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1. Text Edit Properties ucts developed by the Organizer ENS companies that produce for LIBRARY the Mac community Voila was ELI nominated for the prestigious Macworld Award in the Con SMART COLLECTIONS sumer Software category by onis the Macworld Editorial team Screen Snaps and also received a nomina i Web Snaps tion in the Readers Choice Cam Snaps Best Software category i Imports Dragged Out Voila is a unique first of its ii Flickr Exports kind image capturing and i FTP Exports annotating tool on the Mac platform It allows you to cap ture anything or everything on your desktop With Voila you can grab right from your iSight camera or you could snap a whole webpage as well You can capture annotate and share the pictures with every one Voila is the first tool that offers complete freedom to ER capture any shape of your a a choice like Circular Polygo IL erem nal Triangular or a Freehand Cap Cap Voila Cap Voila Cap Voila Cap capture Apart from these you have a Menu Capture Fullscreen Capture Object Capture Rectangu lar Capture and a Timed Capture as well You can snap a whole web page regions of web page or multiple DOM elements You can also capture from built in or external webcams your snaps will be managed with the built in image Organizer into Smart Collections like omart Folders Once you are done with snap ping the imag
2. E s wl Ce NN NN NN a 4 T HR RR EM EgEE 3a ac 2009 MaUsE Executive e Grand Wazoo Michael Shaw ducati860 gmail com Vice President Aaron Vegh aaron Qvegh ca Apple Liaison Bruce Cameron rbcameron Q rogers com Treasurer Stan Wild stangwild gmail com e Logistics Chris Greaves cgreaves Q9 j zoom net Publicity Director Jim Danabie Photographer Irma Shaw DoubleClick Editor Michael Shaw wazooster gmail com e Secretary Jeff Hurd Director Guy Lafontaine lafoguy gmail com Director Marcel Dufresne MaUsE Contact Information The MaUsE c o Stan Wild 58 Rothean Drive Whitby Ontario Canada L1P 1L5 WWM ALSS Ca From The Editor What you are looking at is the July 2009 edition of the MaUsE DoubleClick the online publication of the Mac intosh Users East MaUsE a motley collection of mostly harmless cranks who reside in Southern Ontario with their motley collection of old and new Macintosh computers The DoubleClick is published using a 2 8 GHz Alu minum iMac and QuarkXPress 8 An antique Kodak DX7590 is used for all pictures Everything not specifi cally attributed to someone else can probably be blamed on the Editor Back issues can be downloaded from the MaUsE website www mause ca Submissions from MaUsE Club members are almost al ways welcome Send your submissions and articles t
3. perless will meet your expectations please feel free to download a trial copy to test in your own environment before purchasing lt http www marinersoftware com download php gt ane Receipt Library LIBRARY _ RECENT RECEIPTS This week This month Last week Last month COLLECTIONS Cable Phone Internet Utilities Auto Transportation Medical Childcare 7 Work Expenses T Donations Entertainment amp Monthy Budget Drinks Movies amp Videos Misc Bills Credit Card 6 HN 105 receipts 2 543 23 1 selected 26 08 MARIN R 1 i Y F p Store owner s manuals and other PDFs Are you finding that most owner s manuals these days come as PDFs and are either on the manufacturer s website or on a CD Can you ever locate the information when you need it Simply add these man uals to a Paperless library and they re accessible with a few quick keystrokes Access legal documents If you re a professional or anyone that has lots of documents about various cases or topics Paperless can help you organize Many lawyers are moving from the massive amounts of paper they generate to electronic storage This is economical and easy to do Combine Pa perless with a fast scanner such as the Fujitsu ScanSnap and paper can virtually be eliminated 1 1705 Albertoors 3T 2 29 08 Costco 2 25 08 Albertians 2 22 08 People s
4. 2dB Movies Y V Level 5 AMI 3dB Music T MP Games dG Shortcuts News About spherical sound field experience the program generates is changing how people everywhere listen to audio Go to http genaudioinc com download gt to download a sixty sec ond demo sound studio recording of AstoundSound Expander in action and to download your own free 30 day trial copy of the pro gram If you decide to buy it the cost is only US 39 95 You will need to be running Leopard to use AstoundSound Expander 2 1 Article by Michael Shaw Filter Adjust Voila Making screen capture pleasurable experience e Global Delight Technologies Voila Command Shift 3 or Command Shift 4 There is so much more to capturing what is on your Desktop than just using the Apple keyboard commands and we have looked at quite a few really excellent programs recently including Scree Properties nium and iShowU for doing just that With Voila 2 0 1 from Global Delight Tech 2 a nologies we have the next step in screen capture Voila was nominated in two Fill Color mm categories for the prestigious F 2009 Macworld Awards The e XI x Properties awards recognize the most in n o ue viskad p ustOMize l Intensity Ck novative and successful prod
5. MacScan Authenticated Mode Click the Scan button to run a Quick Scan on your hard drive or select another scan type from the Scan tabs above The MacScan program comes with a fully illustrated clearly written lit tle 16 page PDF Users Manual that describes how the MacScan pro gram does what it does have this program installed on my own Mac and between MacScan iAntiVirus and Little Snitch feel have got enough preventative medicine to protect me from myself and others MacScan Authenticated Mode Check out MacScan at www macscan securemac com gt For what MacScan does the price US 30 is very reason Camino ClMetscape tikin able Since 1999 SecureMac com has been at the A Firefox forefront of Macintosh security Their web ith Bi safari HE site at www securemac com not only C nm ASE features complete Macintosh Anti Spy re te arta PS e E ware and Antivirus solutions but also oper ates as a clearinghouse for news reviews and discussion of Apple computer security issues Users from novice to the most advanced will find useful information at SecureMac that is designed to make their computer experience trou ble free Web Browsers to clean Internet Explorer Files to clean W Cookies M Downloaded Files W Temporary Cache Files Various files are created by web browsers as you visit different sites on the internet To
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7. proving It s dramatically optimized for performance with two of the cornerstone applications for the Macintosh Microsoft Word and Apple s TextEdit And more speed in these critical applications means a more natural intuitive experience and increased productivity for you MacSpeech Dictate works with any word processing application and any open document that you can type text into It even works with on line chat site windows like Google chat and Skype chat Besides dic tation MacSpeech Dictate lets people perform basic navigation of their Macintosh and control it with their voice to launch applications open new windows execute menu commands etc The more you use it the smarter Dictate gets and the better you sound O J Faster Dittatesl 5 P X Go to lt http www macspeech conmy gt to find out more about this new upgrade to the program that has the potential to radically change the way you interact with your Mac And have a look at the next page to see where speech recognition software from MacSpeech is ex panding into professional fields MacSpeech Dictate 1 5 is not the only big news from MacSpeech Physician s Assistant World cl luti itical to the d MIS eMe SE Y H dm x gebe V Nos Ne aoe on ne Ge introducing MacSpeech Dictate Medical day needs of medical and dental professionals e S alike From advancements in medical and den Premier Macintosh speech recognition with tal
8. time If you wait too long it could be obsolete am still happy with my first drive It served its purpose But nowadays use the larger drive The insides of a flash drive have already been written about in a past DoubleClick article by Michael see DC Nov 2008 page 10 You can refer to that if you need to know more on that topic The biggest problem with flash drives is that they are made of plastic and feel flimsy Drop them a few times and it loosens as if it could split apart have found that the protective end breaks easily if dropped from a very low height They feel cheap One cure for this is to not drop it Easier said then done Another is to get the iamaKey which is made of metal It is much more rugged and will stand up those unfortu hate accidents As you can see from the picture it actually does look just like a key This key shaped design is both functional and memorable and the protection it offers makes it extremely reliable It is thinner than most thumb drives The gold SIP connector is both water and scratch resistant have not actually put it in water to prove this but trust that it will be so if the need arises The connector end also looks a bit different from most USB devices as it is not the usual full rectangular shape However there is no need to fear it can only be inserted one way Because of its storage size you will need Mac OS 10 3 5 or higher to use it The one
