From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Oct 1 17:39:09 2010 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:39:09 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, October 1, 2010 Message-ID: Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Tucker Trainor, and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center today. First off I need to get some personal frustration off my chest... I CURSE YOU iMAC #XA0250NSJED (tangerine, 400 mhz)!!!!!! You were the first on my bench this morning, and you played me like a chump all day. That damn slow bus of yours.... I zapped your PRAM a dozen times. I changed your RAM twice. Two disk drives. Two optical drives. Even a different drive cable. I tried imaging you with NetBoot, but you laughed and said "530 minutes." I played along for over two hours. Then I tried SuperDuper! You weren't having any of it. I aborted after 90 minutes and a 50 percent progress bar. But I got the last laugh. I ripped you apart like the miserable dog you were. Your parts are scattered among a half dozen Gaylords filled with the scum parts of countless PCs. If I had any salt, I would have rubbed it into your logic board before I flipped you into all those PC boards. It's like I was channeling Rich Fitzgibbon... Thank you. I feel much better now... Besides this one horrible experience, we had a swell day. We refurbished 23 Macs (including nine 1.0 ghz eMacs with AirPort Extreme), and de-manufactured just two, including Mr. Tangerine Hell Boy. Our all-time total is now 2,715. The week's donations were bountiful, more than 30 filling three large bins. We weren't able to get them all done, and will have a half-dozen awaiting us next week. Sadly, only two keyboards and two mice accompanied all these Macs. On a sad note, Sarah, our waitress at Cafe Davido these many months, will leave us next week to teach English in Mexico. She's served us our last order of French Toast with Strawberry marscone cheese. She seemed to be the only waitress who remembers to put lemon in Rich Fitzgibbon's iced tea. We were shocked, shocked to see her farewell costume was merely jeans and a Tootsie Roll t-shirt emblazoned with "The slower you lick, the longer it lasts." Words for the ages, my friends... Adios, Sarah. Today we got word our move into temporary quarters in the 2400 block of East Carson St. will happen around Thanksgiving. The space is much bigger, and (gasp!) has carpet. We'll be there until the beginning of April when we move again to Goodwill's new campus on 51st St. in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. We've begun to discuss how we're going to gradually reduce our pace and pack. Any suggestions are welcome. A gentle reminder the ComputerWorks store is now open in its temporary quarters in Goodwill's retail store at 2700 East Carson St., just a block from the former location on Pittsburgh's South Side. It's a bit smaller that the previous store, but they still carry everything they used to display, you just may have to ask for it if you don't see it. There are many G4 Towers and eMacs in storage. When you enter the store, turn right and head for the back of the store. We will have another workday next Friday, October 8. Still no word on salt water taffy from Rich Fitzgibbon's New England vacation, but everyone's hoping... We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From m.bizic at comcast.net Sat Oct 2 08:28:30 2010 From: m.bizic at comcast.net (Milana Bizic) Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:28:30 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, October 1, 2010 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7B796C2A-0E8E-4497-B2F1-FE6D3824B2AD@comcast.net> I'm sure you all join me in congratulation Bob Donaldson for yet ANOTHER tremendous accounting of this week's work! He is such an inspiration to all of us with his tremendous writing. As I was reading this, I thought: "This would be one of the best BLOGS on the net if it were published!" Believe me. Time to get started, Bob. It's the truth..... Facebook will be a good start.... Always so appreciative of EVERYONE's efforts there, and especially Bob's to chronicle it all... Mim xoxooxoox On Oct 1, 2010, at 7:39 PM, Robert A. Donaldson wrote: > Dear Mac friends: > > Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Tucker Trainor, and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center today. > > First off I need to get some personal frustration off my chest... > > I CURSE YOU iMAC #XA0250NSJED (tangerine, 400 mhz)!!!!!! > > You were the first on my bench this morning, and you played me like a chump all day. That damn slow bus of yours.... > > I zapped your PRAM a dozen times. I changed your RAM twice. Two disk drives. Two optical drives. Even a different drive cable. > > I tried imaging you with NetBoot, but you laughed and said "530 minutes." I played along for over two hours. > > Then I tried SuperDuper! You weren't having any of it. I aborted after 90 minutes and a 50 percent progress bar. > > But I