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1. table hard disk drive Lawrence explained the finer points of the oe iPod photo including Lawrence Charters with his the fact that the fidelity iPod Photo of the music appears to be less than on his regular iPod The iPod photo comes with some extra cabling that allows it to connect to a TV VCR or projector via RCA type connectors By connecting the audio cord you can play music while showing photos You can arrange your photos and music into a slideshow and thus make the presentation a bit fancier You cannot however include any sort of transi tions like those you see in iMovie or Keynote Unfortunately we were a little ill prepared for this session and were unable to show the photos with the overhead projector As a side note Lawrence mentioned that on a recent trip to Scotland he took forty gigabytes of photos He used a very high resolution which used a large amount of disk space so the iPod aptly served Lawrence s principle rationale for the purchase it held a large amount of data and did it well Radio Shark Finally our VP for Programs Abe Brody gave us a presentation on the Griffin Technologies Radio Shark a device that allows 4 playing or re aa cording AM ea and FM radio broadcasts on your computer il ay Ly a a Hal a This nifty de ne vice looks to be very capable Abe Brody describing the Radio Shark and instead of Washington Apple Pi Journal 19 covering al
2. There are two parts in this step First boot from another drive than the one you re going to upgrade This can be either another drive with Panther Mac OS X 10 3 on it or it can be either the Panther or Tiger installation disk Once the system has booted run Disk Utility select the drive you will install Tiger on select the First Aid tab and run the Repair Disk option If any thing is noted as being repaired during the first run run Repair Disk again until it runs all the way through without fixing anything Reboot from the drive you will install Tiger on launch Disk Utility from that drive and run the Repair Disk Permissions option Decide Whether to Partition or Not This is one of the two really important steps in the process whether or not to partition the drive in your Mac It is also a process you can completely ignore if you don t agree with my ideas about partitioning or if you just want to keep whatever your current partitions are If you don t care about partitioning or already have your Mac partitioned the way you desire then you can skip ahead to the Decide what Kind of Installation to Do section You need to evaluate the pros and cons of par titioning and decide what makes sense for you If you ask ten Mac geeks whether you should partition your hard drive or not you ll get ten different answers mostly variations on either Yes or No Neither of these is really the correct answer which is It Depends
3. You need to evalu ate the pros and cons of partitioning and decide what makes sense for you My thoughts are that every Mac should have at least two bootable drives or partitions available at all times This allows booting from an emergency boot partition when disaster 4 Washington Apple Pi Journal strikes so that the primary disk which has all of your applications and data can be repaired My desktop machines all have at least two drives in them so partitioning for this purpose isn t required Laptops only have one drive and Murphy says that you ll have a problem when you re out of town and without your external FW drive so I believe partitioning is the most logical decision for laptops There are two major cons to partitioning First it may introduce confusion concerning where you stored something although if you use partitions logically this isn t a real problem Second your partition sizes might be something less than optimal but you can always redo the process if necessary When Mac OS X was young and unproven I partitioned my drives with a 10 GB or so par tition for the operating system and any Apple installed software Everything else applications downloads etc went on a second partition that consisted of the remainder of the drive My ac tual data files live on a separate file server so that the only data on my main Mac is preference files and anything I ve temporarily stored on the desktop or home direc
4. Mac today running Tiger Will I be able to upgrade my applications without upgrading my hardware once this move has happened A Mostly yes Believe it or not Apple has given developers the tools to make applications that work both on modern PowerPC and future Intel Macs Using these tools a Universal Binary Application can be created that runs on both This is a real first for Apple not making the old hardware obsolete so quickly that it can t run new programs Eventually there will be pro grams that require so much processing power only newer hardware will be able to run them But the Universal Binary offers a solution like we ve not seen before until today Q When should I upgrade my Mac hardware to Intel A When all the programs you use have be come Universal Binary and you need to take advantage of Apple s latest speed improve ments Need is a tricky measure Hobbyists programmers and people offering support may 8 Washington Apple Pi Journal find themselves updating right away so they aren t left in the dark when new technologies emerge Those who are prepared to take the risk that some application won t work as well as an older one will also take that risk But for the rest of us save your money and update your soft ware to Universal Binary versions as and when it becomes practical If you are careful to back up your data before installing these updates you will have recourse to continuing to
5. Pana T PhotoShop Elements 3 Welcome screen flected his expertise in Adobe applications First David launched Photoshop Elements 3 and introduced the application s Welcome Screen As an aside he said this Welcome Screen will now be part of all Adobe applications This starting screen features a tutorial button and he recommended starting there to learn about Elements is a great training product for the full Photoshop product the program using the sample project provided Another first for Elements is the Adobe brows er And in this browser window Elements has a new feature called Quick Fix which allows the user do some basic photo enhancements and then move on This one click button is an auto correct feature similar to iPhoto s Enhance option and like iPhoto there are manual ad justments available too Along with the Quick Fix mode there is a Standard Edit mode which gives you the full range of Elements capabilities which David then demonstrated David started by asking for a quick show of hands of those using Photoshop Elements 2 Washington Apple Pi Journal 21 and also Photoshop Elements 3 He used this to introduce the fact that there are some signifi cant differences between these two versions of Elements for example Elements 3 is more op timized for Mac OS X Before getting into a full demonstration of Photoshop Elements 3 David pointed out that prior Adobe products like Photo Deluxe and
6. Photoshop LE were inadequate they taught me absolutely nothing about using Photoshop Photoshop Elements products try to give the bulk of what there ought to be and then the Pro products while giving you the same tools give you more options with those tools Elements is a great training product for the full Photoshop product David used the Standard Edit mode to show the clean interface and the Photo Bin at the bottom which helps keep track of the pho tos you are editing He showed us a neat tool bar collapse feature which the pro version of Photoshop does not have This prompted David to mention that Adobe often uses Elements as a test bed for new features There are other Auto Buttons available that adjust different photo properties with a new Smart Fix button incor porating all of them A demo of the Red Eye tool proved it to be very effective Its color replace ment was a deeper black versus a dark gray oth er programs including iPhoto produce There are Healing Brush and Spot Healing Brush tools too The Healing Brush tool has been a staple of Photoshop applications for some time and it is used by placing the cursor over the area with a problem and while holding the Alt key down clicking Basically what the program does is use adjacent pixel properties to act as replacement for the area to be fixed Now the Spot Healing Brush allows you to refine this process You use it by outlining the area you want c
7. Radio Shack TRS 80 Model III computer in 1980 you decide that you just need to find enough cables with connectors that sort of match to hook it up to your Power Mac G5 from 2004 When it doesn t work and in fact when the USB port you tried to plug it into no longer seems to work at all you might decide that this was an expensive way to save money Similarly trying to put the wrong kind of hard drive into a computer is a bad idea along with the wrong kind of memory True they might have been just sitting there on your desk waiting for a use but that doesn t mean they belong in just any random Mac Especially if you want to keep that Mac functioning The most popular bad idea involves run ning outdated software Outdated anti virus and disk utilities can destroy all your data rather than protect the data Outdated applications can damage your data beyond recovery Expanding on this last point a great many Mac users keep their machines for a long time decades in some cases Eventually they decide July August 2005 to buy a new machine but inexplicably expect a software package written in 1990 to work ona computer built in 2005 This is a bad idea similar to putting 15 year old tires on your new sports car or using 15 year old icing on your spouse s birthday cake If you buy a new Mac or update the oper ating system be sure and check that any third party utilities or applications will work wi
8. elected capaci ties Bill Bailey has been deputized to deal with vendor liaison and Nancy Little is in charge of Office Operations The month of June is a poor time to organize things as at least two BoD members are off at weddings Given our term limits people who are not holding elected office should be serving as ap prentices to those who are so that can take up the reins when term limits expire The bottom line to this story is that we have extraordinary opportunities for a couple of Pi members to step into positions of leadership that provide a real opportunity to build the future of the organization Absent members who have this kind of commitment to what we are doing the Pi is going to face difficult times indeed If you think that you can help in one of these capacities please send an e mail to president wap org stat ing your interest Thank You Report of the Election Committee condensed from a submission by Cheryl Lavoie The Election Committee determined that 163 valid ballots were cast in the Pi s online election concluded at midnight May 31st 2005 We cer tify that the following candidates were elected to serve terms of three years on the Pi Board of Directors The Number of votes received by each candidate appear in parentheses Ann Lesnik 157 Mike Mellor 152 Pat Fauquet 149 A number of write in votes were cast but no valid candidate received more than 5 such votes short of the 3 percen
9. for example an iBook of July 1999 shaped like a colorful oversized Chiclet has almost nothing in com mon with the sleek white iBooks of today And it is for these sleek white powerhouses that the iBook Fan Book was written Subtitled Smart and Beautiful to Boot the iBook Fan Book is a fan book it sings the praises of the iBook but the bulk of the text is a nicely condensed users manual The new iBooks actually come with a printed user manual the original iBook came with a multi panel cross between a quick refer ence guide and a poster but it spends most of its time telling you how to use it or upgrade it The iBook Fan Book tells you briefly how to use it Less than six inches on a side and only 130 pages including introduction and index the iBook Fan Book is tiny and will easily slip into the slimmest carrying case It contains advice on the care and cleaning of the iBook good carry ing cases how to care for the screen and other physical maintenance tips It also talks about connecting to the Internet using Web browsers and Mail using the Address Book iCal Stickies the various iApps iPhoto iTunes iMovie and other basics A section on Extend your iBook s memory is really about storage and talks about USB keychain drives and iPods as places where you can stash stuff in a hurry and on the go It isn t a comprehensive guide to the iBook It won t tell you how to install additional RAM t
