The August appleJAC Meeting will be held at the North Jefferson City Park Pavilion in North Jefferson City. The meeting will be held on August 5th at 6:00pm. This month is the annual appleJAC Picnic. appleJAC will provide burgers and brats and each family should bring a dish to share and drinks. Bring the family and come enjoy the evening.
This computer rivalry has been elevated to a cultural divide on par with Pepsi versus Coke. Taking it beyond personal taste, PM crunches the numbers—with some surprising results (and detailed benchmark scores).
Popular Mechanics does a very comprehensive benchmark test.
On Saturday April 19th, appleJAC Officers will be talking about the club and the Macintosh in general on the radio. At 8:30am, KWOS in Jefferson City will be broadcasting a short segment that talks about our club. Be sure to tune in and listen. The station website lets you listen through the web.
Apple's database subsidiary has posted this note about a FileMaker-Leopard incompatibility:
We are very excited about the release of Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5). We are currently working on Leopard compatibility updates for FileMaker Pro 9, FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced, FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced. At this time FileMaker does not recommend the use of FileMaker 9 products on computers running the Mac OS X Leopard.
If you would like to be notified when these updates become available, please subscribe to FileMaker News.
We also do not recommend the use of earlier versions of FileMaker software on the Mac OS X Leopard because we have not performed compatibility testing on them.
This is the precise issue with being the first one to update to Leopard. If Filemaker is a critical application for you, you better wait a while.
You have all seen the commercial that launched the Macintosh called 1984. Here is a video that shows some of the inside of making the commercial.
By Jeffy Milstead of MacWorld
Drive vendors are touting one new step in hard-drive technology: a more flexible type of hard drive known as the quad-interface (or four-port) configuration. Quad-interface drives—with USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800, and eSATA ports—are smart choices because they’ll satisfy your backup needs now, but they’ll also be relevant in the future.
Why would you choose to buy a four-port drive when perfectly good three-port models are available for less money? Depending on where you shop, the difference in price between triple- and quad-interface drives of the same capacity can be surprisingly close: from 0 to 20 percent more for a quad-interface drive. Pricing always matters, for sure, but in most cases, that extra port is affordable.
Perhaps the best reason to choose a four-port drive is that it allows for maximum flexibility. Three-port drives can connect to a variety of ports, but four-port drives offer the external SATA (eSATA) port—one you may find yourself using more often two years down the road. The eSATA connection isn’t yet another new type of hard-drive connector that may or may not catch on; if you own an Intel Mac, you’ve been using an internal SATA drive, perhaps without realizing it. SATA lets you realize high speeds; it’s here to stay, and we’ll be using it for years to come.
Popular Photography reports on five memory card innovations, from high-speed cards to the latest microdrive cards to cards designed for forensic imaging to cards containing built-in USB ports—no media reader required
TomTom has updated its mapping data for the U.S. and Canada, and claims to have the "most accurate and detailed maps in the industry for the US and Canada." The update is free for all existing GO x10 and TomTom ONE customers (you have to validate your serial number to qualify).
What's new in the updated mapping data? According to TomTom:
This updated map release is based on the Tele Atlas MultiNet(tm) 2006.10 global digital map database. I've made no secret of my strong preference for NAVTEQ's mapping data over Tele Atlas', so it will be interesting to see if the new data can out-perform NAVTEQ's data, which up until now has proven consistently more complete and accurate than Tele Atlas'.
I still believe the TomTom is the better GPS solution on the market and this just makes that even better.
Gmail has launched a new feature which allows users to collect email from up to five external accounts says this report from the website Hawk Wings.
This represents a substantial leap forward for the functionality of the service, making it more easy easier to use Gmail as a global email solution.
According to the Gmail announcement , the new “MailFetcher” feature, which is accessible from the Accounts tab of Gmail’s preferences, offers options to leave copies of the retrieved messages on the remote server, to use SSL when retrieving the mail, to apply a label automatically to the collected messages and to archive the incoming email.
Full instructions for using the new feature can be found on another Gmail web page.