got the last laugh. I ripped you apart like the miserable dog you were. Your parts are scattered among a half dozen Gaylords filled with the scum parts of countless PCs. If I had any salt, I would have rubbed it into your logic board before I flipped you into all those PC boards. > > It's like I was channeling Rich Fitzgibbon... > > Thank you. I feel much better now... > > Besides this one horrible experience, we had a swell day. We refurbished 23 Macs (including nine 1.0 ghz eMacs with AirPort Extreme), and de-manufactured just two, including Mr. Tangerine Hell Boy. Our all-time total is now 2,715. > > The week's donations were bountiful, more than 30 filling three large bins. We weren't able to get them all done, and will have a half-dozen awaiting us next week. Sadly, only two keyboards and two mice accompanied all these Macs. > > On a sad note, Sarah, our waitress at Cafe Davido these many months, will leave us next week to teach English in Mexico. She's served us our last order of French Toast with Strawberry marscone cheese. She seemed to be the only waitress who remembers to put lemon in Rich Fitzgibbon's iced tea. We were shocked, shocked to see her farewell costume was merely jeans and a Tootsie Roll t-shirt emblazoned with "The slower you lick, the longer it lasts." Words for the ages, my friends... Adios, Sarah. > > Today we got word our move into temporary quarters in the 2400 block of East Carson St. will happen around Thanksgiving. The space is much bigger, and (gasp!) has carpet. We'll be there until the beginning of April when we move again to Goodwill's new campus on 51st St. in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. We've begun to discuss how we're going to gradually reduce our pace and pack. Any suggestions are welcome. > > A gentle reminder the ComputerWorks store is now open in its temporary quarters in Goodwill's retail store at 2700 East Carson St., just a block from the former location on Pittsburgh's South Side. It's a bit smaller that the previous store, but they still carry everything they used to display, you just may have to ask for it if you don't see it. There are many G4 Towers and eMacs in storage. When you enter the store, turn right and head for the back of the store. > > We will have another workday next Friday, October 8. Still no word on salt water taffy from Rich Fitzgibbon's New England vacation, but everyone's hoping... > > We hope to see you there! > > Robert A. Donaldson > radonaldson at mac.com > (H) 412-922-3303 > (M) 412-477-9188 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From dave at davesevick.com Sun Oct 3 15:11:09 2010 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 17:11:09 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] NEW - "User Group Meetings for Business" begins Tuesday October 19, 7-8:30PM at the Ross Park Apple Store Message-ID: <169C45EB-7F82-452C-80FF-2E0781AE4FDC@davesevick.com> Apple Store Ross Park Mall begins monthly "User Group Meetings for Business" - Tuesday October 19, 7-8:30PM The Apple Store Business Team in cooperation with area Apple consultants and local businesses is going to be hosting a new kind of user group meeting at their NEW store in Ross Park Mall. The meetings will be in our "user group" casual style ... ... but will have the structure of a "business networking group" as well. Here is how it works: 7PM - Welcome by the Apple Business Team and introduction to any new products. Exchange of business cards. - "30 Second commercials" by attendees on their business as we work our way around the room. - Presentation or demonstration of an Apple business product - 15 minutes. - Question and Answer open forum. 8:30PM - Adjourn the meeting - and invitation to a nightcap at a restaurant in the Ross Park Mall. Anyone can attend these meetings without an invitation. The focus will be on business products and solutions. Many thanks to the Business Team at the Ross Park Apple Store for helping us develop and support this new concept. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the team : Ross Park Business , 412-318-0659 http://www.apple.com/retail/rosspark/ Thanks, Dave Sevick -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Have a question regarding the MS Silverlight program and NetFlix - I recently subscribed to NetFlix, but was unable to view any of their movies because I kept getting the error 'N8011'. The NetFlix support, suggested I contact MS Silverlight support, which I did and have been trying several of their suggestions. What has worked, was a suggestion that I create a 'test' profile, and access NetFilx. This works and I can view the movies on line with no problem, but can not from my 'Administrator' profile. I have followed NetFlixs' suggestions as to the settings on my browsers - Safari & Firefox but to no avail. A second issue came up, when the MS Silverlight support, suggested that I look at my 'Font Book' program as to the specific fonts it was using. I didn't even know I had such a program, and when I tried to open it, it crashed immediately. Does anyone have any knowledge of Font Book? 