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OCALA MACINTOSH USER GROUP NEWSLETTER VOLUME 130 - JUNE 2009

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Mugshot

As I see it we have before us a great opportunity to improve our already very good MUG. We have a new meeting place with internet, storage, better parking, better kitchen

and just better. We have a growing and enthusiastic membership. We have members that are talented in many ways. We have a great web site. We have folks who have expressed interest in Special Interest Groups which we are exploring. The MAC products are selling well and there is an ever growing community of MAC users for us to recruit to our group. As we grow and bring in more talented members we have a bigger knowledge base to draw on for more interesting and varied programs. If we work together and manage this opportunity well our meetings will be dynamite and our helpfulness to one another will be able to answer most any MAC question! Keep on inviting MAC users to our meetings. If we do a good job with the programs we will not have

to ask people to join. They will be asking to join! All we have to do is get them to a meeting.The June program will be a presentation by Dr. Roberto Putzeys on “How to Find Reliable Medical Information on the Internet.” This will be the first program in our new location, the Family Wellness Center, and will provide an excellent opportunity to try out our new Internet access.I am looking forward to Dr. Putzeysʼ program later this month on using the internet to find reliable medical information. He asks that we give him a list of ailments or problems that we would like for him to research on line live as part of the program.

We will collect the requests and sort them so that he can research the most often requested items.

The President’s Corner by N.C. Sizemore

Next Meeting

Monday, June 22 @ 7 PM

Family Wellness Center

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May 5, 2009 - Our last meeting at the Multi-Purpose Senior Center. The meeting was called to order by President NC Sizemore at 7:05 PM.

Announcements and Introductions

Welcome to all members and one first-time guest, Burt Stephens, a friend of our Vice President, Phil Davis. * Phil could not attend tonight due to a conflict. * Membership renewal time is here! * Alan Gold has copies of the OMUG Software Library; see him during our refreshment break.

Club Business

Secretary's Report: April's minutes, included in the Mugshot, were approved as written.

Treasurer's Report: $1,055.32 as of May 1, 2009. (Some dues were collected tonight, too.)

Member Participation: Please submit program suggestions to our Board. Have you invited a guest to our club meetings? Do you carry our business card to use if the occasion arises?

New Officers: Most officers were re-elected at our last meeting. Thank you all for serving another year! Welcome Angie Wood as Secretary, and Shirley Steiner and Joan Espenship as our new Refreshments Team.

Thank-You Gifts: Sally Smyth and Bob and Carolyn Docteur were presented with $50 gift cards for Red Lobster/Olive Garden as a token of our esteem for their service to OMUG. Grace Huffman, who is with us in the building every month and has looked after us very well, was also presented with a Thank You card and cash gift of $25.

Questions to Ponder: 1) Should member photos and bios be placed in the Members Only section of our website? Discussion followed, and the consensus was positive. 2) What is the purpose of OMUG?

Answers included fun, fellowship, education, problem-solving, "members helping members", Special Interest Groups (SIGS). Discussion followed concerning SIGS and enough members were interested in a SIG for Digital Photography to pursue it further.

Program

Speaker: James Lee, President - Tropical Software, Inc., Atlantic Beach, Florida

Topic: TopXNotes (say "Top Ten Notes"): A personal information manager for Mac and iPod. Company website: http://store.tropic4.com/Mac-OS-X-Apps-1859.Category.html

Highlights: TopXNotes organizes by Notes > Groups > Categories with many ways to search for your stored information. Type, drag, or import to create your notes. Templates and samples are included. Quick Notes provide quick access from your desktop, and Auto-Link Recognition allows you to open a URL from your notes.

Multi-view features allow display of more than one note, and related or unrelated notes.

Preferences include auto-save, copies, spell-check, password, encryption, and a Support menu includes updates and built-in Help.

Q&A: works with Leopard * Cut & paste * .pdf, .tiff, .jpeg in next version * "Find" feature, not Spotlight-enabled * Cost is $35 but discounted price is $30 for OMUG members.

Tech Tips

F11: Once will clear your screen to your desktop, a second time will bring all windows back that you were working with.

Command-i: Yields "Document Info" when viewing photos in Preview (info may vary by Tiger/Leopard)

OMUG MONTHLY MEETING MINUTES



http://store.tropic4.com/Mac-OS-X-Apps-1859.Category.html






50/50 Drawing Winners

• TopXNotes (courtesy of James Lee): Mel Brantley

• $20: Brian Voge

• $20: Mel Brantley

Member Discussion/ Q&A

If you missed this meeting you missed two Member Giveaways; a working laser printer and an Apple TV/Video System. * Alan Gold is looking for anyone who uses Quark 6+. * If you have a PC to donate, contact Ed Jaworoski.* In community Art News, Sally Smyth announced that Gallery East moved from Six Gun Plaza to the Almeida Plaza in Belleview. * Judy Rankin shared her invention, the Eggstra-Redneck Laptop Cooler, but it was unclear whether she is taking orders for them.

