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1. Pr M Ro tt A different kind of gardening imaginative inspiring and original just like the wonderland you o Text Attributes a Use Styles 9 Use Picture Debs Tet w LP WG Newer Saved C Plain Text Gray Preview ment by accessing it through ID2Q navigated to gt Garden Poster indd 5 2 MB Empty Box C Empty Box the Garden Poster indd using the ID2Q method Modified 2003 10 12 6 56 PM Si tuse ETE as previously described selected it and clicked EAE DIEN EES Mugak i Grow Overflow Text Boxes Include Pasteboard Items Open The ID2Q Preference window opened first and set my Conversion Option preferences Hoping that all of the images used to create the Garden Poster were embedded in it and recog nizing that font substitution was going to occur set the simple ID2Q prefer ences to extract the embedded images and expand the text boxes if required See what mean about the InDesign CS interface above Shot and pissed on General Kind InDesign C52 Document Size 5 2 MB on disk 5 169 152 bytes j p m A ur E e Gin s z is ES SR i ia a sale ie 2 x xz i 27 TE ES 2 ze Garden Poster indd clicked OK and the Markzware magic began With all of the various elements used in this large document it took considerably longer for the conversion to complete than it took for my own much smaller InDesign documents Eve
2. Y E o Saves Having optimized the image using the Binarization slider easy to get the hang of clicked the Recognize Text button and in a few sec onds one or more smaller boxes appear in this case three that indi cate regions of recognized text You can then run your cursor over these boxes and the recognized text is shown at the top of the screen SO you can check it out If it s not good enough you just tweak either the original selection box now shown by a dotted line and or the Bi narization slider to get a better read Above is the extracted JPG image of the desired selection from the original could have tweaked the image within Prizmo if wanted a better picture but here I m trying to show the application can work quite well even in the face of adversity my lousy picture Below is the actual editable text harvested from the original snap shot The accuracy becomes less towards the end of the piece as there were marks on the original sign and as mentioned the sign was twisted The Native Americans have long held the Superstition Mountains to be sacred The Apache Indians tell of the Thunder God who lives within them and the Pima Indians believe their ancestors are en tombed in the mountains waiting for release into the great beyond The early settlers began calling the mountains the Superstitious after hearing the Indian legends The Superstition s most famous explorer is
3. i ZI CARE ji M A G IN pe E 77m LasHeomueR LEP s Had tw BEI 9 Mcqeum if NES A WIRE Cibi MD MT SAMT m js rr wik E Beit Eeri REBRCARY 9010 csr SAy N Te ANIME 2010 MaUsE Executive e President Michael Shaw ducati860 9 gmail com Vice President Aaron Vegh aaron Qvegh ca Apple Liaison Marcel Dufresne mardufresne rogers com Treasurer Stan Wild stangwild gmail com e Publicity Director Jim Danabie Photographer Irma Shaw DoubleClick Editor Michael Shaw ducati860 9 gmail com e Secretary Jeff Hurd Director Guy Lafontaine lafoguy gmail com Director lan Winton Director Marcel Dufresne MaUsE Contact Information The MaUsE c o Stan Wild 58 Rothean Drive Whitby Ontario Canada L1P 1L5 WWW Wf SS Cz Macintosh Users East From The Editor What you are looking at is the February 2010 edition of the MaUsE DoubleClick the online publication of the Macintosh Users East MaUsE a motley collection of mostly harmless cranks who reside in Southern Ontario with their motley collection of old and new Macintosh Hackentosh amp MacClone computers i Brrrrr i It s February again in Southern Ontario I What did you expect On the other hand there is a good chance that much i of the worst of Winter is behind us now and there is no doubt that this month will see us through to the beginning of a warmer and sunnier March Mayb
4. Grayscale Cyan Ma genta Yellow and Black CMYK Lab or any of the following bit channels 8 or 16 or 32 bits per channel The standalone program works with all of the following formats for your photos JPEG PNG BMP TIFF formats It does not do the Raw format The plug in version of AKVIS Magnifier is compatible with Adobe Pho toshop and Photoshop Elements In Photoshop the Magnifier plug in supports Batch Processing that allows you to automatically convert a series of images Just create an Action in Photoshop and apply the plug in with the same settings to a folder full of images The plug in works with any one layered image which can be opened by Photo shop in supported colour modes RGB Grayscale 8 or 16 bit It is im perative that the layers must be merged before using the plug in The parts of the AKVIS Magnifier workspace are displayed in the pic ture below The left part of AKVIS Magnifier s workspace is taken up by the Image Window with the tabs Before and After above the photo you have chosen The Before tab displays the original image the After tab shows the results You can compare the original and the re sulting images by just left clicking on any point of the image The right side holds the Navigation Window and the Settings panel larger and project a bigger picture onto a piece of photo graphic paper This process had it s limitations one of which was the grain of the film used To get faster films the man
5. r 4 b All your profiles are part of the ScanSnap manager options that pop up from the dock These are thus right at your fingertips All of this is very well explained in the User s Manual that comes on the install disc The ScanSnap manager also has a lot of helpful windows that explain its choices had absolutely no problem scanning documents and photos without reading the manual You can have a look at more of the details for the ScanSnap from http www fujitsu com us services computing peripherals scanners sc ansnap scansnap s1500 html The minimum requirement is MAC OS 10 4 3 and it is Snow Leopard ready It can be bought in Canada for 500 This makes it pricey but take note that it does includes Adobe Acrobat Pro which is an expensive application on its own In terms of speed functions and ease of use you won t find a better machine It has been called by some the most Apple like peripheral not made by Apple Whether for home or business use the ScanSnap is top of the line Article Submitted by Marcel Dufresne Macintosh Users East RSStuclio R Tools Technology Inc R Studio for Mac Another data recover program And yet something very different Lately we have looked at two of the easiest data recovery programs around Sub RosaSoft s FileSalvage 7 and Prosoft Engineering s Data Rescue 3 Now we are going to look at one that is defi nitely not for the faint of heart R Stu dio for Mac from R Tools
6. rectly with the price and indirectly with the number of functions In other words if you want to get good quick scans then buy a dedi cated scanner not a printer that will also act as a scanner The Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M is one of the best top loading scanners out there It is a compact colour du plex scanner for the Mac The M at the end of the code denotes its Mac intosh use With one push of a but ton your document becomes an easily searchable PDF file The intelligent paper feed allows you to accidentally put the page in a bit crooked but come out perfect Few scanners can match its speed it can duplex 20 colour pages per minute You can load in a stack of 50 pages at a time The task that took me over an hour now would take less than a minute And it looks great a pearly white colour Mee Sitting beside any Apple computer It folds up San into a 28 x 18 x 15 cm compact shape when not Wm in use To turn it on simply open up the top N cover There are no on off buttons to search for With the top cover open documents are now ready to be fed into the top slot Paper jams if they occur present no problem either A lever on the front allows access to the inner workings and paper can be removed without having to move the scanner ud ScanSnap 51500M The ScanSnap S1500M provides Mac users with an effective way to greatly reduce paper clutter storage space and security risk associ ated wi
7. Gmail OK go to the settings button in the top right hand side of the Gmail page and start eneral Acco Mail F d a LER E 4 1 H m Bh r NH T E 3 F T i m F 1 ut Ju f 1 i i r1 ar a us m cu 4 1 1 bh E Lh r except spam with a message that you have composed i e Thanks for your e mail Sorry am away from home I will check for mail from time to time and get back to you when am able to do so Thank you for understanding You can set the date the responder is to start responding and the date it will stop doing so A most useful option OK those are the some of my choices in the General settings cate gory but there are more ways to tweak your emails if you wish to do SO at the top of the settings page is a bar with a bunch of other choices for you to consider let s take a quick look at several Themes At the extreme right on that settings bar you will find Themes take a few minutes and see all of the varied and interesting ways you can change the overall appearance of how the Gmails win dow will look when you log on as of the day am writing this article there were 35 themes available for you to choose from currently have mine set to Zoozimps because it is always fun to see and those imps actually react to what is happening in your Gmail E r r 4 E gt A y gt a s F i RS Fia i J g Au 5 i a 1 L i W 3 L uu r1 i b d Messa
8. Jacob Waltz of the Lost Dutchman Mine legend A Ger man immigrant Waltz came west during the gold rush of the 1850s Legends about Waltz are many bu have been proven One tells of how he and five others found gold but were attacked by Apache Warriors Only two escaped back to Phoenix with their lives never to return When Jacob Waltz died only a few gold sam ples and some maps of the Superstition Mountains in the early 1900s the Superstition Mining District produced 60 000 ounces of gold valued at nearly 3 000 000 It was the only gold ever found here Creation of the Superstition wilderfiess Area in 19 64 left the area open to prospering until 1984 At that time serious searching for the Lost Dutchman Mine came to an eno Today the Superstition W flderness area is managed by Tonto Na tional Forest Lost Dutchman State Park was established in 1977 j could have improved the read by doing the last couple of para graphs on their own with a new selection box more aligned to the lower text The image gave Prizmo to interpret was hardly one I d have aquired if had really intended to use it for OCR work later But as you can see the little application did a pretty good job and certainly wouldn t take much time from here to tidy up if it were needed So all in all l ve been most impressed with this software It is definitely worth a look from any perspective Submitted by Jeff Hurd Markzware ID2Q8 v4
