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1. Discus Help Window Finally save and print And printing is a joy as well One of my favorite things about Discus is that it s smart enough to know that label sheets usually contain more than one label per sheet To print your label on more than one label at a time you simply click the checkbox on the blank label in question to turn it on or off Turning the checkbox on makes your design magically appear on the 2nd or 3rd or whatever label No messy drag and drop required no clone tool that never works just simple and easy Not to mention cost effective by not wasting unused labels In case you haven t noticed CD labels are expensive ATPM 9 03 66 User Strikes Back Product Awards Not only does Discus contain templates for labeling products from literally dozens of manufacturers but it also correctly prints on a large variety of laser and inkjet printers The very first time tried creating a CD label was able to print it out on my HP 990 inkjet and it fit and printed perfectly What a relief Current Toast track names Track names from Toust file Track names from Jam file Track names from iTunes exporttile From another Discus project Discus Import Menu As if that wasn t enough Discus can easily import track name information from iTunes Toast Jam or even another Discus file This is a great convenience feature Best Software That Got It Right Magic Mou
2. 9 03 March 2003 Volume 9 Number 3 are This Pai Tern About the personal computing experience ATPM 9 03 Cover Art Copyright 2003 by Grant Osborne We need new cover art each month Write to us Editorial Staff Publisher Editor in Chief Michael Tsai Managing Editor Christopher Turner Associate Editor Reviews Paul Fatula Copy Editors Raena Armitage Johann Campbell Ellyn Ritterskamp Brooke Smith Vacant Web Editor Lee Bennett Publicity Manager Vacant Webmaster Michael Tsai Beta Testers The Staff Contributing Editors How To Ken Gruberman Robert C Lewis Sylvester Roque Charles Ross Vacant Interviews Vacant Legacy Corner Chris Lawson Music David Ozab Networking Matthew Glidden Opinion Ellyn Ritterskamp Mike Shields Vacant Reviews Eric Blair Kirk McElhearn Brooke Smith Gregory Tetrault Vacant Technical Evan Trent P Cover ATPM 9 03 Welcome Robert Paul Leitao Kim Peacock Artwork amp Design Graphics Director Graphic Design Consultant Layout and Design Cartoonist Blue Apple Icon Designs Other Art Grant Osborne Jamal Ghandour Michael Tsai Matt Johnson Mark Robinson RD Novo Emeritus RD Novo Robert Madill Belinda Wagner Edward Goss Tom lovino Daniel Chvatik Contributors Johann Campbell Paul Fatula Matthew Glidden Jens Grabenstein Tom lovino Matt Johnson Robert Paul Leitao Robert C Lewis Kirk McElhearn Grant Osborne Ellyn Ritterskamp Sylvester Roque
3. Dongles deferred payments and splash screens Learn how they all fit into Cortland s world this month Desktop Pictures California Jens Grabenstein offers another set of gorgeous desktops this time from his June 2002 two week road trip in California Beginning in San Francisco Jens shots capture the cultural and natural multiplicity of the state Review Black amp White Platinum Pack Matthew Glidden takes you to Creature Island in his review of Black and White Platinum Pack In this take off from the original Black and White some missionaries introduce you and your creature to an island without gods but with more creatures for you to learn to control ATPM 9 03 9 Welcome Review ContentBarrier 1 3 3 Intego s Content Barrier gets put through the paces by Gregory Tetrault The program offers relatively good security and filtering options but of course no filtering program is perfect and Content Barrier does sometimes fail to block access to sites you d rather keep your children away from Review iView MediaPro 1 5 6 If you have lots of media files to organize and display iView MediaPro can help Gregory Tetrault describes the program s many features all aimed at making it easier for you to work with images text movies and other digital media Review Mac OS X The Missing Manual 2nd Edition book There is now a second edition of Mac OS X The Missing Manual Johann Campbell takes a look at what s chan
4. absolutely not How s that for a kick to the shins ATPM 9 03 14 Apple Cider A Year Apart And when their stock hit Wall Street it shot up to nearly 140 a share was pretty angry at the time because all of those staffers who remained on staff were given stock options and I m sure they made money hand over fist Recently checked the company s stock performance and have to admit that it was hard to suppress a grin After all their stock is now trading at 68 cents a share How the mighty have fallen School s In It may seem hard to believe but my oldest son Dominic is getting ready to attend his first year of kindergarten still have to shake my head after writing those words can t believe that the first five years of his life have passed so quickly Here in Pinellas County Florida we have a new system for choosing the school children will attend Back in 1972 the county was placed under court ordered bussing to integrate the school system In 2000 a federal judge overturned the ruling based on the fact that the schools had achieved a unitary status meaning that children of all racial and cultural backgrounds had fair representation in schools across the county So now instead of sending my son down the street to the closest school we need to choose five schools in our area and the School Board will assign him a school from that list This new plan meant that my wife and had to visit about ten schools
5. From inside Toast go to the Utilities Menu and choose Mount Image Locate the image file that you just created and wait for the image to mount How To Building Customized Boot CDs Install OS 9 on the mounted disk image or on the hard drive partition that you are using When the installation is complete install any OS 9 updates that you need then any additional utilities or device drivers that you will need to troubleshoot the system Use the same procedure that you used when the program was first installed Once you are finished installing it is almost time to start burning again Before you do though open the System Folder on your mounted image volume Open the Startup Items folder and remove the aliases for AirPort Setup Assistant and any other programs that you do not want launched automatically Close any open windows Return to Toast and choose Other from the Toast menu Choose Mac Volume from the pop up menu that appears When the window changes to Mac Volume click the Select button In the dialog box that appears choose the mounted disk image that you just created called my CD Emergency 9 CD Make sure that you also check the Bootable option ok bo write BEE te large Sr APS 999 ME ok to write peg Emergency Sb GSS ok to write A Optimize on the fly EA Bootable O Autostart Make the CD Bootable Now you are ready to record Click Record and follow the usual burning proces
6. but it should work with other programs that are capable of burning a bootable CD The general idea will be the same but the specific steps in burning the CD will vary depending upon which program you choose to use The help file in Toast describes how to use an existing OS 9 System Folder as a basis for a bootable CD chose to start from scratch and use a fresh OS 9 installation This way there are fewer opportunities for extension conflicts or damaged system files to cause a problem f you choose to start with a fresh install boot the system directly into OS 9 Some of the update installers for OS 9 may not run properly from Classic This process will assume that we are going to start with a fresh install You can complete this part of the process by burning the CD either from a separate hard drive partition or from a disk image created within Toast For either process you will need a few more megabytes of free hard drive space than the size of the CD you want to create prefer to use a hard drive partition as this permits me to test the installation without first burning the CD If you are burning from a hard drive rather than a Toast disk image empty the drive partition erase it if possible and skip to installing OS 9 Launch Toast and choose Create Temporary Partition from the Utilities menu In the dialog box that appears name your emergency CD choose how large the CD will be and choose the location for the temporary file
7. 2 or Mac OS X 10 2 500 MHz 256 MB of RAM 32 MB 3D accelerator with OpenGL Trial None Overview The Black amp White Platinum Pack contains the original Black amp White and its immediate offspring the expansion game Creature Isle Real time strategy with a twist Black amp White challenges you to build and expand a godly empire The twist is a creature your creature a minion who learns and grows eventually becoming your primary force in the surrounding lands The colors black and white indicate your ability to choose between styles of play Teach your creature to love the inhabitants or terrorize them Either will build belief your source of power in the game s land You eventually face off against other gods and creatures seeking to prove your superiority The original Black amp White starts with an infant creature and a single city of believers Through a series of tutorial exercises you learn how to interact with each by performing miracles and finishing tasks Neighboring gods and periodic trials test your creature s education and combat skills With sufficient education and power the creature can dominate the entire land and its population Black amp White supports network and Internet play pitting your creature and empire skills against other human players Game play is functionally the same for both but multi player games have specific competitive goals ATPM reviewed the original Black amp Whi
8. A printed copy of the user manual comes with the boxed CD ROM version The user manual adequately describes most features of iView MediaPro Its AppleScript section is very skimpy however Technical Support The iView Web site has tutorials and a support area containing frequently asked questions a user forum and a query submission form There is no telephone fax or live chat room support did not test the speed or accuracy of replies to support queries Alternatives gave QPict a Very Nice rating in my review last July QPict is not as full featured or as polished as iView MediaPro but it also costs less 35 Image Viewer 6 1 2 is another 35 shareware image cataloging application have not used this application It has a 4 out of 5 cow rating on Tucows Photo Mechanic is a more expensive 150 image cataloging application See my review in ATPM next month iPhoto is OS X only and free It is clumsier than iView much slower and does not let you choose your own filenames or folder structure for storing the images It is generally not as featured as iView MediaPro but it has the advantage of direct integration with various Apple services Summary became increasingly impressed with iView MediaPro while evaluating it for this review The program has a wealth of features yet it is easy to use because of its excellent interface have only two complaints about iView MediaPro a propensity to crash and a somewhat
9. Vinyl As soon discovered buying a turntable is easy but buying the right turntable is like finding a needle in a haystack went to Best Buy Circuit City Tweeters and Fry s Finally the people in a music pawn shop went to directed me to the Guitar Center As soon discovered this is where most party DJs go for their tools of the trade As luck also had it they were having their end of year clearance sale Jessica one of the very helpful people at Guitar Center was very versed on what would need for a replacement turntable The first thing learned was that needed a turntable with a built in pre amp On older receivers there used to be phonograph jacks for the right and left channels plus a ground Built into the receiver was a pre amp that would boost the signal that could be used by the stereo If you already have a setup like this then you can move onto the next step to moving your sounds into your Mac The only thing you might want to think about doing is replacing your needle if it is worn A newer needle will improve the quality of the sound transmitted from the turntable Most home entertainment centers that are built today do not have phono jacks except on high end units This means that you will have to find another way to boost the signal or you will need a hearing aid to hear your albums As just mentioned one way to go is to buy a turntable with a built in pre amp The advantage of this is the fact that ever
10. Web What like about this site is that it s not about promoting any particular belief system rather it makes everything available without judgement letting you explore deliberately or randomly a rather surprising variety of religious texts The Chew Toy Diaries If you have a pet and your pet has a favorite toy Mandy wants to see it So far she s only posted a picture of her ferret s Doorknob Bear but for one envision a Web site loaded with pictures of beat up catnip mice half gone bones rubber balls and crumbled up pieces of tissue paper ATPM 9 03 20 Web Sites Omniglot Some time ago browsing in my favorite bookstore found a book that showed illustrations of all the world s various alphabetic systems with descriptions and history This site doesn t go that far but it does show you what a great number of different alphabets look like and provide transliterations and fonts The writing systems are indexed by type and can also be listed alphabetically Copyright 2003 Paul Fatula pfatula atpm com ATPM 9 03 21 Web Sites Roll Your Own by Charles Ross cross atpm com The Object of Programming Part 2 Welcome back to Roll Your Own the column where we learn together how to program Macintosh computers using the AppleScript language included with every system Last month we learned about objects and began building a simple object to store and manipulate angles This month we re going to conti
11. albums uploads to Shutterfly and one click picture fixing make ATPM 9 03 53 User Strikes Back Product Awards Elements 2 a standout Apple s recent release of iPhoto 2 takes the freeware program a bit closer to Elements territory but it still can t hold a candle to the power of Adobe s consumer version of Photoshop use Elements 2 virtually every time deal with photos from our Canon PowerShot 230 and smile while using it also still rely on one of the best shareware programs ever released Thorsten Lemke s wildly successful GraphicConverter GraphicConverter 4 5 2 still 30 or 15 for an upgrade from an older version has so many features that there is not enough room to list them all use GC every month in the course of editing our user group s newsletter use a Batch routine to convert folders full of JPEGs at 72 dpi into 240 dpi TIFFs rely on it to open any graphic may encounter which it always does and also often use its Slide Show feature Macworld gave its award for Best Consumer Graphics Software to Photoshop Elements 2 which agree with but they don t consider shareware entries when judging on the other hand see no difference between commercial software and shareware and often feel shareware titles are superior Therefore The Best Graphic Programs for the Money Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 and GraphicConverter both work under OS 9 and X Say Cheesy Poofs Speaking of
12. be radians by pi so set the angle size using the SetRadiansByPi handler else tell Angle to SetRadiansByPi theSize end if class of theSize is not in real integer then return Angle end MakeAngle on MakeTrigAngle theSize theUnits set Angle to MakeAngle theSize theUnits script TrigAngle property parent Angle end script end MakeTrigAngle ATPM 9 03 30 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming on run GetRadiansByPi of MakeTrigAngle 270 degrees end run At this point the properties and handlers of the trigangle object are exactly the same as those of the angle object This is a case where the order of code makes a big difference You ll notice that in Our Makeangle handler all of the code that is run in the handler appears after the code for the script object In this case the set Angle to MakeAngle theSize theUnits line appears before the script object code This is because we need an initiated object before we can say that it is the parent of our new object At this time Our trigAngle object would behave exactly like our angle object We can call handlers such aS setDegrees Or AddAngle just as if we were using an Angle object instead That s not very useful so let s add some new features to Our TrigAngle object Demonstration of AppleScript s object oriented techniques using an Angle as the sample object Written by Charles E Ross 12 26 02 Version 1 0v7 on MakeAngle theSize theUnit
13. boot process you must enter a user name and password For the current version of BootCD the username is root and the password is set to bootcd Both words must be typed in lowercase Finder File Eda View Go Window Help Drerrg ney Boot LE E guaman Console aie T eO Bootable CD Success This is the first process have seen that yields a bootable CD containing the Finder Dock and basic utilities included as part of a standard OS X install The screenshot shows my iBook successfully booted from a custom CD At the time this screenshot was taken had tested all of the applications shown in the Dock except for Network Utility Safari was the only program that refused to work How To Building Customized Boot CDs The only problem have encountered is that sometimes self contained package programs appear in the Dock as folder icons instead of program icons Hovering over such an icon will show the name of the program If this happens when you boot from your new CD go ahead and click on the program s folder icon in the Dock it will probably still open and run normally Make Mine a Size 9 Boot Creating a truly effective emergency kit may require running utilities that must run under OS 9 In fact the current versions of DiskWarrior and Norton SystemWorks require booting into OS 9 Using either of these utilities will require an OS 9 emergency CD This phase of the project was completed using Toast Titanium 5 2
14. enjoying it more as well The eye candy factor alone is worth it going back to 9 now seems so blah Not to mention the ultra coolness of being able to do anything you want at any time Want to listen to iTunes while installing software No problem It still knocks me out that can click out of Open and Save dialogs to look up something if need to or that dropping a menu no longer freezes up the system until let go And that s just the tip of the X coolness iceberg ATPM 9 03 52 User Strikes Back Product Awards Yes it s different Yes there is study and learning to do in order to really master the new OS Yes there are things that take getting used to Command Shift N for a new folder Whose idea was that But believe the time invested is worth it and finally almost everything use or want is now or soon will be OS X native And for the few hold outs that won t work at all well that s the thing about using a computer If you stick with it long enough you find yourself migrating away from the old and into the new Here s the thing to remember however when it comes to X do not concentrate on what software no longer works with it but rather on what new software there is that can do things you never thought you could do before or do in new ways Many of my award recipients are such items In other words just as with computers in general always face forward and look ahead don t dwell on the past In that spi
15. need of a new turntable highly recommend this model With that out of the way we are ready to look at how to import your audio onto your Mac Step 2 The Right Connection Now that you have selected the turntable you are going to use the next step is deciding the best way to connect it to your Mac In essence there are two ways direct and indirect Let s look at the direct way first ATPM 9 03 46 What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl If you have a turntable with a built in or separate pre amp set up then hooking it up to your Mac is a no brainer All you need is a set of cables with RCA jacks to go from your turntable to a sound card or USB device We will talk about these different devices in just a couple of paragraphs If you got lucky and have digital output from your turntable the same applies except you will use a digital coaxial cable If your turntable does not have a pre amp you are probably hooked up to your stereo or home entertainment center that has one for your turntable already Under no circumstances should you use the headphone jack as an output to your Mac Using the headphone jack will not send a pure signal to your Mac The volume bass and treble controls will affect the signal coming out of the headphone jack If after making your recording you wish to make changes in the bass and treble frequencies of your music you can do that with an equalizer software filter In most cases your receiver should have a set of
