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1. 2 PATH FINDER 6 YOUR FILES YOUR WAY mardutre Group staff 20 Permission rw r r 644 Path Users mardufrerdl txt Application TextEdit ime Macintosh HD gt Capacity 2 9 TE O Filter by Name Se A AAA ama cie Kind ata Modified 3 June 2009 5 42 AM 11 June 2013 10 01 AM Today 10 57 AM 8 September 13 1 26 AM 26 June 2013 7 21 AM 1 March 2013 8 03 AM 8 September 13 1 26 AM 8 September 13 1 26 AM 3 September 1 11 34 AM 8 September 13 1 26 AM replacement with a plethora of extras At its most basic Path Finder can pretty much look and act just like the usual Finder window but you have to try really hard to make it this simple With a few clicks and a few minutes of exploration you realize that Path Finder is like the Finder on steroids first reviewed Path Finder in the April 2009 DoubleClick That version was for OS 10 4 A lot has changed in that time Path Finder has so many extra functions that could not hope to tell you about all of them You will have to download a trial version or go to their web site and have a look at www youtube com CocoatechPathfinder to see videos All can do here is highlight some of the functions that use all of the time Before got Path Finder used a number of apps such as Alfred and TotalFinder to do the things that Path Finder does It is much more economical to use one app than to have to load and hav
2. press File Edit Style item Page Layout Table View Utilities Window Help 26 8 Q A Sun 11 10AM MichaelShaw Q i B j l A NE AATA AA ERS ANEN once a na 1UsE Meeting MIN NA Tools se W Resources from the September Meeting TOOIS september 25 2013 Download a suitable nas tory X 1 0 for It was good to see everyone back after the summer break We had 30 peo ple show up out of a field of 45 The meeting was very good with several Mac ciao of kut SL JNA to ja ect Mz com downloads index html entertaining and informative presentations Bruce ran the audio amp video R electronics Ken reported that we are still solvent lan covered the process vp i for downloading books to his Pad from the local library Marcel talked about F oati N g P a ettes playing his favourite iPad trivia game and about creating OR codes online 7 gave a quick overview of Disk Inventory X and Marcel ran the iPad App Delight segment with the assistance of various members who brought ir s i their iDevices to show and tell their latest app discoveries Brian took care of Apple News and talked poon the new iOS release and the brand new updated iMacs After the break Brian took the stage again and gave a scathingly brilliant presentation about Macintosh utilities and AppleJack Stan announced the MaUsE Elections end emphasized a need for new fresh paces on the MaUsE Exec Th
3. m je p F n gt a j p ja b D p N j j p j gt j a 5 1 GB 6 1 MB 1 6 ME 1 6 ME 1 2 MB 63 8 KB 766 2 KB 705 8 KB 406 2 KB 213 3 KH 153 3 KB 21 8 KB 11 3 KB 6 1 KE a Just Looking a World Book pdf a Home Screen s Surf the Age s Search screen ti as World Bo VD toast World Bo ser Guide a 2012 Wo ook alias koon Bill for W Bock pdt a Title a Logo World Book DC Go to www cocoatech com and download a trial copy of the applica tion Read about the many other functions or watch some videos of Path Finder in action The best way to determine if the 39 95 price tag is worth it or not is to try the program yourself It won t take you long to start seeing other benefits and if you are like me you will keep finding more treasures in it with every use Submitted by Marcel Dufresne PATH FINDER 6 YOUR FILES YOUR WAY Macintosh Users East Mainly Mac welc mes club members Drop by our shop and recelve 26 freeware applications Your computer Is required for download 34 George Street Markham ON L3P 2R7 Tel 905 201 8460 customerservice mainlymac ca Mainly Mac We love the Mac as much as you do _ Apple Authorized Dealer amp Service Provider Take Control eBooks Your Privacy DoubleClick features an ebook from Take Control Books every month These ebooks have been published in PDF format and cover issues r
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6. October 2073 2013 MaUsE Executive e President Michael Shaw ducati860 amp gmail com e Vice President lan Winton e Apple Liaison Marcel Dufresne mardufresne O rogers com Treasurer Ken Jansen e Photographer Irma Shaw e DoubleClick Editor Michael Shaw ducati860 amp gmail com e Director Stan Wild e Director in Training Brian Elston e Director Marcel Dufresne MaUsE Contact Information The MaUsE c o Michael Shaw 237 Huntingwood Drive Oshawa Ontario Canada L1J 7C6 WWW INES Ca Don t forget to From The Editor What you are looking at is the October 2013 edition of the MaUsE DoubleClick the online publication of the Macintosh Users East MaUsE a motley collection of mostly harmless cranks who reside in Southern Ontario with their motley collection of old and new Macintosh Hack entosh 4 MacClone computers The DoubleClick is published using a 2 8 GHz Aluminum iMac and OuarkXPress 9 An antigue Kodak DX7590 is STILL being used for all pic tures Everything not specifically attributed to someone else can probably be blamed on the Editor Back issues can be downloaded from the MaUsE website lt www mause ca gt Submis sions from MaUsE Club members are almost al ways welcome Maybe that last bit is an exaggeration Send your submissions and articles to me at lt ducati860 gmail com gt especially if there are files or pictures attached have never refused a submission yet Be
7. P Me pollos AT os F J En L f E i lt a gt Ln b 4 i M A q W i 1S f E aa a E Ar ym J i i F eT n i J y w a E Kn a i A mu ai a E m ii E i e W Pa lr rg hi ed _ mE al 4 i K sl Submitted by Marcel Dufresne 6 Port USB 3 0 2 0 Combo Hub with Charging Port from StarTech com If you have purchased a new iMac recently you know that the back configuration is unlike older models It comes with 2 Thunderbolt ports and four USB 3 ports Nothing else There is no FireWire no CD DVD slot put an HTML cable from StarTech com see DoubleClick May 2013 into one of the Thunderbolt ports and am now able to use my TV as a second monitor am glad they designed that port to accept the mini display cable that bought for mirroring displays used the four remaining ports for some USB devices 1 my w keyboard 2 a printer 3 an external drive for TimeMachine and 4 a scanner There were no ports left If want to hook up my external CD DVD burner need to unplug one of the others This means gaining access to the back of the iMac It is the same problem if want to attach my iPad or iPod Touch to the computer Fortunately can use one of the slots on the keyboard to access a thumb drive But this means have to lift up the keyboard to easily see what am doing However there are a lot of devices that won t work mag the keyboard
8. The book featured this month is Take Control of Your Online Privacy by Joe Kissell Do you have anything to hide Whether or not you think you do your on line activities are certainly tracked and not just by well meaning sites who want to keep you logged in or by marketing firms who want to show you tar geted ads for products that you likely want to buy Don t believe us This book helps you gain perspec tive on what is reasonable to expect about online privacy It will help you develop a sensible online pri vacy strategy customized for your needs Learn how to enhance the privacy of your Internet connec tion Web browsing email messages online chat ting social media interactions and file sharing Plus parents will find important reminders about how your N E by JOE KISSELL online actions can affect your children far into the 10 future Whether you have a Mac or PC OS or Android device set top box cell phone or some other network enabled gadget Take Control of Your Online Privacy has the advice that ordinary people need to han dle common privacy needs secret agents should really look else where In this 118 page eBook you ll receive savvy advice about Why worry Learn about who wants your private data and more important why they want it Even if you don t believe you have any thing to hide you almost certainly do in the right context Would you give just anyone your financial records or medi
9. altered this way Most houses including all of the ones that shipped with the game do include at least custom graphics An interesting design point is that custom objects are on their own purely background elements but can be made interactive with the help of the game s many different invisible ob jects Furthermore a debugging feature in the Mac OS 9 version of Glider PRO allows all of the graphics and sounds in the game including the ones that cannot be directly replaced by a house s resource fork to be overridden by alternative graphics This is done by placing a file named Mermaid con taining all of the replacement graphics and sounds in the same directory as the Glider PRO application That Glider PRO can be easily customised by Mac users has led to some wonderful experiments Fans have exploited design bugs as well as con structed patches to alter houses and or the program itself even further the l of 31 selected Zero KB available Glider Folding Instructions Glider Pro Installer gt km GliderTech f Installer Read Me v 5 Screen Shots f W ES Art Museum 1 i Art Museum 2 ku Castle o the Air 1 lus Castle o the Air 2 Davis Station 1 M Davis Station 2 In the Mirror 1 1 In the Mirror 2 HA Land of illusion 1 E Land of illusion 2 TT Leviathan 1 MM Leviathan 2 EH Nemo s Market 1 E Nemo s Market 2 Slumberland 1 4 Slumberland 2 EN Slumberland 3 SpacePods 1 O SpacePods 2 Teddy World 1 E Teddy Wor
