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Beginners and Switchers :: RE: General help and Email clients

Dave — 2008-05-08T23:39:57+00:00

Author: Dave
Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 6:39 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 1

As to the 'dimming of the screen'...when I started with Tiger there was a known issue with the screen dimming quickly that could only be sorted out by opening System Preferences >Energy Saver>Options>Automatically reduce the brightness of the display before sleep...check and then uncheck the box to solve the issue....until the next reboot and you have to to do it again.

I suppose they may still have the same issue under Leopard...I am running 10.4.11

Can't help with the Mail issues

dave

Beginners and Switchers :: General help and Email clients

batlang — 2008-05-07T22:37:28+00:00

Author: batlang
Subject: General help and Email clients
Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 5:37 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 1

How do I control the 'dimming' of the screen, which I find to be a big annoyance?
Is it possible to have a default background color on all apps/screens other than white? (like white letters on a blue field, ala Word Perfect.

I find Mail to be unacceptable for my email needs.
I am looking for a recommendation for another email client which is text oriented, has a flexible/powerful editor on board, or has hooks for a good external editor, which it will automatically employ for all your emails. Something like a really good text editor, having lots of features - macros - import text -
column sorting/editing (as in deleting all quote symbols from multi-quoted msgs - color hilighting
extension specific (like in Boxer). Thanks in advance for any feedback. Bat Lang
All of the above running on Leopard - latest
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Wanted :: Want a Gutted MacBook and MacBook Pro

ngravley — 2008-05-04T21:47:08+00:00

Author: ngravley
Subject: Want a Gutted MacBook and MacBook Pro
Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 4:47 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 0

A friend of CapMac is looking to purchase a gutted, white MacBook and MacBook Pro to use as props for trade shows and photographing. If you have either of both to sell please send an email to jose@laptopdesk with a subject line: DUMMY MACBOOKS and your information.

For Sale :: CapMac Garage Sale?

srogers — 2008-05-03T04:19:06+00:00

Author: srogers
Subject: CapMac Garage Sale?
Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 11:19 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 0

Any thoughts about having a CapMac garage sale again sometime? I'm starting to accumulate a lot of Macish cruft. A garage sale might be fun.

Board Meeting Minutes :: April 3rd, 2008 Board Minutes

Alan B. Combs — 2008-05-02T00:25:47+00:00

Author: Alan B. Combs
Subject: April 3rd, 2008 Board Minutes
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:25 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 0

Capitol Macintosh, Austin’s Macintosh User Group
Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Genuine Joe Coffeehouse, 2001 Anderson Lane
April 3, 2008 (approved as amended, 05/01/0

Attendees:
Board of Directors In attendance:
__X_ Nancy Gravley (Pres)
_ X __ Tom Weaver (VP)
__X _ Midge Kocen (Treas)
_ X __ Alan B. Combs (Sec.)
_ X __ Craig Gowens (Dir. @ Large)
_X _ Alex Suarez (Dir. @ Large)
(excused)___George Weinreich (Dir. @ Large)

CapMac Members in attendance:
Jim Ryan

The meeting was called to order at __7:00_ PM and the following business was transacted.
1. The financial report, showing a balance of $4,482.58 was approved.
2. Preparation for the April General Meeting: Chuck Joiner will join us by chat and will give a talk on the essentials of podcasting and the World of User Groups.
3. SIG reports -- the SIGs continue to be active. Alex will be leading the highly requested advanced photography sig -- the first meeting will be the 4th Thursday in May.
4. There was a glitch in the newsletter, but it is fixed, and the newsletter will be out tomorrow.
5. Equipment Discussion:
A. The camcorder is not working.
B. The current projector was discussed. As it appears to be nearly on its last legs due to use, it was moved that we be authorized to get a new projector ASAP, if the old one dies.
C. Jim will report back at the May meeting about getting a new projector.
6. Discussion of the May party in lieu of a formal meeting.
A. The meeting will be the regularly scheduled night, from 6:00-9:00 PM, at Sherlock Pub at the corner of Burnet and HWY 183 (aka 9012 Research Blvd., 78758.
B. It was approved that CapMac would cover the tip (~18%) and let folks buy their own drinks.
7. Other items of business:
A. Membership -- 12 people joined
B. April 22nd is Students' Night at the Domain Apple Store.
C. George W. will help with the websit.
D. We would have to change night to Tuesday, but Sherlock Pub may be an acceptable meeting alternative to the U.T. location. The membership will be polled on this.
8. The meeting was adjourned at __8:11_ PM.