16. printed The Contact Sheet menu choice displays a window that lets you set the dimensions of the sheets the layout of the images and the resolution format JPEG PICT PNG BMP TIFF TGA SGI Photoshop MacPaint or QuickTime Image and quality of the images You also can print catalog thumbnails directly from iView MediaPro without making contact sheets iView MediaPro can convert images movies and sounds between different formats It uses QuickTime or other third party applications for these conversions The big advantage of using iView MediaPro is that it can perform batch conversions You can also save conversion options for reuse with other sets of files The Make menu has options related to backup and archiving of catalog files to hard drives removable magneto optical media or CD ROMs CD ROM archiving works with Toast and Apple s Disc Burner You can export text information from your catalog using the Review iView MediaPro 1 5 6 Text Table feature Files can be saved as comma or tab delimited text The resultant files can be imported into database programs or used as merge files with Microsoft Word or other word processors AppleScript is fully supported by iView MediaPro It comes with 22 scripts organized into 6 groups in the AppleScript menu AppleScripts are useful for certain types of batch tasks such as file renaming and automatic caption creation You can add scripts by placing them into the Plug ins Scripts f
17. skimpy manual Even with those problems give MediaPro a Very Nice rating Copyright 2003 Gregory Tetrault gtetrault atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com J Review iView MediaPro 1 5 6 Review Mac OS X The Missing Manual 2nd Edition book by Johann Campbell jcampbell atpm com Author David Pogue published by Pogue Press O Reilly amp Assoc Price 29 95 Trial Sample Chapter first reviewed Mac OS X The Missing Manual exactly a year ago in which time Mac OS X has changed considerably The inevitable release of version 10 2 code named Jaguar brought a much hyped myriad of changes additions and improvements to the operating system and has prompted a much needed update to its counterpart in the Missing Manual series This review will only cover changes made in this edition EXCELLENT The first noticeable change to this book is its thickness The second edition adds more than a hundred pages to the first and Pogue claims that not a single page has been left unchanged in the overhaul Most of the screen shots have been updated to reflect the subtle interface changes in 10 2 and all the confirmed errata submitted by readers of the first edition are no longer present More importantly the book is now much less involved in explaining the differences between OS X and its predecessor OS 9 Bearing in mind a lot of new Mac users are fo
18. them to electrical impulses These impulses are an analog signal Due to this transition between mediums there is always some loss or degradation in the sound quality An analogy to this is making copies of a non digital i e VHS home video If you take the original and make a copy of it you would see losses in picture and sound Now if you take the copy and make a copy of the copy the degradation becomes very severe The picture becomes muddy and the sound is muted in quality This type of degradation is due to noise that is inherent in any analog signal No matter how well you shield the analog cables they will still pick up random electrical noise as the signal is passed from one end to another When sound is converted into a digital format it is converted into a series of numeric values by an Analog to Digital Converter or ADC Since there is a large amount of information found in sound the computer takes snapshots or samples of the incoming signal at regular intervals The number of samples per second is called the sample rate Sample Rate The sample rate has a direct effect on the audio quality and the size of the file The greater the sample rate the higher the quality of the digitized sound Since raising the sample rate increases the number of snapshots per second this in turn increases the size of the resulting file The sample rate is measured in kilohertz kHz Professional audio and audio CDs use 44 1 kHz Although
19. to the Editor Got a comment about an article that you read in ATEM Is there something you d like us to write about in a future issue We d love to hear from you Send your e mail to editor atpm com We often publish the e mail that comes our way Do You Answer Technical Support Questions Of course E mail our Help Department at helo atom com How Can I Contribute to ATPM There are several sections of ATPM to which readers frequently contribute Segments Slices from the Macintosh Life This is one of our most successful spaces and one of our favorite places We think of it as kind of the ATPM guest room This is where we will publish that sentimental Macintosh story that you promised yourself you would one day write It s that special place in ATEM that s specifically designated for your stories We d really like to hear from you Several Segments contributors have gone on to become ATPM columnists Send your stuff to editor atpm com Hardware and Software Reviews ATPM publishes hardware and software reviews However we do things in a rather unique way Techno jargon can be useful to engineers but is not always a help to most Mac users We like reviews that inform our readers about how a particular piece of hardware or software will help their Macintosh lives We want them to know what works ATPM 9 03 119 Frequently Asked Questions how it may help them in their work and how enthusiastic they are about recommending it to o
20. we do the stuff simply doesn t work was resigned to the old stand by method of using provided templates for Illustrator and PageMaker to create labels for my CDs when something unexpected happened discovered Discus It s insanely easy to use lots of fun to play with and prints perfectly every time A lite version of Discus has been bundled with versions of Toast CD burning software for several years now but never paid attention to it think tried it once in 1998 looked at its opening screen said that s cute and quit the program In the intervening years CD burning has gone from a geekier than thou activity to something all of us do several times a day Producing eye catching artistic and informative labels is no longer a luxury but a necessity Then a few months ago read that Discus was the first and probably only CD labeling product to go OS X native decided to give it another try by downloading the demo within 10 minutes was so entranced gladly paid them 39 for the full version which arrived only two days later The CD is crammed with thousands of patterns templates and graphics for all types of labels besides the one that goes on top of the CD can now create labels for CDs and DVDs mini CD s business card CDs index cards folding booklets and tray inserts even the outer wrapper for DVD keep cases Using the product is very reminiscent of the original KidPix Magic M
21. we were interested in sending our son to The choices were tough with energetic teachers great facilities and fun activities found at each school For me one factor that stood out was that certain schools had a greater emphasis on technology and computers specifically Macintosh While all schools had their share of Macs in the classrooms two of the ten had fully stocked computer labs complete with rows of brand new eMacs So when the time came to make my decision my list had these two schools right at the top Now all have to do is get the results back and of course buy my son a lunch box New Ways to Spend Time and Money As had stated earlier have spent a lot of time woodworking out in the garage There s nothing quite like the sound of a table saw slicing through a board or a router cutting a decorative edge into a piece of molding That s the problem Over the past year have ATPM 9 03 15 Apple Cider A Year Apart added quite a few tools to the shop including a brand new RIDGID table saw And let me tell you those tools and accessories aren t cheap But even with all of the new fangled toys turn to my trusty Mac to get me started I m sure you must be wondering how a computer can help with woodworking It s really easy before buy a stick of wood or make one cut have to draw out my plans And can do that on the Mac Then can turn to a program that shows me how to get the most out of each board or
22. window in thumbnail view Information about the items in a catalog are divided into five groups File Media Device Photo and In Sets File information includes the type of file image movie font sound etc its size the application used to create it its Macintosh file type PICT text MoovV etc encoding Photo JPEG TrueType MP3 etc and creation modification and archived dates Media information includes encoding again image dimensions resolution bit depth compression ratio color space RGB or CMYK color profile and number of pages For text files it includes the number of paragraphs and characters Device information only applies to images and includes maker model software and format Photo lists the EXIF version FlashPix version capture date and a long list of camera specific information such as shutter speed aperture focal length lens flash Review iView MediaPro 1 5 6 mode etc The In Sets category displays which set the file belongs to within the catalog iView MediaPro creates sets automatically based on the name of your files enclosing folders Sets can be displayed in a tree diagram format Besides these predefined fields iView MediaPro allows you to add up to 16 custom fields You can also add text or voice annotations to files Gy Big 1 Gy Fhotos GI Scanned Fikh DD Karen s shots ey Lisa s camera Er Mew Appz G Wiew MediaPro 15 Hammond Castle Window with a t
23. Appearance window The Position Automatically selection is usually fine You can play with the settings to see if you like the others better You will see the result in the little preview screen Once you are satisfied with the selection click on Set Desktop in the lower right corner of the window That s it Should you ever want to get rid of it just go to the desktop settings again and press Remove Picture Mac OS 8 0 and 8 1 Go to the Desktop Patterns control panel Click on Desktop Pictures in the list on the left of the window and follow steps similar to the ones above ATPM 9 03 83 Desktop Pictures California Random Desktop Pictures If you drag a folder of pictures onto the miniature desktop in the Appearance or Desktop Pictures control panel your Mac will choose one from the folder at random when it starts up DeskPicture An alternative to Mac OS s Appearance control panel is Pierce Software s DeskPicture reviewed in issue 5 10 and available for download amp ATPM 9 03 84 Desktop Pictures California Review Black amp White Platinum Pack by Matthew Glidden mglidden atpm com Developer Lionhead Studios Ltd published by Feral Interactive Ltd and Graphic Simulations distributed by MacPlay Price 49 99 Requirements 333 MHz Mac with Mac OS 9 1 or Mac OS X 10 1 3 128 MB of RAM 1 5 GB disk space 8 MB 3D accelerator with OpenGL 1 2 4x CD ROM OKAY Recommended Mac OS 9 2
24. Barrier is to start up with its Control Panel removed or disabled This is hard to do if Multiple User security has been properly established A second method is to start up from a drive or disk that does not contain ContentBarrier The log file is not accessible for editing except within ContentBarrier A log file does appear in the ContentBarrier preference folder or on the root level of the hard drive but this tiny file does not contain the list of visited or blocked Web sites The actual log file is written into the System file Problems and Bugs The only bug encountered was when attempted to update version 1 3 2 to 1 3 3 received an error message An error prevented the update from completing EE Updating did not work on the Demo version and could not complete the update ATPM 9 03 98 Review ContentBarrier 1 3 3 am concerned about the extensive System file modifications made by ContentBarrier Installation of ContentBarrier results in substantial modifications to the System file ContentBarrier continually modifies the System file to write log information ContentBarrier will not work if the System file is locked Uninstalling ContentBarrier removes most but not all of the System file modifications Omitted Features The most significant omission is that ContentBarrier cannot import lists of acceptable or banned Web sites You must enter these manually one at a time The same is true of custom filters However
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26. Cider A Year Apart After a year long hiatus pent up Mac musings bring Tom lovino back to the pages of ATPM The Candy Apple Not Ready for the Leap In which Ellyn avoids playing leapfrog with OS X About This Particular Web Site This month s ATPW will show you where to find a pet and where to send a picture of your pet s favorite toy It also introduces an unusual online dictionary a site devoted to the world s alphabets and a place to peruse the world s various religious texts ATPM 9 03 8 Welcome Roll Your Own The Object of Programming Part 2 Chuck Ross serves up part two of his series on Object Oriented Programming delving into yet more AppleScript objects and handlers as the example project grows in scope What s Under The Hood Got Vinyl Converting LPs to CDs Part 1 Bob Lewis begins a series on transferring your LP collection to CD using your Mac as the go between The User Strikes Back The 2003 Stuff You Can t Live Without Awards Its awards time again the Grammys Oscars and now the Grubies Ken Gruberman looks at all the products he could not live without a surprising number of which are now OS X only and tells why they deserve the coveted prize How To A Custom Pair of Boots Building Customized Boot CDs Things go wrong sometimes even on a Mac For those of you who would like a tool to help you out at such times Sylvester Rogue explains how to make your own boot CD Cartoon Cortland
27. GetRadians The Factorial handler is used to calculate the cosine there therefore the other trig functions on Factorial x if x is 0 then return 1 else return x Factorial x 1 end if end Factorial Uses a converging series to calculate the cosine of the angle on Cosine set convergingValue to 0 repeat with n from 0 to 9 set convergingValue to convergingValue 7 1 n radians 2 n 7 Factorial 2 n end repeat return convergingValue end Cosine Calculates the sine of the angle by deriving it from the cosine on Sine return 1 Cosine 2 1 2 end Sine Calculates the tangent of the angle by deriving it from the sine and cosine on Tangent return Sine Cosine end Tangent Calculates the cosecant of the angle by deriving it from the sine on Cosecant return 1 Sine end Cosecant Calculates the secant of the angle by deriving it from the cosine on Secant return 1 Cosine end Secant Calculates the cotangent of the angle by deriving it from the tangent on Cotangent return 1 Tangent ATPM 9 03 38 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming end Cotangent Sets the degrees property of the angle and the internal radians property by calling the parent SetDegrees handler on SetDegrees theSize continue SetDegrees theSize set radians to GetRadians end SetDegrees Sets the degrees property of the ang
28. Intego indicates that once you create a list of acceptable or banned sites and custom filters for one Macintosh you can transfer those to other computers by using the Export Settings menu choice Documentation ContentBarrier has a 79 page online user manual in Adobe Acrobat format The manual covers all the relevant topics but it contains no hyperlinks not even within the table of contents bookmarks or index Technical Support Intego offers only e mail or Web form support Intego took over nine days to respond to a question sent using their Web form Summary ContentBarrier is a reasonably effective solution for filtering Internet content and restricting Internet use It works best when Multiple Users and Apple s security Keychain Access features are activated It has better security and more filtering options than Kids GoGoGo although the latter s content filtering seemed slightly better Copyright 2003 Gregory Tetrault gtetrault atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com D ATPM 9 03 99 Review ContentBarrier 1 3 3 Review iView MediaPro 1 5 6 by Gregory Tetrault gtetrault atpm com Developer iView Multimedia Ltd Price 90 45 upgrade for owners of iView Multimedia Media or Roxio Toast Requirements Mac OS 8 6 with CarbonLib 1 0 4 or Mac OS X 10 1 QuickTime 5 AppleScript 1 8 Recommended Latest versions of QuickTime and CarbonLib 1 4 T
29. LALINCHED A NEW OK WELL IF YOU HAD THE VERSION OF OUR WEB SITE PLUG IN INSTALLED YOU D IT HAS THE COOLEST GET TO SEE IT INSTEAD OF SPLASH SCREEN THIS ERROR MESSAGE WHAT A SHAME I M MISSING OLIT OH YOU VE ON SEEING INANE TEXT AND SEEN IT RANDOM SHAPES FLOATING ALREADY Copyright 2003 Matt Johnson mjohnson atpm com Cartoon Cortland Extras Desktop Pictures California California The pictures presented here are courtesy of Jens Grabenstein They were taken in June 2002 on a two week road trip through California starting from San Francisco The images reflect the cultural and natural diversity of this beautiful state Previous Months Desktop Pictures Pictures from previous months are listed in the desktop pictures archives Downloading all the Pictures at Once iCab and Interarchy formerly Anarchie can download an entire set of desktop pictures at once In iCab use the Download command to download Get all files in same path In Interarchy use HTTP Mirror feature Contributing Your Own Desktop Pictures If you have a picture whether a small series or just one fabulous or funny shot feel free to send it to editor atom com and we ll consider publishing it in next month s issue Have a regular print but no scanner Don t worry E mail us and we tell you where to send it so we can scan it for you Note that we cannot return the original print so send us a copy Placing Desktop Pictures Mac
30. OS X 10 1 x and 10 2 x Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu and click the Desktop button With the popup menu select the desktop pictures folder you want to use ATPM 9 03 82 Desktop Pictures California You can also use the pictures with Mac OS X s built in screen saver Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu Click the Screen Saver 10 1 x or Screen Effects 10 2 x button Then click on Custom Slide Show in the list of screen savers If you put the ATPM pictures in your Pictures folder you re all set Otherwise click Configure to tell the screen saver which pictures to use Mac OS X 10 0 x Switch to the Finder Choose Preferences from the Finder menu Click on the Select Picture button on the right In the Open Panel select the desktop picture you want to use The panel defaults to your Library Desktop Pictures folder Close the Finder Preferences window when you are done Mac OS 8 5 9 x Go to the Appearance control panel Click on the Desktop tab at the top of the window Press the Place Picture button in the bottom right corner then select the desired image By default it will show you the images in the Desktop Pictures subfolder of your Appearance folder in the System Folder however you can select images from anywhere on your hard disk After you select the desired image file and press Choose a preview will appear in the