10. door picked it up lt was amazing AudioNote Notepad and Voice Recorder From Luminant Software Inc As a student always had trouble taking notes during a lesson The more concentrated on getting good notes the harder it was to understand the points being made If paid more atten tion to what was said didn t always get all the facts down on paper Now I find the same problem exists where meetings are concerned Fortunately as the saying goes there is an app for that AudioNotes is a simultaneous notepad and voice recorder This app is not simply a tape recorder Read on to find out all that can be done with it Start that lecture by tapping on the record button and you get a com plete audio recording of all that is being said As the voice recording continues you can add text or pictures even photos to the recording Best of all the addition of the notes you take and the pictures you add are in sync with the playback of the recording Tap any word you put on your device and the audio playback will jump to that spot When you are done you will have a complete audio recording of the presen tation including any extra notes you jotted down drawings you made or photos you took All those doodles will show up at the exact part of the audio that you made them easily erased You can take part in the discussions and not have to worry about getting all the facts down on paper This app will give you the best visual and audi
11. takes quite a bit of effort and time to learn to use effectively The more demanding and exact the extraction the longer it takes to set up the program and the more steps that are required Reset to Defaults T ape There are two modes of image processing Auto ee mode above right which offers a powerful algo rithm for automatic recognition of areas and Manual mode shown below right which includes a set of smart and helpful brushes to touch up the results where needed AKVIS Images AKVIS Smart 4ask v 4 5 Fotolia 36171830 Subscription XXLjpo RGB A 6383x4787 a K Fa dy de lt gt Mito Manual There are two pencils in Auto mode and the con cept is delightfully simple you draw a line with the blue pencil inside the object you want to se lect and then use the red pencil to create lines outside the object which define the areas that should be cut out The program then interprets your intentions and intelligently makes the selec tion you want understanding where the borders are da ES o v F With simple images the pencil tools or the Ouick Selection tool in manual mode are often enough to produce a professional looking result Our Checkpoint 2 Open E Background Eraser 1 af Quick Selection y Remove Selected Areas Quick Selection tool is a powerful feature which 7 Desa a X Magic Brush allows our program to select regions automati X Magic B
12. the ability Defaults Cancel Okay for faster or upwardly flight respectively Volume M Play Music When Idle EJ Play Music During Game gt gt ha amp left arrow right arrow down arrow ha ae Up arrow E Automatic Demo The various Levels of the game are called houses although a level may contain any number of buildings as well as outdoors sewer or other sec tions Houses are entirely self con tained and any of them is immediately available for play When the Glider PRO was first released by C amp G the game was available with only one real house called Slumber land and one demonstration house Eventually the game was greatly en hanced through the addition of more elaborate houses and a later CD re lease of the game see below fea tured 14 further houses Glider PRO was initially released for System 7 and was continuously updated through a Mac OS 9 version the final release on the Classic Mac OSes It was later ported to Mac OS X as a native Carbon ap k plication and while this version has reworked graphics and a more muted color scheme it lacks a variety of preferences and the built in house editor present in the Mac OS 9 version Pow erPC Mac OS X users can still run the Mac OS 9 version of Glider in the Classic environ ment giving them access to the multitude of additional preferences and the house editor Glider PRO Classic CD This is what f
13. the external power adapter connected to the Hub so the desktop or laptop host doesn t need to be powered on have not had the opportunity to check out the data transfer rates for Thunderbolt and USB 3 0 as compared to USB 2 0 but all Internet lit erature points to outstanding performance for these new ports StarTech com lists the data transfer rate for the USB 3 0 port of this HUB to be 5 Gbps as opposed to 0 45 Gbps when using USB 2 0 de vices with it This Hub sells for 55 99 CAD and can be purchased online from the StarTech com website www startech com The ST7320USBC USB 3 0 2 0 hub is backed by a StarTech com 2 year warranty and free litetime technical support If you are wondering about the price you can find a four port USB 3 0 Hub for less than this but it does not have its own power source Comparable 4 port USB 3 0 Hubs sell for about the same if not more And have not found any other Hub that has the charging slot They have a Canadian shipping outlet so that you will avoid costly border extras Go to www startech com Cards Adapters USB 3 0 Hubs and have a look at this Hub and the others that they have available If you are looking for a USB Hub to facilitate the use of your external devices then you should have a look at this Hub from StarTech com Now all need is more USB 3 devices to take advantage of these faster ports Submitted by Marcel Dufresne StarTechz IPhone plugged into ST7320USBC charging port
14. unplug the power cord of the external drive in order to control Time Machine Now all have to do is flick the switch on the Hub If want to turn the power on the Hub and this is becoming more so with the newer iMac Laptops also have a lack of ports For me a Hub is a necessity The ST7320USBC 6 Port USB 3 0 2 0 Combo Hub with Charging Post adds 2x USB 3 0 and 4x USB 2 0 ports to a computer through a single USB 3 0 connection It comes with a power cable so that all devices will work from it When it is plugged in to an electrical outlet it can act as a high output charging port which enables you to charge USB devices by providing up to 2A of power Even without a USB connection to a host com puter it can still be used to charge mobile de vices Besides offering extra available ports and a charging slot the Hub can act as a go be tween to extend the range of a USB device by having the Hub act as a mid point repeater was impressed by the look and size of the Hub It is very lightweight It has a unigue design that provides USB ports along the two sides of the Hub as well as the top The slots are well spaced apart so they are not crammed together two on top two on one side and three on the other This design provides guick access to all the ports but not activate Time Machine simply take out the drive s USB cable from the top of the Hub don t even have to stand up to do this The charging port while be
15. views icon list and column When turned on it groups similar items to gether in the file listing eg it collects all folders together then all ap plications then all packages then all files You can customize the smart sort order in the Path Finder preferences under the Browser preferences Besides the tab function my favourite application of Path Finder is the split screen Choosing this from the toolbar creates two identical win dows beside each other Each window operates separately from the other This means that you can quickly compare the contents of simi lar files stored in different locations You have complete control over which attributes are shown in each of the windows Sure you can kind of do this with the Finder but you would have to open two windows to do it and you would need to make changes to each one Moving them around or resizing takes time Path Finder automatically does this since the two windows are actually attached to each other a i Nr 8 Drive KJ b ES Applications Hardware gt iPad OD UOIT Movies PATH FINDER 6 YOUR FILES YOUR WAY 2 5 items 1 6 TB available The Drop Stack is a tool that gives you the ability to load Items files folders applica tions bundles etc from multi ple locations on your hard drive and then unload them in a dif ferent location or perform an ac tion on them Each time you drag items into the Drop Stack which is found in th
