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1. Therefore Back to my Challenge Converting my existing paper collections to PDF and updating my database i lude all my electronic documents The rub with organizing my accumulated technical electronic Vici document files was not my paper collection Rather a hard drive a full of documents ofen with erypi titles Remember we once were xmi paisetnioe limited o 27 leners in a title Okay though it may take the rest of my active profesional life unless T can find a Macintosh literate 2 r minimum wage salaried helper with some smarts Pim site First things First You might ask why bother Well I m compulsive However I ve talked about my quandary the data chase enigma save stuff or re search for it all over again earlier in this article Decisions Decisions Decisions My Path Forward Initially ignore the technical documents on my hard drive They re not indexed but well backed up Tune the fields and create a new database to so that it is easier to capture and search for information about my documents Done a half hours work Convert my paper collection to PDF files I started this in testing the Fugitsu Scanner I will however not routinely OCR them If needed that ean be done later one reference at a time Such documents are already cataloged Migrate the information from my existing catalog database to the new one cut paste and correct spelling errors A minute or two a document as
2. Making the Connection High Definition Ifyou have a high definition TV you will usually just need the correct cable HDMI DVI and 15 Pin Dsub the classic computer monitor connection usually labeled VGA are all fairly common on HD displays If you have a DVI connection labeled as PC Input that s likely to be your best bet since it will be treated just like a standard computer display HDMI is the next best choice since i s essentially just a specialized DVI connection and its easly adapted to the mini s DVI with inexpensive adapters or cables though doing so will strip out the audio signal normally carried by HDMI I s increasingly rare to see a VGA connection on HDTVs but the adapter included with the mini will meet your needs just fine Regardless of your connection method your audio signal will be handled separately from the video Audio is handled either with the headphone out for stereo audio combined with yet another adapter to adapt 3 5mm headphone to RCA or the extremely handy optical out let s hear it for another adapter that you can feed directly into your receiver If you don t have a separate receiver handling your audio the former will be your best bot IE you d like the surround sound from your DVDs to remain intact then optical is the only way to 20 though keep in mind that only MediaCentral supports using optical out directly using DVD Assist in conjunction with Front Row also works Resolution
3. T ael Mele CISD a href icipbourd ipboand ej T Dllo clipboard Bicis T though T This inf d here CT T because T about e T appointment 7 Windows DU iu Sometimes you don t want the text to be the link itself so I created another snippet I called btext Snippets Preferences Update Register About lt a ire arde ja Content Pain Ten 3 lt lt a href kelpboard SX ejas The content is lt a href elipboard gt lt a gt When you copy a URL to the clipboard and then type text it will paste in the URL with the cursor automatically placed before the lt a gt so you can immediately start typing your link text will position the cursor at that point afier expansion Needless to say this tip can be expanded in any number of ways Be sure to check out ihe other options TextExpander allows including date and time variables cursor placement and delimiter abandonment convenient for addresses and telephone numbers ete in forms Posted Mar 8th 2007 7 00AM by Mat Lu from tuaw com b p wivsctuawceom bloggers mat SSSSSSSSSEESSSSSES Rotate a Single PDF Page in Tiger s Preview In Preview selecting Rotate from the Tools menu rotates every page of a PDF left or right This can be a pain if say you have a portrait format brochure which includes one landscape format map An undocumented feature though is that you can hold Option while selecting Tools
4. 1 was rather frustrated with the multibutton interface issues with this device initially and goofing around with the beta version of the USB Drive and interface issues with Mac OS X but love the fit and finish of the mouse itself Those issues were resolved once I paid for the software and I updated to Mae OS X 10 49 Instead of palm calluses I m getting a Karate callous on the edge of my left hand now Conclusion Why doesn t this mouse come with a copy of the USB Drive software if they add the microdrive based CD with the Windows driver And why should a left handed mouse cost 30 more than a right handed mouse This was recently posted on the Evoluent website These are the improvements of the Evoluent VerticalMouse 3 over the Evoluent Vertical Mouse 2 1 Reshaped to better fit a greater range of hand sizes 2 2200 dpi true optical resolution sensor instead of a 1200 dpi sensor 3 An optical scroll wheel with detents clicks instead of a smooth rolling wheel 4 A small flange along the bottom edge to prevent the little finger from dragging on the desk 5 Additional driver functions such as button programming customizable for different applications 6 A completely new internal mechanical design for improved parts fit and button feel 7 A completely new elect al design for improved reliability Drivers are not yet available for MS 64 bit XP or MS Vista either ut drivers were updated for the Windows
5. Mac Fanatic Giveaway April 23 June 1 Sa wy t LER Publisher MPN LLC Editor in Chief Robert L Pritchett Assistant Editors Mike Hubbart Harry doc Babad Michele Patterson Ted Bade irector Robert L Pritchett Robert L Pritchett Web Master Public Relations and Merchandising Robert L Pritchett Contacts Webmaster macCompanion com Feedback macCompanion com rpritchet macCompanion com Skype maccompani Correspondence macCompanion 1952 Thayer Drive Richland WA 99352 USA 1 509 210 0217 macCompanion Staff Harry doc Babad Matt Brewer MacFanatic Ken Crockett The Mae Update Kale Feelhaver AppleMacPunk Dr Erie Flescher Jonathan Hoyle HL Daphne Kalfon I Love My Mac Wayne Lefevre Michele Patterson Dixie Graphics Mike Potter For Mac Eyes Only Robert Pritchett Dennis Sellers Macsimum News Rick Sutcliffe The Northern Spy Mike Swope Swope Design m Verpoorten Surfbits Ted Bade Eddie Hargreaves Mike Hubbartt Daniel MacKenzie jest Authors Derek C Caudill Mid Columbia Macintosh User Group Grover Saunders Ars Technica Application Service Provider for the macCompanior website hltp www stephousehosting com Our special thanks to all those who have allowed us to review their products In addition thanks to you our readers who make this effort all possible Please support this effort by going To the back of
6. MSW Save Preferences I Use With respect to MSW Save preferences settings MSW gt File gt Preferences gt Save I do have create backup copy enabled and Auto Recover tumed off I killed the latter when I started having problems that froze MS Word in the middle of typing After attempted recovery of my text always failed I gave up on this so called protective feature Using the auto save led me to having to re input my thoughts That solution after the fact also turned up in a hint T read somewhere instant gratification The Symptoms ICT save a file and then close it I get the following see Image message IE I close an unsaved document sometimes it does what I expect it simply saved However at times 1 get the dumb message even when I don t save a document With no MSW documents open if I quit MS Word I get the same dumb message Indeed with MS word booted if T try to shut down my computer or to just restart it it will not restart unless 1 jump thought the same old can t delete dialog hoops But if that s not enough there s the indignity of dealing witha seman second dialog window to get the document saved or MSW to quit s This puppy can t even be dealt with the enter key you must mouse seman it out of existence And unless you re a MS Basic programmer don t press the help button So this became a call for Derek s help problem Derek found the first vague lead to m
7. The scanned pages go directly to the OCR software and the text portions are automatically selected You then only need to recognize the text to what ever output you prefer for me either RTF or PDF which can be edited works fine Sean to Readiris Pro 11 0 3 Which 1 own After the scan to Read Iris is complete you must then analyze each page manually Afer that step you can recognize OCR the text and images and save the result as a RTF or an editable PDF file Scan to Apples Preview Your output is a graphic only PDF file that cannot be edited Scan to Photoshop Elements 4 0 This works in a manner similar to importing a PFD file in the software Other Features Auto Paper Size Detection The SSO0M s auto size detection function automatically recognizes the size of every page that it scans for the following paper sizes A4 BS AS B6 A6 Business card Legal and Letter Auto de skew The SS00M eases scanning tasks by automatically straightening all images and showing them in their proper orientation Auto Blank Page Detection The SS00M saves storage space and editing time by automatically deleting blank pages Owners Manual Downloadable 131 page Operations Guide a manual that is more detailed than either the software s help files or the Getting Started Manual Minor Discomforts Need An Alternative Means to Initiate Scanning Once you ve established your preferences you can start scanning by either
8. Download hntp www quark eom service desktop downloads details jsp idx 684 Introduction Most people working in desktop publishing know about QuarkXPress Initially released in 1987 this product las seen numerous updates to computer hardware and operating systems and version 7 1 of QuarkXPress announced at MacWorld Expo 2007 provides Universal binary support as well as a host of new features Version 7 2 was released in April and this review was done with the 7 1 and 7 2 releases Getting Started The product box includes the usual goodies and a few extras two installation CDs and two printed manuals plus a nice tutorial from Lynda com Installation was a simple process the most complicated thing was entering the long validation code I installed version 7 01 with the first CD registered the product online then used the second CD to update the software to version 7 1 I downloaded the 7 2 update in early April from Quark s website and the update took quite awhile to complete even though the update was run from my local system Before running QuarkXPress I ran the free Lynda com training CD The video covers the new features in version 7 of the software rather than demonstrating how to use QuarkXPress Useful information and I m glad Quark included this Lynda com course but l m glad I was able to find more detailed information on using QuarkXPress when I visited www Lynda com For information on new features in versi
9. Among the sounds for the SubTraetor I really didn t hear anything that felt made for a good fit with the rhythm track I had created From the Malstrom patch folder I chose a subby bass which I doubled with a bass sound from the Reason Factory sound bank and I also chose an accordion sound the later of which 1 added reverb to using a preset from the RV7000 As well there are 20 Redrum drum kits once again the sounds here are all of great quality and using the Redrum machine the combinations and beats you ean create are literally endless For my example however 1 ust stuck to the Dr Rex drum loops 1 really wanted a kind of lean melody line above everything else going on so I chose a xylophone sound from the Orkester Sound Bank to round out my music From the Combinator patches the sounds in the Sound Box folder really stood out for me and I used the Bachata Gtr 4 patch to add another melodie layer in the mix 1 should mention that I couldn t preview the Combinator patches in the other folders not sure why It could be a bug ora shortcoming on my part At any rate Lereated a fun rhythmic little piece of music using Reggaeton which you can listen to by clicking his link http www maecompanion comarchives Max 2007 Software Reapactonpiece mp Conclusion T would say the highlights of this collection for me were the tremendous variety and high quality of all drum loops drum kits individual drum sounds and all percussion sound
10. For those coming from a CodeWarrior background this section discusses some preference settings to help make your transition to Xcode a bit easier Ifyou are comfortable with Xcode as is you may skip to the next section Changing applications after nearly a decade s use will entail a bit of discomfort You will no doubt experience some of this your self with your move to Xcode These discomforts include a wide range of aspects of this products use however many ofthese can be ameliorated by taking advantage of afew simple preference changes One common area of cognitive friction comes from having to releam a new set of menu key equivalents for common tasks such as Build or Run Although Xcode does indeed have a different set of command key equivalents Xcode does allow you to modify these within the Key Bindings pane of its Preferences In fact there is a Metrowerks Compatible key binding set already available for you cem E a Since my personal tastes are for key binding in earlier versions of CodeWarrior I create a new key binding set using the CodeWarrior set as the default but making Command M for Build Command R for Run and Control R for Debug As you can see Xcode allows you the same flexibility for menu key assignments as CodeWarrior does Other visual differences between these two environments can be diluted by other Xcode preference settings For example within the Fonts amp Colors pane you can adjust the Editor F
11. Rotate and this will rotate the current page only Wed Mar 14 07 at 7 30AM PDT Submitted by Anonymous huyp www macosshints com tile php story200703 12031649116 885555585565555555 Open a Second Mail app Window to Stay Productive Mail Fie Edt View Maibo This whole electronic mail really seems to have taken off with the Internets and we need to rely on it for an increasing amount of communication with email lists coworkers friends and more While many Mail app users have at least some sort of Rules system for filing messages into folders or tagging them with Scott Morrison s spectacular MailTags plugin hnip ww indev ea MT2Beta tml I have recently been getting cozy with a lesser known feature that can save a lot of time with hopping between folders Under Mail app s File menu is a New Viewer Window option opt emd n that opens drum toll please a second window in which you can browse through your messages This is particularly useful if you have a folder or perhaps a Smart Folder which you keep checking throughout the day this way you can simply keep one viewer open to your inbox or whatever default location that suits you with the second viewer set on that other folder Go up to View gt Hide Mailboxes Cmd shift m for either window to give you some extra room to stretch out those From or Subject headings and you just took another step up the ladder of email Zen Finally have no fe
12. s under control you ll learn things like the ins and outs of different foot installation methods how to use Font Book to manage validate and organize fonts ways of dealing with legacy Mac OS 9 fonts and how to make the most of eharscter ich Unicode fonts And to help with those maddening font problems Sharon provides troubleshooting steps and real world advi for solving problems fast If you ve experienced seemingly inexplicable trouble with characters display incorrectly an inability to type a particular character fonts missing from Font menus confusing behavior in Microsoft or Adobe programs Font Book crashing or Character Palette misbehaving Real World Mac OS X Fonts has the help you need I agree In this book Okay I ve messed my font organized up by moving thing around I needed to put things back where they belonged Therefore chapter 2 Organize Your Fonts step by step guidance was a good place to stat The good news 1 was able to make things right over several hours The bad news it seemed to make no difference on how either MS Word Acrobat or other fonts using applications worked After experimenting with organizing my fonts I did a little experimentation with Installing few fonts Chapter 4 that ve recently collected and also tossed some non critical fonts see Appendix C I hadn t used since I installed OS X Tiger I no longer have Classic installed on my computer so all those fonts went into to th
13. 85555585565555565 Create New Blank Text Files Via the Contextual Menu An Automator Tip Whenever I open TextEdit rarely 1 am dismayed to find out that when I save the file it only gives me four choices RTF HTML Word and Word XML But what happens when I don t care about the formatting and all T want is plain old txt For a while I found myself opening a blank text file on my desktop downloaded from a website and then doing File Save As or even opening up Terminal and typing in touch Desktop file txt Well today I got off my lazy butt and wrote a script two lines of eode I then put it into Automator and saved it asa plug in in the Finder s contextual menu Here s the script To shall serpi Touch Deskop TERT do shell script open Desktopifile xt What the script does is first create a file named file xt and puts it on the desktop then opens it in TextEdit 1 suppose someone could save the script as an application and have it open on a keyboard shortcut through Butler or Quicksilver as well Just copy the code into Seript Editor or Automator in a Do Shell Script action This hint works only in Tiger robe adds There are third party tools that make this process pretty simple too DocuntentPalette bupy iwww coldpizzasoftware com documentpalette and NuFile btip www growlichacomvNuFile php are two that come to mind Submitted by ecbiln Wed Mar 28 07 at 7 30AM PDT hitp www macosxhints
14. All valid I suppose but really in this day and age there is no excuse for not keeping backups For you can easily not only keep a folder ofthese images ina regular backup routine but also just as easily save thousands of images to a CD I you did have a drive crash how much easier would itbe to drag images into programs than having to cut and paste all that information There will always be those who don t like or trust change They think this graphics stuff is just a fad Matter of fact when I had the choice of getting a card with 16K of memory on it or the fancy new 4 color graphies card for the original IBM 8086 PC I chose the memory Figured it would be nice to be able to load all of Zork into memory to play it quicker than some graphics fad that nothing used Yet David Teare one of the programmers at Agile Web Solutions had this to say license cards will 1m not sure if the nex ch on or not we re not interested in making money off of these cards but rather wanted to raise the bar when it comes to registration You ll se all the code for these cards open sourced soon The reason we changed was because I don t think anyone would ever use the word natural when speaking about entering hexcodes However natural and Mac like are often applied to graphies and dra and drop Hence the reason we used them both BTW natural can be applied to using links in emails like Ipasswil registr
15. Also one can select all thumbnails to apply some Settings but cannot for others which makes the task more tedious than it need be Also the mapping of thumbnail images from the slide holder is non intuitive starting at the top right and going dows rather than across Highly recommended for the quality but the user interface needs work and real documentati would be nice Speaking of non intuitive the Spy had occasion recently to edit some PDE documents for perhaps the first time ever He fired up Acrobat Pro spent half an hour discovering that it doesn t edit found out how editing was supposed lo be done select advanced editing touch up object control click it select edit object whic iol to Ilustrator edit the text there then save it 11 which doesn t save but sends it back to Acrobat suffer a few crashes of both programs along the way and some lost changes and struggle through toa final document after a couple of hours C mon folks the computing revolution has already happened No doubt a reader will tell us there is an easier Way if we d only guessed differently but this level of grief in modem Software is ridiculous enough to reassign the great lemon award Say lots of programs can write PDF How about a word processor that can read it OTOH does it matter On to the truly broken can there be an industrial age industry more out of date more broken than the m
16. Apple TV is certainly the talk of the town these days but with its file format limitations and refurb Mac minis going for less than 500 is worth considering the alternatives Ever since its introduction home theater buffs lave been trying to squeeze a Mac mini between the receiver and the cable box to tum it into a multimedia jukebox and to a lesser extent a PVR But the key to this is an interface that allows you to access of tis media from the earefully crafted dent in your couch And Apple seems to realize this since every Mac mini now comes pre installed with an IR remote and a 10 interface an interface that can be used from 10 away usually Without a keyboard and mouse in Front Row But is Front Row really the best interface One thing worth noting before we dive in to all the options is that you really need to decide if the TiVo like functionality of a PVR is a crucial feature for you If PVR is a crucial feature then your choices become quite abit more limited when sticking with Mac OS X That being said even if PVR functionality isn t built into the interface there are options for geting your stories recorded encoded and delivered into any of these interfaces But the majority of the options we ll discuss here focus on creating a multimedia jukebox where you can access Your entire library of movies music TV shows and pictures like the Apple TV rather than recording and Watching live television Another aspect we l
17. Dramatica Query Sistem for Your Story The Sunycude w handreid you through te creation of your sory Leve One contains out GO questo Level Two about 75 question and Level Thee about 250 questions rst ume users of ramata wil venent rom combining he Soycue wan a Srucure Template a stap by step fuori for atng a rore a seeenpay ec whch tonais a pre buit scene Structure Open a wnglate fe belore proceeding further 1n te SoryGude by chosing Fle gt New gt Story From Template and Selecang the approrate template Pease choose one sf the butions below o choose a ievel or Nt SHET RETURN for more metuctons tee Ciaro Ce Atter selecting Level One Level Two or Level Three from this sereen you will answer 60 to 250 background questions for your story An example of the title sereen is shown below r 7 lja art yoa dry ef crm chan ee There are various questions to answer depending on the Level you chose in the previous step After entering character background information in section one it is time to create the story structure Just as in section one answer the questions then move on to the next areas Ilustrating Storyweaving and the Epilogue C MIS LLC 2007 macCarpion Page May 2007 Name Soe 5 After you answer the questions in the StoryGuide section of the product you can still work on the details To work on characters already entered during Section One of the Story Guide interv
18. In my column entitled Tuo Many References Too Little Space No way to Search for Them focused on technical papers and science articles What I d discussed the organization of paperwork and the devolution of the subject oriented filing cabinet would work from everything from product descriptions to business letters and contracts from legal briefs to articles about plants and gardening There are two parts to the challenge of collecting and the reaccessing paperwork or electronic documents The fist is organizing the documents be they paper or electronic in such a way you can find stuff again perhaps in five minutes or less in 1000 documents The other is to convert your paper collection to electronic form to free up closet file draw or bookshelf space This article about the Fugitsu ScanSnap focuses on the later What one needs to go all electronic are two tools and one scarce asset First and most importantly a flexible and reliably fast scanner Second the software accompanying the scanner must be easy to use and bug free The scanner vendor must also provide you with software that enables trouble free conversion of the scanned page to the format s you need to be able to use them I prefer PDF fils either in graphic or editable format to text or word processor based formats In addition for those who require editable documents the vendor must supply a reliable and accurate OCR program Such software is available as part
19. OF course there are outs to this mistake The most tedious is trying to locate the map you used to plot your route and then lining your route up with it once again The other is to open up a saved copy of your route which should put you back where you were provided you haven t saved over it in the interim In one testing session of Meander I encountered a bit of trouble with the Snapshot button It would not automatically switch to Clear Acetate after taking the snapshot as it had on previous tests Instead it would just keep taking snapshots I thought for a moment that I had been misunderstanding the way Snapshot worked but a quick restart of the program restored its functionality A cool feature of Meander is the ability to attach images to your routes Let s say you re plotting out a hike for a group of scouts and you want to point out a cool rock formation or help them identify flora and fauna they might encounter on the trail You can attach images of those objects along with some comments to help explain what they re seeing 1 ran into an annoying problem when T used the Attach Image function to put interesting points on my route I found that if I deleted an attached image and saved the route the attached image would reappear again the next time I loaded the route 1 could move it or make changes to it and those changes would stick through the saves but could not delete it without it popping back up again the next time I
20. Requirements Power PC G4 Processor 800 MH2 or higher Recommended Power PC G5 Processor 1 GHz or Higher Mac OS X 10 4 or laler Universal binary The specifications indicate Mac OS X 10 2 8 and later PowerPC edad Mac OS X 10 4 recommended RAM 512 MB Recommended Disk Space needs 20 MB for Soan Snap Monitor application and 450 MB for Adobe Standard Warranty The ScanSnap SSO0M scanner is covered by a one year Limited Warranty Strengths Scan to PDF with the touch of a button and digitize both sides of a document in a single pass in color and at an impressive speed of up to 18 pages per minute 36 images per minute in duplex The canner comes with Acrobat 7 Standard and Readiris Pro 11 5 and Cardiris 3 the later two tuned to the scanners function Weaknesses The SS00M s photo scans aren t in the same league as my HP ScanJet 8250 flatbed scanner s at its normal setting of 150 dpi but works wonderfully for its designated task capturing the contents documents so you can dispose of the paper copy The software was tested on 1 GHz dual processor PowerPC G4 Macintosh with 2 GB DDR SDRAM ler OS X 1045 running ur Copyright Notice Product their respective companies id company names and logos in this review may be registered trademarks of Introduction In the accompanying article in this issue I rambled about how one could initially organize and ultimately make electronic a large collections of references
21. at this point never mind what may be coming down the pike OTTIL if the inattention to the Mac proves transitory Apple gets back on the computing track with minimal delay and is able to press its advantage that 15 will look conservative Afterall absolute growth in unit sales is now approaching the 30 mark This is no time for iSteve to be taking his hand from the MS jugular A possible consequence of the delay Blu Ray on all Apple models now seems likely on or before the Leopard launch perhaps as a peace offering There s also the matter of ongoing testing of Leopard s secret feature s Last month s kidding aside it s just as hard as itis for hardware to imagine what directions software innovation could now take that would be in any sense revolutionary Who needs more features in a word processor spreadsheet or database Even the most bloated software can usually be rescued with a hardware upgrade so bad application code design just isn t a consumer level issue If it were one extraordinarily large vendor would long since have ceased to exist Not much different could be said about an OS Foresecable change is incremental not earth shattering So to speculate what could Apple do To make a significant difference to underscore that there s no one else in the technological revolution business keeping in mind that iSteve has decided here s no glamour in designing and making chi
22. former or any ofa variety of film holders for the latter The film holder takes twenty four negatives in strips and another holder mounts twelve slides under plastic clips There are more holders for other film sizes and extra spacers for adjusting where the holders sit relative to the scanning head not tried yet Also included Epson s own software Digitallce SilverFast limited Photoshop Elements USB port and cable and a FireWire port So far it appears to be doing the job well rescuing essential images from some slides that are in worse shape than the Spy imagined and producing excellent scans of good photos and better quality slides He hasn t tried it on negative film as yet It s worth noting in passing that while diamonds may be forever storage media are certainly not and this is true in spades of positive film some of which has faded badly over the years The only quarrel one could pick with this scanner is over the instructions The TWAIN plugin works in Photoshop SilverFast and GraphiesConverter among others has a bewildering array of scanning options and the online help gives the most scanty and nominal deseriptions for ach with no recommendations on typical setting combinations for various tasks The buyer is left to experiment endlessly until finding something that Seems to work without having much confidence that the chosen settings are really the best for the task
23. novels plays television movies etc and another important piece of the framework called conflict drives the story forward Some authors like Stephen King have the education and ability to keep novel elements n their heads and use it While they create their tales that enthrall us I m not a horror fan but truly love reading some of King s books as they are so well crafted and I have a hard time preventing myself from turning to the next page Stephen King and authors like him that consistently produce quality stores year after year and they are wonderful On the other hand some people with less education or no experience writing novels find they experience roadblocks when trying to tell a story that sustains itself throughout the book It is difficult to tell a story about characters on a different world or that live in a different time than in the current world To sustain key setting or political or sociological details ofa story with characters in an unfamiliar place requires a tremendous imagination and memory copious notes oF a product like Dramatica Pro We can t help you with options 1 or 2 so let s look at option 3 Dramatic Pro Getting Started Dramatica Pro is available on disk or by download I ordered and installed the product on my GS iMac and it was fast and easy No errors and no problems I started Dramatic Pro and saw there are two options create a new blank story or create a story using the Novel Screenplay
24. some of you might question my sanity but as sayeth the Bard The time is out of joint O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right Hamlet Prince of Denmark Act I Scene Y Over my professional carcer I ve collected lots of technical documents in paper format Initially these were stored in file draws associated depending on complexity with their project or project subtask It soon became obvious that the method had a flaw Many of the documents were useful on other projects I was never very good at Xeroxing the documents caver page and writing down its main file draw location as a tool to cross reference a document location so stuff was filed then as file cabinets proliferate corollary of Moore s Law lost forever Background 50 Years of Being an Information Junkie Okay I needed a better idea Initially this was before PCs and my beloved Macintoshes became available I set up with the help of a secretary a needle sorted punch card system I was working as new products manager in a specialty chemical manufacturing company references including patents grew like Topsey Our task was to develop in the laboratory process to batch manufacture the various chemicals our salesmen said they could get orders for of course ata profit Great fun EZ Sort Punch Cards My First Try 1968 Story Chemical Co Tread about and decided to create a set of rim edge punched punch cards as a means for
25. titles ete The difference is the ability to create many slots A slot is your podeast the name you assign to it it s destination and encoding You can even have it upload directly to an ip server This formation can all stay the same podeast after podcast Say you want an mp3 version 1o go to your Mac account an enhanced AAC version fo g0 to your podcasting server and an AIFF version to be stored on your backup drive After creating a separate slot for each of the encoded versions all you need to do is press Release and Ubercaster will do the rest t will mixdown your podeast encode all three versions and upload each respective version to the Mac account the fip server third on your hard disk All with one press of a button save the Conclusion As you can probably tell by now Lam a big fan of bercastr There has been some talk in the community that its S79 price tag is too high I think that the price is fair especially if you podcast on a regular basis The time saved alone is worth the cost This argument is one of the poorest I ve seen yet for there is always freeware that does what another program does for monetary compensation for the developer If you try the program out ar don t want to pay the 79 by all means go back to using Audacity for free I personally think that Ubercaser is worth the money Is a polished professional application that only does podcasting and does it extremely well The
26. typi Soft touch quick tactile key action mor A he comfortable than traditional hard plastic E amp keyboards vt Fits easily in your briefcase backpack or us notebook carrying bag and you don t have to worry about any sharp edges Choose from PS 2 only or both USB amp PS 2 connectivity EL Illumination ON OFF Support Windows 98 2000 ME XP Weight 333gm Size 49 5 x Lem Getting Started This arrived rolled up in a bubblepack envelope in the mail from Hong Kong It out gassed for about a day due to the silicon rubber and finally dissipated No poisonous gas but it sure smelled 1 plugged it into the USB port and the computer asked to identify it and it did sucessfully The keyboard is designed fora PC and not a Mac but it works y There are a few warning statements and pictures in the tri fold brochure or handout requesting that we not use anything sharp on it keep away from oils or organics like acetone or Toulon not to press it when rolled which was funny because it came pressed in the mail and it took quite a while to lay flat with parts of it refusing to go flat not to put anything heavy on it or to be used in an oven or putted on the fire to teast or to be twisted or pulled Using the Hardware Thi louch keyboard You have to get manly with it meaning you have to get tough with the keys because they are tough to push Depending on how you h
27. AppleScipts or Automater you can automate Ihe entire process of downloading encoding and moving files to your HTPC a process that works equally well in conjunction with your Apple TV as well 1 personally like to edit out commercials before adding a show to the library so T use TDM to download and decrypt the fles direct from my TiVo This is where you ll run into problems The MPEG files that TiVoToGo uses do not conform to what QT believes a MPEG 2 file should be so any QT based video editing application which is pretty much all of them for Mac OS will fail to properly decode the file for editing including the olherwise excellent MPEG Streamelip you ll need to use an intermediary formal This is probably for the best since MPEG 2 ean not support frame accurate editing even if you could But even this can be a challenge as most encoders for the Mac are also QT based Those that are not QT based seem to focus primarily on distribution file formats that are unsuitable for editing The only acceptable solution I ve found that can encode the TiVo MPEG 2 into a high quality format is 3ivx Crush and Telestreanr s Episode neither of which are cheap but both support exporting to a more suitable format for editing From there you can use Final Cut or any other NLE to edit and encode your files ve been fairly pleased with the results of using MJPEG on the sometimes less than perfect recording and Episode s H 264 encoder is excellent The
28. I create the scanned electronic copies On an existing external hard drive store the electronic documents in elegantly organized folders each containing 50 documents each e g document 00001 to 00050 Name the new documents cleverly so I can remember what they contain Nonsense that s what the database is for Document 00001 00002 OXXXX However for flavor combining the document index number and a few pithy words would not hurt D00018_Vadose Zone Chemistry or D00203 A History of Punch Cards Rename and index when I get to it the existing electronic documents on my hard drive Well believe in the tooth fairy and Never Never Land so there y a place under the rainbow where even this is possible However if I index a document when I again use it that s a good start Thats all for today folks Read my review of Fugitsu S500M ScanSnap Scanner ts part of what can make document collection control feasible for you And for more about punch cards read Robert V Williams s article Punched Canis A Brief Tutorial http www computer org portal site annals menuitem 8933248930f8e I dbe fhe DSbedASCVindex jsp amp pNamerannals levell amp path annals content amp ile punchedeards xml amp exsl article xsl Doc ars technica Mac mini The original Apple TV alternative grover saunders at gmail dot com Reprinted with permission Copyright 1998 2007 Ars Technica LLC By Grover Saunders
29. New dise Eject the just completed disc or what T use all the time Reburn the disc Very handy if you want to make a few copies for archival purposes Disco is one of those programs that will make a best guessat J what you might want to do based on the actions you take but unlike many other programs of this variety Disco lets you override these guesses before proceeding Our example above was a simple one of burning data fles to a DVD but if were to drag MP3 files to the Disco window it automatically switches to Audio Dise burning mode or if 1 drag an ISO to the window it knows that T am likely to want to bur that image as a CD or DVD However in cach of those eases I can click a drop down menu in the top right corner and change it to a File Disc if I intend it to be that way Ifyou drag too many files to the Disco window to fit on the Burn Disc Image media you ve chosen Disco will not throw a bunch of ugly warnings up on sereen telling you what a dolt you are for going over the limit Instead it will automatically switch to Spanning mode and divide the fles over as many discs as it takes to fit And it won t use any special formatting to do so EEEE just makes a logical split and prompts for discs as needed 1f you don t want to span discs for some reason and I could SED Sa Gr oF many then the information presented to you in he Disco window is enough to let you know that Spanning will occ
30. Robert Section 1 contains macCompanion s regular monthly columns Writers from the US and Canada offer their insight into a variety of issues affecting Mac users These columns cover trends in the Mac community Mac software hardware and books This month s issue includes Leopard and Beyond by Mat Brewer the Mac Fanatic o Fad or Future by Wayne LeFevre Security 101 Protec ing Your Home Wireless Network Pt 2 by AppleMaePunk Views from the Ivory Tower by Ted Bade Who s on First by The Northern Spy o Errata for April from Mike Hubbartt Fanatic Geek Speak Random Mac Stuff You Need to Know B pz wwwmaefanatie netiblog Copyrigi Matt Brewer Leopard and Beyond by Matt Brewer 52007 Tm sure that by the time we finally see Leopard on our Maes all of us will be sick of reading about it However I feel like I should touch on a few topics since Leopard has made the news in the last few weeks so just bare with me Apple Sends Mac Users a Message 1 like to consider myself a special type of customer for Apple Lown an iPod Nano but only use it sporadically I don t own an Airport or amp TV Pm pretty much a Mac user without all the extras that go with it With the introduction of the iPhone this past January it suddenly became apparent that Apple was adding something else in the lineup that would change the balance in the world By announcing th
31. Word Perfect but that was a long time ago If there isa normal view in Writer I d not yet found it Picky picky doc Exporting Highly Formatted Graphics Rich NeoOffice Writer Documents Pm not sure whether this comment is fair but it wasn t obvious what some of the save as alternatives meant Particularly since when I chose anything other than Open Document Text od I got a waning message about losing formatting and by inference perhaps content For example when exporting a NeoOffice odt document to tf I lost all the images but my tables and bulleted lists were preserved However when 1 exported save as to a MSW 97 2000 XP doc everything was perfect Okay there s the help file which 1 should have first read but who was to know there was a need for that resource senssmmncmunenn Spelling Dictionary Yuck 1 have to repopulate my custom MSW So dictionary into NeoOfice Fonts An Endless list Although I ve mentioned it earlier in my review 1 wish I could use the Unsanity FontCard haxie in Writer I do hate the hassle of long font lists Conclusions After getting over the initial part of learning a new word processing interface I have come to like the Writer program Although I suspect intentionally that there are enough parallels to how the features in MSW are laid out to keep me challenged using the program productively turned out to be easier than I expected I found the word processor ea
