:: TCMUG Newsletter Archive ::

Vol 4 Iss 9 September 2005
*September Meeting
*Web Site Links and News of Interest
*Hardware Spotlight - TransPod for iPod shuffle
*The MUG Center Store - Free Freight To Members
*OS X Tip of the Month - Pages - .Mac Email
*Mac Software Spotlight - MacZealots Top 10 Shareware Apps
*TCMUG Membership Structure for 2005/2006 - JOIN TODAY!

========== SEPTEMBER MEETING ==========
The September meeting is being held on Saturday the 17th 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 have a new software program to show and then demonstrate how to make a poster using automator.

========== WEB SITE LINKS AND NEWS OF INTEREST ==========
Our hearts and prayers go out to all of the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The devastation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is heartbreaking, and our thoughts are with those struggling in the aftermath of this disaster. As victims of this natural disaster are attempting to recover, American Red Cross volunteers have been deployed to the hardest hit areas of Katrina's destruction, supplying hundreds of thousands of victims left homeless with critical necessities. By making a financial gift to Hurricane 2005 Relief, the Red Cross can provide shelter, food, counseling and other assistance to those in need. We urge you to contribute to this worthy cause.
DONATE TODAY - http://www.redcross.org/ or 1-800-HELP-NOW
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Apple® introduced the iPod® nano, a revolutionary full-featured iPod that holds 1,000 songs yet is thinner than a standard #2 pencil and less than half the size of competitive players. The iPod nano features an ultra-portable, lightweight design with a gorgeous color screen, Apple’s patent pending Click Wheel and the ability to hold 1,000 songs or 25,000 photos. iPod nano works seamlessly with the iTunes® Music Store, the world’s number one digital music service. The iPod nano is available immediately in a 4GB model priced at just $249 and a 2GB model priced at just $199, with both models available in stunning white or black designs.   “iPod nano is the biggest revolution since the original iPod,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPod nano is a full-featured iPod in an impossibly small size, and it’s going to change the rules for the entire portable music market.”
Get more details at http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/
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Apple, Motorola & Cingular Launch World’s First Mobile Phone with iTunes
Apple®, Motorola and Cingular Wireless today announced the availability of the world’s first mobile phone with iTunes®, enabling music lovers to transfer up to 100 of their favorite songs from the iTunes jukebox on their Mac® or PC to their mobile phone. Apple’s iTunes software on the Motorola ROKR features easy to use menus, simple navigation and playback, and the ability to simply switch from phone to music and back again with the push of a dedicated music key. The new Motorola ROKR is available today at http://www.cingular.com and will be sold exclusively in all Cingular retail locations.
Check it out at http://www.apple.com/itunes/mobile/
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Apple Introduces iTunes 5 - iTunes Music Store Catalog Tops Two Million Songs
Apple® today announced iTunes® 5, bringing new features and a refined look to the world’s most popular digital music jukebox and online music store. iTunes 5 includes a new Search Bar to make it even easier for users to find what they’re searching for; the ability to organize playlists into folders; Smart Shuffle, which lets the user change the “randomness” of shuffled songs; and the ability for Windows users to automatically sync contacts and calendars from Outlook onto their iPods. The iTunes Music Store has also added parental controls and album reviews, and now features a catalog of over two million songs, making it the largest online music catalog in the world.
Go to Apple's web site http://www.apple.com/itunes/
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TidBITS has released "Take Control of Customizing Microsoft Office"; 10% of proceeds donated to Red Cross
Begun last year by author Kirk McElhearn, this ebook was meant to be a quick project that would help readers use the Customize dialog to make custom toolbars, menus, and keyboard shortcuts. We soon discovered a seemingly never-ending trail of nuances and exceptions, especially since the ebook covers both Office X and Office 2004. Motivated by a strong desire to eliminate confusion, we persevered until we had a clear, step-by-step guide to customizing toolbars, menus, and keyboard shortcuts. We also cover AutoCorrect and AutoText, two somewhat similar ways of quickly inserting text into Office documents, and we look at templates for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - how to set them up, how to use them, and so on. Other topics covered include navigating toolbars via the keyboard, using the Word Work menu, learning where Office stores customizations, and more. An appendix lists 20 favorite Office customizations from a variety of Macintosh experts.
Frankly, this ebook will help any Microsoft Office user work more efficiently, be more proficient with Office, and have more fun. Long ago, editor in chief Tonya Engst did tech support for Microsoft Word, but even she learned new things about Word, Excel, and the other Office programs, and more important, was able to put them to immediate use in the work she does on Take Control manuscripts and accounting.
" Take Control of Customizing Microsoft Office" by Kirk McElhearn
http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/office-customizing.html
PDF format, 82 pages, free 24-page sample available
Publication date: September 1, 2005
Price: $10 (10% of September proceeds donated to the American Red Cross Hurricane 2005 Relief Fund)
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SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids.
We're all concerned about the weather down here on earth. Especially those of us who live in "hurricane central". But have you ever considered the weather in the rest of the universe? For instance, did you know that today the solar wind speed is 372.9 kilometers per second (231.7 miles per second)? Did you know that on September 7, 2005 solar flares caused electronic communication problems for emergency personnel in hurricane-hit areas of the U.S. Gulf Coast? Check out this Web site for some interesting facts and figures.
http://www.spaceweather.com/
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Apple has released a revised security update after reports that some 64-bit applications may have lost some functionality under the 2005-007 release. 
For more info, visit:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2005007v11macosx1042client.html
To download the stand-alone updater:
http://wsidecar.apple.com/cgi-bin/nph-reg3rdpty1.pl/product=07794&platform=osx&method=sa/SecUpd2005-007Ti.dmg
This update is recommended if you have already installed 2005-007 or still need to update. As always, we recommends that you backup your Mac, clear your system/user caches and repair permissions prior to the install followed by a repeat of repairing your permissions after.
This update is recommended for all Mac users under 10.4.2 -- 10.3.9 client version and server versions for 10.3x and 10.4x are also available.
About Security Update 2005-007 v1.1 (Mac OS X 10.4.2 Client) - Delivers a number of security enhancements and is recommended for all Macintosh users.
Security Update 2005-007 v1.1 replaces Security Update 2005-007 v1.0 for Tiger systems Mac OS X v10.4.2. Users who have already installed v1.0 on Tiger systems should install v1.1.
Security Update 2005-007 v1.1 provides a combined 32- and 64-bit version of LibSystem to replace the 32-bit version that was delivered in v1.0. No other changes have been made in version 1.1.
This update includes the following components:
AppKit
BlueTooth
CoreFoundation
cups
Directory Services
HIToolBox
Kerberos
loginwindow
Mail
OpenSSL
QuartzComposerScreenSaver
Security Interface
Safari
X11
zlib
For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798