10. informative and professional presentation The live demo of the various new offerings by Adobe did much to illustrate the rich features of these premier ap plications I was inspired to learn more and have started counting my pennies so I can afford an other great application for my Mac Of course the meeting began with the usual question and answer session And because May is the month Pi members vote for five new mem bers of the Board of Directors there were two polling stations set up to accommodate any one who wanted to vote The culminating event the suspenseful drawing of door prizes and the raffle closed out the meeting This month the raf fle prizes were two copies of Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 as well as a new book from O Reilly Media three super prizes At this meeting we did have a problem with our monthly CD offering Pat Fauquet who la bors tirelessly each month downloading software and burning the CDs was ailing and unable to complete the monthly CD We hope Pat rebounds quickly so she can attend the Pi s annual picnic next month This event is a break from the usual meeting format and serves as a chance to have a little fun and socialize with other Pi Mac enthu siasts Check the Pi Web site for details and see you at Cabin John Regional Park Question and Answer Session John Barnes fielded questions from the audience this month When he was stumped or had in sufficient knowledge of the subj
11. more than enough information to also steal your identity Closing this series spiritual security or keeping the ghosts and demons of the network out of your Mac In September 2003 this F 16 fighter part of the U S Air Force Thunderbirds flight demon stration team crashed and exploded at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Mountain Home Idaho the victim of a mental security lapse No one was killed and the pilot sustained only minor inju ries but the 85 000 spectators were thoroughly terrified and the photographer deserves an award for steadfast nerves What was the error The pilot had practiced a Split S maneuver at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada which is 1 000 feet lower than Mountain His notes on how to perform the maneuver were not amended to take into account the higher elevation and he didn t have enough altitude to complete the maneuver While most mental security errors are less dra matic they can seem just as scary and costly if you are the victim Official Air Force pee ee Staff Sergeant Bennie J Davis II Washington Apple Pi Journal 13 radio SHARK an AM FM Radio With Recording for Your Mac 2005 Abe Brody and Lawrence I Charters When Steve Jobs prattled on about the digital lifestyle several years ago at Macworld most of the people in the audience were tolerant They had no idea what he was talking about yet lis tened politely so he d get on with his keynote and start talking a
12. needs to be done to help the Pi prosper in the new fiscal that started on the first of June The Early Days Many members hark back fondly to the early days of the Washington Apple Pi when its all day general meetings and SIG gatherings at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences were attended by hundreds of people and the swap meets were beehives of activity That the Pi was a family affair was aptly demon strated on days when children of members led the meetings At the time the computer was a fascinat ing object unto itself Those who were wealthy enough could put one together from a Heathkit Hobbyists invented plug in boards ranging from voltmeter interfaces to computer speech cards Mechanically adept individuals would install their own fans to cool their computers Out of necessity some Apple users programmed their own machines in Basic or Pascal Disks of the month on 5 1 4 floppies sold briskly Online message forums were text only and downloads were done with Xmodem or Kermit protocols There was a steady flow of goodies for members to glom onto at meetings From Disks of the Month to group purchases to door prizes from retailers and vendors Each item had its degree of novelty Evangelizing for a brand meant something in a very diverse market with competitors like Commodore Sinclair Atari and KayPro to mention just a few The idea that these gadgets would ultimately revolutionize of fice work an
13. others have done for them They are sharing their energy to advance the common cause Sharing the Pi One kind of sharing that all of us can practice is sharing the Pi with our friends and acquaintances This word of mouth advertising is our best recruiting tool Come August 12th we will be doing this on a grand scale at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair Come join us as we reach out to hundreds of thousands 26 Washington Apple Pi Journal No Longer With US by Bob Jarecke Secretary I found it shocking and saddening when I _ was informed of the death of a member whom I was trying to contact under No Member Left Behind I did my best to offer condolences and expressed my apology for not being aware of the loss of their loved one And so I would like to list the names of at least three Pi members who are no longer with us In Memoriam Lou Pastura 7576 Marianne Davis 6585 James Taylor 22239 of Fair visitors We will be working an Internet Cafe and some demonstration sessions Give us a hand if you possibly can Where the heck is the Pi The Hotline listing with the names and phone numbers of members who can provide help on a variety of computer issues can be found on the TCS http tcs wap org If you are having problems with your Pi account name or password visit http tcs wap org password for assistance July August 2005 Lost Members By Bob Jarecke h VP Membe
14. step isn t necessary Archive and Install This option will move your old Mac OS X system files and Apple in stalled applications iTunes iCal Address Book etc into a folder named Previous Systems and install a fresh copy of Tiger You can optionally choose to Preserve Users and Network Settings which will migrate your user accounts home di July August 2005 rectories and network settings but not anything that installs kernel extensions or other system software Under this option some special ap plications will have to be reinstalled to restore functionality e g Palm software Kensington Mouseworks StickyBrain plus a host of others Upgrade This option will update an exist ing Mac OS X system and Apple s applications in place It preserves user accounts network set tings and home directories It offers a greater possibility of dragging along leftover junk or broken software from the old Mac OS X instal lation While this theoretically can give you not quite as clean an installation as the Archive and Install option this is the way Apple designed the Tiger installer to work and for most users who meet a specific set of criteria it should provide a properly functioning Tiger upgrade with a mini mum of reinstallation hassles So for most situations you want to use ei ther the Archive and Install or Upgrade option How do you decide which is more appropriate Once again this requires some thinking and decis
15. using the pictures within some thing that will extend beyond your personal use Version Cue is also managed out of the Bridge and for those who didn t know what it was David explained it is essentially a WebDAV server right on your Mac You don t have to know anything about servers in any case and what it does is save every version of a file you are working on so you can go back and see the changes made Another cool feature is the ability July August 2005 to view video in Photoshop using the Bridge Next David showed us the Vanishing Point filter It solves some interesting problems by in corporating perspective into your photo editing The filter starts by building a perspective grid based on aligning it with some distinctive lines in the image such as the sides of a house Blue lines if it is correctly aligned should represent the final grid Any other color indicates that something is wrong your grid is out of align ment with the photo s perspective After covering more of Photoshop CS 2 David followed with some high points of Illustrator InDesign and GoLive all being the latest applications from Adobe s Creative Suite 2 David did an excellent job in demonstrating all of the Adobe software products proving his in depth knowledge of the subject matter His presentation style is relaxed and his presentation was never overly technical Also he was able to answer all questions in the same manner and everyone who a
16. work with your old software in the event these new binaries turn out to be less than compatible with older software versions Q What if my old PowerPC Mac dies and the only new Macs available are Intel At sometime in the future will I still be able to run my applications in Mac OS X A Yes Apple is offering software called Rosetta that will run on the new hardware It will be even more seamless than Classic no need to entirely boot an operating system In some cases the newest PowerPC Macs still will run these PowerPC applications faster than Rosetta according to current developer notes This is subject to change since Rosetta has not yet been finalized Q So what is left out A Classic From the sound of the keynote conference if your application only exists for the Classic environment or Mac OS 9 or ear lier you ll have to hold on to your older hard ware or get a used or refurbished PowerPC Mac in the future The Washington Apple Pi Reclamation Program can help you there and so can places like Smalldog com Macresq com and Powermax com all respectable mail order shops that deal in used and refurbished Macs So now is the time to pressure your software devel opers to look at migrating their applications to Mac OS X if they haven t already done so as suming you want to run a new Mac in the future The first Macs with Intel capability are planned to ship by June 2006 with the last new Pow
17. 4 Figure 6 Scheduling Event Details 1gure 4 radio SHARK Equalizer interface 5 Within the scheduling window pressing sliders to adjust the audio spectrum to your pref Settings allows you to set the sampling rate in erences for different types of audio When things kilobits per second kbps and encoding quality are the way you want it you save its setting and Figure 7 You can record the audio quality at give ita name a much higher rate of sampling than that used The scheduling window Figure 5 lets you by the iTunes Music Store and its competitors A add programs and schedule them any way you good sampling rate for most MPEG3 files is 192 want to If you want to add a schedule press kbps which sounds very similar to the 128 kbps the Add button and you ll get a new window and AAC encoding used on Apple s iTunes store Figure 5 where you can fill in the details Much Once you are done editing your selected like a VCR you can set the time date number of recordings they will appear in the scheduled repeats of the show and can also give names to portion of the schedule window Figure 5 and if July August 2005 Washington Apple Pi Journal 15 s Recording Bin ANY e Frey F igure 7 Setting the Audio quality you toggle to the recorded section Figure 8 you can see the recordings already made The re corded view also acts much like an iTunes playl ist in that it has a search field where you can type the name o
