From fozard at nauticom.net Tue Jan 2 09:00:46 2007 From: fozard at nauticom.net (Fozard) Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:00:46 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] OT - Art Institute of PGH, Slide Show of PGH & Evnirons - Nostalgia Message-ID: <459A81AE.3090209@nauticom.net> http://www.artinstitutes.edu/pittsburgh/galleries/galleries_pittsburgh.asp From dave at davesevick.com Tue Jan 2 10:24:14 2007 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 12:24:14 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Steve Jobs' Keynote on Tuesday Jan 9, 12noon ( EST ) Message-ID: <3E143C87-4371-4754-A420-B9F4F6F4F896@davesevick.com> Let's have some fun with the best 2nd best Apple event of the year ... MacWorld San Francisco Please find the list we have started and email me your predictions ..... I'll post them .... http://davesevick.com/predictions.html Disclaimer - I know absolutely nothing about what is going to happen on Jan 9 .... nor do any Apple consultants, nor do any Apple employees ... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070102/32876008/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Tue Jan 2 20:33:39 2007 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 22:33:39 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Jan 3 NPMUG meeting - topic - MacWorld San Francisco 2007 Message-ID: <0E7EF178-BD42-44F1-A6BD-89034C436C43@davesevick.com> What will be done ? What will be said on Jan 9 ? What say you ? http://davesevick.com/predictions.html Be at MacOutfitters tomorrow night at 7PM and we can find out .... :-) Just some clean fun among Mac zealots. Dave ``````````````````````` Pittsburgh Groups http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html ``````````````````````` M E E T I N G S I N P I T T S B U R G H - - - C R A N B E R R Y T O W N S H I P - - - 1st Wednesday of each month, 7:00 - 9:00 PM, Location - MacOutfitters of Cranberry724-776-8075 http://www.macoutfitters.com ( 9PM nightcap at Primanti's in Cranberry after each meeting ) Contact: Apple User Group Ambassador - Dave Sevick - dave at davesevick.com http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/Cranberry%20Township.html - - - M O N R O E V I L L E - - - 1st Thursday of each month, 7:00 - 9:00 PM, Location - Monroeville Public Library 412-372-3002 ( 5:30 PM coffee at Panera Bread in Miracle Mile Shopping Center before each meeting) http://www.monroevillelibrary.org/screens/cowmug.html Contact: COWMUG President - Peter Carras - pcarras+ at pitt.edu http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/Monroeville.html - - - S H A D Y S I D E - - - 2nd Sunday of each month, 5:30 - 6:30 PM, Location - Apple Store Shadyside 412-683-1186 http://www.apple.com/retail/shadyside ( 6:30PM dinner at Max and Erma's in Shadyside after each meeting ) Contact: Apple User Group Ambassador - Dave Sevick - dave at davesevick.com http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/Shadyside.html - - - S O U T H H I L L S - - - 4th Sunday of each month, 6:00 - 7:00 PM, Location - Apple Store South Hills Village 412-833-1840 http://www.apple.com/retail/southhillsvillage ( 7PM dinner at the Roxy Cafe in South Hills Village,Upper Level after every meeting ) Contact: Apple User Group Leader - Charles Firth - charles at firthconsulting.com http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/South%20Hills.html - - - P E N N S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y - - - 1st Tuesday of each month from 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM ( see http:// www.psumug.org/ical/ calendar to be sure) Contact: Apple User Group Ambassador - Carlo Pitocco - gpitocco at ist.psu.edu http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/Penn%20State% 20University.html ``````````````````````` -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070102/d194e52d/attachment-0001.htm From anomie at zbzoom.net Tue Jan 2 22:10:45 2007 From: anomie at zbzoom.net (Anomie) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:10:45 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Center for Hope In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Is the Saturday at the Center for Hope on for this weekend? I can not come to the meeting, so I thought I would ask here. Also, I have a friend with one of the original iMacs. She is running OS 10,4 something on it and it has only 256 memory, so it is verrrry slllooooow. Is more memory available for it? over and out mary jo From jeff at szuhay.org Tue Jan 2 22:58:47 2007 From: jeff at szuhay.org (Jeff Szuhay) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:58:47 -0800 Subject: [NPMUG] Mac Geekery - Basic Mac OS X Security References: Message-ID: With all the hoopla about "A Month of Apple Kernel Bugs" I thought it might be worthwhile to pass along this link: Lots of good advice here. I think Les Getchell will be covering this at the next Shadyside NPMUG meeting. Best, the Blind Dog -- One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence. -- Charles A. Beard, historian (1874-1948) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070102/96052d96/attachment.htm From ascii at psu.edu Thu Jan 4 21:01:47 2007 From: ascii at psu.edu (Logan) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 23:01:47 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Mail.app attachments Message-ID: <16637B9C-986B-4DC1-86C5-B23C57D4E1E6@psu.edu> Good day, I've been having trouble with Mail.app not attaching documents. I click the attach button at the top of the message, select the file, and the file chooser dialogue goes away, but the attachments do not appear on the message. This occurs for single or multiple files, whether I double click the file or click "choose file", and even if I drag the files to the mail message from Finder. System Update says I'm up to date on my Mac apps. Any help? -Logan White Stack From dianag at connecttime.net Fri Jan 5 07:02:44 2007 From: dianag at connecttime.net (Diana Greenberg) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:02:44 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Mail App. Message-ID: <34680D00-1ABB-426A-85DB-30953CD90633@connecttime.net> I'm also having problems receiving some of my mail. I know for sure that two e mails containing attachments and two with just several sentences in the body have not come to me and one that was a reply to my e mail to them! They are not detected as junk and server (connect time ) says no problem. Only suggestion from them was to inactivate my Norton Antivirus or Lacie virus check which doesn't seem like a good idea. From charles at firthconsulting.com Sat Jan 6 08:43:28 2007 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 10:43:28 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] InfoWeek reviews Vista vs. OSX Message-ID: A comparison of the two OSes from a user perspective. In brief: While Vista is definitely an improvement over XP, it doesn't come close to OSX. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml? articleID=196800670&pgno=1&queryText= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070106/fd56fedf/attachment-0001.htm From dave at davesevick.com Sat Jan 6 13:43:34 2007 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 15:43:34 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Donation Program at The Center For Hope Reached the 550 milestone today Message-ID: Dear computer donation folks, We crossed the 550 mark today ! Thanks to all our friends from the Saint Alphonsus Catholic School of Wexford led by Technology teacher Nancy Clark for their hard work today. And for the Mac faithful ..... Charlie Hutchens Nathan Brentzel Mary Jo Smiley Diana Greenberg and Bob Donaldson and Dave Sevick ...... God Bless everyone that has participated in giving, fixing, cleaning, delivering, training and recycling of all we do here .... Ecologically yours, Dave Sevick and Bob Donaldson P.S. Spread the word we have many many many machines that are ready for giving away .... meaning $5 for non-internet Mac , $25 for internet-ready Mac ( running OS9 ) =========================================== The Center for Hope - Ambridge, PA Computer Donation Program Co-Directors - Dave Sevick and Bob Donaldson dave at davesevick.com - 724-779-0099 radonaldson at mac.com - 412-477-9188 ----- Computer Training Team Coordinator - Sarah Brim sarahbrim2 at mac.com - 412-480-4168 ----- http://www.thecenterforhope.com http://www.npmug.com =========================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Spread the word we have many many many machines that are ready for giving away .... meaning $5 for non-internet Mac , $25 for internet-ready Mac ( running OS9 ) =========================================== The Center for Hope - Ambridge, PA Computer Donation Program Co-Directors - Dave Sevick and Bob Donaldson dave at davesevick.com - 724-779-0099 radonaldson at mac.com - 412-477-9188 ----- Computer Training Team Coordinator - Sarah Brim sarahbrim2 at mac.com - 412-480-4168 ----- http://www.thecenterforhope.com http://www.npmug.com =========================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From shelley at shelleylipton.com Sun Jan 7 22:11:02 2007 From: shelley at shelleylipton.com (Shelley Lipton) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 00:11:02 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] music for iweb Message-ID: <2F81CD66-28C5-483C-AAD7-BC296477D0FF@shelleylipton.com> When creating pages in iWeb, adding a music file can be done. Once a music file has been added, it appears that one must press the play icon in the music's audio controls to start the music. Does any one know if there is a method for the music to start automatically? I am interested in having the page open with music being played automatically rather than a viewer have to start the music with a click on a control. I look forward to hearing from any one who might know what I'm trying to do! Shelley From fozard at nauticom.net Mon Jan 8 09:25:42 2007 From: fozard at nauticom.net (Fozard) Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:25:42 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Apple's "Studio"??? Message-ID: <45A27086.30104@nauticom.net> http://www.macnn.com/blogs/?p=238 From radonaldson at mac.com Mon Jan 8 16:10:34 2007 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 18:10:34 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Let's play "Stump the IT department!" Message-ID: Here's a head-scratcher that's got us at the Post-Gazette stumped... My Post-Gazette PowerBook G4 connects at the Downtown office via wired DHCP just fine.... until Sunday. Plug it in an no network recognition anywhere. Check settings, move to three other work stations and the same thing, no connection. I was beginning to think the computer's ethernet jack was dead. The computer connects fine on my home wired network (manual IP address) and a couple of Panera's via AirPort DHCP. It also connects fine via AirPort DHCP on the same network at the Post-Gazette it refuses to recognize with a wire. An IDENTICAL PowerBook G4 belonging to a colleague with IDENTICAL network settings connects flawlessly at every workstation my PowerBook failed at. Both PowerBooks have the latest Apple security updates. Both are running OS X.3.9, the highest system authorized by our IT department. The principal Mac IT guy went over it today for over an hour and can't figure out what is going on here. Neither can I. Permissions have been repaired three times, PRAM zapped twice, The 10.3.9 combo update has been re-applied, and permissions rebuilt again. Disk First Aid reports no issues. Still dead. Has anyone seen anything like this? Bob Donaldson Staff Photographer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bdonaldson at post-gazette.com (M) 412-779-5860 From radonaldson at mac.com Mon Jan 8 16:18:13 2007 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 18:18:13 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Dial-up modem with Comcast telephone service? Message-ID: I've been asked if Comcast's telephone service supports dial-up computer modems. Does anyone have experience with this? Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M)412-477-9188 From jamescorsale at mac.com Mon Jan 8 18:14:11 2007 From: jamescorsale at mac.com (jamescorsale) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 20:14:11 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Macworld: Expo: 'Twas the night before Expo Message-ID: ?Twas the day before Macworld, and all through the nets Not a weblog was silent, they were all taking bets; The photos were taken of posters afar, In hopes that St. Jobs? stuff would clearly show thar. The faithful were ready, asleep in their homes, With thoughts of Mac tablets a-dance in their domes; As Phil with his keyboard, and Steve with his phone, Prepared to present and to throw us a bone, But out on the Web sites there was such a clatter, I surfed to them all, to read up on their patter. Come Tuesday, to Expo I ran in a dash, A pause I did make just to get me some cash. The moon on the heads of the other Mac nuts Was a sign of how early we?d all left our huts. We dreamed of new hardware, new software, new gear, New iWork, new iLife, The Beatles (big cheer!), More movies, an iPhone, an iTV too, And Leopard a-growl to make Redmond go ?Ooooh!? And one more thing too, but what could that be? Not even the journalists were privy to see. We waited a-flutter like pilgrims so true, As we shuffled our feet and dreamed of the new, We stood out on line, in the cool morning air, Knowing soon, very soon, Mr. Jobs would be there. Then what to our wondering eyes should appear, But a glorious limo whose purpose was clear, With a little old driver, and a man in the back, We all knew in our hearts that he'd be dressed in black. More rapid than eagles, his people they came, And he whistled, cajoled, and he called them by name; ?Now Peter! Now, Sina! Now, Ron and now Timothy! On, Philip! On Donald! On, Bertrand and Tony! To the top of the hall! To the front of the stage! Come, hurry, run to me, we?ve CES to upstage!? To all of the pilgrims who?d flown on long flights, Happy Expo to all, and to all a good night. http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/expo/2007/01/poem/index.php?lsrc=mwrss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070108/6e732363/attachment-0001.htm From dave at davesevick.com Mon Jan 8 18:54:27 2007 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 20:54:27 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Prediction line for MWSF Keynote 2007 ... is now closed .... we'll see who was correct in guessing ... tomorrow !!!! Message-ID: <27BEF262-EAB6-4F30-9227-FE9673D3BE1B@davesevick.com> http://davesevick.com/predictions.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Wayne Gretzky And this was a great presentation ...... Please watch the entire QuickTime stream video before you post or ask questions to this list ... it is two hours long .... but really fun to watch and goes quickly ..... http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/j47d52oo/event/ iPhone http://www.apple.com/iphone/ AppleTV http://www.apple.com/appletv/ Airport Extreme with 802.11 n http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/ Paramount movies http://www.apple.com/itunes/?section=itunes-movie "Surgery" ad http://www.apple.com/getamac/ Apple Computer Inc. is now just Apple Inc. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml? articleID=196802415 .... and on the keynote video you will see ....... Google partnering .... CEO shares stage Yahoo! partnering .... CEO ( Chief Yahoo!) shares stage Cingular + AT&T partnering CEO shares stage Enjoy !!!!! Dave Sevick Apple User Group Ambassador , Pittsburgh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070110/f4ce311c/attachment.htm From charles at firthconsulting.com Wed Jan 10 04:51:57 2007 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:51:57 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] MacWorld San Fran 2007 brings iPhone, AppleTV, Airport Extreme ... and more .... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6E5CA0D1-AB69-407F-B8DA-F3DD8A8B5C68@firthconsulting.com> I finally got a chance to watch the whole thing late last night. Strongly recommend you watch it. Callahan and I spent the 2 hours with our jaws on the floor. I find the "iPhone" to be poorly named. It implies it's just a phone (and you know Apple had to pay Cisco for that name) I'd have rather seen a more refined "nonsense" name - like "iPod" (which, honestly, makes no sense) I'd buy the iPhone *just* for the iPod widescreen - not to mention all the other stuff it does. I'm also going to find it hard to describe to people- you pretty much need to watch the keynote to see everything it can do. I haven't figured out how to translate what I saw into words yet. (Of course, once June rolls around I'll be buying one, and can then show it off) I'm less excited about the rest. And I'm hoping the name change is like Dell's (a few years ago they went from "Dell Computers" to "Dell") - nice, but not indicating a loss of focus on the Mac. Finally, I found it interesting that we heard nothing on OSX 10.5. Also interesting was the repeated views of The Beatles in iTunes.. have Apple and Apple finally buried the hatchet? On Jan 10, 2007, at 12:06 AM, Dave Sevick wrote: > Steve Jobs ended his Keynote today with .... > > ?A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey > player plays where the puck is going to be.? Wayne Gretzky > > > And this was a great presentation ...... > > > Please watch the entire QuickTime stream video before you post or > ask questions to this list ... it is two hours long .... but > really fun to watch and goes quickly ..... > > > http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/j47d52oo/event/ > > iPhone > http://www.apple.com/iphone/ > > AppleTV > http://www.apple.com/appletv/ > > Airport Extreme with 802.11 n > http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/ > > Paramount movies > http://www.apple.com/itunes/?section=itunes-movie > > > "Surgery" ad > http://www.apple.com/getamac/ > > > Apple Computer Inc. is now just Apple Inc. > http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml? > articleID=196802415 > > > > > .... and on the keynote video you will see ....... > Google partnering .... CEO shares stage > > Yahoo! partnering .... CEO ( Chief Yahoo!) shares stage > > Cingular + AT&T partnering CEO shares stage > > > > Enjoy !!!!! > > > Dave Sevick > Apple User Group Ambassador , Pittsburgh > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070110/36a2ffb6/attachment-0001.htm From jamescorsale at mac.com Wed Jan 10 06:16:28 2007 From: jamescorsale at mac.com (jamescorsale) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:16:28 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] MacWorld San Fran 2007 brings iPhone, AppleTV, Airport Extreme ... and more .... In-Reply-To: <6E5CA0D1-AB69-407F-B8DA-F3DD8A8B5C68@firthconsulting.com> References: <6E5CA0D1-AB69-407F-B8DA-F3DD8A8B5C68@firthconsulting.com> Message-ID: <9643F2CC-4EDD-4164-A568-C192C5413DDD@mac.com> Since Steve said in the keynote that it's your life in your pocket, maybe change the name to 'iI' ... love the iPhone, btw, awesome product. On Jan 10, 2007, at 6:51 AM, Charles Firth wrote: > I find the "iPhone" to be poorly named. It implies it's just a > phone (and you know Apple had to pay Cisco for that name) I'd have > rather seen a more refined "nonsense" name - like "iPod" (which, > honestly, makes no sense) > I'd buy the iPhone *just* for the iPod widescreen - not to mention > all the other stuff it does. > I'm also going to find it hard to describe to people- you pretty > much need to watch the keynote to see everything it can do. I > haven't figured out how to translate what I saw into words yet. (Of > course, once June rolls around I'll be buying one, and can then > show it off) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070110/b0474a67/attachment.htm From jeff at szuhay.org Wed Jan 10 09:20:54 2007 From: jeff at szuhay.org (Jeff Szuhay) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:20:54 -0800 Subject: [NPMUG] MacWorld San Fran 2007 brings iPhone, AppleTV, Airport Extreme ... and more .... In-Reply-To: <6E5CA0D1-AB69-407F-B8DA-F3DD8A8B5C68@firthconsulting.com> References: <6E5CA0D1-AB69-407F-B8DA-F3DD8A8B5C68@firthconsulting.com> Message-ID: <11DA47C7-B2CC-4212-AD56-1D51966A266A@szuhay.org> It hit me yesterday that the only thing missing was an iSight -- that way we could really have a Dick Tracy "video phone"with iChat over WiFi -- but then no phone carrier would allow that. Jeff On Jan 10, 2007, at 3:51 AM, Charles Firth wrote: > I find the "iPhone" to be poorly named. It implies it's just a > phone (and you know Apple had to pay Cisco for that name) I'd have > rather seen a more refined "nonsense" name - like "iPod" (which, > honestly, makes no sense) > I'd buy the iPhone *just* for the iPod widescreen - not to mention > all the other stuff it does. > I'm also going to find it hard to describe to people- you pretty > much need to watch the keynote to see everything it can do. I > haven't figured out how to translate what I saw into words yet. (Of > course, once June rolls around I'll be buying one, and can then > show it off) -- One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence. -- Charles A. Beard, historian (1874-1948) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070110/1264fc23/attachment.htm From charles at firthconsulting.com Wed Jan 10 09:37:51 2007 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:37:51 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] MacWorld San Fran 2007 brings iPhone, AppleTV, Airport Extreme ... and more .... In-Reply-To: <11DA47C7-B2CC-4212-AD56-1D51966A266A@szuhay.org> References: <6E5CA0D1-AB69-407F-B8DA-F3DD8A8B5C68@firthconsulting.com> <11DA47C7-B2CC-4212-AD56-1D51966A266A@szuhay.org> Message-ID: There's more missing then that - I'm just not sure how much of it is "not there" and how much is "not mentioned in the keynote, but there" It's that whole "runs OSX" thing - if that's true, do I have a Terminal? Can I get one installed? Can I get VNC, RDP, or Apple Remote Desktop installed? The good news is, SJ made a point of bringing up the fact that you can add new stuff later - so it could simply be a matter of "someone needs to write it" - if Apple allows third-party iPhone developers, expect these things to show up. Video iChat would be cake to do .:) On Jan 10, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Jeff Szuhay wrote: > It hit me yesterday that the only thing missing was an iSight -- > that way we could really > have a Dick Tracy "video phone"with iChat over WiFi -- but then no > phone carrier would allow that. > > Jeff > > On Jan 10, 2007, at 3:51 AM, Charles Firth wrote: >> I find the "iPhone" to be poorly named. It implies it's just a >> phone (and you know Apple had to pay Cisco for that name) I'd have >> rather seen a more refined "nonsense" name - like "iPod" (which, >> honestly, makes no sense) >> I'd buy the iPhone *just* for the iPod widescreen - not to mention >> all the other stuff it does. >> I'm also going to find it hard to describe to people- you pretty >> much need to watch the keynote to see everything it can do. I >> haven't figured out how to translate what I saw into words yet. >> (Of course, once June rolls around I'll be buying one, and can >> then show it off) > > -- > One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as > a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating > the very phrases which our founding fathers used in > the great struggle for independence. > -- Charles A. Beard, historian (1874-1948) > > From marty.swartz at gmail.com Wed Jan 10 09:38:21 2007 From: marty.swartz at gmail.com (Marty Swartz) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:38:21 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] AppleTV compliant with Myth? (Was MacWorld San Fran 2007) Message-ID: For sure, the keynote was a jaw-dropper. There was one thing, though. One swotting big gaping hole in the AppleTV portion of the presentation: a PVR back-end to go with the AppleTV. I've followed Dave Sevick's Tivo Travails with some interest, because I have been noodling around with an open source PVR system called "Myth". http://www.mythtv.org/index.php There is even a Knoppix-based distro that purports to make the whole thing easy to deploy. (Uh, right.) http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Here's the thing: Myth is broken out in two major subsystems: a "back end" that has one or more HDTV tuner cards, and which does the Heavy Lifting of receiving, encoding, and storing your shows. The "front end" is a second box that handles the UI and which retrieves and displays the content you have recorded. *DING!