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did you get an email about where our next

meeting is?

Yep, it’s at Elizabeth’s house. Check your email for directions. If you can’t find it, email Kathy.

Next meeting:

Saturday September 10th

at 9 a.m.

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Macintosh Computer Expo (MCE) is back for the 18th year!

Saturday, October 1st, 201110am - 5pm

Petaluma Community Center320 N. McDowell Blvd.Petaluma, CA 94954

For more information visit www.maccomputerexpo.com

Welcome to Mac Computer Expo 2011!

The Macintosh Computer Expo (MCE) is the North Coast Mac Users Group’s (NCMUG) annual free-to-attend fundraising and educational event. Held this year at the Petaluma Community Center in Petaluma, CA, thousands of Macintosh enthusiasts come from all over the Bay Area to visit with Macintosh product vendors and attend informational workshops and sessions. Celebrating its 18th year this October, the show has grown in attendance from a few hundred visitors to a couple of thousand attendees and is now the largest expo of its type in the San Francisco Bay Area second only to Macworld in San Francisco.

Be sure to come back to our site as the details for this year’s lineup of sessions, speakers, and exhibitors begins to take shape. Save the date and come visit MCE in the Fall!

SVCG Users — this is a MUST SEE!!

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There’s dozens of cool raffle prizes graciously donated by our vendors including the grand prize from iStockPhoto – an Apple iPad 2! And if you can’t attend MCE, you can still participate in the raffle, by filling out the “Can’t Attend, But Want To Win” form and we will contact you with instructions on how to be part of the raffle.

Raffle!Tickets $5 each

or$20 for book of five.

Grand Prize: Apple iPad 2Donated by: iStockPhoto

Many more prizes donated by our vendors.No need to be present to win.

Great line-up of speakers, sessions, and exhibitors. The biggest Mac event outside of

Macworld Expo on the West coast!

NCMUG is our sister-Mac user group.Check them out. Such a deal! FREE.

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Steve Jobs's impact goes beyond technologyApple CEO’s influence didn’t stop in Cupertino—he changed people’s lives

by Lex Friedman, Macworld.com

I’ve never met Steve Jobs and certainly can’t claim to know him personally. And setting aside stories about his notoriously short temper and brusqueness, it’s easy to admire the man for reasons beyond his accomplishments as Apple’s CEO. Take his 2005 commencement address to Stanford, a speech he delivered just a year after his initial diagnosis with pancreatic cancer. Jobs described his 1985 ouster from Apple as “the best thing that could have ever happened to me,” since it forced him to figure out precisely what he loved doing, found Next, buy Pixar, and fall in love with the woman who became his wife.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

In April 2006, John Gruber wrote that Jobs’s speech inspired him to make Daring Fireball his full-time job. I credit that same speech for convincing me (years later) to switch careers, taking a job covering technology I adore. Pursuing this tech writing career meant taking a chance and leaving another career behind, but the joy I feel in using the technology created by the Apple that Steve Jobs built (and, of coure, writing about it) convinced me to make the move. Steve Jobs took risks at Apple even after it was a $70 billion company. I didn’t hesitate—much—taking my own personal risk to come along for the ride. Steve’s confidence in Apple gave me confidence in taking on a job devoted to reporting on his company.

During his tenure at Apple, Steve Jobs inspired Apple to do great things. And he directly inspired my life, too, in numerous ways. I don’t fear for Apple’s future without Steve Jobs at the helm. But I sure will miss him there.

[Staff writer Lex Friedman has never owned a Mac he didn't love.]

To read the entire article, go here.

We all wish Steve Jobs well and pray for his health. He has been an inspiration and a technology leader for decades. Jobs has named Tim Cook to take over the helm. Good luck Tim.

—SVCG MacUsers

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Backing Up Your DataTime Machine is great for versioning and going back and retrieving past history but don’t rely on it for a dependable backup of your entire system. Time Machine is not a bootable drive. It only backs up your data.

