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1. At Our next meeting On November 6 Mobile Technology The Latest and Greatest Apps All at your Fingertips Also 4th Annual Digital Music Workshop November 16 7 PM at the Resource Center See page 9 Directors Notes meeting of your board of directors was eld on Wednesday October 10 2012 The meeting was called to order at 7 15 PM Attending were Richard Corzo Dave Green Elizabeth Talian Lisa Leifels Bruce Preston Jim Scheef Andy Woodruff Annette van Ommeren Drew Kwashnak Charles Bovaid The minutes of Last Meeting were ac cepted as published Treasurer s Report Balance on hand 9 1 12 5 646 72 INCOME Dues 250 61 Bank Interest 0 22 Total Income 250 83 EXPENSES Resource Center Phone 80 23 Newsletter Printing 85 00 Newsletter Postage 46 15 Renewal Letter Postage 4 48 Printing 500 Brochures 165 00 Meetup Fee 6 months 72 00 Total Expenses 452 86 Balance on hand 9 30 12 5 444 69 Membership Report added after meeting General Meetings JAug 7 Robots amp Beyond Sep 4 Google Products Oct 2 Os X Mountain Lion JUL AUG SEPT Paying Members 132 128 129 w e mail addresses 116 113 114 New Members 0 0 1 IN THIS ISSUE Drrectors NOTES HELPLINE Review OS X MOUNTAIN LION PREVIEW TRENDS IN MOBILE Apps Bucky MILAM CARTOON Sic News amp NOTES OCTOBER CALENDAR Take Tuar HP Support SYSTEM SUITE PROFESSIONAL 2012 Oe FNA ann FSF W NY2. i J a Directors Notes Cont from page 3 5 SIG leaders will get an e mail with the name of any new members There is a distribution list sigleaders dacs org 6 Should we start a Beginners SIG We asked by a newbie user who thought DACS might be too advanced When the general meeting attendees were polled only two one of whom is a Mac user expressed interest Possible top ics could be how to use Word how to use email how to use Excel computer security internet searching how to up grade your hardware The meeting would most likely be driven by the specific questions of the attend ees Several board members have vol unteered to lead it on a monthly rotating basis etc Discussion took place as to whether it would be appropriate to establish a SIG or if we need a more Level O in troductory course It was decided that we will not offer a Level O course For the newbie SIG we should have a cer tain pre requisite level of experience required so that the group is not bogged down with such issues as how to copy a file from a CD to the hard disk etc A well received suggestion was that the leader be rotated The board will con tinue discussion via e mail Adjourned 9 35 PM Bruce Preston Taig THE LINE Ta THE GOUF KITCHE al OR THAT TELEPHONE THNG Nov 2012 5 6 Nov 2012 Special Interest Groups SIG NOTES November 2012 Access Designs and implements solutions us
3. D Ina follow up the discussion turned to Java The consensus was that most people need only the Java runtime engine This is what allows your computer to run programs written in the Java programming language Like other things on your computer the Java runtime should be kept up to date The Java Developers Kit is needed only if you are writing programs in Java so most people do not need the Developers Kit Richard Corzo our Apple SIG leader noted that the latest version of the Mac OS does not include Java as part of the default installation This should not be interpreted as a condemnation of Java by Apple but rather an attempt to ensure that when you install Java on your Mac that you install the very latest version QO If you install add ons in Firefox do the add ons track what you do on the Internet DCS A The add ons or extensions available on the Mozilla website are written by independent programmers and each add on does what it was programmed to do When you install an add on you are trusting that the add on does what it says in the description and nothing more If you are unsure about an add on read the reviews shown below the description and judge for yourself Certainly it is possible to write an add on that could send information back to a tracking database or even do malicious things I m probably only a little more paranoid than average and I have fourteen Firefox add ons installed on my main c
4. Core 15 vs Core 17 What s the Difference tinyurl com yjx780d Bright Hub Core 13 vs 15 vs 17 A Summary of Intel s Processors tinyurl com 35vx8rs To answer the last part of the question one member suggested choosing the Core 15 and saving the money The performance improvement from an older PowerPC Mac will be so great that the extra expense is a waste Q Lately Firefox 15 appears to stall on my PC running Windows XP The processor is maxed out on something called a plugin container What is this and do I need it This happens on Sites like the New York Times A From the discussion a plugin container is how Firefox isolates 10 Nov 2012 plug ins like Flash and Acrobat from the rest of the computer While a help in both security and reliability it is not fool proof Because of this it is important to keep all such ad ons up to date with the latest version One member suggested that the computer in question may have an older version of Flash that was causing the problem If you have not updated Adobe Flash in several months my suggestion is to uninstall it completely using Add Remove Programs in XP and then installing the latest version direct from the Adobe website adobe com As people added comments it seems that Adobe lives by its own rules so updates are best done with other programs closed Note that newer versions of Flash have an applet installed in Control Panel
