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1. Visit www WebGraphicsCreator com buy it for just 39 95 Download instantly MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 84 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Softw oi AG aLa ra DEVONagent 2 1 See digests of your search quick and accurate results By Harry doc Babad 2007 DEVON tec hnologi ies DEVON Technologies LLC 401 Front Avenue Suite 204 Coeur d Alene ID 83814 1 208 286 1704 Fax U S 1 866 605 1337 Grossingersheimer Strasse 21 74321 Bietigheim whe r Ead gt Bissingen Germany European Union Phone E U 49 7142 988086 http www devon technologies com products devonagent 50 USD Upgrade from v 1 20 USD 25 Educational discount available Requirements Mac OS X 3 9 or later Universal binary ca 20 MB Hard Drive Space 512 MM or more RAM 256 KB or faster Internet connection Localized in English German French and Japanese Version Posted 08 Mar 2007 Audience All users who need a powerful research focused easy to use internet search tool Strengths Generates a quick useful effective easy to understand digest of the search results The search engine optimizes your search efforts toss the unneeded chaff The software s interface is both intuitive and easy to use and in case you re not feeling intuitive there s a ca 270 page user s manual that at times helps Its tutorial section 1s excellent Weaknesses The new software features despite being powe
2. OUR GUIDE TO ALL THINGS MACINTOSH thisimonthiw fteatureLof some ofithes latestiande greatest software including tm nr Volume 5 Issue 6 June Masthead Publisher Editor in Chief Assistant Editors Consultants Advertising and Marketing Director Web Master Public Relations and Merchandizing Contacts Correspondence macCompanion Staff Harry doc Babad Nuclear Waste Consultant Matt Brewer MacFanatic Kale Feelhaver AppleMacPunk Eddie Hargreaves Lame Podcast Mike Hubbartt Hubbartt Enterprises Wayne Lefevre Michele Patterson Dixie Graphics Robert Pritchett MPN LLC Rick Sutcliffe The Northern Spy Tim Verpoorten Surfbits Guest Author Chris Marshall MyAppleStuff MPN LLC Robert L Pritchett Harry Babad Mike Hubbartt Michele Patterson Harry doc Babad Ted Bade Mike Hubbartt Robert L Pritchett Robert L Pritchett Robert L Pritchett Webmaster at macCompanion dot com Feedback at macCompanion dot com 1952 Thayer Drive Richland WA 99352 USA 1 509 210 0217 1 888 684 2161 rpritchett at macCompanion dot com Skype maccompanion Ted Bade Ken Crockett The Mac Update Dr Eric Flescher Mac and Technology Jonathan Hoyle III Daphne Kalfon I Love My Mac Daniel MacKenzie Tech Fanatic Mike Potter For Mac Eyes Only Dennis Sellers Macsimum News Mike Swope Swope Design Julie M Willingham Application Service Provider for
3. MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 39 of 136 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 5 May Shameless Astronomy Plug A May 2007 issue of Starry Night Times B New Starry Night Widget released 4 19 2007 Near Minneapolis United States Lat 45 0725 Long 93 Alt 25 Az 180 OS ee D Mercury f Uranus PR y Mars A new scrolling banner across the bottom of the widget for up to date news plus a few other enhancements make this a must have Download it today To see Starry Night online http www space com snserver snweb html zip 553 11 C Pending Eclipses 2007 Aug 28 Total Lunar Eclipse 2007 Sep 11 Partial Solar Eclipse MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 40 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 The Northern Spy by Rick Sutcliffe Technology News and Views Since 1983 Spring Roundup June 2007 This year s lead bull award has to go to Apple and not just because the Spy has a heavy investment of all kinds in iSteve s products riding for the brand but by the general consensus building among consumers pundits and Wall Street Investors have to be happy with record sales profits stock prices and a 35 year over year growth versus the industry s slackish 9 Apple is now within reasonable reach of third place in computer market share behind faltering Dell and HP a spot now occupied by likewise fast fading Gateway After all 1Steve has only just begun to convert mindshare to marketshare and has sufficient
4. MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 71 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Clean Text is an extremely useful tool when you have to paste some text copied from one document or application into another This is especially true when you want the text to get the attributes such as color font dimension and style of the new document instead of preserving the attributes copied from the old one You will not need this application with MS Word which comes with the attribute saving capability find replace built in As its publisher notes often you have to paste some text copied from one document or application into another and you want the text to get the attributes such as color font dimension and style of the new document instead of preserving the attributes copied from the old one Clean Text for Mac eliminates all text formatting preparing it for pasting Moreover the application performs other useful functions such as removing empty lines removing multiple spaces removing tab characters etc It s also very useful for printing out text without wasting ink and paper on extra pages as often happens when you print directly from a Web browser Getting Started Using the Software No complex installation procedures or tuning of complex preferences It works after I installed it my application folder from the downloaded dmg file I neither had to read the simple directions in the Read me file nor the 3 page help Manual Just like any w
5. TLA Systems DragThing 5 8 which now also becomes the upgrade path for once competitor DropDrawers and is of course available mirrored at downloards thenorthernspy com Have we mentioned TLA s very nice P Calc 3 also in a widget IBM s Power 6 chip running hot at 4 7G and representing Apple s once and no longer future Nice for high end servers and speciality devices though you couldn t run these power suckers in a consumer product why there was no there there for Apple OTOH neither can you deny the deep geek value of the best line of chip design the industry has seen in decades Sigh Too bad the pinstripes engineers couldn t have made it a priority to get the speed up and the power consumption down for mass market purposes But IBM wanted a small waterhole all to itself so it waved goodbye to the main herd a move that will eventually prove costly Meanwhile having performed a BTG Branch to Tall Grass MS sponsors a lonely shorthorn drive which relatively few buyers attend Certainly some forty million copies of Vista have been pushed out the door but unit placements have slowed dramatically box assemblers are reverting to XP many institutional and government buyers have deferring purchase for two years or longer unsold boxes are piled in most stores reviewers are universally negative and long time employees quietly shopping resumes around Customers must perforce accept new machines with the lame OS pre installed artful
6. MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 25 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Views from the Ivory Tower June 2007 On Scaring Mac Users Greening Apple and Forensics By Ted Bade Another attempt to scare Mac OS users Yes folks once again those good people who own and operate security sites and anti malicious software companies have offered money to anyone who could figure a way to hack a Macintosh There was even a winner who claimed the 10 000 prize The contest took place at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver British Columbia Okay sure maybe these security companies are actually concerned that Mac OS X users will become complacent and not do anything to ensure the security of their Macs then one day will be hit with a virus and lose or have important data compromised But I really doubt it It seems to me that perhaps the people in the market to offer protection are trying to scare Mac users into buying their wares If you would like to read an article on this scare test http www electronista com gt Search for hacked in contest I have said this many times before our beloved MacOS X is not perfect nor is it totally secure However it is pretty secure and close to perfect Due to the inherent security of MacOS X headlines like a few Macintosh users were affected by a new computer virus Just don t get hackers their jollies By this I don t mean there are only a few Mac Users but that because of
7. MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 120 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Just in case you are a CS2 user that hasn t heard why you should upgrade it appears that these are the main reasons why you should upgrade Smart Filters Quick Selection and Refine Edge tools Advanced compositing Streamlined interface Better raw image processing Improved Adobe Bridge Enhanced Vanishing Point Enhanced 32 bit HDR support Peak performance Black and white conversion So back to the diving board I survived it was pretty ugly at first and 1f I am honest the first couple of times resembled a pretty horrific belly flop I am going to persevere In fact I am going to do more than that I am going to crack it as I am totally hooked already I think the best thing will be to stop the review now and maybe come back in a month or so and see what my thoughts are then MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 121 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Sibelius 4 Professional Reviewed by Daphne Kalfon Sibeliu A part of Avie Sibelius Software The Old Toy Factory 20 23 City North Fonthill Road London N4 3HF 0800 458 3111 FAX 020 7561 7888 infoUK sibelius com Australia Sibelius Australia gt 4 od A Ea 2 52 Weaver Street Edwardstown SA 5039 08 8277 1722 FAX 08 8277 1799 infoAU sibelius com http www sibelius com 600 USD 650CAD 303 GBP 443 Euro Requirements Mac OS X 10 2 8 10 3 9 10 4 or later 256Mb R
8. Tips I ve provided this month as always in a random order include e A Solution to my Ongoing Nemesis Removing Automatic Lines from MS Word e Jumping To a Comment in MS Word e Understanding MS Word s Click and Type Features e Set Office 2004 Zoom Levels Via Mouse e Using Acrobat to Turn A Scanned Blank Form Graphic Into One You Can Fill Out e My Missing Capital C Murphy Strikes Again SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 29 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 30 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 A Solution to my Nemesis Removing Automatic Lines Have you ever noticed how if you type a few equal signs on a new line in your document and then press ENTER Word for the Mac replaces what you typed with a double line that extends the whole width of your document Actually this works if you enter as few as three equal signs dashes or underscores In each case Word replaces your characters with a different type of line In some instances this Word feature can be a great timesaver In other instances you might have really wanted the characters in your document not the line that Word thought you wanted In these instances there are three ways you can handle the situation First you can press Cmd Z choose Undo from the Edit menu or click on the Undo tool right after you pressed Enter and Word added the line In this case the line is removed and your char
9. Direct Export From File Maker Pro For the second test of FMP address data I worked entirely within Mail Factory I used the program itself to extract the FMP address containing information None of the problems in using FMP as a source of Mail Factory addresses described below were caused by problems created by the Mail Factory interface They were due entirely to the pedigree and organization of my databases which had evolved over my years of using a Macintosh to store address information Pl detail those FMP export problems and their solution in my June Tips column MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 108 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Never the less I could have saved my self an hour of trial and error importing FMP addresses by seeking help I should have checked Mail Factories Help then and there the folks at Belight are conscientious about writing good help files But I didn t I tried to tough it out If I d checked I would have found in the Help files an 1tem called Mail Factory Help gt Integration with Third Party Databases and Contact Managers gt Importing Data from a FileMaker Database For most folks these instructions would have done the job You will need to associate the fields in your source file with the fields in Mail Factory address panel Look at the fields in the Contact Data column and opposite the fields you need imported click on the corresponding cell in the Map To column A pop up list wi
10. But if you drag multiple files into a folder it doesn t it puts up a separate dialog for each existing file asking whether you want to replace it but without the relative date information which is usually crucial to making an intelligent decision about whether to proceed Both Matt and I can go on at great lengths as you likely can about the finder s limitations Rather than doing that let it suffice the Path Finder 4 x overcomes these limitations in a simple to understand way with which even peecee switching newbies will be comfortable MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 76 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 What is it Path Finder PF4 is a file browser for Mac OS X It has many added and more powerful features than Apple s finder and other utilities provided in OS X Tiger PF4 allows creating customizable labels customized fonts and colors a desktop trashcan more controllable spring loaded folders and an image converter You need more flexibility Check out the screen shots of the PF4 general and browser preferences at the end of this article There s also a preview drawer a menu key editor an enhanced column view and a built in application launcher The product give you the and the ability to view invisibles to compress decompress files create disk images add and remove thumbnail icons Just incase that s not enough you can open the program with the menu view hex copy paths secure delete launch
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12. Entourage 2004 Released May 8 2007 3 Adobe A Creative Suite CS3 began shipping mid April Nice MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 38 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 4 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 a 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 Fixed a performance issue where Montage s CPU usage would sometimes increase when a blank unsaved file 1s 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 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 input would fail when typing a scene header
13. Factory and you see the Assistant ready to create labels or envelopes for you We ll start with envelopes although I alternate between printing labels and printing addressed envelopes Its left hand window shows a long list of envelope names and sizes A preview pane at the right shows the relative sizes of the envelopes as you select click between them Now since I only use to US No 10 business envelopes or more rarely to a 6 envelope size for bills and letters to friends My LabelWriter is loaded transparent labels that I use for holiday or greetings cards or larger envelopes envelopes I don t want to push through my color laser HP printer The other envelope sizes are of little interest to me but they re available when needed I did not do much with the ability to add graphics to my envelopes I did a test or three using the design window to add clip art photos or other designs a test 10 envelope Since I m not into personalizing envelopes not even with my business logos but you may like it You can even use downloaded images from Google if you like personalizing your envelopes By transferring the image to your word processor you can even create a stationary set but this is easier to do in Belight s Swift Publisher Creating a Label Sheet The capability to create label sheets from your address lists allows you to avoid having to feed envelopes though your printer To do so you will need to Mail Factory s label
14. June 2007 I m not going to walk through the code for parsing the text for your sake However I ll give an overview of what the code is doing We have song path as the name of the song once again 015 Gwen Stefani Rich Girl in our example We don t need the numbers at the front for anything but we do need the artist name The artist s name is everything in between those two hyphens with a space before and a space after that we ll remove The code looks for the first hyphen and then the second hyphen and copies the text out of that to artist Open Scripts Folder gt Open AppleScript Utility Now we just need the song s name This is just everything after the second hyphen and that gets Address Book Scripts copied to name To actually change the values back in _ Basics iTunes the magical code is set artist of song to artist ColorSync as string and set name of _song to name as String Finder Scripts Once all of the songs are done we show a window Folder Actions ony AN oe fem st J A telling the user that everything went okay and we re Font Book done FontSync Scripts info Scripts Conclusion internet Services That certainly wasn t an in depth look at AppleScript Navigation Scripts gt by any means There are several more possibilities if Printing Scripts gt you learn your stuff and explore Most applications J Script Editor Scripts p will come with scripts available to use a
15. June 2007 iVak iPod Nano Case Reviewed by Daniel Mackenzie VAKAADOO LTD Unit F 9 Birdhurst Rise South Croydon London CR2 7EG United Kingdom Tel 0845 895 1002 http www vakadoo com 25 USD 29 CND 12 69 GBP 18 59 Euro Requirements 2nd Generation iPod nano Strengths You can dock it in the case the material is strong screen protector good looking lightweight Weaknesses None found Introduction When I look at any 1Pod case I want one that is durable That is one thing that turns me away from gel cases This is one case which is in my opinion in between a gel case and a hard case It provides the protection of a hard case and the style and colour of a gel case Getting Started One of the phrases the company uses to promote the case is that it s the Invisible iPod Case This does not mean that it is clear it means that the case blends in with the iPod to make it look like there isn t a case at all I think it has achieved this goal except of lines on both sides of the iPod but that can t be helped The package included the iPod case a little rope and a piece of plastic that lets you wrap your headphones around it This thing is really simple but cool It lets you adjust the length of the cable so it s just right and your headphones don t get tangled MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 68 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Using the Hardware Putting the iPod in the cas
16. Or is this a suicidal desire to become the next SCO Who you ask Exactly Face it Linux has won the data centre wars and offers no threat on the desktop Attacking it 1s a total waste There s another issue here most people are missing Software patents themselves restrict an industry that depends for its very existence on being nimble footed able to ramp up new technology quickly from raw ideas Patenting those ideas which is what this amount to is contrary to the spirit of the information age impedes progress may violate international law and will surely cost MS more in time and resources than it could possibly hope to gain even if some tame judge does exhibit an attack of temporary insanity That s why the Spy s second Law everything will eventually be open source Lock horns elsewhere folks this is another lost battle MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 42 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Somewhere back in the herd despite rumours it will ditch its current OS for a Linux base labours Palm which recently announced the Treo 755p This is for the Sprint network and will have some new features but the Spy classifies it as a minor rev along with all the 600 models The camera is now 1 3MB the battery removable the expansion slot on the side and the antenna hidden inside the main case screens are higher resolution there 1s more software and higher data speeds and yet and yet in view of the MaciPhone all this seems too l
17. People Chapter 13 Creating Web Pages and Blogs It looks more easily doable but I don t Chapter 14 Creating Forms with Word The way to go This worked out well in MS 2004 when I tried it I can hardly wait to create forms in MSW 2008 when it is released Chapter 15 Word s XML Connection Another section that I had no immediate use for although it s good to know it s been covered Chapter 16 Collaborating with Other People What me an iconoclast and loner collaborate But seriously from what I ve recently read there are additional virtues to using MSW rather than Acrobat for this purpose I ve used both and have difficulty choosing The collaboration process in MSW now looks less cumbersome its interface including track changes and is likely to be smother than what I need to do in MSW 2004 Part Four Customizing Word with Macros and Other Tools Chapter 17 Customizing Your Workspace Although the interface is different I am delighted to have learned that it is as easy to customize MSW 2007 as it was Word 2004 But I hope neither colleague nor my grandson tries to use MSW 2004 my shortcuts they will be surprised at the many changes I ve made My daughter did much to her chagrin A Nit There s no information on creating a new set of customized special purpose toolbars I can and have done this in MS Word 2004 Have I missed something Chapter 18 Changing Your Security Setting
18. al AS I Using that nice blue scrollbar on the right side of your document is the most obvious way to meigi your document And if your mouse has a wheel on it then using it to scroll is pretty speedy too But when your document s more than a few pages long trying to scroll to the exact point you re looking for is just plain inefficient always do since I need a Word s most powerful ways of boogieing around your document don t involve scrolling at all You can use the keyboard to hop fi I I r m r 1 from place to place For really long documents as with long journeys the best way to get around is by using landmarks For copy O y ev ew example you can check all the graphics in a document by jumping directly from one to the next Or you can go directly to a specific heading in a 400page business report by telling Word to find it for you You can even create your own landmarks using checked out the TO C The Word s bookmarking feature Word s got the tools and this section tells you how to use em TOC for ord 2 00 if The If you re working with a large document then Word has some other great ways to find your way around You can use Outline view View Documents View Outline to easily navigate between chapter and section headings Missing Man ual 1S Section 1 4 1 The Document Map View Documents View Document Map shows a similar view in the bar along the left side of your document Section 1 4 3 If your pages include
19. and tyo Default Parey ap Si biymi and Type check box 1S Deictripten of preference Lable click iad ypg cleared iJ 1 yeu be denkle chek Gy Opts Gree lA peer due bed eel ping Weed aa ees he REY I i ps rni ie yOu ooutis clir fut teshare i eile ey on prim peara cline Layo ww Click on OK Cancel w The Edit tab of the Preferences dialog box Alan Wyatt s Macwordtips 2007 04 19 11 18 14 04 http www macwordtips com understanding_click_and_type html SSS SSS SSS SSS SES SSS SSS Set Office 2004 Zoom Levels Via Mouse Sometimes you just want to change the zoom level within an application Many applications have a Zoom menu option somewhere to control just that increase the zoom level and everything on the screen gets larger making it easier to see small text or manipulate tiny objects Microsoft s Office 2004 suite is no exception Word Excel and PowerPoint but not Entourage all feature a View gt Zoom menu item But using it is a bit time consuming First you choose the menu and then you pick a pre set zoom level or enter your own value and then click OK You can also put a button on the toolbar which does something similar Still it s hardly a fast and fluid operation MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 34 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Enter the mouse In all three of the above applications 1f you hold down Command and Control and then move the scroll wheel on your mouse or drag your fingers on a scro
20. been fully GCC 4 0 compliant and can be compiled into Universal Binaries For those of you with projects which rely on heavy use of the PowerPlant framework I strongly recommended simply converting to Open PowerPlant However for those projects which have minor PowerPlant interactivity such a brain transplant may be unnecessary Minor modifications to the PowerPlant source files you are using may be sufficient If this is the route you opt to go you should familiarize yourself with Apple s recommendations for PowerPlant changes http developer apple com documentation DeveloperTools Conceptual MovingProjectsToXcode mig_after _importing chapter_5_section_7 html We will continue now with this latter approach MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 14 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Modifying Our Project Settings As we last left our Appearance project compiling Appearance xcodeproj left us with 17 errors error error error error amp error error error error error error error error amp error error amp error vT AA R Active Target error warning unused variable err Build failed 17 errors 1 warning Imported Code Active Executable error ansi_prefix mach h No No such file or directory STD has not been declared expected class name before T token CSTD has not been declared _CSTO has not been declare
21. 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 scene 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 can be selected B On May 21 while attending the Cannes Film Festival Mariner announced Montage 1 3 Although the current version supports importing scripts created with Final Draft version 1 3 will provide Save as Final Draft localization for French German Spanish and Italian and support Movie Magic files Note The press release did not say how Montage would support Movie Magic import or save as so we ll let you know as soon as we do
22. have lived in the Aldergrove Bradner area of BC since 1972 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 WebNameHost net subsidiary of Arjay Web Services Rick Sutcliffe s fiction can be purchased in various eBook formats from Fictionwise and in dead tree form from Bowker s Booksurge URLs The Northern Spy Home Page http www TheNorthernSpy com The Spy s Laws collected http www thenorthernspy com spyslaws htm The Spy s Shareware download site http downloads thenorthernspy com WebNameHost http www WebNameHost net WebNameSource http www WebNameSource net nameman http nameman net opundo http opundo com Sheaves Christian Resources http sheaves org Arjay Books http www ArjayBooks com Booksurge http www booksurge com Fictionwise http www fictionwise com Logwatch http www2 logwatch org TLA Systems Drag Thing PCalc 3 http tla systems co uk Office press release http www power org news pr view item_ key beb3d7582586bd44d45292705332153ed9121618 Office Downloads http www microsoft com mac downloads aspx Palm http www palm com us products smartphones treo755p MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 43 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 The Principles of Beautiful Web Design Reviewed by Robert Pritchett E amp Ay iy sitegoini a Sitepoint d THE PRINCIPLES OF EAUTIFUL Autho
23. heard of color screen shots Sure they cost more to print but they serve to help the reader s understanding rather than filling space Where appropriate the instructions in the book were tested for fun on a 1 GHz dual processor PowerPC G4 Macintosh with 2 GB DDR SDRAM running under OS X 10 4 9 using MSW 2004 Product and company names and logos in this review may be registered trademarks of their respective companies Publisher s Description Fast paced and easy to read this concise guide teaches you the basics of Word 2007 so you can start using the program right away You ll learn how to create documents format and edit text share the results and go beyond basic documents to handle graphics create page layouts and use forms and tables The new Word is radically different but with this book you ll master the new features in no time MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 56 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Word 2007 The Missing Manual not only explains basics like how to create documents enter and edit text format print and fax but also learn how to create sophisticated page layouts insert forms and tables use graphics and create book length documents with outlines and Master Documents Coverage also includes how to share documents with other people and programs create web pages automate documents with fields and automate tasks with macros and the Visual Basic scripting language Introduction When I asked mys
24. in this arena and that this forces other companies to follow in their footsteps It wouldn t be the first time other computer companies followed Apple s lead and it probably won t be the last If you read through Steve s article you will discover that MacBooks will begin to use LED backlights in 2007 This technology not only reduces the toxic chemicals in a laptop computer but also reduces the amount of power needed to backlight the LCD screen This makes it environmentally friendly in two ways less toxic chemicals and less power consumption Not to mention less power cost to operate and longer battery life both MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 27 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 things the user will like Mac s no longer safe from Prying official eyes Many people might not know this interesting fact Macs are a lot harder for law enforcement agencies to get into then Windows machines For a long time MacOS X has made use of password protection and encryption to hide information Law enforcement agencies might hire a computer guru to help when computer s are involved with a crime but the majority of these people have experience only with Windows and are often baffled when a Macintosh was involved Now a company has developed a piece of software that can be used to break into a password protected Macintosh The product is called MacLockPick and is supposed to be available only to Law Enforcement Agencies Check out the develo
25. not huge but they are solid and it shows that Adobe has plans for Fireworks and I look forward to future versions This is a definite upgrade for me The upgrade price is 149 USD and new purchases are 299 USD MSRP MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 99 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 InDesign CS3 Reviewed by Mike Hubbartt 2007 A Adobe http www adobe com products indesign As part of the CS3 Design Premium 1 760 USD Standalone New 699 USD and 715 GBP Upgrade gt 4 gt 4 he gt 199 USD and 163 GBP Requirements PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor Mac OS X v 10 4 8 256MB of RAM 512MB recommended for PowerPC based system 512MB 1GB recommended for Intel based system 1 6GB of available hard disk space additional free space required during installation 1 024x768 monitor resolution with 16 bit video card DVD ROM drive QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features Internet or phone connection required for product activation Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and other services Strengths Very nice product guide improved user interface includes video tutorial PhotoShop types of effects XHTML support improved find and replace functionality reasonable upgrade price Weaknesses That it so long to release this update Adobe was excited about their CS3 rollout and went to great trouble and expense to get the word out so people c
26. of paragraphs to these topics and lists them at http www netfuture org inx_topical_all html and http www allianceforchildhood net I also found the commentary on harm caused from accelerated human development rather eye opening has he looks at baby walkers video games and sexual relations And I loved his coinage of the term kanbrain play on just in time kanban for the mind and issues regarding a credentialed society and the failings of higher education On Socializing Our Machines I tended to get lost with Ella HAL Rodney Brooks and Kismet as Steve attempts to bring spiritual responsibility to mechanical creations The final section On Mechanizing Society digs into good vs evil technologies designed to protect us and digital servants and privacy issues profit and capitalism gaming and Internet ubiquity He finishes up with a look at a hope for a better healthier society without falling into the crassness and back allies of a baser uncivilized environment that is being approached by what we see online today MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 47 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Conclusion Steve Talbott helps us realize that technology is designed to help us and not replace us but we need to not relinquish al thought process to machines and take responsibility for our actions and inactions regarding how we use technology Do we use computers to make things better or are we letting evil tendencies tak