Obviously, this will put an end to the various complicated forwarding work-arounds that have been necessary in the past. It makes Gmail a much more attractive option as a total replacement for the traditional desktop client.
There’s only one hitch:
This feature is currently only enabled for a limited number of users. We’re working on making it more available soon.
It hasn’t appeared in my preferences yet, but it might be there in yours.
If you like iPod stuff, this is the download for you. The 2007 iPod Buyers’ Guide, by iLounge.com. At 180 pages,
this is the largest Buyers’ Guide ever, and jam-packed with everything
you need to get the iPod and accessories you want for the holidays!
As always, The 2007 iPod Buyers’ Guide, by iLounge.com is a totally free download. They have designed two versions - one in a full-screen single-page format, and one in magazine-style two-page format. Please note: This issue is specially formatted to fill your screen horizontally rather than vertically, unlike past issues. As a result, if your monitor is smaller than 20” on the diagonal, they strongly recommend that you download the single-page version rather than the two-page version.
Sometimes, when you are having system problems, an archive and install of the operating system is the best solution. Unfortunately, this process often caused problems with some adobe products.
Adobe requires that you activate your copy of Adobe Creative Suite 2.0, Adobe Acrobat 7.0, Adobe GoLive CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2, Adobe InDesign CS2, and Adobe Photoshop CS2 within 30 days of installation. This document can help you resolve problems that occur when you try to activate your Adobe application.
Once activated, the application continually verifies activation. Activation problems can manifest themselves in different ways.
-- If your Adobe application prompts you to activate again, proceed to the Reactivation section of this document.
-- If your Adobe applications are slow to start, fail to start, or return the error "The license configuration data for Adobe Creative Suite is long longer usable." proceed to the Beginning and intermediate troubleshooting section of this document.
-- If your Adobe application returns the error, "Current user account does not have the privileges to perform Product Activation," proceed to the Advanced troubleshooting section.
iPod shuffle has two status lights, one on the top and one on the bottom, that let you know when you've pressed a button, the state of the battery, that iPod shuffle is enabled as a disk, or if there's something wrong.
For years, the only way to get you email addresses from you AOL address book was to print them out and enter them again. Now, with AOL Service Assistant, you can finally leave AOL and use Apples applications.
The AOL® Service Assistant enables you to set up the following Apple applications to work with the AOL® service:
• Mail - The AOL Service Assistant makes it easy to configure Mac OS® X Mail to send and receive AOL mail. If you've used the existing AOL® service for Mac OS X, you can also import your incoming and outgoing messages from your Personal Filing Cabinet into Mail.
• iChat - You can now easily set up iChat to work with your Screen Name.
• Address Book - Using the AOL Service Assistant, you can now easily import your AOL® Address Book contacts into your Mac OS X Address Book without bringing in duplicate entries.
• Safari™ - AOL Service Assistant enables you to import your AOL® Favorite Places into a folder in the Safari Bookmarks Bar.
This page provides links to background information, security vendors, comparative and individual reviews of personal firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam, privacy and suites of software as well as hardware firewalls and anti-theft services to help you protect your Macintosh desktop or laptop computer
18 ways to safeguard your data and your privacy right now
By Mark H. Anbinder, Jeffery Battersby, Glenn Fleishman and Kirk McElhear
This article is likely the best Mac Security reference available......
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Your Mac is the safest personal computer on the market. Even though we’ve had a couple of scares this year, there are still almost no Mac viruses. According to research done by Sophos (a maker of antivirus software), at press time there were only four known OS X viruses, compared with roughly 80,000 on Windows.
But let’s face it—we live in a dangerous world, and not all of those dangers (especially those to your privacy) are platform-specific. Here’s how to keep your personal information out of the wrong hands—and keep your Mac out of trouble.