9. vocals or cen ter staged instruments in real time The result is a wider fuller and richer listening experience that can be heard while playing music movies video games or any application that produces audio This sounds simple but the actual results can be amazing Visit AstoundSound net and hear the difference for yourself AstoundSound e EXPANDER The application re processes the stereo effect into a sohere of sound so that the various components of the music seem to be separated better and come from various discreet sources The instruments stand out from each other and the texture of the music is richer and fuller If you compare mono to stereo you can hear the difference Mono was just good enough until stereo came along and showed us what we had been missing If you compare stereo to stereo enhanced with AstoundSound Expander 2 1 you will experience a similar revelation It reminds me of improved quadraphonics but without the expensive hardware You feel like you are surrounded by the sound with the music coming at you from all sides and from above Going back to or dinary stereo feels like a loss of texture after listening to the same music with Expander 2 1 What is really amazing is that this effect is achieved purely with software and can be accomplished so well through a minimum of two speakers with no additional hardware The Expander interface has controls that allow you to switch listening modes on demand meanin
10. MaUsE raffles and here in past issues of the DoubleClick Formerly known as ReceiptWallet the newly rebranded Mariner Pa perless allows you to scan and manage all of your receipts and docu ments Simply scan receipts warranties deposit slips and other paperwork The Optical Character Recognition OCR in Paperless automatically recognizes and helps categorize documents When you scan in each receipt or document you enter a few pieces of informa tion about it and then you can quickly and easily locate your receipts and documents With Paperless you can view the receipts right on the screen print them email them or save them as PDFs In addition to the powerful search tools built into Paperless you can organize your receipts and documents into collections These collections can contain whatever you want and even better than that is the ability to create smart collections that automatically create collections based on whatever criteria you like Nearly any scanner will work with Paper less through the Image Capture method however for best results Mariner Software recommends using a TWAIN compliant scanner or Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M or S300M or a Pentax DS mobile 600 Fujitsu and Pentax have the best drivers on the market at this time Your results may vary using any other scanner However all Mariner Software products can be downloaded and tried out at no cost for 15 or 30 days before purchasing so if you are unsure whether or not Pa
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12. a lot of what have written here and are a very convincing argument for using the soft ware for everything you listen to on your Mac Enhanced stereo is something that enjoy a lot because many of the audio files listen to are ei ther comedy routines or vintage Firesign Theatre radio plays and live recordings of their stage per formances have found that with a collection of similar male voices speaking their lines combined with lots of outlandish sound effects and sporadic laughter and applause from a live audience the exaggerated clarity of separated sound sources really helps to keep track of which of the charac ters is saying which lines The GenAudio corporation developed AstoundSound a 4D sound localization technology intended for professional and consumer software and hardware integration with a variety of products for consumers and professional audio engineers The 360 degree 30 DAY TRIAL Macintosh System Requirements d 1 higher 1 GHz Intel Internet access T Aw yt rane a Leopard 10 5 1 audi output Stereo Expansion Audio Output Device Built in Output C Media USB Headphone Set MacVide Audio Connector GS processor 1GB RAM Sterec Ds 5X Da gt 3 gt 7 M oundSound Preferences 3dB User Guide 2dB Intensity None B ldB Listening Mode Level 1 81 v OdB Preamp Level 2 2 1dB Level 3 3 v Level 4 4
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14. cause your eye is split between what he is doing above the table with his hands and what he is doing below the table with his legs and feet The table is a dividing point for your eyes This is because his legs are framed by the table By cropping out the table and his legs we get to the real reason the photographer took the shot to emphasize a soldier working on his leather backpack By careful crop ping we still have a good photo graph because it still has the basic guidelines involved in it We have strong visual unity in the shot due to the triangle formed by the imaginary lines running from the peak of the hat to the elbows This tends to frame the face which has a triangle of its own the eyes and noise You will also notice that the eyes are looking at what he is doing and not at the photographer This also helps as the eyes should be looking where the noise is pointing Most cropping today is done using a photo processing program on the computer In the days before digital yes there was a time when digital didn t exist and photo cropping was done in a darkroom using an en larger To crop a photo you select the Cropping tool from the Tool box Using your mouse select a starting point and an chor one corner By dragging your pointer over the area you want to keep you will see dashed lines appear You drag these till you have sized the cropped window around everything you want in the new photo The program as
15. do the work Mac opeech Dictate Legal takes care of the typing jar f n 4 2 the applications you already use including JVV Ji 1 word processors databases chat applications email apps and many more MacSpeech Dic MacSpeech Dictat tate Legal is the most advanced easiest to use speech recognition solution available for the Mac Here s a peek at a few other goodies awaiting you gt a MacSpeech Dictate Legal will astonish you with its superior accuracy In fact MacSpeech Dic tate Legal provides an accuracy rate of up to 99 near perfection What s more MacSpeech Dictate Legal NEVER misspells a word so typos are a thing of the past Its advanced capabilities require only a few minutes of training as it effortlessly learns your voice and with continued usage MacSpeech Dictate Legal gets even more accurate That s power and performance you ll not only appreciate but rely upon Premier Macintosh Speech recognition v SU PPOTT TOT OVET SU UUU EGS ENO terms MacSpeech Dictate Legal is wonderfully versatile It fully understands and supports more than 30 000 legal words and terms so it s Up tO your most arduous legal writing tasks and projects MacSpeech Dictate Legal also recognizes 13 distinct English dialect variations for ex ceptionally strong recognition and works with the applications you already use Word processors contact management solutions billing and projec
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17. is better stronger and faster MacSpeech Dictate is renowned for its accuracy and with its newly upgraded engine it s even more accu rate in fact up to 20 more accurate MacSpeech Dictate 1 5 provides an astounding accuracy rate of up to 99 near perfection Of course you can continue to increase accuracy as you use MacSpeech Dictate And let s not forget MacSpeech Dictate NEVER mis spells a word With MacSpeech Dictate typos are a thing of the past In addition to amazing accuracy MacSpeech Dictate 1 5 also recognizes 13 distinct English dialect varia tions providing exceptionally strong recognition And with the new Vo cabulary Editor MacSpeech Dictate 1 5 lets you train individual words and even add new ones such as proper nouns giving even more con trol over how it recognizes your speech So no matter what English di alect you speak MacSpeech Dictate 1 5 is there for you Better Stronger Faster Better accuracy Stronger recognition Introducing MacSpeech Dictate 1 5 Premier speech recognition MacSpeech Dictate Speech recognition so good about the only thing it can t do is speak for you acs eg Premier speech recognition for the Mac TY E OW i E Dictate The new MacSpeech Dictate 1 5 does not idisappcint noticed a defi nite improvement in accuracy and right out of the box compared to Dictate 1 3 and after using it for a few weeks the accuracy is still im
18. our eye to the center of interest the lighthouse The overhanging tree branch completes the frame and adds depth to the shot In the second photo the tree branches help pull our eye to the center of interest the man who is on top of the lighthouse roof Again the overhanging tree branch adds depth to the shot e M The last guideline we will look at is Mergers No not corporate merg ers but the merger of an object into the subject In the group photo you see three trees growing out of the heads of your subjects and one window frame You would think that the photographer would have seen these things but they didn t That is because we see things in three dimensions so it s easier then you might guess to focus our eyes on the principal subject only and not see the background at all You can be sure the camera always sees mergers so look for plain backgrounds before you pose your subject Eventually you will get into the habit to automatically check your background for possible mergers Two other merger problems are border mergers where you cut off heads or feet of a subject This is usually caused by poor alignment of the photographers eye and the view finder With todays digital cameras you get this from using the display screen to frame your photo s The other merger problem is near mergers which may not be quite so objectionable but can steal attention away from your main subject Near mergers are when objects or lines are just
