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SVCG MAC Group 2012 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 PorterMarge Moench Jackie SmithCarolyn Ardalan Nancylee MohlerMarge Moench Florence PorterAlexandria Morton Genevieve MortonCarolyn Ardalan Nancylee Mohler

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by Susan M. Weinschenk, Ph.D.

Imagine that you are preparing to give the most important presentation of your life. For a week prior to the event you will be sequestered on a desert island then picked up by

the cruise ship where you will make your presentation. You are informed about your audience and provided with information on the meeting room environment. However, you may only take one book with you to prepare. I recommend 100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People by Susan M. Weinschenk, Ph.D. This book does an excellent job in delivering a concise compendium of what you need to know. As a presentation geek, I have read many of the leading authors, such as Nancy Duarte, Garr Reynolds, Bert Decker and many others. They are all strong in their own right. In comparison, Dr. Weinschenk’s book gets right to the point on each of the 100 things without taking more than two or three pages to get there. It brings together a wide range of material in a small package.The book is divided into ten sections, ranging from how people learn, getting and keeping people’s attention, motivating action, listening and visual guides, environment concerns, emotion, reaction, decision-making, and crafting your prez and a 90-day improvement plan.In each of the 100 mini-chapters, you learn how to use psychology to be a better presenter. In a pinch, you could take the handy takeaways included in each chapter as a cheat sheet reminder.

The book consolidates sometimes hard-to-find resources such as those for determining what font size to use, depending on screen size and the distance your viewers will be from the screen. You may learn research things you thought you knew. Did you know that if your audience reads from left to right, the correct side of the screen to stand on is the left side, that is, your audience’s left? You want to be the first thing your audience sees as they scan the room. Did you know that people use peripheral vision more than central vision to get the gist of your slide? It goes back to our ancestor’s days on the savannah when it was critical to scan for predators.As though the rich collection of psychological guidance weren’t enough, the next to the last section of the book is a guide to actually crafting your presentation. It helps you analyze your audience, determine where they are, where you want them to be and how to get them there by outlining or storyboarding a meaningful structure.Think that you wouldn’t be interested in this book if you are not doing a lot of presentations? Many of these principles can be used in situations where you are sitting in a conference room with ten people, across the desk at a job interview or in a virtual meeting. Training developers will also find very helpful information about how adults learn and design more effective training presentation materials. Do yourself and your next audience a favor. Buy this book, read it, study it, build your own cheat sheets from it, then enjoy the improved results from your presentations, large or small.

BOOK REVIEWBY VEDA LEWIS

100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People

Go here to check out the book!

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Mac Tip of the Week #390Excerpted from Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Lion Support Essentials: Supporting and Troubleshooting OS X Lion by Kevin M. White

Finding a User's Hidden Folder

Here's the quickest method to reveal a user's Library folder: Manually go to the folder in the Finder. While holding down the Option key, choose Go > Library from the menu to reveal the hidden folder. Photo: courtesy the Internet

Mac Tip of the Week #389Excerpted from OS X Mountain Lion Pocket Guide by Jeff Carlson

Mountain Lion Inherits from iPad

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion incorporates concepts from the iPad, such as controlling some actions using finger gestures if you use a trackpad; accessing applications on one screen, called Launchpad; viewing notifications; automatic saving of documents; and working with applications full screen.

10 Things To Do Before Upgrading to OS X 10.8Mountain LionBy Tom NegrinoJul 20, 2012$1.99

The OS X Mountain Lion Pocket GuideBy Jeff CarlsonJul 26, 2012$11.99 (Save 20%)

Mac Tip of the Week #388Excerpted from The OS X Mountain Lion Pocket Guide by Jeff Carlson

Upgrade to Mountain Lion

• Click the Mac App Store icon in the Dock to open it.• Locate OS X Mountain Lion (it shouldn't be difficult, but if necessary use the Search field in the upper-right corner of the store window).• Click the price button ($19.99), and then click it again when the button reads "Buy App."• Enter your Apple ID (the same one you use for purchasing media from iTunes) and click the Buy button. The Mountain Lion installer appears in the Dock (under Snow Leopard) or in the LaunchPad (Lion) and begins downloading.• Go grab a bite to eat, or go to bed, or do something else that occupies your time while the 4 GB installer downloads. To check its progress, click the Purchases button in the Mac App store or view the progress bar on the icon in the Dock or in LaunchPad. You can continue to work on the computer while Mountain Lion downloads.

