<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">CONTENTS:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">____________________________________________________________________________________</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">1. MEETING UPDATE</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">2. APPLE REPORTS RECORD SECOND QUARTER RESULTS</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">3. MAC 911 - SOLUTIONS TO YOUR MOST VEXING MAC PROBLEMS</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;text-indent: -1px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">4. APPLE TV WITH 2.0 SOFTWARE</SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> 5. ICAL: YOUR POWERFUL PERSONAL ASSISTANT</SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">__________________________________________________________________________________</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">This email news and updates newsletter will be sent each month to all WelMac members who have requested to receive such messages when they applied/reapplied for membership. To subscribe, go to <</SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.welmac.org.nz/cgi-bin/lists/mail.cgi?f=u&l=announce"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">http://www.welmac.org.nz/cgi-bin/lists/mail.cgi?f=u&l=announce</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">>.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">************************************************************************</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>1. MEETING UPDATES</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>Wellington Meeting</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">The next main meeting of the Wellington Macintosh Society Inc. will be held on Monday 28 April 2008. This meeting will be held in the Ante Room on the ground level of Turnbull House, 11 Bowen Street, Wellington from 7.10pm.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">This month's topic will take a look at the need to establish a backup strategy if you want to protect your valuable data. Much of the presentation will centre around the new 'Time Machine' in OSX 10.5 'Leopard' along with the newly released 'Time Capsule'. As usual, we'll start with our Q&A session followed by a short supper before the main presentation.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>Kapiti Area Meeting</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">For those members living at or near the Paraparaumu area, our next Kapiti meeting will be held at 7.10 pm on Monday 5 May 2008. It will be at the Rita King Cottage at St Marks Church in Rosetta Road, Raumati. The topic of the meeting will be the same as the Wellington meeting, i.e. Backup Strategy.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>Mac Basics Meeting</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">This meeting is an introduction to computing on a Macintosh will be held on Monday 12 May 2008 starting at 7pm in the Turnbull Room on the 1st floor of Turnbull House.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>Mac OS X Special Interest Group</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Monday 19 May 2008 starting 7 pm in the Turnbull Room on the 1st floor of Turnbull House.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">This meeting will be covering an introduction to Mac OS X for people who are already familiar with Windows but having trouble finding their way around the Mac. We'll also look at VMware Fusion.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">************************************************************************</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>2. APPLE REPORTS RECORD SECOND QUARTER RESULTS</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Apple announced on April 23, 2008 its financial results for its fiscal 2008 second quarter ended March 29, 2008. The Company posted revenue of $7.51 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $5.26 billion and net quarterly profit of $770 million, or $.87 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 32.9 percent, down from 35.1 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 44 percent of the quarter’s revenue.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Apple shipped 2,289,000 Macintosh® computers during the quarter, representing 51 percent unit growth and 54 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 10,644,000 iPods during the quarter, representing one percent unit growth and eight percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. Quarterly iPhone™ sales were 1,703,000.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">“We’re delighted to report 43 percent revenue growth and the strongest March quarter revenue and earnings in Apple’s history,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With over $17 billion in revenue for the first half of our fiscal year, we have strong momentum to launch some terrific new products in the coming quarters.”</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">“We’re thrilled to have generated $4 billion in cash flow from operations in the first half of fiscal 2008, yielding an ending cash balance of $19.4 billion,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the third quarter of fiscal 2008, we expect revenue of about $7.2 billion and earnings per diluted share of about $1.00.”</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">************************************************************************</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>3. MAC 911 - SOLUTIONS TO YOUR MOST VEXING MAC PROBLEMS</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">by Christopher Breen</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>Manual keychain editing</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Reader Brenda Rather, in a message entitled "I Have Shot Myself in the Foot," writes:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">"I was searching through some Macintosh forums and saw someone's advice to go to a so-and-so folder and throw away a file that held some of my passwords to workaround a problem. So I did and now each time I log in to Entourage, I have to re-enter passwords for all four of my accounts. How can I re-enter these passwords permanently so that I don't have to do that anymore."