Silicon Valley Macintosh User Group
moderator: Charles Gousha
new people
New member heard about it, never found one convenient, until she was invited here by Pam. This location is three blocks from her house
Glen Robins, treasurer of another Mac group in Portland, visiting and brought her grandchildren to become members of SVMUG
Jerry Oliver, new Mac user, here to learn how to use it.
(Lynda has a list of resources for new users)
news and events
who was at MacWorld? Almost all of us.
Len reports that Friday was crowded, but still seemed lightweight.
No huge booths. No big things happening.
other members thought was fun, but nothing like it used to be.
Dave says that the smaller vendors were able to sell more than in previous years.
Lynda thought it was wonderful, especially David Progue's presentation/keynote
The parties and events were where it's at.
The keynotes were open to everybody, not just conference attendees.
Charles reports that many people found the lessor number of vendors allowed attendees more time to discuss matters with the vendors.
Bill Atkinson is offering a new postcard service, via iPhone, to allow users to send physical photo postcards.
Microsoft announced Office for Mac 2011, coming soon (end of year?).
full Exchange, and an iPad version
Apple will presumably use Fairplay DRM for iPad publishers.
analysts have raised the estimates of iPhone sales, and hence the Apple share price expectation.
Mobile providers have formed a consortium to deliver unified mobile applications.
Aperture 3 released - but one member says it crashes a lot.
10 billion iTunes download mark is approaching. The 10 billionth downloader gets a prize.
Steve Jobs has been seen speaking to NYC publishers, for iPad content.
Home Control industry is very interested in the iPad and iTouch for high end home control products.
two way communications with household lights, utilities, entertainment systems, security systems
Presentation
Kim Hogan of Fujitsu, to present the ScanSnap S1500M and S1300
started with Fujitsu in September 2008, and previously was in the PC market world.
ScanSnap is being sold thru the Apple Retail Stores
"Once Mac, never go back"
www.scansnapcommunity.com
khogan@us.fujitsu.com
(949) 294-7038
Raffle:
Three copies of CrashPlan software ($60 value each)
ScanSnap S1300 from Fujitsu
Q&A
1. remove info from hard drive before recycling (this is a laptop, which no longer starts)
remove hard drive from the laptop and then drill holes in the hard drive
2. where is the file that holds desktop images? I want to make my own image the desktop image.
open system preferences, open the desktop panel, and drag images to that to add to the library
3. when an iPhone receives an email with an mp3 file attached, can that mp3 be copied to the iTunes library on the iPhone.
No, but it can be played from the email.
However, on your Mac, you may save it to iTunes.
4. Runaway scrolling: when I scroll down, it sometimes runs away, too fast for me to read.
dragging the scroll "thumb" can move pages very fast within documents with a lot of pages.
try clicking in the scroll bar, or use a mouse with a scroll wheel.
5. downloading MIDI files, with option clicking, usually works fine. One web site says to use right-click. How do I do this.
use the cntl-click combination. But sometimes this will not work if the quicktime plugin is embedded in the page, without the option of downloading.
6. Audio books: I deleted some, but the reference still shows in iTunes, but will not play, The items on the iPod will still play. I cancelled my subscription to the Audible service.
basically you need to re-subscribe.
7. developing for iPhone, just switched to new machine, moving my project. My certificates are having trouble. The certificates seem green, but the iPhone says it can not find valid certificates.
(iPhone apps have to be signed by Apple, even while under development)
You will need to get new certificates from Apple - that is the easiest and fastest way.
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