From dave at davesevick.com Tue Feb 1 07:18:32 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 09:18:32 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Reminder - no NPMUG at Cranberry tonight at MacOutfitters ... Dave Marra event on Sat Feb 5 instead Message-ID: <2C4EE9C6-6635-452E-B50A-C5DA0EBF9B5F@davesevick.com> For those of you who are not aware: The NPMUG has moved to an "event driven" model of meetings that will take place at Apple Stores and Apple Resellers and other special venues. This takes the place of routine Tuesday meetings once a month. The COWMUG does still meet the 1st Thursday of every month at the Monroeville Public Library ... and their next meeting is Thurs Feb 3, 7-9PM. Many thanks to those dedicated souls that showed up last month for the Jan 2011 meeting "that wasn't" .... Stay tuned for more announcements of upcoming events. Dave From dotto1208 at aol.com Wed Feb 2 17:13:01 2011 From: dotto1208 at aol.com (dotto1208 at aol.com) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 19:13:01 -0500 (EST) Subject: [NPMUG] Fwd: It all began with an iPhone... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8CD914E41111CC6-1AA4-318C@webmail-d066.sysops.aol.com> .Subject: FW: It all began with an iPhone... It all began with an iPhone... March was when my son celebrated his 15th birthday and I got him an iPhone. He just loved it. Who wouldn't? I celebrated my birthday in July and my wife made me happy when she bought me an iPad. My daughter's birthday was in August so I got her an iPod Touch. September came by so for my wife?s birthday I bought her an iRon. It was around then that the fight started . . . What my wife failed to recognize is that the iRon can be integrated into the home network with the iWash, iCook and iClean. This inevitably activates the iNag reminder service. I should be out of the hospital by Thursday! 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We try the routine SMC resets while troubleshooting over the phone : Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964 No luck. 8:15PM - I search online for "Apple Store New York" and find the Fifth Ave store ... very close to where he is going to stay. His flight is about to take off soon. http://www.apple.com/retail/fifthavenue/ 767 Fifth Ave. New York City, NY 10153 (212) 336-1440 Store hours: 24/7, 365 days a year I book him a time with the Genius Bar Reservation system for an 11PM Genius Bar appointment. 11PM - He arrives in NYC, gets to the Genius Bar, gets a diagnosis of a logic board issue. Is under warranty ! 12 hours later he emails me back and says he has his newly repaired MacBook Pro in hand. New logic board installed. ========= Apple Service comes through again. I cannot tell you how many times I hear similar GREAT stories about Apple. 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We try the routine SMC resets while troubleshooting over the phone : Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964 No luck. 8:15PM - I search online for "Apple Store New York" and find the Fifth Ave store ... very close to where he is going to stay. His flight is about to take off soon. http://www.apple.com/retail/fifthavenue/ 767 Fifth Ave. New York City, NY 10153 (212) 336-1440 Store hours: 24/7, 365 days a year -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: photo_fifthavenue.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 82115 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110203/3ad46f5e/attachment-0001.jpg -------------- next part -------------- I book him a time with the Genius Bar Reservation system for an 11PM Genius Bar appointment. 11PM - He arrives in NYC, gets to the Genius Bar, gets a diagnosis of a logic board issue. Is under warranty ! 12 hours later he emails me back and says he has his newly repaired MacBook Pro in hand. New logic board installed. ========= Apple Service comes through again. I cannot tell you how many times I hear similar GREAT stories about Apple. This listserve is reserved for public praise of good service as well as a sounding board for problems. This one was worth sharing ! Dave ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Dave Sevick Apple Certified Support Professional Helping people use technology in Pittsburgh Western PA, WV, OH MD ... Since 1988 724.779.0099 mobile/office dave at davesevick.com http://www.davesevick.com ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` From bishopjosephsr at mac.com Thu Feb 3 09:30:25 2011 From: bishopjosephsr at mac.com (Joseph Garlington) Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:30:25 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Washington DC - NYC Apple Story In-Reply-To: <9DD4B991-D01F-4E4D-9EC2-00CCDF64E2A0@davesevick.com> Message-ID: Dear Dave, I probably travel as much as anyone, and consequently, I get to visit a lot of Genius Bars. I have had one happy experience after the other. This is standard for Apple! BJG On 2/3/11 9:19 AM, "Dave Sevick" wrote: > I'd like to share a great Apple success story that happened with one of my > clients a few nights ago. > > > 8PM - Doctor (my client) calls me explaining he cannot get his MacBook Pro to > start up. Just a lighted power button, no startup sound, nothing. He is a > Wash DC airport on the way to NYC. In panic mode. Needs his laptop for a > meeting the next day. > > We try the routine SMC resets while troubleshooting over the phone : > > Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) > http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964 > > No luck. > > 8:15PM - I search online for "Apple Store New York" and find the Fifth Ave > store ... very close to where he is going to stay. His flight is about to > take off soon. > > http://www.apple.com/retail/fifthavenue/ > > 767 Fifth Ave. > New York City, NY 10153 > (212) 336-1440 > > > Store hours: > 24/7, 365 days a year > > I book him a time with the Genius Bar Reservation system for an 11PM Genius > Bar appointment. > > > 11PM - He arrives in NYC, gets to the Genius Bar, gets a diagnosis of a > logic board issue. Is under warranty ! > > > 12 hours later he emails me back and says he has his newly repaired MacBook > Pro in hand. New logic board installed. > > ========= > > Apple Service comes through again. > > I cannot tell you how many times I hear similar GREAT stories about Apple. > > This listserve is reserved for public praise of good service as well as a > sounding board for problems. > > This one was worth sharing ! > > Dave > > > ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` > Dave Sevick > Apple Certified Support Professional > Helping people use technology in Pittsburgh > Western PA, WV, OH MD ... Since 1988 > > 724.779.0099 mobile/office > dave at davesevick.com > http://www.davesevick.com > > ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug -- Bishop Joseph L. 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Thanks in advance, Bob From dave at davesevick.com Thu Feb 3 21:09:18 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 23:09:18 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?David_Pogue_says_it_best_-_iPhone_for_Ve?