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There’s a great article at Macworld magazine (click here) that steps you through the process of upgrading to Mt. Lion, what you need, pre-install tasks, etc.

TakeControl’s ebook will teach you how to use your Mac more effectively with OS X 10.7 Lion, whether you embrace all of Lion's new capabilities or strike a balance between old and new. Mac expert and former college professor Matt Neuburg explains how to use the important new features in Lion and more.

Peachpit’s resources on Mt. Lion. you'll learn to use all of Mountain Lion's new features, including iCloud integration, Messages, Reminders, Notes, the Notification Center, Share Sheets, Gatekeeper, and more.

O’Reilly.com offers several books to get you up and running with Apple’s Mountain Lion like OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual 1st edition.

Mac/Life magazine is another great resource for Mountain Lion tips ‘n tricks.

Smalldog.com sells books and offers classes - if you live in Vermont!

Resources for Mt. Lion - How To Install, Tips ʻN Tricks

Buy it here

A bizillion links to Mountain Lion OS X

resourcesThis low-priced, handy guide is packed with practical guidance for people who want to jump in and start using the OS X Mountain

Lion. Written by Jeff Carlson

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“Launch on a Wednesday after lunch”, page 162

Reviewed ByVeda Lewis

This tip is just one of the myriad of helpful hints and useful principles shared in the book, Interactive Project Management, by

Nancy Lyons and Meghan Wilker. Overall, the book reads as though the authors are a supportive team cheering you on as a Project Manager (PM) on a pixel-pushing project whether headed for the internet or a local intranet site.As a training developer new to elearning, I was excited to read this book and see how it would apply to my field. Elearning developers are essentially project managers, as well as technical specialists, managing the development of online courses and job aids usually posted on the web. The book was very helpful on many levels. Since I work in a division focused on project management, the principles of the field are familiar. Overall, the book is a detailed coaching manual for the PM. True to the subtitle, Pixels, People, and Process, the authors break project management into three major parts and engage each with the feel of a coach introducing you to the in’s and out’s of your new position.Beginning with a description of the interactive industry, this little book goes into depth on the key elements of being a good PM. As they put it, the PM should “Be ninja. Be everywhere.” Emphasis on client relations, team buy-in, scope creep, and interactive project terminology are part of each chapter. Interactive product workplace culture

is always present as you read tips in the text and sidebars. I am usually reluctant to write in my books, but my copy is now full of underlining so I can go back to the nuggets when I need to.The format of each chapter is easy to follow, including a “where we’re going” section, clear highlights and an easy to follow layout with focus boxes and margin tips. The take-aways at the end of each chapter bring home the key learning points.The backbone of the book is the process overview in Chapter 5. It covers the Research and Planning sections and the Production and Deployment phase. The front-end and back-end tracks are well identified and referenced. From that point on, each chapter covers a part of the process from management plan to live version, lessons learned and celebrating success.Cheat sheets distributed throughout the chapters summarize the documents in the process, adding black and white images of real people portraying 14 or more team members. This makes for a more friendly feel to the chapters and literally puts a face on this team and its depth.Compact project management books usually tail off toward the end of the process. This book, however, keeps the focus on client, team, process, and product all the way through the client evaluation and the important post-project relationship with the client. The authors identify the project launch as just the beginning because interactive projects produce living products. A kick-off to the post-project relationship with the client clearly highlights the milestone of the client receiving the promised deliverables. This minimizes potential confusion and a client asking for work they think is maintenance and the team thinks is a new add-on.Although the elearning teams I have and likely will work with are much smaller than those described in the book, the same functions are involved. This made for a rewarding read that I will come back to time and again for elearning project management

Review of Interactive Project Management - Pixels, People, and Process by Nancy Lyons and Meghan Wilker

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concepts and tips. It is full of practical people and process tips from beginning to end. One of my favorite quotes in the book is “Checklists bring order to chaos and allow minds to focus on managing what’s happening rather than what to remember.” (page 164) I think this is good advice far beyond being an interactive project manager.