* Hey, that's what AppleTV does! (BTW, the Myth front-end and back-end can co-reside on a single PC, and that's what has messed me up so far. You can also have more than one front-end systems streaming shows from the single back-end server.) So I am very curious to see (a) if the AppleTV front end can be made to talk to the KnoppMyth back end, and (b) if Apple will be releasing the software and tuner cards to make a PCI-based PowerMac into the back-end server. Thoughts and speculation, anyone? - Marty -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The instruction manual has a table of permissible functions with a check next to WinXP webcam, but nothing next to Mac webcam. I connected it to my eMac with a 4pin to 6pin FireWire cable. When I click on iChat > Preferences > Video I can see the video image in a pop-up window. Same if I click on the little green video camera icon at the top of the AIM buddy list. But if I click on the "Start a Video Chat" button at the bottom of the AIM buddy list, I get the error message " Cannot Start Video Chat. (null) is busy in another conference." Any thoughts? - Peter -- Peter Carras pcarras at pitt.edu From dave at davesevick.com Wed Jan 10 19:56:41 2007 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:56:41 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] David Pogue interviews Steve Jobs on the iPhone ... a report from fellow ACN, Garry Margolis, at MacWorld Message-ID: <21BFC701-4132-4FA8-B705-7D3AF7FB7FED@davesevick.com> Joe Saponare writes: > What does it mean that the iPhone runs OS X? I know it's more > than marketing because it's common knowledge that Linux can now be > installed on a 60W light bulb. > > I guess I'm just curious how much actual code from OS X is running > on the iPhone, and how much it needs to be customized or tweaked to > work. > Garry Margolis replies: David Pogue spoke at the O'Reilly booth about the iPhone today. He and John Markoff of the NY Times interviewed Steve for 40 minutes and Phil Schiller for 20 minutes, during nearly all of which Pogue said he was playing with the iPhone. He made a couple of calls and sent a couple of e-mails, plus web browsed, and was blown away. First, Pogue emphasized that it's six months away from release and there's a lot yet to be done. For instance, he discovered that the calendar is only a JPEG at this time -- it's not finished. According to Jobs and/or Schiller, the iPhone is a closed system. No third-party apps can be installed. Flash, Windows Media, and Real players are not included and cannot be installed. Pogue asked about how much of OS X is contained in the phone, and Jobs didn't answer directly, saying only that obviously there were no hard disk drivers. The RAM is exclusively for data, including contact and calendar info as well as audio and video. iChat is not in the iPhone; instead, the SMS service has an iChat- like user interface. According to Pogue, where the current prototype really shines is as an internet appliance. Safari and the 160 pixels/inch screen, plus the automatic portrait/landscape rotation, mean that it can be possible to read a standard web page without magnifying it, although magnification with the two-finger stretch-squeeze commands appears to be a direct response, with no lag. Speaking of the UI, scanning through the Address Book entries is also brilliant. It's programmed to be like a physical card deck with some inertia, and its scrolling speed and duration accelerate and decelerate. There are shortcut alphabetical buttons on the side of the screen. Receiving calls while playing video or audio is very smooth, as is adding a third person to a phone call. The phone has four buttons: the home button on the face below the screen, and volume up/down buttons and a ring/vibrate switch on the side. All other functions are done with virtual icons and buttons. A great deal of attention was paid to the surface of the screen. Schiller said that they'd learned their lesson from the 1st generation Nano. Pogue tried cleaning the screen and removed his finger smudges with one wipe on his jacket sleeve. The alphabet keyboard is small, and because there are no physical buttons, errors are easy to make. Apple, however, has a new method for correcting typos. Instead of using the current dictionary-based methods, the phone looks at the keys surrounding the ones typed and proposes corrections based on the adjacent keys. Pogue says he had trouble typing accurately but that the text was accurately corrected. More when I remember more... Garry -- Garry Margolis 3283 Tilden Ave. Macintosh Consulting Los Angeles, CA 90034 Apple Consultants Network Phn: (310) 479-3389 Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist Cell: (310) 493-6026 Daylite Premier Partner From dave at davesevick.com Wed Jan 10 20:28:13 2007 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:28:13 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] iPhone review just published by David Pogue Message-ID: <4F4B267D-48DC-4DA7-837E-CDAD03BA9FD7@davesevick.com> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/technology/11pogue.html? pagewanted=2&8dpc State of the Art Apple Waves Its Wand at the Phone By DAVID POGUE Published: January 11, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO Remember the fairy godmother in ?Cinderella?? She?d wave her wand and turn some homely and utilitarian object, like a pumpkin or a mouse, into something glamorous and amazing, like a carriage or fully accessorized coachman. Evidently, she lives in some back room at Apple. Every time Steve Jobs spies some hopelessly ugly, complex machine that cries out for the Apple touch ? computers, say, or music players ? he lets her out. At the annual Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Mr. Jobs demonstrated the latest result of godmother wand-waving. He granted the wishes of millions of Apple followers and rumormongers by turning the ordinary cellphone into ... the iPhone. At the moment, the iPhone is in an advanced prototype stage, which I was allowed to play with for only an hour; the finished product won?t be available in the United States until June, or in Europe until the fourth quarter. So this column is a preview, not a review. Already, though, one thing is clear: the name iPhone may be doing Apple a disservice. This machine is so packed with possibilities that the cellphone may actually be the least interesting part. As Mr. Jobs pointed out in his keynote presentation, the iPhone is at least three products merged into one: a phone, a wide-screen iPod and a wireless, touch-screen Internet communicator. That helps to explain its price: $499 or $599 (with four or eight gigabytes of storage). As you?d expect of Apple, the iPhone is gorgeous. Its face is shiny black, rimmed by mirror-finish stainless steel. The back is textured aluminum, interrupted only by the lens of a two-megapixel camera and a mirrored Apple logo. The phone is slightly taller and wider than a Palm Treo, but much thinner (4.5 by 2.4 by 0.46 inches). You won?t complain about too many buttons on this phone; it comes very close to having none at all. The front is dominated by a touch screen (320 by 480 pixels) operated by finger alone. The only physical buttons, in fact, are volume up/down, ringer on/off (hurrah!), sleep/wake and, beneath the screen, a Home button. The iPhone?s beauty alone would be enough to prompt certain members of the iPod cult to dig for their credit cards. But its Mac OS X- based software makes it not so much a smartphone as something out of ?Minority Report.? Take the iPod features, for example. As on any iPod, scrolling through lists of songs and albums is a blast ? but there?s no scroll wheel. Instead, you flick your finger on the glass to send the list scrolling freely, according to the speed of your flick. The scrolling spins slowly to a stop, as though by its own inertia. The effect is both spectacular and practical, because as the scrolling slows, you can see where you are before flicking again if necessary. The same flicking lets you flip through photos or album covers as though they?re on a 3-D rack. All of this ? photos, music collection, address book, podcasts, videos and so on ? are synched to the iPhone from Apple?s iTunes software running on a Mac or Windows PC, courtesy of the charging/synching dock that is included. Movies are especially satisfying on this iPod. That?s partly because of the wide-screen orientation, and partly because the screen is so much bigger (3.5 inches) and sharper (160 pixels per inch) than those on other iPods. The iPhone can get onto the Internet in two ways: using Wi-Fi, at least when you?re in the presence of a wireless hot spot, or using Cingular?s disappointingly slow Edge network. That?s right: the iPhone?s exclusive carrier will be Cingular. (Nor is the phone ?unlocked?; you can?t use it with any other carrier.) At least it?s a quad-band G.S.M. phone, so it will work overseas. You can also conduct text-message conversations that appear as a continuous chat thread. And like any smartphone, the iPhone can download e-mail from standard accounts at regular intervals. In fact, Yahoo will offer free ?push? e-mail ? that is, messages will arrive on the iPhone in real time, just as on a corporate BlackBerry. The iPhone is not, however, a BlackBerry killer. The absence of a physical keyboard makes it versatile, but also makes typing tedious. Instead of raised alphabet keys, you get virtual keys on the screen. They?re fairly small, and of course you can?t feel them. So typing is slow going, especially for the fat of finger. Fortunately, you don?t have to be especially precise. Even if you hit the wrong ?keys? accidentally, the super-smart software considers adjacent keys ? and corrects your typos automatically. If what you actually managed to type is ?wrclme,? the software proposes ?welcome.? You tap the Space bar to accept the fix. It works beautifully. The real magic, however, awaits when you browse the Web. You get to see the entire Web page on the iPhone?s screen, although with tiny type. To enlarge it, you can double-tap any spot; then you drag your finger to scroll in any direction. Alternatively, you can use a brand-new feature that Apple calls multitouch: you slide your thumb and forefinger together (like pinching) or apart on the glass. As you do so, the Web page before you grows or shrinks in real time, as though it?s printed on a sheet of latex. It works with photos, too, and it?s wicked cool. All of this is cooked up with Apple?s traditional secret sauce of simplicity, intelligence and whimsy. It?s these ingredients, not the features themselves, that inspire such technolust in Applephiles. For example, voice mail messages appear in a list, like an e-mail in- box; you can listen to them in any order. A proximity sensor turns off the touch screen when the phone is up to your ear, saving power and avoiding accidental touches. The screen image rotates when you turn the phone to see, for example, a landscape-orientation photo. A light sensor brightens the screen in bright light. Finger smudges and streaks are inevitable, but are visible only when the screen is turned off. (They disappear with a wipe on your sleeve.) The speaker is on the bottom edge, rather than the back, where it would be muffled when the phone is set down. The optional tiny Bluetooth wireless earpiece has its own little charging hole in the iPhone?s charging/synching dock ? and it snaps in magnetically for convenience. Apple says that this earpiece ?pairs? with the iPhone automatically, sparing you the usual ritual of pressing buttons in a baffling sequence. Nonetheless, the iPhone won?t be the smartphone for everybody. You may well consider the Cingular exclusivity or the price a deal- breaker. You may also be disappointed that the iPhone can?t open Microsoft Office documents, as the Treo can (although Apple says it can open PDF documents), or wonder why it?s not a 3G cellphone that can exploit higher-speed, next-generation cellular towers as they arrive in the coming years. And you may worry about putting all your digital eggs into one losable, droppable, glass-front basket. Note, too, that the software is still unfinished, and many questions are still unanswered. Will you be able to turn your own songs into ring tones? Will there be a voice recorder? Will the camera record video? Can you use Skype to make free Internet calls? Will the battery really last for five hours of talking, video and Web browsing (or 16 hours of audio playback)? Will you someday be able to buy songs and videos from the iTunes Store right on the phone? At this point, Apple doesn?t yet have the answers, or isn?t revealing them. What it does have, however, is a real shot at redefining the cellphone. How many millions of people are, at this moment, carrying around both an iPod and a cellphone? How many would love to carry a single combo device that imposes no feature or design penalties? Considering that the cellphone is many people?s most personal gadget, how many would leap at the chance to replace their current awkward models with something with the class, the looks and the effortlessness of an iPod? Apple has done its part: it has packed more features into less space, and with more elegance, than anyone before it. The rest is up to the godmother. E-mail: Pogue at nytimes.