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1. In Lion accessing often used applications is normally done using the dock where these apps are often permanently locked in place whether they are active or not Clicking on the dock icon starts up that app Choosing another app moves the visible app out of the way and UrFAQh a amp a ees BP YY F 52 F 11 C O G eal About a Preferences i er a E EEE O i raga ada co amp i Tp General Layout Circulation Transitions Hotkeys Blank u ToDo PathFinder w Start TotalSpaces at Login ae V Show notification graphic on desktop change j RSS Hide menu bar icon Safari Chrome v Automatically check for updates Desktop 10 not in grid w Overview grid i Backgrounds in the overview grid None fastest Check for updates V Show fullscreen apps under the overview grid Preferences Quit n a 7 SF Hotcormers Apps Advanced VW Zoom to overview grid animation experimental replaces it with the new choice It is possible to have more than one app running in the same window space but it is very time consuming to set this up TotalSpaces lets you define a grid that you can navigate using up down left and right shortcuts By using this grid you can very quickly move between the desktops you commonly use and using a hotkey or hot corner you can get a birds eye overview of all of your desktops Now moving two apps into the same desktop is a sim ple drag and drop opera
2. Text For A and a bis ors in action ln LJ a N AVi A Wen La La pI if N Q L ht p WWW YOU tobe e com watch ve kt tCS sq W hl Outline Glow Bring Spaces Back to Your Mac piii TotalSpaces from Binaryage One of the greatest fears of upgrading to a new operating system is that some applications will stop working How radical a change will you en counter We are often reluctant to take that leap upwards The change from 10 6 to 10 7 or 10 8 Snow Leopard to Lion or Mountain Lion made this fear became reality for me when discov ered that Spaces had been removed from the basic Mac OS It does not exist in the same form in Mountain Lion It has morphed into a function called Mission Control liked to have nine spaces available with individual apps running in each window This removed a lot of clutter and sped up the opening of apps The RAM on the desktop iMacs has no problem keeping multiple apps running at the same time without showing any lack of speed Fortunately was not the only one who liked to use Spaces The developers at Binaryage have come up with a replacement for the old Spaces function It is called TotalSpaces and it enables Lion and Mountain Lion to run Spaces just like it did with Snow Leopard or TotalSpaces 2 for Maverick users Actually that is unfair to this app It is a lot more versatile than the old Spaces Read on to find out what is SO special about it
3. ish stamps If necessary you can type with the keyboard draw with a mouse capture pictures and import images to create your own unique stamps can now stamp an assignment as complete or incomplete or add in a customized stamp of my own making If you need you can also import your handwritten signature and create it as a stamp to quickly sign a PDF file To create this sig nature stamp click Stamp in the toolbar and click More From the prompt you can see a icon Click it and choose Create Stamp from image file Then import your handwritten signature or initials using them to create your own customized stamp After that whenever you need to sign a PDF docu ment or add a comment apply any of the stamps you made To protect an important PDF file from being copied edited printed or opened by people who don t have permission Wondershare PDF Editor makes it easy to add protection Just go to File gt Security gt Security Settings and you re able to add Open Password to protect PDF files from being opened without authorization or add User Password to restrict user s access to PDF editing and printing How about adding a watermark to your PDF file to increase the level of security Again a watermark app like this could cost 20 or more and yet it is part of the Editor louchup Too _ Annotate b Form Window Help Final Mark a JNew SCP st B Be P Ls ts je y 5 Mi F OLE mbes Path ick F 7
4. created PDF form Having an app like this replaces two or three other apps that you might have It is a viewer an OCR app a Watermark app and a PDF editor It is a good idea to keep this in mind when you think of the price of the app Wondershare PDF Editor for Mac makes it very easy for users to update and edit PDF files edit PDF text and images split and merge PDF files collaborate and review PDF files with an array of pre made and self created stamps text shape based tools and fill out PDF forms There is no actual user s manual but you can get some help from www wondershare com mac pdf editor guide html which will walk you through many of the menu items If you still are having a hard time editing through the pages of a PDF file just use PDF Editor for Mac to convert the PDF file into a Word format for more familiar editing If you find that Preview just isn t providing enough options for your work with PDF files then have a look at Wondershare s two Editors the standard Editor for about 50 or the Editor Pro with full OCR ca pabilities for about 100 Either of these can be downloaded from www wondershare com mac pdf editor and used on a trial basis You really should experiment with their functions before purchasing your next PDF editor application was looking for a less expensive re placement for my old Adobe Acrobat Pro and now have one wondersheare Wondertul Software Wonderful Life Submitted by M
5. i q j j g k a j i j J vn Yay l Fi g f k k pe q 45 k 1 h 4 d 7 a 4 P i j iii 7 fey D h q F pu 7 gt T q j a i Bia a _ i s i 7 A F r a 7 j j il F q f 7 y N T j j q j y 1 i j j 1 i j 4 k F i 4 y Macintosh Users East Wondershare PDF EDitor Pro for Mac Effortlessly Edit Convert and Annotate PDF PDF Portable Document Format has been around for a long time It was developed in the early 1990s as a way to share documents among computer users of various platforms In 1991 Adobe Sys tems outlined a system called Camelot that evolved into PDF While Adobe Systems made the PDF specification available free of charge in 1993 PDF remained a proprietary format controlled by Adobe until it was officially released as an open standard in 2008 The PDF file format is used to present documents in a manner independent of application software hardware and operating system Each PDF file encapsu lates a complete description of the document including the text fonts graphics and other information needed to display it Therein lies its popularity It has universal computer usage Eventually Adobe distrib uted its Acrobat Reader program free of charge helping to make this format the standard for printable documents Along with the free reader Adobe also created a PDF editor This enabled users to not only create PDF docume
6. 39 download You can always re type an email or hit Undo if you accidentally delete text but when a simple mistake takes away your personal pictures and videos nothing beats having a aR good recovery utility Check out Stellar Phoenix Mac Photo Re EASTMAN 4 eb 11 gr Feb 11 22 JPEG fn 30 JPEG a i 6h Total 200 7 MB in 205 File s in 7 Folder s Searched in Media covery It is easy to use and well worth the money a r i ene November 27 MaUsE Meeting Report Although the evening was unseasonably cold we had a good turnout for the November 27 MaUsE meeting Because the November meet ing is our last meeting of the calender year we mark the event with our Annual General Meeting where we announced changes to the MaUsE executive Unfortunately in the excitement of the event neg lected to take photos of the various presenters who entertained us during the evening Michael our President opened the meeting and turned it over to Stan Stan explained to the membership how our MaUsE Executive elections proceed and then announced the results of the executive changes by welcomed Brian Jim and Marcel to their new duties Ken gave the year end Treasssurer s Report concluding with the news that we are sufficiently solvent to keep the wolves from the door for the foresable future Our President announced that we have welcomed Ahmed Kufaishi of Alary Technologies as a new mem ber and introduced him to
7. If you can t see the window you need because it is hidden behind another just press the space bar and all the windows will move to visible positions If you click on a window it will come to the front and the space will activate It s a quick way to select the window you need to work with You can drag windows between desktops when they are exposed like this and you can still cancel this mode by pressing the space bar again When dragging a window from one desktop to an other you can choose to have the system place the window in the same place on the new desktop as it was in the previous desktop or to move the window to exactly where you drop it You can also choose the way the desktop backgrounds are displayed have my normal desktop background randomly change every 10 minutes Each of my TotalSpaces desktops has a different back ground Because of my setting they all change randomly However each desktop can be individually controlled You can set the desktop on one to be fixed and on another to change Each time you open the preferences in the desktop you are in you can set how you want that particular desktop to work TotalSpaces even allows you to configure the kind of desktop backgrounds that are shown in the overview grid If you choose to use hi resolution images the backgrounds will look sharper but it may take a little longer to bring up the grid if you have more than one monitor In those situations it is recommended to