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17. USB port The bottom line is that an external Hub would be most useful al ways have way more de vices to use than ports available on my computer especially like the two top ports You don t have to pick up the Hub to plug your device into either of these slots This versatile and flexible USB Hub is ideal for both laptops and desktops No more stretching or turning the computer sideways to gain access to the back ports keep the Hub underneath the monitor so that can auickly add or W detach a device always used one of the ports on my W to plug in a USB extension cable That A mm W3y did not have to reach in behind M to plug in a thumb drive or a charging cable or my camera can still do this because the Hub has freed up three of the desk I top s ports F An added feature that have not Y seen on other Hubs is an on off switch like to use Time Machine only once a day and it is not easily programmable With my external drive linked through the Hub all have to do is turn the Hub on and Time Machine does its thing When eject the drive by putting the icon in the trash Time Machine becomes inactive not being able to access my exter nal drive The LED light shows that the drive is powered but not mounted on the desktop can then turn off the Hub and Es both LED lights go off like the option of saving a bit of power if am not using a device In the past used to
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19. a wider range of de vices and media It is Y possible with newer ye tom A versions of OuarkX diae Left Press to create and export directly to OuarkXPress is a computer application for creating and editing com plex page layouts in a WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get environment Since 1987 OuarkXPress has been consistently the pro fessional desktop publishing software of choice for Mac users except for a dark period in 2002 03 when the then new OuarkXPress 5 did not support Mac OS X while Adobe InDesign 2 0 launched in the same week did Although the program started out serving the print industry and was used by individual designers and large publishing houses to produce a variety of layouts it has evolved with the times and is now capable Interactive App Studio i Top eBook ePub Kindle Right 0 25 Column Guides eBook format for Cabas 7 ePub and Kindle and with the addition of App Studio to ex port multimedia apps for iPad OXP supports the creation of 100 HTML5 based content on native apps and platforms such as Android C Facing Pages Allow Odd Pages on Left N vi Gutter Width ET Automatic Text Box 0 167 Cancel 0 One of the nicer things about QuarkXPress is that it is a program that grows with the user It is possible to use the simple tools found in any modern version of OuarkXPress to write a letter or design something like a simple half page fl
20. at QXP10 would be a monumental re lease incorporating the very latest technol ogy inside and designed to deliver a transformed user experience and that unlike the other major desktop publishing software Adobe InDesign Quark would continue with their policy of selling perpet ual licenses for the QXP program For those of you blissfully unaware of this issue Adobe has instituted subscription only access to the upgrade from their their CS software Users can rent but not own Adobe software and the name has been changed from Adobe Creative Suite to Adobe Cre ative Cloud Quark users will continue to be able to purchase OuarkX Press as a standard perpetual software license directly from Quark For those of us including me who have stayed with various ver sions of Mac OSX 10 6 and resisted the call to move on to Mac OS X 10 7 Lion or to Mac OS X 10 8 Mountain Lion resistance is now Officially futile This new version of QXP requires Mac OSX 10 7 5 or later and will only run on Intel Macs For a new user the only other re quirements are that the user must have basic computer skills like Knowing how to use a keyboard and a mouse and knowing how to Open Save and Close files If you can swing all of that and have a desire to experience the very best desktop publishing software cur rently available anywhere on this planet Quark will do the rest Y of creating and ex W porting a wider range i of document types to 4
21. best use the latest OS X features maximize performance and rapidly support new OS X releases OuarkXPress 10 also takes full advantage of the latest Intel processor technology Other new features in QuarkXPress 10 include HiDPI and Retina Display Support QR code creation and PDF pass through transparency Some of the new enhancements are immediately obvious and extreme on my old 2007 iMac The new Xenon Graphics Engine built into OXP10 renders rich PDFs Photo shop and TIFF images and uses its Adaptive Resolution feature to deliver much better onscreen resolution than was possible with even the most previous version of QXP As you can see from the pictures above screen shots of Quark documents created from my own Desktop by importing the same image into a QuarkXPress docu ment there is a vast difference in appearance between the same page created in OXP9 on the left and OXP10 on the fight The other extreme enhancement is the up orc Window dated user interface with dockable menus a and full screen view as found under the View Actual Size menu The dock menu at the bottonm of the 200 Thumbnails screen changes to provide suitable parame ters every time a new item in the document Pamesa page is selected See dock samples and the new look of Quarkx Press 10 on the next page Tool and Measurements can float as well but dock if pulled into receptive zones at the screen left and bottom
22. cal history Didn t think SO Set your privacy meter Develop your own set of personal privacy rules everyone has different privacy buttons and it s important to figure out which are important to you Manage your Internet connection Understand privacy risks pre vent snoops and take key precautions to keep your data from leaking out Browse and search the Web Learn what information is revealed about you when you use the Web Avoid bogus Web sites connect securely where possible control your cookies and history block ads browse and search anonymously and find out who is tracking you Also learn how to protect your passwords and credit card data Send and receive email Find out how your email could be inter cepted consider when you want email to be extra private such as when communicating with a doctor or lawyer find out why Joe does nt recommend email encryption as a solution to ordinary privacy needs but find pointers for how to get started if you want to try it or just encrypt an attachment which is easier get tips for sending email anonymously and read ideas for alternatives to email Talk and chat online Consider to what extent any phone call text message or online chat is private and find tips for enhancing your pri vacy when using these channels Watch your social media sharing Social media is by definition social so there s a limit to how private it can be Understand the risks and bene
23. camera in it which lets you take up to 12 screen shots and save them This could be used if the Journal area is not providing you with enough detail for a location When games get tough a level of frustration might set in What to do next often pops up in my mind The Tomb of the Lost Queen pro vides a good Hint function at the Amateur Sleuth level When the time comes that you just can t figure out what to do don t give up or get discouraged Use the Hint function which is the last button on your cell phone Rather than supplying you with the complete solution im mediately the developers will walk you through a few steps before al lowing you to wimp out They suggest you try this or look for that Maybe you should find a suggested book lying around and read it There are no penalties associated with using the hints nor is there a time bonus for completing the game guickly No one will know whether you have taken the easier way out and used a hint As with all the Nancy Drew games the superior level of graphics and the game play kept us glued to the monitor day after day until we had solved the final puzzle The attention to detail is evident in all aspects of the game The flood lights that light up the lower reaches hum louder the closer you approach Dust is always falling from the ceiling The wind is ever present Egypt is a freguent location in adventure games and it has a lot to offer It s got a dramatically inhospitable cli
24. cause we care about the envi ronment the MaUsE DoubleClick is created using only recycled electrons matter was neither created nor destroyed in the process of creating this issue There is always room for another piece on any Mac related topic and I ll make room if there isn t would like your submissions But won t beg Apple Macintosh and the Apple logo are trade marks of Apple Computer Inc registered in the U S and other countries The MaUsE Macintosh Users East is an Apple authorised Macintosh user group Michael Shaw Editor About MaUsE Macintosh Users East also known as MaUsE Is the most active Apple authorised MUG Mac User Group in Southern Ontario MaUSE is here for users of all Apple products Including Apple computers iPods iPhones and iPads Henry Street Whitby Central Library Highway 2 Colborne Street King Street Scotia Bank Dundas Street West Center Street Byron Street pay your MaUsE Membership fee still only 45 per year MaUsE Meetings are held in Room 1 at the new Whitby Public Library on the south east corner of Henry and Dundas West in Whitby Ontario on the fourth Wednesday of each month except December July and August Meet ings start at 7 00 PM but there is an early session from 6 30 for people who wish to discuss hardware or software issues or problems Macintosh virus problem are discussion from 6 58 to 7 00 PM EN N gt 0 a