Oh, why Wednesday after lunch for a launch? Mid-week means support will be available if needed and everyone is on a full stomach. Avoid Mondays and Fridays for a launch, say the authors. If you want more good advice on interactive project management, read this book.

Mac Tip of the Week #384Excerpted from Mac OS X Lion: Peachpit Learning Series by Robin Williams and John Tollett

Create Your Own Font Collections

A Collection is a subset of the installed fonts. It's simply an easy way to look at fonts you like, instead of having to grope through a lengthy font list of typefaces you don't know or want. To make a new Collection, begin by opening Font Book in your Applications folder or in Launchpad. (If you don't see the Font Book window, choose Window > Font Book.) Then click the plus (+) sign at the bottom of the Collection pane and name your new Collection. Click the All Fonts collection (so you can access all fonts); then drag font names from the Font pane to the new Collection name. To disable (turn off) an entire Collection, select it in the Collection pane. Then choose Edit > Disable Collection Name.

Mac Tip of the Week #383Excerpted from Mac OS X Lion Pocket Guide by Jeff Carlson

Manually Join a Wireless Network

With a laptop and a few bucks in your pocket, nearly any coffee shop can be your remote office, thanks to wireless Internet access. Mac OS X is smart about wireless networks, asking if you want to join one when you're in range if you're not already connected. You can also choose a network manually, as follows.• Click the AirPort icon in the menu bar.• Choose a network to use; the icons to the right of the name indicate whether a network requires a password

and show the signal strength.• In the dialog that appears, enter the network password and click OK.

Hold down Option and click the AirPort menu bar icon to view a host of technical information about the networks, such as which protocols they use, transmit rates, and types of security employed.

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GETTING STARTEDiPhoto Interface

HOW TO SORT AND ORGANIZE YOUR IPHOTO LIBRARYiPhoto's traditional single-palette view is divided up into three subsections. The Source list, found along the left side, links to your library, recent photos, subscriptions, devices, albums, Web sharing, and projects (see "Unified Design"). To the right, the main panel view will by default display your events, as well as any content you're currently viewing or working on. Below that, the bottom toolbar allows you to switch into full-screen mode, search, zoom, create a slideshow, check information, edit a photo, create a project, add pictures, and share your images.

The iPhoto window has been divided up into three subsections: 1) the Source list, 2) the main panel, and 3) the bottom toolbar.

In full-screen mode, you lose some of the advanced nuances of the application, but gain a cleaner, simpler interface. The Source list disappears, giving the main panel full reign over the top half of the screen, while the bottom toolbar has been given a few new options—in addition to the Search, Zoom, Info, Edit, Create, Add To, and Share functions found in regular view, you can now select Events, Faces, Places, Albums, or Projects (see

"New Tools"). You can toggle full-screen mode by clicking the Full Screen button or by pressing Option-Command-F.

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The source list In windowed mode, the Source list sorts your images into easily navigable sections: Library, Recent, Subscriptions, Devices, Albums, Web, and Projects. Within Library, your photos are divided up into

Events, Photos, Faces, and Places. Events holds every collection of photos you've made or imported, while Photos displays a thumbnail view of every individual image in your library; Faces and Places collect images that have been run through iPhoto's facial recognition software and geotagged, respectively.