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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My personal good feeling here is I had many of the same ideas on the problem, but since I'm just a photographer here, what do I know? Well, wait no longer. The answer is, and there are many winners, "My network card address is blocked." We have lovely parting gifts for the winners. Your choice of a Mac SI is now waiting for you at the Center for Hope in Ambridge. A collectors item in 10 or 15 years, for sure. Runners-up get TWO Mac SIs. Of course, you're all wondering "Why did Bob's employer block his company-issued PowerBook?" The answer is ? honest ? they don't know. They don't even now HOW it is being blocked. Since my original post, I plugged in at one of our suburban offices, one that uses a fixed IP address rather than DHCP. I was online, and went to another web site and literally watched as I was evicted from the connection in that office. I was now blocked in two places. Nobody in IT knows why. During a troubleshooting session in IT, my PowerBook was temporarily given DHCP access to another part of the company system independent of the area I work in. The PowerBook connected flawlessly. So they know there's a gremlin in one part of the system, but they don't know what's causing it. I personally blame Bill Gates. Or Steve Balmer. I'm sure many would finger Kordell Stewart, but that's in the past... Since I'm the only one affected, there isn't exactly an "all hands on deck" alarm going out to track it down and fix it. The solution apparently is going to be a single ethernet cable with a fixed IP address being routed through our building to approximately the same zip code where I would normally plug in to work when I'm in the Downtown office. They haven't figured out what to do in the suburban office where I was bounced on Tuesday. If I'm real lucky, I may get a new MacBook Pro. If I'm unlucky, they'll offer me a ThinkPad... Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M)412-477-9188 From jamescorsale at mac.com Fri Jan 12 08:21:37 2007 From: jamescorsale at mac.com (jamescorsale) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:21:37 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] 3G Message-ID: <2C2E2190-85BE-4E48-AC9E-748CE46D2FB5@mac.com> Hi Everyone. What's all this about 3G for the iPhone. What are the advantages of waiting for that support, if that's phrased right, and does Apple's partner Cingular have wide coverage? Jim From jamescorsale at mac.com Fri Jan 12 09:35:44 2007 From: jamescorsale at mac.com (jamescorsale) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:35:44 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Fwd: 3G References: <2C2E2190-85BE-4E48-AC9E-748CE46D2FB5@mac.com> Message-ID: Well, anyway, I found out that less than 1% of Cingular customers have HSPDA, so that's why Apple isn't using 3G. This kind of explains it for me, but since I don't use a cell phone I'm still a little confused about all the cell phone terminology. Q: Another thing I'm wondering is, will the first version of the iPhone be able to add 3G support or is this something that has to be hard-wired into the device? Begin forwarded message: > From: jamescorsale > Date: January 12, 2007 10:21:37 AM EST > To: Npmug at davesevick.com > Subject: 3G > > Hi Everyone. > What's all this about 3G for the iPhone. > What are the advantages of waiting for that support, > if that's phrased right, and does Apple's partner Cingular > have wide coverage? > Jim > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(Verizon coverage is good in these areas.) - Marty On 1/12/07, jamescorsale wrote: > > Hi Everyone. > What's all this about 3G for the iPhone. > What are the advantages of waiting for that support, > if that's phrased right, and does Apple's partner Cingular > have wide coverage? > Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug > -- 7723 Abbott St / Pittsburgh, PA / 15221-3273 Phone: (412) 818-8096 http://abbott-street.blogspot.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Jim From fozard at nauticom.net Sat Jan 13 10:15:26 2007 From: fozard at nauticom.net (Fozard) Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:15:26 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Macsimum News - MWSF Message-ID: <45A913AE.60803@nauticom.net> Comments....? http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/mwsf_opinion_piece_some_of_us_arent_here_just_for_the_ipods/ From fozard at nauticom.net Sat Jan 13 15:04:28 2007 From: fozard at nauticom.net (Fozard) Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:04:28 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Toast, Handbrake, Clovertown MACs......... Message-ID: <45A9576C.5070409@nauticom.net> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:20:34 -0800 From: Kunga Subject: Re: [Cutter-Talk] FCP to ipod To: "Talk about Final Cut and related topics." Just back from an awesome MacWorld. Spoke with one of the authors of Toast directly who is also one of the EyeTV authors at ElGato, the German software engineering firm responsible for both products. Sonic- Roxio is their Toast reseller. He told me HE uses Handbrake as well. And he likes the new Handbrake Express. I prefer regular Handbrake because I crop everything I encode to get rid of vertical blanking interval noise at the top as well as tweaking the sides and bottom as well. NEWS: Toast 8 will use all 8 cores of the upcoming Dual Clovertown Mac Pro. So DVD-MPEG2 image creation is going to get a lot faster very soon. Plus Toast 8 is much more optimized to use all 4 cores of both the Mac Pro and Quad G5s he told me. END OF NEWS So export the best quality file you can get from Final Cut according to what you started with. Then drag that exported file into the Toast 8 Video encoding pane. You must crank the Toast quality settings all the way to maximum - i.e. minimum compression before ripping toast IMAGES not burning DVDs. That's using the Custom Encoding button found in the preferences drawer you access by clicking on that little triangle next to the word DVD top left corner of the pane and then clicking on Encoding: Custom then pushing the MORE button under it and then choosing the Encoding Pane on top of that dialog box: Both average and max set to 9.0 Mbps Motion Estimation set on Best with Half-PEL checked All else set on Automatic and Dolby Digital Dynamic Range Compression UNchecked That's how you get a top quality image from Toast. Command + D leads to image creation save as dialog box. These images are up to about 4.3GB single of 8GB DL. You don't look at those images although they will make excellent DVDs if you also get your Menu Style setting the way you want before encoding. For that option I also make sure both the "Auto-play disc on insert" and "Play all items continuously" boxes are checked if I plan to make a DVD out of an image as well as the MPEG 4 file I want for my iPod video archive. These options don't significantly increase the size of the images at all. The images are primarily are for Handbrake to rip 2-pass FFmpeg mp4 files from. You open the created image in Handbrake, choose a Target size or average bitrate (not to exceed 2300 - since 200 must be left for audio on top of that for the file to be allowed to load on an iPod - 2500kbps max is the limit) that you want the file to be on your iPod, including dimensions as well as bit rate, crop it to get rid of video noise on top as well as blank signal that may be on the bottom and the sides. I always turn on the deinterlacer as well. Dimensions: I use 544 x 400 for 4:3 SD @ 800kbps or less depending on the content and 624 x 352 for 16:9 HD programs @ 1000kbps. Both still will load on an iPod but will also interpolate up to a TV very well. Awesome results if you do it this way. From jamescorsale at mac.com Sun Jan 14 15:24:42 2007 From: jamescorsale at mac.com (jamescorsale) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:24:42 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?Fwd=3A_Slashdot_=7C_Inside_the_iPhone_?= =?windows-1252?q?=97_3G=2C_ARM=2C_OS_X=2C_3rd_Partyware?= References: <448F8A8A-9693-4D6B-B739-AC6FC2F591B1@mac.com> Message-ID: <007A905F-8B34-48C5-8406-4ECE7249C1A2@mac.com> had to resend the message to the listserv. Begin forwarded message: > From: jamescorsale > Date: January 14, 2007 5:23:20 PM EST > To: np > Subject: Slashdot | Inside the iPhone ? 3G, ARM, OS X, 3rd Partyware > > this stuff is slightly beyond my comprehension ablilities, but some > of you > might like to read this: > > http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/14/1835221&from=rss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Hank Niewola Director Come Alive Ministries www.comealive.org From jamescorsale at mac.com Tue Jan 16 05:47:44 2007 From: jamescorsale at mac.com (jamescorsale) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:47:44 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Wired News: Why Apple Makes Me Cry Message-ID: <5E80FA4C-3FA3-4CCE-807C-18DC7E8828AE@mac.com> http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72473-0.html?tw=rss.technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070116/06b2784b/attachment.htm From jamescorsale at mac.com Tue Jan 16 05:57:40 2007 From: jamescorsale at mac.com (jamescorsale) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:57:40 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] iBook value Message-ID: <122341D7-D741-4E5D-AAAE-6EE1FE179D20@mac.com> How do I determine what my iBook is worth? From peter at argentineproductions.com Tue Jan 16 09:01:49 2007 From: peter at argentineproductions.com (Peter Argentine) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:01:49 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Itv Message-ID: Wondering what the resolution is on ITV? The current downloads on Itunes are low quality. Are they projecting wireless transmission of HD via ITV now or in the future? Peter www.argentineproductions.com FILM HD VIDEO DVD PRODUCTION Avid Adrenaline HD and Avid Express Pro editing suites Argentine Productions, Inc. 603 Washington Road, Suite 501 Pittsburgh, PA 15228 412 341-6448 voice 877 341-6448 toll free 412 341-4410 fax peter at argentineproductions.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070116/80099a16/attachment.htm From jamescorsale at mac.com Tue Jan 16 12:19:57 2007 From: jamescorsale at mac.com (jamescorsale) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:19:57 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] why? Message-ID: <27ADA9C5-20E3-41C7-B069-28F1BEAE46CC@mac.com> Why in the heck did Apple discontinue selling the iSight camera--for computers with a built-in iSight? From jamescorsale at mac.com Tue Jan 16 12:31:44 2007 From: jamescorsale at mac.com (jamescorsale) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:31:44 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Fwd: why? References: <27ADA9C5-20E3-41C7-B069-28F1BEAE46CC@mac.com> Message-ID: erratum: 'with a built-in' should read 'without a built-in' Begin forwarded message: > From: jamescorsale > Date: January 16, 2007 2:19:57 PM EST > To: Npmug at davesevick.com > Subject: [NPMUG] why? > > Why in the heck did Apple discontinue selling > the iSight camera--for computers with a built-in iSight? > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070116/c2bade88/attachment.htm From hank at comealive.org Tue Jan 16 18:12:26 2007 From: hank at comealive.org (Hank Niewola) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:12:26 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Arabic Word documents resolved Message-ID: <20070117011226.1835162777@mail.comealive.org> I had asked about rendering certain Word docs in Arabic when my mac said 'file type unsupported.' Thanks for the help from the community, Daniel in particular - The resolution: I obtained a new set of docs from the supplier and they open fine Pages, AbiWord, TextEdit, and of course Word. Apparently there were 'issues' with the older (and smaller file size) docs. -- Hank Niewola Director Come Alive Ministries www.comealive.org From jmarnell at stargate.net Tue Jan 16 18:26:16 2007 From: jmarnell at stargate.net (Joe Marnell) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:26:16 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Performance issues on my Powerbook G4 Message-ID: <3F525890-76EF-4879-AA5E-753C1FB2FAE2@stargate.net> Dave, Lately, I