27. on address list attributes ii eee That greatly facilitated the direct export i age a Charles L Taylor process k A Address Panel Mail Factory gleans information from whichever report view you ve last used in W o ls bs ae the database This observation in not in the Design ete Contacts Layouts Merge Printing oh otherwise excellent documentation MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 109 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 It turned out that by using a report form focused solely on address list information ordered appropriately mapping the information to Mail Factory was indeed simple Dealing With Other Address Data Sources An addition feature of the product 1s its ability to deal with non address addresses If your address source is a web page or eMail the software s Paste as Address option will intelligently parse your clipboard s contents and insert them into the appropriate address field Is all of this worth the trouble Yes Once you make the commitment to one of the supported address books or extracting addresses from a database e g Eudora or FMP mailing with Mail Factory moves much faster and beat the heck out of the alternatives Okay I ve the best set of address data I could acquire imported into Mail Factory What s next Obviously I could now get onto the business of creating envelopes and labels Working With Envelopes or Labels Creating An Envelope Open Mail
28. on your ID bag The Standard Shoulder Strap included is a 1 1 2 wide heavy nylon webbing strap and features a comfortable wide foam pad that won t slip off your shoulder and is designed to conform to your shoulder and back For an extra 10 USD you can switch out the Standard Shoulder Strap and replace it with the Q AM Quick Adjust Messenger Shoulder Strap For an extra 15 USD you can switch out the Standard Shoulder Strap and replace it with the Absolute Shoulder Strap My favorite strap is the Q AM A quick tug of the loop on the end of the strap tightens the long padded strap so the bag instantly rides comfortably on your middle back Half of the waist strap now becomes a stabilizer strap across your chest making those long walks or bike rides a breeze MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 66 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 The popular Absolute Shoulder Strap is well padded with almost a gel type consistency It has a slight stretch to it making carrying any bag much less of a chore I swear it makes the bag feel lighter If you want to simply keep the same over the shoulder strap of the basic bag you really will appreciate spending the extra few dollars to upgrade to the Absolute Strap You won t regret it The exterior of the ID is made of 1050 denier Ballistic Nylon not the fake 1680 denier pseudo Ballistic Nylon common on lesser products and 1s lined with 500 denier Cordura nylon Using the Bag If To
29. place to secure the key snap that will keep you from losing your keys and give you extra spots to secure Tom Bihn Organizer Pouches to the bag MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 65 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 The main compartment of the ID is wide open and offers easy access to your stuff You ll have room for a couple of books a light sweater or jacket a notebook magazines and lunch in addition to typical accessories pens cell phone iPod MP3 player small digital camera toiletries wallet checkbook keys etc Should you choose to use the ID as a A laptop messenger bag the main compartment features removable Annex clips designed to securely connect a Brain Cell hard sided laptop case inside the bag The Brain Cell that I use is a 4 which can hold a 15 PowerBook The fit is tight but very capable The size 6 which holds a MacBook fits comfortably Unfortunately my size 4 Brain Cell is vertical not horizontal so make sure when ordering if you do get a Brain Cell which I highly recommend for the padded protection of your laptop that it is of the horizontal kind The back of the ID is foam stiffened to protect you from feeling the stuff you put in the main compartment The back features an open flat back pocket perfect for even the thickest of magazines or newspapers and a removable waist strap for extra stability when you re on your bike You can choose between three different shoulder straps to use
30. search results is especially useful when you are doing deep scan searches that can yield up to 500 results I ve so far avoided this search mode Prior to checking the new manual I used DEVONagent to gain information on topics such as those listed below When comparing results from Google with DEVONagent I searched the first seven to nine pages 10 items per page for relevance This is the number of hits equivalent to the number of found items in DEVONagent My search focus and actual experience in finding the sought for information is described below Search Experience Radiation Medicine Other Terms Searched Radiation in Medicine Radio Medicine Radionuclides in Medicine DEVONagent returned sets of overlapping hits 66 75 in number most of which were useful A partial Pages View 1s illustrated Google overwhelmed me with hits 704 000 to 29 000 000 some of which were useful Q Radionuclides in Medicine 102 pages with 2509 KB done Digest Pages Log ___66 documents _ NEI Medical and Industrial Uses of Radi www nei ora index asp catnum 3 amp catid Date aa n America s advanced industrial economy and high standard of living would not be possible without the use of Size RR 1 KR O Display taq Radionuclides used in medici imalib lbl aov cal bin lmaLib displayt ARCHIVE taas Mara Radionuclides used in medicine Size 7 NKR E Health Physics Abstract Volume 69 5 www health physics com pt r
31. search terms with quotation marks For the purposes of this review would have been needlessly time consuming If I need Boolean operators I know I can use these combinations plus other logic operators described in the user manual The software is able to work with more complex search criteria than Google or other search engines I ve used For those who needed addition help using the programs advanced search my term features tutorials on the DEVONacademy gt Tutorials pages are both easy to understand and helpful http www devon technologies com support academy da_tutorials html In addition during my last review of this product I had not taken the time to rephrase the questions vary the search terms for the information sought This time around I did that with better but not totally satisfactory results As always my focus when searching for technical information 1s gaining information at the level that a good reference librarian would provide I know this is unfair because librarians have access to private databases as well as more comprehensive search defining tools but I keep trying MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 88 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Making In Depth Use of Boolean Searches From my reading it would appear that DEVONagent s Boolean logic feature helps further focus a search beyond what I was able to do A Primer on using Boolean search delimiters would be welcome perhaps I ll search for one Focusing
32. simply as Click and Type This feature means that when you are working in Page Layout view Online Layout view or print preview you can double click your mouse in any open area of your document where there is not text and begin typing right away Normally you begin typing at the left side of the screen If you later want to adjust your text to the right margin or center it on the screen you do so by using the toolbars or menus Click and Type however allows you to quickly format and enter text at the same time The result is faster editing and formatting You can tell if Click and Type 1s active by how the mouse pointer behaves on screen If the mouse pointer when moving within the document window looks like a simple I beam insertion pointer then Click and Type is not turned on If instead it looks like an I beam with some horizontal lines near by then Click and Type is active and ready These lines indicate the formatting of the text that you can insert There are four possibilities e Left aligned If the horizontal lines are near the upper right side of the I beam then it indicates that double clicking your mouse will result in a left aligned paragraph where you click e Left aligned first line indent If the horizontal lines are near the upper right side of the I beam but there 1s also a very small arrow at the left side of the first horizontal line then double clicking will result in a left aligned paragraph where you click
33. the macCompanion website http 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 MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 2 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 CHE VOM TIC CEO oreina r E E E E 7 The Race Towards Green Energy and a higher standard Of living sscsscscsccceccccccsessso 7 According to AA OVC rs csascesesvacnnssivasessonvatunssuwasestonvetnesenssearionsesvesesssoueioesatvaseesseueseasaevessesees 14 Moving From CodeWarrior to Xcode Part LID cccssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssees 14 Geek Speak Random Mac Stuff You Need to KNOW ssccccsscccssscccssscccssccccsscccessccssscoees 22 An Introduction to AppleScript ssscccssccossossoosscocecccccossssososssssssosscsssosssssccccssssssssssssssssssssssssssse 22 Views from the Ivory Tower June 2007 crcccccrscccsssccssssccssscccsssccssscccsssccssssccsssccssscceesss 26 On Scaring Mac Users Greening Apple and Forensics ssccccccseccsssessssscoososcocoseeceessesssssssso 26 Doc_Babad s Macintosh Tips A Macintosh Tip or Three ssssssssssssssssssseoseecseeosesoo 29 May Updates Of Interest ves svvnieseisdecassisesincrswhectseueuetasistecassieneiaseisdesasvienetiseisbesassiuselisenens 38 The NOT Ne E tees pasa oneunnes susesessesesauentesesessases torn teseoeraners 4 iPod and iTunes for Dummies 4th
34. the security of the system and the way we use our machines only a few would be in a position to actually be affected by said malicious software Of course the media would blow an event like this out or proportion by saying New Macintosh Virus hits the Internet Should we be concerned about malicious software Yes While I wouldn t recommend spending a ton of money like my Window s friends do annually I will say that Mac users should keep an ear out for information concerning malicious software and install all the security updates Apple provides With all the press Macs are getting concerning this you will be hard pressed to miss an announcement of a real piece of malicious code Heck if you read this tirade monthly I will be sure to post anything I think is real Now I wonder can I convince these security companies to give me 10 000 to regularly point out the importance of using their software What a notion Apple moving up in the world Last month Apple s percent of the laptop market share rose to 9 9 and desktop sales rose to 7 7 according to an article posted on the Mac News Network site http www macnn com articles 07 05 1 1 apple laptop sales According to the article this information was published by Bloomberg You can view the Bloomberg tables http www bloomberg com apps news pid conewsstory amp refer conews amp tkr AAPL US amp sid aZ 10DCwhy1Xo If you look over the tables you will also notice t
35. the web has gotten significantly easier with DEVONagent 2 1 Although I m still not able to make use of it s more sophisticated features all of my results out googled Google MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 93 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 New to this version 1s an interactive mind map to help make sense of the findings but since I m graphically impaired it did nothing for me Recommendation I asked myself whom this powerful search tool would best serve That turned out to be an easy question anyone who e Does at least 2 3 searches a computer working day to support their business or hobby projects e Is tired of thousands of false hits in Google or Ask com e Wants to focus their search results closer to what is being sought e Finds that reading a digest of a search item more useful than double clicking a on a found page and figuring out whether the contents are relevant Perhaps more to the point is whether the new 50 USD price or 20 USD update is worth your money One reason for buying the product or updating the earlier version is to make use of the new more powerful plugin and scanner features to focus your searches As noted earlier the product is aimed both at casual but repeat Web surfers and serious researchers What it does it does well but you must help it to wok effectively when formulating search criteria Alas the advanced search criteria features are imperfectly explained in the help notes M
36. time I fill up at the pump I am being driven to two choices either feed the car or feed the family It is getting more and more difficult to do both Something I ve been working on with others is the proposed Co Op Ever Green Renewable Energy Resource Center posted on the macCompanion website http www maccompanion com RenewableEnergy RenewableEnergy html MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 7 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Fver Green Renewable Energy Resource Center The renewable energy technologies today are reminiscent of how the personal computer industry was back in the early 1980 s Which technologies are going to win this race Hopefully all of mankind will win Right now the world is at war with itself It is time to take off the Political Correctness hat and stand for something real honest and that will make a positive difference for mankind I may come across as a bit controversial in this direction I intend to take but tough Live with it A Light Approach to Renewable Energy Not to make light of the subject but I personally believe that we have been given the gift of non renewable energy sources so that we could do a better job as stewards of earth in finding more environmental friendly ways to impact the earth less This would be like moving from horsepower to machine power You remember the line given back at the beginning of the last century that if everyone road horses we would be mired in manu
37. to me as was version 1 1 Suggestion to avoid data entry errors most of my address input tasks are simplified by using the CardIris a business card scanner I am a two finger dyslexic typist so try to avoid a bad case of GIGO http www maccompanion com archives A pril2006 Software CardIris3 htm Having recently reviewed and been well pleased with the other Belight products http www maccompanion com documents freeissues 2007 April2007 pdf I felt it was time to recheck Mail Factory Its ability in version 2 5 to extract address information from FileMaker Pro wonderful and Eudora okay makes an enormous difference in the product s usefulness to me In addition its generic ability to import Tab delimited text which most Personal Information Managers PIMs can output their contents should be important to other users who ve waited for a more flexible product I have often wished as you might have that MS Word the Apple or Microsoft s address books and mail client features had better means for customizing and printing envelopes and labels That s why I was eager to re review the product I m glad I did Product Overview Mail Factory is a Mac OS X software for designing and printing envelopes post cards address and shipping labels on your Macintosh It conforms to postal guidelines prints USA Canada and UK mailing barcodes and includes special mailing features like automatic address formatting Mail Fa
38. with previous Dreamweavers Adobe has added a wonderful compatibility wizard that will tell you how you CSS will work in other browsers All in all the added CSS capabilities are worth the upgrade to me The next big feature in the new Dreamweaver CS3 1s the implementation of the Spry framework The Spry framework is basically javascript bundles that make it so much easier to add navbars menus pop ups and more to your website Adobe created this Spry framework and although you can download it separately and use it Adobe has worked it into Dreamweaver seamlessly It s basically Web 2 0 development in simple Spry Widgets and Effects You can also work with XML via Spry Data Together Adobe has successfully added Ajax capabilities to the other server side tools in Dreamweaver The final feature in the new Dreamweaver CS3 that I wanted to mention was how it works with Photoshop We all knew that one of the best aspects of using the Macromedia design suite was how well Dreamweaver and Fireworks worked together I was very concerned that Adobe would not take advantage of this opportunity but rest assured you can easily drag and drop images and layers into Dreamweaver from Photoshop and have Dreamweaver optimize the images and size it to fit your design I still use and love Fireworks but it sure is nice to know that you have the option to bring Photoshop images into Dreamweaver if you need it If you want to upgrade from an earlier version prices s
39. you bookmarked in Safari i DIY RSS Screen Saver Quartz Composer lets you Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Dreamweaver CS3 How Did Adobe Fare Reviewed by Tim Verpoorten Surfbits A Adobe http www adobe com products dreamweaver As part of the CS3 Design Premium 1 760 USD Standalone New 399 USD and 394 GBP 658 Euro Upgrade 199 USD and 163 GBP Requirements PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor Mac OS X v 10 4 8 256MB of RAM 512MB recommended for PowerPC based system 512MB 1GB recommended for Intel based system 1 6GB of available hard disk space additional free space required during installation 1 024x768 monitor resolution with 16 bit video card DVD ROM drive QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features Internet or phone connection required for product activation Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and other services Original review at http www surfbits com p 1147 I ve been a big fan of the former Macromedia Dreamweaver since version 1 0 Whether I was using a Windows PC many years ago or a Mac currently I always felt that Dreamweaver was the best WYSIWYG website design tool out there In recent versions Dreamweaver has added a few features including their best effort at CSS editing but really nothing earth shattering Therefore when Adobe released their first version of Dreamweaver CS3 I was more then excited to insta
40. you through the process of learning how to input notes into your score using the computer keyboard as well as how to input lines text and how to notate using the four voices which are colour coded to make things easier A feature I really like is that as I save at regular intervals Sibelius creates a backups folder of each save so that in case my score gets deleted by accident or I simply want to go back to a previous save I can go to the folder of backups and choose which one I want from there Next is Step time input which covers how to enter notes into your score via your MIDI keyboard This method is extremely straightforward One glitch I noticed was that as I input my notes Sibelius didn t quite get the right accidentals in its intelligent guess process It chose A flats instead of G sharps my score was in the key of F so I did have to correct those I was pretty impressed with how I can play for example a chord and Sibelius will enter the whole thing instantly into my score Something that wasn t mentioned is that you can also use the numeric keypad on your computer keyboard to change note values during step time input the quick tour only mentioned using Sibelius s onscreen Keypad to do this which isn t as efficient MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 124 of 125 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 This is followed by Flexi time input After a few tries I was able to get a perfect written rendition into m
41. 003 2007 Page 130 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Conclusion The software license allows the purchaser the right to install and run the software on up to two computers as long as the purchaser is the only one using the software on both computers Very fair and also handy when you have two computers and want to work on both without needing to buy a second software license A representative of JT Enterprises told me they are in the process of developing a version of WriteWay for the Mac I look to that considering the product has a built in word processor and the cost 79 is quite a bit less than MS Word for the Mac Recommendation If you have a PC and have tried to write a story for years but just couldn t seem to get past the first chapter consider WriteWay The standard version is just 39 USD and the Professional version is just 79 USD not too much to pay to get that material organized so you can focus on writing the rest of the story If you have an Intel processor Mac or a PC and a desire to craft fiction this 1s a good product I hope JT Enterprises comes up with a licensing scheme friendly to Mac owners that buy this product before a Mac version is released Recommended as a good value for the features MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 131 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Learn What You Need TeachMac is a searchable library of multimedia computer tutorials in the form of downloada
42. 7 Now we re going to make sure that our friend selected at least one song because if he didn t we don t have a thing to do if songs is then display dialog Please select songs and run the script again will take care of that If the selection was empty our script will show an error window displaying that message Now we are going to count how many songs we have in our list the ones our friend selected to be converted We ll do that by set num_songs to count of _songs This statement is a little more complex than our previous ones We are creating a new variable called num_songs here and anytime we use the set something to something Instead of just setting it to a number we re going to ask _ songs for the number of items it contains by calling count of songs Then we ll set num songs to that We now know how many songs we have and we re going to set up a loop A loop is a way of writing statements so that the same thing will be done each time but to different pieces of data In this case for each song in our list we re going to change the name and artist AppleScript has a beautiful loop structure repeat with i from I to num_songs This statement declares 7 the letter 1 like eye and 1 will be 1 the first time 2 the second time and so on until i is num _ songs We ll use i as a way to know when we ve messed with every song in the list and to access each song in the list Here is a look at
43. AM 250Mb hard disk space Recommended if using Kontakt Player Silver or audio file export G4 G5 512Mb RAM 500Mb hard disk space Strengths extremely versatile flexible program Geared to a very wide range of users such as music teachers and music students of every type of ensemble conservatories colleges and advanced users such as film composers concert musicians orchestrators arrangers conductors and more Weaknesses None found For a demo brochure and CD ROM of this product call toll free 888 474 2354 or email infoUSA sibelius com For those outside North and South America consult the website for the applicable toll free numbers and email addresses MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 122 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Introduction Sibelius 4 is a complete package It allows composers to write play print and publish their music notation projects It is designed for beginners as well as very advanced composers It has powerful tools for teachers and allows users to synchronize their score with a video Sibelius comes with the Kontakt Player Silver from Native Instruments which will play back music using high quality sound samples taken from actual orchestral instruments The program is also available for purchase as a 5 pack network or educational site license Getting Started The box contains the installation CD a handbook a detailed 500 page book called Reference which is a printed version of the onlin
44. Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended A New User s First Look Reviewed by Chris Marshall A Adobe http www adobe com products photoshop photoshopextended As part of the CS3 Design Premium 1 760 USD Standalone New 999 USD 570 GBP 1 236 Euro Upgrade 349 USD and 163 GBP Requirements PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor Mac OS X v 10 4 8 256MB of RAM 512MB recommended for PowerPC based system 512MB 1GB recommended for Intel based system 1 6GB of available hard disk space additional free space required during installation 1 024x768 monitor resolution with 16 bit video card DVD ROM drive QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features Internet or phone connection required for product activation Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and other services Original review at http myapplestuff com cs3 photoshop extended wow Get everything in Adobe Photoshop CS3 software and more with Photoshop CS3 Extended which enables you to edit 3D and motion based content and perform image analysis Opening Photoshop CS3 Extended 999 http www adobe com products photoshop index html for the first time for me was like standing on the high diving board a week after learning to swim I was really excited but apprehensive nervous and more than a little daunted by the prospect Why the analogy Well not only was this my first time with Photoshop but I am
45. Destructive editing try all kinds of styles and come out at the end with a picture that really could have been taken by a professional OK maybe they were having a bad day Personally it has taken me another step higher on my Photographic enjoyment ladder I thought the Nikon D80 improved things so to improve immensely something that had already undergone a huge improvement is well it s immensely huge It isn t as daunting as I thought it would be but it isn t easy by any means Fortunately I had a reasonable idea of what could and couldn t be done and perhaps more importantly I had already adjusted my approach to actually capturing photographs You really do need to focus on creating a photograph rather than taking a picture For example my tendency used to be to capture the whole scene to show something whereas now I will capture a specific part of the detail and that allows me to get some incredible imagery with Photoshop The most amazing thing The feeling when people actually stop and take the time to comment on your photographs I have always liked to show people our photographs when they come round but I have really noticed that now rather than politely wait for me to stop rattling on about them they are asking me questions lingering on pictures comparing them etc So Nikon D80 expensive Photoshop expensive amazing experience priceless That probably sums it up Amazing I am still in shock at h
46. Get morre dalal o bering fes score i ge eGerw Exesdim his to zime ava HE DRAGON CHALICE LEGEND to be used as Foreroord in book e reeht v Time St john na tmr long ago before mat know whatit was to keep time there cxishei ace where light Saith peace and prosperity raagned The place aled Anava a bongdom of nist aad mapce A secret world the or untold centumes it remained hidden trom the m oral plane that om ftung sand Anavrin s peopic knew nethine of he wel thet separated their secret kingdom red n perpetual summer knowing no pan F amea an frai fone oe nae kediats that WriteWay Pro also provides character background screens with written information and even a picture to help visualize the people in your story Enter the heroes and villains background and appropriate pictures and it is simple to switch between them during story development 881 Master Character Templates SO SSS SS rr Se es Ee sam PLE General Character Template j 3 je DOB Birth Order Formative B ckg round Romantic Background Friends Ene mies reatest Fear ore Needs How does s he deal with those needs oping Mechanisms Problem Solving Style Critical Flaw Secret Talent Secret Demon His Her Personal Kry ptonite Backsto i Misc Information I liked the character background screen but this brought up a negative aspect of the software When I was working on the story I wanted to see character background a
47. N LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 35 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 e To change the line spacing leading select the text and click the Decrease Line Spacing button or the Increase Line Spacing button e To move or resize Typewriter text block select the Select tool click a Typewriter text block and drag the text block or one of its corners e To edit the text again select the Typewriter tool and then double click in the Typewriter text Note To let Adobe Reader users type text in a PDF by using the Typewriter tool open the PDF in Acrobat Professional choose Tools gt Typewriter gt Enable Typewriter Tool In Adobe Reader and save the PDF See the image above PS Ino longer have a version of Acrobat 7 Pro on my computer so do not know whether this hint works for that version If AA7 had a typewriter tool then this work but AA7 could not activate files opened in Acrobat Reader to allow the completion of forms Modified from Adobe Acrobat 8 Help Files SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS My Missing Capital C Murphy Strikes Again The Problem Right in the middle of typing an article in MS Word MSW I lost the ability to use a capital c This was true whether I used my Logitech or Apple keyboard It did not matter which shift key I used It was so in the finder and in every application I tried As part of the detailed testing describe below I tossed all new utilities All the other utilities I use have been on my drive for at
48. SBN 13 9780596526801 abe ROTH Audience Anybody interested in how hi tech affects KKK KY society Weaknesses The book is shovelware from Netfuture Technology and Human Responsibility One or two cuss words Strengths Looks at the impact of hi tech on society Introduction Devices of the Soul Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines is a thought provoking collection of the best of the best from Steve Talbott s online Netfuture Technology and Human Responsibility newsletter Self forgetfulness is the reigning temptation of the technological era This is why we so readily give our assent to the absurd proposition that a computer can add two plus two despite the obvious fact that it can do nothing of the sort not if we have in mind anything remotely resembling what we do when we add numbers writes Talbott In the computer s case the mechanics of addition involve no motivation no consciousness of the task no mobilization of the will no metabolic activity no imagination And its performance brings neither the satisfaction of accomplishment nor the strengthening of practical skills and cognitive capacities In this book There are 5 parts to the book that almost come off as high brow but not quite MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 46 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Technology Nature and the Human Prospect dedicates itself to looking at how we almost unquestionably accept anything th
49. Strengths Heavy Duty many configuration options for wearing Weaknesses None Introduction When I needed a messenger type of bag to carry papers magazine books and maybe a laptop back and forth to the hospital I didn t think twice about where to get it Tom Bihn I already had a Tom Bihn backpack the Smart Alec but it was a little awkward for just the items I was carrying After some research on tombihn com and some correspondence with them I found that the ID bag had recently been redesigned and would be a perfect fit How right they were MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 64 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 It finally struck me that Tom Bihn and Apple Inc are definitely on the same wavelength and have a lot of the same ideals Tom s bags are meticulously hand crafted with design and functionality seamlessly blending into one The workers on the floor obviously take pride in recreating the art pieces that Tom has designed I emphasize again something that I pointed out last time with the Smart Alec review the craftsman on the floor aren t in another part of the world where workmanship can be questionable and no oversight committees are needed to make sure things are done correctly These people work alongside the actual designer in Seattle Washington That not only keeps quality high with fewer QC issues but perhaps even inventiveness and innovation can spring from such a relationship furthering these exceptional bags D
50. Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 To initiate a search with DEVONagent simply open the application and choose File gt New Search 1f necessary and select a search set from the search field pop up menu the little triangle in the search query field Then enter the search term s you want DEVONagent to look for into the search field and click Start Q gt Popiah Recipes DEVONagent sends your query to one or more search engines depending on the search settings see the manual s chapters Settings and Plug ins It then collects the results and displays them on the Pages tab Then select any of the found pages to display its relevant information as plain text in the lower frame Use the Sort menu to sort the results on any way you need From all collected results DEVONagent calculates a dynamically updated digest which can be found on the Digest tab These so called relevance charts sometimes make sense to the user but for the most part I ignore them More importantly are the search finding digests The digest 1s a plain text summary of all information in the result pool DEVONagent thinks to be relevant to selected topics It is very useful when deciding which of the found links you might want to pursue eoo Internet a4 Scan Software Reviews ge a B As i a et O Open Launch URL Add Add All Delete Archive Exporn Print Settings Customize Qr Software Reviews DEVONagent st Start start 102 pages with 3833 KB done P