</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">If you find that enabling the Add to Keychain option is doing you no good, you might first try repairing your keychain. To do so, launch Keychain Access (found at /Applications/Utilities), choose Keychain First Aid from the Keychain Access menu, enter your user name and administrator's password in the window that appears, enable the Verify option, and then click the Start button. If any red entries appear indicating there's a problem with some of your keychain items, enable the Repair option and click Start again.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">If that doesn't do the trick, you can manually add keychain items. You do that by choosing File -> New Password Item. In the sheet that appears you'll see three blank fields. In the first one enter the IMAP, POP, or SMTP address for your first account. So, for example, if you're constantly prompted for a password for your receiving (POP) email account, you'd enter something like: pop://pop.example.com or imap:// imap.gmail.com.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">In the next field you enter the account name you use with your email </SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:client--brather@example.com"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">client--brather@example.com</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">, for instance. Finally, in the last field enter the password for this account. Click Add and the item is added to your keychain. Repeat for your other accounts.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>With luck, Entourage will stop the nagging.</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">If even that won't work, you can always start over. If you do you'll have to enter all your passwords again--not only for your email accounts but all other passwords including those for websites that were once stored in your keychain. (Are you getting the idea that this is a court- of-last-resort solution and best avoided if possible?) The way to start over is to open Keychain Access' Preferences and click the Reset My Keychain button. This creates a new, empty keychain.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>Excluding items when searching</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Reader Steve Good isn't feeling so good about the Finder's ability to find--or, in this case, exclude--files. He writes:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">"I want to find all the images on my Mac not in iPhoto, and all music not in iTunes. I don't want to automatically add them; I want to find them. The Finder's Find command (and OS X) seems completely incapable of excluding a location (i.e look everywhere except the iPhoto Library folder and its interior folders). Since this seems beyond OS X, what's the shareware app to use?"</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">It's not completely beyond OS X. Just open the Spotlight system preference, click the Privacy tab, navigate to your user folder in the Finder, and drag the folders or items you'd like to exclude into the Privacy window--in your case the iTunes folder and iPhoto Library package. When you next conduct a Spotlight or Finder search, you'll find all items except those within the iTunes folder and iPhoto Library.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">If you're looking for a utility that allows you to do this kind of thing without turning to Spotlight's preferences, check out Houdah Software's €15 HoudaSpot 2.1 (Leopard-only). Rob Griffiths bestowed four mice on HoudaSpot 2 early last month, and for good reason. It allows you to create custom searches based on Spotlight data that are otherwise impossible. Among its many charms is the ability to easily exclude folders and their contents from your searches. If you're running Leopard, it's definitely worth a look.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>Local data migration</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Reader John Spahr is finally ready to make a commitment and needs just the gentlest push to seal the deal. He writes:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">"My Mac Pro has two hard drives. One of them has Tiger installed on it, which is what I normally use. I installed Leopard on the other to see what it was like. Now that 10.5.2 is out, I'm ready to use Leopard on a regular basis but my third-party applications aren't cooperating. When I launch them from the Tiger drive some can't find their registration and others are missing support files or the custom settings I've created. Is there a way to clean up this mess?"</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Use Migration Assistant. Most people think of Migration Assistant as a one-time tool you use when you want to move data from an old Mac to a new one, but it works locally as well.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Boot from the Leopard drive and navigate to the Utilities folder within the Applications folder at the root level of the drive. Launch Migration Assistant, press the Continue button on the first screen to get started, and enter your Administrator's password when prompted. On the Migration Method screen select the From a Time Machine Backup or Other Disk option and click Continue. On the next screen you'll be prompted for a system to transfer from. Select your Tiger disk.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">You'll then be prompted to select the users whose data you'd like to transfer information from. At the very least, you should select your user account. You can choose other accounts if you'd also like to transfer their settings and data.