Board Meeting Minutes :: Board Minutes, March 6, 2008

Alan B. Combs — 2008-05-01T20:59:52+00:00

Author: Alan B. Combs
Subject: Board Minutes, March 6, 2008
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 3:59 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 0

Capitol Macintosh, Austin’s Macintosh User Group
Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Genuine Joe Coffeehouse, 2001 Anderson Lane
March 6, 2008 (as amended, April 3, 2008)

Attendees:
Board of Directors In attendance:
_X_ Nancy Gravley (Pres)
_X_ Tom Weaver (VP)
_X_ Midge Kocen (Treas)
_X_ Alan B. Combs (Sec.)
_X_ Craig Gowens (Dir. @ Large)
_X_ Alex Suarez (Dir. @ Large)
_X_ George Weinreich (Dir. @ Large)

CapMac Members in attendance:
Jim Ryan

The meeting was called to order at _7:13____ PM and the following business was transacted.
1. Tom moved approval of the Minutes of February 08, as amended. This carried.
2. The financial report, showing a balance of $4,798.67 was approved.
3. March Meeting: Paul Levine from Rage Software will be the presenter at the March 08 meeting. Humberto's students do not have more movies ready, yet.
4. Reports:
A. SIG attendance is up. Possible new SIGs, such as a photograpy sig led by Alex, were discussed.
B. Jim reported the newsletter is ready.

5. Business:
A. Work continues on the New Member Welcome Kit for 2008.
B. Jim showed the new brochures.
C. Meeting Programs:
a. April is TBA
b. May -- the Party/Picnic was discussed.
1) Location: TBA
2) It was moved and approved that $500, including already dedicated funds, be available for this event.
c. Membership Contest. The $150 award, probably something like a Visa gift card, will be awarded at April.
d. We need to share the responsibility for production of our website.
e. An email from Richard Cardone said that Google (Sites) wants to provide our members with their home pages. We were reluctant to accept the concomitant advertising, so the proposal was not approved.
6. The meeting was adjourned at __8:20___PM.

Respectfully submitted,
Alan B. Combs

Beginners and Switchers :: RE: Entourage Projects (and an intro)

TomWeaver — 2008-05-01T13:54:26+00:00

Author: TomWeaver
Subject: no upgrade now
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 8:54 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 6

Entourage 2008 is part of Office 2008. That includes Word and Excel. My clients use Word and Excel 2002 for Windows. There are file compatibility issues between (2002 for Win, 2004 for Mac) and (2007 for Win, 2008 for Mac). So far, I have not found anything in the new versions that I absolutely need to have. Besides, I see no reason to give more money to Microsoft.

Beginners and Switchers :: RE: Entourage Projects (and an intro)

jazzimus — 2008-05-01T13:46:07+00:00

Author: jazzimus
Subject: Re: Entourage
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 8:46 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 6

TomWeaver wrote:

...am in no hurry to "upgrade" to the 2008 version. I have heard too many unconfirmed stories.

Tom, you really need to update, I can confirm it works well
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Beginners and Switchers :: RE: Entourage Projects (and an intro)

jazzimus — 2008-05-01T13:44:07+00:00

Author: jazzimus
Subject: Re: Entourage Projects (and an intro)
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 8:44 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 6

ingenuity wrote:

Where can I get a good short tutorial/intro into what Entourage Office Projects is, what it does and how it works?

http://www.entourage.mvps.org/
http://blogs.technet.com/amir/
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Beginners and Switchers :: RE: Entourage Projects (and an intro)

MidgeKocen — 2008-04-28T15:01:37+00:00

Author: MidgeKocen
Subject: Re: Entourage
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:01 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 6

I'm surprised that you are having problems using Eudora with Leopard. I use it with Leopard on my MacBook and with Tiger on my iMac. It runs the same on both machines.