19. process then saves the files to a second hard drive not included FREE technical support via phone and email c DATA RESCUE PC Select a Partition En view Ehe data that can be recovered IF you are not sure which Partition to choose press F1 For more Help Select Partition Partitions File System Partition 0 FAT18 File System NTFS File System 2 File System FAT32 File System FAT32 File System Partition 1 Partition 2 Partition 3 Partition 4 39 9956 211 68 211 6B 211 66 1 Faund Files Raw Sectors View File System Faster performance for the Macintosh MacSpeec h pictate _ MacSpeech Dictate 1 5 The Upgrades We ve had some fun and more than a few laughs at recent MaUsE Meetings when two of our members did presentations of the latest voice to text software for Macin tosh the MacSpeech Dictate 1 3 program That is the software that Michael used to show how well he could recite Bob Dylan lyrics and nonsense rhymes into QuarkXPress 8 remember The boy stood on the burning deck eating peppers by the peck and the same pro gram that lan demonstrated at the June 2009 meeting when he showed us how well MacSpeech Dictate handles text in Pages and Mail in decidedly foreign British accents The MacSpeech people have been working hard addressing issues that needed improvement and now the Dictate program had been updated and improved It
20. remove these files from your system select a web browser to clean select the files to clear and click the Clean buty Submitted by Michael Shaw SecureMac com mentioned SecureMac com in the MacScan article that preceeds this page I think that this website is an important re source for Mac users and it has the potential to become even more impor tant in the future The site was estab lished because there was a lack of security related news for the Macintosh being covered elsewhere This site is devoted to the security of your Macintosh computer and the programs or servers you run on it SecureMac started over ten years ago early in 1999 Since then they have served thousands of people helping them secure their net works and detect hackers The SecureMac website has become the best source of up to date information about possible threats to Mac systems 2 SecureMac SecureMac com is run by a group of Macintosh security experts around the world Over the past few years SecureMac com has published over 300 reviews advisories and news articles On their website you will learn how to secure your Macintosh and detect any hackers that might be present on it McVitie s HobNobs The Official Biscuit of the MaUsE DoubleClick You must enable cookies to view this page properly Or as the British might say although it doesn t sound correct you must enable biscuits McVitie s HobNobs plain and milk chocol
21. thing that miss when using the iamaKey is the lack of an LED light to show that the drive is being accessed completely understand that imbedding an LED would remove the intended visual resemblance to a key and so it has been left out It is just something will have to get used to There is always a question of formatting new exter nal drives which would include the flash drives Disk utility which comes with all Mac OS systems allows you six formats the most common being the Mac OS Extended Journaled and the MS DOS File System Any drive that have bought always comes with the e Windows MS DOS format on it This means that we gt gt simply have to stick the drive into the USB port and the drive shows up on our desktop ready to be E NES c used Data can now be read by both Mac and IBM computers There is a draw back to this set up and that is in the drive s speed both reading and writing di you knew that your external drive was to be used by Macs then you should erase the drive and put the Mac OS Extended format on it don t recommend this for the flash drives did erase the iamaKey and put the Mac OS on it It loaded up on the screen noticeably faster but it was not readable by my IBM computer It asked if wanted to re format the drive when plugged it in Since want to be able to trans fer data easily from one system to another reinstalled the MS DOS format Slower it is but more vers
22. to recover your important data before you try any risky repair utility Simply put Data Rescue PC3 is the best data recovery solution Data Rescue PC3 is revolutionary in both ease of use and power You can use Data Rescue PC3 in two ways As an application If you need to recover an external drive or a secondary drive you can just load Data Rescue PC3 onto your com puter and start up the application Data Rescue PC3 will then scan your drive for your files allowing you to copy them over to a second drive not included This is the only safe way to do recovery since you will not be recovering files to the drive you re scanning Using Included Emergency Boot CD If your main computer hard drive has crashed has a virus or you need to recover deleted files you can use the included emergency boot CD This CD will boot up your computer and then allow you to scan your internal boot drive Once the scan is done you can chose which files you want to copy over to your secondary drive not included Using Data Rescue in this manner allows you to scan your drive without loading the software onto that drive That s important since the simple act of load ing an application may not be possible due to a drive crash or virus and would potentially write over the deleted files you re trying to re cover To use the Emergency Boot CD simply insert the CD and re boot your computer Data Rescue PC3 will automatically access your drive
23. too close to the princi pal subject Now you know the principals for good composition Take them and your camera and go forth to take lots of photos With practice they will become second nature to you and you will enjoy seeing how good a photogra pher you really can be This is the third in a series of articles Parts 1 and 2 of this series appear in previous DoubleClick issues Submitted by Kevin Livesey lt lt AppleScript 1 2 3 Article Submitted by Marcel Dufresne Many of you have probably heard of AppleScript about how it can make multiple processes a one click affair But a programming language is a fearful thing for most of us The best way to de termine if you can handle it is to try out some ex amples You can find these online or in books AppleScript 1 2 3 is one of the best sources that can help explain what AppleScript is all about AppleScript is a language used to automate the actions of the Macintosh operating system and many of its applications To automate the actions of applications the computer reads the sequen tial instructions contained in an AppleScript script written by you and then it communicates those instructions to targeted applications where the instructions are carried out AppleScript is an English like language containing many of the verbs nouns adjectives and articles that we use everyday For in stance typing this instruction tell the application Finder to get the name of the front
24. treatments and procedures to the latest Dictate suppart for over 54 medical and dental disciplines equipment and tools you rely on technology medic advancements in order to provide patients with y superior care and quality At MacSpeech they know the importance of world class medical tools that epitomize quality craftsmanship innovation and technological advancement Introducing MacSpeech Dictate Medical the pre mier Macintosh speech recognition solution for medical and dental professionals MacSpeech Dictate Medical supports a wide variety of medical and dental disciplines and specialties and includes a certified noise canceling microphone headset You may choose a different high quality microphone including one of the wireless options With MacSpeech Dictate Medical you just talk and let your Mac do the work MacSpeech Dictate Medical takes care of the typing in the ap plications you already use including word processors databases chat applications email apps and many more MacSpeech Dictate Med ical is the most advanced easiest to use speech recognition solution available for the Mac To find out more visit lt http www macspeech com pages php plDz145 gt And there s yet another new member of the MacSpeech Dictate family MacSpeech Dictate neum the premier Macintosh speech recogni tion solution for legal professionals a With MacSpeech Dictate Legal you just talk legalese and let your Mac
25. 2 23 08 Trader Joe s 2 20 08 Albertsons 2 19 08 Henry s 2 19 08 Trader joe s 2 15 08 Albertsons 2 15 08 2 15 08 Trader joe s 2 14 08 Albertsons 2 9 08 OB People s 2 0 08 Trader joe s 2 8 08 Vons 2 5 08 Albertsons 2 2 08 Costco 2 2 08 OB People s 1 31 08 Albertsons 1 30 08 Peaple s 1 30 08 OH People s 1 29 08 Trader Joe s 1 20 08 Trader Joe s 1 18 08 Albertsons 1 16 08 Costco 556 50 27 05 326 30 121 70 5 35 185 34 30 51 54 25 185 85 3265 09 117 44 521 90 540 30 12 99 52 58 95 63 55 84 513 32 52 79 59 79 546 64 537 00 523 01 295 79 PAPERLESS UNCLUTTER YOUR LIFE Be ready in case of a disaster We all hate to think what could happen in a disaster like a flood or fire Recovering from one can be a trying experience If you prepare ahead of time and put all your important documents into Paperless and back them up off site before the disaster recovery is just a little easier System Requirements e Mac OS X 10 4 11 or later Mac OS X 10 5 4 is recommended for full use of all the features There is no limit to what you can do with Paperless Mie dila Groceries Groceries Groceries Groceries E Groceries Groceries Gr ecer ies Creceries Groceries Groceries Greceries Groceries Groceries Groceries Groceries Groceries rece ies Groceries Groceries Groceries Creceries Alberiscnt MasterCard E Bank of America IN
