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1. to the beginning of its name And of course to force items to the bottom precede their names with a z It s not as elegant as say a Finder command that reads Stay where you are stupid But until Apple invents such a command you ll have to take matters into your own hands Salvaging a spare eMac Is it possible to connect a Mac mini to an eMac so that you can boot from the mini and use the eMac s internal hard drive as a secondary drive Stephen Jensen Although this is kind of an expensive way to add another hard drive to your setup it s certainly possible to do via FireWire Target Disk mode Shut down the two computers link them with a Fire Wire cable start up the eMac while holding down the keyboard s T key to boot it into Target Disk mode and then boot the Mac mini When the mini finishes booting the eMac s hard drive will appear on the mini s desktop as if it were a removable hard drive which in essence it is The eMac s screen will display a floating FireWire symbol While in Target Disk mode the eMac will be unusable as anything other than a secondary drive for the mini Practical contact sheets Creating Contacts Create annotated contact sheets by exporting your iPhoto images as a Web page am a photographer and would like to use iPhoto to print contact sheets for my clients to accompany their CDs of images The problem is that iPhoto won t let me print contact sheets wit2. Contents A Word from the President 1 RAM and the Art of Waiting 1 TROVE My MaC sasesexesecrssnaszennes 2 Mac mini Gets a Brain Transplant 3 Mac OUI sisticsisincir saps cieainreess 4 Solutions to your most vexing Mac Pro DIC IIS 5 sjonieriocsianitinen 4 A Virus for the Mae scccscec 7 A Word from the President by Gregg McFarland The shortest month of the year had some big Apple news There have been new hardware announcements new accessories announced and also new viruses yes that s plural emerged all this month We ll talk about all that and more in this month s Monitor Also the March meeting is when we hold nominations for the Officer positions President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Librarian Then we hold our Officer elections in April We re also going to get a look at the 5th Generation iPod the one that can play videos at the March meeting hope to see you there RAM and the Art of Waiting By Wayne A Younkins My wife turned preservationist asked why it was taking hours to burn a DVD of our home movies took a look and figured that the 256 MB of RAM just wasn t enough to process all those cutesy things the kids did on VHS and preserve it for posterity on March 2006 Cumberland Valley Apple User Group Newsletter WWW CVAUG ORG This Month Officer Nominations amp 5th Gen iPod Demo DVD Apple states 512 MB is recommended for iDVD Also
3. Fast User Switching would sometimes have a problem if you tried to switch between two users with several applications open at the same time So having pontificated my findings thought my work here was done thought she just wanted an answer but no she who must be obeyed wanted me to actually put in more RAM This sounded like work so you know how fast that got done As the months went by the wife was increasing the pressure to git er dun She would say things like Procrastination is the thief of time And would say I prefer to think of procrastination as the art of waiting She would say Hard work pays off after time and would say Yes but laziness always pays off now She would say Can t you get that done by the weekend and would counter with something witty like Only Robinson Crusoe had Page 1 of 7 March 2006 Cumberland Valley Apple User Group Newsletter WWW CVAUG ORG everything done by Friday Why do you always wait until the last minute she asked said If it weren t for the last minute wouldn t get anything done But eventually she was running out of patience and was running out of witty sayings Upon examining the insides of my flat panel domed iMac found that there is a user slot and a factory slot for RAM The user slot can easily be accessed from the bottom by removing four screws But access to the factory slot
4. it proceed with the installation and you re good to go Turning point have an LCD monitor that can pivot and rotate The only problem is that the manufacturer doesn t make a Mac driver that supports portrait mode Is there a third party program or even a Terminal command that will let me rotate the image when turn my monitor Fred Fayaz Your LCD s portrait mode offers a nifty way to work on a big vertical image or a long text document In Tiger Mac OS finally has native support for display rotation provided that you have the right graphics card One way to tell if your graphics card is up to the task is to open the Displays preference pane and look for a Rotate option Even if that option is missing you might be able to rotate your display s image as long as your Mac has some variety of ATI Radeon card including the Radeon 7000 8500 9000 9200 9800 and Mac Edition and built in and Mobility variations To find out which card you have in Tiger open System Profiler Page 4 of 7 March 2006 Cumberland Valley Apple User Group Newsletter WWW CVAUG ORG Applications Utilities Select Graphics Displays from the Contents list The window will update and you ll see your video card s name at the top of the information on the right If you have a supported card you need a piece of software to rotate the image on screen Download ATI s ATI Display application and launch it Click on the Advanced bu
