june 2010 magazine

citrus macintosh users group
JUNE 2010
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 80 GB
Sony, which she says she is still
learning how to use.
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.
Citrus Macintosh Users Group Magazine is published online monthly by Citrus Macintosh Users
Group.
Citrus Macintosh Users Group Magazine was
produced using Adobe Photoshop CS and Adobe
InDesign 2.0.
Johanna Foster, Editor
Cover design by Johanna Foster
© Copyright Citrus Macintosh Users Group 2010
Alan Wentzell, President
[email protected]
220-6158
Curtis Herrin, Past President
and Membership Chairman
[email protected]
341-5555
Carolyn Herrin, VP Education
[email protected]
341-5555
John Engberg, VP Technical
[email protected]
465-2816
Rita Coffman, Secretary
[email protected]
726-3331
Julie DePinto, Treasurer
[email protected]
726-7787
Pat Purcell, Ambassador
[email protected]
795-4843
Jo Foster, Magazine Editor
[email protected]
726-1046
Inside
Articles
Hawaii Two-O
One-O –
Gail Mitchell – 4
magicJack –
Johanna Foster – 9
Columns
Beginners & Guru – 7
Coming Up – 10
From the President – 3
Pointers for the Perplexed – 6
Surf’s Up – 8
MemberGalleries
Curt Herrin – 11
Gail Mitchell – 5
This issue is posted online
in two parts to make it
easier for members with
dial-up service to download. Click the underlined
words under the magazine icon for part two.
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 CFCC Lecanto campus. 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 CFCC Lecanto campus. At the lab,
which 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 CFCC Lecanto campus 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.
For more information about CMUG, visit cmugonline.com and click the About Us button.
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FromthePresident
access to the membership. Remember, the Facebook
Group is a social page and every member is able to
post to it. Add your pictures and commentary. Tell us
what is happening in your life.
Our next goal is to add podcasting of meetings or
possibly even some classes to our agenda. This is still
in it’s infancy. If there are any members with experience
in podcasting who would like to work with us in this
endeavor, please let me know.
Have a safe summer. I hope to see those of you
remaining in Florida at the up coming meetings, classes,
labs and workshops.
AlanWentzell
June has arrived and half the year
has passed. Where has it gone? We
are settling into the summertime
patterns, which for CMUG means
an altered schedule for the summer
months. As most of you know, the
college, like most other publicly funded organizations
has been given an ultimatum to cut operating cost.
The directors found that closing the campus on
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for
the months of May June, and July
gave them savings with the least
impact on the citizens using the
facilities. Unfortunately, one of the
organizations that was impacted by
this closure is CMUG. Our Friday
meetings and Saturday classes, have
been moved to Thursdays for these
months and our Sunday lab’s have
been moved to Mondays.
Lib and I took a small vacation
the end of May and went south.We
spent several days in the Miami-Fort
Lauderdale area and then a week
in Everglades City and the 1,000
Island area. There was no internet
and only a few spots where the cell
phone worked. What a change. We
fished, took lots of pictures and
relaxed. After returning home, I
managed to injure my back and
have spent the last four or five
days moving only from bed to the
couch and back to bed at night. I’m
now up and moving again and will
be answering e-mails and playing
catch-up for the next few days.
I have set a goal for this year
to add several new facets to our
repertoire. Our Facebook group
is up and running. We have 44
CMUG members who have joined
the group. I feel this is a good
start. There is a learning curve
with all new things. The Facebook
Jo Foster
group took almost a month before Deborah McLaughlin gave a very thorough demonstration of Bento software during the
I felt confident enough to open it’s May meeting.
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Hawaii Two-O One-O
Gail Mitchell
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here are many
reasons I love
visiting Hawaii
each year. I used
to live there,
and I enjoy
visiting
the
places I used
to love. Bob
and I have the
opportunity to
practice our Japanese
language, and I can find
sashimi and sushi every day
if I wish.
