Newsletter
San Juan
Macintosh User Group

September 2003

Next Meeting:

Thursday, September 11, 2003
ModŽrnica @ 7:00 PM

 

ÁEscucha lo nuevo, Soundtrack!

 

A Bite from the Apple:

La reuni—n pasada fue de una asistencia limitada, pero muy divertida!  Aunque las nuevas Power Macs G5 aun no llegan a PR, la discusi—n fue muy interesante, y como siempre nos enteramos de lo œltimo en la avenida de Apple!  Para la pr—xima reuni—n tendremos una presentaci—n del nuevo software de Apple; Soundtrack, por JosŽ PŽrez.  Soundtrack trae el arte de composici—n de mœsica a todos.  Con poco — minimo costo y esfuerzo, se puede producir mœsica y a–adirlo a tus videos, DVD, — projecto en la Red de Internet.  Tendremos temas asociados a la mœsica y su f‡cil uso e integraci—n a aplicaciones de muitimedia.  
Hablaremos de lo œltimo que nos trae Apple, por ejemplo, Las nuevas iMacs de 1.25GHz de 15Õ y 17Ó, con USB 2.0 y memoria DDR de 333MHz.  Los nuevos iPod de 20GB y 40GB, DVD Studio Pro 2, y muchas cosas m‡s!

La pr—xima reuni—n ser‡ donde acostumbrado, en Galer’a Paseos 2do nivel en ModŽrnica el jueves, 11 de septiembre de 2003 @ 7:00pm.  Traigan sus Macs para compartir nuestras experiencias, dudas y hallazgos.

Unanse a nuestro Newsletter donde se enterar‡n de nuestras actividades y pr—ximas reuniones,tambiŽn estaremos dando articulos de interŽs y Òhot tipsÓ de mœcha utilidad!    S—lo contesten Žste e-mail con Ò Quiero ser miembroÓ y lo mandan a cramirez@mac.com

Los Esperamos

Carlos R. Ram’rez, MD
Presidente SJMUG

Know Your Mac!

Tip for improving PowerBook G4 Titanium AirPort reception

MacFixIt reader David Schmitt reminds us of a tip for improving PowerBook G4 Titanium AirPort reception (in some cases dramatically), that was originally recommended by Apple's technical support team, and later filtered through Apple's online discussion boards.

"As the owner of a PowerBook G4/550, I was becoming increasingly dismayed by my Airport reception. These Titanium PowerBooks are notorious for less-than-stellar reception, but in my case I was finding that my reception was getting progressively worse. For example, I couldn't get reception in my upstairs bedroom where previously it worked fine.

"Today I stumbled upon a year-old web discussion board that mentioned a tip: shut down the laptop, pull out the battery, and with your fingers press the side of the battery compartment behind the airport antenna "window". Press in several places, for about 10 seconds. With nothing to lose, I tried it, and lo and behold it works! My reception is better than ever."

If you've tried this tip with success, or have any other suggestions, please drop us a line at late-breakers@macfixit.com .


Sobig.F virus and Mac OS X

 

This thread discusses problems that can be caused on Macs by the Sobig.F virus, and also details the reasons why systems running Mac OS X are less prone to virus attacks. One poster writes "SoBig variants are Windows viruses incapable of infecting Macs unless you're emulating Windows. However, you can still receive tons of this critter, and at about 100K a pop this may cause problems all its own, including delays and exceeded mail quotas."

 

Possible Safari fix for misbehaving websites
 Mon, Sep  8 '03 at 08:52AM ¥ from: digiglyphics

 

I enabled the debug menu in safari using a hint I found here about a week or so ago.

I frequently visit some site that are aware that they do not fully function with Safari for some reason or another.  Most of these sites involve shopping carts or other assets management functions.  One example would be Photospin.com -- if you have an account, you would not be able to download anything using Safari. Your account would think you were not logged in any more once you left the original login page. If you would try to log back in, it would tell you your account was in use. This never happens when using Opera or Internet Explorer.

Well today I got to fiddling around in the debug menu and changed my user agent from "Automatically Chosen" to "Mac MSIE 5.22" -- and it worked.  My misbehaving  websites all function properly now. What I  have noticed is that this seems to work on a site by site basis. I am using four tabs right now, and am able to set a different user agent to each one.

 

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