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1. by entering only the month and the day in the occasion file If you wanted to have the first Sunday of every month for a reminder You would use Which First Weekday Sunday Duration 1 There are more examples in the Reminder Help Reminder will delete old nonrepeating events for you However you can lock files you do not want deleted There is a Pop up alert window that will play a sound or speak a message that you should take care of right away You can print your occasion s file event list and calendar There is also AppleScript you can use You can have your calendar look just the way you want By changing the color the size along with the events on your calendar I have used this Shareware calendar since 1988 and couldn t be without it System requirements Mac OS 10 3 or later The cost is only 20 Shareware Rocks The most important trip you can take in life is meeting people half way Henry Boyle BOOK REVIEW MAC OS X TIGER POCKET GUIDE By Chuck Toporek Reviewed by Elsa Travisano MUG ONE A about 7 inches tall and 4 1 2 inches wide Mac OS X Tiger Pocket Guide by Chuck Toporek will fit in a biggish pocket and slides easily into a laptop bag or a spot next to your monitor This small reference guide is just the ticket for learning about Mac OS 10 4 feature by feature and for getting quick answers to your Tiger questions Tiger s interface and applications are detailed menu by menu and feature by f2. so I asked Terry White if he used Snapz Pro software as the main tool to create this DVD He promptly replied that he did I imagine the other main software he used was DVD Studio Pro This brings me to the point about this DVD s menu navigation Through no fault of Terry White this DVD is unnecessarily difficult to navigate The chapters of this DVD are nicely arranged 6 to a screen That s fine But the next and back buttons on the navigation screen are entirely inert to mouse clicks The hotspot on these buttons is a square about 25 pixels to the left of these words The square is invisible until you hover your mouse over it Navigational hotspots need to extend to cover the next and back text items themselves This flaw in the navigation design might not be as apparent to people who are viewing this DVD ina consumer DVD player I was viewing this DVD on my iBook laptop and was stymied for about 15 minutes when I first started viewing this DVD I hereby sentence the DVD Studio Pro design team to 10 lashes from usability expert Jakob Nielsen http useit com It s fine for these lashes to be delivered virtually rather than physically Conclusion If Apple Computer has any smarts at all they would bundle 3 free copies of this training DVD with every new Mac they sell The purchaser of the Mac would be able to pass along the two extra copies of the DVD to friends and colleagues This concept is called expanding mindshare I som
3. Apple needs to bundle with every new Mac they sell The Appropriate Person to be Making this DVD To be sure while this DVD is billed as being Mac OS Training for Windows Users the DVD would benefit anyone who needs general training on how to use a modern Mac I have to say that I found the comparisons to Windows features light While Terry White is an incomparably excellent explainer he ought to have used more Windows friendly terminology in the DVD When he explains that people should press the Return key he might not realize that Windows users have never heard of a Return key He ought to have said Press the Return key which Windows users know as the Enter key The appropriate person to be creating a training DVD of this kind is a Windows expert who recently made the transition to being a Mac user Only they can truly convey through first hand experience the myriad of little tips and tricks that others need to know I would love to see Terry White create a second volume DVD in this series in conjunction with a team of Windows experts who have made the transition to the Mac Who should fund the development of that DVD Apple should Getting back to the review this DVD is strong throughout all 2 hours 15 minutes of its presentation What makes it particularly effective is that the DVD presents the most useful and important information first In the first section of this DVD Terry White covers the top 10 thin