5. DiciraL Music WORKSHOP Ask DACS FUTURE EVENTS p pe rm S 2 Nov 2012 DACS DOC Printed 100 100 100 Mailed T3 T2 71 Mailed Member 5 52 51 Mailed Other 6 6 6 Mailed Free Library 14 14 14 Meeting Seat Count 22 45 37 Members Signed In 20 37 27 Visitors Signed In 2 6 8 Membership Information dacs doc ISSN 1084 6573 is published monthly by the Danbury Area Computer Society 27 Ole Musket Lane Danbury CT 06810 8232 Annual subscription rates 45 to regular members 30 electronic access in cluded in dues Postmaster Send address changes to Danbury Area Old Business 1 General meetings e October 2 Dave Marra OS X Moun tain Lion Preview Richard Corzo Re view Frank Kromer e November 6 Joe Mazzeo amp Dr James Marcus Trends in Mobile Apps Preview Bruce Preston Review waiting to hear from candidate Lisa will be backup e December 4 Jay Ferron Windows 8 Preview Jim Scheef Review e Wednesday January 2 Marc Polansky from McCarthy Observatory Astronomy and Computers Venue to be determined Preview Re view The possible cancel lation of the January meeting was greatly exaggerated e We are considering holding the meeting at the observatory site as a joint meeting with the astronomy group e February 5 Drew Kwashnak Cloud Storage Services Preview Review e March 5 Toni McKeen Genealogy Preview Review e April 2 Laura Nute of Lynda com and Kevin
6. to move the old machine to her new home This particular Pavilion came with Vista Home and it was running 32 bit Windows 7 Home To give you a clue to where this is heading the machine is now running 64 bit Windows 7 Pro Just to assure you that this is a legal license it s from the Microsoft Action Pack MAP that I buy each year Over the last few years the top tier computer makers have adopted a Microsoft scheme that ties their ma chines to OEM versions of Windows With each new version of Windows this linkage has become tighter Most of my clients have Gateway machines and I can reinstall Windows XP on these ma chines using the OEM Windows install CD from my MAP along with the instal lation key from the tag on the side of the machine Once the install is complete and so long as we have the device driv ers it goes through the Microsoft Acti vation process just fine This is most fortunate as there is precious little sup port available from Gateway these days This installation procedure works as well on some older Dell machines with XP but for other machines I have to order a free replacement restore CD from Dell that has the magic version of Windows XP for that machine The key word here is free Dell keeps records for each machine and a replacement restore CD 1s free only once something that seems more than fair By the way when installing from this restore CD Windows never asks for a key cod
7. Corcoran of CTDLC org Online Learning Elizabeth will do COURSERA Preview Elizabeth Talian Review e May John Patrick need to review publicity well in advance e Possible future topics Presentation on Facebook Jim suggested having someone talk about how to configure the security privacy issues what does Like accomplish the difference between a group and a page Jim s search on Facebook to date has not yielded any results whatever so he plans to broaden his search He has nothing to report Jeff Robbins Drupal expert Andy has contacted him Jeff is interested in Directors Notes Cont on page 3 DCS Computer Society Inc 4 Gregory Street Danbury CT 06810 4430 Editorial Committee Managing Editors Richard Teasdale Ahmad Asgharian Production Editor Allan Ostergren Contributors Charles Bovaird Richard Corzo Drew Kwashnak John Lansdale Rob Limbaugh Bruce Preston Jim Scheef Annette van Ommeren DACS its officers and directors assume no liability for damages arising out of the publication or non publication of any article advertisement or other item in this newsletter The editors welcome submissions from DACS members Contact Richard Teasdale dacseditor dacs org Advertisers contact Charles Bovaird at 203 792 7881 aam mags net Nonprofit groups may request permission to reprint articles from dacs doc or http www dacs org by sending e mail to reprints dacs org Reprinted a
8. armed with an Award BIOS from the ASUS website I was able to flash the HP system board and convert it to SIG Notes Cont from page 6 an ASUS board ASUS also had Vista drivers for the board itself supporting cooling and power management plus all of the embedded devices NIC sound and video Generally speaking Vista drivers work under Win7 The board now has many previously hidden BIOS options that allow timing changes and overclocking of both the processor and RAM something that a manufacturer like HP does not want to support After a few more hours of work the system was boot ing up with 64 bit Win7 Pro Ahhh the feeling of satisfaction The system has been running reliably now for many months During my Internet searching I found several websites devoted to the sport of modding and overclocking Some of these sites offer BIOS modified by third parties to change how they work with the OEM version Windows Such BIOS are likely vio lations of the DMCA I suppose that what I did could be construed as a violation of the DMCA even though everything I used was provided by the manufacturers and used unmodified Write your Congresspeople to repeal the DMCA or at least restore fair use and your right to use and modify the devices you buy how ever you wish You ll note that I m not providing any web addresses If you want to pursue unlocking your machine this article shows only that it was possible for
9. to date even while it sleeps It works only with Macs that have a flash drive Dave made integration with Facebook a feature separate from Sharing and al though I am very much into sharing I am not a regular on Facebook You can add accounts for Flickr Twitter Vimeo and Facebook in your Mail Contacts and Cal endars Preferences and those accounts become available in the Share menus Sharing is really easy under Mountain Lion It is totally built into the Mac with Mountain Lion This makes it easier to share files photos etc much like on an iPhone iPad or iPod Touch Dave demon strated Sharing in Safari by composing text adding a bookmark adding the page to a Reading List and then used the Share but ton to send a link via Messages or to send the page via email As previously men tioned Sharing also involves integration with social networks The Game Center app used in IOS de vices comes to the Mac with Mountain Lion Not a whole lot more to say about this Dave displayed changes in Safari in cluding an iCloud icon the combination of the search box and address bar into one box a Safari Reader button new Tab views Reading List and the new Share button previously discussed Mountain Lion s Dictation is similar to the one in the new iPad but it s not Siri Dave demonstrated how it works by tap ping the function key twice and then dic tating Anywhere you can type text on your Mac Mountain Lion lets you dic