9. New From Corel j Painter Essentials 4 lt In much the same way that ne Adobe Photoshop has its junior 4 sibling Photoshop Elements with many of the popular Pho toshop features at a vastly di ON minished price so too does T Corel Painter 11 have its junior sibling in this case called Painter Essentials Painter Es sentials is priced and equipped i to be the popular program of hr choice for people who are inter ested in using many of the most Q popular features found in Corel a Painter 11 without shelling out A the 400 00 that Painter 11 commands Painter Essentials 4 is two complete interfaces each p with its own set of tools and pe purposes he photo painting amp m window shown here at right with its set of auto painting and associated palettes enables the user to take any digital source image and render it into a simulation of hand made art While it is true that there are many Photoshop plug ins that promise this ability in fact none of them offer the wide range of controls and presets that Painter Essentials does and most of them cost many times the price of Es Corel is one of the world s top software companies with more than 100 million active users in over 75 countries Corel products provide con sumers and businesses with the easy to use and powerful software tools they need to improve their productivity and enhance their lifestyles Corel produces Digital Studio
10. Technology Inc is a completely different kettle of fish This is the program for people who know more about computers than do and a lot more than the aver age Mac user does R Studio for Mac is ideal for regular users and also fully featured enough for all you intensely nerdish Mac users R Studio for Mac comes in three flavours PowerPC Intel and Uni versal If you want to try out a demo of the program you can download the software from the R Tools Technology web site at http www data recovery macintosh com Mac Recovery Down load shtml R Studio for Mac Features Host OS Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10 6 Mac OS 10 4 Tiger Mac OS Server 10 5 Tiger Mac OS 10 5 Leopard and Mac OS Server 10 5 Leopard running on a computer with Intel PowerPC G5 or PowerPC G4 processors e Supported file systems HFS HFS HFSX FAT12 FAT16 FAT32 exFAT NTFS NTFS5 Ext2 FS Ext3 FS Ext4 FS UFS1 UFS2 and UFS BigEndian Data recovery over the Network Files can be recovered on network computers running Win95 98 ME NT 2000 XP 2003 Vista 2008 Win dows 7 Macintosh Linux and UNIX e Support for known file types R Studio for Mac searches for files with known typical features of their structures allowing the user to search for files on devices with unknown files systems including an HD CD DVD floppy disk Compact Flash Card USB drive ZIP drive Memory Sticks and other removable media Support for known file types is the main and mandator
11. and have a wider choice of features When we signed up with TekSavvy we purchased our own modem a Thomson Speedtouch 516v6 from the ACME Telephone Co It cost only 44 29 works perfectly with our Asante router and allows us to connect our entire network of four computers to each other and to our highspeed internet service The Thomson Speedtouch 516v6 is a sin gle ethernet port modem router that has a state full inspection firewall NAT translation remote access and a feature set that is unmatched Longest reach and sync modem on the market Backwards compati ble to ADSL It can be bridged or routed on any ISP S network There are three models suggested on the TekSavvy website mm Speedtouch 516 44 29 CDN C SpeedTouch 546 4 ports 56 99 CDN ge O O RDUM POR 585 Modem 4 aa REE ports Wireless 95 00 CDN B The ACME Telephone Co is in 2 Kitchener Ontario They are an F authorised Thomson modem dealer and have the best prices and service http www acmetelephone com January 2010 MaUsE Draw amp Haffle The first MaUsE Loyalty Draw of 2010 brought good news to the two Mikes one of them won 100 00 in the draw and the other c est moi won the 8 gi gabyte flash drive There were also some really nice prizes awarded in the MaUsE Raffle We had software hard ware and books A few of the items were brought to the meeting and do nated by MaUsE Members and that was good to s
12. at www mause com for the latest issue of DoubleClick MaUsE s superb monthly online publication n L i L he Answers You Need Now from Leading Experts Y m d L Fi el i y i RS A L Take Control eBooks DoubleClick will be featuring an ebook from Take Control Books every month These ebooks have been published in PDF format and cover issues related to Mac OS Because they are in PDF for mat these ebooks have a lot of advan tages over the traditional paper books Electronic books are a new experience for many people but they provide you with a good deal of flexibility that isn t available with printed books With your purchase of the ebook you get expert advice on various topics but with an Apple perspective These are the same expert authors of some best selling print books The download is immediate and you don t have to leave your house to get it Because it is paperless it canbe L purchased for much less than a paper edition Also if a new edition of the book comes out your original purchase of the book allows you to easily update your current copy for free There are clickable links right in the text so that your book immediately leads to other sources on the same topic It is readable onscreen which means you can control the size of the print If you use Preview you can even highlight sec tions without messing up the book use a copy of the original if you are worrie
13. even tually change The younger generation is much more comfortable with going paperless Witness the rise of the Kindle eBook reader and hopefully the Tablet from Apple Books may eventually be a thing of the past as literature makes the switch to digital To help us make this big switch to paperless we need a reliable means of taking the paper copies that we now have and changing them to digital This is the function of a scanner There are two major types to be found There is the older flat bed kind where you need to lift the cover of a large glass top machine Next you need to place your page in exactly the right spot to ensure a good 90 straight reproduc tion Once the lid was closed the scanner would then slowly scan across the bottom of that glass top and send the reproduction to your computer for saving The next page would require you to lift up the cover replace your first page with the second and repeat the proce dure The last time used my old flat bed copier it took over an hour to get copies of a twenty page booklet into PDF format so that could share these with my class he second type of scanner now available is a top loading type In this case the pages to be scanned are fed in through the top of the scanner just as the pages of a printer would be fed in In fact there are many multi function printers that will also do scans have found that the speed and the quality of the reproductions usually vary di
14. soft ware means that you can quickly edit parts of a docu ment even if you only have a hardcopy of it No need to retype the whole page This does require the use of Word or Excel for Mac The only other draw back could think of is really a problem with any top loading scanner Use Quick Menu Recommended Stansnap C corn imege Scene Profile Small File High Quality Standard Hn You could not scan a book without tearing it apart since only single pages can be fed in through the top Also boxes or other 3d shapes can t be scanned ScanSnap is smart It has intelligent paper feed detec tion It knows when a document should be scanned in colour grayscale or black and white It knows if it should increase the resolution on small documents for readabil ity It has auto page size detection anything from busi ness cards and up It has auto crop de skew and content based rotation It can tell if it has to scan both sides of a document or not If there is anything on the back of the document it will be scanned with no reduc tion in speed You direct it to scan only one side if you so wish It can detect small documents intermixed in a stack and scan them appropriately Smaller documents such as receipts and business cards are scanned at higher resolution to make them more discernible Hemember how much time it took to scan olds photos into your com puter Now you can put a stack of photos in to be scanned
15. when we start collecting the current year s membership dues In the coming months shall be sending each member a letter advising them when their dues are payable When you get your letter you will be helping the club by paying your dues promptly Many members find it convenient to simply bring their annual dues to the next members meeting and hand their cheque or cash over to me in return for their new membership card If you prefer you can mail your membership cheque to me You will find my address on the dues letter that shall send to you If you have any questions about your membership please either call me directly My telephone number is 905 430 4562 Or speak to any of the club s directors they and will be happy to answer your questions In advance thank you for your cooperation Stan Wild MaUsE Treasurer s Tr ee ili O o hy r LE d s A p n E Rh awe fi h i j r 4 r r i le 1 t A B e Macintosh Users Fast
16. Choose iPhoto from the ScanSnap Manager and when the blue start button is pushed the photos are immediately sent to iPhoto where they are shown as the Last Import Hours of time saved My wife could not be lieve how simple it was when she started scanning in old photos from an album She remembered using a flat bed scanner a few years ago and kept putting off further such projects Once she saw the speed and facility of using ScanSnap she commenced again scanning the family photos to label and preserve them for future generations As a bonus besides containing a DVD with Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 the install disc also contains the application Cardiris which recognizes the print on business cards You can scan them and have the data sent to Address Book No more retyping of your business contacts The OCR extracts the data from the image and attempts to place the data in the correct spots Think of the time saved You can set up what is called a profile which is a saved set of preferences that you like to use for certain documents For instance you can have a profile called Pic tures which will be one sided jpegs saved in a a folder of your choice Application j Save Sj Scanning File option dp Compression Specify the scanning mode you would like to use Image quality J Auto Color mode C Auto Color Detection Scanning side L3 Duplex Scan Double sided Continue scanning after current scan is finished r
17. Mac OS or the Windows environment The big problem here is that you must reboot to switch operating systems Parallels VMware and VirtualBox offer virtualization software that let you run your Windows programs without logging out of OS X The thing that all of these options have in common though is that they legally re quire you to actually run Windows and therefore own a Windows li cense CrossOver however allows you to run Windows applications without actually running Windows With CrossOver installed on your Mac you can insert a Windows version installer disc install the program and run it CrossOver bridges directly between Windows software and OS X allowing applications to run at full speed on your Macin tosh desktop CrossOver has been tested for performance with many common applications such as Microsoft Office Adobe Photoshop and Quicken It also works well with a wide variety of other programs You can check for compatibility issues at www codeweavers com com patibility gt There are thousands of applications that work fine would always opt for a Mac if given the choice but some things you want to do with your computer still require Windows Now thanks to the Intel based Mac you can get a fast Windows environment without leaving the comfort of your Mac OS X Some of the top reasons for needing to resort to Windows would be for games interactive DVDs some Microsoft or Adobe applications and Quicken Insta