have been experiencing slow performance issues on my PowerBook G4. Slow application launches, spinning kaleidoscope far too often, slow response when switching between applications when running in combination, etc. This issue has been getting progressively worse over the last two months. I am running a new hard drive, 1 GB DDR SDRAM, 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4, OSX 10.4.8 Also, I recently defragmented and cleaned up my hard drive by running Drive Genius. Any thoughts as too what could be going on? Joe Joe Marnell 1637 Stone Mansion Drive Sewickley, PA 15143 jmarnell at stargate.net 412-414-6191 Cell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070116/6df01fea/attachment.htm From fozard at nauticom.net Wed Jan 17 11:46:11 2007 From: fozard at nauticom.net (Fozard) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:46:11 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Favorite Mac www sites per Bambi @ Mac360 Message-ID: <45AE6EF3.4070501@nauticom.net> http://www.mac360.com/index.php/mac360/comments/my_best_list_of_favorite_mac_web_sites/ From jamescorsale at mac.com Wed Jan 17 17:38:59 2007 From: jamescorsale at mac.com (jamescorsale) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:38:59 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Technology Review: Uninspiring Vista Message-ID: http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/17992/page1/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Shelley From alexmacimac at mac.com Thu Jan 18 17:58:33 2007 From: alexmacimac at mac.com (Alex MacArthur) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:58:33 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Fwd: Ask Fleck References: <007301c73b52$6b0a6970$270b100a@Hal> Message-ID: From today's Ask Fleck ( Fleckinstein - a market guru ) The customer comment is in black , Fleck's reply in blue . Begin forwarded message: > Vista is going to be great for computer sales, Apple computer > sales, that is. > ? Yep... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070118/bbaba1de/attachment.htm From calliex at mac.com Thu Jan 18 18:06:45 2007 From: calliex at mac.com (Joe Condle) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:06:45 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] File Make Pro help In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I am looking for some help in getting up to speed on Filemaker Pro. Are they any training courses in Pittsburgh? I have searched the net and have not found any. I am specifically looking for help in writing scripts. If I can see how a few basic ones are written I would be OK. Joe From dave at davesevick.com Thu Jan 18 20:21:52 2007 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:21:52 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] RIAA .... a song for you all Message-ID: <1B3636BC-A1BF-49C7-A1E2-9262BB55120E@davesevick.com> 1. From the Desk of David Pogue: Ode to the R.I.A.A. ========================================================== Ever since I phased out my career as a Broadway arranger and conductor, I've tried to keep my toe in the showbiz world in my own peculiar way: I write new, tech-industry lyrics to old melodies. Here's my very latest. It's a special tribute to the R.I.A.A., the Recording Industry Association of America - the organization of the record companies who've decided to fight music piracy by filing lawsuits. It goes to the tune of the Village People song "Y.M.C.A." Ready? Cue the disco drums! "R.I.A.A." Young man, You were surfing along, And then, young man, You downloaded a song, And then, dumb man, Copied it to your 'Pod, Then a phone call came to tell you: You've just been sued by the R.I.A.A.! You've just been sued by the R.I.A.A.! Their attorneys say, you committed a crime, And there'd better not be a next time! They've lost their minds at the R.I.A.A.! Justice is blind at the R.I.A.A.... "You're depriving the bands! You are learning to steal, You can't do whatever you feel!" Know what? They're a lawsuit machine. They say so what If you're only thirteen? And you know what? They were equally mean To an 80-year-old grandma! CD Sales have dropped every year, They're not greedy- They're just quaking with fear, Yes, indeedy- What if their end is near, And we download all our music? They'd all freak out at the R.I.A.A.- No plastic discs from the R.I.A.A.! What a way to make friends! It's a plan that can't fail: Haul your customers off to jail! And who'll be next for the R.I.A.A.? What else is vexing the R.I.A.A.? Maybe whistling a tune? Maybe humming along? Maybe mocking them in a song-! (The sound of jackboots bursting into the room...handcuffs...muffled cries...a columnist being dragged away... repeat and fade.) ----- This week's Pogue's Posts blog: http://www.nytimes.com/technology/poguesposts/index.html?8cir&emc=cir ----- Visit David Pogue on the Web at: http://www.davidpogue.com From patrick at patrickcranston.com Fri Jan 19 08:55:06 2007 From: patrick at patrickcranston.com (Patrick Cranston) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:55:06 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Person who knows Microsoft Word Message-ID: <9C4DDE9F-2065-48BB-9950-7EA860D8AED3@patrickcranston.com> I have a client that is in desperate need of someone who is an expert with Microsoft Word. She is putting together a 300 page manuscript in Word and needs a lot of help. If you are that person or know a person who is please contact me ASAP. This is a paying gig that will start right away. Thanks Patrick Cranston Cranston Consulting & Media, LLC (412) 303-0971 www.patrickcranston.com patrick at patrickcranston.com Skype: phcranston From jamescorsale at mac.com Fri Jan 19 08:59:58 2007 From: jamescorsale at mac.com (jamescorsale) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:59:58 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ModBook Message-ID: <2B5F738F-065B-48AA-BBBC-4C60E2F5CDB4@mac.com> Mactablet called the ModBook: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ModBook -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070119/2c865c1a/attachment.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Sat Jan 20 19:50:44 2007 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:50:44 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Final chapter: Let's Stump the IT Department Message-ID: To all who contributed to the IT Dectective Agency, here's the final result to the problem I posted regarding the blocking of the hardware address of my company-issued PowerBook at work (in two locacations, no less). I surrendered my PowerBook to the IT folks on Thursday morning for more detailed tests. Here's the solution: The switch in the department where I work needed to be reset. My PowerBook functioned normally after the reset. Nobody can figure out why just my PowerBook was affected. Several other people (with identical network settings) plug in at the same places as I did with no problem whatsoever. The switch in the suburban office where I also work is being reset early next week. Many thanks to all those who contributed their thoughts on the problem. And there's still Mac SIs available for the winners... Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M)412-477-9188 From alexmacimac at mac.com Wed Jan 24 18:35:35 2007 From: alexmacimac at mac.com (Alex MacArthur) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:35:35 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] More on Vista from letters to Fleck Message-ID: <4AF8EBEB-BD9E-4A14-951D-74214967EBCA@mac.com> Another Vista / IE7 data point... Our IT department has installed a "block" on all deskstops to prevent downloading the IE7 update. Seems that it's not compatible with our recent SAP installation! ? Thank you for that data point. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070124/ebd2c2d4/attachment.htm From charles at firthconsulting.com Wed Jan 24 20:10:01 2007 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:10:01 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] More on Vista from letters to Fleck In-Reply-To: <4AF8EBEB-BD9E-4A14-951D-74214967EBCA@mac.com> References: <4AF8EBEB-BD9E-4A14-951D-74214967EBCA@mac.com> Message-ID: <0131B383-7F88-4E43-8BE1-B7F68F2EF624@firthconsulting.com> You're not kidding - I had to block/uninstall IE7 in a lot of places, it causes problems with Sonicwall, Cisco, Quickbooks 2004, and other programs (not websites, but actual applications) Basically, a lot of Windows software uses IE code to draw windows, make HTML-style displays, etc. Even Symantec AV uses IE to draw its windows. And (surprise) IE7 renders stuff differently from IE6. All this hassle for IE7, when the two big reasons to upgrade (tabbed browsing and "security") have been available from other browsers for years. On Jan 24, 2007, at 8:35 PM, Alex MacArthur wrote: > Another Vista / IE7 data point... Our IT department has installed a > "block" on all deskstops to prevent downloading the IE7 update. > Seems that it's not compatible with our recent SAP installation! > > ? Thank you for that data point. > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070124/c0a6a9b7/attachment.htm From charles at firthconsulting.com Wed Jan 24 20:31:16 2007 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:31:16 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] SHVMUG this Sunday!!! Message-ID: Reminder - this Sunday (the 28th) is the MUG meeting at the South Hills Village Apple Store at 6pm. Since next Thursday (Feb. 1) is the official launch of Windows Vista, this months discussion will be: 1) Latest news on Vista adoption, development, and community feedback. 2) Main topic: Coffee Shop Jaw Drops: Things you can do to highlight OSX's pretty GUI and "whistles and bells" when Windows users are shoulder surfing. We've all impressed PC people with the smooth working of Expos?, but there are other things you can do that are guaranteed to get comments. Feel free to bring your own Jaw Drops, or just provide links - I'll throw anything you like on my laptop ;) 3) A live look at Vista - and some advice you can give friends and family looking for a "Vista-ready" PC. Vista requirements, features, and Windows Experience Index - rate your machine's ability to use Vista from 0 to 5. Why the Apple "Surgery" Ad is dead-on- and why the Mac doesn't need it. Dinner following at the Roxy - join us for more informal chat, off- topic discussion, and good food! I hope to see everyone there! Charles -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070124/f25fe7a6/attachment-0001.htm From fabdana at mac.com Thu Jan 25 09:43:07 2007 From: fabdana at mac.com (Dana Spiardi) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:43:07 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Dreamweaver training Message-ID: <0e7d12b600cc8d0a7d3d8b22154f365f@mac.com> Can anyone recommend a Dreamweaver expert / instructor who can give private lessons to a group of 4 - 5 experienced, Pittsburgh area Mac users who already have some knowledge of the software? Our non-profit organization has just launched a website, and we need to be able to update and maintain it. We'd also like to understand how to use Dreamweaver to create new sites and pages from scratch. Please contact me directly if you know of someone who can offer this service. Thank you, Dana Spiardi 412-215-0562 fabdana at mac.com From jamescorsale at mac.com Thu Jan 25 13:23:54 2007 From: jamescorsale at mac.com (jamescorsale) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:23:54 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Gates to appear on 'The Daily Show' for Vista launch | News.blog | CNET News.com Message-ID: I could have sworn I saw a Mac on Jon Stewart's desk in the documentary Wordplay. I wonder if Jon will have some sharply pointed questions regarding the Vista PhenomeNON... http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6153416.html? part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070125/cbe22280/attachment.htm From fozard at nauticom.net Thu Jan 25 15:10:51 2007 From: fozard at nauticom.net (Fozard) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:10:51 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Macofile John Droz's 6 year work on Mac vs PC Message-ID: <45B92AEB.7070600@nauticom.net> In .pdf format it's 119 pages (1.8 MB), but very comprehensive in interesting reading for a cold winter's night. http://macvspc.info/ From fozard at nauticom.net Thu Jan 25 15:22:08 2007 From: fozard at nauticom.net (Fozard) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:22:08 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] From MACs Only