June 2009 Magazine

citrus macintosh users group
JUNE 2009
Contributors
Board
GailMitchell
Gail has been a member of
CMUG since the beginning. She
currently has both a G5 Mac,
MacPro and a Powerbook. Gail
enjoys creating newsletters with
iWeb, and she loves her Nikon
D40 camera, which she says she
is still learning how to use.
EdieNelson
Edie has been a computer user
since about 1985 when as an
operations manager in the
corporate office of a bank she
learned by trial and error to use
an IBM PC. She bought her first
Apple in 1987, later purchased a
IIGS signed by the Woz, and it’s
been Apple/Mac ever since.
CMUG members are invited to share their
experiences, expertise, how-tos and other computer-related—including peripherals—stories or
information as occasional articles or monthly
columns. (Really long submissions should be
broken into segments to serialize.)
The magazine deadline is at the beginning
of the month for the current issue. However,
contributions can be sent anytime.
Include a photo and short statement about
yourself to include with the mug.
Curtis Herrin, President
[email protected]
341-5555
Bill Dean, VP/Tech
[email protected]
527-8405
Jean Clark, VP/Education
[email protected]
249-3253
Vito DePinto, Secretary
[email protected]
726-7787
Julie DePinto, Treasurer
[email protected]
726-7787
Alan Wentzell, Ambassador
[email protected]
302-5864
Jo Foster, Magazine Editor
[email protected]
726-1046
Carolyn Herrin, Membership
[email protected]
341-5555
Chris Dusombre,
Librarian/Tekkie
[email protected]
Inside
Articles
Backup Software –
Edie Nelson – 4
Backup Tips –
Edie Nelson – 4
Memory Sticks and
Photos –
Gail Mitchell – 10
Stuffit, Danno – Curt
Herrin – 5
Columns
Coming Up – 11
From the President – 3
Meeting Minutes – 11
Pointers for the Perplexed – 6
Surf’s Up – 9
The Switcher – 8
MemberGallery
Jackie and Bill Dean’s 50th
anniversary – 7
Citrus Macintosh Users Group Magazine is published online monthly by Citrus Macintosh Users
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AboutCMUG
Citrus Macintosh Users Group is a tax-exempt, nonprofit educational organization, dedicated to helping all people in
our area become familiar with their computers.
We meet on the fourth Friday monthly at the Crystal Oaks Clubhouse. The meetings start at 6:30 p.m. with an informal question-and-answer period led by some of the club’s Mac tech people. A business meeting follows at 7 p.m., followed
by a presentation covering a variety of topics, such as graphics, web pages, or using hardware and software related to the
Macintosh computer.
On the Sunday following the meeting, we hold a Lab/Tune-up from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Crystal Oaks Clubhouse. At the
lab that is free for members, tech members correct problems with hardware and software.
We offer Saturday afternoon classes monthly. The classes allow participants to learn Mac software programs and techniques in a hands-on-setting. Cost for the classes are $10 for members, $15 for member families, and $20 for nonmembers.
The monthly magazine with articles from members is also a member benefit, as well as free special interest groups
(SIGs) that are formed by members who have an interest in exploring a particular area in depth.
We also offer an informal workshop for members at the Beverly Hills Community Building on the fourth Tuesday
monthly. The workshop can either cover a specific topic or address various computer problems of participants.
ClubDues
Annual dues for members are $20 for an individual membership, $30 for a family membership and $10 for a student
membership. The membership period begins in January each year. Dues for new memberships after July are pro-rated; renewals remain at the annual rate.
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FromthePresident
CurtHerrin
I want to thank Laurence Martin
for the demo on iTunes at last month’s
meeting. If you had not
attended Bill Dean’s class
and you thought, hey, I can
put music from CDs on
my Mac, you found out there was lots more
you could do and learn with iTunes. There
are a lot of free tutorials on the iTunes site.
Check it out.
Have you been swamped with FanBox
e-mails? Let me say first, do not join. Should
you decide to join, do not upload your
address
b o o k
to their
s i t e .
So just
what is
FanBox?
I suspect
it is the direction that Apple will be going in the future.
It is your Virtual PC. Using a Web browser you can
do all your work online using their applications. I am
playing with this site and at this time I do not suggest
using it.
