August 2006
President Hm: (905) 263-4167 Solina Jim Foster Email: jimfoster@mac.com Vice President & Resident Genius Aaron Vegh Apple Ambassador Hm: (905) 983-9205 Orono Bruce Cameron Email: rbcameron@rogers.com Treasurer Hm: 905-404-0405 Oshawa John Kettle Email : hjke@pteron.org Publicity Director and Jolly Good Fellow Jim Danabie Logistics Email: cgreaves@i-zoom.net C. Greaves Secretary Email: Halston.Wild@gmail.com Stan Wild Submissions from MaUsE Club members are always welcome.
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iSee Nano – Innovative case for the iPod Nano (New) – $22 Crystal Clear Protection, Convert headphones to lanyard headphones & wear your iPod around your neck, Adjust the cord length to just the right length easily and securely, Wrap up the headphones for storage.
Simple Network Diagnostics What it means is that my internet connection never had a chance because I’m not even connected to the internet. There are two possible reasons this might happen. Its possible but very unlikely that there is a hardware problem with the ethernet port. Unlikely in the extreme. The most common cause of this type of failure is a loose, damaged or unplugged ethernet cable.
Macintosh Users East A reminder to all Members of Macintosh Users East [MaUsE] that the package of discounts and offers known as the Vendor Offers gets updated on a monthly basis. The latest set of offers can be accessed from the Member side of the MaUsE web site, and I encourage each of you to peruse these at your convenience. As usual, the current collection of offers includes some which are applicable to U.S.
Temperature Monitor Go to: http://www.bresink.de/osx/0TemperatureMonitor/download.html Last month’s DoubleClick had an article about the to get your free copy of this terrific utility. benefits of getting rid of potenGo to: http://www.bresink.de/products.html to see the other software from the tially harmful computer heat and included a section on replacing the same company, Marcel Bresink Software-Systeme fan in my G4 Sawtooth power supply.
Scrabble for Mac OSX In this issue Marcel Dufresne and I will be reviewing a couple of games. Me first. Neither one of us is the type to spend hours running virtual mazes while slaughtering gruesome aliens with an arsenal of bazookas, blasters and phasers so these reviews won’t be for that kind of game. The game I will review is the new OSX release of Scrabble from MacSoft, a part of their new BoardGame Trio pack featuring Scrabble, Monopoly and Risk II.
to improve your playing style. In the other minigames, Maven makes up a scenario and asks you to make a certain play - for example, to find the best place to put a word, point-wise, or to discover anagrams within your given set of tiles. All of these little games are aimed at stretching the dexterity of your mind and making you a better Scrabble player. Appropriate sound effects (27 .wav files) and smooth graphics with sound effects (about 525 tiny QuickTime movies) round out Scrabble’s gameplay.
specific pattern inside each sphere. This would allow identification even if you were colour blind. Once you click on the start icon you are taken to the menu screen. It shows the level that you are at on the path to 60. The menu bar at the bottom allows you to identify yourself (Players), choose full screen, show hints and adjust the music and volume (Options), gives you the rules of the game and the high scores. As in most games, you need to identify yourself as the new player and then you can start.
Hint screens are given to you in the first few levels. I would keep those on to start with. They are a good reminder of what you need to do. Also do not despair as you proceed along, you are learning the ins and outs of the pattern. Once I made it to the top, I was placed back at level one. With all my practice I was able to work my way up the path to the 58th level at one sitting before perishing. That took about 5 hours.
GameRanger GameRanger is the first and largest internet multiplayer game matchmaking service for the Macintosh. Introduced over five years ago, the GameRanger community is home to over 220,000 registered members playing more than 160 popular game titles spanning classic, action, strategy, and simulation. If you want to play against other game players over the Internet, you will need to install GameRanger on your computer (if you don’t have it already).
Going HDTV submitted by GrandpaChris A new world of excellent quality video is coming your way. Higher quality picture information from your home made videos and DV camera stills are being produced at more reasonable prices. The stores are full of HDTV systems in plasma and various LCD panel TV for your movie or slide show enjoyment. Before buying I read many reviews found on the net. And looked for problems that people might have had with the HC3. Surprisingly most gave the unit high praise.
Image Spam and What To Do About It Your Mac OS Mail account has a special way you can catch these image spams and send them on their way to oblivion. If you closely examine all of the image spams you receive you will notice that the image spam emails always have several distinguishing marks: they come from a different address each time and the Content-Type header begins with either “multipart/related” or with “multipart/alternative”.
The only tricky thing here is selecting the “Edit Header List...” from the list of conditions and then entering “Content-Type” in the next window. “Content-Type” will now appear in the list of conditions. You will need to select it and enter as its content “multipart/related” or as “multipart/alternative.” You might choose to replace the “Not in my previous recipients list” condition with “Not in my Address Book” depending on your own correspondence patterns. Adjust to suit your own tastes.
San Francisco Apple WWDC06 As you may be aware, from August 7th to the 11th 2006 was the really big Macintosh show-and-tell event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference commenced on the 7th of August, with Steve Jobs giving the keynote presentation at 10am California time.
Notice to DoubleClick Readers Who Are NOT MaUsE Members If you are living in or near the Durham Region of Southern Ontario and using a Macintosh computer and are not yet a member of MaUsE you can use the information found on the second page of this newsletter to get meeting info and to get in touch with a member of our executive to find out how to join. If you just want to attend a few of our monthly meetings please feel free to join us on the fourth Wednesday of the month.