26. Finder window will give us the name of the top open window on the desktop It is designed to be easily understand able and the syntax and grammar are similar to those we use in nor mal sentences The scripts are written in the Script Editor application a free utility included with every copy of the Mac OS The scripts are compiled in the editor to check for any syntax errors Then they are ready to be run or saved for later use They are thus available for use at any time from within any application You launch the scripts by dou ble clicking their icons Thanks to many enthusiastic writers you can find a whole host of books and Internet sites to help learn the basics of AppleScript quickly and easily In no time at all you could be writing useful scripts after reading just the first few chapters However it won t take long before you will be wanting to write a script but not have the expertise to do it To deal with this you ll either need to spend a good deal of time camped out in the various AppleScript forums or spend some time with a real AppleScript master and learn the program from the ground up In this case the real master is one Sal Soghoian the founder of the AppleScript Sourcebook Web site which offers a most compre hensive training guide to the language AppleScript 1 2 3 is written to help us get familiar with the ins and outs of this programming lan guage It is chock full of examples The first chapter itself has over 50 s
27. M9 and receive 15 off Final Draft professiona Final Draft Inc is a proud sponsor of MaUsE www finaldraft com 800 231 4055 Final Draft IN THE 3151 CENTURY p OMAN FINALLY CREATED A MACHINE g With Feelings A Em 1 a T j ne E P T al Tm J Bri 187 TES C Live Troe Th 1 da TRIS TRAM COFFIN MAE i d REPUBLIC DON HAGGERTY HOUSE PETERS Photographic Composition Part 4 Cropping You learned the basic guidelines for good Photographic Composition in my previous articles in the DoubleClick As a follow up to the state ment made in the June article about balance The photo of the two soldiers is symmetrically balanced If you imagine that they are sitting at either end of a pair of scales you would see that they are bal anced With this type of arrangement the subjects tend to divide the viewers attention This is because the shot could be divided into two vertical photo s have decided to do a short article on Cropping Cropping is the process of looking at a photograph and removing the distracting parts that take your eye away from the main subject In the example above you see the two soldiers sitting side by side By crop ping that shot down to just the single soldier you now concentrate more on him and what he is doing With this particular shot even the single vertical shot can be cropped down even further That is be
28. Vertical b V 5tep Forward Backward i C A This program takes screen capture to new heights with a clear and intuitive interface combined with the ability to print on your captures in any font at any size and colour draw on them stamp them with labels and apply special effects The Tools tab provides Pencil Paint Spray Text Shape Arrow Callout Line Stamp and Blur Each tool has a little control panel of its own that opens when invoked that allows you to customise or control the tool The Effects tab gives the power to Skew customise Edges apply Filters make colour Adjustments and Crop The program has every feature could think of including sensible and obvious multiple undos and some that would never occur to me Voila Capture Annotate Organize snare The Voila screen captures are kept together in any location of your choosing Sensibly the default location is in a folder called Voila in your Pictures Folder in your Home Folder They are also shown in an expandable bin Capture Tray below the application s viewing win dow Capture images can be dragged right out of the tray and dropped onto the Desktop found this to be a very convenient fea f gt Toolbar ye ge E Es 1 2 T E pee E iiem EA i Canvas Workbench gt Created using Voila Pin f Unpin Zoom Options Expand Collapse Capture Tray Search Cap
29. al monitor adapter for the Portable shortly after it was announced instead relying on numerous third party providers for solutions still applicable to the 170 and FCC regulations of the day prevented any real use of the PDS expansion slot by restricting any external con nections to it The PowerBook 180 replacement would address exter nal video less than a year later but expansion slots would not return to Macintosh portables until 3 years later with the PowerBook 500 se ries in the form of PCMCIA cards The 170 also dropped the external floppy disk port only the Macintosh Classic II still had one and made no provision for a second internal floppy disk port a feature also missing from the rest of the desktop line by this time Overall it had roughly the equivalent features and performance of the powerful Macintosh llci desktop in a laptop Though released at the same time as the PowerBook 140 and PowerBook 100 both the 140 and 170 were designed entirely by Apple while the 100 was being miniaturized by Sony from the full sized Macintosh Portable As a result the 170 represents the very first PowerBook created by Apple with the 100 actually repre senting the first design improvements though its internal architec ture is the oldest in the series The 170 was introduced with System 7 0 1 specifically to support new power management and other unique hardware features How ever due to the RAM prices in 1991 combined with i
30. ample scripts that you can input in the Script Editor and then run It is a hands on process which is the best way to learn a new scripting language The examples are very easy to follow and are often accom panied with screen shots of the result one should get from running the script The authors often go to great lengths to provide clear real world examples to illustrate many of the more abstract concepts Chapter one uses simple one line script sentences to allow us to be AppleScript 1 2 3 eel paced quac to Hearne Appie ier come familiar with the Script Editor After read ing the first chapter was able to automate a task that actually uses three aplications in order to work Now I can do this with one double click of the script wrote Chapter two shows us how to access the dictionary of words that is found in the script editor AppleScript 1 2 3 shows us where this dictionary is located and explains the structure needed to understand what the dic tionary is trying to show us There are another 28 chapters each with a main topic and a lot of script examples and screen shots Included are charts of abbreviations such as the special folder codes or a list of operators that would take a long time to find if you were searching them out on your own If you re totally new to the concept of programming a computer don t be put off by the book s size and obvious depth One of its greatest strengths is that it will take y
31. and authenticate when asked MacScan for OS X now has authentication support built in Simply run the Mac Scan program and it will prompt you to authenticate If you choose to authenticate MacScan will be run with root privileges and you will be dnd com is led bad cookie File Path Users michael shaw Library Cookies Cookies plist able to scan any directory on your hard drive If you choose not to au thenticate MacScan will run in normal mode and you will not be able to scan folders that you do not have privileges to access Without granting MacScan administrative rights it will only be able to scan files your account has privileges to access and this may prevent a successful full audit for spyware Detection will only identify what is believed to be spyware and will only log what it has found Possible e wav Pr t problem files will be listed as spyware and colour coded green yel Quick Scan will scan the contents of the folder listed above which is the home low or red to indicate the level of threat they might represent Upon folder for the current user To scan the home folder of a different user run n MacScan after logging in with that user account examining the list the administrator will then be able to select and isolate the items The program also comes with an extensive list under the Info tab that names all of the common threats and tells what type of malware they are
32. another presentation on Using a Document Scanner to achieve a paperless office and he told us about the new iPhones Snow Leopard and the latest news from Apple We got two new members think they both won some thing in the MaUsE a i P ts al IL t j i mien LL we is OUELLET indie iba s AN ana as aia i 2 il EAE WE Bie NP di di Gib itp ub il vy ete rrr rs NIT TIC TIE T pienemt i ey pF Pole a 2020 N ca ST o AM Pb d li Tadi i LL raffle There were several really nice raffle prizes including several books a vintage Apple PowerBook copies of Bokeh and Snap Art 2 from Alien Skin Data Rescue PC3 from Prosoft Nik Software s Viveza Global Delight Technologies Voila Mariner Software s Paper less AstoundSound Expander and other programs and games Se cureMac donated 30 one month demo copies of MacScan that went very fast Before and during the meeting there was a lot of activity at the back of the hall with several computers software cables RAM upgrades keyboards mice connectors digital cameras iPod accessories and other computer accessories available for the annual MaUsE Swap Meet Some stuff was free a lot of it