32. a gs Sa WN TRS TE Rule Daughters ean be hidden Rule The hierarchy is navigable eee ATPO Opal otln e Note me tippy tangles White for no chia Back nas Siren Also note that they are System 7 right triangles Daughters P Designed o tok ike Ata suppose b Simple keyboard controls de Tes shot has tocar lepasi E E i Daughters Xek i stones Z Seems simple but ve fooled around with some shareware products I didn t chose to review They were outliners or ToDo tools that violated these rules Instant Trash Minor Discomforts Downloading and Installing Opal Instead of opening us as an installer file pkg or dmg the Opal application folder was created in my downloads file I found the Opal dmg file in the trash strange This behavior was not discussed in the developer s readme file Since 1 was concerned on how the software would function 1 moved its folder to my applications folder There it remains both during this review and for my future outlining needs Creating a Linked Entry I found the Opal interface for adding a linked interface a bit limited It required dragging and dropping a file from my hard disk or a website into my outline As an additional alternative I d like to be able to type a URL or email Address into the outline and to be able to designate it as a links This is what I ean now do in either MS Word or DEVONnote A Jewelers Frustration Now if only I c
33. areas to avoid putting important information there whereas computer displays have always been able to take full advantage of the screen In order to deal with this discrepancy and to make sure you can actually see the menu bar your mini s desktop will likely be shrunken and displayed with a black border all the way around its edge which is called Underscan You can tell your mini to push the display to the edge of the tube by checking the Overscan check box in the Displays system preference you ll only see this with the S Video adapter we talked about earlier but be aware the this will almost always put the menu bar out of sight Also many ofthe front ends we talked about assume a digital display so the overscan won t look very good For example in Front Row the icon at the top of each category gets cut aif on my CRT TV o Music amn Makes you want to invest in that plasma doesn t it The aforementioned fixed pixel displays should not be affected by overscan However I have read some reports ofthis happening most notably in Jason Snell s article for MacWorld where he asserts that this is the main reason he prefers Apple TV to a Mac mini based solution though I have no explanation for why this would occur on a fixed pixel display u The single most common request I received in response to the original art content to the Mac mini Once again the route you take will depend on want end d l
34. be converted to a fully searchable PDF fil The process for a 10 page double sided document only took a minute or two longer to complete 1 jumped into using the product by grabbing several dozen documents ca 2000 pages from my T need to index these S amp amp documents and file them pile was careful to select documents that represented all of the conditions discussed with respect to Bindings and Other Variations The table below describes my test findings In all cases as recommended in the product s 131 page Operators Guide I followed the instructions on How to Load Documents Before loading bach of swt omte e seas do he flowing so dha each sheet of paper habe fed meaty Separate he document into batches ach of which bas a hehe of 3 mms or less 3 Hold te beth ene ofa ec and dio shown ne fire alow 02 mm 2 Mold he batch my with boh hands so hat the both ss remain beveled 23 Repeat eps 1 o 3 a fw times 5 Tame Vah 90 dpi to eld de other sides ofi and then performa steps 1 o agai Demen Conan Spena ENa Nanang T SCR SUIT Note 1 Werl anii pases Nae Tube her Well rend pages witha Hi None Trouble free ean weight staple remove sape Newly primed pages vio staple None Tube hes Ege punched bound document None Trouble free ean Unread document with a heavy The dimples Tef afier removing The residual dimples caused ae staple the staple made loosing the
35. beside your computer keyboard and monitor or on that file cabinet you re going to empty out Recommendation What can I tell you folks IfI had the cash I would instantly purchase this excellent flexible scanner As a document junkie who s paper collections is outgrowing accessible storage space itis the best solution I ve found for reducing my paper collection In addition working with scanned materials makes it easier to enter document information into my references database That reduces the effort to maintain access to my collection bby doing real time indexing 1 wonder what I could get for my ADF equipped HP ScanJet 82507 Oh well perhaps the family can chip in for a X mas present Goldtouch for Mac Ergonomic Keyboard Reviewed by Robert Pritchett W KevOvarioN Key Ovation LLC 2111 W Braker Lane Suite 200 Austin TX 78758 512 795 9994 lef laf 866 277 9994 Fax 512 795 9997 owebinfoW kevovation com bhuyp www keyovation com Release tober 11 2006 si40 UsD Requirements Mac OS X 10 4 or later Strengths Flexible adjustable ergonomic keyboard with Mae keys Plug amp Play Weaknesses Needs external palmrests No USB ports May take a little getting used to due to key locations compared to other keyboards Other Reviews http www macsimumnews convindex php archive review goldtouch a solid ergonomic keyboandi hitpj wwwpomeastcom wp 7lp lang pref en amp s Kevovation In
36. by our own Editor Harry doe Babad Links in Acrobat 8 and Kinks in MS Word Rants Raves and Revolutions from Harry doc Babad and Derek C Caudill hareware Too Many References Too Little Space Rants Raves and Revolutions Part 2 from Harry doc Babad Mac Mini The Original Apple TV reprint of an article from Grover Saunders Roller Coaster Tycoon and Soaked Expansion Pack fun game and expasion pack reviewed by Daniel MacKenzie April Updates of Hubbartt rest Some software updates plus shameless book and Astron my plugs by Mike According to Hoyle Moving From CodeWarrior to Xcode Part IT by Jonathan Hoyle We continue our discussion of porting CodeWarrior projects into Xeode Last month we discussed a number of modifications you can make to your CodeWarrior project to help prepare for porting This month we continue bby looking at the Xcode side ofthe equation If you wish to follow along you should have both Metrowerks CodeWarrior 9 x and Xcode 2 4 x installed on your system Although this process will work with some different versions of these compilers the screen captures and directions I outline will assume these versions Whether you are a expert Xcode user being tasked with converting an old Codewarrior project or a long time CodeWarrior user having to port your project to Xcode this article is or you Configuring Xcode for a more CodeWarrior Compatible Experience
37. cataloging the references and to break our company s traditional method of filing information by customer and project As long as I was not dealing with record information I was allowed to play the group was productive and the products we took to the pilot plant and ultimately scaled up were profitable So I initially bought 500 5 x 8 punch cards from EZ Sort a company that seems to no longer exist These had a double row of holes around the periphery which could be used to define the document s contents After developing a coding system that our needs I would use a special punch to cut away a narrow wedge at the edge of the card The later was easier than it now would be because EZ Sort LTD was kind enough to supply us with a pamphlet of examples I could build on Remember no PCs in those days The center portion ofthe card would contain an index number defining the location of the article in our filing system In addition we added the full bibliographic citation to the article traceability in case what we d synthesized was process patentable Finally we added an abstract of the articles contents either typing or pasting a Xerox copy from the article itself The coding information about the card s contents was notched into the edge of the card making for easy retrieval To get visual the center portion of my EZ Sort punch Card was a large expensive index card I could have has these preprinted to hold bibliographi
38. charter subscriber to both MacWorld and MacUser not the UK Edition I leamed about a program an outlines called ACTA Buying software for work use was easy I was allowed my toys as long as I met two requirements First I needed to create final documents that were compatible with the company standard no well almost no sweat Those were the days when MacLink from DataViz really repaid its cost since the native export function in MSW to Word Perfect was petty flaky http www dataviz com products maclinkplus index hum Except for network support e ec MAIL 1 was gladly on my own f Look it ean Outline in MS Word But I gotta learn all the tricks and gimmicks first In Opal all 1 do is drag and drop Now back to my early days ofto outlining ve been a fan of ACTA ever since using it both at work and at home under classie operating systems Because I became comfortable with planning documents using the outliner my management required me to bring them fewer rocks when working as lead author on multi contributor documents References to the art of using outliners are found at the end of this review Folks I missed Acta which I abandoned when switching to Mac OS X but I hated working in the classic environment Now I get to use its reincarnation Opal once more Product Overview Opal is a full featured flexible and most importantly easy to use outline Tt let s you organize just about anything id
39. com article php story 2007 8410 HSSESESSSSSESSSSSS Effectively Using Drop and Drag Nothing shows off the power of Mac OS X better than drag and drop as support for dropped files is built into nearly every program It should come as no surprise then that there are a number of commands that can be used to aid in the drag and drop process Command drag After dragging a file on the desktop while holding the Command key the dropped icon gets instantly aligned to the invisible grid used to keep icons tidy This is handy if you want to drag a bunch of files and make them fairly organized when they are put in their place This behavior changes slightly when dealing with multiple disks or mounted disk images When dragging files in this case the default behavior is to copy files and holding Command forces them to be moved i ead See the endnote Command Option drag When dropping a file and holding Command and Option the resulting file will actually be an alias to the original So if you start dragging the original hold the keys then drop an alias will be created at the destination point When performing this command an arrow appears under the mouse cursor to let you know what s about to happen Option drag Similar to dropping an alias Option drag copies the original file to the destination For this command a green symbol is placed under your arrow Command Tab while dragging I ve saved the most
40. from the old paradigms of the textbook and the video presentation We believe the Virtual Historian will not only revolutionize the way in which the Doctrine amp Covenants is taught but how history in general is delivered There are two keys to the Virtual Historian Concept Non linear presentation Instant Context Non linear Presentation Traditional resources start at the beginning ofa story and take you to the end They are a seven course meal where you must eat everything that is put on your plate Virtual Historian is a buffet of resources that allows you to stroll through and only pick out the items that interest you There is no beginning and there is no end You can start wherever you want and follow your curiosity For example you could click on a link to a biography open up the media viewer for a location that was mentioned in the biography then see a map containing the location and finally read other sections that were seceived in the same place Since you are controlling the experience you are only studying subjects that interest you This increases your attention span Instant Context The problem with a non linear presentation is that it is very easy to arrive at information for which you ave no context Linear presentations organize information so that each new bit of information builds information that has previously been presented Studying in a non linear fashion has traditionally been like skipping ra
41. impressive combination for last 1s often useful to drop a file or two into a window of a sunning program but sometimes other programs may obscure this window If you start dragging a file you can then use Command Tab to cycle through running programs and bring the destination app forward This is especially helpful when combined with Expos where entire programs can be whisked out of rhe way a file grabbed then dropped on the window of your choice Doc sez Remember that command dragging from one disc to another dise moves not just copies the file The file is deleted from the original disc and a new file is created on the new disc This works great if you keep your startup disk uncluttered and collect images and music to an external hard drive That collection is 36 GB and growing Posted Oct 19 06 1 30 PM PT by Collin Allen Inupv wwwamacusercom ips quick tip drag and_diop php That s all folks Harry doe Babad C sars LLC 2007 macCompanion Page May 2007 Nase Soe 5 Rants Raves and Revelations Links in Acrobat 8 and Kinks in MS Word by Harry doc Babad and Derek C Caudill Since this is a writing and writer s issue macC Volume I I thought we d share both my misadventures with MS Word save copy feature and provide the answer to Mike Hubbartt our editors question of about maintaining links when converting an MSW or Word formatted tf document to Acrobat These were too much fun to hide in my usual long
42. learning curve Note T ve been using MSW from version 3 5 to 2004 and interface in Writer are just different enough to slow me down Okay that first article took me about twice the time it would have in MSW look at the NeoOffice Writer user interface the example if from this article Nice and clean looking isn t Nes 1 aes OR o NecOMice We E PEDE ee ee ae m m ehu uroni Fammen Stee Nsom inert pase A c E TRE E M RIETI OMM MARS EP RM a uta Langue Sper i ps te St gem Sa Ot Sora ce Toners My Next Move Let s up the ante and do a second article from scratch in NeoOMice s Writer That new draft article focuses on the checking of obscure sites for unique recipes It was easier to do First I was still doing stream of consciousness inputs just dumping my ideas onto paper That mean I did not have to worry about formatting styles or any of the other display oriented strengths provided by a good word processing program In addition I was beginning to recognize structural similarities between for NeoOffice tool bars and menus to those in MS Word A Future Test Okay what s next perhaps to try replicating my custom toolbars from MS Word to Neo Office Writer and do some more test writing The old practice makes perfect adage is probably appropriate when contemplating abandoning MS Word Or should that be Familiarity Breeds That s a test for afte
43. loaded the map When your route is complete you re likely going to want to share that route with friends This is where the Export comes in Unfortunately export is somewhat hobbled at this point In my testing exporting your map to 2 JPEG saves the image and the plotted route but nothing else There scale is there but no distance information and more importantly no image attachments or even their locations C MIS LLC 2007 macCampion Pues May 2007 Volume 5 lue 5 When I tested the Export for E mail command I had higher hopes but those were quickly dashed when I realized that the map could only be used by other Meander users In all other respects however Export for E mail worked as promised As long as the person you re sending the map to owns Meander they ll be able to open the route check out your attached images and even make changes to the route to suit their needs H seems to me that the E port function could be made much more useful if it would have an Export to HTML function that would generate a Web 2 0 page contain present them all using CSS and JavaScript so that im ned within This would allow me to upload the interactive route to my web site or package it her to e mail to someone who doesn t own Meander it the snapshot the route and all attached images and ie attachments could be clicked to reveal the photo and As long as I m wandering down Wishlist Lane I thought more t
44. normal In one case I had to log out and back in to restore order Strange for certain and not always reproducible but I thought I should point it out Being a relatively young application an application that is in very active development I don t expect this problem to Conclusion Throw in extra features such as Session CD ereation DVD burning from VIDEO TS and AUDIO TS folders simple disc copying and working with RW discs and you ean see that as a burning application Disco is very capable and likely to fill all of your immediate needs The area Disco falls short at the moment is lack of support for the new hi def disc formats Blu ray and HD DVD Though this is promised for Disco s future if you are ahead of the curve and need to burn these dise types today then you ll have to look elsewhere but for everything else Disco should take care of you Recommendation 1 would defintely recommend Disco to anyone who finds themselves limited by OS X s built in dise burning but doesn t want to shell out nearly 100 to get an overstuffed application like Toast Disco has been my primary disc burning application since its early development days and I ve come to rely on it to create dises I can confidently hand off to anyone running Mac or Windows and know they ll be able to read it like it so much I have multiple licenses one for each of the Macs I regularly bum discs at Download the demo and give ita spin to see if you don t agr
45. of Acrobat and as separate application in Readiris Product Specitentions utpat resolution Up to 600 di Measuring 62 by 11 2 by 92 inches HWD including the ouput ray 62 inches with the tray recte 7 Seam Speds T Noa Made Color 150 a BEW 0D di IN pgs por TET IG images per minae duplex mode Benter Mode Color 200 dpi BAW 400dpi Duplex 12 pages per Best Mode Color 300 dpi BAW 600dpi Duplex 6 pages per minut 12 Note Normal mode rie Tone and Ws Tor Black and VE X documents Better mode a lily slower but with a visible inerense in output pali In Dest mode throughoue drops o 6 pages 12 sides per minute the Saning T used o copy phonogrph and documents containing olor Images Paper SEE ATTO cii SES 2 Capacity of ADF Up to 50 sheets meres USB 20 Time However above all else you must own one rare asset time Motivation T00 but that s even scarcer then time Unless you are wealthy enough to have staff perform the scanning and organizing of you documents you need to be prepared to take the time to do it No not all at once it will never happened but 2 3 hours on Sunday afterno or Wednesday evening would work You also need to be prepared to continue doing so for as long as you gather up documents on paper With the right tools turning you paper documents into paperless fles can be accomplished in a surprisingly short time Indexing and filing all your documents requites
46. on the next page illustrates this bbe obs Again this kind of segmentation takes a fair amount of TCP IP and networking knowledge so if you re confused right now you might not want to try this However if you re tying to learn more about firewalls and segmentation this may be a good way to increase your knowledge 7 What hardware do I need Any firewall device should be able to segment a network many routers can also be configured with ACL s Access Control Lists to act as firewalls so if you ve got an old router laying around you might be able to put it back to work There are several small office home office firewalls on the market like SonicWall s TZ170 and WatehGuard s Firebox SOHO 6 Either of these firewalls are equipped with multiple ports for segmenting networks so setup should be rather easy 1f you have an old Windows PC lying around you might want to put it back to work as a firewall You can download and install IPCop bitp wwwipeop tg for free and tum any Windows capable system into a firewall IPCop is a totally self contained Linux distribution that acts strictly as a firewall You ll need a monitor keyboard and CD ROM to install IPCop but once installed you can disconnect everything from the system and manage it through a web interface just like the average home router IPCop only takes a few minutes to install and has minimum system requirements of a 386 proces
47. one of them who really know what features Leopard will have That doesn t mean we can t all speculate Advanced Interface This term is left open to broad interpretation However in this sense I m referring more to a new way to interact with your computer Speech recognition is nota new concept but one that is slowly and steadily evolving I d like to see this integrated more tightly into the OS and improved upon I d also ike to add here that the visual aspects ofthe interface should increase as well Stuff ike stacks originally touted as a feature of Leopard Almost like a folder you stack your files in a neat pile and more liquid 3D interface elements would be nice to see Maybe even support for iPhone like interaction with your new Mac laptop And because we re talking about Apple I think we re likely to see it Better support for web services Cocoa is by no means a poor mans language I is very powerful and it However with the garbage collection mature and I love working introduction of features such properties and fast enumeration fel like Apple should look to integrate more tightly with web services the next go around If web applications are the future then make it easier for developers to cash in on that and provide that to Mac users Abolition of Mail Templates Mail 3 0 hasn t even been released yet but just cringe to think of all the horrid HTML email that will be on the net
48. pace The nendeproj projectile will e created in the same folder as the selected Codehactor prt le reisrencei projects re pore ter a reject wl ae cren ed wth the me asesor sr he Cochariar proe s M oject men it impartea nte AN Mose tender Cross FAD Xcode s Project Importer will launch Codewarrior and begin porting the files The process will take a few seconds Upon completion the file Appearance Demo xcodeproj will be created ELS contenu Menus fite EEG Appearance Classes ELS Grannies Unter classes ELO Srayseate Castes ELO Poe contrater Classes ELS commanaers Ebo Famurs EEG panes EL rites stream EL Abele tvare Ei Ave ELS eon Ebo ume EEG brane ELO importes nes peces At this point it is worth noting that your original Code Warrior project Appearance Demo mcp is still ntact and functioning That is to say you will be able to build the Appearance Demo with either CodeWarrior or Xeode or both This may be useful during the debugging phase of your own project As you may recall from the previous section this project had two targets Appearance Demo PPC and Appearance Demo Carbon As it is redundant to have both in Xcode we will remove the former target Click on the Targets tab and click on the Targets disclosure triangle to reveal the two targets Select the Appearance Demo PPC target Right Click or Control Click on this item to reveal a contextual menu and select the Delete menu item Get info R
49. print dialogs buttons scrollbars and many other native Aqua user interface elements No XII software required A requirement with OpenOffice Integrated with Finder and Mail This all works seamlessly The Mae OS X Finder will automatically launch NeoOffice and open OpenOffice org and Microsoft Office documents that you double click on I don t use Apple s Mail app so did not test whether the Mae OS X Mail application will open OpenOffice org and Microsoft Office attachments in NeoOffice Uses Mac OS X fonts Yep it sure does But it does not support my Unsanity FontCard haxie forcing me to scroll down a couple of hundred fonts or at least to type the font s name correctly Handles international keyboards I did not test this feature Native OS X printing support NeoOffice supports printing using Mac OS X s native printing functionality Like other Mac OS X applications you can use NeoOffice to print preview or save a document to PDF file Tested only with my HP Color LaserJet 3800 Native copy and paste support NeoOffice supports copying and pasting using Mae OS X s clipboard so you can copy and paste text and images between NeoOffice and other Mae OS X applications If I hadn t known this was of concern for OpenOffice I d not noticed the feature Native drop and drag support NeoOflice supports native drag and drop so you can drag and drop text native and images between NeoOffice a
50. started the first thing you ll notice is the sparse high contrast interface Rather than the typical OS X grey on white window Disco sports a refreshingly unique window made up of blacks grays and whites including the close minimize and zoom buttons This interface is one of the things I ve heard Disco criticized the most about I don t understand this criticism though I s not like Apple themselves don t break this rule of interface design From a usability standpoint I really like the black window because it helps me quickly locate Disco in Expos when I m dragging files to it ftom a Finder window Frankly one of the reasons we re Mac users is because we Think Different so aren t the calls for conformity from the likes ofa simple dise burning application a bit hypocritical Joking aside there are folks for whom this white on black interface might be difficult to work with and for them it would be nice if Disco allowed for simple adjustment of the color scheme in the preferences Speaking of preferences Disco has a few you may want to tweak from the star P m6 mi d The General tab is where you can turn interface transparency on or off check for updates enable a cool feature called Discography tweak file naming and set your disc image preferences The Burning tab lets you set up Session CDs turn off disc verification and adjust the settings for your bummer Finally the Smoke tab is wha
51. switch to NeoOffice I m too comfortable with my customized version of MSW 2004 However NeoOffice Writer will remain on my hard drive Once I m actually using it I still find it harder to ignore NeoOffice s Writer as an application than to focus on my document But I ll be experimenting writing a few more of my articles in that software and that unfamiliarity too shall pass Recommendation If you are either a new user of word processing software graduating from TextEdit or perhaps even contemplating using Apples iWork Pages and Keynote this might be a good time to try the free NeoOffice suite Another user group that should give the program a try are all of us who are contemplating updating MS Word 2000 or 2004 to Office 2008 for the Macintosh Need I add Intel Mac users who want to jump start their upgrade to MS Office 2007 for Windows The word processing program after all is free the interface well thought out and in my hands was crash fee I found the Help files well thought out and clear which enabled me to quickly bypass my MSW trained reflexes and become comfortable with NeoOffice Writer s interface The price is right give the program a try Opal 1 0 8 Start Outlining and Get Back Into the ACTA By Harry doc Babad Adt A Shatp LLC hu comi 32 USD I could not find an academic or NFR organization Discount Opal is only available electronically System Requirements Mac OS X4 or later Unive
52. the linking feature A Bookmarking Feature new in David one of Opals developers shared when T take 108 notes 1 often jump back and forth between a few places in an outline The bookmark menu at the bottom of the Window allows me to specify those places I a nice feature that I have to experiment with Doc Ways Export your Oullines oa opsoutine ants Ton e unn ea Ton Ne a OS Roman Seren Tent enc atin Documentation A Kudo to A Sharp Exemplary Outliner Use Tutorials and Product Use Guides Beyond introducing user to the art of outlining All About Outliners Another great tool provided by the A Sharp team is the 25 page PDF document called Introducing Opal a tutorial Talk about extraordinary service thanks David and Elise would that other developers were as devoted to teaching their users about the arr underlying the software tool As my readers know I ve an almost boilerplate ding discomfort that I add to many of the otherwise fine products I review Inadequate manuals or help files I costs them at least 1 0 macC unless so totally intuitive that it can be used by a complete newbie in 5 minutes or less Outline Software Rules l m guessing that someone at A Sharp has been a teacher or trainer a good one at that In their documental About Outliners the developers presented the most concise listing of rules a good outlining program must follow Opal does TULIT
53. the magazine and to our website and clicking and purchasing from our affiliates and advertisers macCompanion May 2007 This is our second issue to focus on something the Mac excels at writing We have software reviews of desktop publish ing script writing and strucutre devel opment commercial produets as well as some excellent shareware writing soft ware And as always we cover a number of other types of products as well In March it was rumored that Leopard shipments would be delayed and we now that to be tue Apple released a state ment that the Phone needed resources that impacted the Leopard ship date so don t expect to see the final product until October 1 know I m not the only Mac user bummed by this news Sound off Send us your feelings on this move by Apple Feedback maccompanion com For the subject use LEOPARD RELEASE DELAY No new rumors on iLife 07 and iWork 707 so hopefully we ll get and review oth products sometime this summer And we do have those rumored new iPods and iMacs to look forward to again hope fully this summer SURVEY Did you like the Writing theme for our April and May issues Send your com FeedbackG maccompanion com For the subject use WRITING THEME COMMENTS Enjoy macCompanion Editors May 2007 Table of Contents Letter from the CEO 9 13 14 Fad or Future 16 Protecting Airspace Securing Your Hom
54. the tone by saying A great deal of the problems we ve encountered aren t really fixable I s more a matter of finding a Workaround or waiting for a pate Ouch The people at Microsoft must eringe when they hear a statement like that But all the problems aren t created directly by Microsoft Apparently hardware companies have been slow to provide hardware drivers hat support Vista What this means is that peripherals attached to computer won t work properly check out is article brp wwww crn com software 19700699 What does this mean for Mae OS X and Mac Users 1 don t really think ibat Mac OS X will take over the computer OS market I do believe it will become a major player What I really think will happen is that the market will spread into a variety of current and new methods of providing operating systems to users Both Linux and Mac OS X will be major players As Microsoft looses market share other companies will create new systems to fill the gap Another effect of is is a reduction in malicious software Let s face it one ofthe main reasons there is so much malicious software for Windows is that one piece of code can negatively affect millions upon millions of computers What if there were five equally used computer operating systems would the person writing the virus learn to write code for all five How about if there were twenty OS choices While it would be nice to dream that th
55. there are three ways to create a PDF from a MS Word document Pm using Word 2004 but the earlier version X also works 1 Youcan print to PDF using Apples print utility 2 You can use the Adobe installed plugins to print your document to pdf That uses a tool called Acrobat PDF Maker 3 You can use Acrobar s Create a PDF from file function TI aO you can ereate or activate a Tink from within an Acrobat document Simply select and create a link as I explain below Doc s Test Results Treated a test set of links using two formats for Internet URLs an email addressed and the phase to URL examples I used in the tip introduction Tn either the doc or tf examples both using the Apple or the Acrobat plugin worked The traditional links URLs and emails were active However Acrobat will not allow you to convert either a Macintosh doc or tf document to PDF by way of its file menu Nothing I tried kept the MacUpdate the words linked to the sites URL The word MacUpdate is not recognized asa link in the PDF Creating a Link In Acrobat 8 Is Also Easy Open your PDF document Go to Tools gt Advanced Editing gt Link Tool Follow the Adobe provided instructions First use the marquee tool to highlight text you wantto fm creat into alin St your appearance preference and soy RAMEE a E E okay mes nr B ww inet Ci E Type in the link or better yet pasteit in you redone oS rap rr Links embedded
56. this review however T quickly found out just how useful the program was and for more than just maps More on that shortly Getting Started Meander installs via the usual drag and drop method and takes just a few scant megabytes of hard drive space once planted in the Applications folder Removing the program is equally as easy and a quick check with AppZapper showed a very small footprint with only a couple tiny support files in the Preferences folder and Application Support folder respectively The interface of Meander is very clean and straightforward as well As the following sereen shot shows you re presented with a simple toolbar across the top a sheet of elear blue acetate which serves as your overlay on which you ll plot your route and a small scale widget that is used to help Meander accurately report the distances of poinis plotted on the map you re working with The scale at the bottom can be relocated and stretched to fit the scale of the map your acetate is floating over and the Scale Distance drop down menu allows you to specify the distances in miles kilometers meters feet inches centimeters and millimeters Setting these properly before you start your plots ensures accurate measurements s7 9 v0 BS Some of the more interesting features of Meander are positioned on the toolbar by default Snapshot is used o ink a map image to the route plotted on the acetate and Journal is
57. through the percussion loops on the actual Dr Rex loop player and use the preview button to listen while the other loop plays and that works well to The only adjustment I had to make was to the tempo of the drum loop which had loaded in at 88bpm whereas the bongo loops 1 was previewing were all at 95 bpm After listening to the ones in that collection I chose one of the bongo loops that seemed to go well with my drum loop Then using the same method I browsed through the Cajon loops and chose one that really liked and that went well with the two loops 1 now had And I did the same for an Sdrumloop loop Shaker loop snare loop and finally a Timbale loop Now I have a really pleasing rhythm track to build on 1 first browsed the sounds for the NN XT Sampler There are lots of individual drum sounds there such as spares kicks and hihats and there is a great variety to choose from as well as other assorted sounds and drum Kits so that you can build your own entirely customized drum track if you want to go that route or simply to add onto your existing drum loop combination Also included in the NN XT sampler patches are brass sounds organ FX such as sweeps blasts and air horns various percussion stabs both wet and dry a folder of various synth sounds Vinyl FX and all kinds of male vocal samples I was really impressed with the variety and quality of those vocal samples and I picked one for my arrangement
58. wavelengths over the same fiber strand The expense for moving to fiber is not the fiber but rather the electronics We face the same obstacles that ic cars and solar powered homes face The initial costs ean be daunting but T think the what me worry feeling is worth the financial pain If you bought a Mac after experiencing the non Mac computer systems you get the idea Security Soapbox A fiber system runs on light and not copper so there is no electrical path established between systems that might otherwise cause such nasty things as ground loops something the pending Category 7 copper cabling industry has to face or even paths for lightening to follow to zap equipment And of course there is the security issue that is not an issue as it is with a wireless system An optical fiber is just a lot more difficult to compromise than a copper system that can easily be tapped And with a wireless system frankly there is no real security We learned that back in the 1960 s with vanguls of monitoring equipment driving down Wallstreet And those experiences were justification for TEMPEST systems that were supposedly designed to protect against electrical or electronic tapping Today we live in a social environment where nothing seems to be sacred or where we have any degree of privacy A fiber system makes access to private information just a little more secure by limiting prying eyes and ears from seeing and hearing what
59. way the ones who appen to enjoy sharing their new application might think twice considering their personal information including name and company is contained in the image as well as highly visible on the front Ifthe card is altered say you open it up in Photoshop and blur out your personal information on the front ofthe card when you re save the image all licensing information is stripped leaving it useless anyway The naysayers of this technology do have some valid points of their own Some people myself included have a nice print out of all application names which e mail is connected to and the actual license number T use the program Yojimbo to track all of my licenses This system has worked so far and Yojimbo s F key command is a lifesaver You do have to jump through a few hoops to print them all off to have a hard copy That s not to say that this is the perfect system either Just because key codes have been used for years doesn t mean that there can t be a better system implemented as we go into the future I have found i s just as easy to keep track of these graphic cards Yojimbo dragging them into a Note file instead of a Serial Number file Arguments against this technology include not being able to have a printed backup copy the fear of losing the image or having it wiped out with a hard drive crash and the space created by backing up an image instead ofa few lines of text
60. your home directory Libeary Fonts Inthe Mac OS 9 System Folder System Folder Fonts if you ve installed Classic Indeed all ofthese folders have a reason for existing They serve to accommodate the operating system and fonts shared by all users In addition individual users on a shared Macintosh can have their own captive fonts Furthermore you guessed it there are the Classic font collections What I was only vaguely conscious of was that applications like those in the MS Office Suite install their own fonts but that the new version of MacKiev s ThePrintShop for Tiger does not From Ms Aker s book I leaned that Adobe s Creative Suite and Acrobat Pro adds another Fonts folder in Library Application Support Adobe Fonts Yep its there despite the fact that I m only have Acrobat 8 and Adobe PhotoShop Elements on my Hard Drive And of course without knowing any better I committed the cardinal sin atleast according to Ms Aker s Tid related misunderstandin vent Gorda Bocke its article Of the many fon vant Cards 309k Obie s and management mistakes users make one Avoni Garde Domi stands out as the most common consolidating fonts into a single Fonts fan carde De folder hp tidbits convarticle 8546 Ioan tae Bockman Del No I didn t quite do that I let my systems fonts alone still at 32 evan font labeled items That s still two more than Ms Aker recognizes densa rer tie However in some
61. 0 Opec ome Bett Met ee 200 Om erate age dain adir ida ed um reci wig aos estana vanr ree net nee re name soina chee uppoa a wy an ind Sah Aian Fal nea a ce tet ei Features NewOMIce WS Merosot OMET Based on the OpenOMice org office NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can import edit and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office Unlike the Mac OS X release of OpenOilice org NeoOffice does not require th XII windows system The result is an easy to use full featured Macintosh application whose interface will be familiar to users of MS Word and ThinkFree Office or AbiWord the NeoOifice database module and compare it against FileMaker Pro TS FEVTEW TOSS Ony OHS WORT FICE TCO TW IUE FEV T WIIT TET TST Getting Started Installing NeoOffice 2 1 To install double click on the downloaded file in the Finder This should cause the Disk Copy application to open The Disk Copy application should automatically open the downloaded file and display a volume called NeoOffice on your desktop Double click on the NeoOffice volume This should open a Finder window that contains a NeoOHce pke file Double click on the NeoOffice pkg file and the NeoOffice installer should start By default the installer will create an application called NeoOflie in your Applications folder To launch NeoOffice just double click on the NeoOffice applica
62. 00M defines the Fujitsu way that an efficient document scanner for the office professional s personal every day use should look like Now for the first time T have until I return the loaner to Fugitsu a means for simply and accurately doing high quality scanning of typical documents 1 collect As Ed Eubanks Jr noted in his recent ATPM review Though the price is well above most home consumer scanners the return on investment is immediate ScanSnap is bundled with Adobe Acrobat Standard though version 7 0 came with mine not the latest version 8 0 and ReadIris Pro 11 With Acrobat selling for 150 street price and Readiris Pro for 129 you could say the scanner itself only costs 700 though that would imply a value far below its worth The real return on investment will come on the hours saved by what this scanner offers http www atpm com 13 03 scansnap shtml Check out Ed s article its well worth the side trip Note I didn benefit by the identified savings since T already own both software products doc The Fujitsu ScanSnap scanning solution s reasonable price small footprint ease of use and exceptional functionality make it the ideal document management solution for small and mid sized offices or for document collecting packrats The ScanSnap scanner s one button approach eliminates elaborate scanning applications and cumbersome driver interfaces Is amazingly small footprint allows the scanner to sit comfortably