= =?windows-1252?q?rizon_is_LONG_OVERDUE_=2E=2E=2E=2E_but_watch_the_=93yes?= =?windows-1252?q?=2C_buts=94_=28_must_read_article_before_you_run_out_to_?= =?windows-1252?q?buy_a_Verizon_iPhone_=29?= Message-ID: <98AA4005-6D84-4082-9904-9D67CEB1B15A@davesevick.com> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/technology/personaltech/03pogue.html?_r=3 For iPhone, Almost Heaven It?s here. After almost four years of speculation, the iPhone will finally come to Verizon?s network on Feb. 10. And to answer everyone?s question, the Verizon iPhone is nearly the same as AT&T?s iPhone 4 ? but it doesn?t drop calls. For several million Americans, that makes it the holy grail. I took the Verizon iPhone to five cities, including the two Bermuda Triangles of AT&T reception: San Francisco and New York. Holding AT&T and Verizon iPhones side by side in the passenger seat of a car, I dialed 777-FILM simultaneously, and then rode around until a call dropped. (Why that number? Because I wanted to call a landline, eliminating the other person?s cell reception from the equation. Also, Mr. Moviefone can carry the entire conversation by himself, so I could concentrate on the testing.) In San Francisco, the AT&T phone dropped the call four times in 30 minutes of driving; the Verizon phone never did. The Verizon iPhone also held its line in several Manhattan intersections where the AT&T call died. At a Kennedy airport gate, the AT&T phone couldn?t even find a signal; the Verizon dialed with a smug yawn. Most impressively, the Verizon iPhone effortlessly made calls in the Cellphone Signal Torture Chamber of Doom: my house. The Verizon iPhone did drop one call ? in baggage claim at the Los Angeles airport. And, of course, there are regions where AT&T coverage is better than Verizon?s. But in general, my testing matches the conclusions of Consumer Reports and RootMetrics.com: the Verizon iPhone has more bars in more places. (Hey, that might make a good slogan! Oh, wait...) In general, the Verizon and AT&T iPhones are identical. Same sleek, thin, satisfying, plastic-free body ? all glass and metal. Same gorgeous, high-resolution screen ? 960 by 640 pixels. Same battery life ? you?ll need a recharge every night. Same camera on the back, which can take 5-megapixel stills or excellent hi-def video ? the flash doubles as a video light. Same low-resolution camera on the front, suitable for Wi-Fi videochats, using Apple?s FaceTime software for iPhone or Mac. Even the prices are about the same. The 16-gigabyte phone costs $200 with two-year contract. The monthly service costs, for example, $70 for unlimited voice calls, plus $20 for 5,000 text messages, plus $30 a month for unlimited Internet use. (Verizon says that it will soon eliminate that unlimited plan, just as AT&T recently did. Instead, you?ll pay something like $25 a month for 2 gigabytes of Internet data. Good luck figuring out how much that is.) The single new feature in Verizon?s iPhone is Personal Hotspot, where the iPhone becomes a Wi-Fi base station. Up to five laptops, iPod Touches or other gadgets can get online, using the phone as a glorified Internet antenna. That?s incredibly convenient. Many other app phones have it ? AT&T says its iPhone will get it soon ? but Apple?s execution is especially nice. For example, the hot spot shuts itself off 90 seconds after the last laptop disconnects. That?s hugely important, because these personal hot spot features are merciless battery drains. The hot spot feature costs $20 a month extra, and buys only 2 gigabytes of data for all of those laptops. Think e-mail, not YouTube. (AT&T will charge $45 a month for 4 gigabytes of data.) Now, there are two kinds of cellphone networks in this country. They?re known as C.D.M.A. (Verizon and Sprint use this technology) and G.S.M. (the system for AT&T and T-Mobile). Making an iPhone that works on a C.D.M.A. network entailed four adjustments, some of which you won?t like. First, Apple moved the volume and Ringer Off switches a fraction of an inch to accommodate the C.D.M.A. antenna inside. It?s not a big deal, but those buttons no longer fit existing AT&T iPhone cases. (Contrary to blogger belief, the redesign doesn?t help with the famous Death Grip issue, in which holding the phone in a certain way makes your signal bars drop. Then again, the problem emerges only when you?re in a very weak signal area, so you?ll see it less often on Verizon. I couldn?t reproduce it at all.) A second C.D.M.A. difference: When you exchange long text messages with non-Verizon phones, they get split up into 160-character chunks. G.S.M. phones are smart enough to reconstitute those chunks into one more readable, consolidated message. Third: You can?t talk on an C.D.M.A. phone while you?re online. That is, if you?re on a call, you can?t simultaneously check a Web site or send e-mail over the cellular network ? and, annoyingly, the Personal Hotspot feature cuts off. (It reconnects when you hang up.) If the top of your screen says ?3G,? an indication that you?re in a high-speed Internet area of Verizon?s network, incoming calls take priority and interrupt your online connection. If you?re online in an older, 2G area, you stay online and the call goes directly to voice mail. It?s not such a big deal. Continuing processes like downloads, Personal Hotspot and GPS navigation resume automatically when you end your call. You can still send text and get messages when you?re on a call. And none of this applies when you?re in a Wi-Fi hot spot; in that case, you can call and surf simultaneously, no problem. For business travelers, the fourth C.D.M.A. difference is the most disappointing: not many other countries use C.D.M.A. The Verizon iPhone works in about 40 countries, including Mexico, Canada and China; AT&T phones, on the other hand, work in 220 countries. (In both cases, you pay through the nose if you use them overseas.) Still interested? Here are a few final points to ponder before you plunge. E-mail: pogue at nytimes.com Even if Verizon?s network is the best in America, its policies and prices are still among the worst. This is the company, after all, that admitted to billing $2 every time you accidentally hit the up-arrow button. (Verizon refunded $52 million and paid the Federal Communications Commission a record $25 million fine.) This is the company that just eliminated its ?new phone every two years? discount policy, that just cut its new-phone return policy to 14 days from 30, that doubled its early-termination fee (to $350 if you cancel your two-year contract before it?s up). Consider, too, that if surveys are any indication, Verizon can expect an enormous stampede of new iPhone customers. Last time this happened ? to AT&T ? the weight of all those bandwidth-sucking iPhones swamped the network, causing interruptions that persist to this day. The same thing might happen to Verizon. Verizon swears that it?s prepared for the onslaught. Then again, that?s what AT&T