18. ame way that Photoshop plug ins enhance and expand the abilities of Photoshop ID2Q can be purchased and downloaded from the Markzware website It costs only US 199 00 ID2Q offers users a quick and easy way to convert InDesign content into a new QuarkX Press document This includes the intricate details of all objects of the document such as exact page positioning color models fonts and styles images as well as precise text attributes Important items are instantly re created Unfortunately there is no demo version of ID2Q for you to download and try out If you need it you know it Once in stalled ID2Q shows up in QuarkXPress in its own Markzware menu To use it just open QuarkXPress and click on Convert InDesign Doc ument A dialog box will appear just like the one you see when you use the File gt Open command ID2QB8v4 xnt Weer Help ID20 MarkzTools Convert InDesign Document ID2Q Updates It is important to understand that it is not possible to achieve a 100 conversion due to the fact that QuarkXPress and InDesign handle text in differing ways Then navigate to and select the InDesign document you want to convert and open with QuarkXPress and wait for ID2Q to perform its magic ID2Q can convert InDesign documents cre ated on either the Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh OS into Macintosh or Windows QuarkXPress Nothing else can do what ID2Q does and h
19. an be watched for the more visual learners These can also be found in the support area on CodeWeavers web site visio2003 The thing found most impressive about CrossOver was the in tuitive way it worked The minute start or put in a disc that has a Windows component to it the CrossOver application starts up can choose to ignore it if can run the application with Mac A lot of CDs have Apple and Windows on them There is no time lapse This has to be the quickest way to run Win dows applications The biggest drawback is that it will not run all Windows applications If you know specifically which Win dows applications you would like to run on your Mac then check out their compatibility CrossOver Software Installer CrossOver is easy to install and requires very little space on your system Its mini mum requirements are an Intel Macintosh Mac OS X 10 4 4 or higher 512M of RAM 100MB of available disk space and what ever space the Windows application would take up There is a demo version of CrossOver that can be downloaded that has all the functions and features of the full ver sion Any windows software that works on a full version will also run in the demo version and vice versa The important limitation of the demo version is that bottles can only be used for 31 days This means that any Win dows packages that you install using the demo version will cease to work no more than 31 days after the
20. any or all of the the 39 deleted files The scan took only 53 3 seconds to churn through a 1 Gigabyte flash drive and produced an Avery DesrgnPro LOI CGR 997 ME free Save lo Herel Nov items A Dopu M P LT i E i Lee LI il BN Ex A X of RU Name x i 100 6469JPC Recover Marked 4f Find Mark Find Previous Find Next FileMask Up Preview m 100 6470JPG PDevice view Recognized mie aen a Folders Name Size Created Modified 1006472 JPG El L3 Recognizedl M Gi 24637952 Bytes y mi 100 6473JPG M 3 Root M l 10 pcd 1581056 Bytes l E 100_6474JPG v Extra Found Files x EB pA PEN SE toe 5475306 O B8 3D XML file M ilpcd 1580544 Bytes m 100 6476JPG L Adobe PDF Document M 12 pcd 1580032 Bytes mi 100 6478JPC M i JPEG Digital Camera M l4ped 1579008 Bytes 100 6479JPG T aki M M 1S pcd 1578496 Bytes m 100_6480JPG ote M l 16 pced 1577984 Bytes m 100 6481JPG C 8B cod Dormoso M SX 17pcd 1577472 Bytes mj 100 6482JPG L f VP6 encoded Video M i 18pcd 1576960 Bytes mi O ROOTOO0001 M l 19 pcd 1576448 Bytes L eeu DNUS M a 20 pcd 1575936 Bytes m 100 6485JPG Tr 100 6488JPG m 100 6489JPG Sorted by amp 100 6490 PG Type Date mm T
21. arge images at a higher res olution This photo enlargement product allows you to take a photo and enlarging it to a super high res olution of up to a maximum of 30 000 x 30 000 pixels making a 100 x 100 inch 2 5 x 2 5 meter poster easily printable at typographic qual ity of 300 dots per inch dpi Larger formats are viewed from a dis tance to suit their size and often don t require that high a resolution For a print that is 8 x10 inches you should view it at about three feet arms length away from your eyes Because you do not need to use the maximum resolution you can make even larger enlargements of 200 x 200 inches which is a whooping 5 x 5 meter print So if you need to print larger then your home printer can handle you could use this program to create the image and then have a commercial printer make your poster for you In the days before digital if you wanted a bigger print of your photo you sent your film negative or slide off to a photo lab where they would proceed to put it in an en le AYI Cage r1 tee LS ko PLA UN ee s Tu T lU rS d The four functionality types are Home Plug in 129 Home Stand alone 129 Home Deluxe 165 or Business 249 Your choice of license will affect which features are available in AKVIS Magnifier AKVIS Magnifier can work independently as a standalone program as well as a plug in to Adobe Photoshop Both variants support the vari ous colour modes Red Green Blue RGB
22. as items can be purchased online from their website at once and often cannot keep up with very fast typists The result is lt http matias ca products index php gt called ghosting letters missing from what you actually typed or ad ditional letters that you didn t type Some Apple keyboards especially Article submitted by Michael Shaw the previously mentioned aluminum iMac keyboard are particularly Matias logo courtesy of Matias Corporation prone to this fault The Matias Tactile Pro 3 0 has special Anti Ghost ing Circuitry also called n key rollover to eliminate these problems You can type as fast as you re able the Tactile Pro 3 0 will keep up Macintosh Users East Macintosh Users East Its a date Mark your calendar Actually mark a whole bunch of dates those on which our regular MaUsE meetings will be held in 2010 The dates are Wednesday February 24th Wednesday March 24th Wednesday April 28th Wednesday May 26th Wednesday June 23rd Wednesday September 22nd Wednesday October 27th Wednesday November 24th And two bonus Evenings with Mac Wednesday April 7th Wednesday October 6th Mark your calendar now and plan at every opportunity to be a participant in the Macintosh Users East computer club s meetings 5 F LU B We meet in Whitby Public Library s meeting room 1A amp B starting at 6 59 p m and usually ending around 9 30 p m AND i Remember to check regularly on the web
23. ations be in stalled in a new boitle for testing purposes The bottle idea was the most confusing term used by CrossOver A bottle is a virtual windows environment Each bottle contains a unique C drive and all its stan dard sub directories Windows Program Files etc A bottle also con tains a complete Windows registry a full set of most CrossOver settings and one or more Windows applications CrossOver allows you to maintain multiple bottles in one CrossOver installation This is like having several different Windows machines operating together on your single Linux computer This is useful any time you want to install multiple applications yet prevent them from in teracting or damaging one another Most CrossOver users will be happy using a single default bottle The CrossOver Software Installer will automatically create the default bottle and any other bottles which you may need during normal use You can choose to install all new software into an already existing bottle There is a very useful help menu that will lead you through your first CrossOver Autorun CrossOver has detected that this disk contains an loz installer for the package few installs if you need it In case of a problem the first place to check is online at the CodeWeavers tech support It is updated regu larly to document known issues and their workarounds With luck the solution to your problem may already be waiting for you There are also some videos that c
24. ave to tell you that you there is a modest warning that comes with this software Markzware acknowledges that Adobe InDesign and QuarkX Press use very different processes for presenting text and this will likely cause problems in the way that text objects from a document created in one program will appear when presented in the other Markzware warns that anomalies will occur But they also assure the user that these anomalies will be easily identified and corrected and that the overall result will be a document so close to the original in terms of content that many hours of work will be obviated In order to test out this program for this article tried it with several In Design CS documents of my own The results were disappointing because my documents were just too simple The QuarkXPress 8 versions of the converted InDesign CS documents were so close to perfect that there was really no discernable difference between them In order to see what the Q2ID was truly capable of decided to look further afield and use a ringer a real stinker found in the y 4 Samples folder that came with InDesign CS a 5 2 Meg indd docu ment that Adobe uses to highlight the abilities of their program The document is called Garden Poster indd and it really has it all have put a shot of it on the next page as it ap pears in InDesign CS It has nine layers uses lots of different fonts including some that don t have installed overlaps transparenc
25. aws fold to only 6 long so you can easily tuck them into a tool bek or toss them into a toolbox or drawer without damaging the teeth or anything else The 5 tpi cardboard saw makes quick work of breaking down boxes for recycling and is equally useful anywhere you need a scalloped tooth blade it cuts through 3 8 rape in a single slice speeds through foam insulation and neatly sections rigid PVC tubing The 12 tpi keyhole saw cuts on the pull stroke to tension the blade for tight radius curves Suitable for wood PVC or plywood its narrow blade accesses confined spaces and slips into 5116 drilled hole to start a cut in the middle of stock Both saws have non slip elastomer coated handles with a spring catch that secures the blade in line with the handle or at 30 for clearance Made in Japan T A gE to b TNR c4 p 2 T DRE S ccm Eem Toce cuu Lea PRESTA RUE EU THE MAJESTIC SUPERSTITIONS Above is the original JPG of the sign as it was imported to my Desk top Note the object was not flat it is not only distorted vertically it s also twisted slightly especially at the bottom And it s not in black and white But it is in focus more or less selected the desired text by clicking roughly at the four corners Then tweaked the box that was created by dragging the corners to try to get as parallel as possible to the text Prizmo shows the selection on the left gt Aa Prize E ee ae a ee