63. 8S0nm fiber Fast Ethernet media converters allows users to extend the size of UTP networks with the use of fiber cabling Converting between 10T and IOFL or 100TX and 100SX fiber quickly and reliably the AT MCII6XL addresses the growing demand for a low cost solution for fiber installations of 300 meters or less To maximize flexibility the converter is available in SC fiber connector style The AT MCHGXL auto negotiates during the link up phase of the connection to set the speed 10 100 and operation mode Full or Half Duplex When connecting media converters to autonegotiting Fast Ethernet switches this media converter will automatically connect the link in either Full or Halfduplex mode allowing the link to be established with the greatest bandwidth The Missingl ink feature allows accurate reporting to network management systems as well as allowing devices with redundant link capability to be inter connected with these media converters failure in one fiber ink will be signaled to the switch allowing the second link to become active Interfaces Port Interfaces Ports 1 x RIAS 10 100Base TX Port LAN 1 x SC 10Base FL 100Base SX Port LAN Media amp Performane em Connectivity Media 10 100Base TX UTP 10Base FL 100Base SX 850 nm Fiber Data Transfer Rate T 10Mbps Ethernet lorem 100Mbps Fast Ethernet Management amp Protocots e mE Protocols Bien ER prm Physical Characteristies
64. 9 41 Strengths Rugged Compatible Affordable Weaknesses Can only be used in extended length Doesn t have char Introduction The AC Adapters that Apple shipped with its G4 PowerBooks and white iBooks are stylish useful and generally superior But what about when they break down A replacement adapter from Apple costs 80 Or What if you just want to have an extra adapter one for your home and one for your work FastMac has stepped up to meet those situations with its TruePower AC Adapter Using the Hardware The 65 Watt adapter can power both white iBooks and PowerBooks including 17 models Of course while FastMac s adapter is considerably less expensive than Apple s it has fewer features First it doesn t have the illuminated ring that lights up green or orange when the battery is full or charging Second it can only be used in its extended 12 length But the TruePower adapter has its own strength durability Because FastMae s adapter has no moving pieces itis more rugged than Apple s FastMac even went to the trouble to drive over it with a truck to prove its durability And if that doesn t satisfy you there s still a one year warranty Conclusion The bottom line is that if you have a G4 PowerBook or white iBook and need an extra or replacement AC adapter FastMac s TruePower 65 Watt AC Adapter is an affordable reliable choice Quicker Tek p sevie quickertek com C MIS LLC 2007 macC
65. Adobe Applications and or Safari These chapters even if you a knowledgeable of fonts in Macintosh OS X Tiger are well worth the price of the book This is truly so if your time is worth more then minimum wage Minor Discomfort hat Although Appendix G contains a section on Mac OS X font sample 1 would have like was a brief appending on the general types of fonts comparable to the brief deseription provided by Robin Williams in either the sem Non Designers Type Book Peachpit Press Tam always delighted by Sharon Zardetto Aker s ability to explain the most complex topics in a user friendly way Whether I run across a tidbit or read a book she s authored complex topics become understandable when penned by Sharon s hand Fora purported technophobe now where did T read that she has created a logically organized book on working with fonts in Apple s Tiger environment moving from the simple to complex potential user problems when using fonts in they every day computing life She is both knowledgeable as demonstrated in her two Take Control eBooks Take Control of Fonts in Mac OS X Tiger Edition and Take Control of Font Problems in Mac OS X as well as her contributions in my well thumbed though Macintosh Bible This is an exceptional book and a great resource It is full of easy to use flow charts to help trouble shoot all sorts of font problems The flow charts are accompanied not only by step by step guidance but sidebar comm
66. E high priced engineers and scientist do their own typing than to have a secretary do that work They did buy us all high priced PCs which initially were typewriters on steroids Asa result I only bad the problem of data entry to deal with I got my system started working weekends much to my wife s chagrin As is usual in the real world my pile of documents as well as the other annoying job related tasks interfered with timely cataloging Second my two finger typed input occasionally got in the way of searching for information computers are so literal Be that as it may I ve kept the system alive for almost 40 years it remains functional Okay I graduated Hanford irs called retirement and kept several thousand non record documents containing useful technical information mostly stored in that eloset I keep mentioning Start OF The Golden or perhaps Bronze Age OF Document Collecting A new paradigm began about 10 15 years ago the distribution of documents in electronic format Most of the documents initially produced were in limited use proprietary graphics formats but that soon began to change The Portable Document Format PDF is an open file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 It is now being prepared for submission as an industry standard Wikipedia With the ever increasing popularity of PDF format now a defacto standard documents in electronic form could be universally read and shared But this
67. Engine accessed by selecting the Story Engine arca of the main options toolbar I you want to work directly on the story points of your work select Story Points area of the main options toolbar This is where you can enter information to fine tune story dynamics And if you want to generate reports on your story select Reports area of the main options toolbar This is the place where you can export character and scene information from Dramatica Pro to Movie Magic Screenwriter or you can export the information as ext for importing into another application The last area of the main options toolbar is Brainstorming This is the place to see if there is an existing storyboard that already matches the information you already entered or generates new characters for you to help add interest and depth You can use this to create 1 to 9 new characters or you can let the software modify existing characters Conclusion Dramatica Pro will not create a story for you it prompts you for the needed structural elements and you do the creating For people wanting to write stories but without the literary skills of an English major this product is useful and fun While testing it I really enjoyed the process and found it helpful in crafting a story and keeping track of the details that acted as the framework glue my story made sense from begi Recommendation 11s hard to fault a product that gets an endorsement from someone as talented as Wes C
68. Eyes and Say Rumpelstiltskin Three Times Backwards The Stuck in the Drive CD Blues Using the Clipboard in a Snippet A TextExpander Tip Route a single PDF Page in Tiger s Preview Open a Second Mail app Window to Stay Productive Two Entourage Tips Create New Blank Text Files Via the Contextual Menu Effectively Using Drop and Drag 85855585565555555 Tip on Where To Find Word Tips A gentleman by the name of Allen Wyatt las been publishing an e newsletter for the past 10 years on the subject of Microsoft Word Tips I have been receiving this newsletter but have often complained that it was only for Windows users Well Allen Wyatt has started publishing a MacWordTips newsletter As with his original newsletter it is FREE for all who send in their e mail address The only fundraising Allen does to raise some income is his annual solicitation to sell a CD Version of an Annual Archive of his Word Tips Jn some ways this is similar to Paul Tailors Request to help defray the Cost of his Hints amp Tips column Like everything else get used to it There s no free lunch doc Bob Horgos wrote I guess that Allen has received a sufficient number of complaints regarding the lack of a Word Tips newsletter for Macintosh that he recently started issuing a periodic newsletter of Mac WonlTips You can access and read the MacWordTips newsletter at the address below If you so desire you can also sign on lo receive
69. I would hesitate to say that Smoke is what defines the program and you shouldn t think this way either Disco is a very capable dise burning appli feature I ve not come across before and its strengths as a disc burning tool are what the rest of this review will focus on tion with one Using the Software ooo E There is no better way to puta program like Disco through its aay paces than to burn a couple discs with it So with a few gig of files gathering dust on my hard drive plus a stack of DVDs at my side I got to work ForMacfyesOnly 11 22 town Preparing a dise is a simple matter of dragging the files you want to burn to the Disco window As you place files Disco keeps running totals for you The top left c ofall files dropped and each file or folder also has its size listed next to it This in particular makes it quite handy to help determine what should be pulled off if you need to make room on the dise you re burning The top right corner shows the total space available of the blank dise inserted into your drive A nice feature of Disco is that you don t have to tell it the type of disc you want to burn It just looks at the media and figures that out all on its own ner lists the total The top middle of the sereen is where you enter the volume label By default it reads Untitled and will remain that way unless you change it There i an option in Preferences to have Disco prompt you if yo
70. M 2 GB or more free hard drive space DVD Drive ATI Radeon 9000 or NVidea GeForce FX5200 video coard Forum bitp www ataricommunity cony forums forumdisplay php f 261 Universal Strengths Fun game play great tutorials fair graphics Weaknesses Long loading times hard to play unless you go through tutorials Learn more hup en wikipedia org wiki RollerConster Tycoon 3 Other Reviews htp www insidemacgames com teviews view php ID 658 Introduction T have always enjoyed the RollerCoaster Tycoon series but it always used to be for the PC Then Aspyr came in and made it available for the Mac Twas quite pleased and this game didn t let me down You get to build and experience your own theme parks test the rides and a whole lot more Getting Started A good thing about most of the Aspyr games is that there is no installer You just drag the folder off the DVD and into your applications folder This game is no exception Alter it copied from the disc I was ready to go Now With the expansion pack you need an installer but you just point the installer to the right folder and hit install I had no problems whatsoever Playing the Gam The fist time 1 launched it T went straight for the Career mode because I wanted to get going but after I started 1 didn t know how to do a lot of the things I needed to do So I went back to the tutorials There are detailed interactive tutorials that show
71. Opt Cul 8 Invert Sereen colors The result is an instant negative In this case a readable positive Repeat the keystrokes and instant positive Now for this to work you must have universal access enabled Why doesn t it always work for Harry More of Mike Sivcevie keyboard shorteuts at http www silvermac com mac os x keyboard shorteuts From Robert Pritchett at macCompanion com Used with Mike Siveevic s permission SSSSSSSSSESSSSSSES The Stuck in the Drive CD Blues Put in CD or DVD The computer balks It can t recognize your dis Ups it will not eject it either Its mine All mine Sez you computer Unlike in the days of old when you put an unreadable 3 5 floppy in to a drive you were given after a spin or three the choice of initializing the disk or ejecting it Yep right there and then in a new dialog window Hello Apple are you listening There are two styles of CD DVD drives but you knew that already They re tray and slot loading If you ve a tray style reader burner the heavy straighten paper clip trick works fine Since I m a jeweler or was T bent the clip into an almost pretty shape and keep in my desk draw right under the computer Why waste paper clips Anyway Find the pinhole that hides behind the flip up burner cover Poke it gently but firmly with the straightened paper clip As you push you can feel the eject mechanism move and out slides the stuck disk But the s
72. PG PDF EPS SVG PNG and TIFF Nevertheless this is common use for illustration software so I tested Lineform s import capabilities for BMP JPG GIF PDF EPS PNG TIFF PSD and AI 8 the latter out of curiosity I tested on Mac OS X 10 4 9 I upgraded my OS to test importexport capabilities using drag and drop from the Finder MODERN VECTOR ILLUSTRATI 3 Conclusion Having used Lineform for this review I have found it more frustrating than enlightening Though it has some well designed and engineered interface features its compatibility falls far short of replacing Ilustrator Freehand CorelDraw or Canvas In fact I cannot honestly recommend it even for a companion for these applications Te developed a short wish list for Lineform s developers Freeverse appears to be responsive if their forums are any indication so perhaps we ll find a considerably more capable application after a few releases For future releases the following features will make Lineform more robust and useful for its target market o Stacking onder Le move to back and move to front available by right clicking on objects not just through menu at the top of the screen Improved PDF parsing capabilities echoed in the Lineform forums At least Lineform should not crash when parsing a simple 2 1 5 ad Improved EPS export to match other illustration software ie transparent backgrounds Improved JPG export with controls for
73. Page no longer scrolls incorrectly Cursor placement after scene insertion remains correct New scene is inserted in the correct location Fixed a problem in Script View in Mac OS X 10 3 9 where keyboard scene header character or anywhere else a popup list was expected Fixed a problem in Script View in Mac OS X 10 3 9 where typing the start of a slug line would make typed text disappear Fixed a problem where changing name of one character such as Fred may affect name of another similarly named character such as Alfred Fixed a problem where inserting a scene in a numbered script would result in typing problems in new Increased the width of popup suggestion lists to accommodate longer names Fixed a problem where typing dialogue in Script View across pages resulted in dialogue text at top of new page gets formatted as Scene Heading Inserting a scene in Scenes view New scene now has Scene Heading element selected and cursor is placed at the correct margin for Scene Heading Made Script view background same as the dark grey in Scenes View Added Category column to the Contact list Fixed problem with Apply To popup menu in Scene Numbering sheet so that menu updates correctly and all menu options ean be selected ut would fail when typing a 6 May Shameless Astronomy Plug Lat 45 0725 Long 934555 A new scroll g banner across the bottom of the widget for up to date news plu
74. T want to plot multiple routes on one map Unfortunately you can t at this time The ability to mark two potential hiking trails on a map in wo different colors easy and difficult for instance or in my crazy interior decorating example measuring not only the entire width of he window but the height as well is something I think is sorely needed I hope this will be added at some point in the future Conclusion As you can tell from my rating I like Meander a lot 1 was torn between 3 stars and 4 stars but eventually decided on the higher rating because the sheer versatility of Meander far outweighs the weird bits and bobbles 1 found working with this program Looking in the Meander About screen it s easy to see the program is in active development and a number of updates and new features have been released recently With that in mind Tm sure most of the buggies I encountered will be squashed pretty rapidly Recommendation If you re a map geek like me I don t think you can go wrong to drop twenty bucks on Meander I found the program to be very intuitive and useful and feel it would make a great addition to anyone s toolbox After reviewing a final proof of the article and measuring the windows seen in the picture for blinds this past weekend I realized the measurement of 74 inches in this alternative use experiment is considerably off the mark Of course this is because my daughter is standing approximately 3 4 fe
75. The software crashed when I was doing some intensive table work but my files were automatically saved in the QuarkRescueFolder so I didn t lose any work Nice Another aspect of QuarkXPress I really liked was the ability to create a project and share some or all of the design elements in multiple layouts This means 1 can create a project like April macCompanion issue then layout the monthly PDF in one layout and the website content in another project And the nice thing is changes o shared content are updated between the layouts using those elements Sweet And you can add layouts o a new project when the project is created or you can add layouts to an existing project by Selecting Layout New menu option New Features There are too many new features in releases 7 1 and 7 2 to include in this review to see the list go to itg wei quark com s featureshunl top 10 features in release 7 1 itp wie quar com products spress 2update hun release 7 2 I you need one good reason to move to 7 1 or 72 then Universal Binary support is probably the best reason It ook several minutes to load both QuarkXPress 7 1 and 7 2 on my GS iMac even though I have I SGB memory and plenty of drive space Quark s documentation says that release 7 1 runs up to SX faster on Intel platform Macs than on PowerPC Macs so now you have another great and valid reason to order that new Mac Conclusion 1 liked using QuarkXPress 7 1 7 2 Although there
76. a Password Manager and Form Filler that goes beyond the basic AutoFill features while also working seamlessly across browsers With IPasswd you will never need to manually transfer passwords or saved forms between browsers each time you need to switch It allows you to fill in more information ye still uses keychain to take advantage of it s security The application allows you to create multiple identities keeping track of multiple credit cards and the ability to fill out forms in every browser including Firefox It too can generate and remember strong passwords and prevents phishing by only filing out the proper form that you originally signed in on Getting Started 1Passwd is one of those programs that you don t really hear about and you don t know that you really need it until you have it I s an application that I found through Don McCalister s SereenCastsOsline then had the opportunity to ry it out for myself when I received a copy from MacHeist As soon as T started using it 1 knew that I needed to have and buy an upgradeable copy 1Passwd installs as well as a Mac program should After installation it can basically take over your keychain and browser auto fill functions At first it ean import everything from your keychain and all your auto fill browser information You can decide which browser you would like it integrate with usually putting a 1Passwd symbol right next to the Address Bar Speaking of installa
77. a simple notepad but it ean be used to type up interesting information about the route and store those notes within the route file To keep things fun Meander presents your journal in a top bound spiral notebook format just like you might stuff in your back pocket before trudging off o hike in the woods Using the Software My initial thought was to grab a couple screen shots from Google Maps to get a feel for how Meander worked and while that was okay it failed to show the uniqueness of this application So I turned to a Google Image search to find a few topographical maps to play around with Surprisingly this turned out to be the hardest thing about using Meander 1 could not find a topo map with a scale on it When I finally did though I fired up Meander and got down to business To begin plotting out a route or take measurements simply place and size the open Meander window over the map you want to work with That map could be in a web browser Preview Photoshop iPhoto or even your Mac s wallpaper It doesn t matter What does matter is that you can see the scale on the original map because as I mentioned above you want to ensure you re working at the right proportions In a wonderful Dit of usability Meander s scale can be dragged anywhere on the acetate and then easily resized to the proper dimensions even at an angle I noticed the location of Meander s scale tended to wander around the window a bit especially afer retrievi
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79. ain over the 30 years at the Hanford Site I accumulated scads and scads a plethora or cornucopia of documents Some with technical reports generated by DOE contractors others journal articles Many items were detailed technical correspondence process records or event occurrence reports For most of this stuff there were no central records so one collection of stuff was critical to maintaining institutional memory items The listed items were the only things it was mandatory for a company to retain Alas was a very small subset of the technical information needed to maintain operating safety trouble shoot unanticipated events and to ultimately dispose of the radioactive waste stored on the site Such technical documentation was often tossed when an employee took a new job or moved to another company After all that material was a copy not the original In addition such files non records were deemed to be the property of the operating contractor and were either tossed or removed when contactors changed 1 worked for our contractors over my 30 years on the site but fortunately was able to keep my personal files although non record libraries of documents were trashed They could have been turned over the R amp D contractor for cataloging and archiving but there was never the funding for that effort Personal computers and database programs became available at that time Here was a possible way to make order ou
80. aking up periods of work with regular exercises is an active measure Such active measures do more than just reduce RSI risk they promote greater strength and resilience o stress and injury Passive messuns Passive measures include changes to the environment that support a balanced body posture neutral positioning of keyboard mouse and monitor and as well as glare free lighting fresh ai ete Well implemented passive measures reduce stress and strain on the body and thus limit the risk of injury Actiemeasurs Active measures produce physical changes in the body through physical activity typically exercises These make the body stronger and more capable of withstanding the stress and strain of using a computer A good exercise program such as those provided by the Desk Doctor program comprise specific exercises These are specific in two ways Firstly they are designed to counteract a specific problem in a joint muscle nerve or tendon in the most effective way Secondly the program is constructed especially for a specifie person Necessarily based on the results of medical tests a specific exercise program s carefully tailored to a person s own particular condition and needs Active measures rehabilitate problems Active measures not only prevent musculoskeletal problems from arising but also rehabilitate problems that already exist This is something that passive measures alone cannot do The Assessme
81. and Overscan Once you ve made the physical connection you ll need to adjust how the picture is displayed This can be one of the most time consuming aspects of setting up your HTPC and worth considering ahead of time if you re in the market for a new TV In most eases where you use the PC Input connection the mini will be able to automatically choose the correct resolution for your display Fixed pixel displays which should include any LCD plasma or DLP display will look their best at one particular resolution and you should try to match this resolution if you can You may be able to find this in your TV s manual or by biting up ye olde Google If your mini doesn t come up with the correct numbers on its own you may need access to resolutions not normally found in the Displays system preference If that s the case SwitchResX could be your best friend It can also be your worst enemy since you can easily damage your television so be careful and listen to the warnings it gives With a CRT TY you ll also have to deal with overscan Analog television signals have a level of imprecision built into them which a CRT TV deals with by hiding the edges of the tube In other words anywhere from 5 to 15 percent of the picture in a traditional television is cut off depending on your display Analog TVs may cut off as much as 15 of the picture Anyone producing content for television has to be aware of the title safe and action safe
82. and electricity that works 24 7 We now have the luxury of having appliances and other electronics that can be left on all night Somehow as I look back now only through prayers and miracles did I survive childhood when I wasn t working on my grandparents dairy farm and living with my parents during the school year I was the oldest of the children in our family so all the parenting mistakes were tried on me first Ics tue kids don t come with operating manuals And I must have been big burden for my parents being sick most of he time T can remember when we got our first color TY our first automatic power steering car with in dash air conditioning our first clothes washer and dryer so we didn t have to put clothes on the clotheslines ymore And when I got married I had to do it all over again It was a long time before we got a microwave oven an electric lawn mower and a house big enough for our own dishwasher and clothes washer and dryer Now we ave one of those plass top ovens and an ice dispenser along with the water in the front of the fridge And we have our own deep freezer in the garage And we use vehicles with air conditioning we live in a very warm climate for much of the year and our first car as a married couple didn t have air conditioning Ob and we have a DVD player along with the other living room essentials like stereo entertainment equipment distributed speakers and even wall to wall indoor carpeting W
83. andard definition files I can have one file that works both in my HTPC and on my iPod allowing me to easily take my video files with me without transcoding If you ve ever taken a stack of DVDs on a family vacation for use with an in car video system to entertain the kids on a 12 hour ear ride only to retur with a scratched and ruined pile of ash that used to be your DVD collection you ll no doubt understand the value of leaving the DVDs at home Making the Connection Standard Definition Several of the comments in the initial article revolved around how one goes about connecting a Mac mini to a TV The answer to that is going to depend a lot on the TV in question While Arsians certainly tend toward the carly adopter I m betting that a lot of you reading this are still using standard definition CRT TVs In that case the hardware side of the equation is deceptively simple You just need this 20 adapter from Apple It plugs directly into the DVI port on the back of the mini and gives you a composite and S Video connection on the other end I s worth noting that this is not converting the DVI single into a composite signal the mini s DVI port actually includes an S Video connection in there and the adapter just makes use of it In other words this adapter won t work on a regular DVI connection so don t get any bright ideas From there you just need an S Video or composite video cable to connect directly to the TV
84. anular and lock it down to a port level rather than just any but for the sake of the example this configuration would work To segment the wireless from the wired networks the firewall rules for the interface connected To segment B would look something like this Deny ip 192 168 2 0 24 192 168 1 0 24 Allow ip 192 168 2 0 24 any This configuration would deny segment B from accessing segment A but allow them anywhere else including the Internet Again this configuration is oversimplified and to properly secure everything you could add a lot more rules but this is the basic theory Building on this theory the configuration for the interface on segment A would look something like his Allow ip 192 168 1 0 24 any Basically you are allowing segment A to reach segment B and segment C but trafic coming from the other direction will be blocked This is not always an easy topic to grasp but to process of setting it up will clarify things This is a brief overview of the segmentation process and this article is meant to be informative and is not an end all be ll solution Network segmentation is a Skill that can take years to master and may require an advanced knowledge of networking If you are further interested in segmenting your network and want to know more feel free to contact me directly using the email address above d d ddddddddddddadeded Views from the Ivory Tower May 2007 By Ted Bad
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86. ap but work great I don t know ifthe lettering will come off over time or not yet They are decaled on but the keytops are not intended to come off There is an extra numeric keypad for doing calculations but it is built in on the right band unit if the Num Lock key is on And the Num Lock and Caps Lock both have separate LEDs that are green when on so there is no mistake if you are using those functions I missed that in wireless keyboards Using the Hardware The company sells a palmrest but it is not included with this unit from Key Ovation There is no keystand in the back to raise the corners And what I am learning about ergonomics there also is no keystand in front to allow the wrists to rest either so the keyboard slopes away from the hands instead of parallel to the table surface 1 ding the keyboard for not having an extra USB port on board as a true Apple keyboard replacement since itis a hardwired keyboard I figure for the price they could have added the USB ports soit would be a true Apple keyboard replacement The way the keyboard is designed it tends to flex a bit with the one piece holding the two sides together and the lever over time may not keep the friction tension since it too is made of plastic But then again who knows With this tilveotate design you can adjust the keyboard to fit your hands I found that in order for the flex to function I had to oar my hands above the keyboard Con
87. apling and binding equipment and all sorts ofelectro mechanical typewriters and other office equipment like the Wang the Xerox an the IBM word processing systems among a host of others We still maintained some mechanical typewriters for a Tempest environment up through the early 90 s I saw the inevitable transitions from real desktop clutter to screen clutter as the electro mechanical devices we Took so long to learn to maintain were gradually replaced Penny parts were replaced by micro electronic boards that that cost hundreds of dollars to install I serviced early IBM typebar equipment up through Selectrics hipz wwwetypewriters comhistory him and the pseudo electronic devices up through the Microcomputer age Many of the office equipment manufacturers no longer exist Not oo long ago I threw out all the 25 years of Service Manuals User Guides Parts Manuals books and other detritus that 1 had gathered as the backbone of business for years They could have been office equipment museum pieces http www ideafinder com history eategorv office him We went from rollers pins serews shims oil and grease and small parts to doing electronic board repairs on multi layers boards We used oscilloscopes to home in errant floppy drives requiring cat s eyes for proper alignment We replaced lots of bad memory chips on full sized memory eards that snapped into motherboards We even worked on the portable sewing ma
88. ar if you need to quit Mail or restart Mail remembers your multi viewer setup and will put everything right back where it belongs the next time your get your email on Posted Mar 19th 2007 12 00PM by David Chartier tpi 11 2007 03 19 tuaw tip open a second mail window to stay produetivel hp www yaw convbloguers david chartior ESESSHSSSSSHSSSSSS Two Entourage Tips The Daylight Savings Time Glitch I was having all sorts of Entourage problems with goofy times since The new time zone went into effect Entourage wasn t recognizing the changes I found an update on the MSN website that I somehow missed It took care of the problem Strange I have been updating MS Office whenever the updates are available I usually see a notice posted on some of the websites I visit daily so ean keep current Dac sez that from the help tem in the menu bar for MS Office and other Microsoft application you can enable the check for updates features Even check them manually No the updates don auto install you stay in control More Entourage Weirdness By the way when I recently had to reinstall my system software Entourage was acting weird and giving me 2 or 3 emails instead of one from some people I fixed it by quitting Entourage and holding down on the Option key when re opening Entourage it lets you repair the database Linda Cameron of the Mid Columbia Macintosh Users Group Tve edited Linda comment for this tp
89. are two installation CDs version 7 1 was easy o install and the printed manuals are well written and adequately illustrated The 7 2 update took more time to run than I d like but there were no errors and I just walked away while the update ran unattended The built in Photoshop image processing functionality was nice useful but I can t imagine anyone serious about DTP not already having Photoshop in house to handle graphic manipulation tasks And QuarkXPress does integrate well with Photoshop Tn the past Quark had a reputation for not having the best customer support I called them twice and both times found them to be helpful friendly and knowledgeable also found the Quark website useful when I had questions 1 used PageMaker a lot in the past and feel it was easier to go from PageMaker to InDesign than from PageMaker to QuarkXPress However once I became more familiar with QuarkXPress I found it quite intuitive and enjoyed using it Recommendation This mature product is a powerhouse DTP package Run the Lynda com tutorial before you install the software and new comers should consider one or more of Lynda conv s excellent QuarkXPress courses A good buy and defintely recommended purchase The Salazar Brothers Reggaeton Refill by Daphne Kalfon propellerhead x Y mz p www propellerheads se 67 USD S75 CAD 33 GBP 9 00 EUR System Requirements Must already own Reason software Available by dow
90. arrior 2 4 Metrowerks Code rin fe included from applications Metrowerks Codewarrior 9 4 Metrowerks Co STD hes not been decine expected class name before token TEST hay not been declared 150 C forbids declaration of DGiobals with no woe Mactos h S5 lt Ne selected symbol Z Next Month Now that our Appearance project is fully converted over into Xcode we will fix the build errors explaining why they are happening and offer helpful suggestions for similar problems you may encounter for your own projects See you in 30 Doc Babad s Macintosh Ti A Macintosh Tip or Three May 2007 Edition By Harry doc Babad Product and company names and logos in this review may be registered trademarks of ther respective companies The software related tips were tested on a 1 GHz dual processor PowerPC G4 Macintosh with 2 GB DDR SDRAM running under Macintosh OS X OS X 10 48 This month I continue sharing occasional tip related finds with you Where I use any one else s tips for this column I acknowledge both their source and their contributors Ob I almost forgot Unless otherwise noted all the tips and tidbits 1 share where appropriate work on my computer II don t own the software but the tip sounds interesting I ll so note at the end of the write up Tips I ve provided this month as always in a random order includi Tip on Where To Find Word Tips White Letters in a Black Screen Rub You re
91. at I know bad habit But with IPasswd this is a habit that is in the past because of the ease of creating new ones and not having to remember every one of them There are other abilities that it will do like Mac integration and programs that go along with it such as Passwd for Palm and Allbookmarks that should also be checked out Recommendation anything try the free version of IPasswd It only lets you create 1 identity and 12 forms but it will give you a good idea of the time it will save you There are also screencasts on the website as well as a ScreenCastsOnli Screencast on the application Take a look at them and see if IPasswd is for you CocoaSuite 1 04 Reviewed by Robert Pritchett bitart AA Developer Gerd Knops BiTart 13619 Summit Lane Minnetonka MN Fax 1 952 9322847 jo iar com shponaiccoasutecom KKK Ho cocoasuie com Released June 6 2006 15 USD 30 day free trial FAQs htip jwwow cocoasuite com fag him Manual buip www cocoasuite com Manua index html Requirements Mac OS X 10 3 9 or later Strengths Control Cocoa Apps Weaknesses Is not located in the Applications Folder Found in Username gt Library gt InputManager Be cautious about localizations There may be some program interference For a demo of this produet tos www cocoasuite com download hunt Other Reviews http www rousette org ulvblow archives 2004 08 08 cocoasuitel Introduction CocoaSuite i
92. at Leopard will ship in October instead of Spring as originally planned Apple has sent the dedicated Mac users a message You re not the most important thi that the decision was a most difficult one and probably for the best Allow me to elaborate anymore Now to be fair I think Apple publicly admitted to reallocating resources read human beings to work on the iPhone instead of Leopard This action alone best speaks for Apple s tively deciding to promote rection By development of the iPhone over Leopard Apple has created a precedent and sent the community a message As I mentioned the delay is not necessarily a bad thing While I m now unable to defend myself against the jabs from Vista users who taunt with phrases such as You were always teasing me about Vista being late Haha now Leopard is late too 1 still believe that in the end Leopard s delay will be for the best The couple extra months can seem like a long time to someone waiting to upgrade hardware but for the rest of us Tiger is pretty darn good right now With the extra time Apple should be able to release a more Stable and mature product initially something that will benefit us all And if the delay is because of some super crazy top secret features then I m even more favor End rant What s After Leopard Ics still a little early in the game to be asking this question since there are a very select few and I m not
93. ation We tried that and while it did work well the number of CS complaints about broken links was untenable While 1 personally love the new licenses and most paying customers have given us wonderful applause there have been many people who said they prefer text based registration codes That s cool We won t be forcing anyone to use the graphics they can use the text based backup mechanism tha is already available in IPasswd and will be expanded in the next Ics all about giving users the best exper 1 wonder is that the definition of Mac ice possible Nuff said d ddddddddddddadeded M Applemacpunkcom Mac Security 101 nv wapplemsepunk com Protected Airspace Securing Your Home Wireless Network Part Il by Kale Feelhaver This begins part I in the series on securing your home wireless network Part I focused on ways to configure your Airport base station to protect your airspace This article will Focus on ways to add hardware to your network to further secure your wireless network from intruders Adding hardware to any network always asa dollar value attached but can be the difference between a fairly secure network and a very secure network This article requires a litle background in TCP IP and networking This is for more advanced users and users with a knowledge of general networking 6 Segment the Networks The best way to secure your wireless network isto seg
94. ble would be a mess Looking up information to understand the context of one book would send us on chases through multiple volumes and resources This is fine for hardcore academics but we believe there is a better way to cram all of that knowledge into the head of the average person Virtual Historian is your personal research assistant By instantly providing context on any section you are studying it allows you to understand the history of the D amp C more completely and more quickly than ever before possible Seriptures Each section as well as the two Official Declarations are contained in the program Right alongside each section is historical commentary on that section You never have to 20 searching through another resource You can always see the history right alongside the scripture Maps Virtual Historian takes page 167 and puts it front and center The maps are always visible in the program One click on the mouse will load a map of where the location you are studying was received Clicking on different areas of the maps will zoom in on that area providing maps with more detail Media Viewer Virtual Historian Doctrine amp Covenants has over 100 ETATIS Virtual Reality Photographs But we don t just provide you with a cutting edge multimedia experience Each location has historical background telling you why the location is important and where it fits into Church History People You cannot under
95. but now comes with a dual boot CD making the entire process of backup recovery and duplication a much simpler o Getting Started If you are unable to get a copy of MacForensiesLab reviewed earlier in macCompanion Magazine CopyCatX is essentially a subset tool of that product as is FileSalvage also reviewed earlier Loading from the CD was no problem There is a rather long Serial Number that has to be registered though The DVD comes with a 41 page PDFed version of the Manual that becomes the Help tab Instead of being placed in the Applications Folder CopyCatX gets installed in the Username gt Library gt Application Support folder Using the Software If you intend to do a disc copy of a software based RAID array this app is not the one to use for that purpose It does 3 things really well and that is a 4 thing it does not do CopyCatX is a volume or complete device backup app and does not backup individual files or folders and requires both the source and target volumes to be unmounted You will want to work off the CD DVD when using CopyCatX because you cannot work from the same physical disc the computer uses to boot from and the CD is a Boot CD In Recover mode writing to CD R or DVD R is permitted allowing for ether breaking up data across new media or if failed media is encountered to pick up where it left off Conclusion Ifyou are looking for peace of mind for protecting your computer s crown jewels the
