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1. MACINTOSH USER GROUP Colorado Springs Metro Area December 712 Volume 28 Issue 12 Contents SIG News 2 Club News 3 Joy of Tech 6 Door Prize Winners 7 iPhone iPod amp iPad 8 Internet 14 Macs amp Mac OSX 15 This Months Puzzle 16 Computer Security 22 Reviews Prizmo 2 17 How Your Mac Works 22 Jackie s Juicy Tips 26 SPONSORING MEMBER Voelker Research Authorized Apple Sales and Service 5026 N Academy Blvd Colo Spgs CO 80918 528 5596 Next Meeting Thursday December Oth VISI tit L707 07d A Publication of the Silicon Mountain Macintosh User Group Thoughts about the iPad mini for Photographers by Jeff Carlson ike a lot of other people Im getting familiar with a new iPad mini during this first week of its availability and so far I can unequivocally state that my wife will steal it from me if given any opportunity But while other writers are thinking about how it fares for average customers my take people are going to love it I want to look at the iPad mini in of how it would work for photographers After using iPads since the original model I ve become convinced that the tablet is a great addition to a photographers camera bag regardless of whether youre a pro or casual shooter In fact I was inspired to publish a book earlier this year The iPad for Photographers that goes into depth on the topic The iPad mini will appeal to photographers much in the same w
2. Inc SMMUG Inc Silicon Summit is an independent publication and has not been authorized sponsored or otherwise approved by Apple Inc The Mac and Mac OS logo are trademarks of Apple Inc used under license Views and opinions expressed in Silicon Summit are those of the authors and not of SMMUG OFFICERS President Kit Harras 593 8192 kit harras gmail com Vice President Ralph Woodard 591 2109 rwoodard me com Treasurer Jim Johnson 266 9075 mahatma freemasonic org Secretary Jean Marsh 358 1212 jmarsh1950 gmail com Directors at Large Mark Griffith megrift mac com Jeff Jensen jeff 1492 gmail com Mike Marus jmarus me com Doug McNutt dmenutt macnauchtan com Jacqueline Monroe jackie applejuicetech net Skip Mundy skip2 mac com Mark Pedri mrpedri comcast net Joe Staten jstaten smmug org SIG NEWS The Saturday Mac Special Interest Group SIG will meet again from 10 00 AM to 12 00 Noon Saturday Dec 8 2012 in the Multi Media room at the Colorado Springs Senior Center 1514 North Hancock in Colorado Springs CO As usual the meeting will start with Introductions Show amp Tell Items and a Q amp A session addressing any questions related to Apple s hardware and software products This month it will include a special presentation on the Macintosh Utility Color Sync which can be used to improve viewing projection and printing of color photos and images New users are especially encourage to
3. Put documents and other files in the Documents folder of your home directory You can create folders within that folder easily to accommodate your needs Put pictures and images in the Pictures directory You get it by now One thing NOT to do is put lots of files and folders on the Desktop This is not the place to store things it will actually cause your computer to work harder Its fine to use it as a temporary holding place but make sure you move them to the trash or their final destination when done If your Downloads folder is where your downloaded files are automatically put regularly go in there and clean it out This means moving files you want to keep to a permanent location or deleting those you dont need I put a shortcut to the Downloads folder in the left pane of my finder window where the shortcuts to your Documents Desktop and other folders are located There is also a shortcut to your Download folder on the right side of your Dock This will serve to remind you to keep it tidy Check out Apple video tutorials and information on the Dock an Finder here http www apple com macosx what is macosx dock and finder html A Word About Downloaded Applications It is common for new users to launch a dmg file application image such as Skype or Firefox directly from their desktop if it was downloaded there The correct way to handle downloaded applications is to click on the dmg file that was downloaded then that opens a finder wind
4. Use dmcnutt macnauchtan com with SMMUG in the subject somewhere Coming up e Format of an e mail Text styles Rich text in many ways Special headers and who writes them attachments multipart messages HTML formatting The dependence on RFCs requests for comment e Spam and other mischief Why such things remain possible Professional filtering private filtering why HTML messages are the prime gremlin How you can spot things you ought not to click on Why e mail provided by internet service providers often prohibits things you want to do e How e mail interfaces with the world wide web and HTML pages 26 Silicon Summit Jackies Juicy Tips by Jacqueline Monroe Pro Advice Basics Article One This is the first in a series of articles that will provide helpful tips and tricks we use everyday in working with client Macs I hope you find them helpful In this first article we ll go over our a list of tasks when starting a clients new Mac right out of the box as well as tweaks that we have found helpful to most users Buy a backup drive and set up Time Machine There is a saying but I dont know who to attribute it to There are two types of computer owners those whose hard drive has failed and those whose hard drive will fail We have a half dozen backup drives of various sizes and create redundant copies on virtual servers This may seem like overkill but from experience we ve learned that when there are problems w
5. 11n whether initially or through a later firmware update in 2007 and is offered in all 802 11n Apple base stations too The raw single stream data rate for 802 11n is 75 Mbps double the channel width and you can get a raw rate of 150 Mbps In practice the improvement is never quite that much In my testing I have often seen 30 to 35 Mbps for an interference free short range connection using a single stream and more like 50 Mbps with a wide channel But beyond the raw rate is where wide channels may be used Although the IEEE 802 11 committee that approved 802 11n allows wide channels in 2 4 GHz and the Wi Fi Alliance that certifies gear with the Wi Fi label offers it as well its rarely used The 2 4 GHz band is crowded with baby monitors cordless phones Bluetooth and other Wi Fi networks The algorithm that enables wide channels has three separate tests in 2 4 GHz to make sure its not talking over another network by bonding channels In most cases circumstances dont allow wide channels to kick in with 2 4 GHz networks and the Wi Fi Alliance has been making it harder to use in 2 4 GHz Further Apple never enabled wide channels for 2 4 GHz in any 802 1 1n base station it has sold There used to be a switch to disable channel bonding in 5 GHz but that has been removed in AirPort Utility 6 9 Silicon Summit So the wide channels are typically available only for use on base stations in the 5 GHz band where there are more channels in most
6. During the launch of the fourth generation iPad and iPad mini on 23 October 2012 I couldnt help but prick up my ears when I heard Phil Schiller state at least twice that these new models had Wi Fi that was up to twice as fast as earlier models My immediate supposition was that Apple had upgraded the 802 11n chips to models that could handle two spatial streams One of the speed boosts in 802 11n over earlier versions was its capability using multiple antennas known as MIMO for multiple in multiple out to send unique streams of wireless data that take different paths through space All iOS devices were single stream really SISO single in single out because that requires a simpler radio system and simpler antenna architecture But no Apple actually chose a course that doesnt truly provide up to twice the throughput except in limited circumstances The companys iPad features page trumpets advanced Wi Fi technology which is odd as it would mean that Apple has upgraded to technology it has offered since 2006 in Macs Apple writes With dual band 2 4 GHz and 5 GHz 802 11n Wi Fi and support for channel bonding download speeds can reach up to 150 Mbps There are problems with that statement as clear as it might seem Channel bonding uses what Apple previously called wide channels it takes two separate 802 11n channels and treats them as one This feature has been in all Macs that were sold with 802
7. End your session and execute any delete requests that you made STAT Return the count and total size of all messages TOP With a message number and a number of lines to return LIST message Show the size of a particular message by number RETR message Retrieve selected message DELE message Set the delete flag for a message so it will go away after a successful QUIT NOOP No operation Keeps your connection open RSET Reset the mailbox Undelete messages previously marked by a DELE request Your mail client is responsible for downloading messages and keeping records so that it can leave messages on the host if told to do so and delete messages that it might have received in a previous POP3 connection Every message has a UIDL header which is guaranteed to be unique through all time The host may if it pleases automatically remove messages that have been successfully downloaded when a QUIT command is received indicating successful downloads That means you can ask for messages to be retained perhaps to be downloaded again on another machine but you can t guarantee it IMAP is an effort to change that next time References 1 http tools ietf org html rfc2821 SMTP 2 http www ietf org rfc rfc2554 txt 3 http www ietf org rfc rfc1939 txt POP3 4 http www ietf org rfc rfc2060 txt IMAP version 4 5 Programming Internet Email David Wood ISBN 1 56592 479 7 O Reilly Next time we ll look at IMAP Questions are welcome
8. Problem solved e Some instruction manuals for putting together toys furniture whatever are hard enough to understand with all of the Insert tab A into slot B instructions when it is in English Have you ever purchased an item only to discover the instruction manual is in Chinese or some other language Did you have fun trying to figure out how to put your item together Well now with Prizmos translation feature you can simply scan in the document have Prizmo translate it using the Microsoft Translate web based service and them print it out Again problem solved e As mentioned earlier I like being able to use Prizmos perspective tools not only on pages of text but also to straighten up photographs of paintings buildings or signs The Skinny Evaluation Pros If your camera or scanner takes a clear enough picture where the letters are readable or can be made readable by Prizmos tools Prizmo will successfully convert your photos and scans of text into editable text Cons It s not a high priority but I wasn t able to change the reading voice I changed it in the Systems Dictation amp Speech preference pane but it never changed within Prizmo Fortunately the default Alex s voice is the most pleasing to me anyway But I would be in trouble if I wanted to have Prizmo speak in a foreign language Whenever I tried to have the System Preferences download and install the foreign voice I kept getting a error messages