10. 1 installed on my computer SS removes prior versions before installing the latest one When I first installed SS Net De fense which is the firewall did not install After three back and forth emails with Avanquest support and three differing at tempts to re install it I a finally got everything up and running prop _ erly This is the first time Tencountered an instal lation problem with SS The installation CD comes with two bonus programs AutoSave Essentials and Power Desk 8 Standard Avanquest sells AutoSave Essentials and Power Desk Pro for 39 95 each I installed Power Desk 8 Standard but not AutoSave as I have plenty of backup software already Power Desk is an augmented Windows File Man ager I have used it for years and highly recommend it I also noticed that the SS now comes with a license for 5 PCs that will work with all versions of Windows XP and Windows 7 Opening SS I saw a new program inter face page that was improved over that of version 11 One of my favorite parts of SS is System Recovery where you may create a System Restore Point and a Checkpoint in the event you have a problem and have to go back I was pleasantly surprised to find that the restore point creation was much faster than in the prior version I can not tell you how many times I have used this feature to recover from a major prob lem I have used the included anti virus anti malware spyware and firewall in the pa
11. all makes and models Contact Richard Corzo and Jim Scheef Mobilesig dacs org Meets 4 Thursday 7 p m at the DACS Resource Center Next Meeting Nov 29 PC Maintenance Review of PC hardware and OpSys maintenance and use Contact Charles Bovaird 203 792 7881 aam mags net Go to DACS Community Forum http forum dacs orgl Server Explores Back Office server and client applica tions including Win NT Servers and MS Outlook SIG is on hiatus and presently merged into the Drupal SIG Contact Jim Scheef jscheef teleAprksys com or go to the DACS Community Forum http www dacs org fo rum within the Members only area Web Design and DTP Learn about Adobe software for web graphics and desktop publishing Contact Annette van Ommeren avo annagraphics com Meets 3 Tuesday 7 9 p m at the DACS Resource Center Next Meeting Nov 20 Mobile Devices Our September meeting covered ways to synchronize contact and calendar information between your computer and mobile devices We discussed Ex change server and Google both of which work on both Android and Apple devices Microsoft Exchange is the current leader in enterprise email and calendar While it is possible to run your own Exchange Server in your basement it is a little over the top for most people The alternative for individuals small offices or even family groups is one of the many hosted Exchange services Currently Microsoft is the low price leader in thi
12. aller and lighter than the old portables but they really aren t convenient You have to plan ahead and remember to take one along if you think there is a chance that you might need it In most cases you also need at least WiFi access to the Internet IE WAS A TIME when you had http www dacs org This has all changed with the intro duction of truly mobile devices such as tablets iPad etc and smart phones While they use WiF1 if available at no or greatly reduced cost they may also the cellu lar network 1f you have a data plan Your appli cations can now run in as small and convenient a device as your phone At the DACS No vember 6th General Meet ing Joe Mazzeo and Dr James Marcus will lead us through the evolution and trends in mobile ap plications They will start with the standard web site applica tion where the client you essentially makes use of a browser that acts as a ter minal Ultimately they will work their way through applications designed specifi cally for mobile devices and go on to na tive mobile applications 1 e applications written that make use of capabilities within the device They will address such things as hosting platform availability target user market access to device capabilities such as being GPS aware and for those of us who have interest in development the degree of difficulty in implementation for each type of mobile architecture oe Co C E mig
13. as much good discussion http www dacs org Certainly your ISP knows the billing name associated with your IP address even if your address is dynamic and changes from time to time Assuming you have not registered with the website giving them your name the website can possibly infer a lot about who from what you do on the website Another member described a process whereby your machine can be fingerprinted so that it can be identified How this can be done would be a topic for another discussion Certainly the MAC media access control address that is burned into every Ethernet adapter whether wired or wireless is a unique identifying mark for your computer but I must add that even this can be spoofed At the most basic level are the cookies that website place on your computer to store information Companies like DoubleClick owned by Google place cookies that can be read on many websites and over time can be used to track your habits on the Internet Enabling the Do not track setting in your browser is a signal to such companies to not do that Some browsers have an anonymous mode that discards any cookies and browsing history at the end of a browsing session There are proxy servers on the Internet that can hide or obscure your IP address from the websites you visit They do this by becoming a man in the middle who receives web requests from your computer Then they pass them on to