96. c OS X 10 4 3 or later Universal binary CD or DVD Burner Smoke requires a recent Mae with modern Disc cataloging Elegantly simple interface Strengths Motion sensor suppor Weaknesses Currently lacks Blu ray and HD DVD support Fora den of this produet htip discoapp conv download ph Introduction CD and DVD burning is one of those utilities you ng the built in functionality of the operating system or quickly outgrow it OS X s burning functionality is spread across multiple applications Use Finder to burn files Disk Utility to open and burn ISO or DMG images to disc and if you want to create a music CD from a collection of MP3 or AAC files use iTunes which as we all know does not verify bumed discs to ensure they re coaster jer find yourself content us On the commercial side of things the established burning application for years has been Roxio s Toast a fine though perhaps bit overstuffed with features program if all you re looking to do is create disc image files or bum your data off to DVD for long term storage Disco steps in quite comfortably between the two extremes to provide all those features plus a couple extras in one convenient interface Getting Started As all good Mac programs do Disco installs with a simple ij Disco drag and drop to your Applications folder It is a very FEE lightweight program taking up a meager 4 MB of your precious storage space When
97. c information that that east more than may management wanted to spend So my secretary as time allowed typed information about each document the usual stuff author s title journal or other citation and an abstract of its contents In addition and most importantly each card contained a sequential number that T used as the basis of a filing system The fist document no mater what its subject became file 0001 The second was 00002 No matter what the content each new item got the next sequential number T allowed only one variation on this theme My secretary did not want to put large documents book size or loose leaf binders into a file draw so we added a bookshelf designator such as 000731 That bookshell s contents were also sequentially organized To find a reference anyone would search my collection with a needle or two think faney ice pick the selected item would drop out of the stack that ultimately grew to 2 500 or so cards These were the database of my reference collection If the references were what we needed we d pull the document from its file draw I not off to the library The image is wish fulfillment but represents a real collection of isotope data that was commercially sold The Computer Revolution I get my First Macintosh My job responsibilities either as a manager or senior scientist always in great part revolved around finding and understanding the literature of my science Once ag
98. ce Td rather keep my story information in electronic format than write it down in a notebook so 1 find this product useful and worthwhile Some people writers and readers disdain the idea of using a tool like Power Structure to produce a story They often argue that this type of product produces a formulaic story and hence is unworthy of use by serious authors I don t buy that view A tool is a tool is a tool As long as you use it to craft a better story why should it bean issue Recommendation For people having problems keeping track of story elements for those unfamiliar with story structure this is a good application and the inexpensive price tag makes it worth the cost QuarkXPress 7 1 7 2 Reviewed by Mike Hubbartt 2007 Sogo S749 USD 749 UK Upgrade from version 7 0 to 7 1 7 five to 7 0 owners Released Version 7 1 1 10 2007 Version 72 4 5 2007 System Requirements Mac OS 10 4 or later Universal binary 128 MB RAM 850 MB Hard Drive Space DVD ROM or CD ROM QuarkXPress 7 01 Strengths Export direct to HTML superb graphics support multiple layouts per project share elements between project layouts package includes training CD from Lynda com good tech support Weaknesses Version 7 1 crashed once while working with a table but the QuarkRescueFolder automatically generated by the software saved my work No crashes encountered while testing version 7 2 of the software
99. chine sized portable computers And eventually we ended up becoming bourd swappers instead of keyboard repairers as electronics went down in price and wages went up We began the computer network revolution with network cards that cost thousands of dollars each and yes we even repaired those too http en wikipedia ong wikiUngermann Bass learned about structured wiring and became a Telecom Engineer and we developed the first network standards as folks debated the best technologies to do the job Ethernet won out Token Ring can still be found in use and don t even get me started on Category 6 and Category 7 shielded vs twisted pair cabling issues and we gradually shifted from broadband to baseband and centralized dumb terminal networking to distributed microcomputer networking We went from hubs to switches to routers and I remember the hot debates we had about router wish li requirements until we settled on Cisco gear I saw the price drop from thousands of dollars for equipment to literally tens of dollars And I ve watched as Murphy s Law htp en wikipedia orp wikiMurphy s law seems to have been replaced by Moore s Law hitp en wikipedia ore wiki Moore s law 1 participated in getting best of breed shootouts for replacing copper with fiber and I actively participated in those debates as well and still do But T think we gor end runned by insecure wireless technology Fiber won t be the next big thing until
100. cluded in each document window is a simple but nice feature that reduces sereen clutter By default Lineform s tool palettes contain 10 common illustration tools selection tool edit tool brush pen rectangle oval text zoom drag and dropper and also includes buttons to access color and font palettes To add or remove items from the toolbar right click on an item and remove it or choose Customize Toolbar from the menu Other helpful items to have in the toolbar for example are alignment and combine tools Lineform s palettes called inspectors are also well designed and implemented Lineform s inspectors are both dockable and collapsible to increase screen real estate but still accessible with a single click when needed Lineform s inspectors are perhaps its best interface feature because they can be viewed or hidden with a single click and docked together for convenience They are novel in their simplicity Unfortunately the color and font palettes are not inspectors and cannot be collapsed or docked tothe inspectors or each other Lineform s features compare favorably to other modern illustration packages and in some cases surpass them Lineform supports layers grouping combining clipping paths strokes fills lip image cropping similar to InDesign or QuarkXPress opacity blend mode transparency complex gradients grids for alignment and snapping tex fill for vector objects arrows at the ends o
101. clusion Thankfully the gold touch is in the key play and the keys are not wobbly nor is it necessary to push the keys all the way down in order for them to function properly And I appreciate the split spacebar With 2 inches off the sides from a regular keyboard this one does bring the hands closer together but the keys are designed for those of us who have fat fingers Impact 3 5in SATA HDD Enclosure Reviewed by Eddie Hargreaves R DTECH RadTech snousD Requirements 3 5in SATA hard disk drive Strength Quiet Simpl drive insulation Necessary cibles included tur lig matches presiona Mac Horizontal or veil Puri ors Weaknesses No FireWire 400 port Flimsy back panel Introduction Most modern Macs use SATA hard drives which provide tremendous data transfer speed over regular ATA drives But if you pull that drive out of your computer it can be difficult to find a compatible enclosure to put it in RadTech s Impact line is one such enclosure but there are some caveats Getting Started H is very simple to install a naked SATA drive into the Impact enclosure provided you have Philips screwdrivers 0 and 1 simply screw the drive into the sled slide the sled into the back of the enclosure and screw closed the back cover Unfortunately the model I tested had a very flimsy back cover that did not stay securely attached at all four corners This did not affect the performance of the enclosure whic
102. ctess must be double jointed because I sure can t bend my body parts like she does The evaluation runs from no pain slight pulling sensation without pain moderate puling sensation and or discomfort sharp pain and numbness and or pins and needles sensation When 1 tried to get the Speak text when video plays to run the resources used went way up and I heard no sound so turned it off because it really affected the video presentation Pen ete One Oc oe eat ra FADE ry pre ys rk Deer ieat rts Te om ms ee 4 Next after going through the 15 tests the results appeared and a Create Exercise Profile button appeared There is an option to redo any of the tests Sii AER D Now the fun begins Indeed there are a number of exercises and the instructress shows how for the time allotted for the exercises vec The Desk Doctor will pop up on the While the computer is on and show improve my physical exercises that stress situation i suene Jj Here is a snapshot of my Activity ac Sores Summary It looks like I have a ways to go Heat Units Consuet tr ean Unt Gee 4 io improve my Physical Fitness regimen on eis fepe vs erarema iiy Mis As you can see the on screen DeskDoctor window changes interactively as the day progresses Lam obviously not very healthy with my computer practices The background of the Desktop window eee chan
103. ctions of stu in FileMaker Pro or DEVONaote However there s so much I write and plan that will be facilitated by using this product Getting Started One nice thing about Macintosh OS X compliant software is both ease of installation and instant accessibility Opal with one exception was ready To use with just as lick of a mouse The downlond created an Opal application in my downloads folder rather then stopping atthe dmg stage So for Steeep rag amp consistency and perhaps safety I moved the folderto 2a Mac OS X Applications folder ipren My first and most detailed test of the software s was to determine how Opal deals with the task of planning the myriad details for a benefit concert Td used that project previously for evaluating graphies oriented mind mapping program called MindManager 40 macCs reviewed in the January 199 res 2007 macCompanion Volume 5 Issue 1 In addition to putting Opal though its paces 1 wondered how the differences between a graphic and verbally oriented interface affected my ability to focus on content not the mechanics of outlining In 20 20 hindsight planning any activity goes smother if the tools don t get in the way No I m not going to bore you with the concert planning details oo Opal Test Project otin e pend cxi AHawkoye Herman Benefit Concert Planning Hierarchy BOD Related Activites Commitee Planning Team F Artist Contacts gt Concert Ve
104. cy fonts master id formatting characters in fonts There detailed information on controlling character entry preventing and analyzing problems and solutions to specific font problems In addition the well organized and complete index make the book s appendices A G and augment the font users knowledge on subjects ra Mac OS X Font samples its easy to find The information ging from font specs and tiger fonts to Adam Engst noted in a Amazon com review of this book then came Mac OS X which introduced a plethora of new font types font behaviors and font folders Since Mac OS X I ve struggled every time I run into a problem with fonts whether it s not having the right font for a document or having a conflict between similar but not quite identical fonts in different font folders Despite having read the text of this book several times in editing passes font problems still flummox me but at least now I know where to look for the answer Whether a user ofthe basic fonts provided by your operating system and applications or a designer with a computer full of added fonts probably the most important chapter in the book in case of font problems is Chapter 13 Prevent and Analyze Problems In addition to Chapter 13 Chapter 14 deals with solving more narrowly defined specific font problems For example those associated with Apples Character Palette or Keyboard Viewer PostScript Fonts MS Office
105. d 24 for the iPod This is the best quarter ever for Apple To quote the We are very pleased to report the most profitable March quarter in Apple s history said Peter Oppenheimer Apple s CFO While Apple had some nice figures to report media financialrelated media pundits had some positive things to say about this Many of the companies that offer stock information indicated that they expected Apple s share values to rise to around 140 share and that Apple stock was a good buy right now This followed by Apple s stock jumping to over S100 share and hovering in the upper S90s by the end of the week It bad been jumping between the low 90s and upper S805 for the past month The Wall Street Journal posted a nice article concerning Apple s financial statement You can read this by visiting hnp www thestreet con da newsanalysis techgames 1035318 html d d dddddddddadaued c The Northern Spy Who s On First By Rick Sutcliffe May 2007 Apple s priorities ike those of any corporation are enhancing value for the shareholders While this can Sometimes mean other things the only productive way to do this is to concentrate on lowering costs and raising sales If this means the entity has to be periodically re invented to suit the current market so be it The second item addresses the same issue in a different way Leopard appeared a month ago to be in the last throes of tes
106. d freeware reviewers for mac Companion Motivation There s so much out there to share Rewards Seeing your name in print Sharing new toys with soon to be friends Contact Robert Pritchett and CC Harry Expected salary The product is yours all yours macCompanion is looking for a few good people that want to write informative reviews of shareware products Writing experience is useful but not an absolute requirement Hyperwords for Firefox Version 2 1 6 Reviewed by Robert Pritchett Developers Frode Hegland and Mikhail Seliverstov usps www liquidinformation org index fr hum peni KKKKS Map wee hyperworde net Donatonware Release March 11 2007 FAQs htip wenwhvperwords net ag userhtml Requirements Firefox Browser or Flock JavaScript needs to be tumed on Blog hiip hyperwords wordpress com Strengths Highlight or double click any word or words in Firefox and walk through dropdown menus to dig deeper Cross platform Weaknesses Requires Internet Explorer Firefox or Flock Does not work in other browsers yet Demo htp wwwhypenwords netdemo html Introduction Frode Hegland has been able to establish a company focusing on rethinking how we communicate with one another and capture what we ve learned into Hyperwords His desire as ours should be is to convert the electronic technologies we use to be as fluid and portable as paper yet allow for instant access for further know
107. d this rumor but See you next month d d dddddddddddadauan The section 2 software reviews in this issue of mae Companion are o Passwd 2 3 11 password management software reviewed by Wayne LeFevre CocoaSuite 1 0 4 a suite of utilities to control Cocoa applications reviewed by Robert Pritchett CopyCatX 4 0 disk duplication software reviewed by Robert Pritchett Desk Doctor 1 1 9 desktop computing exercise program to address RSI reviewed by Robert Pritchett Disco 02 interesting disk burning software reviewed by Michael Potter Dramatica Pro Write Brothers excellent story structure software reviewed by Mike Hubbartt Lineform 1 3 1 create graphics art goodies reviewed by graphic designer Mike Swope Meander 1 5 map plotting software for the Mac another excellent review from Michael Potter Montage 12 12 1 Mariner Software s maturing Mac scriptwriting package reviewed by Mike Hubbartt NeoOffice 2 1 Writer you might now seriously consider ditching MS Word reviewed by Harry doc Babad Opal 1 0 8 outlining software reviewed by our favorite Assistant Editor Harry doc Babad Power Structure 1 8 2 another good story structure organizing application from Write Brain reviewed by Mike Hubbartt QuarkXPress 7 1 7 2 pretty much the desktop publishing software on any platform reviewed by Mike Hubbartt The Salazar Brothers Reggaeton Refill hiphop
108. driver for Windows Vista 32 and 64 bit XP x64 2003 and 2000 at hitp www highrez alk downloads XMouseButtonControlhtm Although it is freeware please make a donation to the author if you like it Evoluent has no business relationship with this vendor USB only Not compatible with PS2 Mae button in OS 9 without a driver S buttons in OS X 10 4 5 without a driver left cl desktop wheel select window thumb hip www ushoverdrive com universal Mac driver that enables button programming Evoluent has no business relationship with this vendor USB port k top right click middle expose bottom show Unix 3 buttons without a driver Wheel button is middle click USB port Linux S buttons in XFree 4 0 1 or higher and Knoppix Linux 3 9 or higher without a driver left lick top right click middle middle click bottom middle click wheel right click thumb USB port Specifications Resolution 2600 dpi true optical resolution Dimensions L 4 45 113 mm W 3 15 80 mm H 3 03 77 mm Cable 6 6 2 m Getting Started Now my tum Simple as a ha shake is this device and almost as nice One thing this mouse is is light It weighs next to nothing As an optical mouse it practically floats on the Tabletop and works fine without a mousepad It just glides The left handed unit I specifically requested VerticalMouse 2 VM2 came in the best package ever for
109. e There is quite alot of turmoil in the land of the Apple faithful right now The people in Cupertino seem o have lost interest in computers replaced by an interest in creating the next great gadget Apple once called Apple Computer is puting it s effort toward perfecting the iPhone In the mean time other Apple products are taking a back seat For instance the next version of Mac OS X called Leopard has been delayed until this coming fall Rumor has it this is because resources were moved from creating the next great Mac OS to perfecting the iPhone This is really disappointing to me fora couple of reasons First of all I was looking forward to some of the features they promised would be in Leopard Installing a new version of Mac OS X gives me a chance to clean up things as well as the opportunity to play with all the new features I for one will not buy a new Mac until I am certain the new version of Mac OS X either comes installed or as part of an inexpensive upgrade The other item is that it would have been really cool to release Leopard a month or two after Vista This would give the media pundits a juicy opportunity o compare Visa to Leopard expect that i this had happened Mac OS X would have come up on top Releasing he new Mac OS X right after Vista would have made it even more apparent that Mac OS X is superior Oh well Mr Jobs and the Apple team have decided to pass up this golden opportunit
110. e Wireless NEtwork Pt 2_17 View from the Ivory Tower 19 Who s On First 20 Errata for April 24 1Passwd 2 3 1 27 CocoaSuite 1 0 4 29 CopyCatX 4 0 32 Desk Doctor 1 1 9 35 Disco 1 0 2 40 Dramatica Pro 45 Lineform 1 3 1 50 Meander 1 5 54 Montage 1 2 1 2 1 60 NeoOffice 2 1 Writer 63 Opal 1 0 8 69 Power Structure 1 8 2 7 QuarkXPress 7 1 7 2 83 The Salazar Brothers Reggaeton Refill 86 macCompanion Magazine Ubercast 1 0 Illuminated Rollup Keyboard Goldtouch for Mac TruePower AC Adapter 89 Virtual Historian Doctrine and Covenants 1 0 93 RclaRd PEARL A cil t 9 es 98 Evoluent VerticalMouse 2 and 3 5 Button Optical Mouse 100 105 Fujitsu S800M SnapScan Scanner 108 114 Impact 3 5 SATA HDD Enclosure 116 AT MCII6XM 10 100TX to 10FL 100SX Converter 118 122 124 125 130 131 GhostAction May 2007 Table of Contents According to Hoyle 133 134 Doc Babad s Macintosh Tips Links in Acrobat 8 and Kinks in MS Word Too Many References Too Little Space MacMini The Original Apple TV Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and Soaker Expansion Pack April Updates of Interest 142 149 153 159 171 173 macCompanion Magazine Advertisers Index 176 Amazon com 176 Apple Store for Individuals 176 Apple Store for Businesses in the USA 176 ecamm networks 176 DigitalMediaTraining 176 Parallels 176 QuickerTek 176 Teac
111. e computer and played nice with existing network protocols Fiber electronics do not run 10 100 1000 yet because of fiber standards The fiber electronics industry has over time figured out how to get the 10 100 thing but the 1 Gigabit speeds require separate electronics So if you need something running at that speed you will need to get a different box Allied Telesyn has those too The AT MCIOOXL series media converters do have a couple of switches to look at One is a link test much like what one found on baseband broadband drops for copper systems And there is a MDI MDI X switch for letting the box work either at the headend the central area where all the communications into the home are located orat the computer MDI X for either interfacing with a modem switch or router and MDI at the computer These are so the twisted pair copper cables do not have to have the wires swapped over physically at one end Technically fiber can operate at lots of different light color levels so 1 strand could be used to both send and receive at lots of different wavelengths again only limited by the electronics used But the industry treats multimode fiber like it treats copper Each fiber runs the converted signal in one direction and not in both directions at the same time Single mode is altogether a different animal and the fancier electronic systems are designed to go kilometers and not meters do use technology at different
112. e desk Ultra fast response A 2200 dpi true optical resolui be moved across a 17 monitor with only 1 2 400 800 dpi and require more hand movement sensor moves the pointer quickly to reduce hand movements The pointer can 13 mm or less movement of the mouse Most other mice have Programmable buttons XP Pro XP Home Vista 32 5 buttons each programmable with different f in different applications For example a button can be Double Click in one application and Ctr in another application Special functions XP Pro XP Home Vista 32 Speed toggle cycle among up to 3 pointer speed settings with a keyboard shortcut or mouse button For example a high speed for ordinary tasks and a slow speed for graphics work Auto click automatically perform a single or double click by pausing the pointer Adjustable time delay for activation nthe Click lock press and hold a button momentarily to button Adjustable time delay for activation mulate continued pressing without holding do Break Reminder visual and or audio alerts to remind you to take a break Repositioning The Vertical Mouse 3 can be repositioned without moving the pointer Tilt it to the side to disable tacking Slide it without moving the pointer Compatibility PC Includes driver for Windows XP Pro and XP Home for programming all 5 butto The driver is not required The VerticalMouse 3 still has basic functionality without it Freeware
113. e have been truly blessed with modern day miracles The Fix Is In While in college I discovered rather quickly that I could make gt more money fixing office machines copiers typewriters and word 2 processors than milking cows working inthe forest as a lumberman or working all night in a food processing plant or cleaning buildings as a custodian so I started my own business and learned how to fix just about everything that was mechanical or electro mechanical as office equipment from manual typewriters and calculators to copiers and word processing systems Later I enjoyed working in cleaner environments around computer mainframes minis and micros and maintained support equipment including such things as IBM card equipment Those systems had to be programmed using what I called bullet hoards because they appeared to use military grade bullet points soldered to wires to program from point A to point B I doubt the latest generation has even seen a Don t fold spindle or mutilate IBM card that used to come in the mail for subscription services and membership drives back in the 60s and 70s lnip en wikipedia org wiki Punch card When 1 went to work fora government nuclear facility I stepped back in time and worked on some of the first mechanical typewriters ever built pre 1940 s for business used in secured TEMPEST environments http www officemuseum com typewriters office models him rotary calculators st
114. e keys they may or may not register They have to be touched in the middle and not on the corners This is an issue with the Enter and Space keys And for some unknown reason there are a few blank placebo keys onboard Two next to the Spacebar have no function whatsoever and there are three more up on the right sid is not a lig The keyboard made this high whine that never went away Now if were in a factory environment the noise would be hidden but next to my iMac this was one noisy keyboard When it was plugged into the iMac it lit up with the underlayment being blue The magic is in that rectangle to the right transformer ete where there are also 3 LEDs as indicators Conclusion Bottom line If you need a flexible chemical resistant lighted keyboard for low light environments you might ny this o Just remember that it does not have any Macintosh keyboard keys Let the silicon rubber cure before using when you first get one of these keyboards And who knows Perhaps the one you get won t send out any clectrical audible noises from the transformer Fugitsu S500M ScanSnap Scanner A dream machine dedicated to document scanning By Harry doc Babad FUJITSU Fujitsu Computer Products of America Wein wunyvendoreebieURL com or i hrp wewcfujtsucomu servies computingiperihentl scanners workgrou 550m html List 495 Street 379 NexTag USD 550 CND 315 GBP or 419 Euro
115. e podcast In the mic pane you select which microphone you would like to use enter a custom title color and Keyboard shortcut Switching to the Audio button you control your mics gain pan and channel Here is where you also can select to monitor your output By switching to Effects you can select to Enhance the mic Though the enhancement the mic goes through is pretty much shrouded in mystery it can be controlled with a slider and obviously has to do with compression gain gating reverb maybe and other bits of magic You can also apply any number of standard AU plug in options For your podcast you might have comments and some outro music It now becomes as simple as draggir and dropping each elip onto your blank palette Each audio elip becomes it s own selectable panel each with it s own gain control hot key and assignable effects The effects are especially cool because you have the ability to switch them on and off literally on the fly You can control the start end and duration as well as if it loops or not By selecting each panel you can add whether it auto ducks and if is the master or slave The auto ducking is genius it actually lets you select the amount of gain you want the music to decrease It doesn t sound like much but after using GarageBand I ve always had to go back in and adjust the volume because I never thought GarageBand decreased the volume enough In the preferences yo
116. e trash with all of my classic applications Following the instruction provided I was able to work my way through the first seven chapters of the book The remaining chapters although interesting were not information I was going to immediately use so I read them with voyeuristic interest Somewhere along the way I destroyed Font Book and am now chasing a new updated copy for my Mac OS X 10 4 9 system This had nothing to do with Ms Aker s suggestions Rather during writing the remainder his months review and trouble shooting other problems that glitch occurred This is for me is another case of Murphy s gremlins which aperiodically appear on my much stressed operating system Note When my Macintosh starts doing weird things Mike knowledgeable troubleshooter has often given me the following advice Either do my maeCompanion testing on another startup hard drive or at east to set up another account just for testing What me listen As a result I was able to read but able past chapter 7 to implement or test some of the other suggestions Sharon made in this book I don t feel badly about this because I really have very litle interest in Master Menu Fonts Font character s Identification and other advanced topics in fort awareness and control These are all necessary to the success of those who do desktop publishing and page design which 1 don t In addition since I m using primarily fonts provided
117. e world will urn to Apple for the next great OS I don t think this will happen Apple has been cemented in user s minds as That other Operating System as Linux is considered the OS of real geeks I see a lot of opportunity fora new operating systems Somethi outside the box new and exciting also see the possibility of a web based OS one in which a user needs to log onto a site on the internet to gain access To the features and programs I guess one could say the future looks interesting and full of options Let s close our eyes hop into the future and see what really happens Financially things look good At the end of April Apple posted the financial statement for the March quarter Things look very good for them financially In fact the results are well above the market expectations Which is to say that everyone expected Apple couldn t continue to grow the sales of Macs and iPods the way they did You can check out the official statement from Apple by visiting rp wwwapple com prlibrary 2007 04 sults hum Here are some of he interesting facts about that statement Apple posted a revenue of 5 26 billion and net quarterly profit of 770 million This compares To revenue of 4 36 billion and net quarterly profit of 410 million of a year ago quarter Pretty nice Sales of Macs and iPods were up as well They sold 1 517 000 Macs and 10 549 000 iPods which is a 36 growth in Mae sales an
118. eas reports lists notes projects and graphics as an outline It stands out for its uncluttered fluid interface The creator of my favorite classic outlier Acta developed it Opal makes it easy to capture and organize your notes An Ouline im Briel A cline i an arrangement OF Text usually pics nip am ordered hierarchy By the way when dealing with outlines and outlining forget most of what you learned in elementary school most teachers in days before computers and outliner software didn t have a clue They had not grasped the fact that an outliner is nearly as flexible but more organizationally and perhaps logically focused then a word processing program It can enable you to make a list keep tack lake notes store information make plans or storyboard and even capture elusive ideas brainstorming Hey folks PI still keep some of you hanging on what this outlining stuff all means Sharing outlining 101 with you all would stretch my editors patience and good humor I am already too gabby in my reviews Read the reference materials at the end of this review It will all become clear to you So what have 1 used ACTA for in for in the past and will be using Opal from now on I will organize and manage every thing from simple database functions to detailing complex projects those whose needs are not well accommodated to my existing software Opal will neither replace my ToDo X list nor my colle
119. ee Dramatica Pro Reviewed by Mike Hubbart C 2007 S Write Brothers Inc formerly Screenplay Syste Inc J Company Write Brothers Ine 818 843 6557 www sereenplay com s269 USD System Requirements PowerPC G3 or greater CPU OSX 102 or greater 103 or grener recommended 128 MB RAM 30 Megabytes of Hard Disk Space CD ROM drive LS 9 Strengths excellent way to keep story elements organized can export story content into Screenwriter easy to learn export content to Movie Magic Sereenwriter or as text Weaknesses some people do not believe a tool like this is useful and may be critical of people that use it to produce a story a bit pricy unless you want serious help with story structure Download a free demo hitp wwwsereenplay com products demoform asp produciKey macdramatica 9 1 MB Introduction Novelists screenwriters and Playwrights have something in common their material needs to be structured Lets be clear on something structure does not imply formula the terms are not synonymous Novels have structure as do plays and television shows and movies Story structure is like the structure ofa house The house frame provides the place to add the walls windows doors plumbing and electrical wiring Without the frame a house is a pile of rubble waiting to become a home The same paradigm applies to stories Stories have characters facing problems These elements are the framework of stories
120. efore relies on many other components to do its job So when things go wrong with one of those components Xhub is left standing around with a clueless expression on its face Xhub runs as a background process and so there s nothing to force quit and you can t switchi to the Finder to access activity viewer The only option I could find when things locked up which happened more than I would like was to restart the machine The reliance on external components also introduces interface inconsistencies For example watching TV uses one set of control options to get into EyeTV but once you re there you must switch to Eye V s control scheme Xhub also doesn t hide any of this switching from the user so it takes the polish off the interface abit Also it s one of only two that aren t fre way though Overall Xhub is a nice solution and if you re s the clear choice But its Wife Acceptance Factor n so you can never forget that you re Don t take that paragraph of complaints the wror looking to have TV viewing capabilities built ri WAF is low because it doesn t hide the complexity of what using a computer Pros Nice looking interface with tons of file format support and a fully themeable interface Only real option for North American TV viewing built right in Cons Easy to lock up the interface by doing unexpected things Cracks in the presentation Inconsistent controls though you can customize around this Cost
121. en convert it to a regular point T would also like to see more of these functions moved from the menus to the context menus because in this example of adding a point I had to use the Route menu to add the waypoint but then I had to right click that new point to conver it After spending so much time plotting out your route the last thing you want to have happen is lose the map you traced Meander takes care of that problem with the Snapshot button Pressing Snapshot embeds a picture of Whatever is under the acetate within your saved route Sharp eyed users will notice that after clicking Snapshot the button changes to Clear Acetate If you have not yet saved the route with an embedded snapshot don t press Clear Acetate unless you re absolutely sure you want to lose the picture linked to your route After spending a considerable time plotting out a route I clicked Clear Acetate to see what it would do and quickly discovered it is a way to retum to the non snapshot view with mo undo I would like to see a warning C MIS LLC 2007 mscCompnin Pages May 2007 me Soe 5 op up before clearing the acetate though I expect once you ve clicked that button you aren t likely to click it again unless you mean to Though this does not touch your route it s still a critical feature to be aware of when working with maps that you found on the Internet and maybe didn t save a local copy of thinking that you had it locked up with the Snapshot feature
122. ename Set Role Fouen Duplicate Build Appearance Demo PPG Build Appearance Demo PPC and Run Build Appearance Demo PPC and Debug Clean Appearance Demo PPC Preferences Once selected a confirmation sheet will be presented next phase getting your application to compile on the Delete button Now you are ready to for the Building the Project Select Clean All Targets from the Build menu Once the clean operation is completed select Build from the Build menu Note It is vital that you wait until the clean is completely finished before attempting to build Xcode has a known bup feature that will cause the clean to stop if a build is attempted in the midst ofa clean operation When the build command has finished the compiler will tell you that it failed with 17 errors and 1 warning These errors can be viewed by selecting Build Results from the Build menu eoe E PP Macros h Appearance Demo Build Results VA HE imported Code 18 V Buliding target Appearance Demo Carbon of project Appearance Deme with configura WO Comping Apphientions Netroweres CodeWarrior 9 4 Metrowerks CodeWarrior Macos Sup Win ie included from Applteations Mstrowerks CodeWarrior S 4 Mctrowsrks CodeMarrior t Yin fe included fram Tapplicatons Merrewerks Eadewarrir 9 4 Metroweric Codewnr a Yin tie incladed from apalications Metrowerks CodeWarrior 4 Metrowerks Code Vin file included from appiications Metrowerks CodeW
123. ent why the method proposed is necessary when compared to what seem to be simpler alternatives Although I find Sharon s humor less captivating than Scott Kelby s my favorite techno comie Real World Mae OS X Fonts is an easy book to browse or better yet when facing font problems read and implement her sage advice Author BIO Sharon Zardetto Aker has been writing about the Macintosh professionally since 1984 She has authored nearly a thousand articles for Macintosh magazines starting with articles in the earliest issues of Macworld and the premiere issue of MacUser Her book writing credits span over 20 books and include several editions of the best selling Peachpit compendium The Macintosh Bible along with The Mac Almanac Recommendation What you d suggest a friend consider before spending hard earned cash Additional References to read while waiting for your book to arrive Apple s Mac 101 Font Book http docs info apple com article html urtnum 304764 Get Acquainted with Font Book Informit com Mar 16 2007 By Sharon Zardetto Aker bnip wwwinformit com artieles printerfriendly asp p 705690 amp rl 1 A sample chapter form the Real World Mae OS X Fonts book The section 5 shareware review in this issue of macCompanion is Hyperwords for Firefox Version 2 1 6 an interactive Text Search Engine reviewed by Robert Pritchett From Assistant Editor Harry doc Babad jec Help Wanted Shareware an
124. environment back in December 2006 Viable If you suffer from mouse pain Repetitive Stress Syndrome or Carpal Tunnel Syndrome then this i alternative to not being able to work at all with a mouse You can literally give this one a Thumb s Up Illuminated Rollup Keyboard Reviewed by Robert Pritchett Tianyu Technology 248 Block 3 Yangguan Shennan Road Shenzhen 518050 China 86 755 82047945 86 755 82047945 Mansion No 6017 salesisianyutek com hirpj wwwtianvutek com ArticleShow asp ArticleID 781 hhips wwwushgeck com prod detail phpprod id 0618 527 USD 30 GBP 46 Euro Comes With Flexible 109 key keyboard USB to PS 2 adapter And the Strengths It rolls up and can handle chemical spills Waterproof and dustproof Weaknesses lt puts out an irritating electronic noise The keys require extra pushing to make contact Not for touch typists Other Reviews http www lanaddict comitev 155 1 bispj wwwcoolest gadgets com 2008097 bendi light up keyboand Introduction Do you remember Captain Jean Luc Picard and the flexible piano keyboard Lessons episode of The Next eration htpz en wikipedia on wiki Lessons 2NTNG episode i29 Well how about using a computer keyboard that rolls up Sapphire Blue EL Illumination on Keys Water resistant and virtually indestructible keyboard No poisonous and evil smell Roll it up and bring it everywhere Features amp Specificatio
125. eo to the left Front Row also suffers from its own special version of the spinning beachball of death where opening Movies will bring up a spinning wheel that can not be dismissed and ean take more than 60 seconds before actually moving on Front Row is going to be the choice for a lot of people since it s already installed which does encourage the development of add ons like DVD Assist and the fullscreen interface for EyeTV meant to mimic Front Raw There s also the strong possibility that it will be greatly enhanced with Leopard But the native file limitations probably aren t going to change any time soon and this is where other options will get their chance to shine Pros Great looking interface Pre installed Pre insallation attracts developers for additional functionality Cons Limited file format support out of the box Additions can harm pres Performance isn t that great to begin with No appearance options at all tation and performance One Sentence Summation The most polished presentation and simplest solution but with the most limitations on file formats and features Xhub Feature wise Xhub has the most to offer North American TV viewers In addition to the essential music movies and pictures Xhub also offers internet radio RSS feeds and EyeTV B integration The default theme is very Front Row like and is entirely customizable including hiding functions that you don t use In my testing Xhub offered all
126. erent online personalities e mails addresses credit cards and the like It also keeps a Password History of the last 100 passwords that you let the application create for you just in case you forgot to save it when you inputted the form Folders and smart folders are also an integrated part of the program letting you decide which folders you can place which forms passwords or notes After all these are to your liking you can lock down IPasswd and the only way to input or retrieve any passwords or notes is through the master key If you are at home and there is not much of a chance of people getting into your stuf you can be very liberal with the key having to input it only after the computer comes out of sleep or the initial logon If you use it at work you might want to re input the master key when coming out of screensaver or actually have a time limit putting the key in every hour or so Again stressing that if you lose the master key you lose it all You will have to start over with a new keychain Conclusion Again this is one of those desert island programs I couldn t live without it now that it has become so integrated with my workflow At the beginning of the review I mentioned that one of the weaknesses of the program is getting the sudden urge to change all your passwords That s because I unfortunately used to use basically the same password with a little change here and there for every site I signed up