31. RCA output plugs on the back If you have a tape deck you can use the output jacks from it as well Then all you have to do is run a set of RCA cables from your receiver to your Mac Step 3 Plug Me In If you have followed my instructions up to this point you probably are holding onto a set of RCA or digital cords The next step is deciding what you will do with those cables If you own a tower Mac then one way to go is with a PCI sound card must recommend that you go to a Store that is best suited for such a purchase i e an audio store Once again found Guitar Center an ideal place to go People who do audio work for a living go there for their needs Thanks to their knowledgeable staff was able to make the right purchase without breaking the bank wound up buying the Audiophile 2496 PCI card by M Audio This card allows me to hook my turntable directly to my Mac by either RCA or digital cords It offers data paths that are bit for bit accurate and supports up to 24 bit 96 kHz performance It also has a total harmonic distortion of 0 002 and a frequency response of 22 Hz to 22 kHz What this What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl all means is that whatever your turntable puts out will be completely captured by this card must admit that got lucky at getting this card for 125 since it has now gone up to 180 at Guitar Center Audiophile 2496 Unless you plan to go beyond mastering your albums to CD do not buy a card tha
32. Time movie The Movie Presentation dialog box lets you globally adjust the size of the movie duration of still images etc Alternatively you can set up a slide show and export it as a QuickTime movie with all timings and transitions intact cea Window License Run Slide Show 3h Setup Slide Show Backup CD ROM HTML Gallery TEXT Table Contact Sheet Kiovie Presentation Convert Image Files Convert Sound Files Convert Movie Files iView MediaPro s Make menu selections Movie Presentation Options Dimensions x pixels o Background Color QuickTime Player E Default Duration 3 seconds per slide Default Transition tris circle Sige ahy bhem Baira are apglied Launch player when done create Review iView MediaPro 1 5 6 Images can be saved as an HTML Web gallery The program creates an index page with thumbnail images and media pages for the full sized images You can adjust thumbnail and image sizes bit depths and JPEG quality Index Page HTML Template Default Thumbnail view Table Grid 5 across 5 down Thumbnail Size Saree tet piwels I TEonrraedd Cepih Best Depth z Quality Hedium Target dati site 0 Dutgaat 1 Page for 14 madia Dber amp Options E Cancel create Window showing setup options for creating an HTML gallery iView MediaPro can create contact sheets that can be saved edited or
33. With the advent of OS X that process came to a complete standstill Suddenly the techniques for creating an OS 9 emergency CD did not work creating an OS X emergency CD required an understanding of Unix commands and files as well as Mac files must admit was not that knowledgeable What was a guy like me to do Well when don t know the answer try to find people who do The good news is that smarter Mac users than have come to the rescue There is indeed a way to create an OS X emergency CD that is capable of booting the system So let s roll up our sleeves gather our tools and get to work Gather the Tools This task will not work without the right tools at hand It is time for a trip to the virtual toolbox For an OS X CD ATPM 9 03 71 How To Building Customized Boot CDs e Disk Copy Disk Utility and the BSD subsystem must be installed If you have removed any of these items from your Mac OS X installation reinstall them before attempting to create your emergency CD e BootCD creates the bootable OS X CD Version 0 5 3 current at press time requires OS X 10 2 or later but a previous version supports other versions of OS X The current version will work with Old World ROM machines such as the beige G3 The program is localized in Dutch English French German Japanese and Spanish The file that download contained directions written in both English and French e You need a CD burner that is fully s
34. at s being said about the company still find myself looking at computers being used in commercials and hope that they are Macs And whenever go to a store that sells software I m always on the hunt for Mac titles So in an effort to give release to the pent up musings rantings and ravings that beg to be heard offer the following for your consideration It s a Jungle Out There And the best way to navigate through the deep underbrush of the Internet seems to be taking a Safari Apple s new Web browser offers quite a bit of promising good news By speeding downloads and processing JavaScript faster than the competition Apple seems ATPM 9 03 13 Apple Cider A Year Apart to be going in a different direction than browsers have gone in the past After all the more nifty features that are added to Web pages the larger the browser programs have become as they are called upon to handle more tasks By starting out from scratch a number of new efficiencies can be designed into the program And with Safari running native on OS X it takes advantage of the operating system s architecture making the program a winner for the Mac Besides if it can automatically block pop up ads that makes it worth a look This Flat Out Rocks Let s hear it for the iMac Great performance a crisp flat screen monitor and a sleek design have made the consumer Mac a great value for people trying to get into computing Now this is what computers wer
35. based Mac 800x600 display Trial Fully featured 30 days VERY NICE Overview ContentBarrier uses a combination of keywords and site lists to restrict access to defined categories of Web sites or Web features ContentBarrier can be used in home school or corporate environments Installation Setup and Initial Use To install just launch the ContentBarrier Installer It installs the ContentBarrier Control Panel and Control Strip Module Warning ContentBarrier installs resources into your System file A restart is required before ContentBarrier can be used Contentibarrier 1 23 ema F eed 10 DE re Le Coolevtirrkr batak Coviev tier ar hiai a J Sa a bt Sy L ContentBarrier files included with download ATPM 9 03 92 Review ContentBarrier 1 3 3 When you launch ContentBarrier from the Control Panels folder or the Control Strip a new user dialog box appears New User GregoryTetrauit Name Gregory Tetrault O Password heeded Password Murt be at iesst 4 characters Retype pidiwrard Dialog window for setting up the first user ATPM 9 03 93 Review ContentBarrier 1 3 3 If you installed the demo version a special window appears first recommend creating an account for yourself before setting up other users If you are not using Apple s Keychain security features then you should check the Password needed box and choose a password Once you have set up the first user th
36. bert is a Mac consultant What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl The User Strikes Back by Ken Gruberman kgruberman atpm com The 2003 Stuff You Can t Live Without Awards I m sure all of you use your Macintosh every day just as do We have lots of software on our drives and hardware to run it but there is always a core or base level the stuff we can t live without It may be a stalwart word processing program an indispensable utility or a time honored and addictive game but whatever it is using the Mac just wouldn t be the same if it weren t around Please keep in mind that these awards are very subjective they are simply my opinion on what find valuable and rewarding in my daily life They are truly the things can t live without or they are things that made me say cool and sometimes other things can t repeat in polite company While it s true have access to a wide range of hardware and software it still comprises a small fraction of what is out there In reality there is no way could check out everything in every field even professional reviewers can t make that claim As much as admire for example 3D animation tools and scientific analysis software there is no way I m going to know anything about them Yet Another well known outfit gives out similar awards at the beginning of each year they re called the Macworld Eddy awards and are usually announced during the San Francis
37. cisms suggestions and praise Or if you have an opinion or announcement about the Macintosh platform in general that s OK too Send your e mail to editor atpm com All mail becomes the property of ATPM ATPM 9 03 12 VET Apple Cider Random Squeezings From a Mac User by Tom lovino tiovino atpm com A Year Apart Doo be Doo be Doooo When last we left off Tom lovino was listening to Frank Sinatra getting ready to hang em up as Opinion Editor and head off into the sunset and for the past year can it be a year already have done exactly as had promised in my last column I ve been spending more time with my family I ve been taking time out to watch some old movies I ve always wanted to see I ve even worked hard on perfecting my favorite hobby woodworking Some of my projects look so good in fact that have moved a couple of them into the living area of my home and actually showed them off to guests Would you look at how cut that board mean it almost looks like meant to do it that way While have been working away at relaxing think might have some type of underlying problem This retirement thing hasn t all been what it s cracked up to be After all writing Apple Cider for as long as had it is difficult to short circuit the reflexes had built throughout the years For instance whenever hear the word Apple used on television stop what I m doing and take a listen to hear wh
38. co Macworld Expo Since some of my picks coincide with theirs I ll be using the Eddys as a guide but also adding some of my own categories while eliminating some of theirs even the Macworld staff missed out on some really great stuff A Switcher in More Ways Than One L H Apple s Switch ad campaign continues to be one of the most successful ever waged by the company The ads exhort Windows users to make the switch to the Mac platform The irony of the ad campaign is that switching also has meaning to people who already use the Mac but have not yet adopted OS X People up until recently like me ATPM 9 03 51 User Strikes Back Product Awards I ll admit it OS X did not thrill me when it was released Quite frankly its Unix underpinnings and radical departure from the way the Mac OS has traditionally worked scared the bejeebers out of me Not to mention the depression that set in when realized virtually everything I d learned about how a Macintosh works over the last 15 years was about to go out the window I d be starting over with everyone else It took me awhile to get over my bruised ego and natural aversion to change before d even tinker with OS X And even then didn t think it was ready for prime time especially when pundits in the Mac press proclaimed it was While it s true that was once known as the first person to live on the bleeding edge time and frequent blood loss cured me of that While
39. customers The cost per unit is 30 but the company states the program will divert 80 to 90 of a recycled Macintosh from entering already overloaded landfills RAIDing the Office The Macintosh has a nice market niche in education in homes and in the content creation and scientific industries But the Mac has not been considered a mainline office computer for many years One reason for the lack of interest in Macs by IT professionals ATPM 9 03 7 Welcome and office administrators has been the lack of Macintosh servers Apple addressed this problem with the release of the Xserve a competitively priced and powerful rack mount server product Apple has continued to develop its server line and has recently released an Xserve RAID Sales of Apple s server products have continued to grow While sales of Macintosh rack mount servers are negligible when compared to the company s much larger competitors Apple s foray into the server market gives the company s business customers a reason to consider Macs not only for the back office but for the front office as well Don t be Surprised to see more Macs on office desks in the coming months The Xserve may be Apple s least acknowledged product but is one of the company s more strategically important ones for 2003 We invite you back in the rainy days of April for another look at the latest happenings in the world of Macintosh computing The ATFM Staff Our March issue includes Apple
40. d MakeAngle on MakeTrigAngle theSize theUnits set Angle to MakeAngle theSize theUnits script TrigAngle ATPM 9 03 33 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming property parent Angle on Factorial x if x is 0 then return 1 else return x Factorial x 1 end if end Factorial on Cosine set convergingValue to 0 repeat with n from 0 to 9 set convergingValue to convergingValue 7 1 n GetRadians 2 n 7 Factorial 2 n end repeat return convergingValue end Cosine on Sine return 1 Cosine 2 1 7 2 end Sine on Tangent return Sine Cosine end Tangent on Cosecant return 1 Sine end Cosecant on Secant return 1 Cosine end Secant on Cotangent return 1 Tangent end Cotangent end script end MakeTrigAngle Now we have a more useful example of inheritance While our trigangle object can do everything our angle object can it also has the ability to return the trigonometric functions of the angle When one object inherits from another it can also alter the handlers in the parent object Our trigAngle object would serve our needs better if it stored the size of the angle in radians rather than in degrees since the trigonometric functions deal with radians But storing the size of the angle in radians would necessitate changing how some of the Original angle code needs to work After all the algorithms for computing the trigonometric functions use angles measur
41. d not to be able to find quick confirmation on the Web Finally stopped looking and thought So what I ve survived all this time without an Apple store here Why do need one anyway really don t need one I m content to make purchases via catalog or online If there were a store here in town I d just go in and buy a bunch of stuff don t need anyway This investigation began when asked a friend if he wanted me to get him an iPod when visit the Apple store in Orlando next month That s when he said Oh that reminds me There s going to be one of those stores here soon But if we just got the news it s probably some months away so guess l Il go ahead and get him that iPod now So now I m thinking what would buy if could get my hands on the stuff and see it in a store right down the street One of those 20 inch monitors for sure Yummy Probably some iPod accessories a leather case the wired remote Yeah But to think about new software or even hardware I d have to make The Leap You know the leap I m talking about The leap to OS X Every time I reach this point in my head run away screaming actually tried OS X for a few months on an early generation iBook It was cute and fun to play with Since It was a machine new to me didn t have to reconfigure anything or reallocate anything or do anything complicated that didn t understand See I m not what think of as a power user us
42. digital photos the aforementioned Canon PowerShot Digital ELPH 230 is mind boggling My wife and have used a Kodak DC220 for the past few years but Daphne wanted to get something as powerful but smaller She s a real estate agent and needs a camera good enough to take high quality competent photographs of properties for use in flyers and Web advertising but she also wants to use the camera for personal reasons The Canon met all of her criteria and exceeded them it has a resolution of 3 1 megapixels a significant difference from our older Kodak at 1 5 megapixels and fits in the palm of her hand The camera is literally so small that she can stuff it in her purse with no problem yet it s as fully featured as any digital camera I ve seen for under 1000 Actually way under 1000 we paid around 400 for it Best of all it takes a good ol reliable Compact Flash card instead of some ridiculous new card format like the one Olympus recently foisted on an unsuspecting public ATPM 9 03 54 User Strikes Back Product Awards Best Compact Digital Camera Under 1 000 Canon PowerShot Digital ELPH 230 Serious Playtime Last year had the joy of being hooked on Ambrosia s Pop Pop and felt it was the best game of 2002 Now I m hooked on a new generation of games many for OS X only from some new independent game makers Macworld gave awards to no surprise here Warcraft Ill and other games like it In other words first pe
43. e end SetDegrees Returns the value of the degrees property on GetDegrees return degrees end GetDegrees Sets the size of the angle by converting from radians since the internal structure of the angle is stored in degrees on SetRadians theSize set degrees to theSize 180 pi end SetRadians Returns the size of the angle in radians by converting from degrees on GetRadians return degrees pi 180 end GetRadians ATPM 9 03 35 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming Sets the size of the angle by converting from radians divided by pi since the internal structure of the angle is stored in degrees on SetRadiansByPi theSize set degrees to theSize 180 end SetRadiansByPi Returns the size of the angle in radians divided by pi by converting from degrees on GetRadiansByPi return degrees 180 end GetRadiansByPi Sets the size of the angle by converting from gradians since the internal structure of the angle is stored in degrees on SetGradians theSize set degrees to theSize 9 10 end SetGradians Returns the size of the angle in gradians by converting from degrees on GetGradians return degrees 10 9 end GetGradians Ensures that the angle is between 0 and 360 degrees on NormalizeSize If the angle is negative add 360 to it until it is positive repeat until degrees 0 set degrees to degrees 360 end repeat Perform a modulus operation on degrees
44. e Yamaha and once again the editors of Macworld felt the same way The ice blue case with pulsating blue activity light doesn t hurt either Best Storage Product Yamaha CRW F1 CD RW drive One quick word on bundled software for a short time Yamaha executives lost their minds and decided to bundle NeroMax burning software from NeroSoft with their CD RWs The German company had no idea what a Mac was or apparently what English was and simply ported over their infamously bad Windows software recommended at the time anyone getting a Nero CD with their Yamaha simply pitch it into the trash can and instead purchase a copy of Roxio s Toast Titanium also a 2003 winner of a Stuff You Can t Live Without award As far as I m concerned it s been winning one every year since its release so l m leaving a detailed description of it out for this go round I m glad to tell you that Yamaha has come to its corporate senses and started bundling Toast again Although it s the lite version everything you need is there The store bought version simply adds ancillary software that may not be that necessary to a lot of people The Sound of Innovation I ve saved the best for last software that does not fit in any known category These would be programs that fill a niche no one had been able to fill before or better yet created a whole niche all for themselves More often than not these programs are OS X only which definitel
45. e hot keys and keep my files and folders pretty well organized and use a Mac a lot at work I m not ignorant about stuff but I m limited to only understanding things that use in real life can sometimes help out other folks if Candy Apple Not Ready for the Leap their questions are no harder than a three on the one to ten scale but beyond that make way for the real power users keep meaning to learn AppleScript and there s tons of stuff wish understood better ended up only keeping that iBook a short time before passing it along to a friend who needed one My experience with OS X was short and sweet If had to make The Leap now d need to allocate a couple of days just for the psychological preparation for making such a big change Then half a day for the switch itself this presumes I ve purchased a new machine and have to transfer files and then a couple of weeks of getting used to the interface and monkeying with it to get it the way want it But it just seems like the long term adjustment would take a really long time I d compare it to breaking up with someone in a romantic relationship the longer it lasted the longer it takes to get over it Gosh at this point I ve been using this OS or one like it for so long that might need therapy to help get me over the loss Change is often good If we never changed we d never grow But sometimes it really is tough to make ourselves do it think righ