26. changed or damaged In this case R Studio for plete professional data recovery system nem Mac can scan the hard disk trying to find previ ously existing partitions and recover files from In order to use R Studio for Mac you need to have a Macintosh found partitions computer with an Intel PowerPC G5 or PowerPC G4 processor and be running Tiger From hard disk with bad sectors R Studio for Leopard or Snow Leopard And you need to have some place other than the source Mac can first copy the entire disk or its part into big enough to save files to Administrative privileges are required to install and run R an image file and then process the image file Studio for Mac The program only costs US 80 00 and you can try it before you buy This is especially useful when new bad sectors it The R Tools website is HUGE with excellent help files and lots of good advice and are constantly appearing on the hard disk and re information maining information must be immediately saved Submitted by Michael Shaw Prizmo 1 1 From Creaceed Like the Prizmo 1 1 Welcome screen says this little application packs a decent punch for your buck For US 40 00 this program will appeal to both the photographers amongst you and those looking for easy to use OCR capability In case you didn t know OCR which stands for Optical Character Hecognition refers to the ability to enable your Mac to look at a scanned image of some text and be able to edit it In oth
27. d You can even print up a paper copy of the book if you feel the need The catalog is very extensive and can be accessed from http www takecontrolbooks com catalog They offer free sample sections of all their ebooks and a money back guarantee so try one out anytime As readers of the DoubleClick you also now have ac cess to this coupon CPN90219MUG which entitles you to a 30 discount on the purchase of a book The book featured this month is Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac 3rd Edition Using an Intel based Mac means you can choose the best of both worlds running Mac OS X or running Windows but what s the optimal way way to go about it Cross platform expert Joe Kissell has distilled untold hours of testing into this ebook to help you understand the pros and cons of Apple s Boot Camp versus virtualiza tion software and to give advice and step by step instructions for in stalling either Windows XP or Windows Vista in Boot Camp Parallels Desktop 4 VMware Fusion 2 and VirtualBox There is even a chapter on running Windows without having the license check out CrossOver which is also reviewed in this DoubleClick This book tells you everything you need to know about your options for running Windows on a Mac how to get around common annoy ances and what you should do to protect yourself from the big bad world of Windows malware Partly because understand Windows so well I d al ways opt for a Mac if given the cho
28. e the i dreaded Global Warming that we have heard so much about before the econ omy became news will finally set in and we can get some sunshine and an early I Spring The days are already getting I longer and it will soon be time to put the snow blower away and tune up the lawn i mower Don t you feel better already The DoubleClick is published using a 2 8 GHz Aluminum iMac and QuarkXPress 8 An antique Kodak DX7590 is used for all pictures Everything not specifically attributed to someone else can probably be blamed on the Editor Back issues can be downloaded from the MaUsE web site www mause ca Submissions from MaUsE Club members are almost always welcome Send your submissions and articles to me at lt ducati860 9 gmail com gt especially if there are files or pictures attached have never refused a submission yet Because we care about the environment the MaUsE Henry Street m iid Whitby Sd DoubleClick is created using only recycled electrons Central matter was neither created nor destroyed in the process Library Colborne Street of creating this issue There are no infractions of the law of matter conservation There is always room for another piece on any Mac related topic and l Il make room if there isn t would like your submissions But won t beg Apple Macintosh and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc registe
29. ee We still have MaUsE members using older systems who would love to take home your old software so please feel free to bring in dona tions of used Apple books and programs A A B8 Se n Macintosh Users East Macintosh Users East WW Macintosh Users East January 2010 MaUsE Meeting Report Our first MaUsE gathering of the year coincided with the January 27th Apple Event From beginning 2 to end it was Aaron t time to show his enthusiasm and delight with Apple s new iPad product line Aaron had time to check it all out and he told us all about the news We watched the iPad video that was on the Apple website and Aaron talked about where this new technology was going from Apple at the evening meeting Doug Mirans and Kayhan Boncoglu came to the Jan uary meeting to talk to us about the iHelp program they are piloting at the Pickering Public Library o HELP iHelp is the Pickering Library s new digital services and media centre This new service desk is located at the Central Library and is open Monday to Friday 1 00 p m to 9 00 p m Saturday and Sun day 1 00 p m to 5 00 p m The iHelp centre will provide access to five Apple iMac computers fully stocked with state of the art media creation software and two photo print ing and scanning kiosks Specifically library clients will be able to Print digital photos from many makes of digital cameras as well as from digital phot
30. either re quired nor possible with the new Pro 3 model Another new feature involves how the symbols are printed onto the keys Anyone who types a lot with any keyboard will eventually notice that the symbols on the keys tend to wear off Ma tias promises that with the Pro 3 0 model unlike the Pro 2 0 model the symbols won t ever fade be cause they are laser etched burned into the keys with a laser so they ll never fade away At a price of 150 00 this keyboard is intended for many years of use so this laser etching feature is definitely a plus If you type a lot and if Requirements for the Matias Tactile Pro 3 0 are any Mac with a USB product longevity is important to you you will appreciate the value port In order for the USB hub to function in high speed mode it must be plugged into a USB 2 0 port When the keyboard is first connected Another improvement is the built in 3 port Hi Speed USB 2 0 hub The to your Macintosh computer the Mac OS 10 3 or older including Mac previous model had only two USB 2 0 ports and in order to enable the OS8 and OS9 will recognise it immediately If you are running Mac hub it was necessary to connect the keyboard to your computer with OS 10 4 or higher the Keyboard Setup Assistant will launch and re two USB connectors color coded gold and silver If you did not re quire a few specific keys be pressed to identify the keyboard to the quire the use of the USB 2 0 dock you could leave the gold colored com
31. er has arrived First of all let me just say macworld that the Tactile Pro 3 0 is radically dif eddys ferent from the Tactile Pro 2 0 key board it replaced and in many ways an all around better product 2a Ct e r 0 On several occasions in the past have writ Ac D ten about keyboards and can honestly say that 9 better ke ayboar d fi r your M n AC have probably used some of the best and worst keyboards ever devised In the July 2008 issue of the T e DoubleClick wrote about the two best keyboarding ex i ceil is ii ih a ie shai periences Macintosh users were ever likely to have and why The two Te temen oe keyboards wrote about were the famous Apple ADB Extended Keyboard II M3501 and the Matias USB Tactile Pro 2 0 What made these two keyboards outstanding was the incredibly high quality but noisy Alps mechanical keyswitches that were used during their con were Apple par number M3801 struction Unlike other keyboards each key on the keyboard was built Meere deser ria arcae pee titer ad on an individual Alps Mechanical Switch Life expectancy for these switches was generally estimated at 20 to 25 years of normal use There is no argument that Apple computers have gotten better with every passing year You get more RAM amp storage and faster proces sor speeds per dollar spent than ever before The MacOS is better the screens are bigger brighter and cheaper and the design of the computers is def
32. er Protocol Secure is a secure protocol that provides authenticated and encrypted communication And they add this warning If you use a public computer to check your email it s also important to end each of your Gmail sessions by clicking Sign out at the top of any Gmail page and to close all Gmail browser windows After reading that information immediately went to the Browser connection section of my Gmail settings and switched to HTTPS and thus gained more peace of mind in my mind another valid reason to choose and use Gmail Article submitted by Stan Wild Visible only to people can chat with New S who has recently won a copy of Alien Skin Blow Up 2 Bokeh Eye Candy 6 or Snap Art 2 in SOF TWARE one of our MaUsE Raffles you should check on the Alien Skin website for the up dater to your software In fact if you have won any of the software titles pictured below you should do it Alien Skin is constantly improving their software in response to users requests so make sure you check to see if there is something for you AKVIS Magnifier In this world we are constantly being told that Bigger is Better To that end just received the latest version of AKVIS Magnifier If you are wondering what that is I ll tell you it Is a sophisticated tool to increase image resolution in digital photos If you want a big print then this pro gram is for you The program allows printing l
33. er words in stead of just being a picture of the text it can actually read it as real text which you can then cut and paste etc as though you d just typed it Which for the slower typists like me is a brilliant idea be cause it saves hours of copying text by typing it word for word Prizmo which is compatible with Leopard and Snow Leopard has clever abilities that can be basically divided into two parts First for everyone there s the OCR technology It has an adjustable grid for easily selecting the text to be recognized result preview in teractive text skimming of recognized text areas several file types for saving the results PDF RTF TXT spotlight indexable results and it can do all this in 10 languages Second for the photographers you can use it to correct perspective and lens distortions It s quick and easy you just drag your JPG on to the Welcome Screen and go from there But there s more But now for all you shutter bugs and non photographers alike this software can perform a really neat trick It will accept a JPG photo of any text taken by any camera and be able to convert it via OCR to editable text This means you can take a snap of a street sign a menu a magazine that doesn t fit in your scan ner then drag the JPG to the Prizmo screen and produce an editable text document So in fact know you re ahead of me you don t need a scanner at all Image as imported onto my desk t
34. ext m w 100 6491JPG G System 09 12 22 4 sisP SN Scanning drive GenericFlash Disk8 07 started I 100 6492JPG dj System 09 12 22 5 16pm Scan has been completed for CenericFlash Oisk8 07 in 53 3015 _ L E inia d System 09 12 220 si6PM scanning drive CenericFlash Disk8 07 completed k Le db System ystem 09 12 22 V 5 16PM 4 Enumeration of files for Recognized started 100_6495 JPG t S ar F ae e a 100 6496JPG isis 23 100 6497 FG Ready Marked 207 92 MB in 173 files in 6 folders Total 255 59 MB in 514 files in 14 folders 100 6501JPG mm E 100 6502JPG 100 6503JPG 100 6504JPG Save To Here 218 3 MB 5 4 100 6505 PG Modified Today 5 18 PM a 100 6506JPG 100 6507JPG Spotlight Comments 100 6508 PG _ EK YF General I amazing record that showed the scan results Everything F R Studio pus e PEE E mi 100 6511JPG could find was displayed in a folder called Extra Found Files In all bytes for 178 items Ej 100 6512JPG there were 514 found files totaling 255 6 Megabytes set out in 14 uim E folders Obviously there was more on the empty drive than just the Createdg la fay 4 56 LX 39 JPGs deleted marked the JPEG and Kodak image folders modine T LL Sah 4 eas was interested in and found that they totaled about 208 Megabytes of pictures clicked on the XFA Recover Marked button R Studio started processing through the scan information and sending C Shared f