8. Nearly a lives around you are in great danger decade ago Agent Kate Drew Nancy s mother left home to neutralize a biochemical weapon in Scotland Cathedral is asking Nancy for help This game is played out in five main areas There is the train station in solving her death They hint that her mother s death was not an ac the courtyard Nancy s hotel room Cathedral headquarters and three cident While her assignment was a success Kate died in a car acci train stops that you will need to visit There are a few other places that dent Or so we were told They believe that she was killed by the emanate from these main areas but for the most ashe the game is group she was investigating in Glasgow Now the echoes of a similar plot reverberate They hope that you as detec tive Nancy Drew can thwart the sleeper cell and expose the truth about your mother s tragic demise The object of this game is to explore various locations in Scotland in order to gain Knowledge about both your mother s accident and the new biological threat The Scot tish accent of the characters helps you to envision yourself there Your first stop is at the train station in Glasgow and the game is on As with most Nancy Drew Mysteries you will need to explore various areas and talk with the proba a a a ME MY ble suspects you encounter Hints are to be found in what Ss iis 4 tae these suspects say and in the many different books and gt e notes you find along th
9. PDF Editor for Mac enables users to edit text and objects in a PDF file with a full toolbox of editing tools It lets users add and modify text in a PDF file while matching the text font colour and typeface automatically Users can also delete unwanted text Inserting deleting and cropping images can be per formed quickly Adding and removing text and image watermarks is effortless In other words don t have to retype my PDF files can edit it right from the Wondershare program This is the main reason need an editor and what will most often use it for In a reverse process Wondershare PDF Editor Pro for Mac enables Mac users to convert any PDF file back to an editable Microsoft Word document Excel spreadsheet PowerPoint slide HTML page or a Plain Text file for easy analysis and further editing How about making it into an EPUB file eBook for reading on phones and tablets The Wondershare PDF Editor for Mac the standard version is limited to converting PDF to Word and nothing else There has to be something the Pro version does to explain the extra cost PDF Editor has the same collection of annotation tools that Preview has in terms of markup and freehand drawing tools From the toolbar it is easy to put in highlight underline strikethrough sticky note text boxes rectangles clouds arrows etc In addition there is a range of pre made commonly used dynamic and business standard stamps provided and four ways to create styl
10. and get a rough idea of how much memory you re using now and think about what you plan to do in the future and how long it will be before you upgrade to a new Mac The outcome of this is that based on the ease of install when ordering a new 2012 27 iMac you should get it with the least amount of RAM installed at the factory OWC and many others will sell you an up grade kit which any novice can install after watching a video and at half the Apple price or better And OWC will quickly get that RAM to you After paid OWC through Paypal had my RAM delivered in two days So even if you all of a sudden require more RAM you don t have to wait around for a week or more to upgrade Submitted by Marcel Dufresne 1 Macintosh Users East X MINI SPEAKER SOUND BEYOND SIZE MIPOW POWER TUBE POWER YOUR CELL ON THE GO Stuck at the airport or attending outdoor event Charges most Micro USB powered devices No extra cables needed Newer model also avai leakage for the iPhone 5 call us 28 50 SPORTS ARMBAND A RUNNER S BEST FRIEND Ultra lightweight wicking nylon band adjusts to fit and stays in place Built in key holder otralegically placed ports for headphones or headsets Also available for iPhone 445 28 00 megityBelt Ottie Easy Flex 2 Car Mount Desk Stand No 1 ON AMAZON for iPhone 5 45 and Smartphones Easy one touch mounting system Mount it anywhere Extra large suction cup guarant
11. choose either the Blurred or None setting Also you may find it easier to see your windows with one of these two settings now have mine set to none As you navigate between your desktops you will notice that on each movement there appears a notification graphic This shows you which desktop you came from and which you are now on You can turn this off in General preferences if you don t like it Navigating to the edge of the grid brings up some more options Circulation allows you to join one edge of your grid to the opposite edge If you enable circulation going left from the left side of your grid will move you to the right side and vice versa There are two modes for horizontal circulation when set to join to Next row going right from the end of a row of desktops takes you to the left most desktop on the next row below If it s the bottom row you are going from you end up on the left most space on the top row When set to Same row the change of row behaviour does not occur and the right end of the rows join to the left ends of the same rows TotalSpaces helps you if you have multiple monitors connected The layout of your monitors is shown in the overview grid and you can drag windows between them The monitor screens are shown with the mirrored desktops paired together on your main display so you can easily drag windows between each of your monitors You can click in side the hotkey recorder to change the hotkey setting If
12. information But could there be a secret that Moira doesn t want you to know about Nancy Drew The Silent Spy From HER Interactive Nancy Drew The Silent Spy is a first person point and click adventure game In case you are not famil iar with the fictional Nancy Drew she is an eighteen l year old amateur detective from the imaginary town of River Heights in the United States and the sub ject of numerous books by Carolyn Keene She is the only playable character in this game which means the player must solve the mystery from her perspective This is the 29th Nancy Drew game that HER Interactive has developed This is the fourth Nancy Drew Mystery that we have played and the game play has not diminished All of the mystery and fun of discovery are here from beginning to end In fact this is my favourite of the four games The thrill has not worn off The games may be similar in As you are told early on Trust No One One of how to move around and such but the story line and the mini games these people is part of the biological plot The last person who can are fresh and challenging shed light on this mystery is Kate Drew herself Although she was killed in a car accident she has left behind a string of clues that will This adventure starts off with Nancy getting a letter from the Security help you Her secrets are begging to be revealed but your life and the Service branch of MI 5 in England which is called Cathedral
13. inventory This would be a very slow process to gain the cash you need to travel the train to those three stations Fortunately the food counter in the courtyard is looking for help Going there you can earn some money by making cookies to the correct specifications of the patrons The faster you make the cookie the better the pay We LEOPARDS DODDDEDRD LELRLEELLE LORAEDSOPRESERE DEDEDE OS found ourselves often visiting this spot We needed cash not ii k only for the train but to open lockers and to buy food ana fk One souvenirs Another noticeable difference was the lack of A JBS ee physical tools that needed to be found This game was more cerebral Completion of each task provides her with a recorded phone mes than the others that we had played As with any good spy novel there sage that her mother had made many years ago The last difference were many hidden notes and coded messages to decipher Next was the flashback memories that Nancy had concerning her mother come the mysterious phone messages A garbled voice asks Nancy These contained background information to perform a few tasks along the way Other than these points the game play is similar to the oth ers This is what I really like about the series Once you have a Played one you know pretty much how to move and where you can get help hints As mentioned before this does not make the newest game boring It takes very little time
14. look at the diagram provided to compare the two will review both of these at the same time while mainly focusing on the Editor Pro which Wonder share sent me Firstly the PDF Editor can be used as a viewer letting you display from one page at a time to a continuous scroll or two at a time or two continuous scrolls You can zoom in and out and do all that any other viewer can do You can merge two or more files into one change the order of the pages and a lot more This means you can replace Preview with PDF Editor and have the Editor act as your de fault PDF viewer if you choose With Wondershare PDF Editor as found here at http www wondershare com mac pdf editor users can view and edit PDF pages and files effortlessly Just go to Docu ment in the menu bar and you can then delete extract insert and crop a PDF page split a large PDF document into small ones or merge multiple PDF files into a new single PDF file Click Rotate Pages to turn PDF orientation from Landscape to Portrait PDF Editor for Mac PDF Editor Pro for Mac Create PDFs from web pages imagesitext files Add delete and correct text with automatic reflow Insert delete and crop images in a PDF file Insert delete and extract PDF pages in a PDF file Merge or split PDF files to create new PDF files extract certain pages out of PDF document and create a separate document out of them For many people that is all they need For me needed somet
15. the membership Ahmed spoke briefly about his plans to provide Apple computer upgrade and repair serv ices to Apple computer users here in the Durham Region After Michael closed the general meeting Brian spoke at length about the latest news from Apple computers touching upon what can be ex pected from Apple s Black Friday sales events The first presentation of the evening given by Michael was a demon stration of the enhanced dictation capabilities of Mac OS X 10 9 Mav ericks It appears that only a very few members of the audience were willing to admit that they had upgraded to Mavericks and only one or two of thosse members have been playing with dictation so the ability for Dictation in Mavericks to render speech into text was novel Michael briefly spoke about how the Mavericks verasion of the soft ware compared to the commercial Nuance Dragon Dictate for Macin tossh and then read a poem twice into the Club ss MacBook Pro The first time he read the poem it was rendered chopped up into sshort burssts of text and sent via the internet to the Apple servers for transslation into text and sent back via the dictation software a poem twice into the Club ss MacBook Pro The first time he read the poem it was rendered chopped up into sshort burssts of text and sent via the internet to the Apple servers for transslation into text and sent back via the dictation software Marcel whipped out his iPad and talked about Me Books amp D