When your hard drive fails, you’ll have to install a new one, then install the OS from your discs, and then use Time Machine to restore your data. (You do this by choosing ‘recover’.) This is not a fail-safe method however. A truly dependable backup plan is to have a separate drive for a clone of your original hard drive using Super Duper or Carbon Copy Cloner. On another drive use Time Machine. This will insure for continuous backup (versioning). Now your data is in 2 places.

Then on top of that, do remote backup of your critical data only. Now data is in 3 places. Photos should be burned to CD's or DVD's and placed off site for safety. They are usually too big in storage demands for an online backup. But, for critical documents, accounting files, etc. get a online service going such as Mosey, Carbonite, CrashPlan, etc. Many of these are free for around 2 gigs of online data storage. The data is encrypted. Your data is backed up in 3 places and one offsite in case of fire, flood, etc. The beauty of these schemes, is that they can all be scheduled for automatic backup.

Simple setup, automatic backup, foolproof recovery.1. Install CarboniteCarbonite is a small program that automatically manages your online backups and helps you keep track of what’s backed up.

2. Back upWhenever you create new files or modify existing ones, the Carbonite online backup software sends encrypted copies of those files over your high-speed Internet connection to a Carbonite data center. With your Carbonite subscription you get as much space as you need for your backup. However, for exceptionally large backups – 200GB or more – backup speed will slow noticeably after the first 200GBs have been backed up.

3. Relax — your backup is secure

Your backups are transmitted using secure socket layer (SSL) security technology, and they’re stored at a state-of-the-art data center on highly reliable disk arrays.

4. Restore lost files easilyWhen you need to get your files back, the Carbonite online backup software walks you through an easy-to-follow process that restores your backed up files to the right place on your computer.

5. Access your files anywhereNot at your computer? You can get to your backed up files from any computer connected to the Internet — or even from your iPhone®, Android™ or BlackBerry® smartphone.

System Requirements: XP, Vista, Windows 7 Intel-based Macs with OS X 10.5 or 10.6

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SVCG MAC Group 2011 Webmaster and Newsletter Kathy Aanestad aanestad@vom.comMembers Elizabeth Palmer elizabeth@vom.comChip Allen cnjallen@mac.comVeda Lewis veda@sonic.netKathy Jewell Rudy DoormannElizabeth Laubly Helen IsselDuane Larsen Helen O’MaraTom McKean Maria LobanovskyMarcia Schubert Florence PorterIreen Nyman Jackie SmithCarolyn Ardalan Nancylee MohlerMarge Moench Alexandria Morton Genevieve MortonCarolyn Ardalan Nancylee MohlerMarge Moench Florence Porter

S.V.C.G. Mac group meets second Saturdayof each month - place to be determined. You will be notified by email.

HOURS: 9AM - 10:30AM. All Welcome. No Charge.

About this publicationSonoma Valley Computer Group Mac Newsletter is

published monthly by Sonoma Valley Computer Group. Desktop publishing services donated by:

Kathy Aanestad. Call: (707) 935-6690, email aanestad@vom.com. © 2011, SVCG.

All rights reserved. Sponsored by our local ISP, DataProfessionals, on 19480-8th St. East.

Mailing Address:Sonoma Valley Computer Group

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Why I'm not committing to Lion -- yetby Christopher Breen, Macworld.com Aug 26, 2011 6:41 am

Allow me to provide a little insight into how stories with headlines like these generally work. The Author distends his or her minor objections to New Technology X to the point where said technology becomes something that anyone with a lick of sense approaches only with sterilized tongs and a throwing net. This is done, in part, so that The Reader can choose A Side and shake the nearest gardening implement in either support or fury.

In what I hope breaks from this mold, may I say—without vilifying Apple’s latest Mac OS release or those people who’ve chosen to embrace it—that Lion isn’t yet for me. At least not for the Macs I use for getting much of my work done. I spent many hours with the Lion betas and lived with the final Lion release on my MacBook Pro for a couple of weeks while traveling. I have to admit that I was relieved to return to my Mac Pro running Snow Leopard. And here’s why.