18. July August 2005 Washington Apple Pi Journal Volume 27 Number 4 Putting a Tiger in Your Tank 3 Mac OS X Server 10 3 Panther A Guide 7 What does Apple s Move to Intel Mean z 8 TE z a Mac Security Part Il Mental er ea c Security 13 Ee status Ustering radio Shark an AM FM Radio for 2 ses 685 tara April May General Meetings E oo DO 17 20 O ansioina President s Corner 24 R Upcoming Events IFC July 23 Hold That Tiger August 12 20 At the Fair August 27th Getting into Digital Photography Hold That Tiger Bring your Tiger upgrade questions Should I Which method How do I back up What about Classic What are my System Requirements Do I need more memory Should I partition my hard drive What about my current apps Will I have problems with my scanner and or printer Join some of the more intrepid animal trainers of the Washington Apple Pi as they discuss answers to these and other questions at our July General meeting July 23rd 2005 9 am to 11 30 am at the NVCC Ernst Cultural Center Forum 8333 Little River Turnpike Annandale VA 22003 For further information and directions visit http www wap org Join us at the Fair From August 12th to August 20th 2005 the Pi will be joining with the Capital PC User Group and Montgomery Com munity Television to operate an Internet Cafe and to provide other support for the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair 4 W
19. PE 3 for they are separate applications Another cool aspect of PE 3 was Photo merge David effortlessly stitched together several landscape photos and made corrections after merging these images Impressive quick and accurate David concluded by mentioning Adobe Photoshop products are used throughout educa tion systems Kids are learning Photoshop even before they get out of high school It was at this point we had time for a few questions and one member asked about exporting from iPhoto to Elements David answered that if you start in iPhoto PE 3 will save the image back to iPhoto David provided more detail on how well PE 3 and iPhoto work together He conceded that iPhoto does some things better than PE 3 such as slide shows PE 3 has a limited PDF slide show capability but iPhoto does this much better with transitions and other added features A final question concerned the difference between the Clone Stamp and the Healing Brush David an swered by demonstrating how the Clone Stamp tool worked demonstrating among other things that Clone Stamp has harder edges than the Healing Brush July August 2005 David then moved on to give the audience a look at the new version of Photoshop which is incorporated with other related Adobe applica tions in a consolidated product called Creative Suite 2 or CS 2 While this application was load ing he asked if everyone knew why the feather was selected to represent the Photoshop appli
20. Too bad we lost them Summarizing And a final comment I have had some rather interesting telephone conversations with fellow Pi members over the past nine months It was a real pleasure talking to several other Mac enthusiasts It was a little trying to hear from a member who felt they were mistreated by a rep resentative of the Pi there were more than one At this point there is little I can add except to say I found the process enlightening motivat ing and touching We are about to begin another calling campaign to our membership I challenge you to come forward join some fellow volun teers and make some calls to hear what your fel low club members have to say You can make a difference in the future successes of the Pi and trust me these fellow Pi members will love to hear from you Washington Apple Pi Journal 27 Who s In Charge Musical Chairs at the Pi Board of Directors By John Barnes Washington Apple Pi President Musical Chairs When the dust had settled and the Ballot Box seals on vote wap org were broken on May 31st we had three winners to fill the five available seats for three year terms on the Pi s Board of Directors These three people were the only ones of 17 nominees to accept the Election Committee s invitation to serve and they all re ceived many more than the minimum number of votes needed to be elected This left two seats vacant As officers for 2005 2006 the Board elected John Barne
21. Web with more in depth recom mendations I particularly recommend http www macdevcenter com or http macosx hints com for more technically detailed articles Mac OS X Server 10 3 Panther A Guide 2005 Lawrence I Charters For some good things you must wait Regan and White s excellent Visual QuickPro Guide Mac OS X Server 10 3 Panther made it on to bookshelves just a few weeks before Mac OS X 10 4 Server was released Fortunately it covers the basics of the server version of Mac OS X very well so not only is it a perfect guide for 10 3 but it will also serve as a good guide to Mac OS X Server 10 4 for some time to come Mac OS X Server is significantly more com plex and more difficult to learn than the stan dard desktop version of the operating system When Mac OS X was first introduced Steve Jobs made a big point of claiming that the regu lar version of Mac OS X and the server version came from the same code base This he said would make learning the software easier and make updating and patching it easier too To some degree he was correct but the fact is that Mac OS X Server is significantly more complex and more difficult to learn than the standard desktop version of the operating system Adding to the difficulty is the documen July August 2005 tation or lack of it The server comes with an LDAP server Web server mail server print server Windows file server Apple file server f
22. application manual He keeps the install authentication code written there as well As a final time saving tip keep a copy of all the ap plication updates in one place where they can be easily found or better yet burn them on a CD and store it alongside the original disc s A member asked if anyone else was hav ing a problem with burning a DVD from iMovie HD She was having a problem with the audio track not being included No one responded that they had a similar problem but many sugges tions came from the audience A discussion pro vided one valuable tip After the entire project is complete keep all the associated files photos movie clips and audio files in a separate dis tinct folder Now when you archive the project include this folder and you will have all the rel evant information in one location Another im portant suggestion was to keep ample hard drive space to allow for the addition of new applica tion files and updates This also helps the operat ing system as it needs room to maneuver when it July August 2005 goes about updating itself Hopefully the above tips will help provide you with the most stable and fun Mac OS to date The Main Event Adobe Applications David Helmly was our principal presenter and he discussed Photoshop Elements 3 and applica tions in the new version of Adobe Creative Suite David has over twenty years experience with Macs and he gave a great presentation that re
23. bout new software and hard ware But at least one group in the audience was listening designers from Griffin Technology They not only figured out what digital lifestyle meant but they also adopted Apple s odd nam ing convention of mixed case proper product names when they introduced the radio SHARK Great White Radio Recorder radio SHARK is a combination of whimsy and function The unit itself is shaped like a shark fin for no good reason at all aside from the fact that it looks cool Figure 1 It also has cool glowing lights on the side of the fin A USB cable allows you to attach the fin to a 400 MHz G3 or better Mac running Mac OS X 10 2 8 or higher the fin is powered by the computer over the USB cable Devotees of The Dark Side can also connect it to a 400 MHz or better Windows XP machine Aside from the fin which serves as radio anten nae and receiver the rest of the radio SHARK is pure software Figure 1 radio SHARK hardware 14 Washington Apple Pi Journal And what can you do with this software You can use it to eTune the radio SHARK to any AM 530 to 1710 kHz station eTune the radio SHARK to any FM 87 5 to 108 0 MHz station eListen to live radio through the speakers on your computer eRecord any AM or FM broadcast in real time or according to a schedule e Pause a live radio broadcast and return right where you left off eSet presets for favorite radio stations e Transfer recor
24. cation He proceeded to tell us it was because the feather was the first retouching tool used to modify photographs an interesting tidbit With Photoshop now opened the Welcome Screen was the first thing that appeared and David showed how it could be used to directly access tutorial help or What s New informa tion from the Web Another potentially great fea ture is called the Adobe Bridge It is a complete separate application that acts as the single focal point for all Adobe applications It has an RSS Real Simple Syndication reader access to the Adobe Help Center and Expert Support a fee based 7 days a week support option The Adobe Help Center incorporates Web support that gives the user access to all of Adobe s application Help information even if the application is not open This Web service accesses the very same sup port resources that Adobe uses As for Expert Support the cost is 149 per year but it will give you direct personal support i e a real person to answer your questions David did caution that Expert Support was not to be confused with creative support they will offer only application support You will have to get your creative ideas from within Additional aspects of the Adobe Bridge include training tutorials and forums It also al lows access to stock photos with seven different Stock Photo Houses David did caution there are some licensing issues so be careful if you are planning on
25. cording can be transferred to an iPod bringing Steve Jobs digital lifestyle to old fashioned radio radio SHARK 69 99 Griffin Technology http www egriffintechnology com prod ucts radioshark July August 2005 April 2005 General Meeting The iPod Revolution By Bob Jarecke Pi Secretary Almost Everything iPod April s general meeting held at Northern Virginia Community College focused on Apple s iTunes software and its hardware companion the iPod Add some cool and practical acces sories connect to the iTunes Music Store and you have a recipe for Digital Music Delight A handful of volunteer Pi members and a guest presenter talked about their personal experiences with iPods Accessories were demonstrated and an abundance of questions came up throughout the presentations The culminating event was the giveaways with an iPod shuffle donated by Mac Business Solutions as the grand prize And the shuffle winner was Joe Swick Congratulations es ears The Pi secretary gt and we loosely fol lowed an agenda that covered iTunes integration audible J books on the iPod in corporating the iPod in your automobile podcasting photos on Pat Fauquet oe the Pi JOU iPod and Radio CD of the Month Shark The meet ing began with the usual Question and Answer session Lawrence Charters a true fount of knowledge took the questions and provided knowledgeable answers In particular he offered a c
26. d life in American households was only a gleam in the eye of a few visionaries 24 Washington Apple Pi Journal Touching B p3 E Bs pe Rr sid ab aa gt A d T A ases with Helen Dilley In those early times Users Helping Users was almost the only way for computer owners to keep their heads above water This sharing was a dominant paradigm under which many people pitched in and built their user groups The core members of those groups knew each other and socializing was part of the glue that kept the group working together Of course those current Pi members who lived through those days were 25 years younger then with different priorities and different ener gies Times Have Changed As those early Pi members have matured so has the entire computing industry Ninety five per cent of desktop and laptop computers run on an operating system that is tightly controlled by a single mega corporation Computers are for the most most part commodity appliances with purchasing decisions driven mainly by price secondarily by hardware performance and only thirdly by the quality of the user experience While Apple Computer still sells innovative hardware that leads the leads the pack in design cachet the emphasis in computing seems to have shifted toward the applications that users em ploy to accomplish various tasks with their com puting appliances The emphasis in Users Helping Users seems to have shif