4. The South Bay Mug eee eet ehh Bee hata eta ee aaas e Mac User Group Members Dec 2005 A Mont Safari was one of the first to support tabbed browsing X p e y il ko MET tj Yn a Bookmarks bar and an integrated Google search bar Other less obvious capabilities are A personal view from Bob P e Select text in any Safari window control click and Web Browsers search using Spotlight or Google QO of the most useful applications on your Mac is the web browser It s an application that lets you display and interact with HTML documents web pages on the Internet or on your Mac Macs comes with Safari an excellent browser but there are others http darrel knutson com mac www browsers html lists over 80 browsers that work in OS X and most are free For those still using OS 9 the choice is very lim ited Except for 1Cab support of OS 9 browsers has ceased Netscape and Internet Explorer 5 are still vi View RSS feeds of articles in the browser window able but don t support new web standards RSS Really Simple Syndication lets you quickly scan large numbers of articles Control click a web image to download it or add it to your iPhoto Library Save a page as a web archive This stores all the contents of the page for later viewing Email contents of a web page using Apple Mail Enter text in the Google bar hit Command return and the search will open in a new tab Browsers I use are S
5. afari Firefox Opera 1Cab Mozilla Camino Netscape and Internet Explorer I There s a search field at the bottom of the Book just downloaded a new interesting one called Flock mark view to search bookmarks history or RSS that s based on FireFox and still a beta It has built in feeds in a specific folder or the entire collection capability to add entries to your blog share bookmarks with del icio us and add photos to Flickr View and download PDF files directly Control click to page through it or zoom in and out The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards that ensure simple affordable access to web technologies for all They have put to Turn on private browsing to prevent any browsing information from being stored on your Mac gether a test page called Acid2 that tests a browser Select content text and images in the browser win against a battery of web standards Go test your dow and copy paste or drag to a TextEdit window browser Safari stacks up well Everything is copied including graphics and links Un fortunately if you select a table its tabular format is not preserved This is not a problem with some of the other browsers e g FireFox Camino Flock and iCab Unfortunately there are some web sites that don t ad here to standards and may work with only some browsers so it necessary to have more than one in your arsenal Because Microsoft is such a big force and Golly I
6. aspire for win win situations Here s one You can look fashionable and stylish wearing the Komen MicroFiber Tote and at the same time be giving to the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Mobile Edge has pledged to donate 10 of the proceeds from the sale to the foundation Mobile Edge designed five computer tote styles for their Caring Case Collection The Komen Milano The Komen Microfiber Tote The Komen Pink Suede Tote The Komen Pink Leather Tote and The Komen Paris Computer Backpack It is about time that a company has taken on the mission to design a computer bag that offers style innovation and protection for the 52 women who buy Consumer Electronics in the US Good bye forever boring masculine looking computer bags for me Mobile Edge states that The Caring Case Collection was designed for women by women and for the benefit of women The Komen MicroFiber Tote is stylish and functional You would never know I was carrying my Apple 15 PowerBook in it The design I wanted to review was The Komen Milano all pink bag but it was my fault that I didn t specify that model The model I received The Komen MicroFiber Tote is absolutely gorgeous It looks more expensive that it is It is made of a durable black material with pink handles and pink body trim sporting a detachable Pink Ribbon keychain It has a well padded computer protection compartment which is also removable for dual functionality I removed the insert comple
7. e Software brand on July 2005 onOne is committed to continue developing software for professional photographers graphic designers web publishers and the pre press publishing markets The plug in is pricey but worth it Product Intellihance Pro 4 Company onOne lt http www ononesoftware com gt Price 149 95 System Requirements for the Macintosh Adobe Photoshop CS or CS2 Apple Macintosh G4 G5 or higher Mac OS X 10 3 or higher 128 MB RAM MB of available hard disk space Test System 1 5 GHz PowerPC G4 2 GB DDR SDRAM with Photoshop CS2 Reviewer Maria O Arguello Rating 4 5 out 5 apples MAC NEWS EDITOR WANTED will soon be the New Year and it is time to cook up some new ideas SBAMUG is looking for someone willing to summarize each month s Mac news in a regular column for the newsletter This means the ideal candidate will visit five or six Mac news sites several times a week and distill four weeks worth of news into a short synopsis for our newsletter The ideal candidate will know how to type and how to write a sentence possess AppleWorks or Microsoft Word software and frequent the major web sites that distill Mac industry news Columns will be due by the first Saturday of the month and no long term commitment is required You should have enough editorial judgment to pick out the key points for reprinting in the newsletter and be able to condense marketing jargon to two or three sentences for each