Apple is working on opening a Server
Farm, which is nothing more than a building
with lots of servers. Why would they
need lots of servers? Hard drives may be
replaced with Flash drive type memory
chips in future Macs (known as SSD drives
as offered in the MacBook Air).With an SSD,
you will use Virtual Mac to do all your work
off site—off your computer.You will save all
your work there as well. Can you also save
to an external HD at home? Perhaps. The
bottom line here is you will not need all
those gigabits of internal memory.You could
use a number of free apps on site and if you
need a high-end app like PhotoShop CS you
would pay a fee to use it at the Virtual Mac
Site. If I am off base here, we will see how
much before too long. The upcoming years
will prove interesting as we may see computers in a
different form.Who knows. It could all end up like Web
TV. A box, TV and keyboard will be all that is needed.
Apple is
working on
opening a
Server Farm
Curtis Herrin
ABOVE AND BELOW: At
the May meeting, Laurie
Martin gave an in-depth
demonstration on iTunes.
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Backup Software
Edie Nelson
Not having a new Intel Mac, I
am not familiar with Time Machine;
however, I have used several different
backup software programs, and so
here I’d like to put in a plug for Prosoft
Engineering’s Data Backup 3 software.
Prosoft Engineering’s Data Backup
3 is so easy to use, very explicit on
screen as to what you want to backup,
whether the initial clone, the entire
internal drive or only non-system
files, or user files, document files, or
to create versions—retaining previous
backups in case you have inadvertently
trashed something.
If you don’t have an external disk
drive, you can backup to CDs or DVDs
from the program on a convenient
schedule.
It is easy to schedule the backups.
The program can be scheduled to
wake up your computer when it is
sleeping—but not when turned off—to
do a backup.
Except when creating the initial
bootable clone, you can do other work
or play games during a backup as long
as you don’t move any files.
This is a great program, and to top
it off, Prosoft Engineering’s customer
support people are the best. This
backup program is my favorite.
Normally. the cost of Data Backup 3
is $59. However, I paid less because the
principals of ProSoft Engineering came
from California to make a presentation
to my LaMUG (Lakeland Area Macintosh
Users Group) and the club was given
a discount. They demonstrated Data
Backup, Drive Genius, Data Rescue,
and Picture Rescue—the latter three
products costing $99 each. User groups
get a 25 percent discount; however,
since I purchased all four at the time
of the presentation, I got a 60 percent
discount. So my cost was $160.50 for all
four, including tax.
Backup Tip
Edie Nelson
Recently, my old external hard drive died, and being
paranoid about backing up, I wasted no time in purchasing
a new one and backing up the contents of my iMac. I erred
in haste, as I subsequently learned during a conversation
with a customer support tech, regarding a different issue
that is not relevant to backups.
How many of you with a new Intel Mac have backed
up to your old external hard drive without reformatting
it? The point is, the format of the source drive must be the
same as the destination drive in order to have a bootable
clone of your operating system.
My situation was the opposite of the aforementioned,
since I was backing up an old iMac to a new external hard
drive. You see, I purchased a nice new Seagate drive that
was already formatted for the Mac. When I partitioned
the new drive, I paid no attention to its format believing
it to be compatible. My old iMac is formatted “Mac OS
Extended (Journaled),” while the new Intel Macs are
formatted “GUID.” Since my new drive was GUID, I now
had to reformat it with Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and
proceed with producing a bootable clone. Consequently,
people with a new Intel machine and an old hard drive
need to reformat their external drive with the new GUID
format. When I get around to purchasing a new Intel Mac,
I’ll have to reformat my Seagate drive again.
To find the format of your operating system go to
Applications and Utilities. The Utilities screen will ask
you to select a disk, volume, or image. On the upper left
you will see the manufacturer of your hard drive (mine
is Hitachi). The next line is Macintosh HD. Highlight the
second line (HD) and look at the bottom of the screen.
On the left side you will see the format of your operating
system. Then, when your external hard drive is showing on
the desktop, again in Utilities as above, click on the next
line that shows the external drive (mine is Seagate), and
again, below you will see its format. If they agree you are
in good shape.
Happy computing!
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StuffIt, Danno
Curt Herrin
Rather than “Book ’em, Danno.” Dating myself?
Yep. You get compressed (stuffed) documents, folders,
and apps in some of your downloads. Your computer
handles most of these automatically. These files or
items have an ending as .zip, .sit or .sea.
