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Hello from New Orleans! Shelley and I were here for the Kiwanis International Convention from June 27 through 30th. Wifi in this already expensive hotel is $14.95/day extra. Our room was across the street from the convention center where Kiwanis was meeting. I discovered that if I stayed close to the window, I could use their free WiFi and I did so. Slow, but free, is better.. If you “like” our club Facebook page, you will see where I posted a Kim Komando article on getting your MAC ready for Mountain Lion. It is great to see her start-ing to recognize MACs. Actually she has been for a while now, but not too long ago was almost exclusively dedicated to PC advice. Phil keeps the Facebook column full of MAC news. If you are not seeing it you are missing out.  I haven’t done much with new Apple

stuff lately and I was wondering what to write about. I have a new Nikon 7000 camera. I have discovered that I can hook it up to my MacBook Pro and control it from the computer. I haven’t tried it yet so that doesn’t seem good for a topic. Microsoft to the rescue! Microsoft has released data on a new tablet computer they will be making and selling. They call it the “Surface”. It is a tablet about the same size as an iPad. Microsoft now says they can provide a better user experience if they control both the hardware and the software! I wonder how they figured this out!. (Ed’s. note– they must have read “Steve Jobs”.) I also saw a Microsoft executive demonstrating the Surface and and it malfunctioned during the demo. He had to go to a backup machine to finish the demonstration. Nokia has just released a new version of its Lumia line. Shortly thereafter Microsoft announced Windows 8 for phones which will not run on Lumias new phone (or any other phone currently running Windows 7 or Windows 7.5. This is a big blow to Microsofts biggest phone partner at a time when they are struggling financially.

In Apple news I just read an interesting article that makes me go “hmmmmm”   “Apple Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering Bob Mansfield is retiring, according to an Apple press release. He joined Apple in 1999. He has led Mac hardware engineering since 2005, along with iPhone, iPod, and iPad engineering since 2010.” Later in the same article it mentions “Apple reported that Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer Betsy Rafael will also be retiring, effective October 19.” in another article I read where Apple has been granted an injunction to stop Samsung from selling their two latest Galaxy Nexus phones until a full trial (patent issues) can be held. Apple must be be pretty sure of themselves as they have posted a bond of $95 million which they will forfeit to Samsung if they do not prevail at the trial! Both subjects to be covered at July’s meeting are very inter-esting and, I expect helpful to many of us. I hope to be there on July 10th, if I can possibly make it (with family visiting).

NC Sizemore, President

Key articles.....

An Unconventional Approach To Learning with iPad, Mac and iPod touch— page 3.

Member’s Showcase— Building websites with ease using “Sandvox “software— page 5.

Creating iCloud email aliases— Countering no Save-As function in “Pages”— page 6.

July 2012

Next Meeting - July 10, 2012: 7 PMUsing iCloud— by Phil Davis

iMovie Trailers— by J.P. Leemans

July 2012

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Precautionary Talesby Phil Davis

Eau De MacAir Aroma, a scent marketing solutions provider, has created a fragrance replicating an Apple MacBook Pro computer box being opened for the first time. Alex Cosic, an Air Aroma spokesman, said: “The scent requested by our client (Greatest Hits, a Melbourne, Australia-based artistic group) was quite unusual, so we contacted our fragrance suppliers in the south of France to send over samples of fragrances with the aroma of glue, plastic, rubber and paper.” Numerous blends were tested in a lab, with perfume makers documenting the unwrapping of the Apple product from its packaging. The resulting formula mimicked the combination of dried print ink, tom cardboard, plastic wrap and aluminum hardware. Greatest Hits artists Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn used the scent in a Melbourne art exhibition called “De Facto Stan-dard,” which showcased the digital age and rise of new technology, and ran from April 20 through May 12. The fragrance was distributed by an Air Aroma Aroslim diffuser during the show to stimulate olfactory recognition in Apple product users in the crowd.