46. e main ContentBarrier window appears Fritters Internet Access i Reir ke be Special Site 9 Ure pelected Filters Fitiers Set Detyat al WF Sex Forni Adult Content E We shopping fF Gay ALenbian materints fi Violence wf Harte ARs C Religii E Finansial Sies Biarri Liner Gregory F E Hir iig siles dob Search amp Ge Sa Be Edit Custom Filters B hifo ContentBarrier main window ContentBarrier provides two methods for limiting Internet content restricted sites and filtering If you select Restrict to Special Sites then Web browsing is limited to sites that you list If you select Use selected Filters then Web browsing is limited based on the pre built filters you choose or custom filters you create Groups of filters can be stored as Filter Sets Pre built filter sets include All allowed All forbidden Default and Child You can select a different filter set for each user The list of pre built filters is quite extensive Review ContentBarrier 1 3 3 You can also restrict Internet access times for each user Click on the Internet Access tab to bring up a surfing schedule Click and drag across the pink and red grid to select hours for each day of the week Internet access hours appear as green rectangles E 3 Unlimited Internet Access E 3 Use Time Table Ari 12 00 Po sun oe MON TUE WED Current User Greg Redirect searches to No Redirection M G Ga Ga By E Lock Intern
47. e supposed to look like in the new Millennium at least that s what they thought back in the late 60s and early 70s It s also funny to see all of the PC clones out there that try to look like the iMac After all wasn t the iMac criticized early on for being too gimmicky Dot Coms Are Still Down How many of us can remember those heady days when a dot com just had to mention that it was going to issue stock and people would line up to get their share The trend has continued and in some respects even gotten worse AOL Time Warner has taken its share of lumps in the media recently with surprise the AOL component of the company dragging down the corporation s established media divisions Now hate to think of people getting what they deserve but in some respects the dot com bust is paying back some folks in spades l Il offer my own example In 1998 and 1999 was writing for a company that was building a large Internet community for parents My community co host and were working long hours and expending a lot of energy to build an enthusiastic group of participants Our message boards were busy and our chat rooms were packed So what happened Well just a few weeks before the company went public they went on a firing spree canning even little old me so their bottom line would look even better for investors OK that s business But when asked for a letter of recommendation that could tuck into my portfolio was told
48. ea ated Attachments Late l Media Dimensions 4 Display feld labels Fut E Center text Height 2 OT 10 Tields visible GOptions Layout Dialog Box You can further customize iView MediaPro by selecting Preferences from the Edit menu The Preferences window has five tabs General Helpers Scratch Images and Fonts General preferences control file handling and format information options Helpers lists applications used to view play or decode catalog items You can add applications to this list which allows you to assign files to different applications than the ones that created them Scratch displays the location of iView MediaPro s hard disk scratch file The default location is the drive containing the System Folder Images controls rendering options and color conversion choices It also displays your ColorSync version Fonts has settings for Review iView MediaPro 1 5 6 adjusting the display of fonts in thumbnail and media views You can change the text snippet used during font display The default is De Gustibus Non Disputand or There should be no dispute about taste E Show toolbar butter tips ff Sort using natural order UL Aute Scan modified media items At startup Do nothing g Double hirks Launch with creator He solution Pielsinch 5 Dates O Disable rendering for images larger thans 5 MB S i a a a a a a a a i fy OKE color conversion EJ OE color conversion O Al iman
49. ear of the problem computers and not enough of the good ones Kevin Miracle Piano via USB Are there any options to successfully use my old Mac Miracle Piano software with my newer iMac running OS9 x or OS X If the software did run okay under OS 9 x don t think it is designed to use the USB ports So if understand this correctly would have to use a general MIDI keyboard get an adaptor to convert it to serial and then use a serial to USB converter to get the signal into the USB port of the iMac since the iMac doesn t have any serial ports If did all that would it work Mitchell Fox This is a problem it can be difficult to get vintage MIDI apps to work on newer Macs which lack serial ports The best solution is to use an old serial port MIDI adapter and then use a Keyspan serial port to USB adapter Because Apple MIDI does not support USB and it also does not support the Comm Toolbox i e it only lets you pick between Printer and Modem port no other ports will show up in a pop up menu etc you will have to tell the Keyspan to use Printer Port emulation and then set the Apple MIDI manager to use the printer port for MIDI communication This may work but it may not It s a pretty flukey setup to be perfectly honest But some users are able to get things working ATPM 9 03 11 E Mail The problem is that while USB MIDI adapters exist Apple MIDI is not USB savvy and the only way to use these adapters is with Fr
50. ed for it again That s as far as we re going to take the angle object But we are going to continue using it in its current form and create another object that will inherit the properties and methods of the angle object Yet another advantage of object oriented programming is the concept of inheritance where a new object can inherit all of the properties and handlers of an existing object can modify them as needed or even overwrite them completely The angle object that we ve created here would be fine in many circumstances but any mathematical application is going to want more Some of the calculations on angles that would be useful in such ATPM 9 03 27 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming cases are the trigonometric functions such as sine cosine and tangent AppleScript doesn t include these functions although there are a number of scripting additions that do We haven t really covered scripting additions but you can think of them as extensions to the AppleScript language Truthfully my first inclination was to simply put these handlers into Our angle object but then thought that creating a new trigaAngle object would be a great way to demonstrate the concept of inheritance An object can have a special property called the parent When a child object has a parent object all of the properties handlers and any other code within the parent object are part of the child object Our first version of the trigangle object is b
51. ed in radians but since our angle stores its ATPM 9 03 34 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming measurement in degrees each time we compute one of the trigonometric functions we have to convert the degrees to radians By storing the size of the angle in radians and changing how some of the inherited handlers behave we can glean a bit more speed from our object When an object inherits from a parent object every handler called to the child object will behave as it would in the parent object unless we redefine it in the child object We redefine such a handler by simply declaring it again and defining in the new handler code the new behavior of the handler However we can still access the functionality of the parent object by using the continue statement which will call the parent object s version of the handler and execute its code Below is the code for our refined trigangle object Demonstration of AppleScript s object oriented techniques using an Angle as the sample object Written by Charles E Ross 12 26 02 Version 1 0v8 on MakeAngle theSize theUnits Declare a script object called Angle script Angle Angle has one property the measurement of the angle in degrees The size of the angle in other units is derived from the degrees Initialize the size to the value of theSize property degrees theSize Sets the degrees property to the value passed to it on SetDegrees theSize set degrees to theSiz
52. ee MIDI or OMS or some other third party MIDI solution In order to use one of those MIDI software solutions your application must support Free MIDI OMS etc If it is Apple MIDI aware only you re out of luck Evan Trent Age Followup I d like to suggest to Marius Pope and any other seniors in the same situation that he check out his local Macintosh user group for classes in OS X No book is as good as a hands on course and the support and encouragement of other Mac users MacsWest the MUG here in Sun City West AZ has been teaching OS X to seniors for almost a year now It is more difficult for those of us who know the old Mac OS inside and out than it is for the first time computer owners But everyone gets there Melanie Schoenfeld Desktop Pictures This is a fantastic site It has the best photos on the Internet Great variety and professional photography Thank you for making these available for free Rafael van Jonson Roll Your Own appreciate the work you re doing here I m not a programmer but am developing some automation for our prepress dept I m having difficulty getting my brain wrapped around Object Oriented Programming Your approach is good for someone like me If anything I m impatient and can t wait until the next installment Mike Helbert Copyright 2003 the ATPM Staff editor atpm com We d love to hear your thoughts about our publication We always welcome your comments criti
53. een writing about the Macintosh since 1989 He has edited The MacValley Voice the award winning newsletter of the MacValley Users Group in Southern California for 11 years and wrote for MacUser magazine for 7 years Ken lives in Chatsworth CA Copyright 2003 Ken Gruberman kqruberman atpm com Ken Gruberman is a member of the User Strikes Back Product Awards How To by Sylvester Le EAE MECEL ILALL A Custom Pair of Boots Building Customized Boot CDs Okay confess like to tinker with my Mac Unfortunately sometimes things go wrong have never really ruined any significant hardware unless you count one Apple IIGS logic board but have damaged system files and hard drive structures more times than care to count Because had become so good at making a complete mess of my Mac had to be at least decent at cleaning up the mess that had made Sometime in between System 7 1 and Mac OS 9 2 started creating emergency CDs that contained the system software needed to boot the computer and utilities that used frequently to repair it This was a real time saver It meant could boot from one CD and run several utilities rather than restarting from multiple CDs to run the same utilities There are also times when booting from a utility CD is a necessity especially when a utility cannot make repairs to the boot partition or drive In order to do that you must boot from either another hard drive or a utility CD
54. elow Demonstration of AppleScript s object oriented techniques using an Angle as the sample object Written Version by Charles E Ross 12 26 02 1 0v6 on MakeAngle theSize theUnits Declare a script object called Angle script Angle Angle has one property the measurement of the angle in degrees The size of the angle in other units is derived from the degrees Initialize the size to the value of theSize property degrees theSize on Sets the degrees property to the value passed to it SetDegrees theSize set degrees to theSize end SetDegrees on Returns the value of the degrees property GetDegrees return degrees end GetDegrees on Sets the size of the angle by converting from radians since the internal structure of the angle is stored in degrees SetRadians theSize set degrees to theSize 180 pi end SetRadians on Returns the size of the angle in radians by converting from degrees GetRadians return degrees pi 180 end GetRadians Sets the size of the angle by converting from radians divided by pi since the internal structure of the angle is stored in degrees SetRadiansByPi theSize ATPM 9 03 28 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming set degrees to theSize 180 end SetRadiansByPi Returns the size of the angle in radians divided by pi by converting from degrees on GetRadiansByPi return degrees 180 end GetRadiansByPi Sets the size of
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56. es end SubtractFromAngle Multiplies the size of the current angle by the provided factor and returns a new angle of that size on MultiplyBy factor Create the new angle setting the size of the new angle to the product of the size of the current angle multiplied by the factor provided return MakeAngle degrees factor degrees end MultiplyBy Divides the size of the current angle by the provided quotient on DivideBy quotient Create the new angle seeting the size of the new angle to the ratio of the size of the current angle divided by the quotient provided return MakeAngle degrees quotient degrees end DivideBy end script If theSize is not a number produce an error message and code if class of theSize is not in real integer then error Invalid size number 101 If theUnits is not a valid unit produce an error message and code else if theUnits is not in 7 degrees radians gradians radians by pi then error Invalid units number 102 If theUnits is degrees just normalize the size else if theUnits is degrees then tell Angle to NormalizeSize If theUnits is radians set the angle size using the SetRadians handler else if theUnits is radians then tell Angle to SetRadians theSize If theUnits is gradians set the angle size using the SetGradians handler ATPM 9 03 26 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming else if theUnits is gradians then te
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58. et after idling for oju o m S Grid for restricting hours of Internet use Additional options can be accessed by clicking on the Settings button You can assign an administrative password for ContentBarrier You also can choose options related to Web site logging You can record what filters were activated what sites were blocked or all Web sites visited You also can choose to receive hourly activity log e mails or e mail notifications of predatory activity Clicking on the Special Sites tab allows you to enter Web sites that are always allowed or always forbidden The Special Applications tab displays a window for listing Internet related applications that will not be monitored by ContentBarrier such as e mail applications Review ContentBarrier 1 3 3 When you first launch an Internet application ContentBarrier displays a login window You choose your user name from the pop up menu then enter your password if required and click on the Login button Content Barrier Te WAnt ho the Dern Pou need bo dene yp pour el Hane Gregory Tetrault E passwort ol i amp Cancel Login Testing Web Surfing Under ContentBarrier conducted a series of tests with Internet Explorer and the default ContentBarrier filter set entered the URL for what would certainly be a blocked site www hardcoresex com The browser window for that site appeared with child inappropriate graphics was able to view the f
59. ew angle to the product of the size of the current angle multiplied by the factor provided return MakeAngle degrees factor degrees end MultiplyBy Divides the size of the current angle by the provided quotient on DivideBy quotient Create the new angle seeting the size of the new angle to the ratio of the size of the current angle divided by the quotient provided return MakeAngle degrees quotient degrees end DivideBy end script If theSize is not a number produce an error message and code if class of theSize is not in real integer then error Invalid size number 101 If theUnits is not a valid unit produce an error message and code else if theUnits is not in 7 degrees radians gradians radians by pi then error Invalid units number 102 If theUnits is degrees just normalize the size else if theUnits is degrees then tell Angle to NormalizeSize If theUnits is radians set the angle size using the SetRadians handler else if theUnits is radians then tell Angle to SetRadians theSize If theUnits is gradians set the angle size using the SetGradians handler else if theUnits is gradians then tell Angle to SetGradians theSize Otherwise the units must be radians by pi so set the angle size using the SetRadiansByPi handler else tell Angle to SetRadiansByPi theSize end if class of theSize is not in real integer then return Angle en
60. ged from the first edition more than a hundred pages longer than its predecessor this tome has been completely reorganized to cover OS X version 10 2 in great depth Review Unix Power Tools 3rd Edition book With Mac OS X being based on Unix you re going to have to be something of a Unix geek if you want to be a real OS X power user Kirk McElhearn reviews Unix Power Tools an 1 100 page behemoth of a book meant for users who are comfortable with the basics and looking for more ATPM 9 03 10 Welcome TiBook Durability adopted the first generation G4 PowerBook from my parents in fall 2001 They bought it when it first came out in spring 2001 I ve put it to the test from the very beginning maybe abused would be a better description I ve dropped it from desk height a few times dragged it across desks put it through airport x ray machines more than a thousand times commute and I ve only recently bought a laptop case for it just stuffed it in a backpack before used it for everything from designing with AutoCAD 2K2 on Virtual PC to playing DVDs on an external monitor and sound system to compiling hundreds of pages of data in Microsoft Excel I ve only had one problem when the hard drive kept skipping but that went away after 10 minutes As you can imagine the outer case is pretty scratched up but everything else works fine The LCD doesn t even have the keyboard marks everyone talks of guess we only h
61. he concept of mouse gestures helps for casting miracles but there s still a lot going on It s hard to feel in control of your creatures and followers expect this isn t a problem for experienced real time strategists but it kept me from enjoying the game Most new tasks felt like pulling one of my creature s teeth My creature teaches Tyke how to use the Village Store In short why am doing all this work Shouldn t my creature be The Man or at least The Monkey There s too much reliance on human interaction to get your creatures working properly with the trials and villagers It works in Myth because your creatures run largely on automatic Creature Isle suffers from getting cute with the original idea teaching a computer how to behave like a civilized or spiteful creature There are many video and audio settings and the video resolution and details settings impact game play most My slower 450 MHz CPU and built in 3D card meant that 800x600 was the maximum video setting Anything higher would have slowed play to a crawl when moved around the city Players with faster CPUs and better 3D graphics cards can exploit much higher settings Tips You can cheat at many trials to make them easier but is it cheating when you re a god In the bowling trial for example keep a stash of rocks near but not too near the trial logo When your creature bowls grab a rock and drop it on pins to knock them down Whe
62. is a continue statement which does execute the version in the angle object Once we have set the degrees property we can use the GetRadians handler to set the radians property On the other hand the normalizesize handler should completely replace the handler parent handler of the same name Normalizing now entails that the size of the angle Is between 0 and 2x rather than O and 360 because there are 2x radians in a circle so there s no need or desire to use the continue Statement to call the parent handler Inheritance allows you to move from the simple to the complex with objects specifying only the behavior that is changing for each level We could have included everything our TrigAngle Object does in our original angle object However a general rule when creating 40 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming objects is to build code only for what you need for each object and when you need to expand on that code create a new object that inherits from the first This keeps the code in each object as simple and as useful as possible This month have two exercises for you First of all some angles don t have defined tangents cotangents cosecants and secants Sines and cosines can be zero and when this is the case the trigonometric functions that divide by them aren t defined Edit the TrigAngle Object so that appropriate error messages are generated when these cases arise Your second task is to create a new object representi