Input devicesOne of the major themes of Lion is the touch interface and gestures. To fully take advantage of them, you must use a trackpad. (Yes, I know today’s Magic Mouse supports a smaller set of gestures, but unless you shop in the petite aisle of the local Glovateria, half those gestures are wasted. Any side-to-side swipe with well-fed fingers is a painful and often futile exercise.) I find a trackpad to be a less precise input device than a mouse—more often than I’d like I have to wrestle with my trackpad to accurately place the cursor. So, I’m a mouse guy.

As a mouse guy, gestures are a feature I don’t use. In cases where a mouse click is clumsy in comparison to an operation that can be accomplished with a

gesture—swiping to a previous page or rotating an iPhoto image, for example—I’ve found that a keyboard shortcut works admirably (and, unlike a gesture, works every time). Also as a mouse guy, Apple’s natural scrolling is no benefit to me. I understand why it could be useful with a trackpad—it’s hardly a leap to imagine how the direction of iOS gestures can be implemented with a trackpad—but when you introduce a mouse’s scroll wheel, the conceit breaks down. There’s nothing natural or intuitive about moving a scroll wheel in the direction opposite to what we’ve used in the past.

Applications I donʼt useApple has introduced a number of improvements to Mail, including conversations, the Favorites Bar, and better searching. I still won’t use it. The decision to use one email client or another often rests on a couple of features vital to your perceived needs. In my case, I need to be able to quickly categorize people who send me email and then filter that email based on the sender’s category. Specifically, if I receive a PR release, I tag the sender as PR so that whenever that person next sends me a message, that message is diverted to my PR folder. Mail doesn’t provide an elegant way to do this. Microsoft Outlook does. And so Outlook—despite its bugs and slowdowns—remains my choice. Again, this is a very specific need. Mail may be a perfect fit for you.

iCal and Address Book—with their new “like the real thing” look—aren’t for me either. iCal has become less useful to me over the years thanks to Apple hiding its editing features and, now, forcing you to click a Calendars button whenever you want to see a list of your calendars. I’m hopeful (and happy) about these applications’ integration with iCloud, but I manage events and contacts elsewhere—BusyCal for my calendars and Outlook for contacts.

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High-concept, lower functionalityWhen working with Lion I sometimes feel like I’m watching an Andy Kaufman routine—concept is key to appreciating the performance. But when you focus on what’s really happening, it’s just some guy singing “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.”

Take Launchpad, for example. The Launchpad idea works well on an iOS device given the constraints of the interface—no windowed environment or sense of a directory hierarchy. But on a Mac where I may have hundreds of applications? There are better ways. I know, it’s one of many options for launching applications. And it’s an option that’s best used by those who have very few applications. But for me—who has those hundreds of applications—it’s a clumsy interface that I’ll ignore.

Or scroll bars. This is another concept that works well under iOS but makes little sense to me in the Mac OS. How, in any way, does removing the arrow buttons from a scroll bar make that scroll bar more functional? The aesthetic of a less cluttered scroll bar (or no scroll bar at all) is interesting, but I don’t need my Mac to be aesthetically interesting in this instance. I need it to provide me with controls for easily navigating windows.

And Autocorrect: I’ve found this feature to be a lifesaver on my iOS devices because of those devices’ small keyboards, where I’m apt to mistype. However, I use a full-sized physical keyboard with my Mac. With that keyboard, I’m a far better typist and yet Autocorrect pops up every so often to “correct” a perfectly fine word. If I’m not careful, wrong words are inserted and I later have to go back and correct the autocorrection.

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For power users and notLion has a load of features that power users could take advantage of, yet Lion often steps in the way of those same power users. I’ll offer Mission Control as a +1 for power users. Apple took a couple of underused (because they were a bit clumsy) features—Exposé and Spaces—and mixed them together into the rich soup that is Mission Control. Work-environment management has become more powerful and gestures make the thing a pleasure to use in the right hands. But cool-looking though it may be, it’s not a feature that the mythically bumbling new users, “your parents,” are ever going to touch. Both the concept and execution are too convoluted for newbies.