25. der PRO Glider PRO is an Apple Macintosh game first published by Casady amp Greene It was the final installment of the Glider series to date When Casady amp Greene went bankrupt the rights to the series reverted to the author John Calhoun In the game you fly a paper plane the Glider ANA in around over and even under a house try L 4 ing to collect a number of hidden magic stars The Glider can only be maneuvered to glide forward glide backward or to stand still Fur ther navigation is done chiefly with the aid of air currents provided by floor or ceiling ventila tion ducts fans drafts and wind It is also possi ble fr the glider to slide along slippery surfaces such as spilled grease and transport from a part of the level to another using the ventilation system mail boxes and sometimes invisible teleports The main challenge is to simply avoid colli sion with the floor or obstacles such as fur niture Moving obstacles include bouncing basketballs popping toast and dripping water Candles and other ablaze objects sport both a handy updraft and a lethal flame Collision with enemy paper planes and balloons is also fatal but these can be shot down with the use of a rubber bands bonus item The other bonus items are alu minum foil shielding against in flight colli sions pieces of paper extra lives a variety of clocks points and batteries and helium tanks mutually exclusive granting
26. down what others have to say that they don t contribute to the discussion With ma umn AudioNote can make a transcript of all that was said later so that can actively partici notes in the Cioud toider to have them synchronized Take a nate on one and you can A f i Study l anywhere pate at any time in the discussions and know will not miss out on any details Try the LITE version for free It limits you to 10 minutes of audio per file but it will give you a AudioNote also lets you insert photos now Preserve diagrams and lecture sides good idea of how powerful this little app can be This is one app that think is essential mas mej asa age og aH ar TEEN PIEN for all students If you are looking for a simple gift to send them off to school with this is It As far as the business world is concerned or anyone attending meetings you will greatly benefit from using AudioNote At 4 99 for the full version with virtually unlimited recording length it is well worth while Submitted by Marcel Dufresne OuarkXPress 10 Another Huge Step Forward Check out the front cover of this month s issue Either you will recog nize the significance of the image there or you won t The release of OuarkXPress 10 is the biggest event in desktop publishing since the June 2011 release of OuarkXPress 9 There has been a lot of speculation about QXP10 and Quark has kept quiet about the pro gram s new enhancements only stating th
27. e three or four running The first feature want to mention is the ability to have tabs in the Finder window called a browser in Path Finder If you ve never used tabs before they are basically a way of having multiple views con tained within one window Each window has a tab attached to the top that you can click on This switches the currently visible area to that view You can use tabs as a productivity tool to help you quickly switch between multiple locations ON your hard drive They are espe cially helpful when moving or copy ing files between multiple locations You only need one window open not multiple ones in order to see your files Another feature in Path Finder is the Bookmark Bar You can drag folders or volumes into the Bookmark Bar at the top of the window Add directories that you use freguently to the Bookmark Bar to give yourself guick access to their contents If you select an item from the Bookmark menu a drop down menu will be lowered To open a Bookmark Bar item itself in the Path Finder browser either se lect Open from the item s drop down menu or Open in Tab 11 31 AM 2 bytes 138 bytes Path Finder has a number of extra panels which you can guickly open or close Among other things these can provide additional information for any item that is highlighted in the window Some of these such as Sidebar Path Bar Toolbar and Status Ba
28. e been attacked You as Nancy Drew an amateur detective are called in to attempt to discover who attacked the Professor as well as to try and fig ure out what happened to the previous n N expedition Nancy s first task is to find po e Jon s notes and continue with the expe AS dition as well as she can ke i ET m o el oe The object of this game is to explore the expedition s encampment as well as the many underground rooms that make up the tombs To succeed you will need to dig deep into the past mys MMM ll 1 eee J oo eee teries that surround this Lost Queen ae i MESAS JOURNAL gt You will need to interrogate any of the b el Ol Search Jamilas Bag again remaining expedition s members you 14 F With the help of experts open find as they will be your prime suspects the inner coffin s lock The bottom of the screen has the game s main menu a cell phone which can only be used above ground an inventory area with a slider and a task list and journal The main menu allows you to save your game whenever you choose usually suggest saving your game peri odically but it is not necessary with this one When you quit the game you are asked if you want your progress saved This is the only time you really need to save There are times during game play where you might try something that re sults in a fatal move over five of these However the game permits you to re sume p
29. e dep ameg megi meetings have the same agenda items every time have made a special agenda background page The Pen Mode is used for E Work freehand writing or drawings that can be added anywhere any m My iPad time Tapping this icon brings up a menu with the following OS tterviews choices freehand straight line arrow rectangle and circle As D nutria 1 well you can choose colour undo redo or erase You can now For Work doodle to your hearts content as often do during some meet ings The next option is the Highlight Mode Tap on any word and it will be highlighted in yellow You can email the file as either an AudioNote File or a PDF with Text and Drawings but no audio The AudioNote File will reguire the recipient to have AudioNote on their com puter or device There is a free AudioNote LITE app for Mac Windows and Android de vices The body of the email contains info on how to get this free viewer so that the file can be seen and manipulated from their end The share over WiFi is an interesting op tion You can share the file to a computer that is on the same Wi Fi network as the iPad There is a URL listed which when entered will take you to a site that lists any AudioNote file that is on your iPad This can then be downloaded to that computer You can also use Tunes and Cloud to share your files This is quite an extensive list to help you share your files Just think how valuable this would be to a student who mis
30. e evening finished off with a raffle We had two visitors who stayed until the meeting ended and engaged various members in conversation No they return next month Wit 1 Macintosh Users East Te Trash F t 1 M Js o Macintosh Users East Measurements Palette Ef J 4 ET ss MaUsE Raffle Software prizes for this month s MaUsE raffle were provided by our friends at Alien Skin and Stellar Phoenix Alien Skin provided a copy of Eye Candy 7 and Stellar provided two copies of Mac Data Recov ery Marcel Brian Michael and Chris provided the other items s ES 414 SEEEEEEEEEEESESES A Kn ms Fiure Bow p Clipping E Runarcund l Space Air Drop Shada Menos OC og lt Cs 247 Ne TN Qe azar ECC ms ClO ook eo o ias is Cor Le KUUT When a picture box is selected the Measurements palette asso gles and intensity frame type colour and thickness alignment ciated with pictures appears at the bottom of the screen with relative to other picture elements on the same page and rota tabs for controlling all of the attributes that can be associated tion or skew angles Among other things the Tools Palette al with pictures and picture boxes From this one panel the user lows the user to link boxes set their shape select which type of can setup and specify whether the picture box will appear in box to create text or image and whether to ma
31. e top left of the window it creates a new Stack and there s a visual in dicator of the number of Stacks currently in the Drop Stack Clicking on the grey Drop Stack header reveals the Drop Stack menu where you can Remove All or Remove Top remove the currently visible stack Here you can also access other fea tures including Burn burn all of the items currently in the Drop Stack to removable disk Com press the contents of the Drop Stack to a file or Compress and Email everything Is your computer a bit sluggish fc 16 2 CE 5 5 GE 36 CB 548 7 WE 419 1 MB 207 2 MB MB 658 2 KB 105 2 KB 59 4 KB 21 5 KB 12 4 KB ko T Games s Applications Ll Hardware Gameloom Em Take Control DC LJ iPad b Double Click Archive s Presentations K Reviews Database M icon m 0S Store o Press Releases 43 Size Browser DC submissions ja j 2 P j 5 1 CB 203 3 MB 29 3 MB 26 3 MB 18 8 MB 14 4 MB 12 2 MB 10 7 MB O ME 7 6 MB FA MB 5 7 MB 4 1 ME 3 8 ME 3 1 MB 3 1 MB 2 9 MB 2 5 MB 2 1 MB 1 9 MB 1 9 MB 1 8 MB 1 8 ME 1 7 MB 1 3 MB Maybe you have some large files hidden away that you should get rid of With the size browser all items on your hard drive will be sorted with their size listed This works as a column view so that clicking on a file will open that folder in the next column again listing and sorting their size