Under Recent, you'll find quick links to your last-opened event, last import, last 12 months of pictures, flagged photos, and the contents of your Trash. Subscriptions, meanwhile, keeps a list of all the photo feeds you're subscribed to and allows you to view and refresh them within iPhoto. The Devices category only displays when you have a camera, phone, or card connected; the header disappears when not in use.

Albums displays a list of your smart and regular albums, while Web shows a list of your connected social sharing services; Projects holds all of your card, calendar, slideshow, and book projects for easy access.

All about the bottom toolbar - If the Source list is about organization, the bottom toolbar is primarily focused on editing, altering, and making new creations.

The Full Screen button will send you into full-screen mode, while Search and Zoom will search and zoom in on your photos, respectively. The Slideshow button in the middle will create a quick show set to music based on whatever group of images you've selected.

Info will launch a secondary pane to the right of the main panel to display information about whatever you have selected. If you click an event with the Info pane open, you can change its name, add a description, tag faces, invent keywords, or geotag it. In addition to all this information, if you click a photo, it will also show a basic rundown of the image's classifications—what camera it was taken with, resolution, file type, ISO, lens, f-stop, and aperture.

Click Edit while selecting a picture, and you'll be sent to iPhoto's image editor; click Create, and you'll have the option of using your selected picture or event to make a new album, book, card, calendar, or slideshow. Add To lets you add pictures to an album, book, card, calendar, or slideshow you've already created.

If you have a photo (or set of photos) you'd like to share with the world, the Share button allows you to order prints or add it to Flickr, Facebook, or e-mail.

Tweak your settings. Unlike some of the more advanced applications, iPhoto doesn't have many special preferences you can adjust. However, for some simple tweaks, mouse on over to iPhoto -> Preferences. There, you can adjust General, Appearance, Sharing, Accounts, and Advanced settings (see "Special Adjustments").

The bottom toolbar

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Manage albums and eventsWhen you first import your pictures into iPhoto, they're all gathered into an event (or, if you had it set to autosplit days, multiple events) and named by date. While you can still decently manage your library if you just use this default naming and organization system, you can use events in all sorts of crafty ways to really take control of your photos.

Special Adjustments: If you plan on pushing iPhoto to the limit by editing pictures in an external editor, altering settings for converting raw images, customizing geodata, and selecting a country for the Print Products Store, you'll want to check out the Advanced section of iPhoto's Preferences menu.

Events versus albums When Apple first introduced Events in iPhoto '08, many users were unsure exactly how this organization scheme was any better—or any different—than creating an album. While initially confusing, the easiest way to describe the division is this: Events is a container for all the images and video from a certain time or occurrence, while Albums contains curated collections (see "In a Shoebox").

For instance, say you went to Disney World for a weekend. After the trip, when you import your photos, you dump the entire weekend into one event labeled "Disney Trip 2011." However, to show the pictures off to your friends on Flickr, you want to highlight each park; to do so, you create four albums and drop the best of each park's photos into them.

In a Shoebox: Like a labeled shoebox full of 4 by 6 photographs, Events is designed to hold the entirety of one trip or day, while Albums highlights specific pictures.

Create a new event While it's nice to pretend that we're all organized photographers who shoot only one day's activities on a card before importing them, it's far more likely your camera is filled with multiple events. iPhoto

offers some initial organizational help by allowing you to autosplit events by day when importing, but even that can't help you if you've been shooting in multiple locations over a 24-hour period.

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Luckily, it's easy to create a new event—all you need to do is select a single photo you wish to base it on. Once you've done that, choose Events -> Create Event, and the image will be withdrawn from its current event to create a new one. You can do this with multiple photos as well: Highlight the pictures you want, then go to Events -> Split Event.

Want to create a new event using images from multiple other events? Flag the photos you'd like to use by clicking on the transparent flag in the upper left corner of the images, or by using the keyboard shortcut 1-period (.). Once you've marked the images you want, go to Events -> Create Event From Flagged Photos.