8. eature in pithy paragraphs in the book s sections on Mac OS Basics System Preferences and Applications and Utilities Switchers in particular will appreciate the Survival Guide section with tips on getting up to speed in OS 10 4 a section on Unix gives a handy round up of how to s for accomplishing useful tasks using the Terminal application as well as caveats to help you avoid wreaking unintentional mayhem The book concludes with a section on Configuring Your Mac Answers to How do I questions are interspersed throughout the book Details on Classic and OS X equivalents of OS 9 features have been deliberately omitted for these and for discussions of OS 10 4 topics in more detail the reader is referred to David Pogue s Mac OS X Missing Manual Tiger Edition Intermediate and advanced Mac users looking for a handy quick reference to OS 10 4 need look no farther Highly recommended Mac OS X Tiger Pocket Guide by Chuck Toporek 223 pp OReilly 2005 9 95 A User s Guide to Mac OS X WE ren h 4 Tiger f a Eo Csa j Se Ohi ia ta t La f pa Ea et oS 4 P K PRVE Pocket Guide O REILLY Chuck Toporek BOOK REVIEW GETTING STARTED WITH YOUR MAC AND MAC OS X TIGER By Scott Kelby Reviewed by Elsa Travisano MUG ONE etting Started with Your Mac and Mac OS X Tiger is truly for beginners The proof The book begins with Lesson 0 a quick chapter that covers moving and double c
9. embership Report You may notice your name s in larger letters on your card That Ils so it can be used as a name tag at the meetings Current Membership 179 Welcome New Members Larry Bender Bob Brooks Thank You Member Renewals Technical Administrator Dave Nathanson Paul Curry Larry Bates David Moorhead USPS Liaisons Don Myers Richard Zigrang amp Sylvia Zinman PD Disk Editor Jim Pernal Program Chairman George Kiefer Newsletter Editor 0 John Bernardo Raffle Chairman 0 George Griffiths Refreshment Crew The Apple Blossoms MONTHLY CALENDAR lst Wed SBAMUG Core Group Mtg announced locations 7 30 pm lst Thur LB Mug Emerson School Palo Verde amp Willow Long Beach 7 pm Ist Sat Orange Apple UG Orange Coast College Chem Bldg Costa Mesa 8am lpm 3rd Sat Adobe Tech Exchange Toyota Bldg on Grammercy near 190th 9 am 10 Last Wed SBAMUG Monthly Meeting Last Tues WOCMUG Emerson School Palo Verde amp Willow Long Beach 7 pm Last Sat TRW Northrop Ham Radio amp Computer Swap Meet 7 am 11 30 am The South Bay MUG is published by the South Bay Apple Macintosh User Group non profit Excerpts may be reprinted by user groups and other non profit media Credit must be given to SBAMUG and the author In addition a copy of all reprinted materials must be sent to us at the address listed above The South Bay MUG is an independent publica
10. etimes wonder whether Cupertino has ever heard of the concept In this information age knowledge of how to use a computer is one of the most valuable skills people can have As we move forward into the future we can have a society where some people purchase that knowledge and others are left clueless Or we can have a society where everyone has access to the basic knowledge they need to know Which society would you prefer We are now given that choice Available from http www terrywhite tv 34 95 U S 49 95 Canada 25 U S for Apple user group members REMEMBER V4 2 By D Stewart he program is just what the title states it is a personal reminder When you put it in your login items your calendar will appear on the desktop at startup with those dates and events highlighted that are important to you It will indicate what is happening on those times for that month or many months or years ahead The first time you launch the application you must set up an occasion file so that you will have an Occasion file Menu item You can setup your occasion files for birthdays anniversary doctors appointments meetings and etc Each file can have about 2000 events An Occasion can be a one time or repeating event Use the When field for the date or dates of the event and the What field for the description then save the event You can save an event so it will repeat every year such as birthdays or anniversaries
11. gs you need to know about your Mac True to word he beautifully covers the top 10 things people new to the Mac need to know about how to launch applications quit applications configure the Dock etc All 31 chapters of this DVD cover material that Mac users need to know What sticks in my mind is the wonderful tour of Safari and Mac OS Mail I ended up learning about features of Mac OS 10 4 Tiger that make it far more compelling for me to upgrade from Panther Omitted Material I wish this DVD would have given a tad more coverage of Firefox though Last week October 20 2005 Firefox reached the 100 million downloads mark I like Safari but Firefox is the browser that lets me get more work done in a day Since more minds around the world are working on improving Firefox than on improving Safari to my mind Firefox is the browser offering the most value A brief nod in the direction of Eudora email client might have also been appropriate It s been my experience that the smartest people on the planet tend to prefer Eudora over Mac OS Mail I wouldn t group myself in with that bunch but I do have an everlasting fondness for Eudora In that respect this DVD is a touch too Apple centric for this reviewer s tastes Yes the mothership produces some very fine software They re not the only game in town though Continued on following page How this DVD Was Made My curiosity got the best of me while writing this review
