tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96920122009-11-05T21:29:03.936-05:00MacSTAC was founded on April 1, 1978 as an Apple II MUG. We are a community group with members from all walks of life, careers and levels of ability. We welcome all Mac users to improve their knowledge and, in turn, share their Mac knowledge with others. http://macstac.orgeMailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13504144967225105863noreply@blogger.comBlogger1066125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9692012.post-4463063974878632152009-11-05T21:28:00.000-05:002009-11-05T21:29:04.045-05:00

Though users of older Intel-based Macs were led to believe they would have to spend $169 to migrate from Tiger to Snow Leopard, new reports state the $29 upgrade disc will work just fine.In his review of Snow Leopard, Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal, Mossberg reveals that those who have been hesitant to upgrade their Mac will be able to take advantage of Snow Leopard's bargain price,

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http://db.tidbits.com/article/10642

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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Apple unveils new iMacs with 21.5 and 27-inch displaysApple on Tuesday unveiled an all new iMac line dual- and quad-core iMacs featuring LED-backlit 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen displays in a new edge-to-edge glass design and seamless all aluminum enclosure. ( 259 comments )Apple intros MacBook overhaul with LED display, 7-hour batteryApple Tuesday released a newly

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Come rain or SNOW (no way - not until Halloween), we will meet tomorrow night. Sorry for the late notice.We have a group of interesting topics to tickle your interest plus Questions and Answers, no news from Apple (where ARE the new iMacs and Mac Mini's?), and of course good sociality with soft drinks and yummy cookies and popcorn, plus a bit of free software to give away.Hope you can make

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YourFonts.com is an online service that allows you tomake a TrueType font out of your handwriting. Just printout a template, write each character in the predefinedboxes, scan, and upload it. As soon as your font isgenerated, you'll be able to preview, download, andinstall your font and start using it in your Windows,Mac OS X and Linux applications.http://www.user-groups.net/news/YourFonts.html

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One of my pet peeves is having someone send me an emailabout some thing that at least to me is an obvious urbanlegend. Of course some of my friend actually send it tome expecting me to do the Snopes search.http://www.ugnn.com/2009/10/let_me_google_that_for.html

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The latest version of this easy-to-use, powerfulvector-drawing application for Mac, is unique in thatit presents the user with a simple and clean interface,yet packs an impressive assortment of useful,professional featureshttp://www.user-groups.net/news/DrawIt.html

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The Internet Spam Police Twitter account has tweeted about thespread of Nigerian scams into Craig's List.  She'll give you a sureway to see if the answer to your Craig List advertising is spam or not... http://bit.ly/pdXOF... Also see Craigslist spam ruleshttp://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html

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Apple subsidiary FIlemaker today announced the release of Bento 3, a significant update to the company's personal database software. Priced at $49 for a single-user license or $99 for a five-user family pack, Bento 3 adds integration with iPhoto, sharing of libraries over local networks, and new options for viewing information."Think of Bento 3 as a powerful, easy way to bring together all of

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http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/

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October 9, 2009 12:05 AM PDTby Topher KesslerOur Weekly Utilities Update report is a list of all the updates for many Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. While utilities can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our main focus in this column is to bring you those that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and

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Written by Eric SlivkaFollowing AT&T's announcement that it will now allow iPhone Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services over its mobile network, Apple and VoIP provider Skype have issued public statements reacting to today's announcement.The Associated Press reports that Apple will be moving forward as quickly as possible to enable customers to take advantage of the functionality.Apple

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Someone sent in this link asking if these are Photoshopretouches, or the real thing. Many people seem to thinkthey are the real thing.http://bit.ly/21trZq

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The Book of Inkscape is the definitive guide to drawing anddesigning with inkscape a free graphics editor that competeswith expensive programs like Adobe Illustratorhttp://www.user-groups.net/books/inkscape_book.html

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Prizmo is an image processing application that enables digitalcamera owners to scan any document. Based on customer feedback,Mac users can really do without a scanner, even more now.Using a digital camera for scanning documents is aneasy way to save room and money.http://www.user-groups.net/news/camera_scanning.html

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October 2, 2009 11:54 AM PDTby Joe AimonettiFont sizePrintE-mailSharePost a commentFor the non-iPhone toting Mac owners that keep their mobile life on their BlackBerrys, the official BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac has just become available for download. The software promises to help you "quickly and effortlessly sync your BlackBerry smartphone with your Mac computer, so you can do more of

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Palm Pre: The Missing Manual -  This beautiful, full-colorbook from USA Today personal-technology columnist Ed Baigwill help you go from newcomer to expert in no time.http://www.user-groups.net/books/mm_palm_pre.html

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Plagued by large numbers of files with no meaning?Digital images from a digital camera card, or file componentsin a cadd project? Now you can give the entire batch meaningfulnames for easy recognition and indexing with Renamer.http://www.user-groups.net/news/Renamer.html

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 HoudahGeo photo geocoding solution for the Mac allows forgeocoding photos hosted in an iPhoto library and notify iPhoto'09about new geotags. Version 2.2 also brings full supportfor viewing direction.http://www.user-groups.net/shareware/HoudahGeo.html

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This is quite a web site. It is a great idea.Wish I had thought of it first. What if you need an alternativeto Office, Photoshop, etc.http://www.ugnn.com/2009/09/alternative_to.html

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Certainly there probably is "an app for that."But how do you know which one to pick. There are untold numberof some apps and of course they are not the same.If you tried all the ones you MIGHT be interest in, you couldspend ages looking at them.http://www.ugnn.com/2009/09/iphone_app_reviews.html

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Those on the Mac are finding out about the usefulness ofsyncing iCal events via iTunes and/or MobileMe to variouscomputers, iPhones and iPod Touches. Don Mayer from SmallDogreported in their newsletter "Kibbles and Bytes" that thereare lots of free calendars you can subscribe to via iCalthat you will find useful.http://www.ugnn.com/2009/09/ical_subscriptions.html

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