5. using a RAID array as my boot volume What s the best way to do this have two Western Digital Raptor hard drives with a RAID 0 striped configuration Miguel Uriarte For people who aren t in the know a RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks combines multiple volumes in such a way that Mac OS views them as one A striped RAID is nonredundant meaning that it spreads the data among the various volumes that make up the RAID The danger in using such a RAID is that if one of the hard drives bites the dust all your data is kaput To get started insert your Mac OS X installer disk and double click on it You ll need Panther or later as only these versions of Mac OS can boot from a striped RAID Double click on Install Mac OS X and click on Restart to boot from the disc When the Installer launches select Utilities Disk Utility First you ll create the RAID array In Disk Utility select one of the external drives in the left side of the window and click on the RAID tab Choose Striped RAID Set from the RAID Type pop up menu drag the other volumes that you want to include in the RAID into the RAID pane and click on Create see It s a RAID It s a RAID Disk Utility harbors all the tools necessary to create a striped RAID array that you can use as a superfast startup disk Quit Disk Utility to return to the OS X installer Once there you can pick the RAID as your installation destination Select
6. all about And be very aware of software that asks for your admin password If you do not know exactly what that software does then don t give it your password Now this week Apple released some security updates that protect against both of these viruses I d go ahead and download the updates and rest a little easier Page 7 of 7
7. is much more involved and an experienced technician should do it My iMac was shipped with 256 MB in the factory slot Only 512 MB can be added to the user slot Together these would give me 768 MB also found out that the RAM in the factory slot is faster than that used in the user slot and they are physically different If anything should upgrade the factory slot RAM first to 512 MB for speed But to get a full 1 GB of RAM both cards would have to be replaced have always had a need for speed so opted to replace both cards for the full 1GB So delved into the subject on the internet and at one web site found what thought was a mistake Only RAM with a PC 2700 bandwidth was available for my domed iMac but my System Profiler and the Apple Support site both specified PC 2100 bandwidth Something else was amiss the RAM supplier web site said could upgrade my computer to 2 GB but the Apple Support site said 1 GB was the maximum As a matter of fact the PC 2100 set of RAM was not even available So called the supplier and asked about the discrepancy He said the PC 2700 is compatible with the PC 2100 and so it is now possible to get 2 GB of RAM into my iMac where as before only 1 GB was possible But protested the Apple Support site says only 1 GB He said Like so many products manufacturers move on to other things and information about past products is not always updated put in the 2 G
8. B set of RAM Finally a case where procrastination paid off had her now Had gotten the full RAM earlier now would only have 1 GB In triumph told the wife Whatever was the reply I Love My Mac by Daphnie Kalfon My name is Daphne and lm a fellow Mac enthusiast have an exciting news item that hope you could share with your MUG You may or may not know about a famous or infamous song that wrote in 2004 it s called I Love My Mac and was written entirely in the then new application GarageBand Since then the song has become something of a Mac anthem among those who have heard it and for those who haven t I d like to try to get the word out to every Mac user who loves their Mac as much as do The big news is that after being featured on MacAddict Magazine s December issue CD ROM on January 9th I Love My Mac was released worldwide on all iTunes Music Stores have pledged that if I Love My Mac makes it to iTunes top 10 song downloads at that time will donate 10 of my proceeds to a music education charity Would you consider announcing this news item at your next meeting s including it in your newsletter if you have one posting it in the news section of your MUG website or emailing your membership at your discretion Whatever you choose to do to help get the word out lIl appreciate very much lIl Keep you updated about new development