16. type resetpassword without the quotes Confirm the new account password then reboot the Mac as usual For Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10 6 Leopard 10 5 and before with install DVD CD Insert the bootable DVD into the Mac and restart or start the computer Boot the disk by holding down the C key at system start Select your language preferences and then under the Utilities menu select Password Reset it may say Reset Password instead de pends on the version of Mac OS X Select the hard disk that the forgotten password is on then select the username of the forgotten password you ll then be asked to select a new password Reboot as usual from the hard drive using your newly reset password as the login 68 O9 End of the Internet 55 SS ATA EES rror Congratulations You have finally reached the end of the internet There s nothing more to see no more links to visit You ve done it all This is the very last page on the very last server at the very far end of the internet OF You should now turn off your computer and go do something useful with the rest of your life Suggestions e Read a book e Do some public service e Personally interact with your neighbors that you ve probably only met online Plant a tree Introduce yourself to those other people who live at your house your family Please don t forget to turn off the lights on your way out In order to save time we will n
17. up choose the More Info button Now at the top of the window you see the choices of Choosing memory showed me an array of four slots with two of them contain QV them being empty It also listed that my computer accepts 1600 MHz DDR3 mem was now ready to go shopping for some RAM Overview Displays Storage and Memory ing my two 8GB modules and two of ory modules Armed with this knowledge For the purpose of this review decided to add in some extra RAM whether really needed it or not Having reviewed OWC products in the past and being extremely pleased with their customer service bought an upgrade set of 8GB 4 two 4GB modules had compared their price with other companies and with eBay and found very lit tle difference between them The sale of RAM is very competitive and as such it is a buyer s market At the OWC web site was able to do a quick search of their available RAM using the info had obtained about the acceptable memory modules Quite a few items popped up By se lecting one at a time was able to look at the item s specs Immedi ately below this was a picture of each computer that this RAM was compatible with It took me very little time in finding just what was looking for Maxing out my RAM slots would have cost 200 went with upgrading to 24GB which cost about 100 got a set of two 4GB modules at eshop macsales com item OWC 1600DDR3S08S Going b
18. use the File gt Open to select an image on your h hard drive The image you have chosen will appear on 000 K ad OilPaint v 1 0 200 4249 JPG 1 1164x1552 RS alx Yext___ Canvas __ Simplicity 3 u Saturation Relnet Max Stroke Length 39 w Stroke Thickness 7 Stroke intensity 20 Stroke Curvature 1E CUTU Presets AKVIS Classic the left in the AKVIS OilPaint window and you will see it in all its glory with toolbars across the top and down the left side of the image Briefly hover your cursor over each to get a little messahe indicating what each does On the right side of the OilPaint window you will see a little navigator image a set of sliders 3 tab settings for Painting Text and Canvass that can be used to fine tune the final result and a Presets menu at the bottom Ignore the sliders for now Step 2 Go right down to the Presets menu and scroll through the more than 20 choices As you scroll over each a picture of a sample image will appear with an indication of how the Preset will affect your image Pick one that you like ano W AKVIS OilPaint vig 100 4249JPG 1 1164x1552 p AKwWIS Default AKVIS Classec AKVIS Cross Hatchong AVIS Rich Colors AVIS Short Strokes AKVIS Wave Strokes AVIS Rough Strokes AKVIS Long Strokes AVIS Round Brush AKVIS Wide Brus AKVIS Modern Art AKVIS Dramatic Colors AKVIS Pastel Oil AKVIS Twisted Brush AVI
19. 0 pictures and a couple of movies Then deleted all of the files by selecting them all and using Command Delete then emptied the Trash and verified that the 16 Gig USB drive was empty Then created a new folder on my Desktop and named it Recover to Here This will be the destination for whatever Stellar Phoenix Mac Photo Recovery 6 can pull off the empty USB stick launched the Stellar program and selected the little USB stick and clicked on the Start Scan button With my old iMac the scan took about six or seven minutes Recover to Here Select Media For Recovery Please select a storage device to scan for photo audio amp video file Size File System 931 51 CB Media Media Type Removable Media Click Start Scan to recover photo audio amp video files from removable media View complete drive list When the scan finished clicked on the OK button and Stellar Phoenix Mac Photo Recovery 6 showed me a preview of everything it had found on the USB drive including little fully playable copies of the two videos complete with sound seleted the pictures wanted to save and clicked the Recover but Jf ton The program asked me where wanted to save them to specified the Save To Here folder on my Desktop The results were more or less what I expected Stellar Phoenix Mac Photo Recovery 6 found H EEN i Scan Completed and successfully salvaged 456 pictures and both of the videos and
20. Because we care about the envi ronment the MaUsE DoubleClick is created using only recycled electrons matter was neither created nor destroyed in the process of creating this issue 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 trade marks of Apple Computer Inc registered in the U S and other countries The MaUsE Macintosh Users East is an Apple authorised Macintosh user group Michael Shaw Editor About MaUsE Macintosh Users East also known as MaUsE is the most active Apple authorised MUG Mac User Group in Southern Ontario MaUsE is here for users of all Apple products including Apple computers iPods iPhones and iPads Henry Street Whitby Central Library Colborne Street Highway 2 King Street Scotia Bank Dundas Street West Center Street Byron Street pay your MaUsE Membership fee Still only 45 per year MaUsE Meetings are held in Room 1 at the new Whitby Public Library on the south east corner of Henry and Dundas West in Whitby Ontario on the fourth Wednesday of each month except December July and August Meet ings start at 7 00 PM but there is an early session from 6 30 for people who wish to discuss hardware or software issues or problems Macintosh virus problem are discussion from 6 58 to 7 00 PM Apple Laptop Batt
21. MaWsE DoubleClick Vecember LOTA 2014 MaUsE Executive e President Michael Shaw ducati860 gmail com Vice President lan Winton Secretary amp Apple Liaison Marcel Dufresne mardufresne rogers com e Treasurer Ken Jansen e Director Stan Wild Director Jim Danaby e Director Brian Elston MaUsE Contact Information The MaUsE c o Michael Shaw 237 Huntingwood Drive Oshawa Ontario Canada LiJ 7C6 WWM INES Ge DoubleClick Produced and edited by Michael Shaw Photographs by Irma Shaw Don t forget to From The Editor What you are looking at is the December 2013 edition of the MaUsE DoubleClick the online publication of the Macintosh Users East MaUsE a motley collection of mostly harmless cranks who reside in Southern Ontario with their motley collection of old and new Macintosh Hack entosh amp MacClone computers The DoubleClick is published using a 2 8 GHz Aluminum iMac and QuarkXPress 10 An antique Kodak DX7590 is STILL being used for all pic tures Everything not specifically attributed to someone else can probably be blamed on the Editor Back issues can be downloaded from the MaUsE website lt www mause ca gt Submis sions from MaUsE Club members are almost al ways welcome Maybe that last bit is an exaggeration Send your submissions and articles to me at lt ducati860 gmail com gt especially if there are files or pictures attached have never refused a submission yet
22. OS X Mavericks Mountain Lion and Lion because it s extremely fast and simple The only requirements are that you must have tied an Apple ID to a user account and you must have internet access so that the Mac can contact Apple to initiate the reset procedure From the Mac login or boot screen enter any wrong password three times to summon the Password Hint box and a message saying If you forgot your password you can reset it using your Apple ID click on that gt arrow icon to start the Apple ID based reset Enter the Apple ID credentials this is the same information used to log into the App Store iTunes and iCloud then click Reset Pass word Confirm the new password and let the Mac boot as usual Reset Mac Password with installer CD DVD Boot drive or Recovery Mode Partition Disk Utility System Profiler oa Network Utility Resetting a forgotten Mac password is pretty easy if you have an in staller disk boot drive or the recovery partition handy Which method you use here will depend on the version of OS X the Mac is running For OS X Mavericks 10 9 Mountain Lion 10 8 and Lion 10 7 with Recovery Mode Boot into the Mac OS X boot loader menu by holding down the Option key at system start Choose the Recovery drive to boot into recovery mode and wait until the Utilities screen appears Pull down the Utilities menu and choose Terminal At the command line