Next meeting

Our new meeting schedule is the fourth Monday of the month- June 22, 2009.

Our new location is the Family Wellness Center, 4817 NE 2nd Loop, Ocala. (Map and directions are on our OMUG website). Bring your laptop if you wish!

Dr. Roberto Putzeys will present "How To Find Reliable Medical Information on the Internet".

Attendance

35 members and 2 non-members/guests

Meeting adjourned at 8:47 PM.

Respectfu!y submitted by:Angie Wood, Secretary

(with much help %om many others; Thank You!)

Starting Balance 5/1/2009 $ 1,055.32

50-50 raffle $ 40

2009-2010 memberships $ 570

Rent (Senior Center) $ (65.51)

Refreshments $ (19.76)

Bank Checks $ (21.17)

Appreciation Gifts $ (125.00)

Ending Balance 5/31/2009 $ 610.00 $ (210.00) $ 1,433.88

TREASURER’S REPORT





Really Empty the Trash

It’s simple to delete unwanted files using Mac OS X Leopard: Just drag the files onto the Trash icon in the Dock (or select them and type Command-Delete), then choose Empty Trash in the Finder menu (or type Command-Shift-Delete). Alternately, you can double-click on the Trash icon to open it, then click on the Empty button.

Emptying the Trash in this manner clears room on your Mac for other files. But the data hasn’t actually been removed from your computer — the space occupied by these files is simply available to be overwritten by new information. Until this happens, it may be possible for someone to use data recovery software to restore your “deleted” files. And if this information is sensitive or confidential, it could potentially end up in the wrong hands.

That’s why Mac OS X Leopard provides another option for deleting data: the Secure Empty Trash command. Meant for those occasions when you want to permanently and immediately delete files, Secure Empty Trash overwrites your data

with digital gibberish, ensuring that your deleted data is gone for good. It may take a few moments longer, but it’s a good choice for deleting data you’re sure you don’t need — and don’t want anyone else to see.

To delete your Trash securely, go to the Finder menu and select Secure Empty Trash. A pop-up will ask you to confirm that you want to permanently erase the items in the Trash. Click OK, and these files will be gone forever.

Source: www.apple.com/pro/tips/

TIP OF THE MONTH

THE EGGSTRA-REDNECK LAPTOP COOLER



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INTERESTING SOFTWARE

MyWeather Mobile

Although you can grab the weather on your iPhone or iPod Touch, having a stand-alone program along that does it for you is indispensable. Have full, robust weather where ever you go.

http://www.ugnn.com/2009/05/myweather_mobile.html

iPod Access Photo

iPod Access Photo 1.6 for Mac OSX and Windows Vista/XP, from Findley Designs, looks like a great solution for viewing and retrieving

photos stored on iPod players. Dual platform, supports multiple devices!

http://www.ugnn.com/2009/05/ipod_access_photo.html

iPhone Photos to Paintings

Here's a very nifty utility for you iPhone users -- Gesture lets you create digital paintings from your photos simply by dragging your finger over the photo. How cool is that

http://www.ugnn.com/2009/05/iphone_photos_to_paint.html

Quote For The Day

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

- Carl Sagan

















OMUG Board of Directors

N.C. Sizemore - [email protected] 291-8778

Phil Davis - Vice [email protected] 369-8432

Angie Wood - [email protected] unlisted

Clint Jones - [email protected] 351-9236

Dick Rohde - Member at [email protected] 861-0616

Judy Rankin - Member at [email protected] 821-2322

Bob Docteur - Member at [email protected] 624-0524

Tim Rankin - Past President; [email protected] 821-2322

Assignments

Sally Smyth, Shelley Sizemore - Asst. Secretary

Judy Rankin - Membership; Assistant Treasurer

Richard Rohde - Newsletter Editor

Al Sypher - Assistant Newsletter Editor

Shirley Steiner, Joan Espinship - Refreshments

Virginia Baldwin - Sunshine Lady

Phil Davis - Webmaster

Get Help

These volunteers will try to help you with your computer and software problems.

You can add your name to this list if you are willing to share your expertise with other OMUG members.

Tim Rankin - General Mac [email protected] 821-2322

Judy Rankin - PrintShop; Print [email protected] 821-2322

Phil Davis - Web design; general Mac [email protected] 369-8432



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Family Wellness Center4817 NE 2nd LoopOcala, FL 34470

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