63. ize of the angle by converting from gradians since the internal structure of the angle is stored in degrees on SetGradians theSize set degrees to theSize 9 10 end SetGradians Returns the size of the angle in gradians by converting from degrees on GetGradians return degrees 10 9 end GetGradians Ensures that the angle is between 0 and 360 degrees on NormalizeSize If the angle is negative add 360 to it until it is positive repeat until degrees 0 set degrees to degrees 360 end repeat Perform a modulus operation on degrees to ensure that the size is less than 360 set degrees to degrees mod 360 end NormalizeSize Takes another angle as an argument and returns a new angle whose size is equal to the current angle plus the other angle ATPM 9 03 25 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming on AddAngle otherAngle Create the new angle setting the size of the new angle to the sum of the sizes of the current angle and the angle passed as a parameter return MakeAngle degrees GetDegrees of otherAngle 7 degrees end AddAngle Returns a new angle whose size is equal to the size of another angle minus the size of the current angle on SubtractFromAngle otherAngle Create the new angle setting the size of the new angle to the difference between the angle passed as a parameter and the current angle return MakeAngle GetDegrees of otherAngle degrees 7 degre
64. kup is working with eMusic you never even have to see it On top of all that Pickup is free Once again shareware or in this case freeware comes to the rescue Best Software That Fills a Need No One Else Thought of Pickup 1 4 If the Label Fits Stick It Another product that did what no one else could do right anyway is Discus from Magic Mouse Software ATPM 9 03 63 User Strikes Back Product Awards Discus is another example of software that s elegant powerful and affordable At 39 95 retail it works well does what it s supposed to do and beats the pants off of any other labeling software out there Comes Paint Photo Text 7 Print Discus Main Window Like fax software before it competent well written CD labeling software seems to have eluded the grasp of programmers up until now One problem could be that most CD labeling software is included with popular CD labeling products usually as an after thought Or maybe CD labeling software just isn t taken seriously by the people who create and sell it All know is not a month goes by where don t hear complaints about crappy CD labeling software such as CD Stomper or Click n Design 3D not printing crashing all the time or just acting up And now as it turns out CD Stomper is no longer supported for the Mac User Strikes Back Product Awards used to think things were better on the PC side but found they have just as many complaints as
65. le and the internal radians property by calling the parent SetRadians handler on SetRadians theSize continue SetRadians theSize set radians to GetRadians end SetRadians Sets the degrees property of the angle and the internal radians property by calling the parent SetGradians handler on SetGradians theSize continue SetGradians theSize set radians to GetRadians end SetGradians Sets the degrees property of the angle and the internal radians property by calling the parent SetRadiansByPi handler on SetRadiansByPi theSize continue SetRadiansByPi theSize set radians to GetRadians end SetRadiansByPi on NormalizeSize This handler completely overrides the parent handler If the angle is negative add 2 pi to it until it is positive repeat until degrees 0 set degrees to degrees 2 pi end repeat Perform a modulus operation on degrees to ensure that the size is less than 2 pi set degrees to degrees mod 2 pi end NormalizeSize end script tell TrigAngle to set radians to GetRadians of Angle end MakeTrigAngle For the handlers in our original angle object that set the size of the angle we still want to have the functionality run still setting the size as before But now that we have a radians property we also want to make sure that when the size of the angle changes this value is ATPM 9 03 39 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming updated So our redefined handler
66. ll Angle to SetGradians theSize Otherwise the units must be radians by pi so set the angle size using the SetRadiansByPi handler else tell Angle to SetRadiansByPi theSize end if class of theSize is not in real integer then return Angle end MakeAngle on run set firstAngle to MakeAngle 300 degrees set secondAngle to MakeAngle 90 degrees display dialog firstAngle secondAngle amp 7 GetDegrees of firstAngle s AddAngle secondAngle display dialog secondAngle firstAngle amp 7 GetDegrees of firstAngle s SubtractFromAngle secondAngle display dialog firstAngle secondAngle amp 7 GetDegrees of secondAngle s SubtractFromAngle firstAngle display dialog firstAngle 3 6 amp 7 GetDegrees of firstAngle s MultiplyBy 3 display dialog secondAngle 9 amp 7 GetDegrees of secondAngle s DivideBy 9 end run Of note with these new changes are how the passed object is referenced just as if we were referencing it from anywhere except within the object itself and the fact that we are returning an object Once we ve run these handlers we return an angle object to the calling portion The calling portion of the program can then store this object in a variable or as we re doing simply use the size in other commands If the returned object isn t stored in a variable then it is unavailable after the current command and would need to be re calculated if there were a ne
67. m the Windows world as well as a short book containing hundreds of tips and tricks Those who want to learn more about the Unix aspect of OS X should look at Dave Taylor and Brian Jepson s Learning Unix for Mac OS X also from O Reilly Mac OS X The Missing Manual could only have improved and this new edition does by no means disappoint The second edition is current as of version 10 2 1 and new editions will surely surface as OS X progresses through version 10 2 3 and beyond If you already own the first edition there is not a lot you will discover in the second providing you actively follow OS X centric Web sites such as the excellent MacOSXHints com If on the other hand you have not yet bought this book seriously consider it It s still the best starting point to OS X there is Copyright 2003 Johann Campbell jcampbell atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com J 114 Review Mac OS X The Missing Manual Review Unix Power Tools 3rd Edition book by Kirk McElhearn kmcelhearn atpm com Author Powers Peek O Reilly Loukides published by O Reilly Price 69 95 Trial Sample Chapter As we all know Mac OS X is built atop a version of Unix While the Aqua EXCELLENT interface hides this so well that most Mac users will never need to look under the hood those of us who do will find a whole new world of computing Sure many Mac users have Unix or Linux e
68. mple and reinforcement With proper care it will control your village and conquer neighboring lands Second is your option to walk the path of aggression or the way of compassion Terror and providence are both legitimate methods of exercising your power and instructing your creature Teaching your creature to defend itself and overcome challenges is the key to playing and enjoying Black amp White ATPM 9 03 86 Review Black amp White Platinum Pack Creature Isle starts on an island without gods inhabited by several tribes Missionaries from your original tribe land on its shores and convert an Egyptian city that becomes your home The island is also home to a band of masterless creatures called the Brotherhood The head of the Brotherhood Rufus talks to your creature and announces a series of trials to earn membership They don t give Rufus last name but suspect it s Exposition My creature meets with Rufus for the first time Along the way your creature acquires its own pet to instruct The pet a chicken named Tyke not Tyson follows your creature around mimicking its actions and learning what it knows This teaching the teacher task shifts the focus somewhat making you more directly active in helping your creature pass along its knowledge appropriately This two pronged approach to creatures is interesting but ultimately can be as frustrating as satisfying Come ON wanted to shout a couple of
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70. n the other creature bowls drop a rock in front of his ball to knock it away Look for similar opportunities to use miracles or other abilities to outfox the trial designers The trials are like a collection of party games Don t take them too seriously but definitely finish them as soon as practical to expand your roster of creatures Bugs The first time played Creature Isle there was no video but could hear the introduction playing in the background After installing the 1 1 9 update the video worked properly Summary The ATPM review of the original Black amp White rated it Okay Creature Isle plays Jeff Daniels to its Jim Carrey and gets an Okayer Leaning on direct human interaction given its sluggish interface wasn t a great idea Hopefully Black amp White 2 will improve the latter or eschew the former Black amp White aficionados will probably enjoy Creature Isle s variety of available creatures and added challenge of teaching your creature to teach Casual players may think should just play the first game again and try being bad this time Copyright 2003 Matthew Glidden mglidden atpm com Reviewing in ATPM is open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com E Review Black amp White Platinum Pack Review ContentBarrier 1 3 3 by Gregory Tetrault gtetrault atpm com Developer Intego Price 40 Requirements Mac OS 8 6 or Mac OS X 10 1 1 PowerPC
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72. ndreds of tips this is the book to buy once you are comfortable with the basics You ll learn about ATPM 9 03 115 Review Unix Power Tools shell shortcuts using grep and find editing files working with processes shell scripting and managing your system While not everything is applicable to Mac OS X the vast majority of what this book contains is still relevant While some of the articles in the book are explanatory walking readers through the basics of a given command or concept the majority are short and sweet the kind of tips that are useful and helpful In more than 1 100 pages this book covers such a vast range of material that we Mac users may find it daunting were it not for the indexer Ellen Troutman Zaig who deserves kudos for her excellent job of providing a user s manual to this book Without her extremely detailed 80 page index the book would be nothing more than a compendium by using it readers can find what they need in a flash If you re the type of user who uses a Mac to surf the Web and send e mail this book is obviously not for you But if you re the type who used to use ResEdit under previous versions of Mac OS this is the toolkit that will give you a wealth of useful tips and explanations It s a bit expensive but if you want to use the Unix underpinnings of Mac OS X the time you save will more than pay for this excellent book Copyright 2003 Kirk McElhearn kmcelhearn atpm com Reviewing in ATPM i
73. net now provides us with the world s biggest database for the general public and ReaderWare has put it to good use Add new CDs using auto catalog j ReaderWare Adding a CD To get CDs DVDs and books into the ReaderWare database all you have to do is get a barcode scanner of your own and click All the info you ever needed will magically appear on everything you scan in Getting a USB based barcode scanner just like the ones you see in stores couldn t have been easier thanks to the Web picked up a nifty Peninsula reader for about 50 Another nice thing about the USB barcode readers is that thanks to OS X there is no need for software drivers you just plug it in and it works The process of entering books CDs and DVDs is stunningly simple get a pile of whatever you want looked up and scan each item s barcode This can be done in any text editor or directly in ReaderWare Making a long list of UPC code numbers is the easier way to do this Once you make a list of UPC numbers you then load them into ReaderWare and tell it to go fetch The software lets you access dozens of Web based informational sites from Tower and Amazon to the Library of Congress you can also merge the results from several ATPM 9 03 68 User Strikes Back Product Awards sources into one record After processing you ll have every scrap of information possible about the CD or book or DVD in question automatically entered into the database i
74. ng a list but with sorting adding and removing methods Each method will return a new list rather than alter the list that the method belongs to So each of the lines in the following code snippet would return the appropriate list set sortedList to orignalList s Sort set addedList to orignalList s AddItem newItem set removedList to originalList s RemoveItem theItem Beginning next month we re going to work on putting everything we ve learned together into a complete program built entirely with AppleScript We ll go from a definition of what the program will do to a complete application that will perform the specified task Until next month happy programming author He s written articles for ISO FileMaker Magazine and is currently writing a book on Copyright 2003 Charles Ross cross atpm com Charles Ross is an independent developer and creating applications with AppleScript Studio ATPM 9 03 41 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming What s Under the Hood by Robert C Lewis rlewis atpm com Got Vinyl Converting LPs to CDs Part 1 If you are of the pre CD generation odds are that you still have a collection of vinyl albums from 78s and 45s to LPs lying around your home You probably have many albums that have not made it to a CD Wouldn t it be nice if you could transfer your valuable album collection to CDs New music CDs cost 12 and up you can use your Mac to record filter and then burn a CD for a frac
75. ng it around and either selling it somehow or sharing it with the rest of the world _ Options Target r a H iTunes Select a vadnak The application musi not be running Audio Hi rk will launch ii Recording Folder Desktap Maximum Duration None Control Launch Start Recording Mute Status Active Nar Recording Audio Hijack ATPM 9 03 60 User Strikes Back Product Awards Audio Hijack does its magic by controlling the target software for you The program tells you right on the main screen to not launch the software you want to use but rather to tell Audio Hijack what that software is so it can launch it first Once Audio Hijack has control over the software in question the magic can begin After that it s just a simple case of clicking to start capturing the audio stream and clicking again to stop it In addition Audio Hijack gives you the ability to process the sounds you capture with many different DSP digital signal processing modules Best of all you don t have to capture anything just to use them they work all by themselves Right now I m listening to Sarah Brightman s Eden CD It s mounted on my desktop and iTunes is playing it but Audio Hijack is processing the sound before it gets to my Harman Kardon SoundSticks Oh yes how about an award for them as well truly couldn t live without em I ve turned off the iTunes equalizer in favor of the one supplied by Audio Hijack The so
76. ngle object to the calling code Demonstration of AppleScript s object oriented techniques using an Angle as the sample object Written by Charles E Ross 12 26 02 Version 1 0v5 MakeAngle theSize theUnits Declare a script object called Angle script Angle Angle has one property the measurement of the angle in degrees The size of the angle in other units is derived from the degrees Initialize the size to the value of theSize property degrees theSize Sets the degrees property to the value passed to it on SetDegrees theSize set degrees to theSize end SetDegrees Returns the value of the degrees property ATPM 9 03 24 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming on GetDegrees return degrees end GetDegrees Sets the size of the angle by converting from radians since the internal structure of the angle is stored in degrees on SetRadians theSize set degrees to theSize 180 pi end SetRadians Returns the size of the angle in radians by converting from degrees on GetRadians return degrees pi 180 end GetRadians Sets the size of the angle by converting from radians divided by pi since the internal structure of the angle is stored in degrees on SetRadiansByPi theSize set degrees to theSize 180 end SetRadiansByPi Returns the size of the angle in radians divided by pi by converting from degrees on GetRadiansByPi return degrees 180 end GetRadiansByPi Sets the s
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78. nt angle by the provided factor and returns a new angle of that size ATPM 9 03 29 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming on MultiplyBy factor Create the new angle setting the size of the new angle to the product of the size of the current angle multiplied by the factor provided return MakeAngle degrees factor degrees end MultiplyBy Divides the size of the current angle by the provided quotient on DivideBy quotient Create the new angle seeting the size of the new angle to the ratio of the size of the current angle divided by the quotient provided return MakeAngle degrees quotient degrees end DivideBy end script If theSize is not a number produce an error message and code if class of theSize is not in real integer then error Invalid size number 101 If theUnits is not a valid unit produce an error message and code else if theUnits is not in degrees radians gradians radians by pi then error Invalid units number 102 If theUnits is degrees just normalize the size else if theUnits is degrees then tell Angle to NormalizeSize If theUnits is radians set the angle size using the SetRadians handler else if theUnits is radians then tell Angle to SetRadians theSize If theUnits is gradians set the angle size using the SetGradians handler else if theUnits is gradians then tell Angle to SetGradians theSize Otherwise the units must
79. nue on our object journey improving our Angle object and using it to build another object called a trigangle Before we dive into objects again l d like to announce that from now on I m going to make the source code of our examples available on my Web site Personally when learn new programming topics always type in the example code find that it helps me learn the concepts much more quickly However if you learn just as well from reading the source code and experimenting on your own feel free to download the source code from my homepage You may read this before actually get a chance to set up the files but hey if you want to see pictures of my kids stop on by As a refresher here s the source code for the latest version of our angle object The changes we will make to this object are based entirely on the work we did last month so if you haven t read the previous article do so before continuing Demonstration of AppleScript s object oriented techniques using an Angle as the sample object Written by Charles E Ross 12 26 02 Version 1 0v4 on MakeAngle theSize theUnits Declare a script object called Angle script Angle Angle has one property the measurement of the angle in degrees The size of the angle in other units is derived from the degrees Initialize the size to the value of theSize property degrees theSize Sets the degrees property to the value passed to it on SetDegrees theSize