51. Xerox Should you want to address an Dor Sa oc zm envelope available formats include the 0566s tar Addressing abel 41253 33 A more standard U S European and Japanese 05734 Avew Laser inidet Woe Sealand A 40006333 e r a H Yov ll note that there is a vast selection of Ss 4 aoe ie LEDE 4 125K1 0U Laser Clear Addressing Label 4 125 1 33 Label 4 12 2 00 gt fy Laser To and From Mailing Li o an L 4 db sizes and configurations as well as many n See specialty formats for greeting cards or post 05610 Ave cards Laser To anc From Mallina Li 4 000x2 00 White failing Labels gt x1 00 Laser White Addressing Labe 2 625x1 00 a vr Features amp Functions Annotated from the publishers website Address Label Assistant Once you choose your label or envelope the Assistant guides you through the design process After choosing your address layout you can manually enter the address or import it from Apple s Address Book Entourage Eudora FileMaker Pro MS Excel Now Contact vCards or tab delimited text files II be discussion address data import into Mail Factory later in this review Mail Merge You can quickly print single envelopes and labels or batch print addresses from OS X Address Book Entourage Eudora Now Contact MS Excel FileMaker vCards or tab delimited text files Use the built in storages of recipients and senders addresses to edit and store mai
52. a AN a e lE E Mi z Paragraphs B EX 10 Aw S iE E Seo ELAT AaBbi AaBbC AaBbCcl AaBbcc f d Paste J B Z U ibe x x Afta A ay E E Z E HE Da Heading 1 Heading 2 f Normal Heading 3 an Clipboard M Font Paragraph AaBbCcD AaBbCeD AaBbCcl AaBbC Headings z Emphasis fi Block Text Title That AaBbCcI AaBbCcD AaBsC D AaBbCel includes aBbCcL AaBBCcD AAB8aCcD AaB8cdDi using the Fabrikam JOUPM ie aeni menne aotit now more AaBbCcI ORGANIZATIONAL REALIGNMENT T List Paran accessible styles Chapter 5 Themes and Templates Chapter 6 Spelling Grammar and Reference Tools Chapter 7 Printing Word Documents Subtitle Subtle Em Intense Em Quote MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 59 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 These are the usual getting started themes and are well worth a quick glance if for no other purpose than to see the changes made in the user interface in Work 2007 Part Two Creating Longer and More Complex Documents Chapter 8 Planning with Outlines This was an excellent chapter which focuses on planning your document by making use of a more streamlined outlining interface in Word 2007 Although I m still likely to work first in Opal on my Macintosh of course but then I own the product However what I read leads me to believe the implementation of outline features will become easier in Word 2008 Than in MSW 2004 Chapter 9 Working with Long Documents Perhaps the weakest pa
53. acro enabled when we should have PP Target Carbon enabled instead To fix this problem go to Xcode s Project menu and select Edit Project Settings When the Settings dialog is presented scroll down and select the Preprocessor Macros field and then press the Edit button 8 O68 Project Appearance Demo Info Configuration All Configurations E Collection All Settings Aa 5 raan Walue a eae er ee py A Other Warning Flags A Incomplete Objective C Pr it A Warn About Undefined Us Wi Preprocessor Macros Preprocessor Macros Not fa Rez Script Type Roman g Other Rez Flags fa Rez Prefix File FS Dorala Alisacar C Edit A Based on None Setting Space separated list of preprocessor macros of the form foo or floo bar GCC _PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS D A sheet window will then appear Click on the button to create an new field and enter the text PP_Target_Carbon 1 as so MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 16 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Project Appearance Demo Info Preprocessor Macros inherited PP_Target_Carbon 1 Based on None opace separated list of preprocessor macros of the form foo or foo bar GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS D Press OK to save and recompile Now we are down to 8 errors left which include the undefined macros STD and CSTD As we did with PP Target Carbon we add these other two m
54. acros defining them to be std When you are finished your preprocessor macros should look like this MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 17 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Project Appearance Demo Info General l Build Configurations Comments Configuration All Configurations Collection Customized Settings Value l Preprocessor Macros PP_Target_Carbon 1 _STD st Based on None opace separated list of preprocessor macros of the form foo or foo bar GCC _PREPROCESSOR_ DEFINITIONS D MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 18 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Recompiling now should yield you these five errors Appearance Demo Build Results Cc _ Imported Code y i A Active Target Active Build Configuration Active Executable Building target Appearance Demo Carbon of project Appearance Demo with Compiling Applications Metrowerks CodeWarrior 9 4 Metrowerks CodeWarrior in file included from Applications Metrowerks CodeWarrior 9 4 Metrowerks Cod Win file included from Applications Metrowerks CodeWarrior 9 4 Metrowerks C Win file included from Applications Metrowerks CodeWarrior 9 4 Metrowerk Win file included from Applications Metrowerks CodeWarrior 9 4 Metrow Win file included from Applications Metrowerks CodeWarrior 9 4 Metr error ansi_prefix mach h No such file or directory error looser throw specifier for virtual LException LExceptiont error ov
55. acters remain Using the Undo feature may not be practical if you don t use it right away This leads to the second method of dealing with the line If you later want to remove the line it helps to understand how Word added it in the first place When you pressed Enter at the end of your characters the ones Word replaced with its line Word removed the characters and added a border to the paragraph just before where you typed the characters You can verify this in the following manner Position the insertion point in the Borders and Shading paragraph just before where the EEIT line appears Choose Borders and Shading I si from the Format menu Word gis D jaena aa eienn displays the Borders and ef Shading dialog box E Make sure the Borders tab is E aa selected Notice that the line should appear at the bottom of g the paragraph in the preview area of the dialog box E le To remove the border click on the None option Click on OK to close the dialog box The line border previously applied by Word now disappears Autamaig Anply to Paragraph Show Toolbar Horizontal Line The Borders tab of the Borders and Shading dialog box The third method of dealing with the line is to simply turn off the feature that causes Word to replace your equal signs dashes and underscores with its own line Follow these steps MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 31 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 1 Choose AutoCorrec
56. ad SS AIR MAIL Such advanced merge printing functionality is reportedly perfect for mass mailings idaingMoce Page 1 ofl Q Op A Cancel Next I tested the product with my Dymo Printer in single label mode and on envelopes fed directly to my printer I have only short address lists with limited mail merge needs Therefore I did not test this feature In lieu of mail merge a manual cut and paste works fine for merging a dozen or two recipients I also printed a set of address labels on my HP printer All worked fine In addition MS Word s awkward merge mode spoiled my taste for doing mail merges a bad taste I ve never recovered from The convenient print dialog in Mail Factory lets you make occasional final editing changes to the chosen labels and envelopes Of course it will also let you see which labels will be printed Also you can choose the position of the next available label on a sheet that you re printing to so you can re use partially used label sheets This worked better than a comparable feature in MS Word and was easier to use MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 106 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Label Address Design Tools Add en Assistant personalized corporate look to your mailings with dozens of ready made designs You can also insert custom images with your company logo or other graphics apply masks and control transparency More than 800 clip art images collection of postcard design
57. ages iks Log 58 documents a Topics _ 1 CoolMacintosh com Product News for Junly 24th 4 Devonagent 2003 Reviews v MIHE Software is providing shareware games for Mac OS 0 Software X that are fun to play But there are fe St Mac July 15th 2003 DEVONtechnologies new Internet a 2 internet search i Review s i 403 Apple Iiwww coolmacintosh com productnews072403 html a Emm licati m eg 2 ATPM 12 06 Review Yojimbo 1 1 Download Yojimbo from Bare Bones Software is one of the latest Ipod entries into this field It features a clean user interface Work with several niceties designed to T Support lwww atpm com 12 06 yojimbo shtml E Applications Windows 3 TheMacPak offers May Edition of its Mystery Pages Software Bundle T Update Y TheMacPak will be offering its month of May mystery A s bundle of 10 award winning games and applications Ea 2 ee o N T A 8 eee ee Z MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 87 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Using the Software To keep things simple I for the most part used the product s default Fast Scan mode which limited my results to a maximum of a 100 hits In once case I used the more extensive web search abilities of deep scan mode which can both search deeper using metacrawlers and other beasties to search deeper and slower None of my search results in this mode approached that limit The search results were returned s
58. am quite happy with Clean Text and would buy it because it is a more powerful and flexible tool then 1s SmartWrap MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 74 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Path Finder 4 6 1 A file management program that out finders the Finder By Harry doc Babad 2007 welcome to Cocoatech fresh and tasty concoctions for Mac OS X TESES gent Yay Developed by Steve Gehrman http www cocoatech com weblog Cocoatech Los Angeles CA help cocoatech com http www cocoatech com pf4 35 USD Update 18 USD 19 inc VAT GBP Released December 5 2006 Demo Path Finder 4 is available as a feature complete demo for 21 days http www cocoatech com download ph Requirements Mac OS X 4 x Universal Binary 20 MB Download Hard Drive Space KKK KS Versions for earlier Macintosh OS X Systems are available Strengths If you want a finder function that is both fast and feature rich try Path Finder The product provides the most flexible method I ve yet found to access and manage the almost 177 000 files stored on my drive as well as the uncounted music and graphics files I keep on an external drive The product s primary features although intimidating a first glance is both easy to use and powerfully capable Weaknesses The Product may be too complex even for some experienced users However I suggest folks download load it and play for a few days By doing side by side se
59. an Text Actions Replace Presets Quick Clean Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II ete and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh Today Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award winning desktop and notebook computers OS X operating system and iLife and Sat EET professional applications Apple is also spearheading the digital music Fix spaces revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online music store Replace tabs with spaces Replace spaces with tabs Remove quoting characters Add quoting characters Remove returns Fix Original text gt gt gt gt gt Apple ignited the personal Transform gt gt computer revolution in the 1970s Convert to smart quotes gt gt with the Apple I and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s Convert to straight quotes with the Macintosh Today Apple continues Shift text right to lead the Shift text lert i l i i i POA Sort lines ascending industry in innovation with its award winning desktop and notebook Sort lines descendina computers OS X operating system and Remove duplicate lines gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt iLife and professional applications gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt Apple is also spearheading the digital music revolution with its Change case iPod portable music players and iTunes online music Sentence case store Title Case UPPERCASE
60. anual Indeed I almost agree with Matt Neuburg s conclusion But indeed information to support a more effective use of the product for advances searching is available on the website the tutorials were just a bit hidden from where I d normally search Do follow Matt s advice but remember there are helpful tutorials on the site to smooth you r becoming a master of DEVONagent Matt notes In my view the increased price and unhelpful manual are potentially serious obstacles The best thing however 1s to download the demo a 5 7 MB download and decide for yourself Doc sez Given all of that I would buy the software and hope for a better and clearer future manual A manual which better explains the more advanced search customizing features and provides practice examples rather than my having to rely on tutorials would be of great service to users needing in depth search tools MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 94 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 PS Why Pm Not Using DEVONagent as my Default Web Browser Overall I found that DEVONagent based on the Safari engine could serve well as an integrated web browser However I still choose not to make it my default browser even though I know it 1s especially tailored to the needs of web researchers among which I number I ve updated and patched Safari with other shareware tools such as PithHelmet and I d rather not give up Apple s product Indeed although I use FireFox exten
61. any of which were relevant Although both sets of hits contained commercial information the individual sites I spot checked had enough details on the general attributes of these protective tools to serve as a basis for an article One hint use the words in probable hit to refine your search Better results might have been obtained from the phrase CyberLock or CyberKey For some reason in DEVONagent the results of using the or were not better For some reason the items on the first 12 pages of Google s 23 100 hits seemed more relevant Software Reviews DEVONagent Compared to Google Results Although I got more hits in Google both searches gave me comparable returns Being able to use the digests in DEVONagent substantially speeded up the search process A Recipe for Thai 5 Spice Pork Duck or Chicken My initial search for the items themselves and the combined names of the dishes was disappointing What turned up were restaurant menus around the world many of which looked wonderful Adding the term recipe the name of the dish made all the difference But even that added focus resulted in hits to many recipes that had noting to do with the Thai dishes I sought to cook I did well searching for Thai 5 Spice Chicken Recipe getting a better focused set of hits both in DEVONagent and Google Much to my surprise I also searched DEVONagent with the parenthetic additional phase NOT restaurant and but it did not help focus the sea
62. ar means to really learn the in depth capability of this the latest version of MS Word In fact for anyone wanting to get familiar with the MSW s suite s new interface and richer but easier to use features should buy this book And if that not enough Check out the Missing CD on the website It contains examples exercise and more without charging you an extra 5 USD for a CD you many not often use Author BIO Christopher Grover lives in Fairfax California with his wife and two daughters Chris received degrees in Creative Writing and Film from Emerson College in Boston Massachusetts He s worked as a technical writer advertising copywriter and product publicist for more than 25 years His freelance articles have been published in a variety of magazines from Fine Homebuilding to CD ROM World Chris s latest project is launching Bolinas Road Creative an agency that helps small businesses promote their products and services He s also the author of Word 2007 The Missing Manual and Word 2007 for Starters The Missing Manual MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 63 of 136 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Tom Bihn ID Messenger Bag Reviewed by Wayne LeFevre 1OM BIJN eor Portable Cuwiture Tom Bihn 2203 Ist Ave S Suite 200 Seattle WA 98134 1 800 729 9607 US and Canada 1 206 652 4123 Other Countries ked X J Fax 1 206 621 8264 http www tombihn com 130 USD 142 CND 65 GBP Requirements None
63. arches in Apple s finder spotlight combination with Path Finder you will quickly recognize the benefits of using PF4 as both a search and file management tool I also believe among heavy Macintosh users the fearful will become advocates in less than the 21 day demo period Sic Heavy means neither gaming nor surfing 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 4 9 Disclaimer When briefly reviewing share freeware I will often use the developer s product functions 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 MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 75 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Introduction Path Finder is a file management program that out finder s the Apple Finder It is a powerful and flexible file browser that has a streamlined interface full of rich finder enhancing features When I last reviewed Path Finder version 3 2 1 in the October 2004 macCompanion I thought highly enough of it to give it a 4 5 rating However at that time having even then created an anal retentive s well organized hard disk I chose not to continue working with it Don t ask I don t remember why However having read about its ad
64. are Review a Region ro eem Region Capture a Picture whenever r 3 6 S S Camera sees Movement o fo Watch the entire screen Watch selected regions Click and drag on the video screen to define new regions _ amp Microphone hears noise Ho Timer goes off B Applescript is run Remote is pressed Capture Picture Now Setting motion regions With the pictures stored on your computer you probably want to do something with them Periscope offers a handful of options for sharing the images available under the share tab You can use Periscope to email an image save it to a folder or to a Mac or Flickr account FTP it to someone or just put it in your iPhoto library I was impressed with how Periscope handles emailing an image From within Periscope you simply enter an email address and title Periscope then sends the email using your email address as the sender This might be useful to have your Mac at home send you images of what s happening there while you are at work Conclusion If you have an iSight camera and want to use it to capture an image automatically you will want to take a look at Periscope It does a good job of capturing images and offers a variety of events that trigger an image It is an interesting program which works well Download the demo and see how it works for your needs MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 116 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007
65. as root find files as well as creating aliases and symbolic links Getting Started Drop and drag the application to your applications folder Try it out for 21 days and then buy it Oh I haven t told you why yet oh well Click on the product icon in your Menu or use the keyboard Command F1 and Path Finder is at your beck and call HOO B 3a To become re familiarized with the product I spend about a week running my normal hard disk find searches with Apple s Finder Spotlight combination EasyFind and Path Finder Although it took a bit of time to become comfortable with Path Finder s more complex interface my learning curve for simple attribute limited searches was short Ignoring my searches with Apple s Tools always a hit or miss proposition the items I located with PF4 were accurate When compared to my normal EasyFind searches the PF4 filters were easier to use No I m not going to glut this review with side by side screen shots the software works and works effectively Just like the Spotlight and Finder search results windows you can double click any file in the software s search results to open it or use drag and drop to work with it But unlike Spotlight important information about each file modification date size kind and location is visible without having to click get info button Hold the mouse pointer over the Where value to view the full path to the file without having to expand the wi
66. as simple and worked immediately Using the Software I started by cracking open the handbook which is basically a quick tour of Sibelius The first chapter deals with installation registration and MIDI setup The next chapter gets you started on the Quick Tour and the last section of the book is a How to section which shows you how to set notation for every kind of music such as band choir early music guitar jazz orchestra percussion and so on The back cover of the book has a detailed diagram of what each item on the menu bar means as well as many of the most used keyboard shortcuts that are built into the software A full listing of keyboard shortcuts is contained in the Reference manual which is also available online MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 123 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 I decided to start off by going on the quick tour They highly recommend it even for those who have used other notation software programs because each program is different and one may otherwise miss those important differences and other special features A nice feature about the handbook is that as one goes through the tour the relevant tutorial videos are signaled using a clapperboard symbol and every few pages there is at least one Pearl of Wisdom about using the software as well as a brief recap at the end of each section For the tutorial videos Sibelius co founder Ben Finn explains how to use the program s main feature
67. assistant The Assistant s list of included label sheets is impressive and included the Avery address label stock I use If I had not had a Mail Factory supplied template available I could have created a custom label layout to fit the labels I had That s cheaper than buying new labels and tastier than printing off center or poorly spaced labels The tools are there except for a ruler which you ll need to provide the label assist the needed label dimensions Fingers work too so you can count the number of labels on a sheet MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 110 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 A Kudo Mailing Tips to Save You Time and Money Postal service in the USA and some other countries uses special equipment that sorts mail automatically and helps to deliver mail faster and more accurately and sometimes at less cost To qualify for automated processing your mail must be prepared properly Check out the Postal Guidelines in Mail Factory s help Minor Discomforts Street Address _2 and Other Glitches Many of the business addresses I use require a two line street address I could not in the time I had available for review and testing figure out how to add the second street address line It is likely based on my reading of the Mail Factory help files that I need to create a custom template with two address lines sometimes soon Real soon The comma Inc Problem Many of my address in FMP lists the affiliates as th
68. asts and working with sound shows The book also explains in details how to use the iPod as a hard drive storage unit Special parts of the book that some users might find useful in particular are Using Airtunes for wireless stereo playback Chapter 6 sharing content on networks Chapter 7 managing photos and videos Chapter 11 baking your own discs with printed inserts Chapter 14 and decoding audio encoding Chapter 18 There is also a good index and an appendix section with musicmatch additional information and web resources for the Internet related to the 1Pod While it might be a Dummies book it does not talk down to you It 1s not only a good read but the price is a good one for what it offers The book 1s a great resource guide The best way to look through the book is to read the sections that are most interesting and jump around There are many good books out there but this one is definitely worth considering MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 50 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 iPod Fully Loaded Reviewed by Dr Eric Flescher WILEY KNOWLEDGE FOR GENERATIONS Author Andy Ihnatko http www wiley com WileyCDA WileyTitle productCd 0470049502 html Fully Loaded Released October 23 2006 Ped Gt It To tee Pages 312 vine 20 USD 14 CND 14 GPB 15 50 Euro ISBN 10 0470049502 ISBN 13 978 0470049501 Novice Intermediate Advanced Strengths Great tutorials and information Breadth and dep
69. at 1s generated though computers Steve compares us to the Waorani who have superior weapons with the blowgun and oneness with nature to feed their families but liked the inferior singleshot breachloaders because they made a wonderful sound and cool clicking noises and power of explosions Are we any different with the wow factor of shiny new things with the intrinsic attraction of the object itself In Extraordinary Lives Steve questions the reasoning behind trying to make those with handicaps like those who do not and the exceptional gifts they bring to humanity Those who have suffered yet have coped without becoming one with technology Perhaps like Jordi in Star Trek the Next Generation who used special visors to see and given the option to gain regular sight he opted to go back to his own system of seeing There are many examples of those who have worked with children with challenges and how their lives have been touched as they worked with these special individuals Swim with dolphins or have conversations with birds In From Information to Education I found the concepts of bringing balance and connection into focus as we become a wired society I may just have to get a copy of Jane Healy s book Failure to Connect How Computers Affect Our Children s Minds For Better and Worse since Steve Talbot essentially devotes much of this section to her disturbing findings In fact Steve lists a number
70. back and an evolving Macintosh operating system They continue to add an impressive array of new features with each release Compare the features and limitations of version 1 1 to 2 5 a quantum leap of enhancements over a period of a bit more than a year So now when I want to print an envelope I click on Mail Factory select the address and do so Alternatively if the address has not been entered into the Mail Factory database I manually add it Then it s available for future use MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 111 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Printer hp color Laserjet 3 Number of copies 1 r Paper Feed i aa ial Rotate Left Right _ Load from envelope tray works for supported envelopes only _ Suppress Country Field v Address AutoResize _ Hide Separating Commas Rules _ Print as Raster Image Print for One Person Merge Printing Sender One Recipient Prefix First Name Last Name Company Apple Computer Inc Job Title Street Address 1 Infinite Loop Multiple Recipients Assistant Middle Name FileMaker Pro Contacts Suffix Department City State Province Cupertino CA Zip Postal Code Print List 1 oa 95014 Country United States Editing Mode Page 1 5 ofl Q p Paste from Clipboard Clear Fields Preferred Source Work Cancel Next New Blank Open v Prev Recommendation My editor insists I an
71. ble modules View them with the free TeachMac application With TeachMac you get inexpensive training for homa school and business On demand computer instruction for all skill levels Custornizable lessons to meet individual needs Teach What You Know TeachMac is a powerful learning and teaching tool that becomes more powerful everyday as users share their knowledge With the free Module Maker application and 4 screen capture utility you tesch what you know and share it with the wortd Offer your creation for frer or Charge a modest fee and earn 100 of the royalties from individual sales Visit our Module Authors page for detads and downloads www teachmac com Deweriioad ihe few applicutien and ieme our Greeting Ebtery of secs tes ke Wat eon Arrion Page 132 of 135 T SchMac Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Advertisers Index Amazon com http www amazon com gp homepage html 002 5842389 7443202 Apple Store for Individuals http store apple com AppleStore W ebObjects BizCustom woa wo StoreReentry wo cid AOSA 10000025758 amp siteI ID 2F0197eu4uMU AtGr6EOxxXtw 2FIzYZGve3Aw amp qprm 783 13 amp family iMac Apple Store for Businesses in the USA http store apple com AppleStore WebObjects BizA gent qprm 126559 Laughingbird Software http www webgraphicscreator com TeachMac http www teachmac com MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 133 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Adv
72. ctive 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 4 9 As part of this month s contribution to macC I have reviewed MS Word 2007 The Missing Manual book by Chris Groover Yes we ll wait a bit more for the Macintosh version Office Word 2008 since it s not due out perhaps until later this year In keeping with my continues search for tools and shortcuts to make wording a bit easier I m sharing with permission some of Alan Wyatt s Macwordtips http www macwordtips com jumping to _a_comment html One thing that pleases me about learning how to use Alan s tips is that based on reader the Groover book the tip will likely apply in Word 2008 This month I continue sharing my occasional tip related finds with you Many but not all of the Tips I share come from Paul Taylor s Hints amp Tips column http www mac hints tips com and are used with his permission Where I use any one else s tips for this column I acknowledge both their source and their contributors As a mater of routine I ask for permission to use these items unless they ve already been widely distributed on the Internet Oh I almost forgot Unless otherwise noted all the tips and tidbits I share where appropriate work on my computer If I don t own the software but if the tip sounds interesting I ll so note at the end of that specific write up
73. ctory lets you create custom label and envelope layouts by dragging address elements images and more onto your chosen label or envelope and then print them out using contacts from OS X s Address Book Entourage Eudora or a number of other contact databases You can also use one of the included templates for pretty much any label or envelope printer or let Mail Factory s Assistant walk you through the process of creating your own format and style MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 104 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Getting Started Installation was traditionally simple double click the downloaded dmg file Then double click the Mail Factory installer icon in window that appears Follow the installer instructions There are even uninstalling instructions in the ReadMe file Okay a confession I used the version of Mail Factory that came with the Printfolio suite I reviewed last month but it s identical to the stand alone product Indeed I had Version 2 4 on my hard disk now deleted but had never worked with it Click on the application Mail Factory opens directly into its Assistant window it helps you create labels or envelopes One nice thing about Belight s software there are no preferences to adjust or personalize That s one less decision to make wonderful anr Assistant available label formats from manufacturers Creda custom nacery Use e g Avery Decadry DYMO MACO eae Se ial oe
74. d ODGlobals has not been declared ISO C forbids declaration of QDGlabals with no type expected before token expected before static ODGlobals has not been declared ISO C forbids declaration of QDGlobals with no type expected before token sQDGlobals was not declared in this scope STD has not been declared expected type specifier a handler must be the last handler for its try block Th OpenDeskAcc has not been declared Active Build Configuration E iz LApplication cp Appearance Demo Build Results se A Hh gt Build Clean All a I di am E i if theMenuID MENU Apple if PP_Target_Classic f f Handle selection from the Apple Menu Str255 appleltem GetMenultemText GetMenuHond le theMenulIb theMenuItem appleltem g OpenDeskAccCappleltem 4 endif 4 ele emdHondled LCommander 0beyCommand inCommand iaParam 4 MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Build failed 17 errors 1 warning LApplication cp 390 mM LApplication GbeyCommand 4 a ii BYL EE LLOTI ray CEPT TSS GPSS A Lei y F L Page 15 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Upon examination of this we see that many of these errors are due to missing macro definitions For example the final error indicates that we have the PP Target Classic m
75. d Spokane WA http www mcev biz We met with Jim Johnson owner of MC Electric Vehicles recently and he is also is willing to work with us The Zenn will be using the eeStor ceramic storage device instead of one of the other 3 battery systems currently in use MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 12 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Phoenix Motor Cars has a Pickup and Sedan that will be delivered later in 2007 for the California Market Fleets before going public http www phoenixmotorcars com Tesla Motors has sold 100 Tesla Roadsters and has another 100 customers waiting in the queue They are preparing to produce WhiteStar Sports sedans out of Albuquerque New Mexico http teslamotors com The Roadster 1s a street legal racing vehicle that is a little on the pricey side We want one too Apple based Technologies and Business We have an opportunity to include Apple technology into the mix by using those products for the E Commerce environment and the storefronts with Point of Sale systems and inventory management that are Apple centric I think we can make it happen Moving Forward and Getting Empowered As you can see we the Co Op plan taking the best of the best and bringing it all together in one place for our region As technologies come to light we will evaluate them and see if they can deliver as promised In the meantime we live with ever increasing fuel prices and more frequent brownouts due to added housing projec