The –1 for power users is permissions. Lion routinely demands that I authorize one action or another with my Administrator’s password or flat-out bars me from conducting an operation because I don’t have the proper permissions. I understand that the notion of the Administrator doesn’t mean what it once did—someone with the power to easily initiate real change on the Mac. And for good reason: Anyone who installs Lion is an Administrator and granting that kind of power to new users isn’t always a good idea. However, if Apple is going to dilute the Administrator’s account to the point where error dialogs fly left and right and I need to access Info windows to alter permissions on files and folders to do things I could easily accomplish under Snow Leopard, let’s create another user level—the Super Administrator. I’m not asking for root privileges, but I would like to be able to move files where I want

them, throw out items in the Applications folder (even if they were installed with Lion), and have a visible Library folder in my user folder.

Not baked to my satisfactionAnd there’s Lion’s stability. It’s not unusual for these kinds of major OS releases to have problems when they first leap from the gate. Lion is no exception. The initial Lion release was buggy in my experience. The 10.7.1 release has helped, but I still find Lion less stable than Snow Leopard.

Summing upMy hope is that those who are tempted to react to this story’s headline will scroll down to this bit before posting a heated reply. Again, I’m not suggesting that Lion is a terrible, horrible, no good OS. It may be a great fit for you—particularly if you use a trackpad and find gestures convenient. Additionally, like every other version of the Mac OS, I expect it will become better baked with each update. And I also understand that I can switch off nearly all of the features that I don't care for.

So, what it boils down to for me is this: What in Lion compels me to abandon what is currently a stable and functional version of the Mac OS? As a mouse-centric power user who’s tweaked his Mac to near-perfection, not enough.

Yet.

[Christopher Breen is a senior writer for Macworld.]

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Most people don't think much about the inherent closed-endedness that goes with using proprietary Web services, simply because they offer so much in return. That closed-endedness—and the difficulties involved in porting your data back out—is becoming increasingly problematic now that such services are so common.

The sad truth of the history of Web services is that any site can disappear, given a long enough time span. But even in the face of such a history, most proprietary Web services still skimp on providing tools to make it easier for users to leave. And why wouldn't they make it difficult, when they have a vested interest in keeping their users? Give people a way to easily switch to a competitor and you've chipped away that much more at the advantages you hold over them.

On the other hand, those who do offer such tools have another advantage: a level of trust with their users that their competition might not have. And given that trustworthiness is becoming a Web currency at least as valuable as ad dollars to some people, it's in any Web service's long-term best interest to start offering those tools. Until then, the rest of us will have to make do with the tools available—and keep our ears to the ground when rumbling starts. Not if, but when.

Serdar Yegulalp has been writing about computers and information technology for over 15 years for a variety of publications.

To read the entire article, go here.

When a cloud service vanishes: How to protect your databy Serdar Yegulalp, Computerworld

Editor's Note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld's Macintosh Knowledge Center.

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How to learn to use gestures in Lionby Dan Miller, Macworld.com

Lion’s support for gestures—tapping and swiping fingers on a Multi-Touch trackpad—isn’t entirely new. OS X has supported gestures in some form for several years. Even so, many of us still haven't adopted gestures as a way of interacting with our Macs. Maybe we don't have the right Multi-Touch hardware. Or maybe the mouse-plus-keyboard interface is burned so deeply into our muscle memory, we've seen no reason to switch.

But if Lion is any measure, gestures are becoming an important part of OS X; someday, they might replace the mouse entirely. So Lion's launch is a perfect opportunity to make the switch—or, at minimum, to become conversant in this interactive language. And even if swiping and tapping on a trackpad is already familiar to you, you’ll still need to adjust to Lion’s new vocabulary. Here are some tips for doing both.

Go here to learn more.

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If neither Apple nor the manufacturers seem to be of any help, fear not.