23. S Fine Lines AKVIS Palette Knife AVIS Fresco AKVIS Scratch Art AK VIS Intense Oil Canvas AK VIS Square Strokes Step 3 Click on the Render button the little triangle in the upper right toolbar and watch the brush strokes appear as OilPaint renders your image in the oilpainting style of your choice The Before and After tabs will show the differences OilPaint will make to your image Step 4 The results of the Preset as applied is a good place to start from but now it is time to use the little sliders to fine tune your painting if necessary You can modify the colour saturation and make suble changes to the length and thickness of the brush strokes The mov able Preview section window will give instant updates to show how the changes will appear in the final picture When you have all of the settings the way you like them click the Render button again and Oil Paint will finish off your image Use the Tools to modifythe image This is the first release of OilPaint and it is already an impressive program The sliders available from the Painting tab are more apparent in the image to the right The other two tabs are worth a mention See below The Text tab will give access to perfect tools for marking your images with your name or a date or any other important in formation You can choose any font in your computer and set the size position colour outline and glow of the text The Canvas tab will open
24. ack to the question first asked How much RAM should in stall when buying my new iMac would now choose differently would say go with the minimum amount of RAM that Apple will install which in this case was 8GB For 200 Apple will upgrade your RAM to 16GB For the same price you can upgrade your own machine to 24GB Apple charges double the going rate for RAM To get the maxi mum of 32GB Apple charges 600 extra You could remove the two 4GB modules and put in four 8GB modules for a lot less Have a look at the video from OWC to see how easy this is to do eshop macsales com installvideos imac_27inch_late_2012_mem_ or read the instructions from Apple at support apple com kb ht5540 OWC always provides that extra level of service When bought an external drive from them it came with five or six extra apps like Car bon Copy Cloner and SpeedTools Utilities In this case OWC offers a rebate by letting you trade in your original chips when you upgrade Depending on how you intend to configure the four slots you might end up with extra modules You can read more about this right on the web page that has the specs for your module Installing the modules was as quick and easy as the video showed placed my iMac on the kitchen table with the monitor facing down The 27 model features a simple memory access port on the rear that ejects via a button above the power input To remove the rear panel just unplug the power cabl
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26. ce some loss of battery capacity meaning it will have a shorter life Be sure to store your notebook and battery at the proper temperature See Notebook Temperate Zone Sa Optimal Setting You can choose to use your Apple notebook in a way that maximizes its battery life Energy The Energy Saver control panel offers several settings that determine power levels for your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air Your portable knows when it s plugged in and runs accordingly When on battery power it will dim the screen and use other components spar ingly If you change this setting to maximize performance your battery will drain more quickly Brightness Dim the screen to the lowest comfortable level to achieve maximum battery life For instance when watching a _ DVD on an airplane you may not need full brightness if all the _ _ lights are off _ AirPort Wireless AirPort consumes power even if you are not using its features to connect to a network You can turn it off in its control panel to save power _ Bluetooth Wireless Likewise you can turn off Bluetooth to maximize your battery life as it _ also consumes power when not in use _ Applications and peripherals Disconnect pe 3 ripherals and quit applications not in use Eject CDs and DVDs if not currently accessing them k 12 Days of Christmas Gifts from Apple Apple has released its annual 12 Days of Gifts app for iOS devices sett
27. e and push the button above the power input depressed this button it needs to move Yin a fair amount and the cover popped up Once had the panel removed was able to insert the new memory The slot on the base of the module is offset so that there is no possibility of putting it in backwards Make sure it is firmly pushed into the slot put the cover back on and that was that My RAM had now gone from 16GB to 24GB w Now comes the litmus test Have in fact speeded up my i Mac s performance ran an app called GeekBench before _ and after installed my RAM It runs a series of tests and then gives a web page of data listing how well the computer _ did in a number of areas have no real ideas what the numbers actually mean nor do care just wanted the bottom line number There was no change in computer speed with no apps running which is no surprise Geek Bench listed both before and after the upgrade at about 9350 Without any apps running paging won t occur and there won t be any speed change With my normal ten apps running at the same time the speed was 8760 before and 9045 after This is better per formance but hardly one that would notice It appears that the up grade might have not have been worthwhile Then started up iPhoto with all those pictures to load in What always took time was now al most instantaneous Even with the many thousand pictures to load in was able to
28. e iResizer resizing mostly affects pixels in areas that do not have important visual content iResizer content aware image resizing software rescales images non uniformly while preserving the key features of the picture iResizer avoids distortion of the important parts of the image It also can be used to remove portion of the image in a consistent way For exam ple you can turn a landscape picture into a square picture and close up the space between people in an image if they are a long way apart It also works in reverse and you can use it to make a photo larger You can mark important elements in the image using the green marker This technique is handy if you have areas of the image that you want to retain at the expense of other areas and it can also be used to protect people in the image Also you can use the red marker to select which features of the image should be discarded iResizer is a free to try application The full version costs 19 99 The program is available for Windows XP or higher and for Max OS X 10 7 or higher Website http www iresizer com Download link PC http www iresizer com iResizerSetup exe Download link Mac http www iresizer com iResizer dmg CREATE SQUARE IMAGES FOR INSTAGRAM WITHOUT CROPPING Macintosh Users East Hardware Upgrade Adding RAM to Your Mid 2012 27 iMac One of the questions you are asked whenever buying a new iMac or any computer for that matter is how much RAM
29. e way Make sure you are on the E alert for some tools such as a screwdriver which you will need to gain access to hidden spots The first person she meets is Alec Fell He appears imme diately after someone steals Nancy s suitcase at the train station He is an expert tracker and tries to catch the thief but fails Nancy has a lot of important papers about her mom in that suitcase He offers to go looking for the culprit played out in these scenes As you move along a variety of tasks start to accumulate These can be completed in any order however some not yet found tasks will not be re vealed until another has been done The tasks almost 60 of them are listed in a box at the bottom right of the screen Once a task has been completed you can check it off This is a fast way to keep track of whether a certain job has actu ally been finished sometimes found that thought was done with something but could not check it off It was only half done and needed to do some more work there i TASKS Exphre the train station D1 Explore the hotel courtyard CD Talk to Bridget J Track down Moira Chisholm 0O Track down more information about Mom s past with Cathedral O Find the case file iv What is different in this adventure The first is the need for some money There are spots in the scenes that sparkle Clicking on them will reveal some loose coins that are added to your
30. each of which accepts a 1600 MHz DDR3 memory module Installed ee All memory slots are currently in use Memory Upgrade Instructions often Doubling the original RAM should be more than sufficient for my needs But what happens in a year from now if my projected com puter use changes Can upgrade my RAM can remember years ago pulling the tabs on the back of my LCIII and easily adding in ex tras to the slots provided With the new seamless iMac construction that are now the norm adding extra RAM could possibly require a trip to the Apple Store But this is not the case The 2012 27 model or newer have an easy to pop cover on the back of the computer In less than five minutes with absolutely no computer savvy you can add that extra RAM If you have an older iMac or the newer 21 5 model and you wish to add more RAM then an expert might be needed It s not too hard to figure out the ideal amount of RAM for your system and your workflow If your Mac is running slowly open Activity Monitor Applications gt Utilities gt Activity Monitor and check out the System Memory tab at the bottom of the window If you re low or completely out of Free or Inactive RAM and you re not doing anything unusual editing a humongous Photoshop file for example adding more RAM will probably speed up your performance If you want to Know how much RAM you have installed go to About This Mac under the apple logo Once that window opens
31. ee it won t budge at any angle 21 00 CARRY EVERYTHING ON BOARD Convenient pockets for your iphone keys money etc Funky Colours 22 90 VERSIFLI SILICONE KEYBOARD iige PROTECTION WITHOUT SACRIFICING LOOKS Sabata Protect your MacBook MacBook Pro and MacBook Air from Gust debris and accidental spills 18 00 SPECK CASE KEEP YOUR LAPTOP LIKE NEW Clear plastic protection for your laptop in the coolest colours 49 00 SECURITYMAN EASY REMOTE MONITORING 24 7 7 w es s apari on your home pet or loved one while out supports iPhone iPad iPod touch and smarphone survelliance 130 00 Simply e mail or call us with your shopping list We will put your order together and call you when it is ready for pick up Or for a nominal fee we will ship it out customerservice mainlymac ca 905 201 8460 Toll free 866 811 4534 AKVIS OilPaint NEW From AKVIS AKVIS OilPaint v1 0 The general appearence of this new program will look very familiar to all DoubleClick readers it shares the same interface tool layout and behav iour rules common to all of the other excellent AKVIS programs we have looked at in previous is sues of the DoubleClick And like the other AKVIS titles OilPaint is available as a free download from the AKVIS website and functtions as a fully featured demo for ten days so users can try it out before deciding whether or not to buy a copy Step 1 Launch the program and