76. d physical risks to improve the world and the near total rejection initially of their ideas and concepts that eventually did in fact change the world for the better Each chapter has footnotes that either link to book references or website links for digging deeper I came away realizing once again that innovators create sea changes and challenge the status quo with their egos I now understand that imagination needs to be rediscovered and that facts ideas and solutions each require quality time to come to fruition And to bring those innovations to fruition may require entrepreneurship to bring them to light Nothing gets accomplished in a vacuum and while one or two individuals get credit for championing a cause there are myriads of others behind the scenes that make things happen based on hundreds and thousands of previous little insights and inventions beginning with something as simple as a screw I really liked this line America created Superman not Second place man or Sometimes better than average guy as Scott delves in to the benefits of Meritocracy Apparently there is a Yin and Yang thing about innovation and Scott also looks at some secondary factors such as culture dominant design inheritance and tradition politics economics goodness short term vs long term thinking and finding the sweet spot between the competition of ease of adoption of an idea and the goodness of a given innovation Most innovat
77. distinctive graphics then the presented not asa list but 1n Thumbnail View View Show Hide Thumbnails can help you find the spot you want by eye Section 9 1 z r 7 You ve heard it before You lose time every time you take your hands off the keyboard to fumble for the mouse For short outline form hen you jaunts especially get in the habit of using these keyboard commands to move the insertion point click on a chapter or section title you can read the first two to four paragraphs of that section Sometimes there is a paragraph of additional material from elsewhere in the book associated with that topic No graphics are provided but the outline allows the reader good look at the whole book A little of that material might also be useful to reviewers The outline approach to a book s contents beats providing a single chapter section lists Ups the O Reilly folks do that too and the index as well Perhaps such annotated TOCs have been a part of previous book descriptions on the O Reilly website but I d not previously noticed http www oreilly com catalog 9780596527396 toc html MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 62 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Conclusions Recommendations I recommend this book to those peecee users just starting out in MS Word or for those who want to build on their basic knowledge of this powerful word oriented document creation tool Although not the complete story it does provide a readable and cle
78. ditional features and user friendly interface I decided to give it another try After all despite tweaks over the years Apples Finder is a very limited beast Indeed it too often bugs me disturbing by thought processes by asking me pop up message windows dumb question many of which I have no way of answering Popup Warnings All I want to do is move documents and folder around to where they belong after working on them on my desktop In Matt Neuburg s recent TidBits article http www tidbits com tb issues TidBITS 815 html he notes The Finder is the application that Mac OS X users love to hate Take a moment to think of something about the Finder that makes you absolutely furious It shouldn t take long Here are some examples Why doesn t the Finder say where you are Why doesn t it report what folder each window or column represents in the larger hierarchy of things You probably know about Command clicking on a window s title to see its path but some people like my mother don t and in any case you still have to do something the Finder doesn t just show you where you are plus you can easily get lost in column view because columns have no headings When you drag multiple files into a folder and the Finder asks if you want to replace an existing file why doesn t it report relative modification dates When you drag one file into a folder the Finder tells you whether an existing file with the same name is older or newer
79. dustries Thus the angst flavoring I found in the book Conclusion Perhaps the reason the book cover is in shades of black is because there is a darker side to innovation But if we didn t have great thinkers and risk takers would society be better off or worse today I would say bring on the innovation Recommendation If you want a thought provoking experience looking at innovation philosophy and morality Scott Berkun has done a pretty good job bringing these related issues to our attention MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 55 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Word 2007 The Missing Manual First Fdition By Harry doc Babad 2007 O REILLY sates O a Word 2007 Publisher Pogue Press O Reilly http www missingmanuals com Released December 2006 Pages 552 23 USD 39 CDN 13 99 GBP 29 00 Euro ISBN 10 0 596 52739 X ISBN 13 9780596527396 POGUE PRESS Audience Intermediate and advanced users of MS Word O REILLY Chris Grover Strengths This book explains basics in detail and teaches in a more summary fashion more advanced concepts It appears to have been written for those who are just beginning to use b ood oh gt x Word seriously or for those who want to learn more about creating attractive documents for more than just typing letters or shopping lists Weaknesses Even with a magnifying glass many of the gray illustrations were indecipherable Hasn t anyone
80. e Book Title and Book Genre The file containing the book is displayed but is not editable You can also choose to enable or disable showing plot notes with chapter and scene plot notes And you can specify an image directory for the book at this screen helpful 1f you like to add pictures of people o places to your fiction to better visualize them as you create you story 88 Book Properties Book Composition amp Notes Manuscript Printing NoteT ypes Book Options Author Name Mike Hubbartt Book Title Wards Choices Book Genre Fantasy File Location c program files wwritewayfiles books Wzards Choices wwb i Show Act Plot notes with Chapter Plot notes l Show Act Plot notes with Scene Plot notes l Show Chapter Plot notes with Scene Plot notes Default Image Directory c program files writewayfiles images Browse Set the font default left tab and choose between single and double spacing at the Composition and Notes tab You can also choose to include a foreword and author notes in the outline The third tab is Manuscript Printing and you set the font and spacing just like the second tab margins chapter and scene options and text for the header and footers Nice The last tab NoteTypes is the place to modify existing Notes types or add new ones Useful if you write multiple genres and want to specify different title colors to easily discern when switching between stories Usin
81. e 6 June 2007 cy at ae Are Eai _ e Clean Text 5 0 It does what it says and the greatest of ease By Harry doc Babad 2007 Apimac Software Inc Viale Venezia 50 1 Milano Italy 44 870 122 4864 FAX 44 870 122 4864 support apimac com http www apimac com clean_text 25 USD 15 USD Upgrade Five user site license 50 USD Academic discounts available Version Uploaded 21 Feb 2007 Requirements Any Macintosh Power Mac iBook x gt y PowerBook eMac iMac Mac mini MacBook MacBook Pro and Mac Pro running Mac OS X 10 2 or newer Universal binary uses 16 1 MB hard drive space Strengths Easy to install learn and use Weaknesses Lack of a glossary to define the function of the filters For a demo of this product http www apimac com downloads index php A shareware reminder window appears and forces you to wait for some seconds every time you open the program and some options as Fix Paragraphs and Remove Returns are unavailable 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 4 9 MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 70 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Disclaimer When briefly reviewing share freeware I will often use the developer s product functions and features desc
82. e I need some tool that that kills the following types of intruding garbage I had to find the secrete message by selecting each set of intruding items and using MS word Find Replace feature delete them e g lt SPAN style FONT SIZE 12pt COLOR black gt lt div class MsoNormal style TEXT ALIGN center mso margin top alt auto mso margin bottom alt auto align center gt lt FONT face Times New Roman color black size 3 gt lt SPAN style FONT SIZE 12pt COLOR black gt amp nbsp lt SPAN gt lt FONT gt lt div gt mso margin top alt auto mso margin bottom alt lt div class MsoNormal style auto gt lt FONT face Arial color black size 3 gt lt SPAN style FONT SIZE 12pt COLOR black FONT FAMILY Arial gt In mid December your paper reviewer 1s listed in the Preliminary Program lt SPAN gt lt FONT gt lt div gt Conclusion Overall impression of the product good and bad points Don t forget to include support issues if you experienced any during your evaluation of the product The products differ on whether you need to use one filter cleanup facet at a time or are able to group them for a particular task Recommendation There are a number of products that serve to various degrees of detail the same overall function as Clean Text These include the Selznick product for Eudora 18 and Text Soap 5 5 3 http www unmarked com textsoap a 30 product Other than the lack of a glossary of terms I
83. e Path Navigator below the browser v Enable Applications menu _ Show icon previews on network volumes Command clicking opens New window Spring loaded folders Desktop clicking opens New window v Enable spring loaded folders Key Actions Smart Sort Order EEE o Return Key Open Fe Applications 0 25 1 25 2 25 Enter Key Start Rename TA Packages Folders Press Space Bar to open Immediately Files PF4 General Preferences PF4 Browser Preferences __ MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 82 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 More Reading 7 things I like about Path Finder for OS X www 43tolders com topics pathfinder Joshua Scott Emmons Jigersharks Taking Path Finder 10 4 only http www oreillynet com mac blog 2006 06 tigersharks taking path_finder html CMP OTC 131V0356055S0O amp ATT Tigersharks Taking Path Finder 10 4 only It is rare that one individual is responsible for creating such a rich and powerful program Kudos to its developer Now Apple and Microsoft are you listening Steve Gehrman MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 83 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 created by 7am ft se Cael n Easily create graphics for your web site with The Web Graphics Creator Page headers logos virtual ecovers animated flipbooks and buttons Over 2 000 built in objects Create an ad like this gt for your own services in minutes The WGC includes the only 3D eCover maker for us Mac users
84. e So and So Company Inc The Mail Factory import process treated anything following the comma as a separate data field separator I m not sure I can resolve this issue except on a case by case basis To do so would require manually adding the word Inc to each address to which it applied Alternatively my solution ignore the absence of Inc Again not a Mail Factory Problem To Zoom or Target Zooming in contact view to tune an address on an envelope does not focus on the selected field Sender or Addressee It would be nice to zoom to the spot I want to fix having previously selected it Conclusion Mail Factory from BeLight Software is an excellently crafted program that produces great looking labels and envelopes with a minimum of effort Its interface like the other programs in the Printfolio suite is clean and intuitive The software s rich and varied features are conveniently accessible but never obtrusive My testing showed the program was solid and stable Perhaps due to the import problems caused by my FMP databases I did not notice any rough edges in the interface or gotcha s that interfered with its use There s a bit of that in other reviewers comments but I found nothing in such Google posted reviews worthy of repeating For a change I have no serious suggestions for improvements to this product BeLight has been shipping regular updates for all of its products responding to user feed
85. e Web Graphics Creator Page headers logos virtual ecovers animated flipbooks and buttons Over 2 000 built in objects Create an ad like this gt for your own services in minutes The WGC includes the only 3D eCover maker for us Mac users Visit www WebGraphicsCreator com buy it for just 39 95 Download instantly MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 6 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Setter from the CEO The Race Towards Green Energy and a higher standard of living By Robert Pritchett Caution this is going to be a long article and you may not like what I have to say Again you may With all the talk about going green you d think we d just stepped back in time to the 60 s with tie dyed flowerchildren and getting back to nature This tends to get a bit personal for me because we have a daughter who s birthday happens to fall on Earth Day each year Have you ever gotten the itch to put into practice those things you ve been preaching How efficient is building a business from scratch using the Apple based technologies we have been professing in macCompanion magazine ever since its inception We want to find out first hand You may be able to help Sometimes we look at other technologies that are intended to improve the lifestyle and living conditions of mankind in this magazine I have been deeply involved in renewable energy recently because my Volkswagon Bug goes through sticker shock every
86. e a copy of Acrobat 8 Okay open your scanned PDF ues Advanced Window Help 9 9 i 3RFS 2007 Patron Comment amp Markup gt 1t a graphics file In Acrobat A Sound Too TI _ TouchUp Text Tool H Select amp Zoom E F Touchup Object Tool l i z Advanced Editi gt aes You will Use the Typewriter aea oO leo cy o ona Measuring gt Me a tool to type text anywhere ona f s s J ar TERE o A 4 OF Object Data e Enable Typewriter Tool in Adobe Reader PDF page Organizations sometimes provide PDF versions of their paper forms Customize Toolbars Hide Typewriter Toolbar without interactive form fields T want to help the 2007 39 p making them harder to use Tumbleweed Music RS i Festival to succeed Metue wo unless printed The Typewriter qon heee Mysie FS tool provides a simple solution OL E LRE ET aie Patron 50 00 for filling out such forms Donor 100 009 4 Contributor 250 00 tC Major Contributor gt 250 Make your check payable to Three Rivers Folklife Society Please send me two tickets to the check one Saturday Evening Concer Choose Tools gt eT a Typewriter gt Show Typewriter Toolbar and then click the Typewriter button e Click where you want to type and then begin typing Press Enter to add a second line e To change the text size select the text and click the Decrease Text Size button or the Increase Text Size button in the Typewriter toolbar MP
87. e a minor discomfort to heavy MSW users I m guessing it will not take long to adapt to them e There are new file formats changes designed to protect against macro based do bads Gone is doc and here we come with docx and docm the later for all document that contain macros e Many of the often used functions but not their menu shortcuts have been reorganized according to the task and function in a way that is less confusing to the user Under each tab in what was the menu you get a collection of buttons list boxes etc to help accomplish the task 1n question This book tells it all MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 58 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Take note the best way to use this book 1s not by reading it as I did Reviewers compulsively don t want to miss anything Instead read a chapters or part of one a little at a time at time Or perhaps just browse in the areas of interest until you find something that you ve wanted to do in MSW that eluded you For me topics that stuck a chord were creating bookmarks working with long documents and using mail merge Then right away not tomorrow do the virtual exercises The book is full of good examples of the various functions and methods discussed in each section They are easy to follow and help you in understanding the material of a given section These are not explicit tutorials in a how to sense The reader should walk though the steps for any given action wit
88. e couldn t be easier either Just put the iPod in and snap the two sides together It is as easy as that and it has a strong seal If you don t know how to get it open they have a diagram on the side of the packaging Another great feature is that you can use a regular Apple dock with it while it s in the case I ve had a problem before when I had to take the iPod out of the case in order to dock it The screen protector does a great job resisting scratches It is the same with the case After using it for a while you could still say the case was brand new no signs of damage or scratches Even under the case it s clean With some cases dust and other particles can get up cracks in the case but nothing got into this case The rubber like material makes it easy to hold and does an awesome job of protecting the iPod If you aren t sure they have the right colour for you don t worry They have a colour for every iPod Nano 2G including the limited edition red Nano Conclusion I have enjoyed this case a lot I can t think of a thing that could be bad about this product A strong iPod case that is stylish and functional should be enough to satisfy any iPod user s needs Awesome job Vakaadoo Don t change a thing Recommendation I would recommend this case to anyone with an iPod Nano 2G Even if you have a case already I recommend you check this one out You will like it MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 69 of 135 Volume 5 Issu
89. e current view A folder s contents can be filtered by document kind This allows you to view and work with for example just JPEGs or just JPEGs and TIFFs It s a better alternative than sorting by kind in the Finder or even in EasyFind MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 79 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Tabs Tabs are easily the most Documents Musicy Moviesy Pictures Desktop Applications powerful new feature in PF4 Its ll eae ques ai bee piven main benefit is reducing the Data Users kschmitt Bone number of windows you have open when you work in a haphazard multiple projects at one fashion This feature amazes me TI can just see how much easier file management can be without overlapping layers of windows cluttering up even my 22 screen Better yet every tab has the entire directory structure of the opened folder thus you can access any folder quickly just by clicking on them a Faster File Copying Path Finder s progress bars contain more information than just a blah graph The copy engine 1s different Apple s has always been slow Bookmarks Bar e g Tabbed Folder s Tabs are easily the most powerful new feature in PF4 Its main benefit is reducing the number of windows you have open when you work in a haphazard multiple projects at one fashion This feature amazes me just how much better file management becomes without overlapping layers of windows cluttering
90. e healtt Data November 1995 69 5 gt Use of Diagnostic Radionuclides Size FJAKR Radionuclides in nuclear medicine hps ora publicinformation ate a4840 html he following question was answered by an expert in the appropriate field Mate in Size 17 27 KR Popiah Buffet Recipes Other Terms Searched Popiah Party Popiah Buffet Most of the hits from DEVON were to blogs that did not contain detailed recipes but there were a few good hits These Chinese crepes are wonderful and the 30 45 minutes and follow up gave me some fine cooking ideas I did not choose to search Chinese Crepe Recipes but would have if I d come up dry with the other terms I also got 11 200 hits in Google something I did not follow up on Nuclear Energy and Global Warming The search term gave me 75 documents in DEVON AGENT which I did NOT need to narrow down based on reading the digests When searched in Google I got 2 130 000 hits many of which in the first ten pages of the Google search results were commentary on commentaries Both searches were fast but having digests available made it easier to check and chose the DEVONagent hits I was planning on doing some Boolean Searches on this topic but could figure out how to better focus the query Cyber and Security Locks I am planning a macC article on this topic and decided to use the opportunity to get better familiar with the topic My initial search with DEVONagent primarily re
91. e manual a brochure outlining all the products in the Sibelius family and a sheet titled Latest information and technical help I should mention that for regular purchasers the box may not also include the Reference manual but was included in mine for review purposes Installation and registration was a very simple quick and straightforward process using the serial number provided I really appreciated that when compared to previous experiences I have had in trying to install much smaller and cheaper notation programs After Sibelius finished loading a dialog called Playback and Input Devices appeared with Kontakt Player listed first in the Device column Clicking on the test button allows you to confirm whether or not the chosen device 1s working Just to make sure it was indeed using the Kontakt player I opened one of the many scores provided to have it play through Well the only glitch was that even after installing the Kontakt Player Silver and choosing it in the Playback and Input Devices window Sibelius still defaulted to the built in DLS General Midi player which is not what I wanted to use The solution was quite simple however Under the P ay menu I chose substitute devices and chose Kontakt Player Clicking OK will temporarily change it to use the Kontakt player whereas clicking on the reset sounds button will permanently change it Choosing an input device my MIDI keyboard w
92. e over Recommendation Everything in this book can be read on Steve Talbott s website but if you would like to have it all in one place and you would like to sit down and read a book offline then this one might be one you might enjoy regarding how we may put computer technology into proper perspective MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 48 of 125 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 iPod and iTunes for Dummies 4th edition Reviewed by Dr Eric Flescher QW WILEY nes l f i i tra a TE 1 a i a a L iPod amp iTu KNOWLEDGE FOR GENERATIONS Authors Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes http www dummies com WileyCDA DummiesTitle productCd 0470048948 html Released October 2006 Pages 432 22 USD 26 CND 15 GBP 17 Euro ISBN 0470048948 Novice Intermediate Advanced Strengths Covers a lot of territory about 1Tunes and 1Pod Covers topics in breadth and depth Easy to read but informative Weaknesses Only black and white but easy to read The iPod and its software iTunes have been a hit for millions of computer users and is the MP3 player of choice There is no manual for the iPod or iTunes While both the hardware and the software are easy to use and easy to understand there are music lovers who want to know more about their devices right away instead of waiting to hear from a friend how to find or do something That is where iPod and iTunes for Dummies 4th edition fills the void While m
93. e rest of the PIM stuff Tab Delimited Text Use this format when exporting from FMP or a PIM and then import them into Mail Factory Specifically in FMP you select the fields you want exported Title Salutation Middle Initial Optional Affiliation Street Address Street Address_2 In Principal Zip Country S S OS Such address parts need to be in the correct order to simplify mapping the imported records to the Mail Factory Since you can export a selected part found set or all of a FMP database to a tab text file this is a good way to get started Doing so is an initial minor hassle but was easy to do Indeed exporting addresses is better than cutting and pasting them individually each time you want use an address in Mail Factory By the way if your database was configured to keep the city state zip information as one field you Il need to create a custom address template If you in days gone my have a mixed set of data you need to fix each individual address that contains a combined city state zip as you need it Despite my rapid success with exporting tabbed text from FileMaker Pro exporting addresses directly to Mail Factory was more trouble I used my 3000 items professional contacts database for testing My problems were based on the structure of the databases I created My contacts databases whose initial content was created on my first Macintosh have evolved perhaps mutated into my current FMP contact databases
94. e were not only free or shareware general purpose browsers but also browsers capable of doing simultaneous multi site searches All you need to do is browse at the PureMac site http www pure mac com Pd originally asked myself that question in my August of 2005 macC review of Version 1 7 and working with version 2 1 just reinforces my belief of the software s value Despite the fact that the software 1s aimed a heavy information search users such as Journalists Information analysts scientists and lawyers it is an outstanding tool for doing genealogical research or searching for obscure recipes or all about that great Celtic band The Chieftains I have also used the software as a high end interface to Google and MSN Search Working With the Product In part paraphrased from the users manual Okay after I dragged the application to my application folder I was ready to start using it No I didn t initially read the manual having continued to use Version 1 7 since I reviewed it I had enough confidence that I understood how the software functioned from past experience Some of my search experiences are reported later in this review FIRST PRINCIPLE OF A SUCCESSFUL QUERY Make the query precise and unambiguous DEVONagent s tools for clarifying your query are really quite simple and can help you obtain a high percentage of useful results rather than a confusing mess of irrelevant results MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 86 of 135
95. eased speed and superior conversion quality using the Photoshop Camera Raw plug in which now adds support for JPEG and TIFF formats new tools including Fill Light and Dust Busting compatibility with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software and support for over 150 camera models Enhanced Vanishing Point with 3D support Edit in perspective on multiple surfaces even those connected at angles other than 90 degrees with the enhanced Vanishing Point which also lets you measure in perspective wrap graphics images and text around multiple planes and output 2D planes as 3D models Wide range of supported formats Import and export an even greater range of file formats including PSD BMP DICOM Cineon JPEG JPEG2000 OpenEXR PNG Targa and TIFF To see all features http www adobe com products photoshop photoshopextended I have absolutely no idea how much better CS3 1s over CS2 When I was digging around to try and find out I found this really useful article http www barefeats com quad16 html It was based on the CS3 beta so if anything I would assume that the performance 1s even better The article is full of interesting graphs like this Photoshop 100MB MP6 actions rime in Seconds SHORTER barme ans faster History States 1 Mac Pro CS3 35 Mac Pro cs2 U 50 Quad cs csa J ss Quad G5 cs2 Bd History States 20 i Mac Pro cs3 f 35 Mac Pro C52 50 Quadascs IB J 66 Quad GScs2
96. ed Path Finder is a great investment for anyone who wants to have a more than a couple of clues about the files they work with It s not for everyone if you re stumped by how to Trash a document or can t remember how to save your letter into a specific folder then Apple s Finder will suit you nicely More Screen Shots You re not supposed to read them just be impressed by the rich choices offered 8 General Preferences Browser Preferences fano euD gt a Nead E 9 ee Er f al au Show All Previous Next General Browser Show All Previous Next General Browser Starting Directory v Enable Reveal in Path Finder global hot key 3 F1 Key HH Home _ Launch Path Finder automatically after log in Open new windows in List view v Confirm before quitting Path Finder __ Quit the Finder automatically at launch v Open new browser on launch _ Use brushed metal appearance Hide Finder s desktop Mi Use small scroll bars v Show zoom effects when opening files _ Double click when clicking icon v Show warning before emptying the Trash _ Open mounted volumes in new window M Enable quick disk image mounting _ Always open folders in a new window Enable bug reporter _ Arrow keys loop around when reaching end K gt Select entire row in list view _ Disable superfluous visual effects z v Browser accepts window activating mouse click v Enable global application menu _ Position th
97. eeled 40 miles between charges and 40 mile distance vehicles Our eyes are on the muscle car aluminum Lotus body Zap X that can do 360 miles between charges can go 155 miles per hour and can recharge in 10 minutes using house current projected availability into 2008 They are looking for dealers and have established a US HQ in Sonoma County CA They have been in business for 12 years We want to become a dealer Their on board computer system 1s Microsoft based however HIGH PERFORMANCE ELECTRIC I a I a We are looking at other transportation options as well such as offering gas to biofuel conversions http en wikipedia org wiki Biofuel and gas to electric conversions http auto howstuffworks com electric car5 htm Others have been doing it and we can too Commuter Cars in Spokane WA can only create about 10 cars a year without more funding The Tango is a 4 wheel vehicle that can go 80 miles between charges and is street legal http www commutercars com Green Car Company has relocated to Kirkland WA and sells and supports a variety of hybrid and green vehicles besides Electrics http www greencarco com The latest All Electric they are selling is the Kurrent Neighborhood Electric Vehicle from Italy They are willing to work with us MC Electric Vehicles sells and supports Zenn Evader Columbia Cars Tiger Trucks Dynasty Motors E Ride Industries and Canadian EV vehicles in Portland OR Seattle an
98. elf Why are you reviewing this book about a piece of peecee software I had to think Hard work but it only took a minute First and foremost MSW Microsoft Word is my primary working tool Although I recently flirted with NeoOffice 2 1 see the May 2007 macC I can be best described as an old dog as far as my word processing habits 1s concerned Office 2008 for Mac is coming in the second half of 2007 Microsoft press releases state that the new version of our productivity suite is designed to work seamlessly for users on either Intel based Macs or PowerPCs I wanted to learn more I have several options all but one poor e Run out and buy both an Intel Macintosh and Office 2007 Sorry I ve neither won the lottery nor yet save enough for my grandkids college education e Borrow a PC and a copy of Office 2007 and play with that Life it too short for those kinds of diversions e Read a good book and hope to get a feel for what MS promised for us the Macintosh later this year As others and I have noted previously Microsoft s documentation is terrible Using the help files at least for MSW 2004 even if I found the features I needed I still have trouble using them Word 2007 The Missing Manual helps you master Word s redesigned user interface and gives you exactly what you need to create unique attractive and effective documents In addition the author has written a comparable volume Word 2007 for Starters The M
99. ell crafted Macintosh program install it and use it One thing that worked was not mentioned in the documentation I could drop and drag a document for cleanup to the applications icon in the dock Good one less set of clicks i e Actions Replace Presets ff 1 had a lot of fun with the replace feature it s almost as flexible as the one in MS Word I used it to clean out redundant information in email messages You know multiple copies of contact information and those with Find whole words only Regular expression annoying AOL tags Match case Help or No Help The brief downloaded help file was with very limited It only contained Create a preset and a Find whole words only Trouble shooting assistance guide The downloaded Regular expression document was identical to the information in the help T Match case file I accessed from the application menu with What I Did I had a number of weirdly formatted email messages and a few rich test formatted documents that Regular expression were full of garbage So I tested them Match case Find whole words only LILI I found the brand new Quick Clean action let me solve with with a single click the most common cleaning problems for text found in email messages strangely text coded documents and web pages After cleanup then I could further reduce clutter with the replace feature Find whole words o