14. ber 2012 Moderated and reported by Jim Scheef E WELCOME QUESTIONS FROM the floor at the start of our General j Meetings The role of moderator is to try to guide the discussion to a likely solution to the problem In addition members who are not able to attend the General meeting may submit questions to askdacs dacs org We will ask the question for you and post the reply in dacs doc and on dacs org Please provide as much information as possible since we can t probe during the session Q Im planning to upgrade from my Macintosh Power PC to an Intel based Mac The model I ve chosen has two processor options The Intel Core i5 and the Core i7 What s the difference and which should I get A The discussion at the meeting was basically correct in that the 17 is Intel s high performance chip while the 15 is aimed at the middle of the road market Intel s entry level chip is the Core 13 What I said at the meeting the more is the better is true for the performance of this particular choice of Macintosh system options The more I read about the new Intel processors the more my eyes glaze over and I start looking for a wall on which to bang my head For more information about the processors I refer the reader to articles on a couple of blogs just be aware that there are many more such sources TechHive Intel s New Core 17 and Core 15 Processors Explained tinyurl com 8nscdmr Bright Hub
15. e and activates automagically Now back to the HP Vista machine Since I planned to install the 64 bit 8 Nov 2012 version of Win7 I needed 64 bit device drivers Naturally I headed for the HP website and used their support search to find the machine To my amazement there were no device drivers So I called HP peN and asked how to find the Z N drivers The HP support per son then informed me that I will have to purchase an HP Y restore CD for this computer W Y for about 100 I don t remem La ber the exact cost and the only version available was for the same as originally sold on the machine When I told him that I already had a Windows 7 license that I wanted FY to install he said it would not work and that the only solution was to pay for the restore CD Naturally I took this as a challenge There was no way that I was going to pay a hundred dollars to install Windows when I already owned a valid license for Windows 7 My first step was to inspect the motherboard and write down any identifying numbers After some digging I found web forum posts saying this machine used a system board from ASUS and gave the ASUS model number Now I could search the ASUS website for that model At the same time more searching turned up another forum post describ ing how to flash an HP machine with BIOS from the system board manufac turer to unlock it from the HP OEM version of Windows Now
16. e for 5 99 from the App Store DACS meetings are held at the Danbury Hospital auditorium Go to www dacs org to find directions and parking info Activi ties begin at 6 30 p m with registration and casual networking The meeting starts at 7 00 p m with a Q amp A period Ask DACS fol lowed by announcements and a short break The featured presentation begins at 8 00 p m The meeting is scheduled to adjourn at 9 30 p m DACS General Meetings are free and open to the public Members and prior at tendees are encouraged to extend invitations to anyone interested in this topic Membership has its Privileges Become a member and support DACS Each member has access to the Community Forum where they can post questions the newsletter online in PDF form group related news via email SIG meetings online forums and any group only related events promo tions or activities There is also an option to receive a mailed newslet ter For information on how to join DACS see http www dacs ore aboutdacs joining htm http www dacs org Meeting Preview Trends in Mobile Apps By Bruce Preston no choice If you wanted to make use of a computer you had to go to the computer After all it filled a room and re quired lots of electricity and cooling capacity not to mention support staff In the 50s CSC intro duced remote processing with a dedicated commu nications line tab card reader and line printer T
17. ecording as in previous years and focus on composing In particular Sean will demonstrate Apple s music applica tion called Garage Band for the 1Pad This software provides a digital audio work station for recording multiple tracks of music and it utilizes sampled sounds from many music instruments to create somewhat realistic sounds Sean will show how he composes music with this setup You do not need any experience with either composing or audio recording You do need to have some basic piano keyboard knowledge in order to understand when terms such as musical key and time signature are used Beyond this music background Sean will take you through all the steps involved to get started whether with an iPad or otherwise connect to a piano keyboard select and install music application software and use the installed application Sean will also discuss other applications and approaches to setting up a digital audio workstation For instance he will explain how to run a PortableApp on a laptop and there may time to discuss the free music notation application called MuseScore and the free music audio editor application called Audacity Come to see what this is about Come with just general curiosity Come with ques tions about how to get started Come with your iPad or notebook computer and or piano keyboard in tow Sean will help you to get started or help you plan your next step Nov 2012 9 Ask DACS Octo
18. ggestions offered by meeting attendees and represent a consensus of those responding DACS offers no war ranty as to the correctness of the answers and anyone following these suggestions or answers does so at their own risk In other words we could be totally wrong Nov 2012 11 dacs doc Danbury Area Computer Society 27 Ole Musket Lane Danbury CT 06810 8232 gift of speech Call Shirley Fredlund at 202 770 6203 and become a e Voice for Joani When you come to the next DACS meeting pee why not bring a friend www voiceforjoaniaorg Future Events November December Joe Mazzeo amp Dr Jay Ferron James Marcus Windows 8 Trends in Mobile Apps January February Marc Polansky Drew Kwashnak Computers and Cloud Storage Astronomy Services Wednesday January 2 Check for updates