32. ery Care No Mysteries Here Apple laptop battery technology has evolved just like everything else and it is important to keep up with it Misconceptions about how to keep you battery healthy and prolong its life abound so the best idea is to go to the Apple site to see what Apple reccommends With a little bit of care you can maximize the battery life i e the time your battery will run before it must be recharged and lifespan of your notebook s battery Most importantly use your Apple notebook in its comfort zone for temperature See Notebook Temper ate Zone Don t leave it locked in a hot trunk during ae ns gt ee j the summer en ee we pao or a i a g z i Your New Notebook Aa Your new Apple notebook features e i advanced battery chemistry that greatly extends the battery s lifes pan The built in battery of your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air is de signed to deliver up to 1000 full charge MN and discharge cycles before it reaches 80 percent of its original capacity In addition a Adaptive Charging reduces the wear and ee tearron the battery giving it a lifespan of up to 5 years 4 Besureto fully charge your portable when you plug it in for the first time and then run Software Update to ensure you have the latest software Apple periodically releases updates that may improve battery per formance Standard Maintenance For proper maintenance of a lithium based battery it s
33. ese Spanish Japanese Korean Greek Russian and Chinese very well Wondershare PDF Editor for Mac Both Standard and Pro enables users to fill out PDF forms that come with interactive fields and save them on a local hard drive for future usage When a PDF form is opened all the fields will be highlighted making it easy for you to fin ish filling in the form And the Pro version even lets users customize PDF forms from templates and edit the form s interactive fields Edit ing from a template is much easier and faster than starting from scratch You can download PDF form templates from the template page or the Internet After opening a PDF form with the Editor Pro click Edit Form from Form Menu on the menu bar to enter the edit ing mode All the interactive field options will be displayed in a floating box on the right Click to select a type of interactive field and then move the mouse to the blank area to draw the interactive field After adding an interactive field double click it to enable the properties dia logue box From this dialogue box you re able to name the field cus tomize its appearance validate data input etc To align added interactive fields go to Form Menu to select the Align options To add text to a blank area explaining the interactive field click Touchup tool then click on the blank area to add new text After edit ing a PDF form you can click Edit Form again to preview the newly
34. esktop to desktop by dragging them around in the Overview Grid This is the main reason use Total Spaces have five or six apps running all the time use the overview grid to quickly move with from one to the other The desktop number is indicated in the middle of the menu bar icon Another poorly utilized function for most Mac users is the dashboard where widgets can be viewed have widgets for my TV schedule sports scores and a few other items TotalSpaces allows me to have my Dashboard appear in a space all of its own to the left of the overview grid The main use of TotalSpaces lies in the overview of the grid Total Spaces allows you to bring up an overview of all the desktops in your main grid by triggering a configurable hotkey or by triggering a hot corner have a five button mouse and use the top middle button as my trigger use my fourth button for dashboard and the fifth button for mission control The overview is an excellent way to manage your windows and desktops When the overview is visible you can navi gate to a new desktop by either using the cursor keys and the enter key to select or choosing by clicking on a desktop The currently ac tive desktop is highlighted with a light border You can also organize your windows by dragging items from desktop to desktop and putting them just where you want them And you can zoom in on a particular window by pressing the shift key whilst hovering over it with the cur sor
35. he first is Carson Drew Nancy s father who is upset Nancy has gone to investigate her mother s death and is very hesitant to help He will eventually provide some valuable in formation so keep calling him The second number is for Ned Nicker son Nancy s boyfriend Give him a call for a tip when you get stuck or don t know where to turn The phone has a camera in it which lets you take up to 30 screen shots and save them This could be used if the Journal area is not providing you with enough detail for a location The cell phone also comes equipped with seven additional mini games that have absolutely nothing to do with the adventure They are simply time wasters as are a lot of cell phone games Try them out The game provides quite a few extras that really have no bearing on the resolution of the plot but add to the challenge There are charms and some trophies to be won The game is laced with hidden items and tasks You can track your accumulated trophies using the trophy button in the main menu A list of over 13 trophies is shown indicating your completed incomplete accomplishments This is a sure fire way to get you to replay the game We never want to leave a game with unfulfilled tasks Opening a certain locker over and over again eventu ally leads to one of these trophies It is never listed in the task menu and does not help in any way to solve the mystery It is just something else to look for There are seven charms that you
36. he transitions will reinforce the impression that your desktops are in a grid and help you to remember where each application is When projects pile up your desktops can quickly become a maze of apps The new OS allows you to run up to 16 spaces into which you can organize your open windows Mission Control helps you to navi gate these desktops When you re working in a space your desktop contains only the windows for the work you re doing in that space Putting two apps in the same screen can be done but it is much faster using TotalSpaces have found that TotalSpaces works in conjunc tion with Mission Control and enhances what you can do with all these extra desktops TotalSpaces costs 18 It works fine on OSX Lion 10 7 5 and OSX Mountain Lion 10 8 4 and should work on any Mac that can run these operating systems If you need a Maverick version then you can get TotalSpaces 2 Go to the developers site at http totalspaces binaryage com to read up on this app or see a video of it in action suggest you download the 14 day free trial version of the app and put it to work Make the use of multiple desktops a breeze with TotalSpaces Reclaim this functionality that you had with Snow Leopard Submitted by Marcel Dufresne TotalSpaces ia the ultimate grid spaces manager for your Mac a 2 J Fi ae 7a i j q i a 4 r 7 1 A q Mo E L 4 im eS os ar i p j aa a a icon i J i P i _ 7 _ 7 j a
37. hing more As a teacher often found PDF files of assign ments online that would be perfect for my class However needed to change them slightly so that it would better fit what had taught Without an editor app this meant had to retype the whole page making the changes where needed also would have lost any diagrams or graphics that went along with it Thankfully had the use of Adobe Acrobat Pro 7 0 for a number of Mark up and annotate PDF with a range of tools Create stamps by typing drawing capturing picture Convert native PDF files to Microsoft Word Protect PDF files with passwords Fill out and save static PDF forms Customize and edit PDF forms from templates Edit and convert image based PDF with OCR Convert PDF to Excel PPT EPUB HTML Text Try POF Editor for Mac Trial Version Free Trial Next PDF Editor for Mac allows users to create industry standard PDF files from web pages html amp htm images png jpeg jog omp tiff omp and text rtf rtfd txt files The newly created PDF files can be viewed and edited with any professional PDF program like Adobe Acrobat on any computer It is easy to add different types of files and combine them into a single PDF docu ment Just choose Merge Documents from the Document menu and a win dow opens up letting you choose as many files as you want to merge together found this a bit easier to work with than the way Preview merges files
38. impor tant to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally s Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time An ideal use would be a 7 commuter who uses her notebook on the train a then plugs it in at the office to charge a This keeps the battery juices flowing If on the other hand you use a desktop computer at work and save a notebook for infrequent travel Apple recommends charging and dis charging its battery at least once per month Need a reminder Add an event to your desktop s iCal When your battery no longer holds sufficient charge to meet your needs you may choose to replace it If your notebook came with a built in battery you should have the battery replaced only by an Apple Authorized Service Provider Notebook Temperate Zone Your Apple MacBooks work best from 50 to 95 F You should store them in places with temperatures of 13 to 113 That s 10 to 35 C and 25 to 45 for the metrically inclined Keeping your MacBook as near room temperature as possible 22 C is ideal Long Term Storage If you don t plan on using your notebook for more than six months Apple recommends that you store the battery with a 50 charge If you store a battery when it s fully dis charged it could fall into a deep discharge state which renders it incapable of holding any charge a Conversely if you store it fully charged for an __ extended period of time the battery may experi J en