27. ded broadcasts to iTunes or to an iPod for replay away from your Mac Noted computer technology reviewer Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal called the ra dio SHARK TiVo for your radio The best way to show you how radio SHARK works is through pictures of the soft ware in action In Figure 2 you see the basic interface for radio SHARK There are six main buttons Band for switching between AM and FM Seek to find a strong signal automatically Rec for recording Sched for scheduling EQ for equalizing and TS for time shifting Additionally there is a tuning slider a volume slider and a presets menu Figure 2 radio SHARK basic interface July August 2005 88 5 Jazz Radio 90 9 WETA 91 5 Classic Radio Baltimore College 103 5 103 5 WGMS Scheduled Recorded 630 WAMU See ES 2 et See Figure 5 Scheduling window with two events already _ Add preset scheduled Note the buttons that allow the user to toggle E atii Edit presets beteeen scheduled events and those already recorded Figure 3 The popup Presets menu the recordings Figure 3 shows what happens when the preset menu is selected Once you find a station you want to keep you can add to it to the list of stations that pop up on the main screen You can remove unwanted stations with equal ease The eS eri igure ak snow yeu to move Y None Hourly Daily Weekly Weekdays Weekends Fi
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30. e not signing up for another year with the Pi Lessons Learned The answers were varied but over time a pattern developed with the comment I didn t use the services being the principal reason For others it was their perception the Journal July August 2005 was too techie they lacked funds or they had moved out of the area But in some other cases the member had intended to renew but for vari ous reasons they had not done so In these cases a new application was swiftly emailed or mailed to them and we saw these late applications trick le in We had saved the day Was it worth it With a success rate of some where near ten percent there are those who would say it wasn t worth the effort however with the information gained from direct contact First we learned that we are not marketing the Pi s services very well with members the program had some immea surable benefits First we learned we aren t marketing the Pi s services very well Next we heard from a select disgruntled few about what was wrong with the Pi or how they had been wronged Conversely there were some members who thought the Pi was great we were doing a good job no complaints But the key lesson I feel was people liked being asked their opin ions They appreciated being heard and it was so stated by many of them Finally the added benefit these members who had chosen not to renew had some really good things to offer
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32. e will need a substantial number of volunteers to staff the approximately 30 shifts that are involved This should be a fun opportunity to put the Pi s best foot forward to a whole mob of people Please send an e mail to vpvolunteers wap org to tell us when you are available Further details will appear on the Pi web site at www wap org as they become available Getting into Digital Photography Martin Schulman manager of the Ritz Camera store on Elm Street in Bethesda will give us a bunch of pointers on getting into digital photography In the photography business since 1983 and a professional photographer since 1990 Martin is well equippped to discuss choosing a camera and the things one needs to do to get good pictures Ritz Camera is a full service photgraphy outlet offfering processing services prints from digital media film and photography supplies as well as cameras and accessories August 27th 2005 9 am to noon at the BCC Regional Services Center 48095 Edgemoor La Bethesda MD 20814 For further information and directions visit http www wap org Mac Business Solutions Inc Proudly serving the Mac community since 1990 TEDRE DT Mdee Workflow T visit our m showromi i ie 9075 Gaither Road Gaithersburg MD 20877 301 590 2555 info mbsdirect co www mbsdirect com a fa gt E g A OU n SE ne h ae The z xy S RRA A wiit e E ee iu EA Ser ie fue BNE eae eens ee Plati
33. ect he solicited help from the Pi membership present The first question dealt with a Mac OS X problem and the response to this question was typical of what to do in many cases with Mac OS X application and July August 2005 file problems that is repair Permissions Much can be said for this simple yet effective solution that starts with opening the Disk Utility applica tion In fact you might consider having quick ac cess to it via an alias on the desktop or place its icon in the Dock Now you will be able to launch Disk Utility quickly do the verifying or repair ing and if it cured the problem move on to the task at hand We can spare the reader John s reply by referring them to Neil Laubenthal s exhaustive treatment of upgrade issues that starts on page 3 of this edition of the Pi Journal But sometimes John cautioned things still don t go as they should When doing the Archive and Install a folder labeled Previous Systems will be created and in it will be items the install process couldn t or wouldn t place in the System or Library folders If you have an application that will not launch or work properly check this folder to see if something needs to be put back manually And if this fails to fix the problem it may be time to find and reload the original ap plication install discs John explained how he takes the extra effort to tape each application install disc inside the back cover of the associ ated
34. end these messages I have this on the highest authority I m the Webmaster Instead these were sent out by a Windows based worm that was trying to infect other Windows machines If you had a Windows computer and ran the attached pro gram your computer would turn into a worm spewing zombie just like the one that sent you the message in the first place Keep a few common sense things in mind e You probably don t even have accounts with the banks firms etc sending the E mails July August 2005 e Even if you did banks and legitimate busi nesses send you security warnings via paper letters sent through the postal system not via E mail e You probably have never told your bank your E mail address If you do on line bank ing some computer somewhere knows your E mail address but this is not the same as the bank itself The bank will contact you via postal letter Above and beyond this don t give out any information you don t need to give out e Ifa Web site demands a name and E mail ad dress before it gives you say a free Acrobat document on computer security make one up A good one to use is the mythical william gates msn com living in the mythical town of Redmond WA e If you must give valid information to say your bank limit what you give out A Web site has no need of your Social Security num ber or your mother s maiden name or your birth date e Keep in mind that firms often sell
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36. erPC models leaving showrooms in December 2007 So there will be PowerPC Macs on the market for some time to come The migra tion process is relatively painless Leave a mes July August 2005 sage on the TCS call the Pi Phone robot for the software clinic or come by the Tuesday Night Clinic if you need help deciding on your migra tion process The Pi is here to help you make your migration to the new hardware as easy as possible Reference WWDC 05 Keynote Address as a QuickTime stream http www apple com quicktime qtv wwdc05 aged nPI Washington Apple Pi is more than just the Journal arriving in your mailbox It also offers exciting General Meetings and Special Interest Group SIG meetings special events such as the semi annual Computer Show and Sale Internet ISP services dial up connections E mail private Web space has active mailing list discussions offers one of the oldest most active Internet forums on the planet the ubiquitous TCS and one of the oldest Web sites Plug in to the Pi Pi calendar http calendar wap org Pi Web mail http mail wap org Pi store http store wap org Pi forums http tes wap org Pi Web site and portal hitp www wap org July August 2005 iBook Fan Book A Review 2005 Lawrence I Charters Apple has an irritating habit of calling all their computers a Power Mac a PowerBook an iBook or an iMac This is confusing since
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38. ext most common vulnerability to Macs mental security Part Il Mental Lapses Macs are less vulnerable to mental security laps es than Windows computers The Mac user in terface is designed to keep the user from making poor choices Non Mac using critics have called Mac users pampered and the interface cod dling since it hides so much complexity and ambiguity from the user but this same pamper ing coddling pretty face does keep the average user out of trouble 10 Washington Apple Pi Journal But using a Mac is all about having choic es and Apple does allow especially with Mac OS X the user to make bad choices sometimes spectacularly bad choices These mental errors can threaten not only the proper functioning of your Mac but also the integrity of the informa tion you store on your Mac Following good mental security can be summed up in four broad directives e Ifit seems like a bad idea don t do it e Ifitisn t working don t upgrade Fix it first e Ifthe design invites errors correct the design e Don t give out more information than neces sary All of these seem like sensible everyday guidelines Yet next to physical security lapses mental security lapses are the most common problems suffered by Macs and Mac owners Bad Ideas Generally speaking bad ideas usually come from a desire to save money Rather than throw out the 45 pound daisy wheel printer that you used with your
39. f the recorded radio show and it will limit the listings to those that match the search You can also add songs from your iTunes music library to play along side the recorded AM FM songs by pressing the Add button The radio SHARK preferences panel Figure 8 gives the listener control over many things that are only peripheral to recording audio The General tab controls the on screen color ap pearances of the software turning the lights on ez tints O Scheduled Recorded F igure 8 Scheduler window showing recorded streams 16 Washington Apple Pi Journal IOTI UIC Figure 9 radio SHARK preferences window show ing General preferences See text for the meaning of the other preference tabs the fin on or off the sort order for radio pre sets and the name of the radio SHARK playlist The time shift preferences provide Tivo like con trol over how much live audio is stored which in turn allows you to pause rewind and skip a live broadcast Other preferences control set tings for instant recording the default directory for recordings and how the radio SHARK scans for radio stations Throw in the cool blue lights and the shark fin shape Figure 10 and the radio SHARK may be the most configurable radio you ve ever used radio SHARK recordings stored in the iTunes library can be played and manipulated just like any other iTunes file And of course once in the iTunes library any re
40. hanged and then by selecting the tool it clears up the area selected When used in combination with other tools who knows what will disappear from some of your photos Neat no more mother in law Photoshop Elements 3 is now doing 16 bit color and will accept camera RAW images David explained that choosing to work with RAW gives the user the equivalent of a digital 22 Washington Apple Pi Journal negative By having the ability to work with raw images Photoshop Elements 3 and Photoshop can manipulate many of the variables of the photo before it is turned into the more com mon JPEG format we are accustomed to using a powerful feature Another feature Shadow Highlight now has midrange control It is a little more exact and it will save you lots of time Adjusting midtone contrasts this way will help you get better results with a variety of printers The Filter Gallery has filters that can create some amazing results and now you can mix these fil ters to produce fun and interesting results David showed us Elements has the ability to divide multiple scanned photos Now if you have a bunch of photos to scan and you want to save some time place several on the scanner bed scan them into PE 3 and it can divide them up into single images that you can then manipu late to your hearts content As this feature was shown to us David illustrated that you can do similar manipulations in the browser or in the main editing page of