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If they were going to release a CDMA version, why would they have not done it two years ago? droopy On 2010-10-06 2:59 PM, "Ron_A" wrote: > > http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-making-verizon-ready-iphone-by-year-end > -wsj-2010-10-06-1421160 > > > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20101006/4e386ede/attachment.htm From ronladams7 at gmail.com Thu Oct 7 07:13:05 2010 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 07:13:05 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] Apple making Verizon-ready iPhone by year end: WSJ - MarketWatch In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <22BA02B1-B05A-4C46-9836-F17A0E068CE0@gmail.com> I would guess that this has a little bit to do with technical issues and a lot to do with market share and stock price. Lot's of people that have never heard of CDMA or LTE, will buy an iPhone w/ Verizon. On Oct 6, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Jeffrey James Bryan Carpenter wrote: > The WSJ has been reporting this same story for almost a year. > > I have long believed that Apple will not spend the development cost to make a CDMA iphone, and the longer Apple waits to release a CDMA phone, the less business sense it makes. With AT&T and Verizon both transitioning to LTE, all the development costs for CDMA would now have a very limited window of usefulness. If they were going to release a CDMA version, why would they have not done it two years ago? > > > droopy > > > On 2010-10-06 2:59 PM, "Ron_A" wrote: > >> >> http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-making-verizon-ready-iphone-by-year-end-wsj-2010-10-06-1421160 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/20101007/3ba3c2f6/attachment.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Oct 8 17:36:29 2010 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:36:29 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, October 8, 2010 Message-ID: Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, John Hamill, Tucker Trainor, and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center today. Well, there was no salt water taffy. One would have assumed someone could have used the 3G service on their spiffy new iPad to find a salt water taffy retailer while on vacation. Let's move on... At Thursday's COWMUG meeting in Monroeville, two visitors appeared seeking Mac OS help for G3 iMacs they were given by the Gateway School District. The hard drives had been wiped, and were not re-imaged for the new owners. They were seeking leads to obtain OS X.3 Panther, which is what they were told they needed. They received leads, but will undoubtedly be surprised that most retailers with copies still in stock are charging more that the original retail price. So we arrive this morning to find a bin full of G3 iMacs from the Gateway School District. More than half were inoperable, and were de-manufactured. Which leads us to today's progress: 11 Macs refurbished, 19 Macs de-manufactured along with one Apple Studio Display. Our all-time total is now 2, 725. The bad news is we received just one USB keyboard and NO mice. But we did get one Apple USB mouse from Bruce Wells' desk drawer earlier in the week. A gentle reminder the ComputerWorks store is now open in its temporary quarters in Goodwill's retail store at 2700 East Carson St., just a block from the former location on Pittsburgh's South Side. It's a bit smaller that the previous store, but they still carry everything they used to display, you just may have to ask for it if you don't see it. There are many G4 Towers and eMacs in storage. When you enter the store, turn right and head for the back of the store. We will have another workday next Friday, October 15. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dave at davesevick.com Fri Oct 8 19:02:23 2010 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 21:02:23 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] The last pallet of computers ...... Message-ID: <1B640E17-D74E-4E88-8EC6-4AEBEDA08737@davesevick.com> ....... has left the warehouse at 1010 McKee Street. All 20 pallets (320 Apple iMac G3 computers) were loaded and shipped out today, Oct 8, 2010 at 10AM ! With inches to spare inside the 40ft ocean container: They will be trucked to Baltimore MD and loaded onto a ship at Seagirt Marine Terminal. The ocean freighter will travel about two weeks to Corinto, Nicaragua. Then on to Managua, Nicaragua .... Oct 27, 2010 ( +/- 2 days) the computers will arrive. Janet Foerster's innerCHANGE team will take charge of distribution and support in Nicaragua. We plan to tell many tales of the journey of the iMacs here on this Apple listserve. Thanks to everyone from Goodwill, our Apple volunteers, Brother's Brother Foundation and so many more of you for your support and sweat getting this all together. Dave ( photos by Andrew Russell http://andrewrussellphotography.com ) -------------------------------------------- Dave Sevick ComputeReach, humanitarian computer outreach http://computereach.com 724-779-0099 sevick at computereach.com -------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_0031.