127. ersion 2 0 from Mango Blue Learning Systems Thanks to the DeVore brothers we again have a way to learn by involving technological strengths found only with Maes Why not Email them to request work for your favorite history Perhaps they already have itin the queue Learn What You Need Teach What You Know TecMachasesbetbuy TrachMac isa power ering S multmedia computer tlli e torm of doeloadati modules View inem whe free esca pletion With Tesowac you get worponsive rining for home second tuse Eos 105 d Ge oli fom Tesi inde leva sls Vuk out Motu usable sons tomeet Astor page or deta and evel needs C MIS LLC 2007 macCarpion Page 7 May 2007 ume Soe 5 The sect hardware reviews and articles in this issue of macCompanion are Evoluent VerticalMouse 2 and 3 5 Button USB Optical Mouse a couple of mice reviewed by Robert Pritchett Illuminated Rollup Keyboard an interesting thing to do to an unsuspecting keyboard reviewed by Robert Pritchett Fujitsu SS00M SnapScan Scanner a high Babad scanner that really impressed reviewer Harry doc Goldtouch for Mac nice ergonomie keyboard for the Mac reviewed by Robert Pritchett Impact 3 5 SATA HDD Enclosue a hard drive enclosure for those mobile data needs reviewed by Eddie Hargreaves ATMCII6XL Standalone Ethernet and Fast Ethernet Copper to Fiber Media Converter reviewed by Robert Pritchett T
128. esign and execution the Lotus 1 2 3 syndrome it had to be rewritten and partly purchased from scratch for OS X While the current Express version at 2 7 is much faster than earlier attempts its features pale in comparison to the Classic product and the Spy finds himself still using 9 2 2 at times to run that one application Oh Express is O K for memos report letters and exams But when it omes to maintaining large documents in multiple merging files with dual formatting eum invisible HTML markup full indexing and table of contents graphics layer ete it cannot hold any better a candle To Nisus 6 5 than the other pretenders Under another of his many hats the Spy has wo large long standing textbooks and seven hefty novels two more coming in over two thousand Nisus files some of which need periodic mainten mosi of which depend on 6 5 s features He s been using this as his main writing tool since versi one once maintained the unofficial public bug list and has written dozens of macros to enhance Nisus functionality none of which work in Express He is not alone Thus the faithful were expecting big things from NisusWriter Pro version 3 0 but could be renumbered whose public beta was released this month public we can talk about it Indexing and table of contents are now there and also better compatibility with the classic files the graphics layer is n
129. et in front of the window and not immediately alongside it Because I still feel Meander could be used for approximating measurements outside ofits intended uses I decided to leave this part of the review intact rather than excise it for no other reason than To emphasize the program s flexibility If you decide to use Meander for things other than maps please take into account the basic geometry principles than I have apparently forgotten Mariner Montage 1 2 1 2 1 Reviewed by Mike Hubbartt 2007 MARINER www marinersofware c S139 USD Download 149 USD Boxed edition Version 1 2 1 2 1 free to existing Montage version Lx owners MONTAGE Released 3 05 2007 Requirements Mac OS 10 3 9 or later G4 or higher processor Universal binary 128 MB RAM 20 MB Hard Drive Space Strengths Reasonable system requirements decent performance very reasonable price easy and intuitive interface full screen mode improved importing capablities Weaknesses still lacks the power of industry standard screenplay applications no support for importing Movie Magic scripts Download the update bip vwvcmarinersoftware con download php Introduction Mariner Software released Montage their Mac only screenwriting software last year Final Draft and Movie Magic are the two industry standard screenplay programs so it will be interesting to see how Montage fares in head to head competition with t
130. f lines artistic strokes text on paths outline make text and strokes vector objects themselves to be filled and edited rulers guides CMYK preview outline view numerical transformation export selection and more Although I do not own the latest versions of Ilustrator Freehand or CorelDraw I do own the latest version of Canvas With this in mind it might be of interest to know that one feature in Lineform that I found particularly unique and enticing is the ability to convert a bitmap image to Bezier and then manipulate it ike a standard vector object including the ability to give it a stroke A simple thing I know but something that I ve not been able to do before so easily Ever try stacking a vector rectangle over a bitmap image such as a screenshot just to give it a stroke How about several bitmap images in a single document Adding a stroke to screenshots and images of book covers doesn t get any simpler or convenient even in Photoshop 1 was disappointed however to discover at least three features Media Browser Core Image Filters and the ability to parse PDFs are only available in OS X 10 4 o I could not effectively test these features without upgrading my operating system The Core Image Filters rely on Apple s Core Image features in 10 4 to create blur make color adjustments and halfiones sharpen and other alterations impossible with native vector objects The Media Browser provides access to images in iPho
131. f of the initial startup time which is absurdly long by default Media Central offers the best format support and playback options of any solution presented here though Matroska and flv are still missing Video TS playback is flawless and has an interface for choosing audio tracks and even an option to direct AC3 audio output to the optical line out Once you tur off the online content performance is also top notch Selecting a video results in instant playback It also seems quite stable as T ve not had a lockup or unexpected quit since I started using it did I just give away the ending Menu Ics not all candy and sunshine The interface while nice isn t as prety as Front Row or as customizable as Xhub All of your media has to be arranged into Media Central s particular folders My Media My Music You can get around it with aliases but it s still annoying Sometimes media that has been added won t show up until you restart a couple times Europeans with DVB built in TV but no options for TV here in North America The only glitch I came across is when browsing the My Music Folder directly When selecting a song it would actually play the next song inthe list instead of the one I chose I did not have this problem when browsing my iTunes library Along with Xhub irs the only other option that costs actual real dollars Currently it s 29 for one license or 39 for three Pros Good polished
132. formation about the stylistic basis and influences in the song who the song was written and produced by its length tempo and time signature Apart from the song starters Reggaeton comes with 12 Combinator Patches Drum Loops which consist of collections of loops at 88 bpm 92 bpm and 95 bpm as well as a collection of Percussion Loops which use bongos cajon cascara congas guirto shakers shekere snare surdu tamburin and timbales In addition to that there are Malstrom Patches Drum Kit Percussion and Synth Midi Files NN XT Sampler Patches for Drums FX Percussion Stabs Synth Vinyl FX and Vocals Redrum Drum Kits and Subtractor Patches Using the Software Tusually start a new project by laying down a beat first So I decided to listen to a few of the drum loops from each of the three folders As you click on each one you can listen to the loop play through once to see what it sounds like and it shows up as the one playing in the Dr Rex loop player as well Lended up picking one from the 88 bpm folder called Dance hall 1g From there I went on to preview the sounds in the percussion folder Again clicking on each sample has it play through once to allow you to preview it while in the file browser I decided it would be easier to have the drum loop I ve already chosen play in my project window while T listen and browse through the percussion loops to really find a good fit The other way to do it is to seroll
133. ftware for Mac OS X Reviewed by Robert Pritchett SubRosaSoft Inc inf subrosasofl com bgp ww subrosasof com l November 5 2006 There is a try before you buy option demo Syste 256MB RAM CD DVD ROM Drive Secondary Storage devi Strengths Wil duplicate using Seto Copy then it wil es no Hace wad Awe rail ree meon fom bed das Weaknesses Will not duplicate software RAID arrays When duplic HFS file system format volume sonly works with Apple s Introduction CopyCatX is designed for data backup recovery and restoration in Mac OS X Backup and restore a volume Duplicate a device or volume to a disk image or other devices Recover to an image the contents of a faulty device or media CopyCatX is device and file system independent application which means that you can create disk images from any normal Mae OS hard drive Windows or Linux device It can also recover data from a faulty device or scratched CD and almost any other media or file system that can be recognized in Mac OS X Despite its advanced features and high performance CopyCatX is very straightforward to handle The easy to use interface is designed with any level of OS X user in mind and is highly accessible to all with at its core the entire application being designed to be able to complete any task within just a few clicks Written specifically for Mae OS X CopyCatX includes powerful features that give the user greater control a
134. ful you ve only yourselves to blame Any one who writes documents more than three pages long Thinking about and writing a business plan Trying to organize all those bit and pieces facts for the review ofa complex product Creating and Maintaining your shopping lists Keeping up with your ToDos Needs to organize a PTA School Board Church Group or other presentation Needs to create a simple database of ler s say friends phone number and Bday And the list goes on but doesn t include recipes but not for obvious reasons Combread broczal pie Ingredients 1 packagecombread mix 1 12 oz can of Spam cut into hatinch cubes 1 cup cheddar cheese grated 1 package tozen broccol Pawed and dined Insructons An ACTA PS For those of you who have not updated to Macintosh OS X Acta is available as a fee download htt sharp com acta download html Remember this classic software is provided as is with no support The folks at A used it under System 9 1 and under Classic in Mae OS X 10 3 It doesn t run on Intel based Macs but Opal does To Learn More About Outlining and Outliners No m not going to write a tutorial on the benefits of using outlines or an assessment of the outline paradigm oriented programs available to both Classic and Macintosh OS X users Tts been done What this section contains is an annotated list of reference for you to check out outlining for your sell A Sharp s O
135. ges color as well Red is in the danger mn eme And as long as Desk Doctor is on it will mmm amp ers TUM S keep monitoring my health as 1 work on my computer Preferences can be changed so that alerts can come on every 10 points of the Health Score goes up or down The program does tend to be a resource hog and sucks up a lot of CPU time and interferes with response from other memory intensive programs Be aware that this app does take considerable CPU resources to run over time and may interfere t does on my machine anyway with other apps that are also CPU intensive But then again the video exercises are excellent Conclusion If you want to still do computing and get yourself rehabilitated without having to go to a physical therapist this program may fit the bill What does it cost to go in for surgery for Carpal Tunnel or Repetitive Stress Injuries This app is cheap insurance Recommendation When you have your health you have everything When you don t you cannot get work done and life can just bea pain By using this app either on a Mac or other computers the practice of preventive medicine can go a long way in improving your computing quality of life This app is more than just a stretch of your imagination Desk Doctor helps with upper body muscle and skeletal relief from stress and strain caused by siting at a computer all day and or night Disco 1 0 2 by Michael Potter System Requirements Ma
136. h is otherwise very rugged In fact it s sturdy enough you can stack other external drives on top Of course that s only if you lay it horizontally You can also stand it vertically using the provided stand The enclosure is also pretty compact fora 3 Sin drive helped by the fact that there is no fan The aluminum alley shell cools the interior through convection The absence of a fan also means the enclosure is very quiet There is very little noise when the drive is spun up and no noise when it s spun down The SATA enclosure has four connec No current Macs ship with eSATA connectivity so that s not yet a big bor may come in handy in the future ion ports two FireWire 800 one USB 2 0 mini port and one eSATA port is point for Mac users although it Using the Hardware Thankfully the enclosure came with all the necessary cables including a FW800 to FW400 adapter Since there are a lot of Macs that do not have FWSOO this is extremely useful But if you want to daisy chain this device to your other FW400 drives you ll need another cable Otherwise i ll need to sit at the end ofthe chain And When it was at the end I discovered the drive would not mount on the Mac unless one of the in between drives was powered up Conclusion If you have a homeless SATA drive RadTech s Impact enclosure isn t inexpensive but its incredibly quiet and unobtrusive And if you have a professional Mac PowerBook G4 PowerMac GS Mac P
137. hMac 176 Advertising Information 177 Satistaction oe uarantee 6 presses to assure proper meeting of deadlines e All phases of operation are handled in house Complete bindery as well as mail room services on site 100 guaranteed satisfaction backed by 26 years of reputation We are your Single Source Letter from the CEO Miraculous Technological Changes and Why I Write for macCompanion By Robert Pritchett T actually woke up in the middle ofthe night thinking about the technological changes I ve experienced through life so far and felt 1 had to write down my thoughts and feelings on the subject Some Reminisces and Near Misses T came through the Nuclear age the Space age and the Microcomputer age I had to do the 1 grade over because I was in the hospital a lot and I struggled to learn to read I didn t have Sesame Street back then to help me I fought bs and ds because they were the same to me I didn t know at the time and until reached adulthood that I was suffering from dyslexia Using my head was always a struggle but I could always use my hands We were not exactly prospering on a musie teacher s salary and writing was never my strong point during my youth Paper was scarce to write on thus I wrote little Thus writing was not my strong point I still remember the day I had to use a Brillo pad while our family was camping My mother thought I must have been blind not to have know
138. han once that an Import Google Map feature Would be great Imagine pasting a link to a Google Map into Meander and letting it locate and grab the snapshot without needing to find and line up the map yourself think this would be handy for anyone who regularly gets Google Map links in e mail and needs to mark up those routes The joy of Meander is that if you ean apply a scale to an image you can measure and plot points on it so after playing around with various maps it dawned on me that perhaps Meander could be used for things outside the intended scope ofthe program such as measuring objects in a graph or an architectural drawing sizing up family members in a photo or even applying its plotting and measuring abilities to small interior decorati projects around the house Snagging a somewhat reluctant volunteer I asked my daughter to pose with a yard stick at the far end of the living room to see what else I could make Meander do aoe Aie narm 1 placed Meander s scale on the ends of the yard stick set the scale distance to 3 feet and the route distance to inches With a couple points plotted on the acetate I could get a rough estimate of the window s width of 74 inches I realize this is not a precision measurement but for quick estimating it would work just fine This silly exercise highlights another limitation of Meander I encountered when using it on maps however what if
139. he professional writers Mariner released the version 1 2 update in late February thea followed with release 1 2 1 a week later to fix issues that cause the application to crash in full screen mode Getting Started Treviewed Montage 1 0 for MacAddict last year so I was familiar enough with it to want to review version 1 2 for macCompanion The only item in the package is a CD which contains the application and documentation Mariner offers a printed copy of the manual for 15 which is reasonable and 1 appreciate they let me decide whether or not need it manuals in PDF format are a better choice for most people especially since this product is so easy to T installed version 1 2 of the software from the CD and after it launched it brought up a dialogue box asking if wanted to check for updates and 1 said yes and the 1 2 1 update downloaded and installed Nice and clean just want you want in a good application and something we often see with good Mac software Atter starting version 1 2 1 1 opened a script created with Montage 1 0 and encountered no problems viewing and editing the script Next I wanted to test the improved support for importing scripts created by other programs Final Draft and Movie Magic are the two main industry standard screenwriting applications so Mariner should support writers wanting to migrate from these other products to Montage I opened a script created and saved in Final Draft format a
140. hen you have a page of text to edit Adding colours changing fonts sizes alignment is a doddle You can flick backwards and forwards between italics underline colours fonts bigger smaller left align need Help just squiggle an h Editing takes a fraction of the time it would be working with a mouse and keyboard C MIS LLC 2007 macCarpion Page May 2007 Nase Soe 5 The Gestures install very easily i e you drag the downloaded Input Managers folder into your home gt library Done Thereafter a gestures item will appear in any Cocoa application menu THE NEXT TIME YOU OPEN THAT APP Don t loose heart like I did and neglect to close Safari Mail Address book before taking a look and wondering where on earth the Cocoa gestures option had gone So for Text Edit for instance launch it click on Text Edit in the menu bar and open the preference panel for Cocoa Gestures You have to define a modifying key and a mouse button I chose Ctr and elected for the left mouse button Then you record your preferred gesture say a circle to Open a new is like adding a playlist in Tunes You select ADD double click the blue cell and then its iTunes because a big empty window drawing pad appears for you to record your custom gesture Then define the action by going to Text Edit and selecting File gt Open Thats it The next time you make a rough circle on a Text Edit window with Cul and left mouse button pressed down another window wil
141. his newsletter avoiding the need to log into the site Horgos notes Be aware that the Mac version is not anywhere as extensive as the Windows version but it still might offer you some insights on the use of Microsoft Word hitp wwww macwordtips comv Doc Sez you can also send Allen some tips I plan to You can also sign up for Allen s MacExcelTips newsletter Tryou re RIT or pent up emotions about the peculiarities and Wiotsyneracis or MS Word check out my review of Word Annoyances How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About MSW by Guy Hart Davis O Reilly Press in the August 2005 macCompanion Although it s mostly focused on the pee cee version of word i s still full of things that work even for Word 2004 Received from Bob Horgos of the Mid Columbia Macintosh Users Group MC MUG I ve edited Bobs comment for this tip SSSHSHSSSESSSSSSSS White Letters in a Black Sereen Rub you re eyes and say Rumpelstiltskin three times backwards Ever get a screen on a website in which in their infinitely bad taste the site developer chose to use white letters on a back or other dark background Of course you can grab the sereen s image and open it up with a graphics program such as GraphieConverter Then a click of the mouse using the invert feature gets you back into a more readable format But a recent tip from our Editor In Chief provided another way With your web page wide open Click Control option command 8 Cod
142. i comservice desktop downloads details jsp idy 682 3 Adobe A Creative Suite CS3 began shipping mid April Nice 4 Shameless Book Plugs A The Children of Hurin started by J R R Tolkien in 1918 and finished by his son was released 4 19 2007 Excellent book especially if you read The Silmarillion and Peter Jackson s The Lond of the Rings movies Initial sales for HarperCollins are excellent 5 Montage A Mariner released an update in March April and now a third on May 2 2007 Element character location camera location time of day suggestion lists now popup after a single character previously required you to type 2 or more characters Fixed problem that prevented Annotations from working Fixed a problem where applying styles Format Bold Italic would fail in Scenes view and would not be saved or printed although style changes appeared to be applied in Script View o Fixed a performance issue where Montage s CPU usage would sometimes increase when a blank unsaved file is open Fixed scene insertion location when inserting scene in Full Screen mode Fixed a problem where tab key failed to work on page 2 or higher in script view Fixed a problem where suggestion lists would disappear upon typing the 3rd character on page 2 or higher in script view Text boxes are now centered in Scenes View Fixed a number of problems related to inserting scenes in script view Page count now remains correct
143. iew process select the Characters area of the main options toolbar You not only see the characters already created you can modify remove or add characters as needed no need to go back through the interview process you did when starting the story And yes you can add new characters that occurred to you at other points of the interview proces Character List for The Robert Crown Affair create Character Ananda Harry tarry stern aaa mm eee emiten PATES meme eee apn 5 5 Character Info B nm ms Casting I you want to see the plot progression for the story really useful for scripts select the Plor Progression area ofthe main options toolbar If you want help with story structure elements select the Theme Browser area of the main options toolbar This is helpful to new writers need to better understand the aspects of situation activity manipulation and fixed attitude that affect the evolution of events that propel a story For help understanding the elements of this produet select the Dictionary area of the main options toolbar The list of information is displayed by classification or alphabetically I you start a story and want to return later to add details or modify the materials select the Query System area ofthe main options toolbar If you feel comfortable as a writer or comfortable with Dramatica Pro you ll want o bypass the StoryGuide and work with the advanced controls in the Story
144. ike to watch something now cle was asking for some help getting here you want to start and where you DvD The simplest solution for getting a DVD collection onto your HTPC is going to be Handbrake aka MediaFork aka Handbrake Handbrake allows you to encode a DVD even encrypted discs which we ll talk about more later into a single file so that managing and playing titles is eased as well as saving you quite a bit of disk space Handbrake focuses on MPEG 4 or H 264 encoded mp4 files which give excellent efficiency i e great looking files for relatively small files sizes There are some downsides to going this route though You ll be losing all the extras normally included on a DVD including AC 3 audio surround sound and chapter markers While you can encode additional audio tracks i e commentary in Handbrake none of the HTPC interfaces we covered supports switching between them so it s a moot point You re also losing some visual quality though you ll have to have a fairly dis eye to tell Still the bigger the screen the more this will be an issue so it s worth keeping in mind I you re looking to retain extras or the maximum amount of quality from your DVDs you ll want to pull an exact copy of the DVDs contents to your hard drive The challenge is that most publishers of feature films fear that you d use any such copy to pirate their films so they ve gone to great lengths to prevent you from doing so b
145. ikely duplicate copies in folders scattered all over my hard disk These are randomly organized by project client or by subject matter or in folders of several of these categories Needs If wishes were horses beggars would ride Reclaim Closet and File Draw Space by car 101 it all goes to recycle Catalog all those references into a searchable database For cataloged items shifting the existing information to a newly designed more easily searchable catalog More about that later Alternatively with great pain toss the ones I no longer connect with knowing they ll become needed next week month year Maintain the updated database and document storage system The rule new document new database entry golly doc is getting organized again Create a reference library to stare my document collection on a separate hard drive This will allow me to store archive but interesting documents Change by collecting ways to avoid duplicate copies of things I use I can use aliases in project files of the documents I need to refer to in support of my clients I could even give the aliases a more useful name rather than the short alphanumeric used when cataloging and sto the original ng the documents I want to keep Paper reducti Available Tools Tactually for the first time in my life have all the tools I need to make document collection cataloging and storage an almost painless process At 71
146. in a sentence such as the MacUpdats site which when clicked translates to and activates an internet or email link hrtp www macupdate com sat URL Erter a URL for hs ink ne ipis macuodate com i B Enjoy Doc Rants Raves and Revelations Pt 2 Too Many References Too Little Space No way to Search for Them A Quintessential Enigma bby Harry doc Babad The Enigma to keep or not to keep that is my question Is it better to search for information each time T need it OR After collecting needed information usually in documents spend time cataloging it for easy retrieval Too much to do so litle time to do it in Pros and Cons Anew search will tum up other interesting and appropriate goodies Much of what I want and often know exists has never been stored electronically Dealing with the problem by cataloging is sooo boring en with my favorite music playing Over the years you ve created great if say so my self systems for cataloging and retrieving stored documents Doc you re likely too attention scatters to maintain even the best of systems I s ike quitting smokin or eating after 9 00 pm My Problem Floor to Ceiling Paper References in a walk cataloged in a database File draws six plus ful of references including my published papers mostly uncataloged loset bookease Uncounted Electronic References documents mostly uncataloged with l
147. ing Start New I saw the new story sereen with a tip of the day popup Now some people loathe these things but really like them I can always press OK if don t feel like reading them and you never know when a tip could help under a story just waiting to be told Let s look at the Story Theme section After you select OK to get rid of the tip of the day it s time to get to work entering the backstory pitch premise synopsis and theme or user defined categories for your novel I didn t follow the sequence of items inthe dropdown list but first wrote my idea theme and premise Next I entered the history of my world and characters then a brief synopsis of the current events The last thing I entered was a short description to use as the pitch when I see my Editor Then I switched to the next tab the Characters section At this screen I entered background information on the main character obstacle characters other major characters subplot characters and other characters that fail to fit one of the existing categories This was the place to enter name age sex profession education and marriage status good background material to really fesh out your characters should point out that the information entered at this section is not prompted for by a list of questions like with Dramatica Pro but is more like an outline or structure guide published in some books This type of system is similar to creating a template in Wo
148. ing an in depth review of cool and new Mac applications along with tips developer interviews tutorials and the occasional contest d dddddaad ddddddddun MacFevre Fad or Future A bby Wayne LeFevre M D The folks over at Agile Web Solutions have recently started to implement a new license verification feature and not without some controversy Their star product IPassud as well as IPasswd Reader for Palm and AllBookMarks are all using this new verification Instead of receiving a long long cryptic number to type in you can now receive v a e mail a very smart looking image ofa card A card akin to a credit card or identification card complete with your name program and even a holographic image to complete the look 1 will use their sample as an image because I m not quite sure yet meaning I haven t looked it up yet the procedure for stripping the personal information from the cards Simply taking the card image and dragging it from your e mail into the Agile Web Solution s application a window pops up verifying the copy and registration 1 really don t have a problem personally on this type of verification it definitely has that Mae graphical use and feel not to mention it s really cool The first time I tried it it worked flawlessly Even copying the image into a folder and then using the image worked ine for there are those who are worried about having or needing a backup Also this
149. ing software does All your tracks are laid out on the top part of the edit window Each selectable track has four buttons on it for soloing muting editing the volume track and effects to display and edit switch able effects The lower half of your edit window you can edit separate sets There is a Track Edit where you select one track edit the name AU effects etc Pretty much a large version of the top The Sour ofa selected track in the cut view The source material will always be shown full length in source view You can select in and out points by dragging markers in this view The next view is Media View that looks similar to the Source view The main difference is which audio material is showed While the Track source view shows the source material ofa selected track in the cut view the Media view shows all used and unused audio material in the whole document The last view to select is Chapters Here is where you can take care of all the enhanced podcasts pictures chapter titles URLs and the like One of the biggest features that I really like is the sound graphical line lays on top of your track so if you change the volume with the volume line you ean move your track around and the volume adjustments follow se view shows all source material The last button on our big silver selector dial is Release and here bercaster shines First it s where you place all your normal meta data cover art
150. interface with the best format support yet Lots of options for disabling unwanted features there are a lon Cons There are a lot of unwanted features No TV support outside of DVB ridden Europe Interface not very customizable Costs even more actual money 829 o ce Summation A great snappy reasonably good looking interface that plays most of your files and my personal pick despite being the most expensive Theater As I mentioned in the into ever since the day Steve unveiled the mini slavering Mae fanboys have dreamed of sticking one into their home theaters Theatre is one of the original open source projects to come about from that excitement Unfortunately their enthusiasm is the most tangible result While the most recent release 0 1 3 at first seemed like it might be usable I ve found it unstable and flaky at best The transport controls only work about half the time They claim support for Video TS folders but I ve not been able to make this work even once I wish them all the best but they have a long way to go before iTheater is a viable alternative Pros NIA Cons Us table to the point of uselessness One Sentence Summation Perhaps a fine option one day but it still has a long way to go a is courses se ate sia that functionat and simple is always prefered aver MeS T tiis and broken Cone is a perfect example of tiat piilosopty or raher e couongestearf iling ta teed ie waring Conugelus he moat in
151. ish tips and hints columns so they ll be our latest revelat Solving The Thrice Cursed MS Word Can t Delete Backup Message Research results cure and procedure developed by Derek Every once in a while I get a problem that I cant solve The Hints book ms I own don t help and when I was for feedback from either the MeMUG or macCompanion staff I come up dry That s when I tum to a friend Derek C who has a knack for ferreting teckie information from the web about things Macintosh that glite Somehow he knows how to both how phrase the question and as always more patience then Ido in searchin for a solution The Problem My most important much to my regret application Microsoft Word 2004 is sick No not dying that would be a mixed blessing just sick sick sick One does try to save documents when done with them at least I do After all you might want to either add to your purple prose or recheck itin the future Every time I ry to save a document when closing it T get this furschulgena XXWESGXXX message This gocs on despite rebuiiding my preferences and even despie ABA doing a complete reinstall including updates to the current Version my MS Word s sick No T don t use AppZapper ar the App app for the deinstallation See the ma review inex for my reviews of these products T have too much invested in customizing my versjon of word A full application removal would force me to spend several hours rebuilding them
152. j n 17 Height x 4 12 Width x 3 75 Depth Laz Weight mao tenn wee nean Susi Standard Warranty Lifetime Limited Getting Started Order the part from an electronics distributor I discovered via Amazon com that I could have purchased these for as low as 35 USD as refurbished units but I got these for 165 USD via a distributor looked at other media converters but these are small don t use fans to cool and are plug and play simple without having to resort to management software to configure Using the Hardware One of my brothers is building an innovative showplace home and he agreed that we could add fiber to the rooms for the network Why fiber instead of going wireless Security Futureproofing Is cool technology literally After doing some due diligence and searching for products I landed these boxes for both the headend cabinet and the end locations The criteria we used the units had to be small unobtrusive handled multimode fiber and worked with Maes Competing products cost more had fans that seemed were designed for turbo engines the dB levels were incredible and needed management software non Mac environments to operate Allied Telesyn met our needs nicely They have been doing these boxes for some time The Macs in this particular network do not run 1 Gigabit so we needed an autonegotiating device that senses the speed at the business end of the network which in our case is th
153. l open Do an S for save select File gt Save undo help b old p for print and so it goes on Z for zoom f for fonts think anyone used to writing shorthand on a Handspring type device will pick this up in no time I can t stop grinning this is so neat T trust that it is stable it is very OS X and just feels so Mac Now that I m using this left handed Evoluent VerticalMouse 2 reviewed elsewhere in this issue of macCompanion I have found that Gestures are important enough that can do things I would otherwise be fiddling with by taking my hand off the mouse and migrating to the keyboard Now I don t have to as often again depending on which Cocoa friendly app I m in Conclusion Are you ready and open to reaching outside your comfort zone a litle and trying new things Because CocoaSuite is all Cocoa programming I m guessing the functionality will either be in Leopard or it will continue to work with Leopard Recommendation This is a try before you buy application for Mac OS X Gerd Knops keeps working on this app that is well over 2 years old so it has had time to mature Ifyou are familiar with CocoaGestures there were over 100 000 downloads listed at one time than this is the replacement program Go give it a ty You have nothing to loose and maybe some timesaving things to gain After all isn t that what the Mac is all about CopyCatX 4 0 Disk Duplication So
154. l be addressing is how comfortable non technical users feel using it TiVo excels at this seeming les like a computer and more like an appliance that just works and is the key to creating a system the everyone will really use Finally it s worth noting that the test system I used for all of my testing is a 1 6Ghz Intel Core Duo Mae mini with IGB of RAM Front Row Since Front Row is the default choice let s start there Front Row sticks with the basics of Movies DVDs Pictures and Music and is clearly the easiest to set up since it comes pre installed on every Mae mini currently shipping there are trickier bu reasonable options for older Macs as well As should be expected Front Row bas the most polished and eye pleasing interface of the group and integrates perfectly with the iApps for access to your media You can also browse for video files placed in your Movies folder which allows you to view file types hat are incompatible with Tunes such as avi fles or Video TS folders though that will require additional components such as Perian and DVD Assist respectively As soon as you go down this road though cracks start to show up in the interface since these are essentially Workarounds For example DVD Assist just opens the Video TS folder in the Apple DVD player and the switch is clearly visible There s also a noticeable slowdown Scrolling through a file list with avi files due t0 the live preview of each vid
155. l contest and iron out details with everyone involved All of that hard work ean pay off for you I have a long list of software available including titles such as Rapidweaver Tangerine CSSEdit Billings 2 5 Cha Ching Parallels Disco and several more And some of those are more than just one copy Tm not asking much of you either If you re interested then you can head on over to the Mac Fanatic site and tead the brief contest details and leam more about each application Maybe even take the time to listen to a review of that app for more info And then you can enter 10 win a copy of one title of your choice If you re interested in sharing the word with the rest ofthe world and I wish you would then go ahead and make some noise Talk about it on your podcast Blog it Digg it Tell your dog Just let people know that there is a lot of free and awesome Mac software available and people need to enter to win it Contest entries will be accepted between April 23 and June 1 That is well over a month and should give everyone plenty of time to enter By all means see the contact info below if you have questions or concerns Artwork for the giveaway available for your use free of charge as well Contact Info You can always send me an email at mbrewer at macCompanion com or visit my website at hup www macfanatie neublog for more information about me and my ramblings also produce a weekly audio podcast tak
156. late night moment of madness I worked to ra eon Caw consolidate all my other fonts in my user folder and perhaps elsewhere New Century Sete Homan Nor GoateryScholbed Hale into my Harry s Tiger Library Fonts folder Afer all don t share this Now Canto maed Bold computer with anyone else so what harm Now Contry Schoalbonk Bold Ilio 1 don t remember what did with my Microsoft Fonts Hmmm time palaino Bld to check They re still in my Office application folder Applications Palate old Microsoft Office 2004 Oifice Fonts but seem also to be duplicated in 550 samecevA apt Dingbats my Harry s Tiger Library Fonts folder That s exactly where the book said they d be 1 do indeed at this time have 156 items in my and none in my Harry s Tiger Users Harry Library Fonts folder So far I m not having any font related problems in MS Word but that may be more a blessing that pre ordained based on the mucking around I ve done with my fonts I suspect its time to straighten this mess out Sharon Zardetto Aker s book Real World Mac OS X Fonts provides me with just the guidance I needed so that s the fist thing T did Publisher s Summary As someone who works with fonts every day you need to know exactly how fonts work in Mac OS X Long time Mac author Sharon Zardetto Aker has the answers you need Explaining where your fonts reside why they are there and what to do about duplication and long Font menus Once that
157. ledge that electronic connectivity permits or in his words liquid information Thus was born the Liquidinformation Research Project Hyperwords for Firefox works by highlighting a word and then it provides links to language translations reference sources other search engines and allows for Email print tag Blog WordPress and also links to maps time weather shopping links and package tracking and also can provide server information Getting Started First you will need to install a copy of Firefox 2 if you do not already have it on your system http www mozilla com or Flock http avww flock com downioad Next go here to download the Hyperwords Extension hitp www hyperwards net firefox html This app was also optimized for use with WordPress To see how it works the Demo video presentation linked above does about the best job Using the Software Once you ve installed in Firefox as an extension pop out of Firefox and back in to activate Hyperwords and highlight a word or phrase and see the dropdown menus appear I checked to see if Hyperwords was based on pop up screens by blocking those in preferences and it still functioned so these are dropdown menus and not popups To activate Hyperwords just doubleclick the word or highlight a word or phrase and the menu appears What happens to your system is that a JavaScript extension is placed in Username gt Library gt Application Support gt Firefox gt Profiles folde
