. PreCal comes
with the Spyder and helps get your
CRT in the “ballpark” before using
OptiCal or PhotoCal.
After you are finished (with
either type calibration) you can go
to Photoshop menu> Color Settings > Working Spaces – Click on
the pop-up liﬆ next to RGB (but do
not change it). Look for: Monitor
RGB - “New profile name” to verify
that the new profile is being used.
I’d like to note here that compared
to the LCD, our CRT was easier
to use to evaluate images due to
it’s wider viewing angle and better
shadow detail (even though there
were more ﬆeps involved and it
took longer to complete).
ht does monitor
profilin rell do?
OptiCal is the software that
controls the Spyder. e Spyder
is a colorimeter that measures the
brightness, contraﬆ, gamma, the
aual color of a pure red, green
and blue on the monitor, and how
neutral the white, gray and blacks
are. OptiCal also creates the profile.
A profile is made with this information to describe the charaeriﬆics
of your monitor.
Photoshop and other applications access this profile to learn
what your monitor is dilaying.
When an accurate profile is also
available for your printer or other
output device (that is a whole different article), a color managed
workflow has begun and will
help you anticipate what
your print will look like
before you click the
PRINT button.
However, it is important to
underﬆand that OptiCal is not the
complete answer to the color problem – it shows how the monitor
dilays color, but you also do need
an accurate profile of your printer.
You have to take some time to
underﬆand color management if
you want to get value for the money
you will end on this tool.
he bottom line
Your level of color skills, and
your client’s needs will help to
determine how much effort is
required to create a color managed
workflow. One of the secrets to
good color is consiﬆency. Color
management is a fairly advanced
topic and this article doesn’t delve
deeply into the science and art of
color management…. that’s for a
future discussion by a much more
knowledgeable person who is conﬆantly involved with color.
e new profile that the Spyder
made for my iMac was quite close
to the generic “iMac” profile, but
there was a difference that was
definitely visible when clicking
between the two.
I really enjoyed doing this
review mainly because I had
the indiensable and extremely
knowledgeable help of Mike Wolford. ere is no way I could have
done this report without him.
I have to admit that before
doing this review, I thought that
calibrating the monitor meant that
I would be able to print exaly
what I saw on the screen. Definitely
not!!! is has been an enlightening and extremely rewarding
experience for me because I make
prints and copies of Joe’s artwork
(www.josephgrey.com) and they
have to be as close as possible to
the aual colors.
anks Terry for giving me this
review to do and…..
anks Mike.

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rine qurium 2
reviewe by huck reedma
e world of screen savers is rapidly
changing from the days of After
Dark’s flying toaﬆers of Syﬆem 7.
One of the firﬆ Macintosh screen
savers that I remember became
synonymous with the Mac (and
eventually the PC), because of the
novelty of having cute little toaﬆers with wings flying across your
screen – if you miss it that much,
you can download a copy for OSX
at: http://www.wurﬆ-wasser.net/
Projes/.
Originally, screen savers were
designed to save your screen from
phohor burn-in. e phohor
is the chemical in the screen’s pixel
which lights up and dilay’s color
(simpliﬆic definition, but for detail
go to: http://www.cs.wright.edu/bie/
rehabengr/Comp1/monitors.htm).
Like a light bulb, a pixel will burn
out or dim over time if left on
conﬆantly. e screen saver was
designed to light and dark each
pixel randomly over time, so that
no single pixel would be on conﬆantly or for any lengthy duration,
and moﬆ of them look pretty cool.
You’ve probably seen screen
burn-in when you’ve walked up to
a green or amber-screen ATM, and
you see the menu’s words ghoﬆed
onto to screen. e moﬆ simpliﬆic
screen saver is to turn the monitor
off, or turn the screen pixels black.
Essentially black, is the absence of
color, and therefore is beﬆ, but also
not too cool, or much fun.
Today, the technology built
in to moﬆ monitors are such that
burn in is not much of a concern,
but screen savers are ﬆill cool,
sometimes cute, and useful for
password proteing your screen
when you’re away from your computer.
In OSX there’s a built in screen
saver application. Look under
Syﬆem Preferences/Screen Effes,
which contains some pretty basic
built in modules. Some are cool as
they can dilay photos from your
iPhoto library, or from your .Mac
account if you have one.
Now
check
out
http://
www.serenescreen.com/, and download the demo of Marine Aquarium
2: e ultimate virtual saltwater
aquarium (shareware $20). It’s also
available in a packaged version on
CD at the Apple Store for about
$24.
What’s so cool about Marine
Aquarium? Well it puts a 3 saltwater fish tank right on your
screen. e neweﬆ revision takes
advantage of OSXs Quartz Extreme
video, and looks awesome. As this
program is a true 3 rendering of
the fish, the fish aually SWIM in
the water. As 3 rendered images,
the app aually let’s you toggle
between the cool 3 and the wire
frame views.