Editor’s note—sorry guys— in case you were chomping at the bit to turn your lady on with Eau De Mac, the scent is not available for purchase. m m m m

Near Disaster

Macworld writer Lex Friedman elequently describes a near disaster with his MacBook Pro that was barely averted with the availability of several backups. In Lex’s words:

This is the sad story of one man’s MacBook Pro, its failed hard drive, the aftermath, and then some Monday-morning quarterbacking to top it off.

Read Lex’s tale of woe and then contemplate what you would do if the same thing happened to you.

Backup Strategies

I have written and talked about this topic before (Mugshot: June 2011), but it never hurts to have a reminder. It’s one thing to have a good strategy, but a good strategy is worthless if you don’t use it. Sometimes it takes reminders like Lex’s tale to get us back on track.

Every so often, actually more often than I would like to admit, I get a good scare. I screw up a document, inadvertently delete words, send a file to the trash, or generally mess up. I’m sure that none of you have had experiences like this.

When this happens, I’m usually able to recover because of my multi-layer (i.e., paranoid) backup strategy.

My Strategy

1. Time Machine (TimeMachine). I use time machine on an external drive to keep incremental copies of my documents and important files. This allows me to “roll back time” to an earlier version if I need it.

2. Bootable Backup (BB). I make a daily complete bootable backup using Carbon Copy Cloner on a separate external drive so that I can still run my computer if the hard drive fails completely. I can also easily restore files from the BB if the need arises. Just remember that the files will be only as good as the last time you backed them up. SuperDuper is another excellent backup app.

3. CrashPlan. CrashPlan is one of many offsite (i.e., in the cloud) backup options available. Others have been described in past articles (Mugshot: October 2011). I have CrashPlan set to backup my most critical documents in their off-site server. This way, if my house burns down, thus destroying my TimeMachine and BB disks along with my computer, I still have my files.

4. DropBox. Finally, I use DropBox for all my current work. This allows me to access the files from both of my Macs, my iPad, and my iPhone. The files are also in the cloud on the DropBox servers.

Your Strategy

So, what is your strategy? You do have one, don’t you? m m m m

Photograph Butterflies

Butterflies are pretty sensitive little creatures. Get too close, and they’ll fly away in a hurry. And, even when you do get close, they’re constantly moving from flower to flower, gathering their most precious prize: sweet nectar. All this makes it difficult to photograph butterflies, but go here for 8 tips for dealing with some of these problems: m m m m

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Students at the UK public school Flitch Green Academy use iPad, Mac, and iPod touch to create unique learning experi-ences.—captured from the Apple website

The inspirationFlitch Green is a public elementary/middle school located just outside of London. This modern eco-friend-ly version of a village school was de-signed to be the hub of the commu-nity — where the teachers support the kids so they feel safe to explore, to ask questions, and even to make mistakes. The school was built on the principle that there needs to be a purpose to learning, and that chil-dren learn best from an innovative curriculum that teaches through first-hand experience and discovery. The founders of Flitch Green designed a creative curriculum that allows children to develop skills for the 21st century. The school’s phi-losophy is that learning is not just about gaining knowledge and ac-quiring facts — it’s that you need to be able to do something with those facts. This purposeful learning needs a strong investment in tech-nology, That’s where Mac, iPad, and iPod touch come in. When designing this curriculum, Apple products were a natural fit.