35. final image The higher the value of the parameter the more simplified and artificial the result will look the lower the value the more details will be visible At the same time sharpness smoothness of the image is influenced by the size and the scale of the image At high values of the Sharpen Edges parameter the difference between the original and the simplified image in creases 10 00 Parameters Sharpen Edges gU El Edge Smoothness 3 B Simplicity 200 ES Microline 125 rain BU Ee 1g Microline scale 0 400 This parameter singles out thin 1 2 pixels contrasting lines on dose i yes an image with a low resolution The default value provides a satisfactory result but it is pos sible to adjust it At low values of the parameter the lines are thinner and the edges are sharper At higher values the lines get a bit thicker and this gives you ragged edges Grain scale 0 25 The parameter adds slight Noise to the image It is helpful in case of an over smoothed images which is an image processed with a high values of the Sharpen Edges parameter and a high level of Simplicity Unsharp Mask This selection sharpens the image by increasing contrast between the pix els When the check box is enabled the program compares the resulting image with its blurred copy and if the pixel of the image contrasts with the pixel of the blurred copy the contrast is Increased otherwise t
36. ge translation If you like me from time to time receive emails in a lan guage other than your own Gmail will dis play a translate button when you click on it your incoming message will automatically be translated into the lan guage of your choice e g Spanish to English etc Default font Change the default font that is used in your emails from Times to one of your choice you have eleven fonts to choose from My own choice is Verdana a very easy to read font Date format One has a choice of formats and my choice logical is to have it written the way would speak it February First Twenty Ten Month Day Year how YOU want it written is up to you e Signature Yes if you wish it will automatically append your name to every email you send but you can do more or less there is suffi cient space for you to add other stuff vary my signature from time to time according to what is happening in my life and or in the world or how am feeling Currently my name is followed by Whitby the town in which live Ontario and Canada If am feeling particularly patri otic change it to read Proud to be a Canadian and at other times when am feeling crotchety it simply says The Old Curmudgeon like that one because some people do not know the meaning of the word and if they take the time to look it up they have learned some thing lt Grin gt Did you Look it up that is Vacatio
37. ght click in Windows How do print from my Windows software How do make my Bluetooth devices work in Windows e What is FAT32 and why might it matter to me What are the coolest new features in Parallels Desktop 4 e What s interesting about the different views in VMware Fusion If you are unsure about running Windows on the Mac or which of the five choices you have that would be the best for you then this is the ebook to get This ebook costs 10 00 normally but using the coupon will make a difference Check this ebook out and a lot others at www takecontrolbooks com Article Submitted by Marcel Dufresne Neat Stuff In Gmail About a century ago well it seems that long ago at one of the club s meetings Michael our beloved president announced that Google was offering Gmail a free email service and suggested that we would find it superior to many of the other free email serv ices then on offer try it did liked it and have been using it ever since For a long time was more or less satisfied to use the default settings in Gmail and then discovered the settings button and that in Gmail it meant preferences l m a slow learner started to customize Gmail to better suite my personal preferences Here are some of the more obvious settings that have adopted and then some of the lat est things from Google s lab interesting stuff that is currently avail able Ready to start customizing your
38. he pixel stays unchanged In this way the program NENNEN NENNEN processes all image pixels It helps to understand that the level of contrast between the pix development of image processing software and scien els is regulated by the parameter Amount The values of the parameter range is between O tific research The company was founded in 2004 by and 250 At 100 the contrast is increased twice at 20096 the contrast is increased by 4 IT professionals having considerable experience in times etc programming and software development Since then The Radius shows a number of pixels around a pixel to be affected by blurring While 1 5 pixels is a recommended blurring radius the latter can vary between 0 and 50 pixels Presets AKvIS Default EN the company has released a number of successful programs The head office of AKVIS Software Inc is located in Vancouver British Columbia WIAUSE Macintosh Users East Picture 1 is like the standard outdoor photo that you may take of your family or friends As you can see it does not show you just the important information There is a lot of unwanted information cluttering the photo Perhaps what really want is a head and shoulders shot By using Akvis Magnifier was able to blow up this photo to the desired size and still keep the details sharp Normal enlarging would blur out or pixelate the fine detail and make the photo look shabby As you can see in Picture 2 the head and sh
39. he right side of the dialog window the follow ing print settings can be adjusted Printer If your computer is connected to a local net work with many printers or if it is connected to many out put devices itself you will need to choose one of the available printers to print your image Choose the de sired print resolution from the Print Resolution drop down list The available choices will be based on those available for the printer you have chosen Orientation of the printed image There are two types Bi orientation available Album and Portrait Album corresponds to the horizontal page orientation Landscape while Portrait corresponds to the vertical orientation of the paper Print Size To change the size of the printed image adjust the pa rameters Scale Width Height and Fit to Page These parameters have no effect on the image itself just on the printed version You can change the size of the printed image by entering any value in 96 any value less than 100 will result in a smaller print size and any value larger than 10096 will result in a larger print size or by enter ing new values in Width and Height If you want the size of the image to be adjusted to the paper size then just select Fit to Page Move To Choose the position of the image on the page by clicking on one of the the nine green arrows The size of the printed image and its orientation can also be selected manually A frame with markers is disp
40. hly bill and at the same time reduce our monthly limit to GO us gigabytes combined up and down loading This sees was their new definition of unlimited When we got fed up with being ripped g off by our ISP we shopped for a change BEES and we found TekSavvy Our service Wim has been excellent since we changed and our monthly bill dropped by about ten dollars And the amount we can up and download was tripled from the 60 gigabytes we had before to 200 gigabytes with TekSavvy ACME Telephone Company If you sign up for internet service with one of the big monopolies you will find that you will be expected to use their equipment And you will pay top dollar for the privilege Everyone gets supplied with the same piece of limited hardware and it remains the property of the ISP That makes it easier for the ISP to control and diagnose connection prob lems because the service people only have to know about one piece of equipment And then they cripple it and lock the features so that it will only work with their setup Because of this many of the modems you might see for sale at garage sales are useless unless you have the knowledge and ability to unlock them Unlocking the modem re moves the limits the ISP puts on the modem and is very forbidden Of course if you get hooked up with an internet service provider that does not supply crippled modems you are free to use any of the com mercially available modems
41. ice But like it or not some things want to do with my computer still require Windows Even when working on something platform neutral such as a Web site want to be sure things look and work correctly on Windows On those occa sions when l ve needed Windows over the past few years I ve tried everything from running Virtual PC to visiting a library or cybercaf everything in other words short of buying a Windows PC That was the one step hoped never to take but other solutions were frequently awkward slow or otherwise annoying Now thanks to my Intel based Mac I can get the Mac OS X environment l love plus a fast fully featured Windows installation all in one box can even share files and network connections seamlessly between operating systems Joe Kissel This 167 page ebook covers how to handle many as pects of using Windows including How can get a copy of Windows XP or Vista that will work on a Mac e What are 15 things that you can do in Windows but not on the Mac How can set things up so that Windows won t bog down How should handle partitioning for my Windows installation How do avoid and handle activation hassles Boot Camp is free with Mac OS X but what are the pros and cons to using it How can best run Windows with Boot Camp and virtualization soft ware e Should run VMware Fusion Parallels Desktop or VirtualBox What s the best way to ri
42. ies uses gradients applied to text has pictures applied to text drop shadows objects that run off the page text applied to a hand drawn path snaking across it and more obscured or hidden features than usually appear in most reasonable documents of this type Garden Poster indd would like to apologize for the confusion and clutter that surrounds the picture of the Garden Poster indd on the next page Somebody at Adobe should be shot for setting up the InDesign interface with all of those confusing tools and palettes This picture reminds me why want to convert InDesign stuff into Quark in the first place After took the screenshot of the Garden Poster indd closed the doc ument and very happily quit the Adobe InDesign CS application Then launched QuarkXPress 8 and tried to open the same InDesign docu pi ann X o 43p5567 Ww i da E t x Dream Garden title B vicus 3 mz nW ie Ife rec on so E lll Big orange flower EIC LI Green flower fo E Japanese outline text A T ae E B vertical violet banner l wy ET 7 gt 9 Layers uy ONE DIEN Miter Limit 2 4 x Join Align Stoke MOO i Type nummmm Start None EH End None E lt Gap Color V None __ Gap Tint 100 gt E a