80. of the angle in gradians by converting from degrees on GetGradians return degrees 10 9 end GetGradians Ensures that the angle is between 0 and 360 degrees on NormalizeSize If the angle is negative add 360 to it until it is positive repeat until degrees 0 set degrees to degrees 360 end repeat Perform a modulus operation on degrees to ensure that the size is less than 360 set degrees to degrees mod 360 end NormalizeSize Takes another angle as an argument and returns a new angle whose size is equal to the current angle plus the other angle on AddAngle otherAngle Create the new angle setting the size of the new angle to the sum of the sizes of the current angle and the angle passed as a parameter return MakeAngle degrees GetDegrees of otherAngle degrees end AddAngle Returns a new angle whose size is equal to the size of another angle minus the size of the current angle on SubtractFromAngle otherAngle Create the new angle setting the size of the new angle to the difference between the angle passed as a parameter and the current angle return MakeAngle GetDegrees of otherAngle degrees ATPM 9 03 32 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming degrees end SubtractFromAngle Multiplies the size of the current angle by the provided factor and returns a new angle of that size on MultiplyBy factor Create the new angle setting the size of the n
81. older You also can control iView MediaPro with applets or AppleScripts written within other applications ai 2 Annotate Copy Photo Data to Clipboard Desktop Picture Import From Finder Comments Files Import From PhoteDisc Select Make Caption from Photo Data Web Make Caption from Text Files Empty Trash Make Caption from Text Lines Make Event Date from Capture Make Product from EXIF Data AppleScript menu with annotation scripts Problems Bugs and Omissions experienced numerous application crashes with Type 2 and 3 errors and a few full system crashes while reviewing iView MediaPro Some crashes were random while others were reproducible An example of the latter is a full system crash that occurs if you press the Home key while iView MediaPro is importing a folder of images After iView MediaPro crashed with a Type 2 or 3 error restarting was necessary to run the application Note The iView MediaPro may be more stable under OS X There are known conflicts in OS 9 with Logitech Optical wheel mouse driver and OSA menu However was not running either extension Documentation The application comes with a 66 page user manual and an 18 page quick start guide Both are available as PDF files in the downloaded version The PDF user manual has bookmark links Neither PDF manual has an index and neither has links in the table of Review iView MediaPro 1 5 6 contents or within the documents
82. open to new and exciting ideas became more conservative about implementing them on a permanent basis or recommending them to others To illustrate it took 18 months after the introduction of OS 9 when OS 9 0 4 was introduced to be specific before recommended OS 9 as a viable platform to others When OS X went public my gut feeling was based on my experience with 9 that it would take at least two years before it was ready for the big time And guess what was right The deciding factor was the release of OS X 10 2 Jaguar in August of 2002 Jaguar was the big turning point for me finally a version of OS X that not only was fast and stable but worth using To me it signaled the new operating system had finally arrived no matter what others had said before More importantly it is the version of OS X that has made me switch to it now spend more time in it than OS 9 and my wife lives in it all the time The only reason still use 9 is that use proprietary music software for my business that still cannot run in either OS X or Classic Once this is resolved which could be soon I ll be X all the way Since have a desktop G4 installed two additional hard drives one for backups and another just for OS X My systems are completely independent of each other in case there is some kind of major catastrophe So far there hasn t been And as time goes by find myself becoming increasingly comfortable with the system and
83. ouse also makes Flying Colors which is a KidPix clone that is actually better than the current version of the once great program but it s not toy I d like to think of it as an object lesson for programmers how to make something really easy to use yet with features and flexibility galore and still keep the program size down to a dull roar Basically you create a label in 3 easy steps 1 Click on the template you want in this case a CD label 2 Select a background from hundreds available or import your own graphic then adjust the opacity and or size ATPM 9 03 65 User Strikes Back Product Awards 3 Add further graphics on top if desired and then add the text There s also a thorough painting environment for those who are inclined to create their own graphics Discus automatically centers curves bends and otherwise manipulates text to fit on areas of the CD label with no hassles whatsoever Working with text Click on the New button to create a new test bor You can make the text straight angled vertical or curved You can control the size lener spacing line spacing color and font ofeach block of characters At present text boxes are limited to 255 characters which is about 7 lines Create a mew best born ae Edit an existing text bo ou Adjust text aize sas p e A Fej Adjust letter spacings e Adjust line spacing ke Adjust angle of text tiles FAE
84. peration on degrees to ensure that the size is less than 360 set degrees to degrees mod 360 end NormalizeSize end script If theSize is not a number produce an error message and code if class of theSize is not in real integer then ATPM 9 03 23 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming error Invalid size number 101 If theUnits is not a valid unit produce an error message and code else if theUnits is not in degrees radians gradians radians by pi then error Invalid units number 102 If theUnits is degrees just normalize the size else if theUnits is degrees then tell Angle to NormalizeSize If theUnits is radians set the angle size using the SetRadians handler else if theUnits is radians then tell Angle to SetRadians theSize If theUnits is gradians set the angle size using the SetGradians handler else if theUnits is gradians then tell Angle to SetGradians theSize Otherwise the units must be radians by pi so set the angle size using the SetRadiansByPi handler else tell Angle to SetRadiansByPi theSize end if class of theSize is not in real integer then return Angle end MakeAngle Another useful feature of an angle object would be the ability to do arithmetic on angles such as adding and subtracting angles So we ll add four new methods addangle SubtractFromAngle MultiplyBy and DivideBy Each of these new handlers will return a new a
85. rding is permanent When you adjust the gain of an audio file you are changing the actual volume of the file In an ideal recording the gain should be such that you hear a large dynamic range while keeping your signal to noise ratio in check Increasing the gain will also make noise embedded in your transfer more pronounced Filters Filters are special types of software designed to remove frequencies in your recording An analogy would be the plug ins that are so widely used in Photoshop to adjust photographs Some of the most common filters you will need to make CD quality disks are Pop Rumble Hum Noise Equalization and Normalization Depending on the program you use these names may vary but they will still do the same thing We ll discuss these terms further when we get around to editing our audio recording Now let s move away from the science lesson and move on to the type of hardware you will need Step One The Turntable As with any journey we must start with that all important first step Having a good turntable is probably the most important factor in converting your LPs to CDs Using a nickel and dime turntable will produce poor results when you digitize the sound into your Mac had a very good Techniques Turntable that bought back in 1977 Sadly the belt on it broke and made the mistake of not replacing it for several years When did have it replaced the motor had gone bad ATPM 9 03 44 What s Under the Hood Got
86. ree diagram of the locations of all files in a catalog Review iView MediaPro 1 5 6 As with any good cataloging application iView MediaPro lets you organize sort and select files using a variety of methods and criteria You can select a subset of images for example and perform batch operations on the subset These operations can include creating labels adding or changing file information such as keywords playing a slide show rotating images and so on Batch Annotations Batch mode Clear field list GI Replace if original iz Adding information to a batch of files Review iView MediaPro 1 5 6 The layout of the catalog can be customized using the Windows menu and the Layout Edit menu choice You can hide the toolbar or information areas change the background color behind thumbnails and images change the font and color of the file labels choose which information fields will be displayed etc ahs License Hide Tabs Hide Info Panel ES Display View Content Show Catalog Index 4 7 Thumbnail a2 Show Catalog Sets 385 Media ad Show Calibrator 6 Tile Stack Revolve Windows menu for changing catalog window appearance Review iView MediaPro 1 5 6 Layout Thumbnail iew AA File Text File Name Hir m Bl ee T Media Type File Size s Ef Colors File Creator ms Background File Type Text Foreground Encoding L z Archived Text Background Created Modified Aen
87. ree tour and the sign up pages Interestingly when went to Google and searched for hardcoresex the search was blocked by ContentBarrier tried going directly to other adult sexual content sites such as www teensex com www lolitasex com www sexaddicted com and www xxxquirer com The first three sites were blocked but the fourth a nude celebrity site was viewable performed an experiment regarding profanity did a Google search for profanity dictionary The list of hits over 11 000 was not blocked by ContentBarrier clicked on the link for Roger s Profanisaurus and was able to view the Web site and its definition pages then searched for George Carlin who has a comedy routine about words you ATPM 9 03 96 Review ContentBarrier 1 3 3 cannot say on network television The search results were blocked A similar search on Eddie Murphy was not blocked although some of the listed Web sites that contained profanity were blocked E Roger s Profanisaurus F fun bags a Breasts knockers lhruppennes fun cushions See Ju PE reel Ja Bere at mongoose si ar animal that sets snakes fotr Os Vvagina fuzebor a A Ber irescily distinguishable becsuce of its fey appearance hadry pit fysta Sone Fo smelling fart ABCDEFGHIJELMNHOPOERSTUVWETE Wer yia Rogers Profenicure john brown Publirhing 2000 A site that defined profane terms was not blocked My next concern was whether ContentBarrier
88. rial Fully featured 45 launches VERY NICE Overview iView MediaPro helps you organize and display a variety of file types images movies sounds fonts illustrations text files and HTML pages Files can be labeled categorized voice annotated renamed copied or moved individually or in batches Installation The download version is a disk image file that contains the iView MediaPro folder Just drag that folder to the desired location on a hard drive Using iView MediaPro An iView MediaPro catalog holds related images or files You create a new blank catalog by selecting New from the File menu You create a filled catalog by selecting Import Media from the File menu The two submenus let you import individual files or entire folders of files or if you use OS X images stored in a digital camera The main iView MediaPro catalog window has three views selected via tabs Content Thumbnail and Media All three views contain tabs and a toolbar at the top these can be hidden information on Review iView MediaPro 1 5 6 the selected file s on the left side which also can be hidden a viewing area to the right that contains a file list thumbnails or a full sized image or font sample and a status bar on the bottom with a pop up menu containing choices relevant to the current view 16 6 ME DALT PEG Prato JPEG 111 01 10 55 22 FH 110 1056 07 PA 2 22 02 9 58 32 Ab Sa x S332 piels a EET z Catalog
89. rit here s our first award The Most Important Software Release of 2002 Apple s Mac OS X 10 2 I m not mentioning another obvious candidate for this award Apple s iApps such as iPhoto iMovie etc for a reason Since they come with Jaguar when you purchase it kind of regard them as part of Jaguar Increasingly you need Jaguar just to run them As a side note Apple released an OS X 10 2 4 update in mid February making Jaguar even leaner and meaner Some people over at MaclnTouch have reported problems with the update but experienced none As with all Apple system software updates install with caution always make a backup first and do some reading at sites like MaclnTouch or MacFixlt before going ahead with it And remember that OS X is still a work very much in progress so expect frequent updates such as these and check for them often Get the Picture Two years ago wrote that Adobe Photoshop Elements was one of the best software titles of the year due to its value ease of use and powerful features I m happy to say the best gets better with the release of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 In addition to making it OS X native Adobe threw in even more fun features while keeping the price at 89 and the upgrade price at 59 Elements 2 has a bevy of automated routines to alleviate the drudgery of working with loads of digital photos The batch rename feature is worth the price all by itself In addition improved Web
90. rmer Windows users Pogue has aptly chosen to refrain as much as possible from mentioning Mac OS 9 outside its own chapter Additionally the useful Where d It Go appendix has been split into two appendices one covering Mac OS 9 features and the other covering Windows features Certain chapters have been slightly reorganized to reflect changes to 10 2 itself System Preference panes are now explained in alphabetical order rather than by category and the distinction between Terminal and the Unix that lies underneath OS X s graphical user interface is now made much clearer New sub chapters have been created for the new Find function and Menulets and my favorite chapter Hacking Mac OS X has happily been expanded ATPM 9 03 113 Review Mac OS X The Missing Manual The section which has seen the most changes is Part Five Mac OS X Online A whole new chapter covers Sherlock 3 iChat and iCal and Mac n e iTools is explained in full along with Mail s new spam filter and the new personal firewall Finally this book no longer takes you through Mac OS X menu by menu that appendix has disappeared In its place is a much requested and much more useful master list of keystroke combinations There are a number of related titles available from O Reilly worthy of mention if you find yourself wanting to learn more which weren t around when the first edition was published Pogue has written a separate Missing Manual for switchers fro
91. rson shooter slash and hack and other kinds of action strategy games however gravitate toward puzzle games with heavy addictive qualities The infamous Tetris comes to mind as a classic example of this kind of game also enjoy action games such as Pangea s Cro Mag Rally and OttoMatic because they are fun and funny have great 3D wrap around action and don t involve death and mayhem If want that kind of thing all have to do is get on any Los Angeles area freeway Two of the best new game companies are PopCap Games and DracoSoft Both specialize in these kind of puzzle action games with standouts being PopCap s Bejewelled Deluxe and Draco s Wordsmith an amalgam of Scrabble Boggle and Perquackey But my current favorite super time waster is Super Nisqually from the GameHouse All these games have Stellar graphics sophisticated soundtracks and compelling game play there s just ATPM 9 03 55 User Strikes Back Product Awards something about Nisqually that makes me want to play it hour after hour haven t had this kind of rush since Snood came out Will there ever be an OS X version of Snood Please eo Wordsmith A Drecesaft eres at New Game Howto Play Add Word Settings Exit Wordsmith ATPM 9 03 56 User Strikes Back Product Awards Of course the best thing about all these games are the prices most are between 10 and 15 If you have kids who are hooked on PlayStation 2 games and m
92. s Declare a script object called Angle script Angle Angle has one property the measurement of the angle in degrees The size of the angle in other units is derived from the degrees Initialize the size to the value of theSize property degrees theSize Sets the degrees property to the value passed to it on SetDegrees theSize set degrees to theSize end SetDegrees Returns the value of the degrees property on GetDegrees return degrees end GetDegrees Sets the size of the angle by converting from radians since the internal structure of the angle is stored in degrees on SetRadians theSize set degrees to theSize 180 pi end SetRadians Returns the size of the angle in radians by converting from degrees on GetRadians return degrees pi 180 end GetRadians ATPM 9 03 31 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming Sets the size of the angle by converting from radians divided by pi since the internal structure of the angle is stored in degrees on SetRadiansByPi theSize set degrees to theSize 180 end SetRadiansByPi Returns the size of the angle in radians divided by pi by converting from degrees on GetRadiansByPi return degrees 180 end GetRadiansByPi Sets the size of the angle by converting from gradians since the internal structure of the angle is stored in degrees on SetGradians theSize set degrees to theSize 9 10 end SetGradians Returns the size
93. s Be sure to choose Write Disc rather than Write Session when given the opportunity When recording is complete try to boot from the OS 9 CD that you just created Now is the time to find out whether the CD works Do not wait until you really need it ATPM 9 03 77 How To Building Customized Boot CDs This process especially the OS X aspect is still in its infancy If it does not work try again have been watching BootCD for some time now and it continues to improve hope that you find this process as helpful as have currently works as a speech language therapist in the public school system His hobbies include Copyright 2003 Sylvester Roque sroque atpm com Sylvester Roque is a long time Mac user who finding new uses for old Macs and listening to great blues J How To Building Customized Boot CDs Cartoon Cortland by Matt Johnson mjohnson atpm com YOU CAN PAY FOR THIS NEW PROOFER IN TWO WAYS OR YOU CAN AH NOW PAY 10 A DAY THAT S MORE ATPM 9 03 79 Cartoon Cortland TERRY YOUR NEW COPY OF BRIGHTWAVE IS HERE IT CAME WITH A PONGLE THAT S RIGHT IT FITS AROUND YOUR NECK LIKE THIS AND GIVES YOU AN MILD SHOCK IF YOU TRY TO OPY THE PROGRAM ATPM 9 03 YOU MEAN I HAVE TO MESS WITH ANEW PIECE OF HARDWARE JUST TO USE THE NEW SOFTWARE SOMETHING TELLS ME THAT SOFTWARE COMPANIES ARE START ING TO TAKE THEIR CUSTOMERS FOR GRANTED Cartoon Cortland 80 WE JUST
94. s for setting the size of a trigAngle will simply call the parent version of themselves and then manually set the radians property by using the GetRadians handler which we do not alter So what happens when we create a Trigangle object and send a setDegrees Message to it Consider the following code fragment which does exactly that set myTrig to MakeTrigAngle pi 2 radians tell myTrig to SetDegrees 270 The first line creates a new trigangle object sets its size to x 2 radians 90 degrees and Stores it in the mytrig variable When Maketrigangle is called the first thing it does is create a new angle object by calling Makeangle Then we have the code for the TrigAngle Object which since we are executing the handler it is in creates an instance of it of the same name trigangle Since TrigAngle has a radians property we use the GetRadians handler to set the value of this property Remember this handler is defined in the angle object from which trigangle inherits At this point trigangle has a value of 90 in its degrees property and a value of x 2 in its radians property Finally we return the TrigAngle Object to the calling code The next line of our program snippet calls mytrig s setDegrees handler passing it a value of 270 Since trigangle has defined its Own setDegrees handler this is what gets executed not the one defined in the angle object However the first statement in TrigAngle S SetDegrees handler