Their ease of use allows students to master the tools, and focus on their projects. The work they’re able to produce is greatly enhanced by the creative opportunities the products give the students. Flitch Green’s creative curriculum couldn’t exist without the Apple products. We wanted a curriculum that was meaningful, purposeful, and creative. And with Apple technology we have the whole package. It’s ignited everybody’s learning progress.”— Tracey Bratley, FGA teacher

The implementationThe staff first purchased MacBooks, and as the cur-riculum evolved, they quickly added iPad and iPod touch devices. Apple products have become an es-sential piece of how students learn at Flitch Green.Flitch Green’s unique approach is taught through open-ended “experiences” where students use the Mac, iPod touch, and iPad, alongside more tra-ditional media, to work towards an end product. “This allows children to use all the resources they have available to them to represent what we’ve asked them to do, “ says Principal Helen Johnson. “And normally they come back with things that we won’t have even dreamt of.” Giving all students access to all of the Apple products was also a goal for the school. The 11 year-olds as well as the 4 year-olds are using the Mac, iPad, and iPod touch to explore and create. “Origi-nally we thought the iPod touch would be great for the older children and the iPad being bigger would be for the younger children. But actually our 4-year olds are more than capable of picking up the

iPod touch, recording their voices, taking a photo-graph, or writing on it for phonic work,” says Helen Johnson. The Flitch Green vision — right from the beginning — was to equip the children with the technological know-how so they would be well prepared once they got to the outside world. Creating their own learning experiences with Apple products allow the students focus on their end-product. The Mac, iPad, and iPod touch lend themselves seamlessly to these cross-curricular ex-periences and give the students the choice of tech-nology tools that best suits their individual project.The resultsSince first opening its doors in 2008, Flitch Green’s academic scores have been in the 90th percentile, granting the school Academy status. Students are not only learning basic academic skills such as Eng-lish, Mathematics, and Science, but they also learn and practice key life skills such as resilience, reflec-tion, and risk taking. With the Mac, iPad and iPod touch, lessons are fun, interesting and packed with activity. “Students can find all the objects inside and outside the school that start with a certain letter and record it with their iPod touch. They get excite-ment out of that which keeps them engaged, and keeps them learning longer than they would have if they’ve been sat down with a pencil they can’t hold very well” says Helen Johnson. Everything has a similar feel and a similar look — there’s synergy. So it’s easy for kids to pick up an Apple product and just start working.” — Emma Nichols, Flitch Green Academy parent

Using technology has helped both the chil-dren’s speaking and listening skills — particularly for many of Flitch Green’s shy children. “Put them in front of a Mac, put them in front of a camera and they lose all their inhibitions, they’re really con-fident.“ Says teacher Tracey Bratley. “We’ve been able to gain lots of evidence from children just from watching what they recorded on iMovie or PhotoBooth. Apple products have given children the tools for them to develop their confidence. And it’s been a great assessment tool for us as well.” Besides academic achievement, Flitch Green Academy can also lay claim to having students that are excited about their learning. It has students ex-cited to come to school each morning. Go to pg. 4

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An Unconventional Approach To Learning with iPad, Mac and iPod touch

July 2012

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How to Securely Delete Files edited from an article by Christopher Breen, Macworld.com

Question— How do you delete a file completely and forever? I thought the original still remains on the hard drive until it is over-written. And is there a way to go back and permanently erase old previously deleted files? We’ll start with the basics. When you toss a file into the Trash and then empty it, the file isn’t really gone. It’s simply removed from your Mac’s file directory. With the proper recov-ery tools (Prosoft Engineering’s $99 Data Rescue 3, for example) you can recover it provided that you haven’t added other files to your Mac that have overwritten the portion of the drive that file once occupied. To delete a file so that it’s unre-coverable by all but those who make their living recovering data, toss the file into the Trash and instead choose Finder -> Secure Empty Trash. When you do this not only is the file removed from the Mac’s di-rectory, but the hard drive space it occupied is overwritten with junk. While you can’t go back and target specific deleted files for “no really, I want you totally gone” era-sure, you can erase the “free” space on your Mac’s hard drive. This seeks out any areas of the drive marked as available for new data and over-writes them with junk. To do this, launch Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities), select the drive that you want to work with,

Learning— conclusion from page 3And their enthusiasm and love of learning is car-ried home with them. They are confident, creative students that have had their curiosity fostered with the help of the Mac, iPad, and iPod touch.More to the story: Knights and Castles.The Mac, iPod touch, and iLife help 1st grade stu-dents create a cross-curricular learning experience with a battle animation.