However, one of the
greatest pleasure I have
when we are in Hawaii is
visiting the flowers that
are so abundant around
the islands. Our hotel is in
the middle of a garden of
flowers and flowering trees.
Each day is another day in
paradise, as the saying goes.
I love taking photographs
as well, so when I can take
photos of the flowers I
love, I am filled with joy.
On our last trip, I took
over 1,500 photos, most
of my grandniece Brittany,
but I certainly found many
flowers to photograph as
well. My Nikon D40 proved
to be up to the task, and
I hope you enjoy the few
photos I have selected for
the magazine.
I am purchasing a
Nikon D90 that I am taking
to Illinois this month to
hopefully photograph the
flowers of Illinois. I’ll let
you know how that goes
and share any that seem
Gail’s husband, Bob, by the Tiki at the hotel in Hawaii. Gail’s flower pix follow on page 5.
especially lovely.
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Gail Mitchell
Red Bromeliad
Bird of Paradise
Flowers
of
Hawaii
– 2010
Photos by
Gail Mitchell
Alamanda, Hawaii state flower
Member Gallery
Cup of Gold
Red Spider Lily
Ohia Lehua
Yellow Hibiscus
Flowering Vines
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Shell Ginger
It would be good to keep a record of all your
Mail settings by making screen shots of the account
windows. If you don’t have SnapNDrag, you can use
keyboard commands.
Open Mail and go to Preferences > Accounts. Place
your cursor on the window. Press Command-Shift-4Space Bar. The cursor will change to a camera image.
Click the mouse or trackpad. The picture will appear
on your desktop. Go back to the Accounts page and
open the menu for Outgoing Mail Server. Select Select
SMTP Server List. Click Advanced. Use CommandShift-4-Space Bar to take a picture of this page.
If you have Tiger on your Mac, you get to the
Authentication settings by clicking Server Settings.
You can print the two pictures. Move the pictures
to your Home Folder. Now when you have to reenter
account information, you will have it easily available.
In Snow Leopard, Mail will automatically set the
account information after you enter your user name
and password and click Create.
What is SMTP? It’s Simple Mail Transfer Protocol—
more simply, Send Mail to People.
What is POP? This is Post Office Protocol. It is the
most common account type.
What is IMAP? Some mail servers—MobileMe,
AOL and Gmail, for instance—use Internet Message
Access Protocol.
Pointersforthe
Perplexed
BillDean
[email protected]
Fixing Mail
Things go wrong. It’s not your fault, unless you’ve
moved something out of its required place or deleted
something accidentally. Apple Mail is one of those
applications that sometimes cease to function properly.
You can’t send or receive mail. An ultimate solution is
to remove Mail Preferences.
Quit Mail. Now go to your Home Folder > Library
> Preferences and move com.apple.mail.plist to the
Desktop.
Open Mail and go through the process of setting
the account. Mail should work now. If it does, move the
old Mail.plist to the trash.
If you had customized your Mail Toolbar, you will
have to reset that.
You will probably never have to do this. Certainly,
you shouldn’t do it to just see if it works.
In order to set your account, you will have to know
what to enter for the account settings.
Curt Herrin
At the May Workshop, Bill Dean, back row, helps new members Richard and Patricia Becker, while Tim Quinn, front row left, and Stan
Jones wait.
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Control, Option or Command, will cause a modification
or result in an action.
Command P will present your printer window.
If you have read my previous articles, you know
how to access your Key Board Viewer and the
potential result of pushing any of those keys with a
corresponding lettered key; for example, Option R will
result in ®. When you push the fn key, there are only a
couple noted changes in Key Board Viewer.
So where is the fn key used?
Beginners&Guru
CurtHerrin
fn
Were have I seen that before and what does it
stand for?
It is not shorthand for fun or
on any chemistry periodic table
to date. Now think.… It is on
most Apple keyboards. Down at
the bottom left it resides next
to the Control Key.
