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Executive Contact List Please feel free to contact any of the following individuals if you have comments or questions relating to Macintosh Users East or Macintosh computing in general. Position/Name Phone# Mac Evangelist Bruce Cameron Hm: (905) 983-9205 Orono Email: bcameron@lis2000.net Past President Hugh Amos Bus: (905) 683-4760 Ajax Hm: (905) 683-4320 Meeting Coordinators Mark Fenton Jim Foster Hm: (905) 430-8234 Email: fenton@idirect.com Hm: (905) 432-0921 Courtice Email: jfoster435@home.
Interleaving Memory Since RAM prices have dropped in the States I have taken the opportunity to beef up my PCI Daystar Genesis MP 800+. Velocity Upgrades on the internet at www.velocityupgrades.com has 128 meg 168-pin FPM DIMMs on sale for $21.99 U.S. each, a price drop that’s just too good to pass up. (They also have 64-Meg 168-pin FPM DIMMs in sets of four for $34.99!!) To put this into perspective, MacWarehouse is flogging ONE 64meg DIMM this month for $119.99 Canadian each.
performance speed. On a Power Macintosh with a PowerPC 601 microprocessor, such as the Power Macintosh 7500 series, you may get only a slightly better performance gain by using memory interleaving rather than non-interleaved DIMMs. Some third-party benchmarking applications may report exaggerated performance differences between interleaved and non-interleaved computers. and so on. By installing identical RAM modules in the matching A & B slots (i.e. A1 & B1, A2 & B2...
Photoshop Elements A Course for the Beginner Digital Image Editor This new program was designed to introduce the amateur digital photographer to Adobe's Photoshop software. It is an ideal choice for someone with the desire or need to work with photos, scanned pictures and other digital images but without the resources or requirements for the full-blown Adobe Photoshop 6.0 application.
The assistance provided with Photoshop Elements presumes an understanding of basic computer commands, like how to Open, Close, and Save files. Everything beyond that is provided. Learning the application is simply a matter of paying attention to the information on your screen. The Hints pallet automatically displays an illustration of or brief description about any pallet or tool your cursor is on.
Besides describing how to use the program itself, the Photoshop Elements User Guide is a very readable general explanation of all of the terms, methods, features and considerations of image editing, with each chapter describing how and why images can be manipulated and to what effect. Since the software is presented on screen as a program and as a course in photo-editing its important to look at both of these aspects.
•Dark Strokes •Ink Outlines •Spatter •Sprayed Strokes •Sumi-e Distort Filters •Diffuse Glow •Displace •Glass •Ocean Ripple •Pinch •Polar Coordinates •Ripple •Shear •Sperize •Twirl •Wave •ZigZag •Liquify Noise Filters •Add Noise •Despeckle •Dust & Scratches •Conte Crayon •Graphic Pen •Halftone Pattern •Note Paper •Photocopy •Plaster •Reticulation •Stamp •Torn Edges •Water Paper Sharpen Filters •Sharpen and Sharpen More •Sharpen Edges and Unsharp Mask Stylize Filters •Diffuse •Emboss •Extrude •Find Edges
best results when setting output options, print encoding, colour management preferences and considerations for printing over the internet. the automatic sequencing of filters, layer styles, and program functions. Like the Filters, they can be accessed from their own Pallet. the tiny thumbnail gives an indication of the end result of the effect. Chapter 10, Using Type, describes creating type and working with type layers as part of your images.
Adobe Acrobat 5.0 How do I do it ? Publish this little newsletter, I mean. Well...I get a lot of help from Adobe. The Double Click newsletter is created in Quark XPress and then turned into the .PDF (Portable Document Format) that you just downloaded with Adobe software. The Acrobat Distiller program creates the documents and Acrobat Reader is needed to open and read them. I did a short piece about Acrobat a year ago but this new release, Acrobat 5, warrants another little piece.
File Menu in Quark. In the Print dialog box I select Save As File and File as the destination. This will prevent the document from being sent to the printer but will ensure that it can be saved and translated into a PostScript file instead. In the Format menu I select Postscript Job and set the Preferences as shown above. In the Font Inclusion menu I select All. Acrobat can’t embed your fonts in your .PDF if you don’t make them available.
Menu and choose Acrobat 3.0 compatibility to ensure that everyone using Acrobat version 3.0 or later can open your documents. Make sure that Optimise for Fast Web View is selected. This compresses your document for faster downloading and makes it load much faster when viewed with Acrobats webbrowser internet plugin. All .
the size and quality of .PDFs. Its important to know the final destination of the document The next tab in the Job Options panel is the Fonts tab. The .PDF is an all-included self-contained document. All the fonts and images required to view and print the document are wrapped in a single file. Select to Embed all Fonts and set the percentage to 100%. This guarantees that the Acrobat will display your .PDF using only the fonts you’ve embedded in the file.
Ethernet via EtherWave If anyone read last months Double Click they would have seen an article in there about simple networking using Apple LocalTalk and Farallon PhoneNET connectors to daisy-chain Macs and printers together using the Printer Port. The best thing about that type of networking is that every component can be found cheaply, often for free, and since most of us have networking demands that only include a half-dozen devices or less, that type of networking suffices.
Ethernet via Hub Usually, though, ethernet requires that you purchase and install an ethernet hub with ports for anywhere from 4 to a hundred or more connections. All of the Macs connected to the hub can see each other and all of the printers connected to the hub can be seen by all the Macs. Unless your Mac is of very recent manufacture, your Ethernet will use RJ45 connectors and will be limited to 10 Megabits per second. This is usually referred to as 10BaseT Ethernet.
December 2001 MaUsE Executive Dinner This year the Exec dinner was held December 6 at the Keg Restaurant in the Oshawa Center.
The usual suspects were Jim & Susan, Bruce & Carol, Chris & Mary, Tom & Ruth, Mike & Irma, John & the Waiter.
Outbound Clones The Outbound is a Macintosh Clone Portable that was designed and manufactured in Boulder, Colorado a long time ago. There are two different models of portable Outbounds, the Notebook and the Laptop. They are a rarity among clones because Apple was very cautious about allowing its technology to appear in portables. All of the other clone-makers did desktop models but only Outbound did a pair of portables.
SCSI Connectors There are lots of different types of SCSI hard drives with different types of connectors. Externally there isn’t much variety: 25-pin,Dshell, 50-pin Centronics, or high density pretty well covers it all. For internal connectors it gets much more complicated. Type of interface is an attribute always mentioned for SCSI drives. SCA 80-pin interface board and into the single hard drive. Later Macs could accept several of these drives on one fiftypin ribbon as long as each had its own SCSI ID.