9. THE BIGGEST ARR y ERC 56 y PROBLEM WITH THE PAD MINI ZA IT S SO FLAT AND SO THIN IT S IMPOSSIBLE __ _eil nnt A 1 a i Bo 5 E LA ne i Al AS joyoftech com Cant wait for the next newsletter to see what the guys and gals at Joy of Tech are up to Then simply go on over to their website and see past and current cartoons and other things Silicon Summit Door PRIZE WINNERS For The November 1s 2012 Meeting 8 Silicon Summit iPhone iPod amp iPad iOS 6 0 1 Fixes Bugs but Does It Prevent Excessive Data Usage by Agen G N Schmitz Apple has released iOS 6 0 1 with fixes for a grab bag of connectivity bugs While no single fix in the list seems to take aim at correcting the unexplained hoovering of data through cellular networks for more on this see Matt Neuburgs Mysterious iOS 6 Cellular Data Usage A Deeper Look 24 October 2012 perhaps this collective group of fixes will help to mitigate the problem Connectivity issues addressed include improved reliability when connecting to encrypted WPA2 Wi Fi networks using the iPhone 5 and fifth generation iPod touch the addition of a consolidated Use Cellular Data switch for iTunes Match and resolution for an issue that prevented the iPhone from accessing a cellular network On Adam Engst iPhone 5 however Wi Fi which had been working fine under iOS 6 0 failed to work at all under 6 0 1
10. Us 2222 NORTH NEVADA Prizmo can correct the perspective on photos and test it out for yourself 21 Silicon Summit Pro Pack a separate add on purchase e Batch processing If you only process a few images at a time the standard Prizmo 2 application will suffice But if you need to process a lot of images you should look into purchasing Prizmo s Pro Pack It will let you batch process text only documents e Automator actions As one example you can create Smart folders that when an image is dropped onto it will convert the image to a searchable PDF and then run Prizmos OCR features on it Custom Export Scripts You can create Scripts that can be used to further process or export your processed document In fact there are two ready made script examples that you can download from Creaceed to get you started BIW Prizmo supports both Shell scripts and AppleScripts Practical every day use e When I purchase an item whether it has a printed manual or not I go to the vendor web site and download the manual This way I have a backup just in case I lose the original and for the times when I need to search for an option within the manual such as for camera features Problem is not all vendors have manuals that you can download Yes I can scan them in as JPEGs from the printed manuals but they wont be searchable Now I can scan in the printed manuals use OCR to convert them to text and then they are searchable
11. a list of shortcuts http support apple com kb ht1343 28 Silicon Summit aie About Us The Silicon Mountain Macintosh User Group Inc a nonprofit educational corporation was formed in Colorado Springs Colorado in 1985 and is one of the oldest Macintosh User Groups in the United States SMMUG Inc is dedicated to helping members enjoy and learn about their Macintosh computer Club membership is open to everyone and you are cordially invited to visit our free monthly General Meeting on the First Thursday of each month at 7 00 PM For those new to the Macintosh we have a Question amp Answer session at 6 00 PM where our collective expertise can help answer your questions All members receive a monthly newsletter published on our web site see great reviews of software and hardware can participate in the monthly raffle or get access to the club software library Each member gets one vote during annual Officer Elections No corporate memberships are granted 29 Silicon Summit HOW TO FIND US _N Fransin St SMMUG Meetings are held on the FIRST Thursday of each a month at the Colorado Springs Senior Center at 1514 North Hancock It is at the end of Hancock on the south side of Patty Jewett Golf Course indicated by the RED BALLOON on the map Ample on site parking is available Smoking is not permitted on the premises December 12 Membership Application Form December 12 Membership includes mon
12. are smaller and cheaper than the larger iPad Apple is certainly aware of this and they spent a surprising amount of time during the announcement dissecting differences between the iPad mini and the Google Nexus 7 tablet which is still a good bit cheaper at 199 for 8 GB and 249 for 16 GB Only time will tell if the form factor of the iPad mini will prove significantly popular Its size does make it more portable certainly but that small size will also make the device harder to type on for those who havent mastered thumb typing In Apples elegant iPad mini ad the camera shows someone playing piano in the GarageBand app on a fourth generation iPad with multiple fingers then pans to show a single finger playing the same app on an iPad mini Also I wonder if the iPad min s smaller pixels will prove difficult to read though our own Jeff Carlson had some hands on time with the iPad mini in the press room after Apples announcement and he said that the screen looked nice and not squished at all He wrote up his impressions for the Seattle Times in iPad mini looks like a good fit Still if you have trouble reading type in small sizes I suggest that you examine the iPad mini in person before buying one If size is your key feature its also worth considering if the fifth generation iPod touch might be a better option since it isnt a whole lot different from the iPad mini in terms of specs apart from the smaller physical screen and lac
13. attend Bring your tips and tricks questions and suggestions Everyone is invited to attend All groups are free For more information about Special Interest Groups SIGs go to the SMMUG website ADVERTISING You can advertise your business or service through the Silicon Summit RATES Per inch Quarter page Half page Full page Insert 10 15 25 50 15 A 10 discount is applied for ads that run two or more months except for inserts Sponsoring Memberships are also available to merchants who want to see their business name and address listed on the front page Sponsoring Memberships are 100 for one year Silicon Summit MEETING DATES Our regular monthly meetings are on the FIRST Thursday of every month Upcoming meeting dates are as follows December 6 2012 January 3 2013 February 7 2013 March 7 2013 April 4 2013 May 2 2013 June 6 2013 July 4 2013 August 1 2013 September 5 2013 October 3 2013 November 7 2013 December 5 2013 MISSED AN ISSUE You can find the previous issues of the Silicon Summit posted in PDF format at the SMMUG website in the Members Only section THISMONTH AT SMMUG December 6 2012 6 00 Q amp A Session 6 45 Networking Break 7 00 iOS Show and tell 8 30 Adjourn 3 Silicon Summit Club News Announcements Club Dues If you haven t already done it IT S TIME TO PAY YOUR CLUB DUES If you want to be an active member with access to t
14. countries than with 2 4 GHz and where the channels are more spread out But even though that frequency space is available 802 11n still employs a few mechanisms in the 5 GHz band less restrictively than in 2 4 GHz that prevent bonding channels in many cases too So long as there are other 5 GHz networks nearby its unlikely that wide channels will be available The ugly technical details are in a 2007 post to my defunct Wi Fi Networking News site In the end the up to 150 Mbps or 2x improvement is a sort of silly marketing point that should have been confined as a note in the tech specs and not trumpeted as advanced new or in fact in any way special during the launch event Adding two stream or even three stream support to future iOS devices would have a greater impact on improving throughput than this channel bonding tweak affords iPhone 5 The Best Yet But Still an iPhone by Steve McCabe The Web site of Telecom one of the two cellphone networks in New Zealand offering Apples new iPhone 5 advertises the device as the thinnest lightest iPhone yet Could this really be the best they could manage to say about the latest release of the most successful smartphone in the short history of smartphones I had to find out I wanted so badly to be impressed by the iPhone 5 I remember well it was only five years ago the excitement that surrounded the unveiling and eventually the release of the original iPh
15. initiates calls to other SMTP servers in order to forward your message Internet domain name servers are queried to discover a path to the destination which may make several stops en route Each SMTP server adds a Received header to messages as they go by That header contains a date and domain name of the server which can be helpful for debugging and punishment of spammers who aren t too bright 24 Silicon Summit Have a look at the To and From headers that were entered with the DATA command above There is nothing to check that they are the same as what s in the envelope part Spammers can and do use difterent addresses which can confuse eftorts to find out exactly who they are They can also create other headers like Date with incorrect information in them When an SMTP server encounters a message without a Date header it will create one which contains the time and date received SMTP servers will add a UIDL header if it s not included in the DATA submission It s a text string that is made up to be unique over all time so that no message has the same string as another Typically it includes the domain name for the SMTP server and a date code to better than a second It is complicated because the SMTP server might be handling multiple messages simultaneously Some SMTP servers examine outgoing mail through a spam filter that can add headers that are helpful for later analysis by a recipient Unfortunately there is little in the way of standards and
16. is most times you get a bounce back from the lighting if you take the photo straight on So a lot of times I have to take it at an angle not my preference but at least I have the photo of the painting But I dont have to worry about that any more I can simply take my photos at an angle and then use Prizmo to straighten them when I get home This holds true with photos of documents You can now straighten the document s perspective before running the OCR tools on it Export options Image documents can be saved as a JPG PNG or TIFF files Text files can be saved as RTF or TXT PDF Text or PDF Image Searchable Text The Prizmo 2 0 version has additional export options Evernote Box Dropbox Google Drive WebDav or Mail Business Cards can be added to your Contacts saved as vCard file or Send vCard to Mail According to the manual the Prizmo version purchased from the Mac App Store lets E you use iCloud for storing your Prizmo project Handy if you have a big document that Penrose Hospital T Centura Heat 299 NORTH NEVADA 2222 NORTH Penrose Hospital you are working on e g you can start working on it at work and finish it when you get a Centura Health home I dont use the iCloud so I cant test this out I also cant confirm it only works with the Mac App Store version and not the version that you directly download from Creaseed If you have a need for this I suggest you download the demo from Creaceed
17. ni te ranger Tethering BUVO EQU Cee I P P r d i y etre precips In addition to 4 D branchez toujours cet apparel de la prise 5 i baignoire cu un bring in cd eecinque immediatement apres usage except posar cu ringing in previously taken photos directly from your camera sata nes ta Prizmo also lets you tether your camera to your Mac provided your camera allows tethering Prizmo supports Full and Half Tethering according to the manual the iPhone supports half tethering and cameras like the Nikon or Canon DSLRs support full tethering With Full tethering after attaching the camera to computer cable the camera isnt touched Prizmo with your prompting tells your camera when to take the picture Afterward the photo is automatically imported into Prizmo With half tethering you take the picture by manually clicking the cameras button and the photo automatically shows up in Prizmos Document window If you are connected to the internet Prizmo can translate foreign languages within your documents This example shows a paragraph of French being translated into English Perspective correction When you are taking photos whether it is of a document or a sign on the street there is a likelihood that you wont be taking the photo straight on thus the perspective might be off For example Once in a while I will go to a museum or an art gallery where I like to take photos of paintings where permissible Problem
