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THE LIMAC FORUM/MAY 2009

Speaking of numbers, that was the final part of his presentation, after

all, if you have a business you should be able to track your finances.

Tom showed how Apple made it much easier for even a beginner to

use a spreadsheet. He showed how to extend a series by dragging, and

how to add, and average just by selecting cells, and using the one click

formula feature. Next he showed how to create graphs from your data,

and even add titles and graphics to your spreadsheet.

As always, everyone loved Tom’s presentation. He adds his own

personal touch and fields questions in a relaxed manner. His answers

are always complete and easy to understand. He also pointed out

that there are great iWork tutorials on Apples website and on iTunes

as Podcasts. Many thanks to Tom and the support of the Walt

Whitman Apple Store and its manager Rick Johnson. 0

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April Meeting

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Renewal

Membership renewal for 2009 takes place from

October onwards. A bonus discount was passed by

the Board of Directors a few years ago: Bring in a

new dues-paying member and get a $12, discount

off your membership renewal. Bring in three new

members and your renewal is free!

Bringing in a new member also includes getting

a past member back into the group.

Make your $36 check out to LIMac and bring it

to the next meeting, or mail to LIMac, Post Office

Box 2048, Seaford NY 11783-0180

How to better visually enjoy the Forum:Your Editor

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meets the requirement of Mac OS 10.4.11 or newer.

PostView 1.6.3 works from Mac OS 10.2 all the way up

to 10.5 for PowerPC and Intel based Macs.

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(Al)

trying to save a port. This is often a space saving issue, since

many hard drives support daisy chaining. In order to sup-

port without the problems of daisy chaining, mostly that you

have to have the intermediate drives powered on to use any

downstream drives, you can purchase a FireWire hub like

the 6-port Belkin F5U526-APL. Watch out though, some

drives don’t like hubs and only work connected directly. For

desktop towers like the MacPro, there are PCI-e cards with

FireWire ports. This is faster than sharing the one external

FireWire port. The Sonnet Tango Express 800 comes to

mind but there are others. The other problem with daisy

chaining drives applies to mobile bus-power drives. The

FireWire port can supply enough power for one but not

two bus-powered drives, so daisy-chaining two of these

won’t work for power reasons. The desktop style and mobile

style drives with their optional AC adapters don’t have this

problem. And since I brought that up, I guess I have to also

mention that not every brand of FireWire nor USB cable

that is bundled with a drive is of top quality. When you daisy

chain, the poor quality cable problem gets worse and you

could get slow transfers or even corrupted data. When you

get frustrated by cheap FireWire cables, buy some good ones

from Granite Digital.

I have a PowerBook G4 now running Mac OS 10.4.9.

Can install pieces from 10.4.11? The combo update is

rather large and I’m concerned it may cause problems.

■ Actually the combo update fixes more problems than the

smaller updates most people do with Software Update. More of

your operating system is replaced with good code, as opposed to

just a few things the delta update that Software Update usually

downloads and installs. I would suggest downloading the combo

update from Apple’s web site, disconnect any FireWire drives,

then restarting with the shift key held down to boot into Safe

Mode, logging in, then running Disk Utility’s Repair Permissions,

then installing the 10.4.11 combo update, which will then restart

the Mac perhaps twice, then run Repair Permissions again. Then

run Software Update to download and install the new stuff you

are now qualified to run that needed 10.4.11. Some will prob-

ably require a restart. Run Software Update again until there is

nothing more to update. Run Repair Permissions one last time

and then check your software for any problems.

I was recently cleaning off the shelves of old stuff including

(Iomega) jaz and zips and found some floppy disk with fonts.

So I plugged in my USB floppy drive but it doesn’t seem to

work anymore with 10.4.11. What can I do?

■ I have a USB floppy drive and without any software installed it

worked fine with Mac OS 10.5.6. Assuming your drive is physically

good, I’m going to guess your micro-floppies are not the high den-

sity type. The HD disks could be labeled 2 MB, but the Mac for-

matted them as 1.4 MB. If you look at them, they won’t have two

holes, one being the one with the sliding piece of plastic to lock the

floppy and the other is a plain square hole so a high density drive

can detect that this is a HD disk. Besides a high density disk has

the HD logo on it. So what you need, as all the USB floppy drives

can only read high density disks, is to borrow the use of an old

Mac that can read both 800K double-sided disks as well as the HD

disks, so you can copy the old fonts from 800K unreadable disks

onto some newer HD disks. Of course a number of blank HD disks

too. Perhaps the old Mac has a zip drive and you have a USB zip

drive for your newer Mac and that could save time. All of this may

be a waste of time as the newer font management systems will flag

ancient format fonts as damaged and won’t load them. 0

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