9. as the graphics subsystem to save space and to save cost In the case of the mini they are using Intel s integrated GMA950 graphics rrerrrrrr a Ei iE Tiii with 64mb of graphics memory According to the nerds over at extremetech com we can state flatly that if you buy a system using Intel s GMA950 integrated graphics and want to play 3D games invest at pe in an add on card If what you want is simply a system that can run standard office software plus maybe play some DVD movies then Intel s new graphics core is probably suitable So if you thought the new mini was going to do battle with the Xbox 360 guess again If you thought this would be the machine that will finally let you play Roller Coaster Tycoon you might want to keep shopping Predictions am not in the business of predictions but the announcement of the new mini tells me that new iBooks are imminent because if Apple can shoehorn all this technology into a mini the iBook is not that much different of a form factor would therefore speculate the new iBooks will technologically be a lot more like the mini and a lot less like the MacBook Pro and that we should expect them before May Conclusion Personally I ve E amp E Trojan Horse because by the time you buy a souped up mini and a nice looking 19 Dell flat panel monitor the Apple monitors are too expensive Page 3 of 7 March 2006 Cumberland Valley A
10. ecords As said it will record any and all sounds your Mac plays so if iChat makes its bubbly sound or Entourage announces new mail with a chime WireTap will record that too Audio Hijack Pro avoids this issue by recording from targeted applications only In this case you can direct Audio Hijack to record just your voice and any audio you receive via Skype Intercepting Skype s audio with Audio Hijack is a bit more complicated than with WireTap Pro as you have to muck around within the Effects portion of the program but Audio Hijack s user manual provides clear instructions Orderly icons I m running Tiger and prefer to keep files and folders in Icon view But when have a collection of folders that is larger than the window the set gets disordered Is there a Page 5 of 7 March 2006 Cumberland Valley Apple User Group Newsletter WWW CVAUG ORG way to force the folders to stay where want them Via the Internet When you re in the Finder you can choose View Arrange By Name to sort your icons alphabetically but that won t necessarily help if you ve named the folders randomly For this kind of thing rely on techniques of old specifically naming folders so that they appear in the order you want when you sort them alphabetically To bump an item to the top of the list add a space before its name To make an item appear after a spaced item but before a numbered or lettered item add a tilde
11. h the image numbers it will print only the thumbnails themselves This makes the contact sheets essentially useless Is there a setting I m missing Ashley Williamson You re printing contact sheets correctly but as you suggest iPhoto doesn t allow you to print titles or file names to accompany these images Here s a way around the problem In iPhoto select the images you d like to appear on the contact sheet and choose Share Export In the resulting Export Photos window click on the Web Page tab Enter the number of columns and rows of pictures you d like to appear on a page in the Thumbnail portion of the window enable the Show Title option see Creating Contacts Click on Export to save the pictures to a Web page When you open that Web page in your browser you ll discover that it carries not only the images you selected but also each image s title by default the image number Now simply print each page and you ve got the contact sheet you re after You can continue to put this technique to good use by including the Web page and its accompanying images in a folder on the CD The folder should contain an index page and two folders labeled Web page name Thumbnails and Web page name Images That way your clients can browse the thumbnails in your contact sheet and then click on them to view the full size images 3 workflows for healthy Macs If you re like a lot of Tiger users Au
12. his past month One of them and there are variations with different names takes advantage of a security hole on Safari The idea is that a properly coded web page could offer to send your Mac an innocent looking file Safari would see this Safe File and using Safari s default settings would start to download AND OPEN this file automatically Now once opened this file could contain some UNIX commands that could do anything from changing your system clock settings to Drive This sounds horrible and it is But fortunately there is an easy work around If you use Apple s web browser Safari select Preferences under the Safari menu In the General section uncheck Open safe files after downloading It s that easy The second virus the iChat Virus can be just as nasty Fortunately it can be prevented nearly as easily This virus gets into your computer through as you may have guessed iChat Here s how it goes As you re chatting with someone who has been infected by this virus you get a notice that a file is being sent to you When this file finishes downloading and opens you would get an authentication request Trusting folk would then enter their admin password and the code of the virus would then enter the computer and do whatever it wishes The security for this one is just to be aware of what is going on with your computer If someone starts to send you a file ask them what it is