19. hypervisor technologies Each runs at the very lowest level on a server and then runs one or more guest operating systems on a single computer The guests are called virtual machines VM because the hypervisor creates a virtual hardware environment for each of the guests Several members indicated that they use versions of this technology on their PCs to run copies of Windows to test software Gamers use VMs to run older versions of Windows or even DOS so they can play games that won t run on Vista or Win7 The XP Mode available with some editions of Win7 is a VM that runs a full instance of Windows XP At the enterprise level VMs allow a company or the occasional individual to combine several servers onto one physical machine that hopefully costs less to buy and maintain I m presently migrating two physical machines I ve had for several years to a single new machine that will eventually host five virtual machines Believe it or not this will actually simplify my network QO I heard on the news today that China had hacked into the White House How could this happen A News reports on various websites reported that the White House had confirmed a spear phishing attack DCS From the Huffington Post Hackers breached an unclassified computer network used by the White House but did not appear to have stolen any data a White House official said Monday The hackers breached the net
20. ing Microsoft Access database management software Contact Bruce Preston 203 431 2920 boreston dacs org Meets on 2 Tuesday 7p m by virtual connection Next meeting Nov 13 check Website for technical details Apple Focuses on all aspects of the Mac and iPhone operating systems Contact Richard Corzo macsig dacs org Meets 1t Thursday 7 p m at DACS Resource Center Next Meeting Dec 3 Digital Imaging All about digital cameras retouching and printing using various programs Contact Ken Graff at 203 648 9747 thedigitalwiz gmail com Meets last Wednesday 7 p m at the DACS Resource Center Next Meeting Nov 28 Drupal Covers all things on Drupal the open source content management system CMS Contact Jim Scheef scheef dacs org Meets on the second Thursday at 7 00 p m at the DACS Resource Center or go to the DACS Community Forum htto www dacs org forum within the Members only area Next meeting Nov 8 Jobs Networking and jobs search Contact Charles Bovaird 203 792 7881 aam mags ne Go to DACS Community Forum htto forum dacs org for job listings SIG News amp Events Linux Provides Help in installing and maintaining the Linux T system Also of interest to Apple owners using X Contact Dave Mawdsley linuxsig dacs org Meets 3 Wednesday 7 30 p m at the DACS Resource Center Next Meeting Nov 21 Mobile Devices Focuses on smartphones tablets and e read ers of
21. ion Dave cov ered iCloud iMessage which is now known as Messages Notifications Power Nap integration with Facebook Sharing Game Center integration Safari Dictation and Air Play mirroring One thing that you realize listening to Dave is that with Mountain Lion the Mac has become more like the GOS operating system for iPhones iPads and the iPod Touch Since I use the Mac iPhone and iPad for me this is a good thing Now to the guts of Dave s presenta tion and demonstrations With Mountain Lion iCloud is now inte grated with your computer iPhone iPad and iPod Touch That means your email ac counts contacts calendars notes and re minders are all synced with one another through iCloud Dave made special mention of documents in iCloud and used Apple s word processing app Pages as a demo With Mountain Lion Messages now comes to the Mac It had been available since 2011 to iPhone users Significant is that Messages transfers data via the internet so users do not incur text charges Also 4 Nov 2012 significant is that you can transfer files up to 100MB in Messages I have already used that feature and it is very useful Notifications appear in the upper right corner of the screen of your Mac when email is received calendar events oc cur etc Dave demonstrated noti fications and the Notification Cen ter which he showed is easily ac cessible Power Nap is a feature that lets you keep your Mac up
22. it really pays to check the specs on both the manufacturer s and the carrier s websites before you buy r device your device SIG notes Cont on page 8 http www dacs org November 2012 Danbury Area Computer Society nday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday i Saturday 7 00 PM Richard Corzo macsig dacs org Cancelled Drupal 7 00 PM Jim Scheef 860 355 0034 Digital Music Workshop MS Access Board of 7 00 9 00 PM 7 00 PM Bruce Preston electors sean museworks getty bpreston dacs org 7 00 PM entertainment com eadline Bi A E ANT DRCS Nov 2012 7 Web amp Graphics Design Annette van Ommeren Linux 7 00 9 00 PM 7 00 9 30 PM avanommeren Dave Mawdsley dacs org linuxsig dacs org Mobile Devices Digital Imaging 7 00 PM 7 00 PM Jim Scheef amp Ken Graff Richard Corzo 203 648 9747 mobilesig dacs org Tech Support Take That HP Support by Some Dude ON T YOU JUST HATE IT when a D manufacturer s support technician tells you that you must spend significant money well significant to me to do something you know should be easy as pie like install a copy of Windows 7 that you already own on the PC sitting on your desk First some background A friend who is leaving the state gave me an HP Pavilion a6248x PC witha dual core AMD processor She f had upgraded to a new note book and did not want to pay f