100. ents Windows 98 2nd Edition Windows 2000 gt 4 XP or Vista 64 MB RAM 10 MB hard drive space 800 x J 600 screen resolution Mac version planned future release Strengths Built in word processor demo version available for download install and run WriteWay on up to two computers includes graphics to help visualize people and places Weaknesses No Mac version at this time some windows don t tile requiring the user to select a back window to see all the contents don t usually expect to see a three act format to organize novels a format more typical for screenplays Comparison Table http creative writing software review toptenreviews com Getting Started I downloaded the software from the product website and installed it on a 3GHz desktop running Windows 2000 Professional and on a 3 GHz laptop running Windows XP No problems encountered on either computer Although it doesn t require an Internet connection to activate the software I used that method for both installations it was painless both times After launching the software I decided to create a new book so I selected File New Book from the program menu and was able to specify the book title filename and genre I entered the information for my novel and had to fill out information in the Book Properties window MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 127 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 The first tab of the window let me enter the Author Nam
101. er Reviewer s Name box 3 In the Enter Reviewer s Name box enter the name of the person responsible for the comment You can also use the pull down list to select the name of a reviewer If you want to go to the next comment leave the box blank or select the name Any Reviewer 4 Click on the Next button MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 32 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Alternatively if there are no comments in the document you will jump to the beginning of the document If you modify the technique a bit you can jump to a comment relative to the comment at which you are currently located This is done as follows v Choose Go To from the Edit menu press Cmd G or press F5 Word displays the Go To tab of the Find and Replace dialog box v Inthe left side of the dialog box choose Comment This informs Word what you want to go to The Enter Page Number box is relabeled as the Enter Reviewer s Name box v Inthe Enter Reviewer s Name box enter a plus or minus sign followed by the number of comments you want to jump Plus is forward minus 1s backward For instance you could jump forward two comments by entering 2 Word changes the Next button to a Go To button v Click on the Go To button Alan Wyatt s Macwordtips 2007 03 24 19 20 11 04 http www macwordtips com jumping to _a_comment html SSS SSS SSS SSS SES SSS SSS Understanding MS Word s Click and Type Features Word for the Mac includes a feature known
102. erriding virtual std exception exceotion throw amp error looser throw specifier for virtual const char LException what const error overriding virtual const char std exception whatQ const throw amp warning unused variable err Build failed 5 errors 1 warning Build failed 5 errors 1 warning Failed L105 Modifying Our Project Source Files At this point we will need to actually modify CodeWarrior files You may wish to make copies of these files so that the changes we make will not affect other CodeWarrior projects The first error is simply Xcode not finding the header file lt ansi prefix mach h gt Clicking on this error will display the location in PP Macros h where this file is included The simplest fix here is to comment out the if include else and endif lines as so if MACH _ include lt ansi prefix mach h gt else define dest os mac os endif MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 19 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 This leaves us with four displayed errors which are actually only two errors both occurring inside the LException class Its base class std exception has throw specifiers for its virtual destructor and its what method whereas LException does not This is remedied by modifying the LException h header and LException cp source file so that these two method prototypes appear as virtual LException throw Virtual const c
103. erse characters Reverse each word Reverse words MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Definition of the Software Filters Functions Many of the functions what they did were obvious from their name but not all Alas the brief Help Manual I downoOQaded did not help I would have welcomed a glossary an actual definition of the function of different filters with an example Unfortunately I am not of the school of if the developer wanted me to use a function he would have explained it I thrive on glossaries and tutorials Indeed I was troubled by the lack of explanation of the difference between paste and paste over or how copy all differed from both of those However with the limited set of test samples I could not explicitly determine the differences I m not a great believer of things being intuitively obvious An Unforeseen Limitation to the Product Although the product base on limited testing does everything it claims to I am greedy and unhappy But First why limited testing I don t keep text formatted gibberish containing content on my hard drive but immediately clean up with the Selznick product I had to await some chain emails full of layered quotes layered forward messages before I could test Clean Text One came just in time and of course I cleaned it up ASAP I like the developer s example so I m using it as an illustration Page 72 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 I m unhappy becaus
104. ert Pritchett O REILLY Author Scott Berkun http www scottberkun com Publisher O Reilly http www oreilly com catalog 9780596527051 Released May 2007 Pages 192 25 USD 33 CND 15 GBP 19 38 Euro ISBN 10 0596527055 vil ISBN 13 9780596527051 Audience For anyone interested in looking at what drives innovation r od aod gt x lt Strengths Demystifying epiphanies and challenging misplaced faith in myths Weaknesses One or two cuss words At the time of the review the http www mythsofinnovation com website did not work And the book does have a typo or two that snuck past the printers Introduction In The Myths of Innovation bestselling author Scott Berkun takes a careful look at innovation history including the software and Internet Age to reveal how ideas truly become successful innovations truths that people can apply to today s challenges Using dozens of examples from the history of technology business and the arts you ll learn how to convert the knowledge you have into ideas that can change the world e Why all innovation is a collaborative process e How innovation depends on persuasion e Why problems are more important than solutions How the good innovation is the enemy of the great e Why the biggest challenge is knowing when it s good enough In this book Scott Berkun has done an excellent job bringing google searches and his own research to print regarding innovation Si
105. ertising Information Contact Robert Pritchett our Ad and Marketing Director for working through the process of advertising with us rpritchett maccompanion com We are the Macintosh Professional Network MPN Limited Liability Corporation LLC MPN LLC continues to evolve ever since its creation in 1996 as a way to reach out to those who use computers for a living in an effort to make their lives easier and their work both enjoyable and profitable We also provide monthly book hardware and software reviews at 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 long 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 to spread it Our suggestions over 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 love The macCompanion staff 1s an all volunteer team of writers and reviewers from many parts of the globe and t
106. escription From the website The ID is a mid sized messenger bag designed to be used on its own as a messenger bag capable of swallowing everything you need throughout your day or with the addition of our Brain Cell hard sided laptop case a secure laptop messenger bag that cradles your laptop and its accessories The front flap features a large pocket lined with 200 denier nylon Dyneema ripstop fabric a tough impossible to tear fabric and closed by a 8 YKK Splash Proof zipper It s the perfect pocket for storing items you ll need quick access to such as plane tickets or your passport On both sides of the ID are pockets designed to securely carry portable electronic devices such as cell phones 1Pods MP3 players or PDAs Lined with Ultrasuede and closed by 8 YKK splash proof Uretech zippers these snug pockets also provide scratch free storage for eyewear Both pockets feature a tiny opening at the P beginning of the zipper for your iPod MP3 earbuds cord to feed through without getting scrunched The right side of the ID features an exterior water bottle or umbrella pocket that can be cinched down with compression straps if not in use Under the front flap of the ID you ll find a 8 YKK zippered pocket and behind the front section of the bag an open top pouch with five organizer pockets sized perfectly for pens your laptop power supply and other small accessories Three small plastic rings inside the bag offer a
107. ews not just page numbers so it 1s much easier to locate content and switch to that specific page It is another very nice feature but most useful for people working on larger projects manuals instead of short pieces brochures or ads One last important new feature worth mentioning export to XHTML This is nice when you produce a monthly magazine like macCompanion and use DreamWeaver like macCompanion to create the online version of the issue This support in QuarkXPress was a big advantage over InDesign CS2 and I really appreciate how much easier it will make my like as a desktop publisher and web designer MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 101 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Conclusion This update is what Adobe needed to catch back up to Quark The improved UI and new features will please the Adobe faithful at least until Quark enhances their product again I know some people fail to appreciate the benefits of competition but I believe Adobe s and Quark s drive to please and keep their customers will only make things better and easier for everyone involved in with publishing on a small or large scale Recommendation The user interface improvements alone merit an upgrade from CS2 to CS3 although the new features will convince many people to switch from another product to InDesign I ve enjoyed using InDesign CS2 and really like the improvements in CS3 and heartily recommend people upgrade to this version Absolutely wort
108. ff You Need to Know An Introduction to AppleScript http www macfanatic net by Matt Brewer Copyright 2007 Mac OS X has several scripting capabilities built right in Basic shell scripting Perl Python PHP and Ruby are ones that come to mind most often especially if you are coming from the Unix Linux realm However there are two other important features to note that are deeply integrated in the Mac OS AppleScript and Automator with its introduction in Tiger Pl be talking about Automator in a future article Conceptual Overview AppleScript has been around for ages and has support in most of the mature full featured applications today AppleScript can be used to write applications complete with buttons sliders and more by creating a new AppleScript Application in XCode For more information about AppleScript visit http developer apple com applescript for Apple s Documentation and The Apple Script Source Book with tons of examples at http applescriptsourcebook com Our First AppleScript Application We are now going to get down and dirty with AppleScript You can download the completed script here http www macfanatic net software samplecode convert itunes applescript zip I firmly believe the best way to learn is to just get started so with a few brief notes we ll get started AppleScript is an elegant and simple language There are several different ways to accomplish the same simple task because of thi
109. g and Education We will be offering classroom environments for Seminars and educational opportunities for renewable energy activities with possible scheduling with the Solar Living institute http www solarliving org in 2008 We hope to establish Renewable Energy Usergroups and provide a place for them to meet Transportation Options The Discovery Channel has been airing the future car series but I think they went wrong the wrong road and came up with some incorrect conclusions when they started in on air compression technologies http dsc discovery com convergence future car future car html MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 11 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 We ve explored the Stirling engine http en wikipedia org wiki Stirling engine and hydrogen systems http en wikipedia org wiki Hydrogen_fueled_internal_combustion_engine They both have a ways to go before becoming viable solutions And it will be quite a while before we can have a small nuclear energy device as a power source 1n a vehicle Once All Electric vehicles are made available to the general public for highway use we will be able to sell those We MPN LLC are already an affiliate with ZAP Zero Air Pollution on our website http www zapworld com default aspx We just need to obtain a New Vehicle Dealer license to sell on the road vehicles Watch the video at http www zapworld com ZAP World aspx id 4692 Zap is famous for those 3 wh
110. g the software With a new story ready to go you see the Book Wizard with the overall story structure listed as Acts I II and III at the side of the wizard To add a chapter move the mouse over Act I press the right mouse button and select Add Chapter Although it 1s optional you should enter the plot elements before starting to write the chapter I did so then moved the mouse pointer over Chapter 1 at the left of the screen pressed the right mouse button and selected Add Scene This opened the built in word processor so I could start writing my story MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 128 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 The word processor not only includes area to enter the story it also shows the book plot act plot and chapter plot A nice way to insure you stay on track with your outline without having to switch to another screen Nice touch and useful Oh and you can resize the plot section to have more room to display the actual story again another nice touch WM Wiiteway 1 gt Protessional t Fie Sook Ect Mew Wirio Help WAG js g ef Of BO aie ss al 4 a fea 6 wem m h Neewereert geotares sense of pime pre ur Soes it escalate Hertme wm Preece wel OF THE HUNTER Reference So met jenere ubat meeds m hippea i Guts snok hept oe npe tD ge back ond chock om the candtion of meda recotiat Aia frees Femne snd his hores cfc Sere cf pee Wadd hee So cee chren sper Dey beret he thee Lord mial Shh p
111. h the book propped up next to your screen I did this translating the information to MSW 2004 and was surprised how quickly I got comfortable with using MS Word in ways that were previously awkward And Now the Details The book is divided up into chapters that deal with the more and further along the less routine talks you want to perform Starting with the basics the books walks you through the basics of accommodating the changes to and using MSW In later chapters the book gets its teeth into core complex materials e g setting margins customizing columns and formatting sections using style sets Finally there are chapters on customizing Word changing the workspace using macros creating your own themes and templates and so on Although all parts of this book are well organized outlined and logical many of the topics were not personally compelling This is no fault of the book but rather is the result of how and for what I use MSW Many of you will find the chapters that I was not impressed by useful and compelling The Introduction Perhaps the best part of this book Part One Word Basics for Simple Documents Chapter 1 Creating Opening and Saving Documents Chapter 2 Entering and Editing Text Chapter 3 Setting Up the Document Margins Page Breaks and More Chapter 4 Formatting EA gt Fabrikam Journal Microsoft Word Text e Insert Page Layout References Mailings Review View 3 A ob i 10 A
112. h the minor expense when upgrading from an earlier version and highly recommended MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 102 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Mail Factory 2 5 By Harry doc Babad Belight lt 3 BeLight Software Ltd PO Box 47 65005 Odessa Ukraine 380 48 738 08 49 info belightsoft com http www belightsoft com products mailfactory overview ph 40 USD for the download with an added 9 USD S H or the physical product a CD Academic Price 28 USD Released February 8 2007 Requirements Mac OS 10 2 or later Universal binary 50 MB Hard Drive Space Printer Strengths An absolutely easy to learn labeling application suitable for creating addresses or sheets of labels Importing addresses a problems with version 1 x have been corrected enhancing its usefulness and flexibility Weaknesses Nothing worth mentioning here upfront Previous Reviews Reviewed by Harry doc Babad and Ted Bade http www maccompanion com archives september2004 Shareware MailFactory html For a demo of this product http www belightsoft com download download php 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 4 9 Introduction When Ted and I previously reviewed this product it had two primary weaknesses First it only acce
113. har what const throw As we next compile Xcode generates an error in LCommander cp not understanding the old style header file HIToolbox h Comment out this include and replace with Caroon n if MACH include lt HIToolbox HIToolbox h gt Fincelude Carbon h gt else include lt Balloons h gt endif Further on we get an error in the LSt ream class in overloads of the lt lt and gt gt operators In particular Xcode does not accept the type short double Here we merely comment these lines out as so LStream operator lt lt short double inNum Le this lt lt double inNum 77 rour Eas ig LStream amp operator gt gt short double amp outNum ya double num Ehio num outNum short double num recura CS Finally we pass the headers and begin compiling the source files You ll note how much slower Xcode is relative to CodeWarrior The first source file we run into trouble with is In UDebugging cp with a complaint locating the file PP Notes 222 doc As this is not a critical file we may simply comment this one out as well if PP Suppress Notes 222 include PP Notes 222 doc a endif MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 20 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Compilation succeeds but we are left with a plethora of link errors This is due to the fact that our Xcode project is lacking the Carbon framework We need to add Carbon framew
114. hardly what you could call an expert when it comes to photo editing MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 117 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 I had always wanted Photoshop although I couldn t really have told you why It seemed like one of those things that I should have even though I knew that I wouldn t really be able to do it justice To be honest it was inevitable that I would get it first I got a Mac then a 23 Apple Cinema Display then a Nikon D80 so Photoshop was a natural addition Not for one minute though had I appreciated how huge it was in terms of product features instructions and guides tutorials books seminars disciples forums and followers It has been like opening the door to a whole new world Oh yes it makes my photographs look better as well I really couldn t do the exceptional features of Photoshop justice and to be honest there are so many really good reviews and tutorials around on the internet by people that actually know what they are doing so it seems that the best I can do 1s share my experience and observations with you Let s start with the price it is expensive Actually it is very expensive At 649 the non extended version is still a lot of money I couldn t even say if it was worth it or not as that is going to depend totally on your own circumstances but what I can say without any hesitation is that is is a totally amazing feeling to take a RAW image mess about with Non
115. hat Apple had 68 9 of the MP3 player sales in that same period MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 26 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 I post this information because I believe it indicates a trend People are moving to the MacOS This is good for Apple and for their dedicated customers Growth in Apple sales means that people are finding Macintosh computers a viable alternative to the slew of Window s based machines As more people move to the Mac platform so will software and hardware vendors which is a good thing for all Mac users Let s hope this trend continues Another amazing iPod appliance You probably heard of the George Forman Grill But did you know that you can buy the George Forman iGrill This grill includes an amplifier and speakers so you can play your tunes as you cook If it s too much to believe check out the ad http www nt com product index jsp productId 2615193 amp siteID ZqMOmWHn60 O36ITO4YdAi62 KHjCpohA As I look at this culinary wonder I ask myself what band will release the album 1Tunes to cook by Perhaps a greener Apple One of the more interesting news items I have been following has been GreenPeace s attack on Apple They have publicly criticized Apple for it s lack of concern for the environment and the use of many toxic chemicals They even hosted a protest at a MacWorld Expo in London which they were apparently kicked out of While I don t doubt that Apple is not a
116. he accompanying music score that was written for it or write your own I viewed one of the videos and found the accompanying music score to be of quite a decent quality I do think this is yet another great tool that comes with Sibelius for those who are keen on writing film scores I need to mention that as I was playing the music to the video I noticed lots of clicks and pops I then closed the two other Sibelius notation projects I had currently open and just in case I also quit any other programs I had running which I didn t need Then I quit Sibelius and re opened the score and video and then the music played fine Just something to keep in mind That may be a bit of a glitch but there is an easy solution The handbook also covers Parts Worksheet Creator for music teachers Guitar tab Exporting graphics this allows you to export all or part of your score into another program Scanning Opening files from other programs and the Espressivo feature which uses artificial intelligence to create a more human like performance of your music I checked out the sample score before Espressivo was used and after and was impressed by the difference in performance This feature can be easily applied to any score And of course once you are done exporting audio is done simply by choosing the export option under the file menu The handbook goes on to describe further features of Sibelius by listing t
117. hem and where they can be found in the Reference manual for more detailed information This is a very handy feature as it allows you to quickly find what you are looking for and read the relevant sections in the Reference manual MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 125 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 I found the sounds in the Kontakt Silver Player to be of quite a good quality but you can always upgrade to Gold if desired The last part of the handbook is called How to and basically gives you very helpful pointers on how to set up pretty much any kind of score in Sibelius from early music to jazz Conclusion Sibelius is an incredibly sophisticated yet easy to use notation software program It will allow you to do anything you want to do in the world of notation Recommendation For anyone who is keen on writing their own scores for whatever ensemble of their choosing without having any limitations on creativity Sibelius is most definitely the way to go As always however always try before you buy and Sibelius lets you do that with the demo CD ROM MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 126 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 WriteWay Professional Version 1 6 Reviewed by Mike Hubbartt 2007 UTA ENA whee ome Ly WrileWay John Haack JT Enterprises LLC Support WriteWayPro com http www writewaypro com Released 2006 79 USD Download 86 USD CD ROM 30 day demo 6 2MB available for download Requirem
118. hey 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 macCompanion website 1s 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 many moving towards the Mac OS X environment 115 online search engines 269 countries and domains and 319 online robots have discovered us and continue to do so So far over 201 other websites have also linked to us Many of our readers have made our site one of their favorites While nearly 70 of our readership stops by for a quick visit via RSS feeds over 23 spend between 1 2 to 1 hours at a time going through over 250 different pages on our site mostly archives Many of those who quickly drop by come to get the monthly PDF issue of macCompanion Over 35GB of bandwidth was used in December 2005 alone for download purposes Previous months have averaged around 20GB Trend analysis indicates that will continue to increase as folks decide to Move to the Mac MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 134 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Advertising with macCompanion We have some advertising options you may choose from and mul
119. hoyle maccompanion com macCompanion Over the past two months we have been reviewing the steps needed for porting CodeWarrior projects to Xcode In Part I we outlined recommended preflighting adjustments to your CodeWarrior project and source code In Part I we continued by reviewing Xcode settings and using the Project Importer to convert the PowerPlant sample project Appearance mcp You can review these articles at e http www maccompanion com archives A pril2007web Goodies AccordingToHoyle html e http www maccompanion com archives May2007 Columns AccordingtoHoyle htm Open PowerPlant Metrowerks PowerPlant had been the dominant C application framework on the Macintosh for over a decade When Metrowerks short sighted parent company Freescale mindlessly ran CodeWarrior into the round it took PowerPlant to the grave with it Fortunately as Metrowerks was transitioning out of the Macintosh development market the PowerPlant framework was released into the public domain to allow developers to continue using and evolving it to remain viable on Xcode This includes both the PowerPlant and PowerPlant X frameworks as well as Constructor PowerPlant is held in SourceForge with Metrowerks alumni Isaac Wankerl and Ron Leichty as Project Administrators with a dozen developers currently active on the project Open PowerPlant can be downloaded from http sourceforge net projects open powerplant For over a year now Open PowerPlant has
120. ht 2003 2007 Page 92 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Side by side comparison views still needed When searching variations on a theme as I did for a year ago for search engines I would like to have the ability to display several search results side by side to more easily look for newly found items I would welcome a docucomp feature Feedback from the developer provided me with a possible solution You could of course open multiple search windows run different scans and compare the results That worked but a docucomp feature were make side by side comparisons easier to browse Note I d asked for this feature in my version 1 7 review A Glossary of Terms The developers use words like plugins and scanners in non traditional ways A glossary would be helpful Conclusion DEVONagent 2 1 remains a great search tool I ended up finding almost all of what I needed to know rapidly and with fewer irrelevant hits than by doing advanced Boolean query supported searches in Google I do at least 3 5 searches some simple and others complex every day I remained disappointed when searching for more esoteric technical information the kind provided by a reference librarian when I can afford one But that is a learning curve issue not the fault of the software Nevertheless after only a few searches I knew that this updated program remained a keeper The ability of the program to query multiple search engines simultaneously and to
121. ies of pictures as a movie but not capture a movie For a demo of this product http www freeverse com download select php name periscope amp platform osx Introduction Periscope is a program that gives you control of your external or built in iSight camera You can use it to snap an image based on a variety of different events including motions duration a script file and more It s a great utility and it works well If you have an iSight camera or a Macintosh with one built in you can use Periscope to automatically or manually for that matter capture images for you It 1s up to you to decide how to apply the controls and position the camera You can use these abilities for security or just for fun Once the image 1s captured Periscope offers some basic tools for saving the captured image MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 113 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 PERISCOPE gt Start Monitoring Share Review Capture a Picture whenever Camera sees Movement J OE Microphone hears noise O B Applescript is run Remote is pressed p Basic screen You can capture an image using one of five different ways First is the ability to snap a shot when motion occurs You can either have the software and camera watch the entire screen or a section of it Sensitivity to motion is set by moving a simple slider control so that an image is taken exactly when you want Set the sensitivity up to capture a
122. ions are a function of a problem looking for a solution with the best innovations looking at what customers want vs what engineering constraints or revolution is being pursued I read about the importance of prototyping and experimenting before rushing off to production MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 54 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 The last chapter deals with unintended consequences of innovative ideas and cites the fact that Orville Wright lived to see the plane originally intended for peaceful observation in war to replace the hot air balloon to be used to drop nuclear bombs on cities He missed out watching them used to fly into buildings The effects of dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane used to control typhus and malaria ended up creating collateral effects such as cats eating DDT laden lizards that died causing the rat population to increase and bringing back the threat of plague to humans Scott also created a table showing the good and bad effects not only of DDT but automobiles personal computers and cell phones The potato famine of 1845 in Ireland was triggered by the Clipper ship The 5 weeks that used to be the time to cross the Atlantic was enough time for the potato fungus to die Once the Clipper did the same trip in 12 days the fungus was still alive and caused the Great Potato Famine in Ireland Each innovation finally accepted by the public either eliminated or reduced existing jobs but created whole new in
123. issing Manual for users new to the software This book meets the high standards set by the series editors So I read this booking for possible oohs and ahs I could look forward to in a few months In this review I share both my thoughts on this on of the excellent Missing Manual series from both a potential Windows User and from a hopeful MS Word addict on the Macintosh I soon learned that the new Word is radically different from previous versions on both platforms an attention getting fact These differences were all made clear by Chris Grover in this book Check out Inside Microsoft Office 2008 for Macintosh http www microsoft com presspass features 2007 jan07 01 09Macworld mspx and Microsoft reveals details of Office 2008 for Mac http www macworld com news 2007 01 09 msftoffice index php MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 57 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Working with the Books Contents Okay I read on starting on page one and stopping at the index Note that the book assumes a small amount of PC knowledge on the part of the reader Fortunately to get the most out of the book I had the knowledge So what did the book tell me to expect e Gone at the dropdown Menus Glory Be the Ribbons The drop down menu has been replaced by ribbons that more directly allows you to focus not only on what you want to but also provided you instant access to the tools with which to make the changes you want Everythi
124. ittle and too late a recycling of the then revolutionary Treo 600 but without any renewed vision for what a phone PDA could become Indeed Palm seems to be the company with the most to lose a prairie dog community on the path of the herd There mightn t be much left in a few years Don t know whether Apple will be able to do better on this front but the cost of mobile phone service is exorbitant especially considering that data plans are extra Hey let s have that 755p 280 advertised price without being shackled to a monthly contract and supply a little competition so the phone companies aren t raking in obscene profits Then tell me how wonderful these smart phones are iSteve take note Even twenty million back orders won t revolutionize the industry if customers realize they re being ripped off on the utility bill afterward Let s hear it for some real creativity in phone industry pricing prepaid plans free roaming no lock ins and for that matter no locked phones It makes no more sense to protect services than it does software or content The Northern 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