As we may recall, pushing
any of the adjoining keys, like
It is mostly used in conjunction with your F1 through F12 Keys at the very top of your keyboard. On most
keyboards, there are two symbols on the Keys at the top. One is F with a number.
Not all, but other keyboards have one more symbol. Your audio volume control is located on F10 through
F12.
If you press F12, one of two
things will happen. Your volume
indicator will show an increase
or your Widgets will appear. This
all depends on how your system
preferences are set. If you are
a big Widget user, perhaps you
might check the box in your
system prefs to reverse the
default results for your F Keys.
If you have a laptop you have a
few other choices on your F Keys
than those with the standard
keyboards. Take a little time now
and play with your F keys. Who
knows, you might think it is
fun.…
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So what do you want to find online? Blogs? Free
books? Game cheats?
Then
you
need
to
know
about
JohannaFoster
thesearchenginelist.com where you can find search
engines and Web portals in Polish and Portuguese, as
well as websites for job hunting. It even has map search
engines. Remember Mapquest?
Thesearchenginelist.com
This site can provide hours of entertainment.
Surf’sUp
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magicJack
Johanna Foster
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communicating long distance with family thunder storms, which can be a bit tough on computers
for free via Skype to Skype on her Mac that are just plugged in, never mind running. So this
kind of negates using magicJack on a 24/7 basis—at
laptop.
This month, as it turns out, I purchased least in Florida.
But, then, it could make a great secondary phone
magicJack, a USB computer peripheral
that, with the telephone services from the for “free” (i.e., it’s low-cost, not free—about $40 the
related YMAX Communications Corp., first year and about $20 the second and subsequent
provides VoIP—Internet-based telephone years) long-distance calling with a traditional land line
for a primary phone.
service.
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person’s only phone is that your computer must be on
remember to look for the confirmation e-mail and
and connected to the Internet to use the magicJack.
At this point, I’m a bit ambivalent about magicJack. follow its instructions within 24 hours.
Part of my ambivalent attitude toward it has its source
Nothing could be simpler.
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Curt Herrin
Leonard Bates, left, and John Engberg, vice president technical, witness the death of an iMac.
ComingUpinJune
Date: Thursday, June 24
Time: 1-5 p.m.
Place: CFCC Lecanto Campus, Building L4, Classroom 103
Topic: Numbers
Synopsis written by: Curtis Herrin
If you have iWork and have not used Numbers It is time to come
on out and learn a little about the spread sheet that has replaced
AppleWorks. Like most things new, it looks a little confusing at first
but you will soon feel comfortable moving around the application
and making entries. You will be introduced to basic formulas that
help you obtain the desired results. You will learn how to make
certain cells stand out for easy seeing and then how to link items
from one Sheet and/or Table to those in another.
If you have iWork 8 or 9 you will be able to follow along and get
the skills needed to set up a Work Sheet and kept track of your
information.
Hope to see you there.
RSVP with Carolyn Herrin at [email protected]. The
class fees for members are $10 for individuals, $15 for family, and
$20 for nonmembers.
Date: Monday, June 28
Time: 6-9 p.m.
Place: CFCC Lecanto Campus, Building L4, Classroom 103
Topic: Pages
Synopsis written by: Curtis Herrin
Pages, part of iWork, is a very robust word document application
that allows you to format your text in about any configuration
you desire.You can use the supplied templates or design your own
document and/or template for repetitive use. Placing pictures or
other objects on your document is a snap and making them fancy
is just one or two short steps. Come on out and learn your way
around this impressive application. Hope to see you there.
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Club Meeting
Date: Thursday, June 24
Time: 6:30-9 p.m.
Place: CFCC Lecanto Campus, Building L4, Classroom 103
Demo topic: Antarctica Penguins
Presented by: Martin Dunn
Come listen and see Martin’s adventures in Antarctica as he
describes the penguins and shows you breathtaking pictures of
them in their natural habitat. A relaxed, informative evening.
Member
Gallery
Curt Herrin
Top: Fort
Island Trail.
Bottom: Lake
Henderson
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