said, too. Remember, too, that so far, Apple has released a new iPhone model every July. Apple won?t say if there will be an iPhone 5 for Verizon this summer. (?Let?s put it this way: We?re not stupid,? is all an Apple rep would say.) But if it does, and you buy an iPhone 4 now, you?ll be stuck with an outdated phone in only five months. Finally, a lot has changed in the years it?s taken the iPhone to come to Verizon. Phones that run Google?s Android software have eaten a lot of the iPhone?s lunch. A huge part of that, of course, was the AT&T factor; people bought Android phones so they could be on Verizon?s network. Even now, though, Android phones are superior in some ways. For example, they offer amazingly good spoken GPS navigation, you can dictate text into any text box, and you can get one with a bigger screen. Of course, the iPhone still wins on battery life, simplicity and both the quality and quantity of the app store. (Google doesn?t screen or supervise what?s on the Android store, as Apple does. Some call that a blessing, others a curse.) Yes, that?s a lot of footnotes and ?yes, buts.? Even so, most people don?t care about overseas compatibility or simultaneous calling and surfing or Verizon?s tactics. They want an iPhone ? an iconic, beautiful, fast, elegant iPhone ? that doesn?t drop calls. Now, after years of pining, they have it at last. E-mail: pogue at nytimes.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110203/ebc18b94/attachment-0001.htm From dave at davesevick.com Thu Feb 3 21:42:45 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 23:42:45 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] An interview with Gabrielle Giffords on her use of the iPad Message-ID: http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/02/03/020311-news-gabby-ipad-2/ GABBY'S TOUCHING VIDEO - WWW.THEDAILY.COM Her interview with The Daily before shooting ? and amazing progress through therapy BY ELIZABETH SAAB THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2011 Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is doing "rigorous" speech therapy every day and her recovery is progressing ? and her days also have included use of her favorite gadget: the iPad. A few weeks before the congresswoman was shot in a Tucson, Ariz., rampage, she told The Daily that she bonded with her husband, Mark Kelly, over their new iPad. Giffords and her husband enjoyed sitting in bed with their tablet computer, she told The Daily in an in-camera interview conducted in the rotunda of the Capitol. During her recovery, Giffords has been using her iPad to look at pictures ? which her neurologist, Dr. Michael Lemole, told reporters two weeks ago was a ?fantastic? advance as it showed ?higher cognitive function.? The Arizona lawmaker, who was shot in the head on Jan. 8, was transferred last week from intensive care to the TIRR Memorial Hermann hospital in Houston, where neurosurgeon Dr. Dong Kim said she is recovering at ?lightning speed.? Giffords has been able to sit up and stand with the assistance of hospital staff. She even gave her husband a neck rub from her hospital bed. Yesterday, Kelly tweeted: ?Today was a huge day for GG. Lots of progress!? In an earlier statement, he thanked his wife?s supporters for their ?continued prayers and good wishes.? ?The doctors, nurses and support staff at TIRR are among the best in the world. They have emphasized to us that this next phase is more of a marathon than a sprint.? Dr. Kim said Giffords? ?speech function, along with everything else, is improving.? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110203/e22241d9/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Fri Feb 4 18:47:32 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 20:47:32 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Steelers Message-ID: Steelers Wing in the Hall of Fame http://youtu.be/gRMd1DiTvv0 Pittsburgh Steelers Terrible Towel http://youtu.be/-4xi7eA68og Drive for 7 in 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulSt_eMR7BQ&hd=1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks be to Dave, Dave Sevick and the MOF gang for setting it up and the great hospitality! KeepSmilin:-} CuZinBruce web.mac.com/cuzinbrucie cuzinbrucie at mac.com restoration at pa-trolley.org Now my Sophos experience: The other day at the Trolley Museum we were awaiting delivery of software from Tech Soup for our new Mac (FINALLY!). Anyway our director forwarded an email with shipping instructions info. He couldn't open it on his windoze computer so he sent it to me. Without looking I double clicked on it and nothing happened. Right away (but too late) the red lights started flashing in my alleged mind and I fired up a sophos scan. Here's what I got. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Only trick was to try and remember what all I had changed during the week. The attachments here were erased in the process but I had backed them up to a memory stick, and sophos says they are germ free. Anyway, the question is: What bad effects does a troj like this have for a windoze machine? Also, I picked this up on 2/3 and the Sophos info says 2/3. Does this mean it is new to them. They report of similar things done with bogus UPS emails but they did not seem to have a cure. Just cure-e-ous CuZinBruce From dadditude at gmail.com Sat Feb 5 16:06:44 2011 From: dadditude at gmail.com (Dadditude) Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 18:06:44 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] iPad Owners: Get Ready for Tomorrow's Big Game! Message-ID: <10DBCBF9-7814-4220-94A5-D3105A118D29@gmail.com> Get the Official Game Program app in the AppStore to get ready for Sunday's game. The best part is, it's FREE! http://appadvice.com/app/417071364 -- "We don't quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing."?Oliver Wendell Holmes From bbendiksen at verizon.net Mon Feb 7 18:00:11 2011 From: bbendiksen at verizon.net (Beverly Bendiksen) Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:00:11 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] G5 memory from Edge Tech Corp? Message-ID: <4905E1F8-BCCE-4F19-9C5D-6C111C0AF3B8@verizon.net> My iMac G5 PowerPC is slowing down. After installing and running Sophos and getting no virus warnings, I figured my 512MB of RAM is just not sufficient anymore (running OS X 10.5.8). So, I'm considering buying 2GB RAM from Edge Tech Corp. Does anyone on the list have experience buying memory from this company? I couldn't find memory for my iMac on Apple's store. Bev Bendiksen bbendiksen at verizon.net From dave at davesevick.com Tue Feb 8 08:00:54 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 10:00:54 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Google TV | Xbox | Apple TV | Roku .... a view from the folks at CNN/Fortune Magazine Message-ID: ----- clip ------- Apple's (AAPL) iTunes could become the online merchant for all video content. Device makers can sell us even more gear. Cable operators and studios stand to gain viewers and ad dollars by