125. kr m J Remote is pressed E g FTP E E amp iPhoto l Hii i l Wubi mn me _ Timestamp amp Images Overlay T Text Labels oo el Capture Tab Share Tab Review Tab For a more complex means of control you trigger the operation of the camera by an script file The script can take a bunch of things into account limited only by your needs and imagination And finally for those Macs that have them you can operate the camera using the Apple remote control This would be a great tool for capturing candids at a party No one expects that PowerBook on the table is actually being controlled from across the room As well as capturing the image you can tell Periscope to add certain pieces of information to the image it takes The Date and Time stamp is the most obvious item Whenever an image is taken the date time is included on the image You can control the font and color used for the text and include only date or only time or both When you turn on that feature a date time box appears on the screen this box can be moved to avoid covering anything that might be important You can also add a line of text to the image This might be useful if you had multiple cameras and wanted to know exactly which one you are viewing or simply to title the captured image MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 115 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 eeo PERISCOPE Start Monitoring Sh
126. le update for this month e Apple Security Update 2007 004 released 4 20 2007 10 MB improves MacBook and MacBook Pro compatibility and addresses a security issue e Apple Security Update 2007 005 for Mac OS X 10 3 9 and 10 4 released 5 25 2007 is available for both client and server editions of OS X 10 3 9 and for both PowerPC and Intel installations of Mac OS X 10 4 Fixes a security flaw in 1Chat and also improves the security of the following system components bind CarbonCore CoreGraphics crontabs fetchmail file mDNSResponder PPP ruby screen texinfo and VPN Security Update 2007 004 has been incorporated into this security update e 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 Microsoft A Office 2004 for Mac 11 3 5 Update This update contains several improvements to enhance security and stability including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer s memory with malicious code In addition this update includes all the improvements released in all previous Office 2004 updates Applies to Office 2004 Standard Edition Office 2004 Student and Teacher Edition Office 2004 Professional Edition Word 2004 Excel 2004 PowerPoint 2004
127. least six months I did not uninstall updates such as migrating to Toast 8 or Acrobat 8 Pro An Awkward Workaround I could still get a capital c in PopChar but had to select it from the ASCII chart More oddities When I type a word like changing with the shift key depressed for the first letter that letter gets lost Typing CHANGING drops the first letter to HANGING Meanwhile Alternate Workaround Using change case in MSW on the word Acta or any lower case c allows me to capitalize the whole word retaining the capital c Status Caps Lock Key I ve disconnected right after I got my Macintosh and it has been off despite many OS System changes and Updates I then fooled with the cap locks key In my trouble shooting clicking it or holding it down with trying to type a capital c didn t have any affect so that is not part of the problem I fixed it but don t know whether it was dumb luck or pure cussedness So I m not going to tell you how but share the what s I tried You figure it MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 36 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Tests Run 1 Startup Restart Capital c returned Okay it s the sift key down when restarting something I added or a system component that glitched 2 Repair Permissions Normal Startup Restart No effect capital c still gone 3 Restore Directory Disk Warrior 4 0 Restart No effect capital c still gone 4 To
128. line presence on the Internet using E Commerce for selling products as well as establishing online Forums answering Frequently Asked Questions posting and hosting online video presentations etc The Solar and Science Store We will be obtaining tried and true renewable energy technologies by way of the USA Solar Store providing the supplies and materials as part of the Solar Store Co Op http www usasolarstore com in Vermont and the Green Living Journal http www greenlivingjournal com And we want to dedicate part of the store to science projects similar to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Science Store http www sciencestore com We are constantly amo and this is a way for folks to take something home in their quest to learn more and dig deeper into electronics physics and the natural sciences MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 10 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Housing and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design And then there is the Zero Energy Home http dsc discovery com news 2006 05 3 1 zeroehome_tec html There is an on going concern for the health and well being of our planet and laws are being enacted at both state and federal levels to expedite the use of alternative energy resources to help us go green in construction LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design http www usgbc org LEED and in US state mandates for Public Utility Districts to offer green energ
129. ling lists Advanced Mailing Mail Factory prints USPS POSTNET Canada Post and Royal Mail barcodes on labels and envelopes to help expedite delivery and correctly formats addresses for more than 50 countries It contains 15 address templates corporate personal and extended ones that simplify the process of address creation Its unique address recognition feature allows you to paste an address as text from other applications Mail Factory automatically formats it to the required postal standards and applies the barcode The tests I tried worked Addresses and labels I created needed a minimum of format MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 105 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 tweaking Unlike version 1 1 almost all text material formatted correctly Flexible Printing Mail Factory supports labels Printer HP Lasedet 2100 0 from most popular companies including Avery weber of copies 1 APLI A One prints on DYMO Label Writer Pager Fees series Seiko SLP series and Brother QL e oe series printers Mail Factory can let you fine tune ota saoe ont the output to make up for variations in different printers paper feed and it is completely compatible with Dymo s Label Writers Rules Suppress Country Field V Address AutoResize Philipo Bowen 226 37 Street NW Calgary Alberta t2n 307 anada Hide Separating Commas Print as Raster Image Print for One Person z Merge Printing Print List 1 Can
130. ll appear In the list choose the appropriate field name For instance 1f the first cell in Contact Data column contains Peter choose First Name in the corresponding Map To cell You don t need to map each and every field For instance if your FileMaker database contains phone numbers and you don t need them in Mail Factory just leave the corresponding cells in the Map To column blank In reality the way my data views in FMP were configured during my fist attempt at data extraction I sucked in the whole record say PIM please That information from my existing more complex data views full PIM information made it frustratingly difficult to map only address associated data My FMP databases are an accumulation of contacts exported from MS File and AppleWorks They also represent countless database formate revisions some which were created on my SE 30 Finally they are an accumulation of what often partial information I had the time not the full sets of contact information I get when I scan business cards ANA Test FMP Professional Files mfac Envelope 10 Contacts I knew I had to find a better way From OA Print List FileMaker Pro rey Update Contacts Therefore I eventually created a new view Kathleen M Schulz e ne Vladimir N Mineev 0 report 1n my professional contacts database Lockheed artn idaho Technologies Company PO Box 1625 Maurice J Bullock that focused only
131. ll it and run it through its paces The first thing I noticed was that Adobe did not change the interface to match the rest of the CS3 suite Some may consider it a negative but I was relieved the familiarity was still present Dreamweaver CS3 now works with Adobe Bridge and Adobe Device Control These are interactive with all of the CS3 apps Adobe Bridge is best described as a system wide asset repository which allows users in any of the CS3 apps to drag and drop or import pictures and graphics into their open apps While Adobe Device Control allows you to preview your project in one of over 200 different mobile devices MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 96 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 There are several noticable improvements but one of my favorites is the manner in which CSS is now handled To start with you are given about 30 templates to begin your site design This 1s always the most difficult portion of website design getting started These templates are similar to Wordpress blog designs that give you the choice of columns and headers and footers and sidebars I am also certain that you will find many other CSS templates on the web that you can import and use to get started Next CSS style management has improved so you can easily save styles and add inline styles and have them saved through your entire project The style sheets are very customizable in fact you can even drag and drop the rules in the order you want them Finally as
132. lling enabled trackpad you can rapidly increase or decrease the zoom level Move the wheel up and you ll zoom in move it down and you ll zoom out The amount the zoom changes with each tick of the scroll wheel will vary between the applications Word seems to go in 10 percent steps Excel uses 15 percent increments and PowerPoint steps through the fixed zoom levels including fit which means I had a stop at 152 percent in its Zoom menu Excel and PowerPoint are also limited to 400 percent maximum zoom while Word will go up to 500 percent Although prefer the keyboard for many tasks there s no doubt that using the keyboard and a scroll wheel mouse is the quickest and easiest way to set a zoom level in the various Office 2004 applications Doc sez I ve added the zoom features to my customized toolbar so don t use this tip buy you may find it useful By Rob Griffiths http www macworld com reriffiths macworld com SSS SSS SSS SSS SES SSS SSS Using Acrobat to Turn A Scanned Blank Form Graphic Into One You Can Fill Out Now if your handwriting is a bad as mine your really want to avoid fill out forms manually Since I no longer have a typewriter this alternative one I used for many years no longer works No I don t wan to buy you cast off IBM Selectric typewriter I ve no space for it in my office So what to do It s all very simple at least as long has you have a scanned copy of the form in PDF format Oh yes and hav
133. lor and shading to create a smooth editable result 3D compositing and texture editing Easily render and incorporate rich 3D content into your 2D composites even edit existing textures on 3D models directly within Photoshop Extended and immediately see the results Photoshop Extended supports common 3D interchange formats including 3DS OBJ U3D KMZ and COLLADA so you can import view and interact with most 3D models Movie Paint Enhance video directly within Photoshop Extended Now you can paint add text and clone over multiple frames of an imported video sequence 2D and 3D measurement tools Extract quantitative information from images with new measurement tools Easily calibrate or set the scale of an image and then use any of the Photoshop Extended selection tools to define and calculate distance perimeter area and other measurements Record data points in a measurement log and export data including histogram data to a spreadsheet for further analysis Faster more flexible asset management with Adobe Bridge CS3 Organize and manage images more efficiently with next generation Adobe Bridge CS3 software which now delivers improved performance a Filter panel for easier searching the ability to group multiple images under a single thumbnail the Loupe tool offline image browsing and more MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 119 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Better raw image processing Process raw images with incr
134. ly boosting the raw numbers but many rip it out and installing XP rather than experience vistas of grief Thus despite strong words from a brave face Redmond must be very worried In all the hype an upgrade to the venerable Mac Office 2004 at version 11 3 5 has gone almost unnoticed It s a 59 5MB upload but for security and stability reasons strongly recommended by MS for all Mac users The Spy has mixed feelings about the whole thing Nothing much could rescue W rd from its non intuitive clumsy confusing interface nor Access from its status of worst in class but he depends heavily on Excel still the single most important and best designed piece of application software in the industry ever all categories and this despite it employing VBA the all time industry wide poster boy for how not to do language design All those macros he wrote in such linguistic pain are out the window on the next upgrade when VBA falls to AppleScript What happens then to cross platform compatibility Will an Excel file automated on the Mac still perform on Vista or vice versa Apparently not and this therefore strikes him as an interim measure likely to be abandoned a year or so down this road Time to find a new spreadsheet product with more stability Is it just a case of hoof in mouth disease or does the MS rant over Linux and associated programs utilities violating some 200 of its patents strike you also as arising from a severe inferiority complex
135. m could design an ID with a wider main zippered pocket that you could add some internal padded dividers it would be a perfect camera bag for a DLSR Whenever I am not using it for a laptop I always have my camera in the main pocket No it s not padded except for the back and it really isn t even wide enough but until I get a real camera bag it does nicely I might even have to look at the new Buzz bag Conclusion Anyone looking for any type of bag for your Mac or just about anything needs to look past your local Best Buy and Staples The quality just is not there with those bags Not only are they boring to look at usually with no color but try to get them to take the bag back when it starts to rip Yes you can obtain a bag at your local store for 30 USD or so but you ll probably be buying more than one Tom Bihn designs these bags so they look as good and last as long as you want them to and that is worth the extra money you might pay for Plus they have a Wish List implemented on their site so you can send your better half a little nudge to their e mail My Wish List is under MacFevre aint y vr a G L a vy hy 7 F a rs thy P35 Fy r3 btg ry gt s I M T a l ee O y N j 3 n D E o Ea og gt wa v5 aa Ez Cc gt a d ay va Front of ID Bag with Brain Cel l in main pocket MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 67 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6
136. ment regarding sIFR Scalable Inman Flash Replacement where text can be seen in original fonts without resorting to graphics at http www mikeindustries com sifr or http www wiki novemberborn net sifr I also learned about comparing screen type at http typetester maratz com and HTML character entity references at http www w3schools com tags ref_entities asp On our website depending on the browser you may see the blue outline on a graph usually the magazine cover that is linked to another page I found through this book how to use multiple layered images to hide the link Conclusion Besides being a tad overpriced for the amount of content and being an advertisement for other Sitepoint books this book does a great job introducing aesthetics to web design Recommendation If you are interested in putting on a good image online this book will help you get there MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 45 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Devices of the Soul Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines Reviewed by Robert Pritchett Derwteee of the Jeet ie om gani end pariani beet Mx tasi a suther af fhe On 5 5 asi Peta orei Dimna and The Botany of Dras O REILLY DEVICES OF THE SOUL Author Steve Talbot http www netfuture or Publisher O Reilly http www oreilly com catalog 978059652680 1 index html Released April 2007 Pages 281 23 USD 30 CND 11 54 GBP 17 83 Euro ISBN 10 0596526806 I
137. mes Kids amp Learning sr IMages ap recentrss M a m Games Role ing amp St rs MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Mac Products Guide XML New Arrivals Apple Support Knowledge Base XML Mac OS X XML GarageBand XML iTunes Mac OS X Downloads XML Latest Downloads genres XML XML XML XML XML create custom RSS feeds to fit types ar id more Top 25 Songs Top 25 Albums Top 25 New Releases Top 25 Just Added Top 25 Featured Albums amp Exclusives Press Info ML Reference Library Page 95 of 135 RSS at Apple All RSS Really Simple Syndication feeds from Apple are based on the RSS 2 0 specification RSS is a standard for syndicating frequently updated content from a site via a newsreader Now Apple builds RSS right into the system and uses it for innovative Communication such as Photocasting in iPhoto support for RSS 0 9 RSS 1 amp RSS 2 and Atom With Safari you know right away if you ve landed on a website that offers an RSS feed thanks to a handy RSS icon Click it and Safari displays the feed Safari even tells you when your bookmarked feeds are updated with new articles so you get the latest news without repeatedly refreshing Safari RSS Safari RSS for Mac OS X Tiger lets you keep up with breaking news thanks to RSS Visualizer Screen Saver The Mac OS X Screen Saver lets you view a realtime display of any RSS feed
138. n a E T E E 134 PD LALIS LIC AU ATV ANY S18 sutra cert cele eee ee ae area ae eure ania ASA Sa 134 Adverisme Wilh mac COMI DANI OM irs ace aut nate andes ater and eer aaae tenia tantanterh aatean erate 135 USER ALS es peat int ieaS 135 PSTN AL Sa er aarti alae ene eae deren eva eae reales ants heu anteater ie 135 BS POMSOPS IIPS socio stata ae ara eterna eee eee nee eee eaten 135 MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 4 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Learn What You Need TeachMac is a searchable library of multimedia computer tutorials in the form of downloadable modules View them with the free TeachMac application With TeachMtac you get inexpensive training for homa school and business On demand computer instruction for all skill levels Teach What You Know TeachMac is a powerful learning and teaching tool that becomes more powerful everyday as users share their knowledge With the free Module Maker application and 4 screen capture utility you teach what you know and share it with the wortd Offer your creation for frer or Charge a modest fee and earn 100 of the royalties from individual sales Visit our Module Authors page for detads and downloads www teachmac com Devwenioad the few application and tamne ou Cree Dewy of monty bes ke Wat eon Windows Page 5 of 135 T SchMac Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Easily create graphics for your web site with Th
139. nce Scott is a former Microsoft Manager I found his occasional references to Steve Jobs intriguing even as we hear the Microsoft PR machine continue to make Microsoft appear as an innovator Scott even has a self promotion website and Blog that brings interactivity into the equation MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 53 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 The Myths of Innovation looks at a list of idea killers but Scott s Blog provides balance and even lists idea starters not found in the book http www scottberkun com blog 2006 idea killers ways to stop ideas http www scottberkun com blog 2006 idea starters ways to grow ideas There are 10 chapters and an Appendix that makes the book feel like Scott took a Master s Thesis approach to writing The book was heavily previewed by others based on the plethora of quotes praising the book found prior to getting into the Preface There is some repetition but not much as Scott Berkun lays out what the myth of epiphany is the history of and method for innovation the lone inventor why good ideas are hard to find how bosses know more than you why we believe that best ideas win problems and solutions and a tongue planted firmly in cheek approach to why innovation is always good Not I dog eared the heck out of this book even as I experienced the dark angst that seems to be the flavor of this book Scott shows us who some of the brave souls are who took intellectual an
140. nd there are Sherlock Scripts gt tons built in to Mac OS X itself Just fire up the Ul Element Scripts gt AppleScript Utility and select the Show Script Menu URLs gt in MenuBar to have a list of pre installed scripts at your disposal journter With some tweaking you could make this little script more powerful by first making sure that the song being converted meets the criteria this will crash if it gets a song with more hyphens spaces or more and letting the user set some settings for the format The latter suggestion could would make it easier for someone to use it if Stephani Gwen Rich Girl was the format of the names You get the picture If you have any questions suggestions about what you ve read here today then be sure to drop me an email at the one listed below Thanks for reading I also encourage you to visit the Mac Fanatic Message Boards at http macfanatic net board viewforum php f 11 and look for this article as a thread Let me know if you d like another article like this one soon Then look around the message boards for more great advice and discussion Contact Info You can always send me an email at mbrewer maccompanion com or visit my website at http www macfanatic net for more information about me and my ramblings I also produce a weekly audio podcast taking an in depth review of cool and new Mac applications along with tips developer interviews tutorials and the occasional tutorial
141. ndow If you re interested in a blow by blow description of the PF4 interface check out Aaron Wright s fine description in Path Finder A Finder Alternative On the AppleMatters website The image below with its numbered feature items should wet your appetite for such information http www applematters com index php section comments path finder another alternative to finder The image does not even show the products still closed drawers that expand PF4 s capabilities MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 77 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 arrore he he ee om ee Ow BH iiao y lharen gt eae m e Peter wipe Appir metereracen ery LJ gt CO puiu 105 C2 ened Moving right along When your done finding stuff you ve buried on your hard drive include the path to where things live you can create and manipulate disk images compress with numerous formats including StuffIt which is built in convert images from one format to another and even do screen captures Stuff I Ignored The aspects of the software s capabilities which I ignored relate to what I call it geek tools PF4 is capable of examining running processes which are listed and can be sampled or force quit This seems like a steroid drive Activity Monitor There s also terminal access a console for viewing logs and a hex editor built right in MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 78 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 But fir
142. ng you ll ever want to do in MS Word is now packed into the ribbon Functions are grouped logically into tabs so for example in Word you get tabs called Home Insert Page Layout References Mailing Review and View These however on occasion change as you change tasks in MS Word providing you with a developer add ins or other options Each one could be thought of as a task You want to Insert something change the Page Layout Review a document etc oh Documenti Microsof AI 4 G Vd oG Documenti Microsoft Word Home Insert Page Layout Referentes Mailings Review View 4 eae SE 7 Ee Se ee i a 32 Replace i3 y Pe ie aari a l A sac B Sy Calibri Body 3 s 3 m7 E b T AaBbCcDc AaBbCcDc AaBbC PA Fy wae Paste P IB Z U abe x x fi a i a PS 2 25 Normal No Spaci Headingi Change Find s Sty Lg Select Clipboard Font E Paragraph af Styles p Editing e But here s the problem this new interface which is now common to all office applications is so different from what was there before that initially at least no one really knows how to use it We ve all grown up with the familiar Word pull down menu Word 2007 is so different that many users will resemble a folksinger switching to a newfangled Fender guitar after a lifetime using his bread and butter acoustic box Although the ribbons are a change based on my reading they should only caus
143. nly Regular expression Match case I actually played briefly with both the Quick Clean and a few of the individual filter actions but could find no especial reason at least for now to specify anything but the former MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 72 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 The software is flexible and intuitive You can use the filters one at a time or group them to work in parallel That for some could be a great convenience You can I noted save the filters you used as a custom preset so that you can rerun it again later However with the limited test samples I had available the Clean Text mode did almost everything I needed More on the one exception below in the discomforts section Discomforts Actions Replace Presets Quick Clean Fix all Fix Fix paragrapns Fix spaces Replace tabs with spaces Replace spaces with tabs Remove quoting characters Add quoting characters Remove returns Transform Convert to smart quotes Convert to straight quotes Shift text right Shift text left Sort lines ascending Sort lines descending Remove duplicate lines Change case Sentence case Title Case UPPERCASE lowercase RaNDorn cASE Convert Encode to Macintosh Line Endi Encode to Unix Line Endings L Encode to Windows Line Endinc ROT 13 Three periods to ellipsis Ellipsis to three periods Mac to Windows Encoding Windows to Mac Encoding Strip non ASCII characters Reverse Rev
144. o rapidly that I did not have time to take another sip of coffee after clicking Start Although the percentage of items I could use was often only 5 10 of what was found the DEVONagent software allowed me to check digest mode an abstract of the website for relevance Choose your search set or plug in AA Internet Fast Scan Jobs intel iMac OR MacBook Enter your query su Add AR DOCVONthink rchive Settings son OO Start the search run I o Ps Switch between digest page list and log Navigate the topics map Select topics to focus the map and the summary non yonovetzVvo nc Y gt 7n Aa i gt ee Se oe eee Se Sa o ta TEE 50fS coverage of tne convention which runs ough Friday click here 7 yer He then showed of the MacBook Pro an Intel based laptoo that Jobs said is y th t d t er lour to five times faster man the Pow liRaak G O lew tne actual Gata as ir The now laptop aiso has Appie s Front Row technology for viewing photos a dynamic summary and movies and listening to music with a remote control fs also a hair os thinner than the PowerBook G4 and has a buill in iSight Wed camera JOBS Wet sad 1 he new iMacs will go on sale today J ns said He also said Apple will it can t easier an more fun to search the Internet can it DEVONagent Search Page My searches made some but not extensive use of Boolean operators e g AND OR NOT NEAR or grouping
145. o some Photoshop style effects without using Photoshop Looks like Adobe agreed with the concept because they too provide the same support in CS3 While I agree that good software doesn t need to do everything there are times I don t want to switch to Photoshop or a graphics package to add shadows and inner or outer glow effects and now that is possible The second thing I liked about InDesign CS3 was the improved UI Now don t get me wrong I like the layout in CS2 The CS3 layout lets you create custom workspaces so you can have different organization for different products or for other people that share your computer And the control panel is improved as well Customize the panel and menus to show fewer or preferred options which helps when working on that tiny laptop or a crowded 20 1Mac screen Adobe also enhanced table support It is now easy to apply styles to tables and cells so any global changes affect all the tables So much for spending a lot of time manually reformatting every table when some creative genius on your project decides to change a font or spacing right before sending the file to the printer I don t believe I m the only that had that happen And for those people that compose in Word and bring it into InDesign but forget to add those pesky symbols like and in Word Adobe has a Glyphs panel to make that task simple within InDesign Something else I liked the page panel shows document previ
146. ooking for Perhaps it s a sort of way to integrate the bits and pieces of information to enable me to produce a template or three that I could use to create a technical document without having to worry about individual styles or the formatting of the pieces Perhaps I m in the wrong book It s not that I m not intrigued by master documents or collaborative writing or editing However what I really want to know is how to write a long document based on creating a style that works for or a longish technical report The style should be intuitive all the aspects of style and document origination should both self consistent and easy to implement Now the book has sections on creating TOC and Indices and working with links It also discusses headers footers and bibliographic citations at great length There is a lot of good information about creating Tables inserting graphics and the like But the book requires me to work too hard at integrating the pieces Shame on you Another Graphics Issues In a number of places no I did not make a list a graphic seemed either out of place or could not be tied to the associated text This seems more loosey goosey than the other Missing Manuals A Kudo for the Publisher Chapter 2 Entering and Editing Text When I checked the Typing in Word Selecting Text 9 publisher s web site I Content preview Buy reprint rights for this chapter found a great deal of useful book related materi
147. op and Illustrator formatted images into Fireworks and almost always keep the layers intact In fact Adobe even made it easier to import Fireworks images into Dreamweaver Now a simple copy and paste is all it takes to move your finished graphic into your Dreamweaver website The next thing that Adobe added was something called Pages It makes Fireworks your first stop for website design You can now quickly mock up a webpage in Fireworks and then save it as a page in a series of designs In addition to designating a master page containing elements that you want to appear on every page you can use Pages to quickly preview your whole website including hyperlinks and rollovers and hotspots all in one Fireworks file What a wonderful and simple idea to streamline your whole website creation process One of the other added features worth checking out is the SlideShow command You can take a folder full of graphics and either through Flash or Adobe s Spry framework create a slideshow that best resembles a photo gallery of graphics I also noticed a Common Library feature that allowed you to store graphics and reusable pieces of graphics in a bin for use on other projects This seemed very similar to what Flash does with it s shared items There s also a new Color palette and a Path Tool for advanced vector work Fireworks CS3 1s still my favorite graphics application Adobe took a good product and have made several improvements The improvements are
148. ork CoreServices framework and ApplicationServices framework to our project This is perhaps most easily done by drag copying them from another Xcode project From Xcode s File menu select the New Project menu item Within the New Project Assistant dialog select Carbon C Application and press Next Select a location for this temporary project such as the Desktop Once done drag the External Frameworks and Libraries folder onto your Appearance project It should then appear as such Appearance Demo ey z Buil Build and Go Targets Other Groups amp Files s Oo a Appearance Demo bi Application b T Contextual Menus Other Menus P a Appearance Classes b3 Graphics Utility Classe Grayscale Classes Page Controller Classe Commanders Features Panes gt J File amp Stream Apple Events Arrays gt Support gt Utilities Libraries Products H Imported Files QF External Frameworks a b a Carbon framework b fie CoreServices frames E a ApplicationServices Build failed 5 errors 1 warning Failed 1 1 5 You can now dispose of the temporary Carbon project Coming Up In two months we will continue with Part IV of our CodeWarrior project conversion but next month A recap of Apple s Worldwide Developer s Conference 2007 See you in 30 MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 21 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Mac Fanatic Geek Speak Random Mac Stu
149. ost of the Dummy books are adequate there are some that stand out to an even greater extent These offer good in depth and comprehensive advice tutorials and information especially for price This one 1s a great one to get you started whether you are an iPod novice or have upgraded your knowledge to new versions of the software or device Both authors have written more than a dozen books on computers desktops publishing and multimedia and their experience is displayed with prowess in this book iPod and iTunes for Dummies is packed with information in its 6 parts that include 28 chapters and span 432 pages I like the way this book is organized and set up It is easy to read yet informative and helpful While it lacks color the readable format including illustrations readable screenshots and photos make it stand out MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 49 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 There are also special insights which are noted with special icons throughout the text Five highlight icons are entitled Remember Technical Stuff Tip Warning On the Web and serve to target important information in the chapters This 4th edition covers the latest updates Set up iTunes and iPod buying music and videos importing music into iTunes burning CDs from iTunes get wired for sound organizing your songs playlist and more getting the most out of your battery selecting and encoding format recording and editing sound adding podc