A stuffed item is also known as compressed. The
compression is not just spaces removed. Some of the
things that are done during a compression involves
the use of markers. Markers then tell StuffIt to place
a certain code at this point. During expansion these
markers are replaced with the correct code. The
replaced code restores the item to its created form.
What we see on the computer screen is the result of
computer codes.We see the results of these codes as a
space, letter, shape or color—just to mention a few.
The strings of code are replaced with markers
allowing an item to be reduce in size. Depending on the
compression type, it may result in a large percentage
of space saved. When e-mailing,
uploading or storing, the net
result is space and time saved.
Not all items are compressed
in the above mentioned types.
A couple examples are TAR or
SITX. When this happens you
may be at a loss as to what to do next. SmithMicro,
the creators of StuffIt 2009 have Free expanders and
compressors at their web site my.smithmicro .com/
mac/stuf fit/index.html.
Just down-load and keep them in a place that is
easily accessed by you. I have mine in the Doc.
Should you get an compressed item that does not
expand just drag it
over the top of the
Expander Icon and it
will uncompress with
the item being placed
in the same location as
the original. If you have
an item you would like
to compress just drag
it over the DropStuff
icon and it will be
compressed
to
a
default StuffIt file that
can be opened by all computers.
You might consider purchasing StuffIt Deluxe if you
have a need to stuff item in a specific format. Some
of the other nice features are splitting files, expanding
specific parts of a stuffed folder having multiple files
within or assigning a password to a particular folder or
file. Download the user manual and take a look at all
the features offered with StuffIt Deluxe 2009.
Now go compress yourself.
Gail Mitchell
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Carolyn Moss attended the May meeting.
Apple Store for $29.95. It gets mixed reviews at
the Apple page. Some examples of review headings:
Amazing product, Top software, Disaster, Mac wipe
out, Use with caution, Horrible software, Excellent
program, Can’t get it to work with Leopard. Check it
out for yourself at the links below.
My advice to Vinnie? Don’t bother; he can keep
his iMac running smoothly with regular maintenance
with Disk Utility and such programs as AppleJack and
OnyX and regular cleanup on his hard drive. And of
course, I reminded him again to back up his Home
Folder frequently.The sites are: www.macwareinc.com/
products/MacTuneUp/overview.html and store.apple.
com/us/product/TQ025LL/A.
Quit, not just close
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve asked
someone to quit an application only to have him click
the red button to close the window. That seldom
quits the application. It’s still there running in the
background.
To quit, go to the application menu, use CommandQ or quit from the Dock.
Snail Mail App
Working on Norma Stern’s iMac, I discovered a
handy free application called Snail Mail that very easily
loads your Address Book entries for making envelopes.
Take a look at macupdate.com/info.phhp/id/10300 and
try it out. Norma is very pleased with it.
Pointersforthe
Perplexed
BillDean
What about that commercial?
My remote friend, Vinnie, asked
me what I thought about the
computer maintenance program
called Finally Fast he saw advertised
on television. It’s supposed to correct errors, remove
spyware, increase internet speed among other things.
He didn’t look closely at the ad and didn’t bother going
to the Web page so he didn’t know that it is for PC
users only. (That means a personal computer running
Windows, not a personal computer running OS X)
This, even though the commercial shows people using
what are obviously Macs.
I did check it out and found that it shows a link
for Mac users. That link took me to something called
MacTuneUp, which claims to do much of the same as
Finally Fast. If it lives up to its claim, it is an inexpensive
alternative to standard maintenance utilities such as
DiskWarrior, Drive Genius an TechTool Pro. It’s cost is
$34.95 at the Web site, compared to nearly $100 for
the others.
I Googled for independent reviews and was
surprised to find MacTuneUp available at the online
Bill Dean
Curt Herrin shows Leopard operation to Peggy Wilford at the May Workshop.
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Bill and Jackie Dean celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary June 7 in
St. Augustine with family—daughters
Laura and Donna and son Brian with his
wife, Jeanna.
The Dean
family
at the
Augustin Inn,
St. Augustine.
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Runcore bench marked the Runcore Pro IV (128GB)
in a 2.4GHz unibody MacBook Pro running Mac OS
DavidF.Becker 10.5.6 with all the latest updates, and I am blown away
by the results:These are four times faster than a 10,000
RPM WD VELOCI-RAPTOR, unbelievable!