43. initely setting the pace for the entire computer indus try Apple leads where others follow The only exception to this trend is the keyboard Apple keyboards built after 1993 generally suck For those of us who write a lot the keyboard is the single most impor tant imput device we interact with every day Like looking for hours at a cheap monitor if the typing interaction is made difficult by poor qual ity or un ergonomic design the experience can be awful Back in 2008 when replaced the truly crappy stock flat aluminum Apple keyboard that shipped with my 2 8 GHz Intel iMac with the seri ously superior Matias Tactile Pro 2 0 found that the Matias key board was as close to perfect as any USB keyboard had ever used and that it had a much better feel than any of the newer Apple key boards had been using The action was crisper and the annoying tendency to miss the first letter of many words disappeared Now have upgraded to the new 2010 model and must say that from first impressions the Matias Tactile Pro 3 0 keyboard has the same sturdy feel as the previous model and each keystroke is just as solid and just as noisy But there are some obvious differences all of them improvements One big difference is that the new model has no software required to enable any of its special features The Pro 2 0 model could be optimised for PC or Mac with various software setup files that controlled the layout of special keys This is n
44. ins that merely re render complete images Essentials provides brushes and tools that the user applies with mouse or pen The other aspect of Painter Essentials is the part that is based purely in the user s control of the wide array of pens brushes and other colour application tools that can be found in the drawing and painting window Switching between the two interfaces is as easy as clicking the tabs in the upper right corner of the application window The Drawing and Painting part of the application as shown below gives immediate access to plenty of resources the 130 page PDF users guide and the library of Photo Painting and Drawing and Painting videos and tutorials are just one click from the start of every project START E Photo Fainting T OPEN Existing File Recent Documents i Open dr Denise Laurent Www deniselaunent co uk eue WATCH 9 Videos EXPLORE Guidebook F Did yon know There s an online community a here s a new product I l I i update available I l ali you can join artists r j F F E x I aes t a i Drawing Painting There s a gallery of featured Sm aoe Drs i r Besides the resources on the disk there are a lot of online helpers for this program not that a lot are needed What is needed is plentifully provided direct links to the online community of other Painter Essen tials users and links to galleries of their work
45. ir installation There is a fairly wide variety of CrossOver applica tions that you can purchase These range from 39 95 to 69 95 for the Pro version You can read about these and download a trial copy from http www codeweavers com products This is the way to go if you do not have a Win dows license can now run that old Win dows game Battle for Troy that picked up in the discounted rack Install Windows Software for CrossOver Microsoft Visio 2003 Please wait while CrossOver launches the requested installer Qj Select Package Jj Select Bottle 4 Choose Installer install J Microsoft Visio Preparing to install Installing Microsoft Visio 2003 EK h A X Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003 Setup Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003 af Product Key Inthe boxes below type your 25 character Product Key You will find this number on the sticker on the back of the CD case or on your Certificate of Authenticity G Force Installer Come Product Key 3 1 Article submitted by Marcel Dufresne Matias Corp Tactile pro 30 The best keyboard Apple ever promised back before made rises again again AC Christmas that would RE a lt write about the new Tactile Pro 3 0 key BM S as board when it became available It was scheduled for release early in January 2010 and here it is January and mine winn
46. layed around the image in the preview window To change the size of the image move the cursor to one of the corner markers or to a side the cursor changes in shape to a double sided arrow and drag the marker or side To change the po sition of the image on the page bring the cursor over the image press the left mouse button and move the cursor Clicking the Page Setup button opens a dialog window in which you can choose the size of the paper and its orientation as well as the print margins To print an image with the chosen parameters press the Print button To cancel and close the printing dialog window press the Cancel but ton This program is great for making enlargements and also reductions if you have a need to Lj fit to Page Scale 75 0 Ej wah 1662 B Mogt 2 ar B 5 Fi We X 7 Ste Submitted by Kevin Livesey lt gt lt Fujitsu ocanSnap With the advent of computers there were hopes that the use of trees for paper could be de creased After all data could be stored on the computer no need for all that paper Change as always is a very slow process The trees have not yet been spared We seem to require a hard copy of all our data as well as a digital It is as though we do not trust the data to be saved in the digital format We do not trust that new fangled machine We still rely on the old tried and true hardcopy This train of thought will
47. lling a Windows program is as straight forward as it would be on any Windows computer CrossOver has a list of specific applications that you can choose to help you install If you want to install from a single installer file or install one of CrossOver s automatic packages select Install Software from the Configure menu Then select the name of the package from the list provided If the program you want to install is not in the list click Install Unsupported Software and follow the steps provided by the CrossOver Software Installer If all went well a launcher icon appears for the application you just in stalled This icon is in your home directory for later use If your pro gram did not create any icons you can still launch it by selecting Run Command from the Programs menu This will access your virtual C drive which is located in Application Support Crossover of your Library file Remember that unsupported software may work poorly or not at all In addition installing unsupported software may prevent already installed supported Windows applications from working a codeeree product Mac Standard Registered ta mardufresnedrogers com z To get started install Insert an dois CD Of wer To run the programs you ve installed pone rf plications folder or use the Programs menu Don t show this window every time CrossOver starts It is generally recommended that unsupported applic
48. multimedia software VideoStu dio video editing and movie making software PaintShop photo editing program CorelDRAW Graphics Suite graphic design software the WordPerfect Office productivity software line WinDVD DVD player software and the Winzip line of file compression software products All Corel products are available for a free trial software download Painter Essentials File Edit Canvas Select Effects Window Help ide Brush Same Chant ety 9 ome i g Untitled 2 Painting RIF 43 75 rm M son Edge Cloner Brush ae Hard Edge Chomer Brush sentials and require Photoshop in order to run There are dozens of presets that can be used as is or customised by editing the paper brush style edge treatment and colours As you can see from the ap plication window above the tools are presented very simply and the program invites exploration and experimentation What is less appar ent is the incredibly powerful rendering engine that drives Painter Es sentials 4 Based on the world s most powerful painting and illustra tion software Corel Painter 11 but costing about one eighth the price Painter Essentials 4 is the ideal way to get started with creating and il lustrating with images based on your own digital images To help the new user along there is a library of narrated video tutorials that ex plain and demonstrate how the user can create artistic treatments and retain control over their use Unlike plug
49. n Responder If you are away from your home or office for a period of time it will automatically respond to every incoming email Gmail display language English US gt Show all language options Gmail Labs is a testing ground for experimental features that aren t quite ready for prime time caution they may change break or disap pear at any time If you are adventuress go and take a look in this section it contains a whole bunch of small applications that the pro grammers at Google are working on in order to make Gmail even more useful here are some that am currently using Message translation Vacation time already mentioned above Undo send Oops hit send too soon You can stop messages from being sent for a few seconds after you have hit the send button Got the wrong Bob This one can save you embarrassment Have you ever addressed an email too quickly and included Bob your boss instead of Bob your friend by accident If you re emailing more than two people at once Gmail will check if you meant to include Bob Smith rather than Bob Jones based on the groups of people you email most often Thanks to Gmail for the previous two descrip tions Final Thought If you are not already using Gmail maybe you should consider doing so It is a we very good system and you can use all those neat features that have written about plus many more waiting there for you to discover Want to find out more Go to
50. n so it ZEE took less than a minute for the 5 2 meg Garden Poster indd to turn into the de sired 1 6 meg Garden Poster qxp you can see on the next page The ID2Q TERHES amp 1993 2009 Markzware Software Inc XTension runs a progress bar on the screen to show that the conversion EEEAAIRIES Ar Rights Reserved US Patent 5 963 641 process is proceeding normally Great for really big jobs Item QuarkXPress File Edit Style Layout Table View Utilities Window _ e Gal de p LIGHT amp COLOR A he fits thing to remembe is aches ir a Wi PES RNa qr n1 3a onse The Markzware Help gt s ASIAN CENTER of OPEN LECTURE SERIES May 31 une 1 2004 Sat 10am bpm SUN 11am pm Admission 3 The A amp F Garden Center Sth Ac Birmees SF CA autirt amp cFusion comi dX 2 MFuouunuunnuwa d Hernammmmggag gouuumnmausn2004c 5c Iw ug 5n MacrununMucces B ug agiigsus asion comi Fa b Con ikww Art E uiri inm m ay A different kind of gardening imaginati and original just like the wendet Uds you t could dn 1 es i S And here shown above in all its glory is the end result As you can see the InDesign Garden Poster is now open in QuarkXPress and the document has a qxp suffix It is a bona fide QuarkXPress docu ment and can be used in Quark just as if it had been originally created in Quark It has been reduced to 1 6 megs and all