150. ould see the considerable improvements to this popular product line And when CS3 started shipping mid April I don t think many customers were disappointed with the considerable improvements to all of the software in the CS3 product line I was glad the day the software finally arrived and it didn t take long to tear open the packing and get started Getting Started I installed the entire Design Premium package so it took a while to get everything installed The Design Premium package includes the Application and Content disks plus a video tutorial disk from Adobe and Lynda com Quark took this same approach with QuarkXPress 7 1 which also includes a Lynda com tutorial an excellent idea and kudos to both companies for including Lynda com materials at no extra charge MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 100 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 I did take time during the software installation to look through the CS3 Workflow Guide it is nice for the product line but too spare for individual product support The layout in the guide was superb After the software completed installation I took time to go through the tutorial then dove into InDesign CS3 and I was not disappointed Using the Software Last month I reviewed QuarkXPress 7 1 7 2 and noticed that Adobe needed to do some catching up with Quark if they wanted to keep happy customers Looks like they did with CS3 One of the nice things about QuarkXPress 7 1 7 2 is the ability to d
151. ould take months He turns to you for help Let s write an AppleScript Note this story is fairly accurate First thing we need to do is open the Script Editor You can find this in Applications AppleScript or just by using Spotlight for Script Editor This is the program that we re going to use to write Cance OK our scripts It will check for errors in our syntax basic structure use of the language and let us run our scripts right from this window Please select songs and run the script again We are going to be doing all of our magic here by interacting with iTunes The basic approach to tackling this problem is to get a list of selected songs from iTunes and change the name and artist information for each song So to work with 1Tunes the first thing we need to type is tell application iTunes Anything following this and before the end tell will be commands given to 1Tunes There are several commands available such as pause resume playback creating a new playlist and more However we re just interested in what songs the user has selected in iTunes To get a list of the selected iTunes tracks we ll use set songs to selection This command assigns the variable _songs to the currently selected iTunes tracks This way if the user changes the selection while our script is running we ll still have the original songs he wanted changed MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 23 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 200
152. ow impressive it is and how much enjoyment I am getting from it I have a long way to go still but at least I will have some great photographs to record the rest of the journey I didn t want to leave it there though so I asked my friend Mac what he liked most about CS3 The primary thing I like about photoshop now is speed Obviously It runs a lot faster now on my intel macs Does not necessarily load faster but over all operations are much faster Also I really like the new toolbox window layout I find it more intuitive and logical MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 118 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 For those of you that haven t already visited the site to see the features here they are Top features Nondestructive editing Edit nondestructively with new Smart Filters which let you visualize different image effects and Smart Objects which let you scale rotate and warp raster and vector graphics all without altering the original pixel data Rich painting and drawing toolset Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional fully customizable paint settings artistic brushes and drawing tools Advanced compositing Create more accurate composites by automatically aligning multiple Adobe Photoshop layers or images based on similar content The Auto align Layers command quickly analyzes details and moves rotates or warps layers to align them perfectly and the Auto blend Layers command blends the co
153. per s site by visiting http www subrosasoft com OSXSoftware index php main_ page product_info amp cPath 200 amp products_id 195 Macworld wrote a nice article about this product which you can view by visiting http www macworld com news 2007 04 27 maclockpick index php This will give you their take on it I am not necessarily opposed to Law enforcement people having tools to get evidence from computers to help solve a crime What bother s me is that it won t be long before someone makes this software freely available over the Internet Then anyone who has the desire could use it to break into anyone s Macintosh or into a Mac account That is not a good thing But there is nothing we can do about it now But at least we are informed and can take a little more care with our Macs The Apple Developer s conference takes place later in June am hoping there will be some very interesting announcements made at this event Who knows what product is ahead of schedule or what new item Mr Jobs will decide to announce I will be sure to comment on all the interesting stuff in the July edition Until then keep enjoying your Macintosh MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 28 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Doc_Babad s Macintosh Tt ips A Macintosh Tt ip or Three June 2007 Edition By Harry doc Babad Original Material 2007 Product and company names and logos in this review may be registered trademarks of their respe
154. r Jason Beaird WEB DESIGN http www jasongraphix com Publisher Sitepoint http www sitepoint com books design1 Released March 2007 Pages 180 40 USD 52 CND 28 GBP 43 21 Euro ISBN 10 0975841963 ISBN 13 9780975841969 Audience Anybody interested in taking websites up a notch p Tired of making web sites that work absolutely perfectly but just don t well look very nice Using The Principles of Beautiful Web Design you ll see just how easy it can be to create aesthetically pleasing and usable web site designs Strengths Shows how to make gold out of dross Weaknesses Some typos that got past the publishers Introduction In this book On the website it mentions that an RGB color card is included with The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird My copy of the book did not perhaps because I ordered it through O Reilly http www oreilly com catalog 0975841963 index html It can be ordered for an additional 7 95 USD from the SitePoint website This is offset by the fact that there are Internet links sprinkled throughout the book both in the text and in the footers MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 44 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 There are 5 chapters on layout and composition color texture typography and imagery I marked areas that were helpful to me such as multi column navigation and layout configurations information on color contrasts special treat
155. r Fireworks I ve been using it since the early stages and it works perfect for what I needed it to be a fast full featured website design and website graphic application Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor it is designed specifically for web based graphics Many users were worried that when Adobe purchased Macromedia that Fireworks would go the way of Freehand and be left to die a slow non upgradable death But the powers that be in Adobe realized the potential of Fireworks and decided to keep it and drop Image Ready in the Photoshop family instead All I can say is Thank you Adobe MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 98 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Fireworks could be a bit quarky in the manner that it approached design problems The way it handled slicing and layers and animation were unique but once you learned how Fireworks handled a situation it was simple from that time forward As I mentioned I used Fireworks all the time for my graphic work I resized images and designed new images and created animated images in Fireworks To say that I was looking forward to seeing what Adobe did to Fireworks inCS3 was an understatement The first thing you noticed was that like Dreamweaver the interface remained basically the same Adobe allowed Fireworks to draw from their Bridge application for fast and easy image selection Adobe also made certain that Fireworks played nicely with the big boys You can now import PhotoSh
156. rch I wonder what I did wrong in my Boolean phasing MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 90 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Even more surprisingly a the narrowed searches for the name of the dish Thai 5 Spice Duck or Thai 5 Spice Pork or these items individually gave no hits in either Google or DEVONagent Putting quotation marks around parts of these phases did not help In all cases the word recipe gave the search a magic touchstone Strange Glossary of Chinese Cooking Terms DEVONagent only I tried a number of variations on the theme including Chinese Cooking Terms 75 hits Chinese Cooking Terms Glossary 63 hits and Glossary of Chinese Cooking Terms 54 hits But in all of these I could have saved myself the duplicate searches Click click and I got two great hits in DEVONagent so I did not try doing then Google search A Summary of DEVONagent s Key Features Strong Booleans Search Features Besides the typical Boolean operators AND OR and NOT DEVONagent provides you with the much more powerful NEAR BEFORE and AFTER operators Typically only scientific high end databases feature them but DEVONagent makes them available for routine Web researches For example paraphrased from the manual Suppose you want to search for information about the mercury contamination of fish and to focus on information released by or referring to the United States Environmental Protection Agency The first challenge to formulating the search i
157. re Now if we don t move quickly to renewable energy sources soon we may well be stranded in a messy mire of non renewable energy sources And sadly and tragically we have witnessed world wide wars based on control of such resources There are so many folks working on these issues that it is almost too much to take in at one time We can make a difference Being an Ecopreneur If you frequented maccompanion com over the TE last few months you may have seen another EA C i x Z 4 re banner on our site earlier that was tied to REnU Citizenre I jumped through the hoops and took the training to be qualified as an ecopreneur but my personal philosophy differs from the multi level marketing approach the founders of that rental system they profess I didn t give them anything more than my time and they didn t offer anything more than possible residuals if I got folks to sign up and express interest with their dollars MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 8 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Citizenre offers an on grid solar energy system you can put on your roof for a fee and you pay them for the energy created each month at the same rate you pay the utility companies The idea is that you feel good about going green because you are using home grown energy at a fraction of the cost a full solar system would perhaps otherwise cost and Citizenre gets the energy credits and ecopreneurs get residual
158. reserve of the former to run the latter to 10 over two years without busting a sweat without offering anything new So that third place could be achieved by a year from now but seems a lock in two Second and then first depend on both new mindshare generated this year and next and on how fast the fall of others accelerates You read it here first More corroborating good news appears to come in the form of word that web surveys claim the percentage of people using MacOS based browsers on the net has doubled in the past eight months The Spy admits to being skeptical of this item because the 10K hits per day on his own sites do not as yet demonstrate such a trend Perhaps better data will surface in the mid term future but meanwhile don t hang any hats on this statistic just yet Coming additions to the Apple ramuda include a flash based notebook possibly including a range of products reaching down through sub notebook sizing toward the MaciPhone and 1Pod more new stores including Calgary and Vancouver bigger and badder AppleTV units the lurking Leopard incorporating a slew of new features that collectively make Vista look like last season s dried up grass Tiger 10 4 10 the placeholder OS designed to fill a few security and performance potholes currently annoying the herd during its now extended wait for the new cat the MaciPhone itself marking a watershed in the entire cellular industry already generating the bigge
159. rful are so poorly explained that they are difficult to utilize Were the manual where it focuses on it more powerful advanced search features more clearly written this product would have been rated more highly Previous Reviews http www maccompanion com archives august2005 Software DevonA gent htm For a 60 hour demo of this product http www devon technologies com download index html MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 85 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 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 4 9 connected to a cable modem Publisher Description DEVONagent is the solution for you if you are tired of clicking hundreds of links delivered by Google amp Co just to find out that most of the links are either outdated broken or lead to junk pages It communicates with search engines digs for you through all the results and gives you only those documents that are really worth reading Even better it summarizes the accumulated knowledge and presents you with a list of the most important topics and an interactive mind map Finding information on the Web has never been easier Introduction Having access to Google and a host of other search sites all at no cost why should someone spend 50 USD for another browser Indeed ther
160. riptions 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 Including Publisher s Summary I ve been using Selznick Scientific s SmartWrap 2 7 3 18 for cleaning up stuff filled Eudora emails I also have a more universal version of 2 7 3 18 installed that works on some oddly structured documents I receive from well meaning peecee users The more universal version works via a paste to my clipboard but also support a large number of both text editing and email programs http www selznick com products smartwrap mac index htm After having lived with SmartWrap for many years I was eager to try a new text cleaning application The product appeared based on the MacUpdate description more broadly useful It was also a new toy to play with but who would challenge that Apimac Clean Text is a tool dedicated to webmasters graphic designers and magazine editors to reduce text cleanup time Clean Text for the Mac eliminates all text formatting preparing it for pasting or printing It performs other useful functions such as removing empty lines removing unwanted spaces removing tab characters converting smart quotes tabs returns and more I wonder if programmers would benefit from the application aoe Apimac Clean Text ene el E wt a ady y Paste Paste Over Copy All Find Statistics Recents Iconize Text fixed with Cle
161. rmation concerning what to it takes to record from a USB turntable For audio recording the free Audacity software can be downloaded and the rest of the chapter shows how to use it with your iPod The section has good information choosing and preparing an audio source as well down and very useful The section What software can t do for you applies more information about music with records and tape conversion Importing into 1Tunes is important and covers even more There are chapters that deal with podcasts streaming audio Internet video downloading free music using your 1Pod with web pages working with email presentation usage There are interesting chapters dealing with using the iPod for travel both for PC and Mac users while using Google Maps Chapter 19 and using the iPod as photo storage backing up files and much more Finally the book has a nice index and interesting Appendix sections on automating processes in Mac OS X and workflow The second appendix is Text to Speech Andy has crafted this book with in depth detail tutorials and solid instructions It is easy on the eyes as well as being pleasurable for your brain The book is easy on your wallet and is well worth the price This book is a great buy if you are thinking and reading to gain more knowledge for ideas and solving problems concerning your iPod MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 52 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 the myths of innovation Reviewed by Rob
162. rnative Conclusion If you re tired of the Finder s limitations the fact that it slow crashes and on my computer both stutters and loses icons download and try Path Finder The free 21 day trial period 1s more than long enough if you do lots of searches for files on your hard disk to demonstrate the superiority of this product to what Apple provided MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 81 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 The Path Finder interface will look more cluttered than Apple s Finder But don t sweat that it only takes a few fast successful searches rather then the results I too often get working in the finder to make PF4 feel downright homey If this product had a detailed manual I d have no qualms about giving a perfect 5 someday soon I hope Although I shall not five up using EasyFind an old friend I expect to do more of my hard disk searching and other finder function in Path Finder Recommendation Try it you ll buy it As noted by Kevin Schmidt http creativemac digitalmedianet com articles viewarticle jsp id 3 6877 Granted 34 95 may seem a bit steep just to replace a part of Mac OS X but with the native Finder as arguably bad as it is and with Path Finder 4 as good as it is the price is a pittance especially in light of the sheer volume of features Path Finder 4 packs under the hood I completely agree with ATPM s Miraz Jordan http www atpm com 12 03 path finder shtml who not
163. rt of this document But I am coming from the perspective of a writer of longish technical documents and an occasional book chapter MoOre about that later in the review Chapter 10 Organizing Your Information with a eras Tables One of my eA Oar ato R cess Stes e favorite tool made os easier to use The book also clearly explains mon ten to pae when to use tables and when to rely on setting margin tabs E3 Hello World Chapter 11 Adding Delete Rows Graphics Video and sa suit cens Sound to Your eoo Documents Celi Alignment ignored all but the eee graphics part of this chapter since there is no conceive occasion that I might want to do this I was delighted to find that the process of inserting an illustration with a caption has become easier to do on Word 2007 That ease I hope will spill over to Word 2008 Cause Celeb The section on graphics and other media complete forgets to warn readers about copyright infringement A Nit or Three What is smart art See pages 258 and 271 What is a pull quote I love new words but give me a reference please Chapter 12 Mass Mailing with Mail Merge Although I seldom need to mail more than two dozen form items after rending the section I began to think I might well be able to do a mail merge MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 60 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Part Three Sharing Documents and Collaborating With Other
164. rth is full and there is enough and to spare yea I prepared all things and have given unto the children of men to be agents unto themselves So we have been given a mandate and a promise only if we act as wise stewards The Lord also said in verse 13 For it is expedient that I the Lord should make every man accountable as a steward over earthly blessings which I have made and prepared for my creatures He also said that if we didn t manage our stewardships well He would take that away and give those to somebody else who could do something with them We don t want that to happen do we Reducing the Carbon Footprint To help us with becoming more self sufficient I am working on a proposal to establish the Ever Green Renewable Energy Resource Center by offering alternatives to non renewable energy resources that we can use today to reduce our carbon footprint regarding our stay on earth This ambitious undertaking will have a training and presentation center for Do It Yourselfers who want to see what they can do to become self sufficient with energy conservation food preservation and preparation renewable energy and transportation that will cover such topics as All electrics Biofuels Geothermal Solar Water Wind and or other future technologies The facility will be family friendly and will have both day and evening instruction available The Ever Green Energy Resource Center will also have an on
165. s Okay folks will find these easier to use One new thing I learned was that there is metadata that identified you in your documents whether you want that or not but the book tells you how to remove it Chapter 19 Introducing Macros and Visual Basic The Macros section was fascinating I ve managed to butcher every instance of recording a macro shortcut in MSW 2004 I ve focused on simple stuff like reformatting text that I copied from the web The macros were supposed to make it easier to transform the text to my preferred recipe format The information in this chapter makes that easier to do even in MSW 2004 Chapter 20 Creating Your Own Themes and Templates This was a capability that I ve avoided for many version of MSW Every time I ve tried I do something wrong some day I ll get back to this when my needs for complex standardized templates evolve MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 61 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Part Five The Appendix The later includes a excuse the pun brief but focused helpful section called Works Help and Beyond It should be a must read The book concludes with an index which proved complete content list in the instances I needed to check it A Minor Discomfort The only place book disappointed me except for the illegibility of many of the graphics was in explicitly dealing with the creation of long documents I m not sure whether I can put into words what I was l
166. s Supposedly after 20 25 years you can give back the system to them and if you move you can take it with you one time without a penalty They require a 500 deposit for anybody interested in this scheme http www powur com web video A lot of people have made deposits but the production facility still has not been built As of this writing they still have no physical products available with the latest excuse reason being politics To me that is nothing but smoke and mirrors I want something tangible Something I can use today I could not find any interest locally for anyone as an electrical installation company that was willing to buy a franchise to service those Citizenre systems If you are like me you would rather own something outright instead of subscribing to a future service think iTunes music subscriptions not going to happen on Steve Job s watch or buying a Mac instead of leasing one Citizenre can t compete here in this part of the country due to the low power rates They have stated that there is a rate below which they will not go to compete We live below that threshold here in our part of the country Their market is in high rent districts for power After talking with David Bonta of the USA Solar Store in Vermont and rereading the Citizenre contracts I have pretty much opted out of Citizenre and decided to help develop a renewable energy Co Op instead One of our local county PUDs Franklin Coun
167. s This will easily become apparent once we get started If you ve ever programmed using another language this might take some time to get your head around but you ll live For anyone wondering if you should take the time to learn AppleScript I d say yes It was designed for the average computer user to create scripts to make their life easier So without further ado let s get scripting MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 22 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Problem Description Your friend has just made the switch to Mac and is enjoying himself until he goes to import his music in n iTunes He s never used an application like iTunes to z i Rue eon Untetled organize his music before now choosing to use cryptic filenames instead To make matters worse most of the songs are old and don t contain lovely D3 Tag info such as artist information This makes it a nightmare for iTunes for the following reason all his song files are named something like 015 Gwen Stefani Rich Girl mp3 When you import a song like that into iTunes the artist album and all other fields are blank and the song s name contain 015 Gwen Stefani Rich Girl This system was fine on Windows for your friend but he really wants to use 1Tunes and grab artwork and more all requiring the artist album and name fields to contain the right information He could go through each song about 800 and edit this via copy paste but that w
168. s Topics covered range from a basic intro right through to publishing your scores on the Internet and tips on using the built in Kontakt Player Besides the tutorial videos 19 in all the handbook and the detailed online reference manual there is also an online help centre which can be accessed from the Help menu So it is easy to see that there is more than enough help on hand to get you from beginner to seasoned user and beyond So the first section of the Quick Tour consists of chapters Look and feel Playback and Basic editing These sections introduced me to the basic tools I would use most often when I begin to use Sibelius It was very straightforward I watched the accompanying video for Look and feel and found it very easy to follow The voice over was at a good slow pace easy to understand and accompanied by a live screenshot of whatever was being discussed There is also a transport bar at the bottom which allows you to go back rewind fast forward and so on through the tutorial The next chapter is Printing Using an example score from the Quick Tour to print out the operation went smoothly and I was very impressed with the quality of the printout This is followed by Starting a new score and Mouse Input Following the easy steps I ended up with four full bars of note input on a very professional looking new score The next chapter is titled Alphabetic Input and guides
169. s and 100 unique masks are included One thoughtful feature is the separate clip art library of all those special handling labels like Magnetic Media or Fragile Hand Stamp that you so often need but never seem to have at hand Furthermore the fact the Mail Factory graphic interface was virtually identical to that in Business Card Composer helped me to become instantly comfortable with designing labels and address with graphic elements The tools and Inspector windows offer the level of control and convenience that is common to the other Belight programs You will rarely find a need to sift through the menu bar lists for a command or feature Once you get acquainted with the software s design features you ll wonder why other developers insist on forcing complex graphics interfaces on the hapless user What I especially like about the product was that I d become familiar with the Belight Software design interface by using Business Card Composer Swift Publisher and Disc Cover so I had no essentially no learning curve to become comfortable with Mail Factory To those of you new to the Belight products what can I tell you The design features are easy to use and if on occasion you get stuck the well written and easy to understand Help menu is just a click away Getting Ready To Test Mail Factory Okay I ve admitted that I don t use many of the sources need to automate the performance of Mail Factory I decided to work
170. s environmentally conscious as Greenpeace would like and perhaps no where near as much as they could be it seems to me that this protest rides the coattails of all the publicity Apple has been getting recently Which is a sensible thing for Greepeace as well as for the environment in general By doing this they get a lot more notice in the press then they would if they had chosen another computer company Don t take me wrong I have strong beliefs about taking care of the environment I would be really happy to hear that Apple did all the right things for the environment even if it meant paying a bit more for my next Mac Apparently Greenpeace s efforts had an effect in Apple land Steve Jobs posted a message that explains what Apple is doing to help reduce the use of toxic chemicals in the production of their computers http www apple com hotnews agreenerapple Read it over not only does he explain what Apple is and has been doing and plans to do but he relates it to the competition His reply and the changes made at Apple following this were applauded by Greenpeace They posted an article called Tasty news from Apple http www greenpeace org international news tasty apple news 020507 They also posted a response to Steve s letter which you can read as well by visiting http www greenpeace org international news tasty apple news 020507 greenpeaceonjobsstatement As a final word I hope that Apple makes great strides
171. s recognizing that the agency can be referred to as the Environmental Protection Agency EPA and E P A No you don t want to do an AND search on these alternatives Using Environmental Protection Agency OR EPA OR E P A is better There s another potential ambiguity because it s possible that a large reference source might contain the word fish in one section dealing with fishery resources and contain the word mercury in another section dealing with the history of barometers Tying in the need for information about mercury effective search criteria becomes Environmental Protection Agency OR EPA OR E P A AND fish NEAR mercury General Result Archive Capability DEVONagent finds collects and organizes information with powerful search architecture and a simple to use built in archive It was easy to add search result pages to it with just one click That allowed me to organize my research results into folders and sub folders I could later search the archives for what I needed using a Finder like toolbar search field Search Sets to Help Optimize Searches The new version uses a Search Set metaphor in which selected plugin act a search delimiters As TidBITS Matt Neuburg noted At the heart of DEVONagent s functionality are its Search Sets which despite the name are not sets of anything they are the instructions for performing a search So a DEVONagent user s most basic needs are to understand what I can bet
172. shot with the slightest of motion or so only major movements cause it to snap But what if you want to snap an image when someone walks into a specific area You can set Periscope to monitor one or more regions of the view area for motion Each region s sensitivity is set independently Although the regions are rectangular in shape they can be made any size You can also use an audio input as a trigger I think of monitoring the baby in its crib or watching the front door When a noise happens an image is snapped As with motion you can adjust Periscope s sensitivity to sound Just be sure to set the sensitivity level so that every cricket chirp doesn t snap an image Another method of capturing images it to use a timer Tell Periscope to snap an image at a regular interval from seconds to minutes to hours Want to see a movie of how the stars cross the sky Set it up to capture an image every 1 2 hour as it watches the sky then play back the results as a short movie MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 114 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 eeo ee Start Monitoring Capture Share Review Capture a Picture whenever Camera sees Movement ee Start Monitoring Capture Share Review Send new pictures to ee Start Monitoring r Capture Share Review amp E Mail amp Microphone hears noise Local Folder C Timer goes off _ Max m Applescript is run oO Flic
173. sively it to takes second place to Safari But the decision I ve made about choosing a default browser is a personal one having nothing to do with the merits of DEVONagent 2 1 Your decision will likely be different from mine Apple RSS Information _ Scanner RSS RDF RSD amp 3 B f 7 Apple up iMages ap recent rss fag co D lt gt A A os ES http www apple com rss by Store Hot News Switch Hardware Software iPod iTunes Made4Mac Mac Ed ucation Pro l QuickTime Business Support Mac OS X Developer Where to Buy 7 Audio nr images ap recent rss 7 Automator Actions une images ap r recent rss 4 mages ap m Dashboard ur images ap J Open In PhotoS A Developmen I images ap J Copy Link Download m Drivers lume images ap J Select All gt Email amp Chal Deselect All images ap f y Use Small icons Open In New Window Open In New Tab RSS Information iTunes Music Store With the iTunes Music Store RSS Feed Generator you can f Spe cir YOur SDeCciTic needs spec y feed length gt 10 New Releases gt 10 Just Added 3 10 Featured Albums amp tlusives tickies A News t News leloper Connection 77 Games rere ae meee eri images ap recent rss XML Headlines Games Cards amp Puzzle sr IMages ap recent rss m Games Demos amp Updat wie iMages ap recent rss m Ga