39. important incompatibility with an existing piece of software Find time tested troubleshooting advice to get your system working again Plus learn what the Recovery HD volume can do for yOu Migrating to a new Mac If your upgrade includes moving from an older computer Mac or Windows PC to a new Mac that s running Mavericks learn the best way to move your user account to the new Mac Installing OS X Server Find a brief introduction to OS X Server plus basic steps for downloading and installing it Install Mavericks easily and fly through important post installation steps This ebook costs 15 00 normally but using the coupon will make a difference Check this ebook out and a lot others at www take controlbooks com Submitted by Marcel Dufresne Resetting Lost Mac Passwords With Apple ID Type your password to allow System Preferences to make changes Name Administrator Password 992222222929229 Generally what happens is you dig out the old Mac llci Performa Quadra iBook or other antique Apple computer and find that you need to log in in order to erase the hard drive or delete your docu ments or applications And it has been so long since you used it that you can t recall what the password was Or you get a new computer and want to pass on your last year s iMac or MacBook to one of the kids but the computer will not accept your password This is the best approach for Mac users running new versions of
40. ing the stage for the actual giveaway of free content from the company s various digital stores from December 26 through January 6 Apple has offered the giveaway for several years in Europe Canada and several other countries and in 2013 U S customers will have access for the first time From 26 December 2013 through 6 January 2014 you can download a gift each day songs apps books movies and more with the 12 Days of Gifts app Each day s gift will only be available for 24 hours so download the free app to make sure you don t miss out Please note Not all content is available in all countries Use this link http appshopper com entertainment 12 days of gifts You will need to come back a few times and talk with him As with all the suspects he is not what he first appears to be Next you should encounter Bridget Shaw who is a native of Scotland Bridget may be the friendliest person you meet in Glasgow Her vast knowledge of the area and insights into current events may be helpful but could her pleas IH ant personality be a fa ade Your main contact at Cathedral is Ewan MacLeod He will assist you in your mission to uncover what transpired during Kate Drew s final days While Ewan may be the Py eyes and ears around here can you completely trust him The last character in the story is Moira Chisholm She was a close confidant to Kate Drew Her memory and personal knowledge about Kate will unlock vital
41. into a selection of over 30 subtle canvass textures that will enhance the appearence of your images by Max Stroke Length 4 Wim De wie iw ww making them appear to have been applied r to a cloth backing Properties for the se gt lected canvass texture can be modified as Stroke Intensity a well through the use of the sliders under the Canvass tab a el hi Mix 6 AKVIS OilPaint 1 0 can be ordered online tm for CAD 61 for the stand alone or plug in version or CAD 83 for both but you can try all the features of the software during Presets 7 the free 10 day evaluation period See AKVIS Intense Oil i below for download links You do not need to register Just download the full version and start your free trial AKVIS OilPaint software runs on Mac OS X 10 4 10 9 both 32 bit and 64 bit The product is available as a standalone program and as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop Corel Paint Shop Pro and other image editors Painting Canvas _ Use Text AKVIS OilPaint Font o Repetition Arial O B T _ Reflection Size 3 Alignment Submitted by Michael Shaw AKVIS links Stretch Texture Application Parameters te download a 10 day demo copy of OilPaint 1 0 AA Y n I AN A A I AI TRV A a I ON http akvis com en oilpaint download php Brightness Color
42. l go into RAM As for the second question the answer lies in how you see your self using your Mac Does this scenario sound familiar Your com puter slows down when it s doing a lot of things at once That beach ball starts spinning more and more often and for longer periods of time If this happens to your Mac more than you d like then your sys tem might need more RAM Adding more RAM to your Mac if you can is one of the easiest ways to improve your Mac s performance The crucial question is still how much more RAM do you actually need The impact of more RAM depends on the types of tasks your Mac performs In some situations your Mac may benefit from having as much RAM as you can afford in others you ll be fine with the stock configuration Paging which was mentioned above can make a computer that seemed fast a second ago slow to a crawl The more RAM your system has available the less your CPU will rely on pag ing All right now Know about RAM and think can make a choice on the amount of RAM I want installed on this new machine In my case went with 16GB which added 200 to the original cost at the online store don t use Photoshop or any other video or graphic apps very ann Overview Displays Storage Merr About This Mac Your Mac contains 4 memory slots each of which accepts a 1600 MHz DORS memory module 16 GB Installed 2 memory slots in use 2 available Your Mac contains 4 memory slots
43. may find lying around Picking them up will have these added to your cell phone as decorations for it an i AS LN t i NANCY DREW a AALT AT a Py LL e a a a Z BL A onam The Silent Spy is the 29th instalment in the Nancy Drew point and click adventure game series by Her Interactive The game is available for play on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X platforms The Silent Spy sells for 19 99 You can read more about this game from the HER Interactive web site hitp Awww herinteractive com While there you might want to look at some of their other Nancy Drew selections If you are one of those people who is always trying to figure out who dunit before the end of the book or TV show then you will enjoy The Silent Spy It has so much to offer over and above the main task of solving a spy mystery found that once you have played one of these 29 games the game play is very much easier had a much better idea of what to look for as well as a better feel for the mini games Any of the Nancy Drew games from HER Interactive will provide many many hours of critical thinking fun They are well worth the price And in case you are wondering about the title a silent spy is a dead one Submitted by Marcel Dufresne Macintosh Users East Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery New From Stellar Phoenix Mac Photo Recovery 6 In this issue we will take a look at the newly updated digi
44. n enabling enhanced and local dictation managing user accounts and quite a bit more Addi tional important topics include troubleshooting installation problems upgrading from an older Mac or PC to a new Mac running Mavericks and a brief look at installing OS X Server TAKE CONTROL OF UPGRADING MAVERICKS by JOE KISSELL 15 You ll experience an easy upgrade and quickly deal with post installa tion quirks with these topics Start fast A short Quick Start overview links to detailed content be hind each topic letting you read lightly or more deeply depending on your specific needs Catch the wave Find out what you can look forward to in Maver icks and why this upgrade is important for Apple Older cat upgrades For people who are upgrading from 10 4 Tiger 10 5 Leopard or 10 6 Snow Leopard Joe offers advice about the most effective way to carry out an upgrade Compatibility check Make sure your hardware and software are ready for Mavericks and consider if this might be a good time for new hardware even if it s not essential for your upgrade Tip if your Mac can run Mountain Lion it can also run Mavericks Prep steps Avoid upgrade calamities by ensuring you can go back to the previous state of your Mac and that you can boot from your backup This crucial step can save a lot of trouble and Joe recom mends software that can make a bootable duplicate without a huge hassle Also your operating sy
45. nd then erased amp formatted the USB stick with Apple s Disk Utility before used the Stellar software to see what could recover i Green Recovery HO __ Black USB Key Basic truths The first basic truth about the data on your hard volumes is that even after you delete files they just sit there until the space they occupy gets over written Deleting a file does not erase it it merely changes the infor mation directory on your volume to indicate that the space the deleted file had previously occupied is now available to be written to In other words the time to attempt to save your deleted files is as soon as you realise they are gone Stop using your com puter imediately and begin the recovery process The second basic truth about data recovery is you cannot salvage files off any volume unless you have a destination that is on a different volume and is as big as or bigger than the source of deleted files What this means is that can recover files to my computer from any device connected to my computer from which files have been deleted but if the files that are missing have been deleted from my own internal hard drive then will need to connect an external drive to save them to or have some other networked destination to save recovered files For this trial used a factory fresh Windows ready 16 gig black USB key formatted the USB key for Apple and copied about 2 5 giga bytes of data to it five folders with 46