33. applications There were many computer magazines in the 80s dedicated to the computer hobbyist and some featured how to articles regarding homemade attachments and add ons That aspect of com puting really appealed to me Tinkering with the hardware unfortu nately is something that s now discouraged since the modern computer is extremely complex learned how to rewire an old full size NCR keyboard so that it could be used with the Sinclair A new fire engine red housing was made of plywood and Masonite complete with a tiny Timex Sinclair dot matrix thermal printer and associated switches Timex manufactured Sinclair products at their plant in Scotland and eventually added their own name to the product in North America At tached are some photos to reveal the results of my com puter manufacturing project named the machine Lobotics 1 wish could have as much fun today with my eMac Only recently once again powered up the Lobotics 1 it s been unused for 15 IEEE years or so It was quite a surprise to find that the old cassette tapes were still EN useable and the programs ran without a hitch That product became a landmark US in my ongoing computer love affair bought my Sinclair ZX81 in 1983 after a price reduction to 69 95 later graduated to an Atari 800XL an IBM PS 1 286 a MAC LC630 and finally to my current eMac Recently found another ZX81 at a garage sale which
34. at s an other story checked out the used paperbacks on the bookshelf for a quarter of an hour and when walked past the electronics shelf again the PowerBook 170 was gone hope it found a good home The PowerBook 170 was released by Apple Inc in October 1991 along with the PowerBook 100 and the PowerBook 140 Identical to the 140 the 170 model was the high end of the original PowerBook line featuring a faster 25 MHz Motorola 68030 processor with Floating Point Unit FPU and a more expensive and significantly better quality 10 inch active matrix display It was produced for one year and was discontinues in October 1992 when it was replaced by the 33 MHz 68030 PowerBook 180 The PowerBook 180 introduced a new power saving feature which allowed the processor to run at a slower 16 MHz rate to extend battery life Though the PowerBook 100 is the direct descendant of the Macintosh Portable based on its internal architecture the 170 is the Portable s direct successor Ano compromise portable version of the desktop Macintosh the 170 includes virtually all of the features incorporated in the original Portable as on a comparable desktop of the day but ina smaller and sleeker case design Initiated as a more suitable replace ment for the Portable the only features the first generation 170 did not include in its reduced space were an external video port and inter nal ROM amp PDS expansion slots Indeed Apple canceled its own ex tern
35. ate varieties are available from the Sobey s grocery store on the south side of Hwy 2 between Oshawa and Whitby Don t buy any unless you can afford to acquire a delicious addiction Please note the chocolate coating is on the BOTTOM of the biscuits not on the top so be very careful how you eat them Britain sends her best SecureMac com is the most reliable source of security related products with extensive reviews and ratings evaluated by the top Macintosh security experts Every product listed on SecureMac com is evaluated to its fullest from secure programming concept and design Every product is given a rating and explained in detail Each developer or developing group is notified of any security issues or advisories before released to the public to ensure a safe transition for all of their users As said in the MacScan article we tend to be a bit smug about how virus free our Mac computers are when compared to Windows infested systems This can be a big problem if it blinds us to the other threats that are out there Its very possible that there are much worse things than just viruses lurking in wait out there and we have to understand that it may take some effort to start taking precau tions now before we learn the hard way just what perils there are SecureMac com gives Macintosh users some advance warning Di p ey 7 ma acintosh Users East AtEase DiskLock PowerBook Security Con
36. atile leave it to you to decide how to handle the formatting In the end now have a 4 GB thumb drive formatted to work on both systems It is metallic and so have no fear that dropping it will break the case It can easily fit on my key ring and not look out of TW place It is less bulky and gives me the faith that my data is well wu protected from most accidents LaCie actually has two other metal thumb drives with different shapes and storage space You can do an online search to see where they are available have found the price ranges from 30 40 CAN for the iamaKey depend ing on the store and the shipping and handling fees As al ways the price will change with time as new technology uw takes over Act now if you like what you see Submitted by Marcel Dufresne June Meeting Report The hot weather arrived just in time for the June 24th Meeting The Li brary room was very comfortable but it was very warm amp humid out side Aaron returned after being AWOL for the past two meetings and made up for lost time Stan gave the Treasurers Report and ran the loyalty draw for the 100 00 gift certificate and 8 gig flash drive at the end of the Meeting did a brief show amp tell about Smart Folders and Chris showed us KickYouTube All of the rest of the Meeting was Aaron s shout He acted as Master of Ceremonies And did the Ask The Experts segment and gave us a splendid presentation on Twit ter and
37. d you ll need your previous serial number to install your QuarkXPress 8 upgrade Don t worry if you can t locate your software box or serial number fill in your details at lt http 8 quark com quarkupgrade missingserialnumber html gt and the people at Quark will do their best to identify your serial number to enable you to install your upgrade It s time to do the math Upgrade all your licenses today from ANY previous version of QuarkXPress for just US 299 excludes Shipping and Taxes and transform your old license into the next evolution in page layout e ROM AGOON SAUCER MEN ACK LAL 6 PM RICHARD CARISON JULIA ADAMS EL Li JU Do Lou FATA JB 5 er Y t m J m c 4 STEVE TERRELL GLORIA FRANK E RICHARD REEVES MEET IAM Produced by KERMAN CONEY Produced by NICHOLSON amd GURNEY by by EDWARD OUN inpia iy hibin bv MALUS MA RICHARD DENNING lt VIRGINIA GREY
38. er of Henry and Dundas West in Whitby Ontario Meetings start at 7 00 PM but there is an early session from 6 30 for peo ple who wish to discuss hardware or software issues or problems Macin tosh virus problem discussion from 6 58 to 7 00 PM Meetings are open to the public and admission is free Raffle tickets at MaUsE events are free but the free raffle tickets for Macintosh hardware or software will only be given to paid up MaUsE Members Please remember to bring your Mem bership card to every meeting No Meeting this month Photographic Composition Part 3 Framing Once you learn the guidelines you will find that they will become part of your thinking when you are looking at the world especially if you have a camera in your hand What are these guidelines you ask well l Il tell you There are six basic guidelines as follows 1 Simplicity 2 Rule of Thirds 3 Lines 4 Balance 5 Framing 6 Mergers The fifth guideline is Framing am not talking about what goes on a wall but what objects are used to frame the center of interest Fram ing is done by having something in the foreground that adds depth to the subject Below are two examples of framing used to convey differ ent messages about the same lighthouse In the first photo the framing is done by the buildings and the tree branch This gives a message about how tall the lighthouse is by giv ing us a reference to objects on the ground The tree branch helps pull
39. es are scanned to see if they are suspect Mac users can now remove over 8 000 known cookies for adware and malware with a single click and without losing any of their saved cookies The Cookie Blacklist defini tions like the Spyware definitions come in easy to download up dates MacScan also audits and protects your system from remote administrative programs that may have inadvertently been left on or installed 5can Status Scanning File Users michael shaw Library amp utomatarj esources Japanese Iproj main nib info nib Active Processes 74 Spyware Processes Identified 0 Cookies Scanned 6500 Tracking Cookies Detected 143 Files Scanned 4881 Spyware Files Detected 0 Performing scan cick Cancel to stop scan January 2006 saw the release of MacSan for OS X at MacWorld San Francisco In 2007 the MacScan team re leased MacScan 2 with key features such as frequent definition updates and the ability to scan Macintosh computer for the cookies on their Cookie Blacklist Using the program is as easy as setting the Scheduler preferences to scan for spy ware at a certain time each week and then leaving MacScan to do its business The program can also be run manually by clicking the Scan button in the application window Scan for spyware at OF FION By running MacScan you can protect your privacy by checking for known programs which could be running with out your knowledge SecureMac is a