18. to improve the OCR process Snap Text From Screen Prizmo will capture anything visible on the screen including web pages OCR process it and send it to the clipboard Ready to be pasted into a word processor Have there been instances where you wanted to capture the text from an iTunes App page Couldnt do it could you The text is not copyable by dragging over the text and doing a copy paste But now with Prizmo it can be done When you install Prizmo a small prism icon appears on the Finder menubar When you click on this you are instructed to Draw a rectangle around the text to copy the text to the clipboard I tried this on an iTunes page I also tried it on our clubs web page and sure enough it worked I had editable text that I could paste into a word processor Great though I am not advocating it I suppose this could also be used when there is a PDF document that has restricted access or no copying allowed Now you can copy it too A little legalese here copying from a web page protected document etc may be a copyright infringement So you decide whether you should do this or not Web Screen shots If you try to process an actual screenshot of a web page Prizmo automatically knows that screenshots are usually 72dpi which isn t very good resolution for OCR processing So Prizmo gives you the ability to increase the resolution with a single click of a button Translation Languages The OCR Language button lets you s
19. Sharing with BusyCal as a free ebook Mysterious iOS 6 Cellular Data Usage A Deeper Look The tales of unwanted cell data usage in iOS 6 grow ever more numerous and ever more alarming Even though we cant put our finger on a single cause the problem is plainly all too real and for some users all too costly 14 Silicon Summit Internet Glassboard Keeps a Family in Touch by Kevin van Haaren My father recently had a downturn in his health My siblings came to town initially to visit him in the hospital and later after he had returned home to help our mother keep an eye on him As his health continued to improve we all returned to work but everyone wanted to be kept abreast of his situation especially during his frequent doctor visits Initially we kept each other up to date with texting But even this lowest common denominator communication method had problems I and one of my brothers did not have a texting plan with AT amp T so we had to pay 0 20 per text for both sent and received messages Of the four siblings three of us have iPhones meaning we could use iMessage for free texting Unfortunately iMessage cannot combine SMS text message recipients and iMessage users in a group session If one user can receive only SMS messages all group participants will receive texts via SMS instead of iMessage and for my brother and I the texting bills were adding up quickly We could work around the problem by maintaining multiple texting
20. age could also cause SITI sami mori processor trouble with the OCR process So Prizmo 7 Steere kre monte Crewe lets you make a selection box that Pages ls re most Beautiful moss processor you ve ever seen on a monte Gevice This powerful app has bes anciusivety dues tor He Pas Prone and Pod touch Create edit arto vien docuerit wherever you ae Pages works wih OA s0 conforms to the shape of the page to your cocummnts suy up 10 date on a your Gevices automatically And the Petra cupiny on the new Paci maces pnt counteract the pages curvature iii Here are examples of Prizmos Snap Text From Screen feature The top screen Image quality dump shows text being captured from the SMMUG web page The second shows One of the things that can hamper the the captured text after it was pasted into TextEdit The third screen dump was taken OCR process is the over all quality of the from the Pages iTunes page etc Notice that though the formatting has been photographed scanned page So you can stripped the text copied perfectly 19 Silicon Summit T tagn n meer Curved pages are difficult to OCR process So Prizmo gives you tools to outline the curved page and and then straightens the page enough to be readable Notice in the second screen dump that there is only one miss guessed word underlined in red found in the first column use the Image Processing tools to adjust the brightness sharpness contrast and saturation of your image
21. ain cellphone networks in New Zealand nor indeed 2 Degrees their only rival have or have plans to build a 4G network in New Zealand Thus fast networking remains a feature available only to those users who happen to live in markets the United States the UK even Australia that happen to have 4G connectivity That said I m told that when you combine the iPhone 5 with an LTE enabled carrier with sufficient backhaul bandwidth and not too many other users the performance is quite impressive In the tests of Wi Fi and 3G cellular data I was able to perform the iPhone 5 and 4S performed identically At the end of all this testing there was one more thing to look at My iPhone 4S has for all its many fine features one serious weakness its battery life I complained about this in Apple s International Obfuscation 28 June 2012 and I was hopeful that the iPhone 5 might have the solution I question OSS usage reports because while watching it today it reported 6 hours and 14 minutes of use since last full charge but it hasnt even been that long since I unplugged it after waking up this morning Nevertheless with what seems like reasonable usage mostly on Wi Fi with Location Services on for a few apps but Bluetooth off I m down to 28 percent capacity remaining From those who have been living with the iPhone 5 for some time it sounds as though battery life is roughly similar to the iPhone 4S sometimes a little better sometim
22. and Apple wisely refrained from tampering E with the 4S s camera the iPhone 5 sports basically the same hardware I took a couple Pal of photos of my wifes cat holding my iPhone 4S in one hand and Apples loaner Be POS iPhone 5 in the other for a literal side by side comparison FeV On the iPhones screens the iPhone 5 s images were noticeably richer but when I compared the photos from both devices in iPhoto on my laptop there was little appreciable difference The iPhone 4S s camera was very good the iPhone 5 essentially identical camera is every bit as good Video similarly is comparable in quality with the addition of somewhat improved stabilisation thanks to the iPhone 5 s beefier A6 chip I have so far avoided mention of Long Term Evolution or LTE the absurdly fast a cellular data connectivity protocol that Apple finally incorporated into the iPhone 5 LTE is often referred to as 4G though 4G is now n 2 Re a fi Mi i i GARA 11 Silicon Summit somewhat meaningless from a technical standpoint That is alas because I have no way to test it I have the enormous good fortune to live in New Zealand but paradise is not perfect As I have whinged about previously see Paying by the Bit Internet Access in New Zealand 15 January 2010 Internet connectivity in New Zealand is not all it might be and LTE is no exception Neither Telecom nor Vodafone Apples two resale partners and the two m
23. anks to physically smaller pixels People accustomed to Retina displays will notice a difference when reading text but photos look great even when you zoom in to check whether an image is in focus or to spy details And in general I m noticing that the more I use the iPad mini the less I care about the reduced resolution compared to my third generation Retina iPad its a jarring adjustment at first but my eyes have adjusted Resolution aside the screen on the iPad mini is still very good When I compared some samples with the fourth generation iPad with Retina display I found the iPad mini to be a bit cooler or the Retina iPad a bit warmer especially when looking at an app like iBooks For photos the Retina screen fares better in terms of saturation and warmth but not dramatically so This comparison shot taken with a Nikon D90 makes the effect more pronounced than it appears in person Youre definitely paying more for a better screen in a Retina iPad but for more casual use or for getting a better read on how images are shaping up in the field the iPad mini is perfectly fine Its the Ecosystem Perhaps the most important aspect of the iPad mini is that it s still a fully functional iPad Too often we think of something smaller as having fewer features and Apple certainly could have made a single purpose device like an Amazon Kindle But the iPad mini runs the same software as its larger siblings which gives you a
24. ans apps designed for the iPad s 9 7 inch screen will look exactly the same on the iPad mini with no need for developers to create special versions as they have had to do for the iPhone 5 s taller screen Notably the iPad minis screen is not a Retina display it has 163 pixels per inch ppi compared to the iPad 2s 132 ppi and the third generation iPads 264 Ppl With a starting price of 329 for the 16 GB model the iPad mini has become the cheapest member of the iPad line Like its larger brethren the iPad mini comes in 16 GB 32 GB and 64 GB capacities for both Wi Fi only 329 429 and 529 and cellular 459 559 and 659 models Cellular data options in the United States now include Sprint as well as Verizon and AT amp T Apple also redesigned the Smart Cover for the mini and that cover will be available in a few different colors Fourth Generation iPad Remember how annoying it was when Apple referred to the third generation iPad as the New iPad Well that chicken has come home to roost since the third generation iPad is now no longer new In fact it isnt even for sale any more while the sensibly named iPad 2 remains available Replacing the third generation iPad is the fourth generation iPad which looks just like its predecessor but boasts a new AGX chip that Apple claims will double the performance for CPU and graphics processing as well as an improved front facing camera that offers 720p HD video for a Clearer vide
25. ay it appeals to most potential customers the smaller size and reduced weight is a draw for folks who want a better look at their photos when shooting in the field but pros who need to show off their work in the best possible way may opt for a full size iPad with a Retina display When I wanted to shoot the last day of my daughters soccer league for example I could have brought either model but my instinct was to reach for the iPad mini Because the iPad mini does everything the full size iPad does I had no concerns about being limited later when I would review and share photos from a coffee shop iPad mini in the Field Photography involves gear That could involve capturing photos with a point and shoot camera or carrying a DSLR several interchangeable lenses a portable lighting kit and more And digital photography which has mostly become a redundant term also involves a computer of some sort for storing and working with the photos you shoot Laptops make this process easier but they also involve gear especially if youre shooting on location or going on vacation where you may want to avoid any temptation of work Portability becomes paramount and although the 9 7 inch iPad is a big improvement over laptops the iPad mini is a revelation It occupies less space and weighs far less than a regular iPad while still giving you a screen for reviewing photos that is far better than the tiny LCD on the back of most camera