As you can see from the results table the Runcore
Pro IV almost doubled the HDD’s performance in
sequential reads and writes (reading from the top
down). But that’s only the beginning. The Pro IV
If you’re a fan of speedy computers, you’ve slaughtered the standard SATA HDD in random reads
undoubtedly heard of Runcore. It’s a leading where it’s six times faster and in random writes, where
manufacturer of solid-state drives (SSDs) out of Hong its over three times faster. When tested moving larger
Kong with a reputation for super-fast products. I will be files (2-10MB and 20-100MB) the SSD more than
purchasing the Pro IV flavor 250 GB SSD in 2.5 form doubled the performance of the HDD.
factor to slide into my Black Mac Book.
So there you have it, the Runcore Pro IV deBuilding on the success of their netbook SSDs, livers up to six times more performance over a
Runcore has released its line of Pro IV 2.5-inch SATA standard HDD. If you’re a professional that uses your
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money not to
it into any notebook computer—including any of the have a Pro IV SSD in your rig. This will be ideal for me
SATA MacBooks, including the new unibodies.
to run my Citrus Airport Shuttle business.
The RunCore Pro IV Series features the world’s
Naturally, SSDs command a premium over HDDs
fastest MLC SSD, reaching speeds up to 240MB/sec
(currently $3.50 per GB compared to 40 cents per GB),
read and 160MB/sec write. RunCore Pro IV Solid State
but professionals, who need the most performance
drives also offer superior random read and random
possible, won’t be discouraged by the price because they
write speeds compared to the other main stream SSD
know that they’ll recoup it in increased productivity. If
on the market today. With in/out per second (IOPS)
you’re after raw performance, the Pro IV SSD is clearly
of over 7,000 read and 300 write, it will process large
the way to go. That said, it does command a hefty $899
amounts of data allowing you to run a number of
price tag, but wait! Prices this Christmas are expected
applications simultaneously with virtually no lag.
to drop to half of the currant advertised prices.
I don’t think that I’ll ever be able to go back to a
The Runcore 2.5-inch Pro IV SATA SSDs are
standard hard drive again—it’s that fast. Apps fly open
and large documents save even faster thanks to the available for pre-order from MyDigitalDiscount.com:
Pro IVs 160 MB/second write speed. Boot times will be 32GB ($149), 64GB ($249), 128GB ($449), 256GB
($889) and has started shipping.
noticeably faster than my HDD.
TheSwitcher
Solid-state
Drives
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Searchme prefs, you can eliminate adult content from
searches, choose a black or white background in Theme
(black by default in full version), choose to have links
open in a new window (otherwise, leaving a selected
search result takes you back to the beginning of the
Searchme results—a tad inconvenient when you’re
three-fourths the way through all the results), turn
media AutoPlay on or off, and select either Searchme
Full (Is there any reason not to choose full?) or Lite.
Click OK to activate the choices.
Regarding Searchme Lite: It gives a default white
background and a list of blue underlined URLs much
like other search engines, with the addition of an image
to the left of the URL.
There are several methods to navigate to different
search results: Click on the left or right blue arrowheads
under the search results to go page by page; click
anywhere on the bar between the arrowheads to jump
around; or click on the right and left search-result
images to go page by page.
You can switch between types of searchers for a
subject on the fly; for instance, if you started with All
and decide to look for videos, simply click Video in the
upper left menu bar.
Search me has Tools—upper right menu bar: for a
tool bar, widget, browser plugin and mobile tool.
Enough yada.
The Web sites I accessed for the cover are:
accuweather.com, weatherchannel.com, surfline.com,
and wxnation.com. Big but—there are more—
Searchme for one that you like.
Surf’sUp
JohannaFoster
Searchme.com
For eye candy and convenience,
Searchme.com gives results. I found that it was easier
in my quest for Web sites with hurricane coverage to
decide which sites would work for the cover than the
norm in search engines.
Searchme.com is a multimedia search engine, which
displays the results as Web pages that can be previewed
for relevance with a magnifier before going to the site.
Click on the magnifying glass in the tab on the
lower right and mouse over different parts of the page
for a closer view. Click on the magnified area to return
to normal view.
If the page is relevant, click on the large, friendly blue
underlined type and the page comes up in another window
(see the getting started paragraph below). The green
underlined type gives the name (URL) of the Web site and
also navigates to the site.To go back to Searchme.com, click
on the top left button to close the window.