Manage existing events Once you've created an event, there are many things you can do to keep it nicely organized. Filling in information, geolocation data, and keywords can be a good start; you can also add, delete, or change the photos contained within.

Sometimes the images from one trip are split into multiple events, which you want to combine. To merge events, click and drag one on top of the other. Whichever one you drag will be incorporated into the other event; make sure that if you're adding new photos to an event, you always drag the new images on top of the old.

To delete an event in full, select it and press Command-Delete. This will also send any pictures in that event to the Trash, so make sure you've rescued any stray images you still want before you delete.

If you want to add more information to an event, select it and click the Info button on the bottom toolbar. A side panel will slide in, displaying the key photo (which represents the event), its title, the range of dates at which the photos were taken, how many photos are in the event, faces (if any), any keywords, and the event's location (if one exists).

You can change the key photo by mousing over the key photo preview until you find the picture you want, then clicking it, while most of the text fields can be edited with a single click. The Faces dialog is unfortunately just a statistic—to identify or change facial recognition, you'll have to go into the event itself.

To add a keyword, type the phrase you wish to tag and press Enter. Note that any keywords you assign to the event will also be added to every picture within it. The same applies for geolocation data—if no location has been assigned, you can double-click the Assign A Place box to type in the event's whereabouts.

Extra Juicy Info: You can change your event's title, key photo, description, and more using the Info panel.

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Create and manage albumsMany of the steps regarding event creation can also be applied to album creation. To create a new album, select the pictures you wish to use and click the Create button in the bottom toolbar. Select Album from the pop-up, and those images will be copied into an album for your viewing pleasure. You can also select whole events, or even multiple events.

Once you create an album, it appears under the Albums section of the Source list. To add photos, you can either highlight them and click the Add To button in the bottom toolbar or drag the photos you've selected directly to the album in the Source list (see "Drag 'n' Drop").

If you're planning on publishing picture collections to the Web using Flickr, Facebook, or MobileMe, albums are a great way to easily collect those pictures. Once you have your album the way you like it, select it in the Source list and click the Share button in the bottom toolbar to send those photos to the social network of your choice.

Highlight multiple photos in iPhoto It's easy enough to select a few photos in a row by drawing a highlight box around them, but if you want to select many concurrent pictures, or ones scattered throughout an event, you will need to know some basic key shortcuts.

To highlight many pictures in a row, click the first picture, scroll down to the last one in the series, and Shift-click it. This will select every image in between the first and last photo you indicated.

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To highlight pictures that are in a random order, click the first picture, then, for every subsequent picture, 1-click. Be careful not to go back to a regular click before you're finished, or you'll lose every picture you've selected. You can also use this to deselect pictures already highlighted.

Perform effective searchesIf you've added text information to your photos, it's a snap to find them using iPhoto's Search function on the bottom toolbar. But what if you're trying to find all the photos you've taken with your sister at Disneyland, or those hidden pictures of your ex? For more difficult problems, keywords and smart albums can be much better suited to the task.

What are keywords? Before Faces and Places were introduced as part of iPhoto '09, keywords were the simplest way to tag photos of people and places to make them easily accessible and searchable later on. You could create them in the keywords manager, then add them to a photo (or group of photos) by selecting the images and clicking on the keyword. You could even assign frequently used keywords a keyboard shortcut for easy tagging.

Use keywords effectively With Faces and Places available to take care of people and location organization, keywords play a less central role, but you can still put them to good use—if you know how.

iPhoto's Search will check for any text-based information you've input into a photo, but it can't see most of an image's photographic metadata like photo type (JPEG, PNG, raw, and so on), ISO, lens depth, or f-stop. To sort your JPEG images from your raw images, you could use a keyword to classify those pictures as such. Additionally, if you're trying to tag pictures that have a group of people, rather than a single face—say, your college a cappella group—keywords will be a much bigger help than the Faces feature.

It's also good to note that if you're planning on adding photos to Flickr using iPhoto's built-in uploader, your keywords will automatically convert to tags, saving you the hassle of retagging everything.

