These instructions show screenshots using Leopard. If you are still using Tiger, you should be able to figure out the small differences in the look of the dialogs. For those of you with earlier systems, if you need assistance, you can contact Tom Smithson, Bill Davies or Stan Lunetta. If you want to see the older instructions, click on Newsletters then Feature Stories to your left.
The contest deadline has been extended to August 14th. Scroll down past all of the email information for rules and your link for submitting photos. You can view the already submitted photos at web.me.com/effbar. Good luck to all!
MacNexus is hosting a digital photo contest to showcase member work in photo arts. All the photos will be put onto our MacNexus website for your viewing pleasure. Then a panel of judges will select winners in ten categories in September. You will be able to see a print of the winning photos at the Tuesday, September 16th general meeting and you will be able to vote for the "Best of Show" photo from the category winners.
Prizes will be awarded. Yes, prizes! We have contacted last year’s sponsors, O’Reilly, Peachpit, Small Dog Electronics and TidBITs and expect to again have a great array of prizes. The Best of Show prize will again be a $100 Visa Gift Card. Plus, of course, winners receive the intangible accolades of their fellow MacNexans.
So, round up your favorite photos and enter the contest!
Categories:
Professional - (one category) open to those who make 50% or more of their income from photography. Up to three photos may be submitted on any subject in this category. No professional work may be submitted to the other categories.
Amateur - (nine subject areas) open to those who are not considered "professional" by the above definition.
Up to 3 photos may be entered per person in the Amateur category. Only one photo may be submitted per subject area. You choose the three subject areas you wish to enter.
Amateur Subject Areas:
Animals
Architecture
Close up, macro
Flower
Humor
Landscape
Objects, still life
People
Travel
Note: Our apologies but due to the move of the website and email, the PhotoContest address was not be availabe on July 1 as stated below. As of July 18, it is working.
Submit your photos, using the rules for submission, beginning July 1, 2008, via email to
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. Show off your work! Reap rewards! Photos will be displayed in an online gallery.
The Official Rules are printed below. Questions may be directed to
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or emailed to
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MacNexus Photo Contest Rules
Only a MacNexus member may enter the MacNexus Photo Contest 2008. Membership must have started by the date of submission and not expire until after October 16, 2008.
Only one person per membership card may submit entries.
Each submitter may only enter 3 photos.
Photo Contest members may not enter.
The photo submitted may not contain the name of the submitter, the likeness of the submitter, or other identifying information in the photo.
Any work submitted must the work of the member-submitter.
Submissions must be in JPEG format, at a resolution of 200 dpi, size maximum of 1024 wide by 768 high.
Photo editing or manipulation is permissible. Submissions may be in color or black and white.
Any submission is provided with permission for MacNexus to use the image in the contest, on a website, and in a printed form for display and possible publicity, from the date of submission to December 31, 2008.
All submissions must be in good taste, as determined by the Photo Contest Team and panel of judges. All decisions of the Team and panel of judges are final.
For the purposes of category determination, a "professional" is anyone who derives 50% or more of his or her income from photography or image manipulation. Up to three images may be submitted to the Professional category. No images from a Professional may be submitted in the Amateur category subject areas.
"Amateurs" are those members who do not meet the definition of a Professional. Amateurs may submit only one image per Amateur subject area up to a maximum total of 3 entries.
Each submission must include the submitter's name, MacNexus member number, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number, the file name, the category name. Submission will be by email to
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or by CD by arrangement with the Photo Contest Team, and the image must be sent no earlier than July 1, 2008 and be received no later than 5 pm August 1, 2008. (Note: Effective July 26, the submission deadline has been extended to August 14.)
2008 Contest Time Frame:
Submit images from July 1 to August 1
Display of submissions on a website to December 31.
Judging of categories completed by September 1.
Category winners contacted after September 1 for a high-resolution file of the winning images for MacNexus to print for display. Prints will become the property of the category winners after September 16.
Winning images will be displayed at the September General Meeting of MacNexus on September 16. During that meeting, attendees will vote for the "Best of Show" image which will receive the grand prize.
Apple did a quick refresh of its MacBook and MacBook Pro models on February 26, 2008. The salient change is that these machines now contain the same newer and smaller (45 nm) Penryn Core2 Duo processor as found on the MacBook Air. That allows them to run cooler, and offers improved battery life. However, before you rush out to buy one, be advised that certain of the new models will actually be slower than their counterparts. Yes, you read that correctly. Models of these computers containing the high end Penryn's may have marginal improvements in performance due to higher L2 cache (6MB vs 4MB), though the low-end Penryns (2.1GHz and 2.4GHz) used in the entry level MacBooks and MacBook Pros actually have less L2 cache (3MB vs 4MB) than their Merom counterparts. So while everyone will benefit from less heat and better battery life, if you were thinking that you would actually see a performance improvement over last Fall’s models, it is only a theoretical improvement and you would need to buy the most expensive model to get the version of the chip with more cache.