I grabbed this description from
the SereneScreen website:
You’ve seen aquarium programs before, but you’ve never
seen anything like this! Marine Life
so vibrant you won’t believe your
eyes. Indescribable realism! eses
fish are aual 3 Models, not flat
images dragged across the screen.
Use the SereneScreen Marine
Aquarium - Mac OS X as a screensaver or as a ﬆand-alone program.
is Deluxe version includes 21
different ecies of fish to choose
from. Other features include a ﬆarfish, variable lighting, wireframe
mode, and more.
e 3 fish bend, turn, and
swim juﬆ like real fish!
etured ish:
*
Addis Butterflyfish
*
Blue Chromis Damsel
*
Clown Trigger
*
Copper-Banded Butterflyfish
*
Flame Angelfish
*
Forceps Butterfly
*
French Angelfish juvenile
*
Golden Butterfly
*
Koran Angel
*
Red Volitan Lionfish
*
Percula Clownfish (common)
*
Picasso Trigger
*
Powder Blue Tang
*
Purple Sailfin Tang juvenile
*
Queen Angelfish teenager
*
Regal Angel
*
Regal Tang
*
Royal Gramma Basselet
*
Starfish
*
ree Stripe Damsel
*
Wimplefish
*
Yellow Tang
ere is an OS9 version, but
I’ve been running the OSX version.
It does require a minimum 350Mhz
G3 and Open GL. I tried running
it on my 233 Purple iMac, and the
fish barely move, but looks great on
my Blue/White G3 and awesome
on my new 12” Powerbook.
is version contains some
pretty basic preferences, and adds
some command overrides, like
the arrow keys to control the foreground and background light, the
B key to control the bubble’s sound,
etc.
If you download and like
it, also check out the discussion
groups surrounding the app and
see what’s in ﬆore for future versions, including the ability to feed
the fish and tap the glass.
http://www.feldoncentral.com/
Sachs/
It’s the moﬆ entertaining $20
I’ve ent, and I never have to clean
the tank!

10
ips nd rics
uicen
It seems that Quicken backup
by hyllis vans
files do not contain the price [email protected]
tory for inveﬆments. If you move
Quicken to another Mac, as I juﬆ
did, your inveﬆments will have the
corre number of shares, but the
wrong prices.
It turns out that the price
hiﬆory is ﬆored in the Quicken
application folder in a folder called
“Quicken Essentials.” Within that
folder is a file named “Quicken
Quotes.” In moving to a new
machine you muﬆ also copy that
file and place it in the correondFor months now, I’ve been ing folder in the new volume. In
going through the Apple menu to that way you’ll keep all of your
put my computer to sleep. Well, financial information inta.
duh, I missed the obvious, and I’m
ihoto
willing to bet that lots of others
have, too. Juﬆ press the power key
(on the Logitech cordless keyboard
it’s labeled “User”) and then the “s”
key. So simple, and it saves me from
having to reach for the mouse.
Speaking of mice, there’s a new
Syﬆem Preferences pane that’s
great if you don’t have a scrolling
mouse. Aually, it’s nice even if
you do have a mouse or trackball
with a scroll wheel. It’s called MaxiMice, the shareware fee is only
$10.00 and it can be downloaded
at http://www.catchysoftware.com/
products/maximice. Scroll left or
In case you didn’t know, you
right, up or down juﬆ by moving can burn backup CDs of your
the cursor to the edge of the photos direly from iPhoto
window. e nearer the edge, the 2. What I didn’t know was the
faﬆer you scroll (you set the eed). format of these backups. I burned
Hold down the Control key and you a backup from my PowerBook and
can move a window without having deleted the photos to conserve disk
to grab the top bar of the window. ace. When I reinserted the disk
Doesn’t work with everything, but I was pleased to find that iPhoto
it works great with Safari and all launched and dilayed all the
other Cocoa applications. Cuﬆom- photos when the disk was seleed.
ize settings for slow scrolling in one ey dilayed like one big album
app and faﬆ in another. Try it, even with the original roll numbers
if you have a scrolling mouse. You inta. When I created a new
won’t believe how much less your album and dragged a few photos to
scroll finger has to work.
it from the disk file they imported
Received the following hints automatically. To be sure, I ejeed
from Alan Frenkel:
the disk and then launched iPhoto.
e new album ﬆill contained the
images from the CD. is is a great
way to manage large numbers of
photos that you don’t use regularly.
ebords
e newer Apple keyboards
have a convenient button to open
or shut the CD tray. Using the “F12”
button on older and third-party
keyboards does the same thing
under Jaguar. It’s very convenient. I
wish I’d known this earlier. I haven’t
tried it under OS 9.X, but I sue
it will also work. (Wish it worked
on externals.)
 finl word
e value of frequent backups
was driven home recently. Some
of you know that I maintain a
Windows computer
for a local organization that my husband
and I belong to. e
computer had a tape
drive in it, but it’s
rarely used because
it takes so long to do
a simple backup. We
have a .mac account
that I use for our
website and email,
and laﬆ fall, with
much poking and
prodding and assurances of security, I obtained permission to back
up our critical financial files to it.