Here is an article from MacWorld author Jason Cook covering Mobile security
Laptop owners adore PowerBooks and iBooks for their snazzy looks, light weight, and excellent resale value. Unfortunately, thieves like them for the very same reasons. And the person who steals your laptop not only nabs your hardware but also may gain access to financial records, corporate data, credit card numbers, and other sensitive information. There are ways to protect your computer and your data. Whether you lash down your laptop with steel cables or apply military-grade data encryption across your hard drive, protecting your laptop takes some effort -- but it may be easier than you expect.
I have people that I assist tell me that they think I know everything. That certainly isn't the case. I do have some well honed skills at using Google to make it sometimes look that way but it doesn't always work.
This evening I came home and after starting my mac, launched iCal to look at my schedule only to see the iCal window go away and get an "Application Unexpectedly Quit" error" After a few Google searches, removing a few files in the preferences, and a few expletives, I still had no success in getting iCal to run.
I decided to give Apple Support a cal. After 5 minutes on hold, a nice gentleman came on the line. asked my serial number, and asked what my problem was.
I explained it to him and he told me to delete the folder called Caches in the User Library folder. No assistance on the web told me about that. I deleted the folder, and the preference file for iCal for good measure, and iCal magically ran again.
This goes to say that we all need to be willing to accept assistance. I spent about a half hour trying to fix this problem I had never seen but after 10 minutes on the phone with the mother ship, I was back in business.
Don't be afraid to call.
Are you wondering whether your application is running with Rosetta or not? Its easy to figure out if you have a Universal version of an application. Here's how:
In the Finder, click once on the application icon, so it's highlighted.
From the File menu, choose Get Info.
Find the section labelled General and toggle the triangle, if necessary, to open this section.
On the Kind line, Universal applications appear as "Application (Universal)", like in the example below.
If your application is Universal but you want it to run with Rosetta, note that there is a checkbox that says "Open using Rosetta". This can be useful if your Universal application uses plugins that have not yet been released in a Universal format.
High-quality, high-resolution displays have always been among the most expensive peripherals one could add to a personal computer. The first 21-inch CRT displays capable of displaying millions of colors were two or three times as expensive as 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display, yet offered lower resolution
than a modern 15-inch laptop computer.
If you are lusting after one of the Apple 30" displays, here is a 6 page publication that gives you lots of information to help you justify the purchase.
Macworld Conference & Expo is the only event where you can witness cool technology, see demonstrations of the latest products, discover creative tools to inspire your imagination and expand your taste for the digital lifestyle. Macworld 2007 is guaranteed to stimulate your creativity, leaving you refreshed and ready to create, invent, design and achieve your professional and personal goals.
The Exhibit Hall is the place to explore a showcase of leading technology vendors and interact in hands-on demonstrations with some of the hottest technological innovations before they hit the marketplace.
MacWorld Expo also includes conferences for all types of MacUsers. Take a look at the MacWorld Expo website for more information
Macworld Conference & Expo is located at:
The Moscone Center
747 Howard Street San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415.974.4000
In the last couple of weeks, two new stores that sell technology products have opened in Jefferson City. Unfortunately, neither of these products sell Macintosh computers. But don't dispare, these stores do sell some items for the Mac user.
Office Depot, opened their store on Missouri Blvd. about three weeks ago. This store sells office products and quite a few technology items too. One thing that they do sell, is a small section of Macintosh Software. In visiting the store, I found no fewer than 14 Macintosh titles for sale on their shelves. They also sell memory key drives, external harddisks, and computer accessories usable to the average Mac user.
The second store that opened, right next door to the Office Depot is Best Buy.
Best Buy, is a full line electronics retailer. They sell nearly everything technology related with the exception of Macintosh Computers. They sell memory key drives, external harddisks, and computer accessories just like Office Depot but also have much more. Best Buy has a great selection of Digital Cameras and video cameras and a much better selection of accessory items. One caution is that Best Buy often sell products for HIGHER than manufacturers suggested retail price. Hard to believe but I spotted at least 10 items at prices higher than you can get it anywhere else. There is absolutely no excuse for anyone to pay more than you have to. Don't be caught in the "Only place in town" situation and pay a higher price than you need to.