26. cape character is 4 These are characters I can type to kill things if something goes wrong OK Dovecot ready Dovecot is the name of the POP3 server in use Actually it does other things like IMAP too USER dmcnutt I tell Dovecot what username I want to use OK Dovecot has found my mailbox and is ready 25 Silicon Summit PASS XXXXXXXX I tell Dovecot what my password is for that mailbox OK Logged in Dovecot tells me it has my personal mailbox locked and ready STAT I request information on the mailbox OK 111 2225228 Dovecot replies that there are 111 10 messages that occupy a bit less than 2 1 4 megabytes LIST 111 I ask for information of the most recent message OK 111 15184 Dovecot tells me message 111 is 15 kBytes long QUIT I tell Dovecot I don t want to continue OK Logging out Dovecot still the POP3 server accepts my command Connection closed by foreign host This is telnet saying bye bye Once again there are no command hints from Dovecot I have to know what it expects and issue commands that it understands I could use a command RETR to download a message but my OS 9 Mac 8500 will soon be using Eudora to download all new messages and delete as required Common POP3 commands there are more are USER name Your user name for this mail server PASS password Your password in plain text that s easily intercepted AUTH scheme Attempt authorization using a more private scheme QUIT
27. ddress of the sender and the date and time sent Next comes the headers and text of the message as sent After that the SMTP server closes the mailbox file and allows other users Pretty much the only thing that can go wrong is that the write might fail because of a limit on the size of a user s mailbox file If that happens SMTP will send a message to the from address in the envelope saying User s mailbox is full sorry SMTP suffers from problems with authentication It s because email s parenthood is a bunch ARPANET users who could be depended on to use their computers wisely An unprotected SMTP server on port 25 today will soon be found by people with less than honorable tasks in mind They will pepper the server with what we now call spam mail that can contain malware designed to return cash to the author They will also contain fake return addresses that are impossible to track Internet service providers typically allow connections to an SMTP server only when they arrive over their own wires or fibers Others like Pair keep a record of IP addresses which have recently been used to check mail using proper authentication that is at least a username and password for an existing mailbox When you ask for SMTP service from an IP address on the list you are served Other auth schemes use cryptographic hashing of date codes but it all gets complicated SMTP with a different set of rules would be better but there seems to be nothing on the horizon Receivin
28. e message I enter the first line of my message content More text is allowed up to 1022 characters per line Blank lines are permitted A single character at the start of an otherwise blank line is prohibited A line containing a period and nothing else indicates the end of a message And now we quit but we might as well have started another message with another MAIL command SMTP does not prompt you for commands It usually answers with OK after it executes a command but it might reply with NG hopefully followed by an explanation of what went wrong You have to know the rules before you start Email messages have an envelope that is passed along as the message is passed from one SMTP server to another along the route of travel Most mail client software will provide information from the envelope in the form of added headers in the mail as you receive it Some will discard it with a Why would my user ever want to know that attitude Sorry about that Details are in references 1 and 2 The following commands are always supported there are more EHLO Extended HELO HELO Identify yourself to the SMTP server AUTH Optional authentication procedure to prove you re real MAIL Start a message FROM your address RCPT Declare recipient with TO DATA The actual email message to be sent RSET Reset NOOP No operation Keeps your connection open QUIT End session VRFY Test an email address HELP Show available commands SMTP
29. e products Phones iPads iPods ogge and samsung cameras and MY ang Mac computers SMMUG is also an official Apple User Group and a non profit Colorado Lexmark and Canon printer scanner educational corporaton Come check us out we have fun combos Our meetings are inendly FREE anc open to the public Regular meetings are held at 1514 N Hancock in Colorado Springs on the first Thursday of every month Click here for more meeting info Camera Calibration Taking a photo with a camera could A y cause lens distortions So Prizmo lets you Pa g es calibration model for your camera by Prizmo can adjust the lens distortion on choose the best calibration model for having you photograph a checkered Pagos 19 Pe mos DEMAS word processi you ve ever seen d a nobile Seva Tes Powers app has Been cettusevety your images Description your camera that helps compensate for the optical distortion If your camera isnt listed Prizmo tells you how to create a Squats from about 15 different directions dergned lor Bo iPad Prose and Pod buih Create edt asd ven documenti wherever you ate Pages wos a Cloud 10 and then importing them into Prizmo your documenti try up O date O afl pout devices aulomatcaly And he Retna sispiay tr he son Pad mates everythin Once your camera has been calibrated aoo Untitled Curved pages OR eee Ca sa ere In addition to lens distortion the HH irr eee rar d 7 Pages curvature of the p
30. e sure to scroll down and read the FAQ at the bottom of the TidBITS Presents page before the presentation See you at noon on Wednesday the 14th Reuse governed by Creative Commons license TidBITS has offered more than fourteen years of thoughtful commentary on Macintosh and Internet topics For free email subscriptions and access to the entire TidBITS archive visit www tidbits com 16 Silicon Summit THIS MONTH S PUZZLE Bits n Pieces Astronomy LI LI LI LI LI i t D Pp o P tT LI i LI L t LI t gt _ _ e A completed crossword puzzle has been divided into fragments which have been jumbled Solve it like a jigsaw puzzle by sliding the fragments in the correct locations The solution is on the 2nd to last page of this newsletter Tip Print this page cut out the puzzle pieces and move them into the correct locations 17 Reviews Silicon Summit c Prizmo 2 by L Davenport Prizmo is a software package that turns your digital camera into a scanner provided you can connect your camera to your computer On top of that it has tools that let you straighten pictures taken at an angle and it has OCR Optical Character Recognition tools to convert your photographed or scanned images of text into editable text that can be manipulated with any word process
31. efused SMMUG didn t answer telnet Unable to connect to remote host telnet gave up The problem is that a lot of servers including SMMUG don t allow sending mail that way The design failure is that original users of ARPANET didn t have any idea that spam and malicious users would dominate the public internet The easy way out is refuse access by non local users Wouldn t it be nice if SMMUG membership came with an e mail address Please don t try this yourself but I can access my own web host Pair with this command telnet relay pair com 25 Trying 209 68 5 64 DNS look up worked and returned a numeric IP Connected to relay pair com Sockets are connected 220 relay02 pair com ESMTP 220 is an OK return and we re using ESMTP on their server number 2 QUIT I m just demonstrating here Connection closed by foreign host but ESMTP handled it properly Pair recognized my IP address and noticed that I have checked my mail within the last half hour or so and decided I was a known client Pair also told me that it is running the server program ESMTP I didn t really want to send a message so I issued the command QUIT and ESMTP obliged without any complaint ESMTP is the Extended Simple Mail Protocol ESMTP has more commands and is better at authorization than SMTP but the SMTP commands still work 23 Silicon Summit You will see a term envelope shortly En route email includes a few lines that are used only by the SMTP se
32. es a bit worse For some it has been much worse but thats iOS 65 fault see Solving iOS 6 Battery Drain Problems 28 September 2012 If I dont sound entirely enthusiastic so far then perhaps I should find something I can unreservedly endorse about the iPhone 5 There is one outstanding enhancement that I can wholeheartedly praise and thats the new EarPods They are at least in my ears quite considerably more comfortable than previous iPhone and iPod earbuds I hardly notice their presence Their sound too is a marked improvement While theyre not quite up to the quality of my favourite Sony studio monitor headphones they do reproduce a degree of detail and range that I have never heard that I have never even expected from iPhone earbuds As I write this Im listening to the Rolling Stones Stupid Girl from the 1966 album Aftermath and I m hearing details of Brian Jones acoustic guitar in my right ear that I dont remember hearing before The EarPods come in their own little plastic carrying case inside the iPhone 55 box although I suspect few users will have the patience to wrap them carefully back into the case after each use The case is also their retail packaging yes one of the most attractive and appealing parts of the new iPhone isnt even part of the iPhone but an accessory that can be bought separately for 29 Worth Upgrading I ll be returning the iPhone 5 to Apple soon sadly they want it back Its al
33. g mail The next step involves another protocol using the telnet procedure That can be the Post Office Protocol POP3 but originally just POB or the more modern IMAP which we ll talk about in another part When your mail client gets around to recovering mail from your mailbox it does a telnet to port 110 on your mail host That might be your internet service provider someone you pay to host your web activity or an advertising supported free service like Google AOL Yahoo hotmail or the like It might also be a place provided by your college alumni association On your machine you have a mail client which has been given the location of your mail host AppleMail for OS neXt does that Eudora was once used by almost everyone but is no longer supported UNIX mail is still around with its sendmail interface but it too has not kept up with the vagaries of modern mail There are several web based mail clients that permit you to use a browser Safari Foxfire to access your mail host Thunderbird works with Firefox to send and receive email Apple would like you to use its Cloud for mail hosting with AppleMail as the only authorized client Let s try a telnet session to my mail address As before anything after a is a comment not typed telnet macnauchtan com 110 Telnet to my personal mailbox on port 110 Trying 209 197 100 179 The server has used a domain name server to get a numeric address Connected to macnauchtan com and it succeeded Es
34. he System languages you must first download that language 20 Silicon Summit from Apple from the 00 Ci z Sa System preferences gt e TE Dictation amp Speech e CONSICNES DE SECURITE a IMPORTANTES Da oad CONSIGNES DE SECURITE IMPORTANTES When uting an electrical proceed As an added i l ten dos tale Galle f ors de ubisabon d un appareil esectnque ii faut mecenas bin i feature each word is precautions im udrg the oujours prendre des pr caubons de base y compris following read a highlighted in ellow as mairicuor betere using y es suivantes DA a it is being spoken isez toutes les instructions avant d utiliser cet appareil I found hake ihe DANCER Afin de r duire n tout risque d lectrocutbon default rate of speaking i AN G E par de reduire tout risq i r ion was too fast from my OT A electrocution Ne toucher pas un aspureil Ne touchez pas un apparel qu est tombe dans qua ast comfort so I instructed Que Aes SOS Cas SUSE o eau Debranchez le imm diatement Mithren hap le J F Ch are ri od tere Prizmo to slow down 2 N immergez ni n utilisez le chargeur dans la douche a z e i on a rene Tits the speech rate I liked 3 Ne placez ni ne rangez l appareil l o il peut tombe eN pez ni n utilisez le a 7 j Ou that a lot better ou tre pr cipit dans une baignoire ou un vier Ne tea Sans la Concha 0890582 cu n chapoez pas dans eau ou dans un Dar E