23. mail to be sent to new members It is to detail member ship benefits newsletter ability to attend all SIG meetings etc It will be sent as a personal e mail PC maintenance Smartphones amp Tablets Virtual machine software Directors Notes Cont on page 5 http www dacs org DCs Nov 2012 3 Meeting Review Introducing OS X Mountain Lion By Frank Kromer PPLE S OS X MOUNTAIN LION A ceson 10 8 is the ninth major release of OS X running Mac com puters It was released on July 25 2012 and most recently updated in September 2012 There were 3 million downloads of OS X in the first four days following introduc tion Apple s most success ful Mac release to date Apple s Dave Marra spoke He is a long time representa tive for Apple I think he said since 1991 and has conducted many presentations such as this one for us his fourth presentation for DACS Dave announced at the outset there were over 200 new features in OS X Mountain Lion and he intended to cover ten of them for us He spoke very fast to cram as much as he could in a little over one hour and a half During his presentation I tried my best to capture the essence of what Dave had to say and display Unfortunately Apple does not give out their slides which if they were available would make it a lot easier to review the presentation Mountain Lion succeeds Lion and Dave recapped Lion but I won t go there Moving on to Mountain L
24. ness 1 Richard Teasdale has accepted our offer to become a board member He replaces Rob Limbaugh who has re located to the West Coast HelpLine Our former telephone HelpLine has been replaced by our web based DACS Community Forum at http forum dacs org We have topic specific forums where DACS members can post questions Questions may be answered by SIG leaders or other DACS members If none of the categories fit your question just post it to the Ask DACS forum 2 Annette has signed us up on Meetup com and started posting the general meetings Response has been excellent as we had 8 visitors to our October Apple OS X presentation At least 5 of them said they found us on Meetup In order to allow others to publicize meetings General or SIG Annette found the existence of co organizer and established Richard as one Topic Forum Microsoft Access Access SIG NET Programming ASP Net and C VB Net SIG 3 The Meetup text should somehow state that SIG meetings are for mem bers but that a prospective member may attend one SIG meeting on a Try before you buy basis Digital cameras scanners image processing Digital Imaging SIG Content Management Systems Drupal SIG Linux Linux SIG Mac and 1Phone iPad iPod touch Apple SIG PC Maintenance SIG Mobile Devices SIG Virtual Computing SIG Desktop publishing and website design Web Site Design SIG Windows Windows SIG 4 Jim will compose a draft Welcome New Member e
25. o do this you had to go toa remote terminal but at least it might have been in your building By the late 60s remote comput ing became mobile com puting of a sort You could lug around a portable terminal typically 15 pounds place a call over the dial up network and interact with a timesharing computer Thirty characters of text a second was a typical speed and of course there were no graph ics Or mouse etc Everything was done via keyboard entry and printed on thermal paper Around 1980 or so introduction of the personal computer brought mobile comput ing a bit closer I had an Osborne 1 a ma chine with a small display two disk drives and a keyboard When the case was closed it looked like and weighed about the same as my wife s sewing machine 17 pounds But I could compute wherever I happened to be as long as I had an AC outlet and my data with me on floppy diskettes There was no Internet then so essentially it was my data or nothing The addition of termi nal emulation software a modem and avail ability of a phone line gave me access toa timesharing computer and its data but in that case the micro computer was essen tially just a glorified terminal Advances in hardware and communi cations led to today s Internet More data is available from a considerably greater number of sources and with broadband capabilities it flows much more quickly Notebook and netbook computers are con siderably sm
26. omputer These range from the indispensible PlainOldFavorites to NoScript AdBlock Plus and the Yahoo Toolbar Most add ons are very small programs that manipulate what Firefox calls chrome the settings and outer trim of the browser Toolbars are another matter as they are more significant programs that have complete access to your browsing activity This is why every search engine tries so hard to get its toolbar installed in your browser Yahoo is the least overt in this effort which may be why I like it best As the discussion continued a visitor commented that your ISP keeps a record of every website you visit and the addressees of every email you send This is required by the renewal of the Patriot Act fact checking is encouraged here I believe they are required to retain this for some limited period of time in case it is requested by a law enforcement agency Anonymity on the Internet is a thing of the past Even back in the days of dial up Internet connections your account was always traceable to your credit card Next discussion turned to what information a website can collect about visitors At a minimum the site knows every page you request your IP address and any information disclosed by your browser Normally this includes the type of browser and version number and basic information like the version of your computer s operating system But can the website identify you by your name As usual there w
