the newly-released Macintosh Operating System 10.3, which has many new features, including easy changeover between users.

New models of G4 iBOOK are now available, from $2000. These have slot-loading Combo CD drives (CD Read/Write, DVD Read), and come with 256MB RAM at the base level.

• Some members using iHug as their web server had problems accessing some sites. This is apparently due to iHug compressing some web pages in a way that is not suitable for Macs.
  
  
• Xtra now has special facility for Macs on their Helpdesk.

• Bring up the Sleep/Restart/Shut Down menu by holding down Control then pressing Eject, then press either S (Sleep), R (Restart) or Return (Shut Down).
  
  
• Eject Floppies or CDs by holding down the mouse button while pressing Control/Eject.
  
  
• To make an alias of a folder/document/application, hold down Apple and Option while dragging its icon to the desktop. The alias formed will not have 'alias' added to its filename, but its icon will include a small arrow in its lower left-hand corner, indicating that it is not an original.

Tony gave an outline of some of the features of Appleworks 6, including splitting windows into panes, tiling and stacking windows, importing graphics and basic graphics handling (resizing, labelling, text wrapping, etc).

The following instructions for Splitting Windows is copied from AppleWorks Help (don't forget to USE the help menus... that's what they're there for!):

You can scroll through one section of a document while maintaining a fixed view of another section by splitting the document window into panes.

Using the horizontal and vertical pane controls, you can split a window into as many as three horizontal and three vertical panes, for a total of nine panes.

To split a window into panes:

1. Position the pointer over the horizontal or vertical pane control. When you're in the right place, the pointer changes to a double arrow.
   
   
2. Drag the pane control down or to the right to create a pane of the desired size.

To close a pane:

Double-click the pane's control.

Handy Hint (contributed by Elizabeth): In an AppleWorks Word Processing document the default line spacing of a font may not be exactly what is desired, nor the half-line options at the top of a document window:

A greater range of graduations can be gained by selecting the Format/Paragraph menu, and after the Line Spacing option a range of units is given. This defaults to line ('li'), but changing it to points or millimeters gives a greater range of control over the depth of the spacing.

Rewriteable (Re-recordable) CDs (CD-RW) cost about $5 each. DonÕt buy them from the Warehouse!

Writeable (Recordable) CDs (CD-R) brands vary: Buy SKC, TDK, Sony, Verbatim (more expensive, but better quality. DonÕt buy Transonic.

Some CD-Rs are labelled for Data or Audio Š special audio disks give better sound reproduction.

neither side of a CD is scratch-proof Š protect both the top (label) side and the bottom (shiny) side, as the data is actually stored in the layer immediately below the label, not in the plastic underneath it.

Unbalanced CDs can cause damage to the disk drive.

Dust can prevent CDs being read (or recorded) accurately: cleaning CDs are available (about $5).

System Disk Burn lets you record only once on a CD; Toast allows you to write more than one session.

Record audio at 1x or 2x speed, as a slower recording gives better quality.

CDs don't last indefinitely; safely reckon on about 5 years max.

If a program needs its CD in the computer to run the program, it's a good idea to copy it and use the duplicate instead.

[Committee Meeting on Mactropolis: Tuesday October 14 at 9:00pm