32. elated to Mac OS Because they are in PDF format these ebooks have a lot of advantages over the traditional paper books Electronic books are a new experience for many people but they provide you with a good deal of flexibility that isn t available with printed books With your purchase of the ebook you get expert advice on various topics but with an Apple perspective These are the same expert au thors of some best selling print books The download is immediate and you don t have to leave your house to get it Because it is paper less it can be purchased for much less than a paper edition Also if a new edition of the book comes out your original purchase of the book allows you to easily update your current copy for free There are click able links right in the text so that your book immediately leads to other sources on the same topic It is readable onscreen which means you can control the size of the print If you use Preview you can even highlight sections without messing up the book use a copy of the original if you are worried You can even print up a paper copy of the book if you feel the need The catalog is very extensive and can be accessed from http www takecontrolbooks com catalog They offer free sample sections of all their ebooks and a money back guarantee so try one out anytime As readers of the DoubleClick you also now have access to this coupon CPN90219MUG which entitles you to a 30 discount on the purchase of a book
33. er some hieroglyphs or de duce some ancient crypto codes My favourite mini game was an an cient game played with sticks thrown as dice It sort of resembled a version of backgammon My least favourite hardest was an ancient riddle which had to make some sense of before could rearrange the tiles in the proper order Make sure you keep careful note of all info and the location of the many books They will come in handy in ij r many N the games When you first start TE Sene you are pre sented with the option of which level you want to play The Amateur Sleuth level provides regular puzzles with hints being available and a detailed task list The Master Sleuth level provides more challenging puzzles with no hints and a more basic task list strongly suggest you play at the easier level for the first time Each and every regular mini game will test your gaming skills The next time you play you can switch to the Master Sleuth setting The game provides quite a few extras that really have no bearing on the resolution of the mystery but are a lot of fun to try There are cell phone games charms and some trophies to be won The cell phone comes with four fun to play games that you can use at any time These range in difficulty and will provide some interesting diversions One of them is remogram a game where you must join up a series of concussive numbers in a grid so that a path is traced from the first to the last nu
34. fits of shar ing personal information online tweak your settings and consider common sense precautions Share files What if you want to share or collab orate on a contract form or other document that contains confidential or personal information Find out about the best ways to share files via file server email attachment cloud based file sharing service peer to peer file sharing or private cloud Help your children As a parent you know a lot about your children and you have access to lots of photos of them But that doesn t mean you should share everything without a thought to your children s privacy needs either now or in the future since data never disappears from the Internet Find a few key tips to keep in mind before you tell all Learn what s private online and what to do about it This ebook costs 10 00 normally but using the coupon will make a difference Check this ebook out and a lot others at www takecontrolbooks com Submitted by Marcel Dufresne MaUsE Meetin September 25 201 3 Resources from the September Meeting P Download a suitable copy of Disk Inventory X 1 0 for It was good to see everyone back after the summer break We had 30 peo i 4 a Mac OSX 10 3 or later or an earlier version to suit ple show up out of a field of 45 The meeting was very good with several entertaining and informative presentations Bruce ran the audio amp video whatever version of Mac OSX you are ru
35. ing a good idea may not be as functional E in as it first sounds know that charging a device through the USB port on a computer will work but have found that it is a slow means of charging Plugging my iPad in to an electrical outlet works much faster was hoping that the charging slot on the Hub would be better as it is pow ered with its own electrical cable It is W faster than going through my desktop computer but not as fast as the electrical outlet The iPad 4 comes with a plug that puts out 12 Watts and 2 4 A My Pad 2 has a plug that gives 10 Watts and 2 1A My old iPod Touch s plug has only 1 0A There is a considerable difference in charging times when using different plugs The iPad 4 s plug is defi nitely the fastest The specs on the Hub list the charging port as up to 2 0A It will charge your smartphones quickly but is slower with tablets ON OFF like the idea of a charging port and will use it with my iPod Touch but the electrical outlet will continue to charge up my iPad That being said as with the StarTech com Internet Repeater that reviewed in the July 2013 DC the Hub comes with three interchangeable power adapter plugs so that this device can be used with North American European or UK power outlets So if you are stuck without the right plug while traveling abroad you could use the charging port of the Hub even if it is a bit slower Lastly portable devices can be charged with just
36. ke changes to front of or behind the text and other images drop shadow an the picture box itself or to the opacity of its contents N Home EJ Picture Box i i Frame Clipping iH Runaround ln Space Align H Drop Shadow m 297 257 Miss o O D soio Moo ELM ME oo Eo TEMO Corb 142 079 237 ado MO E 100 O oo JKCIsa 6x Mt oo 1540 MMT When text or a text box is selected the Measurements palette as are settings here for the actual text including things like justifica sociated with text appears at the bottom of the screen with tabs tion spacing font and size With all of the controls available in for controlling all of the attributes that can be associated with text the various palettes and a selection of fonts in your computer and text boxes Besides all of the attributes that can be applied there is no limit to what an experienced QuarkXPress user can to the box itself like the picture boxes mentioned above there do with the appearance of words on the page ft Home T Character Paragraph 7 Rules Tabs ii Text Box i i Frame E Runaround ln Space Align H Drop Shadow ed 0 25 E O MA 100 Yoo a2 MiMfnenvetica Gal fizor MES amdos Maz Bao 100 oe cox Mor CI auto The picture on the previous page shows how OuarkXPress 10 appears with the full screen mode enabled on my 24 inch iMac The Measurements palette fills the bottom of the screen from side to side The Tools palette appea
37. lay with you entering this same area to rethink what your next move should be This resumption of play pre cludes you having to remember to save all the time As you investigate the various areas you will pick up items that will eventually help you unravel the mystery These Items are stored in your inventory at the bottom of the screen This area might extend beyond the space provided There are a lot of items and clues to be z 6 SS found A slider is used to move from one end of your list to the other The bottom right of the screen contains the list of what needs to be done next As you investigate interrogate and pick up things a list of tasks that need to be accomplished starts to accumulate For in stance you will need to decrypt many an ancient hieroglyph To do this will require a dictionary which you first must locate Once a task is done you can use the check box beside it to mark it as completed The game is non linear in play The tasks can be completed in a ran dom order although certain tasks need to be settled before they ap pear on the list Going back and forth between areas and talking to suspects is all well and good but the real test of your gaming abilities will be the mini games that you encounter along the way The Tomb of the Lost Queen provides quite a few mini games and you won t find any of the easy kind here There are no jigSaw puzzles or pick up the top stick or find the differences Here you get to deciph