95. s open to anyone If you re interested write to us at reviews atpm com J ATPM 9 03 116 Review Unix Power Tools FAQ Frequently Asked Questions What Is ATPM About This Particular Macintosh ATPM is among other things a monthly Internet magazine or e zine ATPM was created to celebrate the personal computing experience For us this means the most personal of all personal computers the Apple Macintosh About This Particular Macintosh is intended to be about your Macintosh our Macintoshes and the creative personal ideas and experiences of everyone who uses a Mac We hope that we will continue to be faithful to our mission Are You Looking for New Staff Members We currently need several Contributing Editors and a Copy Editor Please contact us if you re interested How Can Subscribe to ATPM Visit the subscriptions page Which Format Is Best for Me The Online Webzine edition is for people who want to view ATPM in their Web browser while connected to the Internet It provides sharp text lots of navigation options and live links to ATPM back issues and other Web pages You can use Sherlock to search all of the online issues at once offline and made available in a Stufflt archive to reduce file size The graphics content and navigation elements are the same as with the Online Webzine but you can view it without being connected to the Internet It requires a Web browser The Offline Webzine is a HTML ver
96. s your Home fodder Molumes PowerGrube Documents Choose Downloaded MP3 files are organized by artist and album M Save Album Art with MP3 files _ Add downloaded tracks to iTunes Ei Delete processed RMP EMP files Pickup There s only one problem the site depends on third party software to interface with your Web browser and it s Windows only ATPM 9 03 62 User Strikes Back Product Awards guess Mr Vissering felt the way did when first encountered the site severely frustrated and decided to do something about it Pickup is now listed on eMusic as the preferred and only Mac client that works with eMusic s proprietary EMP RMP file format What like so much about Pickup isn t just the fact that can now get stuff off of eMusic but rather the way in which it is done When it comes to helping the user set up the software Pickup s Configuration Manager is a model for everyone who writes software to emulate In lesser hands the job of telling Pickup how to interface with eMusic and a Web browser as well as then setting up the browser itself to understand eMusic commands so that Pickup is automatically launched would be a nightmare But Pickup takes you gently by the hand and leads you step by illustrated step through the process Each screen carefully explains what you need to know then tells you exactly what to do All that effort for what becomes in effect a totally transparent product when Pic
97. se Discus Multimedia Labeling software Yo ho ho It s a Scanning Life for Me My last award also goes to a product that filled a need of mine a yearning aching crying need that has long gone unfulfilled As a longtime collector of just about anything that s round and spins have amassed over the years a sizeable media collection have literally thousands of records as well as several thousand CDs and Laserdiscs also have several hundred DVDs not to mention a couple of thousand books of every description The task of cataloging this collection is a mammoth undertaking and is something I ve intended to do since my first Mac Plus Here I am 15 years later with not much to show for myself At one time we were contemplating hiring someone just to do the endless data entry required to create a truly comprehensive database with everything I d want to know about each and every entry Needless to say that didn t happen either Finally the confluence of OS X the Internet and an enterprising Bay area programmer gave me the answer ReaderWare ATPM 9 03 67 User Strikes Back Product Awards I d always suspected the UPC symbols found on all the things we buy these days could be put to good use and was right The only problem has been how to identify what the UPC stands for When you buy a CD at Tower Records for example the clerk scans the barcode and it s instantly matched against the store s in house database The Inter
98. set degrees to theSize end SetDegrees Returns the value of the degrees property on GetDegrees ATPM 9 03 22 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming return degrees end GetDegrees Sets the size of the angle by converting from radians since the internal structure of the angle is stored in degrees on SetRadians theSize set degrees to theSize 180 pi end SetRadians Returns the size of the angle in radians by converting from degrees on GetRadians return degrees pi 180 end GetRadians Sets the size of the angle by converting from radians divided by pi since the internal structure of the angle is stored in degrees on SetRadiansByPi theSize set degrees to theSize 180 end SetRadiansByPi Returns the size of the angle in radians divided by pi by converting from degrees on GetRadiansByPi return degrees 180 end GetRadiansByPi Sets the size of the angle by converting from gradians since the internal structure of the angle is stored in degrees on SetGradians theSize set degrees to theSize 9 10 end SetGradians Returns the size of the angle in gradians by converting from degrees on GetGradians return degrees 10 9 end GetGradians Ensures that the angle is between 0 and 360 degrees on NormalizeSize If the angle is negative add 360 to it until it is positive repeat until degrees 0 set degrees to degrees 360 end repeat Perform a modulus o
99. shed adding programs to the disk image it is time to do some burning Unmount the volume by dragging it to the Trash which should change to an Eject symbol Do not drag the image file to the Trash We are almost ready to burn the CD at this point but there are a few things to keep in mind Do not use the Finder to prepare the image for burning This process appears to be most successful when using Disk Copy to complete the burn try Toast if Disk Copy is unsuccessful Open Disk Copy and choose Burn Image from the File Menu In the Open File dialog that appears locate and open the image file that BootCD created It will take approximately 15 20 minutes to burn the CD depending on the speed of your CD burner With any luck you should have a bootable OS X CD Give It the Boot Booting from your emergency CD is about as easy as it gets Insert the CD into your internal drive restart the computer and hold down the C key on your keyboard until you hear enough drive activity to convince you that the machine is booting from the CD How To Building Customized Boot CDs It may take quite some time for the machine to boot from your CD My iBook takes about fifteen minutes to boot from my current Emergency CD This does not appear to be due to a flaw in the BootCD program but is a function of the process needed to boot from the CD The same iBook takes four to five minutes to boot from the Drive 10 CD as well At some point during the
100. sheet of plywood saving lots of time money and aggravation in the shop After all with each sheet of cabinet grade plywood costing somewhere about 40 you don t want to make too many mistakes Version 1 1 Mark Zem 12a Willow Ct Adingon Ma 02476 USA email mZzermemediaone net This program wae writen with Mac App 1985 1994 Apple Computer Inc Before sign off for this year s edition of Apple Cider want to let all of you know that part of me really misses putting my thoughts before you every month Then on the other hand there is the part of me that enjoys the time have to work in the shop hang out with my wife or wrestle with my sons And when weigh the two can say that enjoy the time doing the latter more than the former ATPM 9 03 16 Apple Cider A Year Apart But when the muse moves me you can count on seeing more Cider Maybe Sinatra has something to do with it Copyright 2003 Tom lovino tiovino atpm com ATPM 9 03 17 Apple Cider A Year Apart The Candy Apple by Ellyn Ritterskamp eritterskamp atpm com Not Ready for the Leap Someone said Apple is planning to open a retail store in my mid sized city soon couldn t find the news report to confirm this so spent probably an hour spread out over a couple of days looking for other verification never did confirm it know my friend didn t make it up he read it in our local newspaper which is very reliable But was frustrate
101. sion of ATPM that is formatted for viewing ATPM 9 03 117 Frequently Asked Questions The Print PDF edition is saved in Adobe Acrobat format It has a two column layout with smaller text and higher resolution graphics that are optimized for printing It may be viewed online in a browser or downloaded and viewed in Adobe s free Acrobat Reader on Macintosh or Windows PDFs may be magnified to any size and searched with ease The Screen PDF edition is also saved in Adobe Acrobat format It s a one column layout with larger text that s optimized for reading on screen It may be viewed online in a browser or downloaded and viewed in Adobe s free Acrobat Reader on Macintosh or Windows PDFs may be magnified to any size and searched with ease What Are Some Tips for Viewing PDFs e You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader for free If you have a Power Macintosh Acrobat Reader 5 has better quality and performance ATPM is also compatible with Acrobat Reader 3 for those with 680x0 Macs e You can zoom the PDF to full window width and scroll through articles simply by single clicking anywhere in the article text except underlined links e You can quickly navigate between articles using the bookmarks pane at the left of the main viewing window e For best results on small screens be sure to hide the bookmarks pane that way you ll be able to see the entire page width at 100 e Try turning Font Smoothing on and off in Acrobat Reader s preferenc
102. t goes beyond your needs If you are going to use RCA plugs then you do not need a card that supports digital output There are many cards available for less than 125 Just make sure you do your homework before you put your money down on any audio card M Audio does make cards that are designed for those who plan to use only RCA plugs as their connection If you own an iMac iBook or PowerBook then the use of a PCI card is not an option It Is also worth bearing in mind that the microphone jack no longer comes built into current Mac models If you own one of the newer models without a microphone Jack your only alternative is to use USB input devices No FireWire devices are available at present What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl Griffin Technology offers a great device called the iMic 35 that plugs right into your USB port The device works in both OS 9 and OS X and does not need any drivers You may need to rearrange your USB devices because the iMic tends to work best when plugged directly into your Mac Control of the iMic is done within your Sound preferences pane Again no special software is needed iMic Although the iMic can sample at 24 bit Apple s audio manager is limited to 16 bit sampling Because the iMic stays outside your Mac it eliminates transient noise that is produced by the power source hard drive CPU and other components found in your Mac The iMic is not perfect but is a good entry level way to import yo
103. t now I m gonna stay safely on my side of the OS fence with 9 1 chugging along happily It ain t broke ain t gonna try to fix it Since I m standing still can t really say Onward But will anyway Onward Copyright 2003 Ellyn Ritterskamp eritterskamp atpm com Candy Apple Not Ready for the Leap About This Particular Web Site by Paul Fatula pfatula atpm com Hyperdictionary When a dictionary defines a word it uses words which it also in turn has to define Hyperdictionary provides definitions as you would expect but it also redefines the role of a dictionary by linking every word of the definition to its own definition Those who enjoy randomly perusing the dictionary need no longer do so alphabetically The top searches link reveals that the most searched for word is unsurprisingly definitions Petfinder This site is all about helping you find the pet of your dreams It allows you to do a search for the type of pet you want searching by breed age size gender and most importantly location so you can find an animal available for adoption close to where you live It s also possible to see a list of nearby animal shelters so you can go to meet the animals they have available for adoption The site s library offers extensive information about pet care Internet Sacred Text Archive Sacred texts of the world s major and lesser known religions are usually pretty easy to find on the
104. te in issue 8 05 Since largely agree with its content this review focuses on the Creature Isle expansion in single player mode Review Black amp White Platinum Pack Installation The Black amp White installer creates a single folder in the Applications folder The game and all the data files go there MacPlay publishes updates for Black amp White available from their site or through a site like VersionTracker As of this article 1 1 9 is the latest update Creature Isle requires the original Black amp White game so install it and play it first You don t need to finish Black amp White to play Creature Isle but it helps Take your creature from Black amp White into Creature Isle or start an expansion game and use the provided monkey creature Game Play Black amp White breaks no real ground in world building You assemble resources and build cities balancing conservation expansion and defense Your followers belief gives you power to build additional homes and other buildings which increase the population and its belief Miracles use belief power to create raw materials or change the landscape Eventually your empire expands to cities and the cycle begins again Your home Tower tracks acquired game knowledge and tasks performed serving as a reference and refuge There are two notable innovations in Black amp White First is your interaction with the creature It learns what you choose to teach it by exa
105. the angle by converting from gradians since the internal structure of the angle is stored in degrees on SetGradians theSize set degrees to theSize 9 10 end SetGradians Returns the size of the angle in gradians by converting from degrees on GetGradians return degrees 10 9 end GetGradians Ensures that the angle is between 0 and 360 degrees on NormalizeSize If the angle is negative add 360 to it until it is positive repeat until degrees 0 set degrees to degrees 360 end repeat Perform a modulus operation on degrees to ensure that the size is less than 360 set degrees to degrees mod 360 end NormalizeSize Takes another angle as an argument and returns a new angle whose size is equal to the current angle plus the other angle on AddAngle otherAngle Create the new angle setting the size of the new angle to the sum of the sizes of the current angle and the angle passed as a parameter return MakeAngle degrees GetDegrees of otherAngle degrees end AddAngle Returns a new angle whose size is equal to the size of another angle minus the size of the current angle on SubtractFromAngle otherAngle Create the new angle setting the size of the new angle to the difference between the angle passed as a parameter and the current angle return MakeAngle GetDegrees of otherAngle degrees degrees end SubtractFromAngle Multiplies the size of the curre
106. the vibrant colors and new life of spring Speaking of new life at the end of February while speaking a technology symposium Apple s Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson disclosed that the company is seeking to grow market share OK so that s not news But the usually under spoken executive at One Infinite Loop stated that the company s revenue goal is 8 billion That s an ambitious growth plan for a company with current annual revenue of less than 6 billion The XPress Way to New Sales How does Apple expect to grow market share According to Mr Anderson more and more Mac OS X software is moving toward commercial release Recently a developer release of a Mac OS X native QuarkXPress 6 was seeded to major Quark customers and third party developers XPress is the only prominent desktop publishing product for the Mac that does not currently have a native Mac OS X version in the market Will signs of a forthcoming release of QuarkXPress 6 prompt designers and content creators to consider the jump to OS X and the purchase of new Mac hardware We ll know more at the next change of seasons when spring gives way to the hot days of summer Until then most Apple watchers don t anticipate a big change in Apple s Power Mac line up or a big bump in sales Old Macs Turned Green In other news that isn t about the weather but does impact the environment Apple has just announced that a Macintosh recycling plan is now available for the company s
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108. times The MONKEY gets it why don t YOU Al right This mbeautitul man gotta te the town k Your Creatine has a m ATi My creature gets his own pet chicken The Brotherhood trials require the most work as you essentially make decisions for your creature or otherwise best another animal at its chosen game Finish a trial and you can switch to that animal or fight it at the Dojo the Brotherhood s home Complete the trials and conquer the island to meet Eve an enigmatic member of the Brotherhood Play Control Those who played Myth will recognize Black amp White s play control You see the three dimensional landscape from overhead as a god might Move from place to place and change perspective with the mouse but keep the other hand on the keyboard shortcuts The on screen hand is a proxy your hand of god interacting with objects and ATPM 9 03 88 Review Black amp White Platinum Pack performing miracles Use leashes to guide or instruct your creature in correct behavior Erect new city buildings by gathering supplies and designating town workers 1 must build a soccer field God told me to My bad spirit advisor tells me that Shadrin the town leader wants to ask a favor Though better for people with multi button mice play control is cumbersome at best You can pause the game frequently to make specific decisions without the pressure of time but you quickly lose game flow T
109. tion of the cost Just bear in mind that the quality of the recording will not be the quality of a store bought CD However it can sound as good as the original album and it beats searching for a copy of a CD you ll never find Although you can record audio onto your Mac using the microphone input the quality of the sound will not be of CD quality If you have ever hooked a microphone up to your Mac think about what your voice and other sounds were like as they came out of your speakers There is tremendous distortion and signal loss as sound passes from the input device through the microphone input The only way around this problem is by the use of a PCI sound card or sound input devices that plug into your USB port At this point there are no devices designed to utilize the FireWire ports on your Mac Before get ahead of myself let s take a moment and look at some key terms you will need to understand if you want to make a CD quality transfer of your precious vinyl Sound Sound is produced when particles or molecules vibrate If you have ever looked at a woofer on a speaker you can see this as the woofer moves in and out Try holding your hand in front of the woofer or a sub woofer and you will feel the air pulse with the rhythm of the sound being generated ATPM 9 03 42 What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl Analog to Digital As just said sound is a series of periodic vibrations A phonograph takes these vibrations and converts
110. tions or removals from the catalog Version Control also tracks file changes and stores each version This feature is especially useful in a workgroup environment Users can add comments to changed versions and Version Control records the identity of each user who edited a file Review iView MediaPro 1 5 6 iView MediaPro also includes image modification tools The JPEG rotate tool is on the toolbar and in the Action menu You can rotate images by 90 or 180 degrees iView MediaPro also contains a somewhat misnamed Calibrator palette This palette is active only in Media view The tools from left to right are for cropping adjusting sharpness brightness and contrast adjusting hue saturation and lightness color correcting balance and inverting image colors negative to positives You have the option of overwriting the original file making a backup before overwriting the original file or creating a new file that is added to your catalog along with the original Calibrator olei 2001 08 OF jpg 38934 2592 Calibrator palette for images The Make menu in iView MediaPro contains numerous useful functions The slide show features are extensive For each slide you can control duration and transition type Captions can be shown beneath each image You also can link sounds to one or more images and you can play voice annotations with the images Still images can be made Review iView MediaPro 1 5 6 into a Quick