35. he club drawings and raffles you need to get your dues paid online via mail or in person at the meeting on Dec 6 th December Meeting iOS Christmas Party We ll have a casual atmosphere with refreshments of cookies and cider to celebrate the Christmas season Bring your IOS Devices and be prepared to share with others how you use them But come prepared to learn too We know you will learn from our experienced iPad iPod Touch and iPhone users Elections for 2013 SMMUG Officers and Board of Director Members will be held at 7 00 pm Be sure and bring your favorite candidate And of course there will be presents under the tree door prizes SMMUG Door Prizes for the December 2012 Meeting Prizmo 2 software Hammerhead Neoprene Sleeve for 13 Laptops A variety of BUILD Laptop bags UNU DX Protective Case for iPhone 4 4S with built in battery UNU Leather Holster for iPhones Sylvania Music sharing Earphone Kit JBuds J3 Earphones with travel case ITunes Cards An Apple TV With more goodies to come Silicon Summit 5 Silicon Summit Continued from Page 1 long as the Retina iPad models which contain massive batteries that can take 6 to 8 hours to charge fully Non Retina Isnt a Problem The top criticism of the iPad mini is the screen Or rather its the screen it doesnt have a Retina display The iPad minis screen has the same resolution as the iPad 2 at 1024 by 768 pixels though the pixel density is higher at 163 ppi th
36. hone generating error messages on posting I ve not heard about that re occurring from my brother so it either went away on its own or he deleted and reinstalled the app The only other disappointment was the lack of an iPad app The iPhone app works fine on the iPad but it would be nice to have a larger view available 15 Silicon Summit As my fathers health issues have continued to improve weve found other uses for Glassboard When Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast we used Glassboard to keep up to date on my brothers status in New York Although we could have created a new board Glassboard is focused around groups of people and since the group was exactly the same as the people we had tracking my father s status it made no sense to create a new board and re invite the same people to it Glassboard worked particularly well in keeping everyone updated on my hurricane struck brother Even though Internet connectivity cell service and text messaging were spotty for him only one of us had to reach him after which that person could quickly update the others via Glassboard rather than everyone trying to reach him simultaneously Overall Glassboard s private group messaging system has proved a useful and surprisingly easy way to keep important communication channels open for my family when weve needed it most If youre looking for a way to keep in touch with a smartphone using group its absolutely worth a try Mac amp Mac OS X TidBITS P
37. ith one dont totally depend on another Preserving data should be number one priority even when the task at hand seems innocuous The only time a backup is not made is when a machine is fresh out of the box from Apple Before attempting any work troubleshooting or repair on your mac create a mountable disk image Even if you already have a Time Machine copy It is good practice to do this regularly With this image you can click on it using any Mac and the image will mount like a hard drive on the machine you are using You can then navigate through all the files SuperDuper is a great program to do this The paid version of SuperDuper will allow you to schedule regular backup images However the Disk Utility included with OS X works fine and is located in Applications gt Utilities Open Disk Utility and with an external hard drive attached via USB or FireWire chose your Macs hard drive in the left hand column then click on Create Image from the icons across the top of that window Then choose the back up drive and name rename the image to a name you will remember and in a new folder if you want How to use Apples Disk Utility to back up http support apple com kb ht1553 Using SuperDuper http www shirt pocket com SuperDuper SuperDuperDescription html Put files where they belong The file structure on your Mac is pretty simple Your Mac will run well and you will be able to find what you look for if you follow the basic structure
38. k of cellular data support and costs 299 for 32 GB and 399 for 64 GB I dont expect that many people who own the iPad 2 or third generation iPad to buy an iPad mini right away since it doesnt offer that much extra Given our collection of previous iPads my family is certainly not getting one nor do we see any reason to get a fourth generation iPad Owners of the original iPad might be more interested thanks to the faster performance and cameras as well as the smaller size Given its pricing I believe the iPad mini will attract mostly people who really want the smaller form factor rather than just those who are price conscious and can 13 Silicon Summit get either the even smaller 32 GB fifth generation iPod touch for 30 less than the 16 GB iPad mini or the larger 16 GB iPad 2 for only 70 more than an iPad mini As with the three 13 inch MacBooks Apple is making consumers think harder than ever before about features versus price Apple said the W Fi only models of both the iPad mini and the fourth generation iPad would ship on 2 November 2012 in numerous countries The cellular models should begin to become available in mid November beginning just in the United States and rolling out more slowly to other countries ExtraBits Apple Enables icloud com Addresses for me com and mac com Users If you ve been using either a me com or a mac com email address left over from MobileMe Apple has now added the option of using the same user
39. ld If you ve been pondering the purchase of an iPad mini Dan Frakes s detailed review at Macworld should give you the details you need to make an informed decision Overall he s extremely positive about the new iPad giving its form factor and non Retina display high marks but acknowledges that it doesnt make sense as an upgrade for people who dont think they could go back from Retina display equipped devices or for those who need the larger screen and higher resolution of the standard iPad for serious work Apple Management Shakeup Aimed at Improving Collaboration Though press releases announcing management changes often use weasel words pursue other interests spend more time with family Apple s recent management shakeup is remarkably forthright explaining how two executives were ousted so the remaining management team could collaborate better Winning and Losing on Jeopardy Glenn Fleishman spent an exciting couple of days in August in Los Angeles appearing on the TV show Jeopardy He won two episodes before losing in the strangest game he recalls ever seeing But the oddest part is how hard it is to watch the popular program BusyCal 2 and Free Ebook about Calendar Syncing and Sharing BusyMac has updated their powerful and elegant calendar client BusyCal with numerous new features and to help explain the concepts underlying calendar syncing and sharing weve published Take Control of Calendar Syncing and
40. lly awkward people behind you wont be watching your iPad as if it were a small Jumbotron In terms of image quality the iPad minis 5 megapixel iSight camera performs decently the fourth generation iPad with Retina display shares the same camera specs although the good folks at Boinx discovered that the larger iPad s camera takes slightly better photos while the iPad mini has a wider field of view i Its better than having nothing at all of course but my iPhone 4S captures better shots and I would assume the iPhone 5 which I havent used improves upon that But really serious 6 Silicon Summit photographers arent likely to buy any iPad for its photo capture capabilities A Photographers Companion If your most important consideration is size and weight the iPad mini is an easy choice and its less expensive than a full size iPad too although in either case were still talking about spending several hundred dollars The iPad mini isnt using the latest fastest processor but I havent found areas yet that suffer from the difference Developers must design their apps to work within tight memory and processor restrictions as it is so it doesnt feel as if buying an iPad mini means making a significant step down in terms of performance The simple truth is that youre using an iPad only this one happens to be smaller and lighter for those who value those characteristics it Joy of Tech by Nitrozoc 4 Snogay I VE FOUND SS
41. m Apple it looks and feels in the hand rather elegant The iPhone 485 glass back has been replaced with aluminum again quite stylishly powder coated with two black glass strips one at the top and another at the bottom to provide radio transparency for the iPhone 5 s various antennae In the hand it feels very light almost insubstantial While Apple did the right thing in abandoning the plasticky feel of the iPhones 3G and 3GS the thinness and lack of heft of the later models leaves them feeling slight If the iPhones 4 and 4S felt lightweight the iPhone 5 is positively sylph like That said the impression of lightness doesnt really last accustomed to it quickly Lightning Strikes Next out of the box is the new eight pin Lightning cable and here again is a major change Since 2003 and the third generation of the iPod a proprietary 30 pin dock connector has become standard across not just Apples range of iDevices but also across an entire universe of third party accessories Apples decision to abandon this entrenched technology in favour of the new Lightning connector has upset a large number of people who have invested in docking stations speakers and cradles that use the old 30 pin connector The new Lightning connector is surprisingly small comparable in width to a micto USB plug but rather thinner and flatter Its primary benefit to the user is reversibility it can be inserted either way round makes for easier insertion in
42. mething smaller or that Apple would create a custom connector in favor of using something standard like micro USB A 19 Lightning to micro USB adapter is available as a separate purchase in part to comply with European laws that require all phones to be able to charge using that plug format Nor is it surprising that Apple would cut over so completely even when the benefit to users is relatively small The main misstep seems to have been Apples inability to provide sufficient quantity of the various cables and adapters and the lack of even licensed third party accessories for the iPhone 5 The smaller Lightning connector enabled Apple to move the headphone jack to the bottom of the iPhone 5 I have yet to see an explanation of this change it seems entirely gratuitous at least from the user perspective Having the headphone jack on the top of the iPhone made sense to me at least When my iPhone 4S is in my shirt pocket its usual out and about home I can plug in a headset and still have the phone right way up in my pocket and when an alert calls for my attention reading the display is quite easy Similarly when I m driving the iPhone 4S sits in a cupholder connected to my car stereo via the top of the phone The relocation of the audio jack to the bottom means that the iPhone 5 sits inverted in the holder which isnt as convenient as Id like The main use case I can think of that might support the bottom position is dropping the iPhone 5 into a t