I’ve been going in every other week
to run the backup.
Well, ten days before the end
of our fiscal year, the power supply
blew out and took the hard drive
with it. Fortunately, I had backed
it up a few days before the catastrophe. As a result, our bookkeeper
was without the computer only two
days, and she only had three days
worth of sales figures to reenter. I
don’t think I’ll have any problems
when it comes time to pay the bill
for our .mac account this year. It
more than paid for itself. And I
repeat, backup, backup, backup! 
GREAT
GREAT OS
OS X
X TIPS
TIPS
How to Safe Boot and Repair in Jaguar Troubleshooting
Techniques. Safe Boot and Safe Mode.
Auto Clean
Mac OS X will periodically run a background tasks that removes system files
that are no longer needed for its use.
This process will include purging information from log files and deleting temporary
items. This will not happen if your Mac
is turned off or taking a nap. If you do
not make sure that these cleaning tasks
are not done the files will become VERY,
VERY LARGE. These automatic tasks are
set up to run between 03:00 to 06:00 am
based off the time set on your Mac.
You can open up your terminal and run
this yourself.
Step #1 - Open your Terminal.
Step #2 - Type this in your terminal
sudo sh /etc/daily
“daily” will do the cleaning that is
scheduled to be done daily.
“weekly” will do the cleaning that is
scheduled to be done weekly.
“monthly” will do the cleaning that is
scheduled to be done monthly.
Step #3 - Press return/enter
Step #4 - Now enter your Admin
password when you are asked,
then press return/enter.
Setp # 5 - Quit the terminal app.
You are good to go.
Now re-do these steps for the other two
and you will be ALL CLEAN.
Safe Boot is a way of starting your Mac for troubleshooting issues that you are having
during startup.
Safe Mode is the where you are after you started your Mac in Safe Boot.
Starting up your Mac into Safe Mode does many things to simplify the startup
and operation of your Mac:
NOTE – (Safe Booting into Mac OS X takes longer than a normal startup. It can be quite
a long time. This will depend based on how long it takes to check and repair the directory
of your hard drive.)
Safe Boot mode forces a directory check of your Mac’s hard drive. This is identical to
using Disk Utility’s Repair Disk or the fsck –fy command in the terminal. It loads only the
required kernel extensions (some of the items are located in /System/Library/Extensions).
The cache of kernel extensions used to speed startup during normal use is ignored. (The
cache file is located in /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache)
Safe Boot only runs the Apple installed startup items (these items are in
the /Library/Startup Items and /System/Library/Startup items - and these are
DIFFERENT than the login items). Safe Boot can work around issues caused by your
software or directory damage on the startup volume.
This is how you Start Up in Safe Mode:
Be sure the computer is turned off.
Now press the power button.
Just after you hear the startup tone (NOT BEFORE), press and hold down the shift key.
Now release the shift key when you see the start up screen with the gray
background with the Apple logo and the progress indicator. During the startup, you will
see “Safe Boot” on the Mac OS X startup screen.
To leave the Mac OS X Safe Mode just restart your Mac normally, without holding any
keys during the startup period. If you do this every so often it will keep your Mac happy
and healthy. To discuss this tip (or anything you like) in the Mac OS X Tip-of-the-Day
Forum, go here:http://forums.osxfaq.com/viewtopic.php?t=4680
** Startup Keyboard Shortcuts For Mac OS X **
C - Start up from a CD that has a system folder
N - Attempt to start up from a compatible network server (NetBoot)
R - Force PowerBook screen reset
T - Start up in FireWire Target Disk mode
X - Force Mac OS X startup
Shift - Start up in Safe Boot mode and temporarily disable login items and
non-essential kernel extension files (Mac OS X 10.2 and later)
Command-S - Start up in Single-User mode (command line)
Command-V - Start up in Verbose mode.
Option-Command-Shift-Delete - Bypass primary startup volume and seek a
different startup volume (such as a CD or external disk)
** Finder Window keyboard Shortcuts For Mac OS X **
Command-W - Close Window
Command-Right Arrow - Expand folder (list view)
Command-Left Arrow - Collapse Folder (list view)
Option-Command-W - Close all Windows
Option-Command-Right Arrow - Expand folder and nested subfolders (list view)
Option-Command-Up Arrow - Open parent folder and close current window
*Taken from OSXFAQ Mac OS X Tip-of-the-Day By Scott Sheppard - OSXFAQ Editor-in-Chief
12
iCHAT TIPS
iChat The Beginners Guide
from our friends at iChatMasters
http://ichatmasters.free.fr/
•I do not see who’s speaking !!!