making their shows available -- with commercials -- anytime, anywhere. And for time-starved folks like me, it's TV nirvana. ----- end clip ------- Full story : http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/03/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-tv/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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There are no separate bills; it all appears on customers? Verizon Wireless bills. How It Works for the new iPhone 4 for Verizon I made a call to Verizon to speak to a Global Services Activation Specialist at (800) 711-8300 to get the official scoop. They referred me PR rep for Pittsburgh and she writes back : "The iPhone from Verizon Wireless will work in approximately 40 countries that use CDMA technology. In countries that use a GSM technology platform, Verizon Wireless offers a Global program that loans customers a country compatible device at no additional charge for up to three weeks. For additional information on Verizon Wireless Global services, products, countries and rates, please go to: http://b2b.vzw.com/international/inside_us.html" Dave P.S. I'll be switching from AT&T to Verizon soon and plan to write about the experiences ... surrounding both technical and customer support issues. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This not only revolutionizes the way we live our lives, but also blurs the lines that define the way we run our businesses and use and share information. Today, users are the content. Driving the growth, and at the same time being driven by it, the explosion in mobile computing is expanding the impact of the social web. And, the way that content is shared and accessed is now the core of a new global culture, affecting and combining the spheres of personal and business life." ----- PAGE 1 end clip ----- Inside you'll find a wide variety of threats discussed including: Social networking threats Fake anti-virus Stuxnet SEO poisoning Data loss and encryption Web threats Email threats Spam Malware trends Windows 7 Apple Macs Mobile devices and smartphones Cybercrime Hacktivism -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Too many users end up the victims of Internet crime because they do not stop to think, but instead act on impulse clicking on a ?sexy? link or an interesting looking attachment without thinking of the possible consequences. 5. Unless you?re certain of a person?s identity and authority to request such information, never provide your personal information or information about your company/organization. 6. Don?t reveal personal and financial information in email. Be wary of emails that ask you to follow a link to enter such information. 7. If you think an email may not be legitimate, attempt to verify it by contacting the company or organization directly. But don?t use the contact information provided in the email to make contact, it could be bogus; look up the organization?s contact information yourself. 8. Double-check the URLs of websites you visit. Some phishing websites look identical to the actual site, but the URL may be subtly different. 9. 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Stay tuned. :) Thanks!! -Dave From dave at davesevick.com Wed Feb 9 13:28:38 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:28:38 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Notes In-Reply-To: <20110209202057.1971811478@relay.fast.net> References: <5C78774229B94A45B1629BAA42937876E943E5@mail.ccop.org> <20110209202057.1971811478@relay.fast.net> Message-ID: <28918222-2B24-4E79-B67C-E435577DE798@davesevick.com> Thanks Dave .... Great jobs x 2 on Saturday in Cranberry. Dave On Feb 9, 2011, at 3:20 PM, David M. Marra wrote: >> Have you received your notes from Dave Marra? I emailed him as he >> requested and haven't heard back from him. Can you forward me notes if >> you have them. > > HI Beth! > > I will be sending out the resources very soon. Got lots of requests > still coming in from the Saturday shows and other events from last > week. I am planning to blast them all out at once. 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Lavelle greeted me began to process my iPhone order at the counter: 2 x 16GB iPhone 4 Retire my MiFi 2200 2 x Griffin cases 1 x 3-pack glass protectors Hotspot on one phone I chose the 1400 minute Family SharePlan for $119/month ( includes 2nd phone, unlimited texting "text,picture,video,voice" , $.40 for over minutes, 10 Family&Friends. With my prior measured usage at AT&T this should work fine. $350 early termination fee. I will be billed for one month in advance plus today's monthly startup. Note there is a 700 minute plan below this 1400 minute level and 2000 and "unlimited" plans above you can check out at: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/splash/iphone.jsp Data plans are unlimited on both phones $29/month x 2 My two 16GB phones were bought and numbers ported over smoothly ( you'll need to have your prior phone account number and PIN access handy ). Cost $199 each. Griffin Snap-On Hard Covers $29 x 2 ( red for my wife, black for me ). Glass protectors 3-pack $19. Installed by J.J. for me. ( got a 20% discount for buying 3 accessories) Hotspot enabled in the Verizon iPhone 4 via Settings/General/Network/Personal Hotspot ... a random password was generated and the SSID is simply "iPhone" J.J. and the tech staff looked for a way to edit that SSID to something I'd like to call it instead ... not doable at this time. So if you are at a public cafe and see 7 or 10 "iPhone" SSIDs .... good luck guessing which one is you ! The Hotspot can also be activated over WiFi, USB or Bluetooth in the settings. Hotspot is $20/month for 2GB only on my iPhone. Speed checked with Speakeasy.Net at 2.4Mbps down/0.44 up consistently with 3 different tests. The Hotspot will turn off when the 2GB limit is reached. Some reports say you'll be charged another $20 ... the store says this is not true. Incoming phone call test does stop the WiFi Hotspot as expected, so you can take your call. Your Hotspot is resumed. Phone calls tested successfully on both phones. I have 4 bars of signal !!!! I can now make phone calls !!! J.J. provided his direct cell phone number for me to call him with any issues. My MiFi was discontinued and I had to pay a $100 early termination fee. I can re-activate it or sell it to anyone. J.J. told me about a "buy-back" plan on Verizon's website to get cash back for my AT&T phone that I will check into later. Experience ( Grade A+ ) Out of the store by 7:45AM ... excellent, professional, well-trained service. Much like a busy day at an Apple Store. Got home to connect to my Mac and sync. You'll need to enter you Apple ID and password, have that ready. Restore from this mornings last backup sync successful. 