40. es you can either export them to iPhoto or share them with anyone through Mail Flickr or FTP The ability to have multiple screen capture options along with the ca pability to use them in a variety of combinations with a good blend of Annotations and Special Effects and the ability to automatically organ ize them makes Voila very special and different from the other screen capture tools we have looked at can t begin to tell you how im pressed am with Voila A lot of very expensive and useful programs appear in the DoubleClick and receive less attention than Voila is get ting in this issue That s is because think that Voila has the potential to be useful to more members of the MaUsE club than most of them FP e Voila Capturell www IR c 007 ENS rien oor Global Apt T cim cwn eui dux dca aba IL ELLE ILLOD i inre pant fun udt Vela FR hamisan mie Pics emere dui pan gp i E wur cim mue peered beet cade j ne aur HO cam arin Has me a ux Fr turi re am di pren U dee Dp e corpas m xit 1 fma Com We apa emere une cae 1 fever werd ni cim Dar Sar e d m Loader by er Pe rn MIT Levi mag eee x E ig Ei T T vcra a mv rE an c weng i n ia lai plat i dois mj pl mi mc ey Rr Era p ii Select Undo Redo Flip Horizontal
41. files It should also be noted that best re sults will be achieved when Noise Ninja is applied as early as possible in your workflow Any pixel adjustments made to the image will make it more difficult for Noise Ninja to work effectively WeisaMinja Profiles Helps Mec Cru S ARREO ET Noise Ninja provides the user with a simple and clean layout see image profile panel FL ree noon mem ammmon noe aes PRU unm P cen above and a logical Profile image menu driven approach to correcting noise in the Tn images The three most u used boxes are profile filter and noise brush which are arranged neatly together Image information is also found here as is an action button for batch processing multiple images Images are corrected easily using a series of slider controls and the user can visualize the changes in real time on the smaller preview window As mentioned previously there are three methods that can be utilized to effectively reduce noise The first method allows the pro gram to auto profile the image itself and provide a result viewable on the smaller preview window Or alternatively you can load supplied iso profiles for your particular camera or you may wish to create your own profile using your actual camera and load these to the program found the auto profile to provide a good result overall however the supplied profiles did p
42. g you can adjust from settings that are made for music to settings for movies and to settings for games each with its own slider After you install the AstoundSound Expander pro gram you look for it in either the System Prefer Other 4 ences panes where is shows up in the Other list ae at the bottom of the Preferences window or in the piensan menu bar where it appears as an icon Clicking on the icon gives access to the AstoundSound Ex pander Preferences the window here ar right In the Preferences window you set keyboard shortcuts for all commands in the pro gram choose the audio output device and set Preamp and Stereo Expansion Listening Mode must be set for best results and Movies Music and Games are the three modes available All of the parameters can also be set by keyboard shortcuts and from the In tensity Preamp and Listening Mode tabs in the pulldown menu No matter what tell you about this program can not do justice to it For that you will have to listen to some samples of normal stereo and Astound Sound Expander 2 1 enhanced stereo recordings Visit lt http astoundsound net gt to listen on line to samples of various types of music by sev eral professional recording artists and a sample from a recent movie soundtrack that show the dif ference between listening to the same audio with AstoundSound turned off and with AstoundSound turned on These enhanced stereo recordings will help clarify
43. h you If you want to learn AppleScript and possibly move on to more powerful programming tools later it will give you the best possible foundation Title AppleScript 1 2 3 Authors Sal Solghoian and Bill Cheeseman Publisher Peachpit Press www Peachpit com Price 49 99 Page Count 879 pages ISBN 978 0 321 14931 2 gt YOUR SOUND DOWNLOADABLE SOFTWARE THAT BRINGS MUSIC MOVIES AND GAMES TO LIFE TRY ASTOUNDSOUND EXPANDER 2 1 FREE FOR 30 DAYS THROUGH THE GENIUS OF 4D SOUND TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE NOW FOR MAC AND PC WWW ASTOUNDSOUND NET GenAudio Inc s AstoundSound Expander 2 1 Here is a program you are going to have to hear to believe You can download a copy from www astoundsound net expander php gt and try it out for a month before deciding whether or not to buy it As toundSound Expander 2 1 costs US 39 95 Apple liked it so much they listed it on their website as a Staff Pick and made Astound Sound Expander 2 1 their featured audio download application AstoundSound Expander 2 1 is a software application that runs on your Macintosh or PC The software is always running in the back ground processing audio from all applications such as iTunes Safari DVD player QuickTime and more The audio is expanded in real time and sent to the speakers headphones or other output device It takes any stereo audio as input and produces a significantly wider stereo image while preserving center information e g
44. ions a for the program have been appre hensive to push my Nikon 0300 past 800 iso but with Noise Ninja can l E easily exceed those limits found great care needs to be taken to find the best balance between noise re duction and detail retention Areas with fine detail may have to be brushed back using the noise brush at times This is why the noise brush is provided The three images at right show the fine results Noise Ninja is capable of providing on a digitized scan from a Kodachrome transparency found the films grain structure and noise made worse from enlarging the scan cleaned up nicely using Noise Ninja The image at the bottom of this page shows the results from my Nikon D300 at iso settings ranging from 200 iso to 3200 iso with and without Noise Ninja correction The Noise Ninja noise brush was used to protect some areas and no post sharpening has been added to these samples There is a very slight detail loss as the iso scale rises however this is also due to the in camera noise reduction taking ef fect Better results may be obtained by turning the cameras high iso noise reduction off and letting Noise Ninja do the work more effectively The negative effects such as halos and speckles are mini mal and would be difficult to see on a printed image Noise Ninja will definitely become an integral part of my workflow in the future Please bear in mind it may be difficult to see these results properly on the low res pdf
45. ks you if this is what you like and if it is than you can select the cropped area If not just reject it and restart your crop Once accepted this becomes your new photo which you will want to re name and save For this reason NEVER work on your Original photograph The first task is to make a duplicate of the original and do all your adjustments on the duplicate Making the du plicate saves your original Your original is the same as the film nega tive from days gone by Photographers took great care with their negatives as they knew that the negative could make them some money by selling the prints that it made This is the fourth in a series of articles Parts 1 and 2 of this series appear in previous DoubleClick issues Part 3 appears earlier in this issue Submitted by Kevin Livesey lt lt The First PowerBook The 25 MHz PowerBook 170 saw one of these over at the Goodwill store in Ajax a few weeks ago amongst the other elec tronic debris It happened during their Half Price Wednesday Sale so the 29 95 price tag indi cated that they really only wanted 15 00 for it That s a far cry from the US 4 600 00 it cost when new The battery was dead but someone had plugged it in and it was running off the power supply played with it for a few minutes and it was neat to see it working so well As usual there were lots of personal files on it that should have been erased before it was donated but th
46. lways adding more support if users find an application that is currently not detected or is not being detected properly the information can be sent to SecureMac to im prove MacScan When you launch MacScan you can choose which type of scan you 2T hatti aie aes wish to perform Full Scan Quick Scan or Custom Scan The Quick Scan simply checks your home directory for known spyware applications but the quick scan will not scan the whole hard disk for spyware Full Scan scans your whole hard drive for spyware Custom Scan allows you to scan a folder or drive for spyware Quick Scan ane m Spyware Type and Full Scan will automatically scan for internet tracking cookies server iad liveperson net Tracking Cookie which can be used to monitor your web surfing habits When isolating server iad liveperson net Tracking Cookie uk sitestat com Tracking Cookie spyware tracking cookies will be immediately removed When per TROT ES VEM OE sitestat com Tracking Cookie forming a custom scan you can choose not to scan for tracking cook Tracking Cookie ies MacScan currently detects and removes tracking cookies for web checkm8 com Tracking Cookie Safari Internet Explorer Netscape Firefox and Camino Under Mac OS X to perform a full volume scan or scan of files which belong to another user restricted by privileges you must be logged in as one of the administrator accounts