========== HARDWARE SPOTLIGHT - TRANSPOD ==========
The world is full of iPods. That’s a good thing. The world is also full of iPod accessories, and that also is a good thing when they work as promised. Unfortunately, being able to connect something to Apple’s music player and putting an “i” in front of its name does not guarantee a hit. One category that has been consistently disappointing is that of FM transmitters, to facilitate playing your iPod through your car stereo, or even home stereo. I’ve tried them all and every one has left me cold in form, function or both, so it was with a certain amount of skepticism that I eyed the latest entry into the arena, the TransPod for iPod shuffle from Digital Lifestyle Outfitters (DLO) http://www.dlodirect.com/ while at Macworld Boston.
If you’ve been searching for a convenient way to play your iPod shuffle in your car, look no further. Get the review at http://www.mugcenter.com/reviews/transpod.html

========== 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 - PAGES - .MAC EMAIL ==========
Working with Pages from Macnexus.
I did the rather complex layout using layering, framing, rotating, opacity levels etc… in Apple's Pages application, then saved them as PDFs, then saved the PDFs as JPEGs so they would load faster.
I did this because the export to HTML service from Pages seemed to be way too complicated for what I wanted & it also would not show the various layers in their "composite" finished state.
Here is what I did:
http://www.macnexus.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=301&Itemid=2
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Your .Mac membership entitles you to use up to five email aliases — names you can create and discard as needed to manage your email correspondence. Creating and using them is simplicity itself.
Sometimes it's useful to have an email address you can discard later if you need or want to — because you're no longer the Little League coach or the club president, for instance, or because you don't want to give your real email address to a site you don't know well enough to trust. They're a snap to set up, use, and remove via the web, and Tiger Mail automatically adds them to the list of "from" Account choices when you're sending
mail. Learn more at http://www.mac.com/1/email_aliases.html

========== MAC SOFTWARE SPOTLIGHT - MACZEALOTS TOP 10 ==========
For those of you who are loyal MacZealots readers, you will remember that last year we ran an article about the Top 10 Shareware applications of 2004 . The article went over so well that we decided to do it again this year. With the release of Tiger there has been a great deal of third-party development recently. Although Macs are great straight out of the box, third-party developers are the glue that holds Apple and its customers together. Developers continue to create freeware and shareware applications that allow Macs to perform at their very best.
I chose this list using the following criteria:
Affordability - no price limit was set, but as you read you will notice that no program cost over $70. This is a great deal, even in the eyes of a poor college student
Variety - no developer had more than one program selected and the selections cover a broad range of user needs
Practicality - in my opinion, all of these applications are useful on a daily basis and don’t require that the user be an uber-geek to find them valuable
Additionally, all of these applications offer free trials. Although that was not a requirement to make the list, it is a nice feature.
Of course, the list we have complied does not include every great piece of software available on the market, but these are 10 that we could not function without. As always, if there is something specific that you are looking for we recommend that you use MacUpdate. MacUpdate has a very comprehensive list of Mac OS X applications and is updated multiple times daily.
http://maczealots.com/articles/shareware/2005/

========== 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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