38. ld 2 7 3 aa TE Pinola Sound Manager 3 0 installer gt Glider PRO CD Eg E Eg Screen Shots f E Art Museum 1 F most extreme makeover remains Ward Hartenstein s house SeaCaves which completely renews the game into an under sea adventure of a dolphin to free a magical starfish At http www scuzzstuff org gliderpro you can download a copy of Glider PRO that has been written to run on Mac OSX and get Mac OSX compliant versions of the 14 houses found on the Glider Pro Classic CD For people who still have clas sic Macs there is a link to Glider PRO for Mac OS9 Submitted by Michael Shaw New From AKVIS 41 n n ns m4 45 somista sos X i i amp de de SAD Auto Manual b T SmartMask 4 5 p aoe AKVIS SmartMask 4 5 is designed to help auto mate the often tedious task of removing the back 5 ground from around objects that you want to isolate or extract from an image At 180 forthe ES commercial version of SmartMask 4 5 it is one of Pis the pricier AKVIS programs the non commercial 5 sf mi oom T Parameters F Edge Priority 50 5 license is 105 for either the stand alone version hmm or the plug in or 135 for both but in terms of puna B the time that it can save for people who must do sataa 2 this sort of thing a lot it is well worth the money It vonna B is also one of the most complex AKVIS programs gre og and
39. mate exotic tombs and a fascinating history It s a potent mixture of mummies machinations and mind twisters just waiting for Nancy The rooms and corridors of the tombs are full of wall paintings hiero glyphs secret doors hard to reach platforms and intriguing debris The Tomb of the Lost Oueen sells for 19 99 You can read more about this game from the HER Interactive web site http www herinteractive com While there you might want to look at some of their other Nancy Drew selections as did If you are one of those people who is always try ing to figure out whodunits before the end of the book or TV show then you will enjoy The Tomb of the Lost Oueen It has so much to offer over and above the main task of debunking a curse found that once you have played one of these 28 games the game play is very much easier had a much better idea of what to look for as well as a better feel for the mini games Any of the Nancy Drew games from HER Interactive will provide many many hours of critical thinking fun The more of these games we play the more we want We are defi nitely looking forward to 29 Nancy Drew The Silent Spy soon to be on the market If you are looking for a reasonably priced puzzle solv ing game then you need to check out one of the Nancy Drew myster ies The Tomb of the Lost Queen is my favourite so far Cave ins curses sandstorms hieroglyphs puzzles this game has it all A A E MW A HE LK
40. mber without crossing any lines The Tomb of the Lost Queen is laced with hidden items and tasks There are 13 trophies to be obtained by completing assorted accomplishments most of which have no bearing on solving the mystery This is a sure fire way to get you to replay the game No one ever wants to leave a game with un finished tasks Keeping yourself hydrated eventually leads to winning one of these trophies It is never listed in the task menu and does not help in any way to solve the crime It is just something else to look for There are also some charms that you may find lying around Once picked up they can be found decorating your cell phone The last device provided to help you is the aforementioned cell phone There Mf are three contacts found here The first is Bess Marvin Nancy s best friend Bess recently saw a movie about Egypt so she feels as though she can be helpful to Nancy Unfortu nately it was a horror movie where everyone died at the end Calling her periodically might provide you with some suggestions or it just might heighten your fear factor The second number is for Professor Beatrice L Hotchkiss one of Nancy s old friends Professor Hotchkiss may be absent minded at times but she s very friendly and knowledgeable about Ancient Egypt especially in terms of ancient riddles The last number is for Professor Jon Boyle Nancy s employer He will be able to give a lot of technical advice The phone has a
41. n the Art PH 3s Pannen yi jo W Work interface and a set of control slid PA A 3 R tuma Stroke intensity 8 ers to fine tune the effect And like all of Nytvan IR sel Density 20 al the other AKVIS programs ArtWorkis A ET s Bl reasonable priced only 80 for the plug e teatros 2 M in or stand alone program or 115 for both and offers a 10 day free evaluation period for the user to get accustomed to the program s features before deciding to purchase a license AKVIS Default AK VIS Soft Pastel AKVIS Light Sparkles AKVIS Smooth Strokes To use the program as a stand alone ap plication download a copy from the AKVIS web site at www akvis com and launch it From the File menu navigate to and open any picture on your hard drive When you scan through each of the painting techniques you will see the list of Presets change to suit the offerings of each type and the little sample window will appear to give a general idea of what you can expect in the way of results if you use that preset Naturally being an AKVIS product there is a full explanation of the program on the AKVIS website like there is for every AKVIS product complete with user guide screenshots tutorials videos and before and after examples showing how to get the most out of the ArtWork program g AKVIS Fine Details AKVIS Rough Strokes AKVIS Long Strokes AKVIS Pastel Pencils Combining advanced technologies with an artistic approach
42. nning at electronics Ken reported that we are still solvent lan covered the process http www derlien com downloads index html for downloading books to his iPad from the local library Marcel talked about Download a copy of Applejack 1 6 from playing his favourite iPad trivia game and about creating OR codes online http sourceforge net projects applejack gave a quick overview of Disk Inventory X and Marcel ran the iPad App Delight segment with the assistance of various members who brought in their iDevices to show and tell their latest app discoveries Brian took care of Apple News and talked about the new iOS release and the brand new updated iMacs After the break Brian took the stage again and gave a scathingly brilliant presentation about Macintosh utilities and AppleJack Stan announced the MaUsE Elections and emphasized a need for new fresh faces on the MaUsE Exec The evening finished off with a raffle We had two visitors who stayed until the meeting ended and engaged various members in conversation hope they return next month A m AT A USE Macintosh Users East E iPhoto 31 3 MB EL j Color Kind Size Files z Dut Mewe To Trash Show Package Contents KA y NIIN interface Builder Docurm 15 4 MB 2104 SEYI AA e SY MP3 Audio File 4 MB 2 ae r pora KI Unix Executable File 3 8MB 23 v 4 Contents 31 3 MB HIN JPEG Image 16MB 74 gt inua 24 7 0 NHH string
43. o set of notes possible There are a few tools that can be used while recording or playback The Touch Mode hand icon is used during playback When you tap this button you can then touch any word or picture on the screen and have the audio jump to that time Also when the audio is playing each text or drawing will be highlighted at the time they were AudioNote Notepad and Voice Recorder These tools can be used at any time not just when recording the audio The note is never re ally complete You can always keep adding to it You can even record more audio and it will be appended to the end of the first recording It will automatically allow you to add to your meet ing hours afterwards The last tool is the Photo Mode am putting this in a separate paragraph just to emphasize its worth You can use your iPad to take a picture and add it to the notes at whatever point you want If you find a complex drawing up on the pre senter s screen take a photo of it and there it is in your notes This would have saved me a lot of time as a student and made for much more accurate drawings The photo that appears can be shrunk or en larged as need be and moved around to anywhere on the screen You can lock it or delete it and even share it This mode and all its func tions is available whenever you tap on the Photo Mode This ability is what sets AudioNotes above any other audio app out there There are a few more functions that
44. ound among the MacTreasures This was an up date that included Glider PRO plus new houses and utilities The houses included were Art Museum In the Mirror Davis Station Castle o the Air Teddy World Land of Illusion Imagine house PRO II The Asylum PRO Nemo s Market Titanic SpacePods Rain bow s End Leviathan Grand Prix Metropolis and Slumberland Empty House and Demo House In addition the utilities Moving Van a utility for moving graphics and sound between houses and lib raries and any combination of the two and Foundation Mover a utility for sliding an entire house over in terms of the map position if your room ran out CD ROM spe cial instructions and some graphics libraries were included SS gt AIOT re j Mac Gets anyu TE 2 a Houses are created using the built in house editor in the Classic version Standard backgrounds include rooms of many decors from Asian tapestry to a personal library as well as meadows fields and gardens sewers and basements rooftops and open skies There is also a wide selection of furni ture other obstacles and background items clutter all of which are demonstrated by Slumberland Enemy design is limited to specifying at tack range and timing Glider PRO allows for houses to include custom backgrounds objects and sounds via embedding of PICT STR and snd resources in the house s resource fork A few of the game s existing interface elements can also be