Oops—no blue underlined type? Move the mouse
to the bottom of the page.The information hides when
the mouse is moved off the page.
Before getting started, go to Searchme
Preferences at the top right of the
window menu bar—grayish
type.
In
the
The
current
result is in the center,
with the next to the right and
previous to the left under the ad box.
The magnifier facilitates previewing search results before committing to accessing
the site.
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Memory Sticks and Photos
Gail Mitchell
I love attending CMUG meetings for lots of reasons.
There is the opportunity to discuss problems people
have prior to the regular business meeting, there are
new programs and computer updates to discuss, there
is time to meet new people who are new to Macs and
seek assistance, or enjoying the time of just listening
to Curt with his humor and wisdom. There is another
reason I love being there, also. During breaks, people find
time to discuss individual problems or seek additional
information on a one-to-one basis. At this past CMUG
meeting, I was fortunate to have several people come
up to me with problems and questions. I love that,
especially when
I can have an
answer or agree
to search for an
answer.
One recent question involved photos on a memory
stick. The question was how to take just those photos
from a memory stick that were desired to be sent via
e-mail or saved to another memory stick. I didn’t have
time to answer the question fully during the break, so
I thought I’d answer it here for others who might wish
to do the same procedure.
First, create a blank folder on your desktop where
you will copy and paste the photos you wish to move
from your original memory stick. Next, you insert the
memory stick into a USB port on your Mac. When you
do, just open the memory stick’s window and begin
choosing which photos you wish to move. Select one,
copy it, and then paste it into the blank folder on your
desktop. You can even just select the photo and drag
it to the open folder on your desktop. Then continue
selecting the photos, copying them, and pasting them
into the blank folder. When you have selected all you
wish, drag the icon of the memory stick to the Trash
and pull it from the USB port.
If you wish, you can now name your blank folder
something that you will recognize in the future. Leave
it on the desktop for now, however. If you have not
opened PhotoShop or another photo enhancing
program, you might wish to do so now if any of your
photos need retouching or enhancing.This is when you
can rename the photos as well, so you will be able to
identify them later. If you wish, you can also save them
as TIFF (.tif) rather than JPEG (.jpg). TIFF format allows
you to modify the photos without losing much data
that is on them. JPEG is another format that most
people use as well.
Now, insert the blank memory stick on which
you wish to place the photos you have selected from
the original memory stick. Allow it to appear on the
desktop. When it does, select it and double click on it
so it will open. There is nothing on it if you have not
already placed something on it. You will now have two
windows open—the folder on your desktop you have
renamed and the new memory stick’s window.You can
select all the photos in the desktop folder by clicking
on the folder to make it active and then either using
the mouse to
select them all
by dragging your
mouse over all
the photos, or
you can use the Command/Apple and A keys on the
keyboard to select them all. Then copy them all, again
using either the tool bar to select copy or using the
Command/Apple and C keys to copy all the photos.
When you have done this, simply click on the memory
stick’s open window and paste the photos. You can do
this by clicking on Command/Apple and V keys, or use
the tool bar and select paste. You should now see all
the photos you wanted to have on your new memory
stick available to you. Drag your memory stick’s icon to
the trash, and you now have the photos you wanted on
your new memory stick.
You also have saved the photos you selected on the
desktop folder you created earlier. If you wish to send
one as an e-mail attachment, just open your mail folder,
select the person to whom you wish to send the photo,
and then choose the attach icon. It will then prompt
you to select which photo you wish to attach. Since
you have named them, it will be easy now to select
the one to attach to your e-mail. After writing your
message, send both on their way to the recipient.
If you wish, you can now move your desktop folder
that holds the photos you selected to your hard drive
by dragging them there. If you have a special place on
your hard drive where you store photos, this is a good
place to leave them. I like to place a date on the folder
so I will be able to recall when I either took the photos
or moved them to my hard drive.
I hope this helps. Happy photo shooting and
memory sticking!
One recent question involved
photos on a memory stick
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May22meetingMinutesVitoDePinto
26 members attended the May general meeting.
Committee Reports
Scholarships: Jo reported that the committee will
not be functioning until late September. She also said,
although we advertise the monetary value of each
scholarship at $500, that figure could increase due
to our membership enrollment. This past year was
a perfect example; we were able to increase each
scholarship to $750 and then again to $1,000.