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">You're then prompted to select the kind of items you'd like to transfer. You'll have the greatest success by leaving all three options-- Applications, Files and Folders, and Library--checked. (Note that if you have a newer version of an application on your Leopard drive, it won't be replaced by an older version from the Tiger drive. The newer version will remain.)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Click the Continue button and wait as Migration Assistant goes about its business.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>No slo-mo in iMo '08</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Reader Susan wonders about a feature that appears to be missing from iMovie '08. She writes:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">"In iMovie '08 I can't seem to find the effects I had with the previous version of iMovie, specifically the slow-motion effect. What's going on?"</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">While iMovie HD and iMovie '08 share the same given name, their similarity pretty much ends there. They are two completely different applications and many of the features found in iMovie HD are missing in the latest version of iMovie (and, to be fair, there's some vice versa here--iMovie '08 has some compelling features not found in the older version of the program). Regrettably, that slow-motion effect is one of the features missing in iMovie '08.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">You have a couple of options. The first is to bid iMovie '08 adieu and return to the version of iMovie distributed with iLife '06. If the copy you had is gone, you can download a fresh copy from Apple's website. iMovie HD and iMovie '08 will live in harmony in your Applications folder so you needn't delete iMovie '08 when you install the older version.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">The other option is to continue working in iMovie '08, extract the clip you want to slow down, slow it down, and then bring the sloth-like version back into iMovie. Karsten Schluter explains the process on this page. Here's the gist:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">First, locate your clip. You do this by selecting the clip in iMovie's Event Library pane. In the clip pane to the right, Control-click (Right- click) on the clip and choose Reveal in Finder from the contextual menu. The Mac switches to the Finder to reveal the highlighted clip.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Now download a copy of Jan Schotsman's free JES Deinterlacer. JES Deinterlacer has a few talents but the one we're specifically interested in is its ability to slow down or speed up a movie file. To do this, open your clip in the program (just drag it to the application icon), click the Project tab, and edit the Movie Speed field. If you'd like the movie to play half as fast, for example, enter .5 in this field. A tenth as fast would merit a .1 entry. You can leave the other settings alone.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Select the Output tab, click the Put button, choose a location for your slowed-down clip, and click the OK button at the bottom of the window. JES Deinterlacer will export your clip in slo-mo.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Now simply import the edited clip into iMovie '08 and edit at will.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>Leaving the past behind</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Reader J.T. is having a hard time letting go of the past. He writes:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">I have a Microtek ScanMaker X6EL flatbed scanner ,which I want to connect and use with my iMac PowerPC G4, 800 MHz computer. Since this scanner is no longer supported by Microtek, their Tech Support advised that I should try the software program VueScan.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">He then goes on to list a pile of adapters he'd use to allow the scanner's SCSI interface to connect to the iMac's FireWire port. He concludes:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">The estimated total cost of this hardware/software bundle is $200+. Is there a simpler, less costly, way to connect and operate the Microtek ScanMaker X6 EL scanner with the iMac computer under Mac OS X, v. 10.4.11? Will the listed hardware/software above work? Any other suggestions, other than purchase a "new, modern" scanner and start over?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">J.T., the danger of asking for help from others is that they'll occasionally offer advice that you don't want to hear. Example: When you ask, "My girlfriend has threatened to poison my chowder the next time I sneeze and I believe she's quite serious about it. Other than dumping her, what can I do?" a person who truly cares about your welfare will suggest that you back up a step and reconsider your commitment to this modern-day Borgia.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">This is one of those cases. Although you don't want to hear it, it's time to let go of that old scanner and get a new one. Here's why:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Those connectivity and driver issues are a biggish deal. Once upon a time I tested some FireWire to SCSI adapters and I have to say I found them problematic. (But things may have improved since then--commenters, feel free to offer your experiences). And while VueScan is an impressive piece of engineering, wouldn't it be nicer if your scanner just worked with your Mac--and continued to work with the next major Mac OS update?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Also, your scanner offers 1200 dpi resolution. You can get that same resolution from a scanner today for $50. For that $200 you'd spend cobbling together a solution for your current scanner you can have a new scanner that offers 4800 x 9600 resolution. It's likely that this new scanner will also handle slides (though not to the extent of a dedicated slide scanner) and include a modern copy of Photoshop Elements.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">To sum up: Honestly, unless your old scanner is the reincarnation of a beloved ancestor, I see no reason to hang onto it.