In Sarah Brooks’ class, a group of enthusiastic 6 and 7 year olds use Apple products to create a ”Knights and Castles” battle animation. With the Mac, iPod touch, and iMovie, students record their voices for sound effects and add music to accompany their animation. And as they’re creating their movie, they’re also developing their history, science, and language skills. m m m m

click the Erase tab, and click on Erase Free Space. A sheet will appear that offers you different levels of erasure. With Snow Leopard this sheet offers Zero Out Deleted Files, 7-Pass Erase of Deleted Files, and 35-Pass Erase of Deleted Files. Under Lion you see a slider that offers essentially the same options.

The default, Zero Out Deleted Files, writes zeros over the drive’s free space. It’s adequate for most people (though you’ll want to keep an eye on this story’s comments as some people have nearly re-ligious views on this matter). If you’re an Interna-tional Man/Woman of Mystery, you can choose one of the other options with the understanding that while they more thoroughly overwrite your data, they take a very long time to do so. I would be remiss if I didn’t caution you to have a solid backup of your data before doing this. I’ve never had a problem with it, but should an unlikely problem occur, you don’t want to be left staring dumbly at a file-free hard drive. m m m m

Mountain Lion—

What you need to know!

Editor’s comment— In case you missed Phil Davis’ tip info given at the June OMUG meeting, Macworld’s staff has provided a comprehensive report that gives answers to questions you may have about Apple’s next OS X update releasing in July. Space does not per-mit me to reprint the report here as it is very lengthy. The following is some brief information that will be bad news for some of you with older Macs (including yours truly). Time to upgrade hardware! We have a Mountain Lion sighting. At June’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple told us when to expect the next major update to Mac OS X and unveiled a few more features that will appear in the new operating system. But first, with an OS X update looming, it’s time to familiarize yourself with Apple’s latest big cat. There are some Mac models that will not be able to run Mountain Lion even though they can run Lion. The following models aren’t compatible with the initial developer preview of Mountain Lion:

2006 iMacs Mid 2007 Mac mini 2006 and 2007 Mac Pro 2008 (original) MacBook Air Early 2008 and earlier MacBook 2006 (15-inch and 17-inch) MacBook Pro 2006 and 2008 Xserve

Go here for the comprehensive Macworld Magazine report. m m m m

A comment for today— Apple CEO Tim Cook, quoting a statement to him from Steve Jobs shortly before Steve’s passing.— “And he looked at me with those intense eyes that only he had, and he told me to never do that, to never ask what he would do. Just do what’s right. And so I’m doing that.”

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MEMBER’S SHOWCASE

Marilyn Kennedy’s attractive, well functioning website work is featured this month. Marilyn has been building websites, primarily for her own family’s fun and enjoyment, for the past couple of years. She first used iWeb software but with Apple no longer supporting it, she had to find an alternative. She listened to the comments in OMUG meetings and looked at the various website building programs available. She chose Sandvox and has not regretted her decision. She has found it very easy to use, their support helpful, and their suggestion of hosting source a very reliable one. OMUG’s Marilyn has been busy migrating old iWeb developed sites she hosted on MobileMe over to her new hosting service. Meanwhile..... She recently used Sandvox to create a website for her Derby Farms homeowner’s association shown here (yes, the beautiful horse shown is hers). Another site also shown here (2012 Holiday Greetings) is close to her heart. Marilyn has found the “designs” approach in Sandvox (known as templates in other programs) fun to work with. Some 60 “designs” are currently available to select from and more are available from third-parties. This site is cur-rently a work-in-progress that she is building for her extended family to show what has been going on in their lives over the past year. It features touches such as “Our Year In Review” (complete with video), slide shows, extensive photo albums, and more to come. Take a further look at full-size versions of her Sandvox sites here:Derby Farms siteHoliday Greetings site m m m m

Equipment & Software used:iMac computer, OS X Lion, Sandvox website software, Sony 10 MP digital camera.