45. quires the right tools and when it comes to professional results details matter QuarkXPress 10 has been redesigned from the inside out to deliver stunning graphics virtuoso productivity features and a design canvas to accentuate your creativity Xenon Graphics Engine with adaptive image resolution e HIDPI and Retina display support Modern and optimized UI PDF pass through transparency OR Code Creator Import pictures and hyperlinks from MS Word East Asian typography features in every edition More than 50 new and enhanced features QuarkXPress is the tool of choice for designers of every type of high quality high precision print lay outs all over the world QuarkXPress is used by leading magazines and newspaper publishers ad vertising and marketing departments book pub lishers print shops and dozens of other types of businesses Every upgrade has brought major im provements to the stability and usefulness of the program That is why this QuarkXPress update or any QuarkXPress update is a big deal When it comes to desktop publishing on the Mac the only truly incomparable software is OuarkX Press Whether the project to be created is a sim ple grocery store flyer or an issue of Playboy magazine wherever pictures and text are com bined to publish a creative illustrated docu ment on a computer there is no better software in the world than QuarkXPress There have been lots of other desktop publishing prog
46. r are already present in a normal Finder window However Path Finder gives you options as to what these extra panels look like For instance you can have multiple looks to the Side Bar instead of the one and only provided by the Finder and switch between these with a simple click of the mouse You can reveal or hide the Bookmark Bar Drop Stack Preview only available when in column view for Finder windows and three addi tional panels drawers one for each side and the bottom The bottom drawer opens into a fully functional Terminal window The right and left drawers can be customized to show a variety of information such as Recent Documents or Recent Folders you have opened There are 19 choices available by default and they can all be sized as needed You can have it show info attributes and permissions all of which can be edited file and folder history the selection path of a file lt can act as an lunes browser and best of all a preview window from which you could watch movies or read a complete pdf file The Finder also has this available in column view but the window is small and of fixed size The movies window has no controls on it With Path Finder you can move the movie along with a slide bar to whatever section you want to watch Path Finder can act as the default application for text files and the Terminal w There is no need to open a separate application to read pdf files or edit text files Path Finder s in
47. rams available for the Mac that were cheaper and arti cles about them have appeared over the past decade in the DoubleClick like Ms Publisher Adobe PageMaker Ready Set Go Create iStu dio Mellel Adobe InDesign Pages RagTime Print Shop and others but as we all know there is a reason why some software programs are free ware while others cost 80 and other programs cost 850 Path Finder from Cocoatech Y PATH FINDER 6 YOUR FILES YOUR WAY Because it s always there most of us do not realize that the Finder is really just another application running on our Macs If you quit the Finder your computer will still run You could start any application in your Dock or keep using one that had been started before you shut down the Finder However you would not easily open any others This is not useful but it does show that there are other ways to manip ulate your Desktop Alfred is one It allows you to find and run applica tions bypassing the Finder Path Finder is another and it is way more powerful than the Apple s Finder Path Finder simply put is a Finder 606 ee PKK AN A Fs sa iik C E E W DEVICES ardufre 2 Macintosh HD Name ES mardufre aj 1 Y SHARED E Marcel Dufresne W Marcel Dufresne Hm imac Oc6afc W PLACES a mardufre 7 Documents A Applications ES Desktop w Favorites JI Music 23 February 2011 7 50 AM 19 October 2 February 2012 4 58 PM
48. rs by default at the left and all other palette windows appear as a stackable list on the right or anywhere else choose The green backgound my colour choice is the pasteboard where can store resources like text boxes and alternative images that want to keep handy QuarkXPress works directly with Quark App Studio to give you complete control over the design of your app content utilising the world s most efficient environment for lay ing out content for multiple devices and orientations App Studio is the leading cloud based HTML5 solution for creating award winning apps for the iPad iPhone Android and other mobile devices With QuarkXPress and Quark App Studio you can create digital magazines and newspapers highly interactive eBooks catalogues research financial reports digital brochures and more jul dea Come on Kate one del wants her holiday TA EE ob er eye There is no doubt that this release of QuarkXPress 10 is just the first of many for this version QXP8 was updated 8 times and QXP 9 was updated 13 times but it already feels and looks like a winner QuarkXPress 10 costs 850 for the full retail version but can be purchased for 300 if you qualify as a Non Profit user or 200 if you qualify for an Education license Visit http www guark com for more information Submitted by Michael Shaw www quark com 10 QuarkXPress 10 Love Print Live Digital Creative expression re
49. rush a Pork Lalartira cally with just a few clicks Hide Into Informaton about the fle its name sze in pels color Like all of the other AKVIS titles we have looked EA mode proite and doit of rats atin past issues of the DoubleClick SmartMask 4 5 is available in several flavours You can download if directly from the AKVIS website and license it either as a plug in for the photo editing software you since version 6 If you do not own a copy of any of these Adobe prod presently use or as a stand alone app or both The SmartMask 4 5 ucts you need to get the stand alone version of the program which plug in version is compatible with every Mac version of Photoshop El runs like any application on your Mac The tutorial on the AKVIS web ements from version 1 right up to version 11 and with Photoshop site will get you up and running with SmartMask in no time New From AKVIS 2 Ano SAS Anor 4 0 100 0997 JPG 20482153 ArtWork 8 ICA X ll Before Here is another new release from AKVIS and another opportunity to download and try out an amusing pro gram for free while seeing how easy it is to apply ef fects using AKVIS software AKVIS ArtWork 8 is designed to imitate a bunch of different painting techniques Oil Watercolor Gouache Comics Pen 4 Ink Linocut ArtWork KN KIN ya a and Pastel Each of these types hasa W NNN pS E bunch of presets available withi
50. s You can quickly browse through anything stored on your computer How about trying to find a file that is invisible or not in dexed Path Finder has a special Find Window function that will turn up those hard to find files and any others that you are looking for Path Finder has many more special features have only scratched the surface of what it can do It really is made for the heavy duty Mac user of which am not have used the Terminal application maybe twice and can t remember ever trying to play with the Console or the Hex editor But there are enough other features with Path Finder that tempt me to use it instead of Apple s Finder There is an option to completely turn off the Finder and use only Path Finder You can also partially disable the Finder but still have it around if you so wish think will stick with that option for now went to the Keyboard Sys tems Extension pane and added some button combinations so that can quickly switch from Path Finder back to the Finder Path Finder can be used on a trial basis for 30 days am reviewing the Mac OS 10 8 version here but Cocoatech does have other versions available w World Book Heredis Translatelt s Appcuity MacGourmet 3 DC m Kid Px 3D DC m Weather Globe B Fantastica DC m SpamSieve DC E Quickeys 3 DC La File Juicer DC G Black ink OC Photolinker DC Knapsack DC a Default Folder FontCase DC a Yep DC F TE L E g CA phy d e p TE