12. her data file for storage if you set your iPod up to do this Now the small files are small to save room on the iPods and at the small size of the screens one can t notice These thumbnails won t print out great but if you need this then this is the program Gremdan Teleprompter Display Turns your Mac into a teleprompter Displays speech text as a full screen scrolling text Adjust fonts size and scrolling speed Drop in a text clipping or type it in OSX CD for this month will be at the December meeting as the November December 2005 CD Catch you at the January 2006 meeting Yin Pernal PD Editor Memtest412 dmg A comprehensive memory tester Can run from the finder but best run from the single user command line without any of OSX parts run User manual explains how advanced beginners and up will find it easy Saves results in a log file you can review after you reboot into OSX Does take a while to run I had to shut down my machine to write this article The advantage here is that is may catch subtle ram issues missed in a 30 second test especially since the Ram needs of the operating system of OSX leaves a lot of memory un testable because it s in use MSHVolcanoCam wdgt Another Widget so for OSX 10 4 only Shows the Internet Mount St Helens cameras plus the alert level Reminds me of a Washington State couple that said they would not live in California because of the natural disasters that could occur a
13. ihance Pro User Guide is very clear and easy to follow The Quick Reference Card T provides a A complete listing of keyboard shortcuts Lins 4 telhe Pro4 You have total control of the enhancement in the host application such as Photoshop Intellihance Pro 4 has presets that can be adjusted at will and viewed side by side after applying the effects of different adjustments or you can preview up to twenty five settings combinations at once in the fully customizable preview window thus giving you single view or repeating image views p eae I fixed an image I had taken of the Philadelphia Art Museum at night My original image needed color adjustment and saturation In the blink of an eye I had the image looking great It was so simple and fast One of my complaints about Photoshop plug ins has been that it takes as long to learn to use them as it does to learn to use Photoshop Therefore I seldom sought the help of plug ins until now I am impressed with the versatility of Intellihance Pro 4 It is so powerful and easy to use that I wondered 1f the developers had been Apple programmers because they definitely capture the user friendly quality that distinguishes the Macintosh I was curious about the change of the company for this plug in from Extensis to onOne Apparently onOne Software acquired several Photoshop plug ins and QuarkXPress XTensions from Extensis Inc and Lizard Tech and re launched them under the onOn
14. ke it indispensable addition Dashboard lineup You can display items from any one of your calendars open multiple widgets each set to a different calendar or list all of your tasks together in a single widget If you are not an 1Cal user that s ok too DoBeDo can help keep you organized and on task on its own www bluehenley com products dobedo index php COOL WEB SITES By Victoria Maciulski CVMUG Oui Oui Do you want to take free French Lessons Well you can via your browser or podcasts in ITunes Point your browser to http frenchpodclass libsyn com rss for a page with all of the lessons ready to download There are MP3 audio files study sheets and some videos Or open iTunes 5 or later go under Advanced gt Subscribe to Podcasts and type that URL into the window Rip Records to iPod This Popular Science site is for certain geeks only You know who you are It shows how a guy took an old mid century stereo console and fitted it with various Mac stuff a turntable etc and made it automatically copy songs from his vinyl records to an iPod Even if you re not a geek the pix on this site will make you smile at his ingenuity http www popsci com popsci how 0 d0134a4a54 c6010vgnvem1000004eecbecdrerd html Rosecrans THIS MONTH S MEETING Wednesday Dec 28th 2005 7 30PM 320 Knob Hill Redondo Beach see map at left for directions Come early 6 30 for beginners class This Month s Topic Bring y