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52. o media such as CompactFlash and SD cards Scan and convert old print photos to a digital format and archive these onto a CD DVD or flash drive Use Adobe PhotoShop to create and edit photos and other pixel based digital imagery Use Adobe Illustrator to create and edit vector based digital imagery such as logos and other digital art Use Adobe InDesign to create and edit sophisticated print based page layouts such as books pamphlets and flyers Use Apple GarageBand to create that musical masterpiece for your blog or podcast Use Apple Final Cut Express to create and edit digital video for your website or create a DVD to display on your television Sign out a Library iPod pre loaded with audiobooks or bring in your own iPod or iPhone see Do you want an iPod with your audiobook for more details Computer and technology advice operating system questions for Win dows Mac OS X and Linux software recommendations including free and open source alternatives answered by our knowledgeable staff and much more It s About the Money Macintosh Users East is a good computer club It is your club and we appreciate the support that you the members have given to it this past year We trust that your enthusiastic participation will continue unabated in the coming year Macintosh Users East relies on the yearly fees paid by you to cover all of our MaUsE operating expenses and we are now coming to that time in the year
53. of the images used to create the original are more or less in place All nine of the original InDesign layers show up in the Quark Layers palette All objects with drop shadows have retained them All gradients are intact Some of the objects will have to have their runaround reset A few of the im ages will have to be brought forward and suitable fonts will have to be chosen in a few places to replace the fonts that were used in the origi nal These changes will take only a few minutes but recreating just this one document without Markzware s ID2Q XTension would have taken many hours Just like said Markzware magic Garden Poster qxp 1 6 MB Modified 2009 12 16 8 51 PM General Kind QuarkXPress Project File Size 1 6 MB on disk 1 630 208 bytes A bonus ability built into ID2Q is that the InDesign file does not necessarily need to be healthy There is a video on YouTube that shows that many corrupted InDesign files indd files that InDesign cannot open can be con verted with ID2Q and opened in QuarkXPress and then ported back into InDesign as good Quark files if the Markzware InDesign Q2ID plug in is present Markzware ID2Q runs on QuarkXPress 7 and 8 can convert Adobe InDesign 1 5 through CS4 files and is available for Macintosh OS 10 5 and Windows XP and Vista See www markzware com to learn more Submitted by Michael Shaw 2 s 9 2 101 wif a ene J
54. ok ing at This shot was taken with no intention of applying it to some fancy dancy OCR software or anything of the kind It wasn t even black on white text wondered what Prizmo would be able to do with this In fact admittedly to my surprise it did a pretty good job At this point decided that this was some really useful software at a decent price Desired section extracted as editable text Image rotated in Prizmo and desired section extracted as a JPG Mag shot extracted rtf Smens Japanese Pocket Saws These pocket saws fold to only 6 long so you can easily tuck them into tool belt or toss them into a toolbox or drawer without damaging the teeth or anything else The 5 tpi cardboard saw makes quick work of breaking down boxes for recycling and is equally useful anywhere you need a scalloped tooth blade it cuts Ag rope in a single slice UE speeds through foam insulation and neatly sections rigid PVC tubing The 12 tpi keyhole saw cuts on i the pull stroke to tension the blade for tight radius curves l Suitable for wood PVC or plywood its narrow blade accesses confined spaces and slips into a ihe drilled hole to start a cut in the middle of stock Both saws have non slip elastomer coated handles with a spring catch that secures the blade in Ime with the handle or at 30 for clearance Made in Japan eee 2 4 6 B Japanese Pocket Saws These pocket s
55. older information to the Save to Here Desktop folder By the time it was finished R Studio had res C Locked cued 178 items totaling over 218 megs of image files More Info As you can see from a careful examination of these pictures began to scan the drive at 5 15 PM Last opened Today 4 56 PM completed the scan at 5 16 PM and had all of the rescued files sorted and salvaged to my desti nation by 5 18 PM Not only is R Studio for Mac incredibly thorough it is also incredibly fast To verify that the salvaged files were actually usable investigated the contents of the saved folders WY Mame amp Extension Save To Here Hide extension found that the 39 items was using as the test files or ux Save To Here were all present in the Digi JU l of 3 selected 131 2 GB available tal Camera folder Also in cluded in the same folder were another 60 older digi tal photographic images that had been on the drive and EN erased several months ago i TN Lj Extra Found Files 3 iterms m am m _ JPEG Digital Camera Looking at R Studio for Mac so soon after looking at Prosoft and Sub RosaSoft data recovery software really brings out the differences in these programs For a true understanding of the powerful advanced fea tures built into R Studio for Mac it really is nec essary to know more than 99 of the computer literate
56. op u a Ru F fee z2 Y zd LSE ga EE eae For all of you before buying a scanner or if you re on the road away from home scannerless this software is worth checking out Also when you take the snap you don t even have to be exactly square on to the object Remember the photographers using it to cor rect lens distortion and perspective correcting for the sides of tall buildings appearing to get closer together at the top well this is used to square up any oblique distortion of the text image so the OCR will be able to recognize the letters and numbers as well letters and numbers have tried Prizmo 1 1 with a basic test taking a snap of an article in a magazine resting on my desk uploading it to my Mac s desktop and then dragging the icon to the Prizmo screen It was very easy Just make sure you have things in focus and avoid any reflection sheen from the flash if its used For videos on using Prizmo go to http www creaceed com prizmo screencasts html When you push the save button it creates an extracted file Opening the extracted file occurs by default into the Text Edit application but you can if you prefer go straight into either Word or Pages via the Open With option So then tried it with a photo of a sign took when we were on holiday last year Tip for Shutter bugs take photos of the signs you see so you can remember where the heck you were and what you were lo
57. oulder shot ex tracted with Akvis Magnifier has keep the detail and you can even read the name of my cousin on her shirt It is possible to save the settings you like as a preset and use them in the future To save a preset enter a name for the preset into the Pre sets field and press the Save button The settings of the selected pre set will be used as the default settings If you change the values of the parameters you can always come back to the factory default set tings of the preset with a click on the Reset button To process an image with the settings of a certain preset you should select it from the drop down menu and press the button To delete a preset select it from the list and press Delete Increasing an image s size is a resource intensive process and re quires a substantial amount of RAM memory capacity and 2 3 Giga bites Gb of free space on your hard drive for swapping files When increasing a 5 10 megapixel image to 400 the image area in creases by 16 times 200 to 300 Megabites Mb in this case the processing will consume about 1 5 Gb RAM This makes for huge files and does take time to process Now that you have enlarged your image you are going to want to print it In the standalone version you select the button for printing This will bring up the Print dialog box seen at right The left part of the Print dialog box is the preview area where the current position of the image on the page is shown On t
58. plit into several parts and password protected Such images are fully compatible with the images created by R Drive Image but incompatible with the previous versions of R Studio Recovers files on damaged or deleted partitions Recovers data forks resource forks finder information and UNIX file system permissions Recovers compressed encrypted files and alternative data streams from NTFS partitions Recovered files can be saved on any including network disks visi ble by the host operating system A hexadecimal disk and file editor supporting HFS HFS data forks resource forks and NTFS file non resident attribute editing Patterns or templates in the hexadecimal editor allowing for pars ing the data according to specific data structure Such patterns may be custom created File preview Most of the graphic file types can be previewed to esti mate recovery chances In order to put R Studio for Mac through its paces started like usually do with an empty USB flash drive copied a bunch of images onto it 39 pictures totaling 40 Megabytes and then deleted the images by selecting them and using Com mand Delete This moved the files to the Trash Then emptied the Trash to simulate an acciden tal file deletion created an empty folder on my Desktop Save to Here verified that there were no files showing on the flash drive and then used the R Studio application to see if it could find and salvage
59. population and spend some serious time possibly a few months with the R Studio for Mac user manual a truly astound ingly dense 113 page PDF that defies comprehension unless the user is technical in the extreme For what did with it had no trou ble successfully operating the program within a half hour of downloading it but know that did not scratch the surface of what this program can do 494 jpg 495 jpg JPEG Image 2 items Conclusion R Studio for Mac found everything was look ing for and a whole lot more R Studio for Mac definitely recovers files It is the most complex and powerful software of its type I have ever encountered and R Tools claims that it can work on EVERYTHING The Macintosh version downloaded was for For Local and Network Recovery but there are also download able R Studio Emergency ISO Image files on the R Tools Technol ogy website that can be used to create bootable network and local disks for PowerPC based New World Macintosh since 2001 and compatible UNIX computers servers or for Intel based Macintosh Windows Linux and UNIX computers servers This really is a com Kodak P otoCD Image 71l items R Studio for Mac will recover files Removed by virus attack or power failure After the partition with the files was reformatted even for different file system Deleted from your computer e When the partition structure on a hard disk was l technology
60. puter For Windows users there is a driver download from Matias plug unconnected The complete connection and proper functioning of that will change the Apple Option and Command keys into Windows both the Pro 3 0 keyboard and its built in 3 port USB 2 0 hub is now and Alt keys achieved with just one USB connector The Matias Corporation is located in Newmarket Ontario More If you look closely at the picture of the keyboard above you will no information about the Tactile Pro 3 0 and other specialty keyboards tice that there are two or three symbols on each key The Tactile Pro can be found on the internet at lt http www matias ca gt 3 0 makes it easy to find special symbols like Y and other hard to remember symbols Now they are all printed in pairs in very Besides a full line of specialty key small script on the upper right corner of the keys Simply hold down boards Matias carries a selection of e the Option key while typing for the bottom right characters or Shift high quality iPod accessories and Option for the top right characters The F keys function just as they Mobile Office portable computing ac iT a d S do with other Apple keyboards and can be used to control volume and cessories including stands computer brightness eject disks and invoke Dashboard and Expose bags and rigid cases Matias mer chandise information can be found Most keyboards allow only a certain number of keys to be pressed at and Mati