Add and edit keywords The easiest way to add a new keyword to your image (or group of images) is by selecting them, then clicking the Info button on the bottom toolbar, to bring up the Info pane. Under the Keywords section, begin typing. iPhoto will try to suggest previously used keywords for you as you're typing; you can either let it autocomplete by highlighting the suggestion and pressing Return, or finish your original keyword by continuing to type and then pressing the Return button when finished (see "Autokeyed").

Autokeyed: iPhoto will try to suggest keywords you've used in the past to speed up the tagging process.

Once you press Return, the word will gain a bubble around it, and you can start typing the next keyword. If you made an error and want to edit it, double-click the keyword bubble; if you want to delete it outright, just single-click it and press the Delete key on your keyboard.

However, once you've entered a keyword on a photo—even if you delete every mention of it on the individual images—it still remains in iPhoto's master keyword list, ready to pop up in the autosuggest list. To remove a

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keyword for good, you'll want to open the keyword manager. To do this, go to Window -> Manage My Keywords. In the manager, you'll find a list of every keyword you've ever made; to edit them, click the Edit Keywords button. Here, you can delete keywords, edit them, and even assign them keyboard shortcuts.

What are smart albums? Perhaps more appropriately referred to as "smart searches," a smart album is a collection of photos organized by live-updating search terms. You determine what goes in the collection solely by the conditions you input, and the smart album does the rest.

For instance, you can use the Faces term to collect all the pictures that have people in them you have yet to identify (see "Missing in Action").

Missing in Action: Want to quickly identify missing faces? Create a smart album.

Using smart albums effectively Thanks to the varied list of terms you can select, it's easy to build a smart album customized to your needs. You can search within Albums or Events by using the title text, description, filename, keyword, or any text within a photo; a date range; faces or places; the photo's star rating; image metadata like aperture, ISO, shutter speed, focal length, flash, and camera model; and whether the photo itself has been flagged, hidden, edited, tagged with GPS, or is a raw or movie file type. You can use just one of these search modifiers, or stack multiples on top of each other for more-complex equations.

When you stack multiple modifiers, you're given a choice for the smart album to obey any of the rules, or all of the rules in succession. If you choose for it to obey any, the album will pull in the results of every rule, no matter the order; if you choose for it to obey all the rules, it will check for them one at a time.

As an example, if you were to create a smart album that obeyed any of the conditions Face is unnamed and Face is Sally, you would pull all pictures containing Sally and all pictures containing unlabeled faces into the album. However, if you told it to obey all the above rules, iPhoto would look only for unlabeled faces that share a photo with Sally.

Adding and editing smart albums To create a new smart album, go to File -> New -> Smart Album or use the keyboard shortcut Option-Command-N. This will bring up the conditions list. Here, you can name your

smart album, choose an initial condition, add or subtract any additional conditions by pressing the plus (+) or minus (–) buttons, and click OK to save.

After its initial creation, your smart album will appear under the Albums section in the Source list, under the name you called it. To differentiate a smart album from a regular album, its icon is purple, and it contains a dark purple gear—in contrast with the regular album icon, which has a two-tone blue shade.

You can view a smart album by clicking it; the results will appear in the main

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iPhoto pane. You can't add photos by dragging them to a smart album the way you might with a regular album; instead, you add images by making them line up with the smart album conditions. Conversely, you can remove a picture from a smart album by changing its individual condition to no longer reflect the search terms.

Instant Edit: If you want to change your smart album's settings, you're only a Control-click away.

To refer to the previous example: If you had a smart album made up of photos containing Sally and unlabeled faces and you began to tag those people, those images would disappear from your album, as they would no longer fill the criteria.

If you'd like to change or add criteria to the smart album itself, you can do so at any time by Control-clicking it in the Source List and clicking on Edit Smart Album in the resulting menu (see "Instant Edit"). To delete a smart album, simply highlight it and press the Delete key on your keyboard.

