Scott Pelok Special Meeting Announcement & Happy Thanksgiving
See you at the special meeting with Scott Pelok.
REMINDER:
Scott Pelok Special Meeting
NVMUG Meeting
12 Noon - 2 PM
Saturday, November 25, 2000
Community Bank Building, St. Johnsbury
NOTICE: The meeting is not this Saturday. It is next Saturday, November 25. It will be a very special meeting. It will probably include the very latest equipment and software. Scott is the former president of NVMUG, a real Macintosh guru now in a Michigan Mac user group, with access to the very latest through his job at the university. You won’t want to miss this meeting!
In this NVMUG eNews
1. Items from the Editor
2. 100 Million QuickTime Players from Apple eNews
3. Free Stuff
4. Internet Sites
5. Mac OS X Mail 1. Items from the Editor
Two of my neighbors bought iMacs. They both found it frustrating. I recommended “Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual” and helped them buy copies. They both said the book should have come with the iMac, and that it helped a lot.
I have been rereading “AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual,” and experimenting with its features. You may remember that I reviewed it here before when I presented AppleWorks 6 at a NVMUG meeting, but there always seems to be more to learn. I am now adding headers to database reports and spreadsheet reports, making great improvements. I also use Page View before printing spreadsheets so I know what I am getting.
I had an interesting experience. One I would prefer not to repeat and thought you might like to avoid. I copied a volume of data from my computer to a CD-RW. Then I deleted the volume on my computer. The volume I deleted had put an alias of my computer, and of Sherlock on my desktop. Afterward, they were still on the desktop. To remove them I had to copy the volume from the CD back to my computer. Then I used Adeptic Toast’s Check Aliases to find and remove aliases before again saving the volume to the CD. Had I checked for aliases before saving the first time, I would have saved more than an hour. As the saying goes, “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Have you noticed the specials on PowerBooks lately. Guess what new computer Apple will announce in San Francisco. Then again, I have been wrong before.
I saved the TidBits review : EXCEL 2001 REVIEWED
MacChamp says,
Before going out to buy a copy or upgrade, you will want to read Matt's
detailed review of the product and its multitude of features. I've posted
a PDF version on the MacChamp web site that downloads in just a few
seconds. Go to:
or if you e-mail me I can send you a text copy. The strange thing to me is that the article only mentions AppleWorks as the other alternative once. For the life of me I cannot understand why so many people spend so much money for a program that is more than they need and which is, I believe, more difficult to learn than AppleWorks. The major new feature in Excel 2001 is the ability to produce LIST because the program does not have a database. AppleWorks had always included a database. Dah!
Corrections to the last newsletter:
Thanks for a good report on the AlphaSmart. A few minor points--
- SmartInput estimates one-third of the schools in the US have them, not one-half.
- There were no suggestions it should NOT be sold in elementary schools, only that it should be offered to other users as well.
- It might be pointed out that three alkaline AA batteries operate the AlphaSmart up to 500 hours--you mentioned the life of nicads, but not the much greater life with ordinary alkalines.
- The keyboard can also be configured in DVORAK.
- For the cognoscenti who know Duos, I don't travel with a big DuoDock (whew!) but with a MiniDuoDock, which is infinitely smaller and a rather rare item. 2. 100 Million QuickTime Players from Apple eNews
Since its release less than a year and a half ago, we've distributed over 100 million copies of the cross-platform QuickTime 4 Player.
And we think QuickTime 5 will prove to be just as popular when it makes its official debut early next year.
Don't want to wait until next year to try QuickTime 5? Not to worry, Mac users can download the QuickTime 5 Public Preview right now and get a sneak peek of a product we believe will become an industry standard for creating, streaming, and playing high-quality audio and video over the Internet.
In addition to an updated media player featuring new audio controls, a new QuickTime TV network channel display, and a taste of Aqua, QuickTime 5 also features:
* a Hot Picks guide highlighting cool QuickTime TV content
* Even better interaction with iMovie and Final Cut Pro
* "Skip Protection" to minimize media skipping (the dropped frames often caused by Internet transmission interruptions)
* Support for Sorenson Video 3 (not available in the Preview), SHOUTcast, and many other new web codecs
* Macromedia Flash 4 integration
* Cubic VR
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/preview/gallery/
which allows you to immerse yourself in 360-degree worlds
The User Group Advisory Board, in association with Macworld Expo, is pleased to announce two very special opportunities to attend Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco -- for free and for less.
1) Macintosh User Group members can register for a free
exhibits only pass (a $25 value).
2) Macintosh User Group members can enjoy an even better value
if they select a conference package. Take 15% off by using
the User Group Priority Code. That's a substantial savings,
available only to Apple user groups.
Register on or before December 11, 2000 to take advantage of these
special offers at:
Please restrict the distribution of these codes to members in good
standing of your group, and do not distribute them through publicly
accessible channels.
• Contest—Mac Cube from Small Dog
Our next contest prize is a PowerMac G4 450 MHz Cube! The PowerMac G4/450m
Cube features:
* 64MB of RAM
* 20GB Hard Drive
* DVD-ROM
* 56k Modem
* AirPort Ready
* Apple Pro Keyboard and Mouse
* USB and FireWire Ports
We will be giving away this Cube on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, January 15,
2001.
Note: Even if you have registered for a previous contest, you must
re-register to qualify for the PowerMac G4 Cube drawing!
You'll want to see this! Gail Murphy Glore from Wired Women shot plenty
of 'footage' at our Macs in the Park event in September. Now she's
produced an iMovie for the world to view. Use this link to access her
terrific QuickTime production:
When Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen set out on a 2,400-mile
ski trek across Antarctica, they planned to take children from
all over the world with them.
Well, not exactly. Kids (and other Antarctic buffs) can tag along
virtually (and stay nice and warm physically) because Bancroft and
Arnesen have included a PowerBook and Canon DV camera as part of
their survival gear. They'll use them to shoot footage of their
snowy experiences, edit the clips with Final Cut Pro, and transmit
the completed QuickTime movies they produce via satellite to all of
us following their exploits at www.yourexpedition.com.
The trip "allows us to talk to schoolchildren about dreams," says
Bancroft. "You can have that hard, hard work but still have that
element of fun and enjoyment. The message is really 'follow your heart.'"
Whether you think a picture is worth a thousand words or a word is
worth a thousand pictures, Mac OS X has a built-in application that
lets you communicate with others the way you want.
It's called Mail, and it allows you to trade messages with
colleagues, friends, and family--quickly, easily, and in ways other
e-mail programs may not permit.
Want to show off some digital photos from your vacation? How about a
QuickTime movie of your new baby? No problem. Just drag and drop any
files into an e-mail message and they're ready to go.
Mail even has a companion that will help you organize your life.
Called AddressBook, it does more than track e-mail addresses. It
includes digital cards that allow you to store street addresses,
pictures, phone numbers, and even URLs.
To find out more, visit the Mail page on our Mac OS X site.