158. lot loading burner like those in the iMac doesn t have a disk eject doc Babad is here ile to poke Don t despair Restart your machine and then as startup begins hold down the button on your mouse Now don t let go Whee out comes the disk your computer finishes starting up and you can get on with your computing life This tick is what I use when I do my bi weekly repair of my directory with Disk Warrior hitp www alsoft con Oh I ve only been able to make this eject disk mode work with a USB hard wired mouse mine is an Apple mouse The trick fails with my Logitech wireless mouse I m guessing this is because of the way the drivers load on startup but that s only an assumption 885555585565555555 Using the Clipboard in a Snippet A TextEspander tip In the April 2007 maeC Issue I reviewed TextExpander a tool that I m really becoming addicted to http www smileonmrymae com textexpander index lim Here s another great Tip from the TUAW site Mat Lu notes Oftentimes I want to paste a link into a forum post and I want to make ita hyperlink not merely ext So all you need to do is add the following snippet to TextExpander which I called hlink Now when you want to paste in a link just copy the URL to the clipboard e g from your browser and type blink and you ll get the hyperlinked URL Ta case you want to CUL and paste the Content S lt a href aclipboard gt Yaclipboard lt a gt
159. lt Skin In addition to the PVR decision we talked about in the beginning another decision you have to make when building any home theater PC is whether you want a solid usable device or a project to keep you busy In my experience MythTV is more of the latter MythTV installations tend to encourage a lot of tinkering I s not impossible to run a maintenance free setup and I m sure several of you are rushing to the comment box to tell me about your MythTV installations that have run untouched for months but 1 find it to be the exception instead of the rule Constant tinkering can drive the WAF all the way to zero quicker than almost anything else at least in my house If you are interested though the Myth on Mac x86 wiki has lots of great info such as getting the Apple Remote to work and tips for integrating with iTunes Pros Incredibly powerful PVR fully skinnable interface strongest fle format support of any option Cons Be prepared to spend a week or so setting the thing up You might want to clear out some space in your calendar six weeks from now when the new version comes out as well One Sentence Summation If you re not adverse to compiling your own code this is definitely the most powerful option but if you ve never compiled anything one of the other options might be more your speed Other Notes I you re going to embark on your own experiment I highly recommend installing only one of these at a time They gene
160. ment it from your wired network Segmenting is the process of creating separate networks inside ofa larger network You use a firewall or router to segment the individual networks and define exactly what traffic is allowed to pass from one network to the other For instance if you had a development network that needed to be secluded from a production network you could use a firewall to separate the two networks Then you could configure the firewall rules See Ma Security 101 October 2006 to allow all traffic from production to development and deny all traffic from development to production That way the production systems could access the development systems but the development systems would have no access to production systems This is a common tactic in many enterprise networks The firewall rules ean even be configured to allow development systems access to the Internet without allowing access to the production systems Building on this example let s think of the wireless network as development and the wired network as production The wireless network can be segmented so it has no access to the wired network However the wired network has access to the wireless network and both networks have access to the Internet For the sake of explanation we ll refer to the wired network as Zone A the wireless network as Zone B and the Internet as Zone C Both A and B can access C A can access B but B can not access A The example
161. n Re implemented smart type system Tab Return works more like Final Draft Improved Final Draft file importing Improved text file importing Added Keywords to preferences views and smart views Added Elements are now assignable by keyboard shortcut in Full Screen mode Added ability to customize the auto type system Added ability to select Next Element in File Document Properties Styles tab Added Duplicate command for duplicating scenes Added Page centering in Script view Added category field to Contacts view Added ability to select Template on file import Added new templates for better Final Drafti and Sereenwriter compatibility Added ability to assign element to multiple selected paragraphs Several bug fixes Conclusion Although it lacks features of more mature screenwriting applications I liked using Montage The integration with the Address Book is nice but I still don t like that they didn t integrate Montage Tasks with iCal I don t keep tasks and appointments in two separate calendars too much trouble and believe this should be one of the enhancements for the next major update of this product The full screen mode support is excellent and I m glad they were fast to respond to bugs affecting this mode in version 1 2 Nice work by Mariner Recommendation This product is new but the intuitive interface and low cost and good product suppor
162. n this might be a good way to go Recommendation Sometimes the simple solutions work best Why not give ita ry C MIS LLC 2007 macCompanion Paget May 2007 Num SoS Desk Doctor 1 1 9 Reviewed by Robert Pritchett Developer Dr Russ Hornstein Einspine Led PO Box 106 Sliema SLM 01 Malta Europe 365 2122 6733 info einspine com hups wwweinspine com Released December 13 2006 Updated February 5 2007 S129 USD download 139 USD CD 30 day money back irantee 14 day ti fo Acre SORSOT WaT eN Low Res either 29 MB Mac or 23 MB PC or High Res 298 MB Mac or 180MB PC Requirements Mac OS X 10 2 7 or later QuickTime 7 Mac or Windows Media Player PC 256 MB RAM 500 MB Disk Space Strengths Cross platform Provides a process to practice healthier computing Weaknesses Audio feed apparently does not work as advertised Sucks up considerable computing Other Reviews http www einspine com company press clippings html Introduction Desk Doctor is new software that identifies Repetitive Strain Injury RSI and targets it accurately with a personal treatment plan First the program guides you through on screen medical tests Then Desk Doctor uses its built in reasoning to compile the optimum video puided exercise program to reverse problems and keep you healthy H is important to set up your work area so that it supports a balanced posture This is a passive measure Bre
163. n what one was or how it was used to wash dishes 1 was dumbfounded I d never been exposed to it before so it was new and strange to me 1 was baffled at it and thought it was a great idea Dry soap in a scratch pad Who d a thought I thought it was innovative 1 leamed to keyboard on my mom s manual Royal typewriter http www Iypewritermuseum org with the extra long carriage She would do genealogy group sheets and family pedigree charts and I helped out when I stayed home from public school with all the colds fu and whatever other childhood maladies that happened along such as measles mumps chickenpox ete We used plastic Tupperware bttp en wikipedia ore wikiTupperware for glasses and leftovers and they seemed to always be greasy because we washed dishes by hand For some odd reason we thought it was more important to save water rather than use it to clean with must be the well water on the farm thinking so the soapy detergent didn t last long in the sink Much later when T used automatic dishwashers a lot of my illnesses went away We cleaned out dirty cotton diapers and plastic pants by hand in the toilet and you can probably imagine what that was like Thankfully now disposable diapers are used instead and eco friendly cloth diapers are making a comeback We ve come a long ways from washerboards and 2 and 3 holer outhouses htrp waltonfeed com ald out html to indoor plumbing running hot and cold water
164. nd flexibility in backup restore recovery and the duplication of data Safety first CopyCatX will never write to the device being duplicated This makes the software risk free Instead it simply reads the device block by block using the fastest means possible to copy the data to any given destination Backup and restore CopyCatX can be used to backup or restore a device to or from any readable With just a few clicks a device can be backed up or restored making the task of securing data an easy one Mulii volume output CopyCatX can output to up to 15 devices at a time This is useful for lab deployment of a single system allowing the user to make multiple copies of either a single device or volume Duplicate Windows CopyCatX has the ability to duplicate a single Windows volume which can then be mounted and restored back at a later date This is exceedingly useful for BootCamp users on Intel based Macintosh systems Faulty hardware CopyCatX also has the ability to recover data from mechanically unsound devices or scratched media The software uses proprietary methods to securely read the data automatically skipping areas ofthe file system that are unreadable As a result by employing these methods CopyCatX is able to recover data from sources that other software would be completely unable Optimized for Intel The latest version of CopyCatX not only has been optimized to run with Intel based Apple Macs
165. nd it looked fine so I imported a script saved as text improved in version 1 2 with format and the layout was not as neat as the Final Draft format file I did try to import a Movie Magic script but Montage does not support that format something I hope they change in the future A new feature I tested was adding Scene Numbers Just select Add Scene Numbers from the Montage Production menu use the default Courier 12 pt font or chose something different and select OK to add the cene numbers to your script Nice but to be honest this should have been inthe 1 0 release Another good case that Mariner listens and acts on customer requests Ido not have a mae account so I was unable to test that support i aid mat ie One new feature I especially like was the ability to select the template when importing content It may seem like a simple feature but itis useful especially for writers moving to Montage from another screenwriting application Fora list of other enhancements see the table on page 62 Summary of the new features inversions 12 and TZT Fixed a major cause of a crash that could occur when exiting Full Sereen mode Significantly improved the speed of transitions into and out of Full Screen mode Improved overall performance within Full Screen mode Fixed a major cause of a crash that could occur when exiting Full Sereen mode Added Scene Numbering Added mac integratio
166. nd other Mac OS X applications I could not directly drag a jpeg file into NeoOffice something that easy to do in MSW but had to use cut and paste On the other hand once pasted into my document placing the image where 1 wanted it to be was easier than in MS Word NeoLight a Spotlight importer for NeoOffice 1 did not test this add on Image Resolution Limitation Image resolution is presently limited to 300 dots per inch when prin Gen Se sora nl etre th compe enn tevin sangue signi peto Tiis pri iih much re peer ttan Word s One vim Alione Tie ick seco t all the ctun elements af the docens mdi headings footnotes tables graphics and bedded sects To round things out I found the following praise for NeoOffice posted by SERGIUS on a MacUpdate review of this product No one seems to have mentioned this and I found out by accident this seems to be the only OS X office suite that can easily open Corel Word Perfect documents with correct format other formats That s wonderfully useful in a Windows dominated environment where Corel Word Perfect is the dominant word processing application However for some strange reason NeoOffice doesn t seem to offer the option to save documents in Corel Word Perfect format and convert them to Discomforts The SiPi amp frames I wish 1 could make the frames around individual Pages go away Page breaks are obvious why frame the pages It vaguely teminds me of
167. ndomly to various scenes in a movie You have no context of the scene and thus have no idea what is going on Virtual Historian solves this problem by always providing i ant context on anything you are studyi Historical background for each section is always present right alongside that section One click of the mouse will load a map of where the section was received and jump the timeli when it was received All names mentioned in the Doctrine amp Covenants can be clicked on A biography opens up on that be clicked on A window opens up with historical background on the location as well as Virtual Reality photographs of that location These are just a few of the examples of how Virtual Historian solves many of the problems inherent in a non linear presentation of history Virtual Historian Doctrine amp Covenants is just the ist of many similar products that will be developed on both Religious and Secular History We will keep you posted as new Virtual Historian Products are developed Timeline Right alongside all of these resources is the Timeline One click ofa button will jump the timeline to when you are studying was received Instantly you can see the historical context of the current section events are linked to biographies locations and scriptures so that additional information is just one click away What I Say Wow full emersion study Follow your curiosity should be their mot
168. ng saved routes but it never lost its dimensions so accuracy was never a concer Once the program is calibrated to your map you can start plotting your paths Simply pick a starting point and click Then each subsequent click plots another point at the location clicked When you re ready to end your route double click to place an end point The entire time you re plotting the path Meander is keeping track of distances based on what you told it about the map In this example I switched the line style to something a bit more visible than the default thin black line whieh was nearly impossible to locate on the topographical map In my testing it appears Meander remembers your preference for line style which is really nice You can see based on the scale and Scale Distance setting that this plotted route is just over 1 8 miles long A nice feature of Meander is the ability to continue the route from the last point added So if 1 decided at marching scouts two miles through these hills was not enough I could add a couple more miles before distributing the route to everyone 1 found the editing of plots made on the map to be twiddly I could do it but unlike the rest of the program this didn t feel as natural as it should 1 also had issues when I wanted to change the route by adding points to it L found the only way to do this was not to click the line to insert a new point as you might expect but to add a waypoint and th
169. ngers on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is However iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device and finishing it on time has not come without a price we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team and as a result We will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in carly June as planned While Leopard s features will be complete by then we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing and ship Leopard in October We think it will be well worth the wait Life often presents tradeoffs and in this case we re sure we ve made the right ones Ape 12 2007 Looks like Mac World UK nailed this one Why did Apple deny the late release of Leopard earlier in April And why did Analysts believe Leopard would ship on time Fora sneak peek of Leopard features when released 20 0 htip wwwapple con macosy leopard MACCOMPANION UPDATE Robert Pritchett our Editor In Chief resumed a more active roll starting in this issue He resumed editing the magazine as well as taking care of day to day tasks needed to produce this magazine each month Glad to have you back Robert arly April Apple denie
170. nia idi side Tom Front Row isell Tes also packed together Wi BackStage tates fly you catalog youe video tiles and not be xol by a folder hierarchy something T A be interested in outside ofa HTPC Toy wish T could report you how wal these ambitions dere turned out bu unfortunately both CenterSlage and BaekSiage ane justas Dy to crash as not so P ye not been able 10 spin re on T nts ala tio yh Alben t nur mold mel ga ny tym Lb Sie o an a semp ai Teny orm ing Pros NIA Cons Unstable to the point of uselessness One Sentence Summation BackStage is a great idea and the interface is interesting but it ll be a while before anyone can give it serious consideration MythTV Of course I d be remiss not to at least mention MythTV MythTV is definitely the most flexible and powerful option here including the most advanced PVR functionality of any of our previous choices maybe of all period Unfortunately that power comes at a price While there are pre compiled versions for Mac OS available for the front end in order to do anything with your MythTV front end you ll need to install the MythTV back end on a separate machine running the UNIX variant of your choice For many of you this may be a breeze but it s clear that the complexity of the project just took a giant leap up gt Schedule a Watch TV Watch a Recording Recording ru AO Fix Scheduling Setup Delete Conflicts Recordings MythTV Main Menu w Defau
171. nload from online store only The link is on the Propellerhead website individual drum sounds and percussion collections are ofa very high Strengths The beats loops drum ki quality and can be applied to any proj Weaknesses Other than all drums percussion vocal FX and a few other specialized sounds I didn t find the other sounds in the collection particularly suitable or usable for this genre although that may be because Lam not familiar enough with the stylistic variations of this hybrid genre Demo For a demo of this product visit the main website where you can read about this new Refill and from there click on the link to listen to the audio demos and download the Reggaeton demo Refill which contains 2 son starters 5 Combinator patches 9 Rex loops 5 drums and percussion patches and 17 synth and FX patches Introduction Reggaeton Refill is a collection of sounds that are influences from Bomba Reggae and hiphop all blended into one hence the name Reggaeton The collection of sounds ean be used to create completely new pieces of music or can be used as additions to any other music to infuse it with a Latin Jamaican flavor Getting Started Reggaeton comes with 20 song starters demos to give a good idea of what ean be done with it I listened to them all and was impressed with the variety of music Each time you choose a demo file to open and listen to a Details window appears below it providing in
172. nt module of Desk Doctor detects existing problems and includes rehabilitation exercises in the resulting Personal Exercise Plan Recommendation The most complete and effective approach for computer use health is to invest in both a good ergonomic workplace setup and a system that provides a specific exercise plan Getting Started There are two versions ofthis software One is a low res and the other is high res The High res download is 298MB for the Mac and 180 MB for the Windows environment For the Mac a folder is created that goes into the Applications folder When I upgraded from the Low res to the high res I had to re register but the app semenibered my assessment info from the low res version There are 5 parts to this program 1 Assessment with orthopedic tests upper body health to detect RSI conditions http www einspine com deskdoctor features tsi hum 2 Personal Plan prevention and rehab with 100 exercises http www cinspine com deskioctor 3 personal plan him 3 Health Score health risk monitor hrtp www einspine com deskdoctor 4 health seorediml 4 Exercises workstation breaks hitp wwweinspine com deskioctor S exercises html and 5 Monitoring hover mouse gripping without moving alert hp www einspine com deskdoctar 6 hoverhim There is a Tutorial for Part 1 of 2 parts of the Assessment Using the Software There are 15 tests in the Assessment process I ink the instru
173. nue Arrangements Sistorhood Neods b Siiont Auction P Providing Refreshments Advertising gt Croato Posters and Flyers b Place PSA Anouncmente gt Sond email Concert Announcments ms 00 S also need to plan a ong report on how to produce an acoustic musie concert album for a folk life society Our team had done this for a first album www 3RFS org last summer somewhat inefficiently I need to capture information to avoid the same mistakes on our second album which may be a year or two away Working with Opal 1 0 8 has given me the opportunity to get started on that obligation I deferred for over six months My bottom line is that if d have worked in Opal rather than in MS Word the evolution of the concert planning would have gone smoother With Opal 1 would have been able to focus on the fine details of planning rather than being distracted by the task of creating and maintaining an outline Relative to using MindManager which was my initial Mac OS X based planning tool Alas I m not really a graphies oriented person and the process of interpreting words in a sequence of logical graphics is difficult for me Therefore using a text oriented outline would likely lave gotten me to my goal faster Perhaps that s a bit harsh ve had years of ACTA experience under my belt and am a relatively newbie to MindManager But it s easier to insert wild card ideas tasks or reminders into an outline then a mind map and mo
174. of Readiris 11 5 and Cardiris 3 Since I have Acrobat Professional installed I did not use the provided copy of Acrobat 7 Acrobat 8 once selected in the Fugitsu software settings worked just fine I installed the LRLLS software after taking with the LR LS technical suppor The software which is mostly identical to my Readiris Pro 11 03 has been optimized to make converting ScanSnap output to searchable PDF documents more automatic T found that to be so Tis user interface is somewhat different from that with my HP flatbed scanner You define profiles from within the scan software ScanSnap Manager to specify the programs to scan to and the scanning mode and characteristics including image resolution and naming These settings remain the default until you change them When you are ready to scan you pick a profile and then press the scan button on the front panel to stat the scan This is a bit different but easy to get used to Using the Hardware To use the ScanSnap S500M just insert a stack of paper and press a button to initiate the scan process The scanner will automatically create and store a PDF file and hand it over to Adobe Acrobat If you chose to use the provided OCR functionality you can select Readiris as the application that processes your scanned document Alternatively use the full version of Acrobat which is included within the ScanSnap SSOOM package your scanned document can easily
175. oftware to use this mouse as intended so I did The USB Overdrive 10 0 04 arrived instead of 10 4 5 but it works There is a small doesn t fit in Macs mini CD that contains a Windows based driver Supposedly there is a lip that the hand can rest on but in reality it does not exist and the hand rests directly on the tabletop or working surface That offers better control of the device so should not be an issue After all With regular mice I bet you have a shiny palm or palm calluses right The lip is found on the Vertical Mouse 3 right hand and not on the Vertical Mouse 2 not available for left hand yet 1f you do a lot of mousing around you will want to keep a hand on this unit because it is easy to knock over when moving back and forth between mouse and keyboard Maybe it is time to learn to use those keyboard shortcuts so a mouse is not needed but then there is the scroll wheel function with no detents or click sounds when scrolling thank you and it does act like a button if you push down on it it does click once I see that the VM3 does have the clicks again however I can get used to this real fast I see why some folks have tried it and don t ever want to go back to horizontal mice or to other ergonomic mice Thank you Jack Lo Now make the Vertical Mouse 3 for lefties and please don t continue to penalize those of us who are left handed with higher prices than for righties
176. ompanon Page 13 May 2007 Nase Soe 5 The sect book review in this issue of macCompanion contains Real World Mac OS X Fonts First Edition what you want and need to know about Mac fonts reviewed by Harry doe Babad Real World Mac OS X Fonts First Edition By Harry doc Babad o Peachpit Author Sharon Zardetto Aker Publisher Peachpit Press hitpj wwwpeachpit convbookstore productsp isbn 032 1498372 amp I Series Real World Released Feb 14 2007 Dimensions 7 1 2 X 9 1 8 Pages 360 S32 USD Street 26 40 CND 40 UK 29 ISBN 10 0 321 49837 2 ISBN 13 978 0 321 49837 3 Audience All but ber expert level font users lf loi Strengths From introduction to Mae OX X font basics to advanced troubleshooting Ifyou use more than TextEdit to create type containing documents this is a must have book Weaknesses None I could credibly identify Product and company names and logos in this review may be registered trademarks of their respective companies Introduction With the advent of Tiger Mac OS X fonts in my eyes turned from a minor collecting vice to an instrument cor torture With a little bit of reading other Tiger related books I had learned that there were at were 4 place folders the operating system stashed fonts These are as Sharon Zardetto Aker notes o In the System directory System Library Fonts o At the shared by all users level Library Fonts In
177. on 7 2 Quark provides d rendme file in PDF format as well as information on their website To test QuarkXPress I worked with the software for more than a month During that time I created new projects with single and multiple layouts T have to admit I really liked how easy Quark makes it to add drop shadows to various elements especially tables see the layout picture below for the shadowbox effect on the macCompanion masthead Little touches like this offer a simple and effective method to add visual enhancement to content And the layout is similar to InDesign or PageMaker or other desktop publishing packages intuitive if you ve used any other package in the past and a tad daunting if this is the first DTP product you ve used MEOE in EE zm PNEIS omon While working with QuarkXPress I wanted to see how the product works compared to Adobe s InDesign CS2 With InDesign I was able to create content in Word bring the content into InDesign and do minor touchup to the text and graphics With QuarkXPress I found that I needed to bring in the text and graphics separately so Thad to create a second Word document without the graphics save the images in a folder and then manually place them in QuarkXPress I understand why Quark took this approach but it seems like a lot of work when compared to InDesign s approach Note 1 did have one problem when testing version 7 1
178. only frugal option with acceptable quality that I ve been able to come up with is using VisualHub to encode to DV and then using iMovie to edit EyeTV EyeTV is by far the most dominant PVR for the Mac though Miglia and Equinux look like they may be Trying to change that so there s bound to be someone interest in getting video from there into your HTPC 11s actually pretty simple as EyeTV provides direct export of any recording right to iTunes EyeTV is also extremely scriptable allowing you to once again automate the entire process directly to an Apple TV or HTPC 1 found this thread in the MacScripter forums to be wildly helpful in that regard Wrapping it up Hopefully this will help you get stated on hooking up the mini to the mac I think there s atleast one more article to come with more specific instructions on the whole automation procedure for TiVo to HTPC or Apple TV but if there s something else you re interested in let us know in the comments Original articles posted online at itp arstechnica comvjournals apple ars 2007 03 30 mac Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and Expansion Pack Soaked By Daniel MacKenzie Aspyr Ine and Frontier Developments LTD for Atari hisp wwwaspvecom productinfa 9 View Video bitp www aspyr com software news 70 123 Released September 11 2006 Soaked March 12 2007 50 USD Expansion Pack 20 USD Requirements Mac OS 10 3 9 or later 1Ghz Processor 256 MB RA
179. ont to Monaco 9 0 and change the Syntax Coloring for comments to red to match the CodeWarrior defaults if you wish The most fundamental difference in workflow use between these two environments is the window and control layout Whereas CodeWarrior separates its project file editors and compiler responses into separate windows Xcode s default layout is to combine them all into a single window eoe el main cop CPPExample mcd 95 BaS A ETE eem TE Qe DUET soon ES emroamoie PIU Source CI Documentation mmi crrcamie S creteampe t E mano EO Produet Tarn Pid Executabies Emanaa 3 mmm 9 trees and Warnings YU Fine Reus FL beckenarn nt nain art eroe chor conet ares S molemeaton nies prr M jS Mb Fies Fortunately Xcode provides the ability to change the layout in its preferences for users coming from other development environments The Xcode Lour can be found under the Preferences General pane The Layout popup menu allows for three settings Default the Project Builder layout Condensed the CodeWarrior layout and All In One the Microsoft Visual Studio layout Xcode Preferences mulang Dembutecguks Debugging Key Bindings Editing L Open counterparts in same editor Automatically open close attached editor Environment 0 Automatically clear smart group filter C Automatically clear log B Save window state This layout is disabled if a project is al
180. or WebNameHost s Linux CPanel system On a related front the spy note the success of a hacker breaking into take control ofa Mac at the recent CanSeeWest security conference in Vancouver a suburb of Bradner where he lives exploited an application flaw in Safari not an OS vulnerability Security fix coming The real lesson there are lots of Very nasty web sites out there folks RLP a dozen or so old Mac sites no longer being updated snagged by the pornos or vanished altogether The Spy was checking the links on his own site not a bad idea every once in a while and at the halfway pat as removed quite a fev Anyone out there who vows of a Mac related site that should be added let us know The Northem Spy Rick Sutcliffe a k a The Northern Spy is professor of Computing Science and Mathematics at Trinity Western University He s written two textbooks and several novels one named best ePublished SF novel for 2003 His columns have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers and he s a regular speaker at churches schools academic meetings and conferences He and his wife Joyce lave lived in the Aldergrove Bradner area of BC since 197 Want to discuss this and other Northern Spy columns Surf on over to ArjayBB com Participate and you could win free web hosting from the WebNametfost net subsidiary of Arjay Web Services Rick Sutelilfe s fiction ean be purchased in various eBook fo
181. or Short Story templates In either case you see the main options toolbar This is where you Launch the Story Guide and fill in story background Get online Help from the Write Bros website Open an existing Story Work on existing or add new Characters View Plot Progression See a graphie view of story theme elements Use the Dramatica Dictionary to look up terms and synonyms Create a story form with the Story Engine View and enter Story Points Generate Reports and export content to other applications Do Brainstorming and create new characters To initiate an option just click on the area and follow the prompts but before you get started you should check and set any personal preferences There are four types of user preferences in Dramatica General Report Query System and Term Swap eon Preferences for Your Sory General Options General Options Save Options pu rast save Enabled een Auto Save Every ss minutes Window Options Ce menu can open multiple stories Gender Options Frorouns in examples Sha Her Here E Def Character Gender Wale Character Options Charset notes Replace RE Select any of the four categories on the eft of this screen then you re ready to start work on your story To create a story select File New Blank Story from the menu or click on the StoryGuide area of the main toolbar and you see this sereen
182. ould find a gold colored bolo with a 2 x 1 opal that looks as good as the A sharp Opal logo damn that would be great Changing Custom Dictionaries Almost all of the words I ve added to dictionaries when I write are in my custom MSW dictionary I ve slowly since readopting Spell catcher transferred my of my MSW dictionary to that program Now it would really be great if the creative types at A Sharp could make that happen after all a custom dictionary is just a list of words Why because I expect to use Opal heavily and using a common custom dictionary would save me re entry time Recipes in Opal Humbug why should any want to use Opal as a recipe collecting tool Introducing Opal had such examples I m much happier with extensively cross linked database recipe tools However the example is an excellent one for teaching about hierarchy Conclusion Opal just like its ACTA progenitor is has a small footprint fast easy to use and reliable Although T use and will continue to use ToDo X for that purpose Omicron Software btp wwvenomiero com Products TaDar that s a ease of inertia and not any deficiency in Opal But for my mainstream writing and brains storming tasks m re aeta rating my outlining skills with Opal Recommendation I you fit into any one of these categories go straight to your computer and download the free trial of Opal Use it for 30 days If you re not convinced that it s elegant and extremely use
183. ow read properly for instance But there s still called mail no invisible style no file merge oft merge and the table of contents and i from a classic file are not preserved in The latter may be a beta bug but the other two are evidently again not on the feature list this for Pro simply discards any 6 5 text in invisible style and lacks one of its own Files with the himi suffix are tead but only as formatted text Markup in the original carries no semantic value in the conversion Mail merge appears to require someone to write a macro in Perl but this lack in the main product appears to the Spy as unprofessional On the plus side the beta is remarkably stable and has run without crashing except on some file reads and that problem went away with a reboot so lor two weeks now Moreover the new version writes decent html when you ask it to though that s only partially helpful the header apparatus and ECMASerips still have to be manually inserted This is better than the last iteration whose HTML writer was only marginally less pathetic than the wretched attempt W rd makes However on balance the Spy can t give the Pro product more than a C ora B at this stage OT H he can t give any word processing product a higher grade The whole genre suffers from neglect these days C mon Steve Why not buy NisusWriter finish it and knock the competition dead Course there wouldn t be m
184. pal Documentation The best place to start is provided with the Opal download by the folks At A Sharp Irsa free download as a part of the trial version of Opal I s a 24 page illustrated PDF file called appropriately enough Al About Outlines It covers the soup to nuts about this topic You get to read about Whar is an Outline through How to use an Outline In addition Introducing Opal a tutorial contains an added depth to the users knowledge of this venerable data organizational tool Check out Wikipedia 1 m a Wikipedia fan The online encyclopedia is my favorite first source for information itg en wikipedia ore wiki Outliner An outliner is a special text editor that allows text to be structured as an outline Outliners are typically used for computer programming collecting or organizing ideas Get Things Done or project management It is generally acknowledged that Doug Engelbart was the first to see the advantages of the expandable outline user interface paradigm in software hitp en wikipedia org wiki Doug Engelbart Read Ted Goranson s Fine ATPM Articles in the About this Particular Outliner Series Between September 2003 and the present two and a half dozen fine articles on outliners and their uses appeared in ATPM That s ATPM About this Particular Macintosh another maccentric eZine Written clearly with loving attention and with focused illustration by Ted Goranson I ve followed this series for years I ve no
185. plastic No sealed pack here I didn t have to use a pair of scissors or try to slice myself geting the package open In fact the back just slide right off I hope the other packagers pay attention to this instead of giving us those forever impossible to open sealed forever plastic packs Now it isn t immediately obvious from the get go but this does have 5 count em 5 buttons Yet it fits naturally in the palm of my hand But I m left handed so 1 have to try and get the USB Overdrive to work in reverse with the buttons and the interface to the Mac OS X System Preferences for the Keyboard amp Mouse I accepted the defaults The latest VerticalMouse 3 is not in a left handed version yet so I get 1200 dpi instead of 2600 apparently the numbers need to get correlated on their website 2600 vs 2200 dpi for optical action but that doesn t seem to be much of a problem I set it for system and it plays just fine IFT want to tweak for options 1 can Using the Hardware Used on an iMae GS with Mac OS X 10 4 9 and USB Overdrive software For the FerticalMouse 2 device to use more than one button with the Mac a copy of Alessandro Levi Montalcini s USB Drive is needed I loaded the beta version since Alessandro is working on the next release of his USB driver does all I could use the one button function with Mac OS X out of the box But to really use it needed to fork over the S20 USD for the USB Drive s
186. porting into Canvas X results in strange skewed CMYK colors Can be parsed by Photoshop without incident and placed into InDesign 2 and may fare well in newer versions of Hiustrator However the background for a simple text logo exports as white not ransparent as expected A checkbox for transparent background is available in the export dialog box but itis grayed out for the EPS option Import met my expectations Expor met my expectations Transparent background checkbox active for this format When exporting and background is exported as transparent when this option s checked EPs Yes Yes TF Yes Yes Import met my expectations Export met my expectation Transparent background checkbox active for this format When exporting and background is exported as wansparent When this option s checked Tve never used SVG for anything bu Freeverse makar sva Unknown ves much of SVG Unfortunately E was not able to adequately Test this format Tinpated PSD om Photoshop 7 vented as an image RF rectangle ike a TIFF or JPG No PSD export available AUS NS Ns Native Husstr fle imported but Blanke PNG Yes Yes E Yes No No review of illustration software would be complete without real world test of importing and exporting Lineform itself is not designed to be used as an importiedivexport tol apparently since Lineform s user manual only lists the file formats it will export BMP J
187. ps and litle in the traditional computer business iteli Several things On the case of use level better integration among appliances people use or ean be persuaded To use daily This is the want Apple is creating with iPhone and AppleTV no silly it s not a need and could provoke with a series of new tablets including one sized as a book reader and video viewer with PDA functions Think of this PIEA as Newton on steroids an upsized iPod or a pocket brain Other possibilities include integrated digital home theatre systems and better home automation all under the Mac s control On the presentation level secret features beter 3D rendering down to the 2D media of sereen and paper with an eye to ramping up to genuine 3D display technologies once the wrinkles have been Sulficiendy ironed out On the application level pet peeve Someone really ought to get the word processor right This basic too has Been neglected twisted bloated to the point where writing is more a struggle with the software than a joy and now ignored But if Apple is interested there s no evidence of this Also in the long delayed department is the next release of the venerable Nisus Writer word processor This product reached its epitome with lassie version 6 5 whose speed especially with Very large documents and feature list competitors could only envy However as with many products of uncertain code d
188. pushing the scan button on the deice or by selecting either duplex or simplex mode from the ScanSnap Manager that s in your dock Since my scanner is not on my desk I need to get up to push the button Therefore I wish I could just double click on the software s dock icon to start a sean It is important to note that if you set the preferences settings to duplex mode back pages are skipped When scanning 25 50 page documents which were printed only on one side the duplex setting did not seem to slow down the scanning process Not t To increase the speed of converting my paper collection to PDF I select that mode When I need an ssible copy for editing or extracting test I can do that later Note The scanned in normal mode Acrobat formatted image files are about 50 smaller in size than the OCR d versions Pages Limit Many of my documents are about a em thick the s about 50 pages inner requires T split these into two setups of Nota serious problem but for collectors of fat documents a minor inconvenience Scan To File Setting 1 coulda figure out what this setting did until I read the Operators Manual 1 expected it to sean to a temporary file and ask what format I wanted the file save to Nope it just scanned to a graphic PDF without showing the scanned file on the sereen The setting works fine if you re not worried about checking the individually scanned documents Conclusion ScanSnap S5