43. million iPads sold since inception Apple was sitting pretty when Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller revealed the long rumored iPad mini without making a single Honey I shrunk the iPad joke thankfully More surprising was what led up to the iPad mini the unexpected announcement of a fourth generation iPad to replace the third generation iPad iPad mini As you would expect from its name the iPad mini is somewhat smaller than the other iPads with dimensions of 7 9 by 5 3 inches 200 by 135 mm In comparison the iPad 2 is 9 5 by 7 3 inches 241 by 186 mm The iPad mini is also slightly thinner 0 28 inch 7 2 mm and about half as heavy 0 68 pound 308 g Inside its black slate or white silver case the iPad mini features an A5 processor the same as in the iPad 2 but it boasts several hardware upgrades over that older model including improved cameras a front facing 720p capable Face Time 12 Silicon Summit camera for video chat and a rear facing 5 megapixel iSight camera for photos a better 4G LTE cellular radio and corresponding nano SIM slot Bluetooth 4 0 and a Wi Fi radio that Apple claims can achieve twice as fast Wi Fi speeds in the real world assume it could be up to 50 percent faster also see How Apple Doubled iPad Wi Fi Thro ut 24 October 2012 Perhaps most important the iPad minis 7 9 inch screen has exactly the same number of pixels 1024 by 768 as the iPad 2 That me
44. name with the icloud com domain No matter which address you use you ll continue to receive all your mail in the same way Retrospect 10 Reduces Backup Time with Instant Scan Technology The latest version of the long standing network backup program Retrospect backs up more quickly thanks to new Instant Scan technology adds support for Mountain Lion and improves various low level behaviors New Take Control Books Cover iOS 6 Mail and Networking If you re having trouble understanding just how to integrate your iOS device into your email strategy or if you need to know how iOS networking works under the hood we have a pair of new ebooks that will provide the information you need Take Control of Mail on the iPad iPhone and iPod touch Fourth Edition and Take Control of Networking amp Security in iOS 6 Apple Sells Three Million iPads in Three Days Apple announced that it sold three million Wi Fi only iPads in the three days after the launch of the iPad mini and fourth generation iPad twice the number of Wi Fi only units of the third generation iPad that were sold in its first weekend in March 2012 That means Apple sold 1 5 million each of the Wi Fi only and cellular models of the third generation iPad which sold three million all told in that first weekend and bodes well for sales of the cellular models of the iPad mini and fourth generation iPad when those start in a few weeks Dan Frakes Reviews the iPad mini at Macwor
45. nce between the two versions was that the new version lets you i specify right up front with a pop up We come to S M M U G menu what type of document you will be SMMUG Silicon Mountain Macintosh User Group Inc is dedicated to helping cur members working on e g a text document an image enjoy and learn to use the many cool features of their Apple products iPhones Pads iPods file or a business card The available tools and Mac computers SMMUG is also an official Apple User Group and a non proft Colorado rotation crop perspective correction educational corporation Come check us out we have fun lens distortion correction image Our meetings are friendly FREE and open to the public Regular meetings are held at 151 processing adjustments OCR tools N Hancock in Colorado Springs on the first Thursday of every month Click here for more etc change depending on which you meetag info choose Input devices Prizmo will capture import images from Untitled Edited most cameras and Scanners from an image geii erenc Nr ani a Gol library such as from the iPhoto library from 8 __ te e i a file residing on the computer or from PP O OS OS OS DADOS anything visible on the computer screen I Welcome to SMMUG successfully tested Prizmo using my Fuji SMMUG S con Mountain Macintosh User Group Inc is decicated to helping cur members Blosoj d S a e Ha enjoy and learn to use the many cool features of their Appi
46. o chat experience As with the iPad mini Apple claims that the fourth generation iPad has twice as fast Wi Fi Apples marketing name for this new iPad is iPad with Retina display which will be nearly as confusing as new iPad in another generation or two Pricing and storage options remain the same as for previous models with Wi Fi only 499 599 and 699 and cellular 629 729 and 829 models in 16 GB 32 GB and 64 GB capacities Lightning Continues to Strike The Lightning cable which Apple introduced last month for the iPhone 5 fifth generation iPod touch and seventh generation iPod nano makes its debut in the iPad world with these new models In case there was any confusion Schiller mentioned that all Lightning cables work identically among all these new Apple devices He also noted that several adapters are now available so you can connect from Lightning to USB VGA and HDMI and he showed a Lightning compatible SD card reader Making the Decision Anyone shopping for a new iPad will now have to choose between the smaller iPad mini and the more substantial fourth generation iPad with its Retina display The first and third generation iPads are no longer available from Apple though the 16 GB model of the iPad 2 continues to hang on at the reduced 399 529 price point The smaller size and lower price tag of the iPad mini will help it compete against the many models of Kindle Nook and various Android tablets that
47. on a board are automatically private being restricted to just the members of the board and one person controls the invites That was perfect for the details surrounding my fathers condition Like other social networks you can share text messages photos videos files and locations with EEN other people in a board and it groups comments so you dont end up with just a huge list of messages you can tell which initial message started the thread Thread drift still is and probably will always be an issue in online communication You can even like messages and other posts just like on Facebook Glassboard free version has no limit to how many people can be added to a board though it does limit the number of boards to 10 and the amount of storage to 100 MB per board For 5 per month or 50 per year Glassboard Premium ups the per board storage to 1 GB and allows unlimited boards It also enables you to export boards bookmark messages and transfer board ownership Setting Up Glassboard I dug out the username and password I had used months ago and started a new board for my family I sent invites to my siblings from within the Glassboard app and then followed up with texts to let them know what the invite was for I was surprised how quickly everyone joined the board Even the less technically savvy among us was quickly signed up logged in and started using the app to share text and photos The only issue we ran into was one iP
48. on was a program called telnet which defined a communication procedure that automatically converted commands first to a language used for communication and then to real commands understood by the remote host It even took care of converting ASCII characters into EBCDIC as used by IBM Line ends are always sent with a CR LF pair and converted as necessary on the destination computer On the internet telnet uses the concept of a socket When you attempt to connect to a computer using a domain name the telnet application creates a socket to be used with TCP transmission control protocol which guarantees delivery of information and corrects transmission errors IP internet protocol packets are sent and received and the combination is often denoted as TCP IP The remote machine takes note of your request and creates a socket at its end The now connected sockets look like disk files to the software and ordinary read and write requests to the operating system result in bidirectional data flowing between the sockets If you use a mail client like AppleMail or Eudora those sockets are created by the client and telnet is not involved but the procedure is the same with commands and data passed between machines Sending Mail Using a terminal application a command you might type for sending mail via port 25 is telnet SMMUG COM 25 But if you try that one you get this telnet SMMUG COM 25 Trying 67 23 32 140 telnet connect to address 67 23 32 140 Connection r
49. one I remember bringing mine home from the Apple Store where I used to work the unwrapping the anticipation as I opened the box to reveal the elegant packaging the entire process was almost sacramental Since then I ve owned three more iPhone models I skipped the iPhone 4 Even now every time a new iPhone lands on my desk there remains something a little special about the act of opening it there is after all a reason why unboxing videos proliferate across the internet The iPhone 5 continues this tradition its packaging crafted almost as carefully as the device itself Out of the Box and into the Hand This time a review unit of the iPhone 5 arrived courtesy of Apple New Zealand The packaging I noticed was a bit longer and deeper than previous boxes have been One look at the iPhone 5 suggests a possible reason Its tall Placed next to my iPhone 4S it looks noticeably longer and its height also makes it look narrower despite having the same width At any rate its appearance is something of a departure from its predecessors From the front it looks quite similar dimensions notwithstanding but from the side the differences start to show up The metal f O f bezel that surrounds the iPhone 4 and 4S models has been at least in the black model Apple sent me coated with black powder there have been reports of the iPhone 5 looking scuffed and with powder missing out of the box but my sample has no such flaws As we would expect fro
50. or Since Prizmo automatically spellchecks your processed words you are quickly alerted to anything that Prizmo may have miss read This lets you go back and increase the Readability and Resolution of the scanned document and then re process it If it is only a few words you can manually type in the correct spelling before exporting the document Version differences Several years back I reviewed Prizmo 1 5 and was very pleased with its capabilities So when Creaceed asked me to review their new 2 0 version that was waiting to get Apples approval for inclusion in the Mac App store I was pleased to comply I started testing the Golden Master version and then the actual release version of Prizmo once it got Apples OK The first thing I noticed was that the user interface has been slightly redesigned So I opened both the 1 5 and the 2 0 versions to see how they compared and to see which I preferred Since the 2 0 user manual wasn t posted to the Creaceed web site yet I decided to wing it since I was familiar with to older version I started off by dragging a photo into the Prizmo Document window But I had difficulty figuring out how to adjust the photos perspective the old way was to click on the four corners of the photo or just the four corners of the item within the photo that you want straightened But click as I may I couldnt get the dots to appear After requesting and getting an early copy of the 2 0 manual I discovered
51. ow You then drag the applications icon to your Applications folder More and more nicely developed applications are making this easier for you by presenting an alias icon of your Applications folder to drag it to You then need to eject the image that was mounted by the image by clicking the arrow next to the mounted image in the left pane of the finder window Then delete the original dmg file that was downloaded either to your desktop or your download folder Of course there are variations in the way you receive applications to be installed so here is a good reference http guides macrumors com Installing Applications in Mac OS X 27 Silicon Summit The Finder Window Use this to navigate your Mac This guy resides to the left on your Dock It is command central for getting to anything Click once to open a Finder window You ll see the pane on the left which is shortcuts you can add shortcuts here and also drag items into the folders listed On the right depending on the view you chose list column carousel you ll see the contents of folders or drives I always customize this window to include some nice items to have at the top of the window such as a delete button a new folder button the more info button etc You do this by opening a file window then at the very top menu under View choose Customize Toolbar For pictures and step by step details check out this page on the Dummies site http www dummies com how
