August Meeting 2005

• Apple's new Mighty Mouse, which has several features (scroll ball, left/right click), but which isn't cheap at $NZ95.
• The new range of iBooks all now have 512MB of RAM, and are available in 12" Combo Drive and 14" Super Drive versions.
• iPods now all have colour screens, but are increasingly hard to obtain due to popularity.
• MacOS 10.4 Tiger retails at $NZ235 for a single-user copy.

• Open Safari's Download window (from the Window Menu, or press Shift+Apple+L keys). Click on the magnifying glass at the right-hand side, and a Finder window will open showing the file's location:

• Also, if you control-click on the file's line in the Download Menu, a contextual menu appears giving you several options:

• Note that in Safari Preferences/General you have the option of selecting a default location for downloaded files:

• Most e-mail applications enable you to resize the print, and there's a variety of ways to do it: First, you need to select the text: press Apple+A to select All of the document). Then press Apple+Plus (in Mail) or Apple+Shift+Plus (Entourage/Outlook Express) to increase the text size. Conversely, use Minus to decrease the size.
• Another method is to turn off HTML formatting if it's on, and this should render all text in the font and size which you have specified in your e-mail application preferences.
• A further way to change the size is to turn the received message into a Forward message. This will sometimes re-format it for you.
• If that's not enough methods, hereÕs another: select the text, then Control-click somewhere on the selected area. On the contextual menu which appears are the options to "Increase Font Size" and "Decrease Font Size".

• When you send images from iPhoto using the Export Menu, ensure that the "Use Filename" button is selected, and the "Use Extension" box is checked. This will ensure that the images are sent with the .jpg suffix attached, so that the PC can recognise them. You do not have to do this when sending to a Mac user (Mac computers know what the file type is without needing to read a suffix in the filename), then export the image files to a folder on the desktop, ready for burning on to a CD:

• For exporting a slideshow of your images as a QuickTime Movie (complete with music) iPhoto gives you several options:

1. An Automatic QuickTime movie slideshow: select the images, go to the Export Menu and click the QuickTime button. This gives you options of size/display time/music, etc. Click Export and a slideshow movie is automatically made, complete with soundtrack, fade-in/out at the beginning/end, and dissolve transition between images.
2. An iPhoto Slideshow QuickTime Movie: made your slideshow in iPhoto (complete with its music, durations and transitions) and then export it to Quicktime. NB. If you are using iPhoto 5 your Ken Burns pan/zoom, duration and transition settings for individual slides are preserved in the Quicktime Movie.

• Remember that if you are sending QuickTime movies to PC users, they will need to have QuickTime Player (Windows version) on their computer to be able to view them. They can download this free from: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/preview/ or you could include the installer file on your disk together with the slideshow (itÕs is a 23.4MB file; either download it yourself, or let Sheryl or Tony know and they can get you a copy on CD or pen-drive).

• The guides for placement of graphics: these give a visual reference when aligning adjacent objects.
• The Metric Inspector for resizing of objects.
• Various aspects of Chart generation (Les commented that AppleWorks is more comprehensive).
• Insertion of Hyperlinks of different types.
• The Media Browser for selecting photos and graphic images.
• Placing Watermark Graphics as a Master Object on each page.
• Inserting Movies if the document is to viewed onscreen or as HTML.
• Pre-formatted Templates for newsletters, journals, and many other uses.
• Graphic Layering for placement of objects in front/behind others.

ArtRage is a painting package designed to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools. ArtRage is available for both Windows and Mac OS X. It can be used with a mouse, but works better if you have a graphics tablet, or even better on a Tablet PC where ArtRage takes advantage of the unique interaction of pen and screen to produce a realistic painting feel.

ArtRage is all about playing with paint without the mess, and having fun in the process. You can paint your own image from a blank canvas to completed work, or load in a picture to trace and have the tools pick their colours for you as you paint over it.

1. Check to see which updates are available, and decide which ones you need (you donÕt need to get them for applications you don't use).
2. Send Sheryl a list (see below for RobinÕs fast way to get a list).
3. Provide her with media (CD or pen-drive) on which to store the update files.

1. Get the list of available software onscreen, and click the checkboxes of updates you would like.
2. Press Shift-Apple-4 (keyboard shortcut for taking a picture of a selected screen area), drag the cursor over the list window, then release the mouse button. A picture of the window is taken, and its file appears on the desktop. E-mail this file to Sheryl.