46. nts but also to alter those received from oth ers Nowadays creating a PDF document is simply a matter of print ing to PDF format rather than to a printer The saved file can then be sent wherever it is needed The use of PDF files being so prevalent there are a number of read ers out there Apple has its own in the form of the Preview application which comes with any Mac OS Preview is not a PDF editor It is a PDF viewer that has some of an editor s functions You can anno tate some PDF files with it This means you can underline highlight or strike through the text You also add rectangles ovals lines or arrows and add your own digital signature With a bit of practice you can merge PDF files together You can rearrange the order of the pages of a PDF document You can years found many uses for it as it far exceeded what the simple Reader could do including editing words on a page With its age it has become obsolete in that it stopped working with Lion To get a working upgrade of this app would not be cost efficient Nowadays Adobe Acrobat Pro sells for about 220 This is one of the best edi tors out there but have no need for the top of the line Fortunately Wondershare has a couple of applications that fit in between the Pre view model which is free and Adobe Acrobat Pro There is the 50 Editor and the 100 Editor Pro The Pro version does all that the cheaper version does with a few extras thrown in Have a
47. ockless Geoffrey our gadget enthusiast showed us his watch amp several differ ent types of radios that rely on amplification through the use of sym pathetic vibrations He attached one of them to a table to turn the entire table into a speaker Chris showed us a funny Johnathon Ives video Our big presentation for the night was by Brian who talked about the need to secure wirelesss routers The evening finished off with a raffle Take Control eBooks Upgrading to Mavericks DoubleClick features an ebook from Take Control Books every month These ebooks have been published in PDF format and cover issues related to Mac OS Because they are in PDF format these ebooks have a lot of advantages over the traditional paper books Electronic books are a new experience for many people but they provide you with a good deal of flexibility that isn t available with printed books With your purchase of the ebook you get expert advice on various topics but with an Apple perspective These are the same expert au thors of some best selling print books The download is immediate and you don t have to leave your house to get it Because it is paper less it can be purchased for much less than a paper edition Also if a new edition of the book comes out your original purchase of the book allows you to easily update your current copy for free There are click able links right in the text so that your book immediately leads to other sources on the same
48. ow start downloading the internet to your local drive Stl 575 0 of the Internet downloaded Me x Saving theinternet zip trom the Internet ss Estimated time left 4 381 years 14kb of 235 995 564 998 MB copied Download to Downloads theinternet zip Transter rate 41 2 BB Sec pen Open Balder B a il j E Tm r 4 v o mm r E ce F Rescale Photos Without Rescaling the Subject Instant Resize of Images iResizer 2 4 TeoreX has just announced iResizer 2 4 a new version of their image resizing and anti cropping tool Implementing an intellec tual approach to resizing the program can remove unwanted ob jects from a picture or reduce spacing between objects by folding the photo using a special algorithm Often the only thing that spoils a perfect picture is its sizing Wrong aspect ratio too much empty space between objects non ideal cropping and so on iResizer a cross platform tool fixes all such issues by applying smart algorithms that virtually folds a photo just like a paper picture so that unnecessary parts and fragments simply disappear REMOVE OBJECTS FROM PHOTOS Ji curl With such powerful core inside iResizer quickly and virtually with no efforts repairs such typical problems Briefly a user merely se lects objects he wants to preserve their size and aspect and specifies the desired picture format size and aspect ratio The program automatically does all the re
49. pi iiz y ia U Lo ie ay il COMPLETED Saved Settings Custom Not saved Delete Save Settings Source t Text Marcel Dufresne Font Nevis gt B I Sze as Ei s lmage Users mardufre Pictures Photo 800 Select Appearance Rotation 45 None 045 O Customo Opacity 23 jx M Scale relative to target page 50 Location Appear behind page Appear on top of page Position Vertical Distance o imm From Center 7 Horizontal Distance o mm From Center 7 Page Range All Pages It PDF Editor Pro for Mac has advanced built in OCR technology that will recognize and digitize text in image based scanned PDF files making it possible for users to select search and edit the text This is one of the problems encountered when trying to annotate some files with Preview If the file document was scanned then the full page is seen as one large graphic and no underlining or highlighting can be done on it OCR Optical Character Recognition software is needed to make the words visible as text to a PDF viewer before it can be an notated This type of software can run anywhere from 20 to 50 Edi tor Pro users can enable the OCR feature before converting image based PDF files which in return will make the output docu ments editable The OCR function of the Editor Pro will recognize PDF files in English German French Italian Portugu
50. placed them in the designated i Select file s folders from the list folder We e click Recover button Well that was easy possibly too easy so tried to make the process a little more difficult Using the Apple Disk Utility erased and refor matted the little USB drive effectively destroying all of the data on it Then ran Stellar Phoenix Mac Photo Recovery 6 s Media through its paces again selecting the i Photos 203 USB drive as the target and using the oe aa JPEG 201 Stellar program to find and salvage the gt B psp images and video files on it Video 2 After the images were deleted from the USB drive and it was then erased and re formatted Stellar Phoenix Mac Photo Recovery 6 still managed to find and suc cessfully salvage 205 pictures and both of the movies Information on the Stellar website indi cates that Mac Photo Recovery 6 can sal vage JPEG TIFF BMP PNG PSD GIF fe JPEG 201 PSP INDD JP2 and PCT images o Ga Pom ASF MP4 MOV AVI M4V MPEG amp vidon 3GP OGM DV MKV 3G2 DIVX M4B i mov i2 ASX VOB MTS MOI and WMV video files MP3 RPS AU MIDI OGG WAV AIFF WMA M4P RM RA and M4A audio files The Mac Photo Recovery 6 preferences allow for new types of files to be recog nized as well By Michael Shaw See hittp www stellarinfo com mac photo recovery htm for more information The program can be purchased directly from Stellar as a
51. provide needed hints When you first start the ad venture you are presented with the option of which level you want to play The Amateur Sleuth level provides regular puzzles with hints being available and a detailed task list The Master Sleuth level pro vides more challenging puzzles with no hints and a more basic task list strongly suggest you play at the easier level for the first time Each and every regular mini game will test your gaming skills The next time you play you can switch to the Master Sleuth setting When games get tough a level of frustration might set in What to do next often pops up in my mind The Silent Spy provides a great Hint function at the Amateur Sleuth level When the time comes that you just can t figure out what to do don t give up or get discouraged Use the Hint Beside any of the listed unfinished tasks there is a question mark that starts off the hint process Rather than supplying you with the complete solution immediately the developers will walk you through a few steps before allowing you to wimp out They suggest you try this or look for that Maybe you should find a suggested book lying around and read it There are no penalties associated with using the hints nor is there a time bonus for completing the game quickly No one will know whether you have taken the easier way out and used a hint The last device provided to help you is Nancy s cell phone There are two contacts found here T
52. quickly start using iPhoto RAM is one of those things you don t normally notice until you start up a big project Then you are glad you have it am sure will not need to upgrade to 32GB but if do Know what a snap it will be The new 27 iMacs come with 8GB of RAM standard That s enough for most Macs destined for general use In the real world every Mac setup is different so if you re considering adding more RAM be sure to keep track of your computer s RAM usage during your normal workflow Memory More memory RAM increases performance and enables your computer to perform better Choose additional 1600MHz DDR3 memory for your iMac Learn more e 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM 2X408 16GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM 2X8GB Add 200 00 32GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM 4X8GB Add 600 00 If you tend to leave apps open instead of closing them or if you keep several browser windows open with dozens of tabs in each adding RAM will probably help your computer run more smoothly If you use an app that handles large files it helps to have a lot of RAM Try not to get carried away though as adding maximum RAM that your Mac will never or rarely use is throwing money away Even if you can think of a few scenarios where you might use all of the RAM that your sys tem can handle consider how often they are likely to happen and whether buying RAM to handle them is worth your money Take a bit of time to diagnose your system
53. st With the latest update 2 4 iResizer got even more cool automa tion The focal point of the new version is autoresize of photos for Instagram without cropping Instagram accepts square photos only and trying to upload hundreds of 4 3 photos can be a pain With iResizer a user does the job in two steps first mark areas on the photo he wants to preserve and run Instagram resizing CHANGE IMAGE ASPECT RATIO we WITHOUT DISTORTION gt FROM 4 3 TO 16 9 Among other changes in the new release are 64 bit support the new Lasso and Polygonal Lasso selection tools the ability to subtract an area from selection and many small fixes and enhancements includ ing saving the current image with default settings with a hotkey Over all iResizer is an easy to use content aware image resizing tool with low requirements and high potential Among other actions it allows the user to highlight certain objects and features in an image see above that are then excluded from distortion due to re sizing effects Top Reasons to use iResizer Change the spacing between main objects Remove objects from photos Change image aspect ratio Fit entire photos on Instagram without cropping Easy to get use amp get started Completely non technical iResizer scales an image without changing important visual content such as people buildings animals etc While normal resizing affects all pixels uniformly when scaling an imag