51. s File 1 4 MB 348 b ree 22 eri J HTML document 1 3 MB 333 vi vaa ocumen MaUsE Raffle moo La a ees H iPhotoDPA 273 kB AVE aR eae Software prizes for this month s MaUsE raffle were miai A popoke provided by our friends at Alien Skin and Stellar di aio HIN Appie Icon Image 109KB 2 POIS 5 8 KT arr Audio 67 k 2 Phoenix Alien Skin provided a copy of Eye Candy 7 epa E EII Finder Document 65k 1 5 Info plist 1 kB and Stellar provided two copies of Mac Data Recov pre A A 5 ery Marcel Brian Michael and Chris provided the oi OO III AppleScript Suite Definit 7k8 1 W p LJ Resources Dis O Bytes EINI AppleScript Suite Termir 6k8 1 other Items Icen 65 kB KIM Graphics Interchange Fo Ske 12 DS Store 6 kB EN Cascading Style Sheet C 4 kB 4 E Symbolic Link 164 Byte 9 iPhoto iPhoto Contents MacOS Unix Executable File 1 9 MB lt a m 0 oman Lornarati tiana i al p M Snark Busters Glider PRO Classic CD Mac Treasure from 1995 Sometimes get overwhelmed by the MacTrash and MacTreasure around the house and my inability to tell the differ ence Did you know that have not one but two 800 MHz Daystar Genesis quad 604e processor PowerPCs lurk ing in the basement and one of the world s fastest Macintosh Ilci models And quite a bit of software Digging through a box of disks last month came across a rare jewel a copy of John Calhoun s famous Gli
52. s the scenes shift smartly TAL N when you go through them All ad MARA pt s The setting for the game begins sixty years in the past when a violent venture games require you to go Ad aN rt 96 y sandstorm uncovered an ancient tomb in the desert outside Cairo A back and forth between areas al LC a British expedition set off in hope of finally finding Egypt s legendary over and over again as discover S E Lost Queen The expedition never returned The explorers were lost les in one spot unlock other clues somewhere else The movement and presumed dead In the present day leading archaeologists are from place to place sometimes takes away from the fun of the investi trying to unearth what they presume to be the tomb where the British gation but in this game you move speedily through the various explorers were lost Everything is going fine at the newly rediscovered scenes It does not take long before you are acquainted with all the excavation site when suddenly another sandstorm occurs Professor rooms and able to run from one room to another Jon Boyle leader of the expedition is SNS ee mi Injured during the storm and hospital ized When Jon wakes up he decides to talk with Nancy The good news is that the site is all right but the bad news is that almost everyone has lett The site is rumoured to be cursed and the increase in suspicious accidents adds weight to the claim Jon informs Nancy that the doctors say he might hav
53. sed a lecture It is not the same as being there but it is a lot better than simply reading the lecture notes provided by the teacher or a friend When first started AudioNotes on my iPad had a choice of three areas to store the file Since had DropBox and Cloud set up on my iPad these where two of the choices The third choice is my actual iPad You can edit the folders in order to delete them or add subfolders For instance you can store all your meetings on your iPad but separate them into meetings within your department or with outside clients Proper organization of these folders would simplify finding previous information The recording length is really limited to either how much unused space you have in iCloud or in DropBox if you are have an account or on your device AudioNotes can be saved to any of these spots or others and moved easily between them There is a short user s manual that you can find at the Luminant Software web site at http luminantsoftware com iphone audionote html It is short as most of the functions with this app are intuitive The one suggestion would make is to have a choice of high light colours for the marker A yellow marker does not show up well when using a yellow background The ease of use of this app has taken away my fear of being the recording secretary for New features our meetings was always reluctant to do this because the secretary is often too busy i writing
54. should be addressed If you have printer capabilities there is a print button you can tap The Info button permits you to edit the title of the file and to set a location as a subti tle It informs you of the creation date and the last modification date This is also the place to go to change the page s background Tapping the share icon brings up several choices The open in option lets you send the file to various locations such as DropBox or Google Drive recorded Next there is the Text Mode which allows you to type sen kon Usage in text from anywhere on the screen Just tap any line and the Cloud a cursor and keypad are ready for input You have a choice of four a Biology i o Usage m preset backgrounds You can use a lined white page a lined fe yellow page like in Notes a graph page great for a lot of gt on g M French drawings or a simple blank white page You are not limited to os Everything you type of draw while recording or playing has the time recorded these four pages of backgrounds If you have a template of the Math Dis playback words ang drawings feghight to keep aude and notes in content meeting or have access to the lecture note you can make that Dropbox a HAMEET ter the background of the recording and add text or additional COM m meetings o ofan bane ud IU ments as the meeting moves along Since most of my club A 3 i Broker A vanety of drawng toot mak
55. tegrated text editor looks and works just Y DEVICES ED Marcel s iMac S Macintosh HD d a Applications i m TI Cames gt Hardware PI iPad i mi UOIT Movies Y SHARED q Marcel Dufresne Qa Marcel Dufresne like Text Editor And of El imac Oc6afc course it has a few extras Y PLACES thrown in such as a button l mardufre in the menu bar to have the kaen j cat text read out loud You can idp sataa ocuments now open complex Mi UOIT crosoft Word files that con Gy Pic a POD tain tables lists and bullets E Magazines J games i EC Dropbox Path Finder has a context Google Drive based View Options win dow The View Options window changes depending on what window or Path Finder element is currently active For example if the Path Finder desktop is ac tive the View Options will show Desktop view options S All My Files fag Trash RECENT DOCUMENTS Y SEARCH FOR Past Week gt Today All Movies All Documents All Images If a Path Finder file browser is active and set to Column view the View Options window displays the Column view options This allows complete customizing of the Path Finder window for things such as colour of background and text as well as the Font and size of the Font shown Apple s Finder also allows a lot of this to be done but Path Finder makes it easier to find and gives a lot more options Smart sorting is another option found in all of the file browser
56. this AKVIS program is an impressive creative suite and a perfect virtual artist The transformation of a picture into a painting hap pens before your very eyes you can follow the birth of a work of art in real time Submitted by Michael Shaw Nancy Drew Tomb of the Lost Oueen That is unless a curse is involved mn i like this game in that you havea RARE tota From HER Interactive restricted area to roam around in IIA oes HER Interactive has been developing Nancy Drew Adventure games The dig site where the action AE ff Y for over fifteen years Nancy Drew Tomb of the Lost Queen is a first takes place is very isolated You x F i person point and click adventure game loaded with all the intrigue and will eventually go completely JE plot solving that the old Nancy Drew books gave us This one is the through all the tents and the 3 26th Nancy Drew game that HER Interactive has developed have grounds surrounding the tomb N previously reviewed 27 the Deadly Device back in the Jan 2013 then work your way through many amp DoubleClick and 28 the Ghost of Thornton Hall in July 2013 Hav underground passages some of ing played their two most recent games and while reading the list of which have not yet been un previous titles was curious about what they would do with an An earthed It is guick work going cient Egyptian theme was not disappointed Read on to find out from one area all the way to an why other a
57. yer a birthday card or an invitation and then when the need arises or the expertise develops expand the type and complexity of the documents created to include posters and glossy magazine spreads using the same tools and then graduate to creat ing complete Blio or other eBook types interactive web pages OXP9 and even iPad apps If you have a desire to get hands on with QXP10 you are invited to download the free QuarkXPress 10 Test Drive and use all of its functionality for 30 days Don t worry about the clutter Ouark uses a smart installer that puts OXP10 Test Drive and all of its ancillary files into the same folder To uninstall QXP10 after the Test Drive just open the Applications folder on your hard drive and drag the QuarkXPress 10 folder to the trash http www guark com en Support Downloads OuarkXPress 10 is the first version of OuarkXPress to run as a native Cocoa application The conversion from the Carbon to the Cocoa programming framework is the reason why QXP10 requires the latest versions of Mac OSX Carbon provided a good degree of backward compatibility for programs that ran on the now obsolete Mac OS 8 and 9 so software developers could use the Carbon APIs to port their classic Mac software to the Mac OS X platform with far less effort than having to port to the entirely different Cocoa system Being a native Cocoa app brings a number of benefits to QuarkXPress 10 including the ability to

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