4.2.6 update successful. ====== Please post your experiences here if you think it will help. Dave ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Dave Sevick Apple Certified Support Professional Helping people use technology in Pittsburgh Western PA, WV, OH MD ... Since 1988 724.779.0099 mobile/office dave at davesevick.com http://www.davesevick.com ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110210/bbea020f/attachment.htm From bbendiksen at verizon.net Sat Feb 12 08:22:43 2011 From: bbendiksen at verizon.net (Beverly Bendiksen) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:22:43 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] G5 memory from Edge Tech Corp? In-Reply-To: <4905E1F8-BCCE-4F19-9C5D-6C111C0AF3B8@verizon.net> References: <4905E1F8-BCCE-4F19-9C5D-6C111C0AF3B8@verizon.net> Message-ID: Thanks to all who replied to me about memory upgrades! I submitted my on-line order to Crucial on 2/7. The memory arrived on 2/11. Installed 2/12, using Apple website instructions. Powered up the iMac, and the memory was found! Success! (ilovemyMacilovemyMacilovemyMac....) Speed is improved. We'll see over the next few weeks whether the speed for apps remains good. Again, thanks to all. Bev On Feb 7, 2011, at 8:00 PM, Beverly Bendiksen wrote: > > My iMac G5 PowerPC is slowing down. After installing and running > Sophos and getting no virus warnings, I figured my 512MB of RAM is > just not sufficient anymore (running OS X 10.5.8). So, I'm > considering buying 2GB RAM from Edge Tech Corp. > > Does anyone on the list have experience buying memory from this > company? > > I couldn't find memory for my iMac on Apple's store. > > Bev Bendiksen > bbendiksen at verizon.net > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From dadditude at gmail.com Mon Feb 14 13:24:08 2011 From: dadditude at gmail.com (Dadditude) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:24:08 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] AppAdvice: Verizon iPhone Missing Key Features Versus AT&T Model Message-ID: Interesting read. 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Donaldson) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:15:50 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update for Friday, February 11, 2010 Message-ID: <85780816-BE65-4218-9DFF-00FE4033D3C5@mac.com> Dear Mac friends: Please excuse this tardy update. It's been really busy... Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Rich Fitzgibbon, Tucker Trainor, Marty Swartz, Aristede Niyungeko, Paul Bruckner, Unix whizzes Beth Lynn Eicher and Max Gelman, and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex" last Friday. So many people, so few Macs to refurbish... The Unix project is slowly moving forward with the valuable advice of Beth Lynn Eicher and Max Gelman. One workbench has been re-wired for NetBoot imaging; we're going to hold off on a second one until we get a handle on how long we'll be in this location. The Mac donations to Goodwill have slowed considerably since the first of the year. We're still dipping into Macs that have been sitting around since our move to the current 2400 East Carson St. location. We refurbished nine Macs to bring our all-time total to 2,858. We de-manufactured just two Macs. The parking arrangements in the Goodwill lot across the street from our 2400 East Carson St. location remain the same. No hassles in finding a spot on the street! If you think you may want to join us some Friday, please send me your car make, color and license number so we can let Goodwill know you will be in the lot. Our next work day will be this Friday, February 18, 2011. 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 Wed Feb 16 21:18:09 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:18:09 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg to Meet With President Obama Thursday in San Francisco Message-ID: <224F63EC-C2AB-4FA1-9E56-DA34C7088366@davesevick.com> http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/02/steve-jobs-and-eric-schmidt-to-meet-with-president-obama-thursday-in-san-francisco.html Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg to Meet With President Obama Thursday in San Francisco February 16, 2011 9:44 PM Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who recently took a medical leave of absence from his company, and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt will be among the attendees of President Obama's event with business leaders in San Francisco Thursday evening, a source familiar with the event tells ABC News. Earlier today, ABC News reported that one attendee would be 26-year-old founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, according to a source familiar with the meeting. Jobs has been the subject of tabloid rumors and rampant speculation about his health since announcing last month that was taking a medical leave for undisclosed reasons. Schmidt on Tuesday told a conference he was "very, very proud" of Google executive Wael Ghonim, who helped organize the Egypt protests that resulted in President Mubarak leaving office. Schmidt himself will step down in April as Google co-founder Larry Page becomes CEO. Jobs, Schmidt and Zuckerberg will be among many business leaders in technology and innovation the president will sit down and talk to, as he continues to sell his State of the Union message. ?The president and the business leaders will discuss our shared goal of promoting American innovation, and discuss his commitment to new investments in research and development, education and clean energy,? a White House official said. GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, whom last month President Obama named as chairman of the new White House Council on Jobs and Competititveness, also will be there, a source said. - Jake Tapper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110216/7bb00e7e/attachment-0001.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Feb 18 15:38:16 2011 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:38:16 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, February 18, 2011 Message-ID: <95E620BC-2572-48C3-B4FB-A66E8C2C19DF@mac.com> Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Rich Fitzgibbon, and Tucker Trainor for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex" today. We had a fresh pallet of donated Macs to dig into on our arrival today, and they were in very good shape. Among the nicer pieces were a 20-inch G5 iMac and a 17-inch G5 iMac which Charlie Hutchens fixed rather quickly with the help of freshly repaired power supplies done by Marty Swartz. The failed power supplies will have their failed capacitors replaced by Marty, and the cycle will go on. Both Macs are now in Goodwill's ComputerWorks store at 2700 East Carson St., along with a couple of eMacs and high-end G4 PowerMac towers. For all you would-be collectors out there, we also refurbished a G3 iMac with a Dalmatian case. Speak now before it goes somewhere far, far away... Today's Patience of Job (that's Biblical Job, not Apple Jobs) award goes to Rich Fitzgibbon who took on the thankless task of replacing a bad optical drive in a 700 mhz eMac. So many screws, so much angst. But no epithets. Good boy! And it works! We refurbished 14 Macs to bring our all-time total to 2,871. We de-manufactured four Macs, decommissioned one Mac display, and Fitz replaced a bad video card in a G4 tower, which was returned to the store. Today's keyboard-mouse haul was six keyboards (two bad) and four mice (one bad). The parking arrangements in the Goodwill lot across the street from our 2400 East Carson St. location remain the same. No hassles in finding a spot on the street! If you think you may want to join us some Friday, please send me your car make, color and license number so we can let Goodwill know you will be in the lot. Our next work day will be this Friday, February 25, 2011. We hope to see you there! Robert A. 