52. pecify which language is being scanned and processed This is very helpful for foreign languages that have various accent marks over their letters If the translation language is left set as English Prizmo mis reads these letters and says the word is misspelled I tested this on a page of French text Sure enough in one of the instances it guessed the number 6 rather than an in one word But when I chose French as the language the proper showed up and it was no longer flagged as misspelled Prizmo comes with 10 built in OCR languages English German Danish Dutch French Italian Portuguese Spanish Swedish and Norwegian but supports 31 additional languages that can be downloaded and installed Afrikaans Albanian Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Catalan Croatian Czech Esperanto Estonian Finnish Galician Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Polish Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Swahili Turkish Ukrainian and Vietnamese In my testing I took this processed French document highlighted a paragraph from within Prizmo and told it to translate it to English Seconds later the paragraph was in fact translated to English Nice Text To Speech If you select some of the processed text and click the Speak button Prizmo will read the text aloud to you using your chosen voice male female foreign But if you want to have it speak a language not already part of t
53. portable photo studio in your camera bag You can review rate and tag photos using an app such as Photosmith edit them in iPhoto for iOS or dozens of other apps and post them to your favorite photo sharing sites That s in addition to using the device for keeping up with email and news storing ebooks and camera manuals as PDFs for easy reference and of course playing games during downtime Many photographers may not be interested in the iPad as a photo studio or in the field reviewer but they do see it as a great portfolio presentation device Its so much more convenient to meet a potential client in a coffee shop with an iPad instead of a bulky photo album The iPad mini runs dedicated portfolio software such as Portfolio for iPad so you can definitely keep your best photos at easy reach However the larger screen of the Retina iPad makes for a more dramatic impact if youre selling your photos and ability I expect pro photographers will stick with a Retina iPad for this purpose iPad mini as Camera I admit I cringe when I see people holding up a 9 7 inch iPad to capture a photo it was worse when the only option was the iPad 2 which has a crummy camera but I m seeing that happen more often The smaller physical size of the iPad mini should make shooting photos more tolerable both in the sense that the cameras have improved the FaceTime camera on the front is quite nice for video chatting and that taking photos wont be as socia
54. resents Explaining the Big 3 Confusions with Messages by Adam C Engst With the introduction of Messages in OS X 10 8 Mountain Lion Apple took a large step toward unifying the messaging experience between OS X and iOS But because Messages in Mountain Lion had to integrate the instant messaging functionality of iChat with the iMessage Face Time capabilities of Messages in iOS its easy to get confused While writing Take Control of Messages in Mountain Lion Glenn Fleishman poked and prodded at every part of Messages and he s heard from numerous people including me who have had trouble with many different aspects of Messages In this live TidBITS Presents event on Wednesday 14 November 2012 at 12 00 PM Eastern he ll be explaining the three most common confusions Since an Apple ID can be associated with multiple email addresses and iPhone phone numbers its easy to end up in a situation where iMessages dont arrive where you think they should or where youre unable to contact someone at the desired device Glenn will explain how to ensure that youve associated the desired addresses and numbers with Messages on each device Many people start a conversation via text chat but want to switch to audio or video at some point in the middle Messages makes it hard on us by sporting a bit of terrible user interface reminiscent of using the Windows Start button to shut a PC down Couple that with the lack of audio and video support in the iMessage
55. rouser pocket where it makes sense to have it top down and face in thus exposing the bottom located headphone jack so it is properly oriented in your hand when you pull it out I suppose there may also be people who make FaceTime calls while using earbuds the bottom position might be better if you re holding the iPhone 5 out in front of you The remaining item on the bottom of the iPhone 5 is the speaker which is a bit louder than the iPhone 4S Whether or not its noticeably better sounding is a different matter but the amount of sound it can pump out is impressive More Pixels Scotty So lets turn the iPhone 5 on and see how it works Well its an iPhone All the traditional iPhone features I ve come to expect are present The screen of course is the first major difference and it looks good The colours are richer more saturated than they were even on the iPhone 4S a screen that still looks very good But the major draw is the size of the screen Apple has extended it vertically enough to add an extra row of app icons on the iOS home screen This is certainly welcome but its not exactly revolutionary In fact another row of app icons and folders being able to hold more apps does help the significantly overloaded home screen interface but seeing an extra email message in a list or being able to read a bit more of an ebook before I swipe to the next page hasnt made that much of a difference to my user experience Watching video i
56. rvers They start with the addressee and enough information to identify a computer which is usually an internet address and then include a return address to which a failure message can be sent Each SMTP server along the route will also add a Received header to the message recording its IP address and the time the mail passed through With another login to Pair instead of quitting I could have typed this sequence The marks indicate the start of comments which were neither typed in nor received HELO SMMUG com 250 relay00 pair com MAIL FROM lt dougeSMMUG com gt OK RCPT TO lt dmcnutt macnauchtan com gt OK DATA From Doug McNutt lt doug SMMUG com gt To Doug McNutt lt dmcnutt macnauchtan com gt Subject Something for the newsletter Content Type text plain charset us ascii Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party QUIT I m telling SMTP what machine I m running on SMTP replies MAIL is the command FROM is a reverse path for the envelope SMTP replies RCPT is the command for recipient TO is a header to be used in the envelope SMTP replies and might have checked the address Just tells SMTP that I m about to send lines of message text This is part of the message in the header section This is in the message and not necessarily on the envelope The last header There might have been more A blank line is required to separate headers from th
57. s The extra gear required for an iPad mini could fit into an envelope A sync cable and power adapter for charging and some way to get photos directly from a camera onto the iPad Apple now sells two camera adapters the Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader and the Lightning to USB Camera Adapter each priced at 29 If you already own the iPad Camera Connection Kit also 29 but you get both USB and SD adapters for older iPads and you want to continue to be able to use both adapters youll need to buy a Lightning to 30 pin adapter available as a 29 one piece adapter or as a 39 0 2m cable Or you can get an Eye Fi wireless SD memory card for your camera and transfer photos via Wi Fi With 10 hours of battery life which some people are reporting is a conservative estimate the iPad mini doesnt demand that you scramble for a power outlet after just a few hours of use When you do have to recharge the device it doesnt take as Continued on page 5 Silicon Summit is a monthly publication of the Silicon Mountain Macintosh User Group Inc Newsletter Editor L Davenport Web Masters Jeff Jensen Ralph Woodard Apple Ambassador Mark Griffith Contributions to the newsletter should be in text or RIF with graphics provided in PNG TIFE or JPG format The editor reserves the right to edit articles to best fit the newsletter All material in this newsletter is Copyright 2012 by the Silicon Mountain Macintosh User Group
58. s likely the main reason for the change the screens proportions now match HD video and videos can be viewed full screen without letterboxing a notable improvement Letterboxing is precisely what happens when an apps developer hasnt yet caught up with the new hardware Many apps have already been updated to take advantage of the larger screen but there are plenty that still think theyre running on an iPhone 4S the iPhone 5 simply displays these apps in the centre of the screen with black bars above and below The black bars are black enough that you seldom notice and regardless all apps in active development undoubtedly will be updated for the new screen size soon The larger hardware for me at least is quite comfortable to use I tend to use my iPhone two handed supporting it in my left hand while operating it with the fingers of my right for me then there is no significant difference between this iPhone and the last Some women I know have complained that the iPhone 4 form factor was hard enough to fit into the pockets of womens clothes the iPhone 5 s extra height will make that all the harder And of course all iPhone 5 owners who want cases will have to purchase new ones there will be a plethora soon Camera Network and Battery By the time I had charged and synced the phone y La c a the weather had cleared up so I went outside to play with the camera The camera on y on wok the iPhone 4S has been very well received
59. saying The Software is currently unavailable This is obviously not a Prizmo problem but an Apple one I will have to do some research to see how to fix this I suggest you download the Demo to see if all of Prizmos features work with your Camera e g I could bring in the photos for processing but the Tethering feature didn t work with my cheap o digital cameras If this is a high priority for you you should try before you buy to see if it works properly with your camera Wish list The only thing I would like to see is an option to see a larger thumbnail of the perspective straighten document Final Verdict Is the 2 0 version worth the upgrade Yes Requires Any Intel Mac OS X 10 7 5 Lion or Later Recommended OS X 10 8 2 Mountain Lion or Later Company Creaceed Street Price Creaceed Mac App Store Prizmo 49 95 49 99 Prizmo amp Pro Pack 99 95 99 98 with a 49 99 In App purchase Available Demo for both the Prizmo and Prizmo Pro Pack versions 22 Silicon Summit How your Mac Works Working with E mail Part 2 N Ha By Doug McNutt Just what happens as you send and receive e mail messages In days long ago you could log into a remote computer on which you had an account using a simple rlogin command executed in your shell or terminal using Apple lingo There was a problem though when the remote machine was made by a different manufacturer or was running a strange to you operating system The soluti