13. pple User Group Newsletter WWW CVAUG ORG you might as well have just bought a 17 iMac I ve been buying all my Macs this year with 2gb of RAM and the biggest hard disk that can get and just did a sample shopping cart of the with a Mac mini completely pimped out and it came to 1323 without a monitor Considering that a similarly pimped out Intel iMac 17 would be 1599 and that it includes a faster Intel chip a better graphics subsystem and a gorgeous screen have a hard time understanding why anyone would buy a Mac mini had heard that they were flying off the shelves by people anxious to own a Mac so maybe just don t understand the attraction or maybe the people buying minis already have monitors and don t do anything except type email and documents really could only recommend a Mac mini for the dashboard display in your car yes people are using them for that or if you only have 599 to spend and have a bunch of old stuff like a screen and keyboard already had previously considered buying a mini and giving it to my in laws so that we could share digital pictures with them but now that I ve seen how fun the iMac and MacBook Pro are with their built in video cameras do not think would put a mini at the in law s house anymore Mac 911 Solutions to your most vexing Mac problems y Christopher Breen Running RAID ld like to improve my Power Mac G5 s performance by
14. s in regards to l Love My Mac as well as news about another forthcoming Mac related song For more information about NED myself and I Love My Mac isit the song s websi www ilo Many thanks in advance and hope you enjoy my music To go forward you must backup Cardinal rule of computing Page 2 of 7 March 2006 Cumberland Valley Apple User Group Newsletter WWW CVAUG ORG Mac mini Gets a Brain Transplant By Bill Davies After sending out mysterious announcements to the press for a special event on February 28 in a deliberate attempt to generate fanfare Apple used the event to introduce an Intel based Mac mini But instead of attempting to capture the living room with a beautifully small box that talks to your music and video library and serves up content to stereo and television peripherals around your house the new mini really just improves system performance over the former model that used the IBM chip Apple claims a 4x speed improvement so in my opinion plan for 2x The system bus has gone from 167 Mhz to 667 Mhz The executive summary on this product is that it is an incremental improvement but does not represent a substantially redeveloped or category defining product So in industry terms this is a speed bump nota groundbreaking product redesign I m not sure why Apple went to all that trouble to have a select gro
15. tlight comments to them so you can more easily focus your searches For example I ve added the comment 911column to my archive of columns so Spotlight can quickly find them without also listing other Mac 911 related items Recovering lost users When upgraded my home computer to Tiger discovered to my horror that my entire family was missing well their login user names were anyway After searching for them everywhere finally discovered that if add a new user with the same name as the missing user to the login page my Mac tells me there is a folder attached to that name and asks if would like to reattach it When I click on OK the old You can also use this tip to recover deleted users Just open the Deleted Users folder found within the Users folder at the root level of the startup volume and double click on the DMG file of a deleted user Mary dmg for example Then create a new folder within the Users folder give it the name of the deleted user you want to recover and copy the contents of the mounted disk image file into this new folder Now launch the Accounts preference pane and create a user with that name As Gino indicates your Mac will ask if you d like to attach the deleted user s files to the newly created user Ed A Virus for the Mac by Gregg McFarland Get outta here The Mac doesn t have any viruses Actually it does have some viruses and two hit the Internet t