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 178806 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20101008/bf5068a1/attachment-0001.jpeg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20101008/bf5068a1/attachment-0003.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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However, I'm now confronted with a project my youngest daughter needs to complete by the end of the month. I'm reading several web site rumors indicating '11 may only be a few weeks away. So my question is, what is Apple's historic policy with regard to software purchased in advance of a software revision? Not having much experience in this area with Apple I'm looking for any feedback which might help me make an educated decision. Thanks in advance, Bob -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Recent Highlights from the Apple User Group Resources website: http://appleusergroupresources.com - Macworld 2011: Exclusive User Group Discounts - Chicago Apple User Group: LeVitus Returns - Ray Thompson: History of the Apple Corps and So Much More - Randy Singer: Macintosh Maintenance Update - Upper Keys: The Mac is a Writer?s Best Friend - AMUG Sydney: A Tradition of Service Newsletter Editors: Be sure to visit the special offers link to find offers and codes on one page. http://appleusergroupresources.com/?page_id=653 password: resource __________ Saundra Foderick, Editor Tom Piper, Vendor Relations Elsa Travisano, Webmaster Trish Huffman, Offers Editor Questions? Comments? Events you'd like us to cover? ugbeditor at me.com .................................................................... Information about third-party offers and promotions was provided to the Apple User Group Advisory Board by the third party and is provided as a courtesy. 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Augb mailing list (Augb at lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/augb/davesevick%40mac.com This email sent to davesevick at mac.com From sevick at computereach.com Thu Oct 14 19:22:52 2010 From: sevick at computereach.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:22:52 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Donaldson | Boats | Manchester | Savior | St. Agnes | Tucker | Thanks Message-ID: In the October 2010 issue of the OAK ( Outreach Acts of Kindness ) Newsletter for ComputeReach: http://computereach.com/newsletter.html Bob Donaldson gets unanimous votes for the "Kind Soul of the Month". Shipping logistics for the 320 computers going to Nicaragua explained. Manchester K-8 of the North Side to get computers soon. Church of Our Savior in Northview Heights gets 5 eMacs and 12 iMacs. St. Agnes of West Mifflin gets 12 eMacs. Tucker Trainor does the web thing really well. Gratitude to all leaders. 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Donaldson) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:32:58 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, October 15, 2010 Message-ID: Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, John Hamill, Tucker Trainor, Noah Covert and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center today. Today was a continuing lesson in "Value Computing." You may recall my mentioning the 1.0 ghz eMacs with AirPort "G" cards the volunteer group refurbished a couple of weeks ago. All of them are now in service at St. Agnes School in West Mifflin, via Dave Sevick's computeReach. Now St. Agnes didn't have much money, but they needed to update their G3 iMacs. They already had a wireless computer lab. Enter our refurbished G4 eMacs. St. Agnes was able to upgrade for an affordable bulk purchase price, and Goodwill gets the money. Now here's the good part. We got their old G3 iMacs. And they were refurbished today, and they're ready to go. And Goodwill will get more money when someone purchases them. Is this a great country, or what? ComputeReach is always looking for opportunities to place the refurbished Macs we produce. If you think you know of a potential place for G3 or G4 Macs, send Dave an email at . Today saw us handling 34 Macs. 19, including the St. Agnes G3 iMacs, were refurbished, and 15 were de-manufactured. Notable in this week's production is a 20-inch G5 iMac brought back to the living by Marty Swartz' complete logic board capacitor replacement. Out all-time total is now 2,744. Today's take included just three USB keyboards and four mice. Let's count: 19 Macs refurbished, three keyboards. Ouch. A gentle reminder the ComputerWorks store is now open in its temporary quarters in Goodwill's retail store at 2700 East Carson St., just a block from the former location on Pittsburgh's South Side. It's a bit smaller that the previous store, but they still carry everything they used to display, you just may have to ask for it if you don't see it. There are many G4 Towers and eMacs in storage. When you enter the store, turn right and head for the back of the store. We will have another workday next Friday, October 22. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dave at davesevick.com Sun Oct 17 21:16:16 2010 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:16:16 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] New business style user group meeting - Tues Oct 19, 7PM-8:30PM ((reminder)) Message-ID: Tues October 19 - Ross Park - Apple Store Business User Group Meeting 7-8:30PM http://www.apple.com/retail/rosspark/ ================== Apple Store Ross Park Mall begins monthly "User Group Meetings for Business" - Tuesday October 19, 7-8:30PM The Apple Store Business Team in cooperation with area Apple consultants and local businesses is going to be hosting a new kind of user group meeting at their NEW store in Ross Park Mall. The meetings will be in our "user group" casual style ... ... but will have the structure of a "business networking group" as well. Here is how it works: 7PM - Welcome by the Apple Business Team and introduction to any new products. Exchange of business cards. - "30 Second commercials" by attendees on their business as we work our way around the room. - Presentation or demonstration of an Apple business product - 15 minutes. - Question and Answer open forum. 8:30PM - Adjourn the meeting - and invitation to a nightcap at a restaurant in the Ross Park Mall. Anyone can attend these meetings without an invitation. The focus will be on business products and solutions. Many thanks to the Business Team at the Ross Park Apple Store for helping us develop and support this new concept. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the team : Ross Park Business , 412-318-0659 http://www.apple.com/retail/rosspark/ Thanks, Dave Sevick -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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My eyes jumped open at this - I was in Singapore on Friday and spent all of Saturday in the air, returning to Sydney. Had I missed the start of the first big Apple malware outbreak? Had that outbreak started in my home town? Should I rush into the Lab in an effort to appear important? I wasn't surprised by the idea of an outbreak (or what we think of as an outbreak these days) centred on Apple Stores. Apple has a pleasantly laidback attitude to evaluation in its stores - they really want you to try their products, since they really are easy to use, and the proof of the pudding really is in the eating. So when a one-click iPhone jailbreaking tool appeared online recently, it was an instant hit, including with miscreants who made a point of liberating iPhones in their local Apple Stores. (Don't do this. Like me, you might think that Apple should embrace its techie fans and provide an official means for jailbreaking, albeit under revised warranty conditions. This would allow the small minority of jailbreakers to enjoy their devices to the full without the need to find and use - and thereby inadvertently to document - exploits. But the devices in an Apple Store aren't yours. They belong to Apple and you are allowed to play with them through Apple's goodwill. Show some respect.) So it's not inconceivable that a spam campaign or the beginnings of a malware outbreak might start from an Apple Store. After all, an Apple Store is, at least in part, a large and very groovy internet cafe. Apple Stores take numerous precautions to prevent their properties being used for malicious ends, but there is always a small risk of something going wrong, if only for a short while. That's not what happened here. Stand down from beige alert. Turns out that the story concerns the risk of infection by biological pathogens left on the glass surfaces of Apple's touch-based products by previous users, not infection by rogue computer code. 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You can pick your own schedule and match it to the availability of the trainee. If you have done this before it should be a "no-brainer" ... .... if you are not sure that you can do this ... then please wait for another opportunity to serve ... as this is for seasoned teachers and professionals that do this sort of service all the time. This is not a time to get on-the-job training on how to be a trainer ( just to be clear ) :-) You'll work alone and independently with people in great need that have few computer skills. Please contact me ASAP if you have a heart for this type of volunteering. Dave -------------------------------------------- Dave Sevick ComputeReach, humanitarian computer outreach http://computereach.com 724-779-0099 sevick at computereach.com -------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Earlier, Gibbs told reporters traveling on Air Force One from Seattle to San Francisco that it was "a meeting the president was interested in having." "I think they last met ... along the trail in the 2008 (presidential) campaign," Gibbs said. Obama is on a four-day trip through Western U.S. states, seeking to bolster Democratic candidates before the November 2 midterm elections, in which his party is expected to lose many U.S. congressional seats and state governorships. (Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Peter Cooney) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20101022/1b51aefc/attachment.