41. he manual that came with the iBook covers that But if you want a quick portable attractive guide to using the iBook the iBook Fan Book may be just what you need and no more Derrick Story iBook Fan Book O Reilly 2005 xvi 104 pp 14 95 ISBN 0 596 00861 9 http www oreilly com Washington Apple Pi Journal 9 Mac Security Physical Mental and Spiritual Part Il Mental Security 2005 Lawrence I Charters If you have a computer you need to know about computer security This is the considered opinion of not only computer security experts and user group gurus but also such mainstream publica tions as The Washington Post USA Today and Time magazine Computer security risks fall into three distinct realms e Physical physical security is protecting the physical and electronic components of your computer including physical access to your machine e Mental mental security can be summed up as don t do dumb things e Spiritual most computer users have no idea what happens once they connect a computer to a network including a simple network of one computer to one printer Spiritual secu rity is protecting your computer from those unseen unsuspected demons and things that seem to come into your machine from no where at all In Part I of this series Washington Apple Pi Journal May June 2005 we discussed the most common security threats to Macs physical threats In this part we will discuss the n
42. her such device It is more compact and streamlines with the end of the iPod Finally in keep _ ing with an impairment a be sub theme Dick showed a4 us how he listens to faa his iPod by attaching it X AN to his hearing aid His A hearing aid has a mi _ crophone jack so he can plug the iPod directly eat V into his hearing aid Now it isn t perfect be F cause hearing aids are designed to cover sound in the range of speech and do not cover the bass frequencies there fore the lows in music just don t come through Although this seems like an aspect of the iPod that is unique to Dick and other hearing im paired members it does serve to show that the limits of iPod use are expandable What will we do next with them look at photos You bet Dick Rucker demoing the use of a hearing aid iPod photo Lawrence Charters made the next presentation with his gigantic sixty gigabyte iPod photo which will hold scads of pictures in addition to a huge music library And with Lawrence being a self professed photo junkie it appears sixty gi gabytes someday may not be enough As a com puter network manager Lawrence places many of his work files and data on this iPod Also he July August 2005 has an entire operat ing system loaded on it a capability that aids him greatly in his work Again we see the versa tility of this little device that can serve as a very f large yet extremely por
43. his contact list and calendar on his person His twenty gigabyte iPod serves that purpose quite well as he can synchronize these two database files directly to his iPod via the iSync applica tion Mac OS X 10 3 and above And having a Mac account made it all possible Particularly impressive is the scroll wheel that allows zipping through nearly eight hundred addresses in about five turns while retaining the capability to slow down the scroll and fine tune the search to an ex act address Dick then proceeded to the main topic iPod accessories for your car He first showed us the TuneDok iPod holder from Belkin and he recom mended it Next was the iTalk iPod voice record er from Griffin Technologies He and Lawrence July August 2005 treated us to a test recording but lacking an immediate method to play it back so everyone could hear it he moved on to the next item the PodFreq from Sonnet Technologies This is a quality device that couples with your iPod to broadcast your iPod s music to an FM radio To demonstrate he connected the two items did some finagling and shortly we heard Lawrence s voice over the radio s speakers saying testing testing Dick pointed out that PodFreq has a tunable frequency capability that adds simplic ity to the task The PodFreq also features a stand built into the bottom so the encased iPod will stand upright with the antenna extended The iTrip device from Griffin Technologies is anot
44. informa tion they collect So if a site absolutely insists on a bunch of irrelevant personal informa tion make it up You won t mind them sell ing fiction to someone else e One common data harvesting technique used by legitimate sites is the personal question with personal answer technique used for verifying identity of lost passwords and such In this technique entirely legitimate the site might ask for your birth date But since the business might sell the birth date don t give them your birth date Give the birth date of your pet hamster Or see if the site accepts chocolate as a birth date Everyone knows things go better with chocolate Matter of Habit Good mental security is a matter of habit Take the time to do things properly fix things that are broken and if a little voice suggests what you are about to do is silly listen to that little voice July August 2005 While you don t want to descend into paranoia and assume everyone out there is a scam artist a nefarious business or a terrorist it doesn t hurt to give out as little personal information as pos sible Combine good mental security with good physical security at every opportunity For ex ample doing your income taxes on a laptop is inherently less secure than doing them on a desktop computer All someone has to do is steal your laptop to not only gain a nice laptop com puter but also your income tax data which pro vides
45. inish True you do not have as much control as you do on a larger iPod but if you lose your place you are able to plug it into your Mac select the iPod shuffle in iTunes and reset the book file Specifically select the shuffle under the Edit menu Clear the file Next select the book file you were listening to in your Library and in the progress window reset the position diamond to where you want the shuffle to start Last reload the file on the shuffle Now when you begin 18 Washington Apple Pi Journal yt a oe eee Z ee lw ee ee ria An E a oka IAR ros a Mike Mellor describing ti he ins and outs O Podcasting playing the audible book will start at the point you designated Podcasting Next Mike Mellor presented a short briefing on podcasting If this topic rings a bell it is be cause Mike talked about it briefly during a recent monthly meeting that focused on open source software This time Mike gave a slide presenta tion using Open Office the guy is consistent isn t he However rather than recap the materi al here I recommend reading the last issue of the Journal May June 2005 Vol 27 No 3 where starting on page eight Mike details the ins and outs of Podcasting iPod Car Accessories Our club finance director Dick Rucker began by pointing out that listening to music on his iPod wasn t his first priority What he really needed was a device that allowed him to carry
46. ion making on your part Archive and Install will give you a slightly cleaner upgrade but may require more reinstallation of various system enhancements Upgrade skips the rein stallation of enhancements but may result in a slightly less stable system My recommendation is that for most users Upgrade is the easiest path if all of the following prerequisites are met eNo preexisting known system problems eDisk Utility was fully successful verifying the disk and repairing permissions eAll third party software updates required for the new system have been installed e Adequate backup If these prerequisites are met then an up grade install will provide the greatest likeli hood of a successful upgrade If not choose the Archive and Install with Preserve Users and Network settings checked Classic I m not going to go into detail here about Classic other than to say that if you use or need Washington Apple Pi Journal 5 Classic you should already have a classic System Folder and Applications Mac OS 9 folder on your drive If you re not choosing the Erase and Install option then your existing Classic setup will continue functioning If you are repartitioning as part of the upgrade the setup of Classic could be more difficult but that is really beyond the scope of this article Briefly just backup the Mac OS 9 System Folder and the Applications Mac OS 9 folders and restore them after the installation is com
47. irewall Domain Name Service DHCP server FTP server and a whole bunch of other services but the printed guide does little more than tell you how to run the installer For documentation you must visit Apple s Web site and download megabytes worth of PDF files The PDF files in turn are not cross indexed so it is very easy to miss the interdependencies of the various servic es Were you to print out all the PDF files you d consume several reams of paper Or you could grab this single volume com plete with an integrated index and advance quickly along the learning curve Unlike far too many advanced guides the authors limit them selves to what is actually included in Mac OS X Server and avoid discussing or requiring the use of various add on packages Want to run the Web server They tell you how using nothing more than what is included on the installation disc Want to set up DNS Again they tell you how to use what is on the installation disc rather than editorialize on the relative merits of some thing else Because they are treating Mac OS X Server as an integrated set of services they take pains to explain for example why you should set up DNS services before you set up file and Web services Everything is illustrated in the usual Visual QuickStart or QuickPro in this case style so there is no ambiguity about what button to push or what screen is being discussed Taken as a whole the book covers its subject we
48. ive in your Mac then you have two options First you can send the DVD back to Apple along with a handling 6 Washington Apple Pi Journal fee they will send you a CD ROM version of Tiger Second if you have another Mac avail able with a DVD drive you may depending on the model be able to put the other Mac into FireWire Target Disk Mode and connect it to the Mac without a DVD drive with a FireWire cable If this makes no sense ask for help on the TCS If you ve decided to partition your drive select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu Once Disk Utility has launched select your physical drive on the left pane then the Partition tab Select the desired number of partitions give them names and adjust sizes to your desires by dragging the divider between the partitions To follow my standard recommendation select 2 partitions and drag so that the lower partition is 5 GB or the smallest you can make it Name the partitions I recommend using short names with no spaces in them they re easier to type in ter minal if you do any terminal work Deselect the Install Mac OS 9 Drivers checkbox This option has nothing to do with the use of Classic Once you re partitioned your drive if nec essary exit Disk Utility and continue with the installation of Tiger Click on the Options button at the main screen in the installer and choose your selected installation type Upgrade Archive and Install with or without Preserve Users a
49. l the details here I refer the reader to an article elsewhere in this edition of the Journal Raffle and Closing Comments We concluded our meeting with several door prizes and three raffle prizes Bill Bailey procured two of the raffle prizes two publications regard ing the iPod from Peach Pit Press The Grand Prize was an iPod shuffle that was donated by Mac Business Solutions The members who came forward to claim their door prizes were Skip Dye Abe Brody Merson Booth Clifton Bailey Jim Little and Richard Allen Raffle book winners were Alex Maish and Darla Danford And the grand prize winner of the iPod shuffle was Joe Swick Congratulations to all Joe Swick with his iPod Shuffle We quickly wrapped up the meeting with a reminder of the next meeting and its topic Everyone was also reminded of the usual gath ering at the Pizza Hut for food and more good conversation Special thanks to everyone who participated in the April meeting and making it informative thought provoking and fun Want an Inexpensive Dialup ISP 56 kbaud generous web space help from real people E mail office wap org for more info 20 Washington Apple Pi Journal May 2005 General Meeting Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 and More By Bob Jarecke Pi Secretary May s general meeting held at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale proved to be enlightening and motivating A local Adobe rep resentative Dave Helmly gave us an