Naming the Smart Album using Keyword

Adding second Keyword field

Faces

Places

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Importing images into the computer is very simple. Simply connect your device to the computer and iPhoto should recognize it. When you attach your camera to the computer, it automatically shows up under DEVICE. Select it. You can choose SELECT ALL or just certain images from your camera.Then click IMPORT ALL or IMPORT SELECTED. The import will split events by date

In PICTURES>iPhoto Library. This is the IMPORTANT FILE to back up!! When your photos have been imported, you are prompted to delete all images or leave them on the camera. To DESELECT the camera. right-click or control-click on the name of the camera and select UNMOUNT. This disconnects the camera from the computer. Now it is safe to unplug it.

IMPORTING PHOTOS FROM THE CAMERA INTO iPHOTO ʻ11

Connect device to the computer. It will show up under DEVICES in the left hand column of your iPhoto window. Same choices are offered as when connecting a camera to the computer... IMPORT ALL, DELETE IMAGES, etc.

The import automatically breaks up the images into Events based on dates. Eject the phone or other device by selecting it in the left hand column, right-click, and select UNMOUNT.

IMPORTING PHOTOS FROM CELL PHONE/iPod

Import photos from a folder on the hard drive. You can select images and drag them onto the iPhoto window from the Finder. They will automatically start to import. If there are any duplicates, a window pops up asking if you want to import them with a check box ‘Apply to all duplicates’ and three buttons: CANCEL, DON’T IMPORT, and IMPORT.

Or, you can go to FILE:>IMPORT TO LIBRARY> and then open a Directory/Folder, select the images you want to Import and click IMPORT. You will get the the Duplicate Photo window to appear if there are duplicates.

IMPORTING PHOTOS FROM FOLDERS

Mac Tip of the Week #381Excerpted from The Little Mac Book, Lion Edition by Robin Williams

There's Always Space for Dashboard

Dashboard is automatically assigned a Space in Mission Control. If you like using Spaces (alternate Desktops) to control screen clutter, you might want Dashboard to relinquish its automatic assignment so that you can use that Space for something else. Sorry—you can uncheck the Show Dashboard as a Space option in the Mission Control preferences, but it won't open up another Space. Even if you never use Dashboard, its Space is permanently reserved.

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• Justified text can give your documents a very tidy look or make them look scattered and unprofessional. To avoid the latter, make sure your text columns are wide enough (the font size in points, divided by three, should equal the minimum column width in inches) and use automatic hyphenation (you can switch it on by ticking the Hyphenate box at the bottom of the Document Inspector window).

•To emphasize a specific paragraph in your text, use paragraph colors: Text Inspector > More > Background Fills > Paragraph. When you have chosen the right shade, it is a good idea to set one half of the paragraph spacing before and one half after the paragraph to create a sort of color box.

• If you are making a list in Pages, pressing the Return key always gives you a new list item. If you want to add a second paragraph under one item, use Shift+Return.

• If you need to interrupt your Pages list with one or more paragraphs of regular text and then return to numbering, choose None as your list style and then insert your text. To continue the numbering, create a new list item and select “Continue from previous” in Text Inspector > List.

• In Pages spelling check, you can disable undesired red underlines by Control+clicking the underlined word and choosing Learn Spelling. However, once in a while you might accidentally cause your Mac to learn an incorrectly spelled word. Unlearn Spelling helps in this case.

Note: If you use Mac OS X 10.4 or earlier, you will find this feature (named Forget) in Edit >Spelling.

•To change measurement units for the rulers in Pages documents, choose Pages > Preferences> Rulers > Ruler Units.

• If you want to send the same letter to a group of people, you can use the Mail Merge feature in Pages. There are two ways to do it: launching your Address Book and dragging the group of addresses into your Pages document or selecting Edit > Mail Merge.