Magazine: Curt said the magazine, once again,
looked very good. He thanked all those that made
writing contributions.
Membership: Carolyn said we currently have 263
members, 130 singles, 65 family and 1 honorary. She
also reported on the inactive list, comprising of 58
singles and 13 families for a total of 84. Curt said he
would start making phones calls to this group.
Treasure: Julie reported that at the end of April 2009
the club had a balance of $7,232.55. Before we all got
euphoric over our fat bank account, she reminded us
that the money for scholarship has yet to be taken out.
Education
Classes:
June—AppleMail/Address Book
July—PhotoShop Elements 6
General Meeting topics:
May—Laurie Martin
June—Keychain, MobileMe Gallery
CD availability: DB/SS—Apple Works, Apple Mail/
AddressBook, now with Leopard, Beginning System
Ten, Leopard System Ten, iMovie HD/ iMovie 8, iDVD,
iPhoto, Keynote, Pages, iWeb, and Quicken 2006, and
Numbers. All are available for $5 except for Keynote
and Pages which are $10.
Tonight’s Presentation: iTunes by Laurie Martin
Laurie gave a wonderful presentation on iTunes. He
showed us many of the bells and whistles that this site
has to offer that goes way beyond just downloading
music. He showed how to make play list for all your
music. He touched upon a feature called “Genius,”
which will provide a list of songs that relate to the ones
you have purchased. iTunes U is another great feature
he talked about, which has free university-level subjects
that one can listen to at your heart’s content.
Laurie’s in depth knowledge of his subject matter
allowed him to present the information with
remarkable clarity. Thank you Laurie.
Next meeting is June 26.
ComingUpinJune
everything. That habit can make it way to easy for hackers to gain
access to your sensitive information. But who can remember all
those passwords? Curt has 138 sites that require a login ID with
a separate password; most he visits once a year or less—a lawn
mower parts site is one fine example. Curt will show you how to
create these lists and keep you out of areas of Keychain that are
to risky to play with. As an additional feature, Curt will show you
how easy it was to set up his MobileMe photo gallery. While you
are waiting, take a look by going to gallery.me.com/curtisherrin.
If you have any questions about the meeting, please contact Curt
Herrin via e-mail at [email protected].
Sunday, June 28, 1-5 p.m., Lab/Tuneup at Crystal
Oaks. Bring your computer for tune-up, correction of problems
or for one-on-one instruction in Mac applications. Make sure that
you bring all the necessary hardware to run your computer. The
mouse and cables are frequently forgotten. For the lab, sign up
with Bill Dean at [email protected].
Tuesday, June 23, 1-4 p.m., Beverly Hills Workshop,
Beverly Hills Community Building. Come for instruction,
minor tune-up, class follow-up when possible, software and
hardware problems. Make sure that you bring all the necessary
hardware to run your computer. The mouse and cables are
frequently forgotten. If you would like to request a specific
topic you wish covered, check with Bill Dean via e-mail at
[email protected], or contact him for questions about the
workshop.
Saturday, June 20, Class, 1-5 p.m., at Crystal Oaks,
Apple Mail & Address Book with Curt Herrin. Apple’s
Address Book and Mail applications are just like ham and eggs,
peanut butter and jelly, or soup and a sandwich—just made for
each other. If you are not using either or using just one of these
applications, perhaps you might want to attend this month’s class
and learn all the ins and outs of each. Do you know how to
customize your address book template? Do you have the latest
plug-ins for your Address Book? Is Mail going to each of your
post offices and retrieving all your mail rather than you having
to accessing each Web mail site? Have you set up filters to sort
junk or family e-mails? How about signatures? Join Curt as he
walks you through each step of those questions and more. If you
have wireless abilities, you will be all set. If not we can hook you
up via ethernet to the internet. If you cannot attend, just e-mail
[email protected], and for $5, he will send you the Apple
Address Book/Mail Tutorial for home learning.
Class fees are $10 for single, $15 for Family. Sign up with Jean
Clark at [email protected].
Friday, June 26, 6:30 p.m., Meeting at Crystal Oaks,
Demo will be Keychain by Curt Herrin. Perhaps you
missed the article on Keychain in a previous CMUG magazine.
This month, Curt will show you how to access Keychain and
create a list of protected passwords. If you surf the net and
want to access most sites, you are asked to create an account
with a password. You should never use the same password for
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