16. tomator Apple s automation application which puts a friendlier face on AppleScript intrigues you yet when you attempt to create an Automator workflow you re lost Relax you don t have to do it yourself If you re interested in maintaining a healthier and more efficient Mac try these prefabricated workflows Jesse Hogue s Maintenance 3 0 free By tapping into Terminal this workflow can repair permissions on your startup drive verify system preferences run OS X s periodic cron maintenance tasks and update application prebindings a system for optimizing app libraries so the Page 6 of 7 March 2006 Cumberland Valley Apple User Group Newsletter WWW CVAUG ORG user returns Gino Del Guercio completely erasing your Hard applications themselves run more efficiently You can select which tasks you d like to run or simply choose to run them all Jesse Hogue s Back Me Up free This workflow uses OS X s rsync command to copy the contents of one folder to another folder On subsequent backups it will compare the contents of both folders and copy only the changed files and folders for example you might use it to back up a folder that contains files for a particular work project Batch Apply Spotlight Keywords free If Spotlight spits out too many results whenever you use it this workflow will help you stop wasting time It lets you select files or folders full of files and append Spo
17. tton in the resulting window in the Versavision tab click on one of the rotation options 180 or 90 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise Really old files new Mac just purchased an iMac G5 after using a Performa 6360 for nearly ten years created all my records and correspondence files with Microsoft Works 3 0 I ve been able to transfer the files to the G5 via a floppy disk but can t get the iMac to open them Is there a way to do this From the Macworld com forums You ve already overcome one the most difficult parts of the operation moving your files from what s now considered ancient hardware to a new Mac for more tips see Working Mac September 2005 To complete the process you could return to the Performa and save the files in a format compatible with today s software To do this launch Microsoft Works opena document you want to save and explore the program s Save As command for options other than the native Works format plain text or Microsoft Word for example You can easily open either of these formats on a modern Mac However that could prove awfully tedious If you re willing to fork over some cash for convenience you can do the work quickly on your new iMac by purchasing DataViz s MacLinkPlus Deluxe 15 80 This program can convert files from a host of older applications including Microsoft Works 3 0 and 4 0 but not more recent versions It s pricey if
18. up of journalists travel to Cupertino to hear about this You do get two more USB ports and they are now USB 2 0 Oh and instead of a 599 and 699 model you now have to choose between a 599 and 799 model Oops guess this proves that Intel is probably deriving more benefit from having Apple as a customer than Apple is deriving from having Intel as a supplier Processors The new mini may be purchased with either a single core Intel chip 599 or a dual core Intel chip 799 All minis have included built in wireless and Bluetooth since July 2005 so all that is added with this new model is support for the new Apple Remote So for 200 difference between the top and bottom models you get a slightly bigger hard drive the ability to burn a DVD instead of just watch or play a DVD and the dual core chip which in theory lets the computer divide tasks between two masters making it somewhat faster at some tasks The mini uses Intel s least desirable Core processors and reputedly the prices on those are going to fall drastically in the next three months as faster ones come out So that tells me that a 499 mini might be available by Christmas if they don t sell at this price Having said all that if you thought the previous mini was Slow would wager that you d need to pop for the 799 model if you wanted to really see a difference Graphics Apple is integrating more Intel technologies here such
19. you need to convert only a couple of documents but for the hundreds you likely have it s the best solution can think of Skype s the limit want to be able to Podcast live on my radio show In other words the calls from my listeners will come in directly to the computer lII mix them with my microphone s audio and then send the whole thing out as my Podcast signal What do you recommend Walter R Haessner Many people know forgo the phone lines for this purpose and instead use the voice over IP VoIP program Skype Why Skype s results sound far better than those of a phone routed through a recording device or a mike held up toa speakerphone Plus it s free if you re talking over the Internet to someone who also has Skype It also doesn t require a lot of convoluted cabling You ll need some help however capturing the audio from Skype and from your microphone Two applications can do this Ambrosia Software s WireTap Pro 19 and Rogue Amoeba s Audio Hijack Pro 32 Each has its advantages WireTap Pro is easier to set up than Audio Hijack Pro Just launch the program select File Mac Audio amp Microphone and click on the Record button your Mac will record both the signal from your mike and any and all sounds your Mac generates including the voice of the person you re speaking with over Skype The disadvantage to this setup is that WireTap Pro isn t choosy about what it r
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