27. p for the next 6 months Twitter Lisa will look into topic Bruce could do Desktop Publish ing in June or July 2 Open positions e The membership chairperson greeter position is still open This could be two people to share the load not that the load is heavy The greeter has these responsibilities Sign in members Jim Scheef Elizabeth Talian Richard Teasdale Annette van Ommeren 914 232 0149 Andy Woodruff 203 744 9588 860 355 0034 jscheef dacs org 203 733 2805 etallan dacs org rteasdale dacs org Sign in visitors ask how they found us 860 567 9586 plibert dacs org Accept dues avanommeren dacs org S Distribute raffle tickets awoodruff dacs org e Patrick Libert plans not to run again when his board term ends in December Committees NEWSLETTER Richard Teasdale dacseditor dacs org PROGRAM vpprograms dacs org WEB MASTERS Richard Corzo rcorzo dacs org 203 797 1518 Annette van Ommeren avanommeren dacs org 914 232 0149 MARKETING AND PR Patrick Libert or dacs org APCUG LIAISON Patrick Libert olibert dacs org MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR Charles Bovaird aam mags net RESOURCE CENTER 203 748 4330 WEB SITE htto www dacs org 3 Lisa reports that Newtown Library does not generally do displays but would distribute our pamphlet We discussed the one page posters that had been distributed until recently New Busi
28. ram launch and response by fixing slow downs System Suite will completely Optimize Protect and Fix amp Maintain your computer effortlessly and silently in the background while you work I have used it for many years and find it to be one of the essential programs that I use with my computers I recommend this program for all users from beginner to advanced Amazon sells System Suite 12 Profes sional for 49 99 delivered There is a 20 upgrade or competitive upgrade coupon that comes with the program so your net low cost will be 29 99 Avanquest provides unlimited support for registered products You can also check the User s manual and online help included within the program menu for answers to many common issues Email amp Phone sup port is available if you cannot resolve your questions Bart KosLow is a member of the Thousand Oaks PC Club CA www topcc org He can be reached at spatter roadrunner com This article is distributed by APCUG for reprint by its member user groups 6th Annual Digital Music Production Workshop Friday November 16th 2012 By Andrew Woodruff Would you like to try composing music on a computer If this sounds interesting come to Sean s annual Digital Music Production Work shop This year it happens on Friday November 16th at 7 00 PM at the DACS Resource Center Sean conducts this workshop just once a year so do not miss it This year the workshop will go beyond simply r
29. rticles shall credit the copyright holder and a copy of the final publication shall be mailed to Danbury Area Computer Society Inc 27 Ole Musket Lane Danbury CT 06810 8232 Attn Reprints Links to articles reprinted on the web can be sent to reprints dacs org Technical Support dacs doc is prepared using PageMaker 7 0 and Acrobat 9 0 Software packages used to publish dacs doc include Microsoft Windows 7 Office 2007 TrueType fonts Calendar Creator 8 0 for Windows Internet access provided by Mggslieations amp Hardware to enhance dacs doc are welcome Mamber of yon Cn LOHTU ig sap Pag x Bw sit iiy att te apoug x Large Grou P ia Piao ae Patrick Libert aa a x APCUG Liaison w plibert dacs org aa ag F ER Apple User Group http www dacs org a Officers DACS GENERAL NUMBER 203 744 9198 PRESIDENT Richard Corzo dacsprez dacs org VICE PRESIDENT PROGRAMS vpprograms dacs org SECRETARY Bruce Preston TREASURER Dave Green Directors dacsboard dacs org 203 203 Richard Corzo 797 1518 rcorzo dacs org 797 8682 dgreen dacs org 203 910 6605 dkwashnak dacs org 203 416 6642 lleifels dacs org David Green Drew Kwashnak Lisa Leifels Patrick Libert Bruce Preston 203 431 2920 days bpreston dacs org Directors Notes Cont from page 2 doing a presentation but is not able to commit to a date at this time Andy will follow up at a later time as we have a reasonably full line u
30. s market with a 25GB mailbox for 4 month What might make this worth the cost is the smooth integration with Microsoft Outlook and the push synchronization to your mobile devices both Android and Apple Once you configure your device your email contact and calendar all show up and sync seamlessly With this kind of sync there is no reason to enter these things on your phone or tablet when you can do it on your computer and see it on your device just a few moments later DCS Google is the default everything source for services on most Android devices in much the same way that Apple is the default for iPhones This means that setting up Google stuff is generally easy and just works In the case of cell phones each carrier works with the device manufacturer to customize the screens used to set up your accounts thus there is no single set of instruc tions for Android devices When you set up synchroniza tion the service will tell your device what services are avail able and you pick what you want For example if you don t use Google Calendar then don t select to sync it If you have an email address add it to your phone If the email provider offers calendar and contact sync and that provider is Supported then these options will show up If they don t show up then it s likely that you are limited to using the web for access to that information from that de vice Remember with mobile devices your mileage may vary so
31. st and have found them to work very well A part of SS that I especially like is the Registry Cleaner which has been excellent in the past and has never created a prob lem for me Another feature I like is to view Problems that SS has found and selec tively determine which one to fix See SUITE PROFESSIONAL SS http www dacs org If you are a person who does not wish to fiddle with the individual parts of the program there is an easier way Just select One Click Fix All and SS will do the rest Another way is to select One Fix Wizards of which there are three one for each seg ment of the program Optimize Security and Fix amp Maintain and run them selec tively There is a lot of flexibility in how you may use this program Working in the background you have Active Intelligence Technology which continuously silently and automatically monitors and fixes all your PC problems It tracks hard drive sta tus available disk space hard drive frag mentation registry errors excess temp tiles startup applications and more Regular use of Active Intelligence reduces start up times improves read write performance and prevents data loss by identifying hard drive problems before they happen What s new in this version e Patent pending PC Analyzer Technology Identifies why your PC is slow e 400 Faster Registry Repair Fixes registry problems and optimizes Win dows e Program Optimizer Speeds prog