50. ll There are times when you might wish it delved into something more deeply but at 459 pages with absolutely no fat it is already a lean but meaty feast Unless you are dealing with some of the newly introduced features of Mac OS X 10 4 Server such as the blog server and ac cess control lists it is also an excellent reference for the new Tiger software too Highly recommended Schoun Regan and Kevin White Visual QuickPro Guide Mac OS X Server 10 3 Panther Peachpit 2005 xii 459 pp 29 99 ISBN 0 321 24252 1 Washington Apple Pi Journal 7 What does Apple s move to Intel mean By Abe Brody On June 6 2005 Apple s CEO Steve Jobs came up on the World Wide Developers Conference keynote stage to make what probably is the most significant announcement in Apple s history Apple is moving the brain of the computer to an Intel chip Many of our members are familiar with how past transitions as Steve Jobs calls them have gone A certain amount of fear and uncertainty comes with any transition If you watched the keynote online see link at the end many of the reasons for such fears are unfound ed Apple has thought out how to deal with this move and make it as smooth as possible An ad ditional aspect of this move is that it may mean benefits for Windows users who would like to switch to the Mac Below are some questions and answers based on my understanding of the keynote an nouncement Q I have a
51. n Apple Pi 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 Change of Address should reach us 60 days in advance of the move to ensure that your Journals continue uninterrupted Deadlines Writers submissions amp ad copy July Aug 2005 irisse June 1 Sept Oct 2005 sisssssss August 1 Managing Editor John Barnes john barnes wap org Macintosh Reviews Editor Lawrence Charters macedi tor wap org Photo Editor Richard Sanderson richard sandersoncomputer com July August 2005 Putting a Tiger in Your Tank Upgrading your Mac By Neil Laubenthal So you have your Mac OS X 10 4 Tiger DVD ROM in hand or the CD ROMs if you send off to Apple to get them instead of the DVD that came in the distribution box and you re ready to install Tiger All you need now is a little as sistance in getting over any fear you might have about doing something technical Well this ar ticle will point you down the path towards Tiger nirvana and guide you through the upgrade and installation It s actually pretty easy although there are a number of steps in the process it should be very easy to accomplish for even the most novice user First make sure your Mac meets the instal lation requirements for Tiger eA G3 G4 or G5 processor eA DVD drive unless you ve sent off to Apple for the CD version of Tiger eBuilt in FireWire eAt least 256 MB of RAM eAt least 3 GB of free disk space 4 GB if you want to install
52. n excuse they were too busy to fix the problem or didn t have the time or didn t want to take the trouble Yet on these Web sites it is invariably without fail Apple s fault that this upgrade or update didn t magi July August 2005 cally fix whatever problem the user didn t bother to try and fix Don t update or upgrade your machine unless and until everything is working You wouldn t expect a broken refrigerator to sud denly start working just because you d puta month s worth of groceries in it or new tires to fix a broken radiator hose on your car Fix the problems first Bad By Design Apple has made some poor design errors over the years The Hall of Shame award goes to Apple s decision to use the Trash Can as a means of ejecting floppies and CD ROMs and unmounting disks Associating storage with de struction was a bad idea in 1984 and it is stilla bad idea in 2005 But users also have design errors particu larly in workflow Generally speaking if your method of doing something doesn t work it is a mental security lapse and you should stop do ing that While there are endless possible examples let s just stick with one taking and storing pho tos with a digital camera It is an iron clad rule that you can t take a great photo unless you have a camera so the first rule in photography is have a camera The second rule is have plenty of film The third rule is don t futz with yo
53. nd Network Settings as desired or Erase and Install Click the Continue button and then select Customize All users should choose a Custom installa tion instead of Apple s standard one if only to see the options In the Customize screen dese lect printer drivers for printer models you do not use but do install the GIMP printer drivers as they allow printing in an emergency to most printers You can eliminate the Additional Fonts choice if you don t need to work in Cyrillic Hebrew Chinese or other foreign languages and can eliminate the Language Translations as well or else choose only the ones applicable to how you use your Mac Choose X11 if you think you may want to use any open source applications ported from the Unix environment it s only about 100 megabytes in size Once you ve made your choices click Install and go have a beer while the installation goes July August 2005 on The install DVD will be verified first in a rather lengthy process followed by installation of your selected options At the end the system will reboot into Tiger and run a registration process If you performed an Erase and Install you will have to recreate user accounts install other ap plications and customize your Mac to your taste Now that wasn t so hard was it For additional assistance with anything in this article I can be contacted via the TCS email or the Pi hotline In addition there are numerous articles on the
54. num Reseller Professional Video Products Apple Specialist d ua Ge Authorized Service Center A A 0 e authorized abuts EPSON graphics reseller Blackmagicdesig 7 Canon Authorized Training Center cl Washington Apple Pi s e e 24 hour General Meeting Communications System http ics wap org Open to all Pi members And view your mail over the Web at http mail wap org July August 2005 Washington Apple Pi Journal 1 Noms As ies Volume 27 May June 2005 Articles Putting a Tiger in Your Tank Upgrading your Mac Neil Ee TERIAL RR and a cas EE OT AAE A A anintveeeee 3 Mac OS X Server 10 3 Panther A Guide Lawrence Charters 7 What does Apple s move to Intel mean Abe Brody u cecccecesereeeee 8 IBOOK Fair BOOK EAtgrence CHATS errcensoresrarsvareassnssnaniesartspioeksiieeses 9 Mac Security Physical Mental and Spiritual Part II Mental E EIAN RT PIG 0 AT AE VE E T EN 10 radio SHARK an AM FM Radio With Recording for Your Mac ah Abe Brodipand Laurence To Cuarteraceiscssuisvscsescsevessveossvexectessserses A April 2005 General Meeting The iPod Revolution Bob Jarecke 17 May 2005 General Meeting Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 and More Bop Jaike saan adip eran A 20 Fresident s Corners OM BUITIES saranen N AAE A 24 No Longer With Us Bop Jarecke ici esiseinas 26 Lost Members Bob arecke siswcsccsnasceccsscoessiaviseetuisncsssseunsiteasbitsvaneiaceds 27 G
55. om filled with loud rau cous music demonstrating the amazing sound from and simplicity in using this tiny tiny digital music player A short Keynote slide show using music by Frank Sinatra and Phil Collins incorporated with slides of various iPod models and some of the many iPod accessories followed the introduction iPods are not necessarily standalone gad gets they need company The iTunes application and iTunes Music Store iTMS are integral to using an iPod without them it is just an expen sive and fancy portable hard drive Integration with the iTMS is seamless and easy just plug and play as they say A couple of questions sur faced one about sharing music among multiple users of a household There are a couple ways to share your music on a Mac Besides selecting the Share my music option in iTunes Preferences it was suggested the music could be placed ina shared folder like a user s Public folder Music collections could also be placed on another drive internal or external and then each intended user can designate the path to this music in the Advanced setting in iTunes Preferences Once again the iTunes software is well designed to Washington Apple Pi Journal 17 make the music listening experience painless Listening to Books on the iPod Tim Finan a work associate of Abe Brody spoke to the audience next Tim is visually im paired and he gave us a little history of how having a sight impedimen
56. only do our best to respond to it in a prudent and measured manner Stemming the Outflow The No Member left Behind NMLB program that Bob Jarecke shepherded last fiscal year dis covered that most people who failed to renew their Pi memberships did so because they were not using the Pi services When pressed a little more closely most of them revealed that they knew little or nothing of the Pi s offerings Some had signed up for a discount on a tutorial and never got beyond that into our other offerings These non renewing members represented a loss of between 15 and 30 members each month Eighty percent or so of existing members did renew and there was a monthly influx of from 5 to 10 new members so that our net rate of loss over the year was on the order of 20 percent July August 2005 We obviously need to make our members more engaged in taking advantage of what their dues bring them The Pi devotes an enor mous amount of its energy to attempting to communicate with its members Our web site our electronic message forums our SIGs and our mailing lists Finally there is the Pi Journal which gets to everyone who supplies us with a correct mailing address These passive tools are clearly not enough For fiscal year 2005 2006 Bob Jarecke has taken up the mantle of VP for Membership and is reinventing NMLB in the form of expiring Members Advance Calls with an acronym of xMAC until someone comes up with a bette
57. ouple of informa tion gems One dealt with the issue of a faulty Jaz drive highlighting the need to back up and archive data Lawrence highly recommended using CD ROM discs instead of Jaz or Zip drive cassettes or DVD ROM discs CD ROMs were designed as an archival format guaranteed by some manufacturers to last at least ten years while the others are not The other gem of information was in re sponse to a question about how often to check July August 2005 Verify permissions Lawrence explained that when using Mac OS X 10 2 and below it is im portant to check permissions This is done by opening the Disk Utility program selecting the computer s hard drive and hitting the Verify but ton If there are any errors noted in the process they can be immediately corrected by hitting the Repair button There was a followup question about repairing permissions before and after you do any major software updating This too is a good technique especially if the software is a product of Microsoft according to Lawrence We had a lively Q amp Asession and as usual I learned something I do especially like this por tion of our monthly meetings but let s get on with the show iTunes and the iTunes Music Store I began the main portion of the meeting by plug ging the room s public address system cord into a tiny white device the size of a stick of gum By pressing a large round button on the face of this Apple product the ro
58. plete then select the system folder for Classic booting in the System Preferences application Personally I can t remember the last time I needed Classic and on my PowerBook have rel egated the entire Classic and Applications Mac OS 9 folders to a disk image which I would mount if needed If you really need Classic and don t know how to keep it while upgrading please ask for additional information on the TCS or via the Pi Hotline there are too many variables involved to try to cover every situation in this article Install OK now that all the hard decision parts are out of the way backups made and permissions re paired let s get to the actual installation If you have any external FW drives discon nect them prior to installation In some rare cas es Mac OS X upgrades or updates have caused some strange problems with third party FW drives While problems are unlikely it s easier to just eliminate any possibility by unplugging the drive and it also eliminates any possibility of upgrading the wrong drive Put the Tiger DVD into the drive and reboot the Mac with the C key held down Release the key when you see the blue background The system will load from the DVD and present you with a language selection dialog select your pre ferred language and click the arrow After anoth er couple of screens of license and acknowledge ment you ll be presented with the main installer screen If you don t have a DVD dr