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Creating iCloud Email Aliases by ChrisB- Basics4Mac No Save-As In Pages???

Edited from an article by Dawn D’Angelillo, Smalldog.comMissing “Save As…” command in iWork’s Pages and Numbers? This is an adjustment because for almost 20 years, there has been a “Save As…” command in every word processor and spreadsheet application that I have ever used. Lion has a great auto-save feature. Every time you pause in a Lion app such as an iWork app or TextEdit, Lion will auto-save in the background. You don’t have to do anything—it just saves. If you are working continuously, the document will be auto-saved every 5 minutes. This is awesome.But what if you want to modify a document and save it as a different name—you know, Save As…? You’ll notice under the File menu, this isn’t an op-tion. To have two copies of a similar document, you have to use Duplicate. Let’s say I have a document called “Expense Report-April 15” and I want to reuse it, but want to make changes and call it “Expense Report-May 4” without losing the original. I’ll choose Duplicate which opens a new document and then Save… which allows me to save the document with a new name. It’s a bit of an extra step but what I like about it is that you end up with two open documents (which I often want). You can also Save a Version of a document. This is what the Save command is now called in the iWork apps. Once you save a version, there’s a clever way to get back to it. Hover your mouse over the document title and you’ll see an arrow; click and you’ll find a drop down menu such as the one pictured here:If you choose to browse all your versions, you’ll see a Time Ma-chine interface which allows you to look at all of the versions that you saved. This is actually pretty cool because if you want to go back to a different version, you can. Lion will automatically lock documents if they have not been opened in two weeks. This is to pro-tect you from accidentally changing an older docu-ment. To unlock, follow the same steps as above (hover your mouse, click on arrow, choose Unlock).I found all of this information here on Apple’s web-site. Go here, it’s worth the time to read and learn.

Sending from more than one address—An iCloud account gives you an email address that ends in @me.com. You can also create up to three email aliases that end in @me.com. An alias address is useful if you want to use a different email address for special uses like purchase receipts or a business address. Even though you can send and receive email from the alias email addresses, all mail from your mail iCloud account and your alias go into your iCloud inbox. The preference pane for managing your iCloud aliases is hidden away. Here’s how to find it and a bit more info about iCloud aliases. Actually, “hidden away” is a bit of an understatement. I swear that there used to be a link to manage aliases from the Mail preference pane in System Preferences, but it isn’t there in Lion OS X 10.7.

Here’s the long trek to get there: 1. Go to iCloud.com. 2. Log in with your Apple ID. 3. Click the big Mail icon. 4. Click the gear icon at the top right of the window, then choose Preferences... 5. Choose the Accounts view.

You can create up to three alias for your Apple ID. Once you have three aliases, you have to delete one of them to create a new one. NOTE FOR MOBILE ME USERS: MobileMe allowed you five aliases and when you convert your MobileMe account to an iCloud account you keep all five aliases. If you delete one or two of the aliases, you are restricted to the iCloud limit of three aliases so you can’t recreate new aliases until you have less than three total.Instead of deleting an alias, you can temporarily turn it off by unchecking “Read mail and send mail from this alias.” Aliases that are not active or have been deleted will not receive messages and the messages will bounce back to the sender.

Here are a couple of other things you can do with iCloud aliases:• Assign a color to an account. This is really only useful when you are looking at your email from iCloud.com. The assigned colors do not show up in Mail for the Mac or iOS devices.• Change the alias Description. The description is only seen by you and is for your infor- mation only.• Change the Full Name. The full name is the name that your email recipients see as the FROM name on your emails. m m m m