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MacPractice is a client-centric company with a philosophy of supplying clients with complete and extensive training and world-class support from dedicated and knowledgeable team members providing an opportunity for doctors to focus their attention on patients rather than software while increasing practice profitability and staff proficiency. If you know of anyone who is considering management software and electronic health records you should consider attending this free event. MacPractice has been around a long time and has grown tremendously. iPad - http://www.macpractice.com/mp/ipad/ iPhone - http://www.macpractice.com/mp/iphone MacBook Air - http://www.macpractice.com/mp/emr_macbook_air/ Wed Feb 23 , 6-8 PM .... FREE but must register to attend. What: Medical Management on the Mac with MacPractice When: Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011 at 6:00PM Size of response from medical practices has moved the seminar from the Apple Store to the Crown Plaza Hotel across the street from the Mall. To register: www.apple.com/southhillsvillage Questions: Caroline Gillespie Business Manager Apple Store, South Hills VIllage iPhone: 412-292-5152 Phone: 412-833-1840, option 3 www.apple.com/southhillsvillage More on MacPractice : http://www.macpractice.com ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Dave Sevick Apple Certified Support Professional Helping people use technology in Pittsburgh Western PA, WV, OH MD ... Since 1988 724.779.0099 mobile/office dave at davesevick.com http://www.davesevick.com ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Hmmm... http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/attack-of-the-minis/ -- "What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Johann von Goethe From bob at peirce-family.com Tue Feb 22 16:41:15 2011 From: bob at peirce-family.com (Robert Peirce) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:41:15 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] MacKeeper In-Reply-To: <8CD9F3E26312840-1538-3001F@webmail-d017.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CD9F3E26312840-1538-3001F@webmail-d017.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <21BEDCC2-2395-4FE5-AF57-524171654BE6@peirce-family.com> On Feb 20, 2011, at 12:53 PM, dotto1208 at aol.com wrote: > I saw an ad for MacKeeper which purports to be a free clean-up scan for Macs. Anyone know anything about it? > > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug I use it but it isn't free. You can use part of it for free, but continued use requires a license. I don't recall the price but it wasn't too much, around $40 I think. The licensed product actually contains a lot more than clean-up. In addition to scanning for and removing unnecessary stuff, it also has antivirus software, encryption, undelete, "shredder", backup, uninstaller and a couple of other things. A lot of this is just a front-end to existing software but some of it is unique. I mostly use the clean-up and anti-virus. __________ "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -- PJ O'Rourke Live free or fly. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The licensed product actually contains a lot more than clean-up. In addition to scanning for and removing unnecessary stuff, it also has antivirus software, encryption, undelete, "shredder", backup, uninstaller and a couple of other things. A lot of this is just a front-end to existing software but some of it is unique. I mostly use the clean-up and anti-virus. __________ "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -- PJ O'Rourke Live free or fly. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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However, increasing bandwidth demands have led to higher performance standards like eSATA and DisplayPort that cannot connect to USB and similar peripherals. Light Peak provides a high enough bandwidth to drive these over a single type of interface, and often on a single daisy chained cable. ---- end clip ------ http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/attack-of-the-minis/ Attack of the Minis Next week Apple will have a product event, presumably to announce the next generation of MacBook Pro notebooks. Every year we see these upgrades. The notebooks get faster with more storage and every couple years they look a little different. This time, however, there will be another change ? the addition of a new type of peripheral data port called Light Peak that promises, at 10 gigabits-per-second ? to be the fastest-yet connection between a Mac and a storage device or even from one Mac to another. And this latter use is key because in addition to Light Peak-equipped MacBook Pros, I expect to see next week a Light Peak Mac Mini. Now that?s interesting. Light Peak was Apple?s idea in the first place, promoted to Intel by Cupertino as an interface to replace FireWire 800, USB 3.0, SCSI, SATA, you name it. There are precedents for Apple proposing new connection technologies like this. That?s how both FireWire (IEEE 1394) and WiFi (802.11) came to be. Like FireWire, Light Peak uses a daisy chain topology, so most computers will only need one or two Light Peak ports. But unlike FireWire, Light Peak will come in both optical and copper versions, with the machines to be announced next week likely to have Light Peak copper, which is limited to three meters per hop. In time the optical versions of Light Peak will offer 100 gigabit-per-second speeds over distance up to 100 meters along with a separate electrical connection in the same cable that will easily power large displays. One size fits all. In one sense it is easy to see Light Peak as just another Apple-inspired technology intended to keep peripheral profit margins higher for a generation or two. That?s what appears to have happened with Apple?s Mini Display Port screen connector. Light Peak is also Apple?s way to leapfrog USB 3.0 for a faster, again higher-margin, platform. But there?s a lot more to Light Peak than that. MacBook Pros will mainly use the new ports to mount external hard drives for video editing, so we can expect a drive or two to be announced next week as well. But it?s the potential Mac Mini application of Light Peak that I find so fascinating. Remember that last year Apple stopped making xServe, its 1U server platform, seemingly