189. quality and compression like other illustration software GIF export for web images Recommendation Before spending 79 consider what you really need your illustration software to do If Lineform meets your needs Lineform s the perfect choice If you need greater compatibility and reliability as one needs in the professional graphics market you should put your 79 toward acquiring Illustrator CorelDraw or Canvas C MIS LLC 2007 macCampion Page ss Moy 2007 Volume Ste 5 Meander 1 5 by Michael Potter Meander 1 5 huyp meander maepg com s20USD System Requirements Mac OS X 10 2 or later Universal binary Strengths Quick map plotting measure nearly anything Weaknesses Limited export minor interface quirks For a demo of this produet bitp meandermacpag com Introduction T love maps all sorts of maps One of my favorite features of the National Geographic subscription are the pull out maps found in every other issue And my greatest disappointment with the Mae platform is the lack of decent consumer grade mapping program similar to Microsoft s Streets and Trips So it was with great pleasure that had the opportunity to take a look at Actus Trading Ltd s Meander Td taken a glance at Meander previously but never paid much attention because I couldn t quite grasp why with access to Google Maps or an offline program like the previously mentioned Streets and Trips you might need it After firing Meander up for
190. r Camino FileMerge Preview Safari and TextEdit It also shows up in Address Book Audio Hijack Pro Alias SketchBook Pro Business Card Composer ClamXay DayLite Deeper Delicious Library DEVONIhink Pro Disco DoorStop X Firewall FeedforAll FotoMagico GarageBand GeekBench ete This is kind ofa way of discovering which apps were actually designed with Cocoa in mind and which are not I found it to be quite an eye opener I highly recommend getting the online Manual to see how CocoaSuite deals with Text Snippets Gestures Mnemonics and Scripts Thankfully the Manual isn t too long and there are plenty of pictures Using the Software This app is so totally geekily easy you have to get real familiar with the manual because this opens up some interesting concepts and ideas you may not have been aware of before Gestures Mnemonics Argyl wrote in VersionTracker This gestures app is absolutely amazing and Text Edit is at the mercy of my mouse now Making a gesture is basically squiggling some shape or other with your mouse while holding down Ctr or alt or any one of three other modifiers Cocoa apps recognise the gesture and depending on what you have programmed into the preferences the app will open new files for you save open print dialogue boxes Anything that is in the menu you can activate without going to the menu bar It may sound bizarre but within an hour of using it it feels so natural especially w
191. r If you want to see itin Firefox go to Tools gt Add ons to see it For the eckset the name of the file is hyperwards xpi In Firefox we can now highlight any word and dig deeper by also getting the word equivalent in a variety of other languages besides English similar to what we have imbedded on the macCompanion website but this essentially makes such searching universal Bu tthis tool does so much more There is one funny little thing though Apparently we can flag items and add them in the Preferences Edit Menu tab but T could not figure out how to add anything on those lines that are shown in cach section in the graphic shown above So think of them as programming placebos for now at least on the Mac More to came later Pm sure Conclusion Now if only this were included in Safari I guess we will have to wait and see what Mac OS X Leopard has to offe Recommendation T have no problem recommending this app to the Mac community as a research tool that fits nicely with our continuing theme on Writing I do not know how Frode Hegland expects to monetize this app but the fac that he offers it as free right now is rather wonderful to me The sect extra goodies in this issue of macCompanion are According to Hoyle Moving from CodeWarrior to Xcode Part I continuing the excellent coding Tutorial by Jonathan Hoyle Doc Babad s Macintosh Tips a really good group of useful tips compiled
192. r I complete this review I ve run out of time In another test one that was surprisingly successful 1 dropped three almost completed review articles formatted as doc into NeoOffice s icon in my dock NeoOffice Writer opened and all the formatting and images I added in MSW were correctly captured Wow Finally I exported this entire illustrated article done in MS Word into text I then imported the text file into NeoOffice by past necked to see how much trouble it was to format its contents appropriately Okay I m not yet familiar with the program as I am with MSW This sas backwards test demonstrates I can achieve MS Word like formats tables graphics indents links and all the styles normally use in NeoOffice Weiter I have not yet worked with templates in NeoOffice but that capability is available should I need it Enough said what I tried worked I was able with only an occasi everything I needed to to write or modify my articles jal check in the product HELP to do An Annotated Overview of NeoOflice s Features In this section I ve identified in NeoOffice Writer the publisher s most routed features and fed back my two cents worth of experience with them Handles Microsoft Office 2007 Word Files We ll have to wait until the Office 1008 Mac is released To use this feature unless you ve Word 2007 installed on your Intel Macintosh Native Aqua Menus includes file open and save dialogs
193. rally will live fine together on the same system but each will try to take control ofthe remote from the others In doing the research for this article I ended up with both Front Row and XHub running at the same time over and over again Xhub always on top and each would intercept button presses meant for the other I actually managed to get Xhub to play music and a video simultaneously while atthe same time getting Front Row to play a video Also I ve heard alot of discussion about the mini s ability to handle HD video sources especially 1080p While I don t have a 1080p display to see them in their full glory 1 was able to watch 1080p files in both H 264 encoded mp4s as well as Xvid avi files in both Media Central and Xhub The lack of Matroska support did not allow me to check H 264 encoded mkvs 1 eel an obligation to at least mention that Windows is always an option A Mac mini and Boot Camp make for an excellent Windows based HTPC though its beyond the realm of this article to cover everything involved But when I first decided to buy a mini to replace my aging HTPC it was initially going to run MediaPortal The PVR options are MUCH stronger on the Windows side and worth a look if you don t fel like any of the Mac options meet your needs but you re in love with the hardware Conclusion IC you ve read this far it shouldn t be a surprise that my pick is Media Central Its lackluster performance out ofthe box made me wary at fir
194. raven His quote at Write Bros website At the beginning of the project Dramatica Pro is great It saves you time because you re not writing stuff you ll eventually have to throw away because you hadn t thoroughly thought it through 1 feel this product is worth the time and money to purchase If the price is too steep for your budget consider The Writer s DreamKit at 60 USD a beginner s version of Dramatica from Write Bros Lineform 1 3 1 By Mike Swope BEEREEVERSEL 2 i z Freeverse Inc 447 West 24h St New York NY 10011 1 212 929 3549 Fax 212 647 0562 infoifieeverse com hupyiwww freeverse com uineam Released February 23 2007 for version 1 3 Macintosh System Requirements Mac OS X 10 3 9 or later Universal Binary to run on G4 5 and Intel Macs Core Image Filters Media Browser and Parse PDF requires Mac OS X 104 or later Strengths Simple well designed and implemented interface Promising features comparable to other illustration software Weaknesses Core Image Filters Media Browser and the ability to parse PDF all require Mac OS X 10 4 or later Only PNG TIFF and SVG can be exported with a transparent background Raster export formats limited to 300 dpi maximum Does not export to GIF For a demo of this produet hirp www freeverse com download select plyp name Hineform platform osx Introduction Pra freelance graphic designer creating and massaging images for print and the web 1 was interes
195. rd and filling it in the product acts like a word processor while the writer provides the intelligence by filling in the materials in the appropriate sections After entering the character information I moved on to the Chaplers section This section has areas for a writer lo answer several important questions 1 What is the Chapter s Opening Hook 2 How does this Chapter move the story forward 3 What has to happen in this Chapter 4 What s the Chapter s Ending Hook You create new pages for each chapter until you have the basie novel structure in place for every chapter in the book then i s time to move on to the Plot Points section Enter the plot points in free flowing text then progress on to the Gestalt View section where you star to see the big picture of material you ve already entered This area shows the Chapters plot points in cach act and the plot point details This section does not merely show what you ve entered it lets you add more content chapters and plot points as you look at the entire story layout Very useful and probably a favorite or heavy users of this software The next section was a personal favorite the Conflict section This is where you can enter and the conflict as it builds throughout your story Excellent addition Define and build the conflict until you bring the story to it s rousing conclusion very nice concept and the best I ve seen with thi
196. re backed up by the awesome game play which I think is better The music is good and I barely had any problems with it would give it a4 out of 5 Recommendation Anyone who likes simulation games or likes the idea of running their own theme park should defiantly check this out I is worth your money April Updates of Interest By Mike Hubbart 1 Apple Updates general si 11p wwwapple comvsupport downloads An important Apple update for this month Apple Security Update 2007 004 released 4 20 2007 10 MB improves MacBook and MacBook Pro compatibility and addresses a security issue QuickTime 7 1 6 released 4 02 2007 45 1 MB delivers numerous bug fixes addresses a critical security issue with QuickTime for Java IMPORTANT Apple announced that Leopard will NOT be available until October even though they vehemently denied the rumor earlier in the month 2 Quark A QuarkXPress 7 2 April 5 2007 free upgrade from 7 1 305 MB QuarkXPress 7 2 ReadMe PDF 750Kb QuarkXPress 72 known issues p w quark com products spress 72knownissues html QuarkXPress 72 issues resolved ltpi uvas quarkccom products xpess 72isuestesolued ml QuarkXPress 7 2 Updater for Mac OS requires QuarkXPress 7 01 or 7 02 tp vwcquark com service desktop downloads details jsp idx 684 B Quark XPert Tools Pro free 39 6 MB Info hiip www quark com products xpress stensions products xpipro Download from bip wwwquad
197. re is a problem In other words NML isn t normal but LINK TST is There is a 35 page Installation Guide that offers all the details needed and then some Conclusion I you are into optical fiber communications Allied Telsyn makes some great products that tie it all together However they have a really bad return policy They do not take back equipment that has been bought I had to tetum a GB optical fiber system because it was too large to fit in the headend cabinet and it has a constantly running fan that sounds like a jet engine Think of an iMac that gets overheated and ramps up its fan every once in a while Now think of that being on all of the time This is totally unacceptable in a home or Small Business envionment I ended up paying a restocking fee with the distributor that cost me hundreds of dollars and he is stuck with equipment he may not be able to resell Allied Telsyn s competitors do not play that game so Caveat Emptor The AEMCI6XL is one solution for local area networks that reaches out to 300 meters 984 feet at 100MB over fiber Allied Telesyn has lots of other equipment that extends further aver multi mode fiber 2 kilometers and even greater distances still for single mode fiber systems Just be aware of their No Return policy 300 meters is plenty for a home or small business TruePower AC Adapter Reviewed by Eddie Hargreaves FastMac brtpj wewcfastmac com 36 USD 19 95 2
198. re is a timed try out version that gives you the opportunity to record one full length podeast and some 5 minute versions that puts a wonderful sounding jingle at the end Really the jingle is top notch and sounds great Once your past the very shallow learning curve you ll wonder how you ever podcasted with the archaic Software that is out now Virtual Historian Doctrine and Covenants D amp C Version 1 0 Reviewed by Robert Pritchett bluemangoy Blue Mango Leaning Systems infoGomangomultimedia com 28245 Avenue Crocker Suite 220 Valencia CA 91 661 775 8300 Fax 661 775 8352 p w virtua historian com Doense a Comets Released March 30 2004 S35 USD hitpy www virual historian com store html Requirements Color Monitor Capable of displaying thousands KKK K of colors with 800x600 or greater monitor resolution CD ROM Drive Disk Space Partial Install 42 MB Full Install 430 MB Macintosh OS 9 or OS X 400 MHz PowerPC G3 or ater at Cross platform east 128 MB of RAM Windows 98 Me 2000 XP Pentium I Processor at least 128 MB of RAM Blog hitp blog virtual historian com FAQs htip wwwvirtual historian com userarea fags hum Media Downloads bti wwvvirtual historian com vlydowloads html Strengths Great use of QTVR panorama picture technology Cross platform Weaknesses No direct printing capability or picture exporting yet Other Reviews hitp lds aboutcom od productreviews gr
199. ready open so close any open windows if you wish to make changes If you wish to have the CodeWarrior user experience in Xcode change the Layout option to Condensed and seopen your project It will now appear a little more familiar to you nonse Ex m C MPN LLC 2007 macCarpion Page 136 May 2007 Nase Soe 5 This Condensed layout is also more useful for developers in a two monitor system who like to have multiple edit windows viewable simultaneously Note that this preference is disabled when any projects are open You must close down all project files to adjust this setting and reopen them afterwards Importing a CodeWarrior Project To illustrate the Xeode conversion process we will be importing the Appearance Demo mep project found on the CodeWarrior 9 Reference CD If you wish to follow along you can find this project folder in CW Reference 9 0 CodeWarrior Examples Mac OS Examples PowerPlant Examples Appearance Demo Double clicking on the Appearance Demo mep file will launch CodeWarrior and present you with the project file window containing two targets 69 O60 AAppearance Demo mep A e we Se gt ET Appearance Damo PPC Commanders lt YyYYYYYYYYTYYYYYY EEGEBUBEGBGSSEGUEG L Libraries Those with a long familiarity with CodeWarrior already know this but the target you will be interested in s Appearance Demo Carbon The poorly named Appearance Demo PPC target is not as
200. reviewed by Daphne Kalfon Ubercast 1 0 podcast producing software reviewed by our resident expert Wayne LeFevre collection of sounds influenced from Bomba Reggae and Virtual Historial Doctrine and Covenants 1 0 LDS Bible scripture software reviewed by Robert Pritchett The first solution for running Windows on Intel Macs now available atthe Apple Store a mun Windows on Your Mac rallels bala for Mac ve sc SERES Parallels Desktop for Mac Is also available wie direct download st www arallels com Buy elther way for only 79 99 toparallels wiwgaralleszom salesoparallescom Parallels award winning software at MacWorld Expo 2007 Bp svi parallels com C MIS LLC 2007 macCarpion 1Passwd 2 3 11 Reviewed by Wayne LeFevre UN WEB SOLUTIONS IPasswd version 23 11 p passi com 29 USD 32 CND 14 UK System Requirements Mac OS X 10 4 or later Universal binary Most web browsers minis Open f f Strengths Manage all your passwords with one master key integrated with most browsers prevents phishing import all your previous passwords and forms multiple forms ability to autofill Weaknesses Huge list to go through if importing from many browsers plus your keychain he sudden need to change all your passwords on many many sites For a demo of this produet hitp Ipasswd com downloads Introduction 1Passwd is what the Keychain was supposed to be It is technically
201. rmats from Fictionwise and in dead tree form from Bowker s Booksurge URLs The Northern Spy Home Page http www TheNortbernSpy com The Spy Laws collected http www thenorthernspy com spislaws hm The Spy s Shareware download site p downloads thenorthernspy com WebNamellost bitp www WebNameHHost net WebNameSource live WebNameSoures net nameman eg asmensa eetopundo hip opundo Sheaves Christian Resources hitp sheaves ong Arjay Books http www ArjayBooks com Booksurge hiips www booksurae coms Fictionwise bpy wwfetionwise com Nisus bp vw nisus com Epson tp www epson cor d d dddddddddddededed Errata for April By Mike Haare LAST MINUTE NEWS According to Apple s website their second quarter fiscal results consist of revenue of 5 26 billion and a net profit of 770 million better than the same quarter last year 4 36 billion revenue and 410 million profi RUMORS Analysts still suspect that Apple intends to release a subnotebook with flash memory instead of a traditional hard drive CORRECTION Ta March there was a rumor of the late release of Leopard posted on MacWorld UK s website 126 2007 on April 12 the following Was posted on the Apple Website Apple Statement iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule o ship in late June as planned We can t wait until customers get their hands and fi
202. ro MacBook Pro il be especially speedy and stylish AT MCII6XL 10 100TX to 10FL 100SX SC Standalone Ethernet and Fast Ethernet Copper to Fiber Media Converter Reviewed by Robert Pritchett MAME Alied Telesis Allied Telesis Inc 19800 North Creek Parkway Suite 200 Bothell WA 98011 1 800 424 6596 Fax 1 425 481 3895 hitp wwwalliedielesyn com S165 USD can be obtained for 35 USB refurbished 81 GBP Release Requirements Multimode 850 nm Fiber SC ports Dual port 62 5 125 um multimode fiber patch cord Category 5 patch cord Strengths Plug and play optical fiber converter No fan Weaknesses The LINK TST button will keep communications from running if in the ofl position when electronics at either end of the fiber are turned off And the company has a terrible retur policy You bought it you keep i And you wonder why fiber to the desktop isn t popular Introduction Our media converters allow you to connect disparate cable types in your network SC fiber connectors are used primarily for Fast Ethernet and Gigabit while ST fiber connectors are used primarily for Ethernet and Fast Ethernet Media conversion offers you the ability to Extend network distances by adding fiber only where it is needed Add new devices without replacing costly cable Keep pace with changing technology Integrate high bandwidth devices into the network The Allied Telesyn range of
203. rsal binary ca 5 1 MB Hard Drive Space KKK KK Localizations English and Japanese Strengths Opal a born again ACTA has arrived maintaining ACTA S strong features and enhancing its ease of use by tuning it to Mac OS X standards For those not familiar with the benefits of outlining there s a 24 page PDF file called All About Outliners a part of the download file Weaknesses Nothing worth listing upfront Previous Reviews None for either Opal or ACTA Demo For 30 day free demo of this product hity a sharp conv opal Copyright Notice Product and company names and logos in this review may be registered trademarks of their respective companies The software was tested on a 1 GHz dual processor PowerPC G4 Macintosh with 2 GB DDR SDRAM running under OS X 10 49 Introduction Once upon a time I was an outline freak In the days of the classic Macintosh operating system before I retire my professional life was filled with the need to write reports document technical strategies and storyboard and create presentations All of ibis on one of the very few non graphics use Macintosh computers n the large company for which 1 worked Initially documents were written in Word Perfect which was the word processing standard Eventually the standard changed to MS Word MSW and I breathed a small sigh of relief Well almost One big problem the outlining capabilities of MSW sucked Worse than in Word 2004 much worse But as a
204. ruePower AC Adapter replacement power converter for G4 PowerBook or white iBook reviewed by Eddie Hargreaves use your USB webcam with iChat AV record you iChat audio and video chats adjust iSight settings and apply effects ecamm netwo dream the connection ecamm networ btpz wwwccamm com Evoluent VerticalMouse 2 and 3 5 Button USB Optical Mouse with Handshake Grip Reviewed by Robert Pritchett Inventor of the ke grip Developer Jack Lo Eyoluent 617 Viewridge Drive Pacifica CA 94044 USA 650 355 2467 Right hand VerticalMouse 3 650 355 5550 hello evoluentcor hirpj wwwevoluenteom van ml Support hiip www evolyent com support htm Released August 2004 Left hand VM2 105 USD Right hand VM3 80 USD USB Drive for use with a Mac 20 USD 30 day return guarantee Left hand VerticalMouss Requirements USB Overdrive S20USD to use all buttons USB Port Mac Comes with PS 2 USB converter mini CD driver dise Strengths Light optical vertical palm mouse Cross platform Linux Mac Windows Ergonomically designed to reduce forearm fatigue No extra training required Weaknesses Requires buying USB Overdrive to use all buttons for the Mac Hand drag on the table surface may become an issue or not The hand lip is on the right hand VerticalMouse 3 and not available for the left hand yet Other Reviews hitp
205. s as well as the vocal samples and some of the FX Overall a fun and versatile addition to whatever one already has in their Reason arsenal Always try before you buy As mentioned earlier in this review there is a downloadable demo version of Reggaeton on the main website and this will allow you to evaluate whether or not you would want to use Reggaeton in your own musie creation projects bercaster 1 0 Reviewed by Wayne LeFevre S79 USD 89 CND 39 UK System Requirements Mac OS X 10 4 4 or later Universal binary Strengths Ability lo use templates Record interview live with iChat Skype Gizmo Record audio live stealth mode One click encoding and uploading pg a Weaknesses No loops stingers bumpers or any audio included For a demo of this produet htp www ubereaster com download shtml Introduction bercasterhas recently just come out of beta Version 1 0 was finally released just after we went to press for the April issue and so far it s been a very smooth and for the most part bug free release For those who have never heard of bercaster before it is podeasting producing software pure and simple In the words on their website Leave your garage and feel at home bercaster has been made with podeaster s needs in mind With its versatile options you may record your show the way you re used to and profit from bercaster s advanced cut and release tools But you may also take advantage of berca
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207. s a suite of utilities that enhance the ways in which you can control Cocoa applications Mouse Gestures add or modify keyboard shortcuts Mnemonics TextSnippets and a virtual scroll wheel jog dial for laptop users are amongst the many features CocoaSuite replaces the earlier CocoaGestures All features can be mixed freely For instance you can assign a Mnemonic to insert text into your application Or use a Mouse Gesture to execute a script The possibilities are endless Gestures are especially useful in situati To the keyboard to execute a command When you are using your mouse and don t want to move your hands CocoaSuite comes with English Japanese German and French localization the manual is available in English and Japanese Getting Started The app loads off the website just fine but it takes a while to find it It lands in Username gt Library gt InputManager When you are in a Cocoa friendly app you can find the mint candy icon and go from there File dit View Mailbox Message Format _FontSight Window Hide Others YHH Show All Quit Mail xa pm Manage Menu Shortcuts Manage Mnemonics So you don t need to be a Cocoa programmer to use this application You just need to know which apps are Cocoa The defaults found in the Username gt Library gt Applications Support gt CocoaSuite shows plists for Cocoa based apps I found the mint icon among the following as I sampled down through my Applications folde
208. s actual money 20 One Sentence Summation An appealing interface with a lot of fun but the presentations isn t as polished as it could be ality and options including live TV Media Central Media Central began its a life as the first really usable alternative to Front Row as a way to get around the file format limitations After being bought by German developer Equinux the updates came fast and furious but at a price currently 29 But it s been worth it in my opinion Media Central has grown into one of the most full featured stable and consistent interfaces to he found in HTPC on the Mac OS The downside of the purchase has been a heavy case of feature itis with lots of features that distract from the central functions of accessing your media collection A good example of this are the online components littered throughout the interface One nice feature is the ability to subscribe to photo streams from Flickr or Mac under the pictures section But by default you ll find a half a dozen or so photo streams chosen completely at random as far as I m concerned m Sure they make complete sense to the developers of Equinux It cutters up the interface quite a bit A similar instance puts an Evanescence stream in my music area You can tur all of these options off with a single check box in the preferences but it s an all or nothing deal That being said I absolutely recommend doing so in order To cut more than hal
209. s the base structure but not the lists of questions like Dramatica Pro Watch a Flash Walkthrough of Power Structure hitp wwwviewleteentraleom v viewlet tml id 22942S51 Introduction How many people do you know that ever said Some day T II write my novel but never do I ve lost track of the people that uttered that infamous line at some party or social gathering of friends Only one acquaintance of mine ever did write a story he did many rewrites and finally took the self publish route to get his book published This guy was willing to put in the hours to get his story right but I wonder if a structure product would have made his life easier and saved time as well Getting Started After installing the software I launched it and created a new story using the Novel template There are templates for plays screenplays TV and Mythic 12 step stories The only template I hadn t seen before was the Mystic 12 Step template which seems ideal for creating fantasy novel stories Nice idea I wanted to get back to my great American novel so I started with the Novel template New Document Template Novel Template Play 2 Stageplay Acts amp Scene Q Play 5 Stageplay Acts amp Scene Q Screenplay Scene amp Plot Point Q Screenplay Sequence amp Scent Q TY GS TY Act amp Scene O TY 2 TY Act amp Scene Q Mythic 12 steps EL Sian en Don t Show this Dialog when Starting a New File After select
210. s type of software Now that your story conflict is set it s time to move to the Index Cards section The first time I learned about using index cards to help organize story flow was when I studied books on writing screenplay I used index cards to track the action and gain better perspective of time especially as it related to time for commercial breaks as well as tying in multiple lots very good tool and 1 like that it is included inthis application C MIS LLC 2007 macCompanon uem May 2007 Nase Sue 5 Now the last thing I wanted to cover in this product is the ability to export content Story information can be exported for Screenwriter or ScriptThing as RTF as RTF with sytle sheets and HTML with style sheets Part or all of the information can be exported as shown in the sereen below Baon Format Screenwriter SeriptThing m CAI Story Theme Items that have Assochted Text QAI Character Names E Other Associated Character Data E Act Description E Other Associated Act Data C Chapter Headings AI Chapter information E One Line Plot Point Headings C Other Associated Plot Point Data C Full Text of Plot Point E Formatted for Novel Submission Cancel Export Conclusion Power Structure is displaying but not providing the underlying structure of your novel it isn t writing it for you but is helping you find the structure before you start entering the story in your word processor of choi
211. sier to use and perhaps a bit more intuitive that other MS Word alternatives I ve tried but perhaps I m getting smarter 1 should point out that Dennis Olsten who had previously tested earlier versions of NeoOffice which he found Too slow wrote in an MacUpdate Review With this release of NeoOflice I will forget Microsoft Office This product is just great it looks good as good as an office app ean look i performs great and the ability to exchange documents in Open document format ODF PDF or doc makes it fully compatible Be that as i may the developers in the product FAQ note the ever present warning Who should use NeoOffice NeoOfice is not perfect Although we try very hard to make NeoOffice free of bugs and crashes our users still find new bugs and new cases that cause NeoOffice to crash So if you feel that you need software that has been heavily tested we secommend that you use a commercially supported product like Microsoft Office Doc Sez NONSENCE I understand the need for the developers to be conservative about their recommendations However I routinely crash MSW so that is not a basis for choice In addition there are lots of articles posted on the web that note One of the best features of the open source software movements isthe army of folks who step up to fix bugs It doesn t take a committee of marketing and executive types to approve a patch of an update No I m not yet ready to
212. software most folks can only dream about because either they don t have the time or inclination to explore to study orto really dig into the esoterica of computerdom I make the time to do so T explore these things along with others on our staff so you don t have to And I found that effort to be fun Learning should be fun I still use pen and paper for a lot of things T also occasionally use my mind However I marvel at all the modern miracles we ve been blessed with and the inspiration that must have occurred over many lifetimes to give us the best that mankind has to offer to make life just a little better each day For close to little or no money our staff do the same thing for you by showing how the Marvels of Macdom can change lives for the better as together we explore books hardware and software that very well could be your meal ticket to a better life And if we can make a positive difference in the lives of others by doing what we do making a weakness into a strength Eventually all this effort will be worth the time and sweat equity put into And that is why I write for macCompanion Magazine We know what it feels like to be called a dumb little kid who doesn t know anything We don t want you to feel that way here There are no Lusers who use Macs Please enjoy this issue and let others know about what can be accomplished using a Macintosh computer for both home and business See you next month
213. sor 12 MB of RAM 250 MB of hard drive space and 3 NIC s Network Interface Cards The last one might be a little bit of a problem but keep in mind most computer stores sell brand new NIC s for about 10 A quick search of eBay may land your 2 or 3 NIC s for 10 IPCop is currently not offered in a PowerPC version However the IPCop developers are currently creating a PowerPC version which should be out later this year Once the PowerPC version is out you ll be able o take an old Mac out of the closet and put it back to work as a firewall 8 How do I configure the firewall Once you have procured your hardware it s justa matter of hooking everything up and configuring the firewall rules OF course that s the hard part Using the example above you would want to configure the firewall to allow both segment A and B to a segment C For arguments sake we ll say Segment A las an IP address of 192 168 1 0 24 and Segment B has an IP address of 192 168 2 0 24 There are 3 interfaces on the firewall one is connected to segment A one to segment B and the third to segment C The rules for the interface connected to segment C would look something like this Allow ip 192 168 1 0 24 any Allow ip 192 168 2 0 24 any This configuration would allow both segments to access the Intemet but not deny the Interet from accessing either segment To properly secure this network you would want to get a lot more gr
214. st but once 1 turned the online options off Media Central became the snappiest most full featured option available and well worth the 39 for three licenses The lack of a PVR doesn t bother me as T ve not found a software solution that beats TiVo in terms of its WAF and TivoDecodeManaver can automate the process of getting my recordings into Media Central If you require a PVR and can handle the maintenance requirements MythTV is a strong choice If not Xhub combined with an EyeTV device is really your only choice Mac mini HTPC Followup Core Skills We received a lot of great comments in response to our article on turning a Mac mini into an HTPC that rivals Apple TV It also brought up some questions that I thought deserved addressing Why Mac OS X Something that we failed to address inthe initial article is the question of why you might want to use Mac OS X for an HTPC in the fist place After all there certainly are a lot more Windows based options For me it s an issue of workflow and compatibility Since I use a Mac for all of my editing and encoding using Mac OS X for my HTPC allows me to make use of Mac only features like labels to indicate the resolution of video and AFP as my transfer protocol which has been more reliable on my home network though your mileage may vary But what really seals the deal for me is the wide support for H 264 based mp4 files in practically any M based HTPC As long as we re talking about st
215. stacker scanned pags 1 misbehave pages more dificult Theiner zigzagging the pages s they caught on jammed one or twice until got the dimple They were however in the m comet order There was no easy HX 10 this problem Note 2 Usscaddocumenredge sp bound Residual aus on he Wound edge Depending on the weight of The sapis and heavily stapled required rimming the edge with 1 got a repeat of the dimple related a paper cutter removed about 2 problem tum and then loosened the pages Otherwise trouble fc Upside down or Sideways Pages None The Fugisu scanner s sofia automatically rotates the pages appropriately I even effectively accommodates mixed page in landscape and portrait mode Tolar Pagar aque sting Nigher resolution Trouble ie sean scanned to JPEG Nate Prioris Tosi the documento the scanner and before taking any spesa action wed e vendor instructions about loosening the pages Note 2 dd not need the original document afer scanned it so did not concern myself about straightening out the pages Scanning Options and Output Results Acrobat Pro Scanning to Acrobat creates a PDF file that is only an image To be able to extract text you Will then need to OCR the pages with ether Readiris or from within Acrobat Acrobat 7 Standard was provided With the scanner but my Acrobat 8 Professional worked just fine Sean to Readlris Pro 11 5 for Fugitsu Provided with the scanner
216. stand history without atleast a basic understanding of the people involved in making that history Virtual Historian Doctrine amp Covenants contains Who s Who in the Doctrine amp Covenants by Dr Susan Easton Black This book contains biographies on everyone mentioned in the Doctrine amp Covenants But we have made it infinitely more useful The book has heen cut up into the individual biographies These biographies have then been linked tothe scriptures historical commentary location commentary and timeline events in the program This means that anywhere in the program that Newel K Whitney s name is mentioned you can click on his name and read a biography on him Each biography lists all of the sections that mention the person These can be clicked on and instantly studie A Shift in Paradigms For decades history has been taught in much the same way Slideshows have evolved into videos Textbooks now have color These have been incremental steps that mainly focused on refining the look of old presentation methods The problem we face is that history is constantly being created This means that in 2004 we are responsible for understanding more history than we were in 1950 We cannot continue to use traditional methods and still Team everything we need to know We need accelerated teaching tools that deliver understanding more completely and more quickly Virtual Historian represents a complete departure
217. ster s ground breaking live audio recording Auto ducking effects chapters for enhanced podcasts ID3 tags album cover art mp3 AAC AIFF encoding you name it I s all there Seamlessly integrated Getting Started Installation was simple with a normal drag and drop into the Applications folder It comes with an easy to read PDF for the installation of the other folder it comes with an Extras Folder The Extras folder containes the PleasantConnect installer package that installs bercaster s drivers for recording Skype iChat and Gizmo It also gives you the option to install Smart Crash Reports from Unsanity and sample AppleScripts Using the Software T ve been using bercaster for several months and was impressed with it the fist time T used it I s really like no other podcasting software out there no matter what the cost First things first 1 would suggest since it is different than other podeasting software to visit bercaster website and watch at least the first if not all the available screencasts Even if you wind up not using the application they are well done and will teach you a lot about the product and it will very quickly get you up to speed on the new type of workflow Speaking of a new type of workflow there are four main sections of bercaster The first part is the preparation layer You are basically presented with a blank sat with nothing but a microphone panel On this layer you can organize your whol
218. stomization you create for MS Word ate stored in the normal template Humbug But I keep screenshots and list of shortcuts so I was able to reset these customizations I also keep a copy of the pst file and my custom dictionary rer deos2o CURT etae Rss nula e E Pil ee 0 Wee Tarte usn Brac DIE SPIEERTI rem But it took about 45 minutes playing enie meanie Maintaining Link or Adding Links to a PDFs Created from MS Word Documents Question Despite having active links in my MS Word MSW documents doc or tf format these do not always transfer to the pdf file I create for document distribution Mike The Answer Background One can create three kinds of active links in any MS Word document Full Internet and email addresses such as that activate your selected browser or email client Web Tinks lup mac Companion con or WACO paion cam Email Addresses eedback maccompanion com or Links embedded in a sentence such as the MacUpdate site which when el and activates an internet or email link futp wwnmacupdate com ed translates to In addition one can use links in MSW to move to other parts of your document A good example of this is the creation and use of Table of Contents for a ong document to speed navigation between sections But that s another future tip topic Okay more fussy details Ways of Creating PDF from a Word Document Assuming you own Acrobat now version 8
219. t by Mariner make this product a good buy and recommended especially for someone new to screenplay writing NOTE Mariner released another update to this product after the review was complete the new current version is 1 2 2 See May Updates of Interest in the Goodies section for a list of enhancements and bug fixes in release 122 NeoOffice 2 1 Writer the word processing module only By Hany doc Babad Planamesa Software and NeoOffice org buyps www neoo fice org of fee disk space KKK Released March 27th 2007 Writer Only Available in Universal binary Download size is 139 1 MB power PC Version Multilingual Language Support English plus 57 others which range from Afrikaans to Weleh Just download the free language package Strengths This stable fast Macintosh like actively developed version is the first recommended for new users with little word processing experience and a viable alternative to MS Word Weaknesses Having no interest in anything but NeoOffice Writer the other parts of the suite were not reviewed For a free download of this product hi vww nenaifice org neojava en download plu Copyright Notice Product and company names and logos in this review may be registered trademarks of their respective companies The software was tested on a 1 GHz dual processor PowerPC G4 Macintosh with 2 GB DDR SDRAM running under OS X 10 49 Disclaimer When briefly reviewing share freeware I
220. t macCompanion We offer ways and means for folks to get comfortable using the Macintosh created by the Apple Corporation in the multibillion dollar computer industry We know that bad software doesn t live ong in the Mac environment On the other hand good computer equipment and software becomes great as the word spreads and we are very good at helping o spread it Our suggestions aver the years have also helped improve many successful products in use today Through kind and gentle efforts we have been able to help many people move to better tools of the trade so they can be more productive in their work Besides our website and consulting efforts we also create macCompanion as a freely available PDF based monthly It averages about 100 pages per month July 2006 was the 4th year anniversary of this labor of lov The macCompanion staff is an all volunteer team of writers and reviewers from many parts of the globe and they also have a great wealth of knowledge and experience in their backgrounds That base of talent also continues to keep growing as the Macintosh Professional Network expands Statistical Analysis We are very excited about our site statistics The multilingual capable maeCompanion website is close to 2 million page views a month and readership continues to increase rapidly through our whisper campaign We continue to get greater visibility every day Many of the various 35 computer operating systems with m
