Ben Romney's April 17, 2010 Meeting Presentation Tips & Info

Have you ever lost your iTunes Library or portions of the media stored on you iPod device [iPod, iTouch, iPhone]?

Apple's iTunes is a great application of getting your media from your computer to your device, but if you need to pull that data back to your computer and into iTunes you are out of luck!

Out of luck unless you have Kennettnet's Music Rescue. This application, recently rated as one of the best iPod Recovery apps by MacWorld, does so many tasks helping you to get your media off the iPod back onto your computer.

What does it do? Music Rescue can:

• Copies media from an iPod, iTouch or iPhone to your computer [Mac or Win]
• Compares iPod contents to local iTunes library
• Simple recovery of all media--music, podcasts, audiobooks, etc. on your iPod

In addition to being a powerful easy to use application that gets the job done, it has the look and feel of well designed Mac application. The author has an active support site and provides video tutorials to walk you through all of Music Rescue's features and capabilities covering:

• installation,
• getting started,
• advanced features,
• quick recovery feature,
• recovering a single playlist, and
• keeping different iTune player devices/libraries in sync.

Music Rescue easily helped me recover several thousand music files that iTunes somehow lost during upgrades or moving the library.

Available for purchase, you can download a trial version to try before you buy.

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Want to be able to create your own Time Lapse Movie?

Gawker

An application for Mac OS X that creates time-lapse movies using a webcam or your iSight. Images from your camera can be shared, allowing other users to record your image stream. Streams can also be combined to create a time-lapse movie with up to four locations side-by-side. This is an excellent shareware program that enables you to do what professionals do at a much higher cost and special equipment. The program's website provides several examples of the different types of time lapsed movies you can create--it's only up to your imagination. You can download the program to try for yourself.

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AppleScript- A Short Report for a Very Long Book

I must admit that, at first glance, “AppleScript 1-2-3” by Sal Soghoian and Bill Cheeseman was a daunting experience. In today’s world, a printed volume that weighs nearly four pounds, and has 880 pages can be an unusual and intimidating document.

Yet, upon sitting down with the book and my MAC along side, and going through the numerous examples of the first chapter, I realized that, “Hey! This book is READABLE!”

Now, I won’t pretend that I’ve read the rest of the book in any great detail, but from what I’ve gleaned so far, the authors continue their hands-on, example-driven approach throughout- making the learning of AppleScript a very doable undertaking.

To those who are unfamiliar with AppleScript, let’s just say that it is an unbelievably powerful object-oriented language, built into every MAC from the beginning. It allows the user to manipulate the MAC applications in ways which add tremendous utility to the original programs.

For instance, my project involves taking a “whole boatload” of very old Microsoft Word files for MAC, and converting them into files that can be read by a modern WINDOWS PC- a daunting task if it were not for the MACRO capabilities of AppleScript.

AppleScript uses high-level, English language sentence structure and compiles it into a program that the machine understands. A built-in AppleScript Editor makes programming easy. An example of a command might be:

tell application “Finder” to open the startup disk

Nothing very cryptic there…

If you need your computer to do something different, or something not originally designed into a “Standard” application, you may want to give AppleScript a try. The book has a list price of $49.99. If you want to see if AppleScript is right for you before you make a commitment, look for a copy at your local public library.

Published by Peachpit Press
Copyright 2009
ISBN13:978-0-321-14931-2
ISBN-10:6-321-14931-9
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Ron K

June 20th meeting

June 20 th
Summer Wrap Up and
Things to Investigate over the Summer

(There will be tips & tricks, Q&A, HD follow-up,

iPhone/Touch info and apps, and things to look for over the Summer.

Come spend the morning with
Meeting: 9am-11:45
Every computer user welcome
Come and enjoy.......

Steve Zalot @ Macs@Pacs

Saturday May 16th 2009
Come to listen and learn with
Steve Zalot
Senior Apple Systems Engineer

From Macs@Pacs on the Web

Time: 9am to 11:45 am
Come early because seating may be limited.
New Location:
All meetings, unless otherwise noted are held at:

Community Center 2nd floor
Super Giant Food Store
315 York Road
Willow Grove PA. 19090

http://pacsnet.org/directions.php

Steve Zalot returns

Saturday September 20th, 2009
Come to listen and learn with
Steve Zalot
Senior Apple Systems Engineer

Time: 9am to 11:45 am
Come early because seating may be limited.
New Location:
All meetings, unless otherwise noted are held at:

Community Center 2nd floor

Super Giant Food Store

315 York Road

Willow Grove PA. 19090

http://pacsnet.org/directions.php

Are you ready for the price change??????

Endicia, the only company to offer a postage solution for Macs would like to help you.
On May 12th, The U.S. Postal Service’s™ new pricing goes into effect including new discounts for online postage. Endicia will be ready for all of the changes and we want to be sure you are as well. Please join us at one of our free webinars on the price change or visit our price change web site to read about the new prices and discounts.
Endicia customers have processed over $2 billion worth of postage through our software. No other online postage provider has printed more. As the leader in postage printing, we’re committed to helping you manage your mailing and shipping needs while keeping you up-to-date with all USPS changes.
Learn more about printing postage on the Mac and the upcoming price change. www.endicia.com/macblast