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Oct 22 15:14:39 2010 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:14:39 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, October 22, 2010 Message-ID: <97C9E076-2F32-44E6-9EB9-9FD2881289FD@mac.com> Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, John Hamill, Tucker Trainor, and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center today. Today saw notable rescues of two worthy Macs. First, the Marty Swartz home recycling operation produced another fine 17-inch G5 iMac, which should be in the ComputerWorks store shortly. Second, Rich Fitzgibbon and Tucker Trainor made major parts swaps to bring a 17-inch, 1.0 ghz G4 iMac back to life. The memory, optical drive and AirPort wireless card were all enhanced to max out this machine. It, too, will be in the ComputerWorks store shortly. Today saw us handling 22 Macs. 16 were refurbished, 6 were de-manufactured, and one Apple display was sent down the recycling chain. Our all-time total is now 2,760. We could have done more, but, uh, we ran out of new logic board batteries. Oops.... Today's donation take included NO keyboards and mice. What more can I say? A gentle reminder the ComputerWorks store is now open in its temporary quarters in Goodwill's retail store at 2700 East Carson St., just a block from the former location on Pittsburgh's South Side. It's a bit smaller that the previous store, but they still carry everything they used to display, you just may have to ask for it if you don't see it. There are many G4 Towers and eMacs in storage. When you enter the store, turn right and head for the back of the store. We will have another workday next Friday, October 29. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From marty.swartz at gmail.com Sat Oct 23 08:42:07 2010 From: marty.swartz at gmail.com (Marty Swartz) Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:42:07 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] [iMovie 09 - audio slippage] Message-ID: We are finally tackling an awesome pile of family DV tapes that have accumulated over the last decade, using iMovie '09 on a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard, OSX 10.6 , hoping to edit them down to DVDs. The trouble is that the audio track starts to lag the video image after about 5 minutes of importing. Our Friend Google shows that this is not a novel problem. One suggestion is to import only five minutes worth of video at a time. We don't yet know whether the new iMovie '11 fixes this particular malady. Has anybody else out there met and conquered this problem? Any cost-effective alternatives or work-arounds? Best, - Marty Swartz -- Don't wait for opportunity to knock. Go bang on its door until it answers. From kim at equiparts.net Sun Oct 24 06:59:43 2010 From: kim at equiparts.net (Kim Coles) Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 08:59:43 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Being Steve Jobs' Boss - BusinessWeek Message-ID: <98CF047A-64F7-41D0-A45C-34DE8DE53F71@equiparts.net> http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_44/b4201096309840.htm FEATURE October 20, 2010, 11:00PM EST Being Steve Jobs' Boss Confessions of the last man to manage the singular inventor Jobs and Sculley in New York City, 1984 DIANA WALKER/CONTOUR/GETTY IMAGES -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20101024/de51258e/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The discount has always been a truly local project extended by our local Apple Stores and Apple Resellers vendors and not recognized outside of Pittsburgh, or by any online purchasing channels, or by any phone orders .... only in-person purchases inside a store. The volume of new employees at the stores, the choice of so many outlets for Apple purchases, and the non-standard card that was once a "small tightly-run consumer discount advantage" is now too difficult to administer. I want to thank all those who participated over the last 6 years (since Sept 4, 2004) and know first hand how much money this has allowed Mac users to save on purchases, well beyond the $25 cost. ------ So starting today Oct 27, 2010 we'll need to cease the card discounts. Thanks to everyone for your support of this successful program. If you have donated $25 for a card in the last few weeks in hopes of making an Apple purchase, please contact me off-list and we can work out the details. 