• In Pages, floating objects are anchored to a position on a page. Typing more text on the page does not affect the position of a floating object, but you can drag a floating object to reposition it. However, if you want to embed the object in the text flow so it is pushed along as the text grows, use an inline object. To move an inline object to a different position within the text, select it and drag it until you see the insertion point appear where you want to drop it.

• If you drag a picture, a text clipping, a Web location file, etc. into a Pages document and just leave it there, it becomes a floating object. To create an inline object, Command+drag it into a column of text.

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• If you have a lot of text boxes in a Pages layout, you need to have them aligned neatly so that your document remains uncluttered. However, it is difficult to see the exact boundaries of the boxes unless they are selected. Select View > Show Layout to switch on the Layout view and then see outlines of all the text areas of your document.

•To include any folder from your hard drive in Pages Media Browser, click the tab in which you wish to display the folder (Audio, Photos, or Movie) and drag the folder’s icon from Finder into Media Browser’s top pane. To remove a folder from the browser, click its name and press Delete.

• Mask is a very convenient tool for cropping images in Pages. Select an image in a document and click Mask in the Format bar or select Format > Mask. Adjust the position and size of the mask with the selection handles. When you have finished the cropping, apply the mask by pressing Return and clicking anywhere outside the image or clicking Edit Mask in the mask control window.

•Mask a picture with a shape to give your images some expression. Select the image and choose Format > Mask with Shape.

• Many of the picture frames in Pages are designed to make your image look like a paper photograph. To enhance this effect, add a shadow and set the picture slightly askew - this will add a more natural look to your “paper photo.” To rotate the picture, Command+click its selection handle and drag it. To add a shadow, tick the Shadow checkbox in the Format bar or Graphic Inspector.

Different types of Frames

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• When you finish editing a movie or a sound in Pages, it is a good idea to lock the file so that the document viewers will not accidentally reposition it when clicking on it. Select Arrange >Lock to do this.

• If you are using a recent MacBook with a multitouch trackpad, you can resize an object by “pinching” it. Select the object and pinch your thumb and forefinger together on the trackpad to reduce the object, or open the fingers to increase it. You can also put your thumb and forefinger on the trackpad and twist them as though you were turning a knob to rotate the image.

• If you want to rotate two objects simultaneously in Pages, use the Rotate knob in Metrics Inspector.

•To align and space several objects for a tidy look, make sure that the left and right objects are aligned to their respective margins. Choose Arrange > Align Objects > Top to line them up with the highest object selected. Then choose Arrange > Distribute Objects > Horizontally to even out the spacing among them.

• In Pages, you can create a table by converting a tab-spaced area into an inline table. Select the text you want to convert and then choose Format > Table > Convert Text to Table. You can reverse this action by selecting the table and choosing Format > Table > Convert Table to Text.

• Pressing the Tab key inside a table advances the cursor to the next cell, so you cannot use the Tab function within the table. If you need a Tab, press Option+Tab.

Mac Tip of the Week #380Excerpted from The Mac OS X Lion Project Book: Stuff You Can Do with Your Mac by Scott McNulty

Keep Your Mac Awake for Remote Sharing

When you have Screen Sharing and File Sharing set up, you're ready to travel the world, secure in the knowledge that your home Mac is just an Internet connection away. But what if your Mac goes to sleep while you're away, or a brief power outage shut downs your Mac? It's even possible (though unlikely) that Lion could crash, leaving you with a temporarily unavailable Mac.Or would it?Here's how to make your Mac a little more resilient to these types of failures:• Launch System Preferences.• In the Hardware section, click the Energy Saver icon.• When the Energy Saver preferences appear, make sure that the following boxes are checked:

1.Wake for Ethernet Network Access (which will wake a sleeping Mac when you try to connect to it remotely)2.Start Up Automatically After a Power Failure3.Restart Automatically If the Computer Freezes

With these settings, your Mac's connection should be fairly reliable (barring any unexpected occurrences, of course).

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• MAC USER GROUP MEETING

Date: Saturday, September 8th

Place: Sonoma Valley Public Library

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Time: 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

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