221. t of file draws of technical information At the time I was being swamped with documents I knew I had but could not find and my office was invaded by zombie grey file cabinets I took up the challenge 1 had kept alive the concept of using a database for keeping track of reference material Instead of storing catalog and summary contents information on punch cards I created a reference database once again assigning each new document a consecutive number The types of information I needed to catalog was the same as I d had typed on the punch card By having the information in an electronic database records are more searchable By overcoming the coding limits and ultimate fragility of an edge hole punch card the documents became were more accessible My first references database was created in the Macintosh version MS File When Microsoft discontinued support for that product I first migrated my data to what is now AppleWorks but finally settled on FileMaker as the database of choice The result I now have a sort of topsy turvy patchwork database entries in FileMaker Pro to which I ve added references over the years connected to that closet full of cataloged documents Okay the indexing system worked Coupl item worked well for me even in the abs ng sequential numbering of documents with a database entry for each of secretarial privileges OE TES USE ARE WaS STON DC GFCOFBOH FQ HOW WAT 1S FE CTSA TO TN
222. t persuaded Ted to share his article with the macC readers but I am referencing them to allow you to tune in Check our these articles at hutp www atpm com Back atpo shtml Ted mentioned that he would be branching out to discuss a broader range writing environments and tools in future issues of ATPM About this Particular Macintosh The first article in his new series appeared in February Check http www atpm com 12 11 atpo shiml Subscribe to ATPM it s free Last But Not Least To round thing outs you might want to browse the information at Outliner com http ww w outliners cor The site provides a good historical look at outliners and their strengths and limitations The discussions include some of my early favorite outline based software tools These sites should wet your appetite for participating in the word of outline users Power Structure 1 8 2 Reviewed by Mike Hubbartt 2007 Write Brain Power Structure Company Weite Brain 800 450 9450 US 858 270 7204 International 180 USD List 100 USD Academic Military System Requirements Mac OS 8 6 or later 17 MB hard drive Sprint ses nc ba eq Strengths helps but doesn t try to write the story for you excellent section on story conflict useful section to show index cards to help organize story flow nice auto update support good pricing for students and military thank you for your support Write Brain Weaknesses provide
223. t s been giving Disco all the press because not only does Disco burn your discs but it smolders in the process I m the sort of person who likes a bit of eye candy in my software and Smoke is definitely eye candy interactive eye candy at that With the smoke effect turned on you ll see something like this while your files are burning What makes it interactive is quickly discovered if you drag the mouse cursor through the smoke as it billows fiom the top of your Disco window In an amazingly realistic bit of animation the smoke is pushed around bby your mouse cursor You ll discover other fun things to do like blocking the smoke with your cursor and watching it low around the arrow Adjusting the Smoke preferences allows you to enable other cool features like microphone input that lets Disco listen to the noises around it and react to them Lastly you can switch to other styles of smoke such as Fire Goo or even Purple Haze 1f you re feeling particularly creative you can modify the smoke to your own style though there s no option to name and save it Of all the styles I found Smoke and Steam to be the most realistic looking with Fie in a close third smoke is one of those features you ll either like or dislike intensely I doubt anyone will be ambivalent about it Fortunately for those folks on the dislike side ofthe fence disabling Smoke is a simple checkbox Preferences Smoke is a feature that is certainly cool but
224. ted in reviewing Lineform as a possible replacement to the expensive upgrade to Adobe Ilustrator CS2 or CS3 in the near future Like many freelance graphic designers my needs are relatively simple I need to be able to create logos import and edit logos and PDFs that have been emailed to me create and edit simple logos and illustrations and reliably prepare all final files for offset press or the Internet Since Lineform is marketed as an application to create simple logos to complex designs and illustrations to Adobe Illustrator Macromedia Freehand and CorelDraw 1 thought that Lineform might meet my modest needs and those of other freelance graphic and web designers Lineform however I m sorry to say is not ready to take the place of these more capable illustration packages despite its strengths Getting Started Installing Lineform is easy After download just copy the application to your Applications folder then launch it The Lineform download also comes with example artwork including some outstanding illustrations created by Lineform Contest Winners These examples are of course professional quality a testament to the potential of Lineform Using the Software Lineform s interface is simple Each document window features a customizable tool palette like other modern illustration software so your preferred tools are always at your fingertips as it were never hidden behind other palettes That this menu is in
225. the cost of fiber electronics drops to copper electronic prices as demand increases for product I still marvel at how glass fiber cables can be had for less than 20 But then at one time USB cables were expensive and so were Category 5 network cables not nearly as expensive as the baseband drop cables vampire taps used to be though htp en wikipedia ons Why Write for macCompanion Out of weaknesses if we focus on improvement we can make strengths mostly because of the mistakes we make along the way And I admit I ve made a few I thought Baseband cabling was pretty cool until learned why structured cabling was important I thought HTML web page coding was a fad and I missed out on a great opportunity when it first came along When I graduated from college I could have gone to work for Microsoft but didn t I had no idea folks by nature are lazy and are willing to pay for stuff they don t want to do themselves Some think Podcasting may be a fad Perhaps it will be replaced with Streamcasting Overbuilt dark fiber bandwidth will get lit up and utilized When it does I want to learn about it I struggled with learning to put my thoughts on paper esearch topies and present and train others on maintaining and using their equipment I learned how to do it earn by doing not by being shown I know a lot of our readers and listeners learn the same way By running macCompanion I ve had opportunities to learn about hardware and
226. the file format support one could hope for Video TS DivX Xvid in addition to QT supported formats with the notable except of Matroska and fiv if you re looking for Matroska support go ahead and skip down to MythTV Xhub was built as a supplement to Salling Clicker software that allows you to use a bluetooth cell phone or PDA as a high end remote control This gives Xhub some of the most sophisticated control options available on any system The EyeTV integration is the closest thing to an integrated PVR we ll see outside of MythTV It works pretty well though the interface is a little clumsy to operate you scroll through a big list of channels Another nice touch in the newest version is a direct link to the full screen cover flow option in iTunes 7 1 Xhub Main Menu Performance is good but not great Is better than Front Row in most cases but there s a noticeable lag between choosing a video file and it actually playing on my test system due to the fact that the included MPlayer has to start up separately for each file An annoying aspect that it shares with Front Row is that an iTunes update behind the scenes can lock up the interface when you try to access any section that lists your iTunes library mostly due to iTunes waiting for you to accept the new license This illustrates Xhub s biggest weakness in that i s not so much a media jukebox in itself as it is an interface to other media playback components and ther
227. the name might Suggest the only PowerPC target Both targets compile for PPC the PPC target is actually a Classic build and should have been named Appearance Demo Classic We will concentrate only on the Carbon target as the Classic target will be unnecessary by Xcode Select the Carbon target from the popup menu and build the project There should be no warnings or errors upon completion if you do experience build errors verify that your CodeWarrior installation is complete and your libraries have been fully built Running the application will present the following window 12 42 24 AM You may wish to test out some of the controls to satisfy yourself that the project built properly When you are finished quit the CodeWarrior application Now itis time to import this project into Xcode Launch Xcode 2 4 and select Import Project from the File menu From Xcode s Import assistant will be presented Select the Import CodeWarrior Project item and press the Next button Import Project In this next screen the importer allows you to choose the project file select Choose and navigate to the Appearance Demo mep file Once selected press the Finished button Assistant Import CodeWarrior Project CodeWarrior Project jMyHD Appearance Demo Appearance Dewo med Choose New Project Name Appearance Demo C Import Global Source Trees from CodeWarrior LC Import referenced projects Projects are imported in
228. they ought not So obviously we need at least 2 boxes to make this work And there are more expensive solutions for using fiber but this is a great introduction to using a fiber backbone in the home or business We used Leviton jacks atthe wall outlet and decided to use LC connectors instead of SC They are smaller and designed for 1 GB networks but they work just fine and have a smaller footprint than the SC connectors ST connectors are so 1980s and there are different types of connectors which is probably why the fiber industry has been slow to get out the gate for fiber in the home or business hiip www thefoaorg tech connID htm itp wwwertvucorpisteven nikkel fiberconnect html up en wikipedia ory wiki Optical Fiber Connector The connectors are easy enough to install from Leviton htip wwscdeviton com and ean be easily obtained at outlets such as Graybar http www graybarcom or Anixter htp vww anixtercom These are not yet available a The Home Depot or other Home improvement stores yet While Category 5 copper network cabling is now universally available for installation by the typical Do It Yourselfer fiber is still a professional game 1 found that in my case the Link Test button needed to be out LINK TST instead of in NML in order for the system to work correctly because the link shuts down if either the computer or electronics at the headend shut off It is designed that way to let us know the
229. time and system For a description of my system and how I got there ead Too Many References Too Little Space No way to Search for Them in this issue Let look Deeper First and foremost a scanner capable of handling multiple page documents easily and with relative speed Such a tool should also be capable of dealing with feeding stacks of paper in various conditions These range from documents that are well read in which the pages don t stick together but may not lie flat At the other extreme there s a new document you not gotten around the reading with its pages close packed Bindings and Other Variations Scanning challenges include dealing with document that were edge punched and held together with plastic coils of various types or document that were made pretty after being stapled by having a tape binding added Documents can also be held together with a heavy duty or a lightweight staple AIL of these types of document bindings pose problems with the ability to feed single sheets I l discuss dealing with bindings and how to avoid paper jams when using the Fugitsu scanner later in this review Getting Started Basically you install the software plug in the power cond and USB cable and let your Macintosh Windows recognize the scanner The software consists of three items on separate CDs The Fujitsu scanner Setup CD is accompanied by a eopy of Acrobut 7 Standard and the device optimized copies
230. ting The issues list was down o near zero few changes were being made and the signs pointed to a March April release Suddenly the issues list has become lengthy Apple has pulled programming resources to work on iPhone and now alls October for the next OS X While this doesn t yet seem to be on the MS scale where progress is measured in units of megaslippage per annum the delay is concerning for those of us who depend on iSteve for computers more than for entertainment toys Evidently the change of name that saw the word computer expunged from the Cupertino s masthead was no mere symbolism iSteve lives at the leading edge of the technological revolution With computing per se approaching a relative stability that will see only intermittent incremental upgrades for the foreseeable future and no true breakthroughs on the horizon that leading edge lies elsewhere OTOH should this lack of attention continue iSteve could run out of computing mindshare in tw or three years stalling growth of market share around the 10 mark making hay of the Spy s predictions of 154 OTOH it s also worth noting Vista is such a turkey never has so much bumph been expended by so many people on so little or been delivered so late with zero impact Leopard may thus look far better for the delay if it does arrive relatively bug free In fact new purchasers are better off buying Tiger on a Mac than any version of W nd ws
231. tion icon in the Finder Piece of cake wonderful a well trained installer User Warning I found Tile To be concerned about after reading the files that are liked in the NeoOffice warnings but I recommend that every potential user check the out Each of our operating environments is somewhat different Macintosh users often experiment a lot both with shareware and by tweaking their operating systems Make sure that you read the important warnings for all users tp jew neooflice org neojavalen download phptwarnings and check out the list of features and bugs hip seweneooffice org meojava en features php before you install NeoOffice Important Afer installing get the latest bug fixes by downloading and installing the latest NeoOffice patch installer Using the Software Okay what I did was simple minded I wrote a new eTalk column an article about folk musi that I do for our local folklife society in Writer I both formatted the documented and added illustrations This first trial of the Writer module felt awkward It took me back almost to the point of starting to write on a computer in Mac Write having given up my IBM Selectric Typewriter Those were the days that Robin Williams invokes in her eloquent The Mac Is Not a Typewriter It also reminded me of my slow start in trying to first use the word processor in AppleWorks Ics not that the Writer program is awkward or hard to use I s just my troublesome initial
232. tions Agile Web Solutions has implemented a new license verification feature Find out more about it in my column this month MaeFevre Using the Software After importing your keychain and your browsers information the database can become a little unwieldy at first To keep your data most secure you should now tum off your browsers ability to save your passwords and auto fil This will ll be taken over by 1Passwd One of the apps new features is when you fill in a password for the first time or use IPasswd s ability to create a new password for you it now gives you a pop up window asking what you would like to name the new IPasswd title for that particular item Trust me when I say this is a good thing For after the initial imports and before this feature I have pages of passwords and forms that start with Imported or Auto saved Sometimes when use the key symbol to pull out the password for a site I m greeted with three or four different choices for that site One it imported from the site before T had 1Passwd one hat auto saved it when I imputed the information by hand and another that who knows where it came from T ve been slowly going through and clea ut form a website It becomes very easy to input after that out all the debris whittling it down to one Passwords of course are not the only things that 1Passwd is good at Besides keeping your web forms It will keep Secure Notes different identities for diff
233. to If this program is any indication of future activities such as the promised New Testament and US History packages this is infinitely expandable for all kinds of history don t you think And it can go much deeper and you can spend a lot more time with it than can be done watching the History Channel on TV Each Virtual Reality VR panoramic shot is a con almost as good as being there lomeration of around 50 photos stitched together which is 1 really enjoy the melding of both Instant Concept and non linear presentation in doing research and study or both religious and secular history One of the neat features is that the timeline colorations are matched by the maps that also tie into documentation relevant to a given map They system is self contained and works on both Mac and non Mae systems The downside is that the current version does not have print capabilities and the workaround is to copy paste This kind of technology has been needed for some time I originally purchased the Infobase Library for the Mae OS that was created for Mac OS 9 before Folio Views was sold off and the Infobase Library went online and eventually was replaced by http www Ldslibrary com LDSLibrarv2006 That application does not have a Mac version today and none is being planned for the foreseeable future T m looking forward to the integration of the Learning Engine technology that is being integrated in for V
234. to or anywhere on your hard drives for drag and drop insertion into Lineform but Media Browser is not required to insert fles into your Lineform documents since drag and drop from the Finder into Lineform is also supported and functional in OS X 10 3 x The ability to parse PDFs is only available in OS X 10 4 but even then it is highly problematic see chart below If you want o be able to use Lineform to its full potential you will need to upgrade to OS X 10 4 This is a recommended upgrade for stragglers like myself anyway Lineform just gives us another reason to upgrade import met my expectations Export wise met my BMP Ya Yes expectations Tm por mer my expecaons Export lowerer dose not provide any contol for quality or compression like ze ii cer illustration software JPGs have more artifacts than desired ur e Ta mwoninpmermycupecaum Fg GIF mor available PDFs can be imports ba nor eid in OS X 033 Parsing PDFs emailed to me for ads crashed Lineform estoy in OS X 10 4 9 IF Lineform doesnot ead textis unrecognizable even with PDFS created oa the PoF Ya Mes same computer with ail fonts used in the PDF installed Exporting also performs as expected but with white background se EPS below Interestingly enough PDFS exported from Lineform can be opened n Ilustrator 8 while EPS cannot Tinpated EPS tom Tar Wma diable trated as an image iln rectangle Exported EPS cannot be ead in llustator 8 or CorelDraw 10 and im
235. too caused problems How could I find what I d collected now scattered about my ever larger series of hard drives After all like a kid in a candy shop with two bits clutched in my hand 1 did not now need To limit myself to only a key reference or two 1 could download associated papers peripheral information The reference documents cited in the references were also for the most part available The groundswell of electronically available information grew and grew A particularly rich source of otherwise had to get information were documents generated by the federal government and its contractors including federally funded universities research programs Look a random Sample gt My gravy train DOE s Information Bridge Office of Science and Technology Information htip www osti gov bridge the DOE Information Bridge was among the first to make documents available usually as PDF files Medical information T which is not a subject I fallow is made available by the NIH Gne rame Comparable access to technical documents was soon to available from Lun the department of Defense NSTI and Homeland Security i t This alternate format document form gave an individual the choice i whether to store a document as a paper copy of as an electronic one With the availability of fast low cost laser printers the decision for me became a non hrainer I chose to store electronic copies printing on paper only as needed
236. troduction The Adjustable Ergonomic Keyboard allows you to adjust the two alphanumeric sections both horizontally and vertically to suit your individual body requirements This helps you assume a more natural posture that is conducive to improving comfort and productivity while using your computer FEATURES INCLUDE USB connector Adjustment for wrist splay in the horizontal plan 0 30 continuously Variable Adjustment for wrist pronation vertical tenting 0 30 continuously variable Easily adjusted locking ball and socket latch mechanism Small space saving foot print to bring your mouse inside your ergonomic comfort zone Editing key layout for left right work distribution Large space bars for easy thumb use Full size full travel tactile feedback keys with soft end stop Low noise key actuation Standard alphanumeric key layout QWERTY C MIS LLC 2007 macCarpion Page La May 2007 Nase Soe APPLE KEY FEATURES Apple Control Key Right and Left Apple and Option Keys CD Eject Mute and Volume Control ve 2 M m Se Getting Started Even though this keyboard has no USB ports it does have a power button that works and it is quiet no real or imagined elickity key click sounds Even though some of the keys are misplaced it didn t slow productivity nor did it take 2 weeks reference the Kinesis keyboard review to leam The keys are the typical keys that feel che
237. u can now input the percentage of decrease and it works like a dream I m personally fond of 70 with a medium sensitivity and low gap tolerance Now that you have everything set up tur the select knob to Record There s not much difference in the look between Prepare and Record You have all your audio panels set up there is a button for Record Stop Play and Pause The Record button highlights when you start recording You ve got your standard dB meters with clipping master gain control and a small recording monitor not made but for the simplest of editing If you belong to the school of recording that uses very litle if any post production than this is definitely your product Clicking on the mic panel selecting the hot key or if you have the stealth option on so you don t hear any mouse clicks during your cast by hovering the cursor over the mie selection fora few seconds will start a Record countdown and your off If you want to play other clips you select them in the same way If you want your voice to have a deep reverb in the middle of a sentence you can just assign that effect to a virtual switch on your microphone panel then just switch it on and off at the appropr completed the panel will start flashing to give you ti ie times When a clip is almost icto get ready for the next segment The next step on our dial is Cut When selected it starts looking like other podcast
238. u neglect to fill this in Though off by default I d recommend turning this preference on because it is easy to forget to name a disc in the heat of burning When you have all of your fles gathered and a blank dise inserted simply click Burn and the process will start Lf your goal is to create a file for I ick the Image button instead of Bur to create a DMG CDR or ISO dise terne distribution then you can age Asa more visual application it should come as no surprise that the window you see while the dise is burning has not one not two but THREE progress indicators You have a percentage complete an elapsed remaining time counter and a nifty graphie indicating the dise space dark grey space allocated by your files medium grey and the amount burned so far light grey And as an extra bonus the Disco dock icon also gives you a percentage complete status So you m really have no excuse for not knowing when your dise will be L finished ES bon the disc is complete Disco will automatically check the structure to ensure everythi worked correctly Though you can tum this double check off or skip it once it s begun I recommend leaving it on unless you re really pressed for time In all the time I ve used Disco I think I ve created a coaster only twice and it was always found out during this verification stage In another nice touch when the disc is complete you re presented the option to ereate a
239. uch glamour in that With a wedding coming up this Summer and the create to give a pictorial retrospective on the life of number one son the Spy decided it was time To scan some of his slides into digital form He will eventually spring for a high end digital camera to replace his c1972 Miranda SLR too Diligent research pointed him to assorted Canon Epson and HP products He wanted a flatbed for photos and documents so he eliminated various film scanners as overly specialized He is leery of multifunction products what if some other function breaks and you have to buy a new one He has approximately 7000 slides so Wanted to mount more than the typical three to five in the machine at once He wanted high end resolution and light specs These considerations and several online reviews eventually led him to the Epson Perfection V700 Photo scanner At about ST00CDN this is pretty high steep exceeded in consumer pro models only by the V750 which also allows wet mounting of film something he doesn t need The speed resolution reputation and versatility seemed unmatched so he bit despite advice from some photographers that oplical enlargement of the slides and a digital photo Was a better route The V700 is everything Epson and the reviewers claimed If has one scanner under the bed for reflective media and a second in the lid for transparencies One can use a pressure pad for the
240. ur and give you the chance to pull some fles back out of the dise layout The last feature 1 want to discuss is the Discography This is a great tool to help you locate files long since burned to dise A real world example of where it could be used would be the creutive department at my day job They are constantly burning old files off to disc and then use an archaic method of locating those files should a client come back 8 months later looking for a particular design With Discography each disc burned is cataloged and the content made available through a search window A few keywords typed in will help locate a particular file or folder When a file is found you ll be given the Disc name the date it was burned as well as the path to that file on the dic A nice touch added to Discography is the ability to add dises to the catalog that weren t necessarily burned by Disco Inse the disc and click the button next to the search bar to add the dise to the catalog It would be cool if Disco could utilize Bonjour on a local area network to search other Discography catalogs but currently this is not an opti Unfortunately the only problems I ever encountered with Disco happened when accessing Discography Though i s only happened to me two or three times I ve had my MacBook SSS Pro crawl toa standstill after calling up the Discography window Funny thing is that Force Quitting Disco didn t always bring things back to
241. usic business Indeed there can The book industry remains stuck in denial attempting to ignore new technologies trying to mass produce profits from a model so out of ga irs a Wonder any of its participants are still rolling even on past momentum A small handful of past Superstar authors get the full publicity apparatus by industry exees who perpetually dance one step away from failure and job termination their companies cut corners to the point where editing seems to have gone out the window and new authors with better quality Works are simply ignored What litle money comes back to the publisher after book returns never sees the inside of an author s wallet and the talent pool is getting thinner with each passing year The eBook industry hasn t yet eaten the pBook industry s shorts but the Spy thinks the up and coming generation will want to read on a sereen and Well they should The fist company to get the eBook reader right light compact pockeibook sized screen no DRM 3 book will own the industry Is anybody listening Shameless self promotion department Ifyou are hosting using a Windows server and have been bit by the W32 Delbot AI spyware worm for which MS currently has no fix run do not walk to your nearest Mac there are afew or Linux the majority server web host or dedicated provider Security may not be perfect on the competitior but it is beter Ahem Any customers out there f
242. vh dande review him buyp w ww dsmag com lineuponline 04032 virtual mt Interview of Greg DeVore bip www meridianmagazine com radio 040520 html 1 met Greg DeVore over on the Macintosh Software Business Forum linked on our macCompanion home page so we could do a review of ScreenSteps Greg mentioned that he had this other sofiware I might be interested as well that his team developed for use in the Brigham Young University religious studies department BYU is part of a university network of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints So he sent me a boxed copy of this Interactive History Software developed on a Mac named Virtual Historian Doctrine and Covenant Be aware that I received Version 1 and Version 2 will be integrating the Blue Mango Learning Lesson Engine bitp fblog virtual historian comiversion 20 features index html What They Say We love history But we don t want to hear just a few random anecdotal stories or interesting statistics We want a complete understanding We want to experience the places where history happened We want to know the factors that motivated major events We want to know the background of the people involved But we are lazy If we are to get all of this information about the Doctrine amp Covenants by using traditional tools we would have to have seriptures multiple historical volumes biographies maps timelines as well as videos and photographs of the locations Our study ta
243. ving un tethered words around is easier than shifting graphics to change relationships between topics or their mother daughter relationships Using the Software s Features During my tests I took full advantage of most of Opal s feature In the annotated list below I ve noted the ones T ve neglected That being so the obvious things one does in an outline were almost intuitive But I was an ATCA user Feature Details and Commenis Suing a New Outline Okay boot Opal and sta h Entering Topics Tis all about creating sisters and aunts to thie mother topic Rearranging Topics Alerisg the mother daughter relationships Applying alphabetic and numeric sorting Navigating and Secing ihe oulline Collapsing and expanding topics o Shrinking and growing topie views Focus and unfocus outline details Selecting Multiple selections of outline parts Topic filtering via toolbar Search field worked well as did spotlight searches of an outline s conten Opals Glossary From the Help file you can access opal s ext glossary This is an excellent way to check out outlining terms that you re not familiar with I actually used it to figure out how to create a link myself what an aunt was in relationship to a sister or Finding and seard an outline to reni mother inking 1o other documenisand T no Tonger have any ACTA documents opening ATA documents did not seriously test
244. will often use the developer s product funetions and features descriptions All other comments are strictly my own and based on testing Why need I rewrite the developer s narratives if they are clearly written Introduction in Including Publisher s Summary T have had as our readers know a love hate relationship with MS Word MSW Therefore I seek every opportunity to check out alternatives to that program Don t misunderstand me I know there s a learning curve when adopting a new word processor I ve invented much time in getting comfortable with and in customizing MSW but that doesn t forgive its faults No carpe diem is not my goal but with NeoOffice Writer my biting the bullet and walking away from MSW becomes just a bit closer NeoOffice is a fully featured set of office applications for Mae OS X Here s the foundational pieces of OpenOffice org that you get with NeoOffice 2 1 o Weiter a word processing and desktop publishing tool Cale an all purpose spreadsheet tool Impress a slideshow presentation creator Base A database program Draw a graphics packag Math an equation editor for creating sketches and drawings Here s how NeoOffice compares to MS Office NeoOifice va Microsoft Office Deaton ee tis Nees te ene at aha Mee Pre tas not rita tarta by ai Type en nors corean P open steama sae mae syster tenses ata ve area hun HT cnet gl thin a tn eset inertia sane SO
245. with Leopard s release Kill dot Mac iTools was something amazing in its day Free web space and tons of cool Features and services Then Apple got greedy I s never been the same Apple either needs to seriously I mean ground up rework the Mac service or serap it That s a very short list of features I d like to see for OS X after Leopard but it s hard to predicta feature set some two years or more in advance If you d like to chime in with your two cents you can drop me a line at mbrewernmaceompanion com Google Released Cocoa API Google released a Cocoa framework for accessing their web services this past week I find this pretty cool for a few reasons First anything to make my life easier is awesome Continuing on that note I have typically found working with anything web related in my adventures to be pretty sary However Google has created a framework that seems at a casual glance to be stable and intuitive to use and integrate in a seemingly limitless number of applications Enough said about Google s new framework Check the release of Google Data API here http sooglemac eov0a ht Mae Fanatic Software Giveaway Tm now going to entertain you with this thought hundreds of dollars worth of free and amazing Mac software Do I have your attention I feel like a ear salesman these last few weeks trying to sell my site o several prominent software developers and working hand to implement the actua
246. with my operating system Adobe and Microsoft I don t fin trouble with passing on my simple documents to other PC or Macintosh users However if you need to synchronize your documents with the Rest of the World I highly suggest you read Chapter 12 For now working without Font Book all is not lost Although available w o Font Book I dislike Keyboard Viewer and don t need Apple s Character Palette I use two other tools that allow me to work with my fon PopChar X 3 1 and Unsanity s FontCard 1 4 Note because 1 did not know whether the later might interfere with Apple s Font Book I turned it off during my font reorganization and other book related test activities What s In The Book In this book you ll find the answers to questions like these What types of fonts ean I use with Mac OS X In what order does Mac OS X access fonts from all their possible locations How can I figure out what characters are available in a Unicode font How can I minimize font related troubles when sharing documents across platforms How do I go about troubleshooting a font problem How do I enter special characters How do I print font samples How do I work with legacy fon Ms Aker s discussion see the book s TOC includes Font basics font organization an overview of Font Book installation of new fonts removal of unwanted fonts disabling fonts and dealing with duplicate fonts Read about Font Book collections and libraries updating lega
247. www extremetech com article2 0 1697 1920653 00 asp hisp hardware eartbweb com peripherals rticle php 3497581 hitpj wwwevoluenzcem user reviews him Video review hup reviews cnet com Evolu pil Development Story htip www evoluent com story Support hnp wwwevoluent com suppor htm icalMouse 2 4505 3148 1242024 huml tag prod a e upright handshake position that eliminates forearm twisting Many users said earlier models relieved their hand wrist or arm pain See these actual user Ordinary mouse qvis esiste An ordinary horizontal mouse requires your forearm to twist away from its natural position Familiar grip The grip is the same as an ordinary mouse just turned sideways Many users said they got used 1o it very quickly The Vertical Mouse does not move sideways when clicking with normal Button 5 force because the thumb naturally opposes the fingers Pointer controlis Button 1 as accurate as any other good mouse when the pointer speed seningsare Button 4 properly adjusted Button 2 Easy to use buttons Button 3 AILS buttons are easily operable without contorting your fingers The button force is light for easy clicking but still firm enough to avoid accidental actuation Fits different size hands The shape has been improved to fit larger hands as well as smaller hands Prevents desk rubbing A small lip on the bottom edge prevents the little finger from rubbing th
248. y encrypting practically every DVD released by a major publisher MacTheRipper is the traditional solution for decrypting the contents ofthe disc and saving the contents of the DVD which are contained in a Video TS folder to your hard drive Despite the gains in quality and functionality the downside to this route is that support for playing a Video TS folder is not something you can take for granted in any media player and especially in a HTPC interface And file size also becomes a major issue as DVDs are generally between 4 and 8GB versus less than 2GB for your average feature film in a mp4 file MacTheRipper is an essential tool for a HTPC especially in conjunction with other tools For example it allows you to take advantage of Handbrake s queue support which allows you to give Handbrake a series of Video TS folders to process in sequence Its ability to remove region restrictions will also serve you when Handbrake refuses to rip a DVD from another region It s worth noting that you may have to jump through some hoops to get the most current version but a few minutes with Google should take care of things Tivo As 1 mentioned in the HTPC article my PVR of choice is still TiVo after all these years so a common task for me is to get programs off of TiVo on onto the HTPC Step one is to get the files off of the TiVo which can be accomplished with the pricey TiVoToGo included with Toast or the free TivoDecode Manager Combined with
249. y problem at jv support microsofi com KB SS729Sien us spid 2490 sid 216 1 envy his patience After 15 minutes on the Microsoft site I start having reality withdrawal symptoms Harry he first asked have you messed up the normal Template After all I s likely the same one that 1 doc created when first installing MS Word X Your normal template file might have gotten corrupted somehow Now why didn t T think of that After all the dialog box does have the word normal in it Derek wrote Try doing this Quit all running MS Office applications Navigate to the Usersluser name Documents Microsoft User Data folder Remove the Normal template fle to your desktop Restart Word 2004 it will create a new Normal template Quit Word and see if you get the error I you don t get the error reopen Word create a new document and just type some gibberish and then save it 10 sce if you get the error after you close the document I you still don t get the error open a copy of a document you had been working on previously one where you experienced the problem Make a few changes and then save it and then close the document I you still don t get the error have Word open and try to restart your computer if you don t get the error then it Seems that the problem is fixed The Results worked The bad news it demolished yes obliterated all my custom settings Who would guess Microsoft s great secret The cu
250. y to pursue the iPhone 1 just hope their lackluster anitude toward the Macintosh is only temporary and doesn t infe that ofthe many Macintosh uses that enjoy or even love their Macs So this month the majority of the news about Apple has been delays problems and other news about the iPhone TV was released and shipped and while it is a niee idea dont think that it will uake the home market by storm as the iPod did On another note it seems things aren t going well for Vista From what I can tell there are two major problems plaguing it First ofall it has some problems T haven t personally used it so I cannot attest to this personally I can say T have read a lot of complaints Probably the biggest piece of news in this regard is the fact thar Dell computers has decided to offer new PCs that include some variety of XP instead of Vista This is really significant because Dell was one of Vista s most vocal supporters before it s release Apparently Vista is unable to perform well for gamers Check out the article on the Electronista web site buipv Wwww lt lectronista com articles 07 04 19 dell casts doubts onis Vista does have some problems and even the magazines that are Pro Microsoft are pointing this out One interesting article I found was published in PC magazine Tiled Quick Fixes for Five Nasty Vista Problems hup www pemay com article2 0 1895 2104022 00 asp Early in the article the author sets
251. you what to do and do it well Unfortunately there are a fair amount of tutorials and you have to go through a long loading screen before you start each one It s inevitable but they could have made one tutorial of The Basics and spared all of the loading screens Anyway after you leam how to play the game it is really fun You get to build your own rides and place stores and attractions One of the great things is you have objectives There are three ranks per park Tycoon Entrepreneur and Amateur Each rank has a certain kind of objective or objectives Once you complete the objectives you receive a cash bonus or a new park is open for you to use Occasionally a challenge screen will come up It asks you if you want to do something like build a coaster with a certain length in a certain amount of time Ifyou complete it you get more money A good thing is that if you accept the challenge and nything don t complete it on time you don t lose The Soaked expansion pack adds a large chunk to the game You get more rides shops and attractions than the original game had It also give you the ability to create water parks pools pool complexes and more It also lets you make your own fireworks and laser shows You create the kinds of effects and sounds it makes and you can have it go off every simulated night I s pretty cool Conclusion Overall I have enjoyed this product The fa graphics a

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