47. ntrols for con trolling noise from these cameras and although helpful Photoshop does not possess the amount of control necessary to fulfill the task of reducing unwanted noise and holding critical detail in these images At this point software developers such as PictureCode have stepped in as a viable alternative PictureCode was founded in November of 2003 by Dr Jim Christian a veteran computer scientist and an avid amateur photographer Pic tureCode develops innovative software technology to enable new lev els of image quality utility and productivity in the photographic workflow Their software called Noise Ninja can be used not only for improving low light and high iso shots but also for creating bigger en largements from lower iso shots Noise Ninja users report a two stop improvement in noise efficiency The software can also be used to clean up digitized film based scans as will demonstrate later in this review Noise Ninja is available as a stand alone application or as a plug in for Adobe Photoshop Apple Aperture 2 and Adobe Lightroom 2 The cost for the Pro bundle is about 100 Canadian however the stand alone versions are available at much lower cost The Adobe Photoshop plug in under review today is listed as Noise Ninja 2 Ver sion 2 3 2 The Noise Ninja plug in is accessed as a convenient drop down under the Photoshop filter menu did not encounter any issues loading or running the Noise Ninja software during the revie
48. o me at lt ducati860 9 gmail com gt especially if there are files or pictures attached have never refused a submission yet Because we care about the environment the MaUsE DoubleClick is created using only recycled electrons matter was neither created nor destroyed in the process of creating this issue There are no infrac tions of the law of matter conservation There is always room for another piece on any Mac related topic and I ll make room if there isn t would like your submissions But won t beg Apple Macintosh and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc registered in the U S and other countries The MaUsE Macintosh Users East is an in dependent Mac user group and has not been author ized sponsored or otherwise approved of by Apple Computer Inc Its very much like they don t even know we exist Michael Shaw Editor 1 No Meeting This Month I Summertime and the living is I easy The fish are jumping and the cotton is high The MaUsE will resume regular meetings in September after a i two month hiatus but the DoubleClick will continue through the summer months Henry Street 3 n a Whitby zx un a Central 5 a Library 99 m King Street il Center Street Byron Street Scotia Bank Dundas Street West MaUsE Meetings are held in Room 1 at the new Whitby Public Library on the south east corn
49. ou from the point of not knowing how to program at all to understanding how to write pro grams well This is true even for those of us who have done a bit of coding in the past You can get a brief look at the book by going to www peachpit com There you can get a better description of the book look at some other reviews and read a sample section of the text One of the big advan tages of buying this book through Peachpit Press is that when you register the book at their web site you get access to all the scripts that are contained in the book You can download all of the scripts so that they can be easily pasted into the Script Editor These are quite short in the first few chapters but as the training moves along itis a real time saver to simply paste them in Since you have registered the book at Peachpit the scripts are always available to you on line AppleScript 1 2 3 starts at square one and walks you through the process of understanding and writing AppleScript step by step one concept at a time until you find yourself suddenly creating powerful and useful automated solutions The lessons in this book are based on the teaching experiences of hands on classes This book attempts to give us enough basic knowledge of scripting so that we can experi ment with new ones on our own afterwards No matter what your de gree of expertise in writing code AppleScript 1 2 3 will have something to teac
50. rovide a superior result Noise reduction can be IMi Ea irl Pale rae Nose Bean image Moses cubre amp I17 Eee Profile chart Ee E elo Ce Ce noise brush panel Press eae ema adem ke aseas Fem Fam J tes b iy 4 j r Bua cala BR 1 Bem aja 6 mp tigi zm E A 4 i 1 f rase accomplished using the luminance or colour channels independently All results can be modified and improved by utilizing the many con trols found in the filter box The noise brush can be utilized by simply painting parts of the image to undo or redo the effects of noise re moval in the luminance channel chroma channels or all colour chan nels providing selective control over noise removal in localized areas of the image In use found the preview window too small for my lik ing would much prefer to view the changes on a larger scale even if the program would slow somewhat particularly found the preview window difficult for using the noise brush and changed my workflow over to Photoshop using a duplicate layer with layer masks for con trolling brush effects found the results using Noise Ninja to be extremely satisfying The results Nolse Ninja r definitely exceeded my expectat
51. s that the program is NIELSEN hugely rewarding and entertaining as well as an effective tool for cap ATI UE turing and working with images WARREN STEVENS din ROBBY mne ROBOT A UN samu or CYRIL HUME EASTMAN COLOR PRODUCED FRED McLEOD WILCOX NICHOLAS NAYFACK o nmn Global 02 light suggest you have a look at the Global Delights website and down load a 30 day demo of Voila Find out what the fuss is about Mac world likes Voila Apple likes Voila like it and you will too No matter what else you do with your Mac the ability to record what is on your Desktop is as basic to the Mac OS as copy paste This program makes the most out of screen capture and it will definitely make a dif ference to how you harvest images off your Desktop and what you Mac os 5 7 row can do with them The world s mostagvanced operating n Finely tuned Article by Michael Shaw I9 2 lamakey USB Flash Drive from LaCie Data storage has had quite an evolution The p floppy disk was an early data storage ui medium that you could read and write f to You could erase it and add data many times over The floppy disk is a thing of the past never more to make a return Gone are the days of putting 180 KB on a 5 1 4 inch floppy Gone are the day of inserting a 3 1 2 inch hard disk to save 1 44 MB of info You would be hard pressed to find a drive that would take either of these dinosa
52. so it was less of a prob lem however 4 MB was the minimum recommended RAM size for use with System 7 and not practical for use with a RAM Disk a battery power saving feature tea ar Mae 4 wil EE em LI 7 As Edi an nds L LO JI 8 ad 4d ee ree n J eri Te 4 Noise Ninja 2 The digital era has brought with it an increased awareness of noise issues in digital cameras With the ever increasing mega pixel counts in todays digital cameras increased emphasis is being placed on reducing noise artifacting on these digital sensors While film grain could often be used for creative effect digital noise results in unwanted colour artifacts and strange looking ugly speckles Digital noise is defined as electronic static in a digital camera and ap pears as darker spots similar to film grain in a photograph This static is amplified at higher iso settings and longer exposures and is particu larly obvious in flat areas of colour like the sky The small digital sensors employed in to days point and shoot cameras are particularly vulnerable to noise issues though all cameras are affected to some degree Digital SLR mod els employing full frame sensors such as a Nikon D3 or D700 are best at controlling noise and are usable to higher iso values without noise reduction but unfortunately these models retail for 3000 and up Adobe Photoshop pro vides users with rudimentary co
53. t time tracking apps spreadsheets page layout solutions email apps chat programs graphics applications Apple s iWork amp iLife and so many others MacSpeech Dictate Legal works with them all It even works effortlessly with most text documents created by other applications MacScan The World s First Anti spyware oecurity Software for the Macintosh 7 X ET W E 4 7 r i y a D b Mi j Ir T i MEE e 3 p 5 l As Macintosh users we tend to be a bit smug about how virus free our Mac computers are when compared to Win dows infested systems Smug is good but blind to the possibilities is bad There is more out there than just virus infections that we should be aware of As the Macintosh OS gains wider ac ceptance the likelihood of malicious at tacks on Mac computers will increase Ff Already there are several different nasty program types designed to maliciously P compromise our beloved Macintoshes Se cureMac has developed a way to fight them Using advanced detection methods SecureMac s software can detect isolate and remove any programs which could allow our privacy to be violated Since early 2002 SecureMac has been developing its pro prietary anti spyware application MacScan MacScan seeks out and targets suspicious software like trojan horses keystroke loggers and specific cookies