61. red in the U S and other countries The MaUsE Macintosh Users East is an inde pendent Mac user group and has not been authorized sponsored or otherwise approved of by Apple Computer Inc Its very much like they don t even know we exist Michael Shaw Editor Dundas Street West Center Street Byron Street MaUsE Meetings are held in Room 1 at the new Whitby Public Library on the south east corner of Henry and Dundas West in Whitby Ontario Meetings start at 7 00 PM but there is an early session from 6 30 for peo ple who wish to discuss hardware or software issues or problems Macin tosh virus problem discussion from 6 58 to 7 00 PM as and if required Meetings are open to the public and admission is free Raffle tickets at MaUsE events are free but the free raffle tickets for Macintosh hardware or software will only be given to paid up MaUsE Members Please remem ber to bring your Membership card to every meeting Yes it s cold Bloody right it s cold Brrrrr CrossOver Mac Pro from CodeWeavers How to Run Windows Programs on a Mac There are many options for running Windows programs on the Mac because Apple now has the Intel processor Boot Camp for instance is included with OS X for installing Windows on a separate partition The software for running this is found in the Utilities folder of your Ap plications With Boot Camp installed you can startup your computer in either the
62. s Corel has a huge corral of software products for amatuer and profes sional photo and video editing illustration and design and office pro ductivity Go to http www corel com to find out more You can download fully featured demo copies and try out any Corel title including Painter Essentials 4 that tickles your fancy and purchase the code online when you decide to buy With Corel software you can always buy now use the product for a full 30 days and if you re not 100 satisfied for any reason you get your money back painter Essentials Article submitted by Michael Shaw gt BM a NH Tue 5 53PM Q an ILa hi AL Ls J Ale Applcanons Cereti enteni s amntials a apo Conies Resources H 2 Gr boggle T d Puimarkssenials Fle fir Coma fie D miw Heip Intradactson e hi PT T Workspace Tour Pharm Painting Panhr Phobos Paintimg bw stand Sharing Prom a Scene Li Bring af Home Final Words FEKEI A Eventually you are going to get fed up with your internet service provider you have now If your monopoly ISP is one of the reasons why Canadians pay more for highspeed internet access than anyone else in the civilised world then know whose service you are using When it comes time to change your ISP to one that is interested in you as a client and not just a phone number check out the only web site that compares a
63. scale goes from 25 to 400 You can also type in a scale if you need to To the right of the scale field box is a slider for increasing or decreasing the image in the Image Window You can also use the or buttons for increasing or decreasing the image or do the Command and Command from the keyboard Under the navigation window is the Settings panel The setting panel is used for setting pa L rameters for advanced image processing To avoid distortion of details it is recommended to scale the image to its original size 10096 before changing the settings of the program There are four groups of settings New Size Parameters Unsharp Mask and Presets By using the hot key combination Option underlined letter you can quickly move the focus into the corresponding entry field You can also use the mouse The Lower half of the settings panel is where you set the new Parameters Here is the explanation of the different parame ters Sharpen Edges scale 0 100 This parameter increases the sharpness and intensity of an objects edges oes Edge Smoothness scale 1 8 This parameter smoothes colour gradients on the border of contrasting colour zones At high values of this parameters the border looks softer At low values of the parameter the border line looks uneven and irregular Edge Smoothness is well visible on an image with contrasting colour zones Simplicity scale 0 400 This parameter sets the level of detail on the
64. th unmanaged paperwork at home or at the office There is a lot more that can be done with documents that have been scanned For instance they can be stored in multiple areas or they can be found so much faster How much time have you spent searching for a specific receipt This becomes such a simple task with the Mac s ca pability to search anywhere on the computer The ScanSnap Manager which can be accessed from the Dock and has a half dozen choices allows the scanned documents to be quickly placed exactly where they belong Scan to folder puts the PDF in the folder that you have predetermined Scan to email opens up your Mail program and attaches the document to a new email Scan to print immediately sends the scan to the printer bypassing the save to folder option You can scan to Standard which sends the doc ument to Adobe Acrobat or Preview You can even scan directly to iPhoto There are options to scan to Word or Excel These do not work since if you don t have these two applications hope in the fu ture that Fujitsu is intending on incorporating Pages and Numbers into the scan options since these are the Mac equivalents The scans are somewhat limited to PDF or jpegs However can t think of any other format would like my scans saved as would think that if you needed them in another format you could easily take the jpeg and convert it with other applications The OCR n Optical Character Recognition capabilities of the
65. ufactures used bigger pieces of silver iodide This was embedded in the film and was known as grain When you enlarged the photo the grain enlarged as well and be came more apparent With today s digital cameras you would know grain as Noise This is most noticeable in areas where you have one constant colour You also have a problem with loss of sharpness at the edges of each pixel This is quite apparent when you size your image above 100 AKVIS Magnifier comes as two separate styles Stand alone and Plug in for both operating systems Mac or Windows It has a ten day free trial period after which time you will need to decide which licence you want to buy The functionality of the program depends on the li cense type During the ten day test period you can try all the options so you can choose the license you like In the upper right portion of the Workspace window you will find the Navigator Window as shown at right where you can see the reduced copy of the image The red frame shows the part of the image that is now visible in the Image Window the areas outside the frame will be shaded Drag the frame to make other parts of the image visible To move the frame bring the cursor inside the frame press the left mouse button and keeping it pressed then move the frame in the Navigation window Underneath the reduced copy of the image you have a scale field which has a drop down menu that show frequently used sizes The
66. want it all especially want to be able to use my InDesign CS templates and documents with QuarkXPress 8 When it comes to desktop publishing QuarkXPress is recognized as the su perior of the two programs but Adobe InDesign as the DTP part of the Adobe answer to everything suite is getting an awful lot of use and exposure Heavy emphasis on the awful There are Bouhtless new documents being created with both of these programs every day to add to the billions already created and stored in archives Be cause of this there are a lot of occasions when documents created in one format have to be ported over to the other format to be updated or re used There are two ways to do this the bad way is to purchase both programs open them up at the same time and then laboriously scan or copy paste each text box and image from one document to the other Very time consuming and expensive The good way is to use Markzware file conversion software and simply use one program to open the other program s documents The Markzware utility for magically converting Quark a documents to InDesign documents is called Q21D The Markzware utility for magically converting InDesign documents to Quark documents is called ID2Q Since 4 ID2Q has just been updated to make it compatible with QuarkXPress 8 which I use we ll take a look at it ID2Q is an XTension That is it is a plug in written to enhance and expand the abilities of QuarkXPress in much the s
67. www gmail com and learn all about it and Yes It s free General Language Maximum page size Keyboard shortcuts Leam more 9 Keyboard shortcuts off O Keyboard shortcuts on External content Gmail display language English US Show all language options Show 50 4 conversations per page 9 Always display external content such as images sent by trusted senders Learn more O Ask before displaying external content Browser connection 9 Always use https Leam more Don t always use https My picture Change picture Visible to everyone Leam more Postscript HTTPS Increased security for you Today January 15th learned from Michael that Gmail is making in formation in your emails more secure by changing from HTTP to HTTPS Here is what Gmail has to say on that topic We ve recently made the Always use https setting the default behavior in Gmail the default used to be http Here s some background If you sign in to Gmail via a nonsecure Internet connection like a public wireless or non encrypted network your Google account may be more vulnerable to hijacking Non secure networks make it easier for someone to impersonate you and gain full access to your Google ac count including any sensitive data it may contain like bank state ments or online log in credentials Accordingly we enable the Always use https option in Gmail by default HTTPS or Hypertext Transf
68. y option for recovery data from HFS HFS parti tions Expandable Known File Types New file signatures can be added to the list of known file types by the end user File Sorting Found files and folders can now be easily sorted by the original structure file extension or file creation modification time Scan process visualization While scanning an object R Studio Mac graphically shows items that have been found including files of known types HFS HFS volume headers HFS HFS BTree nodes FAT and NTFS MFT records boot records etc e Mass file recovery support APM Basic and GPT support R Studio for Mac supports all three partition schemes used to define the low level organization of data on disks formatted for use with Macin tosh computers Dynamic disk support e HFSJ and HFSX volumes support e Software RAID volume set and stripe set support Support for various unusual RAID configurations Parameters like block size and order offsets and even the number of stripe blocks can be explicitly specified Custom RAID configurations can be saved Recognizes localized names Hardware RAID volume set and stripe set support Creates image files for an entire hard drive logical disk or its part Such image files can be processed like regular disks Images can be either simple exact object copies Plain images compatible with the previous versions of R Studio or compressed images that can be compressed s

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