It links with Address Book as it always did.
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Beginners and Switchers :: RE: Entourage Projects (and an intro)

ingenuity — 2008-04-27T21:22:41+00:00

Author: ingenuity
Subject: Re: Entourage
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:22 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 6

TomWeaver wrote:

<snip> It comes as a surprise that you say it doesn't work under Leopard. I am running Leopard and Entourage is my only e-mail program handling a half dozen e-mail addresses. It works fine. <snip>

MY BAD! I'm sorry, I meant to write that Eudora didn't work with Leopard. I have just edited my original post to correct my mistake. Entourage works fine with Leopard, what I wrote didn't make sense.

Beginners and Switchers :: RE: Entourage Projects (and an intro)

TomWeaver — 2008-04-27T20:51:51+00:00

Author: TomWeaver
Subject: Entourage
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:51 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 6

In case anybody reading this doesn't know, Entourage is the Microsoft Office for Mac equivalent of Outlook for PCs. It is a mail, calendar, contacts, and to-do list program. It comes as a surprise that you say it doesn't work under Leopard. I am running Leopard and Entourage is my only e-mail program handling a half dozen e-mail addresses. It works fine. (I use Outlook on a MacBook Pro running XP in a VPN tunnel to handle calendar synchronization with PC folks so I can't say the Entourage synchronization works since I don't use that feature.) Yes, it is a tremendous pain that Entourage and the OS X Address Book don't play well together. We expect to have the official Microsoft Office representative at a CapMac meeting within a few months, so prepare your questions. My wife uses Mail on her Mac and actually seems to have more problems that I do using Entourage, although both are very good products. One caveat, I use Office 2004 for Mac and am in no hurry to "upgrade" to the 2008 version. I have heard too many unconfirmed stories.

CapMac Web Site :: Forums - Post Date Column

mort — 2008-04-27T17:21:07+00:00

Author: mort
Subject: Forums - Post Date Column
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 12:21 pm (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 0

Would it be possible to revise the Post Date Column display to show the Year first?
Then I could more easily find newer entrys as I visually scan down that column.
Right now I find an April listing & must remember to check the year, than look at the specific forum on the left, otherwise I could easily double click on an year old forum.
Thanks,
mort
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Beginners and Switchers :: Entourage Projects (and an intro)

ingenuity — 2008-04-26T16:20:57+00:00

Author: ingenuity
Subject: Entourage Projects (and an intro)
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:20 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 6

Where can I get a good short tutorial/intro into what Entourage Office Projects is, what it does and how it works? I'd like to link all my email, calendar items, notes and folders full of documents and files to particular projects that I work on. I'm wondering if the Projects feature that comes with Entourage will to that. I don't want to create a new set of extra files. I would like to be able to just link existing files (and perhaps color code or tag those items so I can sort through all my stuff). Should I bother using Projects? (Sharing with a team isn't a requirement, as I don't have a team that is all using the same Entourage software.)

I am a writer/editor/Web content producer with about 20 years experience working with online interactive media--almost entirely on PCs.

I recently switched from Win XP (with Office 2003) to Leopard and it's been rough. I started importing what the Apple Genius's could from Outlook, and I used Apple Mail/iCal/Address Book.

Then I switched to Eurdora (which I learned didn't work with Leopard) and back to Apple Mail/ical/AddressBook. I hated how unsophisticated the tools were and how hard it was to manage a task list. I dabbled with using Sticky Brain. Then, I recently got Office for Mac and--despite having email and calendar events imported in duplicate and triplicate--it's been a relief to work with.

I went to a single Cap Mac meeting about six years ago, before I had a Mac, and wish I had switched back then. I'm glad to remember this group, to have found you on the Web and to likely become a member and attend your meetings. I'm sorry I'll be out of town during the next Office Tools SIG. It would be a good one for me.

I've been active with the Austin Adobe Users Group and I lurk around Refresh Austin, but I am happy to find a local group that supports former Windows users like me, who are in their transition to the Promised Land.

I have been doing Apple's one-2-one religiously and am starting to run out of questions for the trainers (since they don't like to support third party applications like Office), but I'm sure I'll have more for this group, and eventually, I'll be able to answer for others who need help.

Thanks for reading this far and thanks in advance for any ideas you can share.

Beginners and Switchers :: RE: Security Software

charlesclemens — 2008-04-21T11:57:19+00:00

Author: charlesclemens
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:57 am (GMT -5)
Topic Replies: 5

Yes i think it works