54. stem is getting a fresh start but what about the rest of your stuff Whether you need the disk space or just want to delete some digital detritus you ll find helpful tips You ll also run Apple Hardware Test or Apple Diagnostics and Disk Utility to be sure your disk is good to go Finally for those who need it Joe dis cusses special cases relating to disk encryption including FileVault and partitioning Picking a plan Decide on your installation method Most people can go with an easy in place upgrade but some will want the more complex clean install 10 5 Leopard users will find special help and those still on 10 4 Tiger get a special sidebar Installing Find out the smartest way to download and store the in staller with special tips for people who want to install on more than one Mac or who have bandwidth limitations And although running the installer will be easy for many people you ll get full steps for what to click and when Post installation tune up Make sure your new system is running smoothly with a few important housekeeping tasks including manag ing Spotlight Software Update Java Runtime enhanced dictation user accounts Apple IDs iCloud Keychain FileVault Time Machine iTunes changes and more Plus learn how to unhide the user Library folder Troubleshooting Yikes It is possible that something will go wrong during installation or once you ve booted up under Mavericks that you ll discover an
55. tal image re covery software from Stellar Phoenix While reading this article please bear in mind that everything l m going to say about digital im ages also holds true for audio and video files and that everything that I am doing with an external USB flash drive while testing this software also holds true for storage in laptops desktops external hard drives iPods pen drives and digital cameras How and why do people lose their digital images If you have ever lost yours you already know the why people lose the files and im ages that they do not back up In terms of how they lose them the an swer is that in most but not all cases digital data is lost because it is simply accidentally deleted with the clutter Pictures videos and songs accumulate by leaps and bounds from a myriad of sources and especially if people have hundreds of them are all too easily put into the Trash and deleted There are other ways that PA images are lost but accidental deletion is by far the most popular Media Nare E 51T31000528A5 Media To test out how effectively Stellar Phoenix Mac Photo Recovery 6 can rescue deleted images put it through its paces twice With the first trial T copied some images to a USB stick and deleted WNA them and emptied the Trash and then used the 7 L Media Stellar software to see what could recover With the second trial copied some images to a USB stick and deleted them and emptied the Trash a
56. tion from the overview grid TotalSpaces lives in an icon in your menu bar From there you can control TotalSpaces and access the prefer ences Once TotalSpaces is installed open up its preferences The first thing you will have to decide is how many desktops you want active The maximum is 16 with 15 12 and 10 or less as available choices This number can be changed at any time You select your desired layout using the layout tab in the preferences panel Just click on the grid to choose the dimension you wish If you want to name the desktop or have a special hot key assigned to it then hold down the ctrl key and click on the blue but ton like naming my desktops so that can quickly identify what is in that screen Often open windows look the same With a name attached can choose where want to go more easily The names show up in the noti fication when you change spaces in the To 10 42 2 talSpaces menu and even in Mission Control To make the most use of TotalSpaces you should assign apps to always open on a particular desktop To do this press the button to open a dialog and choose the application you want to assign Then choose the desktop you want to assign it to from the drop down list You can also choose All spaces if you would like an app to appear on all desktops These assignments allow you to choose where apps start You can still move windows from d
57. to get completely immersed in the game There are hours of detec tive work ahead of you The bottom of the screen has the game s main menu a Cell phone an inventory area with a slider and a task list and journal The main menu allows you to save your game whenever you choose usually suggest saving your game periodically but it is not necessary with this one When you quit the game you are asked if you want your progress saved This is the only time you really need to save There are times during game play where you might try something that results in a fatal move there are 6 of these However the game permits you to resume play with you en tering this same area to rethink what your next move should be This resumption of play precludes you having to remem ber to save all the time seep Going back and forth between the scenes and talking to the epee te rin ag SUSpeCts is all well and good but the real tests of your gam mera nao ing abilities are the games that you encounter along the way The Silent Spy provides quite a few mini games and you won t find any of the easy kind here You will have to rewire some tricky circuits or deduce some secret codes My least favourite hardest was recre ating a Tartan pattern on Bridget s phone in order to unlock it ran out of time through quite a few trials before was successful Make sure you pay careful attention to all the books notes and messages that you find These all
58. to install This was the third choice as went through the online process of order ing my new 27 iMac The first choice was the screen size Next was the processor My choice of iMac came with 8GB of RAM in stalled as a set of two 4GB modules Before could make this choice it was worth while to address a couple of questions First What is RAM and secondly How much RAM should I have in stalled RAM Random Access Memory is a temporary storage medium that your Mac s CPU uses for fast access to the data it s process ing The CPU can access data contained in RAM much faster than it can data held on long term storage devices like traditional hard drives and even solid state drives Suppose that you want to work on a text file Your computer will copy the text file and the neces sary information for the text editor you re using into RAM Now let s open Photoshop while leaving the text editor open Photo shop also loads its data into RAM So at this point your Mac will have two apps loaded into RAM The more apps you open without closing down the other ones the less RAM you will have available to accommodate any other apps or to perform functions with them When your RAM is full and another app needs to use some of the space something s got to give In this case paging will occur Your Mac s CPU will move data that isn t in active use from RAM to a swap file on your storage device hard drive or SSD and the new data wil
59. topic It is readable onscreen which means you can control the size of the print If you use Preview you can even highlight sections without messing up the book use a copy of the Original if you are worried You can even print up a paper copy of the book if you feel the need The catalog is very extensive and can be accessed from hitp www takecontrolbooks com catalog They offer free sample sections of all their ebooks and a money back guarantee so try one out anytime As readers of the DoubleClick you also now have access to this coupon CPN90219MUG which entitles you to a 30 discount on the purchase of a book The book featured this month is Take Control of Upgrading to Maver icks by Joe Kissell Gain confidence and stay in control as Joe ex plains how to ensure that your hardware and software are ready for OS X 10 9 Mavericks prevent problems with a bootable duplicate of your main disk and decide on your best installation method whether you re upgrading from 10 4 Tiger 10 5 Leopard 10 6 Snow Leopard 10 7 Lion or 10 8 Mountain Lion You ll find smart Suggestions for managing the installer with tips for installing on multiple Macs and dealing with bandwidth limitations Joe walks you through installing Mavericks and then gives important ad vice for handling your Mac when it first starts up in Mavericks includ ing working through a pile of post installation alerts signing in with the right Apple ID s turning on iCloud Keychai
60. you have a trackpad or a mighty mouse swiping is another means of transition Use the transitions preferences pane to enable finger swiping ges tures on your trackpad to change desktops After you have turned this on you can use the trackpad to move between the desktops in your grid Use your fingers to move up down left and right You can choose to invert the direction your fingers should move if the way it works does not suit your preference Use the transitions preferences pane to enable changing spaces by moving your mouse to the edge of the screen If you choose to use this feature without any modifier key selected the system will activate the desktop change after your mouse cursor has been at the edge of the screen for about 1 second If you select one of the modifier keys shift ctrl alt or cmd then you must hold this key down and move the mouse to the edge of the screen in the direction you want to go for the space change to hap pen In this case the system will activate faster as there is less chance that space changes will be activated by accident You can se lect whether to use a transition which is the animation that is shown when you change desktop as well as which type and the speed they go Some people prefer to turn the transitions off altogether and this provides the fastest possible way of changing desktops If you like the transitions and do recommend you try them all am currently using the flip transitions T

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