111. to ensure that the size is less than 360 set degrees to degrees mod 360 end NormalizeSize Takes another angle as an argument and returns a new angle whose size is equal to the current angle plus the other angle on AddAngle otherAngle Create the new angle setting the size of the new angle to the sum of the sizes of the current angle and the angle passed as a parameter return MakeAngle degrees GetDegrees of otherAngle degrees end AddAngle Returns a new angle whose size is equal to the size of another angle minus the size of the current angle on SubtractFromAngle otherAngle Create the new angle setting the size of the new angle to the difference between the angle passed as a parameter and the current angle return MakeAngle GetDegrees of otherAngle degrees ATPM 9 03 36 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming degrees end SubtractFromAngle Multiplies the size of the current angle by the provided factor and returns a new angle of that size on MultiplyBy factor Create the new angle setting the size of the new angle to the product of the size of the current angle multiplied by the factor provided return MakeAngle degrees factor degrees end MultiplyBy Divides the size of the current angle by the provided quotient on DivideBy quotient Create the new angle seeting the size of the new angle to the ratio of the size of the current angle divided b
112. tor account username and password yours if you are the only user or the program will not proceed The next screen is a standard OS X Save dialog Choose a location for the Emergency CD image file that has at least as much free space as the CD you are creating find it convenient to place the file on the desktop BootCD will now begin to create the image file According to the program s documentation this process often takes between eight and fifteen minutes On my iBook SE running 10 2 3 it took about 18 minutes Next a standard Open dialog box will appear that allows you to choose which utilities you want on your CD Once you choose an application BootCD takes a moment to add that program to the disk image Continue choosing applications until you have all the applications you need During this stage in the process choose utilities that are self contained and do not litter the hard drive with additional files If a program has files in several locations on the hard drive this is not the time to add that program Do not include System Preferences Terminal Disk Utility or Console BootCD includes these programs in the disk image by default While you are still choosing applications you can find out how much space remains on your new CD by returning to the Finder clicking on the icon of the mounted volume and choosing Get Info from the File menu You may then return to BootCD to continue adding applications When you ha
113. und is smoother stronger more defined and more satisfying In short never knew my SoundSticks could sound like this L Band Equalizer On Balance OF Bass And Treble Oni Crystabity Of Double Gain ti Echo Offi Flanger Off Gain Ont Karaoke Off Low Pass Filter Off Monamizer OF Reverb orf Swap Channels 0i Voiceover Off VST Hub On Menu Bar Meters On Oscilloscope OM VU Meters Of Audio Hijack DSPs ATPM 9 03 61 User Strikes Back Product Awards Audio Hijack also brings back the always fun Karaoke feature once found in SoundJam but never ported to iTunes it also has Timers analysis tools and so much more For 16 this is one power packed piece of software Best Audio Processing Software Rogue Amoeba s Audio Hijack OS X only My second choice for invaluable audio software is Eerko Vissering s Pickup 1 4 If there was ever an example of software created to fill a gaping hole this is it One of the best Web sites for downloading music legally is eMusic com Unlike the major labels these guys got it right lots of good stuff to choose from by recognizable artists and newcomers alike at affordable prices The site is well organized and the MP3s you download from them sound crisp and clean Connection Doewnloa j Watch folder Download location for MP3 files Download to my Desktop Download to my Music folder Download to another location the denote
114. upported by Disk Copy This could be very important The first time tried to complete this process used a burner that was supposed to be compatible with Disk Copy The disk was never successfully burned with that burner but burned easily with another burner For an OS 9 CD you need an OS 9 installer CD a CD burning program capable of creating a bootable OS 9 CD and installers for any utilities you wish to use Getting Started The directions included with the current version of BootCD are sparse but they are accurate and easy to understand Most users will have little difficulty understanding these directions Here is what you must do to create a bootable OS X CD Launch BootCD and choose a name for your CD Enter this name into the Volume Name field in the dialog box Don t start it with a period For the purposes of this article mine was called Emergency Boot CD In the same dialog box set the size of the CD and the size of the RAM Disk If you are using a 700 MB CD change the size to 700 MB The RAM Disk size is set to 10 MB by default According to the program s author most users should find this sufficient Increasing the size of the RAM Disk may not improve boot speed and if increased too far may decrease boot speed by leaving less memory available for program use forcing it to access the CD more often How To Building Customized Boot CDs Click the Create Bootable CD Image option You must enter an administra
115. ur LPs into your Mac The iMic also comes with software called Final Vinyl that is hardware specific and is expressly made for the transfer of LPs to CD A spokesman from Griffin Technology informed me that Final Vinyl has the ability to boost the signal from your turntable in case you lack a pre amp No matter what device you go with make sure you read what s on the box Does it support OS X What software comes with it Although my Audiophile 2496 did boast OS X native support the CD sampler of utilities that came with it was all for OS 9 talked to M Audio about this and they have created a new disk with OS X utilities ATPM 9 03 49 What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl also recommend that whatever device you do buy for your Mac you should go directly to the company s site and check to see if they have a newer driver for your unit Even as write this article M Audio is in the process of writing a new driver for my sound card Wrap Up for Now This concludes the hardware portion of transferring LPs to CD Now you have a full month to get your equipment in order in preparation for part two of this article Next month we ll discuss how to use your Mac as a recorder and the different types of software available Then we ll discuss how to remove the pops hisses and other unwanted noises with the use of software filters how to make a play list and then how to transfer to CD Copyright 2003 Robert C Lewis rlewis atpm com Ro
116. ust have the latest and greatest every week or so you can appreciate these prices If you re an Apple Mac member you can find many of these games on your iDisk some in demo form and others already paid for Enjoy q Sh CT DAHLS AT TAr Dee Super Nisqually Best Obsessive Macintosh Game Super Nisqually 1 0 3 by GameHouse OS X only Also if you love games here s something to look forward to the return of Cliff Johnson to the Macintosh gaming world After 15 years Cliff is about to release the highly anticipated sequel to The Fool s Errand one of the greatest games every made for any computing platform In its heyday the unassuming game that ran on a Mac Plus captivated people across every segment of society Fans of the game ranged from Stephen Sondheim to the Rand Institute which once halted research for an entire week to solve it Cliff s long awaited sequel is called The Fool And His Money and will be released on Halloween You can check his progress and see screen shots by going to his amazingly bizarre Web site If the urge comes over you go ahead and pay for the game now by pre ordering it you won t be sorry Bets are that the game will be inhabiting this spot next year Big CD Keep on Burnin If you want a second CD burner to complement a built in unit as did or you need a CD burner because your Mac didn t come with one you can t do better than Yamaha My first burner was a Yamaha and have sta
117. ve finished choosing applications click Cancel and BootCD will complete the imaging process An alert will inform you that you have a bootable CD It is now safe to quit BootCD and unmount the disk image volume Installing Applications That Are Not Self Contained Some applications have critical files that are stored in more than one place on the hard drive Some of these programs will work from a boot CD and others will not If the program must write files back to the hard drive during operation it may not work correctly from a CD ATPM 9 03 73 How To Building Customized Boot CDs Here is a short procedure that you can try cannot guarantee that this process will make your chosen scattered utility work but at least the program will be on the CD so you can test it This only works with utilities which upon installation let you choose the destination volume Locate the disk image created by BootCD and mount its volume by double clicking on the disk image Wait for the volume to appear on the desktop Insert the installer CD for the program that you want to add Double click the installer and let it run When asked to choose where the program will be installed choose the mounted volume of your emergency CD not the disk image If there are any additional drivers apart from the included USB and FireWire drivers that are essential in troubleshooting your system this is the time to add them Burn Baby Burn Now that you have fini
118. would block Web sites that provide useful information used the default filters that included Sex Porn Adult Content entered the search term breast cancer support group into Google ContentBarrier did not block the search went to the first 10 Web sites listed and all were unblocked then tried an AltaVista search using the phrase avoid sexual transmi disease asterisk is a wild card character ContentBarrier blocked the completed search page even though the listed sites were providing health information It also blocked truly legitimate pages related to sexually transmitted diseases GE hipi sere hion scr rtd tm Your request has been blocked by ContentBarrier Site for book about avoiding sexually transmitted diseases was blocked Review ContentBarrier 1 3 3 Biatora iatibube gi Allergy and initectens Dees Patiora inerlibubes pi Heath July 1999 An lotraduction te Semually Transmitted Diseases Caria ranmi dices STD dete Called venereaj dee ara Ae he morl Sete Are dinesced in the United Steves today More then 20 STDs h re mow been idea tified and they affect more then 13 million men end women in ihis country each year The annual comprehensive cast of STDs in the United States iz estimated to be well in excess of 10 billion This site was blocked by ContentBarrier Attempting to Bypass ContentBarrier ContentBarrier cannot be bypassed as easily as Kids GoGoGo One method for bypassing Content
119. xperience but the majority for the first time are looking at an operating system very different from Mac OS 9 Unix is made up of a kernel which handles the essentials onto which are grafted hundreds even thousands of tools Unix users tend to prefer the term tool because these simple programs are usually only designed to do one thing but to do it well While some of these tools are complex and powerful sed awk grep the different shells others are simple and with just a couple of commands can do some extraordinary things According to the book s back cover With the popularity of Linux and the advent of Mac OS X Unix has metamorphosed into something new and exciting This is indeed true Not only are there several books about Unix for Mac OS X including my own due in September 2003 but the number of Unix users moving over to OS X is astonishing With Mac OS X we really do have the ease of use of an excellent GUI combined with the power and flexibility of Unix Quoting the book With Unix no longer perceived as a difficult operating system more and more users are discovering its advantages for the first time In fact think there s no surprise that O Reilly chose to update this classic book now just as OS X is gaining a foothold in the market This book is not an introduction to Unix It s not a tutorial about using Unix It is more like a Unix encyclopedia the ultimate bathroom book about Unix With its many hu
120. y the quotient provided return MakeAngle degrees quotient degrees end DivideBy end script If theSize is not a number produce an error message and code if class of theSize is not in real integer then error Invalid size number 101 If theUnits is not a valid unit produce an error message and code else if theUnits is not in 7 degrees radians gradians radians by pi then error Invalid units number 102 If theUnits is degrees just normalize the size else if theUnits is degrees then tell Angle to NormalizeSize If theUnits is radians set the angle size using the SetRadians handler else if theUnits is radians then tell Angle to SetRadians theSize If theUnits is gradians set the angle size using the SetGradians handler else if theUnits is gradians then tell Angle to SetGradians theSize Otherwise the units must be radians by pi so set the angle size using the SetRadiansByPi handler else tell Angle to SetRadiansByPi theSize end if class of theSize is not in real integer then return Angle end MakeAngle on MakeTrigAngle theSize theUnits Initiate an Angle object storing it in a variable by the same name set Angle to MakeAngle theSize theUnits ATPM 9 03 37 Roll Your Own The Object of Programming script TrigAngle TrigAngle is a child of Angle property parent Angle TrigAngle should store the size in radians property radians
121. y qualifies as a trend in my book What is so exciting about these titles is how whole heartedly their programmers have embraced OS X A properly coded and designed X native program is just a joy beyond words Phil Schiller Apple s Senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing may have once referred to Microsoft Office for OS X as the poster child for how to design the perfect X native program but beg to differ with him If you want to know how it s really done right look no further ATPM 9 03 59 User Strikes Back Product Awards Some of the most fun you can have with OS X is with audio Felt Tip Software s Sound Studio for OS 9 and X brings full bore audio editing to the masses and of course Apple s own iTunes 3 keeps raising the bar for a one stop audio shop But there are two other audio oriented titles which come to mind that are unique in their powers and abilities The first one is Rogue Amoeba s Audio Hijack Don t you just love some of these company names That s what happens when you re working with just a few gonzo programmers instead of corporate committees Audio Hijack does exactly what the name says it lets you swipe audio from sources previously locked off from such things For example you can capture live Internet audio streams from RealAudio QuickTime and more to your hard disk And you can also capture audio directly off of commercially made DVD movies Yes this is legal as long as you re not turni
122. yed with them over the years even when other companies brought out faster machines The company will always catch up to competitors with faster machines eventually but what they bring to the table no one else can match namely a deep history in the worlds of both data and music Yamaha CD burners have a wealth of features not found in other drives The current leader is the CRW F1 available in both internal ATA SCSI and external FireWire models The units can actually burn graphics and text onto the data portion of a CD they call this their CDT 2 system and also feature Audio Master Quality and support for CD Text At 44x burn and read speeds and 24x re write speeds they re almost the fastest ones you can buy but they still get the job done Trust me on this 44x is quite satisfying when compared to Apple s anemic built ins especially their SuperDrives CRW F1 CD RW Don t get me wrong like SuperDrives for burning DVDs It s just that they re kind of pokey when you use them to do anything else figured I d made a sizable investment getting the fastest Mac there was at the time so why was saddling myself with a burner ATPM 9 03 58 User Strikes Back Product Awards that records at speeds that were considered fast three years ago Also if you make copies of CDs from one to another using a second burner is almost imperative unless you only do this every once in awhile At about 220 you can t go wrong with th
123. you could set an audio program to a sample rate higher than 44 1 kHz when it comes to saving your project the sample rate must be re adjusted to 44 1 kHz or your CD will not play in regular CD players Bits Per Sample The number of bits per sample is the complement to sampling As we all know a bit is represented by a binary code of a zero or a one The binary coding of an audio signal produces a series of numbers called bits that are organized in a very specific way All complex sounds contain a great deal of information at any sample interval Audio CDs operate at 16 bits of data per sample That adds up to a possible 65 536 values that the signal can take at that sample Although you can sample at 24 or 32 bits 16 bits is enough to describe even the most complex sounds ATPM 9 03 43 What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl The advantage of recording at a higher rate is that you are able to spread out the data and get a higher resolution of your recording This in turn improves the quality of the transfer AIFF AIFF stands for Audio Interchange File Format It was developed by Apple as a standard file format for saving sound files of any type After you make the initial transfer of your LPs into your Mac you will save your file as an AIFF AIFF sounds can also be played on PCs Gain Gain is similar to the volume of a recording on your stereo Whereas the changing of the volume level by your stereo is temporary changing the gain on your reco
124. ything is in one package You can tell if your turntable has a built in pre amp by checking to see if it has a ground wire If it does then your turntable does not have a built in pre amp and you will have to buy one separately These units can cost anywhere from 25 to 100 and up If you do decide to replace your turntable then recommend that you get a turntable with the pre amp built in What s Under the Hood Got Vinyl By doing my homework was left with the choice between a Stanton and a Technics turntable Although both companies make good products found that Stanton was the clear leader As have learned in the past don t let the manufacturers name guide you to the right product The top of the line Technics turntable 750 did not have half the features of the one got from Stanton 450 Stanton STR8 80 Try to set your price range to around 150 to 250 Check to see what type of head and needle cartridge comes with the turntable If the cartridge head is not removable and looks cheap look on Some more expensive turntables 300 and up even offer digital output If you can find a good deal on a digital turntable grab it That is exactly what happened to me As said earlier Guitar Center was having their end of year clearance sale and wound up walking away with a 450 Stanton STR8 80 turntable for 200 currently going for 220 It has every bell and whistle could ask for on a turntable If you are in

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