abandoning the server market and causing outrage in some customers. Apple at the time made lame excuses about how it was somehow more efficient to use big Mac Pro boxes which, yes, had more processors and more cores, but still made no sense at all in a data center environment. Apple was done with the enterprise, we all figured. Enter the Light Peak-equipped Mac Mini, hopefully next week as ?one more thing.? Remember that Mac-based supercomputer a few years ago at Virginia Tech? Apple got a lot of press from that installation first using G5-based Mac Pro boxes and then Intel-based xServes. But the installation was definitely non-trivial, as was the software. Now imagine a supercomputer built from Light Peak-equipped Mac Minis. You?d unpack the Minis, plug them into power, plug them into each other with one Light Peak cable each, then load your software in one of the Minis, reboot them all and go out for a frosty beverage. That?s it, thanks to Light Peak, xGrid, and Grand Central Dispatch. Xgrid has been built into OS X for years, offering some nice loosely coupled multiprocessing capabilities that few people have taken advantage of. Grand Central dispatch is now built into OS X that allows high efficiency task scheduling not just on the local multi-core machine, but down to individual program threads between tightly coupled machines (think FiberChannel). But Light Peak makes FiberChannel look slow, is inexpensive (FiberChannel is not), and is super easy to set up. And don?t forget Apple has invested gigabucks in that huge North Carolina data center ? a data center that is schedule to open very soon. Start with a Light Peak-equipped Mac Mini. Need more horsepower? Just get another Mini and connect with Light Peak. Grand Central will automatically distribute the load across multiple devices. A 2U rack will hold eight Mac Minis that, tightly coupled, will run rings around an Xserve. Better yet, given a good high bandwidth connection, OS X will be able to access applications and data in the cloud as though it were local. This combination of seamless local and cloud computing could open up whole new markets for Apple which you may also have noticed has started opening Business Stores. It?s not that Apple doesn?t want enterprise business, they just want to support the enterprise market from the same simple product line, selling Mac Minis by the ton. With Light Peak, xGrid, Grand Central Dispatch and Mac Minis used as compute bricks, organizations will be able to build servers of any size, automatically backed-up from the woods of North Carolina. Apple is out-Googling Google. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is a covered entity?s responsibility to protect its patients? health information.? The records that were lost in this case were not electronic, but the law and penalties do not differentiate. However, if encrypted electronic records are lost, you are not required to notify HHS or patients of the incident. In other words, encrypt your data! The first ever fine for HIPAA violations, imposed on Tuesday, was $4.3 million dollars against Cignet Health of Maryland. Cignet had failed to provide patients a copy of their medical records upon request. The really disturbing part, though, was that, after Cignet attempted to ignore the government's enforcement action, not only did they deliver the 59 patients' records to the Department of Justice, they handed over 59 boxes of patient medical records, including records for 4500 people unrelated to the case. From time to time, I have asked health care professionals what they are doing to comply with HIPAA. One doctor told me, "When they start putting doctors in jail, I'll worry about encrypting my records." Maybe these enforcement actions by HHS will change his mind. Data Leakage Prevention tools and encryption can both play a part in being HIPAA and HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic Clinical Health) compliant. For details on how Sophos can help, browse over to our HIPAA hot topic page. If you work in the healthcare industry, stop by our booth at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in Orlando March 21st to 23rd. You can find us at booth 5178 to learn more about how we can help you secure your patients information. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110225/5b3171ff/attachment.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Feb 25 16:06:41 2011 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:06:41 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, February 25, 2011 Message-ID: <2E76E0B9-A750-47E0-ADED-5DE2D44A00DB@mac.com> Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Rich Fitzgibbon, Tucker Trainor, Marty Swartz, Noah Covert (and his dad, Damon) and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex" today. We didn't have any fresh donations today, so it was an opportunity to dig deep into our eMac inventory and devote time to the machines that require more attention than normal. In the course of our work, we discovered several with "DOA" or "DEAD" tags applied by previous owners. Applying the logic of the final frat house scene in Animal House ("Nothing is over until WE say it's over"), we promptly began playing. Much to our delight, we discovered if we removed the eMac's RAM and battery, then replaced the RAM with about twice the amount, added a new PRAM battery and with a quick press of the logic board reset, we suddenly had a working eMac. Four times, in fact. Adding the time-comsuming ordeal of replacing hard drives and optical drives in the eMacs, and you suck up lots of time. Dave Sevick finished reconnecting a second workbench to our server network; we now have 16 wired workstations for re-imaging PowerPC Macs. We refurbished seven Macs to bring our all-time total to 2,878. We de-manufactured six Macs. There were no USB keyboards and mice this week. The parking arrangements in the Goodwill lot across the street from our 2400 East Carson St. location remain the same. No hassles in finding a spot on the street! If you think you may want to join us some Friday, please send me your car make, color and license number so we can let Goodwill know you will be in the lot. Our next work day will be Friday, March 4, 2011. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dnalansky at yahoo.com Fri Feb 25 16:55:46 2011 From: dnalansky at yahoo.com (Deena Alansky) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:55:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: [NPMUG] Seeking Web Editor for Mac Message-ID: <324876.73713.qm@web65702.