In many cases, even if there is no software available for a particular printer model, you might be able to use one of the several generic drivers supported by OS X. These appear in Print & Scan when OS X cannot determine that a more specific driver will do, and can often offer at least basic printing functionality that could save an otherwise unusable printer.

Apple’s support communities are a veritable treasure trove of information; if you’re experiencing a problem of any kind, there’s a fair chance that someone else has already reported it and possibly found a solution. At the very least, if no solution currently exists, a quick look through the forums will save you the pain of scouring the Web for information only to come up empty-handed. The same idea applies to your printer’s manufacturer; even where no drivers are offered, most companies maintain a peer-to-peer discussion forum where you might be able to find workable alternatives.

Finally, a Google search can uncover other “unofficial” drivers for printers, like Splix and Gutenprint; while these are unsupported and require a bit of an adventurous streak to install, they can often mean the difference between a working printer and an expensive, oversized paperweight.

[Frequent contributor Marco Tabini is a an entrepreneur (and occasional developer) based in Toronto. He can be found on Twitter as @mtabini .]

To read the entire article, go here.

Is your printer compatible with Lion?How to find the right printer drivers to work with OS X 10.7

by Marco Tabini, Macworld.com

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Learn the latest techniques in photography, Web design, Adobe software and more with these new Peachpit and Learn by Video apps for your iPad.

Download the app for free and then choose the video you want to watch, each available for as little as $1.99. A couple taps and you’re learning everything you need to know from the comfort of a couch, train, subway, or airplane. Because sometimes learning is just more fun when you can do it whenever and wherever you want.

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Properly Protect Your MagSafe Adapter By Matt Klein

One of the most common things we see in our shop is MagSafe power adapters with damaged wire insulation and/or fraying where the thin cord meets either the power brick or the actual MagSafe tip. While many consider this the result of a design flaw (coupled with the fact that Apple does offer free replacement in some situations), the simple fact is that these conditions are completely avoidable.

It is my opinion that Apple’s offer to replace these damaged cords is more a customer service measure than a reaction to any design or build quality issue. I have three 85 watt adapters from the original MacBook Pro; they are the larger variety, about four years old, and in fine condition. The logical solution to fraying is to not let there be tension at the two crucial points of the cord.

Most commonly, fraying at the power brick end is the result of wrapping the thin cord too tightly when the adapter isn’t in use. Wrap it more loosely, and wrap it such that the cord remains perpendicular to the power brick. This eliminates the strain. The same principle applies for the MagSafe tip end: keep it perpendicular to the computer to eliminate strain, but also never pull on the cord to remove the plug from the power port.

Replacement adapters are $79.99.

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Apple Mail Tips and Tricks

About.com has long been a great place to get training, hints and tips. This article by Tom Nelson subtitled “Re-Making Apple Mail to Fit Your Needs.”

In this article, his tips include:

1. “Keep an Eye on Important Email Messages”

2. “Find Messages Quickly in Apple Mail”

3. “Click and Drag to Customize the Apple Mail Toolbar”

4. “Take Control of Your Email in Mail”

5. “Organize Your Apple Mail With Mailboxes”

6. “Create Notes or To-Do’s in Apple Mail”

7. “Pump Up Your Email With Apple Mail Stationery”

8. “Use Mail’s BCC Feature to Send Emails to a Group”

9. “Add a Signature to Your Email Messages in Apple Mail”

10. “Add a Photo to an Email Message”

11. “Set Up Apple Mail Rules”Screen shot courtesy Coyote Moon, Inc.

12. “Filter Spam With Apple Mail”Screen shot courtesy of Coyote Moon, Inc.

13. “Access Your AOL Email Using Apple’s Mail”

14. “Moving Apple Mail: Transfer Your Apple Mail to a New Mac”

15. “Fix Apple Mail Problems With These Troubleshooting Guides”

See the full article here: http://macs.about.com/od/AppleMail/tp/Apple-Mail-Tips-And-Tricks.htm

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• MAC USER GROUP MEETING

Date: Saturday, Sept. 10thPlace: at Elizabethʼs - for info, click here

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