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">I understand the pain of discarding a perfectly good scanner. It's not broken, it's simply outdated for your current setup. You can help alleviate some of that pain by donating the scanner to a group that can still use it--a school, Macintosh users group, church, or senior center. Someone will surely find a use for it. This way you get a scanner that works, someone else gets a scanner that works, and you've kept another hunk of plastic, metal, and glass out of the local landfill.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>iCal and the 24-hour clock</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Reader Graham Hibbard feels hemmed in by iCal's 12-hour nature. He writes:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">I am using 10.5 with iCal, and everywhere else on my MacBook seems to able to handle the 24-hour clock except iCal. I notice that any iCal events will only give me an AM/PM option. Any fix for this?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">There is. Within System Preferences open the International system preference and click the Formats tab. In the Times portion of the window click the Customize button.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">In the sheet that appears you'll see the time in 12-hour format. Click on the hour and from the pop-up menu choose 1-24 to select the 24-hour format. To prevent AM and PM from showing you can either delete the contents of the Before Noon and After Noon fields or, in the field where the time is displayed, select AM or PM and press the Mac's Delete key.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">When you have things configured to your satisfaction, click OK to dismiss the sheet. If iCal is running, quit the application. When you next launch it you'll see your events displayed in the 24-hour format. Should you wish to return to the U.S. default 12-hour format, just open the International system preference again, click the Formats tab, and from the Region pop-up menu choose United States.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>Reinstalling OS X applications</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">In what some might term throwing the infant out with the water in which it was steeping, reader J.S. did something that he now regrets. He writes:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Last year I had significant problems with my iCal application. I was so dissatisfied, I deleted the application entirely and installed Sunbird. I'm wondering if it's possible to download a new, hopefully improved, version of iCal?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Before we start, I should mention that tossing out applications-- particularly those that are bundled with the Mac OS--is not a good idea. If you don't like a particular application, simply ignore it and, chances are, it won't bother you. Now, to your particular problem.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">iCal is an application bundled with Mac OS X and the only way to obtain a new version is to upgrade your version of the Mac OS--move from Tiger to Leopard, for example. However, you can reinstall the version of iCal you once had. Why do so when you were unhappy with it in the past? It's possible that something else running on your Mac was causing iCal to misbehave and a subsequent OS update--a point update such as 10.5.2, for example--addressed that issue, allowing iCal to run as Jobs intended.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Fortunately, you needn't reinstall the entire operating system to get a single application back. Both the Tiger and Leopard Installer discs include an Optional Installs installer. Launch this installer (found in the Optional Installs folder on the Leopard disc) and at the root level the Tiger Installer disc.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Just launch the installer and click the Continue buttons until you reach the Custom Install screen. Click the triangle next to Applications, tick the box next to iCal, and click the Install button to install iCal. With both the Tiger and Leopard Installer discs the Applications area of the Custom Install screen includes options for installing Address Book, iCal, iChat, iTunes, Mail, Oxford Dictionaries, Safari, and X11. Other options include Additional Fonts, Language Translations, and Printer Drivers.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">If you'd like to reinstall applications that aren't offered in the Custom Install screen--applications in the Utilities folder, for example-- you can use Charles Srstka's $20 Pacifist. It works this way:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Insert your Mac OS X Installer disc. Download Pacifist and launch it. In the window that appears click the Open Apple Install Discs button. A window will appear offering you the single choice to look at the OSInstall package. Click OK.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Pacifist will churn away for a bit and then you'll see a window titled OSInstall.mpkg. In this window you can dig down through the hierarchy of folders to find what you seek or you can enter the name of what you're after in the Find field and press Return. A drawer appears that lists the names of matching files.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">To install an item click the Install button in the upper-left corner of the window. You'll be prompted for your administrator's password. Enter it, click OK, and the item will be installed into its proper location on your Mac's hard drive.