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Waterfalls are a very popu-lar subject for landscape photographers. The draw

to their natural beauty is clear, but often coming home with the best shots is harder than you might think. Let’s start with a camera that can shoot on manual and a tripod. That’s all you need. The biggest problem with slapping a dark ND filter on your lens is still the sun. When it’s bright overhead, you have bright “hot spots” and dark shadows that don’t look great. The light is harsh and flat. The best thing to do is show up at sunrise and sunset. Waterfalls are often in deep canyons, so as long as the sun is obscured with the whole waterfall in the shade, you can achieve a long exposure with nice even light. Plan ahead for the right time of day to maximize this. How long does the exposure actually need to be? The answer varies. There are falls that rage with so much water and there are others dainty and delicate. Keep in mind you don’t want the waterfall to be a detail-less blob of white water. Set the exposure appropriately. Start with a low ISO. Then set an aperture small enough to maximize focus, usually around f/8 to f/10. See what kinds of shutter speed that nets. For big falls, try to keep expo-sure under a second. Anything be-tween ¼ to a full second will show the water’s motion and still retain detail in that movement. Small stringy waterfalls show best with longer exposures. These shots look great when you can expose as long as possible. Don’t be afraid of the small aperture police who say you will lose sharpness. Photography is always about compromises and in this case, the slightest loss in sharp-ness only visible when viewed at 200% is greatly outweighed by cap-turing the water’s movement. Don’t be afraid to use f/22 if you need it. I try to shoot for exposures 1–4 sec-onds long at these kinds of water-falls.

Gorgeous Waterfalls

“...Waterfalls” edited extensively for space from an article by Eric Leslie– presented by the Digital Photography School

Save the trees—sometimes shooting a water-fall with long exposure will have leaves on the trees and plants moving. You’ve probably seen people take a bracket of a landscape to compress the dy-namic range of light into a single image. An alter-nate way is, after you’ve bagged your shot of the waterfall, look around the edges of the photograph and you see if the plants are soft and fuzzy. If they are, you ‘ll need to freeze motion with second shot in the 1/100 or faster range. You can open up the aperture, but make sure you don’t loose your maxi-mum focus. If that’s not enough light, you need to start boosting your ISO until you can achieve that shutter speed. Back home, you take the two expo-sures and blend them back together using layer masks in Photoshop or other photo manipulation software on your Mac. Head out when it’s cloudy— buy yourself some more camera exposure time shooting on overcast or rainy days. You get all the benefits of shooting when the sun is low, with the freedom to shoot all day. You get much better color when it’s overcast so things like mossy rocks or autumn leaves really pop. Just avoid including the sky. Depending on the waterfall, if you can get up high to shoot down on the falls, eliminating the sky from the shot, you will avoid getting that boring grey sky in your shot.Editor’s Note— As the article says, when shooting a water-fall, compromise is often needed. Back at the Mac, you may find the need to do some selective burning or dodging and some selective sharpening in Photoshop or Elements to give your shots that award winning touch.

Moving Events to Another Calendar in iCal — If you need to change the calendar that an Event belongs to, open the Event, click the Edit button, and click the Calendar dropdown to select the new calendar from the list. It takes one step: Lion— Drag the Event from the calendar over to the Calendars button on the top left. Hover for a second and the list of calendars will drop down. Drop the Event on the calendar you want to change to. Done!Pre-Lion— Drag the Event from the calendar to the list of calendars on the left pane. Drop the Event on the calendar you want to change go. Done! — thanks to Chris B, Basics4Mac

Disclaimer— The Apple logo is the property of Apple, Inc. The Windows logo is the property of Microsoft, Inc. All tradenames, trademarks, and registered trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners or companies. The information presented in this newsletter is for the personal enlightenment of OMUG members and friends, does not constitute an endorsement, and is not to be used for commercial purposes.

July 2012

Announcements & Introductions:  Meeting called to order by President N.C. Sizemore who welcomed the members and guests, James Delfraise and Fred Tileston who both joined tonight. Reminder that dues are due and a new password will be issued to all paid members by Phil Davis.

Secretary’s Report: The minutes of the May meeting were approved as published.