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Penn State folks Nancy Woods, Dave and Sue Otto are doing a terrific job. http://www.thecenterforhope.com/ ( for newcomers to this list ... we helped create the computer network and 85 port labs in the building with our user group volunteers a few years back. ) From dave at davesevick.com Thu Oct 28 09:31:08 2010 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:31:08 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] 2 days with Office: mac 2011 Message-ID: <2A708B47-B342-4D49-8341-8992D97DFA2F@davesevick.com> Mactopia http://www.microsoft.com/mac/pro Walt Mossberg http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20101013/microsoft-office-2011-mac-review/ David Pogue http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/office-for-mac-isnt-an-improvement/ Howard Mendelson http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369733,00.asp Casey Chan http://gizmodo.com/5650067/macworld-reviews-microsoft-office-2011-for-mac Jeff Battersby http://www.macworld.com/reviews/product/671498/review/word_for_mac_2011.html?expand=true Apple Store Q&A (excellent free online chat support 9AM - 9PM M-F) http://store.apple.com/us/questions/product/H2439LL/A?mco=MTk2MzU3NjE (excellent free phone support 9AM - 2AM M-F) 1-800-MY-APPLE = 1-800-69-27753 I read these reviews, used the chat service to ask questions, and decided to buy the $199 "Home and Business" box that includes one license and has Outlook. Goodbye Entourage. Was not nice knowing you. Hello Outlook, promise me you'll behave better. Here is the pricing and licensing to help you make the right choice ( and please see the Apple Store Q&A link above): Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 includes Word for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac, Excel for Mac and Messenger for Mac, and it will retail starting at $119 (U.S. estimated retail price [ERP]). It will be available in two editions ? a single install for $119 (U.S. ERP) and a Family Pack for $149 (U.S. ERP) with three installs for families with more than one Mac in their household. The Home and Student edition provides the core productivity applications that Mac users want and need. Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business 2011 includes Word for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac, Excel for Mac, Outlook for Mac and Messenger for Mac, and it will retail starting at $199 (U.S. ERP). It also will be available in two editions ? a single install for $199 (U.S. ERP) and a Multi-Pack for $279 (U.S. ERP) with two installs for a user with two machines. If Home and Student customers determine that they need the additional functionality of a desktop e-mail client, they can easily step up to Office for Mac 2011 Home and Business using online upgrade functionality. Microsoft Office for Mac Academic 2011 includes Word for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac, Excel for Mac, Outlook for Mac and Messenger for Mac, and it will retail at authorized academic stores and Microsoft, http://www.officeformac.com, for $99 (U.S. ERP). This special edition was created for higher education students, staff and faculty, and includes one installation. ==================== First impressions from my use of Office 2011: mac ..... Install was easy and seamless. Opens much quicker, about 10 seconds vs. 20 seconds using Office 2008. Copies the strengths of Apples iWork ... Pages, Numbers, Keynote '09. Copies the strengths of Google Docs .... but the other collaborative users would need to buy Office 2011. More feedback soon ... Please post your experiences here on the NPMUG listserve. Dave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20101028/18c7b188/attachment.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Oct 29 15:14:29 2010 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:14:29 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, October 29, 2010 Message-ID: <92463C2A-0C67-4F51-AB86-C3280E09A54D@mac.com> Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Tucker Trainor, and Aristide Niyungeko for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center today. Today was a relatively slow day as the logic board battery shipment we were expecting did not arrive. We refurbished five Macs, but all still need new batteries. We de-manufactured 11 more, and spent time beginning to clear our shelves for packing for our impending move. Our all-time total is now 2,765. Today's donation take included four keyboards (two broken) and three mice. This is getting as stale as "You Light Up My Life." Unless, of course, you're a serious Debby Boone fan. A gentle reminder the ComputerWorks store is now open in its temporary quarters in Goodwill's retail store at 2700 East Carson St., just a block from the former location on Pittsburgh's South Side. It's a bit smaller that the previous store, but they still carry everything they used to display, you just may have to ask for it if you don't see it. There are many G4 Towers and eMacs in storage. When you enter the store, turn right and head for the back of the store. We will have another workday next Friday, November 5. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188