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">************************************************************************</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>4. APPLE TV WITH 2.0 SOFTWARE</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;text-indent: -1px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">by Bill Davies, <</SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:bdavies%40macnexus.org"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000099">bdavies@macnexus.org</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">></SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> In February 2008 I took the plunge and integrated an AppleTV box into my home audio and video system. Apple announced an important feature upgrade in January, which arrived in February, and finally made the AppleTV a viable product. It is not without its limitations, which I discuss below, but all in all is a truly amazing introduction to on-demand movie viewing. To recap, the original AppleTV, introduced a year ago, could do nothing unless paired with a Macintosh on your home network. So you needed to go to the iTunes store on your Mac, purchase a movie, and then you could view it on your big screen TV if the AppleTV were connected to the TV. The big sales pitch, at the time, was that the AppleTV would allow you to you’re your iPhoto library photos on your TV, and to watch movies downloaded (and purchased) from iTunes. But you also need to remember that the movie industry saw what iTunes did to the music business, and determined that they were not going to let Apple steal their kingdom away from them. So the movie industry has retained a firm grip on what you can watch, how you can get the content, and how many times you can watch what you bought or rented. Thus the AppleTV with 2.0 software is a marvelous device that does what it claims to be able to do (rent movies from big studios), within the constraints placed on the movie download business by the big studios that must first license the content.</SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> Much like Apple’s more recent Time Capsule device (a box that lets you back up all your Macs to a central backup location using Time Machine), the AppleTV is a square box about the size of an Airport base station, but instead of 6 network jacks on the back, the AppleTV contains all the video and audio ports you need to connect it to your flat screen (or other) television, as long as your TV supports either component connections or HDMI. (It’s sort of like what a Mac mini should have been, basically a Mac devoted to processing video and audio signals.) You can put the AppleTV next to your television, or, as in my situation, in a different room connected to your AV receiver. The AppleTV can join your existing wireless network, or you can plug it in with an Ethernet cable for faster download speeds. Interestingly, the AppleTV does not contain a DVD player, so you can’t slip a DVD in there. All content has to be digital. Think Steve is sending a message here? (Note, if Apple wants to jump on the Blu-Ray train, they might try selling an AppleTV with a Blu-Ray drive in it, so it would add more value to the user's existing setup.)</SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> There is a very user-friendly menuing system that is remarkably close to FrontRow on your Intel Mac, which takes over your TV screen when you press the Apple Remote buttons.</SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> The February 2008 is significant in that it un-tethers the AppleTV from your Macintosh. The AppleTV still shows up as a device along the left side of your copy of iTunes, but once it is on your network and configured, it can access the iTunes movie rental store whether your Macintosh is turned on or not. (And it can also access any of the content on YouTube, if you are a YouTube junkie, as well as the iTunes store on Apple’s web site.) Furthermore, you don’t have to buy movies, but rather the AppleTV presents an elaborate interface that displays thumbnails of all the movies available from Apple for rental. Yes, that’s right, rental. Basic movies are $2.99 and you have one month to watch them; the few HD titles are $3.99 and offer better resolution, which only matters if you have a very expensive TV. Once you actually start watching the movie, you have 24 hours to finish watching it. </SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> Although the AppleTV comes with a little Apple Remote, I have my universal remote control for the home system configured to let me turn on the TV, select the AppleTV as the input source, and scroll through the available rental titles. Once you have selected a title you want to watch, you can either view a trailer of the movie or rent it. Downloading then begins immediately and you are ready to watch your movie within a minute. (Admittedly, I am on SureWest fiber, so I am not sure what this would be like on a slow DSL system.)</SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> So the big issues for AppleTV are these two: the selection of rentals sucks, and the device will only play back mainstream video content that you download from Apple. For example, Amazon Inbox claims 10,442 movies for rent, but you have to watch them on your computer. (Don’t be surprised if Amazon partners with a hardware company to remedy this in the near future.) Apple offers just 770 movies, a large number of them from the Disney catalog, since Steve Jobs sits on Disney’s Board of Directors. Only a small number of those are true HD movies. (Apparently the AppleTV up converts movies to 1080i format to match your 1080i television; but since my television is two-years-old and 720p, I was just as happy to tell the AppleTV not to up convert the signal.) The second flaw, for some people, is that the AppleTV won’t just play back any old video file you send over to it, and there are some rough edges caused by this new software update that essentially uncouples the AppleTV from your Mac. Thus with the 1.0 software, you could create content on your Mac in movie (preferably HD) and ship it over to the AppleTV.</SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> The new software and the new rental model make it decidedly much harder to ship content over to your AppleTV, and forget it if you want to view a non-commercial file in Diva, Avid, AVI, WMV, MPG, MPEG, ASF, RM, RMVB, MOV, ASX, SVCD, or VCD format. While I have read anecdotal reports of people using iTunes to export their home movies to “AppleTV” format, I happen to own two Pirates of the Caribbean movies purchase from Apple last year, and while I can view them on my computer using iTunes, I had to do a Google search to figure out how to view a purchased movie living on my Mac on my flat screen TV. (The answer is to use the FrontRow interface on your TV screen to navigate to “My Shared Movies,” which scans the Mac you have paired with AppleTV, and that will let the AppleTV access movies that you have purchased via iTunes.) So with AppleTV 1.0, this would have been a no-brainer, and with AppleTV 2.0, they seem to have made some things harder so that they could focus on making movie rentals easier. Likewise I easily got my Mac’s music and photo library to show up on the TV with software version 1.0, but these features come and go with software version 2.0. Sometimes they work, sometimes not. I’m guessing there will need to be another software update once Apple figures out how this should all fit together. They certainly need to placate the people who spent the last year buying movies and TV shows from Apple instead of renting them. On the other hand, if you’re happy with Apple’s selection of movies on iTunes, then this is a non-issue for you.</SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> My conclusion is that if you’re a grandparent with a technical hankering and have grandkids come to visit periodically, the AppleTV is a marvelous tool that gives you access to all the Disney movies without having to run out and buy or rent those DVDs. At $299 for the top model, it’s a steal. It also is a good pacifier for people like me who go ballistic when my kids get fingerprints all over the DVDs and make them skip or freeze. Happy surfing! Now you can surf for movies while sitting on your couch.</SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> Movie quality is very acceptable, indiscernible from a DVD in most cases. Of the several movies we have rented, one had some video artifacts that caused me to become quite worried, yet the second one we rented displayed beautifully. And no fingerprints! That leads me to conclude that some of these movies were converted correctly, and some probably need to go back to the drawing board to get reconverted to AppleTV format with a little tweaking. On the subject of how many titles you have to choose from when renting, I feel that some of us have to take the plunge and start generating some demand. Additional titles will come, but I’d rather they arrive when they are properly mastered and have 5.1 sound, instead of getting access to 5,000 or 10,000 shoddy digital conversions. Certainly Apple’s service is not going to compete with Netflix or Blockbuster based on the lack of selection. (And it is common knowledge that Netflix is working on its own piece of hardware to let subscribers access movies via download.) Can you take one of your existing DVDs and rip it to your hard drive, then play on an AppleTV? I’m not entirely positive, but I believe the answer is “no” due to copy protection issues.</SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> The AppleTV works as advertised and easily streams content from the internet. With little effort, it also plays movies or TV shows you purchased from Apple that live in you iTunes library. Most assuredly the revised AppleTV “works just like a Mac should,” and even the most clueless person should be able to browse content and rent a movie with a few clicks of the supplied remote control (once you have it connected to your TV and connected to your network) — assuming you can live with Apple’s paltry selection of titles.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">************************************************************************</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: -1px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.2px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><B>5. ICAL: YOUR POWERFUL PERSONAL ASSISTANT</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">When you add an event to your iCal calendar, you can do much more than simply name it and specify a date and time. Like a good personal assistant, it can remind you of upcoming events, help round up others for meetings, and even ensure that you have essential files in front of you at just the right moment.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">To access iCal’s hidden superpowers, just double-click on the event’s name (or select it and type Command-i), then click the Edit button.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">To invite other participants to an iCal event, just type their email addresses into the Attendees field. If you prefer, you can open iCal’s Addresses panel by typing Command-Option-a, and drag names from your contacts list. When you’ve added the desired contacts and event details, click Send, and Apple Mail will email the event request. If the event changes, you can send an update with the revised information. </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">There are many options here. For example, you can assign customized, color-coded categories to help keep track of work projects, personal appointments, and other commitments. You can set up recurring events via the repeat menu, which allows for custom recurrences (say, the last Tuesday of May every ten years) in addition to daily, weekly, monthly, and annual events. To create an event that continues over one or more days, click the “all-day” checkbox.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">You can ask iCal to remind you of your upcoming events through a powerful alarm function, which issues one or more event reminders via pop-up messages or email. When pop-up reminders appear, you can “snooze” them for as little as one minute or as much as a week. You can even schedule the iCal alarm to automatically run a script or open a file on your computer at a specified time.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 12px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">You can also attach documents, graphics, or other files to an event — pictures, maps, spreadsheets, or whatever — and include any relevant URLs. Finally, you can insert additional text into the Note field: anything from a phone number to an entire meeting agenda. 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