15. licking the mouse and launching and quitting applications This entry level addition to the excellent Peachpit Learning Series aims to Leave No Mac User Behind offering eleven simple jargon free lessons on tasks like setting up your calendar using email and the internet playing music working with photos and thank goodness saving your work Each step in a lesson is illustrated with color screen shots many with the important bits circled in red The layout is visually pleasing with one step to a page and plenty of white space The text for each step tends to be in a single paragraph which works for short steps but can make longer instructions somewhat hard to follow Dividing these longer steps into paragraphs would make for better readability Author Scott Kelby sets aside his usual humor and adopts a gentle reassuring tone that promises not to overwhelm the reader with unneeded information The book is an appropriate starting point for someone who is new to the Mac or even new to computers It will also help lite users of older operating systems make the transition to Mac OS X Tiger 166 pp Peachpit 2005 19 99 Copyright 2005 Elsa Travisano These articles originally appeared in Newsbreak the newsletter of MUG ONE Macintosh User Group of Oneonta NY Getting Started With Your Mac and Mac OS X Tiger scott Kelby Il PRODUCT REVIEW THE KOMEN MICROFIBER TOTE Reviewed by Maria Arguello NCMUG e all
16. m at the end and I ve only talked about Safari likes to go it s own way some sites require Internet Maybe more in future months Explorer Use Terminal or the free program Safari En hancer to activate a Debug menu with many useful ef Bob Brooks functions It lets Safari impersonate Internet Explorer A Helping Beginners It can tell a web site Hey I m Internet Explorer for gt 310 545 8060 Windows so open the door Bob SBAMUG com Welcome to a hA z a PS wre gt SBAMUG P O Box 432 SOUTH BAY APPLE MACINTOSH USER GROUP You and your friends are invited to attend our next meeting Our membership dues are only 35 per year entitling you B to this newsletter each month and many more benefits lf you would like to become a member or get more info on ny SBAMUG feel free to check out our web site at www sbamug com Redondo Beach CA Meetings are held at the 90277 0432 310 644 3315 Email info sbamug com Officers amp Volunteers PreSIC nt ccsesseeeeceeeeeees Glen Terry Vice President 00008 Bob Brooks Secretar yoiini Wayne Inman TYG ASUIELS cccceccececcecceccees John Bernardo Directors at Large Dave Nathanson CW Mitchell Jim Pernal Dorothy Weeks amp LJ Palmer Membership Chairman CW Mitchell WebMaster amp User Group Ambassador Redondo Beach Community Center 320 Knob Hill Redondo Beach see map amp directions on page 11 M
17. nd nothing could ever happen in their state Podner dmg Another program I can t fully evaluate since I don t have a video 1Pod If you do then this program makes it easy to convert and make video playlists Can batch convert multiple videos at one sitting OSX 10 3 9 or better TextWrangler 2 1 1 dmg Text editor with powerful search and replace capabilities Good Unix and Server Admin tool in addition to general use Best Traditions of Barebones Software For OSX 10 3 5 or better FRESHLY SQUEEZED REVIEWS RAPIDWEAVER V3 2 By Frank Petrie Macsimum has been about a year since I wrote my original review about the shareware WYSIWYG editor RapidWeaver I was less than enthralled by it to be polite And a good number of you were appalled by my review I was called bias and petulant As of late the vitriolic tone has reduced but I still receive constant requests to revisit RapidWeaver So here you are So you want to aa build a quick a website for yourself that family and friends visit But if you don t want to learn all about tags and CSS you ll have to get a WYSIWYG editor That s where RapidWeaver fits into all of this RapidWeaver is a next generation web design application to help you create professional looking web sites in minutes No knowledge of complex code is required RapidWeaver will take care of all that for you It will OK let me take a second look THE GOOD Simple ins
18. news item Graphics or PR photos may be included if the writer wants to spend the time to put them together If you would like to take this on please contact John Bernardo via email john sbamug com REVIEW MAC OS X TRAINING FOR WINDOWS USERS DVD By Phil Shapiro VMUG pple s dirty little secret is that they provide virtually no bundled training materials helping new Mac owners learn to use the computer they just bought for a couple thousand dollars So new Mac owners are faced with the predicament of either Spending time and money on books and training materials relying on the generosity of Mac using friends and relatives to continually bail them out or hiring a consultant for a couple hundred dollars to explain how to use the features of a computer they just spent a couple thousand dollars on None of these options are particularly appealing A new option is available today that costs all of 35 This Mac training DVD by Terry White president of the MacGroup Detroit user group is worth far more than 35 The only way to characterize this DVD is to say that it is exceedingly well done Terry White gives a tour of Mac OS 10 4 Tiger that is clear concise and comprehensive He chooses his words very carefully to convey meaning His intonations and voice are melodious to the ear He speaks with confidence knowledge and empathy While watching this DVD every minute of the experience had me thinking This is it This is what