Treasurer’s Report: Judy Rankin reported that there is $756.60 in the bank.

Program: Burt Stephens and Marilyn Kennedy joined forces to present “Web Building by Mac Users” cover-ing the basic types of web designs, the process necessary to begin and complete your project and several examples of web sites each of them have designed and built using a variety of programs, software, hosts, etc. You can follow along with the complete presentation on the OMUG web site (built by Phil Davis!).

Next Month’s Program Topic:  Using iCloud— presented by Phil Davis

We enjoyed refreshments provided and served by Della Marteny and Judy Rankin.

General Commentary: There was information from Phil about the new MacBook Pro which seemed to have everyone drooling! Announcements that Mountain Lion will be available in July for $20 from the App Store, iOS 6 release in late fall, the Apple Maps come from TomTom. IOS 6 will be available in new cars soon and SIRI will be upgraded. There is a new Apple Airport Express available for $99.00. One feature of Mountain Lion of particular interest..... you will be able to dictate to any program you are using, much like on the iPad. No more typing?

Tech Tips: How to fix a slow computer.

Use Disk Utility, get a Take Control Book (see the web site for a list) use Onyx, a free program for cleaning up your Mac.

Raffle Results: 50-50 Raffle: $26.00 to Fred Tileston (new member luck) • Choice of a Take Control eBook– Marilyn Kennedy • Compact Dual USB Charger– J.P. Leemans • iPad for Photographers book– Sharon Edwards • iPad Quick Start Guide– N.C. Sizemore

Meeting adjourned at 9 PM. Again, thanks to all who helped clean the room and put chairs away.

Respectfully submitted:   Nancy Kirby, OMUG Secretary

OMUG MEETING MINUTES: June 12th, 2012, called to order at 7 PM

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OMUG Meeting Information—

The Ocala Mac User Group meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at:

St. George Anglican Cathedral— Parish Hall5646 SE 28th St., Ocala, FL 34471 See www.ocalamug.org for a map

OMUG Board of Directors—President– N.C. Sizemore ncsizemore@gmail.com • 291-8778 Vice President– Bobby Adams badams0993@gmail.com • 274.0177 Secretary– Nancy Kirby nkirby1944@embarqmail.comTreasurer– Judy Rankin judyrankin@mac.com • 821-2322 Director– Philip Davis p.davis@ocalamug.org • 369-8432Director– Burt Stephens burtstephens@gmail.com • 873-6177 Director– Al Sypher aes@imageocala.com • 237-9501Director– Brian Voge voge.brian@gmail.com • 622-8581Past President– Tim Rankin rank.tim@gmail.com • 821-2322

Mac Users Helping Mac Users—OMUG Tech Support Team volunteers will try to help with your computer and software problems.Please go to http://ocalamug.org/tech-team.html for a list of help topics and phone/email contacts for the following member volunteers: Bob Adams Philip Davis (email ONLY) Nancy Kirby Dr. Roberto Putzeys Judy Rankin Tim Rankin Brian Voge

OMUG Assignments—

Fifty-Fifty Raffle– Earl Satterfield Membership– Nancy Kirby MUGSHOT Newsletter– Al SypherProgram Coordinator– Burt StephensRefreshments– Della Marteny and Ed JaworowskiWebmaster and Apple Ambassador– Philip Davis

Cover photo by Al Sypher— The misting clouds obscure Denali’s Alaska range above a verdant growth of summer on the mountain slopes below.

Oh... and one last thing—Defragmentation.Unlike Windows based computer systems, Mac OS X rarely, if ever, needs to have its disk space defragmented. The only real exception to this is when your hard drive has less than 10 percent free space. At that point, OS X is unable to perform its automatic defragmentation routines. You should then consider either removing files or expanding your disk storage size. m m m m

“Yep, that’s a Mac 128K from 1984. Every year he decides to upgrade, then he hears a rumor of a new Mac

coming out soon and he decides to wait.”