Menu/View/Show names and pictures
•I do not see your icons!
To see the icon of someone it is necessary
to have it in your list: In the
list of the chat participants, drag/drop the
participant in the “Buddy List” window.
• How can have an icon ??
In the “Buddy List” window, in top on the
right, drag/drop an image file of
less than 100Kb.
• How can I have the rooms list ?
The most complete list is here: http:
//ichatmasters.free.fr/DL/channels.rtf
• What do you use to see a song (or
something else) in your status ?
It’s iChatStatus, available here : http:
//www.ittpoi.com/ichatstatus.html
• How to send a file ?
Drag/drop the file on the buddy in your
list.
• The file transfer doesn’t work ! What
can I do ? In your firewall open the interval of ports 48000-53000 TCP entering
and outgoing.
• Under which name am I visible ?
Your name is your login, so it’s
“[email protected]” if you use your .mac account, if not it’s “you”.
• I want to change my username, is it
possible? No, it is not possible, it’s the
login, one does not modify a login. Only
solution is to create another (free) account here: mac.com or here aim.com
• What does “BRB, BTW, AFK” etc means
? Those are abbreviations, you should
take a look to this document :
http://ichatmasters.free.fr/DL/
abreviations.rtf
• A buddy in the chat irritates me! what
can I do ? Select the buddy, then: menu/
Buddies/Ignore Person Result: you do not
see any more his text in the room. He
still irritates you?:
menu/Preferences/Privacy/Privacy Level/
Block people listed below Add who you
want, result: the buddy will be able neither to speak to you into private,
nor to send file to you (similar for you).
How To Add a Buddy’s Photo or Graphic to iChat.
First thing open iChat.
In your Buddy list window, click once on the person for which you want to add a picture.
The line containing their screen name should now be highlighted. Click the little i in a
circle at the bottom of your Buddy Window. This will open up a new window, Info for
whomever you clicked. It should default to Address Card, but if it hasn’t done so, then
just click the popup menu and select Address Card. At the top of the window, you will
see a box labeled “Picture”, which if you haven’t yet put a graphic in and it will be empty.
Now, go to the Finder and find the actual file containing the graphic.
Now grab that file by clicking once on it and keeping the mouse button down. Drag the
file to the empty box in the Info Window for your buddy. If it is already perfectly sized,
then it will automatically appear in the window, but if it is too large a cool little edit window appears which allows you to crop and resize the graphic.
iChat Auto Run in Jaguar ???
Have you ever noticed that whenever you connected to the net and do not have iChat
running you still hear the sounds that iChat uses when it connects?? We have even had
people IM us when we do not have iChat running. In that case it will start itself up and
even asks if we want to see this persons message sent to us. Here’s how to shut it off.
Go to the iChat preferences, and look in the “Accounts” panel. Down at the bottom,
there’s a checkbox that says, “When I quick iChat, set my status to Offline”. Basically, unless this is checked, you can quit iChat, but you’re still online. The default is to leave one
online even after iChat is quit. You will notice, however, that the icon for iChat pops up in
the menu bar when you are connected to the internet, showing that you are available. So
it really is running, without running of course.
Spell Better When You iChat.
Here is how to do spell checking wile using iChat.
When you type words in iChat, to check their spelling before you press
Return and send them off into the web, just Control-Click the word (that’s
right-click for those of you who have mice that support such).
Before you bat an eyelid... Mac OS X’s global spell checking service kicks
in via contextual menu, offering the correct spelling for your chatting buddies. (assuming
the word was spelled wrong, of course... if it’s not, it won’t do anything...)
Now you’ll never have to look or feel stupid when you chat...
Switch Between Open iChat Windows.
This little tip doesn’t appear to be documented anywhere in the program or help file,
but by using command ` (below the ESC key) will switch between multiple open iChat
windows.
Drag and Drop an Image To Set the iChat’s Background.
If you drag an image from the desktop of finder into the background of an iChat message
window, it will set that image as the background for that window! To undo what you’ve
just done you have to use View --> Clear Chat Background menu.
How to Include Pictures in Your iChat Messages.
You can send a picture to your chatting buddy’s in your iChat window. The picture that
you send is displayed right alongside your text and doesn’t have to be accepted to the
person that you are sending it to then viewed separately. Drag image and photo files to
the text input area where you type your message. A small icon will appear indicating that
the image or photo will be sent when you press enter. You can add a message before and
after the image if you like.
For the best results when sending images, use the JPEG or GIF format to ensure that
your buddies can see the images if they are using something other than iChat.
*Taken from OSXFAQ - OS X Tip-of-the-Day
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