19. oking to construct a website without getting your hands dirty this is for you I dare say even your parents could set this up Will you end up with a high end interactive site No That s requires high end software that costs upwards of a thousand dollars But as many of your letters have pointed out RapidWeaver sits comfortably with their iApps And you will end up with a site that you can be proud to send surfers to Now am I back on your Christmas card lists RATING 9 out of 10 Product RapidWeaver v3 2 Company RapidWeaver Software www realmacsoftware com Requirements OS 10 3 9 Price 34 95 USD Test Rig PowerMac 1 42 DP 1 5 GB RAM OS 10 4 3 Review Date 30 November 2005 2005 Frank Petrie Freelance writer Macsimum Frank Petrie is a freelance writer curmudgeon technologies and products specialist real SOFTWARE INTELLIHANCE PRO 4 PHOTOSHOP PLUG IN By Maria O Arguello MLMUG Io Pro 4 is a powerful plug in for Photoshop that enhances your images to look their best It is easy to use the easiest plug in I have used for quick image enhancement It automates tasks like color correction sharpening contrast dust and scratches removal saturation brightness contrast and more Additional features include Fine Tune Mode Power Variations Mode Image Grid and Actions and Batch Processing The installation was quick and easy Within minutes I was up and running enhancing my images The Intell
20. or Black pink Review date October 2006 Reviewed by Maria O Arguello Viewer Rating Tr s chic MOBILE IDGE The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention Duguet ICLOCK V 2 3 0 Reviewed by Doris Stewart MacGroup Detroit his is a really great Application It resides on the Menu Bar for easy access to many useful items iClock tells the time the date stock prices phone numbers has an alarm calendar calculator and many other useful things If you did not turn off Apple s Network Time Server 1Clock will synchronize with the server The time and the date appear on the menu bar You can make the time and the date look just the way you like The kind of font the color of the font and the short version like 10 15 04 3 30 or the longer version such as Friday 15 2004 3 30PM You can also have a floating clock on the desktop There is an alarm clock that you can set so you will never miss an appointment or be late for one iClock has a calendar that can be coordinated with iCal Now upTo Date MS Entourage Meeting Maker or Palm Desktop Use the calendar to show birthdays using the information you may have already put in Apple s Address Book If you Option Click on the iClock menu bar and have set up your portfolio you will get the current stock prices of your portfolio The drop down menu contains a desktop screen saver option that may be used with the screen savers that
21. our questions and appetite as we will be having an Open Forum as well as free pizza Members are encouraged to bring their own holiday goodies as well Epa ndas z cS Q O O Oo J gt lt o 190th St Torrance Blvd Knob Hill a e Next Meeting January 25th Apple reps will be back to go over iDVD We re at 320 Knob Hill at PCH Free Parking A special thanks to all members who took part in our annual Proxy vote The winner of the 50 CompUSA gift certificate will be notified by the time you receive this newsletter Also note there will not be araffle for the December meeting SBAMUG Membership Application South Bay Apple Macintosh User Group provides Mac owners and users with a local source of shared knowledge and experience through monthly meetings training seminars and our monthly newsletter Individual and family membership is 35 per year payable to SBAMUG O New Member O Member Renewal Name Address City State Zip Home Phone Email Address Special Computer Interest Model of Macintosh You Use Most How did you hear about SBAMUG Comments Signature Date Bring Application amp Fees to Meetings or Mail to SBAMUG P O Box 432 Redondo Beach CA 90277 south Bay Apple Mac User Group P O Box 432 Redondo Beach CA 90277 0432
22. taller Drag n drop Upon double clicking the icon you re presented with a large pane that has a left sided list pane like you find in most Mac apps and a large pane for the body of your site In the Body pane you re presented with four choices Of course begin with Getting Started It has a Themes Drawer to choose a preconfigured layout for your site thereby saving you the agony of designing graphics Pick your theme and start adding content That s all you need do to begin constructing your site You can set up extra pages and subpages And literally you can build an easily navigated site in less than half an hour The templates are clean and not cluttered which is definitely a bonus You do have a choice of what kind of page you want to make a photo page styled text QuickTime movie etc And there is an Inspector to tweak all your work Once you ve completed your site it s time to publish your site onto the web so that you can share it with others And it s made easy as the publish button is located atop the body pane and allows you to upload to a FTP site or your Mac account Lastly make sure that you inform people your site s URL so they can visit it THE BAD It would be nice to have a few three column layouts to choose from THE UGLY Nada THE CLOSE I m still not enamored with the 34 95 price I think that it should be more in the 25 00 27 99 price range But I can say without hesitation that if you re lo