web site Message-ID: <45B92D90.6030301@nauticom.net> [1/24] From the Dark Side--Microsoft tries to pay for Wikipedia Edits Microsoft offered to pay blogger Rick Jelliffe to try to edit certain entries on an open source document standard in the community based online encyclopedia Wikipedia to be more favorable to Microsoft according to this AP article . The unethical event never happened and Microsoft claims it was just trying to set the record straight. Maybe, but a more ethical approach would have been to write and post a white paper on the topic and have it linked from Wikipedia's discussion of the article according to its founder, Jimmy Wales. Hmmm...well, just remember that the CEO of the world's biggest convicted illegal monopolist once stated publicly that he didn't know what a monopoly is. [Dana Baggett & Bill Fox] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070125/15901f88/attachment.htm From charles at firthconsulting.com Thu Jan 25 15:28:02 2007 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:28:02 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Macofile John Droz's 6 year work on Mac vs PC In-Reply-To: <45B92AEB.7070600@nauticom.net> References: <45B92AEB.7070600@nauticom.net> Message-ID: <2B74B2A7-EE28-4ADF-A3FB-CEA719CA9CDD@firthconsulting.com> Excellent site - as someone who faces the Mac vs. PC question in schools all the time, I'll keep this handy :) Thanks. On Jan 25, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Fozard wrote: > In .pdf format it's 119 pages (1.8 MB), but very comprehensive in > interesting reading for a cold winter's night. > > http://macvspc.info/ > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From dave at davesevick.com Thu Jan 25 18:47:12 2007 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:47:12 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Ouch !!! .... David Pogue scolds the Microsoft PR team Message-ID: 1. From the Desk of David Pogue: A Wake-Up Call to Microsoft's PR Team ========================================================== > From the January 1, 2007, edition of The New York Times: > "Several bloggers reported last week that they had received Acer Ferrari laptops, which can sell for more than $2,200, from Microsoft. A spokeswoman for Microsoft confirmed on Friday that the company had sent out about 90 computers to bloggers who write about technology and other subjects" that could be affected by the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft's new operating system. "Being provided an evaluation computer from Acer is not a 'bribe,'" argued blogger Blake Handler, after receiving one of the free laptops. "It simply allows me to accelerate my evaluations, documentation and demonstrations of Windows Vista." OMG! You've got to be kidding me, Blake. I guess just being *lent* a laptop wouldn't have been enough to accelerate your evaluations? I guess only being given a freebie from Microsoft would do the trick. Now, I realize it must be hard to send a shiny new laptop back to the mother ship just because it's the right thing to do. Still, I think very little of the bloggers who are keeping Microsoft's bribe laptops. Clearly, they're exploiting the lawless, Brave New World of the blogsophere, where, since they're Not Quite Journalists, they don't feel constrained by any of those pesky journalistic ethics guidelines. Like the one that says, "You don't keep $2,200 gifts from the subject of your review. You might think you can still write an impartial review, but it's highly unlikely-and either way, nobody will believe it." But Microsoft gets much of the blame, too. It deliberately exploited a weak spot in today's court of public opinion: how bloggers influence consumers, but generally don't have conflict-of-interest policies. Now, I realize that this isn't exactly breaking news; in fact, it's three weeks old. I wasn't even going to bring it up, but yesterday I remembered something: this isn't the first time. In fact, Microsoft has tried to buy public opinion in secret over and over again in the last few years. Here are a few examples-mainly, the ones where Microsoft was caught: In 1998, the Los Angeles Times reported that Microsoft, during its antitrust trials, hired PR companies to flood newspapers with fake letters of support, bearing ordinary individuals' names but actually written by Microsoft PR staff. Later, during the antitrust trials, Microsoft attempted to prove the inseparability of Windows and Internet Explorer by playing a video for the judge. But the government's lawyer noticed that as the tape rolled on, the number of icons on the desktop kept changing. Microsoft had spliced together footage from different computers to make its point. Then in 2002, Microsoft's Web site featured a testimonial called "Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert," a first-person account by an attractive brunette "freelance writer" about how she had fallen in love with Windows XP. Unfortunately, a Slashdot member discovered that the identical photo was available for rent from the stock-photo libraries of GettyImages.com. Sure enough: Microsoft had hired a PR firm to write the testimonial. The "switcher" did not actually exist. I am not, and never will be, a knee-jerk Microsoft basher. I'll give its products good reviews whenever they're deserved (as I have with, for example, Media Center, Windows Vista and Office 2007). But for goodness' sake: Why is Microsoft so insecure? Why can't it allow its software to stand on its own? Why does it feel the necessity to spin public opinion using these phony "grass-roots" marketing tactics? Here's a wake-up call to the Machiavellis on Microsoft's PR team: bribing bloggers, fabricating reviews and making up letters to the editor makes the company look worse, not better. If Microsoft really wants to earn high marks from the public, it might want to consider earning them the old-fashioned way: By creating products people love. ----- This week's Pogue's Posts blog: http://www.nytimes.com/technology/poguesposts/index.html?8cir&emc=cir ----- Visit David Pogue on the Web at: http://www.davidpogue.com From fabdana at mac.com Thu Jan 25 20:38:21 2007 From: fabdana at mac.com (Dana Spiardi) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:38:21 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] online calendars Message-ID: <0f7c5f94f9f066d164ae3083645dbb36@mac.com> My organization wants to add online calendars to our website, which will allow viewers to click on events listed on each date and be able to view details via a pop-up window or links to other pages. I've tried using iCal, but when I publish the calendars, the default view is the "weekly" view, which doesn't meet my needs. Also, I can't fit much info in the small calendar blocks and the text is tiny and hard to read. Does anyone have any recommendations for other types of programs that will produce online calendars that are attractive and user friendly? Here's a calendar format that would be ideal: http://cityguides.salsaweb.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh/Calendars/ February%202007.htm I can't seem to get in touch with that site's web developer to ask him what software he used! Any suggestions? Thanks, Dana Spiardi http://www.bmnecc.org From fozard at nauticom.net Fri Jan 26 19:55:33 2007 From: fozard at nauticom.net (Fozard) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:55:33 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Re Epson Printer Drivers 4 Intel Macs (Small Dog) Message-ID: <45BABF25.8010506@nauticom.net> Important Note Regarding Epson Printer Drivers By Seth at smalldog.com The CDs that come with Epson printers have drivers for PowerPC Macs. If you install these drivers on an Intel Mac the printer won't work with that machine. Furthermore, said software doesn't come with an uninstaller. The removal process is very lengthy, and many people might find this difficult. Please keep this in mind when buying an Intel Mac-Epson printer solution. You will need to download the Intel Mac drivers from Epson's website. See this here: http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/index.jsp?ref=haa From patrick at patrickcranston.com Sat Jan 27 06:44:10 2007 From: patrick at patrickcranston.com (Patrick Cranston) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:44:10 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Re Epson Printer Drivers 4 Intel Macs (Small Dog) In-Reply-To: <45BABF25.8010506@nauticom.net> References: <45BABF25.8010506@nauticom.net> Message-ID: <454188DE-01DB-464F-8B3F-A94A979A6CB2@patrickcranston.com> This is true for all brands of printers. When buying a new printer it is best practice to download the drivers from the manufacturer's website. Printer CDs are made in bulk and are often out of date, especially if you are buying a printer that has been around for a while. Patrick Cranston Cranston Consulting & Media, LLC (412) 303-0971 www.patrickcranston.com patrick at patrickcranston.com Skype: phcranston On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:55 PM, Fozard wrote: > Important Note Regarding Epson Printer Drivers > By Seth at smalldog.com > > The CDs that come with Epson printers have drivers for PowerPC > Macs. If > you install these drivers on an Intel Mac the printer won't work with > that machine. Furthermore, said software doesn't come with an > uninstaller. The removal process is very lengthy, and many people > might > find this difficult. > > Please keep this in mind when buying an Intel Mac-Epson printer > solution. You will need to download the Intel Mac drivers from > Epson's > website. See this here: > > http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/index.jsp?ref=haa > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070127/fc8e48bc/attachment-0001.htm From jamescorsale at mac.com Sat Jan 27 10:15:14 2007 From: jamescorsale at mac.com (jamescorsale) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:15:14 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] airport Message-ID: <6F78B973-3DE4-4B74-AA75-0A190724B726@mac.com> Hi. My Airport icon in the menu bar disappears when I open iTunes, but streaming (radio) still works. Before I reinitialized my Airport Express I couldn't connect to internet radio streams. ??? Jim From dave at davesevick.com Sun Jan 28 10:27:17 2007 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:27:17 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Sunday Jan 28 .... the Apple User Group meeting at South Hills Village .... a special guest from Germany will attend .... Message-ID: <2A7A5005-2DFC-4D07-8F79-43D44169BC3A@davesevick.com> Folks, Please join Charles Firth for his presentation at the meeting tonight .... And welcome Mac user Christian Krenner from Germany to our group .... he is is here studying at the Katz School of Business and wants to share his Apple experiences from Germany at the meeting and over dinner at the Roxy to follow .... Dave ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Dave Sevick Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist Helping people use technology in Pittsburgh Western PA, WV, OH, MD ... Since 1988 724.779.0099 mobile/office dave at davesevick.com Dave Sevick Consulting http://www.davesevick.com ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070128/177e96da/attachment.htm From charles at firthconsulting.com Sun Jan 28 21:05:19 2007 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:05:19 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Jaw Drops from today's SHV meeting Message-ID: <9705CADC-0426-4759-9681-E7BE3689BF7C@firthconsulting.com> Here's the list of cool things I showed at today's meeting. Expos? This is built into Tiger - mapping for turning it on and off is done in System Preferences -> Dashboard & Expose Silver Mac contains a lot of the key-stroke tricks and shortcuts. (including screenshots, Dictionary, invert colors, etc) Visor is what allowed me to drop my terminal window quickly and hide it again. (Quake-style) (The cool picture I added to Terminal is set in Terminal's preferences- you need to provide your own jpg) For the motion-sensor enabled laptops: Bubblegym is the fun game I briefly showed. iAlertU is the cool "car alarm" for your laptop. The multiple-screen slapping was done by: Parallels (required if you want to slap between OSX and Windows) - This costs money, and requires a legal copy of Windows. VirtueDesktops - to have multiple desktops on your machine, I figured one for Windows (placing parallels in full screen mode on that desktop) Slapbook - the application that lets you "gently pat" your laptop to toggle between VirtueDesktops. (in my example, between OSX (your main desktop) and Windows (Parallels in full screen mode on the second desktop) I have no idea what slapping your laptop does to it in terms of damage - so slap carefully, and slap infrequently. :) (I typically only turn it on to freak PC people out) Windows Vista Ultimate can be purchased from Amazon.com for a mere $378.99 (That's 20% off the full price!) Amazon also has the Windows Vista: The Missing Manual book I passed around at dinner, should anyone want to comment favorably about David Pogue's new book (and perhaps the excellent Control Panel chapter written by Callahan) :) Thanks to everyone who came over for the fast-paced meeting, and the fun dinner after. Charles -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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He is a member of the BioCommunications Association, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, the American Physician?s Art Association, and a charter member of the North American Nature Photography Association. A Cibachrome/Ilfochrome printer for over 25 years, he is currently exploring the world of digital imaging and printing, with formal training at Rochester Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, and workshops with Bill Atkinson, Charlie Cramer and others. Michael has co-authored two books on close-up photography, one combining photography and Japanese poetry, and presently has several other projects in progress. http://www.digitalrailroad.net/mlustbader/Default.aspx Please join us for this night dedicated to photography ...... Wednesday Feb 7 , 2007 ..... Primanti Brothers dinner and brews to follow the meeting ..... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This issue applies to US and Canadian versions of all NaviPlan Standard and NaviPlan Extended formats, including Windows-based, Offline, and NaviPlan Central configurations. ? Thanks for that data point. Memo from my university employer about Vista: In short, we do not believe that Windows Vista and Office 2007 are suitable for deployment across campus in the immediate future, due to the following factors: There is currently no Novell Client available for Windows Vista, therefore access to Novell file and print services is not possible. Vista is incompatible with our current Antivirus setup; Vista is incompatible with the Agresso Financial System. The excessive hardware requirements of Vista, the redesign of the Office 2007 user interface, requiring training/familiarisation - and lack of pressing current business need.... We would therefore request that when ordering new PCs that Windows XP is installed as the operating system of choice, as Vista will not be supported by CSD as an operating system. ? Thank you - the data points readers have been sharing and what was available from reviewers was knowable for some time now...it just shows how pathetic Wall Street analysts are in thinking Vista will drive anything - except...frustration. This is some more information to the QuickBooks note you received in Ask Fleck on 1/26/07. What I believe QuickBooks said was that their versions of QuickBooks prior to version 2006 would not work with Vista. What Intuit does eventually is quit supporting prior versions or allowing the payroll tables to update, etc. eventually forcing you to a newer version, or change accounting software. And my guess is, that the recommended operating software for versions 2008 and on will be Vista, which might require more powerful computer systems, different operating software might require other software changes, etc., etc., the merry-go-round continues. IMO Microsoft has taught a bunch of companies the upgrade path to buggy software and higher fees. ? Thanks. You've been covering the whole Vista hype for a while now but there is one other aspect that needs to be mentioned and that's DRM. Turns out that Vista is designed to enforce DRM (Digital Rights Management) and the cost of that is fairly high. Folks who buy systems with Vista or upgrade boxes to Vista could experience issues down the road. For a detailed discussion see: http://www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog:20070124 Even though I'm not their fan - I've always felt that Microsoft's real genius was to deliever what the customer needed/wanted/could afford at the right time. This release may be a step too far. ? Thanks..good point. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20070130/daa9fcfc/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Tue Jan 30 06:24:58 2007 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:24:58 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Now Software Announces Successor to Now Up-to-Date & Contact Message-ID: <2527574A-8CD8-44E1-AC1D-8D60340E3A15@davesevick.com> Dear Now Software Customer, We're only a month into 2007, and it's already shaping up to be an incredible year! At Macworld Expo we announced the successor to Now Up-to-Date & Contact, codenamed "NightHawk". NightHawk is our next generation of cross-platform calendar and contact management for Macintosh and Windows. It has been rewritten from the ground up to take advantage of the latest in technology, while leveraging our 17 years of know-how in the productivity software industry. Please take a moment to visit the new NightHawk area of our web site at http://www.nowsoftware.com/nighthawk.html to find out more about our new product and to see a video of the presentation we gave at our Macworld booth. In the coming weeks, we'll continue to update this area of the website with the latest news about NightHawk's development, and we'll also be highlighting some of its great new features. We'll be announcing NightHawk's official product name before its release in Spring 2007. The NightHawk calendar & contact module will be available for $149.95 per license. Owners of Now Up-to-Date & Contact Version 5.0 and later can upgrade for $69.95 per license when NightHawk becomes available. Until March 31, current customers of Now Up-to-Date & Contact V5.0 can purchase pre-release upgrades at $39.95 per license. Please contact our sales team at sales at nowsoftware.com or 1-800-344-9160 for answers to pricing questions or to purchase software. We're really excited about what this year has in store! If you have any questions, write to us at nighthawk at nowsoftware.com or call 1-800-344-9160. We'd love to hear from you! Sincerely, John Wallace President, Now Software, Inc. NightHawk Tech Lead ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Dave Sevick Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist Helping people use technology in Pittsburgh Western PA, WV, OH, MD ... Since 1988 724.779.0099 mobile/office dave at davesevick.com Dave Sevick Consulting http://www.davesevick.com ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This is built into Tiger - mapping for turning it on and off is done in System Preferences -> Dashboard & Expose Silver Mac?contains a lot of the key-stroke tricks and shortcuts. (including screenshots, Dictionary, invert colors, etc) Visor?is what allowed me to drop my terminal window quickly and hide it again. (Quake-style) (The cool picture I added to Terminal is set in Terminal's preferences- you need to provide your own jpg) For the motion-sensor enabled laptops: Bubblegym?is the fun game I briefly showed. iAlertU?is the cool "car alarm" for your laptop. The multiple-screen slapping was done by: Parallels?(required if you want to slap between OSX and Windows) - This costs money, and requires a legal copy of Windows. VirtueDesktops?- to have multiple desktops on your machine, I figured one for Windows (placing parallels in full screen mode on that desktop) Slapbook?- the application that lets you "gently pat" your laptop to toggle between VirtueDesktops. (in my example, between OSX (your main desktop) and Windows (Parallels in full screen mode on the second desktop) I have no idea what slapping your laptop does to it in terms of damage - so slap carefully, and slap infrequently. :) (I typically only turn it on to freak PC people out) Windows Vista Ultimate?can be purchased from Amazon.com? for a mere $378.99 (That's 20% off the full price!) Amazon also has the?Windows Vista: The Missing Manual book I passed around at dinner, should anyone want to comment favorably about David Pogue's new book (and perhaps the excellent Control Panel chapter written by Callahan) :) Thanks to everyone who came over for the fast-paced meeting, and the fun dinner after. Charles _______________________________________________ NPMUG mailing list NPMUG at davesevick.com http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From wisemedia at gmail.com Tue Jan 30 13:54:41 2007 From: wisemedia at gmail.com (Carol) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:54:41 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Jaw Drops from today's SHV meeting Message-ID: Here's the list of cool things I showed at today's meeting. Expos? This is built into Tiger - mapping for turning it on and off is done in System Preferences -> Dashboard & Expose Silver Mac?contains a lot of the key-stroke tricks and shortcuts. (including screenshots, Dictionary, invert colors, etc) Visor?is what allowed me to drop my terminal window quickly and hide it again. (Quake-style) (The cool picture I added to Terminal is set in Terminal's preferences- you need to provide your own jpg) For the motion-sensor enabled laptops: Bubblegym?is the fun game I briefly showed. iAlertU?is the cool "car alarm" for your laptop. The multiple-screen slapping was done by: Parallels?(required if you want to slap between OSX and Windows) - This costs money, and requires a legal copy of Windows. VirtueDesktops?- to have multiple desktops on your machine, I figured one for Windows (placing parallels in full screen mode on that desktop) Slapbook?- the application that lets you "gently pat" your laptop to toggle between VirtueDesktops. (in my example, between OSX (your main desktop) and Windows (Parallels in full screen mode on the second desktop) I have no idea what slapping your laptop does to it in terms of damage - so slap carefully, and slap infrequently. :) (I typically only turn it on to freak PC people out) Windows Vista Ultimate?can be purchased from Amazon.com? for a mere $378.99 (That's 20% off the full price!) Amazon also has the?Windows Vista: The Missing Manual book I passed around at dinner, should anyone want to comment favorably about David Pogue's new book (and perhaps the excellent Control Panel chapter written by Callahan) :) Thanks to everyone who came over for the fast-paced meeting, and the fun dinner after. Charles _______________________________________________ NPMUG mailing list NPMUG at davesevick.com http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From wisemedia at gmail.com Tue Jan 30 13:54:42 2007 From: wisemedia at gmail.com (Carol) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:54:42 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Jaw Drops from today's SHV meeting Message-ID: Here's the list of cool things I showed at today's meeting. Expos? This is built into Tiger - mapping for turning it on and off is done in System Preferences -> Dashboard & Expose Silver Mac?contains a lot of the key-stroke tricks and shortcuts. (including screenshots, Dictionary, invert colors, etc) Visor?is what allowed me to drop my terminal window quickly and hide it again. (Quake-style) (The cool picture I added to Terminal is set in Terminal's preferences- you need to provide your own jpg) For the motion-sensor enabled laptops: Bubblegym?is the fun game I briefly showed. iAlertU?is the cool "car alarm" for your laptop. The multiple-screen slapping was done by: Parallels?(required if you want to slap between OSX and Windows) - This costs money, and requires a legal copy of Windows. VirtueDesktops?- to have multiple desktops on your machine, I figured one for Windows (placing parallels in full screen mode on that desktop) Slapbook?