59. r one As the name implies the xMAC team will start contacting members two months prior to their expiration date to sound them out about their feelings regarding the Pi We hope that we can retain more members if we keep in bet ter touch with what they know and what they want Finding Our Niche The thing that stands out about the apparently successful application oriented user groups mentioned above is that each of them serves a small niche but one that is vital to some people who earn a living with their computers as well as to the people who sell them the software The fact is that these are really vendor forums rather than Users Groups Membership is usually free with the costs borne by the ven dors and the work done by local partners If the Pi occupies any niche at all it one in which we assist each other in becoming more resourceful with the thing that is at the root of it all our Macintosh computers The mantra becomes Users Helping Users to Help Themselves When it comes to help there is a spectrum that runs from pure givers to pure receivers with all kinds of intermediate cases If this model is to work those on the giving end need to adjust their modus operandi to the needs of the recipients Different people have different capacities for knowledge and ways of absorb ing it Washington Apple Pi Journal 25 Those on the receiving end need to invest of themselves in the learning process The real rewa
60. rd for those who pass their knowledge on to others is seeing people grow in their enjoyment of the things they can do with their computers While the Pi does a lot to help members keep their computers running membership does not get one a service contract for one s comput ing appliance If our organization does not foster a sense of community through personal interactions it will eventually become disembodied To many of our members the Pi is a community of people whose shared common interest in Apple and Macintosh computers brings them together socially I will always have fond memories of trips to MacWorld conventions in the company of Pi members The denizens of the TCS often share family events or experiences with their pets Our general meetings are intended at least partly as social opportunities The picnic is almost entirely about socializing We sponsor these kinds of thing because we think it is important to know the persons as well as their deeds Sharing the Grunt Work There are quite a few tasks that are anything but fun but that are essential to keeping the Pi s wheels turning There is a small team in the Front Office that processes membership transactions They are helped by others who fold documents and stuff envelopes Working in a group softens some aspects of this as it lets them share stories and companionship while doing essential work In part their work expresses their appreciation for the things that
61. rive so that you have a bootable backup using Carbon Copy Cloner Disk Utility PSyncx or another utility or a back up of just your Users folder Without knowing exactly how you have your Mac set up specific recommendations aren t possible but gener ally speaking multiple backups are better than a single one bootable backups are better than compressed ones that you can t boot from and full backups are better than partial backups However if backup space is a consideration and you have all the original CD media for re installation of your various applications as well as any required serial numbers and if you have your shareware registration numbers then a full compressed backup probably isn t necessary In my case I keep all of my data documents on a file server and not on my main work machine a PowerBook My Users directory is synced up to the fileserver daily so my backup for Tiger installation consisted of cloning my drive to two separate partitions on an external FireWire FW drive At a bare minimum you should have a copy of the Users folder from your hard drive burned off to a CD or copied to another drive just in case Washington Apple Pi Journal 3 Repair Next you need to make sure that your current installation is in good shape so that you re not upgrading on top of a damaged or broken system If you re going to use the Erase and Install option for the actual upgrade this step isn t strictly necessary
62. rship 2004 2005 Secretary This past year has been an interesting one for Pi membership From the very beginning of the ten ure of the 2004 Board of Directors a downward trend was membership was noticed Without real accurate membership information from years past estimated losses were an average of fifteen per month Membership was below 1300 declin ing and something had to be done No Member Left Behind Ideas to increase membership were offered and they ran the gamut from proactive activi ties to passive solicitations such as walking bill boards in the Metro approaching Apple Store customers or placing Pi brochures in public li braries But these ideas and most others only fo cused on gaining new members Then someone came up with the idea that we might do better if we just tried to save the members we had and thereby the No Member Left Behind program was conceived I challenge you to come forward join some fellow volunteers and make some calls to hear what your fellow club members have to say How did it work Simply put a few select volunteers were furnished lists of recently ex pired memberships They were given limited written instructions and then asked to contact the lapsed members The program started in earnest with the June 2004 list and continued through to February of 2005 Hundreds of iCards and emails were sent out and probably three times that number of phone calls made to find out why folks wer
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64. s and Dick Rucker to second terms as President one abstaining vote and Treasurer respectively Bob Jarecke was elected as VP for Membership Mike Mellor as VP for Programs and Pat Fauquet as VP for publicity No one agreed to serve as Secretary so that Bob Jarecke is wearing that hat in a temporary acting capac ity As of press time a search is underway for a person to perform this vital role The new Board then appointed Bill Hanrahan who had stepped forward as vol unteer to fill one of the vacant at large seats A couple of days later Mike Mellor announced that he would have to step down because his job was calling him back to Alaska Pat Fauquet felt that she could do a better job as VP for Programs and Abe Brody agreed to act as VP for Publicity We have since recruited Jim Little as VP for Volunteer Services Where Things Stand The current list of Board members elected of ficers and major department heads is shown on the facing page p 29 of this issue We still lack a Secretary All organizations have trouble recruiting secretaries and treasur ers Similarly it almost seems that one has to be a trained Human Relations specialist to function 28 Washington Apple Pi Journal as a VP for Volunteer Services Even under the best of circumstances a BoD membership of fifteen people the number if the BoD were at full strength would require each member to keep pretty busy Six of the thirteen BoD members are serving in
65. shing is the spelling challenged name given to a popular computer scam with many variations In a phishing attack the scammer claims to have some piece of informa tion and asks you for other pieces in order to a claim a prize b swindle some corrupt govern ment out of funds c repair damage to your credit caused by someone breaking into a bank s computers etc Many of us receive several messages per day offering to transfer some fabulous sum into our bank account if we will only share the num ber with some unfortunate individual Following news reports of some problems with eBay s online security billions of E mail messages went out worldwide and still more go out every day claiming that the recipient s eBay account has been compromised All the recipient needed to do to restore their credit was to imme diately click on the link provided which would take them to a Web site where their identity could be re confirmed These of course were scams fishing for information in order to steal the recipient s identity credit card numbers PIN numbers etc There are countless variations and new ones crop up every day This year Washington Apple Pi members have even received messages alleg edly from webmaster wap org claiming that their accounts are going to be dropped un less they run an enclosed program But the Pi Webmaster has no authority access or respon sibility for any accounts and didn t s
66. sked a question received a well stated answer Door Prizes and the Raffle The meeting concluded with several door prizes and the raffling of three great prizes The win ners of sundry Mac related items were Mary Ditmeyer Jean Wade Clifton Bailey Bob Manka Abe Brody Mike Potts Cheryl Lavoie Aaron Burghardt and Allen Denette Bill Bailey a Pi director who works vendor relations obtained the first raffle prize from O Reilly Media a book entitled iMovie HD and iDVD 5 The Missing Manual by David Pogue Russ Hatch won this item The next two raffle prizes Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 were graciously donated by Adobe and Dick Sanderson and Hal Cauthen came forward and claimed their brand spanking new copies of this impressive software Good go ing congratulations to all With the formal portion of the meeting over John Barnes reminded everyone there were two polling stations open for voting and the lines were short I think most folks would agree we had another enjoyable Saturday morning with a great presentation Washington Apple Pi Journal 23 President s Corner Back to the Future By John Barnes Washington Apple Pi President For the past several years the Pi has been un dergoing a metamorphosis Faced with a long history of declining membership numbers and declining revenues its leaders have been doing the best they can to reinvent the organization Now seems like a good time to look ahead and see what
67. t made reading dif ficult but despite this he has grown to love literature However life became a joy when au dible books arrived He is now able to listen to the many writings he so thoroughly enjoys His books became even more accessible when he pur chased an iPod and was able to download new audible books directly from the Internet Tim provided a few slides that showed how to down load reading material from Audible Com on a PC The methodology is very similar on a Mac Tim became a regular subscriber 14 95 per month which entitles him to one novel a month as well as one periodical subscription He ex plained how books recorded by distinguished readers added so much more to the story For people who can t read poetry the squiggly short uneven lines how do I read this Tim sug gests If you listen to poetry it makes a lot of sense Tim was an interesting guy and he gave me a new appreciation for the joy of reading books and listening to them as well Tim s talk prompted several questions One question concerned the size of audible books and Tim commented they did not take up very much space An example one audible book that is six hours and twenty two minutes long equals an 87 MB file Most book files are small enough to fit on the smaller of the two shuffles Also this tiny iPod model can be set to play files in se quence despite its name so you should be able to hear the book being read from start to f