O’Reilly Publishing has recently issued several updates to prior books to add discussion of Apple’s new operating system “Leopard” (aka MacOS 10.5). Since some of these books are updates to prior editions, you will need to ask yourself if it is worth shelling out $35 or $40 to learn what has changed since the last book was issued.
Apple released the first major update to Leopard on February 11, 2008. The update brings the new operating system to version 10.5.2. While most of the changes are things going on under the hood, there are a few gems in here that you may wish to be aware of. (Continues)
Starting with Leopard, we are now able to help members of MacNexus with various problems as long as they have Leopard, an AIM or .Macaccount, and are at least able to connect to the internet.
By connecting to the internet and opening an iChat session with one of the MacNexus Triage helpers, a member can activate screen sharing, thus allowing the helper to control the member’s computer remotely!
When you get the new OS or a new computer, you can easily get a .Mac account. Or go directlyhere for a trial account. After the trial account runs out you can keep the iChat screen name even if you do not renew the .Mac account.
Or you can go hereto AOL and get an AIM screen name.
After you get your screen name, you can open up iChat and connect with one of our Triage helpers and share your screen (and computer). They can then see your problem and help solve it without either of you having to leave home!.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is finally here, and we at Tidbits can now share with youthe fruits of an incredible amount of work over the last few months:five of our most popular ebooks completely updated for Leopard, andthey're all available right now, led by Joe Kissell's essential TakeControl of Upgrading to Leopard.
Packed with more than 300 new features, Mac OS X Leopard goes on sale Friday, October 26, at 6:00 p.m. at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, Apple announced today. And, beginning today, customers can place pre-orders on Apple’s online store. “Leopard, the sixth major release of Mac OS X, is the best upgrade we’ve ever released,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “And everyone gets the ‘Ultimate’ version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $129.” [Apple press release, Oct 16, 2007]
Click on the Amazon graphic to order and MacNexus gets Credit!
In yet another special event on September 7, 2007, exactly one month to the day following the i-event, Apple has “refreshed or replaced the entire iPod line.” The shuffle continues on, the iPod gets a new last name and design along with the nano, and they are joined by the iPod touch. The title refers to the phrase Steve Jobs used to describe the redesigned iPod nano and classic.
Starting off with the shuffle, it remains unchanged with new colors. No fancy names this time, however, just silver, blue, green, purple, and (PRODUCT)RED. (They really are still aqua blue and seafoam green.) Still 1GB and $79. (Editor note to grammar critics: Apple has renamed the shuffle, nano, classic and touch in all lower case.)
The nano received a complete overhaul with “a little video for everyone.” The 2GB capacity is gone while 4GB and 8GB remain. The video specs carry over from the larger iPod, but with a smaller 2-inch, screen to fit the compact size, which at 320 x 240 pixel gives it the highest pixel density screen on any Apple product at 204ppi. It does resemble a compressed iPod, and online sources have cynically dubbed it the phatty pod for its squat, square proportions. The new user interface features Cover Flow as in iTunes. Three games are included, with more on the way from EA. The new colors are sliver, blue, green, black and (PRODUCT)RED. It receives the “all metal enclosure” treatment, with an aluminum face and a shiny stainless steel back that readily shows fingerprints. From hands on experience at the Apple Store, it is much smaller, lighter and feels somewhat insubstantial. There was a noticeable delay in accessing music and video files on the several nanos that I tried, so much that at first it appeared unresponsive to commands. The prices have dropped one level, meaning the 4GB now costs $149 and the 8GB costs $199.
Apple did a quick refresh of its MacBook and MacBook Pro models on February 26, 2008. The salient change is that these machines now contain the same newer and smaller (45 nm) Penryn Core2 Duo processor as found on the MacBook Air. That allows them to run cooler, and offers improved battery life. However, before you rush out to buy one, be advised that certain of the new models will actually be slower than their counterparts. Yes, you read that correctly. Models of these computers containing the high end Penryn's may have marginal improvements in performance due to higher L2 cache (6MB vs 4MB), though the low-end Penryns (2.1GHz and 2.4GHz) used in the entry level MacBooks and MacBook Pros actually have less L2 cache (3MB vs 4MB) than their Merom counterparts. So while everyone will benefit from less heat and better battery life, if you were thinking that you would actually see a performance improvement over last Fall’s models, it is only a theoretical improvement and you would need to buy the most expensive model to get the version of the chip with more cache.