- the application that lets you "gently pat" your laptop to toggle between VirtueDesktops. (in my example, between OSX (your main desktop) and Windows (Parallels in full screen mode on the second desktop) I have no idea what slapping your laptop does to it in terms of damage - so slap carefully, and slap infrequently. :) (I typically only turn it on to freak PC people out) Windows Vista Ultimate?can be purchased from Amazon.com? for a mere $378.99 (That's 20% off the full price!) Amazon also has the?Windows Vista: The Missing Manual book I passed around at dinner, should anyone want to comment favorably about David Pogue's new book (and perhaps the excellent Control Panel chapter written by Callahan) :) Thanks to everyone who came over for the fast-paced meeting, and the fun dinner after. Charles _______________________________________________ NPMUG mailing list NPMUG at davesevick.com http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From wisemedia at gmail.com Tue Jan 30 13:54:43 2007 From: wisemedia at gmail.com (Carol) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:54:43 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Jaw Drops from today's SHV meeting Message-ID: Here's the list of cool things I showed at today's meeting. Expos? This is built into Tiger - mapping for turning it on and off is done in System Preferences -> Dashboard & Expose Silver Mac?contains a lot of the key-stroke tricks and shortcuts. (including screenshots, Dictionary, invert colors, etc) Visor?is what allowed me to drop my terminal window quickly and hide it again. (Quake-style) (The cool picture I added to Terminal is set in Terminal's preferences- you need to provide your own jpg) For the motion-sensor enabled laptops: Bubblegym?is the fun game I briefly showed. iAlertU?is the cool "car alarm" for your laptop. The multiple-screen slapping was done by: Parallels?(required if you want to slap between OSX and Windows) - This costs money, and requires a legal copy of Windows. VirtueDesktops?- to have multiple desktops on your machine, I figured one for Windows (placing parallels in full screen mode on that desktop) Slapbook?- the application that lets you "gently pat" your laptop to toggle between VirtueDesktops. (in my example, between OSX (your main desktop) and Windows (Parallels in full screen mode on the second desktop) I have no idea what slapping your laptop does to it in terms of damage - so slap carefully, and slap infrequently. :) (I typically only turn it on to freak PC people out) Windows Vista Ultimate?can be purchased from Amazon.com? for a mere $378.99 (That's 20% off the full price!) Amazon also has the?Windows Vista: The Missing Manual book I passed around at dinner, should anyone want to comment favorably about David Pogue's new book (and perhaps the excellent Control Panel chapter written by Callahan) :) Thanks to everyone who came over for the fast-paced meeting, and the fun dinner after. Charles _______________________________________________ NPMUG mailing list NPMUG at davesevick.com http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From wisemedia at gmail.com Tue Jan 30 13:54:41 2007 From: wisemedia at gmail.com (Carol) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:54:41 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Jaw Drops from today's SHV meeting Message-ID: <970af3120d19d933224f31ac6c2b2c46@gmail.com> Here's the list of cool things I showed at today's meeting. Expos? This is built into Tiger - mapping for turning it on and off is done in System Preferences -> Dashboard & Expose Silver Mac?contains a lot of the key-stroke tricks and shortcuts. (including screenshots, Dictionary, invert colors, etc) Visor?is what allowed me to drop my terminal window quickly and hide it again. (Quake-style) (The cool picture I added to Terminal is set in Terminal's preferences- you need to provide your own jpg) For the motion-sensor enabled laptops: Bubblegym?is the fun game I briefly showed. iAlertU?is the cool "car alarm" for your laptop. The multiple-screen slapping was done by: Parallels?(required if you want to slap between OSX and Windows) - This costs money, and requires a legal copy of Windows. VirtueDesktops?- to have multiple desktops on your machine, I figured one for Windows (placing parallels in full screen mode on that desktop) Slapbook?- the application that lets you "gently pat" your laptop to toggle between VirtueDesktops. (in my example, between OSX (your main desktop) and Windows (Parallels in full screen mode on the second desktop) I have no idea what slapping your laptop does to it in terms of damage - so slap carefully, and slap infrequently. :) (I typically only turn it on to freak PC people out) Windows Vista Ultimate?can be purchased from Amazon.com? for a mere $378.99 (That's 20% off the full price!) Amazon also has the?Windows Vista: The Missing Manual book I passed around at dinner, should anyone want to comment favorably about David Pogue's new book (and perhaps the excellent Control Panel chapter written by Callahan) :) Thanks to everyone who came over for the fast-paced meeting, and the fun dinner after. Charles _______________________________________________ NPMUG mailing list NPMUG at davesevick.com http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From wisemedia at gmail.com Tue Jan 30 13:54:42 2007 From: wisemedia at gmail.com (Carol) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:54:42 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Jaw Drops from today's SHV meeting Message-ID: <96f92ca631ece52582c360e624336a89@gmail.com> Here's the list of cool things I showed at today's meeting. Expos? This is built into Tiger - mapping for turning it on and off is done in System Preferences -> Dashboard & Expose Silver Mac?contains a lot of the key-stroke tricks and shortcuts. (including screenshots, Dictionary, invert colors, etc) Visor?is what allowed me to drop my terminal window quickly and hide it again. (Quake-style) (The cool picture I added to Terminal is set in Terminal's preferences- you need to provide your own jpg) For the motion-sensor enabled laptops: Bubblegym?is the fun game I briefly showed. iAlertU?is the cool "car alarm" for your laptop. The multiple-screen slapping was done by: Parallels?(required if you want to slap between OSX and Windows) - This costs money, and requires a legal copy of Windows. VirtueDesktops?- to have multiple desktops on your machine, I figured one for Windows (placing parallels in full screen mode on that desktop) Slapbook?- the application that lets you "gently pat" your laptop to toggle between VirtueDesktops. (in my example, between OSX (your main desktop) and Windows (Parallels in full screen mode on the second desktop) I have no idea what slapping your laptop does to it in terms of damage - so slap carefully, and slap infrequently. :) (I typically only turn it on to freak PC people out) Windows Vista Ultimate?can be purchased from Amazon.com? for a mere $378.99 (That's 20% off the full price!) Amazon also has the?Windows Vista: The Missing Manual book I passed around at dinner, should anyone want to comment favorably about David Pogue's new book (and perhaps the excellent Control Panel chapter written by Callahan) :) Thanks to everyone who came over for the fast-paced meeting, and the fun dinner after. Charles _______________________________________________ NPMUG mailing list NPMUG at davesevick.com http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From dave at davesevick.com Tue Jan 30 14:38:54 2007 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:38:54 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] testing .... Message-ID: <50F5D2C2-9575-4F01-9F15-0D5EDCCA7AAC@davesevick.com> 1 2 3 4 ... please ignore ..... From fozard at nauticom.net Tue Jan 30 17:27:35 2007 From: fozard at nauticom.net (Fozard) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:27:35 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Vista - Boom or Bust? Message-ID: <45BFE277.5030703@nauticom.net> Just got back from a purchasing trip to COMPUSA. I was speaking with a tech who was on duty until 2 am because of the Vista Introduction. He told me his COMPUSA store sold a grand total of 6 computers and 4 copies of the "new" M$ OS during its Vista "gala." 'Nuff said. From dave at davesevick.com Tue Jan 30 19:45:17 2007 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:45:17 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Janet Balas and Charles Firth contribute to the Apple User Groups webiste Message-ID: <7F22A1BB-F490-4992-8DA5-F04421CD150C@davesevick.com> The pittsburghgroups website has been updated: Please see updated Mac Treasures reports from Janet Balas on .... MacVoices by Chuck Joiner .... macCompanion Google's Mac Blog MacBreak by Leo LaPorte and all ... and ..... See the most recent blog on Charles Firth's Vista vs. Mac OS X Jaw Droppers Enjoy .... Dave Sevick Apple User Groups, Pittsburgh M E E T I N G S I N P I T T S B U R G H - - - C R A N B E R R Y T O W N S H I P - - - 1st Wednesday of each month, 7:00 - 9:00 PM, Location - MacOutfitters of Cranberry724-776-8075 http://www.macoutfitters.com ( 9PM nightcap at Primanti's in Cranberry after each meeting ) Contact: Apple User Group Ambassador - Dave Sevick - dave at davesevick.com http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/Cranberry%20Township.html - - - M O N R O E V I L L E - - - 1st Thursday of each month, 7:00 - 9:00 PM, Location - Monroeveille Public Library 412-372-3002 ( 5:30 PM coffee at Panera Bread in Miracle Mile Shopping Center before each meeting) http://www.monroevillelibrary.org/screens/cowmug.html Contact: COWMUG President - Peter Carras - pcarras+ at pitt.edu http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/Monroeville.html - - - S H A D Y S I D E - - - 2rd Sunday of each month, 5:30 - 6:30 PM, Location - Apple Store Shadyside 412-683-1186 http://www.apple.com/retail/shadyside ( 6:30PM dinner at Max and Erma's in Shadyside after each meeting ) Contact: Apple User Group Leaders - Jeff Szuhay - jeff at szuhay.org or Les Getchell - les at lesgetchell.com http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/Shadyside.html - - - S O U T H H I L L S - - - 4th Sunday of each month, 6:00 - 7:00 PM, Location - Apple Store South Hills Village 412-833-1840 http://www.apple.com/retail/southhillsvillage ( 7PM dinner at the Roxy Cafe in South Hills Village,Upper Level after each meeting ) Contact: Apple User Group Leader - Charles Firth - charles at firthconsulting.com http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/South%20Hills.html - - - P E N N S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y - - - 1st Tuesday of each month from 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM ( see http:// www.psumug.org/ical/ calendar to be sure) Contact: Apple User Group Ambassador - Carlo Pitocco - gpitocco at ist.psu.edu http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/Penn%20State% 20University.html ``````````````````````` -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Dave Sevick Apple User Groups, Pittsburgh M E E T I N G S I N P I T T S B U R G H - - - C R A N B E R R Y T O W N S H I P - - - 1st Wednesday of each month, 7:00 - 9:00 PM, Location - MacOutfitters of Cranberry724-776-8075 http://www.macoutfitters.com ( 9PM nightcap at Primanti's in Cranberry after each meeting ) Contact: Apple User Group Ambassador - Dave Sevick - dave at davesevick.com http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/Cranberry%20Township.html - - - M O N R O E V I L L E - - - 1st Thursday of each month, 7:00 - 9:00 PM, Location - Monroeveille Public Library 412-372-3002 ( 5:30 PM coffee at Panera Bread in Miracle Mile Shopping Center before each meeting) http://www.monroevillelibrary.org/screens/cowmug.html Contact: COWMUG President - Peter Carras - pcarras+ at pitt.edu http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/Monroeville.html - - - S H A D Y S I D E - - - 2rd Sunday of each month, 5:30 - 6:30 PM, Location - Apple Store Shadyside 412-683-1186 http://www.apple.com/retail/shadyside ( 6:30PM dinner at Max and Erma's in Shadyside after each meeting ) Contact: Apple User Group Leaders - Jeff Szuhay - jeff at szuhay.org or Les Getchell - les at lesgetchell.com http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/Shadyside.html - - - S O U T H H I L L S - - - 4th Sunday of each month, 6:00 - 7:00 PM, Location - Apple Store South Hills Village 412-833-1840 http://www.apple.com/retail/southhillsvillage ( 7PM dinner at the Roxy Cafe in South Hills Village,Upper Level after each meeting ) Contact: Apple User Group Leader - Charles Firth - charles at firthconsulting.com http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/South%20Hills.html - - - P E N N S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y - - - 1st Tuesday of each month from 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM ( see http:// www.psumug.org/ical/ calendar to be sure) Contact: Apple User Group Ambassador - Carlo Pitocco - gpitocco at ist.psu.edu http://web.mac.com/pittsburghgroups/iWeb/Site/Penn%20State% 20University.html ``````````````````````` _______________________________________________ NPMUG mailing list NPMUG at davesevick.com http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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