32. tate rather than type Dictation requires an internet connection Air Play permits you to mirror whatever is on your Mac on a television set con nected with an AppleTV device Previously this feature was available on the iPad In capsule form the above are the fea DCS tures covered by Dave In his presenta tion Dave also talked about zooming in and out In Text Edit he demonstrated the various motions available with a trackpad He also covered the markup tools in Pre view the option in Safari not to track me under the privacy preference Apple s Ac cessibility Preference the use of Air Drop to share between two Macs located close to one another without any connection and more features for which I could not write fast enough to keep up with him I have used Mountain Lion since its introduction in July and I like it a lot After hearing Dave s presentation I realize there is much to this OS that I don t know and want to learn Want more information on Mountain Lion In response to a question Dave sug gested the tutorial found under the Help menu found on the Finder tool bar just click on Help Center and Mountain Lion info is displayed You might also check out the Apple website which has a section on the features of OS X Mountain Lion Finally I find the October issue of Macworld very useful as it contains a 27 page special report on OS X Mountain Lion or you can buy a tutorial by ScreenCastsOnLin
33. the website as if coming from the proxy Thus the website sees only the proxy s IP address rather than yours Looking at the other end your computer and all the routers between you and the proxy see only the proxies IP address rather than that of the destination website The proxy can be located anywhere in the world These servers can act as a gateway for people in restricted countries like China Saudi Arabia and Iran to reach sites that are otherwise blocked by their governments The Wikipedia article is at wikipedia org wiki Proxy_servers A member described how when he visited eBay a message came up about how he was using a different http www dacs org computer and that he must validate his identity on that computer This is similar to the 2 factor identification procedures used by many banks use when you sign into their banking site Once you have validated your identity the site places a special cookie that identifies the computer as authorized for access to your bank accounts I ve seen a new feature on eBay that ties your PayPal account directly to your eBay account Once this is done your PayPal account is only as secure as your eBay password If your bank requests special confirmation every time you want to do your banking then the cookie that identifies your computer is being lost between Sessions Is anyone using VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper V at home A These are two competing enterprise level
34. this one model system board This tech nique may or may not work on your ma chine caveat moddor The key is to match up the OEM system board to the same model sold directly by the board manufacturer I suspect that this is easier to do for boards using AMD processors rather than Intel but I have no evidence beyond my suspicions Good luck Mr Dune is a pseudonym for a long time DACS member For Apple devices you set up your accounts in Settings gt Mail Con tacts Calendars iCloud is Apple s free service for anyone who buys an Apple device iPhones and iPads also work with the email contacts and calendars of popular services such as Google AOL and Yahoo Support for Exchange is also built in All of the previously mentioned services have web interfaces so any changes you make on your computer are reflected on your Apple devices and vice versa Both the Calendar and Contacts app have a unified view showing the data from all your accounts but you can also choose to view just selected accounts or a single account at a time http www dacs org Software Review System Suite Professional 2012 Reviewed by Bart Koslow is a comprehensive utility program that will tune up and repair your PC and provide malware virus spyware and firewall protection Unlike most programs today it comes with a printed manual of 174 pages that guides you through the many aspects of the software I already had SS version 201
35. work by using a technique known as spear phishing in which they target victims who have access to sensitive computer networks by sending personalized emails that appear to come from trusted sources Once the victims click on the bogus attachment or link the hackers can install malicious software on the PCs to spy on users and steal data The article went on to say the attack was identified and stopped before serious damage could occur tinyurl com 8s775jr Note that such an attack will work just as well on us real people Some time back I reported that I had almost fallen for a phishing email designed to look like it came from my bank I was particularly vulnerable after visiting the bank s credit card site Q Does anyone have knowledge of National Semiconductor here in Danbury A had a friend who worked at Nat Semi in the mid 1970 s The Wikipedia article is wikipedia org wiki National_ Semiconductor From the article The company was founded here in Danbury by Dr Bernard J Rothlein on May 27 1959 when he and seven colleagues had left their employment at the semiconductor division of Sperry Rand Corporation The Danbury facilities closed in 1989 I believe the facilities were later occupied by Branson Ultrasonics Corporation another technology company founded here in Danbury Disclaimer Ask DACS questions come from members by email or from the audi ence attending the general meeting An swers are su
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