60. sessions but that got tedious fast Enter Glassboard When my turn came to go with Dad to the hospital and keep everyone up to date I remembered an app I d used with friends at a conference many months back Glassboard which enables a small group to create a private social network in the form of a board which is a bit like a chat room for a specific set of people The basic free version had worked well at the conference and I recalled it was multi platform offering iOS and Android apps plus a Web client That enabled my Android using brother in law and my flip phone using sister at least when at a computer to participate as well I had debated using a mailing list for this type of communication but when Ive tried setting them up in the past it proved difficult to get everyone through the typical signup sessions and train them to use the list instead of sending to individuals Plus Glassboard offers push notifications for both iOS and Android in many email apps push notifications are difficult if not impossible to set up Another aspect of Glassboard that appealed to me was its focus on privacy It might have been possible to use Facebook or Twitter to communicate but Facebook defaults to being as public as possible and making private information public is just an incorrect menu choice away Twitter is even worse making everything public except direct messages which can go to only a single person In Glassboard communications
61. system requiring a shift to the FaceTime app and lots of people cant figure out how to move from text to talking out loud Once Glenn scrubs away the poor user interface you ll make the jump with ease Messages makes chat transcripts central to the user experience a major change from iChat maintaining them as essentially permanent conversations that you can search as desired Many people dont understand the connection between conversations and transcripts and very few people realize just how destructive the Clear Transcript command in Messages is Glenn will explain all and make sure you understand exactly what Clear Transcript will do So please join us live on Wednesday 14 November 2012 at 12 00 PM Eastern 9 AM Pacific at the TidBITS Presents page if youre in another time zone check out the Every Time Zone site to convert to local time You ll see the event on the public TidBITS Events calendar for more details see Subscribe to the TidBITS Events Calendar 15 October 2012 The presentation is open to everyone We ll be trying to keep the main discussion to 15 minutes and well take questions from the live chat at the end for another 15 minutes If you cant make it live you ll be able to watch the recorded presentation afterwards at your leisure For additional details about Messages check out the full 113 page Take Control of Messages in Mountain Lion We continue to learn about the best ways to use Google Hangouts On Air so b
62. that this was one of the changes Rather than clicking the dots manually you simply click on the crop button which in turn automatically places a grid over the photo and dots at its four corners One more step was needed I had to click on the perspective button ATTINTION A tabe etal tyo da Pag tery Pue tripa whee ferrets Theo ewe E pa have perthated Please ta 800 amp BATTIEV de sad ar mgin ot Para te tow pr de Iha banery ate wr Remove the by gt ree henge aria beira before npor q of Pe heer Do rar narama y reoiace t batear ya that you cam ute the shaver again Thh could cama Pra of an eee ox a When you tell Prizmo to Recognize this window pops up Notice that it has boxes surrounding all of the text and graphics The contents of these boxes are displayed to the right If you are satisfied with the OCR results click the Export button Sad of pape The document from the previous screen dump was exported as a PDF to preserve its formatting Notice that all of the text is selectable and can be searched or copied and pasted into another document 18 Silicon Summit from within the crop window Finally I was able to slide the dots up and down to change the perspective Instantly the small preview thumbnail of my photo that was sitting off to the left side of the Prizmo window changed to show the new straightened perspective The next differe
63. the dark or without looking I presume the benefit to Apple lies in freeing up the internal and external space previously occupied by the dock connector and related electronics when designing iOS devices At least with devices like the new iPod nano the small Lightning connector feels worthwhile as opposed to the minimally different MagSafe 2 connector used in the last generation of MacBooks Its also likely that the new connector will make possible other capabilities such as USB 3 0 speeds the iPhone 5 is still limited to USB 2 0 performance you become 10 Silicon Summit This is a major change for the entire Apple ecosystem Anyone who owns a speaker system a dock or even a charging cable for an existing iPhone and who hopes to use it with a new iPhone 5 will either have to buy an adapter from Apple useful for chargers perhaps less useful for in car systems and cradle type devices or replace said kit which may not even be possible for some time given that even Apple is having trouble keeping up with demand for the standard Lightning to USB cables along with the 29 Lightning to 30 pin adapter and 39 Lightning to 30 pin cable adapter plus the 49 HDMI and VGA adapters Since theres an authentication chip in Lightning cables there will likely be no unlicensed Lightning options that provide full functionality In the end the 30 pin connector had a long run but its not surprising either that Apple would want to move to so
64. the result is often bloated headers rather than useful filtering SMTP today is universally capable of handling 8 bits of character encoding and line lengths of 1024 bytes including the CR LF pair at the end But SMTP also needs to support the possibility that older equipment like teletype machines still exist Communication channels can still be found that use the high order bit for parity checking which leaves only the original 128 ASCII codes For those you should limit line length to 80 characters the length of a punched card and you should not use extended ASCII with all eight bits in use Essentially all Mac users are prepared to use 8 bit bytes and 1024 character lines but there are exceptions and some mail dients still insist on wrapping lines to 80 characters and using encoding like F0 to get away from using the high order bit When was the last time you sent a telegram that way or read a weather bureau sequence report that used special characters for scattered broken or overcast clouds The last SMTP server that handles a message resides on a machine in which the recipient is a registered user He has a mailbox associated with his address which stores mail Ignoring IMAP extensions the mailbox is nothing but a disk file that stores many messages The SMTP server opens that file and moves to the end of it The message is written to the file starting with a line that starts with the word From and a space The rest of the line includes the email a
65. thly meetings monthly newsletters member assistance vendor discounts attendance at Special Interest Group Meetings and participation in drawings and raffles SMMUG membership dues apply to the calendar year and are paid each December for the following year Use the following rates for new memberships JAN 1 to MAR 31 25 00 APR 1 to JUN 30 21 00 JUL 1 to SEPT 30 14 00 OCT 1 to DEC 31 7 00 Please Print Clearly Today s Date Name Street Address City State ZIP Home E mail Address Employer if above is business address How did you learn about SMMUG Make your check payable to SMMUG Mail or give this form to SMMUG Inc Jim Johnson Treasurer PO Box 62741 Colorado Springs CO 80962 Check
66. to content how to customize the toolbar in mac os x snow leop html Use Multiple User Accounts and Good Passwords If more than one user will use the computer create a user account for each user There are many reasons for this including security and separation of user preferences You can each have your own address book mail accounts iTunes etc Make sure your use good passwords that include a number If your account is the administrator account of the computer you need to remember this password because you will authorize any installation of applications or updates to software using this password This is an important security feature of OS X that helps to prevent malicious software from being installed How to create a new user account http www ehow com how 5965032 _create new user accounts mac html For more technical readers youll enjoy this chapter on managing user accounts http www peachpit com articles article aspx p 482338 amp seqNum 2 Use Keyboard Shortcuts My favorites e Press Command Key 3 and the Z key at the same time to undo what you just did Wonderful e Use the Control ctrl key for lots of things including with a click on top of things to get a sub menu of things you can do Try it out e ctrl and C for copying and selection of text or items ctrl and V for pasting them e SE and tab for bringing up a menu of all open items press it again to move to the next item Try it out e Here is
67. until the device was powered down and rebooted The update also fixes a problem where horizontal lines could be displayed across the keyboard a bug affecting Exchange meetings a bug that prevented the camera flash from operating and a Passcode Lock bug that could allow Passbook pass details to be viewed from the lock screen A couple of WebKit security vulnerabilities were also closed It does not fix a bug that causes previously played audio such as an iTunes U lecture to start playing again unexpectedly after iOS uses other audio such as playing an alarm sound iOS 6 0 1 is compatible with the following models iPhone 5 iPhone 4S iPhone 4 iPhone 3GS third generation iPad iPad 2 fifth generation iPod touch and fourth generation iPod touch We presume the iPad mini and fourth generation iPad will either ship with iOS 6 0 1 or will update to it immediately You can download the 43 3 MB update either via Tunes on a computer or via an over the air update on compatible iOS devices initiate the update in Settings gt General gt Software Update However iPhone 5 owners looking to update wirelessly will first need to download another app called Updater for iPhone 5 before downloading iOS 6 0 1 since the iPhone 5 is unable to install software updates over the air under iOS 6 0 This app which shows up as iOS Updater on the Home screen disappears once 6 0 1 is installed How Apple Doubled iPad Wi Fi Throughput by Glenn Fleishman
68. ways fun to have the latest shiniest kit and I ll miss it for sure but going back to my own iPhone 4S hasnt been at all troubling If I didnt have another year left on my Vodafone service contract I might consider upgrading but I simply dont find enough in this new release to make it a compelling upgrade from the iPhone 4S at this stage Were I upgrading from an iPhone 4 which lacks Siri and doesnt have as good a camera the iPhone 5 would be more attractive and moving up from an iPhone 3GS or earlier model would be even more compelling For anyone in the market for their first iPhone or replacing a broken iPhone the iPhone 5 is hard to beat with the main competition coming from the 99 iPhone 4S and the free iPhone 4 Put simply the iPhone 5 is the best iPhone Apple has ever produced but its improvements are worth only 100 the price difference to the iPhone 4S which does have a comparable camera and Siri Thats entirely intentional on Apples part as Glenn Fleishman noted in Incremental Change Wins Apple Big Gains 29 March 2012 Despite what many seem to think and a bit of what Apple implies in its marketing Apple seldom releases new products that are revolutionary and the iPhone 5 is no exception Its a great smartphone and the best iPhone ever but at the end of the day it still looks walks and quacks like any other recent iPhone Apple Introduces the iPad mini and Fourth Generation iPad by Tonya Engst With over 100

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