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Dear Mac Users, I am a former web and graphic designer, and I have used Dreamweaver to create all my web sites. I was recently asked by a friend if I knew of any FREE Mac-based HTML Editors and/or Web Design software programs similar to Dreamweaver. Since I only use Dreamweaver, I thought I'd ask you guys for suggestions. If you know of a good program, even if it's not free, (but cheaper than Dreamweaver), my friend might be interested. He's a photographer who lives in Texas, and is NOT a web designer, but knows enough to make a basic web site. I found this link on Google: http://webdesign.about.com/od/macintoshhtmleditors/tp/free-macintosh-editors.htm. Does anyone have any experience with any of these? Thank you in advance for your software suggestions, and have a great weekend everyone. Best regards, Deena Alansky Recruiter/Account Manager Be The Match Registry http://www.bethematch.org You Can Be a Real Life Superhero! Join the National Marrow Registry! http://www.marrowdonation.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110225/f4f75b60/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Fri Feb 25 18:18:02 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:18:02 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Mac OS X backdoor Trojan, now in beta? Message-ID: Mac OS X backdoor Trojan, now in beta? It appears there is a new backdoor Trojan in town and it targets users of Mac OS X. As even the malware itself admits, it is not yet finished, but it could be indicative of more underground programmers taking note of Apple's increasing market share. SophosLabs analyzed the sample we received and determined that it is a variant of a well-known remote-access trojan for Windows known as darkComet. The Mac version is very basic and there appears to be a mix of German and English in the user interface. Its functions include: * Placing text files on the desktop * Sending a restart, shutdown or sleep command * Running arbitrary shell commands * Placing a full screen window with a message that only allows you to click reboot * Sending URLs to the client to open a website * Popping up a fake "Administrator Password" window to phish the target Here is an excerpt from the default text that is displayed in the full screen window with the reboot button: "I am a Trojan Horse, so i have infected your Mac Computer. I know, most people think Macs can't be infected, but look, you ARE Infected! I have full controll over your Computer and i can do everything I want, and you can do nothing to prevent it. So, Im a very new Virus, under Development, so there will be much more functions when im finished." SophosLabs has published protection for our customers as OSX/MusMinim-A. Trojans like this are frequently distributed through pirated software downloads, torrent sites, or anywhere you may download an application expecting to need to install it. It could also be dropped by a vulnerability in your browser, plugins and other applications. Patching is an important part of protection on all platforms. Fortunately our products can detect and remove Trojans like this, and for home use they're free! If you would like to install Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition, click on the banner below. Free Anti-Virus for Mac Download Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition I would like to thank Mike Shannon at SophosLabs Canada for help analyzing this threat, and Meths at http://ithreats.net. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110225/7a46dbef/attachment-0001.htm From revmarkruppert at verizon.net Fri Feb 25 20:35:18 2011 From: revmarkruppert at verizon.net (Mark Ruppert) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:35:18 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] Webcam QQ's Message-ID: <4D6874F6.10300@verizon.net> MacFriends, I work out of town and don't see my family for weeks at a time. The Best Buy and Wal-Mart stock a fair selection of webcams- all listed for Windows/PC systems. Does that mean that no software exists for those for use with a Mac? Isn't the hardware basically the same? And is it worth $50 more to get a higher end camera? 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They need to be tested, boxed and palletized for several projects this year. Pizza lunch will be served to all. Your volunteer hours will be recorded if you need community service hours logged for work or school. Let me know that day please. Jobs for volunteers on Saturday March 5, 2011 9AM - 5PM: - Boot testers - will start up all computers to assure they are in working condition. We will have ten 8ft tables for this tech task. - Label organizers - will remove small tags and apply final ComputeReach 2"x4" labels. - Boxers and movers - will pack the boxes, palletize them and move into storage rooms at Construction Junction. Many groups participated at the August 21, 2010 packing event in McKees Rocks - http://youtu.be/jRuaSf74a_s?hd=1 - in YouTube HD It will be very similar ... except for these improvements, based on your feedback: Labels will be better organized. Shmootz balls are pre-made by Easter Seals now. Keyboards are tested, cleaned and wrapped by Easter Seals now. Mice are tested, cleaned and wrapped by Easter Seals now. Bathrooms are indoor and available onsite. Breakfast not needed, lunch is provided free to all, with water and iced tea bottles available all day. Groups that helped in August 2010, that we hope to see again: The Pittsburgh Project - North Side of Pittsburgh St. Alphonsus Catholic Church - Wexford Dutilh United Methodist Church - Cranberry Twp. Calvary United Methodist Church - North Side of Pittsburgh North Pittsburgh Macintosh Users Group County of Westmoreland Macintosh Users Group and many more ... Please just come that day and look for Dave Sevick, Marty Swartz or Nancy Clark ... organizers of the event. Many hands make light work ... 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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URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110226/acee8cfd/attachment-0005.htm From charles at firthconsulting.com Sat Feb 26 20:25:50 2011 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:25:50 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] PC Magazine reviews the new Macbook Pro Message-ID: <89D1836A-C66E-43CE-8131-7DC9BD2D90A4@firthconsulting.com> So.. they're a PC-oriented magazine (obviously) with the following review: Bottom Line The Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Thunderbolt) is the fastest, most technologically advanced laptop to grace our Labs benches. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380921,00.asp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Johann von Goethe From dave at davesevick.com Sun Feb 27 19:04:03 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:04:03 -0500 Subject: [NPMUG] MacOutfitters Presents: Running your Retail Business on a Mac with Xsilva Lightspeed Message-ID: <341F498F-9574-44DF-9055-93A97250330A@davesevick.com> Cranberry Twp Wednesday, Mar 30, 2011: 12:00 PM-01:30 PM, at MacOutfitters-Cranberry MacOutfitters Presents: Running your Retail Business on a Mac with Xsilva Lightspeed Get control of your Retail Store with LightSpeed, the next generation Point of Sale (POS) system for a comprehensive and easy to use solution for retail stores. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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