:: TCMUG Newsletter Archive ::

Vol 4 Iss 8 August 2005
*August Meeting
*Web Site Links and News of Interest
*Hardware Spotlight - Apple's Mighty Mouse
*The MUG Center Store - Free Freight To Members
*OS X Tip of the Month - Tiger Terminal Basics
*Mac Software Spotlight - iRemember
*TCMUG Membership Structure for 2005 - JOIN TODAY!

========== AUGUST MEETING ==========
The August meeting is being held on Saturday the 20th from 2:00PM - 4:00PM.
We will be meeting at the Tuscarawas Carroll Harrison Educational Service Center on East High Avenue in New Philadelphia.
We will be covering new OS 10.4 Tiger features Spotlight & Dashboard, a look at Phishing Email Scams and reviewing recycling computer equipment.

========== WEB SITE LINKS AND NEWS OF INTEREST ==========
News to Use: O'Reilly Increases Their User Group Discount - The long-standing and very popular user group discount for O'Reilly, No Starch, Pragmatic Bookshelf, SitePoint and Syngress has increased to 30 percent. Be sure to let your members know.
Same code - Better savings - The O'Reilly discount code is on the TCMUG Members web site. Order today @ http://www.oreilly.com/
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News to Use: New Switcher Site - User groups do a great job of getting the word out about Apple products. Now, Apple has a site to help your members explain the why, what and how of making the switch.
Simply take a Mac out of its box, plug it in and start surfing, working or rocking. And when you want to add something new — such as a digital camera or iPod — you just plug it in and start using it. Too good to be true? No, the Mac is exactly that good.
http://www.apple.com/switch/
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BeLight Software Releases Image Tricks for Free - BeLight Software today releases Image Tricks, a free image editor for Mac OS X 10.4 aka Tiger. The app lets Tiger users apply the special effects earlier available only in advanced image editors without intense learning curve. Image Tricks is based on Apple Core Image filters and includes about 35 Image Units (blur, distortion, stylize filters, tile effects and more). The app works like a charm for blistering-fast image editing in real time. Image Tricks is also available as a plugin for the updated versions of BeLight Software programs:
http://www.belightsoft.com/imagetricks/
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Spammer Spamming in name of Anti-Spam - If you recieve e-mails from an organisation calling themselves "SPAMIS", or the "Strategic Partnership Against Microsoft Illegal Spam". (www.spamis.biz), dismiss them as spam and please report them to your ISP and/or SpamCop. A quick search on Google turns up plenty of results, a few of which elaborate extensively on the subject. SPAMIS was "founded" by Robert Soloway, a known and prolific spammer. Soloway is using the practice of spamming in order to undermine Microsoft's user-validation technology -- which would close the spammers' access to MSN.com email users. The irony of the issue is that Microsoft is trying to ram the technology down the throats of internet ISPs which if successful would effectively put the internet under MSN's control.
See: the ROKSO list (http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/index.lasso) , and talkgold.com
(http://www.talkgold.com/forum/history/topic/22386-1.html).
Read more at http://www.marteydodoo.com/2005/06/05/spamis-is-spam/
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Danny Espinoza and the team at Mesa Dynamics (http://www.mesadynamics.com/) have released Amnesty Screensaver (http://www.mesadynamics.com/amnesty_saver.htm) , a free screensaver application that animates your Dashboard widgets when your Mac isn't in use. Not only does it look cool, but your widgets remain fully functional and connected to the internet, so clocks update, stock quotes refresh, etc. Amnesty , their software product that lets Widgets run in the Finder, without Dashboard in both Tiger and Panther is available at http://www.mesadynamics.com/amnesty.htm
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What Is NeoOffice/J (and Can It Replace MS Office) - NeoOffice/J is the long-awaited Mac-friendly version of OpenOffice. This open source project provides Mac users with most of the functionality of Microsoft Office, but for free. Is NeoOffice robust enough to serve as your only office suite in a Microsoft-dominated world? Matthew Russell explores. Plus, an in-depth interview with its lead developer, Patrick Lubby.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/08/09/neooffice.html

========== HARDWARE SPOTLIGHT - APPLE'S MIGHT MOUSE ==========
Apple Mighty Mouse - Useful, innovative design, but also begs the price question
http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/
When is Apple going to come out with a two-button mouse?” Mac users have been asking that question for so long that Apple’s introduction of the multi-button Mighty Mouse is almost an anticlimax. If users seriously pined for a right-button to access the Mac’s contextual menus (an ease-of-use amenity that Windows users have long enjoyed), they probably abandoned Apple’s stylish but less-functional one-button mouse a long time ago.
A Macworld review is at http://www.macworld.com/2005/08/reviews/mightymouse/index.php

========== MUG CENTER STORE ==========
Is there something the MUG store can do to help your group?
Just let us know. Our Tuscarawas County Mac Users Group gets 1 percent back on everything members purchase, so we encourage our members to buy from the MUG store where you can get everything from software to new computers for your club for FREE.
The MUG store has free freight to members, RAM rebates, aggressive pricing on new (and reconditioned) Macs and the largest selection of pre-owned Macs on the planet.
July 1, 2005 to October 31, 2005 - User ID: / Password: - See the TCMUG members web site. Place your orders at http://www.applemugstore.com

========== OS X TIP OF THE MONTH - TIGER TERMINAL BASICS ==========
An Introduction to Tiger Terminal by Mary Norbury-Glaser
Part One of Introduction to Tiger Terminal (http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/05/20/terminal1.html) began with shell basics ( pwd ,ls ,cat ,sudo ,kill , using nano (the pico replacement), and followed with Part Two (http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/06/14/terminal2.html) , which took a look at external volumes, using ssh ,scp ,sftp and rsync . Here, in Part Three, (http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/07/05/terminal3.html) we'll look at some helpful commands that you can use to view information about your network, including netstat, nslookup, traceroute, and more.

========== MAC SOFTWARE SPOTLIGHT - iREMEMBER ==========
Intriguing Development: 15 Percent Discount on iRemember
Digital scrapbooking on the Mac is finally here. iRemember allows you to create unique scrapbooks for life's precious moments. You can design, create, edit and print scrapbooks for any occasion, then share your albums with friends and family. All the tools you need to create stunning scrapbooks are included to create borders, backgrounds, frames, patterns; add text, photos, clip art and shapes; and crop your photos.
iRemember's regular price is $49.95, but it is reduced via this exclusive user group offer to only $42.45, a 15 percent discount.
Coupon code is available on the TCMUG members web site.See what the buzz is about at http://www.macscrapbook.com

========== TCMUG MEMBERSHIP FOR 2005 - TIME TO JOIN! ==========
We are working very hard to make it another exciting year for all local Mac users. We had a small dues structure for 2004. Membership in the TCMUG will cost $20.00 annually for a regular membership and will include a monthly newsletter, a special "members only" section of the web site, monthly meetings, a lending library, discounts on software, hardware and books and much, much more! You can visit our web site to get all of the features and benefits at http://www.tcmug.org/aboutus.html
We are offering three membership levels for 2005. There will be a regular membership at $20 per year and we will have student membership (K-12 & College) at $15 per year and a senior citizen (60+ years old) at $15 per year. All levels of membership will enjoy the benefits of belonging to the TCMUG.
Please contact any of the officers if you would have any questions regarding membership and the associated dues. http://www.tcmug.org/contactus.html
We have an online membership form that you are able to download. You can download the form at: http://www.tcmug.org/tcmug_memberapp.pdf

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