174. ss all recently installed utilities things Restart No effect capital c still that added system and finder gone functionality via the menu bar 5 Do Extra Testing with Text Extender and No effect capital c still gone Universal Access The later was the last Restart capital c still gone thing I d added and reviewed No effect capital c still gone Restart Finder No effect 7 Deleting the Fontbook plist No effect capital c still gone then Restart capital c still gone No effect capital c still gone 9 Repair Permissions Using Apple OS No effect capital c still gone Install Systems DVD Startup disc 10 Repair Hard Drive Using Apple OS No effect capital c still gone Install Systems DVD Startup disc 11 Once AGAIN Startup in Safe Reboot Capital c returned Okay it s Mode by keeping the sift key down when something I added or a system restarting component that glitched But which 12 Normal Restart A Small Miracle Capital c returned 7 What I would have tried next Cleared the Font Caches Feedback is welcome this one I could not find when googling for an answer Harry doc Babad That s all folks MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 37 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 May Updates of Interest By Mike Hubbartt 1 Apple Updates general site http www apple com support downloads An important App
175. ssed collected addresses from supported sources the number of address containing programs supported were quite limited at the time Second there were some problems with address appearances MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 103 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Since that time I ve continued creating addresses envelopes and labels using a combination of MS Word yuck and the using address containing databases created in my Dymo Label Writer 330 Turbo software For other less often used addresses information I could get that information from contact databases created in FileMaker Pro 6 FMP Right now I have individual databases for professional contacts suppliers of stuff customers for our crafts business and friends and family I m going to get relational with FMP 8 real soon and get rid of record duplications My testing of Mail Factory differed from that reported by other reviewers I neither use Apple s mail email application or address book nor the Microsoft s products Outlook or Entourage I could test the products automatic access to these programs Aside from my use of FMP I also store email addresses and website information in my familiar but long in tooth Eudora eMail client I seldom fill in the other contact address information in Eudora because my databases are easier to search than Eudora As a result extracting address for use in Mail Factory must work with FMP if not it would remain relatively useless
176. st a set of menu views in PF4 plus one of the trusty Apple Finder I Go Applications Co Peete Window Help New Tab ge T Open with TextEdit app Open with as Icons gol v as List 6 2 as Columns a 3 Rename Change Extension Duplicate Show Invisible Files L Copy to Show Package Contents _ Move to Secure Delete Sort Ascending Touch Smart Sorting On Email Sort by gt Compress and Email Show View Options 3 Compress Show Color Options Compress with Format UGA Go Window Help Zoom e 3 Reload FS as Icons Create v as List 2 Change Format v Bookmarks Bar Burn Image as Columns 3 Tab Bar v Status Bar v Path Navigator v Shelf Preview Convert Image View as Hex Open in Terminal Launch as Root Hide Toolbar LRT Customize Toolbar r Burn Left Drawer Erase Disc Right Drawer Screen Capture Bottom Drawer p Screen Capture to Clipboard Hide Toolbar XET Show View Options Customize Toolbar Apple Finders View A Cornucopia of View Stay in Command l Menu Option in PF4 View the Differences An Almost Concise Partial List of Key Features Abandon Spotlight Mostly eliminate any need to use Apples frustratingly stupid Spotlight Path Finder allows you to search both file and folder names only file names or only folder names or the contents of files Search by Using Filtered Contents A text box at the top of the window lets you quickly filter th
177. st product launch and largest consumer stampede in eHistory and against which every other phone will henceforth be compared Cingular gets this at least partly so is in a mad rush to rebrand itself as AT amp T in order to attach Apple s toy to a new image right out of the gate Do the rest get it More on this below Amazon has joined the stampede away from the debilitating and wasteful digital rights protection racket by announcing a DRM free store This is an obvious attempt to compete with Apple which now offers EMI label tracks without stifling restrictions imposed by the music industry s muscle First cracks in the facade folks and hasn t the Spy told you so often enough All forms of copy protection are a complete waste of time and money Look it up This may be listed as the Spy s sixth law but he first formulated it back in the early 1980s when he used to unprotect floppies and mail them back to manufacturers to demonstrate the futility of the practice If we could only ditch that regressive anti consumer robber baron legislation misnomered the Digital Millennium Copyright Act we might begin to see the future s shape Someday we ll look back on the protection racket with incredulity MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 41 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 In the herd passing by the Spy notes Logwatch 7 3 5 for Linux and assorted UNIXs Install with rpm Uvh ftp ftp kaybee org pub redhat RPMS noarch logwatch 7 3 6 1 noarch rpm
178. sulted in computer protection related items rather then the physical locks and keys protection for which I searched MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 89 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Changing the search criteria to CyberLock and CyberKey gave me dozens of hits that focused around description like access control without wiring or power in padlocks switches and doors CyberKey and CyberLock provide wireless access control in doors cabinets padlocks enclosures safes and switches I archived these for future use Archive 1 groups 54 items Export DEVONthink Delete Search Name amp URL H Date Size ABK LOCK AND KEY co pias 9 6KB y Allied Lock and Saha 14 5 KB vww alliedh afe com Auditit Web Site Ing strats A a 19 5 KB Biometrics Cyber SAM Cyber Operations 15 1 KB rations com CyDersal BNL Password Proces echnology Division 27 5 KB go rsecurit Chemica industry focuses on cyber securil 38 3 KB berSec securitysolutions s ChemCy Cisco Locks Down Phy al Pontina Partners 112 4 K ym arti City of Orlando Florid e Apartment Secu 5 17 07 33 0 KB en_info apt_security htm Of the 1 140 000 hits I got with Google the first 10 pages contained little information related to my search needs Lot of interesting and to me enticingly distracting material but I know I must stay focused A more focused Google search reduced the number of hits to 563 m
179. swer the following question What you d suggest a friend consider before spending hard earned cash on this product If you are tired of struggling with the paltry address features in MS Word or Apples address and mail utilities order this product Unless your address collections are as dispersed and messed up as mine you ll get instant gratification Despite all the initial problems I had importing my FMP address collection into Mail Factory it was well with the effort Now if I want to write a letter to Dr XXX at MIT a contact I made in 1974 I m a click or two away from an addressed envelope Yes I checked the Internet he s been prompted but is still on the faculty This program has a lasting place on my hard drive let it be so for you Doc MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 112 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 J C Finish Periscope Webcam Software Reviewed by Ted Bade seg FREEVERSE eg a A Freeverse Inc 447 W 24th Street P New York NY 10011 f Periscope 212 929 3549 FAX 212 647 0562 info freeverse com http www freeverse com periscope neering April 2007 te oo cs Requirements Mac OS X v10 4 or later Built in or external iSight or a supported 3rd party USB or FireWire camera Mac OS X 10 4 9 provides improved support for 3rd party cameras Strengths Easy to use to both capture images and to share them Weaknesses limited video manipulation no movie option You can save a ser
180. t from AutoCorrect the Tools menu Word _AutoCorrect PAMOGA AS Von AutoText AutoFormat displays the AutoCorrect Apply as you type dialog box _ Headings F Automatic bulleted lists Mo Borders Ml Automatic numbered lists B Tables 2 Make sure the AutoFormat Replace as you type M Straight quotes with smart quotes As You Type tab IS El Ordinals lat with superscript displayed IM Symbol characters with symbols al Bold and italic with real formatting A internet paths with hyperlinks 3 Clear the Borders checkbox ALTOMACally a5 You Type et Format beginning of list item like the one before It 4 Click on OK A Define styles based on your formatting The AutoFormat As You Type tab of the AutoCorrect dialog box Alan Wyatt s Macwordtips 2007 04 25 13 39 35 04 http www macwordtips com removing automatic_lines html SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS SSS Jumping To a Comment in MS Word Word includes a powerful tool that allows you to add comments to your document You can use the Go To function of Word to jump to a specific comment in your document You do this in two different ways The first way to jump to a comment is as follows 1 Choose Go To from the Edit menu press Cmd G or press F5 Word displays the Go To tab of the Find and Replace dialog box 2 Inthe left side of the dialog box click on Comment This informs Word what you want to go to The Enter Page Number box is relabeled as the Ent
181. t the same time I could display the main and character screens at the same time but the contents overlapped and I had to switch back and forth to read character information and return to my story I d really like to see the windows tile so character content is available while writing hopefully a Mac version will take care of this perceived shortcoming MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 129 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 In addition to the character profiles WriteWay Pro provides note cards Ba Master NoteCard Templates Re E E caj gt l l NoteCard T ype T emplate N ames SAMPLE Notecard ee l T emplate Layout Describe what needs to happen in this scene chapter Note card provide an electronic means to replace those handy PostIt notes that cover most monitors and not a few desks at home or office The types of note cards that are available for each book are Plot Conflict Character Scene Sketch Setting Dialogue Romance Suspense Subplot and Revision plus you can add other cards as needed which is another nice touch of this product A list of valuable WriteWay Professional product features Organize Character Profiles Story Notecards Outline Composition Dictionary and Thesaurus Reports and Stats Word Page Count Tracking Notecard Templates Storyboard Synopsis Miscellaneous Pages Research Folders Future Book Ideas Folder ARCs Galleys Import Capability MPN LLC Copyright 2
182. tart at 199 USD and as a stand alone product the price is 399 USD Not everyone reading this review will need Dreamweaver to create their website Sometimes 1Web Rapidweaver Freeway or TextEdit is all you need but for those of us that have customer websites to take care of or are looking for the server side implementation that Dreamweaver can give you I think the new version is worth the upgrade MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 97 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Fireworks CS3 Thank You Adobe Reviewed by Tim Verpoorten Surfbits A Adobe http www adobe com products fireworks As part of the CS3 Design Premium 1 760 USD Standalone New 299 USD and 300 GBP Upgrade 149 USD and 150 GBP Requirements PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor Mac OS X v 10 4 8 256MB of RAM 512MB recommended for PowerPC based system 512MB 1GB recommended for Intel based system 1 6GB of available hard disk space additional free space required during installation 1 024x768 monitor resolution with 16 bit video card DVD ROM drive QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features Internet or phone connection required for product activation Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and other services Original review at http www surfbits com p 1149 In my review of Dreamweaver CS3 I mentioned that I ve been using DW since version 1 0 and love it The same can be said fo
183. ter do with a Search Set will do http db tidbits com article 08545 MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 91 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Alas using search sets was something I could not master in the two weeks I worked with the software On the positive side there are more than 130 plugins for popular search engines databases and search tools to assist in creating predefined search sets Unfortunately optimizing my use of them will need to wait until I better understand Search Set better termed criteria or focus Scanners by any other name Search Content Scanners a special type of plug in filter post process and filters the results using additional criteria about the resulting found items contents This way you can find only pages containing links to software archives webcams or picture galleries or even exclude them Also you can use scanners to display all images links email addresses or liked documents contained in a web page in a convenient drawer Once again due to my lack of understanding on how best to use these tools I ignored them Visualizing Search Results A graphical topics map now available in version 2 1 displays colored bubbles for topics with lines linking related topics Red yellow and black bubbles correspond to terms in the topics list Blue bubbles are additional topic terms that are not in the topics list Lines between the bubbles indicate surmised connections between topics For addi
184. th of information in a field guide like book is a remarkable find Great price and can be used for mac or pe iPod users Nice looking book as well Weaknesses None found As anyone knows the 1Pod 1s a big hit both for Mac and PC users There are many ways to use it and sometimes the best way to discover the merits of this device 1s to read a good book that is both a tutorial and informational resource guide For the price breadth and depth of the information in a book that also looks good you can t beat the book iPod Fully Loaded Andy Ihnatko is well known in Technology and Macintosh circles He has written for nearly every Mac magazine and is currently the Chicago Sun Times Technology columnist If you ve got a copy of iPod Fully Loaded you can 1Pod it and this guy backs up its title by being very authoritative and having a lot of information In its 312 pages within 20 chapters Andy squeezes a lot of good and useful information The pale shades of the book utilizing the light green lines are laid out throughout the book along with great screenshots tips and tidbit and more These subtle hues draw your attention into all the textual information that makes reading easy instead of a chore It is a different change not to see brilliant stark white pages and this arrangement complements the text well MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 51 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 There is a nice troubleshooting section Chapter 3 has valuable info
185. tional features new and old check the publisher s web page and the software manual Software Limitations Finding The Manual Unlike many products the manual was not a part of the download package I did find it on the developers web site Support gt DEVONacademy gt DEVONagent Manual This was a bit more effort than most users will make Manual Shortfalls In addition although the introductorily materials and tutorials getting started were excellent and the detailed uses of the various pull down menu items clear other parts of the manual were difficult to understand and use I would welcome a significant expansion of with examples of the material that focuses on plugins scanners and the other technical tools that enhance the ability to do an in depth search With out such detail would be power search users like me who need enhanced search capability will remain frustrated by their inability to use the tools provided by the developer With feedback from Eric Boehnisch Volkmann Devon s President I was pointed to the tutorials which solved many of my problems to better use Boolean search terms They also provided help for my taking advantage of the plug ins and post processing scanners However I still have along way to go before I master the later and therefore feel comfortable doing more complex focused searches Using secondary queries to narrow down search results is another area that I need to learn MPN LLC Copyrig
186. tiple months receive a 20 discount for both website and PDF based ads All advertising must be paid in advance We accept credit card payments via PayPal checks money orders by regular mail and cash in US currency by hand if you meet us face to face Site Ad Rate We offer website ads for a fixed budget price of only 100 per month on our site Following the KISS principle we accept banner ads in only one size at this time 468x60 pixels per the Interactive Advertising Bureau standards for a Full Banner Ad Interactive Marketing Unit The ad will be rotated through with other ads and there is no limit to how many you want to include The billing cycle begins based on the first day the ad placed on the site and is renewable on a monthly basis This can begin immediately or at any time Affiliations We do affiliations and work with those who have made arrangements with online affiliate systems or we deal directly with you if you have created code and have a contract we can sign Check out the Bazaar on our website at http www maccompanion com bazaar bazaarindex html Sponsorships We also accept sponsorships Please let us know if you would like to sponsor macCompanion If you are as excited about our macCompanion readership as we are please download the contractual terms and conditions documentation that are online in PDF format or we can send them to you as an attachment We d enjoy having an ongoing working relationship with you
187. too Well that s it for this issue Please come back again next month The macCompanion Staff MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 135 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007
188. ts and an aging power grid infrastructure We are becoming empowered to do something about it We are actively seeking sponsors and investors in this energy enabling dream If you would like to either participate in this venture or know of others who would like to sponsor or invest in this dream please get in contact with us so we can get it off the ground Digging Deeper into Renewable Energy Green Energy TV http www greenenergytv com watchnow html Energy Priorities http energypriorities com Energy Smart News http www energysmartnews com Green Building Council http www cascadiagbc org resources cascadia region resource links Home Power http www homepower com Off Grid http www oftf grid net Peak Oil http www lifeaftertheoilcrash net Renewable Energy Access http www renewableenergyaccess com rea home Solar Living Institute http www solarliving org resources Solar Power Maps http www solar4power com solar power global maps html Solar Power Videos http www youtube com results search related amp search_query csp 20solar 20power 20clean 20energy amp v aWw90sWbeztY Wind Farms http en wikipedia org wiki Wind_farm Wind Power Maps http www ecere energy gov windandhydro windpoweringamerica wind_maps asp MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 13 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 According to Hoyle Moving From CodeWarrior to Xcode Part II by Jonathan Hoyle June 2007 j
189. ty has actually reduced the Kilowatt hour fees in a reversal of a trend all other utilities have been treading How did they do that They went for the green and we have these wonderful windmills near us that get a lot of wind harnessed from the Columbia Gorge Because we are part of the Great American Desert we are blessed with a phenomenon where the Basin inhales in the morning and exhales in the afternoon Those windmill farms have been breeding like rabbits We also live right in the middle of hydroelectric power country in the Columbia Basin though certain powers want to have them removed in the interest of improving Salmon runs remember the snail darter episode as a reason for not building a dam We still have one of the few remaining nuclear power plants in operation here in the Northwest We also have some Photovoltaic farms in the vicinity with new ones coming online soon Our Mandate from Above I personally believe we were given the earth with a command to multiply and replenish it not subdue it into submission and pollute it And I am not going to apologize for those beliefs If you find this to be an issue so be it Do you remember the 1960 s and the polluted burning rivers and floating dead fish due to manufacturing on the East coast and the Great Lakes region MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 9 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 In Doctrine and Covenants Section 104 verse 17 the Lord promised that the ea
190. up my 22 screen PF4 adds a very Firefox like Bookmarks Bar onto which you can drag folders applications or documents You can browse entire directories from the Bookmarks Bar and when you get to where you want to go open subfolders from the tabs Multiple folders can be shown in a single window using tabbed browsing and files can be dragged from one tab to another Now I m not yet a great fan of tabs but their convenience is growing on me Drop Stack Good Temporary Place To Collect Files for Grouped Actions A Drop Stack drawer lets you drag and drop items from anywhere on you drive to form sets for later processing You can delay task such as copying or moving a file or folder or even burning compressing or mailing it Drop Stack is a temporary smart holding bay for folders and files Sometimes I need to gather odds and ends from all over my computer into one or more folders to use to burn a CD for a client If you tried that with Apple s finder you know that it s literally a drag and another one My most used solution is to drag stuff directly into Toast s window but that s neither fast nor elegant In Path Finder you simply drag files and folders to the Drop Stack DF4 keeps track as you stack up files and folders Note the drop Stack box is an index e g alias type link of your files Until you actually physically drag an item from its located on your hard drive the file hasn t actually moved anywhere Ho
191. ut whether Path Finder can do Boolean Searches I find such capabilities useful in other applications allowing me to explicitly define the type of search to perform For example search for items containing all the search words and any of the search words or or the complete phrase In addition just like in Google EasyFind or DEVONagent it would be great if you could search using wildcards or operators Also controlling your searches to be case sensitive or insensitive is something I value Eudora Thunderbird and I guess MS Entourage Mail Support We hold these truths to be self evident many of us don t like or use apples mail application I Need a Manual No in depth manual of how to make effective use of the splendiferous and abundant features Trial and error is fun but I ve got roads to travel and other things to see or at least lots of other reviews and articles to write The developer does note This basic documentation provides an overview of Path Finder 4 s features We will be posting more detailed help files for Path Finder 4 to our web site in the coming weeks Permanently Replacing the Finder with Path Finder I read that it was possible if you decide that you like using Path Finder more than the Finder itself you can have Path Finder quit the Finder and take its place Now that make me nervous I like the Command F1 approach better especially since I ve read no feed back on pros and cons of this alte
192. visit each link for you to filter and summarizes the results is an invaluable time saver As a result DEVONagent steers you much closer to the content you want without a lot of googling around dead or outdated sites I as likely you do get tired of clicking through the hundreds of links delivered by Google or Yahoo Ask com etc Indeed I routinely seldom check past the first 5 10 pages of Google search results likely missing a gem or two Actually I search for two pages past the last relevant hit I find in a Google search It also bugs me to find many of the links are outdated broken or lead to junk pages Google has no way to sort hits by date a feature that would be helpful Therefore I often use DEVONagent to either do an initial search or more routinely to redo one that came up dry when done in Google It has been a part of my dock since version 1 7 and sits next to the icon for FireFox The product does an excellent job of communicating with search engines digging through all the found results for you As my tests with both this and version 1 7 demonstrate there s a lot to gain by using DEVONagent for search for information on the Internet Not tool is perfect but it more often then not this software gives me only those documents that are worth reading Even more impressively 1t summarizes the collected information and presents me with a list of the most important topics which I can check out Finding the information I need on
193. wever you can use the stack to aggregate an archive burn your stack to a CD DVD or e mailing it but only in Apple Mail Viewing File Contents From Within PF4 You can view the contents of many kinds files with Path Finder s built in text editor and PDF viewers I ve read that PF4 s capabilities are more comprehensive than those of either Spotlight or the Finder but have not tested this MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 80 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Work With and Easily Change Document Attributes File information includes Spotlight metadata and lets you change ownership permissions type creator and creation modification dates Normally I use another application to meet such needs what s that 3 or separate tools instead of a single well integrated one I know there are wonderful tools for doing so such as publicsapce net A Better Finder Attributes now v 4 5 http www macupdate com info php id 1 1 143 a better finder attributes x or FileUtilsCM X 1 7 2 http www macupdate com info php id 9 104 fileutilscm x but these are further additions to you application or CM collection Looking in detail at all of FP4 s rich features I was impressed by the number of stand alone applications that I use regularly this tool could replace This is true despite the fact that most of the more specialized tools I use have gotten 4 0 rating from macC Discomforts Do Boolean Searches still haven t figured o
194. what we ve done so far I Soll application Tunes set songs to selection have placed the end repeat and end if and Sep se SEN PEE y end tell at the end of each respective call if _songs is then display dialog Please select songs and run the script again This acts just like curly braces do in most languages to let the computer know you are done executing statements that pertained to the loop or if statement etc else Se a repeat with i from 1 to num_songs We now need to know what s in the Name field for each song because that s what set song to item i of songs end repeat contains the information we ll use to fill in end if end tell oe ae fields later To get a nice song we ll use set song to item i of _songs Every time we go through the loop 1 ail increment by 1 Therefore 1 will let us access every item in the list of songs So every time we go through the loop if we set our _song to the i item in the list we ll be all set to do whatever we need to with that particular song Now we re going to grab the actual name of the song we re working with This will be some text particularly 015 Gwen Stefani Rich Girl in our case set song path to name of song will give us that text we need We ll pick out the parts of that text we need for the name of the song and its artist in the next block of code MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 24 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6
195. with both Eudora and FileMaker Pro after all that s all I had My Apple address book contains only six or seven entries three are variants of my business addresses Eudora As part of this review I dumped some address information yes tediously field by field from my Dymo Address lists into my Eudora address book It was about time to add such information at least for my frequently used contacts That Eudora associated list became one test set Alas when I imported the Eudora address book into Mail Factory it was all there Several dozen sets of compete address and hundred of blanks just folks names or incomplete entries But I knew that was going to happen MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 107 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 The Address Book Access Thing From FileMaker Pro Since most my addresses are in FMP databases as noted earlier I had two choices Export import tab delimited addresses or export addresses directly from FMP I ended up creating two alternative test sets from my 3 000 records FMP professional contacts database They turned out to be identical By using FMP s export feature extracting only address related information from my database I was able to import information into Mail Factory and to easily map it During the process of using FMP s export to tab text feature I ignored the information in the FMP database about folks emails websites wife and children s names birth dates you know th
196. with the first line of the paragraph indented e Centered If the horizontal lines are directly beneath the I beam then you can enter a centered paragraph by double clicking your mouse e Right aligned If the horizontal lines are near the upper left side of the I beam then it indicates that double clicking will add a right aligned paragraph where you click MPN LLC Copyright 2003 2007 Page 33 of 135 Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2007 Remember that Click and Type only works if you are viewing your document in Page Layout view Web Layout view or print preview The lines near the insertion pointer I beam appear only as you are moving your mouse pointer left and right within the document window If you don t like or don t use the Click and Type you may want to turn it off You can do this by following these steps Preferences N a Taeg reaa M H ign m a 3 F a a H E E FA Choose Preferences from the Word menu Word displays the Preferences dialog box andre ext wditing nls paragraph mark when Peng Bar Er Ban Poe Sra uber Beech amjirg werd we Ehr Nb Ery for passe E Cet twp mE Tats mi apate ert Gale eni ie Eocene apea in Freeh RRO ROO meme oy Kea track gf formating Make sure the Edit tab 1s EAEE selected at the left side of the T E a dialog box at Shee Pade Ose bathers BA Wee smart cut and paste attire lick aad Wor Ohorere and Referee gorumerndgy Make sure the Enable Click E Erghie cii
197. y As a Co Op the Ever Green Renewable Energy Resource Center will be built using most if not all of the various technologies to show how it can be done for both businesses and residences We are talking about Solar HVAC integration Photovoltaic windows thick and thin film roofing and or tiles PV panels light pipes windmill units underground geothermal HVAC and possibly hydroelectric implementation as well It may not all fit under one roof Renewable Energy Installations We will be providing renewable energy consulting services for doing site surveys and energy audits and offering installation services by way of Jonathan Herman Lewis President Seraphim Electric Company based in Goldendale WA specializing in certified renewable energy installations in both Washington and soon Oregon http www seraphimelectric com Foodstuffs and Healthy Living There will also be an in house show me how to kitchen and bakery that will be used for both instruction in healthy food preparation and preservation from Giggles Gluten Free LLC http www glutenfreebakery biz Man may not live by bread alone but an individual s energy needs to be renewed constantly as well These specialized foodstuffs guarantee that customers will keep coming back for more Gluten free food offers anti allergen and other disease prevention solutions Some local hospitals and restaurants are already on the waiting list for these products Trainin
198. y score of what I played on my MIDI keyboard all in real time I was impressed by the speed and accuracy with which Sibelius was able to transcribe what I played Next is Basic formatting which illustrates just how flexible and sophisticated Sibelius is when it comes to being able to instantly change layouts and formats of which there are many to choose from A little arranging showed how with just a few easy steps you can easily rearrange your music for any combination of instruments and here again there are so many combinations to choose from under the Notes menu The next chapter discusses how Sibelius allows you to publish music on the internet either to SibeltusMusic com which is a very large database of sheet music or you may publish teaching materials onto SibeliusEducation com for students and colleagues to download and which in turn allows you to obtain the same from others or you may also publish your scores onto your own website I should mention that this viewing sharing and printing of scores on the internet 1s enabled by Scorch which comes with Sibelius and is a free web browser plug in What I was particularly interested in and excited about checking out was the Video chapter Well it was so easy to import a video and have it play in syne with my Sibelius score Wow that was easy Sibelius also has many files of short videos which you can copy to your hard disc from the CD ROM and either view t

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