68. t of ballots cast that would be needed to gain election Respectfully submitted Cheryl Lavoie Chair 2005 Pi Election Committee July August 2005 Officers and Board of Directors President John Barnes president wap org Secretary Vacant Treasurer Dick Rucker treasurer wap org VP Programs Pat Fauquet vpprograms wap org VP Volunteer Services Jim Little jim little wap org VP Publicity Abraham Brody vppublicity wap org VP Membership Bob Jarecke vpmembership wap org Directors William Bill Bailey wbailey3 cox net Cynthia Cole cynthia cole wap org Craig Contardi craig contardi wap org Bill Diffley bdiff mac com Bill Hanrahan william hanrahan verizon net Ann Lesnik alesnik mac com Nancy Little nancy little wap org 2 Vacant seats terms ending 2008 Volunteers Telecommunications Committee Chair Paul Schlosser pauls wap org Webmaster Lawrence Charters webmaster wap org Mac Editor Review Editor Lawrence Charters maceditor wap org Tuesday Night Clinic Jim Ritz jim ritz wap org Calendar Editor David Harris david harris wap org July August 2005 Contacting Washington Apple Pi Contact Washington Apple Pi Ltd 12022 Parklawn Drive Rockville MD 20852 Business Office 301 984 0300 Web address www wap org e mail address office wap org Office hours Please check the listings for Volunteer Days at calendar wap org These ses sions ar
69. teach them to define and organize a site and guide them through the creation of a table based layout that uses Cascading Style Sheets for all design and presentational elements Session 2 This second level course will take stu dents deeper into the productivity features of Dreamweaver such as templates libraries be haviors assets snippets and extensions We will continue work on our CSS table based layouts and turn them into templates that will form the basis of a complete site Mac OS X Driving School Prerequities Pi membership demonstrable intermediate to advanced Mac OS X skills Cost To be Determined Schedule To be arranged with students Instructors John Barnes Bob Jarecke Nancy Little This is an experimental course intended to help people who are intermediate to proficient in the Mac skills gain full mastery over the Mac OS X user interface and applications that run under it Learn how to stay on the track and avoid crashing and burning as you speed through cy berspace The course seeks to provide users with rools that they can use to expand their know eldge rather than recipes for repetitive tasks Most users need to improve their visual 30 Washington Apple Pi Journal awareness and awaken their curiosity if they are to feel comfortable in the driver s seat Good re flexes are also a must This course seeks to foster self reliance through fundamental understanding of the file system customization of th
70. ted in the same direction The most successful modern user groups seem to be those supported by application vendors Apple s Final Cut Pro AppleWorks and Adobe s July August 2005 Photoshop and InDesign are examples of prod ucts that seem to have thriving user groups The Competition Many of the tasks that Macintosh User Groups MUGs used to perform are now carried out in Apple Stores via AppleCare on the net and in community colleges teaching Adobe Creative Suite on dual processor G5ds and so on In the early days the Internet was the province of a few select academic and government laboratories Nowadays information on almost any topic is only a Google away 24 7 and Sherlock takes the user directly into the depths of Apple s knowl edge base with a simple search Informal discussions in user group settings have been replaced by diverse and voluminous Missing Manuals and other publications that help users work their way through complex ap plications The built in help for most applications has been greatly improved Today s resourceful users can satisfy their needs from many sources that are more convenient than a visit to a mes sage board or a phone call to a Hotline expert Many people to whom I have spoken argue and can cite statistics to prove that the world has changed in ways that diminish people s willing ness to share That may be but it is a factor over which the Pi leadership has no control We can
71. th the new system Don t delay upgrading your soft ware to save a buck It could be the most expen sive buck you never spent Fix It First Another mental error which could be known as magical thinking involves poorly functioning machines and upgrades There are endless num bers of scenarios but they all go something like this the user tries to open a document and the machine reboots Or shuts down Or printing a document causes the screen to flash Or opening iTunes causes your Internet connection to crash Or your hard drive makes funny noises every time you launch a Web browser Or the Mac locks up when you plug in your printer Each set of circumstances indicates some thing is wrong and needs to be fixed In the case of the Mac locking up when you plug in a print er the cause could be as simple as the printer drawing too much power from the USB bus and could be fixed by adding an external powered USB hub But in any case the problem needs to be fixed Every time Apple comes up with a new update or upgrade to Mac OS X Mac news sites are filled with complaints that the new update or upgrade killed computers If you do some investigation you will discover that almost in variably the user s computer wasn t working properly before the update or upgrade and that contrary to their magical thinking the upgrade or update made things worse Why didn t the user correct the problem first The most commo
72. the developer tools We ll look at the installation of Tiger only briefly as the actual installation part of the pro cess is pretty anticlimactic The majority of this article is aimed at steps to get ready for the in stallation as well as a couple of decisions you need to make before you start upgrading What s first Despite what you might think inserting the DVD ROM and booting with the C key held down isn t the right answer Before getting to that point you should attend to all the preparatory steps first eBackup eRepair eDecide whether to partition or not eDecide what kind of installation to do July August 2005 eClassic or not eInstall Backup The first step in the process is backup While Apple has taken pains to make the upgrade as foolproof as possible and while I ve installed various versions of Mac OS X probably a hun dred times with never a failed installation the fact remains that upgrading your operating sys tem is potentially hazardous and in the worst case can result in complete loss of all data stored on your hard drive Therefore the prudent thing to do is backup What kind of backup do you need That depends on what you have available Ideally you want to have two independent backups before any operating system upgrade These can be backed up to tape CD R or to another hard drive with Retrospect or another com mercial backup program It can also be a clone of your drive to another d
73. tory This has served well in the past but with Tiger I ve decided that Mac OS X is mature enough that the extra isolation of Apple s stuff and my stuff isn t necessary Therefore as part of the Tiger installation I reapportioned the space on my PowerBook drive from a small and then a large partition to a large then a small partition The large first partition is my main partition and is the full drive less 5 GB The second small partition is the last 5GB on the drive and is reserved for an emergency boot par tition Note that Disk Utility won t always allow you to make a 5GB partition if the drive is large on a 160 GB iMac drive the smallest partition it would let me make was about 11 GB There may be another utility that will give you small partitions on large drives but I just left the iMac emergency boot partition at 11 GB and moved on I repartitioned my PowerBook the week be fore Tiger arrived and did all of the repair por tions of this procedure so that I would be ready for the upgrade So as a user you need to evaluate the pros July August 2005 and cons these have been discussed several times on the Pi s TCS and on the Web and make a decision To some partitioning makes sense as a way or organizing things to others partition ing is just confusing There isn t any wrong an swer just that some answers are more right than others Some folks like one large partition some like four or five and keep various
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75. types of stuff on different partitions Whatever solution works for your needs is the right answer There are some detailed instructions on how to partition down in the Install section Decide What Kind of Installation to Do This is the last hard part of the upgrade pro cess The Tiger installer will present you with up to three options for installation depending on whether Mac OS X was previously installed From top to bottom in the installer window the options get progressively closer to a brand new installation as if your Mac just came from Apple and from top to bottom you get progressively less information migrated from your old installa tion Erase and Install This will erase your entire disk or partition and install a complete version of Tiger from scratch You will have to recreate any user accounts preferences network settings and the like Since you are essentially starting with a brand new computer I only recommend this option for those instances where the existing version of Mac OS X on your drive is not work ing correctly warranting a fresh installation There are some TCS denizens that believe in doing a completely fresh install once a year This can be warranted if you do lots of strange things to your machine install a lot of open source soft ware and generally take chances or do develop ment with your Mac but for the vast majority who read email browse the Web and type let ters to Grandma this drastic
76. untouched photos onto CD ROM e Only after the photos have been backed up should you try and edit copies e Only after photos are stored on your com puter and you ve checked to see that they transferred correctly should you stick the card back into the camera and either reformat the card or erase the photos Designing a good workflow for any com puter activity checking E mail writing term pa pers doing income taxes should be designed to eliminate as much as possible the consequences of mental security lapses Make backups Store things in different places And if a process isn t working change the design Keeping Mum Potentially the most damaging mental secu rity lapses have to do with revealing information In fact computers are often blamed for mental security lapses that frequently have nothing to do with computers A case in point credit card numbers Great hordes of people have claimed that hackers broke into their machines and stole credit card numbers Yet in talking to these people inves tigators find they routinely made purchases via credit card while using a wireless phone Since a wireless phone is just a radio you don t need to break into that person s computer to steal their 12 Washington Apple Pi Journal credit card information it is much easier to inter cept what is freely broadcast over the airwaves on their phone Another mental security problem involves phishing Phi
77. ur film But many users have decided to delve into the Dark Side of photography and futz with the film They buy inadequate memory for their digital cameras and decide to stretch how many pictures they can take by taking photos that are too small Then when that isn t ad equate they decide to use the camera s delete photo option to delete photos they don t want They base their decisions on what they want and don t want on the tiny little LCD screen on the back of the camera The end result they end up deleting photos they wanted to keep Or just as often deleting all their photos by accident One variation on this theme is to use iPhoto or a software program that came with their cam era to transfer photos from the camera to the computer and at the same time delete photos Washington Apple Pi Journal 11 from the camera This is a bad idea if the process fails for any reason the computer falls asleep the camera battery runs down the computer runs out of disk space you could end up with corrupted photos on your computer and nothing on your camera So change your workflow design e Buy large capacity storage cards for your camera they re cheap e Eject cards from the camera and transfer the photos from the cards to your computer using a USB or FireWire media reader Don t try and transfer photos directly from the camera e One safely stored on your computer back up the original

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