54. that have the ability to trigger unwelcome events Trojan horses are programs that allow a remote user to connect to your computer over the Internet network or telephone line effectively taking control over your computer including the files stored on it Key stroke loggers are programs that are used to record everything that is typed on the keyboard and log them to a file Some keystroke log gers will send the logs over the Internet to a specified address pro 244 Mk E LL MacScan Authenticated Mode SEG fe SS urat MacScan Status Last Spyware Scan Run On Sat 05 30 09 03 27 PM Spyware Detected on last Scan 5 Total Spyware Scans Run 3 Spyware Detected in all Scans 284 liii gt FF 16 Gum ie MacScan Engine Version 2 6 1 Spyware Definitions Version 2009012 Spyware Definitions Created Mon May 18 2009 12 49 18 AM Cookie Blacklist Version 2009005 Cookie Blacklist Created On Mon May 18 2009 12 49 18 AM grammed into the application Keystroke loggers are not limited to what text they record so if you re typing a letter or typing your pass words or your credit card number it is all logged If there is anything on your Mac that even looks like it might possibly be a trojan horse or a keylogger MacScan will detect it and give you a chance to isolate and remove it All of your browser cooki
55. trol Panel Empower Pro FileGuard FreeGuard FoolProof Deus Lock Master OnGuard Keys Off MacOS Algorithm Modem Securl Password Key PGPuam PPF Shift Key Sulte Stealth Signal SuperLock Lite SuperLock Pro Web Confidential Agax 1 3 Disinfectant Sophos Anti Virus Norton AntiVirus Virex Oct VirusBarrier Netupdate vScan Discontinued a P The Best Computer Ever Made My First Love The Sinclair ZX81 Although worked at IBM for 25 years and watched with interest the introduction of the IBM personal computer in 1981 my first computer pur chase was a Sinclair ZX81 advertised as the first computer for under 100 This little gem measured only 6 5 X 6 5 X 1 5 inches including the membrane keyboard The 4 memory was 1K RAM that s KB not MB or GB and the CPU chip was rated at 3 25 MHz my current Mac is 1 25 GHz A cassette 1 tape recorder was required for program stor age no floppies diskettes hard drives CDs or memory sticks and a black white TV was connected as the monitor In spite of the primitive nature of the Sinclair ZX81 it provided the most fun l ve ever experienced with a computer Because of the built in Basic programming language users usually learned how to write their own programs That was the greatest fun quickly became an amateur programmer and created dozens of use ful
56. ts already high list price the 170 like the 100 amp 140 only had 2 megabytes MB RAM soldered directly onto the logicboard which critics felt was re strictive for use with System 7 The North American models were grey like the one pictured above Eventually phased out in October 1992 the 170 did briefly re appear 1994 in a special edition white version and later still in an extremely rare multi colour guise for the JLPGA Japan Ladies Professional Golf Association as seen here at right Ethernet was optional but the PowerBook 170 came with 1 ADB port 2 serial ports one for printer one for modem 1 SCSI port HDI 30 and audio in and out 8 bit Mono Maximum RAM was 8 Megs 4 Megs standard and the PowerBook 170 came with a 40 or 80 Meg SCSI hard drive Access to the 1 44 Meg floppy drive was on the right side towards the rear and there was no built in CD g P Macintos Since localized versions of System 7 were not yet avail E o able worldwide the Japanese 6 0 7 KanjiTalk version of Apple s System software was modified to support all three new PowerBooks and released as version J 6 0 7 1 As a result this version was unofficially adapted for use with the standard 6 0 7 allowing many users to run System 6 on their PowerBooks rather than upgrading on board RAM with an expensive proprietary RAM card a 6 MB card was US 899 The 170 shipped with an additional 2 MB RAM card already installed
57. ture tray Lock Unlock ALL re Annotate Organize SI ture The program keeps a record of the snaps that you have dragged out of the application tray onto the Desktop in a Smart Collections 7 J N G d folder called Dragged Out The other Smart Collections include Re AMA cent snaps Screen Snaps Web Snaps Cam Snaps Imports Flikr Exports and FTP Exports Clicking on each of these Smart Collection folders in the Organizer window automatically loads the contents of the Folder into the Capture Bin If you want to see Voila in action you have to down load a copy of your own It will appear as a 27 meg disk image on your Desktop We did get a copy to be used as a MaUsE raffle prize and it was pounced upon at the June MaUsE Meeting It will take a bit of time to learn all of the tricks but the time spent investigating the program interface is well WALTER worth it Luckily for us the people at Global Delight have provided 4 copies for all of us at their website at PIDGEON lt http www globaldelight com gt A N N E And about the user manual it is an excellent resource and available FRAN CIS from the Help menu any time the program is open It describes how to use the program and contains a Frequently Asked Questions sec LES LIE tion that will get you through any difficulties Not that you can expect bpm _ many difficulties with Voila My impression i
58. urs al though I have an imation SuperDisk drive that does take the hard disk Nowadays with the large amount of information that needs to be transferred one needs the flash drive a mini portable hard drive can remember being very disappointed when bought my first iMac the bondi blue one and there was no floppy drive How would transfer data from my computer at home to the one at work could of course burn a CD but that would be expensive and too static bought the imation SuperDisk to help me out Apple of foresaw the death of the floppy that its limited capacity would soon be outdated Those first generation iMacs did have the USB port and it was not long before the first flash drives called thumb drives were out on the market Nowadays who would want to save data on a floppy when you can easily save more on the flash drive and then stick it in your pocket or attach it to a key chain The flash drive comes in many sizes from 128 Mb to 16 GB and grow ing The price varies greatly depending on the storage space the company that produces it and when it reaches the market These drives keep coming down in price all the time and their capacity keeps growing At one time was pleased with the 1 GB flash drive that bought for 100 that was three years ago recently purchased an 8 GB drive for 20 But that is the way of technology The idea is not to wait for the price to come down but rather buy what you need at the
59. w period Mac system requirements are listed as 10 4 or later and Apple Aper ture 2 1 am using an early version Intel iMac 2 Ghz with 2 Gb of ram and running the latest Leopard 10 5 7 software Noise Ninja is based on a powerful and robust mathematical ap proach to noise reduction using what is termed as wavelet theory The wavelet theory is a cutting edge technology used for transforming images from pixels to a rich spacial spectral representation that im proves the ability to automatically identify and suppress noise at dif ferent frequencies locations and colour channels Noise varies by frequency colour and brightness and it is different for every type of camera For this reason Noise Ninja provides free profile downloads available for dozens of cameras on their website http www picture code com profile upload php If your camera is not represented a simple profile chart can be downloaded in order to profile your own camera see image above The user would print out this profile chart and shoot it with their camera at various iso settings and through the use of a button Noise Ninja will create noise profiles for your particular camera model did not use this method of calibration as my specific camera model was found in their database and was quite happy with the results however information on the PictureCode website indicates that creating your own custom profile may or may not produce a su perior result to the stock pro
60. you are looking at For more information and individual price packages regarding Noise Ninja visit PictureCode at www picturecode com FRERPEP LEL Ta To T Submitted by Paul Danabie Prepress Colour Specialist Please note Email lt pdanabie mac com gt As part of my review Website http web me com pdanabie Site Welcome html have placed high resolution images on my mobile me gallery for you DoubleClick readers to download if you like This gallery is found at http gallery me com pdanabie 100179 will leave the images available for three months or so Paul Danabie la y eh os Me k FO NY t en E ee TRI RARE 2 i Introducing Mariner Paperless For Mac OS X We are judged by the company we keep And we judge others the same way It is with that thought in mind that introduce this new product that has just been released by Mariner Software The com pany has been around since 1990 but has been expanding its list of Mac titles aggressively since 2002 Mariner now has a stable of nine solid performers and products that simplify life by offering outstanding capability and compatibility at a reasonable price Mariner Software offers good value for the money And Mariner has been a supporter of the MaUsE for many years All of their Macintosh compatible products have been featured at our MaUsE meetings in our

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