23. tely for the sake of this review and found it very fashionably made of a shiny silky material that feels waterproof or at least weather resistant although Mobile Edge makes no claims it is so I can wrap my laptop with the included microfiber bag for additional scratch protection designed in white and pink to carry the laptop alone in this bag and leave the tote to carry all my other stuff The steel tips at the bottom of the bag keep it off the floor and sitting up straight The bag has lots of useful pockets my favorites are the detachable cosmetic accessory pouch the interior zippered pocket and the outside EZ access pocket The care and attention to detail quality and style are commendable I wanted to publish this review in October for breast cancer awareness month However no matter what month any woman or friend who wants to contribute financially to help cancer research can do so by giving a bag from Mobile Edge s The Caring Case Collection as a gift for a special occasion to a breast cancer survivor or to herself while supporting breast cancer research What is there not to love One more thing the Online Apple Store sells only this reviewed model where it qualifies for free shipping Product The Komen MicroFiber Tote Manufacturer Mobile Edge MSRP 129 For information visit http www mobileedge com Specifications Exterior dimensions 1 x w x h 18x14 5x5 in Fits laptops up to lx w x h 15x11x2 5 in Col
24. tion not affiliated or otherwise associated with or sponsored or sanctioned by Apple Computer Inc The opinions statements positions and views stated herein are those of the author s or publisher and are not intended to be the opinions statements positions or views of Apple Computer Inc Members are invited and encouraged to submit articles and original artwork for publication Newsletter deadline is the first Saturday of the month Articles may be edited to fit in available space Please send to john sbamug com SBAMUG DECEMBER 2005 PD CD appy Holidays to one and all Full eight items so lets get started BoomRecorder 2 0 5 dmg Likely too high end for most folks but this shows what you can get in Mac Shareware Simultaneous recording of up to 32 channels of audio Timecodes and the like for movie studio recording needs but this should work for live music and the like too Alas I do not have a multichannel audio input setup card so I can t really check this program out For OSX 10 4 or better earthdesk dmg Desktop screen saver program that shows the real time earth sun and night the moon city lights and if you wish goes out to the internet and grabs the clouds too OSX 10 2 or better KeithsIPodPhotoReader sitx txt Folder This utility will pull the small thumbnail size photos off the iPod and copy them to any Mac computer Per the beginners group question this is not the full size photo which is just anot
25. you have on your machine Also in the drop down menu you will find Web information for Macintosh Reference News and more In the drop down menu you can put the city and phone numbers of your family friends or business associates 1iClock will show their telephone number and the time where they live So you will never call them too early or too late Try it you will like it System requirements Mac OS 10 3 or later The cost is 20 Shareware iClock v 2 3 0 http www scriptsoftware com iclock Ability may get you to the top but it takes character to keep you there John Wooden NEWS FROM THE FRONT WORTHY WIDGETS By John Cowan MacNexus wo widgets offered for your consideration this month are Gas Just type in your zip code or address set the radius from 1 to 20 miles and will give you the name and location of the nearest gas stations with the lowest prices Click on the address and your browser brings up a clear Google map of the location Gas gets its info from www gaspricewatch com which draws from prices reported by members of its internet community who register as spotters www interdimensionmedia com widgets html DoBeDo I like to have To Do lists displayed separate from my calendar yet in dynamic sync with each other DoBeDo addresses that need It allows you to view add edit and delete 1Cal s todo items Its tight integration with iCal small memory footprint and speedy Cocoa back end ma
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